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Harry thought that he would be relieved when they finally got into the city, but he wasn't. It was full of so many unfamiliar smells and loads of demons. He was feeling increasingly stressed by the scent of females he had learned and was feeling completely on edge anytime they passed one. Harry was terrified of someone finding out who and what he really was. From the way it sounded how some demons reacted to submissive males it would be an absolute mess! He really just felt like going to bed for a bit so he could figure out a better way of dealing with everything, than getting all meek and mouse like. Like acting that way wouldn't be suspicious at all. He was glad that he had at least enough sense to get out a cloak after seeing how many people began to stare. They didn't do that as much now which was a relief. Harry wondered if he had something on his face or looked nervous and that was why he was being stared at. The behavior of the strangers was unnerving. It was more embarrassing when Yusuke muttered something about admirers and he wasn't even that oblivious.
"I think this is the place princess." Yusuke said, giving the serene building an impressed whistle. It was truly beautiful with a well-kept garden in the front full of comfortable looking carved benches, a waterfall feature wall that was actually a part of the building. Water flowed from inside of the building into a pond full of glowing gold and silver fish, and flowers looking almost like glowing living crystal.
Harry immediately felt more relaxed and safe in the atmosphere. It was close to the traffic of loitering and shopping demons. Only a block or two from the palace but seemed almost secluded. The entire building and garden was surrounded by a tall pale stone wall and took up almost the entire city block. "I guess we should check in" Harry murmured, glancing around, it didn't seem like anyone was around at all. He was wondering if that was a good or bad thing. Even the most beautiful places could be deceiving.
"Yeah, probably." Yusuke said, yawning.
Both headed inside, Yusuke had to flash his tournament participation card before a huge brown haired oxen-like demon with horns as tall as an average doorway who stood by the door allowed them to step inside. He sniffed a little too close to Harry for comfort but was thankfully distracted when some sort of fish like demon hybrid tried sneaking into the building through the creek running through the lobby. There were several demons inside, none that Harry recognized nor did Yusuke seem to. Harry wasn't really sure if he wanted to know the questionable looking blokes as they stood huddled whispering together in a corner. The group looked mostly like some sort of reptilian demons.
Getting the keys and pass cards to their room was, surprisingly, completely fuss free. It seemed like so far it wasn't going to be that bad of a stay but the feeling something was going to happen refused to leave Harry's gut. He just felt like something bad would happen and it was going to involve him.
"I think this is the right one. What do the keys say?" Yusuke asked. Harry nearly bumped into him when Yusuke abruptly stopped in front of a door.
"Well there are only 6 rooms on this floor and all the others have 'Occupied, Do not Disturb' signs on them so I would think it is the right one." Harry said, raising his eyebrow at the question.
"Oh, right!" Yusuke laughed, sheepishly rubbing his neck.
Harry put the key in the lock, having no idea why they said it was for if they lost the square plastic things. What was he supposed to do with something hardly thicker than a sheet of high quality parchment?
"You know that you could have just put the access card in the slot right?" Yusuke said.
"The what in the what?" Harry asked. Completely confused.
"Yeah, forgot you lived in like the stone age or something... never mind I'm too pooped to explain much right now. I'll show you later." Yusuke sighed, looking at Harry like he was hopeless.
"Uhuh." Harry grunted skeptically. Like that plastic thingy could do anything, yeah right!
"I will! Just remind me if I forget, you know I got less of a memory and attention span than a' frign' goldfish!" Yusuke grumbled. Marching into the room after Harry opened the door and tossed his shoes off and his bag to the ground, flopping onto a comfortable looking stuffed red leather couch.
The living room area was huge, being bigger than the average two bedroom apartment in itself. Harry wandered over to an area connected to it. It was a decent sized full kitchen, the counter-tops were a pearly shined off red stone with specks of black and mahogany colored swirls here and there. It had a small eat in area and off from that was a large black stone 8 person table polished to the point one could see their reflection in it.
Harry continued to wonder and found 5 bedrooms all almost the size of Raizen's sleeping den and all but two had their own bathrooms, the other's had to share with the guests. Harry tried to stay away from the windows as they went floor to ceiling and they were on the tenth story. It was rather unnerving and far too exposing to him. He was definitely going to be taking the only bedroom without a window. Harry was glad it seemed the room hadn't been used in sometime as there was almost no scent of others in the room, he was already a ball of anxiety.
Harry grimaced at the dust still clinging to his skin. How he hated having to bath. Harry sighed to himself, trying to convince himself that he needed to just get it over with. He had tried cleaning himself up using a cleaning spell the day before and all he did was get zapped for his trouble. He wasn't sure why but his wand was on the fritz or something. He was sure he just needed to get a better grip on his magic. It was the only explanation he could come up with. Harry forced himself to get up and start the shower. Removing his clothes he bathed as fast as he could before eagerly hopping out, his side stinging but his shoulder felt quite a bit better after having the warm water run over it. Harry dried himself off and tossed on the plain white kimono that he had been wearing before changing to leave Raizen's domain. He took a deep inhale and gave a content sigh, it still smelled of his nest, making him feel a bit better.
