Juggalomalice: Hey guess what? A friend of mine has offered to be my beta reader. Cool huh? Anyone hopefully there will be reposting of most of my stories, with better grammar and spelling, within the next few weeks. School work seems to be winding down a bit so I might be able to write more. Isn't that good?

(A dull looking young girl with short pink hair and boring expression steps out from behind him and starts to spin in circles)

Guu: Yay. Yay. Yay. Yay

JM: Guu be quiet.

Guu: Yay yay yay.

JM: Guu just shut up and file the papers I gave you and don't eat anything. Last time I call up that temp agency.

Guu: ok

JM: Anyway, on to the reviews:

Trance Syaoran Raziel: Count? Is that you? Anyway, yeah that's Kanna. The first of many crossover characters and I'm a huge Kanna fan on top of that all. Anyway, Kanna's background syncs up almost perfectly with Khalid's past so she ends up playing a huge role in Khalid's existence. (I'm almost envious of the relationship Khalid has with her)

Delirium24: Yeah very much alive and I honestly don't know about Sango's scar. That one time that I saw it was in a hentai doujin and it didn't look like that. Hmm, go figure. Yeah that's the same girl you guessed. I even plan on making Sesshomaru make a cameo later on and if I can work it in Inuyasha himself.

PHAOE: Yeah, as you probably guessed due to him being immortal poor Khalid is going to be suffering some harsh injuries in the future. Thanks for the props. I like to think I've improved a bit, but I'm not really sure and don't kick yourself to hard. You were my first reviewer and have reviewed just about every chapter since. So it's cool if you miss out on a review every now and then.

Sieg: Thanks and I will keep going and going and going. Lol, the series will never end. (Well it will, but not anytime soon unless I die or something)

Onward

Teen Titans X

Written by: Juggalomalice

Chapter 8: The Eternal White Haired Demon Pt. 2

Immortal; He said the word as if it was an everyday thing with nothing special about it and perhaps to him it was nothing special. He simply gave the answer and turned around back to his book taking no notice of the four shocked expressions looking at him.

"Immortal?" X asked in a skeptical voice.

"Is there in echo in here?" Khalid asked. The sarcasm in his voice so vague there might as well not have been any at all. "Yes, immortal. Undying, eternal youth, shoot me a hundred times and I'll pop back up and say what up immortal." He clarified in his classic voice in which humor could not be distinguished with.

"Why didn't you tell us?"

Khalid gave X a very blank expression with a hint of a puzzlement in it. "You didn't ask."

X bit his tongue to hold his response back. There was no point in starting an argument and X had learned that arguing with Khalid was like arguing with Raven. There was just no chance you would win in the end.

X quickly glanced at the rest of the team. Beast Boy looked lost and bewildered, Raven was quiet and rubbing her chin as she contemplated new theories about the puzzle box known as Khalid, and Jinx was now sitting next to Khalid poking him as if she didn't believe he was real.

"I think it's time you filled us in on your story Khalid."

"Very well, so what did you all want to know?" Khalid asked as the team began to huddle closer to him though the two magic casters found themselves gradually drifting further away from him finding that his close presence had adverse effects on their sensitive senses.

"Why don't you start from the beginning? It'll help us understand a bit more than if we just asked random questions I think." X said with an approving nod from the rest of the team.

"If you wish. My real name is Jin Matsomari and I was born in a small village in Japan in the year 1542." He stopped as he gauged the reaction of his audience expecting to be bombarded with questions. Instead he received polite silence urging him to continue. "I had a sister, born three years later and well for the first few years life was good I guess. When I was 12, while on their way to a neighboring village to trade for supplies, our parents were killed apparently by bandits by the looks of it. Their bodies were found a short distance from the road. From what I overheard from the village people they were beaten, stabbed, penniless, and my mother seemingly raped." He said it without a hint of remorse almost like he was reading it from a book which he cared nothing about.

