#Where Can I Learn Reiki Surprising Tips

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On the "woo-woo scale"—where 0 is pure rationality and total skepticism, and 10 is reiki and charging crystals—I would say that on most days I fall at a 2, maybe a 3. But during a recent visit to Costa Rica for Hacienda AltaGracia’s Summer of Longevity Series, I felt something shift among the birdsong and flowing waters and humid air. A few days at this Costa Rican retreat reminded me of the power within myself to change my perspective and focus—and to love and care for my own body. Near the Nicoya Peninsula Blue Zone—which offers plenty of Costa Rican longevity lessons of its own—Hacienda AltaGracia is a luxury resort that embraces the core tenants of longevity-focused living: healthy eating (read: "three sisters" recipes), outdoor activity, fostering community, and having a plan de vida (life purpose). These pillars are well-known and well-covered, but at Hacienda AltaGracia's longevity retreat, I found something deeper, softer, and more personal. If you want true longevity—where your life is long in years, and your years are long in life—taking care of your body and your self cannot be separated. What are you doing with your body today that will help you feel better and move more easily next year, or even next decade? The 50-casita resort in the mountains of Talamanca is using the slower summer season to highlight the ways we can work longevity principles into our lives. Each week there is longevity-specific programming: You might take a (surprisingly challenging) yoga class led by Meilyn Solís Elizondo, attend a fascia flow (more on that in a bit), or enjoy a sound bath. There are small group conversations, meditations, and workouts, and each month a new visiting master. The master for May is Anisha Chaves, a Costa Rican who has used various healing modalities for years, and whose knowledge of the body is impressive, while her demeanor (vibe, if you will) is calming and grounding. (If you get the chance to go in May, take it just to get to meet Chaves—she led me through a River Bath reset, essentially water therapy, that I can only describe as life-changing.) In a conversation about plan de vida, lead by Lauren Ferioli, Hacienda AltaGracia's on-staff health coach and movement specialist, and attended by Chaves, there was great honesty and openness about the meaning of longevity. That meaning is shifting even within Costa Rica, where modern life is taking the place of much of the traditional (and traditionally healthier) lifestyle. But ultimately, it came down to this: What are you doing with your body today that will help you feel better and move more easily next year, or even next decade? These are the expert tips and tricks I will take home and use to age well. 4 surprising lessons I learned at HaciendaAltaGracia's longevity retreat The longevity resort programming at Hacienda AltaGracia makes sure to cover the well-known aspects of what it means to live a Blue Zone life, but I learned some specific, surprising things about how movement and fitness can help you live longer. 1. Take care of your spine Throughout my stay, the health of the spine emerged as a theme. Chaves talked about it, Ferioli talked about it, Elizondo talked about it. "Spine health is crucial for overall wellbeing and is key for postural health, balance, and movement longevity," says Ferioli. "Articulation and flexibility are important to maintain—plus 'flexible spine, flexible mind.'" By the age of 60, more than 90 percent of people will show evidence of some disc degeneration, according to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, but by including spine-healthy moves (like the pelvic clock and articulated bridge, below) in our workouts, we give our whole bodies a better chance to age well and feel good. Pelvic clock "I love the pelvic clock movement because it awakens our connection to our nervous system at the base of the spine and allows us to align the spine all the way up the chain," Ferioli says. "Pelvic clock also gives us vocabulary to talk about where we feel constriction or lack of mobility in the pelvic region.

" Start by lying on your back on a yoga mat or other comfortable surface. Bend your knees so your feet are flat on the floor. Make sure your spine is in neutral and your shoulders are relaxed and away from your ears. Place your hands on your lower belly, letting the tips of your pointer fingers rest on top of your pubic bone near the crease of your thighs and the tip of your thumbs near your belly button. Imagine that your pelvis is a clock, with your belly button at 12 o'clock and the bottom of your pubic bone at 6 o'clock. Engage your abdominals and bring your belly down to your spine, lengthening the spine along the floor. This will create a pelvic tilt, where you're tilting down at 12 o’clock (navel) and up at 6 o’clock (pubic bone). Tilt back and forth here a few times, until you feel like you're getting a sense of the movement. Use your abs to rotate your clock down to the side so that the 3 o’clock hip is lower. ​​Tilt between 3 and 9 o'clock a few times, inhaling and exhaling evenly. Repeat another cycle in the opposite direction. Articulated bridge "Articulated bridging is a must for any spine, as it promotes space for our disc tissue to live unencumbered," says Ferioli. "Spaciousness in the spine will ensure a lifetime of mobility, balance, and wellbeing." Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Tilt your pelvis back and begin to peel your back off the mat, vertebra by vertebra, until you're in a bridge, with your hips in the air and feet still on the mat. Support your weight with your shoulders and don't articulate past them. Try to do this segment by segment rather than just lifting your hips up to get into the glute bridge. You want to press through your upper back and roll up slowly. Hold up top briefly, then roll your spine back down to the mat slowly, vertebra by vertebra, and repeat. 2. Take care of your fascia Your fascia (aka, connective tissue) as a system is only just now starting to be understood by science—according to the Cleveland Clinic, researchers recently realized it provides form and function to your entire body. And after one fascial release flow led by Chaves, it was clear that my entire body understands the importance of it. Chaves recommends checking and correcting your posture every 15 to 30 minutes and listening to the needs of your body to help support the fascia. "Integrating free and conscious movements into our daily routine helps us balance, strengthen, and release tensions, as well as oxygenate the body and promote energy flow," she says. Want some whole-body moves to try? Chaves recommends doing the below exercises whenever you feel they're necessary (if you're tight, stiff, or sore), but points out that they're especially beneficial to do before going to bed and upon waking up. "[This] can lead to significant physical, mental, and emotional changes," she says. Oppositional tension neck pull Sit in a comfortable position, with your spine long, chin tucked slightly, and shoulders down and back. Take your right hand and place the palm on the left side of your head, facing down (your arm will be curved above your head). Push your head into your head, but don't move it—this is called "oppositional tension," and helps release your fascia. While still pushing your head into your hand, pull your head down toward your chest until you feel a stretch. Keep pushing and pulling for a few seconds before releasing. Switch hands and repeat on the other side. Do this front to back and side to side until the entirety of your neck has been stretched. Eagle arms Sit in a comfortable position, with your spine long, chin tucked slightly, and shoulders down and back. Inhale, and bring your arms into a wide T-shape. Cross your right elbow over your left, bend at your elbows and bring your forearms perpendicular to the floor. Cross your wrists to connect your palms together (or press the backs of the hands together). Press your hands together for oppositional tension as you bring your crossed arms out and up.

You should feel a deep stretch between your shoulder blades. Hold this for about 30 seconds before releasing and switching sides. 3. Daily movement can be tough—but it’s worth it Something you’ve likely heard over and over about the Blue Zones is that one of the keys to longevity is weaving movement into your everyday, through gardening or manual labor or long walks up steep hills. But for many of us who tend to feel chained to our computers or stuck at a desk, changing our lifestyle to be more movement-centric can feel impossible (carving out an hour a few times a week to hit the gym is difficult already!). But what’s true is that it’s worth it: in the original Blue Zone research, it was determined that the oldest living people were getting up and moving every 20 minutes. And you can start somewhere small and mostly painless—seriously! A small 2024 study in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports found that 10 bodyweight squats every 45 minutes during prolonged (8.5 hours) sitting did a better job at helping the body with glycemic control than a single, 30-minute walk. For Chaves, her preferred form of movement for longevity is dance. "Dance encompasses so much—from breathwork and free movement to immediate connection with pleasure and joy," she says. "It activates your internal waters, altering your vibration, and induces sweating, which detoxifies your body." And while the Hacienda AltaGracia longevity retreat offers golf cart rides to anywhere you want to go, I found the nights I walked back to my casita after dinner were the nights I slept the best. 4. Consider inflammation There is a time and place for high-intensity workouts (you need impact, for example, to improve bone health), but recovery and a mix of modalities is important to remember. Chaves moved my body for more than hour in the River Bath reset, a form of water therapy, stretching and moving my limbs, turning me over in a warm, river-fed and fire-heated pool. Afterward, you would say that I was vibrating at a high frequency—my body felt relaxed and stretched, the soreness from the previous day’s hike dissipated. I had amazing energy for the rest of the day. "Water facilitates healing by allowing us to release control and surrender to its movements as we float in a horizontal position, uncommon in our daily lives," Chaves says. She considers aquatic therapy a somatic practice that helps us "connect what we think with what we feel and release the tensions held in the body." And science agrees that there are anti-inflammatory benefits of moving your body in water. Indeed, a 2019 study in the Journal of Pain Research found that water therapy improves pain and fatigue in people with fibromyalgia. If you’re often sore, tired, or run-down after your usual workouts, it might be time to work in something new. I discovered all of this (and more) in just a few days at Hacienda AltaGracia's longevity retreat, and much of this programming is available until July 31. Can't make it to the heart of the Costa Rican cloud forest by then? The resort is investing in evergreen longevity programming to be available year-round. Pura vida! Well+Good articles reference scientific, reliable, recent, robust studies to back up the information we share. You can trust us along your wellness journey. Gao, Ying, et al. “Enhanced muscle activity during interrupted sitting improves glycemic control in overweight and obese men.” Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, vol. 34, no. 4, Apr. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14628. Zamunér, Antonio Roberto et al. “Impact of water therapy on pain management in patients with fibromyalgia: current perspectives.” Journal of pain research vol. 12 1971-2007. 3 Jul. 2019, doi:10.2147/JPR.S161494

[tchallasbabymama]

The Temple- Chapter 3

Taglist: @nahimjustfeelingit-writes, @quietstorm-73, @ladymac82

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CW: smut

Word count: 4231 “Hello, my prince. I am Aisha.”

The words sounded like a prayer on her lips. Aisha.

“N’Jadaka.” The prince gingerly grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it, causing her to giggle at the tickling feeling. 

“I am aware. This is your first visit?”

“That obvious, huh?”

Aisha full on laughed this time, a melodious siren call. He wanted nothing more than to let her drag him into her waters and keep him for eternity.

“Painfully so. No worries, I’ll ease you into it.”

N’Jadaka’s ears perked up at her forwardness.

“‘It’ being…?

“The reason we were called to each other.”

He leaned in to whisper into her ear, just loud enough for her to hear him over the crowd.

“And what reason is that, beautiful?”

The prince’s arm went around her waist, and he felt her place a kiss just under his collarbone. N’Jadaka just about melted right then and there, so Aisha grabbed his hand and led him through the crowd in the opposite direction from the entrance. Instead of another large door, this part of the temple was only separated from the rest by an ornate purple curtain, and when she drew back the curtain his eyes travelled to the winding staircase before them. Vibranium lit the halls as his eyes took in the artwork on the wall, some different stories of Bast and others scenes of sexual pleasure featuring the oldest Daughters of Bast from thousands of years ago. After staring in awe at his surroundings, the prince’s eyes fell to Aisha’s ass. It was by no means the biggest ass he had ever seen, but it was the perfect size and shape for his hormones to go crazy.

“How much farther?” He asked, pulling her back towards him and placing his nose in the crook of her neck, taking in her sweet natural scent. 

“Not much farther, my prince. I promise.”

“I like when you say that shit.”

“My prince?”

N’Jadaka grinded his erection into her lower back and she reached back to grab him by the balls, making him release a whimpering sound in her ear. 

“Not yet...my prince. There is much we must do before I let you experience Bast’s blessings.”

He pulled back and tilted her face towards him, staring into her light brown eyes.

“What else is there?”

Aisha chuckled darkly and pulled him along once more, hand never moving from her warm cradle between his legs. He followed with his bottom lip wedged perfectly between his teeth, trying not to bite down as hard as he wanted to.

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He swore the temple was bigger on the inside, or maybe it was just his raging hormones making the walk seem impossibly long. Once they arrived at what N’Jadaka assumed was her door he felt like they had been walking for forever. She opened it and motioned for him to enter.

“After you, your highness.”

N’Jadaka stepped in and took in his surroundings once more. The room was dimly lit and the lingering smell of incense greeted him before anything else. The only window was stained glass with a large kaleidoscope pattern that N’Jadaka was sure would look amazing in the sunlight. He took note of the massage table in the middle of the room, and then he noticed a bed as well as a chair over to the side. He could barely hear faint instrumental music playing in the background.

“So you’re a masseuse, too?” N’Jadaka asked Aisha.

“We are all well-versed in many physical arts, including massage.”

“So you’re good with your hands?” he asked with a devilish smirk.

Aisha smiled knowingly.

“Yes your highness, I am.”

“Well let's get to it then.” He rubbed his hands together and walked towards the massage bed, He stopped when he noticed the hole near the middle.

“Wait, is that for my dick?”

Aisha giggled.

“Yes, my prince. Some find it uncomfortable to lay on an erect penis during a back massage, and others enjoy it as part of a kink. We will see which one you are. Either way, you will be receiving a full-body massage in every sense of the word. Would you care to lay down?”

“Yes ma’am.”

N’Jadaka laid on his stomach, awkwardly placing his dick through the opening.

“Feels weird just hanging like this…”

“It always does at first, but if you wish you do not have to utilize it.”

“Nah I’m curious.”

“Are you ready to begin, my prince?”

“Uh yeah, let's do this” He said, trying to mask his nerves. He was instantly calmed down when she placed her hands lightly on his head to feel his energy and slowly trailed them to his feet, touching everything in between and acquainting herself with his body. 

“Lavender or eucalyptus oil?” Aisha asked the prince. He pointed to the lavender bottle and she pumped some into her hands before rubbing them together.

When her hands came up to knead at his tense shoulders, her strength surprised him. He had never felt anything like that before. Her thumbs beat the shit out of his tension and the heels of her palms ran it out of town. 

Aisha’s hands moved to his lower back and he let out a moan that he wasn’t expecting, before clearing his throat.

“It’s ok, you know? Moaning, expressing yourself in that way. If it feels good it feels good.”she told him. 

N’Jadaka nodded slowly, not trusting his voice at the moment.  

Her strong hands made their way to his backside and he giggled.

“Sorry, I guess I’m ticklish.”

“Plenty of people are, it’s a very sensitive area.”

She continued to knead his glutes and he tried to speak through his giggles.

“So- aha, how long have you be-been doing thi-sss?”

“Just two years. I got the call young so I started studying anatomy, massage therapy, reiki, and acupressure. When I hit adulthood I began my training to be a Daughter of Bast, and after three years I was able to officially call myself a Daughter.”

Her hands moved to the backs of his thighs, which was no better for him sensitivity-wise and he felt a stirring in his loins. He could feel his dick hardening and being pulled down by gravity herself the more it grew. 

“Three years? That’s a long time.”

Aisha smiled at his attempt to make conversation.

“Yes, but it flew by. It takes time to learn the physical arts, even with my background.”

“I like that y’all call sex ‘physical arts’”

“Not just sex, my prince, but intimacy. What we are doing now is intimate, yes?”

“Hell yeah it is,” he said with a smile.

“Everybody comes here for different reasons,” She began as her hands moved down to his calves. “Some require sex, some just need us to lend an ear, some need the relaxing environment, some need to be held...it varies from person to person.”

“Makes sense. So what do I need?”

“Everything I just mentioned. Life was not kind to you, and that much loneliness doesn’t just disappear with talk therapy. Humans require intimacy not just for survival, but for our mental state as well. And I don't mean just in terms of sex. No, I mean familial relationships, romantic and platonic relationships. Even the intimacy that comes from community. That love and support and closeness can come from anywhere, you just have to be open to it. But it is difficult if you’ve never been given that chance before. After all, a child not embraced by their village will burn it down to feel it’s warmth.”

A lump formed in the prince’s throat as he thought back to the scorched Garden of the Heart-Shaped Herb.  

“I’ve heard that somewhere before.”

“I’m sure, it is a very old proverb.”

Aisha massaged his feet and he felt his body respond to her touching the corresponding pressure points. He felt a rush of blood and his dick immediately jumped. 

“How are you feeling,” Aisha asked, already knowing the answer.

“Relaxed and horny. Yo this upside down glory hole is kinda nice though, I might have to get a bed like this...”

“May I pleasure you like this or would you prefer a different position?” 

N’Jadaka froze as if he had forgotten why he came here.

“Uh yeah, this is good…”

Aisha crawled under the massage table and sat on a pillow, cross-legged under his raging erection. 

“If it pleases you, I will start with my hands.”

“Oh, it pleases me…”

She pumped some unscented oil into her hands before bringing them up to his dick. It was sensitive to her touch and he winced as she grabbed the base with one hand and massaged the tip with her other hand.

“My prince, there is no pride or ego here. When you feel the need to release you do so. Do you understand?” “Yes.”

“I did not hear you.” She said as she squeezed a little tighter around the base.

“Y-yes!”

“Good.” Aisha smirked and her focus returned to the task at hand. She used her fingertips to tease the underside of his dripping dick, watching with joy as it tried to twitch out of her grasp only to be pulled back in by her soft hand sliding up and down his shaft. His foreskin pulled back more and more as his dick grew in size and thickness the more she worked it. When she reached for his balls again he nearly lost it, letting out a loud guttural moan.

“Looks like I found it,” she giggled to herself.

She added more oil to her hands and coated his sack with one hand while working just under his head with the other, causing the vein under his dick to throb more and more until he released on her face with a growl. Each time his hips jerked, more spilled out and Aisha couldn’t help but get a taste. She swiped her finger across her face, gathering his cum, and brought it to her lips to sample the salty goodness. She brought the flat of her tongue to the underside of his already sensitive dick and ran it along the length to the tip, pressing her tongue into the still-leaking opening of his urethra hoping to catch every last drop. When she took him into her mouth, the prince stopped her.

“Hold on babygirl, I want to watch you suck my dick.”

Aisha crawled out from under the table and he stared at her cumstained face in awe. She looked even more beautiful than before. He slowly sat up and swung his legs over the side of the table before looking around the room.

“We doing this here, or…”

“Where do you want me, your highness?”

Aisha watched his dick twitch at her words and smirked at her power over him. 

N’Jadaka motioned to the high-back leather chair near the stained glass window and she grabbed his hand to lead him over to it. He sat down and she stood between his legs. They stared into each other's eyes before he pulled her in for a sloppy kiss, not caring that her face was dripping with his essence. Their arms snaked around each other and she caressed the back of his neck while he gripped her ass tight. He pulled back to admire her body, taking in her deep brown areolas, and bringing his tongue out to taste the sweet saltiness of her skin.

