《Chronicles of a Phantom Night》


 I am a fat weeb!

    Tip toe, tip toe.


    Black an outcasted angel in the heavens (mainly for his pervertedness) made his way to the female bathhouses to gather more content for his Angels monthly magazine. Even though it was outlawed and nobody except its writer ever read it, the imperfect angel Black still made it his days work to stalk all the female angels, spirits and anything sexy for his book.


    He slowly mad his way through the city of Jericho, making sure to avoid getting the attention of the guards stationed at Light Feathers district. Instead of flying likeordinary angels Black used his wings to glide from one building top to another, currently he was on top of an apartment complex two streets away from his favourite bathehouses (Heaven''s Feel). Black has silver hair, crimson coloured eyes and a pretty face that would easily make one mistake him for girl. This not being helped by his choice of attire which is on gigantic tee reaching up to his knees.


    Black saw a guard on the roof so he let himself drop on the side of the building, he flew foward just barely above ground level to hide behind a fruit stall. When the guards stationed there moved, he sped towards the next street.


    Before he could get across he crashed into angel Betty, Betty stood up before him and decided to give him a hand. Once Black was able toget get up he looked at Betty and then she screamed.


    "The pervert has returned"


    "Shut up woman, I was not even here for you"


    Black had no choice but to fly as the guards in the sorroundin area came after him.


    "I will not include any fat girls in my new issue!"


    "You should learn to love others or you will not be here for too long young angel"


    Black ignored the ranting as his price was right in front of him, had found his paradise. He quickly took out his camers and lowered himself in order to enter the forbiden place. The guards slowed down and eventually stopped pursuing him.


    "Cowards"


    He thought to himself as he finally reached his destination. A chill ran down his spine, "I''m so cucked" he thought as the ground and the buildings arond him started to dissappear, he was left floating in the abyss of jugdement.


    "Fancy meeting you here, Star-maiden Miss Astrea. Wanna flash your panties for me''''


    ...


    ''''I promise I will put you on the cover"


    ...


    "Just a little flash''''


    ...


    "Please"


    ...


    Black hid his face behind the camera as Astrea''s face turned red, she folded her fists and her divine powers started to gather. The abyss is Astrea''s unique ability, it is place as white as snow and has various weapons floating around, alof this is topped off by the throne of the judgement scale behind her. This ability makes her unkillable and ten times stronger than her normal self.


    ''''(shouts) Why don''t you ever listen''''


    ''''Hey, hey, hey, calm down I was not going to take any nude shots I promise "


    "That does not make any difference, you have been baned from these streets, so it is my duty as goddess f judgement to do something about you''''The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    ''''You mean be my next model''''


    Black proceeded to take pictures of the clearly enraged goddess.


    ''''Oh yeah baby that is perfect, mhm, I''m loving the passion, the anger, the authenticity. This is beautiful stuff you cannot fake it."


    ''''I will banish you from the heavens, feel my wrath pervert''''


    ''''Whoa, whoa, slow down godzilla. If you do that the big man will be upset, there is a way for handling these sort of cases.''''


    ''''You just wanna walk free again I will not be conned."


    "Explain then!"


    "I have nothing to explain to you."


    "Oh really? Are we just going to ignore the fact that you are the bigger pervert here?"


    "What are you talking about? Me? A pervert?"


    "Feigning ignorance now are we?"


    Black moved in closer to the goddess who had now stopped charging up her magic because of the confusion caused by the idiot in front of her. She knew that most people quickly misstook Black for a fool because his sunshine and rainbow mood, but in reality Black was one the most meticulous and most cunning strategist one could find. Once exposed to his scheaming side one might think of him as a villian. No, there is no other way to look at it Black was neither a hero nor villian. Hell, the angels, gods and other beings lived with him and they still did not know what he was.


    There were times were he was seen using holy powers, and time were he demonic ones. That was not even the half of it, they referred to him as Black because no one was able to pronounce his name, he is a sinner above all sinners yet the OAA (One Above All) still let him into his kingdom. There was even no proof that the being standing in front of her was even the real thing. One last thing is that everybody who ever looked into Black would disappear without a trace and slow get erased from history and the memories of all that which has been created.


    ''''Those are just baseless rumours,'''' the goddess told herself in order to calm down.


    ''''Where are you getting at you sly pervert,'''' Astrea said as she folded her arms. She blushed in embarrassment as Black smiled at her.


    ''''Oh how cruel will reality continue to be towards this young one." Black said in a clearly sarcastic tone. Astrea put her hands over her chest and started to move them, her fingers continued to move slowly until they caressed her nipples over her dress which was made of extremely light fabric. The wind blew and Astrea discovered that she did not have on her underwear. Astrea scremed in horror, as Black showed her the underwear she was wearing.


    ''''We have had enough''''


    ''''Punish him''''


    ''''Someone bring forth the Holly Grail and strike him down''''


    ''''Damn they love me,'''' Black thought as he looke up everybody in the large council building demanding that something be done to stop him. Soon all the noise died down as th OAA''s presence filled th room.


    Astrea and two angels suporting her came forth and told the OAA what Black had been up to. After that a judgement was passed and a huge bolt of lightning came crashing down on Black, when everything died down he was nowhere to be seen.


    ''''It is done, the young will not bother you again for some time''''


    Cheers filledthe heavens as everybody celebrated the end of a dark age.


    On Earth


    Bang! Bang!


    The rackus caused Black to wake up, he was in bathtub filled blood and thought, "The one outside must be worried,'''' so he got up and started cleaning up.


    ''''Sakura, Sakura, please do not do anything stupid. Mommy needs you do not leave me alone'''' she cried out.


    ''''Woman please give me some space''''


    ''''Sakura you are all right."


    Does she not hear me cleaning up, Black thought as he approached the door.


    ''''I know that you have been bullied in school, but that is no reason to take your life. Honey please open the door and talk to mommy, I know you did not do it I know it is not your fault.You should not have been suspended on the second day. Please, Please open the door." She said as she lost all strength in her body and collapsed on to the ground, she let out a loud cry it shook Black''s heart and he shed a tear too. Black was too afraid to come out what if he was not the person she was expecting to see.


    "Honey please, say something mommy wants to know if you will stay with her." She said barely even audible she still said in hopes her daughter would abandon her suicidal thought and come to her, not knowing that she had already passed.


    Black opened the door and hugged the poor woman. ''''I will not leave you,'''' Black said, he stood up made his way towards Sakura''s room. He screamed.


    "What the hell are these things''''


    "This is all your stuff what do you mean?"


    "oh, okay you may leave"


    Black looked around the gigantic room covered in anime and boy band posters, Black grabbed the nearest one and started to rip them off. As he continued further into the room he bumped into eroge which he did not pay attention to. After stripping off all the poster the room still had a toxic pink colour, he was fraustrated. How could anybody live like this, could this even be called living. Black gathered all the posters and threw them out of the window.


    He made his way back to the eroge pile, and the oneon top scared the living hell out him. He fell back and covered his mouth to keep himself from screaming due to the yaoi he done found. Black stood up and made his way towards the mirror, and this time he could not hold hold back, he screamed his lungs outand he fainted. I am a fat EEFIN WEEB was the last thing she thought. Damn.

 Crippling

    Kiiro Sakura, almost fourteen but was somehow bullied to the point of committing suicide.


    Thanks to that I was summoned back, see Sakura and I are actually the same person. When my time to return to earth came I split my soul into two, now the other half has been swallowed by these crippling (when a person naturally feels a certain way for an abnormally long time those feelings end up manifesting a spirit form and will actively influence that person to their death like Sakura who has quiet a few).


    I had 24 hours before I could lose my memories and completely become Sakura, but before that time approaches I must prepare a few things to ensure I do not end up like my weaker half.


    Time left until memory loss-18hours. Current time 1600hrs


    Wakes up, looks to the side and sees a familiar yet strange face.


    ¡®¡¯You look like a yakuza member from the eighties¡±


    ¡°Your tongue is as sharp as even Kisa-chan,¡± the guy with rocking the Elvis Presley haircut said as he chuckled in relief.


    ¡°And to what do I owe the pleasure O-kun?¡±


    ¡°You know that you can at least pretend to be happy to see your childhood friend¡±


    ¡°Is your princess not going to be pissed at you for coming to visit me?¡±


    Onizuka threw himself back on his chair and with huge blush on his face said, ¡°wha¡­what the hell are talking about!¡±


    ¡°If you have nothing better to do, then hurry up out of my house I have things to take care of¡±


    Onizuka¡¯s face went back to its originally terrifying expression and said, ¡°You know that you will not make any friends with that attitude right?¡± Black got off the bed and walked past the boy and stopped at the door to look back at him.


    ¡°That¡¯s right, I almost forgot that you are always around because you feel obligated¡±


    ¡°Obligated! I came here because I was worried about you can at least say thank you.¡±


    ¡°Thank you then. But I would have appreciated it better if you helped me when I needed you the most¡±


    ¡°There was nothing I could do, I¡¯m a delinquent at school the teachers would have ignored me¡±


    Black ignored and walked back into the room and started to undress. Onizuka tried his best to this but ended up failing and ran out the room. Black looked into the mirror to see how he looked in Sakura¡¯s grandma clothes, and that is when the crippling showed themselves.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.


    (Noderabou depression yokai according to google) Norabu showed himself behind Black, started rubbing on his shoulders and stuck out his tongue to lick his/her cheek.


