Chapter 8: Mayuzumi Chihiro

Chapter 8: Mayuzumi Chihiro

The vivid memories of his family started when he was adopted into the Kuroko clan. People saw him as an unwanted child, a cursed child. Like children who are abhorred as cursed, he was badly abused and bullied, often coming home besmeared with dirt and injuries. He lived in the countryside along with his only mother. His mother had a hard time raising him, working nightly hours at a bar, coming home in the mornings. The small child he was, he was exceptionally perceptive for a child barely reaching five years of age. The boy was ten, when his only mother had passed away. Her cause of death had remained unknown. Not a single soul had mourned for her sorry death. After the inexplicable death of his mother, he was approached by a man, claiming to be his father.

The name of the boy was Mayuzumi Chihiro.

"Who are you? My mother doesn't have anyone. She told me my father is dead." His apathetic nature had begun to resurface.

The man had smiled. "That inscrutable personality, I am positive you are my child, although it appears that I was a little too late." The man was dressed in a pale blue kimono, the sun shone had made his illuminated unworldly pale blue hair. "My name is Kuroko Tetsurou."

Mayuzumi had puffed, the skepticism of the words of a stranger held no evidence. He had frowned, scrutinizing the man for the slightest discrepancy and inconsistency. To his consternation, he had found none. "That expression, you do not seem surprised at all. Perhaps you must have surmise at a certain point?" The man had a tranquil smile. "Won't you come with me?"

It was a fated day he was adopted by the Kuroko clan. Mayuzumi wasn't an ignorant child. He knew the true form of the Kuroko clan. That day, he gained a younger half-brother. His name was Kuroko Tetsuya. Observing the innocent soul making his best effort to make him open his heart, Mayuzumi had a new goal. He had come to love his new family, and his brother. To protect and avoid his brother from walking down the same path he had. Mayuzumi had also discovered that the Kuroko clan were cursed, possessing peculiar characteristics that the people had despised them for. The Kuroko clan was a family descended from a family of spirits who specialize in vanishing arts, making the Kuroko clan perfect assassins. Mayuzumi was also trained and taught ways of the Kuroko clan, along with his younger half-brother.

The Kuroko clan was often disregarded with malignance and cynical nature of the humans. Members of the Kuroko family descended from a spirit of named Kyoka Suigetsu, the underlying meanings that illusions that can be seen, cannot be touched, its elegance is a reflection. Descendants of the Kuroko clan are capable of vanishing and appearing, like the legends had recorded of their specialty of vanishing arts. They are exceptionally skilled at martial arts, including various forms of weaponry such as firearms, swords, knives, spears and archery. People were terrified of their combat skills, the Kuroko clan were capable of combining their spiritual properties, completing the deadly techniques which was feared by the people across the lands. Throughout the long history of man, armies, squads, assassins, specialists of many have attempted in eliminating the Kuroko clan, none have ever succeeded. It was then, the birth of Mayuzumi Chihiro and Kuroko Tetsuya, were prodigies. They possessed special abilities, even among members of their clan. A spiritual seer had once performed a divination.

To conquer the challenges of life, you will experience an extremely dark path. The unstoppable fates of destiny, the rising dragons bestowing strength, challenges shall be conquered.

The new life Mayuzumi had was just a fleeting dream. On Kuroko Tetsuya's seventh birthday, the Kuroko clan was ambushed, destroyed and betrayed by the brother-in-law of Kuroko Tetsurou, their uncle, Kisaragi Amaya. Mayuzumi had harbored inmmense levels of Pyrrhonism against Kisaragi Amaya. His nature and disposition had rubbed the people of the Kuroko clan the wrong way. Their faces were often scathing vitriolic each time Amaya had visited the Kuroko manor. The impression they had of Amaya was scheming, cunning and calculative. The Kuroko clan learnt the truth the hard way. The inconceivable acts of Kisaragi Amaya betraying the notorious Kuroko clan. His sister, and also Kuroko Tetsuya's mother, Kisaragi Amane, had beseeched and pleaded her brother for mercy.

