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I apologize to anyone who thought these two updates were a continuation for the storyline of The Ultimate Limiter, I needed to fix the spacing issue and ended up changing minor details to improve upon something I wrote over four years ago.
I do plan on continuing this fanfict, but it's anyones guess as to when that will actually occur.
Again, I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion these updates may have caused.
The next day
As Kazuya woke up he looked around his room to discover that Arthur was still asleep. The teen looked at his alarm clock and discovered it was 7 in the morning. He decided not to wake the sleeping blonde male and just go get ready for the day.
Its not like they had school or anything.
After he took a shower, ate some breakfast, and got dressed he started walking towards the library.
The reason he wanted to go there was to research what Blaze, his katana, said in their last visit, but he doubted that he'd find it in an old book.
He thought, "Might as well go, it's the quietest place in the whole school, I could probably think clearer there."
As he quietly walked through the halls he noticed that he was the only person awake, in the 1st year boy dorms that is.
After Kazuya crossed the school grounds, he walked into the library. He then grabbed and skimmed through an old book on previous pandora and limiters with special powers.
In this book he found his sister's name and it mentioned that her body had more stigmata than any other pandora before her.
He thought, "Well that isn't very useful, I already knew that." Then his thoughts drifted to his deceased older sister, and Kazuya stood up and started pacing back and forth. After a little while he decided to leave and try to get his mind off of his sister.
Just thinking of never being able to see her again made him depressed.
A little while after he left the library, when he was walking across the the 2nd year girls dorm area, he heard a familiar voice. A feminine voice called out, "Kazuya!" As he turned around he noticed a familiar face.
A blue haired tibetan girl with a strange hair do, otherwise known as Lana, was seen by Kazuya running towards him. When she stopped she said, "I've found you my soul mate!" Kazuya said a little startled, "Umm, Lana, do you think you could please stop calling me your soul mate at least, until, if? we become partners."
Lana said, "So are you going to be my partner?"
Kazuya replied, "Lana, we just met, don't you think it's a little too soon to be asking me to become your partner?"
Lana said excited, "Not at all! You are my soul mate after all!" Kazuya said, "We could atleast get to know each other before making such a big commitment, how about we go to lunch together?" Lana said, "Oh Kazuya you are so sweet inviting me to lunch with you."
Before Kazuya could comment on this Lana leapt forward and hugged Kazuya nearly knocking him over, but he hugged her back nonetheless. He couldn't help himself from comparing Lana to how Cassandra looked and felt.
Kazuya thought, "Well Lana is pretty cute and she just looks so innocent, meanwhile Cassandra is beautiful and her body is slightly muscular and has such tender and smooth skin it really turns a guy on…...wait what am I doing, comparing Lana to Cassandra?!"
They ate lunch at a cafe and Kazuya told Lana all about himself, and how his sister
had been killed and was the hero of the 8th Nova clash. He also told her that his grandfather, Gengo Aoi, was the only family he had left.
Lana said, "Oh you poor soul, without any family left besides your grandfather who you almost never see."
Kazuya said, "Well, it isn't his fault, he is always very busy with work."
Lana said with concern evident in her voice, "You must be very lonely, and having to bare the weight of your sister's death too."
Kazuya said, smiling a fake smile, "Oh, I'm fine, ever since I came to Genetics I haven't been lonely at all with all of these people."
The truth was that he had felt even lonelier since coming here and being reminded of his dead sister. After Kazuha had died Kazuya was always depressed at a young age, therefore anyone around him was very sad. Kazuya noticed this and over time formed a mask that said that he was always happy, hiding his anguish and despair behind his mask where nobody could see it.
Maybe if he buried it deep enough, he would forget about his loneliness.
After Lana stared long and hard at Kazuya she finally said, "I'm happy to hear it, I hope one day you will realize your destiny with me though and become my limiter. I promise you I will treat you with the utmost care and love."
Kazuya said smiling, he really did think the tibetan girl cared for him, "Thank you for the offer, Lana, you are very caring and kind I hope we can be good friends for now and possibly partners later."
