Chapter Twenty-Five:

"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum."

― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

"Young lady! Did I fucking stutter? Who the fuck is that?!" Lily was yelling at the top of her lungs, and for a second I was scared for Sai. Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn, and man were the vibes like hell.

"Lily calm the fuck down," I told her with a wave of my hand. I attempted to appear like I really didn't care about the whole situation, but I was really, really nervous. Lily sometimes has such a bad temper. Still clutching Sai with my other hand I looked at him. He had a confused look and I had a spark of hope that he might not be able to understand her. If he couldn't understand her, than my whole family wouldn't be able to interrogate him.

Whispering to him I asked, "What's wrong?" Because we were in a different world, maybe Sai wouldn't be able to communicate. But then again because we were all Shinigami here, there might be the small chance that he would actually be in trouble. My money right now was on him not understanding. That would be great. Then I wouldn't have to keep an eye on him the entire time I was here.

"She reminds me of you with her vulgarity," he replied, looking into my eyes. All hope that Sai wouldn't be harassed nonstop for a month went out the door. Well, good thing I didn't really bet on it. Bad thing for poor Sai.

"Damnit," I muttered. Sai was still looking at me and he gently raised one eyebrow. He wanted me to clarify but I shook my head.

"What are you two brats whispering about?" Lily roared, somehow gathering her daggers. I put my hands out in a way that resembled calming a wild beast. Sai took his tanto out and pushed me behind him. I watched as Lily got into her stance, but couldn't find the words to tell her to stop. Maybe it was surprise or even fear, but I couldn't speak. My throat was closed and my eyes were wide. Sai had his left hand close to his scroll, and the world stood still for a moment. This was not going well.

"Morrigan!" yelled a voice. I was so busy trying to calm Lily that I hadn't heard the front door opening and the rest of my family shuffling in. The next thing I knew, was that I was on the floor and Antonio was crushing me with a hug. Arash was next to Lily, and I saw that she lowered her weapons. My vision shifted so I could see Sai. I let out a sigh as I saw Akane gently calmed his nerves. I relaxed into Antonio's hold and breathed in his calming scent. He smelled like pine trees and mint toothpaste. It was familiar.

"Okay, that's enough," I muttered and pushed Antonio off of me. He got up quickly, pulling me with him. Standing, the large man grinned and embraced me again. I stood a little more awkwardly this time. Sai who came next to me, glared at Antonio. The young boy had a confused look along with the glare. He didn't know what he was feeling, and I really didn't have the time to wonder what the emotion was.

"Jealousy. The boy has never had to really share you until now. This may be when he loses his patience with the world," Soubi gently cooed in my mind. I quickly released myself from Antonio and smiled at him. I didn't want him to feel like I was trying to get away from him. Even though that was precisely what was happening. Sai immediately came closer to me and brushed his shoulder against mine.

"Protective bastard," I snickered in my mind, maintaining my smile. Arawn's laughter echoed loudly, and I shooshed him quiet.

"Who's this?" Arash said smoothly, taking in our appearance. Lily was nowhere to be found to my disappointment and relief. On one hand she wouldn't try to kill us, but on the other I was sad she didn't want to see me anymore. I frowned and looked at the rest of my family. Figuring, we would need some time to cover all the basics, I looked to the kitchen. Akane came up next to Antonio and I gestured for us to go into the dining area. My family heeded my words, and Sai and I sat across from them at the six man table.

"Everyone, this is Sai. We're going to be staying for a little while. My seals and mind haven't been up to standards lately," I mused in a calm voice. Immediately, I put my hands on the table and stared at my seals. They were definitely faded and parts of the design was missing, showing that I truly had broken part of them. I could feel the eerie silence whenever we discussed my seals fall upon the table. Sai's eyes were on my hands and I knew he wanted to reach out and grab my hand. I clenched them together before the silence was finally interrupted.

"You haven't checked your letter yet," Akane stated, more like a fact than a question. Bringing my hands down, I made them back into fists. Shaking my head, I placed a scowl on my face. What did that letter say?

"Lily, as you might have noticed, is, well, not herself," Antonio started and ended with some difficulty. I frowned larger and Sai looked at me from the side. His wish to calm me was finally granted and he moved his hand to quietly hold mine. I don't know whether it was because he saw my anxiety or that he needed to hold it for his own sake. He was giving off a sense of anxiety as well, probably from the whole ordeal when we got here, but he was on attack mode.

