Chapter 147 – There’s a lot more Rising than just the Sun
<span style="font-weight:400">Although we were reunited, the situation was still far from okay.
<span style="font-weight:400">All of us winced at the harsh sh in the distance. Dark, swirling clouds began to form above Takamagahara, and with each crash, lightning fired down and destroyed buildings. This entire realm quaked and shook like it was armageddon. No doubt Raijin and Tsukuyomi were battling right now.
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta squeezed both hands to his ears and started trembling. I cradled him in my arms, ushering him back inside the shrine where the booming was slightly muffled.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s going on outside? Why is it so loud and dark?" Uta asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Have you been inside the entire time?" I asked in return.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I was told to stay and be good, so… I haven''t left. But I can''t believe I get to see you again! I''m so happy!" He threw his arms around my neck and giggled.
<span style="font-weight:400">I hugged him back, then nced around the shrine.
<span style="font-weight:400">The ce looked like it could belong to an emperor. It was a lot more furnished Raijin and Kon''s ce, two kami of varying renown.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hey, Uta?" I pulled back from the hug to speak with him face to face. "Has your shrine always been this nice?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hm? Yeah! Mother always showers me with gifts, even if I say I don''t need it. Like this!" Uta jumped onto his bed to grab a stuffed toy that was in the shape of a girl with bat wings. By the stitchings, it looked handmade and delicately put together. There''s no other likeness I could attribute it to than myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">Amaterasu must have made it remind Uta of me. It was possible she wasn''t entirely cold-hearted.
<span style="font-weight:400">Thunder boomed again, this time much louder and caused Uta to shut his eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Are you afraid of lightning?" Saeko asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know it''s Uncle Raijin… but I can''t help it. Loud noises scare me," Uta mumbled, hands still pressed to his ears.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing Uta in distress was getting me wet. I looked at my hands and felt the subus hunger gnawing at the pits of my stomach. Sniffing the air, the heavy scent of lust wafted up my nose. In fact, it was sweetly suffocating. Uta had probably been thinking about me a lot while cooped up in here.
<span style="font-weight:400">With my sexual energy mostly depleted, now was a good a time as any.
<span style="font-weight:400">I grabbed Uta''s hands and pulled them away from his ears, then led them to my breasts. His eyes snapped open and face quickly reddened up.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Has my husband been lonely?" I cooed into his ears with ascivious smile. "Because I have, and I could use some affection after being alone for so long~"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko…" Uta seized the initiative and kissed me first. Our mouths opened, allowing my tongue to nest within his and coiled around the other.
<span style="font-weight:400">Small hands grabbed more than just my chest. They slid down my sides, sending shivers through me and reaching behind to squeeze my ass. Ten fingers buried themselves into the fat, like he was trying to carve the shape of his hands into me.
<span style="font-weight:400">With a snap of my finger, I created a wave of force that knocked Uta onto the bed. Heid there on his back with a look of confusion, propped up on his elbows. I walked seductively up to the edge of the bed, one foot over the other. Hooking my fingers under the fabric of my subus outfit around the bust, I peeled the thin piece of clothing off to let my breasts spill out.
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta gulped. He pitched a tent underneath his baggy pants, which throbbed for release.
<span style="font-weight:400">I climbed onto the bed after him, inching forward on my knees in nothing more than just the ck thong and leggings, and my wings fluttering with the desire to be filled.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uhmm… S-Saeko… is it just me, or are you acting a little different?" Uta stammered as I came closer until my shadowpletely enveloped him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What do you mean? I''m my usual self. It''s just been so long since I had your dick that I can''t wait anymore…" I said, drooling at the corner of my lips.
<span style="font-weight:400">When I pulled Uta''s pants down, his erect cock eagerly sprung out to greet me. One of my beloved cocks was waiting for me, and my body was craving it to hell and back that I couldn''t think straight anymore. As I lowered my body slowly to savor this, the young kami reared his head back in bliss.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Look, Uta… Look how my pussy swallows up your cock… ahh… It''s throbbing so much inside me…"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko… I really might melt inside you…" Uta sighed in ecstasy, fingers pinching the sheets to his sides.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hehe~ It''s okay if you want to finish early. Just let it all inside me like a good boy~" I purred.
<span style="font-weight:400">Slowly and with increasing rhythm, I mmed my hips down harder and faster. Uta met my thrusts with his own, bucking like a wild animal. The way he stirred my insides threw me into pleasure.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko, wait— aahh!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Trapped under my body, I pulled his short legs around the back of my waist and began pistoning for my own desires.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">So lost in pleasure was I that the bed''s headboard started banging against the wall from how hard I pounded.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Saeko… It''sing out!"
