I know you all may be a bit made at Angel, but I do hope his over the top personality brings a bit of comedy relief to the serious situation we've reached in the story here :3

Chapter 22

I love you

"I love you…. Yoshi." I watched him say that with teary eyes. He's covered in blood… uttering his last words with his last breath…. It happened because he saved me. It should have been me who was killed! Sen doesn't deserve it. What kind of boyfriend am I to let him die without doing anything?

"S-Sen… Y-you can't be dead…. You can't be…"

"Ooo, the little kitty got hit by a car; let's go to the bathroom and give him a funeral." Angel said, wiping the rest of Sen's blood of his hand. He put his hand up and looked at it in the moonlight.

"It's wonderful isn't it?" Angel said, looking at me with his soul-piercing eyes. I glared at him and he smiled. "Watching the person you love sooooo much die before your eyes? Knowing you couldn't have stopped it no matter how much to tried? That you just want to die yourself now?" Angel finished smirking. He pulled a large blade out of his sleeve and licked it.

"Ah, don't worry Yoshimori-Darling. You'll be joining him soon." Angel said smiling. He rushed forward and swung the sword down. Time seemed to go by so slowly. I couldn't move; all I could do was watch as the sword flew towards me, to cut me in half.

Suddenly, the world moved normal speed again. I blinked away the blur in my eyes, but all I could see was pale blue.

"Oooo, you've got such gorgeous HAIR!" I heard Angel shout. I looked up from the ground, tears sliding from my eyes at the sight of Sen's body, the sad, yet peaceful, look on his face, his limp arms and tail…

"Christeenala…" I whispered, realizing who had saved me. She tossed Angel aside, but he stood unscathed and smiled.

"Such a beautiful women! An ice queen in ways! My cruel angel!" Angel shouted smiling crazily. He jumped down and slammed into the ground, narrowly avoiding Christeenala.

"I won't…" I said. Angel stopped and looked at me, still smiling.

"You won't what? Die? I will tell you, that is a horribly wrong statement, sweetie." Angel said, wagging his finger at me.

"I won't let Sen die in vain!" I shouted. I suddenly couldn't move anymore… all I could see was a green aura.

It feels like I'm floating…. I- I hear something!

"What's this? It's a horrible green color!" I heard Angel shout.

"Wake up Darling! It's not the time to nap? You think this green orb around you will keep me out? It doesn't hurt at all!" I heard Angel shout.

"Yoshimori! Is he alive?"

Tokine's voice….

"He's alive, he's using a Sekkai…. One of the most powerful kekkais…"

Masamori….

"Wake up Yoshimori! You can do it!"

Atora….

"Yoshimori… You're not that weak…."

Gen….

"Make sure my son doesn't die in vain! I can't lose you either!"

Princess…

There's so many people relying on me… me and Sen. He's gone… but I'll save Karasumori, I'll lock it away. I'll save everyone!

I'll do it all for Sen! In his name…

His sacrifice…..

"Wake up Yoshimori-kun!"

"huh…" I stumbled to my feet…"I-I can stand…. My injuries have healed…"

"The sekkai managed to heal you before Angel broke it." Leo told me, limping up behind me.

"We tried to wake you, but you wouldn't budge. Christeenala and the ex-apprentices have been holding off Angel since he broke the kekkai." Linzang told me. I looked back. Hiba was guarding an unconscious Gen and Sen's body with his life.

I looked up at Angel, who was maniacally laughing as he jumped around, easily fighting off the powerful ayakashi attacking him. Suddenly the world felt like it froze as Angel looked at me smiling as he back flipped through the air. He smiled at me and licked his lips before vanishing in a flash of color.

"You miss him don't you?" I felt his hands wrap around my shoulders. I couldn't pull myself away. My body wouldn't move.

"I could always help you see him again; it only takes a simple thing." Angel said, I could hear the smile in his voice. He lent forward and looked at me with purple eyes. I looked at him and he smiled even bigger. He jumped in front of me and clasped his hands together happily.

"I'll send you to HEAVEN!" He shouted, pulling out his imitation of Emerix's chainsaw and running at me. I panicked and put up a kekkai around myself and closed my eyes. I heard the kekkai vanish as it was cleaved open.

….

"Why would you give up?" I opened my eyes and saw Derra smiling at me. Everything else seemed to have faded. She smiled at me and walked over to the sunlight bathed tree and sat leaning against its trunk. I looked around.

It seems like an island, the rest of the grassy hill fading off into light. Glowing feathers and Sakura petals are floating around in the air as if gravity didn't affect them.

"Why would you give up?" Derra said, as I sat down next to her.

"What's there to fight for now? Sen's gone." I said, looking down.

"He's not gone; I'll bring him back for you." Derra said, looking up at the sky dreamily.

"Y-You can do that?" I said, shaking at the thought of Sen being back and alive in my arms.

"Yes…. It's not like there's anyone relying on me otherwise." She said, a tear glowing as it rolled down her cheek. She wiped it away with her hand and I realized what was going on.

"You're in a relationship with Emerix aren't you?" I asked. Derra nodded.

