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Into Shadow 2

"I thought that he said it was supposed to be a routine sort of thing." Yoko complained as he glarred out of the window, he had the voice which meant that it was getting close to morning. He wasn't worried, no why should he worry over a human so foolish as to go out and get himself eaten? He was only concerned because losing Shin would hurt Tsu... yes, that was it. He looked over at Tsu who didn't seem at all worried ove rhte fact that their new father was missing, instead he was in the kitchen preparing breakfast because he was sure that the man was going to appear at any time now. After a long night of hunting he would want a good meal that he didn't have to prepare himself was the blonde's thoughts, Yoko didn't even have to ask him to know that much. Tsu was to easily readable. Yoko pushed away from the window to walk over to his twin, leaning against him and laid his head on the other boy's shoulder, "We really should see about turning in soon. If we are up to long you get to the point where everything will make you cry and I get grumpy."

Tsu looked up at him, smiled then turned back to stirring the eggs in the pan. Yoko sniffed at them before giving a little smile, he would admit that since having come here Tsu had started to pick up some of the oddest talents. Shin let him into the kitchen one day and it went almost overnight from Tsu burning everything he tried to prepare to him making the most wonderful meals. Simple due to lack of any flashy ingredients but they were still good, better then one obtained through the scraps that came with begging and stealing that was for sure, "Ok, you can finish that and we can eat but then we need to go to bed. I am sure that when we wake up again that idiot will be home and complaining about how the job was a worthless one."

They'd heard that more then once. Him saying that the job was nothing, a false alarm, teenagers goofing off or whatever other sort of excuse so that they wouldn't worry. Of course then when he thought that he was out of sight he would wince over a bump or bruise, would have to wrap a wound or sew some sticthes on himself that showed exactly what his work truely entailed. He didn't want to think about it though. In his mind if he would allow them to go along that would be two more sets of eyes to keep look out, two more sets of hands to help with the work, but maybe... maybe it wasn't Yoko? Maybe it was Tsu's fault they had to stay behind. For a Hell Hound he was lacking in the instincts such as hunting and killing, he was more like a dog then a demon not that he wanted to hurt his twin's feelings. Its just how it was. Not everyone have the capability to be dangerous or be a hunter. It was something that was inside of you when you were born. Tsu had never had it.

Tsu lifted his wooden spoon to poke his twin in the arm then used it to point at the cabinet then to the table.

"You want me to set the table?" He asked then gave a grummbling sound as he did what he was asked to do, he supposed since Tsukiko had gone to all of the trouble of preparing the food he could do the easy job that was putting out plates, flatware, and glasses. He hesitated a moment before he got three of each thing that he would need and set them out, "I will wait to pour a drink of Shin so it won't get warm."

Tsukiko gave him a smile before walking over to the table dishing up some eggs onto each plate, went over to get the toast and set it out as well before taking his seat. Yoko poured the two of them a glass of milk before he got in his seat as well. The meal was eaten in silence both occasionally finding their gaze drifting over to Shin's empty chair and untouched food or over to the door as if expecting that he would be walking through it at any time. They would find themselves sadly disapointed to and soon enough they were both done with their meal, "Come on then Tsu. The dishes can wait in the sink for us to wake to be washed." He said as he gathered his and brought them over and put them in the sink with his twin following suit.

The blonde demon lifted a hand up to catch hold of Yoko's arm and tugged on it, a worried look deep in his eyes.

"I know, I know but there isn't much we can do but wait." He said, sighing. It wasn't as if they even knew where he was so it wasn't as if... they could follow? No... wait... maybe? He shook his head again, "When we wake up. If hes not here ok? We will look into following after him. Until then though we are going to sleep." He took hold of Tsu's hand lacing their fingers together and led him to their room. They crawled into their shared bed, curled up, and with only a bit of difficulty would find themselves soon to sleep.

(( cross posted in Keiji, the Twins, and Vishal's Journals ))

"Shin! Hey! Human!" A voice yelled through the bedroom door in an attempt to stir him from his deep, long sleep, "Hey! I waaaaanna have dinner tell Keiji to cook for me!" Yoko was glarring at the door. He was going to lose his voice soon and before that happened he meant to get the two that were sleeping to wake up so that he could get some food. Tsukiko was far to quiet, far to kind he would just wait patiently at the door to the room like a trained puppy for Shin and Keiji to emerge and make dinner. He didn't want to wait as long as that, "Come on! I am starving to death out here!"

