Me: First weekend of college! Wooooo! Now I update, I'm going to try and get this wrapped up in three more chapters.
Itachi: Three, well, I'm close to getting out of here!
Sasuke: *Rolls eyes* She doesn't own anything.
Itachi supposed he should have begun to worry when Edo's eyes glazed over. He probably should have run away when Jun told him to. He should have done many things, but standing against something that looked vaguely like the ice demon of the land of snow's scriptures was not one of them.
To be fair, Jun should have seen it coming. He should have dropped back and said something. Should have realized that blood and pain still lingered here. Should have known that the innate hatred inside of Edo was strongest when he smelt it. He should have destroyed the creature, but he couldn't, this was Edo after all, his lover, his friend, his mate, his partner in battle, his teacher. There was nothing to be done really, the darkness in Jun himself was writing in agony at the crystalline light.
The houses had bypassed frost in favor of sealing completely in ice. Edo's blue eyes had turned white, his hair frosting, lips turning blue, claws grew long and jagged.
This hunt in the end, seemed to end in tragedy.
Jun cupped his hands around his mouth "EDO!"
The beautiful thing swung to face him.
"Hiya." It purred pleasantly, cocking its head to the side and exposing fang "What do you need?"
Jun winced as the creature split Edo's lips with a wide smile, blood pouring over white skin from the wounds.
"Oh." Said the creature, dropping its terrifying smile "Does his blood bother you? Does it make you sick?" A chuckle formed deep in its throat.
Jun cast a desperate look at his cousin, laying on his side, mere feet away, blood pooling from the injured arm from an intended fatal wound, blocked by Jun himself. He should have done something when he noticed the shadow. He had always done it before, had promised Edo that he would stop it from consuming him. The other demon had been too young and fragile for one demon to be sealed within him, let alone two. They had lain dormant for years, until the confrontation with the D on his yacht. Destroying Destiny Hero Plasma had unleashed unsavory souls as well as good ones. The dark ones tempted the beast. The one of ice, within Edo absorbed negative emotions from the world surrounding its host, and began to boil over when it became strong enough.
Jun had promised Edo he would stop it. Usually he did. A few days on their own, eating out and a few rounds of duel monsters usually beat it back with enough positive emotion, but Jun had thought he had more time. The vengeful spirits had latched onto the young man with vigor, blackening, and then turning his eyes white. Jun only hoped Edo was still inside.
"Yes, it bothers me!" Jun called back at the thing walked amicably from one roof to another.
Terrifying white eyes looked down, the creatures face shifting to what appeared to be curiosity.
"I love him. And you are causing him pain."
The creature looked confused "I'm not hurting my master."
"We feel more pain than you do, if we bleed we are hurt." Jun said in a gentler tone, hoping against hope that this creature wasn't entirely evil, he would happily settle for tragically misguided at this point.
"Demons share blood all the time, you even take his away, and he takes yours, I just wanted a taste of a new friend." It purred licking some more of Itachi's blood from its claws as it had been doing since it slashed Itachi a half an hour ago.
"That's different, but you hurt his mouth, don't you feel the blood? Wouldn't that hurt you?"
The demons hand flew to Edo's mouth, the body convulsed slightly as he felt the wound. "I don't like it…" the thing hissed quietly.
"Maybe you should let Edo out then, and he can fix it." Itachi called hoarsely from the side.
The demon cocked its head "That hurts too…."
Oh thank Ra, was all Jun could think, it wasn't evil, it just didn't know good from bad, and it must have latched onto negative energy due to its strong nature to get out, polluting the good in the creature, once it got out it was all instinct and dark emotion. Hopefully in the free air it could calm down, maybe even help.
"I feel strange."
Jun's head snapped up "Strange how?" he frantically looked at Itachi, who, while pale, seemed to be doing fine, and watched as his cousin shrugged in confusion.
"My stomach feels funny…" the demon replied hesitantly touching said area as its eyes welled up with tears. "And I'm leaking." It hissed in wonder reaching up to delicately swipe at the eyes.
"Edo?" Jun called "Are you in there?"
He demon hissed and wiggled "Fine, I'll go away, but I want to come out more, I promise I won't hurt anybody, it's just so dark in there, I don't like being in a cage."
"Okay!" Jun promised irrationally "We will let you out for a little while sometimes, but you need to stop this!"
The demon blinked once and fell from the building on which it stood. Jun caught it.
"J-Jun?"
"It's okay, I'm taking you two to the hospital."
"Is Itachi okay?" he whispered between split lips
"I'm fine." Itachi said, staggering over to them "Please don't do it again though."
"I'm sorry." Edo managed.
"It's okay." The Uchiha replied in unison.
"It got really bad when I saw her, sorry I lost it."
"It's fi- which her?" Jun said, startled.
"Whe-!" Edo cut himself off with a yelp, pulling away from Jun to clutch at his mouth, eyes squeezing shut.
Jun started toward him, but Itachi stopped his cousin. "I know some medical ninjutsu, I'll fix his mouth and then we will work this out."
Soon a soft glow gathered around Itachi's hand and he pressed it to Edo's lips, knitting the torn flesh together once more. "Please, continue." Itachi said once the healing was done.
"Sorry about that." Edo said sheepishly "When we entered the compound I activated the byakugan, and I saw a woman behind the main house by the graves, she glared like she could see me, then it all went black after I attacked Itachi." He glanced at said man "Sorry again."
Itachi brushed it aside 'What did she look like?" He asked urgently
"Um" Edo took a step back "She had greying dark hair, she was heavier, and she wore a dress, oh and she had a stab wound I think.."
Jun nodded slowly, Itachi cursed foully, and Edo nodded sadly.
"Chiyo" They said in unison.
"Well boys I think we need more help, even if the ice demon isn't our enemy, it can certainly be persuaded by negative influence." Jun turned suddenly to Edo "We also need to let the demon out now and again, he hates being locked up and promises not to hurt anybody."
Edo just stared wide eyed.
"I'll stay back next time." He grudgingly offered, loathe to let his mate run into danger without him, but realizing he himself could be dangerous.
"That may be for the best." Itachi said as they entered the hospital, nurses and doctors calling the Anbu to deal with the wounded missing nin in the lobby. The three just continued up to Sasuke's room so that Edo could clean and stitch up Itachi's arm. Maybe if Tsunade stopped by to deal with the reports of a hostile ninja in the hospital she would do it, but as it were, it looked like Edo's job.
"Time to rally the troops." Itachi said sharing a conspiratorial look with Jun. The three entered the room, Edo feeling decidedly ill at ease after the childlike evil look the cousins had just shared. He had a feeling they had a plan.
I actually dislike this, but here it is, review.