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Chapter 9

"So, why aren't we just using the teleportation matrix in your room?" Atsuko asked Ranma as the two of them, Nodoka, Genma, Kunou, Leonardo, Nabiki, Lillie and Serafall all stood at the train station.

"That's not designed to take so many people at once." Ranma told her. "Besides, I liked the train."

"Better inside the train than outside, huh?" Genma asked with a smirk and Ranma gave him an annoyed look. "What? I wasn't going to pay for a train ride when we had working legs."

"Where's Lilith?" Serafall asked as she looked around. "I didn't see her this morning."

"She's sleeping." Ranma pointed down to his shadow. "If she sleeps like this, she'll come with me."

"...And what if it gets really bright and your shadow disappears, Master?" Asmodeus's voice said from inside a bag that Ranma had. Opening it up, the bronzed mini-girl gave him a glare. "And why am I in here?"

"Because you're so small, it's easy to hide you in the luggage." Ranma explained and held up a hand above his head where a sphere of super bright light appeared. Most everyone winced and turned away. "My shadow isn't completely disappearing." Ranma said as a small, black circle remained under his feet and he let the light magic disappear. "Does that answer your questions?"

Asmodeus nodded before jerking a thumb behind her. "Sure, I get that, but why is my sister here?" Everyone turned to see Gabriel, in a white and blue sundress, smiling at all of them.

"What are you doing here?!" Serafall gasped in surprise. She was about to move when Ranma got next to her and grabbed her arm, whispering something to her and she sighed, nodding and relaxing as she rubbed her belly.

"Well," Gabriel smiled nervously, "I wanted to go to Kyoto and find out what happened to Azrael, since maybe Amaterasu's followers know what happened to him. And..." She blushed and fidgeted in ways that should not have been so cute on an adult woman, "I've never ridden on a train before."

"You're lucky that I'm pregnant." Serafall grumbled and the next thing she knew, Gabriel was right in front of her, grabbing her hands, her eyes sparkling.

"Oh, that's wonderful news. While I'm sure that you wouldn't appreciate any blessings from me, may I at least pray that your child is born safe?"

"...Just not in front of me." Serafall said before Gabriel hugged her. "Ack! We're rivals!"

"We are?" Gabriel asked as she let go of the hug. "But we've never really interacted before." She had a confused look on her face and Serafall growled.

Ranma just chuckled and hugged Serafall from behind. "Now, now... If you want to fight her, challenge her to something that doesn't involve physical fighting. Like darts, pool or video games. And didn't Serafall mention she was pregnant yesterday?"

Gabriel blinked a few times and tapped her chin. "...Maybe, but I was so shocked by finding out that my brother didn't die back then that I might have forgotten." She giggled and rubbed the back of her head.

Nabiki sweat-dropped as she watched the antics. 'Boy, it's a good thing that no one who knows Serafall is around, they'd probably pass out in shock.' Nabiki herself was having a hard time believing what she was seeing, with Serafall acting like she was getting weirded out by someone else. 'Then again, maybe it's because Serafall sees Gabriel as her rival?'

Nabiki blinked and wondered why she suddenly saw the two women wearing similar clothes and smiling at each other with Ranma between the two of them with both of them hanging off of his arms before shaking her head. 'The day that those two share someone is the day that I know Jedah was right and the universe is coming to an end.'

"I wonder why Runeas isn't here." Ranma muttered, remembering how she reacted to him. "You'd think she'd want to know what happened to her daughter."

"I called Ria-tan," Serafall told him, "and Runeas was there, so I asked her and she said that the fact that her daughter had children that made it to the modern age is good enough for her."

"...I guess that makes sense." Ranma nodded. "If her daughter's still alive, I guess we can at least let her know." Serafall nodded.

There was a ding and a voice came over the loudspeaker telling everyone that the train to Kyoto was arriving soon and would be departing shortly.

(-)

Unlike the last time that Ranma, Atsuko and Nabiki had ridden on the train, there wasn't too many people, so everyone got their own sections to sit and spread out.

Which worked out well, as Serafall was sitting as far away as she could from Gabriel, who was simply smiling as she enjoyed the ride.

