Chapter 17: Sweet Victory

A/N: Same trigger warnings as in the last chapter. Rape, violence, gore. No actual sex, however.

Natsuki slowly opened her eyes. She found herself in a bed. One with an actual bedsheet and comforter this time, not like what her dad used to give her.

'I'm alive?!' she thought suddenly, recollecting everything she had gone through a moment ago.

She shot out of bed, suddenly getting a bearing of her surroundings. She realized that the room she was in was completely new. Yet, at the same time, it reminded her of her old room with her Papa, just livelier.

The walls were painted a neat white and were lined with random manga and anime posters. Natsuki stood up to admire every single one in her new room. She hadn't even recognized half of them. However, claiming the whole side of the wall above her bed was what she thought one of the best posters there. A large poster of the girls of Parfait Girls, all making their signature poses with their traditional messy kitchen behind them.

Just as Natsuki noticed it, she saw something else in her peripherals. Ignoring the wonderful poster for a moment, she walked to the thing that caught her eye.

It was a shelf chock-full of manga that she had never even heard of. The upper shelves were left unused, probably because Natsuki couldn't reach them. However, the center held her most favorite series of all time: Parfait Girls.

Bringing out the box, she realized that the slight wear on the box and the almost unnoticeable scuff marks were all familiar. This was the same exact box that she had kept in the clubroom. Pulling out the first volume and flipping through it, she noticed that the crease that was made earlier was now missing, making her sigh in relief.

'Wait, back up a moment,' Natsuki quickly thought, setting the box back and looking back at the room. 'Where the hell am I?'

Looking back at her room's clock, a privilege that she had never had before, she noticed that the time was 5:53 in the evening. Peeking out through her closed blinds, she noticed that the sun was about to set eventually, so the time she saw wasn't wrong.

Suddenly, Natsuki yelped as her front door clicked open, making her turn to see who was there quick.

"Natsuki?" a woman poked her head in. "Are you up? Your door wasn't locked."

Natsuki raised her eyebrows as she saw the woman. Her facial structure seemed a lot like Natsuki's, including her lips and nose. However, she had strawberry blonde hair with flecks of gray tied behind her head in a neat bun and had hazel eyes. Natsuki could also make out the faint dark circles under her eyes.

She hadn't recognized the woman for a moment, until she remembered her childhood and widened her eyes as it all came flooding back.

"Mom!" she yelled as she ran up and wrapped her arms around her.

"Ah!" Mitsuki recoiled a little at her daughter suddenly hugging her. "Wow, Natsuki, you just saw me as you returned from school. What's going on?"

"It's just…" Natsuki let her tears run into her mother's shirt as she hugged her tighter. "I'm just glad you're here. I don't know how, but I am so glad."

"Baby, what do you mean by you don't know how I'm here?" Mitsuki asked, pulling her away from her with some struggle.

Natsuki shook off the tears from her eyes. "N-Nothing. I-I need to talk to someone."

Mitsuki widened her eyes as her daughter zipped away from her and shut herself in her room. She hadn't heard the click of her lock.

Gently, she opened the door to peer in again. She saw her daughter on her phone, frantically typing out something. Texting someone, she presumed.

"Natsuki, is something wrong?" she asked, making her daughter turn her attention to her. "Was it the club today? Wasn't someone new joining? Didn't they like your cupcakes?"

"Someone new?" Natsuki asked, then faltered back into a chuckle as she shook her head and collapsed back-first onto her bed, limbs sprawling. "Oh god, you're talking about MC. Has it really been that long?"

Looking back at her phone, she finally noticed the date and day.

"Today's Tuesday, huh? The day MC joined the club," Natsuki sighed as she sunk deeper into her bed. "God, it's been a long week. Superpowers, time travel, now Mama's alive of all things and… Papa…"

"Umm, Natsuki?" Mitsuki interrupted her thoughts. "What in the world are you talking about? Honestly, you're scaring me a little."

Now remembering what happened to her father, Natsuki hastily jumped out her bed and approached her mom.

"Hey, do we have any family photos?" she asked.

Mitsuki's expression, however, still showed her worry as she seemed to recoil a little from the incoming form of her daughter. "Why… do you ask?" she asked in turn.

"Please, just remind me," Natsuki emphasized, letting her eyes betray her urgency.

Mitsuki held her mouth agape in confusion, but then gulped as she beckoned her forward.

Taking her downstairs, she eventually reached their communal living room. Right next to their couch was a table, that held a photo frame.

"I thought you already knew where it was," Mitsuki said, pointing to the frame.

