Chapter 4
"you're going out?" Tsukune asked amazed "it wasn't too long ago that she was inflactated with me"
"well, ever since you've be dating Moka I'd say it was fair to move on" Kurumu argued.
They we're sat in the cafeteria, on a table Kasai had explained about Mizore confessing and now officially dating.
"Hello, my love" Mizore appeared out of nowhere and began stroking his spiky hair.
"you really have this figured out don't you" Kurumu added to the fray of shocked group.
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Later that night, Mizore sneaked back into Kasai dorm again. He was holding the same photograph in his hand.
"what is that?"
"please, don't ask" he shrugged
"what's the matter? is something bothering you... it's me isn't it?"
"No, I swear!"
"how are we meant to trust each other? If I don't know you?" Kasai had no answer to this. He wanted to keep this part of his life behind him and now he felt confronted. tears swelled up in Mizore's eyes once again as she kept repeating
"I knew it! I knew it! you don't like me do you?" the room became ice cold and stayed that way, Kasai shivered at the temperature. He couldn't stand the cold, and this is what Mizore felt like, as she remembered back to him saying "take things slow" Kasai sighed and kissed her on the check
"ok, if you want to hear. I'll tell you, but I must warn you. it's not pleasant" he pulled the photo from his back pocket and showed it to her. "this was my family... when they were alive..." Mizore slowly took the photo cautiously. And looked at the baby girl in her mother's arms laughing, the father smoking a pipe and wearing a suit and a very young Kasai. Standing in front of an old house.
"kind of looks like Yokai" Mizore chuckled.
"yeah, is oppose it doesn't it" he forced a laugh as Mizore sat on the bed and listened to Kasai tell his tale. "I was young mind you, and one night. A rouge demon came, and we were just there..." he choked "father said to run... my mother grabbed me and my sister and ran outside just as the house shattered. There was a chance that father could have been alive but I didn't know that..." he sat down on the bed next to Mizore and buried his head in his hands "mother was knocked out, she never recovered from the head wound she sustained. Sister was too young to remember and I was to fend off a demon... I lost control and set fire to the partial destroyed house, I heard screams inside... I ... might have accidently killed my own..." fire lit from his hand as strongly as that night from his arms Mizore dare not touch him. "they say the demon escaped, and never caught. But I know... that I am the true monster..."
"You were too young" Mizore argued.
"Yes, but I could have been, better!" Kasai spat.
"shhhh, close your eyes count to five again" she said so sweetly. Everything slowed down... "feel better?"
"no, but at least the fire's gone." Kasai said looking at his hand.
"Kasai, during winter break, I want you... to meet my family... In my world?"
"I suppose I should after all, I am dating their daughter" he smiled.