Hello. I have come to like the anime and manga Hoozuki no Reitetsu and wanted to do a story on it. This is basically a revision of the anime with Hoozuki as a woman. There will be some romantic parts with her and Hakutaku. I hope you all in enjoy. P.S. There will probably some OCness. Disclaimer: I own nothing. Oh, and this story was made with the help of the amazing KarouUchiha.


Episode One: Making or Breaking Hell


Heaven and Hell exist in the afterlife. Hell is split into 'The Eight Greater Hells' and 'The Eight Cold Hells' and these are further divided into 272 specific subdivisions. Postwar rapid population growth and evil spirits turned vicious have placed the afterlife in unprecedented turmoil. Just as it is in this life and the afterlife, every government needs a calm troubleshooter. However, shadow heroes of this caliber are far more rare than mere charismatic figures.


"Great King Enma! Avici Hell is flooding the river!"

"Sir, you have a transfer request from Heaven!"

"The Hell of Black Cords is in economic collapse!"

"Well, first off, Avici is an ordinance-designated Hell." the great king said, trying to handle one issue as best as he could while being told two more at the same time. "They can deal with that. Next off, Heaven is not my problem! Go consult Hazuki-chan."

"Now that you mention it, where is Hazuki-sama?" Karauri asked, looking around the office.

"She's out doing inspections." Enma replied. "It's so busy, she's being pulled in all directions at once."


Meanwhile

"All normal at Mount Pincushion." an oni woman remarked.

She was of average height and slender. Her black hair was very short and parted in the middle, a horn sticking out of her forehead. Her ears were large and pointed while the fangs she had slightly pointed out of her mouth. At the corner of her grey, slanted eyes were red markings.

She was wearing a black yukata, with red lining, that hugged her figure and showed off her curves. She had a red obi tied around her waist with a Chinese lantern embroidered on the back of her yukata. In her hand was a large, toothed metal club.

"How is the Animal Torcher Hell?" the beautiful oni asked.

"They are currently understaffed." the male demon who was with her replied.

"Hazuki-sama!"

"What is it, Karauri-san?" the female oni asked as the shorter demon ran up to her.

"Heaven's Shangri-La is requesting more manpower." he informed as he handed her a clipboard.

"Hey, I'm in mid-consultation." the other male demon said.

Karauri chuckled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head.

"We cannot be expected to look after Heaven's affairs." Hazuki stated. "Let me guess. Did that moron pass on that particular burden to me to deal with?"

"Did you just causally call Enma-sama a moron?"

The female oni ignored the question.

"Shangri-La, huh? They have a lot of nerve asking for their lack of sinners. Leisurely, enjoyment, relaxation. It's fun to get away. Three days stay in a hotel."

The two male demons blinked.

"Every little thing ends up on my desk." Hazuki said to herself.


Meanwhile

"Like I said! I want you to bring out your toughest guy!"

"I can't do that, you have to take it up with the receptionist."

"Argh! Is that all you can say, you rule-thumping jailer?!"

"Hey, is Hazuki-sama here right now?" a male demon asked Nasubi.

"Yes, I think she's here for inspection." the white haired demon replied.

"Can you go and get her to come here? We can't handle this by ourselves."


Meanwhile

"They want to borrow manpower for the peach farm?" Hazuki questioned as she read from the clipboard. "They don't need more peach trees." she slapped the back of her hand against it. "Furthermore, I am against Heaven's policy of mass-production for Chinese peach trees to secure wonder drugs. A surplus of cure-alls inevitably leads to corruption."

"But Shangri-La is the biggest tourist trap in Heaven, so the scenery needs to be kept up." Karauri told her.

"Hmm, that is true." the female oni said as she handed the clipboard back to him. "It would require maintenance."

"Even help gathering firewood would be appreciated."

"Hazuki-sama!"

"Yes, Nasubi-san? Hazuki questioned as the white haired demon ran over to them.

"Someone named Peach Boy has come!"

"A boy with peaches has come? Tell him we don't want any and send him away."

"Uh, he isn't here with gifts for the Bon Festival."

Nasubi went behind her and pushed her forward. "Please come with me."

"Hey, Nasubi, that's not fair!" Karauri shouted as his friend pushed the female oni away.

"I was first." the other male demon complained.


"When you say Momotaro, you mean that Momotaro?" Hazuki questioned as the shorter demon lead her in the direction of this 'Peach Boy'.

"Yes, ma'am." Nasubi replied.

Then she noticed something out of the corner of her eye.

