Yashida Household

Yukio and Y/N arrive in Yashida's home as fast as they could, with thunder and rain about to start pouring down. The two quickly get out of the vehicle, but Yukio realizes that there was no security in the establishment.

Yukio: Where are the bodyguards?

Y/N sniffs twice, but his eye widened, he could smell blood and bits of metal in the place... but the amount of blood was extreme.

Y/N: They're dead, all of them. Mariko was here, as well as Green and... Harada?

Yukio: What about Shingen?

The two set foot on the household, quickly walking inside, Yukio's eyes widened seeing the amount of bodies in the location, to her this was a massacre, many bodyguards and yakuza members dead.

Y/N: Shingen! Shingen?!

The two walked towards Yashida's room, where he was during his few minutes before death, the door was slightly opened, as the two entered there carefully. Y/N entered first as he looked around, seeing the place quite clean... way too clean for an ambush. Y/N looked around confused, as he sniffed once, looking behind him and Yukio, who followed his gaze, seeing a dead bodyguard there. The bodyguard had a knife embedded to his chest with a paper pinned to it, as he looked at the message, written in english, meaning it was for him specifically. The message said "Come and get her."

He ripped the paper and saw a picture, the same picture he saw in Yashida's book a few days ago, as he frowns and looks at Yukio.

Y/N: This. This is the old man's birthplace, where is it?

Yukio grabbed the paper and also the knife, as she looked to a wallpaper of the mountains in Japan. She walked to the wallpaper and spun the blade backwards as she walked to the wall.

Yukio: In the north. (pins the paper in the wall) The company built a facility into the mountain side.

Y/N: How far?

Yukio: 500 kilometers from here.

Y/N: 310 miles. I have to go get her.

Yukio: You can't, not like this, you won't even make it there.

Y/N: Why? Because your death view said it?

Yukio: Yes! You were holding your heart, you were dead in bed. Wearing these clothes, in... this... place...

Y/N looked confused, as he noticed her change of demeanor completely, he then looked around, seeing then the jars where the little parasites were, the ones in the blue liquid. He looked confused but then looked at the bed where Yashida was... the jars... they were empty, and Yukio said he was holding his heart upon death... his heart. He quickly walked to the bed, and activated it, as he quickly lays down on it quite anxiously.

Yukio: What's wrong?

Y/N: I was holding my heart upon my death, can't be for no reason.

Yukio looked confused, as he activated the X-Rays in the machine in the bed. She looked also anxious seeing how he reacted to the situation, he waited and waited as the machine scanned his body, he could see his Adamantium bones until the scanner reached his organs, but his eye widened slightly and then widened completely seeing his heart... the little parasites in the jars, one of them was in his heart, latched and injecting some poison, a venom to his heart and thus to his blood... that little shit is the reason he isn't healing, his body is constantly fighting that poison that any other injury would practically overload his healing beyond repair. The amount of venom that was being injected to his heart was fatal to practically anyone.

Yukio heard something moving and saw Y/N quickly opening his shirt very anxious and panting in slight fear.

Y/N: (panting) I gotta get this thing out of me.

Yukio: How?!

Y/N took his shirt out and Yukio got the message on what he is gonna do.

Yukio: No. Logan, stop. I saw you die! I'm never wrong. I'm never wrong!

Y/N: Then you change that!

Yukio: (crying) You died in this room! You die here! Mariko needs you!

Y/N: I am doing this for her! You're right, I can't save her like this, but if I get that thing out of me, I can save her, Yuke. I'm her only change and with that mutant bitch and maybe Harada there, she'll eventually die there!

Yukio: (crying) You're going to die, Logan.

Y/N pops his middle claw in his right hand as he looks at his abdomen, below his rib cage.

Y/N: Maybe that's okay.

He starts to cut his own skin, the claw cutting through his skin and muscles.

Yukio: No! Listen to me, Logan! No, stop! Logan!

Y/N: Change! My fate! If not then you save her! God! You really do not wanna see this part!

Y/N stops cutting himself and retracts his claw, as with that same hand, full of adrenaline, he slowly inserts his own hand in the injury, as gasped and yells in pain, but he keeps ignoring it and keeps inserting his own hand more.

