Soku vs Retsu

## Origins

This story was created by *Soku* and *Jaden190*. **Any edits or change requests must go through them first on Discord.**

### Pre - Soku vs Retsu.

Soku and Retsu existed before Jaden a long time ago, they both were friends since they were kids. Retsu has the Fire God Power, while Soku has none more than his own power. They lived great and separated from society, always in the mountains. Both were kinda dumb to each other and always prank themselfs with silly jokes, had a nice life and helping people when they could, they weren’t heroes, just persons.

One day, rumors about people that holds God Powers (specifically the Fire God one) were heard around the world by the info of one anonymous man, and everyone learnt that the only way to get them, is to **KILL** the holders. Almost everyone in the world wanted to kill the holders of the God Powers, making Retsu one of the targets since he holds the Fire God Power.

Almost every day, Retsu was hunted by a group of 2 or 3 people. He had to defend himself with the help of Soku, to the point where they had to kill those groups in order to survive. This happened for days, weeks, months, it was weird the days where they could take fresh air, there was no break time, their sanity started to go down and down.

After years of this problem, there was a time where those Hunters almost killed Retsu in one of the battles, which made Soku go berserk and finish the battle killing the last one, but not stopping there, he stomped on the death body so many times with rancor and hate on his heart, that it was impossible to recognize it as a human body, making Soku go through some mental problems for this, having enough, while Retsu looked at the whole situation with fear, knowing what was going to happen, and the possible terrible consequences of it.

In one night, Soku with a burnout, desperate and smiling face asked a petition to Retsu to they both kill every single person in the world (since almost everybody wanted Retsu death to get his God Power) in order to protect his life and be back with their normal life. Retsu, terrified with the idea, denied with confusion, trying to explain him that's something that they two never liked to do, and that his sanity is making him go crazy.

After some seconds of Soku insisting and demanding Retsu to accept the idea, he suddenly grabbed Retsu's shoulder while he was trying to leave and escape the situation, making him, scared with Soku's attitude, react in an aggressive way and attack his face with a punch, falling Soku to the ground.

Soku was surprised, never expected an attack that really hurt him by Retsu, looking at his eyes. Retsu rapidly tried to calm the whole situation, trying to convice Soku that his life doesn't matter compared with human, family and children ones, and doesn't have any problem to be killed if that works to let his best friend out of the situation and not be attacked for being someone important.

Increasing the heat of the situation, they both had a strong discussion to decide which point of view was more important, if Soku's one (Kill everyone to live happy with your family, or in this case, your best friend), or Retsu's one (Sacrifice your life so your important people can live without being threatened daily)

Again, Retsu tried to attack with despair Soku, which he only received it in the face without moving, and countered the attack almost after Retsu's surprise, making him fall to the ground now. Soku declared a fight to death Retsu, which he stated to start it tomorrow. According to Soku, if Retsu fails to defeat him, his plan was going to be used, but if it was the contrary, then he would let everyone live.

Soku left the place, with his best friend baffled for his way to think, and with a void on his stomach by the thought, **that he'll had to try to kill his best friend, tomorrow.**

And so, after one day, they both encountered in a rocky mountain. They didn't said anything, but their looks obviously said that they didn't wanted to do this, but after a brief moment, Soku launched the first attack, starting the fiight.

**Soku vs Retsu Ending.**

Soku vs Retsu 1.

During the beam clash, they we're trying at their maxium, at the point where unconsciously both transformed to their strongest, Retsu used the Elementa God boosted with his Fire God Power, and Soku used a lot quantity of his dark energy, transforming in Obscure Mode, overcharging the beam to the point that it exploded, taking everything in the way in space, doing such a huge damage to Retsu and Soku that they couldn’t resist it and got defeated by their own powers, going back to the planet by gravity.

They both were so hurt that they couldn't wake up after two days. Soku was the first one to wake up after that time. **Soku officially won the battle by default** and had the opportunity to finish Retsu to declare victory.

He didn’t. He was so injured that couldn’t do anything and his feelings didn't let him, so he left the place. No knowing where to go, where to live, but decided to never look at Retsu again, shameful with his decisions and personal problems.

Retsu woke up after hours, noticing that Soku was not there anymore. The thought of having killed Soku invaded him, because he didn't saw him near. He had a scared look on his eyes, and started to cry. All that he could think was that his best friend is now dead thanks for his decision to "save" him. After crying for almost one hour, he became more closed to himself, and couldn't think straight, being empty for the rest of his days.

