Expressionless Clown: Serial Killer With A 'Smile'

"A clown that was once perceived as a happy being has turned the world upside down." He read as he looked at the streets that were littered with his picture. He was called the "Expressionless Clown" or "The Clown Killer" by news papers television news. What he really was as a man who had deviated from the path of shame and being laughed at by small children and adults. A path that only had tormented him.

"Killer Clown is coming to town...Are you ready?" he said lowly, his infamous clown makeup in place as he walked down the dark streets that lead into town.

He walked down the street with his current retainer. The boy looked young or rather man but he was much older then he looked. And instead of forcing him to pleasure him in any way he desired he decided they would find this 'Killer Clown' and bring him to justice.

Rensa Kaiju walked down the block behind his retainer following because this one held his leash. A leash that could never be taken off.

"it's time to put you to good use huh Kaiju?" The man said as he glanced back at the deep blue eyed man walking behind him. "And after well....you and I have to make up for a wasted evening."

Rensa looked over at him. "As you wish." he answered in a dull flat monotone not allowed to have a will of his own not allowed to disobey or fight back that leash would make certain of it as they rounded the corner and his retainer licked his lips. No this one would not fight but he sure would make Rensa fight for him.....Trusting that Rensa could take him down and if he got a little damaged in the process oh well.

"My wish my pet is for you to take him down.....use it if you have to. You being damaged won't ruin our fun tonight." Maki said as he smirked and looked at the target at the killer clown.

Rensa looked up and at him his deep blue eyes lacked luster.....obedient subservient to Maki as the other let go of the leash. An hour before his will wore down and Rensa's own started to show up. More then enough time....and with the 'demon' powers inside of the boy taking down the killer clown would be a piece of cake.

Rensa moved seeming to simply vanish as he brought his leg around no friend no foe.....nothing but the kill and those that held his leash seemed to thrill in making him 'uphold' the law around here killing off threats....the sad thing was Rensa didn't know better. Was never taught right from wrong always told he was a monster a demon.....he was doing only as he was told.......reappearing with his shin about to connect with the small of this 'clown's' back......the it...was Shift break...and if used against this one....it would most likely kill Rensa.....

Without even moving, his hand came up and grabbed hold of the leash. "Please tell me you weren't honestly thinking of attacking me in such a sloppy manner?" he said lowly as he finally turned, his gaze moving to land on Rensa, hand still out in the air as his fingers were curled around the leash.

"Don't take me so lightly...I'm not standing here to be a target for an idiot..." he said lowly as his gaze moved up to lock on the one who had sent the leashed one on the attack. "Taking me so lightly is dangerous...not to mention deadly..."

Maki stared as the clown had without turning caught Rensa's leash holding it and upon doing so stopped Rensa in his tracks his leg moving and coming back down as he stood there head slightly bowed feeling the struggle of wills although it was short he could not feel the will of the previous retainer but this one but this one he could not yet distinguish what he wanted. It was unclear as none of it was directed at him.

"Sloopy? Your joking that was just to get your attention. Kaiju kill him now." Maki screamed at Rensa....

Rensa slowly lifted his head and tipped it dull deep blue eyes looking at him......seriously had he already forgotten if the power and will of the one holding the leash was stronger then the current owner then......they were no longer the one who 'him'. "Do it you fucking monster I order you.....take him down."

His cold gaze stayed focused on the man who so badly wished him dead. "That would be easy...if I were not stronger than he...." he said lowly as his gaze finally moved down to look at Rensa.

"When I release this leash, stay put...I don't wish to have you do my own dirty work...you're not a pet or a toy for me to play with...so for now...you will simply watch...and be a good boy..." he told Rensa lowly, flatly.

It wasn't a command, nor a statement. It was a simple request from a man who was both deemed a monster, and a murderer. Perhaps he was...however, he had redeeming qualities what would both save him, and the leashed one.

Maki narrowed his eyes. "Give me a break stronger then him? He could kill you if he moved. And he will. Damn't Kaiju move I gave you an order now for fill it or you'll regret it tonight." Maki said in a threatening tone although he had the strength and power to contain Rensa he knew if this one truly had the power to upset his control that......he had the power to kill Maki himself.

