A/N- OMIGOSH, thank you!! I finally got some reviewers! iWish909, thank you, and ITS MCKAYLA ()! I betcha can't tell who wrote the second review, huhn?

Disclaimer- I own Jin and Yuuki, and that is it, but I still own Jin and Yuuki. They're cuties. Wait, no, not really. They're not cute.

My life had certainly taken a twist in the past two weeks or so. I fell in like with a girl who couldn't like me because she was already in love with someone, found out I was a god, had to deal with a girl who now had blackmail that could be used against me at any given point, and... and...

And then there was that whole "The world's fate rests upon your shoulders" thing that I happened to be dealing with.

... do you have to deal with this crap?

I glanced at Oki. He was walking in front of the rest of us, occasionally touching the point of his sword. He seemed tense, as though he expected something to jump out at him any moment. He noticed me staring at him... I think.

Darned mask.

Oki motioned for me to come up towards him. "Do you know of any lovers that Amaterasu had before Waka...?" he murmured, sounding almost nervous.

I was slightly surprised at this. He hadn't mentioned Amaterasu for quite a while. And when he did, it wasn't in such a soft and loving tone. I immediately sensed that this wasn't the sort of conversation that I should share with anybody.

"Weren't you one?" I asked quietly.

"Yes," he answered softly, looking slightly away.. "She... never told me if she had a child. I think she cared more for Waka than for me."

I felt kinda bad for the guy. I mean, from what I've heard, after Amaterasu falls in love with a guy, she has... that with them. So I guess he didn't really know if he had a son or not. And now, Hashigami was gone, too... he was having a crappy love-life.

I was about to reply when Oki suddenly stopped. I blinked and looked over to him. He was looking forward. I slowly looked forward and sucked in a breath quickly.

Ashes. That's all that lay in front of us.

"This was my home," I heard Oki hiss.

Oki, Larka, and Dravis had been talking about how this would be a refuge in these dark times during the past few days. Somewhere that we could go and just... enjoy ourselves. Regain strength to fight the demons, and make my army.

The Oina village was no more.

"Larka..." I heard Yuuki whimper. "What... what will we do now?"

Larka didn't respond to her, but she quickly asked Oki, "Where would your people hide in a time like this? In a time that death is everywhere?"

"They... have never left here. We thought we would always be safe. I... I should not have left. I should have stayed here. I should have protected my people as long as I could..." Oki whispered, falling to his knees. "But... they're all gone, now. What should I do? What?"

I heard some words from Dravis that I knew would be painful if I repeated. Larka sat down, glaring at the ground. Oki just stared forward, where his home had once been. Yuuki was staring at me.

"What?" I asked her.

"What do we do?" she asked, barely louder than a whisper.

Okay, I was stumped, too. I frowned and looked upward. What to do now... what to do...

I blinked. Something felt...


The girl looked at us, her black hair all but chopped off. Her eyes showed so much more than they should have. Blood scurried down her arms like rats through sewers.

"You were buried in ash," I whispered, choking.

She nodded, looking away.

"Where's your Mommy?" Yuuki asked.

Tears formed in the girl's eyes and Larka looked shocked. "Please..." Larka whispered. "Do... don't remember any more! Please...!"

The girl sat back down to where she had been buried before and said a simple sentence. "I wish you hadn't found me so I could be with her."


I instantly blinked. Whoa... what was...

I shook my head. There was no time for this. I had to help that girl... that little girl...

I strode off towards the place in my... er... "vision" of sorts, I suppose. Yuuki closely followed me, grabbing my arm.

I glanced at her, semi-surprised. Yuuki must have been pretty upset by this. I wasn't sure why she was so sad and angry by this, though. I mean, we were all upset, but she seemed to be upped only by Oki, who actually knew people in this village.

I knelt down in front of the ash pile that I knew the girl was buried under. "What are you doing, dork?" I heard Larka asked.

