Hell: Lookie here! Lately we've been able to update sooner then we used to.
Kitsune: Because Saisho's past was longer then we thought it would be, we're going to have to divide it up into two parts. So the this chapter is the first half of her past, the next will be the rest of it.
Hell: We told ourselves we wouldn't go into major detail in her past but... well we failed at that and we went into much more detail. We couldn't help it! Also, I think Kohaku took up a lot of the beginning with... Well, you'll see what he does.
Warnings: Umm mild violence, cursing, and pissed off demons, and a slightly grumpy Tenshi-chan.
Of Storm and Fire
Chapter 29:
Of Your Silent Reverie
Kohaku grabbed Tenshi's hand and lead him out of the theater.
"How about we go train, 'Shi-chan? Training's not scary, well, to us." Kohaku said with a smile. Tenshi blinked at him and then smiled softly at him.
"Hai, jaa'ku. Thanks." he said and the older boy just nodded to him.
Kohaku lead him to the training grounds, and Tenshi stared at the back of his head, a blush on his face.
If it was a mistake, he sighed mentally, blush darkening, then I'm glad I made that mistake.
They walked to the training grounds, Kohaku leading the both of them, still holding Tenshi's hand.
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A young teenage boy, looking around the age of seventeen, raised a long, red bow staff up and shoved it into a sixteen year old girls chest, her arms coming up to catch it.
"This is not a walking stick. It is a bow staff, a great weapon to use in battle." the boy said, his voice low, "Learn to use it correctly..." he paused, a smirk on his lips, "baka."
The girl glared at first, but then her expression softened at the males smirk, and she grinned at him.
"Tch, jaa'ku. How about you teach me how to "use it correctly", ne?" she asked, her voice taunting and suggestive.
He raised an eyebrow, letting go of the staff. He turned sharply, grabbing two katanas from the counter next to him.
"Later." he said, glancing back at her, "Right now learn how to spin those nunchaku better."
Her grin grew and she nodded, knowing the male could tell that she did. She watched his muscles flex and ripple under his sleeveless black mesh shirt and she caught herself watching his perfect ass move, wrapped in his sung black training pants.
She blushed, looking away from the man. She ran her figures through her black hair, scolding herself for her actions.
"Saisho." a deep voice said and she looked back up at that same boy.
His red eyes glistened as he looked her over before snorting, "You're suppose to be training, remember?" he said in a bored tone.
She jumped, remembering and quickly grabbed her nunchakus.
"R-Right!" she stuttered, getting right back to work.
The man just smirked, and turned his back to her again. He'd mess with her later.
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Kohaku groaned, lifting his head off his pillow as he awoke from his sleep. Every hour or so he would wake up from a "vision dream" and that's what just happened.
He looked at his clock on his nightstand and moaned loudly when he noticed that it was only four in the morning. What an ungodly hour to wake up at... and not be able to go to sleep at also.
The visions that Saisho had spoke of had finally come and they annoyed Kohaku to no end because they only seemed to come when he slept. Sometimes, he hated being Tenshi-chans fourth.
He sat up, swinging his legs over the side of his queen sized bed. He rubbed his forehead, sighing.
Speaking of that angel... He looked outside his window, It's his fault for me waking up every damned hour! He smirked to himself. Time for revenge.
He jumped up out of bed, scratching his bare chest absentmindedly as he looked for some clothes to put on. After he found a sleeveless purple hoodie and black pants that stopped short of his knees, he grabbed his weapons pouch as he always did, through on his sandals and jumped through his window, heading towards the Uchiha district.
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Tap... tap... tap...
Tenshi moaned, rolling over onto his other side in his sleep.
Tap... tap... tap...
He groaned in annoyance, wondering what the hell was making that sound. He felt Riri stir next to him, pressing his wolf head into Tenshi's back, trying to get away from the noise.
Tap... tap... tap...
Tenshi came to full conscious, but tried his hardest to ignored the tapping sound. Mimi was the one who stirred next, pressing all her small fox body against Tenshi's stomach. And then he felt Kiki move around a little by his knees, one of her little paws grabbing his knee hard.
Tap... tap... tap...
Tenshi groaned, eyes snapping open in annoyance at the sound behind him. If it was a dang bird tapping his window at 4:36 in the morning, he didn't care if he loved animals, he was killing that thing. His sleep was much more important.
Tap... tap... tap...
Cici shifted, bumping into Xixi, who moved way from her above Tenshi's head, his small, long tail falling and hitting Tenshi in the nose. The angel blew at his fifth Ittan's tail, trying to make the small Ittan move it. But he didn't.
Tap... tap... tap...
Tenshi growled, sitting up and almost knocking Xixi off the bed, and it cause the small mouse to wake up and glare up at his master, who glared back.
Tap... tap... tap...
"Kami-sama, make it shut up!" his wolf Ittan growled, covering his ears with his paws.
"Alright, alright, hang on." Tenshi mumbled, getting up out of bed. He walked over, rubbing his eyes, to the window. It was really dark out side and there wasn't any lights outside to help see, but Tenshi saw the faint out line of someone, a ninja, crouched outside his window.
He couldn't tell who it was, so he opened the window, just in case it was something important. What he didn't expect to see was the face of his best friend staring back at him.
"Oi, baka-chan. Did--"
BANG!
"OWWW! DAMN IT, THAT HURT YOU ASS!"
Tenshi just glared at the other genin outside of his window. When he had realized it was Kohaku, right as the other male lead forward and started speaking, Tenshi slammed the window shut in the other boys face, effectively hitting the males nose in the process. Because Tenshi had casement windows, the angel was able to open his window like one would a door, so he was able to slam it shut like a door too.
Kohaku had once before asked why the hell they had windows like that in the Uchiha manor. Tenshi had told him because most of his family didn't use the actual doors in the first place, so they put in windows like that to make it easier to get in. Kohaku didn't question it any further cause when right after that, Sasuke had come into the house using one of the windows.
"Let me in." Kohaku growled, holding his nose. Tenshi's glared hardened and he folded his arms over his chest.
"No." Tenshi growled and the Hyuuga scowled.
"Yes."
"No."
"...Yes."
"No."
"...Yes."
"No."
"Yeeesss."
"NO."
"Yes, damn it!"
"NO! GO HOME!"
Kohaku glared at him, before suddenly smirking and moving straight towards the window and walking through it. Tenshi backed up, still glaring at him.
"Nani?" Kohaku said, raising his hands in the air at Tenshi, "Are you not happy to see me, Tenshi-chan? Do you not like me?"
Tenshi sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Kohaku, you're my best friend and I love you and all," the angel started, letting go of his nose, "but not at 4:45 in the morning. Get out of my house."
"Aw, don't be like that, Tenshi-chan." Kohaku said, smirking all the while.
"It's almost like they switch personalties in the morning." Mimi muttered, trying to curl up into a ball and go back to sleep.
"I'm going to be like this if you decide to come bother me at 4:45 in the morning like a prick. You can be a pain in the rear end, you know that?"
"Not as bad as you can be."
"Ugh, I'm not up for this so early in the morning. Why are you here?"
"It's your fault that I'm here. Stupid visions and all."
"...Don't be a asshole jaa'ku. It's not my fault you couldn't sleep."
"It's because of you I have these damned vision dream things."
"Don't blame me, blame Saisho-sama. Their her memories."
"She's dead. So there for I blame you."
Tenshi sighed, turning from his friend and moving back to his bed.
"What are you doing?" Kohaku asked, watching his friend.
"Going back to bed." Tenshi deadpanned, climbing back up into bed. Kohaku gulped, watching Tenshi's ass move, which he had a perfectly clear very of, as the angel crawled across his bed.
"Wh-Why?" Kohaku said, having a hard time saying that a tearing his eyes way from the angel's rear.
"Because I'm tired. Why else?" the angel asked, turning and laying on his back on his bed, his five Ittan's curling up to him immediately.
