Yin walks to Hei's apartment after working at the tobacco shop. She'd been there all day, and was ready to eat the delicious food Hei normally makes when she walks in. She turns the corner to enter the complex and she hears a door open and then shut, followed by a scraping noise. She knelt down to touch the water puddle and her spectre sees the land lady sweeping her step. She turns and continues up the flight of steps, when she got to the top, she heard the door open, they were the only ones on the top floor so she assumed it was their door. Then she hears Huangs voice and knows that he'd given them a mission. When she reaches the top Huang tells her to stop, so she does. "What took you so long to get home? Did anyone stop you or were you just shuffling your feet?"

"Shuffling my feet." she says in her sweet mono tone voice. She really hadn't meant to shuffle her feet and be slow, she had just been thinking about what happened two nights ago.

"Well, get here faster next time and you might get the details of the mission from me next time" and with that Huang walks past Yin and down the steps. She continues to the door of their apartment. She supposed that Hei had saw her when Huang left because as she walks up he opens the door. "Thank You" is all she said as she took her seat at the little table he had in the room. She loved coming home to the smell of fried rice, vegetables, and of course, Hei. The smell of Hei always made Yin feel safe, and his presence made her feel even more safe. He set a cup of tea down in front of her.

She loved Hei, his cooking was great, he made her tea just right, and his loving embrace is what she always loved to have at night when they weren't on missions. But she worried on certain missions, Would he be alright? Is he going to come back to me? Or will I loose him? Was always what went through her mind when he put on his mask. But he seemed to be in a good mood right now, besides the feeling of having to go on another mission. She decided not to ask about the mission, and to let Hei bring it up. She heard the wok tap against a plate and knew he was putting the food on her plate. She heard him place it in front of her as he sets his own plate down.

As she nibbles away at her food, she can hear the scraping of chopsticks on his plate as he shovels the food in his mouth. That's the one thing she always found funny about Hei, is how much he actually ate. She thought at some times he could eat enough food for 10 normal people, and in someways it was true. Hei did eat a lot, but it wasn't the kind of food that the teenage boys around town ate, they ate snacks from grocery stores and weird, fuzzy liquids Hei told her were called 'soda'. She kept pondering this on till Hei said "Yin."

"Yes?" she replies back

"Did Huang tell you the details of the mission?"

"No."

"Well, we're to go to a fancy party, find the host Mr. Suzuki and bring him to Huang, alive."

He had a bitter tone on alive, did Hei not like the word alive?

He continued saying " You'll distract his wife while I knock him out and bind him. Once I do that we are to leave the party immediately and go to a safe house."

"Does this mean we need to go shopping for a dress?" She didn't know if that was a good thing to ask or if she should have just let him decide for him self, but he replies plainly "Yes we need to get you a new dress. We will go out and find one tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Yin says with that sparkle in her eye that told Hei she was happy

After Hei finished eating Yin started to wash the dishes like she always did. Hei came and helped her that's not like him, he only helped me a couple of times to teach me how. He drys the dishes while she washes and rinses them. When they're done washing the dishes it's 7 O'clock at night, and she notices Hei looks very tired, she suspects he is still tired and stressed from the previous mission. So she decides to go into their room and lay down for a few minutes to let Hei regain himself. When shes been in there for 5 minutes Hei comes to the door, "Yin it's time for you to have a bath" she sits up and walks towards Hei as he takes her hand to lead her to the bathroom, "Okay." she replies sweetly to her Hei. Her Hei... why did it sound so funny to say it.. when they get to the bathroom Hei says "Let me help you undress"

"Okay" is all Yin replied. Hei undresses her and picks her up gently, and sets her in the tub. She enjoys the feeling of the warm water on her body and relaxes as Hei washes her body. "Hei." she says quietly

"Yes Yin?"

"Are you doing better?"

Hei thought for a moment, contemplating what she would've meant. Then he remembered the other night when he was taking out that contractor and he got a deep cut on his shoulder and on his back."I'm fine Yin. You don't need to worry, I won't be that stupid again"

"What is stupid?" asks Yin with curiosity in her eyes

"The opposite of you." Hei says plainly

"What am I?" Yin asks again

"You're smart. And smart people don't get hurt." Hei pulls Yin into a loving embrace. Yin rests her head on his good shoulder and leans her weight into him. She whispers "I love you." into his ear

Hei whispers back, "I love you too, Yin.".

When Hei is done washing Yin and rinsing her hair he says, "Yin, go into the bedroom and put on one of my shirts as a night gown, I'll be out shortly."

"Okay" she says, turning herself to walk away to the bedroom. Hei watched her then when she was in the other room he drained the tub a thought to himself why is Yin acting like this, she's a doll, dolls aren't supposed to have feelings and whisper in your ear 'I love you'. He finishes rinsing out the tub and gets up and goes into the bedroom to find Yin knelling by the bed with her hand in the water glass, scoping to make sure they were safe. She stands up, "No one suspicious" asks Hei with concern in his eyes,

"No." replies Yin

"Good" Hei says as he walks forward and grabs Yin's arm. She turns around and looks him dead in his dark, dark blue eyes, the eyes she knew to be so caring, they almost looked human when they were alone, but around Mao and Huang his eyes had no emotions whatsoever. She had gotten used to this by now, but she still got caught by surprise when Hei gently pushed her against the wall and kissed her lips. Yin brings her hands up to rest on Hei's shoulders and around his neck, pulling him in closer to her. This takes Hei by surprise and he breaks the kiss. "Why did you stop?" Yin asks with a playful look in her eyes.

"Yin, you're going to drive me mad again if I didn't." he says short of breath, "Besides we want to be up early tomorrow to go looking for a dress, right?" he says stroking her hair back