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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.

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Title: "Gifts - Chap. 1"

Author: J.J.

Warning: It's an AU and it's BASED ON THE MANGA... it contains not too
descriptive rape, some OOC, some use of Japanese words (the Dictionary is at the
bottom), a bit of sappiness, some spoilers...

Notes: This work is based on the manga. It makes perfect sense if you haven't read it
but you will find things going differently from the anime... oh well since this is an AU and
things will go differently from the manga too it shouldn't be a problem.

About tharaharacters... Tsuzuki's character is based on the first volume of the YnM Manga
and that's why he's more serious. If you get the 1st volume of the manga you'll see a more
adult looking Tsuzuki than in the rest of the series. As for Hisoka... He's purposely
partially different from the original.

Inspiration came from the YnM manga and a lovely pic from Akane available his his address:
http://www.cursedmoons.com/ (The pic is the one called 'TsuHi-raburabu')

Warnoverover notes: This fic is filled with notes. You will find them at the bottom.
Each time you see a number between brackets it means there's a note connected to the
word/sentence that preceded it. Many of them explain references to other series, to YnM
manga only or YnM anime only facts for who didn't get to read the manga or see the anime,
explain apparently illogical things or warn you there's an explanation for illogical facts
but that you'll get it later. However I suggest you to read the notes _AFTER_
you finished the fic unless the word/sentence connected to the note is really troublesome
for you to understand. Anyway the fic should be still understandable without the notes.
Notes are merely extra explanations for who wants to know more or search for spoilers.

Disclaimer: "Yami no Matsuei" belong to Matsushita Yoko. I'm merely using her
characters because I love them... especially Touda, Tsuzuki and Hisoka...

Ehy, do I own something here? Oh yes, I own the plot and a sensible heart which would
surely break if you give me harsh reviews... so please be honest but nice ok?

Thanks: To Lothlorien for betaing this! Thank you a lot!

Summary: Alternate version of the 'Nagasaki Arc' Manga version. What if Muraki
managed to break Hisoka and Enma planned Tsuzuki & Hisoka's partnership?

"Signor Capitano mi liberi le mani

non ho fatto mai del ma nea nessuno

sono piegato di fronte a questa vita

io sono, sono un prigionibr> br>
e poi non vede, non vede la mia pena

non capisce i miei pensieri

non vede come viviamo

non vede che non amiamo.

Signor Capitano dove sono le risposte

alle tante lettere spedite

e poi mi dica, mi dica dove siamo

e che stiamo ancora aspettando...

non vede come viviamo,

non vede cosa facciamo

non vede non crede...

Liberatemi, liberatemi

dalla noia e dalla confusione,

liberatemi, liberatemi

le mie mani devono applaudire

liberatemi, liberatemi

dalle mille pi� di mille paure."

("Captain free my hands

I've never hurt anyone

I'm bent in front of this life

I'm, I'm a prisoner

And don't you see, don't you see my pain?

don't you understand my thoughts

don't you see how we live

don't you see we don't love.

Captain where are the answers

To the many sent letters

And thou tou tell me, you tell me where we are

And that we're still waiting...

Don't you see how we live,

Don't you see what we do

Don't you see don't you believe...

Free me, free me

From boredom and confusion,

Free me, free me

my hands must clap

Free me, free me

From the thousand and more fears.")

(Biagio Antonacci - "Liberatemi")

Two weeks later - First district Shinkou-Cho

He stared at the report with empty eyes. He hadn't figured afterlife would be like this. He
hadn't figure afterlife would be. He had hoped, once dead, he would be nonexistent -
instead... instead he was still forced to take care of the menial tasks like sleeping
(little, very little, almost never), eating (even less), bathing (a lot, every chance he
got), working and other irrelevant things (like throwing up, avoiding people and such). At
least he was away from _HIM_. Three years had been bad enough. They even
caused him to miss his family. Their hate was preferable to the things
_NUSHI-SAMA_ did to him. Sitting on the bant fnt floor was preferable to being
bound to a dirty bed while _NUSHI-SAMA_...

