Okay. I know I told people that I might write a JR chapter and even told some that I would start writing about the Egotist couple. Well, apparently I lied. It's not that I meant to. I had the idea in my head, already to write it, and then it just died after I wrote the first ten lines. I was alike "Argh! Idea! Why did you leave me?" And since then I hadn't been able to write anything. Much to my dismay. But then one night, I was like I have this wonderful idea about Tetsu and Rei. i wonder if people would be interested in reading it. If read this AN and you don't want to read it, you can just ignore it. It's short and doesn't justify that I left you all hanging for over 2 months. This written on my ipod and so it's going to be kinda funky? But nonetheless I hope you enjoy this filler.

key:

This is the present

This is the flashback


Tetsu's and Rei's backstory

"Tetsu! Tetsu! Where are you? Tetsu!"

Rei ran around screaming in the forest looking for his dear little brother.

He, Tetsu and their parents went camping in the woods as a fun family trip. Tetsu was so excited about it that he brought his favorite stuffed animal that he, Rei, had bought for him on his fifth birthday. He remembered smiling about that.

"You better keep that with you at all times now, Tetsu."

His little brother was smiling at him and nodded so cheerfully.

"I will, Onii-chan."

Rei's flashlight caught sight of something on the ground. Rei went over to pick it up. It was a stuffed wolf. The very same stuffed animal that belonged to Tetsu.

"This is Tetsu's. There's a large gaping hole on it. Does this mean he was attacked?"

Rei look at the trees and noticed a lot of claw marks in one particular direction.

"Whatever made those claw marks must have been the one after Tetsu. There is no way I'll let it have him. He's my little brother! Tetsu! Tetsu!"

Rei cried out as he ran in the direction of the claw marks.

Tetsu had been acting strange during the whole trip. His parents were busy setting up camp so they didn't notice. But he did.

"What's the matter, Tetsu?"

Tetsu would not take his eyes off a certain part of the forest.

"I feel as if there is something calling to me. Something that feels strangely familiar. But I don't know what it is. What is it, Rei onii-chan?"

Rei was confused. He followed his little brother's gaze. He didn't see anything nor did he feel anything of that nature.

"I don't understand what you are feeling. But no matter what happens you can alway come to your big brother if you're in trouble, alright?. "

His little brother finally took his gaze away from the forest and looked at his brother and smiled.

"Thanks, Rei Onii-chan. ...But you better not tell mom and dad. They'll just worry for nothing."

"And they'll cancel the trip, too." Rei added.

"I don't want that! I wanna have fun here with mom and dad especially after all they did to get time off for us to go on this trip in the first place."

"Don't forget about me now."

"Of course to have fun with you, too, big brother."

And after laughing together, they took their minds off of it and began to have fun with their parents. Or so it seemed.

Rei kept running and running until he heard a woman's scream followed a male one.

"Oh. No! That sounds like Mom and Dad. And it just ahead. Hold on. I'm coming!"

"Why is there a draft in here?"

Rei turned on his flashlight and found the zipper entrance to the tent was open.

" What the-"

He turned his flashlight to the sleeping bag next to him and it was empty.

'Tetsu...!'

Rei stumbled out of the tent and called out to his parents.

"Mom! Dad! Tetsu's missing!"

"What?"

His parents came out with shocked looks on their faces.

"How did that happen, Rei?"

"I don't know. We were both asleep when I last saw him. I noticed that it was windy in the tent and saw that the flap was open. That's when I found out that Tetsu was missing. I think he might have gotten lost in the forest."

"Oh my gosh! My baby is lost in the forest."

"Nagisa, dear. You have to calm down. Panicking will not help him. We have to call the forest rangers about this. They'll help us."

So Rei's father called the rangers and told then their positions using a handheld GPS but the rangers told him that it would take them a while. They should make a camp fire and wait for them to come. After 20 minutes, Rei's parents couldn't take it anymore.

"Rei, stay here and wait for the rangers to come. We'll go ahead and look for your brother."

And with that, his parent left the safety of the camp and wondered in the forest carrying only a cell phone with very limited range, the handheld GPS, and two flashlights. Rei waited at the camp like his father told him to. But after 25 more minutes, Rei couldn't stand it either. He took a stick and, from the fire, drew a giant arrow towards the direction where he parents went and where he will head to next. He wrote a note next to the arrow, saying that his parents and he had already gone into the forest, searching for his brother. And with that he left, the camp as well.

"Mom! Dad! Tetsu!"

Rei called out as he was running. The he tripped over something. He struggled to stand up and found that it was his dad's gps.

"No...No! Please... Everyone please be safe."

He placed the gps on his pocket and ran towards the screams of pain again. When he found Tetsu, he saw something else. A large beast was standing over the bodies of his parents. He turned off his flashlight so that the beast wouldn't see him and he quickly ran to the side of his brother as to protect him from the beast. The dark clouds that had been flying over in the sky passed over their position. The moonlight then gave out his and his brother's positions. Now that there was light, Rei took a better look at his parents' bodies. They were torn and mangled. The faces were cut but not beyond recognition. The beast was eating their guts. Seeing the beast a bit better, it looked like an enormous wolf. Tetsu was scared stiff from seeing his parent's attacked before their very eyes and then eaten. Rei was trying to get his brother to leave, putting his brother's survival as his top priority.

"Tetsu. Move...!"

But the moment Rei said Tetsu's name, the giant wolf stopped eating and looked in their direction.

"Shit."

The wolf started charging at them. Rei placed himself in front of Tetsu.

