Author's notes:
For all intents and purposes, god's of death from Britain are technically called 'Reapers' instead of 'Shinigami' (makes sense, different culture... different language, hence different name). This fic is a continuation of 'Enter the Reaper'.
Disclaimer: Yanagi-sen and I are only borrowing the characters from Yami no Matsuei and Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter books to torment for a while... Don't look for Harry to be appearing at any time in this fanfiction. We claim no ownership over any character that does not belong to us... Itami Korin and Ishida Nanjiro are mine... those I claim and abuse at will.
The Reaper's journey.
Chapter six.
Skittering around a corner, Puss looked up at the hotel that it remembered Snape had been staying at. Growling, he tried to look upset, but only managed to look cute. It really sucked being far away from Draco... especially when he still needed the proximity to be able to transform while in Chijou. Bounding through the door at the first opportunity, the small feline-shiki ran as fast as his little paws could carry him.
Almost tripping a woman on the stairs, Puss ignored the insults flung in his direction and continued running up to the fourth floor. Mentally he cursed the man for getting a room that took too long to get to... he also cursed the fact that he was so damn SMALL!
The man was just leaving his room, closing the door behind him. Checking out the man's pants as he came running full speed, the small shiki decided that he could stand the ultimate humiliation. Dashing up to Snape, Puss scrambled UP the thick material of the pants and was nearly at the man's hips when he started meowing.
"WHAT THE HELL!"
Jumping down, the small shiki innocently scratched behind its left ear... as though it were common place to have people yelling at it in such manner.
"Well... what do you want?"
"Mew!"
The man sighed. "I'm on my way out of town. Is this about Draco?"
Puss looked up and nodded his head, hoping that the seriousness of the situation would be understood despite his blasted cuteness.
"Very well... lead on."
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Breaking the chains, the creature that used to be Watari scratched slightly at the strap holding the gag in place... Once that was broken as well, the ball fell out and was pitched to the other side of the room. Stalking closer to the woman, it growled again, revealing sharp fangs before a set of large black feathered wing unfurled from its back.
"Fuck... well... Malfoy will just have to deal with this." She turned and ran from the room, only taking time to slam the door and bolt it. She headed for the street, yelling for Kenny to clear out as well.
Turning its attention towards Draco, large feathered wings dropped... in an attempt to diminish it's percieved size as it moved towards the small blonde. Huge silver eyes watched it approach. The boy struggled in his bonds, but only succeeded in cutting himself on the sharp edges. The large blonde sniffed in the boy's direction before moving next to him. Taking one wrist in it's taloned hand, it gently lapped the blood off of Draco's wrist.
The teen 'mmphed'. He hoped the thing wasn't vampiric... maybe it liked blood. Putting the wrist down, it started nuzzling into Draco's neck. He whimpered again. Wasn't that a favorite place for vampires? Were there vampires in Japan? Curious dark eyes examined the teen's face as a sharp claw gently nudged it from one side to the other... Was it going to eat him? What was it looking at? Draco's heart was thundering. A few wispy locks of blonde hair were brushed out of silver eyes.
Draco peered up at what had become of his partner. Maybe, somewhere in there... it knew who he was. Or it could be like a cat that enjoyed playing with its food, but he was really hoping for the first option. It breathed gently into his ear before moving down to his neck again... this time giving a small nibble on his collar. Draco shuddered and again cursed his teenage body. He moaned helplessly. Pulling back, the creature chirped inquisitively at the teen.
"Mmmh!" Draco shook his head. Damn gag. Looking down the teen's body, strange dark eyes lock onto the stiff peak in the blonde's pants. Oh crap... being a teen for the rest of eternity was going to be a trial.
The creature made a noise that sounded like a sigh before it picked him up and threw him over a shoulder.
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Arriving at the back of the store, Puss jumped up onto a windowsill and looked down at the wizard that he had gotten to follow him.
"What? Here?" From inside they could hear the shrill scream of a woman. Snape darted along the wall searching for a door. It took a few moments, but he finally found one that was locked. At his feet Puss meowed expectantly at him. He whipped out his wand. "Alohomora!"
The small feline put its paws against the door and it easily swung open. Darting in, it leapt over the body lying in the middle of the hall.
Snape paused beside the body. Young, male, scarred face, he checked up there was no pulse. The young man was dead. He stood and stepped over the body, the woman, he still might be able to help her. He had reached the bottom of the stairs when he heard a familiar voice...