"How can you say that and not feel anything?" Raven asked surprised at Khalid's cold and expressionless face.

"Well it was along time ago and I'm sure you've notice, but I'm kind of lacking in the emotion department."

"And why is that?" She asked curious of why nothing made the indifferent immortal tick.

He tilted his head up a bit in genuine thought, "I'm not really sure. Some would say it's the years of immortality. After so long you lose the fear of death and after that life kind of loses it's luster, but than again I found myself rather incapable of emotion the moment I crawled out of my grave all those years ago."

"Whoa, hold on there for a moment. What do you mean you 'crawled out of your grave?' Did you already croaked once?" Beast Boy asked with blatted disregard for tact.

"In a way yes, but I think I'm jumping ahead of myself. Allow me to continue from where I left off. You see three years later I was recruited by the local lord's army."

"At the age of 15? Isn't that kind of young?" Jinx asked

"Hmm, you know that's exactly what my sister said. Anyway it was a time of war. So long as you were old enough to wield a sword you were old enough to fight. I also joined willing. Like any young man I thought I could help make a difference. Yes, the energy of the youth is so refreshing in its own way. Always trying to make a difference. Always trying to make its mark. How foolish I was as a child."

He almost sounded like an old man who had long lost the will the live and the confidence in the young. It was almost ironic that he should say such things when he was in fact now part of a team of foolish young people who wanted to make a difference. A few of the teens wanted to interject and rebuke his view of the young. Wanted to but dared not. He was staring out one of the many windows in the commons room into the bay and surrounding city, but it was clear he saw none of them. His eyes were staring into a world that ended many years ago and his voice sounded remote. It was like he was speaking to them from over a thousand miles away though in reality his voice had not changed at all. Perhaps it was just the atmosphere around him that had them fooled into thinking he was far away when he was but a mere few feet distance.

"For three years I severed them. Sometimes barely escaping a battle with my life, but I endured. As I said I thought I could make a world safe for the people, for my sister above all else. I was on leave at the time so I decided to return to my village only to discover on my arrival that I no longer had a sister in this world. While I was out fighting to make the world better 'my world' was destroyed behind my very back. The fates can be cruel sometime. So with nothing else in life I wandered for bit. Outcast, not by society, but by my own failure. Again foolish youth."

He paused here for a moment to let his story sink into his audience. He gave each person around him a quick glance finding that his unspoken predictions were correct. I just about all the pairs of eyes he looked at he saw a look of sadness and pity. A low almost inaudible growl escaped his mouth as he entered one of the few moments in his life where he felt some degree of emotion. One of the few moments where he almost seemed human even if the only emotions he felt at this time were annoyance and minor fury. Was it human nature to pity everything that even hinted at a life of sadness? Was he supposed to be grateful for their pity? Was he supposed to perk up knowing that his 'pain', which he had none of in real life even if people thought he did, could be bearable with the support of friends. It happened ever few decades. He would find himself telling his story, minus the immortality part, to some people or perhaps friends of that era and sooner or later someone would say those stupid words as if he was some wandering guilt train. He only had to wait.

5…

The room was deadly quite as the Titans fidgeted unsure of what to say.

4...

Several times various people took in breaths as if they were going to say something and several times they said nothing.

3…

Beast Boy took a breath and stepped forward.

2…The poor fool had no idea what he was about to get his self into.

"Dude…" He began his voice with genuine sadness and concern.

1…Here it comes

"I'm sorry."

"Why?" Khalid asked his voice cold and sharper than a surgical scalpel. "Do you really think I care for your sorrow or pity? If ever time someone told me that was a year you would be a museum exhibit by now. Do I really come off as some guilt filled immortal searching endlessly for some sort of redemption?"

"Well yeah." Came the deadpan voice of Raven who was the only one who still had control of her voice at the time.

