cisda83: You get everyone besides the main AKB in this chappie~ Enjoy~ :3
And I deeply apologize for the lateness of this... basically, my fault... gomenasai...
but, the good thing is that it's long like always.
And if I haven't said this before:
We don't own Shakugan no Shana~~~~~ :p
And Kyappu is actually my former HKT oshi, so don't kill us for making her the bad guy for the time being~
Thirteenth“...you mad?” The girl who seemed like Rena, but was very different, deemed herself Chuukara. She giggled creepily as she nibbled on her fingernails, creating the slightest clicking noises.
Kami-7’s puppy stared, maybe even glared, intensely at the Rena who was not Rena. As the bird and artist attempted to approach Chuukara, they suddenly halted due to the intense blood thirst in the air.
“Re-Chuukara...what...are you supposed to be?” Minarun interrogated uneasily.
As if not getting the question, Chuukara tilted her head to the side cutely for a second before showing a malicious expression and responding, “Hmm? I’m Rena...I’m Chuukara…hehe~”
Churi stepped forward and boldly stated, “Stop messing around right now please, I don’t think that we need another problem.”
Upon hearing the bird captain’s words, Chuukara sent an insane grin towards Churi. She happily observed
Rena’s SKE comrade.
“Are you strong? ...you look strong….” In the next moment the bird found herself flung across the hall into the wall by Chuukara.
“What are you-” Airi shouted out in shock before being interrupted by a kick in the stomach.
As if disappointed, Chuukara pouted and nonchalantly said, “You guys are kind of weak.”
Jurina was mad. She charged at Chuukara and kicked directly on target. In response, the crazy girl giggled some more and turned around to face the puppy with eyes filled with excitement. Jurina punched at Chuukara’s face again and again, but the target didn’t fall down, instead she seemed happier.
Slightly tired, the puppy stopped one second to catch her breath and the next second she was hit hard on the head by a punch from Chuukara who was ultimately happy with the fighting.
Airi and Churi came running to help and each grabbed one of Chuukara’s arms. Jurina aimed a flying kick towards her opponent’s stomach and screamed, “Give Rena back!” Before the attack connected, Chuukara joyfully swung the artist off her right arm and the bird off her left.
“Hehe...because you’re strong… I can be Gekikara now right?” As the kick connected, like an infallible tower, Chuukara laughed with only a slight stumble.
“I don’t care if you’re Chuukara or Gekikara! I want Rena back!”
Slightly unhappy at Jurina’s words, the now called Gekikara casually kicked Jurina down to the ground. She kept on stomping and kicking at the fallen opponent. Even if Jurina tried getting up, she’d get kicked down in the next second.
Getting up once more, Churi headbutted Gekikara with all her might. The attack threw Gekikara off balance for a bit, just enough for Jurina to find her way out of the crazy girl’s stomping and kicking range.
Finding interest in her new attacker, Gekikara childishly looked back to the bird. Churi slowly backed away only to accidentally trip on nothing. She winced in fear of what was to come next when she suddenly felt a harsh pull on her hair.
Gekikara cackled, “...I wonder...what color is it?”
Slowly pulling Churi up by the hair, Gekikara was happily savoring the pain in the bird’s face. As Airi and Jurina tried to help, she simply received the attacks and attacked back without letting go of her target Churi.
Like a curious child, she grabbed hold of Churi’s head and like a child banging her fists into the wall during a tantrum, Gekikara slammed the bird’s head into the wall a couple of times.
Jurina and Airi charged again and kept on attacking--kicking, punching, clawing, and everything. Nothing worked against Gekikara. After a while, the bird slowly lost consciousness and Gekikara dropped her to the floor.
“The answer is red~” The crazy girl proclaimed happily without a care in the world as she looked at the red liquid dripped down from Churi’s forehead.
Suddenly, Gekikara dropped to the ground. A sharp pain hit her in the neck and something cut there.
“Minarun?” Jurina weakly muttered as she looked towards the person who downed that monster.
It was the short necked Minarun. Filled with anxiety as one could see by the amount of sweat, she had somehow knocked out Gekikara the same way she did to Miso.
“...um...let’s tie her up before anything else happens...and move her somewhere...is Non’s room fine...?”
“Yea...”
“I’m leaving that to you two...” Airi mumbled quietly before following up with an incomplete thought that she couldn’t help but leave unfinished, “Churi...” Carefully picking up the bird, the artist cautiously walked off towards somewhere where Churi could get patched up.
“...No dying.”--------------------------
That world was filled with colors, but at the same time held a dullness that couldn’t be thrown away. The sky was always colorful in some way, but somehow, it seemed that it was all black and grey everywhere.
“Sayaka…” a girl who held great resemblance to the succubus Milky called out with a somewhat frivolous grin on her face.
