Universe of the Parallel Gods
Written by: Thread-Sage
Summary: A Parallel Book to the Universe of the Four Gods is found by four good friends. In their fight for Okan, the world within the book, can they keep their memories, friendship and their lives?
Disclaimer: I own….hmm, everything in the Universe of the Parallel gods EXCEPT for the story concept, which was made by Yu Watasse. I do not own also the description of three out of five of the gods, which came from the women of Clamp!
Chapter One:
The Parallel Gods
Juubei tapped his blue ink pen lightly on the desk. His eyes were slightly rolled to the back of his head as he tried focus on the teacher's lesson on titration.
Juubei was a tenth grader in Okawa Private School. He had deep piercing sapphire eyes hidden under silver bangs. He had a strong upper body and equally strong calf's since he was on the Okawa Phoenix's; the school's Tennis Team.
"Juubei-san? Would you mind telling us the concentration of the unknown compound?" The male teacher asked.
Juubei blinked for a moment, stood up and gave a short bow. "Of course, Ko-san.".
Juubei looked up at the problem for a second, and then blinked. "The concentration of the unknown solution is give or take .56 milliliters, Ko-san." Juubei said with another bow before sitting down.
The teacher looked up at the equation and then nodded his head. "Very good, Juubei."
Juubei cringed. He hated when his father didn't treat him like any other student at school.
Lee Ko, Juubei Ko's father and science teacher. Well, he was actually only his adopted father. Juubei was orphaned at the age of six. When Le Ko found him, lying in a dumpster, he immediately took him to the doctor. The doctor treated the child's bruises and failing lungs, but could not cure his memories. Somehow in the process of whatever happened to him, Juubei had permanent amnesia.
The loud and harsh silver bell rang, waking Juubei out of his trace. He looked at his watch, noticing it was time for lunch.
He sighed, and gathered his books. He snapped them in his side leather pouch and ran his hand through his silver hair.
"Juubei, nice job answering the question." Lee said as he flashed his son a smile.
Juubei gave one of his famous fake smiles and walked off. Personally, he hated his father.
Juubei walked down the busy hallways and pushed his way to the lunch room. The only people he cared about were his three close friends, and no one else.
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Megumi loaded an arrow on bow and fortified her stance. She tilted her head to the side and looked at her target; a plank of wood and cloth decorated with circles in different colors.
She took a breath and then, released the arrow. It flew with much grace, almost like an eagle was guiding the arrow. It swirled, turned a little and then, struck deep into the small black circle, bleeding victory.
Three girls ran over jumping high in the air.
"You were great, Megumi -chan!" A young girl with flamboyant pink hair, thin glasses and a book tucked under her arm.
"Thank you, Misaki-chan." Megumi said with a smile as she took the towel and wiped her brow.
Megumi was a tall and beautiful girl. She had deep chestnut hair that fell down to her waist. She possesses forest emerald eyes and were always stable, yet happy. She was the captain of the Okawa Tiger's; the Archery team.
"When you like shot that arrow I knew it would make it." Ka' Ko, another girl who had green hair and blue eyes said with a smile.
"Thank you very much, Ka' Ko." Megumi said rubbing the towel and handing it to the third girl; an American exchange student named Mai.
"You are my ideal, Megumi." Ka' Ko said blushing a little.
Megumi smiled again walked into the change room. Everyone who knew Megumi knew that after a shot, she needed to be by herself for some time.
Megumi walked into the cool off room. She took off her kimono, and stepped into the warm waters. She smiled and sighed. The water felt good against her sticky skin.
She pulled out her soap and washcloth from her bag and began to lather. The room filled with a scent of peaches and cherry's.
A soft but evident harsh sound symbolized that lunch was about to start. She quickly turned off the water, dried off and slipped on the blue and green school uniform.
She walked out and grabbed her bow and arrow's. She looked around and noticed everyone was already gone and that everyone was rushing by, like water, to the Lunch Room.
She placed her bow and quiver in the cabinet, grabbed her backpack, and walked out humming a small tune.
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Haru scribbled quickly on the large sheet of paper with many characters and numerals written on the paper. He furrowed his brow and looked down. How couldn't figure out this equation. He knew he studies quadratic inequalities last night.
