After lunch, I continued my training but inside the city. Gem had told me that if I practiced our power inside the city it would be more powerful outside the city because of the conditions restricting powers. I pointed my finger and tried opening a portal but nothing happens. I try it again but I get the same results.
"Hey Gem?"
"Yes?"
"How come you can use Space-Time in the city but I can't?"
"The barrier puts a strain on human bodies that suppresses the powers humans were given. Us shinigami are not of this world so we won't have that strain."
"Oh ok, would there be a way to get rid of this strain?"
"Destroying the barrier or just not being a part of the human realm,"
"I don't think I could do either of those" I look down at my hands, "Hey Gem?"
"Yes, Karma"
"I can use Space-Time with any part of my body right?" Gem nods, "How about my eyes?"
"You could but I don't recommend it,"
"Why?"
"It will ca
Gem and I get home and I immediately face plant down on my bed."I'm so tired," I said as the pillow muffled my speech."You should probably eat something before you take a nap, you haven't eaten yet,""Okay Gem," I said getting up from my bed, as I'm about to walk out of my room, I realize Gem isn't following me."Are you coming Gem?" I asked as I turned around to look at her, she was looking around the room."I'm going to the shinigami realm for a while,""Okay, I'll probably be sleeping when you get back, bye Gem," I said as I walked out of the room and headed towards the kitchen.Gem teleports herself to the shinigami realm, which is a cold, dark and dusty place. When she gets there, Sinn is not far from where she's standing."You felt it too huh?" Sinn asked Gem."I didn't notice till you left, why didn't you say anything?""I thought you knew, I was about to go see him myself. You coming?"
The week is over and I'm packing my bag to go back, Kaname couldn't find anything in the office and plans to leave tomorrow. There still any sign of Mom, I honestly thought by now she'd at least text me. Ever since Gem got back from the shinigami realm she's been really quiet and constantly looks around. Every time I mention it she tells me I'm imagining it and that we should cut my training short. I know for a fact there's something she's not telling me but I'm not going to ask about it just yet. As I'm thinking if I should ask Gem about her weird behaviour, there's a knock on the door."Come in," I say without looking at the door, continuing to pack my bag."Lady Karma, I have a surprise for you,""What's the surprise Asagi?" I say still packing my bag."When you're finished packing come downstairs alright?" I look at Asagi who has a smile on his face as he exits my room."What do you think that's about Gem?" Gem stays silent looking around the r
When we got home, we were greeted by my father, surprisingly he seemed genuinely happy to see both Kaname and me."How are you both?" He asked pulling us into a hug, I didn't know how to respond this is the first time Father had ever done something like this."We're fine but I need to discuss something with you about Mom," Kaname says in a serious tone. Father looks at me and nods back to Kaname."Karma, we'll talk later alright?" Father says to me with a smile, I nod and take my bag upstairs. As I put my bag down Kami bursts into my room, angry."I take it you're still upset about what happened last week,""Damn right I'm still upset, the fact that you plan to take what's rightfully mine. I'm furious,""Kami it was never yours, to begin with," I say barely paying any attention to her, unpacking my dirty laundry."Look at me when I speak to you!" Kami yells at me as I put my dirty laundry in the basket. Kami put her hand on my head an
I look around the room but I can't find who said that. "Ah, that's right you can't talk" A boy with blonde hair, emerald green eyes, and bright white clothes climbs out from under the bed, I'm laying on. "You can't tell your dad you saw me though, I'd be in a lot of trouble, you might be too though," The boy opened my mouth and put a red gummy bear in my mouth and closed and opened my mouth repeatedly. "Hey, so I can make you eat huh, that's so cool." The boy did this process about 5 times, it looked like he would never get tired of it. "I bet you have a lot of questions for me," I rolled my eyes up, " I'm goib to heal you now, that way we can have a proper conversation," The boy puts his hand on my head and it glows green, he hovers his hand over my body. "How do you feel now? Feel free to yell if you want to, this room is soundproof." "Ph-phank you," I say as struggled to get up and speak. "Ah, hold on a sec" The boy holds my head and it glows green again.
