Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ah megami-sama/Oh my goddess! I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make. And some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura
This story events happens after the events of the OVAs of Ah! Megami-sama/Oh! My goddess! Alterations will be made on the original plot of the manga, anime or movie depending of what I decide to use on the story. The main character is my original character Benji Himura who will interact with one goddess of the series. Now it follows the story, I hope that everyone enjoy this story.
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'Text' Thoughts.
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(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language, as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.
: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.
Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.
Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.
Chapter nine: Aftermath
Nekomi, December thirteenth; 5:39 AM;
Two goddesses wearing skin tight white clothes with blue details brandishing long battle axes appear in the dark halls of the construction site. A demoness wearing a similar outfit but in black and red colors and with much more skin exposure also appears there. "My, my." The demoness says seeing the two goddesses. "Two Valkyries for one Einheri aren't you guys paranoid?"
The elder of the two Valkyries look at the demoness. "And only one Fury to one Einheri aren't you guys a bit lax?" she said in the same tone. "Anyway have been a while Faye." "It sure has Kiria, so new trainee?" the Fury asks to the Valkyrie. "She isn't a trainee, but my assigned partner for a mission already completed." Kiria answered casually. "We just got a call about an Einheri slain her and rushed to pick him up."
"Ditto." Faye commented in the same tone. "We won't allow you to get him!" the younger one says in a cold tone brandishing her axe in a threatening stance. "Easy Lind!" Kiria barked in a commanding tone. "Faye outrank us, not to mention that the Einheri isn't dead yet."
Faye smiled looking at Benji lying on the pool of his own blood. "Indeed." She commented. "Have been centuries since I saw a worth Einheri and this one holds to the life with a fury that I never have seem before. But his spark is growing fainter at each passed second, he won't last more than one minute like this."
"Then we fight for him." Kiria says looking at Lind keeping the younger Valkyrie behind the staff of her battle axe. "Sounds fair to me." Faye says summoning her weapon, a menacing looking red edged black scythe. "A Zero class unlimited license Fury against two First class unlimited license Valkyries. Have been a while since I had a decent challenge."
A burst of light and electricity surges from the lens of a security camera. "Well it seems that we might have to rain check the fight." Kiria commented seeing Peorth leave the lens of the camera. The goddess stares at the three battle deities and swallows hard at the knowledge of why they are there, tears escape from her closed eyelids.
"He is not dead yet." Faye says to Peorth in a casual tone. "Nearly dead and won't last more thirty seconds with out a massive healing spell." "She is telling the truth." Kiria added to the goddess. "We were waiting him to breathe his last breath before fighting for his soul." Those words burst a new hope on Peorth that hurries to Benji beginning to chant a healing spell.
"No!" Lind tried to warn the goddess, but it is too late. Even with one foot on the grave Benji reacts to what he thinks that is a threat and Tatjana, his right hand slams on Peorth's neck and close around it with a vice like grip. Peorth doesn't even have time to gasp with surprise with the sudden impact, for the second time on that night she feels the air running short for her again as dying Benji is giving his last effort to take her with him.
None of the three death deities were surprised with Benji's reaction, he was fighting until few moments earlier, he was facing a violent demoness and lastly as any wounded creature he is on the fight or flight mode with the survival instinct running him, that is why they were waiting until he died to approach him.
Peorth doesn't resist to his attack thinking that he is taking revenge on her for her actions, Gorgeous Rose more aware of his state appears with out being called and brushes her hands on Benji's face, soothing his wounds and easing his pain with a powder from her vines. Even nearly dead Benji recognizes the scent of Gorgeous Rose and her powders, his vision on his sole eye focuses and he sees that he is strangling Peorth that is with her eyes closed in acceptance. Benji looses his grip and lightly caresses her neck, seeing the red marks from his fingers on her white skin, knowing that soon that will turn into a bruise.
Peorth's eyes snap open as she feels the caress of his bloody fingers on her skin, tears run freely and she looks on his unhurt eye and noticing him mouthing an apology before his eye closes. Peorth rushes with a healing spell hoping that she isn't too late to revive him.
"So you deal with those?" Faye asks to Kiria pointing to the camera with her scythe. "Sure." Kiria replied casually. "As long you get rid of the blood on the streets." "You get a deal." Faye said with a smile. "Don't forget to clean this place too; we don't want him to get caught."
