Where are we now?

By: Padfoot-chan

Thank you so much for the lovely reviews, everyone. They mean a lot to me

Yozora Blackstar: Thank you for the comment on both my art and my stories. Much appreciated :3

Midnyte Wolf: Cute name And I'm really glad you like the Robin/Ivan couple as well, they're my favorite :3

Barbelo: Sorry but the Apocalypse Energist already has a name, maybe I could write a one-shot story for you, though. Just tell me what you want and I'll see what I can do. I am glad that you like the little thing between Okami and the Apocalypse Energist so much though.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Golden Sun characters or Kanata and Aoshi. Kanata and Amiko belong to Hoshi-chan (aka Tsuna Arashi) and Aoshi belongs to Ivan. I own Okami, Yoru, Ryou, Mamoru, and the Apocalypse Energist (who's name we find out in this chapter :3)

Warning: Again, I hint at rape in this chapter. Shonen-ai. Don't like either, don't read but you better not complain to me about it, I warned you. No flames. I don't care if you don't like shonen-ai or the couples I put in this story. I only take constructive criticism of the sweet reviews that I have been getting lately 3 

Read and Review please.

Chapter four: Heaven's Masters

Robin sat up slowly, not wanting to wake Ivan now that the young Jupiter Energist had finally fallen asleep. The Venus Energist move Ivan so that he way resting on the ground now and then stood up, looking around for any sign of his friends. "Where could they be? I hope nothing bad has happened to any of them." He let out a sigh and fell back onto the grass next to Ivan. "So much the saving the world, eh?"

He closed his eyes, leaning back against the tree as his hand absently played with Ivan's silky hair, making the younger teen smile in his sleep. "I know that you are counting on me, Ivan." He whispered carefully, opening his eyes slightly so that he could watch Ivan now, "But this is bigger than me. Everything has become so confusing. We are all separated and I do not even know where to begin to look for the others in the strange world. Even if we do find the others, what do we do from there? How are we supposed to get home?

"I cannot do this by myself. I am not as great as you think I am. I only came in to all of this because I wanted to find myself." Robin bit down on his bottom lip, closing his eyes and leaning his head back further before looking up at the leaves in the tree above him, "I did not know what I wanted to do with myself. Mother expected me to be normal, settle down with Jenna or something. I never liked Jenna like that though and I did not want a life like that. I did not want to go old without having journeyed around Weyard at least once, or without having made a name for myself. I wanted to be remembered for some reason, but I guess many people want that at one time or another.

"At first it was all just an excuse, going after the Elemental Stars to help prevent the world from being destroyed. Then, it became more of; I need to save Jenna and Kraden. I don't think the others believed it because I didn't believe it myself." He smiled to himself. "Then you came in to the picture and I started to see that there was something more to this foolish world that we live in and that there was something more than being remembered. I just wanted to love you and I wanted you to love me back. I wanted to make you happy, I wanted you to be safe and I wanted you to feel protected. It is somewhat selfish, but I wanted to be the only one…that made you smile. I think I still want that even now.

"It has nearly been a year since I was last in Haidia Village. I am glad that you were able to see my mother, though. She really seemed to like you." Ivan rolled over in his sleep, making Robin pause as he watched him, an amused smile slipping onto his face as the Jupiter Energist picked himself up sleepily before resting his head on Robin's lap. "I don't know what I did to ever deserve you but I want to thank the gods for bringing us together."

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"Shit! Where are they, Mercury?" A young man with long, blood red hair and fiery red eyes ran in to a large room, the heels of his boots clicking loudly as he entered the room. A young woman with long, white-blonde hair and amber eyes turned to the man with an exasperated look in her eyes. Another woman, one with elbow length, light blue hair and deep blue eyes, hidden behind thin, round glasses looked up from a large tome before shaking her head and returning her attention to the book. "Hey, don't give me that look, you prissy little-"

"Mars, will you shut up." Snapped the woman with white-blonde hair, cutting the man off before he could finish his insult, "Mercury is looking for them as we speak. It seems that Ryou placed a spell on the Mars Lighthouse because of the Wise One's foolish actions in this matter. Robin and his friends have disappeared. So has Alex, which is why Ryou has taken the actions that he has.

"It appears that if Ryou had not done what he did, they would have died because of the Wise One. They are indebted to the eldest Legendary Warrior, it seems. He has been following our orders up until now." She tilted her head as she watched Mars, now pacing around the room before her. "Will you please stop that, your pacing is getting on my nerves."

