Kyuu And The Seven War Demons
Conflict will be the opening of this chapter as one of the Seven Oni is accused of killing a group of villagers and their reputation and intention are put to the test as they struggle on calm things down while trying to find out who is responsible for this. What they don't know is that either a spy or an Oni hater could be the culprit and it's up to Kyuu to solve this at once before a brawl ensue.
Disclaimer:
- Detective School Q is owned by TBS and Studio Pierot
- Kamen Rider Hibiki is owned by Ishimori Productions
- xxxHOLiC is owned by CLAMP and TBS
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The entire village of Kanna was in a state of panic and tense atmosphere as all of the townsfolk took out their weapons and pointed them at the seven Oni, and the rest, in a display of anger, burns down the hut they are staying. The village chief came out and momentarily managed to calm everyone until Nishiki's weapon was shown, and soon voices were raised and the finger-pointing began, as accusations are being thrown at each others' groups and the situation threatens to spiral out of control.
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These are the scenes that Yuko Ichihara now saw in her just-repaired crystal ball, seeing what is happening and noticed that only six Oni are there with Kabuki and Kyutu aren't present. She also noted that neither Kyuu is there but nevertheless decided to stay and watch, curious as to how the Oni would get themselves out of this precarious situation.
Maru and Maro arrived and pointed out that something isn't right about the scene and they believed that someone framed the group and that the Oni are being blamed for the situation. Yuko nodded at this and was contemplating to go there, but she decided to stay put and watch the show. But then her concentration was interrupted when her two assistants began to make unnecessary noises.
"ONI vs. ONI…WHO'S GONNA WIN? ON ONE SIDE YOU HAVE THE GOOD GUYS…ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAVE THE BAD GUYS…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…ONI vs. ONI…WHO'S GONNA WIN? ON ONE SIDE YOU HAVE THE GOOD GUYS…ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAVE THE BAD GUYS…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…ONI vs. ONI…WHO'S GONNA WIN? ON ONE SIDE YOU HAVE THE GOOD GUYS…ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAVE THE BAD GUYS…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…IT'S GONNA BE A BRAWL…"
"WILL YOU TWO SHUT UP?? I CAN'T WATCH THIS SCENE WITH YOU TWO YAKKING UP! JUST SIT DOWN AND WATCH QUIETLY IF WE ARE TO SEE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT!!"
Maru and Maro, surprisingly, behaved themselves and the shop began to have a quiet day and yuko was about to resume her watching, but mary took out a plastic bag, blew air and made it into a balloon and clapped it, causing it to "explode" and the fortune teller jumped from her seat and fell to the floor. The two assistants giggled but they receive a hit on their head and they behaved this time for real and now the three of them watched the scene from her crystal ball and are awaiting what will happen next.
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Back at the village, the villagers of Kanna were surprised when the next scene occur which made them confused. At first, Kintaki was denying the charges as nonviolently as possible. But one of the villagers, who is a rabid anti-Oni, hurled aggravating insults at him and branded all Oni "a dog that must be slaughtered like a dog meat". The words that the villager used, which was also supported by some other anti-Oni villgers irked him a lot, and that's where the situation went out of control when Kintaki got so irate that he wants to take out the humans and transformed into Nishiki.
Hayatoki joins in, transforming into Todoroki and are about to take on the villagers when Kazumaki, Ryuki and Tatsumaki stood in their path, trying to calm them down. However, the hot-headed Nishiki became more irate when some of the villagers' monetary possessions were found on his bag, further accusing him of bad charges, from a murderer to a thief, since some of the people he encountered claimed that he loves money and treasure, but he denied it flatly and when the rabid anti-Oni villager hurled another insult, and Todoroki was also accused of a crime he didn't commit, all hell broke loose as the two Oni began their assault, with the three Oni initiated their transformations, becoming Touki, Ibuki and Habataki. Touki formed a protective barrier to protect the villagers while Ibuki and Habataki were forced to keep their two fellow Oni back to prevent them from coming towards the barrier, seeing that the two were enraged.
