Nanatsu Doubutsu
Chapter Four: Shirt Thieves & Violated Bubbles
A/N: Uploading original.
Uh...huh... ¤twitch¤ Well, this is going to be a short chapter compared to what I usually do because I am going to visit my Great-Grandmamma...IN CALIFORNIA! NOOOO! I don't wanna be in the same state as Arnold However-the-hell-you-spell-his-last-name! I'll be flying out Wednesday night and coming back Monday morning. In which time, I won't be able to work on Nanatsu! Speaking of which, near the end at school, I've been wanting to do that for a while. There was just no room for it.¤tear¤ Gak! Stop rambling and get typing, dumbass! ¤slaps self¤
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A woman stood before him. She wore a white silk gown and her long brown hair rested on her shoulders. Her light-brown eyes looked at him with a smile on her face. She bowed lightly to him and grabbed his hands. She put a wooden box into his hand.
The box was a dark mahogany and the surface was flawless. Carved into it was a crescent moon surrounded by seven stars. And in the curve of the moon was a bear, reaching towards the stars.
Kyo looked up at the woman in confusion.
"What's this for?" he asked her. She smiled at him.
"It is a gift of my gratitude. Without you, my children would be lost. It is also to protect you, and your family. The man who slew me did not come for me alone. But because of you, and the love my children hold for you, he has not been able to enter your reality."
"Then why are you giving me this?" Kyo asked. He looked down at the box, his thumb grazing over the silver clasp.
"Because, he is not the only mortal man consumed by greed. Others seek the power of which my children hold. You may also need that because those men may come for you, seeking the children when they have already left."
"What!" Kyo looked up from the box with horror on his face. "Why! Why are they leaving! Did something happen!" Kyo was worried beyond belief. He then realized how much he cared for them. Sure they were an incredible pain most of the time, but they listened and behaved...sometimes.
"Do not worry. I am having my younger sister come to your home to take them with her. She will take them to a reality much different from yours and mine. There, they will live out of reach and in protection." She said in a soothing voice. The soft tone did not work on Kyo as he thought of the many dangers they could face, each more upsetting then the last.
The woman put one hand on his shoulder to ease his panic. He looked into her eyes with incredible anger and fear in his own. She asked him to care for the children, which he did. And now when they had finally opened up to him, she was going to rip them away, like it was nothing?
Kyo stepped away from her.
"No. You're not taking them!"
"My sister would die before she saw them hurt!" she said, try desperately to calm him.
"And I'll die before I see them torn away!" Away from them. From his own family.
From him.
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"Kyon-san!"
The nanatsu children ran at him and hugged any part of him within reach. He didn't say anything but bent down to their height. They stared at him with sad and watery eyes before he grabbed them all and held them tightly.
"You gave us quite a scare, Kyo-kun." Shigure said. He, Tohru, Yuki, Hatori and Kagura were sitting at the table. Tohru and Kagura were in tears and hugged each other while Yuki stared somewhere else and Hatori stared.
Kyo stood and walked over to the table, keeping his head down. When he sat, Kame kept trying to reach and touch his jaw but Kyo pushed him away. Impervious to Kyo's attempts, he kept reaching.
"What happened?" Kyo asked as he pushed Kame away for the fiftieth time.
"Oo! Oo! I know that one!" Tora threw her hand in the air. When no one objected, she began talking as if she was listing things and not taking one breath.
"Me, and Miji-san, and Haru-san, were in the room, and then, and then, and then, Tohru-san, she like, ran in, and then, and then, and then, I was like, whoa, and Neko, was like, all, weird, and Kitsu, was like, uh, yelling at people, and then, Haru-san, like, turned all, evil, and Yuki-san, was on this thing, with some, person, and then, and then, and then, Kyon-san, was like, all, pale, and Miji-san, was like, gone, and then, and then, and then, we went in this thing, and came here, and, um...that was like...three days ago."
