-One week later-
Deidara lied in his too soft bed, as he looked up at the ceiling, tears forming in his eyes. He had been crying uncontrollably the hours before but it felt like he had nothing left. He really didn't. Itachi had taken Eien away. It had been a day ago when Deidara had said something that Itachi thought was offensive. The Uchiha didn't say where the redhead was or what was going to happen to him, but Deidara had already imagined the worst of it.
The blond gave a small sob and began crying again, wishing he could get out of bed. As even more punishment, the cruel man raped him and when Deidara tried to get up again he was beat to the ground by some guards.
It was only a few minutes later when Deidara heard the door open. He looked to his left to see Itachi standing in the doorway, his countenance a blank page. The blond felt rage fill him as he saw the Uchiha, but he didn't even have enough energy to make a facial expression; he almost looked dead.
"I hope you won't disobey me again, Deidara. I can do much more than just take your son away and you know that." The blond looked away, not wanting to make eye contact with the sadist. "If you obey me again I will release him. You don't want him to be in the dungeon forever now, do you?"
Deidara's eyes widened and he looked at Itachi, the fear and rage now showing on his face. He had to bite his tongue to not curse the man out for thinking he could treat them like this, but he didn't. His son's life was at stake. Instead, he just bitterly nodded his head.
Itachi gave a small glare. "I want to hear you say it, Deidara."
The blond gulped and looked away once more. "I will obey you." The words tasted vile on his tongue but he had no choice but to say them." but only if you leave Eien alone, un."
The Uchiha smirked. "Good but if I see you do otherwise," He said, the smirk disappearing, his countenance now a threatening one, "I will not hesitate to go to extremes." Deidara nodded once more and Itachi smiled sweetly. "I'm sure you want to see him, but first I have to test your loyalty to me." Itachi closed to door and Deidara felt the panic rise into him.
He was almost hyperventilating as Itachi walked over to him with a smirk. He had to calm down or else he would do something he would regret. As the ebony-haired male tore the blanket off the blond he straddled his waist. Deidara felt himself go numb automatically, knowing he would 'wake up' when Itachi was done.
The Uchiha kissed his neck softly and chuckled. "This time will be different though. I want you to enjoy it~"
Deidara snapped out of his trance and he stared up at the Uchiha with depressing eyes. Itachi continued to smile back and the blond frowned. Anything to keep his son safe.
The memory was already blocked so Eien sped through everything, already wanting to be out of the Uchiha manner once more. He remembered the day he had been taken away from his Mum. He wasn't hurt but he was treated like an animal. He was fed once with leftover food and was kept in a corner with straw.
When he had seen his Mum the next day he looked defeated but happy to see him. Though, of course, there were fresh wounds on the blond. Deidara didn't care of course, as long as Eien was safely with him he was happy.
And that was another thing Eien could add on how he had hurt his Mum. He could easily look through those memories quickly but too quickly and the redhead would see everything at once, knowing he would get a migraine afterwards. So he could only skip so much before it got too much. And he could only skip if he could read the book. There was barely any time for him to do anything leisurely anymore. There was work, but training took up most of his time.
Yoru was being strict when he was teaching Eien on how to use the bow and arrow, but besides that he acted like an annoying kid. The redhead just wished he would stay on one that wasn't so annoying.
His Father was teaching him more about their energies and how their auras actually functioned but Yoru said something to him one day that made Eien very shocked. The redhead had been talking about how his Father talked about things so easily and how it was unfair for him to expect him to learn everything right away.
"Well it was easy for your Father to know and you understand why, right?" Yoru asked as he corrected Eien's arm as he held his bow, his arrow all ready to go.
The redhead eyed the demon wondering what he meant. He was sick and tired of his weird nonsense, especially him having to feel tired as he continued to hold his weapon for an hour. "What do you mean?"
Yoru gave a small laugh. "You honestly don't know? It's what makes the King so infamous, yet not. His Mother was an angel- well, a fallen angel."
Eien's eyes went wide and he accidentally let go of the string and arrow, sending the latter flying through the air and it stuck in the stone wall in front of them.
Yoru sighed in frustration and took Eien's bow from him. "And you still need to concentrate and keep your mind steady."
"What do you mean his Mother was an angel? That makes no sense! He's all devil!" Eien didn't mean to overreact but he felt like he should have known this. He was finding out more about his Mum so why not his Father as well? The man was a hypocrite sometimes.
Yoru gave another sigh and the arrow in the wall dissolved before reappearing in his hand. He handed to two back to Eien and the redhead automatically went into his position wanting to hear more about his Father. "Well he is 'all devil' now but before his Father, the former King, stepped down to rest your Father was actually half angel. Angels have unnatural powers just like you do, but it takes years to control them. Your Father had powers from both sides and-" Yoru groaned and fixed Eien's arm which was too far down. "and it made it easier for him to learn and he could do more than anyone." He almost smirked at Eien, who was frowning. "You, on the other hand, are half human so of course we don't expect you to get far very quickly."
