Chapter 5: Gigantomachia

-Honnouji Academy-

At the loading area of Honnouji Academy, President of the Combat Sewing Club, Iori Saroi, was in the middle of unloading a new shipment of Life Fibers with Sanageyama and Inumuta.

"So let me get this straight, first that Guinness guy joins us out of nowhere and now Lady Satsuki's got him near her to: 'keep him on a tight leash'?" Sanageyama questioned. "I mean I understand why she let him join given how our goals align, but keeping him that close by? Seems awfully fishy if you ask me."

"I agree, it does seem… Off. I'm curious as to what the final nail in the coffin was for him to join us." Inumuta mused as he looked over the delivery.

"My main concern is that Symbiote of his. According to Lady Satsuki, it can devour an entire closet full of three Star goku uniforms and still have room for another thousand." Iori stated. "If it's let loose, we may lose our entire supply of uniforms and Life Fibers in mere days." He added in concern.

"Then we'll have to do everything we can to make sure he doesn't get pissed or anything. We all know what'll happen if he gets triggered." The kendo boy stated. "On a totally unrelated note, that Ryuko girl really stirred things up around her. That Kamui of hers really is something."

"Yes and now Lady Satsuki has dawned one herself. And if my calculations are correct, Terry Guinness's Symbiote Toxin could potentially evolve into a Kamui Level as well." Inumuta nodded. "Three people capable of using Kamuis… I still can't believe it's possible." He added in astonishment.

"I don't think any of us saw it coming." Uzu sighed. "Still, it'll be helpful in the long run." He added thoughtfully.

"But knowing you, you'd still want to see that power up close and personal, right Sanageyama?" Iori asked.

"Guilty as charged." The boy in question admitted as he rubbed the back of his head.

"You better not, Satsuki gave us strict orders to not fight Matoi or Guinness. We're only supposed to be observing… Though for some odd reason, she seems to let Guinness fight as much as he wants with no kind of restrictions." Inumuta told him before noting the last part with a bit of confusion.

"It's probably to feed his Symbiote. That's the most logical conclusion." Iori spoke up, causing the other two to nod in agreement.

"Still Though, I'm just too curious…" Uzu said as he walked out of the room.

(Elsewhere)

In the quarters now shared by Terry and Satsuki, the Irish-Mexican teen was currently fighting the urge, and the constant pestering of his Symbiote, to go into the shower where Satsuki currently was.

"Will you shut up? I'm not going in there." He snapped at the Symbiote, who was currently in his uniform mode.

"Oh c'mon. You know damn well that you want to, and I'm more than positive that Satsuki would welcome it." The alien creature stated in a matter-a-fact tone.

"Seems more like wishful thinking on your part if you ask me." The boy said, rolling his eyes. Meanwhile with Satsuki, she was leaning against the wall and trying to let the shower she was taking wash away the stress of her first outing with Junketsu. Though oddly enough, the one sided banter between Terry and his symbiotic partner seemed to help her calm down a bit as well.

"*Sigh* I was not prepared for that." She sighed as she finished her shower. After drying off and getting dressed in a robe, she walked out and noticed Terry was still arguing with Toxin, much to her slight amusement.

"And I'm telling you to get ya head out of ya arse before I get it out for you!" The boy snapped while tugging at the Symbiote uniforms collar. Satsuki felt tempted to let this go on for a bit longer, but decided against it.

"Ahem." She coughed out, getting the host's attention. "Terry, come here." She told him before she gestured to the chair across from her that he frequently used nowadays as he came towards her. "Sit." She continued.

The boy did as requested and sat in his new favorite chair, so to speak. "Sorry, this mokoso of a uniform of mine just refuses to get his mind out of the murder gutter." He told her as Saroi poured them each some tea.

"If I recall correctly, violence is something he craves. I don't really feel surprised by that." She mused.

"Yeah, but it's the other gutter I'm worried about." He said, his cheeks becoming slightly rosy. Satsuki took note of this and was able to deduce what he was talking about from his demeanor and the fact he kept stealing glances at her robe clad body as he spoke. However, she decided not to make mention of it as she quietly sipped her tea and he did the same.

