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The "-" means that they are talking to the other ex. Haru to Boomer or Boomer to Haru and no one else can hear.

The "XXX" means a separation in P.

The "000" means a restart which only happened in the déjà vu kind of chapter of the other story but just if it happens to occur here and so you know.

The " ***" means dream starting point or ending point.

"=" is for memory start point or ending point.

Note: Memories and dreams have text in italics

PowerPuff Girls R: Realities

Chapter 21: Forgotten Enemies

"Kyle…" murmured a small child with auburn hair and purple eyes who knelt on the middle of a cracked street, a truck laid flipped over leaking fuel with a boy with brown hair and green eyes stuck below the large mass. The child with auburn hair stared at the other in shock while shivering frightened "Brother, no…"

"Tsuki…" groaned the boy under the truck, his lower body was being crushed whereas his upper body was sticking out unharmed and could manage to stare at the other.

"Kyle…! Brother, I´ll help you out…!" exclaimed the small child who was mildly hurt, his clothes were slightly ripped and was smeared with blood as pieces of glass pierced his body "Kyle…!" groaned the child as he stood up and pulled his brother´s arm only managing to cause him pain he then stopped and knelt down to wail in frustration.

"Tsuki, hey, don´t cry…" murmured Kyle, even though his lower body was completely destroyed he pulled off his best smile "You are a big boy, please don´t worry…"

"Kyle…" sobbed the child while approaching him as close for the other to reach and hold the other.

"I´m so sorry, Tsuki, I never meant for this to happen… and it pains me to see you weeping like this…" murmured Kyle as he weakly caressed his cheek smearing a bit of blood on it "Thank god I can touch you like this, I feel so lucky since my chest up wasn´t trapped under; this way I can hold you and say farewell as well"

"Kyle, forgive me please…" stuttered Tsuki as his brother wiped off his tears.

"About what happened, don't dare blame music for it. You have to continue singing, I know you´ll be an awesome rock star someday, I can bet the few seconds or minutes I have left on it, it may not be much... but for me it´s an eternity of believing, believing you´ll succeed. It may be a tough life out there by yourself and the thing I hate the most is to leave you on your own but I know, I know you´ll figure what to do... I´ve always been proud of you" murmured Kyle while offering a gentle grin to his brother.

"But…" murmured Tsuki as he sobbed trying not to cry "Please, Kyle, forgive me…!" he said as he pressed his eyes shut while tears filled with grief ran down his face uncontrollably.

"No, I´m truly sorry brother, I craved to see you as you grew older… Now I have to go, leaving you behind in this cruel and rough world" said Kyle as tears formed in his eyes.

"Will I be alone now…? Dad and Mom are not here, I don´t think I can leave you, not without me trying to take you out…!" Tsuki said while frowning angry for not being able to help his brother who was being pushed down brutally and mercilessly against the pavement.

"You are not alone, Tsuki, call for Matt and I assure you he will come right to your side" said Kyle while smiling at Tsuki reassuringly.

"Huh…? But brother! I don´t want to lose you! I´ll flip this truck over! I swear I will!" yelled Tsuki sorrowfully.

"Look over here Tsuki" said Kyle as he showed his bare hand to him then making a fist, he then covered his fist with his right hand, Tsuki turned to see what he was doing briefly calming down a little. He stared for a bit and then gazed at the doves that came from his hands "See how magic is everywhere? A miracle can happen any day, you might not see me from now own but I assure you: I will watch you from above. Please tell me you´ll be a good boy…" murmured Kyle as he motioned for Tsuki to move closer to hug him as much as he could afford in his state and so embraced him while suppressing a whimper.

"Of course I will" whispered Tsuki while sniffling harshly.

"Do what Matt tells you okay…? Matt is your family now, he´s always been. He will embrace you and share with you his gentle warmth; open up to him and I promise he´ll naturally sooth your problems away, he is your guardian and your friend" murmured Kyle as he shivered and coughed blood, his temperature was dropping harshly for the blood loss and his body was rapidly losing strength.

"Kyle…!" exclaimed Tsuki while sniveling.

"Now listen, Tsuki, you have to run away. I won´t last much and the truck will blow up in brief…" said Kyle while looking concerned at his brother "I didn´t want to tell you this but I don´t want you to get caught in the explosion…"

"No…! No! No!" yelled Tsuki desperately "Kyle! No! don´t! Why can´t you use your magic to get out from there…? You can do anything brother! You can do miracles right?! I have no magic but please don´t leave me, brother!" said Tsuki as he stuttered finding it hard to breathe.

"Oh, Tsuki… I wish to stay with you but not even magic can repair what´s broken and I don´t mean my body… I cannot stay here anymore, one cannot face up against death, not when your soul decides to go" murmured Kyle as his tears cascaded from his face sorrowfully still wanting to smile at his younger brother "But I will watch you, who knows how but I will stand beside you… it´ll be painful for me to be invisible to you but no matter what, remember I am with you"

"Kyle, stop it… no…" said Tsuki sniffling as he felt his chest cringe in guilt and pain.

"You can find me at the cemetery in a week; I´ll be resting under a tree" said Kyle as he squeezed his brother "Don´t give up on your dream… I´ll be listening to your music. You have an amazing talent, don´t waste that gift, cling to it no matter what; even if you are in pain or feeling down, music will always be your guide…" murmured while managing to take off his necklace "Hold on to this, we have no photos together but at least this…"

"But that´s your favorite… necklace…" said Tsuki staring at him shaking his head side to side in denial as his face turned more and more pale.

"No… this is now yours, the sun gate key" murmured Kyle.

"Sun key…? But it has the shape of a bat…" sobbed Tsuki while sniffing.

"Yes, at first glance it does. Try and shape it in your mind though. What kind of shape does a sun has? What can you do so your bat looks like that? And Tsuki please… keep me always in your heart cause I won´t go anywhere. You are my little brother, who I love the most; my beloved ar…g-" whispered Kyle interrupted by the blood coming brusquely from his mouth, he then fell flat to the pavement and stretched a hand forcibly towards his brother who was paralyzed in fear and shock, Kyle looked desperately at him and seemed frightened as he chuck out the words asking him to run away since the area around the truck was lighting up in fierce and raging flames.

"Kyle! Shrieked Tsuki as the truck exploded enveloping both in scorching flames.

-I woke up in cold sweat, panting heavily as I sat on the couch and stared ahead noticing Boomer sleeping on the other one. Why did I dream that…? It somehow reminded me of Misaki and Me just that in that case, the one to live would have been Misaki… I wonder what that boy under the truck said at the end… it was kind of odd how I felt related to him. I turned to the right towards Misaki´s bed where Misaki´s body rested peacefully and stood up to gaze at his serene face, his lips were curled into a smile and his toy remained sprawled on a side of the mattress, I gingerly picked it up like if I was scared of it falling apart and gazed at it tenderly for some seconds then squeezing it softly against my chest while hugging it; I smiled warmly at it and placed it between Misaki´s arms, it just matched Misaki´s angelic self and he hugging it just made him look so much more innocent and sweet than he already was… looking at it made me recall Misaki´s cheerful and childish laughter which always made me work hard and do my very best.

