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Disgraced Master	By : Boo-Sama Category: -Misc Video Games/RPGs > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1228 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Poor Kaede, poor poor Kaede, what a worthless girl you are.

Daddy had discarded poor Kaede today in favor of a new bitch. Kaede supposed it was only a matter of time, knowing how worthless she was in every single way. But it was okay! It was all going to be okay, because even if Kaede was a worthless piece of trash, she was still being loved!

“AAH! That feels so good!!!”

She was now a public toilet for all the half-onis to play with, and she couldn't be anymore happy with this fate. True she was saddened by her daddy, her sweet, loveling daddy, tossing her away like a used tissue, but it was okay because she will always be loved! These half-onis have far less restraint in their being, meaning they give all of their love to Kaede without any fear of killing her.

“I’m… I’m gonna cum again!!!”

They beat her, punched her, tore her skin, and fucked her pussy blue, but it’s what she deserved, it’s what she craved, and it would be for the rest of her life. She knew that being fucked like this would more than likely kill poor, worthless Kaede, but she was in so much pleasure, that was hardly a concern to her.

“AAAAAH!!! Cumming! Cumming, cumming, CUUMIIIINGGGGGG!!!! A male! A half-oni’s making me cum!!!”

Kaede knew she was broken. A poor, worthless, broken little toy. But so long as Kaede was in the toybox, and the children still played with her, Kaede still had a purpose in this world.

“Aaaah!!! I can feel it!!! I’M CUMMING CUMMING CUMMINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!~”

The best part is that she could leave anytime she wanted to. She had the powers to, her ninjutsu was fully recharged, and she could easily turn into her puddle form and escape any time she wanted…. But why would she? Where would poor Kaede even go? She only knew this as her place in the world. With daddy, and his children, and she was now their most favorited toy.

“CWUMIINGGGGGGG!!!~~~~~~~~”

Kaede’s silly toy body leaked again… Teehee. How very fun. She liked it when daddy and his kids came inside her. She could only hope daddy would love her again once his latest toy was broken in. This could be just be temporary!... Oh, but would she want to?

“Aaaaaaah, I’m being FUCKED while I c-cum!!! Y-y-YESssss!!! MOrE!!!!”

The beast still brutalized her tired body, far harder than daddy ever did. He dug so deeply into her body, Kaede thought she would split open! Oh… But daddy was daddy, and there was a distinct difference between being fucked to death by a monster, and being fucked to death by the man she loved most in the whole world… She would prove herself. She would endure this cock, and all the cocks after this! She would do it for him, and regain his love! This was a good plan, yes, a very good plan. Kaede liked this plan a lot cause it meant she might feel daddy again! She wanted daddy again, she……...

“Haaa? F-fwah?.... W-why’d you stop?”

The monster atop her stopped thrusting into her. Oni’s never got tired, and never ceased being horny. It was only appropriate to ask. Could it be it was already bored of her? No. No that can’t be possible! She would die if she was already found boring!!! She needed his love, she needed all the monsters love or she would be incomplete!!! That couldn’t be the case. Could it!?

“... A bitch.” The Half-Oni responded, not even looking at Kaede. He began sniffing deeply, removing his cock from Kaede’s stuffed pussy, and raised his nose to the air... “...The scent of a new bitch in heat.”

A new toy!? A-another new toy!? Kaede could not compete with so many other toys!... Unless… Perhaps this was the one daddy replaced her with! She knew he would find that slut’s pussy too boring to satisfy him! Perhaps daddy was right around the corner to take her back!!! Kaede felt her heart leap in excitement at the mere prospect. She turned her weak head towards where the Oni was now looking to see who had joined he-....

“.... Ya….. Yasuzu?”

And, to her dismay… The broken kunoichi’s memories began to flood back to her.

***

“G-GAAAAH!!!” Kaede suddenly screamed out, cold sweat beating down her body and breathing deeply… It was at this moment she realized she had fell asleep in the middle of a high-order meeting, and had just made a scene.

Everyone at the table was staring at her with various eyes. Of concern for her, of panic from the sudden loud noise she made, of annoyance she had interrupted the meeting, some even of disappointment… She could feel that glowing off of Kikyou’s, even if her words said nothing of the sort.

“Kaede.” Kikyou spoke to her softly. “Are you alright?” She continued to stare at her. Everyone stared at her. She could feel their eyes digging into her, the once most highly renowned kunoichi in the entire village.

“... U-uh.” She stuttered in response, the eyes still digging into her, growing larger as time passed, becoming more and more prominent, staring down at her. She could hear the other members whisper as she just sat there, sweating, not coming up with any words of response to Kikyou’s basic question.

“Is she alright?”
“She seems off.”
“She’s pathetic.”
“She’s sweating as if she were sick.”
“Do you think it’s infectious?”
“We performed testing, of course it’s not.”
“Is that even Kaede?”
“She’s ignoring the chief.”
“Why is she just staring at me!?”
“She should just go back to her daddy.”
“I couldn’t agree more, it’s weird.”

“Karde.” Kikyou said again. “Is now a bad time?”

“W-what is?” Kaede spat out, shaking a little.

“Coming to a meeting. You… You looks as if you could use some more rest.” Disappointment in her eyes, disappointment in her eyes, disappointment in her eyes, disappointment in her eyes, disappointment in her eyes, disappointment in her eyes.

“O-OF COURSE NOT!” Kaede said much louder than she should have, causing a few members of the order to reel back in surprise at her outburst. “I… I….” starringstarringstarringstarring. “.... Uh…. I… I, I apologize, I just-”

“It’s alright.” Kikyou reassured. “You probably are just, well, stressed and sick. Nobody here is offended, just... “ GODDAMNITWHYDIDSHEPAUSEWHATISSHETHINKING “You just need more rest. Okay? Go home, write me a letter if you need anything. Got it?”

“.... I…” A real kunoichi would endure. “Yes, you’re right.” worthless whore. “Sorry, I… I shouldn’t have forced myself to come today. I’ve just felt as if I haven’t been pulling my weight lately, and-”

“Not at all.” Kikyou once again reassured. “I’ll have someone fill you in if something important is mentioned you should know of. Just get better now, okay?”

“Get the fuck out of here.”

“What?” Kaede asked, looking around, unsure of who just said that.

“I said get better, okay? That’s and order now.” Kaede looked around a little more, even gazing behind Kikyou, which weirded out a bit, naturally. “... Is… Is there someone behind me?”