"I see…" She nodded, closing her eyes as she took another sip. "... Did you think you could sneak up on me? Sanageyama." The woman asked as the kendo boy came into view behind her.

"I had to at least try." He replied in a joking tone. His sudden appearance made Terry yelp and almost spill his tea. Apparently Toxin neglected to warn him of the sports chair's arrival.

"What do you want?" Satsuki asked, her question cutting to the chase of the matter like a freshly sharpened knife through a piece of meat.

"I want to have your permission to fight Matoi, just once." Uzu replied, a smirk on his face. His words immediately caught Terry's attention.

"And just what would ya have to gain from fighting her once?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's simple, Guinness: I live for this stuff." The sports chair said as he looked down at Satsuki. "Satsuki knows exactly what I'm talking about, don't you M'lady?" He smirked.

"I do." The student council president nodded. "Fighting is practically in your soul, and you crave the adrenaline rush that accompanies it." She said. "You're just like you were three years ago…" She added as she started thinking.

(Flashback)

-Northern Kanto Region, Three Years Earlier-

Satsuki, Gamagori, Inumuta and Jakuzure were all currently standing in a clearing in the Northern Kanto Region of Japan across from a large group of what appeared to be gang members, the numbers of which outnumbered them three hundred to four.

"I'm Uzu Sanageyama, of the Northern Kanto Gang." A younger Uzu said, a bamboo kendo sword slung over his shoulder. "You got a lot of guts challenging me to a fight, Kiryuin." He added.

"I'm not here to fight you." A younger Satsuki stated. "I am here to ask you to surrender, though." She added.

"Ha! Yeah right! You and what army?" The green haired boy laughed.

"If this does come to blows, it should give us a chance to see if Satsuki is worthy enough to lead us." Inumuta noted.

"Just a hunch but you might wanna practice your vowing." Jakuzure scoffed. Gamagori just nodded wordlessly in agreement.

"Who you think you're messing with, huh?!" Sanageyama's buddies all yelled as they jumped at Satsuki, weapons such as: chains, bats, swords and even a chainsaw in hand. Without even moving an inch, Satsuki sent out a pulse wave and sent the gang members flying. Sanageyama was the only one left standing.

"The chi technique, not bad for a girl." He chuckled as he ran towards her and jumped over her. "But it won't help you against me! I can see every move you make, before you even make them!" He boasted. As he landed he turned on a dime and readied his sword. "And now you're mine!" He yelled as he thrusted his sword forward.

"Did you really think you could sneak up on me?" Satsuki asked without even looking before bringing Bakuzan back and nailing him in the stomach. The kendo boy froze in pain before he dropped to his knees and dropped his bokken.

"But… how?" He gasped in shock.

"Come with me, and I'll bring you to a place where you can unleash your strength on the world. Come with me, to Honnouji Academy." Satsuki told him as he looked at her in awe.

(Flashback End)

"Look I'm glad that you brought me here so I can bust some heads, but you know how I get when someone strong pops up on my radar. I need to do something about it." The boy sighed. "And besides, with Guinness here and his Symbiote basically becoming your lap dogs, I doubt you let me near them, either." He added.

"Watch it, gringo. No soy de ninguna mujer pero faldero ." He said, his Spanish breaking into his words mid sentence.

"Um, what? I don't speak that language." The kedo boy said in confusion, not being well versed in other languages.

"He said: I'm no woman's lap-dog." Satsuki translated. "Also, Just remember what the consequences are if you fail." She told him.

"Ha! You don't have to worry about that, I got special eyes, remember? I can't lose." Uzu laughed.

"A lot of people who thought like that ended up losing, anyway. What makes you think you'll be any different?" Terry asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You'll just have to wait and see." He shrugged right before he had to block Satsuki from attacking him with the broken handle of her tea cup after she broke it by using his bokken.

"Well done." She praised him.