After that Lana told Kazuya all about her life in the Tibet mountain side, and a little about her religion. And with that Kazuya walked Lana back to her dorm.
Lana said, "Thank you again for taking me out to lunch, Kazuya." Kazuya just said, "No problem, it was fun getting to know you."
Just as Kazuya expected Lana to turn around and walk into her dorm, she stepped toward him and quickly placed her hands on his shoulders. Just as quickly she leaned into him. All Kazuya could comprehend was a warm pair of lips pressing up against his.
Just as quickly as it happened she pulled away and smiled at his flustered face, but she could tell he liked it. She turned around and walked into the 2nd year girl's building before Kazuya could say anything.
After that amazing event Kazuya walked back to the 1st year boy's building all the while thinking of Lana.
When he arrived Arthur wasn't there. Kazuya thought, "He's probably spending time with his pandora, Genessa Roland."
After thinking for a while Kazuya looked at his clock and decided to brush up on some of his techniques. After all, he wanted to be the best fighter to get revenge on the Novas for taking his big sister away from him.
When he arrived at the indoor training facility he had used yesterday he found Satellizer, otherwise known as the 'Untouchable Queen,' training.
Kazuya said, "Do you mind if I train here?" When he spoke, Satellizer had her volt weapon deployed and was practicing double accel, tempest turn, then a leap and slash
with great force into her target. When she was about to jump, he spoke. Satellizer didn't know why but she tripped and hit the ground, hard. Kazuya immediately ran over to apologize and help her up.
When he arrived he tried to give her his hand and said, "I am so sorry sempai!"
She looked at his hand and just helped herself up. Satellizer whispered barely audibly while looking at her feet, "It's fine, but...I...was wondering….if you could be my
limiter."
At his befuddled expression she rushed to explain herself, "You could be my limiter because you don't need an ereinbar set to fight, so you wouldn't have to touch me!"
Kazuya just stood there shocked. He couldn't help himself from speaking his mind, "I have tried to be friendly towards you twice and each time you rudely decline my offer. Now you want me to put my life on the line for someone who doesn't trust me whatsoever, and for someone who wouldn't do the same. You come off as rude and self centered. If you would give me the chance I would want to get to know the real you."
Surprised would be a major understatement. The Untouchable Queen's eyes widened so large at this remark that they nearly fell out of her head.
For a few moments they both just stood there incredibly still, staring at each other, both thinking their own thoughts. Satellizer thought, "Hasn't he heard of my 'reputation' and yet he still doesn't even try to protect himself from what I could do." Kazuya told himself, "She needed to hear it, and I won't stop her if she decides I need to be taught a lesson."
Out of no where she summoned her volt weapon, Nova Blood, and takes a swing at Kazuya. He closed his eyes and just let it happen as he thought, "Well, this is the either really gonna hurt or I'll never see the sun again." But suddenly she stopped a mere few inches from Kazuya's unprotected face.
Kazuya opened his eyes slowly and saw her volt weapon, a single bladed deadly weapon with the handle in the center of it, so close to his temple that he noticeably gulped.
She released her grasp on her weapon and it disappeared. Satellizer said befuddled, "Why? Why didn't you stop me? You could have just summoned your mirror, but you didn't lift a finger."
Kazuya said, "Because I knew you weren't as cold and heartless as the rumors had led everyone else to believe."
Satellizer just stood there as unshed tears began to form. Kazuya rushed forward and pressed his body into her slightly trembling form and held her tightly. Satellizer said very confused, "You….you don't feel disgusting."
Kazuya whispered in her ear, "I sure hope not senpai." When he released her she just stared into his beautiful blue eyes. Satellizer thought, "His eyes are as beautiful as the ocean with moonlight sparkling off the surface."
