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Arc 4 - Chapter 3: Well, That Was Easy
(Unknown Forest: On top of the Priestess Stealer)
"And what will you offer for my help?" I ask Kikyo, curious about what she could give me.
"Yume, does she really have to give you anything just for your help?" Aqua frown, that her lover would continue to ask for others of something in exchange for helping. "Is the world going to be destroyed from all the chaos you mention about us helping the people in this world? I'm sure, that helping others isn't something worth dooming the world over." Aqua knew all her influence in the previous worlds she has been when she still had her own [Keyblade] and knew all the help she did bring smiles on many people's faces. Some even gave her gifts to show how grateful they are for her help. Therefore, with all the chaos her lover mentions, there must be some sort of limit of how much chaos would happen if they help as long they don't do anything too extreme in this world.
"Hm. Give me a moment to check." I said to Aqua, as I create a single Tarot Card, then activate the [Dao of Chaos: Paradox Manipulation & Chaos Inducement] together with [Cartomancy], causing the Tarot Card to slowly form a picture of the Nine of Swords and the word: Releasing worry. Then, throw it into the sky where it made a ripple in space before disappearing from everyone's eyes.
I waited for a few seconds, then got the result I wanted when the world's will no longer trying to figure out how in the world Kikyo regained back her original body nor does the world's will trying to influencing everything related to both Kikyo and Kagome.
"Okay, we can do whatever we want as long we don't bring ruin to the world." I said to Aqua, who slowly blinks her eyes at me. Trying to comprehend what I just said before she glare at me.
"What was that and what do you mean by we can do whatever we want now?" Aqua asks her lover, where out of nowhere, he just made a card then throws it into the sky, which weirdly disappears before her eyes and now her lover just said they can do whatever as long they don't bring ruin to the world.
"That's exactly what I meant. I just made it so, whatever we do will no longer cause any chaos to this world unless we bring ruin to the world." I calmly said to Aqua. "And before you start accusing me of not doing the same for the previous world. I literally just came up with this idea." I made sure to say this fast before Aqua begins saying many things that may or may not irritate me, which would lead to causing me to regret getting into a relationship with Aqua. After how I vowed to myself to accept all Aqua's flaws.
Something I realized a hidden downside to having a [Dao Heart] and finally realizing why all those powerful beings in the wuxia/xianxia novels always kept their words no matter what. Not due to keeping up their face, but due to their [Dao Heart] will be affected by [Inner Demons] if they can't keep their oaths.
"Oh." Aqua's frustration and guilt just died right there and then. "Wait, how come you came up this idea now instead of people when I asked you before?" Aqua is curious about what triggers her lover now to come up with this idea now than before.
"Eh, I just remember I have the ability to change the world's fate." I pause for a moment, to debate if I should reveal the actual reason to Aqua about how I remember that with the [Dao of Chaos] can do more than just cause chaos into the world, but also push the chaos in a different direction as well. Along with the fact, that finishing the [Liquid Destiny Stage] reminds me that I have the level 3 [Cartomancy].
I glance at both Kikyo and Kagome, both are waiting to see if I'll really destroy Naraku or not. Then, pull Aqua closer to me, causing her to blush at being so close and begin whispering about the actual reason for how the idea pops into mind. Also, along with a brief summary of my cultivation and [Dao of Chaos] among the other [Dao] I've gained insights into. Even pointing out, that as a cultivator, I'm going against fate itself at the beginning and have recently reached the point, where I can no longer be bound by fate any longer and I'm still not too used to the whole idea of controlling fate itself.
"Oh..." Aqua look at her lover in a new light and find herself questioning how come none of the books and lessons during her [Keyblade] training didn't mention cultivation and [Dao]. So many new thoughts popping into her head, that she wanted to take her lover to somewhere private and have a long talk about all this.
"Plus, between you and me. Unless you're the whole chosen one in the world's eyes. No matter how much effort you do, it won't compare to the chosen one." I whisper to Aqua, who raises an eyebrow at me.