“NO!!!!” Kaede snapped once again. “.... No… No, apologies, I’m…. I’m excruciatingly tired. I’m seeing things. Thank you, Kikyou-sama.” Kaede got up, bowed to the order, grabbed her bags, and made for the door. Nobody wished her goodbye, there was only a concerned wave from Kikyou as she made her way to the curtain out.

***

Kaede walked through the town, sweating like a pig and her entire body feeling numb. Her walk was more of a hobble as the heat of the day beat down on her… Or, what felt like the heat of the day. She felt some form of hot pressure pushing down on her body, but she could not put her finger on what. Everything felt heavy, and she was incredibly on edge, as if someone was following her.

… Was… Was this even the way home?

She aimlessly wondered around the town she once called her home, now no longer able to comprehend the layout. Any attempt to read the signs throughout the village were in vain as her vision blurred to the point of her becoming unable to read anything. Any attempt besides trying to read the sign at face value, be it squinting of putting her full focus on a sign simply caused her head to split even more than it already was, so she just kept wandering around town.

The sound of her own footsteps on the dirt roads began to drive her crazy. All the noises of the town did. The talking of people, the tweeting of birds, chirping of cicadas, it all began to get on her nerves. She wanted to go home, curl under her blankets, and pretend she didn’t exist, that there was no universe, that nobody was looking at her. The pathetic kunoichi master, now no more than a sweaty, disgusting vagabond, wandering the town aimlessly like she was a tourist taking in all the pretty fucking sights. She knew everyone was staring at her, she knew it, she also knew nobody was going to fucking help her get home, why would they? Everyone was… Everyone was…..

… Nobody was outside… Only a few kids and a few stray citizens that took no notice of her… Of course nobody cared… Just as she-

“Kaede-Sam-”

“KEEP YOUR DISTANCE I AM A TRAINED-” Kaede turned a 180 and pressed her suddenly formed shadow-blade arm against the neck of Botan, who had just tapped her shoulder to get her attention… Kaede suddenly realized her mistake and undid her jutsu.

“... Sorry, Botan, I.” Kaede apologized after blanking for a mere moment. “I was…. I don’t feel to well… I…” Her eyes then gandered over to Yasuzu, who was right behind Botan, and looked just as startled as she did.

“... Yasuzu.” Kaede began. “You’re no longer in a wheelchair!” She chuckled happily, pleasantly surprised to see Yasuzu recovering. For the longest time it felt like Yasuzu had been entirely bound to her chair, but, suddenly, here she was on crutches!...

Kaede suddenly realized she was chuckling like a maniac right in front of her students after nearly killing one of them. She ceased the laughter immediately.

“A-apologies.” Kaede said, bowing. “I haven’t been feeling well- I was just heading home so I wish for you to have a good day my students pleasedohaveagoodda-” As Kaede tried to make her hasty excuse and walk past Botan, Botan outstretched an arm in front of her, halting her escape…

She then closed around her arms around Kaede, hugging her.

… It was odd… Her embrace made Kaede feel… Warm. She was screamingly, unbearably hot just a few moments ago, but now, spite being in a scenario that would heat her up more, she only felt…. Warm now… Botan said something, she could hear it, but, it was nothing she could comprehend at the moment, she couldn’t even understand why she was feeling anything at the moment… She just….

Melted

***

“ Kaede-Sama?” Botan asked Kaede, smiling. Kaede sobered up again from whatever state she was in before, and took a moment to look around her… She was sitting by a lake, not too far from the village, next to Botan and Yasuzu… She also realized she had Yasuzu’s crutches in her lap…

Right, that’s what happened. Botan offered to have a meetup at the lake, and Yasuzu lent her these to help her walk, since Botan could support Yasuzu herself. It was all fuzzy, but, she could recall that much. What they were doing or what they were talking about was a blur, but she knows how she got here.

“... R-repeat that, Botan. I apologize, I’m a bit out of it.” Kaede asked, trying to talk as a professional as she usually did before………

“I just asked if you thought it was a lovely day.” She repeated to her master... master….. To her teacher.

“... Well, I suppose yes, it is a rather nice day, though.” Kaede raised her finger to the sky. “It could be a bit more cloudy, which to some, would make it a worse day, thought I personally prefer it when it’s a bit darker than usual, you know? It’s more calming, less overbearing on the eyes, and, of course, I have that much more power in the case of needing to fight.” Botan and Yasuzu both chuckled a bit at Kaede’s overanalysis. Before everything went to hell with the merchant mission, Kaede always joked like that. She would take simple questions and stretch her answer out, followed by giving a little nudge to the shoulder or a wink.

And, as the two expected, she did just that, and they all had a little chuckle about it. It was sort of dry humor, but, it was Kaede’s humor, and it was humor fitting of a teacher.

The trio continued to sit by the lake, watching the sun slowly begin to set, causing a bright, golden glimmer to shine over it… At the sight of this, Kaede decided to pick up a nice, smooth rock, and hurled it at the lake. The rock skipped a solid five times before finally sinking… It felt nice to do something so mundanely entertaining. Kaede couldn’t recall the last time she just did something like that. It honestly felt like it’s been years...

After she did so, Botan followed, picked up a rock of her own, and tossed in the same manner as Kaede, getting a rather impressive six skips before it sunk.

“She’s better than you at that, too.”

“What?” Kaede asked, looking to her side at the two girls. Neither of them heard her, and continued talking.

“Yeah. I mean, I never had formal training in rock throwing, I just sort of know how to.” Botan replied to Yasuzu, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Botan in awe. “You act as if doing so is some sort of great feat.”

“I-I mean.” Yasuzu replied, looking away from Botan, embarrassed. “It’s not, I’m just surprised you’ve had time to master it, that’s all.”

“There’s a difference between skill and blind luck.” Kaede replied to the minor shock of both girls, her words coming off strangely bitter. Out of a minor sense of pride, Botan grabbed another rock, and put her full focus into her throw…. 2 skips and it plummeted to davy jones locker.

“See?” Kaede scoffed, strangely smug. Botan decided to change the subject to save Kaede some face from Yasuzu, who was still shaken about the whole ‘nearly slicing Botan’s head off’ thing.

“Well, uh, Yasuzu, how far can you throw one?” Yasuzu’s face immediately flushed upon being asked this, as if she were just asked to kill Botan herself.

“U-u-u-u-uh, w-what?” Yasuzu stammered, extremely nervous.

