Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - When Money Is Worth More Than Life Itself
Chapter 9
Dartz, Bane, Aerron and Tsujin made it to the sounds of fighting that was making Dartz' blood boil...both because he loved to fight (like Zaraki Kenpachi) and would bare a grudge against at least all of those involved by the end of today...
Dartz was quiet as he zipped through the forest, followed by Tsujin, Bane and Aerron as Aerron said to Bane "Oy, who's the grumpy old man who saved our asses?"
"Dartz...some former ally of Taeger's that is determined to be my bodyguard way more than he thinks I don't need him..." Bane said "he's a Pirate and very proud of it as well as very, very easily insulted so don't insult him"
"This guy isn't all that tough..." Tsujin said as he came up next to the scarred pirate and smiled as he pet the man on the head "Ain't that right, Pirate-kun?"
Within seconds of touching him however, Dartz had him pinned against a tree "Be careful you don't end up on my hit list, Librarian...and the bandana is strictly off limits"
Dartz stopped everyone as Bane came beside him and he asked "Show me to which skull I should crack like an egg first...I am not allowing you to let this happen another time, 'specially in my presence or let it go without a thorough punishment" Bane knew what he was talking about, though the others were a bit confused at first as Bane had tried to keep this a secret from most of the Ghouls in the city and his friends
"Look for the black flames...there he is" Bane pointed straight at Kami "let me help you..."
"That must be why yer treated like shit here...they know what he did, but you refuse to tell what you really know was goin' on, much less what you were forced to endure" Dartz complained "in the end, they still don't know nothin'...I want him all to myself and you three will stay here and out of my way"
"What?" Tsujin said "No, it's his fault my twin brother is dead...even if he didn't kill him!"
Dartz sighed shakily as he turned to stare down Tsujin "I said...stay out of it...or I'll kill you first, I don't care what happened...go to your mother, if sympathy's what ya seek...you don't wanna die that bad, do ya, little librarian when you're no match fer the guys yer seeking revenge against in the first place...or are ya?"
Tsujin was silenced, he wouldn't dare say anything to Dartz because he wasn't lying and felt that this man...monster was not anyone's ally as he stayed and glared at Kami then Dartz "just..." he bit his lip, drawing blood as his voice changed slightly "don't fail..."
"Never..." Dartz smirked in a crazed manner as he jumped off the tree and walked towards the Ghouls like a fight wasn't going on
Tsujin gave Bane a sharp glare for an explanation as to why he was with Dartz in the first place as Bane said "ok...this guy wants to be my bodyguard and as you can only assume, father is livid about it while mother doesn't seem to have a problem besides he seems too drawn to her for his own good, if you ask me"
"Baka...get rid of him at any cost" Tsujin snarled "I'll never pay your father back, if he kills him first"
"If I can get to touch his sacred bandana, he agrees that he'll leave" Bane says "he's way better than me as a fighter though and touching his bandana makes him...well, you'll find out soon enough"
With Kami, he easily overpowers Juūshin and is about to go for the kill when Dartz joins the fun...
Kami breaks out of another of Juūshin's traps when Dartz intervenes, but something was evidently different about his personality, he only saw Juūshin as a pest right now as he stopped in front of the two and glared at Juūshin "Unless yer name is Kami, I'd advise you to fuck off, sissy"
"Sissy?!" Juūshin snarls as he turns one of his puppets on Dartz "You must be mighty brave...or stupid to insult my art like that!"
Dartz was frozen solid by a spray of water from the puppet as Kami took a step closer "you're here for me...well, here I am!" Kami raised black flames to incinerate Dartz while vulnerable...or while he thought he was vulnerable
Bane was about to go to his aid when he noticed that Kami hesitates...and looked down to see a hand in his chest "What the-?"
Suddenly, the ice shattered as Dartz had a far more demonic aura than Kami in his anger "Warning to all members of the Kurosaki Clan...yer all 'bout to wish you remained under whatever rock ya crawled out from under, cuz now, I'm mad...real mad" Dartz shook as his eyes were white "a feeble attack like that does nothin' to me!"
He then went after Jiraiya and curb stomped his face in before slashing at Taji who quickly evades as best as he could as he tried to talk reason into him "Oy, what's this about killing all Kurosaki's?"
"Not all of us are evil..." Taji says but Dartz only growled and continued his assault as Taji notices Bane and calls out to him "stop him!"
