Chapter 1
A young man stumbled as he walked past the Hikawa shrine. He
managed to catch himself before he fell. Rei watched as the person
put one of his hands on a building's wall and the other on his
forehead. Rei made a decision and went to the young man.
"Do you need some help?" Rei asked.
The young man looked up at her and sighed, "I'm just tired,
that's all. If you'll pardon me, I have a long way to go."
Rei watched as the boy staggered away from her. She quickly
ran after him and grabbed his arm.
Rei firmly stated, "No, you are not. You need rest. My
grandfather runs the Hikawa shrine over there. You can rest for a bit
there."
The young man looked about ready to protest, but seeing the
look in Rei's eyes stopped him.
"Thank you," he said, his voice barely above a whisper.
Rei, still holding onto his arm, dragged him to the shrine.
She looked at the young man, and noticed how ragged his clothes were.
*I wonder what his problem is,* Rei thought to herself, and
then said, "I am Rei Hino of the Hikawa Shrine."
"I am Fu...," the young man started to say. He shook his head
and continued, "My name is Gai Ichishino."
*First star of chaos?? He was about to say something else.
There's something about him that's familiar, though,* Rei thought as
they ascended the steps to the shrine.
"Do you have anyone we could contact to pick you up?"
Gai closed his eyes. Rei could see the grief in his face as
he said, "No. My parents are gone and any other family I may have, I
have no idea on how to contact them."
Rei nodded, but could swear he heard Gai whisper, "Lucky for
them, I can't. I'm not safe to be around."
Entering the shrine proper, Rei's grandfather noticed that Rei
had brought someone in.
"Who's this Rei? A boyfriend?"
"No, grandfather. I saw that Gai, here, needed a bit of time
to rest and offered him the sanctuary of the shrine."
The elder Hino looked at Gai and saw that Rei was right. He
needed time to rest. He motioned for Gai to follow him. When he was
sure that Gai was complying with his wishes and they were out of Rei's
hearing.
"Judging by your looks, you've had a rough time, Sho
Fukamachi," Grandpa Hino stated.
Gai gasped as he stared at the elderly priest, "Please, keep
that information to yourself. It is dangerous if anybody found out
that you had met me. My father and closest friends were killed over
being associated with me."
The elder Hino stared at the young man, feeling the truth of
his words. "I'm sorry. If you wish to talk about it..."
Sho thought about it for a second before responding, "Thanks
for the offer, but I don't think you would believe me if I told you
what I had been through or gained knowledge of."
The two men walk in silence for a bit. Curious, Sho broke the
silence.
"How did you know who I was?"
Grandpa Hino gave Sho a strange look before answering, "Your
picture was in the paper after you disappeared. It was ran when your
father was killed in that train wreck."
*They killed a train of innocent people, just so they could
use my father against me,* Sho thought miserably, *I know I destroyed
their leaders, but there are still some of them left.*
Hino-san noticed the dark mood that Sho was in and inwardly
gasped, *He said that his father was killed by being associated with
him. Whoever is chasing him, they don't believe in the concept of
restraint.*
"Gai?" Hino-san said, "I understand now, why you want your
identity kept secret. I won't say a word about who you are."
Sho looked at the priest, nodded his gratitude and said,
"Thank you, sir. Don't worry. I intend to leave as soon as I wake up
tomorrow."
The elder Hino's eyes focused on Gai.
Gai sighed and continued, "I only came with your granddaughter
to avoid suspicion. My immediate leave-taking tomorrow, will also
avoid suspicion being cast on this place."
"Here's your room," Hino-san said, , and then thought, *I wish
there was someway you could stay here. You need someone to talk to.*
Gai went into the room that the elder Hino had brought him to.
He looked back and saw the priest shutting the door, to allow him
some privacy. Pulling a picture out of his pocket, Gai stared at it.
*Mizuki. I'm sorry I walked away from you after Valcia's
death, but I thought that was the best way to protect you. Everyone I
have came in contact with is gone. You, father, the school, Guyver
III, even most of Cronos is gone. Soon I'll be all that's left.
Please forgive me.*
With those thoughts, Sho Fukamachi a.k.a. Gai Ichishino fell
asleep with tears in his eyes.
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"Sho. Sho? Wait! You're Sho! Don't leave, please! Sho, please!
SHOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
Gai quickly sat up, waking himself up. He was covered in a cold sweat
and trembling. He rubbed his eyes with his hand.
"That dream again. How many time will I have to relive that?" Gai
asked himself. Maybe I should just sneak away, now. It wouldn't be
the first time."
Gai's musings were interrupted by a scream coming from outside.
