Don't Close Your Eyes In the Dark

Chapter 19

Maul wants answers as to what exactly caused Lazarus to kill his mother and why he wants to kill him...hopefully his uncle Jaffar, the Ghoul Lord and Laz's twin brother can answer them all...

"I need answers..." Maul said placing a hand on Jaffar's shoulder as the Ghoul Lord reacted seconds before he was touched "Yes, Maul...it is true that Lazarus is your father...I'm glad to finally come face to face with my nephew as a man as you remind me of her, you have her eyes"

"Mother?" Maul asks as Jaffar nods with a smile "I loved her like a sister, but when I heard that your father dared to betray me and planned to leave with both of you dead...I knew I couldn't save you both, so I shipped you out before you became fully aware of what was really going on, of course I didn't know that this was Kami's doing and he'd been experimenting on my brother and countless others against their will...he's not a Ghoul you want to cross, that Kami" his smile turned sadistic at the very thought of Kami hurting his twin so much as he had

"Tell me more...I know there's more" Maul said as Jaffar shook his head "My brother was the one approached by Kami while he was seeking traitors of the Ghoul Lords...promising the whereabouts of his child, you, and more power...something Lazarus clearly doesn't need any more of than he already has, he wouldn't approach me..."

"Why though?" Taeger said "That isn't something someone like Kami would do when he could have a Ghoul Lord at his side"

"He expressed no desire to face me himself, so he played with the one weakness my brother had...his love and regret for killing your mother"

"He was promised that she'd be revived..." Yang said, not because he knew Lazarus but because he knew Kami so well "I may not know much about you and your brother but I understand Kami all too well for that not to be the case"

"That is likely the case...but I figured that there's more to that, ruling or rather enslaving the world may be Kami's true motive"

"He hates humans enough to do that..." Kakuzu said as most of the others just gasped "after all, he does take a liking to being in total control...given his liking for archaic abilities like Hive Mind and any and all forbidden tomes he can get his hands on"

"Archaic?" Jean gasps as Kakuzu nodded with a disgusted shudder "I know that may be a bad choice of words on my part...or not, but I just don't see why he fancies being in another person's body"

"Like our tattoos, Maul" Jaffar said "It's really a very rare Clan trait and varies in abilities and patterns from person to person but it's still considered forbidden magic by the Ghoul Lords, the cowards I'm forced to call my colleagues, hence why I have had and still want very little to do with them"

"I can think of someone who'd do something like that...over the natural traits of a clan, of all things" Taeger was very disgusted by the very thought of that person "How disrespectful...we're treating our own kind with same distaste that our whole species get from humans on a daily basis"

"Wait...you said that your kind have been living among mankind for centuries, maybe more" Beast said as Taeger corrected "By choice, but mainly by force if one of us manage to fall in love with a human...like a certain teme you know" he pointed at Yang, who seemed not to be bothered by it

"You can never tell if even your next door neighbor is a Ghoul as we all appear human until we choose to show otherwise and most Ghouls are content with it" Yang explained as he shrugged "It all depends on that Ghoul's personal preference though"

"I know this isn't something for us to ask of you, but have you ever thought of revealing your existence to humanity in a hope for peace?" Storm asks as a visible change is seen in Yang's demeanor

"Interesting..." Taeger says

"Too risky...we have our own families to protect just as your beloved humans do" was Yang's reply

"I don't see why not...as long as it doesn't mess with my opportunities to get payed" Kakuzu said as Remy adds "It could open some new ones actually"

"Touché, I foresee something like that" Kakuzu smiles "but how does that secure that we don't end up as the prey...hunted, inprisoned, tortured for information or someone's sick fun...killed?"

