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Balance Problems Part 6

We're winning.

Natshuka couldn't stop that giddy feeling that coursed through her body upon realising that.

We're closer to saving Keisuke. We can do this. We can save him.

Shuka had always felt indebted to Keisuke for what he had done; saving her from herself. Despite aiming to bring Natsume back at first, Keisuke gradually realised that Shuka was just misunderstood by everyone and changed their objective from save Natsume to save Natsume AND Shuka. For that, Shuka truly owed him.

And now that she had a chance to repay him, she wouldn't waste it.

"Wow~ Who knew that RW Shuka could be so ferocious~" EW Chenhua smirked as he used his sword to attack Shuka.

Natsume parried, switching places with Shuka to talk, "It's Natshuka! Engrave that name in your mind, because we are going to beat you all and save Keisuke!"

"In your dreams!" EW Chenhua lunged for her. 

Natshuka kicked him away, briefly looking at the battle field.

EW Natsume was facing off against Gentouma, who used Yoshitsune to avoid her whips.

"You better release our leader right now or face the consequences!" Touma growled as he destroyed a whip.

"Eh~ No way~ Touma-kun wants him to join us, though I don't like it~ But I can't complain to him~ So I'll vent it out on you!" She got serious, her clothes changing as she lunged for him.

Yoshitsune dodged, "Why don't you like Keisuke anyway?! What did he do so wrong to you?!"

"He stole Touma-kun's attention! Only I can have his full attention!" she tried to stab him, but he reverted back to Touma, "Possession! Genma Goemon! Lend me your power!"

"That's stupid!" He then attacked her with his swords. EW Natsume growled as she used her whip to try to get to a sword. However, Goemon was a very feisty Genma, so the whip was instead cut into pieces.

"IS NOT!" EW Natsume got out another whip and let electricity flow. "You're going down! Down I say!"

"Let's see!" Goemon shot back before the two charged.

Tenade and Hakushuri were facing off against EW Akinori, who was murderous, to say the least. He kept on attacking them with powerful spells, trying to injure them heavily.

However, Tenade wasn't one of the strongest Youki manipulators for nothing.

And Hakushuri was amazingly strong too. While usually being really relaxed to the point of exasperation from Keisuke (And this guy has a LOT of patience), he was really angry over these people who kidnapped his friend. And he rarely showed mercy to those who did that.

"DIE YOU HORRIBLE JERKS!" Akinori shouted to him as he shot more attacks, with Tenade using her magic to reinforce them.

EW Akinori dodged, "No you die!"

Tenade scowled, "We gotta end this quickly. I don't see that Touma around, so he must be with Suke."

"Ah," Akinori agreed.

Akino slid under his counterpart, knocking him down in the process while Rau kept EW Akino down.

Choiseung and Chenhua were dealing with EW Rau, who, despite steadily proving himself to be a strong opponent, was no match for the 2 RWs, who had sharpened their skills over the years alongside the rest.

Ayame and Masaki were fighting EW Keisuke. Masaki proved himself to be a scary opponent, as shown when he used his guns to reflect EW Keisuke's daggers away from him and still had time to shoot at the EW. Ayame shot heart attacks at him, which EW Keisuke dodged.

EW Lizzy was getting tired thanks to the LEs, who had sent attack after attack to her, showing no mercy to her as they did combo after combo.

We can save him. We WILL save him. Natshuka resolved, so she lunged for EW Chenhua, ready to finish the job.

However, all those attacks were cut off by a loud scream of "WAIT!"

Everyone stopped as they turned to see EW Touma and Tenade dropping to the ground, weapons at the ready.

Tenade felt her chest tighten seeing just the two of them, "WHERE'S SUKE?!"

"Aw~ Why so angry RW me?~" EW Tenade smirked. "You worried for THAT guy?"

"What are you talking about?! Of course we are!" Masaki demanded.

"That's none of your concern," EW Touma grinned sadistically before he sent an attack Tenade's way. She dodged, but then another attack suddenly came and hit both her and Akinori, soon becoming a pinball as it hit all of Peace, injuring them heavily due to how strong it was.

"Heh, never underestimate us," EW Tenade chuckled darkly.

"Guys, take them to the dungeons," EW Touma declared as he walked over to Natshuka and grabbed the mirror they had used to get here, which had been miniaturized. "We have a world to conquer."

"Wait, hold on! Where's Keisuke you bunch of jerks?!" Masaki shouted.

EW Touma grinned, "Aw~ What's wrong? Want to see your best friend? You sure?"

"Why, you...!" Masaki was about to lunge to him, but EW Natsume used her whip to grab his hands and pull him to her, grabbing his shirt as her eyes grew dark, whispering, "Touma-kun gets what he wants. Got that?" into his ear.

"Not with me, he won't," Masaki met her gaze head on.

EW Touma chuckled, "Let him be, Natsu-chan. I'll answer him."

EW Natsume's demeanor changed, "Fine! But only for you Touma-kun~" as she gripped Masaki's hand tightly, making sure her nails dug into his skin. He winced a bit, but still looked at EW Touma, "Where. Is. He?"

EW Touma's next actions horrified them.

He snapped his fingers, and someone was forced to his knees before EW Touma. Scratches, bruises, scars... You could see them all on him. His hands were tied behind his back. He looked so pale, so thin, so unlike their leader.

The RWs' eyes widened as EW Tenade then forced the teen to his feet.

"KEISUKE!" Masaki and Natshuka chorused.

EW Touma punched the 15-year-old, who tried to dodge, but EW Tenade held his face so it landed. He winced. 

After a few more kicks and punches, EW Tenade kicked him away, "He's no longer needed."

To everyone's growing terror, Keisuke didn't get up.

With that, the EWs managed to pin them all down and throw them into the dungeon.

"It's time to begin our invasion," EW Touma declared.

"OH!" the rest nodded.