"Raian that's enough," His sister, Fusui scolded angrily. "That's like your thirteenth bottle."

"Shut the fuck up, don't tell me what to do!" Raian crowed loudly, smashing the bottle he had drained in seconds onto the ground and littering shards of glass everywhere. His sister let out a small 'eep' and danced away from the flying pieces, giving him a glare before Henzo pulled her away.

"Just leave him alone and he'll be out like a light soon. Hopefully." Henzo whispered. "Just don't stir him up until then, okay?

"Fine," Fusui groaned, eyeing distastefully at her brother who continued to cackle like a banshee.

"Alright who's next?" Raian waved another bottle in the air, but everyone else who had been willing to challenge him had collapsed in a near-alcohol induced coma on the ground.

"Tch, pussies." Raian sneered and stomped out the door of the Kure dining room, wandering about the garden in search of a good fight. His normally milky skin was flushed a light pink from the alcohol, and there was an uncertainty in his normally solid swagger as ambled around the massive yard.

The sharp sound of skin hitting stone reverberated through the crisp air, drawing the demon Kure's attention away from his aimless walk and towards the more isolated part of the estate.

It was Ohma, practicing the Niko style against a pile of huge boulders. Sweat dripped off his bare chest, forming rivers that soaked into his baggy pants as he huffed in exertion. Still unaware of the other man's presence over the noise of shattering stone, he went to grab another rock before a raspy voice made him freeze.

"What's up, fucker?"

A large, muscular arm dropped heavily across Ohma's shoulders which he immediately pushed off.

"What the hell do you want Raian?"

"Nothin' much," Raian sniggered and leaned closer, black scleras glinting maliciously in the dim light. "Wanna fight?"

"No, dumbass. Are you drunk?" Ohma wrinkled his nose at the overwhelming smell of wine on his breath. Great, as if a sober Raian wasn't already a massive pain in the ass. "I'm not carrying you back to your room if you crash."

"Try me, bitch."

The first punch knocked him back four feet, but Raian managed to stay upright, blinking rapidly to clear the dizziness in his head.

"Time to dominate!" Letting out a feral roar, Raian pounced. He beat down on his rival with wild animal strength, different from his normal-slightly more composed-Kure style.

Despite the frenzied blows, Ohma had no problem dodging or blocking each one, though his arm began to throb soon enough under the intense barrage of attacks. If Raian had nothing else, he had brute strength enough to make any man tremble in fear. But Ohma was no normal man, and he had dealt with types like the hot-headed assassin before. Though they were much weaker at the very least.

"Hey, your old man might not be pleased with all the holes you're leaving in the yard." Ohma evaded a roundhouse kick and bounced back, gesturing at the substantial craters dotting the ground. "You're ripping up all the grass."

"Fuck that! Fight me Tokita, or are you too big of a pussy?!" His frustration with Ohma's refusal for a real fight exploded into the form of hurling rocks like cannonballs.

Is this son of a bitch crazy?

Ohma almost smacked himself at that thought as a human-sized boulder whizzed past his ear and battered right into the wall of the Kure manor. Raian was the definition of crazy, his face was probably plastered all over the dictionary page.

"RAIAN?! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING BOY?!" A shout halted Raian's throwing spree momentarily, enough for Ohma to disarm him and put him into a headlock.

"We were just sparring old man," Raian cackled, fingers prying at Ohma's arm wrapped around his neck.

"No we were not." Ohma started to peel his fingers out of his forearm. He had half a mind to break them.

"I don't care what you are doing, cease this racket immediately! I won't tell you twice Raian," Grandfather Erioh pointed at him with his cane. "And you, Ohma! Take him back to his room and watch him!"

Knowing better than to argue with the grandfather, Ohma begrudgingly led Raian back to his room tucked securely under his armpit. He was sure Raian could have broken out at any time, so why didn't he?

Shaking his head, he knew better than to try to delve into Raian's brain or else he would probably develop a migraine.

"Try not to destroy everything here, brat." Ohma finally let him go after they reached his quarters, sliding the door shut before Raian could attack him again. During the five minute walk Raian had coughed and sneezed on him twice (he was starting to think he was doing it on purpose) as Ohma struggled to keep his large frame moving. He also thought it was fun to pinch his ass, hard. Snarling, Ohma slapped him in the face and opted for just dragging the drunk man by the arms, who went limp but continued to whine like a foul-mouthed child.

Ohma had never wanted to murder someone so badly in his entire life.

After pulling the two-hundred-pound psychopath to his bed, Ohma was finally able to settle down in his own room, keeping a keen ear out for him in case he decided to act up again.

Hearing no sound from the other side, Ohma hesitantly let his eyes slip close for his daily image training. Ever since he began living with the Kures, more and more of them began slipping into his dream-battles. The three most common frequenters were always Reiichi, Hollis, and Raian. The latter slipped into his dreams the most, much to his displeasure. Dream Raian was just as annoying as the real Raian himself.

And of course, today it was him who appeared once again.

A loud crash seared through his concentration just as dream Raian opened his fat mouth, shocking Ohma onto his feet. He let out an irritated huff through his nose, clenching his teeth so hard they almost chipped as he yanked open the door.