He jumped back as a hand was waved in front of him and stared at the newcomer with the
scared look of a trapped animal. The young woman⁽¹⁾ (he didn't know her name,
probably they had been introduced but he just couldn't make the effort to remember people)
announced that Enma DaiOh-sama (with a lot of emphasis over the name) wanted to see him. She
seemed happy to announce this, feelings streaming from her like vapour from a boiling pot.
The boy muttered something in reply, something she didn't understand but took as an
agreement, and so, mercifully, she left him alone, her happiness still echoing through his
body due to that cursed 'gift' of his that people called empathy and that caused him
to be labeled 'Bakemono' by his parents. He sat down again tiredly. All he wanted
from Enma DaiOh-sama was release, nothing more - but the ruler of Meifu had already refused
him this small concession, insisting on offering him a job he wasn't interested in. He
didn't want to return to ChiJou, to return to _HIS_ same plane of existence,
to _HIS_ same country, no matter what. He sighed, then buried his head in his
hands. All he wanted was to be free. All he wanted was...

... Of no interest for Enma DaiOh-sama who was just allowing himself a satisfied little
smirk before his new visitor was introduced. He looked at the newcomer, pleased, admiring
his tall re are as the man walked with long stridowarowards him, reached a proper distance
and then bowed, not too deeply but enough to be judged proper, then stood at attention,
waiting for orders.

"Tsuzuki," Enma greeted pleasantly. There was something about Tsuzuki Asato that was capable
of attracting the sexual interest of males and females alike. It was his 'gift', a
'gift' that ware cre cause of trouble and unwanted attention than anything else.
People often joked about it but there were few who saw him and didn't feel the need to stalk
him as well. Enma wasn't an exception.

"Enma DaiOh-sama," the man replied in a formal, cold tone that only few knew him capable to
use.

"That cold expression doesn't suit that beautiful face of yours," the ruler of Meifu
commented, frowning. Tsuzuki's unnaturally coloured eyes hardened marginally, their purple
shade becoming deeper, darker, yet he stood still, as if hs uns unaffected by his master's
words. Enma smiled, apparently pleased, but in truth slightly disappointed by the lack of
reaction. In his own opinion, Tsuzuki was beautiful when he was furious but the man had long
ago learnt to bear all his taunts with a stoic expression, as if he didn't really care. In
truth, Tsuzuki had merely understood what Enma wanted from him, and in his apparent apathy,
there was all his rebellion to bowing to the man's wishes, rebellion he couldn't show in any
other way.

"What do you wish from me, Enma DaiOh-sama?" Tsuzuki asked simply.

"So eager to obey to my commands, are you Tsuzuki? Don't you want to allow me to enjoy your
company for a while? Maybe I could even offer you one of those pies you're so fond of," Enma
teased.

"I thank you for your offer, DaiOh-sama, but I'm 'temporally' stuffed," he answered
tonelessly, his 'temporally' including all the time Tsuzuki was going to spend in
Enma's presence and nothing more.⁽²⁾

"I see. Too bad. I'm sorry you enjoy HakuShaku's attentions more than mine." Tsuzuki didn't
say anything. It was no secret that HakuShaku-sama, the keeper of the 'Rousoku no
Yakata' (or the 'Castle of Candles' if you prefer), stalked him. Tsuzuki, very
reluctantly, 'allowed him', in exchange for favours now and then. He doubted
HakuShaku-sama could find himself in serious trouble for the small help he offered
him.⁽³⁾ Enma frowned, than smiled again charmingly. "I've good news for you.
You're going to get a new partner. One you will like, this time." Tsuzuki curved his eyebrow
slightly in a tiny manifestation of lack of belief, but Enma didn't notice it, or pretended
not to. "So, I expect you to not lose him too." He continued glaring at him.

"I'll do what you wish, Enma DaiOh-sama, but of course, I can't answer for my >'pa>'partner'." There was a tiny streak of self-satisfaction in Tsuzuki's words. He had
_never_ refused a partner. No, his way to free himself from unwanted partners
was to persuade them to leave him. It wasn't that he didn't want a partner. It was that in
around 70 years of service, he had learned the best way to keep his co-workers safe was to
keep them as far away from him as possible. So, in the same way he knew how to accentuate
the nice side of his personality that made him so loved by friends, he also knew how to
bring out the other side that persuaded his partners to leave.

"Your partner will be _d-e-l-i-g-h-t-e-d_ to work with you, Tsuzuki," Enma
assured him, not sounding persuasive at all. It sounded more like he was saying that his
partner had no choice in the matter. Tsuzuki frowned, openly this time. He didn't like this.

"Won't a partner be a problem for my work?" He wasn't, of course, referring to his low paid
work as a Shinigami, but instead to all the secret business he had to deal with under the
direct orders of Enma DaiOh-sama himself.

