--Disclaimer: I don't own AKIRA or its characters/gangs/locations. I only own Kiba and her 'friends'. So don't flame me, or I'll report you.--

AN: Tetsuo's language is bad, bad, bad! Always bad! Always will be! I'm sorry about the delays and all! But I have been a lazy cow and needed time off to work up some creativity juice! The juice is good, no? ;)

Tetsuo Take Ato Niban Kikai

Part 11: Donikoto Revealed.

An inexcusable event occurred,
on leading to disaster.
The wrath of the soul that could not be contained, could not linger.
Nor manifest, fight or free her.
The demon grew fiercer and stronger every day,
aided by the overwhelming despair of the young god,
who was kicked aside and treated like a stray dog.
But he stood strong and took the blunder,
making him appear ever stronger.
But the pain of his loss sunk in deep,
even his victory made him weep.
His tears caused the sky to darken,
and the seas to turn a dark red.
The aftermath of the horrific battle,
Which ended in bloodshed.

"That's a really good song, Kyubi." Kiba admitted, firmly squeezing the left wrist of a certain young man, who was squirming in agony beside the chair Kiba was sat on.

"Yeah, it's very good…hehe…did you get that off the back of a cereal box!?" laughed Kaneda, who was kicking Tetsuo in a teasing manner as he sat helplessly on the floor. (He's back in human form now.)

"No respect what so ever! I have every right to rip out your tongue and cut it clean off!!" Kyubi growled, preparing to draw his over-sized dagger.

"Whoa! WHOA! Both of you just calm down and shut the fuck up! We have not even gotten around to sorting out the little raven-haired monster yet!" Oni snapped, blocking the path of the two angry males' onslaught on one another.
Kyubi snarled before withdrawing his attack, calming himself down with some repertory exercises, before finally sitting down on the broken sofa.
The gang (and a few friends from the Capsule Gang) had all decided to hold Tetsuo up in the same building he stayed in shortly after he was rescued, just to stop him from getting the idea of exploring or running off. Oni would make sure that Tetsuo didn't get away again.

"I say we poke 'im with a stick 'till he cries for his mama!" Chuckled Oki (Oni's younger brother) who was sat down on a flipped over table nearby.

"I shay we beat 'im with our bare hands until it gets into his thick…ugh…skull!" Solano (the DJ) suggested, chugging on a bottle of sake afterwards as he sat sluggishly on an old wooden box that had the word 'Sake' imprinted upon its surface.

"I think you're both morons! Why can't you be like Dijon!? He's being all quiet and stuff!" Kai barked, shaking a fist angrily at the drunk and spoilt brat.
Kiba coughed to get his attention, before waving him over to hear what she had to say.

"Dijon doesn't talk anymore because he ripped out his voice box. Just so he could protect our gangs vital information from the fuzz." Kiba whispered.
Dijon was pressed beside the door, hulking muscle and fat to ensure nobody could interrupt the meeting.
If Oni (or anyone else for that matter) got fed up of Oki, Lecku and Solano then he could easily kick them out and make sure they could never get back in.
Tetsuo was pretty scared of the guy, even if he had his powers to fight with he would probably get flattened before he'd get the chance to use them.
When everyone had finally settled down, and the certain drunkard was removed, discussions that not only related to Tetsuo and what happened began again; but also talks about rumors and stories floating around the streets started to pop up.

"First of all, Tet, we're locking you in this building." Kiba began, releasing her grip on the 20 year olds wrist.

"WHAT!?" Tetsuo snapped, jolting to his feet.
Kaneda just whacked the back of the psychics head and gave him the gesture to keep his mouth shut.

"Second, we know about your powers now. Kaneda and Kai told us everything. So don't even try using them on us, or I'll do worse than kick you in the face." Kiba added, brushing aside some of her hair.
Oni wanted to get this main meeting over with so he could go out and get some booze, so it was only natural for him to interrupt Kiba and speed things up a bit.

"Okay Kiba, that's enough. We all know why we're here! So listen up! We have Tetsuo back but…of course…there's a problem." Oni began, before an over-enthusiastic Oki decided to interrupt.

"Oh! You got in trouble with the army!?" Oki nagged, raising one arm in the air as he jumped around franticly.
Oni sighed before kicking his younger brother aside, almost getting tired of beating him up now he just wanted to push the little wretch out of his life.

"Not only did we get in some serious shit with the army, but it's now apparent that both gangs want Tetsuo. Now that alone sprouts more problems…one, he's wanted by the fuzz so its risky just taking him in. Two, he doesn't remember anything but his name and age, maybe a few little things but nothing that important. And three, he's a complete junky-psycho. He is DANGEROUS." Oni answered, combing a hand through his flaming red hair before giving Tetsuo the evil eye.

