Chapter: 2

Kept Apart

Won't Do What You Say

Chanting could fill the mind and pain the soul, and drive one young boy insane. Why should he listen, why must he do as they say. They have no power over him, he will prevail. "Where do you think you are going?"

"Away from here, And I'll never come back" So much for that.

Autumn leaves crunched under Asakura Hao's boots as he walked over to the tall mansion he had grown up in and left when he was still young. He knew that his father had called him here to tell him that it was time for him to go after his brother and kill him. Hao questioned himself every time if his father was senile. He had made it clear that he was not going to go after his brother. He did not care what his father's purpose for him was, he was going to live his life the way he wanted. He just came here to make sure the old man understood.

He had never met his brother, but he was guessing that he was the 'good twin' part of him wonder if the woman that gave birth to him had brainwashed his younger sibling. In addition, he would like to meet this person, something about knowing that it was his twin and that he might look like him, sent shivers down his spine that made his skin prick. "Young master, Asakura." Another set of feet came to meet the ground. Glaring eyes faced the young Asakura who had grown beautifully so far, with his long silky hair kept loose, large bangs framing his face and his eyes dark and amused.

Hao smiled at the old man that was his cousin "Silva, it's been so long"

"Of course, with you leaving at just eight years old. I am in shock that you came at your father's request" Hao chuckled.

"I just want him to give me the location of my twin" This of course, shocked Silva.

"Will you kill him?" Silva asked, worry on his brow. He was the only one that had met Hao's twin, but the name of his twin was not allowed to be spoken. It angered Hao since it was his twin that they were keeping away from him, he had a right to know about his twin. It was as if they were pinning him to kill a stranger.

"Hmm, I've been debating upon it" Hao smirked. "If he does attack first"

Silva narrowed his eyes at Hao and Hao only kept smiling at him. Hao was not blind; he knew that Silva did not want him anywhere near his twin brother. That was too bad though, because he was going to search for his other half and he was going to get him on his side to take down the pathetic Asakura clan that dares pin them against each other. It is his twin, and forever will be, and no one was going to make him do something against his will. "What are you planning to do when you meet him Hao, I know you, and your mind is full of the strangest things. What are you planning?"

"You hurt me so Silva, acting like I can't control myself" Hao chuckled once again and then waved his hand "Move away, I need to speak with the old man"

"Answer my question Hao" Hao frowned now as Silva stood in his way. Anger flashed in his eyes like ardent fire.

"Why Silva, what I do is none of your business" Hao took a step forward, sending an invisible force towards Silva that sent the man flying back at least two steps. "Now step aside, and don't you dare place yourself in front of me again, you are nothing compare to me, know your place" Silva was about to defy him, but found himself being crushed to the ground by the invisible force. Hao side stepped him and kept walking to his destination.

"Hao" Silva called out "Don't you dare plan something stupid, I will personally kill you if you try anything, if you dare bring any harm to him"

"Hahahahaha, Oh Silva, you can barely even face me now" Hao did not even turn around to face him. He just kept walking. "Opacho, keep an eye on him" out of nowhere a small African girl that Silva had never seen popped out of the thin air.

"Yes Lord Hao!" She called back and looked at the man on the floor. Silva glared at the small girl who just sat there Indian style looking at him, but the pressure from Hao's attack was still affecting him. Out of both twins, Hao was the hardest to understand and the one he liked the least. He had to wonder how they both could be twins, when one was friendly and the other was such… a maniac. He grunted when the small girl hit him over the head with her small hand. "Stay down, or you will displease my lord…" then she smiled "So, what's your name!"

Hao could hear the conversation that Opacho was trying to start with his cousin, but at the same time, he stayed focused in his goal. That was to get his brother's location from his father. He, himself had searched, but not knowing the name of his sibling nor birth mother made that search impossible.

"My son" A voice boomed as soon as he stepped inside, he maid bowing down to him as she allowed him passage into the mansion. Hao soon turned his eyes to his fathers, sharp eyes that could kill if they wanted to.

"My so called father," Hao responded sarcastically.

