This is another story I started to write. I read the manga: 'Ze' and couldn't help but think of Okane ga Nai.
I'm still going to write my other story too! Don't worry! xD

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for Ayase's first master. Waki-san also appears in the Ze mangas as the puppeteer and Kami-sama maker.

Read this: Kami-sama are humans made of paper. They don't have a heart or blood. They can only feel; see; smell and taste; thought they don't need to eat. Their purpose is to heal their Kotodama user/ their master by exchanging body fluids with them (Like saliva or... you know... semen. :D) if there's anything you still don't get: please ask me! xD

Enjoy! xD

Ayase's blue eyes stared at the body in front of him. His master always was kind and perfect. He never injured him as he was always afraid of; every time his boss injured another person while using his Kotodama, he had a decent reason to do so. Every time Ayase was in time to take care of his injures. But just this once his master ordered him not to do anything. And as obedient as he was: Ayase followed his requires. He was ordered not to move until his master was wounded enough so that Ayase could not save him anymore. Ayase was proud. Proud to be in the man's presence when he was passing on to the next life. Proud to have listen to whatever his master ordered him to do. He was always proud to be his kami-sama.

The blonde hair of the boy hung over the man's face as he kneeled down next to him. The body shook a bit while a trickle of blood ran down the man's chin. He forced a smile onto his face as he placed his hand onto Ayase's cheek.

"You were a perfect Kami, Aya-chan." the man said. Ayase smiled at the comment, unable to feel the sadness in his heart, unable to feel the pain of the loneliness that was about to come. How he wished he had a heart right now. How he wished there was blood running through his body.

His master gave him a kind look, being really grateful of the kami-sama that always stayed by his side.

"Thank you." the boy replied and he kept his smile.

"I'm sorry about being a terrible master… I wasn't worth a good Kami like you. Please forgive me." the man stared to the dark sky above him, the eyes reflected in his eyes.

"Can't I heal you, master?" the blonde asked. "I only have to kiss you."

"Don't. I don't want you to. I hate my life and you'll be able to find another Kotodama user." the man replied and he coughed a bit as blood was stuck in his throat.

"What should I do if you're gone? I never thought about my life without a master." the blonde swallowed deeply, strangely feeling worried when thinking about it. "If I go back to Waki-sama… he'll kill me."

The boy's master smiled and shook his head. His hands were shaking as he pulled a piece of paper from his suit jacket.

"Give him this." he said. "I've got it all planned for you. When I'm gone… you g-go back and give him t-that. You'll be fine." the man said, giving Ayase a kind smile and then placing his head back so he could see the stars again. Ayase gave the letter a look, noticing the small handwriting of his father and he held on it tightly before following his master's gaze and looking at the same starry sky.

"If I c-could name a star after y-you, it would b-be that bright o-one." the man said, pointing at the bright silver shining one right above his head. "Lie next to me, Aya-chan." he said. Ayase did as he was told and the man lay his arm around the boy.

"I like stars." Ayase said and he heard the man smile. His breathing became irregular and Ayase only stared at the stars. To be precise: at the bright one his master had mentioned. He would always remember that star. The hand on his shoulder became weak and the man next to him gave his last sigh. When the blonde stared into his eyes, the reflection of the stars was harder to see. His eyes shaded their last tear before becoming fully dry. The dark lips that Ayase had once kissed now looked pale and Ayase bit his lip as he realised his master was dead.

He sat back up, feeling how the hand was removed from his shoulder and fell on the ground with a soft sound. Ayase looked around, noticing the endless grass field and the sunflowers over it. His master loved sunflowers. He loved every piece of nature and decided he wanted to die here.

The gun he had used to shot through his chest lay next to the man and Ayase didn't want to give it any other look. He never knew the reason why his master wanted to die. He only said he failed as Kotodama user and as Ayase's master. But that didn't seem like a decent excuse to die.

