AN: I had a lot of trouble with this piece which is why it's so short but I hope you still enjoy it.

Chapter Six – Truly Bad Guy

Kyoko seemed so ready to understand the situation that the two of them facing but Kuon didn't feel the same way. There were a number of questions which he had. He had powers now, things that shouldn't even be possible but at the same time, every superhero with powers had a weakness. In the comic books, Superman was able to do everything with the powers of a godlike being but when it came to Kryptonite he was weakened and beatable. Kuon didn't know if he had anything like that, any magic or alien stones. He didn't want to leave Kyoko alone with their daughters whilst all he became was a memory.

He sighed and went down the steps to see Kyoko finishing up making pancakes for the girls. They grinned as they ate them with syrup on top as well as fruit and cream. It was good to treat them now and then and especially now, what he was going through wasn't easy for anyone.

"Good morning," Kyoko said as she watched him and he nervously watched her before nodding. She sighed and turned down the heat on the stove. She walked over to him and hummed before letting her fingertips play with his hair. She gently brushed it to the side. "Are you not feeling well, Corn?" she asked and he turned to the two girls who were staring at him with wide eyes. The family was back together again but Kuon hadn't felt more of a distance from his two daughters.

Ariel turned to her father, "Are you going to do hero work again today?" she asked and Kuon paused. E didn't know how to respond to that. He felt uncomfortable discussing this new form of work with his family. They were supposed to be his priority, not anyone else and especially not a random stranger. Still, he was a good guy. He wanted to help people and if he was able to do that then that's what he should be doing.

"Something like that," Kuon hesitated in replying. Kyoko kissed Ariel's head but Rose spoke next.

"Of course he's got to do some hero work today. He's a hero, like in the comics, nothing is more important to a hero than fighting crime and catching baddies, right, mommy?" she asked and Kuon shook his head, his face showed an alarmed expression.

"No. It's…it's not like that," he said before hearing a buzzing in the room. He turned to Kyoko who was watching him hesitantly. "Do you hear that?" he asked her and Kyoko looked around. She didn't hear anything and whatever was scaring Kuon wasn't something that she was able to detect with her normal, human, abilities.

"What kind of sound was it?" Kyoko asked.

"Like an alarm?" Rose asked excitedly before pretending to do the noise of an ambulance.

"It was a person getting hurt?" Ariel asked and Kuon tried to find the sound. He could still hear it a faint buzzing. He stood up and walked over to the pancakes and the stove before seeing a fly there. He sighed as he caught it and went to set it outside, it strangely enough allowed itself to be picked up easily and Kuon didn't want to swat it. It was a harmless fly, swatting at it would be cruel and not a side of himself he wanted to show his children.

"It was a fly," he said and Rose started giggling.

Ariel pulled back, "Yucky!" she said with a disgusted expression on her face. Kyoko walked over to Kuon and looked at him, studying him as if she wasn't in full belief of what he was telling her. She squeezed his hand.

"Was it really just a fly?" she asked and he nodded. She kissed his cheek as she leant up to him and then sighed as she looked down. She didn't want to show it but she was as worried about what was going on as Kuon was. He had already died once and he came back a different person, a person with the skills and abilities that one couldn't achieve eon their own. She didn't think immortality or the ability to continuously come back to life was part of her powers. If he died this time, he would most likely stay dead.

She didn't want to say it to him because she wanted to be supportive of what he wanted to do and helping others was truly a noble cause but Kyoko wanted to tell Kuon that she hated how the president was using him and how it seemed that the president had a plan in action and the only component he hadn't planned out was Kuon's safety. That's what she wanted to say but couldn't.

She would not forgive the president though if what he was telling Kuon to do led to the loss of the man she would always unconditionally love.

A fly on the wall was a commonly used saying although it really was very uninteresting. You could often find information out about people just by observing them and Reino had never been scared of death. He had been scared of getting hurt and feeling pain but there was a way of controlling the afterlife that most people weren't aware of.

He looked at the selection of flies that he had trained, on each of them he had implanted a device that was able to record information about the man he hated who now had also found out how good death is and how nourishing it can be.

But somehow, even though Reino had believed in the occult for such a long time and had given his life over to the side of darkness – part of his attraction to Kyoko was how dark and evil and twisted Mio had been and he could never forgive Hizuri for turning her into a loving housewife – he hadn't been awarded all the same powers.

All he could do was spy on him with these mutant creatures that no one would ever suspect of being anything other than a fly. Why, HIzuri would never even hurt a fly. It was those daughters that would allow Reino to kill two birds with one stone. He could make Hizuri do whatever he wanted because he would be desperate to do anything to save his kids. It would also bring out that hatred and anger that lived within Kyoko.

If he hurt one of the girls, that would be better. Hizuri could be shown to be a villain with a black heart who would be tracked down by the government, dissected, and imprisoned or executed because people could see what he truly was, a threat to the well being and safety of others. The hatred that would burn inside Kyoko would be enough to satisfy him though. Who wanted some plain and boring woman? He wanted the woman he had first met and still couldn't get out of his mind.

She had a power in her that was being taken for granted and Reino would never do that to her.

Kuu looked at the piles of comic books that he had beside his desk. He had been trying to read everything he could about crime fighting superheroes and vigilantes. He didn't want any danger to come to his son, his pride and joy, the only biological child he had. He had become interested in the people who helped them as well. Surprisingly, Kuu really enjoyed the character of Oracle, or the former-batgirl who had been hurt and was in a wheelchair but used her knowledge of computers to help the heroes.

Maybe he didn't have the skills that she did, yet, but he wanted to try to learn those. If that was one way he could keep his son from continually pushing himself to his limits then he wanted to. If Kuon slowed down or felt exhausted then he could make mistakes which could lead to his death.

Kuu paused as he heard his phone ring and looked over to it to see that it was from 'Boss'. He bowed his head and shook it. He didn't agree with what Lory was trying to do. Maybe he was trying to feed into Kuon's ego but he could be trying to market him as well. Kuon shouldn't have to be out there helping others but that was what Boss wanted and Boss usually didn't leave things alone until he got his way.

Even more, it was out of curiosity and interest that he had done so many tests for a person who had just died and come back to life and was still injured. Even if his physical wounds had healed, that didn't mean that his psychological wounds were and this was just creating more and more danger for him.

Kuu knew that he wouldn't forgive Lory were anything to happen to Kuon. Even after their relationship had been in place for years, Kuu needed to do his best to keep Kuon safe. Lory Takarada did not seem to be thinking of the same goals and Kuu wanted to erase Kuon's memories of these powers so he could live a life for him. It wasn't selfish, it was practical.

Kuu had always thought of himself as wanting peace and good things in the world. He wanted to protect his son and his wife and his whole family. He wanted to be a support to Kyoko, to be there for the girls if anything were to happen to either of their parents. Now he only wanted his son's safety and he wouldn't apologize for that. Kuon was the person who he cared about. Did that make him the bad guy?

End of Chapter Six

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