"KAMUIIIIIIII!"

"Ahahaha…. Gomen gomen."

"I'm sorry, my ass, bastard! You walked in my room while I was naked!"

"And they're doing it again," said Abuto with a sigh from next door.

"They never cease to stop fighting," said Kijima Matako, leaning against the wall to the wall to the control room they were in.

"Abuto-san, we're almost in Earth," said Ungyō.

Abuto sighed, lazily. "I really didn't want to do this mission but Kamui would kill me if I won't…."

"I don't like that Kamui guy…" Matako mumbled.

"Me neither."

"Brat!"

"I said I was sorry…"

"Pervert!"

"Do I have to get down on my knees and beg for forgiveness?"

I nodded. "Of course you have to!"

"Why?"

"Because you did something wrong! VERY wrong!"

"Oh well," he said with a shrug than walked away.

I sighed and walked into the control room after changing into my usual purple kimono (A/N: she looks almost exactly like Takasugi Shinsuke but is a girl, shoulder length straight purple hair, bandage around her right eye, and wears clothes just like her big bro. Lol). I walked down the empty hall to the control room and knocked before opening it.

"We're almost there, Shineko-chan," said Kamui with his usual smile.

I smiled back at him, a fake one. "Thank you for telling me that," I said then walked over to the front to see a big blue ball covered with white clouds and green stuff.

"Earth... How much I didn't want to see you again..." I murmured then walked out the room.

(after prologue)

I looked down the city of Edo, awed by the change of buildings and technology. When I was younger, Edo was far from looking like this.

"Shineko-san, Kamui wants you."

I glared up at the ground. "Tell him I won't go."

"He wants you immediately," said Matako, ignoring what I had just said.

"Whatever," I grumbled and walked into the... the... whatever the bottom part of the flying ship is called and up the control room.

"What the hell do you want, Kamui?" I yell as soon as I stepped into the room.

Such a waste for a good looking guy to be such a bastard.

"We're going," was his only reply.

"Going where?" I asked.

"The Underground. Yoshiwara dayo."

I furrowed my eye brow in confusion. "Yoshiwara?"

"Yup. Where girls would get kidnapped from the city of Edo and sell their body underground in Yoshiwara to live. I've heard that the women would never be able to see the sun when they've entered that underground city..." he said, eyeing me.

I got uncomfortable with the gaze he was giving me. "What's with the face?"

"Iyaaaa... Betsuni."

My eye twitched. "You're not telling me..."

"I mean, it is an order from your captain, Shineko-chan."

"I still cannot consider you as my captain."

"Ok. Then die. Seppuku! Seppuku!"

"All right all right! I'll do it! But you owe me a lot!"

"At least we'd get to enter the Underground without getting caught. But that's if you find a way to..."

"Why not Matako?"

"She isn't supposed to leave the ship. She's guarding it."

I swore under my breath. "Ok. Ok... When are we going?"

"Right now."

"Ganbattenē, Shineko-chan."

I glared at my so called captain.

"I am SO not going to sleep with guys even if I get this job..." I mumbled.

"Kamui, I think this isn't a good idea," said Abuto as we walked down the hall to Housen's room.

"Abuto, do you want me to kill you?"

Abuto sighed.

"Dayonē?" Kamui said with a smile.

"Abuto-san, I don't like this outfit," I complained and fidgeted with the short kimono.

"I advise you to wear that or you won't get accepted here," he replied.

"I still hate it."

"But I like it. You look cute," commented Kamui with his smile.

I froze and stared at him with wide eye, trying to keep the blush from forming in my cheeks. "Ewww..."

"Ahahaha..."

We had stopped right in front of the room Housen was supposed to be in.

"Abuto, Ungyō, wait here," said our captain with a serious look on his face. Damn he looked-, "Shineko-chan, let's go. You got some men to plea-"

I punched his face.

"So this is she?" said a muscular, old, long haired guy.

Kamui and I sat in front of him. I was nervous and Kamui looked... looked casual. He just... smiled.

"Nanako desu," I introduced myself.

Housen smirked. "Take that bandage of yours, off."

I froze. "Wha-"

"Take it off."

