--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: 'Miyako' is her name! Miyako...oh! (Cough) Welcome back…You know I am back at college and updates are going to be slow. You should also have read my profile and should know that this story ends at chapter 21. 22 is a bonus for you, cause I am nice! BLAH!
Tetsuo's language is bad, you know there is always some form of senseless violence…and you should also know that there are some references to Okami in this too. And I just copied and pasted that from the last chapter! Don't make me do it again! Please? Lol.

Tetsuo Take Ato Niban Kikai

Part 13: Holy Saviour Or Dark Lord?

"Dawn breaks; a new day is upon us once more. Let us thank the Lords from the heavens for the sun to shine its beloved light upon us!" echoed an elderly voice inside a slightly wrecked temple; a cloaked Tetsuo and a fox Kyubi standing just outside of a collapsed gate, gazing through the black bars, listened intentively to the woman's voice.

"Sounds like Lady Miyako has already started her morning sermon…" Kyubi whispered after turning into his human form, gently shifting the collapsed gate aside so they could step through.
The temple was a short walk down the pathway, through a lush garden filled with cherry blossoms and blooming with flowers.
Although their where large chunks of metal and debris sticking out of the green grass, and a rusted broken-down car sat nearby a blossom tree; they where covered in vines and looked quite fitting with the scenery.
There was a small patch of sand to Tetsuo's left as he faced the temple, which had a small tree seedling growing from it. It twitched slightly just like it was happy to see him as he stared at it, until he narrowed his eyes and kicked some dust at it, causing it to stop it's rather odd behaviour.
Tetsuo muttered under his breath how much he hated religious sermons and strange plants, and tugged at the cloak he was wearing to make sure it was secure before following Kyubi through the gate.

"Do I really have to come here!?" Tetsuo growled in a whisper to the kitsune as he placed the gate back in place, hiding his face from the fox-man under the raised hood for very obvious reasons.

"Yes, Lady Miyako summoned you…but you did not notice her calling, so I had to bring you here instead. You can't go against Lady Miyako's calling, Tetsuo." Kyubi answered, using his hand to turn Tetsuo around in the direction of the temple before edging him to walk to it.

"Benevolent Seiobo, we pray to you as thanks for our trees blossoms! May your light shine bright on our broken land and warm our people's hearts!" her voice echoed, followed by the cheers of multiple people from within.
As the sermon went on, and as Tetsuo got closer, he began to feel a cold wind travel down his spine…and felt the sudden urge to run away from the temple, which was getting closer with each walking step.
Tetsuo finally snapped, he stopped walking and tried to go in the opposite direction, but Kyubi's tall hulking frame blocked his escape, and he knew better than to pick a fight with the Kitsune Shaman.

"Pick up your courage, Tetsuo. Why are you so afraid of seeing Lady Miyako anyway? Is it the fact she can see into the future that daunts you?" Kyubi questioned, before pushing Tetsuo even closer to the temple…obviously not wanting an answer from the raven-haired young adult, but more of the 'picking up of his courage' thing instead.
Tetsuo took a deep huff of air as they finally approached the main archway, which was gigantic, and stepped through it into the main entrance to the temple.
Inside the temple was that more bearable, the only thing that was broken was one pillar, which seemed to rest against the wall beside it.
This 'Lady Miyako' sure did take care of this place.
Kyubi had already taken a seat on one of the cushions which lay on wooden boards across the floor; he was reading a small book from the pile nearby a giant statue of a half-man half-wolf fighting with a very elegant warrior.
Tetsuo, still with his hood raised, gazed up at the magnificent statue and cocked his head to one side as if trying to remember something.
That was when a sudden 'mental-flash' startled his concentration and caused him to fall on one of his knees, stunned by the vision he just received he remained on his knee and rested a clenched fist onto the ground to maintain his balance.

A dark cloud spawns a demon of death; the wrong choice leads to the path of destruction. A light cloud spawns the angel of salvation; the right choice leads to the path of restoration.

