Inari: Hiya minna!

Ray-kun: Yes, hi.

Inari: Don't you have to be at work?

Ray-kun: Yep.

Inari: Um… Okay. Well thanks to the review from Whisper Reilman, I'm glad you like the story so far. I use to have a Kohl of my very own, well kinda, see Kohl is based on my dead best friend (don't get all sobby eyed for me, it's been three years) and he was as bout as cuddly as a plush. The character and Kohl himself look almost identical, well his hair only reached his but. And a nice but at that…

Ray-kun: Can you get on with the story; no one wants to hear about The Great, Kohl-sama.

The Great, Kohl-sama: Why Ray, I didn't know you thought so highly of me.

Ray-kun has now left the house.

Inari: Isn't it great when you can run you boyfriend out of the house, with a few written words from someone that isn't even alive.

Inari: One last note, at the end of this will be a description of the packs dynamics if your wondering where all the characters fit in.

Now on with the story.

Tension and Koshi

"Well… Um… Kinda was board." Kohl had finally come into the kitchen, and was now sitting at the table trying very, very hard, not to stare at the tan skin only a few feet away from him.

The sound of something breaking, and then many muffled curses in two languages, was heard coming from the front of the shop. Only to be drained out by crooning and giggling from another kind of pack, that of the local fan girl club.

"Shit Yoji, if you'd watch where your going, that wouldn't happen." Sounded a rich, melodious voice that Kohl hadn't heard yet.

"Well if you wouldn't just pop in out of no where, I wouldn't have to." Yoji shot back, his voice getting louder as he started for the other portions of the house. What the hell…

"Not again." Ken whispered, placing his head in his hand, dreading the worst from the two. And it just kept getting better. Yoji wasn't the first one to reach the kitchen. Koshi was, and was none to happy about having an unknown vampire in the room, let alone around the youngest of the group.

However, to Ken's wonderful delight, Yoji really wasn't that far behind and caught his lovers friend by the shoulder, stopping him from throttling the poor hapless German. Even more surprising is that said German felt comfortable enough, that he didn't flinch 'all' that much at the feral hisses from the new blonde.

Yoji sent Ken a weary glance. Ken instily rose, putting himself between the two.

"Now Koshi, it's not what it looks like, ask Ran. He's the one who said to let him in." Ken placated, looking down at Koshi's feet in a sign of submission.

With that, Koshi was out of the room to do just that. Leaving a much relived Ken and Yoji in his wake.

"That was close. You almost lost your head right then, and where would that leave ken?" Yoji joked, walking over to the sink to wash off the dirt and blood from the now healing cut on his arm. The pot he'd broken hadn't cut him too badly, but he really didn't want to let it heal over the potting soil in logged in it.

Ken wasn't even listening to him. He'd sat back down at the table, placed his head back in his hands and started muttering to himself.

"Why… oh why… do they have to wake me up this early in the morning…? Omi could have taken my shift, but no… I have to get up… having my hole day shot to hell… then my new friend almost killed… all because our oh, so fearless leader doesn't tell his jack of a friend anything… and I'm the one who has to…" this went on for a while, as Kohl just stared at the boy.

"If you don't talk to him, he'll keep that on for hours." Yoji supplied, already making his way back to the shop and his probably infuriated lover.

"Wait… what am I suppose to say?" Kohl asked the retreating blonde.

"Here, I'll get you started… KEN! You still have a guest in the room with you." Yoji shouted, and then casually walked out the door.

"Wha-..?" Ken asked, looking up from his hands to see an expectant Kohl looking at him with amusement in his eyes. Ken promptly blushed, then commenced to hit his head on the table before a hand stopped him. A hand that ended up running from cupping his cheek, to gliding into his hair before the owner realized what he was doing and jerked it away.

Ken didn't know what happened, but all the while the hand was on him, he'd been leaning into it. Then it was gone, leaving a very confused and slightly turned on Ken in its wake.

