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Awaken, My Dear Kushinada

Ch. 4

"Murakumo, not Nyoko." Mia said as she looked at Murakumo's glaring eyes.

"Oh, it's just you, pathetic human." Murakumo looked at the battle below. "Why did you call for me?"

"I needed you...I mean I NEED you." Mia was exhausted, she could barely keep her eyes open.

"Pathetic," Murakumo turned and was preparing to leave, when he felt Mia grab his wrist. He looked back at her.

"Please... please don't go." Suddenly the burning sensation on her chest returned, but this time Murakumo felt it as well.

A mitama was pushing its way out of Mia's chest scar. It was glowing brightly.

Below, Kusanagi had finished killing the aragami when he saw the blue mitama float down from the tree.

Their mingled screams filled the air, and Kusanagi was worried. He felt like a dear in the headlights, he couldn't move, frozen by some unknown force.

Suddenly the mitama stopped falling and levitated a few feet from the ground, and it began glowing brightly. It's light temporarily blinded all of the people within a five mile radius. Its brilliant glow could be best described as a blue sun burst, but since it was so bright no one could look at it for long.

"Mia..." Kusanagi's voice wavered a bit as all of the light seemed to be sucked into the miniature spot. It was like the mitama had become a black whole and was sucking all of the light in. Kusanagi was thought he was having a flash back to when Momiji was sucked into the glowing blue sphere. But this was different. "MIA!"

Suddenly the blue light began to take form. A human form. A female human form!

Kusanagi's eyes widened slightly as he watched the form become more and more clear. Color drained from his face, and color began to find it's way onto the once blue figure of a women.

Kusanagi's voice and vision was failing, he was going to pass out. He gathered up his strength and said one thing before the eternal darkness of dreams swallowed up his consciousness.

"Momiji..." And with that he passed out.

Momiji was floating in thin air. She felt like she was waking up from a dream she didn't want to know the ending too. She saw a flash of blue light and then all was ablaze of different shapes and colors. All of the shapes were blurry and everything was so strange. Momiji felt herself spinning; she thought she was going hurl.

"Momiji..." It was the quiet voice of a forgotten friend.

Suddenly Momiji felt the soft dirt beneath her feet and allowed herself to fall upon her knees. "Where am I?" she whispered softly on the light breeze that she found tangled in her loose hair.

Mr. Kunikida saw the long brown tresses first, then the shining green eyes against the pale white skin. He was speechless. He saw her collapse and ran over to cover her with his long coat, since she wasn't covered by anything else.

"Where am I?" she asked him in a quiet tone as she pulled the front of the jacket together to cover herself from view. Her vision was going blurry again, because she was so exhausted.

"Home," that was all Kunikida said before Momiji blacked out.

Murakumo didn't know what was happening with all of the blue light, but it was causing him pain. The human girl who grabbed him wasn't helping either, with her loud scream. Murakumo could only cringe at the pain. It got worse by the second.

He cracked open his eyes and stared at the girl; her eyes were full of tears. They were tears of pain. She couldn't handle all of the power coming out of her obviously. But still, Murakumo felt something deep inside of him.

Suddenly, for reasons he couldn't explain, he grabbed the girl and pulled her into a tight embrace. She was still crying from pain, but she had seased screaming. She was jerking around like she was trying to get the pain off of her.

Then, as if by some strange force had pushed them, they were falling from the branch to the ground below. Murakumo closed his eyes and braced for impact, they were to close to the ground to avoid hitting it even if he tried flying away.

There was a soft thud, a splash of green and red, but after that there was only black.

Ryoko and Kome had a hard time explaining all the military trucks to the mayor of Wakasa. They had a hard time keeping spectators away from where Kusanagi had battled the Aragami monster, and an even harder time getting Kusanagi Momiji, Mia, and Murakumo's to a hospital without any ambulances.

Ms. Matsudara was able to get two hospital rooms that no doctors or nurses could go into for the four patients. But everyone was so curious and kept asking Ryoko and Kome what it was all about.

"Sorry, I can't answer any of your questions. It is secret military information." Ryoko closed her eyes and rested her back against the chair, confident that she had finally go her message across. She let out an exasperated sigh; "I'm getting to old for this."

"Oh, come on, Ryoko, this is what we live for, ain't it?" Kome said stabbing her elbow into Ryoko's side.

Cracked open one eye and looked at Kome, "that's what you think."

Just then Mr. Kunikida came back from the patients' quarters. He walked over to Ryoko and Kome and stood there for a minute thinking about something quite seriously.

"Sir, is everything okay?" Mr. Kunikida looked into Ryoko's concerned eyes.

"Yes, medically speaking everyone will be fine, even Murakumo, unfortunately. But I'm wondering how Momiji was able to come back, what was it that triggered the transformation from a mitama to Momiji...Hmm." Kunikida looked at his feet.

This all was strange. What is with that girl, Mia? Mia...how does she play a part in this whole affair? And what does Murakumo have to do with anything. Kunikida just couldn't figure it out.