Disclaimer: Chainsaw manis the sole property of Tatsuki Fujimoto. My job is just to write this fanfic to satisfy fans like me.
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Chapter 11: Children are a nuisance.
The more time he spent in that elevator, the more tension and discomfort he felt increasing, he was trying to formulate an explanation, an answer that would explain why he had done what he did, but he thought that anything he said could be used against him.
He had been so stupid, he knew, but at the same time he thought that he had done the right thing in making his decision to go with Makima to the library, what she would have done to him if he had refused, will never be known, but he was beginning to believe that It probably wouldn't have been such a bad thing.
Did he regret it? A little, on the one hand, he didn't risk trying his luck and denying her invitation to that yellow-eyed girl and, incidentally, he got a very strange friend. But on the other hand, he regretted it because he was afraid of what Kishibe might say to him for disobeying his orders and taking such a high risk.
Was he mad at him? It was very likely that he did, but at least he hoped he understood his reasons, what would he have done in his place? The scene he saw a few minutes ago was one of a kind for him, because he had never seen Kishibe with that alertness and ferocity in his eyes, along with a killing intent that was getting much bigger. .
He and Makima now looked like two wild animals ready to attack each other. Kishibe had been looking at Makima with murderous eyes the whole time, he immediately detected her as a danger, or maybe something that goes much further than that word because if Kishibe got that way... Then it was because there was something very dark in all this.
Then he realized that Kishibe in his place would not have hesitated to kill Makima, the thought made his stomach turn with nausea.
"This is worrying me too much"
"You worrying about something? You usually seem unconcerned"
"Something only worries me when I feel that it has gone out of my understanding"
"You mean the fact that none of us could spot that girl? To be honest, it has me baffled as well…and a little scared.
"Though I'm still in awe of the fact that this kid is still alive. What the hell did they talk about and why isn't this kid in a black bag?"
"Maybe they talked about the weather?"
"Whatever they talked about, it doesn't matter anymore. We must be more vigilant next time, times are changing, and with them the demons."
Kishibe was disappointed.
But disappointed by the ineffective use of his hunter skills. He had been caught off guard and had been taunted by sneaking Hiro away, all without his knowledge. He was a fool, he had allowed Hiro to take a big risk leaving him alone in that corridor, in just a few minutes they had taken him away and he didn't know it until they brought him back.
They easily broke through his barrier and Makima took Hiro to who knows where. They basically took him by the hand and took him away.
All this was worrying him too much, because he didn't understand how the control devil managed to pass near him without him feeling it, his instincts failed him... but his instincts were never supposed to fail him. How did it happen? Not knowing the answer was scaring him because he believed that his abilities were rusting or that for once they were ineffective against a demon, but it couldn't be that since he had seen 60 year old hunters fight a demon before like they were 20.
So Makima had become much more skilled? This was what worried him the most, the fact that Makima had managed to get over it terrified him a lot, because hhe wouldn't be able to defend himself and protect those he cares about.
Kishibe shook his head in denial; no, it couldn't be that, Makima was just a little girl, she was the Control Devil but weaker, she didn't even have the memories of her to know how to use the rest of her abilities. So she was still weaker, for now; but he still couldn't find the answer to his previous question. Not even his demons managed to detect her in any way, and it is assumed that they could smell and feel her presence because she was a demon too.
It didn't make sense, nothing that was happening made any fucking sense. He frustrated him not having a concise answer, if he asked Hiro he would very much know how Makima managed to get to him. But he had nothing to lose by hearing her version of her story.
"Tell me how it happened"
Hiro raised his head to meet the hard gaze of his guardian, his cold eyes said it all, he wanted a clear answer to his actions before him. His heart began to beat with anxiety and his mind began to remember everything he had experienced in that hour, since Makima sat next to him until that hug they shared.
So Hiro tried to tell him everything...
"...And it just felt weird, when I looked into her eyes I felt like I had to follow her. Then she took my hand and led me to the elevator"
Kishibe frowned in disgust that Makima probably used her powers on Hiro, though he found it unlikely because even Yuna had said that she hadn't unlocked her memories, and thus the rest of her powers. But there was also the possibility that this was an automatic power, she was born with that power and she could apply it whenever she wanted because she is Control Devil, her name said so. So Makima might not have her past memories of her but her power to control people, and she used that to her advantage to take Hiro away.
