8th chapter already! Yay! I have thought writing about 13 chapters :)
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Hisoka ran through the hallway and saw Tatsumi, Mayumi and Tooru standing there, looking rather confused.
"What's going on?!" He shouted even though he suspected they had no idea.
"I don't know!" Mayumi shouted," We just heard the explosion and saw some shinigami running in a panic!"
Panic would be something troublesome for Hisoka's empathy but he got to bear with it.
"We have to figure out what's going on!" Tatsumi ordered,"Let's go and have a look around!"
They ran forward and then they saw about five shinigami running towards them.
"Tatsumi-san!" One of them shouted.
"What happened?" Tatsumi asked and waited for an answer while shingamis tried to catch their breath.
"I don't know! There was this explosion and...Then we saw some weird creatures coming through the explosion hole. We fled from there but many of us didn't make it!"
Tatsumi thought for it for a second.
"Okay! First we need to contact other shinigami and inform about the situation! Mayumi, Tooru, could you do that?"
They nodded and headed towards the emergency room.
"Kurosaki, stay with me! We don't want Tsuzuki to loose yet another partner!" Hisoka just nodded silently.
"You guys!" Tatsumi said to those five shinigami,"Take the survivors to the bombshelter! We got to safe as many as we can!"
They left and Hisoka and Tatsumi stood there, still unsure of what was going on.
"Okay, those guys were working in the laboratory. We should go there!"
They ran again and on the way to the laboratory, they met Watari.
"Bon! Tatsumi! Are you okay?" He worried.
"Yes! Do you have any idea what's going on in here?!" Tatsumi asked and hoped for answers.
"I saw those weird things running to that direction!" Watari said and pointed out to the corridor on his left side.
"What weird things?" Hisoka asked.
"I don't know! They have killed many shinigami already so watch out! But they are all black, they resemble humans but they don't have eyes!"
Hisoka was getting really worried.
"Okay! You head to the bombshelter too, we are trying to get the survivors there! You help them!" Tatsumi advised.
"Got it! Take care, will you?" Watari shouted and ran away.
Tatsumi and Hisoka found what they had been looking for quite soon. Those creatures were something they had never expected to see.
They made Hisoka feel sick.
Those things were eating shinigami alive.
"Hisoka!" They heard a woman voice shouting and they saw Wakaba-chan in the corner, trying to keep those mosters away from her. She was visibly in panic.
"Wakaba!" Hisoka shouted and Tatsumi used his shadows to grab those monsters.
"Hisoka! You take Wakaba out of here, I will hold them down!" Tatsumi shouted and hoped that Hisoka wouldn't be overhelmed by Wakaba's feelings.
"Okay!" Hisoka said and rushed next to Wakaba," Are you okay?"
"I...am fine...but Terazuma...Terazuma..." Wakaba said and hugged Hisoka.
Hisoka saw it really clearly: the image of Terazuma covered in blood, unmoving. He had to control his emotions or they both would die.
"Listen, Wakaba",Hisoka tried to sound convincing,"I might be able to safe your partner, take me where he is!"
"But...he...he couldn't see those things coming...they came out of nowhere..." Wakaba mumbled in shock.
"LISTEN! Wakaba, take me to Terazuma!"
It took a while for Wakaba to understand what he meant.
"You...will safe him?" She asked carefully. She couldn't believe her ears.
"I will try!" Hisoka promised and Wakaba started to lead them out of the room.
They arrived soon at the small storage room. Hisoka immediately saw Terazuma but he also saw those creatures knelt over him, apparently preparing to eat him.
"TERAZUMA!" Wakaba shouted from the bottom of her lugns.
"It looks like you need my help!"
I would appreciate that!
Hisoka attacked those things and hit his hands to their chests. Fire flamed through both of his hands and the monsters screamed in pain.
Then Hisoka remembered it again.
Those monsters were probably made of human souls and feelings.
It was already too late by then, however, when he felt various emotions hit him hard.
I-don't-want-to-die!I-don't-want-to-die!
I-love-you,-can't-you-see-how-much-I love-you!You-can't-understand-me!
Hisoka fell to the ground but so did those monsters. They had a burning hole trough their chests and they didn't move anymore.
"Hisoka! Please safe him!" Wakaba shouted.
Hisoka tried to calm himself down. He was already close to getting overhelmed but he could't let Terazuma die. Hisoka got next to Terazuma with shaky legs. He touched Terazumas body which was still warm. He concentrated. He had healed a person before. Back in imaginary world, after he had been safed from Kurikara's desert. He tried to remember how it had felt.
But he couldn't. He was too overhelmed and he couldn't feel his hands anymore.
"Let me help you! I will stop the bleeding like I stopped yours!"
Hisoka didn't refuse the offer and soon his hands landed on top of Terazuma's torso.
"Try to bear with it,Terazuma! Wakaba, don't let him bite his tongue off!" Wakaba nodded and followed the order.