Ayase sighed deeply, giving another look at the letter he was holding. The name 'Waki-san' was written on the envelope that carried the letter and Ayase now remembered it had been a pretty long time since he had seen his father. Waki made him ten years ago as a teenage boy that looked perfectly like a girl. The blond wavy hair reaching his shoulders; the bright blue eyes that everyone seemed to love and the small, female body. These were all requests from his owner, his master. His master wanted him to look like this, and he was proud to be called pretty whenever his master said he was. His master never did indecent things. He was always kind.

Always.

Ayase stood up, feeling how the wind blew through his hair. He suddenly felt a shiver down his spine. His master was dead, he was alone. Everything would start anew. He would have a new master that he had to obey and had no idea what that person was like or how that person would act towards him. Maybe he wasn't as kind as his previous master?

The boy removed himself from the dead body, walking straight towards the field of sunflowers. He picked one, placed it on his master's chest and then turned again, running towards the world where everything would start all over.

Kanou let his dark eyes scan the document in front of him again. He hated it when costumers doubted his claims. That meant that they discovered that he cheated. Well, not really cheating, he actually stole money from the people. He gave them whatever they wanted, no matter how large the sum of money was, but the repaying method would turn out to be to his advantage. He would at least have doubled the money he had given away.

"I think you made a mistake." the man in front of him said. Kanou gave him a despising look. The grey hair of the man was stroked to the back with what Kanou thought would be at least one entire pot of gel and the dark bags below his eyes were slightly covered because of the glasses in front of them.

"A mistake?" Kanou asked as normal as possible, but he couldn't help but sounding angry.

"Yes. I lent only 300.000 yen. If I do my counting correctly, but you're counting…" he pointed at the document Kanou had just lay down on the desk and showed him the entire amount.

"Correct…" Kanou said and the man gave him a look. The devilish smile on the other's face didn't mean anything good, the old man thought. "…but you forget your daughter's expenses. She has signed the document too, hasn't she? She can still pay off your debt. Anything you can't pay will be on her counting. I thought you understood everything?"

"That has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the amount has almost been doubled!" the man yelled at Kanou. Kanou sat up straight.

"O, it has. She's worth a lot more then you. She can make more money then you. I thought about that. She's perfect for this. Don't worry. You brought this upon your daughter. She'll be fine, right? I mean, why would the daddy do anything bad to his precious girl." Kanou smiled sarcastically and the ironical sound of his voice was crawling its way towards the man's heart.

"You son of a…" the man started but Kanou shushed him by raising his hand.

"Don't even think about finishing that sentence." he said, the anger overflowing in his voice. The hand he had raised now pointed itself towards the man.

"You don't your voice." Kanou said. "Your mouth doesn't have any use. I curse your lips." the man stared at Kanou with a scared face as Kanou clenched his fingers into a fist. Kanou stared at the man while a deep wound found his way from the man's upper lip to the lip bellow. The man screamed from pain as he fell onto the floor and a long cut appeared on Kanou's cheek. He retreated his hand towards his face.

"Kuba!" he yelled and two men, looking identically, entered Kanou's office.

"Yes, shachou?" one of them asked. Kanou gave a disgusted look at the yelping man on his floor.

"Misao, get him out of here." he said and the left of the two men bowed towards his president and carried him out of the office.

"Homare, I need your help." he said to the other and pointed towards he cut on his face. The other man nodded briefly.

"I have to go to this puppeteer." Kanou said as Homare obediently took care of the wound. "What was his name again?" Kanou asked.

"Waki-sama, shachou." Homare replied. Kanou sighed deeply.

"And what would happen precisely if I go there?" he asked. Homare smiled.

"You would receive your Kami-sama. A human made of paper that could heal your wounds just by exchanging body fluids with each other." Kanou smiled when Homare said that. He liked to exchange body fluids. He had done that with a lot of women.

Homare wisely didn't mention that it would be a man that Kanou had to take home with him. As Homare finished the cleaning of the wound Kanou stood up. Misao entered the room again.

"He's being brought to the hospital, I made sure he won't remember anything about what happened. He has a serious concussion." the man said. Kanou nodded slowly.

"I've decided to go get a Kami-sama." he said as he stood up. "Kuba, prepare the car." he left his office, followed by the looks of the Kuba brothers whom bowed deeply towards their boss.