“How far can you throw one?” Botan asked yet again, completely oblivious to Yasuzu’s obvious attitude change.

“W’well pretty far, y’know. Like at least, uh… t-ten skips?”

“Oh really!?” Botan excitedly asked. She then found a perfectly good throwing rock and put it on Yasuzu’s lap. “Throw it! Lemme see!!!”

“.... U-uh… Yeah… Okay… Uh.” Yasuzu then picked up the rock, and deeply, deeply examined it, clearly not having any idea what she was doing. However, she had been challenged by her girlfriend, and had no other choice than to appease her wishes. She had to do this. She had to own up to what she said or eat shit right here and now. She held her rock back, getting ready to throw, eyeing the lake with the dexterity of a hawk...

Yasuzu overhand tossed the rock at the ocean and it sunk like a brick.

“... You’ve never skipped a rock in your life, have you?” Botan asked, Yasuzu’s throw being so bad even she could detect it.

“... I-I mean-”

“Well that’s no problem! Right Kaede?” Botan quickly responded, suddenly directing attention to Kaede. “You’re really good at skipping rocks and explaining things!” Kaede blinked a few times before responding, not immediately sure on how to respond, her mind suddenly racing a bit.

“U-uh-”

“I mean, I’d probably get a few details wrong anyways. I’ve always been more a learner and a doer rather than a teacher.” Yasuzu’s face flushed red a bit when Botan said she was a ‘doer’.

“... I suppose yes, I could show Yasuzu something, if she was alright with it.” …. No response from Yasuzu. “.... Are you alright with it Yasuzu?”

“...... O-OH!” Snapping out of her lewd fantasies about doing, Yasuzu finally responded. “Sure, yeah, I mean, yeah! Of course!... What are we doing?”

“Learning how to skip rocks.”

“Oh! Yeah that sounds… Uh….” Botan hand gestured to Yasuzu to accept. Inside, Yasuzu was still a bit timid around Kaede after earlier, but… This was still Kaede. Yeah. She’s just in a weird set of circumstances, and maybe teaching something would help get her mind of things. “That sounds fun! Yeah!” Yasuzu then hobble-crawled her crippled ass next to Kaede. “So, what sort of rock should we be looking for?”

“Well…” Kaede began looking around at the rocks all across the lake-side they were sitting on. “First thing we do is find….” … She was blanking. She did this so easily a moment ago, yet now she couldn’t come up with a single word. She scanned every single rock around her, but none of them seemed right for simple skipping. They all seemed to lumpy, too oddly shaped, too heavy. She didn’t even realize how absurd it was to assume weight from just looking at the rock, it simply stuck in her mind as something that deterred from skipping. This rock had to be perfect! She was a master kunoichi! She had to-

“... Find a round flat ro-”

“LET ME FINISH!!!” Kaede snapped at Yasuzu, causing the young ninja to reel back in shock. “I am the teacher here YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO FINISH MY THOUGHT!!!”

“B-but you were silent for-”

“I DON’T CARE!!!” Kaede went back to searching around the lakeside, more aggressively looking for a good rock to throw, but absolutely none of them looked right to her.

“No. No. No. No. No no no no no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO-”

“That one looked perfectly-” at a twitch impulse, Kaede clutched the rock in her hand, and tossed it at whoever said that, being Botan. The rock nailed her clean in the eye, and she toppled over with a loud thud on the grass. Kaede immediately sobered up from her odd state and made a move to check on Botan.

“OH LORD, BOTAN, ARE YOU-”

“GET AWAY!!!” Yasuzu suddenly shrieked, getting in the way of Kaede and exerting enough force to push her master onto her back. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?”

“W-wha-”

“YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE YOU FAILED ONE MISSION YOU GET TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!?!?”

“...”

“You nearly SLICED Botan-chan’s HEAD OFF!!! You act sassy to her for no reason! She gives you a chance to show me how to skip a simple rock and NOT ONLY do you fuck up to show me that simple thing, but you also throw a rock at her!? What the hell is wrong with you!!?”

… Kaede twitched a few times.

“No… No….” Botan muttered, getting back up. “Yasuzu, it’s really okay, Kaede is just-”

“IT’S NOT OKAY!!!” She screamed back. “None of this has been okay! You keep telling me it’s okay, but it’s NOT okay!!! I just can't tolerate this anymore!!!”

… Tolerate.

Tolerate.

Tolerate.

“Yasuzu, Kaede is under a lot of stress right now, it’s not a good idea to-”

“THIS ISN’T STRESS, THIS IS ABUSE!!! SHE CAN’T JUST GET AWAY WITH-”

“It’s not abuse, she’s depressed! We need to be there for her or-”

“She’s a filthy slut who needs to be thrown out.”

“Things will get better! I promise! Look, everyone, this was a bad idea on my part! Okay? I take full blame for-”

“Nothing will make this better.”

“E-excuse me?”

“Filth, garbage, musk, afterbirth, cum, black mucus, vile matter-”

“We will all return to this state, there is no salvation for our kind here.”

“I SWEAR!!! I SWEAR THIS ISN’T ME!!!” Kaede screamed, falling to her hands and knees, unsure of what was happening anymore. Everything in the world just seemed to flash and swirl pure red. She felt like she was falling into a layer of hell. She could feel the fires rising up around her, smelting her skin into the ground and melting her into the very soil she laid upon.

“It is, it is Kaede, we swear ir. We swear it.”

“Your blood boils with lust now, doesn’t it? You look down at your students, and you crave their bodies. Isn’t that true?”

“Where is this coming from!?”

“There is nothing left to keep you from it, Kaede.”

“You will sink here with us. You will sink to the bottom of this land and you will become one with it’s core. Your disgrace shall be hidden from all the world, and you will finally know true peace.” Hands around to crowd around her, trying to pull her down into the underworld.

“NO!!! I’D NEVER HURT MY STUDENTS!!! I’D NEVER!!! I’D NEVER!!!!! I SWORE TO PROTECT THEM, THAT WAS MY BURDEN!!! THAT’S WHY I DID THIS TO MYSELF!!!! I GAVE UP EVERYTHING FOR THIS!!! I DON’T WANT TO GO TO HELL, PLEASE!!! PLEASEE!!!!” She shook the arms off her, slashing around, flailing her arms, knocking as many off of her as she could. However, another, more violent looking demonic presence grabbed a hold of her.

“What more could you want, Kaede?”