Sayanee and Alastor responded at the same time. “Hmm...what?”
“Let’s fight!”
“Wait--what!?” Sayanee couldn’t help but stumble a little in surprise, not sure if she heard the girl’s words correctly.
“Don’t.”“Alastor, be quiet would you? Let’s fight.” The girl stated in a very determined manner.
Lighting a small blue flame on her finger and then extinguishing it, Sayanee tried to reject the fight, “Sorry.”
“I don’t accept no as an answer.” She pouted before attacking. Flying up with purple flaming steel wings, the girl threw a javelin of flames towards Sayanee.
Met with the sudden attack, Sayaka jumped to the side hastily. She unsheathed her sword and got into a defensive position. Seeing that Sayanee was ready in a way, the girl flew down and used another spear and attack Sayanee.
“I don’t feel like fighting right now, especially against you!”
The girl frowned, “Too bad...because it’s this type of world.” Then she stabbed with her spear, which she enveloped in purple flames. Sayanee felt her skin burning and gritted her teeth in a silent scream.
“You’re serious...” Sayanee muttered as she covered her sword with her blue fire.
“Of course.” She let out a somewhat sad smile before throwing another javelin covered with flames.
Sayanee dodged quickly and deflected the quickly coming attack from the girl’s spear. Their flames battled against each other furiously.
“Don’t be too hasty Sayaka.” Alastor advised softly.
“I know, I know!” Sayaka yelled.
The girl grinned and once again attacked in the same pattern, but then she suddenly grabbed her javelin in one hand and the spear in the other. The girl set both on fire and charged.
Throwing the javelin at close range, Sayanee dodged just barely. Then she thrusted the spear. It burned Sayanee’s shoulder slightly. Sayanee took her sword and swung it wildly at her attacker and heard a faint hiss of pain.
The girl covered her boots with purple flames and then proceeded to kick Sayanee in the stomach. Just barely, Sayanee jumped back. In a slightly hurried manner, she attacked using her sword again.
She was deflected and punched without the extra damage of flames.
The girl who resembled Milky giggled, seeing the girl almost completely charred.
“I feel like I’m on fire!” she said with wild eyes.
Sayanee grinned. “Me too…”
Slowly, she removed the bandage on her arm and covered herself in blue fire. Now, Milky was the one who got burned and she backed away, quickly healing her arm with her purple flames.
She glared at the blue flames coming from the short haired girl.
“I knew it… A Flame Haze.”
“Yea, I am a Flame Haze.” Sayanee smirked as she showed off her blue flames.
Alastor grimaced and warned Sayanee,
“Don’t mess around like that...”“Heh...well, that doesn’t really matter right now.” The girl wryly grinned and thrust her spear forward once more before jumping up and kicking a flaming fireball towards Sayanee. “Because I don’t know much about Flame Hazes!”
Sayanee chuckled with odd excitement, she was immersed in the battle already, and retaliated with much force, “HIIIYAH!!”
The two girls’ weapons clashed and clanged against each other, flaming. Both girls seemed confident in their ability to win, but seeing how the fight was not going anywhere, they simultaneously threw away their weapon.
The Milky-resembling girl sent another flaming kick towards Sayanee and Sayanee quickly dodged. She performed a burning uppercut and the two engaged in a heated close combat.
Purple flames and blue flames clashed against each other furiously. Beads of sweat dripped down the foreheads of both girls, and both were panting. They flew at each other again and again, managing to make slight damage, yet couldn’t take the other down.
Covered in sweat, and ashes, the two paused to catch their breath. The Flame Haze smirked as she took in and let out deep breaths of air. The girl panted and let out a wry smile.
“Who wins?”
‘Why are you asking me that?“ Sayanee retorted some what out of breath.
Giggling, the girl said, “...I don’t know…”
“...It’s a tie then.” Finding that it’s be stupid to continue battling, the Flame Haze stated the situation at the moment.
The Milky-like girl giggled with a sense of mischief in her eyes and agreed. She walked over to Sayanee and slowly moved her mouth to Sayanee’s ear and whispered, “Shakure king~”
“What!!”
She then flew off laughing to herself as the king of protruding chins facepalmed. Silently, Alastor laughed as well.
“You really are the Shakure king though...”--------------------------
A peacefully
sleeping Gekikara, who in truth was simply knocked out and tied up, sat in the corner of the room. Quite far from the blood-thirsty alter-ego of Rena, Miso was tied up and bluntly feeling somewhat terrified.
“Oh god… it’s really her…”Miso wriggled and thrashed around trying to get untied. Her heart pounded and she didn’t dare take her eyes off of the monster in fear of Gekikara waking up or something. The young girl moved around so much that the chair fell back, creating a thud sound that seemed to go unnoticed.
