Rekka no Honoo [Flame of Recca] :: Anzai Nobuyuki
 VOLUME 21
:: translated by tenno yukie ::
:: volume 20 :: 1 :: 2 :: 3 :: 4 :: 5 :: 6 :: 7 :: 8 :: 9 :: 10 :: volume 22 ::
Aoi Honoo

volume 21 chapter 01

(chapter opens with where all the ura uruha were placed, located in the caves... rasen is at the final destination - guardian of hell, kirin is at the sealed gate, soukakusai at the other path which directly leads to rasen, before him was hisui at needle mountain, paths leading to kirin were aoi and mokuren at the monk's field, kamui at sand land, the cliff and the stone room... all these the hokage passed already, just to refresh your memory)

Volume 21 Chapter 1 : Sealed Gates, Open

text (a flashback scene, kirin points to a cave) : go in to that cave...... i believe it will split into three paths, but there lies the sealed gate. inside is tendou jigoku and mori koran. farewell. (they move on, recca looks back one last time at rasen)
voice : ......... ......ca... ...recca! (fuuko slaps him hard) RECCA!!! (recca rubbing his head, everyone apparently is regrouped) idiot! what~~~ are you spacing out for!
domon : yo yo, get a hold of yourself, captain! it's almost the last stage!!
recca (big smile) : ahahah!! sorry! i just got a bit nervous!!
kaoru : even recca nii-chan gets nervous like anyone else. (next is recca biting koganei's head off) [ah--- ah--- sorry, sorry]
domon (vein) : by the way, i've noticed since earlier. (camera focuses on raiha) what are YOU doing here!? (raiha looks all innocent)
raiha (cute innocent face to kokuu who's standing next to him) : that's right, ojii-san! it's dangerous here~~~~ (kokuu w/ a sweatdrop)
domon (dragging raiha's hair) : i mean you! y o u!
fuuko (speaking up now) : stop it, domon! fuuko-chan is in debt to raiha-kun! i'm here right now because he saved me!
domon (pause, turn to pat raiha) : hiya, savior (for lack of a better word T.T)
recca (lots of sweatdrops >.<) : what's with you. (here comes his leader speech) ...although, we have ran into many troubles since we came in----- we are really almost there! tendou jigoku!!

(flash scenes of all the battles they've been through, from rasen to kirin to hisui and aoi and more)

yanagi : hn.
kaoru (his thoughts wandered to kamui's... uh... scary kissing pose) : truly... many dangers......... (T.T face)
yanagi (thinking) : looks like kaoru-kun really ran into something disturbing...
recca : it's our turn to explode now!! we are going to beat down that damn madougu until it cries!! (they all slap hands with each other, and recca leads the way to the cave) hokage ningun----- let's go!!

(meanwhile, rasen is sitting by at the side of the previous cave)

kirin : ......... rasen----- let's... let's go out! come, we can get some fresh air!

(rasen looks up, noticing something, aoi appears)

aoi : it's a pity that you lost. rasen-san. (she has no expression but looks freaky somehow)
kirin : what, aoi...... what are you still doing here.
aoi (smile) : hm. i came to confirm something. i have a question for you do. (looks even freakier) from now on, do you still plan to fight?
kirin (rasen closes his eyes) : "no. i have found what i was looking for. my plans from now on is to find its real meaning. i don't plan to become your enemy nor betray you, but from here on i move as i wish."
aoi (smile) : ...... oh my... (face turns really scary) you are just as stubborn as before. (very psychotic look) you are the ura uruha's leader after all? your irresponsibility is pissing me off.
kirin (rasen looks even more scary though ^^;;) : "it's none of your business, so what if you are furious, do you wish to fight me?"
aoi (back to the smiling face) : of course not. heheh. someone of your level actually let them pass in one piece----- i already knew your answer. ...that was the last job you would carry out as the leader. kirito, hiruko, kadotsu, and myself - aoi, the shishiten---- will succeed you as the new leaders.
kirin (rasen's expression does not change) : "as you wish, also tell that to mori."
aoi (make a bow holding her dress) : yes yes, thank you for your hard work------ *heart* see you, rasen-chan. (and she vanishes... rasen looks to kirin)
kirin (understandingly) : ...yes. i will always be by your side. no matter what happens, that will not change. your wish----- is also mine.

(she leans close to him, the scene fades out... meanwhile, the hokage has stopped before a large scary looking stone gate that's about 10x their size)

kokuu (take out a madougu) : ...are you ready... there's no turning back now. the final choice is life or death. (he puts in the crystal ball and the skull on center of the door suddenly has two rays of light shoot out from its eyes)
skull : ......hokage madougu...... ...the recognition of those related to the hokage......... sealed gate......... open......

(with a big blast, the cave opens)

recca (excitedly) : wah--
text (tendou jigoku) : i have waited so many years for this day...... waiting for the one who is qualified to receive my power! in eternal time, i continued to wait!! and now----- the one with the qualified power has come!!
tokia (look at recca) : [......even if...... tendou jigoku chooses you in the end------ you won't change, hanabishi recca. -----i believe in you.]

