Disclaimer: I do not own Ah! My Goddess.
:::::::: Some quick notes:
Well it is based off of my story 'Goddess of the earth.' Some three years after, Anata is moving out and Kou's there for the ride of a life time. Moving out to the big city of Tokyo, Anata must find a balance between her classes at Tokyo University, Work and saving the world. All while trying to remember to pay the rent on time......... Life's hard while on your own. Can Anata protect the Earth from a new evil? With some help from some old friends and some new friends, and we can't forget the help from Mom and Dad in some matters. And some help from her Aunts.......... Well, Skuld and Urd try to help anyways.
:::::::::: On with the story:
New Beginning, Chapter one
About a week had passed since they had found the listing in the magazine. It was perfect. With in walking distance from the University, the right price and the right size for the two of them, calling the manager of the apartment. Anata and Kou were able to arrange the chance to check out the small apartment. It was just big enough for the two of them. The Kitchen only had enough room to have a sink, stove and a frig. Along with some cabinets. Nothing like the huge kitchen Anata had grown up with at the Temple. The living room also dubbeled as their bedroom and with just barley enough room for their futon...... Anata and Kou left that part out when they were telling Belldandy and Keiichi. And as for the bath room, it's only has a small tub/shower and a sink.
After seeing the place, they fell for the apartments charm right from the beginning. Arranging with the manager, to have their things delivered there. And this is where we have our beginning.............
"Yes, thank you Mr. Shigeno. We'll be there tomorrow........ Yes and thank you again." Hanging the phone up, Anata turned to mother, father and Kou.
"What did, Mr. Shigeno say?" Belldandy asked.
"He said that the delivery men had just arrived there and are putting our boxes in to the storage area for us until we get there." Anata replied.
"Wow...... My little Girl is really moving out. It really never sunk in until just now." Keiichi said.
"We're only going to be three hours away." Anata said, trying to make her father feel better.
"We know, and keep that in mind." Belldandy said.
"Don't worry mom, we will come and visit." Anata said, knowing what her mother we getting at. "And we will have a good size mirror there for you two can use too."
"Well you two never said anything about nabours." Belldandy said, wanting to know about where her daughter was going to be living at while she's going to collage.
"Well" Kou said jumping in. "Mr. Shigeno said that there is an older collage student living just down the hall from our place and she's in her third year at Tokyo U. and there is a guy that's in the apartment below us that is an artist."
"That sounds wonderful. Have you been able to meet them yet?" Keiichi asked.
"Nope. They were both out at the time we were there. But Mr. Shigeno said that their both good people." Anata said.
"That is good to hear." Belldandy said. "Well I better get started on a big dinner for you two."
"Why's that?" Anata and Kou asked at the same time.
Keiichi and Belldandy stood there at the kitchen door and looked at each other. They both smiled, as they remembered back when Keiichi was in collage and low on cash.
"Umm...... I'll just say that ramen noodles will become your friend." Keiichi said as he fallowed Belldandy in to the kitchen.
When they were gone, Anata and Kou looked at each other.
"What was that about. I like ramen." Anata said.
"mmmmmm........ Maybe we should get some cooking pointers from your mother." Kou suggested.
"Are you saying that my cooking is bad?" Anata asked as she glared at him.
Just two weeks ago, Anata had made a bento lunch so Kou could bring to work. It was made with every bit of love and tenderness................ But if it was not for that, it was just as bad as any food that some one could get at school. Kou didn't have the heart to ditch it some where, nor pass it along to a coworker........ Not that they would take it. He sat there on that day, in the break room at work suffering through every bit of the so carefully prepared lunch.
"No, no...... I'm just saying that we both can both learn some cooking skills from your mother. That's all." Kou replied as he backed away from Anata.
"Good thing. Because I'm going to cool a lot for us." Anata said as she started for the kitchen.
"Oh....... Please that not needed. Really I can cook also." Kou said.
Later that night Belldandy and Keiichi lay in their bed looked up at the ceiling.
"Our Daughter is moving out........ Has it really been that long? I mean that it was just like yesterday we found out that we were going to have a baby........" Keiichi said as she trailed off.
"And just like it was sixteen hours ago she was taking her first steps." Belldandy said.
"Some ten hours, we were taking her for her first say of school." Keiichi added.
"Oh my where has the time gone?" Belldandy asked as she rolled over to look at Keiichi.
