Chapter 20: Pleasant Conversation

*Clank*

Aku woke up in a panic as he knocked over some equipment next to the bed he was in.

'Where am I, where's Yaki?'

"So you're being tracked down."

A man said from the shadows. Aku turned towards the voice.

"Where's my sister?"

"She is safe thanks to your ruthless acts."

"Who even are you?"

The man stepped forward removing his hood.

"My name is Tarin, I think a more familiar term for you however is I am a banished Yami Demon."

'What? He's rather old to not be dead already.'

"Let me take a guess, you were being tracked down, got to comfortable in the open, and stayed in the same spot for too long?"

"What does it matter to you, are you not on the run too?"

"I am yes but I was banished for not going through with a mission, not because I couldn't because I didn't want to. However you weren't banished properly you have no mark and yet they are trying to kill you?"

Aku looked down at the floor as he moved to be seated at the edge of the bed.

"Your sister said she had no idea of what she was and even told me she didn't know you were a demon till a few nights ago. You are on the run with a little sister with no records, no marks, and yet you two are a warning level black for them?"

'How does he know so much?'

Aku was in daze at how much this man knew

'The only way he could know any of this is if he was at the top of the clan.'

"I don't know."

"Are you the son of Kibetsu Tsuyu Yami?"

The air between the two collapsed as Aku's fist was caught at the last moment before it met Tarin's face.

"I'll kill you if you ever speak of that name again!"

"Now, now no need for that?"

"Who the hell do you think you are? That name is not even in the slightest of common knowledge even in the highest of ranks of the Yami demons!"

Aku's fury was felt in Tarin's palm. Aku's left eye begins to smoke as his Shiryoku came out abruptly.

"Oh my, your eye even looks like his."

Aku's left arm swung behind Tarin grabbing a scalpel.

*Swink*

He stabbed Tarin in the side. Tarin was unfazed.

"I wouldn't want to fight some weak teen in a hospital while his sister is in the other room."

Aku removed the scalpel as his Shiryoku faded.

"I'll kill you."

Aku walked away with a slight limp.

"I knew your father, I worked under his lead."

Aku stopped.

"Never took him as the type to have kids and yet here you two are."

Aku turned around and looked Tarin in the eyes with a cold look.

"Don't mention my father to Yaki or I find a way to kill you."

Aku's hand twitched.

*Swift*

"You are definitely…something."

Tarin walked out the door before. Aku looked down at his hands as he cracked his knuckles back in place.

'Bastard broke my hand just by catching it. It's either I hit his hand to hard or he squeezed to hard either or he is strong.'

Aku looked over at the door and thought of Yaki's lifeless body. He then remembered killing that boy and feeding his sister his heart.

'I saved her...that's all that matters.'