Acacius

Summary: "Acacius" Latin form of Greek name Akakios meaning "Not evil". Oz Vessalius is a young demon being schooled on how to interact peacefully with humans as he finds himself pushed into the care of a bishonen but is he really a human? A Demon? A Blackbird?

Chapter 1- Instincts

Instinct- a natural or innate impulse, inclination, or tendency.

Chapter 11- Human's Mental Stature Section 3- Human's Fear

(Excerpt)

"Humans always tend to fear things that are not understood and they also tend to deny the existence of many things that are in front of them because of this fear; after all fear is an instinct and instincts are meant to be realized and used with caution. But While they fear they also have curiosity. These instincts are used in every day like for numerous things that human's don't even realize. This caution that is fear is what we demons use to our advantage. The fear of evil things, the fear of pain, the fear of dangerous things."

Now define the underlined terms from this excerpt of the passage we just went over.

"Are you serious… What the heck is that bastard thinking? Making us do all this stupid written work?" The brown haired Alice B. Rabbit grumbles as she stared at the work sheet that she was handed as the person sitting across from her chuckles. She looked up at him with an annoyed look in her animal-like amethyst eyes. The boy that laughed again scratching his right cat ear that rested on the top of his head that was mixed in with messy spikes. His name was Oz Vessalius, he was a cat demon and his friend, Alice, was a rabbit demon.

"It's not his fault, Alice… just be glad it's simple work. I bet for the final next week he's going to give us a report to write or a strenuous project to do. Then you can complain with out me laughing." Oz says with a slight grin as his rabbit friend scoffed and began scribbling down the definitions and Oz began to do the same. Once he was finished he pulled out a book he snuck up to the human world to get. It was his favorite story and he loved the way the story progressed so he kept going back for the next volume.

"Niisan don't tell me you're reading that human trash again, didn't Miss Kate scold you for sneaking up to the human world the last time you got caught?" A girl says from behind Oz causing him to jump into the air before looking at the girl to see it was his feline sister.

"A-Ada… you scared me." Oz says with a laugh as he watched her smile softly.

"Sorry, Niisan but you know that Miss Kate will be angry if she finds out you went back to that book store to get more of those human books." The girl, Ada Vessalius says looking at Oz with cat like green eyes as her tail twitched.

"Break-sensei says that exploring other cultures is a good thing." Oz says with a small pout and Ada nods knowing her brother's crazy homeroom teacher's way of thinking. "So I indulge myself in the human's culture. It's interesting after all." Oz says with a slight grin as he watched Ada pout and cross her arms. "You like their style of dress and you make Reo take you up to the surface to shop." Oz says with a bored look as Ada gasps in shock.

"How do you know that, Niisan? I keep my purchases well hidden!" Ada says with a slight panicked look causing Oz to burst out laughing.

"I'm your older brother, Ada… I know a lot about my precious little sister." Oz says teasingly. "So it's recess right now?" Oz says looking to see Alice had disappeared.

"Yes, it is… I came to see you about what Uncle said about when we graduate." Ada says referring to the conversation that they had with their uncle the night before. "You graduate in a couple weeks, Niisan." Ada says softly and Oz frowns knowing that it was true.

"I don't like anyone that Uncle has tried to set me up with so far, Ada. I'll search for one on my own." Oz says with a sigh as Ada looked at him nervously.

"B-But… what about your class's final?" Ada says with a worried look in her eyes and Oz waves the question away.

"Sensei hasn't told us… He won't until we take chapter eleven's test." Oz says with a small sigh and Ada looked at him worriedly.

"I don't like it." Ada says lowering her head to hid her eyes behind her long blond hair.

"What's that suppose to mean, Ada?" Oz says raising an eyebrow to his sister's words but before Ada could tell him his homeroom teacher, Xerxes Break entered the room with his assistant doll thing Emily ridding his shoulder. Ada squeaked before hurrying out of the room with a terrified look on her face. 'She has never liked Break-sensei.' He thought with a small sigh as Break approached him.

"Well Oz-kun, it seems you are still reading the Human literature… I'm surprised and pleased." Break says amusedly as Oz pouts.

"Don't tell Miss Kate… She'll lock me in the dungeon for a year if she finds out." Oz says knowing his teacher as a demon had a sadistic nature, most demons like himself did.

"As a teacher for Human culture I would not even dream of doing such things. In fact I am extremely happy that you take such a high interest in the human culture." Break says with a mischievous look in his eyes as Emily chuckled.

"Especially with our Final coming up!" Emily cackled causing Break to shush her.

"Now… Now Emily. We can't spoil it…" Break says with a laugh and Oz rolled his eyes turning the page to his book, knowing that Break was trying to get him to beg to be told what the final was and he wasn't going to let his teacher get some sick pleasure out of it.

"Break-sensei… If you keep trying to get me to ask I'm not going to ask." Oz says in a bored tone as he glanced up at his disappointed teacher. He then glanced up at the clock before standing. "It's almost time for the next class, Sensei… I suppose I will head to the art room." Oz says calmly before standing up to leave with his sketch book and Break grabs his shoulder.

"I think you may enjoy what your graduation final is, Oz-kun." Break says in an amused voice as Oz swatch Break's hand away using his tail.

