Chapter 4:
A/N: Updating again.. even though you didn't like my story… I just need to pull out the things that were bothering my mind… I don't want to be a psycho!! So please REVIEW!!!Or better yet, share my story to others and make them review also!!!
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"Sugino"
"Oh! It's you again Haruka. What made you bring here? Wait a minute… did that stupid Kantarou send you here to steal Muu-chan again? Well for your information, I will not give my only life to him. Tell Kantarou I'm not giving her up!" Sugino replied without even looking at him. He was too busy feeding his wife.
"Open your mouth Muu-chan.. aaa.."
He turned to face Haruka and when he did, he found him staring blankly at the sky once again and not paying attention to him. Often times, Sugino would yell at him for not paying attention but this time, he felt as if Haruka had a big problem.
"What's bothering you?" he asked.
No answer was given immediately. Of course! Duh! When did he even pay attention?
"Did you already meet Belldandy?" he replied quietly, turning back at him so that he couldn't see his face.
Sugino was amazed. He replied! It's a miracle! He thought. "No, why? And why are you turning your back from me?"
"Oh, uhm, it's just, uhm.." he stammered.
"Hey, are you in love with this Belldandy person?," Sugino snickered.
"Hell, no! It's just every time I see her, I remember something from the past." He confidently uttered but still stammered a bit.
"Hmmm.. let me see. Maybe, she's someone from your past. You don't remember your past, don't you. Well it's a good start. Why don't you ask your master." The sound of master made his insides shiver. That Kantarou! He thought.
"Even he doesn't know anything about my past. All we both know is that I was once a youkai- eating tengu."
"How about you ask Belldandy?"
He was just silent. Belldandy.. why does the sound of that make my heart beat fast? He once again stared at the blue sky. "I have to go now."
"What, you're asking her?" he said amazed.
"No, I'm just hungry." He said as his stomach sounded like a monster locked in a cage.
I just hope you could find answers to all your questions. Sugino thought and smiled a bit.
"Where did Haruka go?" Belldandy asked as she sat at the base of the ladder that led to the roof, waiting worriedly.
"He's going to be fine. He'll come home if he realizes he's hungry." Youko butted in as she continued sweeping the dried leaves scattered in the garden. It's autumn again. She thought. She stopped when she remembered something. She looked up at the sky and reminisced.
"Is everything OK Youko? Are you dizzy?" Belldandy asked upon noticing the sudden stop of Youko.
"No, I just remembered something from the past." She said sadly. Yamazaki.. why did you have to go… she thought before snapping out of her mind.
"So there's where she lives! What a typical coincidence Minamoto. We just have to unite our forces. They're together in one roof!" Keiichi said as he laughed.
"I couldn't believe it either! Now it's easier to get them!" he said smirking.
"Now what are you up to baby?" Ibaragi interrupted walking out of the shadows of the dark room. She walked closer to Minamoto and sat seductively on his lap.
"Oh, just a part of my evil plan," he said before kissing his girl passionately.
"Oh! Please! Get a room!" Keiichi butted in almost barfing as the two pulled out for air.
"You're just jealous!" Minamoto pointed out.
"No I'm not! Just do that later! We have some planning to do!" he reasoned out.
"Let's continue this at home baby," Ibaragi whispered in his ear before leaving the room.
"So, what's your genius plan?" Minamoto asked.
"It's simple…" he smirked.
"Is it really that far??? I think I can't make it home.. I'm too hungry…" Haruka complained. He looked around him to search for a food stand or something. Luckily---
"Am I just lucky or what! A store!" he shouted. He directed his flight towards the stand.
"Three plates of what you have please! And here's the payment!" he announced happily. Unfortunately, it was tsukemono! The food he hated most, all of his life
"Oh, uhm, don't you have any other kinds of food?"
"Oh, I'm sorry sir, we only sell tsukemono."
"Well then, I'll just return them. Let me have my money back please. I'll just go home."
