A/N- COULD IT BE?! I'M BACK! Finally, I installed OpenOffice into my new computer and found inspiration! Obsession took over and I had to write! ...also, thanks everything! :)

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"Wake up, you lazy butt!" Larka shouted, hitting me with a pillow. I groggily sat up, rubbing my eyes.

"Wha?" I mumbled, glancing at her.

"Today's the day that we prepare for tomorrow which is the day which we leave in which today is the day that I explain why we must leave for this particular moment!" Larka stated, grinning and putting her hands on her waist. "Did you get any of that, ya dork?!"

I just stared at her. "Shut up and let me go back to sleep."

Larka huffed at me. "I didn't have to forgive you. I didn't have to decide to let you in on a whole bunch of stuff I wasn't planning on letting you know. I didn't have to keep your lovey-dovey kiss with Yuuki stay a secret. I didn't have to force Dravis to forgive you. I didn't have to-"

"I get the point, sorry, sorry!" I moaned. "I'll get up and help, okay?"

Larka gave me a smirk. "You get to carry the heavy stuff, Mr. Macho."

"Get out, I'm getting changed," I stated, pushing her out of my, er, one of Gin's rooms.

Larka stuck her tongue out at me. It kind of made me smile, though. Somehow, and I really wasn't how, we somehow were friends again. It was like she had completely forgotten about our fight. Dravis, of course, hadn't, but at least Larka had. And, even better, she had agreed to let me know a whole bunch of stuff today. I would finally know what was going on! Yayyyy!

Once again, I pushed my too-long hair back. Annoying. I'd get a knife and cut it later.

The instant I walked out of "my" room, being done with getting changed and all, I bumped into Yuuki. Her golden eyes widened as she saw me and her face turned bright red. She, without a word, walked past me, hurrying down the hallway. It had been like that since... since... the kiss...

My face felt redder at just the thought. Yuuki. She kissed me. And I liked it. Very much. And now I was starting to get funny feelings around her. What was wrong with me?!

"You're in looovvve," I heard Larka's teasing voice say from behind, making my face flame up.

"As if!" I snapped. "Yuuki just... she made me confused, is all!"

I stomped off, the big frown still on my face as I walked down the hall. There was no way I could like Yuuki. See, liking Larka and liking Yuuki were different things. I was a freak about Yuuki in the past. It was wrong on so many levels that I can't even think about liking her now. And Larka... well, she said I would find out later today why I couldn't like her, which made me a little bit worried. It couldn't be too bad, could it?

At that point, I tripped (but did not fall) over a golden brick, causing me to bump into someone. I was feeling clumsy today, wasn't I?

"What the hell was that?" Dravis snapped, flipping me off automatically.

"I'm a klutz today!" I complained. "Sorry!"

"Go to hell," was his answer. At that point, I noticed that he was tearing a pink bow out of his hair, which made me wonder if I should go into the room.

I stepped in and saw that Gin was holding up the tattered remains of a once-frilly dress and bawling to Rosco. My only guess was that she had tried to force Dravis into the dress and he fought back, eventually destroying the dress. However, the dress seemed pretty modern, so I couldn't help but wonder where she had gotten it. Me, probably...

"Kouiiiinnnn!" Gin whined. "Dravy-poo is being meannnnnn! So meannn!"

"He's a mean person," I answered honestly.

"I need hot anime guyyysss!" Gin continued whining.

"Me tooooo!" Rosco started whining.

"Uuuhhhhhhhhnnnnn!" they both whined at the same time, forcing me to cover my ears from the terrible noise they were omitting.

"SHUT UP!" Larka shouted, making them both stop whining and start whimpering. "Jin, we're going shopping for supplies, then we'll talk, okay? Come on," she said, grabbing my arm.

I allowed myself to be dragged along, watching as Larka grabbed two or three gold coins from the ground so that we would have money. After all, tomorrow we were going to start walking again. Instead of going to look for my temple (which would have been nice for me), we, the entire group besides me, that is, decided to go get the support of the princess of Nippon (No queen or king because they died, I guess) and the prince of the moon. I don't know how we're getting to the moon, but it sounds like a heck of a lotta fun to me, so I'm game!

Yeah, so, I guess, basically, we're going to buy supplied, get my clothes mended since I refuse to wear traditional Japanese clothes and fight, buy Yuuki a hakama, even if those are for boys during this time period, and get lots of food. I'm in charge of carrying everything. Lucky me.