Shin gave a grunt, eyes opening up to look over at the door and gave it a dark glare, what in the world was that pup going on about now? He pushed to sitting up, "What is it that you want Yoko?"

"Food!" He whined, hands beating against the door, "Come on!"

The hunter gave a grunt of response before reaching over to shake the angel awake that was curled up in a ball, wings wrapped around him to keep out the light, "Come on Keiji, its time to get up. We have a lot to do, a lot to get ready for now though we need to get the food ready before the two puppies starve." The last part said in an amused voice. He knew full well that both Yoko and Tsukiko could cook though only the simplest of dishes, they wanted for Shin and Keiji to be awake so that they could get more complex meals. The angel's stripped wings gave a flutter as he got up to his feet, "I don't wanna be up." He murmured even as he stretched out from head to toe, wing tip to wing tip.

"We all have to do things that we don't want to do." He said, tapping a finger against the Relic around his neck. This time he didn't seem quite as serious, teasing the angel a bit to get him moving, "After we have dinner we will go out. We have some shopping to do. Get the case from where you stashed it and I will get out what will need for this trip then we will hide it again."

Keiji nodded and moved to do as he was told.

"Ahh... ahh...? Shin?" Came anothe voice from outside the door, it caught the hunter's attention as that was Tsu's voice which meant that the time must be getting late for the voice to move from being in Yoko's command to Tsu's command, "S-Sorry about my brother, we can wait on dinner." He called.

"Its fine Tsukiko, you go on and wait for us on the couch and we will get your food shortly." He said as he opened up the door, looking down at the golden hair puppy.

Tsukiko nodded, smiling then took his brother's hand to drag the now silent but glarring boy off away from the door and to the couch to sit down like good dogs. Or at least that was the way that Yoko saw it but as he could no longer say anything for the next twelve hours he was going to have to agree with his brother and follow after him. What a pain! He was at least when shortly after the angel and the hunter were in the 'kitchen' which was another section of the main room of the house.

"After dinner the four of us are going out so you will need to dress nicely." Shin told the twins who had moved from the couch to watch the preparing of the food, they weren't allowed to use sharp knives, the oven, or a few other things. They could use the stove top and a few other things that weren't dangerous to them and didn't run a risk of burning down the house. So their food choices were rather limited. To get to see the hunter preparing them meat and the angel working on noodles for a side made the two of them dance back and forth, their tails wagging wildly.

"Please don't drool on the food." Keiji said, turning to give the two pups a look.

Tsukiko growled at the angel and while Yoko just silently barred his teeth at him.

"Be nice to the angel." Shin said not even looking up at them, instead tossing the slices of meat into a pan to sizzle up. Instantly the scent of cooking meat had the two pups' tails a wagging again. It smelled so good...

"How about the two of you set the table?" Keiji suggested.

Tsukiko looked him over before nodded, "Can do." He said, hurrying over to small cabinet in the corner to get out what was needed, handing it to Yoko who brought it over to the table. When they had all the needed plates, flatwear, and glasses the two of them set the table up to be ready for when the food was ready for them. The two then climbed up into their seats.

"Foods up." Shin said, carrying the pan over and put a slab of meat onto each of the four plates before putting it in the sink, Keiji served the noodles then poured milk for everyone. They all sat down and set to eating, wolfing down the food that was before them. That was at least one good thing Shin thought to himself, the Godling that was coming to live in their family was male so the kid wouldn't be put off by their lack of manners.

When they were done Shin set the three of his charges to get ready, dressed nicely and cleaned up so that they could go out and at least pretend to look respectable.

(( cross posted in Keiji, the Twins, and Vishal's Journals ))

The second day had gone without any huge incident, breakfast had gone about as smoothly as any meal in his family did. It would seem that the twins had no real interest though in any sort of fruit thusly the bananas that were on there plate were shoved off onto the table and ignored while the bacon and eggs were wolfed down like tomorrow there would be no meat left in the world. He then left Keiji in charge while he went out telling them that he had a small job not far from home so he would no doubt be home before dark. After all he didn't know exactly how the Godling was supposed to appear before him, he hoped that it wasn't anything like how he had been given the relic that hung around his neck. Either way he didn't think that he wanted for it to happen when he was out and that it would be the best to wait at home for it to happen. The job though seemed simple enough, an older woman said that there was something terrible infesting her barn. Whatever it was it made the most God awful shreik before it attacked!