I hesitated first but the way he sat there and talked to me, just by that, I could sense and see that he was some guy not to mess with.

I slowly took my bandage, that covered my right eye, off and opened my eyes.

"Beautiful. So beautiful," Housen murmured with a smirk.

I kept a straight face, looking down at the Tatami floor, as I felt four pair of eyes on me.

"Look at me," Housen commanded.

Pervert.

I looked up at him.

He smiled. "Accepted."

I turned to Kamui with a wide smile and hugged him.

This mission is going to be darn easy!

"Ooooi... You're hugging me."

Realization immediately hit me and I jumped away from him.

That didn't happen. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. That didn't happen.

"Nanako."

I snapped my head toward Housen.

"Yes sir?"

"Are you a virgin?"

My purple eyes widened. "Y-y-y-yes..." I said in a very quiet voice.

He smirked, again. "I'll take that innocent of yours then."

PERVERT! I screamed in my mind.

I looked at Kamui for help but he just laughed it off.

Damn him. Damn Housen. Damn Admiral Asshole. Damn everything.

I kept a fake smile. "I'm sorry but I don't have any fondness toward you-"

Kamui slapped his hand over my mouth, stood in front of me, and laughed. "Please forget everything she says to you, Housen. She's just an ungrateful brat that doesn't know how lucky she is to get to work at this place."

"Kamui, just leave her with me," Housen commanded.

My eyes widened. No. I don't want to be left in here with this bastard.

I was scared. I might get killed.

I held onto Kamui's clothes and begged for him to stay with my eyes. I'll really do anything to not make him leave me with this monster, Housen.

I'll even show my weakness to my enemy to not be kept alone in a room with Housen.

Kamui turned to me and stared down at me with his blue eyes.

Oh how he looks like an angel right now.

Then he smiled. "You'll be all right. I'll be right out there if you need me."

That's not my damn problem, Kamui you bastard!

He let go of me and walked out of the room, leaving me with the monster.

"You're Takasugi's sister, aren't you?"

I kept a straight face as I turned to stare at Housen.

"Answer me!"

"What would you do if I won't?" I asked.

"I'll really take your innocence."

"I don't care. Take whatever you like and I could care less about whatever the hell you do to me."

He smirked, AGAIN. "Well I-"

"Where am I supposed to work?" I asked.

He suddenly punched the floor in anger, making me flinch. "Who do you think you are?" he yelled.

"Achaaa... She did it," said an amused Kamui after hearing Housen punch the Tatami floor.

Abuto and Ungyō sighed.

"Are you going to go help her?" asked Abuto.

"Saaa."

"You are to work at Honey's Beehives in the middle of 7 Peaches Street. You'll find a guard named Tsukuyo. Tell her that you are a new prostitute," said Housen after punching the floor many times and calmed down.

I just smiled then walked out. As soon as I closed the Fusuma behind me, I let out a deep breath. That was lotta work.

"How was the outcome?" asked a familiar voice from beside.

I turned to glare at Kamui. "How could you just leave me there with that monster?"

"I didn't want to be killed by him."

Just as I thought. Weak and pathetic.

"Whatever. I gotta go..."

"Nana-chan," Kamui called from behind with my fake name, just as I turned to start walking.

I turned my head. "Yeah?"

"Don't die."

I laughed, mockingly. "Just because I'm a girl and also a human, doesn't mean I'm weak! I'm not even close to being weak, Kamui-kun! Someone's underestimating me, eh?"

"You are a girl."

"And? Your point?"

"Girls are wea-"

I kicked him where it hurts the most walked away.

"Girls are scary... Especially her," mumbled Abuto as he stared down at his captain, groaning in pain.

"Sodanē," agreed Ungyō.

"Why didn't you just say that you cared for her and don't want her to get hurt and that you really didn't want to let her risk her body and the fact that it killed you to watch her leave for more than a day," Kamui's antenna (A/N: lol) twitched as Abuto continued, "and never know when's the next time you see her and that you really hate yourself for leaving in this damned city where Housen just use her body and kill her without hesitating and the fact that she was your love at first-"

"Shut up or I'll kill you," Kamui said with a smile.

Abuto and Ungyō sweat dropped.

