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"Seimei, what exactly do you want from your brother?" Nisei asked. Seimei smirked and said, "Isn't obvious Nisei." Nisei sighed and said, "No it's not."
"I want everything from Ritsuka." Nisei shuddered at the way his sacrifice said the word everything. What exactly did that mean? Whatever Seimei meant by 'everything' Nisei knew that it woukd be his job to help him get it. "So what is your plan to get your brother?" Nisei asked. "Simple we'll have to take him from Soubi." Nisei looked disgusted at the sound of that Fighter's name. He was the absolute lowest of Fighters he had ever heard of. Having two sacrifices. Who did Soubi think he was anyways? And from what he observed while spying on Ritsuka was that Soubi seemed to be a bit of a pervert around the boy, gross. "You know Soubi won't let us take Ritsuka from him so easily." Nisei reminded. "Yes I know. But don't worry I told you all that I know about him, so we should have no problem taking Soubi out. For now Nisei I want you to send a warning to Soubi."
"What kind of warning?"
"Just let him know that if he can't protect my little brother I'll take him away from him."
Nisei smirked and said, "All right, do you want me to beat the warning into him. You know just so it sinks in." Seimei shook his head and said, "Well have our battle with them soon." Very soon Seimei would have Ritsuka. All of him.

When Ritsuka got home after his battle with Regretless, Misaki was waiting for him with a crumpled up piece of paper in her hand. "Ritsuka why did you come home late! Do you know how worried I was about you! You ungrateful child! You're not my Ritsuka, he would never come home late! Give back me son to me!" Misaki yelled and slapped her son across his face. Ritsuka rubbed his cheek where his mother had slapped him and said, "I'm sorry mother."
"Liar! Get out of my sight!" Misaki said and slapped him again. As Ritsuka headed upstairs Misaki hurled a vase at the wall and fell to her knees and began to weep. "Where is my Ritsuka?" She sobbed. Ritsuka wanted to tell her he was right there but decided just to go to his room. Once he was in his room, Ritsuka changed into his pajamas and climbed into his bed. Oh why can't I remember? He thought. Ritsuka sighed as he pulled out his cell phone and texted Soubi: 'Good Night Soubi. Go to bed please. *kiss*'. He sent the text to Soubi. No sooner did he send the text, Soubi was quick to reply with: 'Good Night Ritsuka. *kiss*'. Ritsuka blushed at Soubi's text and pulled the covers over him in hopes that sleep would overtake him. 'Baka Soubi. Now I'll never be able to sleep because of you.'

The next morning, Ritsuka was woken up by the sound his alarm going off. He yawned as he reached over to switch off the device that had awakened him from his slumber. 'Damn today was another day of school.' Ritsuka climbed out of his bed, went to his closet took out a maroon long sleeved shirt, black pants and headed to the bathroom to change, brush his teeth and comb his hair. When he got in the bathroom, he looked in the mirror to see if the slaps he received from his mother left any bruises. They had. Ritsuka sighed as he opened the medicine cabinet, took out the bandages and bandaged up his cheek. He then put the bandages away and closed the medicine cabinet and changed his clothes. Once he changed, he brushed his teeth, and combed his hair. When Ritsuka finished he took one last look at himself before he finally headed out of the bathroom and downstairs. Once downstairs, he looked to see if his mother had made him breakfast. She hadn't. Ritsuka sighed she was probably locked in her room crying like she did on most days after she abused him. Guess he'd eat at school. Ritsuka then headed out the door, he hoped school would go by fast so he could see Soubi. As he walked to school Ritsuka wondered what Soubi was doing at that very moment.

Soubi looked at the canvas he was working on. Somehow his landscape looked, incomplete like something was missing but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. That's when it hit him, the one thing it was missing was a butterfly the creature he hated most. Soubi chuckled to himself as he began to sketch out the butterfly. Even though he hated butterflies because of their weakness and how fragile they were for some reason, Soubi always drew them in his art pieces. They sort of became his signature or 'specialty' as Kio had once said. Soubi finished sketching the butterfly and admired his landscape. Now with the butterfly, his drawing was complete, he could now focus on the painting and start work on his next project. A portrait of someone he cared about. Soubi had thought long and hard about this project when his professor had brought up the topic. He would paint a picture of his beloved Ritsuka. After all it was Ritsuka who he adored and truly loved and cared for. He smiled to himself as he moved his esal with his landscape picture out of the way, and went to grab his sketch pad. He then began sketching an outline of Ritsuka's body and smiled. Completely unaware that as he was sketching Zero had made their over to where he was sitting and were watching him sketch. "What are you drawing?" Youji asked. "Something for school. "Soubi replied. "What is it?" Natsuo asked.
"Just a portrait of someone."
"Who?" Both said in unison. Soubi ignored their question and resumed his sketching.

