Chapter 12: The Red Sword (Part 1)

Monday Early Morning: Fowler Residence.

Theresa woke up tiredly, her body was stiff but lacked any form of pain whatsoever, something that Theresa quickly took notice as she stretched her body, she quickly got out of her bed, noticing that she woke up quite early, and her hair smelled like the usual shampoo she regularly uses, she needed to be at school at like eight but she woke up at six thirty, strange things was happening, but then again, nothing is stranger than being a catalyst for Demon's who live in the weapons they once held when they were still in this world, Theresa also then noticed that her backpack was neatly on top of her dresser, curiously she opened the bag which contained the exact class textbooks and notebooks she needs for this school day.

Before Theresa could even pick up the Three Oni's weapons and place them in something else besides the usual guitar case sense Randy knows whats really in the guitar case, Theresa smelled a scent of soup cooking over the stove, somewhat irking Theresa for her Mother usual goes to work and Theresa herself fixes up her own breakfast, she never had a home cooked breakfast before, curiously she placed her usual school outfit on her body and went to the kitchen, almost like she was following the good-smelling scent itself.

There at the kitchen, it was empty, her mother wasn't there, but the large pot containing soup was real and on the stove, it looked like the contents was already made and it was just being kept warm with a low flame. Curiously, Theresa opened the pot, it wasn't a usual American soup, it was something more foreign, almost like a big pot of ramen rather than soup, it had noodles and large vegetables placed in with large cubes of chicken and beef all with a broth probably made of chicken, the only thing that Theresa could specifically identify rather than just saying noodles and vegetables.

'Good morning Theresa...' Shirokuma chimed in, his voice quiet but still gruff and strong in tone, somewhat making Theresa jump in slight surprise.

"Did you make this Shirokuma?" Theresa asked as she went into a cabinet to get herself a bowl, she knew her mother's culinary experiments and she never tried doing something as simple soup with noodles.

'Yes, I partially possessed you while you were asleep to stretch sense you said a couple days ago you had an aching body, and in the meantime I made you Chankonabe for breakfast, I hope you enjoy it, its strong for your body and its a food that's high in volume and filling but light in calories...' Shirokuma said, his voice being kind and sympathetic but still strong and stern.

'I partially possessed you also, I organized your backpack and took a shower to cleanse your body, and no, I didn't look at your...Most private of parts...' Mizuwani chimed in also, his humble tone made Theresa believe him and his words.

Theresa smiled as she ladled a bowl of chankonabe for herself and she went into the dining room to eat this almost heaven-smelling meal, she began to dig in this delicious meal, with spoon and fork, a spoon for the broth and the fork for everything else, she ate heartily as she enjoyed the taste thoroughly, being savory and hearty yet not bloating and wrenching, like a real good breakfast should be.

"Thanks guys..." Theresa said as she finished her breakfast, the two Oni's smiled in response, Theresa took their silence as a form of a 'your welcome'.

"Actually, is Kazeryu with you or what?" Theresa asked, already noticing the disturbing lack of 'Onee-chan' from the supposedly silent Kazeryu.

'He's just sleeping, he'll be awake before you know it Theresa...' Shirokuma said with a verbal ticking scoff.

"Okay, thanks for the warning." Theresa responded with a playful tone, Mizuwani laughed at Theresa's response.

'Looks like your learning from me, Now that's a good response, well done Ponytail!' Mizuwani said honestly, using the Nickname that uses for Theresa affectionately rather than mockingly than before, Theresa smiled in response to Mizuwani's words

Norrisville High: Lunch Period

Theresa closed her locker after placing in the books she doesn't need for the rest of the day, instead of the guitar case that Theresa usually uses to keep the weapons incognito, she instead was using a large brown duffel bag that contained all three weapons, the bag was big enough to even shroud Mizuwani's trident with a layer of leather, something that Theresa was very thankful for, she wondered to herself, will this be a common practice? Not the whole duffel bag thing but the Shirokuma and Mizuwani basically takes care of you in the morning thing, she was perfectly willing to ask the Golden Samurai Oni and the Blue Alligator Oni, and so she did.

'We'll keep taking care of your morning school day woes, if that's okay with you...' Shirokuma said, somewhat softly as he didn't that want his gruff and strong voice to make his words sound distasteful than intended to.

'If it makes you happy, then we'll keep cleaning yourself and cooking you powerful breakfast food that is usually served to the Sumo.' Mizuwani said somewhat smugly, but he was still being honest with his words

"Really?" Theresa said, Shirokuma scoffed with an approving tone, basically telling the Violet-haired Oni keeper that his words are true.

'Once again Ponytail, no grains of salt over this shoulder.' Mizuwani said with a polite chuckle after speaking in a snarky but honest tone.