"Such dedication to your work is admirable, Tsuzuki. To think I've tons of report from the
Shokan-ka secretary criticizing your lack of it," Enma said, in a tone laced heavily with
irony. Tsuzuki didn't bother to acknowledge it. "Don't worry, Tsuzuki, I'm sure you will
find a solution. Your partner is very precious to me, and who can guard this little jewel
better than my right hand man?" That was it. Enma needed a bodyguard for this newcomer. Poor
soul.

"May I ask DaiOh-sama what's so precious about this new underling?" he asked, not sounding
too interested. He knew he would likely find out soon even if Enma denied him the answer.

"He's an empath. Enma-Cho hasn't had an empath Shinigami in... too long. Besides, he will be
a good match for you. He has all you lack. Great defence and potential healing powers. I'm
afraid he still has to be trained to use them, but that's a problem you can easily solve."
Tsuzuki closed his eyes momentarily. So the newcomer had the power to save people while he
only had the ability to destroy them. Maybe he shouldn't pity him but be envious instead -
but envy just wasn't his thing.

"And I should like an empath, who won't have a single problem in finding out all I do, why?"
he asked with supprd sad sarcasm. Enma surely couldn't expect he would enjovingving around
someone who could tell what was in his mind all the time.

"Empathy, Tsuzuki, isn't the same as telepathy, so your thoughts will be perfectly safe and
only your feelings exposed, but I'm sure you'll be able to guard the ones you don't want to
show,"⁽⁴⁾ Enma informed him with open mry. ry. After all, Tsuzuki had already
dealt with these sort of problems before. Not even the man's tw Shi Shikigami were able to
tell what was in their mass mis mind.⁽⁵⁾ "As for why you should like him... let's
see... your partner is a boy, a cute one because I never employ ugly people⁽⁶⁾...
with several issues about hospitals... labeled a bakemono all his life due to his power...
silent and without friends... oh, and yes, he's only sin." n." Tsuzuki's eyes widened. "I
see this rings a bell. Yes, Tsuzuki, he's only two years younger. So, you still think you
won't absolutely adore my gift for you?" Enma asked, talking about the boy as if he was a
thing.

"I will do as you order me to, Enma DaiOh-sama, of course." Tsuzuki replied, avoiding
answering the question.

"You'd better keep your eyes on him as well. The boy is... well; let's say it's not sure
where his loyalty lies. He was involved in a mess too large for his young mind. I would be
really sorry if I had to dispose of him because he proved to be a problem." Bodyguard and
spy. Well, that was why Shinigami were paired. To keep an eye on each other. He just had
never been warned to keep an eye on a partner by the ruler of Meifu himself. He could deal
with it. He wouldn't allow Enma to dispose of the poor boy, of course, but this could be
also be used to free him from this partner before he ended up as some of his prev one ones.

"I will do it, Enma DaiOh-sama," he replied simply. "I'll be introduced to him... when?"

"I figure your 'Kacho', Konoe is already waiting for you to show up to introduce you.
I guess you'll be able to make up a reasonable explanation for your lateness at work which
will not involve this meeting, won't you?" Enma inquired, amused. His previous right hand
man had been funny, but Tsuzuki topped him by quite a bit.⁽⁷⁾ No one would expect
that the rentrently harmless, constantly starved, forever late and never too bright
Shinigami assigned to the Kyushu territory, a territory no one wanted, could be involved in
Enma DaiOh's secret schemes. Not even Konoe, even if the man did have some suspicions.

"I will do as you wish, DaiOh-sama," Tsuzuki replied, bowing before Enma's outstretched arm
managed to brush his face and leaving in the same controlled but quick pace with which he
entered. Once left alone, Enma smiled to himself. Every man had a price. He was sure he had
just found the one for Tsuzuki's loyalty.

"You won't get rid of your new partner, Tsuzuki. Consider it a present from me. A little pet
to persuade you to accept to stay chained at my leash. I know you wish to leave and your
Shikigami's affection isn't enough to keep you here anymore. Your now dead Sempai warned me.
There's only so much you can stand." Enma's fingers slid on the table. "Yet I know you were
never able to abandon those who depend on you, and trust me, your new partner will depend on
you a lot. There's a purpose for which I made him live those three years of torture,
instructed Konoe to not train him and gave him a weak physical body. The boy will never be
allowed to get strong enough to guard himself, I will make sure of it. And you, Tsuzuki,
will have to forever take care of him, as well as realizing my plans, of course."

To be continued...

JJ's Notes:

1. Yes, the young woman is Akamine Chizuru. In the manga it's said that Hisoka had worked
at ShinKou-Cho, but when he returned there in Vol. 6 it seemed he didn't know anyone there
(it's just my impression). I figure it could have happened he met Chizuru but simply didn't
pay her enough attention to remember her later.

