Chapter 2: Sweet Surrender

My alarm clock rang. I shut it down reluctantly for I am still feeling sleepy but I got up anyway. It was a beautiful morning with the good whether outside the window, a nice shower and a good breakfast prepared on the table. As I was approaching the breakfast table, all of them stared at me. I just blinked.

"Hm...?"

"Aya whats wrong?" Daniel asked worriedly.

"Huh?"

"You were gonna kill someone who is practically isn't our target last night, pretty boy..." added Darien.

I looked down with a sigh.

"It's okay, Aya. Most importantly you are alright." Karen gives a smile.

All of them just smiled. I just shrugged. Darien tabs my back to calm me down. Then, we all have a nice breakfast together. As Darien, Daniel and I were on our way to the back garage, to our surprise, we saw two new cars beside my car at both sides right after I opened the door to the garage. The left side was pink and the other was blue. Daniel and Darien went to check them out then my phone rang. I answered it.

"Hello..."

"Hey, Aya. Its me."

"Max?"

"Yup."

"Oh, okay."

"How are Daniel and Darien responds to Kritiker's gift?" she asked with an evil smile.

"From kritiker?The cars? Oh wow. They are really excited." Can't hold my excitement.

"Send my regards to them please." She hung up.

I put down my phone. Darien and Daniel non-stop complementing the cars. I walked towards my car.

"Any idea whose rides are these, Aya?" They asked curiously.

I just smiled sinisterly at them with some nods. "They are yours from Kritiker and by the way Max says hi"

"Oh my God!" Shouted Daniel in disbelieving.

"Tell her that we can't thank you enough..."Darien can't stop laughing.

We all drove our own rides to campus together. Showing off our rides on the road. People just can't stop staring at our gorgeous cars. We were lucky. Meanwhile, right after we left, two cars appeared in front of the shop. One is green and the other is yellow in colour. The one that drove the green car made a phone call. Suddenly, Karen's phone rang.

"Hello..."

"Its been awhile Karen..." he said with a smirk.

"Oh my God! Eiri!"

"Yup." He answered with a laugh.

"You should have told me to pick you guys up at the airport..."

"Nah ... so where should we park our car..."

"Car?...oh... you two as well...okay just the back of the flower shop there is a garage..."

The two cars were parked inside the garage. The two drivers take a break in the house accompanied by Karen.

In campus, we parked our cars side by side at the student parking lots. The students near by stared at our car. The three of us stepped out of the car simultaneously with grace while taking off our sunglasses and hang them on our shirt pockets. Girls are so excited to see the three of us as if we are the three male Gods of the school. Meanwhile, I lead the three of us to the main office of Academic Affairs to get their timetable. Then, I show them around campus.

At the same time, people keep staring at us with exciting expression especially the girls or should I say fan girls. It was kind of annoying but it can't be help I guess. I laughed to myself. After a short walk, we stopped in front of the library entrance where all parts of campus can be viewed at once. We were admiring the enchanted view and I showed them the buildings and told them their names.

"Daniel… your first class will be at Block B just right in front of us. Where we stood now is Block A and the two bridge connected to this block leads to Block C, on your left and Block B, on your right. In the afternoon your class will be at Block G. It's just a behind this green building beside Block B. The blocks after them are H to K." I point the buildings.

"Okay…" Daniel nodded.

Then, I looked at Darien.

"Darien… yours will be at Block K. It's the grey building at the end there. In the afternoon, you have your class at Block C, okay?"I tabbed his shoulder.

"Yeah…" he nodded with a smirk.

"Okay good. I gotta go to class now so I'll see you guys for lunch,'kay?" I left with a smile.

Darien and Daniel entered their first class. It was surprisingly odd to them when everyone was looking at them when they entered the class before the lecturer. However, after a few moment of silence, girls start to gasped. The girls invited them to sit with them. They both kinda enjoyed themselves. Daniel was asked a lot of questions by the girls while the boys are not really happy about it. Darien, on the other hand, was surrounded by girls in his class. The girls enjoyed his story-telling session about himself as a hero which made the other boys really fired up for being in the spotlight by the girls.

