the leash

Following the aids back, i got a better look at the yokai… inparticular they had a strange mark on their necks as they went about their business… the three tomoe torating inwardly…

(AN: in case i didnt desciber it better its orochimarus curse mark.)

I didnt know what that was but i sensed dark chakra inside that strange pattern… it was likely some kind of power up technique…

So how far could these ordinary yokai go in a fight between devils?

I sighed… this group was clad in too much mystery…

There was an incredibly foreboding feeling in my gut… but again all my answers will be inside that tent…

We arrived, and the aid kubinashi opened the flap and i followed inside…

What i saw was a monsters den… but i wasnt a maou for nothing…

But everyones handsome or strange appearances was over shadowed by one man…

Both in power, and charm, and intimidating atmosphere…

He had black and white hair protruding out his head, with strange ink like markings under eyes, and in his hair… he was incredibly charming in appearance, however the look in his eyes when he looked at me, was one of slight amusement…

The power inside this yokai, no this man… i could feel it… it was no technique…. It was one of unbridled power….

When i looked into his eyes… i was sucked into them… those glowing red eyes…

And then…

My surroundings changed…

I was standing upon a pitch black dark abyssal pool of water… and a ripple fluctuated from my presence on the water… but then i looked up…

A monstrous thing was in front of me with strange comma markings inside its eyes… its eyes were a mixture of black red and purple…. With ripples…

It opened its mouth, and as loomed over me… and roared!

I was stunned by the pressure it emitted… and scared of the feelings it gave me… me a maou, someone who can go super-class….

As it roared… my form seemed to dissipate in that strange realm…

And as a result…

I came back to my body… and i gulped down my saliva as i peered towards this ;nurarihyon'

'What was he?!'

Was his thought…

Was he that monster he just saw? Was he something else entirely? Or was this his hidden power?

So many questions, so little information.

So much mystery.

His devil senses felt like they playing tricks on him, when he felt that unbridled energy...

'Theres no way someone can have that amount of chakra right?!'

The threat was very real… they could likely sweep across the underworld in their current state… and we the maous could only barely delay the inevitable… who knows what else is up his sleeve?

Surely someone with this much power isnt relying on pure unbridled power, he must have skill, to gather this much yokai… to have united almost the entire japans yokai territories, that made up japan… and brought them under him… and from the countenance… of the yokai, they feel pretty lax about it all… this entire 'war'

As sirzechs was thinking this through…

Gyuki spoke…

"For what purpose are you here? Sirzechs. Surely its not to sue for peace between our race."

Their was slight disdain in his voice, as if he already knew their purpose… no he knows of their, no my purpose. As im the only one allowed inside this camp….

"It is, yokai… I'm here to sue for peace… name your demands, i will do anything i can do to have you call off this war. It wont be good for both sides."

Jin the old man with his tongue out, he had brown eyes and brown hair… and he wore a brown kimono…

He looked entirely unremarkable… but the power inside him, was not to underestimated…

The leader of the inugami spoke up obvious disdain in his voice, and a lust for battle…

"You mean bad for your side… pathetic devils, turn our yokai just to compensate for your petty numbers… perhaps i should kill you right here… and start the war off with a bang! Surely, you devils will take us seriously than, right? Look down upon us, steal our precious family from us… abduct or do whatever you please with them…"

He stood up as he said his speech… jin the old man, and a proud leader of the nura clan…

Was about to unsheathe his sword… as an utterly enormous pressure emanated from his body… as his words struck out into the night...

[ BANKAI - ALL THINGS - ]

"Thats enough, jin."

The one that spoke was the one that held his old leash…

Nurarihyon…