disclaimer-i do not own any of the characters from Yami no Matsuei
Chapter 14: In Memories of Despair And Joy
Tatsumi, Watari and Hisoka were standing on the stairs talking when Tsuzuki bursts through the front doors wearing one of those brigtly colored floral hawaiian shirt wearing shades and carrying a handful of bags. Muraki walked in behind him with a handful of bags also.
"We're back!" yelled Tsuzuki pulling his shades off. He ran up the stairs to embrace his young partner. "Soka, have you been a good boy while I've been away."
"You idiot! You were only gone a little over a week," snorted the boy rolling his eyes as he nudged the elder man in the side. "And stop treating me as if I am a child."
"Still grumpy as ever." He ruffled the boy's hair.
"Tsuzuki," said Tatsumi smiling at his friend. "Sorry we had to call you two back from your honeymoon so early but things are starting to back up around here."
"It's quite all right," said Muraki.
"Ooh, before I forget, we brought you guys some presents," said Tsuzuki digging through the bags. The first thing he took out were three silk leis. He put one around each of his friend's necks. I was going to get the leis that were made from real flowers but Kai said they would die. So, I settled for the silk ones." Then he searched the bags in his hand and when he didn't find what he wanted in them. He searched the ones that Muraki had. "Ah ha, here they are." He took out three caps that had Hawaii stitched into the front of them and placed on on each of their heads. And back into the bags he went. "On the island that Alicia owns they have this pineapple plantation and they also have a few macadamia trees and a small banana farm. We were allowed to pick some of the fruits and nuts. So, I made this little fruit baskets for everyone." Tsuzuki handed them each a wicker basket that consisted of a pineapple, some macadamia nuts, a bag of hawaiian coffee and some bananas.
After that, Tsuzuki looked into the bags and pulled out two thick books. "These are for you Hisoka." He placed the books in the teenager's hands. "I know how much you like to read. So, when I saw this I thought of you. It's a history of the Hawaiian People and the history of the Flaming Sword of Samoa."
"Thank you Tsuzuki," said Hisoka dumbfounded. "And, uh, thank you also, Muraki."
"You're very welcome," said Muraki. "I'm sure you will be more interested in the books than my poor little hubby who fell asleep after reading one paragraph."
Everyone burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, everybody wants to be a comedian." Tsuzuki went back to digging into the bags. Then he took out some wind chimes with little owls dangling from the strings. "For you Watari."
He placed his fruit basket down on the stairs and took the wind chimes. "Look 003, they look just like you," said Watari holding a set of two wind chimes up. The little owl hooted while flapping its wings. "Thank you Tsuzuki, Muraki. We love it. Don't we 003?"
The owl hooted again and flew over to Tsuzuki and settled on his shoulder and rubbed its head against his cheek hooting softly.
"You're very welcome 003," said Tsuzuki stroking its head. Then the owl flew over to Muraki and did the same thing. "And for you Tatsumi."
"I doubt if you have what I want in those bags," the secretary mumbled to himself so that no one could hear him, but Muraki did hear him. The silver hair man frowned as he wondered what the Shadow Master could have meant by that.
'I wonder. Did something happen with Alicia?' Muraki decided to ask the secertary about it later as Tsuzuki reached him a gift box. Removing the lid Tatsumi was amazed at what was inside. He carefully took one out. It was a set of 12 beautifully crafted 18 oz. ceramic collector mugs. Each mug depicted the journey of the Polynesians crossing the Pacific and their arrival on the shores of Hawaii.
"These are beautiful," said Tatsumi staring marveling at the fine craftsmanship of the mugs. "Thank you. Thank you both."
"And this bag is for the chief," said Tsuzuki holding up the brown bag. "I hope he enjoy's his sovernirs."
"Tsuzuki!" They heard a female voice call from the top of the stairs. They looked up to see Wakaba running down the stairs to him. The young girl threw her arms around him in a hug. Slowly walking down the stairs with a cigarette in his mouth looking bored or annoyed, Tsuzuki could never be sure when it came to that jerk, was Terazuma.
"Welcome back," she said embracing the violet eye man.
"It's good to be back." Tsuzuki smiled at her. "Being in Hawaii was wonderful but there's no place like being home." He began to rummage through the bags. "I have something for you. Here we go." He pulled out a silk pink lei and placed it around her neck. He placed a fruit basket in her hands. Then he pulled out a beautiful navy and white floral Sarong.
"This is beautiful," said Wakaba holding up the material.
