Hope you enjoyed that last chapter of Terra Angel! Let us now recap the last chapter… Yusuke met Setsunei, whose eye color is the same as her attitude. She was attacked by some people and is now recovering at Yusuke's house. She met Kurama and Kuwabara and she isn't really opening up. In this chapter we'll notice that Setsunei gets and interesting new sword O.o so, on with the chapter!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters that appear in this chapter from Yu Yu Hakusho. Nor, do I own Shinjitsu no Uta by Do as Infinity. I do own Setsunei and the boy who appeared in her dreams.

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Setsunei rose immediately to see she was in a mysterious forest filled with flowers that bloomed in the night air. She looked around to see if she was alone and no one appeared to be there. She stood up and looked around again to make sure no one was around. She was still alone. She walked forwards, knelt down, and looked at her reflection at the water's edge. She looked at herself "Where am I…?" She studied her reflection closely and looked into her deep blood red eyes.

"Is this a dream…?"

She looked around at her surroundings and rose to her feet. She walked around a bit and set her eyes on the forest ahead.

Should I go on ahead…? Or should I stay…? What if- What if this place could be the key to my past?

She decided against staying in one place and walked into the dark forest ahead. She saw nothing but the moonlight shine through the leaves and was beginning to think this was a waste of time. "Keh, Guess it isn't…" She turned around and began to walk away but she was face to face with an ugly, black, misshapen thing with golden colored eyes. "Wha- what the hell is that!" It came at her and she managed to dodge every blow it delivered. It jumped at her and it missed once more. She managed to get behind and tried to kick it. She knelt down and swept her foot to its side. It went straight through it. What! She thought. It went straight through! I don't understand! She quickly rose to her feet. It jumped at her again and she quickly moved out of the way. "Rrrrgh, how do I kill it?" she kept dodging and decided that she should run away. She ran as fast as she was worth. More and more came out of the shadows and she ran further and further. She stopped for a second to catch her breath and one managed to scratch her on the ankle. "Ow! Dammit!" She kept running until she was sure that she had lost them. She looked ahead and there was a boy resting on the tree. He was wearing a red t-shirt, baggy manila colored jeans, yellow sandals, had black hair, and crystal blue eyes.

"You have to get out of here! There are some creepy-looking creatures and you're going to get in my way!"

"Don't worry…" he said, pushing himself off the tree, "… they can't get to us here, at least… not yet…"

"What are you talking about?"

"You can trust them…"

"Who are you?"

"Don't turn them away…"

"I said, WHO ARE YOU?"

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Setsunei woke up in a cold sweat, tangled in the covers. She walked quietly walked out of the room, and to the bathroom to quickly brush her hair. She ran out the door and into the cool night air. The breeze stung her cheeks. She walked aimlessly and looked cautiously around every corner she went down. She saw a park and walked over to it. She looked around at the trees and through the tops to see the stars. "My life has turned completely upside down. What am I going to do? What can I do?" she wandered deeper into the forest and stopped at a sakura tree in the middle of the forest by the water. Who was that person…? What was he talking about…?

"I need to do something, I don't know what though…" she took out her pendant and fingered it carefully. She noticed that it was doing something out of the ordinary.

It was glowing.

"It's never done that before…" She rose to her feet. "Now I know what to do. If I sing, then I won't have to think about it." She looked to the sky and sang to her heart's content,

"Akaku nijimu

taiyou wa subete o

Terashite kita

ima mo mukashi mo

Kono yuuyami ni

egaiteru souzou wa

Hatashite

kono te ni oenai mono no no ka?

Motto ima ijou ni

hadaka ni natte

Ikite yuku jutsu oshiete yo

Honno sukoshi dake

watashi o yogoshite

Sou yatte hitori

kizutsuitari

Mawari o nakushita toshitemo

Shinjitsu no uta wa

kono mune ni nagare…" she stopped "I never remembered the rest of this song…" she stopped and her pendant was still glowing. "Why is it glowing like that?" She looked around and saw the same dark creature in her dream. "If I'm correct, none of my attacks will affect it. So I'd better go with my only available option…" she turned on her heel and started running. More and more were coming out of the shadows as they did the last time she met up with them. "Where are all of them coming from!" she said while one latched itself onto her left ankle. She shook it off and it left a deep scratch on it. She bent down to check on her bleeding ankle, but the creatures were catching up fast. She ran deeper and deeper into the forest until she saw the boy in the same attire she last saw him in, not even looking up to meet her gaze.

"You!"

"Hi…"

"What are you doing here!"

"I've come to tell you some valuable information, Setsunei…"

"Like what…?"

"You know you can trust them… so why don't you?"

"Who are you talking about!"

