Chapter Four:
The Chapters keep getting longer. Well, hopefully you like it. Sorry, about the long wait. Alot has been happening. I have to upload through school, our computer decided to be a pain.
Diethyl could not sleep that night. For a number of reasons. He wondered if Lydian was only trying to bother him agian. He had said Itany wasn't real, she was. She was sitting down on the nightstand watching Diethyl, watching him watch her then the ceiling. He was confused agian, confused and worried. He need to talk to Lyserg...he would have to wait until the chance came back up. Diethyl had promised not to mention Lyserg to Lydian and he wouldn't.
Still, Lyserg was another reason he couldn't sleep. Lyserg had seemed concerned when he told Diethyl that he couldn't come with him. Why? Lydian had never tried to hurt Lyserg...though Lydian had hurt Diethyl, once. He'd had hurt him badly, but Diethyl could only remember waking up in the hospital. He'd been told that Lydian had done it, and Lydian had admitted...but otherwise, it was a black spot.
Diethyl turned his attention back to Itany.
What should i do? I can't go find him, he wouldn't like that much. Right now, i guess i should sleep.
Itany watched her keeper go to sleep, but she herself did not. She had learned not to trust Lydian. He simply was crazy.
Lyserg, Yoh, Hao.
"Dangerous?" Hao asked agian when the dowser didn't openly respound.
Should i tell them? It's really none of thier business. If I tell there's a chance that Diethyl will be hurt. Should Lydian find out. Lyserg fought with himself and lost, horribly. No, maybe they can help. Lydian doesn't like Shaman.
"Lydian would make a very good serial killer." Lyserg said it reluctently at first, momentarily forgetting they may not know what this meant.
"Serial Killer?"
"Some one who kills for the joy of it, and becuase they don't get caught. Reminds me of someone." Lyserg added trying not to glare at Hao, so instead the floor got the look. "He's tricking my cousin into beliveing he's his twin brother, a twin who died during birth. How Diethyl even knows about him..."
"Wait, how can he be fooled?"
"I told you Diethyl gets confused." Lyserg rolled his eyes. "It makes him difficult to handle."
"Handled How?" Hao couldn't help it.
"Don't you start," Lyserg warned him, Remembering that Hao can read thoughts. "your in no place to tell me..."
"He didn't mean anything." Yoh tried to stop the coming fight. "Confused...?"
"Diethyl has a hard time with facts that don't match up, if it contrdicts it's self, then he get lost. Sometimes what's said doesn't get to him. It takes a lot of patience to talk to him. Lydian took advatange of that, and got them both locked up when they were close to 13, Lydian is closer to 14, they decided It couldn't have been Diethyl who did it, so they let him live in...a home i guess."
"Did what?" Hao wanted to know.
"A home?" Yoh said this in unison it took Lyserg a moment to figure what was said, and by who.
"A murder, it's not anything of any importence, the weirdo was going to kill himself, but decided to let Lydian do it for him, Anyway, yes a home, i don't know how to explain it. with no one in our family able to take care of him, adult wise, they decided for the better that he should stay where he was. Lydian was thrown into a cell and the key was thrown away, i don't know how he got out."
"A Shaman could get out of something like that if they're powerfull...what?"Lyserg had shaken his head when Yoh tried to figure that out.
"Diethyl is a shaman, but Lydian isn't. He doesn't like shaman ethier...he hates Itany, Diethyl's guardian ghost."
"He's not a shaman?" Hao asked getting a plan in mind, more to the fact he was bored over the fact that it would help Lyserg.
"No, he's not. And don't kill him, at least, not until i can get Diethyl out of the way. He won't understand."
"Then make him." Hao said getting annoyed by this.
"You can't, I can't. Diethyl can't be talked to like That!"
"Okay, okay...so maybe we can't set the full truth out, but he can be told Lydian is a bad guy, Right?"
"Yeah, but it takes a lot, I can try agian, presuming I can find Diethyl without Lydian hanging around." Lyserg crossed his arms.
"Why does Lydian matter?" Both Twins were confused.
"If Lydian finds out that I'm here, then he may hurt Diethyl agian. It keeps me from going straight to the police."
"One thing, Lyserg," Hao had to ask. "Where you and Diethyl ever a couple? Oh, good." Hao was already changing his plans, this is going to be more fun then i thought. Lyserg's sudden blush had said everything.
Lydian, Diehthyl.
"No." Diethyl said crossing his arms. "I'm not leaving, you do as you like., I'm staying here."
"Why? Do you want them to find us?"
"Us, no. But then they're not looking for me are they? I'm sick of moving around. live with it or leave." Diethyl turned his back on Lydian, and walked out, Itany followed, having alreay hissed at the unknowing human. "I'm not a pyscho." this was added under his breath, "i just get confused." the door closed, and clicked shut.
Lydian clenched his teeth, Oh, great. Now what, I've got to keep moving...what's gotten into the little psycho. Lydian looked at the door his "brother" had left through. there may be a way to get him to go...but it won't be pretty.
Yoh, Hao, Ren, Lyserg and Horo Horo.
"What part of secret didn't you understand!" Lyserg demanded. " This isn't the best way to keep things from Lydian..."
"I know." Hao replied. "That's why i had Yoh tell them."
"YOU? You told them, after everything i told you..." Lyserg honestly thought he was going to have a mental breakdown, or a heart attack.
Yoh could only grin a bit sheepishly at the dowser's glare.
"It's part of my plan, now, there's something you need to do."
"Like What?"
"Find Diethyl, You can do that can't you?" Hao asked smirking.
Lyserg wasn't sure about this. "Why?"
"You still don't trust me?" Hao pouted.
"No." Lyserg answered.
