This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own Teen Titans or any DC comics alluded to in this story. Kenkaku and his swords are mine, however, as well as the basic 'Prophecies Universe' and characters.

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Rolling the Dice:

The Second Prophecy

A 'Prophecies Universe' fanfiction.

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"text": spoken English

"text": spoken Japanese (translated or flavor text)

"text": war cry, English

"text": war cry, Japanese.

text: thoughts

-text-: stressed word

text: printed or typed English

text: printed or typed Japanese

'text': sound effect

Japanese flavor text will be in a glossary at the end of the chapter.

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Brother Blood's speech was wrapped up quickly and the rest of the day was designated free time. "Sunei," groaned Ittou. "I will be meditating. Snap me out of it without a very good reason, and you will die. If I'm feeling generous, it'll be quick. If not…" He bared his fangs, which spoke for itself. "Am I understood?"

"Crystal," answered Stone, who knew that Ittou would be very, very, -very- pissed. "I'll keep the short one away from you."

"Would I be able to join you?" asked Mammoth.

A snow-white eyebrow arched. "Excuse me?" Ittou's luminescent silver eyes scanned Mammoth. "You meditate?"

"Yes. Many of the attacks I possess that are not of a simple punching or kicking nature require a great deal of concentration to pull off. I am one of the better students in Martial Arts."

Ittou actually bowed to Mammoth. "I might have misjudged you. Please, I would be honored."

"You wouldn't be the first one to do that. Shall I show you the meditation room?"

"A room solely for meditation?" Ittou nearly bit his lip before remembering that he had pointed teeth. "I don't suppose you know where to find some sencha around here, do you?"

Mammoth inclined his head. "I have a very large supply. And if you wish, we could converse in Nihongou, though mine is not very good. Perhaps you could help me become better?"

Ittou's eyes went wide. "I have severely misjudged you. We shall have to talk."

"After meditation, perhaps? The room is this way."

Gizmo scratched his bald head as he watched Mammoth lead Ittou off, deep in a conversation in Japanese. "Since when did he meditate?"

Jinx sighed and though of hexing Gizmo but settled for whacking him in the back of the head. "He's been at it ever since he started taking Martial Arts." She turned to Stone, whose mouth was wide open, and staring at the hallway that Ittou and Mammoth had walked down. "Uh, that wasn't normal, right?"

"He's -never- done that before," answered Stone. "So what do people do for fun around here?"

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Ittou settled into seiza and immediately reached wa. Now, let's see. I have to go into the physical representation of my mind to make the connection. Been a while.

With no discernable exterior change he divested his mental self from his body, finding himself in his normal body, wearing Kanesada and Muramasa. He stood in the middle of his sensei's dojo.

Up until he was hit by a flying tackle. He immediately wrapped his arm around his tackler and kissed her. Raven broke the kiss and shook her head "It's already been hell, and it's only been a few hours."

Kenkaku kissed her again. "I'm lucky. I've had to keep the Ittou charade up, and that's keeping me distracted. God, but he's a pissy bastard."

"Who?"

"Ittou. Actually, he and Mammoth seem to be getting on pretty well."

"Mammoth?" She arched an eyebrow.

Kenkaku laughed. "He meditates, and he's also promised to introduce Ittou to a supply of green tea."

"Mammoth meditates?" The look on Raven's face was priceless.

Ker gave her a kiss. "Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense. He -is- rather skilled at directing the force of his strikes through solid objects. He told Ittou that he's practicing in a sort of incomplete kiaijutsu." He gave a considering look. "Actually, Mammoth doesn't seem like that bad of a person." He caught Raven's look and shrugged. "What? I know he's a villain. So's Ittou, but even he has some redeeming qualities. Honestly, I'd think if you could get him to quit the HIVE, he might make a good Titan."

Raven appeared to think it over a bit. She smiled. "Well, it'd be your job to get him to quit, wouldn't it? I hate to bring business into this but…"

"Then don't," saidKer as he captured her lips in a passionate kiss.