"Misaki, I´m going to keep working hard, so you keep that smile, okay…?" I said to Misaki not getting a reply "And I´ll take you to eat some desserts when I meet you again, I always felt awful for you not being able to eat cakes but let´s enjoy as many as you want next time, alright…?"

"Kai…" I heard Haru murmur, he approached the bed and stared at me concerned "How are you doing? And what are you going to do now…?" asked Haru softly.

"I´m hanging in there, just for his sake of course and well… even though I don´t want to, I have to register his death, arrange a funeral and decide whether to cremate or bury him" I said painfully "But since I don´t have much, I don´t know what I´m going to do, he deserves a decent and beautiful funeral and I just…" I said as my throat became heavy and barely let me say anything.

"Kai…" murmured Haru looking worriedly at me, I looked at Misaki and softly grabbed his hand caressing his front with my thumb feeling his gradually colder and pale skin while smiling sadly at him.

"I´m sorry, Misaki, but at least until I can arrange everything, I will ditch school to work full time, I truly, truly apologize but please bear with me for sometime" I said while squeezing his hand lightly.

"About the burying…" murmured Haru while looking at the floor.

"I don´t know which one to choose, both are awful… I don´t want to imagine Misaki´s body decaying in a dismal coffin and cremating him is just unforgivable! Keep his ashes…? I always thought I would die first not the other way around; he was just a kid, an innocent victim of life´s heartlessness" I said trying to hold back from bursting into tears, Misaki was just starting his life, why would he have to go? Who ordered him back to heaven…?

"Kai… I´ll help you with the money" said Haru making me look down and shake my head in denial.

"I can´t ask that of you and less since you just moved, you have your own things to-" I said interrupted by Haru.

"Kai, don´t be a stranger. Misaki was family to me, I don´t mind helping you. In fact, I insist" said Haru while nodding "Misaki deserves the best and you know that"

"Yes, that´s true…"

"It´s also too much money… you need people to back you up, Kai, and you know you can count on me and maybe Ressee" said Haru.

"Aright, thank you… I´ll be indebted to you but I´d do whatever for Misaki" I said noticing Haru smiling.

"You won´t be indebted to us at all, we want to help and we will no matter how much you say ´´no´´ " said Haru.

"I greatly appreciate it" I said "By the way, what time is it?"

"Huh? That´s…" said Haru checking his watch "7: 30 am"

"7: 30 am? School starts in 30 minutes" I said as I stared at Misaki intently just like expecting him to move and scare me playfully.

"Kai… you are not seriously going to leave to school, right?" asked Haru looking surprised at me.

"What else can I do…? I know I just hurt him by being here and crying my lungs out… Misaki might be watching me now so I can´t show him my weak side" I said forcing a smirk at Haru, he just shook his head and approached me giving me a cozy hug "Haru…?" I murmured mildly startled and confused.

"No wonder Butch is in you, you both don´t seem to care about your own feelings or to be more exact… you two seem to find those emotions to be bad or ridiculous. Trying to act tough all the time, I wonder how much you cry when you are alone or if you do that at all now that Butch is listening to you" said Haru while staring at me with a sad expression "It´s not bad at all to cry and to show weakness in a moment like this one, you did your best for Misaki, you tried to look strong for his sake, to avoid him any pain but you have to give yourself some priority; Kai, cry if you want to cry, laugh if you want to laugh, scream if you want to scream but don´t repress your tears… after all we are only human. To ask yourself to not have feelings is the same as to order yourself to not breathe, you cannot ever control it"

"Haru, it´s hard for me to do that… ever since dad started to yell at us, I needed to be strong for Misaki" I said while smiling troubled at him.

"Kai, you repressed your feelings so much to the point of giving Misaki the impression you didn´t like him; this will sound harsh but… try and get that Misaki is not here anymore. Misaki wanted your company more than anything, he settled for me but he wanted you, his brother. Stop thinking for Misaki, you won´t ever guess what he is thinking" said Haru harshly "Or what he wants for that matter"

"I Just…" I stuttered while hiding my face with my bangs.

"When you think for others you are not being considerate, you are just being selfish! You actually want to leave to not have to deal with the burden. If that´s not the case, show him your weak side, he deserves to see he is not being a burden to you like he thinks he was!" said Haru pissed off. I wonder if Haru thought like this since always, Boomer tells me different stuff…

"I see…" I murmured, I then sat down and took off my hair band letting my hair down and so I covered my face with a hand.

"I remember he yelled at you once saying the only thing he wanted was his brother, he was strong too, and he suffered a lot because he knew you were dealing with a whole load of pressure at your part time jobs. He didn´t want to be selfish, whiny or a brat so he sucked it up to lessen your problems; see what you did to him? You drove him to behave like you: Rarely expressing his true feelings. He deserved to whine, cry and express the grief he was living and it kills me to think Misaki died keeping that behavior" said Haru making me shed tears of frustration "He was under so much pressure but he always thought about others, even more than himself. He thought he was unimportant or just like he said back then… Misaki thought of himself as a parasite only, even to the point of thinking he was the cause of your pain"

"Stop, Haru…" I murmured while sobbing softly.

"He was such a great kid but for his age had such unfair adult like thoughts… children should be naughty, playful, lively and selfish to an extent, they need to be loved to grow happy; not to think they are undeserving of it"

"Haru, please…" I said tangling my hand in and tugging my hair, he was causing me to feel so much remorse and grief but what was even more painful was that he was right, everything he said was true.

"No, you listen. Misaki suffered from´´ conditional love´´ you gave him affection and love to a little extent probably in determined occasions… maybe it wasn´t your intention but you just made him misunderstand and how not to when he had to yell at you to get a long lasting embrace? He is a kid that does not like to request for love or attention but he did when was desperate for affection…" said Haru making me tremble and sob harder realizing I was acting so horribly negligent towards Misaki.

"I didn´t mean to, I didn´t…" I said while sniveling painfully, my throat felt dry and also felt a lump when trying to gulp, it was turning harder to breathe for my awkward panting, my stomach hurt so much, my nose felt stuffy and my voice was shaky. I couldn´t even control my tears, they just kept coming out like compensating my restraining from before, I don´t know how Haru managed to make me break when I had built an imaginary wall to hold all that awful emotion in; I was vulnerable now, ashamed and guilty for my misleading behavior. All I wanted was to do what was best for Misaki but I ended hurting him so much and to make it worse I never noticed. Not once.

"Misaki, was lonely and hurting but with the time he begun to numb his pain by unconsciously getting used to it, that´s why he never seemed to care when he was disregarding himself. He didn´t believe he was important, he felt happy when you offered your arms to him but he felt even worse when you crossed your arms expressing disappointment in him" said Haru with an unusual indifferent tone, he was probably sympathizing with Misaki but he wasn´t towards me.