I also had the joy of hanging out with Yuuki all day. Any other day of the week, I'd be totally cool with it. But yesterday, she grabbed me by the shirt and kissed me. That kinda freaked me out. It still freaks me out. I mean, that was my sort-of first kiss! And Yuuki took in like it was nothing! It was terrible.

Both Yuuki and Dravis were right outside the palac- I mean, house, waiting for us. Once again, the auto-flip off came on for Dravis, and the auto-red face came on for Yuuki. My face reddened, too. Why in the world did she have to kiss me? My life would be so much easier if she hadn't...

"Let's get going, ya dorks minus Dravis who needs to put down his middle finger!" Larka shouted, striding on ahead of us.

At least Larka could act normal. Or, that is, as normal as Larka got.

I followed them, trying my best just not to think. Why? Because thinking got me in trouble. A lot. And, also, if I thought, I would think of the strange position that I was in. You know, being sucked into the past, idiotic romances that just shouldn't exist, enemies that I've got to fight for no reason, stuff like that.

Crap. I was thinking about it.

I rubbed my temples and sighed. Apparently, after today, I would be even more stressed out, too, because I would know more about myself and about what I was supposed to be doing. I would probably have a heart-attack or something from all of this stress and depression and anxiety that I had been feeling lately. I hoped I wouldn't die.

"Hey, Jin, take this," Larka said, throwing something at me. I caught it and blinked. A cloak, long and black with a hood.

"Did they have these in medieval Japan?" I asked.

"Apparently since we can find them at a Japanese market. We can also find red snapper and eel! Yum yum!" Larka said in an overly bright tone before suddenly darkening. "I miss French food. And hamburgers." She sighed and turned to Yuuki, muttering something to the other girl.

"What do you suppose they're talking about?" I asked Dravis, who ignored me.

I sighed. Although it'd be kind of weird to wear a long and dark cloak, it would help keep me warm and help me to blend in better during the night. All the while though, I'm sure that I'd feel like a cos-player, one of those people who dress up as their favorites characters from shows or books or manga or whatever.

"Another thing for you," Larka stated, giving me a small knife.

"Great. What is this for?" I asked. "I have pen-sword-thing."

She flicked my hair off my shoulders before saying sarcastically, "Your eyebrows, Jin. Jeez, idiot."

"That's Yuuki's word. Yours is dork," I stated.

Larka stared at me for a minute. "What?"

"Everyone in this team, besides me, has a catchphrase. Like, Dravis's is any swear word that you can think of, yours is dork, and Yuuki's is idiot. Didn't you notice?" I asked.

Larka rolled her eyes before saying, "You come up with the strangest things, dork number one."

I shook my hair out of my face before sighing and following them to another store after buying the cloak and the knife. This time, I ended up carrying a whole bunch of carefully bought food. Yuuki, although she was the one deciding what to buy since she was good at that kind of stuff, didn't come within a one-meter-radius of me.

Nextly, Larka pulled all of us into a small shop where lots of pretty pretty women were weaving and such. Larka hit me on the back of the head.

"This is where we're gonna get our clothes fixed. There's a witch of sorts who can help us out. She's also an able fortune-teller and highly worships a certain Kouin, which I'll never understand," Larka stated, holding her forefinger up as she spoke. "She can make our clothes not only better in the way of no rips, but she can also add magical charms and such to them to make them stronger and stuff."

"Uh huh," I answered, eying a particularly pretty girl who sewing up a kimono. Larka hit me on the back of the head again.

"I'll go first, you try to not rape anyone," Larka stated, opening a door and walking through it. Leaving me alone with Yuuki and Dravis. Oh joy.

As though sensing the air had suddenly gotten much thicker without Larka around, Dravis stated that he was going to step out for a second, then flipped me off again. Leaving me alone with Yuuki. Who had recently kissed me. Leaving me very confused. And making things awkward.

Yuuki was looking down at the ground, her thick eyelashes almost covering her golden eyes. I automatically bit my bottom lip, hoping that this depressing silence would be able to go away soon and she could get back to insulting me and being all mean to me and calling me an idiot and blushing around me and having me not get it and feeling my own face heat up because she was seriously pretty, way prettier than any of the other women in here...

