Disclaimer: How many time shave you read this thing?! HOW MANY?! Exactly! I don't own it! …-Cries- That'd be nice though…

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Sometimes you feel things you know you shouldn't feel. Instead of trying to understand them and embrace them you put them away and ignore them. Not a healthy method, but sometimes it's the only way. People have done it through the ages, and not just human people, but all sorts. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, doppelgangers, witches… you get the idea. Like the story of how a werewolf and vampire fell in love, and only met a tragic end because by accident they killed each other. Perhaps you've even heard how the witch and human fell in love, only to have her husband stabbed and she the witch burned at the stake. It seems like sometimes not even true love can reach the happy ending it deserves, no matter how hard it fights for it.

Why was this subject never brought up really, or noticed? Was it because it was something that happened overnight, or that it just occurred? It could have also never had been acknowledged, or even kept so silent and secret for time of practice gave way to great secrecy. When you work with something for so long, eventually you find yourself able to block it out and only see it when you're alone. This never really does last long though, and its crazy to think you can go on without ever giving yourself the ability to feel that emotion. For you see, eventually it comes out when you least expect, at a time most inappropriate. It's why you should never block something out like a powerful emotion, for it gets payback when it finally is strong enough to get past your guards.

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"Kouji? You okay?" Takuya asked, blinking in confusion at the other's sudden silence.

"…" When there was still no response, the brunette sighed and situated himself so he was sitting next to Kouji now. Poking his friend, the vampire didn't try to push him off or anything. More of tolerated it before glaring.

"There, back to normal for you yet?" Takuya asked grinning.

"…" This time Kouji gave no response just to tick the brunette off, and it worked like a charm.

"Hey! Okay, now you're not saying anything on purpose!" Takuya growled. "Come on, speak!" he tried, and Kouji still held his silence with a slight smirk. "I will make you make some sort of noise!" The brunette said with determination. Getting an idea, he reached over and gave Kouji a big hug. Startled by this sudden movement, Kouji raised a brow at the brunette.

"What are you doing?" the vampire asked.

"Hah! You talked," Takuya said happily, and then put his right cheek against Kouji's left. "Guess that means I win and you lose," he said happily.

"…" Kouji was suddenly very stiff and didn't really move.

"Hey, uh Kouji…?" Takuya blinked, unsure what was going on this time. Before he could ask anything more really though he felt cold lips on his warm ones and letting out a startled noise before he felt his back hit the bed with some weight on him. This most certainly was something new. Feeling arms wrap around him, the brunette slightly blushed when feeling Kouji trying to pull him closer (when its physically impossible to really do that without crushing one of them). To be honest, it was something Takuya had actually been hoping would happen, but then push it away. He felt his heart flutter some, and blushed more knowing Kouji would immediately notice the quickened pace. It was part of the reason the brunette tried to discourage his feelings because the vampire would find out easily and well… the end result even if Kouji liked him back wouldn't be good. But there the two were kissing on the brunette's bed. Interesting how these things seem to work out.

What started out as something simple and no more of just an impulse Kouji really couldn't stop, got a bit more encouraged when Takuya began to respond. Momentarily forgetting the dangers of this sort of thing, the vampire began to deepen the kiss more and got a soft moan from Takuya. It was then Kouji started to notice the fog coming over his mind, he began to slightly panic. This most certainly wasn't going anywhere good in the case of Takuya's safety. Trying to pull himself away, instead Kouji found that he was instead asking for entrance which the brunette more than happily gave.

The fog was becoming thicker, and Kouji was trying to make it go away, to go far away. To just blow itself away, and for it to be clear and for him to be more in control in his own mind. Ceasing the open-mouthed kiss, Kouji moved over and began to place gentle pecks on the brunette's cheek and down to his neck. Takuya wrapped his arms around Kouji's back, and nuzzled his shoulder, and when feeling Kouji's breath on his neck he wasn't scared. It wasn't the first time the vampire nuzzled his neck, remember? Trying to fight back the urge rising, Kouji was trying to pull away again and found his body was refusing to listen. It was exactly what he had been afraid of.