"What happened?" I asked quietly. Through my feeling Sai's thumb rubbing my seals, I was very worried. Very rarely was Lily not herself. She was many things: a sailor in swearing, hot tempered, motherly with a touch of sadistic humor. But for her not to be herself meant something drastic had to happen. Sai continued to trace circles on my skin and goosebumps began to form.

"She denied orders," Arash said matter-of-factly.

"Who was it?" I asked back.

"An innocent." The voice came from the back door and I saw Lily in doorway. She was standing with her back against the frame and her arms crossed in front of her. She didn't look up when she said this, but she had a delirious smile on her face. Chuckling like she heard a mildly funny pun, she continued, "It wasn't just any innocent either. It was a kid. No older than you really. She was just born to the wrong parents. She wasn't supposed to die."

"You know we can't decide that," Arash reprimanded. They obviously have been arguing about this for quite some time. Lily raised her head and a mad smile cover her face. She was breaking in the worst of ways, but didn't want to show it. Instead she wanted to appear like it didn't affect her. Like she wasn't hurt by what had to be done.

"I don't think they got it right. I have been doing this for a long time, but never has it been that bad. Sometimes mistakes happen, and there should never be anything like that ever happening again," she screamed and laughed at the same time. She was really losing it. Lily lived for almost five hundred years and I think this was really affecting her mentally. I let go of Sai's hand and got up from my seat. Lily stopped her hysterical laughing and merely glared at me. I crossed the distance to her and looked up into her brown eyes.

"They don't happen. Mistakes in our field never happen. Fate is never wrong, neither is destiny. I'm sure that it must feel like that right now, but we can't be the ones to make the choices. We are merely soldiers who must do their jobs," I told her gently. For coming here with my mind going insane from the death of Sakura, I was sure I was the biggest hypocrite out there. I had said these exact same things to Boss a couple of days ago. Now here I am telling her that everything will be alright.

"You can't tell me it's alright. You can't tell me that she deserved that," Lily screamed down into my face. I could feel Sai get up from his chair and he was behind me.

"I can't tell you that. Because I don't even know. All I know is that Fate and everyone who gives us orders, knows what they're doing. We don't make the rules, we only enforce them. But we can't judge the orders we are given, because we can't see the world in the big picture. We just have to go with it," I cooed to her. Her face slowly changed into one of pure sadness. She knew what I was saying was true. Looking up at her, tears slowly formed in her eyes. She wailed like a child and I watched her cry, knowing she didn't want to be comforted right now. She merely wanted to cry and let her negative emotions out. Not moving to hug her, I felt Sai relax.

"Come on, let's sit down," I told Lily. Turning back to the table, I looked at Sai's face. It was somewhere between nervous and slight happiness. His eyes were warm and I caught myself blushing while looking into his eyes. Lily stopped crying as we made our way to the table. The others were merely waiting for us to finish our conversation and looked eagerly towards Sai. Well, Akane looked eager while Arash and Antonio looked like scary fathers.

"So," Lily sniffled, wiping her eyes dry, "who was this bastard again?"

"This is Sai, we're going to be staying for a month or so. I was hoping that we could work on some new seals to contain me. It's been a terrible few days back over there, so I wanna escape," I replied while sitting down. Sai quietly assumed his position next to me, while Lily moved her chair to be next to Antonio. The table looked like we were two kids getting interrogated by their parents for breaking curfew. Antonio and Lily sat across from Sai, while Akane and Arash sat across from me. The whole setup was making me a little nervous.

"So who is he exactly?" Antonio glared at Sai. They probably caught him holding my hand earlier, so they're suspicious. They're also suspicious because of the fact he follows me like a shadow and was willing to fight Lily to protect me.

"He's m—" I started only for Antonio to slam his fist down on the table.

"What do you want with our little girl?" he yelled at Sai. Sai took this hostility in stride and merely smiled his semi-fake smile at Antonio.

"She is mine," he replied. I blanched. Why the hell would he say it like that? Yes, it's true. I told him I was his and he was mine, but you don't go telling the world that. He could have said lover and I would have been a little happier. With this they're going to think I'm his slave or something. Fuck was this going to blow up.

