Firstly to all those people who read all the chapters BUT DID NOT REVEIW, and I know they are quite a few of you, as the number of page veiws on the second and third chapters are the same (an even number 12), and noone skips ahead and reads the last chapter before reading the proceeding,
YOU GET NO COOKIES. -gasp-
and to my wonderful Reveiwers, have a cookie! x3
and to the V-Wizard x3
-dumps a barrel of chocolate-chip cookies on you- enjoy
Vashino Wizard: I am most certainly going to take up your offer on Beta-ing in the near future. -forsees many typos and evil mistakes she will make, especially once school begins again- I decided not to get you to Beta this one though because I wanted to get one more chapter up and introduce Byakuya's awesome kick-butt ancsestor first.
I'm not going to have steady internet acess for a while, so though I'll try to post another update, I might not be able to get one in before I return to the states (early August) ):
but I won't leave you guys hanging. I'll plop up a songfic or a oneshot or a intermission with Kenpachi chasing Ichigo wanting a fight or Whitey-chan being teased for being short or something xD
Or you guys could go read my KH fanfic which everyone's been ignoring xD
Chapter 4
"C'mon C'mon C'mon!!!" said the head bobbing up and down rapidly outside Mercy's window. She moved closer for a better look.
"I want you to meet my brother! Come on out Mercy!" He was practically vibrating with excitment.
"Okay!" Mercy said with a smile. She rushed out of the dorm meeting Suya at the window. Suya grabbed her hand, racing off towards the courtyard, dragging Mercy along.
"This is my brother, Aros. Aros, this is my friend, she's from Rukongai an' her name is Mercy!" He said cheerfully. The boy adjusted his glasses looking at both children.
"So this is your friend. Hello there, Mercy. I'm Suya's older brother, but I can see he's told you already." He crouched down, so he was at eyelevel with the children. His fluffy dark brown hair settled over his shoulders.
"Hello!" said Mercy, smiling.
"It's nice to meet you." Aros said. He pushed his spectacles further up the bridge of his nose. "Did you both have a good day?" they both nodded their heads rapidly.
"Good! Mine was decent as well, though I have recently come into more candy than I can currently eat." He held up a large bag which was filled with strawberry pocky and confetti .
"Yay!" they both exclaimed with glee, jumping up and down.
"Hey Seifer, you up for some gossip?" said Axel, poking his head into the lab, grinning devilishly. Seifer peeked up from his work, removing his saftey goggles and returning the grin.
"Only if it's true." He said, looking up from his experiment.
"Isn't it always?" Seifer laughed. It was a common knowledge that 98 percent of what Axel said were all lies. It was usually quite obvious too, his stories so outrageous that noone ever believed them. He had recently got into trouble with the Kuchiki nobles over a small, ridiculous rumor he had passed around about the 11th division captain. Luckily for him, Kuchiki-taicho had found it amusing instead of offencive, and managed to keep the clan from slaughtering the misdeaming captain.
Though it was a popular joke at lunchtimes, with much embaressment to Axel.
"You mock me." Axel said, faking sorrow. He casually entering the room, coming to stand over by Seifer. "News is a certain someone and another certain someone are gonna get married!" Seifer gave Axel a look of disbeileif.
"You came all the way here just to tell me that?" He replaced his goggles, returning to his work. "Surely you know they've been saying that for ages, Rascal, It's old news."
"Tsk tsk, you should refer to me as 'Niigata-saaan'," He said whining at the lack of interest in his information. "This time it's true! Once that someone gets a suboordinate they're both gonna get married." Seifer chuckled.
"It's been nearly half a century, and nobody's been picked. Sorry, but I don't see it happening." He was intent on his work with a small electric needle, carefully probing at a mysterious vial of liquid. Axel leaned in closer.
"Okay that's not the real news. One of my division was out on a simple mission to collect a few wandering pluses, when he came apon an empty shrine. There was no sign of trouble, just dead people everywhere. All the souls were still there or nearby, floating around as harmless spirits, except the miko's. It's all very suspisious," Seifer looked up in suprise. Axel's face lacked the usual devilish grin he had when passing on false information. He was telling the truth.
"It certainly doesn't seem like a Hollow's work. A Hollow would have left a big mess and eaten all the souls of the people it killed, even if it was just targeting the miko's high spirit energy. It doesn't sound like an act of a human's either, there'd have at least been traces of blood."
