DISCLAIMER: There has been no supernatural or natural event to make Yami No Matsuei mine.
WARNINGS: This chapter has been harder to write because my muse was taking me into three separate directions and leaving me lost by the end of each one. I may just replace this chapter later on if it proves to difficult to continue.
Muraki was surprised to have the door open. He squinted to see something shining in the darkness exchange hands… Enma's personal seal…a visitor for him?
"It has been along time Kazutaka."
The doctor could not hide his surprise. "Saki-?"
Saki drew back the hood to reveal his face. He was certainly taller now than when he died so many years ago. He had died as a boy barely touching the surface of manhood, but he stood as a proud and powerful man. Muraki could still see the arrogant smirk on the bastard's face.
"What are you doing here?"
His half brother laughed which further infuriated the doctor. "To see you of course."
He must really be insane. He could not believe a word of what he was hearing. It must surely be some pathetic trick. "I promised I wouldn't die without killing you first." He swore as he cautiously eyed this thing before him.
"I am the one who died before my time."
"You killed them! Father! Mother!" Screamed Muraki as he launched himself against his brother, fixing his hands around a solid neck. It was seamless connection.
"That is how you remember it." Saki smirked as he easily pushed the doctor off him and then locked his arm behind. "You may have improved dear brother, but still not good enough."
"I will kill you with my bare hands." Muraki tried to reverse his position but it was futile.
"You had our dearest Tsuzuki-san in the same position at Oriya's. Didn't you?"
The doctor roared like a beast as he continued to struggle with his nemesis. "Our Tsuzuki-san? I think not! He's mine! I am not sharing him with you or anyone!"
"Enma-Daioh is going to give him to me, as compensation."
"He wouldn't!"
Again more laughter. "And who are you to decide what a god will do?"
"There are no rewards for sinners only damnation." Muraki struggled to reclaim his calm, to push down his boiling anger against his brother for his crimes and his anger with himself for forgetting his shell of hate.
"But I am no murderer. You however have broken the divine law by taking life and making life defying the celestial will." Saki also seemed to relax as he released Muraki and seated himself in front of Muraki.
"There is no evidence." The doctor took the hint to act civil … for now.
"And there is no evidence that I killed father or your mother."
"Liar. You killed them and then you tried to kill me."
"Poor Kazutaka you were so naïve back then and you still haven't figured it out."
"I should have been the one to finish you off." The doctor whispered sounding wistful.
"And after that you think you and Tsuzuki-san would be on the same page? Enma-Daioh has decided otherwise and I plan to use my time with him more effectively than the three days you had with him."
"What do you know?" Muraki leaned a little closer showing a quiet interest, but both parties knew it was not as casual as it sounded.
Saki smiled it sounded almost like a challenge, so he replied. "You are not the only one gifted with the sight, you are always spying on him, and I was watching you from the tank. Sixteen years and there was nothing to break my concentration. I was watching over you the entire time."
"You were a terrible guardian." You bastard!
"Father loved me more than you."
"You-" bastard!
"It was only your grandfather's money that bought your legitimacy. You would have been the bastard. Father loved my mother more."
"LIAR!" Growled Muraki abandoning the façade of politeness, there was no reasoning with this beast who had Saki's face.
"You stole my life!"
"I did no such thing!"
"Hmmm. You're right. They stole my life to give it to you."
"What are you talking about?"
"Your mother, grandfather and the butler. They made life hell for me and mother before she killed herself to get father to take care of me. It was your mother's guilt that drove her insane."
"You lie!"
"You are blind." Saki seemed so sad and full of pity when he said this, but Muraki only deemed it as an act.
"You filthy bastard! DAMN YOU!"
"I can't get my life back and you have made a frightful waste of yours but Tsuzuki-san has so much potential. Wouldn't you agree?
"Leave him out of this."
"Would you like to watch dear brother? Would you like me to show you how to get intimate with our dearest Tsuzuki-san? You are always watching him."
"He's mine."
"You had your chance, now it's my turn."
Muraki let out a curse, not just a string of words, one with power; enough to stained the walls and the floor with fresh blood...
TBC
April 15, 2005
