[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Yuu stood not too far from the elder, listening to the words he was speaking. He had wanted to ask his father just what he had felt at that time, but he could see that his father was in regret over what happened, even after so many centuries of time had passed. Yuu didn't know what to do, whether to say that he was there and very much alive, or if he should just leave his father peace to pay respects to his old self.

[Kaguya]

The elder felt Yuu's presence and stood wiping his his tears on his robes sleeve and smiled weakly "Have you come to ask another question?" he walked out of the shrine taking Yuu's shoulder lightly taking him back into the temple "You can go anywhere in the temple... just not there" his eyes closed and he looked down "It is a very sacrid place to me" with that he moved to the table and took a seat

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

Yuu sat down as well, his eyes lowered to the surface of the table, now knowing that his father never realized that his own son was there by his side once again. At that time, he just wanted to get his answers on the life with Nobuo while the memory was still fresh in his mind. He looked up, now questioning eyes locked onto his father's eyes, "Did you think it was a one-sided relationship and agreed with the other elders to have Fumiko executed?" Tears rolled down his cheeks, remembering the moment he had stayed by Fumiko's lifeless body, "Did you..?"

[Kaguya]

Looked suprised at the boy when he asked the questions, how could he have know about this, the event happened over eight hundred years before hand and wasn't documented "How do you know of this?" he would ask his hand moving to his sword ready to attack, he knew much on the boy's life but this was just plainly suspicious

"No, I do not believe it was one sided, my dear son would only fall in love with someone if they loved him also" he smiled faintly at the thought of his son's happiness "Wither I agreed with them or not I would have protected him and the mate he so loved, even if it ment making her a high born so they could be together" he closed his eyes his hand leaving his sword seeing it now as the boy cried

"Nobuo was my only child and the only one I could ever have... I would have given him the world if he asked for it" his voice showed nothing but truth on the matter, he stood and walked towards the temple door "You remind me a great deal of him" he stopped and sighed "Toshi is a unique girl, she has two spirits, but they have melded into one... if you can do the same... your bond will be stronger than any we have seen" he say with a smile "her second is the sickly Fumiko" with that he moved out of the temple to sit on the top step

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

He remained at the table, but as soon as his father had left, his hand went up to his his eyes, covering them and hiding just how upset he was at how his father would have handled it. Fumiko could have lived. If only he had gone back to the village and talked to his father like he originally would have, and instead ran because he had no faith in the elders changing their opinions on such a matter. "It was my fault.." he blamed himself for his choice and he stood up, his form shifted into his tengu form. His multiple arms, eyes, and wings merged, making him look more like a normal tengu and his wings became glossed with the same purple sheen he had when he was Nobuo.

He started walking back to Toshi's room instead of going to see his father to have more questions answered. He was still in a little disbelief that Toshi was Fumiko, knowing that something like that happening was just extremely unlikely. But somehow, fate had brought them together once again. The way he was so drawn to the house when he had ran from the slaughter of his village was because of Fumiko being there. They were brought together again by invisible forces. Though he wondered, was Toshi even aware of the past where they were together?

Quickly, he came into the room where Toshi was, sitting by her side and holding her hand again. He felt horrid for wanting to keep Toshi in this state, just to fulfill a goal he was unsure of. In his state of rage, he had forgotten and left behind the person whom he loved, and had forgotten the feeling he once held, but now he understood clearly even when he still didn't have all of his memories. He got the memory that was the most important, "Fumiko...It was my fault you had to die...I'm so sorry..."

[Kaguya]

Toshi opened her eyes slightly feeling in the change in energys "Yuu.." she said weakly a smile came across her face "Forget the past... look only to the future" she sat up slowly "I feel dizzy..." her voice was slightly wobbly

Though she blinked and looked at the person holding her hand "Nobuo?" she seemed suprised as she felt love from him "Are you okay?" she was concerned, she looked at her hand and watched as the seal faded "How?" she was confused

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

He could have laughed at it, now that he was in the opposite position. Back then he tried to make Fumiko forget about the village and about turning back, and now Toshi was doing the same to him, telling him to forget the past. Just when he was about to answer her question about whether or not he was ok, his eyes widened at the sight before him: the seal was fading. He didn't know whether or not this was a good thing, since she had kept it on herself for a good reason. Then he suspected that it was because it had something to do with both of his sides now being in agreement with each other, achieving the balance that had been talked about, "That's... Is it ok for that seal to come off like that?" He was concerned, because Toshi was already weakened enough as is and using her power could have been extremely harmful to her while she was in that state.

