Author's note: You have to have read "Brotherly Scars" in order to understand this one. But if you don't like things like that here's how it went Ototo raped Ani and now Ani is scarred from it. Anyway, I own Chassidy and the Horehound estates, and a few of the ideas were contributed by a friend, so anything else is not mine. Enjoy.
Chapter One
Ani got up out of his bed, it had only been about a day since the incident with his brother, he looked at himself in the mirror.
"Damn it, I can't think about nothing but the other night." He whimpered, it was early in the morning so he knew his brother would still be asleep. He got dressed and made sure he was asleep, Ototo was sleeping on the couch, he wouldn't sleep on his own bed anymore. The blood stains on the wall from where he had kicked him were cleaned up, but they had stained the white wall a dark maroon color, a ghostly reminder of what happened. Ani looked at it, then looked away quickly a single tear running down his cheek, "I'm going out, brother, I don't know when I'll be back, if I even want to come back." He said to himself as he turned and left, locking the front door behind him. He set off in the direction he knew his brother would look for him at last.
He walked for hours not wanting to stop, he was afraid he might run into his brother or that he might catch him. He walked passed places he had never seen before, in towns he never heard of. He never realized he was crying the whole time.
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Ototo sat on the couch, crying, it had been a full day since his brother had left, but he understood why he left.
"I'm so sorry brother, I don't know why I did it." He cried, he didn't want to go find him, he knew he wanted to be alone for a while, "I want you to be happy, I won't look for you, you need to be alone with your thoughts." He buried his face in his palms and cried harder.
******
Ani had now walked for two days straight, without food, water, or sleep, he decided now that he needed to rest. His eyes had started hurting and his ears kept itching, it was annoying him. It was getting dark when he found a large fancy gate with what looked like a park fence, the gate was open.
"Maybe I can find a place to sleep in here." He went in and began to walk, there wasn't a single bench there, "What kind of park is this?" He asked, he noticed something that looked that looked like a large house silhouetted by the moon. He picked up the pace and realized it was no house, it was either a hotel or a mansion.
"Whoo yeah! Three balls left!" He heard someone yell, it sounded like it was coming from around back. He cautiously walked around to the backyard, which was probably a good half mile walk because the house was so big. There was a young girl playing tennis in a lighted court, she was playing with an auto ball server. She was wearing the normal tennis skirt and top, she had platform tennis shoes on, all of them were a matching deep purple color. She hit the balls expertly, her dark blonde waist length hair swished when she would hit a ball, "Last one!" The ball shot out and she hit it back onto the other side. Ani forgot about everything momentarily as he leaned against the fence watching her.
"Excuse me miss." He said, she spun around quickly.
"Who are you?" She asked, she had silvery blue eyes.
"Toguro Ani, could you please tell me where I'm at? Is this a hotel?" He asked.
"No, this is not a hotel, and for your information this is Horehound Estates." She watched as he got a very questioning look on his face, he looked at the house, then at her. "You now, the one that harbors one hundred and thirty bedrooms? The so call mini castle?"
"You mean the estate that supposedly has mystical powers and is haunted?" He asked.
"Yep, one in the same." She set her tennis rack down and walked out of the court, "How did you get in here?"
"I walked through the gate thinking it was a park." He said, she rolled her eyes.
"I knew I should have tightened security." She ran her fingers through her hair, "So where do you live, I'll take you home."
"I don't live anywhere," He looked at the ground, choking back tears, "I don't have a home."
"Oh, that's why you asked if this was a hotel, isn't it?" She asked, he nodded, "Well, I'll tell you what, you keep me company because it gets lonely living by myself in and I'll let you stay with me. My name is Chassidy by the way."
"Okay, you live alone in that huge mansion?" He asked.
"Yeah, well sorta. I do have the ghosts and my pets that keep me company sometimes." She said, "Come on." She took him to a large set of double doors and opened them. He stopped to look at a weird statue of a dog's skeleton.
"This is neat." He said leaning out to touch it.
"Don't touch it!" Her yell echoed through out the house, then he heard something hiss.
"Touch it and die!"
"Why can't I touch it?" He asked.
"Because, it doesn't know you, it'll take your hand off." Chassidy said.
