6 Tender Soul 6

At the critical moments, suddenly, an explosion happened between Nhazul and Seiken. That made them knocked back to distance from each other. Nhazul was down on the side walk. Meanwhile Seiken was flying got into the building nearby and smashed to the inside of it.

"What the hell, Ghoza?! That thing explode?! You hit Nhazul!!", shouted Rebecca as she ran toward Nhazul.

Ghoza was just stood there, couldn't believe with what he saw. While Liem was had no idea what should she did, she wanted to check her brother condition, but he was still in possessed by the soulid. She was just standing there. Then, Rebecca had reached Nhazul's position who was down.

"Hei! Nhaz! Wake up!! Hei!!", shouted Rebecca to wake Nhazul up.

Nhazul was unconscious. Rebecca tried to make him awaken but it didn't work. After took a moment, Ghoza regained himself from his shock of the surprising thing. Then he went to Nhazul and Rebecca location.

"Hei! How's his condition?", Ghoza was asking to Rebecca.

" Can't you tell with what you see?!", answered Rebecca in kind of angry voice.

"Alright! He looks like unconscious though, but hei! Are ya mad or something?!", responded Ghoza.

" What do you think?!", replied Rebecca.

" I have no idea if it will blow like that! And, and what do ya think I do?! I wanna save him! Should I shoot after he got reaped?! Huh?!!", said Ghoza to explain what he did.

Rebecca couldn't reply that. She kept trying to wake Nhazul up, but he was not responding. Then Liem got closer to them.

"Don't worry! He's just fine! He's exhausted, I don't feel any fatal damages on him so far..", Liem told the things as she used her skill to sense Nhazul's condition.

"Oh, I see... I don't see any wounds either, but then, we should bring him outta here for now, before-..", Rebecca tried to say something but suddenly stopped when she saw the soulid, Seiken, came out from the building he smashed.

"What the hell is that?! I'm too focus on him that can't sense it comes..", he came out from that building with mumbling himself.

Liem noticed him and informed to Rebecca and Ghoza. And they two started to get panic. Nhazul was still in unconscious. And that soulid, Seiken, was walking toward them without words.

"You two get Nhazul to save place, I'll try to hold him as much as I can..", said Liem who started to move to face that soulid.

"Hei! Wait! Get back!", Rebecca tried to ask Liem to not to fight but it didn't work.

Liem got closer to that soulid. With her sword oh her hands, she tried to stop Seiken for getting closer to Rebecca and others.

"I don't have business with you! Be gone!!", Seiken talked to Liem as he kept on walking.

"Brother! It's me! Shihira! If you can hear me, please answer me!!", shouted Liem.

" Ah!! It's vexing!! Out of my way!!", Seiken moved fast and hit Liem hard with his hand.

Liem knocked back and then fell to the ground. She was down.

"Liem!!", Rebecca and Ghoza reacted to that.

Ghoza immediately moved to Liem but then he stopped in the middle of way, and then turned his way to Seiken as he pointed his gun.

"Ya wanna taste another explosion as before?! Huh!!?", Ghoza yelled to Seiken.

" So you're the one who shooting that explosive bullet earlier? Hmm... You added garlics on it, huh?!", said Seiken to Ghoza.

" Ya like that, huh?!", responded Ghoza.

Hearing that Rebecca reacted to it.

"What?! You add garlics on that thing?! What are you thinking?!", shouted Rebecca to Ghoza.

" Just my thoughts! Nevermind it!", responded Ghoza.

" What a laugh!", said Seiken as he started to run to Ghoza direction.

Noticed it, Ghoza pulled the trigger of his gun, but he got his ammo was empty.

"Oh, shit! I forget to reload the bullet!!", Ghoza mumbled.

Seiken had reached him, and then grabbed the gun on his hand.

"What is it? Out of bullet?", said Seiken after took the gun from Ghoza, and then he used it to strike Ghoza in face.

That made Ghoza fell to the ground and he was down. Rebecca was the one left, she was still holding Nhazul. She didn't know what to do, but she didn't want to left them there.

"Hmm... You don't run?!", Seiken talked to Rebecca.

Rebecca didn't answer that, she was thinking about what she had to do that time. Until suddenly Nhazul was coughing while on her holding arms.

"Ugh... I smelled garlic just now..", that what he said, he regained his conscious.

"Nhaz!..", responded Rebecca to him.

"Becca..", replied Nhazul, but then he noticed Seiken's present nearby them.

"Uhh... It's okay, you should get back now, I will handle this..", Nhazul asked Rebecca to get out from there.

