Between two Brothers

Naru started to become aware of the things around him. It was than he felt the absences of something. But of what? He did not know. He remembered that it was there when he had fallen asleep, but now it was no longer there. Slowly Naru began to open his eyes. The first thing he noticed was that he was in base and that it was dark out. The second thing he noticed was that there was a blanket on top of him. Naru sat up and looked next to him to find that Mai was no longer there.

Where's Mai?

Naru looked around the room to find Mai sitting in front of the monitors. Wondering what she was doing and where Lin was, Naru stood up and walked over to her. He stood behind her, watching her for some time.

"We can't kill her." Mai said after some time. She had known he had been there from the beginning. Naru looked down at her confused, but before he could ask, Mai said "Shizu."

Naru moved next to her and sat down in the chair beside her. "Mai what are you talking about?" Naru tried to get a better look at Mai , but the darkness in the room was preventing that.

"We can't kill her." Mai said again.

"Mai we don't have-"

"We do have a choice Naru." Mai suddenly yelled. She turned and looked at him, her eyes filled with anger. It was then that Naru got a better look at her. Her face was still unusually pale and her eyes were puffy and red from crying. Mai noticed Naru looking at her with concern and she turned back to the monitor.

"She hurt a lot of people Mai, you can't ignore that." Naru stated trying to reason with her.

"Yes but she helped us." Mai said. "You can't ignore that."

"And I'm not." Naru said trying to reason with her. He still wasn't convinced that Shizu doesn't deserve to burn in hell. "I'm just thinking about all the others she might hurt."

"She won't hurt anyone else."

"You don't know that."

"I do." Mai still not letting the subject go. After a minute Mai turned her body towards Naru and stared at him with pleading eyes. "Naru please listen to me." Mai begged. "She's not evil."

"I would have had her, and you would have lived."

"What difference does it make if I live or not?" The boy in black asked. He was not understanding why this woman even cared if he lived or not. She barely even knew him.

"It doesn't" she said walking over to the window ledge and sitting down. "To me anyway." She looked up at the boy and stared into his dark blue eyes. "You want to live don't you? Somewhere inside you are desperately trying to find an excuse for feeling this way. But you can't, can you? You're too confused. You want to live, and you want to die."

"Shut up!" the boy yelled suddenly. "You have no right to say any of that!"

"But its true isn't it?" The boy looked up at her, too surprised to say anything. Somewhere deep down inside of him, he knew she was right. He wanted to live. He hated being dead, he hated leaving this world and all he loved. He wished he was still alive.

The woman watched the boy as he fought himself, trying to find the answers.

"Gene?" called a voice. The woman looked down the hall. She knew her time was up.

"If you decide that you to want to live." She said, drawing the boy's attention back to her. "You know where to find me." Suddenly she began to fade and before he knew it, he was alone.

"Gene." said a voice. Gene looked down the hall to see Lin walking towards him.

"Yea?" Gene asked, trying to forget about what had just happened.

"Are you okay?" Lin asked as he reached him. "You weren't in the room and Noll began to worry. He is looking for you."

"Yea, I'm fine I just need some air. I'll be there in a minute." Gene said. Lin looked at him more closely. "Are you sure you are okay?" he asked again.

"Yea I'm fine." Gene said before heading back to base. He opened the door and found everyone sitting on the floor half awake.

"Morning." Bou-san said sleepily before yawning.

"What's going on?" Gene asked.

"One of the students is doing this." Naru said. "According to Mai we have about five hours until the whole student body is killed and taken as sacrifices." The entire room stayed silent. Everyone was staring at Naru, to stun to speak.

"And how did you come to this conclusion?" Gene asked taking another step in the room.

"Shizu told me" Mai said from her place curled on the couch.

"And you can trust her how?"

"It's not her fault any of this happened; she was only doing this because someone else was controlling her."

"Say the one being controlled."

"Actually" John said as a thought came to him. "That would make sense. When Masako and I were attacked in the hallway a few days ago, Shizu suddenly became aware of the situation and apologized for attacking us."

"She apologized?" Ayako asked. John nodded.

"That doesn't make any sense. Why would you attack someone, than apologize for it?" Bou-san asked.

"Because she was being controlled and in that moment she probably regained enough control to stop herself from doing something she would regret." Naru said sitting on the couch.

"That's ridiculous." Everyone looked up at Gene who was staring at Naru. Naru looked up at him, surprised. "There was no way any of this is true. I mean, you out of everyone should know she is a sick twisted little bitch. Don't you remember that night? What she did? You can't just blame it all on her being controlled. She played with your emotions like a little a child played with a doll-"

"Shut up." Naru yelled as he stood up. "You're right what she did is despicable, and can't be forgiven but how dare you accuse me of forgetting that night. I was there remember? I was the one she was toying with." Everyone stared silently up at the two brothers, confused and afraid. Even Lin sat quietly in the corner of the room, watching them. "Do you think I like admitting that she wasn't the cause of this? Do you think that I like the thought that she isn't to blame! If you haven't noticed I'm the one being hurt here not her! I had to choose between my own brother and Mai, do you think I liked that? Though now I'm starting to wonder why I even picked you in the first place!"

