Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ Ivy, Shaman Runaway ❯ Angels In Heaven ( Chapter 65 )

 

Angels In Heaven

My whole body was numb. I was so cold, and everything was dark. The only thing I could feel was the pain resonating in my head from where I had hit it on the bottom of the lake. I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe.

 

Suddenly I could feel someone's lips being pressed to my own, forcing air into my lungs. I started to breathe again, but the other pair of lips didn't stop. This time they rested upon my lips in a gentle kiss. I couldn't help but kiss back, more forcefully than the other person. When I reacted to the kiss I heard a small gasp. It was a woman's voice…more girl than woman; she was still young. I was kissing a girl probably a few years younger than my current body. She wasn't a very experienced kisser, but she knew the basics. She was young and inexperienced.

 

My eyes snapped open and all I could see was white. Everything was the same blinding fluorescent white color. The girl hastily pulled back away from the kiss and rolled off of me. She had been straddling me while performing CPR. I sat up and blinked several times, willing my eyes to grow accustomed to the brightness of my new surroundings. I definitely wasn't at the oasis anymore.

 

“Are you okay?” A small child whimpered to my left.

 

I turned to look at her, and my eyes had finally adjusted to the light. She would grow up to be beautiful; I could tell just looking at her. She had gorgeous dark obsidian eyes, semi-tanned skin, pale lips, a flat stomach, the beginnings of what would be a nice-sized chest, and the cutest little nose that you had ever seen. She wore a yellow tube-top like thing with a cartoon skull in the center of the shirt, her pants looked just like Ren's battle pants, only hers had a big rip in the left calf. I could see bloody bandages covering her little calf. Her hair looked like it was supposed to be up in a style that was very similar to Jun Tao's hair, but this little girl's hair was falling down and it hung messily all over the place. Around her neck hung a very familiar heart shaped necklace.

 

“Did you hear me? I asked if you were okay.” She tried again, her voice a little stronger this time.

 

I awoke partway from my daydream-like state in time to answer her question. “Oh! Yeah, I'm fine. What's your name?” I smiled slightly at the girl sitting before me.

 

“Uh…I don't think I should tell you that. You're Hao Asakura correct?” The girl got to her feet and offered me a hand up.

 

“I am.” I got to my feet by myself without her help. I took the moment to look around at my surroundings. I was in an old white stone courtyard, and all you could see was white for miles around. At one end of the courtyard was a gate. A huge white gate with bars that looked like a prison cell. “Where the Hell am I?”

 

“Not `Hell'; `Heaven'.” The girl replied dryly.

 

“HEAVEN?! HOW DID I GET INTO HEAVEN?!” If I had been drinking anything I would have spit it out all over the place. Suddenly a thought dawned on me. “Hey, is Ivy here?! Can I see her?!”

 

The girl had regained her composure, and was eating an orange, sitting on thin air like it was a wall. “First off, I summoned you here.” She removed some of the orange peal. “Secondly, yes, Ivy is here.” I held my breath as she prepared to answer my third question. “Thirdly, no, you may not see her.”

 

“WHAT?! Why not!?”

 

The girl took a decisive bite of her orange before answering. “You are not allowed to see her: you're still alive, and dead people in Heaven are not allowed to talk to alive people.”

 

“Just who the Hell do you think you are, Pipsqueak, ordering me around and telling me what I can and can't do?!” I completely lost my temper with the younger girl.

 

All of a sudden a thick layer of electricity covered the girl. “DON'T. YOU. EVER. CALL. ME. PIPSQUEAK!!!!!!!!!” A huge bolt of lightening struck somewhere followed closely by a loud roar of thunder. The orange in her hand exploded, and her face dropped. “Shoot! Look what you made me do!” The poor thing hopped down off of her wall and quietly wept at the loss of control over her powers.

 

“You're an allure.” I followed her as she retreated towards the gate at the other end of the courtyard. “You know, I could help you learn to control your powers.”

 

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'm not falling for that again Asakura! `I'll help you control your powers if you become my fiancée.' HA! Yeah right! I may be young, but I'm not stupid!” She turned away from me and faced the bars of the gate, holding onto one, trying not to cry in front of me.

 

“I would know that snippy attitude anywhere…how do you know Ivy?” I circled my arms around the girl and spun her around to face me.

