[+] nataku [+]

Nataku, body of an adult, mind of a child. Nataku is a clone. A life-form created out of an 
artificial womb and DNA manipulation. It was also the 'granddaughter' of the founder 
and creator of Toujou Pharmaceuticals, and it's real name was Kazuki.

However, Kazuki died of sickness when she was very young. And her father, who was 
the head of the Development Division in Toujou Pharmaceutical, decided to revive her 
as a clone, using the cloning technology that he had been researching for a long time. 
However, Kazuki's body was consumed by sickness and could not be entirely restored. 
Her father then took his own life to revive Kazuki, so that his body parts could be used 
on Kazuki's missing parts.

And then Nataku was completed using Kazuki's artificially matured womb and her father's 
tissues. Half of the tissues forming Nataku's bone structure came from her father, and 
that is the reason Nataku looks like a male. But if fact, it is sexless, and without 
emotions.

Nevertheless, during the series, we do see some emotions escaping this clone. This 
is because the feelings of Kazuki had had filtered through to Nataku, so it loves both 
its mother and father.

[+] extract from X8 [+]

mother: Oh my. No, Kazuki. Don't run.
kazuki: Daddy's not back yet?
mother: Father is helping Grandfather with his work.. But it's because he loves you, 
Kazuki.
kazuki: Me?
mother :Yes, so you will be better soon. Father is researching lots of medicines at the 
office.
kazuki: When Daddy's medicine is all done, will I be able to run around and sing!?
grandfather (PRESIDENT in the main section):
Now now. Although it's late afternoon, it gets cold out. Go inside.
kazuki: Grandpa! Welcome home, Daddy.
father: I'm home, my cute Kazuki.
grandfather: To think this child is involved in the future of the Earth...
mother: That has nothing to do with us. Kazuki is our only daughter. She is dear to us.
grandfather: .... I guess so.
kazuki: Daddy, I love you.I'm gonna be your bride!
father: [Ha ha] I wonder at what age you will stop saying that.
kazuki: I will! I will too be your bride, Daddy. I love you!!

later, when Kazuki is dying in hospital:

<beep beep beep>

kazuki: %Mommy.....
mother: Kazuki! Kazuki!!
kazuki: %Grandpa....%It hurts.....%I can't breathe....% It hurts.......%Daddy.......
mother (? speaker uncertain) Kazuki----!
father: Kazuki.... I won't let you pass away like this. I swear... I will wake you up again....
Kazuki.

<beeeeep>

kazuki: %...... Daddy.....

<beep beep>

And even though Hinoto told the family that Kazuki was to be involved with the End of 
the World, and was to be on the Dragons of the Earth, the father still went ahead with the 
cloning process because of his love for his daughter.

At the point in time when the series starts, Nataku is just being revived by it's 
grandfather in the underground lab. The grandfather renames Kazuki as Nataku, for 
Nataku was the god who had no soul, which ties in quite perfectly with this Nataku. 

It is Nataku who downs the first victim in the series, Kyougo. The father of Fuuma and 
Kotori protected the Sacred Sword until the very end, and was no match for Nataku. 
Taking the Sword back into the laboratory at the Sunshine Building, it waited for Fuuma to 
awaken into Kamui, so that it could present it to the Kamui of the Earth. 

When Nataku joined the Dragons of the Earth, it became clear that Nataku obeyed 
Fuuma to the last word, and was probably the most successful is destroying the kekkai's 
in Tokyo. It had no morals or scruples about destroying the world, for it had no emotions. 
But that was until it met Karen. 

Karen was perplexed by Nataku. She couldn't understand why a being could have no 
emotions. She didn't hate Nataku for it; instead she felt for it, especially when she looked 
into its eyes once and saw that Nataku resembled a lost child. And because Karen 
herself had an abusive childhood, she immediately felt for Nataku.

It is in book 18 when we see the last of Nataku. Nataku and Karen are in another fight, 
but Nataku begins to feel emotions while talking to the Seal. But their chat is interrupted 
by Fuuma, who wishes to destroy the kekkai at Ginza. And because Nataku's original 
wish is to obey Fuuma's wish, Nataku experiences conflicting emotions for it doesn't 
want to destroy the kekkai, because Karen's kekkai is protecting the kekkai of Ginza. 

At this point in time, Karen tells a shocked Nataku that it has a heart, and calls it Kazuki. 
Because of that statement, Nataku makes a decision and has another wish.  And its wish 
is granted by Fuuma. Fuuma rams his hand through Nataku's body. With its last breath, it 
thanks Karen and kisses her gently. And then it dies.

It's wish was to protect one's most important person, and to die by the hands of the 
person it likes most. Nataku's most important person was its mother and the person it 
likes the most was its father. And because it saw Karen as its mother and Fuuma as its 
father, it died by the hand of Fuuma while protecting Karen.

In the end, the emotionless clone understood what feelings were for the first time, but 
died before it could experience more. Nataku is the second of the fourteen who have 
passed away, and also the second of the Angels.

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