"You know who and what I'm talking about, Setsunei, so don't act like you don't know…"

"Why should I? They haven't earned itand neither have you. So why should I believe you?"

"You have to because you need to… Unless you want to be lost in the darkness… without a clue who you are…"

"How do you know that! I never told anyone that!"

"Don't turn them away…"

"Who are you…?"

"Don't you turn away either…"

"How do you know me…?"

"For another time, Setsunei… Just remember what I said…"

"Wait!"

He started to fade away and Setsunei ran over to him and tried to grasp his hand.

"Who are you?"

"I can't tell you… Not yet…"

He was now almost gone. She reached out to him, and managed to touch his fingertips. A golden light came from her pendant and enveloped her. It went down her torso and swirled down her right arm. It started to take form and it manifested itself into a sword, engraved with a crown mark in the center.

"A… sword?" the misshapen creatures reappeared and Setsunei took a fighting stance.

"Time to die." She ran at one of them and sliced in half. More started coming and she hacked them to pieces. While she was fending of some of the dark creatures, one jumped at her from behind and left a long deep scratch down the middle of her back.

"Ow! Dammit!" she immediately turned around and sliced in half. She continued to bring them all down until there were only a few left and they melted into the ground.

"Is it over…?" she walked over to the place where the creatures just were and she peered down into the ground. Something came out of it and Setsunei immediately jumped back. It was larger than the others and most definitely more ugly,

"Oh my God!" she said, backing up slowly. It tried to smash her but she moved out of the way. She dodged every blow it delivered. It brought to down its fist once more and she just moved out of the way and she started slicing and hacking away. It seemed as if it were doing no good to attack with her sword.

"Dammit, it's not working!" she moved out the way to avoid another attempt at smashing her by jumping in the air. She brought down her sword, it gleaming in the moonlight. It used its other arm to knock her into a tree. She hit the tree and fell to the ground in a crumpled heap.

"No, I… can't… give up yet…" she pointed her sword at the thing and the same golden light came out of the tip of her sword, disintegrating the in the blast.

"What- just happened?" she creature stared at the sword, studying its every detail and fell to her knees out of exhaustion. She looked the sword once more and fell into unconsciousness.

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She woke facing a fiery gaze like her own and jumped out of surprise. She scooted back to get a better look at the person staring her in the face. He gave a smirk at her shock.

"Are you scared?"

"One of the last things that crossed my mind… Hiei" She said flashing a competitive smile. She pulled herself to her feet and winced at the pain.

"You hurt yourself while fighting, didn't you?"

She was caught between a gasp and a squeak. She didn't think anyone could hear her. She didn't want anyone to hear her. She knew if anyone did, that Takeshi would soon find out that she was near.

"Curse that stupidakki and his stupid cronies…" she whispered to herself.

She looked around for any of Takeshi's cronies, but no one was around except for Hiei. She sighed out of relief. She started to finger her pendant absent-mindedly, ignoring Hiei's presence.

"I heard your singing too…"

"Don't tell anyone that I was singing. If you do, you'll meet an untimely demise."

"I doubt that you possess that kind of power."

She had him up by his shirt in a heartbeat.

"I have more than enough power to kill you, and if you don't believe me… I'll have to demonstrate."

Hiei saw her gleaming red pendant around her neck and looked up to meet her fiery red eyes.

"So, you're Setsunei. You don't look as powerful as you say you are."

"Shut up! Do not annoy me tonight! I am really not in the mood to deal with some vertically and mentally challenged fool, who thinks they're smarter than what they really are! I have more important things to do than to kick your pathetic ass!"

She dropped him, turned away, and said, "If you had any idea… how tough my life's been, then you would understand…"

"I bet."

She turned her head and said, "Wanna' bet?"

He gave her a competitive smirk and she returned it.

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"I never knew who my parents really were and lived in orphanages most of my life. The orphanages were never too good about me staying there so, I was beaten frequently. After that, I was adopted by a man named Kanja. He beat me as well. Like, he threw knives at me and expected me to dodge them. Or when he beat me with extension cords with several attachments, like glass or paperclips. He put ball bearings on the steps so I could just trip and fall. I had to go down the trellis to get out of my own house! It was pretty sad and pathetic by my standards. I ran into Takeshi when I had to go to the store. He'd healed me and he took care of me when I ran away from Kanja. He helped me escape him and I stayed with him for a while. He was nice at first, but then he made me steal for him, fight for him, sing for him, perform in general for him, and miscellaneous other things to do for him and I hated it. It was Kanja all over again. So I escaped and hid in several schools and I was always abused in some fashion. I had to learn the hard way that there's no kindness and trust in the real world. All you could trust is yourself and sometimes… it feels like I can't even trust myself anymore…" she realized what she was saying at the moment and stopped immediately. "Sorry, I'm rambling. Just forget what I said." She remembered that he knew who she was before she had said her name and thought of the possibilities. "Wait a second… How the heck do you know who I am! I didn't tell you my name, nor have I met you before! Start talking!"

