Yea!! Some people actually like my fic!! Thanks a lot Lunar Heart. And Rinrin-Chikage this story is an Alternate universe meaning this is an idea of what would happen to Vincent if Nanashi wasn't around. Anyway some of the people may seem out of character and I'm sorry if you don't like it. But Street is owned by Lunar Heart, as Averus, Trista and any others that aren't created by me belong to their rightful creators. Hope you enjoy chapter 2 and please remember to R and R!! **************************************************************************** *****

"Trista!! What're you doing!?"

"I'm making hard boiled eggs for the salad."

"You don't put eggs in there!!"

"Why not?"

*click*

*Bee~ee~eep*

"AIIEEE!! TAKE COVER!! NEKO-GIRLS AND CATS FIRST!!"

"Huh?"

"KKKKAAAAAABBBBBOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!"

"AW MAN!! WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN ME KRISTY!?"

"I TRIED TO TRISTA YOU BAKA!! YOU NEVER PUT EGGS INTO A MICROEWAVE!!"

"THEN HOW ELSE ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO MAKE HARD BOILD EGGS!!

"IN WATER!!! YOU IDIOIT!!"

"WHAT ABOUT YOU!! KRISTY WHAT ARE YOU ADDING TO THE STIR FRY!?"

"I'M ADDING SOME WINE FOR TASTE!! IT SAYS SO RIGHT HERE!!"

" YOU'RE RIGHT IT DOES SAY THAT BUT WHAT YOU'RE HOLDING ISN'T WINE!! IT'S VEGATABLE OIL!!"

"Uh oh.."

"PHWOOSSSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!"

"AIIEEE THE FOOD IS ON FIRE!! PUT IT OUT!! PUT IT OUT!!"

"ACK!! THERE!! Awww man!! Now I hafta make that all over again."

"NOW who's the baka? Kristy now you start over on the stir fry while I'll try to use the blender and boil the eggs."

"Hai.Uhhhh Trista I think you forgot something on the blender." Replied Kristy nervously backing away from Trista's spot.

"What could I POSSIBLEY forget?" Trista retorted pressing the start button. As soon as she did, the mixture was flying all over the place.

"MAYBE THE TOP FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!" shouted Kristy using a frying pan as a shield.

"AWW KUSO!!"

There was a lot more noise coming from the kitchen with Trista and Kristy trying to cook. Meanwhile Vincent and Averus were sitting on the couch reading, or at least trying to. Vincent was smirking at all the noises that was coming from the kitchen while Averus sweatdropped.

"Vincent.are you sure this is safe?" Averus asked and hearing another mess being made with the shrieks of the two girls.

Vincent shrugged.

"Hey, it was your suggestion to let them cook dinner tonight. Besides, anything they break I can fix later so don't worry." Replied Vincent turning back to the book he was reading.

"It's not that, I'm worried about how the food is gonna taste." Replied Averus.

Vincent tensed.

"Oh boy. You got a point there." He stated.

"AIIIEEEE!! THIS STINKS!! NOW WHAT!!" shouted Trista.

"YOU GIRLS KNOW, ANY MESS YOU MAKE IN THERE YOU HAVE TO CLEAN UP!!" shouted Vincent.

There was a moment of silence until two cries in unison were heard.

"AAAAAHHHHH KISAMA!!!"

Vincent and Averus laughed.

About a hour later...

Trista and Kristy walked out of now cleaned kitchen with the food on the table. Although the kitchen was cleaned, the two girls looked like a real mess. Trista had bits of egg yolk in her brown hair and stuck on some of her clothes with some flour and bits of vegetables also on her clothes. Kristy had some burnt rice and other stuff all over her, along with some whip cream on her also. Once Vincent and Averus got a good look at the two, they couldn't help but laugh.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Both Vincent and Averus fell off of the couch and onto the floor laughing at the poor misfits of what the girls had gotten into. Once they calmed down they went over to the girls and stood right in front of them.

"Now do you think cooking is an easy task?" asked Averus.

"No. Can we PLEASED get cleaned and take care of the small cuts we got?" asked Kristy whining.

