I'm back with another chapter! XD YAY! I'll try to get that pic of Bai Hu colored soon…heh heh ^_^" Anyway YAY! More Black Blood Action in this chappy YAY! Enjoy!

**Master of Disguise**

Yue sat on the bed with Lady Bai Hu as both girls waited for Ariya to emerge. Yue was visibly eager, twitching her leg impatiently while Bai simply sat calmly.

"C'mon Ariya-neesan! I wanna' see! You've been in there-"

"For five minutes, now shut up! I'll be out in a second!" Ariya's irritated voice interrupted from behind the door.

Yue narrowed her eyes and glared at the bathroom door with a pout. "It seems more like five hours if ya' ask me!" She grumbled. "I bet if Bai Hu-sama wanted to see you, you'd come out here naked just to let her look…"

Bai Hu sighed. 'I doubt I'd want to see that badly…'

Yue, reluctantly, sat and waited about two more minutes before the door to the bathroom opened. She looked the figure up slowly, eyes widening.

"Geez Yue, must you be so impatient all the time? You'll find that things come much easier when you take the time to wait." The voice that came was Ariya's but the woman that stood before them looked almost nothing like her.

The woman before them still rather looked like her. She had the same healthy skin tone and features but her eyes had changed from the predatorial green-grey, to a cool, piercing grey-blue. Her hair, while still the same length was a golden brown, almost blonde color and she was wearing bit of makeup, eyeliner and peach pink colored lipgloss.

"A-A-ARIYA-NESAMA?! Is that really you?!" Yue stammered.

Ariya smirked. "You like? I know I don't really look like myself, but that was my goal in the first place, hm?"

"You look awesome!" Yue squealed. "Let me do your hair!"

Before Ariya could even say anything Yue had grabbed her wrist and pulled her down to the bed for better reach. Bai Hu watched in amusement as the two of them bickered, but Yue eventually managed to get her way seeing as she did a style that Ariya actually liked. Now the woman was sitting there in her white lace underwear, sighing into the mirror as she watched Yue add the finishing touches.

"THERE! All done! You look so KAWAII!!" She cooed and hugged the older woman tightly.

"H-hey! Let me go brat!" Ariya struggled to remove herself from Yue's "Hug of Ultimate Doom".

Yue, unyielding, nuzzled the woman. "I've really outdone myself! You'll look so hot! None of the guys'll be able to keep their eyes off you!"

Ariya glared. As if she didn't have that problem already…

"Huh? Hey Ari-chan, what's this?" Yue reached down between the woman's breasts and pulled a green crystal free that was dangling on her neck.

Ariya sighed. "It's what's keeping up my disguise. So hands OFF!" She growled as she managed to pull free of Yue's death grip.

She stood and went over to the dresser where a she had clothes laid out over it.

Yue blinked. "I didn't know you had something like that…What other kind of sorcery can you do Nee-chan?" She inquired curiously.

"Ariya is actually very good at different types of sorcery." Bai Hu commented from the bed. She was watching, oddly enough, a cartoon of a pink bunny and his little animal friends while eating Pocky.

Ariya smiled thoughtfully as she pulled a shirt over her head. "Yeah, but there are others who are much more renowned in the art of sorcery."

Now Yue's curiosity had been sparked and she lay forward on her belly to look at her "older sister". At times like these, it was revealed just how much the young girl really respected and looked up to the young woman.

"Really? Like this Cain Warlock person? Is that why his last name is Warlock? He's a Warlock?" She wondered.

"I suppose you could say he is. He's much more powerful than me in that respect." Ariya chuckled.

"But I thought he was an Old Blood, not a Warlock." Yue said cocking an eyebrow.

"He's…well Cain is a lot of thing, kid." Ariya laughed.

Yue looked at her oddly, she could tell by the look on Ariya's face that she knew Cain personally. She had the look that said she was remembering something from her past. She would often tell her stories of her past to pass the time when they were bored. It always interested Yue. She would tell how she used to serve as an Old Blood's assistant. That's how she learned to use magic and fight. She seemed to respect him and referred to him as her master.

'Is it this Cain Warlock guy? Was he her master?' Yue thought.

"Well, how does this look?" Ariya's voice interrupted her thoughts.

Yue looked up and grinned as she appraised her outfit.

"You'll knock em' dead Nee-chan!"

******

Marine Bank 7:45 am:

The receptionist sat typing forlornly at her computer. She barely got any sleep last night, doing paperwork for Cain.

'I hope this secretary takes the job…I'm in desperate need of a vacation! I've been working myself to the bone for two weeks straight!' She thought with a tired sigh.

She pushed up her glasses and ran a hand through her hair, something she did often when stressed.

"I feel so weak…I think I'm going to die right here and now from overwork…" She groaned and slumped down tiredly.

"That would be most unfortunate. Good thing I'm here to take some the work away, ne?"

The voice nearly scared the receptionist out of her top. She jumped knocking her cup of coffee forward and tumbling toward the ground.