"Amaya! Stop! You're just being tricked! This is also your family!"

Mayuzumi then realized the truth, their uncle had long been tainted by evil. Amaya had massacred thousands of his brothers and sisters, the cursed Kuroko clan which had chained and caged him with customs and traditions since birth. The Kisaragi family were a branch family from the Kuroko clan. Amaya hated it, and despised them with all his might. The people downcasted people of the Kuroko clan. They were disregarded like viruses of an apocalypse. His sister's marriage into the Kuroko clan had made things worse. That day, Mayuzumi Chihiro and Kuroko Tetsuya were kidnapped and taken into custody of Kirisaki Daiichi.

"You are a family of monsters!" Amaya had yelled before the entire clan. "You've robbed my sister, polluted innocent strangers with your cursed powers. This is my revenge! I will kill all of you, and cleanse the world free from evil! He will lead us to a world of peace!"

Kuroko Tetsurou had entrusted instructions to Mayuzumi, with a sole purpose: to protect their only son. "Chihiro, you and Tetsuya must survive. You are our successor. You will live to transcend our traditions, and discover your true purpose of your destiny! Now run!" Their parents, along with the clan, had died protecting them. Mayuzumi took hold of young Tetsuya's small hands, and escaped. They had not gone far, before they were captured by the people of Kirisaki Daiichi.

"What a disgrace. A disgraceful family, and such deplorable offspring. I feel sick even by looking at your pathetic faces. You will become the arms and legs for the Kirisaki Daiichi. The legendary Kuroko clan everyone feared is no more."

The half siblings were separated. Before they could mourn for the thousands of lives Kuroko clan had lost overnight, the surviving members were deprived of their liberation and manumission. Mayuzumi Chihiro was taken away, transforming him into the perfect assassin machine. He was abducted, locked, chained and caged in the personal quarters of the tyrant leader of Kirisaki Daiichi, Hanamiya Makoto. Mayuzumi was also made into a sex toy served the tyrant ruler pleasure and entertainment. The first few days after his capture was a torture and nightmare. He was abused, mocked and raped by Hanamiya Makoto. Defending against Kirisaki Daiichi, Mayuzumi had offered himself to his captives instead, the hankering that Tetsuya would take the chance to escape. Days passed, Mayuzumi Chihiro gradually lost his orientations, and his feelings and senses. His body had become sensitive and responding to Hanamiya's touch, delusioned by his captor. His body had become addicted to the heat of the touch of his captor. He was fed and dressed in revealing clothes chosen by Hanamiya like China doll. Mayuzumi had often felt the perplexity of Hanamiya's tastes.

Mayuzumi Chihiro was often dressed in women's clothing and high-heels. He was left with no choice. Chambermaids enter into the chambers he was held captive in, was bathed and dressed the way Hanamiya was satisfied with. He was showered in scented baths, forced into women's fragrance and makeup was painted on his face. Hanamiya had ordered for Mayuzumi's ears and nipples pierced, his back was inked and scarred with a tattoo. A tattoo of a sea lion, the symbol of the royalty within the lands of Kirisaki Daiichi. His body had been marked by Hanamiya Makoto, the tyrant ruler and the royalty of Kirisaki Daiichi. Mayuzumi had suffered the agony and humiliations of a needle piercing through his skin and flesh. He was fed painkillers and antiseptics by specialists, had required a number of healing sessions before he was fully healed from the injuries made by piercings.

"Look at your body. What a lewd sight. You can't escape from my clutches, Chihiro." Hanamiya had hoisted Mayuzumi into his embrace, snaked his hands all over his body, stroking and fingering his piercings, granting greater pleasure and driving his senses insane.

"Ah...please don't touch them..." Mayuzumi had moaned. Hanamiya had tweaked his lover's pierced nipples.

