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It had started out like most other days in the Miyabe household, Namie prepared breakfast for her two children before they went to school, made sure they wore the correct uniforms and most importantly, made sure they actually went to school. After both the children were gone she cleaned what needed to be cleaned and managed the family shrine while her husband, Ryuto, prepared for the upcoming festival.
Ryuto, a man of good nature, spent his average day working at the shrine with his wife, and teaching his children how to use their unique abilities while still maintaining a normal lifestyle. He worked the children hard in their lessons, and those lessons paid off, both Sousuke and Tatsuki had an extraordinary talents. He was especially proud when both children began to create their own techniques.
On a not so average day, the Miyabe family was in the attention of a group of paranormal investigators, the Center agents, who studied the Miyabes' unique powers individually, and even mimicked some of the energy fields created when the Miyabes' would display a usages of their powers for newer versions of the Center technology; the U-Watch.
Sousuke, however, did not like the attention from the foreigners, and shared this fact with his younger sister often, whom in time, began to dislike the attention of the foreigners as well. The two made it a habit of disappearing whenever Center agents showed up at their doorstep.
Today, despite how normal it had began, would become the not so average day. Today, the Center showed up at the Miyabe household.
Five and a quarter year old Tatsuki glared at the young woman of non-Japanese decent who was sitting across the room from her, causing the Center agent to shift uncomfortably in her seat. Tatsuki's mother had forced both Sousuke and herself to stay and meet with the foreigners much to the two's dismay. The man beside her seemed unfazed by the child's stare. "I'm Olivia." She said, clearing her voice out of slight nervousness.
"I'm Colin!" added the man beside the woman who called herself Olivia cheerfully.
Tatsuki opened her mouth to say something, but her older brother held up his hand in front of her face, signaling to her not to speak, "We don't really give a fuck about who you are." He glared sinisterly as his bangs falling into his reddish brown eyes making the fifteen year old look dangerous. Namie was horrified by her son's rudeness to the guests and quickly tried to apologize for him.
Tatsuki felt embarrassed by her mother's actions, apologizing to those people who had no business messing in their affairs at all. Sousuke, beside her, sneered, "Doesn't it make you want to throw up?" he whispered to his little sister, who only lightly nodded her agreement. That sick feeling was definitely acting up once again.
"It's okay." The foreigner called Colin said, smiling and overall unbothered by the comment made by Sousuke. "We won't be here long!"
"If you don't mind, Mr. Price." Said Ryuto. "Please tell us what the Center needs from us this time."
Olivia spoke for her partner, "The Center has reason to believe something threatening may be manifesting nearby." Tatsuki's interest was piqued, but she tried to remain stoic about it, and was put out when her mother decided that the conversation might not be in the best interest of her children and ushered them out of the room.
Despite being told to go somewhere else at that moment, both Sousuke and Tatsuki listened in on the conversation being had by the adults. Sousuke's frown and distaste for the Center agents became more obvious the more he listened to them. "Those shits are trying to get us into some kind of full time protection service at their headquarters." He said hotly to his sister, "That's a load of fucking bullshit. They just want to lock us up so we don't become a threat to them!"
Tatsuki looked up at her brother, and innocently asked, "but what if they aren't lying, aniki?" Sousuke blinked out of his angry state to reassure his little sister, giving her a loving smile and a heartfelt embrace.
"I'm the only one aloud to protect you, Suki-chan." He said, "No Center is going to be able to do that better then your aniki."
-The Red Monarch-
Taki blinked back to the present day as she chewed on the takoyaki Java had made for her. She shivered as she remembered the feel of her brother's embrace, warm, loving, and unnervingly possessive. She remembered how comforting he had sounded, it was incredible to believe that her aniki would later that day, rebel violently to the Center.
"Suki-chan, I swear…mother and father… it was an accident…" another shudder went how her spine, if only he hadn't had that satisfied look on his face, then maybe, just maybe she would have believed him.