"W-Wait… when did I ever… expressed disappointment…? I always tried to encourage him" I said with a shaky and awkward voice.

"Think about it then, when did you express a slight change in attitude that could have been taken as rejection or disappointment?" asked Haru while letting out a sigh.

"When could I…" I murmured while sniffing "Wait… could it be when I was sad for him not eating…? But it´s normal to be sad for that, I just…"

"Not that, remember when you got mad? He told you that you were being insensitive and how did you reply? Did you try to comfort him then? Did you express your usual understanding?" asked Haru making me silent.

"No, I didn´t, I got angry" I said shocked when recalling that "But I apologized afterwards, I didn´t mean to yell at him, I didn´t…"

"What did you say?" asked Haru kind of cold.

"I got angry and complained about it telling him I was giving my best for him" I said covering my mouth, by recalling that I just wanted to cry even more.

"That´s one of the many things you have done, I don´t know what has happened before we met you guys but I´m sure that wasn´t the only one" said Haru "You bluntly expressed yourself like you were obligated to take care of him and that his behavior was ingratitude towards your kindness; that´s one way for him to feel like he is not important at all or just a parasite unworthy of being loved"

"I know…" I stuttered not being able to say anything else.

"Your constant absence and your calls to say you couldn´t make it is ´´Child Neglect´´ just like a parent who always goes off to work leaving their child alone, or when they want to play they will just say ´´Not today, tomorrow we´ll play´´ And the tomorrow never comes… Another is to come and stay for a short time not being as affectionate or maybe going out to places when you had free time and telling him about that" said Haru.

"But I… rarely… did that, if I did at all…" I said stuttering.

"Maybe so… what about replacing your love with material stuff? It´s understandable that the only thing he may have truly wanted as a gift for his birthday was his brother´s love who was not just a sibling but the only family he had" said Haru "The reason I´m pointing out this to you, besides the fact of the improbability of Misaki ever telling you is because from all people that could tell you all this and having the right to do so… I turn out to be one, why? I experienced similar stuff as Misaki did"

"Huh…? Experienced the same…?" I murmured why rubbing my eyes.

"My family basically abandoned me in Newsville´s Hospital, I never knew what was of them but the fact of my dad paying me the hospital; aside of that, I had to work to gain the money for a small house for myself and to open the flower shop" said Haru "Just like you I don´t talk about my family problems to anyone but I guess I see you as one of the few that I feel like telling. My first years in the hospital were basically like Misaki´s first years in the hospital, I was blind, confused, scared, I couldn´t do anything and my health was terrible. Yes, unlike your brother I could walk but I didn´t, why? I couldn´t see a thing I was frightened I was going to fall and never going to manage to find my way back"

"Haru…"

"But today is not about me, the reason I´m telling you about this is so you see I have gone through a similar experience and therefore I know to a big extent the pain and sorrow your brother has dealt with" said Haru "One can´t claim to understand another or be able to sympathize unless they have lived the same experience. Misaki and you have dealt with different lifestyles, he has been bedridden from an early age, not being able to leave a room then being unable to move at all… whereas you can walk, go to school, play with others and so on; your lifestyles were different and your burdens were also different it´s unlikely that you would have ever understood…"

"You sure have no problem being harsh huh…" I said while suppressing a sad chuckle.

"I felt like telling you all this probably out of my selfishness, it was excruciating to see Misaki so empty, so lacking that will to live and those fatalist thoughts of his" said Haru surprisingly starting to sob shedding tears while pressing his eyes shut "It was so painful, so torturing to listen to him say how he was destined to fulfill a certain debt before being able to pass away, that it was his entire purpose of existence. Do you have any idea how horrible and heartbreaking it is to hear such thoughts coming from a child?" stuttered Haru while biting his lower lip.

"Haru… what goal was it…?" I murmured shocked.

"He mentioned the debt you had to pay for the house" said Haru "He said he was still alive because he was meant to pay it off" he stuttered. I froze at that, my feelings kind of halted; I was unsure how to react to that, so many feelings overwhelmed me and I couldn´t express any… it was like they were battling inside me.

"Misaki you idiot…" I murmured while chuckling lowly turning my chuckles into a frustrated snarl "What did you mean…? It´s not like I would ever sell you to them to pay it off, I rather sell myself or whatever shit else; brother, I love you so much, there´s no fucking way I would ever sell you off to them. But… what puzzles me is: Where you really thinking on that…? Why? My young and cute brother considering being sold to those bastards, so they could do whatever they pleased to him?" I said enraged and extremely upset, why would Misaki think like that? "What is this…? What the fuck is this…?" I said bursting in tears again "He was that bad and I never noticed? What the hell is wrong with me?! How couldn´t I see that continuous pain he was bearing?!"

"Sorry about this Kai, you didn´t need me snapping at you. Please forgive me" said Haru while sobbing lightly.

"Don´t worry, your coldness surprised me and did hurt like fuck to take on, but… you made me see I was being an asshole towards my precious and treasured little brother" I said with a shaky voice as I approached Misaki´s bed "To think I almost go off to school leaving his beautiful small body here, in what was I thinking?" I said sorrowfully as I took Misaki´s hand "Misaki, you just wanted your brother, right? That´s all you wanted, didn´t you? And I couldn´t see it, I was blind and deaf. But what I can´t believe is that you told me you wanted this idiot of a brother again; you asked me to be your family… how can you be so forgiving? I was so insensitive, you were right all along, I did everything wrong! And now that I know I can´t take it back, I can´t mend for what I did anymore!" I said while carefully moving his body to hug it as I wailed on his head.

"He was a wonderful kid, Kai, you may have made several mistakes but you always thought on what was best for him, I didn´t give you any credit before… but you did what you could and you loved Misaki just like he loved you back" said Haru causing me to sob, I tangled my hand in his messy brown hair and kissed his forehead.

"Don´t take back what you said, you are right, my wrongs overwhelmed my rights and I admit it, I truly do. I can´t mend for it but at least I won´t ever deny it, I was negligent when I should have cared more, I should have been by his side several times; not only when he was sad for him to cry on me, I should have been there when he was happy, in pain or crazy. I missed so many things of his life and it´s painful to think: Why when I know of his pain, realize my mistakes and I´m up for a change to treat him better and how he deserves… he has passed away?" I said while stuttering while holding his head "Oh Misaki, you have no idea how much I repent, I want to keep looking after you and listen to your gleeful laughter but I can´t anymore, no words, no physical affection, no stares… not even a sigh or a heartbeat coming from you"

"Kai… no, stop…" murmured Haru while sobbing and sniffing loudly.

