Cho and the others came after finishing up in the cafeteria. She was snickering while the other three wheeped. I shrugged. I felt completely numb after letting go of him but I couldn't have any weakness in my heart if I was going to do this.
Cho wanted to take care of Shinichi so I left her with him. I grabbed the other three and headed out.
I took to the rooftops. I couldn't tell if they were grinning or crying with each jump.
I crashed into the court yard of my house. "Nagisa, how many times have I told you not to travel by rooftops in broad daylight?" Said mom sitting in the courtyard.
I toss the idiots in front of her. "Here they are Boss. The voluntary sacrifices."
They panicked. "Sacrifices?!"
"What did you think was going to happen when you recklessly joke about marrying into our clan to my brother."
"Damnit Kai-chan sold us out." They wept.
"So your the idiots my son went berserk for. You wanna tell me why I had to have you three abducted when I was the one paying your hospital bills?"
"Because you're scary." Said William.
"Because you're hot." Said Babo.
"Because I want you to be my milf." Said Hercules.
She walked away. "...Mother, your friends are here..."
"Oh how have you boys been?" Grandma leapt down from the second floor.
"Grandma." They rushed to hug her. She whacked them with her cane.
"This is a formal occasion. Look even your parents are here."
Their parents were on their knees with tears in their eyes. "What exactly is going on?" Asked William.
"Didn't Nagisa tell you? Today's your engagement."
"Engagement!! We aren't even bachelors yet!!" They looked at their parents.
"I'm sure you'll be happy in this, this, this warm and loving environment son."
"Who'd have thought our good for nothing son would get married. Small price to pay for our lives son."
"The dowry they paid will never make us as happy as you did son...but it's one hell of a down payment."
Their parents gave them a thumbs up, already been coerced. Once the Yamaguchi women set their eyes on you, your ass is theirs.
Thier wives to be were my cousins. William was to be with Kawa, Hercules with Akane and Babo with Maria. Apparently they started liking them when they came over to watch anime with my brother. I'd always catch them spying outside the door yet they lied to my face saying they didn't like like them.
Oh I'm so going to kick their asses next time we spar... If I live through tonight...
Even if my brother didn't set them up, they'd become pray anyway...or maybe my brother realized and that's why he set them up. After all I've heard today, I'm more inclined to believe the latter.
After a few hours, the idiots didn't seem to mind anymore anyway. They're practically drooling over their fiancees and the girls were eating it up. Not that I blame them. With my sharp ears, I've heard guys talki all sorts of things they'd do to me. As a Yamaguchi, I've been trained to be immune to all that scummy fantasies of juvenile boys and even some disgusting men, but it's different when the guy you like does it.
I sighed.
How nice it is to be with the one you love.
Everyone was enjoying themselves. Even the parents who were scared to death seemed delighted in meeting their seemingly upright daughters-in-law. Especially since they thought their sons were good for nothings.
"It's almost midnight now. The engagement party should have been over by nine to make way for another event. My event." But no one seemed to remember. I walked over to mom. "Boss, can I speak with you for a second."
"Sure. I'll be back soon. Don't drink all the saki without me." Said my mom, actually making friends with the in-laws to be. "You know, they're not so bad for homosapiens, well once they got past the whole yakuza will cut off your fingers thing. It's been such a long time since I've been able to relax with outsiders my own age. Not since your father died-"
I punched her in the face. It blew up gust. Everyone's head turned. I grit my teeth. "My father? Don't bullshit me."
"Nagisa! What the hell is wrong with you?! What do you think you're doing?!" Said my aunt.
"Nagisa! Explain yourself. What's the meaning of this? Why did you just hit the Clan Leader?" Grandmother spoke.
"Stay out of this!" Mother yelled. Her aura leaked. There was a slight sense of pressure in the air. She took a deep breath. "You better have a damn good reason-"
"That was a warning. This is the real deal." I released my aura. Leapt and punched her.
She tumbled backwards yet no significant damage.
She's like a fucking tank!
"Does that make you feel better now? I know it's my fault your brother left but I've been pulling every string and connection to find him-"
"For fuck sake. Kai Kai Kai! Is that all you think about?! I just punched you in your goddamned face and your going on about my useless brother." I huffed as everyone stared at me wide-eyed. "You know I use to think I hated him. But after he left I realized that I didn't. I hated that no matter what I did or how I tried, I'll never be anything more than a foot soldier in your eyes. I'll never earn your approval! Today was supposed to be my official coronation as Future Clan Leader but I'm guessing you put it off. Again!"
"That's what this is about? Here I was thinking you had actual problems when you're just being an attention wh-..." She stopped herself.
