Thank you so much for reviewing, i'm so glad ppl seem to be reading this story!
As a response to BadyGuz if there is any romance it won't be much since i'm not bril at writing it, but Rikuo won't end up with either of my OCs despite me not liking any canon characters to pair him with really, except maybe Kana plz tell me what u think on that pairing guys!
I made this chapter twice as long as a thank you for reviewing and to say sorry for the shortish first chapter.
"Master! Come quickly!" cried Kuro, Rikuo looked up startled.
"What is it?"
"Some of those Shikoku youkai I told you about are causing havoc in town!" Kuro explained running towards him. Kin and Nurarihyon poked their heads out the door as he ran past.
"Hmm… I thought I ran into an awful lot of them earlier," mused Kin. "They were very rude, attacking without reason." Nurarihyon chuckled.
"Maybe you should go tell them that." He paused a moment thinking. "They're probably just trying to gain favour or acting recklessly. As far as I know none of the heads from Shikoku are here." Kin was only half listening, busy staring at Rikuo who had suddenly turned into his youkai form.
"Kuro, get everyone ready," he ordered. "We're going to show those hot heads what happens when they cause trouble on our turf." Kuro grinned and nodded.
"Of course Master!" Kin approached Rikuo when Kuro had left. She stood there staring at him for a bit, eventually he twitched.
"Why are you staring at me?" he asked. She tilted her head to the side.
"You're not as polite in this form," she stated. "And you look a lot like the old man." He twitched again. "Let me come along." He blinked at her in surprise.
"You want to come?"
"Yes, I am part of the Nura clan even if I haven't pledged. I won't let some damn Shikoku youkai cause trouble," she said glaring. "In case you forgot Shikoku youkai killed my family." He stared after her as she walked off.
"Rikuo," called Nurarihyon. "Come here a minute." Rikuo went to sit beside him. "Listen, you've got to prove to her that you are worth her pledge," he explained. "You can't ask her for it, she'll have to offer it to you, I'm afraid that's just the way it is with her." Rikuo nodded in understanding.
"So I should show her what I'm capable of," he said. "But you seem pretty desperate to have her pledged, why, is she that powerful?"
"Kin is powerful, watch her in a fight and you'll understand what I mean. There are few youkai in the clan at the minute who have had to fight recently, so she the most in shape out of the lot probably."
When Rikuo went out to address his youkai he found them all staring at Kin nervously, even Ao and Kuro looked uncomfortable. She was wearing the wolf skin again and had some sort of metal gauntlet on each hand with four blades protruding from each one. As he stepped closer he felt the murderous aura that had unnerved his youkai.
"You ready then?" he asked her raising an eyebrow. The aura lessened and she smiled at him.
"Of course!" She smirked. "I hope these youkai will at least give me a work out." He nodded to her and motioned the others to head out. He made sure to stay close to her as they travelled so that he would be able to watch her. When they found the invading youkai he stopped, they noticed him and started laughing.
"Look, it's the whelp from the Nura clan," they jeered. The high street was completely trashed and there were a few burning cars, all the humans had thankfully already fled.
"This is our turf," said Rikuo. "You will leave immediately or suffer the consequences." They laughed and ignored him, continuing to wreak destruction. Rikuo sighed and signalled to Ao and Kuro. "Ao, Kuro, its time to take out the trash."
They smirked and led the youkai in a charge. Rikuo cut the Shikoku youkai down left and right, all the time keeping an eye on Kin. At first he thought she was doing something similar to what Grandpa said their fear was, but he quickly realised she was just moving very fast, so fast that he could barely see her. She seemed to be everywhere at once and those clawed gauntlets of hers were extremely destructive. He ran, all the time making his way towards her in time to block a youkai that had tried to attack her from behind. She spun round and stared at him in surprise before thrusting her hand under his arm, running through a youkai that had tried to sneak up on them. He nodded to her and they stood back to back as they fought. Soon the remaining Shikoku youkai had fled and only the dead were left behind.
Kin sighed and ripped some cloth from a nearby corpse and started wiping her gauntlets clean. Rikuo checked his blade for damage, then sheathed it before turning to look at her.
"It was extremely interesting to watch you fight," he said smiling slightly. She smirked at him gleefully.