Natsuki slowly walked to the photo and picked it up. It was a photo of a younger version of her in the arms of her mother, while they were in the neighboring park.

"Umm, Mama," Natsuki's turned to her, showing her the photo. "Where's Papa?"

"N-Natsuki, who are you talking about?" Mitsuki gasped as she finally reached her. "W-Why are you asking about your dad now? I-I thought I told you that he left us?"

"Mom," Natsuki gulped, looking back at the photo again. "Was my dad's name Naoko Honda?"

"Naoko?" Mitsuki blinked in surprise. "I mean, I will ask you about how you know the Honda name, but who's Naoko?"

Natsuki paled as she arrived at her conclusion. "That means… he's… deleted…"

"Natsuki, can you please explain what's going on?"

"… Later," Natsuki said with a soft sigh to steel herself as she placed the photo back down. "Mama, please don't worry. H-Honestly, I don't know if I can tell you about it. But I promise I'll try my best. Before that, I need you to tell me everything about my dad and the Honda family."

Mitsuki widened her eyes. "A-Are you sure? After all, I wanted to discuss this with you only when you were ol-"

"I need to know it now, Mom," Natsuki interrupted. "I need to know my past. How things have changed."

"Changed?"

"L-Later, please."

"R-Right," Mitsuki said as she sighed, steeling herself. "Umm, i-it was as I said earlier. Your father ran away on us."

"What was his name?" Natsuki asked.

"Now, I don't think that's-"

"Please, Mama," Natsuki begged. "I need to know this."

With a soft sigh, Mitsuki continued. "Noboru Honda."

"Wait, WHAT?!"

Mitsuki widened her eyes at her daughter's reaction. "Wait, Natsuki, how do you recognize-"

"You're telling me the guy who… Ugh, crap, I can't tell you yet," Natsuki shook her head. "Don't worry, we never met or anything. I know his name from… something else."

Natsuki suddenly remembered something else. "Wait, what about Auntie Nikki?!"

"Auntie… Nikki?" Mitsuki asked, eyes betraying her alarm. "Why… W-Why do you know that name?"

"Please, Mom, stop asking questions and trust me," Natsuki asked. "What happened to her?"

"I…" Mitsuki sighed and looked away from her. "I-If you need to know the whole truth, then I have no choice but to tell you. But… it's a long story… and a hard one. Are you sure you want to hear this?"

Natsuki quickly sat down, signaling her mom to make herself comfortable as well.

Mitsuki took a breath and sat down as well before she could begin. "I'm… sorry I lied to you, but your dad hadn't run away from us. I ran away from him with you."

"Huh?" Natsuki asked back.

"Your dad…" Mitsuki continued. "He's the head of a Biker Gang. Your Auntie Nikki, she's his brother. Back then, as a teenager, I was reckless and stupid. That's why I ended up making that man my boyfriend. He… wasn't a good one. He cared more about sex and the mere prospect of having a girlfriend more than actual love. There were times that he's hit me, too, but me being the immature girl I was, I always thought that it was his way of caring for me. It took me getting pregnant to realize that I should have left him much sooner."

"I talked to your Auntie Nikki about it, and she supported me entirely. She was willing to go against her own family just so she could protect me. She warned me against mentioning it to Noboru, but me being the idiot that I was, I didn't listen and tried to break up with Noboru the traditional way."

"Obviously, he didn't like it. Enough to send his men after me to imprison me. I managed to run away before they could catch up, but they were quickly gaining up on me. I was about to get caught, until Nikki came in."

Natsuki was on the edge of her seat now, listening in rapt attention.

"Nikki, she was a contradiction in more ways than one. She may have been the youngest female among them, but she was their best fighter, even amongst their men. As dedicated as she was to her family's clan, she cared more about doing the right thing than anything else. And that's why she chose to betray her family, just to help me go free."

"But her skill didn't matter, not when the entire clan attacked her at the same time. She sacrificed her life, all so that I could make it out of the gang's reach in time. And that's why she was one of the most important people in my world, other than you, Natsuki."

Gently placing a hand on her daughter's shoulder, she spoke to her. "Natsuki, it was because of you that I got the courage to leave him. As far as I am concerned, you saved me from him. This is the reason why I couldn't travel with you anywhere, because I know that they're still looking for me. Noboru is… bullheaded, like that. It's also why I ask you to keep a bag ready with spare clothes and essentials just in case we would need to run away from them."

"W-Wow," Natsuki let out a breath. "That was…"

"Intense? Yeah, I know. I've made a lot of mistakes, and I'm doing everything I can to make sure they don't come back to you."

Natsuki shook her head. "Mama, I… I didn't expect all that to have happened."