"Sorry sir, no refunds."
"WHAAAAAAAATTT!!!! THAT'S MY ONLY MONEY LEFT!! I DIDN'T EVEN BITE A SINGLE PIECE OF IT!! GIVE ME A REASON WHY I CAN'T RETURN THESE BACK!!" he complained without even looking at the plate.
"Uh, sir, I think your companion enjoyed it." The waiter calmly said sweat- dropping.
"MUUUUU-CHAAAAANNN!!!" he screamed out really loud that almost all the things around him smashed into pieces.
"Muuuuu-muuuu-muuu," she explained.
"Don't you dare muu-muu me! Give me your payments! Now!" he commanded.
"Muuu-muu-muuu," (I don't have money. Youkais don't have money idiot!)
He just stood there for a while in silence. He couldn't believe it!
He lazily lifted himself up to flight. He came home really tired.
"Rin!" Kantarou shouted as he directed his hit at Haruka. He fell to the ground unconscious for a couple of seconds.
"What happened?" he asked. "What am I doing here? I was at Sugino's a while ago!"
"You could ask that youkai!" Belldandy said as she giggled. Haruka looked to Kantarou's direction. He was busy talking out with the youkai.
"Don't do that to others again ok? If I catch you again, I swear I'll lock you up in a dimension that would make you suffer, do you want that?" Kantarou playfully asked the youkai. The youkai in turn was terrified by Kantarou's words and promised not to do it again before flying away.
"What kind of youkai is that?" Haruka asked as he neared his master.
"Oh, it's a youkai that makes a person hot-tempered. Do you remember any incident?"
Oh, so that's why I got mad at the waiter at that tsukemono stand! He thought.
"No, I don't remember anything." He lied. He didn't want everybody to start imagining how he got mad. Sure, they would laugh at him. Then, he decided to go above the roof again.
"I'll talk to him." Belldandy volunteered so as to not make Kantarou feel worried again. She winked at him and climbed at the ladder carefully, watching her steps.
She sat next to Haruka and they didn't talk for a couple of minutes.
"Uhm, Haruka?" she started. Haruka stood up aiming to fly again but this time, Belldandy grabbed his hand.
"Don't walk away from me, I just need to ask you a couple of questions." She said pulling Haruka to sit down. Haruka had no choice so he just sat there.
"You know what, you always make Kantarou-sama worry every time you walk away. What's up with you?" she asked. "Please answer me, this is serious!"
"You really want to know?"
Belldandy nodded in reply.
"After I was sealed by Kantarou's ancestor a long time ago and after Kantarou gave me my name, I didn't have any memories of my past. It's the most important part of a life of a tengu and yet, I don't have any clue who I really am." He explained.
"Why don't you ask Kantarou?" she suggested.
Haruka remembered what Sugino said a couple of hours ago. He was silent for a while before answering.
"He doesn't know either."
"You know what, we share the same fate. Only, I don't know what kind of organism I am."
He was about to ask her that but there's no point now because she told it in advance.
"You're luckier than me.. at least you knew what are you. I had a mother but she's not my real mom. She only found me lying on the ground when I was still a child. I tried to ask her million times but I think she said the truth. She didn't know." She elucidated.
"How come you knew that you're not human?" he asked.
The question made her see visions from the past, making her pupils smaller and the seal on her neck ache so much. She couldn't take it. Then, she fell unconscious.
Belldandy's P.O.V.
"No please! Don't come near her you stupid moron!!! Belldandy go away!! Run!!!"
"Don't you dare tell me what to do! And don't call me a stupid or a moron or whatever!! You don't have the power!!" then he kicked withal his power the poor lady. Blood came out of her mouth as she rolled over the mud.
"You… what do you need from my daughter! She didn't do anything to make you hate her!" she asked between her huffs. She tried to get up but the kick caused her too much pain.
