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Empty Spaces	By : Macx Category: Descendents of Darkness/Yami No Matsuei > General Views: 3188 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Descendants of Darkness (Yami no Matsuei), nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-Empty Spaces
- 2-part 2
- 3-part 3
- 4-part 4
- 5-part 5
- 6-part 6
- 7-part 7
- 8-part 8
- 9-part 9
- 10-part 10
- 11-part 11
- 12-part 12
- 13-part 13
- 14-part 14
- 15-part 15
- 16-part 16
- 17-part 17
- 18-part 18
- 19-part 19
- 20-part 20
- 21-part 21
- 14
- 15
- 16
It was both a good-bye party and the festivities of Genbu's
ascension. All of GensouKai central was celebrating the rise of the Protector
of the North to the position of Golden Emperor, and Genbu's palace had
been scrubbed to almost glow with an inner light. The shikigami in question
looked his usual self.
Small, bald, his beard long enough to step on, sharp eyes hidden under
bushy eyebrows. He had just about managed to ward off his servants and
stop them from dressing him in splendorous robes that would make him look
like a peacock.
The buffet table was endless, food never ceasing, and servants walked
among the many shikigami present. There were also other guests, most of
them shinigami.

One of them was Tsuzuki Asato. He had exchanged his black suit for
a more traditional GensouKai outfit, though he had stayed true to the black
color. Hisoka had grudgingly done the same, though he had refused to wear
anything with bright colors. There were also Watari and Tatsumi, who was
now the official new head of the Shokan Division, as well as Terazuma with
his work partner Wakaba. She was chatting with her Tengu friends in one
corner while Terazuma was holding on to a glass of alcoholic beverage,
visibly unwell among the party participants.
Tsuzuki walked over to him, smiling. Red eyes narrowed in suspicion,
though Terazuma's body language was relaxed.
"How's the Black One?"
"Just as itchy as me to get out of here. This is too much," Hajime growled
unhappily.
"How about a walk outside?"
Terazuma hesitated for a moment, then just nodded. He left the glass
on an empty tray that a servant quickly carried away. Both men left he
huge banquet hall and stepped into the relative silence outside.
Hajime inhaled deeply, closing his eyes briefly.
"Feels good," Tsuzuki agreed.
"I hate crowds." Terazuma pulled out a cigarette, put it between his
lips, then tore it out again. He threw the poisonous vice away with a
growl. "Hate it."
"Me, too," was Tsuzuki's reply. He was glad that his friend had found
a way to accept the lion back and that they were merged again. "It's a
little much."
"A little? Try a lot!"
"Yeah." Tsuzuki pushed himself up onto a stone banister and looked out
over the garden before them. "Everything is changing."
Terazuma copied his move and pushed one leg under the other. "Well,
not everything. You're still around," he answered gruffly.
"Had your hopes set high?" he teased.
"Kinda. But I'm glad you're okay," Terazuma answered and smiled at him.
Tsuzuki nodded. "But we all changed. Nothing is as it was."
"It's good. We finally know why and because of whom. I'm just... angry.
There were no consequences for Enma and we still work for him. What stops
him from trying once more?"
"Our knowledge. We were unaware of his manipulations, now we know."
"And you know."
Tsuzuki chewed on his lower lip. "Well, some changes I could live without."
"You're about as different as me," Terazuma declared. "We're all freaks,
Tsuzuki."
"I'm the freak who has a power inside of me that makes me next in line
for Enma-Daiou's title."
"You wanna tell me I have to suck up to you now? Forget it."
Tsuzuki chuckled. "No."
Terazuma glared a little at him. "You might have the power, but you're
not Enma. And even if one day, far in the future, you will succeed him,
you won't be the same."
"It comes with the job."
"You're not like him," Terazuma insisted.
Violet eyes met red ones and finally Tsuzuki smiled a little. "Thank
you."
Terazuma snorted dismissively.
They sat quietly together, listening to the voices drifting toward them
from the inside, and Tsuzuki's face took on a faraway expression. Terazuma
just glanced at him, but he didn't comment, just stayed with his friend
until Tsuzuki finally hopped off the banister.
"I'm hungry," the shinigami declared. "I think I'll try some of that
home-made pie."
Terazuma chuckled. "You're impossible."
But he followed him inside.
° ° °
The party drew on, everyone was having fun, but Tsuzuki was growing
more and more depressed. He knew that at the end of this day, Genbu would
be gone. The bond was already gone. He could no longer feel the gentle
waves of his oldest shikigami. And he could feel them all, their presence,
their connection to him, though none as close as Touda.
::Asato:: the serpent murmured and he leaned into the touch. ::Cheer
up. It's not a funeral::
::Sorry:: he replied, fighting down his emotions. ::It's just... after
so long... it feels like it. I hate losing any of you::
::He won't be gone, only ascended::
Violet eyes met golden ones and Touda walked over to him, leaving Byakko
to chat amiably with someone. Tsuzuki smiled bravely.
"I just need a little time," he said when Touda was at his side.