When he saw her stare he blushed every shade of red. As she remembered the last thing he said, she explained, "Well, the thing is…whenever other people touch me their touch is unbearable, and I just...can't stand it." Kazuya said, "Why can't you…"
Then his gaze locked on the clock and Kazuya shouted, "Oh shit! I'm going to be late!" As Kazuya started running for the exit he shouted back over his shoulder, "I'm sorry, I have to go!"
He left a young, blonde, and confused women pondering why he had left so suddenly.
Kazuya thought while sprinting back to his room, "Oh my God! I am such an idiot! How could I forget my date with Cassandra?!"
When he arrived in his room he looked at the clock to see how much time he had left. When he saw what time it was he mentally sighed, the clock in the training structure was running half an hour fast.
He had half an hour to get ready, then him and Cassandra would meet at some restaurant. She had said to dress casual so he just wore some jeans and a black hoodie to the restaurant.
When Kazuya arrived at the restaurant he saw her. Walking toward him was a magnificent, young blonde women wearing a beautiful blue blouse that neatly complements her curves, and showed just enough cleavage.
Cassandra said, "Hello, Kazuya, ready for our evening?" Kazuya said looking astounded athow magnificent she looked, "Yup, as ready as I'll ever be," with a smile on his face.
Kazuya saw her in tight navy blue jeans, along with her shining hair made her look like the exact image of an angel from heaven. Kazuya told her "Wow, you look… w-wow."
Cassandra giggled and said, "I'll take that as a complement."
Kazuya smiled at her walking beside him. After they were seated and had ordered, Cassandra frowned.
Kazuya asked, "Why are you frowning sempai?"
Cassandra's frown deepened, "Kazuya please just call me Cassandra, and the reason I am frowning is because you lied to me," her expression changed serious as she said the second half. Kazuya thought, "Wait, what? There is no way she could have figured me out just by looking at me. I even deceived my grandfather when he visited before I came to genetics, so how can she see beyond my mask?"
Cassandra noticed his confusion and elaborated, "Kazuya, please don't lie to me, now please tell me what you hiding from me." For a reason unknown to Kazuya he felt relieved.
Kazuya thought, "Why do I suddenly feel a tidal wave of relief? Was it because Casandra found what I have been hiding for so long?" After much inner struggle trying to decide what to do, he decided to tell Cassandra.
She had convinced him it would feel better to talk about it.
He told her, he told her about how his sister's passing had left him with an unshakable feeling of emptiness, about why he put on a brave face everyday, because of the effect it had on others around him.
Kazuya revealed to her everything he had kept bottled up inside himself, save his amazing power regarding his katana, that he wasn't sure could be called a "volt weapon." Cassandra, through the entire thing, just sat there facing him, intently listening to everything he had to get out of his system.
After he was finished Kazuya realized how rude he had been in just throwing all this onto her. It was their first date! Kazuya said, "I-I am so sorry I-I didn't-t mean to burden you with my personal problems."
He stared down at his plate he had already polished off, ashamed. Cassandra at last spoke, "You are too kind for your own good." She let her words sink in and after, continued, " All this time you have been carrying this heavy burden on your shoulders, and yet you haven't shared not an ounce of any of pain and misery with anyone else. Why?"
Kazuya looked up into her wonderful hazel eyes, and spoke, "I didn't want to be a burden to anyone around me. I... didn't want them to feel the sorrow, or pity me…" Cassandra shook her head, her eyes closed, with her blonde locks of hair flowing around her and said, "You are so ignorant." At this Kazuya was mystified as to why she
felt that way.
Cassandra opened her eyes and said with emotion evident in her voice, "Friends...friends are for sharing your pain and making you feel better about yourself!"
Kazuya is quick to change the subject because the truth was, when he was younger he never really had any friends because he had driven most of them away. Training and exercising made up most of his childhood and early adolescence.
He was obsessed with making them pay, the Nova. And for that reason he has been trained by one of the best sword masters in the world, his Aunt Crystal. Due to his powerful grandfather, Gengo Aoi, he was granted the opportunity to train with her for a year.
