Suteki Da Ne: Isn't it wonderful
Chapter Nine
By BlueRaven
A/n: Um... Strange story, that's all...
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Tsuzuki leaned against a wall. His chest hurt him, sending waves of pain through his body crashing into his mind, causing his vision to blur slightly. He took deep breaths to try to calm himself and his physical pain.
It kept him focused though... The physical pain kept his mind on the here and now and off the thought of Tatsumi's still body in that cold silent room, off the thought of him dead.
Just as he had realised that he loved his dear friend in more ways then friendship, he was taken from him, for all eternity!! Tatsumi was gone forever. It wasn't until now that Tsuzuki really understood how much Tatsumi meant to him, sure Tatsumi was mean sometimes but he always cared and helped him.
Tsuzuki cried again... his whole body shook with sobs. Tatsumi would never more cut his salary or make him share his sweets with everyone else, or try to teach him how to hold on to his money. Never ever again, if not...
Tsuzuki straightened up and dried away his tears with a determined look in his eyes. Kill Omega... Hurt Omega by having Touda do it... then... have Touda kill his master so that Tsuzuki could join Tatsumi in whatever afterlife there would be after the afterlife.
"I will join you, Tatsumi. Aishiteru!" Tsuzuki said and continued down the streets of Kyoto.
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Ocean-blue eyes opened suddenly and startled the man sitting beside him. Tatsumi took a breath, his first for a whole 24 hours. For a small eternity he only stared up at the ceiling without moving.
"Tatsumi-kun..? You... You ARE alive!?" Kurosaki-kun was right!" Konoue watched as Tatsumi sat himself up, his left hand clutching the side of his head and the other his abdomen.
"Tsuzuki... is going to kill Omega." Tatsumi whispered, draining a gasp from his superior. "He's going to call Touda to kill himself and Omega." Tatsumi turned to Konoue with cold blazing eyes.
"I must stop him! If he kills Omega I will... Where are my things, I wish to get dressed." Konoue gaped and pointed towards the box in the corner where Tsuzuki had sat some hours before.
As Tatsumi got himself dressed Konoue recovered from the shock and asked the question that first had surfaced in his mind as soon as Tatsumi had started speaking.
"Um... Are you all right? How do you know of Tsuzuki? I mean he left before you... came back?" Konoue frowned at that, what would he call it? Something like this had never happened before...
"Yes. I'm quite fine, thank you, if you are wondering what happened I can say that Omega shut my body down for 24 hours and locked my spirit away inside, believe it or not, Tsuzuki. I've heard his thoughts this whole time and know his feelings and plans... I have to show myself to him before he tries to kill Omega!" Tatsumi fixed his glasses on his nose and turned to Konoue giving the elderly shinnigami a smile. "Do not worry, I will have us ALL back in one piece..."
"I sure hope so, I wouldn't like to have to tell EnMa-sama that I've lost three of my best shinnigamis in one mission."
"Three..?" Tatsumi's smile vanished instantly.
"Yes, three if Tsuzuki kills Omega, you die, and then we loose Tsuzuki forever to either madness or death and if that happens I'm pretty sure Hisoka is lost to us as well. You three are linked together by the chain of fate along with Watari, Himura and Omega." Konoue said and watched Tatsumi who was thinking with his hand over his face in his usual gesture.
"I see... All right I will be leaving now, I WILL see you later." Tatsumi said after a while, turned and left the room.
As soon as the shadow master came out into the corridor, he rose his hand to his mouth and stiffened a miserable cry, he was so afraid and angry. How could Tsuzuki do this? How could he!?
Tatsumi continued down the corridor and entered his office. Walking up to his desk he picked up a pencil and a sheet of paper. And on it he wrote with neat Kanji a message for Hisoka and Watari.
Placing the pen down again he conjured up a tiny white bird and fastened the tiny piece of paper on its leg and let it go out the window. "Find Hisoka and Watari, little one. Hurry." And away the bird flew.
"Now I have to hurry. I have to stop him." Tatsumi said and ran out of his office. Ignoring the fact that in his way he knocked down his files, spreading papers all over the floor of his office.
Turning a corner he ran straight into Terazuma and Wakaba. He just ran passed them without giving an excuse or any sign of even noticing that he had caused Terazuma to fall.
"What the hell! Was that Tatsumi?!" the shinnigami asked as he sat up.
"Um, I think so, but what... um, that is impossible, isn't it. He was killed?!" Wakaba looked towards where the figure of Tatsumi had disappeared.
