Yami No Matsuei Fan Fiction / Death Note Fan Fiction ❯ Then came an angel ❯ Omigod! They clash! ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter 11

By Sapadu

A/N: It LI-I-I-I-I-I-I-IVES!

Kyou was having a bad day. So bad, it classified as a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. Everything had been terrible. From the daily fight with Yuki in the morning to dinner that night- Tohru had meant well, but absent-mindedly forgotten he hated leeks.

It couldn't have gotten any worse, but then, somehow, it did.

For one, Momiji, the annoying brat, showed up at the door, arm in arm with that girl Kyou had collided with a few weeks ago on their way to school.

"Gu-ten- Ab-end!" Momiji sang, bouncing up and down. The girl, whom Tohru had spoken of to great length as 'Sapadu-san' bowed, continously.

"Konban wa! Ojamashimasu! Sumimasen!" She said, bowing repeatedly. Samantha spotted Kyou and practically lost her hair.

"K-K-Kyou-san! Um... I'M SORRY! I NEVER REALLY DID APOLOGIZE FOR BUMPING INTO YOU THAT DAY! Um... SUMIMASEN! SUMIMASEN! SUMIMASEN!" Kyou had to put a hand on her head to stop her from bowing anymore.

(A/N: This moment of overlyapologetic!Samantha brought to you by the author watching Tokyo Babylon fifty-two times within the past 36 hours ^_^)

"Momiji-kun, Sapadu-san, konban wa!" Tohru said, poking her head out of the kitchen door, "Why are you here?" Samantha stepped away from Kyou to go talk to Tohru, just as Yuki poked his head out into the hallway.

'She's almost like Tohru... with purple eyes!' They both thought at the same time.

"Do you remember Baku-chan? Sappi-chan told him A-A-ALL about Yuki-kun and Kyou-kun and he wanted to meet them, but he was too shy to come in and I was already busy dragging in Sappi-chan!" Momiji explained while Samantha stood in the corner, blushing furiously. Yuki and Kyou had no clue WHAT she was blushing for. Shigure came in to see what the fuss was all about.

"Sou sou! Who's this?" Shigure asked, smiling at Samantha.

"Ah, konban wa, Shigure-san!" Tohru said, with a smile, "This is Sapadu-san! Momiji-kun brought her and Baku-chan-san over because Baku-chan-san wanted to meet everyone." Shigure blinked with wide eyes before leaning over so his face was just a few inches from Sammy's.

"Well, well, then! Such a delight to meet a new friend of Tohru-ku-OW!" Shigure stopped in mid-sentence, for Samantha had whipped out a huge mallet and smacked him on the head with it. Shigure staggered away.

"Gomen ne... but I have this little, itty-bitty problem with men who are a lot older than me invading my personal space." Samantha said, meekly hiding behind her mallet. Shigure was stumbling around in circles, looking rather dazed.

"Not... a problem... at all..." He mumbled, in a giddy tone before falling over. Yuki and Kyou stared down at Shigure, both knowing what kind of hentai thoughts had been floating through his head as he'd leaned over Samantha.

'I've been waiting for YEARS to do that. I like her, already.' They both thought, glaring happily down at Shigure's knocked-out form.

"Well, who is this, 'Baku-chan-san'?" Yuki asked. A little light came on over Tohru's head.

"Ah... eto... Baku-chan-san is a friend of Sapadu-san's... He was sick one day and Sapadu-san stayed with him to take care of him... remember, when she was missing school?" Tohru explained. Yuki made a noise as though he understood. Kyou rolled his eyes.

"Well, where is he, then?" He asked, flopping down to sit on the floor. Samantha looked panicked for a moment.

"Aaah... um... Bakura-san's still outside... he felt it would be rude to just enter someone's house when neither you, nor Yuki-san, nor Shigure-san, nor Tohru-chan had invited him..." She explained, tripping over her words. Momiji pouted and nodded.

"Sappi-chan would've stayed out there with him if I didn't drag her in." He added. Kyou rolled his eyes.

