Tenshi awoke that morning to the sound of rain slowly drumming on the thatched roof of the hut. She roughly rubbed her eyes and pulled herself to her feet. Tenshi's first instinct was to rush into Ojiisan's room and demand that as soon as the rain stopped that he begin training her on how to use her Katana, but Tenshi's mind slowly crawled back to the present; 'Ojiisan was gone, and nothing would change that.' Tenshi looked around the hut for Kenjutsu, but he was nowhere to be found. She searched in and around the hut, she even called his name several times in the forest that surrounded the hut, but it seamed he had fallen of the face of the earth. Finally, when Tenshi was just preparing to give up and wait for Kenjutsu to return on his own, she remembered the Shrine. Tenshi hurried along in her rain soaked clothes to the shrine, the wind had begun to pick up and Tenshi was exceedingly glad to enter the shrine and escape the cold, harsh weather. Tenshi quietly entered the dark shrine and waited for her eyes to adjust to the sudden change of lighting. Tenshi's eyes adjusted quickly and soon she was able to see into the farthest and darkest corners of the shrine easily. Tenshi quickly peered around the shrine, her eyes drifted to the far back corner and fell on Kenjutsu. He was sitting with his back against the far wall, slowly turning and admiring the knives Ojiisan had given him the night before. Uncontrollably Tenshi felt the urge to remove her Katana from its sheath, and admire it as well, but she quickly purged the idea from her mind and crossed the threshold to sit with Kenjutsu. For several awkward moments the was a silence between the two, but after some careful prodding Tenshi was able to make Kenjutsu engage in normal conversation. Tenshi started with light conversation ranging from "odd weather we're having, huh?" to "hum...we should really think about repairing this shrine, its been leaking like crazy!" Kenjutsu reluctantly began talking and finally Tenshi was able to say what had been on her mind from the night before. Tenshi calmly looked in Kenjutsu's direction, not wanting to look him in the eye as she said "Kenjutsu, we can't continue living in the hut, we still don't know who kill-"Tenshi quickly rephrased after seeing the expression on Kenjutsu's face "we still don't know who did that to Ojiisan, they could come after us as well..." Kenjutsu silently nodded and looked out the small window facing the hut. Tenshi sat silently looking at the ground wishing Kenjutsu would talk to her. Without warning Tenshi felt Kenjutsu shift nervously, she turned and looked questioningly in his direction, Suddenly Kenjutsu pointed out the small square window "Who's that?" he asked in his usual confused tone. Tenshi followed Kenjutsu's gesture and saw a small figure walking slowly towards the shrine. They sat in silence as the figure slowly grew in size; Tenshi was able to gather that it was a man judging by his rough movements and that he must be rather old because of how slowly he moved. Suddenly the figure vanished and reappeared outside the shrine door, Tenshi stared amazed and gawking at Kenjutsu, his expression was exactly like that of Tenshi's. Tenshi watched the slow movement of feet under the crack at the base of the door; those movements could only be those of one person.

"Ojiisan?!" Tenshi found herself shouting when the door was smoothing swung open. There was no mistaking it, even though he was nearly transparent and no longer had the stab wound, it was clear that this man was Ojiisan. Kenjutsu leaped to his feet and rushed to help Ojiisan into the hut, Tenshi quickly coming to her senses rose to do the same, but Ojiisan stopped the both of them "I do not need your assistance, I am only permitted to stay for a moment." A sudden chorus of questions erupted from Kenjutsu, breaking the silence "Ojiisan, we thought you were dead! What happened? Who did that to you?!" Tenshi placed a quieting hand on Kenjutsu's shoulder and asked Ojiisan "What do you mean you're 'permitted'?" Ojiisan smiled at Tenshi's attentiveness and said "I am merely a messenger; I can only answer if asked the right questions." Tenshi thought for a moment and then asked "If you're 'merely a messenger' does that mean you're still dead?" Ojiisan's face grew grave as he responded "Yes, I am only an apparition." Tenshi wanted to ask so many questions, but Ojiisan had said he was only a messenger so she decided it was best to stay to the point "What message have you come to deliver exactly?" Tenshi asked. Ojiisan's expression brightened as he said "I have been sent by 'the powers that be' to give you a message, a message that is most grave indeed. I have been instructed to begin with you Tenshi." Tenshi looked up from the ground where Ojiisan's feet were lightly levitating off the ground. Ojiisan smiled and continued "Tenshi, long before you were born, your father had been a scholar in the study of Alchemy, and he made it his life's work to excel in this field. After much study and error he created a sword, the very Katana you hold in your hands, which would be the equivalent of the philosopher's stone. But as fate would have it, your father was never able to use the sword he had worked so hard to create, for the very night it was finished he was bitten by a vampire. The vampire gave him a choice: live or die? And in your fathers fear and anguish he chose to live. The vampire sired him; he made your father into a creature of the night. Your father was able to return to your mother, he was still able to bear children, and nine months later, after he had been taken for dead, you were born." Tenshi struggled for a moment trying to let every piece of information sink in. finally she broke the silence once more and asked "Does that mean I'm half vampire?" Ojiisan slowly nodded twice and said "you may have noticed your strength, and refined senses." Tenshi swallowed and tried to fight back tears 'this is just too much' Tenshi thought. Before Ojiisan could say anymore, Tenshi raced past him and out into the rain. She ran with her head down, keeping the rain from clouding her vision. The tears on Tenshi's face mingled with the raindrops covering her face. Tenshi ran furiously not wanting to ever stop, when suddenly Tenshi came crashing into a moving object. Tenshi stumbled to the ground and quickly jerked her head upward to se who, or what she had ran into. Tenshi's gaze landed on the feet of a hooded and cloaked person, weighed down by the rain soaked clothes. Tenshi peered into the hood and saw none other than the red haired woman who had been arguing with Ojiisan the night he was murdered.