Dartz looks at Bane but simply attacks them with a blade of air current created with just a swing of his axe but it is stopped by a wall of black flames as Kami uses Dark Magic to send Dartz flying, which knocks his bandana off to the ground.
Kami sees this and stomps on it as it seemed to make Dartz tremble and everything else with him as his bright emerald ponytail fell over his shoulder 'Gomibako... Watashi wa bein o korosu koto ga yurusa rete iru yuiitsu no hitodesu, anata wa koko ni kite watashi ni chōsen suru tame no seishindesu... Anata no hōshū, shi' (Trash...I'm the only one allowed to kill Bane, you're mental for coming here and challenging me...your reward, death)
Dartz scowled, he seemed rather unimpressed "It wouldn't be the first time I'd be knocking on Death's door just ta show him the middle finger...ask Taeger about that as he's the one you should thank"
"Time to die..." Dartz put his palm up as there were mini explosions going off on his palm as Jiraiya, thinking he was distracted sent a barrage of fire blasts at him from behind but Dartz dodged them and appeared behind him mid air, pile driving him into the earth head first at a crazy speed as he said with a confused look as he turned on Kami "Aw, I didn't say go yet...go"
"Is that the best you've got, Demon of the Ghoul Lords?" Dartz says as he hit Kami directly with a Lariat, but he recovered and attempted to distance himself from the crazed Pirate "c'mere, yer the one that raped Bane and made him think every other Ghoul and their grandfather are out to rape him again or kill him, eh...I have more than a few problems with that!"
Kami sneered and turned to see Bane and Tsujin "so what, you're mad that you never got to watch?" He laughed "or is it that you couldn't join in?!"
Dartz looked at his palm again "wow...I think you just broke me, mate and that's sad"
"Cry me a river..." Kami smirked as as the two clashed with Fire Magic and when that didn't work, with their fists as Dartz grabbed him over his mouth and shot him right in the face and it still didn't shut him up "and why are you looking for me anyway?"
"Last I remembered, so were you, Pirate" Kami said "how about you join me and take over this place?"
"Sure, why not..." Dartz said "bring me that traitorous, good-fer-nothin' scalliwag Taeger in chains and I'll happily join yer side...mate"
"Are you trying to make me look stupid too?" Kami snarled as Dartz smiled evilly as both of their powers peaked "there's a riot...I'm trying to make someone who had it all as a Ghoul Lord, before bein' manhandled and banished by a teenage kid look stupid, as if you didn't look stupid enough"
Back with Bane, he was as confused as Tsujin and Aerron why Dartz holds that item, his bandana, as such a treasure as he could sense that Dartz was no longer holding back since Kami stepped on and soiled his poor Bandana
"He's so powerful that he forced Kami to protect us..." Bane said as Aerron looked at Kami "this is my first time seeing this guy, although I got a contract about a year back to gain his trust so I could assassinate him that I hadn't done yet"
"Then get down there and do your job...I'll pay ya myself" Tsujin said as Aerron said in reply "woah, what are you so upset about and as far as I've seen with that other Kurosaki you were fighting, you're more than able to get your own revenge...I don't kill for revenge or fun, no matter who my target is"
"So you're a killer with 'values' now...weren't you the one begging Kakuzu to pay off your parole?" Bane asks, he was not crept out but he wasn't amused either "I want Kami dead more than anyone, but I'm not going to pay you to do it if you're not even willing to try"
"Oy, I'm done...come out" Dartz said as they came out and Bane met eyes with Kami as he said coldly "You..."
Kami growled at them "ah, Bane...what a sight for sore eyes you are" Both Ghouls narrowed their eyes on each other, seeing something that they hate about themselves in each other
Kami saw J'onn's up and coming student and Ghoul Lord-to be, his old self, in Bane as Bane saw himself alone as a killer in Kami.
"Why is your life always in my hands...?" Bane asks himself as with a snap of his finger, the fiercely loyal Dartz was ready to snap, having seen someone being used like this before "What do you mean his life is always in yer hands, Bane...somethin' seems rather fishy about this" Dartz demanded
"He's...obsessed with obtaining my body for his own" Bane said as Dartz readies his axe "I'll just kill him and end this where it began then..."
"No...as far as I've heard, he wasn't always like this" Bane said stopping Dartz' axe arm "he answers for his crimes first..."
