Six feet from the EDGE (Open)

[hotpocket4]

Hah... so I actually hit you. Don't say such threatening-sounding things to my Aurora and I won't hurt you. Leon smirked when the punch had connected with the vampire's face. The smirk went away though when the vampire asked him if he was in love... then that same smirk returned but even bigger. "Yes, I'm madly in love with her. I know you weren't threatening her, but you asked me how I would feel if somebody took her from me. That's how I'd feel, well, actually I'd just kill whoever took her from me. I'd also just maybe kill whoever even threatened her." he said still smiling. He loved playing the role of a knight protecting his princess.

He saw the boy approaching him with what he could only guess were violent intentions but he didn't care. He just punched him for no good reason except for being annoyed... He let the vampire grab onto his shirt to hold him and just stared him directly in the eyes. It was ridiculous though that he accused him of being the very demon responsible for his family's death. "Maybe it was me. Who knows? You don't know who the actual demon was, right? It could have been me. Although, I must inform you, accusing a servant of the Kiri family who worked for them for hundreds of years and was still working for them when your family died is a pretty heavy accusation on both me and them. I'm not using them as a shield, but you're not thinking again. You're just acting like a child even if you never had a childhood. You're grown up, deal with it. You're going to be living for a long time. You're not going to be able to be happy until you let go of your past - no matter how horrible it was. If you think saying any of this will make me feel sympathy for you, you're wrong. Sorry, but I don't care about people I'm not close to. If you're really feeling so sad, perhaps you'd like to take the easy way out? Want me to end your life right now?" Leon was lecturing him when he noticed the punch coming for him. He grabbed the vampire's hand with his right hand and threw it back to him. "Sorry, I'm sure I deserve to be hit but the lady I love wouldn't be too happy with me if I just went and let myself get hurt."

[Tsumi Kaito]

Tsumi tugged a bit more violently at his shirt, though as the cause of his hand being deflected. Kiri. He worked for the Kiri family. Tsumi dropped his hands from their pet. His parents would be incredibly ashamed of him treating a Kiri family member so rudely. They used to be so close. Tsumi dropped his head, though fists still clenched, his scent masked by his own blood. His fang slipped out and found its way into his lip as was the only means of distracting him. It felt disgusting to call one of them part of the family, but if he loyally served the Kiri family, Tsumi had no right to judge him. The Kiri family didn't attack them, though demons sometimes served the royals, it wasn't him. He may not remember the face, but he could remember the smell. "My parents would be incredibly disappointed, I had no idea you were a part of the Kiri family..."

It obviously took some effort to say such a thing. If this demon had picked up anything from Tsumi, other than he had a horrendous personality, he'd also know that it took much effort for him to say something like that to a demon. "I was mistaken, you don't smell of that family, its different. But please don't toy with the idea that you could have been that demon. I may not remember such a face but a scent is just as good in our world isn't it?" Tsumi had changed, it wasn't something that just happened. You must always treat a servant of the royal families with respect, especially that one. Don't ever behave in such a manner again... Tsumi clenched his fists again, tightening them as he looked down removing his fang from his lip and the stead stream of blood flowing from him.

Tsumi crouched upon one knee and placed one arm that crossed him over his chest, to his shoulder. Unable to look up, it was a sign of respect that he was taught as a child. "Forgive me. The Kiri family was very important to mine, servants included." Tsumi refused to rise again until spoken to. Saluting a demon as he would a pureblood, though his parents had drilled into his mind it was respectful. Not every clan agreed. Tsumi had lost all sense of feeling any emotion for himself. He probably needed a lot more time to think about his actions. His parents would be pleased with his achievements, but not the person he became.

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[hotpocket4]

Leon thought that the vampire looked... sad, ashamed? Was working for the Kiri family so respectable as to cause that sort of reaction? He was just a servant... well, and a personal butler/bodyguard. Then he said what kind of sounded like an apology but wasn't one.. And it looked really hard for him to say too. Leon just stood there without saying anything - staring at him. "I won't 'toy' with you anymore on that matter. However, you hate all demons because of that one. Why not treat us all equally then? You would kill him if you had the chance, wouldn't you? So why not kill me? Even if I have worked with the royal families, I'm still a demon. There is no point in hating us all if you won't do anything about it. And you were mistaken because I haven't been around a Kiri long enough lately to have the scent on me, understandable." So troublesome... It would have made things faster if he had just attacked him and given him cause to knock him out. Then he could be back trying to find his way home to Aurora... But wait... he then realized that he doesn't feel loopy or anything at all anymore from the drugs. Arguing with the vampire had cleared his head somehow.

Then another surprising thing happened; the vampire got down onto one knee and crossed his arm across his chest. It was a sign of respect - he'd seen vampires do it before. And even humans. He let out a sigh and said "Get up, you have no reason to be apologizing. If anything I should be the one apologizing... although I won't. However, get up. I don't accept your apology or forgive you. In order to be sorry for something - you need to do something wrong. You've just been acting stupid, but haven't done anything wrong. It's understandable." He reached his hand out to the vampire's to help him up with his head turned to the side while doing so. It was somehow embarrassing. He'd never had or thought that in a million years there would be a noble or royal vampire apologizing to him - a servant.

