The Return Of Tenshi
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AN: I have been receiving reviews that stated that Akito is really a girl and I just want to make it clear that in the very first chapter of this story I had stated that I know Akito is really a girl, but for the purpose and sake of this story, I'm writing her as a him instead.
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Ch23
/Ring Ring/
Shigure sighed as he walked over to the phone. He scratched his head and yawned. "Now, who could that be so early in the morning?" he murmured. He picked up the phone and answered, "Sohma residence, Shigure speaking."
"Emergency!" Shigure jumped at the loud scream and fell to the floor. "It's an emergency, Shi-chan! Terrible!" Shigure sighed once more. He reached over for the phone, which was snatched away by a tan hand.
"You stupid rabbit!" Kyo shouted back into the phone, "What's the big idea, calling us so early in the morning and waking up the dead?"
"Kyo-kun, I don't think screaming back at Momitchi will help justify that," Shigure said softly, still sprawled over the floor.
"Shigure, what are you doing on he floor?" Yuki asked, walking over to his older cousin.
Shigure glanced up from the floor. "Ore? Yuki-kun, you're awake earlier than usual."
Yuki rubbed his eyes. "Who could sleep with all this racket?" he answered. He glanced over at Kyo, who was still yelling through the phone. "What's gotten Momiji all worked up, anyway?"
"Who knows," Shigure got up and dusted the gray yutaka. "All I've been hearing from him is that there's and emergency and it's something terrible."
Shingo walked over to the older males, rubbing his eyes tiredly with ChibChibi holding onto his pants with an exhausted look on her face. "What's going on?" he muttered sleepily wit the young toddler adding, "Chibi?"
"Momiji decided to give us a wake up call for some strange reason," Yuki said. He waved his hand at the small child, who smiled at him.
"What could be so important that he has to scream like that?" Shingo asked. The oldest shrugged his shoulders in reply.
"It's about Tenshi!" Momiji shouted, causing everyone to freeze and stared at the phone in shock. This would be the first news about the angel-winged rabbi since Akito took her away a week ago.
"What is it? Is there something wrong with onee-chan?" Shingo asked.
After a dramatic pause, Momiji replied with a scream, "She's sick!"
Everybody fell over, except for ChibiChibi who was confused. "That's the whole big emergency you interrupted my training up for!" Kyo shouted.
Shigure shook his head. "Momitchi, everyone gets sick once in a while. It's practically normal," he said.
Yuki grabbed his head with his hand and sighed, "I'm going back to bed."
"NO! It's really very bad!" Momiji yelled.
"Momiji, if onee-chan's sick, her curse would activae and she would be cured," Shingo said. He picked up ChibiChibi, who yawned. "It's Sunday and I would like to return to bed."
"What's wrong? Is something the matter?" Tohru asked, coming back inside from her morning grocery shopping.
"It's nothing, just Momiji over exaggerating again," Yuki said, smiling at her.
"Tenshi's curse did activate but nothing's happening!" Momiji screamed, shaking up the whole area once again, no doubt impatient from being ignored. "She's been sick for the past week! Ha'ri doesn't know what to do anymore!"
Everyone stared in shock at the phone as the sound of Momiji crying echoed in the hallway. Tohru was confused at what was going on. Nobody can speak as they tried to whack their brains to comprehend the situation.
"That's impossible," Yuki was the first to speak, "Tenshi curse is used to protect her. If she's sick, she'll be cured, if she's hurt; she'll be healed."
Kyo's red eyes narrowed. "How can Hatori no be able to heal her? He's a freaking doctor for crying out loud."
"And that's not all!" Momiji sobbed, "Ha'ri alsi said that her wings are not white anymore. Everyday, the color gets darker and darker."
Tohru's widened as she dropped the white plastic bags on the floor. "Wha…but how can that be?" she gasped. She looked at Shigure, who was quiet in thought. "Shigure-san, what does it mean?"
Shigure's usual calm face darkened with worry. "I…don't know," he replied. He shook his head slowly. "This has never happened before." He looked at Tohru before continuing. "Do you remember when I told you that Usagi-chan's the first with her kind of curse in the family?" Tohru nodded her head. "During her entire stay here when she was younger, her wings were always pure white. This is the first time her wings changed color."
Tohru turned to Yuki and Kyo, who were also quiet. "So…what's going to happen to Usagi-san?" she asked.
Shingo held ChibiChibi to his body. "But what could be causing her to be like this?" he asked.
"Her bonds…or rather, the lack of them," a familiar tone to some, but foreign to others replied. Everybody turned to the direction to see Usagi's cats standing. Everyone, but Shingo, ChibiChibi, and Kyo, looked away, trying to find the owner of the voice. Luna sighed and said firmly, "I'm right here." Shigure, Tohru, and Yuki slowly turned their heads to the cats. Luna sighed once more as she closed her eyes and continued, "Now then…" The sound of somebody falling to the floor interrupted the black cat and caused her to open her eyes. Laying on the gorund before them, were two shocked Sohmas and a Honda (not the car), all three had fainted from seeing Luna talk.