I shook my head in confusion. What was I thinking? Sure, Yuuki was pretty, but I shouldn't be blushing around her like this. She was Yuuki, after all, the girl who baffled me to no end and always made me feel depressed about myself. Not the girl who made me blush and giggle and crap like that.

I glanced over to her and managed out in a mumble, "H- hey, Yuuki... about yesterday..."

She, at that point, turned to me and bowed deeply, saying, "I'm very sorry! Jin, I should not have kissed you so suddenly as that. I understand if you feel angry with me, and I will understand if you wish to discontinue our friendship and merely remain together as allies!"

Like an automatic reflex, my hand went on top of her head, gently ruffling her hair. She straightened up, her face flushed. "J- Jin..."

"I don't think I want that," I said, my voice very soft and my face somewhat red.

Our eyes met and my heart started beating way faster. My hand went from the top of her head, slowly sliding down to her cheek. She slightly leaned into it, her smaller hand holding onto it. For a moment longer, we held the gaze, staring into the other person's eyes, trying to figure out what was there.

Quite suddenly, I realized what I was doing and my face heated up even more. I let go and turned away, and mumbled, "S- sorry! I dunno what came over me... let's just... be friends... okay?"

"Oh," she said softly, sounding somewhat hurt. "I- I understand. Okay."

That made me feel guilty. Here I was, the great Jin Sakurada, playing with her heart a little bit then throwing it away like I didn't care. Yuuki liked me. And I was being pretty darn heartless to her. I had never thought the day would come when I would mess with a girl like this.

Much to my happiness, Larka came out. Nothing much seemed different about her since she hadn't gotten her clothes ripped up much, but her smile was... more confident, maybe? Or maybe it was just the fact that she was excited to make fun of me, once again.

"Your turn, Jin," Larka said, patting my should as she walked past to Yuuki. "Go. Now."

I did so, sighing slightly. I had no idea who this woman was, what she was like, but... I would have to deal with it... whatever.

I stepped in, and found it extremely dark. There were three candles lit in the room, one being small, the next being medium-sized, and the last being tall. Other than that, the room was dark with only one piece of furniture that I could see; a small stool in the middle of the room where the woman sat.

I'm not going to say she was old. Nor will I say that she was young. She was old enough to be my mother, but not too much older than that. Her dark hair was cropped to her chin and occasional wrinkles lined her face, indicating the had felt a long and tiring life.

"Kouin," she murmured, her voice soft. "It's a pleasure to see you again."

"Sorry," I said apologetically. "I don't remember you."

She stood up and, while guiding me to the stool, said, "That's fine. I wouldn't expect you to remember me after what happened."

"What do you mean?" I asked as I sat down onto the stool. "And, also, what's your name?"

"Ayashii is my name," she answered. "And I mean when you, along with several other Gods, forced you to forget your entire past, entrusting both your powers and your temple into the hands of friends who you believed to be trustworthy. Including that raven-haired girl who sits outside."

"Yuuki knows where my powers are?" I asked, eyes widening.

"I said your temple as well," she said simply, pulling a needle and thread out of one of her pockets on yukata. "If you chose to listen, of course."

My face heated up somewhat. She was indicating I was a bad listener. Which was probably true. I zoned out too much. Just like I was right now. Dang it.

As she began sewing up one of the rips that was on my sleeve of my shirt, I asked, "How do we know each other?"

"I was one of your devoted followers. Your few. Many people did not respect you because of the many foolish choices you made in life. However, I could see to your core. I could see that, in reality, you were a wise and gentle god who constantly yearned for some way to keep people loving you. You used women for this purpose," she said, breaking the string and tying it.

My ears reddened. Being a perverted god, apparently, was something that I was known for.

"At least I didn't use men," I mumbled.

"True," she answered. "You didn't, which was rather relieving. About eight years ago, though, you suddenly lost interest in all women. It seemed that you were infatuated with a child who you were waiting for to grow up. Love seemed to have finally struck you."

I sighed. "Yuuki. Why her? What's so special about her?"

Ayashii shrugged. "How should I know? You're the one who fell in love with her. Figure it out yourself."

"Helpful," I said, sighing once again.

"But... I sense that girl will become important to you once again. She will become very important, indeed," the older woman murmured, finishing up the last rip on my shirt. "And that other girl who came in before, Larka, will become more important to you as well, but in a much different way. The boy will be the same in importance."

