Author's note: Ya, minna. Genki ka? Maa ii. Here's the second chapter of my SDK's fic. I do hope you like it. Well I did, it's fine if you don't like it tho'. As I've said before... This fic's for my own satisfaction so Nee? Anyway...I've been getting a lot of complaints lately. Namely "naming errors" errors on Kyo's name. You know people...the real way it's supposed to be writen is 'Oni me no Kyo' in the frist place. THAT is because of the kanji when it's writen in Japanese. Well be it kanji or hiragana. Dou demo ii. Anyway...so having it writen as 'Onime no Kyo' or 'Oni meno Kyo' doesn't really matter. I'm not that fluent in Japanese YET, but at least I know this much. So as for this fic, I think I'll go with using "Onime no Kyo" all right? If you have a problem with than then deal with it yourself. Don't complain to me. Ja...yoroshiku onegaishimasu! X3

Samurai Deeper Kyo

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Chapter II: The Demon's Spawn's Playmate

Night fell and it was time for bed, but Kyouya insisted he stay with his father and drink, of course Yuya would not allow it. "But why?" Kyouya pouted.

"You are not allowed to drink yet Kyouya." Yuya crouched down in front of him and sighed while smiling. "Sake is still too strong for your age. How old are you?" she asked stroking her sons' maroon hair.

"Five. But I'll be six on February." Kyouya frown tilting his head to the right and looking down.

"Kyo-chi, that's still next year, it's summer right? I'll let you drink with your father when you turn...hmm...15. How about that? That's your becoming of age, a full-fledge Samurai, nee?" Yuya smiled, hoping to convince her boy.

"Tche..."

"Oi Dogface, let him here. Let's just see how he can take sake at his age." Kyo had that evil grin and that glint in his eyes that meant a scheme to Yuya.

Yuya looked at him intently with pouted lips, just as Kyouya did. Both seemed to be thinking deeply about the situation in hand.

"Well Kyouya-chan, care to join us?" Muramasa smiled and lifted his sake cup.

Yuya had that dim, gloomy look with what Muramasa said. It worried her that even Muramasa would let Kyouya drink sake. She sighed ever so deeply and patted his sons' shoulder, letting him go.

Kyouya smiled wildly and thanked her mother. "Oyaji, Jiji!" he ran up to the other men and sat with them on the porch.

"Kyo, I'll be at the bath outside, okay?" Yuya said standing up.

"Hn." was all Kyo said as he waved her off. Yuya sighed, smiled and left to bathe.

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"Saa...Kyouya-chan, your very first cup of sake." Muramasa gave him a cup and Kyo poured sake for him. "You would do well to remember this moment, my little one."

"Un!" Kyouya nodded and stared at his sake before drinking it. He gulped and looked straight with his cheek flushed.

"Dou?" Kyo smirked, looking amusingly at his son.

Kyouya shook his head to get rid of the dizziness threatening to overwhelm him. "Good. Father let's drink together! If Kaa-chan won't let me drink like you everyday, then every Saturday!" Kyouya said cheerfully to his father. A big, wonderful smile made its entrance to his beautifully shining face with excitement. Kyouya giggled softly and took hold of Kyo's right arm, then he looked at Kyo and said with a grin "Jiji'd give me the cup and you'd pour the sake, for me! Let's drink...together!" Kyouya grinned.

Muramasa watched Kyo with a smile.

Kyo was taken aback. He looked at his son and tried to control the big, warm smile threatening to cross his face, so that Muramasa wouldn't say anything. What triggered such smile to Onime no Kyo was the fact the his son rarely calls him father. He placed his left hand on Kyouya's head and and ruffled his hair as he said "Just as long as we put your mother at her best mood before we drink, son." Kyo snickered, pinching his son's cute cheeks.

Muramasa smirked inwardly 'Repaying that father with son...ka?' Being Kyo's...guardian of sort, Muramasa had long learned far too well how to read what truly is in the eyes of this demon. Knowing how happy Kyo was being called by his son father, he also knew how Kyo wanted to be quits with Kyouya by calling him son.

"Ahhh ah." Yuya sighed as she leaned on the boulder behind her. "This water feels great. I wish I had Kyo here with me." she said giggling at the thought. Kyo usually gets playful around her when they're on the hot springs together.