He's trouble some... they thought.

"Let's go!"

I walked down the so-called streets of Yoshiwara.

I couldn't find this Tsukuyo lady.

"Oiiii!" a sloppy voice came from behind, "I'll give you 1,500 yen for a blow job, girly."

I turned around to see a drunken old man with a can of Sake in his hand.

I smiled at him. "1,500 yen? Trash. I'd rather sleep with Housen then to suck a disgusting cock," I said and walked away to find Tsukuyo.

"1,500 yen? Trash. I'd rather sleep with Housen than to suck a disgusting cock."

Abuto, Ungyō, and Kamui watched as the girl walked away from a roof top.

"Told you that she'd be okay," Abuto said, narrowing his eyes at his captain.

"I never said I was worried about her," Kamui said.

"And I never said about you being wor-" Kamui glared at Abuto, "Tch. Troublesome brat," Abuto grumbled under his breath so only himself could hear.

"We're going to go find Hinowa's son," said Kamui and jumped down onto the ground, followed by Abuto and Ungyō.

"Why?"

"You'll find out why."

I pulled my hair into a pony tail, which makes me look really different just by doing that, and began walking to a crowd of women warriors.

"What happened?" I asked one of them in the back.

"Tsukuyo-san had threw a kunai at a boy and two teenagers, and then a samurai came out and blocked the attacks but two had stuck to him and three had stuck to the others," she answered.

Hmm.. stupid guy.

Wait, did she just say Tsukuyo?

I hurriedly jumped over the crowd and landed swiftly behind a tall blonde.

"Which one of you is Tsukuyo?" I called.

All eyes turned on my as my eyes landed on a silver haired, natural perm.

He looked oddly familiar. Is he...? No, he can't be. I mean, he does hate this planet. He shouldn't be able to stand even looking at this filthy place.

"Who's you?" the blonde asked me.

"Nanako. New prostitute. I was told by Housen... sama," I cringed when I added that word, "to tell you that I am the new one."

She nodded. "Wait till I finish off with these brats." And she threw three kunais at the living ones. All three fell onto the floor at the same time then she turned to the women. "Go. I'll do the rest," she commanded and the women left immediately.

"Those are toy kunais. Take 'em off, humans," I said, staring down at the four idiot looking people.

"Toy?" cried the silver hair. "You didn't kill us?"

Tsukuyo sighed. "Shut up. I'm not explaining everything here."

"Then what did you want from us?" asked a Chinese looking girl... why does she also look oddly familiar?

"Follow me. You too, Nanako," said Tsukuyo and ran off.

Currently, we were on some huge iron, circular, pole like... pole (?).

"There's a guard at the gate. You should go through here," Tsukuyo suggested, gesturing to a hole on the metallic ground. "It'll take a day and a half, but you'll eventually be able to get out. Get out of here right now. And if you come back again, I'll really kill you."

"You sent your women away and put an act to let us escape. You, the leader of Hyakka?" said Seita in disbelief.

"I am the guard of Yoshiwara. I eliminate anyone who causes trouble here. That's all it is," she answered.

That means you'll kill me soon, eh?

"Sorry, but I can't just disappear, nor do I have a reason to be killed by any of you. I only came to see my mom… to see Hinowa Dayuu."

"Then that adds up to more of all the reason you should get out of here," Tsukuyo answered, sitting down on the floor. "The person who asked me to let all of you escape is none other than that Hinowa."

I raised my eyebrows, amused by the answer.

"Mom… did?" Seita repeated. "You mean, she knows about me? She knows I'm here?"

"Housen, the leader of Yoshiwara, is scared for you to meet her. If you stay here, you'll get killed by him."

"Why?" called the familiar-looking orange hair. "There's no reason why anyone should interfere with a kid meeting his mommy!"

"It's because Hinowa may try to run away from this place. Just as she did eight years ago… when she ran off with you when you were still an infant."

"With me…?" the boy repeated.

