Shido woke up the next morning, feeling warmer then usual.  His violet hair askew in every direction, out of its normal position.  Shido opened an eye to the bright light that poured in through the window.  Shido closed his eye and sighed.

A few seconds later, Shido's eyes snapped open when he realized that someone's arm, besides his own, was draped over his slim waist.  She reluctantly turned over to see the other person was.  Shido rolled over and almost died a second time.  Next to him was the blonde hair vixen himself, Cain.  His eyes widened and he pushed himself away from Cain, falling off the bed with a dull thud.

Cain opened his eyes when he heard the dull sound.  He moved to the other side of the bed and peered over the side at Shido, who was naked on the floor.  "The bed isn't that small." Cain commented.

"That is not funny." Shido said, glaring at Cain.

"What's wrong?" Cain asked, completely oblivious.

"What's wrong?" Shido repeated Cain's question.  "I'll tell you what's wrong.  Yesterday you show up out of nowhere when you're supposed to be dead.  Then, for some unknown reason, I believed you when you said that you truly loved me.  Now I wake up with you in bed next to me, without clothes on, and I have a really good idea why!" Shido ranted, now standing.

Cain rolled his eyes and got out of the bed, then stood in front of Shido.  He was well over a head taller then the younger vampire.  "One: yes I did show up when I was supposed to be dead if that was really me, but it wasn't.  The Cain you killed was an illusion.  Two: I truly do love you.  Three: nothing happened last night.  Just because we woke up without clothes on doesn't mean we did anything last night," Cain explained.

"And you expect me to believe that?!" Shido asked.  "Ever since I have known you it has been nothing but lies.  You know about my past and won't tell me anything!  When I thought I killed you I didn't care if that meant that I'd never find out my past.  The whole point was to get rid of you!" Shido stated firmly.

"If that's true then why did you kiss back?" Cain asked.

"I...um....I don't know." Shido said looking away from Cain.  He saw his pile of clothes and went over to them. "I'm leaving, so leave me alone."

"No.  I love you Shido and you will come back to me." Cain stated firmly.

"I don't love you!" Shido stated angrily.  He put his clothes on quickly and walked out of the room, slamming the door behind him.

~~~~~~~

Guni sat cross-legged on Shido's desk.  Yayoi sat on the couch, impatiently tapping her foot. Riho was in the kitchen making coffee. 

"Riho...are you absolutely sure you don't know where Shido is?" Yayoi asked.

"I don't know Yayoi.  Mr. Shido didn't come back last night," Riho answered.

"He's never been gone over night!" Guni stated.

"Do you think he's okay?" Riho asked, showing great concern.

"He's fine...he's a big boy Riho." Yayoi said.

"What do you think could have happened?" Riho asked.

"We don't know!  It's not like we're there with him!" Guni shouted.  Riho glared at Guni, and Guni blew a raspberry at Riho.

"Knock it off you two." Yayoi said to both of them.

All three of them sat in silence until the door opened.  Standing in the door was Shido, his hair still out of a hair tie, falling eloquently around him.

"Mr. Shido!" Riho said in surprised. "Where have you been?!"

"Sorry I didn't come back last night.  I ran into some trouble." He half lied.  He turned to Yayoi.  "Why are you here so early?"

"Unexplained murders...what else would it be?" She reached for the folder on his table and handed it to him.  "There's a string of murders going around and its really odd."

"What's so odd about it?" Guni asked, looking at the same pictures Shido was looking at.

"They had all their bodily fluids sucked out of them except there was no wound or anything." Yayoi explained.

Shido blinked in confusion.  "If that's true then the breed must be sucking the life from it's host and not from an outside source."

"That's extremely odd." Yayoi commented.

"Has there ever even been a night breed that does that?!" Guni asked.

"No.  Usually they find a host then they choose random people to feed from." Shido explained.  "I've never head of one actually feeding from it's host."

"That's so horrible." Riho said.

"Horrible, yes.  But it's also very strange." Shido said.  "I've never known a night breed to actually feed off their host."

"I thought night breeds didn't feed off their host.  Everyone we've dealt with feeds off of others that are close to the host." Yayoi said.

"Where have most of the bodies been found?" Shido asked.

"The docks." Yayoi answered.

"Then that's where we go." Shido said, pulling his hair back and walking out the door with Yayoi, Guni, and Riho.