I only own the OC's in the story, along with the plot. The Kekkaishi characters and settings do not belong to me. They belong to their respective owners. Also, in Sen's POV, Mother = Princess; just so you know.

CHAPTER 5

THE TRUTH OF KOKUBURO

YOSHIMORI

"Yoshimori, I know of your relationship with Sen." Masamori immediately started the conservation. I scowled at him, not wanting to bother with questioning how he learned of it.

"So…" I said, yawning.

"It means that you have to…." Masamri looked behind him and a woman entered the room, by phasing through the wall. Masamori looked at her in surprise and nodded.

"Hello Terratina. Why the sudden, unannounced, visit?" Masamori exaggerated the "unannounced" in his greeting. I tilted my head to the side, this woman was peculiar.

She wore a flowing, elegant white gown with long sleeves attached partway down her arms. Bizarre woven twigs embroidered the ends of the snow white cloth. A chocolate brown scarf was wrapped delicately around her neck, gently covering her neck and mouth. Her silvery hair gently swayed with each step, with bangs that softly cover her eyes. Blue gems randomly decorate the dress with abstract placement.

She looked at me with piercing jade eyes and gave of a softer expression.

"She is known as the Ayakashi Guardian of the Earth." Masamori said a soft expression on his face. "There is a group of Ayakashi we've hidden from you known as the guardians. These Ayakashi have been developing an alternate, inescapable, dimension in which to imprison dangerous, sinister, ayakashi."

"There's, good, full ayakashi?" I ask, tilting my head to the side in confusion. I blush, I guess I picked up that habit from Sen.

"Yes, there is." Terratina spoke, in a soft mesmerizing voice. "We have been trying to create a good bond between ayakashi and the kekkaishi by removing the misbehaving ayakashi from the picture."

I nodded, it sounds, like a good idea.

"Especially the horrible Kokuburo. Those peasants are dastardly. I wish they'd just disappear." Terratina said, with an exaggerated wave of her hands.

"Yoshimori, what's the hold up?" Sen said, rubbing his eye as he entered the room, only wearing his "pajamas". A little blood started trickling out of my nose. I rubbed it away and composed myself when I saw Sen's expression of horror.

"Sen! What's wrong?" I shouted as I ran over to Sen and gave him a hug.

"That woman! She's the ayakashi who tried to eat me when I was younger!" he shouted, gripping my shirt for dear life. I glared at Terratina, who smiled in return.

"Ohh sweet boy, how tasty you'd be. I wish I'd had time to taste your decadent flavor. Blonde's always have such a unique flavor and texture, they should be declared a delicacy." Terratina said, whilst walking slowly around and flailing her arms and hand dramatically. I pulled Sen tighter towards me, away from this literate monster.

She looked at me and licked her lips, but stopped at the appearance of a kekkai. She stepped through the kekkai, shattering it without much effort. Masamori stepped back, surprised his kekkai was shattered, she stared at him with interest, raising a hand and dramatically waving it in front of her face.

"Such interesting abilities you human posses, surely they would make a wonderful way to create that dimension. Since you all will perish soon, I shall monologue about our plans. It is of my, ever so kind, nature to allow my victims to now truth, lying is a waste of time when torture is sooo much more effective," She said, exaggerating that she has a "kind" nature. She vanished and appeared next to Masamori, gently placing a hand on his chin and looking at him in the eyes.

"Wouldn't you agree? Torture is the best way to solve any problem; mortals' anger is such an amusing sight to witness. Wouldn't you believe so?" She said, she tightening her grip on Masamori's neck and tossing him through the wall, directly into the iron training ball. She laughed loudly while covering her mouth. She turned her attention to us and gave us a death stare with her green eyes. She smiled sadistically.

"He's not needed in this situation, such a pitiful sight he is. Anyway, you should know. That dimension is for you pitiful humans to be locked in for all eternally, where you'll only be a grab bag for any ayakashi that wishes for a midnight snack."She said smiling happily. She stood up and started walking towards us. I pulled Sen behind my back and struck a battle position. She looked at me and burst into laugh.