"What's going on, anyway?" she asked and turned back to Terazuma who now stood again. The male shinnigami only shook his head.
"Their mission... it must be a hard one... I mean they have four of the top shinnigamis on this, so it have to be hard."
"Yeah I guess... But that doesn't answer how Tatsumi is up and alive when he should be dead..." Wakaba said as the two started walking again.
"Yeah..."
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"Watari-san, hurry up! I know where Tsuzuki is!" Hisoka called as he ran ahead of the older shinnigami.
"How do you know? Or rather, I don't care, just where is he?" Watari asked and followed the running teen. He barely noticed the white bird fluttering down towards them.
"Oi, Bon! A message! Wait up!!" Hisoka skipped to a halt and walked back to Watari as the scientist took the piece of paper from the bird that had perked itself on Watari's shoulder.
The golden haired shinnigami opened the paper and immediately recognised the neat kanji as Tatsumi's handwriting.
"Tatsumi!" he stated and read the note out loud.
"Watari, Kurosaki-kun, Please wait for me. I do not wish any of you harm, and Omega might hurt you to get to Tsuzuki. So please meet me where Omega was called and hurry, I know where Omega is. - Tatsumi Seiichiro."
"You where right, Bon. We'll go see Tatsumi and stop Tsuzuki together, okay?" Watari said as he folded the note and placed it in his pocket.
"All right but we have to hurry, Tsuzuki is... not all right at all..." Hisoka said and Watari nodded looking serious. They both hurried to the sight of the summoning.
Once there they saw the musing Tatsumi stand in the place where he had been stabbed. Watari found that a bit disturbing, remembering the night before with a stone in his heart (a/n: A figure of speech in Sweden...).
"Tatsumi... you're all right, what happened?" the scientist asked and saw the shadow master turn to him, slowly, his eyes ablaze with urgency and worry.
"We have no time, Tsuzuki are planning on killing Omega and then commit suicide. We have to stop him!" both Hisoka and Watari stared at the furious shinnigami with wide eyes. Tatsumi was trembling as he tried desperately to remain calm. The feelings emitting from Tatsumi was anger, sorrow, pain, worry and fear, Hisoka could tell those apart but there was something more, something dark and alien.
"We understand... I know where Tsuzuki are going." Hisoka said after shutting out Tatsumi's feelings as good as he could. His superior turned his icy blue eyes to him.
"Where?" he asked, pushing his glasses back up again.
"Here. He's going here... He's here any moment now." Hisoka answered and crossed his arms. Watari only stared and Tatsumi froze as a feeling of shock that was not his own came crashing down on his mind.
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"What!" the faceless figure of Omega spat at his master. Himura only stood there calm and relaxed, not at all intimidated by the imposing figure.
"I want you to kill me, then kill those shinnigamis and destroy this city, set it in flames and reduce it to ruins." Himura answered calmly, closing his eyes with a tired expression. "When it's done you can do as you please."
Omega watched the boy for a long time before he nodded. Sure he had expected to kill Himura, but without his approval. Now the boy was ASKING him to KILL him! "All right, as you wish, my master." He said and Himura rose his blue eyes and met Omega's.
"Do it now, kill me please. I was the one who's to blame for my father's and sister's death. And I'm to blame for my mother's illness, please kill me and take this cursed city with me." A tear fell from those blue orbs and Omega dried it away with a tender gesture.
"It shall be done." He said and rose his sword and swiftly he cut off Himura's head. The severed piece fell to the ground with a crushing sound, the body remained standing a while before it too fell to the ground.
Omega looked down at Himura's face. On the lips of the boy a smile was locked for all eternity... slowly Omega turned back to his human form, to the form of the body he had stolen from his first caller, Santiago.
With his mind he called out to the four shinnigamis, especially Tatsumi, whom he could feel through the connection between them.
"Watch out, shinnigamis. I will follow my master's order even though he's no more..." he stopped and turned all his attention to Tatsumi so that only he would hear him.
::Sweet one, I feel your hate towards me, calm yourself. I will ask of you a request. Will you hear it?:: Omega's mind fell silent as he waited for a reply, soon there came one.
::What is it, what's the request?:: Omega felt the conflicting emotions inside the head of the shinnigami he had claimed.
::Please get your beloved Tsuzuki to call Touda, my koibito. I wish to see the splendour of my beloved before I'm gone. Please.:: there was a long silence then came the reply.