Kiria nods with a smile. "What you two are saying?!" Lind asked confused. "He must face human justice!" Faye chuckles. "Now Lind think a little, he wouldn't be like that if it wasn't his pact with a goddess, so that has nothing to do with his work." Kiria explains to the other Valkyrie. "And since he is alive he can grow stronger and we all want the Einhejar to have the strongest Einheri, so he must to be free, train and fight."
Lind stays in silence; Peorth begins to sweat with the effort of healing Benji's many wounds. "Focus on the most critical ones." Faye says to the goddess. "Heal the concussion, repair his heart and internal organs first or he will die, everything else can be done later, just stop the bleeding and focus on the more severe wounds."
Peorth stays in silence but does as told. Faye turns her back to Benji and leaves the building. Kiria and Lind stay watching Peorth; it takes many minutes to the goddess finish. Peorth stopped when she felt her powers lowering too much, she managed to heal all the internal wounds and stop all the internal bleedings as well the external bleedings. The goddess breathed hard looking at Benji with tears on her eyes.
Kiria hands her axe to Lind and approach Peorth, crouching near the other goddess. "Treat him well, take good care of him and above anything don't leave your position as his deity." The Valkyrie says in a serious tone. "There are many people with an eye on him and all of them will jump to the chance if it presents itself. He is a diamond on a pit of pebbles, everyone want him."
Peorth swallows hard at the Valkyrie's words, she was aware that Benji was a rare find, the fight with Tatjana just proved that to her and exposed him to the other deities both in heaven and in hell, a Einheri in the modern age is something extremely rare there was only three of them found since the beginning of the twentieth century and Benji is the number four.
The goddess now knows that every single Fury and Valkyrie will know about him in the next hour, all the high profile deity will learn before noon and by the nightfall the news will have reached all the branches of heaven and hell. A fully battle trained Einheri that is versed in melee combat and long ranged combat able to defeat a first class demoness is the biggest find of the century. Peorth knows her luck to be his deity, the one that claimed an unofficial pact with him, making him out of limits to the others.
Peorth holds Benji and with Gorgeous Rose's help she uses the camera and her remaining powers to return to his apartment. Kiria sighs and walks to Lind. "Well now we clean up the place before leaving." She commented casually. "What about we go to a hot spring after the report and have a nice drink?" "I do not desire to have alcohol." Lind replied. "As stuck up and by the book as ever." Kiria muttered taking her battle axe.
Back in the apartment Peorth feels drowsy, she had exhausted her powers after rebuilding around half of her normal supply after the massive spell casted on the previous morning. She moves with Benji to their room when the door of the apartment burst open, Akira runs on the apartment shouting. "Benji what the hell happened?!"
To the goddess surprise Gorgeous Rose once again acted on her own will, surprising the goddess even more is the course of action that the angel takes. Gorgeous Rose tackles Akira hard slamming the policewoman on the door, slamming it shut and knocking the woman out, then the angel uses a sleeping powder on the unconscious woman.
Peorth is shocked with her angel's actions, that kind of action would suit Benji or even Urd, not her Gorgeous Rose. The goddess wonders if was wise to allow the angel to interact with Benji so much. Deciding to ponder on that later they move Benji to their bedroom, Peorth sits next to Benji falling in sleep as soon as she sited.
Gorgeous Rose looks at her goddess now not feeling so angry at her, Peorth had paid for her actions with the anguish and with the chocking from Benji; the angel was still holding a bit of a grudge but it would be worked out later, now her priority is Benji. The angel gets the first aid kit from the usual storage spot and begins to clean Benji's wounds, removing any debris, dirt and other foreign bodies from them before cleaning the wounds with an anti-septic and dressing his wounds.
Benji's apartment December thirteenth 2:32 PM
Feeling as he had been hit by a truck, passed by a blender and hammered by a ten tons pile driver Benji wakes up. He quickly notices that the pain isn't as severe as it should be and it could mean three things, first he was under influence of a strong pain killer, second was that he expend more time unconscious than he expected and healed some of the damage and the last one was that Peorth had healed him.
Recognizing his bedroom he knows that the second was out of the question, the laundry bin was still with the clothes that he tossed there after the first attack from Tatjana, considering the mass of bandages that he can feel and see on his body the two remaining explanation made more sense. Peorth had healed him and gave him something for the pain, but was unable to heal everything at only one section.