The hell serpent held out a chocolate treat for him, but Tsuzuki declined.
He hadn't really eaten much, his stomach constricting each time he thought
about the reason for this party.
Touda frowned a little. "You turning down free food... it's serious,
hm?"
Another watery smile and suddenly he found himself in a tight hug. ::He
hasn't died:: Touda whispered ferociously. ::He will be with us, as our
Emperor, and I, for my part, can't think of a better one::
::I know::
"Oh, such a long face."
Tsuzuki flinched at the voice and looked guilty at Genbu, who was smiling
up at him. "Sorry," he murmured again.
Touda released him, moving back to give the two men private time.
Genbu shook his head. "Don't be. Emotions were always your strong point,
my friend."
Tsuzuki blinked and stared into the face of his eldest shikigami. Genbu
smiled, gently patting his leg.
"I don't want you to go," Tsuzuki whispered. "I don't want to lose you."
"You won't."
"I don't want to be that important, Genbu. I never wanted to be special,
I can't be..."
He almost choked on the tears that welled up in his eyes.
"But you are. You have always been. Look around you, Asato. Look closely."
Tsuzuki blinked the blur away and did what Genbu had said. There was
Touda, a dark stoic presence in the background, his meanwhile long raven
black hair ruffled by a gentle breeze, one hand lying on the shoulder of
his white-haired companion, who leaned back into his touch automatically.
Byakko had matured profoundly during the last two years, had experienced
a lot of ugly things, but there was still the bounciness, the openness
in his bright smile and the mischievous sparkle in those huge red eyes
that Tsuzuki had missed for some time was back. The tiger smiled at him
warmly, reaching to his shoulder and placing his hand over the one of his
lover.
There was Terazuma, staring at him as gruffly as ever until he smirked
� which turned into an open loving smile as his red eyes strayed to the
man standing at his side, wiping away the grumpiness and leaving only a
young man in love. Sohryu, leader of all GensouKai, in his impressive official
attire answered that smile briefly before looking at Tsuzuki, and he wondered
why he had ever feared the dragon. The coldness that had turned the blue-gray
eyes into frozen marble, the lines of bitterness around the dragon's mouth
and eyes were gone and he looked - youthful.
And Tsuzuki suddenly realized that his shikigami was young, younger
than Rikugo, that only the burden he had had to bear alone for much too
long had weighted the man down.
Speaking of him � onyx eyes met violet ones. Rikugo's hair hadn't grown
out again after he had cut it for Byakko's sake, but it was long enough
to braid it � which the astrologer hadn't done today. The white blond strands
were open like Touda's, showing the world that the dragon didn't see the
need to hide anymore. Only Ryu was missing, unable to leave Meifu since
the deal with Enma-Daiou still stood. Tsuzuki would have to be at the Palace
of Candles for him to leave. As much as Tsuzuki regretted that, too, Rikugo
had reassured him that he was okay. He and Ryu were just fine with the
arrangement.
There was a movement to his right and when Tsuzuki turned he spotted
Suzaku, smiling at him like everybody else and leaning back into the embrace
of... Tsuzuki blinked in surprise and shook his head inwardly the very
next second. Who was he to judge as long as they were happy? And they sure
looked that way.
A tug at his sleeve took his attention back and there she was in front
of him, blue eyes wide offering him a fragile looking flower. Tsuzuki hugged
little Tenkou thanks and she giggled, bouncing back to her brother's side.
Kijin, spitting image of his father, took her hand and guided her back.
'hoot'
With flapping wings, a little soft feathered weight on his shoulder,
a tiny owl announced herself.
"003?"
The former ex-angel nibbled gently at his earlobe and returned to her
companion's shoulder hooting softly when Watari gently caressed her breast
feathers, observed by a tenderly smiling Tatsumi Seiichiro.
"Do you see, Asato?"
"Genbu?"
Tsuzuki looked at the God, utterly confused.
"You are special. To them. You made a difference, to each and every
one of them."
"How... Genbu, I'm not that important, I'm just... there is so much...
"
"True, you bear darkness. Half of your existence is darkness. But what
about the other half? Did you ever think about that? You bear darkness,
but you bear light also. And," the small God winked, "the deeper the shadows,
the brighter the light, right?"
"Genbu..."
"Believe in yourself. You have a power far greater than anything you
ever inherited from your father. You have a gift."
Something smacked him upside the head before Tsuzuki could respond and
he yelped in surprise. Turning he looked into the deep emerald eyes he
loved so much.
"Idiot."
Hisoka scowled, but there was no anger in the softly uttered word, and
Tsuzuki couldn't help the chuckle that escaped him at this display of �
normalcy.
"Hisoka!"
And he threw himself into his lover's arms, knowing he would be caught.
Genbu smiled and nodded at him, then walked off to talk to the others,
too. Tsuzuki just held on tightly to his lover and Hisoka let him, very
much aware of Tsuzuki's emotional state right now.
"Idiot," he whispered again, voice soft and loving.
Tsuzuki smiled and kissed him. "Your idiot."

tbc...
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