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Chapter 2: Ikari, Rain and the Moon

"No way, this has to be her. I mean she has the same face!" Leorina protested loudly as the three sat at the table across the room from Anna. Tat was at Anna's bedside putting ice on her forehead.

"Quiet, Leo!" Guntz scowled in a whisper covering her mouth with his hand. She shot him a glare, but looked at Anna sympathetically when she heard the ailing girl moan through her fever. She must have heard Leorina yell.

"Poor girl," she frowned.

"Anyway, I called you because I found her at the mirror. I was thinking of contacting Maria and the others if Anna approves, but I'm suspicious if this girl even is Anna." He spoke doubtfully looking at Anna.

"She looks like Anna, doesn't she?" Leorina asked turning to him.

"No, her hair is different, she has cat ears instead of my wolf ears, and she was speaking in Tsubasanian when I found her. Maybe this is another look-a-like of Anna's." He suggested.

"Maybe, but either way, this girl still needs our help, right?" Lion asked looking up at Guntz.

"Yeah, her fever was at 106.5F when I last checked, I've been trying all night and morning to bring it down." He frowned crossing his arms.

"That high?!" The two girls echoed incredulously loud.

"Shh, damnit!" He growled lowly "Anna was way quieter than this before she left, god."

Leorina shot him a glare as Lion put a fist to her mouth so her mouth wouldn't show signaling she wouldn't talk. Suddenly, Leorina widened her eyes as if realizing something. She quickly stood up and checked Anna's fever again... 107F. She gritted her teeth as she began to turn towards the others.

"Tat, get some buckets of ice in the freezer, Guntz, go fill the tub with a lot of really cold water, Lion, help me change her into thinner clothing." She ordered loudly.

Lion was the first to react as she quickly grabbed the under clothes they had bought and was at Leorina's side who was quickly unbuttoning Anna's damp shirt. The two gasped when they saw her heavily bandaged chest, but they would have to ignore how tattered it was to get her fever down first. They changed her into a light tang top and a pair of thin under shorts. Afterwards, Leorina picked up Anna in a bridal form only to gasp when she felt how damn light she was.

"What the hell?!"

"What?!" Guntz asked running out of the bathroom in concern.

"She's light," She said blankly.

"Don't fuck with me!" He scowled angrily, clenching his fists.

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Lion put a thermometer in the cold water after Tat dropped three buckets of ice in the tub and it indicated -3F. She frowned sheepishly as Leorina carried Anna and was about to put Anna in the water when Lion got in the way trying to protest.

"Wait, are you actually going to put her in there! I-I-I mean it's negative three degrees!" She protested waving her arms in the air.

"That's the whole point. Anyway we're going to stay with her until her fever is down. Tat and Guntz left to get some hot packs in the village." Leorina said calmly. Slowly, she settled Anna's body in the freezing cold tub of water. The moment Anna was rested in there, she began to yell in agony as she grasped Leorina's arm that were still wrapped around her.

"Miss Leorina, what happening?" Lion asked worriedly leaning towards the ail girl.

"It's okay. The heat in her body and the cold temperature in the tub both combine together in Anna's body sending bad spasms of pain. Her body is getting confused whether she needs to warm up or cool down, don't worry it'll only happen for a few more moments." She reassured still looking down to Anna. Anna looked as if she was in pain by seeing her furrowed brows and the way she gripped Leorina's arm. Then just as Leorina said, a few moments later, Anna began to relax and her hand dropped in the water. She was now sleeping peacefully as the blush on her face began to gradually fade away.

Lion sighed in relief before starting to mop up the water that spilled out of the tube with a dirty, but dry towel. Leorina gently put a folded towel behind Anna's head, so that she wouldn't feel uncomfortable sleeping on hard marble. As every hour passed Leorina would check and every time it would go down at least three to five degrees. After two hours, Guntz and Tat returned and by then Anna's temperature was at 100F. Guntz suggested that she was in there long enough, but Leorina didn't want the risk of Anna getting a fever again so she had Tat bring in another bucket of ice. Then an hour later her temperature was back to a healthy 98.6F, afterwards which Leorina finally took Anna out of the tub and she and Lion began to dry her off.

