After finishing their lunch, Hikaru and Rei decided to walk around in the halls. Unfortunately, in one of the halls, a group of boys started giving them a hard time. "Hey, new guy!" One of the boys shouted, of course, both Hikaru and Rei turned around. "Think you can show us up like that in the middle of class and get away with it?"
"Hikaru, did you do something in class?" Rei's voice echoed in Hikaru's head. "No, I just sat there the whole class." Hikaru responded mentally. "Guys, get the pipsqueak out of the way. The big one's mine." The now apparent leader of the group yelled to the rest of his posse. Hikaru took a full-contact blow in the gut from one of the amazingly strong boys. "Hikaru!"
Just barely after Rei could get the words out of his mouth, the group's leader hit him just like the other boy had hit Hikaru. At this, Hikaru laughed, "You really think that my brother will go down that easily?" and subsequently to this, Rei stood up. Even though the group of boys couldn't see his eyes, they could tell he was pissed off.
"First you attack my brother, and then you threaten me directly? How stupid can you possibly be?" With this, Rei vanished and appeared not even a foot away from the leader, ready to strike. Hikaru noticed a small bit of dark purple energy coming from Rei's fist. "Brother! No! You'll kill him!" Hikaru tried to communicate to his enraged brother, but it was too late. A large amount of dust had been scrambled into the air by the impact.
After the dust had cleared, everybody was staring in shock at the result. The wall that had once stood there had dissipated into a mixture of dust and rubble. "Oh my god," the leader of the group began with a quiver, "You… you could have killed me…" All of the group boys stared in fear. "Yeah," Rei started, "and I'll finish the job."
With this bone-chilling comment, Rei started charging at the leader with his fists at his hips, ready for a double strike. This time, all 4 of the other boys in the group grabbing Rei by the arms. Unfortunately for them, Rei was still mobile, just dragging them along.
Some students passing by joined in until Rei couldn't take another step. "Not so tough now, are we? What kind of guy is named Rei anyways? That's a girl's name!" The leader said this with an empty confidence. That comment was the last straw. With even more brute strength than before, Rei ripped his arms free, but his sleeves were torn off from his jacket by the opposite forces.
Everybody in the area was stunned at the sight, including Hikaru. All along Rei's incredibly muscular arms, there were drawings, tattoos. They all had a harsh, evil feeling to them. On his right arm, there were depictions of demonic symbols, pentagrams, barbed rails wrapping around, and chains. On his left arm, more demonic symbols, what looked like a pair of red, glowing eyes, a claw with a trail of blood coming from the nails, a huge picture of a scar, and a strange-looking hourglass with two scythes crossing each other over it.
"Brother…" Hikaru started with a shaky voice, "why do you have all of those tattoos?" Rei said nothing; he was looking around in fear. Even Hikaru had never seen Rei get scared before. Rei looked straight at Hikaru, an expression of panic on his face. Hikaru got to his feet, the feeling from the gut punch still reverberating inside of him. Hikaru stuck out his hand, palm-out and a large amount of smoke started to emerge.
Just before the smoke engulfed Rei, Hikaru could see a smirk from his big brother. "Thank you, Brother." Rei's words echoed in Hikaru's head. After the smoke had cleared, Rei was gone. "What the hell just happened?" were the words coming out of almost everybody in the area. Even Hikaru was drawing a blank in his memory after Rei had been insulted by the bully and before Rei's smirk in Hikaru's smoke.
Rei hadn't been seen for the rest of the day by anybody. Hikaru went to his dorm for the rest of the night. After opening his dorm door, he jumped back in surprise. Rei was sitting there on Hikaru's bed. "Rei! What are you doing in here?" Rei looked at Hikaru as if he was some sort of idiot. "Waiting for you of course."
"Where the hell have you been all day? Have you been in here since lunch?" Hikaru questioned his brother. "Let me think…" Rei started, "Yeah, pretty much." Hikaru sighed, "Wait, how did you even get in here? I thought these rooms were blocked off from teleportation?"
"Funny story, that. I actually just kind of snuck in here while the cleaning lady was in here." Rei smiled nervously and scratched his head. "Well get out, I need some rest, it's been a long day." Rei nodded and left his little brother for the night. Once Rei was gone, Hikaru went and made himself a nice plate of his signature self-baked spicy beef kebabs.
"In case it hasn't been clear, Hikaru has fiery powers because he's a blaze. A monster thought to be from hell that is known for its connections to fire, whee!"
(Come on, I just had to toss Ko in there somewhere!)
After eating his dinner, Hikaru sat at his desk in front of the window to do his homework for mathematics. Looking up from his desk, a tear-of-joy jerking sight. Mizore's room was right across the way from his. At least, he assumed it was Mizore's room, since there was a bunch of frost on the window. "I must be the luckiest guy ever." Hikaru thought to himself, a happy and hypnotized look on his face.
"So, this is what you've been so obsessed with this whole time." Rei's voice startled Hikaru so much that he actually jumped to the other side of the room with a large wet spot in his pants. "Rei? Were you looking over my shoulder that whole time?" Rei scratched his head with a pondering look on his face, "Let me think… yeah, pretty much."
"You're such a stalker, Bro!" Hikaru exclaimed. Rei laughed a bit, "Little Brother, you may want to dry yourself up." Now Rei was just plain laughing his head off. Hikaru looked down and noticed the giant wet spot in his pants. "AAAHH!" Hikaru shouted out and covered himself up with his hands, an embarrassed look on his face. "No fair, you scared the living shit out of me!"