2. Oh... Ehm... I admit the idea Tsuzuki would not accept food offered by a person he
dislikes came from the anime... in the manga when Muraki offered Tsuzuki some food, it is
simply not shown if he ate it or not. I don't think he did but it could be just me.

3. In the manga it's said that HakuShaku often prolonged lives due to Tsuzuki's requests.
Tsuzuki offered to pay for it. HakuShaku would like him to pay with his body. Tsuzuki is
clearly annoyed by the man's requests and somes mes beats him around but in end end he
visits him and eats what he is offered.

4. Hisoka is always labeled as an 'Empath'. However, Empathy is only the ability to
perceive other people's feelings but not thoughts (that's Telepathy). Empathy also shouldn't
be able to extract lingering feelings from objectsat'sat's Psychometry). In the manga and in
the anime Hisoka uses them all even if they all ended up as extra abilities of his Empathy.
In this fic, Hisoka will be an Empath with latent Psychometry abilities (but since he can't
control his Empathy yet, he has no idea how to use them). As for Telepathy... he doesn't
have it. He will be able however to trantranslate' emotions to simple sentences
(feelings of happiness can be translated to an 'I'm happy'). He would also be
extremely sensitive to pick up sentences transmitted by a Telepath, even one with very low
Telepathic powers.

5. I'm supposing there's some sort of weak Telepathic or Empathic connectietweetween a
master and his Shikigami.

6. No idea if Enma selects only gorgeous looking people but all the Shinigami showed so far
are cool except, well, Konoe and the other sections chiefs... I suppose that Enma made
exceptions for them because the old look suited section chiefs better but this is just my
idea.

7. Enma's idea of fun is distorted, I know.

JJ's Extra Notes:

The whole discussion between Enma and Tsuzuki was inspired by two sentences in Vol. 1.

One is the one said by Muraki about Tsuzuki: 'He's famous in the underworld. Enma DaiOh's
right hand man even'. When I read it I wondered if it could be that Tsuzuki was
something more than a simple Shinigami and maybe Muraki was referring to the fact he did
some secret extra work under the direct orders of Enma himself. The manga never showed it
but there's still the chance...

The second is when Tsuzuki said that Hisoka is 'a very special charge left in his care by
Kacho'... and we all know Konoe gets direct orders from Enma. It was probably a joke,
but still... it was inspiring! Plus there's the fact that they asked Hisoka twice if he
wanted to be a Shinigami and Tsuzuki also implied that he was introduced in the Shokan-Ka
'by Kacho's connection' as if he had facilitations to become a Shinigami...

All this talking made hinkhink there could have been something behind Konoe's insistence
that Hisoka joins the Shokan-ka... of course that's just me. Feel free to have different
opinions.

Dictionary:

-sama: Lord

Bakemono: Monster

ChiJou: Land of the living

Cho: Office

DaiOh: "Great King". Enma's title

Enma: "Demon of darkness". Ruler of the Land of Dead

Enma-Cho: "Office Enma". In the 5th district of JuOhCho. It's ruled by Enma himself and
controls only Tokyo's territory. It hosts the Shokan-ka

HakuShaku: "Earl". Master of the Rousoku no Yakata, he controls humans' life span

JuOhCho: "Ten Kings Office". Meifu's bureaucratic organization ruled by Enma. It's in charge
of judging the deceased in Japan

Kacho: "Section Chief". Konoe's title

Meifu: Land of the dead

Nushi-sama: Master, Owner, Lover

Rousoku no Yakata: "Castle of Candles". Where the candles representing human lives are
held.

Shinigami: "God of death", "Death God". Nickname for the Shokan-ka workers

ShinKou-Cho: "Office ShinKou". In the 1st district of JuOhCho. It controls Okinawa's
territory

Shokan-Ka: "Summoning Division". Office in Enma-Cho that deals with summoning the dead to
appear at court. It enters in action only when the souls of the dead don't go spontaneously
to Meifu

Don't grumble silently, please let me know what you're thinking of this!

Send me your comments!

Replies to reviews:

To Everyone who reviewed: Thank you! You're a great encouragement to me!

To Jazmin: I'll try to update as often as I can! As for Tsuzuki and Hisoka... they'll
be the main pairing!

To day dreamer: I hope this fics will continue sounding interesting! I'm glad you
also noticed Enma is a real bastard! That man is a jerk!

In the Next Chapter:

Tsuzuki and Hisoka will FINALLY meet. Will it be love at first sight or hate at first glance?
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