"I'm sorry. I'm causing all of this. I've never been near a pack before, and I'm terribly afraid that I'm going about this all wrong." Kohl tried explaining, growing more and more confused by the feeling the boy- a mere boy! - was drawing out of him.

"Oh! It's not your fault. You haven't done a thing wrong. It's just not my day- or week for that matter." Ken encysted, looking strait into Kohl eternal eyes.

At that moment, a peeved blonde decided the kitchen was the place to vent his anger and the fledgling in it.

"Ken!" Koshi yelled from the doorway, his eyes gone from the normal coal black, to a liquid red.

Rapidly Ken was on his feet, then his knees in front of the platinum blonde. It really wasn't turning out as if the day was looking up either. Koshi's hand went possessively into Ken's hair, as he looked over to the new comer that was now standing. The look in the brunets eyes shown that he was having a war with his feelings for Ken, and the fear that was telling him to take flit.

"What is it that you want with 'my' pack mate? It can't be just friendship. A loner like yourself has to be looking for something more. Or is it that you actually want…" Koshi was cut short by the backhand that sent him flying into the wall opposite the sink.

Ran stood a little beyond the thresh hold to the room, hand still raised in the air. Yoji was right behind him; smirking over at the second in command that was rising to his feet with a hand on his redden cheek. His eyes were losing the glossy red shine in the smoldering fury of his leader glare.

"Ken."

Ken looked up at Ran, one hand in his hair where it had been pulled when Koshi went flying. "Hai?" he asked, not shore if Ran was mad at him or not.

"Go take a shower, then get dressed. You can have the rest of the day off to show Kohl around the city." Ran said, still looking over at the in-ranged vampire in the corner.

"Hai." ken stood up from his submissive position on the ground, heading for the stairs, but not before sending Kohl a wearied glance. He had no clue what Ran was going to do with him. He seamed to be causing many problems with there leaders long time friend. He just hopped nothing bad happened to the man, he was kinda fond of him.

Back in the Kitchen, Ran was still giving out orders.

"Omi, go mind the shop, I wont be long."

"Hai." and Omi left his vantage point behind the mans lover.

"Yoji, keep Kohl company till Ken gets back." Then thinking better of those orders added. "And behave your self."

"Hai, hai… I'll be a good little boy."

"Hn. Koshi, come." With that, and not another look at the scowling blonde, Ran turned and left for the back room.

Grumbling, and giving Kohl some of the dirtiest looks he could have managed with the bruise already making its presents known on his face, Koshi pushed past Yoji and headed for the reprimanding he hoped didn't involve his friends oh, so sharp katana.

Yoji smiled at him as he made his way past, then turned the look over to Kohl. "Now, since I have instructions to behave…" Yoji started, giving Kohl the feeling that he wasn't very good with listening to any instructions at all.

Kohl hoped that Ken was quick with showers, so he didn't get in trouble for what the other man was suggesting with his eyes.

"This is the last time I'm going to let you get away with these little tantrums of your! I gave you specific instructions to leave him and Ken alone, and what do you do, you go behind my back, in my own home, while I'm still in it and pull something like this off! If you weren't so useful and such a loyal sub, I'd of killed you a long time ago." Ran could barely be heard from the back room, he was yelling in such a way as to get his point across but not to be heard all the way in the shop. The only reason they could hear him was for there excellent hearing.

"Well at least he's venting his anger out on someone besides me." Yoji actually cringed at the yelling. "Man that the most he's said in three weeks. Koshi better be glad the back room doesn't have any sharp objects." Shaking his head in the direction of his lover, Yoji turned back to Kohl. "Ken'll be back soon, in the mean time, you want something to drink?" He asked, heading over to the liquor they kept for such an occasions.

Inari; I know its kinda short but my honey is tacking me out to dinner and I wanted to get this out before I had to get ready.

LONG A/N: Well here is the whole group dynamics thing I wanted to inform you about. There is no more of this ch', so if you don't want to read any of this, you won't be missing anything.

Still anyone reading... good.

