DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OWARI NO SERAPH.

Note: Advanced apologies for the OOC's.

Yuu and Mika are best friends, yeah. Also... IF YOU ARE A YUUxMIKA shipper, please take note that THIS IS NOT A YUUxMIKA fanfic. So let's be clear on that. The fic will focus on Yuu, Mika and Shinoa. Not a love triangle.

SERAPH: THE BEGINNING 2
Yuu and Kimizuki ran back to the location of the battle, seeing the number of clothing left behind by deceased vampires. The two turned to each other and cautiously walked towards the crater that Crowley did earlier.

"Did they take her with them?" Kimizuki wondered since there was no body.

"Can't be. Children are the only livestock they will keep. There's no use to keep someone like her with them." Yuu speculated as he knelt down the crater, seeing blood stains scattered around it. Shinoa's blood.

"Well she's a Hiragi something isn't she? Maybe they want to make a deal of some sort." Kimizuki theorized.

"I don't think vampires are interested for a negotiation." Yuu denied his theory and Kimizuki was getting irritated now.

"Then how do you explain this?! She's not around! Did they ate her whole?!"

"She got away. That's the only explanation." yuu says firmly, believing that someone like her can escape the danger she is facing if she was bold enough to order everyone to retreat despite the situation being hopeless. He can never imagine that she'd be someone willing to sacrifice herself for others.

Mika was following them but kept his distance. Yuu knew he was around but is not talking to him.

"Let's go search for Yoichi and Mitsuba as well." Kimizuki suggested and led the way towards the direction where the two ran.

The silence was defeaning. But Mika had a feeling the team he put together did not retreat nor were they killed in action. Something was wrong. Something was wrong. But what was it? He can't put a finger to it... until it hit him.

"Yuu watch out!"

Helicopters arrived and started to shoot at them. Kimizuki dodged and rolled forward while Yuu fell backwards. Mika immediately ran towards Yuu for his defense.

"Go!" Yuu tells Kimizuki and he nodded as he ran away from them. Mika and Yuu on the other hand ran the other way as the helicopter chased them without end, firing bullets at them until they drop.

Mika leads Yuu to a tunnel and the bullets stop.

The two were panting and continued to run until they believed they were deep enough in the tunnel to be found. Yuu fell on his back, catching his breath while Mika leaned on the wall beside Yuu.

"I think we lost them." Mika says.

"Good. Because I am not running any further than this." Yuu said, still panting. "By the way Mika... if you betrayed them, you won't have a place to belong to. You should join us."

"I can't."

Yuu sits up to look at his friend. "Of course you can! I'll protect you! And my friends will also stand by you!"

"That's the point Yuu! They're not 'friends'! They're humans who deceived you to side with them and now they're making you do things!" Mika shouts at him in anger. Yuu kept saying that the humans from earlier were his friends... it was beginning to irritate him.

"No one is deceiving me Mika! The vampires are the one tricking you!"

"I'm only using them until I find you. And now that I did, I don't care about them. We can go wherever we want." Mika stated and Yuu sighed, falling back on the hard ground.

"You didn't change at all." Yuu muttered. "Think about yourself for once..." Mika was quiet as he stood up and started to walk further into the tunnel. Yuu watched him walk curiously. "Where are you going?"

"Just a short walk... to clear my head..." he replied.

"Don't go far."

As Mika reached deeper into the tunnel, he clenched his fists and stared at it. He was a vampire with nowhere to go. Yuu on the other hand found himself a 'family' he seems to care about. He was bothered how friendly they were... it's not normal... how were they so easily willing to trust me because Yuu said I was a friend? Those kind of people... are always the worse kind.

It's their way of getting Yuu's trust... and I played right into their hands!

He heard a low grunt nearby that caught his attention. He rushed to its source seeing the same girl from earlier, wrapping a bandage on her wrist.

"You." he muttered and Shinoa stared at him when she heard him come.

"Yuu's friend." she uttered when she saw him and continued to treat her wrist. And this annoyed Mika. She's pretending that I'm no threat! Grabbing her uniform, he glared at her face, her eyes... then he gazed on her wrist. "I'm fine." she says and he growled in anger.

"I don't care about that!"

He grabs her wrist, sniffing the scent of blood and she pulled her hand back.

"I said I'm fine." she repeats.

"Hey Mika, there you are, I thought you got lo-" Yuu walked in and saw them talking. "Ah! Shinoa! So you are alive!" he said in relief.

"Are you killing me off already?" she teased.

"N- No it's not that!" he tried to explain. "You see, Kimizuki and I were..."

But as he was explaining, Mika was observing them interact. He can see that they were close... too close in fact. Yuu was worried of her and the moment she appears he's suddenly okay now. Yuu must've been brainwashed so deep by this person... I have to take the risk and end this... otherwise...

He was angry that some filthy human can make Yuu smile like that. But what made him more angry was the way Yuu was expressing his concern for his fellow human. As if she was more than just a friend.

"Oh by the way what happened to your head?" he asked and reached for forehead, she grimaced when he touched her wound and he pulls back. "How did you escape the noble?"