"Avada Kedavra."
"lucius..." He hissed quietly. Well there was nothing he could do for the woman now. Draco's cat-thing wouldn't have brought him there if the blond wasn't present. He started to look around for any possible sign of the boy. He didn't want to be discovered by Lucius though... he was not on the man's list of friends anymore.
Puss trotted down the hallway at the top of the stairs. A scent hit him, it was similar to Draco's but surrounded by the poignant stench of death... A shadow appeared in one of the doorways and then a man emerged. He carried a dark cane, topped with a silver snake's head, but he didn't appear to need help walking. He was dressed all in black with hair the same color as Draco's, but long, even longer than Watari's. Hair rising, the small feline hissed up at the man.
The dark wizard looked down at Puss and sneered. "It's like a bloody pet store here..." Arching it's back, Puss spat at the wizard again as it stalked sideways AWAY from him. He paid the creature no more heed, heading for the stairway.
As soon as the wizard isn't paying any attention to him, Puss follows the man quietly to the stairs just to be certain that this man surrounded by death doesn't decide to harm his master's friend.
Luck was not with Snape, he was just stepping out of a room, having found no sign of Draco, when Lucius reached the bottom of the stairway. "Well, well... what have we here? The Potion's Master of Hogwarts..."
The small shiki crouched at the top of the stairs and slowly made his way down... wondering if there was any way that he could turn into his other form without Draco present.
"Lucius Malfoy, I'd say it was a pleasure, but we both know that would be a lie."
"Snape... you wouldn't happen to be searching for my wayward son, would you?"
Son? Son! Large almond shaped eyes blinked in disbelief. THAT was Draco's father! Father's were supposed to be like Kijin's daddy... Sohryu, loving, kind but stern when need be. Cocking his head to the side, Puss hopped down another few steps.
"If I was, I wouldn't tell you anyway, Malfoy."
"Tsk tsk... Severus my boy... you used to be such a good servant of the dark, if a little two-faced..."
Puss growled, he didn't like this, he could smell the bloodlust growing in that dark wizard.
"If you're going to do something, Malfoy... just do it." He pulled out his wand, slipping into a dueling stance.
"Indeed. I'll miss you Severus... you had such potential. Say hello to my son if you ever see him." His wand too was whipped out.
That did it, he had an idea of what wands could do... Puss darted down from the step he was on, tumbling down the last three steps, and scrambled up the blonde wizard's pants and robes like a professional lumber jack. He was a shiki with a mission.
"Aaah!" The man screamed and nearly dropped his wand. "Get off me you pest!"
The arms waving at him only made the small creature sink his tiny but sharp claws in even deeper as he continued towards Lucius's wand hand... Being knocked off once, the small shiki hit the floor, ran around the man, and happily pounced up that nice long cloak.
After his initial surprise, Snape took the opportunity given to him by the shiki. "Stupefy!" Ordinarily, Lucius Malfoy would have been able to block such a simple spell, but he was distracted and the magic hit him square. The wand fell from his hand with a clatter as his eyes rolled back and he collapsed to the floor.
Darting forward, Puss leapt up onto the fallen man's chest, got into position and showed him exactly what he thought of him. Doing something that Draco would have been appalled at him doing outside of a litter box, the small shiki looked up at Snape with an extremely content expression on his face as he went about 'his duty'.
The potions master was having difficulty keeping the smirk off his face. "Come on, lets make sure Draco isn't here before that piece of trash comes around." Meticulous as any feline (with the exception of kiki's cat), Puss meowed and then covered the damp spot with Lucius's cloak. Hopping down, the shiki pounced under a table and remerged pushing a wand with his nose. "Hmmm... yes, I think taking that WOULD inconvenience him for a while, good thinking."
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(section deleted for sexual content)
Large black wings expanded and feathers ruffled as the creature turned. Planting a taloned claw into the grass, a growl rumbled out of the blonde as a man and a kitten came into view. Spreading his wings, the dark eyed creature tried to look larger and more menacing than it already looked. Draco just wanted to die... again. Snape hadn't seen him naked since he was about 4 and went running through the manor with his nanny right after him. To see him like this... with obvious evidence of... well... it was embarrassing.
Licking it's lips like the cat that got the cream, the creature at least stopped growling, but didn't make any attempt to change it's aggressive stance.
