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Chapter twenty-five- Trust

Kuroh woke up to the sound of footsteps next to his bed. He opened his eyes, it was still to early since everything was still dark. He tried to get back to sleep when he didn't saw anything, but when he heard footsteps again he decided that it wasn't on his head. His first thought was that someone had come inside the room.

But who?

His second thought was that one of his brothers had woken up, but he doubt it. Yuu was always too quiet, Nezumi and Gareki always called for him if they needed anything, but this wasn't the case. When the footsteps grew closer he got ready to either scream or attack. Maybe if he screamed that would wake everyone up, but the intruder could do something to them by the time any of his parents got here. His other idea was to take whoever came inside by surprise and that would buy him enough time for his brothers to wake up and run.

Kuroh grabbed the only thing he could use, his pillow, and got ready to throw it.

"That's a brave thing to do, my child, but a mere pillow is not going to do a lot of damage." His grandpa's gentle voice took all the tension he was feeling and Kuroh let the pillow fall from his hands. "And Yuu, never use your sword unless is your last resource."

Kuroh heard Yuu say something under his breath and the sound of his katana been put away.

"Yuu, you're not been a good brother with that language, Nezumi likes to copy your vocabulary, you know?" His grandpa scolded him.

"What are you doing here grandpa?" Kuroh asked softly since Gareki and Nezumi were still asleep. Or at least he thought.

"Grandpa is going to show us something!" Nezumi exclaimed while jumping down from his bed causing enough noise to wake Gareki up.

"Is it morning yet?" Gareki's sleeping voice asked. "Why is everyone up?"

"Because we are going to see something cool!" Nezumi announced and grabbed Gareki's hand and dragged him out of the bed before Gareki could go back to sleep.

"But a want to sleep!" Gareki protested while rubbing his eyes with the back of his free hand. "Mom is going to get mad."

"Not if she doesn't know." Nezumi said making Kuroh fully believe that Nezumi would grow up to be very troublesome.

"Nezumi at least put your shoes on!" Kuroh complained. "You're going to get sick, Gareki you too!" Gareki looked at him sleepily but did as told, Nezumi let go of Gareki's hand and started to look for his shoes, complaining that Kuroh was no fun. Kuroh looked around for his own shoes and noticed that Yuu was already by the door holding his katana close, with a bored expression.

"Kuroh…." Gareki's voice called him. Kuroh turned around surprised to see that Gareki had found his shoes.

"Thank you, Gareki." Kuroh smiled.

"Hurry up." Yuu said and walked out of the room with Nezumi close behind.

His grandpa smiled and walked away after his grandsons. "I shall wait for you outside' He said, taking Gareki's small hand on his. "C'mon Gareki, before your brothers get caught."

Kuroh opened his eyes. He had fallen asleep on one of the airships that the Circus's captains had "borrowed" for the mission. Each ship had only four seats so they had to take a few of them. Yogi went with Allen, Kanda and Johnny. Hirato went with Akari, Kuroh, Neko (on her cat form) and Yashiro. Tsukitachi took Nezumi, and Shion. Eva had Kiichi, Ryoushi, and Jiki with her. Tsukumo took control of another one along with Karoku and Nai. They connected the speakers together so everyone could hear the instructions, but after a few minutes Nezumi announced that he was bored which Kuroh knew wasn't a good thing, by the time the captains decided to intervene, half of the group was already planning out a murder and the other half was considering into helping them carried it out.

After they arrived, they had to land pretty away from everything, and everyone. According to Nezumi, if they left the ships on a place that people could easily find, they would be gone by the time they needed them again.

Nezumi and Shion said that they will go into the slums, as they called them, to gather info. Apparently they had been attacked by varugas when they had meet up with Yashiro and left in a hurry. Shion said that he wanted to know if Dogkeeper and Rikiga were fine after all of that, and Nezumi tagged along, even after they had a five minute discussion about priorities and if it was a good idea to go anyway. Not knowing if there were still varugas around. That was the first time that Kuroh saw Nezumi agreeing so easily with someone even though he didn't seemed to like the idea, but Shion convinced him when he said that he could stay behind if he wanted, that with him or without him he still knew the place and could take care of himself.

