Chapter Two: Heavy discussion/ Budding love

"Why do you find it necessary to be mean to her?" Riku asked, crossing his arms and leaning against a wall as he held a stern look at Chaos.

"Because she needs to learn that she can't just run off and do whatever the heck she wants to, that's why! She had me worried sick when she ran off and I couldn't find her, and then she claims that she was looking for a friend that she knows is dead!" Chaos snapped, glaring at the boy. "I don't care if you saved me, I don't have to give you respect and neither does Ace."

"Ace the wind demoness? Hmph, so that's why G.U.N is after you. It's like Kara has a demon in her as well, and I have one. I've been hunted too," Riku muttered before shaking his head and then saying aloud, "That's neither here nor there. What the matter is now is that you have to cut your awful attitude out. I could have chosen not to save you or Kara and both of you would have been dead by now."

"You expect me to respect you when you're challenging my authority over her?" she snapped. "You know nothing of my past with her!"

"Maybe so, but I could also easily kick you out of here. You're in my house, I expect you to treat me with some respect. I would expect the same from Kara if she was acting as badly as you are," Riku said. Apparently, he hadn't at all been around someone like her, who was used to being the one in charge and wasn't about to let that position fall from her.

Her left hand balled into a fist and she slung it at him, and hit him. But she realized that he had let her hit him, and smirked. "Given in, huh?" she asked before suddenly getting kicked in the gut and falling back.

"No, I haven't," he retorted, standing straight and narrowing his eyes into a glare.

She looked at him with pure anger, and there was a different light in her eyes. She screeched out of uncontrollable anger and threw a wind cyclone at him, which he dodged and then threw something shining and silver at her, which upon hitting her, shocking her and sent her against a wall. It had been a demon seal and it immediately calmed Ace, which had been acting up inside of her.

"I'm in charge here and I'm looking after you both. I can't have multiple levels of authority here," he explained as he began to walk away, leaving Chaos sitting there, stunned.

"What did he just do?" she thought before getting replied to by Ace, "He put a nice little seal on me that would keep me calm and not controlling of you. Of course, it had to hurt you a little bit in the process I guess..."

She stood up and looked at where Riku had left from. "He won't get very far with me if he keeps this up!"

She heard Ace give off a sigh within her and tell her, "He is right, of course. This is his house, he did save you and Kara out of his choice, you should show him some respect. Besides, he does have the prince of demons in him, not that it matters much. I don't bow to many people, but I think it would be a wise move to do so before he kicks us out."

"Shut it," Chaos challenged her demon. Ace went silent and the white hedgehog was left there, alone in that small hall. She walked to Kara's room to find that Riku and Kara were talking in front of it. She hid so that she could eavesdrop on them talking to find out what was going on.

"I'm fine," Kara said to the white cat, looking up at him with something of a smile.

"That's good to hear. Don't worry about Chaos, like I've said. If she starts bullying you again, I'll make sure to...what's wrong?" Riku asked. Chaos peeked and saw that Kara had looked down in sadness. She grinned to herself, knowing she still had something of power over Kara, at least, and she could maintain that part and stay as a mother to her.

"Riku-kun, it's not like that, she's...she's like a big sister to me. She does it because she wants me to be disciplined, to be more careful," she said, sighing heavily.

Riku lifted her chin with a finger and said, "I know that. But there are better ways of going about that."

Chaos stopped and snarled at him. What did he know of being a matronly figure? In fact, she stepped out and shouted, "You know nothing of being an authorative figure over someone!"

Riku and Kara both turned, Kara more scared than ever now that she saw Chaos in her rage. She ducked behind Riku who stood there without seeming to flinch at her attitude.

"Yes, I do. I was raised into this through stern rules and discipline, yes, but not the amount you display. You're pushing her too hard. You need to-" Riku said before Chaos stomped.

"Shut it, you baka!" she shouted to him, "You have no right to be telling me what I have the right to be doing!"

"Let me guess, I bruised your ego and you're refusing to admit that you're wrong and I'm right?" Riku asked, crossing his arms.

That hit her big time, because he had hit the reasoning right on the dot. She went to speak but no words came out and she quickly shut her mouth. "Fine, but I don't have to like you or what you're doing. Kara, I want you to come with me, I have some things that I seriously need to talk to you about."

"Chaos, I'm afraid of you," Kara admitted and Chaos, who had turned and was walking off to a separate room, stopped upon hearing those words.

"Why do you fear me? I've been the one taking care of you. Are you afraid of being punished for something you know you should be punished for?" Chaos asked, turning around. She heard the cat sigh and she turned and locked eyes with him, her eyes filled with anger, while his were filled with agitation.

"Chaos, can you stop trying to punish the girl for looking for one of her family members? I'm sure you would have done the same," Riku told the white hedgehog, who began shaking violently out of rage. She spun and left in a huff, stomping down the hall, slamming open the door to her room, and slamming it shut with a loud BANG that resonated through the hall.

Kara stood behind him for a few moments before saying, "I'm sorry, Riku-kun. I wish that she wasn't this way."

He turned to her and said, "You are fine, Kara-chan. I wish that Chaos would learn that right now, she doesn't have as much authority as she thinks she does. I also wish that she wouldn't be so mean to you in this fashion. Well, no, it's not mean. She's doing it to help, but she's taking it too far at this point."

"She's someone who thinks most times that her opinion is the right one unless badly proven wrong," Kara stated. "You'll be hard pressed to get through to her."

"I'm sure that I'll do fine," the cat replied, moving aside a bit of her hair that had fallen into her eyes. At this gesture, Kara blushed furiously.

"Riku-kun?" she asked, looking at him with something of wonder.

"Hmm?" he asked before notcing the blush and smiling. "Aw, embarrassed that I've grown to like you?"

She had a nervous breakdown and began stuttering for words and shifting uncomfortably. Finally, unable to handle it, she dashed into her room and locked the door before pressing herself against it, her eyes wide and her heart racing.

"What was that?" Kayla laughed within her, amused by the sudden change in disposition when she found that the boy she liked...liked her back.

"Just...shut it...Kayla, I don't need to hear you right now!" she whispered, throwing herself on the bed. She was beaming now. Even though she would never admit it yet, she really liked Riku, and was now the happiest girl in the entire world, in her mind at least.

Riku stood outside the door, smiling. He had figured that it might happen to her when he told her that he really liked her. Now she just had to tell him back what she thought of him, though he would let that go at its own pace. A throb of pain shot through his chest though as Aku Yasha tried to remind him of his position. He hit that throb and winced as more pain shot through him.

"Yasha, STOP!" he shouted and concentrated. He heard a wail from his demon, one that only he could hear, and the pain died down but left him weakened. He also find that he was bleeding from a fresh wound on his chest and one on his left arm. "Damn you, you stupid demon," he muttered as he stumbled into the kitchen. Kara and Chaos had looked out and saw him stumbling away, and could only imagine what was going on.

Chaos went back into her room first, wondering what was up with him. "What's up with that boy? Why did he say that?"

She heard Ace give an unwelcome but helpful reply, "Yasha is in him, and he doesn't speak to his host. He tries to "remind" them of their place by tormenting them until they give in. Most don't live with him in them for more than a few years. That boy has survived with Yasha in him for a good long time, showing that he has far more resiliance than an average person."

Chaos was about to snap at Ace, but she stopped herself and instead replied, "Thank you for that tidbit of knowledge."

This meant now that she also had to treat him with some respect. Depending on how long he had held the demon in him and hadn't fallen to it, that would determine how much respect she had for him. Until that point, though, she was going to defy him and show that she still had some ego left before it got bruised even more.

I hope I'm getting the characters down...