Meanwhile, I was running down the hallway to class. As I was entering the class, I saw Shun at his table reading while listening to his songs in his phone. I closed the door quietly behind me and tip-toed behind him. I glommed him surprisingly. He startled and shouted as he threw his book faraway in front of him. I picked the book up for him.

"Aya that was not funny…" he blushes.

"My bad… sorry cutie~" I grinned while handing him his book.

"It's okay…" he looked down with a blush while receiving his book.

I just smiled at him and take my seat while waiting for the lecturer. Few seconds later, Ace, Neil and Dylan walked in. They were laughing all the way until they took their seat beside me.

"Hey guys…" I greeted them

"Hey man…" Ace offered a special handshake.

"What's up?" We do the secret handshake.

"Hey , Dylan…Neil… so what's kicking?" I waved at them.

"Ya'know what man? I found this 'angel' man…" He said with excitement. Shun just rolled his eyes as if he knew the outcome.

I just sighed silently. Another girl topic I could guess. It's a topic that I am not happy to listen to or got involve at all cost. I just sat down listen to his story instead.

"Aya…Dylan really nailed it this time…" said Ace.

"Oh…" I pretended to sound interested.

"Well, if you like her so much just go talk to her, Dylan" Neil suggested.

"Yeah… I will… ha-ha…" Dylan agreed shyly.

"Ask her out then. Go for lunch or something and then talk to her," I suggested.

Few minutes later, the girls entered. Naomi came to greet us excitedly, followed by Shizuka and Amy. When I saw Amy, she really warmed my heart because she really reminded me of my late sister, Aya. I'm always in a good mood when she is around. Not long after that, my three best friends came. They are Ishida, Satsuki and Kira. They joined our chat right after that.

"Hey, Aya." Amy greeted me with a warm smile.

"Hello. Morning, Amy-chan." I smiled back. Amy blushed away.

"Yo, Aya…" Ishida offered a high five.

"Hey, Ishida…Satsuki…Kira…" I high fived Ishida while Satsuki and Kira are fist-to-fist.

Dylan kept babbling about that 'angel' of his while the others are so anxious to hear, besides Ishida and the others. The four of us faced each other like a meeting.

"Lunch with me today?"

"Sure…" the three of them nodded.

Everyone falls in and our lecture started right after the lecturer entered. It was English class, BEL 260. What we learned is boring but the lecturer never made his lecture boring. He would try to make it very interesting like watching slides shows or stories from the internet. At last, lunch time. We all headed to the canteen and grabbed a big place to seat. I caught sight of Darien and Daniel then called them over. I introduced my cousins to all my close friends. They were very welcomed. Shizuka have a special interest towards Daniel while Darien non-stop boasting about himself. Everyone laughed at his joke. After that, we continued for our classes. We walked together to Block G. Then, we parted with Darien because his next class will be at Block C. Suddenly, I felt someone pulling my sleeves. I looked beside me. It was Daniel. He called me closer to whisper.

"Aya, I made friend with a young lecturer. He is from Australia so he is a transfer lecturer. He will be coming over to our home tonight for dinner, please?" He begged.

"Sure…" I approved.

"Thanks, Aya…" He walked up the stairs happily.

Then, Ishida placed one arm around me and we walked together to class. At the same time, Kira and Satsuki walked beside us.

"Let's go, Aya…" Ishida insisted.

"Yeah…"I just chuckled silently to myself.

After the class was over, the three of us when back home. When we drove into the garage, we were shocked to see two new cars but this time was yellow and green. We got out of our car hurriedly and checked the two cars. Then, a voice was heard from behind us.

"Great huh?"

We turned back and saw Karen.

"What do you mean, sis?" Daniel asked curiously.

She just smirked and said," Come out boys…"

Then, two people appeared behind her and slowly the light gave a clear view of how they look. To our surprise, the two people standing behind Karen was Eiri and Kazuki. We were so excited to see them again. Daniel ran and hugged Kazuki really tight. Those two are really close childhood friends. As usual, Kazuki was not a smiling or lively type. We greeted them. I like to tease Kazuki, especially now when he looks so emotionless and blurry, I started to poke his face gently with my fingers. He looked at me.

"Huh…?"

I just smiled at him. He is really a funny guy to toy with.

"Okay guys time to work. I'll go change." I step-in the house and headed to my locker. I put on my apron. The others followed after that.

