The sun was just starting to shine into Hideo's room when he heard Yuriko's voice and awoke from his slumber. "Hideo?" she said as she softly pushed his door open. "You still aren't up? It's two in the afternoon."

Hideo rolled over and tried to ignore her, curling even tighter into a ball in a very unhumanlike manner. When she entered his room and began to shake his shoulder, however, he found it impossible to feign sleep any longer. "It's Saturday, no school," he mumbled.

"Silly, you still need to get up before the day is gone. Mom and Dad have already left. You just going to sleep all day?"

"Maybe," he replied, a grin forming on his face.

"Get up! she shouted, and pulled the covers from his bed. Hideo huffed and began to stretch. "And put your tails away. Why do you sleep with those out anyway? What if Mom or Dad found you like that?

Hideo crawled from the bed and began to dress, putting on whatever clothes he grabbed from the enormous pile on the floor. He retracted his tails, changing fully human. "I forget," he replied. He stood and moved to his dresser where a myriad of technological devices lay sprawled across the top. He picked up three cellphones, a flashlight, two CDs, and a pair of headphones. These he placed in his various pockes, except for the headphones which he placed over his neck, the cord dangling in the air. Last thing he picked up was his watch, this he took great care in placing on his wrist. It had been his first birthday present, his parents giving it to him shortly after he'd been adopted. "Race you to breakfast!" he shouted and sprinted from the room.

"Hey! No fair!" Yuriko said, chasing after Hideo.

By the time the commotion in Hideo's residence, two doors down, reached Fenrir, Fenrir had been in his back yard stretched out enjoying the sun for a full hour or more. Not that anyone who passed would know it was him, he looked as if he were the family dog being lazy on a nice morning, his wolf form being more comfortable to him than his awkward human and demi-human forms. In his human form, Fenrir rarely left his house which made all the children (and some of the teenagers) in the neighborhood extremely curious. His wolfish naps almost never went uninterrupted, even in the mornings, just that day at least a dozen of the neighborhood's residents had come by to try and pet him or torment him. He had just fallen asleep when Hideo's house suddenly came alive and woke him back up, so, needless to say he was NOT a happy puppy.

Growling under his breath he stood up on all four legs stiffly and muttered to himself, "It never fails, every time I fall asleep they just happen to become particularly noisy. I wish I didn't have to guard my identity so damn closely or I could have went over there, changed, scared the wits out of them, and been done with it long ago." To the best of Fenrir's knowledge, no one anywhere near his house was a Shapechanger of any kind, which was why he had picked this neighborhood. He liked his life of seclusion, but now it looked like he was going to have to go to next door and ask the neighbors to keep it down.

Fenrir finally stretched enough of his muscles to move comfortably and let out a long agitated wolf howl before padding inside so he could change. Once he had changed to his human form he went and put in his special contacts that made his eyes look green instead of yellow and got dressed in his usual attire before heading next door and ringing the doorbell, trying to keep his face completely blank of all emotion.

The doorbell rang. Hideo and Yuriko had each been in the middle of eating their own overfilled bowl of whatever sugar-cereal they could find and pour into the same dish when it happened. For a moment they paused, mid-chew, and stared at one another. Then there came the scraping of chairs on the floor, the sprinting to the door, (Hideo leaping over the furniture rather than running around) and the sudden loud slam as they both crashed into the door at approximately the same time.

Giggling furiously they both struggled to open the door. Hideo finally won, pulling the door open. His mouth still half-full of cereal he looked up at this newcomer with curious eyes, "Hi. Wh- mpf phmph?" He asked.

Yuriko giggled. Having swallowed already she told the man, "He said, who are you? He's so rude. Can we help you?"

Fenrir tilted his head to the side a little, a habit from his other forms, when he was asked who he was, he wasn't used to that kind of question. But, instead of complaining about the rudeness he said, "Its ok, I know a lot of people...like that...anyway, I live next door and, not to sound like some old nag or something, you guys were making a lot of noise, disturbed my dog. Would you mind keeping it down a little?" He actually smiled a little at their innocence, it was very refreshing after all the wanton curiosity he was used to from others in the neighborhood.

Once more out in the north, 696 was crazy, why did I ever whoa! White Lady(AKA Francis White) made a hard left turn onto Fenrir and Hideo's street as another car narrowly missed hitting hers, "Crazy Loon, why don't you watch where-- What the- ?" White Lady shouted seeing the purple look to the guy, "Oh great not again and I just had this car washed too" White Lady hit the gas and tossed a present backwards, leaving the Witch diveing out of her car thinking she tossed a bomb or something, instead it was just smoke and a flowery scent.

Hideo watched the car scene with interest, completely ignoring Fenrir for the moment. Then after a second turned back to Fenrir. "You have a dog! he yelled. "I didn't know that!" and with a quickness that might have surprised even the werewolf in front of him, Hideo scrambled out the front door past the larger man and ran down the sidewalk toward the nearby house.

