Sorry, I know that I haven't updated in a while. Thank you those that review and favorited or is now following this story.
I was going to update it on the 12th of this mouth as a Mother's Day present for my Queen, but I was dragged away for it and the same with the 13th. My mommy keeps dragging me out of the house, so I n keep having to stop and forget what I was planning to write. So, it's a bit late.
But, I hope you all enjoy the next chapter!
Chapter 14: Blood Of The Kamisawa Clan
The little group had been walking for a while now as the strangers lead them all to some place where they can talk and eat at the same time without being interrupted. The only sane reason they were following these guys was because they wanted answers and were curious on who these strangers were and how much they know about the zombies. Not only that, but they saved their lives and didn't seem to be a tart to them, yet.
Ichigo was watching them very carefully from his place next to Rukia and Karin, who did not look too please to be stock in between him and Lucien, keeping her from straying away from them. Off to the side of them were Renji and Tatsuki, and than Rangiku and Gin. She was walking with Gin and couldn't seem to let him go, afraid that he might leave her again if she does. Toshiro and Sho where right behind them, walking with Zen, who seemed to want a lot of space away from Karin and was on the other side of Sho so as to not feel Toshiro's cold presence sent his way.
Sho sighed, he hated being stock in this kind of thing. First his parents and now these. 'Why couldn't they all just get along?' He wondered sometimes, but already knew the answers to that question.
Finally, they stopped in front of a shop and Lucien walked up to the front.
The shinigamis looked at the all too familiar place, wondering why it is that they always ended up coming to that said place.
"This place again?" Renji questioned, his arms around Tatsuki's shoulder.
Tatsuki scowled. "Why do we always end up coming back here?" she wondered before talking a step to go up to the place, but was suddenly stopped by the out stretched arm of Lucien, who had a flown on his face as he eyed the place.
He then turned to her and his flown turned into a dazzling smile that Gin seemed to always wear, but in a hansom way. "Why don't you let me go in first, dear." He said it not as a question, but as a statement. No, more like an order, and it was one that she couldn't seem to define since it held so much authority hidden behind it that her body refused to move even an inch from her place and stay in place while her eyes watched as Lucien walked up the steps of the shop.
Lucien stopped in front of the doors and exhaled deeply before grabbing the doorknob with a grim determination look on his face. He twisted it and opened the door as everyone watched from their place standing a few feet behind him and out of harms way.
As soon as the door was fully opened up, water suddenly sprouted out of the door and engulfed Lucien's body entirely. Lucien took the hit and struggled inside the body water prison. Tatsuki, Renji, Ichigo, Rukia, and Rangiku tried to run up at help him after the shock, but was held back by Zen, who stopped them with his out stretched hand and Gin held Rangiku back, pressing her body closer to his. Zen looked back at them and stopped them with only his glaze before turning back to the struggling Lucien, still trapped in the water prison.
Zen sighed and looked up to Lucien's trapped form. "Lucy, how long are you going to make us wait?" he questioned. "I'm hungry and, unlike you, I want to see the rest of my family." And he casually walked up to him.
Just as Zen was getting closer, the water evaporated and Lucien got free. He checked himself, he was soaked, before looking to Zen now next to him. "You suck, Zen," Lucien said and Zen smirked, eyes still on the door, before making his escape and walking in before anything else could happen. He was soon followed in by Toshiro and Sho. Than Karin, Ichigo (who followed Karin), Rukia (next to Ichigo), and Tatsuki and Renji. Than Gin took Rangiku in, giving Lucien a pitied look as he passed by the younger boy. As usual Takachiho greeted the gang and lead them to a table while Hotaru offered Lucein a towel to dry himself, wich he'd refused, eyeing the kitchen door the whole time.
Lucien sighed once again before stepping foot into the place after everyone else. As soon as he took one step in, a knife shot out of the kitchen door way and headed strait for Lucien's head at an amazing speed and accuracy. Just as it was about to hit him, Lucien grabbed it out of the thin air and held the blade in between his middle and pointer figures.