Mitsuki faltered at her comment, but quickly recovered. "Now, Natsuki, I could talk to you about this the whole day, but can you please tell me why you're acting like this?"

Natsuki sighed as she looked ahead, twiddling her thumbs. "I… I honestly don't know if I can tell you everything, because most of these secrets aren't mine. But the main thing I want to tell you is this."

"Not even I can believe that half of this happened in the first place," Natsuki confessed. "I want to believe that it was all a bad dream. And I would have, if it weren't for me being unable to remember you raising me as my mom. All I remember is Papa, who abused me my whole life."

"Wait, Papa? Abused? You don't remember?" Mitsuki asked, eyes widening in fear at what Natsuki would say. "What in the world are you talking about?"

"I don't know all the details for this either. A lot of what I'm saying now is just guessing from what you've told me, but there was another brother in the Honda family," Natsuki continued, earning Mitsuki's interest. "Naoko Honda. I think you fell in love with him while you were in a relationship with Noboru. I don't know how, but with him, you managed to make it out with Nikki. You three raised me for a while, until Noboru found us. He found only you and Nikki, so he killed you both. I was hiding nearby, and I was the first to find your body."

"Natsuki," Mitsuki shook her head, concerned. "None of this happened. Is this some kind of extreme plot from your manga? Where are you getting all of this from?"

However, before Natsuki could continue, Mitsuki heard a notification from the phone in her pocket. Bringing it out to look at it, she paled.

"Natsuki," she gulped as she frantically typed on her phone. "It's Noboru. He's here."

Natsuki widened her eyes as she stood up. "Wait, what?! Seriously, what the hell is up with his timing?!"

Suddenly, Natsuki yelped as the metal shutters on the windows and the door boomed closed. Mitsuki quickly grabbed Natsuki's arm, dragging her to the stairs. "We need to get our stuff, now! We're leaving!"

However, before she could even get on the steps, they froze as they heard a loud pound. Turning back, they saw that the barricade on the front door was dented inwards.

"But… But how?" Mitsuki asked to no one. "I designed that to take 10 men's strength!"

Suddenly, with another loud bang, the barricade tore from the inside with a rip. Several people on the opposite end folded the metal back like it was paper. Natsuki noticed that they were all wearing the same leather jacket, with the same insignia on their backs. Two swords forming an X, with snakeskin running between them it to form a squiggly circle. They were also incredibly hairy and muscly, seeming more like beasts than humans.

Natsuki paled as she watched them break through their defenses, until she remembered one thing.

'The others!' she realized. 'I can use their powers here!'

Acting quickly, she sent Sayori her location and asked her for help. Trusting her to tell MC and that other guy, JoJo, she sent the same message to Yuri as well. However, when Sayori asked her if it was Noboru without her having mentioned him before, she was taken aback. She quickly replied in affirmative, then stashed her phone away.

"I've called backup," Natsuki announced, making Mitsuki look at her.

"Who the hell can-"

"Trust me, please. They can help. They even seem to know something about what's going on here."

Mitsuki sighed as she looked at the men walking into their house. She had just noticed how they looked, with their incredibly long body hair and raging muscles.

"Normally I'd ask you to keep this between us and them, but we might actually need the backup," she said. "These guys, something's wrong with them."

Natsuki didn't reply, as the sea of beast men parted to reveal Noboru Honda, his pink beard now grown out and his mane the same as it was before. He smiled as he saw the two girls.

"Mixie, it's good to see you again. And who is this girl? Don't tell me you adopted some street runt."

Natsuki grit her teeth as she took a step forward. However, she was stopped by a hand put in her way.

"Natsuki," Mitsuki looked down at her. "Run. I'll hold them off for now."

"Not happening," Noboru said as the beastly men in front of him dashed forward, faster than any other man, and quickly restrained the two. They dragged the two apart from each other.

"This is your kid, huh, Mixie?" Noboru said as he walked up to Natsuki. "I wanna see if she can pull her own weight, like you could back in our day."

Gesturing to his men, they quickly let go of the girl, leaving her to readjust her tee. Leering at Noboru, she growled.

"What the hell did you do to these people?!" she demanded.

Noboru chuckled. "If you should know, they're all my people. I just made them better with my Stand."

"Stand?" Natsuki asked, feeling chills at the familiarity of the term.

"Nothing I expect you to understand, or even see," Noboru said as he put his hand out and curled his fingers inwards twice, beckoning her forward. "Forget that, let's see what you're made of."

Natsuki gritted her teeth as she charged at him, balling her fists to hit him.

