Sachiko's PoV

"Sachiko Sakura, I demand of you to tell me right this moment. What are you?"

To say Kakeru's furious was a huge understatement.

"If I knew, why would I horse around with you guys for ten extra days?" I put down my arm in exasperation.

Therefore, the predictions were correct. If I didn't live by a soul, I'm surely not human.

"...Now what?" Shiki's monotone voice interrupted my thoughts.

All of a sudden, I felt a strong gust of wind start. All the demons were forced two steps further away from me.

There he is! As if there's another person in my sub-consciousness, it shouted out.

A pair of arms wrapped themselves around my shoulders from behind.

Whoever it was let out a relieved sigh, "took me years, but I finally found you!"

Such a familiar voice and scent...but I don't recall it anywhere in my head.

"What the actual hell?" Satoru frowned as he stared at whoever's embracing me from behind right now.

I force myself out of their arms and stepped back, then turned around.

Standing in front of me was a guy looking around my age, with a head of smooth ginger hair, the wind blew through it like a comb, revealing a few strands of black hair underneath the first layer.

He narrowed his hazel eyes for a second when I pulled away, until they went back to normal in realization.

"Right.... You don't remember me, nor anyone else. Of course."

He sounds like he knows my situation. I must know this person from the past. Oh, and he's the person standing by the high way tracks the other day.

He made eye contact again, then smiled, showing his dimples, "Heh...you didn't change."

"Who are you and what is your business?" Kakeru spoke up in his work tone.

Instant hatred flashed through the ginger's eyes as they snapped to Kakeru.

He nodded his head towards me, "I'm her twin brother."

"What?" All of us, including me, blurted out at once.

Just then, ginger floated off his feet. Whoa, I wonder if I can do that too...?

It happened so fast, but my eyes can still follow. He flew towards Kakeru in abnormal flying speed, and seemed to have snatched something from his breast pocket.

Meguru and the rest look like they barely saw what happened.

"The name's Subaru." The ginger finally introduces himself.

"...Subaru what?" Haruhito asks with a small frown I rarely see him have.

"That is another story." He refuses to reveal his surname as he held up his index and middle finger, a small photograph in between. "Take a look at this, Sachi."

Completely caught off guard by what he called me, I didn't react at first. He swiped the photo sideways to me, I caught it in my palm. It was only a six-inch photo.

Kakeru's face was bewildered and full of disbelief.

On the photo...were two children playing together on a grass field. They looked a lot like us.

"See, Kamui there had a proof, but he doubted it and didn't tell you."

My eyes darted to said person. His expression told me it was true.

"B-But then how come....why did I..?" my mind was jumbled with questions I didn't know which to ask first.

"Mother sent you here in the human realm to hide from them." Subaru sat down on a boulder and proceeds to speak, "and she erased your memories, so then your scent will die down by three quarters, then you will be too hard to find."

I looked straight at him, "Who're 'they'?"

He glanced at Kakeru, "the demon royal family personal guards."

"Why were they after us?"

"'Cause our parents' love was forbidden."

"Do me a favor, and speak in one piece." I stood right in front of him, getting impatient.

"This isn't a very good place to speak, don't you think?" As if the situation wasn't messed up enough already, another voice rang through.

Seiji and Akane landed behind Subaru.

"Akane? You're involved too?" Meguru asks in surprise.

"I don't care where we're going, I just wanna know what happened." My patience ran out completely as I wanted answers.

Therefore, we ended up in the living room of the Demon House.

Seiji, being the only angel here, didn't seem to lose his cool at all.

[omg his name reminds me of Seijuro, Katie-chan halp @_@]

"So basically," Subaru thinks for a second, "The mother of ours is Seiji's mother, and the father of ours is Akane's father. We're half-siblings with them, and they are step-siblings with each other!"

He seemed proud of himself that he got that string unknotted. His personality is more playful than I thought.

[I literally drew a relationship chart for this entire fanfic, if ur confused, tell me and I'll upload it]

"Our parents is second-marriage? And then they had us?"

"Bingo."

"Then...why were they being...hunted down?" I think of the correct words.

He sat up straight, "Their love is forbidden because dad's a demon, and mom's an angel."

"WHAT!!!" almost the entire room yelled.

"S-S-So that means, you're both...?" Meguru started, but couldn't find the right words.

"Non-human humanoid hybrids." Subaru said with an A-OK smile.

"I'm assuming that means half demon, half angel." Satoru says. Akane nods.

"I prefer the term 'hybrid', nice and short."

"Most demons and angels just assumed it's a myth, since it had never happened in all of heaven's history." Kakeru says with his arms crossed.

"But it is possible." Seiji adds, "That's why they've been living in fear in between the boarder lines of the three realms for eighteen years."

"Hybrids have unusually strong powers. Sometimes it's even unbelievable for us." Akane says, seeming to be remembering, "Subaru has shown great power since youth. But...I think Sachiko's a late bloomer."

I looked up to everybody looking at me when I heard my name.

"How'd you guys know all that? If hybrids never existed until us?" I ask.

"What do you think I've been doing since I'm eighteen?" he rolled his eyes, but then smiled at me, "I figured out how to put up barriers not even angels or demons can see through, I've went through the demon king's documents millions of times."

Then, his expression completely dropped into an enraged one when he set his burning gaze on Kakeru, "I purposely put that file out from its hiding place for you to find, I trusted you one last time to show Sachi. But as I thought, none of the Kamuis are worth any trust at all."

I understand why he's shown such hatred to Kakeru now, because the Kamui family guards are the ones who forced our family apart.