Theresa smiled, but she then frowned somberly and sighed heavily when about four lockers away from her, she heard her former crush, Randy Cunningham who was talking with his best friend named Howard Weinerman, they were probably talking about her, talking about that she is the three Oni's, Theresa hoped that Randy or Howard won't spread her secrets like a wildfire but this probably will happen because of the fact that Howard is the brother of the most biggest gossipers in the entire school, something that brought a form of worry in Theresa.

'That's Randy's best friend? He seems like his most biggest defining character is his undying love of food.' Mizuwani said smugly, his voice being very venomous as well, Theresa slightly smiled in response to Mizuwani's insults to her former crush's best friend, who in some cases, deserve these words.

"No, but your close if I was being honest…" Theresa said somewhat sarcastically but quietly to avoid being pestered by the Cunningham and the Weinerham.

'Its rather easy to determines a human's personality when you hear their voice, hear their wordplay, look at their tics and then look at their body.' Mizuwani said rather smugly before laughing quietly to himself.

"That's not true…" Theresa retorted, clearly wanting Mizuwani to think higher of humans

'Oh sure, sure, you can hide your courage and kindness with shyness and timidness, I'll give you a token of my deceitful admiration's, but when you look at the Weinerman fellow and not think that guy is not a good guy based on his unwallowed fatness and needless desire to engorge himself… You must be trying to be justify bad deeds...' Mizuwani continued once more, his voice although honest was still tinged with venom.

"Well, at least I don't judge a book by its cover…" Theresa responded, Mizuwani fell silent for a moment before saying.

'Touche.' He said somewhat quietly, Theresa took his softer tone as a sign of humbling, after she was finished with stuffing her locker with various school books and school supplies she was approached by her best friend Debbie Kang.

"Hey Debbie…" Theresa said as she sighed, Debbie Kang quickly noticed that Theresa wasn't fawning over Randy as usual.

"Did something happened with Randy yesterday?" Debbie asked, Theresa frowned as a response to Debbie's words

"Yeah, he knows that I'm the Oni Keeper, and one of the Oni's decided it was a good idea to threaten Randy's idol…" Theresa said quieter than usual for she only wanted her best friend to hear, Debbie looked at Theresa with an raised eyebrow.

"He knows your secret? How?" Debbie asked, Theresa was about to answer, and she mentally slapped herself.

"Because I put the weapons in the guitar case and Kazeryu fought the bad guy with the guitar case strapped to his back and I'm guessing Randy just put two and two together…" Theresa said sadly.

"Wow, well then, are you going to stop using Kazeryu then?" Debbie asked, Theresa looked her in shock and simply asked her best friend.

"Why would I do that? He's just a kid you know, he didn't know any better…" Theresa said in defense to the Purple Dragon Oni.

Meanwhile in Purgatory…

Mizuwani and Shirokuma silently watched afar as Kazeryu had his back turned to the two and was somehow drawing some childish drawing using paper that was provided by Miuzwani and was drawing with some crayons that was in his pocket, most likely grabbed when he asked Shirokuma to grab a box of crayons when Theresa revealed her secret as the Oni Keeper to Debbie.

The drawings although childish and clumsy at best was at least providing the dark abyss of Purgatory some life with color variety as the drawins were all throughout the floor of Purgatory it reflected Kazeryu childish but innocent nature with drawings of bunnys, puppies and kitty kats.

"Are you doing well Mizuwani? Why are you looking at Kazeryu like that?" Shirokuma asked the Blue Alligator Oni next to him who was looking at the Purple Dragon Oni with an itrigued glare

"Did you even bother to look at some of these drawings?" Mizuwani said to the Golden Samurai Oni, Shirokuma looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"What do you mean? There just drawings of animals, nothing bad about them…" Shirokuma said, Mizuwani looked at the Golden Samurai like he was talking to a wall, Mizuwani walked away from Shirokuma and instead walk to one of the drawings on the ground, he grabbed one of the drawings and walked back to the Golden Samurai, handing him the drawing.

"Look at the back." Was all Mizuwani said as Shirokuma looked at the front of paper which was a drawing of bunny eating a carrot. Shirokuma with a slight tinge of curiousity flipped to the back of the drawing to find another drawing, this drawing greatly contrasted Kazeryu's usual drawings in terms of nature not in quality.

The drawing was a crudely drawn Randy Cunningham and a crudely drawn Ninja with bloody holes on their bodies standing next to each other and what was next to the crudely drawn crayon Randy and Ninja was a crudely crayon drawn Kazeryu laughing as he held a crossbow that was the clear perpetrator on the one who , Shirokuma blinked as he looked at the drawning.

'I'll get more evidence.' Mizuwani said as Shirokuma didn't move, speechless and surprised indeed. Mizuwani handed Shirokuma another crayon drawing, this time being a puppy with a bone in its mouth, Mizuwani flipped the drawing to the other side of the paper to reveal another drawing, this time the drawing was a drawing of a crudely and childish crayon drawn Theresa Fowler holding hands with kazeryu, with the Ninja and Randy's dead drawn bodies underneath the Purple Dragon Oni and the Violet-haired Oni Keeper who were both smiling happily as if they were blissfully unaware of the two dead bodies or in some cases, down right happy that they were both dead.

