ReijiXKitoXKiru

Chapter 4

In the moments after Kito left to clean the broken glass off the kitchen floor, Kiru let out a very soft sigh and glanced down at the teen lying beside him. The said teen fast asleep and practically dead to the world in the older's arms, as Kiru gently played with the teen's hair and watched his chest rise and fall. A distressed look on his face, as Kiru gently brushed the teen's cheek with the tips of his fingers. The simple and delicate touch causing the young teen to whimper in his unconscious state, before he reached out and grabbed the male's shirt. His grip weak and his eyes tightly closed shut, as Kiru looked at the teen with worry and tightened his grip around the teen. The action pulling the teen closer to him, till he was as close to his chest as he could get and cuddled into his side.

"You're safe, Reiji." Kiru spoke softly, as he buried his face into the teen's hair for comfort.

The caring action making the younger teen relax slightly in his sleep and shift slightly. The movement causing their foreheads to brush against each other, before a rush of images reached the older. Images he wished he'd never see as creatures he'd never seen before flashed before his eyes and blue flames filled his vision. A small teen he had once seen at school attacking the monsters with his classmates beside him. A sword covered in flames in his hand, as an older and taller teen stood by his side and fought beside him. A determined and protective look in his eyes, as the demons around them fell one by one. The same blue flames eating away at the forest around them, as they slowly consumed the images and everything turned black. Something that caused Kiru to snap back to reality and put some space between the two of them.

The same clattering of glass from the kitchen echoing in the room, as Kiru looked down at the whimpering and unconscious teen beside him. The distressed look on his face softened slightly, but still there, as the older teen ran a hand through his hair and tried to put his thoughts straight.

If anything, what he had just seen was mind blowing. The creatures, the flames surrounding the teenage boy, the students fighting beside him, all those images and things seemed to roll into one and make everything worse. Just where had those images come from? Why was Reiji seeing them, and were they even real? If they were, why could he see them when they had made physical contact? Even if it had been for only a second, all the images he had seen seemed to be only the beginning; and that scared Kiru. Just what was the teen being put through to end up like this?

"I finally got the glass cleaned up." Kito called out, as he walked back into the room and stopped in the doorway. "What's wrong? You look like someone just killed a stray cat."

"I really don't know what happened." Kiru admitted, as his younger brother gave him a weird look and went to work on the mess of pills on the floor. "He started whining like he was afraid of something and the next thing I know his forehead brushes against mine and I see all these images. Weird little creatures, a boy with a blue flamed sword and his classmates fighting them."

"Do you think this has to do with Shiratori's condition?" Kito asked, as the older let out a sigh and looked down at the sleeping teen cuddled into his side and whimpering.

"I don't know, but to be honest I think we're out of our league with this." Kiru spoke, as his younger brother stopped for a moment and stared at him in surprise. "If he's actually seeing what I saw I don't think there's anyway we can help him, Kito. I can't even tell if it's real."

"Well, we'll just have to ask him." The teen spoke, as he went back to picking up the spilled pills and Kiru stared at him in slight shock. "I know you don't want to lose his trust, Kiru, but right now the only way to help him is to figure out what's going on. And that unfortunately means we need to ask him."

"We can't risk him hating us though." Kiru spoke in worry, as he looked at the unconscious and whimpering teen snuggled into his side. "He needs us to look after him."

"You do have to remember that Reiji isn't some stray kitten, either." Kito spoke, as he set the pill bottle down and threw the dirtied ones away as he got a disapproving look from his brother. "You can't treat him like some lost and hungry cat you found in an alley and soaked to the bone. He's a human being, Kiru. He has thoughts and feelings just as powerful as ours, and we have no right to barge into his life and ruin whatever he has left."

"If he has anything left." Kiru muttered.

That was until the teen cuddled into his chest let out a scared whine and gripped his shirt tightly. His fingers trembling and tears beading out from his closed eyes, as his whole body started shaking and Kito was beside the bed in an instant. Both brothers gazing at the teen in worry, as Kiru carefully tightened the arm around the teen's waist. An action that only calmed the teen's shaking for a moment, before he let out a strangled scream and jolted awake. The sudden loud noise making both brothers jump in surprise, before Reiji was awake and trying to push himself away from Kiru. His fingers and arms struggling terribly, as tears rolled down his face nonstop and a jumble of words left his lips. Words none of them could understand, as Kiru gently touched the top of his head to try and calm him down. An action that backfired as he let out a scared yelp and almost fell off the bed. That is if it wasn't for Kito's fast reflexes that kept him from smashing his head into the floor.

"Reiji, it's just us!" Kiru quickly spoke, as he helped the teen back on the bed and gently shook him. "It's alright, you're safe."