Rensa looked up at him. "As you wish." it was a simple answer and although it was not a command or a demand it was an answer never the less although the answer wasn't so monotone flat. There were the faintest hints of emotion in the response as if that small token from this man was enough to start to awaken the sleeping crushed soul that Rensa had. Rensa though tipped his head and looked over at Maki not a pet not a toy. And he would not be doing his dirty work.......Rensa blinked and remained as he was. Seemingly docile but highly curious.

Signing, he met go if the leash and vanished, reappearing in front of the one who had so foolishly believed himself to be stronger than Ningyo himself was. "I do wish you weren't such a fool...but I can't choose who confronts me...so I suppose it is something I will have to live with..." he said lowly, his cold, black eyes staring at the man before him.

"You have wasted both my time, and yours in coming here to try and confront me...and since you are forcing me to waste my energy on you, I will not give you a merciful death..."

Maki narrowed his eyes. "I came here to bring you in but you seem to think you can take what belongs to me. The Kaiju is my possession and you just up and think to steal him away from me? Confront you yes but that is to bring you in for your crimes. Come demon do you job before your master is forced to do it for you. You know how much you will be punished for that one." Maki said not at all happy about this surely just this one grabbing the leash was not enough to break his hold on Rensa......

Rensa looked back over his shoulder tipping his head. "You....are no longer one whom I call Master....." he answered there was an undercurrent there....an undercurrent surfacing faster then it should since the hour was no were near up any time soon it hadn't even been five minutes since Maki let go of the leash the difference being....the will of the one who caught the cursed leash.....he didn't want to crush Rensa down, didn't want to make him obedient to his will he wanted him to simply stay put and stay out of harms way an that wasn't a demand....the demand had not been felt it was as if this one that soo many considered bad had sent through to Rensa stirring the man inside of the shell to wake......a simple request. Stay out of harms way and let me handle him......and Ren had no desire to go against that request. Because that was just it.....it was a simple clear cut request.....

"A person is not a possession...they have a soul and feel emotions just like you or I...." he said lowly as he looked at the man with cold, black eyes. "A master is for a pet...and a person is not a pet...an animal is meant to be a pet....find you a wolf if you wish to be master of a beast....." he said lowly, coldly.

He was annoyed by this idiot's statements. Rensa wasn't a pet or a slave....he was a person who deserved to be treated as such.

"Since you're wasting time still...I shall begin the process of enducing your death..." he said lowly, closing his eyes and he began to speak Latin, casting the spell of Mass Misfortune. It would be a slow, painful death for this man. He would become ill and slowly deteriorate.

The man started laughing as he heard the Latin being spoken. He himself gathering up a powerful blast to fire off at him even as he spoke. "Just because an animal can take a human form does not make it any less of an animal. That beast knows only how to kill that beast is a Kitsune more then that he's Nogitsune and a demon on top of that. That thing does not deserve to be treated as anything more then a beast. You give him freedom of movement not only will he kill you he'll kill everything else around him and giggle as the blood is spilled as if he's playing some sort of dark twisted game with everyone's lives. " He said firing off his attack the blast firing at Ningyo. He didn't know what the other was doing nor did he care. He just didn't want loose the boy.

Ren looked over at them watching them without moving although it had been nothing more then a simple request he obeyed as if it was a command but not because he had to. There had been nothing in that request indicating that he had to stay put had to and could not move. In fact the request was based off of this one's feeling of need of righting some wrong......and So Ren watched the 'clown' watched the man before him as this man.....had caught a Kitsune's attention.......At least the bit of attention that was surfacing now that Rensa wasn't being utterly crushed under the will of another. Ren was a bit curious though he wasn't playing a game....he killed simply because he could...not mind you that anyone had ever told him it was wrong and he had been called a demon and monster a bastard child and root of evil since he was born......he didn't know or understand everything he learned he learned on his own and what he learned....was how to survive nothing more nothing less.

He sighed as he finished the string of words needed to cast one spell, but without speaking, he had cast two others while casting the main spell he wanted to use. He was too strong to need to cast one spell at a time.

