Mari looked at the blood in the shower, that had come from the cuts on her arms and legs. She got out of the shower, before turning the shower on, and running the blood out of the shower. She took her now blood covered cloths and took them off she put her bathrobe on and went downstairs to the second story fireplace and threw her cloths in and watched them burn. She knew she would heal in a couple of moments for some bizarre reason the skin would close up as if nothing was even there, and she would cut herself again a few days later, that's how her life was now, she wanted to die, but that wish was forsaken her, she couldn't. She'd tried anyway that didn't scare her, she drank pure poison, stabbed her gut with her dagger, but nothing worked for her, she just went along as if nothing had ever happened, the only benefit was the pain she would go through. She sighed and went into her room and went to sleep



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Anubis looked at his sleeping wife, Mia, and sighed, he was happy he was here with her and away from the chaos Talpa had caused for his friends and himself, they were free from his rule, his utter control of them. His thoughts returned to his sister, he loved her but he never liked to think of her, it reminded him of what he had failed to do with his life, their step father and some other man had raped her when she was barely 16, and had then left her to the dangers of the world, when he had left, he never knew until he returned to the Earth a year ago when the ancient told him, not even the ancient knew where she was, he didn't tell anyone about her, he couldn't think about her with out wanting to crawl into a corner and cry.

"Honey, what wrong?" Mia asked.

"Nothing, everything's fine, go back to sleep, it's early." he replied, before kissing her and getting up to stand on the balcony and look out at the lake and surrounding forest. Mia got up and followed him, he looked at her and saw the bulge where their child was.

"I know you and something's wrong, what is it?" she persisted.

"Well I was thinking about my sister, Akumi."

"You have a sister? Why didn't you tell me?" Mia asked from somewhere inside his arms.

"I don't like to think about her, it brings back memories I wish I didn't have." he replied. He looked at the rising sun, he felt Mia stir and he looked at her.

"What happened?"

"Well around the time Talpa took me, my sister, was raped by my father and his friend, then thrown into the streets and left to starve and die, she didn't die, she's still alive like me but she's not 404, she's about 402 or something, and the ancient and I can't find her, when we gave up he told me that we would see each other again in time. Then he left, and I don't know anything about her, all I have is the memories of how cruel I was to her." Anubis said, a rare tear falling from his eye. Mia felt the tear fall on her forehead and looked at him.

"Do you want me to help you in any way? I think I should help you in someway." she told him.

"You've already helped me, you've helped my change my ways and see the way life could be if I let myself feel." he told her tilting her head with his fingers and kissing her lips.

"We'd better get ready for the day, Kento's probably waking up and wants his food." Mia said after they ended their kiss.



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Akumi looked at the armor that she used for most of her sketches, she had most of her pictures on display on the first floor, in the studio she had the pictures for sale down there, her favorites she used to decorate the second and third stories. She had showered and dressed, and was now downstairs looking at the people passing by her store. She was sitting in her favorite chair, looking at the armor and coloring her latest sketch with her water colors. She glanced up when she heard the bell above the door ring.

"Hello, may I help you?" she asked, she was looking back down at her work, and adding more color to the hair, it was an auburn color, like her brother's. She shook her head at the memory.

"Yes, I was told I could find a job here, you see I just moved here and I need one, is the owner or manager here?."

"I'm the owner and manager," Mari said, she looked up at the person speaking, he was a little taller than her, and had brown hair and an accent, his friend stood in the background, looking around, he had blond hair, that covered an eye. "What kind of job are you looking for?" she asked.

"Well any, I could help around, organize your pictures, clean, whatever." he told her.

"Hmm, I'm not looking for any help, but I think I could find something for you to do, I'm not sure," she got up and walked over to him, not caring that she had paint on her shirt, she was in her painting cloths, and her favorite slippers. "First I need your name, and is your friend looking for a job as well?" she finished.

"I'm Cye, and yes he's looking for a job as well."

"What's your name?" she asked

"Sage." he responded.

"Alright, I'll assign you your jobs then, and if you don't like them tell me, I like to have my employee's, or lack of, honest with me, alright?" she asked.

"Alright." they said in unison. Mari led them to the frame closet, and opened it.

" I want one of you to sort the frames, on size and color order, the small frames to the left the bigger ones in the right, and the frames should be next to their own color, so the light reds will be with the light reds, ant the dark purple with the dark purple, in a some what rainbow order, if you don't mind. I want to other one of you to take these drawings," Mari motioned to a small stack of drawings, "and try to find a frame that goes well with the drawing." the two boys nodded.

"Alright, Sage which do you want?"

"I'll match the drawings and frames."

"Sure, I'll organize the frames."

"Great, you two tell me when your done, and I'll find something else for you to do." Mari said as she walked back to the front of the studio, and back to her drawing.