Already it had claimed the lives of some of her precious, prize winning birds and she wanted for something to be done about it.

When he arrived and set to looking around it took him about five minutes to discover both the problem and the 'monster' that was within the barn. He had ended up helping her with repairs to the coops that the birds were kept in as the 'enemy' was little more then a screech owl and he wasn't about to kill a random animal since it wasn't doing anything harm it was just feeding chicks. He couldn't feel any sympathy for someone that left the cages her birds were in without tops on them. It was the same as saying: 'Here you go Miss Owl, time for dinner'. Of course the bird of prey would make its nest near to the barn given such an opportunity. Odd that he was able to see animals in a good light and monsters in such a bad one. There were other factors though that he wasn't about to share with the world though.

A wasted afternoon if you asked him but he did get paid a little bit for being such a 'helpful young man'.

He arrived back at home as the sun was starting to set once more, he found himself looking down at his relic for a moment as if he was wearing. It was still hanging around his neck in the form of the necklace, no sign of any change like there had been in his dream. He gave a yawn, was odd that he was feeling rather sleepy even though he hadn't really done anything today that should be making him sleepy at least not if you asked him. He walked into the house finding the twins playing around in the kitchen, dancing around the angel somewhere in a cross between trying to drive him crazy or speed him up with the cooking. Hard to tell. Shin gave a yawn before walking by them and to his room plopping down on the bed.

"Bad day?" Came a voice a moment later.

Shin looked over at the door seeing Tsu standing there, watching him.

"Naw, I was chasing owls all day." He said, shaking a hand then rolled onto his side, "I'm going to take a nap. Wake me up when dinner is ready?"

Tsukiko nodded his head, "I will!" He yipped, tail wagging before he turned to hurry out of the room, closing the door behind him.

The hunter gave a yawn before letting his eyes close and a moment later he slipped in sleep...

It was rare for the baby to be ready to change back to its form in the daytime. But Shin had a rather quickly developing kid. As he slept his soul seemed to leave his body, floating above it, the soul of the relic around his neck. The godling's spirit must have taken the form of the relic so it would be used to being in a body again. However, Shin had other things to worry about.

After all it's not usually that you go to sleep, leave your body, and see a crazy ghostly door on the other end of your room. Wait-Ghostly door?! Where the heck had that come from? And what was with the funky doorknob? It was an old black door and had a gold knob that was in the shape of one of those oriental dogs-or dragons. Whichever. Anyway it seemed to be beckoning him to enter it. What was that about? Probably the god-kid's doing.

At first the man was rather confused at where he was, well both where he was and why it felt as if he were floating instead of laying down like he remembered being. Shin starred at the door blankly for a moment before he stepped forward towards it, finding his hand reaching out to take hold of decorative knob to turn it and turned it. He had seen the animal depicted on it before though never a live one, only the statues of the ones that were sold in certain shops in the mall. He pushed the door open and looked inside, he didn't see anything aside from darkness from this time so he forced himself to step forward through the door.

There was something on the other side of this door so he was going to have to face whatever it was, "Hellos?!" He called, voice seeming to echo into the darkness.

Behind him the door closed and vanished. But what was more interesting was what was laying on the ground before him. A young man with fang-like teeth and a rather odd hairstyle seemed to be dead on the floor. He had the tail of a large scorpian and batlike wings. His lower body was somewhat spider like. While there seemed to be a headdress that had been hiding his face it was ripped to shreds. His skin was dark, possibly obsidian. Upon it there were strangely colored markings. He looked rather exotic but what was most interesting was his hair. He had two rather large bangs that jutted from his forhead and fell forward near his eyes. His hair went back in a strange spikey version of a mohawk and on the sides he seemed to have cornrows. But they all joined at the back to form one long braid at the top of his head. This braid had feathers and claws hanging from it, just as they hung around his neck. Oooooookay then.