"I know......... "
Just as the other end of the temple, Anata and Kou were no where near sleep. They too were looking up at the ceiling.
"Who would have thought that we would be moving out?" Anata asked.
"It's almost not real........" Kou added. "Oh no........."
"What?" Anata asked.
"My mother......... I told her that I would let her meet my love when ever we would get our own place to live at."" Kou said.
"Why are you making that sound bad?" Anata asked, sitting up in her futon.
"I'll just say that my mother is just a bit out there. If you get my drift." Kou said.
"Really?" Anata asked as she sat up in the futon.
"Way out there." Kou added.
The next day, Anata and Kou woke up and were ready to go by seven o'clock. Not to give them some time for the drive, but for the long good byes from Keiichi and Belldandy. But mostly Belldandy's good byes.
"Now remember to make sure the gas is off before you leave or go to sleep, and make sure that you always have breakfast in the morning before you go to classes. Make sure that you always know what's going on around you. Know where the fire exits are at the apartments." Belldandy said as he hugged her daughter.
"Okay mom." Anata said.
"Make sure you always, always lock the door." Belldandy added.
"Yes mom." Anata said.
"And call us every night. Come and visit every weekend. And if you need anything, anything at all call me or your mother. Day or night." Keiichi said as he started to give Anata a hug.
"Yes dad......" Anata said.
"Yes, do call us every night." Belldandy said.
"Kou, Watch her for us?" Keiichi asked.
"All ways." Kou replied. "Some one needs to make sure that she stays out of trouble."
"All right we better get going." Anata said. As she tried to pull her self from her mother's grasp. "Mom? We need to get going."
"I don't want to let you go......" Belldandy cried.
"Mom, you can always pop on over by way of mirror. Anytime you want." Anata said.
Before they knew it, Belldandy and Keiichi were waving to their daughter as she and the young god they trust her with drove off.
"I can't believe that she's really moved out." Keiichi said.
"I know........" Belldandy said as she held back her tears.
Just then........
"(YAWN) what's going on out here?" Urd sleepily asked as she came out the front door half a sleep and a bottle in her hand.
"Now if we can get the last child out of the house." Keiichi jokingly said.
"Now Keiichi........" Belldandy said as she looked over at her sister, and then back at Keiichi. "Your right."
Then they started laughing at Urd as they went back in to the house. "What? I don't get it. I just asked what's going on."
It wasn't long before Anata and Kou were out of town and well on their way to Tokyo. Kou sat in the side car with two large duffle bags strapped to the side of the said car, While Anata drove with a back pact on. As they drove to Tokyo, Anata happened to look over to Kou to find him resting his knees on the edge of the hole to the side car. Sound a sleep. Looking back ahead, Anata then shifted gears and went on their way. Before they had left they had talked about stopping about half way to switch off on who's going to drive.
Back at the Temple, Belldandy and Keiichi sat in silence in the kitchen. For the first time in twenty years there was silence. Nothing blowing up, no sisters fighting, no daughter running around or out back on a small dirk bike, it was silence.
"It really is quite. Isn't?" Belldandy asked.
"It is...... I keep on waiting for Anata to come running through that door wanting to go out on the dirt bikes." Keiichi said.
Belldandy nodded. "I still can't get over it. We should call her and check up on the two of them." Belldandy said as she got up from the table.
"Bell, they have just left about thirty minutes ago. They are more then likely on the road and wont hear the phone ring." Keiichi said stopping Belldandy.
"I guess your right......" Belldandy said as she sat back down.
Just then an explosion ripped through the back yard. Jumping up Keiichi and Belldandy ran out to see what had happened. There was Urd and Skuld in a face off.
"That's it you brat..... I was only trying to help!" Urd yelled.
"And I said not too!" Skuld yelled back. With Matagu running for cover from his mother and Aunts wrath.
"Aunt Belldandy!!!!! Stop them Aunt Urd was only helping!" Matagu yelled.
Belldandy stood there hearing her sisters fighting, even a Goddess first class with no restrictions. Even had her limits, and with her daughter that had just moved out for collage and now this....... It was the breaking point.
"Oh heavenly thunders come forth and strike these that bicker and squabble before me!" Belldandy chanted.
Fearing the worse, Keiichi dove for cover taking Matagu with him. Just then a bolt of lighting came down from the sky hitting both Skuld and Urd. When the smoke cleared, the two sisters stood there smoldering with smoke coming up off of them both.