"Can't you just settle down, you son of a bitch?" Ohma swore under his breath when he saw Raian sprawled out on the floor, reminiscent of a pale human-sized bear rug. He was almost tempted to just shut the door and pretend he didn't see anything, but Raian had wedged his fingers into the floorboards and was in the process of peeling back the wood with a resounding snap.

Storming over, Ohma yanked his hand away only to be met with a slew of curses and a directionally-challenged fist that went straight through the floor.

"Do I need to tie you up, Raian?"

"Suck a cock, dumbass!"

Raian suddenly reached out a hand to grab his ankle, pulling his body towards him and sending Ohma sliding on his ass as he knocked the back of his head against the floor. With surprising agility for someone that drunk, he hauled himself onto Ohma's chest….and promptly threw up.

It took a moment for the unfortunate man to process what had fully happened as Raian wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, sneering at him all the while.

And then he snapped.

With a roar of rage Ohma slung Raian across the room with all the force he could muster and stormed out, bashing the door so hard that it flew off the hinges behind him as he walked stiffly to the restroom. He ripped off his clothes-they weren't worth saving at that point-and angrily turned the shower knob all the way to the highest temperature. He wiped what was left of the vomit off his face and scrubbed his body with a rough sponge until it stung, silently cursing the old man Erioh and Raian the entire time.

Soon, the heat began to burn and Ohma was forced to exit before his skin turned a bright lobster red. Steam had overtaken the room, making it difficult to see as he blindly groped around for a towel. Therefore he was more than surprised when his foot landed on something hard and warm, something human.

"Fuck!"

A yellowed rag was thrust in his face, making him flinch backward as Raian got up from the floor. He was so white that his body almost blended with the tiles in the steam.

Had he been there the entire time?

"Here." Raian's voice was raspier than usual as he dangled the cloth in front of Ohma's face.

"What the hell is this?"

"Towel."

"It's filthy Raian," Ohma scrunched his nose and pushed his arm away.

"Didn't say it was clean."

Sighing, he moved past him and grabbed a fresh one, eyes catching on the bright red droplets leading in a trail from the entrance. The tiny dots led to a small pool where Raian had been sitting, seeping slowly from a few cuts on his back when he had collided with the wall.

"Go take a shower, punk."

"Ha! In your drea-" Ohma forced his head down, cutting off the rest of his sentence before walking him to the shower and shutting him in. He got dressed in record time and leaned his back against the door just as Raian attempted to crawl back out, abruptly ending his escape. There was a low curse as his face was once again introduced to the door.

"I'm not letting you out until you're clean. You smell like shit-"

"Says who, you pig!"

"-and you're getting blood everywhere." He waited for a few seconds while the sounds of Raian's heavy breathing was the only sound coming from the stall, and still no signs of any running water. A minute passed and there was still no movement from within.

"Do I have to do everything myself?!" Ohma snarled, opening the door and turning the water on cold. "Are you fucking five?!"

A hand twisted itself into his collar and wrenched him in, putting him in the direct line of the freezing water. His back arched instinctively to avoid it, unintentionally pressing himself into the body below.

Shivering uncontrollably, he fought to get Raian's hands off him while simultaneously spinning the dial to warm, grinding his teeth to fight off the urge to strangle this man in the shower.

When he moved to get off, the hands in his collar wouldn't budge. "Let go Raian. Don't make me tell you twice."

"Why don't you make me?" Raian mocked, still fully clothed. The white shirt he had been wearing, now stained pink with blood, turned transparent under the downpour, clinging tightly to his well-defined muscles. The blue jeans had turned dark and wet, emphasizing brawny calves and rock-hard thighs, leading up to a prominent bulge in his pants that Ohma was quite familiar with, courtesy of Kiryu Setsuna. But this however, felt different. (Excluding size differences)

Ohma tried not to stare, confusion evident in his expression. Why couldn't he tear his eyes away? His brain told him to look away, but a more primal part of his body screamed otherwise.

He couldn't understand what that warm feeling was welling up inside his stomach, though it wasn't particularly unpleasant, just...unfamiliar.

It was puzzling when normally the only thing he had felt towards the devil of man was anger and exasperation, and the heat that usually came with those emotions were something of a different breed from what he was feeling right now.

"Remember Ohma, sometimes you just gotta throw your thoughts out the window and go for it, you know? Trust your gut, kid, and don't think too hard or you'll hurt yourself." Niko's words bounced about in his head, echoing and gnawing away at any restraint he had left.

Fuck sensibility, Ohma growled, and Raian seemed to catch on. His gut had never led him wrong before, so there was no reason to deny it now.

Surging forward Ohma latched his teeth onto his milky neck, instantly feeling a bright blossom of pain as Raian returned the bite with the same fervor.

He was gonna need to take another shower.

"Were you guys fighting again last night?" Karla blinked at the multi-colored bruises peeking out from beneath Ohma's collar during breakfast the next morning. Hollis spat out his food from the other side of the table and went into a coughing fit as Reiichi snickered behind his hand, half-heartedly slapping his cousin's back in an attempt to dislodge the food. The rest of the Kures seemed to catch on too, most suddenly much more invested in their food or whispering into each other's ears with mild giggling.

"...You could say that-" Ohma began only to have Raian obnoxiously butt in with a wide smirk on his face.

"That wasn't what you said when you were on your knees last night!"

There was a chorus of groans and wolf whistles as Ohma smacked Raian's face into his mashed potatoes with a solid splat.

They were banished to sleep in the yard that night.