"Well, I think it would be wonderful to meet Baku-kun! Just bring him on in- he should have dinner with us!" Shigure said, recovering and standing up. Tohru got excited, sharing his idea, apparently.

"Yes, yes, Shigure-san! I'll go make some more dinner right away!" Tohru agreed, marching toward the kitchen with determination.

"Sappi-chan, you should go get Baku-chan!" Momiji instructed, and just as Samantha left to fetch said 'Baku-chan' Kyou grabbed Momiji and boxed his ears.

"Don't boss her around- she's a GUEST and YOU'RE the one inviting in this 'Baku-chan', not US!" He snarled. Samantha ignored this and opened the front door anyway.

"Bakura-san... They've invited you in... You really shouldn't be standing around in the rain like this!" Sammy said, holding the door for a boy with white hair and wearing a cream coloured sweater. He smiled and closed the umbrella he had.

"That's why I had an umbrella." He explained, calmly. Samantha continued to fret.

"But you'll get your feet wet and catch a cold! And you just recovered from what Ring-san did, too. That would be TERRIBLE!" She insisted, and only Tohru herself would have reminded Kyou of Tohru more. Bakura entered the house and propped up the umbrella next to the wall.

"Ne, Tohru-chan! What are you making for dinner?" Samantha called. Tohru poked her head out of the door.

"Soup and some rice and I made some leeks before I remembered Kyou-kun doesn't like them... Oh, konban wa, Bakura-kun!" Tohru smiled, waving her hand that still had a ladle in it. Bakura bowed.

"Good evening. Thank you for having me over." Bakura said with a smile. Yuki smiled back.

"No, not at all. It's very nice to meet you, Bakura-san." The rat agreed. It made Kyou even crabbier- of course it was the damn rat who was so polite and hospitable, hell, he was even dressed nicely, while Kyou was sitting on the floor and wearing a raggedy old t-shirt and sweatpants.

Moodily, Kyou stood up and left the room. Tohru would have dinner ready in a minute, anyway.

Dinner started, and everyone started conversation. Momiji started off the evening by saying 'Baku-chan' already knew about the curse, so they didn't have to worry about being careful. Shigure and Yuki had both choked on their leeks when Momiji said that, and Kyou probably would HAVE choked, but he wasn't eating yet.

"Oh... so Kyou-san, Yuki-san, and Shigure-san are also possessed by Juunishi spirits?" Samantha asked, looking rather surprised.

"Mmm... but we'd prefer if you DIDN'T mention this outside the house- it's a family secret." Shigure muttered, holding a hand up as though only Samantha would hear if he did that.

"Not much of a secret if half of Japan knows..." Sammy muttered, but nobody heard her.

"Ne, ne, Sappi-chan, on your first day when Haru and I met you at lunch and I hugged you, how come I didn't transform?" Momiji asked. Bakura looked up from his miso with surprise.

"That would probably be because I'm dead. You see- being a shinigami basically makes you a spirit, and your body is purely spiritual as well. However, since I'm a vampire, that's screwed things up a bit, and now, for some ODD reason I can't explain, I can switch my gender whenever I feel like it, which cancels out the effect of your curse, which is solely dependent on the gender of a person." Sammy explained, and the fact that she was smiling cheerfully made the whole statement rather eerie. Yuki had a look on his face, very much akin to the look he'd worn when his brother had once asked him about 'glasses girls'.

(A/N: See Fruits Basket, Episode 20)

"...Dead?" He muttered. Kyou swallowed a chopstick-full of rice before making a face at Yuki.

"Yeah, that's right: Dead, you damn rat! Or is that too scary for you?" Kyou snapped. Yuki calmly stared back at him.

"It's better than being too stupid to comprehend all of what she just said. I'll bet it went so far over your head it didn't even ruffle your hair." Yuki replied, smirking. Kyou's face went red.

