Chapter 20: I woke up quite early for some reason.
A young man with messy long black hair, tanned skin, and is wearing a black kimono can be seen. He can be considered as handsome, and has this air of superiority to him as well.
He was standing beside the bridge, looking at the flowing river down below.
Suddenly, two females wearing a white and pink kimono approached him.
"Um, sir? Can I ask you to take a photo of us?" Asked the girl wearing a pink kimono.
The young man trembled, a smile made its way into his face, "Ohh, just after I got out to the outside world I already experienced this...is this perhaps, the legendary reverse-pick-up my Father was talking about? Something like that huh?"
The girls looked at each other with weird expression, before looking back at the young man, now with a cramp smile on their face.
"S-Sir, I-I think you m-misunderstood us. W-We j-just wanted a photo—"
The young turned around and faced them, "Alright! Alright! Say no more! Your intentions are fully known by me already! So..."
He grinned and with a speed impossible for ordinary humans to see, he grabbed the two girls and put them on his shoulders.
"So I shall let you all to be my concubines! Muwa! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Kyaaa!"
"Let go of me pervert! We'll call the police!"
Suddenly, someone appeared and chop the young man on the head,
"Guh?!" The young man let go of the girls and crouched down while holding his head.
"Alright, that's enough."
The two girls immediately ran away, looking at the young man in fear and disgust. One of them took out her phone and was about to call the police.
The newly arrived person who chopped the head of the young man is a petite girl with short white hair, a black eye patch on the left eye, and wearing a blue kimono and a violet haori.
She saw one of the girls doing something on her phone and immediately took out a talisman, she then pointed it towards the girls.
The talisman glows and shoot towards the girls before disappearing. The eyes of the two girls blanked out for a moment before returning to normal.
They looked at each other in confusion before shrugging and continue their walk as if nothing happened.
The young man stood up while holding his head as he glared at the girl, "That really hurts! Oboro! What if that chop of yours took away parts of my intelligence huh?!"
The girl, Oboro, just looked at the young man with stoic expression, "Please do not shame yourself, Genshiro-sama."
She then looked towards the two girls whom the young man, Genshiro just grabbed earlier, "Also, those two girls are extremely normal mortals, I believe they are far from qualified to be your wives."
"Ugh." Genshiro groaned before he leaned back on the guard rail of the bridge as he looked at the sky, especially the clouds.
He let out a frustrated sigh, "That's true but...finding a beautiful female with high spirit power is hard. Well, I could just go to the Chuuma Village Festival? I heard that the heiress of the Chuuma Ninja is quite strong."
Oboro stood at the guard rail and glanced at Genshiro, "Indeed, but the Chuuma Ninjas are related to one of the Hexagram. If we were to form some sort of connections to them, the others might take it as a sign of alliance and will form their own as well. So its better to not have any connections to the Hexagram as much as possible."
Genshiro sighed, hoping that he'll encounter someone like that soon.
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"Are you sure its alright for me to go there?"
"Un! I want to introduce you to my onee-sama! She's my idol! Someday, I want to be like her!"
Sagiri was walking behind Yuuna, Koyuzu, and Chisaki. Apparently, Koyuzu wanted Chisaki to meet her onee-sama, and Chisaki agreed.
Yuuna has no problem with it, as she also wanted to everyone to meet her friend, Chisaki.
Sagiri, though reluctant at first, just agreed. She can also call Chisaki as her friend, so she finds no reason to refuse. Those Spirit Warding talisman she gifted to Chisaki is enough to keep her and her family from harm.
As long as Chisaki don't dig deeper into the Supernatural, then she wouldn't be in danger.
"...you will absolutely like Alice-chan a lot Chisaki-san!" Yuuna excitedly exclaimed, "Oh, Alice is Alexander's daughter, the one who gave me this body."
Oh, apparently, after Yuuna found out that Chisaki knows about the supernatural, she finds no reason to hide the fact that she's a ghost when she introduced herself to Chisaki.
"Un! Un! I also like Alexander onii-sama a lot! He's the one who introduced me to my onee-sama, and also he has been giving me some tips to perfect my transformation spell!"
Suddenly, Sagiri saw two people walking out of a bathhouse, looking refreshed. One is a young man with tanned skin and long black hair wearing a black kimono, while the other is a petite girl with short white hair, an eye patch, and wearing a blue kimono and a purple haori.
Sagiri's eyes narrowed but she quickly looked away, or else she might get discovered. These two weren't normal after all.
She can feel a massive amount of Spirit Power radiating from them, though it was suppressed. It wasn't at the level of a Transcendental, far from it.
But still, they are still pretty strong. She estimated that the young man is as strong as Nonko who drank a liter of alcohol, which is someone she couldn't even handle yet.
But the petite girl walking behind the man is someone she could fight. Sagiri estimated that just base on Spirit Power, they are about equal.
She decided to use her Spirit Power to listen to their conversation.
"Maan~ that was a good bath isn't it Oboro?" The young man said, as Sagiri continue to listen.
"Indeed, but anyways, we should probably continue on about finding you a good wife."
"Ohh! No problem!" The young man picked up a random girl beside him, "So you said you wanted to be my wife?"
"Pervert!" The girl he picked screamed.
Sagiri blushed, but continued to listen.
The girl karate chop the head of the young man, as he groaned in pain and let go of the girl.
"Oboro, you are my watcher, yet you keep doing this over and over again, what if I become dumb huh?"
"This is my duty as your watcher Genshiro-sama, now please stop with this terrible kidnappings—Hm?"
Sagiri's eyes widened and quickly cut off her Spirit Power and act normally. She thought that she has hidden it quite well, but the girl, who was called Oboro actually found her.
