Chapter Four
Katt: Ok you guys, before I continue, i do not own Yami no Matsuei, but I do own the fanfic and the two characters; Seren and Katsumi. So alright everyone on with the show!
" Her? Who is she Katsumi? who do you remember that causes you to feel this way?" said Tsuzuki.
" A girl, who looks like an angel from afar, but when you get too close and get a real close look at her, then and only then do you see the horns and the fire that's blazing in her silver eyes. As for having such experience she is someone with a wasted mind and lust for one person, that would unfortuantly be me. She'll literally kill anyone that gets in her way of getting to me my memories of her end up as my nightmares and haunt me in my sleep, which is another reason why I don't like to sleep"
" and you don't want anyone to see her if they were to look into your dream" said Tatsumi
" It's ok Katsumi, I understand how it is to feel that even though you think it's all over, that sometimes it still feels that they are still out there waiting for you" said Tsuzuki (thinking of Muraki...Brrrr")
" Anyway, lets see who comes up next" said Katsumi
She right-clicks and then again to bring up The Counts file and just as it does, Seren and the rest of them walked back in.
" Katsumi! you said it was time for break"
" Opps, sorry Seren, must of slipped"
" So anyway, who's next?" said Watari
" The Count" said tatsumi
" It'll probably be all about Tsuzuki you know" said Hisoka
" Oh well, lets watch anyway" said Seren.
Katsumi clicks on it and then again to start it up.
The Counts dream
Up in a glorious bedroom suite, standing at the end of the bed was The Count and sitting on the heels of his feet on the silk covered bed was Tsuzuki wearing butless black leather chaps and no shirt.
" Oh Tsuzuki, you looks so beautiful, I could just eat you up" said The Count
" Then why don't you come over here and...take a nibble" said Tsuzuki in a sexy voice, causing The Count to smile and even giggle with exictement
" Oh Tsuzuki, I am going to do the one thing I've always dreamed about doing, besides taking your body, Tsuzuki I am going to show you my face so you know what I look like as I make sweet love to you"
" Whatever you wish for Count, I am here for you to take me away from here and everyone else...especially Tatsumi"
" Oh Tsuzuki, I've waited for this moment for so long"
Just as The Count just removed his mask to make him visible...the dream ends.
Back to reality
At that moment Tsuzuki was red, tatsumi was steaming over this as well as having a bloody nose from seeing Tsuzuki in black leather butless chaps and Watari, Hisoka and Seren irritated.
" Even in his dreams, you don't get to see his real face!" said Watari
" That's really annoying" said Hisoka
" Huh?, you guys never saw his face?" said Katsumi
"and you have?" said Tsuzuki
" Yeah, I've seen it plenty of times, why?"
" But you said that this was your first time here" said Seren
" Yeah, um without my parents it is"
"and why are you looking for them? surely you know their names or even what they look like" said Tatsumi
" When I came here I had gotten hit on the head and I've forgotten what their names are and what they look like. I just know that they're shinigami, I look like them and they've known each other for years"
" Well who's left then?" said Watari
" Me, Tsuzuki and Tatsumi" said Seren
Then at that moment he realizes the truth. Hanging his head low, thinking that now he will never have Tsuzuki as his own.
" Well then congradulations Tsuzuki and Seren, you've found your daughter" said Tatsumi
They looked at him surprised at what he just said and then they lookd at Seren and Tsuzuki; who were both stunned at this, but Katsumi on the other hand was confused, she knew one other thing about her parents that would set the record straight.
" Um, hey you guys, that couldn't be right..."
At that moment they heard a huge blast just outside of the ministry. They went outside and saw a golden flaming phoenix the size of the ministry itself.
" What is that" said Tsuzuki
" Maybe it's from the Imaginary world" said Hisoka
" It doesn't look like it is" said tatsumi.
" Watari, Hisoka go and avacute everyone in the ministry, Seren go to yours and avacute them as well. Katsumi! go and hide" said Tsuzuki
While the others ran to do what they were told, Katsumi stood her ground beside them.
" Katsumi, do what Tsuzuki says and go" said Tatsumi.
She doesn't listen and stands there behind them as they try with all their might to stop it, but it seemed that nothing worked, not even Tsuzuki's shiki; Byakko was able to make a mark on it.
" It's too powerful tatsumi, what are we going to do?"
" I don't know, but we can't give up"
At that moment Katsumi starts doing a chant and her o-fudas started to appear and swirl around her as she chanted. Then when she started a second chant, her shadow appeared larger and a piece of her shadow went into each o-fuda and each one doubled.
