Yuji Itadori POV
"Sun's mostly gone now, so it's probably 5:00pm maybe 5:15pm at best," I muttered while retracing my steps in the depths of Fuyuki City.
I sniffed the air trying to pick up what I could remember of that Rynosuke dude and Giles's scent.
Mostly Rynosuke though since his was the one I spent a longer time around. From when he first gave out those candies, to taking me. and the others to his and Giles's creepy ass hideout.
My legs were only slightly sore from the hour long run while my lungs burned only by a bit.
"Pant...pant," white mist colors my exhales from how cold it currently was but I didn't shiver or feel bothered by it.
That's just how my body was.
I was currently hiding in an alleyway from a police patrol, the last thing I needed was for them to catch me and send me back to Nanamin.
I pressed against the wall and waited for the two officers to finish their circuit and move away.
Thirty seconds until they were gone.
I moved.
The scent was definitely a lot stronger here which meant the bastard was somewhere around here.
I followed it to an old cafe store building that had its shutters pulled but not locked, a sliver of light could be seen bleeding from underneath.
I didn't slow down to think about it.
I slammed into the shutter at full speed, shoulder first, and it came off its runners with a sound resembling a loud thunderclap.
.
.
.
It took me only a half second to land and find my footing.
The floor inside of the Cafe was a complete disgusting mess with trash just everywhere. Nearby I caught sight of, seven kids that were slumped over the tables completely unconscious and thankfully still breathing.
Backed against a shelf was a girl about my age. She had dark twin pigtails, blue aqua-colored eyes, and wore an expensive looking red coat.
She also held something in her hand that vaguely looked like a compass.
Her expression was doing several things simultaneously, the most prominent of which was the look of fear.
Rynosuke was between me and her.
He turned around at the sound of the shutter.
I recognized him immediately. The dark red hair, the easy creepy smile, and eyes that only a monster with no heart could have.
He looked at me expression shifting from surprise into one of glee, "oh hey it's you the freakishly strong kid that Caster wanted. Wuji? No no, it was Buji? Wait no it's Yuji Itadori!" he exclaimed with a casual snap of his fingers.
"Get away from her!" I roared.
His smile only widened competely ignoring my shout, "hey you know, Caster is going to be thrilled. He's been missing you a lot," Rynosuke tilted his head, "I'm kind of glad you found us actually. Saves me the trouble of having to look for-"
I was already moving before he finished the sentence.
The distance between us collapsed in a fraction of a second and my first punch came in low targeting his solar plexus.
Rynosuke however was no longer an ordinary human anymore.
He twisted at the last moment with a speed that didn't belong to someone his size, my knuckles grazed his ribs instead of landing square, and his returning elbow caught me across the cheekbone hard enough to snap my head sideways.
I skidded back two steps.
'He's fast', I registered.
"Ooh," Rynosuke said rolling his shoulder with the casual satisfaction of someone who had just confirmed a hypothesis "Caster really did do good work on me huh? I can actually feel that. Usually I can't feel anything."
He said it the way someone says the weather is nice.
All of the sudden something dark and wet unfurled from his left forearm.
The tentacle hit the floor tiles and left a crack in the ceramic and I understood immediately that whatever Gilles had given him was similar but different to what he did too the kids.
"GET DOWN!" I barked at the girl with the pigtails.
(Play Yuji & Nanami vs Mahito EP13 JJK Theme OST by Mask Official)
She snapped out of her fear and ran behind the counter.
I charged.
The tentacle was faster than it looked.
It came in from my left while Rynosuke's fist came from the right. I dropped flat with both knees hitting the floor and the tentacle whistled over my head while his fist found nothing but air.
I pushed off the floor with both palms and drove upward into his chin with the crown of my head.
His teeth clicked together audibly.
Before he could recover I grabbed the tentacle side of his wrist and pulled his arm straight, torquing the joint, and hit him twice in the ribs with my free hand that I encased with mana.
He made a sound that was more surprised than pained.
The tentacle wrapped around my ankle and pulled.
The floor came up fast and I hit it shoulder-first, rolled, and came up with a chair between us that I'd grabbed on the way. I swung it into the tentacle as it reached for me again and the impact shuddered up my arms while the chair came apart but the tentacle did at least recoil.
"Man," Rynosuke observed, genuinely delighted, "you really are a freaky kid but that was actually kind of cool not gonna lie."
"Tch," I clicked my tongue.
He blurred forward.
From behind the counter came the pig tailed girl's voice, "the bracelet! On his right wrist glowing purple. That's how he's keeping everyone else unconscious!"