"Kurama told me about you, but he failed to mention the feisty personality you possess."

"Don't start… Unless you want to wake up later black and blue… then I suggest you lay off…" she heard rustling in the bushes and knew Takeshi had found her once again.

Damn it all.

She rose immediately from her sitting position and tried to call up her sword. It didn't work so she just looked in the direction that the sound was coming from.

"Don't tell anyone I was here, Jaganshi… Or I will kill you now." Setsunei took off in the direction opposite of the sound. She kept running until she knew she was far from Hiei's sight and Takeshi's crony.

How come every time that I get away from him-

She ran straight into Takeshi and fell backwards. She slowly rose up her head to meet his gaze.

"We've got to stop meeting like this… Look, I told you I would not come willingly, or would I do whatever you told me to do anymore. I'm free from you, and I plan to stay that way."

"Dearest Setsunei, I don't plan to take away your freedom."

"Utsosuke…"

"Why must we do this every time we meet, Sunei? We could just-"

"No, I will not let you control me any longer, Takeshi."

"Who says I have to take control of your free will to get my way?"

"What are you getting at!"

"Those people, your memories…"

"Who are you talking about! What about my memories!"

"The Reiki Tantei and his friends, of course. You think they may be the key to your memories…"

"Don't meddle in the personal affairs of my life, Takeshi. I will not let you manipulate me by using my emotions."

"Oh, but that doesn't make it impossible to do so…"

"Just stay away from me, Takeshi, onegai…?" she had her eyes to the ground trying to avoid his gaze.

"Look at me, Sunei"

"No…"

"Look at me."

"No…"

He walked up took and pulled up her chin to look into his liquid amber eyes. She saw immediately that had an ivory horn poking out of the middle of his forehead.

"You're- you're a demon!"

He dropped her to the floor, she was cradling her chin, and he was rubbing the horn.

"Keh, yeah. It is better that you know. Simply, because I can use my full power on you now."

"Bring it on."

They ran at each other, with Takeshi's agility much higher than Setsunei. He tried to trip her, but she caught on too fast. She jumped up and kicked him in the head and he fell to his knees.

"Not bad, Sunei, but try this for size!"

He made copies of himself and they all came at Setsunei from all directions and she jumped up avoiding the attack.

"You're getting better… much better than before-"

"Shut up!"

She came at him from above kicking him in the head. He fell to a crumpled heap on the ground.

"Just because you taught me Takeshi, doesn't mean I can't take you down…"

She walked away and turned to see if Takeshi was still there.

He was gone.

"Don't even try, Takeshi…" she shouted, "… because I've already won…"

She turned on her heel and walked away.

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Setsunei walked to her home and looked around to see if anyone arrived before she did. She was alone once again and she sighed out of relief.

"How come every time as soon as I start to recover… I get hurt more…" she walked to the bathroom and began cleaning her wounds and bandaging them. While she was dressing her wounds, her mind drifted to what that strange boy said.

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"…You can trust them…"

"…Don't turn them away…"

"…Don't you turn away either…"

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"How can I trust them…? I can't trust anyone. It'll just-" there was a sharp knock on the door. "Wait a second… Who knows where I live! I make sure no one follows me!" she ran to the door and looked to see who it was before she opened the door. She opened partway to see who had followed her.

"Kurama, how sweet of you to follow me home…" she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"You left without notice. So, we had to look for you."

"Why even bother…? I'm not going back. I'm perfectly capable of taking of myself!"

He spied the bandages on her ankle and said, "You can?" pointing to her ankle.

"I tripped."

"That's not what Hiei told me."

"What did he tell you…?" she said, gritting her teeth

"Everything."

"What do you mean "everything"?"

"You singing, fighting, passing out, and leaving suddenly right after threatening him…"

"That bakayaro, I told him not to tell!"

"Why do you insist upon distancing yourself from everyone?"

"Because I don't trust you."

"Why?"

"I have no need to trust a living soul on this planet. I know the truth behind it all. I've experienced betrayal all of my life, and I don't intend to experience it again. I'm destined to be a loner, without anyone to trust. I swore to never again trust anyone whose goal in life is to try and gain my trust, or attempt to get close to me. So, your efforts are wasted."

"I have no intention of betraying you. Neither do Yusuke, Kuwabara, or Hiei."

"How do I know you're not lying?"

