Morg: Heyo! The end is nigh!

Ikuto: Why even say that?

Amu: So she sounds stupid.

Morg: That's not why I said it!

Ikuto: Not like we actually care.

Amu: No ownership = no caring.

Morg: You two are so lame! This story is almost over and you are still assholes!

~Overprotective~

Rima could understand perfectly why someone would indeed go insane while walking down the hall they were currently in. Nothing changed. It felt as if they weren't even moving. Time seemed to freeze. Not to mention the bleakness was just creepy. All that grey was gross.

Suddenly, Nagihiko froze in his spot beside her. Rima was drawn back to what was happening and out of her mind as the grip on her hand tightened immensely. "What's wrong?"

Nagihiko couldn't believe his eyes. He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting though this wasn't really it. Sitting on the floor, not twenty feet in front of them, was Nobuko, a member of the Council. "She's… what is she… Rima."

The short blonde looked to see an older looking woman just resting against the wall in the hallway before them. "Who is that?"

Taking a protective stance in front of the girl he loved more than life, Nagi faced the angel. "Nobuko, what are you doing here?"

Lifting her head to see what the commotion was, Nobuko was rather surprised to see Nagihiko before her. "Hello Nagi-kun. Did they get you too?"

Without letting go of Rima or exposing her to the other angel, Nagi relaxed if only slightly. "What are you talking about?"

Nobuko let her head fall back to the wall behind her once more as she shut her eyes. "Kiseki and Tadase have thrown us in here."

"Who is us?"

"The Council."

Nagihiko glanced back at Rima before turning back to the weary looking older angel. "What happened?"

Sighing as if the story would take too much energy to tell, Nobuko shrugged her shoulders. "Kiseki came back after Tadase was injured and demanded that we find and capture Amu. When that didn't happen, he threw us all into this limbo and that's all we know."

Rima couldn't help herself; she pushed her way past her protective lover to look at the other angel. "So you didn't want to capture Amu after we rescued Nagi?"

Once again, Nobuko popped one eye open to look at the girl. She hadn't noticed the short blonde before but wasn't surprised to see her either. "So you must be Rima. I understand now why Nagihiko fell in love with you. No, the Council was not about to seek out Amu. She may have broken a few rules but it wasn't anything too serious. We knew that she wasn't about to reveal the secret of angels to the world and you and Nagi would be careful. There are more important things for the Council to attend to."

"But Tadase and Kiseki didn't think so."

"Not at all."

Nagihiko pulled Rima a little closer to him as he jumped back into the conversation. "So where are the other Council members?"

Nobuko returned to resting her eyes as she once again shrugged. "Not all of us get along real well so we split up. I'm fairly certain that I'm the furthest on this end. The rest will be the way you have come. By the way, what are you doing here if they didn't throw you in here as well?"

Nagihiko took in a deep breath before launching into the story. "So Amu slept and recently woke up when Ikuto was being attacked, which lead to her realizing that something was wrong in Heaven. Knowing Amu, she couldn't just let it go so we came here to solve the problem. Kiseki was tainted upon his return. His poison has been spreading to other angels. We are here to purify Heaven."

A small smile appeared on Nobuko's lips as she finally lifted herself from the floor. "Best news I've heard in years. Shall we collect the others and join the fight?"

"Can we even get out of here?"

"Sweet, innocent, little human, the Council is made up of the strongest angels. We may have been caught off guard and ended up in this mess, but if we work together there is no doubt we can get out of it."

Rima, though a little put off by the description of her by the older angel, smiled as she nodded with her head towards the way they were heading. "What are we waiting for then?"

Nagihiko had never been more proud of his lover in the time he'd known her. Rima knew full well that this was the Council that they were talking about. Finding and helping the Council that had ruled that they should not be together. Knowing this, Rima still wanted to help them and have the Council help them. Something he wasn't so sure he wanted to do himself. Yes, Rima was the better of the two.

XXX

"Why can't our visits to Heaven ever be peaceful?"

Utau shot another angel just as he'd come around the corner. She and Kukai were hidden behind a second corner in one of the larger hallways. Kukai was protecting their backs as Utau shot any angels coming towards them. A few of the untainted angels that had been with Kairi and Yaya were working with the two humans to transport any angels they knocked out to the barrier. "Where would the fun be in that, Souma?"

"I'm just saying that we always seem to come here when there is a problem. Why not come just to site see once?"

Utau laughed as she launched another arrow. Not a second later, an angel they were working with appeared and disappeared with the body. They were definitely on a roll. "We're humans, remember? We aren't even supposed to be here."

"Oh yeah, hey! Isn't there a time limit? Last time Amu said we had to get out after so long. You think that still applies?"

Utau glanced back at her husband to watch him suriken an angel in the forehead. So he was playing around with his throws. She'd witnessed him hit a male in the genitals after noticing that he was checking Utau out. "I bet it does, but I'm sure Amu is paying attention to those details. For now we should just focus on getting our jobs done."

Shrugging, Kukai tossed a star over his shoulder to hit the angel coming towards them as Utau was looking at him. Not a second later his wife had shot down an angel on his side. "Are you tired of shooting the fish in the barrel?"

Laughing, Utau shrugged. "I'm ready to fish for bigger fish if you are."