Atsuko sweat-dropped as she looked at the Devil King and the Seraph. 'Sheesh, there's more tension between those two than there was between me and Emi back when she was trying to steal my body.'

Sitting near the front, Ranma opened his bag and Asmodeus crawled out, grumbling while Ranma cast a quick silencing spell. "You said you wanted to talk to me about something private, this is the best I can do, so talk."

Asmodeus gave him a glowering look before sighing. "Dang it, Master, whatever you did to me make it hard to stay mad at you. But I was talking to Nabiki and Serafall last night about Sacred Gears, since they didn't have Balance Break forms when I was alive." Ranma nodded. "Nabiki explained them and then the Mastered version of them and I was thinking..."

"You know how to master my Sacred Gear?" Ranma asked and Asmodeus nodded, smirking. "So, how do I?"

"Well, I can't completely confirm how..." Asmodeus admitted, "but, seeing as your Sacred Gear is carved from a piece of my soul, there's only one way." Ranma raised an eyebrow as she pointed a finger at him. "You simply need to let someone breed you while you're in your girl form."

Ranma gave her a flat stare. "...What?" When Asmodeus nodded, Ranma growled and grabbed her in his fist. "While I've had sex in my girl form, I'm not interested in having some guy put a kid in me."

Asmodeus gave him a knowing smirk. "Random guys, no, but if someone was strong enough and wasn't someone you hated, you probably would say yes." Ranma twitched and Asmodeus sighed. "I'm not saying you need to do that right away. The only kid I gave birth to was Morrigan after all." Asmodeus let out a contemplative hum. "Well, there is another option, I suppose, but it's completely crazy."

"...And what option is this one?" Ranma asked her.

Asmodeus grinned at him. "Simple! Since your Sacred Gear is technically part of me, if we fused together, you'd have it mastered in an instant, but that's..." She trailed off and her grin disappeared as Ranma had a contemplative look on his face. "Look, I don't know what you're thinking, but you can't fuse two beings together. Even when we Devils did body possession, that was puppetry magic, or we ate the soul and wore a human's body as a skin suit, so I don't know what you're thinking."

"...Your body is an artificial construct, isn't it?" Ranma asked and Asmodeus nodded. "...There MIGHT be a way."

Asmodeus gave Ranma a flat look. "You seriously know someone who can fuse with other people?"

"...Sort of." Ranma explained to her. "When we're done in Kyoto, I'll have to swing through another city and see if she's around." He paused as he let Asmodeus go. "...Then again, I don't remember where her house is, guess I'll have to go visit one of her friends."

"Who ARE you talking about?" Asmodeus asked and Ranma smirked at her.

"You'll have to find out." He chuckled before frowning in confusion. "I think I'm forgetting something about her... Hey, Lilith, wake up, I need to ask you a question." Two eyes opened up in Ranma's shadow and looked up at him. "You awake?"

"Barely, I want to sleep, Master. What is it?"

"Remember the girl you borrowed the magic staff from that cooled your head?" Ranma asked and the shadow bobbed up and down. "Remember her friend? The one with the book? I feel like I forgot something about her."

"...You mean how she, despite being in a wheel chair, somehow launched herself across the room just to grab my boobs when she rolled in on us having sex in her guest room and if not for the pink swordswoman, would have lost her virginity to us then and there?"

"...Oh yeah, that did happen, didn't it?" Ranma chuckled at the memory. "The hammer loli still hates us, doesn't she?"

"Maybe." Lilith told him as she pulled herself out of his shadow, yawning. "Though I think the non-magical blonde hates you more. You stole her first kiss and she kept calling you dummy after that."

"Who ARE you two talking about?" Asmodeus asked in frustration.

"You'll have to find out." They said at the same time and Asmodeus twitched before nodding.

"Fine, but I'm coming with." The bronzed mini-girl grumbled, wondering what kind of silly things she was about to see.

(-)

A bit later...

"Welcome to Kyoto." Kunou said as she led the group out of the train. "Seeing as this is my hometown, I don't think anyone has a problem of me leading?"