"Oh, am I angering Venus? The goddess of Love and Beauty." Mars threw his hands up in to the air before turning on his heel, "Oh Heaven forbid. Where is Jupiter? I wish to speak with him, rather than you twits." Mercury sighed, her concentration finally broken by Mars' constant questions.

"Jupiter is in his room, sleeping, as usually. Another crises and he is once again sleeping through it." She rolled her eyes as she picked up a feather quill and wrote something down on the old book in front of her. "It would appear that Alex…is still in Weyard, somewhere in Sol Sanctum."

"And the others? Where are they?"

"Daisuke and Ryou are in Ryou's palace. Okami is…oh my." Venus turned her head, moving past Mars and hurrying to Mercury's side, leaning over her book to see.

"What? Has something terrible happened to my Okami? If something bad were to happen to him, I wouldn't be able to figive myself." Mercury closed her eyes, letting out a sigh. "Oh, Mercury, please do not delay the news any longer. What has become of Okami?"

"Akito Akiyama, the Apocalypse Energist…has reached him." Mars and Venus' eyes widened and they shared a frightened look.

"Is he…still alive?" asked Mars tentatively. Mercury pulled of her glasses, setting them down on the table in front of her.

"It is worse than that. Akiyama has…he has…" She could not bring herself to say it. She shrunk in her chair; her shoulders shaking at the tears cascaded down her cheeks and onto the pale blue robes she was wearing. Mars turned his head away as Venus fell to her knees.

"I promised myself that I would never let that happen to him again. He doesn't deserve that!" Venus tightened her fists around the cloth of her robes. "Why did Okami have to be the Savior? We knew that the elemental lighthouses had to be lit, we should have warned them about the Apocalypse Energist. It was like we gave him an open invitation to do this to Okami."

The door to a room opened and the three paused, turning to the door slowly to see a young man standing there in pale green robes. He had piercing amethyst eyes and short auburn hair, "You know that we were not allowed to do that, Venus. We may be gods, this may be our world that we created and the Legendary Warrior are our direct creations, however…we cannot interfere with their lives more than we have already. Doing so would upset the balance of power.

"If it happened, it was meant to happen. Okami is a strong boy, he was able to get through something like this, and he will be able to get through it again. It is his fault, anyway, for allowing Akiyama to get as close as he did. He should have been on guard. Did he stop him, no; he did not stop Akiyama from doing this. He allowed him to do it. You cannot overlook that fact." He turned to Mercury, "Inform Ryou of what has happened. Akiyama is his yami, he should know that he had been awakened, if he does not already know, that is."

"Yes, Jupiter, but…"

"Alex will do as he wishes now. He has no reason to return to Ryou unless it is to retrieve Daisuke." He narrowed his eyes, "Daisuke is loyal to Ryou, however his feelings for Alex may prove it difficult for him. They are no longer any of our concern. Keep an eye of Robin and Ivan, though. I have a feeling that something is going to happen to them."

"And if something does, what do you want us to do, Jupiter?" asked Mars, stepping in front of him. The taller man smiled, making Mars back down a little.

"Do whatever you want. From now on, I do not give the orders and you will no longer take them, my dear friend. I just do not want you stopping Akiyama from doing what he wishes. This is Okami's battle and he will be the one to fight it or not, do you understand that, Venus?" Venus nodded solemnly, "Very good then. As long as you do not do anything too dramatic, you can do as you wish. However, with you, Mars, you overact with everything."

"Shut up! I do not!" Jupiter waved a finger at the younger god, smiling contentedly.

"Thank you for proving my point. Now, if you would excuse me, I was in the middle of my nap." He walked out of the room and through the door he had come from. The three remaining gods stared after their leader.

"Do you really think he is going to sleep?" asked Mercury.

"With Jupiter, you can't really tell what goes on through his mind, but it would be best to do as he says. I am going to watch Robin and Ivan, where are they?" Mercury pointed at a spot in the book and Mars turned, walking out of the room. "I'll watch them from the observation tower, make sure Venus doesn't end of becoming a permanent fixture on the floor, will ya, Merc?"

"Merc…? That idiot…" muttered Mercury before turning to Venus and kneeling down on the cold floor next to her, "Venus, I am sure that Okami is going to be all right. He is still alive and that is what matters, right? Even if he was…well, I would not say that he was raped this time around. He did do this of his own mind, I think…from what we know of Akiyama, he does not posses the ability to make people do things that they do not want to." Venus shook her head, turning her amber eyes up to look at her friend.

