Disclaimer: I do not own Tactics or Yami No Matsuie. Though I love the shows.

Authors Note: Sorry it took so long to up date but I've been really busy lately I've been working on this chapter during my free time so I hope that you like it.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

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It had been a two days since the incident with the door and Kantaro hadn't said a word about it. Instead he had locked himself in his study for two days when no one would drop the subject. It was the third day that Haruka had finally got fed up with his master's stubbornness and went to drag him out. He was pounding on the door shouting at the man on the other side for ten minutes and Yoko was shaking her head at the goblins yelling.

"That's it damn it Kantaro get out of there now before I blow down this door." Haruka yelled glaring at the door.

"Oh calm down, and stop yelling its not like I can't hear you." Came the reply as the door slid open to reveal the silver haired man stretching. "Did you need something or is there a job? And why are you yelling?" he asked Haruka as he stared at the taller man confused.

"You have been in there for nearly three days. You didn't answer when I called the first ten times and now you're asking why I'm yelling?" Haruka growled out as his dark eyes flashed dangerously from under his dark bangs. He took a quick glance at the smaller mans clothes noticing how messy they looked. Glancing back up he also noticed how tired his master looked. "And to answer your question no you don't have any job except to finish that article for Reiko. Now what were you doing in there for the past two days?"

"Eh? Oh I was just looking for something. I found it an hour ago then decided to take a nap until you started yelling." Kantaro said as he smiled a bit at Haruka.

"It took you two days to find something?" the black winged goblin asked in disbelief. "You didn't come out not even to eat for two days just to find something." Haruka growled out as the mans words sunk in now he was getting angry with the red eyed man.

"Oh calm down Haruka your getting upset over nothing I ate when you and Yoko were asleep." Kantaro lied hoping to calm the goblin down. 'I had better not tell him he's right cause otherwise he'll be watching me like a hawk and if he tells Yoko then I'm doomed. She'll nag me and make sure to follow me all day so that she knows I'm doing what I'm told. They're supposed to listen to me not the other way around. Sheesh what did I just get into?'

"KANTARO! Are you even listening to me?"

"Huh? What did you say?" was the reply Haruka got from his master.

"I said that you were lying about eating because I can hear if somebody leaves their room or goes downstairs. I'm a goblin and I have very good ears even if I was sleeping." The demon eater growled at the silver haired exorcist.

"Oh yeah I forgot about that." Kantaro laughed uneasily as he put his hand behind his head then pulled it to rest on his chin as if he were thinking. 'Hmmm how weird. I actually forgot that he was a goblin let alone he and Yoko were in the house. I was mad at them so I came to my study then I remembered that picture we took before we left that place so long ago.' "I guess I must have been so absorbed in finding that picture I forgot that Haruka and Yoko were in the house." He shrugged as if dismissing the thought as he began to walk down the hall.

"What picture?" Haruka asked he had been watching the man in deep thought for almost two minutes when he heard the man mutter something about a picture.

Kantaro jumped when the goblin ask that question snapping his head around to look at Haruka he asked, "I said that out loud?"

"Yes now what picture were you talking about?" Haruka asked once again as he followed the smaller man down the hall.

"It's nothing to worry about just a picture that I've had since I was a kid I almost forgot that I had it." Kantaro said as he waved his hand at the goblin over his shoulder not turning around as he entered the dinning room.

"Ha so the wife stealing coward finally shows his face, does he?" shouted Sugino as Haruka came in behind Kantaro and almost ran into the man.

"Sugino why are you here?" asked the black winged goblin as he pushed his master to start moving again.

"Demon eater what do mean what am I doing here I came to see you of course. Why else would I bee here?" replied the mountain god in a cheery voice.

"Good you seen me now leave." Haruka said as he sat down next to Kantaro who was already eating.

"What?! But I just got here that's not a nice thing to say demon eater." Sugino said puffing up his face much like Kantaro does when acting like a child when they're angry or can't have what they want.

"So I'm not nice now what did you want?" Haruka shrugged as he drank some tea.

"He's here to take you out for awhile because he thinks your worrying to much about me and thinks that you need a break. So he won't leave until you go with him, am I right Sugino?" Kantaro asked as he grabbed his own tea and drank it as every one stared at him.

Every one was staring at the man wondering if he was right or not when Sugino stood up and yelled "How did you know that? I didn't say anything to anyone."

"I know you too well Sugino." He said shrugging his shoulders.

"No you just guessed you had no idea why he was here either." Haruka said in a board voice then added "Idiot." Under his breath.

" Yeah so at least I got it right. Oh hey Yoko may I have some more rice?" Kantaro asked the fox spirit.

"Oh yeah sure Kan-Chan hold on." Yoko replied as she got up and headed to the kitchen.