<span style="font-weight:400">"That''s it, Uta! Pump your hot stuff inside me! Make my stomach hot with your cum!" I pleaded deliriously.
<span style="font-weight:400">The luster of stars in Uta''s eyes grew intensely bright as they rolled to the back of his head with tears welling around the corners. His pink tongue flopped out, and by the zed look I could tell he was thinking of nothing but my pussy.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I… I can''t think anymore… but I''m so happy… to be with my wife again… I''m going to— aauughh…"
<span style="font-weight:400">"More, Uta… more… pump me full of cum like you want to make me pregnant!" I said, nibbling his ears near where the piercings were.
<span style="font-weight:400">A rush of pleasure assailed my body. Uta''s cock exploded with piping hot juices. He didn''t stop. I didn''t let him. While still pinned under me, I continued to thrust my hips until—
<span style="font-weight:400">The shrine doors swung open. Apletely naked Mio showed up, with a dozen disheveled shrine maidens behind her that were also undressed. All they had on was the cloth mask over their faces, sweating profusely, and clinging onto her.
<span style="font-weight:400">"M-Mio?" I nced over my shoulders and climaxed from Uta''s second shot into my pussy.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s time for an orgy!" Mio dered, then pointed into the room as if leading a charge. "Onwards, you sluts!"
<span style="font-weight:400">The shrine maidens invaded in mass, throwing me off the bed and swarming Uta for themselves.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Lord Utako… Please, let us partake…" the head shrine maiden pleaded, her voice quivering with desire.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Lord Utako… How is it?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Can we provide you even a fraction of pleasurepared to the subus?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"We''ll do anything you ask of us, Lord Utako…"
<span style="font-weight:400">Thedies were all over him like leeches. Three were between his legs, and of them, two were licking the shaft and the other gently sucking on his balls. The one kissing him was intertwining her tongue with his, and another embraced him from behind and teased his nipples. They were all enamored with each other, and Uta, who was none the wiser that I was no longer his partner, was left to be their outlet.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Attaboy, Uta! Make sure you mark each of their pussies with your cum, too!" Mio cheered him on.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What did you do?" I asked her.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Me? I didn''t do anything. I got a taste of some fingerlicking-good pussy, then all of a sudden they got horny for ya boy. I''m 99% sure you''re aura reeled them in like fish to a hook," she said.
<span style="font-weight:400">"...And what''s the other 1%?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio shrugged. "Maybe I did charm ''em. Who knows."
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta''s endless stamina exhausted every partner he had. By the time all the shrine maidens were spent and lying all over the shrine in various states of unconsciousness, the battle between Raijin and Tsukuyomi also seemed to have stopped. The boom of thunder had ceased, and an eerie calm returned to Takamagahara. I pushed open the shrine doors to find that night was still upon us, and the giant moon remained over the pce. More than likely, Raijin had lost.
<span style="font-weight:400">So much for hoping for an easy solution.
<span style="font-weight:400">Summoning the de of the First Temptress to my hands, I received a weapon brimming with sexual energy taken from having sex with Uta and the dozen shrine maidens. The purple highlights along the metal de intensified much brighter than the dull look it had when I was dry.
<span style="font-weight:400">"We can''t stay here all day. What''s our next move?" Mio asked,ing up from behind me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know. It''s already enough for me to know that Uta is alright. We have to set things right, for both Takamagahara and Japan." I walked back inside the shrine where Uta was pulling a bedsheet over a couple of shrine maidens, who were fast asleep in bed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Those that were still conscious quietly returned to work and didn''t say a word, but the deep blush on their cheeks and newfound scent of their lust for Uta made me think we awakened something in them. After tending to his shrine maidens, the kami skipped up to me with a smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s a little cramped, but when I grow up, I''ll have thergest shrine in all of Takamagahara. We can even make a great big family together!'' Uta eximed to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"F-Family? I haven''t even graduated from high school yet!" I cried, eyes spinning.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio startedughing. At least until I pped her ass with my tail.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Never mind that. There''s something important we need to deal with. Both of our homes are in danger. I think the only one who can fix this is Amaterasu, your mother. Do you know where we can find her?" I asked Uta.
<span style="font-weight:400">A shadow fell across Uta''s face, and he mmed up. Mio and I traded nces, realizing right then from the cold shoulder that Uta knew how to find her.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kid doesn''t want to, huh?" Mio casually remarked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mother kept me here for centuries. When I met Saeko, the one good thing to show up in my lonely life, she refused to let us be together… My mother is better off gone." Uta fumed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Although those words were meant for Amaterasu, they somehow hurt me to hear.