"YOU GIRLY MAN!" Kyou screamed, standing up (and he probably would've lifted the table too, except everyone's food was still on it)

"Baka. You'll never change." Yuki calmly retorted. Samantha, for her part, was growing gray hairs, hoping nobody would get killed.

'Everyone's so crabby tonight. New topic... Switch conversation topic.' She thought. Aside from Yuki and Kyou glaring at each other, most of the table was calmly eating their dinner. Bakura was giving Samantha a curious raised eyebrow at her frown.

"Say, did anyone here know that in ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped?" Samantha finally said, smiling. Kyou looked away from Yuki, orange cat ears popping out of his hair.

"Huh?" He said, his eyebrow twitching.

"Oh, yes! The ancient Egyptians believed that all animals were closely related to the gods- most Egyptian gods such as Anubis, Isis, and Bastet had animal heads- and cats were believed to make crops grow and protect the house and children from danger. In fact, anyone who killed a cat was sentenced to death because it was a crime!" Bakura agreed, enthusiastically. Everyone blinked.

"RE-E-E-EALLY?" Kyou finally said, in a rather delighted tone.

"You certainly seem to know a lot about Egyptian lore..." Shigure muttered, peering at Bakura. Bakura blushed a little.

"Well, my father's an archaeologist, and a lot of the time, he's in Egypt. The few times that he's written, he's told me a lot about what he learned at digs. I like to think that I know a bit more than average about ancient history." Bakura explained, shrugging bashfully.

(A/N: Sort of like Subaru saying 'I'm just an ordinary omnyouji', ne? Everyone huggle Bakura-san. You know you want to.)

"In fact, cats were kept as pets, one of the first domesticated animals EVER. Sometimes, if a rich person owned a cat, like a rich merchant or maybe even the Pharaoh, they would have rich gold and turquoise jewelry made for their cat- necklaces, collars, bracelets, tail rings, sometimes even earrings! And cats were also considered to be guardians of the underworld. Priests of great importance and mighty kings, when they died, would have their cat mummified and put in the tomb with them. And you know how the Pharaohs would have things like money, games, and food in their tombs? Well, the cats would have their OWN personal chambers, very much like that. They'd even have little mummified mice put in their tombs so they could chase them throughout the afterlife." Samantha continued, enthusiastically. Yuki stiffened.

(A/N: A little of this info about cats, I'm kind of bullshitting, but most of it is true.)

"That's... that's very... um... interesting... Sapadu-san..." Yuki said, slowly. Samantha blinked, and Tohru did the same, before remembering that Yuki was the rat.

"Why do you bring this up, Sapadu-kun?" Shigure asked. Samantha devoted a few seconds of attention to her rice before stammering.

"Well... everyone was just so tired and cranky and arguing with each other... so I figured I should change the subject... and it seemed like a good topic..." Sammy said, mumbling. Shigure made a noise.

"Well, I'm not sure if you knew, but Kyou-kun here is the cat in the zodiac, while Yuki-kun is the rat so... it probably was quite tactless of you to choose THAT particular topic." Shigure explained. Samantha looked quite taken aback.

"Did you also know the Egyptian god of death, Anubis, had the head of a dog?" Bakura added in, and before Shigure could explain that he was the dog, Bakura said he knew- Samantha had told him already.

"BAKU-CHAN'S GOT A CRUSH!" Momiji called, cupping his hands over his mouth. Samantha dropped her chopsticks in surprise.

"REALLY? On who?" She asked, honestly curious. Yuki and Kyou tried not to bang their heads to the table.

'She really is as dense as Tohru.' They both thought.

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A/N: I was really proud of this section- I think it combined and embodied the spirit of both mangas and all the characters. I mean, really, with Yuki and Kyou always fighting, but somehow, agreeing on things when against Shigure, all the little antics and stuff... Me likes...

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"So, now that you can understand us, no hard feelings about day one, right?" Tea asked, carefully keeping her stride in sync with Ken's, whom had about the same stride as Yugi. Yugi and her had "persuaded" Joey and Tristan to come with them in walking home with Ken that afternoon.

