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Tea Party

Chapter 3

The Count sighed, and started to walk after the irritated Tetsu-chan, when he heard giggling. He frowned, and looked behind him to see a small male bunny following him.

"Ah, hello there Poi-chan." the Count greeted politely, bending down to Poi- chan's level of sight.

"Hewwo 'ount D!" he said happily, tugging at the Count's clothing.

"Mommie said 'oi-chan could have some snacks." Poi-chan said nicely, trying to get across the kami that he was hungry.

"Alright Poi-chan, come this way, and we'll find you something nice to munch on." the Count said smoothly, as he lead the snake boy to the front of the petshop.

"Now Poi-chan, what would you like to eat?" The Count asked the little boy, leading him to the front where sweets were kept.

"Mommie said no thweet 'tuff." Poi-chan replied looking downcast.

"Not a problem. We have some nice Rain candies." the Count replied, holding out some blue, and white rain drop looking objects.

"They have no sugar, and contain mostly water." The Count explained, placing the candies in Poi-chan's eager hands.

"Thankies Count D!" Poi-chan chanted out, racing down the hallway, and disappearing into a random room.

The Count sighed happily, and walked over to his living room area, where he had left the detective. Seeing that Orcot wasn't there any more, Count D furrowed his eye brows.

'I wonder where he could have gone...' the Count pondered, standing, ready to go looking for the missing detective. The Kami suddenly froze when he caught the scent of the Cat/wolf.

'Ame-chan? What are you doing around Leon?' he wondered to himself, as he followed both of their scents into the pet shop.

He walked past the cages holding the regular cats, and dogs, and he frowned slightly. He noticed that T-chan had joined the duo, and now it was a trio.

As he walked farther back into his pet shop, he started to hear the scuffle, and moving around further on. Suddenly a voice broke out.

"SHUT UP! Leon-san is nice! Don't bite him! Stop! I said-"

"Shut up stupid cat-wolf! I'll bite what I want to!"

"T-CHAAAAAAAAAN!"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

The count turned a corner, and it appeared that the cat/wolf was trying to pry the reluctant T-chan off of Leon. He smirked at the situation, but jumped in to help any way.

"T-chan, release the detective immeadiately." the count said sternly, frowning at the goat thing.

"Whatever. Let's go cat/wolf." T-chan said, and dragged Ame out by the ear.

"What the hell-"she started to protest, when T-chan covered her mouth with his hand, and whispered something into her ear.

Her eyes widened, and she giggled into his hand. Nodding, she left quickly with him.

"Now, Detective. Are you alright?" the count asked the shocked Leon with a pleasant voice.

"I'm fine...but um...your animals are real strange count. I coulda sworn that those two things were planning something." He said, scratching his head, in the most adorable fashion, that the count had ever seen.

"They were just being animals Detective. Shouldn't it be time for you to get home? It is around 11:30, and Chris is still here somewhere if I recall correctly." The count said, startling Leon into reality.

"Crap! It's almost midnight! I gotta get up early tomorrow! Shit, shit, shit, shit, shi-"Leon was cut off by the Count's voice.

"Just stay here for the night. I'm sure you could live a day in the same clothing, couldn't you?" The count asked innocently, gesturing to the clothing that Leon was already wearing. "Well..um...uh...it wouldn't be to much trouble for you would it Count?" Leon asked hopefully, his exhaustion making itself known through his eyes.

"Why of course. What are friends for?" the Count asked innocently, and started to lead Leon down the pet shop again.

"Where are we going?" Leon asked as the Count led him further into the pet shop.

"I'm leading you to a guest room, and I will make arrangements for Chris when I see him next." The count said, watching Leon yawn.

'Why detective! What a large mouth you have.' the count said in his mind, chuckling at the shot at American folk stories.

"Sure thing..." The detective followed the count with a weary drawl, and the Count stepped with a light spring in his step.

As he lead the tired detective to one of his empty guest rooms, and snickered to himself in his mind, and wondered what T-chan, and Ame were up to.

'I'm sure that Ame would never follow T-chan around like that. She always does what she wishes. I wonder who will take her home...' The count wondered as he held open the door for Leon.

"Goodnight Detective." he said softly, and closed the door behind Leon.

"Yeah....g'night..." he said sleepily back.

The count listened for the detective's body to hit the bed before he walked off to find Chris. Walking back through the pet shop, he listened to all the contented sleepers in the pet shop that he had. Smiling in a fatherly way, he patted a random male cat on the head, before walking on.

As the count came into the main room where tea was always had, he saw Ame- chan, T-chan, Pon-chan, and Chris sleeping in a pile, and T-chan being the bottom. As he grunted, and shifted, Ame yawned, and snuggled into her tail smiling happily.

Deciding not to bother the four, he left them, knowing that Chris was in good hands, and he would wake up in the morning as usuall.