Once Anna was dressed in a new pair of pajamas, Guntz placed heat packs behind her head for a pillow, under her lower back, and beneath her lower legs. After tucking her in bed, all of them collapsed against the bed exhaustedly.

"Leo, I'm sleepy, nya." Tat complained.

"I know me too, but hold out a little longer just until Anna gets better." She replied tiredly.

"You guys can use my futon if you want, I can rest at the table." Guntz told them as he trudged towards it.

"You sure you want us to stay overnight?" Lion asked before yawning.

"I don't mind at all, anyway I have a job tomorrow afternoon and I need someone to watch her." He replied yawning himself.

"Oh okay," Lion frowned as she turned around watching Anna sleep untroubled. She prayed that Anna would get better soon. She picked up Tat, who had fallen asleep on the floor, and told Leorina she would go to sleep on the big futon next to the table first. Leorina nodded as she took a seat at the table with Guntz. The two sat in companionable silence waiting for Lion and Tat to fall asleep as well. Leorina looked outside to see that it was already around four in the afternoon and it was beginning to rain again. An hour later Leorina finally began to speak.

"Did you notice the mark on the back of her neck?" Leorina asked looking up to Guntz as he took a sip of coffee from a mug on the table.

"Yeah, when I found her, I think that's what's making her speak her original language. My clan language originates from hers so I can communicate with her easily thanks to the language my father used to teach me when I was younger." He replied resting the mug on the table. Leorina realized something, where was his father, maybe his mother as well.

"Where is he right now?" She asked inquiringly.

"Where her mother is," he replied simply with a tone that visibly told her he didn't want to talk about it.

"Did you really meet her, you know before all of this?"

"Yeah, but she was still a newborn back then, so I doubt she would remember me from that time, like her parents." He spoke in that same tone, "although it was a surprise to me when you told me she was a one-winged angel."

"Well that's what the Mitsukai are, but what I don't understand is why there is only her and her family left." Leorina frowned at the serene angel.

"From what I heard, there was this group called the Deadly Sins who were rivaled with the Mitsukai because these angels were a mixture of devilish angels or one-winged angels. Unfortunately, the deadly sins were visibly known as demons while one-winged angels were given powers way more powerful and similar to the other clans and the Sins.

"But by the time Jinjo, Anna's oldest brother, was born the clan was already dying out as it was through the right murders such as stabs to their life source or visible killings. So far, as the clan began to grow smaller, the last couple, who were Konnichi and Kaguya, decided to have children each year until it was time for them to be murdered.

"Afterwards, Kisho and her parents were good friends with my father and mother due to the fact that we too were experiencing the same problem when it came to our clan. So a week after Anna was born, Kisho visited me and my father, we received word of her parents' murder and took full responsibility to watch over Anna if she ever set foot here. That was the only thing left I had to do that my father told me." He told as the young girl shifted in her sleep.

"So you just took responsibility of her for your families?" Leorina asked sadly.

"Well, that and also because she reminded me of myself. Just like her, I converted to killing around the age she joined the army, I knew then on, she would have been a killing machine if she ever converted to fighting in battles like that. Every time I saw her eyes or saw her as Kuroi instead of Anna or Ame, I would always see myself in her, no matter what I saw. So I came to the conclusion I would just care for her like any normal kid so she could go back to that girl I saw thirteen years ago." Guntz smirked looking at Anna thoughtfully.

"Then why didn't you just ask her to not go when she said, she didn't want to before she left for the school?" Leorina asked.

"I thought since it would be short, she would be fine while I left on an adventure that Klonoa wanted to go on. I never knew that this would happen." He frowned again.

"Well the future is unexpected," Leorina sighed. Guntz nodded at that without replying, he then turned towards the girl sleeping on the bed. He looked down to his rose ring to see it faintly glowing, he lifted it towards the girl and immediately it began to glow a little brighter. Yep, this girl was Anna, but something deep inside him said that this girl was more than meets the eye.