"Yours?" Arash replied angrily. He pushed his glasses up his nose and with his voice like venom, continued, "She is not yours. She is not something that can be owned and be taken into one's possession."

"Guys, stop. You're blowing this out of proportion," I tried to reason. All I got were dirty looks as they all zeroed in on Sai.

"What do you mean exactly?" Akane asked in a hushed voice. Her whispering was probably the only thing keeping her from yelling. She was so angry, the veins at the top of her head were protruding.

"I am hers and she is mine," Sai replied with a smile on his face. I couldn't tell if he was just trying to ignore their hostility or if he was completely unaware that they were angry with him.

"What the fuck does that mean?" Lily blurted out. All their eyes turned to me. I should have never told Sai that I was his and he was mine. I should have told him he was my boyfriend. Why did I have to be so stupid? Now, I'm getting grilled by my family about a guy, who can't really even be called my lover, who says he's mine.

"Morrigan, would you like to answer why he keeps saying you're his?" Antonio asked with his face puckered up like he just ate a lemon. He was hoping I would deny everything. He was hoping he could pound Sai into the floor and never see his face again.

"I told him that," I sighed. Everyone gaped at me then. I put my hands up in protest, "it's not like being called lovers was any better."

"Lovers?" they all screamed in unison. Arash and Antonio looked like they were going to strangle Sai.

"Okay, so we aren't technically lovers. We don't do enough for that stuff."

"Enough?" they sputtered. Lily was cracking her knuckles.

"Well we don't do that much."

"That much?" they screamed. Akane looked like she was about to pass out.

"Guys stop yelling at me. He is my friend and he just so happens to be a person I can't live without. If you can't deal with me having a boy who just so happens to like to hold my hand or hug me a lot, I can just leave right now. I am not letting him go. He drives the madness and darkness away. He calms me down. He is my rock. You are not going to take me away from him," I yelled back. I noticed my hands were shaking and I was standing. Breathing in deeply to get my air back, I could feel my fangs down. I was like an alpha whose mate was just threatened and I was ready to fight whoever bad mouthed them. I stood like that for some time, while my family processed what I had just said.

"You love him," Akane said after some time. I sat back down with a plop and crossed my arms in front of me. I hated that word: love. Come to think of it, I've never told Sai I loved him. Looking to the boy, I found him looking at me. The scowl that I had managed to hold onto slipped from my fanged mouth. He had that serious look, but had that small smile of his on his face at the same time. He was overjoyed that I loved him. He hasn't realized that I haven't told him the words yet.

"So you haven't done anything really?" Arash asked in a tone that said I had to answer. I looked away from Sai and noticed they were all smiling at me slightly.

"No father," I replied sarcastically. Then thinking better than calling Arash my father, I added, "He's not my father Sai."

"Thank you for clarifying," Sai replied.

"So how did you guys get here?" Antonio asked, having accepted the previous argument.

"We teleported," I replied casually.

"How did Sai get here?" Akane asked. She twisted a strand of her red hair on her finger.

"I had him hold on while we teleported," I said with an 'are you really not understanding this' look.

"How? Mortals aren't meant to be able to cross dimension. They aren't biologically sound for the trip," Arash told me.

"What?" I asked, my eyes as large as saucers. I looked to Sai and tried to see if he was hurt in any way.

"He looks fine," Lily blurted as I stared at Sai. He wasn't really uncomfortable with me blatantly staring at him and I was too concerned with the fact he might be hurt.

"That shouldn't really happen, unless he isn't a mortal anymore," Arash mused. I turned back with a wide-eye look. I was scared by what he meant. He put his hand under his chin and rubbed in concentration. "How often does he teleport with you?"

"All the time. If he's with me and we have to get somewhere, we teleport. We don't have a maximum amount of distance anymore." I was really worried. What did Arash mean by not mortal anymore. Was he some kind of spirit because I was teleporting him too often? What if the return trip kills him? What if he dies?

"It also doesn't hurt anymore. This trip was the only one that I felt the pain in a very long time," Sai mused also.

"What does that mean?" I muttered to myself. I looked expectantly at Arash to see him in heavy concentration.

"I don't think he's going to die right now or on this world. He would have already died. But it could be because you're a Shinigami and he's so close to you that you have connected somehow," Arash told us, straightening his glasses.

