Some people would expect that something exciting followed after the wedding was destroyed, but reality is there to disappoint us. In reality there are no stupid idiots to poke a sleeping dragon, or young masters that go around throwing around money at you or trying to break your legs.
After the wedding, me and Kisara said our goodbyes or at least for the moment, since I was now an "Actor" for the rest of the world, a man whom was supposed to become the second Hannya mask for Mr Nanjo's new movie. I didn't disappoint, as I played the ghost in the movie, there were no special effects at play and everything was done through my "martial arts", the actors he had hired were spooked out of their clothes when they first experienced shooting a film with me, the "Ghost Vampire".
After I was given a whole Island as my own and a mansion on top of it, I took my time disarming the explosives and disposing of wiretaps, which they had left all over the island and mansion. Really some people never learn, but the funny thing was something I didn't know. In the martial arts world a new rule was made "Don't wake the Tiangu!", the Island I was owned was named by everyone but myself the "Tiangu Island", I had visitors at times, but most of them were normal people that wished to see or use a rich person, after all they had done their best to try and integrate me into society once more. They simply gave me shares in multiple companies and said bye bye, I didn't hear from the Secret services again and I don't doubt some of the visitors might have been their people, but since they had no hostile intention at all, I saw no reason to care.
Years passed like sand in an hourglass, every passing year I became stronger and stronger, but as I gained strength I lost something else, I lost interest in the world of mortals 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, 20, I was now in my 30s and the world was boring, there was nothing exciting, there was nothing that could hurt me. Drugs, Poison, alcohol, they were all useless to me, the moment I succeeded in entering the 3rd level of Temporal Distortion I was no longer human.
At the moment I no longer need paper talismans, as my seals are made of Qi and are hidden inside my body, just a single thought is enough to destroy them and cause my perception of time to make the world freeze again, of course I have also trained on how to control my speed and power over the years as to not destroy my house and hurt people.
Kisara and Ukita had their marriage and even got to have a kid, although I have to state that the father of the child might be anyone, Kisara and Ukita didn't seem to care much however. I could see the problems the child was facing, the red head boy was being bullied by everyone at school, his nickname of bastard child, was known to all, only its parents were too stupid to see its struggles or rather too preocupied with their work to care for its feelings. For all I knew even I could be it's parent at this point.
Don't ask me why I know about all this, I just have too much free time in my hands and this time it looked rather serious. The child was standing at the roof of the school, the broken part from Kenichi's fight that day hadn't been repaired even after 20 years, that's public schools for you.
I looked at the child's back, standing at the edge, he wanted to jump down and end his suffering, he had done everything for some attention and this was his final act of desperation.
-So it's come down to this?
-Who is there? Uncle Yashin?
-So what's the reason for this?
-My parents don't love me anymore! They won't care even if I die!
-Isn't that just the pretext, isn't the real reason you're doing this because you're weak?
-I...
-You've even staged two kidnappings before this, your parents had to lose time and money in order to find you
-But...
-You've also sent another kid to the hospital and gotten suspended, weren't you doing vacations with your parents during that time?
-That's...
-You snotty brat, just say the real reason why you're like this
-I've been kicked out of the Shinpaku alliance
-Isn't it just a juvenile gang where little kids hang out?
-Uncle you're too old, you know nothing, the Shinpaku Alliance is the coolest and most badass group, they are invincible and their founder Shirahama Kenichi is a total badass, an invincible super man!
-Then why don't you make your own gang, one that will be cooler than the Shinpaku alliance
-That's impossible!
-Have you heard of Ragnarok?
-The guys that were the steping stone to the Shinpaku alliance's rise, a terrible group where everyone defected because the leader was an idiot?
-You do know your mother and father were part of that group right?
-Well, I did hear mom say something about it before, but it wasn't anything to be proud of.
-But isn't creating a ragnarok group a good thing?
-Uncle, the Shirahama simblings will kick my ass if I do something so stupid
-You really are underating yourself a bit too much, didn't your mother tell you how she beat Shirahama up, before joining the Shinpaku alliance?
-Wasn't that because he didn't hit girls or something?
-So you think that if he did, he would have won against your mom at that time? you're underestimating her a little too much, your mom was a beast to deal with, she fought like a lion
-But didn't Uncle Kenichi beat my dad quite easily?