Her knife laid on the floor, shining and screaming for Miso to pick it up. Fear made her go stiff. Miso couldn’t see Gekikara. That was terrifying. Miso couldn’t reach her trusty knife and she was in a completely vulnerable situation.
“...that monster...might be tied up…but the second she wakes up...I’m dead...”She tried to keep calm, but of course her body went against her--her heart pounded, she broke out into a cold sweat, and nearly started hyperventilating. Images of blood, maniacal laughter that couldn’t be sourced, and the knife, ran through Miso’s mind.
“...I wonder...you mad…?” Gekikara murmured in her sleep.
Hearing Gekikara’s voice, Miso stopped breathing for a second. She clenched her eyes closed, not wanting to see anymore, wanting to just become nothing and escape like a coward despite her slight dislike of such things.
The knife was right there, yet Miso couldn’t reach it. She stretched her arm as far as it could in the situation yet the knife was just a finger away. As much as Miso tried to scoot over and get closer, the chair seemed heavy and stuck to the ground in that spot that she was in.
“Damn it…”
She crouched into a ball, shivering in fear from the demon girl sitting at the other corner of the room. She heard her giggle softly, making her freeze. Once it stopped, she let out a huge sigh and turned around so she couldn’t face her.
“I thought I finished her… that day, she should’ve…”
FlashbackGekikara was resting after a battle that seemed to last forever. There was blood covering her body as she drenched herself in the cold river water.
Miso watched her from afar. She looked like a normal girl, but that was her disguise for the demon inside her. She slowly walked up, dragging her feet and tripping a bit, as if she was pretending to be sick.
Gekikara saw this and glared at the girl. She started to fall over, but was quickly caught by the blood-thirsty girl.
“Sorry…” she said softly and walked back off. She grinned evily.
She passed by someone, a girl with long black hair carrying flowers, hiding something in her hand. The girl however saw this and her eyes widened in shock.
She was carrying a bloody knife wrapped in some cloth.
She ran to the direction the girl came from and saw Gekikara on the ground, blood flowing out of her.
“No!” She rushed towards the girl’s side and tried to pick her up, but she was too heavy.
Gekikara felt herself growing weak, giggling from the pain she felt in her body.
“I wonder….if she’s mad…at me?”
“No! She wouldn’t. She’s your friend, right? Friends don’t get mad at each other!!!”
“.........Really?”The girl nodded, crying on Gekikara’s shoulder. Gekikara kept laughing, even as her voice got weaker, she kept giggling. She gasped for air, trying to continue her laughter, but finally lost all feeling and fell to the ground, dead.
“GEKIKARAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”
End of Flashback
“She should’ve died and stay dead…” Miso growled.
Miso wriggled around a bit more with her eyes on the knife. From outside of the room, the ikemen Nishishi was peeking in.
“What in the world…?” She sighed, unable to put together the puzzle pieces and walked away.
The captain walked down the hall and turned a corner to see the destruction that had happened. No magic happened at all, it was just brute force from the Rena that was Gekikara that caused such a ruckus.
Everyone seemed to be with Churi, attempting to figure out the situation, scrambling around, or something of the sort. No one was there, or it seemed. Nakanishi let out another sigh as she continued to trot along.
Such chaos occurred so quickly. Everything was fine and dandy, but then it just fell apart. The ikemen felt a pang of guilt that was gnawing at her, but tried to ignore it. It was also a question why Rena would act strange, she never did eat that suspicious thing.
Nishishi kicked at the carpet flooring the halls. A slight dust flew up, but that didn’t seem to be a big problem considering the dust probably came from the fight that went all over the place.
“Nakanishi-san.” The short necked Mina waved out to the ikemen.
She was surprised to see the girl just loitering around. “Minarun...is anything up?”
“...Not really. I just feel like maybe I shouldn’t be with Churi and me trying to help unscramble this wouldn’t be so good. Don’t you think?”
“I wouldn’t know.” Nishishi awkwardly looked towards the kouhai.
The two continued to walk along without any conversation starting up. There it was, the awkward silence that comes along every so often. Nishishi gulped silently, feeling the pressure.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of running footsteps. Skidding to a stop, there was Jurina right in front of the two.
“Can I ask something?”
“...Yes?”
“Can either of you explain what happened to Kanon...and what happened to Rena?” Jurina unintentionally snarled, with much ferocity when mentioning Rena.
Minarun stayed silent, keeping a complete poker face. Nishishi forced out an answer of. “No...I don’t know,” before looking towards the short necked girl next to her.
Jurina sent a suspicious glare towards the two and asked again. “Do you know why Kanon and Rena are like this?”
The same response was received from Minarun, but Nishishi didn’t respond this time. Jurina asked again only to receive no response again.