"That's all we know so far. I've already gone and told Yamamoto-sama, he seemed a little worried, but he said that there wasn't enough for them to work with. He said maybe it was a one time thing, but I don't know..." Seifer pondered this for a moment.
"Thanks for the info." He said, a serious look on his face. Axel nodded.
"I wanted to make sure you at least knew because both of our teams work around the same area. Whatever it was might still be around." Seifer removed his goggles, chewing on the end of it.
"I'll tell my guys to be on the lookout for anything out of the ordinary. I'm supposing this is all hush-hush, right?" Axel leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest, and closed his eyes..
"Yeah, it's probably nothing. No need to get others worried."
"My dear boy Rai...he used to help me capture the lost souls, he did. Your name is much like his." A bittersweet smile filled her face, one of the sadness remembering joy.
"He and Fiara would find them and bring them back here before any Hollows got to them. He was going to continue my work when I died, but alas, it was not fated to be." She lovingly gazed at a small woodblock, engraved upon it the likeness of a boy only about thirteen years of age.
"Fiara disapeared after his death, but she has recently returned here. She seems weary of her wandering life, looking to once more herd souls to the afterlife.
"I am old, and soon will follow the spirits I have sent on myself. I have no regets, though I fear for my aprentice; I feel I have not taught her enough." She said, looking at the young maiden asleep on a pallet nearby. She turned to face the still silent visitor.
"I wish to send Fiara with you. She is a skilled warrior, and has fought against Hollows many times. You may find her useful." The figure nodded.
"I will keep her for you." The elderly lady smiled.
"Thank you." She walked to an area in the back, returning with a creautre a glistening white, like snow, or the blue gaze of a cool silver sword reflrcting moonlight. Upon seeing him, it perked up, scaled wings fluttering, small puffs of smoke exiting her nostrils. He milky eyes swiveled abuot, talking in the newcomer.
"Fiara, this gentlemen over here will be your new caretaker. He follows a line of work quite similar to Rai's. I hope you will enjoy life with him." Fiara stood up on all fours, her tail whisking about. She carefully stood on the old miko's arm, sniffing the white haori. The stranger held up his left hand, allowing the firelizard to smell his metalic claw. She looked at it curiously, licking it a couple times, then arubtly glided over to his metal arm, climbing up the metal fixtures, stopping when it was perched upon his shoulders. She let out a squack, a mixture of a bird's and a dragons.
"Fiara, hmm?" he carresed the top of it's head with his normal hand.
The wind picked up, a smale gale blowing through the courtyard as a hell butterfly appeared, follwed by a small dark vortex. A tall dark male stepped out from this portal, his night black hair moving only slightly with the wind, the tips of his hair held together with kenseikan, costly silver clips, seven of them in all, glistening at his back. The four parts of his blood red scarf whiped about wildly behind him in the breeze. His white haori, longer at the back than the front, fluttered around much like a cape. Slowly the wind quieted as the portal closed.
"Who's your friend?" tinkled a familar voice behind him. He turned to face her, the yellow wolf-like eye taht was not covered in dark red bandages looking pleased, his grin revealing sharp teeth saying the same.
"The Preistess's son used to own this firelizard. She wanted me to look after her. Her name is Fiara."
"She seems to be an ice based firelizard." mumured the girl. Her dark skinned hand, many golden bangles shifting downwards on her arm, an effect, reached up to pet the minature dragon. "She's beautiful."
He leaned closer, whispering in the girl's ear,
"Not as beautiful as you."
She chuckled, her laughter like windchimes, blushing at the compliment.
"Oh Ryu, you are quite the flirt." She said, brushing back some of his unruly hair behind his ear. He caressed her cheek, responding with a smile,
"Only for you, Dia."
when picturing Ryu, it is good to keep Vincent Valentine (from Final Fantasy 7) and especialy Byakuya-sama in mind.
Ryu's scarf is the same type as Byakuya's, though this one is bloodred, because, frankly, Ryu thought light blue was too girly for him.
Because the scarf splits into four parts midway through, it is made of slightly less material, so it only cost as much as 8 large houses, instead of 10, like Byakuya's xD
Don't ask me how he got his scarf. It's all very unofficial.
Rumor is since Shihouin clan's current generation is all girl's, it was given to Shihouin Dia, who then passed it on to Ryu.
But I got that from Rascal-san, so who knows -wink-
Sorry for the bad grammer, this chapter could have been alot better xP
I finished it in a rush this morning so I could get it uploaded before I left x