"Hard feelings? Why would I have hard feelings? It's not like you guys were beating me up or jumping me or anything. I got a lot of that at my first school after coming to the surface because I was so pale and mysophobic and freaked out when girls tried to hug me." Ken asked, frowning as he walked backwards to face everyone. Joey kicked at a stone on the sidewalk, his eyes shifting guiltily. Tea elbowed him and he finally looked up.

"Well... uh... ya see... when we saw ya walkin' ta school wid 'at Skywalker guy... um... I kinda said some... pretty rude stuff aboutcha... so..." Joey stammered. Ken grinned.

"Oh, come ON! I TOLD you about all the crap I had to put up with back home on Yavin Four- people making rude comments about me because I'm walking to school with someone who looks like a movie star is QUITE a pleasant change." Ken assured them.

Yugi knew they were going to get along just PEACHY.

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Subaru followed the instructions drawn on the map. Lady Sumeragi had sent them to him, telling him a very powerful omnyouji under the name of 'Magami' was in Tokyo, but since all of the Magami clan was... well, Kamui... it was VERY suspicious that this woman would have appeared out of nowhere, and associated with such an important clan, too.

The other thing that had made his grandmother nervous was that this woman had registered, under a second name: Sakurazuka. Lady Sumeragi, being her usual self, insisted that Subaru find her and deal with her accordingly. With all of her omnyouji talents, perhaps this woman was a Sakurazukamori- which would throw off the magical balance of Japan.

Duties as a Seal notwithstanding, Subaru went to investigate. He found himself standing on the doorstep of a rather humble home- nicely kept, and a moderate size for a family of three with a guest room or two, but rather modest just the same.

He knocked on the door twice. And he heard voices from the inside yelling,

"KE-E-E-E-EN! WOULD YOU GET THAT, PLEASE?!" Shouted a woman's voice, followed up by that of a young boy.

"OKAY, MOTHER!" A few moments later, the door opened enough for Subaru to see a brown-haired, gray-eyed boy in a school uniform- a GIRL'S school uniform, no less- peering up at him. The boy's face warped for a second before he slammed the door in Subaru's face.

Subaru blinked and a second later, the door cracked open and Subaru saw the boy peeking through the crack with one eye.

The door slammed shut again and he heard a rather panicked wail.

"MO-THE-E-E-E-ER! THE THIRTEENTH SUMERAGI HEAD IS STANDING ON OUR DOORSTEP AND HE WON'T GO AWAY!" Subaru blinked at the door, fighting not to smile. Since when was he recognized by elementary school kids?

In just a moment, the door opened and the boy who'd slammed the door minutes before held a hand as though to invite Subaru in. His face looked rather green and Subaru could see his knees shaking.

"A-ano... Sumeragi-san..." He stuttered, in faltering Japanese- the words he'd screamed seconds before had been in English.

"I understand and speak English, you know." Subaru informed him, stepping in, toeing off his shoes, and standing in the foyer. The boy went, if possible, a deeper shade of green.

"Well, then... um, make yourself comfortable." The boy bowed, rather deeply. Subaru's eyebrow twitched- this boy sounded and acted in a manner that reminded Subaru FAR too much of himself when he'd been sixteen.

Subaru walked into the den, where, sitting around the table with backpacks and homework out, were four high school kids, three boys and one girl- the girl wearing the same uniform as the boy at the front door had been wearing. Subaru took a seat on the sofa and a short woman with brown hair and a bandage over her eyes came down the stairs.

"Ken, why don't you and your friends move upstairs to do your homework while Subaru-kun and I talk about my business on Earth?" The woman said, lightly waving a hand at her son. Ken and the other four high schoolers gathered their books and went upstairs.

Which left Subaru in the den with a crazy woman who reminded him very thoroughly of Seishirou-san, and apparently knew he was coming, and why.

A/N: And I'm gonna end it here, because I'm too proud of this chapter. If I make it longer, I'm worried I'll botch it.