"Go ahead say it. Call me an attention whore! You're nothing but a perverted son-con!" I punched her. She didn't budge.
"All right I've had enough. You want my attention? Then take it!" She punched. I countered. Our fist collide. The shockwave knocked everyone back a few inch. We didn't care and kept throwing a barrage of punches at eachother. Each was countered by the other's fists.
I stomped. The ground shuddered. She kicked the ground. A counter wave is made along with a boulder that flew at me. I broke it with my right fist. She was before me. Fist forward.
I spun into a butterfly kick from my left foot. She blocked easily then grabbed my foot. I was slammed into the ground. I stopped the impact with my hands causing another shockwave. She was off the ground never releasing my leg. I somersaulted, slamming her into the ground, freeing my leg.
Trying to fight her at close range was suicide. My natural strength and speed pales in comparison to hers. Not to mention how tough she is. One wrong move and I'm done... This is the first time I've ever felt like I couldn't win a fight and it was terrifying.
My grin broadened. This is awesome! And I could tell somewhere deep down she was enjoying this as much as I was.
After all, we both had the shit eating sadistic grin.
Using my extendable staff, I let out a volley of thrusts. She held up her guard taking all the hits."Is that all you got soncon?!" Infusing my fist with more aura I punched the ground in her direction. It rose up like a tidal wave. She was airborne. "Perfect for my staff."
"No. I've been waiting for you to fuck up!" She clenched her knuckles and created an airless vacuum. Air rushed to her palm. She locked it in a ball of her aura. "Void Red Pitcher!" She tossed. I dodged. It hit the ground with explosive force. I was knocked away.
"How'd that Frank guy do it? Like this?" Mom propelled herself with aura like a rocket. She landed in the crater. A vacuum effect occurred. The air rushed in and pulled me back.
I dug my feet into ground. The wind stopped. Something exploded in my back. The wind knocked out of me.
Suddenly I was pulled towards her aura oozing fist. It exploded. Chunks of the ground flew everywhere.
The smoke cleared. Her fist in the ground while I was latched on to her arm to avoid the blow. Letting go I kicked her in the back of her head.
I rushed for my staff, extending and contracting it, I gave her an onslaught of pole thrust. "Hey-ouch! Watch were you're aiming that thing-ouch! That's my tit!-" She was hit right on the bladder. "You brat... that... was a...low blow..." She held her stomach.
"No. This is." I released the full force of my aura. It shot up like a geyser. My hair and eyes went crimson.
"You're going too far now Nagisa! Using this much aura against our Clan Leader, do you want to die?!" Aunt pulled out her metal pipe also releasing her aura.
"Nagisa! Bow your head and pologize now. All can still be forgiven! I don't want to have to reattach your limbs." Grandma's hands were shrouded in aura as her eyes and hair began to change like aunt's.
Mother huffed. "That's enough Nagisa. You've proved your point. You've earned the title of Future Clan Leader. We can start the ceremony now-"
"I don't care about the ceremony anymore! No matter what I did, or how hard I tried you've never given me the time of day! You've never scolded me nor have you ever praise me! It's like I'm not even your daughter!"
"What? What kind of dumb shit are you spewing? Of course you're my daughter. You proved that tonight more than ever."
"Even if I am your daughter I'm not his and that's why you love Kai more and don't care about me!"
"What?...What??" Her eyes bulged in confusion. "Nagisa, you're really starting to piss me off with your crap now... What the hell are you trying to say?" Her face popped with veins as she glared.
"I'm saying I know. I know that Kai's father, your late husband, Malachi Yamaguchi isn't my real father! I want you to tell me, tell me the truth. Tell me who my real father is! Blood Red Tidal Wave!" I swung my staff. Everything before me was swept in a wave of aura slamming into the mansion.
I huffed, desperate for air. The aftermath resembled the remains of a tsunami.
Shit. I'm always exhausted after I use that move. Let's just hope that was enough.
As the dust settled and her aura fades everyone was revealed to be protected by an aura wall erected by Aunt Sayuri.
Mother was lying in rubble. Her eyes and hair going crimson. "...what the fuck are you saying...?...Are you trying to say that I'm some sort of tramp?...Nagisa...it seems that I've neglected to discipline your ass over the years... You were never a high maintenance child like your brother so this type of thing was inevitable...but I'm still your mother and I've failed you... I'm ... So... I'm so... Happy that I get to correct my mistakes..." Her aura flooded the mansion like a typhoon. Her bat came busting through the house straight into her hand.
