Perfect, now there are 2 of them
Kenshin woke up before Ei, who was still tied and sleeping, blood and tears still on her face.
"Are you awake now?" asked an exhausted Yae. "You slept for 2 days, and we are starting to get tired".
Sara and Yae stood guarding them for 2 days, without sleeping or eating. They came through the portal, so their bodies were here.
In these 2 days they examined both of them, and seeing the amount of injuries they had and the presence of the original Electro Archon, they decided that trying to guess what happened was only a waste of time, so it was better to wait.
"Yes, and I'm feeling better" said Kenshin with a pained grimace after trying to stand up. Seeing his missing limb, he formed one made of soul energy and was able to stand up. "You 2 are beautiful" he said towards Yae and Sara.
It had been almost 4 years since he saw them, and while Yae was as beautiful as always, Sara had transformed into a woman from that shy girl.
"You can see?" asked a stunned Ssra with a hopeful look.
"Only here, I will be blind and lacking an arm when we get out" replied casually Kenshin. After all that happened, keeping his life was a miracle, he wasn't going to complain. "While I have no problem telling you 2 how charming you are, we can't leave Makoto like this, she isn't in danger per se but it's better if we wake her up soon".
"I don't think I will be able to contain Ei if she wakes up" muttered Yae, looking at the obviously hurt Ei. "After sleeping for 2 days, she will be like a bull, she has always been very active after waking up".
"Leave her alone" Kenshin dismissed her and focused on Makoto.
"What do you need?" asked Ye again. She had a myriad of questions, but they could wait.
"Nothing, I am just going to 'start' her soul. Hey" Kenshin bopped Makoto on the nose, and her eyelashes fluttered, before slowly opening.
Makoto, after her death 500 years ago, was alive again.
And this 'revival' wasn't like Guizhong's.
Guizhong's soul didn't leave this world and was trapped in the Remnants, so all Kenshin needed to do was craft a body.
But Makoto had perished in body and soul, and the process of retrieving the soul from the Being had been scary as hell.
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Makoto opened her eyes and saw a man with dirt all over his face, his messy black hair dirty with sweat and blood, and the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen.
"W-W-" she tried to ask, but she felt too lethargic to speak.
"Well, she is alive" Kenshin muttered before falling to the ground, Makoto could now see that he had an almost transparent arm, but judging from the bloodied bandage on his shoulder he had lost his true one a short time ago.
Makoto tried to raise her head, but just like her tongue, her body didn't answer her. Wait, body?
"I know you have a lot of questions, but those can wait" Kenshin replied while lying on the ground. "For now, just try to calm your sister down when she wakes up or she will slaughter us all"-
"M-My sister!" Makoto sensed her control over her body quickly returning to her. She thought she had died, but as the man said, now she had other problems. But the first one was her sister.
"Hello Makoto, do you recognize me?" asked Yae with a smile.
"Y-You are Miko?" asked Makoto with surprise, she almost didn't recognize her, as the last time she saw her Yae was just a baby fox. But she wouldn't forget those mischievous eyes in her life.
Makoto exhaled, a bit more relaxed. If Yae was here, Ei was also safe. But still, she needed to check on her.
"Yes, I know" Yae nodded comprehensively. "I will take you to Ei, but don't move now, you have no clothes on after all".
Makoto looked down and with the limited moves she could make she was that indeed the only thing covering her was a mantle or a sheet of some kind. She looked with a frown at the man, but he was on the ground trying to rest. Seeing that he wasn't going to peek or had malicious intentions, she let him go. For now.
"Look Ei is there" Yae pointed in another direction, and Makoto looked. She saw an unconscious Ei, with traces of tears and blood on her face, looking grievously hurt.
Yae didn't want to clean her face fearing that she might wake up, so with a pained look she decided to wait for a while.
"Ei!" Makoto shouted in alarm, glaring at Yae. She was to be Ei's familiar after all.
"Don't glare at her like that" the man sighed from the ground. "Ei is extremely unstable now and we are here to help, but as she is now she will slaughter all of us except you, maybe".
"Ei wouldn't kill you if you did nothing wrong" heatedly refuted Makoto. Her sister was a warrior through and through, and attacking the innocent was against her moral code.
