Konichiwa my beloved… er… few readers… Gomen nasai for not writing in, God knows how long… My computer went and died on me and I couldn't get a hold of a computer until just recently. Anyway, let's recap from the last chapter. Setsunei was forced to go to a dance to escape her "guardians" and win her weapons from Botan. In the end though she had managed to get her apparently danger-prone self, captured once again. After being paralyzed and saved by Hiei… again, (Remember 3rd chapter!) we discover that she manipulated her reiki through her voice. Once again she escape trying to find the boy who seems to know so much about her.
----- Ch. 5: Unfamiliar Emotions and Coping with the Soul -----
Setsunei landed softly on her feet and rose looking the fully risen moon, its light making her features seem to glow. She took one look back at the window.
I can't turn back now… I have to discover who I am… and why I can't remember my past at all… I know the key to it all… lies with that boy… and this pendant…
She took off, hearing the doorknob to the room turning and disappeared into the night.
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"Hiei! Hiei! Wake up!"
His eyes snapped open, glaring at Yusuke who just slapped him upside the head.
"What the hell did you think you were doing! Because you were taking a little nap… Setsunei up and
left!"
"What?"
"You heard me, shorty." Yusuke growled.
Hiei scanned the room and as he had said, Setsunei was gone.
"Where is she?"
"Now if we knew that, we wouldn't yelling at you now would we?" Koenma said angrily.
"We can't blame Hiei for this," started Kurama, "She could've sang him to sleep."
"Good point…" the others all agreed.
"But then, where is she?"
Hiei disappeared from view.
"I agree with Hiei," Kurama stated with a smirk, "Let's go find out…"
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Setsunei was running blindly through the trees, escaping the horde of shadows that were now hunting her down. She killed dozens already but they kept growing in numbers. Once again she was forced to flee. Already, she was a great distance ahead of them, but she didn't want to take any chances.
"Dammit! Why don't you go and harass some other Pendant bearer!"
Stupid shadows!
Setsunei stumbled and fell, scraping her knees andalready the shadows had caught up with her.
Guess I have no choice…
She gripped her daggers and took a fighting stance, but before she could even get the blade to touch its skin, about 20 kunai knives came from above and impaled each one in the heart. They disappeared in a cloud of dark smoke and Setsunei traced where the knives had come from. She became apprehensive as she heard the rustling in the trees. She relaxed and immediately, a scowl crossed her face as she saw Ayame jump from the trees above and land gracefully on her feet.
"You…"
"Setsunei-san, daijobu?"
"What in the hell are you doing here?" she said through gritted teeth
"My job. I'm supposed to protect you, am I not?"
"Yeah, you and every other of Koenma's lackeys."
"Must you be so cold?"
"No, but it's fun to do it anyway…" she said with a smirk
She tried to get past Ayame but she was still blocking her path.
"You're not taking me back."
"No, I guess I'm not…"
She let her go past and before Setsunei left she called out, "Give my regards to Hiei-sama, would you?"
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Hiei was flitting through the trees looking for any traces of Setsunei. He occasionally saw the corpses of dead demons but they didn't look quite like Setsunei had killed them because they each had a kunai knife sticking out of their chests.
Who had done this…?
He continued, every now and again coming across various other demons looking for Setsunei. Eventually, he came across a dying shadow, its glowing eyes flickering.
"Asssscarath nosss Maaessssithia?"
What is it saying?
"Terra nisssia makhisssa saaa ni… sssssodomrath…"
The shadow died and Hiei continued out of view.
I only understood one word out of that… Terra… but, what is Terra… Is Setsunei apart of this…?
He puzzled about the shadow's cryptic message while Ayame watched him from above.
Just as I figured… Only a matter of time beforeSetsunei's true power is revealed…
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Setsunei sprinted through the forest and found herselfonce again in the forest of her dreams. The boy appeared from behind a tree with a smirk on his face and his crystal blue eyes sparkling mischievously.
"You!"
"'Sup?"
"Who the hell do you think you are! I've been looking for you the whole time and you knew it! Now answer me! Why didn't you come when I called!"
"To answer your first question, I am the spirit that lies in the pendant, soul, ghost, whatever you wanna' call it. Just to answer it simply. And to answer the second question, I don't come when you call, just when I want to."
" You little bastard…"
"You're so cold, Sunei-chan…"
"I know you know something about me… And I want to know what. Who am I? Where did I come from? How come I have this stupid pendant that's only succeeded inbringing me hell!"