"N-no, I'm n-not." The teen horribly stuttered, as both brothers gave him a worried look. "H-he's after me. H-he's going to k-kill me. I-It's o-over."

"Wait! Who's going to kill you?" Kiru demanded, as he cupped the sobbing teen's cheeks and made the teen look at him. "Who's going to hurt you, Reiji?"

"I-I don't k-know. H-he's after me. H-He'll kill me."

"And how are you sure?" Kito asked, as Reiji's frightened gaze dropped and his eyes fell to the sheets.

His light lavender hair falling into his tear-stained face, as something moved under his shirt. The small movement directing both brothers to the bottom rim of the teen's shirt, just as a light lavender appendage slipped free from under the contents of the fabric. An appendage Kiru could only guess was a tail, as it swayed against the mattress a few times and lay limp on the sheets.

"I s-saw it." Reiji spoke so softly they almost couldn't hear him. "I'm c-cursed. I have to be. I d-don't want th-these v-visions."

"Visions?" Kiru repeated, as a small nod was all the teen gave him. "You mean like seeing the future kind of stuff?"

"I c-can't take it a-anymore. I c-can't watch a-anyone die a-again. M-make it go a-away. K-kill me. E-end it. Please."

"Reiji, we can't do that." Kiru spoke sternly, as he grabbed the teen firmly by the shoulders. "You might have these visions you call them, for a reason. Maybe you're supposed to save them."

"Y-you died." Were the only words to come out of the teen's mouth, before the room fell dead silent. "R-right in front of me. I c-couldn't move. I c-couldn't stop it. I was r-right there. I was living it, and you died."

The silence that came afterward could've cut a gold pipe right in half. The only sound that they could hear was the sound of the teen's sobbing, before he fell forward into Kiru's chest and held his shirt tightly in his grip. His tail suddenly wrapping around the male's waist, as Reiji sobbed into his chest and utterly lost it.

"Y-you can't die. N-neither of you can. N-not like that. Please, not like that."

"H-How'd I die?" Kiru hesitantly asked, as Reiji visibly stiffened and lifted his head up to look at him.

His light lavender eyes almost white, as all the light in them had faded and washed out all the color in his eyes. The sight almost frightening, if it wasn't for the fact that the teen in front of him was weak almost beyond repair and was crying his eyes out.

"D-demon." Reiji quickly spoke, before his eyes fell to the sheets and he sat up to give them space. "I-it tried to attack me, and you shielded me."

"A demon?" Kiru repeated, as Reiji nodded. "I'm sorry, Reiji, but demon's don't exist."

"I'm a demon." Reiji spoke quite softly, as both brothers' froze. "Well I'm a half-demon, but it doesn't really matter if I'm half or not. I'll never get rid of the visions."

By now the teen's tears had faded, as he wiped the streaks stained on his face off and his tail swayed into his lap. The older brother just now noticing the teen's slightly pointed ears and prominent canines. That is if they hadn't realized he was human because of the tail, his other features seemed to give it away.

"I just want all of it to end." Reiji spoke, as Kiru managed to get a hold of himself and look into the teen's hopeless gaze. "I don't want to see these things anymore, and the medication isn't helping. If I don't take one within five minutes after they wear off I get hit with a vision, and the side effects are getting worse."

"Wait a second and slow down." Kiru spoke, as he rubbed his forehead and squeezed his eyes shut for a moment. "Those pills stop the visions?"

"Yeah."

"Then why don't you take more than on-" The male started, before his brother hit him over the head. "Fuck! Kito, what was that for?"

"That's called overdosing, and it could kill him." Kito spoke, before Kiru fell silent. "Nonetheless, it seems that your powers I guess we can call them, are stronger than what your body can handle and the medication is only holding your powers back for an extended period of time. I can only guess, but if you kept taking the pills for an extended period of time, the moment you forget to take one, you could be stuck in visions for almost twenty-four hours or more."

"It'd be way longer." Reiji spoke, as he gently played with his tail. "The longest time I've been stuck in a vision is seven days, and I only survived that because I'm a half demon and my body can endure situations like that for a little longer."

"If that's the case, then you'd probably get stuck in one for months." Kito spoke, as Kiru stared at the two in shock.

"Then shouldn't be figure out how to stop the visions?" Kiru demanded, as Reiji let out a weak chuckle.

"What do you think I've been trying to do? When I sleep, I have visions, when I daydream I have visions, and if I don't do either I pass out and have visions. So it would be wonderful to get rid of them! They're taking over my damn life, and I can't even walk out of this room without worrying when I'll have one next!"

It was only then that the teen was shaking uncontrollably from head to toe. His fingers creating a death grip on the sheets below and his tail trembling, before he suddenly tackled Kiru with a tightly gripped hug and refused to let go.