Everyone present stared wide-eyed at Tora except for Sakana, Ookami, and Kame. Sakana was off in her own little world while Ookami was glaring at his sister. Kame was still trying to reach Kyo.
"Okay, I think I deciphered most of what she said." Sakana suddenly said.
"Please translate." Yuki said, acting as if Tora had just spoken a different language.
"Okay well, I filled in most of the gaps from what Neko and Kitsu told me. Tora was in the classroom with Miji-san and Haru-san when Tohru-san suddenly ran in." she began. She was speaking as if she was much older than her actual age. "The four of them ran to Kyon-san's classroom where he had passed out for some reason or another. Neko was freaking out while Kitsu was yelling at people to back off. Haru-san had turned into...uh...hm."
"Black Haru?" Kyo offered. This time everyone else was staring at Sakana.
"Yeah. Him. Miji-san had run out of the room and Yuki-san was on the phone with Tori-san. They got Kyon-san into the car and they drove here. That was three days ago." Sakana finished.
"That's what I said!" Tora whined.
"Uh, yeah. And you have been asleep ever since and we were told not to go in the room with you. So naturally we went in every chance we got. I guess you were dreaming weird things because you kept muttering in your sleep about how you'd die before something and about you killing a guy." Sakana ignored her sister's last comment and talked to Kyo instead.
"What's killing?" Usagi asked innocently. The older people stiffened, except for Kyo, who stood from the table after pushing Kame away fro the millionth time.
"It's what I'm probably about to do."
ding dong!
"It's open!" Kyo said. "Gah!" So stubborn Kame was, for he had jumped on Kyo's shoulder and latched himself onto his neck. He put his hand over Kyo's jaw and a soft glow came from the spot. He had almost finished healing Kyo, when he was sent flying across the room.
"Aaaahhh!"
He was snatched out of the air by a black haired woman. She wore a tan strapless dress and had blazing brown eyes, which now glared at Kyo.
"You must be Shimauma-san." Kyo said in a calm tone, though it had an edge to it.
"And you, Kyo Sohma-san." She said, though her voice had much more of an edge to it.
"Aunt Shima, can you put me down now?" Kame looked up at his aunt, who was still glaring at Kyo. She put him down gently, but he tried to return to the others, she held him back.
"Aunt Shima?" he asked.
She said nothing, and two men in black armor stepped out from behind her. Each had a severe look on their face, along with a sword at their side.
Kyo immediately took a stance known all to well by the Sohma family. Tohru and Kagura looked at the men in confusion. Hatori looked even more severe than the men, Shigure for once looked serious. Yuki was standing next to Kyo in a stance as well. Both stood in front of the children blocking them. Neko and Ookami were muttering under their breath while Kitsu had her eyes closed and sitting calmly.
"I want the children. I suppose their mother told you about us? Hm. We need them, and their power. But you see..." She said quietly. A sword appeared in her hand and she held it to Kame's neck. "We don't need them alive for their power."
"And we don't need you alive either!" Neko yelled. She slammed her hands on the floor with Ookami in unison. The three newcomers lifted above the floor and were bound by dark tendrils. Kame ran to the others and stood behind Hatori. Tohru and the Sohma's stared in shock as Kitsu stood between Yuki and Kyo.
She opened her eyes and her body was surrounded by fire. She lifted her hands above her head.
"You are not welcome here! You came for our power..." She threw down her hands and a blast of fire was sent towards the intruders.
"Well here it is!"
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"Kitsu-chan! Get back here!"
"Whee! I'm crispy!"
Kitsu's fire-attack had not only left the walls charred black, but her and the others as well. Everyone else had taken a bath (or shower, since Kame had used his water-magic to help clean his brother and sisters) except for Kitsu, who was running around the house and leaving small body prints on walls she had run into.
Neko and Kame of course wanted to help. Although, their version of 'help' was Neko sending lightning-blasts throughout the house hoping to hit her sister...eventually, and Kame conjuring illusions which only succeeded in confusing everyone in the house, him included.