"Hideo! You can't go in there, that's not your home!" Yuriko screamed after him. To the man in front of her she said, "I'm sorry for my brother, he's ecclectic. But you'd better go catch him or he's just gonna run in." Though she spoke english well, she did have a slight Japanese accent, though not as much of one as Hideo.

Hideo bounded down the sidewalk, dropping to all fours as he turned the corner, then stood to run across the neighbors yard toward the front door.

the Saturday edition of the Detroit News and Free Press landed on Hideo's front step just a few feet away from where Fenrir was standing, the Headline read.

Mass death in south Ann Arbor after building collapse, total dead 42, injured 17

underneath that there was a smaller headline...

Local Detroit man injured in fight with "Vampire" says there are more

on the front page there was a picture of the man after the fight with the Vampire. the picture read.

"Thomas York, now faces ten years to life in jail for the death of Sir Joe Greenstone, trial to be held on Monday"

There was also news in the Sports section as well as the Automotive section as well.

Lions Hire New Fullback

as well as

Ford to unviel the new Five Hundred Tonight

Yuriko picked up the paper, reading it as she did so. "Uh-oh," she whispered to herself, though not quiet enough to keep it from those with keen ears. "Here, too?"

Finally pulling to a smooth stop between the two houses, White Lady looked around, This has to be the place, at least I hope it is, if the info is wrong the guy that gave me this is dead she thought looking at her map, Woodward Ave, 22 mile road back that-a-way, so this is the place White Lady then started to fold up her maps when she saw out of the corner of her eyes, a smallish form go dashing past.

Yup I think that was the kid, was it? White Lady thought turning to follow Hideo as he started for Fenrir's place, I wonder... White Lady opened her door and stepped out of her car, looking over the top of the Mustang she called to Hideo, "where you headed kiddo?"

Hideo didn't pause at all as he dashed across the yard, sprinting for the man's front door. "He has a dog! I'm gonna see it," he shouted over his shoulder. Reaching the porch he bounded up the stairs and turned the knob intending on dashing inside.

With an oath, Fenrir took off after Hideo catching up to him right as he reached the door, knowing it was too late he bounded through the door after him and ran straight to his bedroom where he quickly shed his clothes, shook his head to dislodge his contacts and changed to his wolf form. As soon as his front pads touched the ground he bounded out of his room, barking like a dog would if he thought there was an intruder in his territory. He stopped in front of Hideo growling a threat if he moved any more toward the interior of the house.

Cale wearing his usual non sleeved white shirt and baggy black trousers, was walking down the street quite tiredly hadnt even noticed the speeding car exchange go past him, he was holding a small backpack slung over his shoulder packed with his story books and comics.

he was heading back to his house which was exactly opposite from hideo's accross the road, still completely oblivious of whats going on he stopped at the end of the path infront of his house and dropped the bag and stretched

"I wish grandma would stop training me so hard" he yawned then went to pick up his bag, "its as if shes expecting something bad to happen!?!" Turns his head sideways seeing Ms. White and the comotion accross the road. "Nah, im not that lucky" Cale walked to the edge of the curb "Hey Yuriko, I Told You Ya Need To keep Your Brother On A Leash" Cale smiled and waved at Yuriko

White Lady set a arm on the roof of her car, Yup this is the place she thought, hearing the barking from inside Fenrir's house, she shut her car door and went up the walk, in her hand was a small piece of paper, she looked at the adress, Wait...is that, no not this house, might be the next over, or maybe across the street for all I know hearing the growl she entered Fenrir's place and looked around, Not as much stuff as my old husbands mother's attic she thought looking around the place, as she searched for where Hideo and Fenrir were.

Fenrir heard the new arrival enter the house and snapped his head to an angle where he could see them both. He recognised the scent of a Cecillian but he didnt like the fact that she was there one bit. Deciding that it was time to say screw the consequences. He changed into his demi-human form and growled "What do you want Cecillian? Why are you in my house?"

cocking her head to the side when she saw both Hideo and Fenrir, she took a deep sinff, Great, Lycan, wonderful, this ain't the house that's for sure White Lady thought seeing Fenrir change into his half wolf form, she was tempted to change into her half Cecillian form but thought against it. "I see I'm in the wrong house, was looking for someone that knew of a vampire fight not far from here" she said, so far this was bad, maybe she should take off when she should've, but she didn't

Fenrir's expression lightened just a hair, "You mean all that noise last night? Who DOESNT know about it? Hell it bugged me so much that I went and watched, pretty entertaining actually." At the memory he cracked a smile...or rather the closest that form can come to a smile, "I always have hated Vampires, I love to watch them be annihilated." He was no longer being menacing, he was simply standing there, not wanting to go back to wolf form because he would be shorter than everyone and not wanting to go back to his human form because he would be naked.

Hideo screamed in excitment when Fenrir first emerged as a wolf. "You're a wolf! I love wolfies!" However, when he shifted into his half-wolf form Hideo let out a long sigh of disappointment. "Aw... you're just another ga... um... wolf-guy," he finished, unable to remember the correct word.

He turned quickly as White Lady entered. "Hi, who are you?" he asked