Wandering Throughout Worlds (Yami no Matsuei)

Demon General Enma and Noble Demon disguised as a monk Tsuzuki AU

The news of the disappearance of Tsuzuki Asato brought utter chaos in Hell.

General Enma killed various individuals to calm himself down. Having met his fiancé on the day of his birth, he felt a protective streak develop inside of him. Their bond made him one of the few people to soothe his future mate outside of his parents. He noted Asato wanted his father more than his mother. One of the many hints that should have clued everyone to Tsuzuki Kasumi's hatred of her family.

His father-in-law, Tsuzuki Daichi apologized for his wife sneaking past him without his notice. Lord Tsuzuki knew of his wife's unsavory thoughts on their union and bearing their only son but didn't think she would run off with their infant son. She left a distasteful note of no one ever finding the boy, dead or alive. This made Enma's fury skyrocket.

Safe to say, he laid on his own lashes onto Tsuzuki Kasumi to force her to confess his location.

They found her disguised as a prostitute in a high end brothel. She changed her face, name, and personality to fit the profession. Her familiar grace and leaking dark aura made her easy to find. One of the lower rank demons masked their aura and made sure to strike when Kasumi didn't expect it. She was dragged back into Hell where she fought them the whole way back.

Tsuzuki Daichi stood on the side as the main interrogators made sure to lay fear into Kasumi before laying their torture. Daichi didn't flinch at her cries of pain. Having crushed down any semblance of affection to her, he asked her about their son. He hid his anxiousness in his voice throughout the interrogation, she sneered at him and didn't answer his questions.

Once Enma made his appearance, her tanned skin paled. He didn't sweeten his words or even made the atmosphere safe. His bond strained from the distance from his betrothed and he wanted him back.

His impact was far worse which caused Kasumi to claim she abandoned Asato in the Northern part of Japan.

On that clue, Enma and Tsuzuki Daichi fled to Earth, desperate to find Asato. After a year of searching, they found no indication of Asato's energy. His father-in-law kept on his search while laying devastation upon the land. Enma managed to keep himself together to blend in the villages and ask around for an abandoned or wandering child.

His results didn't bear fruit.

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Tsuzuki went through his usual morning with forced enthusiasm. He donned his monk attire, washed his face with frozen cold water and slipped on his scuffed up sandals. Staring into the mirror, he shuffled his hair to the side and made sure the clasps of his ruby red earrings stayed in place. Not that he needed to. They were welded to keep his earrings into place.

The last time he ever saw his mother, she pierced his ears and smoldered the earrings in place. Telling him to cover his eyes, she pressed a flame close to his skin to melt the metal. She didn't offer him comfort when she burned the back of his ears and made her escape into the night.

She didn't look back.

Resigning himself to another tense and awkward day, Tsuzuki breathed through his nose to calm his nerves. When he left his room, he walked into the communal kitchen, and kept on smiling despite the scathing manner the other monks treated him. His food was pushed toward him and a table near a window remained empty. None of them dared to touch him and ignored him when he tried starting up a conversation.

The commentary over his eyes followed him throughout the day. According to the monks and people outside of the temple, no one in the real world were born with his eyes. During his lowest moments, he stared into his reflection, self doubting his love for his own eyes. He loved the uniqueness. Yet, everyone else in the world enjoyed stomping down his one enjoyment in life.