Disclaimer- Neither of us owns Angelic Layer, or Chobits, or anything else but the plot and original characters.

AN (Rimshooter)- Sorry for the long wait. Taeniaea doesn't have anything to say, so I'll just get on with it.

Chapter 11- Can Shadows Truly Shine?

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Seimei walked into the stadium lobby and sat down, making note of the various contestants seated around her, all with determined expressions on their faces, aside from a select few. Unlike her usual attire, she was wearing a dark violet jacket. On the back there was a black, red-eyed dragon with a smaller, silver, purple-eyed dragon in its protective embrace. Chiisai was perched on her shoulder in a proud stature, without her cloak on.

She waited patiently for her turn, her eyes drifted to Hatoko. 'Will I be able to fight her? We're in the same ladder, so we'll meet eventually if I win and keep winning..'

Before any conversation could begin between Seimei and Hatoko, however, an Attendant walked in. "Would Seimei Iyoku please report to the layer?"

"Hai." Seimei obliged, walking through the corridors to the central room, with the layer and seats.

She sat down and her chair rose its proper position.

Her opponent was a tan, lean guy wearing a white tank-top and jeans. His angel visor covered his eyes. His hair was short and blond, with a single, small bang coming out over his left eye. His name was Kawaguchi Jurou.

"Ready?" The referee looked at both deuses, "Angels In!"

Jurou threw his angel into the layer. "Bring forth our victory, Katsurou! Angel descend!"

Katsurou was just as lean as his Deus, only much paler. He wore black leather jacket, which was open to reveal a black shirt with the yin-yang symbol on it. His pants were black slacks, and he was wearing laced, black combat boots.

he layer transformed into a typical urban environment. It was a city- street with a few cars parked along the sidewalks, an open manhole, and a few billboards. There was even a truck lying on its side with another car lodged next to it. The street met a T-intersection. The left led to a skate-park, while the right led to a construction site. There were roadblocks at the end of each of the branches (Just far enough so both the skate park and construction site were reachable, and roadblocks in front of the truck.

Katsurou was standing on top of the left end of a half-pipe in the skate-park.

"The administration has informed us of a special rule for this fight, going past the roadblocks will be considered a layer-out. You can start as soon as Chiisai Kage enters the layer!"

Seimei just smirked with a determined expression on her face, "We'll try our best to win!" She said before yelling the entry line for Chiisai.

"Fly on the shadows of the past, Chiisai Kage! Angel Fall in!"

She threw Chiisai Kage on the layer, as she was falling to the layer she let her violet wings came out and she stopped in mid-air, flying in a fighting stance. Chiisai narrowed her blood red eyes some at Katsurou, as she had a very determined on her face

Chiisai Kage then synthesized her staff and raised the bladed end to where it was pointed at the sky, flying at Katsurou in an attempt to hit him in the side of his head and knock him onto his side.

As Chiisai was thrown into the layer, and charged him, Katsurou synthesized his Markov and fired several rounds at her. He also synthesized a pair of Rollerblades and skated down the half-pipe, using his momentum to soar into the air and off the other end, in an attempt to kick Chiisai with his right foot., only for her to fly off to the side. Katsurou just used a pair of thruster in his skates to turn, mid-air, and shoot her in her back, lowering her health by a good ten points.

Seimei growled as her eyes darkened. 'I can't lose here!' Chiisai started glowing black as she went into her Berserk. Her staff turned into Tenrei Yousei and she turned, using her perpendicular angle to cast Smite, which wasn't dodge-able by Katsurou as he could only turn in mid-air using his thrusters. Katsurou gritted the teeth as his deus mimicked him in frustration. That hurt, a lot. He unloaded his entire clip on her, pausing to reload as he landed and tried to skate away.

Chiisai grunted as she dodged the bullets by hairsbreadths, before rushing Katsurou as he reloaded. She poised her staff into a fighting position, ready to strike as soon as she was close enough. She never got the chance as Katsurou finished reloading, before turning and firing more rounds at her.