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volume 21 chapter 02

Volume 21 Chapter 2 : Prelude to War

text : I have been like this since I was a child. desire for good food, desire for women, desire for money, desire for a home, desire for paintings. (mori koran and his two side kicks arrive at the cave of tendou jigoku) whatever I gain, then I want the next thing, and the next! there is never satisfaction. eternal, endless... D E S I R E. (is it just me or is he getting more and more ugly? he's ugly enough as it is) and then I realized, no matter how much money I earn, or how much treasure I have, they are all meaningless if I die. (they are at the entrance of a really spacious but old and nasty cave, at the center is a corpse still in his old sengoku armor, surrounded by various old and rotting seals etc. the doors behind them slam shut)
mori koran (panting in excitement) : hah... hah...
text : I want eternal life. (on the helmet of the corpse is the hokage symbol)
mori koran : ahhh... (sweating all over) aha...haha...... hyahahahah...........
renge (expressionless) : ?
mori koran (jumps at tendou jigoku like an idiot) : HAHAHAHAHAHAH!! it's tendou jigoku!!!
text (his sweat... siliva... dripping all over the place... ok you didn't need to know that) : if I have this, there will be nothing more that I fear. I can kill kurei, I can kill the hokage, and the healer girl will also be mine...... (err, if he has eternal life, what does he still need yanagi for??? *makes no sense* anyway, he graps for it but....)
mori koran (repelled by the barrier around the corpse) : !? (very bloody hands) guh... GAAAAAHHHHHH!!! ahhhhhhhhh FUCK!!! (about his hands or tendou jigoku?)
yamagi (the other dude) : mori-sama!!
mori koran : fuck!!
renge : papa!?
mori koran (hatefully) : fucking hokage......! fucking hokage ninjas!! they try to fuck with me until the very end!! THE SEAL!! they put a seal around tendou jigoku!! YAGAMI!! RENGE!!! get rid of the shit in my way!!!
yagami : y, yes sir!! (he tries to touch it, gets bloody hands too) g... GAAAHH!! i... it's no use! i can't even touch it!! what the hell is this......
renge (steps up besides him) : move. (and she blasts the thing into flames, mori has this really hopeful look on his face now, but when the flame clears, the seals were not even damaged)
mori koran (horrified look) : it can't be......... we came...... we came this face.........! the ultimate "strength" is before our eyes and...... FUUUUUCK!!
renge (meanwhile is looking at her hands with a cute "errr?" expression) : ............

(and just then... the gates that was shut behind them slowly opens and enters the bunch of hokage bakas acting really cool)

recca (with his super baka smile) : YO. mori-chan!!
mori koran (falls to the ground) : h... hanabishi recca............... hokage......
text (kirin/rasen flashback) : "leave it to us to stop the hokage"
mori koran (clawing the stony floor, *bye bye fingers*) : those... THOSE FUCKING USELESS BASTARDS------!!!
recca (big fake smile) : it's not that they are "useless", mo----ron. you should start to try to do somethings yourself, rather than relying on others!!
domon : is that armor tendou jigoku?
fuuko : seems so. we're finally here!
text (flashback, those zombies) : please free us.........!! please break the curse of tendou jigoku!!
recca : let's do it.
mori koran (evil glowing eyes...) : no you don't!! yagami!! renge!!! KILL THEM!!!
renge (really crazy smile on her face...) : yes *heart* papa. (she throws flame at recca who jumps out of the way in the nick of time)
recca : wahhh!!? flames...!!? [flame master!? that's impossible!! there is only kurei and I!!]

(at the same time, yagami stands in domon's way)

domon : out of my way.
yagami (straightens his glasses) : i won't let you-------- take another step beyond this point. (blast of energy that actually throws domon back entirely)
domon : guh!! (on the ground with a funny face) what is this guy!? he looks weak but he's actually pretty strong!!
fuuko (^.^) : he is mori's guard after all. [do not judge by appearance]

(renge is on the other hand taking care of recca, tokiya and kaoru)

kaoru (dodging from flames) : Eek!!
tokiya : ... she's strong... even against five opponents, no one can touch her!
recca (grrr) : bitch!! who the fuck areyou!?
renge (cute kiddie smile) : i am renge *heart* papa's daughter *heart* actually I was born from kurei and kurenai, but my papa is mori koran. you are papa's enemies, therefore------- i will killl you.
recca (wide eyes, stunned) : [kurei and kurenai's...... child......!!?] (funny face -_-) uhhh. (counting fingers) she's like 20 years old right? so that means.........
fuuko (whack him) : go to hell, asshole!!!

(elsewhere... raiha is alone and it suddenly look like something struck him and he felt a presense....)

raiha : [!! this aura......!! that person......... (someone approaching the caves) has also entered the sealed lands!!]

(in the middle of all this, the corpse and armor sat in the seals quietly...)

tendou jigoku : [the one of power.......... has come!!!]

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volume 21 chapter 03

men (mori's underlings who were suppose to guard the entrance to the cave) : stop him!! we're all finished if he passes through here!!! we must not let "him" enter the sealed lands!!!