Like everyday, the shop was full of girls from our campus but they did not come to buy any flowers but just to see us work together. It's a pain really. Then, Ishida, Kira and Satsuki came over to ask for work. While I was shifting pots outside the shop, I heard two girls talking about our bio data they found in the internet. And they are like showing off to the other girls that they know us better than them. They said out loud our birth date, blood type, horoscopes, you name it. While I was watering the plants outside, Naomi and the others came. They called and waved at me. I just smiled. They just came to watched us work. Shizuka enjoyed observing Daniel working. Suddenly, Naomi's phone rang. By the look of her blushing face when she received the call, it must be Daye on the line. I thought. I wished I could have a special someone.

All of the sudden, I saw a butterfly with glitters passing through in front of me in a flash. After a quick blinked, it disappeared. What was that? I thought. I just shook my head and off the water tap. After I wiped the sweats on my forehead, I saw someone really beautiful just passed by me. I was so amazed by his beauty that I can't look away even a little. Then, I forced my body to turn to get a close look at him. As I was about to call out to him, my voice cannot be heard cause my nerve got the better of me. I was so amazed, shocked, nervous, weak on my knees and breathless when I saw him. What is this feeling? I thought deeply. He entered the flower. Who is he? Maybe he was just a regular customer. Questions after questions appeared in my mind. "Ah…! What the heck…?" I angered at myself. When I entered the flower shop, I saw the same guy was talking to Daniel. Then, Daniel showed him to the kitchen. As I was about to follow them, Darien grabbed my arm.

"We could use some help closing up." He grinned at me.

"Right." I looked at him sharply. I cleaned up my work place then I pulled the metal shutters down right after Ms Hokka and the last customer left. I washed my hands in the kitchen and Darien opened the fridge to grab something for dinner.

"Where is Daniel?" I started to ask.

"Hm…? Well he is upstairs talking with his lecturer friend of his." He answered while he was preparing dinner.

"Oh…" I left the kitchen and headed upstairs in a hurry. Out of the blue, at the corner, I bumped into someone and I fall on him. Accidently, I pinned him to the floor and our distance were very close as if our lips were about to meet. I felt his warm breath. I slowly opened my eyes. Our eyes met deeply for the first time although it supposed to be our second. I never in my whole life ever stood this close with anyone. We started to blush at each other and we could almost hear each other heart beats beating really fast. I placed my hand on his cheek to embrace him. Then, he made some horny expression and some soft moans. I just sighed and looked down. I got up and carried him up with me.

"I am sorry. We almost ended up with something not pleasing."

"Oh, it's okay." He walked towards the veranda next to my room and admiring the moonlight. I joined him right after.

"Uhm… I always love to stare the beautiful moonlight since I was a kid…"

"Yeah… me too… it is beautiful" he agreed.

"Well, I was thinking? Uhm…" Thinking of words to say that sounds romantic.

"Hm…?" He looked at me.

"If I have just one golden opportunity, I would like to confess this to you. Since I just found my 'sweetheart' in you, I would surrender all I have for that 'sweetheart' under the moonlight," I said to him with a serious tone.

"Oh, my… really?" He blushed.

"I would…" I offered my hand to him.

He smiled warmly and placed his hand on mine. I pulled him closer slowly and placed my arms around him. He giggled sweetly while blushing. I placed my head on his and kissed his forehead. We looked at each other closed in the eye and smiles as we talked.

"In campus, what were you teaching?"

"Hm… well… it's BEL for freshmen's year only basically…"

"Oh... nice" I smiled warmly.

Then, we dazed at the moon together as we declared our love and vows under the moonlight. I moved closer slowly so that our lips would meet. Meanwhile, Darien was on his way up to call us for dinner. He was shocked to see us at the veranda kissing. In order not to ruin the moment, he hid himself at the corner. Suddenly, Daniel came out of his room and saw Darien acting weird. He walked up to him, "Hey, Darien what's with….". Darien covered his mouth before he could finish. Shh.

"What?" Daniel asked this with a whisper.

"Look…" Darien points at the direction to the veranda. Daniel peeks at the corner to the direction Darien was pointing. He was shocked too.

"We better head to the kitchen silently…" Darien suggested.

"Yeah…" Daniel agreed so they tip-toed down the stairs to the kitchen.