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Unfortunately, it didn't seem like there was much in the way of fun stuff planned for a while, and jaunts out into the city were forbidden to Team Hydra for a few weeks. So Gizmo had retreated, grumbling, into his workshop to work on a new mobile unit, upgraded with greater speed, if not as much strength. It was obvious that Kenkaku was getting to him, so much so that he was willing to sacrifice strength, which would help him against Cyborg, for speed, which was necessary to fight the modern-day ronin. That left Jinx and Stone alone in the common room.

"That new Titan is really staring to piss him off, huh?" asked Stone.

"With good reason," answered Jinx. "The new one, Kenkai, or whatever his name is, is just plain dangerous. Besides, if you ask me, the boy has a crush on me, and one of the few times he got me alone, the new guy and Raven showed up."

"What happened?"

"The witch took me down, and Gizmo claims to have beaten the swordsman."

"You think he didn't?"

"Mammoth came by later and said that the new guy had some wounds, but nothing like what Gizmo's pack could do. And one of the swords that the guy was holding was doused in blood. So much blood that it looked like he had killed someone."

"Whoa. You sure this guy's a hero?"

"That's a good question. Anyway, I'm glad Ittou is so willing to take him on. He's just a pain to fight against."

"I imagine." Stone tapped his chin. "So, what do people do for fun around here?"

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"Okay Stone, I'm here," said Ittou as he stood in the doorway of Stone's room.

"Good, good." Stone waved him in.

Ittou walked in about three strides before stopping, shocked to see Cyborg sitting where Stone had been. "Uh, might you want to keep in character?"

"No need. You and I are under both a holocloak and a sound damping field. I've got a little show running so that we can report in."

"Oh, good idea."

"I assume you already made out with Raven."

"We talked," answered Kenkaku evasively.

"Right…" said Cyborg, "Talked."

"We did talk."

"In between make-out sessions of epic proportions." Kenkaku said nothing. "Hah! I knew it."

"Mythological," grumbled the ronin in Japanese, "Mythological proportions."

"What was that?"

"Shut up and turn on the communicator," said Kenkaku, blushing lightly, an impressive feat, as he was still wearing the Ittou skin.

"Yeah, yeah." Cyborg turned on his arm's communicator and held it out so both of them were picked up by the camera. "You there Raven?"

Raven's cloaked form appeared on the screen. "Good to see you two."

"Though you prefer the special line, right?" asked Cyborg.

Raven blushed, though with her hood up, Cyborg couldn't see it. Kenkaku couldn't see it per se, but he knew it was there. "A little off-topic, wasn't that?" she retorted as she regained her composure. "How goes the mission?"

"We got put in with Team Hydra, as you know," said Kenkaku. "Mammoth seems to be getting along well with me. I've also got a suspect for your half-sister. Gizmo seems like a right bastard."

"I'm getting along well with Jinx. Gizmo really is a bastard. The new headmaster is planning the destruction of the Titans."

"Oh, yeah. Can you research spells that make both the caster and the recipient's eyes glow red? I'm pretty sure demons and half-demons are immune, and it can be used on plenty of people at once."

"What are you talking about, dawg?"

"Brother Blood cast it at the speech. I don't know if it hit you, but the only person I saw to not have their eyes flash red was a girl with what looked like demonic magic crackling around her."

"She's your suspect?" asked Raven.

"Yeah. I'm going to try and confirm my suspicions or see if I'm wrong."

"Okay. Be careful, Ker."

"I will."

"Hey, what am I, chopped liver?"

"Yes," said Raven with a smirk.

"Prepackaged," added Kenkaku.

"Whatever man."

"Anyway, I'll look up that spell and give Robin an initial report. Good luck."

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Japanese Flavor Text:

Sunei: Finally

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A/N: Yes, I know it's been forever and that this chapter is blindingly short. What can I say? School. I'm working on a big project that's going on throughout the year, but I got the itch. Expect infrequent updates on this story. I'm starting a rewrite of one of my oldest stories and doing an ongoing story for school…needless to say, I'm busy. But this story is not dead. Far from it. Just keep reviewing, it helps.