“Deeper, deeper you will enter this place. Down to the center and melt. Melt. Melt away into oblivion. Nobody will miss you, nobody will know you are gone. It is how it should be, and how it will be from now on.”

“Take our hands, Kaede, come down with us, come back home to your master.”

“GET OFF!!! GET OFF OF ME!!!!”

“You liked how it felt when he was inside you, didn’t you? You liked the way he rubbed himself all over your body, how he dominated your entire body, how he gave you a purpose. Didn’t you?”

“WHAT!? N-NO!!! NO I DIDN’T!!! WHY ARE YOU SAYING THESE THINGS TO ME!?!?”

“I bet you made you feel good everywhere. I bet he made you feel whole again.”

“H-HE WAS A MONSTER!!! PLEASE STOP THIS!!!”

“You smiled when he did it, didn’t you?”

“NO!!!”

“You gave up, didn’t you?”

“I… I….”

“See? We’re not so different anymore, are we? You loved it, I loved it, we all loved it. This is what we’re supposed to do as women. This is our only purpose in this world. To breed. You know that, don’t you? Your entire career as a Kunoichi is based off it. Giving your body, then cutting away at those you’ve pretended to love? Why do you fight it?”

“Th-this isn’t abo-”

“How can you say you love anyone when you’ve slept with so many men? You skank. You worthless slut. Do you think anyone would love someone who’s slept with so many? Who is so unloyal so regularly? No amount of splitting your soul for some woman would ever change that.”

“... P-... Please, stop this-”

“IT WILL NEVER STOP!!! IT WILL NEVER END!!! DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU DUMB BITCH!?!? The half-oni, nay, The Oni themselves are the ones who are in the right! They simply mean to free us from this hell!!! To have man and woman give into their only desire and free us all from our own sin!!! This is the only way we will ever have-”

“GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!!!!” Suddenly, a wooden crutch swung and hit Kaede in the back of the head, flinging her off of Botan. Kaede rolled into the lake, submerging her for a moment before she quickly resurfaced, her kimono completely soaked.

She walked back onto the beach, stumbling and shaking with fear, and looked over at her students.

“W-what-”

“I still have nightmares.” Botan weakly said as Yasuzu tried to comfort her. “I still have nightmares of that fucking walk her made me go on.”

“W-what walk? What are you-”

“HOW DO YOU NOT REMEMBER!?!?” Botan suddenly snapped, losing all cool and pushing Yasuzu away as if she was nothing, her innermost rage getting the best of her. “I TOLD YOU ABOUT IT PERSONALLY!!! I TRUSTED YOU WITH THAT INFORMATION, AND YOU ASK IF I LIKED IT!?!? AS IF IT’S SOME SORT OF JOKE!?!?!?”

“Liked it!? What are you…”

…..

“HE FORCED ME DOWN THAT CORRIDOR WITH HIS COCK IN ME, FORCING ME FORWARDS, THREATENING TO MAKE ME A HALF ONI IF I STOPPED AND EXECUTING ME AFTER HAVING THE ENTIRE TOWN RAPE ME, AND YOU ASK ME IF I FUCKING LIKED IT!?!?”

… Did…. Did she….

“I know you had it rough, I FUCKING KNOW you had it rough, that what happened to me was nothing compared to the week you spent being molested under the weight of god knows how many men. But THAT experience!!! Being forced down a hallway, having men TEN TIMES AS STRONG AS ME GRAB ME, MAN HANDLE ME, BEING THRUSTED INTO BY SOMEONE WHO IS PURE BLOODED EVIL AS HE LAUGHS THE ENTIRE WAY!!! NOT KNOWING IF I’LL EVER FUCKING SEE ANYONE I LOVE AGAIN, OR WORSE, BEING FORCED TO SELL OUT EVERYONE I KNOW TO SOMEONE I HATE AND BEING EXECUTED FOR IT-”

Kaede’s hands clamped around Botan’s neck.

“Shut up.” She told Botan once.

“K-Kae-”

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***

Kaede hobbled home, at long last. Everything that just happened was a blur to her, very little adding up or making any sense. She was just happy to be home now.

Home… And alone.

…..

…..

… Where did she get these crutches from?

… What… What’s all this red?

***

It wasn’t hard finding where Kaede had gone after her episode, all one had to do was follow the vivid trail of red she left behind in her wake. Kikyou had already gotten people to do damage control and lie about what had actually happened to keep people calm, but, at this point, Kikyou wasn’t sure if that would be enough this time.

… Something… Something had to be done.

Kikyou clutched her sword as she walked into Kaede’s house, still following the red, read to attack in case Kaede jumped her. She was dealing with an aggressive Kunoichi Master and, insane or not, some form of protection was needed against her.

The floorboards creaked with every step she took, giving away her position with every step. Even without her shoes on, and lightest stance, this building was ancient, a one floor-high wooden temple remodeled into a house, and there was no way to fully deafen her movements, at least not with her personal skill set.

Thankfully, it seemed that stealth wasn’t needed. Kikyou followed the trail all the way to her room, where she found Kaede on her bed…

… Masturbating.

“Kaede?” Kikyou asked, grabbing the hilt of her sword more tightly in case of a sudden lunge. Kaede simply leaned up from her bed, half cackling as she continued to rub herself.

“KIKYOU SENPAI!” The young girl responded, pretending as if she didn’t have more important matters to attend to. “WHAT A PLEASANT SURPRISE TO SEE YOU HERE!!! DID YOU ENJOY MY WORK, or- OR MAYBE COME TO JOIN ME!?!?”

Kaede was clearly very, very out of it right now. A black aura swirled around her as her shadow ninjutsu bubbled up inside of her. She was having an overabundance of Ninjutsu flowing in her body, which was a clear sign of her giving in more and more of her half-oni side.

“... Kaede… What did you do?”

Silly mortal, did she not see the red? Silly, silly Kikyou. Girls like us weren’t made to think, they were made to breed! It’s best to get this out of the way now, rather than later.

“I killed my students!” She excitedly remarked. “I am a Half-Oni, Kikyou, what were you expecting!?”

“You… You what?”

“I SLAUGHTERED THEM LIKE PIGS!!!!” She suddenly screamed out, shifting from her happy demeanor to a more disturbing, frightening one. “They got in my way, THEY WANTED TO STOP ME!!! So I took care of them, I EVISCERATED THEIR BODIES!!! I made sure there was nothing left!!! I did it for daddy, and he’s proud of me!!! HE’S SO PROUD OF ME!!!”

