After being thrown a great distance, Aiko planted her feet firmly in the earth as she tried to slow down, but then Akira appeared back over her.
He kicked the air, and then a giant blast of fire was flung at her. Aiko counterd once again by sending out a slash if psychic power.
The impact from the two techniques colliding was incredibly powerful.
"Be incinerated!"
Akira launched a breath attack of fire at Aiko, which she counterd with her own psychic power blast. But as the two attacks collided, Akira flash stepped in front of Aiko.
Using his sharp nails, he was about to rip right through her neck but then a strange barrier stopped.
Akira was stunned until Aiko slashed her sword across Akiras head. He quickly backed away.
Since Aiko wasn't an emitter, she wasn't able to reinforce her sword with psychic power. The damage it did was minimal.
"She makes up for her long distance offensive power with that strange barrier. Shes strong."
The nine burning tails he possessed, split away from him and turned into burning foxes.
"How will you deal with this? Stampede of greedy foxes."
Before they could even attack, a barrage psychic power blasts instantly destroyed them. This only made Akira smile as he enjoyed the battle even more.
"This racing feeling in my chest! The thrill of battle!A feeling I couldn't feel until now! I don't know if it's because I absorbed the Kyubi, but I want to keep enjoying this feeling!"
The two rushed at eachother, but before they could even clash someone blocked them both.
Aiko's sword wedged itself into Shiro's right arm, while Shiro caught Akiras punch with his left.
Aiko asked,
"Shiro? What are you doing here?"
Once she looked him in the eye, she could instantly tell something was wrong with him. Something had changed, this person definitely wasn't Shiro.
"SHIRO! MOVE!"
Akira screamed at Shiro to get out of his way, but Shiro just quickly jabbed him in the face, pushing him aside.
"This fox is still a baby, I'm going to clean you up quickly."
Shiro clasped both of his hands together and then blood began to spurt from his fingertips.
"Dead end road."
Blood squirted out of each of his fingertips at an incredibley high pressure, which made it seem like blades of blood were coming out of him.
The blades ejected out of his body with a range that could cover and entire city block.
He slashed at Akira who could barely avoid them without getting cut, but he was surprised at how much damage was being caused.
Shiro suddenly appeared Infront of him, a pressed the palm of his hand against him. A wave of psychic power flowed into Akira, destroying his insides as he was blown back.
"That was!!!"
A couple days prior
Sine Akira had just turned into a psychic, Asclepius went out of his way to teach him the basics. But Akiras talent let him quickly pick things up.
"Amongst the three types of psychic power manipulation, there are three further types of mastery. Basic, advanced and Ultimate. Basic inner enhancement is outer or inner enhancement. Advanced is to not just manipulate the psychic power in the body, but to flow it into someone else's. Although people who can use inner enhancement safely find it easier to use advanced, anyone who can reach that level, is a dime in a dozen."
Akiras internal injuries caused him to vomit a mountain of blood. He tried to back away, but then Shiro quickly appeared behind him.
A blade of blood emerged from his knuckle as Shiro pushed it through Akiras back.
"STOP IT!"
An eruption of flame emerged from the earth as it incinerated everything. Even Shiro's skin was being burnt, but he did not care.
He slammed his fist into Akira face, punching him outside of the vortex.
Ever since becoming a psychic, Akira had felt many different emotions. Rage, sadness, helplessness and even the joy of battle. But right now, he could only feel fear.
Nothing had changed about Shiro physically and psychically. Apart from his increased regeneration speed, his psychic power was the exact same. So what had changed?
Experience.
The unknown amount of experience the current Shiro had, far exceeded Akiras couple days. It was so large that even the strength gap couldn't make up for it.
His fundamentals, technique and battle instincts were in a different universe compared to the current Akira.
Shiro emerged from the flames, still regenerating from the burn wounds, but it didn't even take a second.
"What's wrong? I thought you were going to kill me? Or should I come over to you instead?"
Shiro felt as if he was asleep for a long time. He was drifting in what seemed like darkness for eons, but when he finally woke he saw a world of white.
In that space he saw himself, hunched over playing on what looked like a Sony psp.
He was confused, but once he looked on the screen, he himself beating up Akira.
He tried to take the controller out of his doppelgangers hand, but he shouted in fear.
"AHHHHHHHHHH"
"AHHHHHHHHHH"
The two shouted for a bit, until suddenly they just stopped.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?? AN EVIL CLONE???"
The Shiro with the controller was confused. The Shiro Infront of him shouldn't be existing right now, to him he was the fake.
"How are you still here? You should've died when MY memories came back!"
"Your memories?"
It's been quite a while, but Shiro almost forgot he had amnesia. If what the doppelganger was saying was true, then that ment he had the memories he was missing.
"So your a me with my lost memories? If I beat you, do I get them back?"
"What do you mean? I've always been here, asleep in the back of your mind. That bitch Neikawa must've used her ability to do this! She must be an old hag by now, if she's even alive!"
Shiro was terrified at this thought. If what he was saying was true, then he was the doppelganger. A Shiro with the slate wiped clean, that has somehow existed alongside the original.
"That can't be!! Then everything up till now?"
"Don't you wonder how you've learnt everything much faster than others? It's the same reason as to why you could speak without the memory to do so. The experience that I engraved on this body has been helping you. But since I'm back now, you should just rot away in a corner somewhere."
Shiro fell to his knees as he finally realized. He was the fake, and the person before him was the original.
"Who are you? Who are we?"
"Shiro, I'm..."
Shiro looked at himself blankly. The name felt familiar but he couldn't figure it out. Did he even hear it in the first place?
"Am I supposed to know that name?"
"HAVE YOU NEVER TOUCHED A BIBLE IN YOUR LIFE??"
He suddenly remembered that Shiro hadn't even existed for longer than a year. Thinking about that, he reintroduced himself.
Before he got a chance, Shiro punched him in the face, while the psp fell on the floor. Our Shiro punched stomped on it, destroying it to bits.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? IM THE ORIGINAL, GIVE MY BODY BACK TO ME!"
"I was worried. I thought that I wasn't the real Shiro. But at the end of the day, the one who met Yukiko was Shiro, the one who earned Hoshikos love was Shiro, the one who joined S.N.A.D was Shiro, the one who got Akiras parents killed was Shiro, and the one who will save him WILL BE SHIRO. Shiro is the one who woke up on that beach that day, Shiro is the one who this body belongs to. The real Shiro, is me!"
The other Shiro grew panicked and terrified. He was scared of something, even more than losing control over this body.
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE ORDERS OF THAT MAN ALL MY LIFE! HE MUST'VE GROWN SUSPICIOUS WHEN I DISAPPEARED, BUT SINCE HE KNOWS I'M BACK, HE'LL DEFINITELY TRY TO CLAIM US! YOU MUST KILL THAT FOX NO MATTER WHAT!"
"That man? I don't know who your talking about, but if he's someone linked to my past, then I don't care. If he's an ally or enemy I don't care. The only thing that matters is Shiro's today and future. If he tries to get in my way, then I'll beat his ass!"