Warnings/Notes: This is going to be shounen ai (guys having romantic relations with other guys), so if you don't like it, please beware of this fic.

Oh! And this is AU (alternate universe) where there is no bladeing and stuff.

Thank you to everyone who's reviewed so far! It's very much appreciated!

And also thank you to you all for putting up with my horrific updating habits! (sweatdropps and laughs nervously with a hand behind head nervously Tyson style) I am pretty bad huh?

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Chapter 5

Tyson scowled as he stalked down the road towards the place that he left his car.

"Stupid Count……………"

He peered into the darkness as he noticed a light in the distance coming towards him. He slunk back, away from the side of the road, out of sight, as the car pulled up about 15m down the road from him, nearly completely hidden in the darkness.

Tyson soon came to the conclusion that these were no guests of the Count, or they would have driven right up to the gates.

He watched two people emerge from the car, his eyes widening as, from the faint glow of the car's interior light, he could see who one of the people was.

Kai.

Eyes narrowed and smirking as he watched his quarry who was completely unaware of his presence.

Through the very dim light, he could make out Kai's figure gracefully shut the door and move away from the car. His eyes slid up and down his target's form.

Well he is kinda cute,

and I would have to say if

you did like him you'd have good taste…………..

Tyson flushed when his grandpa's words came back to him as he realized that he was checking out the thief's ass.

"Oh god what am I doing?" he whispered into the darkness.

As he noticed that both Kai and his companion were starting to walk away, he shoved aside his embarrassing thoughts and stealthily began to follow the pair, hoping not to be noticed.

Kai frowned at Kenny as he got out of the car and shut the door, "I don't like this."

"You don't have to."

"What is it, exactly, that you want me to do?"

"I want you to get inside and find out who took Hilary."

Kai looked at Kenny strangely, "But isn't this where she lived?"

"Yes, but it's also where she was taken, and I think that the person who did it is still there."

"So you think it's an inside job……………….."

Kenny nodded, "Yeah………"

"So how come you don't do this yourself?"

"I just can't, okay?" said Kenny irritably.

"And then?"

"What?"

"What do I do if and when I find this person?"

Kenny said nothing.

Kai scowled, "Look. I don't do murder. I just steal."

Kenny sighed and started walking towards the mansion after locking the car door, "You don't have to kill anyone. I just want to know who did it."

Kai didn't look convinced, "I don't trust you."

Kenny stopped walking and looked back frustrated, "There's a lot of money in the house. If you find it, you can keep it."

"I already knew about that," said Kai bluntly, "And it doesn't mean that I'm going to trust you or what you say."

Kenny chose not to reply and started to walk again.

Kai caught up to him, and after a minute suddenly asked, "Who do you think did it?"

Kenny looked surprised and slightly uncomfortable at the question, "What?"

"If you want me to find out who it was then you must have some idea. Besides, if you were her friend, you must have known her well."

Kenny paused, "Well…………there are a few people really………."

"Who?"

"The guards."

"Which ones."

"I don't know……………………Some of them, all of them?"

"Why would they want to do that?"

"They've been annoyed about the fact that Hilary escaped so often, it made them look bad, you see?"

Kai didn't look totally convinced, "Okay…………………"

They both stopped next to the fence just past the gates.

Kai looked up at the top of the high fence, and took note of the rather threatening spikes, "I suppose you're just going to wait out here?" he asked dryly.

Kenny looked a little uncomfortable and coughed embarrassedly, "Err…………...yes."

Kai rolled his eyes. "It figures."

He paused for a second, crouched down with one knee on the ground, then sprung up, jumping over the fence, clearing the spikes effortlessly, and landed lightly on the other side.

"You almost make it look easy," commented Kenny, surprised by Kai's agility.

Kai ignored Kenny and did a quick check for a security system. Finding none, he muttered, "One would think there would be a little more security in a place like this, not that I mind," and then started heading towards the mansion.

15 minutes, and a lock pick later, with no idea of where he should be should be heading, Kai found himself sneaking down the dimly lit corridors of the mansion.