“...” There was only one thing on her mind now. “... When was the last time you took your pills?”

“Hmmmmmmmmmm? I have stated that I have murdered my students, and all you care about is-”

“WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK YOUR FUCKING PILLS!?!?”

“... Over a week ago-”

“GOD DAMMIT!!!” Kikyou screamed, resisting the urge to just cut forward and kill her now. “THAT’S WHY YOU DID ALL THIS!? God damnit, YOU STOPPED TAKING YOUR ANTI-DEMONICS!?!?”

“Of course I stopped, Kikyou, think for once in your life, silly! Do you REALLY think there is even a Kaede anymore?” The baby girl took her hand away from her crotch and stood on her bed, readying her shadow-blade arms, getting ready to claim another victim.

“No. There ISN’T a Kaede anymore, Kikyou! She died the MOMENT daddy came inside her womb!!!” She laughed. “Ever since my he gave me his love, I have BEEN ME! AND ONLY ME!!!”

“... I thought there was saving you.” Kikyou simply said, drawing her blade out, her kitana now pointed in front of her as she took a samurai’s posture.

“No, you tricked me into thinking I was something I WAS NOT!!! I am a HALF-ONI, KIKYOU!!! THE ENEMY OF THE KUNOICHI!!! Your kind has been hunting my kind forever, taking petty assassination contracts to keep your feeble village afloat to control my kind from rising up and taking over!!! Well NOW I’M NOT ON YOUR SIDE!!! I know what you think of me- WHAT ALL OF YOU THINK OF ME NOW!!!” She broke into her full shadow form, her clothes falling off her as she became ethereal.

“You think I am a monster, WELL NOW I AM ONE!!! And if I die by your hand, SO BE IT!!! I will be with my precious, PRECIOUS daddy in the depths of hell, and I could think of no greater way to spend the rest of my existence!!! Once I end you, I’ll leave this village, and I will reunite with my people. I will lead them to this pitiful village AND I WILL-”

Kikyou took the first move, and slashed at Kaede, Kaede easily blocking the attack. Normally, the sword would pass right through her, but this was no ordinary sword. Kikyou had many swords at home, and for this occasion, she brought her ghost-slayer sword, one made to handle ethereal threats. Once she struck Kaede’s blade, she leapt back to safety, and began to pace around Kaede.

“Oh? So you have some spunk now, do yo-”

“I WILL NOT LET YOU ENDANGER MY VILLAGE!!!” She barked at the demon, rage filling her eyes. “I no longer care who you are, Demon, Kaede, or some doppelganger, THAT IS MY LINE.” She readied herself again.

“And you just crossed it.”

The fool fruitlessly came at daddy’s favorite cum dumpster, jumping and slashing around with her puny ghost-slayer blade.The blade cut the girl’s arms as she cut at the blades crossed, since her shadow-blade arms were still her arms. However, it was all for not. No matter how good of a swordswoman Kikyou was, she could not keep up with someone like Kaede, at least not forever.

Daddy’s girl soon overwhelmed Kikyou with a legion of dark tentacles. She was able to cut many of them down, at least a hundred before there were so many not ever her skills could keep up, and one of them simply grabbed her wrist, and forced the sword out of her hand. Once it was on the ground, daddy’s doll simply picked it up with another tendril, and tossed it behind her. There was nothing that could protect her now.

“Poor sad Kikyou. No one can help her now.” The girl mocked, her tendrils wrapping around Kikyou’s body as she struggled to escape, the tendrils feeling up her entire body. “Not Botan, not Yasuzu, not even her precious, precious Kaede-Sam-”

*thud*

Kikyou fell to the floor, unsure of what just happened. She lost control of her breathing for a moment due to the stress of being overwhelmed and…. Just… Touched like that at all, but… It seemed she was somehow safe now.

She got up a-

“Master Kikyou?!” Botan asked, grabbing Kikyou’s hand and hoisting her up.

“B-Botan?” Kikyou asked. “T-there you are… Shit, I was wondering where yo-”

“Yeah, yeah I’m fine. Don’t worry about it Ki-” Botan suddenly took a closer look at the room. “.... Why… Why is there so much blood in here?”

“It’s not blood.” Kikyou replied, regaining her footing. “I was informed Kaede had stormed through the village, particularly the food market, and had made a scene by knocking over an entire pot of tomato soup. She probably got soaked without realizing it somehow and… She rambled a bit about killing both of you.”

“What?” Botan replied. “I-I mean she shook us up a bit, but she gave me nothing worse than this black eye.” Botan then pointed to the eye which Kaede had tossed nailed her with a rock.

“I should probably ask where Yasuzu is, seeing how her crutches are here, but not her.”

“I had to take her home, and once she was there, I made my way straight here to see if I could talk to Kaede some more… I suppose it was fortunate I came here before anything worse could happen.”

“... Yeah…” Kikyou merely responded, looking down at Kaede. “... Yeah.”

“I honestly wasn’t expecting a sword like this to actually hit her! I-I mean I didn’t want to hit her, but just hitting her with the hilt isn’t that bad, right? Just a quick blow to the back of the head and-”

“Give me it.” Kikyou cleanly interrupted, holding her hand out.

“... W-why? I mean, I know it’s your sword, Master Kikyou, but-”

“She threatened the secrecy of the village.” She replied. “She needs to be disposed o-”

“WHAT!?!?” Botan furiously lashed out. “W-WHY- WHAT-”

“She had gone off her medication for at least a week. She claimed they ‘distracted’ her from her true form or something, and that she is a half-oni…” She breathed in a bit. “And she is no longer on our side… And… And she’s right.”

