Ryu- Well, here is another chapter from me.
Winning Pairings – 10051, All27, and 8059. Other pairings might be considered, but will be minimal.
Soari – Don't worry, not everyone has a large vocabulary.
-xShiroi-chan – Not quite. I just see it a lot, and it's referred to as the demon blade, so I used it.
shizu Fumikari – Well, I wanted to make sure that the basic knowledge was given before starting the story.
First Stage
Irie sighed as he walked on the sidewalk. The past week had been hell for him.
"Now Shou-chan, as you may have heard, I have many subordinates, and they can get hurt or sick sometimes, so I need someone to take care of them." Byakuran said.
"What does, that have to do, with me?" Irie said, voice still laced with pain from what happened that night.
"Yokai have their poisons, and those poisons aren't poisons to other yokai. Since your human, you won't be affected." Byakuran said.
So ever since that day, Irie had been taking care of the many yokai. The knowledge to take care of them had somehow been given to him when his body grew three years older in just a matter of minutes.
Byakuran had said that the amount of knowledge given could have been learned in just three years, thus explaining the three year growth spurt, which had been painful. Irie's skin had been torn at certain areas, and his bones had grown a few inches.
Still, no matter how you look at it, the whole process had hurt. It's why humans are meant to grow at a slow pace, not quickly like some yokai.
Irie had no more time to ponder when there was a sudden explosion. Irie looked and saw people, all who were screaming "monster" and "demon."
Irie decided to check it out, but wished he hadn't. There was a yokai, a Jinkininki to be precise, and it was eating people, well, the bodies of the dead that it had killed. Either way, it was a gruesome sight.
Yokai – Jinkininki
A ghost that eat human corpses.
"What are you doing!" Irie shouted.
The yokai stopped it's eating. "Hm, a human?" The yokai said, and then inhaled deeply through it's nose. "You smell of that snow haired yokai, and I sense a parent contract, which means" The yokai dropped the bodies it was eating. "I can eat you." The yokai said as it charged.
Though Irie had grown older and gained information, it didn't mean that he could defend himself against a yokai, whose size was abnormally large. All Irie had was a low level item, a copy of Sun's Life.
Yokai Item – Sun's Life
Abilities – Has healing properties and other uses.
Origin – Part of a certain set, made to help keep balance.
Side note – The Sun's life is in the form of a ring, and the one Irie has is just a replica, so it is not as strong as the original. This copy only has the healing ability.
Byakuran had given Irie the ring so that if Irie were to come across any of Byakuran's subordinates, and they were injured, Irie would be able to heal them.
Right now Irie wished that he did have some item to defend himself, since this could be the end of himself, but that wasn't so, when a knife suddenly embedded itself in the yokai's eye.
The knife looked familiar, and Irie found out why. "Shishishi. It seems the peasant needs some help." Irie looked and saw Belphegor, whom he did not meet, but saw at the gathering, trying to kill someone.
"Huh, you look familiar." Irie turned his head and saw Fran, who was the person Bel tried to kill.
"It doesn't matter. A peasant is still a peasant. Now we have to focus on the yokai which did not fall." Bel said.
The yokai laughed. "Your pitiful items are not strong enough for I, Kira, of the Ancient." Kira said.
Yokai Information
Ancients..... Not available.
"You know, you're breaking the rules here." Fran said.
"Hm, I was one of the originals who created the laws." Kira said.
"But that doesn't mean you're allowed to break them." Fran said.
Yokai Law
Yokai who are in the high levels are not allowed to reveal themselves to humans. Otherwise there will be unbalance.
"You, well, it doesn't matter. I'll eat yo-" Kira said before he was hit by a strong blast. Everyone looked and saw Tsuna, who seemed to have completed a strong move. "Why I'll- erk" Kira said before he found his arm turning to stone.
"I suggest you leave, otherwise you'll turn to stone." Tsuna said.
"Grrr, fine, but I'll get back at you some day." Kira said as he disappeared.
Tsuna landed on the ground, and his eyes turned from serious, to innocent. "Is everyone okay?" Tsuna said.
"What does it look like, peasant." Bel said, gesturing to all the bodies.
"This is going to be hard to cover up." Fran said.
It was then Tsuna noticed Irie. "Oh, are you , wait, you seem familiar, have we met somewhere before?" Tsuna asked.
Since it had probably only been a little over week, and having only met once, Tsuna wouldn't recognize him, it was probably harder to recognize him since he grew older.
So Irie decided to pretend not to know Tsuna. "Um, no. You must have me confused with someone else. Now I must g-" Irie said before something latched onto his face. "Gah!" Irie said as he pried he object off. It was a miniature lion.
"Ah Natsu, you shouldn't do that." Tsuna said as he took the lion in his arms.
The lion seemed to point at Irie. "Gao gaoo." Natsu said, and Tsuna seemed to understand.
"Eh, the gathering." Tsuna said. Irie saw this as a cue to go, but before he could leave, Fran spoke up.
"Oh, that wimpy kid with the Level S." Fran said.
"Eh, but wasn't he like, fifteen years old?" Tsuna said.
"Well, it doesn't matter. Since he's involved with that yokai, he can come to the meeting." Bel said.
"What meeting?" Irie asked.
"Strange yokai have attacked certain parts of he world, and they seem to call themselves Ancients." Tsuna said. "We're having a meeting with the worlds exorcists and treaty yokai, I should probably send a message that we'll be there late." Tsuna said, and then he whispered some words to Natsu, who nodded and sped off.
"I still don't know why your inner demon is so small." Fran said.
Yokai Information
The saying "Let your inner demon run wild" is literal for exorcists. If their will is strong, or if they've inherited a bloodline, then their spirits form demons. Most yokai come from these demons.
-TBC-
Ryu- Well, I hoped you liked this chapter, sorry if it may seemed rushed, cause it is. I'm really busy, having to write and essay that's due on the weekend. (I turn it in online) Oh, and I hope you caught some clues that I threw at you. All of the stuff here is not random.