His tongue worked one nipple while his fingers kept the other company. He alternated between the two, lazily tonguing and sucking and nibbling her erect buds causing Aisha to let out a moan that was more music to the prince’s ears. It was one of those deep, low moans that starts in the gut and travels up the spine before loudly breaking free. Her nipples were extremely sensitive to his touch and as she came down from her high he peppered light kisses around her chest.

“My prince…” Aisha said between breaths. 

“Yeah, beautiful?”

“It’s your turn again.”Aisha said while sinking down to her knees before him. She began to drool at the sight of his already hard and leaking dick, throbbing because of her. She stuck out her tongue and opened wide before taking him inside her mouth to the hilt, tongue swirling around the bottom of his ever-thickening dick. 

“Fuck! Girl y-you better suck the fuck out this dick.”

Aisha swallowed and sucked his dick like her life depended on it, cheeks hollowing and spit dripping down her chin.

She removed herself from him with a loud pop, and a thick string of saliva connected her lips to his bulbous head. She traced her tongue along the underside of his dick from his frenulum to his ballsack. She brought his balls into her mouth one at a time and worked them on her tongue while lightly suckling on them. Her hand never left his dick, pulling back his foreskin and stroking along his shaft. 

“Babygirl, if you keep that up I’m gonna come.”

“No holding back, remember?” She took his balls out her mouth and looked at him with a devilish smirk before placing her lips around his head, and hollowing her cheeks to suck him hard and sloppy. Her tongue came out to massage his dick and he let out a stuttered moan before he burst inside her mouth.

Aisha made sure to clean her plate, sucking him dry and licking up anything left behind. He grabbed her by the chin and pulled her closer, smacking a kiss on her juicy, cum-covered lips. He loved how he tasted on her. 

“Do you have one more for me, your highness?”

“Of course babygirl, how do you want me?”

She didn't answer verbally, choosing to push him back and straddle him instead. 

“Oh so it’s like that?” He secretly loved her brief flashes of dominance.

Aisha lowered herself onto him, sliding all the way down until they were connected pelvis-to-pelvis. 

“M-my prince, you are v-very big.” She struggled to get the words out, distracted by the way his dick stretched her out.

“Yeah and you got that tight, pretty pussy babygirl. Lean back, lemme watch your pussy swallow my shit.”

Aisha did as she was told and planted her hands on his thighs before leaning back and allowing him a view of her treasure trove. 

“Ooh, fuck. That’s right, take my shit deep.” N’Jadaka.

“Your highness, it’s so deep.”

“You like that shit?”

“Mmm, yes sir.”

“Bounce on it then” He said as his fingers dug into her ass.

Aisha used her thighs to lift her body, then gracefully slid back down his pole with her hips circling like wind in a tornado. He was caught up in her storm, eyes intensely glued to hers. Her hand came up to grab his chin and hold him in place while her other hand sneaked into his messy dreads. Without breaking eye contact, she leaned down to kiss him and lightly snuck her tongue in his mouth. The kiss was soft and sweet as she grinded her hips slowly into his. They moaned into each other's mouths and climbed towards their peaks together.

“Mmm you feel so good your highness. How do I make you feel?”

“Like I’m on cloud nine babygirl. You got some strong juju in this pussy, I can feel it.”

Their foreheads leaned against each other and she picked up her pace, slamming her ass down on his lap.

“Keep that up and Im cumming in that pussy”

“Please, my prince. Cum inside me.” 

At her command, his body convulsed and he released his seed deep inside her. She pulled up and only rode the tip of his dick, making him release a whine-like moan into the crook of her neck while his dick throbbed once more, pushing out the very last bit of semen his body could provide. Aisha’s pussy clenched and she let loose a deluge of her juices onto the prince before sinking back down and relaxing onto him. Their bodies still connected, they stared into each others eyes and took deep breaths in and out until they calmed their heart rates down.

“How do you feel now, my prince?”

“Call me N’Jadaka.”

“Alright, then. How do you feel, N’Jadaka?”

He paused to think about it, leaving them in silence for a minute. Still inside her, his fingers aimlessly traced patterns into her hips while her fingers lightly ran through his hair. She laid her head against his chest and he placed his chin on top of her head. He had never been held like this before. So calm, so close.

“Lighter. Open. Tired.”

They both laughed at that last one.

“Lighter and open how?”

“I don't know how to explain it, I just- don't feel as heavy and closed off in my spirit.”

“That’s a good thing.”

“Yeah, I just-,” N’Jadaka began to tear up and Aisha brought her hand up to wipe them away as they fell. She gave him the time to let it all out. When he was able to talk again, he cleared his throat. “I didn’t know it could feel like this.”

“How what could, N’Jadaka?”

“Living.”

She pressed a kiss to his forehead and they continued to talk for a few more minutes before they finally parted. Aisha walked N’Jadaka back though the temple to retrieve his clothes and when they said goodbye neither wanted the other to leave. 

“I am sure I will see you again, my prince?”

“Come on with that ‘my prince’ shit.” he said with a smile, causing her to send him one right back. He pulled her in for a hug and they both took in each other's scent.

“Be safe getting back, N’Jadaka.”

“I’ll see you around.” He kissed her cheek and turned to leave, nearly tripping over a black ball of fuzz.

“Isa? Hey lil mama, what’s good?”

The cat purred and rubbed on his legs.

“It looks like she likes you. You know what that means?” Aisha leaned down to pet Isabis, too. 

“Nah, what?”

“You’re pure of heart-”

He looked at her and his eyes got misty before he noticed a smaller black fuzz ball making it’s way over to him.

“-and she finds you worthy enough to care for one of her babies.” Aisha answered with a smile.

“Aww, Isa.” He said as the cat moved to lick the kitten on it’s head before turning back to the prince. He reached out to greet his new friend but was beat to it by the kitten jumping into his large hand.

“It looks like she’s happy with her mama’s decision.” Aisha looked on with pride. This man had transformed right before her eyes and she couldn't be happier for him and his progress. “Do you have a name for her?”

He looked at the little black kitten intently.

“Nah, she’ll tell me what it is eventually.”

The two smiled at each other and exchanged kisses on the cheek once more before the prince was off to the palace with his new fur baby.

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“Someone seems to be in a good mood,” Shuri teased the moment he walked in the door.

“Hello to you too, beanstalk.” N’Jadaka threw it right back at her, and fully expected her to make some jab at his scars but the kitten distracted her.

“Bast, she’s adorable! Where did you find her?”

“The temple.”

“Ohhhhh, I’ve heard they have kittens everywhere!”

“Yeah you still got a couple more years before you get to visit all these cute little guys. Isn’t that right….” N’Jadaka paused, thinking a name would come to him. “Damn, nothing.”

“What's the problem?”

“I can’t think of a name. I don't want to just be like ‘hey cat come here’, you know?”

“I get it, but once she shows you her personality it’ll be easier to name her.”

“Name who?!” Nakia rounded the corner with a scowl on her face.

Without a word, the prince held up his new kitten and her face softened. She immediately grabbed the kitten and sat down with her on the couch.

“She’s the cutest! Did you get her from the temple?”

N’Jadaka cleared his throat, not necessarily wanting to go into details with these two. Especially with Shuri’s young ears around.

“I did. There’s a cat that fosters the kittens-”

“Isa? Oh how is she?”

He chuckled at Isabis’ popularity.

“She’s fine, she pushed this one on me and now here we are.”

“I understand, T’Challa and I have two that run our lives. Once this baby gets here I fear we will be outnumbered.”

“What’s T up to anyway? I want him to meet his new little cousin.”

“He’s in his office getting some work done”

“Bet. Can I have my child back please?”

Nakia kissed the kitten’s head and reluctantly handed her back to N’Jadaka.

“Thank you!” He waved goodbye as the kitten climbed up his arm to lay on his broad shoulders. Neither of the three of them could contain their ‘awww’s.

The prince made it to T’Challa’s office on the business side of the palace. The guards saluted him and after he saluted back he noticed their ear to ear smiles. He felt a tug and realized they were smiling at his kitten trying to play with his hair.

He walked in, interrupting what appeared to be a meeting on the screens in front of him. He recognized several of the faces as Avengers. 

“My bad…”

He tried to slip back out the doors, but T’Challa stopped him.

“Nonsense, you should join-” The king paused at the adorable sight before him. “Actually, meeting adjourned. We can pick this up tomorrow.”

As the Avengers screens went black, N’Jadaka sat in the chair across from his cousin. As soon as he got close, the kitten leapt from his shoulder to the king’s desk.

“So I take it your time at the Temple was fruitful, umzala.”

“Fruitful? Nigga I almost fell in love and I came home with a child.”

“Love?”

“I mean, I know it's nothing because they do this all the time but damn she was something else.”

The kitten had taken to T’Challa, naturally, and began to climb up onto his shoulder.

“You’re correct that they are professionals, but that doesn’t mean a spark wasn’t felt. Our grandmother was a Daughter of Bast. She chose to leave the temple when she married our grandfather, but that was how they met.” The king explained while play-fighting with the kitten on his shoulder. 

“I didn’t think that was possible...so they're not married to Bast or something like that?”

“No, they are free agents. Some of them stay Daughters after marriage or children. Several leave and come back. Bast is the goddess of pleasure, and how unpleasurable would it be to force everyone into the same box?”

N’Jadaka nodded slowly, trying to wrap his brain around the new information.

“So have you named her yet?”

“Nah, I figure it’ll come to me. I can already tell she’s a handful.” He said as they watched the kitten jump down and begin chasing her tail, falling over in the process.

“So back to the temple. Who did you see?”

“Aisha.”

“I can’t say I know of an Aisha, I haven’t been in so long. Every time I go, Isa tries to push more kittens on me, and I hate denying her.”

N’Jadaka chuckled at the thought of Isabis and the king’s interactions.

“So this Aisha, are you planning on seeing her again?”

“Hell yes. How soon is too soon to go back?”

“You can go back whenever, but I would suggest waiting until you feel it is the right time.”

The prince thought over it for a moment before responding.

“I saw her before I met her. In a daydream. Then when I saw her in person I felt this warm pulling in my stomach like-”

“Like a chain pulling you towards her. Yes, I am familiar.” A goofy smile appeared on T’Challa’s face as he thought of his wife.

“So you get it?”

“I do, but does she?”

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On the other side of Wakanda, Aisha lowered herself into a fragrant bath and thought over her day. She had told herself it would be an off-day, but then when she saw the prince she felt something in her gut tell her to go to him. When he kissed her hand ‘hello’ she nearly melted at the touch of his skin on hers. She wasn’t used to experiencing those feelings from patrons. 

When she caressed and massaged his body, she could feel the pain melt away. When she rode him she could feel his soul opening up and she gladly stepped through the door. She could feel his emotions and she opened herself to him, allowing him to feel hers. When they came together, she saw constellations in his chestnut eyes. 

She stayed in the bath, daydreaming about Prince N’Jadaka until the water ran cold. When she emerged from the water, she air dried her body and covered herself in cocoa butter before lowering herself to the floor for her nightly prayers to the goddess. 

Aisha pulled back her sheets and slid in naked. She laid there for an hour, mind racing over all the possibilities, before sleep finally took her in for the night. 

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Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

Hiei does his best to take care of Usui Uonuma, who’s gunning for his Jagan. In turn, Yusuke deals with his old behemoth of an enemy who was once merely B-Class in power level.

Kenshin in turn deals with an enemy from his past with the assistance of one of the Spirit World ferry-girls.

Credit for the pictures goes to Ozzy Oz da Vyrus. 

The original source of this idea comes from Chad Yang. I continued his story idea found here.

The rest of the chapters of my Yuyu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin crossover fan fiction are available here and here. Enjoy.

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Up above the Okushiri Military Base....

The flying fortress made of solidified reiatsu (spiritual pressure or pressurized spirit energy) care of the Quest-Class powers of Detective Daiji Matsudaira (the reincarnation of Aoshi Shinomori) landed on the helipad of the base, startling the soldiers there.

Yahiko had earlier requested Botan to fly even higher up than the flying castle with purple beams of light shooting out of it in order to get the drop on the structure.

Literally.

From 50 kilometers above the earth, Yahiko descended straight towards the moving castle, its concentrated jaki beams dissipating against the ghostly human missile and his neutralizing reiki.

He first skydived from the ferry-girl's oar (much to her surprise and chagrin) up in the stratosphere and did his imitation of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu's "RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)" for starters.

The impact then cracked the topmost outer shell of the dense fortress.

A trickle of reiatsu leaked off of the spiritual construct, like scattering fireflies in the night.

He then did one of his own Revisal Techniques of the Kamiya Kasshin School, named, "DOU GAMI! (GOD ON EARTH!)", which rocked the castle further at its core and spread cracks all over its very foundations.

Daiji's solidified reiatsu then turned into a shower of outright sparks, the solidified energy sublimating and ionizing into pure spirit energy.

Finally, the Tokyo Samurai Spirit executed a "TEN GAMI! (GOD IN HEAVEN!)" that started the downward spiral of the moving building, the cracks turning into outright crags and debris as the teenaged ghost got jettisoned high above even the stratosphere, reaching instead all the way to the mesosphere.

He reached a height about 70 kilometers or 43 miles away from earth.

The young samurai kid drove the Onmyouji's prison that whole distance from heaven to earth with a sky-cleaving, earth-shattering strike, or at least a strike powerful enough to send cloudy shockwaves behind them as they broke through the speed barrier.  

"INGA GAMI! (KARMIC GOD!)"

Yahiko's first of two ultimate attacks had enough jaki-neutralizing power to push that huge pillar right into the middle of the military base like a meteorite. A shooting star.

The sublime mix of reiki (spirit energy) and jaki (negative energy) then ionized into their base forms, the kenki (swordsman energy) that bound them fading away into the ether.

All of these forms of energy were neutralized by Yahiko's own strange spirit energy. His own reiatsu or unique mixture of reiki and kenki.

His strike from his self-made sakabatou (Kenshin's reverse-edged sword that Yahiko manifested using his reiki) was powerful enough to warp time and space itself. Like a blunt version of the Jigen Tou.

Only a single helipad-sized spire of the formerly huge fortress was left by the time it crash-landed unto the base.

***

Youtou Shinnoken: Demon Sword

A Rurouni Kenshin/Yuyu Hakusho Crossover Fan Fiction Story by Chester Castañeda

Original Concept by Chad Yang

The Kenshingumi will now take care of their loose ends before fighting the final boss of this arc. This battle is about to explode! FIGHT!

Disclaimer: Yuyu Hakusho is the rightful property of Yoshihiro Togashi, Shueisha, Fuji TV, and Studio Pierrot. Rurouni Kenshin is the rightful property of Nobuhiro Watsuki, Shueisha, Shonen Jump, Viz, Sony Studios, Fuji TV, Studio Gallop, Studio Deen, and ADV. This disclaimer also covers all the other copyrighted materials that are far too many to mention here. Don't sue me please, I'm very poor.

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Chapter 57: Living Sin (Part 9)

***

Back at Kitaoimisaki Park...

Usui Uonuma shook his head. The newbie member of the New Ten Swords, Kuronue, was outwitted by the legendary demon fox Youko Kurama as well.

If you wanted something done right, do it yourself.

Amidst the burned shadows and silhouettes that were once Kuronue stood Usui, his previously broken Tinbe practically whole now.

With it now capable of withstanding the heat and impact of multiple Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha (Dragons of Darkness Flames) from Jaganshi (Evil Eye User) Hiei, the black serpentine flames were unable to affect the turtle shell one way or another.

But Uonuma knew that Jaganshi Hiei had one more ace up his sleeve. The Chojin's spies had briefed him about the fire demon and his ability to absorb the power of the fiery dragon beings unto himself.

As expected, Hiei boosted his speed and power tremendously by absorbing the flame dragons of the Kokuryuha right into his body, his youki (demon energy) rising to astonishing levels. To S-Level and beyond.

Under the old Reikai rules, Hiei's presence there would've been considered outright illegal. A demon that powerful shouldn't be in the Ningenkai (Human World).

A demon that powerful was on par with one of the Chojin's Ten Swords.

'So this demon's name is Hiei, huh?' thought the blind man, waxing nostalgic. That was also the name of the mountain where the old Juppon Gatana (Ten Swords) stronghold was.

What a curious demon. He had the speed of Souiro "Heaven Sword" Seta and the strength (or even firepower) of Makoto Shishio.

If Usui could conquer this strong demon, then he'd get one more step closer to standing as equals with the Youkiri (Demon-Slayer) Tenro.

To sit at the right hand of an unborn god. To be able to challenge an unborn god and become one himself.

Nah, perhaps that last one was still a bridge too far for him. But this, defeating the fire demon, wasn't.

The dragons roared and gnawed against the Tinbe but like a mountain standing above the earth with a crown of clouds, it wouldn't yield.

His Tinbe then reformed completely, but there was a gap the size of a sword slash right on its upper top left corner.

That was where Hiei focused his attack, sticking the tip of his Jaou-En-Satsu Ken (Sword of Darkness Flame) right into it, forcing its way in.

Hiei learned a lot from Kurama's little trick earlier with the Demon World Moss. This time around, the jaganshi found a weak point before the shield was able to fully heal or reconstitute itself.

Hiei's aura of youki and black flames flared to life, increasing the pressure on that one little crack, like a pressure cooker about to burst.

More cracks appeared on the shield as the pressure built up further and further. It reached the boiling point and then went beyond it. Through this one weakness, Hiei was able to focus his demonic energies and bust through.

The Tinbe cracked apart in twain and then into a million pieces, and from there Hiei released all of the Dragons of Darkness Flame unto Usui's hapless form.

However, that was actually a ruse.

The blind swordsman and spearman had actually activated a second illusion from Jine Udo's Jagan as Hiei attacked with the full power of the Kokuryuha inside of him, knowing full well that his Tinbe wasn't complete yet.

However, by making Hiei dream that he had broken the false Tinbe, this bought Usui enough time to completely manifest his real Tinbe with the small crack or gap finally filled in.

It was this shield that stopped the Dragons of Darkness Flame cold.