She smiled. Yuya looked up and watched the sky above her. The moon was full and the stars scattered around it. Feeling the stress on her body slowly leave, she let herself ponder deeply on things she usually couldn't think about. She was always busy with her family that she couldn't get the time to just sit back and think of their old memories.

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They were running. Running so fast to get to the second gate as fast as they could. Yuya had but little time left. Yet she worried about the demon running beside her. She need not run, Bontenmaru carried her on his back. But Kyo did. Even though he had already fought Hotaru, even though he already received massive injury, even though strength is leaving his body, he kept running and running. He run for her, to save her. But he would never admit that. He might not even be aware of that himself.

Yuya looked at him worriedly. Kyo was trying hard to suppress his pants but Yuya knew. "Kyo... Are you okay?" she finally asked. She looked at him waiting for an answer.

"What?" he said as they kept running.

"I just... Never mind." Yuya dismissed it but kept her eyes on him. Still worried. "Kyo seemed to be in pain... Or was I imagining it?" she thought still looking at him.

"Since when did I give you the right to worry about me, servant?!" Kyo asked with an irrate voice.

"WHAT?!" yelled Yuya. She hissed at Kyo and angrily said "H-hey, I was just being nice!"

Kyo didn't speak for a moment. He kept running and didn't look back at her. Bangs covered his face "Yuya..." he said her name, "Keep quite. And worry about yourself first." Kyo told her. In truth, he didn't want her to worry over him, want he wanted was for her to just worry for her own self and have faith on him that he'll save her. That was all he wanted.

"K--...Kyo..." Yuya was a bit taken aback. Kyo said her name, showed just a little bit, that he was worried about her, "thanks."

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Yuya shortened the gap even more. Just a slight push and her lips could touch his. She closed her eyes... She wasn't really planning on kissing him, she just wanted to stay like that for a little longer. She wanted to feel his warm breath reach her flushed face. She smiled. "Want me to finish the move, ahh dogface?" the man said with a smirk looking straight at her closed eyes.

Yuya then opened her eyes as wide as it could go, even redder than before. She gasped and backed away covering her mouth with both hands. "Don't startle me like that you jerk!" she yelled.

"Heh." Kyo closed his eyes, tilted his head lower to the left and smirked. Then he stood up and placed his right hand on his hip and looked at Yuya with an amused face. A face that always annoyed Yuya, the obnoxious face. "Trying to steal one on my sleep huh? You're shy. Why not just do it when I'm awake?" Kyo snickered annoyingly and looked the other way. He started walking while saying "But like I'll ever let that happen."

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Yuya let a small laugh slip her mouth and she lowered herself in the water. Thinking back sometimes bring tears to her eyes. There were happy memories, embarrassing ones, funny ones, lovable memories...tragic and sad... All kinds flooded her mind as she reminisce on the past. Each minute she looked back makes her want to run her husband and hug him as tight as she could. The feeling washing over her was overwhelming. How long has it been since she got the chance to look back on the past? Somehow all day that was her thought. "Kyo..." she whispered, arms locking her legs under the hot water. Her face buried in them and her eyes tightly shut. "Kyo..." she said again, softly.

"You keep calling for him, but he will not come if you say his name that softly." a man's voice said. It came from the garden, the voice. It was gentle, soft and soothing. It almost felt like a spell to Yuya that it gave her chills.

"Dare?" she asked cautiously. Yuya remained in the water, but underneath her hands were finding their way to her gun.

The man chuckled softly and started to move where the moon light hit him. Small steps, he took. But with each the pressure on Yuya grew heavier and breathing started to get difficult to execute. "Do not worry, Yuya. I have no desire to hurt you, that I don't. Just that..." the man paused and Yuya could finally see him clearly.

Her eyes widen. Shock visiting her. The man she saw isn't the kind of man who'd put this much fear on someone with just the voice and the presence, or at least he didn't look like it. He looked as young as her. The man was petite, but still taller than her. She almost mistook him for a girl at first glance, but he isn't. Long, light brown hair in a high ponytail. Bangs that reached pass his jaw. Deep violet yukata paired with a simple white hakama. A black feather earring hung on his left ear and an emerald stone on his right. All these were one of his features that Yuya unconsciously carved on her mind. But what would probably last the longest was his eyes. Gentle, soft, warm and beautiful. It was like a sapphire stone glistering under the moon light. But still...behind those beautiful pools, his eyes also renders her immobile from fear. Behind the gentleness, the softness and warmness also lies within what Kyo, Muramasa, Hotaru, Yukimura and all the others has in their eyes. Darkness, bloodlust, sheer coldness and the fierce desire for blood, the eyes of a true demon.