*Luke's POV* "Crap she's going to rat me out and when she does, my mother is as good as dead," I thought to myself. "It's all my fault why couldn't I have just done as I was told and stay under the bed. It's all because I couldn't wait to get to know her. I'm an idiot. *Karma's POV* "I was nervous that you guys would make me leave the room before checking it out," I lied to Kaname, I hoped he wouldn't figure that out. Kaname sighs "Sounds just like you, but how did you recover so fast?" "Uh, prayers," I said hoping he'd buy that. "Yeah, no that makes no sense, what're you hiding?" "Nothing, why would I need to hide anything?" "Aright then, I'll be back around dinner time to bring you something to eat alright," "Okay, thanks Kaname," "No problem" Kaname leaves the room closing the door behind him. Luke comes out from under the bed, looking at me with a surprised expression. "Why
"What do you mean he doesn't exist?!" I say sitting up on the bed. Luke looks around the room like he's looking for something."Just as I said, this brother you're looking for doesn't exist," Luke says as he lifts up a pile of books. "Ah, here it is," Luke picks out a piece of paper under the books and hands it to me."What's this?" I say taking the paper and looking at it."Read the paper, you're brother left it up here like 2 or 3 weeks ago. I naturally hid it to use as blackmail to get out of here but it's of no importance to your dad, he said so himself,""But how did he…" I say as I look down at the paper, which reads1. Trick Karma into searching for our "brother"2. Make sure she doesn't return3. Help Kami get the war"But why would he do this?" I say holding the paper tightly in my hands."Beats me but what're you going to do now?""What do you mean by that?""Well you've seen his plans so w
I stood there looking at Kaname, he sighed and said "Karma, I was going to tell yo-" "WHEN?! When would you have told me huh?! I knew it was suspicious the way she just left without saying anything to me first and the way I couldn't call or text her. How long were going to hide this from me?! Why didn't you tell me!?" I yelled at Kaname as I walked into the room, I wasn't planning on addressing the information Luke gave me but that and now this was too much. "I couldn't at the time," I pushed Kaname out of the way and looked down at Kami who sat on her bed, smirking at me. "How did you know?" I asked Kami, standing in front of her trying not to do anything I'd regret. "I was the cause of the sorry-ass state she's in, now that we're getting somewhere I wan-" I slapped Kami across her face before she could finish her sentence. "You're holding your own mother as a hostage to try and get something that isn't within your reach! Let my mother go,"
"I wonder if anything was left-back?" I say as I rummage through the fridge for something to eat."Probably not," Gem said standing behind me, idly watching."There's a bowl of fruits, a salad, and some apple juice. That's enough to last me about 2 days,""You plan on staying here for 2 days?" Gems ask me."Well, I can't go back to Father's place yet, the answer I want to give Kam will only endanger more people,""I'm surprised you're taking this so calmly,""Oh I was a mess before I completely lost it with Kaname. I want to save mom but I'd be putting everyone else at risk, and if I decide to take on the war then I lose the closest person to me,""And if you don't answer in the time given?""I assume Mom dies,""Why don't you save that decision for later, instead think of a way you can have both,""How am I going to have both?""Well if we happen to find a way to heal your mother without Kamiya finding out
"In Kami's absence, Karma you'll need to stop this senseless search and help out on the frontlines," Father said. "No," I said. "What did you say to me?" Father said he looked really mad. "I said no, I'm not giving up what I want because you tell me to. I'm done doing your dirty work, if you want something done do it yourself. All you ever really do is sit up in your office and make me, Kami, and Kaname do you're bidding, hell if I'm going to do that. I'll go on the frontlines whenever I want to go," I said as I walked out of the room, noticing Kaname had his hand over his mouth trying to contain his laughter. “So what are you going to do now, Father? Your best fighter has tapped out and now you’ve got to deal with a teenage rebellion,” Kaname teased. “Of all the times, why now do they pull this shit? Guess it’s your time Kaname,” “Yeah, no thanks,” “What!?”“I could’ve settled for at least second best but third time isn’t always the charm pops,” Kanam
Sinn is nowhere near my name but I was given it because that's what I was called, I don't even remember what my real name was."Another round!" a customer yelled at me as I was cleaning glasses. By day, I'm just a bartender but during the night I was a murderer. Of course, murder is wrong but honestly, some people do deserve it, well that's my mentality at least. While I was making the customer's drink I heard him talking to another person."Did you hear? The serial murderer has been attacking this area lately?" the man said to the other."What? But why?""Does a mass murderer need a reason to murder?""I heard every person he killed had at least committed an offence punishable by death but of course managed to get out," a woman chimed into the conversation. I know this woman, she's in the bar every night till closing and even then she'd stick around. She just so happens to be a cop I believe she's suspicious of me."So
"What do you want now?" Axel said looking at both Gem and Sinn, "If this is about the girl she's fine, she's unconscious because she wants to be." "Really?" Sinn asked, "Why would anyone want to be unconscious?" "This way I don't have control of her, she's growing stubborn and I don't want her getting in my way," Axel said angrily. "You've brought this upon yourself, Axel," Gem said standing in front of him. "Oh?" he looked up at Gem and instantly knew what she had meant, "I see you have made up your mind but answer me this Gem, how will you defeat me when you're powerless?" Axel asked while smirking. Sinn thought to himself she knew he would ask this and honestly I have the same question, it's pretty obvious that Gem feeds power off of Karma so she doesn't get too powerful but it definitely won't be enough to take on Axel. Sinn looked at Gem who was determined but determination alone would only get her killed, not to mention her i
