Remember, I only own my original characters and places, along with the plot. I do not own the Kekkaishi areas or characters used in this fanfiction. If you have not figured it out by now, this is a yaoi fic. As a reminder to those who don't know or will forget, Kyoichi (pronounced KEY-OH-ITCH-EE) is Hiba's given name. Also, I will not be giving pronunciation for the language in which the Rank 2 guardian OC speaks in occasionally, it is Latin and I'm sorry if not being able to say it correctly bothers you.

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Chapter 7

The Guardians Emerge

Yoshimori POV

"Such a lovely man you are. Tell me your name, white haired boy?" Lilium asked, interest perking in her eyes as she pulled herself out of the tree she was launched into. She stared at Hiba, expecting an answer.

He scoffed at her, "I am Hiba Kyoichi, but you will address me by my family name. Only Gen is allowed to call me Kyoichi." He said, looking over at Gen during that last part of his reply. Gen looked away, blushing. Lilium smiled evilly and vanished. Hiba and Gen looked around while I covered an unconscious Sen to protect him. I looked back once I heard a yelp of surprised from Gen behind me. Lilium had Gen in her arms and was hovering her head slightly above his with an evil smile.

She looked over at Hiba. "So this is your sweet Gen, how about I take him of your hands, hmm. He'd be a nice little toy, wouldn't you agree?" She said, smiling at Hiba. Hiba seemed to boil with anger and grabbed Gen with his vine-arms and pulled him into his one human arm. Then he grabbed Lilium with his plant arms and tore her apart limb by limb. He embraced Gen in a hug, repeatedly asking if he was OK while Gen reassured him and blushed. I smiled at the scene and wondered if I'm like that about Sen. I smiled at Sen, he looks as if he's sleeping, I hope he's gonna be OK.

"How dare you defile my beautiful presence? How dare you!" I looked up again and saw Lilium, still somehow alive.

"How are you still alive? I tore you to shreds." Hiba asked, protecting Gen in his embrace while Gen complained about wanting to help fight her. I chuckled at Gen, he's so innocent around Hiba but rather rude and mean everywhere else, especially at school.

"She's got the fastest regenerative abilities I've ever seen, she can recover as long as even the smallest piece of her remains!" I shout over to Hiba, who nods in return.

"You can't destroy me! I'm immortal! My beauty will last forever, Eternal Beauty to grace all dimensions with!" She announced while raising her hands above her head. Hiba let go of Gen, not before giving him a quick chaste kiss, and flung his plant appendages at Lilium. Lilium growled and grabbed all three vines in a single hand and flung Hiba into her giant tree behind her. She ran towards Hiba to deal another blow but was attacked from behind by Gen. Gen slashed her in half and ran over to Hiba's side.

"Are you OK, Kyoichi?" Gen shouted as her helped Hiba up. Lilium pulled herself together and stood again, growling again in anger. I created a kekkai to catch her but she cleaved through it before I could destroy her. She glared at me and ran towards me to hit me but was pulled back and tossed by Hiba. She pulled herself out of the rubble and brushed her light green cloak off.

"You can't kill me, how many times do I have to say it? The immortal Guardian of plants, Rank 4!"

"I don't care about your rank, all I care about is that you've attacked my subordinates and my little brother, now what do you have to say for yourself?" I looked at my brother as he played savior. He still annoys me so much.

"There's so much I could say. How about that you're the ugliest human I've ever met?" Lilium said with a mischeivious smirk. I don't even like him that much but even I thought that was harsh.

Masamori remained indifferent. "Since your rank 3 friend isn't speaking up, I want to tell me about the guardians? What are your goals?" Masamori asked her as I helped Hiba limp over to lie next to Sen. At least broken bones heal fast in ayakashi majiri.

"Hmm, I guess I'll leave than, rather leave than be lectured by mid-life crisis here." Lilium put her hands on her hips and turned to walk away, but stopped. She turned and smirked at Masamori. "Actually~, I think I'll have some fun. I'll let you guys see my infamous weapon. Almost every guardian has one." She said, smiling. She waved her hand out and a green whip appeared. She swung it around a few times before stopping and speaking again.

