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1. Introduction/Story.
2. Made-Up Chart.
3. Characters.

Yomi, the shadowy land of the dead____________________
Izanagi lamented the death of Izanami and undertook a journey to Yomi or "the shadowy land of the dead." Izanagi found little difference between Yomi and the land above, save for the eternal darkness. However, this suffocating darkness was enough to make him ache for the light and life above. Quickly, he searched for Izanami and found her. At first, Izanagi could not see her at all for the shadows hid her appearance well. Nevertheless, he asked her to return with him. Izanami spat out at him, informing Izanagi that he was too late. She had already eaten the food of the underworld and was now one with the land of the dead. She could no longer return to the living.

Izanagi was shocked at this news but he refused to give in to her wishes of being left to the dark embrace of Yomi. While Izanami was sleeping, he took the comb that bound his long hair and set it alight as a torch. Under the sudden burst of light, he saw the horrid form of the once beautiful and graceful Izanami. She was now a rotting form of flesh with maggots and foul creatures running over her ravaged body.

Crying out loud, Izanagi could no longer control his fear and started to run, intending to return to the living and abandon his death-ridden wife. Izanami woke up shrieking and indignant and chased after him. Wild shikome or foul women also hunted for the frightened Izanagi, instructed by Izanami to bring him back.

Izanagi, thinking quickly, hurled down his headdress which became a bunch of black grapes. The shikome fell on these but continued pursuit. Next, Izanagi threw down his comb which became a clump of bamboo shoots. Now it was Yomi's creatures that began to give chase, but Izanagi urinated against a tree, creating a great river that increased his lead. Unfortunately, they still pursued Izanagi, forcing him to hurl peaches at them. He knew this would not delay them for long, but he was nearly free, for the boundary of Yomi was now close at hand.

Izanagi burst out of the entrance and quickly pushed a boulder in the mouth of the cavern that was the entrance of Yomi. Izanami screamed from behind this impenetrable barricade and told Izanagi that if he left her she would destroy 1,000 residents of the living every day. He furiously replied he would give life to 1,500.

And so began the existence of Death, caused by the hands of the proud Izanami, the abandoned wife of Izanagi.

Made-Up Chart____________________

Monochrome Screenname:
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Characters____________________