"When did you introduce the Iron Maiden?" she asked as she stopped walking. "Where did the budget come from?"

"Enma-sama said it was okay." the white haired demon told her.

Upon hearing that, Hazuki was immediately in a bad mood. She clicked her tongue and her eyebrows furrowed angrily, a dark aura surrounding her.

"Hazuki-sama!" a male demon came over and hit Nasubi over the head. "Mind what you say!" he bowed to the female oni. "I'm so sorry to call you out here when you're so busy." he apologized.

"I see, special treatment! I bet she's your superior!"

The three turned to the source of the voice.

"All right, let's go this fair and square! Now fight me!" the young man, who was dressed old-fashionedly, yelled, as he pointed his katana at them.

Everyone stood in silence.

"Where did this problem come from?" Hazuki asked/whispered.

"He's that Momotaro fellow." the male demon whispered back.

"Stop whispering!" Momotaro ordered.

"He showed up out of nowhere started going gangbusters on us."

"That's odd." Hazuki remarked. "He looks more, er, old fashioned and refined than I expected."

"What are you trying to say?!" the swordsman yelled.

"Having rid your land of evil ogres in your former life, I can appreciate the pride you must feel." she said. "But haven't you lost sight of your cause?"

"No, I am still working on my cause. I am who I am because I fight ogres. Right, partners?" he turned to the small, white dog, monkey, and pheasant that was with him.

"I'm in it for the millet dumplings." Shiro said.

"But nowadays there are far more delicious things than millet dumplings." Kakisuke remarked.

"My employment status hasn't changed since the Muromachi Era, so I'm seriously considering a change of profession." Lurio stated.

"I'm not the only one?" the white dog questioned.

"You'd think mystical beasts with spiritual powers would be hard to come by." the monkey thought aloud.

"He's always ridiculously enthused whether we are or not." the pheasant remarked.

"You're assistants to a hero!" Momotaro yelled. "What else do you need to do?!"

"In other words, you are that one guy in the company who burns with team spirit." Hazuki commented. "The annoying coworker."

"Don't coldly analyze me, you oni!"

"I am an oni."

"Hazuki-sama, can you do anything with him? He's delicately set in his ways." the male demon said.

"Don't call me delicate!" Momotaro shouted. He then pointed at the female oni. "I want you to fight me." he said. "Or are you afraid?"

She stared at him impassively.

"Hey, that's rude!"

"I'll have you know that Hazuki-sama is a very important person!" Nasubi stated.

"Oh yeah? How important?" the swordsman questioned while Shiro yawned.

"She's the first adviser to Great King Enma. She's the top-ranking demon!"

"My role isn't all that important." Hazuki said, waving her hand dismissively. "I'm more like the Chief Secretary. It's just a day job."

Momotaro shouted in annoyance.

"Of course you are." she said to him. "Because unlike the riffraff of Ogre Island, we actually work our fingers to the bone. You have no reason to fight us. In fact, you're nothing more than an unemployed drifter now."

"Who do you think you are?!" the swordsman exclaimed. "My mother, I mean, my grandmother?!" he then started to stomp around angrily. "Know my wrath at your peril!"

"Even your anger is old-fashioned." Shiro remarked.

"Well, he is from the Muromachi Era." Lurio said.

"Want me to rain down my fist on you?!" Momotaro yelled, holding up one of his fist.

Hazuki then lifted up her metal club. "Oh, if a rain of fists will satisfy you, then I'll be more than happy to get it over with." she said, smacking the club into her hand casually.

"No, violence is never the answer." the black haired boy retorted, holding up his hands.

The female oni swung her club back, destroying a part of a rock that was next to her.

"This is Hell, we solve our problems with violence." she stated.

Momotaru was scared of this woman.

'How can such a beautiful woman be so evil?' he mentally questioned.

He soon got into a huddle with his animal companions.

"Y-You guys should go and test her first..." he told them.

"What? No way." Shiro said.

"Why not?"

"You go first." Lurio told him.

"No fair."

"It seems they are having a disagreement." Hazuki observed.

"Oh, looks like they're sending out the dog." Nasubi remarked when the white dog came out.

"Uh, I'm not sure about this." Shiro said.

"Shiro, just try provoking her!" Momotaro called form behind a boulder with the others.

"What? Well, um..." the canine faced the female oni. "You have slit eyes like a turtle!"

"Soft Bank is your father!" Hazuki shot back.

"The one phrase the hurts me the most." the white dog said as he fell to the ground, defeated. "But I wish I could adopt Aya Ueto."