"What am I suppose to do?" the Hyuuga asked, sitting down in Tenshi's desk chair.
"Go home..." he snapped. There was a paused and Kohaku just stared at him blankly, "Or if you're not going to do that, read or something till you hear one of my parents get up, then go bug them." Tenshi sighed, getting under his blankets.
"When you will you be up?"
"Never."
"Well that's fantastic."
"Just zip it, jaa'ku. Let me sleep, please!" the angel whined. Kohaku scoffed.
"Fine."
"Thank you."
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Tenshi huffed loudly, marching down the stairs into the ten'yo sanctuary. He made sure to stay a little more then a arms length away from the jerk behind him, who kept trying to flip up the hood of his white hoodie. Kohaku walked behind him, a smirk on his face and hands shoved into his pockets. If he really wanted to pull the other boys hood over his head, he would just use his telekineses to do it.
Kohaku knew Tenshi was a little on the grumpy side today and he knew that he was to blame for Tenshi's grumpiness.
Kohaku hadn't let Tenshi go to sleep till the angel promised that they would go to Saisho later and do the whole seeing the past thing. Once the angel promised Kohaku let him sleep... for about half an hour. Then he got bored and woke the angel up asking when said angel was going to get up for the day. The angel had yelled,
"When ever I feel like it, bastard!"
and then Kohaku was chased out of the room by flying objects aimed for his head.
He had then wandered around the Uchiha manor and found himself in Sasuke's study at 6 in the morning. Around that time, the Uchiha leader had woken up and when he passed his study, he froze, turned on his heel and burst into the room, startling Kohaku, who was so wrapped up in a scroll about the Uchiha family history that he wasn't paying any attention to the world around him. Sasuke had demanded to know how the hell he got into the house and why he was there. He told the Uchiha leader that he was mainly here to wake up Tenshi and drag him off for some training, but the boy had kicked him out of his room. Sasuke had ordered him out of his study and Kohaku obeyed, going down the stairs to the kitchen, mentally noting that the Uchiha leader had no shirt on.
Hot.
Then after about 20 minute's of complete silence between the two males in the kitchen, Naruto decided to come down in nothing but his boxers. He came in asking Sasuke something about breakfast, when he noticed Kohaku. His blue eyes had widened, he had yelped, jumped out of the kitchen, grabbed Sasuke's robe that was on the back of a chair in the living room and walked back into the kitchen, all flustered and asking Sasuke in a accusing tone why he hadn't informed him that Kohaku was here.
Kohaku had been smirking to himself. Naruto's reaction was of one Kohaku would expect from Tenshi. Now he truly knew where most Tenshi's personality came from. Plus, he got to see what Naruto looked like without hardly any clothes on. He now knew why people called him the "Hottest Hokage to Live".
Was it strange for him to find Tenshi's, the person he was in love with and thought was hot, cute, adorable, and sexy beyond reason, parents to be hot? That would be a compliment to Tenshi right? Since he has their genes.
Anyway, almost every Uchiha had woken up in the house and was shocked to find Kohaku there so early, in sitting in their kitchen like he owned the place. After a while of him picking on Masami continuously, the other Uchiha's had enough, woke Tenshi rather rudely and told him to make the Hyuuga happy and get him out of the Uchiha manor. Tenshi had scrambled to get dressed while listening to Masami and Naruto both whine and complain about Kohaku. So he had just thrown on a white, short sleeved hoodie with the Uchiha crest on the back of it, black shorts, his gloves, and his black sandals. Then he grabbed Kohaku, ordered his Ittan's to stay home, and dragged the older boy out of the house, desperate to get away from his nagging brother and Chichiue.
So now here they were, at 7:52 in the morning, going into the ten'yo sanctuary, Tenshi on the grumpy side and Kohaku highly amused.
"Na-no-da!" Tenshi called as they set foot in the room.
"Tenshi-kun!" a familiar voice called out and a full grown panther appeared, running a few circles around the koneko.
"Hello, Fufu!" he laughed, nodding to the Ittan. He smiled up at the angel and said hi to Kohaku, who nodded his head back to him.
"Come, come! This way!" he ran off to the opposite side of the room that was almost a little bigger then half the size of a football field.
They followed him, Tenshi seemingly forgetting Kohaku had been trying to grab his hood. When they got to the back of the room, they noticed that Saisho was standing by a oak colored door with a golden handle.
"My vision was right," she said, smiling to them, "I knew you would come today due to Kohaku's eagerness to make the vision dreams go away."
"It would seem so." Tenshi growled, shooting Kohaku a glare, which Kohaku just shrugged innocently to.
"But come now. No time for stalling. We have to get you to that meditative state asap. We got stuff to do, things do learn." she put her hand on the door handle. Both boys frowned.
"Saisho-sama, why is there a door here?" Kohaku asked, moving closer to it. She smiled at him, pulling open the door.
"You will see." she said, opening the door all the way and leading them through it. Once they stepped through it, Kohaku's eyebrows rose and Tenshi gasped in surprise.
They were on a long, stone balcony. The stone was like white with shrieks and specks of different shades of gray and brown in it. On the opposite end of the balcony from where they stood was a large, arch like cut out where one could walk through to get into a long hall way that lead to another door.
Tenshi ran over to the side of the balcony, looking over the edge. Down below the balcony was green, luscious grass and patches of wild flowers all around. It stretched out about 100 yards and then there seemed to be a cliff, a long drop off.
Saisho appeared next to him, smiling.
"Look." she said softly, motioning up behind him, "This is the true Ten'yo Sanctuary."
He turned and so did Kohaku. They craned their heads back to look up a high wall, with different balconies jutting off of it and windows. The wall came up to a point at the tip and it hinted to there being much more.
"Come, come this way." Saisho was suddenly by the arch cut out, motioning them to follow her down a hall way.
They ran after her, their eyes taking in the different color blues in the hall way. She opened the other door and pushed them through it. It was another hall, it's walls the same as the wall outside, but their were tapestries, red and gold ones, hanging on the walls and a red carpet running down the middle of the hall way. She lead them down it in a brisk pace, but slowed about half way down it. She turned to what appeared to be a bunch of arch windows lined along the wall. The boys caught up to her and turned to them as well.
There was arch windows but with no glass. It showed a huge garden, with trees, cherry blossom trees, flowers, and plants of many kinds. There was a path way going around it and one going down the middle of it, along with a small pond with well trimmed bushes going around it in the middle of the garden. There were bushes all lined together at the edges of the garden, making shapes and in the inside of the shapes were rocks of all different sizes. Across from them was the stair case leading down to the garden, which looked old but yet beautiful. It also seemed to look like a training ground. It was beautiful and it left the younger angel gapping at it.
But he snapped out of it when the rustling of bushes caught his eye. Out of some bushes stumbled a red fox with purple eyes and blue markings that were identical to his Ittan's, but in the middle of the circle on it's forehead was the shape of a flower. Behind the fox was another fox, but it was black with deep pink eyes and gold markings, and the marking in the middle of the circle was what looked like the shape of a butterfly. They were chasing each other, playing and wrestling. A black wolf with purple eyes and red markings that was the same as the red foxes walked near them and sat down, watching the two foxes with a close eye. The red fox darted behind the wolf away from the other fox, using the wolf as a shield and peaking around the wolf, teasing the other fox. The wolf glanced back at the fox, wrapping it's tail around the foxes smaller body.
The black fox shook its head as if snorting, and crouched low to the ground, looking ready to pounce. And it looked like the wolf had raised an eyebrow at the other fox. But before the black fox could, a orange tiger, with pink eyes and yellow markings that were the same as the black fox, put it's paw in front of the fox and pulled it back.
"Rere, you should watch that fox of yours a little more carefully. They might end up hurting each other, with how they rough house." the tiger, a male, said, and Tenshi could only catch it because of his sharp hearing.
The wolf, Rere, snorted, "And you should watch yours, Tata. I'm sure Meme here didn't start it." His voice was deep, he was a male also.