Ayase knocked onto the door, waiting for someone to open. He still held the letter tightly and felt exhausted from the long run to the place where he was born. With a click the door opened and Ayase recognized the blond hair immediately. The dark green eyes smiled towards him and said loudly:

"Aya-chan! Long time no see!" the man hugged the smaller boy tightly.

"Gion-san! Let go!" Ayase said as he had trouble breathing. The man let go and smiled.

"Sorry, Aya-chan." the man said, blushing a bit. "Come in, come in! I'll go get Waki-san." Gion ran away from the boy and Ayase entered slowly. He looked around, hating it to be there. He always thought of that house as the place where he was born and where he would die. He coughed at that thought, shaking it away.

"Ayase! You're back!" A woman with long black hair entered the room and she looked rather worried. "You're alone… where's your Kotodama-sama?" she asked. Ayase's smile disappeared.

"I have a letter for Waki-san." he said holding out the letter and not ready to reply the woman's questions.

"Gion's going to get him." she said and she still looked worried. "What happened?" she asked.

"Someya, I'm sorry but I don't want to talk about it yet. Only with Waki-san." the woman smiled, nodding her head. The apron she was wearing had a blue colour.

"Someya-san!" Gion yelled and he ran back into the room, holding up his hand and it was clearly bleeding. "I stuck my finger in between the door…" he said, giving her a pained face. Someya rolled her eyes, walking towards him and kissing him fully. Ayase noticed how their tongues touched and he looked away quickly. When he did that with his master he didn't think it was shameful, but to see somebody else doing it was rather strange.

"You always search an excuse to kiss me, don't you?" Someya said. Gion still held her and smiled as the wound on his hand was healing.

"Maybe…" he whispered and his smile widened. Someya smiled too, now giving Ayase a look.

"Ayase needs us now, I'll go cook something. You wait until Waki-san arrives." she said toward Gion and she winked to Ayase. "Don't do anything stupid." she said before leaving the room towards the kitchen.

"He doesn't know how hard that is for me." Gion said and Ayase smiled. Now, the truth is, Someya's a guy. But she preferred to be a woman and decided to dress and act like one.

"Gion, you can go help Someya." a third voice said. Both Ayase and Gion turned towards it. A man in a kimono entered the room. His blond hair reached his shoulders and his grey eyes looked peaceful and always made Ayase smile.

"All right…" Gion said, clearly disappointed. "But you'll let Ayase live, right?" Ayase feared that question and he held out the letter.

"I had to give you this." he said quickly and Waki took the letter. Gion sighed deeply but then left the room too.

Waki took a few minutes to open the letter and fully read it. He nodded slowly when finished and smiled again.

"He wants to give you to someone else. The next costumer I have now, should be your master. That's his will. Do you agree? Or would you rather follow the usual rules and turn back to paper?" Waki asked. Ayase feared dying as much as he feared a new master but since his previous master's will was for him to have another master, he would grant his wish.

"I'd take a new master." Ayase replied. Waki nodded.

"All right. What happened?" he asked. Ayase shook his head.

"He said he wasn't worth using Kotodama. And that I was worth someone better. He went to the fields and he… he loved sunflowers. He died. I wasn't allowed to help." Ayase smiled again. Waki gave him a worried look.

"Did you feel like crying?" he asked, but the boy shook his head.

"No. I didn't. It wasn't my time yet." he replied. Waki lay his arm around the boy's shoulder.

"Anyway, your dad's glad you're here!" he said and he smiled widely, taking Ayase to the kitchen.

"Yes, I'm happy to be here too." the blonde lied.

Someya set the table for three. Since a Kami-sama didn't need food; only the Kotodama people could eat. That didn't take away that a Kami-sama couldn't cook. Ayase loved cooking but hated it that his body didn't need the delicious looking stuff.

Now since Someya also cooked well, she made that night's dinner too.

"Should I go get Yamato-kun? I bet he's still with Yamaguchi." Ayase asked. Gion nodded, looking more at the food then at Ayase. Waki nodded too, which made Ayase leave for Yamaguchi.