"You know, if you could come back with me… I swear I wouldn´t leave you like I did, I´ll keep working but I´ll come twice, no, thrice a week! And even stay over on a Saturday, if I´m allowed to, I would sleep beside you… hugging you until you woke up with you playfully plugging my nose or something to startle me awake. If you were able to leave, I would take you everywhere on a wheel chair and of course to my secret place. If you could eat anything, I would take you to the buffet at the place I work at; I know you like blueberry pies so you could eat as much as you want, I´d take you to the zoo, to the amusement park… to my school to meet my friends, even for a flight crossing the sky, we could maybe go camping or whatever you wanted but not alone here in this place; not ever" I said while smiling gently at him still shedding tears "I think I can still dandle you on my legs but maybe if I cannot then a piggyback might compensate that, I will read you bedtime stories and even make up my own; they might be silly but it´s so you can laugh at them on and on but for that I´d need you to wake up, wake up from that seeming eternal slumber… please, I beg you, open your eyes and tell me you are okay, that you are annoyed for my behavior… come on, Misaki…" I said while hugging and gently petting his head.

"Oh god, Kai, stop it" I heard Haru murmur, I kept watching Misaki for any reaction at all, he only moved according to how I held him, his locks gently brushing his face.

XXX

"Misaki, look at Skye, he is your favorite and precious toy, right?" Kai said as he raised the toy and squeezed it softly releasing the squeaking sounds "He is here waiting for you, he wants to play with you, Misaki, hey…"

"God…" I murmured in a low tone shocked at what was going on in front of me, Kai was suddenly behaving oddly –Boomer, Kai is scaring me…-

-Try and get his attention, maybe he is just letting out his emotions or something…- murmured Boomer unsure.

-I think he did that at first but he is overdoing it… Look, he is cradling him and lightly shaking him like trying to wake him up-

-Yeah, it´s kind of weird… talk to him, Haru-

"Kai! Hey!" I called Kai but he didn´t respond, I only watched him talking to him about more activities they could do and what things they could talk about. It was incredibly disturbing.

"Come on, Misaki, wake up… you are getting colder, if you don´t wake up soon you will seriously start to decay…" what was Kai saying now? What´s wrong with him…?

"Kai! Stop it! You are scaring me! Misaki can´t wake up! Stop it already!"

"Misaki, I know you want to scare me, but that´s too much, the joke lost its grace. Open your eyes and tell me you messed up, that you will try and scare me another day" said Kai as he lightly chuckled. For some reason, I felt curious and walked up to a side of him and then turned to see his face. I completely froze, I couldn´t see life in his eyes at all, they were empty maybe sad, but it was just like he had snapped; he didn´t turn to see me, he was focused on Misaki´s dead body brushing some locks away from his face, looking completely in a daze, his expression denoted madness like not from joy, it was sadness. It made me fear he would do something to me, not consciously but maybe in pure craze, I´d never seen him so crushed, so in pain that he had gotten stuck in an odd traumatic place inside his head. Was he even Kai…?

-Boomer, I think I broke him. I feel like I kicked him repeatedly until he went mad; now I´m afraid…- I murmured while looking terrified at Kai who was cradling Misaki yet I don´t know why it wasn´t touching but perturbing.

"Misaki… I need to buy you clothes, what would you like? Tell me what you want and I will buy you it" said Kai to him while shaking him softly, Misaki remained unresponsive and only moved with the rocking "Hey, if you don´t tell me how will I know? Maybe I can buy you some stuff randomly, if you like it you might try it on, right?" Kai said while grinning deranged, but it wasn´t evil, it was kind of a sorrowful creepy grin, kind of weird…

-Kai is managing to creep me out… Haru, try to call Butch, he may switch places with Kai- said Boomer, god, I hope Butch does come cause Kai is freaking me out… he just needs to hold a knife to look like an assassin… or maybe I´m just over exaggerating…

"Butch! Hey Butch! Can you switch please! We beg you! Please!" I said desperately and so watched Kai freeze which made me flinch freaked but for my relief, Kai changed with Butch.

"…"

"Butch! Thank god! Kai was freaking us out like you have no idea!" I said happy Butch had come out though he wasn´t turning around "Butch…?"

-Oh no… don´t tell me Butch is the same…- murmured Boomer uneasy- Haru, switch with me, if he tries something I will try and stop him-

XXX

-Alright…- said Haru changing with me, I then stared at Butch who kept giving me his back.

"Butch! Hey! Answer me you idiot!"

"…What do you want, shitface?" Grunted Butch while turning to see me with an apathetic face.

"Oh, thank god, we thought you were the same… what´s wrong with Kai?"

"You broke him. That´s what, dumbass" said Butch as he placed Misaki back against the pillow covering his body with the cover, he then turned to stare at me, Butch looked different I just didn´t understand why.

"What do you mean…?"

"That he had an emotional breakdown, judging for what happened… I´d say he is in a severe state. He actually overlooked the fact of Misaki being dead, he sees him as an asleep kid" said Butch while sighing.

"That´s awful… we didn´t mean to do that to him…"

"You seriously thought he was okay? Like he could cope with it just like whatever shit from everyday. Was it necessary to snap right here, right now? A side from his brother´s dead body, seriously? Yes, he realized his mistakes but there is a time and place for that kind of shit not few hours after the kid just died. You say he was being cruel and shit, what about you? Heck, that was low. Even for me" said Butch while glaring "But whatever, as long as Kai goes back to normal with time and he doesn´t turn me into a whining bitch; I´m okay with it"

"Whining bitch…? Why would- oh…" I said shocked at recalling their influences on us.

"What do you think happens to me if Kai suffers an emotional blunt? Shit, I don´t even want to imagine" said Butch "I think Kai would only go back to normal if Misaki came back from the dead but hey, he may stay that way permanently even if his brother is brought back. Thank you, feelings experts"

"For now, I think we should leave the room, being with Misaki´s corpse won´t help Kai at all" I said staring concerned at Butch.

"Well, duh" said Butch as he followed me outside, though before closing the door I peeked inside towards Misaki´s direction.

"I´m sorry for this, Misaki, don´t worry… we will fix your brother. Oh, and we´ll be back later, maybe just Haru and me but we will be back; until then, please bear with us" I said feeling guilty, I then closed the door and left with Butch.

We left the hospital briefly, it was painful to leave Misaki in the room by himself but we had o for now since Kai was a mess; if possible I would come back to replace him for a while. It wasn´t the same to leave Misaki there as it was now, Kai had to register his death. His body couldn´t remain in that room, he wasn´t asleep… he was dead and his body would start to decay sooner or later. Kai was right: To imagine Misaki´s body decaying was so painful and sad.

"I think we should we go meet Brick, he should know what´s going on" I said thoughtfully.

"What makes you think Brick would care? He barely cares about us and you want him to care for the kid? Wake up already, I told you before and I don´t feel like saying it twice" said Butch uttering a groan while rolling his eyes.

"Let´s just go, or do you have any better ideas?"

"I guess not" said Butch flatly as we took the road to Ressee´s home.