"This is my lovely Yuri-Zoku. It means Lilium, the perfect name. The absolute embodiment of perfection, don't you think?" (Yu-ri-Zoe-ku) Lilium asked them, smiling as she posed sexually with her whip, Yuri-Zoku. She whipped it and it wrapped around Gen, pulling him in towards her. She tightened it around Gen's neck.

"I recall you ranting about having no casualties, hmm. How about I kill this kid just to see your face?" Lilium said, a sadistic smile across her face as she licked her lips. Masamori looked angered, but made no move as not to encourage her to harm Gen.

She smiled at him. "I thought so," She said, her evil grin showing her overconfidence, "Now how about you give me stupid old Cognizine and I'll give you the brat, sound like a deal? Once I get my pesky superior, I'll be on my way." Masamori turned and ordered the troops behind him to retrieve Cognizine and bring him here. They arrived shortly after, with Princess and Shion. Princess immediately ran over to me to check on Sen and I. Shion remained where she was, with a bored look on her face until Aihi ran up behind her and they began chatting nonchalantly about something. They pushed Cognizine forward to Lilium and she tossed Gen over to Masamori. She glared at Cognizine and they suddenly vanished into a tunnel in the ground.

I picked up Sen bridal style, looking forward to changing him into his pajamas, and began walking home to care for him. He suddenly woke up though. He stared at me and blushed. He started struggling and I set im down.

"What's that sound?" He said, flicking his cute cat ears and tilting his head curiously to the side.

I shrugged, "I dunno, I don't hear anything."

He looked around and pointed at the tunnel. "I hear a burrowing sound from over there." He grabbed my arm and ran over to the tunnel and looked in. It was pitch black in there, but I could hear the sound now.

"Masamori, I can hear them digging still!" I shouted and Masamori ran over to us. He looked in the hole and called for some troops and began discussing plan of infiltrating the Guardian Castle. I looked over and saw Gen helped Hiba stand up. I struggled to hear them, but I couldn't.

"Gen just said 'are you alright Kyoichi?'" Sen told me and I blushed. I'm still not used to him being able to read my mind. Sen gave me a serious look.

"Now why were you excited about changing me into my pajamas while I was unconscious?" Sen asked.

I blushed and rubbed the back of my head. "Well… uhh...I—"

"Alright," Masamori shouted over everyones side conversations, "All night troops present, and Yoshimori, will be going on a mission to infiltrate the Guardian Castle! We'll save Tokine, and we'll have no casualties!"

Sen POV

Yoshimori picked me up and followed the others as they descended downteh tunnel. The tunnel was pitch black, but I could hear the movement at the tunnel's end, and I can see in the dark. I looked over at Yoshimori and blushed, the low light from the tunnel's end gives him the appearance of an angel. It's gorgeous. I looked away, blushing. Good thing he can't see me like this in this darkness.

"The exit!" Yoshimori shouted in joy and ran ahead of the others, but still carefully holding me bridal style. As we flew through the opening we saw a huge castle before us and a black abyss around it with purple storm clouds shooting lightning swarming the areas beyond. The rest of the troop went ahead of us and pushed the castle's oversized door open. The castle is designed in a completely grayscale color scheme, white in and out with spots of random black furnishings and gray tapestries and carpeting.

"Such an elaborate castle for Ayakashi." I heard someone remark. Yoshimori saw a passage and ran for it, ignoring Masamori's pleas from behind us asking him to stop. He stopped in the middle of the new room. It was this huge room, just like the other in décor. Except that there was a balcony above and the whole roof was one huge, rounded skylight, showing the purple clouds outside. The balcony was the only thing on the second floor, nothing else but a passage to a room. I looked around and I smelt something familiar. I've never been here! There shouldn't be anything familiar except that dangerous ayakashi who eluded us.

"Who are you people, the ones who killed the former number 5 and 6?" A demanding voice from above shouted at us. We all looked up at the balcony, were a hooded man stood. He was unfamiliar and wore a yellow cloak, with a 5 on the hood, just like Cereza-Torina's hood.

"Who are you?" Masamori asked from behind us, I looked back. All the troops had caught up with us, except for Gen and Hiba who were lagging behind as not to strain Hiba's half-recovered leg.