He finds the goddess sleeping besides his bed, resting her head on her arms over the mattress; she is with her goddess clothes. A motion of gold on the corner of his right eye makes him look at the bedroom door, he sees Gorgeous Rose wearing the clothes that he gave her, it was an old set of jeans shorts that shrunk after a bad washing and a black t-shirt. Her wings and thorn vines are hidden and she looks like a normal woman. She smiles seeing him conscious.
Benji tries to sit and quickly finds that his right arm hurts too much to sustain him, with some effort and the angel's help Benji sits on the bed feeling the extension of his wounds with out tons of adrenaline and endorphin pumping on his body. Gorgeous Rose smiles sympathetically at Benji's grimace of pain; she produces few vines around her arms and begins to sprinkle a powder in a bowl.
"This will ease the pain." She says to him forgetting that he can't hear her voice. "If you say that will then I believe." Benji replied mildly surprised in actually hearing the angel's voice, she isn't facing him so he can't read her lips. Gorgeous Rose jumps startled at his reply and looks at him shocked. She never imagined that Benji would be able to hear her voice; just deities could hear her voice when Peorth allowed and angels can hear angels.
Forgetting his condition Gorgeous Rose tackles hug Benji. The brunette swallows the pain allowing the angel to savor the moment, besides it doesn't hurt all that much being hug by her. The angel calms after a couple of minutes in Benji's arms, she hurriedly apologizes and applies the powder on his wounds.
After half an hour Benji's bandages were changed and the angel explained what happened, Akira was dealt with and taken to her apartment by the angel after making sure to create an environment that would make the easily distracted policewoman think that she fell down and knocked herself out.
It also took some time from the brunette to comfort the angel that was feeling guilt for causing the wound on his left eye and being unable to fire the pistol to aid him. With a gentle tone and a smile Benji explains why she wasn't able to do it. "Santa Fé is a tricky gun, I gained from a friend and she is extremely powerful. Because of that there is one safety that prevents others from using." He says holding the pistol with his left hand. "See this small switch behind the trigger guard?"
The angel nods looking at where he pointed. "This switch is the safety, it locks the firing pin, so even if the hammer falls on it the bullet won't be fired." Benji explained. "That prevents others from using since the switch is so minimal and hidden." Gorgeous Rose nods understanding; there wasn't a way that she would know that.
With the angel's help Benji opens another hidden closet on the bedroom, actually Gorgeous Rose opened after he showed her the location, he wasn't able to feel the exact spot of the switch to open it. Following Benji's directions the angel takes few bottles of pills from the much smaller cabinet, with some water Benji takes many of those pills after explaining that the purpose was to create more blood, fight infections and increase the nutrients on his body.
Which Gorgeous Rose took as a request for food and moved to the kitchen to fix something light but nutritious for him, Benji didn't minded since he was hungry anyway. He couldn't eat for himself nor the angel allowed him to do so feeding him with the rice porridge with beef brood. After the meal Benji falls in sleep again, Gorgeous Rose by Benji's request moved Peorth to her bed and covered her, lastly the angel moved to Benji's bed and laid there besides him.
Few minutes after that Peorth wakes still tired. Feeling sore the goddess stretches, it takes few moments to the goddess notice her location and wonder how she ended on her bed, she remembered falling in sleep next to Benji's bed. Looking at his bed the goddess let out an exclamation of surprise in seeing Benji covered with bandages and with Gorgeous Rose sleeping besides him.
'Maybe it was a mistake giving her so much access to him.' Peorth thinks seeing the sleeping angel. 'Maybe not, she must have treated him after I fell in sleep. I wonder why she got so attached to him.' the goddess sits on her bed looking at the wounded man and the sleeping angel.
'I am so stupid…I caused the man that I came to love to suffer so much and angered my angel, my other me…she accepted that side of him…why I can't accept like she did?' the goddess mused looking at the angel with a hint of jealousy. Starting to feel guilty again Peorth moves to the kitchen to drink something, just to find the signals of Gorgeous Rose cooking and an arranged bowl filled with the porridge covered with plastic film. Over the bowl there is a spoon and a small note.