"You're a Shinigami?" Sai asked. I plopped my head down on the table. I really didn't want to do all this right now.

"You haven't told him?" Lily laughed.

"No," I moaned, turning my head to face Sai. He looked at me curiously and I knew I had to explain. "Okay, so here's what's up. I'm a Shinigami among other things. One of those things is being an immortal human bonded with half my soul to a wolf demon. That is where Soubi comes in. He's the other half of me, technically. But because my soul is his and his soul is mine, they blended together to make a crazy demon wolf side of me."

"That's why you believe you're a monster?" Sai asked quietly. I nodded my head, it still being on the table and facing him.

"Along with my soul being a demon, I have the seals on the tops of my hands to contain me and keep that part locked away. But there is a price for that. Sometimes I fall into this darkness and I can't get out. I really think it's the afterworld, but no one really can be sure. I fall into it because part of me did die that day I got my scars." I lifted my head and turned to the rest of my family to see sympathetic looks all around. They hated when I remembered my past.

"So what do you do as a Shinigami?" Sai asked curiously. He looked like he wanted to hold my hand. For once I moved mine to take his. It's one of the first times that I've reached out to him, but I needed his strength to continue.

"We all work as balancers. Keeping the world in balance is our main function and we fulfill that, by killing people. I went back to our world, after I spent five years here, to train. Then when I went back, I met everyone and I met you."

"I'm glad you told me," Sai replied after I had finished. He smiled his small smile at me and I realized I had nothing else to hide from him.

"Those are all my secrets," I whispered to him. I knew my eyes conveyed the fear I had welling up inside of me. Sai squeezed my hand and for the first time intertwined our fingers. Normally we just hold our hands in each other's, but this seemed more intimate. I liked this feeling. It was the feeling of being accepted. I looked into Sai's eyes and saw happiness there.

"I am not scared of you, if that is what you're thinking. You are my itoshii and I promised never to leave you," Sai told me. A blush came up all the way to my ears and I turned away from Sai's serious look.

"Thank you. I won't leave you either," I muttered while looking at my family's happy faces. Lily and Antonio looked like they were thinking of getting the camera, while Arash and Akane merely looked overjoyed. I smiled at them. Getting up from my chair, I pulled Sai with me. "We're going to go outside. I want to show Sai the ocean."

"Don't teleport. I have to look into this further, but I don't want you taking unnecessary risks," Arash yelled as we left the room. Yelling something that sounded like an affirmative, I dragged Sai out the front door. Lily would probably put our stuff away in our rooms, so I wouldn't have to unpack.

"Where are we exactly?" Sai asked as we walked, hand in hand, through the forest. The sun was at its peak and the day was surprisingly cool despite the beating rays.

"We're in what we call World C. It is one of the oldest worlds. Right now we're in a country called the United States of America, one of the younger countries in fact. The forest is part of the national park in Oregon," I rattled off. We walked for a long time, making our way through the redwoods. I almost forgot how beautiful it was out here.

"Can I ask you another question?" Sai broke the silence.

"You just did," I giggled.

"May I ask you two questions, then," Sai replied calmly. He didn't get the joke, but smiled at me while I giggled anyway.

"Go ahead."

"Why do you act differently?"

"What do you mean?"

"You don't seem like you're twelve. You act as if you are an adult."

"That's because my soul had past lives, and when I died I unlocked those experiences. I don't technically remember any of the other lives, but I have the knowledge and thoughts of an adult."

"How interesting," Sai mused, stopping for a second. I stood next to him looking at his face. His eyes held all of his emotions, which were something between disbelief and wonder.

"You act older also," I replied to him. I thought about what I just blurted out and realized it was the truth. "Sometimes you act like a kid but with other things you act almost like me, almost like an adult. It's strange. Maybe I'm having some kind of an effect on you."

"I have noticed that I seem to think differently. I thought it might be because I was experiencing emotions, but maybe that's not it." Sai looked at me and we started walking in silence once again.

Maybe I was really changing Sai. He was with me the most out of everyone in World N. Plus, Arash said that he shouldn't have been able to teleport here. So maybe I did do something to him. But what could that have been? If I used my Shinigami powers on anyone, it was Jiraiya. I healed him and gave him my life energy. But Sai has only ever teleported with me. I have no idea. I shook my head and looked up from the floor. Taking another two steps, I felt Sai grip my hand tighter.

