After being dragged into the house Black and Onizuka spent a few seconds wondering the clouds, they got themselves together and stood up to a family watching a program on the television. The young Yua saw them and called out to them.

"She recognized us?"

"Ahhh! Sakura look at you. You are not fat anymore."Black examined himself and Onizuka and found out that their bodies had returned to childhood. "Really? Can't you say anything else other than that?" He snapped at Onizuka who tripped trying to back away from the angry now nine year old Sakura. "It is the most notable."

"Apologize you damn fuck." The family shared a chuckled causing the two to get off of each other and stare at them.

"My, oh my Sakura-chan aren't you a feisty one." Chuckled the father, Black felt a bit disgusted and decided to retaliate. "Aha, I was just kidding." He was scared crazy, he originally intended to just start spitting needles at everybody until the shadows showed themselves. It would have made their lives a lot easier, but now something was most definitely wrong. Even though he seemed to be able to talk to Onizuka just well, he was unable to do the same to the man.

He shook the thought out of his head quickly because it was an unconfirmed hypothesis. He stood up and extended his hand to Onizuka who blushed before grabbing hold. 'Damn it! I am I really blushing to a nine year old?" Onizuka thought as he stood up, his face was dyed red and his body started to feel hot. Black took notice and punched him in the face, "Help yourself."

"What did I do?" This ranting was of course ignored as Black made his way to the sofa and sat by Saito Yua. "Sakura you came!" Black stared stared at Yua in a confused manner "I did?" The gleaming smile left Yua's face scaring Black a little, the parents also stopped laughing and looked at Black. Onizuka froze in place not knowing what to do, the awkward and scarry silence went on for a few seconds before Onizuka quickly picked up what was going on.

"How could we ever forget your birthday? Sakura-chan is just playing a prank on you." Onizuka shouted to be honest he was not sure whose birthday it was, but if memory served him right the only birthday they ever celebrated here was Yua's and it was three days before the incident. Black exposed a forced grin, "Happy b.irthda.y I guess." The last words barely escaping his mouth to make any meaning.

Yua smiled and hugged Black as she let out some small tears. "Thank you very much. I know this must be hard for you because we have been fighting, but thank you for staying with Yua when everybody left me." Onizuka's tears were triggered for her left more than Yua behind, he left Sakura too. The occasional mandotory visits to her house did not count because he did them out of guilt. A bit of hurt was engraved in Black's heart as his other half lamented this girl.

That made Black realize that he was running out of time, he pulled Yua from him. Put his hand on her shoulders, "Let's have some cake then." He tried to give her the warmest smile possible but, it still came out looking awkward. "No!" Yua pouted, "I do not have time for this." Black thought, during his lost train of thought he realized that his crippling was nowhere and wondered if he can use this exorcism as a way to get rid of at least one of them, even the ones that can't talk yet he would be thankful. God only helps those who put in effort he thought.

"Sakura-chan, what can you possibly be thinking of, to make such a face?" Mrs Saito asked while putting her tea down to rest on the table. "And you my dear boy, why are you still standing?" Mr Saito added, Onizuka rushed to sit down and Black did not know what to do. Subconsciously grinned at the thought of having a chance to kill at a killing, because no matter how much one would try to deny it, this would only cease at the death of either party. And Black was not going to be on the loosing side, after all Lord Zero is always a winner.

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He stopped smiling and turned hi attention to the table, "Cake, I want cake." he pouted on the surface and grinned in the spirit. "No not yet we have to play some party games first." Yua exclaimed quickly, Onizuka wanted to protest but was cut off by a snarl from Mr Saito. Onizuka was not aware of Black was planning was petrified of being in the house full of ghosts, the him from a few seconds ago would call him a madman.

Black had an idea to somehow force out the questions he never asked when he was younger and trigger a transformation of the ghosts standing in front of them so that he can exorcise them along with an unfortunate crippling. "What games do you plan on playing." Black released an astonishing amount of murderous aura. The phantoms caught up and the father responded, "Charades."

"Oh, I can play that." Onizuka said joyously hoping to pick up the declining mood of the others. " To make things fair, you guys will have to get one of you to sit this one out. I will be with O-kun in my team. Anybody using telepathy or any form of drive abilities(abilities granted by yokai or crippling) and magic would be killed. Set that as the condition to your power activation and we will play."Black said this without lifting his gaze from the father phantom. The father smiled after thinking for a long time and said sure.

While this was happening Onizuka could not pick up a word they were saying, but he still hoped for the best. He had seen Sakura pound at nothing and break walls and a pavement during the process, he was ready for everything now.

They got out a board and some playing cards, everything was arranged perfectly there was even pop corn that no one dared to touch after Black sprinkled some table salt. But Onizuka because he thought that it would turn into spiders inside of him.

"Okay, you can only guess the contents three times, and make a final guess for the complete object in the card twice. That is five chances. Six points are allocated at the beginning of the game and with each guess one point will be deducted until the final score. The looser gets to grant the winner's wish." The father completed his exposition with a grin exposing sharp teeth, no longer bothering about being incognito.

"The first ones to play will be decided by a coin toss. Team Red will be me and my daughter and team blue will be her friends. Alright."

"ALRIGHT! No, no? Okay?" Onizuka was some how getting lost to the powers at play, one second he understood how dire their situation was and the other he was nine years old again. Black still hasn't seen Anzy and the others and was starting to feel uneasy.

"Would you like the honers?" The father handed over a death token to do the toss. "Just give me the damn coin. HUH?" Black looked at the coin and it had a menacing feel to it, he knew then that after the toss was made he will competing in a devil's game. First of all the coin had a spell on it so the odds were against them 9:1. He needed a way to level things up and since he cannot use his own powers for this game, he decided to call somebody who was exempt from this rule. Yes, he was going to rely on Anzy again.

He put the token in the middle of his palm and hovered the other had over it, after concentrating for a few seconds Anzy hopped out of the token like a shark out of water swallowing the curse whole. She retreated behind Black and whispered, "you could not live without me for a measly few seconds. How pitiful. Truly pitiful.

The phantom father jumped out of his seat, "You cheated!"

"Technically I didn't use my powers. You are the one who cheated by cursing the coin." Black gave away a calm taunt to the phantom without even paying attention to his presence.

"Who is to say that it was not already cursed? Besides that yokai is under your control." He yelled back and at this point he was ready to explode.

"That is where you are wrong. This is not a yokai it is a parasite far much worse than it. Behind me stands the goddess of anxiety and the more I rely on her the more her angels of despair befall me."