"What should you say, Chihiro? Didn't I teach you?" Hanamiya had teased Mayuzumi's body. "Say it, like how I've taught you. Your body belongs to me. Mine and mine alone. You're already my lover."

With a strained expression, a rare sight of a person from the Kuroko clan. Hanamiya was satisfied, the training all those years ago had been paid off. "Please...please forgive me.... master." Mayuzumi whispered.

A loud knock was heard rapping hard on the door like a rock. The advisor of Hanamiya Makoto had silently strided into Hanamiya's personal quarters. "Makoto, there is a general meeting soon in ten minutes. Are you sure you should be playing around?" Amaya had smirked, scrutinizing at the docile Mayuzumi riding on top of Hanamiya.

Hanamiya smiled. "Yes, I'll get going." He placed Mayuzumi back on the king-sized bed, planting a kiss on his lips. "I'll see you tonight, Chihiro." Hanamiya had grabbed his coat, his swift steps had led him out of the room, sauntered himself down the halls, into the conference room for the so-called general meeting he was supposed to attend.

"What a sight you are, Chihiro. Can't fight anymore, can you? Your parents must be so proud." Amaya had mocked, the crafty nature he was born with had begun to surface. "Look at you, what a whore you've become. You've turned into a woman."

"You must feel good, being a traitor. Tetsuya will come back with help. One day, this stupid place is going down." Mayuzumi had huffed.

Amaya had smirked. "In case you haven't noticed, Tetsuya will be offered to the devil of Teiko. The devil will eat that child alive. He's not going to live much longer, Chihiro. You should celebrate! You don't have to take care of that lug anymore! And he can't see the poor sight his dear brother had become."

By the time he had realized the whereabouts of his half sibling, his uncle had offered him to the devil of Teiko at the next full moon, he became an enraged monster. The mixed feelings of trepidation and exasperations had resurfaced and affected Mayuzumi tremendously, the half of the palace was destroyed. Amaya had trembled in fear. Hanamiya was the only individual who possessed abilities to calm the strong spiritual powers Mayuzumi possessed.

"Monster!" Amaya had cried.

Kuroko Tetsuya was offered to the devil of Teiko, in exchange for resources and capital. Kirisaki Daiichi did not possess sufficient strength to gain perfect control over the natural born raw power Kuroko Tetsuya had possessed. Amaya had decided Kuroko Tetsuya is to be offered as sacrifice to the devil of Teiko. To rid of the pesky cursed vanishing arts. Without Kuroko Tetsuya, Kirisaki Daiichi would conquer the world. Mayuzumi believed the day when Tetsuya would return to the human world would come. The sudden emergence of Kuroko's strong spiritual powers had given Mayuzumi hope. Mayuzumi had realized, Tetsuya was alive. And he was stronger than ever. Mayuzumi waited for the day when Tetsuya would return to pronounce peace to the world.

Three days after Mayuzumi had sensed Kuroko's rare spiritual power came back to life, Amaya had led the ambush elite team into the outskirts, the border between Kirisaki Daiichi, Seirin and Teiko. The elite team was only moved in special situations. Amaya's peculiar behaviour had caught Mayuzumi's observant attention. I felt Tetsuya's spiritual power few days ago. It can't be a coincidence, right? Mayuzumi's hypothesis was right, when Amaya had returned to the palace announcing an all-out war against Teiko. Amaya had barged into Hanamiya's chambers, on the moment when Hanamiya and Mayuzumi were in the middle of a little kissing session. Hanamiya had ignored Amaya, had continued dominating his lover with a deep kiss. Mayuzumi had flushed, the faint erubescent tint was imperceptible on his pale cheeks.

"Hey!" Amaya had protested, glaring at the couple. "This is important, you bastard!"

"You barged into my quarters without knocking. This is your punishment, Amaya." Hanamiya had smirked, releasing his lover with an inconceivable trail of saliva on their tail.