"As you said, it's your preference..." Aegis said "those things can happen at any time, regardless of if the ignorant humans are more aware of your existence or not"

"Mm-hmm..." Kakuzu rubbed his chin in thought, but knows that he personally needs this to happen 'Watashi wa anata ga soko ni pointo o motte iru to omoimasu... Daremoga sono yōna shurui no ronri ni mimiwokatamukeru wakede wa arimasen' (I guess you have a point there...not everyone's going to listen to that kind of logic)

'Sore wa, watashi ga Ghoul Lord ni natta toki no watashi no saisho no chūmondesu. Ghouls to Human no ma no heiwa' (That's gonna be my first order of business when I become Ghoul Lord then...peace between Ghouls and Humans) Temujin says as he tries to get near Rogue but Azazel is in his way with a smirk "That's ambitious, but those ambitions better not include any ideas with my daughter"

"Nothing personal, kid but again I think the idea of a forth generation Kurosaki Ghoul Lord is a bit...sketchy" Yamamoto says "I don't just mean this for the past 5 Kurosaki Ghoul Lords that preceeded you including your father and grandfather or your clansmen who are among one of the oldest Clans, but while you are kind to the point where you're naïve sometimes, how will you prove that to the Ghouls back home?"

Temujin didn't answer, he wasn't expected to, but he did agree that he was most likely not going to be accepted due to his heritage, the fact that he's Kami's son and his clan's reputation

"Are we ready to go after you pet demon now or not?" Aegis said as Logan gave him another annoyed look, he was clearly a demon himself, despite his hatred of them as he said pointing in the much taller man's face "That's that last insult I'll tolerate from you concerning Kurt, I wouldn't do it again if I were you..."

Aegis simply looked at him "One so small shouldn't talk so big..." he said, a murderous vibe coming from his voice alone

Logan quickly popped his claws and spun to attack but wad frozen in place by Kakuzu as Jean said "thank you...we're ready to go, but how are we going to even find Victor?"

"His personal tracker...I didn't see when he slipped it into my lab, but it's better than absolutely nothing to go on right now"

"Suit up...baka" Kakuzu said passing and patting the head of the livid Logan as he was unpetrified and almost fell to the ground as everyone left but him and Charles appeared behind him.

Logan didn't need to look to know he was there, but he refused to say a word to the telepath "Logan...I apologize for keeping these things from you, but it was all I could do to protect you...him...everyone" he spoke about Michael

Logan clenched his fist as his sheathed claws seem to make his fist glow and the room...probably the entire mansion began to darken, Logan was still at war with his demonic other self and didn't say anything as to worry his friends but they still tried not to anger him at all after what happened the last time he got pissed off, the Ghouls even seem to sense that he was no longer himself as they knew him long before he was a X-Man and something was hiding within him, his dark side.

"Because of what, you were afraid?" Dark Wolverine came to the surface "you always feared what I would become if I'd taken the path Sabretooth took, there's a reason we're half-brother...why our powers are so similar and why he's still stronger than me...it's because I won't give in"

Charles already felt something was wrong, but now he knew that was a fact now as he peered into Logan's mind for just a second to see Wolverine swallowed by nothing but darkness

"You're-who are you?" Charles demanded as Logan smiled and lifted him into the telekinetically with one hand before throwing him across the room, breaking his shoulder on impact with a sickening crack as he looked at the door, surely the others heard this and were on their way back, but no one was coming...his worst fear coming to pass "Don't worry...I won't kill you just yet, after all I still need you but this is far from over and once it is, so is my stay here and...your life, I will no longer hide my presence from you but I won't let you stop me either"

"Psychokinesis...?" Charles noticed that 'Dark Wolverine' had frozen time for everyone but the two of them "I won't let you harm your own friends"

Charles fought back but was easily stopped by Logan's own newlyfound PK abilities as he said "The Demon is no longer in my body...our body, which means I'm nobody but Logan himself but I won't warn you again. Not. To screw. With. Me or try to screw me over like that again for this only a mere five percent of my abilities and I have more up my sleeves. Much more"

Time unfroze like nothing happened, Logan was gone from the room with the others, no one aware of what happened, except Kakuzu was behind everyone and watching Logan carefully as he blocked out all telepaths from his mind but Taeger, who he had to pull in, and Yang

'You felt that, right?' Kakuzu asks his two friends as 'that hate...pure malice coming directly from Wolverine'