As soon as the words left Naru's mouth, he immediately regretted them. He watched as his brother stared at him, unable to say anything. Suddenly Gene's sad, pained eyes turned into pure hatred.

"I see." Gene said. "I guess I better go and die in a hole somewhere than." Gene turned around and walked out, slamming the door behind him. Naru stood there, unable to comprehend what had happened. He had been yelling at his brother as the anger deep inside him began to boil. He was saying what ever came to his mind, not thinking about what they actually meant. Now, here he was, staring at the spot his brother had left, regretting ever thinking that for one second. He had never truly thought that, though why he had said it, he did not know. The only thing he did know was the pain in his chest, one that he was sharing with his brother, one that soon faded into numbness.

"Naru" Mai whispered. It took all of his energy to look at her. She started up at him. "Wait are you waiting for? Go after him!" she said trying to yell. It took Naru a moment before he understood what she meant. When he understood it, he turned and ran out the door, after his brother.

Naru ran down the hall, trying to think of where he might be.

How could this have happened? How could it have gotten this far? Naru saw something out of the corner of his eyes, making him stop. There standing halfway down the hall was a boy in all black, looking out the window.

"Gene." Naru called. The boy turned around to face him. When he saw who it was he turned back to the window. Naru slowly made his way over to him, unsure of wither Gene would care. "I'm-"

"Is that really what you think?" Gene asked, cutting Naru off.

"No."Naru said."Of course not"

"Than why did you say it?" Gene asked looking at him. Naru stayed silent, not knowing the answer. "You really love her, don't you?" Gene asked looking back out the window.

Naru looked out to the starry sky, thinking of only one thing. "Yes."

"Than why me?" Gene asked turning to look at his brother. "Why pick me, when you could have had her."

"I don't know." Naru said not looking at his brother. "Maybe because I thought I had a stronger bond with you than anyone else. Maybe because I thought that you were worth more to her. Or maybe because I just wasn't thinking at all. I didn't realize how much I needed her until I lost her."

"Than don't loss her again." Naru looked at Gene, surprised and confused.

"What are you talking about?"

"Oliver we both can't live. The only reason I was allowed to live, was because I was using her energy to do so. Now that she is alive..." Gene's sentence faded into silence. Slowly the realization started to sink into Naru.

"I see." Naru said flatly.

"Don't worry about me. I'll be fine, just make sure you keep our little Mai save from the big bad monsters."Gene said. Naru glared at him for a moment, before giving up and smiling at him.

"I'll make sure I keep my Mai out of danger." Naru corrected him. Gene laughed.

"Fine but just make sure-" Gene stopped talking.

"What is it?" Naru asked looking around.

"She's here."

"I'm surprised you found me that quick." said a woman stepping out of the shadows. Naru and Gene both turned to face her.

"I'm guessing you're the real one behind this." Naru said glaring at the woman. This only made her smile.

"Correct." She said smiling at him. "With the help of my two children of course." Out of the shadows stepped two children. Hitoshi and Shizu.

"Your children?" Naru asked confused.

"Yes my children." She said crouching down and wrapping her arms around the two children standing next to her.

"You're not our mother." said Shizu, avoiding her eyes. Asa looked down at her. "Hitoshi control your sister. I'm tired of her betrayals." She said standing up and walking away. Hitoshi walked over to his sister and grabbed her arm. She tried desperately to get away, but he held on tight.

"Shizu!" he yelled. She turned around to look at him. When her eyes met his, she began instantly froze. Her body tensed, before slowly loosening and going completely numb. Her eyes glazed over and her head dropped a bit. Hitoshi let go of her hand and she stood there silently, waiting for an order.

"Now back to what I saying." Asa said from her seat on the windowsill by Gene. Gene took a step back. He was so focused on what Hitoshi and Shizu were doing; he didn't realize that she had moved near him. "Me and my children are the ones that put this whole thing together and we will be finishing it." She said happily.

HEYYYYYYYYY! I'm at the library (which I hate) because I love you(my viewers) so much that I wanted to update this super awesome long chapter just for you! My internet is out at my house so I have to use the library's and last week it was being retarded and I could not type or fix anything to that's why I didn't say anything last chapter. BUT this one is super long and kinda is mean….my sister said she liked it and I have to apologize for the stupid kiss thing, I was super busy trying to finish finals and trying to get whitephoenix18 graduation present together and I really didn't have time to write what I really wanted so im trying to make up for it^^ But yea my sis finally graduated….anyway im gonna go cause the lady is looking at me weird (someone help me! I hate it at the library )