There was a knock at Taki's bedroom door, causing the girl to jump. "Taki-chan?" she heard Arashi ask from the other side of the plank of wood. "Are you in there?" Taki swallowed her food as quickly as possible.
"Ha-hai, Arashi-kun, I'm coming" she stood and dusted herself off and quickly went to the door. When she opened it, Arashi's flushed face greeted her with an awkward smile. She stepped out into the hall and shut her door so she could speak with her friend. "So what's up?" it was the first time in awhile that she was able to hang out with someone other then the Center agents, not that she disliked hanging out with Martin, Diana, Java, and Billy.
Arashi flushed a dark red and scratched the back of his head as he searched for the right words, "I wa-was wondering, if, you'd like t-to um," he looked up to the ceiling for help, "I do-don't know, grab something to eat wi-with me to-tonight?" he bit his lip and prepared himself for her refusal.
"You mean like just the two of us, no one else?" Taki asked, Arashi nodded yes as he continued to bite down on his lower lip. She was probably going to say no, he just knew it. "I'd love to hang out with you tonight!" Taki sounded surprisingly happy, causing the timid to flush even more.
"Gr-great! What time should I pick you up?" he asked, his chocolate colored eyes wide with surprise, excitement, and happiness. Taki tapped her finger against her chin.
"Well, how about when classes end? If that's okay with you of course." She smiled. Arashi nodded yes.
"I'll pick you up then!" he said, "Now, time to get to class!" he said, something resembling a goofy grin adorning his face, "May I escort the lovely Taki-chan to class?" and offered an arm.
Deciding to play along, Taki looped her arm through Arashi's and grinned, "Yes, you may, good sir." She laughed.
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Martin hadn't seen Taki since she left during lunch, and when Diana spotted Taki in the hallway, walking arm in arm with that other Japanese boy, his inner self was very unhappy, to say the least. He fidgeted during class with his pen as he thought about the pair, had …Abrabi, or whatever his name was, somehow found out about Taki really being a girl, and decided he wanted to date her? That was unacceptable. When Diana mentioned it being sort of sweet, the thought of Taki and …Abrabi, being together, Martin felt like puking.
When Diana had seen Taki in the hall on the way to the next and final class of the day she asked the girl quietly if Arashi going together. Tatsuki blinked, "How'd you know me and Arashi were going out together after school?" the medium asked obliviously. Diana nearly freaked out in happiness for the shorter haired girl, who was completely and utterly baffled by Diana's response and just nodded dumbly to the request, that Diana invitation to see her in her room.
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"I'm going to make you look pretty for your date with Arashi!" Diana said as she combed through Taki's closet before dragging the girl off to her dorm. Upon arrival at Diana's dorm, Tatsuki was immediately told to put on the sundress and jewelry that Diana had picked out of her room. As soon as Taki had complied and finished dressing herself Diana had told her to sit on the bed. After holding up various make-ups to see which would better complement her eyes and skin tone, Diana proceeded to apply eye shadow and other such things to Tatsuki's face.
Martin wanted to hear from Taki herself just what exactly was going down between her and Abrabi. When he reached her door he first knocked, no answer. "Taki? Are you in there?" he asked. Still no reply, a queasy feeling settled into the pit of his stomach as he tried to turn the knob, finding that he was locked out, Martin tried knocking again, "Taki?"
"Martin, if you're trying to bother Taki with your stupid paranormal crap, you can go ahead a quit." Came Jenni's voice, "I'm sure he can't possibly be interested." She eyed the blonde wearily.
Martin ignored Jenni's comment, "Do you know if Taki's even in there?"
Jenni's eyes widened, no ridiculous confessions, or date proposals? Was Martin sick or something? "I don't know, but I think I saw him and Diana together not long ago."
"Thanks, Jenni." And with that he was gone. No date proposals, nothing.
"He's definitely sick."
-
Diana usually didn't lock the door to her room when she was in, this resulted in guests, mainly Martin, intruding often and today was no different. "Hey, Di, have you seen Taki she's not in her…room" His eyes fell on Taki, make-up on and her hair now slightly wavy.
