Disclaimer: Loveless doesn't belong to me.

Summary: They arrive at the school just in time for night training.

Binding Love

Chapter 8 – Chosen by Heaven

Some people had very strange ideas of how to spend the night before their wedding. Of course then again these were some very strange people. Soubi should have known they'd pull something like this seeing as normally he and Ritsuka avoided the School of the Seven Moons like the plague, but for some reason they had felt compelled to attend the wedding of his old mentor (or is that tormentor) Ritsu-Sensei to Nagisa-Sensei. Soubi didn't really believe that Ritsu was going to go thru with it unless he saw it for himself.

It started as it always did as soon as he, Ritsuka and Kikyo arrived at the school. Not expecting Kikyo they had tried to deny her entrance and attempted to send her back just as they had with Kio that one time. Soubi smiled at the memory of everything that happened that night, unfortunately for them she wasn't Kio and that night hadn't turned out the way anybody at the school had expected it to.

"Excuse me, Miss, you can't go back there with them. Only those chosen by Heaven can enter the school. We'll get you a car and have someone take you home if you wish."

The seriously naive and obviously ordinary human male that ran the lobby walked over to her to place his hand on her shoulder so as to lead her away from entering the doorway to the hall that lead first to the office of the principle Ritsu-Sensei and then into the school itself. Kikyo started to chuckle, 'Chosen by Heaven' if only these children knew how true that really was. She turned to face them a small smile playing on her lips. They lobby personal hadn't really paid any attention to her when she'd walked into the building, certainly they'd been expecting Ritsuka Aoyagi and his Fighter Soubi Agatsuma, the woman with them was of no consequence to them, just someone to be gotten rid of quickly. Kikyo looked up and into the eyes of the concierge.

"Is that so? Then I guess I am more than qualified. Isn't that so Ritsuka?" Kikyo winked at the grinning 'Loveless' Sacrifice, enjoying the inside joke at the expense of these ordinary humans. Ritsuka nodded, afraid that if he spoke he'd bust out laughing. Cause the man had just gotten a 'really' good look at Kikyo's face and his expression was hysterical, as he looked between Soubi, Ritsuka and then Kikyo.

"W-who are you?" Smirking she replied, as she turned back around and started for the doorway that lead into the school.

"I am the 'Chosen of Heaven', can't you tell?" For the first time he could remember Soubi entered the School of the Seven Moons with a smile on his face. Next stop the office of Ritsu-Sensei, Nagisa had managed to restore Ritsu's eyesight. Having originally created the 'Zero pairs' from scratch, cloning Ritsu's a pair of eyeballs had been only a mild challenge not impossible, she may be a twit but she was a genius twit. Ritsu was sitting behind his desk, sacrificing yet another defenseless butterfly adding it to his collection. He didn't even look up right away as they entered.

"Ah, there you are Soubi-kun, Ritsuka-kun I've been waiting for you. It is go…….nooo." Ritsu whispered that last word and a look of unimaginable pain crossed his face as he gazed upon the face of Kikyo, but for the color of her hair she was splitting image of Ritsu's deceased Fighter, Soubi's mother. Soubi knew that for as long as he lived he would never forget that look, for a single brief moment Ritsu had dropped all his masks and exposed the tormented soul of a Sacrifice that had lost everything. But it only lasted a moment, his masks slide back into place and a sarcastic sneer graced his handsome face.

"So who are you?"

"I am me, and I belong with 'Loveless', name is Kikyo, Kikyo Souboshi." Kikyo wasn't blind she had seen the look in the eye's of the man seated before her he had loved the woman she so resembled, Soubi's Mother. She had also seen the flash of longing in his eyes when he had first looked at Soubi before his eyes had landed on her so if she wasn't mistaken, he also had very strong feelings for the son. She wanted to make it clear from the beginning that she was NOT up for grabs and Soubi wasn't available either. A calculating look had entered his eyes before he spoke his next words.

"You're a Fighter I can tell by your energy. Are you the 'Loveless' Fighter then? If so then Ritsuka doesn't need Soubi anymore does he?" Ritsu smiled at the trio thinking to rattle them, But Kikyo just smiled back, if she had too she would make things more than clear to this calculating and manipulative man, no wonder Ritsuka refused to enter this school.

"I said no such thing, I said I belong 'with' Loveless not that I 'was' Loveless."

"Ah, you are a blank Fighter, well then we can certainly find you your 'own' Sacrifice. We have several Sacrifices without Fighters at the moment." (like perhaps himself) Ritsu thought he had her cornered now, but she only smiled once again. Soubi watched the exchange not sure where Kikyo was planning on taking this, he'd been concerned at first, but Kikyo was proving to be more than a match for the devious Ritsu.

"I never said I was a Fighter either, you did. Go check your spell books for a spell known as 'Heaven's Judgment' it will explain what I am. I belong to 'Loveless' and they belong to me. In fact Soubi belongs to me, and to Ritsuka, he will never be yours and neither will I." A jolt of desire rushed thru Ritsu and interest flashed in his hooded eyes, (marrying Nagisa was only to cement his power within Seminole Moons and not based on any affection Ritsu had for the woman) no one had spoken to him like this in years in fact the only one who had ever truly stood up to him had been his Fighter. She had never been one to yield easily if at all.

