Eyes and Kanone were walking through the woods behind the house that Kanone owned that all of the Blade Children currently lived in. Eyes wasn't really sure how deep these woods were, but he did know that Kanone had never taken him very far. Eyes trusted Kanone, and himself as well, but he was content with staying in sight of thier home. These trees did have a nasty habit of looking the same where ever they went. Kanone had approached Eyes earlier that day and asked him if he would accompany him on a walk through the woods. Eyes, of course, accepted; he would never let anyone know, especially not Kanone, but his walks with Kanone, wherever they may lead, were one of the few joys he got out of life.
In fact all of his joys were centered around Kanone, and that had always been enough for Eyes; just knowing that Kanone was near gave him a sense of peace. And maybe that is what disturbed him so much, because as much as he wanted to believe, Eyes really wasn't sure he had a right to a sense of peace. If there was a God, he would most assuredly take that peace away from him, and that frghtened Eyes more than he would ever let on. Thoughts of his life without Kanone were dark places that he refered not to visit. However, while in Kanone's presence, which was quite often, he prefered to push those thoughts aside and focus on the here and now.
And as Eyes did just that he realized that he had no idea where they were. The house wasn't visible anymore and he couldn't hear the rush of water from the stream he and Kanone usually stopped by. Eyes shifted a sideways glance to Kanone, wondering which question to ask: Where are we? Where are we going? How long will it take to get there? He decided against all of those questions though, not wanting to seem untrusting of his friend. Though he didn't like to be left in the dark. Before he could say anything, Kanone spoke, saving Eyes the trouble of doing so.
"Beautiful day, isn't it?" Kanone asked with a smile on his face.
"It's a bit chilly." Eyes stated. He hadn't brung a coat and it was getting dark outside so the temperature was dropping a few degrees.
"That's because you didn't bring a coat." Kanone remarked.
"I didn't realize we'd be out this long." Eyes had found a way to hopefully discover their destination.
"Do you think we should turn back? It is getting pretty late I suppose. And if we don't get back soon those three will probably burn the house down." Kanone said jokingly, though he wouldn't put it past them.
Eyes realized the meaning of Kanone's words. "He had no destination in mind and no reason for bringing me out here. Then why are we here? What could his purpose be?" Eyes thought, "It's unlike him just to ask me on a walk, he always has underlying objectives." Responding to Kanone, Eyes nodded in agreement.Kanone was, of course, talking about Kousuke, Rio, and Ryoko, and Eyes knew exactly what he meant. Then again Eyes always knew what Kanone meant. Eyes once again shook those thoughts from his head and focused his attention on the topic of conversation at the moment: The other Blade Children; Eyes and Kanone immediately knew that they would walk into a war zone when the entered their front door. Every other day Kanone was yelling at Kousuke, Rio, or Ryoko (usually Kousuke since everyone blamed him) for breaking something in the house. Well never actually yelling, Kanone just stared at the acusees out of the corner of his eye. That was usually enough to shut them up and start cleaning up the mess they made. But when one of them back-talked him... Eyes shuddered at the thought. He recalled one instance when Kousuke and Rio were fighting over something and they ended up breaking something of Kanone's, Eyes couldn't recall exactly what but that wsn't important. When Kanone simply told them to "take care of the mess" Kousuke was stupid enough to try to pin the blame completely on Rio. Kanone turned to face Kousuke and go tthis horriblely stern look on his face that let everyone in the room know better than to even look at him funny. If that wasn't enough he said in a very low and potentially dangerous voice, "Asazuki..." Just that one word sent shivers down Eyes' back, and shut Kousuke up from that day foward.
"He's not abusive or anything...he just doesn't like to be disrespected, and he'll do what he has to to get that point across." Eyes rationalized Kanone's actions, "After all, he's never been that way with me"The others are just foolish." Eyes decided. Unfortunately he had decided that last sentence out loud and now Kanone was staring at him.
"I do suppose you're right about that." Kanone said cheerfully and laughed a bit. It was only then that Eyes realized that his words about his friends being foolish fit right in place with Kanone's joke about them burning the house down. Kanone paused for a moment then glanced at Eyes and questioned him, "There was a bit of time between my comment and your response, what were you thinking about?"
Eyes glanced at Kanone but his attention quickly snapped foward and he got a look of the most dreadful fear you could imagine, "Kanone..."
"Kanone smiled faintly at Eyes, "It's alright Eyes, you can tell me, you don't..."
"No, Kanone..." Eyes interrupted. He knew Kanone hated to be interrupted, but he was so fixated on the sight in front of him that he simply didn't care, "Look." Kanone's gaze turned towards the spot where Eyes was fixated, their house. There were clouds of smoke rising from it. Kanone was the first one to reach the house with Eyes not far behind. As they arived on the scene the house had already been burned to the ground and the smoke was a result of the surrounding trees being caught on fire.