<span style="font-weight:400">I grabbed his shuddering shoulders and turned him around to face me. The gaze of two sad eyes were cast down to his feet.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uta, deep down you know your mother loves you. Look at this ce! She gave you so much. It''s got a clear view of the pce, shrine maidens to take care of you, and even made a doll of me for you!" I picked up the plush toy of me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"But the tits are too small," Mio added.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Not now!" I growled at her, then turned back to Uta. "Besides, I think if she really wanted to keep us away from each other, the seal on your shrine would still be up. But here we are."
<span style="font-weight:400">As the rity began to set in, Uta furrowed his brows and pursed his lips.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What''s happening outside because mother is missing?" Uta asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">I nodded. "That, and because Tsukuyomi''s taken over the city."
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta paced to the other end of the room with the toy in hand. One of the shrine maidens had woken up and was sitting upright. She reached out to pat him on the head.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Lady Amaterasu always has your best interests in mind, but her charge as Supreme Kami of Takamagahara leaves little time to express her love," the shrine maiden said.
<span style="font-weight:400">Parents were always like that. Or so I hoped. I thought I knew good from bad when it came to family. Hatsumi had set the standard for me. Unlike mine who didn''t so much as make a call unless something bad happened, Amaterasu at least cared enough to make an effort to be a part of Uta''s life.
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta ced the toy on the bed, then walked back to me and Mio.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I know where my mother is. We always know where each other are," he said.
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta led us outside, past the small courtyard of cherry blossoms and tidy stone walkway, up to the edge of the ind where the water sshed against the ind shore. I thought he was going to summon a boat until he levitated into the air.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Wait, are you sure it''s safe?" I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s fine! I used to fly out here all the time with Uncle Raijin," Uta said, taking off into the sky.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Well, damn." Mio put a hand over her eyes as she gazed up. "That kid''s balls are made of more stuff than just cum, I''ll give him that."
<span style="font-weight:400">"We have to go after him!" I unfurled my wings and flew up.
<span style="font-weight:400">We catch up to Uta in no time, feeling the cool, nightly winds on our wings and over the waters shimmering from the moonlight. While Mio watched right, I watched left for any dragons that might sight us.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uta, is this really the right way?" I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It is!" he said, hair fluttering in his face. "As long as we follow the sun''s direction, we''ll find my mother eventually!"
<span style="font-weight:400">When I nced over my shoulders, Takamagahara was quickly bing a speck in the distance. Wherever Uta was leading us, it was a lot farther away than I expected.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hm?" Looking down, a shadow seemed to be keeping pace with us.
<span style="font-weight:400">The second I looked up, I saw why— the gargantuan dragon was flying overhead. The length of its serpentine body snaking through the stars. My brain froze up with existential dread, and the shivers of pleasure I felt earlier became fear that pricked my soul.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio followed my eyes to the sky and gasped as it made a nosedive for us. The beast opened its gaping jaws, lined with rows of hundreds of razor sharp teeth.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Uta, watch out!" I screamed.
<span style="font-weight:400">However, Uta stopped flying and turned his eyes fearlessly to the dragon that was possibly thousands of times his size.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ryujin, heel!" Uta put a hand up, and the dragon smashed into an invisible force just feets away from devouring us. My hair flew all over the ce from the gale force of the impact. The water beneath our feet rippled outwards inrge waves.
<span style="font-weight:400">Mio and I gaped in astonishment that Uta stopped the dragon so easily.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ryujin, as Uta had called it, expelled a hot breath through its nose. Long whiskers wriggled taut, facing the smaller kami. Then it did the unthinkable. It turned around and flew away.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I… I think I''m wet… for a very different reason this time," Mio said.
<span style="font-weight:400">"H-How did you do that?" I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m not sure, but I''ve always been able to tell off dragons." Uta grinned.
<span style="font-weight:400">Relieved that we wouldn''t be bothered by any more surprises with Uta around, we were able to reach a fairlyrge ind. This one, however, was unbuilt and had no shrine. Only the square of a wooden foundation and stone floor where a shrine might be built upon one day. Beyond the ind, the sun was peeking over the water in an atemporal state, not knowing whether it should rise or go down.
<span style="font-weight:400">At the center of the undeveloped shrine, sitting on her knees and hands on her thighs, was Amaterasu. Wended behind her, but Uta hesitated to walk any closer.
<span style="font-weight:400">"So you have found me, with Utako in tow, no less." Amaterasu remained seated, unmoving.
