bakatachi’s alcove

Team Tsuki’s Commander Ueno had given the team a new task - to find the spirits of two people, one a celestial and another, a mere man, and destroy them both for the sake of humanity and mankind. The team’s combined spiritual power would react to the waves emitted by the two possessed bodies of the spirits, but first they had to research on them.

Kyoichi’s and Suzumi’s 17th birthday was in three days’ time, but they both had no time to celebrate it, due to their time taken up by the research. Knowing this, Kyoichi’s parents had the both of them called down to the family house in Niigata. They set off the very next day, arriving there at night. Kyoichi’s father, Aogiri Kazuma, invited them to the midnight tea ceremony, to break to them an important piece of news…

Ceres found it. The girl that she could possess. And to make it worse, Mikagi had also chosen a boy to contain his spirit in…

"The two of you…", Kazuma started, "you’re siblings. Biological siblings."

Aogiri Kaede, Kazuma’s wife, started sobbing. Suzumi dropped her chawan of traditional green tea. Kazuma calmed himself and continued, "We had to separate you at birth, when we sensed overpowering negative spiritual powers. We could not decipher it at first, but we, the Clan of Aogiri, have been trying within all our abilities to contain it. But no longer. The spirits have taken over both of you, beyond our control. Tomorrow…" he started to wince as if in deep pain. Kyoichi went to his father, tears welling in his eyes, expecting the worst.

"Tomorrow they will relive their spirits in your bodies…the spirits of the legendary Ceres and her husband Mikagi."

Now both the parents couldn’t hold themselves any longer. They cried together. Kyoichi tried to console his father, even though he was too thrown aback to say anything. Suzumi sat still, stunned by all the almost-impossible information that she had to process. Finally, Kaede mustered what strength she had left to finish up what was to be said. "Yes," she said, with a streak of pain in her voice, "they are the spirits of the two which your Team Tsuki is supposed to destroy. Your teammates should be able to sense it, and would come by anytime tomorrow, once the power is released in you both. We’re very sorry…the Aogiri cannot help anymore."

The spilt green tea from Suzumi’s chawan continued to get soaked into the tatami flooring. Everyone in the room remained silent, trying to compose themselves.

The birds outside continued to sleep on.

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