Yamaguchi was created the same year as Ayase. They were both supposed to look like an eighteen-year-old human. Only Yamaguchi had the looks of a twenty year old. His hair was short and he wore glasses that made him look like a perfect student.

Now Yamato also controlled Kotodama. He was a young boy who looked like a teenager of sixteen. Ayase always thought he was, and it seemed so too. He acts like a teenager too, but has troubles controlling his Kotodama. That's why he got his Kami-sama this early. It was supposed to be someone that could look after him and Yamaguchi was precisely that person.

As the blonde remembered where the room was he knocked on the door again.

"Yamaguchi-san? Yamato-kun? Are you there?" the door opened immediately when he asked the last question. Yamato's green eyes stared at him with a sparkle in it.

"Ayase-san!" he said and he held the boy close. Ayase smiled, hugging back and he loved hugging a person. The warmth would completely surround him and Yamato's warmth was hot. Well it was very warm, but not the hotness Ayase actually wanted. His master felt the same as Yamato did. Every time they hugged or kissed; it felt like this.

Yamaguchi now appeared too, with his intelligent smile. He winked towards Ayase and gave him a hug too.

"It's time for dinner." Ayase said towards Yamato as he and Yamaguchi split up. Yamato nodded, grabbing for his abdomen; which made it growl.

"It was about time, I'm starving!" he said. I smiled at his comment and we all went towards the kitchen.

Yamaguchi's arm lay around Yamato's neck. Yamato gave a stubborn but flustered look and Yamaguchi seemed to think that this was more than normal.

"So, why are you here, Ayase-san?" Yamato asked as he tried to ignore the sweet look Yamaguchi gave him. Ayase sighed when he asked that. "You weren't abandoned, were you?"

"No. My master died." the boy replied.

"What? You can heal him, can't you? Why didn't you?" Yamato proceeded his questions.

"I wasn't allowed to." the blonde said. Yamato gave him a rather worried look and then coughed a little to hide his surprise.

"Will Waki-san turn you back?" Yamaguchi asked and his question was followed by a hard bang in his abdomen. Yamato gave him a warning look that said: 'You don't ask such things!'. Ayase smiled at the sight and shook his head a bit.

"No, I'll be having a new master. That was my previous master's wish." he said. Both Yamato and Yamaguchi smiled at that and the boy was glad that they didn't ask anything else. He didn't want to think about it anymore. When the next Kotodama user came, he would be given to him. That would change everything.

Yamato sat down, grabbing the first bowl of rice he saw and he was able to ate half in ten seconds. Yamaguchi told him to slow down but the boy ignored him completely and was able to start his next bowl.

"This is so great!" Gion said as he took another bite of his ramen. He smiled towards his Kami-sama and Someya blushed a bit.

"Thank you." she whispered. Ayase was busy staring at everybody. He knew that looking at others made him forget about himself. He was afraid of the thought that he could have a new master any minute. The boy swallowed deeply, which Waki noticed. The man stopped eating and placed a hand on the most beautiful creation he ever made.

"You okay?" he asked. Ayase nodded.

"I'm a bit scared." he said.

"Everyone is. Normally I create Kami-sama with the blood of the one that would be their owner. Now a few drops of blood of the Kotodama are placed inside of the Kami-sama body's core; which makes the Kami-sama know who his master is. You think that your previous master is still your master and do what he ordered you to. He ordered you to go to a new Kotodama user. That's what your doing. You're still the obedient Kami-sama." Waki said and Ayase only nodded. He was right. It was more then normal that his feelings were different from his behaviour. He was only obedient.

Ayase helped Someya with cleaning the table while the others had their laughs around the table. Someya smiled at the boy's help and whispered a sweet thanks.

"Aya-chan. Can I ask you something?" the female man asked. Ayase nodded. Someya smiled at him before continuing: "How does it feel to lose your master? I can't imagine what I would do without Gion." she said.

"…But you and Gion have another relationship then I had with my master." he answered. Someya gave him an interested look. "You love Gion-san, don't you?" Ayase asked and a blush appeared on the other's face.

"Yes, I do." he whispered and he lifted his head proudly.