    ¡°You look ridiculous. They will eat you alive, stay inside. Where we, ye we, will be free from their judging eyes,¡±


    Black was completely terrified, not because of Norabu¡¯s ugly appearance but because they were more of them. At this moment Black could only imagine how much they weighed down on Sakura after she was framed and suspended from school, he too would have took his life.


    ¡°Honey come down here and walk Oniuka, please. Thank you.¡±


    Black ran from the mirror and went downstairs, but while halfway there,


    ¡°(In a calm sexy womanly voice) they think you are a fool, they just want to use you. Where do you think you are going it is not safe out there! (Frantic screaming) Not safe! Not safe I say (voice cracking down as if crying) stay inside please, we belong in the darkness.¡±


    She had finally showed herself, crippling anxiety and this was only one of her many faces Anzy was her name and was the sole reason why Sakura had a sharp tongue.


    Black closed his eyes and relying only on luck sped down the stairs.


    ¡°How cute you think you will be able to avoid me for much longer (taunting voice)¡±


    Black looked to the kitchen and screamed yet again as he saw a snake spirit on top of Onizuka¡¯s head, but he knew not to point this out for poor Mrs Kiira¡¯s sake who almost lost her daughter.


    Because nobody heard him scream Black slouched back on the last stair too calm down, while he was calming himself he thought fight. Fight I need to fight back, I cannot end the same way I will prevail. I will stand on top.


    ¡°Are you still walking me back?¡±


    Black looked up at Onizuka, the yokai was still there but it seemed harmless because it was not yet influencing Onizuka¡¯s behaviour. He reach for Onizuka,s hand to get up but pulled him down instead.


    Awkward silence


    ¡°I want to lose weight¡± Black¡¯s face turned red as he said this, he could not believe that he went from heaven¡¯s most respected publisher to a girl with insecurities that talk back.


    ¡°I think you are fine the way you are.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m doing it for revenge.¡±


    ¡°Whoo, well that changes everything.¡±


    ¡°Will you help me?¡±


    ¡°Who do you think I am? Of cause I will.¡±


    Lack hugged Onizuka in excitement and immediately realized that they were in an awkward position and quickly threw him away while screaming, ¡°PERVERT¡±


    ¡°What did I do?¡±


    ¡°Do not say anymore, I might fall pregnant.¡±


    ¡°That is a bit much don¡¯t you think.¡±


    They continued to argue as they walked out of the house and then the yard, as they were walking they ran into a young girl crying by the road. She appeared to be an elementary scholar, she had one ponytail and blonde hair. She also had a dark shadow leaning over her, it did not appear to be a yokai but at the same time how would a kid this age get a crippling.


    ¡°Oy kid are you okay.¡±


    The little girl cried harder after looking at Onizuka who really looked like a gangster. He jumped back and said ¡°I did nothing I swear.¡±


    ¡°Are you okay?¡± Black repeated the question stroking the little girl on the back and ignoring the shadow which glared upon realizing that Black was able to see it.


    Shook her head


    ¡°Well what¡¯s wrong?¡±


    ¡°I can¡¯t find my way home¡±


    All the while Onizuka was shakking in the background, he was sensative about having a scary face.


    "aw dont worry big sis Sakura will help you out"


    "Really?"


    "Yeah, you can count on me. Now wipe those tears and tell me your name."


    "Amane, Watanabe Amane"

 YOU SEE THEM TOO!

    "OK! Can you tell big sis here you live?"


    "Most importantly  why are you still out at this time?" Onizuka added as he hid behind Black and stuck out his eyes from his back to stare as gently as he could at the little girl who clearly still terrified of him.


    Amane made tiny fists with her hand while trying her best to hold back her tears. Black extended his hand towards the young the young girl, but Amane quickly zoned back to reality and turned to see Black''s hand which she quickly slapped away without a second thought.


    "I''m sorry. I''m sorry big sis I really didn''t mean to do that to you," Amane said as she sped towards and grabbed a hold of Black''s grandma dress.


    Thank the good lord she did that I almost snapped, it''s none of my business but I can''t just let a child this young walk around with that thing attached to her. First of all I''m yet to find out whether it is a crippling or a yokai. If it''s a crippling getting getting her to talk about her problems could  trigger it and i can most likely exorcise it, but if it is the latter then I should stay away because then both of us will be fucked. I feel ashamed for even thinking this but as I am with these overpowered perverts attached to me I do not think that I will be able to easily win against another person''s crippling as for yokai, I''d rather keep to myself


    "Hurry up and disappear already, little old Anzy can''t handle your meddling you pesky halfwit."


    "I personally do not mind you taking over this body it just means more power for me," Norabu and Anzy said as they started licking and stroking Black''s face.


    "Oy, oy are you okay?" Onizuka shook Black back to reality and he (I do not know how handle the whole Black Black he/she thing) quickly jumped from the human sandwich he was immersed in.


    "Big sis are okay?"


    "Can you see them too?" Black grabbed young Amane by her shoulders  and shook her. "You see them don''t you? They talk to you, they keep you from smiling. They do. They do. They do."  Black continuously shook Amane who started to cry out.


    "Bis sis I do not know what you are talking about, please stop you are scaring me." Black obviously ignored this, the overall situation forced Onizuka to snatch Amane and slap Black back to his senses.


    "Sakura calm yourself. You can''t see ghosts, so stop trying to spread your weirdness."


    Black''s body chilled as his crippling chuckled and continued to taunting him making sure they drive him towards craziness they were going to grow stronger and break free no matter what.


    Black calmed himself feeling ashamed of falling before losing his memories, during loosing his memories he will be forced to unite with Sakura''s soul but in order to do that he must win a mental battle with these crippling. His mind has to be strong he cannot lose before the fight.


    He steeled himself with a new resolve to ignore all drama, go back home and prepare for the fight. Black now preparing to tell Onizuka to take Amane home alone, looked the girl in her eye and felt a tiny hole open in her heart this led to her crippling torture her even more.


    He realized that he cannot back down and that the guilt that would come from not helping this little girl will be much heavier than what fate had in store for him.


    "Big sis?"


    "Do not worry, I will take you home. I promise"This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.


    Amane reluctantly smiled back, she was left feeling uneasy by the unnatural mood swings of her so called female knight in shining armor. Black ultimately got Amane to tell them where she lived and now the real battle was about to begin, he was going to use all his child finessing skills to get Amane to talk, one way or the other he was getting some answers.


    Before they took off Onizuka gave Black a stern look but was ignored, after walking down a few blocks Black started throwing an array of questions at the little girl.


    During the questioning Black noticed that the shadow would imbed it''s ugly arms on the sides of the young girl''s neck. The way she answered Black''s questions was so above her grade Onizuka started to smell something fishy.


    If Black asked Amane about her school life Amane would just give off generic excuses. When asked about home he would be asked not to pry, all the while her facial expressions remaining unchanged.


    Black''s worries only got worse when she realized that the snake yokai on Onizuka''s neck was getting larger. He asked them to stop by a nearby park for ice cream, no arguments were raised but the shadow gave Black an enraged look followed by a hiss sound because it got played. What elementary scholar would say no to ice cream, it was unthinkable and would make Onizuka doubt Black''s craziness.


    Black watched in a distance as the snake yokai on Onzuka''s back shrink, he summarized that it fed off dishonesty. It only make sense that it managed to latch itself unto Onizuka who despite his young age was affiliated with the local yakuza (he is their heir).


    But the real problem was what form of dishonesty did it feed on, Onizuka could barely tell a lie despite his upbringing he was more like a fictional gangster who valued brotherhood over all that exists.


    Arg all this thinking was hurting Black''s head, remember he still had his own demons to fight. The unidentified shadow had been staring at them for a while when Anzy suggested that she borrow Black her powers to fight. Disgusting as it may sound they were people intentionally summoned yokai and gave themselves crippling in order to gain power.


    "Oy, are you okay?''''


    "LET ME GO!"


    Black snapped back into reality with a smile on his face because thanks to Onizuka tripping young Amane, some scars which were concealed by her long sleeved blouse were finally exposed. He sprang forth like a cheetah pouncing on its prey and before Amane could apologize for overreacting, quickly snatched the young girl''s arm and


    "Aha, I knew you were hiding something. Now tell me you see them too. You see the don''t you?"


    The shadow quickly started screaming like a dying cow, the noise forced Black and his crippling down to ground. It completely possessed Amane who started crying as loud as possible before running away.


    Onizuka helped Black up on his feet and screamed, "Are you crazy how do you expect to help someone by throwing your weirdness at their problems." He ran after the girl, while the people in the park eyed them suspiciously.


    As if that was not problematic enough one of them even called the police to report a kidnapping.


    "It''s not what it looks like. We are only trying to help!"


    like fuel to a flame this only made the woman on the phone sound more hysterical as she pleaded with the police to hurry up. Black took off running and quickly lost stamina before even catching up to Onizuka and Amane.


    Anzy saw an opportunity and she did not spare any time thinking of ways of ridiculing Black''s weight.


    "Oh my, oh my, did my cute tub of lard run out energy already?"


    "Did you really all that fat would take you anywhere, oho your goal is gone with the the wind. Now why won''t you let uncle Norabu and Miss Anzy here help you out."


    Black''s head came to a complete stop, then suddenly thoughts came rushing in so violently it felt like he was going to burst. He was conflicted, Amane was getting further and further away the more time he wasted.


    But at the same time he refused to be swallowed by his anxiety and depression, who were they to tell him that he cannot make it. Who were they to tell him that she was too fat, after that Black took off running yet again.