Weeks after their first fight, both were living their own lifes. Soku sometimes was hunted down by the group of hunters to get answers from him, but Soku managed to flee every raid. Retsu, on the other hand, had to kill every hunter that came down for his head, every day more difficult than before, while he was becoming weaker.

Soku lived in a little cave, sitting while watching the outside without doing anything. He was depressed due to this situation. He killed a lot of people, wanted to finish innocent lifes, and even tried to kill his best and only friend ever, with the selfish thought of saving him.

Retsu was living in the little and improvised house he made with Soku together time ago, always thinking about him, what could have happened if he decided to accept his petition, if he was able to survive or is really dead, what is going to happen later, and more, having an existential crisis.

The two of them got weaker due to this fight and the depression, they missed each other and knew that, even after this fight, they made no difference. Nothing really changed, except for their friendship.

**Post Soku vs Retsu - Pre Soku vs Retsu 2**

*They lived for 4 years, separate from each other.*

One day, Retsu was hunted down again by a group of 4 people. This time the fight was actually a lot harder than ever for Retsu due to his powers that became weak, and the hunters being stronger this time. In the fight, Retsu noticed that he was only fighting with 3 people at the same time, while the "fourth member" was just watching the entire battle in a large distance. *The fourth person looked kinda similar to someone that Retsu used to know, but he couldn’t focus during the fight so he ignored him.*

Retsu won after an intense battle to death, but he was injured badly, he couldn't stand or leave the place. Before he noticed, he saw the fourth member of the group of hunters watching him, with a cape covering his head and a mask on his mouth. Retsu smiled, and closed his eyes accepting his fate.

He only received a note, and opened his eyes to see the fourth member leave the place.

In the night, after Retsu got to recover himself and calm his nerves for almost dying, a little bit scared, grabbed the note, thinking since that moment what could it say, and he proceed to read it.

**"Meet me at the Pink Biome in one month. -S.K"**

The emotions of Retsu exploded, he tried to scream, cry, get angry, be happy, and more, but after getting everything on his head about the note, he smiled.

**He** was alive.

. . .But then, he noticed one thing. If Soku was alive, then **the fight never ended.**

He knows what is going to happen in one month. Retsu grabbed his own head and started to cry after he noticed. He had to fight for his life.

**He had to try to kill Soku, his best friend, again.**

### Post Soku vs Retsu 2.

Soku woke up after the explosion of the beam from Retsu, he noticed it was night time, and that his body wasn’t injured at all for the battle, noticing that those wounds were covered with fire. When he looked to his right side, noticed one entity sitting on the ground with a campfire. It was Retsu.

He tried to stand up the fastest he could, but ended up falling to the ground, which made Retsu react putting his hand on Soku's shoulder and said. - “No, no no no, stop. It’s over, don’t stand up, please. Stop.”

Soku looked at Retsu for a few seconds, and gave up. **This time, the winner was Retsu.**

Both of them were looking at nothing while the campfire kept them warm at night. It was such an uncomfortable meeting for the two of them after 4 years that they didn’t talk since their first fight. After some minutes that felt like hours, Soku talked. - “Why did you save me?” - He asked. - “You wanted to save everyone, and let me alive knowing how dangerous I am to them. . . Why?” - Retsu didn’t even care to look at his eyes after hearing him, he just saw the sky while answering. - “Uhhh. . . I don’t know, I just felt that you had to survive.”

“. . .Survive?” - Asked Soku, which was confused with his comment. - “SURVIVE?” - Asked again. - “Do you even realize what you did!? You don’t want me to kill everyone, but even so you just.. Spared me?!” - Said Soku with an angry look on his face, which Retsu waited for some seconds and only said. - “I spared a friend.”

Again, pure silence. The best friend of Retsu decided to watch the sky instead of understanding Retsu, doing the two of them nothing for one hour, just relaxing after the fight.

“. . .Why, Retsu?” - Soku broke the silence and looked at him, with a confused face. - “Just. . . Why? I tried to kill you after a lot of things!” - He started to cry. - “Tried to force you to do things that you surely didn’t want to, annihilate plenty of people, and even so..” - Soku clenched his fist, and screamed at Retsu. - “You still think that i’m your friend?!”

Retsu stood up fastly before he could finish his talk and screamed with all that his lungs could hold. - “Can you just shut your fucking mouth?!” - Soku was surprised with the aggressive reaction of Retsu.

