Verboten - Vietato - Kinmotsu - Forbidden
WIP 2 of 13
AN: Well I just have to say thank you for the review Ennui deMorte. I have to say that it is nice to know that I still have people out there who read my stuff.
Part of the reason that Gabriel runs is that he has had a very different life from Rosette. She was as we all know orphaned at a young age and had her brother stolen from her. Gabriel on the other hand was raised in the comfort of a large and rather wealthy family. He never had to go through the hardships that he did as Rosette. Naturally this brings about a change in his personality. Gabriel is also not fully human, and that effects his psyche as well. How fully is yet to be seen.
And this one is going to be a bit shorter, but don't worry there's a reason for it.
Days go by I'm hypnotized
I'm walking on a wire
I close my eyes and fly out of my mind
Into the fire
Light the sky and hold on tight
The world is burning down
She's out there on her own and she's alright
- Shawn Colvin "Sunny Came Home"
Disclaimer: I do not own Chrno Crusade, just what I've done to them. If you want to sue me, you can have my insane cat and my medical bills.
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'This little baby is yours to guard. Protect him with your life, as you have protected mine. He is your responsibility.'
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Ryuu Mahou was a very patient demon normally, however right now the boy that she was in charge of guarding was being supremely stupid. In her opinion, of course. She had followed him to Italy as was her duty, but it was how they had arrived there from New York that disturbed her. Their host was not a man that she would ever normally allow her charge to be around. In this case, as in many others in recent history, he ignored her advice and went his own way.
Mr. Anthony, while a prominent businessman in the human world, was known throughout Pandemonium as a creature as vicious and as cruel as the long dead Sinner Aion had been. Talk of the two's tactics was common throughout the demon world after any nonhuman related death. The two were frighteningly similar in their attitudes. Some even speculated that they were in fact the same demon.
Not that she would ever tell Gabriel any of this. She had enough trouble teaching him anything of Pandemonium's history without adding rumor and speculation to his curriculum. Between her and Master Dufau they had kept the boy safely ignorant of the worse elements of demon society. She planned to keep it that way too, even if it meant keeping her mouth shut about their 'generous' host.
"You seem to be enjoying the view, Miss Mahou."
The silvery voice of Mr. Anthony broke into the demon girl's thoughts. 'Speak of the devil and he shall appear.' Ryou turned from her contemplation of Napal's skyline to look at the pale haired demon who was hosting her and her master in his hotel. "It is quite a sight to see Mr. Anthony."
The pale demon smiled down at the slip of a girl who stood before him. She was staring up at him with eyes, that he felt, knew too much. "Indeed. That is why I choose to make my home here, instead of my native home in America." He moved around her and tapped the glass with a single finger. "I find things to be far less restrictive here."
Ryuu's violet eyes flared white for an instant before she smiled. "Well many places in this world are less restrictive than America. What with the lack of large communities of Magdalene nuns worldwide." She turned back to the window and placed her own fingertip against it. Her smile turned vicious. "Not that there are not others out there who do the some things as them. The Akkuma-Ryoujin Buzoku of Nihon, Japan, for example. I hear that they can be quite as vicious as some of the akkuma, demons, that they hunt."
Mr. Anthony's expression tightened as the loathing he felt for all demon-hunters and exorcists flooded through him. "Well, it's a good thing that they aren't here then isn't it."
Ryuu felt an instance thrill of triumph, before her common sense told her to behave as though she were making idle chit-chat instead of inferring things that could be dangerous to her self and her master. Thusly her smile was bright and airy as she looked up at her host once more. "Oh, definitely. One never wants to meet their end at the sharp blade of a katana." She curtsied to him. "Now if you will excuse me, I must see to Gabriel-sama's luncheon."
Quickly moving she was out of the lounge before Mr. Anthony could say another word. Making her way to the kitchen's she stopped only long enough in the hallways to breath a sigh of relief that she had managed to come out of that encounter unscathed. Though she knew that she would in all likelihood be paying for it later, no doubt at that same man's hands. For now, however, she was safe and needed to see to her charge.
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Akkuma-Ryoujin Buzoku - Demon-Hunter Clan
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