Jurina stared at the two for a bit. Her gaze moved from Minarun to the captain and it stayed on the captain. Nakanishi gulped silently and naturally stepped back, feeling a slight chill. A few other members walked into the moment and found themselves in an awkward situation and tried to keep their presence to the minimum.
“Nishishi, I’m really worried… Rena is never like this…” she slowly walked up to the frozen captain. “And, y’know… for a long time, I’ve had this gut feeling that…
you have something to do with it.”
Jurina’s voice was suddenly fearful, causing the atmosphere to become tense and heavy. Nakanishi was afraid if she got to upset, her powers would activate and she’d go berserk.
“N-now, Jurina, let’s calm down…”
Jurina muttered something inaudible to the others and her head slowly lowered. Her hands were gripped into tight fists as she approached her closer than ever. Then, out of nowhere, she grabbed her by the collar.
Nakanishi instantly met dark, cold eyes piercing deep into hers.
“What the…? Jurina?”“I don’t like you…” she said in a harsh, low tone that made everyone back away one step. “You… You don’t seem like the kind o’ person you can easily trust. You’re hiding something… and this, everything that’s happened up till this point, you’re a part of it.”
She pinned her against the wall and stared at her coldly.
“J-Jurina?!” The artist screamed in fear. The others just stood and watched the scene unfold.
“Wha… what are you--?”
“I don’t trust you… I don’t trust anyone…” she snarled. She looked back to the others, then pulled Nakanishi down and whispered in her ear. “If you know what’s right, you’ll fix this, or so help me, I’m going to tear you limb from limb so you can
never hurt Jurina again.”
Nakanishi’s eyes widened, realizing what was going on. “Who are you?”
“My name is Center.” The others were confused as to what was going on, but Jurina looked serious and kept quiet. “I’m gonna go back to sleep, so you better behave yourself, or I’m gonna wake up and give you a piece of my mind. Got it?”
Nishishi’s head shook up and down rapidly in fear.
“Good…”
Center closed her eyes and her head lowered. When they opened, she was no longer Center, but Jurina, and when she saw what she was doing, she quickly backed away.
“Wha-? Oh my gosh, I-I’m so sorry, Nishishi.”
“Hey, d-don’t worry about it, Jurina.” The captain raised her hands in defense, still scared at the puppy’s earlier personality that was now fast asleep inside her.
Jurina was confused about what was going on, but in the back of her mind, she felt a certain something, with a certain someone happened.
“Uhh, I gotta go,” Nakanishi claimed as she left. “There’s something I need to take care of.”
“Nishishi!” Jurina tried to call out for her, but she slammed the door.
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The lonely Flame Haze sat on top of the hill, looking out at the sunset as she strummed her guitar, singing that song again.
“Koi nanka mendou da~ Itsumono jibun ja naku naru~ Modokashikute mune no dokoka ga doyon doyon to hanareteiru~”She sighed and put down her maroon instrument, laying down in the grass as she spread out her arms.
“Hey, Alastor, what do you think happened to Milky?”
Alastor replied,
“Rather than asking me that, why don’t you try finding her?”“I did!” Sayaka yelled angrily at the entity.
Unfazed, he responded coldly,
“But you gave up.”The Flame Haze shrank away a little bit. It was true that she had given up. The rogue NMB girl gave a frustrated expression. “...But...I don’t think I can find her...” She mumbled dejectedly. Of course, Alastor would easily be able to pick that up.
“You’ve given up so easily on this. Isn’t she important to you?” Alastor chastised the girl. Sayaka nodded.
“Just go and find her!”“Yea. I need to go find Milky.” Sayaka said determinedly. She picked up her instrument, not wanting to leave it laying around and was about to start her search, of course, after putting the thing away.
Then, she saw a piece of paper fall from the sky. She looked and was surprised to see her name on it.
“What the-?”
It wrote: ‘‘Milky-san is really, really cute right? She’s super cute and wonderful, that’s factual information. -Haha, whatever! Anyways, what d’ya think would happen if someone else took her and made her own? -Wouldn’t that Flame Haze girl be, like… SUPER mad? Oh~ I’d love to see that look on her face right now! -Yeah, let’s capture that Milky-chan and see how the Flame Haze will react. -She’ll probably burn us all up. -Not if we… put her out...of course
permanently.”
“Oh no… Milky!”--------------------------
“You woke up…? Hehehe… It hasn’t been...forever just yet...” The maniacal Gekikara giggled.
The Kami-7’s Matsui Rena seemed to have woken up. She shuddered at the sight of the monster and felt fear weigh her down.
Gekikara pouted with an innocently malicious look. She slowly crept over to Rena and giggled again, nibbling at her nails. Everything seemed silent besides the slight giggles here and there and a clicking from the nail-biting.