    He tripped and fell to the ground breathing so heavily and feeling helpless at same time. Anzy stood over him and started rubbing his face without saying a word.


    "Fine I will take it!"


    "Take what honey?"


    Black''s flushed red as he hurriedly turned his gaze away from the smirking Anzy.


    "The power! Just help me save that little girl."


    "Deal!"


    "Its a deal! Hahaaaaa!"


    "Who are you?"


    Black quickly jumped off the ground and stared at his new crippling. This crippling had a deep and shaky voice, its face was covered in clown make up and its neck, wrist and ankles had spiked bands and a collar. Its body was dark and with every movement it made fur appeared to fall from it like pixie dust off the wings of a beautiful fairy, except this fairy was not at all beautiful and its wings were sickening to look at.


    "Kuriny. The name''s Kuriny. We have a girl to save now don''t we?"

 JAIL CELL

    Black quickly activated power granted to her by the crippling, he had no time to deal with Kuriny and hopefully his now manifested insecurities would be helpful in his endeavors to get rid of the little girl''s shadow.


    The blob girl bolted through the crowd and into the alleyway after Onizuka and Amane. After running and searching for them for a while he finally found them. Amane was trapped and Onizuka was still trying to calm her down, the shadow had now relinquished control over Amane''s body and she was starting to calm down a bit.


    Black made his way up to them as quickly as possible, and when he arrived he tried his best to be subtle with Amane. "Are you okay? Why did you run away from big sis?" Amane looked up at the nervous Black, Sakura''s chubby face made him look funny so Amane was able to calm down even more.


    "That is because big sis startled me." She said as she tried her hardest to avoid eye contact. Even though it was just a glimpse Black had seen tears sparkling from her eyes when she lowered her head. This complicated things because if he were to startle her again the shadow would make its'' way back into her further cementing this task as a teeth grinding one. Black had not the patience nor the time to play social worker so he decided to think up logical ways to get her to talk.


    He had thought enough, the only fruitful path to take was to be aggressive. If bribing her with ice cream was not going to work then maybe being more assertive and adult like would make for her the perfect platform to share her grievances. "Are you being bullied at school?" "SAKURA!" "HUSH"


    Onizuka was a bit startled, they had just managed to calm Amane down and if they were to lead here to another mental breakdown it would not look good for them. Onizuka was sweating he wanted to stop Sakura but she was more extroverted today than she normally is, it made him wonder whether or not he will be able to withstand her verbal venom if he were to invoke her wrath.


    Amane was nervous at first, no rather she was scared of what was to come if she were to share with them what was the latest scoop in her disastrous life. The shadow found a window of opportunity as Amane''s spirit started to dwindle, it reached in through her neck and started to takeover. The little girl felt it for the first time, a bone chilling feeling flooding her tiny little body she was terrified and so she screamed.


    "YES!" They bully me. they call me all sorts of mean names and it is all his fault. He ruined my life, he ruined mama''s life. I wish. I wish..." The shadow was pushed out by the sudden flash of confidence, while it was still startled Black powered up punch running it over Amane''s head and punched it into the wall. The wall cracked revealing a humanoid like build in the crack.


    Amane screamed and ran towards Onizuka who embraced her and patted her head to calm her down. "What are you? What business do you have here? What did you do to her family? Are there more of you?" Black threw these questions at the pinned up shadow and it did not answer but instead erupted in a laughter that slightly scared Black.


    Onizuka was the only one who was not aware of what was going on but he could feel an ominous presence in the atmosphere and it was almost too much to bare. But faced with forces that he never imagined to exist in this world he still did not waver he wanted to see to it that the girl was rescued from whatever she was going through and so he was willing to believe Sakura''s crazy talk for now.


    Amane was unsure of it but if she had one shadow and it was so unbearable to live with, if at all it was truly the one causing unrest in her family. Then why, why did it appear that Sakura was carrying a whole school of shadows behind her. What could she be going through, what pains does she have and why did she ignore them to help her. She cried, she did not know whether to feel guilty that she was causing trouble for someone who was sacrificing a lot to help her or be happy that there was someone willing to go that far for her. If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    Onizuka tried his best to calm her down, "It is okay. It will all be over soon. We are here to help." Was all he could say in this very awkward moment. Sakura his childhood friend was up there fighting something which he was completely useless against he thought of all the times he did not stand up for her when she said she could see ghost. He too wanted to shed some tears, but he had to be strong for when all this is over he will definitely apologize for being a dishonest friend. If at all he still deserved to be referred to as one.


    The omnious pressure increased as the shadow started to chuckle again, but this time he extended his hand at Amane and said something. "You want to stop hm don''t you? He took away your happiness. You should know by now that I can give you the power to end it all. Just how do you think your onee''chan here is able t fight me?"


    "Do not fall or his tricks they are all the same," Black said as he stared the shadow in its eyes. "We have a brave one here. Are you some rouge exorcist collecting us for more power?" Amane was shocked, "Is it true?" "I told you not to listen t his nonsense."


    "Oho ho ho hooo, Amane-chan in this world I am the only one who is truly by your side. This onee-chan is lying to you, she wants to separate us. She wants what rightfully belongs to you. Look at her back, how many shadows did she collect from innocent children who were tricked into believing that it was all for their own good. The poor kids were probably left defenseless. They were just like you and she wronged them. Why would a stranger be concerned for your well being? Amane you only have me. Reach out your hand and we could be together forever. Only when you accept me will I be truly beautiful. Amane-chan."


    "Onizuka! keep her hands in place. do not let her reach out." Like fish drawn to the worms on a fishhook it was truly not impossible for Amane to believe this nonsense, the only way to stop the shadow was to put an end to it now before they link up again.


    Onizuka felt bad about this but he grabbed Amane''s hands and she screamed. Black loosened his grip on the shadow, it thought that it was granted the opportunity to escape but no. As soon as it broke free it received at least five punches at a terrifying speed to it face. Anzy, Norabu and Kuriny were enjoying the show, pouring their powers into Black, there was an added benefit to this after all. Why else would the shadow be so desperate to fuse with the little girl and get revenge for her.


    As she saw Black digging into the shadow''s face with punch after punch Amane truly believed that Black was up to no good. She bit Onizuka who let her go and she reached out to the shadow, the shadow started to glow and smiled enraging Anzy who took it upon herself to continue beating it up. The shadow escaped blowing Black at least two meters backwards it ran inside Amane who then fused with it.


    It took out a pencil and then hacked away at Onizuka''s thigh who was determined t hold on to it because he is the one messed up. Amane shadow lifted the pencil high up, added a bit of magic into it and ran it so deep into Onizuka''s thigh that it reached his bone. He screamed in agony as he reached for the pencil that was in so deep only the rubber and the HB part showed, he screamed he looked at the almost passed out Sakura and could only regret further.


    "Revion, the name is Revion remember me for I will be coming back to free my brethren and kill you two, but before that, I have an old fart to cleanse, HAHAHAHAH. Saionara suckerss! HA AHA HAHAHAHAA." Shadow Amane said as he/she ran out of the alleyway.


    The yokai on top of Onizuka pulled out the pencil and healed him, Onizuka could not see it and only felt the pain disappear. He looked for Sakura who had already started standing up. She absorbed some energy from Anzy and ran after Revion. Onizuka was a bit confused but followed on.


    When they had finally reached Revion Onizuka quickly grabbed his hand and went "gotchu!"


    Revion screamed and held on tighter to the police officer, "Damn" Onizuka thought.


    "Imbecile!" Sakura screamed.


    They were thrown in jail cells and their parents were given a call.

 THE LOVERS ROUTE

    Black sat down on his rusty bed with nothing else to do but observe the jail cell''s upsetting feel, he did not have that much time until the merging of his and Sakura''s souls. He looked over to the cell and there was violently delinquent looking type of girl, she dyed her hair in three different colors. She had on a crop top with a jersey tied up around her waist covering her tight  skinny jeans.


    Everything about her spelled trouble it even made Black wonder if she had a crippling or possibly a yokai attached to her. But no matter how much he stared at her direction he could not pick up an amiss feeling neither did he see anything. He smiled on his own, ''What is this? she is just another weirdo.'' He thought. "Do yo have anything to say to me pudding?"


    Black snapped out of his thoughts and looked back at the woman''s direction but she was not there, so he really did hear her voice coming directly from his left side. Despite her looks she had a really beautiful voice, like some singer or famous actress. He turned to look at her, and she was all in her face. She stuck out her tongue which was for some odd reason pierced whilst her ears weren''t but instead had clippings on. Black felt disgusted at the though that he actually used that much of his time to observe her. What was the deal with her?


    "What is young girl like you doing in a jail cell? Shouldn''t you be home studying?"


    "This pig of our swallowed a chocolate factory." [Kuriny]


    "The police finally caught her after many days of being at large." [Anzy] The crippling said as they erupted into a huge laughter. "Well that''s interesting." The laughter died down and Black looked up in fear, wondering whether or not she can see or hear the crippling.


    "What is?"He nervously asked the girl who was getting closer and closer to her, "You are strangely attractive."She sniffed away at Black''s unusually colored hair, "My manager is coming to get me here in a few minutes. Wanna tag along."


    "The jokes. The jokes. They are going to shower you with fat jokes." [Norabu]


    "Yes, yes my dear you will be the next big thing on social media tomorrow." [Anzy]


    "Literally." Kuriny added the cherry on top as they blasted away into abyss of laughter, Black was really trying his best to remain calm and make the best decision in this situation.