A slender hand quickly caught the handle of the mug with almost inhuman speed. Not spilling a single drop from the cup. And put it back on the desk, away from the papers that were piled an inch high in the middle.

"Gomen nasai, did I startle you?"

The receptionist looked up at the woman before her and for some reason couldn't help but stare, awe-struck, with a light blush.

'S-she's so pretty…' She thought absently.

The woman smiled at her. "Didn't mean to scare you, I thought you saw me come in. Obviously not."

"T-that's okay, um, thanks for saving my coffee…Are you here for an appointment with Mr. Warlock?" She stammered.

"No, I'm here for the secretary job. My name is Arisu, Kazumi Arisu." She introduced.

The receptionist blinked. 'Arisu? Like the Japanese form of the name Alice?' She thought then as what she said sunk in, she brightened.

"Oh, right! Kazumi-san, you're a bit early. I'll inform Mr. Warlock of your arrival!" She said happily.

"Arisu" raised an eyebrow at her enthusiasm. 'Does Cain work her that hard?' She mused as she watched the woman converse with him over the phone. She could hear every word.

"Alright, please follow me Kazumi-san!" She smiled and stood and began to lead her down a hall toward Cain's office.

Ariya looked around in amusement. 'Never thought he'd be the manager of a bank of all things… How interesting. I think he'd make a better military sergeant than bank manager.' She grinned to herself and repressed a chuckle.

The receptionist knocked twice on two large oak doors and a gruff "enter" was heard. She pushed the doors open, with some effort, and bowed.

"Kazumi-san is here, sir." She said simply before allowing the woman in question to enter and closing the door behind her.

Ariya walked forward and gave a bow. "Ohayo Gozaimasu, Warlock-sama."

Cain sat silently behind his desk as he observed the young woman before him. She was young. Very pretty. He allowed himself to look her over. She wore a dark skirt suit with a light blue shirt that hugged her curves just enough to look professional. Her shirt was unbuttoned enticingly but not too much and a green diamond shaped crystal dangled in the valley of her breasts from a thin silver chain. Her honey colored hair was pinned up in bun with rather intricately designed chopsticks. With his superior eyesight, he could see the tigers painted on them in gold.

He brought his gaze to her face and she boldly looked directly back him with cool, yet somehow familiar, grey-blue piercing eyes. They seemed to glow slightly beneath her long bangs and the loose tendrils of hair that framed her delicate face. Her gaze amused him. She seemed to carry herself with a confident air. Almost arrogantly so for a human such as herself.

Finally, after a long pause in which she never flinched away from his gaze, he spoke.

"I see you came early. It seems your résumé is living up to its name…so far."

A small curve played at her lips. "I always live up to my name Mr. Warlock. I don't disappoint often." She said smoothly.

"Hn," Cain smirked at her confidence. "I would hope so. I have no patience for weakness, you would do well to remember that Ms. Kazumi."

She bowed again, hiding her smirk whilst having her head down. 'He hasn't changed…'

"I will do as you command, sir." She declared.

Cain smirked approvingly. 'I like this woman already…'

******

Yue sighed as she looked boredly out the window. It was such a nice day and here she was stuck inside. It wasn't cloudy, but there were clouds. She watched the shadows they made over the pavement with a sigh. It had only been an hour since Ariya left and she was already bored senseless.

Bai Hu looked over at her from the television.

"Yue-chan."

"Yes Bai Hu-donno?"

"Let's take a walk outside."

Yue looked at her in disbelief. "R-really?"

She never expected her to say something so random.

"Yes." Bai Hu said as she turned off the TV.

"Okay!" She said happily. "But…"

"But what?"

"Where will we go? I don't know anywhere in the Special Zone." Yue said with a sigh.

"Call Ariya and ask her." Bai Hu said simply.

Blink. Blink. She hadn't thought of that. But Ariya said only to call her if it was an emergency…

'Well if Lady Bai wants to know, I think it's deemed an emergency.' She thought matter-of-factly.

She nodded and picked up the phone.

****

Ariya shuffled the papers on the end of Cain's desk. She had been going through the files in his file cabinet as he said they needed organizing. There was a lot of crap in there! She sighed. She had a feeling that he was giving her this much work on the first day purposely. Just to see how much she could handle. He had currently "stepped out" and she was alone in his office. She'd just bent over his desk to get a pen when her cellphone rang in her breast pocket.

"Eek!" She nearly fell across his desk as it vibrated against her left breast.

She quickly pulled it out after looking at the number and flipped it open.

"Yue now is not the best time!" She said in a growled whisper into the phone.

"Well you better make time! Bai Hu-sama wants to go for a walk!" Yue replied.

"What do you mean she wants to go for a walk?! She's NOT a dog!" Ariya snapped.

"I never said she was! She said that we should take a walk!" Yue argued.

"Then go for damn walk! Why'd you call ME?!"

"We don't know the Special Zone and Bai Hu-sama told me to ball you and ask for a place."

