Almost this whole chapter takes place at Yoh and Hao's house, i'm putting the time, besides, it's mainly only Lyserg, Hao, Yoh and Diethyl in this one anyway.

Diethyl had dozed off by the time Lyserg and the others got back, though Lyserg was upset becuase now undoubtly Lydian knew Diethyl wasn't going to be coming back.

"He knew anyway." Hao replied calmly, closing the book he'd been reading. "It was easy enough to get Diethyl to tell me alot of things. Though he is stubborn, wonder where he got that..."

Lyserg ignored the comment. "What did he tell you?"

"Lydian wanted to leave, Diethyl doesn't and says he won't." Hao replied, ignoreing the Annoyed tone in Lyserg's voice. " then we mainly discussed Shamanism on whole. Apperently Lydian said she wasn't real, called Diethyl a Pyscho, and that sent Diethyl up to the park for who knows how long."

"Park?"

"Yes. He doesn't know how long he had been there ethier, only it was a long time. He's upstairs right now."

"You had better not have lied to him." Lyserg glared decided to check on Diethyl himself.

"You certainly are a protecive lover." Hao told the dowser's retreating back.

"And stop saying that."

"Yoh?" Hao asked coming up behind his twin, as he was making dinner, after he said the other two had gone to sleep for the night. "He told me more then that. Diethyl really is easy to trick."

"Really, what did he tell you?" Yoh asked almost absentmindedly.

"Alot about lydian, most of which doesn't make any sense to me." Hao replied closing his eyes and resting his head on Yoh's shoulder. " Some things about himself, which are...interesting."

"Like what?"

"He tried to kill himself once." Hao stated it like it was only a interesing fact, and not as importenant or serious as it was.

Yoh dropped knife he'd been holding. " He what!"

Lyserg did find Diethyl sleeping, he must have spend hours in the cold, it was only just now turning into spring, and was lucky he wasn't sick. Still, Lyserg wondered just how much Diethyl told Hao. Lyserg lay besides Diethyl for a moment, after moving Diethyl's glasses, like they had when the two had only been 12. Back then, neither had really understood what had gone on, before they turned 13, Diethyl had been locked away, agian, and then Lyserg had gone into the shaman tournament, The dowser's eyes closed with out his permission.

"I think we need to talk to little Lyserg agian." Hao told his shocked brother. "And keep a close eye on Diethyl."

"Are you certian that's what he said?" For some reason, without even meeting Diethyl Yoh found this strange.

"Yes." Hao sighed annoyed. "He told me, after his father died, his stepmother blamed him alot, and he appernetly tried to."

"Did he say apperently?" Yoh asked as they moved to the other room, Hao sat down.

"That's the interesing bit." Hao replied, stretching on the couch. "He said that, and that he only what other people told him...I'm think there's something Lydian knows, ethier that or Diethyl really does get lost, really, really lost. Not a bad Shaman though."

"No, you promised. No more followers."

"I know. It was only a comment." Hao grinned. "Not bad looking ethier, but he's hell bent on Lyserg...pity."

"Hey."

Next Morning.

Diethyl woke up and wondered fo a moment where he was, and what he had done with his glasses. He stretched and nudge Lyserg who woke up a bit reluctently. Though it was late in the morning, meaning Lyserg had over slept. Diethyl brightened, and grinned in a way that he normally only did around people he truly trusted, (A/N: Lydian had only seen this grin when Diethyl was around Lyserg.) So that was who the long haired boy had said was looking for him.

"Hi."

"Hey, what were you doing in the park?"

"Trying to figure out why Lydian said that Itany wasn't real, and if she was or wasn't. But that's all cleared up now."

"Really?" Lyserg was still kind of groggy. But was glad Diethyl wasn't beating himself up to understand. "Oh, right, this Yoh's house. we should prbably go..."

"Where're my glasses?" Diethyl was squinting trying to see where they were.

"Up here, you feel asleep with them on."

"Oh, sorry." Diethyl apologized and took the glasses from lyserg so he could see farether then the hand infront of his face. Diethyl yawned agian and lay down, "That one boy said I could stay here, is he okay?"