Noboru smirked as he simply stepped aside Natsuki's incoming punch. However, he couldn't react in time for Natsuki's rightward fist sweep that she carried out right after her failed punch as her hand was outstretched.

"Oof!" he yelped as he stepped back a bit, then chuckled. "Hey, hey, I actually felt that! You've got spunk, kid!"

Natsuki quickly turned to dash at him, but her arms were quickly grabbed by Noboru's meaty hands. No matter how much she tried, she didn't have enough strength to pull herself out of his grasp.

"No meat on your bones, though," Noboru added, after which he quickly threw Natsuki away from him. "No skill either."

Natsuki cried out in pain as she collided with the sofa and roughly landed on the floor. Slowly standing back up, she looked back up at the man with tears in her eyes.

At that moment, Natsuki did want to fight back. She really did. However, now that she saw him, she could see how much he resembled her own father. They were brothers, after all.

Fighting back against someone that bore the face of her father made her falter like she always had. She couldn't fight back, because everything would be worse for her if she did. The butlers, no, the beast men, would come after her. Papa would be willing to rape her again.

And so, Natsuki collapsed onto her hands and knees, gasping through her uncontrollable tears.

"Seriously, is that all?" Noboru said, looking back at a thrashing Mitsuki. "Seriously, Mixie, you gotta raise your kid better."

Stepping up to her, he gently lifted her chin up to make her meet his gaze. "You know, I really do wonder why you're acting like this. You seem determined enough, so why are you not fighting back? I guess I'll find out. Raised by Wolves."

As Natsuki watched him, she saw it. A figure emerged from behind Noboru's body, a truly inhuman one. A ghost, if anything could be seen by the translucency of the body. It was earthen brown in color with splotches of red on its body, resembling bloodstains. However, most of the red was around its snout and jaws, housed by a beast-like face and narrow yellow eyes. It was entirely covered in brown fur with red flecks, and it had four claw-tipped fingers on its hands and feet.

Suddenly, the beast lunged forward to bite Natsuki. Instinctually, Natsuki jerked back out of the way before Raised by Wolves could bite her. However, with the Stand following her, Natsuki kept crawling back as quick as possible until the Stand couldn't follow her anymore. Natsuki noticed that the Stand stopped about 2 meters from the user's body, not that she knew the actual terms, however.

"What… What the fuck is that?!" Natsuki yelled out.

"Huh? This is interesting," Noboru grinned as he called his Stand. "You can see my Stand? I was wrong, then. You're one of the lucky ones. Or maybe… you're my daughter?"

Natsuki was still too unnerved to reply to him, although Mitsuki suddenly stopping her thrashing gave him his answer.

"Well, no matter. I'd rather not face any trouble from anyone, even you. So, I'll take care of you now. Men, I'll leave the kid to you."

Suddenly, the beast men standing by behind her lunged forward and quickly started to dig their teeth into her body and claw through her flesh. "AAAGGH!" Natsuki yelled out as she felt her flesh being ripped out of her. Mitsuki, from nearby, started to fight back against the men again, even wilder now that her daughter was being hurt.

"Well, with that out of the way," Noboru continued, ignoring Natsuki's yells behind him to stand up and to walk towards Mitsuki. "Mixie, let's hear you speak now."

As the men holding her thrashing form back let go of her mouth, she started to yell. "You asshole! I'm going to fucking kill you!"

Noboru simply chuckled. "Ya know, your daughter had a much better chance of defeating me than you do. That's why I'm killing her as soon as possible."

"Now," he said, now mere inches away from her face, he gingerly touched her face like last time. "It has been… so long, since I saw you."

Mitsuki tried to veer away from his touch as much as possible. "Get your hands off me, you monster!"

"Oh, come on, I'm just remembering our past," he said. Mitsuki crinkled her nose at his odd breath.

Suddenly, Mitsuki froze with her eyes holding back her rage as Noboru grabbed her crotch.

"Oh, how I've missed this…" Noboru moaned to himself.

Mitsuki tried to squirm herself out of the way, but she couldn't fight back against Noboru who forcefully pulled her in for a kiss. As Mitsuki firmly pressed her lips together to stop him, Noboru punched her on the side. While Mitsuki was gasping at the sudden pain, Noboru quickly pushed his tongue into her mouth.

Mitsuki, refusing to have his tongue in her mouth, quickly bit down as hard as she could.

"Agh!" Noboru yelled out as he withdrew from her mouth. Spitting out the blood in his mouth on the floor, he looked at her and flashed her a toothy bloody grin.

"Feisty as ever, are we?" he said.

"You…" Mitsuki growled, baring her fangs at him.