"You bastard Makoto. I didn't kill the entire clan so that you can gain a lover." Amaya had scoffed, sarcasm was laced in his words.

"So, what are you here for? After taking my elite battalion, you ran between your tails?" Hanamiya had teased.

"We have angered Teiko. We're going to battle. An all-out war." Amaya reported. Hanamiya and Mayuzumi had turned pale.

"What did you just say? We angered Teiko?" Hanamiya questioned. "What did you do, Amaya?"

Amaya draw a chair next to their bed and sighed. "It was Tetsuya and his guard. They were at the borders. And I sort of lost it."

"His guard?" Mayuzumi had asked. Mayuzumi had resented his uncle for selling him to the king of Kirisaki Daiichi, but he was interested what could have transpired at the borders.

"A soldier from Teiko, he was assigned to protect Tetsuya." Amaya had replied, trepidation had emerged, reflecting clearly in his expressions. "They weren't human! The guard was a spirit fox. I am positive there will be stronger people when the war starts. The world is over!"

"And...pray, tell me, why would Teiko go through such lengths to protect a pathetic little sacrifice? He was supposed to have died eleven years ago." Hanamiya was sceptical, half of his consciousness was praying everything was a lie. He had pondered on the underlying reason.

Amaya had sighed in exasperation. "Tetsuya is now the wife of the frightening Teiko's master. He's been marked, his body was infused with the devil's poison. He no longer lives the same time frame of humans."

Hanamiya and Mayuzumi were beyond devastated. They were horrified, dismayed and traumatized. The horror of enraging Teiko was beyond imaginable. And Kirisaki Daiichi had hurt the beloved treasure of Teiko's devil master. "What have you done..." Hanamiya wallowed himself in feelings of ruth. But there was no time for pity and regrets. Amaya's actions as the advisor of the country represent the actions of Kirisaki Daiichi.

"Amaya, contact all the leaders of the countries. This is an emergency. We have to act fast, before Teiko strikes." Hanamiya had ordered. "We will strike before they do." Amaya bowed, retreating to accomplish the tasks Hanamiya had ordered him to.

"A wife? But Tetsuya a guy though," Mayuzumi had commented after Amaya had left.

"Aren't you a guy too? Your body has become the likes of a woman though," Hanamiya replied, pulling Mayuzumi into another deep kiss. "You're both brothers after all. Two peas of the same pod. It appears that your half-brother is also a submissive in nature. He can't live without a dominant, just like how you did."

Initiating a conference involving rulers of the human lands was a feat that has never been done before. Hanamiya Makoto may be a tyrant ruler, his skills had warrant recognition. He is a man with perfect leadership skills, the perfect choice to rule the lands. The conference had involved the lands from Seiho, Shinkyo, Senshinkan, Josei and Fukada Sogo. These countries were scattered all over the world, each have an identity of their own. Hanamiya Makoto was an influential man, who is capable of considering the needs, conditions and requirements of each country. He possessed natural talents of the sharp astute and perspicacious characteristics of a true leader.

The current state of the country had rubbed Mayuzumi in disapproving way. He had a bad feeling about this. He didn't know the stupidity of his uncle, to the extent of declaring war against Teiko. The state conference had lasted three days. Faces he had never seen before, famous people and guards from various countries had loitered and occupied the palace. It left a bad taste in his mouth. He sighed, resting idly on the elegant mahogany window sill of Hanamiya's quarters.

The boisterous banter of the unquestionable leaders had displayed stirred desires of victory. "Well well. Let's see what we have here." the leader of Shinkyo announced. His name was Tanimura Yusuke. "Isn't this sad? We're here to listen to what the great Kirisaki Daiichi have made up this time."

"And you're part of it, like it or not, you're still here." The leader of Seiho had retorted.

"What kind of bad news you have for us this time, Family Killer Kisaragi Amaya?" The leader of Fukada Sogo had wondered.