Tetsuo wanted to yelp in surprise and cry out in pain, but he didn't want to gain any unwanted attention from whoever was lurking in this place.
So he just shoved his clenched fist into his mouth and gnawed on it, his left eye twitching with frustration until the pain slowly soothed away.
Kyubi didn't take much notice, he was busy praying and reading from a magical tome. But the startled gasp of an elderly man signified to the raven-haired psychic that he was being watched, by someone other than Kyubi.
As he got back to his feet, panting lightly to ease his body from the startling vision he received, Tetsuo turned to face another archway that was behind him before. Only to find there was nobody there.

"Master Kinaki won't be impressed with you, if all you do is wish for your target to be right in front of you all the time." Kyubi blurted out as he continued reading his book.
Tetsuo turned to face Kyubi and growled, before finally lowering his hood and stomping over to the kitsune.
He spread himself as he began powering up his 'psychic wave' of fury, obviously angry with Kyubi testing him, until it was hindered by the elderly voice once again.

"An enemy can be anything, anywhere and show up anytime it so wishes. If you are unlucky to have Gouka as an enemy, then that means he can take any form." The elderly voice explained, before the source emerged from the same archway Tetsuo investigated just a second ago.
It was a very old man wearing a long samurai robe that was covered in fox tails, many more than Kyubi's robe, and was carrying multiple swords on his back.
He was also using a 'training sword' as a walking stick.

"Master Kinaki, so many years have passed." Kyubi greeted as he got to his feet and approached the elderly man, who seemed to be in his late eighties.

"My young Shaman friend, you haven't aged one bit. I see the gods still use their magic to protect you and keep you so young, unfortunately after retiring from battle I succumbed to age and now reside here…and why have you come here anyway? Lady Miyako usually calls for you in public, but this time she chose not to tell us?" the elderly man coughed, slowly edging his way towards the Shaman.

"We have arrived because of an urgent meeting that I and my good friend here must attend to with Lady Miyako. It involves the fate of Gouka-no-Donikoto." Kyubi explained as the elderly man began to push his luck with the psychic stood beside the towering Shaman, he continuously eyed him as if disappointed or unsure, shaking his head every now and then before sighing deeply.

"This cannot be Tenson reborn! He is far too consumed by darkness, and he is also very unsure of himself. That is the complete opposite of our holy saviour!" Master Kinaki huffed.

"I do not know for certain if Tetsuo here is Tenson reborn, but all I can say is that he has great power. Possibly enough to greatly weaken Gouka-no-Donikoto." Kyubi answered back in a respectful tone of voice.

"Nonsense! Tenson couldn't beat him those many years ago, so a young boy couldn't do it!" Master Kinaki growled as he gave Tetsuo a rather intimidating death stare.
He just looked back at him the usual way… that 'Shall I blow your head off now, or later? Or maybe I should drill horrible images into your head?' kind of look.

"I am sorry to inform you, Master Kinaki, that Kyubi is correct in saying that." Another voice interrupted, this time the elderly voice was female…and sounded much softer than the harsh 'barking tone' of Master Kinaki.
The two kitsune's bowed in unison towards the archway Master Kinaki came from before, to greet a short but chubby old woman…who had her long black hair tied back in a large ball, wearing a white robe and a string of orange beads in her hands.
There where three monks behind her, obviously bodyguards, who stayed totally silent throughout all her discussions.
Tetsuo just stood in a normal stance and stared in observation at the old woman and her monks; highly disrespectful considering her position as the priestess.

"My Lady! Forgive the youngsters disrespect!" Master Kinaki cheered, before whacking Tetsuo at the back of his head angrily, instructing him to bow as well.
But he just cursed at the old kitsune in response, rubbing his head violently to sooth the sting.

"He means us no harm; he is just greatly lost in the midst of darkness. Today we shall finally see together if the tale is true." The elderly woman answered before approaching the trio, who where now all stood up in similar stances…the kitsunes obviously mimicking Tetsuo's stance to prevent him being scolded for disrespectful behaviour.
One thing they couldn't mimic though; was his language.

"What the fuck are you talking about old bat!?" Tetsuo snapped a clueless, but angry, expression on his face.

"Such foul words; you have been greatly contaminated. Have you not ever visited a temple for purification?" Lady Miyako questioned, sounding a little unsurprised over the language spilling from Tetsuo's mouth.

"Fuck no. Temples give me the creeps." Tetsuo answered back.

