Walking down the streets in this part of Tokyo at my age isn't safe. I kept my black hoodie over my head to hide my face, from potential targets. Even though I was in a bad part of Tokyo, the city still looked beautiful. The neon lights of brothels and bars, the towering skyscrapers that could be seen from afar, and the hundreds of cars that drived along the road. After an hour of walking, I finally found the Sakura Bar. I walked to the side of the building and was met with a tall and bulky bouncer.
"Whattaya doin' here kid?" The bouncer had a Hokkaido accent that was kinda funny to listen to. I held in my laugh and answered.
"Um, Rager Blue?" The bouncer looked me up and down before sighing deeply. I heard him mutter something but it was too low for me to understand. He opened the door behind him and I walked in. Inside the door was a dimly lit stairwell with red lights. I did as the lady over the phone instructed me to, and followed the lights all the way down. I eventually reached a large stone hallway and there was a man in a black suit waiting there for me. His black suit had a red dragon on the left side of his chest.
"I'm assuming you're Yumi?" I simply nodded and he signaled for me to follow him. I followed the man down the large hallway and into a room full of gloves.
"Pick one." I walked around the room and picked black gloves that seemed to call to me, weird right? The gloves felt like latex and had a cool red eye design on the palm, and I swear I saw the eye blink. Probably nothing. I put the gloves on and I felt weird, like something began to flow. The flow felt like a small stream so I paid no mind to it. The man seeing that I picked a pair of gloves out, signaled for me to follow him once again.
As we walked down the stone hallway once again, I heard cheering. We turned a corner and the cheering got louder. I dug in my pocket and put my black face mask on before walking out.
"ON THE LEFT WE HAVE RENJI ITORI!!" I saw a white-haired boy that looked to be around 15 years old walk out. He had a considerable amount of muscle mass and had a large scar across his right arm.
"AND ON THE RIGHT WE HAVE A NEW FIGHTER WHO HAS DECIDED TO GO UNDER THE ALIAS OF YAMURA!" Alias? I never mentioned an alias, is this some sort of mistake? I shrugged it off and walked into the fighting ring. Calling it a fighting ring is an overstatement, it's just a dirt floor surrounded by stone stands that peered above it. I looked at the crowd and saw everyone have a mask on. Looking back at my opponent, he put his hands up and I did the same.
"LET THE FIGHT BEGIN!!" Renji ran forward at speeds that I couldn't perceive. Renji appeared in front of me with his fist cocked back. I put my hands up in an X to block his punch and I felt the heavy strike hit my arms. I was sent tumbling around 10ft before I regained my balance. I looked up and saw Renji looming over me with his leg extended above his head. I quickly rolled out of the way and saw the dust cloud that was created from his kick rise up. Once I stood up Renji was coming after me again, this guy doesn't know how to back down!
Renji punched forward and I used every muscle in my body to dodge his fast punch. As his fist missed my face, I felt the wind brush past my face. Noticing his opening I punched his stomach with all of my might. Remember that stream I said I felt earlier? Well I felt it again and it made me feel stronger and I think it made me stronger because Renji immediately fell to his knees.
"KAH! KAH!" Renji because throwing up unhealthy volumes of blood. As I stood over Renji's injured figure I heard a faint voice in my head.
"Take it. Take it," The voice continued to repeat but everytime it repeated itself it got louder and more aggressive.
"Take it! TAKE IT! TAKE IT!" Take what?! What does it want me to take?!
"Energy. Take Energy. TAKE ENERGY!" Energy? What energy? What is this voice? What's going on?! I looked down and saw the eye design in the palm of my glove begin to blink and shine. I made eye contact with the eye and immediately felt as if I lost control of my body. It was like I was spectating my body from a third-person point of view. I saw my hand touch Renji's forehead and he began to shrivel up. Renji screamed and he eventually shriveled up like a prune. I just killed him. I just killed a person. I just killed him. I JUST KILLED A MAN!!
I didn't regain control over my body and my body jumped into the crowd and began killing indiscriminately. 2...5...8...12...the number of bodies began to rack up. The fighting ring sent many fighters to fight against 'me' but they all died in vain. That was until my body was punched into a nearby wall. I looked at the woman who punched my body and felt shock, confusion, relief, and surprise. The woman who punched my body was none other than my mother.
"Yumi...what happened to you?" Mother that isn't me! I tried calling out to my mother but I couldn't regain control over my body, I felt as if I was in chains. My mother crossed her fingers and her usual black hair began turning blonde and her brown eyes turned purple. Standing in the place of my mother was a blonde-haired purple-eyed woman, wearing a blue crop top and long blue skirt. On her ears were a pair of silver earrings with a red gem in the middle, who is this woman? This isn't my mother!
