Slithring soul
a bleach/soul eater crossover
chapter 4: new pair of eyes
by: snake eater2101
disclaimer: see chapter's 1 and 2
It's been a week since that day and thing's went along pretty well, they did a lot things while waiting for Caroline to gather all the ingredients for the ritual.
They spent most of there time with the Asakura's. Caroline was with Miyuki lurning how to cook, and how to act like a lady, and Caroline was really taking to it, and Miyuki was very proud of her but she was suprised at how persistent Caroline was about not wearing shoe's.
Naomitsu was learning from Kyo about the business of transporting good's and about the spurital history of Onna from Mrs. Asakura.
The rest of their time was spent with Caroline teaching Naomitsu how magic worked, Naomitsu wanted to firgure out what the x-factor was that Thana mentioned but Caroline said it would be best to focus on getting magic right now, and after a week of preparations it was finaly time.
He stood just outside the village. Remembering what Caroline to him last night.
flashback
Naomitsu was laying the porch gazing at the stars, it really relaxed him when ever he would do this, angry or sad all he had to do was look up, and all those feeling would go away.
"what are thinking about Naomitsu?" Caroline asked as she sat in the yard adding dirt and flower petals to a bowl of warter.
Naomitsu sighed, "thinking about how weird everything's been the last six days, dying, meeting you and thana, being bound to you, then waking up and finding that that we've been reduced to twelve year-olds, and then there's the thing about us being stuck in 1894."
"Don't forget about your hair turning black." Caroline chuckled "Well stranger things have happened Naomitsu." she said as she garbed two rocks and started smashing them together.
Naomitsu watched in fascination as she countinued to hit the rocks together over the bowl beating them together like symbols, she hit them hard that they started to spark, after Caroline saw this she moved her hands while still smashing the rocks closer to the bowl hitting the rocks faster and harder making more sparks, she kept doing this until the spark's from the rock's caused the liquid in the bowl to be set ablaze!
Naomitsu's eyes widened as he looked in disbelief at the fire in front of him.
"What the hell are you sitting thare for get over here now." Caroline souted out to him.
He got off the porch and ran over to her, "Ok what's with th-ow!" he yelped as he felt a sharp prick in his finger, which turned out to be Caroline with a sewing needle drawing blood.
"The hell Caroline!''
"Quite." she snapped as she grabbed his hand and held it just above the fire and a single drop of blood fell into the flames, when it hit the flames the fire instantly exploded into a ploom of purple smoke, after a minute the smoke cleared Naomitsu tried to figure out what just happend when noticed that the liquid in the bowl changed from a muddy liquid with flower petals in it to a completely clear liquid, in fact it was so clear that he could see it sparkle.
"This doesn't make any sense." Naomitsu said looking on in disbelief.
"It's magic it doesn't have to." Caroline said as she picked up the bowl and carefully poured it's contents into a glass bottle.
"So that's it huh." Naomitsu asked looking at the small bottle.
"Yes it is, with this you can gain access to the magical abilities inside of you." Caroline said as she put the bottle into her pocket.
"Since the potion's done and it's getting late how about we run through tomorrow's schedule really quick." Naomitsu asked.
"Good idea." Caroline said as she sat firmly on the ground. "Tomorrow the Asakura's will be going out to celebrate shunbun no hi in the after noon just like everyone else in the village meaning we're free to do as we please, I'll be going with them to pray for our *parents* while you go get your magic."
"It's a good thing that they believed you when you said the I had to go on a spiritual journey, i still feel bad about lying to them though." Naomitsu said as he sat down in front of her clearly feeling guilty about this.
"Don't," Caroline bluntly stated "Besides the back story and our parents we're not really lying to them, and you really do have to go on a spiritual journey."
"Which you really didn't elaborate on much in my studies besides that I need to drink that stuff and walk around." Naomitsu said slightly annoyed as he rubbed his temples.
Caroline just sighed "Naomitsu it's a bit hard to tell you more when each journey a witch takes to get his/her magic is diffent but there is one thing I will remind you, this is a journey, and when the journey is over you will not be the same."
flashback end
Naomitsu pulled the cork from the bottle and gulped down the potion inside, and when he was done he felt a weak tugging sensation on his soul he tried to figure out where it was coming from he truned to the feft and the sensation got weaker, he turned to the right and it felt the same, but when he turned back the way he came he couldn't feel it any more, He decided to go the way he facing before since it felt strongest, and so he started walking foward beginning his journey.