"Of course not." Gabriel smiled at the small fox girl. "Please do."

Kunou nodded and smiled back. "Okay, let's go, I've got some friends I want to say hello to and that will give the messengers enough time to let mother know and prepare for us."

Nodoka smiled and poked Genma in the side. "I think our granddaughter just wants to show off."

Genma smirked and put his arm around her shoulders. "Maybe, but I haven't been to Kyoto in years, let's enjoy the tour."

(-)

An hour later...

The group walked up the stairs to the main temple as several Youkai guards bowed to the group.

"Lord Ranma." A tengu said as he walked out of the shrine. "I wish we had been given more advanced notice of your arrival. We would have prepared a fine feast."

Ranma chuckled at the man. "It's okay, I've only been back in Japan for two days now. Is Yasaka in?" He asked and noticed that Lilith was twitching out of the corner of his eyes.

"Your wife is very much in and it's taken us considerable effort to keep her from rushing out here to greet you."

Ranma nodded and he looked at the others. "Mind if Kunou and I go in first?" They all shook their heads and Ranma and Kunou went inside.

Once inside, Yasaka's eyes lit up as she saw Kunou and Ranma walk in. "Greetings, husband, daughter." She said in a subdued voice that was dripping with happiness. "I have missed both of you."

"Mother." Kunou smiled and walked over to her kneeling mother and hugged her. "How are you and the twins doing?"

Yasaka chuckled as Kunou knelt down to put her head against Yasaka's large belly. "They're fine, Kunou, it won't be long now." She looked up as Ranma stood in front of her. "Husband." She raised a hand and he helped her stand up before picking her up to hold her in a princess bridal carry. "I missed you." She whispered as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips, which he returned with a vigor. "Nnngh!" Her eyes widened and she looked down at her belly. "The twins are saying hello to you too, daddy." Ranma sat down with her in his lap and put a hand on her belly, enjoying feeling them move. "Oooh! There they go again." She smiled as Kunou put her hands on her mother's belly and had a look of pure awe on her face as she felt her little siblings moving around.

After nearly ten minutes of that, Ranma pushed himself up to his feet, while still holding Yasaka and gently put her down before kissing her on the lips again. "I'd love to catch up, but there are people who are here and have some questions that maybe you can answer." Ranma told her and Yasaka nodded at him and looked at the guards, who nodded and let the others in.

"Oh my." Gabriel smiled as she saw Yasaka's condition. "First I find out Serafall is expecting and now I see that you are as well."

"Oh?" Yasaka gave Serafall a knowing smile. "Yes, my husband is quite manly isn't he?" She ignored how Nodoka squealed in delight. "And you are?" She asked Gabriel.

"I am Seraph Gabriel, one of Heaven's leaders." The blonde Angel said as she gave a curt bow to the other woman. "I come seeking some answers that I hope that you or someone else can answer about one of my brothers that I recently discovered may still be alive."

"Perhaps I can." Yasaka told her. "Can you tell me his name?"

"He was the Archangel of Death, Azrael." Gabriel responded and Yasaka had a contemplative look on her face. "If you do not know, that is fine, I merely wish to see if there is anything in your records."

Suddenly a purple and orange light filled the room and Yasaka turned around while Gabriel and the rest stared in shock as the orange light, which was a circle with triangles that surrounded it to look like a sun, and the purple light, which was in the shape of a crescent moon, both condensed into a woman and a man. Both were wearing ornate kimonos as they appeared in the center of the room. The man's kimono was mostly dark with light purple highlights and the woman's kimono was gold and red. The woman had a metal folding fan while the man sat and looked at everyone calmly. The woman had pale skin, golden eyes and blonde hair and the man had black hair, purple eyes and fair skin as well.

"You are..?" Yasaka gasped, though she knew, deep down, who these two were.

"I am Tsukiyomi," the man spoke, "the god of the moon."

"And I am Amaterasu," the woman spoke after him, "the goddess of the sun." She gave a small smile to everyone as they stared in shock. "I believe that you have some questions that need answering."

End Chapter 9

Time to answer some questions, huh?