Chapter (10) Acceptance and a Story

"HOW DARE YOU!"

Kyo, Yuki, Tohru, Mir, Liam, Akaisha, Shigure, Hatori, Ayame and Kazuma whipped around to see a very angry looking Akito Sohma. He was standing in front of them holding the sword that Sakura had dropped.

"Akito?" Hatori said taking a step forward. "Just clam down."

"JUST SHUT UP HATORI!" Akito screamed. "I HAVE HAD IT WITH THE ZODIAC, AND YOU DAMN NIGHT MONSTERS. YOUR ALL ABOMINATIONS THAT DO NOT BELONG ON THIS PLANET!"

Everyone was silent and Akito continued.

"Especially you Kyo." He said in a lower voice looking at the young boy. "You who is triply cursed by both God and Satan."

Kyo bristled as everyone turned to stare at him. "You shut your trap traitor!" The cat hissed.

"You shut up you little monster. I have tolerated your life to my limit. Anyone cursed by both the monster of the night and the Zodiac has no right to live." Akito seethed.

Kyo's face fell making his bangs cover his eyes. "Perhaps." He whispered to himself.

Kazuma shook his head and stepped forward. Placing a hand on his 'sons' shoulder he stared at the young man. "You think so poorly of him Akito. But it was Kyo who saved us all two years ago. He even saved your worthless ass minutes ago when he could have easily let Sakura's raging spirit destroy you."

Akito still glared at Kyo who was looking up at Kazuma thankfully.

"We also believe in Kyo. He is nothing like a monster even if he is cursed." Mir said coming up to stand beside the cat, which looked at the wolf, surprised by her declaration.

"Mir?" Kyo stuttered.

"Yhea, some friends we'd be if we just hung by and let you bad mouth our friends like that." Liam said as he swung an arm over Kyo's shoulder as his brother stood beside him.

"Guys?" Kyo felt like he could cry. Happiness spread though him as he stood up for once against the man, who he had hated since birth, all of his friends along side of him.

"You see Akito. Not even your hatred for the cursed ones can beat us." Hatori said a rare smile on his face.

"I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but I must agree with them. Having Kyo around isn't so bad." Shigure said.

"Once you get past the moronic part of his personality, and once you get by the dullness of his brain I suppose he's not to bad." Yuki added half-heartedly.

Kyo glared at him, "gee thanks."

"No problem." Yuki said with a smirk.

A laugh interrupted them. They saw Akito doubled over his shoulders shaking. "Ha, if you all believe in him so much, then why doesn't he show you his truest form? And I'm not talking about the cat, or the beast form of it. I'm talking about your night form." Akito dared.

Yuki, Shigure, and Tohru looked at Kyo who looked only a little worried.

"You have a night form Kyo?" Tohru asked staring at the cat wide-eyed. Kyo nodded reluctantly. "Then the other person who was with Mir-chan, Sakura-san, Aka-kun and Liam-kun would have been you!" she concluded.

"He was." Yuki said looking at the cat. "He was also in love with the one who died." He added.

Kyo blushed, a deep red and glared at the rat. "Where did you learn that!"

"A wild guess, otherwise you wouldn't have stopped her when she was going to kill Akito-Sama."

Kyo looked away. "Yhea so what if I was?"

"It was your own undoing." Akito's voice broke their conversation as they all turned back to see him. Hundreds of small snake-like demons surrounded him and covered the wall behind him. "I will see the end of the night creatures, STRATING WITH YOU CAT!" Akito shouted as he ran forward the sword in his hand in front of him. The sword was laying flat and Akito's left hand held the tip of the sword. He swung it at Kyo.

Kyo stepped forward and grabbed the sword in mid-air between both of his hands. Blood seeped down from his hands as he yanked the sword out of Akito's stunned grip. "That's enough." Kyo seethed. "You've caused enough damage here already. So why don't you just crawl back to Katria and try and use her like you did us!"