[Kaguya]

Toshi looked at the fading seal and shook her head "no... no... no" she seemed to be in quite a panic "I am not tengu... I'm human" her arms covered her body, she didn't want to be part of anything that hurt it's own race or would experiment on them, the seal once again regained strength and appeared but a second seal appeared on the other hand

Toshi's eyes went to the second seal she knew she had caused the first one but she had no idea about the new one "No.. nobuo!" she seemed distressed as she felt a third appear but this one was on her sholder, she begane to feels so cold her skin became pale almost instantly

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"Toshi!" he had no idea what was going on, but it seemed like Toshi didn't have an idea either. The moment she rejected her heritage seemed to be what was starting it, from what he was seeing, although he was uncertain. Her hand became cold to touch, and he became even more concerned about it. "Toshi! Please calm down! You...you don't have to be tengu!" it hurt him to say that, knowing well that she was rejecting her past, and also for the fact that he was a tengu. Maybe if he just got rid of the other tengu, then Toshi wouldn't have to deal with the seals anymore. He just didn't know, "Toshi, I'll wipe the other tengu out for you, and then you won't be like this, right?" It was a selfish move, but his concern and love was stronger for Toshi than anyone else.

[Kaguya]

The male elder would be leaning at the door watching the whole ordeal "The first seal she has done on her own..." he said with a sigh "It will not leave until she comes to terms with who she is" his eyes closed "The second one is the seal the dear child Fumiko had placed on her..." he sounded sad as he spoke those words "That can be removed... I think" he bit his bottom lip as he was unsure if it could on a spirit

"Don't try it!" his words where stern as he heard Yuu speaking about wiping out the race, his hand instantly going to his sword "That isn't the correct path to take" his voice like a scorning father "it won't change the fact she is in fact tengu!"

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

"And what about you?!" his eyes glowed brightly as he raised his voice, turning his attention to his father, "You're the one who started the experiments and made us suffer! Was that the right path?!" He walked up to him, making sure that he would clearly understand just how angry he was, and grabbed the collar on his robe, "These oppressive traditions and actions made by tengu who want to walk over others..it will never stop unless I kill all of them! Every single last one! Then..then maybe she wouldn't mind accepting her blood..because all the bad will be erased." He could feel it, the same rage and hatred he felt when he went to slaughter the people of his village after Fumiko's death, then he knew he wasn't entirely free from the curse he had placed on himself.

He let go of his father, and stepped back. He shook his head, "I can't stop..even if I wanted to. This was the fate that the past me had written, and I must complete it." He brought his sword out. Even if his father did continue loving him as Nobuo, the fact that he allowed the experiments was a completely different matter and Yuu ended up clumping him with the rest of the tengu that needed to be eliminated. He raised his sword, tears welling up and his arm shaking, holding back his sword as long as he could. After all, even if he did hate his father for the experiments, there was still a part of him that cared for his father very much.

[Kaguya]

looked to the boy with dull amethyst eyes “What about me?” his voice was gentle as he spoke “I did not start those damned thing, I followed orders...” he pointed to a bookshelf filled with books on different herbs and reports on the experiments done “I never done experiments on another Tengu low born or otherwise” his voice though calm where slightly heated “And those experiments I did do was to better my sons health” As his collar was grabbed he put up no fight against it

“That might be but these are our traditions...” he sighed for a moment “This is the tribe of the moon and though we still follow some of the race's laws many of ours are different” his voice was quiet as he spoke “Even if you were to kill the whole race, it would not remove what she was... and if anything she would fear you for comiting mass genocide” his eyes went to toshi who had her arms holding onto her top as if she was afraid, he felt pity for the girl being drawn into a world she didn't understand