"So what do you say demon eater? Do you want to go or not?" the white winged goblin asked turning to the other goblin.

"No." was Haruka's only answer.

"Why don't you go with Sugino today I'm sure you could use a break from me. I have to go to the Bookstore today any way and you don't like to go there with me. I think that you really should go with Sugino you two hardly spend time out together and besides this way if Sugino does some thing stupid you'll be there to stop him. " Kantaro said smiling at the two goblins who where now just staring at him. Sugino was looking at him with wide eyes and his mouth hanging open. While Haruka just glared at his master.

"You're trying to get rid of me for the day. I know full well that you don't like going places by your self unless you have to and you never cared that I didn't like going out before so why start now?" the demon eater growled to the man and continued to glare.

"Oh really so then you will go to the library with me? Haruka you're the best!" Kantaro said smiling as he sipped his tea.

"For some reason I feel like I just walked right into his trap." Haruka mumbled to himself as his eyebrow twitched in annoyance.

"I say you did really demon eater he's like a snake tricky. You really should know this by now." Sugino said to his friend with his arms crossed over his chest and nodding his head as if agreeing with himself.

"I'll tag along with this idiot." The demon eater said pointing at the other goblin.

"Hey! Demon eater that's mean I am not an idiot!" the mountain god whined.

"Awe Haruka doesn't wanna go with me now but you just said that you would too." Kantaro whimpered like a kicked puppy.

"I changed my mind. Your both idiots." Haruka said getting up.

"Fine be that way." The folklorist pouted "Yoko I'm going to the library now thanks for the food. Bye now." He yelled as he walked out the door.

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Haruka watched his master leave the house then snuck into the younger mans study and looked around when he saw a piece of paper sticking out of a book.

"Whats this?" he said pulling it out to see it.

"What are you doing in Kan-Chan's study?" came a female's voice from the door.

"Yoko! Don't sneak up on me like that." Haruka said as he spun around to see Yoko and Sugino standing in the doorway.

"Oh so this is why you chose to stay behind so that you can snoop through Ichinomiya's stuff. Very clever Demon eater." Sugino said smiling mischievously.

"No I was just passing by and noticed the door was open when I was shutting it I seen this." Haruka lied knowing that his master never shuts the door and using it as an excuse to why he was in the room.

"You were snooping." Both Yoko and Sugino said at the same time.

"Yeah well look what I found. Yoko do you know who these people are?" he said holding up the picture to them.

"Oh? Let me see." Yoko said snatching the picture from Haruka.

"Yeah I wanna see too show me." Sugino said looking over Yoko's shoulder.

'Bingo. That was easy.' Haruka thought as he took the picture back. "So do you know who they are Yoko?"

"Nope sorry. I've never seen them before but I think the one is Kan-Chan." The fox said waving her hand as if she wasn't interested.

"I see." Was all Haruka said as they all stared at the picture.

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Kantaro walked towards the library as he turned a corner to the library he stopped looking at a man coming out of a store.

'That man I've sensed him before the other day with him aura just before they both vanished. He's dangerous that much I can tell especially if Haruka and Sugino didn't sense him they wouldn't sense him or her but this guys they should have.' Kantaro thought as he walked by the guy.

The man smiled as Kantaro passed him. 'So then this is the famed Ichinomiya Kantaro strange I expected something more oh well I guess I'll find out more about him later. He may be able to help and if he can't then he'll just become a replacement.'

Kantaro's eyes narrowed and he frowned at the malicious intent he picked up on and he quickly grabbed his wrist as the bells began to ring loudly.

'This guy has some real evil intent if I can sense his drifting thoughts and I'm keeping my spiritual power down as low as I can that's definitely a bad thing. I shouldn't be sense thoughts unless I want to but then even that needs my power to be free and not limited like I always have it. Not to mention that my powers are trying spike out at him. His power is a threat and I'm barely able to contain it. Damn I have to get away from him.' Kantaro thought and moved as fast as he could to the library.

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"Well we should put it back and go who knows when Kan-Chan will get back. If he sees us in here he'll be really mad." Yoko said looking back and forth expecting her red-eyed master to pop out of now where.

"Yeah demon eater we should go I really don't wanna hear that wife thief yelling it gives me a head ache." Sugino said walking out of the room with Yoko right behind him.

"Yeah let's that idiot master would never let us hear the end of it." Haruka added as he put the picture back where he'd found it. 'I'm going to find out what is so important about this picture and why you're hiding it.' He thought as he walked out of the room. The side of the picture was sticking out of the book as he walked away. On the photo stood three kids one a girl in her teens with brown hair an eyes she had each of her hands on two boys shoulders and was smiling brightly. The boy on the right side was around five or six with chocolate brown hair and purple eyes he was leaning on the other boys free shoulder smiling. The last boy was staring at the camera with his red eyes his silver hair a little messy.