"So, you have answered my letter and are ready to face your brother, right" Asakura Mikihisa, Hao could almost joke about this man being a good father. He bitterly smiled and shrugged his shoulders, never really answering him. "I must say though, that your twin's name has been kept a secret, but the location that he is in, not so much. He, after all, should be back in Izumo."

"And what, if you do not know about him, makes you think that he is in Izumo?" 'Where in the world is Izumo' Hao mentally thought to himself. Suddenly Mikihisa moved himself to be closer to Hao.

"I cannot really disclose so much information to you Hao, not until I know I have your complete trust" He tried to reach for his son, but his hand was slapped away.

"You lost my trust a long time ago, you old fart" Hao moved around his father and to the other side "The house looks nice, hasn't changed a bit, just like you" Hao kicked out, his black boot hitting his father on the side as the man once more attempted to get close to him. He was not some needy child that needed his parent's approval or his advice. He could do things himself, he could think for himself!

"You must understand Hao, your brother is not going to hold back, he is and will kill you, given the chance that you are not willing to fight him" Mikihisa was up on his feet once again as if nothing had happened. Hao scoffed and glared to the side.

"There is no one that can stop me, specially not a twin boy I have not met" The young Asakura turned to his father "I have been alive for a hundred years now!"

"That you have" Mikihisa nearly flinched at the number of years, and yet his son looked so young. As old as he was, he was still a babe. Even he, at over a thousand years barely looked like a young twenty-year-old father. His son looked like he was in his fifteens, actually. "You've grown so fast, and it's about time you take the throne and your fiancée" Now that just placed the cherry on top of the pumpkin pie.

"Fiancée?" Hao asked, harshly with disgust. Mikihisa nodded his head, a proud grin spreading over his face. Mikihisa usually kept his face covered in a mask, but that was only when he was outside of the mansion.

"Father, please allow Lady Tamao Tamamura to come here so Hao can meet her" Yoken, Hao's grandfather, came out of nowhere and a young woman with dark violate eyes and pink hair followed after. Her skin was fair and a small flush of embarrassment covered her cheeks and nose. She looked so uncomfortable in her own skin. Hao looked back at his father, disgust plain on his face.

"So, an arranged marriage for the throne, you make me laugh if you think you will get me to marry someone as unworthy as her!" The words were hissed out in hatred making the young girl flinch and back away.

"Well, you ungrateful brat" his grandfather, Yoken spoke, "If you are to defeat your younger twin, the riches and tittles of our family will all be before your feat, and you as the new lord to reign, will need a mate! And who better than a finely breed female." There was silence for a second, but then maniacal laughter followed, scaring the poor girl.

"Hahaha, as if I would want to reproduce an heir into such a blood driven family. We may be vampires, but for you to expect me to kill someone I have no problems with, just because there can't be two heirs, it's absurd" They just stared at Hao, since he was a child they had no control over him, no one could touch Hao. It was as if he had an invisible force protecting him completely. The night Hao had been born, had been special. At the fact that a second one was coming, it made them all anticipate the second child's birth to kill him. At such a young age, Hao had not allowed that to happen, the family became separated and the second child had stayed with its mother, Keiko. As for Mikihisa, he would never say it, but it was Hao's spell that kept him from going back home.

Killing one of the twins would resolve all of this, the second born should have died that night! His dead was long overdue and even though Hao did not remember ever saving his twin, his twin had to die by his hands. "Enough Hao, you are going to marry her"

"I think not" Hao said, he moved some of his long hair out of his face and then began to walk over to the door. "I just want to know where my twin is"

"Hao!"

"I have no interest in women!"

"Do you even hear yourself when you speak?"

"I do, but do you hear yourself" Hao smirked "wait, you are too full of yourself to hear how dumb you sound!"

"Where are you going!" Hao had the door opened now and was heading out, his grandfather was suddenly blocking his way.

"Such foolishness" Hao's eyes were narrowed, a smirk on his face as he glared at the man in front of him. As far as he was concerned, they were nothing. "Move out of the way, unless you wish to be hurt" his grandfather brought out some beads then, chanting fast. Hao sighed, his form relaxing as he watched his grandfather chant and try to focus a chaining spell on him "Blah, blah, blah"

"Release!" His grandfather yelled, the tiny beads flowing all around Hao, trying to encage him. Yoken smirked. "Now brat, turn back around and take responsibility," He thought he had this won. Hao took a step forward and kept walking, the beads around him catching in flames as they surrounded him.

