Gekko no Senshi (Moonlight Warrior)
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Hello fanfic peeps! Thanks for the Reviews, you guys are awesome! Some of the questions you have will be answered soon, so no worries. Just to let you know, Rihan and Rikuo usually are human when outside the Main House. They will appear youkai whenever they are in danger, in a battle or when it's dark, or simply lounging around their house. I will let you know whenever they are in their human/youkai form. :)
Chapter 6
"Tadaima!" announced Rikuo as he walked through his house's foyer. He heard a few 'welcome backs' from several small youkai running around the house doing chores, preparing for dinner.
"Welcome back, son!" greeted his mother Yohime. "How was school?" she continued as they walked together to where his father usually sat.
"Peaceful, for once." His mother chuckled, understanding exactly what he meant. "Oh okaa-san, we also got a new student."
"Ah! Is she nice?" Yohime asked.
"She seems to be, she immediately became friends with Kana and the group but Yura was a little rude to her," he laughed nervously, "you know her, she is very protective of her friends; she'll warm up to her."
"What's her name?"
"Yatogami Tomoe," he answered.
"Ah."
He looked around and felt that something was not right. The mansion was quiet, too quiet for that matter.
"Mother, where is Rihan?"
At that precise moment, Kubinashi was rounding the corner with a basket of clothes.
"I sent him to the groceries not long ago to buy some stuff for dinner and breakfast tomorrow," he answered.
"No wonder it's so quiet," Rikuo raised an eyebrow, still scanning the area for a mop of black hair.
"Oh my son, it was really loud before he left… it took a lot of Kubinashi's pushing and yelling to make your brother leave the house, and do something, for a change," said Yohime.
"That royal pain in the ass," scoffed Kubinashi, a vein popping.
"Sounds like him," smirked Rikuo.
Tomoe sighed heavily as she closed her school binder. Finally, I'm done. It took 3 different geometry books, besides her school one and some Internet notes to get the homework done.
It was already dusk when she left the library. Her stomach growled. I better hurry home; I don't want Inoue okaa-sama and Tsubasa-sama to worry.
She inhaled deeply and let the brisk evening air fill her lungs. The city is so much dirtier than the countryside, yet it's so beautiful.
As she walked down the road, she noticed a particular smell. Fear. She ran towards it; what she saw made her blood boil: some lowlife human threatening a young schoolgirl with a knife. Without even thinking, she sets down her bag and runs to help the girl.
The girl screams at the same time Tomoe yelled, "Hey!"
The delinquent got startled, snatched the girl's schoolbag and ran at the direction Tomoe was running to.
"Where do you think you're going you scum?" Tomoe's voice darkened as she growled. Her eyes turned into a lighter blue, her hair loosened up from its noose, and a sword materialized out of nowhere.
"W-whaa… who are you?" the felon stammered.
"Your worst nightmare," she growled, as she pounced.
"Why did Kubinashi give me the weirdest things to buy?" Rihan talked to himself as he was making his way home, eating an ice cream cone with the grocery bags swung over his shoulder. He suddenly had that feeling like something was about to happen.
Right then he hears a scream and someone yell, "Hey!"
He sets down his bags and sighed as he casually walks towards the source of the noise. "Such a waste of good ice cream," he said.
When he was about to round the corner, a small figure bumped into him. It was a young schoolgirl. Everything happened so fast, it all took him surprise: the little girl screamed and cringed in fear after realizing she bumps into someone, he walked past her and saw who he suspected to be the robber. Just then, he heard him stammer something he didn't quite get but when he finally hears a cold, dark and mysterious voice, he looks up to see her.
The moonlight warrior… This is the first time he ever thought of the moniker but it seemed to suit her well.
That's when the culprit decides to make a run for it.
"Tsk, tsk, why do they always run," she says as she turns around, moving with mystifying beauty. As if carried by the wind, she leapt in the air only to land on the thief's back, making him fall to the ground face first.
Rihan's mouth opened agape at the girl's graceful movements.
After she gets off him, the scoundrel turns around, saying: "What are you?"
"I'm in no obligation to answer," she growled as she launched the tip of her sword toward his throat.
She's in for the kill, I have to stop her. Rihan was about to unsheathe Nenekirimaru, when something made him stop.
The thief had braced himself for the blow but nothing happened. The girl only held her sword close to his throat as a threat. She snatched the schoolgirl's bag away from his grasp, sheathed her sword and without a word, leaped away, disappearing.
Rihan stood still, a-dazed by this girl. She's a goddess.
The pungent smell of urine brought Rihan back to his senses. The thief apparently in all his fear, had urinated on himself. The latter, realizing what had just happened, stood up and took off running.
Tomoe hadn't realized she was still wearing her school uniform after she transformed into her youkai. Shit!
What she did realize is that she felt a great 'Fear', not coming from the schoolgirl nor the robber, not even her, but from someone else. I've felt it before, when I was going after the Garo. But I didn't see any youkai… or… maybe that tall man with black hair… no, he can't be, he was human, was he?
She was still holding on to the girl's bag, so she hopped off a tree she landed when she took off from the scene. She walked a bit to find her; she even found her own bag but no signs of the girl. She walked a bit more, and found her talking to that tall man with black hair.