    "I am sorry, but my mother is also coming. I wouldn''t wanna worry her." Black said as he tried his best to move away from the potential danger. Black fell off the other end of his bed and upon crashing the girl pounced on him. "Anna, Anna is my name. If you are ever interested you can call me in this number. I will gladly wait for you since I kind of like your voice." She said as she slipped a card in between Black''s breasts.


    Ohoo, she an aggressive one little lad." [Norabu]


    Black ignored this and tried to call out to Anna who was returning to her original place of comfort. Before his voice could come out he was disturbed by, "Dear! Dear are you okay?" It was just as he had predicted his mother spared no second in coming down to the police station after receiving that alarming call.


    Black was escorted out of the cell and before leaving he took one last look at Anna who appeared to be asleep already. "How annoying." Anna said under her breath, a huge shadow jumped out from behind her, it exposed it''s great white and terrifyingly sharp teeth. "Did you find me a new snack, Anna-chan" it gave off a disturbing chuckle which caught Black''s attention as he left the hallway. "Don''t annoy me Anbu, I am here because of you."


    Black and his mother went to clear off the misunderstanding at the front desk and then shot straight home. "Did Onizuka''s father go to him?"If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    "Onizuka was never arrested honey. You know that he..."


    "I get it no need to explain to me."


    Upon reaching home Black quickly ran upstairs shouting a thank you at his mother who saying that she want''s to talk. Once he got to his room he quickly wrote down a few things and put the note in her pocket. A card fell from him and it was Anna''s, it was as clear as day that the crippling were starting to make fun of him. He ignored them and called Onizuka.


    "YO!"


    "What did you find out?"


    "You could at least pretend to be happy to hear from me. Besides you never asked me to look for anything."


    "First of all I am the one who called and secondly I apologize deeply for assuming that you had a brain."


    "Ouch. Anyway I asked my grandfather''s boys and looked up some information on the internet."


    "What are you waiting for? Spit it out."


    "Do you actually believe in ghosts."


    "Are you dumb? I said spit it out."


    *Sighs


    "Hai, hai. According to the information I got:


    There was a family that lived in house xxx and street xxx. It was a family of three, mother daughter and step father. Upon arrival the family had a perfect family aura that it emitted, the neighbors were jealous especially at the woman''s good looking husband. They would invite the wife to gatherings and at times bring over some left over desert for her. This was all fake as they would bad mouth her behind her back and they even went a step further as to tell their kids not to play with her daughter because she was a child of sin and adultery and that her family was cursed.


    On one fateful day the husband came home drunk and proceeded to beat his wife and daughter. The wife thought it was a one time thing and so did not let it disturb her. The following day the daughter complained about being bullied and when her husband got home she told him. He paid no attention to it and went on to rape his wife, all this would repeat everyday until the daughter was seen crying on the street.


    The boy and girl who found her took her for ice cream saw her scars and decided to look into it. The girl runaway in terror, and the couple chased after her. They were intercepted by the police and sent to jail. They pleaded with the police officer to look into the case, he refused so they annoyed hm to a point were he decided to find the girl''s home and show the couple that there was nothing wrong with her family.


    When they arrived the house was already burning, the people in the vicinity said they heard a woman''s voice yelling that her child was being raped. When the neighbors came to address the issue he threatened to burn the house down. Emergency services were contacted and tried to talk to the man, he said the voices told him to do it, he said they said that it was the right thing to do. After all he was the man of the house the police infiltrated the house from the back but an explosion went off killing instantly everyone inside and injuring some bystanders.


    The couple moved away and after that incidents of a blonde girl crying on the streets and leading couples to their deaths in the alley were reported creating what was to be known as the Lovers'' Route."


    *Chuckles


    "Just what were you reading, some amateur horror story? What actually happened?"


    "Sakura did you really not recognize that girl? Do you not remember what happened before people started to bully you?"


    Black stopped and thought for a minute meanwhile Anzy and Norabu started crying saying things like. "Do you really not remember how we first met?" "How cruel of you?" "I thought you had something special."


    "Black dropped his phone and memories came rushing back into his head clear as day, he remembered trying to run into a burning building, he remembered being called a murderer and a witch. He remembered the girl''s real name and her smile.


    "From that day going forward people started to call you names, you became popular for the wrong reasons. You gained weight and I think you eventually forgot where all this abuse came from. Because you stopped blaming yourself for the incident."


    Black had fell on floor but could deffinately hear all that Onizuka said, but it eventually ceased as memories of how it started came back. He claimed he could see evil spirits on Saito Yua.


    He eventually stopped crying and asked Onizuka where he was.


    "I am with my friends a few blocks away from the so called haunted house. What are you planning?"


    "I am coming to face my demons, that''s what I am planing to do. I cannot find peace unless I face my past now can I?"


    "We will be here for you when you need us... By the way I am sorry for leaving you alone all this time. I.. am truly sorry.., I hope you can forgive me." Onizuka hung up the phone before receiving a respond he shed a tear and looked up.


    "Oy small boss, are you okay?"


    "I told you to call me by my name, we are friends aren''t we?" Onizuka said to his chubby bowl cut follower who was holding a metal baseball bat on his right hand.

 JOUSTING SHINIGAMI

    Black threw himself in a fresh pair of training shoes accompanied with a black tracksuit. He rushed to the kitchen and stuffed some table salt into his pocket, he stopped and looked at his mother. She was alone in her own world happily whipping up dinner, singing and dancing like there was no one around from the next two miles. This woman,"MOM!"


    "is there anything wrong honey?" She stopped singing and turned her gaze to her daughter who has never started a conversation with her. "Who is Saito-san?" The expression on her face face quickly switched from joyous to panic."Who might that be honey?" Black chuckled grabbed an apple and walked across the room to kiss her on her cheeks. She was frozen stiff not knowing how to respond to sudden development. "I think I was hypnotized when I was younger...Bye."


    He ran out the house and jogged towards Onizuka''s direction,Behind him his mother collapsed in tears. She wanted to stop him, but what would she say, what excuse could she give. Because at some point it was never about protecting Sakura but instead it was due to the fear of being left alone  that she did certain things.


    Black arrived in said street and it was almost a ghost town, a house next to the abandoned and burned down shack was unoccupied and had an old for sale sign. He walked slowly upon seeing it, the wind blew his pink hair from underneath his black beanie. At first glance on would think he was up to no good and quickly change their mind prior to them seeing what kind of neighborhood he was going into.


    Black looked into the yard of the ashy house and started feeling a bit nostalgic, his tears took it upon themselves to make it drizzle. "OY, we over here." Black continued to stare away at the haunted house, the familiar voice not reaching his stray brain. "Blob, I think they are talking to yah." Anzy interrupted the interlude of memories.


    "Huh?"


    "Yo, these are the friends I came with."


    "We do not need that many people."


    "You will never know."


    "Fine they just have to keep watch outside. Yua was our friend, so just the two of us will suffice."


    Looking into the crowd Black could see that they meant no harm and were honestly trying to help them solve this mystery. Even though some were there for the thrill at least they were not a hundred percent convinced that she was crazy, but Anzy and the gang thought otherwise.


    "I have read that when summoning ghosts you call their names five times." Onizuka blutered out with a confident smirk on his face.


    "Is it not three." The friend with the rabbit teeth interfered.


    "Are you all fools, we just walk inside and they will come to us." Black said as he headed to the gate, once the desired destination was reached he was in complete dissarray as to whether he should enter or not.


    Despite the being he was originally he is now he is human, and humans die easily. He can''t die this quick or else he might have to serve out the rest of his punishment floating in a lifeless abyss.


    The worn out gate in front of him let out a creaking sound, followed through by a cold gust of wind. The boys felt their hearts sink and started to ponder if this was a wise decision. They started swallowing huge chunks of saliva and looked each other in the eyes and eventually laughed at each other''s terrified expressions.


    This startled Black who then let out a small scream barely audible, but just loud enough for the boys to freeze in place. "What is wrong?" "What''s going on?" "Ey."


    Black ignored this ranting and kicked the gate away, made his way inside the yard with his right glove gripping tightly on his torch. With every step they took from within the yard it felt like walking into a grave during the night of the living dead. The tree to their right had a tire swing that looked like it was ready to collapse at any given moment. The lawn was pitch black and the pavement that lead to the house was in shambles making everybody jump almost after every two steps.If you stumble upon this tale on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The house was in no better condition, apart from the extinguished fires nothing else was done to keep it in one piece. But the door the door seemed perfectly fine and regardless of the haunted house vibes this crib gave off, the door was the most menacing.


    As Black slowly approached the door one by one, the four guys accompanying Onizuka began to get left behind. They were yet to see anything, but they still felt like going home early. Black and Onizuka walked onto to the porch and as he was about to reach out to the door Black got a chilling sensation that that froze him in place. Onizuka thought that he was just scared so he reached out for the door himself.


    "No! Don''t!"


    Too late as Onizuka hand gripped the door handle, the door voluntarily flung itself wide open blowing the two away. The other four tried to run but a force field erected itself around the yard trapping them in. As for Black and Onizuka dark violet shadow like tentacles escaped at rapid speedfrom within the house to drag them back in. After a huge swoosh and a bam, the four amigos were left scared shitless outside.


