A Day Later:
Neo-Kyoto, Kyoto:
Isaiah's POV:
'These people don't trust me whatsoever.' I thought with a sigh as I walked through the streets of Kyoto, not missing the wary glances Youkai gave me whenever I walked past them nor the dozen Tengu 'patrolling' only the areas that I'm in.
Yeah, you would think that they would have better excuses, but nope, I just 'happen' to be in the areas they're patrolling at that time of day.
'Why did I accept this mission again?'
Flashback(Two Weeks Ago):
Sirzechs' Office, Underworld:
"So, basically…this is payback for putting all of that work from the Zekram incident on you?" I asked Sirzechs, who was just smiling innocently as Grayfia and Venelana sighed while Zeoticus chuckled.
"Oh, of course not. This is just payment for when you decided to nearly cause the destruction of the Underworld's society just to prove a point."
"Why even me? Why not one of the Satans?" I asked and Zeoticus spoke.
"You're the talk of the supernatural world since you managed to defeat THE Zekram Bael in a battle of intelligence and blackmailing, a man known for his master blackmailing and negotiation skills, and you did it TWICE. Therefore, it would be best for the Underworld if we sent you." I just groaned, making them giggle/ chuckle as I looked up at the ceiling.
End of Flashback:
'Maybe just killing Zekram was the better idea.' "Is something the matter, Azathoth-sama?" Asami asked, knocking me out of my thoughts as I smiled and shook my head.
"No, just deep in thought…and what have I told you about calling me Azathoth-sama? Just Isaiah or Isaiah-san is fine."
"That would give your name the proper respect it deserves." She said, though I did catch the small amused smirk as I just sighed.
"Anyway, are you sure this is the way to go because we have been walking in a circle for the past hour?" I asked and she giggled as she nodded.
"Oh, it is. You've just been in an illusion thinking we've been walking around in a circle." She said with a smile, making my eyes widen before the world around us shattered, revealing us standing at the bottom of a long row of stairs that led up to a beautiful traditional shrine that had gold, crimson and white all over it.
'…You know, maybe Okita was right about never letting my guard drop.' I thought with a frown as I activated Air Current Sense and Electroception, finally noticing the other dozen Tengu hidden with the dozen that I previously noticed as well as the few dozen hidden ones hidden in the buildings around us.
"How long?" I asked Asami, who smiled.
"The moment you exited the inn." She responded and I sighed as I nodded, following up the stairs to the shrine as I grumbled to myself.
Here I am, talking about never letting my guard down again and looked what happened. I let my guard down.
As we arrived at the top of the stairway after a few minutes of silent walking, I gave a low impressed whistle at the impressive design of the shrine, already aware of the few hidden guards that have already walked past us and are now hidden in the shrine in front of us as well as the bushes around us.
"Welcome, Azathoth-sama." The group of beautiful shrine maidens chorused with bows and seductive smiles yet I smirked in amusement as I bowed back, chuckling as I felt their confusion.
"I thank you for having you. I assume Yasaka-dono is waiting for me?" I asked and a few frowned before they nodded, making me smile as I turned to the amused Asami.
"Well, lead the way." She giggled as she nodded, smirking at the slightly confused and bewildered looks on the shrine maidens' faces as we walked into the shrine, with all of them following after us.
A few minutes of turns and twists through hallways, we finally made it to double sliding doors, two Tengu in traditional samurai armour standing guard in front of the door. Asami nodded at the two and they nodded back before they opened the door, the two glaring sternly at me as I just smiled and bowed my head to them before walking into the room, sitting down on a cushion at the large table in front of me with Asami sitting down at the table to my right, leaving the seat directly across from me open.
The shrine maidens bowed as they waved their hands, platters of food appearing in the table before they walked out of the room, the sliding doors behind me closing as the ones to the sides opened and my eyes widened as I saw the beauty walking through the doors.
'I knew her tits was big, but dear Satans! They're even bigger than my head!' The woman that walked in had long wavy blonde hair, tied into a loose ponytail that reached all the way down to her legs and ending in a spiral, with taut bandages keeping her hair in place.
The yellow kimono she had on was open at her shoulders, revealing her absurdly large breasts that were probably a size above Akeno's and I'm fairly certain that the only reason it wasn't just falling to the ground was with magic or her nipples that were poking at the front. Nine fluffy blonde tails swayed behind her and I suppressed every instinct in my body that wanted to pat them or the fluffy blonde ears on her head.
She definitely noticed me staring as she smiled amusedly at me, making me give a sheepish smile as she and Asami giggled before she sat down in the seat in front of me.
"I must say, I expected the prodigy of the Underworld to be a 16 year old boy, not this gorgeous hunk of a man in front of me." She said with a seductive smirk, making Asami roll her eyes as I smirked back.
"And I didn't expect the leader of the West Youkai Faction to be this radiant beauty that would make even the most beautiful goddesses in the world jealous." I flirted back, making her giggle coyly.
"Unfortunately, I must say that my looks have been declining ever since I've hit my first century." Yasaka said with a wistful sigh and I chuckled.
