(Izanagi)
"You two have failed me… immensely."
Rising to my feet, I took a weighted step down the many stairs lining the dark velvet stripped chair.
"A disgrace! Both of my sons, BARED FROM HEAVEN?!"
My two adolescent children knelt before me on the slowmoving clouds in this dismal human sky. Their worth being no better than this dry view.
My vision had been long since gone but, with centuries practice my hearing became sight. They filtered every sound and converted them to pictures behind my lids.
"There was nothing to be done father," Susanoo spoke, voice to the ground.
"SILENCE!"
Each excuse they gave for their inability to do their duty only brought on more of my rage. Like a fire scorching these useless mundane nuisances from existence. They were lucky, for now.
Tsukuyomi dared to speak in the heat of my anger. His albino snake demon wrapped around his frame, hissing furiously. The sound of the scales sliding against one another irritated me.
"YOU BRING ALL DOWN ON OUR HEADS, BUT WHAT OF
YOUR DAUGHTER? WHAT OF AMATERASU?! SHE BANISHED US! ALL OF US!"
"She grew too large for herself father. Denying it will leave you a fool. I gave her all and still she discarded of me. Though my relationship is not that of her and Susanoo's childish fights, I loved her, and she betrayed me."
My anger boiled over with his rising tone and my long sword, stretched wide at the end, reached for his throat. It kissed his skin and rested there as I glared pointedly at him. He resembled Izanami more than even Ama. His beauty was almost feminine. Even in my allconsuming rage it was difficult to hold my hand steady.
Susanoo comes to stand beside his brother. His hair hung in a braid that wrapped to the ground, jaw set tight like mine.
"Let us be rid of the obnoxious light forever, father."
I crossed my arms, prepared to strike him. "Speak quickly before your brother loses his ability to do so."
"Let us lay waste to sister. Once and for all."
My daughter; Amaterasu, goddess of light. She'd betrayed us all. Had she known what I had given up for her?! The sight in my left eyes was nothing but darkness. It had been eons since I could last see through my eyes. When Amaterasu was born, I had given in my left eye for her. The right for her brother, and my tongue for the last.
"I became nothing! I sacrificed all I held dear in the name of love, but love was not returned to me. I was cheated out of all my power. For what? this?! Two disgraceful son's worth nothing, and a daughter who grew and became the heavenly goddess of light herself and kicked us all from the sacred city without so much as a backward glance! She forgot who created her, who fueled her; and who had the ability to end her. Now, I wanted what was given for her life returned to me. A life for a life. And if these disappointments for children failed me again, I would slay them too.
"Yes father, let us." Tsukuyomi cut in.
Susanoo took a step forward as my blade lowered just a fraction. "Give us three moon cycles to set a plan in motion. My spies say that she is distracted as of late. She will be less aware of herself."
Sheathing my blade, I narrowed my eyes against the long bandages wrapped around them.
"Get it done…and do not disappoint me again. Or the next time you stand before me, your blood will be pooling at your feet, and I will send another to get the job done."