Demon Fighters

Chapter One: Demons Released

It was the beginning of summer as Kiku finished the third chapter of his dreams in the book when he noticed the time. "Shit! Gotta finish my errand!" He closed the book, put on a purple yukata, a dark divided umanori, and black uwabaki before running out of the house with the book still in his hand as he ran towards the grocery store to do the shopping so his aunt can make her special cupcakes.

He never noticed the book was glowing.

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He was halfway to the main city of Tokyo when the light was finally noticed. He stood behind a building with one-way glass as windows so he could see his reflection whenever he went by as he pulled out the book and looked it over. The light was coming from inside the book... He looked around curiously before gulping nervously and slowly opened the book.

It suddenly forced itself open as red, purple, golden, and black light erupted from the book and blasted his glasses off of his face. He looked at the light in shock before a golden light surrounded him and he tensed in case the light burned him. Instead he felt different as the light faded and suddenly dropped the book.

He lifted his head slowly, somehow he fell unconscious for a second, and looked around before noticing his appearance in the one-way windows. He was wearing a black naval uniform with gold accents and white gloves. His hair reached the nape of his neck but at the front it reached halfway down the sides of his face. There was a belt where a sheathed katana was on his right side and a pouch was on his left side.

He looked at his attire before noticing the book and picked it up. The dull cover was now golden with ornate designs and the papers were a slight yellow just as the golden light reappeared. He noticed that he was back to normal and that his glasses were on the ground. He picked them up and put them back on his face before a shout startled him.

"Let me go!" He ran towards the sound and stopped in surprise and shock. The two groups, the Allied and Axis, were standing in even more shock as a black demonic cat, as big as a car-and-a-half, held Yao upside down from its tail. "Let me go!" He repeated as he struggled to escape the demon's grasp.

"L-L-Let him go!" Kiki shouted as a spurt of courage ran through him, but it made everyone look at him curiously but made the demon drop Yao and take one step towards him. "Keeper." It growled as it started running towards him. 'Shit!' He thought as he started to run away from the demon before it could catch him.

Unknown to both the demon and him, both groups followed them in worry and fear.

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He ran through the alleyways trying to lose it but it was fast enough to dodge every corner and turn. "Keeper." It repeated as it chased him, trying to catch him before it could do something terrible to him. He looked back for a second, which was a big mistake as he ran straight into a dead-end.

He looked to the sides in fear before looking back the way he came, and saw the demon getting closer and closer! "Keeper!" It shouted as it jumped before it was suddenly kicked to the side violently. Kiku snapped out of fear to notice two things: the groups were trying to distract the demon, and Yao was the one that used a karate jump kick to violently kick away the demon away from him.

"Keeper!" The demon shouted as it used its tail to violently wipe the others, except Yao who was in front of him, away and lunged at the duo. Kiku felt a spurt of fear before a golden light caught his attention.

The book...

He quickly held it between his hand and opened it just as the demon was about to make contact with them. The golden light erupted and the demon yowled in pain as the book started sucking it in? The book rattled a bit and he had to hold on a bit tighter as the demon was sucked in.

The book closed itself and he had to hold it closed for a second as the demon was securely inside. He wondered if it was securely inside, he slowly opened the book nervously along with the others watching nervously as the book was opened, but no demon came out. The reason was there there in the paper.

The demon was now a picture with a description underneath of what it was. 'Oni. The lowest class of demons. This demon can take the form of a demonic cat or a demonic dog. It will not stop until it finds either its victim or the Keeper of the Book and bring one of them back to the leader: the Demon King.'

"Oni? Demonic cat? Keeper of the Book? Demon King?" Questions were passed back and forth as Kiku froze in shock after he read the paragraph. Yao waved his hand in front of his face and received no reaction then he poked his shoulder, causing him to drop the book and shook his glasses off of his face.

"Are you okay?" He asked as Kiku looked around before realizing where he was and who he was with. He picked up his glasses and the book before walking out of the alleyway. None of the rest noticed the way he walked or the way Yao stared at him sadly.

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"Aunt Okamina?" Kiku asked as he entered the house/restaurant and quickly noticed that his aunt wasn't home. He put the book on an end table before sitting on the couch and turning on the tv. He always likes to watch one half hour of the news before watching something else, but this news was going to change his life.

"We bring you a report from the Katashi Car Factory, a couple hours ago a strange black blur of what looked like a cat the size of a car attacked the factory. The workers were unharmed as if the blur wasn't looking for them but only one died from being thrusted into the laser repairs by the creature's tail that was swung at her."

Just after the sentence ended, a picture of the person appeared and froze him to his core again as tears gathered in his eyes. The picture was of a woman in her late twenties with long white hair and dark brown eyes just before she was killed, in the caption underneath were the words 'Okamina Hitomi'.

His aunt.

He turned off the tv, took his glasses off, and started crying loudly. His parents, his brother, and now his aunt was dead. And the rest of his relatives moved to America because of job opportunities there. A knock sounded throughout the house but he either couldn't hear it or decided to ignore it.

"Kiku?" Yao's voice sounded out, still blocked out by his crying, as the door slowly opened and Yao came face-to-face with Kiku sobbing on his couch. He wondered what happened until he noticed the remote on the floor, picked it up, and turned on the tv. The report was replayed again and as it ended he noticed the pictures around him, but one stuck out from the rest.

The picture was taken at Miyako Beach when two boys, one was Kiku and the other was a three year older version of him with shorter hair and red eyes, each held a bucket of seawater and walked towards a woman in her late twenties, with waist-length white hair and sunglasses over her eyes as she was sunbathing, with matching looks of mischief on their faces.

The engraving underneath caught his attention too. 'Spending the day at the beach with my nephews Kiku and Kuro. ~Okamina. And spending the day pranking Aunt Okamina at the beach with Kuro. ~Kiku.'

He looked at Kiku in sadness until he looked at him in surprise. Kiku was passed out on the couch with his glasses dangling limply from his hand. He chuckled slightly before gently pulling the glasses out of his hand and put them on the nightstand next to the book before covering a blanket over the passed out teen.

"Wake up soon, wô de ài." He muttered as he briefly touched his nose to the passed out teen's forehead.

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Kiku came to a few hours later and woke up to the surprise of his life. Yao was in his house, passed out as he was halfway on the couch with the house looking cleaner than ever before. "Thank you, watashi no yūjin." He whispered to the passed out teen and smiled softly as a small smile appeared on the passed out teen's face.

He got off the couch and carefully moved Yao onto it before covering him with the blanket that was earlier covering him and went into the kitchen to make something for Yao when he wakes up. "Jú Huā..." He muttered as he turned onto his side. In the kitchen was one person that was too busy thinking to be making anything.

"Watashi no mabayui..." Kiku replied quietly.