...Okay...This may have been a bad idea...
Not even a second after the arrow left Kenta's bow, Ryuuga had turned around and stopped it with his bare hand...
His grip alone was enough to made the arrow break in half, but Ryuuga ended burning it with the fire that manifested in his fist all of the sudden.
A clear sign he was pissed.
Kenta gulped and took another arrow.
His hands were shaking with fear, but still, Kenta used all the willpower he had to place the arrow in his bow and prepare himself to launch it when the moment was given.
"Stop this already."-Ryuuga growled at his little cousin as he threw the broken arrow on the floor.-"We are going home, and that's the end of it."-
"Not until you listen to me!"-Kenta yelled. That tone he used was uncharacteristically angry as it was desperate.
The boy with green hair knew that the silence that took over between the two of them was the permission he needed to explain himself.
"Ryuuga, we can't just brush off what happened as if it was nothing!"-Kenta didn't lowered his bow and arrow as he tried to make his case.-"You saw all those other guys! They had powers like you! and...I believe what Dynamis said was true! I think...He mentioned a prophecy! How you and his friends are the only thing that can save the earth from being destroyed!"-
"Will you shut up about that already?!"-Ryuuga had not other choice than to answer verbally, something he hasn't used to do, but it was also something Kenta wasn't used to hear.-"We don't even know all that bullshit he said was true!"-
"And how do we know it wasn't?!"-The boy was intimidated by his cousin but decided to stand his ground no matter what.-"A-and how else can we explain what happened to you?! Ryuuga, from the day I found out about your powers; I suspected there must be a reason why you got them! Besides! You were the one who brought us here! Maybe you also did it for a reason!"-
"None of these things need a reason!"-This time, it looked like Kenta had hit the nerve with that argument.-"Nothing that has ever happened to me happened for a reason! And if it did, it's most likely because life adores to screw me over like this!"-
"Ryuuga, please!"-Kenta begged.-"If you just listened to me! And stop to think about all this weirdness that's happening, maybe you would realize that you may be destined to do something!"-
"I am not destined to do anything!"-Ryuuga insisted.-"And I swear that if you don't shut up about this, and stop toying with that thing, I'm taking you back home while you are unconscious!"-
As if it was to prove that he wasn't playing, Kenta decided to launch the arrow, his aim wasn't supposed to hurt Ryuuga, but to shoot it close enough to make him understand that he wasn't joking.
Ryuuga ended dodging the arrow without too much effort, but that act only made his eyes get surrounded by red energy and both his arms get light up with even more fire.
This may get ugly, but Kenta wasn't going to back down from his decision.
"I'm not moving until you decide to help my friends!"-Kenta yelled stubbornly, he figured out that the other guys that were also getting involved when Ryuuga was fighting off that blonde guy were also the rest of Yuki's friends. Who in all honestly, he considered to be his friends as well.
"Why are you so stubborn about this anyways?!"-Ryuuga asked with desperation and anger.
"Because the world might be destroyed if you don't do something, you dummy! "-Kenta was also getting exasperated with this situation.-"Ryuuga, why is it so hard to convince you when you just saw all that's going on!"-
"Because I have no business around all that stuff!"-Ryuuga yelled at him.-"I decided to not fuck up my life, and that includes not dying because those maniacs told me I have some kind of magical destiny I need to fulfill!"-
"I don't understand you, Ryuuga!"-The little boy cried of both anger and confusion.
"That's because you are just a kid!"-The warrior of the summer shouted.
"No!"-Kenta shook his head.-"What I don't understand is why are you just giving up before even trying anything?! Do you just want to do nothing and wait to die?!"-
"If anything! I'm keeping us both from dying!"-The red light in Ryuuga's eyes became stronger, but somehow more transparent.-"You saw what happened out there! Are you giving your trust to the same idiots that almost got us killed?!"-
"But they were trying to help us!"-Kenta insisted.
"What do you know?!"-Ryuuga yelled.-"You are just ten!"-
"I'm twelve!"-The little boy's voice had a sudden high pitch and his face got red with anger.
Ryuuga knows his age, but he also knows that whoever picks on the kid for his age or height is going to hit a nerve.
"And what I know is what you taught me!"-Kenta ended stopping paying attention to what got him so angry, it wasn't really important.-"You always said when the world wants to fight you, you fight back! That if someone wants to get in your way, you don't let them get in your head! You taught me to always do what I think it's right no matter what others say! And to never let others see that they beat me!"-
"That was befor-"-
"Or was it all lies?! Were you just lying to me and Ryuto this whole time-"-
"Do not bring him up!"-
"Why?! Because he would take my side?! Because he would know that I'm telling the truth?! Or is it because he knows that you are just ignoring everything that's going on and backing away from the fight before it even starts?!"-
"ENOUGH!"-
Kenta didn't mean to do that to him...
He just got carried away but...
It was all true.
In the end, Ryuuga couldn't take all of this. So, all the energy he was bottling up left his body in a explosion that came as waves of fire.
Kenta had no choice but to throw himself away from the energy that might had harm him a little.
No more than a few seconds later, he got up and looked at his cousin.
That look he was giving him was far more scarier than whenever he got to see his dad angry.
"Ryuu-"-
"Enough of this."-
"Bu-"-
"I said; enough!"-
Ryuuga's arms light up again as soon as he shouted.
"But Ryuuga-"-
"But nothing! We are going back home and that's final!"-
He turned around and started walking.
But Kenta didn't followed him.
Instead he took his bow and the arrow that fell on the floor, and shoot without any kind of second thought.
The message he sent off with that action was very clear.
This time, Ryuuga turned around in the split of a second and used his left hand to throw fire at the arrow before it could even get close to him. Then he looked at Kenta, they were throwing each other a gaze full of anger.
You could actually see the resemblance between them.
"So?"-Ryuuga growled softly.-"You wanna fight?"-
The older guy didn't expected the kid to nod at that kind of question.
"And if I beat you, we are going to that place."-Kenta pointed at the temple far away where the big ray of light had come from.-"And you are going to help my friends."-
"And if I beat you?"-
"I'll go with you and won't bring this up again."-Kenta sighed and looked at the ground for a second.-"In fact, I won't talk until we get back home unless you ask me to."-
Apparently that was enough for Ryuuga to not being able to turn down that offer.
"You know I will mess you up, right?"-He asked, he wasn't shouting anymore.
The guy with white and red hair even lifted his fire-covered hand to practically prove this was a bad idea.
Kenta took a deep breath and took another arrow from his back.
And placed it in the bow with a deep sigh.
"You have your advantage, and I have mines."-Turns out he was pretty accepting of this kind of conditions.
He also knew that it was impossible to tell if Ryuuga was going to hold himself back because they are important to each other, or just attack him with all he got because he's desperate to get out of this situation as quick as possible.
It will most likely be the latter.
"Come on. The first shot is yours"-Was the last thing Kenta said before the fight started.
Ryuuga smiled, it was a very...cynical smile.
But no matter what, Kenta was going to hold his ground.
Determination was a characteristic both of them held in very different ways.
And at least one person here has to be determined enough to not let the world get destroyed by whatever is going on right now.
Kenta just hopes his determination is enough.
Though in this kind of situation, What else does he have?