(a hand raises slowly, and all those in his way are blasted to ashes, he continues going but one of those guards escaped, and runs into the forest)

escaped dude : w... wahhhh!!! (but he is suddenly knocked down)
someone (the one who knocked him down) : from here on I will be your guide. (joker appears with a little smile, in his tshirt and baseball cap outfit since when he last disappeared) ......aren't we glad! I knew you were still alive!! kurei-san--------

(kurei appears again in a dark and imposing aura *does a little cheerleading dance* and he has once again put on his mask)

Volume 21 Chapter 3 : The Roar of the Possessed Bloody Monster With Sealed Greed

(in the cave, everyone's pretty much glaring at everyone else)

mori koran : kill them!! renge!! yagami!! slaughter the hokage!!
renge : yes. papa------ (shoots out flame arrows)
tokiya (looks coldly at those aiming for him) : ...the same------- move again? (throws his ensui to the ground and large ice blocks rise up around him, blocking all the arrows)
renge : ! (out of the ice burgs, someone jumps at her) : the new found hokage ninja offense captain!! (*damn long title*) koganei kaoru, here I come!! (slash)
renge (miss) : kyah. (a flame blade comes out of her hand) missed----- *heart* (slash, and fuuko blocks for koganei)
fuuko : i'm the warrior bishoujo yarou fuuko-chan! you better remember it!!

(meanwhile domon fights with yagami, yagami looks like he was going to punch domon but suddenly the tip of his index finger opens *fake finger* and reveals a mini gun inside)

domon (totally freaked out face) : !
yagami (shoots domon right in the head) : BANG
domon (head falls back) : oww... (but comes right back, with the word "tetsu" on his forehead and glaring at yagami >.<) ...owww that hurt, you moron!! (yagami with his mouth wide open looks speechless, recca is standing right behind him with a sweatdrop and throws him off with a punch)
recca (in SD, slapps hands with domon) : yeah.
domon (slap) : yeah.
yagami (slowly gets up) : grr... you rats... (nasty glare) don't-------- underestimate me.................!

(while all this was going on, kokuu walks quietly up to the sealed corpse and armor)

text : ......it's been a long time...... since we met, tendou jigoku----------- or should I say...... kaima......
kaima (this disgustingly ugly old dude who looks just as crazy as mori koran) : [kill!!! make them bleed with the madougus I made! kill!! kill!! KILL!!!]

(with some blade that looks like hyoumonken, he killed someone, since then the hokage villagers all came after him)

text : go get kaima!! unforgivable!! he killed a child to test the strength of a madougu! he killed eleven women and children and ran away! he is no longer a hokage!! he escaped to the smith's house!! (and is surrounded, might I add)
kaima (holding a box) : [...fools................ you can't kill me. this...... with my final creation...... I will surpass mortality!! TENDOU JIGOKU!! (opens box) the madougu that shall grant me eternal life and endless strength!! (and so he was killed by the hokage, among them is kokuu holding kougan anki) ......I will live forever--------- (while he is dying -_-;;) and I will continue to kill forever. together with the madougu I created......]

(end of short flashback...)

kokuu : ......it's been over 400 years since...... but you still have not forgotten your wicked goal, still waiting for the right time to make a move...... (summons his flame) [I will destroy you!!! at least with my own hand!!] (suddenly from behind, mori knocked him on the head with a rock)
mori koran (he's just nasty to look at >.<;;) : no you don't! oh no you don't!! tendou jigoku is mine!!! (tries to grab it, but he gets bloody hands again, however he doesn't let go >.<) g... GAHHHHHHH (his whole body is like bleeding and ready to burst or something...) AHHHHHH
everyone (looks in his direction) : !? (and stop fighting) !!
mori koran : tendou!! tendou jigoku!!! ANSWER MY CALL!!! I want power!! POWER!!! i... (holding on to tendou jigoku tightly, it's this staff looking thing next to the corpse) must have it! I always get what I want!! and you are no exception!! (ewww~ he does explode... well, an arm just came off) ......!! heh...... AHHHHHHHH (still holding on to tendou jigoku with his single hand)
recca (stunned, standing there sweating) : [his arm broke...... such... such persistance!!]
mori koran : give me... power.........

(slowly the ancient corpse begins to get up...)

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volume 21 chapter 04

text : give me power! (mori's arm broke off) Power!! (his whole body ready to explode) POWER!!!

(everyone watches in silence as the corpse stood up and started walking, the seals around it broke like nothing)

a voice (from the corpse) : ...I am... tendou jigoku............ (mori's eyes open wide) I awaken now before "the one of power"!!

Volume 21 Chapter 3 : The One of Power

mori koran : oh...... ohh... (don't tell me he's crying because he's so touched) tendou... you have answered--------- to my call.......................!? TENDOU JIGOKU!!!

(errr just a minute there, the corpse is walking towards recca... and ignoring him -_-;;;)

mori koran : !?
recca : !
mori koran (mouth wide open) : IT IS NOT ME!? YOU HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME!? (clawing on the ground) WHYYYYY TENDOU JIGOKU!!!
text (recca faces tendou jigoku) : what we fear---------- has become reality...!!
tokiya : [after all, tendou jigoku... has chosen recca!!]
domon : [how...?]
fuuko : [what is it...?]
kaoru (trembling) : [the pressure!!]
yanagi : [i'm scared!!]
yagami (also trembling) : w... what is this, renge-sama...... I'm also...... so frightened that my body won't move...!!
renge (silent) : .........