Ariya twitched and repressed a growl. "Fine! There's a park and shopping district in the "old yard" try going for a walk there! Now don't do anything stupid or I'll come down there and kick your ass, got it?!"

Hai! See ya' later Nee-sama!" Yue said happily.

Ariya hung up with a sigh. "Stupid brat…Does she ever use her brain? She could've just looked it up on the computer."

"Taking a break already?"

Ariya froze and looked up to see Cain leaning against the door frame, looking at her in amusement. She realized she was practically lying on his desk and stood up quickly.

'Damn! I hate it when he sneaks up on me! He's probably been watching me from the beginning!'

"Uh, no…I just, uh, getting a pen." She said and rose up a hand to show him only to discover that she had her phone in her hand and the pen was stuck between her breasts.

"Heh, heh!" She quickly switched them with an embarrassed smile.

Cain gave her a smirk that made her blood run cold.

"Get back to work then Ms. Kazumi." He said and walked over and sat back behind his desk.

She did so, barely repressing a glare, and felt his eyes burning into her back throughout the task.

'God damned slave driving son of a-'

"And hurry up." He added, cutting off her thought.

She twitched.

"Yes sir."

******

Kotaro Mochizuki was currently having the time of his life as he swung from swing to swing with inhuman agility. It was still pretty early in the morning, not to mention he didn't go to school. So there weren't any kids on the playground. He had it all to himself and was loving it. He'd ran ahead onto the park in front of his chaperone, Mimiko as both of them had left his brother behind to catch up to them later. The brown-haired girl was currently taking a phone call under a tree a few feet away from him. He laughed wrapped his legs around the chain of one of the swings and hung upside down from it.

He'd also grown a bit in the four years since the attack on the Special Zone. His hair was a bit longer and he'd grown out of his old clothes, now in a more modern fashion, khaki shorts, sneakers, and a baby blue t-shirt. However, he still carried around his stuffed bear, "Grand Duke Bow Wow", on his back like a bookbag.

"That's a pretty big bear ya' got there kid."

Kotaro blinked and looked beside him to see a girl, maybe a few years or so older than him, sitting on the swing next to him, looking at him curiously. She wore a white sailor school uniform with a blue collar and yellow tie. Her hair was in two buns with red bun caps and had two shopping bags sitting at her side.

"Does he have name?" She continued curiously.

Kotaro smiled, pleased someone had noticed his companion. "Yup, his name is Grand Duke Bow Wow! He's my best friend!"

The girl blinked.

"Grand…Duke..Bow Wow?"

"Yeah, Isn't he awesome?!"

Blink. "Uh sure, so what's your name?" She asked.

"I'm Mochizuki Kotaro, pleased to meet you!" He said happily.

"My name is Shuang Yue and that over there is my friend…um,-"

"Bai." Came the soft voice from Kotaro's right.

He turned abruptly to see Bai Hu sitting on the neighboring swing in the same school uniform as Yue's. Her hair was braided into two ponytails with black ribbons on the ends. Kotaro stared for a long while as the girl gazed at him with uncanny golden eyes.

Bai Hu tilted her head in amusement. "You can call me Bai-chan however."

Kotaro smiled suddenly. "Alright, Bai-chan…I don't know why, but I feel like I know you from somewhere. Or like, we could be friends." He said.

"Is that so? I hope that we can be friends then Kotaro-kun." She mused thoughtfully with a small smile.

"Yup, you and your friend Yue."

He looked back over at Yue only to discover that she was standing atop the swing set looking over the park.

"Whoa! Cool Yue-san! You have such good balance!" He said peering up at her.

Yue grinned down at him with a flash of fangs.

"Well, you have the same balance Kotaro-sama."

"Kotaro-sama?...Wait-You're a…" He looked around with a whisper and said, "You guys are Black Bloods aren't you?"

"Yeah…we are. You are too right?" Yue inquired although she obviously knew the answer.

She looked out over toward Mimiko. "Uh-oh looks like your friend is coming for you Kotaro, gotta' go." She said and Kotaro looked over toward Mimiko.

"We will meet again Kotaro-kun. Farewell." He heard Bai Hu's good-bye whispered softly in the wind.

He turned back to only to see that they had disappeared, just as silently as they appeared.

"Huh?"

"C'mon Kotaro-chan, time to get going!" Mimiko called.

"HAI!"

Kotaro flipped down from the swing and with one last look at the swing, went to catch up with Mimiko.

In a nearby tree, Bai and Yue watched the pair depart.

"So that was the Lady Sage's reincarnation…" Yue mused. "Nice kid."

Bai nodded her agreement. "He has yet to regain his memories. I wonder how Jiro plans to handle that…"situation". It would be interesting to find out his solution to this when the time arises."

Yue pouted thoughtfully. "Hmmm, well. Ready ta' finish shopping?" She asked cheerily.

Bai Hu smiled softly at her childishness. "Yes, let us go."

******

Yay! Chapter 3! And it was actually a decent length too! OMFG! ^_^ Review and tell me whatcha' think!