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As Houryou was running with the colorful heads in his fangs, Tetsuya was the only one able to stay conscious until Houryou stopped. The others were too tired to stay awake. They had a hard time, but Tetsuya had time to rest, so he was still charged. When Houryou finally stopped, it placed down the colorful heads gently. Then he sat in front of them and looked at the awake Tetsuya.
Tetsuya was still a bit confused and could only stare quetioningly at Houryou. The baby bluehead opened his mouth, "Ni..gou..?" The divine beast then turned into the cute little dog he used to play all the time with with smokes around it. Houryou, or should i say, Tetsuya Nigou for now, then wagged his tail excitedly and circled the baby bluehead before jumping on the baby bluehead. The sudden impact pushed Tetsuya down to the ground as the cute pup barked once and licked the baby bluehead's face. Tetsuya held Nigou as he laughed ticklish telling the pup to stop. When the pup stopped licking, Tetsuya looked Nigou's face, "Nigou is Houryou-sama?" The questioned one seemed to not like when the baby bluehead used 'Houryou-sama' to address the other as the said pup bit the baby bluehead. Tetsuya received the message as he nodded. Though being separated for a long period of time, they could still understand each other.
Then they got into the serious part, since Nigou is also a divine beast, it should know how to calm the other's anger. Tetsuya asked of it for any clues. It looked at Tetsuya in the eye. It barked a few times, seems to be telling the baby bluehead something. But the baby bluehead seemed to be confused about what Nigou just told him, "Eh? My mother had made a promise with Hiryuu-sama?"
Nigou nodded and barked a few more times.
"If ever Hiryuu-sama gets out of control, or is outraging, it should stop and calmly listen to the Kuroko family who is trusted with the secret key word."
The baby bluehead then thought, "I remember that mother used to tell me about this frequently." He thought harder, "What was the word...?"
As the baby bluehead thought, a female voice called at him, "Tetsu-kun!!"
Catching the baby bluehead's attention, he turned to look at the direction from where the voice came from, "Momoi-san, are you okay?" He asked with a concern voice.
"Yes, i am!! And i've finished extinguishing the fire, plus melting the river!!"
Tetsuya smiled gratefully at her, "Thank you very much, Momoi-san. You helped us a lot, i am indebted to you too. I will repay all of you when we get back." With 'all', he meant the pink haired lady, and the other colorful heads. Not forgetting, the cute pup too.
The pink haired lady then noticed the cute pup and squealed, "Oh my gosh, Tetsu-kun!!! Who is he, he's so cute~~!! Awwww~~ He has the same eyes as Tetsu-kun's~~"
"This is Tetsuya Nigou, Nigou is Houryou-sama. I will explain it to you some other time. I need to find the key word to calm Hiryuu-sama at the moment. My mother often told me about it, but i don't know why, i couldn't seem to remember what it is." The baby bluehead said as he rubbed his temple out of frustration.
The pink haired lady looked at the other colorful head's direction, then back at the baby bluehead, "Tetsu-kun. I think you need to calm down first. Even though you look pretty calm minusing the little sign of your frustration, you're panicking, right?"
Tetsuya's eyes widened as he rethought about it, "Momoi-san is correct. I need to calm down." He needs to calm down after what happened. Then after he took a deep breath, and released it, he found the keyword. He looked at the other colorful heads, then at the pink haired lady, "I'm sorry, Momoi-san. Could i ask you a favor of bothering you to stay with the others?"
The pink haired lady smiled brightly at him, "Of course, Tetsu-kun!! It definitely won't be a bother, don't worry!"
He gave another smile to Satsuki, then turned to Nigou, "Nigou, please help me out." Nigou barked once looking pleased, and turned back into his original form. He layed down so that Tetsuya could climb onto him. After the baby bluehead climbed up, Houryou dashed back to the flat land which the other divine beast should be at.
