[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"...Then I must have cared for Fumiko tremendously... I would have never used taboo magic..but..maybe she meant everything to me back then," Nobuo was thinking back to what his father had said about the prophecy, and now knew that it wasn't looking into the future but rather something that had happened in the past. He just couldn't grasp how he would fall in love with someone from another class, and especially Fumiko since he didn't like her enough to fall in love with her, or so he tried to conince himself. He took a deep breath, though the air seemed stale and he was tempted to return to the normal areas. Then he looked around once again before turning, "So these missions were something that started this.. I don't want to use taboo magic like I did in my past, but I don't want to remain stuck in this village forever. However, even if I did love Fumiko back then, I don't think I can do the same as I had before...so I wouldn't be hurting my father. Everything is different, isn't it?"

Though thinking back on it, Rie and Arata seemed relatively normal, despite having the creepy smiles. He didn't think they were that insane if they had been given the right situation. However, he still felt like punching their faces in, "Did we ever meet before? It feels like it might have been a bad first impression.."

[Kaguya]

“You were willing to defie everything for her, you took her away from the village and worked with the humans” she say gently nuzzling into Arata “You best hope that you can...” she say with a smile her eyes glistening a little as she spoke “If you don't she will once again be killed or be treated even worse than tarnished... she is only half Tengu as her father changed from Tengu to forest spirit before she was conceived” she giggle a little and pulled out a cinnamon stick and gave it to Arata “You've been quiet and let me talk... reward!” she exclaimed happily, it was how they were taught and so they done the same with one another.

“You wanted to do missions, she followed and instead of her coming back to face punishment, you flew away to a cave where her true remains still above ground, where the sword penetrated still apparent on her skull” she said licking one of her fingers “You came back, but you where distorted, four arms and had only hate and vengeance on your mind” she said letting go of her brother's hands and moved over to Nobuo taking his hand she tugged him down so she could tip toe once more “We can use Taboo magic with no backlash, we are already damned.” she whispered and walked back to Arata after she told their secret.

“We met once before, we where the ones that brought you back to the temple at the order's of the other elder's” she said gently, though she bit her lip “We must obey, we are treated well when we do as we are told, but if we anger the other elders... they get really mean and scary and... and..” she moved behind her brother, her free hand going to her left sleeve as she showed fear of the experiments.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Arata jumped with joy at the cinnamon stick, though after hugging it he broke it in half and gave the other half to Rie since it was rightfully earned by her to begin with, "For you." He chewed on the stick energetically while waiting to see if Nobuo would snap or break down.

Taboo magic without receiving backlash must have been something that was planned by the elders, Nobuo thought. And the thought of having four arms made him feel disgusted over himself, since that meant being something that was that much closer to an insect, and he hated insects. He shuddered from imagining the image, and turned around to face the two again. And of course, the thought of not being his father's son, at least not biologically, seemed to creep up on him. Nobuo touched the necklace and took it off, "So we are all damned, correct?" Nobuo shoved the necklace into his pouch, and would remove it once he returned to the temple. He turned around again and started to walk back in the direction where they had come from, "And you continue trying to live like that? You never fight back? Don't you have other hopes and dreams other than being tugged by a leash?"

[Kaguya]

Rei giggled seeing that half of the treat had been given back to her and popped it into her mouth happily sucking onto it as if it was a stick of pocky. “Biologically or not... he is your daddy and will always see you as his son Nobuo, blood means little to the spirit people, or that is what daddy is always telling us” she smiled grinning a little grabbing his hand “You're our big brother” she released her hand from Atara and prevented Nobuo taking the necklace off “Daddy would be upset, we mustn't upset daddy” she whispered.

“Yup, all damned and if we fuck up even once then we meet Mr. Death” she say looking up to him with sad eyes “If you leave, they will take her... they will torture her, make tarnished look like a high born” she say looking up to him “We were made in that temple, we do not have true parents...” she say her eyes closing “Daddy cares for us when no others would... if the elder of shadows had her way, we'd already be dead.” she whisper