"You already have that one request answered, Tsuzuki plans on using Touda. Why do you do this, Omega? What is your problem, really? You aren't really evil, just... insane...:: Omega chuckled at that comment, it was true though.
::Hm, yes. I am insane. But that, to be able to see the Touda I love... is the only thing I wish for.:: Omega answered and was met by the feeling of sorrow. Tatsumi felt such sorrow by what he said.
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Tatsumi rose his hand to his face covering the tear he felt running down his cheek. Hisoka watched him and knew. Inside his head Tatsumi could feel Omega come closer. It felt like having a string tied to your mind, and the further apart you were the more it pulled to come closer to the other end.
"Tatsumi... What is it?" Watari's voice and hand on his shoulder startled Tatsumi back from his musing. He turned his overwhelmingly blue eyes to Watari and gave his frien a smile and then shook his head.
"I'm fine... just worried... about this whole situation. Omega's coming." As soon as he said the he heard Hisoka cry, "Tsuzuki!!" and both the scientist and Tatsumi turned and looked towards where Hisoka pointed.
There he stood. The amethyst eyed love of his life. Tatsumi took a stumbling step towards Tsuzuki, then he started running towards him with his angry tears streaming down his face. "Beloved Tsuzuki, you bakayaro!!" he cried and wrapped the staring, still, shinnigami in his arms.
"Ta... Tatsumi?" Tsuzuki whispered softly and rose his hands and placed them on Tatsumi's back carefully, hesitantly, as if he wasn't sure of his own mind. " You...You're alive?! How?!" Tsuzuki pushed himself from his former partner and pulled up Tatsumi's shirt and suit-jacket (never minding Hisoka or Watari, who both blushed profusely) and stared at the still ugly wound healing, it was caused by the same weapon that had hurt his own chest after all.
"It's healing... you're alive, you're not dead!! I... I..." Tsuzuki burst into tears, he wept against Tatsumi's chest, loudly. "Aishiteru, Seiichiro!! I love you so much, I can't live without you!" (a/n: SAAAAAAAP -__-) Tatsumi closed his eyes to keep himself from crying in joy. Finally, Tsuzuki finally told him! The nagging sensation in his mind became stronger, Omega was near and he didn't care! All that mattered was Tsuzuki and his love.
Watari watched them, smiling sadly, those two really did love eachother... He felt his heart fall to the rock bottom of his hope and shatter in a million pieces, but he didn't mind because they were happy and then... so was he. Tearing his gaze away from the loving couple he noticed that Hisoka had already done so and was staring towards between two houses, his eyes big. Watari followed Hisoka's gaze and met pink eyes watching them in the shadows.
It was Omega.
"Omega." Hisoka stated and Tatsumi and Tsuzuki froze. Omega only smiled as he felt the mind of Tatsumi flood over with fear and... secret desire. The shiki's eyes travelled over the gathered shinnigamis, and locked on Tsuzuki.
"You, please call my koibito..." Omega said, his voice sounding pleading. Tsuzuki stared at him, then he shook his head.
"No..." Tsuzuki said sternly and looked at Tatsumi who was watching Omega.
Suddenly Tatsumi moved in front of Tsuzuki. He rose his hand in a sign of protection. He took a deep breath and let his mind open for Omega's searching one. Hisoka's powerful mind caught the emotions and thoughts of his superior and gasped sharply.
::Why... why do you wish... to die? If you die I will...:: Hisoka turned to Tatsumi with wide eyes. What did Tatsumi mean? Would he be hurt if Omega was?
"Stupid shinnigami. Do you really believe that? That pain you felt through our connection was your own!" Omega crossed his arms over his chest and continued closer. His pink eyes fell on Hisoka, who flinched and then continued to Watari who only stared back.
"What do you mean? I heard what Touda and Souryuu said to Tsuzuki..."
"Souryuu and Touda! HA, you idiot! Of course they were worried because there has been shikigamis who've killed their lovers before... I'm not one of them." Omega now stood before Tatsumi whose whole body shook with the intensiveness of Omega's mind. Tatsumi stared at Omega with wide eyes, he felt Tsuzuki's hand on his shoulder and felt Watari and Hisoka's eyes on them all.
"The pain that comes from you is the pain and fear of your jealousy and the fear of loosing you beloved Tsuzuki. Now call Touda!!" Omega yelled and shifted his angry gaze to Tsuzuki who silently nodded. Tsuzuki moved away from Tatsumi and gestured for him to step away.