Well, you know that Ran's the leader. The one every one is punished by, Says what to do, yha know just like his original character. Then there comes Yoji, well for lack of a better word, he's the bitch of the group. The only reason he's there is to be with Ran. Notice how he's always hanging of him, smelling and scenting him. If this was a larger group, Ran would probably have more than one Yoji, and he'd have to compete for Ran's affection and attention, so out of instinct he constantly marks him to cover up any sent another mate mite leave on Ran. However, I'm being nice and letting Yoji have him all to himself. Yoji's job is what I just explained, to sleep, and keep Ran company. He has no say in what goes on in the group. In addition, if Yoji were a girl besides staying with ran, he'd be the one to reproduce. Beside all of this, Yoji is just an ornament for Ran to show off.

These are the only ones allowed to mate, or even have sex in the group. If you are not this high up and you wanted some, well you'd have to go behind the leaders back to do it or leave and find a mate starting your own group. (Though you can fall in love and be all touché filly with the other members of the group, but you can't consummate anything.) If you went behind your packs backs to do this, you really need to be good at covering up the smell, 'cause that's the first thing that is going to be noticed.

Now to my other OC, Koshi's. He's Ran's right hand man, so to speak. He's the one Ran asks advice from, sends out on errands, says 'you watch Yoji while I'm gone' cause he trusts him not to do anything to, or with him, even if Yoji is hanging all over him. If out on a hunt, he'd ask him if the feed would be good. Koshi made it this far up the groups chain because he was Ran's best friend when he was still human, almost a century ago and then was turned by Ran ten years later by the request of Koshi's, that Ran needed a friend that was going to last as long as him and his sister.

Now, on to characters yha'll all ready know of, Omi and Aya-chan. The free loaders of the group. Well not really, that's just what there level is. They have no real jobs, the still obey to anyone higher up, but there just filler for the group. Aya-chan is around the same age as Koshi, actual a little older, but is placed lower down in the group than Omi. This is for two reasons; she's female (not being sexist, I'm one two) she's not used in fights, and most females are placed in the group where Yoji is, and since that would put her having sex with her brother!.! I decided to place her in this grouping. The other reason is that she's not even suppose to be in this group. Once a girl vamp is of age, they leave for a mate of the own. But being Ran's little sister, you really didn't think he'd let her do that, did you now.

Omi, well he hunts with the group. Live's with them and does what he's told. He tends to reprimand the other a lot out of habit. As telling Yoji what to do, but he can get away with it, 'cause he's still the little Chibi and no one can resist the puppy dog eyes.

And now, were getting to the final, if you're still reading this, which no one probable is, but any who.

Ken, the fledgling of the group. Well actually, he's a little old to be in this group, but there's no one below him in age so. Fledglings are usually one to 8 years old; they are constantly feeding and have very little control over the vampire senses.

Ken is about eleven plus his human years, so he has good control over his body but he still tends to feed more than is necessary. In chap two, Ran sends him to placate Kohl by kneeling down in front of him. This is like when a dog final roles over and shows you it's vulnerable under side. Ran was telling Kohl that we trust you enough to let our weakest member get that close. It was meant as a peace offering. And usually a girl is used for this, and many times is given to the other pack. However, cense Kohl was only a loner; Ran probably did not see the reason to go that far. Though I doubt that Ken would have minded being given over.

Loner, is just that, one that has no ties to any other vamps.

One more thing than I'll shut up, the hole master thing is when you have an old vamp that probably was a leader at one point but isn't anymore and he or she has a almost slave that they have under there complete control. Usually used as a sex toy of sorts or just as company if they don't want the burden of a mate.

Wow, that was more than I thought. Oh yeah, here are the ages of the group.

Ran= 126 shown age is around 20

Yoji= 63, 22

Koshi= 115, 29

Aya= 122, 19

Omi= 87, 17

Ken= 30, 19

Kohl= 94, 21

So there you have it, I'm done. You can stop pretending to read this now. I can't see you anyway.

Please review and I'll try to get another ch' by tomorrow.