"You think you're pitiful kekkai can stop me?" She shouted laughing with a hand over her mouth. This woman's dramatic gesture are beginning to annoy me.

"You're elder couldn't even stop me and he was much more powerful that you ever will be. All your good for is creating those disgusting pastries that would only these the foul creatures with no taste in anything, like your little friend over there." She smiled at me and gave a look at Sen. I flared up with anger; she insulted Sen! She smiled sadistically again, raising her hands and shoulders in a shrug. "He chose you over so many others in the world there must surely be something wrong with him. What's wrong with you little boy? Are you blind, deaf? Surely something misguided your pretty face to this thing." She looked at Sen and out out a hand to him. "Surely you'd choose me over him, I could make you happy. There are plenty of attractive men in the Guardians."

I made a kekkai around her and collapsed it immediately. I grabbed Sen and hugged him.

"Everythings going to be alright, she's dead now." I said, conforting him.

"Ooo, you can try but you can't succeed." I turned and saw her still standing there. She held up a box in her hand I examined it curiously.

"What's this thing? 'To Yoshi, from Sen', oooo it's a gift. Let's take a look-see, shall we… Yoshi?" Terratina said, holding the small box in the air and tearing it open. She pulled something out of it and smiled evilly. She burst out laughing again.

"A locket, with your picture in it; you're such a cute couple!" She said, the sarcasm obvious in her comment. I glared at her in anger and made multiple kekkai around her and collapsed them all at once.

I smirked, "Let's see you survive that!"

"Alright, what do I win?" She said, poking her head out of the smoke right in front of me, our nose were practically touching.

"Stop! Who are you?" I turned and saw grandpa. The first time I've ever been happy to have him come and rescue me. I grabbed Sen and ran off with him, leaving grandpa with Terratina. I heard a loud explosion behind me but kept running, I ran out of the house with Sen n my back and ran, Ran where I thought I'd be safe, Karasumori.

SEN

I gripped onto Yoshimori's back for my life. I never thought I'd see that woman ever again! The woman my parents offered me to, when I started showing signs of being part Ayakashi. I shivered at the woman's actually form, a giant spider. I shivered again, but this time at the cold. I opened my eyes and sweatdropped.

"Yoshi! Why's you bring me out here? Don't you remember I'm not wearing pants underneath this?" I shouted, causing Yoshimori to stumble.

"Please, don't remind me. I really don't want to add dealing with a boner to the list of shit going on right now!" Yoshimori shouted at me. I blushed rather than being angry, even the thought of me gets him… aroused. I blushed deeper, but shook my head to rid of it.

"Where are we going?" I ask, adjusting my shirt so it covers my ass.

"To the place were we'll most likely be safe, the school." I looked at Yoahimori.

"The school, how will we be safe there? It's just lower the posibiltiy of a witness for us being eaten!" I scolded him. Yoshimori shook his head.

"The teachers, you said the principa- your mom, lives in the school right. She could help us." Yoshimori says. I never thought of that, he's actually learning to think before he acts. I smiled at Yoshi's newfound maturity.

We burst into the school and ran to the principals office.

"Hello, kitty? What brings you brats to the school at night? It's closed campus." I looked back and saw Ms. Shion standing in the doorway of her classroom.

"Mr. Shion! Look out!" I shouted, pointing at the pursuing Terratina behind us. Ms. Shion turned and saw the woman chasing us. She looked at her, and seemed to recognize Terratina. She stood back and moved out of Terratina's way.

I face forward again and pointed. "Yoshi! There's mom's office!" Yoshimori kicked the door open and ran in. He set me down on one of the chairs and slammed the door shut.

"Hello Sen, what's a matter?" Mother asks, rubbing the remains of sleep out of her eyes. She yawns and looks at me.

"A-an evil Ayakashi is chasing us." I said, fear laced in every word.

"Ahh, no need to worry. That ayakashi should be dead right now."Mother said, a reassuring smile on her face.

I tilt may head to the side in confusion, "Wha-what? How?"

Princess smiled, "If I'm right, you passed Shion on your way here." Yoshimori and I nodded. She stood up and opened her door. Yoshimori and I looked out to see Terratina wrapped in a cocoon. We both sweatdropped, and I looked over to Yoshimori.

