I promised you a kiss and guess what? There is one in this chapter! Do not skip any of this chapter if you have been waiting for soo long for the moment! BIG fluffyness here and I'm warning you now! BIG FLUFFINESS!!
Read on and enjoy! FLUFFY!
Le Fini Prime
The journey to the Celestial Plain was a quiet one. Waka talked little as he just found his hat lying somewhere in the Ark of Yamato and it was in pieces. He was a bit annoyed but it could be fixed. He was a member of the Moon Tribe and if they couldn't fix anything then nobody could. They were very advanced in making stuff even weird hats like Waka's.
Amaterasu was hyperactive and running around chasing after her tail and tripping Waka up every now and then. Waka cursed at one point in French as his hat covered his face and lifted it to find a wolf goddess's nose in his face.
"Amaterasu, will you calm down?" Waka asked for what must've been the hundredth time already.
No way! We're going home, we defeated Yami and we are together again! Celebrate! I'm gonna make you drink sake! Amaterasu said not calming down a bit, if anything she got worse. Waka shuddered; he really didn't want to have sake again as that brought back bad memories. He ended up spilling all the beans of his secrets he had the last time he had sake and that was when he was living on the moon! He made a right fool of himself as well and made a promise to not drink sake and make a fool of himself again.
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When they arrived, Amaterasu's hyperness had disappeared as quickly as it appeared. It was in a bigger state than they ever thought it would be! Nearly the whole of the Celestial Plain was in a cursed zone and there were no signs of life. No demons, no animals nor any plant life. Waka walked over to where the big Konohana tree used to be and Amaterasu knew what his intentions were.
She started to dig a hole for the seedling to go in. It took her minutes to dig a hole big enough for it to go in and Waka placed it in the hole. Amaterasu covered it in dirt again and sat next to Waka, looking up at him with sad eyes.
"I hope we're not too late, ma chérie." Waka said quietly and looked around the area. Nothing but a cursed zone to see all around and the sky was black with no stars. Amaterasu wasn't going to let him down after all they had been through. She used her powers to make it rain like cats and dogs using the brush technique Deluge.
Waka covered his head with the remains of his hat and looked at the seedling. It was glowing a nice colour and it started to grow! It grew to its full size but it had withered before it had even bloomed. It looked like when the Konohana tree had withered, a right state!
I remember this…no need to dance to a stupid song so let's just get this over with. Amaterasu barked and made the tree bloom. A nice refreshing wind blew through the land and blew the last of the evil that remained on the Celestial Plain away for good. Waka smiled but that was as happy as he was going to look, he still felt guilty even though everything had been fixed.
Waka was about to walk away but a bark from Amaterasu stopped him in his tracks. He turned to see a pink glow coming from the front of the Konohana tree. Amaterasu recognised the glow as the same as Sakuya's glow when she was about to appear in that spot but, Sakuya here!? That wasn't possible! It shined brightly and a girl appeared in that spot. She looked like Sakuya but her face was slightly different. That was the only way to describe her really, she looked a lot like Sakuya but different on her face.
"Ah…it feels good to be free once again." The wood sprite said while stretching. Waka walked up to Amaterasu's side to take a closer look. He didn't seem convinced about her; he thought this was just some everyday wood sprite who did their part of keeping nature safe. "Are you the heroes who saved me from my prison?"
"If you mean who made the tree bloom then oui, that is us." Waka replied since Amaterasu couldn't talk.
"The Celestials gave me orders to present you a gift if you arrived to the Celestial Plain and released me. My name is Konohana."
"The Celestials did? Why would they present me with a gift also if I was the reason for the whole mess?" Amaterasu looked up to her warrior with a reassuring look, he wasn't the real reason this mess was caused but the Moon Tribe who put demons in the Ark of Yamato.
"They do not believe it was your fault that this was caused. You didn't know of their plan and therefore wasn't really involved. They used you without you even knowing but you were following orders you were given. If another person took your place, they would've done the same." Waka thought over that for a moment and slowly nodded his head, his guilt slowly leaving his body that he had put up with for 200 years. It felt like a great weight had been lifted off his back; he smiled at Amaterasu who cuddled up to him.