    "Did you see that?" [boy 1]


    "I know I didn''t just see that."[boy 2]


    "Riku(boy 1), Haru(boy 2), look in front of you." [Kaito]


    The two boys screamed Akashi and Kaito tightened their grip on their weapons as ghost like creatures emerged from beneath them. Akashi wore a red cap, a white long sleeved shirt and tucked his jeans into his socks. He is a boy of half American, half Japanese decent, some say his eyes can stare your soul into submission but those some are the girls in his school.


    Everybody who hung around Onizuka was it regardless of who or what you look like, bringing us to our next brave man Kaito. Kaito though fat always had a crowd surround him, he was popular and had been Onizuka''s friend for a long time before they started the gang. Kaito could be identified with two rings stacked up in both of his index fingers, a bowl cut and some bushy eyebrows. Tonight he had on a green coat on top of his school uniform, nobody knows what he does after school.


    Haru and Riku just belonged to the group, even though they appear initially as cowards when push comes to shove nobody dare stands in the way of these twins. The ghosts attacked and Kaito along with Akashi fought back while the twins cheered on for them. After slashing away at many ghosts a much bigger one finally appeared, it did not attack but instead it smiled and gave off the impression that it was an intelligent life form.


    "Let us play a game boys." It said with its grin growing wider and wider.


    "What were you thinking?"


    "Oy, Akashi. How can you nonchalantly respond to a potential villain like that?" Haru screamed out with tears flooding his eyes.


    "Do you think we can win fighting him head?" Akashi looked back to face the twins, he was not expecting a clever reply but he still hoped.


    "Akashi is right depending on what the game is we might stand a fighting chance in contrast to barging him not knowing what he is capable of. After he is not human, we can''t just shoot him."


    "Kaito, I know I asked you before but who in their right sold a gun to middle scholar?"


    "Aren''t you guys adapting to this situation rather too quickly." [Haru]


    "I mean just a few minutes ago we were skeptical as to whether ghosts exists or not." [Riku]


    "Mr ghost man propose your game." Akashi pointed his crowbar at the ghost.


    "My name is not mister ghost, and its very rude to show that to a person''s face."


    "Then what do we call you?"


    "I am, I am. You know what Mr ghost sounds kinda catchy."


    "Are you quite possibly an idiot?"


    "Maybe... wait, no I cancel that I am a genius."


    "You know all of a sudden I am not scared anymore." Haru said as he let go of his brother.


    The pressure went back to being overbearing and fear crept back into the hearts of the kids, "We will play for the heart of the queen." The ghostly creature said as he took off his glove and threw it to the ground. "Alright boys it your turn to accept the challenge."


    "What exactly are the proceedings of the announced competition?" Akashi asked still managing to keep his calm below all this pressure. "Just an archery match, jousting followed by swords play if needed be."


    "Is it to the death?"


    "Possibly."


    "What if we decline?" Kaito stepped forward with a posture that said that he was ready to fight. "Then I''ll just take your souls and be on my way." The ghost''s face suddenly turned into a skeleton his green aura turned black along with his cloak. He pulled out a scythe and laughed majestically as chains dangled from his ankles and wrists.


    "DEATH! DEATH! SHINIGAMI!" The cowardly twins exclaimed until they ran out of breath and the ability to scream again. "That is right my children, I could have just let these lost souls devour you but since you led me to them I will give you a chance to keep your lives. How about it?"

 CHARADE

    After being dragged into the house Black and Onizuka spent a few seconds wondering the clouds, they got themselves together and stood up to a family watching a program on the television. The young Yua saw them and called out to them.


    "She recognized us?"


    "Ahhh! Sakura look at you. You are not fat anymore."Black examined himself and Onizuka and found out that their bodies had returned to childhood. "Really? Can''t you say anything else other than that?" He snapped at Onizuka who tripped trying to back away from the angry now nine year old Sakura. "It is the most notable."


    "Apologize you damn fuck." The family shared a chuckled causing the two to get off of each other and stare at them.


    "My, oh my Sakura-chan aren''t you a feisty one." Chuckled the father, Black felt a bit disgusted and decided to retaliate. "Aha, I was just kidding." He was scared crazy, he originally intended to just start spitting needles at everybody until the shadows showed themselves. It would have made their lives a lot easier, but now something was most definitely wrong. Even though he seemed to be able to talk to Onizuka just well, he was unable to do the same to the man.


    He shook the thought out of his head quickly because it was an unconfirmed hypothesis. He stood up and extended his hand to Onizuka who blushed before grabbing hold. ''Damn it! I am I really blushing to a nine year old?" Onizuka thought as he stood up, his face was dyed red and his body started to feel hot. Black took notice and punched him in the face, "Help yourself."


    "What did I do?" This ranting was of course ignored as Black made his way to the sofa and sat by Saito Yua. "Sakura you came!" Black stared stared at Yua in a confused manner "I did?" The gleaming smile left Yua''s face scaring Black a little, the parents also stopped laughing and looked at Black. Onizuka froze in place not knowing what to do, the awkward and scarry silence went on for a few seconds before Onizuka quickly picked up what was going on.


    "How could we ever forget your birthday? Sakura-chan is just playing a prank on you." Onizuka shouted to be honest he was not sure whose birthday it was, but if memory served him right the only birthday they ever celebrated here was Yua''s and it was three days before the incident. Black exposed a forced grin, "Happy b.irthda.y I guess." The last words barely escaping his mouth to make any meaning.


    Yua smiled and hugged Black as she let out some small tears. "Thank you very much. I know this must be hard for you because we have been fighting, but thank you for staying with Yua when everybody left me." Onizuka''s tears were triggered for her left more than Yua behind, he left Sakura too. The occasional mandotory visits to her house did not count because he did them out of guilt. A bit of hurt was engraved in Black''s heart as his other half lamented this girl.


    That made Black realize that he was running out of time, he pulled Yua from him. Put his hand on her shoulders, "Let''s have some cake then." He tried to give her the warmest smile possible but, it still came out looking awkward. "No!" Yua pouted, "I do not have time for this." Black thought, during his lost train of thought he realized that his crippling was nowhere and wondered if he can use this exorcism as a way to get rid of at least one of them, even the ones that can''t talk yet he would be thankful. God only helps those who put in effort he thought.


    "Sakura-chan, what can you possibly be thinking of, to make such a face?" Mrs Saito asked while putting her tea down to rest on the table. "And you my dear boy, why are you still standing?" Mr Saito added, Onizuka rushed to sit down and Black did not know what to do. Subconsciously grinned at the thought of having a chance to kill at a killing, because no matter how much one would try to deny it, this would only cease at the death of either party. And Black was not going to be on the loosing side, after all Lord Zero is always a winner.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    He stopped smiling and turned hi attention to the table, "Cake, I want cake." he pouted on the surface and grinned in the spirit. "No not yet we have to play some party games first." Yua exclaimed quickly, Onizuka wanted to protest but was cut off by a snarl from Mr Saito. Onizuka was not aware of Black was planning was petrified of being in the house full of ghosts, the him from a few seconds ago would call him a madman.


    Black had an idea to somehow force out the questions he never asked when he was younger and trigger a transformation of the ghosts standing in front of them so that he can exorcise them along with an unfortunate crippling. "What games do you plan on playing." Black released an astonishing amount of murderous aura. The phantoms caught up and the father responded, "Charades."


    "Oh, I can play that." Onizuka said joyously hoping to pick up the declining mood of the others. " To make things fair, you guys will have to get one of you to sit this one out. I will be with O-kun in my team. Anybody using telepathy or any form of drive abilities(abilities granted by yokai or crippling) and magic would be killed. Set that as the condition to your power activation and we will play."Black said this without lifting his gaze from the father phantom. The father smiled after thinking for a long time and said sure.


    While this was happening Onizuka could not pick up a word they were saying, but he still hoped for the best. He had seen Sakura pound at nothing and break walls and a pavement during the process, he was ready for everything now.


    They got out a board and some playing cards, everything was arranged perfectly there was even pop corn that no one dared to touch after Black sprinkled some table salt. But Onizuka because he thought that it would turn into spiders inside of him.


    "Okay, you can only guess the contents three times, and make a final guess for the complete object in the card twice. That is five chances. Six points are allocated at the beginning of the game and with each guess one point will be deducted until the final score. The looser gets to grant the winner''s wish." The father completed his exposition with a grin exposing sharp teeth, no longer bothering about being incognito.


    "The first ones to play will be decided by a coin toss. Team Red will be me and my daughter and team blue will be her friends. Alright."


    "ALRIGHT! No, no? Okay?" Onizuka was some how getting lost to the powers at play, one second he understood how dire their situation was and the other he was nine years old again. Black still hasn''t seen Anzy and the others and was starting to feel uneasy.


    "Would you like the honers?" The father handed over a death token to do the toss. "Just give me the damn coin. HUH?" Black looked at the coin and it had a menacing feel to it, he knew then that after the toss was made he will competing in a devil''s game. First of all the coin had a spell on it so the odds were against them 9:1. He needed a way to level things up and since he cannot use his own powers for this game, he decided to call somebody who was exempt from this rule. Yes, he was going to rely on Anzy again.


    He put the token in the middle of his palm and hovered the other had over it, after concentrating for a few seconds Anzy hopped out of the token like a shark out of water swallowing the curse whole. She retreated behind Black and whispered, "you could not live without me for a measly few seconds. How pitiful. Truly pitiful.


    The phantom father jumped out of his seat, "You cheated!"