"But we can't stop there now, can we?" Noboru said as he quickly pushed her down on to the ground, making the beast men holding her adjust to her new position by pinning down her limbs. Mitsuki tried to fight back, but there was nothing that she could do against the enhanced strength of the beast men.

"No, I want so much more from you. You deprived me for so long, so I'll take what I need now."

Natsuki couldn't really focus on anything anymore. The beast men around her reminded her oddly of her Papa's butlers, who would beat her up to an inch of her life.

Maybe that was why she couldn't drift away into unconsciousness, despite the men around her tearing off as much flesh from her body as they could.

Looking to the side, she saw her new dad bending down on her mom, who was forced to lie down on the ground. She knew what was about to happen now.

History was about to repeat itself, and there was nothing she could do.

As she saw Noboru ripping her pants open, exposing her vagina, Natsuki felt an unbridled rage build up in her.

'I… I just got her back,' she thought as her heart pumped faster with every breath. 'I can't lose her again!'

Suddenly, she found that she could move her body again.

"RAAAAAAGH!" she started to yell as she pushed back against the men holding her down. Miraculously, she was able to rise up against their combined strength. However, it wasn't enough to break free.

"Go… FUCK OFFFFF!" Natsuki yelled out as she pushed through once again.

Suddenly, pink arms emerged from Natsuki's body and rapidly slammed against every single man there. So fast, in fact, that when Noboru turned his to see what was going on, he only saw his men flying away from Natsuki's body.

And in the middle of their trajectory, they slowed to a stop.

Somehow, the men that Natsuki punched away just stopped midair. They were completely frozen, still suspended in air.

Natsuki slowly stood up, in the middle of all the men who were hovering paralyzed in the air. The same pink arms emerged from her body again and touched her on her numerous wounds. Suddenly, blood stopped flowing from them. However, her almost entirely ripped clothes were completely stained by her own blood. As she looked up, Noboru noticed that a side of her face's flesh was ripped off, with blood splattered before the wound. Noboru felt a chill crawl up his spine as he witnessed the bloodied, yet not bleeding little girl standing in the middle of a circle of hovering paralyzed frenzied men.

"You really look like Papa, you know," Natsuki grimly said. "He may have hurt me too, but at least I knew that he loved me and Mama despite everything. You, however, aren't like that at all. That's probably I'm willing to kill you now."

Natsuki flashed an unnatural toothy grin as she looked at him, worrying both Noboru and Mitsuki. "It's been years since I could fight back against someone. Years of abuse and torture at the hands of superpowers like yours. But now, I will do everything I can to protect myself and my mom, all the way to that sweet, Sweet Victory."

Suddenly, Natsuki's Stand manifested behind her. It had pink limbs attached to a robotic silver torso and head, with silver cat ears attached above its head. The Stand had lean musculature, even though it stood at about the same height as Natsuki. Its face had no mouth but bore circular pink eyes that seemed to bore into whoever looked at them. Lining its pink arms were yellow arrows that always contrasted the one along its path, forming an unusual pattern. On its chest was the same sequential two arrows, travelling on the same line, but with one headed up and the other down. It also had yellow shoulder plates, which were another set of arrows facing away from each other.

"Shit!" Noboru suddenly got up from Mitsuki, who was staring at Natsuki in wonder. "Raised by Wolves!"

The beastly Stand emerged, and quickly bit the already beastly men in front of him once again. Suddenly, their muscles doubled in size as their body hair got wilder. All at once with no form of strategy, they had all charged at their target: Natsuki.

Natsuki, despite herself, smirked. "It's… odd, having power for once. Let's try this out. Sweet Victory."

Suddenly, Sweet Victory zipped in front of her, even startling its user by its speed. As the horde approached, the Stand held its arms cocked back, ready to defeat them.

"BAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKA!"

Natsuki was startled by hearing her Stand cry for the first time, and only slightly irked by how it was the signature tsundere phrase, but regardless she let her Stand use its immense speed and strength to punch through all the men in front of her.

In mere seconds, all the beast men who approached her were hovering in the air like those earlier, with Natsuki standing on the other side, still covered head to toe in blood, emitting a menacing aura.

'This girl…' Noboru thought as he gritted his teeth, seeing his henchmen, the key to the full potential of his own Stand, now suspended uselessly in the air.

"Shit!" Noboru cried out as he finally stepped up to her himself, manifesting Raised by Wolves. 'I just need to get one bite in, then get the hell away from there for a second,'he strategized. 'With my Ferocity ability, I can severely weaken her with a bite. I need to use that!'

"RAAGH!" Noboru yelled as he charged forward, Raised by Wolves by his side with its jaws unhinged.

