Brothers of Old

(I am truly sorry for not updating in the past few months my readers. I hang my head down in shame. I only hope that this does not turn you away from reading my stories. Thank you, and enjoy this new chapter!)

Chapter 16: Kyo's Secret

Ring

Click

Hello? Ranma said into his cellphone.

Ranma, We have a problem. Kyo's voice said on the other end.

What

The Joketsuzoku have caught on to our scent and they had the balls to attack Nabiki and Kasumi

This angered Ranma, 'Those bastards! They actually had the nerve to attack civilians that can't defend against them!'

Oh and before I forget, we solved your problem with the amazons.

Really? Ho- wait, we?

Yeah, I'm over at Rei's house with the group and one of the outer sailor senshi, her name's Meioh Setsuna, she and the other three outers want to form an alliance with you and I for things we might need to face… By the way, Where the Hell are you?

I'm over at a girl's house who I saved from a couple of bullies, her name's Tomoe Hotaru.

Over on Kyo's end,

"Wait, can you repeat the name to me?" Setsuna asked Kyo.

"Yeah, Tomoe Hotaru."

"If he's at her house… Tell Ranma that the girl he saved was sailor Saturn and if she's there then the sailor Uranus and Neptune should be there as well. Tell him have everyone to Rei's place."

"OK"

Did you get that Ranma?

Yeah. We'll be over there in a few minutes.

Click

"So, while we wait for them to my brother and your friends to arrive, Nabiki, can you give us any more details on the Joketsuzoku?" Kyo asked as he put his cellphone into his pocket.

"The artifact looks just like a compass without the glass lid on and the needle is created from a personal item of the person you're trying to find. I overheard something about the ki in the item will respond to the owner's ki and is accurate to a 50 meter radius of the person." Nabiki explained, "Oh, and on another news, Ukyou's doing her own search for Ranma as well."

"Thank's" Kyo said as he slowly walked around the room, 'This is giving me a headache! It's a miracle bro lasted as long as he did.'

"If I can ask, why did you want Kasumi to come with me? She wasn't in any danger, Hell, Even hell wouldn't think of touching her."

In Hell, Satan was taking a break from all the paperwork he had to sign from the new souls that we're to be tortured for all eternity.

Satan sneezed.

"Are you alright honey?" A women said as she walked over to the prince of darkness and wrapped her arms around him.

"It's nothing Ayame, probably someone from above talking about me." Satan said with anger in his voice.

"Now, now, honey. What have I told you about using that tone of voice in our house?" The women named Ayame said to the dark prince in the sweet voice that closely matched Kasumi's.

The aura of anger dispersed as immediately as she spoke, "Not to?" Satan replied.

"Yes, Honey, now go back to your work while I fix you something nice to snack on." Ayame said as she left.

Satan sat down and let out a breath that he didn't know that he held.

"I don't EVER want another woman like that in my domain. One is enough and she makes my job of being malicious difficult."

"What was that honey?" Ayame asked as she poked her head out of the doorway.

"Uhhhhh, Nothing honey." Satan said sweating a little.

Back to the where we left off

Ranma was over in a couple of minutes followed by disheveled Neptune and Uranus along with Saturn who was giggling and smiling while hugging her new brother. We explained the situation to him and he hesitantly agreed to date one of the sailor senshi.

Ranma decided that each of the warriors of love and justice will have a chance to date him and he will decide after a certain amount of time has passed.

"Ok, Now we-" Kyo said but he suddenly stopped.

'Hey Kyo weeeeeeee'rrrrrrrreee baaaack.'

Kyo instantly paled.

"Kyo? are you all right?" Ami asked worriedly.

"I…I'm fine Ami-chan." Kyo replied trying to compose himself again but Ami already knew something was wrong and Kyo was hidind something from her.

"Sorry 'bout that. Now, you guys agree that if you act like Ranma's Fiancée or anyone from Nerima other than Kasumi here, that you will forfeit your chance to date Ranma and be crossed off the list of his possible girlfriend."

'stop ignoring us you bastard! If you don't come now, we will force ourselves out!' The voice said.

"Ummm, excuse me. I need to go use the bathroom real quick." Kyo said as he rushed out to the bathroom. Ami, now for certain something was wrong, followed him.

She followed him until he went into the bathroom and once he was inside she put her ear to the door. There was a conversation going on but she could hardly hear what he was saying.

'Kyo must have covered the room in his ki to distort the conversation' she thought as she decided against her best judgment to use her power to listen. What she heard shocked her to no end.

She could here four voices inside.

One was of her lover Kyo, another was a demonic voice that she could feel dripping with murderous intent, the third voice was serene and calming, while the last was a kind of mix between the other three.

"Come on Kyo, you can't keep us locked up forever you know. I want to hurry up and come out to slaughter anything that gets in our way."

"But I can't . If I let you out, you'll kill everyone around you wither they are friend or foe."

"Don't forget, you're the one to create us. We have as much right to be out."

"I know that! I know that but I can't risk you guys coming out and destroying this small shred of happiness that I finally have."

"Have you forgotten already? We aren't allowed to have peace in our lives. We were created to be the ultimate soldier. We are only allowed to know death, war, and strife."