"I guess no matter what year it is humans still think alike. Perhaps in my human life I felt guilt but my human life only lasted a little longer than a year after that event. Now it holds no true meaning. It is an event in my life. That is all. There are no real emotions attached to it. Memories of emotions, perhaps, but real emotions, no. Don't let that fool you though. For I no longer care." He spoke to words slowly with a faint hint of anger as if he was explaining something for the hundredth time to a child. Which, if looked upon the situation in the right light, he was.

Sensing the growing tension X quickly changed the subject back to the original topic. "Ok, but what happened to you while you wandered around. You said your human life ended about a year after the event. What happened?"

"Aw yes." Khalid said dropping the pervious subject without a second thought, "I settled down for a bit, met someone, agreed to have my soul bonded, next thing I know I'm crawling out of a grave three years later." He answers almost purposely rushing this segment of the story.

"Soul-bonded? What's that?" X asked curiously.

"Yes soul-bonded. I'm sure those two know more about it than I do." Khalid answered as he pointed to Raven and Jinx. The attention of the room immediately shifted to the two young women as silence fell in await for their answer.

"A soul-bond huh? That would explain why he has almost no aura." Raven asked as she reminisced.

"And why his presence can throw off our magical senses." Jinx added.

"So what is it?" Beast Boy asked as impatient as ever.

"Soul-bonding is a very old ritual of magic. Rarely performed even in the days that magic was strong. It basically bonds a person's soul to another person or thing." Raven explained.

"Which means?" Beast Boy asked

"He has no soul." Raven said bluntly

"It was such a powerful ritual that only the most powerful of spell casters could do it. Often to use the soul less bodies as body guards. I also heard there was a race of three eyed immortals that would steal the soul of mortals bonding that person to them for all eternity. The soul-less mortal would act as a body guard to the immortal, but in most cases they were only a few steps higher than servants." Jinx pitched in.

"I'm actually surprised. I didn't think there was any power strong enough 500 years ago that could perform a soul-bond. That race of three-eyed immortals that Jinx spoke of was small in numbers and I honestly think they died out. Who did this to you Khalid?" Raven asked with almost academic interest.

"A demon." Khalid simple answered.

"Hmm, I'm guessing this demon had a natural soul-stealing ability. That's the only way I could think of that it could be done without much trouble."

"Correct. They were much more common back in that day."

"But why? Soul-bonding was usually a method of slavery. Why would this demon soul-bond you and than leave?" Jinx asked perplexed.

"Well for one I willingly let myself be soul-bonded and no I do not know why the demon left. I have looked for 444 years for that one demon to ask that very question."

"Do you remember what the demon looked like?" Raven asked taking a little bit extra interest due to her own demonic origin.

"I remember that very clearly. Never once had I forgot. I even remember the last words I told her when I was soul-bonded." He answered finally revealing a little bit about the captor of his soul.

"And what was that?" X asked taking interest in the immortals ancient foundation.

Khalid stood up and closed his eyes as a hint of a smile appeared on his face. "I love you." The room suddenly went silent again. This time not in sorrow or pity, but pure shock as hell itself suddenly became a few hundred degrees colder. Khalid in love and apparently still in love if he spent almost 450 years looking for this demonness.

Among the silence he began to head towards the door. He had talked enough this night and he would of swore he was still feeling a shard of metal that he had failed to notice and his arm had healed over it. He was going to have to cut his own skin open and pull it out cause it was annoying and that was never an easy task considering how fast he healed. The two young spell casters noticed this and made a quick grab for him.

"Wait!" They both said in unison having taken a new academic view of Khalid. He was probably the only soul-bonded being in the world currently and as faith would have it he lived with them. The knowledge that they could learn from him with just some basic magic tests and studies was almost limitless. He was basically a walking tome of forgotten knowledge and magic. Plus they would have to study him sooner or later to figure out a way that his presence wouldn't make their magical senses go berserk. Jinx was to far away to grab him but Raven was just close enough to grab his hand. She would probably never regret an action more then this one in her life.