“Kikyou-”

“It was a mistake to think we could save her.” She softly replied. “... We… We need to deal with the other half-oni’s too. This is enough proof to-”

“NO.” Botan sharply snapped. “NO, WE’RE NOT DOING THAT!!! Those women were JUST GIRLS! They had-”

“KAEDE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT EITHER!!!” Kikyou snapped back, even more angry. “God damnit- DO YOU NOT THINK I TRIED!? I gave her every chance! Over these past few months I’ve been NOTHING but there for her!!! I’ve been busy, yes, and we’ve only been able to meet about 2 times a week, sure, but every single hour off I had, I WAS WITH HER!!! I’ve given her off time, second chances for slipping on rules, given her EXCUSE AFTER EXCUSE, and now!....” Another deep breath. “... It’s come to this-”

“It has not-”

“IT HAS!!!” She snapped yet again. “She has proven she a ticking time bomb! She isn’t her anymore!!! She-”

“THIS IS HER!!!” Botan screamed out. “This… This…”

There was hesitant in Botan’s words. After everything she said and did… Hitting Botan, Yasuzu, stealing Yasuzu’s crutches and saying those… Things…

But……

***

Pain

Pain was all Botan could feel as it went on. Dark clouds revolved around her body, and pulled away at her very soul. It was unimaginable just how painful it was, as it was a pain none ever typically get to feel. To have one’s skin and bone cut, scratched, buried, and flayed was one thing, but to have one’s soul exercised and manhandled in such a way was completely unknown to her till now.

If she were to try to describe, it felt somewhat like hot, metal spiders covered in blades were squirming all around her body, searing everything inside and caurterizing everything inside. They cut off her nerves with their heat and caused everything to become numb, yet still very much feeling, much like how your leg sometimes falls asleep when you sit weird, and once you move, that leg has a painful numbing feel for a bit after… It was like that, but, it never got better from the painful phase, and at the same time, the horrible feeling of metallic spiders all within her being kept squirming around.

However, throughout it all, she had to keep up her breathing. She needed to take deep breaths in, and out… In… And out, and she could not choke. If she choked, the pain would seize her even greater, and she would lose everything… But, she could feel it coming. As the hot spiders crawled all around her being, flaring all her organs, giving her the feeling all her organs were tearing and leaking blood all over her body, she could feel in her throat the need to gag, which would lead to what could be a fatal choke.

She had to hold it back… She had to hold it back….

… But… The clawing, the buring, the scratching feeling of her blood leaking out and caurterizing all over her body. It felt like her entire being was scabbing and forcefully tearing apart. She wanted to cough, she wanted to so badly, but she couldn’t. If she did, she, and the one she wanted to save, would die. They would both die, and she couldn’t allow that, no matter what…

… No matter what.

She kept up her slow breathing. In… Out… In… Out… In…. Out…. Out- NO IN-

And it stopped…

Botan fell to the wooden ground, all her senses and feelings returning to her, and she clambered back onto her hands and knees. She took a few deep, calming breaths, and asked-

“Why did you stop?” She then looked up at a standing woman above her, the one who was inflicted that torture upon her, being Kaede, the only person she, or anyone knew, who had successfully split her soul to someone.

Botan asked again “WHY DID YOU STOP!?”

“Your breathing shifted.” Kaede replied. “I sensed a choke and I stopped-”

“I DIDN’T CHOKE!!!” Botan screamed at her, infuriated. “I MISPLACED A SINGLE BREATH, THAT WASN’T CHOKING-”

“That is all it can-”

“IT IS NOT, YOU TOLD ME IT WAS OKAY SO LONG AS I DIDN’T INHALE TOO MUCH!!!” She then stood up fully to make full, leveled eye contact with Kaede. “This was the longest I’ve gone and I could have gone farther! You said you would ONLY cut short if I started choking!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT!?” There was a silence between the two. Botan starred deeply at Kaede during it, but Kaede did not look back. Her eyes simply looked a bit to the left at nothing of particular interest, her arms crossed, showing uncertainty in what to say next. Soon, she softly told her-

“... This.. This isn’t going to work.”

“What?”

“This… This is a lost cause Botan.” Kaede turned away from Botan, and began to walk out. “It won’t work, and I won’t be held responsible if something were to happen. We need to just cut our losses and move-”

Botan violently grabbed Kaede and forcibly turned her around again.

“What the hell are you saying?” She coldly told Kaede, once again digging daggers into her eyes with her gaze. “What in god’s name are you even IMPLYING I should do.”

“Do you even understand the consequences of failure?” Kaede asked her, keeping a straight face. “If you mess this up, if you lose focus, choke, and lose your place in the middle, there will be no Botan left in the world.” She paused for a bit to let that soak in, and continued. “Your soul won’t just rip in half, it will continue to tear far beyond that and break. This will mean… It will mean there will be, literally, nothing left of you. You will become a soulless husk, unable to perform basic actions, and when you die, you won’t go to the afterlife… You’ll never reach heaven, and you’ll never be able to reunite with Yaszuzu, who I promise you, is there.”

… Tears were choking out of Botan’s eyes slightly now, her grasp on Kaede slowly giving away. To comfort her, Kaede reached around to the back of Botan’s hair, and began to lightly stroke it.

“She would want you to keep going, my student. You’ll be with her again one day, but until then, you must-”

“What makes you think there’s anything left of me right now?” She genuinely asked Kaede.

“Wha-”

“WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THERE’S ANYTHING LEFT OF BOTAN RIGHT NOW!?” Botan then smacked Kaede’s hand out of her hair and pushed her back a but.

“I-I don’t under-”

“THERE IS NO BOTAN WITHOUT HER!!!”

“Botan, you clearly don’t understand the severity of-”

“I DON’T CARE!!!” She screamed at her again. “I DON’T CARE IF MY SOUL IS WIPED FROM EXISTENCE!!! I NEED HER HERE NOW, AND…” She gagged a bit on her words. “... And I need to be there with her to the end.”

“... What do you-”

“She… She risked everything for me, Kaede. She risked her entire mission to save me, her life for me, and… Even if she didn’t, if she didn’t come for me and I survived anyways, and we were at this point yet again under similar circumstances, I… I’d still need her.”

“She would want you to-”

“SHE NEEDS ME TOO!!!” She snapped once again. “I can’t imagine how scared she is right now, what nightmares she’s suffering from as he sleeps, how lonely and empty she’d feel if she died and I wasn’t there to meet her… She… We kissed the night before she was attacked.”

“W-what?”

“I… I told her, for saving my life, I would do anything for her in return, and she just asked to cook my favorite meal and eat it with me, and… And she confessed her love right there, and, I just… I didn’t know what to say, so I just accepted it and let the idea grow with me. I always thought of her as just a best friend till that point, as someone who would always have my back, and I’d always have hers in return, but… As the weeks went on, I got to know the real her, what she really felt for me, and… And she made me feel warm.” She slowly began to cry again. “She made me feel something I’ve never felt before. A feeling of… Of real worth. And she made me smile and feel happy. We took walks around the cabin, she cooked all sorts of food for us, we told each other stories of our lives and what we wanted to do once this nightmare was over, but… But it wasn’t a nightmare. In the end, not really, because… Because she was there to make it all better…”

She choked as she desperately tried to hold back a breakdown.