"Such disrespect! Why I have every right to beat you---" Master Kinaki began, but got silenced quickly by Kyubi, who didn't want Tetsuo to get anymore wound up.

"Young man, is it your long lost past that brought you to my temple? Or did you hear my calling?" Lady Miyako asked, laughing lightly at Kyubi's desperate attempt to keep his master quiet.

"Dumb-ass Kyubi dragged me here because he thinks I'm his 'legendary god' or something fucked up like that! I never wanted to come here!" Tetsuo spat, directing that last sentence in Kyubi's general direction.
The kitsune just huffed as a response and finally released Master Kinaki from his grasp.

"Oh, I see. Well…now that you're here I can tell you everything you need to know about your past, and who you really are." Lady Miyako blurted out in a friendly tone.
Tetsuo then sprung into disbelief over what he just heard, she would tell him everything!?
But just as she got his hopes up, he was quickly brought back down the Earth by her next sentence.

"But you must first be purified, the demon has been in very…close…if not direct contact with you recently. If I exposed your true identity he would possess you in an instant, then all would be lost." Lady Miyako added.

"Demon!? Purification!? I don't fucking remember even touching that monster-thing! Let alone be in direct contact with it! And screw the purification crap!" Tetsuo whined.

"If you do not accept the purification, then we will have to force you into proceeding with It." Kyubi growled.

"Kyubi is right, you have no choice. The purification is essential to you maintaining control of your body; we do not want a repeated incident." Lady Miyako added.
Tetsuo just snorted, folded his arms and turned his back on the group before attempting to leave.

"You can't MAKE me do shit!" Tetsuo snapped as he made his way to the entrance, but was quickly grasped by the back of his cloak and hauled to the back of the chapel by a powerful Kyubi.
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SPLASH!
Tetsuo was tossed right into a hot spring outside the back of the temple by Kyubi, who was holding the 20-yearolds rune-tooth gear.

"Ten minutes in the spring, Tetsuo. And don't even think of leaving, we have your clothes!" Kyubi laughed before closing the door which leads to the spring.
Tetsuo sulked and allowed himself sink into the hot water up to his nose, a wet towel on his head and a cup of tea resting on a tray just behind him on a stone.

"This is fucking pointless." He cursed after sitting upright again one he knew Kyubi had left, tossing the towel off his head and over his shoulder.
Sighing heavily, Tetsuo sprawled his arms out across the stone-rimmed spring and examined his surroundings, finding a tall bamboo fence just to his left.
The spring seemed to stretch under the fence and possibly beyond it, Tetsuo could also hear people talking on the other side, but he couldn't tell if they where men or women.

"It would be so cool to see some hot looking girls right about now…" Tetsuo thought as he wiped some water droplets off his face with the towel that was hanging over his shoulder, a smug look planted on his face.
If a thought bubble could be seen, it would most certainly show Tetsuo on a throne dressed like a king whilst he is being smothered by lots of bikini-babe girls.
The little foul-mouthed pervert.
Just as he started to fantasize the gorgeous girls he always dreamt of, chuckling to himself whilst faintly blushing, he heard the giggling of girls from behind the bamboo fence.
The giggling of the girls made Tetsuo's face go bright red and caused him to sink back down to nose-depth in the spring water, slightly weary that those 'fantasy girls' could actually be real…and watching/listening to him right now.

"Why on Earth are you sat here hiding when you could be smothered by a bunch of gorgeous girls!? Or even get laid!? Now get up and peek over the fence!" barked the devil on Tetsuo's left shoulder.

"NO! Stay here and finish things up here, you never know…maybe later you might meet someone nicer than those girls over the fence? Or…wait…she wouldn't be naked. Peek over the fence!" said the little angel on Tetsuo's right shoulder.
Now with both his thought tracks pointing him to peek over the fence, he sneaked up and climbed onto a large rock that was just beside the bamboo fence…tentatively raising his head up just so he could get a good view without being detected.
And by golly, he got a good view.
The hot spring on the other side was gigantic compared to the dinky little thing Tetsuo was put in, and it was filled with many young girls all bathing and talking to each other.
Tetsuo heard more giggles come from below where he was looking and decided to look that little bit more and listen in on what the girls where talking about.

"No way! Lady Miyako thinks he's Tenson reborn!?"