“Could you just go back to sleep?” The crazy girl said like a spoiled child.
Rena gulped and slapped her other self away. “Don’t come any closer!”
“Eh~? Why? You don’t... trust me?” she said with crazy eyes. “You don’t… like me?”
Gekikara seemed to be crying crocodile tears, but Rena was smart enough not to fall for them. Rather, the tears added to the crazy stare was extremely intimidating.
The lunatic came close to Rena. Even in the darkness that existed in the mind, the Kami-7 girl could see the madness in Gekikara’s dilated pupils.
“Hehehehehehe…. Hahahahaha….!”
Rena then saw something fearful flash inside her mind. She felt her heart pound out of her chest, and it hurt. She gripped her chest tightly, falling to the ground.
“Hehehe, don’t you know…. You killed millions of people…”
“No…. No..!”
“Don’t deny it… It’s ALL~ true.” Gekikara giggled, grabbing Rena’s collar and pulling her up. “And it was all your fault. You are to blame…”
“No! I didn’t do anything like that!!!”
She pulled the angel close and whispered in her ear.
“You were a mistake.”
Rena felt her heart pulse insanely strong again and she froze, eyes wide.
“No one needs you… Someone like you… should just.. disappear.”
“Disappear.”
Gekikara’s hand went right through Rena’s chest. The very next second, she vanished and Rena fell to her knees, her head hung low.
When she raised them up, she saw everything… The blood, the suffering, the insanity, and the darkness. Her body was painted red, her eyes dilated as she mercilessly killed all those people. Their screaming in agony was music, only to her ears. All that pain faded in the darkness and was replaced by an unimaginable pleasure.
Rena saw all these visions in her head… everything playing like a movie film…
….and… she smiled.
Her pupils were shrunk down until they couldn’t be seen and her giggle was stifled into a crazy, maniacal laugh.
Gekikara had now fully merged inside Rena’s body and has contained full control of her mind.“Hehehehe…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!”Rena’s body jolted up and her eyes popped open to see the monster girl on the other side of the room.
“Oh crap…” Miso thought.
“Hehehe, I’m back~. Hehehehe…” The ropes that bound her seemed like nothing.
“Geki… kara…”
“Are? Your face… I feel like I’ve seen that face before… Aren’t you… hehehe… that girl who I met at the riverbank?”
Miso felt herself become engulfed with fear, staring at the girl as her eyes became wild.
“Yeah, that’s it… Hehehehe… you killed me that day~.”
Tears almost started to well up in the knife wielding girl’s eyes. Gekikara grinned intimidatingly at Miso. While both of the girls were technically tied up, it seemed that Gekikara could get out in less than a second.
The next second would probably be Miso’s death, or maybe torture. Death in that case would be the better option. Well, it seemed as if the monster wasn’t breaking out of the ropes.
All the color drained out of Miso’s face. Gekikara lightly giggled. Miso grasped for her knife, but like before was unable to reach it. As attention went to the blade, Gekikara’s eyes sharpened and seemed to stab through Miso like a snake eyeing her prey.
Either way, it seemed as if Miso was going to be killed by the maniac. At least it felt like it.
“You mad?” She cackled quietly. Her voice was glazed with malice.
Miso wriggled around in fear. She kept on attempting to get free. Somehow, the knife wielding girl managed to cut through a tiny bit of the rope in her attempts to get free. Using what she had around her, Miso rubbed away at the rope.
After a long time scraping away at the bindings, Miso somehow managed to get loose enough to reach out her hand. She picked up her knife and cut at the rest of the rope.
Gekikara was glaring at Miso. While the knife girl had the advantage now with the ability to freely move and a weapon, because of some instinctual fear, Miso felt as if she couldn’t just get rid of Gekikara right there and then.
“Crap! Crap!! CRAP!!!!” she yelled inside her head.
After the ikemen Nishishi thought thoroughly about what had happened with Jurina, she headed towards the room in which Miso and Gekikara were. Minarun seemed to be expecting that as she quickly joined up with the captain.
They walked through the halls and quickly reached the room. There were a number of suspicious sounds and such that made the two curious in a not so good manner.
Without a second thought, the short-necked Minarun swung the door open.
“WHAT THE-?!”
Miso muttered a few curses to herself at the appearance of the two. She gripped onto her knife tightly. Her hands were just slightly trembling. Gekikara wasn’t going to just disappear anytime soon.
It seemed that the knife was pointed to the duo who just opened the door though. Gekikara was creepily grinning at Nishishi and Minarun as well.
“Who do we have here~? Hehehehe… more playmates?”
