Chapter 1

Zelman yawned into his hand as he walked down the dark alley way, obviously, bored out of his mind. He looked up at the cloudless night sky, wondering if something interesting was ever going to happen in his eternal life again.

Kotaro ran in front of his brother and Mimiko, looking in all directions.

"Brother! I think we're lost!" He yelled back at the two. Jiro stopped and looked up at the street sign, then before Mimiko could ask, he sighed in defeat.

~Crap!~ He thought. ~Kotaro's right!~ Jiro looked down at Mimiko and shrugged. "I wasn't paying attention I guess…" Mimiko stared at him with her mouth hanging open.

"Nice job brother!" Kotaro griped. His stomach growled in annoyance. Mimiko stomped in front of them and led them down a narrow street. "Hey Mimi," Kotaro said after a minute. "can we get something to eat? I'm hungry."

"Zelman-Sama!" Kotaro hollered running into the ramen shop and stopping next to his red eyed friend. Zelman glanced down at him and smirked.

"Yo." Was all he said before noticing the other two entering the shop behind Kotaro. "Whatcha up to?" Kotaro grimaced.

"Brother got us lost, and my stomach drove them crazy." He confessed, sitting on the booth next to Zelman, who snickered at Jiro. Mimiko stopped when she saw the red head. Jiro ran up to them, but before he could say anything, Zelman spoke first.

"Lost, Silver Blade?" He laughed at his own words. Jiro glanced at Kotaro, who was watching them and slurping down any ramen in sight. Jiro sighed.

"We went down a road I didn't remember." He said honestly, making Zelman laugh again. Mimiko walked up next to Jiro.

"Hello, Zelman-"

"Sup, Compromiser?" He said waving her formalities off. Kotaro burped, causing all three of them to look at him. He blushed at the attention.

"Sorry." He said before returning to his already empty bowl. Zelman went back to talking to Jiro and Mimiko while Kotaro finally noticed his bowl was empty and ordered another.

Kotaro's Prov.

I sucked down another ramen bowl while listening to my brother talk to

Mr. Zelman. When I finished my sixth bowl, I glanced at the window and saw something weird. It looked like a girl. A girl about fourteen, I think. I couldn't see very well because it was dark outside, so the lights inside made the window foggy. The girl looked normal enough, except for the ears on her head. They were animal ears. She turned and looked at me, waved, then gestured for me to come over to her. Was she talking to me? When I didn't move she placed her hands on her hips, and her…tail swished in annoyance. I looked around, then pointed to myself, and she nodded twice.

"Kotaro?" Zelman said, breaking my line of thought. I quickly answered.

"Yeah?" He stayed quiet till I looked at him. "Yes?"

"What are you looking at?" He eyed me, which I never liked, cause for some reason, I always got hotter, like he was burning me.

"This girl with fox ears is standing outside. And she-" I pointed to the window, but she was gone, as if she was never there. "Ehh?" Zelman glanced at me, then stood, and started to leave.

"Hey Kotaro," He said before exiting. I looked at him hopefully. "Let me know if you see that fox girl again, K?" I smiled happily.

"You got it Mr. Zelman!" Jiro looked at the red eyed man skeptically.

"You honestly think he wasn't making that up?" He asked. Zelman shrugged.

"You never know what this worlds capable of possessing. And who knows, if that girl is real, it might be fun." He then chuckled about something, then took his leave.

I glanced at the window, wondering if I really did see that

Normal Prov.

Kotaro walked a little ahead of the other two behind him as he thought about the girl. Who was she? Was she real? If so, what did she want with him? Just then, Jiro grabbed Kotaro and pulled him away just as an axe half the size of him clashed into the exact spot he was standing.

"Wha-?" Kotaro breathed out before seeing the sight in front of him. First off, his brother was in front of him and Mimiko with his blade out and ready, and on the other side was a kid with raven hair, and icy-blue eyes. His age ranged from fourteen to fifteen, but no older. He wore a black t-shirt with a tan vest over it. He had cut up blue jeans and no shoes. Around his raven hair was a black and tan head band.

The boy smirked, and for some odd reason, it reminded Kotaro of Zelman. Which scared him a little. He looked at the trio for a moment, before holding his hand up, and the axe returned to his hand.

"Well, damn!" He said popping his neck. "You actually heard me coming, that's a first. I'm usually never heard, much less caught by young black bloods like you." The boy laughed at himself. Kotaro looked at him confused. Why'd this kid call his older brother young? Mimiko then took this moment of silence, to speak.