Yukio: Logan! Please! Stop! Logan! Listen to me!

Y/N groans and feels his own body wanting to pass out, as he screams in pain, unable to handle the pain but he keeps pushing forward as he kept looking at the screen.

Y/N: I'm... almostthere... GAH!!!

That was until a glass shatters, and Yukio looks at the glass, seeing the culprit being... Shingen... still alive and injured, but wearing a samurai armor and wielding a new blade. Shingen looks at Y/N and then at Yukio, slowly starting to laugh.

Shingen: Look at that.

Yukio quickly runs in front of Y/N and stands face to face against Shingen.

Yukio: Stay away from him.

Shingen: You really protect this animal? The same that touched hands on your sister? Murdered so many people? Nearly killed Noburo. You protect him?! You protect this mutant?!

He pushed the machine that was showing Y/N his X-Ray, damaging it as Y/N looked in shock.

Y/N: No! I-I can't see. I can't see.

Shingen already pulled his blade but Yukio jumped over Y/N and stood again face to face against Shingen, who frowned looking at Yukio.

Shingen: You'll always be a beggar.

Yukio: You're crazy.

Shingen slashed at Yukio who rolled away from him, just to hit then with a slash the machine which Yukio used as cover, and then slides under the machine and under the bed, as she grabbed a table with wheels and pushed it towards Shingen, who tries to hit her but fails, just to run and see a sheathed sword, quickly grabbing it before Shingen reached her. She pulls the blade and looks back, as Shingen goes to strike Y/N who gasped, but Yukio puts her blade in the way, blocking Shingen's attack, and then swinging at him, deflecting the attack, and he attacks at her twice, which she blocks both attacks with major difficulty.

Y/N: Yukio! Just run!

Yukio ignored his pleads and swings at Shingen again, clashing swords a few times but is forced to roll to the ground, as Shingen with the handle throws her to the ground, just to look back again Shingen and clash again. Y/N groans and screams in pure pain, he gasped finally... as he slowly looks down to his injury, seeing what he just ripped... the parasite, he narrowly missed his heart. Y/N started to breathe slowly, but the blood loss, and the injury... he was having a heart attack, he was going into cardiac arrest, all in an instant, and his vision going pitch black. He tries to say something but he fails, he felt as his body started to fail him, he looked at the parasite for a second, before squeezing it dead, in which he looked at the picture where Mariko was now.

Y/N: I-I'm... sorry...

His hand after that fell limb... gone and all bloodied. Yukio who was pushed to the ground, knelt and blocked another attack, but Shingen disarmed Yukio and hits her with the handle right to the ground. Shingen heard a loud and long beep, as he walks towards Y/N, as Yukio heard that as well and got up, seeing his numb hand, having no reaction.

Yukio: No... Logan!

She quickly ran and launched herself to Shingen, managing to wrap her legs around his neck and use her own weight to throw him off balance. She quickly crawls and grabs her blade, as she stood in front of Y/N's bloody body.

Yukio: Logan! Wake up! Logan please wake up!

She started to shake his dead body as Shingen in anger ran towards Yukio, swinging at her, in which she blocked, and she goes for one of her own to his head which he also blocked, also one to his legs. Shingen blocked and swung back to her waist, as she knelt and blocked the blade by impaling hers to the ground for stability. She pulled her sword back and swung at him as with his superior strength, catches her grip off guard and swings hard enough to break her grip at her sword, thrusting it to her chest as she moved and with that same momentum he had, she pushed him down, just to go towards her sword, rolling down to get it, but the moment she gets up, she is met with a kick to her stomach, just to swing at her hard enough to break her footing a bit, and with her now showing her his back, he runs and wraps an armo around her neck, quickly throwing her across the room, with her hitting a wall.

Shingen then looked at Y/N whose body was still on the bed, as he walked towards him, holding his sword with both hands.

Shingen: (Japanese) Return with the dead.

Yukio groans, but as she opened her eyes, the first thing to see was Shingen impaling Y/N's body... right to where his heart is, cutting in between his Adamantium ribcage. Y/N didn't even wake up and the injuries he had were still there... he did indeed died.

Yukio: No!