“I…. When we were in the cabin, at night, I woke up constantly from night terrors about… About the walk I told you about… The arms grabbing me, the merchant cock inside me as I had to drag him forwards, the idea of… Of Yasuzu being on the other side of the hallway, being manhandled sexually by demons, and that if I just pushed forwards far enough I’d be able to save her, but… But I never could, and I’d wake up right before the merchant would… And Yasuzu was there, and she held me, and told me everything would… Would…..”

She could barely keep it together anymore. She couldn’t even stand. She just slowly lowered herself onto the floor, and sat down.

“W-w-w-would b-be okay. That she’d keep Botan safe, no matter what happend, a-and she made Botan feel like it would be ok-kay. A-and the next day sh-she’d make something d-delicious, a-and play games, a-and make me feel real….. Sh-she made me fe-el love, a-and one day, a-after dinner, I… I caught her masturbating to the thought of me, a-and I caught her, a-and she cried h-how sorry she was th-that Botan caught her doing the d-deed, and I kissed her…. I kissed her, and I deconfirmed her greatest fear of me n-not wanting her back, a-and Botan m-made her feel good w-with my mouth down there i-in her special p-place….”

“.. B-Botan-”

“A-and the next m-m-morning she made Botan cinnamons rolls, and they were the greatest thing I-I ever tasted, and I-I-I was thinking about my life with her, and….” There was a deep breath, and- “AND SHE NEVER EVEN GOT TO TASTE HER OWN CINNAMON ROLLS BEFORE HER BLOOD WAS ALL OVER THE FLOOR!!! SHE NEVER GOT TO TASTE THE LABORS OF HER OWN LOVE, OR KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVED HER BEFORE HE ATTACKED HER, AND SHE NEVER WILL!!!”

Botan collapsed backwards onto the floor, and simply began to cry and bawl as loudly as she could. This great Kunoichi, who had saved everyone in her village, who triumphed against impossible odds and was known throughout the village, and perhaps ever farther at this point, was now no more than a crying child at the thought of her dying lover.

Kaede watched the entire thing… And felt nothing but shame in herself… This… This all could have been avoided if she just…

Kaede sat next to her student as she cried, and brought Botan’s head into her lap for some support. She blew tears and snow into her master’s outfit, hardly being able to even breath. This continued for what felt like forever for the two until Botan ran out of enough breath to not wail so loud as to drown out anything Kaede’s could say in response to her story, and once she did…

“... I’m… I’m going to fail you again.” Kaede told Botan.

“... w-what?”

“I… I don’t want to hurt you anymore. That’s why I said the things I did. I don’t know anything about what Yasuzu would want for you, I just can’t keep… I can’t keep torturing you like that. I’ve already caused enough pain to everyone in this village, I’ve already doomed so many women to being raped by half-oni, I’ve hurt Kikyou so, so much by not coming back, and… And I can’t do it… I can’t do it, I’m sorry, I don’t think I can possibly do it-”

“You have to.” Botan relied. “You have to, or I’ll just do it without your help.”

“You will… You’ll-”

“I don’t care… I don’t…..” There was nothing else she could say on the matter. No words of comfort for her master, no rationalities, just “... If… If you don’t, I will die… And you will have just another death on your hands.”

…

“You’ll be responsible for killing both your students… Is that what you want?”

“... no.”

And with that, the conversation was over. Botan got up, weak from crying so hard, and staggered out the room. The last thing she said before leaving Kaede alone in that room with only her thoughts was.

“Give me 30 minutes to recompose… See you later, Kaede.”

… If only she knew what she had truly told her.

***

“GET OFF OF HER!!!” Yasuzu yelled at Kaede as she strangled Botan, weakly punching Kaede’s side with what little strength she had. In responde, Kaede took one hand off of Botan, and slapped Yasuzu as hard as she could, causing Yasuzu to topple over onto the ground. However, in doing so, this gave Botan all she needed to escape. She quickly chopped at Kaede’s last gripping hand with the side of her own hand, breaking the grapple. Botan then quickly performed a sweep, knocking Kaede onto the ground, and to ensure she wouldn’t get back up, she put her foot over Kaede’s neck, lightly pressing as to prevent any and all resistance she might have in an attempt to getting back up.

“WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?” Botan screamed down at her master, half tempted to crush her neck right now. “WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US!?”

“JUST DO IT!!!” Kaede screamed back at her student. “JUST FUCKING KILL ME ALREADY!!!”

“... W… What? Kaede, what do you-”

“I’M NOT KAEDE!!!” She cried. “I’M NOT KAEDE, I’M NOT KAEDE, I’M NOT KAEDE!!! I’M A HALF ONI YOU DRAGGED BACK FROM THE MANSION THAT LOOKS LIKE HER, I’M NOT HER!!!”

“W-what!? Kaede, you’re not making any se-”

“STOP SAYING THAT!!!” She grabbed Botan’s foot, and tried to pull it down harder onto her neck, forcing Botan to try and pull it away, quickly offsetting her balance on her. “KAEDE WOULD NEVER HURT HER STUDENTS!!! SHE WOULD NEVER FAIL TO TEACH A LESSON!!! SHE WOULD NEVER ENDANGER BOTH HER STUDENT’S LIVES FOR HER OWN PETTY FEARS OF FAILURE!!! THE REAL KAEDE NEVER FEARED ANYTHING, YET I WRITHE IN FEAR EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!”

… The things she said that night slowly came back to haunt Botan. It was just one or two sentences, but…

“JUSTLETMEDIEJUSTLETMEDIEJUSTLETMEDIEJUSTLETMEDIEJUSTLETMEDIEJUSTLETMEDIE!!!!!”

Botan attempted to get her foot away from Kaede’s neck, but due to her grip on her foot, she stumbled over and fell to the ground.

“FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!” Kaede suddenly screamed, getting off from the ground rather quickly, stealing and using Yasuzu’s crutches to get back up. “YOU SHOWED MERCY TO YOUR ENEMY, AND NOW I, KAEDE THE HALF-ONI, SHALL RECUPERATE BACK INTO MY PLACE OF DWELLING AND REGENERATE MY STAMINA SO THAT I MAY PURGE THIS FILTHY LANDSCAPE OF ALL KUNOICHI THREATS!!! THIS IS THE PRICE OF SHOWING YOUR ENEMY MERCY, LET IT FESTER IN YOUR GRAVE AS YOU SLOWLY BLEED OUT AND DIE ON THE GROUND!!! DADDY WILL BE SOOOOOOOO PLEASED!!!! AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!” She then hobbled off laughing to herself about her great victory, failing to actually kill or even gravely injure either Botan or Yasuzu.

