Chapter 36

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I have the flu, any home recipes for it? I feel like Goku came and gave a Sensu bean to my flu when I was about to win....

Goku why!

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After my brief chat with the cat… everything went downhill… immediately, one second I was chatting with the crazy bastard and the next, I was… in a void. Seemingly floating aimlessly.

I blinked a few times, trying to recover from the strange sense of vertigo I had gotten in this foreign realm, but immediately saw stara as a result, thousands of them. While beautiful it brought one of the most excruciating pain I'd ever experienced.

Who the fuck had I offended to get such pain? All I did was get a new fucking face… free plastic surgery…. was that a sin here.

•A name… must be retrieved,• A voice spoke in many echoes, •For it to happen… a soul has to remember how to be... escape the depths….and I will retrieve your name!•

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I… What in the actual fuck?!

Fire… tons of it, covering what seemed to be a wasteland of destruction and agony, it almost seemed I was inside a volcano, half active, half not.

"Wow, never seen you here before. Who are you?" A femenine voice asked with excitement as I only now notice someone was near me, she was… well, she looked human, except for her eyes and legs, besides that… I found interesting her clothing choices, she was wearing a black thong and a bikini which barely covered her nipples…

"A—…. sorry my name is A—-....just call me dude or something," Great I can't say my name… or the one I had for me… it's like something or someone is muting me everytime I try.

"Okay…." The unknown girl shrugged, "So why were you sent here? Or are you a local?"

"What….?" I asked.

"This is hell… or Tartarus…. where the most evil human spirits are sent… the big ole trash can of the world," Hell…. maybe it was best when I had my fake name… and face… I'm starting to think being the great value of myself is best...

"Who knows…" I answered, realizing if this was hell… everyone here was… a possible asshole.

"Mysterious I like it," The unknown girl smiled seductively… "I was condemned after I killed my entire family… for fun,"

I swear to god… I will learn spirit bending…. just to kill the bastard that names things… "Well, not that this hasn't been interesting… but I have to go…" Far away from your crazy ass.

"But I wanted to have fun…" The girl smiled, trying to catch me off my guard, as she tried to stab me, and thank god… even in here I have my bending, for I like a man of honor… froze the bitch… creating the first of its kind a bitchicicle.

Wait… how is waterbending working… if… everything around me is… well, fire and lava… the water here should be minimal or nonexistent.

Deciding to ignore logic for a moment, I looked around… seeing the place seemed to be inside a volcano, with stairs leading to the exit…. taking a deep breath I started to walk towards the top, freezing and maiming every sinner I encountered on my path.

And I'll be honest… I had no idea what mission or anything I had to do here… it was annoying but easy… so why send me here? To a place I don't even belong to.

Hahaha…. how wrong I was to say it was easy… I mean… yes it was…. but boy things can be hard in more than one way.

Hours turned into days… and days into months… and I kept on climbing the stairs that seemed to extend infinitely…

The worst part was that I knew I hadn't been here for months…. but it felt like it… kinda felt Itachi… was my personal jailor…

"Alright… the stairs are not an option… so what else can I do…." I hummed taking a seat on the ground.

"DI-" A poor idiot had once again tried to kill me… and like all the others was now frozen, it kinda felt this place was full of Hanks… Hanhss… the idiot who was supposed to be engaged with Yue… oh god.

This is not any hell… this is my personal hell! But in all seriousness… I was tired… no matter what I tried or how hard I tried the goal seemed to be… always at the same distance.

"I give up…." I sighed… throwing my hands to the air, in defeat, "I can't escape this alone… this is a prison… a challenge I can't beat," I chuckled as I closed my eyes… trying to take a moment… to think… to organize my ideas.

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After a few minutes of not moving, with my eyes closed… I decided to continue on my impossible journey… just to find…. I wasn't in the… place anymore.

"What…" I muttered.

•You have passed...• A voice echoed in my head.

"Who are you?" I asked.

•I am the Truth… I am who names every soul and knows their truth… their sins, and blessings…• The voice said as he appeared in front of me, shocking me.

The Truth as he called himself, was nothing but a featureless version of me; like someone had just drawn the edges of my body… without coloring or doing anything else.

He had no face… nothing, •I don't have a face because I am older than the mother of faces… I named her after all,• as if reading my mind the spirit answered, •I don't have a form… right now all you see is a reflection of your broken soul...•

"Why did you send me… to hell?" I asked, trying to avoid sounding angry.

•My test… was the test almost every human fails… humility… you had to accept you are incapable of… doing everything… and that as a human… you are mortal, and things will not always go your way…• The Truth stated, •Hell was a prison, a test you created for yourself… all I did was push you into it… for hell doesn't exist here physically… but in your mind,•

"Are you saying… my own mind… fudge me over?!" I wanted to say fucked me over… oh I wanted to curse like a sailor, but would have to wait until the almighty spirit was done with me.

•Humans tend to be their own worst enemy…. The mind is not always our friend…• The Truth said.

"Months trapped in my mind…" I almost growled in disbelief.

•Like a dream that feels like a lifetime… you did not spend the time you experienced… you were out for maybe an hour or so,• The Truth added amused with my reaction, •Now… it's time to fix your soul… by giving you… your name…•

I had tsukuyomied my ass…. I hate myself so much right now.