D began to walk gracefully down the hallways to his own bedroom to get some rest. Today had been eventful, and he felt farely tired. As he walked past the reptilian room, he watched as an adult male anaconda joined him.

"Hello Massssster-D." he hissed quietly, walking in a slithering way next to him.

"Good evening Koriko-sama." he said evenly, looking to him from the corner of his eyes. "What bringssssss you out ssssso late tonight?" Koriko asked evenly, watching the Count with a snake like intrest.

"I was tending to Chris, and Leon. They are spending the night tonight." he said, giving the large snake, a meaningful look.

"Ah...yesss...the boy, and hisssss brother...I will make sssure that no one botherssss them." he hissed, smiling at how that could have gone in the morning.

"I would be delighted if you would Koriko-sama." Count D said, and smiled nicely to his pet.

"Massster-D...I wassss wondering....when will you get another of my ssssspeciessss here at the petshop?" he questioned, looking slightly lonely.

"I'm trying Koriko-sama. I know you have been patient, but I am trying to find you a mate." he said, pitying his poor, and lonely snake.

"Not neccccccesssssssarily a mate....jusssst a friend..." he said, looking to the ground witha lonely aura surrounding him.

"I'm sorry Koriko-sama. I will look more tomorrow. There should be a new import of snakes tomorrow at the zoo. I will look into it."

"Thank you Masssster-D." he said, and slithered/walked off into a room where his cousin's the lizards were kept.

D watched the lonely Anaconda move off, and he sighed pitifully.

'That poor creature. It is sad how even animals search for love so very deeply.' he walked on, till his room came in sight, and he smiled evenly.

Going into the room, he undressed from his chengnosam, and put on a light sleeping chengnosam. Crawling into bed, he watched Q-chan fly to his perch, and sit. He was sleeping soundly in 5 minutes, but the Count lay awake for a few more minutes.

His last thought, before being sucked into dream land was, 'I wonder what Leon is dreaming right now...'

Dream

Leon was walking through a mist, and he called out slowly,

"Hello? Any one here? Chris?...D? ...helloooooooo!?"

"Incarcerated."

"Huh?" He asnwered to a voice with no body in the mist.

"Incarcerated." It answered back.

"Hello? Who is that? Who are you?" He asked, shaking his hands, trying to clear the mist, and see who was speaking.

"Incarcerated, in mind, and body alike. Leon." it said, pronouncing his name incorrectly. Saying Leo, with an N at the end.

"My name's Leon, who are you?" he said, and started to jog.

"Oh Leon, you are so alone. And lost are you not?" the voice with no name asked from all around.

"Stop that! Come out from where you're hiding you physco!" he screamed angrily.

"Ohhh...Leon! Such a temper. Alone, lost...afraid...who is your guide? Who is your mate? Who clears this mist, or fear, and hate?" the voice asked with a mocking tone to it.

"SHUT UP!!!" Leon said, a vein popping out of his forehead.

"Heeheeheee..." the voice chuckled, and the mist began to slowly part. A shadow became prominent to Leon, and he started to run towards it.

"I've got you now!" He yelled, and stopped in his tracks to see Count D.

"Wha?...D? What are you doing here?" he asked with a questioning tone.

He just stood there with a said smile frozen on his face, and didn't move.

"Hello??? D?" Leon waved a hand in his face.

"Ahh...so..you've chosen him to be your guide have you?" the voice asked with sincere amusement in his/her voice.

"Guide? You keep talking about some stupid guide....what do you mean?" Leon asked with curiosity.

"A guide through your world of pain, and your world of pleasuuuuure..." he/she said, purring the word into the detective's ear.

"What the HELL do you mean?! Pleasure? WHAT THE FUCK!?" He yelled angrily, whipping around, trying to face the voice. "Heeheehee..." it chuckled again, and Leon sat up suddenly.

Dream End

"What the HELL was that?" asked Leon to himself, genuinely confused.

"Oh well..." flopping back onto his bed, he looked at the side, expecting to see his clock, but saw a bedside table.

"What in hells...oh wait..I'm at Count D's..." wondering what time it was, he sat up again, and looked down when he heard a squeak. Seeing a small ferret at his right side, he lifted an eye brow in question.

"And just WHO do you think you are?" he asked, not expecting an answer.

Wide, teary eyes responded to him, and he sighed, giving up.

"Fine, fine, you can stay with me. But would ya wake me up at 7:30?" he asked, rolling over, not expecting to get woken by a silly animal. Hearing a squeak, he smiled wrily.

'It's almost as if he can understand me.'

urm...Sorry I took so long people! I was taking a well deserved break from writing! I GET A SNAKE! And it's full name is going to be Anubis Jackal Yakio Koriko Jolly....Wow...long name! I'll just call it...urm...Death. Cause...yeah...He's going to grow 6-8 feet long! WHOOOOOOT! CAN'T WAIT! :3