"But he's so skinny!"

"Shhh! I can't here him!!"

"I bet the little dick is doing the unspeakable over there right now, from what Lady Miyako said he doesn't sound anything like Tenson. You're lying."

"From how Lady Miyako described him, he sounded like he looked like that statue of Tenson in the temple. I believe Lady Miyako, so don't call me a liar!"

"He's not laughing anymore! I bet you guys scared him!"
Tetsuo cursed in a whisper after hearing the young ladies comment on him being scared.

"OH! I heard him curse!"

"How could you hear that!? Oh no! He must be on to us!"

"He has a really sexy voice, what I wouldn't give to see what he looks like!! Help me look over the fence!"
As soon as Tetsuo heard the girls talk about looking over the fence too, he began to panic and nearly lost his footing.
But before he could look back over and get into the spring again, the girls had already climbed onto each others shoulders to look over the fence and saw him, Tetsuo turning his head to face right into one of theirs by accident after regaining his balance.

"AGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!" they all screamed, before they all lost their footing and grabbed onto the fence for dear life.
Tetsuo fell backwards and back into his spring, whilst the girls also fell back and took the fence down with them.

"Owww…maybe that wasn't such a good idea…" Tetsuo muttered as he sat upright, rubbed his head and observed the fallen fence.
All the girls who where bathing on the other side immediately turned their gaze towards the source of all the commotion, only to see a set of young girls fussing over the broken fence and a totally nude Tetsuo trying his best to hide under the water of the hot spring.

"Shit! There's nothing worse than being the only guy in a hot spring filled with girls, where you're not supposed to be!! Pervert-cries are all that welcome me if I resurface!! I must not breathe!" Tetsuo thought to himself as he struggled to stay under the water.
Instead of drowning in the spring, Tetsuo found himself being hauled out of the water under his arms by the oldest of the young women.

"Look at the little guy! I bet he was scared to death when you perverted girls tore down the fence! Shame on you!"
Rather than being scolded and abused verbally by the girls, Tetsuo was being smothered and treated as the victim!
For once he wasn't being called the pervert!

"We're sorry Amah, but we couldn't resist!"

"He was so tempting!"

"Hmph, well…I think all we can do now is make sure he stays comfortable! You two get over here and give him a backrub."
A backrub!? Wow! Tetsuo thought he died and went to heaven with how many of his dreams where coming true! First he gets promised to have all his memories revealed, and then he gets a hot bath…doesn't get called a pervert in an awkward situation and now a backrub!
Tetsuo pinched his human arm just to make sure it wasn't another fantasy, but he felt the pain…it was all real!

"This is going to be good." Tetsuo chuckled with a smug look on his face.
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"Do you have the full report!?" boomed the Colonel as several scientists run back and forth from multiple counters and storage units, all desperately searching for something.

"We've found at least eighty seven percent of the document you want making, sir! We'll have a plan formed by the end of the week if we are lucky!" the Professor answered as he began to retrieve pieces of paper from the frantic scientists and sort them in a new folder.

"I need it by the end of today! The plan is already in development, but if we loose one more test subject I will be placing the blame on YOU! Do you understand!? Number 41 was unavoidable, it would have happened eventually. But Number 42 as well!? Get it sorted by tonight!" The Colonel boomed.

"Yes sir!" The professor responded, still continuing with his work.

"Somebody get me Corporal Giro! I need someone to spy on that Temple in the city centre!" The Colonel boomed as a final order.

(This part of the chapter is longer, but the rest of this is being reserved for the bonus 'take-outs' chapter. If I left it in, this chapter would be too long!)
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Meanwhile, back at the temple…

"Kyubi, it has been ten minutes. Maybe you should go and retrieve the youngster and get him dressed, we haven't much time left. The military are already forming plans to capture him once more." Lady Miyako instructed, now sat in her priestess throne and reading 'bone and bead' prophecies to her daily visitors.