"Whee! Crispy child!"
Bzzt!
"Stop blasting, Neko-chan! Kame-chan, is that you? Or is that you? Gah!"
Unfortunately, the fire-attack had taken place on a school-night and Shigure was left chasing the three children alone. The other four were taken to Hatori's house.
"Crispy! Crispycrispycrispycrispycrispy!"
Bzzt!
"It's a giant chicken!"
"Buckaw!"
"Stop conjuring chicken-illusions!"
Bzzt!
"Crispy chicken..."
"Whaaaa! My chicky!"
He wasn't much better off.
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"Tori-san, what's this?"
"Get out of my medical bag!"
Crash!
"Books fall down!"
"Whee! I'm flying!"
"Get down here!"
"Then what's the point of controlling gravity?"
BAM!
"Tori-san! You need a new refergipator!"
Clash!
"And a new micropave!"
"Oo! Lookylooky!"
"It's a red thingy with a hose!"
"Let's pull the pin!"
"Yeah!"
"Whee! Flying!"
Crash!
Fwoossssssshhhhhh!
"It's snowing!"
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It was homeroom and Kyo was sitting by himself by the window. Tohru, Yuki, Arisa, and Saki were standing in the middle of the room talking while several girls nearby kept whispering about what had happened on Friday.
"Hey, Sohma. What's up?" two of Kyo's friends walked up to him as he stared out the window. He didn't say anything and his eyes seemed to be empty.
"Uh, Kyo?"
Nothing.
"Earth to Sohma! Earth to Sohma! Anyone home?" One of his friends waved his hand up and down in front of Kyo's face. Kyo suddenly snapped back to reality and yelled out as he swatted the hand away.
"He's alive! Alive!" the second yelled and throwing his hands up in the air, catching the attention of everyone in class.
"Shut up!" Kyo hit both of them upside the head before turning back to the window. He threw it open and stuck his head out.
"Kame, get down!"
"Hi!" someone yelled in his ear.
"Gah!" Surprised by the sneak-attack, Kyo fell out the window. Well, mostly. He had managed to grip the window sill on his way down. Now he was back-to-back with the wall with his hands above his head. He looked up to see Kitsu, still charred, and Neko, hair standing on end, looking down at him.
"Bwuahaha!" Kame was now clinging to his leg with Neko on his shoulders. Kitsu was clinging to his torso. It was an interesting day after that.
The teacher found the children amusing (mostly because they were 'torturing' Kyo), and six desks had managed to find their way on the rooftop, upside-down, painted in multiple colors, and the legs missing. Four teachers went missing, only to be found shoved in a broom closet, tied, gagged, and face painted.
It was ten minutes until school was over and the class was calm, talking amongst themselves.
"It's too quite." Neko whispered. Kyo and the others were standing nearby talking about god-knows-what.
"Kitsu can change that." Kame said. They turned to her as she was clearing her throat. She was still covered in ash and soot. Parts of her face, clothes, and hair were visible.
"CHOPSTICKS WILL RULE THE BOXERS!" she yelled.
The students began laughing at the randomness and the class was once again active. As a breeze came through the window, Kame shivered. Neko and Kitsu huddled close to keep him warm, but he still sneezed.
Yuki noticed this and walked over to see what the matter was. Kitsu tugged lightly on his tie and whispered something in his ear. Yuki only stared. She tugged again and whispered something else.
"Oh. Well, school's almost over anyway." Yuki said, eyeing the clock.
"I wanna leave an impression." Kitsu said.
"Please don't."
"Too late!"
Kitsu jumped off the desk and ran out of the room screaming. Kyo ran after her and the class was quiet again. Partially because of shock, but mostly to hear the happenings down the hall.
Crash! Bam! Splash!
"Bwuahahahahahahaa!"
"Give that back!"
Bam! Slam!
"Eeehehehehehehehee!"
Kitsu ran back into the room and jumped into Yuki's arms.