The two girls laid where they were for a little bit, until Yasuzu broke the silence with.

“... What just happened?”

Botan then got up and carried Yasuzu back home so she could pursue Kaede without worrying Yasuzu would be kidnapped or something by the lakeside since Yasuzu can’t really walk at the moment. Yasuzu was really against leaving Botan alone to fight what was basically a demon-drugged up Kaede alone, but, being so weak, there wasn’t much Yasuzu could do except complain. Once she was home, Botan took of for Kaede’s home and-

***

“... This is our fault.” Botan finally continued.

“Our fault?” Kikyou replied, staring at her. “Our fau- What do we have to with this? She’s the one who decided not to take her pills! We gave her an opportunity to adapt and-”

“WE WEREN’T THERE FOR HER!!!” Botan replied. “I… I said something a long while ago that I said out of rage, and- and I never apologized. She brought it up earlier today when- when shit hit me… And… I don’t know, I wasn’t with her when I should have been. I had- I don’t think anyone knew how badly she was feeling-”

“Does that matter in the slightest? Her attacking you is enough to-”

“Y’know you’re real gung ho about killing someone you consider a friend.” This struck a nerve with Kikyou. Regardless, she kept her stance strong.

“We are Kunoichi first and friends second, Botan. Kaede had broken several laws, and that is unexcu-”

“WELL EXCUSE THEM!!!” Botan shouted. “You’re the leader, your say is final, so just excuse her!”

“If I just made exceptions for anyone, everyone else would-”

“BLOW ME.”

“... What did you just say to your superio-”

“I TOLD HER TO BLOW ME.” Botan repeated with the utmost pride and meaning, standing on her toes to try and tower over Kikyou. “You’re supposed to look after us, you’re supposed to PROTECT us, and yet you’ll drop one of your best at the drop of a-”

“SHE PUSHED ME TO THIS, I DID EVERYTHING I-”

“YOU HAVE ASSISTANTS, YOU COULD HAVE JUST GIVEN THEM YOUR FUCKING PAPERWORK AND HELPED HER RECOVER!!!”

“I-I-”

“NO. YOU DIDN'T TRY!!! You half assed your responsibilities to her just like I did, and now she’s like this, so BUCK UP AND HELP ME-”

“THEN THIS IS YOUR FAULT NOT MINE!!!” She yelled back. “If you care SOOO much about her mental well being, you should have-”

“I ALREADY HAVE YASUZU I CAN’T SPREAD MYSELF THIS THIN-”

“AND I HAVE AN ENTIRE VILLAGE TO RUN!!! Do you think just a few assistants can manage all this!? I have people running around the clock trying to clean up the mess the merchant left behind! I have people running drug cartels trying to supply anti-demonics to the women her hurt and around the world WITHOUT giving our location away! I’ve had to had SO MANY people killed for finding out about us and threatening to give us all away! Kaede’s position has led to typically easy missions being absolute clusterfucks because we don’t have our ace in the hole in action, and you and Yasuzu have been recovering for FAR LONGER than you should have!!! DO YOU THINK ANY OF THIS IS EASY ONE ME!? DO YOU THINK ANY OF THIS SHIT IS EASY TO KEEP UP WITH AND HIDE FROM THE PUBLIC SO NOBODY FREAKS OUT ABOUT HOW MUCH OF A HOLE WE’RE IN RIGHT NOW?!? I DON’T HAVE TIME TO JUST PLAY GAMES I NEED TO DO WHAT I NEED TO, OR ELSE-”

“You need help too.” Botan calmy cut off. Kikyou then starred back at her, frozen in place.

“... Wh-what?”

“You’re no different from Kaede right now, are you?” Botan asked.

“I… I… I don’t know what you’re-”

“You’re overworked, you’re stressed out, and you’re not thinking straight. That’s why you’re acting like this, and that’s why Kaede did the things she did.” Kikyou said nothing, letting Botan continue. “Kaede didn’t take her pills, from what I can assume from what she’s said, because she… I think she wanted to prove she didn’t need them to be herself. She sees the pills as a handicap, and since she’s never needed one before, it stresses her out to take them because it… It makes her feel powerless, weak… She doesn’t think she’s the strong women she is anymore, and she needs someone to let her know she is.”

“.. And… And how is this comparable to me?” … Botan couldn’t quite put her finger on why, but… Something Kaede said a long, long time ago suddenly rang to her, and she decided to use that as ammo.

“... Kikyou… How old are you?”

“About 30.” She responded without hesitation. “Why?”

“That’s strange, because I came to this village when I was only 14, and you look the same back then as you do now.”

“I… I just age well.”

“... One of the benefits of havings someone’s soul split is that they age more slowly.” Kikyou’s eyes widened. “... One of the things Kaede told me, when I said the thing I didn’t want to say to her… Was that she hurt you in particular, and you don’t seem to age.”

“What are you getting at?” She said in a stern, unforgiving voice as if she was on the brink to kill Botan right then and there.

“... You’ve been worried about her too, haven’t you?” … Kikyou said nothing. “This isn’t about killing Kaede and the other Half-Oni for safety… This is about preserving her memory. Isn’t it?” … Nothing. “Kikyou… That’s still Kaede. She’s still with us. It’s not my place to say why she gave you so much, or for whatever reason, but she still cares about you… She still loves you. This… This wasn’t Kaede. This was… This was her abuse coming out in full colors. Once she has some anti-demonics back in her, Kikyou, I promise you she’ll be back to normal! A-and we can give her another chance!!!”

“... And if she doesn’t get better?”

“... If this happens again and she leaves the village I’ll kill her myself. But I bel- no, I KNOW it won’t happen. This was a wake up call, Kikyou, not a warning. She needs us more than ever, and it’s our responsibility as her friends to give her the will to believe she’s still the Kaede we love!”

… Kikyou continued to say nothing, but her face seemed to loosen up a bit, yet, stiffen at the same time. Her emotions seemed extremely split and, perhaps, even a bit unstable, so, to push the balance off in her favor, Botan added one last sweetener.

“... That you love.”

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