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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. 5

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 the characters... 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 at this address:
http://www.cursedmoons.com/ (The pic is the one called 'TsuHi-raburabu')

Warning over 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?

"Oh here you are, there's nothing left to say

You're not supposed to be that way

Did they push you out? did they throw you away?

Touch me now and I don't care

When you take me I'm not there

Almost human, but I'll never be the same

Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own

Long way down, I don't want to live in here alone

Long way down, I don't think I'll make it on my own

I never put you down, I never pushed you away

You're not supposed to be that way

And anything you want, there's nothing I could say

Is there anything to feel?

Is it pain that makes you real?

Cut me off before it kills me"

[Goo Goo Dolls - "Long Way Down"]

Hisoka sighed, he didn't know if in relief or in exasperation. They were back in Enma-Cho.
They hadn't discovered much in the studio besides that Maria 'felt' exactly like the
girl they met near the crime scene. Maybe they would have discovered more hadn't Maria's
mother caught them and kicked them out. Hisoka was still suffering the lingering effects of
how his empathy had reacted to her excessive anger, even if he was doing his best to not
show it. He groaned. And why had she discovered them? Because Tsuzuki had to go and talk to
Maria. Really, the man was beyond Hisoka's comprehension.

Anyway, now that he was back in Meifu he felt safe enough, and he hoped he could stay there
now that they had a suspect. He'd had the impression (but probably he was only being
paranoid, he hoped he was being paranoid) _HE_ had been around when they were
just out of the studio, and the sensation had be so strong he had unconsciously gripped
Tsuzuki's arm. It hadn't helped that he'd also had the feeling that Tsuzuki too felt
'something', even if the man had denied it later. Anyway, he was really hoping he
shouldn't have to go back to ChiJou. Of course, his hopes were shattered when Enma-Cho's
database reported that their suspect had killed herself around two months ago, which was
quite unbelievable since they had seen her in ChiJou a few hours ago and she hadn't looked
like a rotting corpse.

Hisoka didn't like the whole story in general and he liked it even less when Tsuzuki just...
vanished before their meeting with Kacho. He didn't know why the absence of Tsuzuki bothered
him so much, but he just felt... hurt, betrayed even if he had no reason to be so. He felt
even more... 'uneasy' when Konoe entered the room asking for the promised update over
the investigation, and an inexplicable relief when Tsuzuki showed up again a second before
Konoe started talking.

Tsuzuki didn't offer any explanation or apology about his absence and merely started
reporting to Konoe. The two started a long discussion about Kyonshi and burial grounds,
while Hisoka felt cut out and forgotten. He didn't really understand much about what the two
were talking about, his supernatural knowledge being too low, but even without it, he had no
problem understanding Maria was being manipulated by someone, and this meant it wasn't
enough that they had discovered Maria's involvement, they also had to track down her...
puppet master. He shuddered at the idea of returning back to ChiJou, but Tsuzuki didn't even
seem to notice and this... hurt. He frowned. He wasn't going to let this hurt him. It was
okay if Tsuzuki... Tsuzuki-san didn't care about him, since when did anyone?

Realizing Tsuzuki-san and Konoe-Kacho were probably going to continue discussing the
supernatural aspects of the case, completely oblivious of his presence, he hurriedly got up,
announced he was going to continue the investigation on his own, leaving Tsuzuki-san
free to handle it how he preferred as well, and gave him an appointment time at the first
place that came to mind. He wanted to be out of there. He was a Kurosaki. A Kurosaki didn't
beg for attention from his partner. A Kurosaki didn't need it. A Kurosaki didn't desperately
wish for it... He felt Tsuzuki... Tsuzuki-san's exasperation before closing the door
but tried to not pay him any attention. So Tsuzuki-san considered him a child,
undeserving of consideration, someone he could abandon in the middle of an investigation
without even an explanation and collect later, after he'd had his fun or whatever else he
did when he was away, just because he had little or no knowledge about zombies, vampires and
things like that? Hisoka swallowed. He would show him. He would show him and... and what?
What was he desperately hoping to get from Tsuzuki? Why did he crave the older man's
attention so much?

He had no idea and he feared he would never discover it.

It was hard to not pay attention to the fact that Hisoka was late. He chewed his apple pie,
trying to enjoy its taste and not worry about the boy. He could understand that Hisoka had
been mad at him because he had vanished just before the meeting with Konoe. He had his
reasons to do so, of course. Enma liked regular reports and he couldn't just make him wait
without warning like he did with Konoe. It had been troublesome enough to make up an excuse
to postpone his report so he wouldn't have to leave Hisoka to deal with Konoe alone. He
would have liked to apologize for his absence but he couldn't really do it without offering
an explanation, and he couldn't explain without revealing something he wasn't supposed to.
He had been tempted to make up a lie but... but Hisoka was an empath and would have realized
it. His extra work for Enma was a matter between him and the lord of Meifu only. He wasn't
allowed to talk about it with others and Enma had a not nice and very definitive way to get
rid of people who knew too much.