When he opened his eyes, he actually smirked a little as he watched the fire ball coming towards him. "Your magic is pointless..." he said lowly and watched the shackle form around the man's ankle and cuffs form around his wrists. "If you were any kind of spell caster, you would know how to triple cast...you're nothing but a parlor magician..." he said lowly as the third spell formed, the 'mirror' forming around Ningyo and reflecting the fire ball back at the man.

Maki struggled with the shackles on he could not fight back and looked past him at Rensa. "Get over here now!" he screamed what he deemed even now his possession the funny thing about the deep soul burned curse on Rensa......Maki was no longer the strongest one who held his 'leash' it was this one this so called clown who was Maki's down fall.

And so Rensa watched as the fireball that Maki had cast hit him as the shackles held him as the spells went off one by one watching with what one could almost call bright curiosity. Maki didn't stand a chance against Ningyo. Didn't stand a chance against Kyo the clown who killed without emotion. Maki knew very well who it had been as he screamed in pain as his own spell hit him doing damage to him instead of to the man who he had sought out. If he had been wise he would have left him alone and simply played with Rensa at home. He coughed burned and singed hurting from head to foot at the moment.

"to think none of this would be happening if I just stayed home and I'd still have my toy there and you'd be on your merry ol' way." Maki wheezed as he shifted trying to move he was done for he knew that and while it was a regret he did cast his gaze to the kitsune standing there. No longer the strongest but he laughed. "What will you do now? He can't ever be freed....those restraints are cursed into his soul burned so deep that if you try to remove them it will damage him beyond repair. A monster that great precautions were taken to keep control of." he paused to look at the smaller five foot five man who didn't look all that dangerous at all the teen nearly full grown adult......who was soaked in so much blood. "You took his leash even if you don't believe in slaves and toys in owning someone that is exactly what you have now.....you own him. No matter what you do that Kaiju until one more powerful then you takes his leash from you is your possession...."

Tilting his head a little, Ningyo looked at the man as if in confusion. "Can't free him? Who ever told you that is an idiot..." he said lowly as he looked at the now sad and helpless man. "I can free him without damaging him....I know a spell that can...and my magic is much stronger than the original spell caster..." he explained lowly before he looked back at Rensa and then back to Maki.

"But it doesn't matter to you...you will die a slow, painful death...as you wallow in your own self pity..." he said lowly, snapping his fingers, sending away the Mirror and the Shackles. "May the Gods have no mercy on your soul..." he said lowly as he moved, turning to walk back to Rensa.

Rensa looked up as Maki staggered backwards and ignoring the words that he would die a in a slow and painful death ran off to go see what he could do to counter it.

Rensa though looked at Ningyo as the short lived fight happened and tipped his head his 'self awareness' had managed to fully manifest since Ningyo wasn't trying to crush it down. And in his deep blue eyes was an odd sort of innocence....a dark one, one that whispered that Rensa truly didn't comprehend that killing others was a bad thing that he was dark and dangerous and cruel and yet innocent and gentle and playful......and perhaps that was what was scariest about Rensa what was so feared. He could kill without remorse without batting an eyelash play with a person's death as easily as a child could pluck the wings from a butterfly and watch them die that sort of horrible morbid fascination with it. A child was scolded and told that killing the butterfly was bad that all life was precious. Rensa was told he was a monster and evil being but not that it was bad words heard since birth so now the leash hung from his collar as he looked at the one who approached him. Everyone died differently it was an odd thing to have learned over the years this 'death' thing.

Everyone everything no matter if they were human or what died differently then the other....and that was perhaps what others believed fascinated him about it.......honestly Rensa didn't think that far on it......to him it was just getting to watch that red liquid flow freely from the prison of the body it was kept in......he didn't understand so much. But now in this moment in time what held his curiosity was not the idea of making this one's red fluid come out but the man himself.

When he stopped, he looked down at Rensa and sighed, knelling down to put a hand on his head. "I don't know what they've done to you...but you're not a monster...you were just never taught right and wrong..." he told him lowly before he stood up and took the leash in his hand.