'Yes, I do...he must've done something to old Charlie...' Taeger looked back 'he deserved it, if you ask me...even I had to threaten the guy to stop...prevent this but he thought I was joking, I just felt it'

'But that feeling...he froze us all for a good while, but that may just be not to rouse any suspicion' Yang watched Logan who seemed normal to everyone and narrowed his eyes suspiciously 'he's suddenly calmer too...too calm if you ask me'

'He may have tried not to make us suspicious, but he immediately makes me suspicious' Taeger thinks as he grabs Logan's arm as he's about to put it around Temujin

"Let go of me..." Logan says as Taeger grips his arm tighter "you may have the others fooled, but I'm onto you, you're not in pain at how tightly I'm gripping your arm...so you can't be Logan"

Logan seemed surprised that he was figured out so soon but smiled "I apologise in advance...I've already seen what you're capable of and I can have you messing up my plans" he stabs Taeger in the stomach, but he felt strange afterward as he looked at the wound then Logan 'Did-did he just silence my powers?!' He thought, enraged by his nerve as he clenched his fist and glared at Logan with wide darkened eyes, it was hard enough to lose his powers then regain them and he's not going to lose them again "he moved so fast, even I didn't notice...again...something's wrong with me, I think" he felt his vision fading but not going completely as Temujin and Kakuzu helped him

Elsewhere with Kami, he has to persuade Magneto to make himself scarce so he could have a little alone time with Mystique...but both of them are suspicious that he may turn on them at any second and he knows it...

"He's still the same..." Mystique said to Magneto as they walked behind Kami "a sadistic psychopath"

"Yes, but why does it feel like you two know each other in ways I don't even wish to think about?" Magneto asks as Kami looks back at them, flashing a dark grin at Mystique without making it look like he was watching or listening

"Trying to kill me aren't the worst things he's tried to do to me, Erik!" She snapped causing the two to stop and Kami to freeze mid step "no...I wished he'd killed me, but that would be much too easy, wouldn't it?"

Magneto looked at Kami with his eyes glowing an enraged white as Kami looked back at them with his own eyes, errily black

"You head that way, baka...Raven-chan and I will go this way" Kami instructed pointing down two hallways with no look of regret on his face that Raven's insinuations of him may be more true than false as Magneto snarls "What makes you think I'll allow you to spend a second alone with her after what I can only assume a monster like you must've done to her?!"

Magneto pushes past Mystique to attack Kami, but suddenly he felt something moving at an invible speed slash his cheek as Kami revealed a short sword in his hand, Magneto tries but fails to manipulate it though forgetting that Kami knows full well what he's dealing with where that Master of Magnetism was concerned as Magneto ducked at the last second as the blade went through his helmet and the wall easily

"Nice...but this sword isn't made of any metal you can turn against me...it's made of a special type of stone that can be molded the same as steel and mimic the appearence and attributes" Kami explained looking down the Mutant Messiah's throat "There's no metal in it...mostly granite actually, now go and be careful"

Mystique scowled as Magneto left with a face drained of blood, like he'd just seen ten different ways Kami could've killed him "Magneto..." he didn't respond as he simply walked off and Kami pulls a gentleman stunt "After you, beauty..."

"I don't want you behind me...I'd rather you continue leading the way" Mystique snarled as Kami walked off with the same dark look in his eyes as he said to himself 'Anata ga watashi o subete rikai shite kureta to omotte iru koto o kangae tsudzukete kudasai. Watashitachi no sorezore no kontorōru no shita ni aru mono ga subetedesu. Shikashi, watashi wa anata no unmei wa, anata ga koko ni kuru no o eranda to shinjite imasu.' (go on, keep thinking you've got me all figured out and things are all under any of our respective controls...but I believe your fate was decided the second you chose to come here, you just don't know it yet)

"What was that?" Mystique snarled as Kami nearly stabbed her in the throat "I wouldn't snap at me in that tone if I were you...or have you forgotten just how imaginative I can get with my toys?"