Harry curled up on the overly large bed, Yusuke had thankfully snatched his beloved Patty from Hiei who had found him, hoping that he had a chance to find him again. Harry had been totally heart broken when he realized that Patty was missing. Thankfully Patty didn't seem to have suffered any damage from the fight or anything that had happened. Harry didn't know what he would do if the little stuffed Grimm had been destroyed. Apparently Yusuke had kept it as a reminder of his failure to protect those he should have and had given it to Harry as soon as he was healed up enough to do so. Everyone around Harry seemed to respond with more smothering and aggressive protective behavior when they heard about his attachment to the toy. He didn't understand why, no one in his family nor any of his friends ever acted that way. Harry was convinced it was dominant demon's being weird again.
Harry's eyelids slowly flicked shut. His nose was pressed to his stuffed animal, he swore he picked up the left over hints of his parents on the plush's velvety worn fur. He couldn't help but let the tears that wanted to be released to let go at that moment. The moment he realized he hadn't even really thought of his parents for over a month. In that moment Harry knew and had finally accepted he wasn't ever going to be able to see them again. How much he missed them along with all of his friends and the rest of his crazy family. What Kreature had cursed him to. He was going to be all alone and he wasn't sure how to deal with that. He had no hope of ever getting them back. Harry couldn't help but to sob a bit for a time, suddenly full of grief and loneliness, he couldn't remember ever feeling so lonely. The bed was far too large to lay in alone and yet he did, curled in on himself and looking like a small child it was so large. Harry didn't want to be alone. Harry wanted his family back. Gradually he cried himself into exhaustion. Falling into a troubling sleep, falling prey to his exhausting misery.
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When Harry woke he couldn't help but feel a bit melancholic. He was cold to. Raizen had made sure that his nest was always very warm for Harry, Yusuke often complained about the upper floors of the tower 'cooking' him Raizen and the other Mazoku seemed to have absolutely no problem with such things though.
It seemed that his room had practically iced over during the night after a strange sounding noise began to rattle through an odd slitted piece of metal by the bed. Harry was too unsure with what it was to go near it. So he was unable to figure out what it was supposed to do. Harry was pretty sure it was one of those strange things that made cold air without a spell that he had experienced at Yusuke's apartment. He hated them, noisy, and smelly, and always making the apartment uncomfortably chilly. He didn't care what the others said, anything below 80 Degrees Fahrenheit, was cold.
"Hey buddy, time to get up! We have some sort of brunch thing with Kurama! Just got the ass who is supposed to take us directly to the palace. Apparently orders of king what's his face!" Yusuke laughed, strutting into the room, already dressed and ready for the day.
Harry groaned in protest. He wanted to just relax and sleep in that day. Also he was freezing, no way did he want to remove the covers. It was far too cold for that! "Can't we go later?" Harry grumbled. He was sure that the fox demon would have better things to do than sitting around watching them.
"Nope, the toad insists that we have to go or he won't leave!" Yusuke grumbled and rolled his eyes.
Harry sighed, slowly forcing himself to get up. He eeped and immediately hugged himself for warmth when he removed the blanket and slid his feet to the floor. "Can this room be any colder? I feel like it's
time for me to get my winter coat out!" Harry complained. He immediately began looking through the clothes he had with him, not caring that Yusuke was still there.
"Cold? What do you mean it's only like 65 in here, it's not like I turned the air down to 40 or anything." Yusuke said, confused. Slowly realization filtered across his face. "Wait, didn't Raizen say something about you not being able to control your temperature or something when I complained about how hot the throne room was?" Yusuke grumbled, looking a bit worried.
"65, no wonder I'm freezing!" Harry huffed, looking at Yusuke like he thought he was crazy. "Yeah, it is part of being a bearer. I get cold easily and can't warm up properly. Really it isn't as bad of a health problem as some have though." Harry said after a pause. He finally settled on a lovely set of leaf green specially made Bearer robes with silver trim and gold buttons with silver accents along with his favorite Black heirloom choker and the pretty gemmed flower hair clips he had been given as a child. Harry was sure that they would look nice during the encounter, everyone always said green was most definitely his color after all. He wanted to make at least an acceptable impression when entering the palace. He may not have lived in a castle when he was in his original dimension but that didn't mean he wasn't royalty nor knew how to dress and act like it when necessary. He entered the bathroom and quickly got changed. Still surprised with how Yusuke looked.