Tsuzuki met Omega's eyes and they stared at eachother for a long time before he spoke.
"Why do you wish to die, or to kill?" Tsuzuki asked and noticed how Omega smiled evilly again.
"I'm a killer, I like blood, needs it. And if I'm to die then I'm to die a violent death!!" Tsuzuki blinked then nodded again, satisfied. He rose his hands and started his summoning spell;
\\Flames rising from the burning inferno. Descend from the heavens in the form of a serpent. Come at once. Touda!// (a/n: the fan-sub in YnM part thirteen, Kyoto arc.)
Power rose all around, wiping around dust and pressed the three shinnigami's away.
Omega watched the spectacle, smiling to himself full of anticipation. He would see Touda again in his true form, the form of the Hell Serpent, and to him that meant the world.
The dust-cloud suddenly erupted upwards, it rose high until it parted revealing a huge snake like, bird-faced, beautiful shikigami, one of the Twelve Gods that protected Tsuzuki.
Anyone who knew Touda's human form knew the eyes of the creature before them. They were red with a dark-red line around his pupils. It was a stunningly, frighteningly beautiful sight.
Suddenly Touda's deep voice erupted from the creature before them. "Those born in the Chaos of Darkness are doomed to wander eternally through this Darkness!!" His normal greeting to those he rose to destroy erupted from him and he settled over and around his master, like a guardian from hell.
"Tsuzuki, my master, what do you wish of me?" Touda asked and let his huge eyes wander over those present. They finally settled on Tsuzuki again, though his mind was on Omega. If Omega was there then that meant that Tsuzuki had mad his decision about fighting the shiki.
"Kill him, kill Omega!" Tsuzuki called, his voice full venom. A sound Touda did not like in his gentle master. Touda shifted his gaze to his smiling ex- lover. Omega was to die... The thought saddened his heart but... it WAS Tsuzuki's ORDER and he would obey, whatever it might be.
"As you wish Tsuzuki-sama." He said and his huge form rose into the air.
Omega watched as Touda rose into the air. His beautiful serpent form slithering upwards as a snake trough water. Omega's smile widened, oh this would be a good fight.
Without hesitation or further delay, Omega rose through the air until he was level with the face of the huge serpent's bird-like face.
"Touda, my koibito, let's let this be a good fight. Let me die by your power." The redheaded shiki said and watched Touda.
::Why do you wish me to kill you, Omega? I could lock you back up and visit you... Please tell me why!:: Touda's mind-voice asked as Omega started turning into his shiki form.
::Because I am ill... I need a new body, or I will surely perish, and thus I wish to die a violent death! To die by your hand instead of the hand of quiet death. The call of Himura-sama was convenient and those shinnigamis a fun distraction before I could make your master call you.:: Omega was now in his shikigami form, his empty hood turned to Touda and the bloodstained sword in hand.
This will be a real fight, Touda thought as Omega rose his sword and charged him. His serpentine body easily dodging and moving out of harms way. Omega only laughed madly.
The fight went on like this a long while before Omega remembered his last promise to his master. He would kill the shinnigamis... Stopping abruptly in the middle of another attack he turned around and looked for the four shinnigamis he knew was there somewhere. Soon he detected Tatsumi's mind and as he thought the others was with him, all watching the fight.
Oh sweet luck, he thought and without delay he attacked, sending dark balls of Black Demi magic hurling towards the shinnigami he had once claimed and taken.
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Tatsumi saw the Black Demi balls coming towards him, and he couldn't move. As if from far away he heard the call of his name by Hisoka and Watari. The black magic came closer.
"Tatsumi!!" Tsuzuki cried and threw himself in front of the secretary, ofuda in hand. Tatsumi came out of his temporary paralysis and gasped loudly as the first black magic ball struck the barrier, and cracked it!
"Tsuzu--!!" Tatsumi wasn't able to finish before another hit and reduced the barrier to shards, like crushed glass.
All became quiet as Tatsumi, Hisoka Watari and Touda all watched in horror as the third Demi ball hit Tsuzuki dead on in an explosion of black light.
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In the house of candles, the Earl watched one flickering struggling candle suddenly brighten before it abruptly went out.
To Be Continued...
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GHE!! What am I doing!?!? ARRGHH!! DAMN ALL THOSE PLOT-BUNNIES!! WHHAAA!! *Runs off crying* Tsu~~zu~~Ki~~i!! *sob*
Chapter Nine
By BlueRaven
A/n: Um... Strange story, that's all...