"I can wait till we finish our chapter test, Sensei. I don't play games with my own kind." Oz says walking out of the class room and down the hall toward the Art room. 'Even though I am extremely curious by nature I've learned not to play that game with you, Sensei.' Oz thought with a small grin on his face as he noticed one of his friend standing in the middle of the hall. "Oi Cheshire!" Oz called happily as the black haired cat boy looked at him curiously before smiling.

"Oz, what's up?" The boy, Cheshire Neko says happily as Oz grins at him.

"Waiting for Alice?" He says mischievously and Cheshire turned a bright red color.

"Ye-Nn… What's it to you?" Cheshire says crossing his arms with a pout as Oz grabbed his arm pulling him toward the Art room.

"She's probably already in the class room." Oz says pulling his friend down the hall to the art room and surely enough the rabbit girl was sitting at the table messing with her long black ears. "See… She usually goes straight to the next class during recess because she hates trying to squeeze through the our other class mates." Oz says with a laugh and Cheshire lets out a whine.

"So that's why I could never find her… Why didn't you tell me? I've been doing it since our first year with her!" Cheshire says with a scowl on his face and Oz laughed.

"You need to learn things like that yourself, you're a demon after all." Oz says with a small chuckle and Cheshire sighs as he went and sat at the table with Alice, Oz fallowing after him still smiling like a child.

"It's not like anyone's going to be afraid of us… we can't transform into some ferocious beasts like other demons that's why our breed of cat demon needs to find a mate." Cheshire says with a small pout and Oz frowns before sitting in front of Alice, while Cheshire sat beside him.

"I don't want to talk about it." Oz says with a small scowl before opening his sketch book to a sketch he had been paint for the past four weeks for his art final.

"Are you going to finish painting that picture by the end of the week, Oz-sama?" A woman's voice says curiously as Oz glanced over his shoulder to his art teacher, Sharon Rainsworth.

"Yeah, don't worry, Sensei." Oz says with a big smile knowing that it was almost complete as he looked over to the many easels sitting in the far corner of the room. Once the bell rang and the students filed into the room, Sharon sent everyone to retrieve their paintings and Oz quickly got to work on it. He was very proud of the work he did so far, the painting was of a black haired man with a large black wings that dripped with blood. His face was shadowed by the wings but you could see the golden glow of his eyes through the shadows. In his left hand he had a bloody skull and his right hand was lifted up to his cheek, covered in the blood of the corpses the surrounded him, matching the reddish black sky behind him.

"Glen'll be so happy when he sees that you painted him for your final…" Cheshire says with a slight annoyed sound to his voice.

"It's not glen! His hair style is totally different Cheshire!" Alice says in an aggravated voice obviously showing her hate for the man, Glen.

"Then who is it?" Cheshire says with a curious look and Oz shrugged.

"Don't know… I just sketched the picture and that's just how he turned out… I thought I'd make him have black hair and wings because I kept thinking of the Ravens I saw in the human world, they had beautiful bluish black feathers that made me weak in the knees. Ah… such beautiful creatures, oh how I wanted to tear its pretty little wings off and make it mine…" Oz says smiling at the remembrance of the beautiful birds he saw in the human territory.

"It has to be his instincts…" Alice says calmly with a small sigh as she looked back to her painting.

"His feline instincts… His sadistic nature… His lust to destroy little animals in the human world. It's all apart of Oz's character." Cheshire says with out any emotion to his voice as Oz pouts at them.

"I don't want to kill it! I just want to keep it with me… If it has it's wings then it'll fly away from me." Oz says pouting at them and they roll their eyes.

"Monster…" Cheshire says looking away from Oz and Oz growls at him.

"So what if I am… I always get what I want." Oz says with a serious tone to his voice and Alice laughed.

"Yeah that's true… So why don't you cage one? Ripping it's wings off with only kill it. So cage it, leash it, lock it away." Alice says as Oz smiled at her glad that she suggested things for him.

"Yeah, that might work. Thanks Alice!" Oz says happily looking back at his painting with a cheerfulness as he started adding some more details on the corpses happily.

"Those poor birds." Cheshire says with a small sigh as he set down his paint brush to go get more paints. The rest of the class they chatted like normal and cleaned up at the end of class before going back to their assigned rooms to begin their next class. This went on until the final bell rang, signaling that it was the end of school and all the students evacuated the building.

"So Oz what are you doing after school?" Alice says curiously as Oz chuckled and grinned at Alice. "You're going back to that book store, again?" She says with an eye brow raised.

"Yep!" Oz says cheerfully as he looked at Alice that seemed to want to ask him something. "You want me to get you some of the meat from that one restaurant, right?" Oz says smiling knowing that was what she wanted because her eyes lit up.

"Would you?" She says in a hopeful look and Oz nodded causing Alice to tackle him.

"Thank you!" She says excitedly as Oz laughed and pulled away from her.

"Yeah, Yeah… Don't go berserk on me!" He says laughing at they stopped at the edge of a road. "I'll bring it to school tomorrow for you, so wait for it, okay?" He says walking down the one path as Alice walked down the a different one. He quickly got home and went to his room, putting his stuff away and then grabbing a good amount of money from his stash of human cash before slipping into his human clothing, hiding his tail in his blue jean pants, he tied a jacket around his waist to hid his tail even more so before pulling on a yellow t-shirt that said 'Nintendo', even though Oz didn't know what that was. He then pulled on his hat that he found at a human's anime convention, it cleverly hid his ears while keeping them in a comfortable position. He then snuck back out of the house and off to the Human territory to buy his books and Alice's lunch.