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Dakota shot up out of his sleep and stopped himself from screaming bloody murder. Gasping for breath, he looked around and noticed immediately he was no longer in the shrine he had thought he died in. In fact, to his surprise, he was in his bed and even wearing a pair of sweatpants and a tank top he hadn’t been wearing before he blacked out. After glancing around his room and then down at his own body, he noticed that there were no injuries from being stabbed. Was it all a horrible dream? That girl? The stabbings? Did that even happen?545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPVWa5CEdd
A loud crashing of metal pans started him, and he instantly had a quick flash of a memory cooking and ordering food that he didn’t remember doing. Dakota stood up out of his bed and still felt a sudden unreal heaviness throughout his body. As he made his way into his living room, the noises were getting louder. Once he stood in the doorway of the kitchen, he saw Kōkishin lying on the kitchen floor, atop a large gathering of plates, food, and cooking utensils. She was groaning and blushing while rolling back in forth giggling to herself. She was no longer wearing the ceremonial kimono he had met her in but was now wearing a pair of Dakotas sweatpants and t-shirts with an orange and white cat on it.545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZBcfefBcec
While Kōkishin rolled around on the floor Dakota asked, “What the hell are you doing? It’s a complete mess in here!”
Kōkishin laughed and said, “It’s been about a hundred years since I have been able to taste anything! I can’t believe how good everything tastes! I didn’t recognize any of it but its to die for!” She started laughing as Dakota noticed a bowl on the counter that had remnants of instant ramen and ravioli’s still in it. He also noticed that in the bowl, it looked like a large amount of mustard and ketchup had been added at one point.
Dakota felt like he was going to dry heave thinking about what that tasted like as he asked, “Where you, just mixing everything you could find together and eating it?” He continued to look around the kitchen and noticed other various dishes that had remnants of disgusting concoctions she had been experimenting with. As Kōkishin was rolling around the piles of trash and garbage he noticed, her whole body, clothes, and all, were covered in different sauces and various particles of food.
Kōkishin replied, “Yes I did! And it was all amazing! Even being outside your body and just using you like a spiritual conduit; I can still taste things.” She stopped rolling around and pointed to a tablet over on the coffee table in the living room and said, “I even discovered that magical stone over there. I was able to figure it out and typed in the magic letters and food arrived at the front door. I couldn’t believe it!”
Dakota looked over at his tablet in the living room and asked, “What do you mean when you’re outside my body you can still taste things? And are you telling me you were ordering food on my tablet?” He stepped into the living room and noticed that there was take out and all kinds of food all over the floor, his couch, and the television was on, and it too, was covered in sauces and food.
Dakota became angry as he started to ask, “Where you spending my money? And how the hell did we get back home? Why are you wearing my clothes if you’re a god? Most of all, why the hell are you even eating? How does any of this make any sense?” Dakota covered his face with his hands and shouted out, “What in the world is going on? I thought I was stabbed and dying? Wasn’t that all a dream? Why do you have a tail and cat ears? Where’s your normal human ears?”
Kōkishin rolled onto her back and said, “Calm down you oaf! You aren’t doing yourself any good whining and asking childish questions. Can’t you accept I’m a god and leave it at that?”
“Of course, I can’t!” Dakota shouted in response. “Are you even real? Is this hell?”
Kōkishin responded, “Idiot, shut up and listen. One, when we bonded, I became a form of demi-god that is the closest to human I’ll ever be. So, I can still manifest myself outside your body to an extent. Being in your body right now in my weakened state was a bit unsatisfying. It felt heavy and groggy, so once we got home, I ate your clothes and put you in your bed with new ones on.”
Dakota interrupted her and shouted while asking, “You ate my clothes?!”