"Naïve little..." Dartz sighed "then, I can kill him, right?"
"No, then we can kill him" Bane replied as Dartz smiled evilly "be grateful, you live to see another day...fer now"
Kami scowled at him "I'll make you eat those words...bet on it" but Dartz simply stood and stared at him as cold as Winter before leaving
Elsewhere with Kakuzu and Titus were still with Guren, watching the Kurosaki's being tortured...much to Titus' disdain...but they were to have company soon
Titus showed no emotion as he watched the Kurosaki's torture without missing a beat, leaning against his axe with boredom...this only made him more bored, if anything "Well, this bites...where's Zabuza and why are we even watching this?"
"Remember, their first targets were Bane and the Ghoul Lords...I wanna know why, don't you?" Kakuzu asks as Titus begrudgedly agrees "True, as far as we know but why now when two equally powerful Clan are keeping a once every six years summit here?"
"...and both happen to be Bane's grandfathers...I don't know, but I know the head of the Asakura Clan well and this won't go unpunished, even the might of the Kurosaki Clan won't escape unscathed" Kakuzu said "as for that Dartz guy, he wants to be Asakura's bodyguard and I can't be too sure what he's up to and the Orc...isn't a thief I'd recommend turning your back on if you value your life and wallet"
"That pirate needs to go...I don't like him" Titus growled "he's linked to the Taeger dog by the hip in some way or the other"
"He said that Taeger was responsible for his scarred right eye...they were former comrades, after all and even then, they didn't like each other much" Kakuzu said tracing over his own right eye as he'd seen Dartz do with his scarred right eye "I think it'll be interesting, to say the least, having him around"
"He's not killing my Bounty" Titus said "she's late...that's unlike her"
Just then, Hiro and Anais appeared with someone seeking to see Kakuzu, the informant that was sent to the Asakura Clan who had not long returned to the city...
"Sorry I'm late, Kakuzu-sama..." Anais said loudly as Guren's co-workers tried to get her to keep it down and Hiro trailed behind trying to keep the informant on his feet and Titus facepalmed "Speak of the de- angel..."
"Anais, what is it?" Kakuzu asks as Hiro said "Well, the Informant we sent to the Asakura Clan is back...he's just seen better days, the baka passed through the Binge Eater's side of the city, the rarely used entrance on that side, and was seen as easy pickings for some rogues"
"What?" Titus asks, now radiating boredom and Kakuzu growled "they're gonna be sorry this time..."
Anais took a step but before she could, a pair of senbon needles struck where she would step "Keep it down, unless you want to die a painful death"
"Yo, Guren-san...sorry for the surprise" Hiro said to a man he would consider a friend as long as he stayed on his good side as Guren nodded "Hiro...Kakuzu, I think we're ready now and be careful with my senbon needles, sweetheart...they're coated with a special and very powerful coagulant that slows blood loss, like all my other instruments"
Kakuzu was here to question these men on many things, while Titus was only there to help with interrogation as well as being allowed to hurt them more, should Kakuzu not like his answers or if they were stupid enough not to give an answer at all.
Guren doubted, given where they are and his reputation and unsurpassed skill in stopping a Ghoul's healing factor to the point where they seemed almost human and the conditional seals he personally placed around the large room they were in, where he kept his countless 'toys', that they won't squeal as Kakuzu brought up a table with several pictures he'd given Guren a while after Kami's banishment
"I am Kakuzu and this is a co-worker of mine, Titus...we're the only ones you need to worry about here" Kakuzu gestured to Titus to introduce himself "warning, he's unstable right now and I won't stop him from biting"
Titus stepped away and grabbed his Axe with one hand and gave an evil, totally untrustworthy grin as he covered his eyes with the other hand and threw the axe, sticking it inches one one of the captive's head as both were now visibly shaking as he said "Make this fast before I let my boredom get the better of me..."