Kukai nodded his head with so much enthusiasm; Utau was certain he was going to strain his neck. "Let's find a hall! A big one filled with lots of angels to shoot!"

"That sounded horrible."

"That sounds like fun!"

Utau could only shake her head as she and Kukai moved in search of their desired location.

XXX

Kairi could tell that his lover was having entirely too much fun while completing their task. His katana sliced through any angel that got close enough to feel the heat of his blades. He moved like water through the room full of tainted angels, purifying and rendering them unconscious before they had time to react.

Yaya, on the other hand, bound from one spot to the other. Slinging her club and knocking angels across the room with every hit. Her progress was just as great as his considering the angels after her couldn't move fast enough to keep up with her energetic behavior and random movements. While Kairi was calm, smooth and calculated, Yaya was crazy, sporadic and rough. Either way, they cleared the room and signaled for the angels following them to remove the unconscious angels after Kairi had a chance to purify them all with his katana.

"Yaya thinks this is too much fun, Kairi-koi."

"I can tell that, Yaya. You seem to enjoy hitting people. Should I be concerned about our patients that don't listen in the future?"

Frowning, Yaya heaved her club over her shoulder and pouted at her lover. "Yaya would never do that to a patient!"

"Not even when they won't take their medicine?"

Looking as though she was thinking it over, Yaya again shook her head. "No, Yaya wouldn't!"

Chuckling, Kairi moved towards the other angel to place a kiss on her lips. "I know. I love you, Yaya."

"Kairi-koi isn't just saying that now because of the fight, right?"

Shaking his head of green hair, Kairi pushed his glasses into place before kissing his wife again. "No, Yaya. I'm saying it because it's true."

To his delight, a blush appeared on her face before she wrapped her free arm around him and hugged him tight. "Yaya loves Kairi-koi, too.

"This is all nice and everything, but aren't you forgetting something?"

The two angels looked to see several mean looking angels standing in the doorway of the room they were in. Kairi looked from the angels he knew they were going to have to fight to the girl in his arms. "Nope, Yaya is all I need."

Still blushing, Yaya pushed out of Kairi's arms to face the angels that had disrupted their moment of peace. "Yaya is angry that bad angels have appeared while Yaya was with Kairi-koi."

If the menacing anger rolling off her in waves wasn't enough to make the tainted angels take a step backwards then her ice cold tone was. A couple turned to make a run for it and only met darkness as they were clubbed down.

Kairi didn't even have a chance to help his wife get them. She was too quick in her anger so he resolved himself to just purifying them for now.

XXX

Amu was rather in shock as she and Ikuto strolled into the main chambers of Heaven. This is where angels would hold meetings or stand on trial. This was the largest room in all of Heaven, and it was empty. Not a soul in sight. Something that bothered the pinkette immensely. "Something isn't right. Why hasn't Tadase sounded the alarm?"

"You said it yourself before," Ikuto replied. "Tadase is more of the type to attack on his own. He likes to be the one in control."

"While you are usually correct in that assumption, today you are wrong."

Amu and Ikuto both turned to see the blond angel smirking at them from one of the seats of that the Council sat in during trials. "Oh, there you are."

"Don't be so nonchalant! You are the idiots that walked into my trap."

Ikuto and Amu didn't move as Tadase snapped his fingers. They weren't actually surprised when a rush of angels suddenly entered through all the doors and filled the room, surrounding the couple.

Ikuto looked around at them all before looking down to where his hand was clasped in Amu's. "But I don't want to let you go."

Amu sighed before patting Ikuto's cheek with the back of her hand considering she was holding her sword. "Ah, don't worry baby. I promise to let you hold me later."

Knowing that her display of affection was purely to piss Tadase off, Ikuto pulled his angel lover into his arms and kissed her hard. "Mind sharing your sword with me?"

Smirking her own smirk, Amu looked at her sword before releasing Ikuto for the first time since she'd saved him. Using both of her hands, Amu held the hilt of her sword before pulling it in two different directions. This action caused her to literally pull her sword into two identical pieces.

Ikuto took the flaming object offered to him with another kiss. "Thanks, babe."

Nodding her head, Amu turned to look at the stunned angels and one rather pissed looking angel watching them. "What? Never seen two lovers talk before?"

Tadase let out a growl before pointing at the pair. "Kill them!"

In an instance, Ikuto and Amu both dropped into fighting stances. Side by side they took on the angels coming near them. The two swords burned brightly as they cut through and purified any angels they touched.

Tadase was growing angrier and angrier the more he watched the couple fighting. They remained together no matter how often he ordered for the angels to separate them. "Get between them! Push Amu away from that human! Do it now!"

Having no choice but to obey, the other angels did their best to follow orders.

Despite their skill in fighting, Amu and Ikuto were slightly overwhelmed by the sheer number of angels coming at them. In the end, they had to move away from one another or risk one of them getting injured.

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Morg: Not as long as the last one, but things are moving!

Ikuto: Like Amu and I would really be separated.

Amu: Aren't I like amazingly powerful?

Morg: Yeah, but that would be a boring fight if you just won right away.

Ikuto: This story doesn't need more drama.

Amu: I disagree.

Morg: Like your opinions really matter! The readers are the only ones I want to hear from!