-Your dad Ukita is an idiot, even you could beat him if you had learned Taek won do from your mom intead of his half assed Judo, the guy failed in every single championship out there
-But he looks so big and strong!
-And Kenichi at the time looked no different than yourself and still beat the crap out of him
-That's...
-I'll tell you what we will do, you'll train under me for a month, I'll tell your mom that you'll come to my Island on your vacations, if after the training you still think you can't establish your own gang and beat Shinpaku, then you can jump or do whatever your heart tells you
-Isn't this just blackmail, you're just going to tell on me to mom!
-Beats dying
-How do you know?
-You ask the famous Ghost Vampire?
-That was just a movie
-Or was it?
I turned incorporeal in front of him, but in reality I was just moving really fast, causing him to see only the place I stood.
"Where are the projectors?"
The kid begun to look around searching for the hidden devices that would generate this 3D image, but all his hard work was for nothing, there was no device or anything, I then went on to use the Bushin technique, creating dozens of after images dancing around him, making him rather annoyed, he was a rather cute child, when he got angry he reminded me of his mother.
-So will you learn from me or do you still want to commit suicide?
-I don't know what trick you are using, but don't try to fool me because I'm a child, you adults are all the same
-Is that so?
I froze time and moved him back to his own home, I even made sure to take his things with us, there's no reason for him to stay at school if he's not even attending classes.
The kid was still angry with me until he looked around him, only to find himself back home and me sitting at the table pouring tea.
-Is this teleportation technology, my dad was right, you definetely are an Alien!
-Fuck you Ukita!
-Uncle watch your language, If I tell mom
-Yup, she might want to fuck me
-How dare you talk like that about my mom!
-Son, until your mom allows for you to do the DNA test you might as well have four dads
-I will kill you!
-Don't speak like that, I might as well be your father, who knows
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-Don't badmouth my mother!
The kid has some guts, a pity that his fists are too soft, I think he broke his wrist while trying to punch me, he's now sobbing while kneeled on the floor, holding his hand.
-So do you want to crawl down crying like a weakling or do you want to become strong?
-My dad will kick your ass!
-Sure, kid, how about you give him a call and tell him that I'm kidnapping you, he'll come running to save you
-You bet he will!
-I'm calling him right now!
The child used his one still working hand, to take the phone out of my hand which was dialing Ukita, it was sad seeing Ukita not answering the phone. I felt really sad for the kid, the kid then went to call his mom, this time she answered.
-My love, mommy's bussy right now, is it something urgent?
-Mom Uncle Yashin wants to kidnap me! he's taking me to his Island, please come rescue me!
-Dear please pass the phone to your uncle
The kid passed me the phone and a screem nearly deathened my ear!
"You fucking son of a bitch, if I find even a hair of my son missing, I will come to your Island and do xxx, xxx and xxx to you, after that you will be so exhausted that you will be unable to walk for days!"
Was that a warning or an invitation to have sex, I really couldn't tell, did she just give me her blessing in taking the child away?
-Then see you later, come see me at my Island for xxx, because I'm going to make a man of this little twerp, he's too much of a crybaby!
-Don't you dare!
-I've already dared as we speak he's already at my Island
-Pass him the phone!
I gave the kid the phone back.
-My dear child, don't be afraid, Mommy is coming, I'll be right there next month, after I've finished shooting this movie, please make sure to brush your teeth, don't forget to change underwears and don't cause too much trouble to your uncle
The kid was devestated, both of its parents were too preocupied with their own matters to care for his opinion and probably trusted me a bit too much, after all we've known each other for years, they knew I wouldn't harm the kid.
-Kid before I arrived you had already hit rock bottom, is making your parents sad, really important to you?
-Uncle Alien, I don't want to fight with Jill!
-Who's Jill?
-Jill Shirahama, the pretiest girl in school, the School's idol and the leader of the Shinpaku Alliance
-I always thought that the leader of the Shinpaku alliance would be a Niijima
-What, that stupid bully Niijima doesn't even know how to tie his own shoelaces, that Idiot leading a group of people, that's funny to even imagine
-You overconfident brat, you're so weak and you have the gall to talk bad about other people, I'm sure that stupid brat you're talking about is already a martial arts disciple, as for you, your idiot of a father and bussy mother haven't even initiated you yet, but don't be afraid, your uncle has everything planned when you return from my training, even your pathetic excuse of a father won't be able to defeat you
-I...