"How is Kai?" I asked worried, I felt so bad for him, Kai was trying to be strong and we basically yelled ordering him to suffer…

"I get you feel guilty and shit but I hope you won´t be asking me every 5 minutes" said Butch looking sarcastically at me.

"Okay then… how are you doing?"

"Seriously? Well, I feel like shit, how else?" said Butch sounding irritated "I´m angry as fuck and frustrated mostly but I won´t start weeping and barking like you guys have a while ago"

"Butch, but-"

"Oh no, don´t say anything. I get crying is normal crap, okay? If I don´t cry then I don´t cry. I don´t need you telling me my crimes so I start breaking and fuck; though I wouldn´t cry for crimes but rejoice about them"

"What´s so wrong on expressing pain?" I asked him while looking at him confused.

"Nothing, but it´s wrong to push someone to their limit as a way to express it" said Butch as he closed his eyes and scowled "I get Haru´s point and I agree on most of it but he was just attacking Kai, he wasn´t sympathizing with him at all; when people do that, they don´t care about the feelings of the person. They just want to unleash their irritation"

"Haru is sorry for saying too many things he didn´t mean to yell; some where only personal opinions but he didn´t mean to hurt him at all"

"Dude, stop it. I´m not mad at Haru whatsoever ´kay? He is human, I get it. He has suffered as well bla, bla, yes, I get it. Haru did wrong, period"

"He didn´t express himself well, he said-" I said interrupted by him.

"Boomer! I said stop it, dammit! If you want my opinion then I will give it to you but after I do; you have to drop the subject you idiot" said Butch while snarling at me.

"Okay" I said flatly watching him sigh annoyed.

"Kai was just caring for Misaki the way he could. He is not perfect, no one is. He was scared about this, he wanted to prevent Misaki´s death; he wanted his brother to recover fast. To see him walking again" said Butch looking mildly irritated; yeah it was strange to listen to Butch saying these kind of things.

"Oh…" I murmured to myself as both Haru and I thought deeply about this.

"However, stuff didn´t go as smooth as he had planned, Misaki wasn´t getting better, the debt bastards wanted the money by a certain date, just like him paying rent. He had to skip school to work part time, deal with the annoying debt assholes, pay for water in the house. He saved a bit to eat some crappy thing as meal as a way to save money for Misaki; He had to pay for school, books and shit else" said Butch, Kai was dealing with so much stuff and we just…

"Kai…"

"He dealt with a fuck load of stress; he had to beat up the guys who for some reason resented him and had to spend extra time at work and offer to do favors in order to gain some extra bucks. He doesn´t have much clothing either, he couldn´t buy shit because he didn´t want to waste any money, yet he struggles and puts on a grin without whining. He never complains or lets out his stress on people; though I admit he does that on the boxing club" said Butch while making a sarcastic expression.

"We didn´t know that…" I murmured feeling horrible. Haru was even more remorseful, he didn´t understand why he had said all that; he never meant to snap that way…

"Kai even went to work when he was sick, almost collapsing yet he was hanging in there; struggling to keep Misaki okay. If that is not caring or loving then I don´t know what that is" said Butch while sighing irritated, he was probably fed up of saying all this to us "He is a simple human, he has limited strength, energy and he can´t be in everything because it´s impossible; He tries to be a super human for Misaki, he had to and he didn´t resent it. He liked struggling for his brother and well yes, all Haru said is true, fucking true but that´s the part he had to sacrifice in order to take on all the others"

"I see…" I murmured looking at his glaring expression like saying ´´Not enough yet?´´ "Go on"

"Fuck dammit" muttered Butch "Anyways… It wasn´t Misaki just wanting Kai, Kai wanted Misaki as well. It hurt like fuck to know he was barely seeing him but he did care; he knew he was hurting yet he had to forcibly ignore it so he could keep working"

"Kai sure was pushing himself, huh…" I murmured while staring sadly at Butch, I wonder what it is but Butch does seem different; But how?

"He was trying to be into every aspect and flaw in their lives but he couldn´t, though he managed a great deal of it. Asking him to also kill himself to go see his brother is reasonable but that´s unfair and highly stressing to him as well"

"It indeed was…" I murmured while staring upwards watching the clouds.

"To end the fucking long ass rant here… it was a severe screw up from Haru, I don´t mean you ´cause you for some reason can´t say shit related to hatred and less to be a jerk to someone. You need to be smart to hurt someone like that" Butch said while shrugging.

"Hey…!" I exclaimed while frowning at him.

"Pointing out Misaki´s pain and burden as well as his flaws about it was too much for him to bear, he felt like a human crap for not pulling off perfection and lastly, bursting into tears was just his limit; now he is lost in insanity" said Butch as he looked irritated at me.

"Oh, yeah… I knew Kai was having it harsh but not so bad to go insane like that; to me, he seems like his whole mind went crazy and his true self shut down somewhere inside…"

"Yeah, that´s being insane you dumbass… why the need to repeat it? Oh yeah, you are a dunce" said Butch making me glare "So, we´ll drop the fucking subject since I already ranted like a shitty parrot"

"Okay… so how is Kai?" I asked him causing him to snarl at me while making a fist.

"Boomer, if you ask me again… I will cut off your head" said Butch pissed off.

"Sorry…" I chuckled troubled. I then turned to see Brick running towards us looking scared or something, he stopped where we were to pant crazily "Brick?"

"Guys, just get the fuck away; that girls is nuts and I can´t stand her anymore!" said Brick as he kept panting. Why was he running anyway? He could fly, couldn´t he?

"Brick, why didn´t you just fly?" I asked seriously confused.

"Uh…" murmured Brick while looking to a side in a funny troubled way "I felt like running, why else?"

"Oh" I uttered. He definitely forgot about it didn´t he…

"Brick! Come here and let me kiss you!" A girly voice yelled from some distance away.

"Mikie?" Butch and I said puzzled at Ressee´s sister chasing Brick.

"Knock it off! It´s weird, I told you already!" said Brick annoyed. We stared at him kind of puzzled; it was so weird for Brick to behave this funny.

"No, it's not! Come here!" yelled Mikie surprisingly firing a beam at us; we couldn´t dodge in time so we were hit straight on.

After being hit, I felt funny, my whole body felt hot and so I felt an awkward pain; my head pun and so got dizzy. After a while of that, I opened my eyes and looked around confused.

