Wai! Another chap! Sorry about the crappy beginning and I'm truly sorry for the last chap… I'll try to get some time to change it… Because of the new stupid rule here on I can't answer your reviews… gomen.

Oh… BIG SORRY for the delay! I took a break during the summer but now I'm back! Hope you can forgive me all!

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Paw Prints and Feathers

Chapter three: Boooo….. who?

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"Tsuzuki? Hisoka? Guys?"

Watari poked his head into the kitchen and frowned. Nope. No sight of the duo. Not one living soul in the kitchen… wait… let's rephrase that… not one shingami soul in the kitchen. Looking back down the hallway he called for the secretary. "Did you see where they went?"

Tatsumi shook his head. "No. Kurosaki-kun went after Tsuzuki. I have seen them as much as you have" he said and walked up to Watari. "What worries me is the fact that Muraki is on the loose in Meifu. I wonder what happens if he flies into the castle of candles…"

Watari blinked and laughed. "I would love to see that! Count really dislikes Muraki for molesting Tsuzuki so I truly wonder what he would do if he actually got his hands on him" he said and pushed his glassed high on his nose. "Na, enough fooling around. Let's go to my lab and I'll see what I can do to track them down with my computer. Let's start with Japan then move from there" he said and turned around to leave.

Tatsumi blinked. Japan? That wasn't a part of Meifu... "You think that they have left Meifu?" he asked. "What makes you think that?"

Watari looked over his shoulder and shrugged. "With Muraki you never know. I don't think they are here in Meifu because we would be able to hear them. Tsuzuki is quite noisy when he's a puppy, you know, barking and such… The halls of Meifu are practically empty so we should be able to hear some noise if they were here" he said as he continued down the hall.

"Coming, Tatsumi?"

Tatsumi looked out through the window and sighed. 'You better not have hurt anyone of them, Muraki. I will rip you apart if you have'

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Amethyst eyes groggily opened as the pup regained consciousness. Standing up on his shaky legs he shook his head to clear it, thus ending up on his butt again. "Ow… what happened?" he asked and blinked to clear his vision.

Hisoka muttered as he sat up on his hind legs to get a better look around him. It appeared that they were in an old abandoned building. You know, those old buildings in the horror movies. He wrinkled his nose at the smell that the house reeked of. "I don't know, but I bet he does" he said and nodded his head at budgie a few meters from them. He used his front paws to wipe at his pink nose in hope to fend of the sneeze that was threatening to make itself known.

The white bird tilted his head. His feathers were slightly rumpled but while the two had talked he had been busy correcting them. "I'm sorry for the force of the teleport, Tsuzuki-san. I though a great shingami like you could handle it" he said and moved closer to the two. "That shows how delicate you really are under that tough attitude"

The bunny sat down on all four and stomped his hind leg. "Tell us where we are NOW before I get angry! I don't want to sit here and listen to you talking to Tsuzuki like that one minute longer!" he growled. He really disliked the situation. He just wanted to go back to Meifu, get his human body back and kill that son of a gun….

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….."

Tsuzuki tensed. "W-what was t-t-that?" he asked and looked around.

Muraki flew over and landed on the pup's head. "What was what, Tsuzuki-san?" he asked. He hadn't heard a thing.

"That sound! What was it!" the pup whined and backed into a corner. He had never been a fan of horror moves and such…. And being trapped in one really terrified the pup. "I'm too old for this!"

"I don't know if your age counts in a puppy's body. Even so you can't be all that scared now can you, Tsuzuki-san?"

Hisoka lifted one of his large ears. "I can't hear a thing. You are hallucinating…"

"Uhhhhhh…"

"THAT!" Tsuzuki shrieked and dashed off, not wanting to stay one minute longer. He just wanted to go home and hide under his bed! There was a limit on how much fright a shingami like him could stand and he had been pushed way beyond that limit!

Muraki wasn't prepared for the pup to take off so suddenly and toppled off his head and landed on the dusty floor. He flipped himself back onto his feet and shook himself. "That was rude of you, Tsuzuki-san. You really should warn a person before you do things like that" he said and automatically started to clean his dusty feathers.

"Uhhhhhhhh……. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…."

Muraki stopped in mid movement when he heard the strange sound. He looked up and around. "Hmm… that's odd. This place is supposed to be deserted…" he mumbled.

Hisoka was about to speak but all that happened was that his small jaw fell down and stayed down. His emerald eyes were glued to a spot above Muraki. Getting up on his paws he started to back away from the budgie. "I-I t-thing I-I g-go and-d-d-d see wha-at happened to T-Tsuzuki…" he whispered before turning around and dashing off after the pup. He usually wasn't this afraid of stuff but being a bunny changed a lot about him…

Muraki was for once stomped. What was it that could scare the two shingamis like that?

"UHHHHHHHHH"

Muraki sighed and looked behind him. His small eyes met nothingness. Looking up, however, he could se a ghost like man stand there, only the upper part of him visible. The ghost seemed to be missing his right arm and in his left he seemed to be holding a large, bloody hunting knife. The face of the ghost looked like it had been through a document shredder….. all in all: the sight was not pretty.

"Uhhhh… UHHHHHHHHHH" came the groan from the ghost as it lifted the knife high into the air.

The budgie tilted his head. "Was it you who scared the two I was in company with?" he asked.

"Uhhhhhh….."

"I take that as a yes. That was very rude of you. Where are your manners?" Muraki asked and shook his head slightly. "You should think of the way you greet visitors. You aren't from Japan are you? Your looks say that you are from… what… Europe?"

"Uhhh?"

"Now I have to take my leave to search after them so I'll be seeing you later. I can't say that it was a pleasure meeting you for then I would be lying" the budgie said and took off. He tried to search for the shingamis' energies but he just couldn't sense anything. 'Must be this body of mine. Hmm… I didn't predict this. Might become a problem' he thought as he left the building.

Leaving behind a very confused ghost in his haunted building, scratching his head with his knife... "Uh? Uhhh….." scratch scratch…. "Uh?"

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Hisoka came to a stop a few blocks down from the building. He was tired and his little heart beat so fast he would have suffered a heart attack if he had been a human. He huddled close to a building to catch his breath. "What in the world was THAT! I have never seen such a thing before and I'm a living dead!" he wondered. "And how will I find that baka? He could be miles away at this moment…." He sighed and closed his eyes. "Or at the closest pastry shop, depending if he finds one along the way"

He gasped as he suddenly was yanked up into the air by a fist in his hide. He kicked out and clawed about, trying to get loose.

"What is that, Yure?" a small voice asked.

"Can't you see that boy? This is the new recruit in my business" the man known as 'Yure' said.

"Looks scrawny"

"Nothing a little food can fix" Yure said and hurled the panicking bunny under one arm. "Let's head home. Mom is probably waiting for us"

Hisoka stopped kicking and looked up at the brown haired man holding him before muttering. "How come that it is always me getting kidnapped?" he wondered.

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Muraki shook his head as he watched the two humans enter a truck with the blond bunny. "I found one, now I just have to find the pup. If I'm lucky they might get rid of the boy for me… I was hoping that I could have that pleasure myself" he said to himself and, if he could, smiled.

"MEWOW!"

Muraki calmly took off before the black cat that had been following him the last couple of minutes could land on him. He ignored the smacking sound the cat made as it hit the spot he had been occupying.

"Now all I have to do is find Tsuzuki-san"

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Sorry for the lame chap, but alas, I'm slowly restarting myself.