Chapter 7
Flying like an airplane
Feeling like a space brain
One more time tonight'
"Fuck the party. " Kenji said to himself, as he continued to applaud and enjoy the performance of 'Nightrain'.
"This is the place for me to be tonight. "
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"Ladies and gentlemen! May I present, on their thirteenth birthday, the first and second Heirs to the House of Gremory, Kenji and Rias Gremory!"
Two magic-circles appeared on the stage of the hall, and everyone (mainly the women) leaned forward to get a load of the male Heir Gremory, as they'd heard that he was a charming, young, good-looking guy, if a bit of a rebel.
They were to be disappointed when only Rias came out of the magic-circle, though. Everyone else was just shocked.
"Where is Kenji?" Zeoticus hissed. Venelana shrugged.
"Kenji? Where've you run off to?" Rias shouted.
Never to be answered, of course.
Insert Chapter 1 of 'Runaway Gremory: Something Extra' here.
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'I wanna see, what a woman can be
I want to take you home
Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Oh won't you please take me home
I wanna go, I wanna know
Oh won't you please take me home!'
Kenji applauded, along with the rest of the audience, and slowly made his way out of the stadium.
'Best birthday present I could ever have. ' He thought to himself.
'I wonder what shit Rias had to go through at the party?'
Once he made his way out, he walked down a street and turned into a back-alley. Once he knew that no-one was looking at him, he magic-circled away, back to the Underworld.
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The party was over, and all the guests had left. Zeoticus was pacing around the hall, muttering under his breath.
Sirzechs was doing the same, but without the muttering. Venelana, Rias and Grayfia were sat at a table together, watching their husband/father/brother/father-in-law pacing around.
"I'm worried!" Rias voiced for the twentieth time that night. "What's happened to Kenji? He could be anywhere!"
"Does that happen to include behind you?"
Rias whirled around to see Kenji, leaning against the doorframe, grinning at his older sister. Rias jumped up, sprinted over to Kenji, and hugged him tightly.
"Kenji! Where have you been? I was going to profess my love for you "
"That is something I'd like to know as well. " Zeoticus spoke coldly, as he walked towards Kenji.
He rose his arm to, in his opinion, put some sense into him, but Kenji ducked, and jumped backward.
"You can't touch this, old man. " He smirked.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, KENJI?!" Sirzechs yelled. Taking a breath and calming down a bit, he continued, but with his voice still raised.
"You had us all incredibly worried. "
"Yeah, Kenji!" Rias smiled at her brother, who had since released himself.
"Have a little faith in me, Shitzechs. " Kenji answered, coolly.
"I'm good enough to go to a Guns N' Roses concert in the human world and not put myself in danger of death-"
"You went to a concert in the HUMAN WORLD?!" Zeoticus shrieked, reaching for grabbing Kenji by the shirt and lifting him up. Kenji struggled and kicked, but his father's grip was strong.
"Get off me, you fucking piece of shit enuch!"
What happened next was enough for Venelana, Rias and Grayfia to all gasp. Kenji was lying on the ground, rubbing his cheek, and Zeoticus had his hand raised.
He had slapped Kenji on the face.
There was silence for a few seconds before Zeoticus spoke again.
"Let that be a lesson to you, Kenji. " He then left through a magic-circle.
Sirzechs looked at Kenji with an emotionless face, and left also.
"Kenji!" Venelana ran over to her son and reached out to him. "Are you-"
"Save it. " Kenji said.
His voice suddenly sounded distant, dead even. A stark contrast to his normal voice, which was usually full of life and energy.
"See you in the morning. " He said, before leaving through a magic-circle.
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It'd been a week since Zeoticus had slapped Kenji, and Kenji had not come out of his room since. Everyone, from Rias, to Grayfia, to Venelana, had tried to coax him out, but Kenji refused to talk to them.
He hadn't even come out of his room to do any training!
But one afternoon, Grayfia knocked on Kenji's bedroom door.
"What is it?" Kenji's voice sounded, in the same dead tone as before. Inside, it broke Grayfia's heart to hear Kenji like this.
She composed herself, however.
"Lord Gremory requires your presence in the sitting room, Kenji. " She said.
"Tell him to fuck off, forever. " Kenji replied.
Grayfia sighed.
"Kenji, please. " She said, after looking around and finding that there was no-one in the hallway, apart from her and the door, which concealed Kenji from the rest of the Underworld.
"You haven't come out of your room for a week. Everyone, all the maids, butlers, your sister, mother, even your brother and father, and I, we're all worried about you.
Please come out. .
. " she was going to open her mouth and plead again, but before she could do so, the door opened, and Kenji stood in the doorway.
His appearance now was enough to make Grayfia want to cry.
Kenji's hair was greasy, and he had bags under his eyes. His eyes, themselves, were red, and it looked like he'd been crying.
They were also half-closed, and it looked like he was about to fall asleep at any moment. He was wearing nothing but his boxers.
Grayfia waved her hand, and cast a glamour over Kenji, to make him seem more presentable to everyone. His hair looked cleaner, his eyes returned to their original colour (one violet, one turquoise) and the bags disappeared.
"Please, put some clothes on and come downstairs, Kenji. " Grayfia said, and left.
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"Where is he, Grayfia?" Zeoticus asked, five minutes later.
"I've told you, he'll be downstairs soon. " Grayfia replied.