Ryoka's POV 🥀

I smiled and chuckled wickedly before parting from Ryobo's lips, seeing that I completely drained the energy and strength out of his body.

Not only did I make him really weak, but, I also removed and swallowed his hoste during the kiss as well.

His body is nothing more but an empty shell now.

Grinning, I bent over and entered into Ryobo's body, becoming my vessel that I can fully control by my will and against his will.

I will admit that Ryobo's body felt comfortable, much to my surprise.

However, the first thing that I did was practice on how to move and control his body, since all of this is a first for me.

That also includes having to practice fighting and copying Ryobo's skills and techniques.

Once I was sure I got the hang of it and what not, including the speech part, I decided to "wake up".

-Later-

Itachi's POV 🎸

I sighed as I paced back and forth in the lounge room, thinking about something and worried about Ryobo.

Something's not right with him at all.

The constant health conditions that he keeps having...

That isn't normal and he's never had them. Even from the day he was born, he didn't have those medical conditions either.

I could tell that Gadget was feeling the same way as I was, because he was sitting on the couch, staring at the floor while he had a worried look in his eyes.

"Hey...uh...Gadget?" I began, not used to calling him by his name.

"Yeah?" He went as he looked up, getting in eye contact with me.

"What do you think we should do if our suspicions are right about Ryobo?" I asked.

Gadget shrugged his shoulders in response.

"I dunno..." He says. "What about you?"

"I don't know either..." I sighed as I leaned against the wall.

As we were busy thinking, deep in our own thoughts, me and Gadget suddenly flinched as we heard the door open and the sound of somebody walking in the room.

"It's Ryobo! Hide!" I whispered really quietly to Gadget after I immediately detected Ryobo's aura.

Gadget nodded before we silently hurried into a closet, closing it.

The space in the closet felt a bit tight and uncomfortable, making things feel really awkward between me and Gadget, but...it's worth it and very necessary to hide in here.

Especially when it comes to eavesdropping in order to get any information that we need to know about what's currently going on with Ryobo.

Because of that reason, we had our ears alert and ready for anything.

As me and Gadget watched Ryobo enter the room, Ryobo looked around the room before sighing as he plopped down on the couch.

"He looks really tired." Gadget whispered silently, mentioning that to me.

I slowly nodded before we continued watching.

While Ryobo was sitting on the couch, he reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small bottle before taking the cork off and started drinking it.

Straining my eyes, I tried to see what Ryobo was drinking out of that bottle, but failing to see what it is, even though I tried.

I could tell Gadget tried to do the same thing too, because he looked a tiny bit annoyed.

After Ryobo was finished drinking the bottle, he pulled out another one and started to drink that too before sighing and setting both of those two bottles down on the table.

"I think I'll take a small nap...I'm sure Itachi and the others won't mind." He says to himself while yawning lightly.

Then he took his lensless glasses off and setted them down on the table, before lying on the couch and dozing off.

Looking over at Gadget, I shrugged while silently giving him a confused look about this.