The goddess is surprised by the note since it was clearly written in Aesir letting her know that wasn't Benji who wrote it, recognizing the handwriting so similar to hers it was clear that is was from Gorgeous Rose. : I made the porridge for Benji, but you can also have some since you also need to regain your strength. :
Peorth smiles sadly and wipes tears from her eyes. The note was very simple but told her that the angel still cared deeply for her even being angry at her actions. Peorth curses herself for not talking to the angel in her moments of despair on the passed night, wondering if she shared her pains openly with her the whole ordeal could be different. Peorth sits on table and begins to eat the porridge, enjoying the taste rather surprised with Gorgeous Rose being able to cook well.
A wave of emotions flows on her and the goddess feels being surrounded by them. "It is good?" Gorgeous Rose asks to Benji after feeding him one spoon of the warm porridge. "Yes it is." Benji answered after swallowing. "I am glad, it is my first time cooking, even with your instructions I thought that I wouldn't do it right." She said with a smile. "You did very well considering that you didn't tasted." Benji commented. "You tasted." She replied casually while feeding him another spoonful of the food.
Benji eats the offered food while the chat casually on the dinning table. In few minutes the bowl is done and the angel is washing it clean, Benji stays sited on his chair. Gorgeous Rose fills the bowl with the porridge and covers it with transparent plastic film. The angel places the bowl and the now washed spoon over the table and moves to write a note.
"Why you fought so hard?" she asks while carefully drawing each letter on the small piece of paper. Benji runs his left hand on his hair carefully. "I don't know how they call it from where you galls came from, but I think that when I agreed in help Peorth and she gave me the runes I make a pact to fight for her." Benji answered looking at the bedroom. "I am Peorth's sword and shield, what good I would do if I don't fight my hardest to eliminate her enemies and protect her?"
"I guess that you are right." Gorgeous Rose said looking at him. "She should appreciate that instead of acting as she did. She should give you your true value." "It doesn't matter Rosa." Benji said to the angel in a gentle tone. "She is right about me being tainted, I did killed more people that I can count."
"And because of that you are an Einheri." Gorgeous Rose replied with a smile. "You killed in battle, you are a warrior, a worth one. And I like that pet name that you gave me." "I am just calling you rose. Well I just think that the Portuguese word for rose is prettier." Benji commented.
Peorth rubs her tearful eyes with the heels of her hands with a smile on her face, she doesn't know if the happiness of hearing those words is stronger than the sadness that her actions caused, but she couldn't stop herself from crying at Benji's words about his reasons of fighting so hard for her.
Benji's apartment December fifteenth 12:24 PM
Peorth sighs tired after a long section healing Benji's wounds, each section of the four already performed drained nearly all the energy that she produced and stored while eating and sleeping. "Well I finished the lower layer of skin in all the wounds that lost skin tissue among other tissues." She announced running her right hand on her hair, a gesture that she was copying from Benji.
Benji looks at his knuckles and fingertips, so does Gorgeous Rose, the angel also looks the skin on Benji's face, it is easy to see the end of Benji's skin and the beginning of the new tissue. "It is only the foundation!" Peorth exclaimed seeing the duo clearly unpleased with the quality of the skin. "It is a bit rough and isn't soft to the touch, but after I regain my energies and begin to heal the second and third layer of skin it will be as good as before!"
"It is kind of hard to move." Benji commented moving his right arm, hand and fingers, checking everything. "When I add the final layers of skin it will be as smooth as before." Peorth explained. "Because the lack of tissue is affecting everything else, in the areas where the skin isn't complete it is much thinner than the areas where the skin wasn't damaged so your body feels the difference and is reacting to not damage the tissue. Not to mention that the nerves, muscles and tendons that I have healed are still unused to work. At least you aren't complaining about the bones."
"As long the bones don't break I am fine with anything." Benji commented casually. "Speaking of bones how you didn't broke your arms?" Peorth asks curious. "There was many fractures in your legs, hip, ribcage, spine and even skull, all of them going from micro-fractures to nearly open fractures, your arms were and still are intact in terms of fractures."
"It is normal considering that my arms aren't alive." Benji answered. Peorth chokes surprised looking at him in disbelieve. "Okay, not being alive is a bit too strong." Benji said to the goddess. "My left arm bones were replaced by titanium pins and bars, all the way to my shoulder, even the socket in my shoulder is made of titanium bolted to the other bones."
