Author's rant: First is Devil Maker: Tokyo and now is this *sigh*... Well, as I said in the summary, this is a parallel/sister-fic of my other fic "Sarishinohara" and this version is my birthday gift to my co-writer, VuTrungThanh. Thank you very much for helping me, especially when I was having a mental breakdown. If the reaction is positive, I will continue this version. And of course, there will be changes in this version.

1/Ushio's power: Well, you can already see in the category XD

2/Shirayuki: In this version, Narukami Shirayuki will be replaced by another girl. Who? You will have to find out in the story later (if I update this fic).

3/Ushio's background: Ushio's background will not only stick to the two songs "Sarishinohara" and "Yonjuunana" but also the manga version of "Sarishinohara" song. Ushio's background of the original version of this fic is only stick to the two songs, not the manga. In other words, you can say this version of Ushio is the more canon-liked version. Moreover, this version of Hiromu Ushio will not as lonely as in the orginal version of this fic

4/Weapons:... Well, that's still depend on the progress of this version. Ideas and suggestions are welcomed.

5/Pairings: ... No pairings for Issei and Saji, that is all you need to know! Muwahahahahahahahaha! *evil laugh* Ideas and suggestions for Ushio's pairing are welcomed, of course.

And now, some explainations about our source of inspiration for both version of this fic, Sarishinohara and Yonjuunana since not everyone know about these two songs, though I ADVICE you to hear/watch the song (with Eng-sub of course XD... Oh and Rib's version too since both of us always think that his version are MUCH better than Hatsune Miku's version! His voice always makes us want to cry when we heard both of these songs!) in order to understand better

1/Sarishinohara (Distant field): Sarishinohara is a play on words and it MIGHT be referring to Sashihara Rino, a member of HKT48 band, former member of AKB48 band. It's a story about a guy in love with an idol but unable to continue loving her because of her career and Sarishinohara talks about the story from the boyfriend (named Hiromu Ushio in my fic)'s perspective. While in the real life, Sashihara Rino's boyfriend (named Ton-chan) sent Sashihara's pictures & stories of their relationship to a gossip magazine, and thanks to that, Sashihara was exiled from AKB48 as they have a strict policy on no relationships for the members, the main protagonist in the song still loved the girl and as said in the end of the song: "...through all of the faults you've made, all the wrongs that you do, I wouldn't mind if they bring me to my end. Forever, I'll be here for you" (I only use the English translation of lyric since I'm too lazy to paste the romanji lyrics in here)

2/Yonjuunana (Forty-Seven): while it is considered as the sequel of Sarishinohara, this song told the story but on the idol's perspective. MikitoP's comment about his song was "The girl everyone knows: Her dreams, her love, and - reality.-Even so, she runs. For she must.". The "forty-seven" MIGHT refer that AKB48 now only had 47 member with Sashihara's exile (though in fact the number of AKB48's members is about... I don't know exactly but it has passed the 48 number far too long in the past).

Okay, enough ranting. Enjoy the show, minna-san... And again, Happy Birthday to my co-writer, VuTrungThanh! \(^0^)/

Disclaimer: I own nothing except my plot...

Prologue: The story of the past and Hiromu Ushio.

Angels

The kind of supernatural beings that created by the Bible God and they faithfully served the Bible God as well as followed what the Bible God had set and they had the powers to inflict pain upon Devils/demons due to their light-based powers. On the top of the angels, the Seraphim or also known as Burning Angels were the highest ranks angels and also the guardians of the Thrones of Heaven. Under the rule of the Bible God, angels helped him watched over the mortal realm without interfering in it.

And then the Great War between Heaven, Underworld and Grigori came.

Hordes of Devils and Demons, legions of Angels and countless Fallen Angels, all threw themselves in an endless war that could be considered as the Armageddon of the world. Numerous lives were vanquished, blood flew into rivers, fields were covered with armors, weapons and corpses. But ironically, the side received the largest loss wasn't Heaven, Underworld or Grigori.

It was humanity, the side was caught in between the crossfire, received the largest loss.

Angels need human's faith in God to have more power while Devils need human's greed to gain more power... Ironically, no prayer or deal could save them... The God no longer cared about humanity as much as he cared before the Great War and only care about eliminating all the 'evil' in the world. The Seraphs were too occupied with the war to look at what the war had caused to humanity. Devils overpriced the deals with human and took countless human souls in order to gain more 'greed', which enheanced their power while at that time, angels were mass produced by using the souls of the dead that God deemed 'worthy' without caring about the souls's true nature and desire to peacefully rest, which led countless angels Fell and became Fallen Angels. Slowly and gradually, humanity was bleeding to death and coming to its end by the sheer chaos, sorrow, anguish, misery and despair roaming on the land of living.