“Why can't you get it?! I don’t want you and the hunters to die! If they choose to sacrifice themself then that’s something we can’t stop, but neither you nor I have the right to kill everyone on this planet!” - Retsu said with an angry look, pointing at Soku, which he screamed back. - “Then what the FUCK do you want?!”

“**I want to just live the normal life I had before all of this, enjoy it again!**” - Retsu started to talk, while Soku heard his words.

“If we have to fight, we fight. If we have to kill, we kill. If we have to die, we die! After all, fuck what happens to those people, I don't care what someone is going to do if it has my god power, **I just want to think before dying, what a great life I had!**" - Retsu said. - “I don’t care what is going to happen to us, I just want my friend and my life back!”

“The days and nights without you were boring, I didn’t even feel that 4 years has happened, I felt more than that, one hundred, millions of years, and all of them were the same, that same boring day where you didn’t exist!” - Cried Retsu, with tears in his eyes after exploding all of his emotions again. - “I know that you didn’t want to kill me, and you wish that all of this ends. . So please, I don’t want to hurt you anymore, let’s stop this fight, **I want my friend back.**” - Retsu finished talking.

Soku was just crying, trying his best to not express how much those words hurt him. - “I’m sorry” - Was the only thing that Soku could answer. Without any other way to hide his pain, Soku decided to hid his head, putting his arms on it and bringing his legs to his torso, staying in that position while he said a lot of times. - “I’m sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.”

The sun was rising after 2 hours of pure silence between the two friends.

Both of them stood up on the ground, they were walking without knowing where they were going. - “So.. What now?” - Asked Soku, trying to not fall thanks to his weak body. - “It’s possible that every place we go, we’ll have to fight.”

“We’ll do it, then.” - Retsu gave his answer.

“But… We’ll have to run, too…” - Soku said again, while Retsu responded. - “We’ll do it, then.”

“And… We’ll have to… Those people…” - Soku started to panic again, with fear in his eyes, until Retsu grabbed his shoulder with a serious look on his face. - “If that’s what we’ll have to do, then i’m okay with that, sadly.”

“All of this is going to end someday, so, let’s just stay alive until that day, okay?” - Retsu smiled at Soku. - “We are back, and that’s the important thing.”

Soku calmed down with his comment, looking at the ground for one second and then looking at Retsu again. “...Hey” - Soku said, which Retsu only answered with “Yeah?”

“...Forgive me for… What i’ve done before. I was, really.. Desperate, I don’t want you to die and all of this was only making my brain go like…” - Retsu interrupted. - “Like fucking shit?”

“. . .Heh, yeah, like a fucking shit.” - Soku smiled and laughed a little after hearing a joke after 4 years. - “I need a break from this. . . No, WE need a break!” - Soku looked at Retsu after telling him that, which he only smiled and said. - “Of course we need it, bro!” - And punched Soku in a friendly way, which ended up throwing Soku to the ground by mistake, due to his weak body.

“ohshit, sorry.” - Retsu said while helping Soku to stand up, while he laughed with a little pain. - “It’s okay, don’t worry” - Soku answered.

“Retsu.” - “Hmm?”

“I missed you.” - Soku told him, smiling.

Retsu smiled too, and answered. - “I missed you too, Soku.”

They both left the place. Finally, the fight was over, and the both of them got to be friends again.

### Soku vs Retsu 2 Afterstory (aka Soku and Retsu's Life)

After the ending of the second and last fight between Soku and Retsu, they both finally became friends again and had their normal lives. They were still being hunted down, but every day the strength of the group of Hunters was down and, after 4 years since Soku vs Retsu 2, they finally could rest without fighting anymore for the abstence of the hunters, losing Retsu and Soku strength since they didn't needed to train anymore, but living happy for 2 years.

Officially, 6 years after the second fight, Soku and Retsu we’re walking in a city near the mountain where they live, buying food for the house.

“Soooo. . . We still have money for some chips or candies?” - Asked Soku while he was bringing bags with the food inside. Retsu checked on his wallet if there still was money that they both stole from a bank years ago - “Sadly, no. All of the money went for the food, and we can't keep stealing banks, they'll notice eventually that those aren't dissapearing from nowhere. . .” - Said Retsu, a little disappointed. - “Oh…” - Was the only thing that Soku said, disappointed too.