Monochrome Screen name: Paper Dreams.
Character Name: Inari K. Shojo.
Nickname: Inari (Inari (Japanese: ���) is the Shinto god of fertility, rice, and foxes. Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as his messengers. Inari is often identified with the Buddhist deity Dakiniten.)
Sex: Male (but looks female, doesn't he? Beheld, That's the twist.)
Age: 18.
Race: Demon.
Appearance: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v29/anim...logot/__030.gif (I'll describe him later XD)
Favorite musical instrument: Bamboo Flute.
Weapon Type: Mythryl.
Weapon(s): Double Daggers.
Skin tone: Pale.
Clothing: His clothing consists of a golden kimono, with olive flower accents.
Jewelry: The necklace around his neck, and the bracelets around his wrists, along with the red bead that are used by monks in a temple.
Tattoos?: None.
Creature: Dragon.
Song Genre: Classical bamboo flute music.
Song: 'A song of the great mountain,' by: Manose Newa.
God/Goddess: Ebisu. (Ebisu (�b��{, �b���, ��, �^) is also transliterated Yebisu or called Hiruko (�g�q) or Kotoshiro-nushi-no-kami (�����_) is the Japanese god of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen. He is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune (�����_, Shichifukujin), and the only one of the seven to originate from Japan. Ebisu is sometimes called as the brother of Hiruko, a Japanese sun god.
The weak child overcame many hardships, grew legs (and, presumably, the rest of his skeletal structure) at the age of three, and became the god Ebisu. He remains slightly crippled and deaf, but mirthful and auspicious nonetheless (hence the title, "The Laughing God"). He is often depicted holding a rod and a large red bream or sea bass. Jellyfish are also associated with the god and the fugu restaurants of Japan will often incorporate Ebisu in their motif.
Ebisu's festival is celebrated on the twentieth day of the tenth month, Kannazuki (the month without gods). While the other eight million members of the Japanese pantheon gather at The Grand Shrine of Izumo, Ebisu does not hear the summons and is thus still available for worship.
Ebisu is frequently paired with Daikokuten, another of the Seven Gods of Fortune, in displays of the twin patrons of small shopkeepers. In some versions of the myth they are father and son (or master and apprentice). Also, these two are often joined by Fukurokuju to be the "Three Gods of Good Fortune".)
Symbol: The symbol meaning, 'love' ( http://www.dsfy.com.au/Images/kanji/kanji_Translation.gif )
Likes: Bamboo flute music, listening to birds sing, solitude, and meditation.
Dislikes: Annoying people.
Bio: When he was a young boy, he grew up in a house of all girls. His mother, dissatisfied with him being a male, would beat him until he bled. Taking up something new, he decided to satisfy his mother by dressing like a woman, and growing his hair long. She left him alone and thus, leaving the home that he grew up him, he went to a temple, to persue his priestly duties as a 'woman.'
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Monochrome Screenname: Lost Heidelloon
Character Name: Ravi Aji-Kaze
Nickname: None
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Race: Half-Demon and half what...?
Appearence: Ravi Aji-Kaze
Favorite musical instrument: So (13-stringed zither)
Weapon Type: Black Tourmaline Cluster
Weapon(s): A double edge-bladed sword (Something like this. XD)
Skintone: Peach, closer to being pale.
Clothing: A dirty, old, dark gray colored cloak; with a hood over his head; white fluffly fur around the end of both of his sleeves; there are also two very small, skinny holes in the back of his cloak, where his demonic wings may come out through there at his calling. Underneath is a black, sleeveless shirt; and black pants- although his cloak mostly conceal those articles of clothing a majority of time. Two dark green straps- with strange red designs- that connect from the middle of his shirt, around his armsleeves, and to the back of his cloak. Then he wears black boot-like shoes.
Jewlery: Minus the green straps, none really.
Tattoos?: None
Creature: Alicanto
Song Genre: Classical; somthing soothing and calm.
Song: Gureigu Yard - Iwasaki Taku
God/Goddess: Shina-Tsu-Hiko - The Japanese God of Wind
Symbol: "Fallen"
Likes: Playing around, kind people, pretty things, the sky.
Dislikes: Annoying people, having to think to much, his wings.
Bio: Born in a quiet and tiny village- Ravi only lived with his demon mother, and his father was never brought up throughout his life. When he was little, he once questioned about who his father was and where was his father, but his mother would only reply with beating and hitting Ravi with empty alcohol bottles his mother drank from. Since then, Ravi never tried asking about his father again. As time passed, his wings soon emerged, and he ended up have brown feathered wings- not black like his mother nor the rest of his village he lived in. Ravi was constantly teased about probably being a "half-ling" due to the fact his wings were brown, and not black. He never liked his wings, so he always kept them hidden away at all cost. Then a majority of the time he spent his life either inside his house or outside in the forest where he found comfort with animals and the wildlife there.
"Why do you look so much like your father..?" His mother would ask in her sober and drunken state form.
"I don't know." Ravi replied in a simple and emotionless matter.
He really didn't know why, maybe because of the genetic genes he carried from his father- who knows. Ravi didn't even know what his father looked like, whether his father as a demon, human, or even a God!
Recently, when Ravi was reaching his fifteenth year of living, he woke up to find his mother gone. All of her belongings were left, the house looking untouched and messy, but there was no sign of his mother to be found anywhere. Only Ravi stood in the house. "Maybe I've been left behind .. No, I was already left behind the moment I came into this world."
He burned his house, leaving everything turn into ashes; and then by himself, he turned and left the village, a place he could no longer return to.

The door to his room closed behind him, and he heard naught the footsteps of the monks retreating. Getting to his feet from where he sat, he opened another door, to where n overhang was, overlooking to moutin that the temple was built on. Where his room resided, had the most beautiful veiw anyone had ever seen. Below him, a path led up the mountain, to where you had to climb up many winding steps, just to be able to see the doors of the temple. Beside the doors of the temple, was a small cherry blssom feild, in which, if children were to visit the temple, they were allowed to play there and converse with the preists if they needed to.

Seating himself yet again, he took his delicate arms from out of the sleeves, revealing the bandage around his chest, that most women wore to hold their breasts in place. Laying the top of the kimono delicatly at his sides, he reached forward and opeend a wooden case, which held within a bamboo flute that he was play everyday, for however long her wanted to. It was a gift that he received from his mother not too long after he hadmoved out, and she had come to visit him. Lifting it into his grasp, he placed it by his lips, and closed his eyes, which were lined with black eye shadow, his cream hair falling down about his shoulders.

He had become quite accustomed to having to walk like a gilr and even being able to talk like one aswell, that noone actually could decide whether or not he was actually a woman...

Rustling sounds could be heard, echoing through the empty and quiet forest. A young, red-headed boy was running, running through the forest- around trees, hopping over bushes, just endlessly chasing after the two wolves, with a dead rabbit in one of the wolves' mouth, who were far ahead of him.

"Gimmi back my dinner, damnit!" He yelled at both wolves, his obnoxious yell frightening some birds, that were residing in the trees, that flew away to a more quieter area. Beads of sweat was already forming on his face, his hood had fallen off from his head, yet he continued to chase after the two animals.