Nishishi gulped and nearly stepped back at the spine-chilling tone in Gekikara’s voice. Minarun observed quietly with a serious look on her face. There was such a pressure in the atmosphere that weak people would’ve felt crushed.
Wanting to get away as soon as possible, Miso growled, “Let me out...” She slowly got into a fighting stance, ready to stab someone to death if they got in her way.
“No.”Minarun rejected Miso’s command.
“MOVE!!”
Without losing her cool, the short necked girl coldly responded, “I’d have to reject that as well.”
“D-disarm yourself Miso...” Nishishi couldn’t help but feel a bit scared.
Anxiety gnawed away at the knife-wielding girl. Gekikara was too close in the room. A part of Miso was dying to run. “Shut up...and...MOVE...”
Then, Gekikara suddenly released a blood-curdling laugh. A chill went up Miso’s spine. Her heart nearly stopped. She stopped breathing for a second and fear was evident in the girl’s eyes. Her eyes met Minarun’s and she felt like she was being read like a book.
A certain dark angel Yuria was drawn over by the commotion and gasped at the scene that she saw. “Ka-Miso...”
Maniacal laughter rang in everyone’s ears. When Yuria looked at Miso, she couldn’t help but see the fear. Of course, Rena’s persona terrified Miso. Terror tortured her every second.
Yuria walked past her two comrades and confronted the hidden personality in Kanon. Miso glared at her. The knife was immediately pointed towards her and at a close proximity.
Nishishi and Minarun both watched silently. Gekikara giggled and seemed amused at the situation. She was still tied up and unable to play a bit sadly.
“Miso...”
Miso scowled. “Just move.”
“...No...sorry...”
Miso thrusted the knife towards Yuria. The latter swiftly blocked the attack by grabbing onto the blade-side of the knife. Crimson liquid dripped from her palm where it was constantly being cut. Yuria held back the pain and stared at Miso.
The knife-wielding girl was dumb-founded. She didn’t know what to do next. She could probably quite easily pull the knife out with force, but just couldn’t.
“What the heck is wrong with you?”
Gekikara cackled for the last time. Then, a flood of images and scenes entered Miso’s mind. There were things about Gekikara and such. There were moments with Yuria. There were those slight moments with
Kumi.
Yuria and Miso simultaneously dropped the knife in shock. Yuria’s hand was covered in red and the blood was dripping down her fingertips to the ground. Had Gekikara been able to see it, things would’ve gotten very bad, but the madwoman didn’t.
Miso suddenly started a brief screaming fit. She clutched her head as so much that she didn’t want to see ran through her mind. It seemed that something then short-circuited. She lost all light in her eyes and collapsed into Yuria’s arms.
“Kanon!” Yuria couldn’t hide her tears anymore and cried into her chest. “Kanon… I’m so sorry…”
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Suddenly, that piece of paper folded up into some sort of origami bird. Considering the different types of youkai within NMB, Sayanee wasn’t too surprised despite having more or less left the group and gone rogue with Milky.
Of course, Milky was her worry at the moment. The bird seemed to come to life in a mechanical manner and floated off slowly. Alastor hissed at the flame haze to not be too hasty and randomly jump into a trap, but Sayanee just went after the bird without paying him any heed.
The bird was going along at a nice pace. Considering the importance of the frivolous Milky to Sayanee though, it was going way too slow. The flame haze sincerely wished to attack the paper. Unfortunately, it seemed that it wasn’t that great of an idea to do so.
Sayanee frowned, but continued to go after the paper bird. Alastor sighed and gave up on trying to reason. Not a long distance later, the flame haze reached a large cave. The bird then flew to pieces and disappeared.
Alastor groaned that they should randomly go into suspicious caves, but Sayanee immediately lit a light flame and ran into the cave.
“Milky?! Where are you? MILKY!!!”
“The riddle is ‘fishing line’...” she heard a voice echo in the cave.
“Eh? Who’s there?”
“The answer is ‘Yamamoto Sayaka’....” another voice rose.
“Wha-? What’s going on? Alastor?!”
“Stay still...”“HUH?!”
“What links the two~?”
“This girl fell for our trap hook, line, and sinker.”
Alastor let out a sigh. He should have expect something strange to happen and Sayaka should have expected something as well. In the first place, such a letter leading one to such a suspicious place meant bad news.
The two voices continued to talk one after another.
“Hehe~ kind of dumb.”
“That was already known about this fool who walked in here.”
Sayanee gritted her teeth in irritation. The two voices were insulting her. Guessing that they were the ones who wrote the letter, Sayanee concluded that they were of NMB as only a few of those members and a few exceptions knew about her flame haze identity.
“Show yourselves!” The flame haze shouted.
“Eh...she doesn’t recognize us from our voices. How sad~”
“Of course that should be obvious, because we already said she was stupid.”