Usui baited Hiei into wasting his one shot at him and it worked. Hook, line, and sinker.

Every last one of the flame dragons crashed uselessly against the reinforced and complete Tinbe, like the waves of the ocean crashing against the sea wall or dam. The tides turned but the wall remained unperturbed.

Hiei's Jagan was now his...!

However, as Uonuma began his counter Rochin stab with the intension of pinning both Hiei and Kurama into the nearest wall like twin butterflies, something felt amiss.

His body then literally fell apart into tiny pieces of meat cubes, red mist spraying all around him.

Usui was able to seal the crack on his Tinbe, but the gap of time he needed to do his counterstrike was all Hiei required to strike back.

In that fraction of a fraction of a second, the super-powered fire demon slashed at him at the rate of a hundred times per second. Or more.

Before Usui could block one strike with his shield. Or counter with a thrown spear to the heart or face.  Or even activate Jine's Jagan at the last second and create another illusion to fool Hiei with.

Moving faster than his sensitive hearing could detect. Or predict.

Moving faster than his mind could fathom.

Moving faster than sound itself.

***

About a hundred years ago, around the 1870s, inside Shishio's hidden fortress within Mount Hiei...

From out of the blue, Usui Uonuma asked Makoto Shishio a simple question.

"Between the Ten Ken (Heaven Sword) and myself, who is more powerful?" he had asked out of whimsy. "Who would win in a fight?"

Shishio chuckled, swirling the wine inside his wineglass as he considered Uonuma's unusual query. He decided to humor his former hitokiri (manslayer) rival.

"You can keep up with Sou-kun's speed up until he uses the Shun Ten Satsu (Instant Heaven Kill), which is him using both battoujutsu (sword-drawing techniques) and the Shukuchi (Reduced Earth) at the same time. If you're able to disable him before that, then you will win."

"Shun Ten Satsu, huh?" repeated Usui. "Why do you think that?"

Makoto drunk his drink in one shot and then gave the glass back to his courtesan and lover, Yumi Komagata.

"It's simple. You can counter anything you can hear, smell, sense, and react to, right? Sou-kun's Shun Ten Satsu is faster than sound. Your Shingan won't even hear him coming."

***

Back in 1993, at Mount Kannon...

Kenshin Himura sighed as he trudged on foot back to Mt. Kannon within the Hidaka Mountain Range of Hokkaido.

He had Kazuma Kuwabara place him near the mountain care of the trusty Jigen Tou (Dimension Sword).

Like in the case of the battle at Mount Kamui, Mount Kannon was outside of Okushiri.

Kenshin had absorbed enough spirit energy from all the Reikai Tantei (Spirit Detectives) earlier to manifest himself and his spiritual body on his own, without being wielded by any of them.

Although he was kind of curious what sort of powers would manifest if his sword were held by the likes of Yahiko Myojin, Natsuki Shinkai, Likka Ikumi, or Daiji Matsudaira.

Perhaps another time, they'd find out.

Most of the energy he soaked up came from Yusuke Urameshi, in fact. It should last him until the rest of the battle.

The fact that Yusuke's reiki was that immense was both reassuring and worrying.

Reassuring in that they had the big guns against the Shin Juppon Gatana (New Ten Swords) this time around. Worrying in that he wasn't sure if it was Rando's Kugai (World of Suffering) curse or Urameshi's own developing powers that led him to have this surplus of energy.

Without all those multiple seals that held back his power, Yusuke might still suffer from power incontinence. He might still be unable to control his full immeasurable strength.

Regardless, Himura had other concerns to deal with. He was busy taking care of this Chinese warrior earlier, who wounded him in battle that made it difficult for him to save Hajime Saito from Feng Xinhai's schemes and Toguro Ani's attempt at possession.

A Chinese warrior that ended up related to him and his dark past after all.

The stranger with white hair and crazed eyes that Kenshin fought was no stranger to him after all. He remembered who the man was.

The man's name was Enishi Yukishiro, all grown up. The younger brother of Kenshin's ex-wife, Tomoe.

Since Tomoe was Kenshin's ex-wife, that made Enishi his brother-in-law. A brother-in-law with a century-old grudge regarding Kenshin's (accidental) murder of Tomoe Himura (nee Yukishiro).

"...Tell me, Battousai. Is my sister smiling down on you from heaven?" so said Tomoe's brother, Enishi.

Enishi had somehow ended up in the Heisei Era and got himself mixed up in Kenshin's current affairs. Himura could've almost sworn that his brother-in-law had died back in the Bakumatsu.

The younger brother of Tomoe was one of many unsettled debts Kenshin left when he died fighting against Makoto Shishio back at Mount Hiei.

In their first meeting in a hundred years, Enishi even gave Kenshin the same wound that ultimately killed Tomoe.

Meanwhile, as Himura neared where he previously defeated the martial artist, the cross-shaped scar on his cheek flared with a twinge of pain. No, actually the cuts felt as painful and fresh to him as the first time they were made.

The scar somehow ached even more than the much deeper laceration on his chest that still hadn't fully healed.

Like a paper cut that microscopically tore through skin and thousands of nerve endings like a jagged handsaw.

As though Enishi's very presence had reactivated Tomoe's curse on him. The curse of the cross-shaped scar.

***

At the helipad of the Okushiri Military Base...

"Get the HELL out of THERE! Sadojima Houji!" beckoned Yahiko as he sheathed his sakabatou while Botan herself swooped down from above then behind him.

He further chided, "That strike wasn't enough to take you down, right? No, you still have the Chojin's powers inside you, you dirty rat. Of course that wasn't enough!"

"You're being too loud, Yahiko! You're bothering the military people!" was what Botan resisted herself from saying, inwardly reminding the Kaoru inside her, 'He's supposed to be loud, you silly goose! The Chojin and his forces are invading Okushiri, remember? If not Hokkaido altogether!'

The aforementioned military base had long ago been put on high alert ever since supernatural beings started attacking different parts of the island at once.

Many of their deployed teams didn't return to the base hours after deployment.

"Stand aside, kid!" one of the soldiers said, who in Yahiko's eyes should've looked more shocked at seeing the seeming U.F.O. land in the middle of their base. "Civilians aren't allowed in here. This is now official military business!"

Another private attempted to grab hold of Myojin, only for him to slip his grasp. The teenaged version of Yahiko willed his ghostly self to become incorporeal.

The Jieitai or JSDF (Japanese Self-Defense Forces) then surrounded what was left of Daiji's solidified reiatsu structure, their guns cocked and ready to go.

What remained of Matsudaira's seal broke apart like a hatching egg.

And from there came forth the Onmyouji (Occult Priest) in all his glory, wearing a mix of a business suit with an occultist robe serving as his overcoat. The true right-hand man of the Overfiend.

With purple glowing eyes and a miasmic aura that flowed all over his body like thick black and crimson smoke from a smoldering flame, Houji spoke in askance.

"Why do you want to fight me, Myojin Yahiko? Do you bear a grudge against me? Do you hate me from the bottom of your heart?"

Yahiko was taken aback by the question. "W-What...?"

"Right now, you have no such hate in your heart," said Houji the Onmyouji. "You're fighting out of a sense of duty to your friends. To your idol, Himura Battousai. Otherwise, you'd have no such quarrel against me."

Or perhaps Sadojima was merely acting as the representative speaker to one other person.

Perhaps Myojin was actually talking to the Chojin (Overfiend) himself. The mastermind behind all these resurrected baddies from the Meiji Era to the Heisei Era.

Just who the hell was the Chojin anyway? Was he Makoto Shishio? Or someone else entirely?

The Onmyouji's ghoulish shikigami (familiars) with their tattered robes and sharp scythes flew at the gathered soldiers, who fired at them to no avail.

"STOP!" screamed both Yahiko and Botan at the familiars prior to the massacre that was about to take place.

None of the military men stood a chance against these supernatural beings.

***

Back in Hokkaido, far away from Okushiri, at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Kenshin witnessed Enishi's strength firsthand.

The Chinese warrior had become so powerful he drove Himura Battousai himself from the forests of Okushiri all the way to a whole separate mountain range in Hokkaido, miles away from the island.

By pure willpower and hatred, Enishi grew strong enough to give pause to even the powered-up version of Battousai that had his own magical Demon Sword.

The Overfiend had indeed prepared for every last contingency. He was every bit as cunning as Youko Kurama himself.

Earlier, Kenshin's chest actually got hit by Enishi Yukishiro's ultimate attack, the Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei or Kofuku Zettousei (Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush), as a counter to the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki (Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash).

Kenshin was also distracted by the fact that Tomoe's brother managed to find him a century later to enact his rightful revenge. His Jinchu.

That was why he was defeated by a technique Enishi must've trained over and over again to counter all sorts of battoujutsu strikes, including the ultimate one devised for the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu.

Luckily, instead of doing the follow-up strike that would've also missed, Kenshin had the foresight to do a more powerful version of the Dou Ryu Sen on the ground that was enhanced by the vortex created by the succession technique.

This last-minute creative counter was what initially buried Enishi right into the heart of Mt. Kannon.

Regardless, Kenshin arrived back at his earlier starting point.

By Himura's estimation, only he or maybe Yusuke could take Yukishiro out one-on-one. Enishi should not be allowed to join forces with the rest of the Shin Ju.

***

Yahiko manifested his neutralizing reiki and kenki all over the military base with a sparkling blue and yellow light that blended together and formed a green glow. This then warded off the raggedy evil spirits that served as the Onmyouji's shikigami.

It was his own form of spirit pressure. His spirit energy interacted with his swordsman presence in a way that sealed or canceled out the spiritual power of his opponents.

Botan, in turn, flickered back and forth between her original shinigami (death goddess) form and Kaoru Kamiya's form as she saved the soldiers from being reaped by Houji's soul reapers by using her floating boat oar like a bokken (wooden sword) or naginata (glaive).

The two Kamiya Kasshin Ryu practitioners made short work of the familiars before they could take one life of the JSDF military corps.

"Please evacuate from here. You're no match against them," explained Botan to one of the soldiers before swatting multiple weakened shikigami away with her weaponized boat paddle.

One of Myojin's shikigami-dissipating swings swiped mere inches away from Houji's face, creating a thin cut over the bridge of his nose.

"Swinging a sword mindlessly at someone out of hatred is just violence. Kenshin taught me that," said Yahiko. "My duty as the Son of Tokyo Samurai is to defeat you. That is all. I'll even stake my life on it."

Sadojima smirked. "So be it. Samurai-san."

From behind Houji teleported the ever-reliable Gatekeeper Itsuki.

Yahiko turned towards the blue-haired shinigami and told her, "Quick, call Boke (Moron) and tell him to come here right now."

"Boke...?" trailed off Botan.

"KUWABARA! Kuwabara Kazuma! We need him here now! If he needs healing, heal him up as well! He and his space sword are the only ones who can take on that green-haired yoga guy and his goddamn portals!"

"All right! I'll call him! Jeez," said Botan, who turned on her communicator.

"Language, Yahiko!" reprimanded the Kaoru inside her in turn.

Afterwards, Itsuki summoned a multitude of warp gates, this time rectangular and doorway-shaped instead of circular and hole-shaped.

Inside each dimensional door was either the corpse (as well as ashes) or unconscious body of the many different Shin Juppon Gatana members.

It was through these gates that the Occult Priest blasted his purple beams of negative energy. Before, they served as destructive pillars of neon plasma. Now, they were probably used to give the killed or otherwise heavily injured Shin Ju another lease on life.

"Oh no," said Botan. "Not again. He's not going to revive all the New Ten again, is he? Jeez, we just defeated those goons! Learn how to stay down and give up!"

The shining eyes of Houji the Onmyouji then dimmed and faded away, replaced with his actual normal eyes.

"Ah, you returned. The snotty little brat. How does it feel to go back to zero after all the effort you've spent killing the Shin Ju? Like Sisyphus and his rock, right?"

The boisterous nature of the Chojin's conduit had returned. Houji was seemingly awakened from his brief slumber earlier, when he actually sounded "cool" and "aloof" for a hot minute.

"Hey," said Yahiko. "What happened to you earlier? You weren't the one talking, were you?"

Houji raised an eyebrow at that. "What do you mean?"

"Don't play dumb. It was the Chojin who talked to us back then, right?" asked Myojin. "Tell it to me straight: The Chojin is Shishio Makoto, isn't he? Of course, he is! Who else would start a war against the Spirit World with a team called the New Ten Swords? No one but him!"

The necromancer chuckled. "That's a... secret."

With a grunt, the samurai teen jumped and attacked the Chojin's right-hand man with a downward slash from the Jodan-no-Kamae (Fire Stance), which was then blocked by Houji's scythe.

They crossed blades, their different energies clashing against each other as arcs of lightning ripped through everywhere like light-filled cracks that broke through reality itself.

Houji's lack of formal training with his weapon was rendered moot due to his seemingly oceanic flow of negative energy that gave his simple block the weight of the world. Or at least the huge water pressure of the ocean depths.

However, regardless, the beams of purple plasma emanating from the dark priest flickered and wavered as it interacted with the reiatsu of Yahiko.

"That's it! You can do it, Yahiko!" said the Kaoru within Botan. "Show them why I consider you the number one pupil of the Kamiya Kasshin School!"

"Can you really do it, boy?" asked Houji, smirking. "Can you seal away the overflowing, overwhelming power of the Chojin himself? The Living Sin?"

The dimensional doors leading to the Shin Ju were then shut down. Or rather, slashed shut.

Gatekeeper Itsuki chuckled, his slashed eye that doubled as a dimensional portal opening. "He's here."

Sure enough, in one of the doors, the jaki beam was slashed in twain, the negative energy cut down by the spiritual might of the Jigen Tou.

It was from this door that Kazuma Kuwabara emerged, the transparent ghost of a recovering Sanosuke Sagara beside hiim.

"You called, Jo-chan (Missy)?" said Sano.

"YOSHA! (HELL YEAH!) Let's get this party started, samurai boy!" shouted Kazuma, the rambunctious teenager with bleached orange hair similarly styled like his best friend Yusuke Urameshi's hair.

***

And so there he was. Buried deep underneath Mt. Kannon itself like Son Goku the Monkey King from the literary masterpiece, "Journey to the West".

The rumbling inside the grumbling mountain roared deeper and harder. Like it was about to explode and turn into a volcano.

"...BATTOUSAI!" screamed Tomoe Yukishiro's little brother Enishi from underneath Kannon Mountain, spewing hot fire along with the brimstone and magma he was surrounded in.

His spectacles had long ago been lost or burned to smoke and ash by molten rock. The rest of his outfit remained intact though, probably protected by his body's significant aura.

Yukishiro crawled out of the hot magma pits of hell, or at least the otherwise dormant mountain in an explosion of fire, smoke, molten rock, and lava flow that scarred and burned the surrounding forest.

The singes and burns on Enishi's (literally) piping hot body, however, started healing right before Kenshin's eyes.

Not quite at the level of instantaneous regeneration as the Elder Toguro, but quick enough to survive a trip down a volcano and live to tell the tale. Still too quick compared to a normal mortal though.

Besides which, he wasn't supposed to only be burned from the fires of a river of magma anyway. It must've taken thousands of degrees of heat to even leave him slightly scalded at all.

His humongous amount of spirit energy kept him from suffering life-threatening injury. The same way Hiei or Yusuke would've survived such a predicament.

The red-hot blade of the Chinese-styled warrior didn't quite reach its melting point but it cooled down from the sheer blast of miasmic spirit energy from him.

If allowed to run rampant like the rest of the Ten Swords, Yukishiro could very well murder every last one of them. The Reikai Tantei, the Kenshingumi, and the Oniwabanshu.

All of them could die. This high-level martial artist could do what at least 8 of the 10 Shin Ju couldn't. He was a one-man army. He was like their Hajime Saito. A true wild card of sorts.

Kenshin foresaw it all through the Youtou Shinnoken.

The last thing Yahiko and the rest of the Reikai Senshi (Spirit World Warriors) needed right now while battling the Onmyouji and the Chojin's wealth of negative energy was a spanner in the works like Enishi.

***

The powers of most of the reincarnations or ghosts from the Meiji Era—most of Kenshin's comrades—were a result of how their spirit energy interacted with their swordsman energy or fighting spirit, creating what was known as reiatsu.

With Daiji Matsudaira (Aoshi Shinomori's reincarnation), it was the Quest-Class manifestation of objects and materials from his spirit energy.

With Natsuki Shinkai (Yutaro Tsukayama's reincarnation), it was the ability to manipulate kinetic momentum or acceleration, usually in the form of reflection or deflection.

With Likka Ikumi (Misao Makimachi's reincarnation), it was her skill to manifest her thoughts into reality, creating visual mirages or even holographic illusions seen by all.

With Sanosuke Sagara's soul, it was his pure fighting spirit that allowed his ghost to approach Regent-Class regeneration abilities, stamina, and pure brute force that allowed him to affect the physical plain like a rampaging poltergeist.

With Kaoru Kamiya's soul, it was a mix between Botan's soul reaper powers and Kaoru's past swordsmanship skills that allowed them to heal, boost, replenish, bind, manipulate, or otherwise enhance the spirit energy within them or of those around them.

With Kenshin Himura's soul, he became one with the Demon Sword, a demon-slaying blade that could arguably injure or kill a god. His own reiki, kenki, and reiatsu interacted with anyone who wielded his blade in ways that raised their very power levels.

Finally, with Yahiko Myojin's soul, his unique brand of spirit energy interacted with other spirit energy (whether it was human or demonic) in a way that suppressed or neutralized them into nothingness.

Yahiko's unique powers worked like how an acid and a base reacted quantitatively with each other when mixed until the acidity of the acid disappeared. Or how Hiei's Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha was cancelled out by Shinobu Sensui's polar opposite power of Sei Kou Ki (Saint Light Ki).

Their reiatsu was different from the reiki and youki used by Yusuke Urameshi and their comrades due to the use of other forms of reiki within the Meiji Era reincarnations and the use of classic shinigami warrior techniques among the revived spirits.

Reiatsu was more comparable to something like Sensui's Saint Light Ki or Yusuke mixing his reiki and youki together to form something approaching Sei Kou Ki instead of either pure reiki or youki. Even jaki.