"Look at you...I nearly forgotten how good you are in bed, especially when you switch between forms" Kami touched the side of her face as she cringed at the very thought of him abusing her, clearly she'd picked the wrong person to go out on a one night stand with, seeing as how Kami was in a particularly rotten and manipulative mood at the time "I admit, you're strong willed as always, but I'll never allow a woman's wits to get the better of my own..."

Elsewhere in the base, Michael's war with his demons came to an end...the demon was cast out of his body, which is good but the bad part is that it split back up into the six that he originally was and they're still hungry with everyone still alive in this base on the macabre menu (I also wanted Kami, the literal Demon of the Ghoul Lords, to face off with a powerful demon of his least favorite Demon Lord, Azazel and there's none I can think of but the six in Michael)

"Get out of me!" Michael finally frees himself from Sliver but the demon was thrown, literally, out of his body and split into the six still hungry demons that originally made Sliver up.

Xarix, the humanoid dog demon, sat against the wall with his arms folded and anger written all over him as his hound like ears twitched "We have company...they're actually looking for him, not like he's important to any of these mortals or that-" he sensed Kami, even the X-Men who were on their way there "That Ghoul slave...Kami was his name, wasn't it...he's quite adamant to erase humanity, don't ya think?"

"How dare he hurt Azazel's heirs before we get to them..." Azuri smiled as his black smoke body leaned against the wall as he looked at the demon across from him "What's the matter, Midaelis?"

"Those who are outside...what exactly are they?" Midaelis asks "they seem almost the same as Magneto and Mystique"

"Mutants...I've heard the master talk about them when he seeked that traitor, Asakura Bane on our trip to Japan" Sumilidon said, he was a whispy ghost like Demon (Looks like Ghostfreak when he sheds his skin in Ben 10 Alien Force if he became whole again) as his voice sounded raspy he was even able kill weak enough beings, including humans and his fellow demons with a Ghostly Wail or merely speaking, if he so wished to "The boy he was seeking was a Ghoul, but part mutant...a freak of nature"

"Let's get ourselves fed already...worry about the details later" Midaelis said impaitently "Or don't you also sense an Angel's poorly hidfen presence as well and he's no mere Angel either"

"Oh, that Angel...he's been a pain in our asses before" Azuri growls as his slit eyes narrow "if we catch that half-breed this time, we end his life as quickly as possible before he becomes an even bigger pest"

The Demons leave to hunt their prey, meanwhile Magneto was in another part of the base about to run into a former protejé of Kakuzu...the last person you want to be Magneto and crash into, since he wants Kakuzu dead.

Magneto walks through a hall in an area where the formally possessed Michael had already attacked and he wasn't expecting to see anyone alive and useful with how many human limbs and the occasional head laying around here "What a disaster..." Magneto was horrified at what he has been claimed to have a hand in creating and was fighting the urge to vomit "Who could handle looking at this on a hourly basis, let alone have to deal with it daily?"

What he didn't pay attention to, was Nagato Yagami walking in the opposite direction about to light himself a cigarette as Magneto bumped him and made him drop his cigarette in the still wet crimson blood at both their feet.

The world moved in slow motion as the red haired Ghoul tried to catch it and he visibly flinched as it splashed on the ground, Nagato loses his shit

The red haired man froze in place staring at his very last cigarette as it laid there soiled in the blood of Michael's pets which he'd cannibalized then turned slowly to glare at Magneto with his gray eyes "That's highly disrespectful, y'know..." he said in his deep, intimidating voice but Magneto kept walking.