"With my skills of course." she replied.

"I'm serious. There's no way he'd let you live like that."

"I got an opening, I attack and ran. That's all there is to it." Shinoa explained simply and Yuu was in complete disbelief. Mika however was doubting on her story. She was bitten and he knows it. There was no way she could've escaped someone like Crowley...

She's lying to him... just like what humans do. They lie and deceive.

"Well we should head back and find the others." Yuu suggests.

"More like reunite with them." Shinoa says. "Yoichi and Mitsuba ran towards Lieutenant Colonel Guren's checkpoint. They could be gathering reinforcements by now to search for us."

"That's good! Then we can tell them about-"

"I'm not coming with you." Mika said sternly. "Even if you try and convince me, I won't. I'm not going to side with humans or walk by her."

"Mika, you know I'm a human as well right?" Yuu tried to humor him but the blonde gritted his teeth and looks away.

"Would it be convincing if you go together to reunite with the reinforcements and I'll walk separately?" Shinoa proposed. Mika was surprised to hear it and so was Yuu, although there was an obvious relief from Mika's face.

"Whoa Shinoa, we're not splitting up! You know how dangerous it is out there! And Guren told us that's why teams are formed!" Yuu reminds her.

She chuckled in amusement and there was her annoying smirk again. Yuu did not like that look on her face. "For once you actually remembered something tactical from all those lessons. It's a miracle." she complimented.

"The heck are you talking about?!"

"I'm still not agreeing to it." Mika says to stop them from interacting further.

"Mika I'm not running away from this. We can run away all we want but we have no place to go and there will always be sides." Yuu continued to persuade his friend. "There are only two sides whether we like it or not."

When it seemed that the blonde vampire will not back down in the argument, Yuu sighed and sat down, pulling Mika to sit down with him. Shinoa followed his lead but made sure she does not invade the space between the two nor join their little circle to keep the vampire under control. If there's one person he'd listen to, that's Yuu. Mika braced himself for another speech. Yuu was persistent, and so was he.

There will only be one winner and that's if one backs down from this.

"Listen, Mika... I don't blame you for anything and I've been having nightmares about you and everyone else ever since my escape. I'd see nightmares every night and I couldn't sleep because I was scared... and all I could ever think of is to avenge you, Akane, the rest of the kids... I hated vampires and I'd kill every single one of them in my mind." he began.

Mika listened to him intently. He missed the two of them having these talks after all.

"I was alone. I'd shut myself from making new friends because I was afraid and because it was painful. But Guren, the guy who raised me, told me that there are painful things in life but there are also good ones. It just depends which one I'd look at more." Yuu continued. "Then I met the annoying Shinoa," he said with a chuckle. "And I met Yoichi, that jerk Kimizuki, Mitsuba... and many more. Little by little, they became family to me. And I'm not saying I replaced you and the others. I'm saying that I extended the Hyakuya family treatment to them."

Yuu smiled at his friend as he remembered the first time he met Mika. They welcomed him to the family and he'd push them away. The Hyakuya orphanage has this charm of treating everyone family.

Mika remembered it as well. And it was one of those memories that he'd never forget. But still... for Mika, humans are..

"These humans are filthy. They're using you." Mika argued softly. Not wanting to shout anymore.

"To fight for them?" Yuu asked and Mika nodded. "Mika, I fight and kill vampires because I hate them. If they are making me do stuff that I don't like I'd give them one heck of a fight!"

I guess... he's right...

The blonde vampire smiled, he regretted to have ever doubted on his friend. It seemed that he met a family like one he met at the Hyakuya orphanage.

Although they still have a problem... "They wouldn't accept me even if I come with you. I'd be dead before I even get to speak a word with them." he points out. Not all humans are as welcoming as Yuu or this Shinoa person or his friends.

"Leave it to me!" Yuu said as he placed a fist on his chest. "I'll talk to everyone!"

"I'm really happy about this reunion but can we continue later? Time is ticking." Shinoa spoke, thinking that it was her cue to end the conversation. Mika glared at her and Yuu pats his back.

"You'll get used to her crappy talks and childish attitude soon." Yuu said.

"What did you say, Yuu?" Shinoa asked with a glare and Yuu gulped, hiding behind Mika.

"Let's get going..."

Everything seems alright... I guess I'll have to trust Yuu on this one, just as he trusted me back then. I'll take a leap of faith.

Mika got up and stretched a hand at Shinoa to start his first friendly interaction with the humans. Shinoa looked up at him, surprised that he'd be so easily changed by Yuu's speech. Yuu as well was caught in shock, not knowing that it'd affect Mika that fast.

"I'm Mika and I'm Yuu's family from Hyakuya. A pleasure to be your acquaintance." he says and Shinoa reached his hand and he helped her up.

"The pleasure is mine, Mika." she says with a smile.

Yuu grinned and stretched his arm towards them to ask for help to get back on his feet but the two did not offer me a hand. "Hey! What's with that? I'm so important here but none of you are willing to help me up?"