"That is quite tragic." I nodded, making her smirk at me before we both burst out laughing.
"Ahahaha! I must say, you're not as bad as the other negotiators the Devils have previously sent."
"Well, I like to think I bring a fresh perspective compared to the old fossils of tradition." I said with a smile, making her nod before Asami cleared her throat loudly, making Yasaka roll her eyes.
"I know, Asami. I swear, you're just like Kunou, never letting me have my fun."
"That's good for me, then." She said, making Yasaka groan as I chuckled.
"Now, before we begin with negotiations, I haven't eaten for the day and I'm quite famished, so I ask of you to join me for lunch?"
"…This is lunch?" I asked in slight surprise as I pointed at the buffet of food and she giggled as she nodded.
"I'm a very happy eater."
"…Okay, then. I would be delighted." I responded with a smile, making her cheer happily as Asami just gave me an exasperated smile and I chuckled.
Ten Minutes Later:
"Urp~ Oh! Forgive my manners. That was quite the delicious meal." Yasaka said with a blissfull smile, with me just staring in shock at the large pile of plates in front of us, with Asami and I just having one empty plate in front of us.
'This woman ate probably 98% of the food here and she didn't even look like she did. …Yeah, all of the food definitely goes to her boobs.' I thought as I shook my head, Yasaka stretching herself happily as Asami giggled.
"You know, I expected you to be much more….strict, I suppose is the word I'm looking for?" I said and she giggled as she sat upright and shook her head.
"I was in my younger days, but motherhood makes one mellow out, as the young ones would say these days."
"Oh? You have a child?" I asked and she smiled as she nodded.
"A lovely daughter named Kunou. My little 12 year old bundle of joy." I smiled, already knowing about the younger blonde copycat of Yasaka yet I acted as if I didn't as I nodded.
"Well, a belated congratulations on her."
"Thank you, but enough personal talk. I'm certain you wouldn't want to waste time. Let's begin with the peace talks." She said with a smile and I nodded as I reached into my pocket dimension and pulled out a stack of paperwork.
Sliding it over to Asami, she carefully looked it all over and finding no traps and/ or danger, she handed them all over to Yasaka as I felt the tense atmosphere disappear. Yasaka hummed as she looked everything over, frowning slightly at a few places and as she finished reading, she closed her eyes with a sigh before looking up at me.
"I cannot make this decision in good conscious without discussing it with my council. Return in three days and I'll have your answer by then."
"I thank you for at the very least considering it." I said with a smile, making her smile softly as we all stood up before bowing at each other.
"See you in three days, then." I said with a smile and she nodded before I turned and walked out, the doors opening and following Asami out of the room.
'She didn't trust me one bit.' I thought with a frown as I followed Asami back to the entrance, remembering the flashes of nervousness as she entered the room and spoke to the other as well as the flashes of wariness and cautiousness whenever I spoke.
I knew Zekram was fear across the Underworld for his name alone, but I didn't think that he was this feared across the world for his negotiation skills. I'll give him a little bit more reluctant respect for that.
As we walked out of the entrance and towards the steps, I expanded my senses to see how many of the hidden spies were with me before I stopped in my tracks, catching Asami's attention as she turned back to me.
"Azathoth-sama?" She asked, but I didn't listen to her as I focused Air Current Sense to the west, seeing a small form with nine tails surrounded by a group of forms that all had either a tail, horns, stingers or ears.
"Asami, is there anything to the west of here?" I asked, making her frown slightly in confusion as she shook her head.
"Nothing apart from the Spirit Forest, but no one goes there anymore." I frowned at that as I felt the muscles of the small one tense before he/ she quickly ran away, the other forms swiftly following after them.
"Excuse me for one second, Asami." I said and before she could ask, I swiftly twisted to the west and lunged, the ground under me cratering as I rocketed westwards.
Spirit Forest, West of Kyoto:
3rd Person POV:
'Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap! Crap!' A small blonde girl cursed in her mind, nine fluffy blonde tails swaying rapidly behind her in panic and a pair of blonde ears on her head twitching rapidly in nervousness as she rushed through the familiar path of the Spirit Forest. Her white-and-red kimono billowed around her as she ducked under branches and jumped over fallen logs, her heart racing in her chest as she heard the hurried footsteps of the group chasing her closing in.
"Kunou! If you stop and come with us, we won't hurt you!" A female voice shouted, but that didn't comfort her as she kept on running before she yelped as a pair of arms, as thick as tree trunks, came out from behind a tree in front of her and wrapped around her form.
"Let! Go! Of! Me!" She gritted out as she kicked the chest of the person holding her, the person in question just giving a booming chuckle before they spoke.
"No."
"Nice job, Ushibushi!" Kunou turned to see the group of youkai that was chasing her walking towards them, the one leading the group being the one who spoke. It was a blonde man, with a blonde cat tail swaying behind him and a pair of cat-ears twitching on his head. He was dressed in a gold-black kimono as he walked towards her, Kunou giving him a glare before she gasped as he back-handed her.
"Uh, boss. Are you sure we should be hurting her?" A kappa dressed in a leather bodysuit asked and the man rolled his eyes.