Kōkishin responded, “Well yeah! Devouring blood helps me regain my spirit energy and your clothes were covered in it after you were healed. But anyways, you wouldn’t wake up after we soul bonded, so I took the wheel. I could instantly view your memories and walked us home.” She stood up and brushed herself off which did absolutely no good since she was still covered in food and debris as she said, “Because we bonded, doing things like eating helps restore my spirit energy. And yes, the robes you met me in were manifested with spirit energy and its hard to do in this weakened state, so I borrowed some of your clothes. Also, when I reside inside your body, I can feel, taste, and smell like a thousand times stronger than I can right now while outside your body. But if I had to gauge it, I would say manifested as I am right now, I’m experiencing about five percent the amount I did while in your body. Well that’s about as much as I understand about everything and everything else is still a mystery to me as well.”
She ran into the living excitedly and said, “Now you tell me barbarian, what the heck is this thing?” She pointed to the television which was on an action channel before saying, “This magic stone started making apparitions of this ninja in a some kind of formal attire and he had this thing in his hand that shot invisible rocks at his enemies!” As Dakota made his way to see what she was talking about, she wrapped her tail around his neck and lifted herself off the ground and reenacted a scene from what she was watching as if she was ascending and descending through a matrix of lasers as she said, “Then he dodged this magic beams of light and there wasn’t even a sorcerer casting them!”
As she continued to hang from his neck by her tail, Dakota grabbed her tailed with both hands and held her suspended in the air as he yelled, “Are you trying to choke me to death?! I still honestly don’t understand any of this.” He looked at the television and said, “And you were watching a movie about James Bond, he’s not a ninja he’s a secret agent that works for a top secret British military organization or something like that.” As he was talking, he noticed he was still holding Kōkishin in the air by her tail and she was blushing and somewhat paralyzed.
Embarred and slowly becoming enraged, Kōkishin found the strength to overcome her paralysis and began to say slowly, “You deviant swine! Put me down this instant! How dare you grab a woman’s tail you sexual predator!” Dakota let go of her tail and she landed on all fours like a cat and hissed at him. “If we weren’t soul bonded, I’d shred you to pieces for touching me like that! I’ve never let a man touch my tail!” She started to bite a leg of his sweatpants and ravaging it around while growling like an animal. Suddenly she started to blush and rub her head against his leg as if she forgot her current rage.
She said, “Yeah this is nice and soft,” as she continued rubbing her head against his leg.
Dakota asked, “What the hell is wrong with you? One-minute you’re ready to kill me for touching your tail and now your acting crazier than before.”
Kōkishin responded, “I don’t know, and I don’t care. I’m feeling so many new and different emotions right now, I think I’m evening feeling some of yours.”
Dakota jumped backwards out of her reach and began to blush as he asked, “What do you mean you can feel some of mine?
Kōkishin smiled as she rolled from her knees onto her back as she said, “Feelings of anger, and confusion. Maybe even a little lust and arousal.” She rolled over onto all fours and started crawling seductively towards Dakota while she asked, “Are you into Demi-Human Demi‑god cat creatures’ you fiend?”
Dakota stumbled over some trash and food she had left as he was walking backwards away from her. He was blushing and started to shout, “What are you doing? Stay away from me!” As Dakota backed up on all fours, he felt water underneath his hands and looked up the hallway discovering a small stream forming from the bathroom door. He jumped to his feet and quickly made his way down the hallway to discover the bathtub was overflowing and food spread across the floor and counter tops. Kōkishin ran to the doorway and asked excitedly, “Oh yeah what is that thing? I couldn’t sense any spirit or magical energy coming from it, yet water comes out of it at a twist of a lever.” She stood there smiling while Dakota smacked each of his cheeks to try to wake himself up.
After shutting off the water he said, “This is a bathtub. You fill it up with hot water and bathe in it like a hot spring. This room is known as the rest room or bathroom depending on your culture. You use the toilet, freshen up, and bath in a room like this.” He looked at Kōkishin who had been leaning over the tub and looking at her own reflection in the water in amazement.
Kōkishin said still astonished, “Dakota this place is amazing. Even as a god I don’t think I could have ever dreamt up a place like this.”
