Author's note: Sorry for the delay. The site wasn't letting me on and I wasn't able to update. But have no fear! I haven't forgotten about you all awaiting a resolution to that last big cliff-hanger. Well here you go. Once again, I must reiterate that I do NOT own any of the original Juvenile Orion characters except for my created ones. Well, I hope you enjoy!

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Chapter V:

Demons

Tomonori looked about the empty school room. The students had just left his class to go to their 11 o'clock lunch break when he heard the door creak open. He turned to see a small flustered figure enter the room.

"Tomonori-san…?" he heard the small voice say.

"Tsukasa, is that you? Don't be shy, come in."

The little angel entered the room, overweighed with History and Math books. He walked timidly over to Tomonori and set the books on his desk.

"What's wrong, Amou? Is something wrong?"

Amou walked slowly over to Tomonori and gave him a big and unexpected hug. Upon closer inspection, Tomonori could see that he had been crying.

"What's wrong, Tsukasa? Why are you crying?" he asked as he kneeled down to be eye level with Amou.

Wiping away his tears as best he could with his left sleeve, he whispered quietly, "I hear them screaming… All of them burning in flames… Fire and brimstone raining down upon the Earth and the flames of Hell licking at their feet---"

"Tsukasa! What in the world are you talking about?"

Amou wrapped his arms around Tomonori's neck and cried uncontrollably. The tears flowed freely and most of what he said couldn't be understood. Tomonori could tell there was something extremely wrong here; he had never seen him cry like this.

"Please calm down, Tsukasa…"

After a while, once Amou had calmed himself, Tomonori looked into his eyes and asked as calmly as he could as to not scare him, "What's wrong…?"

"Tomonori-san… It's Armageddon…. It's the end…"

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"My Lord, please allow me to go to Earth. It has indeed been a while since they have properly been tested of their worthiness…"

Silence.

A smile.

"Yes, My Lord. I Taharial, the Angel of Purity, shall test the humans as they had 7 years ago on the Holy Day."

Walking away with a smile on his face, Taharial went to his personal space in the thread of existence to prepare. His destruction of all impurity was about to begin.

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Kaname couldn't stop staring at the demon in the case. It's jaws flexed once more and the same angelic voice burst forth from its lips.

"What is the matter, my love?"

Itsuki came up behind Kaname and quietly stated, "That's all it talks about---"

The demon must have heard Itsuki, for it reared up and scratched its long clawed fingers upon the glass.

"I am no it… I am a he…"

Kaname raised his eyebrows. He was his… lover? None of his memories could prove otherwise, but still, he decided not to trust this demon.

Kaname stepped forward but tensed a bit. Up close, it was ugly and distorted, its features that of a grotesque bat-man.

"Does this form not please you?" the demon asked with a slight lilt in his voice.

Kaname was once again surprised. Could it… read minds?

Suddenly, in a flash of light, the demon disappeared and was replaced with a human male about age 16, a bit taller than Kaname (about 5'8") with long red hair that flowed mid-thigh and pale, practically white skin. The most offsetting feature were his eyes; a pitch-black shade with deep indentures of purple.

"Does this please you, my love?"

There was no doubt that his appearance was intentionally androgynous, for his naked body withheld many feminine curves.

"What do you want? What did you come here for?" Kaname asked the demon through gritted teeth. He was tired of him calling him "my love."

Behind the glass, the demon chuckled eerily a bit.

"My dear sweet Baal, I came for you."

At that, Kaname's eyes widened beyond belief. This demon came for him?

"I know what you're thinking," the demon paced the floor slowly, his tail dragging behind him, "you're thinking 'why' and 'how'…I could tell you if it would please you…"

Kaname looked over his shoulder at Itsuki. Itsuki slowly nodded his head, his heart still uncertain.

"Please tell me…" Kaname said quietly. He didn't like being toyed with, but if he could get some answers, he'd do anything.

The demon smiled a bloodcurdling smile.

"Ever since you left us in that terrible civil war, dear Baal, I have been unfortunately bored in Hell. So I decided to track you down for fun. I knew you'd be hanging around somewhere on Earth, so I simply sniffed you out. It led me here, to this little Japanese town." He pressed his hands against the glass and pleadingly whispered to Kaname, "I've wanted to see you so, Baal, that I've searched for what seemed like an eternity to find you…"

Kaname put his hands on the glass to match those of the demon's. The words inside him that suddenly came out were not his own...

"I've missed you too, Balan…"

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Okay, okay, I know that this is hardly any progression from the last chapter, but I'm trying to add as much detail as I can. I apologize if I'm boring you. But keep reading, I'm getting somewhere with this! Well, stick around for the next chapter!