"I told her that if she stop, we wouldn't hurt her. I never said that we wouldn't hurt her if she didn't. Besides, this will teach her to listen to her betters more, right Kunou?"
"My mother…is going to kill you." Kunou said with a smirk, blood flowing freely before she gasped and coughed up spittle as the man punched her in the stomach, folding over her fist as he grinned sadistically at her.
"By the time she finds out, we'll be long gone out of the country and you as well as your mother will have been killed by Tamamo-sama." Kunou's eyes widened at that name as she looked up at the man in shock, who gave her a victorious grin before everyone's heads snapped to the side as a dust cloud exploded into existence.
"Damn. I should have just ran towards here instead of jumping." A male voice echoed before the dust cloud dispersed and revealed the form of Isaiah, who glanced at the hurt Kunou before looking at the group of surprised Youkai.
"Hey, is your name Kunou?" He asked Kunou, who nodded slowly before he grinned and nodded.
"Good, then I'm going to give the rest of you one chance to give her before I kill all of you."
"In your dreams! Ushi, take him-!" The cat-man was caught off by all of the youkai exploding into chunks of flesh and organs, Kunou safely placed at the spot where the man previously was as he held a holy blade against the throat of the pale cat-man.
"I want to kill you, but you might have precious information, so I'm going to let you live." And before the cat-man could speak, Isaiah delivered a hook that sent him into dream-land before a whip-sword restrained him, the holy aura coming from the blade burning the cat-man as Isaiah sighed and scratched the back of his head.
"So, what do you say about me taking you back to your mother?" Isaiah asked Kunou, who still looked to be in shock before she fainted and fell backwards, thankfully spared from any further injuries as he swiftly caught her and picked her up.
Putting her in a more secured bridal-carry, he kicked the restrained Youkai up and placed him in a fireman's carry on his shoulders before walking back to the shrine as he felt the Tengu and Asami coming closer.
Five Minutes Later:
Shrine Medical Room:
Isaiah's POV:
"ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyou!" Yasaka repeated over and over as she kissed my face, making me duck and weave the ones aimed at my lips as I tried to get her off of me, Asami and the Tengu guard commander laughing at my misery as Kunou giggled.
"Like! I! Said! You're! Welcome! Now! Please! Stop! Kissing! Me-Uaw!" I failed to dodge the last one as she captured my lips, feeling her tongue slipping into my mouth and wrapping around my own as her hands grabbed mine before placing them on her chest.
"Kaa-san!" Kunou exclaimed in surprise, but Yasaka didn't care as she kept us locked in a deep kiss for the next minute before she pulled back with a satisfied gasp, me just staring at thin air as I faintly noticed the shocked looks on the Tengu's and Asami's faces.
"And now, I can say I thanked you properly." Yasaka said with a satisfied smile, openly licking and smacking her lips as we all just stared in shock at her before I turned.
"I'm going to have to sleep this off." I said before I walked, Asami slowly walking besides me just as shocked as Yasaka's giggles followed us out.
…You know, maybe I should stop my hero complex before I actually get strapped to the bed by Akeno and the girls
Outskirts of Kyoto:
3rd Person POV:
"Are you telling me that a group of Ultimate-Class youkai were taken out by one single Devil?" A beautiful woman asked, her delicate facial features drawn into an ugly snarl as she glared maliciously at the shaen Youkai kneeling in front of her. Nine crimson tails swayed behind her, her long crimson hair hanging over her shoulders and her crimson eyes glared at the youkai before a tail swiftly cut through the air and through the Youkai's head.
The woman huffed as she watched the blood spray all over her wooden floor before it was all burned away by black flames.
"To be fair to them, the devil in question is a God-Class being, so I didn't expect to last very long against him." A handsome man said with an amused smirk, his shoulder-length blue hair swept back with a strand hanging over his forehead. Dressed in a deep ultramarine full bodysuit with grey metallic pauldrons, a metal plate over his lower abdomen and a pair of silver earrings, he smirked as she glared at him.
"I hear a lot of talk coming from you, mutt, yet I don't see you doing anything." The woman snarled and the man frowned before he disappeared, reappearing in front of the woman.
A dark crimson spear with jagged thorn-like protrusions at the end of the spear tipwas aimed at the woman's throat, small wisps of blue fireballs floating around the man's head as he smirked sadistically at her.
"Do remember, Tamamo-no-Mae, that it is only my patience that allows you to live."
"And remember, Cú Chulainn, that it is only my acceptance of the alliance with your leader that l let you even near me." Tamamo-no-Mae muttered and Chulainn just grunted as his spear disappeared, Tamamo snapping her fingers and the fireballs disappearing before he spoke.
"So, what do we do now? I'm certain that with that cat captured, they know you're coming for them."
"Then, let's not waste any time by waiting. By tomorrow's night, that vile Yasaka and her detestable offspring shall be dead and I shall take my rightful place as the True ruler of Kyoto!"
A/N: And there we go! Another chapter done!
The next chapter, the battle of Kyoto!
As always, read, enjoy, review and until the next one…
Ba-Bye~!