"Not just apart." Subaru answered my thoughts out loud. My eyebrows shot up in surprise. He can read minds too?

"Mom and dad were killed, Sachi. I wish they were just captured...."

What...?

"What file did you find, Kakeru?" Shiki spoke up after a long time, I forgot he was there.

Slowly, Kakeru slipped out a folder inside his jacket.

I flipped through it. Subaru watched my reaction closely and silently.

"...How come you're telling all of us this?" Haruhito asks. He had a point.

Subaru simply smiled at them, "I'm not afraid anymore. The reason why the demon and angel realm thought us both hybrids are dead is because of father's demon ability, which is illusion. He created illusions of us, and we were already 'terminated' formally in secret. I kept low for these years because if I sprung up, they will hunt Sachi down all over again. And she's helpless without her powers, she'll get caught in a snap. Erasing her memories meant low to no scent, but her being herself has at least a quarter of that scent. So she can still be found. But now that I found her..."

He ruffled my hair like a big brother, "...it's all good now. I can protect her."

When I turned my head to him with moist eyes, he opened his arms, I dove into them.

The room was silent except for my occasional sobs for a while.

"Technically, 'erased' is a strong word." Seiji breaks the silence and adds on, "it is merely sealed away. Mother taught that power to me before. Though...there weren't enough time to show me how to undo it."

"That's first I've heard of that." Subaru exclaims, joy laced in his voice that I might still have a chance of remembering everything.

"Actually, memory isn't a necessity." Akane says, "as long as you know now, you're scent will come back soon enough, then you'll just have to practice with your abilities. You'll be perfectly fine as long as you keep low like Subaru does."

"Our powers should be something discussed privately." Subaru says, scanning the entire room. "Cuz so far, I'm the only one who knows."

"Seiji and I have seen it before, I just don't know how much you improved." Akane says bossily.

She sure has a strong personality.

The smirk on my brother's face was saying itself: 'you have no idea.'

"Well...that sure was a huge plot twist." Haruhito remarked.

"Oh right, one last thing." Subaru slowly lets go of me, and stares directly at Kakeru again. He returns the look, I think he knows.

"The last demon king had two sons." He started off randomly, "One is Kakeru Kamui's father, who is king now; and the other one, is Sachi's and my father."

Kakeru then instantly understood why Akane always mumbles 'the throne was rightfully mine'.

"Naozomu Kamui was the eldest of both sons, he was the heir until he violated the law of falling in love with an angel. It caused strong disapprobation from his father and his brother." Subaru continues, "Therefore...."

'When mother was pregnant, father ran off with her.' Something came out of nowhere. Subaru also stopped talking, as if knowing I could continue.

"When mom was pregnant, he ran off with her?" I finished in a questioning manner. I looked at Subaru, he grinned.

"Great! You can get it!"

"Get what?"

"I told Leonard to talk to Aurora." His grin didn't drop.

Is this guy crazy?

I gave him a deadpan face. Dafaq are you talking about?

"You're so weird." Shiki states bluntly.

"More or less, since I practically talk to myself all the time." He said, but I think he meant more than just that.

"Anyway, as I was about to say." His expression suddenly just made the temperature drop ten degrees, "Formally, our surname is supposed to be 'Kamui'."

"And you're first cousins." Satoru adds in realization. Subaru gave a small nod.

"But I'm disgusted by it." His statement made me look at him in small shock, that's a strong word, "...By far, except my father, all the Kamui family has ever done for us was chase us down till even the edge of the world.... They were ruthless to us. The demon king now even terminated his own brother himself."

Is it just me or is Subaru's hair slowly becoming gradient red?

"I thought, well then you can't blame a person's wrong doings to their children, right? Wrong." When he looked up, his eyes were blazing blood red, "The Kamui family just had to withstand me in their second generation as well."

What did Kakeru ever do to us..?

"Remember Makoto Taiki? And her daughter, Canon?" his unexpected question shook all of us drilled to our seats. How'd he know about Takara's sister and niece?

"Of course you do," he scoffed to himself, "you and that human woman go visit them nearly every week."

"How'd you know that?" Kakeru now stood up, his eyebrows were furrowed, but his anger was drowned no match against Subaru's right now.

Subaru also stood up, both of them were the same height, "You thought you saved both of them by almost drowning your entire being, right? But no, even with all your demon power, you only saved Makoto Taiki, not the child.

"In order to save the child, you needed another soul, because the child didn't have one, unlike the adult." Subaru continues, his hands clenched in tight fists "So then, an innocent life anywhere on Earth got affected by your rash and thoughtless decision."

"What does that innocent life have to do with you?" Shiki mutters.

"How would you feel if Takara died all of a sudden?" With this one question aimed at Kakeru, I immediately understood.

Subaru had fallen in love with a human, just like Kakeru did. Apparently, she must've died because of this.

"You...!" Kakeru was left speechless. Very soon, guilt flashed in his eyes.

"That's the thing about humans, they live by a soul, they die eventually. I accepted that. But then, she wasn't supposed to die at the young age of 24!" It was the first time he raised his voice.

As if twin telepathy, I suddenly know all what he's feeling right now and right then. Despair... sadness... anger....

"In order to save Canon, you killed Ashlynn...."

Is that heat I'm feeling..? Oh my god his fingertips has fire sparks on them..!

No one else seems to notice... is this the special powers he was talking about?

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An entire chapter of explanations.

How very interesting.

Sorry DX

October 25, 2015

-Lily