Here's the next chapter! I didn't have too much of a problem with this one and it's starting to get more into Kira's past life ^^ hope you enjoy, so please review!

"Kyaaaaaaah!"

I groaned, rolling over in the bed I was in only to face plant into the floor. Untangling myself from the blankets, I stood and stretched with a yawn before heading to the bathroom; not noticing I was in only my boxers. Getting closer to the restroom, I could hear Tooko yelling at someone.

"Haven't I asked you not to walk around naked? Lecher! Idiot! Pervert!"

Ignoring the muffled grumble of Hotsuma, I reached towards my boxers to scratch an itch on my stomach where the waistband was. I strolled in with a blank expression and grabbed my toothbrush, starting to brush my teeth as Tooko's face grew redder.

"W-What are you doing?"

"Brushing my teeth…You're too loud."

She began stuttering until Tsukumo came out asking about the commotion. I felt a heat on the side of my head and glanced at the glaring Hotsuma out of the corner of my eye. Takashiro had apparently made it known I was an ally, but that won't change what they thought about me. It didn't matter at the moment though, because he began yelling at Tooko and Tsukumo again. So I headed back to my room and dressed, quickly heading to the kitchen with a huge yawn. Jumping up on the counter, I stole a banana and began swinging my legs back and forth in front of me. What can I say? I get weird in the mornings.

"Ah! Kira! You should eat breakfast first!"

"I am."

The chef began bawling about my eating habits and I just rolled my eyes, until Yuki told me to join him in the dining room.

"Shusei left without eating breakfast again?"

The yell surprised me a bit and I jumped, dropping my spoon in the bowl of food in front of me. Of course, they ignored me and continued talking as I tried to fish my spoon out of the bowl.

"Does Shuusei have some sort of illness?"

"I don't believe he has anything like that, but he's never had much of an appetite."

"Rather than lack of appetite…it's more like he's never experienced the enjoyment of having a meal."

I scoffed, giving up on my spoon, and instead held up a peace sign to Tachibana who was squatting behind Hotsuma and Yuki. It's not like I know the 'enjoyment of having a meal' either. To me, it's just eating. Seeing this, Hotsuma turned around and yelled at him before turning back to me and glaring fiercely. I glared back and he was about to retort, but clicked his tongue at me before leaving for school. Yuki and the others got up as well and offered their farewells.

"Then, I'm going now."

"Be careful."

"Later."

I had been informed earlier that I could not attend school with Yuki due to some Goddess protecting it, so I had to settle with self -teaching. I suppose it was a good thing they had such a huge library, every book I could possibly need was stacked neatly on the shelves, and I couldn't wait to get started. Despite my rough outer appearance, I rather enjoyed learning new things and foreign languages currently had me occupied at the moment.

Hm, so for imperfect I drop -oir and add -ais?…Then the sentence 'I eat' would translate to 'J'avais mange'…Interesting.

Mid way though my studying, Luka came in with a scowl on his face and slammed my book down.

"Let's go. We're picking up Yuki."

"Don't take out your obvious hate for me on the book. I'd rather you just attack me like everyone else. It's easier to cope with."

He gave me a look as I shelved the book, but we both headed out to the nice car Takashiro left for us. Glancing at it once, I turned back to Lucas.

"You driving or am I?"

"Che, like I'd let you drive."

I shrugged and reached for the door handle to the passenger's side, only for Lucas to slam the door closed before I could get in.

"Back."

Letting go, I sighed and climbed in the back as Luka sped off to the school. When we finally reached there, we both sat around until we spotted Yuki walking over. I climbed out just before Luka did and leaned against the hood of the car, ignoring the group that began crowding the school's entrance.

I continued picking at my nails as Luka strolled up to Yuki through the crowd of whispering students, but smiled when Yuki got closer to the car. He smiled back and I ruffled his hair, despite the dirty look Luka sent me.

"How was school?"

"Oh, it was good, I guess. I still wish you could attend with me though….What did you do all day?"

"You want me to attend so I can scare people? No thanks…Et je étudié français. I studied French."

"Woah. I always knew you liked to study, but a whole new language? That's amazing!"

I smiled, hearing a few of the girl students swoon nearby, and thanked him before opening the passenger side for him and hopping in my own seat; just happy to get away from the nauseating school.

Luka and Yuki began talking about random things and I decided to go over what I learned about in my head. Then, something they said caught my attention.

"Um, I heard that my school's special and that regular duras can't approach it, or something…"

"Yeah. The strength of the guardians is pretty powerful."

"Is the reason you and Kira are all right because you both have a high level of magical power?"

"I don't know about Luka, but being that close to the school had me feeling nauseous."

Luka glared at me for interrupting their conversation while Yuki gave me a concerned look. I smiled to reassure him and he grinned back as him and Luka continued. Suddenly I felt something and Luka told us to hold on as he swerved the car around an attack in the road. Stopping the car, we all got out and began running as it exploded and we were thrown across the road. Luka had Yuki covered and I had managed to land some what upright next to them.

