Kanashi woke up the next morning in a foul mood. A very. Very foul mood.
And he came to school with a biting vengeance like no-one had ever seen up to that point.
"Uh dude, what's up with you today?" Yashiro finally asked. He had been seeing Kanashi cussing and being more grating than he usually was, and his curiosity finally willed him to ask about what had happened to him.
Kanashi looked to Yashiro with a vicious glare, only accentuated by the dark circles under his eyes and his bared teeth. If Kanashi was a wolf, he probably would've looked absolutely terrifying. "I just had a case of the freaking SP!" he declared, grittiness lacing his voice.
"SP?" Junpei asked. "Spirit Points?"
"No you fuckwad! Sleep fucking paralysis!" he growled.
Yashiro finally realised the irony of Kanashi's name and winced. Sleep paralysis was not pretty. "Oh. Uh… okay," he nodded dumbly. From what he could see, Kanashi seemed to be aggravated very easily after sleep paralysis, and he didn't wish to anger him even further. He was already biting everyone's heads off. Verbally. He didn't need to start physically too. "What happened?" he asked.
"Freaking Emily Rose was next to me!" Kanashi said, nodding slowly with clenched teeth.
"Ooh, was she busty?" Kurow grinned, placing a hand on Kanashi's shoulder.
Kanashi's eyebrow twitched, "Oh yeah! I was about to invite her over to bed, but she ate my heart out you fucking stoner!" He batted Kurow's hand away, making him glare at Kanashi.
"Hmph, I'm disappointed," Kurow said defiantly.
"Disappointed? Are you now? You bloody bitch of a son!" Kanashi yelled, and then shook his head, his bared teeth receding. "Well, I'm sure everyone's disappointed that two homeless, poor, and sleep deprived sex deviants didn't use protection on that night seventeen years ago!" Kanashi smirked. "Yes, they're your parents and yes, I know they don't give a crap about you because you're made of shit and no, I'm not sorry that I insulted them, you STD'ed crow!" Kanashi absentmindedly batted Yashiro's hand away and just continued, "You see this boot?" He pointed to his shoes with an unforgiving and ravenous grin. "Yes, this one, this costs more than you. You have no life, you have no parents and you have no self-respect. You kissed all our asses during the counterattack and now you think you're the fucking boss!? Newsflash Kurow you're nothing but a homeless hobo. Now come on! Bring your knife out so I can finish this shit and stick it were the sun doesn't shine!"
Kurow who for all his life had never shown any signs of displeasure when he was insulted looked at Kanashi wide-eyed.
Kanashi smirked and deflected Kurow's arm. Kurow pulled back before Kanashi could grab his knife turned his grip in reverse and slashed Kanashi with never before seen practice across his chest.
"Come on you crow! Where's your annoying fucked up call now!?" Kanashi barely even winced as he was hit by Kurow.
"You're going the fuck down!" Kurow roared, a red glow starting to surround him and surges of power rolling from him that no-one had felt from him before. He growled and gritted his teeth as he tried to gather his power, and a pall of darkness closed around him in the shapes of ragged feathers, a harsh screech echoing about as the shadows continued to form. However, anyone could see that Kurow was struggling as he attempted to summon. He was breathing heavily, and he held a nearly blank look at Kanashi. The only thing that could be seen was hate. Hate. And hate.
"Pfft, that isn't going to scare me!" Kanashi spat as white flares started to surround and swirl around him.
"Megidolaon," Kurow muttered as he held the back of his hand to his mouth, and black-scarlet streaks of darkened Almighty energy shot towards Kanashi at frightening speeds.
Not that Kanashi was scared at all.
"Agidyne!" Kanashi shouted, and white fire shot towards the black. The attacks collided, and for a while they seemed to be equal. That was before Kanashi smirked and the flames tore through the Megidolaon, turning it back into shreds of spirit energy.
Kurow's eyes widened as his attack was nullified and he charged towards Kanashi with a festering vengeance. Kanashi just grinned and met with Kurow.
"Hah, you can't even handle my fire with your Almighty? Pathetic," Kanashi berated Kurow, dodging his Megido-infused punch with ease and striking back with a punch of his own which was dodged, and followed up with an elbow strike. "Your attacks are just like you; you think they're all that, but in reality they're weak as fuck and there's nothing that you can goddamned do about it!"
"Shut the fuck up!" Kurow snarled as he caught and pushed Kanashi's arm back before flipping out his knife and stabbing it, twisting it deep into his flesh. Kanashi gritted his teeth and retaliated with a knee that caved deep into Kurow's stomach, knocking some wind out of him.
"Hah, are you even trying?" Kanashi smirked despite the pain in his arm and pulled away from the knife, since Kurow held onto it tightly. "That was nothing, come on you crow, come at me!" he taunted.
"Don't you know I fucking will!?" Kurow growled as Kanashi pulled away. He kicked Kanashi with an Almighty infused foot just before he could get away, and it smacked right into his side. However, Kanashi ducked down a little to block the foot with his arm and grabbed Kurow's leg, taking him off balance.
