A/N: Ok so this story is based in the after advents of CP, kind of like what I want to imagine Blazblue 4 to be like. Oh and to those who I asked for advice on the title, this name was the one with most votes, just so you know! Anyway please enjoy and review! *wink*
Jin stood alone with Tsubaki in the middle of a grassy plain. The sky was golden from the sun setting with a gentle breeze that caused their hair to flow freely in it.
Jin took a step closer to Tsubaki, grabbing her chin gently as he whispered, "Tsubaki." He then gradually moved his head closer to hers, leaning in for a quick peck on the lips. Although before he could give her the sweet gesture she pulled away, facing away from him.
"Tsubaki?"
"It's too late for that, Jin..." She spoke softly with sorrow and pain in her voice.
"What do you mean by that, Tsubaki?" Jin asked. "Tsubaki... you and I have finally been reunited, we can be together once more.." Jin responded, using the voice that usually wiped away all of her problems... but this time it didn't work though.
"But I... I almost ...k-killed you..." She replied with tears welling up in the corner of her eyes.
"Tsubaki..." Jin murmured as he walked closer, placing a hand onto her shoulder to help comfort her. "I don't want you to go..."
"Jin, I've caused you guys so much trouble. I helped cause Noel to turn into kusanagiback in kagutsuchi.. I took away a lot of Kagura's and Professor Kokonoe's precious time.. and most of all... Most of all, I tried to kill you... my one true best friend, since childhood and yet I..." Tears slowly rolled down her smooth cheeks as she spoke those words.
"It wasn't your fault!" Jin snapped back, before changing his tone to a lot more 'caring' of tone. "You were being mind controlled, Tsubaki. You didn't ask for any of it. Besides, you apologized to us already. We all forgive you, Tsubaki." Jin tried his best to convince her.
"Jin... I'm sorry and... good bye!" She sniffed as the tears fell from her cheeks on to her cloths, damping them a bit. Before he could reply though, she ran. Ran as fast as she could away from him, so that he couldn't stop her.
"Tsubaki!" Jin gasped as he tried to run after her, only to find that his feet froze in place, preventing him from going after her. "Tsubaki... Tsuabaki!" Jin called out, "TSUBAAAAKKKIII!" He screamed out, before a strange darkness enveloped him.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Jin screamed at the top of his lungs as he shot up in bed, "AH!" He gasped in pain as he clutched his wounded hip. "I'm injured?" He mumbled, "Oh, that's right. I was fighting the Imperator alongside Brother and that bitch when..." His brother... Ragna the Bloodedge turned into the 'beast'... the dark one.
Jin tried to get up from where he laid, although he found it difficult too. He only just managed to get himself into a slouched sitting position.
"Oh, Jin. Your finally awake!" He turned his head in the direction of the familiar chirpy voice. She was annoying to him, but not as annoying as that piece of shit Noel.
"Celica.. Ah!" Jin grunted in pain as he glared at the young healing mage.
"Hay what are you doing? You should be resting, Jin." Celica suggested as she walked up to the wounded Hero. 'How are you feeling?" She asked.
"How long have I been unconscious?" Jin growled, completely ignoring Celica's question.
" Six days" Celica replied, not beating around the bush.
"Ah, Jinny. Your finally awake!" Jin glared at the man with spiky black hair, who entered the room.
"Kagura Mutsuki..." Jin grunted.
"I'm well aware of my name, Jinny." Kagura chuckled, causing Jin's patience to grow thin.
"Damn you with that ridiculous nickname!" Jin snapped as he tried to get up, only for him to fall back on the white sheets with a sharp pain in his gut. "Guh!"
"If I was you I wouldn't move for a couple of days, Jin. Celica may of healed most of your wounds but your still in no condition to move around." Kagura advised him.
"Kagura.."
"Yes?"
"Where is Tsubaki?" He asked Kagura with concern. He was surprised when he woke up, not finding her right beside him like usual.
Kagura was certainly hesitant to reply, but when he did Jin knew that Kagura was hiding something from him.
"She went out on patrol, she'll be back later." Kagura replied, unconvincing. Jin glared at him, urging Kagura to tell him the truth... although Kagura refused.
"Now if you'll excuse me, Jin." Kagura quickly bowed his head, before he took his leave.
"I should leave too, most of your wounds healed but your still not in top shape... Oh, I know! I'll make some breakfast for you." Celica chirped as she turned around, heading towards the door. "I'll be right back!" She said as she closed the door behind her, leaving Jin all alone in the sick bay.
