Feathers of Love

Chapitre Eighteen: The God


The Stink God made his way towards his usual tub- the one that Sen and Rin had just cleaned. The water had drained out of the tub and the whole tub, including the cubicle was sparkling clean, albeit still wet from its cleaning. However, the Stink God did not notice, and just went into the tub, waiting for someone to serve him.

Since Sen was in the cubicle, he gestured her with one of his hands. Sen wanted to use one of her hands to stop herself from breathing in the stink but she controlled herself. Grabbing one herbal tag from the floor, she sent it to the boiler room. In moments, the water came cascading down from the pipe. The smell of herbs filled the cubicle. However, it very quickly smelt disgusting as it touched the skin of the Stink God. Rin at that moment returned with hers and Sen's dinner and it wilted in front of her. She hurried to Sen and seeing that more water would be needed to make the Stink God clean, she sent another herbal tag to the boiler room.

"Sen! Catch hold of this!" Rin shouted as she threw something to Sen. Sen caught it and used it to wash the God's back without knowing what that thing was. It was very big and looked like a big flat piece of wood with a handle. Sen looked Rin, who was mimicking how to use the thing. Sen followed what Rin was doing and the Stink God groaned with pleasure, unlike a few moments ago, he was trembling.

As Sen washed the God, the water came from the pipe. Sen continued washing the God while Rin helped to fill the tub with water. The tub that the two had meticulously cleaned in the expectation of the Stink God became slimy with the God's dirt and other unknown things, making it look as if it had not been cleaned before. Sen worked her way and very soon, she felt something. Something like a handle that was quite thick. While she looked at what that thing really was, she was doused with the water that Rin had asked for with another herbal tag.

At this moment, the God pulled Sen towards him and pointed the thing that looked like a handle to her. Sen looked at it and the God, who was gesturing frantically. It looked as if the God wanted that thing out…

Sen placed her hands on the thing…

...and gave an almighty pull…

...and it came out of the God's body, along with the dirty stuff which it was made up of. Now, she stank from head to toe with the stuff that had come out of the God's body- the slime and other things.

However, to her surprise, even though she was smelly, she wiped the stuff away from her eyes and looked at the being in front of her. Instead of the Stink God, she saw a dragon with a human face. It looked at her and roared once. Instantly, the dirty stuff had disappeared from her body and her clothes was clean and dry again. The dragon whispered in Sen's ear, "Your true name is Sakura, as the girl you have hidden here has said. Do not deny it, or you will regret it forever."

Sen nodded her head and as the God flew out of the bathhouse, small pieces of gold appeared everywhere, including on top of the dirty stuff that once covered the God's body. She ran over to Rin, and asked, "Who is that God we served? He does not seem to be one of our regular customers."

"Why, my dear! He is the River God! I think that he had visited this bathhouse because of the fact that the pollution disturbed his slumber in his palace, and the place was not clean enough to wash himself clean."

"But why his slumber? Is he usually awake?"

"No, the River God is usually sleeping, and when he is sleeping, the river he is guarding is peaceful and the people will live peacefully. If he is awake, it is either he is angry at the people or wants to do something like he did today. Also, you have to remember what the God had said. It is very important. For whatever this God has said, it is true and he has not spoken to anyone for the last five hundred years, or so the records stated the last time I checked."

Sen looked at her silently as she thought about what she had just learnt. "So, whatever he says is important then?"

"Yes." Rin answered her question. "Do not doubt his powers, you will only make yourself confused when you think about everything. I'll get us dinner again, since the one I took just now is not suitable for eating any longer."

Sen nodded dumbly as she went back to the tub, which she supposed she had to clean again since the God had used it just moments ago and it was still dirty.

"Sen!" Yubaba yelled. "Oh! Stop getting those gold pieces! They are mine!" She was ignored, however. Her workers were still snatching whatever gold they could find and hide them away in their pockets. "Sen! Clean that tub again, do you hear me?" Sen nodded her head as she made her weary body walk into the tub to wash the stuff away- she was still not used to working in the night and sleeping during the day.

By the time she had finished cleaning the tub, it was almost dawn, since Rin was summoned by Yubaba to serve other guests while she was to clean the tub alone. She took the already cold dinner from the corner of the cubicle where she had placed it and ate her dinner, before going back to the room she had shared with the other female workers to deal with the problem of Nova.


Meanwhile, Haku had already reached the house of Zeniba and did whatever Yubaba had instructed him, except that he only escaped from the place injured, with the seal and was on his way back to the bathhouse, chased some paper-like creatures sent by Zeniba…


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Well, this chapitre is done, yeah! So sorry that it took me such a long time to update, but also of the fact that I could not upload the chapitre. Sorry to keep you all waiting, and I hope that you have enjoyed this chapitre! Ja!

Note: I will not change the layout of this fanfiction, though there are new options for me to do so. I may do so in other fanfictions in the future, but I hope that you do not mind. :) This way, it will be easier to edit and make the necessary words bold. :D