(stick in a shot of raiha *_* looking expressionless)

tendou jigoku : .................... I have one question---------- do you want strength? to be stronger than anyone, and there is nothing you cannot do------------ the power to surpass everything!!
recca (looks straight at it) : ............strength? (hold out his right hand) i want it.
everyone : !!? (mori's mouth wide open in shock)
recca : i want the strength to protect princess... to protect ka-chan, and everyone! i want the strength to fight! (turns from a really serious face to a big poofy goofball face) just------ kidding ^.^ (punches tendou jigoku with a vein) I will succeed with my own strength, moron-----------!! i don't need your fucking strength!! (tokiya smiles, recca turns to kokuu who is KOed) yo gramps!! how long do you plan to sleep there!! (hold out his right fist) break this bastard!!
kokuu (half awake) : ...huh? (ok, still asleep, but anyway, he floats off the ground and gets sucked back into recca's arm)
recca : AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! (summons kokuu) tendou jigoku! (glares coldly) you bastard!! (flashback of the zombies before)
fuuko : destroy it!!
domon : do it, recca!! (kokuu lets out the flaming jewel....)
mori koran : no...!! NOOOOOOOO!!
recca : turn it to dust.

(mori's mouth open in horror, kokuu blasts his beam at tendou jigoku, everything vanishes in a bright flash... but suddenly recca gets injured around the waist somehow, everyone watches in shock, the smoke around tendou jigoku begins to clear)

tendou jigoku : heheheheheheh......you are a fool who inherited that cursed hokage's blood after all............ (smoke clears, the armor has broken and now you have.... a group of giant floating eyeballs in the air) there is no end to your stupidity.........! well... I can pierce your heart with one blow anytime I want... but you got lucky.........
domon (sweating) : .........those eyeballs are...... tendou jigoku.........!!
tendou jigoku : who would choose you anyway!! decendant of the hateful hokage!! you have no power or qualification!!! the power that I'm talking about... is------------- DESIRE!! the persistant desire for everything!! the hatred!! (look to mori koran) the one of power...... I acknowledge your desire to have me... you have come before me......accept everything... as a part of you!!
mori koran (probably too excited to speak) : ahhh... hah... hahahaha.........!! (all the eyeballs fly towards him like bullets) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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volume 21 chapter 05

Volume 21 Chapter 5 : Worst Contact

(err, wherever we left off, with mori being hit by the eyeballs or something, and a big explosion/flash of light)

recca : UHH...!!
fuuko : kyahh!! (everyone cover their eyes, light dies down, fuuko slowly opens her eyes) uh... is everyone alright!?
kaoru : pretty much ok i guess...... but what the hell was that light. it was blinding.
domon (look at the smoke that's clearing) : !! (everyone stares intently in that direction, mori koran looks pretty much as bloody as before, though he's moving more like a zombie, slowly taking a step at a time)
recca : mori... koran......
tokiya : [in the end, tendou jigoku chosen mori koran------------ inside his body is the most fearsome madougu...!! what would happen!?]
renge (still cute baby face) : ...... papa.

(suddenly half of mori's body, starting from his face, rips apart and eyeballs start coming out of his body... *nasty* these guys looks like they are turning green watching him...)

yanagi (how typical...) : k......KYAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
mori koran (with half his body looking like eyeballs) : ......silence......
everyone : !
mori koran : i am just... trembling in excitement...... i can't let your loud voices ruin this feeling. as you can all see----------- it is mine now. the ultimate power. (half of his body bursting out)
recca (scream) : DUCK!!

(kaoru bends down in the nick of time as the "stuff" shoots over him, fuuko jumps aside, yagami who was not prepared has his top half of the body blown off... *more blood* yanagi faints *as always*)

domon (stunned speechless) : h... heh...what the hell... is that...... are we...... dreaming...!?
fuuko : ... fuuko-chan would be so happy if that's the case. get in a mess when you wake up to find it's already 8:30. leave in a second yelling "I'm late".
tokiya : ......... it's reality.
kaoru : what... what the hell is it......!!
kokuu (suddenly popped up again) : that's tendou jigoku.
kaoru (cute face) : kokuu ji-chan. [you came out again...]
kokuu : it use to be human. tendou's will is his will!! "kaima", the man who made madougus!! (suddenly to mori koran) you are there, aren't you, kaima!!? COME OUT!! everyone, listen!! that man is a cruel bastard who loves blood and slaughter! he is always thinking, "I want to kill more, i want to kill much more"!! "as long as my life doesn't end, I can continue to take lives forever." didn't noroi have the madougu "bakuju"? as long as its spirit exists, that madougu can take corpses and use them as its body!! that was the hint, the man who feared the death of his own flesh chose to turn himself into a madougu! inside the madougu tendou jigoku--------- he has implanted his own soul. and then he was sealed into an eternal sleep. he waits for the one to become his body. waiting for the one who synchronizes in mind with him!!
tendou jigoku : ........ yes......... and-------- the time has finally come!! (from mori's half messed up face, another face kinda came up, it's like he has two heads... -_-;;) and it begins from now on. the two souls occupying this body will ------------- kill! slaughter! terminate! it's great... and all of you-------- (his speech got cut off ^^;;)
recca : shut up. (everyone looks in his direction with funny face and sweatdrop, recca just laid yanagi aside) you'll wake up princess. and she'll be frightened again by your ugly face. (pats yanagi) ...sleep like a good girl. i'll always protect you, and i'll definitely get you out of here. (then he stood up) MIKAGAMI!
tokiya : !
recca : FUUKO!! ASSHOLE!! (ahem, that was domon)
domon (>.< vein) : [use my name damn it]
recca : KOGANEI!! (turns around with a very "playing cool" look ^^;;) get into battle mode-------- it's time to kick this monster's ass. (no, he didn't say that, exactly, i just thought it sounds better ^.^)

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volume 21 chapter 06

domon (big round sweaty funny face) : what do you mean...... battle mode!! you do realize------ (mori is still transforming) we're up against THAT thing? (shaking) to tell you the truth, i'm shaking all over.
kaoru : recca nii-chan! can you fight!?
fuuko (also having doubts) : ...recca!
recca (looks at mori calmly) : that is no longer human! it is a monster.