"It's only a statue." She leaned over and scooped it up, it's bone tail began to wag and it stated making weird whining noises, "Is it moving?"
"Yes, now don't touch anything without my permission." She set it back on is pedestal and it turned rocklike again.
"Okay, what yell that other thing? That was freaky." Ani said.
"Oh, that was a ghost." She smiled warmly at him, "Now come on I'll take you to your room so you can shower and get some clean clothes." She took his up flights of stairs and through many curving halls, when she stopped they were standing in front of a set of huge doors, across the hall set another set almost equally huge.
"Which one is mine?" He asked.
"That one." She pointed to the smaller of the two, "Mine is the main master bedroom, yours is the second, I think you'll be pleased." She opened the doors to his. It was like a room straight out of a fairy tale, there was a huge canopy bed, pillows, luxurious things every were, and chairs with cushions so thick Ani would get lost in it if he sat down in one of them. The room even had it's own bathroom, Chassidy turned around.
"There's the shower, I'll be in soon with a new change of clothes for you." She said walking away.
"Okay." Ani watched her as she left, he then went into the bathroom and locked the door. The bathroom was done in dark blue, there was an old mirror hanging above the sink. He heard someone come in the room.
"Your clothes are on the bed." Chassidy said, "Oh, and before I go, I like your eyes, they're very pretty."
"Okay, thanks." He heard her leave, he looked in the mirror, his eyes were the normal yellowish color, but his pupils were slits like a cats. He looked at them for a while and then decided to worry about it later. He took his clothes off and turned the shower water on, he got in, letting the warm water run over his body. It felt as though it was washing his troubles away, suddenly he began to shiver, he felt cold and then fear. He froze it felt like someone or something was there watching him, something growled. Once he regained movement he washed quickly and got out, wrapping a towel around his waist. He unlocked the door and turned the doorknob, but it didn't open, he tried it again and still nothing, "Chassidy!" He heard her run into the room and she opened the door with no trouble.
"Ani, what's wrong?" She looked at him and closed her eyes, blushing. His pupils almost completely covered his yellow colored irises.
"The door wouldn't open up and there was growling." He said shakily.
"It'll be okay, it's only the ghost toying with you." She said, now she was barefoot, and she was almost five foot five.
"Okay." Ani's pupils returned to their catlike slits.
"I'm going to let you get changed." She walked out of the room. He looked at the clothing, it was a pair of boxers, a pair of blue jeans, and a black T-shirt, he put them on and to his surprise they fit perfectly. He walked out into the hallway, Chassidy was waiting for him outside his door, "Do you like it?"
"Yeah." He looked down at his new outfit.
"I was going to give you a pair of tight leather pants, you know, because I thought you would look cute in them, but you look cute in those too." She smiled as he blushed.
"Thanks." She was the nicest person he had ever met and he was already fond of her.
"You hungry?" She asked.
"Yes." His stomach growled.
"I'll take you to the dining room." She led him back down the halls and stairs, they were now standing in a huge room with a table that could seat a least a hundred people. She sat down.
"How are you going to cook if you're sitting down?" He asked sitting down next to her.
"Why do men always assume the women are going to cook?" She asked, he shrugged, "Anyway, this is an enchanted table. Watch, I want cheesecake!" The table shifted some and a large cheesecake appeared in front of her.
"Holy shit!" Ani yelled, Chassidy began to laugh.
"Don't say things like that, it will do what you say." She asked for a fork and one appeared on the table, she picked it up and started eating the cheesecake. Ani looked at the table and started to laugh.
"I can have anything?" He asked, she nodded, "Listen up table, I want a turkey dinner with all the trimmings and a ham dinner with all the trimmings." About thirty plates appeared on the table, filled with food, he got a fork and started to eat.
"You can't eat all of that, can you?" She asked.
"Probably not, but I can try." He said. She waited until he stuffed himself to get up, "Come now, time for bed." He got up and they went to their rooms, she was settled in when she heard a knock at her door.
"Chassidy." She heard Ani say, she got up and opened the doors, he was standing there, his pupils huge again, "This is going to sound childish of me, but can I sleep in here with you?"