"I asked first, now answer me or she falls." The man said. He held up something, and I heard the others gasp. It was a girl restrained with glowing rope, and unconscious.

"Tokine!" Yoshimori shouted. It hurt my ears. I tugged on his robe.

"Yoshi, could you put me down?" He didn't pay attention to me and just dropped me roughly on the floor. I looked at him with confusion. "Yoshi that hurt…"He pushed me out of the way and continued yelling at the man holding Tokine. I looked at him… Has he forgotten about me? Was I just her replacement?

I stood up and looked at the man, he had removed his hood to reveal his bright yellow hair and a cocky smile, along with his blindingly pale skin. He needs to get out more.

"I am Zinzin, the new number 5 of the Guardians and I am the Guardian of Electricity." He said, shaking Tokine around a little. "I ask that you leave our castle, Number 2 well surely be upset if you harm her precious castle."Yoshimori continued his glaring at the man and I walked over to him.

"Calm down Yoshi, we'll save her. Don't worry." I hugged him, draping my arms over his shoulders from behind. He became more relaxed and started breathing more calmly. He turned to me and nodded, signaling that he was going to attack.

"Don't get yourself hurt or I won't forgive you."I said, putting my hands on my hips and flicking my tail. He nodded and I back away to give him space. He created a kekkai around Zinzin, excluding the man's arm and Tokine and was about to collapse it before the guy cleaved through it at vanished. He appeared before us, standing before the only door in this room, excluding the second floor one and the one we entered through. He guy held up his free hand and snapped his fingers, glowing bars, similar to the rope restraining Tokine, fell and covered the doors and windows. I looked around, there was no fleeing now. If this guys to strong for us we're screwed. He tossed Tokine into the air and she was grabbed by the bars and pulled behind them, to where we couldn't get to her.

"If you kill me, the bars will vanish. If you fail, you'll all be dead, and the bars will tighten and crush her." Zinzin said. He grabbed his cloak and tossed it aside, revealing very tight ninja-like wear underneath. He held is hands in the air and electricity spiraled around his hands and formed several yellow shuriken.

"Do you like my weapons? The shuriken named Sutāboruto (Sue-Ta-boo-roo-toe). It means Star Bolt, rather fitting don't you think?" Zinzin said, before tossing huge amount of the stars at us, the few he held turned into a swarm of hundreds in seconds. Yoshimori immediately put a kekkai around me, he didn'teven put one around himself. I closed my eyes, afraid to see what happens.

I slowly opened them and saw all of the shuriken piercing the kekkai, lodged about halfway through it. I looked at the others, it seems that Masamori protected everyone with a giant kekkai, he even saved Yoshimori. I looked and saw that Zinzin wasn't very pleased that we survived unscathed.

"Let's see if your kekkai can survive this beauty!" He shouted before creating a huge shuriken. He tossed it directly at Yoshimori. I ran over to him and pushed him out of the way and the shuriken span around wildly above me before returning to Zinzin like a boomerang.

"Your pitiful, relying on a woman to save you! What are woman doing with you? Woman don't deserve a place of power!" He shouted. I stood up and glared at him.

"I'maguy!" I shouted, before Yoshimori grabbed me and shut me up with a kiss.

"Weren't you saying that the owner of this castle is a woman, she's must surely have power to possess such a structure." Hiba pointed out from behind us, his leg fully healed. I wish I could heal that fast!

"She doesn't deserve the position she has, no woman should be the vice of anorganization!"He shouted.

"Quod ita sit? Vos superiores durioribus verbis prodere?" I looked up and saw a woman in an icy blue cloak, with the number 2 on the hood, standing outside and looking through the giant window.

"No-no, It's not like that Rank 2. Not like that at all!" zinzin said, immediate dropping his guard to wave his hands in front of himself in defense.

"What did she say?"I heard the chattering break out among the troop members. They all should have been taught all these languages, or was it only select members? I understand it perfectly, and Gen should too if he paid attention to Atora's teachings.

"What'd she say Kitty?" Yoshimori asked me. Ah, he's the only person who says that nickname in the way were I don't despise it.

