The History Between Reficul and Kuwabara:

 

How Ref Met Kazu-kun and about Kazu’s forgotten past:

Then one day, after so many eons have passed, he was drawn to a peculiar light. It was bright, it shined like no one else’s or like anything he had seen since the angels and his first love (it shined and felt exactly like it). He went to investigate and happened to come upon a shabby rundown apartment located in the worst region of a metropolis. And within that home was a little boy, the very source of this light that shined like the brightest star. 

This child wasn’t at all a demon, neither was he completely human (he couldn’t be, Reficul pretty much already figured that out himself). He has curly ginger locks that hung down loosely into his face, pale skin, and cognac amber eyes (which sometimes turned a blue, black, or shined like infernos/fire, depending upon his emotions). He was a gangly child and he was also very thin.

Reficul saw him staring out the window, looking hapless, littered with bruises, and fit the picture of lonesomeness, despair and grief. He was awfully reminded of the suffering children throughout the human world, too young to be suffering so much. The boy’s parents were obviously not home, either, at the time.

The boy was obviously watching the passerby and not necessarily waiting for his family, Reficul came to find out that he did this every day. Some of the kids would look up at him and point, calling him a freak of nature while adults called him a little monster and the child of a witch. The boy had not developed any sort of friendship, though he did try to when he went out to play, but in the end of the day he chose to isolate himself from the rest of the world. Not many people saw a poor and hopeless battered child with their eyes, no, they instead focused on the incredible things he could do. The child had great telekinetic abilities and could solidify his own spiritual energy. He could also see, hear, and sense ghosts and other spirits.

To the humans, this child was the incarnation of something terribly evil. And no one really liked him, at all. In fact, no one wanted him around. This didn’t just go for the humans, but demons as well. At night or when he was all alone, he suffered from demon attacks, and sometimes they came in hordes.

Upon further observation, Reficul not only got to see the kid being picked upon and beaten by other children, but also by a man who was his step-father. He was a violent and cruel man, a man whom claimed to hold strong religious beliefs, and that the “devil” or demons must be beaten out of the boy in order for their family to be considered normal (he used leather belts). Indisputably, the guy was a religious nutcase and very fearful of the unknown and anything else that could not be explained by ordinary man. He was also a whack-job who believed in punishing accordingly to how the Seven Deadliest Sins should be dealt with; like for slothfulness you had to be punished with hard laboring work (he was also a sex-offender and a pedophile thanks to lust).

He was human, pure and simple, but the mother was a very strong and powerful psychic, not mentioning the fact that she was secretly into witchcraft (she was part of a cult). She came from a blood line of psychics, priests and priestesses, and witches.

Oddly enough, the boy didn’t have the man’s last name, but his mother’s. Apparently, the father of the child must have been unknown or wanted no credit in the matter, that and he didn’t favor the man one single bit.

The mother cared for her son, but even she was fearful of both the man and him, particularly the child. She often tried to stop the man from beating the boy, for their sakes, but would get a few blows herself from the grunt of that which the little boy was receiving. Reficul wondered why the woman just wouldn’t murder the man for all he was putting them through; in fact, she could just pack their shit and leave him far behind. No, this woman was too loyal for that and possessed a kind heart, not to mention to be very foolish. How she ended up with scum like that was beyond him, but it was apparent in his own eyes that the woman and the child were more like the man’s hostages instead of family.

In the midst of making such investigations, Reficul had taken it upon himself to shape shift into the form of a female child so as not to easily give himself away (about who he really is). He befriended the boy, very easily much to his surprise, though the child was reluctant at first. Reficul’s intentions weren’t necessarily to make friends with him, at least at first, but soon a bond and a strong friendship developed between the two. He because Reficul’s first best and only friend he ever really had, and the same can be said for the boy whose name was “Kazuma”.  They often played games with each other and would do things together, though it was Ref who was the instigator and boss of them both. Ref (who was in the clever rouge as Yukiko) is the dominant one of the two and is viewed to be extremely bossy and a brat by the other children. Not that he ever liked the other children anyways, most were as shallow as their parents.

Reficul swore to himself to protect Kazuma from all harm that may come his way, no matter what the costs (as long as it kept him as his friend in the end). Kazuma wouldn’t let him kill the bastard that would hurt him, though, saying that it was his own problem to deal with. Reficul was angered by this, but respected his wishes.