“Without daddy we would become unstable, he has medicine that helps us” she nodded, “We are content in this life, because, although it is painful it's safe” she say but when he mentioned the other things she looked at Arata “We tried once... “ she looked down as tears began to merge from her eyes “we had a friend, they paid the price for our disobedience” she hugged onto Nobuo tightly “We hope never to meet Mr. Death and we do dream, but when we wake up it vanishes” she say contently giggling once more, her childish innocence showing to him.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Nobuo was not very happy with this news. All of his life, or at least what he remembered, he never had such severe punishments for going against the rules. And now he knew that there were even more things he had to follow to avoid such harsh penalties. He lifted the necklace and stared at it, and despite being told that he was accepted as a son based on his spirit, he still didn't think he fit in like he used to. Though he wondered just how much more upset he would be if he had any of his old memories. He sighed and allowed the necklace to rest on his chest, "So all we can do is follow and make someone else happy, just to protect our skins and those of the ones who are close to us... I'm sure there's a way out of this..." He tried to reassure himself with that fact, whether or not it was possible to change their fate, "Let's go back.. I'm sure there's a meal waiting.." After hearing all of what Rie had said, he had lost his appetite. Although he hoped that once he got back to the temple, that he would feel a little better.

[Kaguya]

“We are different from them Nobuo, and they will never let us forget it. You're lucky at least you have some link to daddy and that will keep you from the harsher punishments Arata and I get” she smiled, her eyes showed she was happy for him. It hurt to lose something or someone precious and though they were rivals they were also family and would never wish such things on him or her worst enemy.

“You are still family, and from what I've seen of your scores you haven't changed any” she giggled, she was poking fun at him this was true, but she was doing it only in a playful way which one sibling would do to another, “Perhaps daddy should send you to a public school” she smiled, she read about them in books “Humans have them... they are where less fortunate people go... people like you would go to private boarding school” she started walking like one of the other noble Tengu. “Nobuo, you will only ever be an embarrassment...” she mimicked the shadow elders voice “How do you plan on keeping your tribe strong?” she continued, though only a joke the question showed she was curious on how he would run things when he became daddy.

“For the moment yes, Arata and I can only follow orders or something bad will happen to us...” she looked to him her ruby eyes twinkling slightly in the murky sunlight “You are not bound by such rules, you are daddy's heir meaning they have to treat you as such.” she bit her lip and sat down dragging him down with her and Arata “Daddy said “When an elder comes into another elder's home, that elder only holds the same authority as an heir apparent.” meaning right now you can not be harmed or ordered by another elder to do anything as you are the same... Then that mean to their children you have the same standing as an elder and they can be punished for not listening or trying to harm you” she giggled thinking about the boy that tried to harm him earlier

“There is a way out of this, but as of yet we haven't found it... and we've been looking” she smiled finishing drawing how the laws work when it comes to visiting another tribe land, in the hopes he would understand what she was saying, as soon as she thought he did she messed up the dust “We mustn't leave a trail or they'll know we've been here, and...” she paused and shuddered remembering the last time “Don't hate daddy, he didn't like he just altered things a little to protect you... Arata and I just believed you should know everything...” she looked up at him her eyes showing several different emotions “I never seen daddy so happy as when he found out you had returned, even if it's a lie...” she looked down and bowed “Please live it for daddy, I don't want to see him hurt again... I don't want to see him look to the moons once more and crying, wishing for a second chance” her voice was begging him to do this for her

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"I would prefer to avoid any schools. I don't like them.." after listening to what else she had to say, he stopped. He felt as though he had more freedom beforehand, but now with this, his life was there to keep someone else from falling into despair. He felt that he had lost control over his own life within the past few minutes, "Living a lie.." Now he began to wonder just how many people he knew from the time he lived as Yuu. He didn't think there were many, but he felt that there had been a few here and there, "I don't suppose you know if there was anyone that I should know about, from the time where I took the name of Yuu?"

[Kaguya]

Rie bit her lip and stood up looking at him as she was asked a question “Umm... you knew someone called Kaito, someone named Ai, You knew Ken'ichi and Fumiko's reincarnated self who was called Toshi” she smiled contently as she walked off “Yuu was in love with Toshi, just as much as you are with Fumiko” she continued skipping forward a little.

“Yuu didn't care she was only half Tengu, in fact she was the one that done this to you both” she smiled happily, though the smile vanished as she heard the gates opening “Atara!” she sounded panicked as she spoke, her hand going to Nobuo to drag him off into a nearby house.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"Wha--?" Nobuo's words were cut off suddenly when he was dragged along. He remained quiet, to wait for whatever danger to pass by so that they could get out of there. His back pressed into the wall as though touching it gave him even greater protection.

Arata would have followed, pushing Nobuo a bit as he did. When they finally got into the house, he crouched low and covered his head as though the roof were going to collapse on top of them. He became deathly still.