"What do you mean by that?" Aqua asks back in a whisper tone.
"Excuse, are you going to accept my request or not, [Dream Master Sage]." Kikyo spoke up, with a hint of annoyance in her voice. But, she makes sure to speak up Yume's profession as a sign of respect.
"We'll speak about this later when we're somewhere private." I whisper to Aqua, who nods her head at me, that she understands this is a private conversation and no one out of their relationship should know what we're talking about. "Well, if Aqua here accepts your request, then I'll do it. As for the price for gaining my help, you can talk to Aqua about it." I grin at Aqua, who seems to be fine about this arrangement.
"Do you mind explaining to me, who this Naraku is and why you want to destroy him?" Aqua has a feeling this Naraku person must be a yokai of some sort.
I walk over to Kagome, leaving behind Aqua to speak with Kikyo as this is something I rather not get into for the time being.
"So, out of curiosity on my part. How come you're seeking out the [Shikon Jewel Shards]?" I ask Kagome while debating on reading her mind or not, then decide not to. As it would take the fun out of speaking with people if I just read their minds all the time. Plus, I may end up getting too focused on reading minds that I won't pay attention to what others say to me with their mouths during the conversations.
"Well, before meeting you and Aqua over there." Kagome begin about how she accidentally shatters the jewel into hundreds if not thousands of shards, which scatter themselves across Japan. Kagome's group is attempting to collect the shards and stop Naraku from getting the jewel for himself.
I nod my head, guessing this should be the case like in canon. "Now, that the [Shikon Jewel] can never be whole again. What are you planning to do now?" I ask this of Kagome due to the fact, that the whole purpose of this journey to gather the shards of the [Shikon no Tama] before Naraku could and reform the [Shikon no Tama] back to the whole for personal usage, but now that's impossible as the [Shikon Jewel] will never be able to become whole from this point.
"Continue to gather the [Shikon Jewel Shards]. After all, even as shards, yokai and humans can still use them for evil purposes." Kagome knew how powerful yokai could get with just a shard or two of the [Shikon Jewel] from her previous battles with those yokai.
"Glad to hear that." I find myself baffled, that neither Kagome or Kikyo asked about Aqua and me, not being from this world. 'Then again, with the whole having fragmented soul going on with them and Kikyo's previous body dying on her. I guess these are more important to them than learning about people from outside this world.' I wonder if it will be brought back later in future topics.
"Hey, Yume." Aqua walks over to her lover, "We're going to travel with Kikyo over there, as she leads us to Naraku." Aqua glance over to Kagome. "Are you going to come with us?" Aqua won't mind having another person to travel with.
Kagome shook her head, "Sorry, I can't since I have friends waiting for me nearby."
"Why not bring them along as well?" Aqua asks Kagome, who begins to worry.
"Uh, I don't think that's a good idea." Kagome glances over to Kikyo, where she is just standing nearby and waiting for her two new companions.
Aqua looks over to Kikyo, then back at Kagome with a confused look on her face. "What's the problem?"
"Let me help ya out. Aqua, let me explain something to you." I give Kagome a pitiful look before dragging Aqua to the side to speak with her privately, again. As I begin to whisper why it's a bad idea to bring along Kagome's group with us. The main problem is Inuyasha, the former lover of Kikyo or in this case from the way Kagome acting. He may still think to himself, that he is still Kikyo's lover and could lead to many drama problems once Kikyo and Inuyasha are in the same area.
"Isn't it better for them to work this out now than later on, where who knows when they'll meet up with each other?" Aqua didn't see the big problems with the two reuniting together.
"It's Kagome, who is still at the stage of developing love interest with Inuyasha, with the latter developing the same feeling for Kagome as well." I whisper to Aqua, who blinks a couple of times.
"Oh." Aqua did not expect this. "Wait, are they not the same person? Kikyo and Kagome I mean. Does that mean Inuyasha is just loving the same person just with a different body and pretty much everything else other than they formerly had the same soul?"