Yusuke was also dressed a nicer than he normal was. He wore a yellow tunic with a crest on the back with lightning hitting some sort of maned beast with tiger like paws, scales running down its sides and part of its legs, and a muzzle mixed between a dog and maybe a tiger and horns like an antelope. Harry had no idea what the significances of it was but he knew it was important as Raizen had it on many things and it seemed to be some sort of family crest for him. Yusuke also wore pale blue baggy fighter styled pants tightened at the ankle and a pair of gold embroidered dark blue slippers, the bottoms were enforced with a thick leather, hardly even noticeable in the style they were sewn in. Lastly his hair was slicked back in his trademark style. Though, he didn't look like a punk like he normally would with it in such a way and instead looked like some more mature refined upscale heir. Harry almost smiled at that thought. He know that was definitely not what the self-proclaimed rebellious so called punk was aiming at with the refined but masculine outfit. Harry would have even thought of his friend as being rather handsome. Looking almost aristocratic though in a more rough and tumble way. He wasn't his type but Harry was a little stunned by how good he could look when cleaned up a bit.
Harry led Yusuke out of the door before he could say a word as he entered the living room and saw the impatient looking toad like demon waiting. He snatched a glass and quickly filled it with water. "Ready." Harry said, taking delicate sips.
"Thank goodness!" The toad whined. Immediately bolting through the door. Him, having to take half breed duty out of all the other participants and taking him to the palace of all places! What would his wife think? What an embarrassment!
Harry and Yusuke followed, Harry continuing to sip at his water. He didn't care if anyone thought it was strange he was thirsty and didn't completely trust these people. He rather be hydrated and not suffering from thirst if he smelled anything in the drinks given. As they walked they saw several different demons milling around. Harry forced himself to ignore their strange staring, it was hard when a handsome one with horns and strange purple hair fell over after walking straight into a wall. Of course he had been staring rather intensely at Harry. So much so Harry had actually noticed it. Yusuke snickered knowingly for some reason than turned to Harry with a devious expression on his face.
Yusuke wolf whistled, making Harry blush. He glanced around before speaking, the toad was far in front of them so he didn't seem worried about him. "You look so frign' hot right now! I'm so glad I know what you are or I'd be having some major embarrassment issues like those idiots! I'm almost wishing I wasn't so damn stick straight. You are like way less complicated than any of the women I know and like a thousand times nicer,whoever ends up with you is going to be so frign' lucky they'll shit themselves when ya pick them. Lately I've really been cursing my love of ornery vaginas and firm tits! Though I'd have so much damn computation for you I don't even think I could keep up!" Yusuke said, seeming to pout.
Harry coughed, choking on the water that he was drinking. He immediately went bright red, making the hints of markings not covered up noticeable enough for Yusuke to finally see them. "Don't say things like that! That's so embarrassing! I don't want to hear about your women issues and you're my friend this is all just so weird!" Harry groaned.
"What me talking about Vaginas or about my sizzling complements?" Yusuke teased, seeming to be completely amused by Harry's embarrassment.
"Both! Just gah, stop please! I may be able to have kids but that doesn't mean I'm a girl or feel comfortable talking about... Girl.. p-parts!" Harry squeaked.
Yusuke snorted, "Such a prude for being someone so hot!"
Soon they had walked through lobby and were outside of the building. After going down several sets of stairs they were in the wooded gardens.
"Hello, lovely one." A deep voice purred, somehow running over Harry's ears like a sweet hot liquid. A handsome demon with long black lightly waved hair that reflected a hint of green as he entered the less shaded path sniffed the air. Looking slightly puzzled. Exotic markings ran artfully across the demon's face in a decorative mask of dark leopard-like rosettes and two pairs of tiger like stripes, many of the dark markings lined with a bright green. The most striking feature outside of his markings was a set of bright, almost glowing blue eyes rimmed just slightly in green. Also having pupils slighted very much like Harry's.
To Yusuke something was... Off. They were very different looking but something about the demon looked like he could... Maybe be related to Harry or something? He wasn't sure if it was the shape of his eyes or maybe face but something seemed too similar but still his brain insisted they weren't the same thing. It was more than a little confusing.
Harry couldn't help but blush at the sight of the demon standing in front of them. He wasn't sure why but he found the much taller demon's markings in particular to be completely breathtaking. He had never seen anything like them before... Other than somewhat similar but still slightly different shaped ones on his own body.
"My name is Hound, not a particularly interesting name for one of our kind, I know, but better than Bleed or Wound, like a few of my clan members. I am actually quite surprised that I have not ever seen you before, I know that we are often separated for long periods of time but I would think I had seen a female as lovely as you before. We are such a small community after all." Hound said, looking mildly impressed.
His mouth went slacked when Harry nervously looked him in the face, revealing his green eyes properly to the demon.
The demon's cheeks went red and a disturbing almost hungry look overtook the demon. Looking at Harry like he was some rare prize.
Yusuke growled at the look. He was pretty oblivious sometimes but he wasn't that much of an idiot. He would need to make sure that one stayed away from his friend. What a creep!