Shirokuma blinked once more, Mizuwani waited for Shirokuma's response as he walked back to grab another drawing, this time it was a drawing of two kittys looking at a ball of yarn, Shirokuma was handed the drawing and flipped to the other side of the paper once more, revealing a picture of a crudely crayon drawn Kazeryu holding the head of Randy Cunningham with his left hand and holding his purple crossbow in the other hand.

Shirokuma dropped the drawings and looked at Kazeryu who's back was still facing the two Oni's as he was stilling various drawings of cute animals and most likely more brutal acts of violence that usually has Randy or the Ninja as the victim.

"He told me last night that he brought the guitar case with him yesterday because of the fact that he wanted Theresa for himself and he believed that if he revealed her secret to Randy, then he'll have her for himself, guess he still hates him with a passion I'm assuming."

"If he hates the Ninja and Randy, why didn't he kill them when he had a chance?" Shirokuma asked Mizuwani, Mizuwani gave the Golden Samurai a raised eyebrow and simply said.

"Why didn't I kill the Ninja when I had a chance?" Mizuwani asked himself to counteract Shirokuma's words, his tone like usual, smug and arrogant, Shirokuma stood silent for a moment due to Mizuwani's words

"The answer is in the second drawing I showed you, Kazeryu loves Theresa like a Big Sister, his Onee-chan like he always says, and whats the biggest thing that can tick a clingly younger sibling off? Someone that makes the Bigger Sister focus on that someone rather than the younger sibling...'

"We need to warn Theresa…" Shirokuma said as if he came up with a good conclusion.

"Randy Cunningham is literally like seven feet away from Theresa…" Shirokuma said, Mizuwani nodded in response.

"And we don't want Kazeryu to commit human murder now don't we?" Shirokuma continued with a slight tinge of sarcasm in his voice.

"Try and talk to Kazeryu, he listens to you more than me, I'll tell Theresa, okay?" Mizuwani said, Shirokuma nodded and scoffed as Shirokuma began to walk to where Kazeryu was currently at which was the basically the part of Purgatory with the most drawings on the floor.

Kazeryu was happily humming to himself as he was drawing himself shooting a stupid looking Randy, but when he heard Shirokuma's footsteps, he flipped the paper around to an unfinished drawing of a puppy and a cat.

"Kazeryu…" Shirokuma said sternly, Kazeryu moved his whole body to face the arms-folding Golden Samurai Oni and asked in a very innocent and childish tone.

"What is it Kuma-sama?" Kazeryu asked happily, almost as if nothing was wrong, Shirokuma was silent for a moment, not knowing exactly how to form the question he needs exactly.

"...Do you hate Randy?" Shirokuma said, Kazeryu thought for a moment and simply shook his head, almost as if he was telling the truth.

"Then why is they're drawings of you killing him and the Ninja?" Shirokuma asked, his voice being soft so he won't upset the Purple Dragon Oni and already accuse that he did something extremely wrong, which technically Kazeryu is doing. Shirokuma grabbed the drawing he was almost finished drawing and then flipped the paper around and then made Kazeryu look at his drawing.

kazeryu just simply sat there, not speaking any words as Shirokuma made him looked at his personal creation, his personal thoughts of the Ninja and Randy Cunningham, Kazeryu looked down at the ground, and Shirokuma could hear the Purple Dragon Oni crying like a child.

"I'm sorry Kuma-sama! Its just that...I hate him! Hate him! Hate him! He was going take Onee-chan away from me!" Kazeryu said between sobbing as Shirokuma sighed loudly.

"He was so mean to Onee-chan! He was going take Onee-chan away from me!" Kazeryu continued with a sob, his voice being louder than usual, the sheer volume made Shirokuma frown.

"Onee-chan was going leave me with Randy alone like what Hana-chan did to me! Forgotten and never remembered!" Kazeryu said as Shirokuma fell silent.

"Theresa isn't at all like Hana, we both know that..." Shirokuma retorted, Kazeryu looked at Shirokuma with teary orange eyes, clearly doubting the Golden Samurai Oni's words

"She won't ever do that...We're her friends and you're her Otouto..." Shirokuma said as like a parent wiped a tear off of Kazeryu's face, his hand temporarily being shrouded in darkness as he went to wipe the tear off of the Purple Dragon Oni's face.

"Really Kuma-sama?" Kazeryu said, his voice being humbling and quiet, Shirokuma nodded at the Purple Dragon Oni convincingly, clearly not doubting his own words as he spoke softly and quietly.

"Always..." Shirokuma said with a nod, Kazeryu wiped some tears off of his face in response.