"…not to mention he's got no balls. The kid's a wuss, no wonder he's still a virgin." Oni added possibly just to humiliate the raven haired 20 year old, who was fuming mad and now being held back by Kaneda and Kiba, cursing that he'll clobber Oni senseless one day for all of this.

"Oni, I keep hearing these terribly disturbing rumors around the city! Like this one rumor about the end of the world!! Is it true!?" asked a random member of Oni's gang, who was hiding behind a car seat which was conveniently placed on concrete blocks to look suitable.

"How the hell should I know!? Kyubi knows more than any of us about the rumors, probably because he's the one that started them! Ask him you fucking idiot!!" Oni snapped before lighting a cigarette.

"I did no such thing. Lady Miyoko started all the rumors; she just told me what I knew already." Kyubi answered, twitching his nose at Tetsuo as if to tease him.

"You went to see Lady Miyoko!? That whacked-up bitch who claims to know the future!? Psst. You're getting desperate, aren't you?" Oni joked.
His laughing was quickly silenced by the slashing of Kyubi's dagger, a move so fast nobody saw it even happen…but the table in front on Oni was now split clean in two, with Kyubi stood right in front of his face, giving him a very serious death stare.

"Lady Miyoko speaks the truth! She knows that the demon has resurfaced once more. I missed my last chance five years ago, but this time Lady Miyoko will not rely on petty humans like Akira! I will find my lord and master with her help, and then we will vanquish all the evil that has turned this lands people into savage rats! Rats like YOU, Oni!" Kyubi growled.
Oni huffed as if to accept Kyubi's angry statement, only because the kitsune had him at dagger-point and could cut him in an instant.
After noticing that Oni was backing off, Kyubi decided to calm down once again.
His mind was only just being put at ease, when Tetsuo sprung forward and started screaming at the top of his lungs again.

"You still haven't fucking told me anything about Donikoto!! And who's this Miyoko woman!? EH!? Who's she!? Really, I don't know her.And what do you know about Akira!?"Tetsuo squealed, tugging at Kyubi's robe to desperately aggravate the kitsune into telling him what he wanted to know.
Kyubi reached boiling point when Tetsuo managed to find one of Kyubi's six REAL fox tails and tugged at it repeatedly, the pain of the tugging sending the kitsune into a mad rage of howling and growling.
That was, until Tetsuo got scared and let go of him.

"Don't you ever touch my tails again, you hear me!?" Kyubi snorted.

"…you mean those things are real??" Kaneda blinked, now sat on the broken car seat with Kei beside him.

"I'd like to know who this 'Donikoto' is myself, Kyubi." Kiba announced curiously, still sat in the worn down wooden chair.
Kyubi rolled his eyes and ensured his six tails where once again out of sight, before finding himself a nice cushioned seat opposite the others.
He rolled his wrist slightly before sighing, issuing people who where interested to gather around.
Tetsuo, being the most enthusiastic to hear about everything, sat down on the floor right in front of Kyubi and looked up at him in excitement.

"First of all, Tetsuo, what do YOU know about Donikoto? How did you come to know his name?" the now calmed kitsune asked, resting his head tiredly on one of his hands.

"Donikoto just kept appearing in my dreams and shit, he'd keep calling me this weird name." Tetsuo answered.

"…what name was that?" Kyubi asked, taking immediate attention to the 20 year old.

"Some kind of old fashioned name…it was fucked up like…Tenson Atoshimatsu or something…" Tetsuo answered, sounding a little bit irritated.

"…" Kyubi remained silent for a moment; his silence was almost unsettling to everyone around him, since usually he'd freak out when old names come up.
But this one in particular was more important to him.

"And he'd then go on about how this Akira guy made a mistake in sending me back here…but I have no idea what the fuck he was talking about." Tetsuo rambled on, until Kyubi decided to interrupt what he was saying, in an attempt to clear up the situation.

"Well that's pretty obvious, you don't remember anything…so perhaps, and this is just a guess, but what if Donikoto is the cause of your amnesia? What could you do to retrieve them?" Kyubi began, getting a simple irritated shrugging of the shoulders from Tetsuo, who just looked totally confused about the whole situation.

"Think of Donikoto as a demon who feeds on certain powers; the power of mental distortions, the power of heartbreak or perhaps…the power of anger and rage. What do all of these powers have in common?" Kyubi questioned.

"….they are all painful things that leave bad memories behind." Kai answered.

