Author's Note: First of all...I want to say, sorry for the long wait, I obviously cannot keep promises on my 'weekly' releases! However at least I'm still coming up with ideas from time to time.
For those wondering why I haven't updated in a while: Writer's block, school gave me like 5 projects to finish in a month (but I procrastinate so really this can't be used as an excuse xD),laziness, gaming.
To the reviewer who was talking about Ame-onna being Ame-Warashi, I only put onna because of searching stuff up and because even Tsurara in the Nurarahyon series is called Yuki-onna. Then I searched up for Warashi, and found some xxHolic person o.O Even if that is the proper term, I'm too lazy to change it anyway XP
I had writers block so when you see that time split thing...the first part shows what I wrote 2 weeks before I released this chapter, the 2nd part shows what I wrote 1 day before I released, it may not flow but I think it does.
It was kind of scary to write this chapter, with Japan going through problems right now, and a tsunami just happened to be one of them, so I tried my best to avoid that subject/word. Good luck Japan and enjoy the chapter everyone.
"This is bad, very bad!" Toru began shaking.
"Rio, stop her!" Misaki shouted at him.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Rio yelled back.
He was trying to cut her with his sword but Ame-Onna was sidestepping in order to dodge it all.
"Too slow, you have to do better than that!" Ame-Onna taunted him as she licked her lips. "Where's your fear? You're fighting me like a normal samurai, without the use of fear can you even call yourself a Youkai?"
"Are you making fun of me?" Rio growled at her. "I'm not even giving my all!"
"Really? Because the longer you take, the more likely this town will flood. So you might want to speed this up." The Rain woman cackled.
Ame-Onna began to manipulate the water and used all of the water on the ground to create an orb of water in front of her. Rio backed away, unsure what was going to happen. Ame-Onna burst the orb and it shot out a jet of water at Rio.
"Tch!" Rio took a deep breath and exhaled.
Rio's ice breath shot out of his mouth to counter the jet of water aimed toward him. The ice and the water clashed. Rio continued to send out ice as Ame-Onna continued to concentrate the water already clashing with the ice.
"Ah…what am I even doing?" The rain woman felt ridiculous. She pointed up and the cloud in the sky began pouring a huge amount of water onto Rio.
Rio was drenched and even for having ice powers, he felt cold from it all. Rio shivered and Ame-Onna used that opportunity for the water to break through the ice and spray it all at Rio. Rio felt like he was going to drown.
This is bad… Rio continued to choke on the water.
"Show me it, show me your fear!" Ame-Onna begged of him. "The son of the great Master of All Spirits? How sad."
Rio sent a hand signal at his two friends that were watching the failure of his battle. He couldn't speak so he signalled them to run away. Toru and Misaki simply nodded and ran away from the battle.
"You'll die right here, drown!" Ame-Onna shrieked.
Rio continue to struggle but he gripped the handle of the sword and swiped it through the water that was attacking him, the flow of water changed for a second and that's all it took for Rio to be free from the attack.
"W-what happened?" Ame-Onna gasped.
Rio showed his sword at her, it was shiny, sparkling and glittering. "I made my sword have ice attributes so when it had contact with the water, the water froze for a little bit. Are you ready? Now that Toru and Misaki are gone I can cause some destruction."
"Destruction? Ha! Don't make me laugh." Ame-Onna smiled at him.
"Oh~ You don't believe me?" Rio smirked at her confidently.
Rio struck his sword on the ground as hard as he could. Right away, crystallized ice appeared in all sorts of directions and angles. Rio pushed the crystallized ice with the handle of his sword and shards came off and flew at Ame-Onna and pierced into her right arm. It started to bleed and she held it tightly.
"You!" Ame-Onna seemed enraged.
"Heh, imagine if I got one strike on you, you'd be done for. Now let's test it out shall we?" Rio gripped the sword and charged at her.
"No thank you." Ame-Onna smiled at him and then she dashed toward the other direction.
"Running away?" Rio shouted out for her as he ran to chase her. Where is everyone? I swear the household would have taken action by now…
Rio chased Ame-Onna to a neighbourhood district. Ame-onna ran to avoid crashing into any shops. She continued to run until she crashed into a person. She tripped, landed on the floor flat on her back.
