Rivalry and Fatherhood

Chapter 12

Gaelic/irish/english will be in underlined, Celty and Celtion's speech is in bold, thoughts will be in italics.

Tori flipped through some pictures in her year book.

"Y'know, I saw the damned thing somewhere..." she said, accent now fully hinted she was irish.

After getting back from Ireland a few days ago. Victoria was ready to just get back into the city, even if it meant her life in danger. Izaya wasn't to thrilled about her lovely new found affection for information hunting, but he bypassed it, thinking of it as a phase.

No, it wasn't. Tori was just trying to say it was so her dad wouldn't get suspicious.

"AH! Here it is." Tori smiled, pulling out a photo.

She looked at the backside

"Celtion, Maeve and Shizuno. Summer vacation." Tori read. She then flipped the photo around to reveal the three of them.

In the picture was Tori in the middle of the two boys, who were glaring at each other. She, herself, was wearing a purple one-piece and a miniskirt (due to her dad's protesting), Shizuno was wearing Hawaiian looking swim trunks ("showing off very fine abs" Tori mutters), and Celtion in dark swim trunks. Tori couldn't remember what they were fighting over. But it was something dumb.

Tori smiled.

"Maybe I should meet up with Shizuno AND Celtion this next weekend..."

"I'm home!" Izaya yelled.

"Welcome back daddy!" Tori yelled back, still hunched over the box of pictures, flipping through some of the pictures, reminiscing on the past.

Izaya looked in Tori's room.

"You didn't do anything, right?" Izaya inquired. Tori smiled at her father.

"No daddy." she said sweetly. Izaya smiled, happy at the thought his daughter wasn't getting into to much trouble.

A smile of grim mischief appeared on her face.

Her father knew little of his daughter's favorite past times.

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Next day...

Celtion breathed out, watching as the air turned into a smokey looking cloud.

"Hey." a voice said behind him, causing him to jump in surprise.

"Tori." he gasped. "Don't do that, I hate that 'jump-out-of-the-shadows' trick of yours."

"It's not a trick stupid, it's just that I'm more silent than you are." Tori smiled.

Tori's face slipped to a more serious measure.

"You haven't told Shizuno about anything, right? The reason I'm back in Ikebukuro." Tori growled.

Celtion gulped. He had gone to Ireland for a few days not to long ago to see how Tori was faring. The Tori he had first met in Japan six years ago was still getting over the loss of her mother. The Tori he'd met recently, he discovered, wasn't as docile as he thought her to be. She wasn't quite like her mother, who COULD fight if she was pissed off enough, and she wasn't like her father, who always seemed to have a happy smile on his face. No, she was WORSE.

"NO! I haven't!" he paniced. He HAD told Shizuno that Tori was back in town. Tori hadn't realized yet that he was with Shizuno the other day, and he was hoping to keep it that way.

"Good." she smiled, "Because I would hate to kill my delivery boy." she added as her smile grew darker.

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Shizuno sighed. He had grown out of his old clothes, and until his paycheck came in, he had borrowed his dad's clothes, which were a bit snug on him since he was taller than his dad.

He looked around him, on the bridge over looking Ikebukuro's station, and caught sight of someone he knew, TWO someones he knew. He had almost called their names but stopped. Celtion was practically pushed against the wall in pure fear, and the one who was seemingly threatening him was Tori. A dark conversation passed between them, and after actually listening to them, he realized they had started to speak in Gaelic. Tori pushed away from the cowering Dullahan and started to walk in his direction, pulling a phone from her pocket.

He stood still as Tori passed him. He had stopped breathing in general. The aura emantating off of her was filled with blood lust. The son of the beast of Ikebukuro was thoroughly afraid of a woman who was just passing him and looking at a phone.

He took a glimpse back to the woman. Which was the worst decision he'd probably made in his life.

Tori stopped, sensing someone looking at her. She turned to look back at whoever was watching her, sending along with it a look of anger.

Shizuno stopped looking, now feeling the blood lust directed at him. He looked over to Celtion, who was looking at him as if fearing for his life.

Then it was gone, along with the look Celtion was giving him. Shizuno in shock, fell to his knees in surprise.

Celtion rushed over to him.

"Are you alright?" Celtion asked him. Shizuno finally seemed to breathe.

"I-I think so." he breathed out.

"You might not want to see Tori, trust me, this will be for your own good, and mental state." Celtion advised.

"Did something happen to her?" Shizuno gasped, still shocked from what happened.

"No..." Celtion gave a light laugh, "Puberty happened."

"What?" Shizuno chocked.

"Let me explain..." Celtion began.

A/N

So someone mentioned something about my previous chapters and how the kids seemed to be to simular to their parents, and how the story was to rushed.

First, I'm going to go back and give more detail to those other stories, since they do seem skimpy.

Second, the teenage years is when the teenage will either try to be simular to the parent, because their trying to find the feel of the world, or they purposely want to be like their parent.

Shizuno was simularly written like Shizuo because I wanted him to be kind of imposing, but as he grew older, he had a different outlook on things than his father, so he's a bit more gentle.

Celtion was always trying to be different from his parents, but unfortunatly found that he was more like them than expected, though he is like his dad (with less of an experimenting on humans thing), he liked how his mother always seemed to handle thing, so he works as a delivery boy (only for Tori), but normally works as an underground doctor, and is his father's own rival.

Tori was made out more like her mother, with looks that complimented her father, having like an evil grin every now and then. I decided to make her more like a witch, mostly as a pun. Since Banshees are normally docile, don't really fight, don't harm others not even when threatened, and only howl when someone's going to die, in which the dullahan comes and picks the person up and carts them to the land of the dead. So I decided that Tori would be scarier than her dad, who can be incredibly scary as is. Being close to death also can affect a person's mental state.

Anyway, I was planning on changing Celtion's name. So if you see his name changed in a future chapter and not in previous chapters, it just goes to show how lazy I will get.

Can you geuss what Tori's favorite pass time is? You'll be thoroughly shocked.