As what they've thought, Hiryuu is still at the flat land waiting for their return and continue their unfinished battle. Houryou stopped in front of Hiryuu. They stood still until Houryou shifted his feet a little. Hiryuu inhaled, which made Houryou cautious and lowered his back. When Hiryuu released a breath of fire, Houryou jumped back then ran as Hiryuu followed them with it's breath like a flamethrower. When Hiryuu's flamethrower finally stopped, Houryou ran close to it and dodged Hiryuu's tail-whip which was directed at them. Houryou wanted to tackle but Hiryuu dodged and was about to slash Houryou in the process, but was caught by the baby bluehead's shadows. But again, the shadow soon broke off Hiryuu. As the baby bluehead had thought, his shadow won't be able to hold much from a divine beast. At least he managed to stop it from slashing Houryou. The baby bluehead needs to get on top of Hiryuu so that he's close enough for the dragon to hear the key words.
Hiryuu would sometimes spread his wings to get above Houryou and Tetsuya. When that happens, Houryou always lowered it's knees so that he could easily jump away to avoid any attacks Hiryuu would send to them. Tetsuya wanted to just pull himself up and onto Hiryuu with his shadow, but Hiryuu would always struggle away and broke the shadow before he could do anything. So at least, they needed to get close enough to Hiryuu for Tetsuya to get onto it with his shadow before the divine beast breaks it.
Hiryuu unconsciously gave that chance for the baby bluehead to take when it almost grazed Houryou with it's claws, aiming for Houryou's shoulder. Houryou dodged swiftly to the side and the baby bluehead extended his shadow then managed to get himself on top of Hiryuu's head. Hiryuu noticed the baby bluehead and tried to shook the baby bluehead off his head. Though he failed as the baby bluehead held on strongly with his shadow.
As Hiryuu continued to try shaking Tetsuya off, Tetsuya spoke it, "Hiryuu-sama, my name is Tetsuya. I am Tetsuya from the Kuroko family, Kuroko Tetsuya." Hiryuu was startled slightly by the mention of name Kuroko, "Please listen to me; 'The Kuroko family and Hiryuu-sama, have given oath to each other, to protect each other and the ones we love'. " Hiryuu should have calmed at that, but the said divine beast doesn't seem to be calming down as it continued trying to shake the baby bluehead. Tetsuya slightly panicked and got worried, was those words he said was not the keyword? No, it was definitely correct. That means he's missing something, but what is it?
He got snapped out of his thoughts when Hiryuu tried to shake him off by bumping itself to a tree. Tetsuya got shocked. He needs to think of something and do it fast. Hiryuu looked pained, and the baby bluehead doesn't want that. Then out of instincts, he caressed Hiryuu gently, "Hiryuu-sama, please stop. Please, don't hurt yourself. I'm sorry, i will get down, so please stop." He begged. The divine beast slowly calmed down after Tetsuya said that. The baby bluehead though got a bit confused at first, he then remembered his mother once said that he also needs to give a prove of his sincerity and love by action to make the divine beast receive the message. And so, it seems that in this case, the baby bluehead's caress worked it out.
Hiryuu soon came back to it's senses and realized what he had done. He lowered down to let Tetsuya get back onto the ground. When their eyes met, Hiryuu had made a sad and apologetic face on it. Tetsuya and Hiryuu smiled and said that it's okay.
Houryou then turned into Nigou again. Nigou barked at Hiryuu. Hiryuu seemed to get what Nigou wanted it to do, so it did. Hiryuu turned into a cute little red dragonling. Tetsuya felt his heart tighten as he hugged the said dragonling affectionately. Nigou got jealous as he pushed himself under then in the gap between Tetsuya and Hiryuu. If dogs could pout, then that is the face that Nigou would be showing right now. Tetsuya chuckled amusingly at their antics, then suggested that they went back to where the others are. The cute divine beasts agreed upon the suggestion, then walked beside the baby bluehead as they went towards where the others are waiting.