"Yes." It was hard to say this without getting angry, of course Hao isn't a good person, but right now he's the best protection Diethyl has. Lydian...if I could i'd...

"What?" A voice said by the door, causing Lyserg to go red, and Diethyl too turned. "If i'm not interupting anything, you should come down stairs." An evil grinned adorned the pyro's face.

"kay." Diethyl got up and stretched, not understanding why Lyserg looked so angry. "Problem?"

"No." Lyserg put on a smile for his cousin's sake.

Lyserg had to force himsefl not to get angry at Hao, who on yoh's orders, helped by not tempting an outburst. Diethyl did get lost easily, then he would get frusterated, and tugging on his bangs seemed relatively nice gesture to relive that frustration. Talking to him did take alot. Bringing of an Incident that both Asakuras wanted to know about Proved to be very difficult as Lyserg had not made it seem okay to talk about.

"Um..."Diethyl said and shifted slightly, before answering. "Told him yesterday."

Lyserg did not look to please to hear this, nor did he want to discuss the matter. However this put Diethyl on edge to a point he refused everyone, have overwhelmed himself with trying to figure out who to listen to.

"Diethyl, There are some books on Shamanism in the other room, why not go and read one for a little while?" Yoh suggested.

Lyserg looked ready to complain but agreed and nodded with a forced grin at Diethyl who got up, and went into the living room to find these books. Diethyl could handle that but, he simply had a hard time when things got touchy, where the views of the ones he trusted conflicted, confusing him on what he should do.

"Your not helping." Hao said straight off. "I need to know excatly what happened to put the peices together."

"What's there to ask!" Demadned Lyserg quietly. "His stepmother shouted all the time after Uncle died, Diethyl got cunfused, didn't know what to do, so when she went to check on him, she found him sitting in his own blood, he's lucky to be alive."

"He told it a little differently. He doesn't remember what happened." Hao said calmly. "I think Lydian plays a bigger role in this, and if we can figure it out, it will help break the lies he's been told for the past 8 years."

"Differently?" Lyserg blinked. "The only thing that no one made any sense of was the weapon he used, there weren't any, none that could be found..."

"And you still think that Diethyl did it himself? Slashed his wrist then managed to hide the knife? Would Diethyl even know, in his confuseion, that doing such a thing would kill him, would that option had been clear to him, you know him better then i do, Lyserg. So think, does any of this make any sense?"

Lyserg stopped to think a moment. As much as he hated Hao, he had a point. Something didn't fit." Okay, so something's a bit off,everythign about Diethyl takes a lot of thought..."

"As much as i don't like you, Lyserg, i'm going to say this to try and help. If you don't get the truth out of him now, he'll forget, and let what ever lie he's been told rewrite the memory, you wouldn't belive just how easy it is to do, i've done it before." Hao said it sounding a bit miffed.

Lyserg glared, but looked over his shoulder. "Diethyl?" He got up, if he was going to ask, then he would do so without someone He didn't feel comfortable around, it would not help Diethyl remember.

"Yeah." Diethyl looked up from the book he was reading looking a bit amused. "This makes no sense what so ever. But i'm trying..is somethign wrong?"

"Yes." Lyserg would not waste time, nor give Diethyl the chance to run away. "Diethyl, what excatly happened when your mother found you, you remember don't you?"

"Not Really," Diethyl answered turn back to the book.

"Diethyl, What happened?" This was going to get nasty Lyserg knew it, He took the Book from Diethyl taking away a route of escape.

"I don't really remember. I woke up, Mom was screeching at me, i woke up agian in the hospital, with some people telling me i was going to go away from home for a little while, to get better."

"Diethyl what really happened? Your mother never screamed at you."

Diethyl looked down and shook his head. He was not going to talk anymore, Lyserg had to make him give the explianation agian. and agian. Until it made sense, until he got what he needed. It hurt Diethyl and it hurt himself, but, Hao had been right, the real memory would be erased for the more comforting lie he had been told.

Flashbackk

"Dian, what's ya doing..." Diethyl had started to ask, before seeing the knife. "You not supposed to have that."