"Oh, shut up you too. You're both so ridiculous." the red fox, Meme, the foxes voice light and soft, a female said, coming around Rere and she sat next to him, leaning on his a little.
"Yeah, move your paw, Tata." the other fox complained, voice slightly deeper then Meme's, but it had more of a smoother feminine tone to it. She slid from under the tigers hold with ease.
"Lala." the tiger said sternly, but the fox ignored him.
"Tata, Lala, Rere, Meme! Please don't wreak the garden too much!" Saisho suddenly called, startling Tenshi some.
"Hai, Saisho-sama!" all four of them called. The tiger, Tata, then pushed the black fox, Lala, out of the gardens, the fox protesting the whole time.
Both Kohaku and Tenshi watched with awed eyes as the red fox, Meme, cuddled up to the wolf, Rere, and the wolf licked her head affectionately.
"Do Ittan's mate?" Kohaku asked the older angel. Saisho nodded.
"Hai, they do. But only with another Ittan of the same angel." she told him.
"So, that's why they really don't mind dying." Kohaku muttered, looking back at the two Ittan's in the garden, "They come here, and they are still together."
"And they can raise their young here." Saisho added, "Ittan's are only really spirit energy and heaven power energy to began with. They pull chakra from their master and they don't have to eat but once a month. And here in limbo, where most all Ittan's stay, they don't have to eat or sleep, since they pull all life energy from the heavens." Kohaku nodded to her, telling her he understood.
"Whose Ittan's are those, Saisho-baba?" Tenshi asked.
"Rere and Meme are Yasou-kuns, the fourth angel, the Buruuenzeru (Blue Angel). Tata and Lala are Rai-chan's, the fifth angel, the Orenjienjeru (Orange Angel)." she answered without hesitation.
"This is pretty much a castle, right?" Kohaku asked, turning so he was leaning against the wall.
She laughed, "Pretty much! What did you think I did after I died? Sat there and stared at a wall? With my spare time when I wasn't watching over one of the other angels or their children, me and my Ittan's and guardians were working on building this." she raised her arms up, "It's made from stone. My Ittan, Zuzu, and my second guardian used their earth power to put the walls up and create the rooms. And then my Ittan, Lulu, she went around and used her power to break down material to create the openings for doors and windows, also to put some design on the walls. A few others went with her to help. The some of the rest of us worked on making the rugs and furniture. And well... we worked together, used our team work to build this. And when a new angel died with their Ittan's and came here, they put their hand in it." she told them, shrugging, "It's nothing really."
"Nothing?! Baba-chan, it's amazing!" Tenshi yelled, waving his arms around. Saisho laughed, patting his head. She opened her mouth to say something else, but a loud voice cut her off.
"Oi, master!" a young sounding male voice called out. All three of them looked down the rest of the hall at a young man with messy black hair, green eyes, and a long raccoon tail. He was in a simple gray yukata and he had a orange headband over his forehead.
"Hai, Mumu?" she said in a calm voice.
"The room is ready." he said, bowing to her. His green eyes landed on Tenshi and he stared at him for a minute before bowing again, "Ah, Oourjironoki-sama. Glad to see that you and your fourth have arrived."
Tenshi blinked, before nodding quickly, "H-Hai, Mumu-kun."
The Ittan blinked before grinning at the young angel, "Come this way! We have things that must be done."
The Ittan, Mumu, lead them through the castle, the two boys drinking in all they could of it. They finally came to a big wooden door. Mumu tried to pull the door open but it wouldn't budge. Kohaku was about to offer his help when the Ittan raised and finger and reached through the door. He twisted his arm around like he was trying to find something, then there was a sound of something unlocking and his face lit up.
"Dang kits trying to lock me out again." he muttered, letting them into a room that was the size of the room they originally thought was the ten'yo sanctuary, but this room had hardly anything in it. One wall was just glass so one could see out into the back gardens and the other walls were stone, the floor wooden. In the middle of the room was a large green circle painted on the ground and the circle was divided into eights. Each piece had a different shape in it and each where a different color. There was a black star in one, a silver book in another, a red drop, a blue flower, a orange butterfly, a purple leaf, a golden sun, and the last piece was blank, waiting for something to be drawn within it.
Mumu lead them further into the room, picking a few things laying around on the floor.
"I told them not to be in here till later tonight? Do they listen? No." the Ittan grumbled, "I swear, you need to tell Fofo-chan to keep her kits out of trouble." he told Saisho. Saisho sighed deeply.
"Mikomi-chan's Ittan's children are always getting into trouble." she muttered. Tenshi blinked.
"One of the Ittan's has kits?" he asked. She nodded.
"Yes, the only kits around now are from Mikomi-chan's Ittans. All the others from other angel's grew up. The last litter should be reaching adult hood soon." she told him, "But you can see them later. Right now we have work to do!"
She pushed the two boys to the middle of the circle in the middle of the room. She made them sit back to back and Mumu took off their sandals for them, putting them in the corner of the room. He took of Tenshi's gloves as well and put them with the shoes. The two boys leaned against each other, both trying to relax their bodies. She made Tenshi's left hand grab Kohaku's right and hold it, so that the Oourjironoki symbol on the palm of Tenshi's hand and the one on the back of Kohaku's right hand touched. Kohaku shifted his hand and weaved their fingers together. Tenshi held his hand back and thought nothing of the gesture and Kohaku fought down a blush.
"Alright, Tenshi, what we are about to do goes through you mainly." Saisho said, pulling up a stand that held a book in front of her, "You have to completely open up your mind and drop all mental defenses. Because Kohaku doesn't naturally have the telepathy power, I'm going to have to put him in the mental state through you. That means you have to let whatever I push into your mind go. Don't try to push it back or anything. And I need you to guide it to Kohaku's mental connection. Once we start, recede back into your mind and wait for me. Kohaku, I do not want you to freak out if any noises come from Tenshi while doing this. It will seem that he goes unconscious, but do not panic. You'll both feel strange for a few minutes and everything will go black. When you are able to see again, your mind will be in the memorizes, but your physical bodies will still be here. You don't have to worry about anything else. Just worry about seeing all you can while watching the memorizes. We'll worry about everything else."
The boys nodded and at that same time, the door opened and a girl that looked to be in her late 20's with blond hair, green eyes, and white and gray bird wings came into the room, walking over by Saisho.
"This is Kuku, my second Ittan. She helps put you into the meditative state. No questions now. We must start." Saisho said strictly. The Ittan, Kuku, smiled at them sweetly, and it reminded Tenshi of Mimi.
Kuku pressed her hands together and closed her eyes, taking slow, calming deep breaths. Saisho moved to the opposite side of the circle from Kuku, so she was where she could see both the boys clearly at the same time and their weaved hands.
"Alright, a few seconds after Kuku opens her eyes, Tenshi recede into your mind." she said. He nodded, watching Kuku closely.
Kuku took a deep breath, then opened her mouth. A beautiful, awe striking tune came out of her mouth and she was singing something in a different language. But Tenshi didn't have the time to translate it or listen to the words much at all. His body was feeling weird. The Ittan was using a heaven power, but which heaven power was Kuku using?
He felt his eyes get heavy and his mind hazy, but he watched her closely anyway. Kuku's eyes opened and they had the faint glow of black around them. It was then that Tenshi got what power she had.
She's the same as Mimi.
He then remembered what Saisho said and he closed his eyes, receding back into his mind.
Kohaku stiffened when he felt Tenshi's head drop back onto his shoulder and they younger boy breath deeply. He tried to make his body relax, remembering what Saisho had said, but it was hard. Very hard when he heard Tenshi let out a pained moan.
"Kohaku!" Saisho yelled and he noticed that she was glowing a faint black color and she was doing hand signs, "Relax! Tenshi is okay."
He looked away from her, letting his eyes drift shut. The Ittan's song was making him very sleepy. The last thing he heard before complete blackness took him was the Ittan's pretty voice hitting a high note perfectly and giving him chills.
