Chapter 20: Judgment A/N: I don't know why, but Qui's got a really weird plan up his sleeves…

"Not if I can help it…" Hibiemi's voice hung in the air. Puzzled, Nii and Komyo looked between the unconscious Hibiemi and the conscious one standing against the possessed Hakkai with a smirk on her face. The two were exactly alike from head to toe. From the same childish face and single golden earring on her left ear down to the same deep blue ribbon-belt that held her single-breasted trench coat together.

"Hn… You're being a fool… Why do you think you can defeat me with that body?" The possessed Hakkai laughed. The response came with a ball of ice magic thrown at him.

"There! You can't fool me, Asura… Even if you've sucked out the powers of my real body, taking on the body of another immortal will give me strength." Hibiemi folded her arms across her chest and looked the possessed one straight in the eye. Her mouth curled into a smile that was unlike her.

"I remember that deceiving smile…" Kouryuu said as he looked at the conscious Hibiemi, "It's Quietus! Kono…"

"What?!?" Nii said in shock, "Qui's taken on Hibi-chan's body?!?"

"It's understandable though… The real Hibi's knocked out…" Komyo said checking the youngest immortal's condition.

"Anyway, since everyone knows my real identity now, I might as well try to do what I should have done before Kouryuu was turned immortal." The fake Hibiemi levitated into the air, "Kill you." Sharp blades of dark magic materialized in the air and shot at Hakkai. They struck right through him, blood slowly pouring out of the wounds.

At the sound of Hakkai's piercing cry of pain, the real Hibiemi awoken from her unconsciousness. As soon as she raised her eyes to see what was happening, she saw the dark immortal blood flowing. Her eyes widened in horror. "O-o-nii-chan…" She stammered as flashes of her past came rushing back to her, "Don't die!!" A powerful hurricane suddenly surrounded her, interrupting Quietus' magic and slamming the other immortals against the trunks of trees. The black magic piercing the possessed one diffused and being an immortal, his wounds healed up.

The possessed Hakkai laughed. Quietus shape shifted back into his real form and fell to the ground.

"Hibi-chan… Why did you…?" He asked the frightened immortal for an explanation.

"The past… is haunting me…" She said frightened. Her hand clutched her neck. Her own immortal blood trickled from between the fingers. The older immortal noticed what was going on. A cut on her neck from her outburst was making her bleed to death.

"And so the legacy once said… 'To let the brother live… The sister must die…'. What a convenient lie I've planted…!" The possessed Hakkai laughed with demonic exuberance, "And so Astraea said, 'Her treasures will come by the passing of eleven souls'. Here we are now! Eleven souls in the legacy have perished and the lie I had planted begins to repeat itself again! 'Treasures'! Hah! The mirror has fallen, the sword is broken and the orb couldn't resist me… None of you can stop the destruction of the world…"

"Not unless I can…" Kouryuu's voice boomed from where he had fallen, "Makai Tenjou!!" All five sutras wrapped themselves around the brunette. He writhed in pain and his body began to emit steam. The sutras were expelling Asura from him. A dark aura flowed out of Hakkai's mouth like liquid and fell to the ground. It took shape and became solid. A tall pale man with long black hair and dangerous golden-brown eyes draped in rich red and black silk adorned with ancient gold ornaments appeared before them, clutching at his heart and breathing heavily. The sutras unwinded themselves off Hakkai and he fell to the roof. Fortunately, he had enough energy to stop himself from slipping.

"Asura…" Hibiemi muttered before she casted a healing spell upon her wound. Unfortunately, she was weakened from her loss of blood. But luckily, Quietus and the other two immortals regained their powers.

"Well then… Your time is up, Asura…" Nii smiled as he cracked his knuckles. The three immortals were about to blast the dark deity away when Hibiemi shook her weakness away and stopped them.

"We can't kill Asura. The best thing we can do for the moment is seal him."

"Seal me… You fools jest… You can't seal me… You can't destroy me… I am a god. And I will live forever…" Asura smirked as he breathed heavily, weakened by the exorcism.

"No. You can't live forever, Asura…" Hakkai said as he rose himself to a sitting position on the roof, "Immortal or not, there is always a way to destroy you. Every life must have its end and your end has come… Komyo, Nii, Hibiemi, Quietus, Kouryuu. Please seal him now then destroy him."

 The other immortals agreed. Komyo summoned a medium-sized rock to his hand and all four of them began to chant a sealing prayer. Since Asura was weakened, he was easily sucked into the stone held in Komyo's hand. The sealing stopped. Asura was resealed.

"Well then, what do we do with the stone?" Kouryuu asked as he took Hakkai off the roof. He looked tenderly into his lover's face. The mark of the immortal was clear upon his features. Hakkai was going to spend eternity with him.

"We destroy it." The youngest immortal smiled, "That may be the only way to get rid of that bastard."

Komyo threw the rock into the air. Kouryuu quickly broke it into pieces with one shot. The pieces of the stone disintegrated and was scattered by the wind.

But this was only the beginning of eternity…