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Sabitsuki's body flashed softly, and the blanket fell around her now smaller shoulders. She looked up to Keine as the teacher hugged her, and with the smallest of voices asked, "Will she wake up?" She looked up to Keine sadly as fatigue nipped at her body. Just witnessing a fight of this magnitude put an enormous amount of stress on the young Youkai. Sabitsuki leaned into Keine's body, feeling tired from her worry, though her gaze returned to Yasashii as she did.

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Yuuka nodded a thanks to the young Judge. If it hadn't been for the extra amount of firepower, Ibara would have easily recovered from the initial attack.

It wasn't long before Yuuka stood over Ibara. The gardener gazed down at the hornless Oni, wearing a sorrowful look upon her face. "The Shinigami is right, Ibara. Someday, we will all be judged before the Yama. It may be today, it may be one thousand years from now." Yuuka gripped the handle of her parasol tightly. "What we do with our time here, in the realm of the living, defines our souls. All must be answered for: Both the good, the bad, and everything in between."

Yuuka stood silently for a moment, her eyes never leaving Ibara below her. "Judge." she spoke to Akira, still unmoving. "Tell me, what is your verdict?" Yuuka gingerly moved the parasol over Ibara's head, its tip mere inches from her eye. "What becomes of Ibara Hinarasu on this day?"

At first, Yuuka didn't reply to Akira. What could she say? What right did she have to pass judgement over Ibara, this Oni whom she had barely just met? This was a cruel punishment from the Judge, or perhaps, from the gods themselves.

"Ibara Hinarasu; Oni; age undetermined. Occupation: Barkeeper and proprietor." Yuuka spoke coldly, almost mechanically, recalling facts she had discerned about the friend whom lay before her. "Possesses the unnatural ability to extend her maximum endurance beyond that of any normal Oni at the cost of forgoing all form of sanity and the ability to think on a rational level. This power, if left unchecked, poses a definite threat to the well being and safety of Gensokyo and all those who dwell within. Her own ability to contain this power is inadequate at best, but non-existent once her life is mortally threatened. That being said..."

All things considered, any sane person or Youkai would undoubtedly see the threat Ibara posed to the world. Were it any other being, Yuuka would have no trouble ending a life, once and for all. It would only be another drop of blood on her time-worn hands.

"That being said, I formerly request permission to oversee the rehabilitation and well being Miss Hinarasu. Under my care, I will see to it that her latent power is never invoked again, and will personally take action should it ever resurface. I will take full responsibility for any damages incurred to Gensokyo and its residents should I fail in my duty." Yuuka looked to the Judge and her Shinigami as she lowered her parasol to her side. Her face was serious. "If this is unacceptable, then I will go above your head and straight to the Yama herself to plead my case. Ibara's sins are my sins now, and I'll be damned if I'll let a trainee like you say otherwise."

Mizuki didn't like the idea of the green haired youkai watching over the oni at all. She pointed her scythe at the youkai. "You best watch your tone around Akira if you know what's good for you, youkai." She dared speak of Akira as though she were weak. She may be a trainee, but she is not to be taken lightly. At least to Mizuki that's how it felt.

She lowered her scythe and said to Akira. "What of the injured? What should we do with them? I doubt any hospitals of healers will be open at this time." She walked over to the mole youkai and poked her with the bottom of her scythe handle. "Are you alive, mole?" She asked, poking her and crouching down next to her.

Mizuki didn't trust the green haired youkai as much as Akira seemed to. She looked out of the corner of her eye at her and memorized her look. She would definetly be watching over those two in the future.

Yochi was rudely stabbed awake, the mole rolling over,"Someone give me the gap youkai's number...she just bashed me..." She slowly pushed to her feet, with a cough, yup, that was going to bruise,"What happened...?" She loked from the shinigami and around, Yuuka was with Ibara it seemed.
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Keine reached back behind her to put an arm around Sabitsuki,"She isn't. But don't worry, she took her fair share of hits, she won't be causing more trouble tonight." She playfully put her tail by Sabitsuki, trying to distract her a bit from Ibara and Yuuka," Ibara isn't so bad... I don't know what happened but its over."
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Akira sighed a bit, her shinigami sure held her to high steem. She was just a trainee, and one with a long way ahead of her at that. The enma moved to her Shinigami's side as Mizuki poked at Yochi (who woke up.) "It is fine, Mizuki. She is right, I am just a trainee, and even if I wasn't she is a much older and wiser youkai than I can hope to be right now." She patted the Shinigami's high shoulder, turning to glance as Yuuka once more tried to talk with the oni.
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Ibara was easily moved, and by the time she knew it, she was against Yuuka once more. Now that things where quiet, and she wasn't itching to run and roar and do all the things she always wanted to do, she was able to hear, to actually listen. The fight was over..? Was that it?...