Kazuya asked curiously, "I have a question." Cassandra looked him in the eye and said, "What is it?" Kazuya continued, "Would you have done this if you hadn't seen my 'abilities?'"
Cassandra responded, a serious expression on her flawless face, "Had you been a normal freshman limiter, then no I wouldn't have, but special people deserve special treatment." Kazuya said after she had finished, "So the only reason you act like you like me is because I have power…"
The thought of this made Kazuya feel used and vulnerable. I should have expected nothing less.
Cassandra spoke immediately, "No! Kazuya…the truth is that I really like you… like alot." Cassandra felt her cheeks warm as she thought about Kazuya and how much he meant to her, even though she barely knew him.
When she had first seen the black haired freshman limiter in the room that day she had felt something that she wasn't familiar with. Cassandra felt like there were butterflies in her stomach, she also felt nervous, and confused. Although she had these feelings she still looked as if nothing was wrong, and on the outside looked like she was her normal, composed self.
Every night since she had met Kazuya, she had started thinking very sexually about him, but one of those nights she dreamt about him in a very...shall I say...different way.
Flashback
Cassandra opened her eyes and found that she was surrounded on all sides by black and white trees. A faint sound of a young boy crying reached her ears. Cassandra quickly used triple accel to arrive at the boys location.
When she arrived on the scene, a young boy no more than 6 years old was sitting, his back against a sterile white wall while, curled up into a tight ball crying his eyes out. "It's ok, I'm here for you," while talking she lowered herself beside the red eyed boy.
At the sound of someone else's voice the boy stopped crying and looked over at the pandora sitting beside him, wide-eyed and very frightened. She immediately reached over and pulled the young boy toward her. Squeezing his face in between her breasts, she tried her best to comfort the unknown boy.
The boy finally wrapped his small arms around her waist. Cassandra felt the top of her uniform getting wet and assumed he was crying again, for she could not see his face.
When he finally stopped crying, the boy looked up at her concerned face and whispered, "It-it's coming back!"
Cassandra was about to ask what was coming back when he continued his pleas, "Ple-please leave! You have to go or they-they'll get you too!" Just then, behind them she heard a loud thunk. She turned around. They were she longer in a plain white room. She looked around to see she was in a field, standing, facing an S-class Nova, all alone.
"Wait, no I'm not alone," she turned to try to find the young boy but instead saw a black haired limiter standing behind her who she recognized as Kazuya Aoi. Cassandra felt immensely relieved and said, "Kazuya? How did you get here?"
Kazuya quickly spoke, "No time, we need to deal with this situation immediately. There is a major city up ahead and if we can't stop this thing, it will kill millions." She understood the urgency of the situation and summoned her volt weapon.
She rushed the Nova while Kazuya shouted, "Freezing!" With his freezing field in effect the Nova couldn't move, or that's what she had thought. After his freezing was activated, which extended as far as the eye could see, he shouted to her, "Cassandra! Please retreat! I can't...!"
Cassandra was already using accel and didn't hear a thing of what he had said.
As she jumped up to expose the Nova's core, she was forced back down to the ground by one of the Nova's whip like arms. Kazuya saw the entire thing and couldn't stop it.
He had failed.
Again
She hit the ground with a sickening thud.
End of flashback
After they were finished and got out of the restaurant, they walked hand in hand back to genetics. On their way back, Kazuya said to Cassandra who looked like she was reminiscing, "I...I was wondering if I could be your…"
Cassandra immediately turned and said very gleeful at just the thought of them together, "Yes! I would love it if you could became my limiter!" Squealing with delight, Cassandra had a wide smile painted across her flawless face, looking into Kazuya's soft, sincere ocean blue eyes.
Kazuya thought "she looks so cute when she was happy." Kazuya suddenly stopped walking, and Cassandra turned around, about to ask why he had stopped when Kazuya quickly stepped forward, wrapped his arms around her hips and pulled her in close.
Cassandra loved the close proximity, but she was surprised nonetheless. She had thought of Kazuya as always so shy and modest, nope, she didn't expect it one bit. She returned his loving embrace by pressing her breasts even closer, if possible, into his warm masculine chest.