We stopped kissing when we opened our eyes. Words can't really express how we felt for each other. When we looked at each other in the eyes, it was proven enough on how much we love each other with just eye contact. I kissed his hands.

"I could sense my cousins downstairs… I think they were wandering where you were,"

"Oh… I'll be heading downstairs then…" he said reluctantly while his body refused to leave my side.

I gave him a big smooch and he headed downstairs while I take a shower in my room. That was a good shower. I feel good. I felt like a new person all together. I changed and ran down the stairs childishly. I jumped down the stairs and landed right in front of Karen. Karen was very shocked as she fell down.

"Sorry. My bad." I said as I pulled her up.

"Aya? Are you okay? You seem so outrageously happy for some reason." Karen asked worriedly.

"I guess I am. Isn't it great?" I jumped happily. "Man! I'm starving! See ya, Karen" I ran to the kitchen.

"Oh… oh okay." Karen blinks. I guess it was the first time she saw me that way. She continued her laundry chores.

It was a wonderful dinner with my cousins and Misaki. He was like part of the family. We talked. We laughed. I love the feeling of togetherness. Then, Karen surprised us.

"Boys… let's go to the cherry blossom park this weekend. Misaki join us."

"Alright."I couldn't resist. I love the cherry blossoms.

"And one more thing. You guys are gonna love this. Let's form a rock band. I just got a job in the music industry as a band manager. So … let's form a band."

We were so excited to hear it and we agreed to form a band. This was one of our promises of our childhood times. At the same time, we were achieving my sister's dream as well. I could sing to her from Earth to show how much I missed her. Now, I have more than that reason to sing. I'll be singing for Misaki too cause he is my inspiration. Eiri disagreed to join but he would like to be our song writer for our band. After all, Eiri was famous for his love novels among women. Daniel plays the keyboards. Darien will be our lead guitarist. Kazuki will be our band producer. The more the merrier. I invited Ishida to be our drummer; Kira will be our base and Satsuki our stage-performing manager. With these, we have formed a band named, Nittle Grasper. Karen was so thankful to all of us and she informed the Head of NG company, where she worked, right away.

I looked at Misaki and smiled at him. Then, he placed his spoon of spaghetti on my lips to feed me. I opened my mouth and took a shoved. We smiled at each other shyly. That night too I insisted Misaki to sleep over. "Sleep here please. My room?" I asked with a whisper and ended with a smile. He just nodded. So, we held hands to my room. I locked the door behind me after Misaki entered. I turned to face him. Then, suddenly he hugged me really tight. I just placed my arms around him and showered him with kisses. I took off my shirt and threw it on the floor. I pushed Misaki on my bed and pinned him there. I slide my hands on his legs and slowly move upward to unbutton his shirt. Misaki just moans my name, "Oh~Aya~ah~", he blushed. I placed my fingers on his lips and slides down slowly to his chest. We French kissed for long hours and we slept side by side. My phone rang in the middle of the night. I got up and answered. The noises I made woke Misaki.

"Aya… what's wrong?"

"It's okay. Just go back to sleep." I tried to sound convincing.

Misaki was too tired so he went back to sleep.

"hello…"

"Aya… it's me."

"Max."

"Yeah. We got a mission. Get down here."

"Okay. I'll be right there." I closed phone put on my jeans and buckled up. Then, I put on my shirt without being button up and ran down stairs quietly.

I saw the others gathered at the living room. I saw Daniel and Darien giggling, Eiri smirks at me and Kazuki stared at me sharply. What the hell?

"Okay everyone focus." Max insisted. I took a seat at the middle. Max turned on the television and Persia was on.

"Hunters of the night, it's good to see all the main members of Weiss are here. This is your mission. This three masked murders are our targets, The Knife Gang. They were suspects of a massive murder of the four scientists and politicians but the police have no leads. This mission lasted since a week ago. I put Max in charge to investigate the matter. I have asked her to investigate the purpose they killed those scientist and the politicians. We have come to a conclusion that this group of scientists and politician were conducting a research on 'Star Dust'. A long time ago, when a meteorite hits Earth, this group located the landing and the right place where the meteorite landed. So, they have the rights to conduct a study on it. Recently in the news, the four of them appeared in the Science Convention and declared that the 'Star Dust' can be source of power. After the four of them were killed, the disc contained the "Star Dust" project was missing. Other reports will be informed by Max. Hunters of the Night, deny these evil beasts and their tomorrow." Persia disappeared from screen.