She felt broken enough. Maybe she could stand...maybe, but her body wasn't responding in her current state. Nevertheless, she couldn't just shut down! She had lost to the pack of youkai, but she still had pride. Now thinking about it, the youkai holding her said "your fight"..what did she mean..?

Ibara tried to figure this out, but she couldn't put her head around it, and to add to it:"you don't have to be strong anymore"...where had she heard that before...? It tore at her she couldn't remember what sounded so important...when had she heard that? Why couldn't she remember? Being against Yuuka, it all felt familiar but distant. She remembered it was a time when she felt broken like this but when-?

Then she remembered, when she had stopped Utsuho. The nuclear raven that had almost blow the village up months ago figthing Yuuka. Why had she even bothered...? They were just a bunch of people! Kids, Women, Children, the people she cared about. People who seemed to care about her.There was Selkie, and Byakuren, and Yuuka, and even Yochi. They were the reason why wasn't it?

Comming back to her senses, she couldn't believe she had threaten to hurt all of them. Back in the familiarity and odd comfort of Yuuka's arms, the oni at last nodded at possibly being able to stand. She felt shattered once more, like she had,months ago, in the Myouren Temple.

"But...But Akira said she'd send her to hell..." Sabitsuki mumbled, absentmindedly playing with Keine's tail which she so kindly presented to the young Youkai. "I don't want her to hurt Yasashii anymore!" She ducked out from behind Keine, braving her fear of the rising Oni and running to Akira and Mizuki. "Judge Lady! I thought you were gonna send her to heeelll!" She ran into and buried herself in Mizuki's skirt. She looked up to the Shinigami with worried eyes, a small look of betrayal on her face. "Squishy Lady....aren't you gonna get her??"

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Slowly, carefully, Yuuka helped Ibara off the ground. She let out a knowing sigh, and began brushing the dirt off Ibara's back. "I can't take you anywhere, can I?" She paused for a moment, thinking, taking care in choosing her next words. "Yasashii has suffered much trauma by your hands. Were it not for the Judge's intervention, you would have likely killed her. Yochi suffered injury as well, but it isn't life-threatening. However, I can't say the same for the Oni." Yuuka could tell Ibara's mental state was declining. "That being said, I must commend you and your plan. Having Miss Kamishirasawa use her powers on the full moon to hide the village was ingenious. That alone saved many more lives this night."

She doubted these words soothed Ibara any.

Mizuki looked down, past her bust, at Sabitsuki, who sounded incredibly depressed. "I can't argue against my judges will. But, i will come back to claim it one day." She said to her. She patted her on the head and sighed. "I'm sorry, but now is not her time." She said to Sabitsuki.

She looked up to see the teacher leaving for medicines from Eientei. "Good luck." She said after her. She then looked to the green haired youkai. "If you need any help with her, I could lend you a hand. Is there anywhere we can take her?" She said to the youkai, as she began to walk towards her.

Keine nodded to Yuuka moving to Sabitsuki one more time. "Of course you can stay here as long as you want to, the main room will be lit, as I left it, just take one of the candles or the lantern next to the door inside, that will light the room nicely." She looked over her shoulder at the Bamboo forest, before looking back to Sabitsuki,"I will be back when the sun is up, the walk to Eieintei is a long one." It wasn't that long, much less to someone who knew the forest well enough. Keine simply didn't want to have Sabi look at her while her horns went back into her head and the tail retracted. It was a bit hurtful after all, and always made the teacher self concious. So she would await the end of the moon and return with the medicine and all. "And if you get hungry, there is a small bento box in my office, where you found me sleeping remember?" The teacher turned to the forest and waved,"Take care everyone and please behave while I am gone." 

She raised a hand and the village begun to reappear from the air as the hakutaku walked into the bamboo forest of the lost

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Ibara was silent as Yuuka begun to try and ease some response from her. The oni simply didn't feel like talking, and doubted she could be coherent, but upon being to do so, she figured she had nothing to lose.

"Sorry,I...Didn't mean to cause so much trouble-" The hornless oni said in a raspy voice, exhausted. She may have been holding much strength not long ago, but that usually tore its fair share of muscles. Muscles unused to the strain of such raw power. Truth be told, Ibara also was emberrased by the state she had been seen in. She hadn't lost it since the incident in the caves, and now not only Yuuka had seen her, but so had all the youkai in the crowd and that little girl too.

Ibara brought up a hand to the stub of her horn, then the other to the other one. She seemed to want to conceal them for a moment, and bringing her elbows foward she bowed a bit forward,"I should have just let that stone thing crush me-"

It was degrading, shameful, annoying, the oni felt like nothing more than a monster with a leash, what with being in a body with a concious that felt horrible about the pleasure she had felt when trying to crush Yasashii in her hands.