"How did it go at Nagisa's today?" Soubi asked Ritsuka while sipping his lemonade. It sure was a beautiful early summer day, the warm air of the evening blowing around them, tousling Ritsuka's longish dark hair.

"Interesting enough, thank you for keeping an eye on Eneko for me. I mean he's nine, and very capable, but I still don't feel comfortable leaving him alone."

Soubi smiled, shrugging his shoulders.

"I'm surprised you let Saskia stay at home with him, he's so scatter brained. It's like Eneko is babysitting his older brother, instead of the other way around."

Ritsuka laughed out loud covering his mouth.

"Oh, I hope Saskia didn't hear that, he'll be so defeated."

Seimei walked out onto the open patio and into the breezy evening air, fragrent with the smell of newly bloomed wild flowers.

"I think Kio said that dinner will be done in a half hour." Seimei commented, kissing Ritsuka on the forehead. His brother smiled slightly.

"Good, I skipped lunch, Saskia...err...ate all of it."

Seimei raised a brow, leaning his back against the rose cover lattice.

"He sure has an appetite. Hm."

Soubi laughed, looking over to where the two boys were playing tag.

"Saskia sure acts young for twelve, much younger than you did when you were twelve, Ritsuka."

Seimei narrowed his eyes a bit at Soubi, frowning.

"Get you're pervy eyes away from my son, Soubi. I know how you are....Loli shota complex...."

Soubi shook his head, his cheeks a bit red.

"No No! I don't look at Saskia that way! Or Eneko for that matter...Although Saskia does look like he's more around sixteen than Twelve. He sure has shot up...and his voice is already changing, too."

Ritsuka and seimei both gaped at Soubi, a look of disgust and suprise donning their features.

"SOUBI!" Ritsuka cried, punching the taller man in the shoulder. "That's my baby!"

Seimei shook his head, rubbing his temples.

"Maybe we shouldn't leave our children with such a pedifile."

Soubi gasped, offened.

"Pedifile?! I'm hardly a sex offender...Seimei, at least I didn't eye-rape my own little brother."

Seimei glared daggers at his friend, his hand placed on his hip.

"Don't you say another word about my relation to Ritsuka! Were one of my children to hear you, they'd be scarred for life."

Soubi, bit his lip, nodding.

"You're right..."

Ritsuka sighed in exasperation, leaning back on the lattice, shoulder to shoulder with his husband.

"Jeeze, I was trying to tell Soubi what happened at Saskia's appointment today and you both keep interupting me! I'm just going to stop talking all together." Ritsuka crossed his arms, pouting.

Seimei laughed, rubbing Ritsuka's narrow back.

"Oh, come now Ritsuka, tell us what happened today."

Ritsuka replaced his discouraged features with a smile.

"Well, I told her how Saskia was having a hard time to adjusting, well to growing up, you know. And she was pretty suprised to see how tall he's gotten already, I mean he's alread five foot eight. He looks like a high school student, not a middle school kid! Any way, she gave him a physical and drew some blood too, just to make sure everything was going ok. And, Saskia's just fine, but the blood results came back abnormal."

Seimei suddenly donned a worried look.

"What was it?!" He demanded.

Ritsuka put a finger to his lips and shushed, gesturing the two into a huddle.

"I told him I wouldn't tell anyone, he's a little embarrassed." Ritsuka whispered. "The results came back and Nagisa saidhe's over developing like this because...well he's inherited my...um...trait."

Seimei gasped covering his lovely mouth, Soubi just looked at them with a confused visage.

"What?"

Ritsuka sighed, looking incredulously at Soubi with Raised eyebrows.

"He's going to be able to become pregnant too..."Ritsuka stated matter-of-factly.

Soubi's eye brows shot up in surprise.

"You don't say. That would make the talk a bit more interesting, wouldn't it."

They all went back to sipping lemonade and leaning against the lattice, their eyes inconspicuously following the twelve year old boy flick rocks at his little brother.