Terazuma snorted. "It's just a large piece of cloth. What in the hell is she going to do with that?"
"You're such an unsophisticated moron," said Tsuzuki scoffing. "It is called a sarong. This is what all the pretty hawaiian girls are wearing." Then he proceeded to tie the sarong around Wakaba's body. He wrapped the sarong around her body with the two corners held up front and crossed one corner over the others. He pulled the corners up over and behind each shoulder. Then he tied the corners together behind her neck with a simple square knot. "Ta dah!" Then he placed an elastic lei head band on her head. Then he gave her a set of 12 silk hibiscus hair clips. He took out one of the hair clips and pinned it in her hair. "Now, you truly look like a native hawaiian girl."
"Oh Tsuzuki, these are wonderful," Wakaba said in awe. "You didn't have to get me anything."
"I know but I wanted to," said Tsuzuki. "The truth is Kai said this would be perfect for you. I couldn't think of what to get you."
"Like they say, it's the thought that counts." Wakaba kissed Tsuzuki on the cheek and then she kissed Muraki. "Thank you Kazutaka. It 's a wonderful gift."
"And when I saw this, I just had to get this for you Terazuma." Tsuzuki handed the bag to Wakaba because the slightest touch would turn the shinigami into a ferocious creature. The girl gave the bag to her partner. Terazuma took out a wooden mask with a terrifying face.
Terazuma frowned. "What the hell is this? Is this your ideal of a joke, idiot?"
"It's a Red Mako Mask," said Hisoka. "It is said that it represents the gods or the spirits of the departed ancestors."
"You should sue them Terazuma for stealing your face," Tsuzuki said smugly.
Terazuma growled. "Why you . . ."
"All right you two knock it off," said Tatsumi breaking up the fight before it could get started.
Just then the doors to the front of the building slammed out as Alicia stormed into the building. Her silver eyes were ablaze with anger as she snarled at the tall silver hair man. "You . . . you." She pointed her finger at her brother accusingly. "I should strangle you within an inch of your miserable afterlife." She stormed up the stairs.
"What did I do?" Not at all put off by the anger in her voice or the rage in her eyes.
"Today is the old man's birthday. So I decided I would give him a bottle of vintage wine I keep in my cellar in Hawaii. When I arrived at my house, guess what I didn't see." She stalked up the stairs like a lioness stalking its prey. "All two hundred bottles of champagne were gone. And when I asked Kaimana what happened. He told me that you got him and the others to bring every bottle of champagne in the cellar up to the bathroom where you poured it all into the bathtub in which you and your wife BATHE IN IT!"
"You're just mad because you wanted to do it." Muraki raised a finger and tapped her on the nose. She opened her mouth and was about to say something but closed it.
"Yeah. You're right," she pouted while crossing her arms across her chest. She glanced over at Tatsumi and turned her head hmphing in anger. "So how is my favorite little Grim Reaper doing today?" She wrapped her arms around him hugging him tight.
"Will you stop calling me that," the teenage blonde said blushing.
"And how's my partner in crime?" she asked winking at the older blonde.
"Still waiting for that experiment to bare fruit," said Watari jovially.
"And what about beauty and the beast?"
Terazuma growled like an angry bear and Wakaba just laughed as she told Alicia the two of them were doing fine.
Muraki could see the Shadow Master's heart break at his sister's refusal to even speak to him. He has to do something to fix the situation. After all, it was because of Alicia he was able to be with his beloved. Now, it's his turn to make her happy. But before he could say anything else, someone else walked into the building.
Walking in calmly after Alicia arrived was a very pretty young girl that was the same age as Alicia with long sable colored hair with vivid cerulean colored eyes. Like Alicia, she was dressed in black leather from head to toe except that she wore a white shirt under her vest. And strapped to her back was her staff to signify that she was a member of the Kurenai warriors.
Tsuzuki stared at the young girl as though she walked out of his dream. She stood at the foot of the stairs smiling up at him. Tsuzuki slowly descended the stairs and fell to his knees before her. She placed her hand on his cheek. "In this life I am known as Mizuki Shino."
"I see. Mizuki Shino. It's such a pretty name." A single tear fell from his eye. Suddenly a silvery glow surrounded Mizuki as her smile shifted into one that he recognized even after all these years.
"Hello, my little Asato," she said in a voice that he recognized as to be that of his elder sister.
"Ruka?"
"Yes Asato, it is me."