Slowly, two fangs brushed against Takuya's neck, and the brunette shifted uneasily. Suddenly he felt that something just wasn't right… something was off. That was around the time when he felt Kouji start pressing Takuya too close too him. It was beginning to hurt, and felt like he was being crushed. Feeling his lungs strained, the brunette tried to gasp out for air, or something. It wasn't exactly occurring to him to ask the vampire to loosen his grip, but panic began to spark. Oh yes, something was wrong. Kouji wasn't exactly in the control seat of himself anymore, shall we say. Takuya felt Kouji's body shaking, like some sort of force was trying to stop. The brunette's heart slowed then began beating wildly when he realized what was going on. Yelping despite the lack of air, he moved his hand to where only one finger was touching Kouji's back. 'Burn,' Takuya thought, and instantly a flare released and the horrible scream Takuya heard the first time awhile back went straight into his ear, and then Kouji was gone.

"What was that!?" Kouichi asked, flying straight through the wall just in time to see Kouji take off out of the window and Takuya nursing his aching ear, somehow not bleeding from the loud noise. "You okay? W-what happened?" Kouichi asked, but the brunette didn't say anything. Just tried to ignore all the pain, and to figure out himself what just happened. Was Kouji just about to bite him?

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It took awhile to get the message through to Kouichi he would be fine, and even longer before the poltergeist realized that he was getting no answers from the brunette and went off to find Kouji. Takuya was surprised that his mother and father didn't come in there to yell at him, and took advantage of that to check himself in the mirror of the bathroom. Looking, he was relieved to see that his ear was only a little red, and amazed he could still hear in it. Mind you, it was pretty sensitive when he touched it. Reveling in how he wasn't deaf in one ear, he finally stopped and sat on the down toilet cover. He knew Kouji didn't hurt him or anything major, it didn't take a genius to know that. Other than the screaming thing, but that was more of because Takuya did the burning ability on Kouji's back. He felt guilty about that, but it was better than to let what might have happened happen. Sighing, he walked out and back into his room, only to see Kouji banging his head against the wall.

"You're going to wake up half the neighborhood that way," Takuya pointed out in a soft voice, he had not even intended to use. He cleared his throat, and tried to use his normal one. "Hello?" Okay, it definitely wasn't working.

"You okay?" Kouji asked faintly, and the brunette laughed.

"I'm fine, my ear is just a little sore. Is your back okay?" Takuya said with a half smile, trying to brighten the mood.

"It's not big deal. Sorry," Kouji apologized. That seemed to be what happened with blind impulses, and the vampire wanted more than anything to have stopped himself in time.

"No need to be sorry, honestly I sometimes hoped you'd do that," Takuya chuckled lightly, and put his arms behind his head.

"What exactly would that be?" Kouji asked, not even chancing to look around.

"You already know what I mean," Takuya sighed. "I'm going to ask you something, all right?"

"…Go ahead."

"What… happened there?" Takuya asked, moving his hands down to his sides.

"In a way, you could say I lost control," Kouji shrugged. "Its why I never really did it before," he went on.

"Oh. Some sort of weird vampire thing?" Takuya asked, a wry smile trying to enlighten the mood again.

"Yeah."

"Ehh…" Takuya wasn't exactly expecting such a blunt answer. "Why did it happen? I mean, I know you're not the oldest vampire or anything, but… it never really happened before."

"This is going to sound a bit odd when I say it, but I'm not exactly sure how else to say it. Just, don't take this the wrong way, okay?" Kouji asked, and when seeing the brunette nod he sighed. "…Damnit it just doesn't sound right. Okay, a vampire needs to feed; you know that right? Well, the mind doesn't always want to do that, but the body does. Its hungry pretty much."

"…You were hungry, so you tried to bite me?" Takuya asked. The vampire was silent, then shook his head.

"Uhm… I wasn't hungry…" Kouji tried.

"That makes no sense," Takuya said scratching his head. Sighing, Kouji began to bang his head on the wall again, when Kouichi floated in.

"There you are. What's going on?" the apparition asked.

"Kouji is saying something about not being hungry," Takuya said, not really understanding what the vampire was saying. Kouji was secretly thankful for this.

"Uhm… yeah… after that guy he just bit I wouldn't be surprised," Kouichi sighed.

"You just said you weren't hungry," Takuya blinked.

"I wasn't!" Kouji sighed.

"Then again, it wasn't really a bite to eat, more of a thing to rip up…" Kouichi muttered.

"You just killed someone!?" Takuya yelped.

"He did too!" Kouji tried.

"First rule about holes… if a ghost is around, run away because they make them deeper," Kouichi grinned, not knowing what had transpired when he wasn't there.

"So you killed a murderer?" –Takuya

"Would you rather me cause property damage!?" –Kouji

"No, but why!?"

