Chapter 1:

Eri sat in the kitchen eating ice cream from the quart while watching the flat screen above the refrigerator. She had blue grey eyes and shoulder length blonde hair. She wore a white wife beater t shirt that barely concealed her rather large breasts, and loose blue jeans. "Hey, Eri." She looked away from the tv to see her best friend, housemate, and boss holding a list. The man had crimson red hair tied in a low ponytail, and blue/green eyes. She wore white button down shirt and a black pants suit.

"Yea, Xaine?"

"Kai, Nao, and Ichigo come back from college today. Their graduation was last week." Eri frowned at her. "Why are you just now telling me this? You know they won't be happy if they found out they missed it." Xaine sighed and rolled his eyes. "I know. I just completely forgot." Eri rolled her eyes "You and your damn job. You do have a secretary who can help you ease the pressure."

"I want you to take them out and get them whatever they want. Take them to eat do whatever. Eri glared at her boss not liking the fact that she has to work on her day off. "If you do this I'll give you the rest of the week off. Just please do this. I have a meeting to get to and no one else is available."

All Xaine talked about was work. He doesn't have time to hang out or date. If he isn't talking about work he's talking about the boys. Xaine Hartnet is the CEO of Heartnet enterprises. By day he runs a modeling agency, children's toy and a few candy store. But, at night he is one of Japan's biggest crime bosses. He runs a few night clubs, adult novelty and candy stores. He can be rather impatient and ruthless killing anybody he wants to and most of the time with his own hands. Most people can never tell because he's always so calm, but he does like to taunt others and he does it knowing it'll piss them off.

He shares his mansion with his most trusted employees, and two of his son's best friend. He paid for their schooling and supplies needed through their college years. "Fine go to your meeting I'll spoil them to their hearts content." Eri swatted him away while eating their ice cream. "Good, because they'll be here in twenty minutes." Eri stopped eating and glared at the man who just smiled. "If you weren't my boss I'd say fuck you" He laughed and ruffled her hair. She leaned backwards away from his hand and slapped it away. "Go to your damn meeting!"

"You're so cute." Xaine teased while walking away. "I'm not cute!"

Twenty minutes later Eri wakes up to the sound of Nao calling her name. "Eri?" She rubbed her eyes and sat up. "Im in the living room." She called out and immediately heard footsteps coming her way. She stood up only to be tackled back onto the couch. "Damn, Nao I'm still a female." She shouted as arms hugged her waist and laid on her chest. "Sorry." She felt the arms let go and he stood next to the other two males. Eri raised an eyebrow then looked at the nearby picture of the boys from three years ago.

On the right was Nao Heartnet, the left was Ichigo, and the middle was Kai who was the shortest of the three. Nao had stormy grey eyes and long black hair stopping at his waist. His fringes stopped at his chin with three red beads at the end of both. Kai had long black hair and hazel eyes. Both Kai and Nao had beautiful porcelain skin, completely unblemished to the eye. Ichigo had sun kissed tanned skin with chocolate brown eyes and spiky orange hair. All three wore their highschool's graduation robes also holding their diplomas. She looked from the picture to the real boys and smiled. Kai grew an inch taller and had red highlighted tips in his hair. He wore a black BFMV band t shirt, black jeans, and converse. Nao wore a purple t shirt with gir on the front. It had words above his head and below his feet 'Come at me bro'. He wore blue jeans and purple converse. Ichigo's hair and face was longer than four years ago giving him a more mature look. He wore a black t shirt with the hollow mask from the original series on the front, blue jeans, and converse. "Hey, you guys have really matured since high school. So cute." Ichigo rubbed the back of his head and turned away. Kai's face turned bright red and looked down. Nao just stuck his tongue at her.

"Still can't take a compliment from a female I see. Do you guys still freak out when they're naked?" Eri lifted her shirt and immediately they reacted. Ichigo pointed accusingly at her. "You can't just strip in front of guys like that! Where's your decency?!" Eri laughed and put her shirt down. "Still the same, you're so uptight. I'd hate to know how your girlfriends would react." They all tensed and turned their heads. "What, no girlfriends?"

They shook their heads no and she appeared several inches from their faces. "You've been there for 5 years and you come back with no girlfriend and no girl related stories? That's pretty strange even for you three unless…."

"Dad called me and said that he wouldn't be home and we were to come see you about something." Nao said breaking the awkwardness making her groan. 'I was hoping he wouldn't do that to me.' "Yeah your dad wants me to take you guys out and get you whatever you want, since we all missed your graduation and all."

