"Are you sure this is what you want?" the sly demon asked with a mischievous grin spread across his perfect lips. He had been summoned to earth by a human woman. Him, the great demon Seto, brother to the one and only Lucifer, was summoned to save a child which lay limp in his mothers arms.

The woman nodded quickly. "I want you to save him. Please. I know there's a reason as to why he was born dead. That is why I want him to live. To find out that reason."

Seto raised a slender eyebrow, "You do realize that he will only be able to live until he reaches the age of sixteen don't you?"

The baby's mother nodded and tears started to pour from her eyes. They held sadness but also rage. "Yes, I understand that when he is sixteen you will greedily eat his heart. That he will be nothing but mere prey to you, but I believe that his life will be meaningful." She looked down at her child. His body was deathly pale and when he was born he had not cried or uttered a sound.

The demon chuckled, "Yes, that I will. And I hope for yours and his sake that his heart is delicious or else this will be nothing but a waste of my precious time." He put his hand on the child's heart and his other on his forehead. Then he began chanting an ancient language, one that only demon ears could understand. He poured some of his heart into the child and immediately the baby's body began gaining it's color. It hadn't changed much but his body was warm and his cheeks a dusty pink.

The woman smiled broadly at her now alive son. The demon pulled his hands away and looked at the boy that now carried a part of his heart. He smiled like the demon he was and he began to fade away. Before completely vanishing he said, "And let the chase begin…"

5 years later…

Jonouchi Katsuya was the name given to the boy that had been given the demon's heart. He was now five years old. He had golden hair that shone perfectly in the sunlight and honey eyes to match. And lets not forget his smile that could melt anyone's cold exterior. Yes, he was now a small child bursting with life.

However, he hadn't exactly had happy things happen to him. Well, not to him personally, but the people around him. For example, on his first day of kindergarten some boys were making fun of his hair color because it was rare to see someone with hair a different color other than brown or black in Japan. His mother said that his hair color was a symbol of life which was preciously given to back to him. Believing what his mother said, Jou always treasured his hair. But the other boys didn't. They kept calling him names at first, but as the school year went by they did more than call him names. They started beating him and shoving dirt in his mouth and more unpleasant things.

One day, though, when he was in the bathroom washing his hands they ambushed him. They started kicking him until he was barely keeping consciousness. Then they brought out black hair dye and picked him up and put his head under the sink. Just as they were about to dye his hair one of the boys flew across the room, his back hitting the wall. Then another boy was thrown into one of the stalls and locked in there. The rest of the boys shook with fear and pissed their pants as they ran out of the bathroom at full speed.

Before Jou fell into unconsciousness he saw a man with long brown hair and horns curving out of his head(1). Fangs were visible in his mouth as he said, "No one hurts my prey and gets away with it." Then Jou saw two blood-red eyes looking down on him. That was the last thing he saw before being consumed in total darkness.

Jou had awoken to find himself in his bed at home the next morning with bandages over his wounds. His mother had been terrified and angry when she saw the demon carrying her boy to his room covered in his own blood. She had yelled at him and questioned him until he(Seto) told her what happened.

After a couple of days Jou had found out that the boys who had been bullying him had mysteriously died. His mother took this as a sign and she transferred her son into another school. Things only got worse from there. Throughout his elementary and middle school years, Jou had been experiencing paranormal things happen all around him. Everyone he got close to was hurt and/or killed. On top of all that it felt as if he was constantly being watched.

One night, Jou had been sleeping when he felt a soft breath tickling his cheeks and had awoken to blood-red eyes staring down at him. He had looked into those eyes and then, just like that, they would be gone. As if they were never there. A figment of Jou's imagination.

He would often have bizarre nightmares, too. They consisted of a man with long brown hair that went to his waist and piercing blue eyes. He would always smirk to show fangs protruding out of the corners of his mouth. Horns would be curled out of the top of his head. Then as the dream progressed, the man's eyes would take the color of blood and his smirk would get wider. He would then wrap his arms around Jou and embrace him.

At first the embrace was warm and welcoming. Then he would feel his flesh being ripped from his bones right in front of his heart. He would drown in his own screams as the man slowly began to eat at his flesh with his razor sharp fangs. And just before the monster got to his heart he would smirk again and silence Jou's screams with his lips that were stained with Jou's own blood.

At that time, Jou would shoot up in his bed, covered in sweat and his heart pounding loudly.

The dreams continued throughout his life and he felt that the man, or thing, in his dreams had something to do with everyone dieing around him. But whenever he asked his mother about it she would just say it was a coincidence and drop the subject.

Over time, the strange phenomenons would slowly start to vanish and Jou's dreams weren't as scary.

When he entered high school though, his life drastically changed in more ways then one.

(1) This is Seto's demon form. He looks like his normal self in human form.