Belldandy then walked up to them and looked at her sisters. "There will be no more bickering on these grounds. Is that under stood?" Belldandy said.
"Yes Belldandy." Urd and Skuld replied in unison.
"Yes Ma'am." Matagu and Keiichi replied. Then Keiichi looked over at Matagu.
"Good thing your dad wasn't here." Keiichi whispered.
"No kidding." Matagu whispered.
Meanwhile about half way between Tokyo and Nekomi, Anata and Kou had stopped for some gas, and for something to eat. Standing at a huge map of the area, Anata scratches her head.
"What's wrong?" Kou asked.
"What? Oh nothing. Just thinking." Anata replied.
"About?" Kou asked.
"First off. I'm trying to figure out how we are going to get through traffic of Tokyo at this time of the day." Anata replied.
"And?" Kou asked again. "I heard you walking around in your bedroom all last night."
"Just wondering if my mom is alright........ Well, you know how she can get." Anata said.
"I'm sure that you're mother is doing all right." Kou said.
After thinking about is for a moment or two. Anata knew that Kou was right. Her mother would be alright and would more then likely visit some time during the weekend. "I guess you're right, Come on lets get something to eat and get going." Anata said.
"Sure, but it's my turn to drive. Remember?" Kou said as he fallowed behind.
Meanwhile back at the temple, it was true. Belldandy was sitting there at the couch glancing at the phone every second or two thinking if she should call her little girl to check up on her. But Belldandy knew that Keiichi was right about Anata and Kou being on the road. As Belldandy looked over at her sister, she knew what she was thinking.
"You want to call her don't you?" Urd asked.
Belldandy nodded. "Urd may I barrow String fellow?"
"Sorry, but He's not here." Urd replied.
"Oh? Where is he?" Belldandy asked.
"Well funny you ask that...................." Urd said trailing off.
Flash back
"No, mistress Urd. I beg of you don't do it!" String fellow begged.
"Shut up you!" Urd yelled back as she grabbed her broom.
"Noooooooo! I don't want to go. Please!!!! I want to stay here so I can sweep with Belldandy!" String fellow screamed.
Grabbing the broom by the top part of the broom stick, Urd brought String fellow up to inches to her face. "Look you. You are going to go with Anata and be her broom for now on. NOW IN THE BOX YOU GO!!!" With that Urd shoved String fellow in to a box and taped up the box with more tap that was needed.
End flash back
"You what?" Belldandy asked.
"That's right I figured that Anata would be a good mistress to String fellow. And that's that." Urd replied.
SOME TWO HOURS LATER
Finally reaching the apartment, Anata and Kou fallowed Mr. Shigeno to their new apartment.
"I had your neibore help me more your things to the apartment." Mr. Shigeno said.
"Is she in? We would really like to thank her for helping." Kou said.
"She's not home at the moment; she's at work and won't be back until late." Mr. Shigeno replied.
"Oh. Well we'll just thank her when she comes home." Anata said.
"And I think one of your boxes was talking. It was really weird." Mr. Shigeno added.
Kou and Anata looked at each other. "Well my parents did give us something and where we lived at weird things happened all the time." Anata laughed dismissing the whole things.
"Well here you go. Here is your key and welcome home." Mr. Shigeno said as he dropped the key in to Anata's hand.
Once in their apartment, Anata and Kou stood there and looked around. There in the middle of the living room was a pile of boxes. Off to the right were the small kitchenette and the door to the bathroom. To the left was closet. And there in front of them was the window, with its large over hang right below it. It's large enough to be used as a balcony but was really not meant as one.
"Well I guess that we start to unpack." Anata said.
As they started to go through their things, there was the sound of something moving in side a box. Both looking at the source of the sound, their hearts started to race.
"Do you think that the old man is just playing a trick on us?" Anata asked.
"I don't know............" Kou replied as he slowly walked to the box.
Pulling out a small knife, Kou started to cut the tape around the box, trying to open it. Just as he got the last bit of tape off. Something ripped out of the box and went out flying all over the room.
"String fellow! What are you doing here?" Anata asked. After she recovered from her near heart attack.
Hours later, down in hell. Poor Mara is sitting at a desk with stacks and stacks and stacks of paper work. Yes, demon central has been slacking off again.