"Just wake up already, you're fully healed," Axel said to Kami. Axel rarely leaves the shinigami realm so when he wants to communicate with Kami he meets up with her in her head. "I've had enough Axel, let me go I won't be your puppet any longer," Kami said folding her arms. "You almost got Kaname and Karma killed, not to mention you almost killed my mother. I told you that you could use my body to achieve the war but don't hurt my family," "They were just collateral damage besides even if I did get them killed what would you do? It's not like you could stop me, face it if it weren't for that commander we wouldn't be in here right now," Axel said smirking. "Whatever, all that matters now is that we're here now and we're on equal terms now," Kami said with a smirk. "What the hell are you talking about kid?" Axel said getting annoyed. "Thanks to that beating the commander gave me, your mark is halfway gone," Kami said pushing h
"Natsu I need to see Luke right now," I said giving Natsu a look of determination."Uh, sure and you know there's no rush it's not like he's going anywhere," Natsu said jokingly."Just where did they take him Natsu?""Follow me," Natsu said as we walked through to get to the infirmary, I kept my head down a majority of the time as Nastu stopped to talk to his comrades. In my head, I hoped and prayed that no one would recognize me and thankfully no one did. I thought to myself I probably should've brought Kaname or even Lyst with me. Once we got to the infirmary, I put my head up a bit to see Luke, for the first time he looked genuinely happy. He was laughing with a bunch of other people and being greeted by people, he looked like he was where he belonged. I felt a pain in my chest, it hurt to see someone else enjoying the one thing I wanted most. Why is it that everyone else gets to have that feeling but for me? Did I do something wrong? Was I unworthy of
I open the bush to find Luke's jacket, I picked it up and a person with horns pops out, I looked at Kaname."He's pretty smart," Sinn said, replying for Kaname. "losing the clothes would aid his escape better but of course he slipped up giving it to a demon," Sinn said and the jacket started glowing. Kaname shielded me as the jacket glowed and then dissipated."Hehehehehehe, good to see you again Kaname," the demon said."What did they say?" Kaname asked Sinn."They said it was nice to see you again Kaname," I said to Kaname, "stop talking, you'll make yourself worse,""How did you understand that?" Sinn asked me, I looked at him confused, "demons speak an ancient language, it was around before shinigami," Sinn explained."I don't know, I just understood them," I said looking at the demon."I've never seen you before, who are you?""I'm Karma, Kaname's sister and you are?" I asked extending my hand to the female demon."
After placing a drop on Kami and Kaname, Kaname woke up and struggled to sit up. Kami on the other hand didn't move, I was about to place another drop on her when Kaname grabbed my arm and shook his head."Can you speak?" I asked just to make sure."Well, that's a stupid question, of course not, " Sinn said standing next to Kaname's bed. "No I couldn't have put it any nicer, " Sinn said looking at Kaname."Wait you know what he's staying?" I asked Sinn, looking dumbfounded."Of course I can, we're bound together I could basically read his mind, ""Could you tell me what he knows about Deity tears?""Don't tell her anything it's not the time yet, " Kaname thought."He knows nothing about it but where did you get it?" Sinn asked."Father gave it to me when I gave him the report, " I said looking down."Oh damn, I know he was upset, " Sinn laughed "I'm surprised he didn't kill you, blee the entire mission. Oh well at least
"Kami!?" I screamed as I got up from the dirt and rushed to her side making sure she was ok."Get away..from me," Kami said coughing up blood."You're alright, " I said hugging her as tears welled up in my eyes. "B-but what was that crack?" I turn around to see that Gem had taken the blow for Kami, cracking her bones. "Gem!? What're you doing here?""You were the one who summoned me, ""I did?" I asked, confused."Forget it, just get Kami out of here, " Gem told me as she teleports the Commander a great distance from us."No...I…fight, " Kami said spitting up more blood."The only fight you should be worried about is the one for your life, " Gem said as I hesitated to send Kami away. "she'll die if you don't move quickly, " Gem said seeing me still hesitating, I want her to live for sure but even with Gem here I don't have enough combat skills to take down such a great opponent. As I thought about it Kami has warped away from m
"2 on 1 hardly seems fair and it seems as though you were about to get your ass beat," I said teasing Kami. "HA, you wish after this is over I'm soooo kicking your ass," Kami said as I teleported her to my side. "When was the last time we fought side by side huh?" I asked Kami, feeling a sense of nostalgia. "Pfft, as if we'd ever get the chance to fight side by side like this, " Kami said giving a small smile. "You can remember it more vividly when you're drawing your last breathes," the commander said charging at us. Kami then ran to the right so I ran to the left, the commander went after her first. Kami then picked up the pace and ran faster she gave me a look and I nodded. I then teleported her onto the commander. She marked him and jumped off I teleported her back to me. "Say hi to Satan for me asshole," Kami said as she activated her power but nothing happened. "oh you've gotta be kidding me," "Nice try girls but my power