"Forget about me…You're not injured, right? Does it hurt anywhere?"

"I-I'm fine! Really…since you covered me."

"Hey, lovebirds. I don't think right now is the time to be doing this. We have lots of company."

I glared at Luka for getting so close to Yuki, but turned that glare to the duras that had shown up. Yuki put up a barrier and Luka began mumbling something, keeping the two of use from doing anything. I could hear the duras shouting at each other and could feel the sheer amount of power Luka was preparing to unleash on them. Needless to say, they were all annihilated except for a couple which I stepped forward to take care of, until I felt my throat constrict.

"Now now, no need to alert your friends yet."

It felt like a collar had just tightened around my neck and time seemed to stop for me as flashes of blood and a cloaked, sword wielding man stabbing me through. Next thing I know, we're back at the twilight mansion. Blinking a few times, I put my head in my hand and realized how shaken I was, jumping when someone put their hand on my arm.

"You okay, Kira? You haven't said anything since earlier."

Great, now I've gotten Yuki worried.

"I'm fine. Just worn out I guess."

"Oh…well Luka and I are going to look for Hotsuma. You should go get some rest if you're tired. We'll be okay."

He smiled and the two of them headed out the door, leaving me with Tachibana and the perverted doctor.

"That guy never stands still."

"He's such a good boy…Now Kira, is there something bothering you? You do seem tired, but you would normally jump at the chance to be around Yuki."

"He's right, you now. Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing."

I turned towards the library, hoping the books could keep my mind off of what happened. After a while, I realized that I wasn't taking any of the information in and closed the book before getting up to had to the baths. Not even noticing the crowd that was outside, I went in and stripped, washing before sinking into the hot water and leaning my head back. The moment I closed my eyes though, the visions were back and I sat up quickly just now noticing the voices heading towards me.

I tried to relax my tensed muscles, but the feeling of the collar around my neck had me reaching up to my neck as Yuki, Tsukumo, and Hotsuma stopped at the edge of the bath. Yuki climbed in, no problem, but Tsukumo hesitated and gave me a look while Hotsuma glared and didn't move. It was then, Yuki spotted me and smiled brightly before becoming concerned at the look on my face. He turned around towards Hotsuma then and asked the question that I didn't really want to hear the answer to.

"Hotsuma? Why aren't you getting in?"

"Che, there's no way I'm getting in the same water as that thing."

"H-Hotsuma!"

"It's fine…I was…getting out anyway. 'Night, Yuki."

I got out, feeling the heated looks shot at my back, but ignored them as I dressed and went back to my room. Getting there, I stood in front of a mirror and brought my hand up to my neck. There was nothing there, like I expected, but the moment I turned away I swore I saw something thin and black wrapped around my neck. Startled, I turned and threw my fist into the mirror, shattering it to pieces.

What's going on? There's nothing there, but I can feel it strangling me and growing tighter…and my body…it doesn't feel like it belongs to me anymore.

I looked down at my shaking hand, flexing it. I knew something was wrong, but there was nothing I could do about it, so I laid down on my bed and covered my eyes hoping that I could actually sleep peacefully.

"Why are you doing this to me? I don't want to do this!"

"That's too bad, because you don't have a choice!"

My throat constricted and I fell to the floor gasping before two duras picked me up and threw me out of the building; the man's voice ringing in my conscious.

"Now go and kill them both."

My body began moving on its own and soon I was attacking the zweilts and cutting them down one after the other. Their blood covered me as my body automatically moved to block the large sword belonging to the cloaked man. We pushed against each other adding power behind every blow when suddenly I jumped back and aimed a hand towards the woman sitting on the ground behind him. Launching an attack, my own eyes widened when that woman transformed into Yuki and the cloaked man was now Luka.

Luka blocked the attack and returned to attack me, but I was gone and reappeared behind Yuki, grabbing him and holding my sword against his throat. I didn't want to be doing this. I struggled, trying desperately to let him go and that distraction was enough for Luka to knock me away, leaving a large gash across my chest. Lying on the ground with Luka hovering over me, ready to plunge the sword into my chest, a single tear fell from my eye.

"Kill him."

I won't.

The tightness in my throat returned and I gasped for air as the sword plunged into me.

I woke up gasping for air as the tightening of my throat increased. Opening my eyes, I saw a dark figure leaning over me and reacted violently by kicking it in the stomach and tackling it to the ground. My hands grabbed their throat as they struggled underneath me when suddenly I was thrown to the wall, a sword preparing to stab me when a voice coughed from the ground.

"No! *cough* Don't, Luka!"

The figure began coughing again and Luka dropped me to the ground in a daze as he hurried to the figure, crouching down next to him. Moonlight from the window finally revealed to me who the figure was and I couldn't believe what I'd just done.

"Y-Yuki?"

My friend turned to me while Luka glared dangerously, and I glanced down at my hands with wide eyes. I had nearly strangled my only friend to death. Looking back up at him, I stood up and ran towards the door; stumbling and tripping my way out of the building and into the surrounding forest, ignoring the shouting of my name.

What have I done?