Title: Light and Dark - The Past
Author: Nbsiren
Rating: PG
Pairing: Asami x Takaba
Spoilers: none
Warnings: a little violence
Summary: Totally AU. Akihito is an orphan abandoned at a temple. When he comes of age he summons...
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Yamane Ayano. Other characters are mine.
Author's note: How Akihito came to the temple~

He saw the crying baby next to his father's fallen body and knew he had found the right one when the pendant in his hand started to glow.

Shifting forms, he lunges at the yokai moving in on the baby. After tearing it to pieces, he shifts back to spirit form and rips apart the spirit that had been controlling it.

Using the power stored in the pendant, he picks up the crying baby, who quiets down to whimpers as he blinks at the one holding him.

I can see why Master sent us to this realm. Almost all of the special bloodline have disappeared. This baby is all that is left.

Holding the pendant up, the baby gurgles as it's glow grabs his attention.

Connecting to his Master through the pendant, "Master, I was able to save a baby of the special bloodline. Your enemies sent spirits to control yokai to attack them."

"Place the pendant closer to the baby so I can better sense it's power."

Watching the baby bat at the pendant while it laughed had him stifling a response. He didn't want his Master to think he wasn't paying attention.

"Protect this baby at all cost, it will be the one that will one day summon me."

"Understood."

If I take the baby to a human town, Master's enemies will find it as they'll be looking for survivors. I'll have to hide it for awhile.

Taking the baby deeper into the mountains, he finds a secluded spot and uses his powers to form a cabin with the trees and the nearby wall of the mountain.

Before entering he connects to his partner, telling him their location.

Looking around the inside, he changes it, forming furniture and other things.

Going to the newly formed crib, he frowns, not wanting to lay the baby inside without a cushion.

Contacting his partner again, he gives a list of things and supplies they would need.

Still holding the baby, he goes out to the main room and sits in a rocking chair.

Sending out another spell, he creates a bubble, showing the spot to be empty to any who might pass.

When his partner shows up, he motions for quiet so that the baby would stay asleep.

He watches his partner put away the supplies and distribute the other things through out the cabin.

Changing the baby, they find out it's a boy. Placing him in the crib, they go back to the main room, breathing a sigh of relief.

Kirishima watches as Suoh sends out spells of his own for protection.

"We'll need to get supplies that a human baby needs without Master's enemies discovering this. What we have now won't last."

"I'll watch him while you get what is needed."

[6 months later]

Returning the secluded spot to the way it was and removing their spells, they leave in order to take the baby to where their Master had ordered.

They split the supplies between them, with Kirishima carrying the baby.

It takes them just over a month to reach the temple, staying clear of human towns and other travelers.

Just before the monks come out for morning prayer, they leave the baby near the entrance to the prayer hall.

They wait, watching over him until one of the monks find him.