"I stand corrected; it was a good idea coming here." He smiled and struck victory poses. I sweatdropped.

"Calm down Yoshi, we've got to figure out why the supposed good ayakashi attacked us." I explained. Yoahimori looked at me and nodded.

"Mother, what did you do to Terratina?" I said. I need to hide my fear; I don't wanna look even more weak in front of Yoshimori…

"She's being slowly digested by my little spiders." Ms. Shion described, in grueling detail. I flinched, BUGS! Disgusting things, they are.

"You should return to your home. You seem so tired Sen, you need sleep." Mother said, giving me a concerned look.

"We can't the creature destroyed it." I said, sliding to the floor and burying my chin into my arms. Yoshimori and Princess gave me concerned looks.

"Sister!" We all looked over to see another ayakashi woman staring in horror at the cocoon. She looked at us and glared.

"Who are you?" Yoshimori shouted. The woman looked shocked. She turned away shyly and looked back.

"I-I'm Cereza-Torina, Terratina was my sister…" She turned and was twindling her thumbs. "I-I'm the Ayakashi guardian of Life."

"Are you going to attack?" Princess asked. I looked up and saw the soft-orange haired woman shake her head. She was wearing a dress exactly the same as Terratina, except the twig embroidery was replaced by silvery, pearls with glowing yellow in them.

"N-no, I was sent to figure why Terratina hadn't returned yet. She was supposed to trick the man- Masamori, but she was taking to long, and I got worried, so I told the superior, and he said to go find her, and…." Cereza–Torina is sure a nervous girl. Twindling her thumbs while speaking, she's not even able to look at us directly. Wait, I spoke to soon…

She looked directly at us, "I-I'm sorry, but I have to eliminate you now." She stood up straight, and let her arms drop down. I heard a snapping sound and looked over to see Ms. Shion snapping her fingers. A bunch of masked men appeared from random holes in the wall and lunged towards Cereza-Torina. The things touched her and they turned to dust, as if their life force had been sucked away.

"You cannot touch me, I am Death. If you are to die, you stand no chance!" Cereza-Torina shouted. She vanished and began appearing at random locations around the large hallway. Suddenly, lockers began flying into the air and stopping in midair. Cereza-Torina appeared in the center of the hallway, her dress flowing gently to a stop.

Princess pushed me and Yoshimori into her office and slammed the door on us, forcing us to watch from the window in the door. The lockers began launching themselves at Princess and Ms. Shion, but Princess's tails slapped them away before they could cause harm.

Cereza-Torina looked infuriated.

"No one defies Death! No one!" She was putting on a temper tantrum, stomping her foot on the ground while shaking her clenched fists. She vanished again and appeared by one of the remaining lockers and picked it up with a single hand and tossed it a Ms. Shion. Ms. Shion stood still, her stoic atmosphere unchanged by the flying object.

One of Princess's tails swooped in and caught the locker before crushing it with brute strength. Princess launched her tails at Cereza-Torina. The tails attack in perfect sync, zigzagging wildly to catch Cereza-Torina as she vanished around the hall. One of the tails slammed into Cereza-Torina, but Princess scowled in pain and pulled her tail away.

Cereza-Torina stood and Yoshimori, who had given up trying to get the door open, and I strained to hear her speak. "You cannot touch me, I am Death. No one…. No one …. Escapes me… Death is inevitable."

"How can you be sure? Since when do you have the power to dictate when someone dies or not?" Ms. Shion remarks, while she fixes her hair with a shard of broken glass as a mirror.

"Because…. Because…." Cereza-Torina stomps her foot again and smashes a clenched fist into the wall, creating a huge crater and destroying many of the lockers. She holds her head. "I can do whatever I wish… I am Death."

Suddenly, a black color flashes past her as she's having her temper tantrum, and she is cut in half. She falls to the ground and we looked over to Princess and Ms. Shion. A person had joined them, Mr. Kaguro, the PE teacher. Yoshimori pushed the door opened and we piled out of the room.

"What happened? Where'd you come from Mr. Kaguro?" I asked. He shook his head.