"Draco?" The man paused, looking at the boy with concern. He looked to the creature. "What have you done to him?" The creature just growled up at Snape... while it looked like Puss was going into seizures. The man looked down at the cat thing. "What's so funny? Your master is bound and gagged and has obviously been used for a sexual act."
Draco REALLY wanted to die.
The small cat, still looking like it was having seizures meowed at the creature... who snorted in response, but did back down. Snape eased forward, hoping it would let him help Draco. Puss meowed again and the creature kept to itself... fluttering it's wings in annoyance.
The potion master's wand appears and soon Draco is freed and ungagged. The blond pulls his clothing into some semblance of order. "Professor!"
Using some of the reaper's power, the shiki turns into it's second form... and still falls on the ground, this time laughing out loud. "This isn't funny Puss!" Draco reels a bit from the power loss... so soon after a different kind of power loss.
"You're kidding, right?" Puss chortled.
"No... this is embarrassing. And I've been tied up and gagged for hours. And..." His voice dropped. "It was my father they were going to sell us to."
"I don't think that your dad will be happy to see us..." The shiki continued to laugh. "Not after what happened."
"What, you saw him?"
"He had killed two people when we ran into him. He was his usual self. Your... friend here distracted him long enough for me to spell him."
The shiki sat down and scratched behind one ear with his hind paw, "I'm a shikigami... friendship is secondary, protection is my primary purpose. Unfortunately Dray-chan has to be close and relatively conscious for me to change into this form."
"Don't call me Dray-chan..." He muttered.
Snape snorted. "Are you going to be okay? I have a portkey scheduled for less than a half hour from now..."
The shikigami was still trying to control his laughter. "No, he won't be alright, his partner there is under the impression that Dray-chan is in heat."
Draco blushed from toes to hairline. "WHAT!"
Puss smirked, "give him half a chance and he will screw you up, down, side-ways, forward, backward and any other way that you want. The mind in control of that body bears no resemblance to a human, because it ISN'T human... it's a hybrid crossing of an angel and a demon, and consequently doesn't have the same hang-ups about mating as humans do..."
"Well then... I'll be off. I doubt Lucius is still around but be on your guard. Better yet, leave this area as soon as you can. I'll try to get in touch with you again."
"SNAPE!" Draco couldn't believe his former professor and head of house was simply walking away. Draco tried to get up, but the cramp in his leg made itself known again. "Ow!" He bent over, massaging his calf. The shiki trotted off after the wizard and ignored the fact that Draco was tackled from behind. "PUSS!"
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Two days later, Draco has lost times how many times that he and that hybrid have, ahem, played around... or as Puss would 'politely' call it, mated. At least they had gotten back to the hotel... under the cover of darkness. The blond was incredibly sore and tired. He was currently hiding by taking a shower... but part of him expected the hybrid to arrive at any time.
Almost as if on cue, he felt a set of strong arms wrap around him and something hard press up against his backside. He couldn't help it if his teenaged body was always willing to respond. He wasn't in heat... no matter what Puss said. He moaned as those hands found all those sensitive places again. The hybrid certainly had an excellent memory, lavishing attention where it was most effective. It was also extremely cautious to make sure that it never harmed him, no matter how heated their coupling became...
(la la la... small smex scene clipped out...)
Having released himself, Draco was sagging, his legs in danger of collapsing. He was just so tired... this sex all the time was exhausting. A large towel is picked up and wrapped around the teen's slender form once the water has been turned off. Draco cuddled into the fabric, smiling sweetly up at the hybrid. It wasn't HIS Watari, but it was really nice to him. And Puss had been right, it was perfectly willing to screw him up, down, side-ways, forward, backward and any other way that he wanted. Or more often anyway it could catch him. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how one would see the situation, it had a tendency to catch him SEVERAL times a day.
He snuggled into that warm, very muscular chest as he was picked up and carried back into the bedroom. Once he was dry, Draco was laid in the bed. Snuggling, the hybrid cuddled up to the sleepy teen. It was nice... being held like this. Once the covers were pulled up and tucked around him... Draco drifted off.
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Outside, Korin shook his head and looked down at the small shiki that had brought him here. The diminutive creature just sat down and languidly scratched behind it's right ear. Pushing on the door, the amber eyed teen sighed when it didn't open. Just his luck, locked. He looked around mentally to make sure that he wasn't being watched and promptly teleported inside the room... and oh for the love of Enma... the place smelled heavily of sex...