Lucien sighed another time (must be old or really tried hah?) as a figure stepped out of the kitchen doorway. Takumi stared at Lucien blankly and Lucien stared back after putting the knife down, his form now dried and not a drop of water on the floor or wet spot on him. It was as if he was not trapped in a water prison and had come out of it dripping wet just moments ago.
Everyone turned around to look back at what was going on to fine a shocking sceen in front of them. It was as if they were in the mist of an intease battle between two very powerful being (which is true, considering who the two are).
"…Hello to you too, Takumi," Lucien said with a smirk on his face as he looked back to Takumi, who was standing just a few feet across from him. "Were you trying to kill me, dearest cousin?" he looked at the knife in his hand and his smile grew. "Because you should already know better," he looked back at Takumi, "that something like this," he stabbed his heart with the knife in his hand, "won't even kill an undead immortal like me." Blood began to spill out from his wound and seeped into his black coat. Lucien smirked at Takumi some more as Takumi frowned at him and walked towards him.
Takumi stopped right in front of him and took the knife out from Lucien's chest. Lucien didn't show any sing of pain on his face, but his eyes, which Takumi was staring into the whole time, said it all.
Once the bloody knife was in his hand, Takumi turned around and let the blood dripped down to the floor. "Ma, at lest you still feel the pain. I'm content with that," Takumi shrugged his shoulders and moved back into the kitchen.
"Nii-chan, the blood is spilling all over the floor!" Naomi scolded her older brother as she ran off after him into the kitchen.
Lucien walked up to the gang and sat down in one of the square tables that became connected to each other to make it longer for more people to seat together.
"Sorry about that," he apologized with a dazzling smile as he turned towards the gang. "This is one of the reasons why we never want to meet with each other too often, the members of our family." He'd looked back towards the kitchen when he said that and turned back once he was finished.
"Family doesn't get along well?" Rangiku questioned what the others wanted to know.
Lucien just smiled at her while Takachiho took orders.
"So, do you wanna talk as we wait for the food, or talk after you finish eating?" Lucien asked them with a smile on his face.
Ichigo banged his hands on the table and stood up. "No!" he shouted. "We're going to talk and get our answers right now! That's the only reason why we followed you guys willingly!"
"Willingly?" Lucien wondered and smirked. "More like you were compelled to follow, no?"
The gang became uneasy when that was mentioned. It was true. The only reason they seemed to have followed the strangers willingly without any fight or talks was because of Gin, the fact that they helped them, and because they were somehow compelled to follow them. Like an invisible wind pushing them along with the strangers.
"Ichigo, sit," Rukia pulled her boyfriend down and took command as she looked at Lucien with seriousness and suspicions. "We'd like to talk a bit as we wait for the food and, if need be, finish it later, after we finish eating."Renji's stomach growled and everyone looked towards him and he blushed with embarrassment as he covered his stomach with one hand and the other hand went to his head.
"Sorry," Renji apologized sheepishly. "What?" he looked around at the others still staring at him. "I'm hungry! I was serious when I said that we should eat first!"
Everyone sighed.
"If you don't mind," Rukia continued as she looked back at Lucien.
Lucien nodded his head. "Right than," he began. "Where should I start this explanations?"
"How about start on who you are and what you know about those zombies?" Tatsuki suggested.
"Right," Lucien nodded his head and began. "Firstly, my name is Nishigami Lucien. The workers here in this shop and I come from a place called the Shinigami Village."
"Shinigami Village?" Rangiku asked from her place next to Gin. "What's that?"
"Basically it's kinda like the Soul Society," Zen explained as he walked over to them after greeting his wife and child at the table from across the room. "The place is located within time and dimensions and is ruled by the 13 Shikages (Death Shadows) of the Village. One of them being our very own Prince of Darkness, Lucien, here." Zen gestured towards Lucien sitting beside him. "To be a Kage (Shadow) is like being a Taicho (Captain). You have supreme power over those under you and you lead them. The other one here is Takumi over there."