Amaya had banged his fists on the table. "Don't call me that. How dare you? You people of Fukada Sogo are the ones who would jump in joy when you used me to kill the Kuroko clan." Amaya had glared at the leader of Fukada Sogo, Ishida Hideki. "No, it wasn't you. It was your nasty advisor. Seems like he's absent today."

Hanamiya banged the table. "That's enough. We're gathered here, to discuss on a crisis which is about to befall us. We will protect our lands which our ancestors have protected for the past millennium. Now is our turn to do so. As humans we will protect our homeland capital."

The leader of Seiho had sighed after Hanamiya's little speech. "I wonder of the emergency that the approval of six of us is necessary. Otherwise it doesn't sound like Kirisaki Daiichi to spend so much effort and resources to gather all the leaders of the countries. However I do not see Seirin representative joining us though. If I must speculate, it must be a crisis on a larger scale, like a war?"

"A war?!" The leaders entered into a state of exasperation.

Amaya and Hanamiya sighed. "Yes, Iwamura Tsutomu of Seiho. You are right. A war is right on our tail. An all-out war with the empire of Teiko." Hanamiya announced, making sure every leader is aware of the parlousity of the situation.

Ishida had shaken the table off balance. "How can that be? Teiko had never interfered with the human and state affairs of the lands. Why now?!" He, like the rest of the leaders, had turned pale white, blood and energy had been drained from his face. "Why the sudden change of heart? We cannot possibly win against Teiko empire! Have you realized the true form of the Teiko empire?"

"Seems like even a rotten leader like you also have done his homework." said Hanamiya. "You are sharp."

Ishida clicked his tongue. "Tch. You underestimate me. My country, and my legacy was the first to discover and report the supernatural phenomenon around the lands of Teiko. The people of Teiko, are not human!" His words had awakened the appalling state they were in.

"I thought it was just a myth? A legend?" Tanimura had questioned. "We have not seen mystical creatures for the past one hundred years."

"That's because they do not leave lands of Teiko. Seirin is probably the only empire which joint hands with Teiko." said Ishida. "They have a joint school allowing people from both lands to attend. Advisor Kisaragi, about your missing nephew, since you couldn't confirm his status all this time, it must mean he was kept within the lands of Teiko all these years. Humans cannot cross the borders without permission of the devil master."

"We can still fend off the military forces of Teiko. I am from the branch family of the Kuroko clan." said Amaya. "My strength may not as strong as the main family, we can still survive this war!"

Tanimura had huffed. "How can we tell? Aren't you a failure of your family? Isn't that why you killed your entire clan? You're useless, just as powerless as everyone here."

"No." Hanamiya had disagreed with Tanimura in disapproval. "Amaya's idea is great. Even with a small portion of the Kuroko clan we can make a huge difference. And we have Mayuzumi Chihiro, Kuroko Tetsuya's half sibling. The power he wields is just as powerful as the heir. We will win this war."

Amaya nodded. "I beg you, lend us your strength with Teiko's invasion. Those who agree, please raise your hands." The first to agree were the leaders from the Alliance, Seiho, Shinkyo and Senshinkan; followed by Josei, and lastly Fukada Sogo.Ishida had clicked his tongue when he raised his hand in approval. There was no way out. It was their only escape route. Seiho, Shinkyo and Senshinkan were bound by a pact of Alliance, which was formed during the days of their ancestors. Resources were scarce, capital was lacking and the people had no chance of survival. Only death awaits. To conquer survival, the ancestors had made a pact, to help each other, lands of the same province, sharing their resources and capital to ensure survival to end of the days.

"Very well. Thank you for your approval. We will join forces, and dethrone Teiko!" Amaya had announced the results. Hanamiya smirked. Everything up till now have been running smoothly according to his perfect plan. On the day of the new moon shall be the day we shall dethrone Teiko. The days human cower in fear of Teiko is over. The world is evolving into a new era!