I had way too much homework to go hunting for my little thief. So Kasaigaru generously offered to take my place for the night while I wrote my paper and did a lot of last-minute work. I looked at the latest text I got for the fifteenth time. It was from Hikuro and I had told him to stop texting so we could both do our work. He'd pouted but agreed in the end. Unfortunately, I was still waiting for his text.

The night flew by and it felt as if my hand was going to fall off. I read the clock: two thirty am. Not good. I needed to get sleep more or my brain won't be able to function well. Sighing, I lazily tucked myself in bed and instantly fell asleep. It had felt only five minutes later when my alarm went off. Ugh. Screw it. I chucked my phone slash digital alarm clock across the room and watched it hit the wall, taking off some of the blue paint on my walls. Today was just going to be great.

--

"You look like shit," Hikuro said flat-out to my face, leaning over me with his hand on the table in the library. We'd given Trystan a little tour of the school and made the library our destination. I was still tired as hell and once I saw a chair, I immediately sat in it and slumped down.

"Yeah, I agree, Ryume, you don't look all too well." Trystan looked at me with his beautiful eyes from beside me in his own chair. Great, I had two pairs of beautiful eyes staring at me, waiting for an answer.

"She was up all night doing last minute work." Hikuro said.

I kicked him. He wasn't supposed to say anything. If we said it out loud, the person would ask why? What excuse would I have? Oh, the usual, just hunting down bad guys instead of studying. Yeah, right.

Hikuro gasped and stuck his tongue out, "Owww, thanks Ryume, that hurt."

"My bad," I said in a not-caring attitude.

Trystan smiled and covered his mouth with his hand as if to hide it.

Hikuro chuckled, "Dude, you know you're allowed to laugh, right?" He grinned my favorite grin and I couldn't help but smile myself. I loved Hikuro's grins where his cute fangs showed. We all ended up laughing somehow and for some reason the rest of the school day turned out okay, excluding the work.

We were all in Starbucks by around four and it was still freezing as hell outside. Hikuro and I got a hot chocolate and I snuck in a cinnamon cookie for him and watched his face glow with happiness as he brought me to him in a big tight bear hug. The three of us talked while Trystan sipped his black coffee. I never was a fan of coffee…

It was that Friday when the three of us went back to Starbucks and did our whole hangout thing. We were all almost good friends. And I was smiling and happy with someone other than Hikuro.

"So you said you don't have much of a family either, huh?" Hikuro asked, his hot chocolate drained and gone minutes ago.

"No. I live by myself and have been traveling since I was young. Luckily I have money from my past parents."

Hm. Like me and Hikuro. I thought to myself. Wouldn't it be just damn right ironic if he was like us and had powers? I laughed in my head.

"But what about you two? What do you do for a living?" Trysan asked so suddenly I almost chocked on the last bit of chocolate surprise at the bottom of the cup. Good thing I've hung out with cops long enough to keep a straight face and maintain my emotions. If not, I wouldn't be here where I was today.

"Eh, nothing much, " Hikuro said, hands behind his head and his chair on only the two back legs. 'I pretty much live with Ryume, besides my run-down apartment. It's a shit-hole and the neighbors and damn gangs are always starting something. Ryume's court is nice and quiet."

Yeah, that's why I live there.

Trystan looked at me with a soft wonder in his eyes. I just realized Hikuro had dumped the whole question on me and made it just a little harder for me to answer. But the strange thing was, I trusted Trystan. I've never let an outsider other than Hikuro into even just a little bit of my life. I've spent the whole week with him and had laughed and made jokes with him. So why did I still want to tell him about my life even though I'm just a little hesitant? Now my shoulder angels won't shut up.

I sighed and told him. "Hikuro and I work with the cops on cases that involve supernatural species and we both kind of work as detectives. If they need us finding someone dangerous, they call us in, we track the suspect down and lock 'em up. It gets annoying after a while but we're the only ones who know what we're doing without putting anyone else in danger. It takes up a lot of our time and it's pretty tiring." Hikuro had his mouth dropped to the floor and was gaping at me, eyes wide. We weren't supposed to tell anyone, according to the cops. They weren't my parents or guardians. Hell with them.

