Crystal of Love

RK and YYH don't belong to me.

Author's Notes: 75!!!! Its 75, the big 7 5 and its under the number of reviews!!!!!!! I don't know what to feel… I never imagined anything like this, so, I feel so honored. Thank you all.

Oh, and did anyone think Kaoru was pregnant? It was a metaphor, she has a child mind, but it's locked in a woman's body, but she is grown up at some times as well. I hope that clears some things. But who knows.

Chapter 18: Mysteries galore

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Her eyes followed me as I stood from my stone throne at the center of the shrine, where I was to get the words of my god and relay them to the people of this world. But it was so easy to go into a trance and lie, the simplest of lies, and get things my way, instead of how our god wants it.

"You seem so much at ease, but personally, I wouldn't," you said, your voce ever flawless as you strutted about the chamber, the leather around you making everything seductive and deadly at the same time. But, wasn't seductiveness evil? And for her—the vixen that I would soon control—it was all in mind.

"And why would that be?" I asked, standing somewhat before her as she examined a painting of a man kneeling in agony as he begged the darkness to save him. The legend behind it was the same, the man had lost his wife to the plaque that had killed all those in his village because they did not agree to worship the Darkness, and so he begged to be saved in return to worshipping him. The man was killed for the ignorance and thought of being able to turn chameleon so fast. It was the painful truth of trying to do something, but not being able to do so.

"You don't agree with my father, you just want me."

So blunt, so hurtful, so the truth on my plains. I reached out and grabbed her shoulders, turning her around forcefully. I looked deep into those blue eyes with a smirk; she would not know what to expect as I pulled her close and bit deep into her neck.

The blood, the black blood of the gods of the darkness could heal anything—including my appearance, and finally give me a taste of the power I desired, all from a few simple drops. But I wanted more, more of the sweet nectar as I drank and drank. I only stopped as I felt her go limb, from the loss of the blood she wasn't able to stop me from drinking.

"Omochi!" I called, and the sexless creature I used came rushing in. "Take her back to her room."

I threw the woman at it; the creature caught her and held her close, shocked at what it was seeing. "Go!"

"But master… the dark—"

"I ordered you to go and do so!" Omochi left.

But the power stayed, I felt invincible as the wrinkles vanished from my face, my body going younger, stronger and faster, my hair turning back to the luscious color it was before, and my eyes turning bright and evil, just like before.

Before I could stop myself I was laughing and dancing, my younger body turning and moving to my laughs of victory as never before, as if I wasn't even human any more. No longer the undead, but a god who would defy the evilest of gods and get away with it! I was the one and only, I was the undefeatable—the invincible god of all.

Reika was getting nervous, for it had been a long time sense Kaoru was taken away, and it scared her. The young girl had fallen asleep not that long ago, and was slumbering peacefully on a huge pillow at a corner not far from the door guarded by the most strangest looking people she had ever seen.

"Sir," said a guard. She didn't pay attention, or was trying not to, but she did, listening closely to the words, in case Kaoru was mentioned.

"I'm here for the other woman," said a new voice, and she recognized it belonging to nark that took Kaoru away.

"Alright." The pinked-eyed one came into the room and looked at her closely, as if trying to figure out what she was thinking.

"Come," was all it said as it turned and walked out of the room. Reika followed.

Getting into the world below was the easy part, Kenshin decided as they waited in the shadows once more as a group of guards passed them. Guards were walking the streets of the settlement that Misaho said could not exist in its stone surrounded chamber. The fact that it did could get to anyone.

Tsuki looked around the street, swearing she could smell burning cinnamon, meaning Omochi, but she could see no one. Misaho was also having a moment of deju vu as he could smell the thick smell of raspberry, the strange smell that his love Reika wore.

They both looked around them as the sense grew stronger, but the only place they didn't look behind them, where the two stood in silence as Reika tried her best not to laugh. (Though she still didn't understand the man in front of her, she didn't even know his name.)

"Ahem, we are right behind you," said Omochi, the creature startled them with his voice and looks as they all slowly turned around and looked at the two. Reika started to giggle softly at the looks on the faces of the people she knew and loved so well. "Come, we must go before they find where I hid messiah and that I have taken the other one."

He bypassed them and continued to walk on, quickly followed by most, Kenshin joining after giving his mother a quick hug and an amber eyed Misaho who followed after taking his wife into a tight hug that forced the breath out of her.

She was floating in an endless pit of darkness, but instead of feeling fear, she felt love, the kind she had seen between Kenshin and his parents, as well as any other family… something she had envied for it was a feeling she had never felt before. It was so soft, warm and comforting, like something that would never end.

She loved it.

Finally, it seemed she hit ground, her feet barely touching it as she floated a few cm above it.

And they appeared, two shadowy figures of a woman and a man, and she knew who they were right away.

"My dear daughter, you have grown so much," said the woman, with a faint smile. Kaoru tried her best to see her parents figures, but could on make out a sleeveless kimono on her mother and a man's kimono on her father, in which half of it was hanging down, as if to cool him off.

"I have to agree with her, you are doing quite well on pissing me off!" erupted her father, startling Kaoru, but not her mother.

"Listen here you over grown burnt piece of flesh! She loves him, and that is what matters! Now, tell her! Tell her!"

"Alright," he gave a sigh, "You have to join two powers to make one."

"And that's it?"

"Yes it is you woman!"

"…"

The two left as quickly as they came and Kaoru woke up in an old looking temple, covered in dust and spider webs. Her dream was still fresh in her mind, and her father's words echoed in her head.

'You have to join two powers to make one…'

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AN: How was it? Any idea on who Kaoru's parents are? I' do. ^.^ I hope you liked this chapter, it came pretty suddenly, in fact, I had to finish it so I wouldn't forget what I was going to write in it, so I hop it is.

Omochi: Yeah, I hate traveling, cause then I can't read any fanfics and I then think the world is going to end on me… any way, yeah, Tisha has to live with it, who else other then his sister would want to board him? Certainly not the newlyweds.

Jay: Yeah, I had to make them appear to be related, with the eye color thing and the word 'oro' I thought it was cute. And she isn't pregnant, it was a metaphor… well, she isn't pregnant yet anyway.

Susan: Thank you, you are so cool reviewing all the chapters. Thank you!

Okay, so reviews is now 78, and I thank you all (never thought it would go THIS far) and now I have no goal (my last lucky number was 64). But, I do have the goal of finishing this fic, cause I like it so much and you all seem to as well! Thank you. And would it seem strange to put your self into a fanfic you created? (Though, I killed my character 2 chapters ago…)