CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

Rhelex sighed happily as he looked at his hard work. After a day and a half, he had the Koneko looking pretty good. "How long has it been since you could see the floor?" He asked Ken, who was sitting lazily by his blonde lover.

"I dunno, a while, maybe?" Ken answered with a big yawn.

Rhelex cried and latched onto Lucreziachin's arm, "Can you believe them?! They've corrupted OUR Ran into THEM!!" he yelled. "They should be punished! It isn't fair to leave him like this..."

"What do you mean, punished?" Schuldig said, sitting on the ice-pack he had gotten after his 'fall'. He had been wailing loudly since it happened, that is until someone had gotten up and gotten him the ice pack, namely Nagi.

Nagi grinned when he saw Schuldig shift his position on the pack. "Is poor neglected SchuSchu in pain?" he asked, his grin turning to an amused smile.

"Why you evil little bishonen...." Schuldig said between clenched teeth. "When I can move again, your ass is grass."

"Oooooh, very threatining..." Nagi said turning around and patting his ass as he walked out of the door way with a sastified grin in place. With a sigh he said, "Ohhh, too much fun."

"I heard that you little brat!!" came the yell from the other room.

Nagi kept walking towards his and Omi's room. Upon reaching it, he logged in on the server he had created on his boyfriend's computer. Crawford hadn't given him enough time to pack his computer; he had said that they would go back for it later. In the weeks that they had been there, they still haven't gone back to get it.

The boy sighed, and started to log into the scwartz network system. "I haven't had time to look on this in a while either." he said sighing again. "I need my files back. Omi's are so different..."

A screen flashed on and off rapidly over the monitor. It read:
crimsonXOXO: SCWARTZ.... COME FIND ME IF OU CAN!!

"What the hell?" Nagi cursed. "What the fuck is this?" A deep growl emitted from his throat as he typed in rapid short-hand back to the sender of the message.

His conversation with the mysterious person read:

nytewalker: who are you?

crimsonXOXO: U KNOW WHO I AM.... I SERVE THE ONE WHO HAUNTS THE RED SPHINX....

nytewalker: why?

crimsonXOXO: BECAUSE IT'S FUN........................ HE AMUSES HER

nytewalker: how?

crimsonXOXO: U ASK TO MANY QUESTIONS LITTLE BIRD...........

nytewalker: ......

crimsonXOXO: DID I HIT A SORE SPOT BIRDIE.....

nytewalker: why are you doing this to the sphinx?

crimsonXOXO: HE DESERVES IT.... AFTER THE PAIN HE PUT US THROUGH!!

nytewalker: really now?

crimsonXOXO: I HAVE TO GO... MASTER IS HOME BYEBYE BIRDIE

After 'crimsonXOXO' had signed off, Omi's computer shut off. "Dammit. What did that bastard do?!"

"Is that cussing I hear?" came a voice from the doorway recognized instantly as Yohji.

"Shut up." he growled, stalking out of the room.

In the kitchen the plates and cups started to rattle, startling its inhabitants. All of the items on the desks and tables levitated and swirled around the room, before either dropping or put back where it was.

"DAMMIT!!" the boy shouted stalking down the hall that led outside.

"Where are you going?" Crawford asked the angry boy when he walked past.

"Out."

The boy ran through the door not even stopping to close it. He kept running until he reached their old home without even realizing it.

The door blew open, he didn't shove it hard enough to fly it off it's henges. He stormed up the stairs that led to his room.

Nagi turned on his computer and in an instant, he was into the scwartz network again. "Where are you...." he mumbled searching everything that was on the site. "You have to be there. I need more time to find you...." he growled. "I'll catch you're master, crimson. Then I'll kill her.

"I hope you can... little bird." said a voice as a pair of arms circled around his shoulders causing him to jump up and turn around. A boy stood only a few feet away from him. The person had deep crimson hair, but it was short. He was wearing a short off the shoulder kimono, it ended right above the middle of his thighs. He had on knee-high boots that had several buckles and clips on it.

"Crimson, I presume?" Nagi asked warily to the boy. "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to steal you away, little bird." he said with a happy sigh. "My precious brother. It has been a long while, and I've missed you dearly... Now, they've had their fun with you. I want you back."

"W-what do you mean?" Nagi asked Crimson. "I don't have a brother, Crimson."

"Please, call me Mitsuo... or if you like, aniki..." Mitsuo said with a pleased expression. "Now, let me hold my baby brother again. It's been hundreds of years since I last held you in my arms, Akira. Please, come to me. I want to feel you before she forces you to join her side...."

Nagi refused at first, but whe Mitsuo's arms incircled him, he felt like the whole in his heart had disappeared. "Are you really my brother, Mitsuo?"

The older boy nodded, "Here let me show you, close your eyes." Mitsuo placed his hands over Nagi's eyes and smiled. "Open your mind to me, little brother..."

Nagi relaxed in Mitsuo's arms, images flashed over his eyes. "You were taken from me to go to that brat prince. It wasn't fair, you were the only family I had had and they stripped you away from me."

"Akiraaaaaaaaaa!!!" came the shout from a young boy. "Don't take him away from me, you monsters!! You MONSTERS!!!" the young boy was Mitsuo, and his voice had began to crack.

"He's all I have left! Please don't take him! Please!!" he sobbed onto a man's arm. "Pleeeaseee?!"

Akira cried out, "Please don't make me go, Mitsuo! I don' wannaaa goooo!!" the boy sobbed even louder as he was drug away from his aniki.

"Mitsuoooo...." Nagi cried, latching onto the other boy's arm. "Don't leave me again... I love you. Don't leave me!!"

"I won't dear brother." Mitsuo cooed. "I will never let you away from me again. I swear it."

END CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

A/N: i was in atlanta for the last couple of days, so i couldn't update! i'm sorry it's so short anyway. baibai