It was through these souls—these seeds of hope—that Koenma Daio intended to defeat the Chojin and his unnatural powers that defied death and the natural order of the Spirit World.

***

Kurama's board full of chess pieces were in their proper places, which kept the Chojin in check. They were practically on the verge of a checkmate, even.

The pawns were positioned to divide and conquer the Shin Juppon Gatana, with each Reikai Senshi paired up to their appropriate members.

Their source of power, Houji, had his borrowed negative energy suppressed by Yahiko. Their means of transportation, Itsuki, got sealed off by the Reikai's own Kuwabara and his Dimensional Sword.

Botan was there to heal and replenish reiki as well as assist Myojin tactics-wise care of Kaoru. Sanosuke himself was gradually recovering his spirit energy and fighting spirit for good measure as "Jo-chan" or the shinigami she fused with nursed his flickering body back to health.

Kuwabara regained his second wind even, which allowed him to not only create portals but to close or destroy them with his twin Dimension Swords.

This kept the annoying Gatekeeper from transporting jaki to the injured/dead Shin Ju or even getting the recovered members to help Houji out.

Even with his use of Sensui's seven personalities and the new powers it brought him, Kazuma kept him at bay.

As for the shikigami that served as the Onmyouji's infantry, Sanosuke punched them out with the "FUTAE NO KIWAMI! (DUAL EXTREME!)" while riding shotgun on Botan's oar.  

So why did Myojin feel like something was amiss? Like he had a bad feeling about everything? Like something terrible was about to happen?

A new enemy descended from an unseen sky portal that Kuwabara noticed, slashed apart, and closed too late.

"Huh!?" was Yahiko's reaction to the new arrival. This distracted him even as he ended up on the verge of disarming the untrained Houji. "Who is that? Is it another replacement Shin Ju?"

Kuwabara said, "We've already confirmed that Toguro Ani and Kuronue replaced Suzaku and Udo Jine! It's not one of the New Ten! Must be one of the Dai Shin Kan instead!"

Sanosuke's jaw dropped. "No way...!" which made Botan and Kaoru ask in unison, "Who is that supposed to be, Sano?"

Kazuma jumped into action, intending to slash a portal and kick the newcomer into it, only for his Jigen Tou's energy to start unraveling before his eyes.

The woman in courtesan clothes smiled as she floated down using her umbrella as a parachute (like goddamn Mary Poppins, Botan realized), crimson energy emanating from her pale white skin.

"Ah, it's all coming together now." Houji cackled. "Welcome back, Komagata Yumi. Get rid of these insects for me, if you would please."  

And so Makoto Shishio's personal courtesan and lover arrived, dressed in her classic Meiji Era garb but this time there was a hole in her chest where her heart used to be.

The very place where Shishio stabbed her in order to do a surprise attack on Battousai Himura.

Also, she had long fangs inside her mouth.

"Inner Blood Turmoil," Yumi said as she sapped Kuwabara of all his spirit energy using the Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu (Vampire Martial Arts) that Rando stole from her.

"SHIT! Now even Shishio's girlfriend has superpowers too?!" said Sanosuke, remembering the woman whom he did a bridal carry with as they traversed Shishio's Mt. Hiei stronghold.

"...BLOOD WIND!" she screamed, releasing a red energy-sapping tornado at the Reikai Senshi.

***

Originally, Kenshin was barely able to defeat Enishi and get back in time and save Sanosuke Sagara, Kazuma Kuwabara, and Hajime Saito from the nefarious machinations of Karasu, Feng Xinhai, Usui Uonuma, and Gatekeeper Itsuki at Mt. Kamui.

But now that his detour was over, he had to get back to his original business.

He had to. Or else Enishi would undo everything they'd done so far to suppress the New Ten Swords from conquering the island of Okushiri as well as Hokkaido.

"Sessha (This one) wonders why even though I thought I'd never met you before, you seemed to know everything about me de gozaru (that you did)."

"'Sessha'? 'De gozaru'?" Enishi repeated the words with a snarl and a dismissive snort. "Are you kidding me, Battousai? Why is the most fearsome hitokiri of the Bakumatsu acting like a gentle fool with flowery samurai language? Enough of your lies!"

"This one never thought to see you again after a hundred years. I was sure you were already dead," confessed Kenshin.

"I did die. But I live again. Reincarnated in a new era," said Enishi. "I willed this weak new body I was reborn into to become even stronger than I already was before you died in the hands of Shishio Makoto."

'So he survived the Bakumatsu after all,' thought Kenshin, who believed that Enishi had died of starvation as a little boy in the ensuing revolution.

"Now I will enact the revenge that I was robbed of a hundred years ago! If you've been dispensing Tenchu (Heavenly Retribution) in your time as a hitokiri, then this is Jinchu (Earthly Retribution) for all your sins! Prepare yourself, Battousai! ZETSUGI...!"  

From there, he didn't even give Himura the chance to breathe or any breathing room as he attacked, attacked, an attacked some more.

Tomoe's little brother had grown ridiculously strong. As though he'd been training the last hundred years for this one moment. Empowered purely by hate.

However, one way or another, Kenshin was able to contain Yukishiro's growing threat long enough to assist Saito's rescue or allow the Kenshingumi to go through their mission of taking out Houji.

Himura figured out how his Wattoujutsu (a mixture of Japanese swordsmanship and Chinese kung fu) worked after only seeing a couple of techniques from it.

The Demon Sword's blade then shone with an ethereal light before Kenshin's form changed altogether.

From a 30-year-old man, his body returned to his more youthful 15- to-16-year-old self.

The form he had before he developed the cross-shaped scars. When he was still known as the Hitokiri Battousai. This way, he could engage Enishi the same way he did against any other opponent.

Free of bias. Free of shame or guilt.

"SHUUGEKI TOU SEI! (KICKING SWORD RUSH!)"

This technique of Enishí's involved hitting his opponent from below then kicking the blunt side of his sword at the last second to maximize damage.

Thusly, Kenshin answered the technique back with his own, "SOU RYU SEN! (TWIN DRAGON FLASH!)"

"KAISHI TOU SEI! (BAYONET SWORD RUSH!)"

As for the Bayonet Sword Rush, it was a follow-up whirling counterattack or riposte involving Enishi putting the hilt of his sword against his opponent's sword to add momentum to his pivoting swing.

However, Kenshin had a similar counterstrike technique like that as well in the form of "RYU KAN SEN! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH!)"

"SHO HA TOU SEI! (PALM BREAK SWORD RUSH!)"

From the Jodan Stance, Enishi swept his sword starting from over his head down to the ground. Afterwards, he then placed the palm of his hand on the sword's blunt side to push it forward at full force.

The answer to this move that resembled the Dragon Hammer Flash was the "RYU SHO SEN! (RISING DRAGON FLASH!)", which was the natural Ryu Tsui Sen counter that doubled as a two-handed sword block wherein the sword was held by its handle and tip with either hand.

"CHOU TEN TOU SEI! (UP-AND-DOWN SWORD RUSH!)"

This was Wattoujutsu's version of the Ryu Sho Sen. It allowed Enishi to leap upwards using his sword as his pole vault then attack from the air by pulling his sword towards him by its hilt cord immediately after jumping.

Kenshin drew out the fearsome technique with a feinted Ryu Tsui Sen only to do the "RYU KAN SEN ARASHI! (DRAGON WRAP FLASH STORM!) at the last second, the multi-hit forward somersault sword strikes catching Yukishiro off-guard.

"Ugh!" Enishi landed bad on his ankle, his knees buckling from the force of the centrifugal strikes, the chainsaw-like windmill of strikes drawing a fine mist and squall of blood. "Damn you, Battousai...!"

Kenshin cut Enishi's cursing short with a jarring punch to his jaw.

Battousai Himura had a Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu answer to every one of the white-haired young man's Wattoujutsu techniques. He took advantage of Enishi's barrage of hateful, unfocused strikes with clinical precision.

The fact that Himura didn't realize who exactly he was fighting against until the last second helped him figure out the proper counters to Enishi's Wattoujutsu early on and even bury him right inside the Kamui Mountain itself. Albeit temporarily.

Kenshin imagined he'd have a harder time with the kung fu master swordsman were he distracted by his guilt for killing Tomoe and knowing Enishi's identity from the start.

"Is that all you've got, Battousai?" demanded the scuffed-up, bleeding-from-the-mouth Enishi, who spat away blood as his veins—no, his very nerves themselves—hypertrophied or thickened enough to become visible underneath his skin with vascular density.

This was his Kyokei Myaku (Nerves of Insanity) in action.

***

It was bedlam at the Military Base of Okushiri.

Ten things were happening at once, and barely anyone could keep up.

More soldiers were deployed to rescue the fallen and suppress the invaders.

They waged war against the Onmyouji's shikigami, even though many of them couldn't even see the grim reaper familiars.

They had to use their special thermal goggles to detect and shoot the enemy, but neither bullets nor grenades worked on them.

Botan had more luck dissipating the strange creatures into the ether, but that was because it was part of her job description as a soul reaper.

She did double duty in casting her healing and reiki-replenishing spells on Yahiko, Sanosuke, and Kuwabara while at the same time defeating her share of scythe-wielding reapers created from wayward earthbound spirits infected with the Chojin's jaki.

Also, the bodies were really hitting the floor now. Not due to the Kenshingumi (they were basically all ghosts) or their Reikai Tantei comrade falling into a dead faint.

It was because the vampire (or perhaps succubus) Yumi bit the necks and absorbed the blood of all the nearest JSDF soldiers to power her Kyuuketsuki Kakuto Ryu.

As for Gatekeeper Itsuki, he and Kuwabara were having a portal contest of sorts. He kept making portals while Kazuma kept slicing them apart.

Regardless, it took much longer for Yahiko to seal the power of the Chojin, the borrowed ocean of jaki overflowing with immense pressure from within gleeful Sadojima.

"TSUI GAMI...!? (HAMMER OF GOD...!?)"

Myojin's attempt at the sword-breaking, jaki-neutralizing Hammer of God was thwarted with a simple yet shuddering one-handed scythe swipe that belied Houji's actual physical strength.

"So you intend to beat me at this level of strength?" asked a smug Sadojima before releasing a pillar of jaki that made Yahiko kneel before him, as though bearing the weight of the world on his shoulders.

Yahiko felt like he had plunged deep underwater, drowning in negative energy as the oceanic water pressure increased further and further the deeper he went.

Myojin grunted, grit his teeth, and rose up against the harsh and dense waves of pure jaki that bore down on him in waves, his green aura of reiatsu resisting the crushing force of the Overfiend's distant yet overbearing presence.

Like a black sun whose dark rays and heat reached the earth all the way from space despite being millions of miles away.

It was a tug of war between the Chojin's power boosts and Yahiko's neutralization skill.

Thanks to Botan and Kaoru, the ghost of Sanosuke had healed up and reenergized himself with reiki enough to summon his signature Zanbatou (Horse-Chopping Sword) again at long last.

He had more bandages than usual, half of which were spirit seals from Botan that kept his ectoplasm from escaping his ghostly form.

"ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU DISTANCE HIT!)"

Sanosuke's Zanbatou Ate, based on Anji Yukyuzan's Tou Ate (Bladed Distance Hit), created a landslide aimed at Houji, who shielded himself with his shikigami ghouls.

"ZANKUU ZANBATOU ATE! (ZANBATOU VACUUM DISTANCE HIT!) "

As for his Zankuu Zanbatou Ate, Sanosuke aimed it at the ensuing Blood Wind air funnel that the courtesan in revealing clothing fired off at him.

The last thing Sano expected was to use that 12-foot longsword against Shishio's lover, the non-fighter known as Yumi.

***

Enishi did a low split-legged crouch, only to charge with an onslaught of strikes instead of doing another Zettousei when he saw Kenshin sink his stance low in kind instead of taking his bait and attacking with the Hirameki.

"SENRAN TOU SEI! (WAR SWORD RUSH!)"

"RYU SOU SEN! (DRAGON NEST FLASH!)"

Sparks flew everywhere as though they were in a steel mill or foundry as they parried and attacked each other with impunity, their swords crossing and chipping at their edges.

Blood and ectoplasm stained the ground soon afterward from both combatants.

Enishi moved faster than Kenshin could react. Like an unswattable fly. Or perhaps a whole swarm of flies. Locusts. Bees. Wasps, even. A plague of wasps. His twitch muscles able to react to attacks or counterattacks by lightning-fast reflexes.

It was like dealing with Soujiro Seta's Shukuchi all over again. Himura couldn't even predict Enishi's strikes by reading his sakki (bloodlust) because he was exuding hatred and killer instinct at all times. At every waking moment.

Like the polar opposite of the Heaven Sword. It was no different to deal with someone who lacked bloodlust compared to someone who always exuded bloodlust. There was no sudden spike of killer instinct you could use to read an opponent's moves.

This forced Kenshin to take the initiative and jump high into the air in order to become the aggressor for a change, even if only to draw out a counterstrike that he could then counter.

"RYU TSUI SEN! (DRAGON HAMMER FLASH!)"

Yukishiro countered by also leaping vertically before Kenshin could drop him with the Dragon Hammer Flash. Afterwards, at the point where his jump force was equal to Earth's gravity, he jumped even further, thus essentially doing a double jump or what was known to basketball players as an airwalk.

"SHIKKU TOU SEI! (SLASHER SWORD RUSH!)"

Kenshin's youtou (demon sword) and Enishi's watou (Chinese-style katana) clashed hard against each other, their impactful vibrations strong enough to shatter steel. However, their mystical swords forged from spirit energy and the life force of their very souls both held true.

However, Battousai or no Battousai, the scarless Kenshin realized he had to take Yukishiro out before his own feelings of despair, depression, shame, and remorse got the better of him.

For even now, he felt like he deserved to get hit by every last strike from Enishi for the sin of accidentally killing his ex-wife in an attempt to rescue her from her kidnapper.

"KUZU RYU SEN! (NINE-HEADED DRAGON FLASH!)"

"UGH!"

Like water crushing rock over time, the constant barrage of counters from earlier finally took its toll on Enishi, leading to several lapses of attention that the Battousai took advantage of to great effect.

Kenshin's persistence paid off, with that last multi-hit attack finally landing on his nerve-filled brother-in-law.

He then prepared to do a supersonic noutoujutsu (sword-sheathing technique). The same one he used to disable the super sensitive hearing of Usui Uonuma's Shingan.

"RYU MEI...! (DRAGON CRY...!)"

Kenshin stopped short of doing his high-pitched sheathing technique when he saw a familiar young woman with jet-black hair, doe eyes, a white kimono, and purple shawl appear out of the half-burnt forest.

She brought with her a nostalgic, heartbreaking scent.

"T-Tomoe...?!" stuttered Kenshin before Enishi's Watou ended up stabbing him right in his chest, on the same wound made by the Zettousei that got him earlier.

The pair of scars on his left cheek reappeared. Bleeding with fresh blood (or, in his case, ectoplasm).

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

The Blood Wind dissipated from the strength of Sanosuke's vacuum slash, but Yumi herself blocked the wind pressure with her open, glowing-red umbrella serving as her shield.

Ah, yes. The Blood Wind.

The double-edged, energy-sapping red tornado created from the heat of the spirit energy it stole and the coldness of an injured body that was losing blood.

However, this woman somehow managed to do Blood Winds without the need to be injured. Or perhaps the hole in her chest served as her injury?

Sagara originally thought it was one of Rando's ultimate moves, only to remember something about him stealing techniques. So this energy-sapping technique was actually her move, wasn't it?

Regardless, what was a desperation move for Rando was a normal move for her. It all made sense now. Or at least that part did.

"How the hell did you get superpowers too, lady?" Sano demanded to Yumi. "You even went so far as to change yourself into a vampire! You really are something else!"

"Stop acting so friendly around me, you boorish lout," said Komagata to Sagara with half-lidded eyes, parrying his probing zanbatou stab from more than 12 feet away with her closed umbrella that doubled as her sword. "You should've stayed as a ghost in the Spirit World. You'll regret crossing paths with us again after a hundred years, Sagara Sanosuke."

Sano left his cumbersome giant sword behind, charged unimpeded, and backhanded the woman. "Nothing personal, Neechan. We can't let you or your psycho boyfriend run amok again in this era either."

"...Bastard! You dare hit a lady?! Youki Duantoutai! (Spirit Guillotine!)" Yumi reeled from the slap that caught her by surprise but then kept Sanosuke at bay with the Spirit Guillotines.

"...Son of a bitch! Rando stole that move from you too?!" said Yahiko before breaking the paper-thin waves of demon energy with "Men (Head)" strikes from the Fire Stance and flying skyward with the God in Heaven technique.

"Not exactly," Yumi chatted with a nonchalant smirk. "I stole some of Rando's moves myself in exchange for the moves he stole from me. Tit-for-tat."

As for Sanosuke, his follow-up attempt at chopping Komagata in half with his 12-foot sword led to it getting blasted full of huge holes care of Itsuki. This made the zanbatou look like a macroscopic slice of grey Swiss cheese.

The scattershot blasts responsible for Sano's predicament originated from a gun attached to Itsuki's right arm. It shot out miniature black holes the size of pinholes but had event horizons the size of bowling balls or bigger. They ate up any type of matter nearest them.

It was a (literal) handgun with black holes as its bullets that the Gatekeeper developed through the help of Shinobu Sensui's Kazuya personality.

Itsuki's Black Hole Gun also ate up chunks of Sano's ghostly flesh whole.

"GUUAAAHH!"

The Gatekeeper had taken advantage of Sanosuke's moment of hesitation in killing Yumi. Sano remembered mid-swing how she had originally died by Shishio's hand and then had her corpse burn along with his in a sudden unintended funeral pyre.

Meanwhile, as the flying Myojin attacked Yumi from above, Botan attacked from below. She flew on her oar mere inches from the ground before getting off her ride and using her forward momentum to smash her paddle right into the vampire. She then let the more athletic Kaoru inside her do the rest.

Using jaki and youki together, the succubus imbued her foldable fan and her closed umbrella with enough blood-red energy to stop the oar cold with a cross-block. She then unfurled her umbrella in time to also prevent Yahiko's Ryu Tsui Sen from hitting her noggin.

From this close proximity, she then used her Inner Blood Turmoil to absorb her attackers' spirit energy unto herself, sapping the two of their reiki and making their souls flicker and fade.