"You heard the man." Max smirks.

"This is awful. A massive killing for just a 'Star Dust'." Daniel angered.

"Believe it, Danny…" added Eiri.

"What you get, Max? Anything new so far?" I asked. Then, everyone silent and looked at Max.

"Yeah. I have located the disc. It's with a girl that was near by the crime scene. She happened to be there when a car crashed on her boyfriend who just sent her home from above. The car falls off the flyover and crushed him along with his bike. It's in the news this morning, on the front page news." She threw today's newspaper on the coffee table in front of us. We all went over to look at the big picture on the front page. In the picture, the disc was just beside the girl. Then, I looked at Max.

"Max. If the disc is with the girl then…"

"… the girl is in danger." Darien added.

"Yes. I am sure they have started moving. This girl met a guy just two days after the incident. I feared that the man could be one of the members of The Knife Gang. I placed a tracking device on her and a hidden speaker. If I heard their conversation correctly, they are going to a chalet on Kana Mountain. That man invited her to investigate together about the disc and the truth about her boyfriend's death at that resort. If that is the case then it's possible they are planning to kill her there after they got the disc. So I bet all of you know what to do."

The boys left for the mission while Karen and Max stayed as backup. We suited up and headed to Kana Mountain Resort with a car and a motorcycle. We reached at their meeting place before them. We ten minutes to put our plan in action. Then, I heard car engine not far from the chalet. Everyone took their position pretend to be on a vacation. We heard two people talking by the door. Daniel and Kazuki watched television while Eiri and I reading books near the piano. The door bell rang and Daniel quickly answered it. The man with glasses that was with the lady taken out a knife from his pocket and was about to stabbed her silently. Daniel made him postponed his plan to kill her because it supposed to be his gang members that watched over this chalet. I guess they were late. Daniel welcomed them. Darien brought nice red wine for all of us. Laughter surrounds the place when everyone shares their own jokes.

I stopped drinking another glass and headed to the kitchen. I gave a signal to Darien as I was entering the kitchen. I dramatically pretend that I was really upset when I got out of the kitchen.

"Oh no! Guys we have no food for the night."

"This isn't good." Darien added.

"There was a convenient store down hill when we got up here." Eiri suggested.

"I'll take the keys. Let's go Aya." Darien got up from his seat and grabbed the keys.

"Have a safe journey." Daniel handed our jackets by the door and we drove out of sight. The snow covered our tracks. We didn't go to the convenient store. We just hid at a near by tree and off the cars light waiting for the right moment to strike. Two hours have past just a blink of an eye.

"They are taking a long time…" Daniel whined.

"I guess they got lost in the storm." Eiri concluded.

Then, Kazuki's phone rang. He answered it.

"Kazuki, it's time." I told him.

"Okay. We are coming." He replied and put down his phone.

"Is it them? How are they, Kazuki?" Daniel asked worriedly.

"The car was dead on the way back. They want us to pick them up."

"Alright. At least, we know they are fine. "

"I'll get the keys." Eiri volunteered and exited the chalet.

"I'll come." Daniel followed Eiri.

"Me too. The two of you please watch over this place." Kazuki ran out and close the door behind him.

The woman stood up and headed to the veranda. She dazed the beauty of the full moon that night. The man followed her right after.

"It's beautiful isn't it, Taki?"

"Yes. Just like you Miss Harashi." He smiled.

"Oh...oh...no…" She blushed.

"You sure…?" He placed his arm around her and pulled her closer. Their lips almost meet. "Let the moonlight witness our love…", he continued.

"Wait… moonlight….light..." She figured the keyword for the password to enter the disc content. "That's it!", she ran into the chalet and switched on a computer. Inserted the disc and entered the password "LIGHT". Access was granted. She was so excited.

"Taki look. I got the password and…"

"I thank you, Ms Harashi for figuring out the password. The reason I didn't grab the disc from you is that you have the guts to figure the password." He threw his glasses and took off all his clothe. Behind those fines clothe, were a man with black suit, wearing a mask and holding an axe.