Just as Tsuzuki and Tatsumi were going to try again, Katsumi sent the o-fudas flying over to the phoenix and started swirling around it. They looked back and saw her glowing as well as her shadow and her purple eyes. She got a running start and as she jumped, she tossed her overly huge coat and it lands on Tsuzuki, her holding a o-fuda, she jumps into the air and straight to the phoenix and did one more chant and threw it at the phoenix's forehead only after a few seconds you see her disappear into what's now a poof of smoke.
When she got a better look she saw a small phoenix on it's back doing the turtle thing as it trys to get up, still with the o-fuda on it's forehead. She leans down and looks at it carefully, then she picked up a stick and...started poking at it, being irritated she was with the phoenix.
" You know for a bird who's name means intellegence, you sure aren't very smart Masaru"
" Ouch, why did you do that, you know that technique hurts"
" Cause you were acting like a raving lunatic, why are you here anyway? I told you to stay back at home"
" Sorry, but your parents wanted me to be with you"
" You could of found me without the whole huge powerful phoenix routine you know"
" Yes...but it worked, blah"
Still dizzy from the spell, it Masaru stayed down as Katsumi continued to poke at him with the stick. In the meantime, Tsuzuki and Tatsumi were not only shocked, but worried, it'd been already three minutes and Katsumi hasn't returned.
" I'm worried Tatsumi, she still hasn't returned after the Phoenix went down"
" Yes, me too though I am curious on not only how she did that but how she knew that that would work"
" Yeah, I thought you and your teacher were the only ones with kagetsuka"
" Yes, so did I. Who is she really?"
Then Tsuzuki looks at the coat that he's holding and thought it looks familier.
" Hmm, hey Tatsumi, doesn't Katsumi's coat look like mine? or it just me?"
" No it really looks like your coat Tsuzuki"
" Yeah I know, but I'm wearing mine, isn't this weird"
He lifts the tag thats on it and seems some little stitches on it in gold along with some initials beside it.
" Hey, look at this Tatsumi, it says:
To my beloved daughter, I hope this coat gives you as much luck as it did for me when you become a shinigami. I will always love you and just remember that even though we are far apart, I'm always there holding you close to my heart just as well as this coat will be holding you close. Love Mom. T.A.S
Wow, that's sweet, but I wonder, here hold this please Tatsumi"
He tosses it to Tatsumi and ends up getting him on the head as he removes his coat and looks under the tag to see his initial T.A on it in gold letters right in the same area as the initials are on Katsumi's coat.
" Look at this, Their almost the same, except the S. I wonder what the S stands for" said Tsuzuki
" This is odd, but maybe she'll be able to explain once we find her"
Just as he said that the smoke cleared and there walking towards them was Katsumi herself, besides seeing some dirt on her and a scratch or two, she looked fine, her hair had came out of its braid and was everywhere. She smiled and waved as she walked towards them carrying what appears to be a cat cage that came out of nowhere.
For a moment Tatsumi blushed, he saw how much she looked like Tsuzuki, the smile, the messy hair, the clothes, the eyes, but there was still something that wasn't Tsuzuki that was her. She stopped near by them to take out her cleaning cloth to clean her glasses. She puts them back on and with one simple finger she pushes them back up and smiles devishly, which scarred Tsuzuki for a moment cause right there she looked like Tatsumi when he's about ready to kill him for all the damage he causes.
" Hey"
" Hey didn't we tell you to go hide" said Tatsumi
" Yeah and would you have thought of what I just did"
" Um...eventually we would of...sort of" said Tsuzuki.
She shakes her head and smiles as she holds up the cage to her eye level.
" Not really, especially not with this bird-brain"
" Hey, Katsumi could you let me go, it's cramp in here"
" No Mas."
He sighs as his defeat and Tsuzuki and Tatsumi stare blankly at them for a moment till Katsumi noticed and spoke up.
" Um you guys, are you alright, you keep staring at me and Masaru as if you've never seen a phoenix shikigami before"
" It's a shikigami? Tsuzuki are you sure that you don't know any shiki such as that one?" said Tatsumi
" Not that I know of, but we can check"
They went on inside as people started going back to their offices and straight back to work. When they got to Tsuzuki's, they saw a running an crying Seren just glomping onto Katsumi.
" Katsumi! don't ever scare me like that again! where were you!?"
" Sorry Seren, she was helping me and Tatsumi bring down our phoenix"
" Where is it anyway?" said Hisoka
" It the cage that Katsumi is carrying" said Tatsumi
Katsumi opens the cage and removes the o-fuda, making him promise not to turn into the giant Phoenix again as he trots on the table and then perches itself on the cage she sat down.
" Here, call Wakaba and see if she can ask any of the shikigamis about the phoenix named, um...what's his name?" said Tsuzuki
" His name's Masaru, meaning intellegent; victorious, which he has neither of"
He sighs and hangs his head low as Tsuzuki has Hisoka go on and call her.