"Run, Tetsu! Get out of here!"

Rei closed his eyes and awaited his death. But it didn't come. He felt a whoosh of air come behind him and past him. He opened his eyes to see two large wolves fighting. The grey wolf that attacked his parent was now being attacked by a large white one.

"Tetsu!"

Rei looked behind him and noticed that Tetsu was gone. He look down the path and didn't see him running down it either.

'Did he leave already? There's no way he could run that fast. I didn't even hear the sound of running behind me.'

The Rei remembered the feeling of a strong wind busting past him. Rei looked back at the wolves fighting.

" No. It can't be..."

The large grey wolf whined and ran away. The large white wolf then looked at him and Rei looked at him back. The White wolf growled at him but Rei opened his arms and said,

"Don't you remember what I said? No matter what happens, you can always come to your big brother."

The wolf starts charging at him, the same way the grey wolf did. But Rei didn't falter. He knew that his dear little brother would never hurt him. He noticed that the white wolf stopped in front his him and nozzles him. Rei rubbed Tetsu's nose and the wolf calmed down. His brother then transformed back into a human. It wasn't like one of those video game thing where the person just sparkle and transform. No, it looked as it was painful. Rei didn't know how Tetsu was able to transform so quickly before. When his brother finished turning back into a human, he laid his brother's head in his lap. His brother slept soundly as Rei heard footsteps behind him. It was the rangers that his father called in but there were other people with them.

'Wouldn't a ranger call out for the missing people? Why were they so silent?'

Rei then noticed the shotgun in the rangers' hands while the mysterious people were holding strange blades and katanas. They looked at the bodies of Tetsu's parent and didn't even wince about.

'They must have seen mutilated bodies multiple times if they don't even wince at it.'

Then the leader of the mysterious group of men went up to Rei and asked which direction the wolf went. Rei pointed in the direction in which the rapid wolf ran. The leader instructed his men to after the "monster" while he stayed behind with Rei and his brother. The older man looked at his brother and when Rei noticed that, he held onto his little brother tighter. There was no way he was going to let some stranger take away his brother. The man backed off and smiled. He pulled off his hat and his storm-colored eyes shone in the moonlight.

"Don't worry. I won't take away your brother from you. I just wanted to take a better look at him."

Rei glared at the man.

"My brother is not one of those monsters."

Rei lied to the older man. The man just nodded.

"I see then. Well, we'll just have these rangers to take you back home now."

"But what about my parents?"

The stormed color-eyed man looked at the scraps of meat and broken bones that used to be Tetsu's and Rei's parents.

"That will be buried in a closed casket funeral. And you two will be placed in the care of an orphanage or your relatives. Or if you let me take a better look at your brother, I'll will provide you an apartment of your own and I'll give you enough living expense for both you and your brother. Your choice."

'As if I have much of a choice in the matter. If we were to live in the orphanage, there's a great chance that both of us will be separated.'

"Will you harm my brother?"

"No. I just want to make sure."

"If you include the school tuitions of our choice for the both of us and you promise not to monitor us, then you have a deal."

"Clever now aren't we? Do you think that you can bargain with us?"

Rei kept up his poker face. He wasn't going to back down. The man looked into the fire of the young man's eyes and smiled.

"You have passion. I like it. Since you added conditions, I will add more of my own. Your brother may have the school of his choice but not you. You will go to the school of our choice and you will go into the profession of our choice."

"I hope you don't mean kill things."

"Not at all. You'd probably better at being a doctor of sorts seeing as you have wonderful results in your grades at the present."

Rei smiled.

"It just so happens that I want to be a surgeon."

"And so I guess that's that."

Rei lowered his arms, which allowed the man to inspect his brother. Rei wasn't being a cold-hearted person for letting his brother being searched by a dangerous stranger. Now that his parents were dead there was no one else to take care of him and his brother besides himself. He was thinking about his brother's future. He practically sold his life in exchange for his brother's freedom. He was not going to tell his brother this except when he was completely ready to. The man took a flashlight and gently pulled apart the eyelids to check the eyes. Normal. He checked the boy's teeth. Normal. Then he check the boy's wrist and hands. Normal. Now one last check before he could say for sure the results. He took the boy's hand and smelt it. It was a weird procedure but it was also a crucial one at that. There. There it was. He let go of the boy's hand and stood up. He looked to where his men had ran off to. They were taking a long time. And then there was a human scream. A male one. And also there was the sound of some wolf howling in pain. There was a lot of whining noises and then there were more gunshots and then nothing. Not a sound. Then there were the sound of footsteps coming back from that location. It seemed that the men have down their job. One of the men came back to report.

"Sir, we have apprehended the creature."

"Good work, Kasuki-san"

"What was the result, sir?"

"He is one of them. But we will not kill this one. We have already made the deal. Get the rest of the men to retrieve the remains of these children's parents. It will be needed for the funeral."

"Yes, sir."

The man with storm colored eyes then looked at Rei.

"I'll be looking forward to working with you, Rei-chan."

Rei was kind of shocked that the man knew his name but then again, this guy knew a lot of things about his brother that he didn't know himself. And he didn't like that fact. The man walked away and then gestured for Rei to follow him. Rei carried his brother in his arms like a princess and followed the man. Rei followed him until he reached the man's car. When Rei couldn't stand the silence anymore, he asked the man a question.

"Since you know who I am, may I ask my "benefactor" what his name is?"

The man turned and smiled and said,

"It's Usami."


And there you go another cliffhanger.

Another fun fact for you: I'm moving into my dorm tomorrow. College here we come!