"…so if he fed on these 'powers' which where manifested as memories, that would make him what my tribe called a 'Mind Eater'. He would eat away at your mind, slowly driving you insane before he'd finally take control of you and use whatever physical power you have. Kitsune Shamans where best known for their skills in accessing the minds of others and exorcising evil curses or spirits…a power Donikoto himself possesses." Kyubi began; the beginning of his story was due…everyone leaned forwards in anticipation, their eyes open, and their ears wide and ready to listen.

"You may remember a story of how Akira died 35 years ago; well…that was no ordinary accident. I and Lady Miyoko managed to break Akira out of his containment facility in order to destroy Donikoto, but he was no match for him. So in an attempt to at least seal him away again I sacrificed three of my tails to power up Akira's power, because Lady Miyoko was so convinced that he was the 'chosen one'. But the power up did nothing, so as a last resort Akira tried to suck Donikoto into this strange white void…but he escaped and Akira wound up dying in vain." Kyubi explained, rubbing his head for a few seconds before slouching into the seat again.

"There was a second incident that happened not too long ago, but it is beyond me to tell you about that. If you must find out about it, you must speak to Lady Miyoko." Kyubi added.

"But…who the fuck is she!? I don't even know who she is!" Tetsuo whined.

"You know that old, wrecked temple not too far from here? We scurried past it on the way…well, that's Lady Miyoko's temple. Her and a few monks take in the sick and injured and heal them…she also has a way of seeing into the future and retelling the past. She might be able to help you with your amnesia too." Kyubi explained, before resting his head on his hand.

"Don't listen to him, Tetsuo…Kyubi is getting too close to that old woman." Oni teased.

"Just shut the fuck up! I'll do what I want to!" Tetsuo snapped at the towering Oni, who wasn't sat on the floor like he was.

"If you really want to go to Miyoko's place then Kyubi can take you! I'm not setting one foot near that hell hole!" Oni growled before leaving the room, slamming the door behind him.

"…what's eating old dooshbag?" Kaneda mocked, one arm spread across the back of the car seat…and over Kei's head.

"Oni had a fight with one of Miyoko's monks…he wound up all battered and bruised, then she prophesised everything bad that would happen to him. He hates her for everything she said about him, but then again, it was his own fault for pissing her off." Kyubi answered.

"Y'know…this stuff about Donikoto is good and shit…but how the hell did he even come into existence!?" Tetsuo questioned, sounding a little bit impatient.

"Nobody knows where Donikoto really came from, but a very, very long time ago a gigantic chunk of metal in the shape of an exorcism arrow fell and struck our holy mountain up North. The land which it struck began to wither and die over the long years, until the god who protected our land fought back and rejected the parasite that came from the arrow. I was very young back then, probably younger than Oki, and only had one tail. I remember my tribe bringing the arrow down from the mountains one day and how they morphed it into a sword, which was dubbed the 'Seirei' sword." Kyubi answered, but continued.

"The sword was believed to be a holy ghost that would protect us from misfortune…but instead…it brought pain, anger and suffering onto my people. A demon in the shape of a dragon, with three heads resembling a wolf, snake and lion on long extended necks, and ten tails, charged down from the mountain and began its bloodthirsty massacre. It wiped out a third of our tribe until a friends father of mine finally sealed him back into the Seirei Sword." Kyubi added.

"Many eons ago one of our tribes best Shamans, Donikoto, got possessed by the demon who was sealed away inside that very sword for hundreds of years. The demon was known to our tribe as 'Gouka', Hells Fire, and he was the one responsible for many plagues and diseases in our world." Kyubi added, rubbing his eyes as if tired.

"That doesn't explain why he keeps appearing in Tetsuo's dreams…" Kaneda interrupted.

"I'm getting to that part! Ahem…anyway; when I and several other warriors fought Donikoto a strange being appeared before us and swiftly fought the beast. But after he finally sealed Donikoto away he died, leaving us only his name. But that was all we needed to know, since we already knew why he appeared." Kyubi added, brushing his silver hair aside before resting his head on his hand again.

"Really? What was his name?" Tetsuo asked, almost getting engulfed in the story.

"You should know, Tetsuo. You already told me his name." Kyubi laughed, sitting upright in the chair.

"His name was Tenson Atoshimatsu. And he was our god."

END OF CHAPTER 11.

AN: I know it's short…and there wasn't enough Tetsuo…but I just hope that clears up a bit about Donikoto and a tiny bit on Tenson Atoshimatsu; so don't hit me if you can point out the references to Okami! I love it! That and I also like Nacho's…they're yummy!

Teaser for next chapter

This teaser is a SECRET! Because the next chapter is all about Tenson Atoshimatsu, and WHY Donikoto is appearing in Tetsuo's dreams!