"Hai, hai. Go on you two. We'll wait in the kitchen." Replied Vincent nodding.

The two girls ran out of room and upstairs. Now since there was only one bathroom, the two of them were now fighting over to get to the bathroom.

"KRISTY YOU BAKA NEKO!! I GOT HERE FIRST!!!"

"YEAH RIGHT TRISTA!! MOVE OUTTA THE WAY IT'S MY TURN!!"

"OH NO!! LAST TIME I HAD TO WAIT NEARLY A HALF HOUR FOR YOU TO GET OUT!!"

"SO SUE ME!! I RUN OUT OF SHAMPOO AND LOOSE THE SOAP AND I'M BRANDED FOR LIFE!!"

"YES!! NOW LEMME THROUGH!!"

"NOT SO FAST!! HA!! HA HA!!"

*SLAM*

*BANG* *BANG* *POUND*

"KRISTY MAXELL!!"

"WAIT YOUR TURN!!"

"DAMN YOU!!"

Vincent and Averus sighed and shook their heads as they entered the kitchen. They looked at the table and were surprised. The food had come out looking pretty well. Even though the noise that they heard, wasn't very confident when the food was in its process, the final result looked really well.

"I think they may have done a pretty good job." Stated Averus.

"Maybe. But let's wait and see how it tastes. Looks can be deceiving." Replied Vincent sitting down.

"Yeah. You got a point there." Averus said back and sat down across from Vincent.

Once the apartment turned quiet, Vincent got up and got two sodas and threw one to Averus who caught it. Vincent went back to the table and sat down, just as Trista and Kristy were coming into the kitchen.

"Okay, dig in!!" said Kristy grabbing some of the things off of the plates. The others took some too. Vincent and Averus just stared at their food and poked it with their chopsticks and then looked at each other.

"Er.girls, did you by any chance remember to TASTE the food once it was done?" asked Averus.

Trista and Kristy looked at each other.

"Nope. Completely slipped our minds." They replied and took some and put it in their mouths. Their eyes lit up and started to eat more of the food they made. Vincent and Averus just stared blankly.

"C'mon you guys!! It's good!!" grinned Kristy swallowing.

"You better be right about this." Stated Vincent and he took some meat and ate it. "Okay it's safe."

"VINCENT!!" shouted Trista and Kristy.

"Heh. What'd I do?" he asked smirking.

Averus just ate quietly and letting the other three argue or to be more specific, let Kristy and Trista argue at Vincent while he just sits there and smirks.

Soon it was late at night and everyone was fast asleep in their own beds. The apartment was eerily quiet and nothing seemed to be going on, until a small black orb floated down the hallway and when it was in the living room it went through the door and onto the roof, where it materialized into the dark demon bit-beast called Arashi. He sighed and walked to the edge of roof and looked up at the moon.

"Another night of searching Arashi?" asked a voice behind. Arashi whirled around and sighed.

"Hey there Kyoshi. Why aren't you in your blade in Averus's room?" he asked.

Kyoshi was the raven bit-beast that Averus had and was currently in his human form. He had dark purple hair with gold eyes. He was wearing sleeveless black top and gray pants.

"Usually, but you were muttering a lot in your blade. Are you sure he's even still alive? No offense or anything, but correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't he supposedly gone since that fire? " Replied Kyoshi nonchalantly. Arashi gave him a weak grin.

"Yes. Supposedly, but I know for a fact that he's still alive. I may not have concrete proof, but I just know he's alive. I can.sense it." Replied Arashi seriously. Kyoshi raised an eyebrow.

"You sense it? Just like how you sense whenever Vincent is making those moochi cakes you love?" replied Kyoshi smirking and Arashi turning red in embarrassment.

"THAT'S not a sense. That was my stomach." Replied Arashi hotly and glaring at the smirking raven. "Anyway, it's a sort of bond me and him share since we were young."

"And that was what? Six-hundred years ago?" asked Kyoshi.

"Actually it was over two millenniums." Replied Arashi sweat-dropping at the reaction of Kyoshi who had just gone into shock at this lifetime. Arashi walked over and started shaking Kyoshi to get him to wake up. He heard another couple set of feet approaching and lifted up his head and sighed.