"Interesting coloration, especially for a female of our kind. How had I not ever heard of a surprisingly gorgeous green eyed female? One would think that such an event of having one of death eyes would be celebrated for centuries. Even stranger still is that I haven't heard of you through conquests. Especially since it does not smell like you even been fucked by a single one of your siblings or home clan. How unusual you are, you smell like a virgin even... I have never heard of such a thing." Hound said, looking confused and wanting.
Harry coughed, red faced and completely horrified. "Excuse me?" He growled.
"Yeah, what the frign' hell man? What kind of freaky shit are you into? You don't even know Harri! I don't know what you are thinking but she ain't some nasty skank to play with so back the hell off!" Yusuke snarled immediately taking to stand in front of Harry like a angry dog protecting its master.
"I would suggest backing down halfbreed. This is between the bitch and I. I am sure she would not mind servicing a male of the head family pack of the Kuro clan. Especially as if she is willing to sit around long enough and gives me a cub she will be able to rut with nearly a dozen and a half other attractive males as well. She would be able to do so as much as she desires with very little competition as there are only 2 other females in the clan and both have a tendency to rip the cubs fucked into them out." Hound said in a nonchalant tone.
Yusuke eeped when a sudden oppressive pressure came down like a falling brick wall along with a feeling like a very pissed off woman was nearby, something he was rather good at picking up on. He quickly turned looking for the source and paled at the absolutely furious look on Harrison's face.
Energy crackled off of Harry like death green and yellow lightning. His eyes glowed a toxic yet stunning shade of green, the whites turning slightly pink and his teeth were bared. Harry looked ready to maim someone. He even began to growl, not at all like how he normally was.
Yusuke didn't even think that it was possible for him to behave in such a way. He had no idea that Harry was even near that level of strength! He had no problem backing away.
"I'm not some whore you can play around with. I suggest you... leave before I rip your throat out and use that pretty hair of your's to make myself a nice new summer shawl, maybe turn your skin into a winter jacket... I will probably need one once I get back to my lands, it will be colder soon." Harry snarled.
The blue eyed demon stared, visibly startled, his eyes slowly barely visibly narrowing and looking Harry up and down. "Your lands, you mean the place you are stuck at for the moment? Tell you what... I will trade a female to your clan so your unit will let you come to mine." He said. Hound dropped to his knees with a startled groan when a sudden terrible pain slammed him in the gut, burning his insides.
"I'll rip your guts out through your nose if you ever even think about sending one of those-those disgusting hussys to MY TERRITORY IT BELONGS TO ME, EVERYONE IN IT TO, THEY ARE MINE! IT'S MINE I WILL RIP THEM APPART!" Harry wailed, unable to think straight anymore. No way would anyone take what belonged to him! He dug his nails deeper into the demon's stomach flesh and allowing his energy to surge again making the demon moan in pain and jerk. He didn't lighten up until the demon began to whimper, releasing the demon and allowing him to drop to the ground. "Yusuke, let's go!" Harry barked. He stomped away, still red faced, noticing that the toad demon was about to come back to retrieve them.
"Man you are so lucky Harri isn't the murdery type cuz' apparently h-she could have fried you like a dumb kid putting a fork in an electric socket." Yusuke grimaced, looking like he had wish Harry had. Yusuke wanted to beat the shit out of the nasty bastard for treating his friend like some skank.
Hound smirked after the two had left. Easily picking himself up. A single strand of long wavy ink black hair was held in a fist. Harry had been so distracted with anger that it hadn't been something noticeable, Hound managing to get a hold of it and removing it that is. What Harry did had hurt, quite badly actually. Hound couldn't remember the last time he had felt so much pain. It really wasn't damaging though. He held the hair delicately to his nose and inhaled. Quickly turning greenish as the scent registered in his mind. He himself didn't have the best nose, he hadn't visibly scarred because of a good healer but when he was younger it had nearly been lopped off of his face. He still had a nose far superior to that of a human but it was still pitiful compared to before.
Harrison as he suspected wasn't the exact same species as him. Instead Harry was from the same genus of a distant but similar enough looking and smelling species that he had been confused. They also shared a lot of similar behaviors. His own species was rare but Harrison's was nearly nonexistent and an even less social 'god' species. Harry was also more surprisingly male. Hound was horrified with what he had said to the beautiful Personification of death. How stupid could he be not to realize it right away? Only when he began to speak about territory did the thought even pass through his mind.
Females of Hound's kind had no interest in territory only a males to rut with. 'Death God' females were only territorial against male submissives like a very large percentage of species classified as Mazokus though unlike his kind they often patrolled a certain area consisting of several different territorials of the much more territorial, larger dominant males. Submissives were also extremely territorial but against everyone they didn't consider their's. It was said even more so than their dominant counterparts they also mated in monogamous pairs for life from what he had heard, much like his own kind and many other species of higher Mazoku. Along with having very sweet gentle docile temperaments they were also supposed to be excellent loving protective mothers. Something many female Mazoku lacked, especially of his own species.
