Warning: For those of you who didn't read the first chapter I said there was going to be some major hinted tyka and maxrei at the end, so if you hate these pairing or are homophobic please leave.

Chapter 16

Sad Goodbyes

Rei and Kai watched silently as ambulances arrived at the warehouse and took the two children to the hospital. They had woken up an hour ago to a big surprise. On their backs were two giant black bat-like wings. It had taken them forty minutes to figure out how to retract them back into themselves, and that's when they called the hospital and told them where to find Tyson and Max.

"Do you think they'll be okay?" Rei asked Kai.

"I'm more concerned about us." Kai answered honestly. "The hospital should take care of them, but what about us? Where did these wings come from? We didn't have them before."

"Kurai said we knew little of vampires, let alone about the type of vampire we are." Rei said as he watched the paramedics carry Tyson and Max out of the old building.

"Looks like we got some research to do."

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Streams of light poured in through the curtains in the room Max and Tyson shared at the hospital. It was the afternoon and the boys still hadn't woken up. Everyone was growing nervous. The doctors had treated their wounds and stuck IV's into their arms. They both appeared to sleeping peacefully but the doctors had reported that the boys had multiple concussions.

Hidden in the darkest corner of the room were Kai and Rei, waiting patiently for the two children to wake up. Every now and then they would move closer to the boys, but the moment they heard anyone approaching the room they went back into hiding.

"This is nerve-racking," Rei stated as he began to pace around the room.

"Ditto." Kai replied coldly.

A low moan came from Max's bed. Without a thought or care Rei was at Max's side in an instant. Kai, seeing that Tyson was still peacefully sleeping, moved to stand by Rei. Moments ticked by and while the blonde did make some noises and move he didn't open his eyes. "Do you think he's awake or having a nightmare?" Rei asked fearfully.

"Who are you?"

Kai and Rei jumped at the question. Turning they saw Tyson sitting up in his bed staring at them curiously. He looked as innocent as any child, not like a child that had been kidnapped by two vampires and was tortured and watched the people he care about die and then watch as they killed his kidnappers in front of his eyes. He looked so carefree and sweet that it was a little disconcerting.

"Tyson?" Kai spoke softly.

The bluenette frowned at Kai. "How do you know my name mister? I've never seen you before."

Kai's heart jumped. Tyson didn't remember him. Did he remember anything else? "Tyson tell me what you remember."

"That's a weird question." Tyson stated but answered it nonetheless. "My name is Tyson. I live with my grandpa in a dojo. Max is my best friend. Hiro is my older brother and he hates me. He's supposed to be watching me right now so why isn't Hiro here?"

Staring in disbelief Kai took a step away from the child, as if he had been slapped in the face. Tyson remembered everything but him! His memories were altered! How could it be! Why would Tyson forget him? Maybe Kireina and Kurai had done something to make Tyson to forget.

"Tyson, who are these guys and why are these tuby thingies in my arm?" Max asked, his voice coming out hoarse.

"He can't remember either!" Rei whispered to Kai harshly in disbelief.

Rei and Kai both looked at each other. Both knew what they had to do, but neither wanted to do it. They had to find out why Tyson and Max forgot them but in order to do that they would have to leave the two children they had grown so close to. Looking sadly and longingly upon Tyson and Max Rei and Kai turned their backs on them and opened up the window in the room.

"Tyson, what are they doing?"

"I don't know Max."

Wordlessly Kai jumped out of the window. He had planned on just jumping to the ground but suddenly pain rippled through his back again and then he felt himself floating in the air. Looking behind himself he saw a pair of black wings. Sighing in annoyance he leaned his body in the direction he wished to fly in.

Tyson and Max gasped in horror when Kai jumped out of the window, and when Rei followed Kai they screamed and jumped out of their beds, ripping the cords out of their arms.

As the two kids gazed out the window Rei flew up towards them so he was once again face to face with them. He smiled sadly at them and reached out to pat Max on the head but the blonde jumped back. His smile only saddened but Rei tried his hardest not to let it show. "I'm sorry. I guess this is bye for now." Staring at Tyson Rei said, "I'm sure Kai would like to tell you the same thing but he usually tries to avoid emotional things like this." With that said Rei flew away from the window leaving the two children to watch him and Kai fly away.

"Ty?" Max whispered as he hugged himself.

"Yeah?" Tyson replied while watching as the two strangers fly off.

"Do you feel as if you've just made the biggest mistake?"

Tyson paused and placed a hand on his heart. Suddenly everything seemed a little darker and the whole world looked different. His heart was aching in pain, little did he know Max was feeling these same things. "No," he lied.

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Silently the two vampires flew over cities as they made their way back to where they used to live before they met Tyson and Max. It was an old mansion located deep in the woods. Sometimes humans would venture into the woods, but never did they dare go deep enough into that they would find the vampire's home.

The two landed clumsily. Leaves crackled under their feet as they skidded to a stop on the ground. "Well At least we didn't crash," Rei said, trying to lighten the mood.

"We better get to work if we want to find out what caused their memory loss and why we suddenly have these new wings." Kai said emotionlessly and walked into the mansion that he hadn't seen in years.

Sighing Rei looked at the now night sky. This could take weeks.