"Never. Do that. Again or I'll have you thrown out" Guren warned as he kicked the axe out of his way to see that one of the restraints were cut as he grabbed the freed hand and put a dagger through it as Titus slowly pushed the blade through the hand until it stopped as the man wreathed in pain and rolled his eyes at Guren "my boredom better be gone soon, for your sakes"
Kakuzu pointed at the first picture, a picture of Bane "Why are you after him and don't give any banished Ghoul Lord bull crap, cuz that has nothing to do with any clan, also what connection do you have with him?" he then pointed at Alphonse Taeger's picture next as the two Ghouls look at Taeger with surprise then each other as the one that wasn't stabbed by Titus answered "We don't really want the boy...but the man you fought is obsessed with using him to draw out the First Ghoul...I've never met the other man... please, that is all I know"
Guren hated excuses and his absolute least favorite was the 'please, that is all I know' excuse in hopes that this would be over quickly and he didn't need to know the facts to know if they were lying to him or not as he began wiggling the blade in the man's hand "please, that's all you know, my ass...stop wasting our time, since yours is so very limited!"
"Kurosaki...Itachi, he persuaded his uncle...our unworthy leader...that the boy was going to be met by the First Ghoul at some point and we were to capture them to steal the First Ghoul's power to revive our dead brothers" the Ghoul screamed as all the Ghouls wore looks of concern as Titus gasped a bit "the First Ghoul...as in the First Ghoul who's power is nearly equal to The One itself?"
Kakuzu and Guren both looked at Titus for an explanation as he said "I'm no expert, but I know someone from outside of the city that is an expert on all things too supernatural for a regular Ghoul...I kicked his ass a couple times for callin' me regular too, he tends to act like he's better than you when he knows he isn't"
"Can you get in contact with him and give us a name?" Guren asks as Titus replies sharply "I can get onto him long before the Annual summit and no, I won't tell ya his name just yet"
"As long as you can get him here, I don't need a name" Guren says "he better not be as useless as you are though"
"Why, you...-" Titus pointed his axe at Guren as he asked "You got a problem with me or do ya want one?"
"Back down, mutt or I'll have you put down and get your weed whacker out of my face" Guren warned with his arms folded as he wasn't fazed as Kakuzu pushed the bigger man away "Back down, now!"
Titus did as he was told as his eyes met the torturer's "This ain't over..." he warned as Guren said "Yes, it is...I have more important work to do than pick a fight with you, baka"
Titus huffed, but he'd find something to end his boredom as he had more important things to do which started with finding his partner
Titus finds where Bane is fairly easily but wasn't counting on Dartz being with him...not that he planned on letting the Pirate follow Bane, who was following him anywhere...
Titus managed to find Bane, but he wasn't expecting him to still be in the company of that pirate, Dartz as everyone but Bane and the ex-Pirate seemed to look like they were fighting despite Dartz being sweaty and has a sort of miasma to him as his ponytail, usually wrapped up under an ugly bandana, was flowing behind him in a natural green.
They wasn't aware of Titus' presence either, as poorly hidden as it was even though he wasn't showing his full power or concealing very much of it, as he came down on him axe first planning to split him in two.
Little did he know that, while he wasn't the focus of Dartz' attention, he was still fully aware that he was there as one of his twin axes stopped Titus' with one hand while Titus used two more to control his bigger weapon
"Bane...control him while I'm still at least partially calm" Dartz grit his teeth as he glared at the glaring Titus "don't think that ya can fight with the big boys just cuz of ya got a bigger pickaxe, mate"
"Smart mouth ya got there, dumbass but your hatchets are smaller than my pickaxe, last time I checked" Titus smirked as he grabbed Bane's arm but Dartz grabbed his leg "Lemme at yer boss, he needs a better partner...as yer too crazy and untrustworthy"
"Don't fight with me in the middle!" Bane suddenly yelled at the two who glare at him "play nice, Dartz"
"Fer now, matey...fer now" Dartz whined "no promises when yer back's turned though"
Bane only sighed as he turned to Titus who said "We've got a little business errand to run outside the city before the summit...see ya, folks and pirate"
Titus and Bane left as Dartz simply stared at Tsujin "oh, look...a pirate joke and just what the hell does he mean by that when I'm goin' with 'em?" Before going after them
Bane and Dartz made it to the entrance of the city on the Binge Eater side of the city to find it blocked...the Bingies don't seem too flattered that J'onn is still Ghoul Lord after the things that not only Kami said he did, but what some already knew of him and even Titus is bothered that this may cause them to go even more rampant...
'Korehanandesuka?' (What's this?) Titus was shocked to see the entrance of the city broken down and blocked as Bane began to worry 'Watashitachi ga koko ni kuru koto o shitte, darekaga kore o koi ni yatta to omoimasu ka?' (Do you think someone did this deliberately, knowing that we'd be coming here?)