"Wouldn't he miss you?" I asked. Derra shook her head.

"Lately, all he's ever cared about was getting revenge on the Guardian's, on Lilium." Derra said, looking at me with teary eyes. "If he doesn't love me anymore why won't he just tell me?"

I looked away, not knowing how to respond.

"But… I know I'll never get a blue rose from him. But I can give you one." Derra said, picking up a blue rose in her cupped hands off the ground.

"A blue rose?" I said. Derra smiled at me.

"A blue rose. In the language of flowers, a blue rose means impossible. I know that I won't get the impossible from Emerix…. Being loved again. But I can give you the impossible, bringing him back for you." Derra said. She smiled sadly at me again and held the blue rose in the sunlight.

"This blue rose is going to be the last thing I do. I know it's the right choice. Emerix is better off without me otherwise." She looked down, dropping the blue rose onto the ground. She looked at me and stood.

"This area, you'll be freed of here once Sen wakes you up in the real world. You were nearly killed by Angel." Derra said. She looked away.

"Can you tell Emerix goodbye for me?" She said looking away still. "I know what I'm doing is right. You too are in love…. Emerix and I, were in love….. Better to do what will guarantee results instead of what might get some." Derra shrugged as she began to fade.

"Enjoy life, don't die, all the good stuff. Hope I won't see you in heaven for a long time, which is if I don't go to hell for being born a boy." Derra said. "I wonder if it's fun down there…."

Derra faded away and I was there alone. I sat back down.

"I can't do anything right can I? People keep dying….. I wasn't able to stop any of them!" I shouted jumping to my feet and punching the tree. I looked down and I saw the blue rose, shining in the light. I picked it up and saw Sen's face in it, with a worried expression on it. A drop of blood dripped off his shirt and landed on the rose, turning it blood red.

My eyes blurred and I sat up…. Like I had never stood.

"Yoshimori you awake!" I felt someone glomp me. A familiar, sweet smell. And a happy blonde tail wagging happily. I smiled and returned the hug.

"I am Sen…." I said. He pulled back and caught me in a deep kiss. I let him take control for once. We were both blushing deeply as Sen pushed me up against the wall of the shed. I put my arms over his shoulders and his arms wrapped around my waist.

"Hold it you two, save it for your bedroom later." I looked up and saw Leo walking towards us and pulling us apart. I saw Linzang farther back with a huge blush on his face and Amara was looking at us with the eyes of a fangirl. I blushed and pulled Sen back lose to me.

"It seems your two's little journey healed your injuries, ah, just makes it more fun for me darlings!" I heard Angel say. I looked up and saw him perched up atop the shed and I grabbed Sen and immediately backed away. Angel looked at us and put his hand over his heart.

"I'm hurt, you'd think I'd attack? I wouldn't dare ruin a moment like this, no I would not; it's just soooooo ADROABLE! Ah, it reminds me of such tragic love stories like Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet! Such tragedy!" Angel shouted, moving his hands around for emphasis. He jumped up and landed across from us gracefully.

"Of coooourse, its tragic because of me. The reaper to your lives, the curtain call on your play, the poison on your lips." Angel said, taking a bow, his cape flowing in the wind.

"Why are you doing things like this?" I asked. "You don't seem to be the type of person to commit crimes like this."

"Wrong wrong wrong SILLY! It's such fun it is!" Angel said waving his around. "The feeling of watching people get drenching in the colors of pain and depression! The color blue! The wondrous way of sadness, its magnificent, it is!" Angel said, bending back while hugging himself dramatically. He shot back up and looked at us.

"Like your story, or any of the guardians; it's like candy! Oooh, it just makes me feel so warm inside! I love to see you suffer, because you're so cruel! Oooo, but cruelty has a time and place OF COURSE!" Angel said, rushing over to us. I covered Sen as Angel just ran around us in circles.

"The bedroom is the best place for it of course! I hear you have such a WONDERFUL one too! Oooo, I can't wait to see it of course! It must be blue though." Angel said spinning. He turned around and jumped back into the area he was standing in before.

"Ah, fortunately this story needs its curtain to fall, the rain on the parade. It's an unfortunate truth it is! Ah, don't worry though." Angel said, dramatically hanging his head back with his hand on his chest. He popped back up and smiled before appearing in a flash in front of us.

"I'll make sure you have. A. Ha-pi. End-ing~ 3." Angel said, wagging his finger at us again. He pulled out a copy of Lilium's whip and swung it at us. I grabbed Sen and jumped out of the way. Lilium's whip grabbed my ankle and swung me into the air, but the whip suddenly vanished.

"I think it's about time I intervene." Hiba said, fixing his cloak as the wind blew it around. Angel smiled and put his hands on his face.

"Oooo, now the bishounens have arrived. Ah, what's your name sweetie?" Angel said, completely enamored with Hiba.

"Hiba." Hiba said monotonously.

"Hmmm, Hiba-Darling! It just rolls off the tongue. Of course, my tongue can do more than that." Angel said, licking his lips. Hiba scoffed and looked away. Angel put his hands on his hips.

