Chapter 36
Title: Consequences
A. N/ Didn't meet the ps quota so there is no extra chapter I'm afraid. We'll be having the same 100 ps goal for this week too, and if we meet it I'll post that extra chapter like promised.
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Third Person POV. -- 27th of December -- 2415
[ Fujikawaguchiko Town -- Local Hospital ]
One day later.
The second day since the Benihanas plus Retsu's two friends has arrived at Mt. Fuji, and the over a millenium old soul has already been bedridden in the local hospital of Fujikawaguchiko town.
A day prior, Retsu had been kidnapped by someone who could seemingly teleport, a very rare type of ability that isn't often found much around the world, but whenever one does pop up, they are immediately under the protection of their country's government, becoming a national asset for them and being trained for control over their capabilities.
It is rare, but there are beings out there who has been classified under the recently named warp type quirk category.
Warp type is a term that became known and popular in the recent last two to three generations of quirks manifesting around the world. Before that, it wasn't well known, nor was there anyone who manifested these types of abilities.
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Hypnic jerk.
A scientific term that describes the feeling one gets when their body's muscles first relax, and the brain, sometimes mistaking this muscle relaxation as actually falling, suddenly sends a twitching signal through your body, making you suddenly wake up startled.
Do you ever feel like you are floating in your dreams, and then suddenly start falling which transitions to you waking up startled? Yeah that's the reason it's actually happening.
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Benihana Retsu feels as if she is floating inside a sea, her form hovering on its surface, with her eyes serenely closed, and her muscles all but relaxed.
Her form is calm, her mind too, her posture and everything about her suggesting she is in a serene state,
–which suddenly turns to startlement because she suddenly feels as if the ocean ceased to be, and she is falling through the black abyss.
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... Inhale, Exhale.
A quiet inhalation of air, and then giving that breath out, before her sky blue irises that has a darker sheen to them opens up.
She just experienced a hypnic jerk, but her startlement regarding the process was absent.
The first thing that Benihana Retsu's slowly clearing vision saw, was the white, sterile and cubic ceiling of a place she is quite familiar with.
'A hospital. I guess they now know then. I should count my lucky stars they didn't confront me when I was in the middle of that fight. ' Retsu quietly thinks, then the second thing that comes to mind,
'I wonder how Himi-chan and Mina-san is doing. Were they alright during my unconscious state? I didn't hurt them did I?
I remember, as if from a third person's point of view, memories not of my own but things that my body did, things that are as if I experienced myself, but it's as if I was drunk or something and only remember some part of it.
I do remember the most important parts though.
Firstly, no one died except one person, which is a good thing I guess. Secondly, I remember seeing a silhouette of my two friends running away while I– no, while my body was fighting with father, so I'm guessing Himi-chan and Mina-san is alright. '
Thinking of that part, Retsu involuntarily seems to relax more under the white sheets of the hospital bed she's currently inhabiting.
'Lastly, after the entity who was controlling my body backed away, there was another consciousness who came and took control.
That figure was likely the replica of my first life whom I fought and lost to, resulting in her gaining temporary agency over my body, but that first one, the male figure? '
Tch!
Retsu, uncharacteristically makes an annoyed sound, clicking her tongue in annoyance for the first time ever.
'Wife? Who the fuck did he think he was?
By now I'm 100% sure he's the Benihana founder and ancestor, but there are so many questions and unanswered theories revolving around him, that the revelation of his identity doesn't even surprise me at all. ' Retsu tries to shift her form in bed, but then she realizes how much stiff her body has become, so she deems it necessary to slowly start rotating her blood under her flesh, slowly relaxing her tense and unused muscles.
'The first and most primary question I want answered, is why did he call me his wife? Why is he so obsessed with me when he is from a bygone era, a time which I'm sure, a single different muscle movement or decision would lead to me not being even born.
So how does he know of me? How is he even present inside me?
I know it is some kind of will or something that's living within my quirk factor, like a vestige world inside One For All, but what I don't understand is how this could be possible.