Lydian glanced over his hsoulder at his brother, look of rage on his face. "Don't you dare tell mother!"

"Your not supposed to have Sharp Things!" Diethyl said it agian and hopped down off the bed, behind which Lydian was sitting.

Downstairs, Lydian's mother, and Diethyl's Stepmother, was talking to a friend of the families.

"Is Diethyl taking his okay?"

"Mostly. It's still ard explain why his father isn't coming back, but he's alright."

"DId they find out what happened?"

"No." She glanced up stairs, when she heard a crash, and a shout. "I should go check on them."

"Get off me!" Diethyl Shouted at Lydian.

"Your going to go and tattle."

"Mom said you can't have those!" Diethyl told his brother, wondering what was so wrong. Rules were Rules."So get off me."

"Promise me you won't tell, or i'll cut you."

"No." Diethyl replied. "I won't promise that, you know what happens when we break rules."

"What happens when you break rules, my mother couldn't care less about me."

"She's my mom too." Diethyl snapped

"No she's not, your mother died in an acciden before you were born, mostly, i heard him Say it."

"That's not True!" Shoving up on Lydian suddenly, causing the knife to slip..slip and slive into Diethyl's hand and wrist.

Lydian looked pretrifed. He got up, and left Diethyl hiding the kife under the floorboards, and scrambling under the bed Diethyl could hear the shuffling noises. His mother was coming...Diethyl had passed out by now, and lay making weak noise on the floor. Lydian wanted nothing to do with this...

"Diethyl?Call an Ambulence!" Mother said in shocked, automatically putting pressure on the wound, below it, and craddling the tiny boy. "Diethyl wake up, baby, Wake up...Lydian, what happened? Lydian!"

Diethyl woke up enough to see a hazy image of his mother, and something leaving, before his mother started talkign to him agian.

"It's okay, Baby, It's okay."

Diethyl could not remember ever being called that again.

End of Flashback

Lydian.

Without Diethyl around, Lydian saw no reaosn to dye his hair, and could not keep those contacts in a moment longer. Should he find his delusoinal step brother agian, he would simply say he had changed his appearence. His hair was once agian the snowy white his mother had loved so much, and his eyes the same Dark Sapphire blue his father's had been. It would have made Lydian sick if he were already feed up with the whole experience of dye his hair and taking in and out those contacts.

Hao, Yoh and Lyserg

"Something still doesn't fit." Hao told yoh after hearing the real Memory from Lyserg, before the two had left for Lyserg's apartment.

"Really?" Yoh said absentmindedly. "It made sense to me, harmless really."

"Lydian isn't harmless." Hao replied. "I've lived with Humans alot longer then you have and Yoh, people can be born bad."

"Oh? Like you?"

"No." Hao replied, thinking about something. "That's Different! Besides, my point is sometimes something happens young, i sused to be be healer, people brought thier kids to me to chase away demons, when a good deal of the time they're were any."

"So?" Yoh still did not seem interested in what his brother had to say.

"As i was saying, something,..actually killing an animal, witnessing a death, People are killers, that's how we used to live, Yoh, sometimes that instint isn't wiped by this kind of comfort." Hao replied this time eblowing his twin. "Are you listening?"

"Yeah." Yoh replied rubbing his now sore side. "I heard you. I've learn to multi-task. Something Anna pushed on me i guess."

"Good, so then does part of this not make much sense?"

"Not Really, I mean it makes sense to me," Hao sighed irritated, when Yoh said this. "Two kids nethier really trying to hurt they other, but one not wanting to get into trouble, it was an accident."

"You need to be a little more distrusting, Yoh, or it's going to get you hurt." Hao told his twin wrapping his arms around him. "I can't let that happen."

"Well, then Explain what's so wrong about it?"

"Lydian, i think, likes blood, but we're going to need little Lyserg to confirm that."

"Why are you so interested in this?"

"He's human, a human who hurts Shaman, i managed to get that out of Diethyl." Hao smirked. "Time for a Shaman to hurt him back."

"Oh." Was all Yoh said.