Until one day...

A group of angels, after having to hear the cries of sorrow and despair of humanity for a very long time yet couldn't do anything to help because of the Bible God's law that forbade them from intefering in the mortal realm, decided to broke that law and left the Angels Faction, exile themselves and descend to the mortal realm. At here, they invoked an ancient ritual and connected themselves to Akasha the Root, the source of all information, possibilities and phenomena of the universe , and the World itself. As the result, the group of angels was given tremendous power and knowledge as each of them now reigned over a different aspect of the natural world and the human life, which gave each of them a new pair of wings depended on the aspect they reigned . Despite being angels, they stopped answering God as they created their own organization, The League of Angels with Tyrael, The Angel of Justice became its leader by their votes.

With their newly gained power and knowledge, they started to build Etheria, their new home as well as the new utopia. And when Etheria was finished, the Leagues of Angels began their operations, which consisted of protecting humans from being caught between the crossfire of the Great War even if they had to fight with the three factions, helping solved the conflicts between humans governments and preventing the wars as well as insuring peace and prosperity across the lands that their powers could reach and many more. In just merely two years, even though there were things that the League couldn't do yet, humanity's faith and devotion started leaving the Bible God and going to the League. At the same time, less and less people made contracts with devils to gain what they need to survive as more and more humans started travelling to the lands which were under the League's protection in order to start/build a new happy and fair life with their own hands.

But how could it be possible? The answer was very easy.

It was because the League of Angels had given one thing the Bible God had failed to give to humankind at that time. The thing that could give humankind the power to overcome the sorrow and despair as well as the courage to move forward regardless what kind of sullied future was waiting for them. The thing that could give the joy of living back to the people who had lost it. It was not power, potential, the salvation or a place in Heaven.

It was Hope.

But the World was cruel in its own way.

Three years after the League was created, Etheria was attacked by three Faction, Angels, Devils and Fallen Angels at the same time. The Angels attacked them because God had deemed the Angels of the League as "betrayers", "heresy", "sinful" and many other words while the Devils attacked the League because of the decreasing number of people who made contracts with them as the Fallen Angels attacked in order to revenge and to prove their 'superior' strength.

And to make the matter worse, in the middle of the one-against-three war, Trihexa, the Apocalyptic Beast that was on par with the Great Red, awoke and broke half of the seals the God of the Bible had placed upon it.

Without any better choice, Tyrael decided to use his final trump card, the strongest ritual, The Greatest Sacrifice. After forbidding the rest of the Angels of the League from interfering, Tyrael used himself as bait in order to lured The Bible God, The Satans and a large number of angel, demons, devils and fallen angels to a huge magic circle where Tyrael, with all of his strength, power, knowledge he had gained from Akasha the Root and the two weapons the World lent him: Ea the Sword of Rupture and Enkidu the Chains of Heaven, the Angel of Justice SLAIN every single one of his pursuers. No one, from the weakest to the strongest and even the Satan and the Bible God, escaped the hand of death and Tyrael used the souls of the ones he had slain as 'The Greatest Sacrifice' in order to create The Great Seal and seal Trihexa away.

But Tyrael wasn't awared of the backlash of what he had done: since the power of the ritual was too strong given the fact that the 'sacrifice' Tyrael' had offered consisted of the souls of the Bible God, the four Satans and countless souls of angels, demons, devils and fallen angels, the ritual had also temporarily sealed away Etheria as his comrades had fallen into a very long slumber. All alone in his dying moment due to the wounds he had received in the slaughter, Tyrael had offered his own soul to Akasha the Root in order to know if humanity would survive and overcome the despair or not and if his comrades would be free from their long slumber or not but only to receive a prophecy about one person that one day would free his comrades from Akasha the Root. Accepting the answer he managed to get, the Angel of Justice could finally have his first and the final peaceful smile on his face before he succumbed to his wounds and his soul was taken by Akasha the Root to be forever crucified to the Great Seal as a safe measure for the seal.

As time flew by, the existence of the League of Angels slowly faded away in everyone's mind except in the history recorded by the three Factions Angels, Devils and Fallen Angels though they assumed that the League had been destroyed in the Great War or more precisely, the war that the three Factions had attacked Etheria at the same time.

If only they knew how wrong their assumption was...

[Eons later, In a medical room]

..." Lucky for you, your injuries are not that severe. It's okay to take off the bandages tomorror if the swelling reduced. But please remember not to put too much pressure on your right hand..."

