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Chapter 2

He sneezed. It was cold, wet, and windy. He wanted to get back to his brother as soon as possible and he wanted his mother to be okay. Is that too much for a child to ask for? He didn't think so.

Shaking the rainwater from his hair, he quickly jumped to the next building. Miscalculating the distance, he barely caught the edge with his claws. Though he was digging his claws into the cement, he found out soon enough that his grip was not as secure as he had thought when he tried to swing his legs over the side of the ledge. Slipping, he fell two stories, landing on his side.

Quickly, he jumped to his feet, ignoring the pain the shot through him, and ran as the window just above where he had landed lit up.

Once he was sure he was a safe distance away, he stopped, panting heavily. Evening out his breathing, he sniffed the around him, making sure he wasn't in any demons claimed territory before jumping into a tree to sleep. Almost as soon as his back touch the bark of the tree, he was sleeping, his body trying to heal from whatever damage it had receive when he fell.

"Kiyoshi…" A familiar voice taunted him. "Kiyoshi… Kiyoshi, time to wake up sleepy head!" The voice shouted in Kiyoshi ear, instantly he shot up into a sitting position, only to slam heads with the owner of the voice; his brother.

"Kisho!" Kiyoshi whine, glaring into match deep scarlet, nearly violet eyes. "Don't do that next time, I was sleeping!"

Ignoring his younger twins whining he got down to business. "You weren't at the meeting place, where were you?" Always to the point Kisho was; their mother had said it was how their father was before they got separated from him.

"Oh. I couldn't find what I was suppose to get, I'm sorry." Kiyoshi yawned, hiding the pain that he felt in his chest from his brother. "A human wasn't watching where they were going and tripped over me. He mistook me as one of his friends or someone and really was strong, for a human that is." He took a deep breath, thinking. "I followed him until he went into that human forest. I didn't go any farther because there were three other really strong demons in there." Thankfully he was done speaking, or at least for the most part.

Kisho ran a critical eye over his younger twin, trying to analyze what could be wrong with him. Sensing but not seeing anything wrong, he ignore it. "Do you think that we should look around them? You think they could have some of the things that we're looking for?"

"I don't know." He really didn't like where this was going.

"We're going to go look then." Kisho stated leaving know room for arguments, as he jumped from the branch.

Groaning Kiyoshi followed, but almost as soon as he hit the moist earth, he doubled over as coughs raked through his small body. By the time his fit was over, he had dropped to his knees and beside him was his brother; uncertainty was written all over his face when he couldn't figure out what to do.

Wiping moister from his lips onto the back of his sleeve, Kiyoshi smiled at his brother. "So, are we going to go or what?" He watched as worry played through his brother's wine colored eyes before he nodded and turned his back to leave.

"Hurry up, I don't want you slowing me down, got it, Runt?" Kisho said half-heartedly, hiding his concerns for his brother by using his the nickname he'd given him. Seeing as Kiyoshi was a good three inches short than Kisho, as well as the youngest of the two, he was also not nearly as muscular as Kisho was. The name seem to fit.

Well, at eight years of ages, both Kisho and Kiyoshi were intelligent by human standers, however by demon standers they actually quite untamed; needing much guidance, teaching, and discipline. While Kisho was the louder of the two; talking back to the older, strong demons he always seemingly knew when to stop. Kiyoshi, on the other hand, would sit back and watch others from afar; he always seemed to like seeing how much destruction he could cause without getting caught.

Looking down at his open palm, Kiyohsi's eye's widened. Red liquid covered his opened palm and it made him shiver. Wiping both hands on his pants ran to catch up with his brother, as reminiscences of the last time he saw that liquid.

Kisho and I were in a water fight when we were supposed to be taking a bath. I could feel someone watching us, but I thought is was mother, so I didn't say anything. Besides I figured if I could sense it, Kisho could too, after all he's stronger than me.

I had been wrong.

Kisho and I stopped our water fight when we heard the brushes parting as someone walked towards our hot spring. Again it was only reasonable to think it was mother because we thought she was the only one in the surrounding area, so we hadn't turned around to check.

But again, I had been wrong.

I smelled the air and that's when I smelt it. I'll never ever forget it. It smelled of something repulsive, something I've never smelled before and never wished to again. Just as the thoughts of 'how disgusting' was going through my head as a growl vibrated through the air, making my stomach turn.

I felt Kisho grab my wrist and he pulled me up into a tall, leafy tree. Our clothes had been left on the ground, where we had thrown them when they had begun their bath. I watched as the demon, the one that had mistaken for our mother, throw back its head and give its own, louder growl. Though, when this demon's growl vibrated in the air, I didn't get that feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I wonder why?

The now snarling demon below me, I watch with something between fascination and fear as it began to ram into the trees below. A few times, it even hit into the tree we were in and once I would have fallen out if it hadn't been for Kisho grabbing a hold of me.

Following his advise to hold onto the trunk of the tree, I waited. I waited forever it seemed, and then mother came. She looked tired, and she was covered with starches, many still had red liquid oozing from them. However, there was a look in her eye that I had never seen before. It scarred my, though, in some way that look made me feel safe too.

I watched as mother looked over at our hiding spot, then right before my eyes she gone. I feel my eyes widen as I watch the demon drop to the ground, unmoving, red liquid coming out of his fallen body. Suddenly, mother is standing before us.

"Hurry, get down and get your clothes on. Don't ask question, just do as I say quickly now."

I didn't like the edge in her voice or the way she kept looking around, as we jumped out of the tree. Quickly I dress, I was done, surprising before my brother. Mother rushed us away from the springs before Kisho's had finish putting on his shirt, but right now all mother seem to care about right now was getting away.

We didn't get far.

About a hundred yards from the hot spring a group of disgusting smelling demons attacked. Mother shoved us down into some bushes and then Kisho and I watched her fight, with morbid fascination.

The red liquid I knew as blood was flying everywhere. I watched as mother was soaked in blood, growling, hissing, throwing her claws at everything that came near her. When everything was done, I don't really know what happened after that.

The next thing I know is that Kisho is by mother's side and I'm just kind of, just standing there staring not sure what to think.

Mother was must have been hurt or something, but I not exactly sure, everything was in a haze so I can't really remember what happened after that.

He came and took in mother and us. Telling us that he was a healer and that he was going to heal mother but he wanted several items first.

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