Saturday morning, Kurei woke up in his now new home. He is suppose to be happy now that everything he has ever wished for has come true.

He has always wanted a place he could really call home and a family he could always call a true family. He had called Kagero his Mother ever since Recca took him home from a bloody battle between him and Mori’s assassins. She took care of him like he was his own son and he has learned to love his brother for what he really is. Besides, Recca helped him when he was about to be killed by those weird buttheads that came out of nowhere and outnumbered him (and he means, really out numbered…). Kagero asked him to choose between going back to his Uruha mansion or stay with them, Kagero, Recca, Kaoru and Ganko (Kagero’s adopted people except for Recca though). At first, he thought Kagero never meant what she said but… after a few days…Ganko started calling him big brother, Kaoru asked him lots of stuff about homework and…Recca… well, Recca always asked for money (which he doesn’t give to that brat unless…).

He have always wanted friends and he found them in the form of the Uruha, Team Hokage, and some people form the University.

His inner demons are long gone and he could now smile a true smile for he never thought he could be this lucky, when all the while he thought he was bad luck. He was free from nightmares of Kurenai’s death. Free from nightmares-except for one, the day he was asked to kill Mark Takameda. He can never forget that name, the screams of his girlfriend, her tears. It’s like watching is own Kurenai die, but Kurenai was portrayed by a man and his part played by a woman. He can never forget himself for what he did. He can never forget it, especially that lady’s tears.

‘She never went back for revenge though. Well, yeah, she’s no assassin of any kind so she probably thought she was no match for me… I was there laughing my head off but when she looked at me, I don’t see any signs of fear.’
 
“Hey bro! Lost in spade again? Mom’s calling us, breakfast time!” Recca then proceeded to call Kaoru and Ganko.

‘Now I have everything I want and need, but I wonder what happened to her.’

“Mom? I need to go to the bank after breakfast, I need to withdraw some money for this convention in the University.” Kurei sat down and waited for the others.

“What convention, dear? How much do you need? I have money here. I told you to save your money for future use. I’ll pay for it.” Kagero smiled at him and returned to her cooking. “If you really want to go to the bank, Ganko and Kaoru wants to got to the mall.”

“Well, it is ok for me if you pay for it, but I kinda used to using my own money for this stuff before so…”

“it’s OK, Kurei. Raiha called a few minutes ago. I thought you were still sleeping because you weren’t answering the intercom, I told him you would call him back.”

“oh I was already awake that time when the intercom was ringing. I was too lazy to get up and pick it up so…Sorry.” Kurei stood up and stood under the stairs. “RECCA, KAORU, GANKO! WHAT’S TAKING YOU SO LONG?!”

“Good morning everyone!” Ganko said as Kurei lifted her up a chair.

“Mmmm… smells good mom! Uh can I have a very quick taste while we wait for kaoru-slowpoke to go down?” Recca said as he was about to pick up one of those blueberry pancakes.

“Recca! Wait for Kaoru to come here before you start picking food up from the table. A quick taste for you is your whole breakfast.” Kagero said, “There he is, C’mon now kaoru, we still have to go shopping as I promised.”

Kaoru, upon hearing the word shopping, suddenly woke up form his sleepy state and started gobbling pancakes, bacons, eggs and muffins.

Kurei and the others could not stop looking at him.

“Kaoru-niisan, some people still has to eat. Why don’t you stop chewing for a while?” Ganko stared at her big brother Kaoru eat like Godzilla.

“BBRRRRPPPPPPP! Aaaahhh. Refreshing…OWWEEEEE! Whatcha do that for, Mother?”

Kagero looked at kaoru with “you-know-what-I’m-talking-about-look”. “How many times do I have to tell you that burping that loud is not allowed?”

“ooops sorry mom! I was just excited to go to the mall. I need to buy something. Something that I’ve always wanted…ehehehe.” Kaoru started laughing like some mad scientist (think Dexter) ‘Can’t wait to get my hands on that skateboard!’

