A few weeks had passed since the child had forged his new blade: The Blade Of Yatagarasu.
The child had been training whenever he had gotten the chance and both the children of the shrine and Rao had noticed something about his demeanor and characteristics. As he kept at his training, the children noticed his confidence grew and Rao noticed that the children began acting as if he had been a true descendant of the goddess Amaterasu. However this wasn't the only thing she had noticed, but it was the only positive thing amongst them. More and more soldiers from nearby cities came to see the child perform his miraculous sword performances. But today was not the case, as the child saw an all too familiar symbol on the flag the soldiers were carrying: the symbol of Konohana. As they made their way up the shrine's stairs, he joined the one he had seen as both his and the shrine's protector: Rao.
''So this is the shrine of the Great Goddess everyone keeps mentioning'' the general spoke with a slight tone of sarcasm in his voice. Rao was about to speak when a deeper voice than hers sounded from beside her: ''Why are you here, warriors of Konohana''. Rao knew this was both the child and yami speaking at the same time, as this voice had gotten familiar to her by this point. ''So you are the so-called miracle child, I presume?'' a voice came from behind the rows of soldiers. This voice came from the leader of Konohana. ''but I presume we know each other already, don't we demon-child?'' he spoke mockingly. The child remained quiet, which caused the general to speak towards Rao. ''we've come to retrieve the child and return him to the village.'' Before Rao could even speak the soldiers made their way towards the child. However, something caused all to freeze in shock: the dark aura surrounding the blade the child carried and the change in voice depth as he spoke once more: ''we will not return to that hellhole even if you cut off both our legs and dragged me back'' this angered the general who snapped his fingers which made the Konohana soldiers to attacked the child who simply stood there and took blow after blow. After this the general laughed and spoke: ''Be grateful we let you....'' His trail of thought was cut off when he noticed the child had no wounds what so ever on his body despite having just been attacked by the soldiers. He cracked his neck and walked up to the child, whilst unsheathing his blade. ''I'll finish you myself '' he said before bringing the blade downward towards the child. Rao looked away in fear. However as she looked away two noises rang quickly after one another: a metal-on-metal clank and shortly after the noise of metal striking against the stone road. The general laughed thinking he had killed the child but was cut off by another soldier tapping his shoulder: ''sir, you might want to look at what happened'' his jaw dropped when he noticed what had actually happened. The child not only had blocked his strike but managed to cut the top part of the blade clean off. Rao noticed the child's hands were once again lined with the same lines as she had seen when he had shown her his appearance when he was fused with Yami. ''my child I think it's time to return to...'' she was cut off by the child, however this wasn't the child she knew, this was the Ancient god of Darkness, the true nature of Yami. ''I will ask you to leave at once or face the true powers of the god of Darkness.'' The general laughed at this statement: ''you? The god of darkness? Don't make me laugh! Soldiers, cut down this monster!'' the guards approached the child drawing their weapons slowly. The child spoke once again: ''you have sealed their fate, you foolish man'' he spoke as he drew his new blade. All that could be seen was a flash of red and the screams of the soldiers. When the flash had vanished the soldiers were decimated by an unknown force, which quickly descended from the sky, grabbed the general and slammed him into the ground then lifted him above the ground. When it finally clicked in his mind who this was, he was left with no words to speak. The creature spoke once again, calm, collected, yet with a deep and terrifying voice. ''Face the new incarnation of the god of DARKNESS, MORTAL!'' he screeched. Everyone was quiet as he laughed. ''I give you one more chance, leave at once or I will not be so merciful!'' he screamed at the General as he dropped his back to the ground. The general in his panic to get back on his feet, dropped his blade. He turned around and commanded his soldiers to leave alongside them. After a few minutes the child descended back to the ground and stretched his newly-grown wings. Everyone in the shrine was quiet as Mira approached him. She spoke softly, but with a sense of fear in her voice: ''how long have you known about this, Yume?''
He spoke slowly but calmly: ''for almost my entire free-living life'' she responded once again with another question: ''how long have you been fused with Yami?'' he responded once again, calm and collected:
''long before I was even born, I was destined to be his next vessel''
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Hachimi no Fume
Fanfiction''If this even works'', those words are where all this darkness began. The only words I still remember about my life before this eternal hell.