[Tsumi Kaito]

In order to be sorry for something, you need to have done something wrong. It was so familiar, why did it bother him so much? Treating someone like that, was disgusting itself. Tsumi felt slightly embarrassed himself. Treating a demon as a pureblood, a servant it was undesirable. He was a noble, an aristocrat. Most his rank didn't have to apologize or treat someone with such respect unless they were a pureblood. Tsumi stared at the offered hand, would it really be alright to take his hand? Wary of trusting him, even if what he said was true about belonging to the Kiri family, mistrust was there. More than anything he hated to admit that the demon was right. If he hated all of them, he should treat them all equally. Tsumi didn't attack though blindly. It was far too animalistic for his tastes. That would cause mass chaos, if he went around murdering them just because of what they were. Tsumi was beside himself, but he accepted the offer to help him up.

Tsumi seemed completely silent, his usual bold and arrogant attitude had dissolved. Instead of to spite him, he simply dropped the demon's hand. Usually he would have squeezed it fairly hard, but he didn't. It was true, he didn't treat them all equally. If he did, he'd be no better than the demon who killed his family. "If I went around and murdered, or attacked every demon just because they were a demon, I would be no better than that bastard. It's just chaos trying to serve a purpose. Why, if I hate demons so much, do I not treat them all equally? Because taking innocent lives is a sin. I have every reason to apologize to you, its shameful to speak in such a way to someone important to the royal families."

Tsumi couldn't look at the demon, he simply couldn't. Not only was he an a**, he had something to show for it, and all for the wrong reasons as well. "If I treated you all equally, I'd be murdering the very thing I didn't want taken away from me. Somebody's sister, somebody's brother... very simply someone very important to someone else. I wouldn't stoop so low as to touch a child with intent of harming them. I may be a horrible person but I'm not heartless." The whole reason he'd hated them in the first place. His family, already dwindling, but the bright smiled girl they took away from him was the most important one.

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[hotpocket4]

Leon was relieved when he took his hand and got up. "Alright, I understand what you're saying. However, it sounds to me like you believe that demon hates all vampires. Do you really think he has cause to hate every. Single. Vampire? What if he just had a bad experience with one or a couple of them which led him to hate all of them? Then aren't you just as bad as him anyways? And I was hardly important. I was but a simple servant." he sighed again after finishing talking.

"So, since you're saying that... do you think nobody loves the demon who took your family away? He had a mother and father surely, maybe siblings or children too. Maybe they have no idea what he's really like. How would you feel to take away him then - knowing you could be breaking the hearts of innocents? People who want revenge usually do the same thing done to themselves. Would you kill him? Would you take away his family? All revenge and hatred leads to is more of it." he spoke as if from personal experience... but he didn't really have any to speak from. He could just relate to his family being taken away. It's not like he didn't hold grudges or want revenge though... he still wanted to beat up Fenrir. Not kill him, just beat him to the border of life and death.

[Tsumi Kaito]

It wasn't revenge he wanted, it was justice. True, he could have loved ones, but he wasn't innocent. There was a difference. Tsumi sighed slightly and crossed his arms, shaking his head. "Don't compare me to that snake. Its disgusting, I could go back to hating you again if you'd like. Not that I particularly like you, but I don't completely hate you.... I don't go around murdering families. The Kaito's were known for being very hospitable to everyone they met, even if they weren't returned with that same kindness. I don't want revenge, I want justice. You're right, perhaps I will hurt people that are his loved ones, but the council would have done the same thing, and you think they'd be any less upset?"

Tsumi had admitted it, he would most definitely kill that demon when he found him. Maybe it didn't make him much of a better person, instead of doing it out of revenge it was better because then he could let go of his past. Learn how to move on again, but now he was trapped by him. "It doesn't matter if you were a servant. Every life counts, even if it seems insignificant. It could mean a lot more to someone else than you realize. You must not have remembered much about my family then if you continue to say things like that." Tsumi wasn't trying to sound like a jerk anymore, but a cold edge was still in his voice. Obviously speaking of such things, with his sworn enemy, it seemed stupid. "Maybe you're right, i'm not a much better person than he is, but I won't let the deaths of my family go unpunished if the council refuses to take him out. It's just doesn't seem fair to the dead.... But I do suppose this will be the one and only time we meet correct? I'm fairly certain you won't want to associate with myself after treating you so horribly."

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[hotpocket4]

"So you don't hate me? Now why can't you be like that with every other demon? Perhaps you never really hated me in the first place if you were able to so easily get over it. You just thought that you hated me since I was a demon... but then when you actually got to it, you just can't hate me it seems. Even if it's because of who I used to work for, that's awfully quick to get over a hatred. You have a childish sense of hate. And no, I don't think they'd be any less upset. That doesn't make it right though. But, I'm a hypocrite. I've killed people that I didn't even know before. Killing people always leaves a mark on you're soul, if you believe in souls that is. You'll never forget who you've killed and who they were. You don't want that kind of responsibility, you're young - don't ruin your life." What Leon had said about killing people leaving a mark on your soul... was completely false - well, to him. Leon has never felt a single thing for the people he's killed - nor thought about them in regret. He didn't care about killing people... but maybe that's just one of the parts of being demon. He could kill nearly anybody and not care at all.

"Of course every life counts, but if you're going to say that then you must realize the demon your after has a life that counts to." What he said would probably sound cruel - talking about how the man who killed his family has a life that counts. "And sorry, but I don't know much of your family history." He ignored what he said about justice and just focused on what he said about never meeting again. "What makes you say I won't be meeting you again? We're getting along rather well are we not? Besides, I have nobody to hang out with except the lady who would surely like a break from me every now and then. Who knows, maybe you'll be the best man at our wedding?" he was just teasing him at this point, but was actually kind of serious too. He really didn't have any friends besides the demon-sisters and his fiance.