Betraying My People Chapter 40:
The Power of Their Love
The Ikisatashis teleported everyone except Siria-sama, Yuna and Yusuke to a lab. It appeared to be empty, and Ichigo whispered, "Are we too late?"
Suddenly teleportation sounded in the room, and Gen and another Cyniclon teleported in. "You'll never find your friends," Gen said. "Choji and I hid them. And the brainwashing machine was successful. Everyone has been brainwashed besides your group. And that includes the entire Council!"
"Well, then we'll just have to take out your brainwashing machine," Kisshu snarled. "Then we can take you two down."
"You don't honestly think you'll win, do you?" Choji asked.
"So how'd you get roped into this, Choji?" Hiro-sama asked.
"Gen promised I'd be his right hand when the Council fell," Choji said, shrugging. "I never agreed with Siria-sama's decisisons anyways. Deep Blue shouldn't have died, but did she care? Not a bit, and she let his murderers live with us."
"You weren't there," Kisshu snarled. "Did he tell you that he never intended to help us? No? Well, he told me that, and somehow I doubt he was lying. You don't know anything about the situation, so don't tell us that we did the wrong thing by killing that monster."
Gen shrugged. "The past doesn't matter. What matters is that we're taking over, and you all are going down."
Ichigo got an idea, and closed her eyes. She concentrated on Lettuce's face, and it worked. Lettuce and Pai were tied up in the old abandoned building. They were in a room close to the staircase, and Ichigo knew what she had to do. She waited till Choji and Gen were distracted by Kisshu and Hiro-sama, and said to Kasumi, who was standing next to her, "Kasumi, focus on Lettuce's face, and take my hand, then teleport. I found her in the old abandoned building where you killed Sanosuke."
"I'll try," Kasumi said. She took Ichigo's hand and concentrated. Then they teleported, and found themselves in a room, where Pai and Lettuce were tied up, unconscious. The girls ran over and untied them, and Ichigo tapped their foreheads. They woke up, and looked confused.
"Where's the others?" Pai asked.
"They're in the lab still, but I found Lettuce, so I asked Kasumi to teleport me here," Ichigo said. "Can you teleport, Pai?"
"Hai," Pai said. "Let's go back to the lab."
Ichigo nodded and said, "Kasumi, can you teleport me back? Pai will take Lettuce."
"Hai," Kasumi said. She took Ichigo's hand and teleported, followed by Pai with Lettuce.
When they teleported in, the others looked up. Gen and Choji looked shocked. "How did you get free!?" Choji shouted.
"Ichigo and Kasumi got us out," Pai said. "Can you really fight against all of us?"
Gen smirked, and took a small remote out of his pocket. Ichigo, figuring he was trying to brainwash everyone, grabbed Kisshu's hand, right before a ripple of energy flowed over them. Except for Kisshu and Ichigo, everyone's eyes went blank.
"What will you do now? Your family and friends have been brainwashed," Gen smirked.
"We won't give up," Kisshu said.
"We're still going to take you down," Ichigo continued.
"And our power will overcome yours," they said together. They both began to glow, green for Kisshu, pink for Ichigo. Don't let them separate us, Kisshu said.
I won't, and you do the same, Ichigo replied.
The glow got brighter, and Gen and Choji shielded their eyes. Ichigo and Kisshu faced each other, their hands remaining clasped together. They looked into each others' eyes, and the glow surrounding them flowed over their family and friends. Their eyes cleared, and widened. Ichigo and Kisshu turned back to Gen and Choji. "We won't let you win," they said. "Our love is stronger than anything, including your evil." Kisshu snapped the fingers of his free hand, and the remote in Gen's hand exploded.
Ichigo snapped her fingers too, and the others were sent back to the Ikisatashi's house. Now she and Kisshu faced a stunned Gen and Choji alone. "H-how did you know that destroying the remote would reverse all the brainwashings?" Gen asked. "How did you even do all that?"
"We told you, our love is strong enough to overpower your evil," Ichigo said. "And as for the remote- we just didn't want you to be able to brainwash anyone else."
"I find it hard to believe that love can give you power," Choji said. "It's an emotion, nothing more."
"Emotions are power," Ichigo said. "True power comes from the heart. As one without a true heart, you could never understand."
"Your greed and evil could never understand the power that Ichigo and I share," Kisshu said. "We are the ones with true power, not you."
Gen snarled and said, "Then let's see this power." He took out a sword, and Choji did the same. Kisshu took out one of his swords, while Ichigo took out her Strawberry Blade. They were still holding hands, and knew to make this work, they'd have to remain in contact with each other. Luckily the contact meant that they could read each other's movements and thoughts.
Choji and Gen lunged forward, and Ichigo and Kisshu brought their swords up at the same time. They both stopped the blades aimed at them at the same time. Gen and Choji tried to force their blades down; they held on, then broke away suddenly, causing Gen and Choji to actually fall forward. Gen's blade fell, and Kisshu kicked it out of reach. Choji tried to get up, but Ichigo kicked him in the knee, and he fell, dropping his sword. Ichigo kicked it out of reach. Now both Gen and Choji were weaponless, and looked nervous.
Before Ichigo and Kisshu could finish them off, however, to all of their surprise, Siria-sama teleported in. Next to her was the woman who had said she was Kisshu and Ichigo's Guardian. The Guardian saw them look startled, and said, "Oneesama will take care of these two now. You two have done wonderfully. You fulfilled your role in saving the planet, and now you two are done. You can live your lives without fear of more trouble."
"Th-thanks," Ichigo said. "But you called Siria-sama 'Oneesama'."
"Oh, that's because she's my younger sister," Siria-sama said. "She died during the time when the planet was still pretty bad, and was given Guardianship of Kisshu, at first. You two were fated to fall in love, and when you did, Shina became Guardian to both of you."
Kisshu and Ichigo had their jaws on the floor, shocked. "Wait, why did I have a Guardian?" Kisshu asked.
"You were born to be the best warrior on this planet," Shina said. "Do you remember the rockslide?"
Kisshu looked sad and said, "Hai."
"Why do you think you were the only one who survived that rockslide?" Siria-sama said. "You were protected by Shina, even though she was just coming into her Guardian powers. She wasn't strong enough to stop the rockslide, but she made sure you would survive, and also made sure that you were taken in by Hamaya and Aran. They were the only ones at the time who knew about the Guardians, and I told them Kisshu had a Guardian. That's the reason they took you in, besides the fact that they thought Pai could use some company. That was before Hamaya discovered she was carrying Taruto. If Taruto had been a girl, they would have named him Shina."
Kisshu was now speechless, and Siria-sama said, "You can't tell anyone about this, though. It's important to keep the Guardians safe."
"We understand," Ichigo said. She nudged Kisshu, who looked like he was in shock. He snapped out of it at her touch and said, "Understood. We won't tell anyone."
Siria-sama nodded, and said, "I will take Gen and Choji back to the Council, and we will decide their fate. You two should get home, you look tired."
"Thank you, Siria-sama, Shina," Kisshu and Ichigo said. They bowed, and then Kisshu teleported Ichigo back home.
Interesting little revelation there. I KNOW it's short, and I think there's not much left, but I'll do at least one more chapter. Review plz!