"I didn't love him. I liked him as a son would love his father." The boy continued. "But also like the best father in the world." Someya lay her hand on the boy's shoulder, smiling kindly and the boy let himself fall into a hug. The hug didn't spread any warmth but that wasn't so bad; it did make him feel better.

"I think I'll go take some fresh air." Ayase said. Someya released him from the hug and the boy got out of the room in a hurry. Not that he needed fresh air. He wanted to see the stars. His star.

Kanou waited eagerly in his car. Homare got out, opened the door for his boss and he got out. The house in front of him was big; huge even and it lay on a abandoned road. It was surrounded by huge fields; covered with all kinds of grains and flowers. It actually looked rather scary in the dark but he didn't care; he let his fingers slide down the wound on his face as he walked towards the front door. The twins followed him carefully and Kanou rang the bell.

A few seconds later the door was opened by Someya, who was smiling because of a joke Gion had just told her. Gion lay his arm around his Kami and Kanou gave them a look.

"Can I help you?" Someya asked.

"Does Waki the puppeteer live here?" Kanou asked. Someya raised her eyebrows and Gion released his grip around her.

"Sure… I'll go get him." Someya said and she turned around, walking towards the dining room. Gion stared at the cut on Kanou's face.

"You're a Kotodama, right?" he asked. Kanou gave the other a look. His blond hair had a wild look and the dark green eyes gave him a non-trusting look. "I notice it by the wound. I recognize it." he said and now Gion smiled.

"You're one too?" Kanou asked. Now Gion fully smiled and nodded he step aside and politely asked the man to enter the house. Kanou step passed Gion, looking around in the hallway of the house. It was full of wolf-shaped masks. It also had a nice smell. Not only of fresh made dinner, but also of a vanilla kind of thing. Both the Kuba's stayed close with their boss.

Then the door opened again and Someya entered with the Kimono-wearing man; followed by both Yamato and Yamaguchi, who stayed a bit in the background.

"Hello, sir. How can I help you." Waki asked, holding out his hand towards Kanou. "I'm Waki. The person you were looking for." Kanou shook the hand lightly, didn't say a word and put his hands in his pockets. He took out a cigarette and lit it in the hall. Someya gave him a disgusted look.

"I'm here for a Kami. It seemed you made them." he said. Waki only smiled friendly.

"Lucky for you, one just became available." Waki replied. Everyone gave him a look; Someya couldn't believe her ears.

" 'One just came available'?" she repeated. "You don't mean Aya-chan do you?" she asked. Waki smiled towards her.

"Yes, I do."

"You can't be serious!" Yamato now yelled. "He just came back and this… guy, is a complete stranger!" Kanou gave him an angry look and didn't seem to be offended.

"I know what I'm doing." Waki replied and he smiled towards his costumer. "Can you go get Ayase-san, please?" he asked towards Yamato since he knew that Yamato had trouble controlling his Kotodama. Yamaguchi held Yamato's hand and whispered a soft: 'come on'. With a last angry look at Kanou the twosome left the hallway. Kanou seemed disgusted at the sight of the two holding hands. If he could have any Kami in the world, why a guy? And why such a… nerdy-looking one? He exhaled the smoke slowly.

"How about we go make the arrangements?" Waki asked towards Kanou.

"I'll let my employees do that." the man replied and both the Kuba's bowed towards their leader before walking to Waki. "I only want to see it."

Someya seemed shocked at the word choice of the man in front of him.

"It? You think we're just objects, do you?" he said and he took a step forward, being stopped by Gion, who also seemed furious. Kanou only smiled.

"Aren't you?" he asked. Someya took a step back with the sight of the man. He seemed proud of his comment. Gion held him closely and his eyes turned into a darker colour as he felt the Kotodama rise inside of him.

"So; where is it?" the man asked Waki. Waki still smiled in return but his eyes also seemed to shoot fire.

"Yamato went to get him, can't you remember? I sent him like… one minute ago?" he said. "Maybe your brains aren't as smart as I thought." the man's smile stayed on his face. He turned around and both the Kuba's followed him to a smaller room which Kanou thought would be his office.