Nagato followed as he growled "I'll show you a little something called respect...after all, we Ghouls are far better than you outdated humans"

He grabbed Magneto's cape from behind and spins, slamming him into the wall he was close to, leaving him dazed

Magneto punches him across the face with as much strength as he can, breaking his nose but he grunts as he snaps the bone back into place and glared at the mutant "You hit...like a bitch"

"Would you stop if I apologized?" Magneto asks as he knew that most male Ghouls were very prideful and easy to insult but Nagato scowls "You're joking, right...either that or you think I don't know exactly who you are and what you've done...right?" Nagato asks grabbing Magneto's face and slamming him head first into the concrete as his aura intensified and burned a small area around him "You're Magneto, the so-called Mutant Messiah...not that I've met you in person, I think that name should be changed to the Mutant mess up, since all you ever do is cause the deaths of your own kind just to save your own worthless hide...you pathetic excuse for a man"

He was trying to make Magneto feel bad for the things he's done and he knows that he's getting to him...even if he refuses to show or accept it 'Watashi no menomaede, anata wa okubyōmonodesu... Watashi wa nan-sai ni natte iru no ka, amarini mo ōku no kyōsō ga aru hito o korosu koto ni wa kanshin ga arimasenga, atama no ushiro ni kākuzu-dono ga iru kamo shiremasen.' (Get out of my sight, you coward...I have no interest in killing someone whose days are already numbered, too much competition but Kakuzu-dono might be one of those people after your head and I could get my vengeance on him)

He walks away leaving Magneto where he was, Magneto understood Japanese but not to the extent that someone like Logan or Sabretooth did and as for Nagato's unshown ability, Magneto could see a red Sussano'o that was invisible to but unless Nagato wished it, and ability he gains since he was born into the Tendo Clan which was said to be weaker than the Kurosaki Clan but closely related and still stronger than most others as they still had raw strength even in the humans...until the Ghouls turned on the humans of the clan in disgust and jealousy and wiped nearly half of their own clansmen out enraged supposedly by a Ghoul Lord's irresponsible actions...a Ghoul Lord descended from the Kurosaki Clan long before Kami was even born but when his father was already set to be the following Ghoul Lord

With Kurt, he's about to be killed by one of the Big 3, Juūgo appears at the last minute to face the Ghoul...but although he has more control of his dark side and darker emotions than other Ghouls, he's still murderous and doesn't want to unintentionally hurt Nightcrawler after he made Baccus happier than he's seen in years...Baccus was very protective of the boy and his killer will earn the full wrath of Baccus and Nic

'C'mon, where is he?!' Juūgo wasn't very patient at times like this and knew consequences for anyone who hurt Kurt as he made his way through some trees and heard a yell and looked down to see Kurt narrowly evading Jin's swipes at him with the blade that was so heavily poisoned that it were the putrid scent of the toxins that drew Juugo's attention as his tattoo burned to life magnifying his already crazy powers to manipulate Earth, Fire and Dark magics

Juūgo was not happy with what he saw and he wasn't happy, bad things happen to people like Jin as his right arm and that whole side of his body lit up in red flames and the entire left side of him looked like it was becoming one with the Earth itself, turning a dark brown and forming a spiked Axe, he can form any weapon, even spears, with the left side of his body

His serious emotion went to an uncontrollable smile, they've tried to control him so many times that even he can barely control himself as he moved with blur like speed.

"A newcomer and you're causing so much trouble already...it's about time I get rid of you" he steps on Kurt's tail with his boots as he screamed and brought the dagger down to take his life but missed.

It was a very strong and potent mix of poisons drenched on the blade, even Jin was uncertain of all the poisons, but it was enough to kill a herd of horses and even do a number on a Ghoul despite their immunity to toxins, meaning Kurt couldn't let the blade graze him or the neurotoxin would destroy him from the inside out giving him a very painful death.

"Don't worry, you will die soon" Jin said coldly as Wild Juugo snarled as he slashed Jin in the back causing him to get off Kurt's tail "Not if I have anything to say about it, bakayaro konoyaro!"

Wild Juugo looked back at Kurt with a sadistic smile, scaring him as he snarled "Oy, gaki...snap out of it and get clear of here!"