Lucien nodded. "The Village itself is located in someplace that can be called the Spirit world, but is different from the one of Soul Society because this one has souls from all over. Souls from different time and dimensions can end up at the realm if they were marked to be brought to the place. As for those "Zombies", as you'd call them… they are…" Lucien looked towards Zen with worried eyes. He wasn't sure about telling them everything there is to know about the Village.
"Those Zombies are resurrected souls and, like the Hollows, have different classes and names to go with them," Takumi explained as he came out of the kitchen, followed by the finished food to be severed that Takachiho and Hotaru brought out. Takumi stopped a little way from the table and glanced to the side and out the window to see a black butterfly flying just outside the window. "Could someone let that Hell Butterfly in? I think the others in Soul Society would like amd need to know about this too. And we won't want to have to explain it all over again now, would we?" Kanako went and opened the door to let the butterfly fly in to project the pictures of the meeting room and all those within it on the white walls behind Lucien, who sat at one end of the long table.
"Yes, as we were saying…" and Takumi started to tell the information again just so the other captains were caught up to them.
"And the ones we've ran into today? What were they and what do they want from us?" Rukia asked.
"Yes, the ones you ran into today…" Lucien looked towards Karin sitting in between Toshiro and Ichigo before bringing his head back towards everyone. "They want more souls in order for them to keep on lasting longer. You see, because they were unwillingly resurrected and they shouldn't be, the Laws of the Universe that governs all are calling them back."
"And because of that, they are stock between two realms and in order to survive and sub stand their forms from turning into dust and disappearing, they eat the souls of others that they fine or killed," Takumi continued.
"But because those souls aren't theirs, the souls starts to disappeared and their energy is lost to them. Much like the Hollows," Zen went on.
"And so, just like them, the Zombies, or more like the Fukanzen, the incomplete, they need to be killed in order to save some of the souls that have just been lost to the universe after being eaten and release the ones that are trapped and are dying slowing inside them," Gin put in. "There are two types of those kinds. One of them are the incompletes, the Fukanzen, who looks to be half dead, and the completed, also known as the whole, the Zentais, who looks normal. The complete are the only ones able to walk in day light because they are complete. How powerful they are deepens on the souls they've eaten. The Zentais are the ones that can control the Fukanzen and they work for the Akagamis, the ones bringing back dead souls."
"And the leader of the Akagami, the one who's doing all of this, is the man we are looking for," said Lucien as his gaze lowered and his eyes hazed over. "He…"
Kenric, who was on the other side of Lucien, upon noticing his discomfort, decided to speak up. "He took something important from us!" he said is a cheerful ton of voice. "Something dangerous that should not be in his passions. And we," he gestured to himself, Takumi, Lucien, Zen, Killua, and Gin, "are ordered by our superior to bring it back as soon as possible, as well as protect-…" he stopped himself and looked towards Karin with awkwardness, "the innocents," he concluded. Kenric nodded at himself for having corrected himself in time.
"Well, you have your answers and know that we mean you no harm, so enjoy," Lucien stood up and bowed before leaving with the others.
"Taicho," Gin called after Zen.
"Hm," Zen turned around and watched him sitting next to Rangiku. He sighed. "You're going to have to explain it to her, Gin. That boy," points to Killua, standing off to the side," has been keeping himself quite for quite a while, which is starting to bug me because I know that my son-in-law is not someone like that." And he walks off, leaving Gin to sweet drop at that and Killua to twit his eye a bit at those words being directed at him.
"I didn't know that you'd rather prefer me talking instead of keeping quite," Killua whispered out as Zen passed in on his way back to his wife and daughter at the table next to Killua.
Zen stopped in front of him and glared sharply at the while haired boy. "Oh no," he countered back. "It's not that. It's just that, I thought you weren't here when I didn't hear your voice."