[Kaguya]

Rie looked to Nobuo and placed a hand over his mouth to prevent any sound coming out, she moved in such a way she could see just out of the window. Looking to Arata her eyes in a panic, she hated seeing so many of them together it never ended well for them, although watched as one of them stopped where she had them kneel so she could explain how things worked when visiting another tribe to Nobuo, she found her heart racing pleading for the person not to look down.

The man stood at 6'5”, he had snow white hair and matching eyes, he looked down but not only did he notice that the dirt had been disturbed, but also there where three sets of foot prints. Rie breathed deeply and looked to Nobuo and Arata “We need to react quick if this is going to work” she whispered to them, the last thing she wanted was to go into the temple of torture again.

“Nobuo, you are going to have to act against your nature” she quickly whispered noticing the man had turned to look where they where hiding, she noticed he had caught the attention of a few other elders “You are going to have to act like a normal high born Tengu... You are going to have to act mad at us that you where sent to find us... you can be as rough with us as you want, and even yell at us... but you need to make it look real!” she exclaimed in a whispered urgency, her eyes showing how truly panicked she was

“Arata, we need to play along to what they expect of us, we even have to seem frustrated that we where caught in the area” she whispered to him, but she didn't know how plausable this plan would be, but she knew they had to try something or she and Arata would be going inside for more tests and they where painful, but they done things in there that scared them.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Arata nodded, showing that he understood. Anything was better than getting poked with needles and given strange substances ((he no want dat dope x'D)). He braced himself for whatever Nobuo was going to deliver.

Nobuo, even though he wanted to beat the two earlier, under the circumstances where he was actually forced into it just to get all three of them out was something he wasn't looking forward to. However, he agreed, and at least tried to act convincingly despite how much he protested against it internally. He whispered to both Rie and Arata, "I'm sorry.." Nobuo brought his arm back, and slapped Rie across the face, leaving a hand mark so that at least it looked like he actually meant to deliver a punishment, and he did the same with Arata. It pained his heart to do something like this, to hurt someone when they didn't deserve it. Quickly, he made a commotion by stomping around as though he were raging up against the two, and then grabbing the two by their collars and slamming them up against the wall, "Do you know just how much trouble I went through to find you two?! I wasted a part of my life to hunt you down!" Nobuo then pulled the two away from the wall, turned around and pushed the two to the ground to get them dirtied up, "You will get more of a punishment once we return to the temple! And I'm sure father will have a say in this!" He cringed at his own words, and even more so when he grabbed the back of their shirts, and started dragging them across the ground until they got outside, where he dumped them ungracefully into the street, "Get up! If you try to pull off anything funny on the way back to the temple, I just might take a few of your fingers!" Nobuo's head turned to face the group, appearing upset, not only from Rie and Arata, but also the group, "Are you searching for troublemakers too?"

[Kaguya]

Rie turned from the window and looked at Nobuo taking a deep breath she braced herself for what was going to happen to her. “We are too...” she whispered, closing her eyes as she felt his hand strike hard against her cheek and though it made her angry, she held her anger in check. Though seeing him stomping around she giggled quietly and helped him make a noise. Though when he stopped she made one more crash to make it seem like they had went crashing through a table.

Feeling her collar grabbed she let out a shriek “N-Nobuo” she cried out as she was pinned to the wall her hand going into her brothers “N-no, we d-d-d-don't” she stuttered out tears calling from her eyes as she imagined what would happen if this didn't work “W-we... we're sorry N-Nobuo” tears continued to stream from her eyes.

Being pulled from the wall and being pushed from the ground, she breathed deeply forcing herself to pant, and moved around on the dirty floor to make it seem more realistic hoping Arata would follow suit, if he didn't then this was going to go really bad “N-NO! D-D-D-DON'T TELL DADDY!” she cried out, her voice begging Nobuo, only to have the back of her shirt taken hold of, of course she tried to squirm making it seem more like this was actually happening.

Being flung onto the street with a little force she looked up at him and was ready to cry once more, she crawled close to Arata and hugged him close, it looked almost like she was in fact scared as she didn't move to her feet, “Arata” she whispered, seeing the others she truly was scared and it showed as she shook and tried to hide behind her counter-part.

The man walked forward after ushering his collogues off showing there was no need for them to worry about this situation. He looked down to the two children for a moment his white eyes analysing their injury’s “Take it easy on them, young prince... they are important to our race” he stated before looking to Nobuo “But to answer your question, no we where not looking for them” he would say calmly “Although I would like to know how you came to find this place as it is off limits to all but elders” his voice was emotionless as he enquired this

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Arata was scared as well, though he remained as a shield for Rie. He shook, his eyes darting between Nobuo and the group, uncertain of the outcome. Tears welled up in his eyes as he started crying.

