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Chapter Two: Parent
Walpurga wasn't his mother. Orion wasn't his father. Regulus called them such in their presence, but he thought of Kreacher as his parent/guardian. Walpurga didn't calm him down after one of his many nightmares (blood, death, and the space between). Orion didn't talk to him, carefully repeating the names of the stars and constellations that Regulus repeatedly mixed up with half remembered names from a memory just out of reach. Honestly, who looked at Cancer (Tamahome Boshi) and saw a crab of all things? It was obviously a… a… (Suzaku reigns over the Well, the Ogre, the Willow, the Star, the Stretched Net, the Wings, and the Chariot's Cross-Board) and it was gone again.
Kreacher cared for him. Kreacher taught him, and Kreacher was the only one Regulus could trust. Regulus was the spare. He knew this without being told. Nobles had two children, the heir and the spare. Sirius would be the next Lord Black and Regulus was for just in case. Sirius could renounce everything and be cast out of the family, but if he died under suspicious circumstances there would still be questions. Regulus had no such protection.
But Kreacher cared. Kreacher was loyal, just like- (a self deprecating smile flashed across his friend's face "How else can I atone for cutting out your-") and again it disappeared like so much smoke (Hangonkō).
Sometimes when Regulus looked at Orion, he felt a flash of pain in his chest, a strange stab of guilt and a word would echo in his head. Hōka.
AN: Chapters will remain short for a while. Points for anyone who knows where the title of the story came from.
Tamahome Boshi- the Japanese equivalent of the constellation Cancer and is in the shape of an ogre
Suzaku- Red bird/Phoenix one of the four cardinal guardians. Suzaku is in charge of the South.
Hangonkō- spirit calling incense calls up the spirits of the departed but they only exist within the smoke and dissipate into the air