"How about a compromised negotiation? That way we will be able to come out and do what we please with a restricting condition so we don't destroy what you have and we will be happy. It will be a win-win situation."

"I will think about it. But I need to go or the others will think there is something up and I can't have that happen. If I agree, will you keep your end of the bargain?"

"I won't like it but fine! But if you don't make the conditions reasonable, I will go destroy what little you have! Got that?"

"Yes. How about you?"

"I have no quarrels with what ever condition you have as long as it lets me spread my wings."

"and you?"

"I don't care. We'll talk to you again tonight."

With that the conversation ended.

Ami quickly and silently walked around the corner and as she heard the door open she walked back around the corner.

"Kyo."

"A-Ami! Why are you here?" Kyo said as he slightly jumped.

"You were gone for a while so I decided to check up on you."

"Don't worry about me. I probably have some kind of flu. It'll pass. We should get back to the others." Kyo said as he walked past her.

She was saddened by the fact that Kyo didn't trust her with what was burdening him.

"Kyo, why won't you open up to me? Is it because you are afraid of what will happen if you do? Or is it you don't trust me enough." She silently whispered so only she could here and turned around to walk back. What she didn't know was that around the corner, Kyo had heard her.

'I'm sorry Ami-chan. But I can't burden you with my past.' He solemnly thought as he continued to walk towards Rei's room followed by Ami.

Back inside the room

"Hey guys, we're back." Kyo said as he walked over to the wall near Rei's bed and sat there, "So who is going to go out with Ranma first?"

"We're still deciding that." Rei replied as Minako and Makoto were finishing their game of rock, paper, scissor. Makoto won and started jumping up and down happily while Minako dropped her head in shame.

Well now that we got that out of the way, I wrote down the order of girls in which Ranma will date. The order was Kino Makoto, Aino Minako, Hino Rei, Meioh Setsuna, and … Tomoe Hotaru? Everyone looked at her.

"What, I want to spend time with Ranma- Oniichan too." Hotaru replied as she hugged her new brother tighter.

"Hotaru-chan, that's very sweet an' all but… your goin' ta kill me if you keep huggin me like that." Hotaru looked to see Ranma's face turn purple and quickly released her grip on the pigtailed martial artist. Everyone laughed at the scene except Ranma, who was currently gasping to get air into his lungs, and Hotaru, who was crying while saying I'm sorry over and over while the gasping Ranma tried to make her stop crying.

With the meeting over everyone decided to spend the night at Rei's house. Ranma and Kyo slept in the living room while the girls slept in either the guest room or Rei's room.

Ami couldn't sleep that night because of the earlier conversation she heard from Kyo.

Near eleven O'clock, Ami heard footsteps outside and decided to check it out.

She slowly opened the door to see Kyo walking albeit slowly but steadily to the courtyard.

Ami decided to follow him. Once he was in the courtyard he continued into the forested area. Ami slowly followed carefully so not to get caught by Kyo's ki-sense.

About ten minutes later Kyo stopped in the middle of the clearing and stood there for a moment. Ami watched closely from a distance behind a large tree. Suddenly a sphere of ki burst out of Kyo entrapped the open field and a couple of yard out. Unfortunately or fortunately she was inside the ki sphere.

"What is this?" Ami said in awe as she obsereved the sphere she was now trapped in.

"A place you shouldn't be in. Now I have to kill you!" the demonic voice she heard replied. She quickly ducked just in time to dodge the swipe the "thing" did that destroyed… no disintegrated the tree.

"Kyo! Help me!" Ami shouted as she tried to get away from the creature. Now she had a look at it, she was horrified. The creature wore all black armor and at the hinges of the armor was some sort of black energy that spun around that area like a shield, and his face was covered in a iron mask that seemed to change shape the pitch black area of the eye holes and the vile black metal teeth remained the same. The mouth piece of the armor opened up and out came a long snake-like tongue that licked the mouth pieces in anticipation like a wild animal wetting it's mouth it's next meal.

"Stop!" Kyo came in and side kicked the creature in the face.

"Don't interfere with my fun Kyo! she's the one who intruded on our meeting."

"She's mine and I won't let you have her!" Kyo commanded then looked angrily at Ami, who cringed in fear, "and YOU, why did you follow me hear?"

"I was worried about you. Since you asked to go to the bathroom you weren't acting like your normal self and I couldn't sleep and I saw you walk out here so decided to follow you." Ami said on the verge of tears. Kyo's anger quickly diminished and embraces Ami in his arms and let her cry on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry to make you worry, but, I wanted to keep this away from you and the others."

Kyo said as he lifted Ami's face with his hands and wiped the tears away with his thumb.

"Why won't you open up?" Ami asked as she returned the embrace of her lover.

"Because… I'm afraid. I'm afraid that if you guys knew the truth you guys would leave me and fear me. I don't want to lose that." Kyo said in a crackling voice. Ami could see that Kyo wanted to cry but held it back because of his training as a martial artist.

"I guess I will tell you but I need you to call the others here also." Kyo said as he aised his hand and an opening appeared in the sphere, "Go through there and we'll wait for you to come back with the others. Be quick, understand?"

With a nod to show she understood she ran out of the opening to call the others.

To be continued…