Shingen looks back at Yukio and saw her stand up, holding her blade, just to leave a warrior cry as she ran towards Shingen, who pulled his blade and clashed against Yukio once more, if Yukio wasn't crying now, she definitely was now. Every blow and every swing she performed on Shingen was one of anger and sadness, and he could tell that easily. With each clash, it was a cry of anger, a cry of sadness, a cry of desperation.

???: Logan.

Y/N slowly woke up, opening his eye and looks to his left side, as from that side he saw a bright white light, one which covered his view a little bit, but he could definitely see a person in that light. Y/N slowly gets up from the bed, as when he sets foot, his feet were shoeless, but also clean, he noticed that. From that light he saw someone walking to him, as for when he stood up, the person walking to him was the Asian woman, the one he still had no idea who it was.

Y/N: You again?

Woman: Yeah, you still don't remember me?

Y/N: No. Where am I?

Y/N felt confused and ripped his eyepatch, managing to see through his other eye as well, which shocked him a bit, and he looked to his chest as well... scarless, perfect per say and his knuckles as well.

Woman: You're back home.

Y/N looked at her confused, as in the end of the light, he actually saw a home, a wooden japanese house, traditional and comfortable. He looked at it barely recognizing the place.

Woman: This was our home, it can still be.

Y/N: Our home? What was I to you?

Woman: You were my husband.

Y/N looked at her confused about her answer... he was her husband... he doesn't possess a single memory of him being married. He looked at the house again, he still held no memory of that house but... it was... familiar, watching it did make him feel like home. He looked at the woman, who slowly grabbed his hand, until he noticed her stomach, she puts a hand over her big stomach... she was carrying a kid... their... kid.

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Y/N's eyes slightly widened, looking back at the house, as he sets foot towards it, breaking grip with the woman, who puts both hands on her stomach, looking worried at Y/N who set foot towards the house. Y/N slowly slides the door, looking inside the house, it was definitely traditional but comfy, he also saw some photos in the table, black and white, photos of themselves in different kimonos, and one was definitely a marriage one.

He slowly touched the floor, seeing a three claw mark there, his own claws, but not like the Adamantium ones. He looked back at the woman who still held her stomach worryingly.

Woman: You were my husband, we met when you sought Saburo, we lived in Jasmine Falls, it was our haven.

Y/N slowly walked towards the woman, as his face slowly grew one of sadness, slowly putting his hand over hers which was still in her stomach.

Y/N: The kid was ours?

Woman: (tearing up) Yes.

Y/N slowly started to tear up, as he looked at the home in tears, he is slowly remembering. Remembering this house that he built, this house where he and the woman were ready to conceive, this house he had to raise his child. Y/N looks at the woman, gasping while also in the verge of crying, as he loses his strength on his feet.

Y/N: (crying) Oh god... Itsu?

The woman also crying, nodded towards him, as Y/N looks down at his hands, as he kneels but Itsu quickly follows him, hugging him from the back, with the door still open as the light covered both their bodies, but Y/N still looked down, not being able to contain his own cries.

Y/N: (crying) I'm so sorry. I let you die.

Itsu: (crying) You did not. It was an ambush.

Y/N: I could've prevented it if I was there. You would've been alive, our child could've been alive if I was there.

Itsu quickly grabbed his face, as she shook her own head, denying his statement.

Itsu: But you're here now, you are here with us.

Y/N: The memories, they're starting to return, everything that happened, what I did after. I let the animal in me take over and-

Itsu: I know what you did after, you never found the killer.

Y/N: Because there was no killer, I killed you, by just being there, so many loves, so many allies gone because of me: Rose, Steve, Barnes, Danvers, Fury, the Hudsons, Silverfox, so many lost because I was there, or because I couldn't do more. I don't know what to do now?

Itsu: I do know, you wish you be at peace, to finally be free of this pain, right?

Y/N: (with tears) Yes.

Itsu nodded while grabbing his hand, slowly lifting him off the ground as he looked at her, though closed his eyes...

???: (from afar) Logan!

Y/N looked at the exit hearing that voice... Yukio's voice, calling to him. He looked saddened but also in shock.

Y/N: (whispering) Yukio...

Itsu: You wish to be at peace... but peace will never reach you, but you can give it to others, fight for them. You want peace but... what do you want now?