He paused, glanced round a corner, carefully checking to see if anyone was there, and continued. The last thing he needed was to get caught.

He knew this was crazy. How on earth was he going to find out who took Hilary? Walk around interviewing people? He wasn't at all happy about playing the detective. Especially as he had mocked people in that particular occupation for most of his life. Being the bad guy was something that, for some strange reason, he prided himself on.

He suddenly froze.

There was someone behind him.

Pretending not to know that they were there, he kept on walking naturally until he turned a corner.

Then, back pressed a wall, he waited until whoever it was rounded the corner.

Just as they did, he pounced. Slamming them to the ground, and using his weight to hold them there.

One minute he had been trying to follow Kai as stealthily as possible, and the next, he was lying on the ground with the wind knocked out of him.

Auburn eyes stared down accusingly at him, "You?"

Tyson glared back up at him, trying desperately to ignore the fact that yes, Kai was most definitely as hot as he remembered, and yes, the said hot Kai was currently straddling him, "Yes me. Now get off. Because……….. YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!"

Kai gave him the sly little smirk that he had come to despise, "The only thing under anything here is you. And please stop yelling, I'd rather not get caught."

"Too late."

Both Tyson and Kai looked up to see all four of Count Balkov's guards, Kane, Miriam, Gauche and Jim all staring at them.

Jim smirked, "Sorry to break up you're little love fest, but I'm afraid you need to come with us now."

Despite the fact that he had been explicitly instructed to got back to the hotel that they were staying at, Rei was sitting at a table outside a small café drinking a coffee, scowling darkly at the people passing him by.

It wasn't fair.

Tyson was out doing all the work while he was now stuck waiting around doing nothing.

He nearly choked on his drink as a very familiar blonde plunked himself down in the chair opposite him grinning cheekily.

"Hi!"

Looking flustered, Rei started to stand, "YOU!"

Max continued to smiled at him, "The one and only."

"What do you want? Have you come to taunt me?"

Max's smile faded, "No. I felt bad about before, so I came to apologise. You know, the whole chasing thing. I was kind of tormenting you deliberately and I didn't mean to get you into trouble with your boss."

Rei gave him a devious smile as he pulled something out of his pocket under the table. He leaned across the table before smiling sweetly at the blonde, "That's alright," he purred and offered his hand to Max, "No hard feelings?"

Grinning Max reached across the table, taking Rei's hand and shook it, "Yeah, no hard fee-HEY!"

The door slammed shut, leaving Tyson and Kai to sit, glaring at each other across the room.

All thoughts of how hot he thought Kai was, disappeared in a period of hate filled silence, which wasn't broken until Kai finally said, "This is all your fault you know."

"Excuse me?" Tyson stared at him in disbelief.

"You're just so loud. Honestly, you're worse than Max."

"Well you shouldn't have broken into this mansion in the first place!"

Kai sniffed, "I didn't have a choice. And I didn't make you follow me."

Tyson sneered, "What do you mean you didn't have a choice? And what do you expect me to have done? Just stand there and watch you break the law?"

"Well, it would have been very helpful to me."

"Well I hope that you don't think that just because we're locked a room in some Count's mansion means that you aren't still under arrest."

"Whatever."

They sat quietly for awhile.

Finally, not liking the silence that was permeating the room, Tyson said, "So tell me, because I'm just dying to know, how did you do it this time?"

"Do what?" replied Kai dully.

"Get past the security system so easily. It was supposed to be very good."

Kai frowned slightly, "There wasn't one."

Tyson frowned too, "You're lying. I spoke to the Count earlier and he said that this mansion has an elaborate security system and that nobody can get in unless he wants them to. So how did you turn it off?"

"I said, I didn't," said Kai slowly, looking as if he was thinking it over, "How have you met the Count?"

Tyson smirked at him, "I was speaking to him about catching you," the smirk faded, "But he refused."

Kai smirked back, "And instead he caught you as well. Nice."