"Yes my Lady." Kyubi answered as he bowed to her, taking his leave towards the nearest exit which would lead to the hot springs.
There he reached the 'separation border' of the spring, with one door to his left saying GIRLS and another on his right saying BOYS.
Just as he was about to open the boys' door his ears twitched as he picked up on some rather disturbing sounds coming from the girls' door…

"Ohhh…a little to the left!"
Kyubi twitched his nose after recognising that voice to be none other than Tetsuo Shima's…sounding like he was receiving a massage and enjoying it.
Just as Kyubi shook off the image and returned to his stern posture, ready to open the girls' door now, he stopped once again after hearing more sounds.

"Have you never done this before!? Guys don't like it that way! Try it like this!"
Was that Amah, the 'mentor' of the girls' bath!?

"Wow! You're really good! But like I said, a little more to the left would prove better results!"
Kyubi wasn't one to have horrible images appear in his head, but Tetsuo's whining and actual 'happy' tone of voice made it hard not to get them.
He growled and bared his teeth like an angry dog before shoving the door open regardless of what he saw, letting out a very harsh and defensive bark to make his presence known.
And there Tetsuo was, happily sat in the middle of the girls hot spring…receiving a back massage from Amah whilst having his hair washed by another girl, and many others were surrounding him with other 'pampering' bath tools.

"What on Earth is going on here!?" Kyubi barked.

"Poor little Tetsuo here had his bath interrupted by some of my perverted girls and their ripping down of the 'separation fence'…so instead of ruining his bath, we decided to give him one!" Amah giggled before massaging Tetsuo's scalp, the 20-yearold now drooling heavily and blushing bright pink, obviously enjoying every second of it.

"He is NOT working as a male geisha right now! He is going through a purification ceremony in order to have his meeting with Lady Miyako!" Kyubi growled.

"You mean this hot little stud belongs to your nightclub!? Why didn't you tell us!!?" one of the young girls cried out, grabbing hold of Tetsuo's human arm and clinging to it like she didn't want him to leave.
The other girls also huddled around the raven-haired male, who gave off that typical smug look to Kyubi before winking at him childishly.
The fur on Kyubi's robe flared outwards, almost like it was part of his being, in anger.

"Tetsuo Shima! You're not here to be pampered and have dates! You're here to learn about yourself!" Kyubi barked at the smothered Tetsuo, who was still being hugged and massaged by the girls.

"Lighten up fur-ball; I am learning about myself...in my own, more fun, way." Tetsuo answered back in an extremely calm and light voice, for once he didn't curse or sound at all frustrated.
Kyubi settled down after hearing the tone in Tetsuo's voice, before his eyes widened in disbelief at the raven-haired youngster.

"Y-you're voice!!" Kyubi blurted out in shock.

"Hm? What about my voice?" Tetsuo asked in the same calm tone, although he sounded calm he looked slightly concerned at Kyubi's display.

"It sounds like---like---" Kyubi rattled on, unable to finish his own sentence.

"---it sounds just like Tenson's." came the voice of Lady Miyako, as she made her way past Kyubi and into view.
The girls instantly panicked and flung themselves to the far corners of the hot spring, hastily getting on with what they were doing before the fence fell down.
Tetsuo, now feeling alone and rejected, sulked.

"Hope you don't mine, my Lady, if I stay and keep young Tetsuo company?" Amah requested, moving herself to Tetsuo's left before brushing her hands through his hair to finish washing him.
Lady Miyako just nodded in agreement.

"Do as you wish my dear, as long as you're happy with it and I can continue my meeting with the youngster." Lady Miyako answered.
Tetsuo didn't answer back or complain about the old woman wishing to just continue with what she wanted to do right here, probably because he was happy being pampered by Amah and wanted her to stay.

"Now…what was your name again?" Lady Miyako asked.
Tetsuo rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Tetsuo Shima, now don't forget it…its fucking annoying when you old people forget my name." Tetsuo whined.

"Right then, Tetsuo…I shall begin to reveal your past to you, I do believe Kyubi already told you about Akira and Gouka…also known as Donikoto…so I can skip all of that. I am going to get right to the point now Tetsuo; you wield a godly power that ran out of your control five years ago…" Lady Miyako began, Tetsuo listening with a decent amount of interest.

"…the demon Donikoto takes any shapes and forms he comes across, and once he found you could manipulate objects around you to your advantage…lets say…replace a certain arm with metallic objects…he found his method of 'attempting the possession' of you. Because back then you where a stones throw away of being at full power, Donikoto couldn't just possess you like he did his former victims. He had to find a weak spot…" Lady Miyako added.