"We didn't want you to go." Kai answered truthfully. "You guys supported us in everything else so we just wanted a break from it I guess you could say." Then all three of them each got a punch in the head. "We go because we wanted to ya idiots!" She yelled at them. "You hit really hard, Ri_chan." Nao said rubbing his head, and she smilled. "Where do you guys want to go?"

"Do you think dad will let us have our own pets now?" Nao asked with excitement. "I don't see why not. Anything else?"

"Candy." Kai answered. "Always with the candy." Eri looked at Ichigo next. "Anything for you, Ichi_Berry." His left eye twitched. "Don't call me that ever again." Eri nodded. "I'll stop calling you that when your next birthday comes. Get used to it Ichi_Berry." His eyes slightly darken making Kai and Nao frown.

"Just pick me up something from wherever you go." Those were his final words before he went upstairs. "What's his problem?" There was a long pause before they gave her a proper answer. "We don't know." They answered with a shrug. "Horrible liars, but I'll leave it alone. Let's go."

The first place they went to was the candy store. Since Kai hasn't been to his favorite candy store in four years he went candy crazy. His favorite candy store happened to be one of Xaine's candy stores. It was called 'Childish Delights'. When Kai buys candy he doesn't like to share with anyone, but Ichigo and Nao. By the time he was finished buying candy he bought three of everything making everyone look at him as if he was crazy. "Im sorry, I just haven't been here in a few years I got excited." Kai explained after getting the bags in the car.

"You know Xaine won't let you come back for at least four months. You better not eat so much at one time." Eri nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw Kai's teary eyes. "I'll take the candy back." Eri raised her hands up defensively "It was just a joke." Kai then smiled at her "That was kind of mean. If that were true, then…" His eyes suddenly darkened and it made him look almost evil. "I'd be sad." A chill ran up her spine and she turned her head to look at Nao, who was nowhere to be found. She looked at the car to see Nao look at her with a nervous smile then turn away to sink lower in the passenger seat.

She turned to look at Kai who smiled at her. "Let's go to the pet store." Kai hopped into the backseat waiting for Eri. 'What was that? What happened to the Kai I always knew and loved? He's never looked at anyone like that especially me. He even scared away Nao.' She looked at Kai with worry as he ate some candy. 'First, Ichigo. Then Kai.' She looked at Nao who looked at her with worry. 'Is something wrong with Nao, too?' She noticed Nao try to smile, but failed miserably.

The next place was the pet store and Kai practically raced in the store. "Hey, you were the most excited to come here. What happened?" Nao looked down at the ground rubbing his arm. "Kai is so scary now and Ichigo hasn't been the same." Eri frowned "What's going on with you three?" She asked and he flinched sensing how serious she got as soon as he finished his sentence. "I wish we didn't leave for school." Eri stopped not understanding what he meant and he headed inside the pet store.

Eri sighed and headed in after Nao. "Ri_chan."

She followed Kai's voice to the back of the store. She passed the reptiles, felines, canine, and birds. Kai stood in front of what looked like a bird cage under a black cloth. "This one's a bat. Can I get it?"

"Bats are nocturnal, if you want to talk to it then you'd have to wait til nighttime." Kai nodded understanding. "That's fine I still want him."

"Okay, that's fine just be careful." Eri then walked over to Nao who sat in between two large cages. The first was a brown wolf laying down sleeping. The one next to it was a large blue cat also sleeping. "Is that a?" Nao nodded. "Yeah, a panther I was thinking of getting Ichigo this one." Eri looked at the sleeping animals nervously. "Why can't you get normal animal that won't attack you when they're hungry?"

"Wanted something different."

"How will these two fit in my car?" Eri asked pointing to the large animals "You can get them delivered to your house." They all around to see a man standing in the doorway. "Kiskue?" Eri asked recognizing the man and he fanned himself. "In the flesh. So how goes everything?"

"Fine just fine. I'm here with two of my bosses kids." Eri explained. "Really? I didn't recognize you until I saw that heart shaped birth mark on your right breast." She glared at him. "Always a pervert." He just laughed at her. "We should catch up sometime." She folded her arms. "Sure, as long as you don't look at my breasts all day."

"Of course I won't I still like talking to you, Ri_chan." He added teasingly. "What can you tell me about these three?"

"I haven't been able to get to these three, I've been so busy."

"Yeah, staring at girls." Eri exclaimed giving him a blank face. "You'll just have to look at the papers. May I ask why you want these pets?"

"Wanted something different is all." Nao said looking into the grey eyes of the wolf who was now awake.