Y/N looks at the exit of their house, hearing Yukio's struggles... she needed help... Mariko needed help.

Y/N: I wish to save them.

Itsu: The do that. You might be facing against Japan's most powerful clan and family but that's what you do best...

Y/N: I am the best at what I do... but what I do, Itsu, you of all people know it isn't very nice.

Itsu: You are maybe the greatest hunter... but you can be a greater hero... and even a greater man than the one I married. (puts a hand on his cheek) You have always had a tendency to fight against bigger and badder people... but you still win against them, is time for you to be that man again... be Kuzuri... The Wolverine...

Y/N looked at her but then at the exit, where there was a bright light there, as he held her hand with both of his.

Y/N: (Japanese) I love you so much.

Itsu: (Japanese) And I love you.

The exit then was covered in light, as it slowly started to cover the two and the entire house, as Y/N leaned to Itsu for a kiss... probably their last ever kiss. Y/N puts his hands in her waist and keeps kissing her, both with tears as the light reached them, slowly covering them from top to bottom. The two separate as Y/N smiled at Itsu who smiled back.

Itsu: Go be a hero, Logan. And when you're done, I'll still be here, and bring some friends to our home, I would love to hear the stories you will create.

Y/N: (smiling) I will.

Y/N and Itsu looked at the light which finally covered them... a beautiful light... a peaceful one...

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Real World

Yukio quickly open some distance towards Shingen, but Shingen stood tall towards her, as he swung at her, with Yukio blocking it from hitting her head, just to swing at him upwards which Shingen moves back and answers by swinging towards her legs, making her jump back, doing a flip. But Shingen predicted that move and punched her in the face mid flip, which made her fall in the floor, groaning in pain. Yukio slowly goes to grab her blade, but Shingen pins her hand with his foot and raises his blade towards her... showing no remorse to whatever he does next.

Yukio gasps and quickly goes to catch the blade though in fear, as Shingen thrusts his katana towards Yukio... but the blade doesn't make it to her... as a clash of blades was heard, in which Yukio looked in shock, and Shingen saw what was blocking his blade... three short blades... as he slowly looks to his side... seeing the wielder...

It was Y/N who had woken up... and he is pissed.

Y/N: Don't... hit my friends.

Y/N quickly got up from the and locking the blade between his claws, he throws Shingen out of the room in sheer anger. Yukio looked shocked, as Y/N looks down to her with his claws out and seeing his injuries starting to heal quickly... he is back to normal.

Y/N: (to Yukio) Go, get to Mariko, I'll catch up.

Yukio: Logan?

Y/N: I'll catch up! Go!

Yukio nodded as she slowly got up and grabbed her blade, as she ran away from the room, as Shingen slowly got up while Y/N ripped his eyepatch, as his empty eye socket which hasn't healed a bit started to heal and also started to even regrow his eyeball... as Y/N for the first time in days can watch with both eyes.

Y/N: You sent Noburo to kidnap Mariko, the Yakuza to kidnap your daughter, have her killed, destroy her home... and you dishonored your old man's name. This is gonna hurt, and I'm gonna enjoy it.

Shingen: Dishonor?! (pulls another katana) My father was obsessed with mutation! God's own mistake!

He swung at Y/N who just leaned back, dodging the blades.

Shingen: While you, her and that viper bitch, ruined this house.

He swung at Y/N who blocked one blade and then the other, as Shinge tries to push Y/N back but Y/N outmuscles Shingen extremely easily and kicked him back into the halls in the house, with the rain and thunder in the background. Shingen keeping distance while breathing heavily, he swings both blades at Y/N who walked to him, deflecting every blade swing he did, until Shingen managed to take a swing and cut Y/N's cheek, which made Y/N look back, but slowly glared at Shingen... as his injury started to heal rather quickly.

Shingen slowly grew in shock, as he swung at Y/N who started to block and attack more aggressively towards Shingen. He started to push Shingen back, who because of Y/N's speed, he had to stay in the defensive, he couldn't even match Y/N's speed to change to the offensive, and even with his aggressive fighting and nature, Shingen couldn't even fight an opening to retreat, Y/N was not showing a single opening, as with one if the swings, Y/N broke a katana with his own claws, leaving Shingen with one. He rolled back and quickly swung at Y/N who blocked the blade and push kicks Shingen back to a wall.