"Twenty years ago, as a result of war between samurai and the Amanto, Yoshiwara was once destroyed. But Amanto, who sets their sights on the profit, worked their way into the Shogunte's favor, and restored Yoshiwara deep inside the earth, to create Yoshiwara Shangri-La. Thanks in part to its connection with corrupt government officials, the area is beyond the reaches of the law and is even ignore by the government. Naturally, it becomes a place to discuss secret political matters that cannot be discussed in public. In other words, it's a breeding ground for dirty politics. At the courtesan level, they are privy to information that could sway the course of the nation. That's why once the prostitute enters here, it's the end," she said, eyeing me.

I kept a straight face. This didn't mean anything to me.

"…and adds up to one reason that I want you," she said to me, "to get out of this place before it's too late. Anyway, the prostitutes that enter here will never be able to see the light of the day. Women sold here, from the country, are dealt here as merchandise, bound to the underground, and worked until they become useless. When they have no further worth, they are left to die in the streets. Those who attempt to escape are eliminated. The reason this city is known as eternal night is not because it's red-light district. I only learned this after I was sold here. That for us, a morning filled with hope will never come. That we have to live in eternal despair, in a never ending night. But amidst that despair, among all the women with the same look in their eyes, there was one who had a different look. She was my tiny sun in the eternal night, and not just for me. The women with the lifeless eyes would naturally break into smiles when they came in contact with that woman's cheerful face. In time, that tiny sun became a radiant light that shined in Yoshiwara. That was Hinowa.

"The reason I scarred my face and forsook my womanhood wasn't because I despised becoming a courtesan or because I wanted to protect Yoshiwara as a Hyakka. I did it to protect Hinowa. And, Seita, you are the existence Hinowa risked her own life to protect. In Yoshiwara, once a woman bears a child, that child and its mother are eliminated. Despite that, you were born into this world. If a woman escapes from Yoshiwara, she is tracked down to the ends of this Earth and is killed. Despite that, you were taken to the world above.

"Just as Hinowa to us was the sun that shined the eternal light, you, Seita, were special to her. As your name states, a sun cannot shine unless the sky is clear. So I cannot let you die. Go back. If you die, Hinowa's suffering until now would be in vain," she finished…

…finally.

I suddenly felt a presence behind me. And I'm guessing so did the silver hair because we both turned around at the same time but he spoke up first.

"Hey, I appreciate your excessive thoughtfulness, but looks like it's too late."

"An umbrella?" the orange haired girl and I spoke up at the same time.

"No… Is that…?" she added, like she had realized something.

It's Ungyō, Abuto, or Kamui. I know that but that doesn't help, does it?

Suddenly, I remembered something my 'captain' had said before we parted,

"Next time we meet each other in this place, we're enemies. If we won't do this, Housen would know something's up."

I suddenly felt jumpy. I get to fight a Yato.

I was sure excited because from what I had heard, Yatos are strong.

And I like fighting with strong dudes.

"That… that umbrella is…" she continued.

How does she know who it is? I still can't figure out which one of the umbrella is whose! Not even my own, so called, captain's!

"A Yato?" she asked, more like to herself.

Duh!

I wanted to slap her right there and then. YES IT WOULD BE A YATO, DUMBASS!

I sighed, mentally.

I watched as the person raised its umbrella so we could see their face.

Abuto.

"Why? Why is there a Yato here?" asked the orange haired girl.

"Looks like they sealed off the escape route you went through some trouble to prepare for us," said the silver hair.

"You're wrong," Tsukuyo denied.

Silver hair turned around. "What?"

"He wasn't sent by Housen. He's…." she trailed off.

And that's when Abuto finally decided to speak up. "Hand over the kid," he demanded.

I rolled my eyes. The bad guys always say that and did it ever work? Nope, not at all. So why did he say such thing?

Tsukuyo jumped in front of us/beside orange hair.

"Hand that kid over," Abuto demanded once more.

I stayed in the back, in silence. I didn't want to interfere in this unless it's necessary, even though I would kill to have a fight with a Yato but the only Yato I truly would want to have a one-on-one fight with is Kamui.

"G-gin-chan… This is bad…. That guy smells extremely dangerous," the orange hair whispered to the silver hair next to Tsukuyo.

Gin….chan…? Why does that sound familiar?

"He smells of the blood soaked from having survived countless battles (no duh, I thought)," she continued, "the smell of a true Yato. What's he…doing here?"