Volume 21 Chapter 6 : The One Who Abandoned Humanity

recca : he has given up being the human named mori koran--------- and became a madougu infused with human mind, a monster named tendou jigoku!! we must destroy it.

(silence)

domon : ...... anyhow----- if we don't beat it, we'll be killed ourselves, just like yagami.
fuuko : it's gonna be hell if he gets loose outside! this is not really for the sake of world peace, but he's just too damn nasty!
kaoru (smile) : i wonder if we can beat it?
tokiya (coldly) : losing would be death.
recca (>.<) : let's do it. GO!!! (they split up on signal and attacks from all sides)
mori koran : heheh... heheheheheh...... five little imbecile bugs...... just come at me!! fools! I will squash you!! (i'm making up lines as i go along... ^^;;)

(back at the hanabishi house...)

kagero : recca... RECCA!! (holding the communication madougu)
hanabishi : ...no one answering? kagero-san!
kagero : ...yes... i can't hear anything... even the farsighted eikai ball wouldn't display anything. what... exactly has happened!?
hanabishi : ...... they'll surely come back! it's disrespectful to die before your parents!
kagero (praying hard) : [recca...... everyone...!!]

(fight begins, kaoru gets slashed first)

kaoru : u... AHHHHH!! (spats out blood, and falls to the ground) it... it hurts............!!
mori koran (looks at his own messed up arm) : .........splendid......... my strength is growing...... it's overwhelming... so this is what "power" really is!!! my head was ripped, and massive bleeding...... but why!? I feel no pain!! only pleasure!! this new arm that grew...... (the nasty looking thing) a while ago... when I was only human, I would have been disgusted by the sight of it! but now...... I feel it is more beautiful than anything in the world!!! (*puke*)

(suddenly from behind, mikagami stabbed ensui through his chest without warning)

tokiya (coolly) : how ugly. this disgusting form is truly a reflection of your heart.

(mori koran smiles evilly, tokiya is alarmed but still too late, large spikes grows out of mori koran's back and they stab into mikagami's chest)

mori koran : humans are so pathetic... mikagami tokiya......... they only know to deny things they cannot accept themselves, without taking its real contents into consideration. Galileo... and Newton... they were named fools when they formed their theories. but what was the truth? and my strength--------- what would it be if not truth!? (suddenly the spikes were cut off and fuuko jumps into the picture with the blade hisui gave her)
fuuko (worried) : mi-chan!!
mori koran (i don't think he's really hurt, the spikes grew back immediately) : I no longer need to fear you who possess the madougus... and kurei! for now I have become a madougu myself......!! (surge of power)
domon (punches him madly) : WOOOHHHHHHHHH!!! (mori falls back, coughing blood) what are you getting so cocky about!! so you think you're so great!? you monster!! (suddenly those nasty stuff grows out of mori's shoulder and bites the arm that was punching him) GAAAAAAHHHH!!
mori koran : you really underestimate me. I am not human, I have surpassed that. you lowlifes should get that through your head!!
recca (suddenly) : MOVE, DOMON!!! (he has summoned kokuu) I AM GOING TO FUCKIN' KILL YOU!!! (kokuu shoots the laser beam at mori) KOKUU!!! (the laser penetrates mori's body and throws him back several feet against the cave wall) you guys alright!? koganei! mikagami!! domon!!
kaoru (slowly getting up) : can't really say...... I'm fine...
fuuko : ...... (tokiya also got up)
domon : ...... (gazing at the smoke cloud) did you get him!?

(the smoke clears, and the figure of mori koran reapears... with a hole through his chest, mori smiles nastily and everyone turns pale... he slowly opens his mouth and a laser beam shoots past recca into the cave wall, breaks through the rocks and flies across the night sky outside...)

mori koran (smoke still coming out of his mouth) : hahahah... so I can do that too...... that was most pleasant.

(suddenly the cave starts shaking... earthquake?)

domon : ...wha...?
kaoru : that sound......!!
fuuko (sweat) : don't tell me...... that just now...... is causing this place to collapse......!!?
domon (super deformed face) : fffffffffFUCKkkkkkk
recca (calmly carrying the unconscious yanagi) : domon! take care of princess. you guys hurry up and get out of here!
domon : get out of here......... (turns SD face) MEANING YOU ARE GONNA STAY--------!!?
recca (also SD face) : YOU GOT THAT RIGHT------!!! (coolly) casulties should go get some rest. leave this guy to me!
voice (of someone else) : what an idiot. so this is your leader, fuuko?
recca (SD, vein) : whaaat!? (fuuko looks up, the cave gates opened once again and someone approaches)
fuuko : hisui---------

end of volume 21 chapter 6
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volume 21 chapter 07

fuuko : what...... are you doing here!?

