Hallo my lovely children! So I do plan to stop being such a punk bitch and actually write. I'm super motivated its just I don't want to post everything in a week. If I go on hiatus for another year someone just shoot me plz. That being said, in this chapter you get lots of the Akita family background and groundwork for Rin's family surprise from the dark woods circus. Special thanks to my friend Cerlin for actually enjoying the story, she's an amazing writer and if I can find her info ill certainly put in an authors note. I love you guys, please fave/follow and review ~Ruichi

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Chapter Four

Monstrous

"Leon they're wonderful" Lola couldn't help the tears welling from her eyes as she gazed at her twin babies.

"They look so much like you, but they take after my light colored eyes and hair" Leon beamed.

"What should we name them? I've always liked the name lily…"

Leon scoffed and immediately rejected her suggestion.

Lola sighed knowing that she wasn't going to win, not against her husband, and if there's was to be a fight shed really rather not have it be about the names of their newborns. Sighing she asked him what he'd prefer, seeing as it was better not to get hit with babies in your arms.

"I like the name Nero or maybe Neru"

"Well, we could always use both. I like those names a lot" Lola was surprised that it wasn't just Leon jr. and some weird girl name, he actually picked something suitable.

The children grew and grew but as children do they got into trouble often, and that led to Lola being smacked around often for not teaching them better. Lola was used to it; he didn't touch the kids so she could deal with a little aggression.

Except that it was little… at all. It was almost daily and people were concerned. Most didn't bring it up especially not when there was a chance of Leon hearing.

But Lola's childhood friend Luka and her husband Yuma had enough.

"Lola this is awful, it's been happening since the kids were two, they're six now, they can learn that behavior from him or maybe worse he might start to hit them" Luka pleaded, concern etched into her body.

"Luka's right, Lola. You have to leave him or something" Yuma stood by his wife's side, he cared about Lola too they'd known each other since high school when him and Luka started dating.

"You guys don't get it, I can't leave him. They're our kids and he's my husband. It's not like this hasn't happened in the past, I can take a punch; my parents were raging alcoholics ya'know."

Lola wouldn't budge.

"If you won't save yourself then we… we'll… WE'LL CALL THE POLICE" Luka shrieked.

Little did they know Leon was in the room right next door listening to the whole thing. Sure he had been angry before but this was a different type of anger. This type of anger was… murderous.

When Luka and Yuma went to leave, after their failed attempts to sway Lola, Leon followed them.

No one ever heard from them again.

By the time the twins were eight they're personalities has split. Neru was like a replica of her father and Nero was like a gentle guardian similar to Lola.

"Moooooom Neru keeps hitting me" Nero came running it with a bloody nose and tears streaming down his young chubby little face.

"NERU WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"

"I wanted to play rocket ship but Nero said its stupid so I hit him, he's just being a bitch about it"

"NERU! WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT LANGUAGE" Lola was fuming.

"Daddy, that's what he says you are when he hits you"

Lola had never in her life felt her stomach drop so fast. She smacked Neru across the face, "you need to stop spending so much time around your father. He isn't a role model"

When the twins were fourteen Rin came to stay with them.

She was locked in the storm shelter for a month before Leon decided she was trained enough to come into the house.

Leon told his kids that whenever they needed to take their anger out, she was the punching bag. Neru was delighted. Nero felt like he was going to be sick.

After the second month of her becoming their property Nero decided to become her friend in the horrendous predicament she was forced into. He was going to offer her some emotional support to help her get through this. One day shed be free, he just knew it.

Rin was a shy sweet little girl with a bell like laugh and a passionate singing voice. Though Nero only heard her sing a few times it was so beautiful that it was certainly worth the risk of them being caught.

She was like the sister he always wished Neru would've been.

They talked whenever possible and Nero was the only thing keeping Rin from the brink of breaking. Nero always secretly brought food for Rin and made her laugh. Sometimes he let her out of her cage and outside in the yard, he always told his father some excuse making it seem like he was punishing her. Rin loved Nero, he'd become her family.

But nothing good can ever last forever right?

They shouldn't have talked that day, Rin shouldn't have been out of her cage that day, Neru shouldn't have told on them, Leon shouldn't have come home early, Lola should've done something.

But everything lined up this way.

Leon came home early from work after Neru told him that Nero was being nice to little bitch. He didn't want to believe it but he had to know so he came home secretly only to find Nero and little bitch talking and laughing.

Leon ran up and threw Rin to the floor stomping on her ribs in the process.