Kanou took the last inhale of his cigarette and Someya still looked offended, being held in Gion's arms.

"I'll go clean the table." she said and she gave one last angry look before leaving the room. Gion stood in front of him now.

"I want you to listen closely." Gion said and Kanou exhaled the last bit of smoke and dropped the cigarette on the floor; which Gion seemed to ignore. His green eyes turned black and never broke the contact between the brown eyes in front of him. He pointed his finger towards Kanou. "If you hurt Ayase once; if you ever make him cry; I'll kill you." with that he turned around and followed his Kami to the other room.

Kanou sighed deeply. What an idiots. Weren't these things made of paper? That meant they were objects, right? They only healed him, that was all he wanted. He now looked to the mask in front of him. It gave him a cute look but he still felt discriminated by it. Maybe it had heard the conversation. Maybe it also thought that he was wrong. Kanou shook his head. How could a mask even think? The only thing he wanted now was to go home, heal the painful wound on his face and get a long rest.

Ayase walked in between the Sakura trees of the garden; the little pink petals blowing through his hair. He held his arms around his body, in the hope it would give him warmth, but of course that was impossible.

He gave a look at the stars above him and thought of the face his master gave him when he was losing life.

His grey eyes losing the wetness. The colour of his cheeks fading away. He missed his master. He really did. He sighed deeply, picking one of the flowers from the tree next to him and placing it in his hair.

"Ayase-san." Yamato asked and Ayase turned around. His face looked pained though he smiled.

"Yamato-kun… what's wrong?" he asked.

"There's a man here. A Kotodama-user." the boy said and Ayase understood immediately. His new master had arrived.

Ayase nodded and showed his best smile. He swallowed deeply.

"All right. I'm ready to meet him."

The door opened. Kanou turned around and saw how his employees and Waki entered the room again. He rolled his eyes. How long could it take to fetch a paper doll?

"Yamato's back together with your Kami-sama." he said and the employees gave their boss the documents with all the information. Kanou nodded as another door opened and Yamato indeed entered with Yamaguchi, followed by a smaller person. Also Someya and Gion came back to the hallway.

Yamato and Yamaguchi parted so the smaller person now walked towards the man. Kanou's heart skipped a beat.

The paper doll he had called 'it' was the most beautiful thing he ever saw. The female forms and lines of his body; the big baby-blue eyes; the wavy blond hair reaching his shoulders and the perfect lips that formed a kind smile.

"Hello, master." the kid said and his voice made Kanou groan a bit. The cuteness overflowed in this person and for the first time he didn't see him as an item anymore. The boy bowed deeply. Kanou coughed. "I'm Ayase Yukiya, your Kami-sama." he said. The man nodded.

"I'm Kanou." he said. The boy stood back up and smiled.

"Of course, you have bring him in for maintenance at least once in a month." Waki said and Gion stared at Ayase; who clearly wasn't sure of the situation. Kanou didn't really pay attention to what the other person said. He only had attention for the blue eyes in front of him and the Kuba's would probably know what it was all about. They would explain when they got back home.

"This is goodbye then." Someya said as the boy broke eye-contact with his master. She held him close and whispered a soft: 'I love you'. Ayase smiled and nodded.

"I love you too." he said and now it was Gion's turn to fall in a hug. "If he hurts you, come back, you got that?" he said. Kanou rolled his eyes again. Feeling slightly jealous at everyone hugging his property.

"Bye Ayase-chan." Yamaguchi said and he ruffled the boy's hair. Ayase smiled kindly and then placed a kiss on Yamato's cheek. The boy smiled towards the blonde and he gave Kanou an angry look when he lay his arm around Ayase's shoulder.

"Time to go." he said and Ayase nodded. He smiled at Waki and then they both turned around, followed by the Kuba's. Waki gave a pained look. He knew that his creation felt a lot of pain and it was soon to be given to another master. But he had to. Only that would replace the boy's mind. Ayase left his sight slowly, further away from the house.

"I hope he'll be all right." Someya said and Gion placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry." Waki said. "Aya-chan's stronger then you think."

There, this was chapter one! Hope you liked it!

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