(hisui enters)

Volume 21 Chapter 7 : Hisui's Determination

recca (O.O) : ...... (whisper) who's that?
fuuko : hisui. member of the ura uruha, the one who fought with me.
kaoru (on guard) : ura uruha------- then she's an enemy!
tokiya : in fact, she's the one who threw you into the river, koganei. bad timing.........! (fuuko steps in front of them with her arms out, stopping them from making a move, tokiya seems surprised, hisui turns to mori koran with a blank face)
mori koran (evil grin) : ......ah...! I remember you now! yes------ hisui! you're hisui, right?
hisui (tightens her grip on the blade) : ...yes... of the ura uruha--- No. 13, hisui of the shinryo shintou. so you have acquired tendou jigoku, mori-sama.........
mori koran (gets more crazy) : ahh!! look!! this beautiful body!! don't you think it's a work of art!? I have... surpassed being human, hisui!!!
hisui (still blank face) : ......congratulations. perhaps this is not a good time for this, but mori-sama, there are a few things I want answered today. in the final test of the ura uruha, we used the system of fighting one on one and the winner qualifies... afterwards, I heard somewhere that the battle selections were predetermined. and that you were the one who did it......
mori koran : ...hm, that is correct------
hisui : I personally ended the life of someone very important to me in that fight. ...please forgive my manners but... did you make that choice knowing our relationship?
fuuko : [hisui......]
domon : ?
mori koran (wide grin) : ......humans can only kill others without hesitation if they have no emotions. what can you do with love when you don't even understand that? (the past replays) that was a lesson!! (laughs crazily) it was certainly an interesting show. I simply couldn't stop laughing!

(*SLASH*, hisui cut off mori's head, without any warning... everyone is shocked)

hisui (full of tears) : you... are not human............!!
mori koran (or should I say his head on the ground?) : ...oh yes, since a little while ago. you got a problem with that? (some ugly veins grow out of the neck and the head and the body are both alive, as two separate things) the human race------ always must sacrifice something in order to obtain something else. the larger the thing obtained is, the greater the sacrifice. (hisui is completely stunned) because of that man's sacrifice... you have acquired strength! what more do you want? there's no need to cut off my head even if you wanted to thank me. now that, hisui......... (the arm of body suddenly stretch out) is most ungrateful!!

(hisui looks at him, frozen, but recca and fuuko both stepped in and blocked the arm for her)

recca (evil look) : geez... what the fuck are you saying, asshole. I'm going to puke.
fuuko : hang in there, hisui! but---- it's a bit too early for tears!

(recca's saiha blade and fuuko's one shinryo blade both cut into the arm, hisui decides to cheer up and grabbing her sword, she stabs the arm too)

recca : alright!! domon!! mikagami! koganei!! this place won't last!! get out of here before it collapses!!! (big thumbs up to them) take care of princess!
kaoru (protesting) : but...!!
domon (cuts him off) : koganei!! (serious, walking away with tokiya, carrying yanagi on his back) let's go! -------- we'll wait for you up there, hanabishi!!

(recca smiles assuringly and looking at yanagi who's having a nice dream on domon's back)

yanagi (in her sleep) : hm---
kaoru : you better come back alive-----!! I will kill you if you die, recca ni-chan!! (they exit)
recca (jumps away while mori retreives his arm) : heh. (to fuuko) what's he blabbing about! you go with them too, kid!
fuuko (cute face) : fuuko-chan is not wounded! I'll stay with you, (looks at the 2 pieces of mori) and beat this monster!

(thus they are in a 3 on ... 2? state. on the side, renge is watching calmly)

raiha (cute harmless smile) : nice to meet you. aren't you going to run away? renge-san.
renge (kiddie smile and winks) : nope!! I'll watch papa. I'll watch papa who became strong beat the bad people.
raiha : ......... what......... do you think about mori in that form?
renge (suddenly a really crazy look on her face) : he looks... really cool *heart*

(on the other hand, the fighting continues)

hisui : I------ I am a coward, fuuko!! I was afraid to know the truth. "what am I going to do if it really is true?"...... I hid my suspicions and fought to the death to fool myself! (recca summons nadare and saiha at the same time) but now----- I am going to face it!! you have given me the strength, fuuko!! I just wanted to tell you that!!! (fuuko smiles in return)
recca : double dragon!!! SAIHA!! NADARE!!! eat that, you monster!!! (flying blades hit mori) alright!!
hisui : ! (she notices that not far away is mori's head and the mouth opened, ready to fire at fuuko, who's not paying attention)
text (flashback, fuuko smiling) : all that stuff about fate... can be changed!
hisui (horrified) : FUUKO!!!

(blood...)

end of volume 21 chapter 7
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volume 21 chapter 08

text (flashback - hisui's boyfriend while dying) : live, hisui. you must live on.
fuuko (flashback) : [fate can be changed.]

(laser beam shoots out from mori's mouth, fuuko was pushed away in the nick of time and the beam penetrates hisui's chest)

mori koran : missed......
fuuko (shock, kneeling next to hisui) : HISUIIIIIIIIII!!!

Volume 21 Chapter 8 : Parting of Smile

(cover page is a much younger, innocent, and cute hisui, her boyfriend is sleeping in her lap, such a sweet pic)

fuuko (hugging hisui) : YO!! HISUI!! COME ON!! open your eyes, HISUI!!! (can't stop crying) stay alive...... you promised......!! why...... why did you...... (her tears fell on hisui and she opened her eyes slightly)
hisui : ...... fuu...ko... (and she smiled, most happily) you're... not hurt... that's great------
fuuko : after all you............
hisui : no...... I didn't give up on life... no... I simply... wanted to save you. I like you, and that "emotion" made my body move naturally... (she's losing a lot of blood) as for how it ended up...
fuuko (scared) : [her body...... it's getting colder and colder............]
hisui : it was just my bad luck. therefore... come... fuuko---- (takes her hand)
text (image of the boyfriend *yes I forgot his name and is too lazy to check*) : ahh......
hisui : y... you don't have to be... overly troubled by this... it will... only make me suffer more than anything......
text (flashback of the guy's death) : now... I understand... the feeling when hideki (*oh that's right -_-;;*) smiled back then... this is just the same. (fuuko's crying her heart out) but fuuko is different from me. she will be fine, and always, always, live on.