What showed that he was dead was a giant gaping hole in his chest. And there was a mark around his neck. As if he'd been decapitated and his head had somehow been returned in this ghostly state. Shin, having had his job for the time he had, knew the mark of a monster hunter who'd taken his prize.

And lucky him. The strange beckoning was seeming to ask him to touch the body. Oh joy.

Shin was frozen place for a moment as he looked the body in front of him over, moving forward studying it intently. It was like no creature that he had ever see before and for a moment he felt the desire to try to figure it out, what was it exactly? He had pieces to several of the monsters that he had before separately seen. A giant scorpion, a giant spider, the wings of a large bat... he wondered if the wings could carry his large form with what it was like... maybe? The hair style was quite interesting too, flashy.

He had to applaud whatever hunter took this beast down, that had to be one hell of a fight against something like this.

He took another step closer to it, why was it that he felt the urge to reach out to the body? Was this... was this it? This was the Monster God? Couldn't be... well it would make sense for God to have pieces of several different monsters. He tried to draw his hand back but he couldn't seem to do it, couldn't seem to draw it back, "No..." He murmured, giving a little jump as his hand came to rest on the creature's body.

And yet as he thought it couldn't have been it was. The Tison Monster God had been taken down-by a sub-par monster hunter even. While he'd been able to slay any foe before seen this one had been possessed by another Deity and therefore had power the young god did not. He'd quickly fallen at that.

When Shin's hand touched the body it began to glow as did the chain around his neck. The relic and the body were both covered in a strange light-making it impossible to see anymore. The necklace shot from it's position and into the form. And after the glowing ceased there lay a dark skinned baby on the floor where the god had been laying. His skin didn't have all of the markings and he looked a lot more human then that god had-what with no tail, no fangs, human legs, and no wings-but it was most noticible that he had nice hair. It was a shade of red with golden tips. No mohawk right now but that may return as he grew. Well at least he was cute. So this was a baby godling. But what to do with him? Could he leave the child? Probably not they were both stuck in here. And the baby was awake anyway. Little did Shin know that when he picked up the baby the door would reappear, but only when he took the child.

Shin starred down at the body as it started to shift and change, instead of the massive form created by several different monsters pieced together. He found himself instead looking down at the creature... child. It was now human shaped and for the most part rather normal looking aside from the skin and hair colors. He knelt down in front of the kid before reaching out to pick him up. The baby gave a yawn and a grummbling sound, then gazed up at Shin with big eyes... before he gave an excited sort of sound before he leaned over and started to gnaw upon Shin's hand. Luckily for him though the kid was lacking in teeth, rising to his feet he saw the door had appeared once again behind him. He shifted the baby so that it was resting in the arm of the hand he was chewing on and walked forward towards the door. He paused to look over his shoulder around the darkened room.

"Come on brat. Lets go home shall we." He said, giving the boy a look. As he stepped back through the door again something occurred to him, unlike the twins and the angel this one didn't come with a name. He supposed that would be the first thing that he would have to do was figure out something to call him aside from 'brat'. Until he picked he supposed that 'brat' would be a sufficient nickname.

When they walked through the door they were again in the room. There was a small baby boy in the bed beside him-sleeping as well. When the two went back to their bodies they'd be pulled in and be able to wake up. After that he could deal with dressing, well introducing him to his brothers. And naming him of course. That'd need to be done soon. Maybe he should call Rouge to let her know even.

(( cross posted in Keiji, the Twins, and Vishal's Journals ))

The nameless but currently dubbed as 'Brat' Godling was sitting in his pen, yowling in anger at the others that were outside of it. This was sooo unfair! He got this bottle with milk in it, while really good currently that wasn't the point, and outside of his pen the rest of the family was eating something else. It smelled so good, so tasty! He wanted some of it too, why was it that they weren't sharing the meat with him! It had to be better then this!

"Want for me to go and get him?" Tsu asked of his father, tilting his head to the side.

The white haired monster hunter shook his head, "Everyone is supposed to be eating, that means him too. Hes gonna get spoiled if everyone carries him around all the time." This was mostly for Tsu and Keiji who had been holding the boy since he had arrived, loving on him and generaly spoiling the brat making him into a Super Brat. He gave a glance over at the kid then shook his head.