Although there was also that slight possibility that Makima did not know how to use it and that she had unconsciously activated it.
Hiro then proceeded to tell him everything that happened in the library.
"...She asked me if we were friends, I said yes, then she smiled at me and everything. But then she started to cry, she told me that she didn't know how it felt, how it felt to have a family, someone special, a friend, I felt really bad for her and the only thing I could think of to calm her down was to give her a hug, that seemed to calm her down because she gave it back to me, I think we stayed like that for a few minutes until I told her I should go home, and In the end we go down the elevator and you know the rest"
Hiro finished telling his story, he felt a little tired after telling and remembering all those events. Without a doubt today was a day to remember.
"But...what the...fuck?"
"Now... that makes a lot of sense, it explains why that child is still alive. This makes you think for a whole day"
"Wow looks like our little controlling demon got pretty sentimental there huh? As weird and funny as it is, I can't help but be in awe of this turn of events, this is all so unique"
Kishibe had lost count of the times he could have fainted, what Hiro told him was undeniably unbelievable, weird, extreme as fuck, creepy, but most of all, fascinating.
The control ha devild shown a different side than he had ever seen, or in this case heard because it was Hiro who witnessed it firsthand and even interacted more than he imagined.
He didn't know what to think about Makima now, she was a demon and she would never stop being one, but if everything Hiro told him was true, then Makima might have developed human feelings... If not, she already had them for a long time, but she would have suppressed them or never bothered to show them.
The fact that someone like her, a demon, an aberrational, terrifying and cruel being wanted to create a family, was strange, anticlimactic, and without an ounce of sense.
That demon had terrorized human villages for thousands of years, but for them to come and tell him that now she wants a family seemed totally stupid to him. More like a joke between good and bad.
Makima is and will be a being of darkness, everything she does or will only do for her own benefit, he knew for sure, that's how it was in the past and it will be in the future, is a wheel that turns and turns without an end, caught up in demonic cruelty.
Kishibe rubbed his forehead in an attempt to calm the oncoming migraine, everything that had happened this day was a big bummer: Yuna confirming that the Control Devil is in this facility, discovering the hybrids' plan, that Hiro run away and join Makima. Surely all of this warranted a date with a bottle of booze.
"Did she tell you anything else?" Kishibe asked.
Hiro was silent thinking of an answer, he searched through his memories for something striking that Makima told him between their conversations. Then something came to his mind.
"Well…she told me that she could only bond through fear, is it any use? And what does she mean by that?"
Kishibe's eyes widened in slight surprise, he hadn't expected that at all. If Makima told Hiro that she could only bond through fear, then this made more sense to all the atrocities she committed long ago, being a demon she wouldn't know how to connect with someone, so she used fear to reach people, but that apparently did not go well.
But there were still things he didn't like about all of this, the Control Devil MAYBE could want a family with all her heart, her feelings might be genuine... But she was still a being twisted in evil. That demon had committed atrocities that went beyond just wanting someone else's company, she was evil by nature... And always would be, he was sure of that.
Regardless of her human desires, she didn't excuse him for all the harm she had caused, that was something Hiro couldn't understand. Kishibe was imagining the future right now, he was sure that Hiro would not understand that despite wanting a family, Makima would always be a being of pure evil, it is her nature, because she is a demon that everything she touches is left in ruins.
Hiro wouldn't understand, because he didn't live what others lived, he didn't see all the evil that a demon of great power can cause. So in conclusion Makima... No, the Control Devil may have a desire for love, to want someone by his side, be it as a friend, a father, a mother, a brother or sister, or even a lover; but she was also an abominable entity that the only thing she wants is his own benefit without caring in the slightest about the other people she used to reach her goal.
That was now the new vision that Kishibe had of the demon of control, he only added those feelings that Hiro told him but the last thing had always been on his mind since the day he heard about her.
"Do you know what Makima is?" Hiro asked suddenly, that question had been waiting for him but he didn't know how to answer it.
Kishibe looked at the boy with a blank face, but Hiro had a look that was difficult to describe, it was between determined to discover the truth and curious to know it.
