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By: mysticalsky
folder Descendents of Darkness/Yami No Matsuei › General
Rating: Adult ++
Chapters: 6
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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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Before the Battle

Summary: After Gensou Kai and Kamakura Arc. Tsuzuki and Hisoka were assigned to a new mission. Meanwhile, some mysterious characters, with same intention as Muraki, appeared to harass Hisoka for some purpose. M x H, T x H

AN: I own nothing in Yami no Matsuei, they all belong to Matsushita Yoko sensei. I’m just borrowing the characters and plots for my fanfic, so please don’t sue me, I’ve no money for that. For those not familiar with the later developments of Yami no Matsuei, you can go to Theria.net’s Yami no Matsuei translation section.

Please read and review! *Puppy eyes*
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CHAPTER 4: BEFORE THE BATTLE


Kagome, kagome
When does the bird inside the cage come out?

Amidst the darkness, Hisoka turned and walked towards the little chants of little unseen children. All he could see were petals, falling sakura petals.

At dawns and evenings….

There was a little giggle behind his back. Hisoka raised his eyebrows and turned.

The tones of the chants lightened into voice of ……

Who is behind
The crane and turtle that slipped?


…….. another Kurosaki Hisoka’s…..

Amidst the falling sakura petals stood a little girl with blonde hair and emerald eyes in flowery kimono.

“Nee-chan?” Hisoka whispered.

The girl gave a strange smile, mixed with scorns and hatred: “You’ve destroyed Yatonogami, who has enslaved me and my mother’s souls, but you can never destroy the hatred I have harbored over the years. I will always be around you, haunting you forever. Just you wait and see!”

“No, wait! Nee-chan!!” Hisoka cried and ran after the little girl, but her form gradually faded before his fingers could reach her.

“….Just you wait and see, wait and see….”

The angst little voice echoed in the darkness, amidst the falling sakura petals……

“Nee-chan…” Hisoka whispered.
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Ever since Yatonogami’s death, the burge on Rui’s abdomen had mysteriously subsided and returned back to normal.

In front of Kurosaki Kasane’s altar and the covered corpse of Kurosaki Rui, Nagare stood motionlessly.

In his mind ears, he could hear giggles of two teenage girls as they played in the compound. At the corner of his mind eyes, at the corridor of the main hall overseeing the compound, the teenager Nagare was standing, watching the two black hair twin sisters in kimono playing between themselves. His eyes were set on the quieter sister – Kasane.

Rui waved her hands at him: “Come and join us, Nagare!!” Kasane smiled invitingly and gently. Young Nagare stepped down the corridor and went to them.

Nagare’s eyes blurred and something wet and warm trickled down his cheeks. The image of the two twin sisters and his younger self playing in the compound thinned and disappeared. Before, him, the cold corpse of Rui and Kasane’s altar laid.

“Are you alright, Master?” Tatsumi asked.

Nagare stood, as though he did not hear Tatsumi’s question.

“He just needs some time to quiet himself, Tatsumi.” Watari said and tugged Tatsumi’s sleeve, motioning him to leave Nagare alone in the room. After all, Iwao and Yatonogami were already dead. Little girl – Kurosaki Hisoka’s corpse had been restored back to her tomb. Miya had gone to prepare dinner with the other servants.

Nagare would be all right. He just needed to be alone.

“Hisoka…. My son, Hisoka’s corpse will be recovered, right?” Nagare suddenly asked in his hoarse voice.

“Don’t worry, we will find all means to get Kurosaki-kun’s corpse back.” Tatsumi reassured firmly.

“I just hope Bon’s all right with Tsuzuki..” Watari muttered almost to himself.

“Please take care of my son for me,” Nagare said and bowed deeply at Tatsumi: “I thank you.”

“Don’t mention. We’ll make sure the boy stays out of harm even if you don’t ask us.” Tatsumi said.

The century long nightmare of the Kurosaki clan had been destroyed. From Nagare’s remorse look, the terrible tradition of the Kurosaki clan to eliminate the eldest daughter in the household was more likely to be discontinued from then on.

After the dinner, Tatsumi and Watari set off back to Meifu. With Rui’s death, there was nothing else they could stay on. Almost all the Kurosaki household and the villagers went to see them off.