Dakota seemed a bit shocked as he didn’t remember ever telling her his name. He asked, “Did I tell you my name when we met? I kinda don’t remember.”
Kōkishin said while still staring at herself in the water, “When I walked us home, I could see all your memories. Even ones when you were still an infant. I can still remember all your memories even now, so I pretty much know everything you know about yourself.” Dakota looked at her with a horrified look as she broke away from her own reflection with a devious look in her eye as she said, “Even the naughty ones.”
Dakota fell backwards into the bathtub as he felt his life slip away out of his body. As he was submerged, he thought to himself he should probably just let himself drown to end the humility. As he shot up out of the water gasping for air Kōkishin said playfully, “It’s your own fault. You didn’t state any conditions so technically I’m free to do whatever I want.”
Dakota said as he was dripping wet, “Would you really have followed them if I had stated any? Honestly, I thought I was dying, and it was all over so I couldn’t think of any.”
Kōkishin giggled as she said, “A soul bonding is the most fierce and important contract a mortal can make with an ethereal being. If you would have made conditions, I’d have no choice but to abide by them. If I wanted too, I could take full control of your body once I’m back to my full strength and never let you have the reigns again.”
Horror stuck Dakota’s face once again as he began to realize the seriousness of his situation. Kōkishin continued to say, “But—” she said with a playful tone in her voice, “I promise you I will never do that to you. In order to make the contract, there must at least be one condition, so I made it for you.”
Dakota was still horrified thinking about what condition she set for herself. Most likely something to her advantage he thought. She continued to say, “I set the condition that I can’t devour your soul completely.”
“Devour my soul?!” Dakota shouted? What kind of god are you that you would have to set a condition like that for yourself?”
“Even though I saved your mortal life. You saved me from spending the rest of my existence alone and abandoned in that shrine. Your mortal life barely holds meaning compared to an ethereal one that can live for eternity. If I would have spent the rest of my life there until I faded away, I would have been nothing but a worthless being.” She stopped for second and then started to shout fiercely at him, “So you should bow before me and be thankful for my kindness mortal halfwit!” As she stood strong and laughed with her hands on her hips, Dakota walked out of the bathroom and pushed her backwards into the bathtub before shutting the door behind him.
Kōkishin screams could be heard through out the house while she hollered, “You ungrateful imp! I could smite us both right now and end our existence you know!”
Dakota made his way back to the kitchen and began to keep up the horrific mess that Kōkishin had made in her curious adventure into his food. Dakota was still having a hard time coming to terms with everything. He felt like it was too unreal and that if it were real to much has happened to fast to make sense of anything. As if certain steps to the equation were missing or intentionally skipped. While he set a bunch of pots and pans on the countertop, he noticed a business card sitting next to where he placed the pots and pans. The word Detective stood out to him as he glanced over the card. A sudden flash of himself talking with officers and a detective when he got home flashed before his eyes and suddenly disappeared. He suddenly remembered telling Heidi to call the police during the struggle and concluded Kōkishin must have engaged with the police on the walk home at some point.
He trembled at the thought of her spouting out nonsense to police officers not knowing what or who they were. The fact they let him go and he was able to return home, while being possessed by Kōkishin.
While he was cleaning, he heard the bathroom door open and Kōkishin came walking down the hallway completely nude. Dakota shouted, “WHY DIDN’T YOU PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON?” while tactfully rolling into the living room to grab a blanket off the couch and tossed it over Kōkishin’s body.
“Is my body that unpleasant to look upon by your unworthy gaze you ape? I’ll have you know I’m the perfect example of beauty personified.” She took a provocative stance as if she were about to be drawn by a classroom full of art students.
Dakota kept from looking at her and forcefully wrapped the blanket around her body and tied it off as if she were wearing a toga.
Dakota said while embarrassed, “Look here your highness, I don’t know what time period your accustomed to and I won’t ask, but right now, in present day, you keep your clothes on and don’t take them off unless its to bathe yourself. You might have the body of a goddess but that’s more reason to keep it concealed and only show it too like some holy spirit or whatever. I don’t know how it works for you but it’s not socially acceptable to just walk around naked.”