"What did you do?" he asked, eyeing the bundle underneath her dress. She reached into her dress and pulled out...DUN dun DUUUNNN!
KYO'S SHIRT!
"Y-you...took his...shirt?" Yuki was finding it very hard not to laugh.
"Yeah. I was going for his pants though." Kitsu said casually as she held Kyo's shirt and looked at it more closely. While Yuki was trying not to laugh, Neko, Kame, and Arisa were in hysterics.
"What w-was that...splash?" Yuki said.
"Oh, um...I really don't know."
"Give me back my shirt!"
Kyo stood in the doorway, soaking wet, and shirtless. His wet hair clung to his face and anger was in his eyes. The girls in the room (except for Arisa, Saki, Tohru, and the psycho-midget-sisters) watched as every droplet of water rolled down his chest. Neko was staring at him with her head to the side, Arisa laughed even harder, Saki was...well...Saki, and Tohru was blushing lightly. Kame was sitting on the desk huddled in a sneezing ball.
"Oh! You got out of the closet! Um...shirt? What shirt?" Kitsu said as she slowly stuffed the shirt back into her dress.
"Give it back!"
"Okay. I'll give it back. If you can catch me!"
Brrrrrrrrrrrrring!
"School's over, bai-bai!" Kitsu jumped from Yuki's arms and out the door, barely missing the grab for her.
The class laughed as they could hear the two running and shouting down the hall. They filed out of the room with Yuki, Tohru, her friends, and the psycho-midgets in the back.
When they left the school, another funny sight greeted them. The students around campus laughed as they saw a long, silver-haired someone chasing Kagura, who was chasing Kyo, who was chasing Kitsu, who was chasing Momiji, who was chasing a leaf.
"Why are they here?" Yuki finally asked as the chasers and leaf finally stopped. Kyo was holding Kitsu upside-down by the feet trying to get his shirt back while Kagura hugged him from behind and Momiji tried to pull Kitsu away from him. Ayame was standing next to Yuki, who was stepping away from him.
"Wasn't Shigure supposed to be watching them?"
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"They got to you!" Hatori shouted above him as the four chibi giggled.
"Yep!" came the response.
"How!"
"They outnumbered me! And Kame has his illusions! They're so fast I couldn't get a leash on them like you did!"
"It wasn't easy!"
"Can you get me down now!"
"And leave these alone! How about waiting until the others come home!"
"I think by that time all the blood will have rushed to my head!"
"I'm still trying to figure out they tied you and hung you upside-down from the top of a tree when all three are afraid of heights!" at this, the children laughed harder.
"Silence! Up here, I'm God!" Shigure yelled.
"Up there, you're bird food!"
"Wha--gah! Bad bird! Bad bird! Curse you!" Shigure was swinging from side-to-side as a bird was flapping near his face. Eventually the bird flew away.
The children were rolling on the ground laughing with tears in their eyes. Even Hatori smiled a bit.
"Oo! A squirrel!" Tora said, pointing up.
"Huh! What squir—whoa! Hey, you! Get out of there!"
"Uh, Tori-san? Where did the squirrel go?" Usagi asked, tugging on his sleeve.
"A place where no squirrel has gone before."
"Violation of the bubble! Violation of the bubble!"
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A/N: Okay, in three days I made probably the best chapter so far. And it ain't short like I said it would be. So you may be asking yourselves, why don't I do this regularly? More chapters, less time! To tell you the truth, it was because this time I set a deadline that actually had consequences. But, I hoped you liked this! I'll work on an outline for the next chapter while I'm in California. Hope I get some reviews when I come back!
Here's to help you keep track of their powers:
Sakana: Unknown/Telepathy/Unknown
Usagi: Light/Unknown/Unknown
Ookami: Dark/Energy/Unkown
Neko: Lighting/Gravitation/Unknown
Kame: Water/Illusions/Unknown
Kitsu: Fire/Unknown/Unknown
Tora: Ice/Unknown/Unknown