"Looking at you could be considered as us trying to study your weaknesses in her eyes, and we would be bisected on the spot because she thought we were a threat" muttered Kenshin, making Sara nod. She had seen the state the Shogun was in, and it was honestly scary
"Makoto, a lot of things happened, and Ei is indeed a bit unstable now" Yae said with a sad smile.
"Just wait until you can move and try to wake her up. I will keep this in the meanwhile" said Kenshin standing up and grabbing the sword Ei used, Mussou Isshin, and hiding it behind him.
Makoto felt the next 5 minutes the more tortuous ones of her life.
She was worried about Ei, but still couldn't move. She was reassured that Yae was here and nobody seemed to want to harm either her or Ei, but she wouldn't feel safe until she had her little sister in her arms.
But finally, she felt her body was able to move so she jumped at her sister, the only thing covering her modesty from Kenshin's eyes where Sara's hands blocking his view.
"Aw, for one time I recovered my sight and could get a good look" Kenshin lamented, making Sara pinch him on his side and making him yelp.
"Ei! Are you okay!" asked Makoto, not caring about her naked state and trying to wipe Ei's face clean of blood and tears.
Ei slowly woke up, in a process that mirrored that of Makoto.
"Makoto...." Ei slowly said, and her hands, no longer tied, slowly caressed Makoto's face.
"Oh, Ei" now Makoto saw how broken her little sister was, and it shattered her heart. She hugged her little sister and started crying softly, caressing her sister's head like she had always done when they were children.
At some point, Ei seemed to remember what had happened, and that Makoto was truly now by her side, her desperate and disconsolated cries swallowing Makoto's, showing how much sadness had built over the centuries.
Yae looked at them from afar, silently crying for her friend who had suffered so much.
Sara was getting affected by the raw emotion of the scene and seemed to be holding back her tears, but she knew it wouldn't last.
And Kenshin was too tired to care, and he was busy thinking about the reason women like to cry that much.
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After what seemed to be ages to Kenshin, the 4 women stopped crying.
"I want food, so I propose we get out" said Kenshin, painfully standing up and throwing the Mussou Isshin at the ground at Ei's feet.
But Ei didn't even look at the sword, she was too busy hugging her sister tightly.
"Ei, we need to go out" Makoto gently said, making Ei shake her head.
"We are safe here. We are never leaving this place" Ei grumbled.
"Look at this, an Archon pouting" said Kenshin with an exasperated sigh. "Also, your sister can't leave. She is only a soul and has no body, and probably won't for a while. She has her full soul, but it's still weak".
Ei looked at Kenshin and nodded hearing him. She wouldn't allow her sister to leave her sight.
"Also Ei" Kenshin started to talk.
Under Makoto's gentle push, Ei looked at Kenshin, who had a serious look.
"I want you to understand this, so I will say it very slowly" Kenshin said looking at her eyes. He knew that she was a mess and now even more, but this needed to be said now. "If your sister dies again, she is gone. I'm not doing all that shit again. Yes, no matter how much you glare at me, even if you kill me I'm not doing that again, so protect her. You are the second person in this world who got a second chance, but nobody will receive a third one".
Kenshin was sure that he wasn't going to deal with the Being again, no matter what. There were a lot of things he didn't know, but he felt 'identified' somehow. And the next time, it wouldn't end well.
"Now, we leave" said Kenshin, and entered the weird purple portal.
"Hahh, pure air again" said Yae with a refreshed look. "We need to talk about your little act of rendering me immobile, but for now we need to do something about your arm".
"Aww, I was almost a God back there, I'm a normal loser now" muttered Kenshin, losing his sight and his super-enhanced senses. He couldn't feel the plane around him anymore.
"I never thought you were a loser" quietly said Sara.
"Whatever you saw. Hmm, but you grew up to be a fine woman...." said Kenshin with a faraway look. He already knew Sara's mentality, but seeing her body....hmmm, delicious.
"Kenshin, just shut up for now. What are you going to do about your arm?" asked a worried Yae. She felt like Kenshin was leaving pieces of him behind every time he used his ability to do weird things.
"Use those balls Albedo Gave me, I think it's time I try them".