Chapter 15 "Time Traveler"
Chapter 15
Time Traveler
His smartphone starts ringing suddenly. As soon as Tezuka sees the certain name that’s calling, he picks it up right away. “Ryu?”
“Mr. President?” His assistant asks nervously when she leans closer to Tezuka’s ears. “You’re in the middle of the broadcasting!”
“I see. I’ll meet you there!” Tezuka hangs up and then walks off the press stage suddenly, making the reporters shout millions of questions.
“I’m sorry, everybody!” His assistant quickly bows her head before she goes after the Earth President, heading for the black SUV. “Where are you going?”
Tezuka takes off his jacket suit and hands it to the driver. He turns to his assistant with a serious look on his face which pretty much startles her. “I’m sorry, ma’am, but I have to go alone.”
“W-wait, sir --” She stops when Tezuka slams the door shut loudly. She watches helplessly as the vehicle takes off in a rush.
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“It’s been, what, two weeks since our training started? We still haven’t even hit Hikyou-sama at all!” Katuo yells angrily, as he kicks a random poor tree, knocking it down completely.
“C-calm down! You will attract unnecessary attention!” Ketsu quickly gets right in front of Katuo, who is about to throw a fist at another tree.
“He’s right.” Siko scratches the back of his head nervously. He spots a bunch of reporters coming up to the gate. “Speaking of the devil…”
“Have you seen the President lately?!” One of the reporters loudly demands.
“We better get back inside.” Ketsu makes a few nervous glances at the demanding reporters.
“But he’s gone missing for the past five hours!” Another reporter shouts. “Where has he been?”
“What are they talking about?” Siko asks.
“This isn’t the first time that Tezuka has gone missing.” Katuo shrugs his shoulders carelessly, already on his way to the White House.
Hmm… This could be bad…
“Oh! Hikyou-sama?” Siko asks right after he and two teenagers get into the White House. “What do you mean?”
There is the certain enemy whom your fathers fought a long time ago. It seems like she has gone to the future… I mean, to this day.
“She came here from the past?” Ketsu almost gasps in surprise. “Is there such a thing… as a time machine?!”
Actually, no. She has one of the universe’s most powerful energies - time energy. She has the power to travel through time… either to the past or to the future.
“Who is this time traveler you are talking about?” Katuo asks.
Her name is Jikan. She used to be one of the leaders of the Big Five organization.
“What?!” Katuo and Ketsu cry in panic.
“What?” Siko blinks in confusion.
“The Big Five was a terrorist organization that almost destroyed the world nearly 20 years ago!” Ketsu cries. “Even our fathers struggled against them!”
“Wow! They were that strong?” Siko asks.
“This time traveler…” Katuo is trying to recall something that his father told him a long time ago. “She came from the future - In the year 2116.”
“That’s 51 years from now! Why did she come to the past?” Ketsu asks.
“She said something about how New York City got completely annihilated.” Katuo shrugs his shoulders. “How it got destroyed, we have no idea. Tezuka and Ryu never had any chance to ask her any further questions.”
“I wonder if Hikyou-sama knows?” Ketsu glances at Siko and Katuo, almost as if he is asking Double God directly.
Not even I know the future. But...
Three teenagers can feel Hikyou-sama’s big grin.
It will be perfect training for you! As you already know, right now, your fathers are already powerful enough to defeat her… in a short time! I’m quite sure you can defeat her as well. Probably a little bit longer than your fathers can!
Katuo feels annoyed by how Hikyou-sama implied that Tezuka is stronger than him. He crosses his arms and looks away with a scowl on his face. “Whatever.”
“So, where is she --” Ketsu gets interrupted.
“There you are, Katuo! I’ve been looking for you!” Akane places her fists on her hips at the doorway to the living room. “Your father recently called me. He is going to Japan.”
“Japan? Why?” Katuo raises an eyebrow in suspicion. “Tezuka is not hiding from the reporters again, is he?”
“Beats me.” Akane shrugs her shoulders. “He seemed to be in a big hurry.”
"Wait - wasn't Uncle Ryu called back to Japan weeks ago?" Ketsu asks. “I wonder if something has happened in Japan? Serious enough that Tezuka had to go?”
"You're right. It could be important but," Akane chuckles lightly, as she turns away but not without looking back at the teenagers one more time, "It's quite rare that Tezuka takes any kind of a situation seriously like this. I'm sure he will be fine, as long as he is with Ryu."
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Siko yawns loudly, as he wipes his tired tears away from his light green eyes. “Hikyou-sama said that Jikan will be here, right?”
“Y-yeah.” Ketsu chuckles nervously, as he scratches the back of his head. “Hikyou-sama has never been wrong, you know…?”
Katuo is sitting on the grassy ground and looking at the blue sky thoughtfully. Without glancing at Ketsu, he asks, “How long have you known Hikyou-sama?”
“Eh?” Ketsu blinks in surprise at the sudden question. “Um, as long as I remember, I think. He has always been talking to me whenever nobody is in the room with me… Wait… He sometimes talks to me when either Uncle Ryu or Tezuka is with me too.”
“And, they never thought it was weird?” Siko asks.
“No… I think they had always known that it was Hikyou-sama.” Ketsu shrugs his shoulders.
Ketsu, go home.
“W-what?” Ketsu asks. He makes a quick glance at the new Gods. “But what about them…?”
It’s okay, Ketsu. They will be fine. I will call you when something bad happens, okay?
“Umm…” The Dark Angel says nervously. He has never left Siko and Katuo alone when it comes to any kind of dangerous situations. Besides, Tezuka and Ryu are not in the country anymore. He wants to argue with the Double God, but he manages to hold it back. “O-okay, Hikyou-sama.”