He found it very strange that an unmated submissive would be wandering about with some unmated male instead of with his dominant parent as Hound was almost positive there weren't anymore submissives hidden away. From what he knew, just like with his own species, if there wasn't a bearer mother than the dominant would raise a cub by themselves. Submissives stayed with their dominant parent until mated, if they weren't mated, as parents were jealously protective of submissive offspring they would stay with their parent or parents for the rest of their lives and that parent or mated pair would not produce anymore cubs. Bearer's of the species Harry was were particularly prone to sickness and vulnerability brought on by stress or defect. He was surprised to see a submissive in such good condition at such a young age.
Hound groan and ran a hand over his face. He hoped that he hadn't just ruined his chances with the rare enchanting little minx. What a sexy little spit fire the bearer was and how perfect a prize he would make and mother he would likely be to future cubs.
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Harry's anger slowly began to fade as they got closer and closer to the palace only two blocks away. His anger twisted into nerves at the idea of having to go the scary, powerful demon ridden place. He didn't actually know how to control his abilities, whatever they were, yet. He was sure with his wand acting up and having no idea how to do anything with his new powers or whatever they were that he would be totally useless in a fight. That didn't sit well with him at all. His ear twitched occasionally as they walked through the guarded gate. The toad demon grumbled ahead of them about leading around halfbreeds like a dog. Harry was sure Yusuke would have been furious if he were able to hear what the rude little creature was saying.
"So you cooled down yet?" Yusuke asked looking a bit fearful still.
"Of course. Why wouldn't I be? That demon was rude but being away from him makes it pretty easy to calm down. That I guess.. Is one good thing about what I am. Little natural aggression and a tolerant and patent nature, also having a literally crazy obnoxious family around most of my life also helps." Harry explained as they entered the at least 25 foot tall double front doors to the palace.
"A good nature to be blessed with, I unfortunately was not born with one and did not have one until an unfortunate event that happened from my own stupidity when I was much younger." A smooth voiced male said. Stepping from the shadows was a tall demon with several sets of horns, one set hanging over his forehead like hair, long straight black hair a handsome profile with nice build and three pairs of large ears. 3 ears per side and no markings. Harry couldn't see his eyes as they were closed and the demon's face was quirked into a almost knowing smile.
"I am assuming that you are Yusuke, Raizen heir?" The demon turned to Yusuke, still not opening his eyes. His hands calmly clasped together.
"Yeah, what's it to you?" Yusuke grumbled.
"I will be bringing you to Kurama now." The demon said. He led the pair down hallway after hall until he got to a door painted red and gold with a gold plate with the name Yoko Kurama and the word Adviser under it. The smell of plants, pollen, and rose perfume was overwhelming. Harry held his nose and nearly wretched at the overpowering scent. He wasn't use to such a powerful scent in such a confined place with his new even better nose yet. Harry paled trying to breathe through his mouth but just tasted the awful stench instead.
"Shit, are you alright buddy?" Yusuke yelped, steadying Harry when he swayed.
The demon opened his black colored eyes, raising an eyebrow. "Is?..."
"Harri." Yusuke barked.
"Is Harri alright? Has the scent overwhelmed... Harri? I know it has that effect on some individuals with powerful noses that are not accustomed to such strong scents." The demon said.
"I think I'm going to be sick, my head won't stop pounding!" Harry moaned, swallowing harshly.
"Kurama should be here any minute, I shall take Harri and get something to use for the headache. There is no sense of you coming all this way without seeing Kurama he is very busy after all and this may be the only time he gets to visit his friend before the tournament starts. I know he had been looking forward to this for some time and do not wish for it to be spoiled for my favorite adviser. I am king Yomi by the way." Yomi explained.
Yusuke froze. "I'm not sure about that. Not that I don't trust you, but I don't trust you. Harri is my friend and my responsibility. I don't take shit like that too lightly, ya know?" Yusuke huffed in a surly tone.
"Of course. I don't think it would be a good idea to force Harri to go through such misery. You do not have as good of a sense of smell as myself or Harri so you would nott understand how overwhelming a scent can be especially when so young. It can cause splitting headaches and severe nausea sometimes in bad cases disorientation. It happened relatively often when I was blinded at first." Yomi explained.
Yusuke growled. "Fine. Just make sure my buddy's alright. That color can't be natural or mean anything good!" He said, referring to Harry's ghostly pale cheeks.
"Of course." Yomi said. Having to lean down to take a hold of Harry's hand.
Harry tensed at the feeling of the unfamiliar much larger, dominant male's hand around his own.
"Come, I have something for your headache in my office." Yomi insisted, still calm.
