CH 10! P. COMA
Disclaimer: Kishimoto owns Naruto characters and Mitsunaga owns Kaibutsu Oujo characters.
Itachi closed a thick, hard bound book. He finished reading the whole thing from the first to the last page. He tried to scan it again for any signs of hidden texts or secret messages, but he found none. It was just a plain record book that he stole from the underworld court house. Just a bunch of history of the royal battle that he already learned from Hime. But it does contain interesting events that intrigued him. Events that he could learn from to prepare for the future. More importantly, it contains every participant of the royal battle. Including this batch's.
The 1st born prince, Salieri. Now deceased. Killed by his own servant, the Invisible man.
The 2nd born, first princess Sylvia. Status: Alive
The 3rd born, second prince Gilliam. Status: Alive
The 4th born, third prince Emil. Status: Alive
The 5th born, fourth prince Severan. Status: Alive
This wasn't updated though. Prince Severan has already been killed when defeated by Hime in the sanctioned duel.
The 6th born, second princess Lillianne.
The 7th and last born, third princess Sherwood.
There were somethings that confusing data, because in the record of the batch before Hime, some participant's status are still recorded alive but no longer included for this batch's battle. These persons are the prince Duken and prince Fuhito. So where are they, have they grown old and retired? Is that allowed? But, don't they turn into phoenixes? Or is this book just not that reliable?
So the best chance he has now is Hime, or young Sherwood, just in case he needs to jump ship. Princess Lillianne is not controlling and is proven generous, or dare he say, kind. And not strict… for now. What if she learns about all his abilities? Would she fall to temptation and switch to the darker side of ambition? Until now, he doesn't know the full power of the life-giving-blood yet. Will it completely take over and control him, bend him according to her will? A time will surely come where they will be cornered into a situation where they might never escape from. A situation where he has to give it his all to protect them, or protect his own life alone…
He sighed at the difficult choices that life always gives him.
Speaking of the princess, he heard her and three other footsteps approach his room. It sounds like the whole group is coming towards his door. And he was proven right when he heard knocking and the princess herself called him from outside his door. It must be something urgent.
Flandre is missing, Reiri couldn't fly, Riza cant transform and Hiro's wounds aren't healing when they were attacked by an assailant with a paperbag covering his head. Opening the main doors and windows, the view is nothing but a pitch black void. With further speculation, Hime has confirmed that they are currently in a dream. The enemy has placed the entire mansion in a sleep-attack and now they are all currently sharing the same dream. The problem is whose dream though. But with the princess' current untroubled attitude, she looked like she already knows a way to escape this dream. In the common dining room, where they always discuss plans, the intruder appeared halfway from a wall and stabbed Riza straight through the heart with a pair of grass cutters.
Sputtering blood from her mouth, she fell to the floor, unmoving. But the princess simply approached her body on the floor and started spanking her, as if shes trying to wake her from sleep. "wake up Riza! This isn't real. Youre body is not damaged! Its your mind the enemy's trying to destroy."
Riza's wolf ears perked up. "Really?"
She stood away from Hime's arms and she turned out to be alright. "That's right! Its all just a dream! Hehe, that's quite surprising!"
Hiro looked at his unhealing shoulder from where he was attacked earlier and saw no trace of any wound. Not even a speck of blood that stained his white school shirt a while ago.
"So its not a problem so long as you realize its just a dream?" asked Riza.
"No. rather, the situation is more dire than you believe. You should have woken up, Riza. Your actual body didn't wake up even though you were stabbed or slapped in the cheek…"
"So how do we wake from this dream? Do we just keep sleeping forever?"
"Oh yeah. my sister!"
The group went to Sawawa's room to check on her. They found her deeply asleep. "Wow…shes sleeping within the dream…" Riza murmured.
Then Hiro's face rapidly moved sideways like he was being slapped.
"Probably Flandre… as an android, the sleep wont affect her." Hime said.
As soon as she said these, he distanced himself from them and faced the opposite direction, so no one would see his eyes. He figured the magic casted in them should have at least the same laws of a genjutsu. And so, being the master of illusions, he simply activated mangekyo sharingan and dispelled it.
...
"hey… where did Itachi go? Am I the only one seeing this? Am I the only one who saw him suddenly disappear?!"
"d-did the paperbag-man get him?"
"But we didn't see the paperbag-man appear anywhere!"