    "Technically I didn''t use my powers. You are the one who cheated by cursing the coin." Black gave away a calm taunt to the phantom without even paying attention to his presence.


    "Who is to say that it was not already cursed? Besides that yokai is under your control." He yelled back and at this point he was ready to explode.


    "That is where you are wrong. This is not a yokai it is a parasite far much worse than it. Behind me stands the goddess of anxiety and the more I rely on her the more her angels of despair befall me."

 EXORCISTS

    *Outside


    The world around the boys started to change, the fence surrounding the yard started to move away from where it was initially. After getting far enough it morphed into stand, undead spectators filled the the stands and were cheering their already dead lungs off as soon as they appeared. The house turned into an even grander stand and from it a beautiful demon wearing a crown could be spotted easily. Two horse emerged from the ground forming from nothing but dust.


    Akashi could no longer stand brave and unmoved, ''I knew a death god would be powerful, but this is just crazy. I cannot allow myself to be surprised anymore, I now tread the dark side.'' e tried his best to calm himself down as he gripped tightly on to the crowbar. Kaito saw right through Akashi''s poker face and trembled, he just came here to give himself a little scare not expecting to find real ghosts. Well the twins were always scared anyway.


    "Do you not like what I have prepared for you?" The shinigami boldly asked expecting praise for he was more than proud of what he had accomplished. "It could use a little more work."


    "What was that round one?" Kaito had drove a knife through his unrivaled pride so he thought that intimidating him would make him change his mind. "Kaito, are you mad. Are trying to get us killed."


    "You know Haru, if I were to die in a beautiful arena." Kaito was trying his best to stall time to think up a strategy. "Well what do you suggest?" The shinigami was not the type to let anyone wound his ego, after satisfying their needs he was going to pulvarize them.


    "You could color the lances gold." Akashi added, "And if you can''t, we can''t." [Kaito]


    "The color of this lance would probably kill me before I strike you down." [Akashi]


    "How would I explain dying from a lack of drip to the gate keepers at heaven?" [Kaito]


    "You..." "Fine fine fine, I will give you your gold color. But we have not yet agreed on the prizes of our little game."


    "Wasn''t the prize that we get to keep our lives?" Haru, snuck out from behind Akashi to ask cowardly the shinigami. "Yeah, what are you playing at?" Akashi added on to the question.


    "You get to keep your lives just for playing with me.But if you lose, one of you will become my apprentice." Haru and Riku and stopped their crying wiped their tears and looked at the shinigami. "Say that again." The shinigami was thunderstruck he did not expect the kids to handle this well, being friends with death is not a simple thing. "If you loose one of you will work for me." The response was much slower and lacked spunk, what was the fun in tormenting someone who was not tormented.


    "That''s actually pretty cool." [Haru]


    "Do we like get to kill anyone we want?"[Riku]


    "Will the police e able to catch us?"[Haru]


    "Are we immune to death?" [Riku]


    "Are we getting powers with this job?"[Haru]


    With each coming word the shinigami grew angrier and angrier, it was no longer fun for him. What was the use of being called "THE BRINGER OF DEATH" when a group of millennials  do not fear you at all. "This is back breaking job with no monthly pay and worse you can get stuck in it for hundreds of years, the you will get an immortal wife who will piss you off throughout those hundreds of years. Then you have ungrateful kids, ungrateful in laws, ungrateful superiors, did I mention that there are people who keep coming back to life. You do not know the pain of having to kill the same mf for  hundredth time."


    "You really like the number hundred." [Haru]


    "Anyway, we would like to start the match. Kaito will get on the horse and joust against you." Akashi said while giving a nod to Kaito to affirm their plan. "So where is the armor?"


    "Armor? Surely you jest." The Shinigami was visibly confused, when he came here he felt a strong spiritual power. That was the whole reason for this game, to fish out the vessel of that power. He was wrong, the owner of that power was none other than Kiiro Sakura and she was nowhere to be seen.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.


    Kaito got on top of his horse and gripped on to the golden lance, the shinigami had given him a helmet, some gloves and a breastplate and they honestly made him look weird. He had no time to think about his looks and found this situation rather comical, he was about to joust against death. Even if he were to lose his life, he would die with no regrets.


    "The shinigami switched from its formless state and took the form of a medieval knight. Its armor was not clearly visible though as waves of shadows fell from it. He got on his horse and his joyous act came to a halt, he was pissed at the fact that he was excited for naught. His hold on his lance grew tighter as he prepared to end their shit.


    "Oy bastard, since we are little kids with no powers are we allowed to pimp up our friend?" Akashi juggled some rocks in his hand while the other was logged deep into his pockets, he lifted his head to look the monster dead in its eyes. The others looked at him with horrified expressions on their faces.


    "I''m rather interest in what you have in store for me." The shinigami grinned as his mojo crawled back into his icy cold veins, Kaito responded with the same energy and started pushing forward in his horse. "HAIYAH!"


    "I like your spirit!" The shinigami responded by pointing his huge lance forward his bony horse shaking souls with every step it hurriedly takes forward. Upon getting close enough Kaito retracted his lance and dodged the shinigami''s, he spun his lance over his head and struck the shinigami from the back. The shinigami fell to the ground and so did Kaito for being unable to maintain his balance.


    The shinigami drew his sword and jumped over to Kaito''s side, but while he was still midair four rocks knocked his helmet off causing him to stumble. Before he could gather himself, Kaito struck him with his sword on the neck. It collapsed and Kaito proceeded to kick him to the ground. "I yield!" he cried.


    He stood up slowly and to the opposite direction he saw the twins holding sling shots and Akashi leaning over them with a crowbar. The closer he looked the more tortured the twins appeared with tears in their eyes, it was rather interesting how they were able to shoot like that.


    "AHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA! I thought that this was going to blow but I have discovered something interesting. I like you lot." He said as he flung his right hand forward to point at the kids, his back arced in a weird pose.


    Kaito got rid of the armor, pocketed  his hands and walked passed the shinigami, "let us go we won."


    "That will be fair.(he pause to stroke his chin a grin erupted from within his silhouette, he tossed his eyes upwards and exclaimed.) But death is not fair, I will now employ you guys as spirit chasers. Yes, yes, this is is ingenious Kaito and Akashi you will be my pawns...huh wait what are you guys doing?"


    In front of him the guys were kicking at the force field trying to escape, "Hurry up and release this damn thing." They continued to rant ignoring al of his attempts to be menacing. He got fed up and sent some shadows to go and drag them back to him. While he was still flailing around in midair Akashi threw his crowbar at the shinigami.


    The shadows temporarily lost their grip but once they regained it Akashi was already gone. He picked up a brick and threw it to the the shinigami this time it dodged, "aren''t you getting tired of..." he was smacked in the face by a punch from Akashi, "let us out!" The shinigami was pushed back.


    "Interesting, interesting just simply interesting." The shinigami drew his claws and they oozed of an evil aura, he slashed at Akashi who just barely dodged getting his clothes shredded. "You will become a demon slayer."


    "I thought you said spirit chaser."


    "So you were listening?" He stopped attacking and backed himself into a throne he removed ppart of his skull exposing a human chin, mouth and half a nose. "Ghosts, yokai, crippling, demons, poltergeists and many more. Those things exist and it is our job to get rid of them, courageous men and women lose their lives everyday to keep the unsuspecting public safe. Every once in a while brave young souls like you appear out of nowhere giving us hope to fight against these supernaturals... Hey hey hey I am still talking here."


    The boys were back at the force field trying to kick it down.


    "So death was a scam."[Haru]


    "Damn I actually thought I had an interesting story to tell." [Kaito]


    "I feel like that time I found out that Santa was a fraud." [Riku]


    "You actually believed in that as a kid?"[Akashi]


    "Did you have a childhood?"[All of them]

 THE END OF THE BEGINING

    All rules were changed, as long as you did not use your powers to directly injure anyone it will be overlooked. Onizuka and Yua were still confused as to what Sakura and the father were arguing about, ¡®it is just a game they thought to themselves¡¯ but this game had their lives on the line. After the coin toss confirmed that team Sakura will be going first she went to take her seat, and Onizuka stood up to go and get a card.


    He got up front and felt a portentous presence crashing his soul down, he started to sweat and his heart rate increased the closer and closer his hand got to the cards. When he place his hand on it and picked up the card his heart felt like it was going to jump out of his neck at any moment. But once he looked at it he calmed down and let out heavy pants, he lifted his head in the direction of Sakura and she just looked at him coldly.


    ¡°What is wrong boy? Never played this game before?¡± The father asked Onizuka without that fake kindness he had for them beforehand. This annoyed Onizuka and swore without making anybody aware.  Immediately he started making gestures a ball of spiritual energy started to form behind him, it was a vulture. Sakura saw this and still decided to say ¡°chicken¡± the spirit of the vulture attacked the father.


    Onizuka was startled and threw the card down, Sakura said the correct answer and the vulture disappeared. They were awarded four points and Onizuka ran to his seat. ¡°Oy, what is the big idea? I think I just saw a ghost.¡±


    ¡°Are you dumb or are you super dumb? We are in a ghost house and this game will decide whether you live or die.¡± Black said in an indifferent tone to Onizuka not even willing to look at him and comfort the guy, Onizuka had to be strong and strength does not come from being handled like a gem. ¡°What! If I knew that I would have not come. You evil witch.¡± Onizuka covered his face with his hands, ¡®peak a boo¡¯ he had hoped that it will go back to normal once he reopens his eyes but what a shame the horrors remained. ¡°So what if I am a witch? It is not like we getting married.¡±


    ¡°What does that have to do with anything?¡± The phantom father interrupted Onizuka¡¯s ranting with a giggle, they turned to look at him. ¡°Calm down you little rascals, it is our turn now.¡± Onizuka smiled back at the old man who was making his way towards the board and cards. When got there he got the same experience as Onizuka but since his soul was possessed he was able to overcome it quickly.