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Tsuzuki leaned against a wall. His chest hurt him, sending waves of pain through his body crashing into his mind, causing his vision to blur slightly. He took deep breaths to try to calm himself and his physical pain.
It kept him focused though... The physical pain kept his mind on the here and now and off the thought of Tatsumi's still body in that cold silent room, off the thought of him dead.
Just as he had realised that he loved his dear friend in more ways then friendship, he was taken from him, for all eternity!! Tatsumi was gone forever. It wasn't until now that Tsuzuki really understood how much Tatsumi meant to him, sure Tatsumi was mean sometimes but he always cared and helped him.
Tsuzuki cried again... his whole body shook with sobs. Tatsumi would never more cut his salary or make him share his sweets with everyone else, or try to teach him how to hold on to his money. Never ever again, if not...
Tsuzuki straightened up and dried away his tears with a determined look in his eyes. Kill Omega... Hurt Omega by having Touda do it... then... have Touda kill his master so that Tsuzuki could join Tatsumi in whatever afterlife there would be after the afterlife.
"I will join you, Tatsumi. Aishiteru!" Tsuzuki said and continued down the streets of Kyoto.
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Ocean-blue eyes opened suddenly and startled the man sitting beside him. Tatsumi took a breath, his first for a whole 24 hours. For a small eternity he only stared up at the ceiling without moving.
"Tatsumi-kun..? You... You ARE alive!?" Kurosaki-kun was right!" Konoue watched as Tatsumi sat himself up, his left hand clutching the side of his head and the other his abdomen.
"Tsuzuki... is going to kill Omega." Tatsumi whispered, draining a gasp from his superior. "He's going to call Touda to kill himself and Omega." Tatsumi turned to Konoue with cold blazing eyes.
"I must stop him! If he kills Omega I will... Where are my things, I wish to get dressed." Konoue gaped and pointed towards the box in the corner where Tsuzuki had sat some hours before.
As Tatsumi got himself dressed Konoue recovered from the shock and asked the question that first had surfaced in his mind as soon as Tatsumi had started speaking.
"Um... Are you all right? How do you know of Tsuzuki? I mean he left before you... came back?" Konoue frowned at that, what would he call it? Something like this had never happened before...
"Yes. I'm quite fine, thank you, if you are wondering what happened I can say that Omega shut my body down for 24 hours and locked my spirit away inside, believe it or not, Tsuzuki. I've heard his thoughts this whole time and know his feelings and plans... I have to show myself to him before he tries to kill Omega!" Tatsumi fixed his glasses on his nose and turned to Konoue giving the elderly shinnigami a smile. "Do not worry, I will have us ALL back in one piece..."
"I sure hope so, I wouldn't like to have to tell EnMa-sama that I've lost three of my best shinnigamis in one mission."
"Three..?" Tatsumi's smile vanished instantly.
"Yes, three if Tsuzuki kills Omega, you die, and then we loose Tsuzuki forever to either madness or death and if that happens I'm pretty sure Hisoka is lost to us as well. You three are linked together by the chain of fate along with Watari, Himura and Omega." Konoue said and watched Tatsumi who was thinking with his hand over his face in his usual gesture.
"I see... All right I will be leaving now, I WILL see you later." Tatsumi said after a while, turned and left the room.
As soon as the shadow master came out into the corridor, he rose his hand to his mouth and stiffened a miserable cry, he was so afraid and angry. How could Tsuzuki do this? How could he!?
Tatsumi continued down the corridor and entered his office. Walking up to his desk he picked up a pencil and a sheet of paper. And on it he wrote with neat Kanji a message for Hisoka and Watari.
Placing the pen down again he conjured up a tiny white bird and fastened the tiny piece of paper on its leg and let it go out the window. "Find Hisoka and Watari, little one. Hurry." And away the bird flew.
"Now I have to hurry. I have to stop him." Tatsumi said and ran out of his office. Ignoring the fact that in his way he knocked down his files, spreading papers all over the floor of his office.
Turning a corner he ran straight into Terazuma and Wakaba. He just ran passed them without giving an excuse or any sign of even noticing that he had caused Terazuma to fall.
"What the hell! Was that Tatsumi?!" the shinnigami asked as he sat up.
"Um, I think so, but what... um, that is impossible, isn't it. He was killed?!" Wakaba looked towards where the figure of Tatsumi had disappeared.