"Kazuya's breath is so warm", tingling her ear, making her yearn for him even more than before. After a little while, Kazuya whispered near her ear, passion evident in his strong voice, "I love you."
After that Cassandra pulled away, out of the hug but still held Kazuya, they were close, their noses almost touching. Right then Kazuya caught a glimpse of something in her beautiful green emerald eyes. Kazuya thought, "It can't be...did I just see lust in her eyes?"
But as soon as he thought he saw something, she moved her head forward and, slowly and very much to his enjoyment, kissed Kazuya. He put a hand through her hair feeling its softness and his other hand started snaking down her back. This time around, he wasn't as slow on the uptake as with Rana.
He instantly pressed his warm tongue against her lips requesting entrance. She happily obliged, he entered her mouth and started to explore. Kazuya loved how it felt having his tongue in her mouth…it felt...amazing to say the least.
A loud long moan escaped Cassandra's lips and she shivered in excitement. But Cassandra wasn't about to let him take control. She battled his tongue back and began exploring his mouth in return. If Kazuya wasn't turned on before, he sure was now. They both broke the long kiss, gasping for fresh air to fill their lungs. After kissing a few more times Cassandra couldn't hold back anymore, she couldn't hide her lust for him any longer.
After the last kiss Cassandra said, having gained her breath again, "I know something much more fun than this, do you want to find out what that is Kazuya-kun?"
Kazuya immediately said, catching her hint, "I wouldn't like anything more, Cassandra-chan." They were far too ecstatic to walk back so Cassandra picked up the freshmen and used triple accel to arrive back at the 3rd year girl's dorm.
Kazuya whispered to Cassandra after being set on solid ground, "Cassandra, rumors will spread if I am seen leaving or entering your room, and you wouldn't want to be seen with a freshman. Think of your reputation!"
Cassandra said to the cautious limiter, "I wasn't joking around when I said I wanted you to be my limiter, plus I don't care what other people think, and neither should you." And that was all the explanation Kazuya needed, they both walked hand and hand up to Cassandra's room on the third floor.
Luckily nobody was around at this late of an hour, it was already past curfew. "Everyone's probably asleep by now" Kazuya thought.
When Cassandra opened her room and she walked in, out of nowhere Kazuya scoops Cassandra off the ground.
"He's stronger than he looks"
Before she could do anything about it, Kazuya carried her over to the king sized bed in the middle of her large room and pinned her on top of it.
Cassandra said, obviously flustered, "Wh-what are you doing?" Kazuya just smirked at her and let his action do the talking.
The next day
Kazuya woke up seeing that Cassandra was still sound asleep. He noticed they must have been holding each other all night because her head was resting on his chest with her arms wrapped around him. Apparently he had held her close to him with his arms wrapped around her all night, "no surprised there".
Looking over at her sleeping form, he thought
"She looks adorable when she's sleeping."
When thinking back to last night, he was sure it was the best night of his life, sex with her. When he stepped out into the hall, he silently thanked himself for setting Cassandra's alarm clock to an hour before anybody got up.
He quietly closed the door behind him, as not to wake the sleeping beauty.
Almost immediately after, he heard the headmistress's voice boom throughout the entire academy. Her voice spoke with urgency, "All student please report to the main building for debriefing." Almost instantaneously he heard Cassandra's door swing open behind him, and before he knew what to think, he was in her arms once more.
That phrase was cycled through a few more times before Cassandra and Kazuya made it to the main building on campus. When they arrived, Cassandra finally set Kazuya down.
The whole room was filled full of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year students. They all sat down in seats, Cassandra in the front row with the third years, and instead of being back with the first years, Sister Margaret had told Kazuya to sit down in the front, along with the third years. While Kazuya was sitting with the third years, he heard jealous whispers of students behind him, and he also heard some of the third years confused, as to why he was among them.