Rio jumped in the air toward her with his sword up high. "I've gotcha!"
"You're so simple minded." Ame-onna laughed at him.
Rio looked up, as he heard the sound of rushing water. He saw a tidal wave that followed the district's walkway. It was heading straight at him, but he was already still in the air with his sword up, there was no time to run away.
"Bye, I'll see you soon." Ame-onna smiled at him and gave him the peace sign.
Rio, and everyone else on the street was swept up by the large wave, and were pushed back. The wave was like a river, bringing them to the edge of the district.
I have to save everyone! Rio thought as he was also in the flow of water movement.
As people panicked, they also tried to swim upstream but it wasn't working. Before anyone drowned, the water just vanished, vaporized. The flooding had stopped, but the light drizzling of rain continued. Rio had reverted back to his day form before anyone could grasp what had just happened. He was confused and also tried to think of how he was out alive.
Shit no time, where is that girl? Rio looked left and right repeatedly. He tried his hardest to scan for Ame-onna. Forget it…now that girl is on the loose and nobody even bothered to help me…whatever, I'll just head home.
"My my, Yuki-onna this tea is delicious, I just have one problem…" A young youkai girl gnawed at the cup.
"What is it?" Tsurara smiled at the girl.
"Why is this drink frozen solid?" The girl yelled at her.
"Now now no nitpicking, you're a guest appreciate what you are given~" Yuki-onna giggled.
Aotabo tapped Tsurara's shoulder, "the young master is back."
"Oh really~?" Tsurara stared at the girl. "I'll be right back~" She headed for the front gates and saw Rio in his day form, walking casually through the field before the mansion. "Rioooooo~" She went up to him.
"Hey…" Rio gave his mother an angry stare. "Didn't anybody wonder why the town was flooding?"
"Nope~" Tsurara smiled at him.
"Why you!..." Rio was about to continued ranting until he was interrupted.
"We have a guest, lemme show you who it is!" Rio's mother dragged him to the room with the girl.
She opened the door and the girl sat there, poking his frozen tea. The girl turned around, and stared at Rio clueless.
"Hello there~" The long haired girl, with grey and blue robe smiled with her eyes closed.
Rio's right eye twitched, he seemed irritated. "M-m-m-mom…w-what is this…?"
"Didn't I tell you our guest?" Tsurara stared at him blankly.
"What I mean is…why the hell is Ame-onna here?" Rio was outraged.
Ame-onna was blinking repeatedly at Rio. "I'm sorry…who are you?"
Rio switched to his night form and then pointed his index finger at you. "Don't give me that bullshit! We saw each other like 20 minutes ago!"
"Hey, watch your language!" Tsurara smacked him on the forehead with her palm. "She's our guest…actually our new attachment to this household."
"Oh no…don't tell me…" Rio grumbled softly but angrily.
"She'll be living with us from now on. She looks around your age, so you better get used to having her around!" Tsurara smiled at him.
"Yeah…I figured…" Rio turned away from both of the women in the room.
"Rio there's more!" Yuki-onna patted his head.
"M-more…? How can this get any worse?" Rio thought outloud.
"Worse? No no no this is a good thing!" Tsurara assured him. "Since she's a part of your Youkai age generation, she'll be your first official guard."
Rio stared Ame-onna in the face. Ame-onna smiled at him casually and waved. "Hi Rio, nice to meet you."
"There's no way I'm going to get along with this girl!" Rio stomped out of the room, mad.
Rikuo in his Nurarihyon form entered the room from the same door Rio left from.
"Rikuo…are you sure this was such a great idea?" Yuki-onna pouted. "He doesn't seem so happy."
"Of course he isn't. Because you made such a bad impression Ame-onna." Rikuo laughed with her.
"Well you told me to cause a disruption to test his abilities." Ame-onna just gave up with the tea and let it down on the table.
"Yeah, so how is he?" Rikuo stared at her, intrigued.
"At first…I thought he was nothing special then he gave me this…" Ame-onna rolled up the sleeve of her robe to reveal bandages that supposed to white but they were covered in red blood.
"So he passed." Rikuo smiled.
"Beyond our expectations." Ame-onna smiled back at him. "Don't worry, eventually, I'll be great acquaintances with Rio, just you wait."
Possible Title of Next Chapter: Getting Along