(in the distance, she though she saw someone approach, hideki appears before her with the same old smile, she goes up to him happily and they walk away in pair... fuuko screams, still holding on to hisui, but she has already closed her eyes and can no longer answer)

mori koran (on the side) : heheheh... heheheheh... that's sick! the woman liking another woman! and getting all teary! how boring!! you are next----- (evil laugh) DIE FUUKO. (suddenly recca's arm pierces his chest from behind with homura, he has a furious expression) hanabishi recca...... (the head now joined the body again... but it's not in the head position ;_;) your body really lasts...... fool!! IT'S ALL USELESS!!! (punches recca back)
recca (slowly getting up) : ...... mori koran......... (explodes in his face) you really think you're so great!? so great that you can take people's lives at will!?
mori koran (the ugliest laugh yet *I vote that #1*) : that's right. GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

(his arm stretches and shoots towards recca again... and suddenly... out of no where... kurei appears, standing in front of recca, his face is masked again. he raises a hand, mori's arm is about to hit him and is completely blown away in flames *kurei-sama is so cool *_* ...*)

mori koran (his turn to get scared... i think he's been in fear of kurei for too long) : w... what!? ah...... (recca and fuuko both seem stunned too)
kurei (very scary ^^;;) : I've finally found you............... "father".

end of volume 21 chapter 8

yukie's note : of course kurei-sama is back *_* yaaaa! uruha still live... *cough* btw, is it just me or is this chapter extremely short -__-
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volume 21 chapter 09

(mori koran is breaking out in sweat, flashback scenes to when kurei fell down the cliff)

text : he's not the kind to die so easily, I know that better than anyone. why hasn't his body come up? he is alive... because he is alive!! KUREI!!!

Volume 21 Chapter 9 : Kurei Joins in Battle

(the chapter cover is a very nice picture of kurei which I made a wallpaper out of ^^;; he's kneeling in front of a cross, with flaming wings spread out on his back, very angelic ^^;; or... rather, fallen angel-ish. recca is shocked that kurei appeared again, mori koran however seems to have gotten over his initial scare)

mori koran : hah...... y, you're a tough guy, kurei...!! I didn't think we would meet again............!! (well he IS in monster form now, so there's not that much to be scared of) however-------- (but he is still sweating a lot ^^;;)

(a single wing grows out on kurei's back, he has a cold light in his eyes, lots of flame... arrows???... shoot out from the wing and hits mori right on, the air current kinda blew aside his hair a bit and reveals that on the other side of his mask, is the hokage symbol now, but only reversed. recca looks stunned on the side as he watched mori koran gets blown up)

recca (O.O) : ??? w, what? they're not on the same side? they broke up? he took care of mori in an instant............... *sweatdrop* oh, anyway... (cute stupid face... looks pretty happy) so you are alive after all. (though I don't think kurei liked seeing him, since he suddenly punched recca in the stomach) AHH...!! (falls down, kurei kicks him again)
kurei : ......what are you laughing about, you idiot. so what if I'm alive? is it any of your business? (grabs recca's hair... brother's love huh...) you can't be possibly mistaking that...... recca, what I just did was to "help you guys"? your existence means nothing to me. (glares coldly) you can't even take care of a monster of that level. but that's obvious, isn't it?

(he throws recca back against a wall, suddenly, someone called for him)

raiha : ...kurei-sama! (kurei turned around, raiha kneels to him, bowing down like a ninja does to the master, with a calm expression) I am glad---- that you are safe.........!
kurei (much nicer ^^;;) : I see that you are fine as well. I've been wanting to meet you, raiha.
raiha : I dare not accept your words----- how were you able to get in?
kurei : I had a guide.
joker (in SD form on the side, waving his hands) : that's me, that's me!!
raiha (sweatdrop, SD also) : j, joker! [nice!] (gets serious again) ...I've been waiting... because I knew I would see you if I came here. I have something to report------ (breaking news...) tsukino-sama is still alive. (kurei's expression is unreadable) during the final round of the urabutou satsujin, I made a trip to tsukino miya (where tsukino lived). I thought that tsukino-sama's life would be in danger no matter which side won. ................ and I made a risky gamble.

(a picture showing the bomb inside tsukino's body breaking apart by some energy sent in from a hand on the outside)

kurei : ............ you-------- used "raijin"?
raiha : the long distance bomb that was placed inside tsukino-sama's body------- could be destroyed by the flow of electric current from the outside...... but it was not done until now due to the certain amount of risks. however, when the matter was pressing at hand----- I brought upon the power of raijin with my hand, with the preparation to repay by death if anything were to happen. ......in the end, she was rid of the thing that bound her. now she has been brought to a safe place, please don't worry......
kurei : ............... I see.........
joker (smiled on the side) : [...... kurei-san is alive... and...... that's three people! with raiha-san, and myself, there are still people who would fight for kurei-san! the "uruha" is not completely dead yet!!]