"Oh, hoh, hoh!” - They both heard a man laughing on their backs.

Soku and Retsu looked back extremely fast and getting a fighting position, ready for whatever was coming.

“. . . That’s. . . A way to greet. . Someone?” - Asked the same man that laughed before with a confused look. He was dressed with a pink and white shirt that covered his entire arms, had a hat with a figure of an ice cream and some candies on his hands. - “Excuse us…” - Said Soku ashamed for what they did.

“Anyway, I heard that you both don’t have money to pay for some candies, right?” - Asked the man, grabbing three candies on each hand, giving them to Soku and Retsu. - “Here, have some!”

Both of them were confused, because it was the first time someone gave them candies for free, not even knowing the name of the man. - “Uhh. . Sorry, we can’t accept them, we can’t pay for them.” - Said Retsu in a polite way.

“No, no no no!” - Responded the man. - “You can have them!”

“Oh, where are my manners? I’m sorry.” - Started to talk the strange man. - “My name is Futsume, but you can call me Candy Man!” - Said the same man, posing like a character from a cartoon, with his thumbs up.

“Uh. . . Well, sir Candy Man, we really can’t afford to have your candies for free, we can't pay for it now.” - Said Soku. - “I insist, you look like good people, so you can come back anytime to pay for it, that's where I work can where you can pay for it! - Said the Candy Man, pointing to a little building with a candy shop. - "If you both are not okay with that, then you can give it back!"

“Well, if you say we can keep it, sir!” - Said Retsu with a smile on his face, saving his candies in a bag. - “Thank you for those, sir Futsume!”

“No problem there buddy. . . Uhhh, what was your name again?” - Asked the Candy Man, looking interested at Retsu, ignoring Soku that is already eating his candies and slowly stealing one from Retsu's bags.

“I’m Urakki Retsu, nice to meet you!” - Said Retsu with a smile, while Soku said in the background. - “I’m Soku Kiroku!”

“Oh, I see.” - Said the Candy Man, with a smile, still looking directly at Retsu. - “Nice to meet you.”

“Well, we have to go sir, our pet Roberto da Sheep is waiting for us!” - Said Retsu while Soku waved at the Candy Man. - "Thank youuuuuuu!" - Was the last thing Soku said before they both left the place, walking.

“See you soon, Retsu and Soku.” - Smiled in a gloomy way the Candy Man, waving at them.

After 2 hours of walking and flying, Soku and Retsu finally went back home.

Both of them were sitting on two chairs outside, looking at the landscape while they were talking.

“Nah, no way you really teached Roberto how to scream after you ask him a specific question.” - Said Retsu while he was laughing. - “Believe me! I really did teach him!” - Said Soku.

“You gotta bring him outside and show me that!” - Responded Retsu. - “I’ll bring it in a minute, just let me finish my candy, ok?” - Answered Soku.

“Oh, yeah! About the candy, I still can’t believe that the Candy Man let us have some of those candies!” - Said Soku with a smile, happy about this.

“Well, to be honest I didn’t trust him at first, I mean… The Futsume name is like a fucking villain name, and I never liked the Candy Man’s.” - Retsu answered.

“I know right? But hey, free candies are free candies!” - Soku said. - “They aren’t free, stupid idiot.” - Responded Retsu.

“Stupid idiot ur mom.” - Responded Soku. - “Stupid idiot ur face.” - Answered Retsu.

“STUPID IDIOT UR FACE.” - Said Soku. - “WHY MY FACE IS STUPID IDIOT?” - Asked Retsu, screaming.

“BECAUSE UR STUPID IDIOT, IDIOT.” - Screamed Soku back. - “THAT HAS NO SENSE, BRUH.” - Screamed Retsu.

“YOUR FACE HAS NO SENSE.” - Soku responded. - “THAT 'S. FUCKING. LITERALLY. STU-” - Retsu tried to scream back.

The sheep let out a “Meeeeh!”, screaming inside the house.

“WE ARE CONTINUING THIS FUCKING DISCUSSION LATER, BITCH. GOTTA BRING ROBERTO DA SHEEP.” - Screamed Soku angry, pointing at Retsu while he ran away to the house.

“Yeh, run, bitch.” - Said Retsu looking at the house, and later he laughed about the discussion they both had before.

He looked again at the landscape, smiling. After 6 years, he became happy again and started to have a nice life again.

Retsu stood up and started to walk to the house, until a voice interrupted him.