"Gangway, mates!" Dartz said behind them as Titus remarked "that doesn't even make sense, bakayaro!"
"That's pirate for 'Get outta my damn way', ya pissant!" Dartz destroyed anything that got between Bane and Titus' mission, as much as he was starting to dislike Titus' attitude toward him, as he destroyed the debris blocking them by incinerating it and blowing it away at the same time using both the elements he knew in perfect sync
"Lead the way, make shift Bounty Hunter" Dartz said for the two to go ahead of him as Titus walked "I don't want you behind me..."
"Good...I'd hate to be there if ya farted" Dartz said as he walked ahead of them with his hands in his pockets and his bandana tied around his right arm instead of on his head "I need to get this thing washed..."
"Sharp-toothed little..." Titus muttered as he clouts Bane who gave a stifled chuckle "that isn't funny, twit"
It didn't take long before they made it to a house in the middle of the forest, far enough not to be bothered by trespassers from the city but close enough to never totally be alone...very few knew he lived out here to begin with, the few that did understood why he preferred being outside of the Ghoul Lords' watchful eye including Titus and Yang, both of which had a disagreement with the Ghoul Lords recently.
"This the place yer lookin' fer?" Dartz asks pointing at the house as Titus began pounding on the door 'Oi, kuroi inu, koko ni dete... Watashi wa kono doa o kowasanaide kudasai' (Oy, Black Dog, get out here...don't make me break this door down)
"Black Dog?" Bane repeated as he and Dartz look at each other and the man inside replied more aggressively "Who sent you here this time, a-hole?"
"I'm not answerin' that, open up!" Titus punched the door but was almost thrown back by the unexpectedly powerful barrier magic as 'Black Dog' replied "You think I wasn't prepared, old friend...you're not getting in here that easily like the last time...brought friends, I see"
"How did he know we were here?" Bane whispered to Titus as Black Dog replied "I ain't deaf, y'know...Is that Yang with you, I owe him an ass whoopin' for the last time we met!"
"Kuro Inuzuka, I said open the friggin' door already" Titus rarely used Black Dog's real name as a sigh was heard "yare yare, hold on a sec..."
The opened to a giant man, more than a bit taller than Titus and currently the tallest Ghoul Bane had ever seen, he wore a pair of grey sweatpants with currently no shoes on, showing his clawed toes and a matching jacket that was reversible and black on the other side under which he wore a netted vest as he brought his clawed hand to his face removing his Dog mask to show white hair, entrancing silver eyes and sideburns as well as a fang sticking out of his mouth that was curled into a frown, his ears were also slightly spiked
"You have a reason for being here, Titus-san?" He smiled as he touched Titus' chin with a clawed finger and a smirk as Titus slapped the hand away "Cut it out, I need your clan's tracking capabilities and you to check something out..."
"For Kakuzu...I presume?" Inuzuka asks as they noticed a white furred dog of a weird size, big enough for the four of them to ride it, behind him "sure, I think I can get some dogs to find whoever yer lookin' for as long as I'm paid properly this time...I swore I heard Hiachi Yang out here..."
"You know my father?" Bane asks as Inuzuka growled "Father...Yang got a kid and didn't even bring him to see me?"
"This is my partner, Asakura Bane and his nuisance bodyguard, what's-his-face...he's Yang's son" Titus introduced the two as Dartz glared at him "the name's Dartz, scumbag...don't forget it"
"We need you to find a fella named Itachi Kurosaki" Titus said "this should be easy pickin' for you alone or your clan...trackin' what's very likely a SSS-Rank criminal"
"Flattery gets you nowhere, Titus" Kuro says as he thinks it over and smirks "I'll help you..."
The dog came up to Bane and allows him to pet it's head and Kuro noticed but it was grumpy and stepped on his foot as Kuro gently pulled his partner back "Akamaru, why'd you do that...apologize" the dog understood and raised his paw to Bane as Kuro looked at Bane "I'd advise you to put your hand under his paw...he doesn't bite and is trying to apologize, if anything he's just bored"
"He's a dog...and he's bored?" Bane asks "How does he even understand you?"
"The Inuzuka Clan are able to understand our dogs and they can understand us because you get your dog as a child when it's still a pup...that's why you'd never see an Inuzuka without his partner and he can talk but he's not talkative...he's a Husky"
Bane held the dog's as the dog began shaking his hand "We'll be heading back to the city soon anyway...need a ride?"