“We will be careful.” Siko smiles brightly at his older cousin. “We will not die, okay? Our lives are in Hikyou-sama’s hands.”
Katuo nods his head, agreeing with the new Light God.
“Ok…” Ketsu gets up from the ground. He walks over to his bicycle and makes one more look at Siko and Katuo. “If you take more than one hour, I’m coming back!”
“Okay!” Siko laughs heartily, waving his hand at his cousin.
Katuo moves over to Siko after Ketsu rides away on the bicycle. He wraps his arm around his boyfriend’s shoulders, pulling his head onto his own shoulder.
“Hmm…” Siko leans into Katuo’s shoulder and sighs lightly at the comfort.
Katuo places a light kiss on Siko's lips. The Light God kisses back without any hesitation. They get so into each other that everything does not exist around them anymore.
Siko pulls away just to get some oxygen into his lungs, but Katuo does not stop at all. The Dark God moves onto Siko’s neck, sucking lightly and kissing all over it.
Jikan is here!
Hikyou’s loud voice scares both of the new Gods; enough to make Katuo nearly sink his teeth into Siko’s skin.
“Ow!” Siko cries.
“Ack! Are you ok?” Katuo quickly gets to check Siko’s neck only to find a harsh red teeth-like mark. “Shit!”
“N-no, I’m fine,” Siko rubs his throbbing neck. “Hikyou-sama, where is she?”
...Hehehehe!
“You bastard!” Katuo yells angrily, getting up and shaking his fist at the blue sky. “You did it on purpose, didn’t you?!”
I didn’t lie, but Jikan arrived here just a few minutes ago. She hasn’t gone on rampage yet, so I thought it would be hilarious to see your reaction. Bwahahaha!
“What am I supposed to do?! If my father ever sees this bite mark, he will kill me!” Siko cries.
“More likely to kill ME.” Katuo rubs his throbbing forehead. “Seriously though, where is she?”
She’s around 200 yards away at 4 o’clock. She’s heading your way. Be on your guard.
They do not have to wait too long until Jikan comes into their sight, looking confused. She gets startled when she sees them. “Who are you?!”
“I’m Katuo Kejinto. This is Siko Mitsukai.” The Dark God introduces themselves right away.
“What? Kejinto and Mitsukai?!” Jikan nearly shrieks. “You are…! How is it even possible?!”
“She’s freaking out. What do we do?” Siko asks. “Hikyou-sama said she would be here to challenge us… yet, it’s as if she has seen us before.”
“Didn’t he say that she knows our fathers?” Katuo takes a few glances at the female stranger who is mumbling angrily at herself.
“What year is it?!” Jikan loudly demands.
“Uh, it’s 2065,” Siko says innocently.
“And the Fall of the Moon never happened?”
“What in the world are you talking about?” Katuo asks before he turns to the new Light God. “Siko, she’s definitely crazy. Is this really the one Hikyou-sama was talking about?”
“If you exist in this era, then…! Where is Tezuka?” Jikan nearly growls with so much hate yet passion. “Did he do something to mess with the timeline?!”
Katuo and Siko look at each other again, in complete confusion, and shrug their shoulders together.
“Tezuka? He’s my father,” Katuo says softly, as if he doesn’t want to make her go any crazier. “He is the President of Earth - the liaison between Earth and the planets in the Primera Galaxy.”
“President?! That lowly American soldier?! How?!” Jikan grips her own hair harshly. Weren’t Tezuka Kejinto and Ryu Mitsukai supposed to be killed twenty years ago? “They are supposed to be dead! They are quite nuisances…! As if they are cockroaches that are impossible to die!”
She makes a quick glance at the new Gods. “You… you’re them, aren’t you? You will destroy the entire universe!”
What?
“Um…” Siko scratches the back of his head in confusion. “N-no, we won’t do that… right, Katuo?”
Katuo raises an eyebrow in suspicion. “You’re the time traveler, aren’t you? You saw us destroying the universe?”
“Yes! It’s you!” Jikan points her finger accusingly at them. “That’s why I went to the past! To stop you from coming into existence! Time Portal!”
Stop her!
Upon hearing Hikyou-sama’s panicked voice, Katuo runs fast toward Jikan and tackles her to the ground, barely missing the portal. He pins her firmly to the ground by holding her wrists.
Siko suddenly shudders at the odd sensation coming from the portal, which still stands by. “W-what is this enormous energy…?”
It’s time energy. It’s one of the forbidden energies. I was surprised to discover that she had one in the first place. Only a God can grant this person with this power.
“If you did not give her the time energy… then, who gave it to her?” Katuo asks, as he looks up at the blue sky, giving Jikan a chance to strike back.
“Manipulate!” She yells angrily, kicking wildly and trying to push Katuo off her. Her hands are glowing in bright purple color. “Now, go and kill him!”
“Kill him?” Katuo asks in confusion, looking back down at her. “You’re telling me to kill Siko?”
Jikan is completely speechless at the fact that Katuo is not affected by her manipulating energy at all.
Is this the power of the Gods? Jikan clenches her jaw in frustration. I have to go to the past one more time…! To stop them from being born!
“That’s enough, Jikan. It’s over,” Katuo says, trying to calm her down, but Jikan is getting more and more hysterical every second as she keeps trying to wildly kick him off.
The female time traveler suddenly yells so loud while some kind of bright yellow energy quickly takes over her entire body.
“W-what?!” Katuo asks in surprise, letting go of Jikan’s wrists. He is watching in confusion as Jikan’s energy is getting more and more concentrated into one area - her stomach.
Katuo, get away!!
Katuo widens his dark green eyes in shock when he realizes that he cannot dodge Jikan’s odd attack. He finds his own stomach not only heavily bleeding but being a hole created by Jikan’s sudden yellow beam.