Then Nhazul stood up and Rebecca got away from there. And then Nhazul was looking around. He saw Liem and Ghoza was down.

"You are waiting for me, are not you? It is just me that you are wanted! They have nothing to do with this! Do not hurt them anymore!", said Nhazul to Seiken.

" Oh! Worry not! After I finish with you, I will finish them too! But I'll finish you first, so, make it be fun fight, will you?!", replied Seiken.

Nhazul was thinking about thing to do next, he thought it could be best if he fight further from his friends, to give them time to run away if something that his planning went worse. That was so, he thought to lure Seiken to other place to fight.

"Alright! Then you need to defeat me first! How about to catch me then?!", Nhazul was teasing Seiken to catch him as he started to run to the other place.

"Okay! I'm in for your game!", Seiken started to chase Nhazul.

Nhazul ran to somewhere else to made them distance from his friends. While on running, Nhazul tried to talk to Utahara.

"Utahara! Hei! Answer me!", said Nhazul on his mind.

" Oh! What is it?!", replied Utahara.

"Are you okay?", continued Nhazul.

"Yeah? What do you want?", Utahara was asking.

" Have you find a way to defeat him?", Nhazul answered with another question.

"Hmm... For this situation, no!", answered Utahara.

" Uh, really?", responded Nhazul for that answer.

" Mm... Yeah, so far, for your condition, and our current level... But maybe he can do it, I'm not sure..", said Utahara.

" He? You mean Mera?", Nhazul asked to confirm his opinion.

" No! Not that fire head! Him! The stone head! Hmm... But I guess he's still sleeping after all..", explained Utahara.

" Oh, you mean-..", Nhazul tried to say something but suddenly Utahara took over his body.

"Watch out!!", said Utahara and then she possessed Nhazul body for doing a quick evasion.

An attack was moving toward Nhazul direction, but with helping of Utahara, he dodged it. Just after did that evasion, Utahara returned the control of Nhazul body to Nhazul again as he kept on running.

"Ah! What is that?", Nhazul was still surprising of that attack.

"Flying sword attack, I think..", replied Utahara.

" Oh, but, Utahara, why you return the control to me again?", Nhazul was wondering about Utahara action.

"You're running out of your energy, we better save it for the critical moment!", replied Utahara.

" I see..", responded Nhazul.

"Hei! Watch your back!", Utahara was giving a warning to Nhazul.

Nhazul saw another attack came toward him. Then he evaded it.

"Look like he is hiding something! He did that attack without the sword he held!", explained Utahara to Nhazul.

" But that attack is coming from swording slice, is not it?", Nhazul gave his opinion about that attack.

"Well, he is a samurai though! He must be used his true sword to do that attack", replied Utahara.

While they were doing conversation, Seiken had closer to them. He pointed his fingers as he would use sealing skill on Nhazul.

"Watch out! It's sealing skill!", warned Utahara to Nhazul.

And then Nhazul could dodge that skill attack. But without his considering that was making him even closer to Seiken. With the sword on his hand, Seiken swung it to Nhazul. Nhazul tried to dodge it but it still hit his right arm a little. On that brief of time, he sensed a soul contact. And then after that he continued to running away.

"Hei! Are you alright?", asked Utahara to Nhazul.

" Yes, it is fine, just a scratch... But, I felt something on that sword, it is a soul, could it be Liem brother's?", Nhazul was thinking about something.

" Well, that's possible, it's his sword after all... There must be some of his soul left there..", said Utahara.

" Oh hei! Utahara! Can I ask you a favor? I need to get closer to his body, can you bring me there?", asked Nhazul.

" What do you want to do?", Utahara backed to ask.

" Save Liem's brother!", answer Nhazul.

"Save him? Hmm... That could be sweet! But you will waste your energy there! And how will you do that?", Utahara was wondering.

" Soul transfusion! I will put his soul to his sword, so it will save him from soul distortion..", explained Nhazul to Utahara.

" Hmm... But do you think his soul is remaining in his body?! That Seiken might be overtaken his soul, you know!", responded Utahara.

" I need to try!..", said Nhazul.

By the time he said that, suddenly he lost control of himself, that lead it to misstep and made him fell to the ground.

"Hei! Your power is drying out!", said Utahara to Nhazul.

" Ugh... Yeah, I can feel that..", responded Nhazul.