Throwing caution aside, Gai raced out of his room heading, towards the
sound. Gai was joined by Hino-san on his mad dash.
"You heard it too?" asked Hino-san. "It came from outside."
The two men rushed outside the shrine and saw a strange
creature. The creature had a female form. Its hair and body were
white with gold specks of light blinking on and off. A black star
shaped mark was on its left forearm. The two men had differing
thoughts on what the thing was.
*Oh great, a new type of Zoanoid.*
*A daimon attacking here again?*
Gai grabbed up a fallen branch and thought, *Maybe I can kill this
without summoning it. This looks like a weak Zoanoid.*
Gai charged the creature and hit it with the branch a couple of times,
getting its attention. The creature turned towards Gai and launched a
beam of energy at him from the star shaped mark.
"Starburn. Starburn," the creature said.
Gai was forced to his knees by the bolt that impaled him. He grunted
as he used the branch as a lever to get back up. Starburn was
surprised that Gai was able to withstand her beam and was taken off
guard when Gai slammed the branch on top of her head with enough force
to break the branch in two. Starburn reeled under the impact and
staggered away from Gai. Raising her fists, Starburn shot a beam of
golden fire at Gai. The fire was stopped by a wall of ice that had
just appeared.
"Huh?" Gai blurted out, as he looked to see who had helped him.
Standing a bit away was Sailor Mercury and the other Sailor Senshi.
Sailor Moon went into one of her speeches.
"For attacking innocent women and waking others up from sleep with
really nice dreams of guys. I am the beautiful suited solider.
Warrior of love, justice, and nice dreams. I'm Sailor Moon. On
behalf of the moon, I shall punish you."
Starburn was taken aback by the little speech. Gai seeing that
Starburn was distracted, rushed in and slammed the branch into
Starburn's eye. The Sailor Senshi were surprised that Gai had
attacked a daimon with nothing more than a stick. As Gai impaled the
daimon, a slight glow came from Starburn. Starburn gave out a scream
and dispersed, leaving only a small seed behind. The seed broke apart
and let forth a plume of smoke. Gai gazed at the seed and realized
that it wasn't a Zoanoid. Ignoring the Senshi, he turned to the girl
who was attacked.
"Are you okay, miss?" Gai asked.
"Yes. Thanks to you. Are you Tuxedo Mask?" the girl said.
"Who? I never heard of that person. Oh well, I'm glad you're all
right," Gai responded.
Gai turned to the five girls who were still standing there shocked.
Gai shook his head and said, "Thank you for the help. Hino-san, I'll
be back later to get my stuff. I'm going to escort this person home."
Hino-san nodded. The Sailor Senshi, still dazed, watched as Gai
walked away. They quickly left the scene and wondered how Gai managed
to defeat a daimon.
"Mercury," Sailor Moon asked, "How did he hurt the daimon?"
"I don't know. He shouldn't have been able to. At least, not with a
stick."
Sailor Mars said, "We'll figure it out tomorrow at the meeting. I
think we'd better get back to bed."
The others nodded and headed their separate ways. Mars kept trying to
think of ways to keep Gai around. She returned to the shrine and
sneaked into her room.
*I'll ask the sacred fire about him, tomorrow morning,* Rei thought to
herself as she fell back asleep.
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Standing some distance away from shrine a wearing a purple
dress, tried to make sense of something.
*What happened? Starburn was defeated way too fast. Tuxedo
Mask, Sailor Neptune and Uranus didn't have time to show up. If my
sight hadn't been clouded, I could have figured out what went wrong,*
Setsuna Meiou thought to herself.
She shook her head and left, *Hopefully it was a one-time
occurrence. But, I'd better make plans in case it happens again."
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Gai returned to the Hikawa Shrine an hour after he had left.
He managed to convince the girl, he was not Tuxedo Kamen. Shaking his
head, he started thinking.
*Well, I want to know what's going on. I'll stay just one
more day to find out what that thing was and who those cheerleaders
were. After that, I had better get out of here.*
Chuckling softly at the expressions he saw on those girls
faces, he thought, *I wonder what they were so surprised about? They
gave me a perfect chance to take that thing by surprise.*
Gai nodded to Hino-san as he re-entered the shrine. He did
notice that Hino-san was studying him intently.
*In the morning, I'll ask him about those girls and that
thing. I better get some more sleep. It's going to be interesting
tomorrow.*
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I'm still working on that Ranma fic and am busy revisng Setsuna's
Secret. :)
Sho is from the Guyver: Out of Control one-shot OVA. Not the 12
volume anime or the manga.
All C&C welcome
Tom Mathews a.k.a Disruptor
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