Salut! This is just a short chapter. Tell me what you think and stuff because it would be nice to know if you like it so far and things. Drinking cranberry juice with ice cubes in it when it's freezing… not the best idea I have ever had but it's worth it.

Enjoy :)

Chapter VI

Misaki hovered in Limbo. With Hei and Izanami so far below her reach merely resembled a child's strained reach for a fallen toy. She couldn't understand as she hovered, haloing above the two figures below, why this was happening. Why did evolution want to take their lives just as contractors were beginning to feel, as dolls were beginning to reason and as humans were beginning to think beyond the stars? Why destroy them when they were growing? Why did Izanami decide to destroy Hei's middle path?

Her eyes rested on Hei again as he reached for Izanami's chest in aching slow motion, his hand going a centimetre per second when she thought, Why him? But the information that stared her blankly in the face answered her question. He was different no, she corrected herself, he was special; special for being able to persuade the syndicate to recruit him as well as Bai, special for being equally as skilled as his sister, special for being close to the memory of the future, special for fusing with his sister, special for not having a price and special for still holding onto his humanity. A small smile appeared; Of course a man who was the first to evolve would be the one to decide humanity's fate. That was when the sight before Misaki clicked into place. It was never about the gates or the syndicate or good and evil; a frown began to touch her features as she thought it through. It was much more than her cat and mouse chases with BK201 it was about humanity earning the right to change its own destiny. Looking down at Izanami her unworldly radiance made her seem almost god like before Hei's tall tired and black form.

He was the embodiment of humanity whilst Izanami stood in his path as the physical form of evolution. Of course she couldn't save him because from the moment one becomes special they are unreachable by the likes of those who are not. Li Shenshung was already in hell when she met him. Even some humans were effected; Alice was somewhat special because of her parentage and Misaki's heart started to ache once more because she couldn't save her from hell either.

Misaki watched his hand illuminate her chest as his power began to consume them. Misaki withered away from the light as little holes appeared in her perception of her own life. She put on the façade of strength yet she didn't attain it, she swore to protect but wasted her time seeking mystery and love. She should been seeking the power that she did not have to save the people who could not defend themselves from the clutches of fate. She once believed that fate could be changed but as the light filled her vision she abandoned the dream and she let her eye lids droop . . .

No! Misaki don't give up. Don't give up on Hei. You can change this. Please!

Yin?

Misaki's eyes fluttered open. Even when she had given up she couldn't resist her fighting nature. She couldn't see where yin was due to the light however, Misaki responded to her in her mind.

I can only change this if I give up on Hei

Don't-

No! I can't be strong if I am hung up on him. My life has proved that . . .

But- Yin's presence was extinguished with the rest of Misaki's surroundings.

I am sorry … She thought as the light reached out to her.

but I will not chase that man anymore Yin. Misaki closed her eyes and remembered Madame Oreille's words.

Make a wish Misaki . . .

Before she disappeared into the light, against her fears and doubts, she cried out, "I wish, for the power to protect people – so the helpless won't have to suffer!" As the white light finally consumed her, she heard a menacing voice.

"Sure, I'll grant your wish Misaki Kirihara," smiled Izanami.

Izanami is such a (Insert word of your choice)!

Well now you know what happened at the gate and how she became a contractor and Izanami's involvement. I don't feel that it is as well written as the others so hopefully my bad writing didn't kill the story!

Kei J