Harry followed, the idea of a second longer of being near the overwhelming scent wasn't an option in his mind. "I will see you later alright? Tell Kurama hi for me and to visit if-if he has anytime off." Harry said, turning mid-step as Yomi led him down the hallway.
"Of course. And you zap the crap out of anyone that tries getting handsy with ya, alright Princess?" Yusuke said, smirking.
Harry nodded, groaning in pain at the foolish move. His stomach rolled at the sudden movement.
Once a few halls down and Harry was less tense Yomi entwined their arms together. "I was surprised to find a higher Mazoku bearer in my domain. Even more so one friendly with my... rival's... ancestral spawn. So tell me how could such a thing happen, a higher bred bearer be birthed, alive and well especially at your age? I have ears almost everywhere and I have never heard of you. Rather puzzling isn't it?" Yomi said, his lips once again quirked like he was amused about something only he could understand.
Harry went stock still and stiff. "How?"
"Do not worry I will not be spreading your secret, though others must either be completely nose blind or total morons not to be able to figure out such things themselves. I was able to tell what you really were the moment that you passed through the gates of my estate. I was heading to my personal outdoor training grounds. Quite the surprise to be greeted by. I of course was very curious and decided that it would be best to postpone such things... A good decision." Yomi explained. "Come along, I doubt by the way that you seem to be trying to hide away you would like your 'dirty' laundry spread about in such a public place. I would think you would like something for that headache while we are at it, as promised." Yomi said in an almost gentle tone. One similar to how Raizen would use when he knew he had upset Harry.
Harry slowly worked up the courage to continue on with the strange demon. Not that he really had any choice, he knew. Harry was sure that he was lucky that the demon seemed to be being nice at the moment. A demon didn't become a king by just being a good politician and finding himself a bunch of loyal followers or anything. No, a demon king had to be brutal and very powerful. Raizen had been powerful beyond imagine before he starved himself nearly to death and Harry was sure he was monstrous in battle but he was kind and loyal and brutally honest. From the little that Harry had overheard about the other two kings, Makuro was a bit more honest and honorable, but neither could be trusted. They ruled through blackmail and manipulation and were willing to do anything to achieve what they desired. Not something that Harry wanted to get involved in.
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It was a long tense walk to Yomi's office. Yomi had tried to start up small talk but Harry was simply too untrusting and terrified to utter a single word back making it more of a very awkward one sided conversation full of Yomi trying to lighten up Harry's mood and speculation as to what Harry's response would have been to questions. Harry really wasn't a fan of that game.
"You don't have to be worried about anyone else hearing now. This room is sound proof to all but myself and I have my bugs completely deactivated for the time. Kurama was becoming a little.. too... curious for his own good." Yomi smirked.
Harry grimaced. "So-so what do you want with me?" Harry finally managed to croak, wishing he hadn't left from Raizen's territory where he felt protected and safe.
"Want with you? Why would you ask? I was really just curious about how I, who always knows about everything, do not know anything about you. Like how do you know Raizen's spawn?" Yomi insisted, reaching in his draw and pulling out a clanking bottle.
"Everyone will always want something from me because I'm a Mazoku bearer or something is what I was told. Except for Raizen and the monks and Yusuke. Three of the monks saved my life after some weird blue haired demon in love with some crazy human interested in me attacked me and apparently broke several bones and made one of my ribs puncture a lung. I nearly suffocated. After they found me they patched me up and have been taking care of me since then. Yusuke invited me to come watch him fight in the tournament so I came with." Harry explained in the most clipped version of the truth he could think up. No way would he be telling him the rest of it! Harry was startled when the demon suddenly grinned and laughed like he found what he said to be the funniest thing he had ever heard.
"I apologize for my outburst but even though you are speaking the truth you are still telling painfully pathetic half-truths! I'm not an idiot, I have to give you credit though, you rather skillfully avoided the most important questions with a sliver of the truth. If I hadn't been so good at it myself than I probably wouldn't have realized what you had been doing." Yomi said, his tone strangely pleased almost seeming to be with Harry.
Harry couldn't help but blush. He had hoped that Yomi wouldn't be as clever as the rumors spread about him had insisted that he was. He was probably even more so. Great. "Well that is the basics of it. Anytime I tell the rest of the story either no one believes me or they flip out and are out for blood on my behalf. I rather not have to deal with that, thanks. So I am sorry my lord but I won't tell you the rest of it. Though, I doubt that Kurama would have a problem with telling you... I would appreciate you waiting until I am back in my lands so I don't have to deal with another fussing overreacting dominant. This is supposed to be my vacation from that after all." Harry insisted, sounding mildly bitter when talking about Kurama.
Yomi would store that away for later. "Where is your territory?" Yomi asked.
Harry blushed, "I meant to say Raizen's." Harry murmured, sitting himself down in a chair across from what Harry assumed was Yomi's.