Natsuki stood calmly, pink and crimson hair darkening her eyes. "Sweet Victory."

The Stand zipped in front of her once again, ready to intercept him.

'Now!' Noboru thought as he willed his Stand to lunge its teeth forward.

However, it was no match for Sweet Victory's speed.

A pink fist unnoticeably slammed Raised by Wolves' maw closed, breaking several of Noboru's own teeth in the process.

Before he could get used to the pain and restrategize, however, he found himself suspended in the air like all the others.

Natsuki walked up to him, gently pushing him to the side with a finger. Noboru could feel himself moving in the direction that Natsuki pushed him in, but slowly. However, he wasn't stopping.

Natsuki slowly walked up to the drifting form of her new father. "I don't know if this is gonna work, but I wanna try."

Suddenly, Sweet Victory emerged from her body and hovered in front of Noboru's body, his Stand frozen beside him as well. Natsuki quickly took in a breath, and gave the mental order.

"BAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKABAKA!"

However, despite how many punches that Sweet Victory sent, Noboru realized that neither was he moving any faster nor was he feeling any of the punches.

'Damn, I'm so glad that I can't smile now,' he thought, laughing in his head. 'She has no clue that it's not working!'

Soon, Sweet Victory ended its rush, with Noboru not moving any faster than he was earlier.

"Okay, how do we do this?" Natsuki asked, looking at her Stand.

The Stand didn't turn back to her user, but instead, presented the two lone upward arrows on its palms. With a clap, it brought the two fists together.

Suddenly, everything unfroze.

All of the men that were sent flying earlier were shot through the air like nothing had happened in the first place.

As Noboru felt himself unfreeze, he finally let out a laugh. "You idiot! You failed-"

He was interrupted by a sudden immense pain in his chest.

"GHAH!" he yelled out as he was struck with the force of every single punch that Sweet Victory had delivered to him. All at once.

As he felt his stomach get penetrated by the incoming preserved force, he was shot out of the house the same way that he had come in, now unable to maintain consciousness from the pain.

Mitsuki gasped as she tried to make any sense of what happened. Her daughter was still in front of her, completely bloodied with her flesh shredded away, looking like a demon in human form, but protecting her. "Natsuki, what did you-"

"Mom," Natsuki turned to her, now smiling sadly. "I'm… glad you're alive."

With that, Sweet Victory retreated into her body as she collapsed onto the ground, her wounds now bursting anew with spurts of blood.

"Natsuki!" her mother cried out as she ran forward to help her daughter any way she could, ignoring her own destroyed clothing. She tried pressing onto the wounds to restrict her bleeding, but there were far too many to account for.

"Oh my god, Natsuki!" she heard a strange new feminine voice call out from the door. Looking up in alarm, she noticed two unfamiliar faces running into their house. However, instead of wearing leather jackets like everyone else, these two were wearing the same school uniform as Natsuki's.

"Who are you?!" Mitsuki demanded, standing over her body to protect her from the strangers.

"We're from her club," the coral haired girl said in reply while walking up to her with a soothing smile, the boy behind her paling for some reason as he tried to say something to himself. "Please move, I can help her."

"What she needs is a hospital!" Mitsuki replied.

"Hospitals can't fix her that easily," Sayori replied, still heaving. "But I can. Please, let me try."

Mitsuki hesitated but slowly stepped to the side. Sayori didn't waste any time as she knelt over Natsuki's unconscious body.

"Take Me to Church!" she called out, making her red and white Stand emerge from her side, shooting yellow rope at Natsuki. Wrapping rope around Sayori's body as well, it started to drain energy from her to heal Natsuki.

"MC!" she announced. "She needs more energy! I need yours!"

Looking back at her, MC brought his mind back to the world and nodded as he stepped ahead to present his arm to her. Take Me to Church swiftly wrapped rope around him, transferring his energy to the healing rope as well.

The healing was strong enough to stop her bleeding. However, Natsuki's flesh was still growing back, so even with both their contributions, they needed more energy to heal her.

"Ma'am," Sayori said, turning back to Mitsuki. "You're Natsuki's mother, right? Can you please help us?"

Slowly swallowing her skepticism, Mitsuki nodded and approached her. "What do I need to do?"

"Just stand there," Sayori replied. "You will feel something on your hand and your energy draining away, but that's normal. I'm sending the energy to Natsuki to heal her."

Mitsuki still flinched back a little as she felt something crawl around her hand, but then dropped to her knees at how tired she suddenly felt.

"Oh my god, this is…" Mitsuki gasped as she found herself too tired to do anything, even stand. However, even though she was forced to her knees from exhaustion, she sighed in relief as Natsuki's flesh started to grow back once again.

