A/N: Day two of this and I'm cursing myself saying drama, but I have a feeling there won't be a lot of it unless you include Mitty's out bursts. Oh well, I'm more suited to humor…And making people, including myself, choke on objects in their mouths. Onward with this chapter! In case you're wondering, right now it's 11:45 am so things might not seem as funky in this chapter I'm only writing this about…8 hours after I posted the first one. Expect this week for me to be possibly be cranking out chapters on stuff since next I think Friday and Saturday I'll be out of town away from my computer but the place I'm staying in has computer so I'll still be able to R&R sweet!

Disclaimer: Ryu my character! After that it all belongs to somebody that I don't know except for where the torture comes from…that is my brain if you think you can't take that away you've got more problems than me.

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"Talking"

'Thoughts'


Shadow


Chapter Two


. : Ch. 2 Big Brother: .

Mahiru's mind heard the conversation and was even more confused, "Huh? Wadda ya talking 'bout Mr. Ryu, you and Mitsuru know each other?"

"You fucking idiot!" Mitsuru growled in her direction, "Have you not paid attention to anything that these other morons have said? You are just so damn stupid-," Before he could finish a hand was brought hard and fast across his face.

Ryu's smoke gray eyes flashed darkly, "Mitsuru, if I may borrow a line from you, shut the fuck up. You don't talk to people that way especially women, is that understood?" Mitsuru was silent. "Answer your older brother Mitsuru…Now." He threatened; his younger brother was in a worse state of mind than Ryu thought he was.

"Whaaa! B-brother!" Squealed the princess in shock and surprise, "Mitsuru you never told us you had a brother."

'Never told them? What is exactly is going on here…The girl's cute. GAH can't let mind do that, first brother, then the girl.' Thought the older tengu, he may have looked like Mitsuru, but he sure as hell didn't act like him. "Mitsuru, don't make me have to do what I used to do to get you to talk."

"Oh and what might that be?" Asked a curious werewolf, it looks could kill the one that the younger tengu just gave would've killed the werewolf before the sentence could even be completed.

"This!" Ryu went behind Mitsuru, put him in a choke hold, giving him a nuggie yelled, "Out with it Mitty-chan!"

At Mitty-chan two members of the Lunar Race started busting out with laughter, one smirking and the human actually thought it was kind of cute. "Arrgghhhhh fine I won't do it again now let go!" In his mind though, the pissed-off tengu was letting out a stream of curses so wide that it had become a river.

"Hmph, alright if you say so." Ryu released his baby brother who fell crashing to the floor. He stayed there for a while, trying to block out the damn hyenas laughing. 'Fuck this I'm leaving.'

Getting up Mitsuru brushed himself off and stomped out towards the hallway. "Mitsuru," Misoka warned, "you might want to be careful the-," "I'm fine dammit." A few moments later there was a loud thud followed by an even louder 'Fuck!'

"Did he just fall… on a wet floor?"

"Yes, no matter how many times we try to warn him, as always falls out there."

"Huh…"

Akira remembered breakfast, "Hey Ryu, we're gonna have breakfast! Join us and that way we can learn more about you!" Of course he was hyper so it sounded like 'hrwghbjuatwwclmay!'

"Translated means sit down and eat breakfast; we chat and learn more about you." Nozomu had become an expert in the language of Akira. "Uhh…Mahiru is your hair supposed to stick up that way?"

"I don't think so." With the skills only women possessed, or so Nozomu thought, Mahiru fixed her hair just perfectly in a matter of moments. "There, that's much better. Are we eating waffles or pancakes today Akira?"

"Waffles, the best food on the planet of course! Oh Morning Oboro sir!"

"Morning Akira, Nozomu, Misoka, Princess, and of course our new comrade Ryu, I take it that the shouting before was that Mitsuru found out your staying with us?"

The gang of teens all looked at each other, if Mitsuru had exploded for him being there… "Umm…something to that affect Oboro sir."

"Just be ready for the blast right?"

"…Yeah, that'd be advisable."

Sometime after breakfast the lot of them were sitting around, Oboro had left along with Katsura to take of some business on the other side of town. It's was silent, Mitsuru hadn't returned and it was ten after one in the afternoon. (a/n: here it's the same time only instead of p.m. it's am)

"Does he do this a lot?" Ryu asked to shatter the silence that had enveloped the group.