" Ok, so before the interruption, Katsumi what were you going to say?" said Seren
But right before she could start, she got interrupted again, this time by Tatsumi.
" Sorry Katsumi, I just have one quick thing to say. Tsuzuki... for a long time I have had no idea how to come even close to telling you this, i've felt this way even back when we were partners and in some ways I regret leaving you like that. I knew for a fact that if I didn't tell you now, I may never get a second chance and even though your with Seren, Tsuzuki...I..."
" I love you too Tatsumi"
Shocking everyone the minute he said it, including Tatsumi so much that he couldn't even finish his sentence he was just so shocked, but that moment when Tsuzuki had said it, Katsumi's memory of her parents had returned.
" Wow, now it makes sence, the feeling of warmth when I was with them.Damn I should of realized this sooner. Duh, man I can't believe how I couldn't catch it, it's obvious, man dad was right; if I don't study enough my brains will go to mush as much as moms is sometimes"
At that time while Katsumi was beating herself over this, Tatsumi had just gotten over the shock enough to be able to speak now.
"Did...you...just say that..."
" Yes Tatsumi, even when we were partners, I've always loved you"
" But what about Seren?"
" Tatsumi, I can't believe you'd think I would date him, come on he's like a brother to me"
" A brother? but what about all those things that you've done for him?, what about when he said that he loved you?"
" What? come on seriously, do you think he'd survive on his own if I didn't help him and as for the love part, he only says that cause he's thankful for having me do this for him, so he goes overboard with his gratitide, but it doesn't mean he actually loves me"
Tsuzuki had walked over to Tatsumi and lifted his hands in his and held them close to him as he stood eye to eye with him, being so close to each other that another five inches and they could possibly kiss
" Yeah Tatsumi, If I had known that saying that would make you think that me and Seren were together I would of said something sooner. Why didn't you tell me sooner anyway?"
" Cause I was afraid that if you found that that you wouldn't of felt the same way for me"
" But you know now"
" Yes, that's true Tsuzuki, and that's just another reason why I love you so much"
Seren was in awe as well as Watari, but when Hisoka came back from talking to Wakaba on the phone, he had interesting news to tell.
" Seren, there's something not right"
" Huh? why?"
" I just got off the phone with Wakaba, she said they're is no record of a phoenix by that name"
" That's interesting, Say Katsumi"
Knocking Tatsumi and tsuzuki out of there private conversation and Katsumi out of her thoughts, they looked towards Seren.
" Katsumi, you were trying to tell us something earlier"
" Yes, well I was trying to tell that it couldn't of been Seren and Tsuzuki anyway, or any other female for that matter"
" Why's that?" said Hisoka
" Both of my parents are male"
" Male?!" said everyone else
" But how's that possible?" said Tsuzuki
" My mom said that she drank some kind of potion and it changed him into a woman so they could have a child. He had to stay as a woman for a year so he could have me and then take care of me for the rest of the time till I started using the bottle"
" Wait a minute, what was it called?" said Tatsumi
" A sex-changing potion, why?"
" You mean Watari's potion worked?"
In the background as everyone tries to figure this out, there's Watari celebrating that his potion worked, but then stopped and thought for a moment
" Wait how could my potion worked if I haven't even gotten it to work yet?" said Watari
" Yeah, it's the same as with the Phoenix" said Hisoka
"Huh?" said Tsuzuki
" Yeah, i've just gotten off the phone with Wakaba, she said there's no phoenix by that name in the system" said Hisoka
" Of course not, I don't wake up for another ten years"
Then out of nowhere, Katsumi throws a day old bread she found at Masaru, causing him to fall down on his belly, seeing her not too please with him for opening his mouth.
" Masaru + Intelligence Zero, you stupid bird"
But it was too late, they heard Masaru and now are looking at her for the real truth of all this.
" Katsumi, tell us the truth! who are you? and where do you come from?" said Tsuzuki
" Fine"
She looks towards Masaru with such content she could be killing him with just her eyes
" Your right to be suspicious. Masaru was telling the truth, he doesn't appear for another ten years, as well as how could my mother had taken the sex-change potion if it hasn't even been made yet...well actually the real question isn't where I came from, it's when I came from"
" When?" said Hisoka
" Yes. You guys...I'm actually from the future...twenty years to be precise"
" Did...you just...say" said Tatsumi
" Twenty Years?" said Tsuzuki
Katt: Ok that's it for this chapter
Tsuzuki: What?! just as me and Tatsumi confessed our dearest feelings towards each other, well wait if Katsumi is from twenty years into the future then who's her parents?
Katt: Well it should of been obvious, but I still have to write down how everyone finds out, so you'll just have to wait, in the meantime everyone please review, they give me the strength to go on
Tatsumi: Yes, please review, or Tsuzuki will cry for not finding out who's Katsumi's parents are and...well just because.