I glanced up at her in annoyance, then started pushing away the ash. Just to let you know, if I had a choice, I wouldn't be here, right now, digging through ash to find a girl who wishes that I wouldn't save her. Just to let ya know.

I found her arm and hand first. I slowly removed her from the ash. The girl opened her eyes slowly.

The girl looked at us, her black hair all but chopped off. Her eyes showed so much more than they should have. Blood scurried down her arms like rats through sewers.

"You were buried in ash," I whispered, choking.

She nodded, looking away.

"Where's your Mommy?" Yuuki asked.

Tears formed in the girl's eyes and Larka looked shocked. "Please..." Larka whispered. "Do... don't remember any more! Please...!"

The girl sat back down to where she had been buried before and said a simple sentence. "I wish you hadn't found me so I could be with her."

"Just like my vision..." I whispered softly.

Larka stared at me. "What was that, dork number one?"

"I kinda... saw all this happen, somehow. I don't really know how, but I did. I really wish that what she said wasn't true, though..." I sighed.

Larka stared at me some more. Yuuki didn't say anything, but slowly stood up. The girl quite suddenly grabbed my hand, her eyes wide. Happiness shook her weak body like a toddler shakes a doll. Was something... wrong? Or right?

"You're the God of Time," she whispered, her voice cracking slightly.

"Um..." I began.

"What the..." Dravis said, coming over with Oki. "Oh. A kid."

The girl had her arms tightly locked around my neck, nuzzling into my shoulder. I don't know if this was normal behavior for kids in this day and age or if it was just because I was the God of Time, but it kind of weirded me out.

"Mikan?" Oki asked blankly.

The girl looked up and smiled at him broadly. "Uncle!" Afterwards, she began nuzzling me again.

"Um... you know her?" I asked.

Oki nodded. I could have sworn I saw a tear roll off his chin, but I wasn't ever really sure. Dravis glanced at the two girls who were still giving me weird looks and slowly backing away and gave me a questioning glance. I shrugged.

"What's up?" Dravis asked, folding his arms.

"He had a sudden increase in both stability and ability," Larka stated. "His powers have gone to that of a priest of himself to that of one of his children. It's not natural since we don't have the stone that he locked all of his abilities in."

"Um, what?" I asked.

Yuuki knelt down next to me and said, very slowly like I was two, "Your powers went up. You don't have the stone you had Amaterasu lock your powers in. We are confused."

I glared at her.

Mikan, the little girl, asked, "Kami-sama, can I call you big brother?"

I blushed. "Um, I'd rather have you call me that than "kami-sama," so yes..."

She giggled happily, hugging me even tighter. "Big brother is so cool!"

"Do you mind if I call you little sister, then?" I asked. Mikan smiled joyfully at me and nodded.

"So..." Dravis said. "What happened?"

Mikan squirmed and looked away. "He's scary," she whispered to me. "He's a lot like those people who were after me."

"Who were they?" I asked. "Will you tell me what happened?"

She nodded seriously. "I would do anything for big brother.

"It's really hard to remember for some reason, but I remember some really bad people where after me. Mommy called them demons or something like that. It was scary because they took us out of our homes and burned it to the ground. I couldn't get my puppy, either...

"Then they took Daddy and a lot of other men and put them in the ashes. Then they stomped all over them. Then they took the rest of us and buried us. I was scared. I thought that I would be squished under those really fat ones.

"Only then... Mommy came on top of me. And..." Mikan looked down. "They stomped and ate all of the people."

I felt my jaw drop. Yuuki covered her mouth with her hand and Larka grabbed Dravis's hand. Oki gently touched Mikan's cheek where a trail of water was coming down. I then gripped then young girl tightly, feeling more rage towards the demons than ever for hurting this innocent and fragile little girl.

"Don't worry," I whispered into her ear. "I'll... I'll make everything better, I swear I will, little sister."