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A month passed and while Rei and Kai did find what they needed it wasn't pleasing. "Are you sure?" Kai demanded from Rei. As if that would be enough to make the other vampire say differently on what they had found out.

"Yes, Tyson and Max's memory loss is completely natural." Rei bit out bitterly. "They were traumatized and they couldn't function properly, because of this their minds forced all memories of us to be suppressed."

"But why us?" Kai demanded as he slammed his fist on a table. He couldn't explain it, but he no longer seemed to hold any control over his emotions, and he found himself sneaking out to watch Tyson. "Why not just Kireina and Kurai?"

"I don't really know," Rei answered honestly. He too had started losing control of his emotions a while ago, but it wasn't as noticeable as Kai, probably because he didn't act like a cold-hearted bastard most of the time. "My guess would be that in their child like minds they saw us as the reason for what happened to them. Let's also not forget that for a moment they probably thought we were dead, and in Tyson's case he saw you kill."

"So what you're saying is that everything is our fault?" Kai asked venomously.

Rei shook his head. "No, but maybe in their minds we are, or were, and can you really blame them? Everything in their lives would be fine right now if they hadn't known us, because then Kireina and Kurai wouldn't have attacked them."

"It still sounds like it's our fault."

"But it's not," Rei tried to reason.

"That doesn't change the feeling," Kai muttered. He hadn't planned on saying that out loud but he couldn't hold it in. He did feel guilty. It was building up inside him, threatening to take him over, but he wouldn't show it if he could help. Even if he was losing his self-control he wouldn't allow himself to show how deep his guilt ran. It was so powerful that he wished he had never met Tyson.

Rei frowned at Kai's small confession. He knew this was the result of something else he had found out when he tried to find more information on the type of vampire Kai and him were, but he wasn't sure if he should reveal this bit of information to Kai yet. "What about you Kai, did you find out where these wings came from?"

Sighing Kai took a seat next to Rei. "Not much, but from what I've gathered when a vampire is killed its fledglings will die with it, but as you can tell we're still alive, or at least some what. After further examination I was able to find something that explains our situation." Kai paused to see if Rei was still listening. When the other vampire nodded his head Kai continued. "In some cases when a fledgling kills its sire it will remain alive and gain a new ability, in our case wings, but this is very rare."

The two vampires sat in silence both silently contemplating how close they had been to death. If they hadn't been one of the rare situations they'd both be dead right now, and all because they killed their sires.

"If that's all I'm leaving," Kai announced and stood up to leave, but Rei caught his wrist and pulled him back down into the chair.

"There is something else Kai, but you might not like it." Rei said cautiously as he bit down on his lip nervously. He wasn't sure how Kai would react to what he was about to tell him, but he knew the dual haired vampire had a right to know. "It's about Tyson and Max…"

"What about them?"

"It's…" Rei trailed off. How do you tell someone like Kai something like this? He'll never accept it. "It's about vampires and certain bonds they form." Rei took a deep breath. Well that was at least one way to start it. "There are many types of bonds but some bonds only certain vampires have. Kai, the type of vampire we are has a special type of bond. The moment we became this type of vampire our fates were set."

"What are trying to say Kon?" Kai said, growing irritated by the second. What in all the hells was Rei trying to say?

"Because of the type of vampire we are we only fall in love once in our life time, or after life time," Rei burst out. "The moment we see the person we're destined to be with the bond is immediately formed. We may not know that we are going to fall in love with them, and we might even hate them at first, but the bond is still there and it forces us to be close to the person we are supposed to love. Maybe for the first year or two it won't be very effective, but after that if we are ever far away from them we become over taken by lust and lose control."

"Are you implying that we're in love, or are going to fall in love, with Max and Tyson?" Kai asked as he gave Rei a death glare. Just because he cared about Tyson didn't mean he was going to fall in love with the boy.

"It would explain certain things," Rei murmured sheepishly. "Why do you think you've become so agitated and emotional recently? It's starting to take affect, and the longer we are apart from them the harder it will be for us to regain control, even after we meet them again."

"Your theory is wrong Rei," Kai stated bluntly. "I've been watching over Tyson everyday since the accident. In other words I've been with him, so it can't be this so-called 'bond' of yours."

"Just watching him won't be enough, Kai." Rei almost shouted. His patience was running thin. Kai had to see what was happening to him. "You're losing control because you haven't been able to talk to him, or doing anything with him other than watch him. If you don't believe me then think about how you've been acting for the last month. Would you normally act the way you have been acting this whole month?"

Kai frowned. He new everything Rei was saying was true, but if he really had forged a bond with Tyson what was he going to d?. He didn't want to force the boy to remember, but if he didn't then he'd go crazy. "What do we do?"

"We're going to have to wait for them," Rei answered calmly though inside he was a living wreck. "They may never remember but we have to control ourselves long enough so that they have a somewhat normal life."

Kai smiled sadly, "How long can we wait and keep our feelings at bay though?"

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Akira: All that's left is the epilogue, and then that's it and I start on the sequel to "Haunted".

Mimi:

Akira: Why are you so happy?

Mimi: I think you know why Aki-chan.

Akira: … Uh I actually I don't…

Mimi: (nudges Akira) Sure Aki-chan. Whatever you say.