"Remember when I explained a vampires mind may not want to do something but the body does?" –Kouji

"Brother, that sounded weird…" –Kouichi

"Yeah?" –Takuya

"Well… that's why!" –Kouji

"Whoa, whoa, can you two explain to me what exactly is going on?" Kouichi sighed, getting confused. Sighing, they did and Kouichi was raising a brow accusingly at Kouji by the end. "That's cute you two like each other and all, but that wasn't smart, Kouji."

"It wasn't me!" Kouji growled in annoyance.

"Then who was it?" Kouichi sighed, and Takuya shook his head. This was getting confusing…

"Look I couldn't control what I was doing, okay!?" Kouji growled, acting like an irritated child.

"If you weren't hungry why did you try to bite him?" Kouichi asked.

"I wasn't hungry! It was! IT, IT!" Kouji yelled.

"So, you're body was hungry but you weren't? I don't get it…" Kouichi sighed.

"You think I do?" Takuya asked.

"Wait! Maybe Kouji is talking about the other kind of hungry?" Kouichi said, suddenly getting this bright idea. Takuya sweat-dropped and shook his head.

"I doubt it," he sighed. "Right Ko-…?" Blinking, the brunette looked around for the vampire. "Uh… Kouji?" He blinked.

"Hey, you're doing the shadow thing again, Kouji… wait, was I right? I was just picking on you for fun," Kouichi cringed, and floated over to see.

"…" Kouji made no response.

"My, what a naughty brother I have," Kouichi laughed floating back up to see a tomato red Takuya. "When you were going to bite him, it wasn't to suck him dry was it?" the ghost pried, until a shoe was thrown at him. Laughing, the ghost floated to the red teenager who hadn't been expecting that. Kouji took off again later because Kouichi's taunting drove him to the edge, and Takuya got no sleep thanks to the constant laughter of the ghost. Before the sun rose, Kouji came back and locked himself in the closet and hoped Kouichi wouldn't bother him again. Alas, the ghost was done tormenting Takuya and the tired brunette sweat-dropped while hearing the two arguing in the closet. Gathering everything, he got set and called the two when it was time to go.

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Everyone got there on time, and Kouichi was quiet for some weird reason. Takuya and Kouji prayed to everything holy that the ghost wasn't plotting some cruel song to sing to the world as to what happened last night. Izumi and Junpei were already there and waiting, and it was a few minutes later when Tomoki arrived. Yamaki was reading that morning's newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee before he looked up and smiled.

"Everyone have a good night's rest?" he asked with a smile.

"Our neighbors got a new dog yesterday, and when I went outside to get an extra bag from our shed it started barking at me and never shut up since," Izumi sighed.

"I slept quite well, thanks," Junpei said smiling, then sweat-dropped when seeing Izumi's angry glare.

"I had a nice sleep," Tomoki smiled.

"Kouichi kept me up all night," Takuya sighed.

"And he kept me up since sunrise," Kouji grumbled, the two boys glaring at Kouichi who smirked.

"You can catch up on the sleep on the train ride," Yamaki said, then walked outside with the others following. Before those of you of don't remember last chapter, before you ask 'why isn't Kouji a pile of ashes' remember this: Yamaki got a special cloak that protects him from the sunlight. He's wearing it. There you go. He grabbed something then yanked it aside and they all stared at it wide-eyed. It was a swirling portal that looked like Earth, except it was twisted and twitching in odd ways.

"What is that?" Tomoki asked curiously.

"This… is a portal to where the train station is," Yamaki grinned. "It saves time and money. Come on," he said, then walked right through. The entire group exchanged worried glances, before Takuya took a deep breath and followed. He blinked and looked around at the train station after reaching the other side of the portal. There were several odd looking trains, all that would every now and then yell at some weird thing. And weird things walked around everywhere in this place. A bit unnerved, he tried to locate Yamaki as the others followed and appeared behind him.

"Where's Yamaki?" Izumi asked worriedly, and glanced in every which direction.

"Kouichi, go look for him please," Kouji requested, and with a salute Kouichi floated off.

"Wow… lots of… people here," Tomoki tried. Junpei smiled and waved suddenly to something, and everyone looked to see what it was. A girl with fiery-red hair and Christmas green eyes turned, and waved back at him.

"Shibayama!" she cried, cheerful, and two flaming wings came out of her back and she flew over to them, alarming everyone but Junpei.

