Kubinashi’s Loyalty 1

"What do you think of him?"

Rihan looked at the little one in Kubinashis arms cradled there peacefully... a small charming smile playing upon his lips as if he already knew by one glance...

He couldn't help it, this little child in his arms, so quiet, the mesmerising darkness in his eyes... sleeping peacefully...

And he could feel the weight this little thing will feel in the future, the weight of the entire Nura Clan on his shoulders, and all of its subsidiary clans...

Fated to lead the night parade, to live for and die for the Youkai that lay under its banner...

To inspire, to lead, invoke true fear in his clan...

He felt like he had the weight of his entire world in his arms...

He could feel it, his mind, his very heart, and his mind sent out ripples through out his entire body...

And he could feel the responsibility bequeathed to him... by his saviour...

The words of the very one standing in front of him resounded in his mind

He couldn't figure out why... but he felt the responsibility, his body, his knees buckled from the pressure... of his world... that he lives in... lives for...

"I leave him to you... protect him... raise him in my place, if something ever happens to me. Kubinashi, your the only one I trust enough to do this."

Just as he felt his knees about to give out... and his mind drew blank...

He felt a small hand touch his face...

He could feel it, true fear, a darkness so bright, it lit his way and hardened his heart... protected him... lit up his world... with a new source of darkness, light, and that was love... acceptance, and responsibility...

He was charged such a responsibility... but that light... that was love, a darkness that could only be described as all encompassing, a black hole that sucked in his entire being and changed him...