"This is amazing," Sai whispered. I looked out at the ocean with him and breathed in deeply. The smell was still as intoxicating as ever. I squeezed Sai's hand back, his fingers intertwined with mine. For a moment, I felt completely perfect. Everything was right with the world.

"It really is, isn't it?"

We made our way back to the cabin a couple of hours later. The sunset was littering our path with shadows and I felt bad that I couldn't just teleport us to there. Sai was carefully hopping through the trees, looking at the mountains around us. He was amazed with everything here. From the ocean to the redwoods which lined the cliff from the sandy beach, he wanted to stand and stare at everything. I was quietly strolling along the forest floor, stepping on branches when I could.

I was still trying to figure out if it was a bad thing that I had teleported Sai to a different world. It was a risky move and one that I should have never taken. Lately, I felt myself doing things before I really thought them through. I was more like a child than ever. If I wanted something, I took it. If I wanted to kill something, I killed it. If I wanted to leave, I left. It wasn't safe for Sai to be around me if I wasn't going to take his safety into consideration. Protecting him had to go farther than just watching those who wanted to kill me and him, but protecting him from myself.

The fact that he also acted older like me, scared me also. What if he was changing because of how close he is to me? What if I changed who he was supposed to be? Then again, I could have changed everyone just by the mere fact that I went back to World N. But even so, how would I know what truly should have happened? The manga in this world, couldn't possibly be how it should have been here. I mean, it's only a fictional book. If it was meant to be a real account of World N, it would have me in there. Antonio would have told me if I was in a book.

"You should stop thinking or punishing yourself. I'll be fine," Sai said. Somehow, we were in front of the cabin and he was at my side. I must have stopped when we got here and he noticed I was thinking so deeply.

"I was just thinking about some things. Don't worry so much about me," I muttered. Sai always caught me when I was thinking to heavily and I wondered if he thought I was weird because of it. Then again, I am a wolf demon and nothing is weirder than that.

"Hey guys. Do you want to go on a mission?" Antonio asked coming around the cabin. I looked at Sai expectantly and he just looked back with a confused look.

"I cannot teleport," he replied to me.

"You don't have to. It's really close, so you guys can actually run there if you want. Besides, Lily can't come with us, so we're a man down." Antonio had a slight hint of sadness in his voice. It probably hurt everyone that Lily couldn't go on missions. Hopefully she wouldn't be stripped of her powers.

"How long is Lily going to be out for?" I asked. I had heard of balancers going against orders, but never really wanted to myself. I liked killing people. But then again, I hadn't heard how she was punished.

"She is on probation for two months, but her trial is next week. If she pleads against the council, they may let her slide with only one month. But she is going to get punished either way," Antonio replied sadly. He turned and went into the cabin. I followed him with Sai trailing after me.

"Where are we going?" I asked, looking at Arash who was getting his rifle, or shotgun as he corrected me, ready.

"The warehouse over by the shore. I don't know if Sai should go with us. Though he is capable, he isn't technically immortal. At least I can't prove that he isn't right now," Arash said looking up from polishing the gun. I quirked my head at Arash's comment and wondered what he meant. Did he know something?

"I can protect myself as well as Morrigan. You need not worry about me," Sai muttered to Arash.

"Yes, but I merely want to take some precautions. We wouldn't want to lose you now," he replied and looked to me pointedly. I nodded and turned to Sai with a pleading smile. He shook his head and frowned at me. He really didn't want me to go alone.

"I'll be with my family. They'll protect me. Besides, I'm immortal remember," I told him with a large grin. He pouted and shook his head once again. "I'll be fine."

"You better not take too long. Or else I will be forced to go find you," Sai replied with a pointed look which told me he would go look for me. I laughed at him and pat his cheek. Moving along, I went to the kitchen where the others were waiting. Akane had her katana already out and it gleamed with the fading sun. Antonio was there, mock swinging his axe. I looked to them and summoned Arawn quickly.

"Are we ready?" Arash asked, cocking his gun.

"How many are we taking out today?" I asked, starting to feel my psychotic smile take place.

"There's a lot. We planned this raid with Lily so there's a lot more than usual. About 5,000 between the four of us," Antonio said lightly. I nodded my head. Why were they taking on such a large raid? Normally they would only take on 2,000 at a time.

