The wheels of time and fate were back in motion and everything returned to the present, if you could muster up the courage to look around you would see many souls of lost families. A pattern could also be observed, a confused father, a glad mother and a traumatized daughter. Onizuka's brain also snapped back to the present and he collapsed to the ground in tears, it was more than he could handle.

He lazily allowed his gaze to sway back to Sakura, lacking the strength to go and comfort the one who suffered from being right this whole time. *Gasp, he could not help himself because of what he saw, Sakura was calm and composed waiting readily for the corrupted to say or do something. He was confused, scared and emotionally thrown aback, but how, how could she be okay at a time like this.

In truth Sakura was suffering all the minor crippling of guilt and regret surrounded her and shouted away. "It is all your fault." "You should have did something." "You deserve all that is to come." "Blame none but yourself." "Die, die, die, die, die." They chanted away at Sakura's ear, though Black's soul was currently active as an independent unit in this body, the time of recalling was near and Sakura's soul cried out in agony.

It was a total disaster in Black's head, even though all was going according to plan. He did not expect it to be this hard to keep his sanity, the weight on his heart grew with every word the unnamed crippling spouted. He was still calm on the outside though.

The corrupted are dead humans who do not want to accept their fate and so stay behind on earth to cause trouble. They can be identified by shackles and chains around their wrists and ankles, tiny white scarfs on their heads and finally pale looking skin accompanied by goldish grey eyes. He adjusted himself to look more like a normal person before snarling at Sakura, within the crowd of families there was an ancient looking family but unlike the rest the father was missing.

"Is...is that your family?" Black struggled to let out his words as he was being crushed under the pressure of the crippling. The corrupted took off attacked Black but was met halfway by a punch from Norabu, he thought he would be smart by teleporting behind her. Anzy stopped the flinging chains from the corrupted and slashed away at it with her gigantic nails.

"Family! Family? Those useless fools could not even help me achieve my dreams. Die they all deserve to die and be my stepping stones to my immortality." The corrupted said as he balled himself up to heal from Anzy's attack. "Well then excuse my ignorance, fools like you do not deserve a family. Do not worry though, I will free you from your stupidity." Black, Kuriny, Anzy and Norabu sped towards the fallen corrupted, the crippling raised an energy bomb over Black threw it at it. The bomb was blocked though, "cleansing, they need cleansing are you really going to let them remain dirty?"

Revion the yokai finally appeared in front of the corrupted it hissed at Black while holding some of his crippling in his hand, eating them one by one as they screamed. Black was glad at first but he then realized that he was loosing power as Revion grew in strength. "What is wrong little one, I thought you did not my brethren to accompany you. Isn't that why you let them get devoured in the game?" He continued to slurp away at the the screaming crippling as Black fell over in pain, Onizuka ran to him and shook him to try to wake him up.

"Sakura I am sorry, I am so sorry if only I had listened to you before we would not be here. I am so sorry please wake up. Sakura!" Yua screamed her lungs out as she tried her best to reach out to Sakura but was held back by force field which hurt her every time she touches it. Black raised his head to look at the screaming girl, his vision was fuzzy and could barely hear anything. Sakura's soul reacted to the commotion causing a violent increase in their gang energy, blowing Onizuka backwards.

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He crashed and the corrupted immediately rushed him with the intent to kill on the spot. Unfortunately for it, Onizuka's snake yokai appeared and wrapped itself around him. Before in devoured him it was struck with an array of energy blasts from Revion. Black stood up and attacked Revion but was blocked leading to an intense exchange of blows at incredible speeds for a short while.

They dispersed from each other to try and recover their energy but never letting their eyes off one another. Revion was powerful, but Black had three evolved crippling protecting him as their host so things were not looking good for either sides. At Onizuka's place though the giant snake had returned back into its innate state around his neck and the corrupted looked at Revion with confusion.

"You said they will disappear, you said you will help cleanse me and my family make me immortal and kill that fucker." The corrupted yelled wildly at the annoyed yokai, tears uncontrollably leaving his eyes as he became too embarrassed to look back at his family which he had put through hell. Revion stared back at unwilling man burning with rage at the fact fact that his plan is as good as ruined and turned his gaze back to Black.

'Have them, shall have those crippling along with heir host and I will be unstoppable. I just need to keep that loser's spirits up.' "You don't..."

"Old man, what did he promise you?" Black interrupted Revion before he could coax the confused corrupted, the corrupted lifted his head and looked at Black who was now focusing on him. "Do you not want revenge, for your son and people? This little bitch cannot help you with anything." He snapped the corrupted back into his grasp, but before he was fully latched on his family spoke up. "Dad do not do it, we are tired. We just want you back." "Your daughter is right, give this up and we can meet our son in the next life."

"What are you saying woman, child? I am a prince and with such an honor I must avenge at all costs."

"All costs? All costs? Honey we have been suffering for many years now, I am sure our people will not be happy to find that out. Please let it go." The woman desperately cried out to her husband, Revion got angered by this and blasted the force field which remained intact but still scared the living hell from the poor families. "What are you doing lord Revion? My family is short sighted please forgive them."

"Okay what the hell happened here?" Black was seriously annoyed over the fact that he was being left out, after analyzing the whole situation he could only make a rough guess about this being a some revenge quest. "You do not deserve to know the works of the ones that rise above the heavens young one. Now die and surrender your powers to me." [Revion]

"I swear villains are becoming worse than plain yogurt these days ." Black slapped his face and dragged his hand through it before recalling his crippling. " Since you do not seem like you are willing to cooperate I will just have to forcefully exorcise you. (turns to look at the corrupted) as for you, I can help you avenge your people. You just need to promise never to make deals with demons ever again."

"Really? Noble one please help us, that demon said that if we surrender our lives to it he will help us get revenge for our son who was killed by demons." [The wife]

"And you actually believed that he will help humans fight against his own kind?" [Black]

"Are you really going to entrust your revenge to an immature little brat like her? Trust me only I am the truth, think about who is truly worthy."

"Truly worthy of what?" Black had heard something interesting, originally he had thought that the ghost was looking to enter the physical realm. Now it seemed that there was a bigger goal at stake here. "You see old man this here demon was using to gain power to find a treasure for who knows what, do you still think your family needs his forgiveness?" Black finished off his statement with an evil smirk to Revion.

The corrupted fell on the floor filled with repentance and regret as he thought over all the innocent lives he took for a dream he was never sure if he could ever realize. As he was shaking helplessly on the ground the corrupt energy left him him, causing a huge explosion which not only released the force field but also set the souls free.

For that one time Sakura's soul peaked out to say goodbye to her friend for the first and the last time