Ok, here's the expected chapter two. I hope everyone will enjoy it s much as chapter one, and I introduce Duo and Dual in this one so I hope you like them too. Enjoy!

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Chapter Two: The God of Death and his Apprentice

Well, I must say I was in near shock. My name was Kiyo Winner and I was the son of Quatre Winner, the head of the Winner family the most influential family in the colonies. Not only that, my new home was huge! You could get lost just trying to find the bathroom! But that wasn't the most interesting part. It seemed that my father didn't live alone, but with two others. Their names were Duo and Dual. Now that had been an interesting introduction. I had barely walked through the front door and the next thing I knew I was being introduced to two who could have passed for twins had they been the same age. Father and son I learned they were. Duo was the same age as my father, and he seemed vaguely familiar to me almost like I'd met him before. He had long auburn hair kept back in a braid and the most interesting violet eyes. Beside him was Dual, his son of eighteen years who shared the same violet eyes. His hair was a little darker and much shorter, coming down around his ears. Both were very kind towards me and for once I actually felt like I belonged. But I was still uneasy after what had happened and sought my new room and silence. I was looking out of one of my windows across the expansive backyard when I heard a knock on my door. I chose to ignore it, instead focusing on the little blue bird that was perched just outside my window. It was sitting in its nest in the oak tree that branched out just outside of my window. There it was being a good parent, watching over its eggs with a determined air. Maybe it will be that way here.

"What are you looking at?" I heard from behind me. If my memory served me right it was Duo, but I wasn't sure so I turned to look at the figure now standing beside me. I was right.

"Nothing really," I replied, giving one of the passive answers that we teenagers were known for.

Duo gave a kind smile and sat down on my bed, just a few feet away from me. I wasn't sure why he'd come, and I was still uneasy around anyone, so I reverted my attention back to the bird on its nest.

It was then I heard a soft chuckle from behind me. I frowned, wondering why he was laughing at me.

"You are so much like Quatre," he commented after awhile.

I sighed.

"I wouldn't know that, would I?" I must have sounded upset. In a way I was. I still didn't understand why, after 11 years, my father decided to bring me here. Not only that, I was still trying to figure out the relationship between my father and Duo. There was something there, but I chose to wait and watch before asking.

"Just give it some time," was the reply I got. "Kiyo," I felt his hand on my shoulder and shuddered subconsciously. I really didn't want to be touched. He must have felt my reaction because he drew his hand back and fell silent behind me for some time. "Well Quatre, Dual and I are here if you need us for anything. Please don't be afraid to ask either. Oh, and before I forget, dinner's in about an hour."

I gave a brief nod, not taking my eyes from looking out of my window. He left, or I thought he did. I didn't really hear him leave, but I wasn't particularly concerned with that at the time. I was debating whether or not I would go to dinner. In the end I decided to grace them with my presence, however I did intend to return to my room as quickly as I could afterwards. So after about an hour of watching the bird, who by now had flown off, I got up and moved to leave, to find Duo in the doorway watching me. I stopped. I hadn't heard him come in and I hadn't heard anything while I'd been thinking. Had he not left? Impossible, I would have heard him. He had to have just entered.

"Ready?" he asked me as I walked up to him.

"I guess," I replied.

So he led me to the formal dinning room. I took it all in, memorizing how we got there for future reference. If I knew where I was going my mind sort of worked like a GPS tracking system. I could never get lost getting to someplace I had been before. It would prove a handy trait later.

But for now I set that thought aside and took the seat offered to me at the dinner table. When we arrived Dual and my Father seemed fairly immersed in conversation, so I listened.

"So how was school last week? You said you had Midterms to deal with," my Father asked. When I had sat down he and Dual had both looked at me briefly, and I sort of knew they'd changed the conversation upon my entry. They'd been talking about me, I was sure of that.

"Yeah. I'm fairly confidant about most of them. Math proved some problems, but everyone I talked to is convinced that they failed," Dual replied.

"Well where did the problems seem to lie?"

"Probability. Our teacher failed to explain it correctly," Dual answered, this time while reaching across the table for the basket of bread. "And it was practically the entire test."

"Well that won't do," Duo put in as he reentered the room from what looked to be the kitchen with napkins.

"Tell me dad, did you ever take Pre-Calc?" Dual asked with a slight grin playing across his lips. He seemed to already know the answer.

"Now you know better you little…" Duo dropped one of the napkins over Dual's head as he passed which was actually quite amusing to watch as Dual shook it off, letting it fall right onto his plate of food.

"It's just a simple question," Dual pushed. He gave me a sly smile then and I couldn't help but laugh a little. This was proving very interesting.

"You know full well that I never took anything remotely like Pre Calculus. I never needed it," Duo retorted. By now he and my father were both smiling as well.

"What about you Kiyo? Did you have to deal with Midterms?" Dual asked me from across the table. "You're in eighth grade, right?"

I shook my head slightly.

"I'm in ninth and yes, I had Midterms last week to," I responded just before starting on the food on the plate in front of me.

"How are you in Ninth?" Dual asked, this time with his mouthful which made it come out muffled.

"They let me skip a grade last year," I replied. Out of the corner of my eye I could see my father and Duo pass a look that vaguely reminded me of the look someone gives you when it's exactly what they expect. That made me smile more. Finally I was around people who could understand me.

"Well, I guess you'll be going to school with me," Dual said after a moment of swallowing his food.

So went the first dinner with my new family. Afterwards I returned to my room and got a shower, something I wanted desperately. But even afterward I still didn't feel clean. I went to bed that night wondering what school would be like. One thought stuck in my mind noticeably as I sunk into the cushy softness of my new bed and shut my eyes. Maybe I'll make a friend. But I would just have to wait and see.

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