"I'll kill you first if you get in my way!" Wild Juugo laughed madly as Jin stabs him in the neck with the poisoned blade but it broke on his armored skin without even piercing his skin as Wild Juugo frowned and and swung madly at him with his left Axe arm until he got far enough that he snarled 'Jigoku no kasai' (Hell fire Blaze) sending a red hot blaze at Jin but narrowly missed

Back with Baccus, he frees Victor while fighting, meanwhile the X-Men arrive and break into the city

Laz and Baccus are going at it, as he managed to send a heat wave at Victor, not hurting him but freeing him as he said "any nakama of Kurt is a nakama of mine"

Nic was enraged and tearing apart anyone who got between him and Laz or Jorgan who was forced to fight him, Victor and Richie.

'Tatsumaki: Taigā no hōgeki' (Tornado: Tiger's Barrage) Nic attacks several opponents at a time until he reaches Jorgan who dodges but was still cut on his cheek as he looked into Nic's eyes to see that he was a far different monster to the man who agreed to join them as Richie shot several bullets past him snarling 'Dangan no ame' (Bullet Rain) causing the bullets to explode but Jorgan evaded by jumping into the air.

With Laz, he was matching strength with Victor as Baccus' flame took the form of a giant Phoenix

The X-Men break in just in time thanks to Jean's Phoenix powers as Yang, Temujin, Wolverine, Jaffar, Rogue, Beast, Spyke, Amara and Zabuza Kurosaki join the fray

"Took ya long enough to get here..." Victor said as Logan smiled in a way even he saw as uncharacteristic of him replying "Don't make me leave you here, Creed"

"Try it..." Victor said in all seriousness as Zabuza interrupted "Oy, baka...kiss and make up once we're out of here, will ya, goddamn it?"

Victor nodded, but he didn't trust Logan

Colossus, Juggernaut, Taeger, Beast, Bane, Kakuzu, Kitty, Berserker, Multiple, Aegis, Maul and X-23 make it to Michael's Base at about the same time in order to find Kami, Mystique and Magneto as well as rescue some of his pets while they're at it.

"Reien..." Taeger tried using his magic, but got nothing as he came to realize that his magic wasn't neutralized but it was stolen by Logan, he wasn't happy about that and punched the prison door clear off the hinges

"Well, so much for our element of surprise..." Maul touched Taeger's shoulder but he walked in with an aggrevated "Don't touch me...Logan stole my magic, he's definitely not himself if he's able to do that"

"Obviously..." Aegis says as they go inside and Zabuza warns "expect a welcoming commitee...and be careful"

Within a few minutes they were surrounded as they were seperated into teams of two but Michael's men were too easy to beat

Rogue and Temujin went down one as Kakuzu and Berserker went down another, same for Juggernaut and Aegis...X-23 and Taeger as well as Maul and Multiple, Colossus and Kitty and Beast and Bane as none of the younger X-Men excluding X-23 wanted Bane's company and his brother was already gone due to him nearly killing them and the possibility that he may still want to despite his change of heart

With Kakuzu and Berserker, they stopped for a while when Kakuzu sensed something was off...

"Hey, Berserk...stop, I sense danger" Kakuzu said as he looked around their dimly lit surroundings as Berserker said "we're not alone here...are we?"

"Yo" Nagato said as he suddenly appeared before the two casually "Kakuzu-sama...I've found some info that would be vital to your cause"

"...and here I thought you were dead, Nagato cuz you were removed from my Guild by me personally and, if I must add, embarassingly" Kakuzu said "You're not thinking you can lie to someone like me after where that has landed you in the past, are you?"

"You're right...I have come for a special prize today" Nagato confessed with an evil smirk "Your heads"

"What's going on here?" Berserker asks with mild confusion as Kakuzu said, poking him on the forehead with two fingers "I'll explain later...ready?"

"Born ready..." Berserker replied as they got ready to fight Nagato

A/N - Magneto manages to get on the wrong of the Tendo Clan's mysterious Nagato Yagami who has an unhealthy obsession with killing Kakuzu, what does he have up his sleeves though and what will happen the Collective starts targetting Michael as well? R&R and we'll see!