"Okay, now what're you two doing up?" asked Arashi and he hit Kyoshi on the head and got him out of his daze.

"ITAI!! TWO MILLENNIUMS!? BIT-BEASTS USUALLY ARE NOT THAT OLD AND LOOK THAT YOUNG!!" cried Kyoshi holding his head in pain.

"Are you really two millenniums old!?" cried one.

"Actually to be exact, it was two millenniums and four hundred years that I was born." Replied Arashi.

"Man you ARE old." Grinned the other one. Arashi glared.

"Oh shut up KittieFae." Growled Arashi. The young bit-beast giggled. KittieFae height was about a little shorter to Arashi's shoulder. She was in her human form also. Her hair was a snow white/turquoise color and was in a single braid and her eyes looked like a cat's eyes and was a light amber color. She had on a white tank top and dark blue flare jeans. Soon the other figure walked right next to KittieFae and shook its head.

"We're just like our masters, Except that I don't argue 24/7 with KittieFae." The other said.

"We argue sometimes Dominion. But not on matters like Kristy-chan and Trista-san." Replied KittieFae shrugging.

Dominion stepped up into the moonlight. His short dark green hair and blue eyes stared at the others. He had a green turtle neck with a brown vest and brown pants.

"So did you ever have a previous master before Vincent?" asked KittieFae, "because if you really are two thousand four hundred years old, you should've had several previous masters."

"I didn't and neither did he. The reason was because we were.different than normal bit-beasts." Replied Arashi looking at the other three.

"I'll say!! If you were normal, you'd probably have wrinkles." Stated Dominion.

"Oh shut up Dominion." Growled Arashi. "There was a certain reason why they wouldn't let me go. They were willing to send him but not me."

Dominion, Kyoshi and KittieFae looked between one another and looked at Arashi.

"I'm suddenly glad that he refused to go to a master that wouldn't have me near him." Arashi added.

"But why weren't you allowed to go to a master?" asked KittieFae.

"You know how I'm a dark type bit-beast right?" asked Arashi, his piercing red eyes staring at the others who nodded. "Well, few dark bit-beasts are born and on that millennium when a dark bit-beast was to be born, something bizarre happened."

"What was it?" asked Kyoshi.

"A dark type was born with a twin." Replied Arashi.

"Okay, that's a bit strange, but what made it so different?" asked Dominion.

"A dark type born with a LIGHT twin. Opposites born at the same time." Arashi said back.

"You mean..that.." stuttered KittieFae.

"Yes. I was born with a twin brother of the light." Arashi finished.

"Now I see what you mean. But that is a bit strange that you have a bond. Was there another reason why you and your brother didn't have a master before Vincent?" asked Kyoshi.

"It's because in addition that we were born light and dark twins, we were also born with the fact that we were elite bit-beasts even at a young age." Replied Arashi.

"E..elite bit-beasts!? You mean you two were BORN elite?" shrieked KittieFae.

"Uh huh, but that was not the reason. They wished to send my brother out, but wasn't able to." Added Arashi.

"You mentioned that before. Why was that?" asked Kyoshi.

"Balance." Arashi replied back.

"Balance? You mean like you two balance each other out?" KittieFae asked. Arashi nodded.

"You guys better get going back to your masters. KittieFae, I think I hear Kristy getting a snack." Said Arashi.

"Oh no not again!! She's going to break something I know it!! Good luck Arashi!!" cried KittieFae as she changed back into her beast form and sprinted into the apartment.

"I better get going too. Trista usually wakes up hearing Kristy going for a snack and usually takes me along. Hope you find something Arashi." Added Dominion nodding and walking back into the apartment. Kyoshi was about to leave when Arashi stropped him.

"Kyoshi, can you do me a favor?" asked Arashi. Kyoshi turned towards Arashi and waited.

"Could..could you keep an eye on Vincent for me please?" he asked.

"Okay I guess. Any particular reason?" replied Kyoshi looking at Arashi who fidgeted.