He quickly tapped his head and looked up at the ceiling. A lock of light blue hair flew in his eyes. With a puff from his mouth the lock was out.
Haru was the youngest, not by age, but by nativity. He was always happy and rarely got into a fuse with people, but, when he did he wasn't the kindest of people to be around. He had light blue hair and deep piercing red eyes. He was average height and participated on the Okawa Dragons; The school soccer team.
Haru looked up at the clock once again. He had about fifteen minutes left and bout ten more problems. He was doing well in Math, but not well enough to screw over this test.
Haru looked down again and started to write once more, thinking of every math rule he could and trying to put together the small pieces of data he remembered.
He sighed once more. One about ten minutes left. And only seven more problems. Haru's mind then began to side track. He thought about the library, where he would be spending his study hall with Megumi, Juubei, and May after lunch. He thought about a certain book he was looking at a day ago.
It was a strange book. It had a pure red color and a border of silver. One single piece of lace, like a bookmark extended down the books side and into one of the middle pages. The book also seemed to be torn, water damaged and burned, as if someone tried to get rid of it. Written on the Cover in what was like a mixture of blood and charcoal was "The Universe of the Four Parallel Gods.". A cool tingle also shot through Haru's finger's as he touched the book. It wasn't really painful, more like the feeling you get when your hand is in the same place for to long.
He would quickly retract his hand, but would still be amazed by the book. He hid it in a special location in the library room so that no one could check it out. He felt a strange connection to this book.
Haru looked up once more at the clock. His red eyes grew wide as he looked up. Only five minutes left!
Haru quickly blocked out all thoughts of the book and everything else and focused on the test.
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May smiled as she looked at her paper. Of course she got an A. She was smartest in her Honor's Foreign History class and she was only a sophomore!
May Inns was a exchange student for America. She had lived in Japan for now about two years. She would stay until she was a graduate of high school. She had blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail and fluorescent violet eyes hidden under thin, clear glasses. She was captain of the Debate team at Osaka high; the Hydra's.
"How did you do, May-ko?" Her mate next to her, Saisaishi asked. She had a bright smile on her small face and her blue eyes were flickering with happiness.
"Very well. An A." May said keeping her gaze away from Saisaishi. It wasn't that she didn't like the girl, it was just that….she wasn't the most outgoing person. She wasn't anything like Juubei, her closest friend, but she was very quiet around people.
"Good job!" The girl said with a smile. May looked curiously. How could Sai be so happy all the time?
"Hey, do you want to eat lunch together today?" Sai whispered to the girl as there female teacher began to go over the paper's and what was right and wrong about them.
"No thank you, Sai-ko." May said. She distinctly remembered that she promised herself she would sit next to Juubei today.
"Oh your going to sit next to Juubei-sama today, ne?" Sai asked, gently nudging the girl.
May quickly looked up and then looked down, blushing. "Is…is it that obvious?"
Sai gave a soft giggle "It sure is, May-ko!"
May looked down at her own green skirt. Was she really in love with Juubei that much?
May looked at her skirt for the rest of class. She really wasn't listening to what the teacher had to say. It was something about using the right ending when it came to citing Japanese Sources. She really should have been paying attention but her mind was on Juubei.
The bell then snapped the teen out of her little illusion. She looked up and saw everyone getting up and packing up their books. She guessed it was time for lunch. Her heartbeat quickened. Soon she would see Juubei.
She took a deep breath and gathered her own stuff.
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Megumi looked around the lunch tables. She had her small plate of Rice balls (her favorite food) on her plate. She switched the weight of her bag and noticed a young boy flashing a smile at her, his light blue hair swishing with him.
She walked over to the table. Also sitting there was May. She was picking the noodles out of her soup and seemed to be somewhere else.
"Konnichiwa, Megumi-chan!" Haru said happily as he grabbed Megumi's hand and twirled her around. She smiled but became worry and quickly let go. She moved her hands side to side trying to balance the Rice Balls.
She sat the tray down and smiled. She looked over at Haru and tried to flash him an angry glare, but he was just to cute.
He looked at the girl and smiled cutely before he slid down besides her.
"How was you day, May?" Megumi asked as she stuffed a piece of an Rice Ball in her mouth. She began to blush as she tasted the goodness of sticky rice.
