10 years ago in Japan... there existed two organizations who were at war with each other. Shinra, and Ouma. Shinra discovered a relic that could change the entire world, or even the whole universe. Ouma wanted to have this kind of power in their own hands so badly. But what was to come, none of them had ever expected.

This story begins on the 17th of may, 2012 in Takayama Japan...

NAMCO X CAPCOM: UNIVERSAL TOURNAMENT

CHAPTER I: Reiji Arisu

The sun was slowly setting in the distance. There was an adult human with a black beard and black/white hair wearing a full set of white japanese armour, along with a girl with red eyes, long yellow hair and brown ends, wearing a short black chinese dress along with a open red vest, red slippers, a few pearl necklaces around her left arm and black fingerless gloves. They were both sitting on a bench in the backyard of the man's house in Takayama looking at the sun setting in the distance.

"Xiaomu..." Said the man towards the girl. She turned with her head towards him and replied back with "Hm? What is it Shougo?"

"...You told me you were actually a Kistune, correct?" said Shougo Arisu afterwards towards Xiaomu. "Yep. Why...?" she replied back slowly.

Shougo Arisu then slowly smiled and said "That's good... I have a favor to ask of you, Xiaomu. See, i want you to take my son to train him further and make him officially join our group, Shinra."

Xiaomu seemed surprised. "Wait, you have a son?!" she said loudly towards Shougo Arisu.

"Yeah... i just wanted to save it for a moment like this. His name is Reiji. He is currently fourteen years old. Ahh, seeing a kid grow up, sure brings me back to the good old days..."

"Oh my god, congratulations! Wait- A special moment...? What do you mean? This seems like almost any other regular day. Although it's strange you even called me over to your house... You make it seem like you're going to die or something..." said Xiaomu towards him while looking a bit worried. Shougo Arisu chuckled a little bit and then said "Well... i may, soon enough." Xiaomu seemed completely surprised and replied back with "Eh?! B-but... you aren't even that old yet! How could you say that?!"

Shougo Arisu spoke up and said with a straight face, "Saya is after me..." Xiaomu scratched her head a bit out of confusement. "Saya? Who's that?" Shougo Arisu then replied back with "You don't know her? She is a high-ranked agent from Ouma. She seems to have found a clue to a way to rule the whole universe..."

He then grabbed what seemed like a small, but really wonderful and legendary orb out of his pocket. It had one little star passing through it. Xiaomu couldn't help but think about what it was. "Wait, what is that?" she said while pondering.

Shougo Arisu held it up closer to Xiaomu for her to see. "This is the core of our universe."

"The core?" asked Xiaomu. Then Shougo Arisu replied with "Indeed... the core holds the true power of everything that is around us for millions and millions of years. She seems to be after this thing..." Xiaomu seemed pretty amazed and replied with "Ooooohhh... But wouldn't it be better to just hand this over to her? If you do that, she'll leave you alone."

Shougo Arisu looked a bit sad and replied to her with "I can't do that. If I let the core fall into the hands of Ouma, who knows what will happen. Please, will you do me the favor? It is my last request for you..." Xiaomu turned a bit sad after hearing that and replied back to him with "...O-okay..."

Shougo Arisu seemed relieved to hear that from Xiaomu and said "Thank you, Xiaomu. Well... by tomorrow morning around 7AM, i'll send him off from here. Take good care of my son Reiji, okay?"

"Mm..." Xiaomu began to tear up a little bit and said softly to Shougo "It's been fun these few years working with you..."

"Same..." he replied back. Shougo Arisu then tightly hugged Xiaomu against himself while they closed their eyes together.

Time passed, and it was now the next day, 18th of may 2012, 6:31AM.

The sun was slowly rising upwards. Over at the house of family Arisu on the inside, the son of Shougo Arisu, Reiji Arisu, came walking downstairs and into the living room. He had black/white hair and was currently wearing his casual clothing. He then noticed his dad sitting and meditating on the floor. After staring at him for a bit, Reiji decided to speak up to him and say "Hey, father."

Shougo Arisu slowly reopened his eyes and looked at his son. He replied softly with "Son..."

He then gave his own son a tight hug. Reiji Arisu seemed a bit surprised, but also confused. "H-hey, father... what is the matter? You seem a bit... different." he said.

"Son, this may be the last day you will ever see me..." said Shougo. Reiji Arisu seemed confused from hearing that and replied back with "What do you mean, father?" Shougo Arisu immediately replied back with "Listen. One of my partners named Xiaomu will come over here soon to take you in. Stay with her, it's for your own safety."