A small scritching sound drew his attention back to the door. Turning, he undid the locks and let Puss in, thinking that perhaps instead of a feline, this thing should have been a puppy for all the retrieving that it has apparently been doing. "come on." he said flatly closing the door behind the small creature. He supposed that perhaps he might have had a higher appreciation for sex, if he hadn't had his unfortunate accident. Scar tissue, while horribly disfiguring, also transmitted little to no sensation... Amber eyes drank in the room around him. On the bed the pyrokinetic could see Draco snuggled in the embrace of the hybrid... 'Fluffy' as Wakaba once called it. Though Korin was having a hard time figuring out what had compelled the girl to give it that name, he didn't see anything fluffy there at all.
At least Dray-chan appeared to be in one piece. One could never tell how... boisterous otherworldly creatures could be in their mating. It appeared that they had done a LOT of mating. He leveled his gaze on Puss. /and why didn't you come get me sooner/
Innocently, the feline cleansed it's face and then looked up with large green eyes. /they seemed to be having too much fun./
/Did you consider the fact that it could have actually hurt Dray/
If cat's could grin, Puss would have/Dray-chan had enough of Watari's scent on him that he knew not to hurt him.../
/Lovely.../ He opened up his bag and started to lay out what he would need.
/Besides... you make it sound like he's an animal... please, it's always bad policy to harm your mate, or to harm the mate of your host./ Puss snickered.
/Watari and Dray mating... there's a picture I didn't need./ He light the candles and headed for the bed. Carefully he lay a fuda on the hybrid, ensuring that it would stay out of commission.
/humans... you creatures always have such odd hang ups over mating.../
He let the comment slide, knowing it was impossible to explain it all to a shiki. He eased the blankets down, wrinkling his nose, the sheets were a mess. He checked Draco, the boy was totally out of it. Good... that would make this easier. Jumping up on the bed, the shiki made sure not to step in any of the more 'interesting' spots and sauntered over to Draco. Settling down on the boy's chest, he watched Korin. The shinigami lifted the hybrid from the bed carrying him over to the spell circle he'd laid out. He finished lighting a couple candles and some incense, adding a couple fuda to the circle.
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Draco woke several hours later... clean, dressed in warm pajamas and carefully tucked into the bed which had fresh linens. On his chest, Puss was happily dozing, his nose nearly touching the paws curled inwards. He blinked a few times, trying to get his brain moving. One hand emerged from the cocoon of blankets and sheets to pet Puss.
Purring, Puss started to knead the sheets beneath him. "you know... you're not really that light..." In fact, now that he was waking up he noticed that in addition to being nice and warm, the shiki was gaining wait the longer he sat there. Like any feline, Puss stayed exactly where he was and continued purring down at the reaper. Sighing... Draco looked around as much as he could with a cat perched on his chest. The room appeared to be clean. That itself was a change. He hadn't been able to let the cleaning ladies in for a couple days. The sheets too were clean, he finally noticed. He knew they weren't that way when the hybrid had put him to bed. Speaking of the hybrid... now was about the time when it would have come and started to snuggle with him... before deciding that it was time to have yet another round of sex. Something was wrong... "Puss, you need to get off... I need to find it!"
Green eyes opened and stared down at the teen... still refusing to move. "Puss! If it got out... it... he could be attacked!"
Jumping off Draco and the bed, Puss transformed in mid-leap, and watched as his shinigami nearly passed out from the energy drain. "Still awake up there?"
"maybe..."
Putting his large front paws up on the bed, the full grown shikigami nuzzled the reaper's neck, "go back to sleep dray-chan..."
"but... the hybrid..." He was having trouble keeping his eyes open. When was the last time he'd eaten anything anyway?
"is fine... " he purred.
"but... where is it?"
"in watari..."
"Watari's back?" He forced his eyes open and tried to sit up but his head swam. "whoa..."
"Either lay down and go back to sleep, or I jump up there and sit on you." Puss said warningly.
"Okay... okay." He lay back down, rolling over. The other side of the bed... the one Watari usually used was neat and very empty. He sighed and curled up. Hopefully when he woke up again Watari would be back.
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AN: Yay! Another chapter... and sorry for the shoddy censoring job, but the rules of the site do not allow for graphic portayals of sex. -sigh- even though it sucketh mightily, rules are rules.