I sat in my small apartment alone. I was looking out of my window down in to the streets where I called home. The air around me felt like a cage because I was worrying about where my life was headed. I didn't exactly know how to deal with such a thing like this. Getting kicked out of my parents' house was pretty hard, but not compared to this. In fact that was easy compared to this situation. In past situations, I used my anger to get me by. My anger is what motivated me to do well and prove those who were cutting me down wrong.

"You will never amount to anything.." those words rang in my head as I thought about my past. They still hurt even though I have in fact proved every one of them wrong. Look at me, I was living in my own apartment, I had a job and I had a talent. What more could you ask for? My life wasn't easy, no. not at all. I never wanted it to be easy, then it would be just too boring for me. I had people who loved me and people who were willing to give me the attention I needed. Those people were my fans. I sang at a local bar on the weekends. On those weekends I got to eat for free and enjoy some company. Sometimes, it even racked in some good cash.

My life has had its ups and downs, and here I was again at another down spot. I used to always get like this. Wait around for opportunity to bite me in the ass, so I would get up and fight back. I enjoyed fighting, it kept me busy and it kept me moving. I guess that's why Yusuke and I got along so well. We both loved trouble and we both loved to get in to fights. Mostly for him, they were physical fights, but I didn't mind the occasional fist fight. We were both troubled kids, but we were best friends from junior high. Unlike him though I liked going to school. I enjoyed knowledge and learning new things about the world we live in. I was a fairly decent student, but I stopped attending school a few weeks ago. The junior high though, let me pass and if I wanted to I could go on to high school at this point. But I don't think I will be doing so anytime soon. The school board thinks I am ill and I can no longer come to school, but in reality, I was sick. I was actually just sick with demon energy I guess you could say.

Yusuke was helping me control my demon energy. But like he said, he was no expert, but he promised to take me to someone that could really help me embrace the energy. He said I needed to be careful or I might end up destroying myself. He said my energy was very intense, but I really never felt a real change in who I was. Yeah every once in a while I would feel something, like a tingling feeling underneath my skin, sometimes even pain. Sometimes, if I really focused I could read people's minds. This was a very useful tool; I could see people's intentions, and I could then stay out of trouble. But whoever this person was I was going off to meet, I was very scared. But I had to go. Spirit world was starting to complain about my demon energy I've also been informed that they are threatening to hunt me down. I really don't think this whole thing was fair. I've never done anything wrong to anyone; at least I didn't think so.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and then I heard it open. My reverie was broken. It was Yusuke, he was the only one that usually came to my small apartment and he was the only one who knew they could just barge in

"What's up?" he called as I made my way in to the kitchen and living room area.

"Nothing much." I managed to blurt out the first thing that rolled off my tongue.

"Staring out of the window again? If you stare too much then you might burn a hole through the damn thing."

I rolled my eyes, I couldn't disagree with him. "Yeah, that would be rather entertaining though."

"Yeah well that's a shame because you are leaving with me tonight."

I froze for a few seconds. I wasn't expecting to leave so soon.

"You're kidding me right?"

"No, but it doesn't seem like a huge problem since you are already packed for the most part."

"What do you mean for the most part? I'm not bringing my house with me."

I waited for a response for the longest time but quickly got frustrated. Sometimes, just the presence of him drove me nuts. Some days it bothered me others, not so much. But lucky for him I was feeling rather apprehensive. "Yusuke are you even listening to me?" I snapped as I turned around. Once again, I froze. "What are you doing?"

"Getting your stuff so we can leave. Why else?"

"Don't I get a say in this at all?

"No, not really."

I was silent for a minute, still not quite understanding why I had to leave right this instant.

"Look, Spirit world is hunting you down and I can't tell what they are really doing all the time. Just trust me. Demon world isn't too bad."

I frowned, he sounded almost sarcastic. "Alright, everything is ready. Let's get out of here.

We took a subway to the neighboring city, then I was lead to an open field, then to a strange underground cave. Yusuke explained that this cave led to a portal to the demon world. I felt rather disturbed at this kind of information; knowing that demons could get in our world and sneak back in to their own world. Not only that, the portal was so close to where I lived. Who knows, I could have been living among demons my entire life and I probably wouldn't have known it. Maybe living in the demon world would not be so bad after all.