Jin stared up to the ceiling as he let out an deep sigh. He couldn't wait to see Tsubaki once more, although don't expect him to admit it.
Meanwhile on the other side of the thick walls and door where Jin rested, Celica and Kagura were discussing the whereabouts of Tsubaki.
"So why didn't we tell Jin the truth?" Celica questioned as she had no clue to what Kagura was up too.
"We're not going to tell that Tsubaki has gone pursuing Ragna, otherwise in a panic Jin would probably try to go after her in attempts of stopping her. But in his current condition he wouldn't be able to last a second round with Ragna."
"Oh... alright then, I won't say anything!" She nodded her head in agreement. She then asked, "So do you actually know anything about where she is?"
"Probably off somewhere tracking Ragna down"
"I hope she's ok."
Kagura smirked a little before replying, "She's a smart girl, she won't do anything stupid to get herself killed ...and besides she has the true form of Izayoi now, so she'll be fine!" Kagura said reassuring Celica. But in truth, even he doesn't know whether she'll be alright going up against Ragna all on her own.
The forest was green and lush. The trees swayed back and forth in the gentle breeze, while pushing around the smell of pine in the fresh air. Sounds of birds chirped and various little harmless creatures scurried through the terrain.
Although despite having this relaxing atmosphere Tsubaki still couldn't get Ragna the Bloodedge out of her mind. The things that Rachel Alucard told her about Ragna and his 'condition'.
'Tell me Tsubaki, what does Ragna look like to you with those...clouded eyes of yours?' Rachel delicate voice echoed around in Tsubaki's head as she replied.
'Ragna is the root of all evil, there forth he must be destroyed.' She replied with a venomous tone.
Then the voices skipped to a further part of their conversation.
'You and Jin Kisaragi must kill Ragna before he dies!' That was one of the last things she last told Tsubaki.
Tsubaki stopped walking for a moment as she murmured, "Before he dies... what does it mean?" She asked herself as she glanced around at the peaceful scenery. it was nice for her to finally get out of the city and clear her head a bit. It used to be a pain traveling to one city to another with all the seithr infesting more then half the world. But recently due to the Embyro in taking the seithr it made so much more area's to be roamed around in.
But now since the world was slowly being drained of seithr it made life difficult for the people who lived in the world to sustain life, since they were so accustom to the conditions caused from the first war of magic. Not to mention more then half the population that was left from the dark war were slowly withering away, evaporating into seithr if they weren't 'chosen' by the Azura.
"This world has suffered enough already, even out with your curse... Imperator, I will bring you into Justice!" Tsubaki declared as she began to walk. 'Jin... I'm going to keep our promise!'
"Oh, you really think that you can defeat I.. Hades? Surely you jest! Your wishes are a little too big to live, instead... a pony would be more suited to your luck." The Imperator replied as she observed Tsubaki from an unknown, underground cavern.
She then turned her attention away from the young librarium as she turned around, watching the large beast sleeping on the ice cold floor. Luckily there was only one known entrance into the cavern, so it made it difficult to for anyone to locate where she was keeping Ragna prisonened.
She then crept closer to the sleeping beast that embodied the man once known as Ragna the Bloodedge and also a murakumo once known as Nu-13. She then knelt down beside him, gently caressing his cheek.
"Sweet dreams... brother~" Saya softly whispered close to his face. "Learn the truth about our past, learn who we are!" She ordered as she let out an sly smile while watching the beast's face twitch with discomfort.
*Flash Back*
A young women walked down the metal covered hallway, eager to reach the end of the where a single door stood alone. Instead of it being made out of metal like the rest it was made out of a light brown timber, giving it a more warmer feeling.
She then stopped in front of the door, slowly turning the handle, she swung open the door to where two very young boys lived. The moment the door opened fully, the two blonde boys charged forward. "Mummy!" They called out in unison, as they embraced their mother in a warm hug.
"Ah, my little angels. My one happiness is to see two of you and your smiling faces." Their mother exclaimed cheerfully as she held them close.
Ragna and Jin enjoyed the shared closeness between the three of them. Ragna and Jin's relationship especially, since the two spent their whole lives together in this one small room, surrounded by rooms and laboratories full of technology and various experiments.