Kanashi sneered at the snarl on Kurow's face and swung him onto the ground. "You are the dumbfuck here Kurow," he laughed, and before Kurow could recover he smashed his foot right into his gut. "And I feel almost disgusted that I'm stepping on a piece of shit like you!" Kurow spat an ungodly mixture of saliva and blood onto the ground, glaring up at Kanashi despite the pain that he was most certainly feeling. "You're a mess, like everything else that you leave behind and walk on!" Kanashi continued, relishing in the hate and pain that flickered in his glare.
Again, Kanashi's foot met Kurow's stomach, and Kurow retched out more blood as his boot slammed down multiple times. He tried to catch his breath but what precious little air that he had been able to grasp and hold in his chest was being kicked out. "Awww, is the little crow hurt?" Kanashi mocked, "Bet you want me to stop now, don't you?" he grinned.
"Go to hell!" Kurow rasped.
Kanashi scoffed as if he was expecting something like that, quickly grabbing a harsh hold on Kurow's collar. "I thought you'd say that," he chuckled darkly before head-butting Kurow, making his head snap back. Kanashi drove his fist repeatedly into Kurow's stomach, and he slammed him against the wall, an audible thud sounding. "Persistent, ratty corpse eater won't damn well stay down, will he?" Kanashi smiled knowingly.
Kurow growled and kneed Kanashi in the nads as he came closer, eliciting a loud 'aw fuck' and earning him a bitter glare as he doubled over. His eyes narrowed, hawk-like as he glowered at Kurow. "Magnadyne!" he growled, and he threw a vicious haymaker into Kurow's face, not even bothering to pull his punch back.
Kurow's face smacked towards the wall, and he smirked, "Omega Cluster." Kurow smashed his Dark and Almighty attack into his face in retaliation, crushing deep into Kanashi's cheek.
"Fuck you!" Kanashi snarled, and he finally got Kurow back for kicking him in the nuts. "Hah, maybe it's better if I do that until you're sterile! Oh wait, you'll never be sterile since you're a piece of shit that no-one cares about!"
Kurow growled and tried to punch Kanashi with Hamaon, but Kanashi elbowed his chest into the wall. "Pfft. Pathetic," he smirked, getting out his gun and shooting Kurow's arm point-blank. Kurow winced as he felt the sting, and the constant burn of the bullet embedded in his arm. "Who's scared now?" Kanashi smirked. Three more bangs sounded, and each of Kurow's limbs had a bullet driven deep in them.
Kurow panted as he prevented himself from letting out even one small sound that indicated he felt pain.
Kanashi scoffed as he walked over and crushed Kurow's stomach with his knee, caving it in against the wall. Kurow squeezed his eyes shut and he slowly slid to the floor, leaning against the wall behind him.
Kanashi sneered and held his gun at Kurow's forehead. "You're weak, just like I thought."
"Fuck you," Kurow groaned, and Kanashi squeezed the trigger of his shot gun with a knowing smirk.
"Speak up son, I can't hear you over all the shit that you're spewing," Kanashi laughed.
"You're done."
"Kanashi wait!" Yashiro grabbed Kanashi's hand before he was able to shoot.
"Why?" Kanashi glared at Yashiro.
"He might be pathetic, like you say… but first, he shouldn't be worth it," Yashiro breathed out. "Second, Junpei could be bringing someone like Minato or Mitsuru here any second now."
Kanashi narrowed his gaze at Yashiro and then turned back to Kurow, who was still glaring at him hatefully.
"Tch, whatever," Kanashi shook his head and walked from Kurow's barely conscious body.
Yashiro looked at Kanashi's back and sighed before deciding to heal Kurow as best as he could with a Diarahan spell. After a while, Mitsuru was able to call in connections from the Kirijo group and get Kurow to a proper hospital after healing the rest of his bruises and alleviating a majority of the pain with her own healing spells.
"What happened?" Minato asked with a heavy sigh.
"I'm afraid that even if Kurow manages to heal his other injuries properly, it will take longer to remove the bullets that Kanashi gave him," Mitsuru replied with a stern voice.
"Why did Kanashi even do that?" Junpei continued, wincing as he thought about the bullets.
"There's one thing that I learned for sure," Yashiro bit his lip.
"What's that?" Minato asked.
Yashiro furrowed his brow and shook his head. "You don't make Kanashi pissed after sleep paralysis. Otherwise you end up like Kurow."
AN: We set the ball rolling straight away. Hehehe.
Yoshikunitsu: Yeah, tiny arc inside overarching plot. It's fun.
He likes his sleep like any teen. I know I do.
Suries.
Anakin: Why in flying seven hells would you call me that?
Raidou: Indeed, they somehow did…
Q/A SECTION
(Erebus) Conversation 1: Yoshikunitsu
Erebus: True enough.
Minato: *waves awkwardly*
(Minato) Question 2: Yoshikunitsu
Minato: I've looked up what mythology I can. I don't know everything about them however… some of my Personae seem really, really random though. I still don't get it.
(Hibiki) Conversation 3: Yoshikunitsu
Hibiki: Warning was duly noted! *chuckles lightly*