Like a Drug
"I'm gay." Those words, unbeknownst the speaker, were about to alter the path of his life. He stood with a hand on his hip, staring at his aunt and uncle. His aunt dropped the origami bird she'd been folding and his uncle dropped the earring he was trying to put in. Both faced him. His aunt spoke slowly, as if talking to a confused six year old.
"No," she emphasized, "you are not gay, Zetsu." Zetsu coldly met her blue eyes with his yellow ones. She was trying to use compulsion on him, a gift passed through a certain family of monks and priestesses. She was one of them as was her husband. Her blue eyebrows furrowed together and she and her husband exchanged looks. Zetsu smirked triumphantly.
"You can't change my sexuality with compulsion, Aunt Konan, nor can you, Uncle Pein," the teen spoke. He stared down his two caretakers before Pein relented and walked out of the kitchen. Konan followed her husband as he left, leaving Zetsu alone in the kitchen. He sat down in his aunt's vacated seat and stared at the black, paw printed kitchen wall paper.
"Well, that went well," he said out loud. "Of course," he responded sarcastically. "Everything with me goes well. Wait till I tell Temari and the girls I have to transfer…" He snorted. "I doubt they'll take it well." Rolling his eyes, the green haired teen responded to himself, "Your support is always appreciated, Zetsu." Sighing, he glanced up.
Konan was glaring angrily at him and Pein was massaging his eye lids. He snapped his fingers and the earring he dropped appeared in his hand. The couple looked at each other then at their nephew a few times. Zetsu huffed in annoyance, further proof of his sexuality. He hated when they had their stupid secret conversations. Especially in front of him. He didn't have the same powers as them, mostly because they were his aunt and uncle through adoption. He never knew his real parents; he was orphaned, and then adopted. His adoptive parents were mortal demons and were killed by a stray blast of magic from their adopted son, so his adoptive father's sister and brother-in-law took him in.
In this world, there are two types of demons and in those demons, different levels of power. There are the mortal demons and the immortal demons. The levels of power in the race of mortal demons are simple: There are the lower powered demons, those who lack powers except under the most dire of circumstances. Then there are the high powered mortal demons. They have almost total control over their powers, but have one set back. If they apply too much magic into a technique, it backfires and they die. Quick, painless, no trace of the cause of death left behind.
The levels of the immortal demons, however, are much more complicated because they have been nurtured from the birth of the world. There are, of course, the lower level demons with their various ranks. The lower ranks consist of the servants, the civilians, the knights, and the nobles. The servants have slight signs of power, much like the lower levels of mortal demons. However, the servants don't die. The civilian rank has magic enough to be able to keep a flower alive for eternity, but not much else. The knights can grow crops and keep fields prospering for six months straight before having to replenish their powers. The nobles were like the knights of the olden days; they protected someone of the higher immortals. The higher ranks of the immortals were only three: the diamonds, the sapphires, and the pearls. The diamonds were extremely powerful teenage demons and they didn't require protection from the nobles. The sapphires were those with certain powers that were dying like the compulsion of the monks and priestesses. The pearls were the most powerful and rare: they were the only ones left of their type and as such were protected by the nobles. Of course, there were only three such pearls as the only way to kill an immortal is by staking their hearts with something made out of pure crystal.
Zetsu knew not what he could qualify as, since Pein and Konan hadn't bothered with getting Zetsu's blood tested. Pein and Konan were immortals and were among the sapphires. Zetsu figured that if he was an immortal, he'd be ranked as a diamond. Sighing, Konan faced her nephew reluctantly.
"Alright," she said softly and venomously, "we are transfer- I can't do this, Pein! He's a disgrace! I'm going over to Anko's!" the blue haired woman growled. She had tears welling in her eyes and she glared at Zetsu with hate. She screamed and stormed from the house, two pairs of eyes watching as she walked down the main walkway and stormed across the street. Both males' keen senses picked up sobbing. Pein rolled his eyes and sighed exhaustedly, looking at his nephew.
He massaged his eye lids. Zetsu watched in annoyance. "Alright," breathed Pein. "What she was about to say, we're transferring you to Akatsuki Academy for Boys. It's a boarding school, so pack all your belongings…"
Zetsu sighed and pushed himself to his feet and made a face, as if it was the hardest thing he'd ever done. "Alright," he drawled. He flashed a predatory smile at his uncle… Well, the black half of his face did. The white half remained impassive as the black half spoke. "Can I eat her when she returns?" The white half slapped the black half of Zetsu. "Zetsu, she's our aunt, so no. Now, come on, we have to pack!"
Packing didn't take long; Zetsu merely sealed all of his belongs into his black half's hand with his magic. Pein informed him that Konan refused to go with them to the Academy so the pair climbed into Pein's Volvo x60 and drove. The ride took all of five hours and both halves of Zetsu were extremely grateful for the lack of Konan because the woman was a pain when she wanted to be. Zetsu's jaw dropped –both halves. He was going to board there?!
The black have snorted whereas the white half let out a stream of extremely horrid swear words as Pein drove through the gates. It was no school. It was a fucking mansion. On either side of the drive were statues –a giant emerald frog and a pearl slug. On top of the school, sneering down on the people walking about the campus, was a giant, obsidian snake that seemed ready to eat whoever did something to displease it. A shudder rippled through Zetsu's body. Why did he have to be gay?