Hao rolled his eyes, and sighed. "Argh, just do it, alright. My plans normally work out, look how close i was to being Shaman King."
"Alright," If this helps Diethyl, it won't be too bad, just remember that. "this had better not backfire on Diethyl."
"Protective Lover aren't you?"
"You didn't..." Lyserg would have rather kept that little bit secret... When did i say that bit out loud?
"You didn't." Hao said it sweetly. " I found out for myself."
"Your a bastard..."
"Anyway," Ren replied. " Who is this Lydian anyway?"
"Lydian is Diethyl's stepbrother, after my uncle remarried."
"We knew that, but why did he have to get married agian?"
"My aunt died in an accident on the way to the hostpital." Lyser g hestated. "She was going to have twins, or so i've always been told, but only Diethyl and his Father Survived...When Lydian heard that...well, he saw it as an oppertunity. Though he has to wear colored contacts, and dye his hair all the time. Diethyl wasn't going to know about his twin until he was older, but he found out somehow."
"Why wasn't he going to be told?"
"I don't see why that's importent."
"It might be. You said he gets confused, but they wouldn't just lock him up for that."
"They didn't lock him up, there just wasn't anyway one old enough, or alive, to take care of him after his Father passed on, or whatever happened to him, Lydian they locked away. He's the real crazy one."
"Why does Lydian have to Dye his hair?" Ren asked. "Couldn't he just leave it be, tell this Diethyl that he had dyed it?"
"I don't know." Lyserg thought a moment."In the Eight years he's been lying to Diethyl, and to a lot of other people i've never quite figured that out. I don't even know what color his eyes or hair is normally."
"Then how do you know he's dying it, dude?"
"He told me."
"Told you!"
"I told you, Lydian doesn't make much sense. But i've got to get him locked up before he does soemthing really bad to Diethyl...or kills any more people."
"Eight Years? That's a long time to keep a lie, and keep the facts straight." Yoh said.
"He doesn't." Lyserg glared at both the wall, then hao for blabing all this. " He only has to keep enough in line to get Diethyl to belive him, Diethyl knows he gets 'confused', the facts don't add up, he puts them off as something he's done, not something Lydian may have. The only thing Lydian has to be really careful about it Itany, Diethyl's Guardian Ghost, Lydian can't see her, but has to pretend he can."
"Why?" Horo Horo asked.
"I said this earler," Lyserg rolled his eyes, then bit down on his thumbnail, " He's pretending to be his twin brother, if they're twins then they should both be able to see spirits. If he says he can't, Diethyl will think on that. Diethyl's not stupid...he's really smart, he just doesn't think about things in the way everyone else does."
"Oh. Good." Ren sounded Sarcastic. "How are we supposed to tell him that his brother's a faker."
"Very carefully."
Diethyl.
He knew it was dangerous, and would very likly break his promise, but he wanted to think, and he hoped that maybe Lyserg would coem back and help to explain a few things that Diethyl himself didn't understand. Why had Lydian insisted that Itany wasn't real? was he really only annoy his brother, he did this sometimes, or had he been serious. What did it matter if they stayed or not? it wasn't like they were in any rush, if Lydian would stop hurting people.
Diethyl paced, "Why won't any of this make sense?" Diethyl asked the open air before crouching, hands on ethier side of his head. Diethyl stayed like that for a long time, trying to understand the senselessness of the questions he needed answers to, even when it rained for awhile.
Lydian
Lydian looked around and cursed Diethyl's name. He should have paid more attention last night, then he'd know were he was. He had to find the annoying bastard and 'convince' him that leaving was of his better interest. Lydian now wondered what could make Diethyl want to stay, to disagree with Lydian, even to snap at him, and went over thier last few conversations the ones he could remember.
"Itany." Lydian muttered and cliked his teeth. "Damn Shaman."
He'd made a mistake. A big one. Itany sometimes meant the world to Diethyl, by losing his temper and finally telling the little weirdo that she wasn't real had pushed him in the wrong direction. He had to find Diethyl and apologize, before he was found by someone else, who may clear thigns up. But then the chances he'd find another shaman were very slim.
Diethyl
Diethyl had no idea how much time had past, he didn't care. I'm not leaving until i figure this out. even if i takes me days to do so. Though it was annoying Diethyl to no end and it was tempting to just give up. Lydian's last conversation would come back and Diethyl would wonder agian. He knew he should get back but not until he found an answer without Lydian help.
"Is something wrong?"
"Maybe I don't know." Diethyl said not looking up, and tighting his hold on his hair, shaking his head slightly. "I can't figure it out."
"Maybe i can help." The voice was calm, if a little cold. " What's your name?"
"Diethyl Diethel." Diethyl looked up.
"Mine is Asakura Hao." Hao held out a hand, smileing. "I know a friend of yours, who's looking for you."
"Really?" Diethyl took the offered hand, not wanting to wait in the cold by himself any longer, but then Itany was there, wasn't she? Or was Lydian right and Itany was little more then a figment of Diethyl's imagination, his brother may only be trying to help..Diethyl just didn't know.
"Itany is real, as real as any spirit i've ever seen, and i've seen alot of them, why would someone lie to like that, Why would your brother?"
Hao looked geniunely concerned, Diethyl hestated only a moment.
"I guess your right."
Even Hao had to feel something. He really is easy to trick. Lydian probably doesn't have to try very hard. "Of course, Do you know what a Shaman is?"
"No."
"I'll tell you on the way back to my brother's and my house, okay? That will help clear things up."
"Alright."
WOW. A long chapter. and things start getting good...DIethyl gets to meet Hao, this won't go well for Lydian. Sorry for the really long lack of updates. Our internet had died on us...hopefully, i can update more, with school...and everything.