In a few moments, Natsuki's body had completely regrown and healed, with Mitsuki lying down nearby. MC didn't look very good either, but Sayori was still strong enough to kneel in front of Natsuki to operate her Stand. Now that Natsuki was healed, Take Me to Church returned to its user's body.

"Thank you, Ma'am," she said. "Everything will be fine now,"

"Mrs. Honda," MC spoke out between gasps. "That is, if that is still your name. I need to ask. This was all because of Noboru, right? How did Natsuki beat his Stand?"

Despite her exhaustion, Mitsuki was surprised enough to force herself to a seat. "I-It's Sakurai, actually. H-How do you know about Noboru? Wait, how much do you know?"

"When I rewound Natsuki," MC said, heaving as he sat up as well. "I don't know how, but I saw her timeline change. So, I know her entire past. Did she tell you? About her real dad?"

Mitsuki crossed her eyes in confusion. "Well, she told me about this Naoko person, but I thought she was just going crazy or messing with me. And what do you mean by 'you saw her timeline change'?"

MC chuckled. "I-I don't know how much she told you, but I sent her back in time. Her real dad was being erased from existence, and it would have claimed her, too, if it wasn't for me somehow being able to change her timeline."

"W-What?" Mitsuki replied. "You… can't be serious! If any of that even happened in the first place, then when did that happen?"

MC had to suppress a laugh. "Sorry, Mrs. Sakurai, but it's hard to define time when you're a time traveler like me," he said. "I think the best way to say it is that she faced that moments before she contacted us."

The trio froze as they heard a whine coming from Natsuki, below them.

"She'll be alright, right?" MC asked, looking at Sayori.

"Yeah, she will," Sayori replied as she looked back down at Natsuki.

"What happened?!" two new voices rang out from the door. Upon looking, the three noticed that the two who entered were the other Stand Users with them, JoJo and Yuri.

JoJo walked up to MC. "The hell happened here? Are these girls the other members from your club?" he spoke to him, looking around at the bodies around the house. Upon seeing Mitsuki, he crinkled his nose and turned his head to the side as he took off his school blazer. "Ma'am, please cover up," he said after tossing his jacket to her.

"A-Ah, sorry, Mrs. Sakurai," MC stammered out, face quickly reddening as he realized her state of undress as he had spoken to her. "I-I hadn't noticed."

"N-No, it's fine, I had forgotten about that, to be honest," Mitsuki replied, now hiding her exposed areas with the blazer. "I'm just glad that Natsuki could save me in time." Turning to JoJo, she continued, "And thank you, I assume you're both friends of theirs?"

"Wait, save you in time?" JoJo asked, quirking a brow, ignoring her question. "Who, the chick on the ground?"

Before anyone could retaliate, they heard another whimper from Natsuki.

"The… the hell happened?" she groaned out, slowly sitting up. Sayori moved out of the way to let her do so. The pink-haired girl's hair widened as she saw the club in front of her. "Huh, wha – wait, what are you guys doing here?"

"Saving you, what does it look like?" Sayori said, grinning at her. "Seriously, did you forget our promise back when we fought against House of Gold and your dad?"

"Oh," Natsuki said, still rubbing her head. "For a moment, I thought that was all a dream, or I was turning crazy. Wow, I feel like a train hit me."

Finally regaining her sight properly, she noticed Sayori's form standing above her. Now more aware of her surroundings, she looked around and saw the bodies.

"O-Oh my god," Natsuki muttered out loud. "I did all that?" Swiftly looking down at her hands, she shook as she saw the blood over her body. "W-Whose blood is this?!"

"Natsuki," MC spoke out. "Please-"

"Stay away from me!" Natsuki yelled out as she scampered away from them. "P-Please, I don't want to hurt you too!"

JoJo widened his eyes. "Is she… pulling a Jotaro?"

"Natsuki," her mom said, making the pink-haired girl look at her. "That blood… it's all yours. Your friend… they somehow healed your wounds."

"Oh, uh, right," Natsuki replied, calming down some. "I was attacked, wasn't I? But, what about that monster?!"

"Monster?" Mitsuki quirked a brow. "What are you talking about?"

"B-Behind Noboru," Natsuki stammered out. "S-Some animal-like f-figure. W-What was it? A-And there was something like that near me as well!"

MC sighed and said out loud, "Day One."

However, his Stand still hadn't responded.

"Well, shit," MC said, turning back to the others. "Can you guys summon your Stands?"