Reiji Arisu seemed a bit worried and said "I don't understand, father. Why, all of the sudden?"

"It is for reasons i can't tell you yet... But-" before Shougo Arisu could finish his sentence, the front door of their home got kicked through incredibly hard. It was by a girl who had white hair with two black ends, yellow eyes, an open black jacket with a red bra, chains and belts around her, black fingerless gloves, black denim shorts with white tear details under it, black leggings and brown leather boots. She also seemed to be carrying an arsenal of weapons with her. Reiji confusingly stared at her, but Shougo Arisu seemed a bit furious. "I know you have the core, Shougo." said the girl. Shougo Arisu then replied back with "Saya...!"

"So, where have you hidden it, Shougo? If you will just hand it over, there will be no issue between us. I know you currently have it somewhere." said Saya calmly towards Shougo Arisu. Shougo then loudly replied back with "Like hell i'd ever tell you. You want to fight?!" while grabbing his own katana, and then immediately standing in his fighting stance. "Well, come at me!" he yelled.

"Oh... so that's how it is gonna be, huh?" Saya sighed and then grabbed her own katana as well. Reiji Arisu then interrupted his father and said "Father, let me fight her. I don't want you to get hurt!"

"No! Run away, go as far as you can, my son!" Shougo yelled back at Reiji, which shocked him a bit. Then Saya laughed and said "Ohh, you have a son? Hehe. Well, this is surely interesting." She then started to clash her katana with Shougo Arisu, which he tried his best to clash back. Reiji Arisu seemed in a bit of a panic and fury, and ran over into the backyard. The two were clashing swords pretty hard and loudly. Eventually Shougo accidentally dropped his guard while clashing, to which Saya tried to stab him as hard through the chest with her own katana as possible. She yelled "You dropped your guard. Now, die!"

But just before she hit him through the chest, Reiji Arisu reappeared in front of Shougo Arisu and clashed one of his father's katanas he held in his hands with that of Saya's. She seemed surprised and thought to herself "What...?"

"Son! What have i told you?! Why do you still-?!" his father yelled. then Reiji Arisu immediately replied back with "I can't let you die here...!" Although Reiji Arisu put up a bit of struggle while clashing, Saya was way too strong and pushed Reiji Arisu back. She then immediately slashed Reiji in the head, leaving a scar on it. Reiji Arisu's head began bleeding quite a bit and he fell onto the ground while turning unconscious. Shougo Arisu yelled "REIJI!" out of desperation and furiously turned back towards Saya. Then he tried his best to become calm for once more.

"I didn't want to come to this... But... It seems like i have no choice..." Shougo Arisu then grabbed the core of this universe from his pocket. "The only way to stop you is if i blow myself up along with you, so that you will finally die as well! I don't think i can master the power of this core completely, but i'll be able to at least stop you with it!" he said towards Saya.

Saya smirked and said "Hoh... i'd like to see you try..." Shougo Arisu immediately filled himself up with the energy of the core, and made his body completely shine. He began to drop a tear, but still tries to smile. It's as if his own body had turned into a bursting bomb. He thought to himself before taking action "Goodbye. Reiji, Xiaomu..."

He then stuck his arms out and bursted out as hard as he could while screaming "HRUAAAAAAHHH!" . Completely making his whole house explode and himself along with it. The explosive blast was a bit more surprising to Saya as she thought, and she yelled "W-WHAAAT?!" with the blast almost able to be seen in the far distance.

Xiaomu noticed the blast while walking in the mountains on her way to Takayama to pick up Reiji Arisu. She then realised what it was about and began tearing up a bit, because she knew it could only mean one thing. She then yelled "SHOUGOOOO!" as loudly as she could into the distance.

After a few minutes had passed, the explosion finally stopped and the area went completely up into smoke. The house had turned into complete ruins, debris and rubble. Shougo Arisu's body was nowhere to be found... but his death was in vain, as Saya slowly came up from the ruins of the house. Although she was a bit scratched, she seemed completely fine. She sighed and said "Ugh... i survived... but i've got to admit, that was quite an powerful attack..." while she then began looking around through the debris to search for the core of the universe. After looking for a while, she found it under one of the pieces of roof scattered around. She moved the piece of roof aside and slowly picked it up. Then she began staring at the core's orb from up-close, and noticed the one little star passing through it.