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Kohaku groaned, picking himself up off the floor he was on. He rubbed his eyes and then looked around himself. They appeared to be in a temple, a small one. He was in a hall way with a door at the end of the hall cracked open. He was curious to see why but he needed to know where Tenshi was.
He looked behind him and saw the angel standing there, with his eyes closed and he was swaying dangerously back and forth. Kohaku caught him right as he fell, pulling the angel up against his chest, holding him like one would a baby.
"Tenshi-chan?" he blinked. His voice had a echo to it. It almost sounded ghostly, but he guessed that's how their voices were going to sound where they were now, "Tenshi-chan, wake up."
Tenshi stirred, his face twisting up for a second before he opened his eyes slowly, looking up at Kohaku.
"Jaa'ku. Did we do it?" he asked softly. Kohaku nodded, holding Tenshi up more so said angel could sit up right, "Where are we?"
"I don't know." Kohaku said, looking at the cracked door, "Come on." he put Tenshi down and helped the angel stand. They walked over to the cracked door and looked in, as if they were going to be seen by whoever was in the room.
"I don't care!" a loud voice yelled, making the two boys blinked, "We shouldn't do this, sensei! We'll just train our kind harder and form a big enough army before that time comes. We don't need to pull this down and create this. Plus, this is wrong!"
"You normally don't talk this much, Kitsune." a older sounding, deeper voice said.
The two boys entered the room, seeing to males, one looking to be in his twenties and the other in his mid to late thirties. The younger male, who had his back to them, had fox ears on his orange and blond hair and a two long red tails. The older male had two yellow cat ears and wild blond hair and four long yellow lion tails.
"They're demons." Tenshi muttered, looking the men over closely.
The fox demon stomped his foot, a growl low in this throat.
"Does it matter that I'm talking more then normal?" he asked, fist clenching, "What matters is what you are doing, sensei! I don't care if you saw that stinking human doing all that! I do care that he is going to try and harm us demons and our young, but we don't need to do this to protect ourselves. We can train harder, form an army. The humans just figured out about chakra not to long ago and how to fight like we do. We have the advantage!"
"No, I have to do this." the older demon said. It looked like he was sealing something in a bottle and writing something down. The younger demon was standing next to him, his back to the boys.
"...Why?" the younger demon said in a soft voice, shaking his head, "You know the person that we chose... they aren't going to have a free life. You're making their life hard on them."
The old demon sighed, "I know that. But I saw the future... It seems the gods are telling me to do this or it wouldn't have been so easy to pull this power from the heavens." The lion demon turned, handing the fox demon four bottles in a bag, "Take it. You know what your job is." he demanded. The fox hesitated, then grabbed the bag harshly, growling.
"Fine. But when all this back fires... It's all your fault!" he snapped, flipping up his hood on his jacket and turning towards the boys, storming past them and out the door.
The boys watched after him as the stormed down the hall way, but turned back to the older demon when they heard him sigh.
"I know, kit. I know..." he muttered. He started putting things away and Kohaku tugged on Tenshi's arm.
"Come on. I think we should follow that fox." he said. Tenshi nodded and the two of them ran off after the younger demon.
They found him outside, still storming off, and he was headed into the woods. They followed him closely. The fox demon came to a lake and he froze, looking it over. He went to the edge of it, growling. He lifted the hand that held the bag of bottles back and was about to throw it into the lake, but he stopped. He stared at the lake, his arm shaking. Then after a minute, he dropped his arm, sighing.
"Still... after all these years, I can't disobey you, can I sensei?" he muttered, turning the bag in his hands, "I hope you know what you are doing. I'd hate to see it mess up." The demon sighed, before pocketing the small bag and walking calmly away.
The boys tried to follow, but the scenery suddenly changed around them, and Tenshi grabbed Kohaku's arm in surprise.
When everything stopped shifting, they were in what appeared to be a study. A study Tenshi was all to familiar with.
"No way..." he muttered, looking around him in surprise.
"What?" Kohaku asked, watching Tenshi with concern.
"I... I studied in this room! When I was young! But I thought this was made after... The..." he trailed off when his eyes caught the main desk not to far away from them. His brow furrowed as he tried to tell who was sitting at the desk writing in a scroll.
Suddenly, the door behind them swung open harshly and Tenshi turned to see that same fox demon from before enter the study. He walked over to the man at the desk, who hadn't looked up yet, and he dropped the bag with the bottles on his desk rudely. The man at the desk looked up, and he was a lion demon, Tenshi noticed. The lion demon looked up at the fox, his expression blank.
"Here are those damned bottles, old man." the fox sneered, "But let me tell you, I do not like what you and sensei are planning, old man."
The "old man" blinked up at the fox, then looked back down at the bag, "I guess I'm suppose to give you all that I foresaw, correct?" he said. Tenshi gasped, recognizing the voice, even though it sounded younger.
"Shijin-sensei?" the angel breathed, staring wide eyed at the younger version of his demon sensei.
"Hai. In scroll form." the fox said curtly. The younger version of Shijin nodded, reaching under his desk and grabbing a scroll.
"You know me too well, young fox." Shijin handed the scroll over to the fox and the younger demon snatched it up, tucking it in his jacket. Shijin picked up the bag gently, turning it over in his hands, "So, Daiki-san(great radiance; noble) actually did it. He managed to pull them out."
"Yeah, and I don't like it. This isn't right. We should do this on our own." the fox sneered.
Shijin shook his head, looking up at the younger demon with what looked like pity in his eyes.
"You're too young to understand it all."
"I'm a adult. I even have my own charges. I'm old enough." the fox growled, his tails whipping around harshly.
"You're still too young. A few thousand years doesn't matter." Shijin sighed, looking the fox up and down.
"Well," the fox growled low in his throat, taking the bag from the lion, "You're too old to understand these generation and the ones to come."
He then turned on his heels and left the room in a rush, Tenshi catching a glimpse of red eyes from under the foxes hood.
They followed the fox again, both having the feeling that he was the one to be around.
He ran out of the temple, which Tenshi noted was smaller then when he went to it, and into the woods. The boys followed him for a little while, and soon he stopped at a clearing. He pulled out the scroll and sat on the ground, opening the scroll and reading it.
After a minute, the fox huffed.
"It's the nearest village, huh?" he lifted a finger and started counting, "Number one is in that rich village due east from here. The second and third are in the same village by the Lake of Tears, due north of here. And the savior is..." he paused, seeming to tense, "in that poor, merchant village, due west."
His right hand gently grabbed the pocket that held the bag of bottles. And then suddenly, he shot up, putting the scroll away.
"Fine, damn it." he growled, shaking his head, "But I'm not going to like this."
"Who is he talking to?" Kohaku asked. Tenshi frowned.
"Himself, apparently." Tenshi muttered. And then the scenery changed and he grabbed Kohaku again and the other boy rolled his eyes.
They were in a very rich looking village in the middle of the night, just standing in one of the streets.
"Where's the fox?" Tenshi asked, looking around.
"What makes you think the fox is in this memory?" Kohaku asked. Tenshi scowled at him.
"Just a feeling jaa'ku." he sighed, the then blinked when he saw a flash of red, "There! Behind that building!" he pointed to the building just to the right of them and Kohaku looked, seeing the fox demon from before.
They watched the fox look around, then walk out from behind the building. He had a blue bottle in his hands and he sneered down at it before he through it harshly onto the ground, breaking it. A small, yellow-ish white ball of light came up from the shards of the bottle and hovered in the air for a moment. Then it took off quickly, passed the two boys and into the house behind them. The fox ran after it and looked in a window into the house. The boys followed, trying to see what he was looking at.
"Good." the fox murmured, "She'll give birth soon." Then he turned and the two boys could see a pregnant women sitting in a chair with sowing needles in her hands.
The scene changed again to a small, fairly well village and the two boys watched the fox do this again, but with two bottles this time. The two lights that came from them went into one house and to a women who was asleep.