"Did…they just…faint?" Shingo asked Kyo, who was looking at the three in disbelief.
Kyo nodded his head slowly. "And here I thought they would be use to a talking cat, what with me around." He looked away and made a tsk sound. He then did a double take and stared at the three on the floor. "OH MY GOD, the rat fainted!" he shouted with glee, "I can't believe he is such a pansy."
"Perhaps it would be difficult for us to talk to them in these forms," Artemis said to Luna. He turned to Shingo and asked, "Can you get the Starlights? They might be able to assist us." Shingo nodded his head and began dialing the three singers' number. "Let's change to our human forms," he suggested.
Luna nodded her head. Kyo watched in amazement as the two felines' bodies began to glow and grow larger until the outline of their shapes were no longer like cats, but rather people. Luna was now a young woman with curly black hair and two buns in her hair on each side and she wore a yellow dress. Artemis was man, around the same age range as Luna, with straight white hair and he wore a white suit.
"Wait a second, so are you guys cats or humans?" Kyo asked.
Artemis grinned as he replied, "Biologically, we're both. The planet Mau is made up of others like us, part animal, part human."
"Mau? Planet?" Kyo repeated, staring in his thoughts. His eyes widened as he shouted, "So you guys are aliens?"
Luna looked at him in distaste at the last word. "In your terms, yes, we would be considered as aliens. But our kinds have a much greater value, for every lunarian generation, two out of the population of Mau is chosen as the advisors of the future rutler."
Kyo just stared at her, trying to comprehend what Luna told him. "You just lost me after the word 'alien'," he said.
Luna just exhaled deeply and shook her head. Shingo had hung up the phone and turned to them. "They can't make it just now, but they said that they'll come tonight," he said.
"Ugh." Everybody turned their heads to see the two slowly awakening guys and one girl sit up gradually and shake their heads.
"Welcome back o the land of the living," Kyo said.
Tohru looked around. "I thought I heard that black cat talk," she said.
"Could be a figment of our imagination or dream?" Shigure said, rubbing the ache on the back of his head from when he fell down.
"A dream that all three of us had coincidentally? I doubt it," Yuki said.
"Yeah, one that causes you guys to faint," Kyo said, smirking.
Getting annoyed at the fact that they're getting off topic, Artemis slammed his fist against the wall. "Can we please get to the important part of the meeting? The life of my hime is on the line here!" he said.
Yuki and Shigure stared at Artemis blankly before their eyes narrowed in suspicion. "I'm sorry, and you are?" Shigure asked.
Artemis pointed to the crescent moon on his forehead as he said, "Take a guess."
Tohru's eyes widened as she gasped, "You can't be that white cat Usagi-san has, can you?"
Shigure laughed. "Don't be ridiculous, Tohru-kun. There's only one cat in the Sohma and that's Kyo-kun. It's highly unlikely that another…"
"She's correct," Luna said. Wide eyes stared at her and then at her soul mate in shock. "Perhaps it's best if we introduce ourselves once more. My name is Luna and this…is Artemis. You may had known us as the two cats Usagi-chan owns."
Yuki stared at them in complete shock. "But…how?"
"It would be best if we deal with our origins of change later," Artemis said, wrapping his arm around Luna's shoulders. "But as we speak, our hime's flame is in grave danger of being extinguished."
"You mentioned hime before…who is she?" Yuki asked.
"Onee-chan," Shingo replied. He smiled gently as he said, "Tenshi isn't the only nickname onee-chan has. To many of her friends back in Juuban, she was known as hime." He walked over towards the dining and sitting room with a sad look in his eyes. "Onee-chan's whole life and personality has been formed by the bonds she created with the people here and the people in Juuban…in a way, you can say that her very existence is based solely on those bonds, along with both the good and the bad memories she made." He stopped walking and just stared down at the floor. "That's why…if her memories of those bonds were destroyed, she might…"
"Her entire life was based on those bonds, so the minute those bonds were vanished from her memory and heart, her life…" Kyo said, getting the facts together.
"Starts to deteriorate," Luna said. She wrapped her arms around her waist as she leaned towards Artemis. "That's why we have to find out how to get her memories back or else, we'll lose her for good."
"I'll talk to Akito," Shigure said. He started off to the main house. Through his whole life, Akito had been getting away with everything he wanted because he was the god of the zodiac, the head of the family. Memories erased, zodiac members abused, all this for his enjoyment and abuse of power over them.
Everybody watched as Shigure left the house and headed through the forest. "Do you think Akito-san will listen?" Tohru asked.
"This is Akito we're talking about," Kyo scoffed. He shook his head. "No doubt the minute Shigure tells him this, he'll just think that is a plot to separate him from Sagi again."
"So what are we going to do?" Shingo asked the two advisors.
"The only thing we can do is wait," Artemis said, sighing, "Wait for Shigure-san to come back with the news and wait for the Starlights to come. That's all we can do right now. Wait and pray that we won't be too late."