"So this is the core, huh...? I heard the stars indicate which universe it is... So this is Universe 1, huh?" Saya then tried to harness the power from the core within, just like Shougo did... although Saya actually succeeded and gained massive strength and powers from it!

"Heh... hehehe... i finally did it. At last, i got the universe's core. It's within my grasp...!" she laughed out loud. Then she stuck out the core and pointed it forward. Immediately making her warp away from the entire scene.

As an hour had passed, someone came rising from the rubble of the house. It was Reiji Arisu! Although he could barely move and felt weak, he tried to look around him to see what happened. Nobody was there... His father was completely gone, along with the house. Xiaomu arrived on the scene as well, and noticed Reiji there. He was tearing up and yelled "Father... father, no...! Father! FATHEEEEERRR!" while he smashed the ground of dirt out of grief as hard as he could.

People don't know that there are other universes out there which are similar to ours. They cannot sense what our "fate" is. And they wouldn't know what will happen if the universes were to be grasped into the hand of the wrong person...

In that moment, everything became a blur... Time passes forward 10 years and Reiji Arisu wakes up with a complete shock while being greeted with the blue bright sky in the distance.

It was the 7th of june, 2022 in Roppongi Japan...

Reiji was wearing a red/black jacket along with a white/black shirt, armored elbow pads, black pants and brown boots, along with long red knee protectors while carrying an arsenal of weapons. As he woke up, he tried to calm down and look a bit around himself to see where he was. He was in a pretty peaceful park of Roppongi in Japan while lying down on a bench.

Then Xiaomu got up close to Reiji's face with a glee and said "Good-morning, sleepyhead!" Reiji turned and slowly responded to her by saying "G...Good morning." Xiaomu then asked him "Were you having a weird dream again?" Reiji seemed a bit silent after that question. After a bit, he then said "Things haven't changed at all in these ten years..."

Xiaomu smiled quite a bit and responded back with "Ten years already, huh? Now that i think about it... Wow, you sure have gotten much bigger and stronger since then! You were so adorable, too..." Reiji seemed a bit embarrassed after hearing that, and then replied back with a serious look while saying "D-don't bother me with that. Back then, it was just miserable..."

Xiaomu tried to cheer Reiji a bit up by saying "Come on, don't be like that. Just don't think about it. It's the past! Let's move over it!"

"I... i suppose." Reiji slowly responded while he seemed a bit less miserable. While they were talking, Reiji's earpiece went off, to which he accepted the call. He was being communicated by another member of Shinra. He began listening to him and responded with "Uh-huh... okay... alright... understood. We're heading to Shibuya at once. Backup? Well... do the usual. Okay, thank you." Reiji then stopped the call and turned towards Xiaomu who was staring at him during the time he was being called. He then said "Xiaomu, we're going to Shibuya as our next destination."

Xiaomu seemed a bit annoyed and replied with "Gimme a break, another dispatch? It seems like these monsters just keep on coming since that day..." Reiji then said "That's what i was referring to earlier. No wonder i have turned into this. But anyways, we have a lot to do today." while he stood up from the bench.

Xiaomu with an awkward look responded with "I swear i don't get paid enough for this... i love to work in this organisation, but haven't they ever heard of worker rights? If i have to, i would go on strike!" Reiji scratched his head a bit after hearing her say that and responded back with "I... feel like that isn't really a smart idea. Your salary will probably just lower from that."

Xiaomu devilishly smiled a bit towards Reiji after hearing that and then said "Hihi... well, unlike somebody i know, i secretly saved up on some cash! Working in the biz long enough makes you learn well about that."

Reiji crossed his arms and responded back with "You mean the pile of money you literally hid under your bed? Well... i took all of that." Xiaomu was shocked after hearing that. "...W-whaaat?!" she yelled. Reiji then said "You really need a better hiding spot next time. It was way too easy for me to take." Xiaomu yelled towards Reiji in a pretty loud tone "You... you jerk! Do you know how much money was in there?! You're a Thief!"

Reiji smiled a little bit and then said "Hehe... i'll give it back after our task. I don't want you to slack off, you know?" Xiaomu calmed a little bit during this and immediately responded back with "Alright, alright. I get it! Anyways, let's stop wasting time and go over to Shibuya."

"Right. Let's go!" Reiji responded back to her. They both grabbed their arsenal of weapons and headed towards their parked motorcycles and stepped on it. They started their engines and took off on the road in the city for the highway while heading towards Shibuya in the distance.