Yomi shook a couple of gray pills from the bottle he was holding. "How much would you say you weigh? 90 pounds? 100?" Yomi asked, poring a glass of water.
Harry shrugged, "I think around 75?" He said.
Yomi made a disproving sound. "That is a little light is it not? Even for one your size?" Yomi asked, putting one of the pills back into the bottle.
"Probably, I have trouble gaining weight and am easy to stress out which makes it hard to eat. I get too nauseous. I couldn't eat much after my injury either, I was too tired and in too much pain. I'm hoping now that I am alright now that I'll start gaining some weight again." Harry explained.
Yomi frowned, handing over the glass and pill. "Have you had any medical tests performed to make sure you don't have any digestive problems? It is common for a bearer to have such issues" He asked.
Harry swallowed down the pill gulping the water after taking a discreet sniff. "No, but I have a family friend that was trained as a private healer who said I just had a fast metabolism and some minor absorption issues. Nothing to worry too much about. At least that's what she said." Harry insisted.
"And you trusted her... A female being what you are?" Yomi said, looking at Harry doubtfully.
"Of course. Hera is practically an aunt to me. She's mostly human, so if that was what you were referring to than you don't have to worry. She wouldn't lie about something like that." Harry said, affection for her evident in the tone of his voice.
"Wait, human? Your sire befriended his food and convinced you to do so as well?" Yomi asked, looking disturbed and a little disgusted.
"Hera is not food, she's a family friend! As I said before I'm not going to get into details that are too personal. I will tell you that my father nor mother never ate anyone though. I don't understand why everyone gets all weird about that and insist that it isn't possible! I mean it isn't like unless you start eating humans that a demon has to eat them right? There is no way that a demon would have to eat them!" Harry grumbled, feeling half sick from the idea of someone eating a poor innocent person.
A worried completely horrified look grayed Yomi's face.
"I mean I don't know much about demons, I'm pretty new to all of this stuff but I was told that demons normally just eat people because they think they taste good. That doesn't sound like a good reason to start eating them but as long as I never eat one that means I won't get addicted or whatever so I won't. It will be easy since I, thank the gods, have never ate anyone. I was pretty freaked out when Raizen and his monks kept trying to get me to eat them. They even tried sneaking it into stuff but my nose was too good, they got really upset for some reason! I mean I should have been the upset one! They were trying to stuff me full of people meat!" Harry explained sounding totally horrified. He missed the completely disturbed expression on Yomi's face.
"And they didn't explain why they were upset or doing such things?" Yomi asked.
"No, they just insisted that I needed to eat and I would sometimes hear them arguing about not wanting to upset me." Harry said, shrugging.
"Of course they did... and may I ask what rock you have been living under?" Yomi said.
"Wait, excuse me?" Harry hissed, sitting up a little taller in his seat.
"Just as I had said. What human world rock where you living under? You smell like you had been in the human world for some time. And you act like you know nothing of Mazoku. What really happened with you?" Yomi said, smirking slightly at the startled gasp he heard.
"What, what do you mean? Nothing happened and-and I never lived in human world I am a demon, right? I don't know what you mean about Mazoku." Harry stuttered.
"You do not sound so sure about that. You also make a terrible liar, by the way. I would stick to half-truths if I were you. We both know you were in the human world for an extensive time, there is no way that the smell could clog your pores so badly otherwise... That stench is completely unmistakable. Some demons may not notice it now that you have been here for a while but I can, it must have been absolutely overwhelming before. I wonder how a submissive was able to survive in relatively decent health for so long there. I really want to know how you survived without eating properly supposedly since you were born?" Yomi said in an almost mocking tone. He walked around to the otherside of the desk, sitting on it and facing Harry.
"I'm-I'm not going to answer that. I... I don't know what you are talking about the food thing either I eat fine." Harry insisted, a sinking feeling making his belly hurt. He didn't think he wanted to know what the demon king was talking about. He had a feeling that it could be absolutely traumatic. He knew that Raizen for a long time had refused to eat and had overheard Yusuke yelling at him about if he was afraid of eating good people he would go find the baddest guy he could so he wouldn't starve and the scent of raw human flesh followed the monks around as well. He wasn't a fool but rather not have fears confirmed.
"Is Harry here? In the palace? I heard abou' a pretty black haired lass with eyes like the greenest o' emeralds, I did!" An excited sounding accented male almost squealed, barging into the room without invitation. Jin, the red haired green eyed demon sprinted into the room, followed by his embarrassed looking ice demon friend, Touya.
"I am so very sorry Lord Yomi! He was too fast I tried to stop him!" Touya bowed his head, apologizing.
Yomi glared at the bouncing, delighted demon who had interrupted his attempts to find out what was really up with the demoness sitting nervously in front of him.
Harry's eyes immediately darted to the excited demon blushing at his complement. He decided that he was his only way of making a break for it. Jin, Harry remembered his name to be. Harry didn't think that it would be too bad to hang out with him, he was very sweet and seemed like he could be a lot of fun.