He looked to the boy as he was released “That isn't true, together you can break the taboo” his voice cooed “How did you learn forbidden magics?” his voice showing confusing as the only tribe who practices it openly was the tribe of shadow and the two tribes never seen eye to eye, he walked over to his Book shelf and brought out one of the folders “Fumiko was the first attempt at life... She was classed as a failed experiment” he say opening the folder and read “She was classed as too sickly and a waste” he say flinging the report at his son's feet

“I helped her out of that lab... it was better to be classed as tainted than being strapped to a table, pumped full of who knows what and in agony until she slowly died” he say moving back to his beginning position “I would have arranged for a noble family to take her in, even my branch family's...” he lowered his head “I only ever wished to see my son smile and laugh” he smiled a tear falling from his eye as he thought on a fonder time “I was always proud of him and nothing in the world can change that” his words where sincere as he spoke

Removing his sword from his side he dropped it, his hands remained at his side his hands facing towards nobuo his eyes closing almost as if he was willing to accept this fate, if it made him happy “The two children in the other room...” his voice was warm “they are experiments as you likely can tell, but...” he took a deep breath “I care for them like my flesh and blood... Take care of them for me” his voice was warm and caring, he new to the other elders the two where more a failure than a success and it was only because he said he would care for them that the still existed

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

He shook more, learning that his father had done his best for him and merely was following orders from someone else. How could his father ever be proud of him for having raised a sword against his own father, or even wanting to destroy an entire race? The sword fell from his hands, and clattered on the floor, and his arms went to his sides as he took a few steps away from his father, "You are innocent.."

He was horrified, the curse compelled him to kill his own father despite him being innocent. Then whether or not a person was killed due to his curse depended solely on how he viewed people, but not based on whether or not they had actually been guilty. He didn't intend for it to run that way, and if he knew back then that the curse would do that to him, he wouldn't have placed it on himself. He didn't know just how many innocent people he had killed. He always thought that every person he took down had committed horrible crimes against innocents, "That..the forbidden arts..I developed from my knowledge of tengu and human magic..in my past life. I thought I might have needed it if the others came to kill Fumiko."

"I need to have it removed. I don't know when I'll go around killing people again," he remembered how he had destroyed the village, and he felt that his father would have most likely disowned him if he ever spoke of it. The rage came out very randomly and uncontrollably, and caught everyone by surprise, even him. He wished that he had all of his memories, but he knew he didn't have enough knowledge to strip the curse off of himself without any consequences. But he also had Toshi to worry about as well, and he walked over to her. Why had Fumiko placed the seal on herself? Was living as a tengu that horrible? He sat down next to her, cradling her within his arms and humming the same lullaby he did hundreds of years ago to comfort her, "I'm here for you, Toshi..Fumiko.." At least the lullaby was the one good thing that he could do for Fumiko or Toshi.

[Kaguya]

The man watched as the boy shook and dropped his sword, it was then realized “Nobuo” his eyes went wide as he dashed towards the boy to hug him close his chest tears falling from his eyes “My eye's might be dull purple, but they don't show malice in them...” he whispered “If I was as evil as you thought I wouldn't be as accommodating as I have been, other elders wouldn't have been so forth coming and would have forced you into their temple” he said not wanting to loosen his hug “Yes I still follow the rules... tainted are still tainted but they are treated well within this tribe” he released the hug and looked down to him with a smile

He looked to him his eyes showing a little sorrow as he talked about how he learned it “You knew that magic was taboo and still learned it...” he sighed moving to a chair within the room “Your intentions might have been pure but that magic is taboo for a reason, it twists people” he was now worried for his son's safety as he knew the punishment for using such arts “Two ways this can go... One, you can hide the fact you know such arts and have used them or... Two I seal your magic until we can find a way to break it” his words showed fear for his son's life he had failed him once and wasn't intending for it to happen again

“I know it must be removed, but only a powerful priestess can remove a taboo such as this...” he looked down and shook his head “We have a problem with that...” his hand clenched “All priestess's that would have been powerful enough to try and remove that taboo, where used in experiments...” he looked up grief seen in his eyes “Your form's mother and young toshi's mother where two of the six” he truly had no idea why these experiments where taking place and why the priestess's where targeted, he only knew his role in the whole scheme and it sickened him to his very core, he started his trials to help his son's illness and potentially eradicate the illness but the other elders took it as a sign and twisted it