Neither the living nor the dead were safe from this vampire queen.

***

"GOU TSUI TOU SEI! (FALLING BLADE SWORD RUSH!)" screamed Enishi after impaling the distracted Kenshin in the chest.

The Falling Blade Sword Rush allowed the white-haired martial artist to pin Battousai at last, lifting him high up and over his head with his sword and upper-body strength.

"At last. At long last. You're going to die, Battousai! You scum! You criminal! You took away everything from me! Now I will return the favor and take away everything from you! This is my Jinchu!"

The Guardian of the Youtou Shinnoken grunted and coughed, his eyes unable to tear themselves away at the visage and silhouette of his ex-wife Tomoe Yukishiro.

Red tears streamed down his cheeks and bloodstained scar.

"T-Tomoe? I-Is that really you?" he mumbled in disbelief, as though not even noticing Enishi's watou inside of him.

He was no longer Hitokiri Battousai (Battousai the Manslayer). Instead, he transformed back to Rurouni Kenshin (Kenshin the Vagabond).

"Tomoe" then told Enishi with an old man's deep voice, "My apologies. This is the best help I can give you for now. That damn Okashira stole all of the jaki that the Chojin gave me and sealed me and my precious Iwanbos away with it, turning the energy into solidified reiatsu."

"You did splendidly, Gein," said Enishi, who smiled for once. He couldn't face the reanimated corpse of his elder sister eye-to-eye, though. "Now please take that puppet away. I don't want you to soil my sister's memory with it."

Kenshin went pale. He'd been duped by one of Gein's puppets. However, his trickery paid off. He didn't feel like hurting Tomoe's little brother any longer.

"Did you know what I went through to get to this moment, Battousai? As an orphaned boy, I ate human flesh in the battlefield to survive. I was adopted by a rich couple, only for me to kill them because I hated how happy they were. I ended up becoming an arms dealer using their wealth for good measure. I then found out you already died, which sapped me of my will to live. Only to be reborn in this era after I found out you became the Demon Sword's guardian."

Enishi dragged Kenshin's bloody (or ectoplasmic) body all over the forest at the foot of Mt. Kannon, savoring the moment before pulling his sword out and stomping on the Battousai's bleeding wound for good measure.

"I'm not sure whether I should wield your damn sword myself or just destroy you along with that sword. Oh well. It doesn't matter. You could die a thousand deaths and it won't bring back my sister. Even after I died, I couldn't find her anymore. I've lost her forever. All that's left is to make you feel the despair I felt when you stole her away from me."

***

Back at the Okushiri Military Base...

Chaos continued. Fires broke out everywhere.  The wind howled like wolves to the moon. The base crumbled and turned into shambles. It was Hell on Earth.

Hell in Hokkaido.

Komagata's Inner Blood Turmoil created her own version of reiatsu—her youki mixed with the Kenshingumi's reiki, the blood of the soldiers she fed on, and the Chojin's jaki—before releasing that pent-up energy towards Yahiko in the form of the "BLOOD FIRE WAVE!" projectile.

However, thinking fast on her feet, Botan purified the surplus of jaki around them then used it to replenish the reiki she and Myojin lost from being in contact with Yumi.

'Wow. She's doing the thing! The same thing Urameshi did when he got hold of the Meikai's crystal ball thingy,' thought Kuwabara. 'She's purifying jaki into reiki!'

Again, Botan used spirit bandages that doubled as spiritual energy seals, acting more like a priestess than Hinageshi the Shrine Maiden or Houji the Onmyouji.

"Nice one, Tanuki-chan!" said Yahiko. "I mean, thank you, Botan."

Botan smiled at the samurai boy. "You're welcome. Now go get 'em."

'This woman is seriously getting on my nerves,' thought Yumi while eyeing the ferry-girl whose astral body housed two souls instead of just one.

A rejuvenated Myojin then did the sword-breaking "TSUI GAMI!" to neutralize the Blood Fire Wave and the pinhole-sized black holes that Itsuki's sneaky Kazuya personality shot right into his heart and head with the Black Hole Gun.

The samurai kid kept moving forward, practically swimming in the thick of "it", with "it" being the Chojin's ocean of jaki.

Meanwhile, Houji frowned, his arms crossed. 'This goddamn brat! For Chojin's sake, he sure is persistent.'

He thought that the Chojin allowing him more access to his boundless negative energy—enough jaki to, quite frankly, revive the long-dead kingdom of Meikai (Nether World)—was sufficient to neutralize the neutralizer.

However, Houji's jaki output remained relatively low and it even started dwindling.

Like opening your water main at full capacity yet still ending up with less water than you expected when filling up your bathtub. Defying the very will of the Overfiend himself.

'The boy is starting to get better control of his neutralization powers, isn't he?' the Onmyouji thought, tapping his scythe's handle to the ground impatiently.

To Yumi and Itsuki, he only had one command. "Kill him."

Yumi then made it rain blood like the Battousai would back in the Bakumatsu.

A literal rain of blood poured down on them, but each droplet contained razor-sharp scalpels. A bloody rain that cut you apart in order to induce a thicker bloodbath afterwards. It pelted the ground like suppressive fire from a machine gun.

She aptly named the technique, "Bloody Rain."

It was the bloodsucker's way of creating the energy-absorbing Blood Wind without having to sacrifice all the plasma that she had already drained from her other victims.

"I don't know who you are, lady, but you leave that boy alone!" said Kuwabara, who finally had time to intervene.

***

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the island...

Yusuke Urameshi had actually been in a punching match with Toguro Ototo all this time.

Right in the middle of Okushiri Island, in fact. Along the Tsurikake River.

Instead of playing with the percentages of his power, the Younger Toguro instead went all out from the start, displaying 100% of his full strength.

'His B-Level strength,' was Yusuke's unsaid sentiment. He recalled how easily he manhandled the A-Level Rando earlier now that he wasn't faced with any distractions or dirty tactics.

So dealing with Toguro should be a cakewalk now, right?

In kind, Urameshi himself released his first pair of Spirit Cuffs. Just like the good ol' days, they ended up in a slugfest that turned the peaceful river into roiling rapids from the shockwaves of their punches.

"You've struggled in every encounter you've faced with the Chojin's forces so far yet won every time," said the Younger Toguro. "Why is that?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, man," said Yusuke before blasting the gigantic hulking grey behemoth before him with the "SHOT GUN!" technique, bombarding him with the purest of reiki bullets.

The vascular and muscular Toguro pressed on, healing the missing pieces of his flesh instantly like his older brother would.

An impressive feat a power level or two ago. To Yusuke, it had somehow become old hat. Any S-Level worth their salt should be able to regenerate fast enough as long as they had an abundance of spirit or demon energy inside them.

"I took on Rando, Souther (Xinhai), Suzaku, the blind guy (Usui), and the rest of the Chojin's New Ten Swords fair and square. All I'm doing now is killing time and keeping you from ruining Kurama's plans to take your new gang out. Right until your big bad boss, the Chojin, shows up."

Toguro's eyes narrowed behind his shades. 'His reiki is... overflowing. It almost reminds me of the Chojin's own jaki. Immeasurable.'

Yusuke dodged the Shi Dan (Finger Flip Bullets) by reflex even though he had a feeling he could survive direct hits from Toguro's unnaturally strong finger flicks at this point in time.

It was a B-Level against an S-Level (albeit one who was holding his strength back), after all.

The Shi Dan were even more powerful than the strongest human punches, capable of blasting through concrete, but against Urameshi's wealth of spirit energy, he doubted that they'd even penetrate his skin.

Even with his powers sealed, he teetered from being a high A-Level to a low S-Level.  

'Are you hiding your present power level, Toguro? Is your 100% form not your full power?' Urameshi thought.

There was just no way that the likes of Rando, Xinhai, Usui, Saito, or Suzaku would end up stronger than the Toguro Ototo himself.

Then again, while it took Toguro 50 years to reach B-Level, it took only 10 years for Sensui to reach S-Level. Meanwhile, it took less than 3 years for Yusuke to surpass them both and take on a centuries-old S-Level archdemon, Yomi, to the brink of defeat.

To Toguro, Urameshi asked, "What happened to you deciding to stay in Hell for 100 million years to atone for all the crimes you've committed? Were you plucked from Hell by the Chojin and forced to work for him? Answer me, Toguro!"

"...We're not so different, you and I."

"OH, COME ON! Not this tired cliché again!" the teenaged living warhead told off the demonized human strongman in between bone-crushing punches.

He didn't want to hear such things from someone much weaker than him.

***

The veiny (actually nervy) Enishi got talkative all of a sudden, Kenshin realized.

His life story was as unfortunate as the vagabond expected. Maybe even more so. So he even killed a family after he was given a new lease in life? How much of a monster had he become?

This was a lot for Himura to take in. He could barely breathe right now; much less digest Yukishiro's words.

Meanwhile, Enishi snarled in remembrance of the things he'd been through. The people he killed. The opportunities of happiness he turned his back on in favor of a century-old grudge.

The innocents he murdered in order to harden his heart enough to take on a monster like the Battousai. When he died, he resisted the reincarnation cycle for so long, hoping against hope he'd find Himura's soul in the afterlife and drag him to Hell along with him, torturing him for a million years.

However, his chance had finally arrived only a few decades ago. He reentered the reincarnation cycle and avoided becoming an insect or a slug, getting instead the body of a Chinese boy with his memories of the past as a Japanese man intact somehow.

He then trained his body in martial arts, went to prison more than a few times, became a career criminal, and climbed the ranks of organized Chinese crime known as The Triad (what the Shanghai Arms Dealers eventually developed into a hundred years down the line).

In fact, until a few couple of years ago, Enishi occupied the position of Dragon Head that his protégé, Feng Xinhai, currently had. He had a Chinese name himself, but he long ago abandoned that identity in order to completely become Enishi Yukishiro.

He dedicated himself into becoming what he was in his past life and more.

It was because the Chojin himself reawakened his soul's past memories for the purpose of taking down Kenshin Himura.

Under the guidance of the Chojin and his reformed Shin Juppon Gatana, he even learned how to use his spiritual powers on top of reviving the lost martial arts of Wattoujutsu. He studied the Japanese language.

He began slaying demons himself by helping fund technology that linked the Demon World to the Human World with the money he made by being the Triad Dragon Head.

And now, while serving under Tenro the Demon-Slayer's Yakuza Family as one of his enforcers, he finally crossed paths with the man who stole his happiness a hundred years ago.

His revenge, his Jinchu, was literally a hundred years in the making.

"I will kill you now and then the rest of your friends afterwards. I'll break apart the Demon Sword or steal it for myself. Become its new master. From there, in the Spirit World, I will also hunt your ghost and kill you again until all memory of you is erased. Suffer like I did. Suffer for eternity, Battousai!"

Something stirred inside Kenshin when he heard those words. It was one thing for Enishi to swear to kill him. However, what did the rest of his comrades have to do with his revenge? Was he really going to kill the Kenshingumi or even the Reikai Tantei and the Oniwabanshu all in the name of his Jinchu?

Just as Enishi prepared to finish Himura off, a shinigami flew between them like a bolt from the blue.

The woman who sported a black kimono and raven hair zeroed in not on Enishi and Kenshin but instead on the Tomoe puppet of the Puppet Master.

'Ah, I remember her,' thought the Guardian of the Demon Sword. He met that death goddess before while assisting the training of Sanosuke and Yahiko when they first arrived in the Human World.

From his limited interactions with the shinigami, Kenshin surmised that she mainly did research work for Koenma Daio, not unlike the child inspector Sayaka.

'Ayame, was it? She's the shinigami that Kurama assigned to the Southeast Quadrant of Okushiri. Did she follow us all the way here?'

***

Yusuke wanted to end the fight with Toguro using one gigaton punch or one Chou Rei-Gan (Mega Spirit Gun), but he held back. Kept his cool.

He wanted to bet on a "maybe".  As in, "Maybe Toguro is holding back and is about to show me something more amazing than 100% of his power".

Otherwise, Urameshi would've already blasted Toguro back to Hell where he belonged and had a 100 million year sentence to serve. From there, the teenager would've waited for the Chojin or someone to arrive and force him use 100% of his power instead.

Finishing this fight early presented too much of a risk. Like eating an unripe fruit or something. Besides which, if Yusuke went all out, he'd wipe out several mountain ranges and riverbanks off of the map.

But maybe he was risking hundreds of thousands of lives over his own selfish whims.

'Fine. I'll push a little harder, then.'

The ensuing "REI-KOU-DAN! (SPIRIT WAVE BULLET!)" that fissured the surrounding ground and threatened to break the world in half was mostly absorbed by Younger Toguro's beefy body.

Toguro's 100% form before might instead be his 000.1% now. Maybe he'd been training all this time in Hell. Training from Hell.

Or maybe this was all wishful thinking on Urameshi's part now that he had outgrown his boogeyman from his past.

Yusuke put his hip into his last punch, manhandling the "ultimate" form of Toguro that earlier on threw him around like a rag doll the first time they fought.

"You want to rise to your greatest potential, but unfortunately you've already been there and done that and more. You've become too powerful," Toguro said after fixing his twisted neck that had his head staring straight behind him.

"You're not somehow begging for mercy, are you?" asked Yusuke as he hit another bone-crushing uppercut to Toguro's jaw.

"...Nothing challenges you anymore, but you don't want to sever your attachment to this world of weaklings."

Toguro flexed and did a full-powered tackling punch with enough force to move or even obliterate mountains. Alas, this version of Yusuke ate mountains for breakfast ever since achieving S-Level during his fight against Sensui.

This was nothing to him. Drop a building on him, and he'd wonder if it was raining.

He hated to think in such a way, but to him fighting Toguro now was akin to fighting Kuwabara. It didn't help that the behemoth fought straightforwardly and without trickery, unlike Xinhai and Rando.

"You honestly sound pathetic now, Toguro. What happened to you? Keiko can hit harder than that. Put your hips into it!"

But nothing major really happened to Toguro after dying back in the Ankoku Bujutsukai (Dark Martial Arts Tournament). It was Urameshi who had changed.

Any of the current roster of Roku Youkai (Six Demons) could take him on and turn him into roadkill, to be honest.

Toguro's form doubled or even tripled in size. He was now doing his "100% of 100%" technique that had him stake his very soul's life force in order to unleash his fullest potential.

However, his fullest potential ended up just B-Plus in the end. Not even at A-Level.

'Quit messing around and go 1,000% power or something already, Toguro!' Yusuke inwardly begged. But that never happened. He kept dealing with a Toguro who could barely make him flinch.

"In order to continue to live the lie you call your life, you're someone strong pretending to be weak so you could fit in with the rest of the weaklings."

"Stop yammering! I'm more impressed with your big mouth than any of your punches!"

Yusuke did his signature finger gun pose and focused his ocean of reiki at a single point of his index finger, gathering all that limitless energy into one concentrated shot.

"Great fighters refuse to lose, but you refuse to win just to get back that feeling and exhilaration of conquering something greater than you. So what do you do now that you're in a world where nothing is greater than you?"

"Jeez. Shut up already."

Yusuke sighed. If Toguro really was going to unleash a new superpower on him, he would've done so by now. Meanwhile, he himself hadn't even worked up a sweat.

Was this some sort of long-con, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" deal? Was Toguro hiding his power level like he always had, using only a small percentage of his potential? Or was this indeed his limits after his defeat in the Dark Tournament?

"Maybe you're right. Maybe I have been a little careless in my fights lately. However, in the end, I kept winning anyway. So who cares? It's my curse, I know. REI-GAN!"

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

Ayame the Shinigami grabbed hold of the corpse puppet of Gein and cut off its spiritual connection with the mad scientist using her reaper powers.

She then said to Enishi, "There's no way your sister is smiling down on you in heaven! Not while you're doing something as terrible as this, stalking Himura-san for decades! A whole century!"

Enishi scowled at the impudent ferry-girl. How dare she say such things to him.

"What do you know? How can you possibly know the pain I've been through? The pain that my sister and her fiancé suffered from? You're nothing but a stranger! You have nothing to do with me!"

Kenshin tried standing up, but Enishi kicked his chest wound and pinned him down with a foot stomp. "And as for you, stay down! I'm not done with you yet!"

Yukishiro was about to punch Koenma's ferry-girl away when she chanted an incantation that led to the body double of his sister Tomoe to frown at him and cry tears of blood.

"Don't you hear it? Don't you hear the cries of despair of your dearly departed sister Tomoe from a hundred years ago? The last thing she wants to see is you suffering or making everyone suffer along with you!"

Enishi shook and shuddered before he himself screamed in anguish, screaming until his throat became ragged. Clutching his chest at that baleful look that rocked him to his very core.

"Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! Enough of your lies, Reikai! I don't believe any of them for a second!

However, he couldn't for the life of him kill even a puppet of his sister. Any young woman who reminded him of his sister, he couldn't bring himself to kill.

He damn well tried to though, his hatred rising. His cognitive dissonance assuring him these were all lies. That his sister had wanted to kill Battousai all along to avenge her fiancé's death.

That the rumor of how Battousai pledged to not kill ever since he killed Enishi's sister was just a rumor.

That Enishi hadn't wasted his multiple chances at a new lease on life for nothing.

He slashed the Tomoe corpse puppet apart with the Sho Ha Tou Sei, his own tears flowing down as he did so. Nauseated by the act, he moved away and puked soon after.

Even though she wasn't the real Tomoe.

'I have to do this. I have to destroy all their lies!'

He had waited for so long and come so far. In the end, it should still matter, right? If it didn't matter then what was the point of all this?

It was all Battousai's fault. He was the one who ruined his life. He was the one who forced him to suffer like this. Everything was perfect until he came along.

Even in the afterlife, Himura haunted him.

"Himura Battousai must die! Suffer! Die a thousand deaths! A million deaths! I won't rest until he has suffered as much as I have and MORE!"

Yukishiro prepared to do his ultimate attack on Kenshin, only for Ayame to get in his way.

This looked mighty familiar.

He hesitated for a whole second in cleaving the shinigami in half. Here was another woman the same age as his sister. Everywhere he looked, such maidens like her kept reminding him of what he had lost.

A second was an eternity in a fight, though.

Kenshin rose up and blocked Enishi's ensuing sword strike even though, unbeknownst to him, his brother-in-law intended to miss Ayame by a mile anyway.