In the run of the mill, he had become very attached to the boy, much to his disliking. He feared that he could never keep him, and if he could, he would have to reveal to him who he really was. Unfortunately, and much to his delight, Kazuma had proposed to marry him (her) when he got older. Ref knew he was just a child and that he really couldn’t understand what marriage meant back then, but his father always told him that once a deal is made it must be finished. He accepted Kazuma’s offer and said he would marry him, not really putting much thought into the consequences of the matter. From right there and that point on, Kazuma became Ref’s human.

Reficul was obviously stuck in a sticky situation, between a rock and a hard place, a very sad position which he had never had experience with before (Kaguya was considered to be a different matter). Besides, he couldn’t just drag him to hell with himself and live there for all eternity, keeping him for himself, or perhaps could he? A part of him really desired to. He honestly didn’t care what the others thought about him keeping a human, this human was his and that’s all that really mattered. There was also the fear of losing him to death, but he knew he could somehow fix that with no problem. If it was really up to him, he’d kill that abusive nutcase and take the child with him right then and there.

However, he did not fulfill any of his own wishes, knowing that Kazuma wanted to remain with his often neglectful mother despite all odds. The boy was just as loyal as she was. He was so loyal to her that he obeyed her entirely, allowing her the chance to get outside help to block out all of his powers, placing seven seals to restrain it all back.

Before that day, before the silence, the hell that they had lived in had finally come to an end. Kazuma’s mother finally decided that enough was enough and took matters into her own hands to release them from their hellish tormentor. She had planned to get rid of him, but it had somehow backfired when the man decided it was by time he killed her for being a witch. And when she thought she was staring in the face of death with a gun aimed at her head, her son had ended up killing him instead. Seeing her squirming with both fear and agony had caused him to snap. The boy’s used solid energy in the form of hands and limbs, lifting him up off the floor before taking more energy, then sliced and ripped him apart. He also had formed a circle of fire around him, perhaps created from kinetic energy due to his telekinetic powers (pyrokinesis). The fire died and faded away the moment he controlled his temper (It was honestly caused by his wings, which supernaturally had unfolded, but had not developed yet into a more physical state).

It surprised Reficul that the woman lost her fear of the child almost instantly and instead of running out of fear, limped over and embraced him. She then took her son and got far away from the place as soon as possible. She took him to get the “help” he needed, however, which not only blocked him from reaching his powers but also pushed away his memories to the very deepest regions of his mind. His light suddenly grew dim and faded away into the darkness. His eyes had also darkened and became permanently the color of old amber. This signified that whatever part of him that gave him his (sometimes) blue eyes had been pushed back and away inside of a mental cage.

[Kuwabara’s mother actually knew Sensui. Frightening thought, is it not? Sensui was a young lad at the time and was considered to be the future prophet. He was nineteen at this time (he’s 11 years older than Kazuma, making the boy at the age of around 8), so he didn’t recognize Kuwabara years later because he was still a little boy when he first met him. It was Sensui who helped put the idea into the boy’s mother’s head to get rid of the man, since he was nothing but a “worthless piece of trash” that needed to be punished for his crimes.

Lovely cult she is in, really. A group of people with extraordinary powers for the sole purpose of feeling acceptance, not to mention carrying the ideals that there is both good and evil in everyone. They had the concept that humans were the worst of sinners in all of existence. They are also considered to be some sort of a New Age group that continuously looks for answers to the meaning of life and what we all truly are. Honestly, it was Satanic. Much of Kuwabara’s family is actually deeply tied into this group, but a lot had broken away while a few chose to remain a part of it.]

And before that, she had told him she had to go away and that all that had happened were simply nightmares. The police were after her and she knew she would spend her life in prison, if not face the death penalty. Taking away his memories, his powers, and leaving him behind so she could take the blame for the crime that was committed was her gift to him so he could live a normal life (at least that is what she hoped for, but she honestly knew the truth of the matter).

She left him in the hands of those whom she could trust, who then delivered him to his “new” family. They weren’t necessarily strangers, in fact; the man who had come for him was his mother’s older brother. He has a wife and a daughter of his own and didn’t mind taking him in. He actually seemed very enthusiastic about it (he was grinning, laughing, and everything), and told the boy (who couldn’t remember a thing) to call him “dad”. Kazuma was now in the hands of a good yet odd family, though the girl (Shizuru) was tough as nails and sometimes could be hard to deal with.

As happy of an ending as it was, Reficul couldn’t help but be disheartened over the matter. Kazuma couldn’t remember a thing about him, not to mention he couldn’t even see him less he made himself entirely visible to everyone’s eye. After all of the wars, the battles, everything which he had been through, to Ref this was the darkest day in history. Black Sunday. Eventually, as time passed, he found it hard to even find him. He blended in so well with the other humans.