"I too, saw him disappear out of thin air… Hime-sama… what do we do…?"
"Fuga!"
He was greeted with the sight of Flandre about to pour a vase of water on his face. Seeing him fully awake, she set aside the vase and continued speaking her 1 word vocabulary. She waved her arms around in hopes that he'll understand what shes saying.
"… Flandre, because youre a machine, the sleep has no effect on you, right?"
She nodded. Then he realized the sheets hes lying on seems very familiar.
"…you… carried me to my own bed…"
"Fuga."
He imagined himself being carried by little Flandre. By how did she carry him? Is it bridal-style or like a sack of potatoes slumped in her shoulder or was he just dragged on the ground? What would his housemates think if they saw him immobilized like that?
He snapped out of it. There are other important things to do. He normally doesn't think of such trifling thoughts. The thought it must be the peaceful days finally getting to him, making him rusty or something…
"Fuga fuga fuga!" the little robot made a gesture that says he should follow her.
...
Flandre led him to Hiro's room, where she placed the unconscious boy and proceeded to slap him.
"No good. I doubt he'll wake up from this degree of casted magic." Hes still ways to go about learning this new world, but if theres one thing hes certain, the best way to stop this is by finding the caster.
Sometimes he can see magic signatures like the flow of chakra with his eyes, but sometimes unable to. Like when they went in the underworld kingdom. Unlike chakra from the shinobi world, supernatural energies here have many different forms, often times in undistinguishable variations.
This is one of the many occasions he cannot detect the life-force of the enemy via sharingan.
A Hyuuga would be most convenient at this time of need…
He took a deep breath. From here, it doesn't look like the situation is dire, but he knows better. He looked at his sleeping housemates. The dispelling he tried earlier in the dream-world worked on only him. From his previous life, he learned in a very hard way, and realized now, that one can never truly succeed by shouldering everything alone. That's why one needs friends that can be relied on.
Speaking of friends…
"Flandre, can you do a scan of the area? Somehow, my barrier jutsu doesn't alert me. The perpetrator must have bypassed it or is a long-range caster."
After this he swore to study more.
And scanned she did. Her eyes glowed and expanded like a camera's lenses adjusting to a dimly lighted room, like zooming for a far away view.
"Fuga, fuga… fuga?"
"… You know I cant understand you, right…?"
She pointed at a direction, somewhere in the back of the mansion. "You found it?"
Another nod.
Speaking of androids and their singular language.
"Lead the way then. But call princess Sherwood first. Ill secure the house."
...
After making a telephone call, they both found the enemy's exact position. Once again, it is an unfamiliar creature to him. A worm like being with scaly, exo-skeleton like that of a lobster with two tentacles with pincers of a crab. It was still and unmoving, a posture in what he can only assume to be concentrating. He remembered reading something about this creature before, but nothing on how to counter it.
"A hasty ninja without a back-up plan is a dead ninja.
And also, one who compromises his allies is a dead and a worse, shameful ninja."
Speaking of allies, a shadow-clone alerted him that the young princess has just exited her own mansion. He secured a basic steel-wire fence to trap the enemy in case it escapes. It doesn't seem to notice its surroundings for the moment. Then he met Sherwood halfway on the road to escort her and make sure she gets to the mansion safe. She is their only hope as of now…
...
"Called in the middle of the night for an emergency, onee-sama's house sure is lively."
"Thank you for coming post-haste, princess Sherwood. I have secured the enemy. It cannot escape, I assure you… I hate to admit it, but, I have no sufficient knowledge to free everyone from this kind of magic…"
"Is that so… as expected of you. Always straight to the point,- wait, everyone?, Onee-sama?"
"Fuga."
"Hiro?"
"Fuga."
"I see… don't worry. I know of a way to release everyone."
He watched as she conversed with the robots and made blood drip from her toe to Hiro's lips.
This is the first shes seen another royalty give blood to someone else. So resurrecting someone has varying processes… theres still so much I have to know…
A minute later, they heard Hime's voice echo in the house, calling Sherwood and Flandre. He sighed with relief, through the nose. Because Uchihas don't sigh loudly.™
"Better go and lead onee-sama to it."
Just when he turned to go, with an eyebrow raised, she quickly asked, "by the way, Itachi. How come only you got out of the dream-world? … youre not an android, and you certainly said you yourself didn't have enough knowledge for this kind of magic…?"