"Let's go," Akane said, looping her arm through my left. I clutched Arawn with my right and felt Sai at my back. I knew that I couldn't just leave him like that. I needed to reassure him. Stabbing Arawn into the ground, I shrugged her off and turned around. Looking at Sai, I could see he was torn. He wanted to come and protect me, but he knew I didn't want him to get hurt.

"It's okay," I told him, going to him. He opened his arms and folded me inside. He squeezed me and I rested my head on his chest. He squeezed once more, harder than before. "I'll be back. I promise. You know that I can't leave you if I tried."

"I know. I think I feel a little scared about what might happen to you if I'm not there to protect you," he replied into my hair. I blushed at his concern and moved away from him.

"I worry about you more," I replied to him. He smiled a small smile and I moved back to Akane. She looked at me with a heartwarming motherly face and looped her arm through mine. Grabbing Arawn I looked to the others. Lily appeared in the kitchen a moment later.

"I'll keep your boy company Morrigan," she chuckled. It was an evil sound and knew she was going to give him hell.

"Don't be too mean," I said, glaring at her. She blinked and looked at my dangerous expression. It was meant to tell her that if she hurt him in any way, I wouldn't hesitate to kill her. Her face went a little white and I knew she understood what I meant.

"Can we go already?" Antonio whined while giving Sai a death glare. He probably didn't like the lovey dovey crap. To tell you the truth I didn't really like showing others, but Sai was too delicate for only words. That and it was somewhat soothing.

"Fuck yah," I replied. Immediately, the familiar tug and pull of teleporting hit me. In the next moment, I was staring at seas of men with machine guns. It was a large warehouse, probably built for airplanes or large parts of boats. Yelling started and guns were pointed at us. Akane let me go and teleported to the nearest mean. Heads immediately rolled onto the floor. I laughed at the looks, before having to dodge bullets.

Teleporting behind some men, I swung Arawn faster than their mere eyes could see. Heads were rolling on the floor, but no blood was spilt. I didn't feel like getting dirty, so I cauterized their wounds before the heads hit the floor. After the first hundred or so, they began to have friendly fire and were just killing each other. Figuring the whole process would go by faster if I used my bloodline limit, I pulled Arawn in.

"Do you think it wise to use fire in a place like this?" Soubi asked gently as I ran through handsigns.

"It'll be okay. If the fire gets on the wood or something, I'll just put it out." Finishing the handsigns, I made them form a circle and pointed them at the mean around me. "Blue fire: Killing Beam."

Blue fire erupted from my hands and formed a beam about forty feet long. Turning in a circle, I immediately took out at least five hundred men in a matter of seconds. Their charred bodies hit the floor and once I saw that there were no other men left standing in my wake, I summoned Arawn.

"Your seals need to be redone," Soubi told me. Quickly checking my hands, I noticed that the seals were completely gone. Having used my chakra, it was probably the last strain for them. I sighed and wondered if I should leave before I turn into a real demon. Then figuring that I wouldn't turn so quickly, I began to kill more bodies.

"I don't think that the regular seals will work for next time," Arawn mused in my head.

"Guys can we talk about this later," I whined. More heads hit the floor, but I was grazed with a bullet in my arm. Immediately the sting of a bullet wound flooded my left forearm.

"You can do two things at once. You aren't stupid," Arawn said chuckling. I growled lightly and swung Arawn and released blue fire form his blade. Starting to stab some men with the dagger at the end of his base, I felt my bloodlust rise up. Even though I was killing men, it felt insatiable.

"We need to get seals so maybe we can control the other you instead of just not allowing her to come out. Maybe if you can master that form or if she chooses to work together with us, we can swallow her up," Soubi replied. More heads hit the ground.

"I don't think she wants to work together guys. She has one mission and that is to kill," I growled out loud. With my seals gone, I was even more sadistic than ever. Turning to different men, I would stab them but only in places that would make them bleed out in a few minutes. I was only slightly cutting the jugulars or only slightly opening their heads.

The two other voices in my heads finally ceased and I was able to kill more people in peace. Soon, there were no more people to kill and I stood in the middle of the room staring at what lay before me. It probably took a good twenty minutes for us to get everyone, but no one was left alive. The floor was littered with dead bodies and severed heads. I kicked a clear path to the others, to see them worn out and filled with bullets. They weren't used to killing so many people and probably got tired half way through.

