Black quickly activated power granted to her by the crippling, he had no time to deal with Kuriny and hopefully his now manifested insecurities would be helpful in his endeavors to get rid of the little girl's shadow.

The blob girl bolted through the crowd and into the alleyway after Onizuka and Amane. After running and searching for them for a while he finally found them. Amane was trapped and Onizuka was still trying to calm her down, the shadow had now relinquished control over Amane's body and she was starting to calm down a bit.

Black made his way up to them as quickly as possible, and when he arrived he tried his best to be subtle with Amane. "Are you okay? Why did you run away from big sis?" Amane looked up at the nervous Black, Sakura's chubby face made him look funny so Amane was able to calm down even more.

"That is because big sis startled me." She said as she tried her hardest to avoid eye contact. Even though it was just a glimpse Black had seen tears sparkling from her eyes when she lowered her head. This complicated things because if he were to startle her again the shadow would make its' way back into her further cementing this task as a teeth grinding one. Black had not the patience nor the time to play social worker so he decided to think up logical ways to get her to talk.

He had thought enough, the only fruitful path to take was to be aggressive. If bribing her with ice cream was not going to work then maybe being more assertive and adult like would make for her the perfect platform to share her grievances. "Are you being bullied at school?" "SAKURA!" "HUSH"

Onizuka was a bit startled, they had just managed to calm Amane down and if they were to lead here to another mental breakdown it would not look good for them. Onizuka was sweating he wanted to stop Sakura but she was more extroverted today than she normally is, it made him wonder whether or not he will be able to withstand her verbal venom if he were to invoke her wrath.

Amane was nervous at first, no rather she was scared of what was to come if she were to share with them what was the latest scoop in her disastrous life. The shadow found a window of opportunity as Amane's spirit started to dwindle, it reached in through her neck and started to takeover. The little girl felt it for the first time, a bone chilling feeling flooding her tiny little body she was terrified and so she screamed.

"YES!" They bully me. they call me all sorts of mean names and it is all his fault. He ruined my life, he ruined mama's life. I wish. I wish..." The shadow was pushed out by the sudden flash of confidence, while it was still startled Black powered up punch running it over Amane's head and punched it into the wall. The wall cracked revealing a humanoid like build in the crack.

Amane screamed and ran towards Onizuka who embraced her and patted her head to calm her down. "What are you? What business do you have here? What did you do to her family? Are there more of you?" Black threw these questions at the pinned up shadow and it did not answer but instead erupted in a laughter that slightly scared Black.

Onizuka was the only one who was not aware of what was going on but he could feel an ominous presence in the atmosphere and it was almost too much to bare. But faced with forces that he never imagined to exist in this world he still did not waver he wanted to see to it that the girl was rescued from whatever she was going through and so he was willing to believe Sakura's crazy talk for now.

Amane was unsure of it but if she had one shadow and it was so unbearable to live with, if at all it was truly the one causing unrest in her family. Then why, why did it appear that Sakura was carrying a whole school of shadows behind her. What could she be going through, what pains does she have and why did she ignore them to help her. She cried, she did not know whether to feel guilty that she was causing trouble for someone who was sacrificing a lot to help her or be happy that there was someone willing to go that far for her.

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Onizuka tried his best to calm her down, "It is okay. It will all be over soon. We are here to help." Was all he could say in this very awkward moment. Sakura his childhood friend was up there fighting something which he was completely useless against he thought of all the times he did not stand up for her when she said she could see ghost. He too wanted to shed some tears, but he had to be strong for when all this is over he will definitely apologize for being a dishonest friend. If at all he still deserved to be referred to as one.

The omnious pressure increased as the shadow started to chuckle again, but this time he extended his hand at Amane and said something. "You want to stop hm don't you? He took away your happiness. You should know by now that I can give you the power to end it all. Just how do you think your onee'chan here is able t fight me?"

"Do not fall or his tricks they are all the same," Black said as he stared the shadow in its eyes. "We have a brave one here. Are you some rouge exorcist collecting us for more power?" Amane was shocked, "Is it true?" "I told you not to listen t his nonsense."

"Oho ho ho hooo, Amane-chan in this world I am the only one who is truly by your side. This onee-chan is lying to you, she wants to separate us. She wants what rightfully belongs to you. Look at her back, how many shadows did she collect from innocent children who were tricked into believing that it was all for their own good. The poor kids were probably left defenseless. They were just like you and she wronged them. Why would a stranger be concerned for your well being? Amane you only have me. Reach out your hand and we could be together forever. Only when you accept me will I be truly beautiful. Amane-chan."

"Onizuka! keep her hands in place. do not let her reach out." Like fish drawn to the worms on a fishhook it was truly not impossible for Amane to believe this nonsense, the only way to stop the shadow was to put an end to it now before they link up again.

Onizuka felt bad about this but he grabbed Amane's hands and she screamed. Black loosened his grip on the shadow, it thought that it was granted the opportunity to escape but no. As soon as it broke free it received at least five punches at a terrifying speed to it face. Anzy, Norabu and Kuriny were enjoying the show, pouring their powers into Black, there was an added benefit to this after all. Why else would the shadow be so desperate to fuse with the little girl and get revenge for her.

As she saw Black digging into the shadow's face with punch after punch Amane truly believed that Black was up to no good. She bit Onizuka who let her go and she reached out to the shadow, the shadow started to glow and smiled enraging Anzy who took it upon herself to continue beating it up. The shadow escaped blowing Black at least two meters backwards it ran inside Amane who then fused with it.

It took out a pencil and then hacked away at Onizuka's thigh who was determined t hold on to it because he is the one messed up. Amane shadow lifted the pencil high up, added a bit of magic into it and ran it so deep into Onizuka's thigh that it reached his bone. He screamed in agony as he reached for the pencil that was in so deep only the rubber and the HB part showed, he screamed he looked at the almost passed out Sakura and could only regret further.

"Revion, the name is Revion remember me for I will be coming back to free my brethren and kill you two, but before that, I have an old fart to cleanse, HAHAHAHAH. Saionara suckerss! HA AHA HAHAHAHAA." Shadow Amane said as he/she ran out of the alleyway.

The yokai on top of Onizuka pulled out the pencil and healed him, Onizuka could not see it and only felt the pain disappear. He looked for Sakura who had already started standing up. She absorbed some energy from Anzy and ran after Revion. Onizuka was a bit confused but followed on.

When they had finally reached Revion Onizuka quickly grabbed his hand and went "gotchu!"

Revion screamed and held on tighter to the police officer, "Damn" Onizuka thought.

"Imbecile!" Sakura screamed.

They were thrown in jail cells and their parents were given a call.