"What's going on, anyway?" she asked and turned back to Terazuma who now stood again. The male shinnigami only shook his head.
"Their mission... it must be a hard one... I mean they have four of the top shinnigamis on this, so it have to be hard."
"Yeah I guess... But that doesn't answer how Tatsumi is up and alive when he should be dead..." Wakaba said as the two started walking again.
"Yeah..."
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"Watari-san, hurry up! I know where Tsuzuki is!" Hisoka called as he ran ahead of the older shinnigami.
"How do you know? Or rather, I don't care, just where is he?" Watari asked and followed the running teen. He barely noticed the white bird fluttering down towards them.
"Oi, Bon! A message! Wait up!!" Hisoka skipped to a halt and walked back to Watari as the scientist took the piece of paper from the bird that had perked itself on Watari's shoulder.
The golden haired shinnigami opened the paper and immediately recognised the neat kanji as Tatsumi's handwriting.
"Tatsumi!" he stated and read the note out loud.
"Watari, Kurosaki-kun, Please wait for me. I do not wish any of you harm, and Omega might hurt you to get to Tsuzuki. So please meet me where Omega was called and hurry, I know where Omega is. - Tatsumi Seiichiro."
"You where right, Bon. We'll go see Tatsumi and stop Tsuzuki together, okay?" Watari said as he folded the note and placed it in his pocket.
"All right but we have to hurry, Tsuzuki is... not all right at all..." Hisoka said and Watari nodded looking serious. They both hurried to the sight of the summoning.
Once there they saw the musing Tatsumi stand in the place where he had been stabbed. Watari found that a bit disturbing, remembering the night before with a stone in his heart (a/n: A figure of speech in Sweden...).
"Tatsumi... you're all right, what happened?" the scientist asked and saw the shadow master turn to him, slowly, his eyes ablaze with urgency and worry.
"We have no time, Tsuzuki are planning on killing Omega and then commit suicide. We have to stop him!" both Hisoka and Watari stared at the furious shinnigami with wide eyes. Tatsumi was trembling as he tried desperately to remain calm. The feelings emitting from Tatsumi was anger, sorrow, pain, worry and fear, Hisoka could tell those apart but there was something more, something dark and alien.
"We understand... I know where Tsuzuki are going." Hisoka said after shutting out Tatsumi's feelings as good as he could. His superior turned his icy blue eyes to him.
"Where?" he asked, pushing his glasses back up again.
"Here. He's going here... He's here any moment now." Hisoka answered and crossed his arms. Watari only stared and Tatsumi froze as a feeling of shock that was not his own came crashing down on his mind.
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"What!" the faceless figure of Omega spat at his master. Himura only stood there calm and relaxed, not at all intimidated by the imposing figure.
"I want you to kill me, then kill those shinnigamis and destroy this city, set it in flames and reduce it to ruins." Himura answered calmly, closing his eyes with a tired expression. "When it's done you can do as you please."
Omega watched the boy for a long time before he nodded. Sure he had expected to kill Himura, but without his approval. Now the boy was ASKING him to KILL him! "All right, as you wish, my master." He said and Himura rose his blue eyes and met Omega's.
"Do it now, kill me please. I was the one who's to blame for my father's and sister's death. And I'm to blame for my mother's illness, please kill me and take this cursed city with me." A tear fell from those blue orbs and Omega dried it away with a tender gesture.
"It shall be done." He said and rose his sword and swiftly he cut off Himura's head. The severed piece fell to the ground with a crushing sound, the body remained standing a while before it too fell to the ground.
Omega looked down at Himura's face. On the lips of the boy a smile was locked for all eternity... slowly Omega turned back to his human form, to the form of the body he had stolen from his first caller, Santiago.
With his mind he called out to the four shinnigamis, especially Tatsumi, whom he could feel through the connection between them.
"Watch out, shinnigamis. I will follow my master's order even though he's no more..." he stopped and turned all his attention to Tatsumi so that only he would hear him.
::Sweet one, I feel your hate towards me, calm yourself. I will ask of you a request. Will you hear it?:: Omega's mind fell silent as he waited for a reply, soon there came one.
::What is it, what's the request?:: Omega felt the conflicting emotions inside the head of the shinnigami he had claimed.
::Please get your beloved Tsuzuki to call Touda, my koibito. I wish to see the splendour of my beloved before I'm gone. Please.:: there was a long silence then came the reply.