"Why did you guys take on such a large assignment?" I asked the others. Akane was supporting Arash who had about three bullets in his chest. Akane only had grazes. Antonio looked the worst, but being one of the strongest of our group, wasn't really affected by his ten wounds.

"We were supposed to have backup from the Canada unit, but when they heard about Lily…" Antonio left it open-ended. I understood what he was saying though. Because she went against orders, they couldn't trust her with this one which put everyone in danger. If you thought someone had your back and they didn't, it wasn't a good feeling. But they should have known that she was off.

"They also visited when you were at the beach to go over a couple of things. When we said you would be joining us for the mission, they backed out," Arash said sadly. Antonio glared at him. They probably made some pact not to tell me because it would hurt my feelings. I really didn't care.

"Well fuck them," I said haughtily. My family looked at me shocked and then began to chuckle. The chuckle grew to large laughs and I found myself smiling.

"We missed you," Akane said quietly when we ended our laughs.

"Me too. Now how about we head home," I said. They nodded and I tapped Arawn on the floor below us. The black hole opened up and we were sucked in. the others hadn't experienced this yet, but weren't freaking. I tapped Arawn on the nothingness and saw Lily standing over the couch. We fell through and my heart stopped.

"What happened?" I yelled going to the body on the couch. Sai was laying on it unconscious. I grew worried and sent a death glare at Lily. Kneeling down and grabbing Sai's hand, I felt tears spring up. He couldn't die. He wasn't dead. Checking to see if he was breathing, I saw his chest rise and fall gently.

"He just collapsed when you left," Lily told us. Arash came to me and placed a hand on Sai's forehead. His hand started to light up with a slight red shine.

"He isn't injured." There was moments of silence as I stared at Sai's peaceful face. His expression reminded me too much of Sakura and I could feel more tears streak my face. I didn't feel myself crying, but I knew that I was. I squeezed his hand when I hear Arash grunt and pull his hand away.

"What's wrong with him?" I asked shakily. I wanted to scream. I wanted to run. I wanted to kill everyone and everything in sight.

"He'll be fine, but it's something that I suspected," Arash sighed and looked to me. Sighing with relief I wiped the tears form my face with my free hand.

"What did you suspect?" Akane asked for me.

"You have made him into a Shinigami no sabanto or more simply your servant. It happens only with the most powerful of us, but not ever to a balancer" Arash said. I looked at him with an open mouth.

"How the fuck did that happen?" I asked. I heard of other Shinigami taking on servants, but was really fuzzy on all the details. I didn't really know of any and actually never met one face to face. Boss for instance had one, but they stayed at the headquarters on another world.

"Because he always teleported with you and you guys have been together for so long, your souls became attached. The finishing deal was when he teleported with you to another world. It is actually really rare for a balancer to find a servant. Because we're always around the living, we can't really let anyone know what we are. But then again you use your powers openinly over there. Not only that, but you have to pledge yourselves to each other. Lastly, the person who becomes a servant has to also be compatible with your soul," Arash mused while getting up. His wounds were bleeding a little heavier. I was still confused to why he collapsed though.

"Why did he collapse on me though?" Lily asked before I could open my mouth.

"Hmmm," Arash rubbed his chin and mused, "probably because Morrigan isn't full Shinigami, her servant can't be away from her. He'll probably get stronger and you'll be able to leave him, but for now you're stuck with each other."

"So he'll be okay," Antonio stated more than asked. I looked to Sai's face to see it peaceful. He was actually really good-looking. Moving my free hand, I pushed the bangs away from his face. I would have to cut his hair again soon. Resting my hand on his cheek, I also noticed how smooth his skin was. He really was a great guy. I shook my head and blushed slightly at my thoughts.

"Of course. He is immortal now also. And although most servants stop growing, because Morrigan will continue to age, he'll age also."

"Wait, he's immortal too?" I yelped and looked up at Arash.

"Yes."

"Fuck."

Hey everybody. How's it going. I'm sorry for such a late update. Work and school have been driving me crazy. Anyways, I'm better go cause my computer is dying. Loves yous lots. (I do not own Naruto)

P.S. I probably won't update until next month after finals. Sorry.