"You're not so bad yourself," she laughed. She offered her hand, which he shook. "I can see we're going to get along just fine."
"Old man we're back!" cried Kin cheerfully as they entered the gate. Nurarihyon scowled at her.
"Stop calling me that!" She just laughed and patted him on the head.
"Sake! We're gonna drink some sake!" she sang as she twirled around the garden. Rikuo raised an eyebrow.
"She seems totally different now," he said. Nurarihyon chuckled.
"She always gets like this after a fight," he explained. "She can't cope with being serious for too long." Kin was still twirling around inside the house when she bumped in to Zen.
"Zen!" she exclaimed. "It's been ages since I've seen you!" He blinked in surprise.
"Ookami!" he spluttered. "When did you get back?"
"Earlier today, I've just been out with Rikuo-kun and kicked some youkai butt!"
"What! He went out without me again?"
She chuckled and continued prattling on about the fight not even realising Zen wasn't listening to her. He was, in fact, staring just behind her where a girl with white and black hair had just appeared. She was wearing a long flowing white kimono edged in pale blue with almost white skin, she seemed to glow. She had a crescent moon mark on her cheek and silver eyes, then he noticed the huge black wings coming from her back and vaguely wondered if she was a crow youkai. Eventually Kin seemed to realise that he wasn't listening and turned slightly to see what he was staring at. When she saw the girl she went bright red and jumped about a foot in the air.
"Tsuki! I told you to stay hidden until I introduced you!" she cried waving her arms frantically. The girl pouted at her.
"But you were taking forever," she complained. "There's only so long I can stay hidden without boring myself." Kin turned back to find blood practically pouring out of Zen's nose.
"Zen! Are you ok? You know you're really sick!" she said worriedly. Tsuki moved her aside slightly and rested her palms on his chest, he watched in fascination as they glowed blue slightly. Almost immediately any pain he felt died down and he felt better than he had done in years.
"You-" he gasped. She blinked and looked up at him in surprise, then she seemed to realise what she was doing.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" She blushed. "I just…err… I mean-" Kin sighed.
"Well… cats out the bag now," she grumbled running a hand through her hair. "Zen, this is Tsuki Tenshi, she's my aide." He smiled at her.
"Nice to meet you." Then he glared at Kin. "But still, you brought a strange youkai into the main house without permission?" She snarled at him.
"She is my aide, she is pledged to me," she hissed. "I am perfectly willing to take any responsibility for her. I was going to introduce her, I was just waiting for the right moment." Suddenly Zen grinned catching her off guard.
"Well I was just going to say I'll go with you for support," he offered. She calmed down immediately and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Zen, that'll make things a lot easier." She turned to Tsuki and smirked. "Well as usual you were clumsy." Tsuki turned bright red.
"I was not! I just got bored, you do things so slowly!" she complained. Kin chuckled and looked thoughtfully at her wings.
"I don't suppose you can shrink those while we're in the house?" she asked gesturing towards the wings. "They take up a fair bit of room." Tsuki nodded and shrank them so that they barely covered her shoulder blades. Zen smiled as he led the two of them to the room where Rikuo, Nurarihyon, Karasu and Gyuuki were. It looked like things were about to get very interesting.
Kin fidgeted slightly as they stood in front of the door to the room where Zen had led them. Suddenly she spun round and looked pleadingly at Tsuki.
"Please will you wait till I've explained things to them until you come in?" she asked. "I'll introduce you and then you can come in, ok?" Tsuki smiled sensing her nervousness.
"Of course." Kin relaxed completely then grinned.
"Thanks. Oh, when you come in make your wings as big as they can go," she said with a smirk. "That'll knock them speechless."
Zen and Tsuki gaped at her as she opened the door and walked into the room.
"Kin?" asked Nurarihyon questioningly. She grinned brightly.
"Yo! Hey Rikuo, not turned back yet?" she asked cheerfully before sitting herself down in the middle of the floor. Zen quietly slipped in behind her and sat in the corner. "Oh, hiya Zen." Rikuo looked confused.
"Zen? What are you doing here?" Zen glared at him.
"I'll tell you when you explain why you left me behind again." Then he sighed. "I came to support Kin-chan." She glared at him for the suffix. They all stared at her expectantly then stared in shock when she bowed low.
