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Animes in this Chapter: Descendants of Darkness, Bleach, InuYasha, Fruits Basket, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Princess Princess, YuYu Hakusho

Chapter 8: End of a Battle, Second Beginning

Apparently not. Someone or something jumped between me and Muraki. Muraki stopped before he collided with the fleshy object in question.

"You will not touch her again!" was that Ichigo or InuYasha? I fell to my knees, I couldn't stand back up. There was someone beside me, several someone's in fact.

"Mina, just take it easy, they can handle it from here. Don't try to get up again." Kagome.

"Now now, I'm out numbered 20 to one!"

"No! DON'T LET HIM-"there was a poof "Get away… DAMN IT!!!" I screamed and slammed my fists into the ground. "DAMN IT!!! WHY DOES THAT CREEP ALWAYS GET AWAY!!! WHY DOESN'T HE JUST DIE!!!" tears and blood gushed from me as I threw my tantrum, but I couldn't stop. It just kept coming. "WHY CAN'T HE JUST LEAVE US ALONE!!!" my world faded to black.

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"She should regain consciousness sometime over the next few days… but her injuries where very sever and we are unsure whether she will make a full recovery."

"But she HAS to! She just has to get better!"

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"So… you're an agent… that was surprising, but I'm glad I got to meet you, even if you didn't remember who you where."

"Just remember, our house is always open to you should you ever return."

"Yeah, stop by sometime."

"We'll miss you."

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"Hey… I don't know if you can hear me or not… Photon told me not to enter your dreams since they are more of the passing out possibly brain dead type… anyway… I just wanted to say that… I hope you come back, Alight? It would be sweet if we could beat up some of the Black Diamonds together when I get my body back… and thank you for talking Kako out of going to school that day… I owe you one."

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"Doc, you said she would regain consciousness in a few days… it's been nearly three weeks."

"She should have awoken by now… we don't know why she hasn't yet. There's not much more we can do besides pray she wakes up soon."

"There has to be something more we can do!"

"I am sorry, but there is not."

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The light turned off and the door clicked shut. I sat up and swung my legs off the bed. I had finally regained enough strength for what I need to do. I stood up for the first time since that day. It was a bit wobbly, but I could at least make it to the road where my taxi would be waiting. I looked around for my clothes and almost didn't see them under all the flowers. Every normally clear surface was jammed with flowers, cards and other gifts and I felt my chest tighten to know I would be disappointing all these people but I have no time for that!

I spied my clothes and slipped into them hurriedly. I scrounged for a marker and wrote a huge 'Sorry' across my pillow then crossed the room to the window. I had to remove several cards and flowers from the sill before I could open it and in the process I found three I decided to keep with me. One was from Yuki, another from InuYasha, Kagome and my friends from the other side of the Bone Eaters Well, even a paw print from Kirara, the third and final one was from, of all people, Haruhi Suzamiya and her SOS Brigade. That sounded like an interesting read but that had to wait.

I pried the widow open and jumped out. I landed in a crouch with minimal pain and took off across the grounds. Didn't they have any kind of security? I made it to the street in record time and saw my taxi waiting, just like she promised me. I climbed in and it took off, the driver already had the destination so all I had to do was sit back and catch my breath again. Not moving for a month really didn't do anything good to my muscles. The lady had told me I had to stay in Japan if I ever wanted to defeat Muraki and that if I 'woke up' they would have shipped me back to America. America was not an option with a creep like Muraki wondering around killing people. My mission was to kill Muraki, before I returned home to face my mother and her stupid drug tests, I had to complete it. That was my priority one and the lady was there to guide me and nothing would go wrong with her besides me… My Guardian Angel, that's what I had come to think of her as.

"Your destination."

I looked up as I stepped out of the car. The school campus was huge… and I had to pull off being a boy in the most elite boy's school in all of Japan. Sometimes I think my Guardian Angel is a little batty but if this will help me destroy Muraki, then it's worth the awkwardness. I walked forward, towards my next step in the Mission. I wasn't exactly sure where to start, so I knocked on a door with a light shining through. It was opened.

"I've been expecting you, Mr. Taku Shiba! Come, come, we need to get you ready for the big day tomorrow!"

And so started my life as a boy.

TO BE CONTINUED