"Hi Jin, how have you been? I was hoping that I would get to see you in the next couple of days. I guess that hope came true, yeah?" Harry said smiling at the handsome puppy like demon. Harry had been telling the truth he couldn't wait to see the pair again. He could see them becoming good friends.
"Harry?" Jin squeaked, quickly turning to face the little demoness. He looked like he was being ate alive he looked so tiny in the chair he sat it. Jin immediately gave Harry a million dollar smile, grinning as his ears twitched like crazy. "Gettin' more beautiful every day, I would say! Didn' ya promise to spend time with lil' ol' me when you got here? Thought you were goin' to try forgetting, did you?" Jin said. Suddenly snatching Harry up and hugged him.
"Of course I did and I didn't forget. Some frog demon thing came and insisted that Yusuke and I come here... I guess I am not use to having such a good nose because the smell of just the outside of Kurama's office nearly made me sick so Lord Yomi brought me here to get some medicine but I feel much better now." Harry explained, hugging the happy demon back he couldn't help but blush again. "I'm sorry Lord Yomi but I am going to have to take a rain-check on this conversation. It was nice meeting you but I made a promise that I would spend the day with these two once I got here and I never break my promise if I can help it. If that is okay with you that is?" Harry said. He laughed when Jin was hardly able to hold back an excited jump of joy. He was glad he had as much as his shoulder was bothering him from how tense he was with Yomi.
Yomi gave the pair an intense sightless stare with his coal black eyes. "Of course. I do wish to speak with you later though... I am also assuming they know what you are." Yomi said, leaving out what was most likely going to be a rude comment on how inappropriate their behavior was as he was a submissive. His eyes practically glowed with disapproval though.
"'Course I do sir. That doesn' make him any less the loveliest angel I ever seen. Not one bit it doesn'!" Jin insisted, gushing adoringly.
Touya rolled his eyes, look uncomfortable still.
"I see... Well you may leave but I would like a word with Touya before you are permitted to leave the palace." Yomi said.
Touya grimaced.
"Of course. We will just wait for you in the entrance hallway, right Jin?" Harry asked, still blushing he looked up at the red haired demon who still held him.
"Yeah, if that's what ya want to do!" Jin agreed. He gave his friend a bit of a confused look.
Touya smiled, "such a sap. Go on before the little model here decides he doesn't want to spend his day with a sappy hyperactive puppy dog." Touya mocked, shaking his head fondly.
Jin sniffed, "you're just jealous o' me, you are! Cuz' you can' carry yourself around a pretty sweet lil' angel like me!" Jin teased. Still smiling, he waved over his shoulder and carried out a very embarrassed Harry.
Once the pair were out of earshot Yomi began to speak, "Now I need you to do something for me. I need you to convince Harri to stay here and at least get medical treatment. I also want you to find out his real back story not this half made up crap he was trying to spew. He is underweight, acts like he knows nothing about what he is, and smells of the human world. He also told me something rather strange and disturbing. He insists that he has never ate the flesh of a human... The thing is I know what he is and it is impossible for his kind to survive without feeding on the flesh of humans, at least to my knowledge. Much like Raizen's. I need you to monitor him for I fear his heath may go into decline. We cannot allow the only submissive born in the last few millennium die because he has convinced himself he doesn't need human flesh to live and no one is willing to take over and correct him." Yomi explained, looking and sounding grave.
"Wait, what? He isn't eating?" Touya asked, feeling more than a little worried.
"It does not seem so. I do not even smell the remnants of human blood on his breath." Yomi said.
Touya gritted his teeth together, clenching his fists. How hadn't anyone notice? Hadn't Raizen even tried to properly take care of the submissive? Should they have left him with the other king? "I will do my best to make sure he is alright. I better get going before they get worried and come back... I will try my best to make sure that he stays here. The fact that Yusuke is a friend should make it easy to monitor Lady Harrison." Touya said, not having the best feeling about what he planned to do. If Harrison refused to feed than he could be in far worse shape than he was letting on though and there was no way that he wanted the sweet little demoness to suffer from something so painful and slow.
"Thank you. Please report in later on... Without Jin.. I don't think he will be understanding with what we are trying to do. He is very... fond of Harrison it seems and such things can make a demon irrational." Yomi stated, tucking a strand of hair behind his ears.
"Yes... of-of course sir. I will report once Jin is asleep." Touya agreed. Bowing to his king.
"Good, we wouldn't want him getting the wrong idea what I'm planning to do after all." Yomi said, lips curled up into a small dark smile. If Raizen wouldn't properly take care of the demoness than he would, whether he liked it or not.
End Chapter 10
So what do you guys think, is Yomi plotting or is he really worried? Do you think he will try and cause some fight or disturbance with Raizen or is he actually worried for Harry for the right reasons and wants to help him?
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