"Kagami! How have you been?" Junpei asked, and she grinned. She wore a green schoolgirl's uniform, and her wings then disappeared.

"I've been good. Entering the tournament?" Kagami asked happily.

"Yes, how about you?" he asked.

"Yes, me and a few other elements are entering," Kagami smiled.

"Hope we don't have to face you," Junpei chuckled, and she smiled still.

"Are you going… to introduce us?" Izumi asked.

"Oh, everyone this is Kagami the Fire Demon," Junpei chuckled, and the redheaded girl waved her hand happily.

"Yo!" she laughed as she said it, then moved her curly short hair away from her face.

"Uhm… hi?" Tomoki offered, and she giggled again.

"Hope to see you again off the field! Better go before Mizu has a fit!" she laughed then ran off. Junpei shook his head with a smile as she went.

"That demon is weird. Any way is Kouichi back yet?" the Lightning Demon asked, and Kouji shook his head no.

"Shouldn't be too hard to find that guy," Izumi sighed and put her hands on her hips.

"How good to see you all again," a sleek female voice said, causing both Takuya and Kouji to instantly narrow their eyes in the direction of the speaker. There stood Zanshi, with a man standing next to her around twenty. He was a great deal taller than her, had long silver hair with three black streaks, and gray-blue eyes. He wore a black trench coat that covered most of his body, two large goat horns were on the back of his head, and a gem on his forehead almost entirely covered by his bangs.

"Who is she?" Izumi asked, pointing to Zanshi.

"One of the creeps," Takuya explained through clenched teeth.

"My, I am no such creep! Nor am I a traitor either," Zanshi snorted, while eyeing Kouji, who just glared at her.

"Let's go Zanshi," the older man said in a deep voice, and she pouted.

"Oh, but can't I just pick one of them off now? Saves time for later," Zanshi said in a pretend sad voice. "Please Kaishi?"

"No, Kisei wants us now," Kaishi said monotonously, and Zanshi sighed. When they turned to walk away Kouji raised a brow when noticing one bite mark on the neck of Kaishi.

"…Interesting," Kouji said to himself, and got a curious look from Takuya.

"What?" The brunette asked.

"I'll tell you later," Kouji muttered.

"I found Yamaki! I found Yamaki!" Kouichi cheered as he flew over, upsetting several trash bins and angering many creatures. Behind him came Yamaki running with some other girl who hollered apologies as he chased after the ghost.

"Get that brother of yours under control please Kouji," Yamaki growled.

"Kouichi, calm down," Kouji hissed, and the poltergeist sighed.

"Fine, fine…" And he floated around a twitching Takuya's head. The girl with him was around their age, and had straightforward lavender eyes, and red hair placed in a high spiky ponytail. Some areas of the red hair had some slight orange qualities, but aside from that it was a red colour. She wore a turquoise shirt with a broken heart (which was a navy blue) on it, and loose jeans rolled up some. On her wrists were red wristbands, and a belt that held up her jeans for the most part.

"Everyone, I know I said you'd meet her in the stadium but… they wouldn't let her on a train, so this is Ruki Makino," Yamaki said, introducing the new girl to them. She did not wave, say hi, or anything, merely looked at them with a bored expression.

"Uhm… hi. I'm Izumi Orimoto!" The blonde girl tried, and offered her hand to the new girl, who looked at it with the same uninterested look.

"I already know who you all are, Yamaki showed me," Ruki said coldly. Faltering somewhat, Izumi looked at the others who shrugged.

"Yes, so lets get on our way then," Yamaki said, and led them all towards one of the trains.

"What do you want?" the train asked gruffly in annoyance.

"We're to take to the train to the section of the tournament meant for participants." Yamaki replied in a loud, clear, and business-like fashion.

"You have yourself three humans with you Yamaki," The train muttered gruffly. "Are you sure you want to enter?" it muttered.

"Well, one is a witch, the other an illusionist, and the third could burn you pretty badly. Don't underestimate them," Yamaki replied with an open smile.

"Alright, hop on if you really are sure. Yamaki though, if you really want to win I recommend you reselect your team," the train suggested.

"No, you can't get a better group than these. We'll be boarding now." Yamaki said with an odd amount of assurance to the train. As they boarded, all six plus the ghost stared at him. "What?" he asked, while placing his luggage up onto the holder above them. They all did so, that is until Kouichi made it fly around madly.

"Kouichi, put them up," Kouji grumbled. Sulking, the saddened poltergeist did as he was told.