"Actually, I've already had the...erm.. talk with him, although it may need to be expanded upon now, with this news." Seimei added, pushing his wire-framed glasses up his narrow nose.

Ritsuka laughed a bit, his face still seeming as young as it was twelve years ago, when Saskia was born.

"Oh don't worry Seimei, we talked about it on the -extreamly- long ride home from Gora. He was quite red the entire time. he kept saying 'You did what?!' and ' Don't worry Dad, I'll never marry a guy.' Hahaha, it was so cute."

Seimei smiled, his beautiful eyes resting on his two children appreciativly.

"He better not, I'll never let some guy violate my son like that."

Ritsuka frowned, jabbing Seimei in the ribs.

"Is that what you did to me Seimei, you violated me?"

Seimei shrugged,a sheepish smile on his features.

"Three times a week at the least."

Ritsuka gasped, throwing both his hands over Seimei's unruly mouth.

"Shut up!"

Soubi laughed sipping his watered down lemonade, the condensation running over his fingers.

XXXXXXX

"That sounds embarassing." Eneko stated, brushing back his angularly cut straight black hair. The action mimicked Ritsu's old habits.

Saskia nodded his head in agreeance, his awkwardly long legs drapped over the oak tree branch he was sitting on. His pointed ears flattened to his mass of wavy auburn tresses.

"I know, and after all of that, I still had to get poked with a needle too. I just hate them."

Eneko shrugged, pushing his glasses up his nose.

"I don't think needles are so bad. You get used to it, as much as we get our blood taken."

Saskia let out a sigh, reaching into the pocket of his navy blue hooded vest. He pulled out a sucker and tossed it to his younger brother, smiling.

"Told ya I'd swipe one Eneko. Kio wasn't even paying any attention."

Eneko smirked, pulling the sticky wrapper off of the treat.

"You didn't get one for yourself?" He asked, popping the candy into his mouth.

Saskia shrugged.

"I ate it already."

The two boys sat in comfortable silence, enjoying the early summer sights and smells, the soft floral fragrace that anointed the setting sun made Saskia shiver with reminiscence.

"You know, Nagisa Sensei couldn't shut up about how I looked like Father, it was annoying."

Eneko looked up studying his older brother's face for a moment before he pulled the sucker from his mouth, licking his lovley lips.

"Hmm...well you do, Saskia. Especially since you grew like a hundred feet. Your voice sounds kinda deep like his does too."

"Shut up!" Saskia demaded, blushing profusely. "I can't help it..."

Eneko raised a brow, an amused smile gracing his lips.

"Did you tell Daddy about what happened last night while you were asleep?"

Saskia flattened his ears to his head and glared at his little brother.

"He...saw me put the sheets in the washer this morning...jerk..."

Saskia looked away, his cheeks burning.

Eneko giggled loudly, wrapping his arm around his stomach.

"I'll never forget your face when you woke me up and told me to go back to my own bed. I think I laugh for an hour."

"It's not funny Eneko." Saskia grumbled. "And to think I got you a sucker."

Eneko sighed, collecting himself.

"Big brother, I didn't mean to make you so uncomfortable, it happens to every boy, at least that's what a read."

Saskia grimaced further, rubbing his temples much the way his father would.

"Didn't you say you had something good to tell me?" Saskia sighed.

Eneko nodded, his ears perking in his excitment.

"Sou-chan told me another story...one about our parents."

Saskia raised his head, suddenly serious.

"Something about Seven voices again?!"

Eneko shrugged.

"Sort of, it was more about our late gandfather, I guess, before he was killed he had done alot of experiments on people. Some of them were bad, I guess. But he has whole labs and files and files of these things he had done to people. Daddy being on of them."

Saskia's eyes widened.

"Didn't he mention how long Dad and Father have know each other? Or how they met even?"

Eneko shook his head.

"Soubi said he was absolutly not aloud to say anything about Father's past...including how he met Dad. I don't know why, but I think it has to do with the Sacrifice and Sentoki stuff they don't want us to know about."