"Sure, it's not like I don't have enough room." She led him into her room, she hopped up onto her large bed and laid down. He crawled up there very sheepishly and laid down too, he was the first one asleep, she smiled, "Sleep tight, I think you're the one I've been waiting for all these years."
Chapter One
Ani got up out of his bed, it had only been about a day since the incident with his brother, he looked at himself in the mirror.
"Damn it, I can't think about nothing but the other night." He whimpered, it was early in the morning so he knew his brother would still be asleep. He got dressed and made sure he was asleep, Ototo was sleeping on the couch, he wouldn't sleep on his own bed anymore. The blood stains on the wall from where he had kicked him were cleaned up, but they had stained the white wall a dark maroon color, a ghostly reminder of what happened. Ani looked at it, then looked away quickly a single tear running down his cheek, "I'm going out, brother, I don't know when I'll be back, if I even want to come back." He said to himself as he turned and left, locking the front door behind him. He set off in the direction he knew his brother would look for him at last.
He walked for hours not wanting to stop, he was afraid he might run into his brother or that he might catch him. He walked passed places he had never seen before, in towns he never heard of. He never realized he was crying the whole time.
******
Ototo sat on the couch, crying, it had been a full day since his brother had left, but he understood why he left.
"I'm so sorry brother, I don't know why I did it." He cried, he didn't want to go find him, he knew he wanted to be alone for a while, "I want you to be happy, I won't look for you, you need to be alone with your thoughts." He buried his face in his palms and cried harder.
******
Ani had now walked for two days straight, without food, water, or sleep, he decided now that he needed to rest. His eyes had started hurting and his ears kept itching, it was annoying him. It was getting dark when he found a large fancy gate with what looked like a park fence, the gate was open.
"Maybe I can find a place to sleep in here." He went in and began to walk, there wasn't a single bench there, "What kind of park is this?" He asked, he noticed something that looked that looked like a large house silhouetted by the moon. He picked up the pace and realized it was no house, it was either a hotel or a mansion.
"Whoo yeah! Three balls left!" He heard someone yell, it sounded like it was coming from around back. He cautiously walked around to the backyard, which was probably a good half mile walk because the house was so big. There was a young girl playing tennis in a lighted court, she was playing with an auto ball server. She was wearing the normal tennis skirt and top, she had platform tennis shoes on, all of them were a matching deep purple color. She hit the balls expertly, her dark blonde waist length hair swished when she would hit a ball, "Last one!" The ball shot out and she hit it back onto the other side. Ani forgot about everything momentarily as he leaned against the fence watching her.
"Excuse me miss." He said, she spun around quickly.
"Who are you?" She asked, she had silvery blue eyes.
"Toguro Ani, could you please tell me where I'm at? Is this a hotel?" He asked.
"No, this is not a hotel, and for your information this is Horehound Estates." She watched as he got a very questioning look on his face, he looked at the house, then at her. "You now, the one that harbors one hundred and thirty bedrooms? The so call mini castle?"
"You mean the estate that supposedly has mystical powers and is haunted?" He asked.
"Yep, one in the same." She set her tennis rack down and walked out of the court, "How did you get in here?"
"I walked through the gate thinking it was a park." He said, she rolled her eyes.
"I knew I should have tightened security." She ran her fingers through her hair, "So where do you live, I'll take you home."
"I don't live anywhere," He looked at the ground, choking back tears, "I don't have a home."
"Oh, that's why you asked if this was a hotel, isn't it?" She asked, he nodded, "Well, I'll tell you what, you keep me company because it gets lonely living by myself in and I'll let you stay with me. My name is Chassidy by the way."
"Okay, you live alone in that huge mansion?" He asked.
"Yeah, well sorta. I do have the ghosts and my pets that keep me company sometimes." She said, "Come on." She took him to a large set of double doors and opened them. He stopped to look at a weird statue of a dog's skeleton.
"This is neat." He said leaning out to touch it.
"Don't touch it!" Her yell echoed through out the house, then he heard something hiss.
"Touch it and die!"
"Why can't I touch it?" He asked.
"Because, it doesn't know you, it'll take your hand off." Chassidy said.
"It's only a statue." She leaned over and scooped it up, it's bone tail began to wag and it stated making weird whining noises, "Is it moving?"