"Don't call me Mr., kid, it makes me feel old." He responded with.

"Don't call me Ms. either; it just reminds me that I'm single." Shion said, facepalming.

"It looked rather easy cutting death in half, don't you think?" Mother said thoughtfully.

"I've avoided death before, why shouldn't I be able to do it again?" Kaguro asked.

"Yes, you're the only guy to have survived being struck byh lightning, yadda yadda, you've told this story millions of times." Shion whined. She looked over at Cereza-Torina, who was somehow managing to stand up.

"I… will… not …. Die! I am God!" She shouted. She jumped up ino the air and vanished. We all looked around for her.

Yoshimori shouted, "Over there!" and pointed at the cocoon. I looked over there and saw Cereza-Torina draining the spiders of their life energy. The cocoon collapsed and Terratina's corpse fell to the ground.

"Those spiders are rather quick eaters." I commented between gags, horrible creatures spiders are.

"I am god!" Cereza-Torina shouted before charging towards us. Kaguro jumped towards her with a creepy smile on his face and they impacted each other. The light created blinded me and I covered my eyes, as did everyone else. I only heard the shouts of Cereza-Torina yelled as she fought, shouting that we cannot die. It all died down after I heard Kaguro say "We die together than".

"They're dead…" Yoshimori commented hanging is head; I patted his back.

"It's alright, Yoshimori. Kaguro did this because he wanted to." I guess it's goodto show your emotions. I wish I was able to express myself like Yoshimori, he can cry about someone he barely knows with it being genuine sadness and tears.

"Poor, poor confused Kokuburo; destroying your own base of operations to kill a sadistic trickster and a nervous, spoiled brat. Such a pity really, those two had their moments of usefulness, they earned their position as numbers 5 and 6." A man with a French accent said from behind us. We all turned simultaneously.

"It's very easy to locate you crazed people in such an obvious place." The man said. He was wearing a pure white suit with a black ascot and red cuffs. He has white hat on with a black stripe on it. He also has differently colored eyes, one dark purple while one is bright yellow, with medium length gray hair falling over his face.

"A proper funeral could be in order, we could always bury the uncooperative Kekkaishi girl with them. Just to rid of our useless corpses, unless there are any cannibals nearby. Hmm, no. Alright than, funeral it is." He said, smiledin.

"You have Tokine!" Yoshimori shouted. I held him back from tackling the ayakashi man.

"You say there are numbers in your Guardians?" Mother asked.

"Who are you anyways?" Shion asked,looking relatively uninterested.

"Oh, foolish me to forget to introduce myself. I am Cognizine, the number 3 in the Guardians Organization."

A/N: it's pronounced Cog-Ni-Zine. I own all of the Guardians, that means Terratine, Cognizine, and Cereze-Torina plus the ones that haven't appeared yet, OC characters, so you know. So no ripping me off or I'll find you and castrate you! It works with all genders, so don't think you're safe!

"The numbering system is a show of strength in the Guardians. The lower your number, the more powerful your determined to be and thus, the more authority you possess. Cereza-Torina was number 5 and Terratina was number 6. They will be replaced in no time."

"Do you have Tokine?" Yoshimori shouted. I sighed; I have to shut him up somehow. I stood up next to him and lifted my shirt. He was out cold with a nosebleed immediately.

"Much better, you may continue." I said, turning to face everyone.

"Well talk about that later." Princess said, giving me a stern look.

"It got him to shut up! You should all be happy." I said, crossing my arms.

"To answer the unconscious boy's question, yes. The guardians are, in fact, in possession of the young female Kekkaishi. She was supposed to assist us in the creation of our new dimension, but she is persistently refusing. We need some…. Motivation for her." Cognizine says.

"I'd rather see if we can get them to send her to us." Princess says, her tails fly out and easily subdue Cognizine. They pick him up and carry him towards mother, and hold him in the air in front of her.

"Now, we are going to get every bit of information you have, and then we are going to offer you as a trade to your Guardians. If they refuse our offer, I'll just break your nek and throw you with the other corpses. How's that sound?" Princess says, creepily and calmly.

Damn, my mom kicks ass.