"What's with the spook?" Ruki asked, jabbing her finger in the direction towards Kouichi floating about.

"He's Kouji's twin," Izumi explained. "He thinks he's our mascot," She sighed.

"Can't you get rid of him?" Ruki asked.

"Not really, he does what he pleases for the most part," Takuya sighed, watching Kouichi go this way and that.

"…I see," Ruki mumbled.

"Can you hear him too?" Takuya asked, looking at her. She glanced at him, then shook her head.

"I can see him, but I can't hear a word he says. Luckily I can read lips and minds, though," Ruki explained. The brunette sweat-dropped, and scooted away from the scary girl.

"This trip is going to take some time to us, when it reality its very short. So take advantage of this slight time sleep up and rest," Yamaki muttered, and adjusted his black sunglasses carefully.

"Something wrong Yamaki?" Tomoki asked innocently.

"I'm a laughingstock!" Yamaki burst out, then stopped and laughed after alarming everyone in the compartment. "Kidding, really nothing is wrong. I'm just trying to not laugh at all those people underestimating us."

"Do you think you're overestimating us Yamaki?" Junpei questioned. "Seriously, look at us all. We're completely random," he continued.

"Junpei, its like this. The entire competition, there's so many people its likely any opponent we are weak against will get knocked down by something strong against it but weak against us. Yes, there will be close calls and the occasional difficulty but… it's not beyond any of you to win this. We all have our reasons, right?" Yamaki asked. Everyone was silent, then after a moment nodded his or her head. "Good, no pep rally when we get there then," he grinned, then leaned back. Sweat dropping, they all went about doing what would keep them busy along the way. Takuya, Izumi, and Kouji (they knew he did because he covered himself in a shadow) eventually dozed off also, and Tomoki tried his hardest to be friends with Ruki.

While none of them knew if Yamaki was up, perhaps five hours later was when the sleeping ones got up. Takuya stretched in his seat, and looked around boredly. Izumi got up to search for her bag that Kouichi had hidden from her, and the only reason they knew Kouji was up because the shadow left and he moved. Junpei offered to power her game boy, and her having nothing better to do went ahead and played Golden Sun. Tomoki had given up befriending the anti-social Ruki, and turned to watching Izumi playing her game. Getting an idea for some form to pass the time, Takuya started to poke the unmoving Yamaki, getting a raised brow from Ruki. Kouichi, getting an idea floated in between everyone and smiled happily. Ruki then raised a brow at him, and there was an odd silence from Kouji.

"I have a ballad I would like to sing, it—" before Kouichi could finish, a shoe went right through him startling the poor poltergeist, and an annoyed Kouji who had thrown it at him.

"Sing later." Kouji growled, and sat down. This sudden movement caused the hood to sway then fall off of Kouji's head, further irritating him. A long ride it would be.

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A/N: …hopefully no one stabs me for this chapter. I'm well-aware it was odd and… SUPER GIANT THANKS TO ICY PYRO/TORA!! Thank you so much again for the editing!

Kyla Minamoto: -Glomped- Reluctant? Why is he reluctant?? –Confused- Hope you remember the question… -Curious- Here is more! Glad you like this!

The Chaotic Ones: Ohhh… pandemonium… oh, sorry. All righty, more Kouji Takuya for you! Yes, more charries from other seasons… not sure when. I can, it's great you like it! –Glomps- Happy happy joy joy!

Kenzy-Chan: Yes, they are both in love. Muahah… though this chappy was odd. Yes Kouichi, you are multi-talented! Eh, sorry you're so OOC in here…

Sailor Epyon: Of course Yamaki is straightforward, he is Yamaki! Well, you know where the cliffhangers leads now. Hopefully you aren't giving me the third eye though… You really think so? –Tears of happiness- I feel so honoured. –Glomps back-

Dragi: -Hugged- Yay! Sorry about the cliffhanger… at least you know what happened now, right? Please don't hurt me… -Cowers-

takuya: Glad you liked it! Actually, I have less time… it's because I have two other stories off …

Rebecca Lyn: -Confused- Here is the next one! Oh, good song… -Listens to you sing the nice Takouji/Koukuya-ness song-

GemmaniGirl: It seems they got out… wow, they're good. Hmmm, what repeat button? Nyo???

Icy Pyro: Hmm… someone might die, depends on what happens. Would you like Ken to be in here? The only downside is it'll lead to character death… obsession!! –Hands you a Ken plushie-