"It was fine." The shy girl simply said. She brought her spoon up and drank a little.
"She has been waiting for Juubei-chan all this time." Haru said with a smile as he gave May a poke.
"HARU!" May yelled. Her face was flustered and her violet eyes were wide.
"Did I hear someone say my name?" a voice to the left said.
All three teens turned around and saw a slightly bewildered Juubei. He had his bag slung over his shoulder and was simply blinking at the teens.
"Oh I was just wondering were you were, Juubei." Haru said, flashing another smile.
Megumi gave a smile inside. No matter how outrageous and childish Haru was, if something was to be kept a secret, he was the one to tell.
"Oh." Juubei said sitting down next to May. He put his back down and pulled out a small container filled with Ell roll
May grew ridged and brought her bowl to her face. She began to quietly slurp and ever so often, steal a glance of Juubei as he eat and laughed slightly at Haru and Megumi's antics.
"Hey, I have something to show you guys. Will you come with me during our Studyhall?" Haru asked.
"It's not a radioactive roach like last time?" Megumi said with a snicker as s threw her hair back.
Haru gave an evil glare. "No it's a book I need for you all to see." He said, eating another bite.
Juubei shrugged his shoulders "Why not?"
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"Come on!" Haru said as they ran up the large winding stairs of the school's Library. It was very large. It had pillars, walls, stairs, and shelves made of pure polished oak. Many books filled the shelves and many teens, even though they didn't go to the school, they till came to check out the many different books.
"In this room." Haru said as he opened the door for the other teens.
All four walked into the very unlit room. Many and many rows of books filled the small room, cascading high.
"Haru, this is the restricted room." May said looking at the door. She checked to make sure no one was watching and she then slowly closed the door.
"I know." Haru said giving a quick glance at May and flashed a dangerous smile. He reached on his tippitoes and picked a book off of the top of the shelf and pulled the down.
"Here it is." Haru whispered as he dust off the table. He placed the book down and waited for all his friends to gather around.
"The Universe of the Four Parallel Gods?" Juubei said questioning the title.
"Kind of a kiddy title don't you think?" Juubei said as he placed his hand on the book. Just like that, the same cool feeling filled his body. He quickly pulled his hand back.
/That's odd. / Juubei thought as he narrowed his eyes a little.
"Have you opened it yet?" Megumi asked quietly.
Haru shook his head. I wanted to wait for you all." Haru said with a touch of nervousness filling his voice. For some reason…he felt something dark about this book.
"Well, are you going to open it?" Juubei asked.
Haru looked up and gave a short nod.
He reached for the deep red color and pulled the book open. At first, as like it should, nothing happened.
"This is book has no writing in it." May said as she looked deep in the book.
Then it happened. A rustle of cold wind filled the small room. There was a deep howl and then, the small window shattered.
Haru fell back a little, Juubei's head snapped up, May screamed and Megumi jumped back. The room began to shutter and waver, the books on the shelves fluttered opened and their pages flew out. The odd thing, was that the wind wasn't coming from the window; it was coming from the book.
The pages from the book were summoned and wrapped around the four teens. May grabbed on to Megumi's shirt. Haru stood behind Juubei who actually growled abit. His eyes darted back and forth as he noticed the pages flying.
Then, a bright red, blue, green, and white light burst from the book. All four teens shielded their eyes from the light. Ten instantly, there was a burst of colored light and all four teens were gone. The pages settled to the ground as if the wind never came and the book flapped closed.
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Juubei felt horrible. His head was splitting and his body felt disjointed. And what was this, sand under his body?
Juubei brought his body up and brought his knees together. He blinked and rubbed his eyes many times but the image still wouldn't go away.
Where ever he was, he was in a type of land mixed with dessert and dirt. Not far, about one hundred feet was a small town where he could see, through the waves of heat, many people walking and talking together. Also, not far, was what seemed to be a Chinese pavilion.
Juubei stood up and looked astonished.
"Where…where am I?"
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Well there we go, Chapter one of Universe of the Parallel Gods is done! I hope you like it! Here is some help with the ending if you need it.
San- respect like Mr.
Chan- affection for a close person you know
Ko – like kun, respect between girls
Ne- means "right?"