But after the moments he fell, Seiken was trying to attack from the distant, he ran toward Nhazul with sword on his hand, ready for slicing. After he reached Nhazul, he swung his sword, Nhazul tried to get up but an unexpected thing happened, Liem came by to block that attack with her sword. But of course, her power was still the same as before, she couldn't match him for the power. That was so, she pushed back by that attack. But with help of Nhazul who caught her, she didn't push so far.

"Liem, are you alright? What are you doing here?", asked Nhazul while he held her from flied up of that attack.

"I'm fine, it's just... I don't know, I think it's should be me who stop him, that's why-..", she hadn't finished to speak but Nhazul tried to give his suggestion.

"It is okay, I understand what you are thinking, that is why I will try my best to save him, okay!? Now you better find the save place, you will be in danger if you are here, he plan on killing us all after all, please say it to Rebecca and Ghoza too, can you do it?", said Nhazul.

" O-okay then... But here! Hold on for a second!", responded Liem, as she started to do healing on Nhazul.

"You are healing me up?", asked Nhazul.

"And I transferred some energy too, just a little though, that's all I had left, to help you with it... Please do your best!", said Liem to Nhazul.

" That will help much, thank you, now go! Take care!", responded Nhazul as he asked her to go.

In sudden time, in Nhazul's mind, Utahara instructed him to ask Liem to lend him her sword. And that did.

"Emm... Hei, Liem, sorry, but, can I borrow your sword?", asked Nhazul in a minute before Liem went away.

"Oh! Sure thing!",  Liem gave her sword to Nhazul and then she left.

After got the sword, Nhazul felt similiar thing like before.

"This sword, has same aura with that sword, her brother's sword..", said Nhazul to himself but,

" Maybe they're twins..", replied Utahara.

" Really? But she said her brother is a master in her temple too, that must be a distant of their ages..", responded Nhazul.

" I mean the swords!", replied Utahara to make Nhazul quiet.

"Alright! I'll do what you want! Just make you get closer to him, right?", said Utahara to continue the conversation.

"Yes, please..", responded Nhazul.

And then they were switching, Utahara got control of Nhazul's body now. And immediately, she moved out to get closer to Seiken. But before she got closer, Seiken put out his sword to his back and then used his sealing skill to shoot a few times over her. But she could dodge them well, even though she needed to get so far from him and made their distance even further.

"Huff!! It'll be hard task!", Utahara was mumbling.

" Hmm, do not give up! Look at that! It will be much easier to do transfusion skill now, we just need to get closer, okay!", said Nhazul cheered her up as he pointed to the sword that put on Seiken's back.

"Alright, here we go again!", said Utahara as she started to move again.

Like before, Seiken shot her with sealing skills one after another, and she dodged it all as she kept trying to get closer to him. And after so much dodging, Seiken was reducing his quantity of shooting, and that time Utahara tried her very best to find a way to get closer. Then she had done it, she got closer to him.

"Hemm, so what if you can get closer to me?!", said Seiken in mocking voice.

" Now, switch up!",  said Nhazul to Utahara as they were switching back.

Now Nhazul took control of his body, and immediately he focussed his power to his right hand palm and then pushed Seiken's body. Seiken was  pushed back for little distance.

"That's it?! My turn now!!", Seiken took his sword from his back and swung it to Nhazul.

Nhazul tried to dodge it but their distant was made him hard to do evasion completely. That's so, that sword's tip was still reaching his body and gave him another scratches on his chest. But then, after that he moved away to give a distant between them.

"Uh! Hei! Your body!", said Utahara to inform Nhazul.

" It is okay... More importantly, I have done it! I can feel his soul just now... Now we just need to take Seiken down! Hei prepare the repel stone, let's try to repel him out now! Ugh..", Nhazul was feeling the hurt of the wound.

"Hei! Are you sure you're okay? I kinda can feel what you felt, but you are just human and in this state, that wound is too much for you, right?", said Utahara.

" It is okay... Hmm... By the way, do you know how to make him awake? I mean Gaara..", Nhazul asked Utahara about thing.

" Hmm... Many ways to waking someone from their sleep, but since he is just a non formed spirit in your body, I don't know how to do it, even I don't know if our voices could reach him..", explained Utahara.

" I see... Ughh!!..", Nhazul was feeling the hurt of his wound.

"Could he be turned the tide? I never see his kinds in action though... He's much referred to place than a creature, you see..", explained Utahara about thing.

" I... I have no idea about that... I never see all of your kinds in your true forms after all..", responded Nhazul.

" Yeah, right!", confirmed Utahara about Nhazul's respond.

In the middle of their conversation, they didn't noticed that Seiken was actually attacking them with sealing skill. Its wave had almost reach them. Then Utahara could sensed it but she was too late.