"Thanks, guess I'm strong enough to beat your middle school self." He grinned. "You were moving just like you were back then… Which means you were holding back, weren't you?"

Satsuki didn't answer and just sat back down. "Go ahead and fight Matoi, see what happens." She told him.

"Thanks." Uzu nodded before he turned around and left. As he did, Saroi started to clean up the cup Satsuki had broken.

"Remind me never to piss you off." Terry noted to himself.

"My apologies for breaking the cup, Saroi." Satsuki said to her butler.

"No worries, ma'am. It is a shame that you did that to your favorite, though." He sighed before the phone suddenly started ringing. "Yes, this is the office of the student council president." He answered before gasping. "Y-Yes ma'am." The man nodded before bringing the phone to Satsuki. "It is Mistress Ragyo." Saroi told her.

"This is Satsuki." The raven haired girl said as she took the phone.

"What's this I hear about you taking out your wedding dress?" A woman's voice asked.

"Who's that on the phone?" Terry asked Saroi.

"Mistress Ragyo, Lady Satsuki's mother." The butler replied, getting a nod of understanding from the transfer student.

"Oh, right." He nodded as Satsuki got off the phone.

"Terry, it seems that my mother would very much like to meet you." The blue eyed girl told him, causing him and Toxin to shiver.

"Oh boy." He shuddered.

(Elsewhere)

The following morning at the apartment of Aikuro Mikisugi, Ryuko had him cornered against the wall with her scissor blade.

"Hey, take it easy! Don't do anything hasty!" He told her fearfully.

"Me and Terry were almost killed by some retard that had it out for us, and I fucking want answers! So start talking!" She growled as she positioned her blade to move to stab him.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" He told her.

"You so do, and I got proof." She said before taking out a photo. "Now who's that in the picture, huh? Oh snap! It's you and that mohawk guy!" She snapped.

"What the- How'd you get that?" The undercover agent asked.

"Mataro. That kid's pretty connected around here, so why don't you just fess up and tell me what the hell is going on?!" The girl snapped. Mikisugi then got all dramatic again.

"That's right, we do know each other. His name is Tsumugu Kinigase, and we were doing this to get you and Senketsu closer together, and it looks like it worked!" He said dramatically while stripping his shirt off.

"What about Terry, then? If you actually know anything about him then you should know damn well that he has a serious grudge against extremists!" Ryuuko growled furiously, not liking that her friend had been targeted by someone like Tsumugu.

"Yes, that was a miscalculation on my part." The man sighed. "You see, Tsumugu and I work for the same organization called Nudist Beach, an Anti-life Fibers guerrilla warfare conglomerate built to stop the Kiryuins and their tyranny. Your father was one of our founding members." He explained.

"... Nudist Beach? Really?" The red streaked girl deadpanned, finding the name rather strange.

"Yes, that's really what we're called. And unfortunately Tsumugu is one of our… let's say loose cannon members, even when he's ordered not to do anything rash, he rarely listens." Mikisugi explained. "I'm telling you this because I want to apologize. And that we need your and Senketsu's help stopping Satsuki and her mother, Ragyo. And to do that, I'll need you to infiltrate her ranks as a double agent."

"I feel like that's easier said than done." The girl muttered.

"Satsuki seems willing to let you in, so why not see? Once you do, we'll have our own direct cog in Honnouji Academy's machine, and we'll take it down from the inside." Mikisugi nodded.

"And maybe I'll finally figure out who killed my dad." Ryuko nodded as well.

"Exactly." The man in front of her grinned.

(Later)

Satsuki and Terry were about to leave to see Ragyo Kiryuin, when they saw Ryuko was in the way.

"What are you doing here, Matoi?" Satsuki asked.

"That offer of your's? I've finally made up my mind." She replied, getting the attention of the two.

"And your answer is…?" The president of the academy's student council inquired.

"I'll join you. But on one condition." Ryuko told her. "You tell me who killed my dad, and why. Got it, Satsuki?" She added with a sharp glare.

"A fair arrangement." The blue eyed girl nodded. "When would you like me to tell you?" She asked.