"I have come for two reasons," she explained. "I am very sorry for disturbing you unannounced." Nurarihyon looked slightly creeped out by her formal attitude. "First, I must apologise for bringing a youkai into the house that you are not aware of." Karasu choked.
"What! You brought in a stranger?" he cried. She sat up abruptly from her bow and snarled.
"She is my aide and as such is pledged to me, I accept any responsibility for her." She took a few deep breaths to calm down. "May I please present, Tsuki Tenshi." At that moment Tsuki opened the door and walked in, her black wings almost taking up over half the room, they all gaped at her. Kin burst out laughing while Tsuki blushed.
"Wow! I didn't know you could make your wings so big," she chuckled. "Told you it would knock them speechless."
"You told me to do it!" protested Tsuki shrinking her wings to a more manageable size again. Kin continued to laugh rolling on the floor.
"That was priceless!" she snorted. "The look on their faces!" Tsuki Tenshi glared at her.
"You're a sadistic bastard, you know that?" she huffed.
"But that's why you love me." Tsuki deadpanned.
"True, but that's not the point," said Tsuki. "You always embarrass me!" Rikuo and the others watched in amusement as they continued to bicker like sisters. Gyuuki looked thoughtfully at Tsuki.
"I take it she is not a crow youkai?" he asked eyeing the crescent moon on her cheek. Kin glanced at him and shook her head. "Nor a Yosuzume?" Kin and Tsuki both glared at him.
"I'm insulted that you would even suggest that I'm one of those Shikoku youkai," huffed Tsuki looked offended. Kin deadpanned.
"Did Rikuo knock all that sense out of your head Gyuuki?" she asked. "You think I would let a Shikoku youkai stay with me?" Nurarihyon chuckled.
"Didn't you have a second matter to discuss?" he asked. Kin blinked and kneeled on the floor before bowing her head to the floor.
"If Rikuo is alright with it," she said. "I would like to exchange sakazuki with him." They all stared at her in amazement, Nurarihyon actually choked.
"Exchange sakazuki? You?" he asked incredulously. "Well… I thought I'd never see the day when you admitted you'd found someone worthy of you service." She straightened up and grinned.
"Well if Rikuo is going to be in the meetings they won't be so boring now will they." They all face planted.
"I knew there was another reason," muttered Nurarihyon. Rikuo smirked and brought out the sake.
"So you'll exchange sakazuki with me?" he asked. She smiled and came to sit down in front of him. She took a cup off him and waited as he filled it and then they exchanged drinks. She grinned at him and set her cup down.
"What about your aide-" asked Karasu.
"Tsuki. She's called Tsuki," said Kin with a glare.
"…Yes. Tsuki-san, will she also exchange sakazuki?" he asked. Kin glanced back at her and nodded. Tsuki drew herself up and folded her arms over her chest.
"In these matters I am of the same opinion as Kin-chan-sama," she said seriously, ignoring Kin's glare for the suffixes. "I will exchange sakazuki with Rikuo-sama once I am confident that it will be the right choice. Unlike Kin-chan-sama I have not yet had a chance to witness what he is capable of." Gyuuki nodded.
"I wise decision for now Tenshi-san," he stated. She smiled brightly.
"It's Tsuki-chan please." Gyuuki flushed slightly and nodded. Kin chose that moment to blow up.
"What's with the 'Kin-chan-sama'?" she burst out. "You know I hate being called so formally! Besides we're the same age its really weird having you call me sama." Tsuki smiled creepily making the men nervous.
"But technically you're my master," she said. "As such I should show the proper respect and call you accordingly." Kin's eyebrow twitched.
"Bullshit." Nurarihyon rolled his eyes as they started squabbling again.
"I have an idea," said Rikuo slowly to make sure they heard him, they all turned to look at him. "To solve any issues anyone might have with Tsuki-chan not exchanging sakazuki for now." He glanced at Kin who nodded her consent. "Kin has pledged to me, that makes her my vassal kind of. She protects me and is in turn protected by Tsuki-chan who is her aide. This in a way also protects me, as my protector is kept safe. As pay back I will protect Tsuki-chan so that Kin won't have to worry about her and will be able to protect me fully. This will also allow Tsuki to protect Kin without having to worry about herself." They all stared at him in silence while they tried to work that out. The others seemed to understand it really fast but Kin still looked confused.
