Our True Selves

Our True Selves.


Our True Selves.


Chapter 4

"So? What can you tell me?"
"Not much but enough to explain some things..."
"Like what?"

Shuichi raised his head and grinned.

"Curious aren't we?"
"Look who's talking, if I'm not wrong it was you the one who
always is asking me things..."

Shuichi laughed, he then turned serious and started to talk again.

"As I already told you I'm a Shinigami..."
"'A' Shinigami?"

Yuki raised an eyebrow.

"An angel of death takes the soul out of the body when a
person dies, with the amount of people who dies every day..."
"I understand..."

Yeah, he could imagine that it would be the angel who would die
first from stress.

"Ummm... It's kind of hard to explain hehe... Shinigamis
always work in pairs and with them there are another two angels,
they're judges it's their work to decide what will happen with
the soul"
"If it goes to heaven or hell?"
"Or back to earth... There's another two angels, they are
what we could call a 'boss', they are the ones who say which is
our next mission and other things..."
"Six angels in total... Who are the other angels? Apart from
me and you of course"

Shuichi jumped on the seat.

"Ho... how did you know?!"
"It was pretty obvious Shuichi, I can remember another life
with you, and you mentioned something about my awakening"

Shuichi sweatdropped he should have known, it was Yuki after all
and he was a writer, to be acute was natural in him.

"Well, that's one of the things I still can't tell you, but
now that you mentioned yes you're an angel a judge to be more
exact"
"Yours I guess..."
"Indeed..."

Then something hit Yuki, if Shuichi was a Shinigami maybe he knew
about 'him'.

"Shuichi..."
"I don't know Yuki... I know who was in charge of him but I
don't know what happened with him. I still was a child back then"
"Oh..."
"But you can ask that angel in person later..."
"Thank you"
"I know that you still feel guilty about what happened to
Kitazawa..."

Yuki thought about that time when he flew to New York and tried
to commit suicide, Shuichi saved him that time. He had been
saving him every day since they met on that park.

Shuichi followed his thoughts to when he found him at that old
and horrid place; Yuki had asked then how he had got there.

"And you never answered me that one Shuichi... but even when
I have an idea of how you did it I would like to know exactly how
you did it"

Shuichi blushed, Yuki could heard his thoughts clearly now.

"Etooo... well I just followed you train of thoughts and if
you want to know, well yeah I 'flew' there... You, see we angels
have our benefits... "

Shuichi showed him the sign of victory with his hand but now Yuki
had another question one that bothered him since a long time now.

"Shuichi, how come you know so much about computers?"
"I knew you would try to look on my PC! Hehehe... I would
have paid hinghing to see the look on your face"
"Baka..."
"Come on, admit I got you at least this time"
"Baka... ok, ok, you did, now explain"
"Well, just say that someone very intelligent taught me, by
the way you should think about a better password for your own
laptop"
"What?! You touched my laptop?!"
"Hey! You don't have the right to scold me!"

Yuki laughed, Shuichi was right he had done the same.

"As I was saying, you should change both the user name and
the password; the first one is too easy to guess because even if
you don't want to admit it you ARE kind of self-centered, "Eiri"
was easy to find..."
"Baka... "

Shuichi laughed loud this time but he stopped and his face turned
sad suddenly.

"And the other, I don't think you should keep hurting
yourself in that way Yuki... You should lift that weight from
your shoulders; Kitazawa is dead and the only thing I can tell
you about it is that it was his time..."
"You... you mean..."
"Yes Yuki, he had to die that day. You see, people do
whatever they want with their lives, Kami-sama gave them that
right, but he still decides when they'll die... But it's up to
them how and where they will die-"

Yuki interrupted him.

"So I only was a 'mediator'? Was I destined to kill him?!"

Shuichi hugged him tight while shaking his head.

"No! Yuki, HE was the who decided that... You just were a
child who was trying to protect himself. In a way, he even
protected you because you could have died that day too..."

"B-but you said..."

"Human's have their death date 'settled' if you want to put
it like that, but we Angels do not have an specific date
of death. We live longer than a human but we still can be killed,
our bodies can be hurt"

Shuichi sighed and then kissed Yuki softly on the lips.

"Don't worry Yuki, you'll remember everything soon"

They fell silent again, Shuichi knew they would be there soon, so
he just decided to stay there enjoying their mutual company.