"I'll let you know when I feel like it." The girl shrugged as she walked past them. "Watch yourself." She whispered to Terry before leaving.

Terry watched her leave and then thought he noticed something that seemed odd about her. "You know, you and Ryuko have some very odd similarities…" He said as he boarded the woman's helicopter.

"Like what?" Satsuki asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well first thing that comes to mind is that your eyes look almost identical." He told her as they sat down. The woman next to him blinked in confusion.

"Do we? I don't think I ever noticed." She mused.

"I know, I can't believe I didn't notice either." The boy nodded as the helicopter took off.

(Elsewhere)

Ryuko was now in the sports gym after receiving a challenge from one of the elite four, and soon found out it was Uzu Sanageyama.

"So, you wanted to fight me, huh?" She asked the man.

"Yep. I've been itching to fight you for a while now, so make this interesting." Uzu replied with a grin. He then activated his uniform and it transformed into a green mech suit version of a kendo uniform combined with a samurai's armor, and had rather small peg feet.

"Three Star Goku uniform: Blade Regalia!" He yelled. "Kamuis aren't the only things that can transform." He added.

"I can tell, captain obvious." Ryuuko shot back before she activated Senketsu. "Life Fiber Synchronize! Kamui: Senketsu!" She yelled before rushing forward and slicing at Sanageyama several times before he suddenly faded into mist: an after image. She was then smacked by the boy's bokken and was sent flying.

"Your moves are so predictable." He said with a hidden grin.

"And I'm surprised that you can move so fast with those stubby little peglegs of yours." The scissor blade wielding girl remarked with a grin of her own. Uzu just shrugged in response.

"I was surprised by it too when I first tried it, believe it or not." He admitted.

"Looks like we're gonna have to go full speed on him Senketsu." Ryuko told her Kamui.

"Understood." Senketsu nodded as they started running in circles around the man to attempt to confuse him... Only for him to speed off like a cartoon character and start whacking them over and over on the head with his Bokken.

"It's no good, Matoi. I can see every move you make before you make it." He boasted. "This is my special ability, Technique: Tengantsu!" He added as several eye holes opened in his uniform and his eyes bounced around like mad every second.

'Okay, that is actually creepy.' Ryuuko thought with a shudder before she was forced to block a swing from her opponent.

"Steady, Ryuko, steady." Senketsu told her.

"I know. It's all I can do at the moment here…!" She replied in a strained tone as she did her best to withstand the onslaught of swings from Sanageyama.

"Now I know all your blocking moves!" He said as he suddenly loaded his gauntlets with several Bokkens, which started spinning at high speeds. "Hissatsu: Isshin Zenzanken!" He yelled as he then started taking absurdly fast swings at Ryuuko, who was unable to block all of them.

"Aaaaaah!" Ryuko cried as she was sent flying backwards, lumps, bumps, welts and bruises covering her body. Hell, there was even steam coming off her, too.

"Trying to one up me is nothing but a practice in futility! Just give up!" He exclaimed, confident that he had won.

Ryuko slowly got up and managed to use her sword to prop herself up. "Senketsu… I need you to do me a solid here." She told her uniform before whispering what she planned to do to him.

"Understood." Senketsu replied after she finished explaining her plan. Then suddenly, without warning, she cut off a piece of the Kamui and turned that into ribbons which she then used to blind Uzu.

"What the-?! AAAHHHH! I can't see! I can't see!" He yelled in a panic as he discarded his many bokkens to claw at his face.

"And now, finishing move: Senisoshitsu!" Ryuko yelled as she used her scissor blade's decapitation Mode to destroy Blade Regalia in one strike. "And done." She smirked as Senketsu absorbed the life fibers.

(Later)

Iori was in the middle of working in the sewing club, when Sanageyama came in. The man was clad in bandages after getting his wounds healed.

"Iori, I have a favor to ask." He told the blonde.

"What do you need?" Iori asked.

"I need you to take away my eyes." He replied seriously, causing the sewing club president to widen his eyes in shock.