"Eh, kind of. Between you and me. I seriously have no idea how in the world they the same person. Both have absolutely no appearance similar to each other than maybe the same color hair and eyes. Even then, there are countless people with the same color hair and eyes, but the two have nothing similar to each other for anyone to notices any similarities between the two. If someone were to tell them, that one is the other reincarnation." I explain to Aqua in a whisper tone, ignoring the way Kikyo trying to glare a hole into the back of my head for keeping her waiting.
Kagome on the side, just feel awkward and wonder when she could leave.
"I guess, but wouldn't there be trouble to happen anyway in the future? Why not just let it happen now than later, where we may be in something very important that can't have any distraction." Aqua knew that in the past, where she left things alone and end up coming back at her badly. "Furthermore, if these two meet up during the most critical moment will lead to big mistakes that impossible to solve afterward." Aqua tries her best to persuade her lover to let this happen now.
"Alright, but I'll warn you now. There will be lots of shouting and maybe a fight bound to happen." I said to Aqua, who smile at getting it her way and hug me for a few seconds before letting go once realizing there still Kikyo and Kagome nearby.
I look over to both Kikyo and Kagome, with the former. I can just feel her frustration without having to use any [Spiritual Spells] to detect it. While the latter just feels really out of her comfort zone.
"Okay, we've decided to just meet up with your group, Kagome, and bring everyone to fight Naraku; well, more like as backup to prevent others from stopping me from fighting Naraku." I mumble near the end, because I still find it better to just have Kikyo lead us straight to Naraku and kill the yokai, then be done with that. Afterward, I can resume cultivating and finish with the [Soul Fire Stage] and maybe the other two stages as well.
"Are you sure?" Kagome asks with a hint of concern and wariness with the way Kikyo is glaring at her now as if she the one wanted this happen herself.
"Yup, the more the merrier." Aqua gives Kagome a smile, but in Kagome's eyes.
Kagome feels like Aqua is mocking her or just outright trying to bring more problems into her life. "Well, alright. Follow me." Kagome knew she have no power to persuade the others from this and may as well get this over with.
So, Kagome begins to lead everyone to where her group should while ignoring the way Kikyo trying to glare a hole into the back of her head. Making Kagome crying from the inside.
I look at Aqua, who seems to not notice the problems she caused nor does she seem that nothing big will happen. I have an idea why [Keyblade] allows one to freely crossover to other worlds without any rejection on their part, but seeing how Aqua doesn't have the full power of a real [Keyblade]. She about to see what her action would lead to instead of everything going right in her end. Even if she experiences some setbacks before meeting me. 'Maybe there something wrong with Aqua, that I didn't notice while she trying to help others?' A thought that appear on the mind, but I decided to put it behind my head for the time being.
20 minutes later*
(Unknown Village: Hill)
It took some time, but Kagome manages to lead everyone out of the forest and back to the hill, where there is a human village behind it.
On the hill is Kagome's group, where they are shocked to see Kikyo, Aqua, and me.
"Hey, guys." Kagome said weakly, but before she could explain herself on why she has three additions tagging along after her walk to calm down her anger of Inuyasha.
"KIKYO!" Inuyasha's shout came from behind, causing everyone to turn in the direction from where Inuyasha is running at them, or more like in Kikyo's direction.
Sadly, before Inuyasha could pull Kikyo into a hug. He got his head bash by Aqua herself via [Keyblade] to the head and it looks like Aqua put a bit too much strength into that strike, knocking Inuyasha out cold.
Aqua brings up her [Keyblade] up in the air, ready to strike down Inuyasha once more to finish the job.
"Woah, now." I grab Aqua's right wrist before she could finish the job.
"Why are you stopping me? Isn't this a yokai that needs to be destroyed? I mean he was about to attack Kikyo." Aqua looks at me with a confused look as she points with her left index finger at Inuyasha's extra pair of ears on his head.