"Oh! No! That-..", Utahara was noticed the sealing skill closed but it was too late, it hit her.

Now Utahara was sealed in Nhazul's body, she couldn't do anything for now.

"Ah! This feel... Utahara?! Utahara?! Oh no..", Nhazul could feel the thing when that skill hit him, he tried to contact Utahara but no answer from her.

"Hmm?! Now, just two of us! Do you think you can defeat me with your own power?", Seiken had closer to Nhazul.

" Huh!? Ughh!!", Nhazul saw Seiken was already behind him, he tried to stand up but his wound started to hurting.

"It wasn't that fun to fight you! Even though they said you're so strong... But it was nothing..", said Seiken.

Nhazul tried to run but he felt hurting on his wound that made him fell down.

"Oh!? Is that scratch really much pain for you?!", Seiken got even closer to Nhazul.

" Seem like it will be fun to see you in pain! I'll delay your death for that thing then... Let's have fun!!!", Seiken said that and then kicked Nhazul on his wound.

That made Nhazul knocked back and felt the wound even more in pain. He dropped Liem's sword on the road.

"Aaaghh..", he was screaming as he felt that pain.

"Oh! Damn! This is really fun to hear that! I never know this will turn this fun!! How about this!!", Seiken walked closer to Nhazul and stomped on Nhazul wound.

"Aagghhh!!!", Nhazul was crying out on his pain.

Seiken was really enjoying himself. He stepped out his foot from Nhazul's wound, and then he made Nhazul to stood up. After Nhazul had barely stood up, he gave some punches on the wound and ended it with a power frontal kick that sent Nhazul flied back to hit the wall behind him in such impact. Then Nhazul fell on the street, he was down.

"Hoo?! Finish already?! Disappointing!! But whatever! Let's absorb your aura and those soulids power, then send them back home!", Seiken was walking closer to Nhazul while he took out the sword from his back.

Seiken was trying to kill Nhazul and then absorb his final life force. And for the soulids in him, by Xiu's power, Liem's brother's power of soul control, combined with Seiken's power of onmyojin, would sent them all back to their world. Now, Seiken had already in front of Nhazul's body, he raised the sword then swung it to Nhazul's neck. In surprising moments, red aura, no, it was brown aura, was blasting out from Nhazul's body as his right hand stopped the sword from getting through his neck. This hand was covered in stone that shaped like the hand.

"What!!?! No way! Don't tell me you had another soulid in you?! And, this hand!!..", Seiken was really surprised as he didn't believe with what he saw.

"You dared to wake someone up from his sleep!! Aaggghhh!!!", that sound came out from Nhazul's mouth.

Nhazul with his stone hand, held that sword so strong and prevented it from got through his neck. He tried to get up and then with another hand, his left hand that also covered in stone hand, he punched Seiken on the stomach. But that wasn't finished, that stoned hand, separated from his left hand and kept moving forward to push Seiken. It made Seiken knocked up backward, so far that hit some building there and kept through to another buildings behind. Because Seiken let out his gripped from his sword, now it held by Nhazul. After sent Seiken away to far distant, Nhazul didn't move a bit. But then suddenly, that brown aura faded back to Nhazul's body, by that time his eyes turned back to normal eyes from all dark red eyes. The stone on his right hand dropped down to the ground as well with the sword that it was holding.

"Ahh!!", Nhazul backed to himself.

"I thought I was dying..", said him as he looked around.

" That's so close!", someone in Nhazul's mind is talking.

" Utahara? Is that you?", Nhazul was asking.

" Yeah! Are you alright?", replied Utahara.

"Yes, I do, somehow I gain some other energy back on me again, and you do getting sealed before, do not you? How can it be? You cured so fast?", Nhazul was wondering.

" I don't really get it, but perhaps, it's that stone head doing..", responded Utahara.

" Uwaahh... I feel refreshed!! Damnit!! How can I got sealed with the same skill twice!! It's suck!!", Mera was talking.

"Mera, you have been cured too..", Nhazul was greeting Mera.

" Ah! That freaking stone, seems like he use some healing to us though! I can feel it..", explained Mera.

" Wow, he is great... Hei, Gaara! Can you hear me?", Nhazul tried to call Gaara.

"....", no one responded.

"He's back to sleep? What the heck?!", Mera was mumbling.

" Wow, really?", Nhazul was wondering.

"Snap it out! That Seiken hadn't defeated yet! Let's focus on him first!", Utahara asked to focus on the mission.

"Oh, right!", Nhazul confirmed.