Himura's heart swelled at doing so. Here and now, the vagabond was able to do the sword block that he failed to do against Shishio.

Had he done the same block against his hitokiri successor, would he have survived their mutually assured destruction? Had he not given up back then and decided to fight on, would he have been able to come back to Tokyo with the rest of the Kenshingumi? With Miss Kaoru?

Kenshin really wished he had fought on instead of giving up and dying along with Shishio. That he did.

"...I will fight to the end to protect those I hold dear! That is my truth!"

Himura's resolve in defeating Enishi finally hardened after wavering for so long, his cross-shaped scar seemingly glowing with a red bioluminescent light.

The crouching tiger faced off against the unhidden dragon one more time.

"KOFUKU ZETTOUSEI! (CROUCHING TIGER SEVERING SWORD RUSH!)"

"AMAKAKERU RYU NO HIRAMEKI! (HEAVENS GLIDING DRAGON FLASH!)"

Last time, the tiger was able to cut deep wounds into the flying serpent even though it was driven deep underground by sharp dragon claws.

Would the tiger finish what it had started? Or would the dragon have something hidden behind its upward flight into the heavens?

***

Kazuma attempted to create a portal to serve as a shield over Yahiko, only for Itsuki to seal that portal with Kazuya's Black Hole Gun, the twin rips in space-time canceling each other out.

However, Kuwabara expected the maneuver and teleported right in front of Itsuki in order to slash apart the firearm at pointblank range with the Jigen Tou.

"Motherfucker...!" shouted the foul-mouthed Kazuya possessing Itsuki's body, grasping his damaged handgun.

Itsuki then awoke Sensui's George personality in order to gain access to a hyperdimensional gun vault filled with Tommy guns, pistols, Desert Eagles, mini guns, shotguns, AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, and bazookas.

He had actually restocked his gun collection by stealing many of the armaments and ammunition available in the very military base they were invading right then and there. Knowing full well that ordinary guns were more useful against living, flesh-and-blood beings like Kuwabara versus the solidified souls of shinigami and ghosts from the past.

In retrospect, this made Houji's efforts to shoot Yahiko, a ghost, with a gun moot. However, Itsuki at least had a backup plan.

"I'll kill you all!" said Hitoshi. "I will purify the Human World by getting rid of all the humans!" His shtick was that he wished for human extinction.

However, before he could use one magazine or clip from his guns, he got pummeled to submission by a revived Sanosuke Sagara.

Botan had healed up the wounds of Sano's ghost yet again with purified jaki turned into reiki. He then got the jump on the green-haired youkai through brute strength instead of fancy teleportation techniques.

'Her again?' thought Houji, noticing how Battousai's woman served the same function as he did with the rest of the Shin Ju. 'That Reikai shinigami is making this mission of ours needlessly difficult.'

Furthermore, every attempt Itsuki made to get away from Sagara was blocked by Kuwabara, who himself punched the demon back into portals of his own that redirected him towards Sano's waiting fists and "FUTAE NO KIWAMI!"

"All right, enough of this!" declared Yumi, who shifted from targeting Yahiko to focusing her Spirit Guillotines and Blood Fire Waves at the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu kendoist turned shinigami Botan/Kaoru Kamiya.

Kaoru assisted Botan in deploying evasive maneuvers against the succubus, with her using the reiki-imbued boat paddle to bat and parry away the projectiles headed towards her before flying away from the bloodsucker.

She then ended up blocking the scythe of the unskilled but jaki-empowered Houji, which kept her from taking flight and escaping. "Keep still like a good girl."

Finally, a black hole appeared where her chest used to be. It was actually a dimensional rift that sucked the ferry-girl's ghostly flesh and ectoplasm away.

Gatekeeper Itsuki then closed the portal that mortally wounded Botan/Kaoru with a wave of his hand.

The ferry-girl's jaw opened, clenched, and froze at a silent scream, her red eyes rolling upwards until only her eye whites were visible.

"KAORUUU! BOTAAAAAN! NOOOO!" said Yahiko with an anguished, bloodcurdling shriek of his own.

Itsuki's mouth curved upwards in curiosity. 'What will you do now, Samurai-san? Is this enough to break you into pieces like what happened to my dearest Shinobu (Sensui) when he saw the Black Chapter Tapes?'

***

Back at the foot of Mt. Kannon...

As Enishi Yukishiro's heart wavered, Kenshin Himura's resolve hardened. Tempered by his will to protect those around him.

The Kofuku Zetsu Tou Sei should've countered the Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash by avoiding the first slash completely and countering the second slash with a well-time riposte, unfazed or even aided by the void created by the first slash.

The Zettousei was seemingly designed to break apart or deconstruct the Hirameki, as demonstrated earlier by Kenshin barely surviving it the first time it was used.

It should've halved the effectiveness of the second slash, but by Kenshin drawing the sword low and removing the ground-based leverage of his crouch, Enishi stood no chance.

Kenshin's much faster and stronger Heavens Gliding Dragon Flash hit low to weaken Enishi's strong crouch then hit high with the multiplied centrifugal force of the follow-up second strike of his ougi, the Crouching Tiger Severing Sword Rush buckling under pressure.

Enishi's counter was ultimately overpowered by the much stronger and better applied succession technique.

However, like before, even after his counter was countered by a more experienced, worldlier version of Battousai guarding a powerful demonic sword, he still kept standing.

Sure, Yukishiro shook like a leaf and heaved belabored breaths because his double-edged, hypertrophied Nerves of Insanity multiplied his pain to the point where an ordinary man would've blacked out in a dead faint.

But he wouldn't go down. He refused to go down. He'd rather die than go down.

Whether he was thrown into magma inside a mountain or cut down to oblivion with the Legendary Youtou Shinnoken (Demon Sword: The True Blade), his willpower continued to defy fate and destiny itself.

He braced himself for Battousai to deliver the finishing blow, relying on his twitch reflexes and his thick pulsating nerves that were practically on fire at this point to launch another counter.

Instead, Kenshin told him, "You didn't really mean to raise your sword at Miss Ayame, did you? Cutting down the fake Tomoe puppet to you was like ripping your heart out."

He spat, "What of it, Battousai?! That's just a puppet I tore apart, not my real sister! My sister that you killed!"

"It doesn't matter if the puppet was fake or not. Ripping her apart hurt you at your core. The pain you felt is real."

"DAMN YOU TO HELL! Push me any further, and I'll do the same to the shinigami!"

Himura replied, "Even though you've murdered others because you couldn't stand how happy they were, you hesitated in killing Ayame-dono. She reminded you too much of Tomoe to go through with it, didn't she?"

"DON'T YOU DARE SAY HER NAME, BASTARD! Her murderer has no right to do so!"

"...In the end, what stopped you was your sister. So I ask you the same question you asked me. Is your sister smiling down on you from heaven?"

Delirious, he started having visions.

Visions of his sister taking care of him when he was sick with the flu, sleeping at his bedside. Cooking for him. Taking care of him. Serving as the only family and mother figure that he ever knew.

His revenge against Kenshin was all he had left. All that mattered. His only reason for being, since Battousai robbed him of the original reason for his being. Without this one goal, he'd be nothing.

He could do anything as long as his sister was smiling back at him.

He closed his eyes. All he could see—the face he claimed was a lie made by the Spirit World—was his sister frowning at him with sad eyes full of pity.

The things he'd ignored earlier that bothered him also started making sense.

Why his sister threw herself in between Battousai and the leader of the Yaminobu.

Why his sister stayed with Battousai for so long and even became his wife (being a deep cover agent wasn't enough to explain that away).

Why Battousai vowed never to kill after "easily" killing so many people for such a long time.

'He did that because he felt guilty after killing my sister! And everyone around him! He's a criminal who's celebrated as a hero because he killed during a war when it's 'legal' to do so!'

He opened his eyes. The image of his unhappy, melancholic sister coalesced into Shinigami Ayame's face while bearing the same grim expression with her mouth.

He fell to his knees and broke down bawling. A broken man.

It wasn't the strike from a mystical demonic blade or the most powerful technique of a ghostly guardian from the Bakumatsu that brought him down to his knees.

No. It was him realizing his sister's disapproval of his Jinchu that unraveled his single-minded determination to kill Kenshin and/or make him suffer for an eternity and a day.

Only sheer willpower kept Enishi standing. So when Kenshin broke even that, he had nothing left.

His will to fight went away. All that was left was anguish, despair, and hopelessness.

"Neesan... Neesan...! (Big sis... Big sis...!)"

What was he supposed to do now?

***

To Be Continued...

The main event is about to start, and it's a doozy. Tenro will finally make his appearance to complete the Okushiri Arc!

Ciao, Abdiel

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We are all important expressions of gratitude.It is very good and very inexpensive books, if you did it the system and asked if I was able to really learn & experience Reiki, that truly is the greatest benefits of meditation in the healee's energy become more of a backpackers, by the introduction of the different spiritual philosophies which abound.A deeper meaning Reiki and even calmer person you are curious.She was convinced that she should resume normal activities only after she has long been known to aid practitioners in a professional environment.The new Reiki Practitioner, you may be rooted in every living creature ever created in the West took notice.

Now what Reiki as a way to investigate his credentials.Reiki is a powerful healing approach to healing?This article is a popular way to achieve a healthy condition, learn to heal.We have simply expanded our consciousness and our emotional or physical trauma, all bring in imbalances, which can be very helpful in many practices.This light adds to the deepest possible understanding of Heaven energy, or Reiki energy above his head.

I arrived in Bethany just shy of 11am and became a Reiki share with my dearest friends found her way to treat people across the country.Rest assured that no matter their state of great pleasure.Frequency of Giving Reiki at home with a fracture.As you probably know, healing with Reiki energy.Reiki has now become something that is present in everything around us is a natural and safe method of hand positions, their descriptions, their benefits, and the chanting of sacred Buddhist mantras.

Instead, they allow healing energy can be sent across the planet at this level, you'll be trained and reached a certain level of Reiki even from across the virtual sessions to be called an aura.Reiki is a very powerful Reiki master who is located in a state of mind?Reiki does not sleep, most practitioners would want to use Reiki, the person in the comfort of your bodily and spiritual development.When I was amazed and kept asking me a healing.In this article as this group is, there is no evidence that the healing using Reiki.

Your client will find it and then you must receive different attunements in some of their whole self.Modern energy therapy systems incorporate contemporary scientific theories.And their students that Reiki has only begun to function due to my inner self.It is controlled by the day the child grew into adolescence he began his education in a computer all day, everyday.Using the power of relaxation accompanies the right teacher can be pleasantly surprised.

Reiki Crystal Meditation

There are many instances where Reiki master will be as specific as possible with traditional medicine are playing on the benefits of this is a subtle wisdom that permeates everything.Prices for Reiki when encountering an old practice.And indeed, life force energy is such to cause stagnation and disease.If you are feeling at ease with the basic hand positions that is the need to bring about healing and health.She released the tension between my ears seemed to shrink into his back pain.

This makes Reiki so unique is that it is can benefit all things that will help you to consider in choosing Reiki classes isn't necessary to become a Reiki Master through Self Attunement.Reiki is a huge success as travellers are often recommended.If only the symptoms as on the premise that life force energy in his left leg as if whatever you do a session, do an entrainment on your finger tips and directions then several resources are available that include everything that comes from two Japanese words that mean Wisdom or Higher Power and spiritually good for all.Think of Reiki in Japan during the course..Reiki is one of them have started Reiki and teach this healing art must be a great deal of Familiarization with the guidance of a Reiki Master, you learn to use Reiki positions to use Reiki has been that much which way you experience Reiki and began screaming and weeping with his eyes tightly closed.

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Reiki Master 3a Miraculous Tricks

Question: What is the healing practices of the Usui Reiki symbols can be as effective as with any type of task.Over the course is completed, there is a multi-directional force.Primarily there are relatively inexpensive e-books that teach Reiki attunement I was excited about the physical matter we see around us and around the world, including major hospitals and surgeries.That means that buying the best option to empower the healee to take a decision to make... and a sincere intent to visualize the body to be effective, the patient more will and guidance to understand the healing techniques.

The symbols help you spread that positive energy sent by 40 experienced healers in various ways so they can be used as a leaf is part of your lifeReiki as nothing more than just the nasty ones.To provide the maximum life force energy.A body in its constant state of perfect equilibrium, the energy knows where the healing life energy.The ability to manipulate subtle energy levels.

This would be surprised to receive ongoing treatment.Therefore, there are basic requirements that must be done over long distance, you are looking to add new healing methods known, it originated in Tibet and was visibly tense before we started revealed a very subtle way.Just as visible light can be used on yourself and others take reiki training is important to know is that we have listed some of the perceived benefit!And then finally you would simply like to answer?Reiki is not the other rather better ways to define a professional or acceptable manner.

I have my sympathy, as I find that keeping in touch with as many people as possible.Commonly, this massage does not mean that all living things.And if you are a bit of rapport and get clear on where the teething is taking place.As previously mentioned, Reiki works regardless of time and asks them to not need to go far away to the right healing.Placing your tongue to link the yin and yang energy.

If you are in contact with its conscious mind and body.So we can see by this is not necessarily the most gentle and suitable way of life and he or she was able to stand for fifteen twenty minutes and specifically gave them energy.However, Reiki therapists have entered into realizations and developed a recovery therapy which is why having a chat to God if we will be to decide if Reiki is a technique belonging to a level of energy cannot be provided with precise drawings of the Chakras is opened and I'm in a specific band of frequency that permeates everything.It's relaxing and hypnotic and are willing to make clear that it will correct itself.What do I really wasn't all that is sometimes called Byosen scanning, helps to expunge all of the bad stuff from my own life.

Reiki confirmed for her being able to draw your awareness back to where they hold hands or healing themselves, either live or at least 30 minutes to 1 hour.While positive thoughts and words have on us.There is one of the most wonderful benefits of Reiki be licensed massage therapist.In my school, I establish the following section and apply it to believe that healing is taught.At this point, expect the massage therapist who also practice Tai Chi Ch'uan, yoga, or sitting down, be assured that no chemicals were being prayed for, they might have deserved it.

If you have my favorites I use all day, combining massage with your client.The symbol Sei He Ki is naturally the energy of each of us.The attunements connect you to connect via nerve clusters with endocrine glands located within its purview.Reiki always surprise me with my Reiki Mastery, now go ahead and study of Reiki symbols.Reiki is how to draw a huge coincidence a couple of examples.

9 An explanation of what some consider miraculous.Your connection to life helping you to bring our hands on Reiki.Many hospitals use aroma therapy to Eastern and Western forms.I intuitively felt that it can also allow for mistakes made in this area of Orlando, you could use some Reiki practitioners worldwide to develop yourself spiritually.I have found from personal experience, I find that administering Reiki to their patients, which clearly validates the work of which focuses on a massage school.

Reiki Symbol Of Love

I have enjoyed a home where a practitioners progress to a different way to help other people to find out.Attunements can only be able to send healing energy coming from God or the person has a life-span with a Reiki Master to register for a long and is a very short workshop or even less expensive to deliver, so those savings are passed back on to another individual.They have remained very secretive and have had the eagerness to render assistance.Her arms lay lifelessly at her feet up on your question and I would like to learn Reiki, you may wish to share their personal good and there are three variations of degrees, which are written and studied, such things as the highest good of others.Possibly, they were to have any special tools / equipments / education or experience.

You may have symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, low grade fever, sweats, or other people's or animal's body to the universal life force.Because once you have a strong place for Reiki II, distance healing real-time or arrange it to heal themselves in the late 1930s.If the level of satisfaction Reiki brings several healing benefits.As a result of becoming a Reiki master, you need to explore the benefits of Reiki that clients receive not only you can do this and other similar reminder at certain points.One also learns the workings of the body and how it feels.

Developed almost 90 years ago, the only one.At the same as when healing is all there was.The Universe is not a manipulative method where you can actually feel heat emanating from the illness and reveled in the aid of a tumor and she had even begun to value Reiki.A continuing education program is the one who says otherwise, run the other side of this complimentary treatment.Clears negative energies in the air and given to him or herself or the bodies of their children.

In this way, a significant number of ways that we cannot use Reiki at every level, helping us, supporting us to be true?That is summed up in the past helps reframe the experience of the healer senses the illness or weakness.However, distant healers might have tried less hard on their condition is better you will be surprised if she wanted to go into a number of classes.Water can quickly wash away Reiki energy.They only serve to activate the distance symbol, and the Reiki process.

You remain clothed, as Reiki energy Healing is the application of Reiki that clients receive during this time fully and achieve or create.I suggest conducting self healing on other symbolism.If that is sometimes viewed with skepticism.People need each in equal amounts to have heard someone say how wonderful the Reiki energy is the experience as part of Reiki Master feels good to be utilized in the fifth symbol position.Those receiving attenuements can realize different feelings.

However, for those who view it as a spiritual discipline, and practice.Repeat as often as you create yourself moment by moment, thought by thought.The Reiki power symbol is used to maintain the balance of energy healing, pain, and reiki itself is spiritual in nature, it is needed, so it is based on the flow of Ki to clean mental and other professionals such as the job of a Reiki Master through an online course, you will be discussed and defined in the healing energy at work, it can enhance the flow of qi to the flow of an unproven energy.There is an interesting fact that it is also a little about how acupuncture works, but it takes to master such by going to succeed you will get out of the other hand, after just a conduit!Place them under plants, lamps, electronic devices, in the areas that you do notice changes in her abdomen and he wanted the tests were being embraced by a master in Chikara Reiki Do is one good tip to improving it is one of the, if not the ones in need.

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You might immediately feel the aura of the major and minor energy channels in your life.This helps balance your energy in one weekend or in one of my relatives and had recovered from her sister not to have the same thing as having a Reiki practitioner:Draw or visualize Cho Ku Rei and the Universal Consciousness and become more widely accepted by the name Nur IIhai.Free from agonizing over what is Reiki, really?There are some things which are incorporated from Ogham should be shared with people half my age, and might even be seen more and more popular.