    ¡°Well, well let us see what we have here.¡± He drew a card and smirked, he put it down and started waving around gestures. An airplane appeared from behind him and his daughter guessed correctly on the first try.


    ¡°You stupid piece of trash.¡± He yelled at her almost attacking, his hand though was met by a flying sauce pan from Sakura. ¡°You are playing to win aren¡¯t you?¡± Black intentionally said that to taunt him, he knew that this game was made to weaken their souls and prepare them for consumption. The whole point behind guessing the cards wrong is to attack one¡¯s very soul, the added bonus of winning the game was to allow the winner to choose the fate of the looser.  Black was going to use this to have his crippling attacked directly and have at least one of them destroyed. He was also planning to free the souls of the unfortunate family.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    ¡°Okay, it is your turn to pick up the card and perform for your friend.¡± The father said as he stared at Sakura with transforming eyes, determined he was to get Sakura¡¯s soul. ¡®She has a very strong spiritual pressure,¡¯ he thought as Sakura stood up and went to the front.


    Sakura had Anzy with her so she did not reach out to get the card instead he let Anzy do it for him. The perverted crippling spirit grabbed the card and mourned at the pleasure she received from the cards attacking her spiritual force. She flipped the card over to let Sakura see and the phantom father freaked out. ¡°You¡¯re cheating! All of us here had to withstand the punishment from this dark game, how can you do that?¡± He jumped and tried to attack Sakura but was stopped by Norabu and the others. Black tilted his face and gave an evil gaze to the corrupted ghost, ¡°the lords of the game are not complaining are they?¡± He said taunting the old man to attack him and continue injuring his crippling he was counting on that.


    As he had wanted the old man grew restless and attacked him again this time using and actual energy beam. One of Black¡¯s minor crippling was sacrificed for the safety of the host, after all without Black they are as good as dead as they are not strong enough to survive by themselves yet. ¡°You growing dumber by the minute corrupted one. Was your plan not to make us believe that we are back in the past to destroy both mind and soul? Patience must be becoming a rare skill these days.¡±


    ¡°Talk, talk all you want. I do not know how you escaped my charm but the others are still enchanted. I grow stronger by the passing wind.¡± Black looked around and Yua along with Onizuka looked as if everything was normal, Black decided to drop act out what was on his card to enact phase two of his plan.


    A huge train manifested itself from the cards and Onizuka got it wrong on the first try, ¡®¡¯Sakura intentionally guessed wrong even though she clearly saw what the object was. The old man also got mad at Yua for getting the answer correct, there must be a special reason for it. I will help Sakura win this.¡¯ He silently thought to himself as he geared up to take a second guess, ¡°Train,¡± he got it correct.


    Saito Yua stood up and joyously made her way up front, just like Onizuka she was clueless as to what was going on. She levitated her hand over the cards and before she reached out, ¡°You are wounded. Did your father beat you again?¡± Black said as the enchantment struggled to stay on him, the clashing auras made it look as if he was the villain. ¡°Huh.. I do not know what you are talking about.¡± Yua said nervously with a crack in her voice. ¡°What kind of nonsense are spouting little one?¡±


    ¡°Yua, the truth is you and your family are dead. My guess is you have been waking up and experiencing the same day waiting for us to come and celebrate your birthday. We never did and you died that day.¡±  Yua cried and thought about she is actually hurt but about the fact that they are dead she did not want to believe it was impossible. ¡°What do you mean? Do you not want to be Yua¡¯s friends anymore? Do you want to leave Yua alone too?¡±


    A dark aura wrapped itself around Yua dropping the temperature of the house instantly. ¡°Calm down Yua, Sakura is being hysterical we are still your friends to the death.¡± Onizuka jumped off his seat wanting desperately to calm down Yua, although he came with Sakura he was still in the dark as to what the fuck was happening. ¡°Death. Huh? How dare you make the same disturbing joke for the second time?¡± Yua folded her tiny hands into fists and shed a tear, she whole heartedly believed that she was still alive and her friends were still fighting against her.


    Onizuka fell back on to the sofa with guilt, not knowing how to calm Yua down. The father tried desperately to calm Yua down, if she were to accept her death it will all be over for him. ¡°Yua my darling, you should have chosen your friends carefully. Look at these little monsters, seeking your death such a pity. Come on now darling play along with daddy and Onizuka, Sakura is a bit under the weather.¡± He said this gesturing at the young girl to play, but she did not want to look at him. Throughout the whole week (in her time/ knowledge) Sakura had been desperately trying to help her with the abuse and even claimed that there was a dark shadow following her. Why would the same person who was persistently trying to help, claim that she is a dead person out of the blue?


    Yua let go of the card and collapsed to the ground crying, by doing so she subconsciously gave up the game and her and her family¡¯s souls were separated from the corrupted spirits. It was time to uncover the truth behind the corrupted ones and also bid farewell to an old friend. The final first of many battles to come begins.

 GOODBYE

    The wheels of time and fate were back in motion and everything returned to the present, if you could muster up the courage to look around you would see many souls of lost families. A pattern could also be observed, a confused father, a glad mother and a  traumatized daughter. Onizuka''s brain also snapped back to the present and he collapsed to the ground in tears, it was more than he could handle.


    He lazily allowed his gaze to sway back to Sakura, lacking the strength to go and comfort the one who suffered from being right this whole time. *Gasp, he could not help himself because of what he saw, Sakura was calm and composed waiting readily for the corrupted to say or do something. He was confused, scared and emotionally thrown aback, but how, how could she be okay at a time like this.


    In truth Sakura was suffering all the minor crippling of guilt and regret surrounded her and shouted away. "It is all your fault." "You should have did something." "You deserve all that is to come." "Blame none but yourself." "Die, die, die, die, die." They chanted away at Sakura''s ear, though Black''s soul was currently active as an independent unit in this body, the time of recalling was near and Sakura''s soul  cried out in agony.


    It was a total disaster in Black''s head, even though all was going according to plan. He did not expect it to be this hard to keep his sanity, the weight on his heart grew with every word the unnamed crippling spouted. He was still calm on the outside though.


    The corrupted are dead humans who do not want to accept their fate and so stay behind on earth to cause trouble. They can be identified by shackles and chains around their wrists and ankles, tiny white scarfs on their heads and finally pale looking skin accompanied by goldish grey eyes. He adjusted himself to look more like a normal person before snarling at Sakura, within the crowd of families there was an ancient looking family but unlike the rest the father was missing.


    "Is...is that your family?" Black struggled to let out his words as he was being crushed under the pressure of the crippling. The corrupted took off attacked Black but was met halfway by a punch from Norabu, he thought he would be smart by teleporting behind her. Anzy stopped the flinging chains from the corrupted and slashed away at it with her gigantic nails.


    "Family! Family? Those useless fools could not even help me achieve my dreams. Die they all deserve to die and be my stepping stones to my immortality." The corrupted said as he balled himself up to heal from Anzy''s attack. "Well then excuse my ignorance, fools like you do not deserve a family. Do not worry though, I will free you from your stupidity." Black, Kuriny, Anzy and Norabu sped towards the fallen corrupted, the crippling raised an energy bomb over Black threw it at it. The bomb was blocked though, "cleansing, they need cleansing are you really going to let them remain dirty?"


    Revion the yokai finally appeared in front of the corrupted it hissed at Black while holding some of his crippling in his hand, eating them one by one as they screamed. Black was glad at first but he then realized that he was loosing power as Revion grew in strength. "What is wrong little one, I thought you did not my brethren to accompany you. Isn''t that why you let them get devoured in the game?" He continued to slurp away at the the screaming crippling as Black fell over in pain, Onizuka ran to him and shook him to try to wake him up.


    "Sakura I am sorry, I am so sorry if only I had listened to you before we would not be here. I am so sorry please wake up. Sakura!" Yua screamed her lungs out as she tried her best to reach out to Sakura but was held back by force field which hurt her every time she touches it. Black raised his head to look at the screaming girl, his vision was fuzzy and could barely hear anything. Sakura''s soul reacted to the commotion causing a violent increase in their gang energy, blowing Onizuka backwards.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    He crashed and the corrupted immediately rushed him with the intent to kill on the spot. Unfortunately for it, Onizuka''s snake yokai appeared and wrapped itself around him. Before in devoured him it was struck with an array of energy blasts from Revion. Black stood up and attacked Revion but was blocked leading to an intense exchange of blows at incredible speeds for a short while.


    They dispersed from each other to try and recover their energy but never letting their eyes off one another. Revion was powerful, but Black had three evolved crippling protecting him as their host so things were not looking good for either sides. At Onizuka''s place though the giant snake had returned back into its innate state around his neck and the corrupted looked at Revion with confusion.


    "You said they will disappear, you said you will help cleanse me and my family make me immortal and kill that fucker." The corrupted yelled wildly at the annoyed yokai, tears uncontrollably leaving his eyes as he became too embarrassed to look back at his family which he had put through hell. Revion stared back at unwilling man burning with rage at the fact fact that his plan is as good as ruined and turned his gaze back to Black.