I looked at Trystan and he just looked back with his blue eyes. "I'm guessing that took a lot to say that and you weren't supposed to."

"You catch up pretty quick." I gave him a smile.

"Yes, well…" He paused and looked somewhere else in the building, gazing at other people drinking coffee and socializing. Now it was his turn to look hesitant. "Well…" he laughed weakly. "Since you have said that I guess I'll have to say what I should." He glanced at me and Hikuro then back down at the table. His fingers fidgeted a bit. "I am a supernatural, myself."

My eyes widened. Aw shiiit.

"Hah, funny, so are we." Hikuro said and gave me a death glare saying, 'hah, I can break the rules too!'.

Trystan looked up so suddenly and gasped. "You're all supernatural as well?" the white of his eyes showed and he was staring at Hikuro, and me since we were sitting next to each other.

"Uhm, yeah, we are. That's why we're called in for cases like that."

"Yeah so if you stole something we'd have to go after you instead of the cops since you're a supernatural." Hikuro laughed and I just smiled because I knew it was true. But a look at Trystan and I knew there was something else behind his supernatural story. He noticed me looking at him and he tried to laugh. Now he was covering something up.

It took a few more minutes of just regular talk when a small silence fell. I sipped the last of my room temperature water and put the empty bottle down. I don't drink tap or opened/exposed water. Then Trystan asked if we were doing a case now. What could I say? Uh, nope. Just chilling. Nahh, why lie?

"Yep. But it's causing us a bit of trouble since we can't find any suspects."

"Ahh, that's a shame." Trystan said almost soundlessly. His voice had a boring tone to it as if his melodic voice had gone down to a flat. Was it something I said?

--

Hikuro and I finally got home at around eleven from scanning the area for any suspicious activity. We didn't find anything. I was flopped on Hikuro's chest with him on the couch and we were both tired. We were getting tired of all of this running around and not finding anything. Being used to finding a suspect and capturing him/her in three of four nights tops, we weren't expecting it to take this long. Kasaigaru entered the room and told me the manager of the museum called asking of our status. I made a grumbling sound and my dog; Ceasar came up to me and licked my arm. I stuck my tongue out and grumbled again.

I heard and felt Hikuro chuckle under me. "What'd you say to mister annoying?"

"I simply told him you were doing your job. It's the honest truth."

"Honest enough. No explanations needed." I agreed.

Hikuro smiled and hugged me from under me. He kissed my head and sighed. Ceasar jumped on the couch and licked Hikuro's cheek. "Aw, not cool pooch. That's Ryume's job." I laughed once and lifted myself up. Hikuro groaned behind me, "See? Now look what you did." He was holding Ceasar by his muzzle but he was wagging his tail. Cute.

"Go back out and look for your suspect. Bring Ceasar if you'd like." Kasaigaru said. I just looked at him with my tongue out, showing him I was too tired to do anything except walk to my bed. He gave me a look from behind his black hair that made me magically gain some energy and drag Hikuro up from the couch and go back to search for our unknown suspect. "I suggest the museum, you two." He said from the door as we were going to our vehicles. I raised an eyebrow at him and smiled. He obviously knew something that we didn't. But that was just how Kasaigaru was. Mysterious, yet helpful.

I sighed and waved to Hikuro as he started his spiffy black bike. He waved back and made a gesture of blowing me a kiss from his helmet. I got in the Mustang before someone saw me blush, no matter how dark it was I was still insecure. We made our way to the highway and I put in my iPod and All The Right Moves by One Republic played. My taste in music was pretty crazy. It'd go from that to Slipknot, Paramore, Rise Against, Led Zeppelin, Infected Mushroom, Thousand Foot Krutch, Broken Cyde, and something like Scorpions or Journey.

I interrupted a song by turning it down as I pulled to a stop in front of the museum. Hikuro was leaning against his bike, arms crosses, helmet off, and his hair blowing in the soft freezing breeze. He raised his face and opened his eyes, smiling at me. Oh great. I looked away from him. If we got this case done tonight, we'd celebrate. Not too fun with Hikuro. I looked back over at him and looked down from his legs to up to his face and changed my mind. Nah, it'd be lots of fun.