"Adopt her? She's already been married off."

That broke Shiro even more.

"Shiro is down!" Momotaro cried.

"Damn, that woman is too mean." Kakisuki said.

"I will avenge you, Shiro, the underdog." Lurio vowed.

"Don't call me that." the defeated canine said.

Then the brown monkey came out.

"Team Brain: Kakisuke!"

"Kakisuke?" Hauzuki was reading from a book she pulled from her cleavage. "Ah, yes, the persimmon monkey. Weren't you sued by the crab family six hundred years ago on the charges of grievous bodily harm?" she looked at the monkey in a scary way and her eyes seemed to glow. "Did you ever apologize?"

The money was down for the count.

"Please... please forgive me past wrong doings." he begged, covering his face with his hands.

"Kaikisuke?! Damn you!" Lurio flew in the air. "Rocket Launcher: Lurio the Pheasant!"

"You are a much larger bird than I thought you would be." the female oni remarked. "But aside from that, I don't think much of you."

Lurio soon fell to the ground.

"Pheasants sucks."

"Comrades!" Momotaro went over to the fallen animals and picked up the bird.

"Momotaru, ogres are just too powerful." Lurio told him.

"We're better off not messing with them." Shiro said.

The swordsman dropped the pheasant.

"Ow."

He then looked at the female oni.

"You damned oni." he cursed as he stood up. "You're heartless through-and-through! It's time for you to sample my skills with the blade!" he held his katana out in front of him.

Hauzki did the same with her club.

They stared each other down for a moment before she used her metal club to break the sword and make a dent in a boulder.

"No!" Momotaro wailed.

"Well, yeah." Kakisuke said.

"One good swing with an iron club will break it all right." Shiro remarked.

"How in the world was this person victorious on Ogre Island?" Hazuki questioned, staring down at the swordsman who had fallen to his knees after his quick lost.

"Well, to be perfectly honest with you, the others were blind drunk at the time." the white dog admitted.

"Don't give that away!" Momotaro yelled.

"Chalk it up to youth, vigor, and beginner's luck." Kakisuke added.

"Hey!"

"Well, yeah, the village people were ecstatic, and we held our heads high, but...He got totally full of himself after that."

Momotaru got up, feeling both humiliated and angry. Then Hazuki came up and slapped him across the face. The others were taken aback from her bold action.

"You lived as a hero, and you go and do this in the afterlife. Don't you have any shame?" the female oni said.

"She's right, Momotaro." Shiro said. "We should quit while we're ahead. Were you so desperate to protect your pride?"

"Momotaro, I know I give you a lot of lip, but the reason why I've stayed with you is because I've become fond of you." Lurio told him.

"Yeah." Kakisuki agreed.

"We can't keep clinging to the past forever." the pheasant said. "'I'm Momotaro, so I need to eliminate oni.', there's something wrong with that thinking."

"Y-You guys..." tears welled up in the swordsman's eyes.

Hazuki went up to the animals.

"Um, excuse me, but would you three like to work in the hell for animal torturers?" she asked.

"Eh? Really?" Shiro questioned..

"The first three months you'll be on contract." the female oni told them. "But, after that, you'll become full time employees."

"Thank you very much, Oni-nee-san!" the white dog said appreciatively.

"Hey!" Momotaru yelled at his animals comrades.

Hazuki petted Shiro on his fluffly, white head.

"Also, if you're interested, there's a job opening I would like you to fill." she told the swordsman.

"Eh?"


In Hell, there are 272 subdivisions. Among these, some are ran by animals.


"You must learn the blood of what the dead tastes like, newbies!" Yasha Ichi, the scar faced white dog, ordered.

"Yes, Senpai!" Shiro responded as he chewed on the head of a deceased while Kakisuke bit into his arm.

Lurio was pecking the head of another deceased.

"Will this help with the understaffed problem?" Hazuki asked the male demon in front of her as the three animals bit and pecked on sinners.

"Yes, thank you very much, Hazuki-sama."


As for Momotaro...


In Shangri-La

"How are you doing?" Hazuki asked Momotaro, petting a rabbit that was in her arms.

"Oh, very well, thank you." the ex. swordsman replied. "I come from a family of woodcutters, so this job suits me well."

"I see. That's good."


He's apparently making a name for himself in Shangri-La.

END


I hope you all liked the first chapter. Sorry if it's too similar to the first episode, but I'll try to make better changes in the second chapter. Please let me know what you think about this chapter in your reviews. And if you have any ideas, please PM me. Until next time.