"I can't believe this...... Why can't Hild do her own work? All she dose is yell and bitch about something. OR it's always 'Mare do this.' Or 'Mara get this for me!' all the time." Mara ranted as she read on through some more paper work. Some thing made her take an other look.
"Oh what's this? Things to be taken off the budget for the year?" Mara said to her self. Looking around, Mara added some of Hild's things on to the list. And signed the paper.
"That will show her to make me do all the work." Mara said as she made a new stack. Taking the papers to Hild's own office, Mara started to hear her laughing. And that was normally not a good thing.
Walking in to the office, Mara placed the papers on to the desk.
"Ma..... Mara what is this DVD I'm watching?"
"Jack ass."
"WHAT WAS THAT!!!!!" Hild yelled.
"The show. It's called Jack ass." Mara replied before Hild could grab her.
"Oh.... What do you have here?" Hild asked.
"Some papers that you need to sign." Mara replied.
"Oh what ever..... Here........" Hild said as she signed with out reading the papers.
"Great I'm done for the day." Mara said as he left the chambers of Hild.
Walking back to a little crept Mara had for him self; she couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching her. Sure, Demons, Gods and mortal men alike would check her out when ever she would walk past the oppesect sex. But this was different from that. It was like someone was looking right in side of her. But shaking it off, Mara went on to her crept. After reaching her place, Mara found some booze. And opened the bottle and took a drink.
"Ahhhhh, that was good." Mara said to her self.
Just then.......
"Mara......."
Hearing the voice, Mara froze in her place. She had no idea who it was. But the voice was deep and if frightened her to no belief.
"Who's there?" Mara called out in to her crept.
"Mara........" The voice said again.
Feeling this sharp pain in her head, Mara dropped to her knees and grabbed her head all while letting out a scream that all of Demon central could hear. Even Hild heard the scream.
Meanwhile, back at Tokyo. Anata and Kou had just finished unpacking. Standing there looking at their place. They both started to get hungry.
"Well, what do you think?" Anata asked.
"I think that it looks nice." Kou replied. "And I don't know about you, but I'm hungry."
"No kidding, you set up the kitchen and I'll go and get some food." Anata said as she went to the door.
"Sure." Kou replied.
As Anata walked on to the closest place to get some food, she passed several small shops. Until she found a little corner store that had just what she was looking for. Grabbing the things she needed for dinner, Anata was about ready to pay for the food, when she heard something going on out side. Looking out side, she saw were several people running from something. Then a force bolt went flying past the window.
"Holly Shit!!!!" Anata yelled as she dropped her basket that was filled with her food. Running out side to see where bolt had came from.
Anata froze to see who it was. There was Mara destroying just about everything that was in her way and laughing. Sure Mara would have had fun causing some chaos, but this was different.
"Mara?! What the hell are you doing!?" Anata asked.
Mara didn't say a thing all she did was look over at Anata. Her look was different. It was like Mara was not there but some one else was running her body. Anata watched as the slender Demoness over turned a near by car, and redirected her attention to Anata.
"Okay...... Something tells me that something's not right here." Anata said as she slowly back away.
Seeing Mara bring her hand up ready to fire an other bolt, she jumped out of the way. Just as a hole was lest in the ground. "Why are you doing this?" Anata asked.
Seeing that she was heading to a park Anata knew that she needed to act fast. Remembering the story her father had told her how Mara stepped on a hamaya and lost her memories. Anata needed to find a temple that had hamaya on hand. But she needed to get her to fallow her. Grabbing a rock that was on the ground, Anata throw it right for Mara's head. Feeling the rock, Mara looked over at Anata.
"That's right this way!" Anata said.
But there was a little detail that Anata had over look in her plane. She had no idea where she could find a temple; let a lone where she could find a hamaya In Tokyo. Jumping to a roof top, then in to the sky. Anata started to search around for a temple, with Mara right behind her every bit of the way. After a good three minutes of frantic flying, Anata was able to find a temple. Anata landed on the ground and ran to the shrine where Anata saw a person sweeping a side walk just in front of the shrine doors.
"Sir!!!!" Anata Yelled as she tried to catch her breath. "Sir........ I need a Hamaya." Anata said.
"Just one moment young lady........" The monk said.
Anata then looked back to see Mara walking up on the two of them with a vary pissed look on her face.