"That... I'd better tell you another day" he saw how Hiro frowned showing that he was not satisfied with his answer "Right now I need some alcohol"
"She's a demon, isn't it?" Hiro said taking Kishibe off guard, he looked at his surprised face and knew that he had hit the nail on the head. He was thinking about it for a while but he wanted to confirm it for someone who knew more about it.
"Did I already tell you that your sense of intuition is a bit scary?" Kishibe asked rhetorically, he wasn't going to tell him anything, at least not for now. He wasn't going to confirm it but he wasn't going to deny it either, this was a topic for another day.
"So it's true, Makima is a demon" Hiro imagined that after finding out that it was actually Makima his thoughts about her would probably change, but after finding out... He didn't really feel any different, she was a demon but... He did not care? He felt that despite the fact that she was something that was synonymous with his nightmares for a long time, he did not terrify him in the least, why would it be?
Was it because she showed him a different side that he never thought he will see in a demon? This only led him to another feeling, wanting to see her again.
"Let me tell you something kid" Kishibe said with an authoritative voice and Hiro had the incredible urge to straighten "For your own good don't go near that girl again"
Hiro's eyes widened in shock and fear, his heart was beating again with fear, but what terrified him was not being able to see Makima again, why? He didn't understand it perfectly but he was sure that he wanted to see her again.
"What!? No! I-I don't want to do that" Hiro faced Kishibe, his eyes easily showing fear for what they were forbidding him, and that tenacity to not wanting to give up.
"Believe me kid, that girl is something much worse than you imagine, she is not someone you should spend alone with for a long time. So take my advice and don't go near that girl again, okay?" Kishibe wasn't in the mood to deal with a childish tantrum but he was sure Hiro wouldn't let this go easily.
"No! Makima, she- I told her we were friends, she's in pain, I can feel it!" Hiro felt that he was moving away from Makima, that moment they shared wouldn't mean anything later, why would he have told her that he was her friend if it wasn't to be there with her?
"I don't want to stop seeing her, I have to come back here another day and meet her, there's so much more I want to know and I feel like only she can answer me what I want! Kishibe please don't do this to me!"
"NO!" Kishibe yelled harshly and firmly, showing that his patience had a limit, Hiro had to understand that there were things he couldn't do and he had to emphasize them "Understand once and for all that you can't get close to that girl again in your life, if you don't want to end up dead before fulfilling your dream so you better listen to me!"
That managed to silence all of Hiro's future complaints, he just looked at Kishibe with a shocked and incredulous face, the corners of his eyes starting to form little trails of tears that he refused to shed.
He looked at the ground not wanting to believe the reality of him and feeling incapable of doing something, he didn't like this at all. His fists clenched so tightly that his hands were turning white. Silence reigned in the elevator, no one wanted to talk or look into each other's eyes and Hiro didn't feel like talking to Kishibe after his cruel outburst.
Kishibe heard a small cry escape Hiro's throat and couldn't help the guilt that came. He sometimes he forgot that Hiro was still a child.
That was the most tense elevator ride they had.
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Outside the facilities the sun was at its peak and it was filling everyone with its white light, the birds flew through the skies and the cicadas made their characteristic ambient noise. The parking lot of the containment facility was pretty, there were trees around with pink leaves, the sun's rays only made the sakura trees look even more beautiful.
A woman with an eyepatch was leaning her back on one of the trees, the shadow made the light not illuminate her beautiful face and it could barely be seen clearly from afar, she was near a car that she knew very well and she was just waiting for the owner to leave the premises that she did not like to step on. That was why Quanxi stood alone outside in the parking lot, waiting for her idiot partner.
Her eye snapped open just in time to see Kishibe walking out of the building, along with a small thing following behind him; With a bit of humor and curiosity, she realized that this thing was Hiro, the boy she considered a kind of nephew. Or someone to annoy.
Hiro stopped for a moment when he saw Quanxi, however Kishibe continued on his way to the car without caring about the woman's presence, something that surprised her, normally Kishibe approached with the intention of flirting, but now he seemed to be someone else.
Hiro ran to Quanxi and approached her in a hug, she smiled fondly rubbing her back, Hiro barely reached her stomach but had grown 4 or 5 centimeters more since the first time she saw him.