Most of their days Ragna and Jin's parents would be too busy working in the science facility to spend time with them, so Ragna would be left in charge of looking after himself and Jin. Their mother would always try to spend time with them, but with all the work that she had been piled up with she rarely got to spend time with her angels. Sometimes when Ragna and Jin would get board the two of them would go adventuring in the facility, checking out the experiments their parents and other scientist that worked there created.
The two were certainly close, always protecting each other and keep the other company... The two boys were the perfect pair of brothers.
*Flash Back End*
"Enjoy the dreams while you can brother... soon you'll see the nightmares and the truth will be reveled before you... Despair is the only truth, 'he' taught me that" The Imperator then cooed into his ear. "I have to go and run a few errand's... I'll be back.. Brother~" She then got up to her feet, slowly turning away as she walked towards the entrance of the hidden cavern.
Jin sat in bed eating a bowel of warm porridge that was sitting on a tray in front of him.
"Jinny!" Just as he placed the spoon in his mouth he heard a familiar hyped voice, after in taking the contains of the porridge that was in his spoon he placed it back into the half filled bowel. He then awaited the hyper squirrel beastkin to prance on through the door.
A moment later the said beastkin burst through the door, not bothering to knock as she trampled in along with her blonde haired companion Noel. Jin honestly wished that Tsubaki was the one to come and visit him, but all he got was a squirrel who loves to troll others and a girl that is useless in everything she does that it makes Jin die inside each time he sees her.
"Makoto.. Noel.." Jin began in a pleasant tone."Have you two ever heard of... KNOCKING!?" Jin snapped at the two girls as he slammed his fist onto the silver tray that sat on his lap. Which resulted with the gasping out, before bowing their heads replying.
"We're sorry!" The two replied in sink.
Jin then let out an irritated sigh as he slouched back into the clean sheets of the soft bed. After a few moments of awkward silence Jin spoke once more, politely asking them to leave. "May you two please leave... I don't feel like having visitor's today." He sighed with grief.
"What?!" Makoto gasped. "But we want to talk with you!" Makoto protested, causing Jin's very little patience to grow thinner.
"Major-" Noel began, only to get cut off by Jin.
"Who the hell asked you to speak to ME!? You pile of steaming trash." Jin snapped at the blonde haired girl, almost causing her to cry.
"Eeeeh! So mean!" Noel whimpered with tears forming in the corners of her emerald eyes.
"Leave!" Jin demanded, not wanting any company from the two.
Neither of them respond, they just walked out of the room in pure silence. Once he heard the sound of their footsteps become more faint he placed the silver tray up onto the bedside table before turning over onto his side, glancing out the window, looking at the tops of the near by mountains with the thick forest surrounding their bases. 'I'm waiting for you, Tsubaki' He said to himself as he continued waiting patiently for her to visit him.
Meanwhile in a dimension between two spaces, the Mad Dog sat in silence, preying for another chance to get pay back at Kokonoe.
"My.. my, so this is the sector seven's beast, the Mad Dog. Those owners of yours must be neglectful. They haven't even given you a bone to chew on."
Azreal looked around the space dimension in confusion. "Who are you?" He growled before noticing a girl with long purple hair appear in front of him.
"My name is Izanami, I used to run the NOL before the Tenjō child took over."
"The... Imperator Librarius?" Azreal muttered. "What the hell do you want from me?!"
"I need a favour, in return... the pleasure in giving Kokonoe and the Red devil a slow painful death!" The moment those words escaped from the Imperator's lips, Azreal's mood began to lighten up.
"Go on!" He insisted.
"I need someone taken... care of." The Imperator gave him a vision of who she wanted to die. "See this women?" The Imperator pointed out the red headed warrior, who was marching through the never ending forest. Azreal replied with a simple nod.
"Tsubaki Yayoi is the one I want eased from existence... kill her... and I shall give you your reward of killing the Red Devil and Kokonoe." The Imperator then let out an twisted grin as the Mad Dog accepted her terms.
"Every well... looks like we're going to get along just finely." Azreal smirked, before the Imperator teleported the two of them out of the dimension space time prison.
A/N: Well finally started my major work, I kind of wished that I would of finished it's prequel 'Princess and the False Hero (re-make)' But just watch CP to know where I'm coming from with this. Anyways I'll try and update this as soon as possible but I've got quite a plie of unfinished stories to.. well finish. But anyway I hoped you all enjoyed, please leave a review it's VERY appreciated and I'll see you guys in whatever I make next. Until then farewell.