"That's Inuyasha." I said dryly, causing Aqua to look at the knocked out Inuyasha on the ground, then back at me and back at Inuyasha. Repeating this action a couple of times before her face turns red in embarrassment for quickly taking action before checking things thoroughly.
"Oh." Aqua lower her [Keyblade], trying her best not to look in the direction of the others behind her.
I glance back, where everyone is shocked at how easily Inuyasha was taken down by Aqua. 'Look like Aqua's fighting level is a lot higher than I thought.' I find this a bit amusing, but not too expected.
"Well... Uh, we'll be over there." I point a bit down from the hill, "I'll leave you to explain what's going on." I said to Kagome, then drag Aqua down the hill, ignoring Inuyasha on the ground.
Under the [Spiritual Sense]; I sense Kikyo following right behind Aqua and me. I'd already expected this from her and didn't ask why she follows us.
Once we a bit further away, I give Aqua a thumb up, "Nice job with that first hit. I like the whole hit first, ask questions later method of yours." I was not disappointed, that Aqua pout while glaring at me.
"Why didn't you tell me, that was Inuyasha? I thought he was some yokai aiming for Kikyo's life." Aqua tries not to shout, risking the others on the hill to overhear her.
"You attacked right away before I could say anything." I didn't bother to say, that I could have easily stopped her from attacking at the beginning since she was still within my ten steps range, but I allowed it to happen just for the hell of it.
"Ugh, I feel awful for hurting an innocent person." Aqua sighed in frustration, then glance over her shoulder, where Kikyo is standing nearby. "You're not mad at me, are you?" Aqua asks Kikyo in a guilty voice.
"Why would I?" Kikyo asks in return, with an eyebrow raise. "I mean, you technically did save me the trouble of stopping him from hugging me and the result of having maybe a few broken ribs due to him putting a bit too much strength into his hug, where he thinks I still have my clay body instead of my original body back." Kikyo explains calmly. Not seeing anything wrong about having her former lover knocked out cold so easily. Though, Kikyo wishes she can do the same personally from all the trouble he put her through after thinking about her past with Inuyasha during the walk.
"I see." Aqua feels a bit of relief, that she wasn't being blamed at, but at the same time. Aqua felt like that there more to Kikyo's words than what she says.
"So, any idea how long until Kagome explains everything to her group?" I ask both Aqua and Kikyo. "I mean, we do have all the time we need, but I feel really do want to be done with killing this Naraku." I knew that even Aqua is enough to finish off Naraku if she uses her [Keyblade] and [Magic]. But, it will take a while for Aqua to do so.
"I have no idea, but I hope it won't take too long." Aqua wanted to remove this Naraku as soon as possible before he causes more harm to everyone around him.
"I say we just leave now while we have the chance." Kikyo really didn't want to waste any time and allow Naraku to run wild, causing untold deaths throughout the entire lands.
"Do you really find being with Kagome's group that bad?" Aqua asks Kikyo, rethinking about maybe inviting Kagome and her group may not be a good idea, but Aqua truly thinks that if one has problems. All we need it to sit down speak with each other.
"I don't find it bad, just they're annoying." Kikyo wasn't going to outright speak her true feeling about this whole thing. "I rather we hurry up and deal with Naraku, afterward. We'll see how things go. Once Naraku is finished, then we have plenty of time to talk." Kikyo didn't care if she has her previous duty to seek out to gather remaining [Shikon Jewel Shards] since it's no longer her role; furthermore, the moment she took the role of being the Guardian of the [Shikon no Tama] has brought her more misery than she realize until it was too late. Also, that nagging feeling of her to protect and safeguard the jewel is no longer there after regaining back her original body.
"Hmm." Aqua wonder if she was being too quick to get this whole relationship problem to be fixed now instead of focusing on the actual problem. Just like Kikyo said, it's better to finish an important task than anything else. "Okay, Yume-" Aqua look over to her lover, to say something, but the words got stuck in her throat from the sight before her eyes.