Eien narrowed his eyes but kept his emotions in check. "So once the devil steps down, the successor takes the place and becomes a 'full devil?'"
"That's right." Eien tensed as he heard a familiar voice and his arrow went flying again, though this time it burned up before it reached the wall. His aura had sparked and it set the arrow on fire. He turned around shamefully and saw his Father standing behind him a few yards away, looking as stoic as ever.
Eien sighed and looked his Father in the eye. "I'm sorry for talking about you."
The older redhead shrugged and walked over to the duo. "I never said you couldn't. It's not like that part of my life was a secret anyway." When Sasori was standing in front of his son he took the bow out of his hands and eyed it. Dark and sleek with an intertwining gold and silver curve with the bow. "This is set to a low level?"
Yoru nodded and Eien raised his eyebrow. Low level. It was a bow, there was no other level but... bow! Before the redhead could ask, the gold and silver began to spread out, filling the whole bow with twirls of the shining material. Soon the whole bow was silver and gold mixed in each other, moving together, with the sleek black now the curve on the sides.
"I didn't want to interfere with your training with Yoru." He cast an apologetic glance to the demon, who just nodded, "but I wanted to see how you were doing all together. He didn't even tell me that you chose a bow and arrow to work with. Mind explaining why you chose it?"
Eien was still shocked to see the whole bow transform. It even glowed and hummed with energy and it made him want to take a step back. "I-I chose it because I thought it looked interesting."
Sasori nodded. "Yes, but you can't do well if you were in a tight situation. This is for long distances, you know."
The younger redhead nodded, already understanding. "So what's the different levels?"
The devil looked towards Yoru. "Most Underworld weapons have different levels of power. It allows different types of energy and how much power the attack gives." Sasori looked forward and held the bow up before putting his hand on the front of the bow as if he was drawing an arrow. "At a high level you can use elements." He drew his hand back slowly and an arrow of ice began to form.
Eien's eyes went wide but in an instant the arrow was gone and flying through the air before shattering against the wall in front of them. "What's the highest?"
Sasori cast his son a sideways glance and handed the bow back to him. Once it touched Eien's hand all of the power left it and it was back to a simple bow. "The highest would be making the arrow fly so that no could see it move. No one could hear it and they would die instantly when it hit them. That's just a normal arrow though."
Eien wanted to ask more but the devil sighed. "Ask Yoru because he is the one who is teaching you at the moment." Eien blinked and looked towards the demon who smiled and waved. Seems he had forgotten about him.
"All right," He said somewhat dejectedly.
Sasori's lip twitched in a small smile and he walked away, leaving his son to train.
-Who knows-
Deidara held a wet rag to the left side his face, hopping to bring the swelling down some more. Itachi had been disappointed in Deidara's constant attention to his son so he had punished the blond for being too caring. He had only beat his face but it was lesson enough. When Itachi was around he was not allowed to interact with his son much; maybe a small order, a hello and that was it.
Eien was currently in the room with his Mum and he was still very confused as to why Itachi had beat her again. He was sitting down on their shared bed as Deidara was sitting at a vanity, staring at the mirror in front of him. When Eien had asked him a question about why the Duke had done that, his Mum didn't answer, just give him a guilty look.
He wasn't even allowed to love his son anymore. It made rage boil through the blond but it was quickly extinguished. Why bother with getting angry when he didn't have the courage to do anything about it. If he did do something about it he would be punished. He didn't care if he was but Eien could easily be taken from him.
He had to be careful. For Eien.
-Who knows-
Eien was almost done with the memories involving the Uchiha manner and he was glad for that. But he knew he was nearing the end of his Mum's life. Just a year or so later and he would be gone again. Eien didn't want to see it happen again but he had promised himself to know his Mum's life, even if he was alread there for the last few years of it. He had to see it from his perspective.
When Eien was done looking through his Mum's memories for that "day", he went to his Father to help judge souls. Luckily the war had stopped but due to unfortunate reasons. The plague was spreading everywhere and once again, the father and son were busy with work.
Eien honestly doubted he would have any time to train and it him almost hate everyone who died. But once he remembered the pain of the plague and the torture he went through, his hate turned to pity.
Soon most of Sasori's assistance were swamped and the two of them had to allow more souls through.
"This wasn't as bad as last time," Eien commented as a new soul stepped forward. A young girl who was looking around scared. She looked around seven and Eien knew she was going to be easy to judge. He looked at her memories briefly and found she had done nothing wrong. "Elysium Fields." She just nodded and she walked out of the room, already knowing where to go.
To judge, Eien and Sasori had to look through a soul's memory briefly. It was nothing like how Eien had saw his Mum's memories. It was almost like a picture book of major points in a person's life. Maybe ten, twenty pages; it depended on the age.
Sasori had just finished going through a family and he nodded in agreement. "I suppose mortals dying is a bad thing but it's just a part of life. If you are referring that we haven't had to judge this many souls before, than I agree."
Eien gave an annoyed sigh. His Father seemed to not like the workload as well, but he had to do his job. Both of them did.
I'm getting back into writing and I hope to continue on with this pace.
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