"Taki, what are you talking about?" She started to look frighten as she took some steps aback.

"With this I won't hesitate to kill you…" He licked his axe and his other two members appeared from the back door.

Kazuki hid behind the trap door behind the bed. Daniel hid on the roof. Eiri and Darien hid behind the pillars on the veranda. I hid behind the tree at the back of the chalet. The three gangs keep on walking forward while Ms Harashi kept her speed walking backward but she tripped and fall on the bed. She was trapped. When they were about to kill her, Eiri switched the light off. Kazuki opened the trap door and pulled Ms Harashi in. I sprayed a handkerchief and covered her mouth. She felt asleep. Kazuki disguised himself as her and ran out of the trap door and stood at the back door. Eiri then switched the light back on. I ran out from the back door. They heard the door closed and saw 'Ms Harashi'(Kazuki) ran out to the snow. They ran after her.

Daniel caught sight of them from the roof. He shot one of them that appeared to be the last person who left the chalet with his arrow-gun straight to his heart from his back. One of them was kinda lost near the main entrance of the chalet. Darien tabbed his shoulder. When he looked back, Darien punched his face and tangled his wires around his neck. Darien jumped over a tree branch and hung him to death. Kazuki ran towards the tree that I hid. Kazuki dived into a big bush near the tree. I looked down the cliff and I saw the last member still standing. He noticed my presence and looked up at me. I draw my sword. He started to freak out.

"What do you people want? Who are you!" he asked with a frighten tone.

"We are Weiss and you are our target. We hunt people who do crimes." I jumped down the cliff and sliced him up front. His mask braked into two. The mission was completed and we headed home. I crawled back to my bed right after I took off my Weiss Uniform in the garage. The next morning, Miss Harashi woke up. She got out from the trap door. To her surprise, she saw the three men were killed in frightening ways. She screamed and the mountain echoes it.

Then, my alarm clock rang. When I was about to stop it, someone press the off button before I did. I woke up and saw Misaki prepared breakfast for me. He was wearing just his shirt. Oh my God he is so irresistible. I thought.

"Aya. I made you breakfast." He said with a warm smile.

"Is this for real? If this is a dream, I swear I won't wake up…" I joked.

He kissed my forehead and blushed, "It's not a dream darling."

I smiled. He fed me with the breakfast he made until the last spoon. "How was it?" He asked curiously.

"It's good. Very good. You are a good cook. You'll be a good 'wife' for sure." I complemented him.

"Awww… thanks Aya. You meant to say your 'wife', right?" He smirks.

"Ha-ha… I wish. No problem."

"I go to go now. I have an early start" He waved and left the room after he took the tray of dishes.

Then, I got up and headed for the shower. After that, I went down the stairs to get my keys. Karen saw me headed to the garage. She called out to me.

"Aya. How about breakfast?" She wandered.

"My 'wife' just made me one and I finished it all", I smiled.

"Wow, okay. Have a great time."

I just waved at her and seated in my car. I drove right after the shutter moved up. In class, everyone was busy chit-chatting. I sat between Kira and Ishida.

"So, when will be our first concert? Have you write any lyrics?" Ishida asked.

"Yeah. The song we going to perform is the song I have written a long time ago, 'Sleepless Beauty'. I will inform the other information soon."

"Cool." Kira and Satsuki were amazed.

Time past by with a blinked of an eye. At the flower shop, among the crowds, there was a familiar person. It was Ms Harashi. I grabbed a pot of Tiger Lilies. I walked towards her and handed her the pot. She smiled.

"Thank you, Aya. It's beautiful." She admired the flowers.

"I hope it brightens your day." I said with a smile.

With the wind blew her hair, the sun shines on her bright smiles enchanted her that beautiful evening. The time has come to close the shop and Misaki just arrived. As usual, Misaki slept in my room. This time we just slept in each others arm. The next morning, Karen woke everyone up for our trip to the park. She was too excited for the trip that she woke us up with kitchen utensils by banging them. As a result, everyone woke up with a bad headache.