"Let me guess…he found it in this metal piece of junk I call an arm?" Tetsuo questioned sarcastically, obviously not expecting an answer.

"Indeed…let us say he became your arm for a short while, then he finally found a way to control your powers…what happened next? You lost full control of your body, and because Donikoto is a mass of evil he had to take a form most fitting of the body he possessed. Unfortunately he managed to kill someone using your very being, a person who was most close to you…her pain and sadness swelled into your mutated form once he killed her, making his influence ever more powerful." Lady Miyako added, Tetsuo's eyes widening with the constant mentioning of the death of this 'close person'.

"You mean…he killed…that I…" Tetsuo jittered, until a sharp ringing sound shot through his head.

"Yes…you did."

"I…I killed Kaori!? NO! I don't believe you!!" Tetsuo roared, the ringing instantly stopping afterwards, relieving him of his on-coming headache.

"Believe whatever you wish, and ignore what you do not want to. Kaori perished because of Donikoto's influence over your body, his darkness stretched out towards anything with pain, anger or sadness lurking within their hearts…Kaori suffered the pain you did and cowered away in sadness when you got angry or badly hurt, but he wouldn't lay a finger on those of pure heart like Akira." Lady Miyako answered.
Tetsuo's anger drifted, his heart sank, and the truth was something he didn't want to believe.
Instead of getting positive information about his past, all he got was masses of negativity.
He remained sat in the same place, eager to hear at least some good information.

"You seem very quiet, Tetsuo." Lady Miyako pondered.

"That's strange; usually he'd whip out some foul remark about someone and then bash everyone with abusive language…" Kyubi muttered in a slightly concerned tone.

"Deep thought is something you must hold on to, Tetsuo. It keeps you strong against the darkness." Master Kinaki suggested.

"Anyway, I must continue…we have not got much time left." Lady Miyako blurted out, aware of the military watching over the temple.

"Akira came after three young psychics, much like you, summoned him from the 'distant dimension'. Akira tried to suck Donikoto's essence into the new dimensional portal, having to take you in the process. But he failed for the second time, only taking you away and the youngsters."

"A young man by the name of Shotaro Kaneda was a dear friend to you back then, but your powers caused many complications inside your head and Donikoto even tried to drive you to madness by throwing 'precognitive images' into your sleep. Eventually he got what he wanted, he corrupted your already fragile and broken mind into the path of darkness…but he couldn't go any further until you lost your arm."

"Kaneda does not know what happened to your parents, and neither did you back when you where small…but he looked after you like a brother, and Donikoto twisted your mind into thinking he was nothing more than a bully towards you. Right this minute the demon could try to do the same things again, you must not take the 'visions' or 'dark images' seriously! If you do, then we will have a repeating of incidents long past…only this time, nobody will be able to stop the demon."

"As for your parents…a holy force watched over you and shielded your eyes from what really happened to them, it made you think you where abandoned…now brace yourself youngster, you may not like what you hear…" Lady Miyako warned.
Tetsuo clenched his fists and tried to hold back his anger…and the slight desire to cry over how much bad information he was getting…but things would get much worse.

"Your parents where murdered, by Donikoto…he stormed your home and savaged them, desperately looking for you to do the same. But an unknown holy force took you away from the demon before he could locate you, wiping your memory clean of the horrible slaughter before making it seem like you where abandoned. Donikoto found you at the orphanage, but the holy force kept him at bay and he had no choice but to go into hiding." Lady Miyako added.
Tetsuo finally snapped; he couldn't take anymore negativity being thrown at him.
Lunging to his feet, forgetting he was still bathing, he began to throw out all that bottled up emotion in a swell of psychic waves.

"Shut up!! I don't want to fucking hear anymore!!!" Tetsuo howled, a wave of psychic energy striking the door behind Lady Miyako, shattering it into hundreds of pieces.
But she was unaffected.

"Very well…but you must learn about your past before your full power can be unleashed." She answered, adjusting her glasses before leaning on a cane one of her monks gave to her.

"All you've been telling me is all the fucking negative stuff about my past! Why can't you tell me something good!?" Tetsuo cried, tears finally streaming down his cheeks.