It seemed as if the unseen duo was trying to get on the bad side of Sayanee. Alastor simply shut his
mouth and gave up on saying anything to Sayanee. Then, a burst of flames went everywhere. That was actually Sayanee’s fault.
Feeling the heat, two figures jumped out of their hiding spot and went to another place. Sayanee then send another small burst of flames towards that direction. It seemed that she didn’t hit anything though. She was a bit shocked because her uncoordinated attack didn’t hit.
Then, there was a kick in the back.
“We’ve shown ourselves. Behold, Inari’s former Komainu who are actually foxes.” A girl who Sayanee recognized as Kinoshita Haruna chuckled.
“Oi! No need to give an intro!” Then, a girl with a nice smile, Kadowaki Kanako slightly hit her friend on the head.
The flame haze couldn’t help but feel awkward watching the manzai skit. She armed herself with her sword and flames and stood alert. When the duo finished, they grinned at her. If they really were the writers of the letter, then it was very, very, very dangerous.
Without a warning, Haruna and Kanako materialized dual wielding katanas.
Randomly waving her hands around, Haruna began to explain. “Considering what Inari was--”
“That ain’t the right motion!” Then the retort came.
Sayanee stared awkwardly only to be met by disappointment from the duo.
“No tsukkomi?” Both face palmed at the same time.
They then began their attack. Like wolves maybe, they slowly prowled around Sayanee, intimidating her. As people who did skits, they knew how to create a mood. A smirk appeared on both Komainu’s faces and their fox ears and tails sprouted out.
All swords were ready to slice or stab through something. Haruna jumped in and cut at Sayanee. Swinging both swords in a simple pattern, she forced Sayanee to back away. The flame haze then utilized her special flames and seemingly forced the more boke of the duo to nimbly jump away.
From the back, Kanako quickly ran in and attacked. Feeling the adrenaline start running, Sayaka quickly deflected the blows. Then, Kanako swiftly retreated for a second as her partner came once again.
“You can’t beat us~” Haruna teased.
“Well, we are two people after all.”
“Stop joking around,” Sayanee frowned as she deflected a few attacks and managed to burn Haruna slightly.
The two jokers seemed shocked at her words. “No way, are you an idiot!?” Suddenly, a sword’s hilt went charging onto Sayanee’s skull. It was a kind of dangerous tsukkomi with a sword.
“But you know, this isn’t funny at all.”
“Yea, this ain’t funny--oi! Don’t say that!”
“How come I can’t?”
“Actually you can--not!”
“It’s better than penguins right?”
“Yea. Penguins can’t even fl--wait no!”
Sayanee rubbed the bump on her head. “What are you two doing?”
“Shut up you unable to fly Sayanee!” Then the two each threw on of their swords at Sayanee.
“What the heck!” Avoiding the blades, the flame haze finally gave a retort.
“Is she catching on?”
“Maybe, maybe, even an idiot can catch on so easily with our wonderful teaching.”
“You two are wonderful tea--I’m not an idiot!”
“Ooh, she really is catching on.” The duo said together in a sarcastic amazement as they got together back to back with their remaining swords ready for action. “Well, it’s too bad since we have to cut off her chin and snuff out the flames.”
Alastor couldn’t help but add,
“Be careful...your chin.”“Alastor, stop messing around and let’s just defeat them so I can find Milky already.” Despite the fact that she never listened to Alastor, Sayanee immediately shot down the slightly awkward joke of his.
Then, a sudden attack from the duo came striking at Sayanee. They cut at the flame haze’s legs to attempt in throwing her off balance. Right when they finished, both Komainu nimbly jumped back and ran in different directions to confuse their opponent.
“Which one shall be your opponent~?”
“Oi! If we BOTH battle her, we’ll surely win.”
“Ugh, just get it over with!” Sayanee yelled at the two impatiently. She flared her flames in intimidation and frowned at the two jokers.
“Okay, okay, we’ll make you lose then.” They said in unison.
Kanako quickly charged in. Sayanee swiped her flaming blade at her attacker, but the Komainu swiftly ducked under and rolled behind her target. Without waiting an extra second, Haruna came running in with her sword ready to cut the shakure Yamamoto to pieces from the front.
Behind Sayanee was Kanako and before her was Haruna.
“Now whatcha gonna do? Huh?”
“Hey, don’t rile her up. She’ll catch on fire, remember, she’s a Flame Haze.”
“Hey, hey, hey, it’s not THAT easy.”
Sayanee grinned. “Actually, it is.”
“Eh?”
Without a second to spare, she grabbed the bandage on her hand and ripped it off, letting it fall to the ground. The next moment, she pulled out a sword from the palm of her hand and was engulfed in blue flames. The moment the duo saw it, their jaws dropped to the ground.