That was also the first time everyone had seen Nezumi with a shocked expression on his face and with no argument to convince Shion otherwise. Nezumi always had the last word on any argument since Kuroh could remember, but apparently Shion had won this one.

"The midget has you all figure it out." Kanda grinned receiving a glare from Nezumi.

"I want to go too!" Allen exclaimed and run after Shion before anyone could object. "C'mon Kanda, Johnny, we can explore!"

"I will stay here." Johnny said, looking around as if he was waiting for some akuma to appear. "You go ahead and have fun."

"Alright then! Kanda, Nezumi let's go!" Allen screamed at them and he and Shion took off running, both of them laughing.

"Allen is going to get lost." Johnny whispered to himself, but everyone around him hear it. "And then we will have to look for him, again."

"Stupid beansprout." Kanda whispered angrily and run after them, Nezumi glared at the retreating figures before following them too. Kuroh wanted to laugh, even Kanda's friends had him figure it out.

After they left the rest of the group had come out of the ships and were asking where Nezumi and the rest were. He and Johhny explained what happen and everyone decided to wait for them to come back. Some, like himself, had fallen asleep. Kuroh thought about his dream, he knew it was one of his many memories coming back to him. He smile softly after remembering his brothers, Nezumi and Kanda hadn't changed much, they, like himself, just became more cold and distant, as if they had put on a mask to hide themselves, but seeing them interact with Shion, Allen and Johnny, even Yashiro and the rest of the group made him realize that the mask was already coming down. Kuroh knew that the mask he wore before, was gone. Yashiro and Neko had broken it with every passing day he had shared with them. He had gone after them with a killing intent, he remembered the first day they meet and how he had chased after them all day inside the school. How they ended up inside Yashiro's dorm and he ended up cooking food for the three of them.

Kuroh wondered in which kind of circumstances his brothers had meet their friends. Had they had a fight too? Kanda was the kind of person to get into an argument with whoever was in front of him. Johnny had told him that he and Allen had a fight even before they were even introduced, which didn't surprised him. Shion said that he meet Nezumi when they were still kids, apparently Nezumi had been escaping from the city guards and Shion had left his window open, which Nezumi used to get inside. Nezumi had threaten him and instead Shion had helped him. Kuroh would gladly pay to see Nezumi's reaction.

Then his smile vanished.

He wondered if Gareki wore a mask too or if the Circus members had taken it away when they took him in.

"This place is awful." Allen complained. "Did you seriously lived in this place?" The group of four were trying to make way between the collapsed buildings around them. Nezumi noted that the awful smell had gotten worse than before. He was sure that the varugas had left-overs all around the place but decided not to comment on that one.

"Of course we did." Nezumi said. "We are that amazing, bet you couldn't stay a day on this marvelous region!"

"This place is not that great, Nezumi." Shion said.

"I was been sarcastic." Nezumi answered.

"So how much more?" Allen asked after he climbed part of a collapsed wall. "I don't see any buildings standing."

"Just a few more minutes." Shion provided an answer after Nezumi stopped walking. "What's wrong, Nezumi?"

"Is too quiet." Kanda said for the first time after they left. "I don't see any varugas, or whatever you call them, but that doesn't mean they are gone."

"Let's go then." Allen said, finally noticing the heavy atmosphere around them. "My eye can't detect them like it can akumas."

"Useless beansprout." Kanda commented.

"My name-"

"Yeah, Allen, we know." Nezumi interrupted. Making Allen even more angry. Nezumi smiled and walked away, but before he could get far he and Allen were pushed into the ground by Kanda, who, somehow had tripped Shion too. Something black pass over their heads and Nezumi recognized the varuga instantly. Allen made a sound of protest and lifted his head. He was going to say something, but whatever it was died in his throat when he saw that they were surrounded.