Yoko was glarring over the table at the pen, what a loud baby. Its voice was starting to grate on him, making his ears hurt and even with that Tsu wanted to go and pick him up, play with him. So unfair and annoying! He wanted to toss him outside like one did with a yapping dog. He seemed tempted enough that when Shin looked over at him and then seeming to read his thoughts through his eyes he shook his head, "No." He ordered, "Everyone just eat then you can decide how to deal with the brat."

Keiji looked up from his food, "He needs a name. Brat isn't a name that is suitable enough for a God!" He said, shaking his head. He was worried that the kid would actually start to think that 'brat' was his name before they could get him a better one, one that suited him better. A REAL name.

Shin nodded, "Yes, I suppose that he does." He murmured, glancing over at the pen again, listening to the yelling, the yowling, and the anger. He gave a sort of a humming sound before a smirk spread over his lips, "Vishal."

Keiji, Tsukiko, and Yoko all looked over at the hunter, confused, "Huh? Whats a Vishal?" Tsu asked.

"Vishal is perfect, it describes well his mouth." Shin said, taking another bite of the dinner that was sitting before him.

The three boys looked at each other as if hoping that one of them might know what Shin was talking about, then all of their gazes were back on Shin waiting in an expectant manner.

Shin grinned, "It means 'large'." He said, simply.

Yoko lost it, laughing silently but histarically and even Tsukiko couldn't help but do the same thing. They both knew that the name was basically Shin saying that the damn kid had a big mouth and naming him for it.

"Shin!" Keiji cried, "That isn't what I meant when I said he needed a suitable name!"

"But you do agree that its suiting?" Shin asked.

Keiji stuttered, flushed, then went back to eating. A way of admitting that yes it was a fitting name even if he didn't say it outloud, the baby did have a big mouth but...

"How about we finish up with dinner then we can work on finding him something to wear for tonight." Shin said, getting Keiji's attention on something else, "Will worry about getting him his own clothing tomorrow. Sound good?"

"I have something he can wear." Tsu pipped up, wolfing down the rest of the food he had on his plate before scurrying off to fetch one of his shirts, it would be long on the baby yes but it would keep him warm that was for sure. He bounced over to the table and held it out, "Here!"

Shin was just finishing and he nodded, "Go get him for me?"

Tsu nodded and took a couple of steps before he got his wrist captured by Yoko, "Ahh? What?" He asked of the glarring pup, unsure of what he was stopping him for. Then his gaze met Yoko's and he gave a soft sort of smile as he could almost read the jealousy there in the others eyes. He reached up to wrap his arms around his twin and snuggled him before looking to Keiji for help. He would let Yoko have his way which meant that someone else had to get the baby from his pen.

The angel nodded, seeming to understand as he got up to his feet going over to fetch Vishal himself. He scooped him up and instantly the boy went quiet, pleased that he had been picked up. He snuggled against the angel, petting his blond hair happily, "Your to cute." He said, picking up the shirt and helped Vishal into it. The boy looked down at it, flapping his arms and then set to picking at the shirt in a confused sort of way. Why was he wearing this, "You want to stay warm right?"

He looked up at him, he supposed so. He drew his legs up under the edge of the of the shirt then drew his arms in looking for a moment much like a turtle ducking into its shell, then he gave a giggle deciding that he liked the shirt for hiding in.

"So cute!" Keiji said, wings a flutter as he snuggled on the baby.

Shin rolled his eyes, the baby definately had Keiji wrapped didn't he...

Part One: Crsh! Gulp!

Vishal was happily working the rattle that he was holding in his hands, gumming at the thing hadn't seemed to help when it came to getting into it, he couldn't get at the red beads that were inside of the thing. It seemed like a task doomed to failure, or at least that was how it seemed to be when he first started to try. There was something else though, something had been happening of late that Vishal couldn't describe but was very pleased with, he was teething. The teeth as they came in were much more useful then anything a person or Godling could have hoped for. He was able to use them to leave marks in the surface of his rattle, he was sure that if he bit at it enough he would be able to get through the plastic outside and to those red, yummy looking beads that were on the inside. He just had to work at the task at hand until he suceeded. His eyes lifted up to watch as his favorite person cooked, his red eyes were watching the blue stripped wings that were fluttering about. Such pretty looking wings, rather mesmerizing to watch as they moved. They even dropped a feather now and again, one of which he had tried to eat but wasn't allowed to. No fun at all honestly, they thought him so young and weak tha he couldn't even eat something as small and weak as a feather? Hmph.