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s time to stop running away. Both our worlds need fixing, and I need your help to put it right again," I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">She raised her head, but to look at the sky, not us. "You havee for nothing. I am no longer fit to be ruler of Takamagahara, and you cannot hope to defeat Tamamo. Return to the mortal realm and live the remainder of your days festering in the misfortune you released—"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mother!" Uta shouted. "Is it true that you released the seal on my shrine?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Amaterasu didn''t answer, but she did twitch to the sound of his voice.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Tell Uta the truth. Nothing escapes your notice, right? You knew we were in Takamagahara. Before you left the city, you undid the seal so that we could see him again," I said to Amaterasu.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Outrageous. For what reason would—"
<span style="font-weight:400">"What else would a mother do for a child other than to at least let him be happy at the very end?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta slowly walked up to Amaterasu''s back. He was shaking and unsure of himself, looking over his shoulder at us. There was a moment I thought he was going to back away, but he pumped both fists to reaffirm his resolve and hugged Amaterasu from behind.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m sorry for being disobedient. I know now that you didn''t yell at me because you hated me. Before, I just didn''t understand. As kami, we have to be better than that. You taught me not to abandon my duty. Saeko, Mio, and the shrine maidens on my ind told me you actually care about me, and knowing that is enough. Will youe back to Takamagahara, and help Saeko and Mio?"
<span style="font-weight:400">We held our breaths, watching from afar.
<span style="font-weight:400">Uta let go just as Amaterasu stood up. As she did, the sun behind her rose slightly and reimed some of the night.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I was prepared to meditate for a thousand years to reflect on where I went wrong as a mother. You would forgive me for the centuries of your childhood I have taken?" Amaterasu asked her son.
<span style="font-weight:400">"As long as it''s the warmth from your sunlight I can wake up to again." Uta smiled.
<span style="font-weight:400">Amaterasu drew a sharp breath, then turned around to face Uta and us. The sun seemed to have gotten brighter and more intense.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Will you… help us?" I asked again, reluctant to ruin their moment. "We were told that only a child of the sun can defeat Tamamo. Does that mean Uta?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"A child of the sun does not refer to Utako. It refers to the children of Japan. I spoke the truth when I said <i><span style="font-weight:400">you</i><span style="font-weight:400"> cannot do anything, for as a subus, you are no longer human. Those who have in her in the past were fearless men of renown. If you wish to defeat Tamamo, find one who might bravely face the yokai. There might even be one close to your heart," Amaterasu exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Close to my heart…" I mumbled after her, then threw a look to Mio.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Whatcha looking at me for? I ain''t human," Mio said.
<span style="font-weight:400">What about my sister?
<span style="font-weight:400">As if reading my mind, Mio added, "And Hatsumi''s still a subus."
<span style="font-weight:400">I put a hand to my face and groaned.
<span style="font-weight:400">The only other person I could think of that could help me was Hitomi or Kaede, but I didn''t want to drag anymore people into my problems. After her was Kana, but he was currently being controlled by Shuten.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sighing, Amaterasu strode up to me like the waking sun. She neither smiled nor let any other emotion show on that poker face of hers. She did, however, put her hands together and slid one palm across the other, creating a nk talisman that levitated between us. From her breath came a single cinder that found purchase on the light brown parchment, burning symbols into it.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Take it," Amaterasu urged me. "This shall perform for you an exorcism on whomever it is ced on. Tamamo is too powerful, but the talisman should immobilize Shuten Doji momentarily. I give you this not out of any love for you, but because my son has so earnestly asked me to help his wife."
<span style="font-weight:400">I took the talisman that was still warm from Amaterasu''s fire.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you, but what are you going to do about Tsukuyomi?" I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Kami mustn''t wage a battle over Takamagahara. I will speak to my… <i><span style="font-weight:400">errant</i><span style="font-weight:400"> sister. However, whether I can wrest the rule of Supreme Deity from her ws is another matter. Tamamo''s release has left a permanent wound in both Japan and this divine realm. Whether or not that was by my hand doesn''t matter. It still happened under my watch," she said.
<span style="font-weight:400">With the talisman Amaterasu had given us, it should provide a fighting chance against Tamamo and Shuten by crippling thetter. I should be rejoicing right now, but it felt like I was missing something important.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I would not tarry any longer here, were I you," Amaterasu warned. "Tamamo has greater ns than to just sow misfortune across thends."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What do you mean?" I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">"There is one way to unleash so much misfortune unto the world that, even should she be sealed away once again, would bring chaos for centuries toe. A legacy to ensure she inevitably returns even stronger— that is, to shatter the divine gates and allow yokai into your world like a gue. You <i><span style="font-weight:400">must</i><span style="font-weight:400"> defeat Tamamo before thates to pass. No matter the cost."