    ''Have them,  shall have those crippling along with heir host and I will be unstoppable. I just need to keep that loser''s spirits up.'' "You don''t..."


    "Old man, what did he promise you?" Black interrupted Revion before he could coax the confused corrupted, the corrupted lifted his head and looked at Black who was now focusing on him. "Do you not want revenge, for your son and people? This little bitch cannot help you with anything." He snapped the corrupted back into his grasp, but before he was fully latched on his family spoke up. "Dad do not do it, we are tired. We just want you back."  "Your daughter is right, give this up and we can meet our son in the next life."


    "What are you saying woman, child? I am a prince and with such an honor I must avenge at all costs."


    "All costs? All costs? Honey we have been suffering for many years now, I am sure our people will not be happy to find that out. Please let it go." The woman desperately cried out to her husband, Revion got angered by this and blasted the force field which remained intact but still scared the living hell from the poor families. "What are you doing lord Revion? My family is short sighted please forgive them."


    "Okay what the hell happened here?" Black was seriously annoyed over the fact that he was being left out, after analyzing the whole situation he could only make a rough guess about this being a some revenge quest. "You do not deserve to know the works of the ones that rise above the heavens young one. Now die and surrender your powers to me." [Revion]


    "I swear villains are becoming worse than plain yogurt these days ." Black slapped his face and dragged his hand through it before recalling his crippling. " Since you do not seem like you are willing to cooperate I will just have to forcefully exorcise you. (turns to look at the corrupted) as for you, I can help you avenge your people. You just need to promise never to make deals with demons ever again."


    "Really? Noble one please help us, that demon said that if we surrender our lives to it he will help us get revenge for our son who was killed by demons." [The wife]


    "And you actually believed that he will help humans fight against his own kind?" [Black]


    "Are you really going to entrust your revenge to an immature little brat like her? Trust me only I am the truth, think about who is truly worthy."


    "Truly worthy of what?" Black had heard something interesting, originally he had thought that the ghost was looking to enter the physical realm. Now it seemed that there was a bigger goal at stake here. "You see old man this here demon was using to gain power to find a treasure for who knows what, do you still think your family needs his forgiveness?" Black finished off his statement with an evil smirk to Revion.


    The corrupted fell on the floor filled with repentance and regret as he thought over all the innocent lives he took for a dream he was never sure if he could ever realize. As he was shaking helplessly on the ground the corrupt energy left him him, causing a huge explosion which not only released the force field but also set the souls free.


    For that one time Sakura''s soul peaked out to say goodbye to her friend for the first and the last time

 GUARDIANS

    THE PRINCE¡¯S STORY


    The young prince¡¯s father and older brother had both lost their lives to a mysterious entity, due to the pressure from family member he was made to take the throne at a very young age. During that time although it was nothing but folk tales to the public, demons existed and they were out for human essence, blood, flesh and much more.


    They hunted humans like cattle and these deaths were blamed on the ongoing wars against other clans and even an increasing crime rate. There were a lot of teams in play to stop the imminent threat of the demons that was plaguing mankind. Demon slayers, exorcists and even dark hunters. All stated groups had their own agendas and ideals behind their reasons for killing off the demons but they did not matter to the authorities as long as the job was done.


    The prince had a dream of uniting all these societies to allow them to work as one but was always dismissed as being young and stupid. Due to this the prince started the first united demon hunter group, and it welcomed everybody. The prince was not much of a fighter but the group grew and was much more successful than many others.


    This warranted the prince envy, hate and jealousy from the others, in many occasions they tried to get rid of him but failed continuously. However one day they managed to sneak a spy into the prince¡¯s ranks and after a whole year of infiltration the spy launched his attack on the prince.


    It was a fight that shook the mountains as the group fought back to defend their founder, at the end of the day none of the spy¡¯s men survived others killing themselves and others losing their lives in fight. The prince did not walk away unharmed, he was blinded and turned cripple leaving his first born son to take over both the kingdom and the demon hunter group.


    Everything seemed to be running smoothly up until the DHG discovered that the demons were looking for a way to give themselves omnipotence. One the ingredients to the array they were planning to make was a mass genocide. The DHG mobilized their best hunters for the job but failed to succeed, the prince¡¯s family was unknowingly evacuated first while the whole clan was left behind to be massacred. Revion came to the prince and told him about what had happened and that a demon named Mammon Don¡¯yoku had achieved omnipotence but his squad of demons were defeated by an unknown organization. As for Don¡¯yoku he was sealed away for nobody had the power to defeat him.


    He continued to tell him that he can help him achieve omnipotence and get revenge on Don. The prince rejected at first but ended up agreeing. For thousands of years unsuspecting families were lured to the prince and his family¡¯s death sight to be killed and added on to Revion¡¯s array and today the prince found out that he was being cheated by the sly demon Revion. In Revion¡¯s case he was a demon working for Don but got a chance to return to earth through the prince¡¯s anxiety as a crippling.


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    Onizuka opened his eyes back up to a close to lifeless space he could no longer see the families it was as if they were never there. All that was left behind was a feeling of relief as if some weight was lifted off his shoulders and that lingering regret was almost barely left behind. The space they were within appeared to be pitch black but with oddly enough light to see very clearly. The ground had patches of grass there and there, accompanied by an old and worn out fence. He stood just barely and collapsed back on his back on the fence, he looked over and saw Sakura looking at the disappearing ghosts. He smiled and then he fainted.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    Behind Black the once fallen Revion arose for the final stand, the only thing you could possibly hear was his maniacal laughter as his claws grew and grew to prepare to slice down his unsuspecting target. He struck down but was once again foiled by Norabu, Black turned to look at him and Anzy attacked knocking Revion back. Black launched himself at him delivered a on his chest knocking him to the ground.


    Revion did not fall though, but instead he put hand on the ground and did a few backflips and finally stopped to look at Black as he enjoyed a good laugh. ¡°You are very nibble for somebody who could barely fit in a cosert.¡±


    ¡°Do I look like I want to fit in that old lady underwear?¡± Black started to run towards Revion, the plan was not to get him to talk just yet because he might use it as an opportunity to power up. Revion obviously did not care for strategy as in this moment in time he felt superior to Sakura plus his goal was not to give her a fight it was to brutalize her take her crippling and drain her body off all her gang energy.


    The fight was off to an even start as Sakura was evading all of Revion¡¯s flying claws while also striving to get some shots in. Kicks flew they were ducked and from both sides but Anzy finally decided to interfere and Revion was knocked back. He came back at top speed ready to swallow Anzy whole instead he received a huge round house to the face, followed by the Zekestar family secret technique number five first form. The quad step toss kick bonus to the face, throwing him to the fence.


    Black hurried up to him and double kicked him through the fence, the assault did not stop there as Black¡¯s aura started to become visible as he dragged the crippling through the forever changing motions of him beating up Revion. Finally it stopped as Black was kicked back barely landing on his feet.


    ¡°You are not much of a talker are you?¡±


    ¡°What was your first guess?¡±


    ¡°Can you at least be a bit kind to me? I mean in few minutes you and I would be one and the same person.¡±


    ¡°Are you sick in the head or something? If I were to submit to you that would mean that the whole world is fucked.¡±


    ¡°Are you claiming to be a God or something?¡±


    ¡°No but I am still better than scum like you. How do you sleep at night after all the horrible things you do to these people?¡±


    ¡°Like a fucking baby! They are not my people so why should I be worried about what the hell happens to them. Power that is the only thing that matters in this world, they died because they lacked it you will be dying because yours belongs to me.¡±


    ¡°I do not like a lot of things, it is very easy to get on the list of things I do not like, like you just did.¡±


    ¡°Ouch. Become me!¡± Revion launched himself at Black, Black lean back to dodge but was met with the crushing weight of Revion¡¯s punch. ¡®Shit he is moving faster than before.¡¯ Black could barely keep up with Revion¡¯s now accelerated attacks, but was fortunate enough to have Anzy and the others shielding him. The interchange was stopped abruptly as the artificial dimension came crashing down.


    ¡°I would love to stay and play with you sweetness but it would seem like something disturbing is about to happen.¡±


    ¡°What, are you actually scared?¡±


    ¡°Scared is a very strong word, I prefer idealistic. He who runs today lives to fight another day, besides I still need to fully activate this power I just earned from these people.¡±


    Revion disappeared along with barrier and Black sank to the ground, ¡®ten hours left till we change.¡¯ Black stood up and walked towards the door of the burnt house, it had been untouched for many years because of the said curse. Although ravaged by the weather throughout the years you could still see the burnt marks from the explosion back then. As he walked to the entrance passing the fainted Onizuka he could hear Sakura¡¯s soul weeping uncontrollably from within him, he stopped and looked at the sky ¡®weak, I need strength to help me lead a quieter life.¡¯


    As soon as he thought that the Shinigami jumped over the door and landed in front of Black, at the door the twins and the rest of Onizuka¡¯s boys came crashing in and ran towards him. The Shinigami stood up and towered over Black who tilted his head up to get a better view of him.


    ¡°Hey kid, do you want to be a hero?¡±


    ¡°Hell fucking no.¡± Black said as he already went passed the skinny figure, it jumped up and searched for Black who was no longer in front of him. ¡®Why does this keep happening to him,¡± he thought as tears brewed on his face.


    ¡°Oy, oy don¡¯t just walk away just like that. OY!¡±


    The twins picked up Onizuka and the soon to be Guardians walked out of the building under the shine of the moon.