He was just relieved no rumors about him and Cassandra were being spread around. Sister Margaret said, the sound of her voice being multiplied by her clip microphone, "Calm down everyone." At the sound her voice the crowd fell silent. She said, as a digital map appeared behind her, "Here, here and here, all of these places are occupied by a single S-class and 2 R-class Novas, each."
This caused much commotion among the pandoras and their limiters. More than a single Nova has never appeared in one place, and to top it off there were 3 at each point. She continued, "All of our 4th year students have already been deployed to the point closest to a highly populated city. All of the third year pandora's and limiters are to report to the rooftop to be taken to the last Nova point on the map. If you are a third year and don't yet have a limiter, you are required to find one. The Chevaliers have already taken heavy casualties. The 2nd year students are to remain on standby. 1st year students, you are dismissed."
After Sister Margarett had finished, she stepped down off the stage, and chaos broke out across the building. Everyone rushed to fulfill the headmistress's orders.
Kazuya stood up and bowed as he saw the principal walk towards him. The headmistress said, "Kazuya, I want you to become one of the junior's limiter, this is not a request it is an order." Kazuya responded with seriousness, "Yes ma'am!"
He turned around to try to find Cassandra but...he saw a 2nd year limiter talking to her. This particular 2nd year was one of the most liked limiters in the entire academy. Kazuya overheard him request, "Hey Cassandra, wanna be partners?"
He was a very handsome limiter and Kazuya's heart sank and he came to a realization, "She doesn't need a strong limiter. Cassandra's one of the world's top 5, what use could she have for me?"
Kazua hung his head in despair and turned on his heels.
Just as he was about to start walking off, he heard a feminine voice call after him, "Kazuya! You weren't going to leave without me were you?"
"Is she being serious?" while facing the door, he felt two big pillows push up against his upper back. Kazuya thought, "Wait no, not pillows…"
Kazuya felt Cassandras arms wrap around him and she whispered desperately into his ear, "I need you." Kazuya's eyes widened in surprise that she'd actually done something like this in public. While it was an emergency, there had to be at least a few people that had seen.
After quickly traveling to the baptism room, Kazuya and Cassandra went inside and closed the door behind them. Cassandra said to Kazuya, "Do you know what to do?"
Kazuya responded with a reassuring, "Yes." Cassandra turned her back to him and took her shirt and bra off.
Kazuya then slipped a razor sharp knife out of its holster on his calf, 5 inches long, with a jet black handle. Kazuya slowly stuck the knife into the tissue surrounding one of the stigmata in place on her back. Cassandra grunted at the initial impact but stayed completely quiet through the rest of the proceduree.
After Kazuya had retreived the stigmata, he handed Cassandra his knife along with her stigmata and turned his back to her. Kazuya stripped his shirt off and braced himself. Cassandra steadied her hand and slowly cut open the skin directly below his right shoulder blade and inserted the glowing red stigmata.
Cassandra said to him, worried if he was hurt, "Done, are you ok?" Kazuya quickly turned around and responded, "I'm completely fine! I feel adrenaline rushing through my veins!" with an almost crazy look in his eyes.
Cassandra sighed, "I'm happy to hear it."
Just as Cassandra was about to open the door and leave with her new partner, she heard a loud thud. She turned to see her beloved Kazuya on the ground, hands clawing at the sides of his head. He let out an ear splitting scream. Eyes wide, all of Kazuya's senses were overridden by sudden excruciating pain. It felt as if his skin was being slowly melted off and replaced by god knows what. Cassandra broke out of her shock and knelt down to see what was wrong, and that's when she saw it.
Cassandra gently placed her hand on his shoulder, but Kazuya immediately recoiled in pain. Now able to see his face, Cassandra stared in horror as it appeared. A dark blue tribal tattoo slowly started snaking up from his jaw bone. It seemingly halted when it reached his right eye, but it persisted on, finishing its journey right below his hairline. Meanwhile his eyes rolled into the back of his head and finally, Kazuya's body went limp. Cassandra was speechless.
"What have I done?"