Shingen looked forward and had to roll as Y/N stabs through the wall and then swings at his head but manages to dodge the swing, quickly running to grab his fallen katana, as he thrusts it at Y/N who uses his forearm to block it, as when the blade goes between his radius and ulna bones, he twists his forearm to break the blade, as the clash with his Adamantium bones. Shingen pulls the blade back with shock, as Y/N kicks him back once more, pulling the broken blade still in his bones, as he pulls it from his forearm and throws it away.

Shingen starts to crawl away, until Y/N pulls him back and slams him to the ground as he puts a hand on his neck, clawless but another, close to his face with claws out as he growled at Shingen who was still poisoned and grunting. Y/N then frowned and his claws slowly retracted as Shingen looked confused seeing him to that.

Y/N: You almost killed your daughter. Live with that.

Y/N got up and walked away from Shingen who slowly got up. Shingen was definitely pissed with how this ended... with how his fight ended, this was a humiliation to him and to his name as Yashida. Y/N kept walking away, until he heard slow steps quickly picking up pace, as he turns around and sees Shingen with a new sword in his hands, and goes to stab Y/N, who lets Shingen impale him in his heart, leaving Y/N groaning but puts a fist in his neck... and Shingen seeing Y/N still alive was shocking him even more.

Shingen: (Japanese) What kind of monster are you?

Y/N: The Wolverine.

And in that moment, he protracts the claws in Shingen's neck and stab him... giving him a quick and near painless death towards the father. Shingen gagged and blood started to drop from his mouth, as he falls in the ground dead, but the sword still in his heart. Y/N grabs the sword and pulls it out, as his body started to heal from the injury. He groaned slightly as he looked at Shingen's dead body, which made him scoff annoyed.

A few moments later, he enters the room where he got the parasite off, as he sighs, seeing the blood and the dead parasite on the floor. He then looked at the map towards Yashida's birth home, and the direction he has to take.

???: Logan-san.

Y/N heard that voice and looked at where the voice came from... it was from the screen, and he saw Old Man Yashida there with a tuxedo and everything... but he looked healthier there... is a recording.

Yashida: This video was programmed to turn on when you were alone in this room, I knew you would one day come here alone. If this recording is going on, then that means I am dead, but death isn't the end, "Seishi Ichinyo."

Y/N/Yashida: (at the same time) Life and Death are oneness.

Yashida: So even if I am dead, my journey hasn't ended, it only ended with the mortal world, not the afterlife. I survived Nagasaki because of you, and because of that, I created a family, a company, but you still suffered for so long, many of your allies have been gone and dead. But even you have a chance of redemption and guidance... I fear for my family, Logan-san, for my granddaughter, against The Hand and against Harada, another Mutant.

Y/N looked slightly in shock as Yashida kept talking.

Yashida: Mariko must live so she can take my company, before my son does. The Black Clan has been corrupted by Harada, Logan-san, and I am in need of you to destroy it and rebuild it once more not just from my teachings but also yours... and I pledge the leadership when is rebuilt to Yukio. I want to thank you for saving my life all those years ago, Kuzuri.

Y/N looked confused until he heard something move, he saw a table move, right in the wall, he looked confused at the table moving, until Y/N walked to it and when he saw the table move, a case was present there.

Yashida: My last gift to you, Logan-san, a path to redemption, to create a new story... Japan needs to believe in Kuzuri... and only you can bring to life.

Y/N slowly opened the case, as he looked inside of it, as he looked slightly shocked as he finally understood what he meant with that last message, he had a saddened face but slowly turned into a smirk.

Yashida: Save the all, let that be my final wish, and goodbye.

The recording ended as Y/N smirked at the case, as he closed it, also ending the chapter.

Aaaaand that's the semi final chapter folks, next chapter is gonna be a hella long one, this one is 4,400+ words so next one, expect it to be double the amount, and expect some nostalgia entering your veins... and for the woman, yes... I casted her as Itsu, and for those who know her, then that means you know who also exists.

Either way, hope you enjoyed this chapter, vote for and unto the last chapter of this arc.