บท 122: Chapter 113
At the park near the shinobi academy, parents watched as their children played with each other. Temari, Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata sat at the nearby stone table.
Temari has been married to Shikamaru now for over 4 years, just after Hikaru and Azumi and Hinata's wedding day. Since then, she's been nothing but a housewife. She wants to be a shinobi again, but she has to take care of two lazy people, her husband and her daughter. She hates how Shikanori takes after her father's lazy personality. Shikanori would do anything just to get away from things that require a bit of stamina, but even then she's just 3 and half years old, maybe she'll change?
Temari was bored at home, so she brought her child to play with other children at the park.
Meanwhile, after the war, Tenten decided to marry Rock Lee after he proposed to her in the middle of it. She and Temari are the polar opposite when it comes to their husband and daughter. While the sister of Kazekage has a lazy husband, Tenten has Rock Lee, who is really enthusiastic about exercise and many other physical things, like lifting a 3 tons dumbbell. Temari has Shikanori, who is just as lazy as her father, meanwhile Tenten has Rock Mio, who is just like her father, except that she inherited her looks from her mother.
Tenten decided that Mio, her daughter, needed something else entirely other than exercising her young body to death, so she brought her to the park to play with other children her age.
Sakura was on vacation from her job, so she decided to bring her son here so that she could chat with her fellow mothers. Besides, her husband and her brother-in-law are too busy sparring with each other. God, she wonders when Itachi will have a wife, all he focuses on are shinobi jobs and he is too awkward when it comes to romance, since it's been years since he had a lover, and he, um, for a lack of a better word, killed her.
It seems like Itachi has no plans to start a family of his own, yet. But that's good for Sakura, since, most of the time, he leaves Senichi to her brother-in-law everytime she goes to her job. But Senichi tends to copy Itachi. He's like a mini-Itachi, who dresses like him, combs his hair like his uncle, and sometimes would speak like Itachi, though in a cute way. Even then, Senichi can never be like his uncle.
Hinata always brings her children to the park, but only Emiyo and Taiyou. Riko and Rina are too shy to go to the park with children their age, which saddens Hinata a little. But they were smart, since all they do is read books all day, and sometimes would annoy their father to play with them.
Sakura sighed and spoke, "Work's been too busy lately, I only have three days in my vacation. For some reason, many shinobi, especially the Jounins, have been getting severely injured while on the job. They say that the last thing they saw were blood red eyes with a slit in the middle. Sasuke has been investigating it, but he came out with no results. Then, just after bringing in some Jounins, one of them started to bloat before exploding. Thankfully, no one was hurt but since then we've been careful of receiving too many patients, or we just separate them."
Stress was evident on Sakura's face as she said all of that.
"That's rather shocking, for someone to attack the strongest village in the elemental nation." Hinata said, "It's obvious that they are trying to injure a lot of our shinobi and when the hospital gets too flooded with patients, then they will strike."
Sakura nodded, and said, "So you think so, too, huh? But what is their objective? Just to hurt a lot of patients? No, there must be something more, something more important than something like this. They could've just flooded the entire hospital with many patients with those time bombs, but they didn't."
"Maybe they have a specific target?" Temari asked, "For example, who was taking care of the patient that exploded? Wasn't it you? Maybe you're their target?'
Sakura vehemently shook her head, and replied, "No, that's impossible. There is no one who would seek to harm me, especially because I made no enemies when I was an active shinobi."
Hinata thought about it, and suddenly gained an idea, then she suggested, "Maybe it's because of your husband's clan? You know, the Uchiha Clan made many enemies since the first, second, and third shinobi war. It's no secret that many extinct clans out there are all the Uchiha Clan's fault. A survivor of a dead dojutsu clan, maybe?"
"Yeah, you have a point. I'll tell all of this to Itachi-san later." Sakura muttered.
Unknown to them, a pigeon landed on a tree. Its eyes, sharper than any humans around it. It was watching Sakura, her every movement, the twitches on her face, and the way she talks. A shiny glint appeared in the watchful eyes of the bird, before it briefly disappeared.
(WIth Hikaru, A Few Hours Later)
In their living room, heavy tension filled the air. Hinata and Azumi looked quite angry at him, while his children were crying.
"So you're leaving again?" Azumi asked, her voice filled with a sickening sweet tone.
"Y-Yes, but not forever! I'll be returning in about a decade or so."' Hikaru said, nervous that his wife might just erupt.
And sure enough, Azumi erupted like a hot and flaming volcano, "A DECADE!? Now, listen here, mister! You'll be missing a lot of our children's birthdays! They'll be growing up most of their lives without a father, and you just want to leave!? For what!?"
Hikaru was sweating, he needed a good reason right now! His wife might just murder him, as much as that sounds ridiculous. He really needs to beat the olden god, Chaortos, since Deus has been pressuring him to do it. The disembodied voice seems agitated, as if he was waiting for something from him. Besides, it's just a decade. He'll be back before they know it.
But from their expressions, he can see that they are not all right with his decision.
Just as he was about to speak, he felt reality and space and time crack a little. Then, he felt a familiar presence, an ancient one.