"Kintaki…Hayatoki…please calm down. We'll get to the bottom of this. But please don't attack the villagers. It's natural for them to fear us Oni…"
"Yeah…? Well it's natural for me to kill them! I had it with them! I tried to avoid this but no…they hurled insults at me…accuse me of killing their villagers, and now they're accusing me of stealing money?? Well that tears it, I had it with them! If they want us Oni to be rabid animal, SO BE IT!!"
Nishiki uses his enchanted taiko and triangle to produce sound waves that sent Ibuki to be thrown off from where he is standing while Todoroki uses his guitar and swings it like an axe, trying to break through the barrier, but Habataki flew into the air, flying like a hawk and carried Todoroki up and dropped him onto a basin of water. Nishiki tries to punch his way through until Touki held his hand and tries to calm him down.
"Do you think this will solve everything? Do you want to be a REAL murderer?"
"They accuse me of that and they want to make it appear that I am. If that's what they want, then that's what I'm going to give them! Now scram before I strike you as well!"
Left with no choice, Touki summoned his enchanted gong and strikes it with his taiko, producing a strong gong-like sound wave that sent the tiger-Oni hurling towards a house and was down, but this only further enraged the Oni and went towards the white-armored Oni, and the two are grappling with each other.
Ibuki got up and jojns Habataki in restraining Todoroki as he was about to assault a young girl who wasn't inside the protective barrier that Touki created, and the villagers were starting to feel remorseful about branding the Oni as "animals". They were also moved that Touki, Ibuki and Habataki were willing to fight off their fellow Oni just to protect the humans, and are now urging the Oni to stop fighting with each other, pleading to them that they're regretting their baseless accusations.
At this point, Kyutu Renjorou arrived and screamed at the top of his lungs which got everyone's attention, and the Oni halted their actions as they saw one of the Oni have arrived after getting his "possession".
"THAT'S ENOUGH NOW!! IF YOU KEEP ON DOING THIS ALL OF OUR CAUSE WILL GO DOWN WITH YOU!! I KNOW THIS IS HARD BUT YOU SHOULDN'T LET OTHERS PUSH YOU AROUND OR MAKE THEM WANT YOU TO BECOME WHAT YOU ARE NOT! CEASE THIS AT ONCE!!"
As peace was restored, Todoroki and Nishiki halted their actions after Kyutu assured to them that the matter will be cleared peacefully and told the village chief to conduct an investigation. At this point Saburumarouki came running and told them a very shocking news which made Kyutu realize that what happened here was just a diversion.
"Everyone! Kyuu and Lady Megumi are not here! When I saw you guys fighting I thought I should get those two kids to help me stop you from hurting yourselves, but then I saw her headdress lying on the floor right inside her hut. Some of the furniture there are in disarray. Kyuu isn't there either, all I saw was his bag, and he's nowhere around."
"What about Kabuki?"
The villagers searched the entire village but after 15 minutes of looking around they couldn't find him. He was now suspecting something but he had no evidence so he decided to do something about the matter and told the villagers and the Oni on what to do next. Although this didn't sit well with everyone but in the end they realize that this was the only option they have left.
"Ryuki…go to your kingdom and ask your father to send some men to go with you. Here is the map where the Orochi is hiding. Persuade him to help us in fighting the Makamou army. Go now or all will be lost."
"What about you?"
"I'm going to where Lady Megumi is being taken. Go now and leave the rest to me."
The Oni/prince reluctantly left the village and is heading back to his kingdom and hoped that his grandfather would be more than willing to listen to what he has to say and hoped that whatever Kyutu is up to would work for the best, as time is of the essence as the village priestess and the "savior" are missing and believed to be taken by someone. No doubt by one of the Makamou army.