She thought about what the boy said and decided she could let them help for little while. Maybe she could even discover something about herself while she was with them.

"Wait here, Kurama."

He had a puzzled look on his face when she shut the door. She grabbed a clean skirt, two belts, a pair of red and yellow socks that rose a little above her knees, and a tank top with loosely laced sleeves and put them on. Her other clothes were torn and dirty from fighting so she threw in a basket in a corner of the room. She put her hair in a ponytail and she walked over to get Kurama, who was still waiting at the door.

"I've decided to tolerate you and your friends for the time being. In the meantime though, you can explain why you're so determined to get me to trust you." She said with an annoyed look on her face.

"About that, I think Yusuke should explain this to you."

"Fine. I need to ask you another question."

"Ask away."

"Does Hiei ever keep a secret?"

"No, not really, when it comes to another person's secret he was told to keep."

Apparently… she thought…this makes it a lot harder to sneak away from them…

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Kurama and Setsunei arrived at Yusuke's house and Kurama knocked lightly on the door. He answered it and was surprised to see Setsunei behind Kurama.

"Setsunei! Where were you!"

"I was out."

"Where!"

"Places that you don't need to know about."

"She was out fighting."

Everyone turned to see Hiei sitting on the windowsill. Setsunei glared at him and had him up by his shirt once more.

"You… idiot… I told you not to tell!"

"We're supposed to keep an eye on you."

"I don't care! I did not want to be found! And how did Kurama manage to find out where I lived, Jaganshi!"

"I followed you, and I told him."

"You are so dead."

"Really now?"

"THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU!"

Setsunei dropped him and chased him around the house until she actually managed to catch him after about31/2 hours. When she did catch him, he had a black eye and a cut on his left shoulder as a result of Setsunei punching him and throwing various knives at him. They had to hold her back from causing more damage than what she had already caused. She calmed down after thirty minutes and demanded that Yusuke tell her why she was so valuable to them.

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"Well you remember that I had to take you to meet my boss later right?"

"Yeah."

"Well you're a pendant bearer. One out of three." Kurama interjected.

"Nani?"

"Yeah, he told me to find you."

"And that's because…?"

"Your pendant."

"What about my pendant?"

"It's some sort of powerful artifact capable of destroying Reikai, Makai, and Ningenkai." said Yusuke

"Really?" she said fingering her pendant. "That powerful?"

"Yeah, and if you die, everything goes with you."

"So we're supposed to protect you. So can you be a little nicer?"

"No. I don't trust any of you, and I don't think ever will. I won't warm up to you, so stop thinking I will. It's really annoying. I've decided I'll go along with you "protecting" me. If you all don't want to find yourselves hanging upside down from a street lamp somewhere, you'll stay out of my way. Because if you haven't noticed I really don't like hangin' around you too much. Especially you Jaganshi."

"Okay, I think we've got all that." said Yusuke, flashing Setsunei a smile, but she just glared at him.

"So, can I go home now?" she said, clearly not wanting to be anywhere near them.

"I don't think you should." said Kurama

"Why not!" she said, now agitated.

"Because you have a tendency to get hurt when we leave you to go on your own."

"I do not! I'm just having a rough week. Have any of you seen me go to school with bruises on my face!"

"No." said Yusuke and Kurama simultaneously.

"Then why shouldn't I go home!"

"Because you are still injured. And your house doesn't seem very safe."

"I've had no one find out where I live except for shorty, there." She said, motioning to Hiei.

"How can we find you if we don't know where you live?" said Hiei flatly

"I don't intend on you showing up at my house. If you follow me again… you'll regret it."

"How would you know when anyone followed you?" said Yusuke, half joking

"I'll find my ways." She said with a smirk. And with sharp little comment, she left Yusuke's home without anyone lifting a finger to stop her.

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Setsunei was clearing out the last of her drawers and putting it all in her backpack. She grabbed her brush and a couple bottles of water. Once she grabbed all of her supplies, she set out to find a new place to stay. She knew that once everyone figured out where she was staying, that Takeshi would figure it out from them. Now that she knew that Takeshi was a demon, there were all sorts of possibilities of what kind of power he possessed besides making copies of himself. She walked out of the door and looked up to the cloudy sky.

Where ever this destiny of mine takes me… I hope I can find… my song of truth…

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How did you like it? It took a while to write this chapter due to being grounded from the computerx.x; that and my phone has been disconnected for… God knows how long. Anyway… next chapter of Terra Angel!

-----------Demon Thieves, Living Shadows, and Gigantic Swords----------

A new enemy to face O.o

A cat girl with jingle bells in her hair?

A girl whose sword is larger than she could ever be!

All these interesting aspects appear in this next exciting episode- er… chapter of Terra Angel!