Killua's eye twigged some more as he got off the wall. "Are you calling me a Nobody?"
"Why no, of course not. It's just that, someone with a mouth like you…"
Killua was framing now. "Someone with a mouth like me what?" he growled out.
Zen smirked at the boy's anger.
"Now, now," interrupted a voice from the doorway, just behind Killua, causing everyone to look towards said voice. "No need for any of that now is there you two adults?" asked a blond haired boy of around 12. "Oh, I see I'm just in time." The boy looked towards the screens that was still displayed in the room.
"Ru!" Sho shouted out from his place at the table, sitting next to his father as he slipped off the chair and ran towards the older boy, a bright smile on his face.
"Sho!" the boy, Ru shouted as he opened his arms and hugged the physically younger boy. "Long time no see. How have you been my friend?"
Sho nodded his head. "Fine! How about you? Uncle Hiroki hasn't done you in yet, has he?"
Ru sweet dropped. "Not yet… but at the rate we're going…" he's eyes trailed to the side before looking back at Sho again and nodded his head a few time. "We're getting there."
"Still trying to kill each other hah, Hiruto? Really, you two father and son…" Takumi said as he walked up to Ru.
"Uncle Takumi!" Hiruto shouted as he pointed at Takumi. "Y-you're here too? I thought you'd be too lazy for this!"
A tick mark appeared on Takumi's forehead as he hit the boy upside the head.
"What are you doing here Hiruto?" Lucien asked.
Hiruto smiled up at his other uncle, his hands behind his back. "This," he said as he held out two letters from behind his back. "Father told me to… deliver it…" his eyes trailed off to the screen, or more specifically, to Isshin and Yamamoto.
Takumi took the letters into his hands. "What this? A letter from Father and another from Lucifer?" he looked at the letter from Lucifer, the one with the yellow fox holding a scroll in its mouth seal on it and looked to Toshiro before walking over to it to hand him the letter. "It's for you," he said.
Toshiro looked at the letters and blinked before taking it, all the while wondering what his best friend and worst enemy could be thinking and what he's up to to be doing such a thing. He looked around the table at the suspicious eyes and turned to the glaring eyes of Karin first before slipping the letter into his shirt pocket. He was going to have to read it latter because otherwise, Karin would know what they've been up to and might be able to fine Hiroki and end him. something that Toshiro and others doesn't need, even if that might turn out to be good for him.
Isshin eyed the other letter in Takumi's hand carefully once he caught sight of the seal on it. The seal was the symbol of a western, winged dragon with a ball in its mouth, surrounding what seemed to be the spiral itself, the picture of a crown was pouched on top of the gold dragon's head. And the symbol was edged in a gold pocket watch.
"That symbol," Isshin spoke up as he pointed at the envelop in Takumi's hand.
Everyone turned to look at him before looking to where he was pointing at to see the seal on the letter in Takumi's hand. Some recognized the symbol as the one their little Hime used to draw, but Isshin, Unohana (who did her usual check up or treat her wounds and cared for her), Byakuya, and Yamamoto new better for this was the symbol they'd all seem on the body of Hime, or, in Isshin's case, Karin. The symbol was also on the cloth that carried her as well. It was as if she belonged to that family.
Takumi looked down at the symbol. "Oh this," he said. "It's my family's symbol. The symbol of the Kamisawa Royal Clan. The Ruling family of our Village. Our father is the 1st and commanding Shikage and this is kinda his symbol."
"Kamisawa," Isshin and Yamamoto whispered out, in a daze as they made the connections.
Karin looked over at Hiruto when that was mentioned. Damn his genies God of Final Fate of a father for this…
Hiruto, in order to avoid KArin's intease glare and take his mind off of it, spoke up. "Oh and some of you are being called back," he said as he turned towards Takumi and others. "Great Uncle Kazuya said for Aunt Kanako, Honoka-chan, Takachiho-san and Great Aunt Hotaru to return to the Village. said he had a new mission for Takachiho-san and great Aunt Hotaru. As for Aunt Naomi, Dad said that Mitsukuni-san's calling for you to return to the clan. Said something about Clan resurrection or something."
