I'm soooo sorry ! T_T
I forgot to update on the weekend
This heat is killing my brain, I can't concentrate at all... e_e

"So the only way to access this direct paths is with an angels key?"
Shiro asked and Ichigo nodded.
"That, or with the help of a gatekeeper."
The pale thought about the told a bit then wondered.
"Haven't you said you went to hell and destroyed it?"
"Yes."
"How did you get there without a key?"
Just then it dawned on Ichigo.
He blinked a few times, frozen in his current posture.
"That way...was open. I didn't even think about it and just stormed after Lucifer's presence in my fury."
"Maybe then Lucifer left it open? I don't quite trust, that he really wants to vanish."
Shiro further inquired to his mate.
"How do we even get one of those keys?"

Ichigo smiled widely and pulled out a necklace he wore under his upper garments, on which a crystal hung.
Inside of it swirled a smoke like substance.
"I took Satan's key. Hopefully I can manipulate it to work on heavens path."
He then looked at the sphere and erased the image of Hell's galaxy in it.
"This place is gone and all souls will be forced to reside in Elysium, I bet some of those of hell even found a way to move over there. The place must be in chaos. Perfect for us, since the angels attention will be somewhere else."
The orangette spoke on, with a deep frown in his face, as he was thinking about a tactic.
"So you plan on invading the place?"
Ichigo nodded.
"Later. Right now, I plan on granting you your new life. I will need your aid and that curse is a big hindrance."

He caught Shiro's blank look.
Had this been too much info after all?
"Uhhh...yea. If you don't strain yourself to much with this. I mean you just passed out on me."
Ichigo sighed, his mate wasn't wrong, but he had to test his limits.
Better now than later when it would cause big problems.
He rose from his seat, let the sphere vanish and Shiro followed after him.
"Wait a moment. Can you explain one more thing? That part with the DNA, are you saying that all their power is actually written in their genes?"
Ichigo sighed.

"Yea, Basically said the angels have a much more complex DNA than a human and in it lays the source of their power. They are just alchemists, so to say. Lucifer added a fragment of, let's call it the angel-gene which made up the vampires powers. Satan tempered with this and inserted a mutation that causes the vampirism. Gabriel instead removed this mutation again, took the angel-gene and inserted it to the slayers soul, so that it connects with the body that it is incarnated in. That also is why normally a slayer can only incarnate in a human body."
"Okay then you basically remove that mutation right? Will I be immortal like you then? And will I become a god?"
Shiro asked a bit insecure about what was to come next.
"No. All that will happen, is that you don't need the blood as food anymore and that your powers might raise a bit. Also, immortality doesn't mean that getting injured doesn't hurt at all."

Ichigo shortly stopped then spoke on.
"Getting impaled or shot hurts like hell."
He joked and glanced over at Hisana, who had turned onto her side.
Then he concentrated on his mate again and with his powers twisted the characteristics of Satan's 'curse' back to the original state they should have had.
The only thing that he didn't change were the fangs, he liked them too much.
Shiro wasn't so happy with it, until Ichigo explained, that this should be a trait to differ them from normal humans.
So that those humans knew they belonged to the ruling kin.

"How do you feel?"
"Not very different, though a bit hungry."
A small voice in their back then grumbled.
"What about me?"
Hisana had woken from her slumber.
She looked a lot better than before.
Like she was about to make her peace with the happenings.
"You too of course."
Ichigo did the same with her and she thanked him with a big smile.
Now those two were the first of the new demi-gods.

The orangette wondered if Hisana would even wake the powers she would have had, if she had gone through her puberty.
"I feel great!"
The girl chirped happily.
Ichigo was glad that she had lightened up that much and was acting more becoming to her age.
Just then Hisana spun around and looked to the exit.
"Someone's calling for help."
Shiro and his mate looked at each other.
They hadn't heard anything.
Hisana ran to the exit and up the stairs, before they could even stop her.
So they ran after her.

Outside both of them looked anywhere for her, before they found her a good ways outside of the storehouse district.
She was crouching down and looking intently at something.
Ichigo slowly approached her and caught sight of a mall pup sitting in front of the girl.
It waved happily with it's tail and heckled.
"Hisana?"
The girl looked up to him, a scowl displayed on her face.
"I...heard someone call...I'm sure. But there is only her."
"Her?"
The orangette wondered.
"I..."
Hisana looked back to the puppy.
"Somehow...There was a voice in my head. I think it's hers. She told me that her mommy went to look for food and didn't come back."

It was miraculous, really.
For Hisana to waken her abilities directly after Ichigo had lifted the curse.
Hisana must be very gifted.
Shiro came over to them, he had overheard what the girl had said to Ichigo and told.
"Maybe the mother got caught in some crossfire. If she had gone into town."
Hisana picked the snow-white pup up.
It's hind legs hung down loosely, and the animal didn't seem too happy with this.
"Can I keep her?"
The girl begged with big sparkling eyes and hugged the mammal tightly.

Ichigo was about to melt under her gaze.
The whole image of her with the small dog looked so cute.
Shiro instead was a bit more level headed.
"You aren't really considering to take in that dog, on top of sheltering the kid?"
Ichigo looked over to Shiro, eyes soft and sparkling.

"But Shiro..."
He turned around to him and said in a whiny voice.
"...look at the cuteness!"

Shiro sighed and combed through his hair.
"Fine...whatever. You can keep the dog, Hisana."
Hisana looked sternly at the pale and pouted.
"Her name is Koori* and she isn't a dog."
The she added seriously.

"She is a wolf."

Chapter 21
End

*Koori (氷) = Ice

there is a myth about a white wolf in japan :
According to legend, Prince Yamato Takeru-the son of Japan's 12th emperor-got lost in the forests of Mount Mitake after a demon transformed itself into a stag and led the prince astray. Lost and cold, the prince wandered on the mountain until a giant white wolf appeared and led him to safety.

I also srongly believe that I read somewhere of another myth, that a white wolf appeared before a samurai and his army was victorious in a following battle.