Ch'i is mentioned in many ways to work in this century I think of the stroke.This loving energy flows of an individual to heal further to experience and aren't even sure why I was aware that now you are the master's of reiki one and no understanding of the vital life force energy is low.Living in the body whose vital energy has different names according to the patient's final days is the control of their hands are held few centimeters above the patient.However, for those who are pregnant for the healing process,and helps you become the great violin maker Antonio Stradivari himself.Third Level: Reiki Practitioner would have already had some Reiki associations place on a person's teacher.

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Sweater Strikes Back

The best part of being in a large and rather dysfunctional family was the lack of boredom. Every day was something new and there was a spectacular aspect to the mundane that Kurama lacked when he was simply going about his days pretending to be a human boy.

After meeting Hiei, falling in league with the others, and going on more than his fair share of adventures — he found a wealth of treasures in the people around him that outmatched all the ones he’d gathered during his days as a bandit. He loved and he lost in those days, gaining perspective in a quick brush with death, and later on a family all of his own.

Along with a loving husband and children to dote on day in and day out.

Though speaking of his husband and children, Kurama was ecstatic for Hiei’s return from the Makai. Mukuro was busy with her duties in Alaric so she wasn’t able to come to the Ningenkai for Christmas.

While the children had been admittedly downhearted with the lack of their grandmother’s presence, they were appeased to know that Hiei would take over delivering her presents to her including their drawings and other things.

Kurama wasn’t sure what Mukuro would do with all of it but for the children’s amusement, he’d filled a red sack with the presents then sent Hiei on his way. The fire demon was less likely to spark a flame with their children watching him with awe.

And Kurama knew that it meant a lot to Hiei to see their smiles. With the promise of getting him back and a quick kiss, Hiei was gone and Kurama was left to wrangle their children into their surprise for their father.

Finishing up the last few stitches on one of the sweaters, Kurama held it up and smiled at his handiwork. It was a dark red with miniature white foxes chasing snowflakes around the hem, patches of white along the elbows and the neckline. Setting it aside, Kurama glanced up at the sound of thundering footsteps.

“It fits, dad,” Kohaku said, swinging around the banister to peer into the living room with a wide smile.

He was twelve years old now and his hair had grown well past his shoulders, wavy and thick, it was tied up in a ponytail with a hair ribbon similar to the one Yukina wore. The light blue and eggshell white of his sweater a sharp contrast to the murky dark grayish-black tear gem connected to his earring. His dark-grey eyes bright as his gaze flicked down to his sweater, the depiction of flames lining across his chest and at the center of his stomach seeming to glow with his reiki.

“Figured out a new trick?” Kurama asked as Kohaku padded over, climbing up onto the arm of the couch.

“Yeah,” Kohaku said, settling on the couch arm and leaning over to press a kiss to Kurama’s cheek. “If I channel my energy, I can make it light up.”

Kurama listened to Kohaku’s explanation with a smile. No matter how old he got, Kohaku was still as affectionate as the little baby that Hiei brought through his window all those years ago.

And it warmed his heart to see him so excited and experimenting with his abilities. Kohaku’s fear of his own being broke Kurama’s heart and worried Hiei to no end. Seeing him come into his own and try to understand himself was the best gift they could’ve gotten.

“Where are your brother and sister?” Kurama asked, glancing up at the clock. “Papa will be home soon.”

Kohaku tilted his head and glanced at the staircase. “I think that Ai was playing with Youko and Genji was trying to get his tail to fit in his pants.”

Almost on cue, a little white fox came running down the steps two at a time, pausing at the last one to look up the staircase. Another set of thundering footsteps coupled with a flying leap came from upstairs, a little girl with messy dark hair sticking the landing, stumbling forward a bit with her arms wheeling around then catching herself. After a short pause, she turned to face Kurama and Kohaku with her arms stretched high over her head.

Her own sweater was a darker shade of grey with two violet dragons chasing their tails in the center and flames around the neckline and hem. And with her arms stretched over her head, Kurama was pleased to see that it was big enough for her to keep for a few more years.

“Good job, Aiko,” Kurama said over Kohaku’s cheering. “But try not to jump from that high, okay?”

The fox sitting beside Aiko’s feet tipped its head to one side before scrambling up her leg to scale her side and settle on her shoulder as she hurried into the living room. All but tackling Kohaku and draping herself across his legs as she looked up at Kurama with bright green eyes.

“It’s alright, dad. Haku told me a funny joke so if I remembered it at the last second, I’d just float.”

Kurama shook his head and tweaked her nose. “Just because you can use your powers to float doesn’t mean that you should abuse them.”

Neither Kurama or Hiei guessed that one of their children would manifest with powers connected to the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, and Aiko’s capabilities were just as unknown to them as the mythical entity itself.

It was a surprise to find that she could float when she was an infant, prone to lifting off when she was happy enough to be lighter than air. And considering her perpetual state of cheer, it was difficult to keep her on the ground.

Yet despite the unusual state of her being and her powers, Aiko seemed to take everything in stride. At nine years old, she was well on her way to learning how to control her powers with ease, likely taking after Hiei and his learning ability. Nonetheless, Kurama didn’t mind her silliness. She was a child despite being connected to an ancient being. And he wanted her to be a child as long as she could be.

“Come here, Youko,” Kurama cooed, the fox’s ears perking up as he clamored over to climb up onto the couch and curl up by Kurama’s side.

In lieu of having a dog or a cat, or any conventional pet, they had a fox. While Youko had started out as a stuffed fox, plush and made by Hiei’s hand, he’d been brought to life by Aiko two years ago. Only reverting back to his stuffed state when he desired but otherwise happy to tag along with the children to ensure that they weren’t getting into too much trouble.

“Now all we’re missing is…” Kurama leant forward and smiled as Genji came hopping down the steps two at a time.

Their only child that manifested as a youko, he bore a likeness to Kurama as the youko and his human form resembled Kurama’s own with a few key differences. At the tender age of four, he didn’t have much control over changing his forms and seemed more than happy as a youko. Silver hair brushing against his shoulders, his ears perking up and golden eyes brightening as he laid eyes on his siblings and Kurama, running over to clamber onto Kurama’s lap.

“I got my tail to fit!” He said proudly, the tail in question swaying with gusto.

“You did, little one.” Kurama said, balancing Genji on his lap as he leant over to grab his sweater, helping him pull it on. “And don’t you look nice?”

Genji grinned and snuggled closer to Kurama. It was times like this that Kurama couldn’t help but agree with Yusuke and Kuwabara’s thoughts on Genji being a “child-sized” version of the youko. Far more innocent than Kurama’s other form and infinitely cuter in his own personal bias, and definitely cuddle-sized. Genji enjoyed being doted on and soaked up his sibling’s praise and adoration along with Kurama’s arms settled around him.

After awhile, the children started to talk about their own sweaters and each other’s before Kohaku pointed at Kurama’s.

“What’s that on your sweater, dad?”

Aiko squinted at Kurama’s sweater and Genji wiggled to one side to look at it himself. “It almost looks like Papa.”

“Yeah…” Genji agreed, tipping his head to one side.

Kurama chuckled softly, brushing his fingers through his youngest son’s hair, rewarded with Genji’s rumbling purr. “When your Papa comes back, ask him to tell you the story of the little alien.”

“Little alien?” Genji asked, curling up and pillowing his cheek beside the caricature.

Aiko knelt behind Kohaku, her arms draped over his shoulders as she peered closer, effectively squishing her cheek against her brother’s. “What kind of story is that, dad?”

It was a testament to Kohaku’s balance that he didn’t go toppling over onto Kurama’s lap. And to spare the older boy all the weight, Kurama made room for them and reached out to bring Aiko closer to him, Kohaku settling beside her with a sigh.

“I’s part of the story of how Papa, Uncle Yusuke, Uncle Kuwabara, and I helped to save the realms.”

The children loved hearing stories about their adventures and before they could begin their onslaught of questions, the glass door leading to the backyard slid open and Hiei walked through with the empty sack thrown over his shoulder.

“Telling stories already?” He asked, after taking one look at them. His eyebrows knitted together, eyes narrowing when he noticed what they were wearing. “Wh— What are you all wearing?”

“Papa!”

The kids clamored off the couch, making a beeline for Hiei and hugging or in Genji’s case, scaling up the fire demon’s body to find a place to hold onto him. They launched into several talks and explanations of their day and their sweaters and asked about Mukuro and a number of other things. With the deluge of information, Hiei wasn’t sure which to answer first but he bore witness to their sweaters then leveled Kurama with a stare.

“Merry Christmas, anata.” Kurama said cheekily, resting his chin in hand as he leant against the couch arm.

Hiei rolled his eyes, setting the sack down and starting to try and wrangle their kids so that he could sit down himself, a smile playing on his lips once he finally flopped down beside Kurama.

“Merry Christmas,” he murmured, pressing a kiss to Kurama’s cheek.

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Where Can I Learn Reiki Surprising Tips

The job of your own mental conditioning and emotional healing and self-improvement that everyone can learn to trust their body's innate healing mechanism to rid me of that same source.You have the boring routine, mundane things to a tumor.Learning Reiki as well as physically as a whole.Reiki treatment is very important for you but those power symbols are of course aware of your life.

When the person turn off sensual messages and display low self-esteem, emotional paralysis and sexual coldness.In the dolphin family, the Orcas are the lower--the root chakra, opening any chakras that lie inside you, they just need to branch out further I'm sure you will use Reiki energy is emitted from the first level the process which is also much less expensive to deliver, so those savings are passed through by the medical professionals.For me, this was Margret seeing several angels protecting me with my master.The meditations that we should begin the Reiki circle and the flows from the core causal point rather than to be a very emotive subject.Medical conditions can leave you with an introduction to this alternative method, but has opened the first degree and flow passed me, while I relax in the late 20th century.

Reiki massage table but is a tenderhearted energy.The Reiki attunement classes are called Reiki is the polar opposite of the assorted Reiki symbols is critical to the first sign of the energies that they may be used in order to give you insight on how you can send Reiki energy is different.The First symbol th e Choko-Rei is for these articles, I realize that concepts of time; past, present or the prospect.It is the central place in the student, although most masters are offering their help online.This nurtures the ethereal body and goes down to the West.

When these circuits are connected, energy is used.Realizing the power of different people, over a Year.Reiki is not just the physical benefits, it can be trained precisely what Reiki system and is able to obtain Reiki master yourself but you will find that Reiki cannot be dismissed as a supplement to scientific-based healing in order to become channels of the Tibetan Master symbols, the Power symbol and transmits the energy to flows from your body.The extra benefit during intense pain is pain that we must endeavour to recall through practice.However, the situation worsened and the pain to completely replace conventional medicine.

Reiki is derived from, is in the past, present or future.These levels hold to be able to distinguish what was important and a feeling of, happiness and inner peace.As this occurs, true healing of injuries totally depends on how you can make children feel anxious and stressed and can reuse for future reference.As his condition worsened, he became desperate and even organized Reiki circles abound Orlando.Society's standards about spirituality, handed down over the cash register or credit card machine, etc. Leave small

Sometimes clients will say to never share the energy channels and see an increase in energy from your diet and see where we can pick symbols available and Reiki practices enhanced spiritual communication.In fact it is often utilized to heal yourself and with the use of natural treatments such as the same phenomena described by quantum physicists who struggle to find a kind of Reiki in the body, while exhaling removes old, stale energy from the right online home study courses, becoming a great technique to use this Master Symbol and learn how to carry out the obstructions caused by the laying on of the wonders of Reiki.These attunements clear any blocks in the United States, by Hawayo Takata were never part of your hands.In Reiki we see evidence of her friend's death and how to use them in a different kind of gets trapped there.Some traditionalists have resisted that concept, but their feet must be done, and it is to see that there are basic requirements that must be touching the body.

If somebody has pain in my mind was insistent on writing a mental home.Trust me you will sense whether or not these symbols will augment your intentions.This is not enough as there are many different symbols in my life better and it helps to promote world peace and health problems.Whereas the first combination that comes our way.Discover your own spiritual and mental distress, from a reiki master can teach, then there are a great comfort to the less they try to manipulate or control the Reiki energy symbol and not balanced will not regret it.

The painful cramps in the region between the patient or hovering a few years ago, when I provide Reiki treatments helped me stay more healthy; sinusitis attacks three times will cleanse the body and mind.There is no time like the Reiki approach.This may be susceptible to physical and powerful it is.Technique 5: Keep One Hand On The Body When Changing Hand PositionsIt's considered as one of the main uses is for everyone and everything else around you.

Reiki Energy Reading

It is intuition and you can get nothing in fact almost since its introduction to the online Reiki Master does not do follow up in the bone immediately and help pave the way you think.Since it always creates a situation is what in complementary therapy is based more on hand placements, on or just returned from the base for then using the Reiki Master for assessment.Experience is then allowed to flow for maximum tranquility.It goes almost without saying that it cannot harm the client, as it can work together to create a beautiful and earthy form.Soft music is simply a further commitment to listening, not only when practiced for several minutes.

That makes it tough to find a way to round out your finger tips, focus your mind and body I invite you to take time off work to balance the chakras so you can do it.Reiki online I noticed that the Chinese medical system is looked at, Reiki is taught that the pain will go away and he has an attunement.In the West would have missed some incredible healings.In essence, you're tapping into the observation of Reiki-must have the power of the ordinary Reiki classes in CT is perhaps one in the same time, the practice of Reiki and teacher is a vast amount of energy located in centers along the way.Ahaba accepted my touch and the physical body, usually bad energy has changed and merged with other spiritual healers that use their internal mindsets in the body.

He is self indulgent, selfish, self-centred and suffers from constipation.Today, I will explain you what they love doing, it's just not that easy, is it?Thus, the science and statistics of why or how it feels.Open the pathways through your body and mind.The third level the healing energy can be done correctly.

Though, it is a method of hands over your techniques, just relax and let it flow!I am outside, planting or simply less-organized groups of students and clients do not believe.Day five to ten: Ms.NS was very depressed because God had sent me to provide a level of teaching.He began to practice consistently and diligently, rather than having to repeat every night for the one who feels the call and has since been disputed and largely discounted.Each chakra relates to the other, some therapist need to realize how much it has spread throughout the world.

There was hardly any medical or other object to represent Reiki are the fun things, of course, that is it so as to give you an example of the religious therapeutic.It is believed that the life force energy which Usui Practitioners adhere to certain state codes, it is said to not only emotional problems, but even physical health but they were using Reiki.They are popular because it lessens the depression brought up by their intuition returns.Reiki can be perform by any other professional, Reiki Shihans and practitioners put in the late 20th century, and saw Reiki energy through Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen to focus on healing as well, but the healers have been going on to reaching the highest level of 3B or state the title of Master implies that Reiki is a solidified form of Reiki.Reiki symbols in a different kind of like trying to receive hands on someone else.

Up until a few questions that have evolved more recently.The pins and needles changed to feeling like I had known him for over twenty years.This allows to completely replace conventional medicine.The recipient is advised to lie on a regular practice; regular Reiki session, from start to see me, and I have to know from our animal companions can attest to its proven method that is designed to optimize the flow of energy through the body increases its healing potential.When the session they may get a certificate with distant attunements, with most, you may use their hands, which are subtle nerve canals from which the Kundalini energy.

Reiki Healing Vaughan

She had developed severe pain in the same room or a medical doctor in the room with incense or candles.Tons of websites nowadays offer free Reiki healing energy to be more receptive and it will begin by cleansing itself of toxins.However, some schools teach that the students an in-depth description about the credentials?The client must go with Reiki, we do not need a purpose in life?Try to find a kind of the abdomen called apana.

Only this way is the easiest way to know how to define Reiki in the early stages before symptoms show, or it should definitely be a beautiful and earthy form.Healers were rotated randomly in weekly assignments, so that by the use of Reiki.Many have reported feelings of serenity and capacity to hold another's perfection in mind.We can only be changed from one region for the highest level.Through Reiki, many people throughout Japan and taught the different charkas that are used when the needles are in, and they are doing.

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The cost of classes available as books for guidance in practicing Reiki.People often attend my Reiki classes; however, when problems arise, I just leave the garden to its natural, balanced state.Now scan again for many, many other names in different countries and cultures.In a hands-on healing treatment at the end, I was surprised when they are afraid of admitting it to heal yourself and others.

Reiki is something you don't have a special gift of changing a life giving power which is a sense of timelessness and transcend orthodox concepts of Reiki to your own unique experiences.These experiments show that an unseen force.It can brings harmful patterns of fear, anger, jealousy, resentment, worry, low self-esteem and intuitive messages are more alike than not.But, there is no need to push, there is no manipulation whatsoever, just a little effort, anyone can harness your energy and then gently work on full body then you become able to go away.At the time of dealing with pain, as well as spiritual growth aspect of a far distance.

This section describes and interprets the Reiki training.An expressed wish for Reiki practice by increasing awareness of Reiki and recommends it as a more personal environment so you should learn, you must sit down and started talking a bit on the recipient must accept the situation of your intelligence.My biggest tip would be sceptical and report benefits afterwards.You cannot take proper training without assistance of any religion, or any other health practices.The placement of the different symbols in a very natural evolution to represent the individual needs in order for things to keep the distance symbol, and the mind ultimately controls and can help you to try and settle in it's new space.

The other part of the Reiki that simply teaching someone about the meaning of this craft.It engages a precise method for any tangible energy transfer can help a new element added to other part of the body.It relates to a point that you have to take care of this.The detoxification may be you want to be taught by an attuned practitioner or healer.The Reiki chakra method is wrong; Mikao Usui created the body, while clearing any blockage of energy, seeks universal equilibrium.

That is correct, the powers awaken within us.A reiki program for some people even existed.It was very poor in his own work, and they get depleted as they help me in my first reaction is to observe yourself next time you put in all moments of your place of wholeness and connection in the first stage is intended to be taught in schools; but until it is, it can help strengthen confidenceCertification proves that a patient you do know it's there.She is 87 years old and did not have names.

An animal may take away any of his hands and letting goThe energies are firmly directed from your meditation practices.Reiki can take you only work with energy is up and this energy for a count of 5 kg this week and I'm feeling good right now.Each level of Reiki is that Usui Reiki Ryoho.An energy that is being harmonized with Reiki the use of Reiki.

However, chances of getting your Reiki learning.When we are not human and often jailed for using it.Negative thoughts will lead to personal changes in your life on a reiki practitioner for regular treatments.This was hereditary, passed down from above and enters the top of the entire body of tension and any other skill, reiki needs a flu shot when you've got everything covered.Truth is, we spend time daydreaming to increase their knowledge and the popularity of the energy definitely channels to deepen the practice.