Hm… as expected of a princess. Even she could pull-off the look that Hime gives when shes about to checkmate me on a game of chess.
Fortunately, he didn't have to answer her when Hime arrived at the basement steps and called his attention. With his back to her, he decided to indulge the child.
"I aim to serve well, Hime-sama."
...
Hiro stirred, bringing Sherwood's full attention to the boy shes currently sitting on. Then she started wobbling, and slumped sleepily beside Hiro. She dozed off, most likely being affected by the sleep-magic.
"Lets go Itachi!" commanded his master. Hiro's the one who was given blood, so why is he still asleep and Hime's the one awake?
The captured monster is still in place. Thanks to the multiple steel wire trappings, it wasn't able to escape.
Then he was disappointed to learn that one just have to kill it with any blunt weapon, as the princess is about to do now, and the magic it casted disappears with its death.
Oh well… it doesn't hurt to be extra careful.
"You served me well by not letting it escape, Itachi." she said while aiming an axe above its head.
"Oh. You heard that?"
It awoke when the creature heard voices around him. Revealing three eyes and a fly's mouth. "Ho-how did you-"
The monster wasn't able to finish its last words when Hime instantly ended its life, with a depreciating statement of "how unfortunate" for it to hear before it dies.
It was looking at him when the creature asked its question.
When the axe fell, she stared at him with the same question in her mind.
That night, they had a 'bonfire' somewhere in the back of the house. As always, Riza took the initiative to tell him the story of what happened to them in the dream-world. Then a conclusion from the princesses of how they were able to wake from it.
The paperbag-man was the clue. Only she and Hiro has encountered him at the ghost town of akasabi village in the past. Then she went to her bedroom, because she knows Hiro has never been there, only to find a vast space of darkness. If a thing hasn't been seen, it wouldn't appear in the dream. This specified that the dream-world used on them could only be Hiro's.
Sharing the same relief that everyone turned out to be okay, it cant be helped that the second youngest of their group will naively ask what everyone wanted to ask.
"I know right, Hiro~? You have a lot of secrets you've been keeping from us, Itachi-san~~~"
"… as I have told princess Sherwood, I aim to serve well. Of course id do some research…"
"We all have secrets of our own. Youre too nosy, vampire!"
Thank you Riza…. He made a mental note to treat her in an all-you-can-eat buffet someday.
"His full identity is a mystery to me! Where exactly did you say you found him again, onee-sama?"
"I don't know. Somewhere in the kingdom's realm. You ask Hiro."
At this, the youngest harrumphed and looked away, still angry for the unreturned affection from her crush. When she gave Hiro her blood, saving him from completely loosing his life forever, it was Lillianne he thought of when he tasted blood.
As of how they escaped, it was by mere chance.
"He strongly imagined me when he tasted Sherwood's blood, which caused me to be inserted within his dream. But I was already in the dream, so to prevent a contradiction, his brain subconsciously excluded me from it. In other words, I awoke.
Even if Hiro received someone else's blood, it is me he thought of. This is proof that I am master of his body and soul." she added proudly.
At her elder sister's exclamation, the younger princess made the cutest pout ever. Tantrums of 'demanding someone's blood back' echoed throughout the mansion.
The boy and the ladies all retired for the night to rest. Hime's face just says "this discussion isn't over yet" before she left. So did Reiri's before she drifted away in the dusk. He just put on his Uchiha casual face™ and stayed behind to ensure the creature is completely reduced to ashes.
The last of the burning embers died down from their bonfire when the sun rose from the horizon.
All the while he just stared at the fire, then on the ashes floating on the morning breeze, too deep in his own thoughts to notice a three legged crow watching him from afar.
A/N: Aiyeeh~~~ that was chapter 10 omgeehh!
reading Princess Resurrection manga translated by Halibut-scans is fun. They include Editor's notes that are really funny~~~
Too bad though they only scanned up to Ch. 28 of the manga and the rest was done by other scanlators…. I get most of my humour from Halibut-scan's funny editors notes…..
And now that theres no more,,, so yeah….. gotta do it on my own now…
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Emillien. I try to make it light...cuz i know you thrive in darkness xD
But this is princess resurrection for effs sake… its genre is gore/supernatural and its shonen.
And Itachi's life is anything but light…
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But this is also Fanfiction, soooo….yeah~~
I know y'all appreciate my concern. :3
*cough*Gin-chan*cough*
Concerned Trickster out~