"Alright! Let's do it my way!!", said Mera.

" No! Wait! Don't waste our chances!", Utahara stopped Mera from what he would doing.

"What the hell? You still wanna fight him! You had no chance to defeat him in your current level, you know!!", Mera was declined.

" You're right! I have no chance, for now! But, you do! And he probably doesn't know about this chance, your power! From what we saw last time! He didn't know about that surprise attack, it critically hit him out! We will do the same!",  Utahara tried to explain the thing from her opinion.

"Huh!!", Mera seemed disagree for that.

"Utahara seems right Mera, we cannot do any reckless thing again, we must defeat him no matter what!", Nhazul persuaded Mera to agree.

"... Hmph! Alright! What's the plan?!", Mera did agreeing.

" I will try to getting closer to him, make him thought nothing to be worried about things, and when we got close, we switched, and you had to finish him that time with your level four power! He probably will surprise and at that time we maximize our power to end him!", Utahara explained the details of her plan.

"Sounds good! Let's do it!!", Mera confirmed.

" Ah, sorry but, do you think it will work with my current energy?", Nhazul was asking.

" Oh, shit!! I forget to think about it! But that's the biggest chance to win against him so far..", Utahara replied.

" I see... Can we ask Gaara to help out too?", Nhazul continued to ask.

"Wasting time! We don't know how he's thinking! We'll end up losing before he helped us out!", responded Mera to Nhazul.

" Not good huh?", Nhazul replied.

"Let's just do it! We wouldn't know the results unless we try it, right?", Utahara spoke up.

" You are right..", Nhazul confirmed.

Somewhere else, where Rebecca was trying to treat Ghoza, she used medical kit that they brought in the van. Ghoza had regained his condition after he got beaten by Seiken. Even so, he was still thinking about to strike him back with all inventory he had.

"Alright! I'm good now! Let's back to the battle field!", said Ghoza, as he had prepared to fight Seiken again.

He had prepared another gun that same with he had used earlier with some ammo packed on his body. He also brought another invented things that he prepared for this battle. But then, Rebecca was still sitting on the van without doing anything, she was spacing out.

"Hei! What are ya doing?! Let's go! Let's help Nhazul!!", Ghoza was shouted at Rebecca.

" We can't help him! We are only going to be burden for him if we came back there!", replied Rebecca in pessimistic face.

" What are ya talking about?! Ya are also really want to help him, right?", said Ghoza to confirm what real Rebecca wanted.

"Of course I do, but... It's just..", Rebecca tried to say something but she couldn't really spill it out.

"I think we should help him out with all our strength!!", suddenly Liem came by.

" Liem? Where did you go? Are you alright?", responded Rebecca to Liem.

" Their place... His energy has worned out, Nhazul's energy..", explained Liem.

" Oh..", responded Rebecca in sad face.

"Alright! What are ya waiting for?! Let's hurry up and go! Liem, where is he now?!", Ghoza asked Liem where Nhazul was.

" We are not going to his place!", responded Liem.

" What?! What do ya mean by that?! I don't get ya girls! Ya wanna do something that not be done! What are ya thinking actually, huh?!", Ghoza was upsetting.

" It's not like that! Let me explain it! We will help him, but we can't just came to the battle field! We are just going to be his burden, but we can't just let him fighting alone! We will stand by in certain place, when he need our help, we will deploy to help him and then retreat after the situation got better. Can you understand it?", Liem told her plan of helping Nhazul to Ghoza and Rebecca.

"You mean we are going to stay on distance from them, keep watching on them, and when Nhazul is in pinch or critical moment we will rush to back him up, treat him and then fall back, is that what you want to say?", Rebecca tried to guessing what Liem said.

"Yes, like what Ghoza did earlier when that soulid almost got Nhazul, we helped him out enough, but last time we are not prepared for that situation and end up just messing around..", responded Liem.

" Oh! That time! That's right! He almost got Nhazul, right! We made in time to save him!", added Ghoza.

" Right! It could be work out! Let's go!", said Rebecca, she seemed more cheered now.

"Yeah!", responded Ghoza and Liem.

"Oh, wait! I need prepared for the medical kit and all!", Rebecca immediately got in to the van to prepare the medical kit.

"Ahaha... She get in better mood now! Thanks, Liem!", said Ghoza to Liem.

" Oh, that's not much, you all are trying to help me to get my brother back now, so it's just normal if I'm helping out too..", replied Liem.

" That's not it, but whatever then..", responded Ghoza.

And then they three packed up themselves to be ready to help Nhazul as they had planned.

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