High up in the mountains, not far from the Collective's base where the X-Men are right now, but far enough not to matter, a very unlikely duo are training by attacking a Ghoul pack that are a part of those serving Kami...hundreds of Ghouls surround Renji Stone and Ike Kommamura, who were respectively a human and a Ghoul.

A group of Ghouls were setting up a base here for Kami to have pets of his own, but none of them saw when the Wild Dog, Ike appeared sitting in the middle of enemy territory to indulge himself in excessive amounts of expensive sake as a Ghoul jumped at his presence which they didn't sense "Oy, does this look like a teahouse to you, attack!"

"It's sake, baka...not tea" Ike was far from drunk but he was a little tipsy as he offered opening his bloodshot Teal eyes "Want some?"

"Die intruder..." the Ghoul sent a large wave of water at him, but with one thrust of his arm, he evaporated the wave replying "Sorry, but I've already taken my bath...don't tell me that's all you've got?"

Suddenly an arrow flew past Ike's head and entered the head of one of the Ghoul's as he glared behind him while holding his ear "Baka, tryin' to take my goddamn ear off or somethin'?"

"Sorry, but couldn't you have moved first?" Renji asks in the distance, he had white hair with a black headband, a black shirt with a dark blue jacket/hoodie with black on white short pants and white shoes, his eyes were red and although he believes he may be related to Yang's Uzushio Clan, he was still a regular half-Japanese human as he snarled at his apparent master "Oy, Kommamura-sama...what are you still even doing there and drinking...now of all times?!" He snaps "What are you, nine...I mean it'll only make you tipsy and barely at that anyway, right?"

'Sumasumasu no seito... Sumātosu no seito o dorehodo iya tte iru no ka, gankona ningen no deshidearu gūru no yō ni nagaku ikinokorenai no wa shitte okubekidesu' (Smartass student...you should know how much I detest smartass student and why they don't survive long even as Ghouls, my stubborn human pupil) Kommamura snarled, his pointed ears perking at the young human's audacity "You know I like to play with my prey, but my patience is waring thin with those Starbolt arrows of yours"

Kommamura used his telekinetic prowess to pull his smartass student towards him and throw him at another Ghoul as his sword took the Ghoul's head off as he looked back "You mean the arrows you gave to me in the first place?"

Kommamura looked at the tattoo on his whole right forearm, he was a slave of Lazarus and narrowly escaped with his life...he learned that Laz was trying to spark a Human/Ghoul war, the likes of which was unpresidented and his tattoo shaped as claw mark patterns would help with that.

Kommamura has little to no hatred for humans though, despite the asshole he can be and he is the first and, as far as he's aware of, only Ghoul alive that has chosen a human to be worthy of his student as opposed to another Ghoul.

"Why do Ghouls even need students again?" Renji asks "not that you couldn't handle most of these situations by yourself...your kind tends to prey on my kind in the first place but you've never tried to kill or worse eat me"

"I'll explain it to you again once these pests give us the infornation we need on who they owe their lives to so badly to be doing this" Kommamura explains as he said aiming his fist at Renji "let's get this over with first...would you prefer that I tried to eat you?"

"No, I'm good, thanks" Renji answered quickly, he has seen the Ghoul feeding before and it wasn't pretty...Kommamura also got pissed with him for spying and following him that time as well, intensifying his training until he felt he leaned him lesson not to follow him and think he won't get caught as they bumped fists "These guys picked the wrong day to get between you and your booze"

"I'll kick the shit out of you if you make another smart remark about my sake, kid...but you're right now that I think about it" the Ghoul warned with a fanged grin, unlike Ghouls like Bane Asakura, while he could turn into a wolf, he was already more wolf like in his regular form to have need for such an ability so he refuses to use it

A/N - With the unlikely Ghoul/Human duo of Renji Stone and Ike Kommamura not far from where Kurt is, will they join the X-Men to stop Laz and what are Michael's Demons going to do to Kami, seeing as they are aware of the traitor Ghoul Lord defeating Azazel in the past and aren't too happy that he still persues the Demon Lord? What also will be Kurt's first impression of his father? R&R!