"OK! Can you tell big sis here you live?"

"Most importantly why are you still out at this time?" Onizuka added as he hid behind Black and stuck out his eyes from his back to stare as gently as he could at the little girl who clearly still terrified of him.

Amane made tiny fists with her hand while trying her best to hold back her tears. Black extended his hand towards the young the young girl, but Amane quickly zoned back to reality and turned to see Black's hand which she quickly slapped away without a second thought.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry big sis I really didn't mean to do that to you," Amane said as she sped towards and grabbed a hold of Black's grandma dress.

Thank the good lord she did that I almost snapped, it's none of my business but I can't just let a child this young walk around with that thing attached to her. First of all I'm yet to find out whether it is a crippling or a yokai. If it's a crippling getting getting her to talk about her problems could trigger it and i can most likely exorcise it, but if it is the latter then I should stay away because then both of us will be fucked. I feel ashamed for even thinking this but as I am with these overpowered perverts attached to me I do not think that I will be able to easily win against another person's crippling as for yokai, I'd rather keep to myself

"Hurry up and disappear already, little old Anzy can't handle your meddling you pesky halfwit."

"I personally do not mind you taking over this body it just means more power for me," Norabu and Anzy said as they started licking and stroking Black's face.

"Oy, oy are you okay?" Onizuka shook Black back to reality and he (I do not know how handle the whole Black Black he/she thing) quickly jumped from the human sandwich he was immersed in.

"Big sis are okay?"

"Can you see them too?" Black grabbed young Amane by her shoulders and shook her. "You see them don't you? They talk to you, they keep you from smiling. They do. They do. They do." Black continuously shook Amane who started to cry out.

"Bis sis I do not know what you are talking about, please stop you are scaring me." Black obviously ignored this, the overall situation forced Onizuka to snatch Amane and slap Black back to his senses.

"Sakura calm yourself. You can't see ghosts, so stop trying to spread your weirdness."

Black's body chilled as his crippling chuckled and continued to taunting him making sure they drive him towards craziness they were going to grow stronger and break free no matter what.

Black calmed himself feeling ashamed of falling before losing his memories, during loosing his memories he will be forced to unite with Sakura's soul but in order to do that he must win a mental battle with these crippling. His mind has to be strong he cannot lose before the fight.

He steeled himself with a new resolve to ignore all drama, go back home and prepare for the fight. Black now preparing to tell Onizuka to take Amane home alone, looked the girl in her eye and felt a tiny hole open in her heart this led to her crippling torture her even more.

He realized that he cannot back down and that the guilt that would come from not helping this little girl will be much heavier than what fate had in store for him.

"Big sis?"

"Do not worry, I will take you home. I promise"

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Amane reluctantly smiled back, she was left feeling uneasy by the unnatural mood swings of her so called female knight in shining armor. Black ultimately got Amane to tell them where she lived and now the real battle was about to begin, he was going to use all his child finessing skills to get Amane to talk, one way or the other he was getting some answers.

Before they took off Onizuka gave Black a stern look but was ignored, after walking down a few blocks Black started throwing an array of questions at the little girl.

During the questioning Black noticed that the shadow would imbed it's ugly arms on the sides of the young girl's neck. The way she answered Black's questions was so above her grade Onizuka started to smell something fishy.

If Black asked Amane about her school life Amane would just give off generic excuses. When asked about home he would be asked not to pry, all the while her facial expressions remaining unchanged.

Black's worries only got worse when she realized that the snake yokai on Onizuka's neck was getting larger. He asked them to stop by a nearby park for ice cream, no arguments were raised but the shadow gave Black an enraged look followed by a hiss sound because it got played. What elementary scholar would say no to ice cream, it was unthinkable and would make Onizuka doubt Black's craziness.

Black watched in a distance as the snake yokai on Onzuka's back shrink, he summarized that it fed off dishonesty. It only make sense that it managed to latch itself unto Onizuka who despite his young age was affiliated with the local yakuza (he is their heir).

But the real problem was what form of dishonesty did it feed on, Onizuka could barely tell a lie despite his upbringing he was more like a fictional gangster who valued brotherhood over all that exists.

Arg all this thinking was hurting Black's head, remember he still had his own demons to fight. The unidentified shadow had been staring at them for a while when Anzy suggested that she borrow Black her powers to fight. Disgusting as it may sound they were people intentionally summoned yokai and gave themselves crippling in order to gain power.

"Oy, are you okay?''

"LET ME GO!"

Black snapped back into reality with a smile on his face because thanks to Onizuka tripping young Amane, some scars which were concealed by her long sleeved blouse were finally exposed. He sprang forth like a cheetah pouncing on its prey and before Amane could apologize for overreacting, quickly snatched the young girl's arm and

"Aha, I knew you were hiding something. Now tell me you see them too. You see the don't you?"

The shadow quickly started screaming like a dying cow, the noise forced Black and his crippling down to ground. It completely possessed Amane who started crying as loud as possible before running away.

Onizuka helped Black up on his feet and screamed, "Are you crazy how do you expect to help someone by throwing your weirdness at their problems." He ran after the girl, while the people in the park eyed them suspiciously.

As if that was not problematic enough one of them even called the police to report a kidnapping.

"It's not what it looks like. We are only trying to help!"

like fuel to a flame this only made the woman on the phone sound more hysterical as she pleaded with the police to hurry up. Black took off running and quickly lost stamina before even catching up to Onizuka and Amane.

Anzy saw an opportunity and she did not spare any time thinking of ways of ridiculing Black's weight.

"Oh my, oh my, did my cute tub of lard run out energy already?"

"Did you really all that fat would take you anywhere, oho your goal is gone with the the wind. Now why won't you let uncle Norabu and Miss Anzy here help you out."

Black's head came to a complete stop, then suddenly thoughts came rushing in so violently it felt like he was going to burst. He was conflicted, Amane was getting further and further away the more time he wasted.

But at the same time he refused to be swallowed by his anxiety and depression, who were they to tell him that he cannot make it. Who were they to tell him that she was too fat, after that Black took off running yet again.

He tripped and fell to the ground breathing so heavily and feeling helpless at same time. Anzy stood over him and started rubbing his face without saying a word.

"Fine I will take it!"

"Take what honey?"

Black's flushed red as he hurriedly turned his gaze away from the smirking Anzy.

"The power! Just help me save that little girl."

"Deal!"

"Its a deal! Hahaaaaa!"

"Who are you?"

Black quickly jumped off the ground and stared at his new crippling. This crippling had a deep and shaky voice, its face was covered in clown make up and its neck, wrist and ankles had spiked bands and a collar. Its body was dark and with every movement it made fur appeared to fall from it like pixie dust off the wings of a beautiful fairy, except this fairy was not at all beautiful and its wings were sickening to look at.

"Kuriny. The name's Kuriny. We have a girl to save now don't we?"