Chapter Three:

This chapter is more focused on Diethyl and Lyserg...hope you like it.

Lyserg and Diethyl.

"Why do you think Lydian left?"

Diethyl fidgeted. Lyserg sighed. It would have to wait. "Never mind, where have you two been staying?"

"Here and There." Diethyl waved absently. "Where ever Lydian thinks it's okay."

"Why..."Lyserg stopped. He shouldn't ask Diethyl to leave Lydian just yet. Not until he was certain Diethyl could handle that. Besides, Diethyl would be something to explain to his friends, I'm not sure if Diethyl wants to come back, not just yet...I want him back...

"What?" Diethyl asked tilting his head again.

"Nothing. Just be careful. I have to get home, you should be getting back before Lydian realizes you've left..."Lyserg thought of something. "Don't tell him you've seen me."

"Why not?"

"Lydian doesn't like me very much." Lyserg told his Cousin. He hates me, because you listen to me...and how you feel about me.

"Alright. But I don't know why...it's not like he'd do anything to you."

"Just don't." Lyserg stressed the point. He'd hurt you, if he knew i knew you were both here, he'd hurt you to keep me quiet.

Diethyl fidgeted before walking closer to Lyserg, he leaned much too close for Lyserg's comfort, it sent his heart racing. "Why don't you come with me. Then it won't matter."

"I can't." Lyserg replied, he sounded honestly pained. It would make things worse for you.

Diethyl gave Lyserg a sad looked and walked off. Itany jumped up and followed her keeper silently.

Yoh and Friends

"What was that?" Horo Horo chose to ask.

"A Friend?"

"It's none of our business." Ren had not dropped this view point, he had tried to stress the point but gave up.

Hao chose to say nothing, having heard the entire conversation, even the bits that the two Diethels had not said to each other. This certainly gave him something new to use against Lyserg.

"We should get back soon." Yoh reminded His brother. "We have to get up early."

"You made that up." Hao accused knowing he brother had a bad sense of time, and an even worse memory.

"No, really, now we do."

"What for?" Hao didn't really like his brother making plans, it would mean he would have to be nice...that wasn't something Hao as partially fond of, Yoh was the nice half.

"Your sister is going to give you more training if you get home late right?" Yoh asked Horo Horo who blinked then freaked.

Ren merely waved and walked off without explanation.

"What is so important?" Hao asked after the other two had left.

"We need to talk to Lyserg."

"About what, I thought you didn't want him to know about our spying." Hao pouted. He'd have to be nice. Worse to Lyserg, where was the fun in that, besides, the british Shaman was so fun to tease.

" I get the feeling that this is something he needs help with." Yoh replied shrugged and taking his brother's hand.

" Do have to stop teasing him?" Hao already knew the answer.

"Try, Please?" Yoh asked his older brother.

"I hate it when you say that." Hao muttered. the grinned. "Alright, but only for a little while."

Lyserg, Yoh, Hao.

Lyserg was groggy, when he came down to see who ever was banging on the door. He had been up wondering all night if Diethyl had told Lydian. though it was foolish. Diethyl usually did what Lyserg asked him to do. So why the stupid all nighter? Telling himself he was concerning, he was really scolding himself over not asking Diethyl to leave Lydian be...to come back with him. Chances were something may have been done that would get Diethyl into trouble.

"Yes...oh, hey, Yoh...Hao." Lyserg tolerated Hao now. Barely.

"Hey, Got time to talk for a while?"

"Yeah." Lyserg let them both in wondering what could have brought them here.

"Um, this is really strange, but you were talking to someone who looked like, you, and well, it looked like it was going to the wrong way." Yoh said knowing how the green-haired shaman would react. Almost.

Lyserg sat down rather harshly. "You heard that then?"

"Yeah." this made Yoh worry all the more, he had expected the dowser to reacted a bit more violently. "Who was that?"

"My cousin, Diethyl...He's...a bit off in the head." Lyserg replied.

"He's Crazy?" Even Hao had to raise his eyebrows at this, there had been nothing strange about his thoughts, they looped back sometimes, but that happened to everyone.

"Not Exactly. He's not mentally challenged either...anyway, I'd rather you stayed out of this. Diethyl's not dangerous but his Stepbrother, Lydian is."

"Dangerous?" It was Hao who asked this.

Diethyl and Lydian. (Back to the night before.)

Diethyl came home, in a better mood then he had been in for the last few days. Lydian noticed and wondered what he had been doing.

"Where were you?"

Keeping his promise to Lyserg he only told Lydian he had found a nice view, and looked at the stars and such. It gave Itany a chance to stretch her wings.

"Itany isn't real, you psycho."

"Really?" Diethyl got an amused look as he looked at the little dragon spirit perched on his arm.

"Of course." Lydian snapped losing his temper.

This made Diethyl think, and think very hard.

I said I wasn't certain if there were going to be pairs, but there are at least two. Oh, well. Anyway, some of the chars are probably a little off, or a lot off, but I'm trying. Well, I hope to have the next chapter finished soon. Zevy