Belldandy ran to a nearby closet and hid there. She tried to not make noise so that they couldn't trace her. She saw two shadows of men walk past her direction, going near her mother.
"You're not her real mom! She's not human! You won't need her so I'll get her from you!! You just stole her from my master—" the man was cut off by the woman's head attack. She hit the man's stomach real hard.
"You're gonna pay for this you bitch! Minamoto! Kill her!"
The man called Minamoto did as what his master told him. He stood up lazily and BANG!!! BANG!! Two shots hit her mother's head. Blood spurted out of the wound and oozed fast out of it.
"Mother" Belldandy whispered. She was afraid they could hear her. Her heart turned into stone and she couldn't feel anything. She didn't know if she should cry or not but all she knows is that her mother told her to run away from them.
"Well master Murisato, what do we do now." Minamoto asked.
"Find the girl of course."
"But she ran away already. How about her two sisters, Urd and Skuld? How about you let me find them? I'm kinda bored here." He suggested.
I have sisters? Belldandy thought. This fact made her feel there is still hope.
"Alright! But tomorrow, we'll start looking for that Belldandy brat! Go!"
When she felt the shadows were near. She kept quiet and didn't move. After the shadows walked past her, she heard a sound of horses running. They were gone.
"Mother, please help me find my sisters." She thought as she felt tears slide off her cheeks.
Back to reality:
"What happened to her?" Kantarou asked.
"When I asked about her past, she started to breathe hard and then fall down. I didn't know that asking about her past would make her act like that." Haruka answered nervously.
"You know what, this is far too dangerous. Ever since she got here, you two ,especially you, are always possessed by youkais. Aren't you aware of that? You're a tengu, a special kind of youkai, so you must not be possessed that easily." Kantarou explained.
Haruka was shocked. Why didn't he think of that? Yes! He's a special kind of youkai—a tengu, but why was he being haunted by his own kind? The thought of this made him involuntarily fly. He was not alert of this neither. What's happening to me?
His wings directed him to a strange place. There, he found 3 people present but he could sense hundreds hiding from trees and bushes. When he landed, one of the three started to play her shamisen and sang a ritual song.
Upon hearing this, Haruka felt as if his head was going to be crashed. He fell on his knees and shouted the pain out. Unfortunately, it couldn't help. His nails grew long and sharp, almost like knives that are newly sharpened. His wings started to grow longer and now, it turned to dark blue. His fangs grew long and very pointy and his pupils grew smaller. His eyes glowed in an electric blue color and if you'd stare at them, I'm sure you'll be really dead. He laughed for freedom he got at last.
"Why did you have to wake me up for so long? You know I've longed to face you, Minamoto! What, are you afraid I'm going to kill another member of your family?" he proudly announced to all the people present.
"Of course not! It's just that stupid master of yours! He kept on disturbing me from waking you up!"
"Who says I've got people ranking over me? I'm the ultimate youkai- eating tengu! What's the name of that master you're telling me? I'm going to make him pay of this!"
"Calm down Haruka…."
"Who are you calling Haruka? My name is Yamazaki Susumu! No one dare call me by that girly name!"
"Calm down, calm down…." Keiichi butted in.
"And who do you think you are?" Haruka angrily asked.
"Just an associate of my friend Minamoto. I heard that you are living with Belldandy. Is that right?"
Belldnady? They got Belldandy here? he thought as he smirked a bit.
"Yeah, I think so... how about we go there to make sure?" Minamoto suggested.
"I think it's a good idea. I'll see her once again. That pesky little brat with that mother of hers.. the sound of it makes me feel disgusting!" Keiichi answered.
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Haruka suggested. "I need food!"
"You can have some of my guards. I'm a bit tired of them." Minamoto said.
Upon hearing this, the guards raced outside the forest. But unfortunately, Haruka caught up eating half of them.
"That's better. We can go now!" he wiped his bloody mouth and flew ahead of them.
So you were hiding there all along, my dear.