Chapter 1
"Dammit! Where is he? He should have been back by now!" A pink haired girl screamed at her brother, a tall black haired boy with dull amber eyes. "Rai! He's to stealthy to get caught! So why isn't he back yet?"
Rai shrugged his shoulders, smirking at his twin sisters antics. "Mao, he'll be fine. Probably just goofing off somewhere until we get so flustered we can't stand it, and when that time comes, he'll pop up out of nowhere with a grin and food."
"B-But Rai! He is never gone this long and you know it!" She said, frustrated.
"Only because I was hiding from the guards that were chasing me!" Another young boy, about seventeen years of age said. Jumping down from a tall tree, his ankle length black hair tied lazily back and his piercing golden eyes laughing at his friends. "But never fear! Rei is here! And I brought food with me!" He cried, holding up a dull brown sack for emphasis.
"Guards?" Rai's face showed severe anger. "REI! You let someone see you?" He screamed, staring at his best friend. "We've been banned from ever even looking at the towns and villages! And you let someone see you?"
"It's not my fault we were born different! And I didn't mean too! A little boy got to close and saw my ears under my hood. I tried to stop him but he screamed demon before I could even get a word in edge wise!" Rei said, tossing the sack to Mao. "I'm not a demon dammit! Not fully anyway. It's not like I went into the town drink their blood or something!" He stated defensively.
"You're right! It isn't our fault we were born this way! But it's not like the men in the village stopped our mothers from being raped! DID THEY!" Rai bellowed. "And once we were born our mothers were tossed into the forest to fend for themselves and us. Those puffy little tiger ears of yours are proof you are not completely human! But our bodies prove that we are indeed half human! We cannot change our fate! We have to live… Rei? Are you listening to me?" Rai sighed as he watched his neko-jinn friend stare off towards the mountains. "Rei?"
"Do you see that?" Rei asked, pointing off towards the mountains.
"See what?" Mao asked, looking in the direction his finger was pointing. "I don't see anything beyond the mountain side and a bunch of trees."
"That green light! Right there!" He said, pointing his finger while pushing Mao's face to look in the given direction. "Can't you see it?"
"No." She stated simply, giving her twin a confused look. "No light, just the.. Mountain."
"I don't see it either Rei, maybe you're just hallucinating?" Rai asked, putting as hand on his friends shoulder, watching as Rei's tiger like ears twitched.
"But I do see it!" He exclaimed. Nabbing the sack back form Mao he reached in, pulling out a loaf of bread and an apple. "Enjoy the food guys, I want to see what that light is!" He said, taking a bite of bread before bounding off towards the light on the mountain side.
"I don't get it Suzaku!" A boy of the age eighteen hollered as a piece of gold coin hanging from his neck. His red eyes blazing while his two-toned blue hair blew in the slight breeze. "What do you mean you feel a friend?"
(I cannot say anything beyond that Master Kai.) Her voice cooed in his head. He sighed as he kept trudging up the path in which Suzaku had directed him. (Stop! He is here.) She said quietly.
"Where. I do not see anything." He walked up to a tree, jumping up into one of its branches. "Suzaku, there is no…" He stopped as his eyes watched a body slowly make its way up the mountain side. "Is that who you were talking about Suzaku?" He whispered to the piece of gold.
(He is searching for said friend Master Kai. He will also be a friend.) Her voice was calm as she watched the body move towards them through her masters eyes.
They watched as the boy came into unobstructed view, his onyx-black hair swaying behind him as he searched the ground beneath his feet, looking for something. Kai noted the fluffy white ears atop the boys head and sneered. "Suzaku! He is a demon!" He whispered harshly to her. "How can a demon be a friend?"
(Master Kai, look closely. Demons are ugly creatures, fowl to look at, and even worse to smell. Yes, they may resemble animals in a way, but their bodies are extremely disfigured.) She sighed. (This boy has a humans body. Yes, he has ears, but he is not a full fledged demon.)
"I refuse to even associate with half-breeds!" Kai spat out, watching the boy come closer, still searching the ground. "I refuse Suzaku."
(Please Master Kai. We cannot do this alone and you know it!) Her voice hissed out. (Go down there and talk to him. He is looking for piece of one of the gods! I know he is because he is getting closer and closer to where I sense a friend. Get down there and talk to him!)
"Gee, I thought I was the master."
(And I hold the sacred power! Now go!)
"Fine, fine." He sighed, jumping out of the tree and in front of the boy, who had yet to notice him. "Excuse me?"
TBC
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