[Episode 256504] [Episode 256504]Why do they want our eyes so much? No, why do we seek to guard our eyes so fiercely? The Uchiha, when they lived, surely, their eyes were just as coveted, and yet, they never placed a torturous seal upon their kin.
Onee-sama, I do not understand... why did you show me what the activation of the seal was like. And then leave me to muddle through everything else on my own? Why Onee-sama?
I saw it, pain, pain, such pain... I don't think I can imagine the pain he felt, Onee-sama, why did you make him go through that just to show me? Why? I know Onee-sama hates the seal, did Onee-sama see the seal activate when Onee-sama was young? Is that why Onee-sama showed me? So that I would come to the same realizations as she did?
That night her sleep was restless, tossing and turning as she witnessed the seal being used again and again. But this time it was not her gentle Onee-sama using it to show her jut what it did. It was the Elders, purging the clan. A Branch members eye had been taken, and in order to avoid the knowledge of the seals weakness being spread, the Elders had chosen to destroy the Branch House.
Pain she saw, Pain she would bring, serpents venom and theft of the eye, Pain. A World of Corpses she saw in her dreams, a World of Corpses she would bring to Light.
Wake, wake the dreaming mortal, awaken as something different, something, more, yet also, something, less. This is the birth of Kyokotsu, in dreams and nightmares, in the pain and suffering of others, in the tormented visions of a future which may never be. Or, may only be hastened by her birth, the Life Stealer, the Eye Thief, Kyokotsu.
When she woke, she noted that something felt... different, the first thing she noticed was the skull, the human skull she was cuddling like a child with a favorite toy. She knew, intellectually, that she should be horrified, that she throw it away, but it felt so normal, so perfectly natural to cuddle the cute little skull. As she got up the next thing she noticed was the difference in her hair, previously her hair had been rather straight, and there had not been a particularly large amount of it. Now, it was wavy, and there was a lot of it, along with it being rather longer than normal. When she went to do her daily morning wash up, she noticed that her eyes had remained largely the same, except for a faint slit pupil, barely noticeable.
“So, your Fear awoke. How odd, I had merely been intending to gain another ally against the Caged Bird Seal. With both Heirs against it, the Seal should have died this generation. Instead I get a new Ayakashi to take to Nurarihyon.”
And that is how Kyokotsu, Hanabi Hyuuga joined the Hyakki Yakko of Nurarihyon under her Onee-sama.
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