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II

Yuya and Akira walked side by side, making their way across a community of households into a less crowded, and much greener area which Yuya never knew existed. The slight flutter of leaves left dancing shadows floating along their walkway and made Yuya smile with delight. "Do you enjoy the trees, Shiina-san?" Yuya jumped upon hearing the soft-spoken voice of Akira. She lifted her head slowly to look at his and nodded. Akira smiled in amusement, "You don't have to be so shy, Shiina-san." Well, I probably wouldn't be if my life wasn't threatened by a group of obsessive stalkers, Yuya thought to herself. As if almost sensing what Yuya had thought Akira laughed and then pointed to a traditional, one-story home, "We're almost there."

Yuya looked at the house that stood before them. It's so cute. She listened to the birds that chirped in the trees and took in the scent of fresh air. It's so relaxing here. It must be a wonderful place to live. Yuya was suddenly brought out of her trance when a familiar voice reached her ears, "Ah! It's the girl from this morning!" Yuya looked in the direction of the voice and found the gentleman who helped her get into the school when the gates were closing. He was dressed in more comfortable clothing now rather than the black suit and tie he was wearing before. His smile spread wide across his face, but the larger it grew the more Akira's shrank.

"What now, Kyoshiro-san?" Akira's sudden change of tone took Yuya by shock.

"Oh! Well, this morning I was running a bit late and the gates were closing to the school. I almost didn't make it, but he stopped the gates for me and let me in!" Yuya bowed to Kyoshiro in thanks and he nodded back.

Kyoshiro's grin nearly fell off of his face by now. "There is no need to thank me. The pleasure is all mine. By the way, what is your name?"

"Shiina. Yuya Shiina." She smiled so sweetly that she had both Kyoshiro and Akira blushing.

"You have such a beautiful smile, Yuya-san." With that comment Yuya began blushing and held her face, trying to hide her sudden change in colour.

"Now that we've introduced ourselves, we'll begin our project." His glare at Kyoshiro immediately turned into the kindest of smiles once he faced Yuya. "Sorry about the mess. We aren't exactly the best of house keepers."

"Oh! That's alright!" Yuya nodded and followed Akira into the house.

Meanwhile, a shadowy figure stood atop a branch, leaning his back against the tree trunk, arms crossed against his chest. He simply watched them as they had their conversation, taking in every word that they said. He analyzed the girl, squinting at her to get as much detail as he could of her. Not bad, Akira. A cocky smirk formed on his lips, revealing one of his fangs. He continued to watch them as they made their way towards the house. They couldn't seriously be...the hell? They're letting her in? He quickly unfolded his arms and pushed himself away from the trunk. He saw the wooden door slide open, and sure enough all three of them went in. One of his eyebrows raised itself in a half questioning, half suspicious manner, causing him to cross his arms again. What the hell are they thinking? With that in mind, he jumped silently onto the grass and made his way to the door.

Yuya sat at the dining table next to Akira, holding a pen in her hand jotting down notes and records for their project. After writing a few quick notes she looked up at Akira, "Uhm...Since we're apparently supposed to be treating this egg as if it were our child, then shouldn't it have a name?"

Akira nodded and smiled, "That's a wonderful idea, Shiina-san. Then what shall we name it?"

Yuya placed the butt end of the pen against her chin and began to tap a few times in contemplation. "Well, we need to determine if it is a boy or a girl."

"How about we flip a coin?" Akira pulled out a coin from his pocket and balanced it on his thumb. "Heads, a girl, tails, a boy."

Yuya nodded, "Okay."

Akira flicked his right thumb upward, sending the silvery coin to go twirling up slowly into the air. Both of their eyes followed the coin that finally ended its assent and began to fall. Suddenly, a slight crack from above made both of their attention slip away from the coin which landed tails up, on the table. "Not this, again." Akira placed his palm against his forehead and Yuya glanced at him questionably. Suddenly, a part of the ceiling came crashing down directly onto the table. The table broke in the middle, sending whatever was on the edges flying across the room. With their kind of luck, however, such an object just to happened to be the egg. Both Yuya and Akira jumped up, watching their project grade fly into a sticky failure on the floor. Without noticing the other one jump for it, they both leapt and landed with a thud and a 'poof' onto the floor.

"I got it!" Yuya shouted with delight. Wait...poof? She looked around her searching for Akira. "A-Akira-san?" That was when she noticed she was almost lying atop a small, white rat with his eyes shut. "OH NO! I TURNED HIM INTO A RAT!" She threw the egg up into the air, and when she noticed what she did she quickly jumped up and tried to catch it, but once again bumped into a man standing behind her holding the egg in his hands, creating the same exact 'poof' sound as before. She looked before her and saw a dark, red cat with blood red eyes stare back at her with an egg in his mouth. He spat out the egg and began to hiss at Yuya in anger. "OH MY GOD! NOT YOU TOO!"

Footsteps came from the hallway, revealing a wide-eyed Kyoshiro standing in the doorway. Yuya snatched up the cat and rat, nearly stepping on what got them into this mess, and ran as fast as she could to Kyoshiro and shouted, "THEY'RE ANIMALS!"

Kyoshiro placed his hand against his forehead and laughed. "Yes, they are, Yuya-san. Yes, they are."

Author's note:

Hey! Here's Part II! How did you like it? Is the plot coming too slow? Too fast? What do you think? And could you imagine Kyo as a cat? Haha. He'd never let anyone pet him, probably. Might even have rabies too! X3

More characters will be introduced in the next chapter! Tell me how I'm doing! Thanks for reading!

And yes, Rin Amaru, Kyo is still Kyo It's convenient, isn't it?