"Damn it Rikuo!" she complained. "Why does every thing you say have to sound so god damn complicated?" she said pulling her hair. Tsuki rolled her eyes.
"In other words, I will protect you, you will protect him and he will protect me," she explained. "Do you agree?" Kin nodded vigorously.
"See Rikuo, why couldn't you explain it like that?" she asked. "Instead of making it sound like absolute bullshit." Tsuki hit her over the head with a paper fan.
"Please watch your language Kin-chan-sama."
"Damn it! Stop it with the polite talk and adding suffixes onto suffixes!" Kin cried holding her head.
"Are we done now?" asked Zen bored from his corner of the room.
"Oh, I'd forgotten you were there," said Kin looking surprised, ignoring his glare. "No, we've got one more thing to do, right Tsuki?" she asked glancing at her, she nodded. "I figured that since I'm like Rikuo's vassal now I should probably go to school with him. It would make you less worried right?" she asked staring particularly at Karasu who nodded. "So I'll just go as a human."
Suddenly in place of Kin and Tsuki stood two humans. Tsuki now had slightly darker skin and bright blue eyes. Her hair was now chocolate brown and she was dressed in miko robes of white and blue. She looked very beautiful and all the men were gaping at her openly until Rikuo yelled.
"Kin! What on earth did you do?" he yelled. She smirked at him mischievously, or rather he smirked. Kin had in fact turned herself into a human boy looking much like she had when she'd turned into a human girl. The boy looked about Rikuo's age and had grey eyes and long golden hair tied up in a high ponytail and he was wearing Rikuo's school uniform. Kin just carried on smirked.
"Well I can't follow you properly if I'm a girl," she said simply. He went bright red.
"You are not following me into the bathroom!" he cried. She pouted.
"You're no fun! Look I'll even prove to you that I'm a convincing boy at school." Zen nodded to Tsuki.
"Why did you have her change into a human?" he asked trying to stop another nosebleed.
"Well… I know not many of the youkai here can take on a human form or they don't want to. I figured Tsuki could run errands outside the house; she can't control her change so much to change her age yet so she can't come to school with us. I thought she could stay here and help Zen," explained Kin. Nurarihyon looked confused.
"How could she help Zen-kun?" he asked curiously. Zen stood up now and walked to stand next to them.
"Tsuki-chan has healing abilities," he explained. "They seem to work differently to my methods, she err… healed me before in the corridor," he said sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"What!"
"She put her hands on my chest and they glowed. Any pain I felt stopped and I feel better than I have done in years." He paused. "I don't think she's healed me completely but she's definitely added years to my life." The others all exchanged looks. Rikuo stood up and bowed to Tsuki.
"Thank you Tsuki-chan," he said. She blushed.
"W-why?" she stuttered. "I only did what I thought was right." He smiled at her.
"Zen-kun is like a brother to me and I always worry because he's so sick, thank you for giving me hope that he won't be dying any time soon." Kin smiled proudly at Tsuki.
"See, even your clumsiness is useful," she said laughing. Tsuki blushed embarrassed.
"Kin!"
"Clumsiness?" queried Rikuo. Kin was outright laughing now.
"She wasn't even suppose to show herself, and then he was bleeding so she just healed him without thinking," she explained with a wink. "See, clumsy." Tsuki groaned and stomped her foot.
"You always embarrass me!" she cried still blushing. Kin raised an eyebrow.
"Oh you did not just stomp your foot," she growled. "What are you, five?"
"As if you can talk!" Nurarihyon growled and drew them apart.
"I thought you two were like sisters, stop fighting!" he yelled. They both deadpanned.
"All sisters fight, its only natural to eventually get annoyed by someone you have to spend all your time with." He growled and pushed Tsuki and Zen out the door.
"Zen, please show Tsuki-chan around the house and where she and Kin will be staying while we discus things with Kin. Try get to know one another too since it appears she'll be helping you." With that he slammed the door behind them. Tsuki sweat dropped.
I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, i really want bout 3 more reviews before i post the next chapter so i can get ppls views on how the story is going.
Also ppl tell me what they think about the Rikuo/Kana paring coz thats the only one i'm willing to write for Rikuo. If ppl don't like i won't do a pairing for him.
So plz review and tell me what you think. Thnx for reading!