"Yes, now don't touch anything without my permission." She set it back on is pedestal and it turned rocklike again.
"Okay, what yell that other thing? That was freaky." Ani said.
"Oh, that was a ghost." She smiled warmly at him, "Now come on I'll take you to your room so you can shower and get some clean clothes." She took his up flights of stairs and through many curving halls, when she stopped they were standing in front of a set of huge doors, across the hall set another set almost equally huge.
"Which one is mine?" He asked.
"That one." She pointed to the smaller of the two, "Mine is the main master bedroom, yours is the second, I think you'll be pleased." She opened the doors to his. It was like a room straight out of a fairy tale, there was a huge canopy bed, pillows, luxurious things every were, and chairs with cushions so thick Ani would get lost in it if he sat down in one of them. The room even had it's own bathroom, Chassidy turned around.
"There's the shower, I'll be in soon with a new change of clothes for you." She said walking away.
"Okay." Ani watched her as she left, he then went into the bathroom and locked the door. The bathroom was done in dark blue, there was an old mirror hanging above the sink. He heard someone come in the room.
"Your clothes are on the bed." Chassidy said, "Oh, and before I go, I like your eyes, they're very pretty."
"Okay, thanks." He heard her leave, he looked in the mirror, his eyes were the normal yellowish color, but his pupils were slits like a cats. He looked at them for a while and then decided to worry about it later. He took his clothes off and turned the shower water on, he got in, letting the warm water run over his body. It felt as though it was washing his troubles away, suddenly he began to shiver, he felt cold and then fear. He froze it felt like someone or something was there watching him, something growled. Once he regained movement he washed quickly and got out, wrapping a towel around his waist. He unlocked the door and turned the doorknob, but it didn't open, he tried it again and still nothing, "Chassidy!" He heard her run into the room and she opened the door with no trouble.
"Ani, what's wrong?" She looked at him and closed her eyes, blushing. His pupils almost completely covered his yellow colored irises.
"The door wouldn't open up and there was growling." He said shakily.
"It'll be okay, it's only the ghost toying with you." She said, now she was barefoot, and she was almost five foot five.
"Okay." Ani's pupils returned to their catlike slits.
"I'm going to let you get changed." She walked out of the room. He looked at the clothing, it was a pair of boxers, a pair of blue jeans, and a black T-shirt, he put them on and to his surprise they fit perfectly. He walked out into the hallway, Chassidy was waiting for him outside his door, "Do you like it?"
"Yeah." He looked down at his new outfit.
"I was going to give you a pair of tight leather pants, you know, because I thought you would look cute in them, but you look cute in those too." She smiled as he blushed.
"Thanks." She was the nicest person he had ever met and he was already fond of her.
"You hungry?" She asked.
"Yes." His stomach growled.
"I'll take you to the dining room." She led him back down the halls and stairs, they were now standing in a huge room with a table that could seat a least a hundred people. She sat down.
"How are you going to cook if you're sitting down?" He asked sitting down next to her.
"Why do men always assume the women are going to cook?" She asked, he shrugged, "Anyway, this is an enchanted table. Watch, I want cheesecake!" The table shifted some and a large cheesecake appeared in front of her.
"Holy shit!" Ani yelled, Chassidy began to laugh.
"Don't say things like that, it will do what you say." She asked for a fork and one appeared on the table, she picked it up and started eating the cheesecake. Ani looked at the table and started to laugh.
"I can have anything?" He asked, she nodded, "Listen up table, I want a turkey dinner with all the trimmings and a ham dinner with all the trimmings." About thirty plates appeared on the table, filled with food, he got a fork and started to eat.
"You can't eat all of that, can you?" She asked.
"Probably not, but I can try." He said. She waited until he stuffed himself to get up, "Come now, time for bed." He got up and they went to their rooms, she was settled in when she heard a knock at her door.
"Chassidy." She heard Ani say, she got up and opened the doors, he was standing there, his pupils huge again, "This is going to sound childish of me, but can I sleep in here with you?"
"Sure, it's not like I don't have enough room." She led him into her room, she hopped up onto her large bed and laid down. He crawled up there very sheepishly and laid down too, he was the first one asleep, she smiled, "Sleep tight, I think you're the one I've been waiting for all these years."