He sighed as he swallowed some more pie. He could also understand that the boy felt cut out
during the discussion since no one had bothered to give him some information about Jujutsu
and supernatural phenomena. He couldn't help that.

He sighed again as he glanced at his wristwatch for the nth time. He would have been better
off not doing it since every time he only got more worried but he just couldn't resist. He
took another piece of apple pie. Of course, even if he could understand Hisoka's reasons, in
the end, they weren't good en to to leave him to work alone. They were partners after all,
he had promised Enma that he would keep an eye on the boy and... and once Hisoka was out of
his sight he couldn't help but worry for him. Without power, without knowledge, without
strength or the ability to control his own empathy well, the boy was an easy target. Not
that there was any reason to target him and yet... He checked his watch again. Okay, so he
too was rarely on time but it was 4:00 PM and they were supposed to have met an hour ago. He
just knew he should have tracked Hisoka down immediately after he finished talking with
Konoe, but he had thought some time alone would be good for the boy. He swallowed the last
piece of his pie without even tasting it. He'd better leave and try to track down Hisoka.
After all he'd already done all he could do, checking the places in which the victims were
found, the TV station again and questioning people who could have witnessed or known
something.

Apparently Maria had had the time and the chance to commit all the murders but who could
have turned her into onshonshi? One of her staff? Difficult. Her stepmother? She should know
something - it was hard to believe she could have not been surprised that her dead daughter
had returned from the burial ground and had started working again - but could she be the one
behind all this? Nope. There was no mention in her record that she had any knowledge of
Jujutsu, and creating a Kyonshi wasn't exactly something an amateur could do. There was a
man hanging around Maria or so it had been said. Could he be the one behind it all? He had
no idea, and he also didn't know why all these questions were of secondary importance to him
compared to the one that was tormenting him, and that was 'Where in the world was
Hisoka?'. He glanced at his watch again after paying for his pies. 4:10 PM. Still no
Hisoka in sight. Come to think of it, why had the boy asked him to meet on ChiJou? It seemed
he didn't like to be here... His thoughts were interrupted by a woman's scream. A child had
fainted. It wasn't his place to worry about things like that and yet... here he was trying
to help the child and he didn't leave even after a doctor from Tokyo chanced upon the scene
and had the little girl moved to the rest house where he could examine her. What a stupid
sentimental fool he was. To think he was a Shinigami... a dark creature that stole
life...⁽¹⁾

Add to this the fact that his Shiki⁽²⁾ and his co-workers would laugh at him to
the end of his days should they discover the doctor mistook him for the child's father...
Not his day really. Yet he still tried to be friendly with the doctor, a certain Muraki
Kazutaka, but the guy was plain weird and his instinct was warning him to be cautious even
if he couldn't understand why. He'd never seen the man before and yet somehow he had the
impression that he knew him. His impeccable manners, his charming yet professional smile,
his delicate and yet determinate features, the intensity of his gaze behind his glasses and
the way he held the cigarette between his fingers, the well modulated voice as he talked
about how weak humans were... Besides, he didn't like where the doctor's discussion was
leading. He wasn't merely mourning over the loss of his patients, complaining for having
been judged responsible for their deaths or dreaming a magical cure for everything. His
yearning for power and a _perfect_ body... felt wrong... he had already heard
someone yearning for it... long, long ago...⁽³⁾

"In this world, there is no such thing as 'perfect',"⁽⁴⁾ he replied,
frowning. He couldn't place the feeling he was getting but it definitely wasn't pleasant.
The man had that sort of charm a flame had for a moth, and Tsuzuki didn't look forward to
being 'burned alive'. Not at the moment, anyway, and certainly not by a
stranger.⁽⁵⁾ He felt even more uneasy when Muraki-san⁽⁶⁾ smiled at him
in a condescending way as if he was pleased with his answer even if he obviously didn't
believe it. Tsuzuki felt relieved when the doctor announced he had to go. The man had done
nothing wrong and yet... everything in him wanted to strike at the man the same way he would
have done at a dangerous enemy. Tsuzuki didn't want him around for a second longer, and he
felt guilty about it.⁽⁷⁾ Finally the doctor seemed ready to leave. Tsuzuki felt a
weird sense of relief as he realized he was about to be free to finally head back to
Enma-Cho to search for Hisoka, away from those aggressive impulses the doctor was awakening
in him. He was about to take the way opposite to the one Muraki-san was going, when the man
removed his glasses and looked back at him with his weird, unmatched, pale eyes and the
expression of one who would do anything to get his hands on what he wanted.

"By the way... Tsuzuki-san. You should also take care to not lose someone important to you
again," the doctor warned him, before placing his glasses back on his nose and leaving for
good. The statement froze Tsuzuki to the spot with too many thoughts and memories in his
head. He didn't know if it had been the words or just the manner they had been said but...
but the threat was there, and as he realized the implication it could have, he frantically
ran back to Enma-Cho searching for Hisoka, desperately hoping he was fine.

To be continued...

JJ's Notes:

1. In the manga, Tsuzuki dislikes his work as a Shinigami a lot and perceives himself as a
killer that carries misfortune.