JoJo raised a brow in concern. "Okay, what happened to your own Stand? And why're you speaking in plural? I'm the only Stand user here other than you and this chick in front of us. Renegades."

Suddenly, the pink and red Stand emerged from JoJo's side.

"AH!" Natsuki yelped. "That! Just like that! What is that?!"

JoJo quirked a brow, but chuckled. "This is my Stand. Don't worry, it won't hurt you. MC's got one, too. And it seems like you've got one too."

Natsuki nodded. "Yeah, and so do the others."

JoJo widened his eyes. Quickly, he turned around to see The Knife and Take Me to Church next to the other girls. Sheepishly, the girls waved at him.

"Wait, you're both Stand Users as well?!" he exclaimed.

"Wait, what's going on?" Mitsuki asked. "What are you all seeing?"

"Umm," Natsuki ignored their questions. "A-As you said… I… have one of those things too."

MC walked up to her. "Can you show it to us?"

Nodding, Natsuki called out her Stand. "Sweet Victory," she said, making her pink and silver Stand emerge from her.

JoJo widened his eyes at the club full of Stand Users around him, and collapsed onto the floor, face-first.

Stand User: Noboru Honda

Stand Name: Raised by Wolves (based on the U2 song with the same name)

Abilities:

Ferocity: With a bite, Raised by Wolves is able to reduce a person to their animalistic instincts. As such, the victims will also be able to freely use their hysterical strength. When the effect is removed, the victim will feel the impact of their hysterical strength use and get weaker. It also passively improves the user's senses drastically.

PWR: B

SPD: B

RNG: D (2m)

PRC: A

PER: D

DVP: D

Stand User: Natsuki Sakurai (ex-Honda)

Stand Name: Sweet Victory (based on the song with the same name by David Glen Eisley, but I took it from Spongebob)

Abilities:

Reaction: Upon hitting any subject, Sweet Victory is able to freeze all acting forces and velocities experienced by or caused by it. With a clap, the frozen forces and velocities will be reinstated as when they were frozen, stacking on top all newly applied forces and velocities. This can also be applied to force groups as well, such as rendering people unable to utilize their muscular force no matter what they try.

PWR: A

SPD: A

RNG: D (2m)

PRC: A

PER: C

DVP: C

A/N: Yep. JoJo's fed up with the world now and Natsuki's gone off the deep end.

Now, I know I made Natsuki a little OOC in this chapter. But think about it. Years of domestic abuse and belittlement, and she gets immense power so suddenly? It's obviously going to get in her head at least a little. Fun fact about superpowers, they aren't always a blessing. Sometimes, they can teach you things about yourself that you would have never known normally. Things that you would normally prefer to not know.

All in all, I still feel like something's missing in this chapter. I've rewritten and reread this chapter time and time again, and that nagging feeling is always there. This is not one of my better chapters, at least. However, the plus is that this chapter's concept is a hallmark of my growth in writing, because when I started off, I wouldn't even dream of making something as elaborate as dealings with a Biker Gang.

Oh, yeah, I have no clue how Biker Gangs work normally. So, don't blame me if I got something wrong there. Tell me if something's wrong, though, I could still use the knowledge even if I'm not going to change the chapter.

Natsuki's Stand ability does not seem like a good fit either. I'm sure that the stats are fine, but the one thing that I hadn't been sure of its fit was Natsuki's Stand ability. It was originally paralysis, but soon I felt like that had no potential to write for. That's when I came up with Reaction. Another ridiculously overpowered ability, like The Knife's Portals. If you notice carefully, you can even see that a lot of these Stands abilities are based, or one can draw a connection with, MHA quirks. Here's a small list.

Take Me to Church - Recovery Girl's Heal

The Knife - Kurogiri's Warp Gate

Sweet Victory - Zero Gravity and Twin Impact (former is wrongly named and latter is another overpowered ability in my eyes)

Rockabye (Yowaida's Stand) - Aizawa's Erasure

Raised by Wolves - Diego Brando's Scary Monsters (not MHA, but good to mention again)

Broken String (Hoketsu's Stand) - Stone Free (not exactly the same as that Stand, though. Also, not MHA)

The others are all original. Ones I have still planned, along with Mess is Mine, Day One, Renegades, House of Gold and Stupid Deep (Sakimoto's Stand). Boy II Man, of course, is directly taken from Part 4. I don't know if I'll add any more Stands, but I want to try.

Now, for the arc update. We've finished the Natsuki arc, and are starting the Monika arc! Its time to show the real fear factor of Mess is Mine. However, I haven't got the story planned out properly. I'll think about it, don't worry.

And that's all from me! Hope you guys liked Sweet Victory! I'll see you next chapter!