“EEEEEEEEEEEHH?!?!?!?!”
“She.. she’s REALLY a Flame Haze?!”
“Yabee!!!!! Let’s get outta here!!!!!!!!”
“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” And they ran off, disappearing from Sayanee’s sight.
“..............................................ha?” The flame haze was flabbergasted. Either the two were really idiots or they were just assuming that Sayanee really wasn’t a flame haze but just something related to fire and were proven wrong.
“That was...”“Don’t even say anything, Alastor.”
In the end, he was cut off. The poor Crimson Spirit was doomed to receive such responses in such times.
With all seriousness, Sayanee said, “Right now, finding Milky is the main priority.”
“Wel-”“Be quiet Alastor, you’re being distracting.”
“I wa-”“Alastor,” the flame haze cut him off again with a judging tone.
Seeing how he kept on being cut off, Alastor stated as quickly as possible,
“I don’t think she’s here.”Silence preceded the reaction. “What?”
“I don’t feel her presence.”“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“...were you not the one who kept on cutting me off?” Alastor answered in a manner that would seem like he was pouting had he been in an actual human form with a face.
“But anyways, I just needed some time to actually get a grasp on that type of thing.”Sayanee was silent. It somehow seemed that Alastor had beaten her.
Due to the lack of retort to what he had said, for some odd reason, the Crimson Spirit was actually getting worried. Even though he wouldn’t be subject to any physical attacks, it was worrying. It was worrying how Sayaka wasn’t retorting. It was also worrying how he was worrying over his little bit of speech
not being rejected.
Then, the flame haze trudged to the direction of the cave’s exit.
Currently, Watanabe Miyuki was the top priority for the shakure Yamamoto Sayaka. Currently, Sayanee had basically no clue where Milky was.
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“Why you!! Anai Chihiro…”
SKE’s ikemen captain was out jogging, trying to run away her worries when she came upon a person she’d consider a trouble maker for her. It was the HKT faction’s Chihiro. It was that type of person who would just randomly decide to come to another faction’s territory on a whim.
Without thinking, Nakanishi immediately attacked and tried to get a hold of the HKT girl.
HKT’s Captain giggled maliciously and stepped back as Nishishi punched the air.
Nakanishi couldn’t help but growl at HKT’s Captain. Chihiro only grinned enigmatically. The younger HKT member knew more than her. Nishishi was aware. It hurt to say, but Chihiro was technically stronger in this case. It wasn’t as if the Crusade’s reflections meant everything.
Mockingly, the HKT captain asked. “What could it be, Nakanishi Yuka?”
“You...Revert the effects of that freaking fruit! And tell me what you know about the pasts!” Nishishi replied by yelling out her demands like a child.
“Ugh. Desperate people,” Chihiro scrunched up her nose before casually answering. “Hmm. I don’t know anything.”
“What?” Of all the answers, the ikemen was not expecting such from the mastermind.
Anai Chihiro was indeed not lying. She looked nonchalant and uncaring. A tiny sadistic area of her mind grinned happily. SKE was an enemy in this case, so there was no problem in being like that. HKT wasn’t an enemy though, but there was also not much problem with that or it seemed for Capt.
“I don’t know. This is research. Re~search,” Chihiro sang somewhat grimly, “If I knew everything, I wo-wouldn’t be doing all this.”
“Ah. She stuttered.” Even so, Nishishi was furious, enraged.
“Because of you! Because of your actions, even besides Kanon, there’s been other problems!” The ikemen immediately thought of Jurina and Rena. It was scary how different her friends were.
“I’ve always thought that those from SKE were kind of weak in the...you know? Head. Remember that the Crusade is called taking others down and
eliminating them if possible--though I guess it’s been done here and there.”
“You’re a heartless captain, Anai.” Nishishi once again punched at Capt.
In return, the punch was caught. “And you’re a stupid captain who can’t take care of her team or in the least herself, Nakanishi.” HKT’s captain scowled as she held a magically created knife to the throat of the ikemen.
People always had reasons for what they did. Even the devils, the angels, and the monsters of the supernatural world--at least most of them.
Much to Nakanishi’s surprise, Capt. withdrew her knife. Chihiro scoffed and frowned at the SKE captain. Nishishi stepped back into a wall in surprise. “W-what?”
“I hate useless people who I can’t use the most. Solve your problems yourself, fool.” Then, Chihiro left. She just left.
It was a wonder what the HKT captain’s motives were. Why she would go do all this was another question. Also, Nishishi hadn’t received any answers. That was frustrating.
“...I wonder what’s up with her.”
Topic: Tengoku Crusade (20/20) + sequel (Chap6 - 15/04/2015) | Multipairing - DROPPED (Read 51574 times)