She felt her self whisked to a far off and very warm place. No, it wasn't warm it was burning hot. She felt fire and close by flicker at her. She opened her eyes only to see a sea of flames before her. It was a city engulfed in pure flame. Not a modern city, but a feudal city. Something you saw straight out of a history book and it was burning. It was like a scene straight out of hell itself. Bodies, fresh and bloody, laid sprawled all over the street. Some cut open in the most ghastly of ways. Limbs littered the ground and the occasional head caught her attention. On each face of the dead before her a permanent look of fear was cast on them. In the distant she heard scream of pain and women and children crying.

Suddenly she was pulled away from the horror scene and she found herself in the Titans common room again on her kneels with X cradling her in his arms. She had apparently collapsed.

"Raven, are you alright? What happened?" X asked her with a worried filled voice.

"You do not have very good control of your powers yet do you?" Khalid asked in his unmoving voice from where he stood but a few feet in front of her.

"Why do you say that?" X asked with slight irritation as if he didn't understand what it had to do with Raven collapsing.

"I have met quite a few telepaths and empaths in my life time many have tried to read my mind. Unfortunately over four centuries of memories tends to over load their minds. It would seem Raven accidentally read my mind and she got a mental back lash from it. See I have no real mental defenses so when such an event happens the telepath usually ends up flooded with memories. One even went insane from what he saw." Khalid explained.

Concerned looks turned to Raven. "What did you see?" Beast Boy asked in a worried tone though he was slightly curious of the soulless apath's past hid.

"I saw fire." She stammered, "And bodies. There were people screaming. Some in pain and others just in fear, but there was so much fire."

"Hmm a city burning?" Khalid asked as he thought, "Oh you must be referring to the city state of Xu Song."

"Xu Song? Never heard of the place." X said which was saying a lot since he was an expert in geography and world history.

"It's no surprise you've never heard of it." Khalid said with an air of knowing.

"Why is that?" X asked almost scared of what he would hear.

"Cause I burnt it to the ground." He answered with out a hint of remorse.

"Why!" X shouted no caring that his voice was raised.

Khalid gives him a blank stare, "I had no reason to say no." Truly this man had to either be the cruelest killer in history or he really was incapable of feeling emotions for reasons beyond his control. How else could one kill and feel nothing.

"Who or what are you?" Raven asked him with almost pure horror and hatred in her eyes.

"Many have called me the 'Eternal White Haired Demon', but I prefer…" There was a pause as he looked the girl back in the eye.

"If you called me Khalid."

End Chap 8

Short chapter this time. To much work with finals and all, but I had to finish this. (I'm so late) Please give a short applause for Guu-chan, my temporary assistant.

(Guu steps out and bows. There seems to be a human leg sticking out of her mouth which she sucks up like spaghetti.)

Guu is from the series 'Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu'. Watch it. It's funny. (I do not own Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu'

This chapter really makes Khalid seem evil huh? And that catch phrase of his really does get him into trouble doesn't it?

Khalid's immortality was inspired by the anime '3x3 Eyes' (another good anime. Watch it sometime.) Or buy me the manga and I will be your eternal friend and praise you in every chapter and story I ever write.

This chapter gives insight to the meaning behind Kanna's little speech last chapter. (Yeah I like to make complex love relations)

The city-state Xu Song is fictional. I do not know if it's a real place or person or what. I made it up on the spot and yes Khalid brought the whole city down by his self. Not because he's evil. Just because he had orders to do it and he really saw nothing wrong with it. Remember, he obeys without question till he has a reason to no longer obey. Usually when he gets a tip on his original quest.

Next Chapter: Pizza Night with some nice Jinx/X fluff followed by Birthday X for the Raven/X fluff. lol, one for one as I like to do it. Aww, I'm giving out to much info again and if that doesn't interest you well you can always tone in to see who my new assistant will be.