-Now Akai, go and pack your stuff, we're leaving tomorrow, don't forget to say goodbye to your schoolmates tomorrow, because until you finish your training, you won't be seeing them
-You do know that mobiles and internet exist?
-Where we are going, there is no internet and mobiles don't work, you will only be able to communicate with the outside world with a military grade terminal, there will be no distractions from your training and no escape
-I don't want to go!
The child sure knows how to nag, but I wouldn't mind taking his whole room with us, I could even uproot the whole house from the ground, but it would be too time consuming and it would probably collapse on itself when we arrive, thus not worth the trouble.
Forgot to tell you, he's name is Akai(= Red), Akai Nanjo, don't ask me why it didn't take its father's surname, because Ukita is a sore loser to begin with, just for you to understand how much, he took his wife's surname after their marriage. Whom was the Bride and whom the Groom is still ambiguous in my head.
The next day early in the morning I took Akai and went to see the school's Director, an old looking man with pointy ears and a sharp nose like that of a goblin's, he looked so old that this can't be the same Niijima I knew, so is he Niijima's father or something?
-Oh, Master Fenrir, to what do I owe such an honor, are you maybe interested about little Akai's academic achievemnts?
-Do I know you?
-It's me Haruo Niijima, It's sure nice to be martial artists, even time seems to be avoiding you, it's been 20 years and you're no different than that day
-Why do you look like an old man, you're only in your 30s
-You see after my attemp to take over the world failed, I fell into depression, my life took the downhill, Kenichi and the Shinpaku alliance wanted nothing to do with me anymore and I went into debt, now I work as the director of a small public school, but one day the little Niijima seeds I left behind will spout and the world will be ours
-Yeah, sure, I'm taking this kid away for a month, is there a problem?
-No, of course not, nobody would have a problem if the great Tiangu abducts a kid, non at all
-Just do the paperwork for a leave of absence from school for 1-3 months time, for family reasons
-Why who's dying?
-Ukita will be in a hospital for a month, and if you don't do what I say, you will be joining him
-Wait, what has that to do with the kid?
-I'm going to be training him for a month or more depending on his talent
-Wait, the Great Tiangu is accepting disciples and didn't inform me, you didn't even hold an Inheritance trial, this is against the rules!
-What rules?
-Fellow daoist Tiangu, you wouldn't...Smack!
I hit him on the head, because I didn't like where this was going, this was too fucking embarassing. The raging imagination of idiots is too much to take in, do they think I'm some sort of caveman meditating in a cave seeking divine enlightment or something.
-Master Tiangu, please accept my son as your disciple, wait, how about you take everyone in this school as your disciples, that way everybody will be happy!
-Have you gone insane?
-Of course not, and this school is rigged with explosives, once the secret agencies come they will never take me alive!
-Man, you sure have fallen, you used to be so collected and devious in those days, long ago, now you are but a pathetic shell of a man who can't even chat like a normal person
-What do you know! It wasn't as if I was asked to study under some awesome martial arts masters that made me invincible, all I had was made through my own hard work and sweat, can you even understand what it means to see the goal in front of you only to have your arms and legs broken and forever be unable to reach it, I crawled for years in the mud until I reached where I'm now, from regular teacher to the Director of this school, but do you think I will give up, I will never give up my ambitions...
I really regretted my prior words, this guy is totaly broken, he's begun to tell me the story of his entire life, something about when he was 5 years old and his grand grand father and lots of bs.
If this is a plan to make me help him, he's a genious or I'm too soft hearted, but In the end of it all, he managed to make me agree to host their school trip on my Island and even pay for everything from my own pocket, this time's summer vacations for the kids were weighting on my pocket, well nothing I could have done, if I refused I would have to listen to another 28 years of his diary, until he signed the papers I needed.
Now we only had one week before the other Kids would come to my Island and ruin little Red's training. The kid was Sulking tears of joy as I was dragging him to see his classmates, saying his tearfelt goodbye to everyone.