"Ah, you're so cruel." Angel said, dramatic as he always is... He is just really to dramatic for one person.

"But, I think I'll settle for someone else, Hiba-Darling. How about that little shota you have behind you? Would that little sweetie do it for me, hmm. Would you know anything about that, Hiba-Chan?" Angel said, batting his eyelashes. Hiba looked at Angel angered.

"I struck a nerve! I struck one I did, what will little Hiba-Darling do to me? Does he want to punish me?" Angel said, trying to act innocent. Hiba swung his tentacle arm at Angel how bent backwards avoiding it. Angel back flipped in the air, avoiding the tentacle as it sweeped back. Angel landed on the tentacles and smiled.

"Tentacles, they are so wonderful! Have you ever gotten NAUGHTY~ with them?" Angel asked. Hiba looked at him, even angrier. Angel smiled, and stomped on Hiba's tentacle with his high heels. Hiba cringed and pulled his arm away.

"You seem so irritable. I love a good manly man! Such a person is always wonderful where it matters 3" Angel said. Suddenly a shining blue vine wrapped around Hiba and Angel walked over to Hiba. He put his arms around Hiba's shoulders.

"Such broad shoulders, you're the se-me aren't you?" Angel asked.

"Most of the time…" Angel turned and looked at Gen, who was standing. He looked fully healed, but was blushing slightly from his confession. Angel smiled.

"Oooo, the little boy for Mr. Lolita-Complex here is awake. Fun times are ahead of us!" Angel said.

"You sure do love to talk don't you?" Gen asked. Angel looked at him, his happy mood not affected at all.

"Aaa, you're cruel too. You two make SUCH a happy pair, don't you?" Angel said. He licked his lips again and sighed.

"Lady Lilium, you sure you want me to stop toying with them? It's so much fun, and you were enjoying it moments ago."Angel said, talking to himself.

"He's talking to Lilium… telepathically…" Sen said, not fully recovered from when he was… well… dead.

"Very well, I'll send them all to heaven. No… you want them to go to hell. That's doable to Lilium-Darling." Angel said, finishing the conversation. He sighed and looked at us, the whole group.

'It's been great fun, really it has, but it's time, as I said before, for the curtain to fall. TIME TO GET SERIOUS!" Angel shouted, a scythe appearing in his arms.

"Ah, you get to die at the hands of the Angel of Death." Angel said with his scythe. He spun it in the air with great easy, despite the things great size. It looks like it would weigh a ton. He licked the blade of the scythe, spurring blue souls to begin spinning around him.

"One cut from this scythe and it's all over, it's like a zombie bite without the mess or disgusting germs." Angel said. "The scythe cuts through your very soul, the very thing that makes you, you." Angel posed with the scythe and smiled, directed at me. He mouthed something I could see, but Sen caught it.

"He's saying that he's saving us for last." Sen said, struggling to speak.

"Don't exert yourself…. I couldn't lose you again…. I don't want you to die." I said to Sen. He smiled at me.

"This scythe doesn't cut, it kills. No blood, no visible injury. Just DEATH!" Angel said, taking a swing of the blade at Hiba.

"Goodbye Hiba-Darling, say hello to all your friends in HELL!" Angel said, laughing maniacally. Gen jumped in the way and parried the scythe with his claws. Angel looked surprised, but smiled even bigger. He put both his hands on the scythe, instead of just one, and pushed the scythe forward, making Gen slide on the ground.

Christeenala jumped forward and kicked Angel. Angel blocked the kick with his scythe and flung Christeenala away, but didn't manage to cut her. Linzang and Leo ran in and started circling Angel. Angel looked at them irritated and grabbed his scythe firmly and spun around, creating a large wing current that blew them away. Angel ran forward, towards Gen and Hiba again. Amara created a large wall of ice and grabbed Angel's scythe.

Angel grabbed her with his free hand and flung her into the air. He tossed his scythe in the air and it spun rapidly as it made its way towards free-falling, defenseless Amara. I put up a kekkai in its path, but the scythe cleaved through it without even slowing. Emerix jumped in front and hit the blade away with hi chainsaw.

Angel appeared in the air and kicked Emerix aside, creating a copy of his chainsaw and tossing it at Amara. Angel vanished and reappeared beside his scythe and pulled it out of the ground. He tossed it at Amara again. Angel smiled and created a copy of Lilium's whip again and grabbed the scythe with the whip and changed the flying weapons direction. It flew towards Gen and Hiba instead.

Suddenly, a chainsaw dropped in front of the scythe and cut the whip away from the scythe, sending the scythe flying astray until it lodged itself in a tree. Angel groaned and his arms stretched and grabbed the scythe. He swung it at Gen and Hiba again, but Gen grabbed it with his claws, but it still pushed him back quite a ways.

"You little pest, you just don't give up. You've got quiet the Sta-min-a~ 3" Angel said. He pushed the scythe forward, pushing Gen into a wall of the school. The wall collapsed and fell down onto Gen.

"Gen!" Atora and Hiba yelled simultaneously.

"Oops, did I break your favorite toy. Don't worry, you can play with me anytime." Angel said, smiling big and winking.