Nobuo couldn't stand the sight of them, nor the crying and knowing that they were suffering. Still, he tried his best to make his act convincing, "I don't know the details of this, but I know they are important seeing as how someone like me was given the task to retrieve them." Nobuo sighed as he appeared to calm down a little, "I had to ask people where these two had gone. All of the hints led me here, and I'm certain my father wouldn't mind my presence in this area if he wants these two back." Nobuo walked over to the two, grabbed their arms, and yanked them up to their feet, "Did your legs fail you? Let's go." His hold was firm, but gentle enough so that it wouldn't hurt the two, and he started walking to get out of there as quickly as possible. He had hoped that they wouldn't consider him a part of the experiments too, and only view him as the person he used to be.

[Kaguya]

The elder quirked an eyebrow looking at the two crying on the floor then to Nobuo “They have been hurt” he said as if stating a blunt fact as he walked over to them. Moved to his knees “Separate please” his voice was the same, emotionless but Rie knew better than to try his patience and moved away from Arata but, at the same time moved her hand into his and closed her eyes allowing the man to check her over, feeling his cold hands on her skin she shook and clenched her brother's hand tightly as for support

Once satisfied Rie was fine he stood dusting his robes off before taking the half pace to Arata and knelt once more to check him over. Once again satisfied he moved onto a side pouch and brought out a cinnamon stick each for them. Slowly Rie's hand went forward hesitantly for the treat almost as if she didn't actually want to take it, this was shown in the fear in her eyes. Taking the treat her head drooped “Th-thank you master Xashino” she whispered

Standing once more after the rewards had been taken he dusted off his robes once more and looked to Nobuo “If you know they are important then you should be more careful with them” he stated, his voice cold, but his eyes showed understanding on how he would understand the boy knew they where different and the treatment was to be expected.

The elder tilted his head on hearing that he had asked people on the location of the two children “Now you are lying, no one but the elders know of this place...” he then sighed a little understanding he was being a little to brash not listening to every word “My apologies..” he bowed his head slightly “I did not hear all words.” he finished as he raised his head “Yes, they can be a handful at times, but show me any child be they high born, tarnished or even those like these two who are not flighty when they are children” for the first time he smiled.

He watched as the children where yanked to their feet “Careful” he stated once more watching as their free hand remained holding to the others, though he gripped Nobuo's sleeve to prevent him walking off.

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"Thank..you," Arata spoke softly. He took the cinnamon stick but did not make any attempt to move it towards his mouth. He knew better than to put full trust into the other elders. After all, it was because of them that they had been suffering through such gruesome experiments that they did not want to suffer through.

"At least I did not draw my blade on these two..nonetheless, they still needed some discipline to show them that what they did was not acceptable," he expressed himself with a little bit of anger, though inwardly he was terrified, knowing that their cover had been peeled back partially. Any more beyond that and they probably would have been in even more trouble. And worse, all three might be pulled into the temple of hell ((x'D)). Nobuo stopped in his tracks, his eyes moved down before his head followed, looking at the thing that was preventing him from moving forward, and then his eyes went back up to stare at the eyes of the one whom the hand belonged to, "You have something else you want to say?"

[Kaguya]

Xashino closed his eyes and took in all of the words that had been said as not to make the same mistake he had done just a few moments before hand “Then that makes you a remarkable child, as I doubt any of our children would show the same restraint when it comes to these two” he said calmly as his eyes moved to the two children

Rie quickly popped the cinnamon stick into her mouth feeling the gaze going towards them, the last thing she wanted was to make him feel insulted, her eyes looking to Arata 'They say we are important, so they wouldn't poison us... not till their bonds stronger at least anyway.' she said to her brother through their own bond

Xashino sighed a little at the boys rash words “Yes they do need discipline... The others are to harsh in what they think would be good, your father is a little to soft... of course this is my opinion.” he stated his voice showing this to be true, his eyes showing that he held respect for Nobuo's father for having the burden of the two children

“Yes I do have something further to say” he stated his hand coming from Nobuo's sleeve “Welcome back to us Nobuo...” he smiled contently (Twice in one day... this guy's going for the record XD) “Your father felt much pain at your lose... Keep well and be strong” he continued and with that he moved away from the three “By the way, do not come here again, it is off limits for a reason” he say walking out of the area without a further word