"You already have that one request answered, Tsuzuki plans on using Touda. Why do you do this, Omega? What is your problem, really? You aren't really evil, just... insane...:: Omega chuckled at that comment, it was true though.
::Hm, yes. I am insane. But that, to be able to see the Touda I love... is the only thing I wish for.:: Omega answered and was met by the feeling of sorrow. Tatsumi felt such sorrow by what he said.
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Tatsumi rose his hand to his face covering the tear he felt running down his cheek. Hisoka watched him and knew. Inside his head Tatsumi could feel Omega come closer. It felt like having a string tied to your mind, and the further apart you were the more it pulled to come closer to the other end.
"Tatsumi... What is it?" Watari's voice and hand on his shoulder startled Tatsumi back from his musing. He turned his overwhelmingly blue eyes to Watari and gave his frien a smile and then shook his head.
"I'm fine... just worried... about this whole situation. Omega's coming." As soon as he said the he heard Hisoka cry, "Tsuzuki!!" and both the scientist and Tatsumi turned and looked towards where Hisoka pointed.
There he stood. The amethyst eyed love of his life. Tatsumi took a stumbling step towards Tsuzuki, then he started running towards him with his angry tears streaming down his face. "Beloved Tsuzuki, you bakayaro!!" he cried and wrapped the staring, still, shinnigami in his arms.
"Ta... Tatsumi?" Tsuzuki whispered softly and rose his hands and placed them on Tatsumi's back carefully, hesitantly, as if he wasn't sure of his own mind. " You...You're alive?! How?!" Tsuzuki pushed himself from his former partner and pulled up Tatsumi's shirt and suit-jacket (never minding Hisoka or Watari, who both blushed profusely) and stared at the still ugly wound healing, it was caused by the same weapon that had hurt his own chest after all.
"It's healing... you're alive, you're not dead!! I... I..." Tsuzuki burst into tears, he wept against Tatsumi's chest, loudly. "Aishiteru, Seiichiro!! I love you so much, I can't live without you!" (a/n: SAAAAAAAP -__-) Tatsumi closed his eyes to keep himself from crying in joy. Finally, Tsuzuki finally told him! The nagging sensation in his mind became stronger, Omega was near and he didn't care! All that mattered was Tsuzuki and his love.
Watari watched them, smiling sadly, those two really did love eachother... He felt his heart fall to the rock bottom of his hope and shatter in a million pieces, but he didn't mind because they were happy and then... so was he. Tearing his gaze away from the loving couple he noticed that Hisoka had already done so and was staring towards between two houses, his eyes big. Watari followed Hisoka's gaze and met pink eyes watching them in the shadows.
It was Omega.
"Omega." Hisoka stated and Tatsumi and Tsuzuki froze. Omega only smiled as he felt the mind of Tatsumi flood over with fear and... secret desire. The shiki's eyes travelled over the gathered shinnigamis, and locked on Tsuzuki.
"You, please call my koibito..." Omega said, his voice sounding pleading. Tsuzuki stared at him, then he shook his head.
"No..." Tsuzuki said sternly and looked at Tatsumi who was watching Omega.
Suddenly Tatsumi moved in front of Tsuzuki. He rose his hand in a sign of protection. He took a deep breath and let his mind open for Omega's searching one. Hisoka's powerful mind caught the emotions and thoughts of his superior and gasped sharply.
::Why... why do you wish... to die? If you die I will...:: Hisoka turned to Tatsumi with wide eyes. What did Tatsumi mean? Would he be hurt if Omega was?
"Stupid shinnigami. Do you really believe that? That pain you felt through our connection was your own!" Omega crossed his arms over his chest and continued closer. His pink eyes fell on Hisoka, who flinched and then continued to Watari who only stared back.
"What do you mean? I heard what Touda and Souryuu said to Tsuzuki..."
"Souryuu and Touda! HA, you idiot! Of course they were worried because there has been shikigamis who've killed their lovers before... I'm not one of them." Omega now stood before Tatsumi whose whole body shook with the intensiveness of Omega's mind. Tatsumi stared at Omega with wide eyes, he felt Tsuzuki's hand on his shoulder and felt Watari and Hisoka's eyes on them all.
"The pain that comes from you is the pain and fear of your jealousy and the fear of loosing you beloved Tsuzuki. Now call Touda!!" Omega yelled and shifted his angry gaze to Tsuzuki who silently nodded. Tsuzuki moved away from Tatsumi and gestured for him to step away.
