Destiny Knot

1. Soul Seal

~==~ Friday, January 09, 2015 ~==~

~==~ 4:00pm ~==~

Kage sighed, appearing to be very aggravated. "You'll have to excuse the mess." He looked through his bag for the house key. "I can hear them knocking shit over."

Kyrie covered her mouth and giggled a little. She had been over enough to expect some sort of mess in the house, especially if the twins were home alone for too long.

He slid his key into the deadbolt and unlocked the door. "I swear to you I'm going to kill them one of these days."

Kyrie followed behind Kage as he walked in. They were greeted by four pillows flying across the room, landing messily on the floor of the room to their right.

Kage nudged Kyrie over a little, slammed the door shut, and stormed into the living room.

Anthony had Alexander pinned to the ground. "Just give up Alex!"

Alexander clawed at his brother's face. "No!" He pushed Anthony off and sat up. "Fuck off already!"

Anthony stood and met Kage's glare. "Oh shit."

Alexander looked to his right, slightly above the back of the couch. "Oh hey."

Kage said nothing and Kyrie finally came into view of everyone. She waved while Kage shook his head and pinched the bridge of his nose.

Anthony felt his chest tighten. "H-hey..." His face grew red, body hot.

Kage was in the middle of scolding Alexander for the mess in the living room, which had Anthony's attention now. He didn't even notice Kyrie until something tickled his exposed arm. His attention snapped back and down to her, then he stumbled backwards some and into the wall.

She tilted her head slightly. "Are you okay?"

Anthony shakily nodded, trying his best to hold back the nosebleed he felt coming on.

"Are you sure?" She stepped closer and he moved away.

"Y-yeah...I'm fine..."

"Your heart rate seems a bit high." She moved closer again.

"I swear Kyrie, I'm fine." Anthony had backed himself into a corner quickly. "You can stop now..." He coughed into his hand and noticed a small bit of blood.

Even in the dimly lit room, Kyrie could see a little blood on his upper lip. The scent of iron was also a lot stronger to her now. She met his eyes and pierced him with her glare.

He nervously met her eyes. "W-what...?"

Kyrie grabbed Anthony's hand to examine the amount of blood he had coughed up. Her sweet tone of voice turned sarcastic. "Yeah, you're totally fine Anthony. A handful of blood definitely screams 'I'm okay,' doesn't it?" She shot him a look.

Anthony turned away from Kyrie to avoid her glare, holding his lips together to keep the next cough down. He still managed to cough but the blood took a different route and shot out of his nose, which had him hacking now.

Alexander had left the room, but Kage was still behind the couch. He hated how ignorant Anthony could be to his own feelings, this issue happened every time Kyrie was over. The only difference this time being that Anthony didn't manage to escape to his room.

When demon males of the Akuma clan experience an increased release of adrenaline a vein in their sinuses literally bursts. The adrenaline release causes quicker then usual blood flow, resulting in a warmer body, getting it to a temperature that isn't typical to demons. Their body being cold can only handle so much of an increase in heat, being too hot causes the veins to burst.

In Anthony's case this adrenaline increase was from a romantic or lustful feeling for Kyrie. Despite being controllable, he was too oblivious to wear the bracelet that can keep sexual urges or emotions down to a minimum. Alexander has and wears one everyday, only taking it off when showering, but Anthony refuses to wear his.

Even Kyrie was being a bit oblivious in this situation. She knew exactly what that phenomena was, she just failed to apply it to this current situation. In her mind, Anthony is just accident prone and probably got injured fighting his brother. In no way does she realise how he feels about her, but he's oblivious to that fact too.

Anthony, his face now covered in blood, looked to Kage with pleading eyes.

Kage was amused and tried to hold back a laugh. He found this pathetic situation quite comedic since he knew exactly what was going on. The two of them were just too far gone in their own little worlds that they didn't see it like he did. His favorite part was that he knew exactly how Kyrie would attempt to 'heal' Anthony, which will definitely make Anthony's situation a lot worse.

Kyrie pulled a brand new, white handkerchief out of her bag and reached up to Anthony's face, wiping blood off his mouth. "I'd prefer you not die on me when I'm physically here and can help. Even if I am assigned to your brother I can heal you too." Once his mouth was clean enough, she yanked down on his arm to bring him to her height.

Kyrie stood at an even 5' short, while he towered over her at 6'7". Luckily, Kyrie makes up for her lack of height with some brute force, not that either of the twins would try to oppose her even if she was physically weaker then she actually is.

Anthony's heart rate sped up ten fold, his body growing hot when his lips met Kyrie's. Her lips were soft and warm against his normally cold body. So many thoughts and feelings began to rush through his mind.

Kage tried his hardest to hold back a laugh, but what Alexander said and did upon entering the room threw him over the edge.

Alexander had come back into the room with a half eaten pudding cup, his attention on the corner with Kyrie and Anthony. "Oh shit, Anthony finally lost his mouth virginity." Then raised a spoon of pudding as if to say 'congrats.' This threw Kage into a fit of laughter.

As Kage recovered from Alexander's stupidity a bright light filled the room, his amused mood quickly turning to concern and confusion. He didn't recognize the light Kyrie was emitting this time, it was usually very faint to someone standing as far away as he was. This was unfamiliar to him, which likely meant the same thing for anyone else in the room.

The light left as quickly as it came, silence following its disappearance. They all watched in horror as Kyrie collapsed, falling to the floor with a loud thud.

~~/(^-^)\~~

Kyrie pulled Anthony down to her level, pressing her lips to his. She had never healed him before and needed to scan his body at least once in order to locate the problem.

She could feel his heart rate jump again, along with his overall temperature increasing. Kyrie knew that his assigned healers are a lot less physical with reading him, but they have to do it every time he's injured, this will allow her to read him once and never have to do another scan. She understood why he reacted this way, but she was taking some advantage over how she did her one and done scan.

As she neared completing the scan, logging what she had so far mentally, she felt a sharp pain shoot through her whole body from head to toe. The worst pain was in her chest, which made her feel ill.

Kyrie had jolted her eyes open in response to the pain, which is when she noticed how brightly her body lit up. As quickly as she noticed that light it disappeared. She had ended the kiss the second the light went out, the pain growing and causing her vision to blur.

She looked to Anthony in horror as her vision tunneled and went dark, tilting slightly the more it faded. It didn't register that she was falling until her head hit the ground, then everything went completely black...completely silent.

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