{"id":397,"date":"2005-01-08T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-05-07T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T01:42:30","slug":"ministers-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/2005\/01\/ministers-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Lord of Hell and what had to be his strongest supporter appeared<br \/>\n     at  the courts, Kunimitsu took a prompt and firm hold of Fuji&#8217;s arm. Keeping<br \/>\n      one eye on his visitors, he escorted the startled Fuji over to Ooishi.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ooishi. Don&#8217;t let Fuji near those two,&quot; he directed. With a glare<br \/>\n      to keep Echizen right where he was, as well, Kunimitsu approached the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>Lucifer arched a brow. &quot;Well. It&#8217;s been a while since I met one of your<br \/>\n     bloodline. Though I do recall it was one of you who last lived long enough<br \/>\n     to notice Alexiel and I coming back around. Odd man; very strange sense of<br \/>\n     humor. Interesting theory of magic, though.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What do you want, here?&quot; Kunimitsu asked. It didn&#8217;t do to get distracted<br \/>\n     from the point when talking to demons.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Actually, I was looking for Michael.&quot; Lucifer eyed Kunimitsu. &quot;I<br \/>\n     don&#8217;t notice his influence. And Michael is generally about as noticeable<br \/>\n     as they come.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was here; I declined his offer. I suggested he visit Fudoumine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lucifer laughed low in his chest. &quot;And your courts are still unsinged.<br \/>\n     Maybe he really is growing up. We&#8217;ll be going, then.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So soon?&quot; Mad Hatter murmured.<\/p>\n<p>Kunimitsu took a step to the side, putting himself squarely between Mad Hatter<br \/>\n     and Fuji. Hatter smiled at him in a disturbingly familiar way, and he narrowed<br \/>\n     his eyes forbiddingly. No demon was getting its claws into Fuji&#8217;s soul.<\/p>\n<p>Fuji was more than enough trouble without that.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Are you sure you didn&#8217;t take on the charge of Greed, as well as Pride?&quot;<br \/>\n     Lucifer asked, sounding amused. <\/p>\n<p>Kunimitsu relaxed as they left, relieved. At least until Fuji spoke from behind<br \/>\n     his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Tezuka?&quot; He didn&#8217;t have to turn around to know there was a glint<br \/>\n     in Fuji&#8217;s eyes. &quot;What was that about?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He stifled a sigh. Dealing with demons was so much easier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>End<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucifer passes through Seigaku and Hatter spots Fuji. <span class=\"summary-meta\">Humor, I-2<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"teaser\"><p>When the Lord of Hell and what had to be his strongest supporter appearedat  the courts, Kunimitsu took a prompt and firm hold of Fuji&#8217;s arm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,315,512,313],"tags":[120,169,171,118],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossovers","category-seigaku","category-humor","category-tennis-sanctuary","tag-pot-fuji","tag-as-lucifer","tag-as-mad-hatter","tag-pot-tezuka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branchandroot.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}