Then the scene changed again and the fox was standing in the middle of a very poor village, his tails limp. This time, he softly uncapped the green bottle he held and, instead of a yellow-ish white light, a black, glowing light came out. The light traveled not as fast as the others to a small, broken down house and to a women that was two months pregnant.
They watched the fox sigh and rub his shoulders, "There... I'm done." he said and turned to flee the village.
The scene changed once he was out of sight and now they were in the same village the fox went to when he dropped the two bottles. They looked around, not seeing anyone.
"Where is everyone?" Tenshi asked, turning this way and that.
"It's the middle of the night, moron. They must be all asleep." Kohaku said and the angel stuck his tongue out at the older boy.
"Well apparently they aren't." the angel scoffed, pointing down the road from them.
Two cloaked men were walking their way quickly, the shorter one holding a bundle in his arms.
"I don't like this, I don't like this at all." the taller one muttered and both boys recognized his voice to be the foxes that they were watched before. The other man said nothing, looking down at the bundle in his arms, "If you are so worried about it, then how about you keep her, Daiki-sensei? You can raise her to be who you made her to be!"
"No! I can't do that!" the older demon snapped, the same demon from the first memory, "Plus, you know that I have a son now. He's going to be one of your charges soon. He's not quite an adult yet and I need to deal with him."
The fox snorted, "I'm sure little Chuushin-kun wont mind. I can take care of him."
Tenshi's eyes widened and he gasped lightly.
"Chuushin?" he muttered, calling out to the demon in his mind,
Is this Daiki demon your father? There was a pause, and the angel heard the blond demon sigh.
Yeah. Daiki is my father. He responded and Tenshi shook his head.
"That's just too weird." he muttered.
"I suggest you worry and focus more on Datenshi. His father seems to not have any time for him as of late." Daiki said, walking faster.
"That cub wont listen to me to save his life." the fox grumbled, his tails whipping around harshly, "But anyway, sensei, you shouldn't be doing this! This never should have happened in the first place!"
"The girls mother died giving birth to her. We need to give her a good family. It's best to give it to this one. She'll be around two of the others that way." Daiki told him, holding the bundle closer to his body. The fox growled, shaking his head.
"You don't understand."
"And neither do you." the elder one cut in, brushing past the other demon and to the same house the two lights went into. He bent down and set the bundle on the ground in front of the front door of the house.
"Don't speak to me that way." the fox demon growled at him, standing behind him in a menacing way. The elder demon ignored him, fixing the bundle gently and the two boys noticed that it was a baby that was in the bundle.
"We have to do this. For the sake of us demons and the humans. The kids will understand... and the ones to come after them." Daiki said quietly, rubbing a clawed finger down the side of the babies cheek in a loving manner.
"No! I stood by before all this but now I can't stand it!" the fox nearly yelled, "Take that child away. If you aren't going to take her, then give her to another demon that understands all this! They can help her--"
"No, I said no and that's final! I know what I am doing." Daiki growled, not looking at the younger demon.
"No you do not know what you are doing! You think you do, but you don't. This girls life is going to be hell because of you and Shijin-jiji. Her life's probably not going to be as fulfilling as it could have been and I bet you she wont live for too long!" the fox snarled, "And your condemning the ones that come after her as well. All seven of them!"
"That's enough. You are too young to understand all of this. One day you will." Daiki sighed, letting go of the baby girl.
The boys heard a low, threating growl come from the fox and suddenly the fox had more then two tails.
"I'll fight you for this! Damn it, I will! I can over power you, you know that sensei. I wont let you do this!" the fox yelled, a growl in his throat the whole time.
The older demon stood and turned around quickly, yellow eyes glaring at the younger demon.
"Stop this nonsense." he demanded. The fox growled again, his hood falling off his head.
"No, you stop it! I swear I wont let you do this!" the fox snarled, red chakra flaring around him dangerously, his features changing, muscles getting bigger, claws on his hands getting longer, tails getting thicker and longer as well, ears becoming more pointed and bigger, hair getting wilder, "This is wrong, damn it! If I have to I'll break every bone in your body and drag you back home with that child! I will!" he growled loudly, his tails whipping around angrily. He looked like he was about to strike the lion demon when the lion growled, eyes flashing red.
"Stop it, Kyuubi! For kami-sama's sake, cut this out!" the demon yelled.
"Kyuubi?!" both boys yelled out, staring at the fox demon closely. Then Tenshi could see it, the whisker marks on the foxes face, the eye shape, the way his hair fanned out, the color of his skin. It was indeed Kyuubi, but a younger one.
Kyuubi growled, staring at his sensei for a minute, before his chakra died down and his features went to normal, but his nine tails still stayed, but not moving around as much. He shook his head slowly, letting out a puff of air.
"Whatever." he grumbled then turned on his heels away from the older demon. He turned into a fox the size of a wolf and took off out of the village at a very fast pace.
The older demon sighed, staring off after him, "Oh, Kyuu. You'll understand one day." he then turned back to the child on the door step. He reached down, pulling the blanket up closer to the babies chin, "Good luck, Kuroimitsuki." he muttered, before knocking on the door to the house loudly and taking off quickly.
The boys watched as a women opened the door, looked around, then looked down at her feet and gasped.
"Honey, come quick! There's a baby!" she called, picking up the baby girl and turning into the house.
The scene changed again and the two boys knew that it was a few years later. They watched a young, black headed girl play with two twins in the back yard of the house.
"So," Tenshi said, putting his hands in his pockets, "That is how the angel's came to be." Kohaku nodded, watching the much younger version of Saisho play in the yard.
Suddenly, the girl twin tripped over a rock when trying to get to a ball a few yards away from her. She pouted and stared at the ball. Suddenly, the ball appeared right next to her and she smiled, taking the ball.
Kohaku blinked, a little surprised.
They watched a few different memories, each one was of one of the three kids discovering a power of theirs. The girl twin, Shouta(fly), had the space and time bending power, earth manipulation, echolocation, and poison generation. Both boys concluded that she must be the second guardian. The boy twin, Shou(Fly), had super strength and speed, fire manipulation, self denotation, and the ability to stretch ones body to impossible lengths and bend like elastic. They decided that he was the third guardian. Then Saisho had the usual angel powers. They wondered where the first guard was, but only thought that maybe they would come later. Both boys also found out that, if they saw one of the people in the memories thinking or something, they would know right away what they were thinking or feeling.
They watched one memory when Saisho was seven. She had followed a bunny into the woods and got lost in it. She had tripped over a root and hurt her leg. As she sat on the ground, close to tears, holding her leg, an animal stirred in a bush not far from her. Out crept a black lion cub that looked about almost full grown. It stared at Saisho for a moment, before walking calmly around her and grabbed a small stone with his mouth. It walked past her and she watched it with wide eyes. But as the lion went to leave, it stopped when he heard her sniffle. He glanced back over at her, red eyes taking in her appearance. She had worn a blue and yellow dress with blue sandals and a yellow hair tie to hold up her hair. He looked at her swollen ankle and seemed to sigh. It set the stone on the ground and walked over to her slowly. She froze, watching him, a little scared. But her fear seemed to go away when the lion nudged her leg. She let him looked it over and he started to gently lick her ankle. She blinked because she felt a strange tingly feeling on her ankle and saw something black coming from the lion and onto her ankle. Her first reaction was to be afraid he was hurting her, but the stuff was making her ankle stop hurting.
When the lion was done, she pet his head softly and he purred, leaning into her small hand.
"You're such a cute little lion." she said sweetly. The lion blinked rapidly and pulled away from her harshly, seeming to snort. She giggled, "You don't like to be called cute, do you?" she giggled, smiling at the cub, "Fine. How about..." she paused, thinking, "Handsome. You're a handsome cub." he rolled his eyes and seemingly sighed. She just giggled.
Suddenly, the lions ears perked up and he turned in the direction he had come from. She blinked, "What is it?" she asked. His tail twitched and his ears lowered some.