"I might be able to explain, wives of the chosen immortal." The deep and ancient voice seems to mock the title.
The voice sounded everywhere, making everyone except for Hikaru tense.
'Deus!' Hikaru can recognize that voice anywhere, since he was too familiar with it. But how is he able to go out of his sealed room? Isn't that supposed to be impossible?
"No, it is not." Deus answered, as if reading his mind, "I can go out of that damnable room, but only for a little while, or the mana I've been saving up might just run out." Then his voice shifted into a bit more desperate tone, "I'm only here for one reason only, let Hikaru leave. Like Azumi, the Child of Prophecy of this world, Hikaru is also some kind of Child of Prophecy. It is his duty to vanquish the seven olden gods that still live in their seals, kinda like how your duty was to save the world. But the stake here is higher than you think, the Olden Gods are beings that can quite literally punch a universe into oblivion. It is his duty to defeat them, or seal them back."
(Note: So, I know that Azumi and Hinata, especially Azumi, will be angry at Hikaru for leaving. But with Deus explaining all of this, they will no longer have any objections, since this means that Hikaru's duty is something that holds an infinite amount of lives. And Deus has been getting agitated, since he is so close at meeting his child once again. You'll know in the later chapters what I meant).
Azumi and Hinata didn't imagine that something like this was happening behind their backs. Though they knew that it was weird that Hikaru was this powerful, because it just defies everything they know. His powers, abilities, and inhumane physical capabilities, they were not normal.
"It is a shame that he didn't heed my advice, not to start a family. But I guess this is a trait that all chosen immortals have," Again, he mocks the title, "They start a family, then go on a rampage after their loved ones die. Especially Kiran, he has got some anger management to work on." He muttered, and noticed them wondering what he meant, "Ah, don't mind me, I was just muttering to myself."
Hikaru then said, "You can leave now, Deus. I can explain the rest myself. You're scaring the children." He seems to be glaring at someone, but there was no one there. But it was true, his children were scared. They were shaking at the mere presence of Deus, even Azumi and Hinata couldn't stop feeling tense.
Then, after saying that, everything went back to normal.
He turned around to see his wives staring at him, as if demanding some kind of answer.
"As your husband, I am ashamed that I have hidden this for far too long. But I felt no need to tell the two of you, since it is not your burden to carry." Burden his ass, he would have defeated Chaortos many years ago after he reached his max stats, he just didn't want to leave yet back then. But now, he felt the need for an adventure. An adventure to another world, he is already done with this world, after all. While some might call him a bad father, (Technically he is), adventuring to another world is quite exciting, to say the least. And besides, they can live the rest of their lives with all the wealth he has amassed over the years.
He can still feel their intense gaze, so he just raised his arms, defeated, and said,, "Alright, I give up. 5 years, I'll be back after 5 years of being away." Then he turned his eyes on his children, who are still shaking from fear, "I'm sorry that I have to leave, but your father got things to do. Don't worry, I'll be bringing back some souvenirs from my adventure. That's a promise of a lifetime!"
Emiyo raised her hand, and closed her hand except for her pinky finger, "Pinky promise?" She asked with teary eyes.
Hikaru smiled at her childishness and entwined his pinky finger with hers, and said, "Pinky promise."
Emiyo finally smiled and hugged him, "When you come back, buy me all the toys in the world! All of them!" She yelled excitedly.
"Yeah, me too!" Rika practically yelled.
"Hum, what sister said!" Rina also said.
Hikaru nodded at their childish desires, but he paid it no mind, he will buy them everything, even the universe if they wanted it. He will buy every toy he sees in the next world he is going, for them.
He looked at Taiyou, who is strangely quiet, and asked, "Don't you want something, little sun?"
After some time, Taiyou finally spoke, "If you're going to buy them all the toys in the world, then buy me every book there is, every pen, and every writing equipment to where you're going."
Hikaru smiled, "Alright, knowing you, you'll probably love fantasy books." In these kinds of situations, money can solve his problems, since they are just children. But Azumi and Hinata, well, needed more than that.
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Miko_Sayaki
Miko_Sayaki So, uh, I really am horrible at writing farewells. Hikaru will fight Chaortos, maybe in the next chapter? Now, don't get your hopes up, I'm not that great at writing fight scenes, as you've probably seen.
Also, as you can see, I rushed this chapter. I'm just so excited at writing another world, like DXD. I don't know why, but I guess it's a part of me. I've read a lot of DXD fanfics, but since all they are focusing on are harem this and harem that, you can guess that not many of them are great. I'm also sick with all of those Naruto and Dxd fanfictions where all they feature is Naruto, not any other character like Madra, Itachi, or Sasuke, or even at this point, I'm searching for a fanfic where Madara kicks some godlike asses.
Anyway, enough about my rant, hope you enjoyed this chapter, stay well, and as always, thank you for reading!
Also, I thought that I was overestimating Hikaru, when in reality, I was underestimating him. Remember what I said about when a stat reaches [50], once you added another stat point from that point on, that stat will increase 100 times permanently. So, imagine the mathematics I will have to do to correct his strength.
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