At the park, we found a good spot for our picnic near a small hill under a cherry blossom tree. Daniel took the advantage for a nap under the tree. Darien placed the mat near by and Karen placed the picnic basket in the middle of the mat. Kazuki brought a bag full of utensils needed. Then, Karen and Eiri when to buy some sodas for us while Darien took some pictures while exploring the park while Kazuki accompanied him. Misaki grinned and pulled my hands and said, " Aya let's go for a walk?". I smiled and we went for a walk near the river bank. Daniel was alone watching the picnic spot. A man came by and saw him under the cherry blossom tree. That man crawled over to his side. When a cherry blossom petal falls on his nose, that man was attracted by Daniel's beauty and kissed his nose. Daniel slowly woke up and saw him. He took a rose and slides it down Daniel's lips. He placed the flower in Daniel's palm and he kissed Daniel lips. They have become fond for each other in feelings. Daniel can't stop blushing and that man can't stop staring at him straight in the eyes with a warm smile.

"Where are you from beautiful?" He asked.

"I am from China. I worked here as a florist in The House of Kitten Flower Shop."

"China? Wow. You worked as a florist. No wander you smell good like a flower yourself. So what's your name?" He smiled.

"Daniel. You?" Daniel flushed.

"Nowaki. Nowaki Shu," He smirked.

Later, Karen and Eiri returned with lots of soft drinks and some beers. They were shocked to see Daniel talking with unknown someone.

"What's with Daniel, Eiri? He is talking to a guy as if they are close."

"I have no idea Karen."

They just walked over to them. Daniel and Nowaki realized they have returned.

"Hey, Karen, Eiri. This is Nowaki. He is sweet and he just asked me out." Daniel blushed when Nowaki placed his arms around him.

"Hello…" Nowaki greeted them.

"Please to meet you. Oh wow, Daniel. You two just met right?"

"Obviously." Added Eiri after he just answered Nowaki with a smile.

Daniel flushed. Nowaki hugged him real tight. "Would you two be against our love?" Nowaki asked with a teasing tone.

"What? No. I mean uhm…" Karen searching for words to say.

"Of course not. We were just wandering if it is true because we just knew about it and it is also so sudden for little Danny after all." Eiri interrupted.

"Wait. Aren't you Eiri Yuki the famous novelist? It's a pleasure to meet you." Nowaki asked.

"Oh? You heard of me?" Eiri pretended not to know.

"I read your book but I really don't understand it though." Nowaki teased Eiri.

"Whatever." Eiri got pissed and just lighted a cigarette.

Not long after that, Misaki and I returned while holding hands from our casual walk. We grouped up with the others and we both met the Nowaki, who was hugging Daniel. They both explained how they met. We were proud of him and we welcomed Nowaki to our family. Not long after that Darien and Kazuki returned after taking a bunch of photos of the park. We explained to them as well about the situation. Then, we have our picnic under a huge cherry blossom trees by the lake. We were having a marvellous time. Suddenly, I heard running steps from a distance and so does Daniel, Darien, Kazuki and Eiri because our senses are sharper than humans for we are vampires. We all looked at the direction from where it came from. To our surprise, all of our close schoolmates ran towards our picnic spot.

We were all ambushed by them, especially Daniel. He was tackled by Shizuka. Nowaki was a little pissed but he just giggled away. Then, it was almost midnight. We headed back. I sent Misaki back to his apartment with my bike while Daniel and Nowaki still having a lovey-dovey chat by the door. Suddenly, when Kazuki switched on the light at the living room, Max was there. She just smiled at the others.

"How was your day?"

"It was cool", Nodded Kazuki.

"Was… ," added Eiri.

"Eiri met a fan of his book but he really pissed Eiri… ha-ha", Darien laughed.

"Oh…"

"Anyway, Max. Since you are here, that means we have a mission, right?"

"Yup."

Meanwhile, I kissed Misaki on his cheek before I left his apartment. I rode back to The Kitten House. When I was about to turn the door knob, Darien opened the door form the inside.

"Welcome back, Aya… We got a mission. You just in time." He smirked.

"Ah…? Right." I was little puzzled and just enter-in.

We all settled down in the living room. Max turned on the television and Persia was on.

"Hunters of the night. Greetings to all of you. Recently, we received massive reports on children went missing. We believed that they were kidnapped however the police have no leads. The kidnappers kidnapped children usually after school session ended. The kidnapping happened at the south of this city. In the south there are around three primary schools. We don't know the reason why the children are kidnapped and we don't have any targets. So, hunters of the night, I bid all of you good luck." Max turned off the television.