He felt the familiar burning again but didn't mind it as long as he could safe Terazuma. He hit his burning hand on Terazuma's wound and the man started to shout immediately. Hisoka knew he was in pain but he got to stop the bleeding.
Soon the bleeding stopped. The small storageroom was filled with a smell of burned meat and skin but it didn't matter.
Hisoka stood up with shaky legs. He was really tired but he got to take Wakaba and Terazuma to bombshelter.
"Let's go!" He said to Wakaba and she picked up Terazuma. Even though she was a girl, she was a lot stronger than Hisoka. At least at the moment.
They managed to get through the battlefield unharmed. They found their way to the bombshelter soon and they saw many survivors there.
"Bon! Wakaba! Terazuma!" Watari shouted. He saw Terazuma's bloodied body and expected him to be dead, but surpringinly he found a steady pulse.
"Don't worry, he is going to be fine!" he treasured Wakaba. Wakaba sighed deeply and started to cry.
"She is in shock." Hisoka informed Watari who nodded. Then Watari stopped to look at Hisoka.
There was blood oozing through Hisoka's mouth and he was rather pale.
"Hisoka? Are you okay?" Watari asked worried.
"Is...Tatsumi...here?" Hisoka asked. He didn't seem to realize his own condition.
"He arrived just a minute ago. He is fine, just scratches. "
"Good...Listen...those things...are immortal...they are made of...human souls and feelings..."
"No way! You must be talking nonsense! They can't be immortal!" Watari shouted but his anger changed into a worry over Hisoka when Hisoka fell to the ground.
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While Hisoka was unconciouss, others gathered some information about their enemies.
"Hisoka said they are immortal...I don't think it's possible..." Watari said quietly.
"Well, it looks like that pretty much to me at least", Tatsumi started," I couldn't pierce them with my shadows, I couldn't even graze them."
"But...your shadows are strong!" Watari praised.
"I know! That's the problem." Tatsumi stated.
Everyone fell silent for a moment.
"Then...how is possible...Hisoka killed two of those things?" Wakaba asked confused. Everyone looked at her.
"Are you sure?" Tatsumi asked.
"That could explain it! Earlier Hisoka said something about the enemy wanting to get rid of him because he was the only one who could be able to stop this!" Watari remembered some vital information.
"Does it have got something to do with his empathy?" Tatsumi wondered and Wakaba shook her head.
"No...it can't...he used...fire..." Wakaba noted.
"Fire?" Tatsumi wondered," How did he do it?"
"I don't know. Maybe he has got some sort of...new power?" Wakaba suggested.
Everyone fell silent again. Watari spoke up first.
"Okay! But at any rate, we need to wake up Hisoka if he is the only one able to fight those things!" Then he realised Hisoka was in no state to fight.
"Could I help you?" Tooru asked when he and Mayumi appeared.
"What do you mean?" Tatsumi wondered.
"I could use my powers to heal him. My...power is about age. Giving or taking. I could give him couple of years, maybe five years would be fitting? I need an hour per a year, so it would take five hours for me to heal him. He would be suffering from intense growing pains but I guess he is of no use if he is unconciouss. If he died at the age of 16, then he would be the age of 21. I would get younger by five years, meaning I would be 24 years instead of my current ge 29. It is a great stress for him, however, because every minute he would get around six days older. "
No-one expect Mayumi had heard before of this ability.
"So that's how...you stopped the factory from collapsing? You took years from it?" Watari wondered.
"Yeah, that's how it works. I took two years from the factory", Tooru said,"But do you think Hisoka would allow this?"
Tatsumi and Watari looked at each other and laughed.
"This kid? Yeah, he would have no trouble accepting this!"
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Meanwhile Tsuzuki was called into his temporary chief's office.
"Close the door, please." he asked. His chief had died at the age of 40, but he had worked as a shinigami for decades.
"You got something to say to me?"
"Yes. Apparently there is some sort of an enemy attack going on back in Kyuushuu where you came from."
"What?!" Tsuzuki almost shouted. He had never expected something like this to happen while he was gone.
"Yeah, and it looks like they need help. I thought about sending you back there, because you know the place already and I guess your partner is there as well."
Tsuzuki was really shocked and ready to rush out of the office and head back to Kyuushuu.
"Do we...know anything else?" Tsuzuki asked and tried to prepare himself the best he could.
"Well, apparently they have evacuated all the survivors to the bombshelter. There are a lots of enemies. Tooru McLane and Mayumi Yuusuke reported the enemy seemed to be immortal, but that can't be the case. They are trying to solve a way to kill them."
"Okay. I will return immediately!"
"You should better do so!" He said," And Tsuzuki-san! Take care, will you?"
Tsuzuki smiled and nodded.
"I will!"
Tsuzuki didn't waste any time to collect his stuff. They could always be picked up later. He hoped everyone, expecially Hisoka, would be alright.
He realised he wouldn't forgive himself if Hisoka died while he was away.
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