"I will not let you kill....it's not something I wish to see your hands used for..." he said lowly as he looked down at Rensa, now letting the emotion seep into his black eyes as he looked down at Rensa sadly.

Rensa looked at him as the hand came down upon his head. And yet the feeling wasn't one of cruelty or even some of the more darker emotions. He listened for a moment didn't know what was done to him but he wasn't a monster. "I'm not?" although it sounded so odd to ask such a question when one is told they are a monster since the moment they are born it is all they come to believe. A thing a monster. "Right or wrong......." that was more of a curious echo to himself before Rensa looked up at him feeling it the certainty in that, that he would not be allowed to kill......

Rensa Kaiju gazed up into this man's eyes this man who swore he was not a slave or owned by him as he said that....that he would not allow him to kill....it wasn't something he wished to see his hands used for...."Why....not?" he asked although normally he would have responded with a rather dull hollow why not....this one was different and Rensa himself was being allowed to wake up in some aspects he was nothing more then an innocent child understanding only a world he was shown a world where he was evil and so he knew nothing different and in others a full grown man. But at the moment it was the 'child' that peeked through.

"You're not...you never were..." he answered lowly as he looked at Rensa. Sighing, he closed his eyes. How could he explain what was right, and what was wrong?

"Kindness...is right...killing without reason or just because you can is wrong...and I don't desire to see blood on your hands...it's not what they were made for...they're far too beautiful to be soaked in blood..." he explained lowly as he looked at Rensa.

"I will be the one to wear the blood...not you..." he said lowly as he held the leash.

Rensa looked at him quietly a moment or two before nodding as if that was simple enough. He was saying that Rensa would not kill. That killing was wrong he didn't fully understand why it was wrong but he said that kindness was right, and that killing without reason or just because one can was wrong. That he didn't desire to see blood on Ren's hands because they were far to beautiful? He brought his hand up looking at the delicate fingers on his hands at the fine pointed claws that were there in human form as well as his true form before his gaze traveled back up to Ningyo.

"But....then if you are the one to wear the blood....is that not wrong?" He knew he sounded silly but this 'right and wrong' was a whole new concept to him. He hadn't answered the issue of not killing didn't think he'd have to. After all although it wasn't a demand this one held more then the leash in his hand he held his attention so because he asked he would have it. Rensa would not kill although if he thought about it people tended to want answers. "Because it is a request....I will not kill."

He shook his head a little. "I will not kill those who don't attack me first...or those who are innocent...I will only wear the blood of those who try to harm you or others..." he said lowly as he looked down at Rensa. To be asked such a question...it had honestly taken him by surprise. He wasn't sure he was worth worrying about, but the question had honestly made him pause to think for a moment.

"I will only let you fight or kill when I need help protecting myself or others...but only if they're truly deserving of it..." he answered him lowly. It wasn't that he didn't want Rensa to never fight again. It was more the thought of knowing that Rensa didn't understand the concept of wrong or right...or fighting without killing.

Rensa looked at him and finally nodded. "Alright......you have my attention...." in more ways then one this one had caught his interest and he was interesting Rensa looked up at him. It would seem this one was bent on doing something others would not and teaching him what he was curious about as curious as he was about the man before him. "I'll do as you ask......although if it is not to fight or kill.....then you will use me?" He asked simply enough it was the basis of his life....every owner he had used him to fight there battles, kill for them or used his body for there own pleasure not that he could deny any of it. But still....since this one seemed bent on treating him as something other then a play thing...Rensa felt he had to understand what it was that Ningyo wanted from him. Although the way he said 'Use me'....it was a very clear indication for one who didn't grasp right and wrong......to know what it meant. Would Ningyo seek out pleasure from him like others had? And the way Rensa asked it....it was clear that the idea that it was wrong of them to take him without his consent without his permission was wrong as well........

His mother Sanja did him no favors when she neglected to teach him anything. And instead threw him to the 'wolves' so to speak.

That question made him stop any other train of thought, and without really thinking about it, he made a face of disgust. "The fact that you even have to ask that appalls me..." he said lowly and shook his head.