"Probably, but...do you think the Ritsu guy left it in a file somewhere? You said he has alot of documents, and that he had done things to Dad."

"Yeah, I think there might be at least something that would tell us about our family's past, even if it's just a little."

Saskia eyes lit up suddenly, he leaned forward, face to face with his little brother.

"We -have- to go there. Have to. We'll figure out a way...we'll take the bus."

Eneko frowned looking at his older brother incredulously.

"You think we're just going to escape to take the bus two hours from here and explore some school we've never even been inside of, not counting Nagisa's office?"

Saskia nodded.

"Yeah, we'll go this saturday, when we get out of school, we'll say we're gonna stay at Sou-chan's. He doesn't even get home from teaching until like six thirty, he'll have no idea."

The boys were interupted by their father's voice calling to them.

"Dinner boys, get out of the tree!"

Eneko looked at Saskia, his features expectant.

They paused for a moment both staring into the other's eyes.

"Ok, we'll do it."

Saskia smiled and slid out of the tree.

"Great."

XXXXXX

The day was swiftly becomeing dark as Eneko and Saskia walked onto the bus, finding two seat in the back of the nearly empty bus. Saskia sat next to the window, the smell of damp earth still stuck in his nose. Summer rain sprinked the ground outside, in a few moments it was going to pour.

"We have longer than I thought, I told Soubi we were gonna play video games at Ivan's house...he's dumb enough to believe that I'd actully go over to your pervy friends house."

Saskia rolled his eyes.

"Don't insult Ivan, he's not mean to you at all, Eneko."

Eneko waved his brothers comment off, reaching for his back pack, which he had wedged between his legs on the floor.

"I searched through some of Soubi's old notebooks and found an really old crumpled map of the school's right wing. It looks like where alot of the student lodging is, but I did locate a room that looked promising."

Saskia raised a brow looking down at the wrinkled heavy brochure in his brother's hands.

"see how it's a scribbled out with that black ink, I think it's was Ritsu's office, or his old room. Soubi doesn't like Ritsu at all...and I sense there som e kind of emmotion reason behind that. So I just figured that this might have been a place Soubi hated."

"Well he was Soubi's old teacher, and I remember Kio telling Dad that Ritsu had ruined Soubi or something, I don't really get that...maybe he was abusive." Saskia added, his voice thoughtful.

Eneko nodded vigorously.

"Exactly, any guy that would do expaerimnets on unsuspecting little kids porbably wouldn't have any qualms about abusing someone. I know this is all relative, but it's my best guess at where to look."

Saskia shrugged, staring down at the crude map.

"That's all we have to go on right now, it's good enough for me."

XXXXX

The boys entered through the back gates of Seven Voices Academy relativly easy. They watched a few kids as they raced out of the pouring rain from building to building, using books and papers the sheild their heads from the water.

"Is school still in for them?!" Saskia exclaimed pulling his younger brother out of the sky's way and into the Right Wing building. Eneko flicked his ears,water droplets spattering Saskia in the face. The older boy shook himself out a bit, shivering.

"It sure is pouring out there." He stated looking down at the damp map in his awkwardly large hands. "I think we should head this way, we enter through these doors here." He pointed at the picture for his brother, who was looking over his shoulder. "The room is just down this hall and to the left."

Eneko nodded and the proceeded quietly down the shadowy hall, watching intently for anyone who might find them suspicious. They continuded down a shady corridor until they came to a dark wooden door with a bright gold plaque pated to the front of it, it read plainly "Head Master".

The young boys eyes widened.

"This, this must be it..." Saskia whispered, reaching out to the door knob.

Eneko stood behind his brother, his large boyish eyes staring in fear.

"You can't just open it, Saskia, what if someone is in there?!" He demanded. "We'll be so dead it's not even funny, Father will never let us do anything ever again."

Saskia hesitated for a moment, his beautiful face confused. He brushed his jaw length damp auburn hair out of his face and bit his lip.