The three other members of the Lunar Race all gave a reply that followed one another's. "What stomp off in an angry rage?" "Yes in fact, he does it daily." "If it's not one thing it's the other."

"Ryu, exactly how old are you anyway?" Mahiru asked him.

"Twenty."

'Wow,' she thought, 'He doesn't look twenty…more like eighteen.' What made him look about that age was his clothing, a black tee-shirt with the sleeves ripped off, a pair of dark blue slightly faded blue jeans, and the black choker he wore around his neck with a silver embroidered dragon that looked like it was weaving over and under it. Not to mention the gentle features of his face along with his playful eyes that seemed to be drinking in everything around him.

Oh no, could Mahiru possibly be developing a crush on him? This is what we call a very, very bad situation, if she had a crush on him and if, very big if, they both liked her…Her thoughts very cut short by Nozomu, "Mahiru babe, are you ok, you look a little pale."

"Oh no, hehheh, I'm fine. In fact, I think I'm gonna go to the store cause we need more laundry detergent…Bye." She got up from her position in the chair and ran off before any of them could say that they would go with her.

Once again the room was silent. "Didn't we just buy detergent the other day?" voiced the fox some while later. Nozomu and Akira looked at each other, why hadn't they noticed that before she ran out? Did they really not have that much common sense as to overlook that, probably.

"Give her a little bit of, I sure that's what she wants. I sure as hell would if I were a girl in this place, now how about we play around of poker?"

Mahiru walked slowly down the sidewalk, what she really wanted to do was why Mitsuru was so angry that his brother was there. You think that somebody would be happy to see a relative when they hadn't seen one in so long, but it was Mitsuru and, to be quite honest, he never seemed happy about anything.

She walked around town for well over an hour before reaching an extremely large park, if Mitsuru were anywhere, it would be here. He wouldn't be anywhere near the water since he couldn't swim, so that narrowed it down to somewhere in here. "Oh fun looking for him in here." She grumbled to herself.

Where he actually was, was by the lake. It was the part farthest from where most of the people went. Peace and quiet, no annoying vampires, no smart ass foxes, no hyperactive were-wolves, and his favorite no damn brothers or – "Mitsuru, that's where you are! I've been looking all over this place for like the last half hour!" …stupid humans. Damn her and her peppiness.

She sat down next to him and looked at what he was staring at, which was the water. "I don't find any thing interesting in it."

"Like I give a shit."

"You're being very sour today like the weather Mitsuru, what's got you in such a foul mood?"

"Does your existence count?"

"No!"

"Then not of your damn business woman."

"It's your brother Ryu isn't it?"

"Arrghh can nobody shut up about that bastard! It's always Ryu this or Ryu that, or Mitsuru, lighten up and act more like your damn fucking brother Ryu!" He fumed.

Rain pellets had started falling to the ground; they seemed to have helped calm the tengu's jealous rage. He stood up and offered his hand to Mahiru to help her up, she stared at the hand. "Well come on now, if you get sick out here it'll somehow be my damn fault."

'Maybe, just maybe,' Mahiru thought as he wrapped his arms tightly around her waist, 'He does care a little, he's holding me tighter than usual. Why must things like this always be so darn complicated?'

"Ready?"

"Yeah." With that they flew off towards the Moonshine as the rain came down harder and harder.


TBC


A/N: Well that chapter didn't turn out quite like I wanted it to, guess I was more concerned with the number of words in the story than the actual story; I'm definitely not caring about word count anymore. (Shouldn't have been in the first place, makes it feel more like work than something I do for fun.) I had hoped to reveal more about Ryu in this chapter, but I didn't get quite that far. That's what the next chapter is for! And those of you who read Tape Player, I hoping to have the next chapter by probably late Monday night (3 a.m. late) or early Tuesday afternoon since I got such good reviews!

Big Thanks and Hugs for these people:

jesusgirl883 –I think it's going from drama to comedy; it's following in the steps of Mitsuru's Dream. That started out serious and went funny. P.S. Store Wars Funny as Hell
Korii Shoujo –Of course there's M&M (those are tasty) in fact possibly triangle.
Black Dog Goddess Suiyou –I have slept and I have updated so here it is, but I'm tired…maybe because it's Sunday.
scathac's warrior –I can see it now…Pledge Wars where every floor surface with isn't carpet doused with Pledge, shaving cream and feathers, water buckets on top of doors O.O I'm gonna have lots of fun

And more Thanks and Hugs to those review after I post this Later!