Time skip
He walked for about two hours through the hot and humid wilderness of Okinawa and he was beginning to feel thirsty. he felt terrible, his body was drenched in sweat even after being hear a week he still wasn't used to the weather of Okinawa "So thirsty, I wish I could have at least brought a canteen or something." He muttered, however as he continued walking he came to a large clearing, that was surrounded by trees there in the middle there was a pool in the center of it.
Now anyone else would probably take a second to think about this, to make sure the water was clean, but Naomitsu only had one thought going through his head. "Water!" He cried as he ran over to the pool and started frantically drinking the water in handfuls. After a few handfuls he felt like he was ready to get back to his "Journey" when he noticed something weird.
The surface of the pool was rippling but only where his reflection was, he couldn't believe his eyes but for some reason it looked like his reflection was shaking!? and it wasn't just shaking, it was trembling in fear!
It's body was expanding and not in a funny way like willy wonka and the chocolate factory, clothes were ripping, he could see blood seeping through skin and hear bones breaking , It looked like it's body was about to burst, but what disturbed him more then anything else was the face that was reflected on the surface of the water it was looking right at him with a terrified look on it's...his face.
It was almost too much for his brain to process he was fine, completely ok but his reflection on the water was bloody and bloated, just then the water in the pool started to boil causing his reflection to grow bigger and let out a groan which suprised him, but what suprised him even more was that once again his reflection locked eyes with him this time pleadingly and whispering just loud enough so he could he hear it "Run!"
No sooner had the word bein spoken the pool erupted into a geyser shooting high into the air. Naomitsu was silently staring at the geyser horrified at what just happend, but he was brought to his senses when he saw someone jump out of the geyser headed right towards him!
He quckly dogged and jumped back so he could get a better look at his attcker, this person was about five foot tail with pitch black robes and theater mask with glowing red eyes and smile, the robes were thick so he couldn't say wither it was a man or woman, he also couldn't tell if he/she was friendly or dangerous, it was just standing there unmoving so he decided to try to talk to it cuz it wouldn't hurt to ask right?
"Hey!" Naomitsu called out to the figure hoping to get it's attention, said figure slowly turned it's head to meet Naomitsu's gaze "Hello my name is Naomitsu Madaraki, who are you? why where you in that pool?" He said trying to see if he could get it to talk.
The happy face on the person's mask morphed into a angry face and he/she lunged at Naomitsu forcing him to jump out of the way "Hey now I'm not going to hurt you, can't just we talk about this?" Naomitsu said hoping that this person could be reasoned with.
This person responded by running up to him faster then he could see and punching him to the ground.
"Guess not." He muttered as he knocked it's legs out from under quckly got up and into a fighting stance, the person got up and lunged at him again, to which Naomisu responded by kneeing he/she in the stomach and delivering a left hook to the person's face kocking he/she back.
Naomitsu narrowed his eyes "Shit, this isn't looking good I'm already worn out from walking so much today without resting and now was fighting this bastard, but to make matters worse this person's good, very good, I don't know how long I can hold out fo-." He was cut off from his thoughts when he saw his opponent pull out a katana with a rectangular guard and a red handle and ran at him once again, but this time he could actually kind of follow where the person was going as he/she ran up to him and swung his/hers sword at him.
He was able to stop the person from killing him, but not from gravely injuring him. The person's sword was stuck deep in the left side of his torso, but being kept from slicing deeper into his chest by his hands which were clamped on to the persons sword. He grimaced as he swung for the persons face forcing he/she to jump back while sliding it's sword out of his side, causing blood to spray out of his wound.
He clamped his hands over the wound and started applying pressure hoping to stop the bleeding, "Well this isn't good," Naomitsu thought as he coughed up some blood "I'm in no condition to fight now, I have to try and make a brake for it." He thought as he ran into the woods leaving a trail of blood behind him. The person didn't run after him at first, almost it was giving him a head start, but after he was out of sight the person bolted into the woods hot on his trail.