“I will give you information on the seals that I can see the young girl has and perhaps, we can find a way to get her to accept this race isn't all bad” moving his hand he used the moonlight outside to recreate the seal Toshi had placed on herself “This seal is very rare, and very powerful... we have only ever seen it once before and that is when her mother used it to banish someone..” he paused for a second “But for Toshi to place it on herself without the knowledge of our race's magic is an extraodinary feat” he shook his head and sighed “Sorry back to what I was saying... this seal is used was used as a capital punishment for this tribe...” he looked to the symbol for a long second “It stripped everything away that you where making you human, once on it was never meant to be removed” his words where calm “In the young girls case, hers will leave when she comes to terms with what she is, it's a defence mechanism” he felt pity for the girl for being able to fully balance herself but she would eventually she had to

Altering the seal he would make the seal on the other hand “That is a seal only elders can do...” he took a deep breath “It's called a slow death seal” his hands clutched to the point there was a small trickle of blood “The seal makes a person weak and gives them great amounts of pain, slowly killing them over a time of sixteen years... “ he looked up to Nobuo “That seal is used on traitors and those who can not be controlled” his voice was filled with several emotions such as anger and sorrow “The others must have feared her to have placed that seal on her... It's a very difficult one to remove” he looked out the window

He listened to the lullaby Nobuo was humming and smiled gently, it was the same lullaby he sang to him as a child. Fond memories came rushing through his mind as he began to whisper the words to the lullaby, it spoke of the true nature of the tribe around them. Moving his eyes over he seen Toshi move into Yuu's lap crying slightly she had heard everything that was said and didn't know how exactly to take it. She was still young and to have all this thrust upon her caused her a great deal of distress

[Kamikaze Chinchilla]

His own eyes widened in shock and fear when he realized he said too much and was found out. A parent showing love to a child who had performed an outrageous crime was almost too much for him to bare. Though, the fact that he was raised up the way he was during his lifetime might have reflected some sort of punishment for even trying to use the forbidden arts, "Father..I...how can you care about someone like me..a person who used taboo magic, slaughtered so many people, and even raised a sword against you? I am not even fit to be in this village, and yet you're still so caring." He wondered how Toshi would feel about that if she learned about it too. Would she mark him as one of the tengu she despised as well?

Still, at this time, every bit of help was needed. He never knew that the seal was the reason she would have died, but he would have preferred that than the death that was brought to her. At least she could have tried to live to the fullest before having to go. Yuu ran his hand over her head, "Then we do this in slow steps.." The seal must have slowed in the timing of its effects after Toshi had died, but it was still a great concern.

[Kaguya]

Stopped singing as he heard his son's words “Nobuo, the answer to such questions are all the same and all have the same answer” he looked away from the moon outside to his beloved son “You are my son, my one and only child... no matter what you do I will love you and protect you from the harm of others” he smiled gently his words showing only truth, his eyes regaining more colour as he spoke “Don't talk so foolishly Nobuo... of course you are fit to be in this village it is your home” he sounded hurt that he heard his son speaking as if he would truly abandon him

He watched his son, and seen a love that he once held for his mother 'they are the perfect pairing' he smiled within himself he was proud to have such a child that even through all the trials he had been through could still love, with a flame that would be an eternal “Slow steps?” he seemed puzzled, standing he walked over to the two picking up his sword along the way and placing it back on his side before kneeling inspecting the seal that Fumiko had “We don't have time to do this slow... “ he closed his eyes “The time limit on it is what the dear Fumiko had left...” his voice showed a little pain “Two months and I have no idea which elder done this... or if the elder is still alive” sighing he stood up

“If I go around asking such questions openly about an experiment that happened over eight hundred years ago it could cause complications” his words where soft as he spoke, he had no idea how to do it without bringing up to much suspicion “But then again...” he bit his bottom lip, soon it would be the anniversary of his son's death and how the others loved keep reminding him of his possessed son “I can ask next month without any suspicion” his voice was slightly shaky and showed a lot of pain “For tonight stay in my chamber... I will get a proper room prepared for you both tomorrow” with that he began to walk towards the door