A couple of minutes or so has passed, and the boy was now standing against a tree, panting heavily as both of the wolves were out of sight by now. Not only had the wolves managed to quickly run away, but the wolves also managed to keep the boy's dinner for the night. "Oi, fine .. I'll live without dinner tonight. Annoying, no good, dinner stealing wolves."

He looked out of the corner of his eyes, staring at a pointed edge of his weapon, that was firmly strapped against his back. He could've killed the wolves- if he had wanted to.

"Whatever." Ravi brushed that idea out of his mind, reaching over his shoulder as he grabbed onto his hood, bringing it up to cover his head. Catching his breath after a few moments, he began to aimlessly walk around again, having no particular destination to go to.

It was until he was getting closer to leaving the forestry area, where his ears caught the sound of a flute being played. It was rather faint, but his demonic hearing easily caught onto the sound. A flute..? Before he knew it, Ravi began to follow that sound, soon making his way towards a large clearing field that spaced out the distance between the forest and the temple. His eyes looked up towards the higher part of the temple, noticing a blonde haired person, with a flute at hand, where Ravi soon learned that blonde was the owner of the tune being played.

The flute playing continued for a few moments more, and then stopped, the sound echoeing through the mountains, and the forest below. Letting out a sigh, he placed the item away and closed the case, before getting to his feet, and stareing out at the open sky.

Pulling a strand of hair behind his ear, he looked about and then down for a moment, his nose picking up the scent of another demon, "Oh..." He blinked, speaking in his femalish tone, "Hello..."

For a second, Ravi could only stare at the person above, half thinking how beautiful the person was, and his other half of his mind was trying to think whether the person was a girl or just a girly guy.

"Oh..! Um.. Sorry, I didn't mean to listen in so secretly.." A nervous smiled formed on his lips, one hand reaching behind his head as he scratched it.

The smile didn't remain to long on his face though, since his demonic senses began to pick up the presence of a demon around as well. "Wait a second.." He paused, eyes blinking behind the crimson bangs. "Are you a demon?"

He cocked his head for a moment, and leaned quietly on the railing, looking down at the other male, "A demon?" He paused for a moment, and then smiled, "You have very keen senses, sir. Yes, I am indeed a demon, but not a bad one, ofcourse," He said after a moment of chewing over his words and how to pharse them correctly so that the other male might understand more clearly that he was indeed not an evil demon.

He figured that part out- if someone looked like a very innocent girl and is staying at a temple filled with monks and holy men, then Ravi figured that the blonde wasn't a 'evil' demon.

"All.. right." Ravi spoke slowly in his response. A tree, near the overhang where the blonde demon stood at, caught his attention, staring at it for a while. Quietly, he ran over to where the tree was and then, like a little child, began to climb up on it until he was only a few feet away from the overhang where the other demon was at.

"There, a more fitting spot to talk." He grinned, tilting his head to the side in a child-like way. "So .. What's a pretty demon like you staying here for?"

He stared up at Ravi for a moment, and let out a giggle, "Why, studying the way of the buddist presit, silly," He replied with a simple smile.

"But I take you were curious as to why someone like myself would be playing such beautiful music in such a depressing place, correct?" He asked, blinking his black outlined eyes at the other male.

That's pretty true. Ravi mentally smacked himself on the head in his mind. It was prettty obvious that the blonde was here for religious reasons- pretty stupid for the red head to ask.

"Mm.." He placed the tip of his index finger on his lips, eyes looking off to the side as if he were thinking about something. Then he returned his attention back to the blonde- well, he never really took his attention off of the other demon. "Yeah, that too."

"You seem like a very...confused individual for your age..." He said softly, sitting down now.

"Is something bothering you? If there is than maybe we can talk about it...if you are willing to that is..."

Ravi pouted, pointing his finger at the blonde in a accusing way. "Hey, just because I may look or seem younger than you- I think- doesn't mean I need to consult with someone about my problems."

The young demon leaned back, his back now leaning against the main part of the tree, his hands behind his head, and his legs dangling off. "Besides, it's not like you should worry about a stranger like me or something."

{My msn is being gay..so...I'm not going back on for awhile}

"You're right..." He replied quietly, frowning, "It's not my problem, but I can't help but want to help others. It's just something that I like to do.." He whispered and got to his feet, pulling that top of his kimono back around him and then looked over to the red haired demon.

"Well, if you don't have any buisness her...then I suppose I should tell you to leave..."

"True." He shuffled a bit, moving around so that both of his legs were hanging off on the same side of the branch he sat on. Both hands were holding onto the tree branch, balancing himself so he didn't slip off or any other misunforunate thing would happen.

Prepared to jump off and leave, he only stopped as he turned his head and faced the blonde demon. "Actually .. You don't think you can somehow convince the monks here to let me stay for the night, can you?" After spending a few days out in the wild, he wouldn't mind having a confortable bed to sleep in for once.