THE TITLE OF THIS STORY, as you may or may not remember, was left up to a contest as I drew a blank.

A big 'thank you' to PurpleScorpion for giving me suggestions, I hope you don't mind that I didn't use the exact one you gave me, but it was a good idea to use 'The Pain of' again, it just makes sense … Y I NO THINK OF DIS B4?! TPOTAL2!

So basically, you win! *backs up truck holding insane amounts of cookies* Here ya go! YAY!

Thanks to everyone else who gave me ideas!

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DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ 'THE PAIN OF TRUST AND LOVE' BECAUSE THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS AND YOU WILL BE LOST!

Recap:

Yuuri arrived back at earth once more and confronted his brother Shori. He told Yuuri that Bob the earth Maoh needed to meet him, and though Yuuri was reluctant to go, he knew he had to.

They arrived to the meeting place; Yuuri, Shori, and Bob all began to speak with one another in a rather professional manner… even if the setting was somewhat relaxed.

"You already refer to Shin Makoku as your home?" Yuuri nodded in response to the Earth Maoh.

"I don't think I could call anywhere else home Bob, everything I know is there." Bob lifted an eyebrow curiously.

"Even though you have Shori back now?" Yuuri nodded. He had only known of his brother for a few months now, and that could hardly compare to his family back in Shin Makoku.

"Honestly, I didn't remember having a brother. It was so long ago that our parents… died in that accident; I simply must have forgotten him. No offense though Shori, I was very young." Shori stiffly nodded.

"N-None taken." He froze stiff when Bob glared at him and Yuuri realized he wasn't just a friendly old man like he had seemed to be earlier. He could be scary. "Y-Yes sir?"

"Shori, please tell me you told him-"

"Bob, please don't… please." The glare Shori received for interrupting his boss was more than enough to shut him up.

"Me? Told me what?" Yuuri was getting nervous as he sat up straighter in his chair.

"Yuuri, your parents didn't die in an accident. They were murdered."

Chapter 1

Yuuri was frozen. Stock stiff in his chair, not even blinking.

Murdered? You mean somebody killed them on purpose? It wasn't an accident? Everything bad that happened in my life could have been prevented if whoever did this hadn't…

Yuuri only barely took in every few words of the other two's raised voices as he was spaced out.

"Bob, with all due respect, how the hell could you be so stupid? He's very sensitive! YOU JUST BROKE HIM!"

"S-Shori, I'm sorry, I didn't realize, but you need to calm down or-"

"Like hell I'll calm down! Look at him! Just look at him!" Shori gestured to Yuuri whose eyes had widened and seemed to flicker between confusion and utter depression. Shori clenched his fists and tried to calm himself, if nothing else than at least for Yuuri's sake.

"Yuuri. There were many things that happened that day, almost all of them out of our control. When we found out… we sent some people to go and rescue you immediately but by the time they got there-" Bob was trying. He really was. "You were in the closet hiding with your brother."

The words… they hurt. Yuuri grabbed his hands in his head. He was remembering.

Flames. There were flames everywhere.

The smell of things burning and the smell of blood was everywhere. It was too much for any child to have to go through. Their dad had fought back, and so there were even more bodies on the ground than there should be.

"Stop! We've got your wife! Don't move!" Shoma dropped his weapons and came out with his hands up. Miko was being held with a knife to her throat, her eyes pleading and scared... but not for herself. "Tell us where the children are now!"

"MAMA!" Yuuri tried to scream and run out to somehow protect his mommy, but Shori held him back. Yuuri broke down into tears as his mouth was covered and he was unable to leave the closet. "Showwi, lemme go! I hafta-"

"Yuuri, we can't do anything… w-we can't…" Shori was crying as well, but holding Yuuri protectively, even though his own fear.

Jennifer shed several tears and mouthed 'I'm sorry' to Shoma. Before he could do anything, she roundhouse kicked the man who was not expecting the 'innocent housewife' to be able to do anything. He thought wrong.

"We knew you were coming! They're at a friend's house so you'll never get them? You hear me? Never!" She coughed on some of the smoke that flew into her lungs before she straightened up again and knocked another man unconscious.

Yuuri's eyes were suddenly covered by Shori's hands and he heard more gunshots. He heard his father screaming and then more gunshots. It didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened.

"This was a waste of time. Let's get out of here."

"Wait, what if they were lying? What if the kids are here?"

"Don't be an idiot, they wouldn't leave their kids in this fire… even if they did, they'll just burn anyway."

The men laughed evilly and Shori hunched over Yuuri protectively, holding him to his chest as he cried. Shori held it in… he had to be the big brother after all.

Minutes passed that felt like hours.

"Shori?" Yuuri coughed. "What now?" Shori gave Yuuri a gentle smile.

"I won't let anything happen to you Yuuri. Just stay here, the firemen will come eventually… it'll be alright." Yuuri began to sob again and hold onto Shori tightly while wailing.

Suddenly there was an explosion behind them and Shori's eyes opened wide and blood started to drip off of his head. Yuuri screamed as he fell over unconscious on top of him, everything suddenly turned blue and then Yuuri passed out as well… with the strange feeling like he was safe and underwater.

Yuuri was hyperventilating now and Shori was trying to reassure him that he didn't mean to lie to him and that it was going to be okay. He asked Yuuri several times if he could hear him, but Yuuri simply remained blank as he flashed through memories he had never known he had.

He felt like they had been completely blocked somehow… but how?

Shori reached out and grabbed Yuuri's shoulder to try and shake him out of it. Bad move.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Yuuri suddenly seemed to emit a force that made both present stumble backwards, even Bob who had been sitting.

Yuuri backed up in his chair, eyes still barely seeing anything in his overwhelming fear, and the chair fell over. He crawled backwards out of the chair before turning and scrambling to stand up with tears beginning to fall out of his eyes.

He wasn't seeing Bob or Shori's concerned stares as he turned and fled the room, he wasn't seeing the confusion on the faces of the people he ran past. No, all he saw was flames, blood, and then the horrors from his childhood with his adoptive parents.

His life was a mess, the whole thing was a mess, and he had never done anything right in his life… Yuuri slowed for a split second before full-on running again. He had. If he had done one thing right in his entire life it was fall into that lake and gone to his real home.

That's the only place he could go now… the only place.

Onlookers stared at the one they knew as Yuuri, but most hadn't met, as he ran through doors and didn't even seem to notice people as they stepped quickly out of his way. A few people stared at him as he ran outside and practically dived into their shallow man-made waterfall.

It made absolutely no logical sense that a boy could dive into something about a foot or two deep and completely disappear.

Oh SHINOU, this is so fun to write! My thoughts flow so much easier with this story than my other ones… oh well. I was convinced to continue this earlier than planned, but now I'm also writing another story at the same time (which I had never planned to do originally) so my updates might be a bit slower.

Oh, and my frikkin document processor is acting up, so I'm in a really pissy mood right now.

And now, a funny.

"Don't move or we'll shoot you with our invisible guns."

*Group escapes due to unseen danger.*

"I told you we should have used the visible guns, but noooo we had to use the Invisible ones."

"Sorry… maybe if we used the invisible tank next time?"

"… just shut up."

R&R