But there was something else in this man's eyes that all the others do not have. Dullness. 'What happened to him?' Yuya thought. Through the gentleness, the warmness, the bloodlust and the coldness and other things you could see in his eyes. The greatness of their depths. In the very bottom there was nothing, it was totally void of all emotions. The emptiness Yuya saw felt as though it was scratching deeply in her throat, her chest feeling heavy and every limb on her body unable to move. There was something in this man that is so fearful. Something happened to this man that made him that way. But no matter how hard she thought about it, she couldn't think about what it could be.

"Are you scared of me?" the man asked in a worried tone. His brows arched up and a small frown formed in his pinkish lips. He took two more steps and stopped.

"Who...who are you?" Yuya finally asked. She slowly backed away as to not startle the man. Her body was trembling and shivers keep running up and down throughout her whole spine.

The man sighed and put a very faint smile again "Please..." he said softly, in a pitiful voice. "I am...so tired of being feared...by everyone." The man looked up at the moon and sighed again. His eyes was glistering brightly underneath the moon's light. Again the dullness in them was evident for a split second to Yuya. He then looked at her again and took another step. "Could I not be looked at with trembling fear for once?"

Yuya had a confused look on her face. She thought about what the man was saying. Maybe he isn't as fearful as he seemed. She waited for him to continue...she wanted to hear him speak. And so the man did. "Mou ichido..." he said.

'Mou ichido? Mou ichido te...nani?' Yuya hanged her head. Her heart's beat was getting stronger. Just what is it this man wants to have, once more he says. But what is it? Yuya could not think of anything.

"Mou ichido...egao." the man said looking at the sky again.

"Once more... Smile? ...Smiling face? Nani?" Yuya asked no one in particular. Her voice was cracked and she bearly whispered the words.

The man sighed and looked at her. He smiled and said "I just want someone to smile at me when he or she sees me...again. Just once more is enough."

Yuya's eyes widen again. Again? Did he lose someone perhaps? Yuya felt like she was understanding the man a bit more now. "Will you smile for me, Yuya?" the man finally neared her. He stood right above the springs. Yuya felt a strange aura when the man asked him that question. She didn't know what to say, the aura was overwhelming her.

"Oyaji!" Kyouya exclaimed. Worry present in his small face. He looked at his father and waited for him to speak.

Kyo's eyes changed. Anger's making its way to him and his eyes only showed that. Someone has intruded his territory. "Dare da...?" he said in a nasty low voice, as if spitting venom. The urge to kill intoxicated his body and the thought of his woman being harassed only worsen it.

"Kyouya get inside, now please." Muramasa said as he stood.

Kyouya frowned and narrowed his eyes "Kotowaru!" he said gritting his teeth. "Ore mo iku ze."

Before they could argue, Kyo has already started to go. There was no choice for Muramasa but to bring Kyouya along. "Don't leave mine of your father's side Kyouya."

"Well Yuya? Will you please smile for me?" The man asked again.

Yuya still couldn't move. She wanted Kyo, badly. "Kyo...tasukette." her voice pleaded. It was so soft and almost could not be heard at all.

The man then smiled and tilted his head to the right, looking at Kyo's enraged face with a mocking smile. "Yo Onime no Kyo. You came . A little slow, aren't we?"

"Teme, dare da!?" Kyo gritted his teeth and asked him. He was trying hard to keep his cool and not just suddenly draw his sword and kill the guy.

"Dare?" the man faced him and smiled with his eyes closed. "Boku?" he crossed his arms in his chest and smiled slyly. "Ahhh warui. However I don't think you need to know my name, not just yet anyway." after saying this, in a blink of an eye the man was crouching down in front of Kyouya, beside Kyo and Muramasa.

This action surprised everyone, including Kyouya. "Hey there, chibisuke." he smiled warmly at Kyouya and raffled his hair lightly. "Isashiburi da naa, remember me, chibisuke? I'm your number one playmate!" the man said in a happy, excited tone.

Kyo looked down on Kyouya, waiting for him to answer. While Kyo did this Muramasa took the chance to give Yuya a robe and get her out of the water. "Eh? Nanda? Dare?" Kyouya obviously had a bewildered look.

