[color=Red]Takeshi[/color]

[color=Red]"W-What the hell!?!?"[/color] Takeshi whispered under his breath in fearful awe as the crazy ghoul not only got back up after taking a crazy amount of punishment from the two adult ghouls, but then she began to [i]transform[/i], the sounds of bones cracking in and out of place as a crimson armor began to adorn her slender frame. Takeshi was frozen in fear by the mere sight of what he'd come to know as a Kajuka, and as it bwgan to display it's power by slamming down on Takumi, Takeshi was thinking that this was the end for him. This thought only seemed to become all to real as the monstrosity turned her gaze towards him, the empty sockets of the deer skull seeming to burrow a hole right through his soul.

As she launched herself forward, she sent a barrage of Ukaku shards barreling at the two at speeds faster than they could ever hope to dodge. Takeshi couldn't move a muscle, frozen like a deer in headlights, while Kazuya turbed and began to pull his brother to him, planning to shiekd him with his own body. However, both were surprised when Hana seemed to appear out of nowhere in front of them, taking the entire barrage upon herself as she screamed at them to run into the room, way too much blood flying from her mouth as she spoke. Kazuya simpkly nodded, dragging the shell-shocked Takeshi behind him into the room with Mii and the twins, who were currently huddle by the bed, terrified. It wasn't until the door slammed shut that Takeshi came to her senses, suddenly turning to make a grab for the door handle, only to get a fist launched into his face by Kazuya, his face quickly shifting from shocked disbelief to anger as he pulled his younger brother up by his collar, screaming in his face as he seemed about ready to punch him again.

[color=Gray]"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? THAT WO-HANA JUST SAVED OUR FUCKIN' LIVES BY TAKING THAT HIT FOR US, AND YOU'RE ALREADY TRYING TO FUCKING LOSE IT AGAIN!!![/color]

[color=Red]THAT'S WHY I CAN'T JUST SIT HERE AND HIDE!!! DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO HER OUT THERE? SHE COULD DIE, KAZUYA, AND IF I DON.T GO OUT THERE-"[/color]

[color=Gray]"Then nothing will change, except you throwing your life away and making her sacrifice that much more wasted."[/color] Takeshi's response was  cut of by the low, cold tone of his sibling, the two looking each other in the eyes with a fierce intensity. [color=Gray]"You said it yourself, Takeshi, we can't do shit to anyone on the otherside of that door. I know you want go help her, hell, [i]I[/i] want to rush out there and give that fugly bitch a piece of my mind. But I can't, and neither can you. We're weak, Takeshi, and all we can do is wait . . . and hope.[/color]

Kazuya simp y dropped his Takeshi as he finished speaking, closing his eyes before finding a place on the wall to sit against. All the while, all of the childrem could see how much he, the Oldest of them all, was shaking like a leaf.

Looking diwn at his own hands, Takeshi could see his body was doing much the same, no matter how much he tried to will it otherwise. As Kazuya's words sunk in, tne red haired boy couldn't help but cry, ashamed at his own weakness. And as he deteriorated into a sobbing, fearful mess, he waited for the door befiore him to open . . . and hoped that Hana would be the one to do it . . . or Takumi, hell, even the tiny Tyrant would be preferable to what awauted them if it were that . . . that thing.