He ran for what seemed to him like an eternity, but in reality it was actuality ten minutes. The loss of blood was quickly tiring him out. He was about to pass out when he saw a big slanted rock by a river and thought it would be a good place to hide. He hobbled over and laid against the side of the rock applying more pressure to his ever bleeding wound, after a few minutes the bleeding started slowing down so he decided to close his eyes for a few minutes. He knew it was a bad idea but he felt so tired that he didn't care.
He was forced awake when he felt someone grab him by the hair and start draging him over to the river, his eyes darted up and saw that it was the person the was draging his body. He tried to wriggle out out of the person gasp but he was to weak to move anything and soon found his face submerged in water.
As soon as his face hit the water it felt like all the air was being sucked out of his lungs and his eyes were being burned by the salt in the water he could do nothing, nothing but think, "Is this it? Am I going to die?" Naomisu thought as his mind was assaulted by fear, then suddenly every moment of his life flashed before his eyes and his fear was replaced by a savage will to live.
"NO!" he shouted in his head as he struggled out of the persons grip.
He backhanded the person with his left hand and punched the person to the ground with his right. He quickly looked around for somethng to use when he saw a medium sized rock he grabed it forgeting and about his wound that reopened and brought it right above the persons head and started slaming it down.
The frist hit slamed the person back to ground on the right part of the head when he/she tried get up, the second hit caused the persons mask the crack, he brought the rock over his head preparing for one final strike, after he had high enough in the air he brought the rock down hard sounding almost feral as he screamed "DIE!"
The rock hit with such force that it caused a sickening thud to echo throughout the woods and the top right of the mask to fly off, revailing a bloody broken mess where the right eye was completely gone.
"HE'S DEAD! AH HA HA!" He said as he started laughing like a psychopath as he dropped the rock to the ground and pulled off the rest of the mask, but as soon as the mask was gone he stopped laughing when he saw the face on the person on the ground "Rukia!?" the whole right side of her face was unrecognizable but it was definitely her, he looked down at his now blood stained hands still not believing what he'd just done and started to freak out, "Oh MY God! Oh My God! Oh My Go-" But he was cut short when Rukia's lifeless body got up and put her hand over his heart and sent some kind of current throght his body paralyzing him and sending to the ground.
When he hit the ground he noticed three things, One that Rukia was gone. Two that his wounds were gone, and Three that his mouth was stuck open, "What the hell jus-" He wondered what happened but was once again cut off when he heard.
"Sssss."
"Sssss?" Naomitsu thought as he heard it again but this time in another direction, after a minute he heard it coming from all over the place, then after another he felt a bunch of tiny things crawling all over him, or rather Slithring over him, he saw many snakes siting on top of his chest looking at him they then proseeded to slither into his mouth!
He was shocked to say the least there were a bunch of snakes entering into his mouth and now there were two snakes Slithring into his wrists and up his arms. He tried to shake them off but couldn't, more and more snakes were Slithring into his mouth the force of all of them entering was cousing his body to thrash about, and just when he thought it couldn't get any worse two snakes Slithred onto his face and into his eyes! the schock of this frocing him into uncontusions.
He woke up in a black void where there was nothing else except a giant snake that came over to him with it's mouth open swallowing him whole.
Hours later Caroline was waiting by the door waiting for Naomitsu to come back, "He should've been back by now," She thought, she about to go talk to Kyo and ask if she could go look for him when she heard a knock at the door, she quickly went up at opened it revealing Naomitsu but he looked different, there were snake tattoos wrapped around his arms both starting from the vector shapeded tails on his wrists and ending at the snake heads on his shoulders, but he also now had yellow eyes with snake slit for pupels just like hers all in all he looked grate, "so now that you have magic what do you want to do?" She asked him.
He just looked at her for second with his new eyes before saying in a low voice "I don't know"
"it's finaly done yey! i'm sorry it toke me so long to write another chapter but I had to deal with writers block and family stuff, plus a new story I wanted to write since before Slithring soul, but I hope I can put out another chapter soon, untaill then let me know what you guys thought in the comment's and i will see you next time latter!"