"Are you alright?" he asked. His baritone voice treaded softly. She nodded. Her face was tear-filled but she was not crying anymore.
"Hmm, excuse me," Tomoe said, making both turn towards her. She had already straightened her uniform and her hair was back in a ponytail. The man looked bemused when he saw her but said nothing. Tomoe stared back, the words forgetting to leave her mouth.
Dammit Tomoe, speak! "Hmm, here, I found your bag… the-the thief must've thrown it before he took off," stammered Tomoe as she handed the bag to the girl. The girl thanked both of them and walked away.
Both of them stared at the girl's wake. He turned around to say something, but Tomoe was already walking away.
"Hey! Where are you going?" the man ran after her.
"I-I'm sorry, I-I have to go home," she said. Why am I so nervous? That's when she stared at his golden brown eyes. For a second, she felt as if the air was sucked out of her lungs. He's so handsome! So Godlike! Wait, what am I thinking? No, no… oh for God's sake Tomoe, don't go into full retard!
All of the sudden, the stranger started laughing. What the hell! His laughter boomed across the street.
"Hey, what are you laughing at!" she yelled, getting annoyed. "Do I look like I have a monkey in my face?"
"A monkey? More like a hoard of monkeys!" he continued laughing.
"The hell!" her temper was rising. Please, don't make me go all Jackie Chan on you. I don't want to destroy that beautiful face… hey, wait… he's making fun of mine!
Just then he started laughing even harder. She had enough. With that, she pushed him.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" he whined, in between laughs.
"You are making fun of me!" she pouted.
"AH! That's because you are making cute faces: a startled monkey, then amused monkey, then worried monkey, then 'dafuq' monkey," he explained, with a huge grin.
She scoffed. His smile grew bigger. "Then it was angry monkey, then baffled monkey and now angry monkey again."
"Oh my god. Leave me alone, ugh!" Tomoe turned around and walked away fast. Who does he think he is?
Rikuo was sitting in front of the Sakura tree, sipping some tea with his father. Just then he hears whistling. He turns left to see his brother coming through the gates with some grocery bags swung over his shoulder.
"Sup pops… Rikuo," he said as he walked past them and went straight to the kitchen. Both the Sodaicho and his younger son stared dumbfounded.
"What happened to him?" asked Nurarihyon.
"Beats me," replied Rikuo.
Rikuo didn't hear from Rihan until dinner was served. Both his mother and father where already in the dinning area waiting when he arrived. Rikuo sat on his usual spot.
"What is taking him so long?" Rikuo complained. Just then he walked in.
"What up?" he said, as he sat beside his brother. Both his parents just stared at him.
"Why are you staring at me as if I grew a second head," then realizing what he said, Rihan continued, "Well, technically I am the Second, but you know what I mean." He smirked.
Rikuo raised an eyebrow, "You look as if you found God or something."
"Well, little bro, I did… but she was a 'god-dess,'" stressed Rihan, smirking.
"Here we go again," said Nurarihyon. "Son, are you going to marry her too?" Nurarihyon seemed to tickle a nerve on Rihan because the latter flipped.
"Oyaji, FYI I only married once and she abandoned me, the other was my girlfriend and she died," the room grew cold after he said that. The Sodaicho cursed himself for what he said and wished he had kept his mouth shut. Yohime just shook her head in response.
"You know what, I'm not hungry anymore… thanks for ruining my day, pops," said Rihan as he got up and left.
"Rikun, I'm sorry," Nurarihyon responded at the wake of his son. "Shit, I really messed up, didn't I Yo?"
She nodded. "Go, apologize to your son and bring him back."
"Don't worry, I'll do it," and with that Rikuo stood up and went after his brother. He knew exactly where to find him.
Knew it. The breeze was blowing as Rihan sat by the edge of the hallway, facing the yamabuki flowers.
"Are you here to mock me too?" Rihan said without turning around to face his brother.
"No," Rikuo responded, sitting down beside him, "it's just that you came back home humming… you seem different…"
"That's the worst apology I've ever heard," scoffed Rihan.
"I wasn't trying to apologize, asshole… I'm trying to understand," smirked Rikuo. Rihan smirked back.
"I saw her again," Rihan started.
"Who?" Rikuo asked.
"The moonlight warrior…" answered Rihan, mind wondering, not even realizing the name he gave her.
"The moonlight warrior? You mean the girl that killed the Garo?" asked Rikuo.
"Yeah," he answered, his mind still wondering.
"Why is she here? She's in our territory, you know?" Rikuo said.
"She was marvelous today, she was…" he ignored as he went on to tell his little brother about today's happenings. Rikuo quietly listened to him.
"So she helped the little girl," said Rikuo, understanding.
"Yeah, she meant no harm," said Rihan.
"What could she possibly want in our territory?" asked Rikuo.
"That will be something we'll have to find out," said Rihan, getting quite excited.
"Hmm," acknowledged Rikuo.
A/N: I am getting excited too! Thanks for add my story to you favorites/alerts, you guys are great! Please continue supporting this story with your reviews. I will do my best. Any suggestions are welcome!