Upon hearing that, Naomi's eyes widened and she disappeared into thin air.
The other ones who were called back stood up and left using the door, since they didn't need to get there as quick as Naomi seemed to.
Takachiho stopped at the steps of the shop and turned his head back. "Oh and if I come back to fine that you've destroyed my shop in anyway shape or form, you're going to wish that that shy cat of an older brother of mine was the one here instead of me," he warned them before going off.
"Guard Dog," Takumi whispered as soon as Takachiho was out of sight.
As Karin laid alone in her bed that night, she thought back to the time when she was still in a coma like state after the fight with the first group of zombie attacks. Sho was sleeping with Toshiro tonight, so she got the bed all to herself. No, she shouldn't say sleep because those two father and son weren't planning on sleeping anytime soon tonight as they both had a place to visit…
Try as he might, Toshiro still could not hide this fact from Karin. She may not know what was written within the letter her very 1st teacher, the one who'd corrupted her, had sent to him, but she very well knew that the two were going to meet again sooner or later, even without the use of her powers as the Goddess of Eternal Fate, a female version of Lucifer.
But back to the time when she was still out…
Karin had appeared at the playground, sitting on a swing in the middle of the night, with the moon shining down on her as she waits for someone to come and meet her. She swayed back and forth a bit on her swing as she felt the cold air, waiting for that person to come.
"Hello Karin," came a voice from behind her. "Long time no see." The person now came behind Karin and intended to kiss her cheek when she stopped swinging.
"Hello old friend," she greeted the person back, not looking at the dark figure and stopping him from kissing her.
The person flowed. "Not even going to look at me dearest Karin? That's just cold." Then a scary, wide and sharp teeth smile appeared on the figure's dark face. "Or is it because the Cold and said-to-be-emotionless God of Winter is rubbing off on you, what with you and him staying together for so long and all that. You even left me for him."
"Aka," Karin turned around with a worried look on her face. "You know that's not true."
Aka smiled as Karin family decided to look at him. Aka has long red hair that reached his bottoms and was scatted around him as well as a pair of ruby red eyes and was wearing a red kimono.
"Still as beautiful as always, aren't you, Hime?" he took a strain of Karin's long hair and pressed it to his lips.
Karin's form gowned under the light of the moon. Her beautiful black hair glowing from the moonlight's shining down on her form, causing her entire form to have a soft radiant of white light reflecting off of her. She was wearing a beautiful red kimono with beautiful peony flowers decorated on it with green leaves, tied by a black obie. Her hair was decorated with a red Tsubaki flower on it as well.
"What are you planning to do?" Karin asked as Aka moved to stand in front of her. "Why are you doing this?" she stood up. "Why are you helping them, Aka-!"
the red haired man kissed Karin fully on the lips before jumping back and disappearin into the moonlight sky with a smile on his face as he answered, "Because I loved you… you, who was the only one to have given me a name and was the one to have cared for me… until he took you away from me and made you forget about me."
Karin came out of her shock and tried to get closer to the man, but the wind held her back. "I never forgot about you. I know that I left you all alone in that dark place back at the village, and I'm sorry. But I-." But the man already disappeared. "Akatsuki!" Karin called after him as the wind pulled her back out of the dream world.
Karin sighed. "Akatsuki…" she whispered into her pillow.
Toshiro and Sho stood on the window farm of Ichigo's old room, getting ready to leave.
"Ready?" Toshiro asked his son, who was next to him.
Sho nodded. "Yeah," he replied. "But there's just one thing." He looked up at his father pleadingly.
Toshiro sighed, knowing exactly what he's son wants to ask him about.