Akito took a step back at the anger in Kyo's voice and smirked. "I will never crawl back to her, you idiot. You and your girlfriend had enough trouble with one of Katria leagues so you can't possible think to take on one of mine." Suddenly behind him the wall of the dojo began to swirl. Out of it flew more of the disgusting looking creatures that made Yuki, Shigure and Tohru want to barf.

However the creatures had no effect on Kyo, Mir the twins or Hatori and Ayame. They stood still except for Kyo who sighed and crossed his arms.

"You're going to fight us here?" Kyo asked.

Akito laughed. "Never stupid cat. Fighting you here would just be us asking for suicide. No I'll challenge you another day, so enjoy your short lived freedom away from me as head of your stupid clan." With a gust of wind that swept through the room Akito disappeared along with the demons behind him.

"Damn he got away." Mir swore.

"Clam down, he'll be back." Aka said to her. Mir just shrugged and walked up to Kyo.

'So what do we do now?" She asked with a snarl as she stared at the sword on the ground.

Kyo looked up at her with a small smile on his face. "No idea, but if anybody's got a Band-Aid I'd like to have it." He lifted up his hands to show the cuts he got from stopping the sword.

"Oh my God!" Mir cried as she grabbed his hands to look at them closer. Kyo shouted at her for grabbing his hands but she ignored him she dragged the boy over to Hatori. "You barely recover from a stab wound and here you go getting hurt again. I swear if your not careful you'll end up just like you did before."

Hatori watched as the wolf dragged the cat over to him and he had to smile. Not much had changed between the friends even two years later. Mir was still bossy and a worrywart the twins, catching up to him in solemness. Kyo as hot headed as ever and Sakura, death obviously hadn't pinned down her pride or hatred for Akito and Katria.

The doctor sighed as Kyo and Mir stepped up in front of him. "You know, I shouldn't heal your hands so maybe you'll actually learn to not catch a sword with your bare hands." Hatori stated putting his own hands on his hips.

"Yhea but that's just cruel." Kyo said smiling innocently. "And beside, it actually hurts this time."

"Come on then," he gestured for Kyo to follow him. But the sudden feeling of eyes on the back of his head made him turn around. He turned to see Shigure, Yuki, and Tohru looking at him. "What?"

"Haa-san what's going on?" Shigure asked pleadingly. "We'd really like to know."

"I suppose you would." Kazuma said coming up beside Kyo and looking at his hands. "And we'll explain it to you in a moment." He took Kyo's hands in his and whispered.

"Geisha Luna."

Kazumas' hand began to glow and Kyo's wound began to close them selves. When the wounds finished closing the light faded and Kazuma check over Kyo's hand to make sure they were okay. "Now you can go ahead and explain."

"Thanks Shishou." Kyo said giving Kazuma a smile.

"So explain." Yuki and Shigure said together.

"Alright, alright, keep your pants on." Kyo yelled as he, Hatori and Kazuma sat down beside Shigure, Yuki, and Tohru. The twins, Mir, and Ayame all sat down beside them as well. "You're listening to?"

They all nodded and Kyo shrugged.

"Where should we start?" Hatori asked.

"At the very beginning." Shigure replied.

"That'll take a while." Kyo snorted but a glare from Kazuma made him be quite.

"The beginnings easy enough." Hatori said then started the story…

In the beginning of time, or at least from the beginning of human time, there has always been higher being and lower beings. Higher beings were usually angels, or gods. Lower beings were devils and Satan himself. Each of them had their own place if you will. When Earth came into the picture the demons wanted to conquer it and make it there's, but the angels wouldn't allow it. So a war broke out. It has lasted years, thousands of years. The fighting never actually came to earth until a few years ago.

Shigure opened his mouth to speak but Kyo hissed at him clearly saying 'don't interrupt.'

Two hundred years ago a league of demons led by two lovers came to earth. The lovers were Katria, whom you've met before, and her lover, Lucifer. A group of powerful people stood against them, twelve people led by one more.

"Who led them? Who were the twelve people?" Shigure had to ask.

"The group was a family cursed by the gods." Hatori answered. "The revolt against the demons was led by the outcast of that family." He sent Kyo a look but Kyo huffed and looked away.

