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"Oh," I said shortly, seeing the small group of demons plus one human approaching me. "... that's not good, is it?"

Lee chuckled, his eyes flashing red. I took a hesitant step back. Several things caused me to be fearful: I was outnumbered, they had more powers than I did right now, I was unused to seeing Riku as an old guy, and the last reason was.... was that they had Miuri.

She seemed pale and somewhat weak, but she still flashed a hint of a smile at me. My heart lurched. After all, she was my best friend.

"My, my, Kouin, we're all alone. And why is that?" Lee asked.

And that was the point that it connected. I was supposed to face Lee alone... just for this one battle, just for right now. I needed to see his strength before I could battle him and beat him. I needed to know how much I needed to grow before I could battle the big king of the demons and stuff like that.

I hesitantly took out my pen. I guess that I was supposed to fight. I mean, I really didn't think that I was ready since I had no clue where my powers were and all that lovely crap, but I needed to.

I'm gonna say this a lot, but I really wish that I was an average teenager. Not a freaking god that was supposed to be saving the world from evil and stuff. You guys may think that it'd be fun, but trust me, I'm hungry. I'm really hungry and tired and annoyed and sick of being a god. Darn it!

"You honestly think that you can beat me?" Lee asked, sounding in disbelief. "You're not a god, yet, Jin. You're half-human, half-god. Right now, I have the power of a god. You cannot defeat me, no matter how hard that you try."

"Who says I'm gonna try to beat ya?" I asked, changing the pen into a sword. "I'm just hanging around so I can make sure that Miuri is okay. Otherwise, I'd already be way outta here. I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to demons and their big scary red eyes."

Lee's big scary red eyes flashed. "Was that a taunt?"

"No, no, I just think that you're really a girl in disguise," I answered.

You know what? I think that this was also a good time to figure out how to piss Lee off. And trust me, insults work very well.

Lee took out his own sword, glaring evilly at me. I tried my best to remain a bored appearance, but I wasn't very good at it. This is why I always left the insults, battling, and mean looks to Larka. She was always better at being mean than me.

I felt heart lurch. Was she mad at me for yelling at her, being somewhat under the influence of Amaterasu? She couldn't know that, though. She said... she said that she hated me. At this thought, my throat couldn't help but choke up a little. Dang my inability to be a good mean person... if that makes any sense.

Lee raised an eyebrow at me as I argued with myself in my head. Mental note: do not argue with yourself or think about how you might have pissed Larka off when you are in the face of evility. Or when you are in the face of Lee.

Ha! I'm starting to be mean in my head! One up!

"You have always been an odd person, Jin. Even when you tried your best to be an average human being, you still managed to shine out in your own idiotic way," Lee said, sighing and shaking his head. "Even while we were in school everyone knew your name. I swear..."

I stared at him seriously. "It's because I'm hot, Lee. Learn from my awesomeness."

Lee magically took his sword out, making pretty sparkles fly from his hands. I made a mental note to try to figure out how in the heck he made the pretty sparkles fly.

"Ya know," I began casually, "I was wondering... what exactly are you gonna gain from all this? What is your plan and stuff? Because this is about the point that the big bad guy spills the beans about his big plans and all."

Lee seemed genuinely confused. "You... you don't know? Didn't Larka tell you?"

Again, another secret. Next time I saw her, I would strangle her until she spilled the beans. Or maybe I would get on my knees and beg for her to let me be in the group again, being that it was destiny and all that we were together.

I pouted to myself. I would never understand girls. Especially not Larka or Yuuki.

"Uh, no," I finally answered. "Larka don't tell me nothin'."

Lee raised an eyebrow and brought the sword level to me. He was obviously somewhat confused about me. Then again, everyone gets confused around me. To be honest, I don't blame them.

I really do get off subject, don't I?

Well, I gotta give Lee a hand. He was a fast little bugger. I barely managed to bring my sword up to meet his. He pushed up against me, his eyes flaming.

One part of my mind was screaming, Oh my freaking heck, I'm gonna get killed by a nerd in glasses with a big sword!,while the other part of me thought This isn't my time to be fighting, I'm not ready, and I think I have a bit of a cold. Why are so many bad things happening in my life?!

You know, as a random thought while I fought, I thought that I needed to set my priorities straight. And I really do need to. Like, Larka needs to be number twenty-eight, not number one.

"You're weak," Lee growled, stepping somewhat away from me. "This is idiocy. I won't fight someone so weak. All talk and nothing behind it."

I brought up my hands, pretending to be offended. "Gosh, and I thought we were friends."

Lee looked away, towards the sea. I could tell he was POed at me for being such a durned biotch. I really, really, really, really, really don't blame him.

"It's not the time, is it?" Lee murmured.

I blinked and lowered my sword. He could feel it, too. The fight didn't really feel real. Our fight felt stupid and pointless.

"It feels like something's supposed to happen, but nobody's supposed to die," I answered. "We're, like, synced or something, man."

Lee glared at me. Mental note: do not call mortal enemy who happens to be a demon "man" or he'll get super mad at ya and want to kill you with his sword all over again. Golly gee, that's a long mental note. Mental note: keep mental notes more brief. Like taht.

"Miuri," he said, blinking. "Miuri."

I titled my head in confusion, raising an eyebrow. What did Miuri have to do with this other than she was right there, watching this idiotic conversation being carried out? Oh. Wait a minute... I still don't get it. I wish I was smart.

"The stakes are higher," he said simply, giving me a wicked smile.

Again, I titled my head in confusion. I gave him a look that said, You're gonna hafta 'splain that to meh. I'm not dat smart.