"Just what do you think I should do then?! We came here to this didn't we?! We have a right to know this stuff, I don't care what Dad and Father say."

Saskia placed his hand on the dented gold door knob, it was cold and unyealding. The older boy's heart pounded in his chest as he sucked in a breath and turned the knob.

It turned easily, clicking as the door slid open before the both of them. Eneko followed his older brother into the dark empty room, gray with only the light of the grey atmosphere outside to illuminate it.

"It's empty." Saskia exclaimed silently under his breath as he explored the narrow office. It felt so icy, so unwelcoming.

Eneko wandered over to where three large filing sat in the corner, rusting. He tried the first one, jiggling the hindle until it gave way, almost shooting outward. The black haired boy gasped as he read over all of the names. They were in Alphabetical order, each name help a heavy manila folder.

In the "A"s Eneko Found the name Agatsuma...there were two of them.

"I found Soubi's Folder!" Eneko called to his brother, whom was busy studying a the small fish tank that sat by the door.

"What?!" Saskia exclaimed, shuffling over to where his brother had a folder open before him.

"It says that he is a orphaned boy who's last living guardian was Minami Ritsu...Wow. And it also says that he was Beloved's sentoki before he moved over to pair with Lovless. It's that Father's Name on his hand?!"

Saskia nodded, looking down at the faded papers that rested on top of the cream colored envelope.

"But there's more than one Agatsuma." Eneko stated lifting up the folder to look beneith it. "It says Agatsuma, Emmaline Jaimison."

"Take the folder." Saskia ordered, staring down at the "A" file, searching for wasn't sure which of his parent's were born with the Sur name, but he knew he'd find at least one of them, and maybe just a bit closer to finding out his family history.

He sucked in a breath when he spotted his last name scrawled out on one of the folders. It said "Aoyagi, Ritsuka". He yanked it out, his fingers a bit shakey from the excitement. He was about to flip the flimsy cover open when something caught his eye. It was another file, right next to it that read, to Saskia's surprise, "Aoyagi, Seimei".

"How long have they been married, this doesn't make sense..." Saskia breathed half to himself, gaining Eneko's attention from Soubi's file.

Eneko frowned. "Open it up." He said, looking over Saskia's bony shoulder.

Saskia flipped "Aoyagi, Ritsuka"'s file open, his eyes hungrily searching through it.

"It saw he's the sacrifice for the pair Loveless...paired with some guy named Naname Akira...but later reassigned to Agatsuma Soubi. Does Dad know a guy named Akira?"

Eneko shrugged, his ears flattening.

"I've never heard of the guy..."

Saskia continued to read until he gasped out loud, his heart hammering in his chest.

"What is it?!" Eneko demanded trying to spy over his brother's shoulder.

"I-it says..." Saskia stuttered, blinking. "That Dad is- is the younger half brother of Aoyagi, Seimei...Dad and Father...are brothers."

Eneko gasped, pulling Saskia around to meet his wide gaze.

"They're brother's?! You mean...are parents are incestuous?!"

Saskia nodded, pulling his other parent's file out of the cabnet and shoving it into his messenger bag. I also read that father...was banished from Seven Voices due to some kind of multiple law violations. But it didn't say what it was."

Eneko nodded and shoved Soubi's file into his bag as well, his fingers shaking.

"Do we tell Dad that we know?!" Eneko asked, a bit of panic resonating in his melodic voice.

Saskia shook his head, throwing the filing cabinet's closed ad turning to meet his brother's worried gaze.

"No, we can never say anything that might make them think we were here. If we do, we can never come back."

Eneko nodded, letting his older brother take him by the hand and pull him after him.

"We've got to go now, Eneko, if we hurry we can catch the five 'o clock , bus."

Eneko gripped his brother's hand tighter as they ran out of the office, letting the door shut noisely behind them.

As the boys ran out of the buidling and into thickness of the steamy summer rain, they both knew they could keep this secret, they could together uncover their families past and truly find out what it meant to be an Aoyagi.