"You have to go, don't you?" she asked. He glanced back at her and she sighed, "Alright." she stood up, patting him once more, "Thank you handsome cub."
He stared at her for a minute, before grabbing the stone again and darting off. She turned and went back the way she came, finding her way home. The two boys stayed where they were though, and Kohaku curiously followed the lion, Tenshi running behind him telling him to wait.
They saw the lion walk into a clearing and get pounced on by a younger, yellow lion cub.
"Haha! I won!" the younger one teased, surprising both boys that it could talk.
"Yeah, great Otouto." the black lion snapped back, throwing the cat off of him. A man walked into the clearing, hands on his hips.
"I expected you to be faster, Datenshi." the man said, and they recognized him as being Kyuubi.
"Yeah well," the black lion, who happened to be Datenshi, muttered, looking away from Kyuubi, "Something came up." he said. The blond lion stared at him for a minute before jumping at Kyuubi.
"Kyuubi-sensei! Can we go have lunch now?" he yelled. Kyuubi sighed deeply.
"Hai, Chuushin." he grumbled and the younger version of Chuushin jumped in the air excitedly, grabbing his older brothers tail and pulling him out of the clearing.
"That's how Datenshi and Saisho met..." Kohaku said, watching the lion cubs and the fox leave.
"Wow... So Kyuubi was Datenshi and Chuushins sensei?" Tenshi muttered, hearing the two demons grunt in his head.
Saisho met Datenshi a few other times after that, the first two times being on accident, the next four on purpose by both of them. Saisho would go into the woods either a little before or after lunch and she would play with Datenshi. Tenshi found it weird to see Datenshi like that, but he figured the demon just changed over the years. Then once, when Saisho was messing with Datenshi, she feel into a ditch in the ground. Without much thought, the lion transformed into his half human form and reached into the ditch, pulling her out of the hole. She freaked out for a minute, but then calmed down when Datenshi explained to her that he had no intention to "eat her" or cause any harm to her. Not all demons are pure evil. She pointed out that he looked older then she thought him to be. He looked about fourteen years old in his half human form. He had closed his eyes after that and transformed into a younger version of himself. Looking about eight years old. He told her that all demons, in their half human forms, go through the same growth as a human child, but their mind develops faster, along with a few other things. He told her that once a demon reaches twenty five years of age, their natural half human form takes shape of the level of their chakra.
His chakra, power, was at the fourteenth level and that he was really 73 years old. But he told her that could willingly changed their appearance to look older or younger. She had reached out to him after that, touching his smooth pale skin and feeling what his raven locks felt like.
"You're still going be my friend... right?" she asked him. He stared at her for a minute, wanting to say he never was her friend to begin with. But her big, pleading eyes got the better of him.
"Yeah... sure." he said, looking away from her. She squealed, bouncing around on the heels of her feet. He knew he was developing a soft spot for the young human girl.
There were more memories of Datenshi playing with Saisho after that, and a lot where her and the two twins practiced their heaven powers, but not telling anyone about it. They didn't even know what they were, but they found fun in them.
When Saisho was nine, it happened.
Saisho was trying to climb a tree and Datenshi was above her on the tree, watching her carefully. She was up pretty high when she slipped. Datenshi dove down after her and caught her, but lost his footing and hurt his leg on a branch on his way down. Saisho immediately did the first thing that came to mind and she went to healing the big cut in his leg. Datenshi told her he could heal it up himself, but Saisho ignored him, healing it with her kiss of healing for him.
Tenshi saw a small flash of light come from Saisho's mouth and saw the demon shiver. He knew right then that Saisho had given Datenshi the power absorption.
In the next memory it was set a few days later. Datenshi had the day off of training with his little brother and his sensei and was watching Saisho play with the twins in their back yard. He witnessed some of their powers and felt a strange feeling all over his body. He was coping them.
Within a few more memories, the boys saw Datenshi discover that he had the same powers as the twins and Saisho and they saw Datenshi grow closer to Saisho. He had shown her what he could do and she was thrilled and made the twins meet him.
Soon the memories turned to when she was ten. There were a few memories of them playing and Datenshi training them. But then one came where Kyuubi had seen Datenshi use his powers and he demanded that Datenshi bring to him the three kids he talked about.
Datenshi went to fetch them, but when he got to their village, by their house he froze.
There in the village, in front of Saisho's home was a punch of uniformed men armed with swords and daggers. He hid in the shadows, watching the men taking people from their homes and force them into big wagons. He suddenly had the strong urge to find Saisho and protect her from these people, but he could not. He didn't know where she was. So he watched as the men took person after person and throw them into the carts, calling them all bad names. He growled when he finally saw little Saisho being pushed into one of the carts, but he couldn't move forward to save her. Many times his sensei had told him not to meddle with the humans. Don't mess with them. It only brought trouble. So he didn't, but he watched and anger grew in his as the armed men did all this. Then, after every villager was in the wagons, they rode off.
Datenshi followed them and learned where they stopped. But he did not go into the dark village they went into. Instead, he went back to his sensei and told him all that happened.
Kyuubi could do nothing about it though and it angered Datenshi. He knew how powerful his sensei was. Kyuubi was close to being one of the most legendary demons to ever live. He was the nine tailed fox, the strongest out of all the main tailed demons. Even though Datenshi knew he himself was going to have ten tails one day, he only had five now, the main tailed demons were only of Kyuubi's generation and only went up to nine. He knew he could not, and might not ever match his sensei's power. But the fact that Kyuubi refused to help frustrated him, but he did not pressure the older demon any more.
A few more memories came without Datenshi in them. They showed that Saisho and the rest of the villagers were thrown into slavery by a king who ruled over the land. He wanted power, more money, and when the village could not give him the amount of money he asked for, he sent them all into slavery as their punishment. The memories showed what Saisho and the twins had to do and all the rules that were set for them. It was harsh and mean, but they had no choice but to behave them.
In the memories about a month later, Datenshi showed himself again. It was at night and he had crept in and had crawled up to Saisho, waking her. He tried to tell her that he was going to try and sneak her and the twins out, but she said she would not leave the family that took her in. That if they were to leave, the twins parents would be accused of sneaking them out. She didn't want them to get hurt. He tried to argue with her, but she ordered him out, pushing him and hitting him over his lion nose. He had growled, glared at her a took off.
Then another memory came with Kyuubi waiting for Datenshi on the hill that same night. He then told Datenshi all that his sensei and Shijin had done and that Saisho was the Kuroimitsuki, the first of the cycle of angels. He explained that she had a job to fulfill. That her job was to get rid of a cruel man that would not only hurt the human race greatly, but effect the demon race as well. He would gain power of most all the world and because of his greedy, evil ways, things would slowly die out. It was her job to stop him, to correct his wrongs, to kill him. He told him all about the heaven powers and about what Saisho had given him and how Datenshi was now her fourth guardian. He then told Datenshi that he was going to train him in his heaven powers and told him that he had a job to help change the world.
Of course Datenshi thought it was all a bunch of bull till Kyuubi showed him Fufu, a animal similar to a demon and a human but yet not a demon or a human. He told him that Saisho had created Fufu when she had healed his leg. That is how Fufu and Datenshi meet. Fufu insulted Datenshi and his faith in Saisho. Datenshi then lashed out at him, chasing the Ittan around the clearing like he did in the room when Kohaku and Tenshi first met Fufu.
He agreed to what Kyuubi said and, sadly, the two boys didn't get to see the demons training. Instead, they saw what Saisho was doing a year later.
Apparently a new kid had joined their group of slaves and it was strange to them all because this kid was a rich one. She said the reason she was in slavery is because her family was in debt to the lord and they sold her to pay it off. A few memories later, they found out that the girl was the first guardian and that she was older then Saisho by seven months. The girl, Yasu(peaceful), had the shield power, telekineses, invulnerability, and disintegration.