Keiji turned to look over his head at Vishal, maybe to make sure that he was still within his pen instead of running off again. He felt bad having to lock him up but the rolling was a skill that he was starting to become to good at, it worried the angel. He didn't want for him to get hurt or get into things that weren't his to play with. The last thing that Keiji wanted was for the Godling to get into something of Shin's or even worse something of Yoko's. He gave the boy a smile when he saw that all Vishal was doing was attacking his rattle as usual. There was a look of curiousity in Keiji's eyes, he wondered what it was about that particular toy that held the boy's interest. What was it that made him want only to play with that toy in particular and nothing else for most of the time, "Is that a good rattle?" He asked, kneeling down in front of the pen.

Vishal looked up at him, rattle stuffed into his mouth, the stick of it hanging out of his mouth. He tilted his head to the side then gave a grummbling sound from around what was in his mouth. Keiji couldn't help but laugh, he looked rather amusing and sounded it to trying to talk like that, "Your an odd little thing aren't you Vishal?" The angel pushed up to his feet once more, "Food is almost done which of course means that they are gonna be showing up."

Almost as if summoned by his words the twins suddenly burst through the door, then slammed it closed giggling, "Ah! Hey? Angel. Is the food done yet?" Yoko demanded of the angel as he walked over to look in the pots that were sitting on the stove, lifting up the covers from them to look inside to see what was there to be had. He set it down then peeked into the over, "Huh, doesn't look half bad now does it?"

Tsukiko shook his head then walked over to the pen, looking inside and waved at the little boy inside of the pen. He gave him a grin then looked over to Keiji.

"Can you and Yoko set the table? Shin sent word that he isn't going to be home tonight so its just the four of us." He told them.

Yoko and Tsu looked at one another before they nodded and set to work on gathering the needed dishes and laid them out on the table. Places for the three of them were set out, a plate, a cup, and a fork each. Tsu looked over at the baby God before going over to Keiji, tugging on the angel's sleeve before he pointed over at the little one as if to ask what it was that he was to do. The angel looked over at Vishal then tilted his head in thought, "If you can get him a plastic up, a spoon, and a bowl and set it at my place he can sit on my lap while he eats." He said. He moved to start to dish up the food onto the plates and into the bowl after Tsukiko got the baby's dishes set out on the table.

"Does everything look good?" Keiji asked, looking the table over. He then turned around and went over to where the Godling was sitting. The little one gaze up at him then there was suddenly a crackling sound and then a loud CRUNCH. Keiji's eyes went huge as the Vishal leaned forward, spitting out the shards of plastic from the rattle and some spots of blood and starred down at the pieces in front of him. Keiji moved but not fast enough as suddenly the Godling picked up two handfuls of the red spheres and stuffed them in his mouth... and swallowed.

"VISHAL!" Keiji shreiked, scooping him up into his arms and instantly reached into the baby's mouth to see if he could fish anything out that he had put in his mouth, no such luck... he eaten those red spheres. Not only that but he had cut up his mouth when he bit through the rattle, how had he bitten through it he thought frantically. Vishal gave an angry sound when Keiji put his fingers in his mouth, warning him that he wasn't going to have this and to move them. He didn't though, kept fishing around trying to... do something? So Vishal did what came to mind first, he bit down.

A sound of pain escaped from the angel's lips as sharp Vishal teeth sank into his fingers, cutting into them, "Vishal! Let go!" He ordered, had it been anyone else he would have ignored them, maybe even bit down harder but since it was the angel... he found himself letting go. Keiji pulled his fingers free from the boy's mouth, red streaming from the wounds, "Ow..." He murmured, wincing in pain.

Tsukiko ran over, looking rather in show over all that had happened in such a short time.

"Tsu, here." He said, handing off Vishal while he went to the kitchen to fetch a towel, holding it out to Yoko, "Tie this around my fingers for me?"