"It's just...just tell me if Vincent does anything like symptoms." Replied Arashi nervously. Kyoshi was getting a bit worried. Usually Arashi is never nervous about anything and seeing him stutter a bit is getting him paranoid. Kyoshi walked over to Arashi and put a comforting arm on Arashi's shoulder, making Arashi look at him.

"Okay I'll keep an eye on your master for you, but tell me why?" asked Kyoshi taking his hand off of Arashi's shoulder.

"Thanks. The thing is..remember how I said that I need balance with my light?" asked Arashi.

"Yes." Replied Kyoshi nodding.

"When's the last time you saw my lighter side with me, since you met me?" Arashi stated.

"Never. I've never seen him in the two years that I've known you." Replied Kyoshi getting worried.

"What happens to darkness if there is no light to balance it out?" Arashi asked.

"It gets out of control, usually that's how chaos comes to be." Stated Kyoshi. "Wait.so what does this have to do with Vincent?"

".......If something is going on with him just tell me Kyoshi please." Replied Arashi as he expanded his wings and taking flight.

Kyoshi watched as Arashi flew off and shook his head and muttered one thing before he headed back into the apartment.

"What're you hiding Arashi?"

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"Okay now. Which one of the zodiac have I not seen?" muttered a young lavender headed boy looking through a telescope in his room.

"There's Demeter the spirit of Virgo...which is right..there!! Scorpio to the right of Leo and a little off of Libra.and...huh?" The young boy moved away from the telescope as he saw something strange. His dark purple eyes were wide in confusion.

"That can't be right...can it?"

He quickly ran to his desk and took out his sketch book and ran back to the telescope and looked through it again. He caught a glimpse of the figure he saw before he wasn't able to see it anymore. He sighed and pulled the telescope in and shut his window. He went to his bed and started to sketch what he saw.

"I wonder who or what that was?" he asked himself and then yawned and soon fell asleep with his sketch book falling to the ground.

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"But Kaze you know I don't lie!! I saw whatever it was!!" cried the young lavender head kid to another kid with messy black hair and blue eyes as they were walking down the halls to their first class.

"Okay I know that Tori-chan, but how can that be possible?" he replied as they walked into the classroom and took their seats.

"I dunno. But I know I saw what I saw. And don't call me Tori-chan!!" said Tori as he pushed Kaze's hand away from poking him in the face.

"Awww, but Tori you're so darn kawaii!!" laughed Kaze. "And you seem to get the attention of almost all of the female population here in school."

"It's not like I try. I really don't understand why girls just stare at me and giggle. It gets creepy after awhile. Especially the looks they give you" Muttered Tori shuddering.

"Not to mention that you get that locker of yours fill with love letters AND get chased by your fan club during lunch." Grinned Kaze as Tori sighed.

"Must you remind every time." He asked as he took out his homework.

"Yep. It's so much fun poking at you." Grinned Kaze.

"And I wonder how you became my friend sometimes." Sighed Tori.

"Okay class. Please pass forward you homework and turn to page twenty-eight in your textbooks. Kiyami-san, please read from the third paragraph." Stated the teacher.

"Hai. The revolution of when the Americans came to Japan to..." Read Kiyami.

As Tori was reading along in his book, something hit him in the back of his head. He turned around and wasn't able to see the culprit, but he saw a note on his desk. He opened it up and sighed.

'Why must I be subdued to endure this every single day?' Tori thought as he took the note, flipped it over and wrote something and tossed it to the person who had sent it. She read what Tori had written hopefully and suddenly was crestfallen.

'Awww, phooey. I thought he would agree.' Thought the crestfallen girl.

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"I'm bored!! I'm gonna go out!!" shouted Kristy as she got off the couch and headed towards the door.

"Be quiet please!!" moaned Vincent as he was lying on the other side of the couch with a pillow over his face.

"You alright, oh fearless leader?" asked Kristy.

"Peachy." Grumbled Vincent, then he got off the couch and rubbed his head. "Maybe some air would do me some good. Be back in a while."

"Stay away from any high schools Vincent!!" laughed Trista.

"Very funny." Muttered Vincent as he left.

"Anyway, I'm going. See you guys later." Said Kristy as she too walked out of the door, leaving Trista and Averus in the apartment by themselves.