"Uhmm… why is everything bigger?" I asked while staring at Mikie who had grown "Mikie? I thought you were shorter…"

"Ah…" murmured Mikie looking troubled "This is bad…"

"Boomer? Why do you look like a kid, dude?" asked Butch. I turned to see him and stared wide eyed at him; Butch looked like a kid. No, Butch was a kid…

"Butch…" I murmured confused, he looked puzzled at my reaction. We looked at Brick who was a kid too and weirdly, we started to wince in pain; an intense headache forced me to kneel down and hold my head while squirming at the torturing images that sneaked inside. I had no idea about what I was seeing but I gradually became aware of it: pictures of the city, pictures of the girls when younger, pictures of Mojo Jojo, Him and the volcano; Fuzzy, the amoeba boys and so on… flashbacks of when we fought and pummeled the crap out of the girls, the kisses… memories of Butch and Brick but the most painful thing to see in such a sudden attack; was to watch how Brick was being tortured at the time when Him wanted to modify us to his liking. I couldn´t see Butch since he was on the other side but well I was at that moment immobilized by fear of the needles which were pointing at me, it was incredibly scary. I continued watching horrible and gruesome scenes until my vision turned blurry and everything was submerged in darkness…

XXX

I woke up and stared ahead a bit dizzy noticing it was pitch black, I then sat and looked around noticing I was surrounded in solid darkness, where was I?

-Ressee, hey- I said noticing Ressee wasn´t present for some reason, I was actually just thinking to myself instead of Ressee listening, what happened…?

"Brick…?" someone murmured; the voice sounded weak and a bit sore maybe a bit childish and kind of sad.

"Who´s there?" I called kind of puzzled, that voice didn´t sound familiar at all…

"Oh, so it really is you" said a boy as he stepped in front of me; the spot where he stood was somehow bright as to allow me to see his face. He was wearing a red cap with a patch on the right side of it, a lock of his hair was sticking out from his cap; no, not like mine, his was coming out from a random hole which was on the left side. He had orange hair like mine though it was shorter and odd in style, he had a scar on his left cheek and his expression was dreary though maybe it was emptier more than anything, he wasn´t looking at me in a bored almost hypnotized way just like someone would expect a person like him to be; his expression was that of someone normal just that his red eyes were lacking emotion, in fact, I could swear he hadn´t slept for the small bags under his eyes. He was wearing a black sleeveless t-shirt and red shorts, his appearance also looked tattered, he wore bandages around one of his thighs and around his ankles but what puzzled me was the reason why he didn´t wear bandages around his neck since he had a horrible, shocking scar of dots; just like if something had been pushing inside his skin.

"Who are you?" I asked a bit freaked by him, I mean… it was freaky to be in front of someone who not only looked like a dreary zombie; he also carried a chainsaw on his back and was holding an odd skull at chest level, like if he was showing it to me. I had no idea why but if I tried to relate it to someone then I would think it was me, so fucking odd.

"My name is Daitaro" said the boy simply as he looked at me with curiosity "I never thought I´d find you here, Brick, it´s certainly a relief"

"Huh? Why is that? And hey, how do you know my name?" I asked horribly confused, I didn´t know him or did I?

"This place you are in now, it´s an inescapable room or dimension" said Daitaro "As the name infers, there´s no way to leave this place"

"Huh…"

"I know you might be aware of it now… the reason why I know your name" said Daitaro in a calm yet disturbing way.

"Do I…" I said wondering if to tell him my conclusion.

"Yes, I am certainly one of your soul´s fragments; yet, I have not been able to move on" said Daitaro still with that tone…

"You haven´t moved on? You mean you are supposedly dead?"

"In a way, yes" said Daitaro as he curled his lips into a small smile and nodded still seeming nothing but disturbing; that hadn´t been a happy smile, I really don´t know what he meant it to be, just his appreciation from getting what he was saying?

"What do you mean in a way? And hey, fragment of my soul… what?"

"If it´s easier for you to comprehend, you can see me as yourself from another reality; one that is not connected to yours, at least not anymore" he said as he tilted his head a bit to the left side.

"That´s still crazy…" I murmured pondering on what he had just said.

"My reality, the world where I came from is in peril and perhaps nearing the total demise of it; it´s undergoing paralysis" said Daitaro. Man I can´t stop staring at that skull, it´s so creepy… is it maybe an animal´s?

"How does that relate to you being here?" I asked fairly curious about what he was saying.

"My body and part of my soul remain in that reality, you can say my body is alive but I´m not consciously there. I was imprisoned in this place as means to silence me" said Daitaro as he closed his eyes and sighed.

"So you are saying the true living corpse is somewhere else but you are conscious and okay?" I said skeptical, if he was doing fine… how did his zombie self looked like then? Hell, don´t wanna imagine that.

"Not quite" said Daitaro confusing me even more "Another part of our soul is stuck in another self"

"Our soul?"

"I cannot explain you fully… I find plausible that you will be leaving soon and my chance will be wasted" said Daitaro as he stared at me, he now looked a bit worried. Weird to notice that…

"Oh, fine then, say whatever you have to, but you better tell me more if we meet again"

"You can be sure I will if another chance like this comes, though that´s unlikely to happen" said Daitaro as he looked down to the skull briefly.

"Well, we can´t be sure yet" I said waiting for him to elaborate, this must be a twisted dream yet I better just listen I guess.

"As I said before, my name is Daitaro. Better known as Barricade" said Daitaro looking a bit sad "I want to warn you about the upcoming threat; your reality is in danger"

"Danger? Why is that?"

"There´s an ominous being trying to mess with your world" said Daitaro "This being is not like any villain you have ever seen"

"Oh, really? What are his intentions? World domination?" I said mockingly.

"This being goes beyond the normal villain stereotypes… this being is tricky and cruel. The purpose of it is not to attain power but to toy with other dimensions and kill other creatures" said Daitaro.

"Toy with dimensions?"

"This being enjoys screwing realities, it turns them upside down, messes with everything bringing forth their ruin… yet it doesn´t take everything away since it enjoys watching the inhabitants of that reality suffer and perish" said Daitaro "However, it does snatch things away and steals one of the most treasured things a reality has"

"Like?"

"The reality I come from has already been attacked and ruined by it, I come from a world of destruction, shambles and loss; no sympathy, no hope, no affection thus no love" said Daitaro "Your world possesses the Dawn, Day, Evening and Night whereas my world only has the night; there´s no blue sky, it´s always a starry sky… it´s always night time"

"Seriously? It must suck to live in a pitch black place"

"Yes… The fear never ceases and to have to endure another´s sorrow and fear is heart breaking, almost unbearable… but that´s not the issue here, I wanted to ask of you that if by any chance you happen to meet my other body: I would like you to push him back on the right track. He was doing alright, we managed to change fate, save our cherished and most treasured person from a life of eternal suffering and craze but for some reason he´s been given the idea that what he did was wrong and that he was hurting me and traumatizing me" said Daitaro looking worried.

"What? Why would they do that?"

"As to ensure me being locked in this place. As my other personality suffers the consequences of being badly instructed, my soul keeps rotting inside him and turning into a deranged monster that surpasses any possible attempt of being recognized as myself thus sealing me here"

"What…?" I murmured really lost on what he was saying.

"I´m trying to change the fate of that reality, but if people keep trying to get in my way… I won´t be able to succeed and will fail once again to protect what is dear to me" said Daitaro "That personality of mine is really strong, but greater powers are mistakenly trying to correct him"

"What do you mean with personality? It´s kinda funny how you use the word" I said, I have a fair idea of what he means but I still want to confirm it.

