Chapter 2

"So what's on the agenda for today, M'lord?" Karuna asked sweetly as she kissed his cheek gently. D handed her an intricately decorated red velvet gift box.

"First," he said, "I wanted to give you this present. Open it, Karu!" As she did as she was told, she saw an egg. Not just any egg, but a firey red egg larger than the palm of her own hand.

She knew what this was. "Where did you ever get one of these, Count Sire?" she asked.

D brushed thoughts of getting the egg and fighting the mother bird aside as he told her, "That matters not. What matters it, I hold this egg close to me, my darling. As close to me as your hand," he took her free hand and place it by his heart, "is to my heart at this moment, my love. Now care well for this creature, for I shall not be held responsible for anything that would happen if you didn't. And if you fail to do so, I would much rather my life be taken than yours, my darling."

A tear coming from her eye, Karuna reached up to D's cheek and kissed it gently. "Now," she said, "What's on your plan for the day?"

D smiled his typical coy, mysterious smile. "I don't know," he said. "I'm being picked up in a police car and taken off to some mysterious location where only the detective knows what'll be happening in there."

Karuna's face flushed with anger. She didn't like the idea of the Count spending the night alone with Leon. She didn't know why, but with the way D looked at her when he was around, it made her feel like she was of less value. "Count?" she asked.

D took her cheek with one hand and held her close to him with the other. "Yes, Karu?"

"You-you don't….you don't love him do you?"

D smiled. "Oh, Karu, don't be silly, of course I love Orcot-San. He's my dear sweet detective. I treasure his company above my father's, for certain."

"What of my father's?"

"Aye, M'lady. Orcot-San is my dear friend, my beloved. He's the best man at my wedding. Now, we should be going our separate ways. We can't see each other again until the wedding day at the altar. You know tradition." He touched her nose with the print of his finger and kissed it. "Take care, my dear one."

…

"OKAY, D!" called Orcot as he honked the horn on his car. "I don't have all day, you know! And neither do you! We've got one night of freedom to enjoy left for you! So let's do it!"

D happily jumped into the front seat of the police car. "So what's on the plan for tonight, my dearest detective?"

Leon gave him a thumbs up. "Dude, tonight, you're gonna get drunk on something that isn't sake, you're gonna get pleased by women you don't even know, and then we'll work out the details later….in the meantime, let's jet!"

…

T-Chan smiled as he heard Leon's car pull away. He then turned to Chris who had snuck in with the help of Yo-Ling. "Okay, you guys, everything ready? We've got one chance at this or we're screwed, people! Let's do it!"

Chris grinned mischievously. "You sure they'll like it? I don't think Jill will be very happy with us after this…"

Q-Chan nestled safely beside Chris with his wings rubbing on Yo-Ling's hair a tad. "Dude, Jill knew this whole time, trust me. The assistant knows all of your hearts and hers. If she didn't know, why was she always winking at the Count when she left the two of them 'alone'?"

Chris nodded. "Good point. Okay, I don't feel so guilty now. Let's do it to it!"

…

"Dude, D….." a drunkard Leon Orcot called staring at D from across the table. "This is so typical you…just….relax for once, man. ……You only get….. married once, right?"

D looked at him. "I suppose you're right, Mr. Detective. Well then, here goes." He took a shot of hard whiskey and then coughed. "How do ya drink that……vial stuff?"

Leon laughed. "Oh, man, Count. You're obviously a light weight……….yarn't using that hoity toity grammar you always use so good no more…."

D laughed. "Heh, you must be right. The effect is pleasant…..taste aside…..is there a sweeter one?"

Leon sighed, "Always a chick at heart!" he flagged a waitor and ordered every mixed drink on the house. Including chocolate kalua. "Mind you, Count this my whole month's paycheck here, I can't pay for more."

A few drinks into the night, D was talking like Leon on a normal day, acting like him too. They were partying and having a grand time toasting D's last night as a single man. The lady dentist came to visit and she was wearing a black corset with her pleather thong and a whip rod in her hands.

"I understand your tooth aches, my dear Count," she said to D.

D grinned over at Leon. "Oh yeah, it's a bitch, it is. I could use a few things here and there to……end the pain."

She climbed on top of the Count. "Well then, sit right there and let me make this better for you." Shifting her body around into a 69 position she prepared herself to give the Count oral sex as he prepared to just enjoy it...but nothing happened for she was thrown off his body instantly.

"WHAT THE FUCK!?" cried both the lady dentist and Orcot in near unison.

"Hey……try alieviating the pain on your knees this time, hun. Might be less painful."

Doing as she was instructed, she got around to shifting his robes aside and found his package when a man with long hair walked in wearing one of Count D's dresses. He had a big floppy hat on his head too. "I'm sorry, I didn't know this room was taken." And the man was about to leave when—

"Tetsu!?" the door slammed shut.

"Leon, we can't do this anymore…" D said.

Leon looked at the count. "Why not? That wasn't Tetsu, that was a person."

"No, Leon, it was an omen. We can't do this anymore. I'd like to go home. I'll walk, I don't want either of us driving, we're both drunk."

"Count, my place is right next door. Come crash at my pad."