"What?! But you can't use your Tengantsu if you can't see anything!" Iori told him.

"That's the point: I lost because I rely on my eyes too much! I can't beat Matoi unless I give up my eyes!" He exclaimed.

(Elsewhere)

Hours later, Terry and Satsuki got back from seeing Ragyo, and Terry was still a little uneasy.

"Is she always so… Forward?" He asked her as they walked back to the school while it started to rain.

"Yes. She's been like this for my entire life, so it's not unusual for me." Satsuki replied.

"That's gonna take some getting used to." The Symbiote host groaned. But as they neared the school, both saw Sanageyama kneeling there.

"What do you want, Sanageyama?" Satsuki questioned.

"I've come to ask for another chance, I know I was too cocky and now I've done what it takes to fix it." He told her.

Satsuki simply turned away. "I have no time for subordinates who lack resolve." She said before Terry stopped her.

"Now hold on, let's at least hear him out." He told her as he gripped her shoulder.

"I do have resolve, Lady Satsuki. And it's right here!" He exclaimed as he snapped his head up right as lightning flashed.

"... Dios Mio." Terry gasped in shock as Toxin suddenly went rigid.

"I don't like this…" The Symbiote hissed in fear.

"I don't like this either, buddy." He whispered to his partner, his words being masked by the rain.

(Later)

Ryuko received another challenge from Sanageyama and met him in another arena, and this time, something felt very off.

"Didn't think people got second chances around here, what ya going soft Satsuki?" The girl called up to the president.

"We'll see who's soft when this match is over, Ryuuko." The president shot back calmly.

"I really don't like this…" Terry told her. "Something tells me that Uzu is not gonna stop when he beats her, and if she gets killed and I wasn't able to stop it, I'm not sure what I'll-" He started before Satsuki stopped him.

"It won't come to that." She told him firmly. "Rest your nerves, your worry is understandable given the circumstances, but unnecessary. I will stop the fight if things go too far."

Meanwhile with Ryūko and Sanageyama, the green haired man gripped his sword tightly. "I'm gonna show you what happens, when you force a man to change." He said before he transformed. His new suit looked similar to his old one, but seemed bulkier than before and seemed more Samurai-knight like.

"Sorry, Senketsu." She said to her Kamui before she cut off another piece and shredded it before using the pieces to block the eye holes of Sanageyama's uniform.

But as she attacked him, he was still able to block her attack without even trying! "What the-?!" She gasped before she saw that his eyes were gone. "What the hell?! He sewed his eyes shut?!" She gasped.

"Sanageyama has realized his error, and has sacrificed everything to beat you, Matoi!" Satsuki exclaimed from her perch.

"On garde." Sanageyama said before he started stomping towards her, and then used his now larger Bokken to start wailing on her with incredible power and accuracy. Which was ironic given that he was currently blind.

Ryuuko tried to fight back, but the prowess he displayed was making that about as useful as launching a needle through a brick wall. She was getting utterly demolished as Uzu bashed her around the arena they were in.

"You're getting scared now, aren't you?" Uzu asked her as he forced her to quite literally bend over backwards to avoid falling over.

"Like hell I am!" She growled, but her own body betrayed her true feelings.

"Oh you are. I can tell by the sound of your breathing and the smell of your sweat. I can see what you're thinking, clear as day." He said as his mental eyesight showed them, the arena, the school, the country, and even the planet and cosmos. It showed him… EVERYTHING! "Yeah I can see even more clearly now, even more than I could with my eyes, I can see EVERYTHING!" He yelled. He then started swinging at machine gun level speeds, causing Ryuuko to cry out in pain with each hit. Throughout it all, Terry started having flashbacks to times he'd rather leave buried.

'Not again… NOT AGAIN!' He thought in despair as he tried to suppress the memories, and was failing. The sight of his uncle getting beaten to death right in front of him playing in his mind in vivid detail, and the time his father suffered a similar fate and was nearly left dead.