"Hmm, I'm so sorry I can't stay and play your little mind games" His grandfather gasped as he stepped forward, a sudden movement and placed his hand over his head. As Hao did this, he could read the old man's mind, everything. He smirked when he learned where in Izumo he would find his brother, and what would be a clear path to lead him to Izumo as well. Hidden under witch magic, nothing that Opacho could not undo easily.

"HAO!" His father yelled and ran towards him; he had to do something, anything to stop his child. As his father, it should not be so difficult to take someone much younger than him out. But as he was about to get the boy from the back he was thrown back. He was nearly crushed to the wall, but he was not going to be easily manipulated like that.

Hao only found it amusing and laughed.

"Come back here!"

BOOM!

Mikihisa threw an energy blast, one that Hao quickly dodged and just kept walking away, as if he was in no danger at all. "Ahahahahaha!"

"HAO!"

"Buzz off old man"

The buildings were ruined. They were all suddenly burning with flames. The only thing that could ever kill an immortal such as the Vampire, but Mikihisa suddenly feared how the Hao was the flames favorite child. He feared his son, but he would never show it. "Stop this now young man!"

"I will not allow a bunch of fools tell me what to do anymore, especially you old fart!" Opacho watched her master come back and ran towards him as he vanished in a set of flames that embraced him. The flames welcomed her to melt along with the Pyro vampire.

"Damn, that kid!" Mikihisa sighed. Silva, Yoken, and Tamamura all stared at the Asakura lord for the moment anyways. Hao had always been a difficult child, and that was never going to change. Sometimes they wondered if it was alright that his twin will take him out, or should take him out. The silence was soon broken by the only girl as she began to sob.

"I don't want to marry him" they all sweat dropped.

"Tammy, please, don't say such things" Yoken tried to sooth her, but she just cried even more loudly.

Land Of Izumo

His vision was swimming, and his head hurt.

He turned to look at Anna who was reading a book instead of watching him as he tried to build up enough of his aura to set a protective barrier around him. Manta was sitting next to her, a shock look on his lifeless face; after all, he had just learned everything. From ghosts to witches and vampires. Sighing to himself, he pulled out the card that Anna had given him; inside of it, Admidamaru was trapped. What had she done? Why did she work so hard to make his life a living hell?"You'll have to learn to break a witch's seal Yoh, only then will you be able to free Admidamaru"

Yoh looked up at Anna and saw that she was looking at him intently "A witches seal" He said, looking at the card. Yeah, at the bottom was Anna's signature mark, he had to break it to get his servant ghost free. Anna had definitely gotten better, stronger.

"Go back to training Yoh and worry about that later" He nodded his head, and went back to concentrating. Even if all it accomplished was to give him a huge headache and leave, him exhausted.

Anna sighed as she looked at the hopeless boy from over the top of her favorite magazine. She had known Yoh practically her whole life, he was sweet, caring, charming, carefree, and she sometimes envied him that she did not have those qualities. He could easily make friends wherever he went if he wished it so, after all, he had not ran away once, but many times over. Tao Ren, Usui Horokeu, Umemiya Ryunosuke, and Faust were all proof that he had once ran away.

Now, this boy from Tokyo, Oyamada Manta.

Of course, the small boy this time turned out to be human and nothing more. She sighed, what was Yoh thinking? Did he not understand the responsibility of being of royal blood, especially that of an Asakura? The boy never took anything seriously. As he seemed to fail over and over again at the simple task of building a barrier around himself, she snapped. "Yoh" she said in a cold voice, making him turn around to face her with slight fear.

"Yes Anna?"

"Run some laps, and I want you to run them all in under 0.1 seconds, do I make myself clear" Yoh was frowning, an upset look on his face. But what shocked her was when he held every whine back and instead of arguing with her, simply said.

"Yes Anna"

He left running then, missing the stunned look on her face. She set her book down and looked on after him as he ran the laps. He was not going to stop until she said so, but she could see that a part of Yoh was now broken. "Yoh" she whispered, knowing that it was her fault. "So" Anna looked down when she heard a the small voice of the boy who had been in shock for so long. "Yoh's a vampire" Anna raised a brow.