"You need something?" I ask Aqua, as I continue to repeatedly stab Naraku in the back, then head, then heart, and then pretty much anywhere I haven't stabbed for the fifth time.
"Who is that?" Aqua point at the bloody corpse on the ground, where this dead person wasn't here in the first place. "Wait, why are you killing a random person?!" Aqua dread at the thought of having a murderous lover, who would go out to kill anyone he sees!
"NARAKU!" Kikyo answered Aqua's first question without realizing it as Kikyo's attention is more on the one that caused her so much misery after she helped him out in the past out of the goodness of her heart.
"Wait, what?!" Aqua looked at Kikyo in shock, then watch Kikyo rushing over to her lover and begin stomping on the dead Naraku, who has the face of absolute shock on his face before he died.
"Yeah, I kind of got bored and decide to just bring the guy over here and kill him. Plus, you seem to want Kikyo to work on her problem with Inuyasha and Kagome, and whatnot. So, I save us the trouble of having to deal with looking for Naraku now and not to worry about them taking so much time to fix their relationship problem." I said to Aqua, who is still shocked that I manage to deal with Naraku so easily. 'I should have done this back at that cave yokai. Man, [Demon Sealing Hexes] are so broken.' I didn't expect that I was able to bring Naraku to my current location so easily with the use of the [Inside-Outside Hex] and killing the guy with [Life-Death Hex], making sure anything related to Naraku would perish to prevent him from reviving back to life somehow. All that experience of the journey to find Naraku for an epic fight or whatever. It ended so shortly on my first day in the world of Inuyasha.
"I... I think I need to sit down for a moment." Aqua said softly, as she is given a shock that just caused her to rethink about life itself. All her training and work, to become a [Keyblade Master] to defeat the force of evil. Everything she has done in the past, for her to become someone that helps others. Yet, she knew this wasn't enough, it's never enough. But, to see her so-called lover being able to take down someone that took much effort to deal with by others. He did it so easily, that it looks like a simple task for him to do. Aqua starting to realize, that her biggest task in life at this point.
"Okay, I'll leave you... do whatever." I said to Kikyo, who continues to release all her frustration by directly stomping on the corpse known as Naraku, 'Wow, this is a display from Kikyo I would never expect to see with my own eyes. I guess Kikyo is just like everyone else. She has own breaking point, it just takes her twice the lifetimes to reach it.'
As I move away from Kikyo, I noticed the way Aqua is looking at me. But, I got this weird feeling that I'm about to experience the trials of all men need to go while being in a relationship with their women.
"Uh, is there something wrong, Aqua?" I ask Aqua, while at the same time. I feel like I can easily overcome these trials related to Aqua, then I just guess it's related to my Will stat and [Dao Heart] that made me have the confidence to overcome these trials.
"Please honest with me, is there a way for me to cultivate as well?" Aqua knew her position in this relationship seems alright, but even Aqua knows that deep down, that if her lover wanted to have his way with her. She would be powerless to do anything about it. Therefore, if she truly wants to help her lover and stop him from falling into the path of darkness. Then, she shall take this important role in guiding her lover back to the light if it means she needs to gain more power to stand as an equal to her lover.
"I think it's possible for you to cultivate." I raise an eyebrow at Aqua's eager to cultivate, but I don't know why and the urge to use [Mind-Reading] to find out why starting to get to me if I didn't have high Will stat and [Dao Heart] to keep me from being so easily distracted towards certain things.
"Good, I want you to teach me later." Aqua mentally sighed in relief, that she can cultivate as well. But of course, she will have to get her lover to explain more about cultivating and [Dao]. Better to know more than discovering it herself, where she may end up in a situation that may lead to her death.
"I curse you to the deepest of Hell, Naraku!" Kikyo's screams in the background are filled with absolute rage, which made me wonder how come Kagome's group hasn't come down from the hill to check what's going on.