"Ahh ah, zannen. I thought you would remember me." the man sighed and smiled. "Demo iin da. I'll come play with you again, all right?" with that the man gently pinched Kyouya on his left cheek and kissed him lightly on his forehead. Then he stood up and walked away for about 5 steps.

Kyouya's hand found its way to his forehead, a small blush crept in his face. Kyo took a step forward. "Yuya...come here." Kyo said and raised his right arm, gesturing for Yuya to come.

Yuya found the strength to move again and walked over to Kyo. But she was stopped halfway...by the man's arms. "Ooto." the man smiled, holding Yuya in his arms. "You have yet to answer my question, Yuya."

Yuya opened her mouth but no words came. She only looked at the man's eyes and nothing more. Before the man spoke again a strong hand gripped on his right arm. He looked and saw Kyo standing beside him with a face featuring a demon enraged. Kyo's aura was intense killing desire. "Let go of her, dipshit." he growled. "then disappear before I cut your head off." As much as Kyo wanted to kill him, right there, right then, he couldn't. Kyouya was there and he promised Yuya not to kill in front of his son at such a tender young age. He's a man of his words after all.

The man smirked and his eyes showed his amusement "Aa sure. But before that, let me leave something for your wife here." The man said smiling as he faced Yuya. "Yuya..." he said softly "I'll come back for an answer, okay?" then as he closed his eyes, his lips met and touched Yuya's small ones. Right in front of Kyo, right beside Kyo... The man kissed Yuya in a gentle, passionate way.

"HAAA!!" Kyo swung his Tenrou down to cut the man. But he let go of Yuya and dodged with ease. Kyo caught Yuya before she fell and sent death-glares to the man standing in a tree branch. While firmly holding Yuya in his right arm, he pointed Tenrou to the man with his left. Eyes narrowed and teeth gritted, Kyo opened his mouth to speak "Ore wa...ZETTAI ni teme o korosu!" Kyo swore to definitely kill the man. He swore it to his soul.

"Heh, let's see you try." The man lowered his stance and before jumping away he said his farewell to Kyouya "Chibisuke! Mata naa?"

The man was gone. Yuya then fainted in her husbands arms. Kyouya still baffled. Muramasa was in deep thought. Somehow, something tells him he's seen that man somewhere before. "Kyo." He said " I need to tell you something. Let's get Yuya and Kyouya inside." Muramasa took hold of Kyouya's hand and started to walk his way to the house.

Kyo looked at Yuya for a moment, then he carried her and went inside as well. It has been a long, terrifying night to Yuya.

Yuniko: Ahh yatta naa? Thought I'd never finish. Oh yeah...for the parts in Nihongo, we have a special guest to translate them fro you. All the way from backyard's garden, poking his catterpillars, let's all welcome...Hotaru of the Four! XD

Hotaru: Ah...un. Ii darou

1 "Dare" translates to - Who. When said alone, if translated in English it can also be "Who are you?" although it's only one word in Nihongo

2 "Nani" translates to - C'mon now people, even my 3 year old cousin knows this.

3 "Nanda" translates to - What. Just like 'nani'. Although 'nanda' is more...more, y'know. Oh but don't mistake 'nanda' with 'nande' okay? 'Nande' measn why, not what.

4 "Boku" translates to - I (me). Boku should NEVER be used by a female. Just like 'ore'.

5 "Kotowaru" translates to - Refuse. But in the long run, it's accompanied by an "i". So it's "I refuse."

6 "Tasukette" translates to - Save me. Help me, save me...whatever suits you.

7 "Demo iin da" translates to - But it's fine. But it's okay. But it's good. Whatever suits you again.

8 "Ore wa...ZETTAI ni teme o korosu!" translates to - I will...definitely kill you bastard! oh but you can remove that 'bastard' at the end. I just included it coz basically 'teme' is 'you' said in a nasty, bastard-i, pissy way so yeah.

9 "Ore mo iku ze" translates to - I'm going too.

10 "Isashiburi da naa" translates to - It's been a while, huh? It's been a long time eh? Long time no see, huh? Whatever tickles you.

Hotaru: If there's any translation I missed... Well... Take it up to Miss author here. Ja.

Yuniko: Hai haigokurou-san, Hotaru! So there you have it. I'm sleepy so, ja naa! Hotaru-chan matte runs to Hotaru