Peorth looks at him still surprised with his words, while it does explain why the arm wasn't broken. "My right arm bones were replaced by an even stronger titanium alloy with another alloy that I forgot the name, it is twice stronger than my left arm. The frame is heavily anchored in my shoulder, shoulder blade and nearby ribs covering ten centimeters from my shoulder socket making it even sturdier than the socket of my left shoulder. So my arms can't break."
"And why it was replaced like that?" Peorth asked rubbing his knuckles and feeling the metal knuckles that easily pass by bone ones. "Because my bones were badly broken in a way that it couldn't be repaired naturally or by conventional ways." Benji answered calmly. "So they removed all the shattered bones and replaced by metal."
"So that makes you an android?" Peorth asks surprised. "The term would be cyborg." Benji corrected. "A man with mechanical parts replacing damaged parts of his body or correcting problems on his body with the use of implanted machines or mechanical parts." "Okay, a cyborg then." Peorth corrected herself.
"Anyway I will go take a bath now, after I will eat something and get some rest, a thing that you should be doing too." the goddess says to Benji. "You got from a situation where you should be in intensive care to a not so serious situation in few days; your body is feeling the stress from it." Benji nods agreeing laying his head on his pillow.
A couple of hours later the quietness of the apartment is broken by a knock on the door. Gorgeous Rose wakes Benji since she knows that Peorth won't wake after sleeping to recharge her powers. Benji sighs and moves to the door after hiding the bandages on his face with his now bellow the shoulders long hair.
At the door he sees Akira; the red head policewoman is with bandages wrapped on her head and forehead, a reminder of Gorgeous Rose knocking her out. Benji opens the door a little. "Akira what happened to you?" he asks in a worried tone as if he didn't know what had happened. "I tripped in my room." Akira answered with a small smile. "Anyway I am here because yesterday a little girl called my cell phone saying that an evil woman was chasing a good oniichan, she had a wristwatch on her hands and said something about the oniichan teaching her a spell from a goddess and that spell oddly is a Rammstein song."
"That is some story." Benji commented casually. "For sure is, considering that the watch really looks like the one that you use." Akira commented with a smile. "You also like Rammstein. So what you were doing yesterday night?" "I was with Peorth all night after I returned from driving that girl to Eleana's house." Benji answered. "And I am sick, that is why I am home today."
"You mind if I enter and ask her that?" Akira asked casually. "Actually Akira Peorth is sleeping, after I returned I got feverish and she was taking care of me until it broke down." Benji answered with an apologetic smile. "I really wanted to let her sleep more." "It will be really quick." Akira insisted. "Anything wrong?" Peorth asked from behind Benji. "And you should be in bed, not at the door."
"Hi Peorth, sorry to wake you but you was with Benji yesterday's night?" Akira asked poking her head by the door. "Yes, I was with him." Peorth answered in a tired voice. "Listen I don't know what is going on but Benji will get worse if he stays up, if it isn't a pressing issue can we continue this another time?"
"Sure, I am done anyway. You two get some rest and Benji get well soon." Akira said with a smile. "And you be careful." Benji said to the red head. "Sure thing." Akira replied moving away. Benji closes the door and turns around letting out a relieved sigh. "How you are up so soon?" he asks to Peorth. "She is not." Gorgeous Rose said appearing from behind the goddess. "I controlled her body to pretend that she was, actually she is as asleep as she was before." "Then let's get her back to bed, she needs to rest." Benji said, the angel nods and they move to the bedroom.
Benji's apartment December seventeenth 7:53 PM
Benji is looking at his reflection at the bathroom mirror, four days have passed since the night of his fight with Tatjana, thanks to Peorth's magic and a total of eighteen one hour long healing sections that drained the goddess and the human Benji were almost fully healed.
The only signal of that brutal battle was his left eye; Peorth used all her remaining power on the second healing section to heal as best as she could the destroyed orb. Still she was unable to return to the newly created eye the sight that its predecessor had leaving Benji as he was on the final of the battle against Tatjana; blind of his left eye.