Nagare was not present. He had not been leaving Kasane’s altar and Rui’s corpse since their last conversation. Tatsumi sighed inwardly. The man was more likely to carry his grief over his two dead wives in his life forever.

Under Watari’s another tug at his arm, they both left Kanagawa Province for Meifu.

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On Byakko’s back, Tsuzuki shifted uneasily. What had happened to Touda? Why did he take Hisoka away? Where had both of them gone?

“I’ve heard of the news, Tsuzuki.” Kijin’s voice called from behind as he flew up to meet Byakko and Suzaku. Behind him followed Rikugou. The six- eyed shikigami was quiet, his mind in deep thoughts.

“Is something bad going to happen?” Tsuzuki asked anxiously.

“We don’t know. It’s too early to tell, but Hisoka will be all right.” Kijin said quickly before Tsuzuki’s bad feeling deepened. He knew his master too well.

“I know that serpent…”

“Yah, you’ve been saying this a zillion times, nee-chan.” Bakkyo interrupted: “Now we do not where Touda goes.”

A voice suddenly roared above them.

“He went to look for that celestial Emperor!!”

“It’s Kurikara!” Kijin said directly.

The voice came and disappeared faster than lightning before them.

“I’m not waiting for you idiots, lackeys of Celestial Emperor! I’m going to confront him personally!!…….” Kurikara’s voice traced off.

“That Kurikara, I won’t let him do as he pleases so easily!” SohRyu’s voice appeared abruptly besides Byakko and his form flashed before them and vanished within a winkle of an eye.

“Father!” Kijin called, but SohRyu was already gone.

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Hisoka suddenly sat up in bed, sweating profusely. Where was he now? All he could remember was Tsuzuki’s anxious eyes looking down at him in his old home and now….

“You have come to.” An unfamiliar elderly voice said suddenly besides him. Hisoka startled and his eyes turned to meet an old ragged face of wax-like face with white long hair and beard almost reaching the ground.

“Who are you?” Hisoka jumped and noticed his changed attire and the strange surrounding.

“And where is this place?”

“Welcome to the Celestial Palace. I am the Celestial Emperor.”

“Why am I here then?” Hisoka demanded and stiffened as he felt the old man’s mind across him.

A long silk shot from the hem of the old man’s long sleeve, bonded Hisoka’s wrists together and pulled the boy closer to him. Hisoka felt his strength leaving him rapidly through the silky cloth.

Hisoka gasped in shock and struggled on the bed, but to no avail: “What are you doing?!”

“I need your power, my child.” The old man smiled gently.

In an instant, Hisoka felt something else within the almost insane-like old man.

…Something evil….
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Across the sky, Kurikara soared in his true form of flying fire dragon.

His sword- Amenomurakumo flew along side with Kurikara: “No matter what happen, we’ll support you regardless your decision, RyuOh-sama.”

Suddenly, the voice of SohRyu called: “You traitor, what ARE YOU PLOTTING THIS TIME??!!!” The other shikigami was also in his true dragon form, flying closely behind the fire dragon.

Kurikara smirked: “You sure are fast this time. Let’s see who’ll be the one reaching that old fool.”

“Don’t you DARE insult our Celestial Emperor!!!” roared SohRyu.
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“I’m worry for Father.” Kijin said worriedly, looking at the direction where SohRyu left.

“Me too, your father is too impulsive.” Nodded Rikugou.

Suddenly, in the far distance where the Celestial palace was situated, lightning flashed and thunders roared. Towering dark clouds hovered rapidly and whirled in the sky.

“What is happening?” Tsuzuki exclaimed.

“Something bad has happened to our Celestial Emperor!” Byakko cried, flying faster.

“Konton’s evil aura. I can feel it. It is getting stronger every single second.” Rikugou said.

Ahead, someone was flying before the group, blocking their path.

“You will not proceed.” A familiar voice declared.

“You serpent!” Suzaku growled angrily.

The long hair and sharp-clawed Touda reached out his hand. Behind him, an army of countless shikigami rose.

“Passing this line and you’ll be intruders. And as intruders, we will not hesitate to kill.” Touda said, his eyes staring at them blankly.

“Touda!” Tsuzuki cried out in surprise: “Do you know what you are doing now?”