2. Probably everyone knows this anyway... Tsuzuki owns 12 Shikigami and has a very friendly
relationship with them. In the anime it is never showed but in the manga we see most of them
also have a human form. Among them are Suzaku, Byakko and Touda who are showed in the anime
in their animal form.

3. I'm supposing Muraki Kazutaka has something in common with his grandfather Muraki
Yukitaka, who had been Tsuzuki's chief physician before his death. Why will Tsuzuki never
remember Muraki Yukitaka? When he saw him, Tsuzuki was insane and only barely conscious of
his surroundings and apparently later nearly completely removed that period of his life from
memory. Plus, Muraki took after his mother and therefore the resemblance with his
grandfather isn't so obvious.

4. It's EXACTLY what Tsuzuki said to Muraki in the manga.

5. Tsuzuki is suicidal, but since he's a Shinigami, very hard to kill. I'm supposing that
since he owns a Shikigami who can burn him to death, he considered ending his existence this
way BEFORE the 'Kyoto Chapter' even if tried it only then.

6. No, in the manga Tsuzuki never calls Muraki 'Muraki-san', just 'Muraki'. Why is he doing
it here? Well, I figured he would be polite to him in their first meeting... (in their first
meeting, Tsuzuki never calls Muraki by name so I don't know if he would use a polite
form).

7. Are you shocked about Tsuzuki having aggressive impulses rather than being just scared by
Muraki? Well... in a fashion he's scared. As far as I'm concerned, Tsuzuki has an
aggressive, violent instinct. He's impulsive and he can get really angry. That's also what
scares Tsuzuki. Since he's a nice person who doesn't want to hurt others, the mere idea of
lashing out at a man even if in self defence scares him because he desperately wants to be
human and not a bloodthirsty monster. At least... that's my impression.

JJ's Extra Notes:

Mn... there are so few differences between this chap and the original manga version that I
was tempted to delete this chap. In the end I decided to keep it here even if it looks a bit
rushed. Sorry about it but I really didn't want to rewrite all that happened in the manga. I
also dislike the lack of Tsuzuki/Hisoka interaction in this chap... I'll make up for it in
the next. Oh, and I cut out Tsuzuki and Enma's meeting. I'm sorry about it as well, but
really... nothing exceptional happened in it. The lord of Meifu will have other chances to
give us his two cents... Oh, and yes, have you noticed how Hisoka returned to 'Tsuzuki-san'
now that he's mad at him?

The 'Nagasaki Arc' manga version is quite different from the anime one. Since Viz
recently printed the first YnM volume I guess now there are many more people knowing about
this. Anyway... for who wants the basic differences...

In the manga Tsuzuki and Hisoka enter the TV studio and see Maria. Tsuzuki gets her
autograph (LOL). Maria's stepmother literally kicks them out. Muraki sees them leaving. The
two go back to Enma-Cho and discover Maria is dead. Muraki is informed by Maria's stepmother
that Tsuzuki and Hisoka went there. Tsuzuki and Hisoka report to Konoe and Konoe only about
what they discovered. Hisoka leaves to investigate on his own. Tsuzuki leaves as well.
GuShoShin informs Konoe that Hisoka didn't die of disease. Konoe said he knows and that's
why the boy was partnered with Tsuzuki. Later Tsuzuki is waiting for Hisoka, eating pie.
After a while he decides to go back to Enma-Cho when a child faints. He runs to help. Muraki
comes and offers to visit the child. After the visit, Muraki and Tsuzuki have a chat about
how weak humans are, how many patients Muraki lost and how he was mistreated for it, and how
beautiful it would be to have a perfect body. Tsuzuki disagrees, saying perfection doesn't
exist in the world, and thinks that Muraki is 'weird'. Muraki leaves, but before doing so he
warns Tsuzuki about being careful to not lose someone again.

So no, in the manga there's no battle with OhRyu, there's no a meeting with Konoe, Tatsumi,
Watari, Hisoka and Tsuzuki, Muraki didn't molest Tsuzuki while talking with him and, most
importantly, Tsuzuki didn't just listen him to talking with a gaping fish expression.

The anime Tsuzuki is very cute but I just don't like how 'uke' they portray him when he's
around Muraki.

Dictionary:

-san: Mister

ChiJou: Land of the living

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

GuShoShin: "Twin Living Gods" or "Twin Gods of Life". Enma-Cho's chicken-like librarians

GenSoKai: "Illusory world". It's were Shikigami reside and it's a mirror copy of ChiJou
located in JuOhCho network

Jujutsu: Magic Art

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

Kyonshi: Chinese Vampire

Meifu: Land of the dead

Shiki: Short for 'Shikigami'

Shikigami: "Ceremonial God". Summoned creatures with two forms (usually one is animal
looking while the other is human looking) that live in GenSoKai

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

Shokan-Ka: "Summoning Division". Division 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!

In the Next Chapter:

How Hisoka is doing his best to get himself in trouble, how Tsuzuki is trying to keep him
safe and how Muraki is going to ruin Tsuzuki's attempts... Oh yes, and Maria Won wandering
around freely too...
- 5
- 6
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