 

“Leave me alone you…you…bastard! I can't see what I could have possibly seen in you in the first place! Ivy was such an idiot to fall for you!” A hand suddenly reached through the bars and grabbed the girl picking her up off of the ground.

 

“He was kind, handsome, and he seemed to genuinely care for me. That's what I fell in love with.”

 

I knew that voice. My eyes slowly traveled up the body of the person on the other side of the gate. I fell in love all over again by the time I got to her face. “Ivy…”

 

She smiled gently at me as she set down the younger girl. “Hello Hao. You must forgive my little alter ego here; Judo's…an idiot, and she didn't give you my message.” She directed her attention to `Judo' as she glared. “I told you that you weren't suppose to make out with him, and what did you do?”

 

“It was just CPR! He's the one who made a move on me!” Judo had summoned another orange from thin air and was snacking on it.

 

“Of course; we'll talk later, we've got all of eternity.” Ivy turned her attention back to me as she reached through the bars to caress my neck. “How's your neck doing? It doesn't hurt much does it?”

 

“How did you…” Her hand rested over the small wound I had made with the dagger.

 

“I've been watching you.” She replied as she played with my bangs.

 

“Ivy, I'm leaving.” Judo rolled her eyes at her older self as she faded into thin air. “I don't want to see any more of this lovey-dovey stuff.”

 

“I thought she'd never leave.” Ivy smirked evilly as she pulled my face up against the bars, kissing me full on the lips.

 

“Ivy? I thought that you would hate me for what I did to you…” I reached through the bars to stroke her hair.

 

“No. It was my fault…” She paused a bit before jumping to a new subject. “I'm not allowed into Heaven yet, you know…” She looked behind her as if checking to make sure no one saw her there talking to me.

 

“Why not? How could they not let an angel like you into Heaven?” I let my hand wander down to her hips.

 

“Apparently they don't let in people with regrets or unfinished business.” She smiled lightly, amused at the thought.

 

“Regrets and unfinished business? What would yours be?” One arm slid around her waist and pulled her closer to me.

 

“You…”

 

I let go of her in shock. “I'm the thing that's keeping you from going to Heaven?”

 

She looked away from me, slightly blushing. “And your brother. I apparently wasn't 100% sure of my marrying Yoh when I died, and so I'm forced to sit up here watching you guys. I have to make a final decision on the day of my funeral.”

 

I took her by the chin and forced her to look me in the eye. “I knew you didn't really want to marry Yoh.” I smirked knowingly at her as I started to stroke her cheek.

 

“It doesn't matter. What does matter is that I'm stuck here, and I have to watch you suffering without me! Will you please stop trying to kill yourself?!” She pouted, not liking my teasing. “I…I died to stop the dying, and I won't ever be able to rest in peace if you kill yourself because of me!” Ghostly tears streamed down her face and she refused to look at me.

 

“I promise. I won't take my own life if you say so. I don't want to keep you from Heaven any longer.” She looked up at me and smiled through her tears. I took the moment to pull her in for another kiss. My arms slid through the bars and snaked around her waist. Hers likewise surrounded my neck.

 

“Ahem…” a disapproving voice cleared his throat somewhere behind Ivy. We broke the kiss, and turned to see a man with short brown hair and light brown eyes dressed in all white glaring at us. “Sorry to ruin the moment, but the dead and the living are not allowed to speak to each other if the deceased is already in Heaven.”

 

Ivy glared viciously at the older man. “Chill, Gabe. I wasn't speaking with him, I was making out with him.”

 

“She does have a point.” A red-haired angel dressed all in black emerged from behind `Gabe'.

 

“Shut up Raphael. I'll decide whether or not she is breaking rules; I have seniority. Come along now Ivy.”

 

“I have to go.” She smiled sadly at me as she brushed a few stands of hair out of my face.

 

“Will I ever see you again?” I begged her answer to be yes as I pulled her close to me again through the gate.

 

“Most likely not.” She mumbled. “Goodbye Hao.”

 

“Goodbye Ivy, I love you.” I snuck in another quick kiss before she could leave me forever.

 

“I love you too, Hao.” The older angel took her by the shoulder and started to pull her away back through the gates to Heaven. She held on to my hand for as long as she could as they took her away from me. We held on to each other until just our fingertips were touching, and after that she looked back at me, reaching out for me until at last she faded from view into a bright Heavenly light most befitting to my beautiful, perfect angel.