"I just want it to end. I don't want to see these things anymore. I'll do anything. Just make it end. Please."

"Reiji…"

"Well, at least we know what's wrong now." Kito spoke, as he sat on the bed and gently messed up the teen's hair. An action that caused an uncharacteristic purr to leave the teen's throat, before he slapped a hand over his mouth and both brothers looked at him in confusion. "Does that normally happen?"

"No." Reiji muttered, as placed a hand on his head to test the theory and frowned. "That's never happened before."

In response, Kiru gently ruffled his hair and nothing happened. A frown marring the older's face as he rested his hand back around the teen's waist and looked at his younger brother. A hint the younger male took, as he gently rubbed his hand over the teen's hair and a purr once again left his throat. An action that surprised the lot of them, before Reiji quickly got up and rushed over to his bookshelf.

"Shiratori, is something wrong?"

"I don't know yet." The teen spoke, before he quickly threw some books over his shoulder and produced an old looking one.

"You going to curse us or something with that?" Kiru asked, before his little brother elbowed him.

"No, someone who knows a lot about half-demons gave me this the first time he told me what I was and I shoved it back on the shelf without thinking." Reiji explained, as he walked back over and sat down between the two brothers. "He said if I ever had questions I should look in the book first, before I ask him."

"And what exactly are we looking for?" Kiru asked, as the teen pulled open the old looking book and skimmed through the table of contents.

"Something I hope will help my visions." The teen spoke, before he started flipping through the pages and stopped on the chapter that read 'Mating and Mates'. "Let's see, mating, mating seasons, mates, how to find a mate!"

"Wait, what's a mate?"

"A mate is usually the perfect being that completes another being. They're essentially made for the other and were born for them." Kito spoke, as he looked at the older brother. "At least that's the general term. Maybe your species is a little different."

"It says there are a few ways to find a mate. I can sense them, but I'm not strong enough for that. I can tell by sight or smell, which are pretty much shot because of my condition. Or I can tell through touch." Reiji read and commented, before he looked at the two brothers. "So maybe when I purred-"

"It meant you found your mate." Kito repeated, as Reiji blushed a furious red and looked away from the younger brother.

"So, you're saying Kito is your mate?" Kiru asked as his tone dropped, and the teen played with the pages of the book until Kito took it for a moment to read. "He's human, and you're a half-demon. Shouldn't your mate be a demon or something?"

"This says a half-demon can have a mate with any of the three." The male spoke, as the other two looked at him. "Because you're a half-demon your mate can be a human, a half-demon, or a demon."

"So you are my mate then." Reiji spoke, as he nervously looked up at the male and his tail wrapped around his arm.

"I'd guess so." Kito spoke, as he closed the book and looked at the young teen. "I don't know what that entails, but I guess we'll find out."

All that was received was a small nod, before the younger brother beckoned him forward. The young teen hesitantly following the order, as he crawled forward and was pulled into the male's lap. A harsh blush immediately taking over his face, as he looked back at the teen and felt his cheeks heat up even more when he realized just how close they were. Their faces only inches apart and the distance between them tightening, before there was a slam.

Reiji the first one to react, as he jumped slightly and turned to see Kiru pisses off beyond belief and his fist through the wall. His knuckles bleeding and his eyes a dangerous green, as a shiver ran up the half-demon's spine and Kito pulled him closer to him to try and keep him relaxed.

"Kiru-"

"Don't Kiru me!" The male yelled, as his younger brother frowned at him and the teen flinched at the high tone of his voice. "I was the one working my ass off the try and make him better and it turns out you're the only one who can help him! Thanks for backing me up! Why the hell did I even bother? He's not even worth it, anyways!"

Before either of the two could respond, Kiru grabbed his bag and stormed out of the room. The front door to the dorm room slamming shut behind him, before an overwhelming pain developed in the teen's chest and tears well up in his eyes. His whole body aching with pain, before the tears came rolling down his face and a sob wracked his throat. The pain continuing to bubble up, before it burst at the seams and the teen was left in a crying mess in the younger brother's arms. His whole body shaking and his throat sore from the strain, as he curled up into the male's lap and cried himself to sleep.


Kiru: You never told us u had a tail! *grabs Akira's tail and pulls on it*

Akira: *yelps and decks Kiru* U asshole that hurts!

Scarlett: *sighs and rubs temples* Anyhow, here's ur next chapter. Please try to enjoy it

Kiru: *gets back up with huge bruise on face* Just let me stroke it

Akira: Hell no! *runs of*

Kiru: *gets up and goes after* Akira, come back here!

Scarlett: *shakes head and sighs* they're actions speak for themselves. Enjoy the chapter *shuts off camera*


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