Leorina, who was simply watching cocked her head interestingly. She wanted to know the whole point of this medium and maiden relationship, but she kind of knew about it a little thanks to the training with him and that fight at the ball six months ago. She'll have to let it be for now. Hopefully he'll let her in on what he knows when he knows the time is right.

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Midnight, a crescent moon

Ikari shifted as she began to come to, her slowly opened as the faint light of the crescent moon's rays hit her face through the window above her that was being pattered by the heavy rain. Groggily-eyed, she sat up scratching the back of her head. She sleepily looked up towards the moon only to widen her eyes as if realizing something. She made it through the gate? She looked at herself quickly and noticed her clothes were gone and now she was wearing pajamas, so this was how comfy they were? She was used to sleeping in her only clothes on rough surfaces like back at her home. But ever since a few days ago she found out who she really was, she betted she could use those 'mirror gates' that she read about to get to this place. If she was right this was the place her 'old self' used to live.

Ikari looked up towards the moon and sighed in relief, luckily there was a moon in this world and it had its own phases. Unlike the ones at her home, there was always a full moon during the night which meant sibling rivalry battles until sunrise. She yawned and looked around her. It seemed to be a cabin by seeing that mostly the walls were wooden. To her it seemed to be the middle of the night, she looked down to her hand where the ring she had found on herself glow a dim brightness.

This was the ring that began her suspicions a month ago. She was always suspicious of herself as to why she recovered way more easily than her siblings. Then there was that conversation she had heard her 'Mother', Dante, and her 'Master', Asura, about her being not really Dante's daughter and how Namake had connection with her sudden appearance in this 'family'. So she had questioned her 'twin brother' and since he grew on her so much, he was more loyal to her more than their 'Mother' he told her everything. It turns out she was a soldier of the Tsubasanian Militia and a daughter of two other families, one of them consisting a special clan she and her brother along with their other five siblings were to kill before this 'fated day'.

So a week after finally understanding who she was, she concocted an escape plan for herself. Since she read that she was probably an Alchemist, she could harness the power of the mirrors that was spoken of in the alchemy books she had found thrown out of Dante's study back at her 'home'. But her chances of getting through were thin by how tainted she was from the killing she had done unwillingly with her brother and in turn it would have predicted this, a deadly fever.

She was beginning to have a feeling of déjà vu, but it would be useless to wonder what it was now. Now was to know where she is and to locate the mirror she came out of. But what was here? She looked around slowly taking in that she was in a cabin and outside it was raining abundantly. She looked to the side where she saw someone sleeping against a table. He looked like a mix of a wolf and a German shepherd. Although it was difficult to see his face since he was resting his head in his arms. She looked at the jacket hanging at the frame of the bed behind her and she slowly grabbed it.

Carefully, she got out of bed and silently limped to the wolf-dog. Gently, she rested the jacket over his shoulders and turned to the other people resting on the futon in front of the bed she was sleeping on. A girl with red hair and dark skin, an Akita with light brown hair and fur, and a dark blue and white cat were all resting on the big futon. Ikari cocked her head at them. All of them cared for her all this time? She looked down guiltily thinking if she should just get up and leave, but she really wasn't fond of night or rain, especially when they are mixed together.

She sighed as she came to a conclusion, she'll just have to wait till morning. Except she noticed the bandages around her body and quickly decided to let it be for a week. Tiredly, she went back to bed with a quiet yawn and pulled the sheets over her shoulders. She was still tired and she was smart enough not to leave immediately. Hopefully a good night's rest was good for her, well for a first for her that is.

Nya: I have good news and bad news. Good news is I've been meeting a good amount of authors and novelists and I've been excelling well in my English class. Bad news is I won't be writing this story until I finish my novel which will be in what… a few months maybe? Anyway, my teacher is still looking for an agent and we already found a good enough publishing company. Now all I need is an agent and for my big sister to finish the cover design for the novel and then I'm set. ^^