"Yes, he is" She made sure to make eye contact with the boy "Don't worry, you are safe with this witch, Yoh will not hurt you. No one here will" Manta had not known that Anna was a witch.

"Why are you doing this though?" he asked.

"Huh," Anna responded, unsure of what the child meant.

"Yoh's so unhappy, why are you doing this?" She got up from her place.

"Look, I only do as ordered, and it's a family thing, I do not believe a simple human like you would ever understand this" Anna said, crossing her arms. "I am going to marry him, and I am going to make sure he gets the throne to make king, for I will be the queen that will rule by his side. There is nothing more to it" Manta shook his head.

"Tittles and fake unions" he said "Is that what you care about" he had her there. But she was not about to admit it. It was true, it was forceful. But she just wanted Yoh to be happy, and for her, she can't see Yoh being happy with anyone else. She felt like an older sister looking after her younger brother.

She was not attracted to Yoh in anyway, but what else could she do. It was the way fate wanted things to play out. Maybe it could somehow change? "Depends in the future, what those titles and unions will really mean"

"Huh"

"Why me" Yoh whispered under his breath. "Who is my brother, why was I not allowed to meet him" Thoughts or running away crossed his mind once more, but he was not sure where he would go this time. And he knew that he was going to be caught. His friends had trained hard, but they kept acting like even at their strongest, they could not take on his older twin brother. Was his brother really that aggressive?

Feeling an emotional rush, Yoh felt his body go numb and his legs just kept running. All he knew was he was picking up speed, and all he wanted to do was cry. All he wanted to do was lay down in the grass and have a good nap. Why couldn't he and his brother finally meet, learn each other's names and actually come to an agreement. 'Because you are too soft when you speak Yoh, that your fists are harder than your words' yeah, he remembered what Ren had said.

He stopped running, looking back, he really did not care what Anna had to say now, and there was only one person he knew that he could talk to and would explain things. It did not take long for him to run back into the palace and go around the back, to the garden that his mother had built herself. She was softly humming to herself as she fixed up her roses. "Mother" he said as he entered the garden, its soft fragrance entering his lungs and relaxing him even further. He never met his father, but he knew he had his mother's desire to always just relax and enjoy nature to the fullest.

Asakura Keiko, a beautiful woman and mother. Her eyes soft and gentle could be the scariest things you ever saw when she was mad. She had long brown hair, his color that led all the way down to the back of her knees. Her skin is pale, her lips full and a natural red color. "What is it my boy?" She asked, her voice sounding motherly. Yoh froze for a second when he saw a yellow bird zoom by. He looked at it for a second and then turned back to his mother.

"Mom, why can't I go and live a normal life?"

"Because my sweet boy, you are the next heir to the throne"

"But was not my twin brother born first? Shouldn't he be the heir of the throne just for that?" That was when she got angry and glared at him with hatred. The hate was not for him, it was for his father, but Yoh was not yet aware of that. "Mo..Mother?"

"Yoh, when your father decided to leave me, it was when this war started" She said, "Your other brother, whatever his name might be, I know he is my child, but he took him and raised him. There is no way that I can forgive that. There is nothing that is going to make me change my mind!" she got up from her position, and walked over to him. She wrapped her arms around his thin shoulders and pulled him close "You are the only treasure I have left, and the only assurance that will get me to have all the Asakura riches"

Her hug was warm; it was alluring for she was his mother. "So, mother, all this that you are doing, is just to keep title as queen and keep all the jewels and gold?" he asked, in a small and confused voice that could only belong to a child.

"Of course" She said "that and so much more" She bit her lower lip and pulled away, the pain was clear in her eyes "Perhaps, having the money and title back, will bring your father back home" Yoh's eyes soften a little.

"It's not fair mother, I have no wish to cause harm to anyone" His mother smiled.

"You are very kind Yoh, but I can't say the same thing about your brother, it is best to have you prepared." It was still left unanswered, exactly who was his brother?

Well, so many wanted me to update, so, what do you think of chapter number two? Hope you all enjoyed it and are still enjoying this story. I'll try to make it more exciting as it goes.

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