Nero got in front of his father to try and stop him from hurting Rin any more than he already did. "DAD THIS ISNT HER FAULT, I WANTED TO BE HER FRIEND. YOU'RE FUCKING INSANE"

Leon snatched his knife out of his pocket and slashed open Nero's throat just as Lola and Neru walked in.

Nero collapsed coughing and sputtering gripping at his neck to stop the bleeding. There was no way that was ever going to work but when you're going to die even the impossible seems logical.

Lola ran to her son. She was officially heart broken. She clung to him and cried into his chest begging him to pull through and not die. He can't die. No no not Nero. Nero can't die of everyone in the world not Nero.

Rin was being pounded into oblivion. Leon took the same blade he just used to carve 'it's your fault' into Rins inner thigh. She wasn't screaming from the physical pain in fact she was numb to that, she was screaming from the emotional pain of watching her only friend and savior die right in front of her eyes. It was all her fault.

If she'd never talked to him back, made him hate her, or something then none of this would've happened.

Neru couldn't even move. This isn't what shed expected. Never ever had she wanted this. Dad… how could you do YOUR OWN CHILD! THAT'S MY BROTHER! HOW! HOW!

'h-hey mom?" Nero was practically mouthing the words he was desperately trying to choke out.

The life in his goldenrod eyes dulling and his skin paling, they all knew he wasn't going to survive this. Still, Lola kept chanting to hold on and that everything was going to be alright. A mother can't cry enough when she knows her source of meaning and joy was going to slip from her while she clutched onto his fading body.

Nero gave his best smile and stroked away his mother's tears.

He hurt so badly. He was sticky and weak. He was more sad than anything because he was leaving two people that needed him most.

"Tell Rin it'll b-b-be fine in the end and t-to just hang on a b-bit longer. Als-s-so please remember that I l-love you and I alwa…"

His body stopped shaking, his breath was a memory, and his eyes held no indication that there was once a happy sweet boy beaming from them.

Lola clutched him until Leon threw her off, "ugh just let it go. He was the worthless child we still have Neru, so stop fucking crying. Go upstairs and take a bath ill deal with this mess"

Lola wouldn't listen, obviously, I mean who could focus on anything besides their own child lying on the ground unresponsive.

"Lola, I SAID GO!"

Leon kicked her in the stomach and she snapped back into consciousness. She hobbled upstairs and passed out on their bed. She didn't care if there was blood everywhere. She didn't care about anything.

Leon of course made Rin do the entire cleanup. With every whimper of pain she let out he whipped her tree times. The poor girl could barely move but she knew that if she didn't do what he said there was a far worse torture than just whipping.

A small girl only 115 pounds was in charge of carrying a 174 pound boy all the way to Leon's truck, it was a troubling expedition.

Leon drove off leaving what he'd done with the boy a mystery

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A little over a year later and Lola was suffering from a cancerous tumor that was to soon claim her life.

Without Leon's knowledge she had written and stashed away a letter claiming his lethal crimes against Nero and Rin.

She was ready to die. Ready to finally get away.

Leon strode into the room; he had only looked this serious a few times in his life. Something was wrong and it wasn't that Lola was dying.

"Darling, can you tell me why the police came to our house earlier about searching the premises for signs of abuse and illegal activity?" Leon was fuming

"I-I don't know I didn't call them are you kidding we've been together for years Leon please just-"

Lola was cut off when he hurled the stool by the hospital bed directly at her. Lola's head whipped back and blood pooled out of a gash under her eye.

Leon was almost silent. It was petrifying.

Crashing his hand over Lola's mouth and nose to keep her silent, Leon swiftly grabbed her head and lashed her neck against the headboard so fast her neck broke effectively killing her.

"I'm sorry babe I'm only helping" Leon whispered before planting a kiss atop his motionless wife's forehead. He then strung her up on the ceiling using electrical cords tied around her neck

Everyone thought she had enough of this cancer and took it into her own hands

Everyone thought it was suicide.

Everyone didn't know the doctors were threatened and paid to make Lola think she had cancer when she didn't

Everyone didn't know the doctors were forced to keep silent

Nobody really thought about Leon.

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Tbh I hate this chapter and I think it was just really boring and slow and ugh. Still I have to post it and give some insight into the past. Luka and Yuma are actually my two favorite vocaloids so obviously they had to play a role in this. Next chapter will be about Len and Rin and I'm going to try to advance the plot in a not so excruciatingly slow pace like I feel like I have been. Also Rin's going to have her voice back when they finally go to the circus, who knows what kind of wonder they'll find there… or maybe horror. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter more than I do because I think its absolute garbage and the fact that it's just barley under 2000 words irritates me. I love you all and I really really love when people follow and favorite my story. ~Ruichi