The iris of the eye that originally was brown is now on the white color of the eyes of a blind person. Benji didn't blain Peorth for not succeeding to return the sight on his eye; she was more focused in healing more severe wounds, bones, organs, nerves, tendons and muscles damaged in the fight. As Peorth explained on the first time that both of them were awake on the healing section, everything else was critical the sight could wait and she only healed the eye to make sure that the tissue surrounding it would heal properly because of its volume.
Benji was impressed with Peorth's hard work on healing him, all the wounds are gone with out even one scar, she worked so hard that even old scars and the vaccine mark on his right arm that he as nearly everyone else in the world bear is gone and the healed skin is still a bit numb but had tactile sensation showing that she truly healed everything to its perfect state.
Benji sighs while stripping from his clothes, a set of clothes that he is wearing for two days because the treatment, Gorgeous Rose had to help him to change from the destroyed clothes of the battle to his normal sleep attire and she even aided him by helping him to clean up, translating giving him a sponge bath, actually a washcloth bath, it took some convincing and three healing sections to make the angel let him use the bathroom alone.
Gorgeous Rose was helping him with nearly everything as a very eager and over attentive nurse, on the first day and starting sections Benji didn't minded much and he was unable to do many things by himself with scrapped to the bone fingertips pads and damaged tendon on his right arm. Benji didn't know that she was doing that because his condition or just using the condition as excuse to touch him in every possible way.
Benji had to put Gorgeous Rose to sleep to be able to take his first bath, which he felt that he were needing it, a night long of battles and days of healing didn't let him smelling as perfume even with Gorgeous Rose helping to ease it with a damp washcloth. Benji really wanted to take out the blood from his hair, it clotted, hardened and he was guessing that would begin to rot anytime soon.
Setting the water to lukewarm he enters on the shower and with the washing stall he sits under the spray of water letting it soak his hair and wash his sore body. Benji wondered what happened to Tatjana he had a faint memory of the moments between the final punch of the demoness and the time that he felt Gorgeous Rose's touch clearing his mind and sight from the mist of death and image of the blood red haired demoness preventing him from choking Peorth to death.
He remembered of Tatjana vanishing in a burst of flames, while feeling the touch of death as its cold arms wrapped him in a embrace to take him away he had heard at a long distance voices speaking in a language that he didn't know, yet he could tell that he was the subject of the conversation of the three feminine voices.
It confused Benji to be able to recall certain details of those moments or eternity being half way dead. He knew that the voices were from women, he also knew that they were there for him, he wasn't feeling pain or anything else on those moments; it was somehow peaceful but made him fend it off with fierce claws and fangs as a beast trying to survive against a superior enemy.
He wasn't sure at what he was clinging so hard, but the closest way to express was as a drowning man clinging on a rock. He could also remember of the mist and darkness, it was literally that being in the darkness surrounded by a thick mist, at an infinite distance the voices of the three women and the absence of every feeling and sensation, until the warm and soothing touch of Gorgeous Rose on his cheeks making him realize his instinctive actions.
Benji runs his fingers on his hair feeling the hard mass of blood, dirt and his hair now soft because of the moisture, using a hard plastic comb to remove the blood and dirt from his hair. For long minutes Benji repeats the process removing as much dirt as he can, he picks a shampoo bottle and pours some of it on his hand before washing his hair attempting to remove what is still there. Inwardly Benji is content with an incident that happened few nights before Peorth gave him his runes and forced him to cut his hair that was much longer, and in that moment made much less troublesome to wash.
Benji enters on his apartment one hour after his usual time. "Welcome back." Peorth said walking to the entry. "I am home." Benji replied taking out his shoes. "What happened to your hair?!" Peorth exclaimed seeing Benji's hair now cutted in a normal short style.
"I cutted it." Benji answered. "During the second shift today one of my coworkers ripped my coif and my hair got tangled in one of the machines, so I had to cut it to prevent injuries. Of course that I had to go to a stylist to adjust the cut since I just sliced it with my knife."
"Thank god that you didn't get hurt." Peorth said with a smile. "It looks good." "Thanks." Benji replied. "Anyway I will take a shower now since I need to wash my hair to remove any cutted strands that are there." "I will set the table so don't take too long." The goddess replied smiling. Benji nods and walks to the bathroom.
