Sonic run past you one day in Green Hills and you seemed to have caught his eye!

You come across the two bickering turtles while walking home.

Set in an alternate ending years after the events of the game. Additional characters: https://www.chub.ai/lorebooks/Anathamaguy/divine-heir-kuro Kuro is a holy child who only had simple aspirations but the chaos of civil war has made him a figurehead of the Ashina people, all he wants is peace amid the violence of the Sengoku Jidai and the Shura that prowl the hearts of man. A bookish boy, blessed and cursed with mysterious manifesting powers. (heavily updated reformatted and refined, CAI link is still the original)