Suddenly the tears fell like rain from his beautiful amethyst eyes as he wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his cheek against her stomach. "Oh Ruka, I thought I would never hear your voice again. I'm sorry." He sobbed against her stomach. "I'm so sorry for breaking my promise to you. Please forgive me."
"Oh my poor little Asato, there is nothing to forgive. I have never blamed you for what happened after I died."
Tsuzuki stared up at his sister with large wet eyes. "You-you didn't . . ."
"Of course not, I knew how those villagers treated you. I just wished I could have stayed with you longer until you were able to handle their hateful words." She leaned forward and placed a kiss on his forehead. "You were always a gentle soul that took the weight of the world on your shoulders. You blamed yourself for father abandoning us, for mother working herself into a grave and for my illness. I hope you now realize that there was nothing you could do to stop any of that for happening."
"I know but still, I killed everyone in our village. It didn't matter to me who they were, man woman or child I killed them all. I did exactly what you pleaded with me not to do." He sobbed helplessly against her stomach. "I let the darkness inside my heart take control. But I couldn't help it. I was in so much pain and my heart hurt so badly until I could no longer resist the darkness. I let the monster inside of me come out that night and it slaughtered the entire village." He raised his head and stared into her bright blue orbs.
"I know. And I know you have suffered every day during your eight years in that hospital and you're suffering even now but you have to let it go. I know that something like that is hard to forget but you have to move on. Let the past stay in the past where it belongs. You should be looking ahead to a bright, happy future with your husband. I'm all right now. I've a new family that loves me very much and I am very happy. But what I want you to know is that I will always love you, my little brother, until time itself comes to an end."
"Ruka, I love you also." He buried his wet face against her stomach. "But sometimes, I just feel alone and sad until I just want to curl up and fade away." Then she cradled his face in her hands and tilted his face up to look at her.
"Silly little brother, have you not been paying attention to what's around you." She smiled lovingly. "You're not alone anymore and you never will be alone again. You have your friends, a sexy husband and an obnoxious sister-in-law . . . "
"Hey, I heard that," shouted Alicia from the stairs.
Ruka laughed as she looked at her friend and poked her tongue out at her and then turned her attention back to her brother. "And although I may not remember my past life, you will always have me." Suddenly the shimmering light surrounded her body once again. "I guess my time is up. Remember little brother, your big sister will always be here whenever you need me."
"Thank you Ruka," he said smiling up at her.
"Be happy Asato, and remember to always wear a smile on your face. Good bye." Mizuki closed her eyes and when the light disappeared. She slowly opened her eyes to stare down at Tsuzuki. She smiled at him. "If you ever want to talk, I will always be here for you."
"Thank you Ru . . . I mean, thank you, Mizuki." Tsuzuki smiled up at the girl and gave her a quick hug before getting to his feet. Drying the tears from his eyes, he turned to face the others.
"I'll be damned. I didn't think Enma would do something so nice." She cleared her throat. "Well, I guess it's about time for us to go. We have our own cases to take care of," said Alicia walking down the stairs. She stopped to turn and glare at her brother. "I expect all those bottles of champagne to be replaced Kazutaka."
"Now now, no whining or else I won't replace them."
"You rat. Let's go Mizuki. After we finish with our case, I have to go shopping to getting a birthday present for the old man."
"Good bye Asato," Mizuki said smiling gently patting him on the cheek and then she left with Alicia.
"It's time we went back to work as well," said Tatsumi. "Oh and Tsuzuki, I received a bill from the American Grim Reapers Department. I'm docking your pay for the next six months to pay for that mess you caused when you summoned Touda." He turned and waked up the stairs. "Now, everyone get to work."
Tsuzuki flinched as though a knife was driven through his heart as he watched the Shadow Master disappeared up the stairs.
"Why are you upset?" asked d Muraki. "If it's money you're worried about, I could . . ."
Then Tsuzuki stopped him. "It's not the money. It's the fact that I will have to work free of charge for six months."
"Better luck next time, loser," said Terazuma laughing.
"Drop dead, freak," snapped Tsuzuki.
"I thought I told you all to get to work!" came Tatsumi's voice from down the hallway. And everybody hustled to their desks to start the day.
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Tatsumi sat in his office watching the cherry blossoms petals fall like pink snow to the ground. He sighed downheartedly as he turned from the beautiful scene. He was about to get back to work when there was a knock at his door.
"Come in," he said straightening the papers on his desk. The door opened revealing Muraki. "What can I do for you?"
"It's not what you can do for me but what I can do for you," said Muraki smiling at the secretary.
