CHAPTER 154

"We're home!" Ryoma shouted as he, Mitsu and Syu entered the house slinging their things just to the side of the door before going into the kitchen. "Shan!" The cat happily said as he pounced onto the sitting man. "I missed you." Syu smiled at his youngest lover while Mitsu had gone round the table to give his grandfather a hug. Sei who was sitting next to Shan smirked when he noticed Ryoma's arms squeezing tighter round the man causing less oxygen to get to his uncles lungs.

"Ryo maybe you should loosen your grip." Ryoma let his arms slowly slide down to his side as he sat on Shan's lap looking towards Sei. "So I got a text from Kei telling me that you had gone off on your own to find Momo without telling anyone." The cat took less than a second to slide off Shan's lap and onto Sei as he purred and nuzzled the others neck hoping he wouldn't get scolded. "Ryo..." The boy bit down gently onto the skin just above his shoulder.

"As much as I love this you really should think of timing." Sei muttered as he smirked when he watched Ryoma pull away and looked him in the eyes with bright red cheeks.

"I'm going to get changed." The cat announced as he got up and ran up the stairs. Shan laughed as he looked to the confusion on Sei's face.

"You do realize he used that as a distraction so you couldn't tell him off." The 18-year-old felt one of his eyes twitch.

10 minutes later, Ryoma happily jumped down the stairs and into the kitchen letting his tail wave back and forth in excitement. Shan ended up being dragged into the lounge while Ryoma told him everything of what he had missed. It's not like he hadn't been kept updated of course, it was just that Ryoma's imagination seemed to change the characters. For example there was his hero, a dragon, a thief and a knight. Nodding his head as he listened to the cat wild tale he couldn't help but really smile. 'God, I missed this.' He thought as he ran his fingers through Ryoma's hair.

As night fell, Shan had told them of the plan. That they would remain living with each other and the Atobes had set up an apartment about half-an-hour away. Leaving out the fact that it also meant he could visit his brother without having to make up excuses.

"Oishi sure is late." Eiji said as he pulled Ryoma into a hug.

"Maybe he got really hungry and stopped at a shop to get cow." Both Fuji, Kikumaru and Momo smiled as of course once again everything went back to food with the cat.

"Maybe... But for Oishi-Senpai to be 's only 15 minutes left until the end of the players registrations. If he's not here by then, then he'll be out." Momo frowned as he realized the predicament they were in. After all they need the golden pair.

They all looked over to Sumire when they heard a phone ringing. "Oishi!" She exclaimed. "What are you... You're helping a pregnant lady. I understand. Can you make it on time?"

"There's still time left. I'll go to the hospital and switch with Oishi-Senpai." Momo called as he sped off.

"Eiji..." The red-head looked down to the boy who he was using as a head rest. "What's pregnant?" As is it was a spell, Eiji had let go of Ryoma to look as the boy in shock.

"Ochibi... You don't know about women and pregnancy?" Scowling the cat tugged on Eiji's shirt waiting for the other to answer more on this suddenly interesting subject. "Umm... Well a lady's tummy gets really big and then when the time is right a melon size human pops out of her lady parts and blood spills everywhere.." The red-head watched as the cat turned purple before his eyes rolled back and he dropped to the floor.

Fuji was next to the cat in under a second picking him up like a princess and holding him as close as he could to his chest. "Eijiko, next time let me or Mitsu explain. Blood coming from a human being gives Ryo bad memories." He turned his back on Eiji, he gave the cat a kiss on the forehead before going off to find Mitsu.

(Flashback/ Ryoma POV)

The cold metal chain collar around my neck choked me as I got pulled along the floor by a scientist.

"Come on Beauty. Walk properly. You might be able to breathe easier if you do as you're told." Trying to catch my breath, I managed to get out a few words.

"Not my fault." It wasn't. I had no strength. The last experiment was only a couple of days ago. When they assumed I had enough rest they said I needed to start training. They wanted me to walk on both hands and feet. They expected me to eat and drink from a bowl. If I used my hand to pick up the object they would hit me. At first it was a slap on the wrists, but now their using a cane. I can't feel it. My stomach hurts so much. They don't feed me as much as I use to.

Suddenly I felt a foot on my back pushing me to the floor. "What have we told you about talking." I started feeling more weight on my back. "No dinner for tonight and I'll tell your master about what you have done."

In a state of panic, I lifted my hands up knocking him off-balance and I ran. Down the corridors searching for master knowing if I was besides him the others couldn't do anything. Hearing a scream I ran towards it. I think I put my master and someone's suffering together now. In my mind it makes sense.

As I pushed open the door to the room he was in I froze. There was a woman. She had tears running down my face as some men held her down. There was something being pushed out from between her legs.

"Master... What's happening? What's that?" I pointed to the woman.

"Damn it. Beauty." Master said, as the woman gave a final scream, it all went quiet as the sound of crying filled the room. He turned to me with a flesh object in his arms. "Come here." Taking slow steps eyeing the bloody arms of master and the crying, now moving thing he was holding. "Beauty, this is what happens when another human is trapped inside someone. I gasped. The thing in front of me wasn't human. It kind of remind me of me, but it had doggy mouth and doggy feet. It had ears and a tail like me.

"Master... Is he like me?" He chuckled as crushed the neck of the child in his hands.

"Beauty, let me tell you this. You are pure, this thing was created in a disgusting way. Any human born from another through those means is a monster." I nodded as I looked back to the woman who had created this so-called, now dead monster and I was shocked to see her no longer moving. Her eyes glazed over. "Beauty, she's dead." He pointed out the obvious.

My names Beauty. I'm eight years old. Today I learned the forbidden way for a human to come into existence.