Within about twenty more memories, the boys watched the kids work and help each other out by secretly using their powers, unknowingly making themselves stronger. Then one memory came and it was set a year later, Saisho was now twelve and a very familiar face, to Tenshi, came around.
The guards within the camp split each group up into smaller ones and the "warden" of a group got to pick which ones they wanted in their group.
A middle-aged, strict women picked Saisho, Yasu, Shouta, and Shou. Their group was to do lumber work over by and in the woods. When they got over there, the women had sighed deeply and relaxed. All four kids freaked out when they suddenly saw a lions tail and ears pop out on the women. She calmed them, telling them that she was Tetsujin Kashikoi. Tenshi had smiled ear to ear when he saw her, but said nothing.
Kashikoi wasted no time and got right to the point. She told them about who Saisho really was and how they all got their powers. She told them everything about the angels that she and her husband had foresaw and got from "The Prophecy Of The Angels Of Vibrant Colors". Which Tenshi didn't even know it was called that in the first place. She told each guardian their job and told Saisho her own job. That her job was to get rid of a cruel man that would not only hurt the human race greatly, but effect the demon race as well. He would gain power of most all the world and because of his greedy, evil ways, things would slowly die out. It was her job to stop him, to correct his wrongs, to kill him. Of course this shook Saisho up and she wanted to reject everything right then. But when Kashikoi told her that the man was the kind ruling over them and the one that had put them into slavery, Saisho's mind seemed to change almost instantly.
Kashikoi told her that the demons had been training in the ways of chakra for a long while and humans had started to just pick it up a little before she was born. She said she, her husband, and all the other demons on their side could help them, train them with their chakra and how to fight in way that humans did not know of yet. She told them that she was impersonating a warden here to get to them and that once the time was right, she would help them escape.
As Kashikoi told them all this, Tenshi noticed how, slowly, Saisho's eyes started to change. They seemed to grow older, more confident, sure of herself, and determined. He wondered if his eyes had done that when he first learned everything about being who he was.
Shortly after Tenshi thought that, Saisho told them that she had this strong feeling running through her. She said that she felt that it was right, that this was all true. Why else would they have the powers? She suddenly found her purpose in life, why she was placed on earth. With her words, the other three agreed to help and do what they were suppose to do. Kashikoi had smiled and was about to say something else when Shijin had arrived with a panther cub in his arms. He had introduced himself and then showed Saisho the panther cub and told her his name was Fufu and that she had created him when she was nine. She told him that he wasn't sure how she created him, all they knew was that Fufu was created through Saisho's powers.
Fufu jumped out of Shijin's arms and into Saisho's licking her face and telling her in a excited voice how he was so happy to see her. She felt the connection with Fufu right away and had held him close, excited over the whole thing.
After that many memories came of them working and being trained at the same time. Many times when they were teaching the kids chakra control, Kashikoi and Shijin had other demons do the work for the kids and they put a genjutsu up so that, when another human came by the check on them, they saw a illusion of the kids working their asses off.
After a while, Saisho became really good at controlling her powers, turning them on and off quickly and using them while doing something else entirely. Her best power was precognition the ability to see into the future and her second best was the Kiss of Healing and ninjutsu was her best skill. She had also become real good with communicating with Fufu.
In the middle of training one day, Fufu had gotten hurt and Saisho had felt it. She found she could easily talk to him mentally and get information from him without the use of her telepathy. She then came up with a name for his kind when she had made two more.
"...Ittan... That's what your kind is going to be called. Ittan's. You are a part... A part of me." she had said in a soft voice and she received three bright smiles from her first Ittan, Fufu, her second Ittan, Kuku, a girl who was a bird, and her third Ittan, Mumu, a boy who was a raccoon.
Fufu had the power of psychometry, the ability to relate details about the past or future condition of an object, person or location, usually by being in close contact with it, Kuku had the ability to put anyone asleep with her voice for any amount of time, and Mumu had the power of intangibility.
Yasu became good with knowing the correct time to use her powers without being told, her shield and telekineses were especially good, and she was great at taijutsu. Shouta became good at using more then one power at one time, and her best powers were space and time bending power and earth manipulation, her genjutsu being her best skill. Shou became good at combining his powers, one power following up another to make a amazing combo attack, his best powers being super strength and speed and self denotation, ninjutsu being his best skill.
Shijin and Kashikoi told them, when Saisho was soon to be fourteen, that they were almost ready enough to escape the place they were in. Saisho and her guards went to telling others in the camp about the escape, but if they were to utter a word about it, there would be a chance it would be canceled and they all could be killed. Saisho wanted to get as many people out of the camps as possible, plus, Kashikoi and Shijin said it was good to have a lot of people on her side. And it was just a urge she couldn't hold back, something was telling her strongly that she had to help anyone she could, and she didn't doubt that feeling. Tenshi understood it, he felt it all the time.
In one memory, Saisho was sitting with Yasu and had said, out loud, that she wondered where Datenshi was and what he was doing. Yasu had asked who Datenshi was, and Saisho told her that he was a dear friend of hers who had the same powers as all of them, but more then just four. He had all their powers except Yasu's. Then Saisho had brought that up with Shijin, and he told all them that Datenshi was Saisho's fourth guardian. That she, in a way, hand picked him. She had subconsciously chose him for her fourth, the only guardian she could chose, and she gave him the power absorption ability. It was where when he saw someone with a heaven power, he would learn it right away and be able to use it as his own.
Then, a few months after Saisho had turned fourteen, they were making plans to escape within the next week. But, the day they were making the plans, Saisho had gotten into some kind of trouble, Tenshi and Kohaku weren't sure why she was in trouble. She had gotten beaten by three tough guards that had been trained in what humans know of chakra. That same day, once it turned into dusk, there was a blood curdling scream that even scared Tenshi and Kohaku out of their skin. Kashikoi and Shijin ran to see what the trouble was and Saisho pulled away from Shouta, who was tending to her wounds, and used her levitation power to see what was going on. Tenshi had followed her to see.
Kohaku asked him what he saw and Tenshi told him with a shaky voice.
"A fire... smoke, people running and," he paused, taking a breath, "Blood." both him and Saisho said this at the same time and Saisho jumped down, taking off in the direction of the chaos.
When she caught up with Kashikoi and Shijin, both demons were standing dead still, staring with wide eyes at something in the smoke.
"What is it? What's going on?" Saisho asked desperately. But the two demons ignored her or didn't hear her.
"Kami-sama," Kashikoi muttered, "I know he was meant to be strong and he has one of the most powerful demons ever to live as a sensei, but I never thought he was this strong so soon..."
"Oh wow," Shijin mumbled after her, causing Saisho to turn her attention to him, "So this is the power Daiki spoke of... the power in fourths rage." Saisho, Tenshi, and Kohaku blinked at that.
"In fourths rage?" she muttered. The female angel turned back to the scene before her, trying to make out the figure in the smoke.
As the smoke cleared more, she could make out that the figure was about five foot seven inches and it had... seven tails coming out of it's behind and ears out of the top of it's head. From the figures stance, she could tell that they were furious and deadly. She saw chakra fanning around the figure, black chakra, the same color as hers. She watched in fascination how a man with a long sword charged at the figure, and all the figure did was raise his arm and the man went flying the other direction. But then her eyes widened when when kunai were thrown at the figure and a gray shield came up, protecting the figure.
The figures chakra fanned out more and Saisho could finally see who the figure was. Her eyes widened more and her mouth dropped open.
"Da-Datenshi...?" she whispered and even both the boys were surprised. She watched the demon pulled his fist harshly against his chest and fire from the building next to him came to him at his will and out at the men trying to harm him.
"Wait!" she said, taking a step back, "How can he use the shield and telekineses? He hasn't seen Yasu before!"
Kashikoi looked down at her, a small smile on her face, "He's been watching you for a while now. Keeping a close eye on you as a guardian should. That's how he copied her powers."
It looked like Saisho was about to say something when a yell distracted her.