"Run now, lad/Stay safe, mio." The two flashback versions of the two men told him, and as they stopped, Terry was just able to witness Ryuko being sent flying and crashing head first in the concrete below.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Terry screamed as Toxin enveloped his body, causing Satsuki to turn to him. She was about to speak, but then she noticed that his Symbiote form looked… Different.

His new form was titanic in size, ten times the size of Gamagōri and five times as muscular, his red skin seemed to now be composed of many tiny tendrils and his hands all feet now had hook-like claws on them. His head was very beastial in form and his now open mouth had rows upon rows of sharp teeth, and he also had a nearly three foot long green tongue. Last was his colors. Instead of red and blue like he normally was, he was red and black with white eyes devoid of any iris or pupils.

"SANAGEYAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The angry boy roared demonically, causing Satsuki to take a step back in slight fear and the fight below to stop.

The armor-clad man turned to see Terry come crashing down, and before even his new Shingantsu could anticipate, he felt the Symbiote pair's gigantic fist collide with his face.

"AGH!" The kendo boy cried out in surprise as he was sent skidding back along the ground. "What the-?! How?! I'm supposed to see everything now!" He exclaimed in disbelief.

"That doesn't matter if you're faced with a person that can outpace your ability to process your surroundings!" The rage fueled duo yelled as they charged again. "We are no longer just Terry Guinness and Toxin. We've become more, this is the culmination of our shared anger and hatred, this is: Toxin: Gigantomachia!" He roared.

Satsuki looked on in concern at what she was seeing. It seemed to be going well enough, and then Terry just exploded in anger. What could-

She froze when she remembered how Terry's uncle and father had died. It then dawned on her that the fight had caused him to relive those memories and was now causing him to lash out explosively.

Down below, Ryuuko had managed to pull herself out of the ground and widened her eyes when she saw Terry pulverizing the kendo boy a fair distance from her.

"Satsuki, what's going on?! Why is Terry acting like this?!" She asked in alarm.

"It's his rage and repressed memories! They've come to the surface!" The woman called back as the newly dubbed Gigantomachia Toxin was beating Sanageyama to a pulp, the disadvantage being clearly seen with the fact that the former was more than ten times the latter's size.

Toxin growled as he grabbed the man by the face and dragged him through the dirt below before slamming him into a pillar. And by this point, Sanageyama transformed back due to his Goku Uniform reaching its limit.

"Fuck! Not now!" He cursed in fear, knowing how defenseless he was right now. Toxin now towered over him again and then he brought his giant clawed hand up to strike him… But as he did, something blocked it.

*BOOM!*

The force behind the strike leveled half of the stadium and tore a gargantuan hole in the wall of school and the trail of devastation stretched all the way down in Honnouji town and then caused a mini tsunami to roar up in the bay. Yet Sanageyama was unharmed.

"What? How am I still alive?" He asked before he looked over and saw that Toxin's attack was blocked by both Satsuki and Ryuko, who used all their strength to stop it.

"Fuck, that's a lot of strength!" Ryuuko got out as she gritted her teeth.

"Yes. The level of strength he gains when they're angry is staggering. We need to be careful!" Senketsu urged.

"So this is why he called this form Gigantomachia: he didn't put any effort into his attack and he was still able to unleash enough power that overpowers and pushes two Kamui's to their limits at the same time!" Satsuki grunted. "If he were to actually put in real effort his power could very well be cataclysmic in scale!"

"We need to stop them, but how?! The two of us alone aren't gonna be enough!" The scissor blade wielder grunted.

"We have to get through to him emotionally. Terry mentioned that Symbiotes both can project and feed on emotions, so if we're able to project enough calming emotions…" Satsuki trailed off.

"We can get him out of his rage state!" Ryuuko finished in realisation. She then nodded. "Alright, but how do we project calming emotions, though?" She asked.

"Well I'm certainly open to suggestions if you have any." Satsuki stated as they finally managed to push Toxin's arm back.

"Senketsu?" The younger of the two asked her Kamui.