The core reason as to how a vestige world is possible within One For All, is the fact that it's a stockpiling type quirk, something that is fundamentally different from my own quirk type, which then makes no sense in how I too could have a vestige like reality within my quirk factor.
Unless...
I'm wrong about the core mechanics of my core abilities?
I've been shown to be wrong in the past too. I'm not that arrogant as to blind myself into believing I know everything.
Up until now, the category of my quirk has been multiplayed into all, mostly known categories.
Sanguimancy, is an emitter type that let's me produce and control blood.
It is a transformation type that let's my blood transform and take on boiling properties.
It is a mutant type that has my blood permanently changed into a unique type, one that is superior to any other blood type in any way you look at it, except for a fellow U type.
But also a stockpiling type? I haven't encountered any aspect of my ability that may suggest it could fit into that category.
My ability to produce blood from my bone marrows far more than a normal human doesn't fall into the stockpiling aspect, it being an evolutionary stage of a Benihana's physiology. Meaning that, even if I were to lose Sanguimancy, I'd still have the ability to produce myself more blood than what a normal human is able to, just it not being in my own control anymore, being done manually and by itself.
Hmmmm, however I think about it, there is just no way that my quirk can be a stockpiling type, which leaves out the only other two options.
Either a vestige world doesn't have anything to do with a stockpiling type quirk, and my way of thinking regarding that is incorrect,
Or my situation is a never before seen variable, one who's cause is Benihana Kuroine, the first Benihana.
Ugh just thinking of him reminds me of his vile acts in regards with my body. It makes me feel sick.
I never want to feel like that again, ' Retsu quietly vows to herself. She vows to find a solution to this possession problem of her's, no matter what.
The world of MHA is vast, surely there is someone out there who can help Retsu in her predicament, right?
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It is the morning of the second day since the Benihana's arrival to Mt. Fuji, and the only daughter of the said family has already hospitalized herself, while also leaving her three opponents in a much worser shapes.
Three people who are currently arrested and in the custody of the local law enforcers, who are trying to get information out of them as much as they can, along with their leader and the other three of their accomplices.
Two women, and one still unconscious guy that's build like a tank. Seriously how effective was that sleeping drug that Retsu made???
Anyways, the local police has tried their best, but wasn't able to get anything out of the tightly shut mouths of their arrestees, except for the fact that they have one more member, someone who the pro hero Redvein had chased after, but later came back with only his daughter whom that member had tried to kidnap, no sign of the said eighth member at all.
The local police still sent out a search party though, but wasn't able to find anything regarding the man at all, and later the fruitless search came to a halt, while the resources for it were used in getting out info from the captured 7 people within the hands of the law.
The local pro hero, Whiteout who by the masses is just known as gramps, continued his search for the assigned fugitive, aka Hans the shape-shifter, that the HPSC let him know of.
At first he had thought that Hans was the eighth member of the criminals Redvein had caught from the cruise ship, but then he crossed that after testimonies from Redvein himself regarding the brief appearance the eighth member made came in.
According to Redvein's brief description of the eighth member, the man was a short, red skinned heteromorph, while the description Whiteout had gotten regarding Hans depicted him as an athletic man whose height and looks were average, while having black hair and blue eyes.
In the end, the search for the HPSC issued lookout regarding the criminal known as Hans continued, while the said man was following a crude direction towards the second party that are present at Mt. Fuji.
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"So, you're telling me the first party all got defeated, and then arrested by the local law enforcement?
And what of the objective of the mission? Did you guys even try to finish it? In what shape was the prized black diamond left in after the whole fiasco? "
Inside a cabin in the outskirts of the town, sitting on empty barrels as crude sitting arrangements, two people of identical height and proportions ask the man who appeared before them. Identifying himself as Hans, the one who has the info their father wants from the HPSC HQ.
Hans takes a cold breath in, this time having himself properly covered in order to not get cold from the weather, before he starts recounting the events, and what happened during the fight in as much vivit a detail as he can.
"...In the end, pro hero Redvein came back with the prize, while there was no sign of the teleporter of our group.