"Fine," he answered. "But not here, not now." He looked out into the distance once again. "When we get there, than you are free."
Sho nodded and the to leaped away into the night. Toshiro and Sho landed in the back garden of someone's Japanese mansion.
"Not using the front door?" came someone's voice from in front of them. "How very rude of you, Jack." Hiroki said from his place sitting on the outside small balcony of the Japanese mansion, sipping tea as he smiled at his old time friend.
"Lucifer," Toshiro growled out.
Sho, who now looked like he's 12 now, sighed from his place next to him. "Do you guys have to go to those names?" he asked. "Hello uncle Hiroki." He bowed to the older god.
Hiroki nodded his head in return. "I see you're finally free from acting as a child for your mother, Shuichiro," Hiroki said and Sho smiled at that.
Toshiro rolled his eyes. "He started it," he whispered back to his son, answering his question on the name calling.
Sho looked away. "Fine, end the Unilever today for all I care. Go ahead, destroy each other than, we'll see what mom and aunt Hinata have to say about this later in the meeting," he shrugged.
The two older gods smiled.
"He's in his room," Hiroki told Sho and Sho left to fine his best friend with a bright smile on his face.
The two gods watched as the younger god left to fine his best friend. They waited for Sho to be out of sight first before Toshiro moved to seat beside Hiroki and took up his warm cup of tea.
"What's with the change in drinks, Fox?" Toshiro asked Hiroki as he looked down at his jasmine tea. "This has nothing to do with the fact that you're real self is still trapped in Hell and bounded by thousands upon thousands of chains, and you're losing your powers to keep parts of you here, is it?"
Hiroki laughed at that. "Please, if that was true, I'd already be fading back into that pit of Hell!" he answered.
"True," Toshiro said as he took his tea, all the while still eyeing Hiroki. "So, why did you call me here and why the sudden change of name, Lucy?"
Hiroki shrugged. "Does there have to be a reason, Jackie? Can't I just ask you to come because I want to hang out like we used to? Like old times? Before… all of this happened?"
Toshiro looked away from Hiroki and took another sip of his tea. "Well, how would I know that that's really what you want? You've always been a tricky bastard to figured out, being the genies that you are and all that. Not to mention, you being the God of Final fate, the power to see and change the fate of others and destroy… is within your reach..."
Hiroki smiled a bit. "But you're my counter part. No, correction, mine and Karin's counter part. The only person powerful enough to stop us. So there's really no worries about that."
Toshiro let out a laugh. "Yeah, like that time we almost destroyed the universe as we know it? Sure. So what do you really what, Hiroki?"
"…The festival of Souls is near, Toshiro… you might've been able to reunite back with your soul, but Karin still has her shattered heart that's been missing since the time you killed her by piercing her though the heart, shattering them into pieces all those years ago. In order to save Karin, she needs her heart back to be complete, Toshiro. You know that. So, what are you going to do about it? The End is near, you know. And Karin needs to be there when it comes."
Toshiro looked down grimly at his teacup. "I'll think of something," he whispered.
"Want my help?" Hiroki offered. "Because you know, that man is now freed and is still after you."
Toshiro looked up at him. "I know that, but... What can you do? You're real self isn't even here. And you're powers has been restricted the day you were seal, Hiroki!"
Hiroki smiled as he brought out a golden pocket watch from within his green kimono and held it in his hand, showing it to Toshiro. "You should know never to underestimate me, my friend. Even if I'm like this, I'm still powerful. So, you of all people, should know me well…"
"Oohh," Toshiro realized and smiled along with his best friend as he looked at the gold pocket watch of the Namikaze clan that its 3rd clan head invented to better control his powers to travel between time and dimensions.
Story Questioned Time:
1. Why is Hiroki called Lucifer?
2. What is Karin's relationship with Akatuski?
3. Who is Akatsuki and why is he helping the enemy?
4. Who was the one who took Karin away from Akatsuki?
5. What do you think the watch will be used for?
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