The demon pup nodded and instantly complied, mostly because he wasn't sure what else to do at the moment. The moment it was done though he hurried over to grab hold of Vishal by his shirt, snarling at him, "You little b*****d! You stay away from my brother!" He said moving to drop him into his pen, "You stay there!" He didn't trust him, if he would bite open Keiji who babied him who was to say he wouldn't eat his brother?! He wouldn't allow it.

"Don't, its not his fault. Just need the first aid kit is all." He said, motioning to where it was kept in Shin's room." He said, sitting down in his seat, "I will wrap it and then I will take Vishal to the hospital." He was worried, less about his own wounds as he had many scars on his person though they were always hidden by his clothing, and more for the boy. He'd swallowed those beads! He needed to be looked at, to get them out! What if they made his sick? What if they hurt him? And his mouth! He'd bitten down on plastic and shattered it, what if he cut up his mouth real bad? Keiji's blue eyes got teary just from the thought that the baby could be hurt.

Tsukiko gave the angel a worried look before he nodded and ran ahead to get the first aid kit.

Part Three: Hospital Room Four

"...and thats about all that I can do for him. Really it will be best if you just wait for the beads that he ate to pass." The doctor was saying, they were looking over an x-ray and there were no sign of any plastic shards being in the boy's belly. All it would seem he had eaten were the red beads that had been inside of the rattle and nothing else much to the relief of the angel. He had known what he was doing when he ate them, as for his mouth it would seem that any cuts that were inside of them were already closed up and not bleeding anymore from what the doctor had said. The man had done the looking the smart way using a metal tool to open Vishal's mouth with so he could see inside. The baby had been snarling and yowling at them the entire time but not fighting all that much with them, "Now as for those teeth of his... I would see about taking him to a dentist." The man said. They were rather sharp and like nothing he'd seen in a baby before.

"Let them pass?" Keiji asked, tilting his head to the side.

Tsu and Yoko looked over at each other then started to giggle, apparently the angel was a little lost but the two of them knew exactly what the doctor had met, "It means going to the bathroom." Tsu whispered to the angel, though saying it only had him and his twin giggling that much more.

Keiji looked at them as if he didn't quite believe what they were saying, then upon looking at the doctor who nodded his cheeks pinked, "And... that won't hurt him?"

"I doubt it. The sphere aren't sharp or anything, they should pass just fine." He assured him.

Keiji looked over to where the boy was sitting on the bed, playing with the blankets on the bed seeming to be oblivious to the fact that anything was wrong or could have gone wrong. After all he'd gotten what he wanted which was to break open and eat what was inside. They didn't taste all that good though did they? Not at all like the candy that they looked like, just... tasteless. It was a disapointment. The other stuff was good, the red goo that the doctor had brought to him. He reached over to the bowl to pick up another cube of wobbling Jell-O and popped into his mouth.

He was chewing on it when he realized that eyes were on him, he lifted his gaze over to look at the twins. His eyes narrowed and he gave a growl, what in the world were they starring at? Yoko stuck his tongue out at the little Godling then made a face at him before laughing in amusement. Tsu lifted a hand to rub his forehead, shaking his head, "Yoko... Stop teasing Vishal." He said, there were days his twin could be so childish. Not that it would seem that Tsu was really paying attention to the fact that Yoko WAS a child as it wasn't important to the thought process.

"Now, I will need to call you parents so that I can get any insurance information." The doctor was saying.

"Huh? We don't have parents." Tsu pipped up.

The doctor turned around to look at him, "Excuse me?" He asked.

Tsu opened his mouth to say it again but got elbowed in the side by his twin, "Umph, what was that for?"

Keiji rolled his eyes, "We left a note for our guardian so when he gets home from work he would be here." He said, not wanting for the guy to get the wrong idea. Leave it to little kids to try to make things sound worse then they were, "I am sure he will be here at anytime now." He gave the twins a look that made both of them sit quietly not wanting to get in trouble. They listened well enough when Shin wasn't around to see it, they didn't want to weak around him maybe?

The doctor looked back and forth between the twins and the angel before he finally nodded his head, "Alright. I will keep an eye out for him. What does he look like?"

"Rather like him." Tsu said, then him and Yoko started to giggle. Only for a moment though as the Hunter came into the room looking rather pissed off. So both went utterly silent.