She sniffed softly, holding onto me. I pulled back slowly and looked over to Yuuki. "Can we check out her wounds? We need to make Mikan feel better."

Yuuki knelt down next to the young girl and gently pulled up her sleeves. Three gashes, two on her right arm on one on her left, were upon the young girl's shoulder. Blackened old blood crusted them, and Mikan looked pale from all of the blood loss.

"Larka," Yuuki said quickly. "I need you to get my medical suplies, and fast."

I expected Larka to growl, scowl, groan, and maybe even get violent, but she just nodded and quickly walked back to where we had set our packs down, much to my surprise. Dravis watched her go, seeming slightly surprised himself. I guessed that this didn't happen often.

Yuuki rolled Mikan's skirt to her knees. It looked like, on her left leg, part of her leg had been hacked off. Even though it had been hours, maybe even a day since she had gained it, the deep and thick wound still blood as though it were fresh.

She touched near it, and Mikan cried out. "I promise that I'll make it all better soon," Yuuki soothed the girl. "I promise."

As Yuuki slowly began applying herbs of sorts to the wound, Mikan sobbed into me, "Big brother! Big brother, it really really hurts! Can't you do something, big brother?"

I wanted to do something terribly bad, but, even with my godly powers, I felt as though there was nothing I could do to help little Mikan. I almost wanted to scream at Yuuki to quit it, but I knew that would only lead to even more despair.

The small girl sobbed into me. It felt as though someone where sticking needles into me slowly, seeing how much I could stand before I blew up. And, boy oh boy, I was a volcano that was scheduled to blow up any minute now.

Quite suddenly, I grabbed Yuuki's wrist. She blinked and looked up at me.

"Don't," I said in a tone that made her bring her hand back. I brought my focus to Mikan. "I'm going to make the hurt go away, okay?"

She looked at me with wide dark eyes, but still nodded. I gently laid her onto the ground after she nodded, very carefully. I wasn't sure really what I was going to do, and it felt like some other greater and more powerful part of me was taking over. It was the same feeling that I'd had when I had that vision.

I touched the probably-six-year-old's toes. I breathed in and out. I brought my arms up her legs, over her skirt and up to her torso. Yuuki gasped, but it sounded faint, as though she were miles away at the moment that she gasped.

"Time," I said softly. "Shorten for her."

And, all of the sudden, I wasn't looking at a six-year-old, I was looking at a girl probably my own age. She looked like Mikan, but she also looked fifteen.

"You... changed her age," Larka gulped.

That was the last thing that I heard before I passed out.


I was in that glade again. The one that I had been in two weeks ago... but it felt so much longer.

Amaterasu smiled softly at me. "Jin... you used too much of your powers."

"I don't know how to control it," I admitted. "Today I seem powerful, but I still feel weak. I need to learn to somehow control my powers, Amaterasu."

She nodded. "Yes. You do. You, Larka, Yuuki and Dravis must find your Lost Temple."

"My Lost Temple?" I asked.

"It is where you hid your powers, Jin," she said. "You will be able to control them easily if you do this."

"Amaterasu..." I said hesitantly. "I was wondering... about Oki... did you have a kid with him?"

She looked down, and I could have sworn that she was blushing. "I... I'm sorry, Jin, but I cannot tell you that right now. It's a rather awkward thing for me. But... I did. I will not say where this child is, who they were, or anything, but... My child is doing well."

I hesitated before asking, "I'm not allowed to tell Oki, am I?"

She shook her head. "No. I... Tell him that I'm sorry that I left so quickly."

I nodded. I would tell him that... whatever the crap it meant. It wasn't my place to ask, though, so I didn't.

"Jin, the days will start going by faster," Amaterasu said softly. "And I know that in just over a year's time, you will face the Demon King. I would like to say that I know that you will win, but... but I do not, so I cannot say so. Do your best at everything, whenever you can."

"I'll start today," I said simply.