"With personality I mean a physical incarnation" he said flatly.

"And when you say greater powers…"

"I mean angels; they don´t know what is going on and therefore are doing the fiend´s work" said Daitaro, angels…? Huh?

"How can angels not know? If those beings are real, it´s obvious they know" I said looking skeptical at him.

"Yes, you are certainly right, but this enemy is unknown to angels… it´s only a rumor among them and its target is the angels as well" said Daitaro calmly.

"You gotta be kidding me, a dude who is targeting angels? That´s the craziest thing I´ve heard… that´s bullshit" I said. How could I believe such story? A villain who goes beyond what´s normal for the rest? Yeah, villains are powerful but not as much to screw realities, mess with holy beings and shit else.

"My personality can´t be blamed for his current confusing behavior and thoughts… one could say that he is weak but it´s not his fault; he´s been infected…. If anything, he´s been putting up with it pretty well" said Daitaro as he sighed looking worried.

"Infected?" man, I sounded so stupid asking like this but hell, I had no idea what he was saying.

"I said so before: The enemy is unknown to angels. It´s tricky and unpredictable, an odd fiend with strange goals if any at all… It´s not a human being, it does not succumb to normal ideals that greedy humans crave: it expands, it engulfs, it disperses and it starts to rot things gradually until it´s irreversible; it´s a virus" said Daitaro with a scary look in his eyes.

"How can a virus be a fiend…?"

"I cannot elaborate since I do not have that much time. I can tell you, however, that the virus infects corpses, after it does: it starts to corrupt their souls, it feeds on the negative emotions and sanity of the person; I do not know much, but that´s the basic concept I can give you for now"

"I see… this might be a weird dream but it´s still interesting and I really wonder, aside from the question of all this being true or nonsense; How did you end here and what´s up with that skull?" I asked, seriously what the fuck with that thing.

"I was separated from my brothers. I was investigating the catastrophe in my realm and found out plenty about it, however, the virus attacked me and in my struggle to live… my soul divided, thus forbidding me from passing away" said Daitaro.

"How can a soul divide…?"

"It´s not exactly dividing, the moment I had to decide if to leave or stay was really difficult for me; I wanted to help another realm to avoid destruction, I didn´t want to overlook it, but I wanted to stay as well. My soul suffered intense pain by the indecision which was only put at ease when an angel assisted me" said Daitaro arguably happy.

"An angel…?"

"Well, it was an archangel actually; Sariel assisted me that time, Sariel offered me the option to reside in another living personality from a different realm temporally… after thinking about it for a few minutes, I accepted. Little did I expect to be attacked again on our way there leading to my soul splitting in three" said Daitaro, man, I just can´t follow this story, questions keep popping up and haven´t fully comprehended it yet.

"How can you be taken to another realm just like that? How can that being manage such thing? Isn´t that like… impossible?"

"Archangels have divine unique powers; speaking for Sariel… his responsibility are the souls of those who are ready to go back to the soul realm; as an archangel whose responsibility is death, healing, guidance and knowledge, it can manage with ease the soul transportation. It can even take souls out of their personalities, it can control death as he pleases; he is the sun that shines upon the dead to awaken them"

"I get it… though the sun thing for zombies is kind of off, don´t you think? You know how the night fits all that horror movie stuff" I said really curious on his use of the sun to talk about zombies.

"The Sun is the right symbol used to represent what Sariel is capable to do" said Daitaro "My use of the word ´´zombies´´ is not to suggest the ones from movies; what I´m trying to say is that Sariel can rise people from the death temporally, it can even give more time to people whose time is almost up. It´s indeed a sun which shines strongly… bringing rays of hope and compassion. But I can´t deny the possibility of summoning normal corpses from their graves"

"What an odd archangel, sounds more like the grim reaper or some shit like that" I said finding it odd.

"It´s understandable that one cannot comprehend Sariel´s role, I also cannot explain in detail about him right now but still, he works under God´s command an it´s also Raguel´s partner" said Daitaro.

"Raguel? Is that another archangel?"

"I can´t help but think I´m explaining unnecessary things to you… but well, whatever helps you to acquire a better understanding. I don´t even know if I´ll see you again and the angel matter is a dire threat not just for them but for the rest of the universe´s realities" said Daitaro then releasing a sigh "When I was crossing dimensions with Sariel, it told me about Raguel, his partner; he is in charge of all angels, he is responsible to watch over them to ensure they are doing their service. He also said how he is sure to appear whenever he is called to offer assistance to those in need"

"I see… but hey, you haven´t answered me how you landed here and that skull" I said really eager for an answer.

"That´s-"

"Hey! Brick! Wake up!" I heard Boomer yell at me as I opened my eyes slowly "Brick!"

"Shut up! You are noisy as hell!" I yelled while throwing Boomer off me and smacking him hardly on his head causing a bump to rise.

"Owww!" whined Boomer as he knelt down and touched the bump; I turned to see Butch who looked at me in a bored manner.

"Seems you are ok" said Butch "I can´t believe I´m staring at your 5 year old version dude, it´s so odd yet after the flashback attacks, I find it like whatever"

"Yeah, I get you, you two look so funny like this, especially you" I said while smirking at him, Butch as a kid is just teasing material.

"Yeah, say whatever. Boomer, stop being a cry baby and man up" said Butch as he rolled his eyes and Boomer turned to see him while pouting.

"Yeah right! Mr. I crapped my pants!" said Boomer while sticking out his tongue at Butch.

"I´m not that small… "murmured Butch in an odd way, he lacked energy, too much energy.

"How much were we out of it?" I asked interested on that. So that had been a dream then?

"Well, you were like 3 hours out of it, if we count it from the moment we woke up" said Boomer.

"Guys…" murmured Mikie as she walked in, we were in Ressee´s room. She approached us and looked down kind of embarrassed "I´m sorry, I didn´t mean to"

"Yeah, we know" I said, what exactly did she do? "So, do you have an idea of what you did?" I asked noticing Butch crawling to the edge of the bed jumping off to go stand in front of a mirror, Boomer followed him and seemed kind of amused by staring at Butch and himself.

"Not really…" she said sheepishly, it was odd to hear Mikie sound so embarrassed. I got off the bed and also went to stare at the mirror; it was an incredible change in our appearances. It was really creepy…

"So you have no idea how to change us back?" asked Boomer looking troubled.

"No, I´m sorry" said Mikie while bowing her head in shame.

"So… you have no idea if this is permanent?" asked Butch looking between shocked and irritated.

"No, I don´t know. It may be temporal but I have no idea" said Mikie. Butch lowered his head; he closed his eyes and smirked in an odd way.

"Don´t fuck with me" said Butch as he raised his head and grinned maniacally while scowling, his eyes turned fierce and clear wrath could be seen on his expression. Mikie flinched at the sight of his face and gave a step backwards; Boomer and I stared warily at Butch puzzled for his sudden reaction.