"I wonder how my hair grew this much in few hours." Benji muttered on loud feeling the current length of his hair now a little under his shoulders. While Benji had some theories about it he learned on his arrival and experiences that he shouldn't fully believe in those, his instincts were much more reliable and more than once saved him. The agreement with Peorth was for sure giving him benefits, yet Benji instinctively knew that it wasn't a pact as the goddess claimed to be, it wasn't that definitive, it was just an agreement between them.
Benji doesn't know how he knows that or how his instinct know that, once again he has a theory of why and how it related to a one and a half month blank period on his memories of the past six years.
Benji sighs sadly as some memories threaten to surface, on the past days healing he felt lucky that he was too tired and beaten to think about his past; but in moments were he was with more energy and unable to sleep some of them wanted to surface stirred by his fight with Tatjana. He can't and won't deny that was one of his memories that he doesn't share with anyone that gave him the final spurt of energy for him to retaliate against the demoness.
And on the mad chase he was too busy to let the memories surface, memories that he haven't shared with anyone, not even Eleana or Gorgeous Rose. While not telling anything to Peorth Benji slipped few things to her angel after she promised not tell anything to the goddess; only one person other than Benji had an idea of what happened on his past, but that person is long gone, lost in the underworld of shadows that Benji lives.
Benji rinses his hair once again with a pail filled of cold water trying to wash away the memories with the dirt and bubbles on his hair. Benji sighs again and a pair of slender white arms snake around his chest. "Layla?" Benji asked still lost in his memories. "No, Rosa." Gorgeous Rose replied with a hint of anger on her voice. "You were supposed to be sleeping." Benji commented as Gorgeous Rose hugs him from behind. "I slept enough." The angel replied casually. "Let me help you to wash your body."
"Thanks, but no thanks. I am already done." Benji answered in the same tone. "And you need to rest more, I know that you and Peorth are connected and since that night you haven't rested with Peorth." Gorgeous Rose sighs, he is right and she knows it, while she is in a low consume mode in her nearly human state she was using a considerable amount of her stocked energy and the amount gained was very low because the goddess's stress and nearly constant state of tiredness because the healing sections.
"You go sleep with Peorth and get a deserved rest." Benji said to the angel lightly caressing her hair with his left hand. "I will soak for few minutes, I do need a bath after days with out any, now go rest or I have to chase your angelic behind to the bed?" "I wouldn't mind that you chased me to bed." Gorgeous Rosa teased casually, but enjoying the petting she loves that and was very happy that Benji is the only one that does that to her, not to mention that no one ever did what made if more especial. "But I wouldn't rest with what would follow."
"You are as bad as your goddess." Benji teased. "Everything goes that way and I always thought that HUMAN males were the ones with dirty one track minds." "It is not exclusive." Gorgeous Rose said giving a kiss on Benji's cheek. "I will go now or I will end joining you, don't stay here too long." Benji nods and the naked angel walk away. Benji makes sure of not look to the door since he knows that Gorgeous Rose was very much naked and he doesn't need that kind of stimulus in his current state.
Still he does wonder why Gorgeous Rose was twice bolder than Peorth, not to mention twice more affectionate towards him; sometimes childish and others mature. Benji had a theory about in the beginning the angel loved him in the pure and innocent way that is normally associate to young children which does suit a angel, but as they expend more time together and with Peorth's experiences the angel was beginning to mature losing the innocence and purity and moving to a more adult way of loving, or at least to a more physical way.
Benji's line of thought goes to how the angel feels when he and Peorth are having sex, Peorth had explained that what a angel feels the goddess feels too and the other way around works too, making him wonder if Gorgeous Rose felt everything that Peorth did; he wouldn't deny that was a very amusing and even ego-boosting to wonder that, yet inwardly a part of him he hopes that Gorgeous Rose doesn't end on his bed in that way.
Benji washes himself with cold water to cool himself out and relax, he was getting worked up with some images that his imagination was providing and he was having trouble to suppress them because of they are very alluring. "I need to rest, not have fantasies of a three way with Peorth and Rosa." Benji muttered scrubbing his body harder. "I need to improve my meditation skills…they suck big time…I can't not think on something telling myself to not think about it…"
Benji enters on the now filled tub and let out a tired sigh. 'And I actually thought that I would be able to retire in peace. I guess that is too much to ask for normal life after killing so much for so long…maybe I should hope that at least the others are having a normal life now…no worries about the war or leftover weapons of mass destruction…'
End of the chapter nine:
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Bonus scenes: (Scenes that didn't fit the main chapter or were created after the completion of the chapter)
Nekomi, December thirteenth; 6:19 AM;
"You are late Akira." A tall woman with short blonde hair says to the red head when she leaves her car. "Sorry Atsuko-san." Akira said with a meek smile. "I had to do something back in my apartment." "Anyway let me explain what we have here." Atsuko replied adjusting the collar of her trench coat. "Those two uniforms there said that a man with a similar description to Ningai landed on their car causing that."