Abuto decided to make the move and ran at us. Tsukuyo pulled out her kunais and brought them up and shot them at Abuto, but all blocked as Abuto brought his umbrella to block the attack. Then Tsukuyo was, out-of-nowhere, behind Abuto and threw a kunai at him but he caught it with his mouth, to everyone's surprise.

Maybe I should reconsider my choice of fighting with whom…

Anyways, Abuto ran at her, grabbed her head, and pushed her head against the ground, hard.

I watched the fighting in awe. He's amazing. Maybe I should seriously reconsider my choice….

Abuto took the kunai in his mouth with his free hand and was about to stab her in the face when Tsukuyo had blocked it with another she had taken out. She kicked him in the chin and jumped away from him.

She's good too but not good enough.

"Get out of here while you have your chance!" she yelled to us, or more like the other four since I'm not gonna leave, what-so-ever, or I'll get killed by my 'captain', not that I'll let him do such thing.

Tsukuyo threw two kunais at Abuto but she was too slow, Abuto has run at her and then punched her in the abdomen, flying her a few yards away.

Cooooooooooool.

Tsukuyo, somehow, landed on her feet and took out two new kunais just as the boy with glasses yelled, "Tsukuyo-san!"

Then suddenly, bullets flew from the bottom of the ground and I took the collar of the Seita boy and jumped away onto the sides. Gin…san, I guess, who jumped at the same time, was hit in the guts by a green umbrella.

I'm guessing its Ungyō because I think I've seen him with that colored umbrella.

Ungyō jumped out of the ground, landing on beside Gin-san, and hit his head with his umbrella, flying him onto the ground.

"Gin-chan!" the orange hair cried as I watched her run to Gin-san.

I wrapped my arms around Seita as he shook in fear.

I didn't dare to comfort him or anything.

I was shaking with excitement.

I can see… No, I'm watching a Yato's fight.

One of my dreams that I had been having for the past few years.

"Two... Yatos…" I heard the boy with glasses whisper.

I stood beside the boy, staring the running orange hair that was making her way to Ungyō to make her revenge for Gin-san when I smiled as I saw a new figure.

Kamui.

I pulled a wide smile, not caring if any of them sees it. Finally, I can see him fight.

"You're in the way, move," Kamui commanded at the orange hair just as she turned around to face him slowly, "I thought I told you I don't have use for weaklings."

The orange hair's eyes widened as she fully faced him. "…mui…" she mumbled as Kamui brought up his umbrella then down to…hit her…which he did and an explosion took place, filling the place with smoke.

"Kagura!" Gin-san yelled.

Kagura is the orange girl's name? ….interesting.

The bridge/pole thing we were on, split into three, and the grip onto Seita tightened as I jumped over to a safer place.

"Gin-san!" Seita yelled, looking down at where they had all fell.

"Did we over do it?" Abuto asked no one in particular, as he stood beside me. "We're going to get screamed at by that noisy old man."

I just smirked at what he had said.

"It's all right," Kamui answered, "the old man cares more about his precious courtesan than this town of his. He'll be in a better mood when we bring this kid back with us. And you have to hit this hard to kill her."

"Was there someone you knew?" Abuto asked.

"No, I could care less."

Seita pushed himself against me, crying his eyes out and shaking in fear, at the same time.

"Onee-chan… Help…" he murmured against my kimono.

I raised an eyebrow and turned to my so-called captain. "What shall I do? Since I don't have to help y'alls get in or out of here anymore."

I furrowed my eyebrows as I had just noticed the bandages around his head.

"What's with the bandages?"

He took them off then smiled his usual annoying smile. "Let's just make our way back to Housen."

I sighed. "Boring…"

Seita pulled away and stared at me with wide eyes. "You're…. with them?"

I turned to the kid and smiled at him. "Yup."

Abuto sighed. "Omae na…."

"But I thought you were with Gin-san and others!" Seita cried, stepping away from me.

I kept my smile. "I never said I was, did I?"

He stared at me in disbelief. "But… how could you?"

"How could I what?" I asked, nonchalantly.

He just burst into tears as I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion then turned to Abuto. "Had I done something wrong?"

He just sighed.