Kōkishin simply responded, “Well, my clothes were wet after you so gracefully shoved me into your private hot spring.” After a short pause she huffed and put her hands on her hips and demanded, “Bring me more of your clothes peon.”
Dakota quickly dived into his room and searched for something fitting. He reappeared with a deep blue hoodie with the words: Death Squad, imprinted across the back. It was his favorite hoodie from one of his favorite first-person shooter series. He also had his last pair of clean underwear with an extra pair of track shorts. He presented them to Kōkishin, and she gave them a good look over.
Since she had never seen anything quite like it, she replied with a serious tone in her voice, “This is acceptable.” She crossed her arms and snatched the clothing out of Dakotas hands with her tail. She quickly tore off the blanket she was wearing and began to get dressed.
Dakota sighed and turned around while saying, “A little warning next time please.”
Be the time he turned around, she was standing next to him with her hand outstretched to him holding the pair of whitey tighties he had given her while she said, “I don’t know what this is so you can have it back.”
Dakota’s face became beat red as he could only imagine that she was going commando in his shorts. “You were supposed to put them on before those shorts.” He exclaimed.
Kōkishin responded, “Well, it’s too late now and everything feels right down there.”
Dakota quickly replied to her statement by saying, “Okay, I didn’t need to know all that.”
Kōkishin gave Dakota a scheming smile as she said, “You know, even though I told you everything I understand about all this, there is still a lot I don’t know about our bond. Like, before the agreement I didn’t have the necessary human parts if you know what I mean. Now it seems the hardware is there for reproduction. I don’t know if it will work but there’s only one way to find out if we could create something blasphemous.” She reached for his hand as Dakota rolled backwards over the couch and crab walked backwards down the hallway while blood shot out of his nose as if his life had turned into an anime.
Dakota nervously but quickly started saying, “I mean you’re a god and I’m a measly human, we couldn’t possibly— you know? Like you should save yourself for ethereal marriage or whatever. I still have a couple weeks before I’m even eighteen so I couldn’t.”
Kōkishin laughed out loud and shouted delightfully, “Look at you are squirming around like a worm before me!” She spun around like a ballerina as she said, “Don’t forget Dakota, since were linked I can pretty much feel your emotions too you pervert!”
As Dakota continued to stumble backwards a dark and ghostly apparition began to ascend through the floor. When the ghostlike figure’s torso was emerged above Dakota’s body, its arm became blade like and came slashing toward Dakota’s head. As the blade was about to make contact with Dakotas neck, Kōkishin came flying at him and caught the blade with her hands. Her face was inches from Dakotas as she had her arms outstretched over his shoulders holding the blade back. Her features had become slightly more feral catlike and as Dakota turned his head to see what was behind him, he noticed that each of her fingers were almost as sharp as small daggers. Her face even had tribal like designs tattooed over it, it was almost as if she had transformed into a ravenous beast rather than her normal catlike figure.
She suddenly grabbed Dakota’s ankle with her tail and sent him flying across the room out of the way as she quickly slashed at the ghostlike figure’s chest. The figures other arm became blade like also and started to ferociously swing at Kōkishin as she leapt out of the way. The apparition’s blade like arms tore through Dakota’s couch as they made their way towards the television. Kōkishin shouted out, “No stay away from the magic stone!” as she leapt at the apparition and as if time stopped, she slashed her claws in a fury as she chanted something that sounded like Latin. A large magic circle surrounded the apparition’s body as she finished her chanting and series of attacks. As if time was restored, she fell to her feet as the apparitions exploded into a blinding light and exploded into hundreds of vibrant purple glowing orbs and quickly evaporated into Kōkishin body. She stood there and wobbled back in forth as she slowly said, “I didn’t find out how the nicely dressed ninja saves the girl,” as she passed out and went face first into a bunch of trash and food on the floor.”545Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09gAMzYS8C