"Hey kid, I won't ask you what you were doing in that facility because that idiot Kishibe will tell me anyway. So, how have you been?" Quanxi asked and felt Hiro's hold loosen a bit.
"Fine" Hiro muttered and Quanxi barely managed to hear him, she immediately knew something was wrong with him. Hiro released Quanxi and went to open the car door, Kishibe already had the car running and didn't bother to look when Hiro got into the back of the car, he looked at Quanxi indicating her to get in.
"Come, it will be better if we talk in my apartment"
Quanxi sighed feeling the annoying tension that was in the air, got into the car in the passenger seat, in the rearview mirror she could see how Hiro was sitting with his seat belt around his waist but he had his arms crossed and his gaze fixed on the window.
All of this only further fueled the hunter's curiosity.
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That had probably been the most uncomfortable car trip she had ever been on, neither of them spoke the whole way, the adult and the child decided to remain silent and Quanxi too, but that was already her whim, the two of them were something different.
Immediately when they entered the apartment, Hiro ran to his room and slammed the door, causing a loud noise that rang throughout the room. This showed Quanxi how angry the boy was for some unknown reason, but she was about to find out.
Kishibe and Quanxi took off their suit jackets and hung them on the coat rack, Kishibe went to the kitchen and Quanxi sat at the table looking at Hiro's room in the distance, wondering what could be going on in the mind of the young man who wanted to condemn himself as a devil hunter.
Kishibe returned a minute later with a bottle of alcohol and two glasses "Believe me when I tell you that we have a lot to talk about"
Quanxi could focus his hearing a little beyond human, so she could hear a small cry that came from his nephew's room.
She sighed knowing that it would be a long evening "I think so"
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Notes 10/4/2022: Ugh normal chapter of 3300 words, this has been short compared to the last two chapters but I didn't want to leave you with nothing for this month of April and then forget what this story was about.
Well finally the small arc of the Demon Research and Containment Center has ended and with it a new one begins.
What comes next? The truth is that I don't even know xd
I am going to be honest with you about something and that is that I did not expect to go this far with this story, but here I am with my two main characters reunited and ready for a great development, and here you are also ready to read the next chapters that are coming .
Well I'm going to come up with other ideas in the long term, it would be nice to have a little more information about the world of Chainsaw Man but Tatsuki Fujimoto probably already forgot that he created Chainsaw Man XD
Here I have been waiting for the sequel for a year, the only thing left for me is to use my creativity and use the little information I have to create plots and subplots.
So basically there we go.
Do you know something that would be so cool? It is to have some conceptual arts for this story, to portray in drawing some iconic moments of this story, like the time Hiro told Kishibe that he wanted to become a hunter, the first meeting between Quanxi and Hiro, the epic meeting between Makima and Hiro and that beautiful hug they shared at the end.
Well, they will have to stay with the desire because I don't know how to draw XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD, I only know how to write.
Seriously, it would be amazing to have drawings based on this story, especially since the first anniversary of this fanfic is coming up in a month and I would like to celebrate it in some way. I was thinking of putting some curiosities about this story or the drawings, but I see the drawings as very complicated because I don't know how to draw :( so I'll have to continue with the curiosities special.
But that would be until May 30 hahaha.
Well that would be all, see you until next time.
PS: I hope they make a sequel to Robert Pattinson's Batman
PS 2: Wrestlemania 38 was shit.
Notes 5/12/2022: What's up people who speak English, it's me again with a new chapter which I wanted to edit with more desire, in fact I am very sure that now there are no translation errors with the He and She, which were put into the genres incorrect.
Just in case I want to remind you that Hiro is a boy, not a she, the google translator has very ugly errors.
Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the support you are giving me around here, people in Spanish have also told me that they have loved my story, currently on Wattpad we are going through chapter 15, and I am writing chapter 16, if you don't want to read on Wattpad and translate it from the web then I hope you will be patient with me to translate the rest of the chapters since it takes me a lot of time to edit them and then fix them, but despite everything I want to say thank you for continuing reading. See you in the next chapters.
ps: You know I didn't realize that this story already had comments xd, the reason is that fanfiction didn't notify me by email, strange but it doesn't matter anymore.