"Do you know who your calling young, kid?" She said, making the boy laugh hysterically.

"What? Your Serious?" He yelled in between breathes. Mimiko raised her eyebrow at him. "Of course I know him! He's the legendary Silver Blade!" He said in a mocking tone. "Please!" He yawned. "Come on, what do take me for?"

"A little brat that thinks he can take on an old blood like it was nothing." Jiro stated. The boy stared at him. And stared some more. Then, he looked down.

"Really?" He asked. "You have no idea who I am? Well, I guess that expected from how long I've been gone…so," He looked up with an evil grin plastered on his face. "I'll just have to show you who I am."

As soon as anyone could blink, he threw the axe at Jiro's feet. He jumped out of the way then shot his gaze back up at the boy, to see he was gone! Jiro looked around, then saw a shadow on the ground in front of him. When he looked up, He, Kotaro, and Mimiko were speechless. Covering the boys arms were raven feathers, and jet black wings were sticking out of his back.

"Hahaha! You all look so surprised." He laughed at them. Jiro shot up and slashed down on him. The boy stopped the blade with his hand, then looked into Jiro's eyes seriously. "You can't beat me." He spun around so fast Jiro didn't see him move, then brought a foot with bird talons down on his back. Jiro shot down, and was able to land on his feet. Before noticing the boy's feet had changed into a birds. Three fingers, like a Y, and long talons hung from the ends of each finger.

"What are you?" Mimiko yelled up at him. The boy looked at her for a moment.

"My name's Crow. I'm a thousand year old blood." This made Kotaro's eyes widen. Theirs an older vampire than Zelman?

"Your joking!" Mimiko hollered. Crow laughed again, then with axe in hand shot down towards Jiro, then he shot back up suddenly with a troubled expression.

"Damn…they're here…" He looked around for this other hidden threat when something shot at him. He flew out of the way, and crashed into something else. That something was a person. Crow crashed into the ground, and let out an aggravated yowl of pain and annoyance. The other person landed in front of the trio, and Kotaro gasped. It was the girl he had seen outside the ramen shop.

She had silver hair tied back into long pigtails. Her eyes were pitch black. Her blouse was black with silver lining, to match her skirt. On her head were a pair of silver fox ears and a fluffy silver tail was swaying behind her. Her feet were covered in silver fur and three large claws were on the end of each toe.

Crow flipped up on his feet.

"You!" He yelled pointing a broken finger at her. She cocked her head at him, then smiled warmly.

"Hi Crow! It's been a while! How ya doing?" She said moving away from the axe hurled at her.

"Shut up!" He yelled at the girl. Jiro was ready to jump in and help when she jumped in front of him.

"You stay out of this, k?" She smiled kindly at them. Crow threw the axe at her.

"Die you stupid-wha?" He didn't finish. She did a back flip, grabbing the axe in the process, then landed, and flipped the axe back at him, lodging it right into his left leg. Howling in pain, he vanished into the fog.

Kotaro shot up. "We won!" The girl turned to him and smiled happily slapping him a high five.

"Yeah. For now. Mr. Jiro, Ms. Mimiko, Kitty, we should probably go now before Scarecrow comes back." Kotaro's eyes widened. Did she just call him, Kitty?

"Scarecrow?" Mimiko asked. The silver haired girl flipped again for no reason.

"Yeah that guy you just met. His real names Scarecrow. He thinks it's too long, so he goes by Crow. I wonder what kind of parents he must've had to come up with that as a name…" She went silent. Jiro coughed, trying to get everyone's attention.

"Well, thank you…uhh…" The girl smiled for the hundredth time that night.

"Yang. My name is Yang Kunone." She chirped at them. Kotaro ran up and quickly shook her hand. She looked at them. "Well, I think we should go now." Jiro nodded.

"Yes. We should get home as soon as possible-" Yang jumped in front of them, blocking their way.

"Oh no! Not your home, bud!"

"Why?" Kotaro asked. Yang laughed.

"You are SO cute! The reason you can't go home is because that's going to be the first place they'll look for you."

"Who?" Mimiko asked, confused. Yang jumped in front of her.

"The Scarce Boys!" Yang laughed after she spoke. "They work for Crow."

Kotaro raised his hand. "So Where do we go, then?"

Yang pushed Jiro into Mimiko, who ran into Kotaro, who slipped down a hole that was behind. Yang laughed Hysterically.

"There!"