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Hisoka struggled against the hold of his bond, but only entangled even deeper. To make matters worse, he had already lost most of his strength when he was fighting Yatonogami in his old house.

“You are possessed by something evil! Do you know how much SohRyu has entrusted his faith and hope in you?” Hisoka almost whimpered weakly.

The old man only closed his eyes as though he did not hear the boy’s words.

How many years had he lived since the creation of GenSouKai he could not recall. Ever since the changing of the human world, his world had deteriorated over the time in alarming pace. If only he was powerful enough, if only he had more power to revert the shield of his world against the changing belief of human world….

Then along came Kurikara who went against his control, wanting his world to change the way of ruling. Although Kurikara was quickly subdued, Celestial Emperor knew that he would not be able to rule in his own way for long without sufficient strength. With the changing human belief and environment, the form of GenSouKai had changed, so was he.

He was no longer the strong Celestial Emperor the shikigami used to know. His face had aged along with the loss of his strength and he could not even bear to look at himself into the mirror. Let alone allowing his children to see his present form. That was why he had to hide behind a curtain whenever he met his children.

He wanted more power and Hisoka’s eternity youth and curing strength was just what he needed. The controlling of minds of some shikigami like Touda was not enough to assist his ruling of the land. He needed more power of his own.

Suddenly, the emperor sensed intrusion. At the same time, a force shot towards his direction, which Celestial Emperor swept away with ease. Somehow, Kurikara managed to get his sword to delay SohRyu’s reaching there and got to the place first.

“We’ve met again, Celestial Emperor.” Kurikara’s voice roared from the curtain that he normally sat behind whenever he spoke to SohRyu: “Hey, kid, I bet you must be inside as well, right?”

Hisoka opened his mouth, but no voice came out. Black dots boomed before his eyes, swimming like waves in the sea.

Suddenly, Kurikara’s voice emitted into Hisoka’s mind.

//I presume you can feel my thoughts, kid. I need your help. That old man’s shield is too strong for my force to break through it. Follow my instruction and we’ll synchronize my strength with your body. But that’ll take up your inner energy, are you willing to try that?//

Hisoka paused and nodded weakly, hoping that the shikigami could see his silhouette through the silky curtain.

A fiery red aura glowed from Hisoka.

“So, you’ve decided to go against me through this little boy, huh, traitor?” Celestial Emperor looked on in amusement.

“That’s right, you have no right to rule this land with your autocratic rules, driving so many of my people from this land, controlling the minds and acts of your children…. You are NOT FIT to be the ruler! NOT AT ALL!!” Kurikara’s voice growled through Hisoka’s lips.

The lightning flashed against the darkened sky that was now as black as midnight, revealing Kurikara’s red iris in Hisoka’s eyes.

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In Kyoto, Oriya shifted uneasily. He did not know how to explain Muraki’s ‘death’ to a young lady in kimono before him.

“I know Kazutaka must be in some trouble, right?” the lady said with sad smile.

“Ukyou-chan, I know Muraki wants you to live well.” Oriya said.

Ukyou looked from the paper-layered window towards the moon above.

“I believe he must be still living somewhere under the same night sky.”

“I believe.”
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Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled from afar in the world of Meifu.

“It’s still raining, Hejime-kun.” Wakaba said as she and her partner- Terazuma returned back to their office from their assigned mission.

“Huh.” Terazuma muttered unconcerned.

“The barriers surrounding Gensou Kai must be getting worse and worse, that’s why it’s affecting the climate here. Hopefully Tsuzuki-san and Kurosaki-kun can settle the matters over there soon and get back here safely.” Wakaba said in concern.

“We’re back!” Watari announced as he entered the room.

“Huh, where’s Tatsumi? I thought you both were supposed to be together?” Terazuma asked.

“Chief Konoe called him to update him on Bon’s family case.” Watari stretched his arms: “It’s such a tiring case, I’ve got to continue my important research. Jah!” He left the office hurriedly.

“I wonder what’s Watari-san doing in his research.” Wakaba wondered.

“Most likely it’s some gender change potion, what else?” Terazuma snorted.

A strange grin shone in Watari’s eyes as he departed the room. In his hand held a floppy disk that he had downloaded information while he was in the Kurosaki household.

‘The Mother computer project…’

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TBC
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