"I will not use you...if one does not ask permission it is rape...and I will never stoop so low as to rape someone..." he said lowly as he looked at Rensa. Though if it were to be told, he would certainly ask....

Rensa looked at him as he said that. No fighting unless it was to protect him or help him protect someone he would not use him at this point this man.......that 'innocent' light seemed to dull into a fierce annoyance and boredom. Normally when things lost there interest he'd play with them and they wouldn't survive it. Because he didn't know that his idea of playing since a small child was 'bad' until well now.

That sharp look landed on the features of the one before him the one who held his leash. "Damn't your frustrating." he said in annoyance as he looked at him. "You speak of this thing this right and wrong. That this kindness is right whatever the hell that is.....and that killing for different reasons is wrong." Rensa was showing at that moment a keen learning mind a quick wit and yet at the same token that innocence of a moment before was not a lie either. He was half demon after all so the temper in him......tended to show itself from time to time as well. "You won't use me....if that look of disgust is any clue I know those looks well enough...so what then is it you want? You hold my leash control my fate. You could crush me in a moments notice and I'd have no choice but to obey you so what then......is it you want?" he said, he wasn't hollering wasn't raising his voice but it was him dark low sensual and yet despite the sudden harshness of his attitude that undying innocence was there....it was clear at least to Rensa at the moment that he didn't understand this man who now owned his fate at all......if not any of those.....then what???

He didn't speak, instead, he stood there and took it. He took the anger and harshness and just let the blows hit him. But when Rensa was done speaking, he opened his eyes, having closed them when the anger began, to look down at Rensa.

What did he want? The answer was simple enough, but would Rensa be okay with the answer?

"A partner..." he answered lowly, softly. IT was as if he were afraid to say the answer...afraid of the response he would get in return to the answer.

Ren reached up racking his fingers through his dark blue black hair sighing as the answer came and to say it was one he was not expecting was an understatement. He sighed as he stood there this one....this one wanted a partner. Not a slave, not a toy, not a tool to be used and abuse and thrown away. But and Ren knew the meaning of it on soo many levels. A partner to no doubt walk his life with, a partner to go day by day with and a partner in other ways he knew the concept of that one single solitary word.

But what may unnerve this one before him was that Rensa laughed, not a dark cruel sound his deep blue eyes closing as he stood there. "I already told you.....you have attention." Ren answered lowly his head bowed his eyes closed it was mistake of some of is owners in the past yes he didn't understand right and wrong but now....he wasn't innocent to a fault. "I'm half Kitsune, you caught my attention once you have it you can't get rid of it." he answered with his head bowed before opening his eyes to look at the taller man before him. "It's just figuring out what your looking for. Since your soul isn't trying to dominate and crush mine."

Rensa stepped forwards as if he was the one in control despite the fact that Ningyo was holding the leash holding his will his freedom of thought of self right in the palm of his hand Rensa closed the distance and looked up at him regarding him a moment or two before he tipped his head. "But are you sure....it's a Nogitsune's attention that you want....if not for this collar and leash you would not be able to get rid of me......." Ren told him he did know that much how the Kitsune half of his blood line worked. The demon half...."and the other.......is a 'monster' I am half demon......and once we both agree to this....there's no turning back." in essence he never once agreed to be with any of those who took liberties with his body. Several were still alive and boy did he want to find them and play a bit with them but.........this one said no.

"Because if your sure.....partner.....then don't you think it better if I knew your name....." Ren asked in a low coy tone his gaze taking in the one before him as he spoke. He wasn't opposed to it at all....he'd agree more or less if he didn't want to be sure this one wouldn't pull back at the last second and invoke the curse on Rensa himself.

"I don't seek to dominate...only to be equal..." he said lowly as he looked at Rensa, so close and yet so far. "The answer to your question is simple. For me...I desire a partner...and desire that partner to be you...no matter the cost....I will pay the price..." he answered lowly as he looked at Rensa who seemed so guarded...

"My name...is Ningyo Shujin...but I have many others..." he said lowly as he stayed focused on the one before him. "Hito Katachi, Kyo, and Bo...are all what I've been called before...I'm also called the Emotionless Clown Killer..." he said lowly and finally began to walk.