Suddenly, they all heard a ringing noise. Someone's fighter was initiating the battle system and was approaching their house. "I wonder who is coming this way." Youji said as he covered his ears. "Whoever it is, their frequency is strong. Soubi aren't going to call Ritsuka?" Natsuo asked. Soubi shook his head. "You're going to fight alone? After Loveless told you not to?" Youji asked. Soubi shook his head again. He had promised Ritsuka he wouldn't fight alone and this time he truly meant it. Soon they heard a knock at the door. Youji was about to answer it but Soubi told him to sit on the couch and stay put. "I'll go see who it is." Soubi said as he walked over to the door. Soubi opened the door and saw that it was a person he hated, Seimei's new fighter Nisei. "Nisei. What do you want?" Soubi said as he shut the door behind him so Zero couldn't hear their conversation. "You're quite rude aren't you Soubi. Not even a 'Hello Nisei'." Nisei taunted. Soubi glared at him and said, "I'll ask you one more time what do you want?" Nisei smirked and said, "I simply came here to deliver a message to you from Seimei." Soubi winced at the sound of his former sacrifice's name. "What is his message?"
"His message is this, if you cannot protect Ritsuka then he'll have to take him from you. Understand?" Soubi clenched his fist at the sound of Seimei's message. "He won't be able to take Ritsuka from me. I won't allow him to. I'll protect Ritsuka even if that means giving up my life for him."
"You had better protect that brat or else." Nisei threatened and was about to walk away when Soubi grabbed him by the scruff of his collar, turned Nisei around and punched him in his nose and said, "Don't call Ritsuka a brat!" Nisei wiped the blood that was now dripping from his nose and said, "You'll regret that Agatsuma!" Nisei then scurried away to avoid being hit by Soubi again.

'Good riddance.' Soubi thought. Soubi headed back inside and found the Zero pair playing a hand held videogame of some sort. "So, Soubi who was at the door?" Natsuo asked as he looked up from the game. "Nobody." Soubi lied. "Nobody? Then why were you outside for so long?" Youji asked. "I was thinking." Soubi said as pulled out his phone to check the time. It was 3:30 and Ritsuka would be done with school in 10 minutes. "I'm going to pick up Ritsuka. You two stay here and behave yourselves."
"We will." Zero said in unison. With that Soubi left his apartment and locked the door behind him and began to walk in the direction of Ritsuka's school. As he walked he thought about what he was going to tell Ritsuka. He had to tell him of Nisei's 'visit' and Seimei's message. He just didn't know how to bring it up or how his beloved Ritsuka would react but he had to tell him, he just had to.

Soubi finally reached the school, and stood at the front gate and waited for Ritsuka. As he waited, he thought about Seimei's message. The thought of having Ritsuka taken from him was such a painful thought. It was so painful that it broke his heart and shattered it to pieces.
'Don't think about it Soubi you don't want Ritsuka to see you in pain.' Soubi thought as he shook the thought from his head. Soon, the bell rang and Soubi watched as kids began to walk out of the front, gate. He watched kid after kid come out until he spotted the face of the boy he was waiting for. His little Loveless. 'So kawaii he looks today.' As Ritsuka made his way over to him Soubi couldn't help but admire how cute he looked when he walked. "Helloooooo Soubi-san." Said the pink haired Yuiko as she and Ritsuka came up to him. "Hello Yuiko-chan. Ritsuka."
"Soubi." Ritsuka said. "How was school?" Soubi asked. "It was fine." Ritsuka lied. "So, Ritsuka-kun. Do you and Soubi-san want to come over to my house today?" Yuiko asked. Ritsuka shook his head and said, "Maybe next time Yuiko. I want to talk with Soubi alone." Yuiko looked saddened and said, "All right, well I guess I'll see you two later." As Yuiko began to walk away, Ritsuka took Soubi's hand and said, "Let's go for a walk."
Soubi smiled and said, "Okay."

For a while the two walked in silence until Soubi said, "Ritsuka."
"Yes Soubi? What is it?" Soubi hesitated a bit before saying, "Something happened today." Ritsuka grew concerned, "What happened today? Are you hurt? Did someone hurt you? Tell me, what happened right now Soubi and don't lie to me. You promised you wouldn't lie to me anymore."
"Yes Ritsuka. Today, Seimei's new fighter Nisei came to see me." Ritsuka shuddered at Nisei's name and said, "What did he want? Did you two fight?"
"No, we didn't fight. He just came to deliver a message from Seimei."
"What was Seimei's message?" Soubi looked at Ritsuka his eyes were full of worry and concern. He didn't know if he could tell Ritsuka Seimei's awful message. "Soubi?" Ritsuka said. "He said that if I couldn't protect you, he'd take you from me." Ritsuka couldn't believe what he was hearing. How could his brother say something awful like that? Just the very thought of being separated from Soubi the man he had grown to care about and possibly love, made his heart ache. Ritsuka wrapped his arms around Soubi's waist and hugged him. "He can't do that. Can he? Why would he want to do such a thing?" Soubi embraced the boy, pulled his head up so that he was looking at him and said, "I won't let him take you. I promise." Soubi then planted a kiss on the boy's lips as a way to reassure the boy that it would be all right and as long as he was his fighter he wouldn't let Seimei or anyone else for that matter take Ritsuka from him. He just wouldn't.

Thank you all so much for the nice reviews. You really have no idea how much I appreciate them. I'm so glad y'all like my story. I will continue this for sure. On a side note, sorry chapter 3 took so lonnng to get out, it took so lonng to write. Anyway Thank you all for reading and I hope to have the next chapter up as soon as I can :).