Tohru watched them for a moment before it hit her. "You mean the Zodiac were the ones to fight against the d-demons?" She squeaked.

Hatori looked surprised at Tohru. "Correct. The cat led the defense attack against the revolt of the demons. Behind him were the twelve people cursed by the Zodiac of that time." He said.

"Any who on with the story." Kyo interrupted Ayame, as he snake was about to speak.

Hatori sighed and nodded.

The zodiac of that time suppressed the demons and imprisoned the soul of Katria's lover into a mirror. Katria and her demons retreated leaving earth for the next two hundred years or so. Then they came back two years ago. But there was a catch. The only reason Katria came back was to collect the broken parts of her lovers' soul.

"I don't get it." Shigure whined.

"If you let me finish, you wouldn't be so confused." Hatori said.

"Oh right."

Unknown to us two years ago Katria tried to revive Lucifer, but Lucifer had already made 'other' plans. He had already weakened his soul enough to escape his imprisonment and make a body of his own. This had happened many years ago, so by the time Katria found him, Lucifer had already begun to grow.

In her rage at his impatient, Katria started to destroy. She started small, then went onto bigger and larger places. This time thought, only five people had enough power to stand up to her. There were others of course, just mages without enough power to do enough damage. But they helped out where they could.

"So who were the five people who stood up to her two years ago? How come the Zodiac didn't do it again?" Yuki asked.

"It was to dangerous for the Zodiac to help." Kyo answered giving the rat a reproachful look. "They were already being manipulated by Lucifer."

"That's not blunt." Mir snorted.

"Well it is true." Liam stated.

"We were?" Shigure asked.

Hatori nodded. "Yes. We were being manipulated by Akito."

Shigure and Yuki looked dumbfounded at Hatori as silence settled over the room.

Finally Tohru broke it. "I don't get It." she exclaimed sadly.

Kyo sighed. "Long confusing story short. Two hundred years ago the Zodiac chased the demons away from Earth. But the same demons returned a hundred and ninety-eight years later which would be two years ago for us. That demon would be Katria. Now Katria came back two years ago looking for her lover, Lucifer, but he had already inhabited another body so Katria grew mad at him and started to destroy earth.

Now two years ago when this started to happen the Zodiac couldn't stand up to Katria because Lucifer had poisoned their minds, if you will. Now instead of the Zodiac other 'people' were brought in to help. They were the night creatures."

Mir coughed and Kyo rolled his eyes. "Or as they liked to be called, 'The Night brigade' with a N." Mir beamed at the name until Kyo added. "Pretty dumb if you ask me."

"Well it's not like you were going to help us think up a name or something Angel boy!" Mir shot back at Kyo.

"Well I could've thought of a better one then that. It sucks! Even Sakura would think the same."

"She's the one who thought of it!"

"Doesn't change the fact that it still sucks"

"Al right you two that's enough." Hatori exclaimed breaking up the fighting with a sigh. 'Some things never change.' He thought.

Kyo and Mir stopped fighting. Shigure and the others had a strange suspicion that he broke up a lot of fights.

"So who was the night brigade?" Tohru asked happily, as she understood.

Mir smiled at her and grabbed Kyo. She pulled him over to Akaisha and Liam and hung off their shoulders. "We are, well Sakura was too, but she…" Mir trailed off.

"She wasn't as lucky and didn't escape the battle." Kyo stated crossing his arms and looking away.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Tohru said.

"Ah, don't worry about it," Mir laughed as she slid off of the twins shoulders. "But besides the point I'm hungry. Does Kazuma-Dono have any food that's edible?"

"Did he ever?" Kyo joked as he and Mir headed for the kitchen.

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DH – Well… I suppose that was a really weird chapter.

Kyo- My brain hurts.

DH- I know it was probably really confusing in this chapter and I'm really sorry but as it goes on it'll get better. I promise. and Kazuma had magic powers

Kazuma – yes, but I did much better with them two years-

DH- /clamps hand over Shihous mouth/ well we can't have you blowing everything now can we? well R&R please. Later days!