"It breaks my heart to hear you remember so little, Tenson." Lady Miyako said as she shook her head in disappointment.

"I already told you, my name is TETSUO!" Tetsuo cried, franticly wiping away his tears to hide his emotions once again.

"As I said before; you will remain greatly weakened until you can remember everything about your past." Lady Miyako announced, turning away from the emotional wreck that is Tetsuo Shima.

"What the fuck!? You just told me about---" Tetsuo began in a weeping tone, but got interrupted by Lady Miyako, who turned around slightly to answer the oncoming question.

"That was your recent life. I am talking about your PAST LIFE. I am unable to help you remember that, for it is beyond my power…but in time your memories will return…along with your marvelous strength. I can not wait to see you in full throttle again, Tenson!" she answered before turning back to face the shattered doorway, entering it with her monks beside her and Master Kinaki following behind.

"You stupid old bat! My name is TETSUO!!!" Tetsuo barked at the elderly woman, who had now made herself scarce and left the scene.

"Tetsuo…" Kyubi asked in a slightly irritated tone.

"What!?" Tetsuo barked as he jolted his attention to the unimpressed Kyubi, who was holding a towel in his right hand, offering it to the twenty year old.

"…cover yourself up and get dressed, we've got unwanted company out front that needs dealing with…and it's not just the hordes of worshippers either…" Kyubi suggested as he threw the towel at Tetsuo's face, still sounding unimpressed as he made his way out the door as well.
Tetsuo ripped the towel off his face and wringed it in his hands, growling and cursing under his breath before wrapping it around his waist.

"Come back again soon, okay? And don't worry about Lady Miyako calling you Tenson; she sometimes forgets people's names and calls them by the gods' names." Amah explained before waving him off.
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After getting changed and meeting up with Kyubi in the main temple entrance they where in before, Tetsuo heard the constant chanting of people calling out:

'Tenson Atoshimatsu, our savior has returned!'

"Ignore them…listen carefully for what I and Lady Miyako heard…" Kyubi instructed to Tetsuo, who was slightly sickened by the chanting outside.
He listened anyway, and didn't hear very much.
Well, other than a dog growling.

"Do you hear the growling dog?" Kyubi asked.

"Pfft. Of course I do! Someone's pissed off that mutt good!" Tetsuo answered back.

"You pissed it off, and 'that mutt' is Donikoto." Kyubi corrected the raven-haired psychic, who quickly began flexing his shoulders as if ready for a fight.

"Bring that angry mutt on! I have a few things I wanna---wait a second…he's HERE!? Right now!?" Tetsuo shifted into a panic, remembering all the horrible things Kyubi said about Donikoto…and how a god couldn't even beat him, let alone Akira.

"He won't set foot in the temple, and he's not in a dogs form right now either. He looks human, it seems he's possessed somebody else…someone powerful…but the foul beast is still there, you can hear it and feel it when he gets close to you. A cold shiver runs down your spine just being in his presence, his evil essence caused many people to enter shock and never wake up…it doesn't matter what he looks like now, he's still just a demonic blood-hound! We can not go outside; even if the army is out back waiting for us we can not risk going out the front and risking our lives along with all those peoples." Kyubi explained, remaining incredibly calm as he spoke.
Tetsuo sighed angrily before growling himself.

"Keep growling Tetsuo; let him know you're here as well." Kyubi encouraged, his gaze constantly focused on the temple doors which lead outside.
The doors which lead to hell-fires dark demon of death; Gouka-no-Donikoto.

END OF CHAPTER 13.

AN: Don't expect chapter 14 too soon, A2 is hard work! So it will be written slowly whenever I can write it. I don't like to rush my fan fictions, because it means they aren't as well thought out as they usually are. So don't push me too hard, I'm trying my best!
Oh and, um, HERE'S THAT TEASER THINGIE!!!

Teaser for next chapter

"Do that again!"

"Do what again!?"

"That thing you did earlier, where you magically got tattoos and caught fire! That was really neat!"

"I didn't see anything like that…"

"It's because I never DID anything like that, the stupid kids on drugs."

"You're probably going to hit me with every form of verbal abuse I can think of for saying this, but…I saw it too. And I know you can do it again, so just do what you did before."