(suddenly, someone yelled at them)

recca : KUREI!! (a super punch to kurei, in the face, in a super deformed/vein popping mode) YOU ASSHOLE!!!

(raiha and joker both have super deformed faces with lots of sweatdrops and bulging eyes ^^;;;;; as recca punched kurei)

recca (super vein popping face) : so you being alive is none of my business!! but how dare you do that to me!! I'm making you pay in ten thousand times! I'll kill you!!
kurei (is standing rather calmly, but ignores recca) : I don't have the time to play with you. I've chosen my opponent for today.
recca (super pissed) : WHAAAT!?

(the smoke cloud where kurei had blown up mori koran began to clear... revealing, several smaller monsters, all split from mori's broken limbs)

end of volume 21 chapter 9
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volume 21 chapter 10

Volume 21 Chapter 10 : The Incomplete Life Form

(meanwhile the cave is... kinda shaking... very loudly ^^;;)

recca (vein) : yo. kurei!! (-_- face) this place is going down! it's not like I'm worrying about you, but shouldn't you think about how to get out first?
kurei (darkly facing the other direction) : shut the fuck up. I've still got unfinished business with him.
recca (pissed) : what the hell!! (then realizes) ...him? (he turns to look... and finally realizes too that mori is not dead yet -_-) don't tell me... (freaked out expression)

(smoke clears, there are like 4 different smaller monsters now, each one uglier than the next)

monsters : ...ah...... heheheh
recca (sweating) : ...there's now four of them......!!
kurei : raiha, joker. don't get involved. (xP he doens't want their help) recca...... I'm letting you live today, you're in the way. get out of my face.
recca (punches him again) : idiot. (joker and raiha both have the O.O;;; face again) you...... really are such an ass!! (vein, glare) what is it about a guy like you that makes raiha and neon swear their loyalty--------- (kurei slaps him aside before he finishes) uh... (just in time to miss an attack from the mori monsters)
mori koran : ......kurei...... you haven't changed at all... still rude and violent... you're hopeless. what a mannerless lowlife monkey.
kurei : ...... you can really talk. a coward who couldn't do anything on his own------- to become quite something now.
mori koran : ah well...... since you already labeled me as "below any life form" anyway. but now I have power! that flame of yours before cannot possibly destroy my body! the broken limbs sliced apart by your flaming wing------- can come together again and recreate three individual bodies! (plus the head that's talking, making 4)
tokiya : [I see...... those monsters were all born from mori as a part of him...... just like "playing with clay"......... (diagram showing mori's monster body getting blown into pieces and them comes together in three lumps)]
raiha (cute curious face) : ...still--------- didn't it look like kurei-sama just saved recca-san?
joker (humming) : maybe just a coincidence?
mori koran (attacks) : plus!! all the bodies are connected to me mentally!! there are four of mori koran!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (jump up to attack kurei) this is tendou jigoku!! this is POWER!!!
kurei (one wrist was tied up by vine like stuff) : ! (and another monster stabs him with a spike, a third opens up its body wide in front him)
mori koran : why don't you just... (snaps shut, closing kurei inside) rot inside my body-------
recca (scream) : KUREI!!
mori koran (another monster comes to attack recca) : no need to worry about him.........because you are going to the same place. (whips recca) hehehe... heheheheh
recca (grabs his wounded shoulder with one hand) : y... you... monster...!!! (angry)
mori koran (laughing) : how pleasant...... the flame master brothers will no longer threaten me with their existence! as long as I have this unlimited power...!!

(suddenly there's a voice in his head)

voice : [retreat!]
mori koran : ! (tis kaima speaking)
kaima : [we are not complete yet!! it would be dangerous if we stay!! our body will break apart too if it splits too much!! although our co-existing body will never be destroyed! however... (diagram shows that mori was 100% by himself before, then got split into the head and body which was 40 and 60, then the 60 got split into the 3 monsters which were 20, 10 and 30) what do you think will happen if the breakdown continues? our strength is divided......... and eventually------ no to mention humans... but we will be even below insects for eternity!!]
mori koran : ......!!! that can't be!! then... what must we do!?
kaima : [become the "complete form"...... all we have to do is absorb her power and we'll be fine...... (close up of yanagi) the one who has the power of healing...!!! (oh geez, yanagi is in danger... again -_-;; and recca looks pissed) we must take her in and make her become a part of our body!! she was here before until now...... we must devour that girl.........!!!]
mori koran : I see!! that girl!!! (one monster jumps up and attacks recca, the 10% one) we can still make it!!!
recca (raise hand) : ......... that is enough already---------
mori koran : !

(recca called out madoka and sealed the monster in a barrier)

mori koran : I... I can't move!!
recca : ...... you are not laying a finger on her------ I will protect the princess. (very dark expression, madoka and nadare both came out and blew the 10% thing into... nothing)
mori koran : !! my comrade!!!

(on the other hand, the 20% blob which had swallowed kurei is now in pain...)

monster : uhhh... ahh... GAH... AHH...... (and it is also... disintegrated as kurei reappears unharmed)
kurei (scary towards mori) : ......it's that simple, huh... all I have to do is incinerate you. if you're completely destroyed, then you can't split up anymore.
recca (scary too... towards mori ^^;;) : what a perfect situation. now------ you die!

(they both look so scary and dark, leaving mori to sweat and freak out ^^)

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