"That's great," I answered. "I don't get it."

"You always did need things to be blunt," she said, sighing. "You'll love the girls more, but the boy will remain the same feelings-wise."

"Oh," I said stupidly. "Am I done? All the rips are taken care of, so-"

"I'm not finished," she answered, going over to the corner and coming back with a paintbrush. "I never was amazing at caligraphy but, luckily, that doesn't matter as much if you're a witch."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.

"This is a stolen celestial paintbrush. When I write a spell on your shirt, the spell will happen. Protection, strength, charisma... it can all be yours with some quick writing. Of course, you don't know how to be a witch so none of these spells will work if you try them," she stated, writing something on my shirt that faded as soon as the brush left the place.

"Uh, yeah, sure," I said, not really understanding.

Ayashii sighed, rolling her eyes before continuing. I would never be able to really understand the past, I don't think.


"Sooo... how did things go with it being just you and Jin?" Larka asked, giving a quick grin to Yuuki.

Yuuki's face heated up and she looked away. "I guess we're friends again."

"That's stupid!" Larka complained. "I mean, I don't wanna be related to you, but can you two just get together already?! Dork number one needs to get over me, already..."

Yuuki nodded stupidly, deciding to just go with it. She wasn't in the mood to deal with Larka's antics. What she really wanted was for Jin to remember how much he had loved her in the past. Now they were close in age, and Yuuki was a semi-adult. She wanted Kouin to come back and love her.

Yuuki sighed and shook her head. "It's all useless, I guess. Until Jin's memory returns, he won't admit that he likes me to himself or anyone else. He did that before, too."

Larka shrugged, leaning against the wall. "He's a denial type of guy. Just like you're a denial type of girl."

"I am not!" Yuuki exclaimed.

"Thank you for proving my point. By the way, I'll need you to help me talk to Jin today. I'll probably try to get out of it since I don't want Jin to know that he's my half-brother and all, so I need you there to drag me back by my tail," Larka said.

"Gin seems to be good at that, so why don't you ask her?" Yuuki asked.

"Because she's Gin," Larka said, shuddering slightly. "You understand."

Yuuki sighed, flipping her hair out of her eyes. "I guess. But if I start mumbling and blushing part-way through, I may try to leave, too."

Dravis entered at that point, at which both girls turned to him with thumbs up, saying at the same time, "We're counting on you, Dravis, to help us with the dork/idiot!"

Dravis stared for a minute before shaking his head, rolling his eyes, and slumping next to the wall beside Larka. "I'm hungry."

Jin came out at that point, silencing all conversation. Ah, nothing like drama, no?


I dropped the bags on the floor next to my shoes, shouting, "We're home, Gin!"

"Yayyyyy!" Gin shouted. "That makes me happy! What would make me even happier is if Dravy-poo would play dress up with me and Rosco!"

"F*** that!" Dravis shouted, holding up both middle fingers in the direction of Gin, at which point Larka smacked him upside the head, growling something to him about watching his language. He replied that he would be better about it if she made out with him more, to which Larka hit him again.

"Not to be rude," I interrupted, "But Larka promised an explanation, did she not? I would like it now."

Larka faced paled a shade and she said, "R- right, I did promise that, huh... so... so I guess we'll go to Yuuki's room since it's the cleanest since she's a neat-freak..."

"Everything should have its place!" Yuuki complained, following the other girl to her room.

When we walked in, I noticed that, yes, Yuuki's was the cleanest. She had piled all the money into the corner, dusted everything off, actually made her bed... I wondered if I could get her to do this to my room. Then again, we would be leaving tomorrow, so it didn't matter that much, did it?

Larka slumped down onto the bed while Yuuki leaned against the wall and Dravis plopped down on the floor. "Where to start, where to start... I guess just before your birth is a good place."

"Which was when, exactly?" I asked, sitting next to her.

"You were given form about a hundred or so years ago, but your spirit has been around for much, much longer, Jin," she stated. "You see, just like me, you were an accident that wasn't supposed to happen. Before my mom went off to the Celestial Plains, she met this other guy, whose name was Oki. You remember him, right?"

I nodded. "The guy who was taller than me."

"Yes," she answered. "Well, Mom liked him and spent the night with him. She, though, got a little surprise as she became pregnant. Hiding from Waka, I bet, was no fun."