"Sai-chan!" it was Shou and he was running up to her quickly, "You must hurry! A lot of the guards are trying to take people out of the camp and to different ones. Many slaves are trying to escape but some of the guards are either killing them or loading them into wagons or chaining them up!"
She turned to him, forgetting about her young demon fourth behind her for a moment, and she ran with him back the way he came. The two boys followed, knowing that following Saisho would be the best thing.
When they got to the hut they saw Shouta fighting off a man trying to get to the slaves inside the hut.
"What's going on?!" she yelled over all the noise. Her twin brother gave a good swinging kick to the man, effectively knocking him out.
"Datenshi, remember him?" Saisho asked her. Both the twins nodded at the same time, "He's my fourth, as you both know. He's here. He started all this. I think one of the guards pissed him off."
"That's all fine and dandy," a voice came and they all turned to see Yasu putting a shield around the hut, "But we have other things to worry about now, like getting all these people somewhere safe."
With orders from Saisho, all three of her guards split up, trying to cover all the camp and save all the slaves. Saisho dealt with the people in her own hut and block. The boys watched as she got them all safely out of the camp gates but then she had no clue where to take them. Then, to Saisho's, Tenshi's, and Kohaku's surprise, a golden lion appeared with a smaller yellow lion. The golden lion transformed into his half human from and Tenshi and Kohaku knew him as Daiki.
He told Saisho that he would take care of the group of people and his son, Chuushin, would go take care a Yasu's group. He had other demons helping her guards out.
Saisho had ran back in the camp, intent on finding any more people. When guards started to attack her, she fought back, doing very well for a girl her age. Her three guards appeared as if on cue and protected her, startling and scaring all the guards as they used their powers. This made Saisho realize that it was now okay to us her powers and started to get away from the men by jumping up on air.
In the mist of their battle, her guards told her they felt this extremely strong urge and desire to protect her at all cost and to fight for her. And, for a reason they themselves did not know, they wanted to make her go by the raging lion demon in the middle of the camp that was causing all the chaos. They felt that she would be safer with him.
So, Saisho ended up trying to do just that.
She had slowly started walking up to the demon, Tenshi right on her heels. Kohaku was ahead of her, wanting to get a better look at how Datenshi moved and used his powers.
"Datenshi!" Saisho tried to call out, but the demon did not hear her. He was to busy with one of the men that had beaten her, hovering over him menacingly.
"I've finally found you." he growled out, his voice startling Saisho at how dark, low, demonic, and evil it sounded.
The man on the ground saw Saisho coming up behind Datenshi and he pointed at her in a panicked manner.
"Th-There! There, demon! That girl is a lot more tastier then me! Shes young, cute! Eat her!" the man cried, looking between Saisho, who had a shocked and almost angry expression on her face, to Datenshi, who's eyes were spinning and he had a dark, twisted grin on his face.
Datenshi glanced back at who the man was pointing too, looking straight through Kohaku, who's eyes widened as he saw Datenshi's eyes spinning. It looked like Datenshi was looking straight at him and it gave him chills.
The lion demon snarled when he saw just who the man was telling him to eat and he looked back at the man, enraged.
"Why, in hells name, would you tell me to eat her when the reason I am attacking this place was because you HURT HER?!" he half yelled, half snarled. He bent down, picking up the man by the neck, "Plus, I don't like human meat. It taste gross." he added and the man struggled in Datenshi's strong hold.
Datenshi pulled the hand, that wasn't holding the man up, back and turned his wrist so the palm of his hand was facing the mans gut. Tenshi was all to familiar with this move of the demons and he tensed, watching with shaky eyes.
Datenshi sneered, pulling the mans face closer to his own, "You, nor anyone else, does not hurt the Kuroimitsuki. If they do, their going to have to answer to me."
Then, in a flash, Datenshi pushed his free arm forward and through the mans gut, his hand coming out the back of the man. The man coughed and choked, his eyes wide and in pain. Datenshi's tails whipped around after that and Kohaku and Tenshi both heard the sound of something burning, sizzling. The man cried out, not quiet died yet, and both boys knew what Datenshi was doing.
"Disintegration..." they muttered together, eyes wide.
Datenshi sent a heavy wave of chakra through the man and killed him.
He dropped him on the ground and scowled, wiping his hand off on part of the mans clothes that wasn't already covered in blood.
Saisho recovered from her shock and took a step towards him.
"Da-Daten-sh-shi?" she said softly. The demon stiffened, then slowly turned to her, looking her up and down.
"Saisho?" he said, cocking his head to the side, his voice back to normal. His eyes stopped spinning and his chakra died down, his features not looking so evil and demonic and now only having five tails, "Are you alright?"
She blinked cutely, "Ye-Yeah. I'm fine." she said. Suddenly, he appeared before her. She gasped, jumping. He grabbed her arms, looking over it. He started looking all over her, checking for injuries, "Datenshi! I'm fine!" she said, giving him a curious look. He looked down at her for a moment, then let her go, taking a step back.
"Good. I didn't want you slowing me down when we leave or dying anytime soon. That would be inconvenient. Though you never seem to do anything convenient to began with." he said in a cool tone. She scowled at him, "Come, we must leave."
She shook her head, "Not yet. There are people I want to help. Need to help here."
He eyed her wearily, a frown on his face, "We need to get you out of here. I came to retrieve you and your guards and those animal things."
"Ittans." she corrected curtly. He rolled his eyes.
"Whatever. We have worked to do, training to do. We don't have time to mess around. And you being here is not helping you fulfill your duty." he snapped, grabbing her arm. She pulled against him.
"No, Datenshi. Listen to me. It's my job as the Kuroimitsuki to help others in need. These people need me." she told him, pleading him with her eyes to just do as she said, "Plus, we need as many people on our side as possible." she argued.
He stared at her for a minute, annoyed, and it remind Tenshi of Kohaku in a weird way.
"Fine." he grumbled and Tenshi giggled at his tone.
"He sounds like you." he told his own fourth, who snorted and turned away from the male angel, who just giggled again.
They watched Datenshi transform into a full grown lion and tell Saisho to get on him. She did, slowly, and when he took a step forward, she yelped, grabbing him around the neck.
The two boys watched as they checked the whole camp and met up with Saisho's other guards, Ittan's, Daiki, Chuushin, Shijin, and Kashikoi.
After a brief fight and chase between Fufu and Datenshi, which made Saisho giggle like crazy, they started off, with Datenshi in the lead, with all the slaves, to the place where Datenshi said he had trained for the past few years. They met Kyuubi half way and he lead the way from there.
Once they got to that all to familiar temple, which Tenshi noted was a little bigger then before but not as big as when he went there, Saisho talked to all the slaves, telling them they were free and who she was. And then they all made the decision to create a village where all the ex-slaves could live.
Both Tenshi and Kohaku knew from that point on, things had started to look up for the Kuroimitsuki.
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Hell: The next part of Saisho's past is coming soon in the next chapter!
If we can get at least 200 reviews by the very last line of the song, we will post a special chapter with a KohaTens lemon when they are older! The chapter will be the last line of the song, "May You Find Some Comfort Here".
So you all have... umm... this chapter plus 3 more chapters to get to 200 reviews. You have chapters:
This chapter:Of Your Silent Reverie
Chapter 30: You're In The Arms Of The Angel
Chapter 31: May You Find Some Comfort There
Chapter 32: You're In The Arms Of Your Angel (We changed one word there because we... want too... XP)
And if we get to 200 by then, we'll give you a nice, juicy, KohaTens lemon to... celebrate 200 reviews and their relationship.
Summary for next chapter!:
They see the rest of Saisho's past, Tenshi gets full connection with Saisho and a conflict long held by Datenshi arises between Datenshi and Saisho. And someone unexpected confronts Datenshi about the way he is behaving towards Saisho.
And only one line for next chap! It is:
"Tcch. You're not even worthy to be called a fourth."
I wonder who says that...
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