Meanwhile, Kyutu instructed the rest to stay here and help everyone while telling Touki to reconstruct the barrier to protect the village should the Makamou try to attack the village again. He also told Nishiki and Todoroki to calm down as he told them that a spy may have caused the mishap and made off with the priestess during the brawl, and the two Oni realized their mistakes. They are now willing to patch up with the villagers who accused them of murdering the other villagers and will work together.
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Meanwhile, at a deserted road, Kabuki is walking by carrying a rather weak Megumi as she was slowly getting drowsy due to the Orochi's mark that is slowly making her lose consciousness. She was, however, able to tell what is happening around her but couldn't summon the strength to resist or struggle against him. However, for some reason, she felt that Kabuki wasn't actually hurting her, but was very careful in carrying her away, but was still worried at where they are going.
Then their journey came to a halt when a familiar voice spoke up and both saw who was following them. It was Kyuu, and she barely saw her "savior" struggling to his feet, walking. He was bleeding on his lips, nose and forehead while clutching his right ribcage. Then the scene shows a flashback at Kanna Village several hours ago, in which during the wee early morning, about 3 am.
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While everyone are still asleep, Kabuki sneaked out of his bed, and slowly took Kintaki's tuning fork and became Nishiki and proceeded to slaughter the villagers sleeping in a hut and after that he left the weapon there so Kintaki would be blamed for the massacre, and then proceeded to Lady Megumi's hut, seeing that Orochi's mark is making her weaker and unable to move about.
Kyuu followed him there and saw what kabuki did and now he realized that the Oni was about to take her, having deduced that he was the traitor among them after seeing him sent an Origami animal a few months ago, and learned that he was in league with the Orochi. He tried to stop him but Kabuki changed into his Oni form and took out his pair of Taiko and beats up the Class Q leader as he were a drum, hitting him from head to his torso several times and he fell onto the furniture and was seemingly out cold.
Kabuki then reverted back to his normal form and carried a weak Megumi and left the village. However, Kyuu slowly followed him in secret, too dazed to call the others fearing he might run off so he took it upon himself to rescue her himself.
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Kabuki placed her on a bedrock while crackling his knuckles as he decided to weaken the boy so he won't follow them further and guessed that he was all alone, so he had no qualms in taking him down. He was against killing him so weakening him further would be the safest way.
"You shouldn't have followed me here..."
"Like I would...why are you doing this?? Are you in league with the Orochi??"
"No...but he gave me a deal...if I deliver her to him, then he'll let me alone. I have nothing against the humans but what did they do?? They mocked me! Insult me! I tried hard to get along with them, but NO!! You see...to them I'm a bad guy...always a bad guy to them!"
He finally revealed to Kyuu the reason why he is doing this: he revealed that he was disillusioned with his relation with humans because of their selfishness, stating that "No matter how hard I fight and risk my life for them, they just call me an Oni, a monster, an animal". Although sympathetic, he knew Kabuki was wrong but he had to persuade him that what he is doing was wrong. But before the two would come to a settlement, Kyutu arrived, riding a horse and saw the two in a face-off. He then saw a still semi-conscious Lady Megumi lying on the bedrock and demanded that he return the village priestess to the villagers but he refused.
"You want her? You'll have to beat me."
"You left me with no choice..."
Kabuki and Kyutu stared at each other and drew out their tuning forks, ready to assume Oni forms, and Kyuu watches with intent to see what kind of Oni Kyutu would be while trying to keep Lady megumi awake and not drift off to a sleeping spell, feeling worried now that her body temperature is going up.
To Be Continued…
Looks like a showdown between two Oni is about to commence. What kind of Oni would Kyutu be like?
Preview:
Kabuki takes on Kyutu, who finally revealed his Oni form and his given name is revealed...Hibiki! See what his form can do and help defeat Kabuki.
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Kirameki is a fictional character that appeared exclusively in this fic, Kyuu & the Seven War Demons. Kirameki's design is based on cymbals and the carp.