It took my a second to realize, as she paused, that she was talking about me. As in, we shared the same mother and Oki was my father. And that, since we shared the same mother, we were related. And since we were related, I suddenly understood her distress about my feelings for her.

"I AM GROSSSS!" I shouted, hitting my head with my hand. "ABSOLUTELY SICK!"

"Haven't I been telling you that from the beginning?" Dravis asked mildly.

"Yes!" I shouted again.

"Jin, I'm sorry I kept that from you, but it kinda freaked me out when I found at that you were my brother, and I really didn't know how to react," Larka said, gently putting a hand on my shoulder. "And, also, there is more, so you need to calm down a bit."

"Okay, is there anyone else in this room that I'm related to, first?" I asked.

"No, it's just me," Larka stated.

I sighed, trying to take this in. The reason why Amaterasu had cared about me was because I was her son? And Oki was my real father, and he didn't know that I was his son. Larka was my half-sister, her father being Waka. The only thing I could feel happy about was the fact that I wasn't related to Yuuki or Dravis. Both would have been bad.

I blinked as I realized something. "Wait, Dravis, you knew?!"

Dravis nodded, looking bored. "Yeah, Larka told me. Then I told Yuuki."

I turned to Yuuki, a slight frown on my face. Yuuki looked down her face reddening as she mumbled, "I- I didn't mean to keep anything from you, but Larka asked me to because she wasn't sure if she wanted you to know that you guys were siblings..."

I blinked, then sighed and shook my head. "Just... just keep going..."

"Well, after that..." Larka began hesitantly. "I was born. Mom couldn't take care of either of us, and Oki didn't know that you existed, so she put you in the hands of a woman named Princess Fuse, while she let my dad take care of me. Princess Fuse raised you and taught you to be the person that you became."

"A perv?" Dravis asked, still sounding mild.

"No, he figured that out later. Apparently, when you were about thirteen, you wanted to find your mom. Along the way, you found out about pretty girls, and, apparently, they found about you. Eventually, you managed to get to Kamiki, where we met for the first time. I was also meeting my mom for the first time, but you... the instant you came along she forgot all about me," Larka said, her voice getting small at the end.

I felt guilt grab me. Larka probably often got ignored because of me. I was her older brother, and I often stole her mom. Our mom. I probably barely had even known or cared about it, too.

"Afterwords, you became a more independent and care-free god, choosing to do what you want and not caring about the consequences... At the time, I didn't even know that you were my half-brother because Mom chose not to tell me anything at that point. I just thought that you were a stupid god who spent way too much time with girls. I, personally, was more interested in trying to be the coolest god ever and being super-helpful and great crap like that," Larka stated. "But that's just me."

I rolled my eyes. "Then what happened?"

"Then Lee came to power. And, quite simply, a god of fortune told a great prophecy about him and you on his deathbed. You freaked out about it, and ran away, staying at your shrine, hiding. You let two people know where you were, one being Susano, the other being someone we don't know about quite yet," Larka said. "While there, you and Susano got into a big fight over a certain black-haired girl..."

Yuuki looked down, her face reddening again. She mumbled something, twirling her fingers. For some reason, my face also heated up, although I didn't really understand why. Dang it, and there was my heart beating tons and tons faster again... what was wrong with me?!

"Finally, after a giant massacre a few years after you hid at the shrine, you decided that you needed to fulfill the first part of the prophecy, which was to go to the future and leave your powers behind. Doing this, and I'm not sure how, would shatter Lee's powers as well. And it did. But he started getting them back, so I had to go pick you up."

"What about the rest of the prophecy?" I asked in confusion. "Is that it?"

"It foretold about Kouin, aka you, getting the support of many humans and demons through politics and such, and about stuff like that, and about how you would kill Lee," Larka said, sounding slightly like she was avoiding something.

"What are you hiding?" I asked, trying to sound calm.

"Nothing you need to know about," she said quickly.

"You are hiding something, and I wanna know what it is, Larka," I stated. "Tell me."

Larka stood up quite suddenly, pulled Dravis up, opened the door and shouted, "Heyyyy! Gin! Dravis wants to play dress-up!"

Which further annoyed me. What was she hiding from me now?

A/N- HA HA HAHHHH! I did iittttt! I finished! Next time, we get going to find the princess of Nippon and the prince of the moon, who I personally don't like very much! By the way... this chapter was the longest one yet! Hoorayyyyy!