"If this is true then you will have no problem with taking part in tonight's training exercises with these two. Leave now, there should be someone outside waiting to take you to where you'll be staying for the duration." Ritsu watched as Ritsuka, Soubi and the woman Kikyo left his office thru the door that lead not back to the lobby but into the actual school itself. Once they had closed the door behind them, he called 7, she would know where to get information on this "Heaven's Judgment' spell if anyone did.

"Ritsu?"

"7, I need you to look up an old spell, called Heaven's Judgment. What can you tell me about it?'

"Hm, give me a sec. Ah yes, here we are, it's a very obscure spell."

"What does it say about the spell?"

"Well, it seems it turned out to be a very erratic spell, it was originally created and thought to be a devastating attack spell, delivering the Judgment of Heaven with a massive explosion. But it appears there was a second possible outcome to the spell, depending on 'who' the spell was cast and instead of attacking the Fighter Unit the Heavens would open up and send 'help' instead."

"Help? What do you mean by help?"

"It is recorded here that it was known to have happened at least three times in the history of the Fighter Pairs, the last was 200 years ago when The School of the Seven Moons was founded. The heavens would open up and deliver Judgment in the form of a powerful being who will only answer to the Fighter Unit they are sent to help." Ritsu took a deep breath and sat back in his chair before answering.

"7 update the files, an unknown Fighter Unit has cast the 'Heaven's Judgment' spell on 'Loveless', the one who came, her name is Kikyo." Ritsu hung up the phone before he could hear 7's reply to that news.

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Youji and Natsuo were predictably the ones waiting for Ritsuka and Soubi on the other side of the door. The male Zero pair had been attending the school now for three years. They still sported their ears no longer quite so eager to lose them as they had been now that they were out from under Nagisa's thumb in fact she barely bothered with them anymore. They had kept up their friendship with Soubi and Ritsuka and had volunteered to put them up while they were here sharing their rooms with the 'Loveless' pair. When Ritsuka walked out the door Youji pounced on his friend, Natsuo shaking his head at his Sacrifices impetuous nature. He noticed that there was a third person with Soubi and Ritsuka, he wondered who she was.

"Rit-chan, it's about time you got here. We've been waiting like, oh forever." Youji squeezed Ritsuka and licked his face like a cat. Youji was still more than a little weird that way. Soubi, chuckling grabbed the pretty long haired Sacrifice by the scruff of his neck and mock threatened.

"Youji, how many times do I have to tell you about doing weird things to Ritsuka?"

"Ah, Soubi, let me go. Ritsuka's okay with it, Right Rit-chan?" Soubi let go of the pretty teen, shaking his head, Youji was Youji that was all there was to it. Natsuo uncrossed his arms and stepped forward.

"Yo Soubi, who's the chick, she you're sister or something? I thought you were an only child, plus she's got Ritsuka's coloring, what's up with that?" Leave it to Natsuo to notice everything right away, for a boy with only one eye he saw thru things faster than most people with both their eyes.

Ritsuka and Soubi had filled Kikyo in on the pairs they knew and were friendly with, this was obviously the 'Zero' pair. They were a cute couple, Natsuo was now a tall, muscular red haired male with a patch over one eye, he was the Fighter, Youji was a pretty slender male, he was the Sacrifice. For all that they appeared young and naïve they had once been a truly vicious set of Fighters, contact with Ritsuka and Soubi had brought changes to the twosome, changes for the better. Kikyo smiled, she could tell more changes would soon be coming their way. Zero wouldn't be their name for much longer she might even help them along.

"Oh this is Kikyo, she's um like our girlfriend." Ritsuka blushed, Soubi and Kikyo thought it was cute, but here in the School of the Seven Moons, a story like that wasn't going to fly. It might be true, but no one but a Fighter or a Sacrifice was allowed past the lobby. So it was no wonder Natsuo was so curious.

"I'm Kikyo, and I'm part of 'Loveless' I was sent here to help them." Youji looked at the pretty girl with Soubi's face and Ritsuka hair, ears and tail. Stepping towards her he sniffed and then licked her face like he had Ritsuka's.

"Eh? Well that makes no sense to me, but you're obviously someone or they wouldn't have let you in here. You taste nice. Want to bunk with me and Ritsuka?" Soubi sighed and dug out his pack of cigarettes, pulling one out he lit it, inhaling deeply. Great now Youji was doing weird things to her too. Youji had about as much self control as Ritsuka, if he let her go off with them, they'd probably all show up without their ears in the morning. Natsuo was thinking pretty much the same thing as he watched his Sacrifice side up to the pretty female taking her hand and then leading her and Ritsuka off to his room.

"There's training tonight Soubi, if we're lucky they'll all end up so tired we won't have to worry about it." Soubi eye's the red headed Fighter.

"Why haven't you taken his ears yet?" Natsuo ear's twitched and he cast a wry grin at the older male and shrugged.

"For the same reason Ritsuka's still has his, he's not quite ready yet. Come one let's go put your stuff up, the training start in less than an hour."

(sigh) "I should have known they'd pull this crap again."

Following the Zero Fighter Soubi walked down the halls of the School of the Seven Moons, night training was about to begin for the 'Loveless' unit in earnest.

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