Sorry for the spelling, but I swear I have wrote it like it was wrote in my french/english Dictionnary. Maybe I need to buy a new one. Mine is twenty years old and very used. I hope you will like this chapter.

Chapter 20

Today was the day when Soubi would pay a visite to his parent's grave. He had wanted to go there with Ritsuka, and he would do it the next time. But today he wanted to do this alone. He don't had tell Ritsuka about his decision. Not that his lover would not understand, but it was something he needed to do alone. So, he had waited for Ritsuka to left their appartement to go to a seminar about the photography. He felt guilty for waiting so long before paying this visite, but Ritsuka's safety was at this cost.

Soubi was not pleased when he found out that some people were already in front of his parent's grave. Normally he would have gone to this people and ask them if they have known his parents. But something stopped him before he can do this. Call it his soul or maybe a subeffect of his bond, but deep down he knew that it would be a mistake to go straight to these people, especially the man who looked a little like him. So he hid behind a tree and waited for the visitor to go away. His "talk" with his parents can wait a little longer.

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Ritsu was looking at the grave, but he doesn't see it. He was lost in his memories. He remembered the first time he had saw Mirei. She was so young and so beautiful at this time. She had the most loveliest temper and they have been a great team. No wonde then that he had fall deeply in love with her. And she had returned his feeling at first. They have shared the same soul after all. Everything had been perfect until this fateful battle. Why does they have to cross the path of this Agatsuma ? Ritsu can understand why Agatsuma had fall in love with Mirei. She was born to be loved, but only Ritsu have had the right to be loved back by her.

Ritsu, even now, can't forget Agatsuma for making Mirei fall in love with him. Of course, at first, Mirei had been faithful to her soul mate, but with time she had begun to become afraid of him. Ritsu had always wanted the power, but Mirei was different. She just wanted a life with a husband and children, and when she had understand that Ritsu would never give it to her, she had turned her sight to this Agatsuma. The man was more than happy to accept her and before Ritsu had time to react they have eloped and married. When he had found it out, Ritsu had been furious. Mirei had broke the most sacred command of a unit. She had broke the bond who had existed between her and Ritsu, and he couldn't have forgive her.

It had take years for him to find wher Mirei had gone into hidding. And his heart had broke when he had found out that she already had a child. This child must have been his ! So, he used his position in the head of the seven moon to try to force Mirei to come back with her son. But she had fought him. He had tried, unsuccessfully, to kill the man who had take his Mirei away. And in the end he was forced to kill Mirei and her husband to take their son. He don't had wanted for Mirei to die but he had no other choice. The woman was very protective of her child, and she would never had allow him to use the child the way he wanted. She had choose her fate when she had told him that she would never let him put a finger to her child, and she rather die that let something like this happen to her child.

Ritsu had paid an old friend of Agatsuma for giving him information about what the man wanted to do. And it was a smart idea. Otherwise he would not have know that they have planned to leave the country. Everything had gone according to the plan and soon after the boy had fall into his hand. Of course, Ritsu could not have risked for someone to discover what he had done, and he had send a team to kill his spy. No one had ever suspected anything. After that he had began the training of the boy. It's the pain who had become their bond, and Ritsu was happy with it. He had even take the boy's ears because he wanted him to suffer. The more the boy was in pain, the more their bond had become strong. The final act was the betrayal the boy had felt when Ritsu had give him to someone else.

Giving Soubi to Semei was a mistake. Not that Ritsu had doubted that Semei was not able to make Soubi suffer, and by this making Ritsu and Soubi's bond stronger. But because, in the end, Semei had abandonned Soubi and ordered him to take care of his younger brother. Ritsu had never wanted for Soubi and Ritsuka to meet. And if the youngest Aoyagi had not been so curious, it would never had happened. Or at last, Soubi would still have been under Semei's control by this time. Ritsu was Soubi's only master, no matter what the fighter believe. When the right time would have come, Ritsu would have claimed what was rightfully his, and Soubi would have come by his side. But Semei had make this plan a faillure. He had wanted Soubi to be his and only his, so he had branded the fighter with his name. And by making this, he had give a way for Soubi's mind to escape Ritsu's control. The fighter was torn between two strong bond, and so he could have keep a small part of his own will. Damned Semei !

And the young Ritsuka was no better. He had refused to make the fighter suffer. Of course, his lack of trust had hurt Soubi, but not enough to overwhelmed the bond who had begin to form between the two of them. If he don't have known better, Ritsu could have swear that the two of them were mean to be, not like a fighter was to his sacrifice, but in a way stronger than that. It was not love, even if love was part of the mix, but something more powerful. The young Ritsuka was more dangerous than his brother once was. Ritsu had wanted to study the after effect of the spell he once had made put on the boy. The memories lost was the most obvious effect, as was the disappearance of his true name upon his body. But Ritsu suspected that something more had happened. He can't wait for one of his team to find Ritsuka again and take him to the academy. He would be a magnifiscient lab rat.

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Youji and Natsuo were bored. They have left the cell where they have spend the last six months after everybody have found out that they have impersonated Soubi and Ritsuka. The punishment was hard but they don't have expected anything less. And Nagisa-sensei was proud of them, which was worth any time spend in a cell. Much to their joy, they have become again her students. They don't wanted anything else. Sure, they have liked their time in soubi's house, but Nagisa was their master. They loved to be with her, even if they called her name. She was their everything.

That's why they were not happy that Ritsu had ordered them to follow him here. Ritsu had wanted them to search if one of Ritsuka or Soubi's friend knows where the two of them can have go. They don't liked to lost time by staying in front of an old grave. So they looked around. They saw a glimps of long blond hair before it disappeared behind a big tree. Soubi was there, the both knows it, but he was smart enough for not showing up. Natsuo and Youji looked at each other and they stayed silent. Even if their debt to Soubi was paid, he stil was their friend. They would have told something if Nagisa-sensei was here instead of Ritsu. But they don't have any loyality to Ritsu. Nagisa wanted Ritsuka and Soubi to be free and that's what they would have.

The three of them left the cemetery without Soubi being noticed. Ritsu left them soon and go back to the academy. Not trusting him the zero walked for some time before going back to the cemetery. There, they found Soubi praying. They don't wanted to disturbe him so they decided to go and ask Kio and the others about Soubi and Ritsuka. It take them longer than expected and when they returned again, Soubi was gone. They hide a note behing some flower who need to be changed in the coming days. They don't doubt that Soubi would come back. Ritsuka was not with him today, so Soubi would come again with him. They would see the note and things could become interesting once again.

To be continued.

I hope you have liked. We are coming close to the end. But don't worry I have already five chapter written and I have two other planed. Don't forget to give me a review. Sorry if you have to wait a little longer for the next update, but I just buy the loveless anime and I want to see it. With my work I don't have enough time to update and see the anime. Sorry.

Next chapter : Ritsuka's discovery.