The rest of the blonde Satomi's class was about the field in a makeshift track and field situation as Deimosu stood, thinking, towards the edge of the field and looking outward.
Deimosu wasn't usually the brooding sort.
Most of the time, he was very up front about what he did and did not like, or what he thought. The exception being such secrets that the family didn't want out and about like: we're supernaturally powerful martial artists.
He'd had experience with some of his mother's personal secrets before and wasn't surprised that she still had some.
It made sense, given how much secrets ran their life, that there were some things about their mother's life that she really wasn't prepared to tell them just yet, or else didn't think they were ready for.
And he could really admit it right now.
He wasn't ready to be thinking that he and his sisters were a result of rape. Even if it was something he should have considered himself a long time ago.
There was another thing he was certain of.
His mother was wrong if she expected him to stay out of this when she told him.
Deimosu could almost accept that if it were a matter of his mother's pride and desire to settle her own affairs, but it was more about him and his sisters than her. She was putting their safety over her own pride as a martial artist.
That wasn't a reason he could accept for staying out of the situation.
Ranma had raised them to protect people that couldn't take care of themselves and while his mother didn't fit their mother, she'd also raised them to protect each other.
He couldn't face himself in the mirror if he accepted the idea that he was supposed to do everything he could to protect his family...
...except in cases where he might get hurt.
He couldn't call himself a Satomi...or Saotome...or whatever...if he accepted his mother's plan for him to just stay back and protect herself.
The only problem was that he had no idea where to go with what he already knew.
And what he knew was that at some time seventeen years ago, one Ranma Saotome vanished from Japan and appeared in Greece, pregnant with three children.
He kicked a soccer ball that rolled near to him and cursed under his breath.
The ball soared through the air and past the boy that had originally kicked it off target, continuing onward to dent a shed at the other edge of the field.
Wincing at the loss of temper, Deimosu did her best to swallow his anger.
He was still keeping his thoughts inward when he said goodbye to Eija as she went off with Kanama and Kyoko to go to Akihabara. Sousuke Sagara tagging along behind them.
When Naiki hung back to talk to one of her teachers, of all things, he continued to keep his feelings quiet. So that he was heavily into brooding as he came home and found his mother, dressed in a dark blue business suit similar to her red one, getting ready to go out.
"Where's Naiki?" Ranma asked.
"She wanted to stay behind and talk to a teacher," Deimosu said.
"Good," Ranma responded. "Out of character and strange for her, but good."
"Do you have a meeting to go to?" he asked his mother.
"Just talking," Ranma added. "They want me to listen to a long-term offer of some kind. I'll probably be back before dinner."
"In the mean time," Deimosu noted. "It's just me."
"That's right," Ranma said. "So make sure to practice your meditation and not to burn down the house."
"Don't worry about the last one until Naiki gets home," the tall, blonde, young man said.
"She's not that bad," Ranma said shaking her head before sauntering out of the building.
It was only a few minutes after being left alone in the house did something occur to Deimosu. He had access to a ritual circle in the family library.
Eagerly, he moved into the library and started drawing his circle on the floor and then moving into it, kneeling down to quietly work at chanting a spell from the open text a few yards away.
"Give me what I need," he whispered between lines of prayer. "Tell me how I can beat the one that hurt my mother."
He repeated those two lines several times, feeling the twisting sensation that came with attempting to push his own thoughts onto the fabric of the Earth around his.
Finally, as he started to feel his vision greying out, the spell came to an abrupt end of things and a small, heavy paper card fluttered down to the ground in front of Deimosu.
Curious, he bent over to pick up the fallen piece of heavy cardstock and read it.
"The Kindly Ones Roost."
"Odd name for a bar," Deimosu noted as he flipped the card over to read the back.
"Come to us to settle your affairs," the back of the card said.
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