She was beside me I stantly. Her bat to my abdomen. I was sent flying. A tear left my eye alone with air from my gut as my stomach burned.
The least of my worries.
She appeared behind me. I was bombarded with bat thrusts all over my body until I was knocked to the ground.
I grabbed my pole.
Her bat swung. I blocked but it snapped like a twig while my body curved around her bad that crashed into me and Again I was airborne.
Like a game of tennis, she smashed her bad into me before I hit the ground, again and again.
Finally, she slammed me into the ground. I grit my teeth. Move damnit! I have to get up! I have to fight! Move! She can't see me like this! She can't see me weak! My fingers and toes twitched.
All major bones broken, cuts and bruises covered my skin. I was aching all over. But my tears that streamed into my ears weren't from pain. No tear fell because despite everything I've done today, I still failed to gain the acknowledgment of my mother.
Standing over me was a tall crimson haired woman with glowing eyes looking woman to maych. My mother. She kneeled down over my stomach and raised her bat high. I flinched.
Pebbles hit the left side of my face followed by water droplets. "Is this what you really think? That I had you from being knocked up by some random asshole?!" She slapped me. "To this day I've never loved anyone other than Malachi! You hear me!? Its the unspoken way of the Yamaguchi women! When our husbands die we never take another! You hear me?!"
I looked from her bat on my left to her. "B-but...he died before...I was born...he can't be my father!"
I was slapped again. Her raging compassion actually reaching me. "You're the daughter of Ren and Malachi Yamaguchi. You're living proof that not even death can pull me and your father's love apart. You're our child. You and your brother. Don't you ever forget that."
Her arms wrapped around me awkwardly at in the beginning but I was soon filled with a warmth I'd never known.
For the first time in my life, she hugged me. It was compassionate and tender. Though I was in pain I didn't care. This warmth along with those words meant the world to me.
The barrier comes down. Everyone stayed where they were while Grandmother and Aunt Sayuri approach. "It's wonderful that you finally made up with Nagisa but I think telling her the truth would be better than having this incident repeat itself later." Said grandmother.
"What are you going on about now Mom? I am telling the truth."
"Come on Boss, even a three-year-old could tell that it doesn't add up. Nagisa was born a year after Kai-chan. Malachi" Mom growled at her. "I mean brother-in-law Malachi died the day after Kai was born. He can't be Nagisa's father."
"Well I'm telling you he is!"
"That can't be the case unless you-" Grandmother was astonished. She stared at Mom who scratched the back of her head and sported a weak smile. Grandma growled. "You ingrate of a daughter!" She swung her cane.
Aunt blocked the blow dispersing the hidden aura. "What's gotten into you Ma?! Do you want to lose you limbs too?"
"You don't understand what this stupid girl has done! I've warned you. I've warned all of you! No matter how bad it gets. Don't ever give in to temptation."
I spoke from Mom's arms. "What temptation?"
"Necrofilia. Laying with the dead." Everyone gasped.
"No way...sis, you fucked your dead husband??"
"Don't say it like that and what happened to Boss?"
"How can I call ya boss when you might've been holding out on me?!" She pointed her pipe. "Ya know how bad these nights get for me and modern technology can help the physical only so much, just a little bit! So tell me, did ya?"
She rest me down gently. "Yeah I did, so what?" She glared menacingly at everyone who dared to judge her.
"Help a girl out will ya? I've been missing my brownie bear so so so much!" She tried to hug mom who kept her away with a foot.
Grandma stomped. The ground shuddered. "Do you have any idea of the repercussions of your actions?! Not only did you do the forbidden act of necrofilia but you also did the impossible and bore a child from it! Because of your lustfulness, lack of discipline and morality, Nagisa-chan is born a deformity!!" She pointed at me.
"I'm a what? Why are you all backing away from me? What's going on?" I was floating as the wind swirled around me. My skin went ghostly pale then pitch black. My stomach famished enough to drive me crazy.
They stared as they stepped back. "Let me go damnit! Tell me what's happening to her?!" Said Mom. Aunt and grandmother pulled her away. Their hair and eyes also completely crimson.
"This is what you turned her into."
"I can't hold it. It's coming! Everyone get away from meee! Wwooooo!!!" I wailed.
Every time I use up all my aura, I lose control and blackout. Only this time I couldn't because I no longer wanted to deny the truth about myself.
In the deepest corners of my mind, I heard my brother's voice. "This is who you really are, half human half ghost. A Wight. The name of this form.... "Dakunagi. The Dark Calm." I sucked in everyone's aura with a sharp inhale, draining them of life. The void in my chest insatiable once again.
_Chapter End_