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Oboro was just scolding her master when suddenly felt someone listening to them, but after that, it immediately disappeared as if knowing that she found out about them.
She looked at her master and asked, "You felt that Genshiro-sama?"
"Hmph! I'm not talking to you anymore!" Genshiro scoffed and turned his head away.
Oboro sighed, her master might be the strongest in their clan, but he's way too childish sometimes.
She looked around and searched for the traces of the one who was listening to them, and her eyes landed on the group of female students with a young girl with them.
They appear like normal, but when she took a second look and observe them, she can feel a large amount of Spirit Power coming from the white haired girl, which easily surpass her own.
'She's the one...'
"Genshiro-sam—"
"I'm not listening! I don't hear anything!" Genshiro closed his eyes and covered his ears.
"I think I found the most suitable wife for you."
"Really, where?" Genshiro immediately stood beside Oboro and looked at the place where she was looking.
His eyes immediately turned to hearts when he saw Yuuna.
"Beautiful."
Without wasting any more time, he ran towards the group of girls with all his might.
Oboro sighed and followed after him.
"Hey! The lady over there!" Genshiro shouted, as Yuuna, Chisaki, Sagiri and Koyuzu turned towards him.
Genshiro immediately gave a "charming" smile and a "cool" pose, and with an Archaic way of speaking, he asked.
"Mine name is Genshiro Ryuuga, thy name is....what?"
Koyuzu blinked, her onee-sama said that when people introduced themselves to you, you should also introduced yourself back.
So..
"Err, um—"
"Koyuzu! Don't speak to strangers!" Chisaki said as she pulled the raccoon closer to her and glared at the stranger.
"Ah, right!" Koyuzu remembered that she should also not talk to strangers, especially on the streets. "W-We should probably run."
"You're right, this guy look suspicious.'
"T-That's rude Chisaki-san....b-but you're right, we should probably run."
"Don't act like I'm some sort of a disease!" Genshiro shouted as he saw the girls about to run away.
However, before they could, Oboro appeared and stopped them, she just finished setting up a bounded field.
Sagiri's eyes narrowed as her finger twitched, ready to pull out her kunai any second now.
"Ah, also," Genshiro began to approached them, "I wasn't talking to you little raccoon, but this fair lady over here." While looking at Yuuna.
"E-Eh?" Yuuna looked flustered as she bowed, "I-I'm Yuuna Yunohana, um, 16 years old, I-I um, I live in Yuragi-inn a few minutes walk from here...a-and, and—"
However, before she could say anything more, Genshiro was already in front of her, "Hoo~ so its Yuuna eh? What a lovely name."
When he was about to touch her, a kunai was suddenly pointed at his neck. But Genshiro doesn't even look shocked or scared as he just stared at the one who was holding the kunai.
Which is none other than Sagiri, who was glaring "kunais" at him.
"Do not touch her,"
"And don't point that thing to him."
Sagiri suddenly felt an attack coming and moved, with a swift movement, she managed to block every attacks that came at her just with her kunai.
She then grab Yuuna and retreated a few steps back, and glared at the person who attacked her.
It was Oboro, who was just looking at her with a stoic look, now having a katana in hand.
"That hair, that shuriken-like hair decoration, as well that masterful kunai skills....am I right to assume that you are the heiress of Chuuma Ninjas, Sagiri Ameno?"
Sagiri remained silent, talking in a fight is completely unnecessary.
"Hey~ Hey~ Oboro."
"Hm?" She turned towards Genshiro who has this weird smile on his face.
"Why don't we bring that girl as well hmm~?"
Oboro shook her head, "Impossible, if my guess is right, then she should be the heiress to the Chuuma Ninja, and the granddaughter of the Hero, so having relationship with her cannot be allowed."
"Moouu~" he pouted, "ah well, I guess Yuuna-chan is enough."
Sagiri stood in front of Yuuna, "You won't be taking her."
Oboro narrowed her eyes before nodding, "Very well."
She bolted towards Sagiri who was surprised by her speed, but still she reacted quickly.
She blocked the attack with a kunai, before taking another one and attack. Slash, block, thrusts, Sagiri couldn't help but to admit that this Oboro's skill is on par with her own.
Which is a surprise since aside from her cousin, and apparently Suzuno, she has yet to meet someone her age who can keep up with her in terms of skills.
Even when she alternated between Kunaijutsu to Taijutsu, Oboro was matching her blow for blow.
Sparks from the clash of their weapons were the only thing that can be seen as they moved so fast impossible for the naked eyes to see.
The only one who can actually see them is Genshiro, who was rather surprised to see someone who can keep up with Oboro.
Oboro broke their fight and retreated, Sagiri did the same as she tried to catch her breath. She has to admit that she lost to Oboro in terms of speed, that she had to push herself to the limit just to keep up.
"It was a fun fight, Sagiri Ameno." Oboro stated, "but sadly, I must end this now, we still have to go back to the clan to prepare for the wedding."
Sagiri's eyes narrowed.
Oboro closed her eye and took a deep breath before opening it as she whispered, "God speed."
Sagiri's eyes widened and before she could react, Oboro already knocked her out unconscious. She didn't dare injure Sagiri, else they might incur the wrath of Chuuma Ninjas, and maybe even the Gotei 13, and they couldn't take that.
Chuuma Ninjas are already trouble enough, adding one of the Hexagram then, they would be annihilated.
She turned towards Yuuna, "Now then, will you come with us?"
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AN: Right, Alex and the others did not appear, well, for plot obviously. I wonder who should I pair with Oboro? I'm going for Lucifer actually....hehe, a NEET and a girl who seems to not know, or have no notion of modesty....that might be a bit fun? Also, I wonder what Hisui's reaction will be like?