I really would hate to tell him that he would see them in about less than a week from now, but it's better if he doesn't know, it might negatively affect his training.
I saw other snotty brats saying goodbye to him, as if sending him to the execution squad or something, everyone in class seemed to be so emotional about this one month of vacations he was getting, it was only one week before summer vacations, why were they like that?
The brat is really something else, after going to his class he went to other classes and even confessed his feeling to a little blond girl in another class, as if he wouldn't see her again or something, causing her as much awkward inconvinience as it was humanly possible, the poor girl had turned into a tomato in seconds after his confession.
After we left the school at the principal's office, The old looking principal was talking to a handsome youth with pointy ears, looking more like a handsome elf rather than a goblin.
-Father, why are we changing plans, I already have little Jill eating from my hands
-You idiot, I told you to do it slowly, you have already begun to arrouse suspicion, everyone must think you're an idiot, you mustn't let them discover that everything is a play
-Father why do we have to be so afraid, Yami has our back, even the Invincible Kenichi was defeated by our leader, the one armed Fist
-You idiot, If I hadn't been so overconfident 10 years ago, I wouldn't even have had to escape to Yami for help, Yami is like a paper tiger, trying to kill an elephant, what we want it to get off the tiger and ride that elephant, once the situation turns to our favour we will betray Yami and gain the Secret Services trust once more, becoming heroes, but for this to succeed, you must not blow your cover!
-Dad, I hate it when those weaklings mock me behind my back, calling me an idiot
-Then you are an idiot! who gives a penny about what those simpletons think, you are a super genious created by the combined genetic materials of me and your mother
-But you never revealed to me who my mother is
-How should I know, I've never met her myself, all I was given was the perfect child, a martial arts genious that could rival Kenichi in the future, you are my hope for the future, the hope of the Shinpaku alliance
-But I don't want to conquer the world
-You idiot, what do you want!
-I want to reach the peak of martial arts!
-Bullshit, there is no such peak on any map, go study geography!
-But it's a metaphor
-Go after real things, don't go chasing fairytales
-But the Shirahama family are so cool! While you just Suck!
-Then it sucks to be you, since you're my son and not Kenichi's
-Fuck you! Once Master Ogata arrives he will help me boost my martial arts to a new level once more, then everyone in Yomi will have to aknowledge me as their leader
-Funny that you say that, but has your master ever told you about Tiangu?
-Isn't that like some chinese legend?
-Stop talking about fairytales already, I'm talking about a person
-No, why, what's so special about this Tiangu?
-I've info that he used to be one of your master's failures
-Dad you know that science needs failures to produce good results
-If Tiangu is a failure, then your master is no different than a blind man, the only reason why I asked him to be your master was that I hoped he would make you a monster like him, but all I see in you is a pathetic excuse of a martial artist, If you had fought even the weakest member of the shinpaku alliance of my time, you might have been destroyed
-Oh, stop with your bullshit, I've see how great your shinpaku alliance was at my age, a bunch of lucky wins and no real skill at all
-Back in My days we had to fight with our lives on the line to gain victory and not until the first tear falls
-Come on now, I've seen the recordings from the tournament, every single victory was a fluke
-Then do you remember that "Duel under the raining sky"?
-What about that stupid movie, it's all special effects, it hasn't aged too well either and it's just stupid
-You idiot! I told you again and again, that thing isn't a movie, that's all real, that's the so called Peak you were just talking about, do you think us mortal humans have a chance to reach that peak, it's no different than being delusional, you might try to deny it again and again, but the two people in that movie are no actors, they were sociopaths, they tried killing one another without any darn good reason
-As if I would ever believe that! Do you take me for a kid!
-Then I'm looking forwards to see the face you make when we arrive at Tiangu Island
-Bullshit, there's no such Island!
-Well it is too small to be shown on maps and few common people know that it even exist, but you should be excited, because I've closed a great deal, the whole school will be having vacations on that island
-You're insane if you think that we'll go to some stupid island, I'm going summer training with Jill!
-Don't worry about it, because it's a school expedition, everyone from school will go, all 428 brats will be there, I've already spoken with our host and you can believe me that I will make sure everything will go as planned.