"I don't understand."
"I'm here to help you with your problem with my little sister." Muraki took a seat in front of Tatsumi's desk.
"I don't think this is any of your concern," said Tatsumi pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"Oh I believe it is my business. Alicia is my sister and I want to see her happy."
Tatsumi sighed and slumped in his chair. "I don't know what happened." He removed his glasses and massaged his eyes tiredly. Then he slipped the glasses back over his eyes. We were having a wonderful time going out but then two days ago everything just fell to pieces."
"What happened?" asked Muraki.
"Well, we were having dinner. Everything was going fine until that devil Raylene appeared. We fought with him. He was quite a handful for the both of us." Then Tatsumi frowned. "He kept calling her the south star and a dragon twin. Do you know what he meant by that?"
"I have no idea. When we came across that same devil in Hawaii, he referred to me as the same thing except he called me the north star."
"Well after that I tried doing research on that but I didn't come up witih anything helpful. Anyway, after I took her home she was kind of agitated about something and I tried to . . . Um, I tried to . . ." He blushed deeply.
"You tried to embrace her and kiss her." Muraki finished his sentence for him. The Shadow Master nodded his head. "Well, my sister has a thing with people touching her in an intimate way."
"What do mean?" Tatsumi asked leaning forward in his chair.
"I'll tell you a little about her. I was in America on a two-year exchange program for my internship. I first met Alicia at the hospital I was interning at. She was a pretty little thing at ten years old but she had a broken arm and several bruises all over her body. I asked her what happened. She gave me the classic, I fell down the stairs answer. So, I decided to let it go. I mean children do fall down stairs and fall out of trees by accident. But the second time we met, her leg was broken. Over the next few months, she would be brought to the emergency room with broken bones and nasty bruises. I became suspicious and I went to this orphanage she was staying at. When I got there, I was tempted to let Saki take complete control and kill every one of those beasts that was in charge of that place. To make a long story short, it was not a place for a young girl or any child to grow up in. I watched from across the street while the children were in the playground. Some of the staff encouraged the older children to pick on the younger kids. I watched in barely concealed rage as they teased her, picked on her and several of the older ones actually struck her causing her nose to bleed. That orphanage was a den of crime ranging from selling drugs to prostitution. According to what she told me, if a girl wasn't adopted by the time she made 15, she would either have to sell herself to pay for staying there or become a baby factory."
"Baby factory?" Tatsumi asked puzzled.
"Yes. One of the male staff or one of the older boys would rape the girl getting her pregnant. Then she is forced to have the child whereas the baby is sold to a couple that couldn't get a child the legal way."
Tatsumi felt sick to his stomach. How could any person treat children in such a heartless brutal way. "You mean. No one wanted to adopt Alicia?"
"No, she told me that it was because of her cursed eyes. There were a few families that were interested but soon changed their minds when they saw her eyes," Muraki said sadly. "She told me that one family literally ran out of the orphanage because they claimed her eyes were those of the devil. So after that, I informed the authorities and that placed was closed down. The entire staff was trialed and found guilty on numerous accounts. And each one is serving twenty to forty years in prison. After that, I just couldn't leave her in the system that failed to protect her." He smiled. "She had the eyes of a puppy that knew it had no future. So, I decided to take custody of Alicia. The red tape in America was discouraging at times but I remembered that I had the life of a young girl that was finally coming out of her shell to take care of. Granted it was difficult with me being a doctor but when the court realized that she would be better off with me. I found myself to be the happiest man alive. So finally after two years, I was given custody of Alicia."
"So, she is your daughter?"
"Heavens no, we both agreed that Alicia did not want to be my daughter. She told the judge that she wanted nothing of that kind of relationship. Alicia said she would settle for having an older brother taking custody of her. So, I became her legal guardian and raised her as my sister. Afterwards, we came back here to Japan when my internship was finished."
"I think I understand. She doesn't want anyone to touch her because of what she suffered at that orphanage," said Tatsumi.
"Something like that. But don't get me wrong. She's very possessive of things she considers as her property. Why do you think she was willingly to tear down all of Meifu to get me out of here? It's just how she is. In her short life, I was the only one whoever showed her an ounce of kindness and love. 'That is until Saki started to take control of my body.' Muraki shook that dark thought of his half brother from his mind as he continued his talk with Tatsumi. "It took me a long while before she would allow me to hug her the way I do now. I'll tell you the whole story one day but for now you can do either two things. You can either just let her go and move on. Or you can fight to get her back."