Lee rolled his eyes, then continued. "I'm going to keep hurting people you love, so hurry up and get your stupid powers. I'm gettin' pretty sick of waiting for you. Go become the true God of Time already, or I swear that I'll kill Miuri, Ai, and even the Thirteen Brush Gods! Then I'll find your father and kill him!"

Well, that's not a very nice thing to say to someone. So anybody that's reading this, don't say such cruel things to people. It not nice.

"Jerk!" I snapped at him. "Go die in a hole, you freak!"

That's another thing that you shouldn't probably say to people.

"... but who is my dad?" I asked blankly.

Lee raised his eyebrow. "What, did Larka tell you that you were born A-sexually or something? Or do you not even know who your own mother is?"

I shrugged. Larka had told me nada. Was that my fault? No. Why no it wasn't. I'd force it out of her the next time I saw here... or, ya know, beg for forgiveness. Or maybe I could do both at the same time, somehow. I could figure it out.

"Larka has been keeping much from you, Jin," Lee said mysteriously, turning back to the ocean.

Just a few things: firstly, why can't people just tell you stuff in these kinds of situations? Why does everyone have to act like it's some sort of idiotically important sort of secret that you need to know, but not really? I just will never understand why in the crap people do that.

Next, I really wanted to kill Lee just then. His back was turned. He had Miuri. He had Ai. He had hurt tons of other people that I didn't even know. It would be easy to freeze time and stab my sword through him, causing blood to spurt from his body and the sea to turn quite red with the demon's blood. Ah, but then I felt sick just thinking about it.

Oh and Amaterasu said in my mind, Not now, Jin.

To this, I replied, Darn.

Yuuki glared at Larka with her golden eyes flashing. She was not about to loose this stare-off. It was for Jin, and that was what mattered to her.

"We're not going after him," Larka growled. "He can die in a-"

"Hole," Yuuki finished. "But, you know, we kind of need him to save the world. We need to let him know about the prophetic dream I had when I was ten. He obviously doesn't remember it. And I can sense King Lee's presense very close to here. Three hours away at most. We absoluetly have to save him!"

"Couenne!" Larka cried desperately. "C'entièrement couenne!"

Yuuki glanced at Dravis, who had figured out a French a couple of years ago.

"Stupid. That's completely stupid," he translated.

"Et tellement sommes te!" Larka continued.

"And so are you," Dravis stated.

Yuuki growled, turning to Larka, "This is no time to be insulting each other, Larka! We have to save Jin! He could die, and it would be all our fault! The world would be completely populated by stinkin' demons! No offense, Dravis."

"Offense taken," he replied. "Go die."

Yuuki rolled her eyes, then pushed her long black hair out of her eyes. "Fine. Okay. Whatever. I'll just tell Jin the prophecy before the time is here."

Most people would have shrugged and said, 'Okay, whatever...', but Larka was different. The prophecy spoke very directly of her, and not in the best of ways. Jin would instantly get overly-protective of her, making her go crazy.

Larka glared and muttered, "That's low..."

Yuuki smirked, folding her arms over her chest. Larka would have to help now.

"I don't get it," Dravis stated.

Larka glanced over her shoulder at him. "You wouldn't."

"So are you helping?" Yuuki asked. "Are we gonna go find Jin and then find my home?"

Larka frowned, then stuck out her hand. Yuuki beamed and took Larka's hand, shaking it. The two girls locked eyes, and, in an instant, knew that they both could never tell Jin the prophecy because they loved him too much.

Dravis, on the other hand, was looking back in forth between them, not getting what just happened.

The Kitsune put its hand on Hitorigami's shoulder, who stared forward silently. The Kitsune took upon itself the form of an attractive woman, staring down at the god.

"Lee can give you anything you want," the Kitsune murmured, lifting up Hitorigami's chin, who brushed it away.

"Can Lee give me myself?" Hitorigami murmured, looking forward with glazed eyes. "Can Lee make me never alone? I am forever alone."

A deep sense of loneliness awashed over the Kitsune, who did its best to brush it away. Most Hitorigami were born into this world through nothingness and being along, but they were always destined to do great things. This Hitorigami, though, was literally a Hitorigami.

A god of being alone.

"Come on, now," the Kitsune insisted. "There is no point in this. Just come along, now..."

"Begone from me!" Hitorigami finally snapped, its gray eyes wide with fury. The Kitsune seemed surprised and angry, but knew when to quit.

"King Lee will kill you in your sleep, you disgusting god!" the Kitsune growled, its face taking upon that foxy appearance. It eyes glowed red and fangs showed.

The Kitsune slammed the door behind itself and the Hitorigami sighed, glad to finally be alone again. That was what it wanted, after all. It wanted to be alone without that Kitsune... what was its name? Something about tails.

Ninetails. That was it. Ninetails.

Hitorigami sighed just at the thought. The prophecy had mentioned it, but it didn't want to join. It sounded scary.

Hitorigami reviewed what Izanami, the goddess of creation and death, had told it about the prophecy. What it had told it about the God of Time, about the state of the world. It was frightening, and Hitorigami definetly did not want to leave its room now.

The God of Nothingness shall find the key to death

After opening the door

The Goddess of Moon will fall through

And nothing will be right from there on

Hitorigami shivered. The way it was phrased... what could it mean? No, no, it could only mean one thing.

It would kill the Goddess of the Moon.

A/N- And that's a wrap! A short chapter, but what the hey. I can't think right now. Slight (ly large) writer's block. *hits head*

Another thing; I love Hitorigami. You rock! Oh, and please review! Please please pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssseeeeeeeee!