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Chapter twenty six- New and old faces

"We have to get back!" Shion struggled to get away from Allen. They had managed to get away from all the chaos, Shion had screamed the whole way, begging Allen to stop, but Nezumi's powers still clouded Allen's mind, but even after that, he still refused to let Shion go.

"I'm sorry, but is dangerous." Allen tried to reason with him, holding him by his shoulders. "If we go back we are just going to get on their way."

"You said it yourself!" Shion snapped at him. "Is dangerous! We just let them behind and now you expect me to wait quietly?! I had enough of waiting, I lost Safu, I don't want to lose Nezumi too!" Allen was taken back by the sudden anger in Shion's voice and lost his grip on him. Shion stared at him for a few seconds before stepping back, he hurriedly passed Allen, towards the place where the varugas had appeared.

"I get it." Allen's voice made him stop on his tracks. "I don't want to lose another friend like that. I have already seen a lot of people die in front of me or even disappearing while I just watched, not able to do anything for them. Kanda told me once that we exorcists are "destroyers" not "saviors", that it takes a sacrifice to save others but..."

"That's why we should-"

"But they are not weak." Allen interrupted and turned around, he frowned before continuing. He needed to convince Shion to stay away from the fight, even if he hated him. "You said that you would come alone if you had to, to find the people you're looking for. I know you're worried, trust me, I'm worried as well, but I know that they will come back and get furious if we just go back after they risked their lives." Shion stared at him with a defeated face. "And don't worry about Nezumi, Kanda will protect him."

"I know." Shion finally said angrily. "I just-" He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Let's keep moving then." And without waiting for any answer he walked away.

They walked for at least ten minutes, Shion remained quiet the whole way, and Allen didn't try to make small talk, both of them too absorbed on their own thoughts to care, before a dog came out running out of one of the few buildings that were still standing. Allen was on high alert, ready just in case he was a varuga too, but Shion let out a cry of excitement and the dog wagged his tail. The dog barked and was on top of Shion in seconds. Allen stayed back since he saw no danger and Shion looked happy.

"Shion?" A man's voice asked. Allen and Shion both looked towards the voice and saw a man coming out from behind the building. He had brown short hair and a short beard along with a mustache. The man was more on the tall side but looked slightly overweight. The man's clothes looked rather fancy for someone living in the area.

"Rikiga!" Shion exclaimed. "I'm glad you're okay!" He stood up and run towards the man with a relieved look on his eyes.

"You're glad? I should be the one saying that, you and that arrogant prick disappeared for days!" Rikiga said angrily. "Where is he anyways? Are you okay, Shion?"

"Don't call Nezumi that again." Shion said with a low tone. "But yes, I'm fine, but what about Inukashi? And the dogs?"

"They are all fine, more worried about you than anything. Where were you? We tried everything and not even the dogs could track you!" Rikiga said. "We thought you were eaten by one of those... things!"

"I was...busy helping out some friends." Shion decided to say. He looked towards Allen. Rikiga followed his gaze and looked between the two of them. Allen smiled and waved at him.

"Shion, I thought you were the only one that survived the wasp." Rikiga commented. "Who is he anyways?'

"No, my hair is like that for different circumstances." Allen decided to answer feeling self-conscious. "And my name is Allen, nice to meet you."

"I like him better than Eve already" Rikiga said. "My name is Rikiga, nice to meet you too."

"Who is Eve?" Allen asked after the Rikiga introduced himself.

"That would be Nezumi." Shion answered. "That's his stage name."

"So he is a real actor? I thought he was just playing around." Allen said surprised, remembering all the times that he exaggerated things and the estrange quotes he said.

"That's actually his personality." Shion said.

"Yeah, who would had thought that his beautiful voice came together with that horrible personality, what a disappointment." Rikiga commented.

"My personality is great, and people love it." Nezumi spoke up. He was in front of Kanda and had his hair down with a part of Kanda's sleeve jacket wrapped around his head as a bandage. A little bit of blood was visible over his right eye, but Nezumi hadn't bothered to clean it or wasn't aware of it. By the look he was receiving from Kanda it seemed like the later one was a good option.

"Nezumi!" Shion cried and ran towards him. In a moment he had Nezumi on the ground hugging him and refusing to let him go even after Nezumi's complains. Kanda smirked and walked towards Allen and Rikiga, leaving Nezumi behind, Nezumi screamed 'Traitor!' after him but he ignore it.

"Are we done here?" He asked.

Allen stared at him. "Kanda, how did you managed to kill those varugas and get here so fast?" Allen asked. "And how come you're not hurt and Nezumi is?"

"That's his own damn fault." Kanda said.

"It wasn't!" Nezumi replied. "You pushed me!"

"I save you pitiful life, stupid rat!" Kanda yelled back. "If you had moved faster you wouldn't be complaining!"

"I was busy if you didn't notice!" Nezumi stood up. Shion following him, looking in between both of the brothers trying to figure it out how did Nezumi got injured in the first place.

"Whatever you say." Kanda said. "Perfect bait."

"I'm a professional at keeping the attention on me." Nezumi smirked. "Right Rikiga?"

Rikiga glared at him and decided Nezumi wasn't worth his attention right now. He looked at Kanda and then asked. "Are these two the friends you were helping?"

"Friends?" Kanda looked at him with serious eyes. "Who?"

"Kind of?" Allen said. "We are more like the friends of his friend friend's."

Rikiga stared at Allen trying to understand but it just made things more confusing. He turned towards the rest of the group and found the same confusion on their faces.

"Stupid beansprout." Kanda hit him with the hilt of his sword with excessive force, making Allen cry out in pain.

"I was just trying to explain stupid Kanda!" Allen said holding his head with both hands and tears appearing at the corner of his eyes.

"By making things even more confusing?"

"I don't see you helping on explaining anything!"

"I don't have to explain anything!"

"Maybe is because you're too stupid to understand the situation yourself!"

"What was that beansprout? I can't hear you from down there."

"Not again." Shion said and turned towards Nezumi for help. "Nezumi we need to stop them before someone hears all this commotion!"

"Let the show continue, Shion." Nezumi said, a smile appearing on his lips. "I just wish I had some snacks."

"Nezumi!" Shion complained.

"If I step in I will make things worse." Nezumi declared. "I'm not the peace keeper, that's Kuroh's job."

"But you're still his brother!"

"And?" Nezumi asked without taking his eyes off the fight. "He will probably try to fight me too."

"Brother?" Rikiga said with surprise showing all over his face. His mouth was so open that Shion feared that he would break his jaw. He turned towards Kanda and then towards Nezumi as if inspecting every single detail. "You two are siblings? Since when did Nezumi has a brother?"

"Brothers." Allen, who had decided to just ignore Kanda for the moment, commented.

If Rikiga's expression hadn't been so funny before, now it was. Nezumi started to laugh, Shion and Allen tried to stay collected but failed miserably. Kanda glared at them but a small smiled was already forming on his lips.

"What…?" Was the only thing that came of of Rikiga's mouth.

"How long they said that their little trip would take?" Yogi asked for the ten time in almost twenty minutes. "They did said that they had seen varugas around, what if they are still here and they get attacked! Someone of us should had gone with them!" He turned his head towards Hirato who keep looking at his phone for no reason. The rest of the group was inside the ships waiting for their return, only Nai, Yogi, Hirato, Neko and Kuroh were outside, keeping an eye, or in Nai's case, an ear out for near danger.

"Don't worry about them, Kanda and Allen know how to fight, and Nezumi and Shion are smart, they will stay out of trouble, or at least I hope so." Kuroh said without looking at him, his eyes never leaving the direction in which they had gone to.

"I'm hungry." Nai's small voice complained taking Yogi's attention in an instant.

"I got some snacks inside the ship." Yogi said and took Nai's hand, dragging him away. Neko just hear the word snacks and was already half way into the ship. Kuroh sighned and turned his attention towards Hirato.

"How can you be so calm all the time?" He asked.

Hirato lifted his eyes from his phone and smiled. "In the face of danger and death, you can't trust someone who would panic and act recklessly. The children under my care look up to me expecting me to know the answer, and to assure themselves that if I'm still calm, there is still a chance."

Kuroh thought about it for a moment. It actually made sense. "My grandpa was like that too, calm until the end..."

"Forgive my manners, but I really wonder who your parents and grandparents were." Hirato said. "Gareki had mentioned that he was sold, and I always questioned, who would sell such a talented kid? But I'm starting to believe that they did it out of fear, and more if they knew what had happened to his real family."

"We never knew our grandma, she died when our dad was a kid, and they never mentioned her, grandpa would get a sad look in his eyes every time someone mentioned her." Kuroh said. "I know that my dad had a brother, and older brother, I don't know what happened to him, but like my grandma, he was never mentioned."

"So where does you family originated from?" Hirato asked since Kuroh was more likely to give him answers that any of his brothers, including Gareki.

"I don't really know, me and my brothers were born in Neutral Ground, we were still kids so we never questioned anything-" Kuroh gasped in pain. Imagines appeared behind his now closed eyes. A smaller man with dark make up over his eyes, talking in rapid whispers with his grandpa, after they had come back from buying groceries. The day that Gareki had gone missing and later on returned back saying something about a pirate with red hair. His mother had taking him to the garden and told them to go to bed, but he had come back to ask if Gareki was okay to find her mother singing, he didn't wanted to interrupt and had sit down next to the door. He remembered the soft tone in their mother's voice while she sang Gareki to sleep, there was something about the song that just made him feel relaxed and sleepy. Then there was a rainbow, or to be more precise wings that had the colors of the rainbow all over them, and then he fell asleep.

The next morning when Nezumi had asked Gareki about the pirate, Gareki stared at him and had asked. "What pirate?"

"Kuroh? How do you feel?" Akari's voice sounded really far away, as if he was underwater. Kuroh blinked away his sleepiness and tried to remember what had happened. The memories were still fresh on his mind, but he couldn't make sense of them. Who were those people? And the rainbow colored wings? What do they mean? Why did Gareki forgot?

"Did you remembered something?" Yashiro asked him after making sure Kuroh was conscious enough. "Neko said that the same thing happened after you spoke with Kanda the first time."

"I-" Kuroh said looking around. Apparently everyone had decided to come down from the ships and Akari and he were surrounded by curious but worried gazes. "I mean, yes, but...they aren't making any sense to me."

"Nothing ever makes sense at first, remember?" Yashiro said with a knowing smile.

"It's a dog!" Nai exclaimed cheerfully and pointing at the distance. Causing everyone to look too. At first Kuroh didn't saw anything but then he saw them, moving figures that started to get closer and closer, they were dogs.

A kid with dark skin and long brown hair and dark brown eyes was leading them. The clothes were worn and old, and made the kid look even more skinny. A low-cut, long sleeve button up maroon blouse and faded blue pants that were ripped at the hems along with strapped sandals. The kid stared at them and then at Kuroh, Yashiro and Nai with interest.

"Who are you?" The kid demanded after a few seconds.

"It would be faster if you introduce yourself first, don't you think?" Jiki said.

"I don't have one." The kid replied.

"By any chance do you know Shion and Nezumi?" Karoku asked. The kid flinched and looked alarmed for a second but as fast as it had come it had left.

"I know you might not trust us but we are friends with them." Yashiro explained. "We arrived with them a few hours ago."

"Yeah sure." The kid replied. "Those experiments of yours might have ended your little plan on getting at Shion, you citizens and your stupid experiments!"

"Citizens?" Johnny asked.

"The kid thinks we are part of No.6." Tsukitachi commented.

"Nobody around here dresses that way." The kid pointed at them.

"All in favor that the kid has a point?" Tsukitachi raised his hand. Nai and Neko both raised their hands, looking a little confused.

"Look, I'm not here to be part of any experiment, I'm here to get my brother back." Kuroh decided to tell the truth. "Nezumi and Shion said that they will go and look for some friends here, we are just waiting for them to come back."

"..."

"Nezumi is back!" Nai exclaimed making Johnny and Karoku yelp in surprise. The dogs barked at the distance, happily wagging their tails.

"I can't believe it." The kid whispered.

"Hey look, is Inukashi!" Shion screamed at the rest of the group following him.

"The troublemakers are back." Eva said folding her hands.

"Shion- you're not dead..." Inukashi managed to say.

"Neither is Nezumi."

"Who cares about him?!"

"Ouch." Nezumi faked a sad face and approached, looking at Kuroh and Akari with calculative eyes. "What happened?"

"What happened? What happened to you?" Akari stood up and took Nezumi by the arm forcing him to sit down next to Kuroh. "I swear that you brothers have no self preservation, you know how many times I had to talk to Gareki for been reckless? Nezumi, you were gone for an hour and you're already injured! Even Kuroh manages to pass out without even moving!" He started to clean the injury on Nezumi's head and without looking he called out at the group that just had arrived. "And don't even think of going anywhere until I make sure all of you are in top condition!"

"Yes sir!" Both Allen and Shion shouted.

"Kanda." Akari said.

"Tsk"

"Hey Inukashi, did you knew that Nezumi had brothers?" Rikiga asked suddenly, making Inukashi flinch.

"Where did you hear that?" Inukashi asked.

"They told me." Rikiga answered pointing a finger at Allen and Shion.

"Told you it was a bad idea to let him know." Nezumi called out. "He will let everyone know in a few hours."

"Not if he takes it to his grave." Kanda said, placing a hand over his sword.

"I'm starting to like your ideas, dear brother." Nezumi said playfully and received a glare from Kuroh.

"Wait...don't tell me that you are his brother." Inukashi looked at Kanda.

"Kuroh is his brother too." Neko said and hugged Kuroh from behind. "He likes to cook!"

Rikiga and Inukashi stared at them for a few seconds before something in their minds clicked, making them swallow in fear.

If they had a lot of problems just with Nezumi aroud. How many more will his brothers bring?

'Her last wish? What's wrong with her?' Gareki thought.

"Do you wish to know? Knowledge is a weapon, it could either help you or hurt you, and sometimes is better to stay unaware of some things." Elyurias said.

"I always lived in the shadows, not anymore." Gareki answered on his head.

"Very well..." Elyurias said and before Gareki could process anything the place around him changed and what he saw made him almost regret his decision.

So yeah, hope you enjoy, and I don't get you too confused, still if you have any questions feel free to sent me a PM :D