"This is insane!" Darien angered.

"Yeah. No target." Kazuki added.

"Well, I did some research and we could say we kinda lucky in one sense. We, kritiker , have investigate all the missing children background. There is only one school that no even one child was kidnapped yet. We could start from there. Uhm… by the way where's Daniel?

We just looked at each other with a smirk. Then, Darien just burst into laughter.

"You won't believe it Max…" I laughed.

" What?"

"He just found a lover, Max." Eiri answered.

"Oh, wow. Lucky him" Max started to giggled. She continued," Anyway, we should let him know the info about the mission. So, all of you have to take turn to go for a trip to the south."

"Eiri and Karen will go in the morning while the others in the afternoon." I suggested. Everyone just nod.

Max left the building from the back door. Eiri guided her. Not long after that, Daniel meet up with the others in the living room.

"Hey, guys. What's up?"

"We'll talk in my room," Kazuki pulled Daniel's hand and headed upstairs.

"We'll start our investigation tomorrow." I added and we all headed to bed.

Under the red full moon, a dark force appeared behind its shadow. A black winged heavenly being appeared standing on the peek of the sky scrapper of Kyoto. Darkness is about to unleashed while surrounding the city that night. Dark energy flowing out from his palm of both his hands and it covered every end of the city. Then, that being disappeared into the night as dawn draws near. A clash between Heavenly beings and Demonic beings will soon unfold.

The next day, after gym class, Darien was so pissed and envious towards me and Daniel having a lover. To his surprise, he accidentally caught Shun alone in the locker room changing. Darien grabbed his hand, turned Shun to face him and pinned him. Shun was very surprised. Darien breathed heavily and tried to kiss Shun aggressively. Shun was really sad and angry with Darien. So, he slapped him. Darien was speechless and shocked.

"Shun, I…" He tried to apologise.

"Idiot! Why do you do that? Darien let me get this straight. No matter what I only love Aya." He shouted and leaves the locker room after he had done changing with bang of his locker as he left.

Darien was left behind with frustration and embarrassment. He couldn't bring himself to hurt Aya for that nonsense issues. On his way to investigate the primary school area with his car, he heard someone screamed. He stopped near by and looked for the source of the scream. Suddenly, he could sense a presence of a demonic being near by. A figure flew out of a building in a distance. It was a demon. It definitely just ate a human because he just saw a hand fell off its mouth as it was chewing in midair. Then, it sensed my spiritual energy. Demons are actually blind. They only can see heat and light. Heat mostly normal human beings while a light is when your spirit belongs to an angel. It dived towards him. Darien transformed to my heavenly being form and summon his Seiryu Sword in the nick of time. He sliced the demon into two and the demon disappeared into dust. The wind blew the sand away and the area became really quiet.

Darien stared up to the red full moon. He could sense an evil presence and the presence of the red moon was not a coincident which reminded him of something really important but he can't figure it out. A few minutes later, I passed by Darien's car with Daniel on my bike. Darien sensed our presence and ran to us. Daniel and Darien hoped in the car and started patrolling the area while I am on my bike behind them. In the car Darien was a little nervous not really focus. Daniel was worried.

"Darien. Are you alright?"

"Uhm… Daniel, do you notice that the moon was red in colour?

"Huh? A moon in red? Darien are you okay? Look. The moon is normally white." Daniel points the moon in the sky.

"Yeah. Right." He continued to drive when all of the sudden a boy just jumped in front of our car from the side. Darien applied the breaks in an instant and so do I. Luckily, Darien stopped the car on time instead of the worst that could happen. I was shocked with the sudden encounter. I stopped my bike beside his car. They both ran out of the car and checked the kid. He was in a tremendous shocked and frightened. Daniel convinced him that we are not trying to do him any harm and hugged him. The boy calmed down and followed Daniel into the car. I hoped on my bike and Darien drove to the nearest hospital. While I was peeking Darien's car window to check the kid, I was shocked to see a weird symbol on his forehead. It shows a number 9 on his forehead was weird. Daniel asked him a few questions. His name was Shota and he is 7 years old. He was too frightened to answer any further questions and he felt asleep.