* * * *

20 minutes later they heard someone knocking at their door, Yuki
opened his eyes and frowned.

"Who could be at this hour?"

It was almost 6:30 in the morning and there were only three
people who would knock at his door at that hour, he didn't want
to see any of them.

"I think is better if I answer the door Yuki"
"I'm not going to hurt them Shuichi, just maybe yell at them"

Shuichi shook his head and smiled.

"Yeah right, just let me open the door ok?"

Yuki raised an eyebrow and narrowed his eyes, but he didn't argue
and didn't read the other's mind; he still felt it was not that
right.

"Ok, but please don't let them get inside ok?"

Shuichi didn't answer and went to attend the door, Yuki sighed
and went back to the living room; he was about to seat again when
he heard the person he would gladly throw out the window if he
could.

"SHUICHIII!!! I'm here na no da!!"

And Shuichi was now on the floor with a very genki Ryuichi
straddling him, Yuki rubbed his temples and closed his eyes.

"Hi Ryuichi, I think I can guess what happened that you're
so happy"

Now, that was weird he had never heard Shuichi call Ryuichi by
his name, he always had called him Sakuma-san.

"Hehehe!! I had to make Komagoro sleep in other room, na no
da!"
"Poor Komagoro!! He surely felt lonely!"

He heard steps and knew Shuichi was leading Ryuichi to the living
room, when he opened his eyes he was surprised to see not only
Ryuichi but his brother too. Shuichi had left to change his
clothes.

Ryuichi had the same black wings Shuichi had, then that meant...
Now he really wanted the earth to open and swallow him; he saw
Shuichi was coming back and that he was wearing a pair of
sweatpants and his tank top.

"Aniki..."

Yuki stood up and waved his hand while walking to the bedroom
just to come back few minutes later wearing the same as Shuichi
except he had a T-shirt instead of a tank top.

He noticed that Ryuichi and his brother were now serious both
were seating together on the couch, he walked past them and took
seat next Shuichi.

Yuki looked at Ryuichi and then it hit him.

"I can't believe it..."

Shuichi laughed together with Tatsuha.

"Be careful 'Aoshi' I still remember how to use an sword and
I didn't forget the Gatotsu..."

Yuki didn't even flinch a little.

"I'd never feared you 'Saito' and I still don't... But still
I can't believe you could change THAT much"

Yuki looked at Ryuichi still surprised; the man he knew as Saito
was dead serious. The few times he saw him smile it was with
malice and he always was calm and controlled.

"Remember I lived a 'very' different life then, this life
was a lot better I have a lot of reasons to be like this, na no
da!"

Ryuichi had his always cheerful face and a sincere smile.

"And you Tatsuha? Or should I say Sanosuke?"

Tatsuha smirked, those two really were similar.

"Well *aniki*, I'm as surprised as you to know that I'm
Aoshi's brother..."

Shuichi was in the verge of a collapse, he wanted to laugh his
head out but he knew Yuki and maybe Ryuichi wouldn't like him
laughing at them.

"Don't worry Shuichi, I don't think I could be mad; at one
point I even find it funny"

Shuichi wouldn't let this chance go and he started to laugh with
force and soon Ryuichi was laughing with him.

After a while, when both where more calmed they turned serious
again and Ryuichi and Shuichi stood up.

"Now the both of you stand up come here and take of your
shirts"

Tatsuha and Yuki looked puzzled but did as they said.

"Now close you eyes and concentrate on your back, you'll let
your wings out"

Shuichi said as he took one of Yuki's hands, Ryuichi had done the
same and then there was a total silence in the room.

Both, Ryuichi and Shuichi were leading their lovers gently with
their minds so they could feel their backs and to be conscious of
their wings.

'Feel your shoulder blades'

'Feel the pressure in your back'

'Push gently'

'And let them out'

And then both of them had two amazing pair of white wings on
their backs, they opened their eyes and looked at each other
wings and both had the same question in their minds.

"That's because only Shinigamis have black wings Yuki"

Shuichi answered quickly and both of them smiled. Yuki looked at
his lover, then at Ryuichi and then back to Shuichi, looking at
him in the eyes.

"Shuichi... You said we had two bosses when are we
going to know who are them?"

Shuichi's smile faded.

"Soon Yuki, they'll be here soon"


~TBC~