Keiji pushed up to his feet, "Ah! Shin... your here." He murmured.

"Yeah. I'm here." He said, sounding as angry as he looked.

Late Night Shift

It had been a quiet night after getting home, Keiji was curled up on the sofa with Vishal laying on his chest. The little one seemed to have no idea of the trouble that he had been in or about the trouble he had gotten out of with the help of Keiji and Tsukiko. The twins had been in charge of cleaning up the uneaten food as instead they had ended up eating out for dinner after leaving the hospital. Pizza and Vishal had been grouchy until he had gotten what he wanted, some of the delicious food tha teveryone else was having. Shin decided that since he had teeth and could bite through a rattle he could surely eat solid food. And eat he had.

It wasn't long before the pair had been sleeping deeply on the couch and moved them, laying Vishal in his pen after it was all cleaned up and laid a blanket over him, Keiji was then put in the bed in the bedroom to get some sleep. Shin had then found himself watching the sleeping Godling for a while, it was odd that he got such loyalty from Keiji and Tsu, he wondered if it were true emotions from them or if somehow the Godling had bewitched them, he would of course keep his eye on the boy. While a small part of him wanted to trust him and believe that he would grow up better then the things he was the God to he still wasn't all that sure despite what Keiji thought. He supposed that was why he was the one that was the 'father' and Keiji was the 'mother'. The mother got to see only the good in the kids while the father had to deal with their bratty sides, have to hand out punishment and the like. It was just part of life.

Shin had gone to crash on the floor in the bedroom on a pile of sleeping bags, finding it as rather easy to do being used to sleeping outside while on various jobs.

*****

Vishal woke up before the sun did the next morning, he was instantly in a bad mood upon his waking to as he found himself not only along in his pen without his Keiji but he was also sore all over, he shifted a bit but his muscles protested. It was the feeling as if he had been doing a lot of strenuous exercise which as he was just a baby wasn't possible. At the same time there were three points in his body that hurt more, sharper pains as if his skin were beings stretched out from the inside out. He didn't understand it, why he was hurting so much or how to stop it. So he did what he could, rolling over onto his stomach to get off on the painful points. Two of them were located on his back near to his shoulder blades while the third was near to his tailbone. He gave a growling, whining sound reaching out to the bars of his pen and started to squirm forward out from under his blankets to look around. It was dark still so he couldn't call for Keiji, he would be in the bedroom which was to far away and the door was closed too... where then...

He shifted more, rolling despite not wanting to do so and gave a loud, angry sound as he had to press the aching points on his back and backside down but he got to the otherside to look over at the twins. They were curled up on the bed that came out of their sofa, he looked them over then started to yell at them, calling for their help to come and get him out of the pen. Or better yet one of them could go and get Keiji!

Tsukiko shifted in his sleep hearing the sounds and he opened up his eyes, "Huh...?" He murmured. He blinked a couple times and then sat up, he still had the voice so it couldn't be that late... or early. He looked around then over to where Vishal was laying on his belly, yelling at him. He turned his ears forward then crawled out of the bed, towards him, "Vishy? What is it?" He asked, kneeling down in front of the pen to look him over. He then lifted his hands up to rub at his eyes, "Hrm? You look bigger Vishy." He told him.

Vishal didn't much care, instead he made grabby hands at Tsukiko demanding that he be picked up and out of the pen he was in so that he could be brought to Keiji.

"Supposed to be sleep Vishy, its still dark out." He told him, reaching down into the pen to lift him up. Vishal gave a howl of pain hands lifting up to catch hold of Tsu's shoulders and pulled himself up and into a more comfortable position where the boy's hands were touching those points on his back. He then leaned into him and pointed at Keiji's door. He wanted the one with the wings!

"No, no Vishy. Keiji and Shin are sleeping. We can go and see them in the morning though. Come sleep with me and Yoko." He said walking over to the couch and crawled up onto it laying the baby between himself and his twin. Tsu curled up with the boy and while he wanted nothing more then to yell until he got what he wanted he supposed that laying with the twins wasn't as bad as sleeping alone... he gave a grummbling sound and looked at Tsu, scooting so that he was closer to him then to Yoko. He let his eyes close and after getting comfortable on his belly he was sleeping again though a bit restlessly.