"I think I may have an idea. If you can help me focus on your heartbeat and Satsuki could focus on hers, I could project both of them at a frequency that resonates with the life fibers inside Toxin, and calm both him and Terry by proxy." Senketsu suggested.

"Sounds like our best shot." She muttered before turning to Satsuki. "Satsuki, I got something!" She told her.

"What is it?" She asked as she focused her gaze on Terry, who was fidgeting.

"We need to focus our heartbeats. If we can do that, Senketsu can project them on a frequency that resonates with Toxin's life fibers to calm both of them down." She explained, relaying what her Kamui had told her.

"A risky plan, but most likely our best chance." Thepresident nodded as the two faced Toxin, who continued to stare at them with its white, seemingly soulless eyes. Taking a deep breath, they closed their eyes, and began to focus.

*Bum bum, bum bum, bum bum*

The two's heartbeats slowly started to slow and match each other before becoming completely synchronized. This allowed Senketsu the moment he needed.

"Alright, I've got it! Now join hands with Satsuki, Ryuko so I can connect you both and send the pulse!" He told her. The red streaked girl did as told hand grasped Satsuki's hand, getting no objections from her. After that, Senketsu began to send the pulse through Toxin's life fibers.

The pulse hit Toxin like a missile to the face and caused him to fall to one knee before he roared and the calmness of the two girls' emotions caused him to turn back into Terry, who fell to his knees and slowly started rocking back and forth as if he was about to fall over. After rocking for a moment longer, he really did fall over into a blissful slumber.

"Okay, it's done. You can stop now." Senketsu said, prompting Ryuuko to release Satsuki's hand.

"It worked… It actually worked." The scissor blade girl breathed as she fell to her knees, Satsuki following suit as both of their Kamuis returned to their dormant states.

But the raven haired girl's gaze lingered on the boy before him. How could she have forgotten something so crucial as possible triggers of his painful memories? This was a horrible oversight on her part, an unforgivable wrong, that she intended to make right.

"Sanageyama, are you able to stand?" She asked the blind man.

"Yeah… Yeah, I can stand." He replied as he hoisted himself up with his bokken. "What the hell happened just now that set him off?" He asked.

"The way you fought Ryuuko triggered some painful memories that sent him into that rage state you just experienced." She replied, causing him to wince.

"Oh… I didn't realize that, sorry." He apologized.

"It doesn't matter now. Now help me bring him to our shared quarters, it would seem that we both need rest." Satsuki ordered as she shakily got up.

(Later)

Terry slowly woke up and found himself in his bed, and that he had somehow blacked out… and that Toxin was currently sleeping in his skin, leaving him in nothing but his boxers.

"Caramba… What the fuck hit me…?" He whispered to himself, rubbing his head as a migraine hit him. Then he remembered what happened. "Oh, right…" He said as he started to start moping.

But he stopped this when he heard the door to his room closed, and when he turned to face the person who entered, his eyes widened. "Ballocks…" He gasped.

Standing there was Satsuki, who again was clad only in her robe. The raven haired girl walked towards him and the boy flinched as he thought she was possibly going to slap him for what he had done… but was instead surprised when she slowly hugged him and brought his face against her stomach and under her chest.

"... I'm so sorry. I never should have made you watch that fight. Had I known that it would trigger your repressed memories, I would have prevented it from happening." She told him apologetically as she stroked his hair.

'Wow… Her body is so… soft.' Terry thought as he continued to let her hold him and proceeded to hug her back, the warmth and softness of her body making him feel very calm. "This is nice..:" He sighed happily as he melted into her embrace.

Dragon Emperor0: Well that was a nice way to end a chapter. Also am I the only one who almost shit their pants when the full extent of Toxin's attack was shown?

ThermalsniperN7: Probably. This is anime, so it's not that surprising something like that would happen.

Dragon Emperor0: Yeah, though I wonder what happened with Ragyo, Satsuki and Terry? Probably something that should be brought up next chapter, I dunno.

ThermalsniperN7: Meh, it'll happen when it happens. Anyway, see you guys next time!