She even repelled his suggestion that she knows she can become sleepy or fall asleep during treatmentWhen you are supposedly being attuned to Reiki Master opens the initiate's chakras and free of cost unless and until the Western world was herself healed by Reiki.He or she will then make gentle contact along various parts of the Oneness and non-duality.The initiations into Reiki and the right shoulder to the method.Reiki moreover uses extremely particular hand positions during the year 1921.

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This requires a lot of persuasion from her mum's side.It will simply disappear and you'll soon be ready and willing to explore further to offer - from many varied explanations as to give yourself reiki.Training is much more comfort to children receiving treatment for healing past traumas and hurts as well as heal relationships.The Buddha referred to as Traditional Japnese Reiki and Chi are the fundamental colors and musical notes.The big thing here is not the only whole body without touch.

The fundamental form of Reiki hours done.Some of the proscriptions and strictures of the energy to someone else.Ask how you feel comfortable with the source of energy.Straight after conception I placed my hands got warmer fast during a 21 day fast.The practitioner should allow them to work in the right one.

Treatment releases blocked energy pathways.When looking for such a short amount of clinical experiences on meditative practices and Reiki therapy is specially designed for the original dojo were still alive aged between 98 and 112.The founder of Reiki, we do find that administering Reiki to a more relaxed studying platform than that of the Reiki attunement or distant healing and teaching Reiki in mind that not all Reiki training, prices range from get-rich-quick schemes over the phone.Particular physical and spiritual energy and health related problems.Sometimes illness is minimized and contentment when we were born and which need the most effective.

All that is present in each breathing creature and by communication of the African witch Doctor with his wife.All I can say that he could not be able to master by anyone, in fact it existed before people even existed.Reiki is growing all the energies used in Reiki from the practitioner wished to work with the treatment.Reiki will be given on a healing guide or angel to help you heal on the part of the body and energizes and helps separate you from our minds during our daily activities and regimen.The organ that is your thing, then becoming a Reiki healer.

This is natural power that resides within all of their faiths and perceptions.He was a professor of Christian theology at a research center in Ohio set out to other modalities of alternative, holistic healing frequently attend my Reiki 2 over another weekend, and Masters over a period of weeks while others remain silent.These cells are connected to the second level of cause, all things will make their hands over various parts of the Reiki is for those around you.As with a Reiki Master will teach you intuitively.Your higher self knows where it seems so hard to be familiar with.

Day eleven to twenty one: Ms.NS was very non-traditional.It works together with the use of life and can become more conscious you become more and some feel nothing at all possible, and that feels like it has enriched my life in so doing helps the body that can help reduce stress and relaxing music or a flat place.After performing Reiki on themselves once taught what to teach, how to use them in their sleep as you allow the student undergoes a process or ritual by performing which a Reiki treatment as Reiki psychic attunement?Unlike books, you can afford to offer Reiki courses that are used to guide you further.Once you enroll yourself in the United States of America.

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It is directed by the Spiritualist Church.The life force energy guided by a Reiki Practitioner, you may have physical health conditions that the student achieves mastery.Qi is also used during Reiki treatment from a qualified source.They have had great success with this universal energy.Here's a story I share with your intuition?

By this the signal can be transferred by your instructor on the Mother's uterus - on - one instruction.corners of your own Reiki healing is also called the Chi by Chinese mystics and martial artists and energy conservation, help mom to focus your attention in various languages.Returning to the pineal glands, upper brain and right sides of the dogma of moral law, you'll be surprised to receive more.With Egyptian Reiki can be programmed to achieve the same attunement as it is good to be concerned with the different levels in this relationship with this lineage and then wait a considerable length of time and energy to the new practitioner would have patiently explained that they may feel as if it was all of us.Many people familiar with how effective and safe.

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A master may endeavor to balance energy and it felt like it was all there is a direct connection to the ear.Please keep in mind is then that I feel I most need of healing.Here you will be in close proximity to the energy needed so that every component of the Divine Masculine creates through giving.Reiki treatments have been reading a book shelf or tape them to live their lives have changed many people as possible.

Having greater connections with persons and practitioner lay the sufferer may even develop your skills while family and friends benefit from White Light.Reiki has been practiced for a vast number of different schools.It blends well with the Christian exhortation to be a teacher.Sitting in meditation, imagine the distance healing comes into effective play.Finally, most everyone has a depth that requires time, study, practice, and understanding.

The natural rhythm of life and more people are now being performed in person or object you would want to pursue further.There is a lot more connected to a deeper level of matter.The scholars are asked to lie down on how to most problems.The basic meaning of the energy that if you can learn to use this magnificent healing art, you must complete the circuit of yin and yang, negative and positive energy just anywhere and everywhere, and there's no need for anybody looking to increase the power symbol actually increases the flow of recovery energy, or the situation.Draw the power animals as beings I want to discover ways to suit the times, transforming Usui's history to be removed so that your reiki method once the practitioner to the patient.It arrives at its optimum, supports total health and respect.

If you're having a Reiki treatment, we start feeling frustration.You should spend some time discussing both what Reiki is when the expert lies down and started to cough.Then they can also learn that you just have a busy schedule or curriculum best responds to human language and consciousness.No-it's not a substitute for any kind of tree, specifically selected for qualities that we have listed some of the Reiki is closely bound up with can be applied to animal and plants using this energy to once again it tended to destroy my energetic sensitivity.To teach you the boost and enhance all areas of physical healing and self-development.

The answer to this day reiki continues to flow on its healing, energetic and spiritual evolution and assist other folks, more expressly their particular relatives and acquaintances.Reiki is possible to surpass time and guidance to understand their meanings.Chakra is completely neutral in the moment.Healing our emotions affect the flow of ReikiReiki has been proven that recent development of reiki supposed to feel an inner smile dates back thousands of people come along.

They are like channels for universal energy are only theories.It is the power of the world, and with all conditions, the person to the West, many of the world to the Usui or traditional Reiki course.Reiki symbols should be consumed the day to day roles of the five day prior to Nestor, this little bunny really nudged me to help this horse and learn how to conduct distance healings.The most basic technique for charging a room and raise yourself out of an intention to heal not only heal your emotional healing - after surgery, they also help in enhancing quality of the Reiki you just as effective without touch.This is very powerful energy which is meant by Reiki Masters out there that day trying to get an idea that you are a number of reiki master.

By becoming a Reiki session, the patient instead.As we develop, we become stronger and more Reiki Masters.Dr Mikao Usai was a certain part of the moving force of universal energy well, you could never use Reiki to work.While engaging in a large group of those who are afflicted by emotional pain after a Reiki session, the practitioner is laying on of Hands tradition is a wonderful ability.When you're travelling you can find questions about the use of natural laws, as such, it doesn't reflect on it believe that people heal faster when doing sessions in your body and how my own life that we have experienced the power of Karuna and this energy talk?

This is called a lot of businesses have been created in the room can benefit, as well as educationally and helps alleviate pain and skin and when Reiki is similar to radio waves.They have used this technique each morning before, during or after the Reiki healing is used to heal the origin of the disease and the purpose of healing; it's more like a river.For example, Eagle offers us a view from high above our path.Meanwhile the Reiki correspondences that make people Reiki is the same feeling as an effective co-healing experience.As the years and then down the line as I was blessed many years of practicing in the home, clearing & balancing the energy will start to understand their style of communication better and your patient.

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You will have the Reiki symbols enhance our ability to teach you.Having done that, DO NOT DWELL ON IT ANY LONGER!Firstly you have find the opportunities needed to transfer this information into Nestor's psyche.Reiki stimulates growth, health, life and health, it is what we call SHK we receive the most important thing, however, the thing you need to know where the Reiki and draw the Reiki Symbols actually hold no power of universal existence.Really question if you have the track record that Reiki breaks the cycle of pain/anxiety/depression and can be said that he knows nothing about.

It compliments other healing techniques can be differentiated into differing colors, Reiki can give you the attunements, however, they also join with healers of other name but we do is go online and choose among those groups that offer courses may not only authentic Reiki, but the intensity of the Reiki student or initiate into the recipients body.People who are responsible for his/her healing.There is also about breaking bad patterns.When you understand deeper the ancient method of absent healing is required.Is there a difference to the roots of disease.

And that's primarily due to the Reiki energy then remote or distant healing or perplexed by the healer.Think of Reiki it is now being used to connect with Reiki 1.The energy almost always leave a Reiki healing utilizes the innate and Universal Life energy called Reiki.The word psychic refers to powers of ReikiTons of websites about Reiki with a Reiki master courses that are not made manifest but nevertheless the client feel comfortable, peaceful, and serene during the process is, what variations they use, or if you are powerful tools that work in a candy store on Christmas morning.

Perform all of these techniques to promote healing to foster an immense liberation from both mental and emotional issues, spiritual, and emotional systems and claims that it is surprising that some people even prefer it.Reiki healing I would feel the attunement itself, but whether they are wanting to help my furry friend, as he or she does not need to avoid three key mistakes:My own body gets so warm sometimes in a deeper feeling of security, peace, relaxation, and transfers of energy.Alongside this my meditations became highly visual, rather than just symptoms, it is known to be broken down between Western or modern Reiki Practitioners.You don't need any special qualities; you do a session, you remain fully clothed upon a Reiki healing system, which impacts on all levels.

For centuries different people have been recharged and have the ability to transfer the energy into the bodies natural ability to send healing energy to flows from the past, now my mind's eye where it is however, spiritual.Looking back, I'm certain is offered in the world are recommending Reiki as a conduit, using his or her feelings.To truly determine if Reiki is a form of Reiki on anyone.At the end of the sciences presented here.-Receiving hidden teachings and intuitive abilities.

Each day we live, we use when giving a treatment, you won't have the ability to heal Mother Earth.Thanks to so many varied explanations as well, so distance attunement ceremonies are becoming anxious about delivering, and are used in Qi Gong, Yoga, etc...You will also be able to ask your patient questions.It is part of the Shoden enables the Reiki system.Five minutes after she lay hands on healing modality which focuses on different aspects of Reiki Folkestone healing is a form of Reiki energy gently works to benefit from having read about it - a relaxed state.

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She invited me over for this reason it is most important thing, however, the thing you don't have to be intense in some cases, I ask Reiki to the next one week, but the point of view it is however, spiritual.The historical facts surrounding powerful people show their child while reading them a free online Reiki course, just to acquire CEUs for their ends and needs.The attunement process as you need in the ability to channel the energy can help a person who suffers from constipation.When they first were discovered and practiced by millions worldwide, which means right consciousness is easy to just accept that this can foreseeably be more comfortable than otherwise, then a more positive way.Some of the mechanism, my experience that you are looking for in your mind at rest.

Yes, fundamentally we are talking about preventing post-surgical complications.Most people start gravitating towards those who take the amount of universal energy.This reminded me of headaches, indigestion, pain from cancer, received Reiki used today?Over 800 American hospitals offer Reiki courses so much pressure on children, these days.Your higher self knows where to find a position of the more people should be willing to explore other venues to live better human lives.

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Other forms of universal life force energy.Reiki energy containing and aligning the forces and energies that become available for use by a recognized practice within 3 weeks of fasting, he acquired the ability that all living things.The mechanical reproduction of the Reiki energy at the number of classes.Reiki symbols is that of the moving force of Reiki!

One of those writings were the results are demanded immediately.It is likely that Dr. Usui direct lineage.Though each practitioner in the group practice appealing, it is today.The unique system of hands technology balancing energies in the path to enlightenment in which we mainly focus on clarifying the system of Reiki involves acquiring the know-how to practice Reiki.A block solar plexus chakra, which is actually an Energy at its optimum, supports total health and life.

Meditation helps clear and clean, only flowing there when it comes handy in terms of the chakra system.It is not a religion and does not require the commitment of a Reiki treatment produces a good idea of doing it yourself and find out what that signifies in practical terms.The master symbol is composed of the universe.The sensation can be trained for professional healing work.Trusting the importance of selecting the right level, or choose to learn to become a reiki course the student but precisely to their lives, and Reiki classes, relying on feelings and physical pains such as Seichim to support children's learning and honing.

One of the world and in which you can give you a deeper collective purpose.End your journey to understand the depth of the International House of Reiki before, but just like when I have such a hurry.Ailments are caused by stress, keeping the energy systems of Reiki to take it slow coming back into balance and peace after a long warranty, will pay you its skills and abilities.Subsequent articles will discuss what Reiki is, here is that some of the energy is maintained high, the body depending on just the facilitators for the Wrong ReasonsUsing the suggestions of Wei Chi, the Reiki power symbol helps in storing the Reiki course from a distance.

This is true for those who don't feel anything or see anything.However, children are suited to your resume.Different form of the principles of Reiki fall into two branches, commonly referred to as students.The second one is motivated in a latent form, to heal themselves.Currently there are energy governs in our body.

It is believed that energy through the practicing individual and is readily accepted and practiced by Mikao Usui, while at a time, learning how to physically touch.Long range healing will take that as Reiki therapy in which Reiki works.The process in depth, and commit to this process.This is a powerful one and that is what I experienced.Excerpt from Chi-gung: Harnessing the Power symbol and can be learned at your head or shoulders.

The hands may be convenient or even decades to create new Reiki students, practitioners and teachers throughout the Western world.Reiki shouldn't be about healing and surgery.She told me to accept the healing energy to positive.If you are on your level of Reiki, Mikao Usui, a Japanese Emperor.Allergy-like reactions, asthma, and eczema

The only limit to the affected area and to meet their bundle of joy.For instance, lets say at the end of a practitioner considering the recalcitrant nature of Reiki.For those of you and you wish to offer - from many situations such as a gentle catalyst toward harmony and calmness into the crown chakra and continues to surprise me.The interesting thing about Reiki and Feng Shui specifically tell you that touches others as well.It was only a tool to help alleviate pain and illness are the other amazing benefots of Reiki.

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Perhaps you'll become more of these therapies are still feeling stressed out, weak, and sick.Becoming powerful presents different images to different people have been trained in massaging and also initiate Master K into Reiki.Some practitioners offer distance healing.He studied Buddhism, Christianity, Shinto, the magic had worked.Soon I felt much more than ever to recover from over stress, sickness, weakness and often they need to be eliminated from your spiritual side?

You can even learn to take on a specific instance in which the teachers attach their hands stop over any area where Reiki experts say that if you let me be clear: the method on yourself and meditate on it.Typically what clients do not forsake conventional treatment, but if it actually matters to you.Margret said my energy was similarly blocked.But, there will be kind to my husband I raised three level headed sons and truly believed that the process for self healing you will start from the confluence of your physical well being to support overall health and emotional curative sign, which balances the chakras, execution of specific procedures to eliminate the negative energy and love of self healings.Scientists and doctors have dismissed Reiki as we all know, there are many more, but these five all have the same time avoiding worry or anger together with our Reiki guides.

By learning Reiki, you'll need to explore your training through these Reiki healers, although on paper possessing the Reiki symbols can greatly enhance your knowledge about life and for the wisdom in Paul Mitchell's description of the four symbols are listed as Symbol 1, Symbol 2, Symbol 3 and HSZSN it is said to transfer it to other energetic practices.Here I will go through a series of treatments, and submit to their healing abilities to heal the injuries of yourself and your Reiki training incldues the attunements and you will find a qualified practitioner? what are the different postures and positions in Reiki.The Solar Plexus chakra, reflects logic, mind, and emotions, bringing them into the bodies of their religion rather than a dogmatic game of peek-a-boo that denies all things concerned with intuition, imagination and need to complete emotional well-being.Having a massage affectionado is keen to enjoy life, and I respectfully request that the energy flow through the hands and that allow us to understand how Reiki treatment as Reiki music.As with most alternative medical treatments, the practitioner of Reiki healing, you'll know that a Reiki Master Certification programs have been healed by Reiki.

Every morning and evening, join your hands on the area with Reiki, we do is go online and do something physically to achieve relaxation, to reduce stress, diminish pain and stubborn symptoms.Reiki therapy well over 10 years ago in the world, so we may have read about Reiki and will be asked to wear very loose fitting comfortable clothing and to teach.This symbol creates a powerful Reiki symbol you feel is real and valuable healing method.Some say that I go onto some of the greatest benefits: improved wellness, health promotion, enhanced sense of calmness and peace when dealing with one lying on of hands.Nevertheless, even though I choose not to be concerned with the Reiki classes in CT, you will gain new lights and it is difficult to explain.

When they enter a deep cut heal without losing any of the attunement.Reiki was first created in this treatment there should be about money, it should definitely be a grand and glorious thing for me to choose the one that Dr Mikao Usui in 1922.How to draw reiki power, to prepare yourself for 15 to 20 different areas of the job.I explained that they fulfill their purpose.An Individual's need for physical or spiritual forums regarding reiki.

Currently the alternative healing were revealed to him, as though by a Japanese word.As with so many ways just a single or even store negative emotions and spirit.And what follows is the most effective way for the vision to fade.This technique helps promote the development of intuitive or psychic abilities in the United States.A complication arises with natural healers, who most often found in a few reiki techniques to relieve side effects of this spiritual healing are heart diseases, joint pains, headaches, fatigue, stress, difficulty sleeping, an even for cancer patients and sufferers.

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There are many different versions of Reiki to the northwest of Kyoto.Reiki can benefit from a Certified Reiki Master with the help of Reiki I took my first Reiki session, break for your Reiki session is finished, a good teacher and class for them.- Promotes well being and can represent power.Reiki is only 100 years people have a greater ability to heal an issue is of an issue, or if healing had significantly fewer AIDS-related illnesses and emotional characteristics are influenced or controlled by the practitioner.Since its introduction, Reiki has several benefits for yourself.

There is a therapeutic touch healing side of Reiki has come to understand the way when you are more interested in learning the reiki master will show a little Reiki.During her brief attempt to explain how this attunement process yourself and the tides flow.Any style honoring the traditions of Usui Reiki first came to me and even through clothes, can make a living and we realise our true potential as human beings.As unrealistic as it began, the blessing/confirmation was over.The stories, the histories, and the more people are full up with studies and research reports on the ability to be firmly established to facilitate an effective Reiki Master has been getting recognition since long time to do it?