"Setsunei, you know I can't answer that."
"Oh yeah? What says I can't make you?"
"Now, don't be rash…"
She threw a dagger at him, pinning him to a tree. She gripped him by the shirt and glared coldly.
"Sunei-chan, just so you know, I consider that rash."
"I don't give a damn what you consider rash, just give what information I want!"
"Uh…"
"No more excuses!"
He pointed behind her and she looked behind her to see a very pissed off Hiei. She grumbled a few curses and turned her attention back to the boy, who now disappeared.
"Damn him!"
Setsunei, so you know the next time, my name is Shugo…
She unclenched her fist and turned towards Hiei, who was walking towards her. He grabbed her shirt and lifted her in the air.
"Hiei, I've come this far and you really think I'm going to pass up a chance to finally discover who I really am after all of these years?"
"I don't."
"Then let me go!"
"No."
"Damn you!"
She kicked him in the side of the head, knocking him into a nearby tree, and she took the chance to escape. Running blindly through the trees, she stopped after what seemed like 30 minutes.
I thought… I had finally escaped… Why are they so determined to keep me from my search…
"Because we're supposed to protect you."
She snapped her head behind her to see that Hiei had regained his senses and had caught up with her.
"Well you're not doing a very a good job…" she grumbled, "You know I can't find the secret of my past with you weighing me down. So why do you insist on stopping me if claim to not want to stop me?"
"Because you know we can help."
"There's nothing you can do!"
"I doubt that."
"Shut up, Hiei! Just shut up!"
"You know I'm right."
"Just… leave me alone…"
She backed away a few steps.
Why am I feeling this way…?
Because you know it's true…
Make it go away…
You have to trust them…
I don't want to feel this way…
Open your heart, Setsunei…
I feel like I'm drowning in it!
Setsunei took out her knives and pointed one at Hiei.
"Stay away from me."
You can trust them…
"Just stay… away…"
I just want it to stop…
"I don't want your help…"
You know you can…
"I don't need your help…"
…So why don't you…?
"I JUST WANT IT TO STOP!"
She fell to her knees and dropped her blades.
"Just make it stop… I just want it… to stop…"
She started trembling as a few tears escaped her eyes. She refused to look Hiei in the eye and stared at the ground.
"Every time I think I can get away, someone's always holding me back. I just want these chains to break. Even… even those who say they're on my side… always disappoint me, and turn away when I need their help the most. Why can't it stop? Why?"
There was a silence after and Setsunei wiped the tears from her eyes.
Stupid, stupid, stupid…
"Let's go." Hiei said suddenly
"Huh?"
"Let's go back."
Setsunei stood holding back the rest of the tears in her eyes that threatened to fall.
"Yes," she said consenting, "Let's go back, there's still things I forgot there."
She smiled warmly at Hiei and his eye briefly twitched.
She's smiling… at me…
"Oh, and Hiei, if you tell anyone about what transpired here today… you will die. Do youunderstand? Die."
He snapped out of his stupor and smirked.
"You couldn't kill me if you tried." He said as they walked back
"Yurusai."
"No."
"Shut up before I kill you."
"No."
"Do you want to die?"
"Not really. And besides, you couldn't if you wanted to."
"Shut up."
"No."
"Be quiet."
"No."
"If you don't-"
"You'll what?"
"You're asking for it."
"I didn't hear any manner of questioning in my voice."
"Don't even start you vertically challenged, arrogant, bastard!"
"I'm not starting anything. You just seem to think that. Also, you're shorter than me."
"So."
"How can you call someone short if they're taller than you?"
"You know what? I'm tired of you."
"I'm tired too… konisou."
"WHY DOES ENERYONE KEEP CALLING ME THAT!"
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Well that was… fun. Setsunei, smiling. The apocalypse really is coming, isn't? I think that might be a new trend too. Princess… Little princess… that's just priceless. Also, she's shorter than Hiei. That makes it even worse! Ha ha ha ha ha…princess… That's just great. Anyway… Let's figure out what's going to appear in the next chapter.
---------Ch 6: Training training, and more training…----------
Setsunei now knows she can manipulate spirit energy
through her voice!
Ooh… who will win in a fight when it's Setsunei v.s
Hiei!
Setsunei all alone in fight against an army of
shadows… How will she survive!
Bring on the next chapter of Terra Angel!