"I don't know what I can do to get her back. She told me quite clearly that she wants nothing to do with me. She called me an idiot for believing in that love at first sight crap and then she told me she never wanted to see my silly love sick face ever again."
"Wow, that was harsh," said Muraki smiling at the hertbroken secretary. "It's obvious she is worried about you getting hurt by that devil that seems to be stalking her." Tatsumi was about to say something but Muraki stopped him. "She does care Mr. Tatsumi she's just stubborn unfortunately. She is willing to sacrifice her own happiness so you will be safe."
"I don't know. She looked as though she hated the ground I walked on."
"I know my sister." The silver hair man smirked at him. "And you are her most prized possession. How do I know this, you ask?" He chuckled. "Just as she could see the threads of fate binding Tsuzuki and I together. So I can see the threads binding her to you."
Tatsumi looked at himself. "But I see no thread."
"Of course you can't see them. Not many people can. But you can believe that fate has bound you and Alicia together. Now, do you want to give up or get her back."
"Of course I want her back," said Tatsumi. "I meant what I said to her. I do love her."
"That's good to hear," Muraki said smiling. "Now, my plan is rather simple, all you have to do is make her believe that she is loosing you."
"How do I go about doing that?"
"Simple, make her jealous."
The Shadow Master stared at the silver hair man as though he had lost all his common sense. "Let me explain." Muraki leaned across the desk and began to tell Tatsumi what he should do.
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Tatsumi would have had to wait two weeks before he could put Muraki's plan to work. Alicia and the other warriors were very busy. But thanks to a sneaky older brother and a vindictive old man that is the head of the Kurenai village, he told them where Alicia would be.
Alicia was staking out a very exclusive restaurant for a demon that was attacking the patrons once they left. It was getting close to her dinner time and it was rather boring when she spied Tatsumi walking into the same restaurant with a very beautiful blonde hair woman on his arm. Alicia frowned as the woman playfully hit him on the arm. 'I wonder who that is he's with? Could she be someone he's dating?' She frowned in thought and then shook her head as though to shake the absurd thought from her mind. 'There's no way he would be seriously dating anyone. She's probably an associate of his from work and they are talking ministry business. So, she didn't think much about it.
The next time she saw him, he was coming out of a movie theater with his arms wrapped around a drab mousy looking thing with glasses that was too big for her face and her dull brown hair hung limply over her shoulders. Alicia sneered in disgust as her jealousy began to rise with every sighting. This went on for two weeks, she would either be at work or coming home from work when she would see Tatsumi with a different woman on his arm. and with each passing day her anger would go up a notch until a month after she had stopped seeing him, she saw Tatsumi along with that she-man security head, Kazuma something. For the life of it Alicia could not remember the woman's name nor did she try to remember it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. She decided that she would see what was going on between the two of them. She slipped into the restaurant and spied on the two. She would never admit to anyone that she was jealous but when she saw that woman touch her Tatsumi's cheek . . . Wait, did she just say that Tatsumi was hers. Well, it doesn't matter. The fact is that thing was touching her property and she should . . .Do nothing. Alicia was so angry with herself. Tatsumi could see whomever he pleases. He was an unattached man and very very handsome.
Alicia was so angry until she could bite iron and spit nails. She stormed out of the restaurant in search of the demon that was terrorizing a high school. An hour later, she arrived at the Junjo High School and found the pesky demon that has been scaring the student body. Unfortunately for the poor feline demon that she was chasing, Alicia took out all her rage on the demon. Her staff was on fire when she brought it down on top of the demon's head splitting its skull open. It roared in terrible agony as blood black like ink oozed from the wound. The demon tried weakly to escape her wrath but that was not to be for the demon. Alicia caught the creature and began to brutally cave its skull in with her staff. It was as though she had lost all control. She began to enjoy the sound of the staff cracking bones and the demon's dying scream was like music. As its black blood splattered across her face, Alicia's eyes took on a shear look of blood lust. She began to laugh insanely as she continued to pound the demon into nothing more than a black stain on the roof top. Alicia snapped out of her blood lust and stared in horror at what she had done. In all her years as a Kurenai warrior, she has never done anything this twisted before and then enjoyed it. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong.