Tsuzuki met Omega's eyes and they stared at eachother for a long time before he spoke.
"Why do you wish to die, or to kill?" Tsuzuki asked and noticed how Omega smiled evilly again.
"I'm a killer, I like blood, needs it. And if I'm to die then I'm to die a violent death!!" Tsuzuki blinked then nodded again, satisfied. He rose his hands and started his summoning spell;
\\Flames rising from the burning inferno. Descend from the heavens in the form of a serpent. Come at once. Touda!// (a/n: the fan-sub in YnM part thirteen, Kyoto arc.)
Power rose all around, wiping around dust and pressed the three shinnigami's away.
Omega watched the spectacle, smiling to himself full of anticipation. He would see Touda again in his true form, the form of the Hell Serpent, and to him that meant the world.
The dust-cloud suddenly erupted upwards, it rose high until it parted revealing a huge snake like, bird-faced, beautiful shikigami, one of the Twelve Gods that protected Tsuzuki.
Anyone who knew Touda's human form knew the eyes of the creature before them. They were red with a dark-red line around his pupils. It was a stunningly, frighteningly beautiful sight.
Suddenly Touda's deep voice erupted from the creature before them. "Those born in the Chaos of Darkness are doomed to wander eternally through this Darkness!!" His normal greeting to those he rose to destroy erupted from him and he settled over and around his master, like a guardian from hell.
"Tsuzuki, my master, what do you wish of me?" Touda asked and let his huge eyes wander over those present. They finally settled on Tsuzuki again, though his mind was on Omega. If Omega was there then that meant that Tsuzuki had mad his decision about fighting the shiki.
"Kill him, kill Omega!" Tsuzuki called, his voice full venom. A sound Touda did not like in his gentle master. Touda shifted his gaze to his smiling ex- lover. Omega was to die... The thought saddened his heart but... it WAS Tsuzuki's ORDER and he would obey, whatever it might be.
"As you wish Tsuzuki-sama." He said and his huge form rose into the air.
Omega watched as Touda rose into the air. His beautiful serpent form slithering upwards as a snake trough water. Omega's smile widened, oh this would be a good fight.
Without hesitation or further delay, Omega rose through the air until he was level with the face of the huge serpent's bird-like face.
"Touda, my koibito, let's let this be a good fight. Let me die by your power." The redheaded shiki said and watched Touda.
::Why do you wish me to kill you, Omega? I could lock you back up and visit you... Please tell me why!:: Touda's mind-voice asked as Omega started turning into his shiki form.
::Because I am ill... I need a new body, or I will surely perish, and thus I wish to die a violent death! To die by your hand instead of the hand of quiet death. The call of Himura-sama was convenient and those shinnigamis a fun distraction before I could make your master call you.:: Omega was now in his shikigami form, his empty hood turned to Touda and the bloodstained sword in hand.
This will be a real fight, Touda thought as Omega rose his sword and charged him. His serpentine body easily dodging and moving out of harms way. Omega only laughed madly.
The fight went on like this a long while before Omega remembered his last promise to his master. He would kill the shinnigamis... Stopping abruptly in the middle of another attack he turned around and looked for the four shinnigamis he knew was there somewhere. Soon he detected Tatsumi's mind and as he thought the others was with him, all watching the fight.
Oh sweet luck, he thought and without delay he attacked, sending dark balls of Black Demi magic hurling towards the shinnigami he had once claimed and taken.
*****
Tatsumi saw the Black Demi balls coming towards him, and he couldn't move. As if from far away he heard the call of his name by Hisoka and Watari. The black magic came closer.
"Tatsumi!!" Tsuzuki cried and threw himself in front of the secretary, ofuda in hand. Tatsumi came out of his temporary paralysis and gasped loudly as the first black magic ball struck the barrier, and cracked it!
"Tsuzu--!!" Tatsumi wasn't able to finish before another hit and reduced the barrier to shards, like crushed glass.
All became quiet as Tatsumi, Hisoka Watari and Touda all watched in horror as the third Demi ball hit Tsuzuki dead on in an explosion of black light.
*****
In the house of candles, the Earl watched one flickering struggling candle suddenly brighten before it abruptly went out.
To Be Continued...
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GHE!! What am I doing!?!? ARRGHH!! DAMN ALL THOSE PLOT-BUNNIES!! WHHAAA!! *Runs off crying* Tsu~~zu~~Ki~~i!! *sob*