Kurei stood up from the table and excused himself since he is already done eating. “Excuse me. I’m done eating.”

Kagero smiled at him. “Go on get ready. Don’t forget to call Raiha!”

“Yeah, Mom!”

As soon as Kurei reached his room he turned on the CD player (he is listening to Eminem), got the phone and called Raiha.

<Ring> <Ring> <teet> “Sorry I’m not home so leave a message or call me at my cellphone! If you plan to leave a message, don’t forget to say your name and telephone number. Don’t forget to say them after the beep. Thanx!” <beeepp>

‘hmmm, he’s not home… cellphone…’

<Ring> <Ring> <click> “yeah?” Raiha’s voice answered (duh, it’s his cellphone).
“Why did you call? Where are you right now?” Kurei demanded as Raiha started screaming at someone.

“Well, I’m here at Neon’s house and hold on! AKI GET OFF THAT THING IT MIGHT EXPLODE! <<KABLASH>> AACCKKK! NEON’S EXPERIMENT! YOU STUPID IMBECILE, NEON WILL KILL YOU!”
 Kurei could hear their squabble. As usual , even though Raiha and Aki are attracted to each other… their arguments can dethrone King Kong and Godzilla. Aki can be heard from the other line saying “Look who’s talking, stupid imbecile! If you didn’t put that whatchamacallit thingy, whatever, in there it shouldn’t have exploded!” Oh Yeah? Well you are the last one who touched it so you get the blame!” raiha retaliated.

Crashing and stuff falling down can be heard…” Owww Aki, why did you step on my foot?! Dammit!”

“Stop acting like a baby Raiha, you deserved it! Hmph!”

…after a few seconds…

“so, Kurei, man, wassup?”

“OK, why did you call?” Kurei was irritated, “ ihope you don’t mind me asking but, what the heck was Neon’s experiment?”

“ Well, I was suppose to ask you something but…I already asked someone about it. Neon’s experiment is nothing but crap now. If you look at it… well, it was really nothing. We just called it Neon’s experiment with chemicals, eheheh!”

“OK, if that’s it, I’ll call you later! Bye!” Kurei was about to put it down but Raiha was still screaming his name at the other line.

“Kurei! Hold on! You know, this was supposed to be a good day with my girlfriend but she walked out on me! She walked out on me!”

“Well, you called her a stupid imbecile!” was his disinterested reply.

“So?”

“So? So?! When you are dating someone, you don’t call her a stupid imbecile unless you want your relationship to go down the drain!”

“Really, now?”

‘Eh?!!!!?’ Kurei just can’t believe his friend! He is 19 for crying out loud! 19 enough to know how to treat a girl right!

“what do you mean really now? Where have you been? Pluto or something? Raiha you are the one who deserves to be called stupid imbecile!”

“Hey man, call you later! Aki’s back! I need to apologize and… Gotta go!” <Click>

“yeah whatever!”

Kurei proceeded to the bathroom to take a bath. It will be a long day and he hope he won’t regret it.

To be continued...
 

Author’s notes:
Well, I thought it would take me a whole month to finish typing this! I’m so proud of myself! I was able to force my lazy fingers to type this part of the story! I was afraid it would be on paper forever! Eheheh ^^; Now, This is just Chapter 2 and it would probably take more than 10 chapters to finish this story. Maybe I should make this into a novel…hmmm… anyway, The thing about the bloody battle (when the buttheads was able to out number Kurei), that never happened in the series or in the manga… it came out from my brain! A product of my weird imagination! Well, I know it is pretty boring… My first time to write a fic… never wrote one! Comments and suggestions: h_moosntar@hotmail.com or moonstar_freak@moonkingdom.com e-mail me for your suggestions or comments! Peace and lotsa love! MoOnstaR aKa HeaRt of IcE  @~~}~~~