I just want to be with you happy and hopefully carefree but some action now and then. Amaterasu said using her eyes. (that sounded wrong didn't it?) She then looked at Konohana and asked her this: I want to be the same as Waka is and spend the rest of my life with him. Waka knew what Amaterasu had said but kept quiet.
"If that is your only wish then it can be granted." Konohana said. "The only way for you to be the same is to be half-human like and half-beast like."
"What does that mean?" Waka asked confused.
"You are human-like and Amaterasu is beast-like if you can both become half man half beast then you can be the same and together."
You mean like the Oina tribe? Half-man half-wolf? Amaterasu asked to which Konohana nodded. Waka looked a bit nervous, he had never experienced such a situation before. He knew there was no way he could decline such an opportunity but it would change much of his life. He didn't have much of a life left…only Amaterasu so he will agree to be changed into half-man half-beast like the Oina Tribe.
"I agree if ma chérie agrees also." Waka said and Amaterasu smiled and licked his face with loads of wolf slobber. He fell over and tried to shoo Amaterasu away, not very successful until a while. A shine of light appeared around them and they felt a change in their body. It wasn't pain or discomfort but…different.
The light disappeared and so too did Konohana, her role fulfilled returned to the inside of the tree. Waka stood up and he was the same as before, weird choice of clothes and his flute and hat in his hands. He turned to see Amaterasu had found her human-like self. She looked like she did 200 years ago, white dress with red markings on it, paintbrush near her and her divine instrument on her back. She looked like she hadn't changed a bit in 200 years.
Amaterasu looked at her new body with interest (no need to know where!) She could get used to this. She looked at Waka who quickly looked away as if he hadn't looked at her at all. Waka thought, how could he do it? He can change into a wolf somehow but how?
"It's easy." Amaterasu said in a voice so soft it was like cotton wool had touched your cheek. "Just think of a wolf and do a forward flip in the sky." She demonstrated and she looked like her old wolf self. Waka nodded, closed his eyes and thought of a wolf, it was difficult since he kept thinking of the wrong wolf!
He then felt a change in his body and opened his eyes to find the ground was a lot closer than usual. He felt something weird and looked behind to find a tail! A blonde wolf-like tail! It had worked! He had become a wolf! He was a proud looking one too! Long blonde fur, piercing blue eyes, pointy ears that heard the slightest of movements and long legs that could get him to high places if he tried hard.
"Tres bien!" Waka said and noticed he hadn't opened his mouth yet still said it. Telepathy was being used like the Oina Tribe in their wolf form. "I need to get used to this."
"It's easy, you also need to get used to me and my big mouth." Amaterasu said laughing. Her hyperness had returned. Waka took a few practice steps and was shaky at first but got the hang of it. His sword, Pillow Talk, was on his back and ready whenever he needs to use it.
Amaterasu decided to play a game and stole his hat while he wasn't looking but he did notice. She ran away and Waka soon decided to chase her to get his legs working. Amaterasu could run fast but she was going easy on Waka, encouraging him to run faster. He soon got used to it and quickly caught up to her. He tackled her playfully and he was above her, like when a dog has caught his pray and was looking above them victoriously only this was…like another way.
"Go on." Amaterasu said. "Dare ya!" Amaterasu was challenging him, daring him to have the guts to show her how much he cares. They both turned into their human forms and that makes the challenge all the worse. To Amaterasu, that was better. (can you tell where we are headed here?) Waka couldn't let him be called a coward because if there is one thing he isn't then coward was at the top of the list (get ready for it) Waka lowered his head and Amaterasu raised hers. They then got hypnotized by a hypnotic kiss.
Of all the things that had happened, never had they thought this would ever happen in their lifetime. Them two, alone in the land of gods and nobody to tell them what to do. They may miss their friends but they are able to return to Nippon when they wanted, but for now, it was just the two of them. Soon that number may rise but not yet, everything was perfect just the way they were. How long will that last? Time will tell.
The only real point in that last sentence was instead of putting 'censored' in brackets. lol.
I told you BIG FLUFFINESS and you got it. Happy? I hope so because that was CUTE!
I don't care if you said you hated that part, I LOVED IT! FLUFFY!
No more chapters for this story. Review please and tell me what you thought of this story. Thanks! Very much appreciated even though I forget to mention that. Until next time...if you are reading 'Lover's Apocalypse' then you haven't heard the last of me!