In the medical room, a young woman who sat next to an occupied bed was having a conversation...well, more like she did all the talking... with her patient, a young man about sixteen or seventeen who was clad in a white shirt, black pants, short black hair and black eyes. Desipte the serious tone of the woman, the young man only looked at the television in the medical room with his sady and nearly lifeless eyes.

"... Hey... Are you listening to me?..."asked the woman

The silence was the answer she received as the boy just kept staring at the television, which now was playing the end of the live show of a rising music idol.

"... If you're not going to answer me, I won't return your glasses and your unifo..." said the woman sternly with a small hint of playfulness in her voice as she waved a glasses in front of his eyes. Though before she could finish, she was cut off by her patient

"... I'm sorry... And thank you for your concern... I'll take your advice and be careful..." said the teen sadly as his head hanged low with his hair overshadowing his eyes making it hard to know if he was looking at his injured hands or not. The teen's reaction caught the woman by surprised as she had and arkward and guilty look on her her

"... Well... I mean... Aghhh... Ju... Just wear this and go back home already..." said the woman arkwardly as she put his black uniform gakuran and his glasses on the bed.

" Um... Hey... I wonder why she suddenly did that. Extending her arms to an empty seat..."said the woman suddenly as the young man was slowly putting on his gakuran

"Hm... Maybe it's a pre-planned high five with a fan? Since this's her first concert after all..." said the woman's assistant thoughtfully as she was also watching the live show in the television.

"But who would have known that a person would get hurt from this..." said the woman as she took a sit next to her assistant "... It was dangerous. It was lucky that it wasn't a serious case..."

As the teen slowly got off the bed and putting his glassed on, the woman turned back to him one more time

"Oh, hey, you lost the second button of your gakuran. I think you lost it when you collapsed"

Not saying a word, the teen just silently left the medical room with a small unnoticable smile on his face...

_ "... But still, I love you..." _

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Snapping his eyes opened, the first thing Hiromu Ushio's eyes met was the familiar ceiling of the bedroom of his small apartment. Knowing that he wouldn't get anymore sleep after that particular dream, Ushio got out of his bed while shaking his head in order to shake off the sleepiness before he put his glasses on his face and got dress in a pair of long pants along with a simple white shirt. Looking at the small clock on his desk, he saw that it was nearly 4 a.m, a little earlier that the usual time he woke up and prepare to start his new day.After a few minutes looking at the still dark sky, Ushio decided to have a jog before he went to a small grocery shop where he worked as a part-time worker in the early morning before he went to school.

'It has been 7 months since her first live show...'sighed Ushio as he put on his shoes while his mind started dripping back to his previous dream.

How was her health now?

Was she fine?

Had she moved on?

Would one day he could reach to her even though now she was out of his league?

The unanswered questions just kept dancing in his mind but after a few minutes, he managed to shook them off... for the time being.

After all... With him, no matter how small his existence was to her or what kind of sullied future faced her... He would always be by her side...

Because... he would never stop loving her...

With his renew determination, Hiromu Ushio put the earphones on his ears, pressed the 'play' button on his mp3 player before he opened the door of his apartment and begin his new day, without knowing that his life was going to change forever...

[Unknown place]

"So this is the one of the Prophecy that Akasha the Root had made... Interesting indeed..." said a man with long black hair tied into a ponytail. He was clad in a suit consisted of a black shirt and tie, a white blazer and white pants with black dress shoes while his face was concealed by a mask that had the image of a violet butterfly wing on the right side and black eyeholes concealing his pupils. And at the moment, his full attention was the ball of light in front of him, which was showing him the image of Hiromu Ushio walking toward the east as the early ray of sunlight could be seen from afar.

For so long, the masked man had stopped interfering in the mortal realm, albeit indirectly, and let his servants take care of that while he himself had become a neutral observer and observed things unfold. But this young man... he caught the interest of the masked man... enough to make the masked man almost want to immediately draw the glasses-wearing teen into his realm to see what kind of potential the young man possessed.

Almost

"... I am looking forward to see what kind of journey you are going to go, Hiromu Ushio... and if you can show me how strong you are... " said the masked man without finishing the sentence before the ball of light slowly faded away as the masked man dissipated into a small swarm of blue butterflies and disappeared.

(End Prologue)

Author's note: A small note to you that Tyrael is NOT an angel of the game League Of Angels. He came from the Diablo series. And if anyone can guess who is the masked man appeared in the end of the prologue, I will give the first person giving the right answer a surprise gift~.

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