Birth of the Hyakki Yakko Chapter Two The Heavenly Swarm Joins the Hyakki
Why, am I not perfect? I am a perfect Shinobi, I hold the Will of Fire. In all things I act as a Perfect Aburame. And yet... still... still they despise my insectile form, still, they shun me. Why? Why, why, why... why?
Shoukera... Shoukera, an Insect spirit which carries the sins of man to the Heavens... shall I become, Shoukera? Learn the Sins of Men? And End the guilty? Shall I? Shall I? Shall I? Yes... in this manner I shall gain acknowledgment... even if only as a monster... I shall be seen...
Time 57 days Later(Note: this chapter occurs at Age eleven....)
*Snick*, Shoukera's stinger pierced another human on the 57th night of the 2nd month, he had already killed fourteen humans who his compound eyes and tiny allies and discovered to be guilty of sinning over the past 57 days, not one was praying to Shoumen Kongou. So they died. Some to his stinger, some to his Allies. Now however, he had made a mistake, he had killed in sight of someone, someone his Eyes had missed... How? How? How? How?
“Ho... Shoukera? Or at least, one who bears the Fear of Shoukera. I wonder, are your 'Divine' Eyes good enough to pierce the veil of my Fear?”
And with that, the battle begun...Why? Why? Why? Why would some one fight to avenge a sinner? “Why do you fight to avenge the death of a sinner? My Eyes and my Allies concur, you are not a sinner... so Why? Why? Why?”
“Ho... is that all you wanted to know? Who said anything about avenging that bastard, the only reason I did not kill him myself is that there are too many people just looking for an excuse to put me behind bars. This is your first Koushin neh, that bastard happened to like little girls... foreign visitors naturally, got them drunk out of their cute little minds too. Was too damn careful to leave any evidence. Nah, I'm not fighting you for him I am fighting you to test something.”
What... fighting me... to test something... to test what? Damn... I still have not landed a hit... those strange black flames show up around any hole I make and he does not bleed, just fades... some kind of Bunshin? Suddenly, he sheathed his sword, and just stood there, looking utterly disappointed... And, for some reason, I felt ashamed... I did not understand how this stranger could make me, a Messenger to the gods, feel like this.
Third Person POV(Experiment)
“Tch, you have no clue what you are huh... just following a script written a helluvah long time ago, with no understanding... Damn. Guess I had better teach you, what it means. To be Ayakashi.”
“Ayakashi?”
“Heh, even if you were not before, you just performed the act of an Ayakashi, and there is no True Shoukera to gain from it... Besides, when I fought you, I sensed it, the stirring of your Fear... heh, heh, heh... So, I will teach you, and you will learn, even how to cloak your appearance in Human form if you like. In exchange, you will become my subordinate, a member of my Hyakki Yakko.”
“Hyakki... Yakko...”
“Hmmm, the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, of course, I doubt we will get that many quickly... heh, right now, there are only three including you and me, and Hagoromo Gitsune has no fast way of strengthening herself that does not conflict with her goals.”
“You, will not make us cast aside our personal aims?”
“So long as they are not intrinsically harmful to the Hyakki Yakko, or carried out in a manner that brings harm to the Hyakki Yakko. While we do need to gather Fear to ourselves as Ayakashi, we must also do it subtly...”
“I... understand... I shall become your subordinate...”
“Alright then, just call me, Nurarihyan when I am like this, when I look Human, you will know me by the scent of my Fear, now then, only one thing to do to make it official.”
“What is that?”
“Heh, exchanging Sakazuki of course.”
“Are we not too young to drink Sake?”
“We are Ayakashi, our bodies are different from humans, so no, we are not, in small amounts anyway, still bad for us to get drunk. But for this purpose, it is fine.”
“.....Alright...”
Under the moonlight, the Shoukera of this new Age, Shino Aburame, and the Nurarihyon of this new Age, Naruto Uzumaki, exchanged Sakazuki...
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