"Never mind sir, I'll be needing all of you Hamayas." Anata corrected her self.
"All of them?" The monk asked, clearly confused.
Anata looked back again to see Mara only ten feet away from the both of them. Not waiting, Anata reached in to the box that the monk had in his arms. Grabbing what she could, Anata turned around.
"All right Mara! I ready for ya!" Anata said.
Mara remained silent, and then started to form a force bolt. Just as she was about to fire it, Anata threw the arrows, all of them at the same time. With some help from some magic. All of the hamaya strike Mara, making her fall to the ground. All while the monk watched on.
"Wha- What just happened?" the monk asked in utter fear.
"What? Oh that's right........ Umm........" Anata thought for a moment. Then smiled as she placed both her hands on to both sides of the monks head.
"What you have seen, what you have heard. All it is and always be is a late summer's daydream." Anata said as she pulled her hands away from the monks head.
Anata watched as the monk closed his eyes and open them again. The monk looked at Anata with a confused look. Then shook his head.
"I'm sorry there young lady. I must have dozed off. How can I help you?" The monk asked.
"No I just need to help my friend here back home. She's not feeling good." Anata replied with a half truth.
"Oh, no thank you. I think I can manage." Anata replied with a smile.
Some fifteen minutes later, Kou was still at the apartment. Getting the kitchen all cleaned up for their first meal in their apartment.
"I wonder what's taking Anata so long. I know she's hungry, and when she'd hungry she makes it on the top of her list of things to do........." Kou said to him self.
"And at any rate, I'm glade that I was the one to get to the kitchen before Anata. I know that she tries her best when it comes to the kitchen. But.........."
Kou was cut off by hearing the door open.
"Anata? What took so long?" Kou asked before he even looked out in to the small living room.
"Oh I just ran in to some problems. That's all." Anata replied.
THUD!!
"Anata? Are you all right?" Kou asked as he looked in to the living room. To see none other then Mara there on the floor of their apartment.
"IT'S MARA!!!!" Kou yelled.
"It's all right; she's out cold right now." Anata replied as she searched through the couple boxes that were still needed to be unpacked. Finding a pillow, Anata placed it under Mara's head.
"And why did you bring her here?" Kou asked.
"Well you see......." Anata trailed off.
T.B.C.
Preview
"Anata here. Well it's been such a long time. Since the last adventure, but an all new one has started. Kou and I have our first night at our apartment, then I need to get hooked up with my class books, and both Kou and I start our search for a job. Living on our own is not cheap you know. While were gone looking for jobs, some strange things are happening at our apartment. Like my bike some how ends up with a full tank of gas, and the fridge ends up packed filled with food! What the hell is going on here?" Anata asks me.
"You know I cant tell you. Besides I think if I was you I would be more worried about what job I make up for you and Kou. Then anything else." I reply.
"You're not going to make me do anything Henti are you?" Anata asks.
"NO! You should know me better then that. After all I did make you." I reply. "Besides, I think I can come up with better things then that."
"Like what?" Anata asked with her hands on her hips.
"Oh, I don't know. Maybe something like job study at school, or something easy like working at a book store, like I said. I think I can come up with something." I reply.
"As long as it's not perverted or at a place like where you work at." Anata said.
"No, I would never curse the person, even if I dislike the most to working at a hell hole like office max." I say.
"Good thing." Anata says. "What about Kou?"
"What? The job I'm going to make up for him?" I ask.
"Yeah. What's it going to be?" Anata asks.
"Haven't thought that far ahead yet." I reply.
"So you're not going to tell me any of us are you?" Kou asks from out of no where.
"Wait, you're not in this preview yet Kou." I say.
"No kidding. This is my turn to do the preview." Anata whined.
"Well you two have more then likely not noticed that the preview is way back up there. So this is not the preview any more, just Mike talking to him self from lack of sleep." Kou said.
"Look, I can last for at lest two more days with only power naps." I reply.
"I know and because I'm the oldest of the characters you have made." Kou replies.
"Wait A minute! I' one of the first characters too........... Well kind of." Anata says.
"Well, anyways. I need to do the next chapter to 'Split Worlds,' and get some sleep." I say.
"How are you going to pull that off? I mean, I can't be in two universe at the same time." Anata points out.
"Good question, how are you going to pull this one off mike?" Kou asks.
"Easy. What is going on in 'Split Worlds' has happened in your past." I reply.