"She said 'Is that so? You betray your superiors with harsh words?'" I told him matter-of-factly.

He nodded. "Looks like this guys sexist attitude doesn't sit well with his female superior." I nodded, until Yoshimori had this sudden look of realization and looked at me.

"You can understand Latin?" He asked me.

I shrugged, " Yeah, how'd you know it was Latin? It's a dead language."

"Well, Ialways though it was a romantic sounding language, so I tried learning it. I tried learning French but I only remember certain words." Yoshimori said, rubbing the back of his head. He lowered his head in embarrassment, "I was gonna try to relearn it so I could talk to you in the language of love."

"That's so sweet, how about I talk to you in French, to make us seem even more the cheesy lovey-dovey couple?" I said, ignoring the two Guardians arguing in Latin and English above us.

Yoshimori blushed, "That would be nice." He looked away blushing, trying to hide it.

"Amour, don't hide your beautiful face. I want to see it." I said, gently pulling his blushing face back to face me. I smiled and gently kiss him and he blushed even more. "Cute" I remarked, making his blush even redder if possible.

"What I said didn't mean anything Christeenala! Nothing at all!" He shouted at the guardian outside. She jumped and crashed through the glass, completely breaking the electrified bars without taking as much as a scratch. She walked forward, her hidden by the cloak high heels clicking with every step. She removed her head, revealing her tan skin and golden eyes with pale blue hair styled in large tornado like curls that rest on her shoulders.

"I disapprove of your actions, you were not ordered to act against the intruders."She said, her English barely eligible because of a thick Spanish accent. Zinzin nodded, but before he could do anything Gen dashed forward and cut the man, leaving a large wound gushing blood on his chest.

"Gen! Why'd you do that?" Yoshimori shouted at Gen.

Gen shrugged, "He left his guard open, I thought it would be a good opportunity." Yoshimori sighed and looked up, Zinzin had collapsed and was lying in a puddle of blood, but he was still alive. I gave Yoshimori a kiss to calm him, knowing he's probably upset that he didn't get to kill the guy for harming Tokine.

"Miseranda, occisum a parvulus." Christeenala said, looking down at Zinzin.

I turned towards Yoshimori, now having picked ourselves off the ground and translated for him. "She's scolding him for being slain by a child, and she called him pitiful." He nodded and continue watching.

"Surira," Christeenala held her hand in the air and a spear appeared from nowhere and she thrust it into Zinzin's chest, killing him and turning him into ice, including the blood that already poored out of him.

"What's that word?" Yoshimori asked.

"It's appears to be the name of her weapon since it's in Japanese, like Lilium and Zinzin's weapon names." Yoshimori shuttered a little at Lilium's name. The woman almost killed me and he seems pretty upset about it. "It means Thriller in Japanese and is pronounced Sue-Ree-Rah." He nodded and watch as Christeenala approached us.

"I welcome you to Castle Gardienne, the home of the Guardians." Christeenala greeted us, followed by a curtsey. "I thank you for destroying our pitiful weaker members, and welcome you to explore the rest of the castle." Her speech is so hard to understand with the accent. She turned around to walk away but stopped and snapped her finger, causing Tokine to fall down from her bindings into Yoshimori's arms.

"Take her, non necesse habemus pro anymore." Christeenala said, before walking out of the room and vanishing.

"They don't need her anymore, Yoshi. We saved her." I told Yoshimori, who was proud to have rescued Tokine. I smiled at him, but I'm still worried.

"At least there appears to be Ayakashi with hearts here." Masamori said, " No one is to attack the Ayakashi known as Christeenala, there is a chance she could become an ally! Understood?" He shouted to the troops, who all responded with a choral "Hai!".

"Come one Yoshimori, let's continue through the castle and stop these ayakashis' plan to destroy the world." I told Yoshimori, who looked up from the unconscious Tokine in his arms and nodded. I turned as Yoshimori stood and started walking, but when I heard Yoshimori shouted I turned around immediately. Another Guardian, this time wearing a ghostly purple robe with the number 8 on its hood had kidnapped Tokine from Yoshimori's arms and was floating away.

"Get him!"