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Chapter 32          

"…..Anubis was the Egyptian god of the underworld. When someone would die he would put their hearts onto a golden scale and weigh them against the feather of truth. If they were pure, the feather would sink but if they were not, their heart would sink and they would spend the rest of eternity in-" Kat paused in her reading as Kenshin wheeled himself next to her, "What are you reading?"

"The gods and goddesses of ancient times," Kat said as she flipped the book over to the cover to read the title.

"Must not be very interesting if you can't even remember the title," he commented.

"Mayonaka sent it to me. He wants me to read about his favorite gods," Kat said.

"Who's Mayonaka?" Kenshin asked.

"My son," she said before realizing her mistake.

Kenshin frowned, "May I ask who his father is?"

Kat froze and he caught the expression on her face before she could hide it. There was a long pause before Kenshin spoke, "How deep was our relationship? I need to know the truth."

"But do you want to know the truth?" Kat asked.

Something red caught her eye as it landed into one of the sakura trees. She looked up at it as did Kenshin. It was a scarlet ibis.

'But what is an ibis doing out here? Aren't they tropical?'

They stared silently at the bird that was no more than six feet away.

"It's so beautiful," Kat said.

Kenshin nodded in agreement. The bird looked so out of place sitting in the among the pink sakura blossoms. Kenshin thought of how much he resembled the ibis. The bird swayed a bit on its perch in the branch.

"Its hur-" she cut herself off.

The bird fell from the tree and landed at their feet. Kat stared shocked at the bird that had literately dropped dead. Even now, the bird's beauty was not marred by death.

"It must have been gotten caught in a hurricane and was carried here by the winds," Kat said.

'How strange,' Kenshin thought, 'such a beautiful creature but so out of place…just like me.'  

Kat jumped again when Vash appeared behind them. "I'll see you later Kenshin!" Kat called when he began to wheel away.

Kat stared at Vash asking him without words what it was he wanted. Sensing that it would be a longer talk than necessary, Kat sat down on the porch. "You know," Kat attempted to start a conversation, "I could always bring Rem back."

Vash stiffened, "Don't waste you're precious whishes whistling in the dark."

"But don't you want her back?" Kat asked hurt a bit by the harshness in his voice.

"It's not that I don't…but if she's back I'd have to deal with the consequences of my selfish actions…" 'Just like what you're doing now…' He sighed, "It would be wrong to bring her back. People weren't meant to be brought back to life." Kurama appeared and whispered to Vash, "About that talk…" Vash turned and left Kat whispering to herself, "Was I that wrong to ask…? Or was I just doing just what Vash said? …Am I whistling in the dark?"

^_^

Kat tweaked Inuyasha's ears. The two friends sat in the branches of the God Tree chatting away.

"So what are you going to do now?" Inuyasha asked.

"…I'm not sure. How did you decide with Kikyo? …Oh wait, that never happened."

"Maybe it's time to take off those rose colored gasses?" he asked.

"What these?" Kat whined, "I thought they looked good on me."

Inuyasha opened a golden eye to glare at her, "That's not what I meant and you know it." Kat sighed as she slipped her pink tinted glasses back on. "You know what I think?" Inuyasha asked, "You need to stop expecting so much from Kenshin. He's not the man he used to be and he may never be again." Kat tried to ignore what he had just said but it was hard to ignore the truth. "You need to stop expecting so much from all of us actually," Inuyasha said.

"What do you mean?" Kat asked.

He sat up, "You still forget sometimes that I'm not the same Inuyasha you knew on TV. You used to be the same way with Kenshin too. You tried to mold him into the man he was on TV but he finally broke under the pressure."

"That's enough!" Kat said and jumped down from the tree.

She landed hard since they had been about fifty feet up but she managed to stand, "I don't need or want to take this from you!" Inuyasha jumped down next to her. Kat glared at him awhile longer. "You're right," she said.

Inuyasha growled, "You know I don't always like being right."

He leaned down and Kat climbed onto his back. 'Maybe he really is right,' Kat thought as she slipped off her rose colored glasses.

^_^

"So what are you going to do?" Kurama asked Vash. The needle-noggin was staring at the fish Kat called Kenshin again. "Vash? Are you even listening to me?" Kurama asked a bit annoyed.

Vash turned around, "What?" Kurama growled in annoyance. Vash threw up hands, "Just kidding!"

Kurama lifted an eyebrow waiting for him to continue.

"I don't know what I'm going to do. You know I thought I'd be able to finally put my past behind me but it seems the farther I try to leave it behind, the faster it catches up…You know Kat even asked me today if I wanted to bring Rem back."

"And what did you say?" the yoko asked.

"I'd be lying if I told you I wouldn't be happy to see her alive again but with her back… it'd be like everything in my life never happened. I guess in a way, Rem had to die to make an impact on my life," Vash said sadly.

Kurama hesitated a moment before speaking, "Are you aware that Kat is the reincarnation of Rem?"

Vash frowned.

"No…I'm wrong… She isn't the reincarnation…She's the great-great-grandmother."

^_^

"Vix," Jasmine asked, "Are you going to marry Dev?"

Vix laughed, "If I can't get Vash to marry me!"

A vein popped out of Jasmine's forehead, "What was that?"

They laughed knowing full well they both were joking. Tanya smiled, "I like living a fairytale life."

"It's no fairytale," Vix said, "After all, only seven percent of people get their fairytale ending."

"But isn't this just that? A fairytale? After all, all fairytales need problems and villains," Tanya said.

"Then who's the villain?" Jasmine asked.

They all frowned, "Good question."

"Maybe it isn't a fairytale after all," Vix said.

"Well if it is," Kat said entering the room, "It's very screwed up and doesn't follow the usual lines to a story." She thwacked the nearest person (which just so happened to be Tanya) while she yelled, "My life isn't a fairytale and neither is yours! You call this a fairytale?! How can you call you're lives fairytales?! We've been screwed over and over again! So tell me girls…how is this a fairytale?!"

They hung their heads, Kat was absolutely right. They didn't live fairytale lives. Each and everyone in the room had one problem or another. But what surprised them most, was that after reflecting on their pasts, Kat had been the one to save each and every one of them from going down the wrong path.

Jasmine was an ex-alcoholic who had met Kat the day she planned to commit suicide.

Tanya had been almost like Kat's adopted sister since Kat had protected her from abusive parents.

Vixen was someone with a really screwed up and miserable past. She had been dirt poor all her life and had to turn to the only way she knew how to make money. Vixen had become a concubine to several different men who all mistreated her and paid her very little. It was the only thing Vix had learned to do from her mother and she despised her for it. Vix had become tricky and sly when she slipped out at night to visit other the men who used her as a concubine. Two of the men eventually found out and Vix was in deep trouble. Kat just so happened to pass Vix one night in an alley and Kat helped her escape the men who were after her. Vix only ever once told Kat her real name and being as tricky as Vix was, her nickname from her horrid past stuck like tar and feather.

They all had horrid pasts, Vix's being the worst, but one thing that no one understood was how Kat managed to save them all. Whenever they needed help Kat was right there behind them but Kat had kept all her problems hidden so well that even they had a hard time seeing past her masks.

She was Supergirl, there to save the world... but who had been there to save her…?

Tanya thwacked Kat just for the sake of starting a fight and it erupted into a savage pillow fight. Feathers floated in the air causing them to occasionally sneeze. They laughed and their troubles were forgotten in that brief moment.  

(A/N: A little depressing… or not… Well best I could think of at the moment! PLEASE REVIEW!!!)