Tyson went red, "Shut up! And do you expect me to believe that you just waltzed in here? As if the Count wanted you to? Why the hell would he do that?"

Kai shrugged, "I don't know."

They both sat and thought about it for a few minutes.

"Before," said Tyson after a while, "You said that you had no choice about breaking in here. Why? Did it have something to do with that guy you were with?"

"Yes," said Kai slowly, unsure over whether he should really be telling this to someone who he considered his enemy.

"Who was he?"

Kai looked away from him for a moment, before saying in an annoyed tone, "You detectives. You can never mind your own business. Always asking questions and prying into other peoples lives. Always looking for answers."

"I only have to look because people hide them. Stop trying to change the subject by picking a fight. Who was he." It wasn't a question anymore. It was a demand.

"Why should I tell you?"

Tyson bit back the urge to grab the stubborn man and hit him, "Because I want to know."

"Fine." Kai gave in, sick of Tyson's continuous prodding, "His name is Kenny Dion, apparently he was Hilary Balkov's friend."

"Hilary? Is she the Count's daughter?"

Kai nodded his head, "Yes."

"Was? They're not anymore? Is that why you broke in? He paid you to get revenge or something?"

Kai scowled, "I wish. Then maybe things wouldn't be so messy."

Tyson looked intrigued, "Then what's going on."

"Basically, he blackmailed me, saying that he would hand me over to you, if I didn't come here and find out what who abducted Hilary."

"She's been kidnapped?"

"Yes."

"How?"

Kai looked rather annoyed, "That's why I'm here, remember?"

Tyson looked extremely amused, "You're here to figure out who did it?" he started laughing, "You hate the police and detectives! And now you're playing the part of one?"

Kai scowled very darkly, "And I feel like the biggest hypocrite ever."

Tyson still looked greatly amused, "I bet you do." He paused and then said, "Well I hate to tell you this, but I already know who did it!" he looked proud of himself.

Kai gave him a blank stare.

"This morning, I saw a man push her into a car. Then two other men and a woman took off with her. And this afternoon I found out that they are Count Balkov's guards, you know, the ones who caught us and put us in here, and they didn't seem like the nicest of people."

Kai smirked at Tyson, "You're wrong."

Tyson glared back at him, "I'm never wrong!"

Kai shook his head, ""I already knew about that. I saw it too. I was with Hilary when it happened. Kenny does think it was them, but we both know that they brought her home after you saw them."

Tyson looked put out, "Damn."

Kai sighed, "Yeah."

"But why does this Kenny think it was them anyway. What's their motive?"

Kai shrugged, "Well apparently Hilary was an inconvenience, always running away, and making them look bad."

Tyson suddenly stood, and moved across the room to sit down next to Kai against the wall. Ignoring Kai's surprised look and the fact that they were so close that their shoulders were touching, he asked, "What do you think about it?"

"Me?" Kai paused, "I'm not really sure. It could have something to do with her brother, or…………………" Kai trailed off, not really sure if he should tell Tyson about the counterfeiting.

"Wait? Her brother?"

Kai nodded, "Daichi Balkov. Apparently he disappeared as well. I have no idea when and where though."

"Do you think it was the same person?"

Kai shrugged, "Might be…………….What do you think?"

"Me? I only just found out about it! How do you expect me to know?"

"You know nearly everything I do," said Kai simply. "Possibly more. You said you met her father."

"Yeah, her father. Count Balkov………………… That man really is a piece of work. I've only met him once, and only for a few minutes but he's definitely not what you would call a very good father."

"Do you think he did it?" asked Kai curiously.

"Well, as I said, he doesn't exactly seem to be the perfect model of a father……………"

"But why would he do it?"

"Family issues?"

"That's a stab in the dark."

"Well tell me what you think then!"

"I'm not sure…….."

Tyson sighed, "Well maybe-" he was cut off by his mobile phone ringing.

Max pouted cutely at Rei across the table, "You said there were no hard feelings!"

Rei smirked at him, "There aren't! Not now anyway," his smirk then turned into a glare, and he held his mobile phone to his ear, "And don't you dare move!