On my way here, I subtly infiltrated and gathered information regarding him, and it seems the local police weren't able to find the teleporter. " He finishes.
"Hmmm, he's probably dead. " The red themed twin of the duo voices out, leading to the blue themed brother, Nek to silently nod his head, affirming his brother's, Poz's words. "Yes, most likely. Other wise he'd reconvene with us here. "
"So? What are we going to do now? " Hans voices out, leading to the duo of brothers pausing and giving each other a look.
A look of understanding, one that only they themselves know the meaning of.
The blue themed one, Nek turns his head towards Hans and gives the man a once over. "You are in no fighting shape anymore, and the info you have in that brain of yours will be as much important as the USB drive in your hands.
I'm calling tracer to come and get you. Your objective is done, you will go home now. As for us, our objectives hasn't changed.
Our trap is set, now the only thing we need is time. Time for the black diamond to approach us herself, which we know she will considering the place of the trap itself, and her behavior and personality from our gathered data in her younger years. " Nek finishes, leading to Hans's eyes widening, before he involuntarily smiles in happiness,
'Finally. I can finally see her again... My dear daughter, papa has missed you so much... ' involuntary tears gather on the grown man's eyes, before he quickly wipes them away. 'No, not yet. I shouldn't celebrate so soon. Once my feet hits my home country's soil, once I'm holding my dear daughter in my embrace again, only then will I allow myself to relax, so no, not yet.
Not yet. ' he repeats to himself, repeating like a mantra to get his psyche up again.
"Just a few more days. " Nek says, while his brother, the red one, Poz has his arms crossed over his toned chest, his expression all but flat.
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"Getting discharged just two hours after waking up from a coma like state, only a Benihana could do something so ridiculous. " Benihana Kie says, though she tries to jest, it seems she just can't bring herself to do it, not in this situation at least.
They're inside their car, everyone present with Retsu's father, Tetsuya on the steering wheel of their luxury lexus, while Himiko and Mina are in the back and sitting besides Retsu, the duo hugging the much taller girl in quiet worry.
"You had me so worried there you know, I thought I'd lost you or something, Re-re. " Himiko quietly says, her face buried in her best friend's shoulder, snuggling in real comfortably and quietly.
"Mm, " Is the only sound the usually enthusiastic pink girl gives, her face also buried in the crook of Retsu's shoulder, not moving an inch.
"I was fine, trust me, Himi-chan. " Retsu says calmly, though the transforming girl doesn't buy her excuse one single bit, noticeable by her growing pout at her best friends clear intentions of not revealing what really happened.
"... " Tetsuya is quiet, the man clearly in his own world and trying to find how to proceed with the messed up situation he went through yesterday.
'Another death.
Well it's not like I'm not used to them. Even before Retsu, I'd seen and been in my own fair share of incidents, so death isn't something that uncommon for me.
Besides, she was clearly not herself, probably the work of the one who's on the run --hans--, and the HPSC won't let me get involved in that case for some unknown reasons.
I don't even know what that fugitive's quirk may be, though it was most likely the mind manipulation that took control of Retsu somehow.
And the stuff he said back then... ' Tetsuya's grip on the steering wheels slightly tighten.
'Wife?!? He's clearly lost it, a psychopath who probably got infatuated with Retsu's public profile as the Heart of Japan.
A fan who's also someone that's clearly lost it. No wonder the HPSC is so desperately after him, they must have figured his unstable mentality is too dangerous.
I should request in being put into the search party after him once again, but only after I make sure my family is safe. ' Tetsuya concludes, and his reasonings and way of thinking are all valid.
You too would come to the same conclusions if some crucial part of the narrative was left out from you, but sadly the pro hero couldn't have come to the correct conclusion because he lacked true narratives from the story.
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That second day of the Benihana's stay at Mt. Fuji, or more like Lake Kawaguchi, the family plus Mina and Himiko didn't do anything else, just relaxing at their rooms and at night, dipping into the calming waters of the onsen, relaxing their minds from the hectic days and, trying their best to regain their touristic spirits for the upcoming day.
