Chapter 9: The Beginning of New Endeavors

A/N: Back to Hakuba's POV (sorry for confusion last chapter I kinda wrote fast and didn't realize that I switched POVs) Thanks for reviews or messages (keep it up ladies and gentlefolks!) Next chapter: Hakuba meets Heiji: The Confrontation

Back in Japan: Still in February

I forgot that even though I was a vampire, motion sickness (without the throwing up and whatnot) still came with the swaying and whatnot. But we got back to Japan in a couple days, and Shinichi thought of several ways to make me stop thinking about the boat ride, beds, bites, and sex seemed to be high on that list of things to do.

"Father we're back!" Shinichi yelled into the house, it was at that moment, I saw someone, he was almost a splitting image of Shinichi, not his father. His hair was shaggier, his eyes had more purple than blue, and well, he looked rather rundown.

"He's not here right now." The guy said.

"Kaito, when did you get back?" Shinichi said hugging the boy. "Hakuba, this is my father's maker, Kaito Kuroba."

He was older than both of them? He looked younger than me, not by much but still, he looked a bit like hell came and hit him in the face. "Hakuba Saguru." I said holding my hand out to shake his hand. He shook my hand and turned to Shinichi, "I've been back for quite a while." He seemed far too withdrawn, like he was keeping something from Shinichi, "I'm really tired, I've been doing some work for the council." He said with a smile, he just wanted to fall over.

"Kaito, come on." Shinichi said. "You look like you haven't slept in days. You need to tell Nakamori and Takagi to lay off."

I could tell Shinichi right now that he was lying out his teeth, but I couldn't do that, this guy looks like he's been through hell, hell and back again, several times.

"Shinichi, you know I can't do that, just because they are the top vampires in Japan doesn't mean you stop working for them." Kaito said tiredly. It was at that moment when I noticed the flinch, the flinch he had when he moved, like he was hurt or something. I'll talk to him later, perhaps he'll tell me what's going on.

A Couple Hours Later:

I couldn't help myself, he looks like he was having a nightmare, "Don't hurt him, please don't hurt him Yuusaku!" Bloodtears running from his eyes, "Shinichi doesn't deserve this!"

"Kaito…" I said trying to wake him up.

"Leave him alone!" he yelled again.

"Kaito, please wake up!" I said a little louder.

"LEAVE HEIJI ALONE!" he yelled again as his eyes burst open and he stared at me. "Hakuba?"

"Hattori's alive?" I said softly to him.

"Barely, he's been, oh god, stay away from him, stay away from Yuusaku Kudo. Anyone who has come close to his son is going to be hurt."

He was out of his mind. Though it could explain what was going on, why he seemed so drawn out, why he lied about this vampire counsel work. "Kaito, what has he been doing to him?"

"Starving him, hurting him, even worse things than that, I've been taking care of him and receiving the wrath later on, doesn't help that I look like Shinichi either."

"Kaito…I should tell Shinichi about this…"

"NO! Heiji asked me not to mention he's alive until we get in his words Ol' Man Kudo out of the way."

"Why'd ya tell me then?" I asked him.

"I didn't, you walked in on a nightmare." He said with a smile, he did look a lot like Shinichi, his smile, his eyes though a little purpler than Shinichi's, his face was a little rounder…he was quite an attractive man.

"He's been hurting you too hasn't he?"

"It's been happening for longer than you've been around Hakuba, ever since he's been locking him in my basement, ever since he found out that I was taking care of him, Hakuba, he's been…" he couldn't finish, but I could tell what the hell that man has been doing to him. I couldn't tell Shinichi that his father had been forcing himself on his lifemate when he didn't want to, essential rape, kidnapping, I wanted to give that man a piece of my mind. I stood up.

"Please, please don't leave!" Kaito grabbed my hand, it sort of freaked me out a little bit, "Please, I don't want him to come in here…right before you two came I was taking care of Heiji, and I had to sneak away, as you saw, to get away from him."

"But you said he wasn't here was that a lie too?"

"Observant aren't you? You figured out I was lying and came to see if I was okay…" My god this guy is right on the dot.

"I'm just thought you seemed a little freaked out the minute that his father was mentioned….I'm sorry I shouldn't have butted in." my hand was still in his hand, my body just wanted to move into his, I don't understand.

"Will you stay with me, at least for this morning?" he asked me.

He just seemed so…so…desperate, I just nodded, and he moved over on the bed. "Wait, I should tell Shini…."

"Tell him tonight, just don't tell him the circumstances."

"You're making it sound like I'm going to do wicked things to you, and I'm sorry sir that's not happening." I said playfully, getting into bed next to him.

"Awe damn I was hoping…."

I hit him with the closest pillow I could find, "I'm sorry you had to go through this Kaito."

"Shut up and go to sleep you stupid asshat." He said.

At least I figured out where Shinichi learned that word from, I smiled to myself as I felt his soft "breathing" against my chest.

I looked out the door and saw Shinichi standing there, he smiled suddenly, it was almost like he knew what his father was doing to him or something, I wasn't going to say anything.

"He asked me to be with him for some reason. I'm thinking it's because of the nightmare he was having when I walked past here." I told him as he walked into the room.

"He's taken a liking to you, much like he did for me, he's asked me to do this several times, be careful though, my father can be kind of clingy to Kaito."

I wanted to keep the closest version of a poker face that I could, I couldn't look at him with little squinty face, the face that could give away what I talked about with him. Heiji will not be mentioned nor the raping of Kaito by his father.

"Too loud, go to bed Shinichi!" Kaito sleepily said.

Shinichi just smiled, my god they have the same smile too, I couldn't help but groan lightly, silently wishing I could have two lifemates, but hey what can I say, one's enough for now, but now that Heiji's alive, I have to find a way to make it so that Shinichi and Heiji get back together, even if that makes me want to cry like a pansy, it took us nine years to get together for the first time, might as well enjoy it while we can right?