"Are those varugas?" Allen asked instead.

Kanda stood up and cut one that came from behind them, then he moved around and cut down two more that came too close. "Are you just going to stay there?" He asked them. "Or are you just waiting for me to do all the job?"

"I don't need your help." Nezumi said and stood up, taking his knife out of his pocket. "I can take care of myself."

"He just save your life though." Shion commented while getting up with Allen's help.

"Details." Nezumi answered when Kanda grinned at his direction. "So how do we defeat these things?"

"I was about to ask you..." Allen's face fell. "I have never encounter these things. We should have asked Yogi about it."

"Or anyone with Circus, those guys fight them on daily basis." Shion provided looking around for a place where they could run into, or even better, escape.

"Mugen works against them, you guys leave these things to me." Kanda said and run towards the varugas, evading and cutting them into pieces as if it was nothing. Nezumi watched with wonder how the katana acted as if it was a part of his brother. Moving and cutting his foes with precision and fluency. Every movement was precise and deadly, and Nezumi could see some of the movements that his father use to teach them when they were little. The difference now was that those movements from before were been used for survival instead of just playing around.

Nezumi evaded a varuga that had come from behind them and used his knife to cut the creature before it could attack again. He looked around and saw Allen transform his hand into something resembling a claw and his white coat was been used as a shield, while Shion just stayed behind him trying to stay out of trouble.

"Hey, beansprout!" Kanda called over the chaos. "Take the brats and get out of here!"

"Who are you calling a brat?!"

"That's not my name!"

Both Nezumi and Allen screamed, but after a moment Allen turned around and tossed Shion over his shoulder as if he weighed nothing. "Nezumi let's go!"

"No way!" Nezumi said while kicking a varuga and killing another. "I never run away from a fight."

"Now is not the time for that!" Shion protested. "And I can walk!"

"Get out of here you idiot!" Kanda also protested since they were taking a long time to leave. The varuga number didn't decrease, and Nezumi was sure it was increasing instead. Varugas around the area keep on showing up after they hear the commotion. If they left Kanda alone he was sure that there would be a great chance that he wasn't going to see him again.

Past memories played on his head. Surrounded by enemies. His mother getting killed. Kanda and his father arriving. Kuroh pushing a shocked Gareki towards Kanda. His father screaming at Kanda to run away. Kanda taking Gareki with him and disappearing. Both his grandpa and dad getting killed while protecting him and Kuroh. Nezumi telling Kuroh to run away before feeling the agonizing pain of a hit that was supposed to get rid of Kuroh. He still had the mark on his back to remind him of that day.

"Allen, take Shion and get away." Nezumi commanded, coating his words with power. Allen froze for a second before nodding sleepily and run away, even after Shion complained that Nezumi wasn't been fair. Nezumi turned his attention to the battle going on around him.

"I told you to go!" Kanda said frustrated once he managed to get close to Nezumi.

"And leaving my dear brother behind? How could I?" Nezumi said with humor on his voice.

"This is not one of your stupid plays Nezumi!" Kanda screamed at him.

"Wow, it took you a long time to call me by my nickname instead of an insult." Nezumi said and kicked another varuga aiming for Kanda. "And even though I consider myself a fan of tragedies, I don't plan to be living on one." Kanda took down four varugas at the same time and turned around to stare at him. "Or at least not anymore."

Kanda looked at him with mixed emotions playing on his face. "Fine, but I don't plan on carrying your dead corpse back to your friend."

"It's fine, dying is not part of the plan anyways." Nezumi said with a half smile. Both of them turned around, back to back. Ready for battle and for whatever was coming for them, but knowing that someone was watching their backs.

And somehow, Nezumi didn't find the situation so bad after all.

So yeah, quick question for everyone! Would you like to see more villains and more characters, and explore more of the other places like the Black Order or even the city were K project takes place or should the story just end after the fall of No.6?