"Wow, you're really cute under there!" Ketziah joked about Touya. She was the lead singer for Broken Maiden, and her love, Raziel, the drummer for Broken Maiden, grinned and nodded.

Touya blushed. "Umm, Thank you…" Ketziah was suddenly quiet, and serious.

Raziel stopped laughing immediately, as Ketziah took Touya's chin in hand and brought her face close to his, looking deep in his eyes. Touya shifted uncomfortably, and then was shocked to see an image forming in Ketziah's eyes, which were glossing over. He saw himself avoiding Yusuke, and then he saw himself leaving Yusuke's house, then returning to Yusuke and going to dinner, returning to Yusuke's home to find Yusuke pushing him away, then he saw himself sobbing. He saw Yusuke run into his room at the last minute comfort him. He saw the two of them kissing, and then darkness. He saw Yusuke trapped somewhere, and then that image changed to Jin's face, dying and weak, and then to Touya and Yusuke embracing, and then to Jin's corpse and Botan's arrival.

Then he saw a new series; somehow, he knew it was a different series. He saw him and Yusuke fighting, tearing each other apart with knife-words. He saw Yusuke leave, then him captured, like the other series. He saw himself deciding to help too late. He saw himself arriving just in time to see Yusuke die, and a dark tormentor laughing. He saw himself cut down by the tormentor, then he saw Jin appear too late to save anyone. He saw Jin fighting and dieing too, then he saw Jin's soul parting from his and Yusuke's, and going hellwards so he wouldn't be bothering Touya.

Touya's eyes widened at these series of images, and he pushed himself away from Ketziah, tearing out of her hold and falling back against a convenient desk, panting. Ketziah eyes cleared as she refocused on a terrified Touya.

Ketziah formed a sign of the gods on her chest. "Gods all, you've seen horrors, Touya. And they are not yet over. You saw it in my eyes, didn't you?"

Touya nodded. "I saw… Oh gods, I don't want… It's not all true, is it?"

Ketziah shrugged, her eyes as wide as Touya's. "It could be. It depends on what path you and those around you take. Some of it will happen regardless. Some of it depends. Most of it depends."

"When, Ketziah?"

Ketziah shrugged again. "Who is to know, but Father Time? I pray the Mothers protect you."

Raziel spoke. "Touya, I see it in you, too. Your aura has been abused. You've suffered frequent abuse, and persevered, but then someone close tore you, right? You had healed under Yusuke, but that person showed up before you were ready, if you could ever be ready. He'll be back a third time. But the third time… will… be different."

Touya's thoughts raced back to the image of Jin, dying and weak, which he'd seen in Ketziah's eyes, and the image of Botan, coming to Jin. "I'm not going to…. I'm not going to do what he did, right? I'm not going to be like him, right?"

Raziel and Ketziah glanced at each other. "We do not see that. We see only hurt. Hurt is a veil; all beyond it is unclear. It is possible, that you do this thing. It is possible you do not. It is not of your nature. Father Time will tell us." Raziel said.

Ketziah nodded. "Of Yusuke, be careful. Protect him; do not let anything come between you. I see you two fighting, and almost destroying one another. Be careful."

Touya glared. "Of course! I'd never let that happen! Besides, he always protects me! How am I to protect my protector?"

Raziel shook his head. "One day, you will need to switch places, if only for a time. You should accept it and be ready." Touya looked from Ketziah and Raziel, then turned and ran off, confused and upset. He would go to Yusuke, and he would feel better.

Ketziah and Raziel looked at each other again. "I'm not sure I like his aura. He's been tainted and beaten and hurt so many times. I fear he can't live alone anymore. I fear he has to belong to someone. I fear he can't love truly." Ketziah and Raziel both nodded.

"Gods all hold him safe."

A/N-Ketziah and Raziel are my original Charries, you may not play with them with out my permission! FEAR ME!

A/N2-this is officially the last already written chapter I have for this. It will be continued, but I've had a writing block on this story for sometime ((I know how it's gonna go, I just can't get it on paper!)) So it might be a while before another update ((not like it isn't always... sorry guys! I love you people who are patient even with me sporadic updates!)) though hopefully it will be more often because I'll have new stuff I want up! -;;; we will see....

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