While Tatsumi was making Alicia jealous. At the same time, Muraki was having troubles of his own. Tsuzuki was angry at him and he still didn't know what he did to make the purple eye guardian kick him out of their bedroom. The other day Tsuzuki yelled and screamed at Muraki because he had eaten the last piece of pie. Muraki had spent most of the day and the entire night trying to calm Tsuzuki down. The pale man wasn't the only one that suffered from Tsuzuki's strange behavior. Just about everyone that came upon him were sliced to ribbon by his venomous tongue. He even had poor Wakaba running out of the office crying her eyes out. And then other days, he would be sitting at his desk eating a strange mixture of sardines, ice cream and chocolate syrup and crying for no reason at all. At night he would eat sushi, pickels, sardines and carrots mixed in a large bowl of ketchup. The next morning he would run to the bathroom and puke it all up. The same thing happened to him at work except it wasn't what he had eaten but what he smelled, apple pie. The scent turned his stomach inside out as he ran to the bathroom to throw up. Everyone became worried. Apple pie was Tsuzuki's all time favorite food. To see him turning a sickly green at the mere smell of the dessert, that just wasn't right.
Usually Watari would be hard at work on one of his experiments but that day, he was listening to all his friends complain about Tsuzuki 's weird behavior.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," said Muraki raking his fingers through his hair sighing in exhaustion. His eyes had dark rings around them from having to stay up all night with Tsuzuki when he had one of his spells. "One minute he's yelling at everyone. The next he's crying and eating these bizarre things, and then he runs to the bathroom to throw up everything he has eaten.."
Watari had been the only one lucky enough to have avoided the Wrath of Tsuzuki since he has been in his lab or out on assignment or with the love of his life, Oriya. "Wait, did you say he has been acting strange, eating weird stuff and throwing up?" He paid no attention to them as they answered his question. 'I wonder if . . . Oh my. This is it!' Watari became excited. "Go get Tsuzuki and bring him here right away."
"Why?" asked Hisoka.
"Just do it?" The blonde hair scientist began to take empty flasks out of his work desk.
Twenty minutes later, Tatsumi, Hisoka and Muraki returned with an irate Tsuzuki. "What the hell do you think you are doing dragging me here." The silver blonde with the help of Tatsumi pulled the struggling Tsuzuki to Watari's lab.
Hisoka tried to talk reason to his partner but it was like talking to a brick wall. "Tsuzuki, you have nothing to worry about. Watari is just going to run some tests on you to see what is wrong with you?"
"Watari is a quack!" snapped the angry purple eye man. "And there is nothing wrong with me." He added waspishly.
"I beg to differ. You have been snapping at everyone and then crying your eyes out. Muraki says that you have been puking your guts out at night and in the morning." Tatsumi jerked the angry man down the hall to the lab where Watari was waiting for him. "And now, the smell of the one dessert you love completely is making you sick to the stomach. I'm sorry Tsuzuki but you are having those tests."
"Kai is just being a poopie head." Tsuzuki tried jecking his arm free but the Shadow Master held on tight "I don't want to take any STUPID TESTS!"
"You will submit to these tests, Tsuzuki," ordered Muraki as he yanked Tsuzuki around to face him. The guardian shranked away from that steely silver eye that flashed dangerously at him. Then he pulled the purple eye shinigami into the lab.
"Fine," Tsuzuki grumbled.
"Will you guys excuse us," said Watari.
As the other three went out to sit in the hall and wait, Muraki began to think about the symptoms Tsuzuki was showing. "You know," he said sitting down. "You might think I am crazy. If it wasn't for the fact that Asato is a man I would swear that the symptoms he was showing were those of a pregnant woman."
"You're right. You are crazy," snipped Hisoka.
After about fifteen minutes of doing tests, Tsuzuki finally walked out of the lab. "Well," asked Muraki jumping to his feet.
"He told me to wait out here with you," said Tsuzuki.
"What could that scatterbrain be up to," said Hisoka.
No more than five minutes after Tsuzuki walked out of the lab, Alicia came running down the hall. Without so much as giving them a glance, she rushed into the lab closing the door behind her.
"What is going on?" said Tatsumi. Suddenly they heard screaming coming from the lab. All four men rushed into the lab to see Alicia and Watari holding on to each other while jumping up and down in excitement.
"What is going on here?" demanded Muraki. "Why is my sister here?"
"Well it was her idea to do this experiment," said Watari smiling. "And I must say, I never thought it would actually happen."
"What experiment?" asked Tatsumi frowning.
"Alicia Muraki what did you do?" demanded her elder brother.
"You may as well take a seat because I have a feeling that you will be needing it by the time I am through," said Alicia smirking at her brother.