Max made a face at him, "As If I could! You've handcuffed me to the table!"

Rei didn't reply, instead he waited for Tyson to answer his phone.

Tyson pulled out his phone and answered it, "Hello?"

"Guess what?" the voice on the other end of the line sounded smug.

"Rei?"

"Yep! And guess what?"

Tyson scowled, "This really isn't a good time to play games with me. I'm having a personal crisis."

Kai sniggered, "A personal crisis?" he whispered, "That's a funny way to put it."

Tyson shoved him in a way that was almost playful, but was also a little rougher than necessary, "Shh!"

On the other end of the line, Rei sounded confused, "Tyson?"

"Just tell me what you want!" Tyson snapped.

"No need to get touchy! And what I have to say will cheer you up………….. I've caught Max!"

Tyson blinked, "Max? The thief Max?"

Kai looked at him curiously.

"Yes the thief Max," said Rei sounding annoyed, "Who else? I've got him handcuffed to a table. You've got to come right away!"

Tyson sweatdropped, "I can't."

"Why not?"

Tyson looked at his feet feeling rather embarrassed, "You see…………….the thing is………. I'm currently locked in a room with Kai inside Count Balkov's mansion."

"What? Do you want me to call the police?" asked Rei sounding concerned.

Despite the fact that he knew Rei couldn't see him, Tyson shook his head, "I don't think so. I have a feeling that it won't do much good at the moment," he glanced at Kai who was pretending to look like he wasn't listening to what he was saying.

"Alright, I'll be right there," Rei paused, "Err………..what should I do with Max?"

Tyson glanced at Kai again, "Let him go, and bring him with you."

"WHAT? But I caught him!"

Tyson rolled his eyes, "I know."

"All on my own!"

"I know."

"Tyson!"

"Just do it."

Kai tapped him gently on the shoulder.

Tyson turned his attention to him.

"I didn't use my car to get here," said Kai, "They can use it. And tell him about Kenny."

Tyson nodded, "Kai says that you can use his car, I'm guessing Max knows where it is. And there should be a man hanging around outside the Mansion gates. His name's Kenny. He might be able to help you."

Rei sighed, "Okay. I'll get there as soon as I can," he paused, "Do you reallywant me to let Max go?"

"YES! Now hurry!"

Rei hung up the phone and looked at Max, who, in turn, smiled angelically at him.

"I haven't done anything wrong!" Max's innocent face intensified (something which Rei had thought should have been impossible), "I'll be good! I promise!"

Rei sighed and pulled the key for the handcuffs out of his pocket, "I think it's you're lucky day."

"Huh?"

Rei removed the handcuffs, and the second they were gone, all traces of Max's angel face were gone, being replaced by an evil little smile.

Feeling certain that he'd just made the biggest mistake ever, Rei got ready to leave, "You need to come with me, "I'll explain on the way."

Kai looked at Tyson curiously, "Why did you tell him to let Max go?"

Tyson sighed, and put his phone in his back pocket, "If you haven't noticed, we seem to be stuck here together, and it would appear that the only way for us to get out of this is to work together. So we'll have a temporary truce. Ok?"

Kai gazed up at the ceiling, "I guess……"

"But don't you think that I'm not going to arrest you the second that this over!" said Tyson threateningly.

"Hmm………"

"Good! Because I don't want you think that-" Tyson stopped when he noticed that Kai's attention was fixed on the ceiling, "Hey? Are you listening to me?"

There was no reply.

Tyson scowled, "Because you know, I can't just let you go just because I think you have a nice ass."

Kai showed no sign's of hearing that last comment.

Looking extremely annoyed, as he was now certain Kai wasn't listening to him, Tyson poked Kai in the side, "HEY! Did you hear a word I just said?"

Kai blinked and looked at Tyson, "Huh? Oh…………….. No." He turned his attention back to the ceiling.

Tyson huffed, "And why not?"

Without looking at him Kai asked, "Do you think you could lift me?"

Tyson facefaulted, "What!"

TBC………………………..