"Yes, Martin. Do you need something?" Taki asked looking up at him inquisitively. A blush spanned Martin's cheeks, Taki looked…cute. "I have to go soon, so if you'd please…"
Martin shook his head and dispelled the thoughts, "Go? Go where?" he asked quickly.
Diana jumped up, "She has a date with Arashi soon!" the brunette chirped. The queasy, sinking feeling came back, Taki and Abrabi were dating now, and it was only a matter of time before the rest of the student body found out about Taki's femininity. That wasn't a very comforting feeling.
"In fact, Diana, I should probably get going, Arashi's probably waiting for me." Taki said and got up to leave. She brushed by Martin on the way out, who stood there dumbfounded as Tatsuki's form shrank into the distance. He cursed himself I should have stopped her. He thought.
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Arashi was relieved when he saw his date walking toward him, and awestruck by the complete metamorphosis Taki had undergone from her usual boyish looking self. "Ta-Taki-chan, you lo-look—"
"Ridiculous?" Tatsuki filled in, "I know, I told Diana that she didn't need to curl my hair…" she continued, Arashi cut her off.
"You lo-look really cute." He smiled awkwardly with a flush.
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Diana had protested quiet vehemently to following Taki on her date with Arashi, but there was really no reasoning with her stepbrother, "We promised to protect her Di, no matter what, remember?" Diana rolled her eyes, yes, they had promised to protect her no matter what, but this was a bit obsessive.
"Martin, seriously, I don't think anything is going to happen if she eats out with someone who's not us just this once." Diana said with folded arms, it was like he was jealous or something. Diana blinked and placed her hands on her hips, "You aren't jealous that Taki is having a great time with some other guy our age, are you?" she said in an accusing tone, the corner of the mouth twitched upward in a smirk when her stepbrother did not respond. He is jealous! She thought amusedly.
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Tatsuki had the oddest feeling of being watched, "Is something wrong, Taki-chan?" Arashi asked. Taki just smiled and ignored the feeling she was probably just being paranoid.
"I just feel like we're being watched, Arashi-kun, it's probably nothing." Taki said. Arashi 'hm'ed, and made a note about it, he felt like someone was glaring holes in the back of his head.
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"Martin, this probably isn't good for your psyche." Diana said as she stared at her stepbrother's pathetic form. He looked completely miserable watching Taki and Arashi together. She vaguely heard him mutter something along the lines of 'looks like fun' or something like that. Diana shook her head, this was truly sad. "Come on Martin." She started to drag him away from the sight of the couple.
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So far everything was going swimmingly, Taki smiled, she was glad she was finally able to hang out with Arashi without the Center agents looming overhead. "You've done better then I expected, Komatsuzaki-kun." An unfamiliar voice said, Taki looked at the speaker with wide eyes, he was a middle-aged Japanese man wearing traditional Japanese clothing.
"Arashi-kun, what are they talking about?" she looked to her friend for answers. His head was hung and his eyes were overshadowed by his bangs. "Arashi-kun?"
"I'm sorry, Miyabe-san…" was her only answer from the boy before chloroform doused cloth covered her nose and mouth and she blacked out.
-
Diana and Martin exited the convenience store with newly bought soft drinks in hand, when they caught a glimpse of a peculiar sight, an unconscious Taki was being carried off by a large, older Japanese man in a kimono. Martin's drink slipped from his hand as he ran off; "I knew this would happen!" he seethed.
Diana felt terrible, if she hadn't had dragged her brother off, maybe, just maybe this wouldn't have happened.
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Taki woke up in a strange apartment, "Good, you're awake." Said the unfamiliar voice from before. The man smiled at her, but it was not reassuring, "You're book has come really in handy, Miyabe-san, now Sousuke-sama will be with us once again." He said, "He'll be happy to know you generously provided a way back to the mortal realm for him."
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