"Butch, hey, what´s wrong? Hey! Don´t do that retarded expression over nothing you asshole! So what that we are kids right now, we´ll find a way to grow back to our-" I said interrupted by the sight of Butch lifting Mikie by the neck and holding her up.

"Turn me back you little bitch!" exclaimed Butch at her still with that crazy grin of his. Mikie stared back at him in shock as her lips trembled nervously.

"Hey! What the fuck! Butch drop her!" I said about to tackle him for what he was doing. How dare he do this?! She is annoying, yeah, but what the fuck?!

"Don´t move or I´ll crush her neck, got that?" said Butch as he turned to see me with a devious smirk on his face though it was more of a perturbing expression since it just showed insanity.

"Butch! She didn´t mean to do it! Let her go!" exclaimed Boomer surprised at what he was doing, what the fuck is his problem?! What´s worse is that he didn´t seem to be bluffing about crushing her neck, I wanted to tackle him anyway, confident I would beat him before he could give a soft squeeze on her neck but Ressee yelled to not do it thus restraining my movement.

"I´m fucking tired of annoying shit happening continuously, this bitch was the last straw. I won´t keep putting up with it you hear me?! You better change me back or else I´m gonna freaking kill you right here and now!" yelled Butch viciously at Mikie. Mikie started to sob and flail herself to try and slip from Butch´s tight hold.

"I´m sorry, hey, it hurts…" said Mikie as she kept sobbing and started to groan as Butch squeezed her neck seemingly amused at her pain.

"Butch! Mikie didn´t mean it! Come on! Why are you so pissed off about it?!" yelled Boomer irritated at Butch.

"I can´t fucking go to the hospital looking like this!" exclaimed Butch "No one will take me seriously fuck dammit!"

"Butch…" murmured Boomer shocked at his words. What are they talking about?

"You think you are the only thing that matters?! Stop being a fucking obnoxious brat! You are only causing problems to others you hear?! And I don´t have the patience Brick has to put up with fucking children like you!" yelled Butch making Mikie cry and sniff, what the hell is wrong with Butch? He does have patience as amazing as that sounds, he would never react like this and less in some unimportant problem like this one.

"Butch! Stop harassing Ressee´s sister! When this shit ends I´m going to beat the crap out of you!" I yelled equally pissed at seeing Butch tormenting Mikie.

"Butch! I know what you feel! But try and get that Mikie is equally important to Ressee as he was to Kai!" exclaimed Boomer really upset. What was he saying…?

"You think I care about that shit? I told you, not because you care about someone does it mean everybody else will do! I´m tired of sucking it up! Kai would probably put up with it but there´s a limit to being nice and selfless, hell, it´s bullshit!" exclaimed Butch as his grin widened and his face turned even crazier, he was completely loosing it; it was a disturbing crazed expression of bloodlust, he was capable of killing Mikie right here and now and he would probably not hesitate.

"Butch! Try and be strong! You won´t gain anything by threatening a little girl! Don´t be unreasonable! Would you like Brick threatening Misaki?! Think for a second dammit!" exclaimed Boomer angrily.

"Shut up" said Butch shooting a beam from his hand hitting Boomer who wasn´t expecting it at all; Boomer crashed against the wall sliding against it and falling awkwardly on the floor "You better not bring Misaki up again. If Brick dared threaten Misaki I would freaking kill him, but as I said: I don´t give a damn about this girl, I just want her to change me right now!"

"Butch! I understand why you are like this! I know you are not yourself right now so try and calm down!" exclaimed Boomer as he stood up and frowned at Butch frustrated.

"You don´t get it, you don´t get it at all! So don´t fucking claim you do!" yelled Butch at Boomer enraged "Do you know how it feels to know that your only brother is dead?! Rotting as time passes?! Alone in that crap of place?! Not having been able to give him a damn decent life and now neglecting him once he is already dead?! You have no fucking idea!" yelled Butch as he remained panting. Misaki was dead…? After hearing this, it was safe to say that Kai was not himself right now and that he was in some way affecting Butch´s current behavior leading to this uncontrolled display of madness… but I couldn´t forgive him for threatening Ressee´s sister anyway.

"Butch, put down Mikie or I´ll kill you instead, you hear?!" I yelled at him gaining his attention, he smirked at me still having that bloodlust expression on his face.

-Brick, don´t fight Butch. As he is, Mikie will end hurt if a battle was to start here- said Ressee, he was struggling to be reasonable in this situation, it was incredible since his sister was being threatened yet he wanted to keep composure and think on what was better and logical.

"Butch! We can go to the hospital and talk it out with the people there!" exclaimed Boomer trying to calm him down.

"Yeah, like I could explain this shit to them. I need to register his death, I can´t be fooling around like this! Do you have any idea how painful this is?!" exclaimed Butch enraged. Boomer looked upset at him and horribly frustrated for not knowing what to say or do, however, as I stared at Butch, I recalled a gruesome image from our past; it was cruel and traumatizing for Butch but hell, he asked for it!

"Butch" I said flatly making him turn to see me with a scowl, as soon as he did, I whispered something barely audible to him which made him freeze.

"Brick, what did you do to Butch…?" asked Boomer slightly freaked, Butch kept being paralyzed and as he remained like that, I took Mikie from his hold and ushered her out of the house instructing her to run to Momoko´s house, she needed to be as far from Butch as she could manage to and I had a feeling she would be safe in that place.

"Remember how when Him was trying to modify us to be his underdogs ?" I asked while looking troubled at Butch who was still shocked.

"Yeah, why?" Boomer said as I looked down kind of irritated at the thought.

"Well, after the endless stress we undergone, he came up with codes to test us" I said while clenching my fists finding what I wanted to say really hard.

"I don´t remember so much, after all, I believe I was destroyed first" said Boomer looking upset "But I do remember he said something which emptied my mind turning it blank… I stared lifelessly at Butch´s face as my body trembled and went numb; I won´t ever forget that since I believe I exploded or something like that afterwards"

"Geez! Don´t say it that way! You just make me relive that shitty and disturbing event you insensitive asshole" I said while frowning and snarling at him annoyed, I swear this guy can go as far as to describe it exactly as it was and then say something like splattered and fuck, I don´t need the details! It had been awful to see Butch and Boomer being destroyed the way they did; worst of all having to contemplate the places where only Chemical X was… god, now I´m doing it too dammit!

"Sorry… yet, what did you do to Butch then?"

"I repeated the word Him used that caused him to explode" I said while looking away uneasy.

"What?!" exclaimed Boomer completely shocked, he looked incredibly frightened and how not to be; if what I used was the same used to destroy him.

How everything was going to turn out was clearly unknown to me; maybe I did a mistake by using that specific word, but… what else could I have done?

Almost done! Maybe the next one is last or not XD I wonder… I took more this time since graphic design is like sucking my free time u.u however, I will try to upload the next one soon!