Amaterasu walked over to me and gently touched my cheek. Her golden eyes were soft and beautiful... like... like... like Yuuki's.

"Be careful," Amaterasu said softly. "And find your Celestial Envoy soon. Time is running out."

I smiled, rather painfully. "I hope that it's not since I'm time."

"Your master awaits you," Amaterasu said, turning from me. "Good bye, Jin..."


I could hear Larka panting next to me and I sat up, then fell back down from being so dizzy. Mental note: do not sit up like some sort of lunatic after having a long talk with the Sun Goddess about some things that I might not want to share. Or when I happen to use too much power.

"Oh," Larka said quietly. "Did I wake you up with my screaming?"

"Huh?" I asked blankly. "Uh... no."

I glanced over at Larka. She was hugging her knees, looking towards the ground. Something was bothering her. And it wasn't just that I woke up in the middle of the night and she thought it was due to her "screaming" when I had no idea that she had even been screaming whatsoever.

"... I'm scared," she admitted softly. "About the future."

I laughed weakly. "I'm the one who can see the future, Larka, but doesn't know anything about it. I'm the past, present, and future, but I still don't know what's going on around me. Do you know how frustrating that is for me? And how scary it is?"

"Do you miss your little sister?" Larka asked.

I was taken back by this sudden question. I hesitated before saying, "I used to. But... now I know that she's not even really my sister. It's really sad for me to think about it. My old life, I mean. Sometimes... I can't even remember what my mom's face looked like. And that's scary."

"Sometimes... I feel really bad, Jin," Larka stated. "I mean, I took you away from your family... your friends... from everything that you knew."

I blinked and blushed slightly. I was grateful for the cover of night. Larka, after all, had never really expressed her emotions like this to me. It made me embarrassed... and a little happy because this meant that she probably trusted me.

"It's okay... they'd all be dead by now if you hadn't," I replied simply.

Larka looked upward and said, "You know, I'm kind of jealous of you."

I blinked. "Huh?"

"You've seen my mom a lot in the past few weeks, but I haven't seen her since before the beginning of this war. And, you know, I'm her daughter and all. But... Jin, do you know what you are to her?" she asked me.

"I... I don't-" I began.

"Larka, Jin, I know you're having a heart-to-heart and all, but shut up! I am so freaking tired," Yuuki mumbled.

"Seriously..." Dravis mumbled.

Oki just snored loudly. And they thought we were being loud... what the heck...?!

I slowly closed my eyes. Sleep was overcoming and overwhelming my senses... until... I couldn't... ngggg...


Yuuki watched Jin, her golden eyes flashing in the darkness. It was becoming a sleepless night for everyone. She just couldn't stop thinking about what she felt... about how she felt.

Yuuki absently began nibbling on a strand of hair as she blushed softly. Thinking about how she felt about Jin always made her blush. She hadn't felt like this since she had met him all those times in her dreams. All of those times he looked like he was eighteen or so.

"I've been in love with him since I was eleven..." Yuuki mumbled softly, blushing again. "Jin... you're so dang stupid."

Jin stirred softly in his sleep and took a deep breath. Yuuki watched his chest rise and fall. She glanced at herself and saw that she had automatically began breathing at the same time as him. She blushed again and tried to make herself breath normally.

Yuuki glanced over to Larka and whispered, "Why can't you break his heart, Larka? I know you're awake, and I know you know how Jin feels about you. So... why can't you break his heart?"

"I just can't," was Larka's short reply.

Yuuki looked down, pouting. She wished that Larka would break his heart oh so desperately. Maybe he would remember how much he said he loved her.

Yuuki glanced at the sleeping teen and sighed before laying down. "You're such an idiot, Jin..."

A/N- Ha ha ha... if you people don't start reviewing, I'll start writing it and sending it to McKayla only. I'm not kidding you. If I don't get my daily dosage of reviews, I get TICKED OFF. So, unless you want this story to have a very ubrupt end, then review.

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