"No, it isn't Yumi, it's those gloves she's got on." The woman who replaced my mother vanished in thin air and reappeared in front of my body.
"Sorry about this Yumi, you'll forgive me later." The woman punched my body's face deeper into the wall and continued to pummel my body. I saw my body weaken and the woman took the gloves off my hands, I was immediately sucked back into my body and felt incredible amounts of pain on my face.
"WHO ARE YOU!?" I asked whilst screaming in pain. That woman isn't my mother, there is no way in hell!
"Yumi, it's me your mother. I know I look different but I can explain." Explain?
"What is there to explain? You look nothing like my mother, you sound the same but don't look the same! Who are you?!" The woman's eyes looked at me in sadness and she sighed.
"I'm your mother Kaori Nakamura. I work as a prostitute but also as a Sorcerer." A sorcerer? Does she expect me to believe such bullshit?!
"A sorcerer? I may be twelve but such a bullshit story won't work on me! Now, who are you!?" I slowly got up and put my hands up for a fight. The chances of me winning against this woman are slim to none but I won't let this woman take my mother's identity and get away with it scot-free!
"Let me finish," The woman said as she place her hands on my fists, "I'm what's known as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. I exorcise cursed spirits, and anything cursed-related. The thing I just saved you from was a cursed spirit that takes the form of a pair of gloves. It seems to have unlocked your cursed energy, though I don't understand how you saw it in the first place." The woman said the last part of her sentence in a whisper. Cursed energy? Jujutsu Sorcerer? Cursed Spirit? What is all this? I put my hands down and let the rational side of my mind take over.
"Assuming that you really are my mother, why would you hide such a secret away from me?" What I hope is my mother, looked at me and sighed once again.
"The sorcerer world is incredibly dangerous. That's why I quit being a Jujutsu Sorcerer, I didn't want you to be exposed to such a dangerous environment. The situation we are in right now is nothing compared to what the cursed spirits could do to you. I'm extremely lucky that one of my clients decided to bring me here." I looked at the woman, no, my mother and I teared up. I teared up and began crying on the spot.
"I'm sorry for not believing you!" I cried and my mother picked me up like I was a child. My mother patted my back as I cried in her shoulder. I finished crying and my mother put me back down.
"I'm sorry for keeping such a secret away from you. I could have easily gotten us out of our situation but I was too worried about making sure you don't stumble upon any cursed spirits or anything pertaining to the Sorcerer world." My mother wiped the tears out of her eyes and hugged me tightly.
"Now please forgive me for what I am about to do." What does she mean? My mother crossed her fingers and placed them on my forehead.
"Wipe, replace, death, unlock, 10 years, or near death." Blank. BLANK. BLANK. BLANK. BLANK.
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What is this wetness? I looked down and saw a pool of blood under me. I heard dripping and that was when I saw it, my mother had a large steel pipe sticking out of her chest. What happened?! All I remember is I fought Renji, then the whole place suddenly exploded. Before I blacked out I saw my mother standing above me to protect me. I quickly ran up to my mother's body and it was still slightly warm.
"Y-Yumi...f-forgive...me..." Forgive?! You haven't done anything wrong!
"Mom, please don't talk, save your energy! I'll get help!" My mother weakly gripped my hand and looked at me. The look she gave me was the look of approaching death.
"I...blegh," My mother coughed up blood before continuing to speak, "I've always...thought of myself as a...blegh...horrible mother..." Mom this isn't the time!
"Mom please don't speak! I promise you can tell me everything but please let me get you help!" I felt the tears leak out of my eyes and stream down my face.
"B-But...I...think...I've...redeemed myself...blegh! So Yumi...don't...let...my...sacrifice...go to...blegh...waste..." Limp. My mother's body went limp. No matter how much I shook her body, she wouldn't wake up. She's gone. My light is gone. The only person to believe in me is gone.
"MOM!!" I screamed in grief as I held my mother's hand. This is all my fault, if I didn't take that flyer my mother wouldn't have died, SHE WOULD BE HERE! IT'S ALL MY FAULT! I cried my heart out as I held my mother's hand. After a while, the tears stopped coming but the sadness didn't. I remembered my mother's last words and stood up. I punched a piece of stone debris until my knuckles bled. I wasn't going to let my mother die in vain. It's my fault that she died, so I will redeem myself. This 'Soaring Dragon fighting ring' is the catalyst. It's my fault my mother died and they played a part as well. So I will take them down. Along with the client my mother came with, I will bring them all down before ending my own life.
I will right my wrongs!