"Wanna play some cards?" asked Averus taking out a pack of cards. Trista shrugged.

"Eh, why not?" she replied and they sat in the living room and started playing.

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As Vincent left the apartment, he still didn't feel very good but kept on walking. What felt like hours had really on only been about half an hour at the most. By now Vincent was feeling dizzy and his vision was getting blurred as he continued to walk. When he turned a corner he suddenly bumped into someone.

"Sorry." Groaned Vincent as he held a hand to his head which was throbbing.

"You apologizing Vincent? What's happened to you and When'd you turn soft?" the person who Vincent had bumped into replied.

"Eh?" wondered Vincent as he tried to focus. He saw a familiar cloak, dark hair and the two armbands on the person's arms.

"Street? Damnit." Growled Vincent.

"What's wrong? Sick?" asked Street raising an eyebrow.

Vincent shook his head.

"No, but I've got this stupid headache and not to mention my vision is starting to get blurry." He replied and he lost his balance and managed to hold up by leaning against a wall. Street stared.

"Here, let's go to the roofs. You might feel better." Muttered Street as she helped Vincent make it to the top of the nearby roof where they sat down. Vincent just stared ahead looking past the alleys and saw the entire city and Street sat next to him.

"So what's wrong with you?" Street asked again as she crossed her arms and waited for an answer.

Vincent weakly grinned.

"I'm happy that you have some concern of me Street." He replied. Street huffed and then grinned back.

"Bah. Why shouldn't I. So what exactly is happening to you?" she asked. Vincent sighed and looked towards the horizon where a soft breeze blew and ruffling their hair.

"Street..did you ever think that something of the past could ever come back?" he asked.

This surprised Street. Even though she didn't show a lot of emotion, she still considered the Shadow Blader her friend and friends worry about each other. Right?

"Well, if you think about it, I think it can go either way. It could come back in a good way or a bad way. Why do you ask this?" Street asked.

"Because...I'm afraid something that I don't have that was in the past may hurt me now." Replied Vincent.

"What could possible hurt you Vincent? As far as I've known you you're practically fine." Replied Street surprised.

Vincent looked at Street and when she looked at him she was shocked. His eyes were holding so much emotion that she never saw in Vincent ever before. It was as if another person was being encased inside of Vincent and that's why he had that hard exterior and why he hardly ever showed any emotion. It was like, for a while, the encased person inside of Vincent got a first view of the outside world, showing how Vincent was inside. As she looked at the emerald depths of his eyes he saw two emotions that were showing more than the other. Sadness and loneliness.

"Vincent.." Street said, as Vincent bowed his head down.

"Street, please promise you won't say anything to your Alley Bladers or my Shadow Blades." Vincent asked looking back at her pleadingly. Street nodded silently as she was still trying to get over her initial shock.

"When I was younger, I had an abusive father after my mother had died." Vincent started. "He'd always come looking and I'd usually end up getting beat up for the two of us, because I wanted to protect him so much."

"Wait. You said 'us'. What does that mean Vincent?" Street asked.

"Street before I met you or ANY other alley blades, I had...a little brother." Replied Vincent.

"A little brother!? YOU!?" Street replied surprise. "But what does this have to do with your illness?"

Then Vincent started to exasperate.

"I DON'T KNOW!!" Vincent cried, surprising Street," Every night all I can hear is his voice crying out to me that night. That awful night where I lost my little brother!!"

"You hear him?" Street asked.

"Yes. But it's strange, I always hear him...calling.." moaned Vincent as he suddenly was holding his head in pain and closing his eyes and started to moan in pain, and getting Street worried.

"VINCENT!! WHAT'S HAPPENING!?

"I.I hear him Street!!"

"Hear who!? Who do you hear Vincent!!" shouted Street.

//Big brother!! Help me!!//

//Vincent you promised. You promised you'd protect me!!//

//VINCENT PLEASE HELP ME!!//

Then Vincent started to loose conscious and suddenly before he completely blacked he heard Street's desperate voice trying to get to him and a familiar smiling figure.

"Na.Nanashi..." **************************************************************************** ************************** End of Chapter 2