"But I made a promise to myself that I would not allow something like this to happen to Okami ever again. He was just an innocent little child when it first happened. He wondered out of Karei Town after his parents died and I thought he would be just find on his own so I went to Venus Lighthouse to make sure that no one entered it. I should not have turned my back on him when he was so young. Jupiter told me something bad was going to happen to him but I did not listen to him. I thought…how could anyone hurt someone as cute as him?" She shivered, wrapping her arms around her body, "He may not look as if he has changed on the outside, but all you have to do is look in to his eyes. He is not the same little boy that I watched grow up. The same boy that I saw laughing as he trained with his parents. If I could change it, I would."

"Okami is different, yes, but it is for the better. He is more cautious now because of that experience. However, Venus you cannot keep watch over the boy forever. He is not the innocent little cross-Energist that you once knew and you have to except that, for both your sakes." Said Mercury, "It is as Jupiter said, if it happened, it was meant to happen. Okami could have stopped Akiyama and you know that. You know the limits of his powers better than anyone else."

"Yes, because the only limit I gave him…was his own weak body." Whispered Venus, turning her head to look out the open window, watching the clouds as they slowly rolled past them. "I still feel as if it is all my fault from picking Okami to be the Savior this time around. Maybe Yoru or Aoshi would have been a better choice. Kanata's ancestor was the pervious Savior, so she was out of the question."

"You chose Okami because you felt that he would be the perfect choice this time around. Maybe he can fight Akiyama in his own way." Mercury smiled, "After all, he is the guardian of Love and Beauty, maybe he can use that to his advantage."

"I hope you are not suggestion that Okami…seduce Akiyama! He's already swapping spit with that damned Energist!" Venus frowned, "Maybe a little more than just spit by now…" Venus and Mercury paused, both getting disturbing images in their heads at this [1].

"Thank you ever so much for that visual image, Venus." Coughed Mercury, blushing slightly as she tried to shake the image of the two Energists from her mind, "But yes, that is what I was suggesting for Okami to do. I have always been wondering about the Apocalypse Energist. He is always the yami of the top Legendary Warrior, correct? Well, before now, no one has fit his personality better than Ryou."

"Yeah, so?"

"Well, Ryou changes his colors more than anyone else as long as it is best for the other Legendary Warriors. Maybe Akiyama is the same."

"Are you saying we can change him? He is supposed to be the one capable of destroying Weyard."

"Moreover, the Savior, Okami, is supposed to be the one who has the power to stop him. Stopping does not necessarily mean killing him, right? Just as long as he does not destroy Weyard." Venus sighed, getting to her feet and walking over to the window, leaning out a little to look down at the ground, thousands of miles below them.

"I don't think Okami will go for that."

"You never know. He would do it as long as if kept his friends safe."

"Yes, but I wonder what Yoru plans to do to Akiyama once he finds out what he has done to Okami."

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Okami bit down on his lip as the dark Energist slowly trailed wet, hot kisses down his bare chest. 'I can't I stop him?' He thought numbly, 'Why do I want him to…do this…' Okami reached up slowly, running his fingers through the Apocalypse Energist's hair. "Please…keep going…"

-TBC-

::coughcough:: Yes, well… ::blushing:: Wasn't that very interesting. If you would excuse me, I think I'll go bury my head in the dirt now.

Alex: Twit.

Shut up! Try writing that with people popping into the room every minute. ::sighs:: I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. I want to keep the rating as low as possible, plus, I have trouble writing lemons. I end up blushing while I'm writing it and then losing interest and never touching the story again so you don't want me to go in to great detail on the little rape scene. If you like Akito so much, then just go to FictionPress.com and check out "Okami Cloud". That's my account name there and you can read some more stories on Okami and Akito :3 Read and Review please! Also, I added two new Golden Sun fanart pictures to my deviantART account if anyone wants to see them (tis Ivan and Felix) go to my little webpage in my profile. The fanart pictures are for a new story idea, it's going to be a crossover between Golden Sun and Harry Potter. I know that there are a few on FF.Net already but oh well. I decided it was my turn to try it as well. I just need to get my butt into gear and work on it.

1: It isn't really disturbing…have you seen Akito? ::whistles:: I need to put up his new character design on deviantART, though. I'm being a little lazy.