Chapter 9: Echoes of Darkness and Light

A strange dark aura started to emerge from Captain Yamaguchi's body, Matsuda tried to approach it but the aura grew immensely and he backed down because of it. Matsuda was nervous he described it as if "there is something pushing me away and weighting me down."

"Noisy.... Be quiet..." Captain Yamaguchi said in a weak voice.

*30 years ago*

It was The 23rd of June 1980, a young boy named Kuro Sekiro was born, he had black hair and red eyes which was very odd. At a young age he experienced something, something bizarre, he felt like there was someone or something watching him all the time. He was often bullied as a child because of his red eyes, they were calling him names like "Evil Demon" or just "Evil".

Most of everyone at his school bullied him because of his eyes but one person didn't.

"Hey, you're name is Sekiro right?" A girl asked.

"Yeah? Why'd you ask?" He said.

"I think your eyes are cool" she said with a soft smile.

Sekiro's heart warmed up as he never received a compliment from anyone before.

"Who are you" he asked.

"Oh right, I'm Kagura, Kagura Yamaguchi." She said offering her hand.

"Sekiro, Kuro Sekiro" He said shaking her hand.

Sekiro fell in love with Kagura. Sekiro would spend most of his time telling her stories and he even told her about the bizarre feeling he has.

"Interesting.... It's kinda fascinating" she said.

They talked and talked almost every time, in lunch break, free time, and even over the weekends, they were inseparable.

"Hey Seki, you know I've had a feeling that you've started to develop feelings for me." She said.

"W- what... H- how d- did you k- know.." He stuttered.

"Oh c'mon, you were making it obvious, sudden change in personality, talkative, loud ish" she said.

"Also... I can see it from your eyes" she added.

*1995*

Sekiro was now 15, Kagura was around the same age, she was 16. They entered the same highschool together and landed on the same class, once again they were inseparable. A bastard tried to [censor] Kagura.

"C'mon little missy, you know you want it" the bastard said.

"N- no... p- please stop." She said resisting.

Just then, the bastard started feeling strange, just then his head exploded, blood splattered everywhere, Kagura looked to her side and saw Sekiro standing right there with his hand out. Shadow essence emitted from his hand. He noticed that Kagura was unfazed, even though somebody's head blew up right in front of them and their brains splattered everywhere.

She approached him and says "Seki? Why did you kill him?" He responded with "Because he was harassing you."

She slapped him "Promise me you won't do something like that ever again?" She said smiling.

Things were going great, they were happy until one day she was ran over by a car, Sekiro witnessed the incident right in front of him, she was already dead. Sekiro approached the car and saw who the driver was, he found out it was the bastard's buddy.

"This is what you get for killing my friend" the buddy said.

He grabbed a pocket knife and tried to stab Sekiro with it, Sekiro blocked it with his hands, Sekiro pushed him away before things got out of hand. He looked at him and he pointed his hand at him, it was emitting darkness again.

"Promise me you won't do something like that again" he remembered.

He retreaded and picked up Kagura, he walked up a mountain right next to a tree where they hung out most of the time. He dug a hole and buried her himself. But before he did he said his final words to her.

"Goodbye Kagura, I was planning to marry you when we got older, but it ended before it even started" he put a ring on her finger and kissed her, then he buried her.

No matter how much trauma he experienced he never went to the dark side, because it's not what Kagura would've wanted.

*9 years later after the accident*

The invasion started and he applied for the demon association.

"This kid, he's good" The head admired his skills and abilities.

Sekiro later sealed away his darkness ability since it reminded him of Kagura every time.

"Hey kid, you're strange, you're powerful for someone your age" Hirihito Yūma said.

"How old are ya?" He asked.

"I'm turning 24 this year" Sekiro replied.

"So you're 23, very interesting. What's your name?" He asked.

"Yamaguchi Sekiro" he said.

"Sekiro, you'll be working under Captain Hiroshi" Hirihito Yūma said.

Years and years of hard work and training he came up with a substitute ability, the opposite of darkness, Light.

"Hey kid, I must say you are strong, you might even surpass me one day." Said by Captain Hiroshi [30 years old] .

"Like hell I am" he responded.

He kept training and training, honing his skills to absolute perfection. He finally reached the Captain Status after 3 years of hard work, he was the captain of division 4.

*Present Day*

"My dear Kagura... I'm sorry I let you down... I don't think I can fight anymore..." He thought.

"Don't think that, you can do it Seki." The soul of Kagura said.

He saw Kagura's soul right in front of his eyes, his eyes widened and he started to tear up a bit. "K- Kagura? Is that... you?"

"Come on Seki, you can do this, if not for yourself... do it for me." She said smiling.

Her soul fades away into the light, he hears Matsuda's screams vividly. "Captain!"

He got up and was ready to fight, the humanoid demon got back up and charged at them, "Piercing wind".

"Captain, you deal with that mirror freak and I'll deal with this thing." Matsuda said.

"Time to shatter this giant mirror thingy to bits" Captain Yamaguchi said.

He kept shooting shadow beams, but it kept reflecting it, he jumped back right next to Matsuda "Shadow beam" he hit the demon.

"Hey! That was mine." Matsuda yelled.

"Look there is one way we can kill both at the same time." He said.

"Throw them both down there" he pointed right where the mirror structure was placed.

Matsuda complied. "Blazing upper" followed by "Flaming Slash". It went just as he planned, they were all down there.

"Absolute Darkness" he flooded the entire building with a shadowy substance.

The mirror was cracking due to the intense pressure of "Absolute Darkness". Eventually it broke, releasing an immense amount of aura. "Clear" Captain Yamaguchi cleared out the technique and they approached the mirror, it revealed to be a person inside.

"A person?" Matsuda asked.

"Hey! Wake up you bastard!" Captain Yamaguchi yelled.

The person woke up and yelled "Step back!! Get away from me!!"

"Electric punch" Matsuda knocked him out using a basic technique.

"Lets take him back to HQ" said by Captain Yamaguchi.