True to her words I did find the glowing bracelet on Rynosuke's right wrist.
I ducked under one of his heel strikes and kept moving.
Tentacles came from the right this time trying to sweep my legs. I jumped it, pushing mana into my feet to extend the hang time, and came down on top of it with my foot, pinning it to the floor for the half-second it took to cover the distance between us.
My hands closed around his right wrist with a full grip.
Rynosuke tried to yank free immediately and I held on with everything I had, the tendons in my arms pulling taut, my feet carving furrows in the floor tiles as he dragged me half a step.
'I don't know how much I'd need to destroy this thing...so,' I thought, "I'll just overload it!" I exclaimed out loud.
Mana surged up from my core and I just dumped as much as I could into the bracelet.
The bracelet resisted for two seconds.
Then it didn't.
The explosion went outward in three colors simultaneously. Violet mana most likely belonging to Giles, the blue of my mana, and something deep red underneath.
Rynosuke stumbling backward and me sliding three meters across the floor on my heels "shit the big guy isn't going to be happy about this at all," he muttered in annoyance.
The unconscious kids at the tables stirred.
One of them coughed.
Then another.
I looked over my shoulder at the girl with the pigtails who was staring at me from behind the counter with an expression that had moved well past fear into a shocked one. The compass still in her hand and her aqua eyes intently staring at me.
"Take them and go," I said, "all of them. Out the back if there is one, out the front if there isn't. No matter what though don't stop."
"You're a mag-" she started.
"Just go,already!" I interrupted and turned back to Rynosuke,"I'll take him away from here."
Then I hit him with an overcharged fist of mana which had enough forced to send him flying right through the exterior wall.
The street outside received us without ceremony.
Rynosuke hit the pavement, skipped once, and came up laughing with dust in his hair and a fresh split across his cheekbone that was stitching itself back together with mini-tentacles.
"Okay that's just freaking creepy," I cringed landing in the street.
"Alright you've done it now kid," he said, rotating his jaw experimentally, "I'm going to stop going easy."
I moved first.
The next four minutes were the most technically demanding thing I had ever done.
I used everything.
Divergent Fist at close range, driving him back three steps, and then Reinforcement pushed to a maximum output through my legs to close the distance before he could reset, and the invisible follow-up blows landed clean on his jaw.
His head snapped back again after I smashed another Divergent Fist. A second later I saw the secondary invisible blow land on to his skull making him drop to his knee.
Only for tentacles to come out both arms this time not just one.
The first one caught me across the ribs before I processed it was moving and the pain that came after hurt really bad. I kept it do mentally telling myself to just ignore and keep fighting.
I ducked under the second tentacle, grabbed it with both hands, and used it as an anchor to swing myself around his guard and then drive my knee into his chin.
He caught my ankle on the way, and the ground introduced itself to my face "ugh!"
I grunted rolling away before he could follow up and from the taste in my mouth I could tell that my lip was bleeding.
Not even a second later though the wound on said lip closed up.
I reinforced through both of my forearms to harden the block as Rynosuke's foot came down where my head had been. The shockwave of the blocked strike traveled through my arms and into my shoulders and I pushed back against it instead of tanking it, redirecting the force sideways.
His stance broke.
I was already inside his guard "your open now!" I yelled.
I landed three mana-loaded strikes targeting the same point on his left side each time the way Nanami had taught me to this morning, stacking the damage, and on the third one I chanted once more.
"Divergent Fist."
The secondary wave hit the accumulated damage point and Rynosuke bent sideways around it with a sound that actually sounded painful for the first time.
'Freaking finally,' I thought with a small victorious grin.
"You damn kid you're starting to get really annoying. It's so uncool spamming the same moves over and over again don't you think?" Rynosuke irritably questioned.
"I've always been more of a punch and kick kind of person...but I guess I can turn things up by a notch for someone like you," I retorted.
I spread my hands apart, fingers curled up tightly as mana wrapped around them so intensely that it began to look like a swirling tornado of blue flames.
Red liquid Dripps from my palms slowly floating up in the air.
Something resembling excitement lit up in Rynosuke's eyes, "oooh~ is that the blood move you used on those cages back then? That's so coooooooollllll!!" he shouted with a deranged smile on his face.
"Ugh stop being a CREEP!"
"NEVER!"
-end of chapter fifteen-
Next chapter will continue the fight with Rynosuke and some other stuff.
Anyways I bet you guys were totally surprised that this version of Rynosuke got enhanced compared to his cannon self in Fate/Zero.
I wanted to change and mix things up instead of just keeping things the same as cannon.