Biography
He is the 15th century bersion of Yutaka Saburumarou. His previous life as an Oni is unrevealed, and in this incarnation he is a Buddhist desciple and is partnered with Kazumaki. He is named Saburumarouki. Five years ago he and Kazumaki encountered a huge makamou and he cowardly fled the scene leaving Kazumaki to fend off the attacker, thus he became a vagabond. Years later the two met again and settled their differences thanks to Kyuu and lady megumi's efforts in searching for the seven war Oni.
Personality
Kirameki is the coward of the group. Because of this, no one really wants to associate with him, especially in battle. It was revealed and Kamen Rider Kazumaki used to be partners, until he abandoned Kazumaki in fear of a large Makamou.
Weapons/Gear
Henshin Onsa (Silver Tuning Fork):
His henshin device. The transformation takes effect when he taps the tuning fork onto a surface and setting the vibrating henshin device in front of his face. He shouts out 'Kirameki' before the transformation takes place.
Ongekimei:
A Trumpet Buckle
Ongeki Cymbal:
Kirameki's personal weapons. They are circular blades with two shark-like fins designed along the outer circle. They are designed to curve in a little bit so they could be used as cymbals.
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Nishiki is a fictional character that appeared exclusively in this fic, Kyuu & the Seven War Demons. Nishiki's design is based on the triangle, a musical instrument, and the tiger.
Biography
Nishiki is a thief. When he was found by the traveling group of Oni, he was sentenced to public execution. His head would have been cut off, had it not for Nikishi himself to catch the blade with his own teeth. He then joins the group of Oni after they saved him.
Along the way, he was accused of slaughter after his weapons have been found in the scene of the crime. At first, he was denying it as nonviolently as possible. He then got so irate that he wants to take out the humans, thus he and other Oni join him that led to a fight between the Oni who chose to protect the humans.
Personality
Being a thief, Nishiki loves money and treasure. He is a very energetic man, which may sometimes lead to some of his hotheadedness. He is also the only Oni that can speak Kansai-ben.
Weapons/gear
Henshin Onsa (Clear Red Tuning Fork):
Nishiki's henshin device. Nishiki taps this tuning fork and set it in front of his face while it vibrates. He shouts out 'Nishiki' before the transformation begins.
Ongekiko (Taiko Buckle):
unknown
Ongeki Triangle:
Nishiki's personal weapons. This is a tri-sectional staff very effective for middle-ranged and short-ranged combat. The end components of the staff are long enough that when the two ends meet, the staff forms a triangle.
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Kamen Rider Habataki is a fictional character that appeared exclusively in this fic, Kyuu & the Seven War Demons. Habataki's design is based on the flute and the eagle.
Biography
Habataki is a veteran of many Japanese wars. He settled down after he married and had a son and never fought since. He was found by the group of traveling Oni in his farm. He was hesitant to join because he will have to fight again, but his wife convinces him to join the group. He is the 15th century version of Tatsumi Hongou, named Tatsumaki.
Along the way, the Oni Nishiki is blamed for the slaughter of humans. Habataki sides with Ibuki, and Touki when the other Oni fought each other due to a conflict of views on protecting humans.
Personality
Habataki is racked with so much self-doubt and indecisiveness. He becomes very hesitant in battle, especially after he married and had a son. His self-doubt is clearly displayed when it took his wife to convince him to join the Oni.
Weapons and gear
Henshin Onsa (Gold Tuning Fork):
Habataki's henshin device. He taps this tuning fork and sets it in front of his face while it vibrates. He shouts out 'Habataki' before the transformation takes place. It is unusual for him to use this henshin device, because he is a wind/brass type Oni and the Onsa is used by percussion type Oni; thus, he is expected to use the OniBue Onteki (i.e. Kamen Rider Ibuki).
Ongekimei (Trumpet Buckle):
unknown
Ongeki Flute:
Habataki's personal weapon. It is a staff with eagle wings designed at the end. It has a hole on each end and many more along the body. Habataki can use this weapon as a blowdart, then a flute.