Seimei only watched over the fight with a very dark yet, determined expression, as Chiisai growled, barely dodging the bullets. Getting aggravated, she cast a smite toward Katsurou.

Katsurou groaned at his bad luck, being he had just skated over a pipe and tripped, just as Smite hit him. Now furious, he went into Berserk as his Markov turned into Valde, a black desert eagle.

He fired a trio of ice-rounds, bullets filled with extremely cold fluid, followed by a seeker, a high-velocity round that dodged around obstacles all aimed at Chiisai.

Still berserk, Chiisai growled, as she barely dodged the trio of ice-rounds ,only to get hit by the seeker and be thrown from the layer, unconscious.

Seimei eyes now showed sadness as Chiisai had lost the match. After which, the layer shut down. Seimei was very worried as she picked her angel up. Seimei went looking for Misaki, and Hatoko as Jurou left with a smug expression painted all over him.

While Seimei was looking for Misaki and Hatoko, she picked up a large sum of AD Packs to update Chiisai Kage. With her discount, they only cost a hundredth or so of their original price. Knowing that Chiisai was not going to like that she lost her fight at all, and she would want to become much stronger.

Misaki saw Seimei leave the Piffle Princess with a.. disappointed? expression. She approached her, "What's wrong?"

Seimei had stopped walking when she saw Misaki approaching. Hikari perched herself on Seimei's shoulder and looked down at Chiisai, worried." I lost my tournament match today, Misaki. Chiisai is still unconscious!" She said while showing Chiisai to Misaki.

Misaki sweat dropped a little, "You know, she's going to be out ten minutes minimum after losing a match right? Hatoko told me last night when I asked her about it."

"That's not what I'm worried about. Chiisai went into her Berserk form again!"

"What's happening to me? There are times when I don't feel like myself, or even know who I am anymore Misaki!" Seimei said in a very worried tone as she became increasingly excited.

"Calm down!" Someone from behind said vigorously as he placed a hand on her shoulder, before vanishing into the crowd as Misaki and Seimei tried to see who it was. Nonetheless, Seimei did calm down a little.

"Anyway, Misaki, can you help fix up Chiisai and update her?" Seimei said trying to put her worrying in the back of her mind.

"Sure.."

"Thank you Misaki. By the way, did you see my match, can you tell me how I acted in it. Seimei said before she grab a hold of her head with her hands while she dropped Chiisai and fell to her knees. Her eyes were fading in and out.

It started raining and Keishin walked out of the store, tucked under his right arm was a fairly large, but thin, box. He noticed Seimei and Misaki. 'They really could have done better than this, if it's already becoming defective.'

He picked Seimei up, over his shoulder like one would carry a large bag. He nodded towards Misaki, "Come on. We'd better get this fixed."

'What the..' Was all Seimei could think as she drifted to sleep.

Misaki nodded and he headed off down the street, turning right at the corner. "Keishin? The Hospital's over there."

"And?"

"Shouldn't we head there instead of.. where are we going?"

"My house." Was all he said as she followed him, perplexed.

They arrived at Keishin's house, and he walked up to the door. He motioned at Misaki to knock, as his hands were full. After she shook off the size of the door, which was actually a double-door, she knocked.(1).

A few seconds later some shuffling was heard, followed by a loud thud, followed again by the door opening as a young girl opened the door. She was the feminine, young mimic of Keishin. Her hair was waist length, glossy, and jet-black. She had the Issun's trademark green eyes and a very petite frame. She was wearing a light-pink dress with long, tight-fitting sleeves. She also had the same odd bangs as Keishin.

"Hello Kei-Cha-!" She was cut off as she noticed Misaki, who waved, and more notably- Seimei. "Excuse me." Was all he said as he walked past her, kicking off his shoes and heading to his room. "Later Emiko."

By the time Emiko, his sister, returned to reality, his door was already shut and locked.

He dumped Seimei unceremoniously on the bed and opened the box he had under his arm. As he opened it up, Misaki and Seimei discovered it was a miniature angelic layer. "Now, let's get started." He said with a tiny hint of giddiness, like a child about to play with a new toy they had wanted for some time.