"A party?"
"No it's more a of a meeting of all of the higher beings in the universe."
"A really boring party."
"Yes, with no food, music or entertainment of any kind."
"NO FOOD?"
"You'll live."
"I don't know how Siobhan and Mariam are gonna take this, and Darian, well, he-"
"They can't come."
"Huh? Why?"
"No children unless they are the child of one of the 6 kais. Actually, there have been no children at that gathering in quite some thousands of years. I believe I'm still the youngest one there, besides the Guaradians that is."
I sat there and kind of strayed my thoughts back on the case. "What happened to the other Guardians?"
"Oh, yes, I was wondering when you were gonna ask about them." With every word his voice got softer.
"I have got to start asking you more questions about this, cause don't just tell me anything."
He ignored my little complaint. "The last Guardians were two men and a girl."
"You mean guys can be Guardians?" I broke in before he could really start the story.
"Yes. That reminds me, I need to tell you something about Kyudo. But anyhow, Parsip, Corin and Lutusia were the original Guardians. Parsip had the sword (now would be a good time to tell you the the shade of purple Mariam's armor was was a very dark purple...in fact, it was close to black) Corin had your bow and Lutusia had the staff. That same man who came before and tried to get Trunks, Goten and I to destroy you was th same wizard who turned their loves agianst them. The thing was, the love doesn't need to be two sided to kill a Guardian. They foolishly fell in love with people who didn't feel the same way about them, and his magic worked easily."
"Oh. So what was it about Kyudo?"
"Oh, that. I talked to Kibito and asked him about Kyudo. He sems to know more about these kind of of things then I do."
"What kind of things?" I was hanging off the edge of my seat. "Are you saying that being a Guardian is, like, hereditary?"
"No, Kyudo will be my legacy, not yours?"
"Huh? Legacy?"
"Kyudo is immortal. If something where to happen to me, he would have to take over my job or else the whole Universe would be thrown off balance."
"Oh, geez. Oh, I need to sit down."
"You are sitting down."
"Oh, I need to lay down." My office had a couch and by then Shin was sitting on the left end. I put my feet down towards the right and just let my head fall on his lap. "So my son, is like, your little extra in case something bad happens to you. And, he's immortal. Oh, how's he gonna take this?"
"Don't worry," he assued, pushing my hair back, "we won't tell him till he's a mature adult."
"Um...honey..you know me. I'm 32 and I have the maturity of a 15 year old. How old do you think it'll take before he "mature enough?"
"Two-thousand five hundred and sixty three."
"I'll be dead by then," I laughed.
"Yes, but when you die, you get to live with me."
"Oh, I can annoy Kibito on a daily basis," I said happily. Then I sighed. "What would have happened that night if it wasn't raining, or if you didn't keep interrupting me, or if-" before I could throw out another detail of that fateful night he leaned down to kiss me. The bilinds were closed, and the couch was ample room...damn Becky and her ideas.


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One more chapter...then...THE LEMON. Oh, how I love to tourcher you people. Oh and for pics of Shinny go to
http://piccolos_girl0.tripod.com/ShinsDBZPalace/id36.html
there's a pic of Casey and Shin a fan drew. THAT YOU ANIMEANGEL I am 4eva in your debt.