Kie also had to reschedule their plans because they didn't do anything on the second day unlike what was in their agreed upon vacation plans.
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Inside a barren land, where the skies are as red as blood and there is a mountain of corpses,
Booooom!!!
A shockwave is left after the clash of two calamities, with both combatants falling back along with the after-shock of their clash.
"Khuhuhu! I see that the parasite has learned to poison her adversary! Where the hell did you get the authority to oppose me?!? " Despite his delightful sounding tone, his face is all but scrunched up in anger and concentration, looking at the woman standing before him.
Everything about her, is the same as the one he loves. But everything about her, is fake at the same time.
"... " And as if a habit and as always, the woman doesn't speak when she should, doesn't communicate when she's clearly in a point where she should, which leaves the now uncovered man more furious than ever.
Facial features that slightly resemble Benihana Tetsuya's, except the crimson eyes that are a shade darker than the mentioned pro hero's.
A body as if sculpted by the Olympian gods themselves, being able to see the muscles he is packing through his ragged and torn clothing.
A height proportional to mythological figures, being the tallest, even taller than All Might and All For One himself.
Benihana Kuroine, the progenitor of the Benihanas. The first man who ever unlocked a blood type quirk. The man dubbed as the first pro hero, the one who helped in etablishing the organization that's governing the pro heroes of today.
But, amidst all of his titles, all of his achievements, there is just one title that's truly unique and otherworldly,
The First Descender.
A truly unique and mysterious title. What could it truly mean exactly? And how does it correlate to him and his position within this world?
He is a man who made sure the current pro hero status is what it is, being the man who established the mindset itself. The man who created the concept of pro heroes, and what they should represent.
He did all of that, all of those pretentious, false, and unwarranted things, all of it for one reason and one reason only.
All, so he could be with the one he loves.
His beloved Benihana Retsu~
'But no. This Parasite did something! ' Kuroine looks to the woman who has brandished a treasure he plans on giving his inevitable wife.
"You will tell me what you did, or I will make sure I bury you under forgotten memories, and for good too this time! " He voices out, and finally he gets an answer.
"Hmph, " The wench makes a mocking sound, daring to smirk at him!
"Just like the help you have behind you from that being, so too do I have someone backing me.
You will no longer be able to take control of her body again. Not now, not ever. That I promise you.
Whatever you do to me after this, it doesn't matter. I've already fulfilled my part.
I'll be leaving the rest to my beloved master~"
Saying those last few words, the being, the woman, the Unohana Retsu replica begins to fade away and into red, wispy threads, leaving the man behind with his mind and his foiled plans.
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Looking up, he sees the cracked red sky is slowly patching itself back, closing up his way to outside of this world, this consiousness, this vestige reality.
And in that moment, the only thing that goes past Kuroine's mind is...
"... DAMN YOU MINAZUKIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! "
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Author's note/ hope I cooked here, I myself think I've done a master chef cooking here.
There are still unexplained questions left, but not to worry, or no wait,
This will be the last of what we see from this side of this story for a while, so I guess... Heh?
Anyways! I won't be explaining things here, you guys will just have to read and understand it on yourselves.
For how much longer do you want me to spell it out for ya huh?
Just kidding xD I love you guys.
Anyways, recently I've been getting less and less comments in my chapters, which is a huge let down not going to lie.
It was one of my greatest motivations to keep writing, reading you guys's comments and all, but it seems the new schedule has completely destroyed any bridge that was being build between us.
I lost two of my most prominent readers, I'm not gonna name them cuz I think they'd know who they are themselves, and I'm not going to lie, it really hit me right in the feels.
I'm still going to fulfill my promise of finishing this story though, so don't worry about that part, but it's just that I got a big hit in motivation department when my viewers and commentators suddenly dropped to zero.
Anyways, I'm not gonna rant anymore, thank you guys for reading my story, have a great day/night, and I'll see ya guys in the next one... Hopefully...