Akira follows the direction of the blonde's woman thumb was pointing with her eyes and sees the destroyed car. "That is for sure a total loss." She commented impressed. Atsuko sighs with the remark of her occasional partner and member of the task force to capture the ever so slick Ketsueki Ningai that time after time finds a way to escape from their grasp.
"Your short attention span really impresses me." Atsuko mutters bitterly. "How you managed to join the force?" "I had to study really hard." Akira answered with a smile. "I had to make up for my lousy memory." "Indeed." Atsuko spat. "Anyway who ever landed on the car must weight around one hundred kilos."
"Why you say that?" Akira asks curious and a bit annoyed that she can't pull her loyal and ever present pad on the rain; she knows that she will forget the information in few minutes. "Considering the location of the car in front of that stairway, the damage in the car and engine block and the mathematical equations that I won't mention since you will forget anyway we came to that approximate weight to cause the engine block to rip from the car chassis." Atsuko explained in a matter of fact tone.
"So he jumped from the top?" Akira asked looking at the top of the stairway. "From what we can see in the damage on the car, yes." Atsuko answered seriously. "Landed on his feet and ran away before an unknown woman with long red hair using an odd heat weapon sliced the front of the car adding to the previous damage. We are guessing that if the man is indeed Ningai the woman is an assassin wanting gain fame from killing him and she used a kind of high intensity plasma cutter or blowtorch."
Akira nods now checking the damage in the car. "It must be Ningai." She commented looking at the imprints of boots on the badly bent hood. "I saw him doing insane stunts like this before and walk away unscathed, any more signals of a fight?" "Many odd holes caused by small explosions moving that way for around two kilometers until ending inside a construction yard." Atsuko answered seriously.
"Found blood or a corpse?" Akira asked looking at the trail of holes in the street. "Nothing visible and no corpse, with the rain the blood was washed from the streets." Atsuko answered. "However we used UV light and luminol and we found many bloodstains inside the construction site."
"Well then let me see them." Akira said. Atsuko nodded and they leave the area in Akira's car. "Your car smells bad, you forgot food in here?" Atsuko asked when entering on the car. "Maybe, I forgot." Akira replied with a meek smile, she couldn't just tell to her friend that she drove a very dirty homeless little girl to her apartment before showing up. "As usual." Atsuko muttered.
In few minutes they arrive on the also isolated by the police construction yard. "I wonder why that odd hole over there." Akira commented as they pass by the hole that Benji's strike created when hitting Tatjana. "We have no idea; well there is the place where we found a lot of blood." Atsuko replied pointing to the badly cracked and bended inward wall where Benji collided on Tatjana's final attack.
Akira let out a impressed whistle with the damage on the wall, Atsuko tells to a man change the lights and Akira let out a cry of shock seeing the large stains on the wall and floor, all signaling blood. "Someone died here." Akira said in a choked voice. "No one can bleed this much and stay alive, not to mention the damage from hitting the wall! There is high velocity splatters all over the wall, roof and floor around the cracks!"
"We know that, but there isn't a corpse here or even anything usable as evidence." Atsuko said in a tired voice. "The surveillance tapes were destroyed, the blood is unusable as usual and there isn't a single witness. We are not even sure if the person killed was Ningai or the red haired woman."
Akira nods absent minded; she was still digesting the concept that a human body could damage a wall like that. Her brain wasn't working one hundred percent well on the moment, she was up all night and the previous day and she is starving for a chicken sandwich and her comfy bed. She had lost Ningai on a chase once again and was depressed over it wanting to drown her sorrows in food, booze and Benji as soon is possible, as well asking to Benji why the little homeless girl had her phone number, his watch, knew her name and said that a 'nii-chan' was being chased by a evil woman.