Bane and Titus said "yes" as Dartz pointed at the dog skeptically "yeah...no disrespect an' all but I ain't gettin' on that thing"
"You'll get out of here in half the time if you do..." Kuro said brushing his spiked white hair up with his hand "suit yourself, cosplayer pirate"
Dartz turned red as he was the first on the dog after Kuro as he put his axe to his throat "You must think yer funny, eh...call me that again and I'll cut ya a new smile there, mate" he whispered his threat as Bane, then Titus all got on the dog
"Um, how do ya drive this thing?!" Dartz asked as Kuro simply pet Akamaru on the neck and he shot off on the forest floor or trees as Dartz yelled "Where're the seat belts on this thing?!"
They made it back to the city faster than they left as Kuro needed something that belonged to Itachi Kurosaki to track his scent...his sense of smell and taste were better than other Ghouls and he was a Binge Eater but preferred to show it more than say it...
"Home bitter-sweet home..." Kuro said "have something with a scent by the next time we meet...I'll have more men and dogs by then"
"I think I have a plan on how we can get that..." Titus smirked in a way that made Dartz want to slap him as he asks with a bit too much sarcasm "and what's that, mate...I have bad memory"
Titus simply placed his hand on Bane's head and grinned like he was from Gaki's Hoshigaki Clan as he seemed to refuse to answer the very valid question Dartz asked as the Pirate grabbed his wrist touching Bane and exerted enough strength just to get his point across "you like touchin' things that ain't yours, don't ya?"
"...and your saying Bane's yours?" Titus said still grinning as Dartz clarifies "no, ya squinty-eyed imbecile, he belongs to no one...anyone willing to say otherwise answers to me"
"Enough already" Bane sighs "this guy is Kami's older brother...his bipolar older brother that even Kami is cautious of...I'll make him suffer for the last time we met"
"Let's go then...I wanna get this over with, so any ideas on how we do that?" Dartz asks as Titus grinned "he's after you, if he's in leagues with the other Kurosaki's after you...that's why yer the bait...they want you, but I'm assuming that they'd prefer you alive and healthy enough to do what they want ya to"
"Nobody trust you, do they?" Dartz asks to no one in particular "...cuz I sure don't and I got high doubts I ever will" Titus ignores Dartz' comment, much to the Pirate's chagrin
Elsewhere, Taeger and Baccus are still going at it, but Taeger is thinking of many ways to escape his old comrade as he had bigger fish to fry with Bane...Azazel is also watching and finds Taeger to be rather bothersome...but has a feeling that he'd fare no better against him than he did with Kami
Azazel watches as Taeger and Baccus fought each other nearly evenly, but he could tell that both were holding back a tremendous amount and seeing as Baccus, Taeger, Yang and Kami are all former slaves of the Demon Lords' experimentations that survived the genocide that should've killed them, he couldn't kill them even if he wants to...of course he hadn't known this straight away when he first met Kami but his defeat to Kami only proves that he had a latent power that they aren't even aware of.
"This is troublesome...they all bare an invisible mark with the genes of the original and very first successful Ghoul" Azazel pondered as he watched the two fight "I can't kill them, although they aren't more powerful than me...even the First Ghoul wasn't, but maybe someone else could...but who?"
"Hn?" It was bad news when a Demon Lord felt like he was being watched as Azazel turned around and made sure no one was behind him despite his gut saying otherwise "the Ghoul virus, originally airborne at the time rewrote the genes of every human on this planet at that time, but some went insane and later died, while most of them simply became the threshold directly between Humans, us Demons and the former Demon King whose power was salvaged to be used against him...The One...he won't stay down forever and Demonite is only a by-product of us trying to destroy our creation who overcame the One's control through the very strand of his power forever bound to him"
Azazel's usually calm expression turned extremely sadistic, a side of him no one wanted to get on the wrong side of, much less be near and that went even for his fellow Demon Lord colleagues despite him not being the most aggressive...when he did become aggressive though, well...beware "They are Death's Acolytes, after all"
A/N - Azazel is pissed and really pissed at that, but what does he plan to do now and Titus needs to track down Kami's older brother and get something the Inuzuka Clan can use to keep track of him later on...but can they do it with a royally ticked Azazel out to get even with Kami and anyone in his way? R&R!
