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Like all other tournaments, this very one does have it's own mistakes; flaws if you will. Problems arise that can't be fixed, and so measures are taken when a breach in the rules occurs. A very common rule broken, is the interruption of a battle, taking it from a one-on-one match, to a one-on-two match, making the odds uneven (skills are not bothered with in the competition, you either live or die). This usually occurs when a creature enters a battle, and at first glance it looks like one fighter. However, in past events it has been known for ghosts or special demons to possess a creature and sneak into a battle. This way, the creature that had entered is stronger, more likely to succeed, and thus the ghost or demon giving a helping hand get something they want without having to battle.

When this sneak is noticed, the battle is placed on a pause. The opponent of the sneak is then allowed to choose whether they would like to take on the creature without its companion who snuck in, or the ghost/demon. Oftentimes the opponent chooses the weaker of the two, and the end result is that they win an easy battle. In total, this type of thing has happened around fifty-two times, which in a way is alarming when one looks at how rarely this tournament takes place. It's no big deal though, after all, the odds of it actually occurring to our group isn't very likely… but there's still a chance.

"Welcome to Blood Moon's Café!" A cheery voice greeted, as Yamaki's strange group entered a large restaurant. After the battle, Kouichi had disappeared, and returned announcing their battle was tomorrow afternoon ("Noon?" Kouji wailed) against Kefka's team. Yamaki sighed, and made everyone leave the stands as they followed him through long and winding paths. They soon were out of the coliseum, and went into a small, yet bustling with life, town. He walked straight to a peculiar looking place, with a cat girl and dog boy having coffee together painted on it's front, with a pointed roof. The only window visible was entirely tinted black, and a jingle went off every time someone walked out of the door, or went inside. The sponsor merely continued on inside, with the others following in confusion. That's around the time the cheerful waiter had bid them a welcome.

"Uh… thanks." Izumi blinked, confused by the chipper attitude of the young man in front her. She was surprised because of the dim surroundings of the restaurant, and not to mention how close the place was to the coliseum. Blood Moon's Café was dimly lighted, and reminded her of what back on earth people referred to as a 'shady place'. Smoke hung over every creature's head, and the owners of the cigarettes that brought it sat at most the tables. Cigarettes really were evil!

"Here." Yamaki spoke, startling the others. He had been unusually quiet on their journey to this restaurant. He held out a ticket, with odd characters and numbers that made little to no sense to most the people in the group.

"Sweet, a free meal ticket!" Junpei declared, clasping his hands together. "We can order any and everything!"

"Seriously?" Tomoki asked, looking up at the Thunder Demon with hopeful eyes.

"More accurately, it's a Last Meal ticket." Ruki murmured in her usual uncaring voice. The other's looked at the ticket with worried eyes, then looked to Yamaki or Junpei to say it wasn't so.

"It's no more than a possibility, a chance." Yamaki explained, causing the team to sweat-drop.

"Oh, don't worry! It's just a pre-caution." The waiter explained, quelling their worries. "Everyone I served so far has survived their battles, don't fret." He continued.

"How reassuring." Izumi sighed.

"All it is is some food we get for free of our choice before every battle. If you die in that battle, at least you had something nice to eat before it. Though you have to use it a day in advance, so that the food won't leave you content and unprepared." Yamaki explained.

"Exactly!" The waiter said happily. "You guys look strong, I bet you'll win, no problem." He added with a wink.

"Azumo, are you giving our customers false hope again?" Another male voice asked, and the waiter sweat-dropped.

"Ehh… I'm showing them to their table, Kita-kun!" The waiter Azumo replied, and grabbing Takuya's hand, he began to pull him (who grabbed Kouji's, who grabbed Izumi's, who grabbed Junpei's, who grabbed Tomoki's, who tried to grab Ruki's but she refused and followed Yamaki). They all sat in a table in a far corner, with a lamp above, which permitted better eyesight for everyone (except Kouji, who began to complain). They all could now see what their waiter looked like, and were somewhat surprised. He had slightly spiky black hair, and gold eyes that shone out against his dark skin. He wore a red shirt, with one long sleeve and one short sleeve, with khaki pants. "What would you like?"

"…uh… I'd like sushi, tuna, and some flounder." Izumi announced; starting from what was an uneasy reply to drooling all over her lap.

"Izumi! Please try to control yourself." Junpei pouted.

"All right! We have a feline ordering!" Azumo giggled, and scribbled down what she requested.

"I'm good thanks, I don't really eat… well, except recharge." Junpei said, sweat-dropping.

"I'll pass as well." Yamaki added.

"If I really must…" Ruki sighed, before continuing. "I'd like some fresh strawberries and Chickenes Endoryed. As a drink, I guess water."

"Can I have some milk with my order?" Izumi asked, eyes glazing from the thought of fish.

"Ma'am, what a fancy word for roast chicken glazed with egg yolks." Azumo said, blinking at Ruki. "Okay, got that down." He smiled, looking at Takuya, Tomoki, and Kouichi expectantly.

"I'd like some hamburgers with onions fried in shrimp." Tomoki asked sheepishly, looking down. "If it's not too much of a problem."

"Not at all!" Azumo smiled. "Want anything to drink with that, or are you a Fire Demon, like he's a Thunder Demon?" He asked, motioning at Junpei.

"Oh, uh soda would be nice. Cherry soda!" Tomoki smiled; encouraged by the idea that he wasn't making himself a burden.

"Takoyaki with some cherry and vanilla-flavored hot tea." Takuya said grinning, as the others gave the expressions that they considered this dish well… disgusting. Except Kouichi and Tomoki, because the young boy was the only other full human, and Kouichi remembered the good ol' days of being alive.

"So you're the other human." Azumo smiled, and looked at Kouji. "Are you not going to order either?"

"He'll take some type AB blood." Kouichi answered for his twin, as most the others at the table made a gagging expression.

"What do you mean… 'other'?" Takuya asked, tilting his head.

"Oohh, a vampire too. You guys are quite the assortment!" Azumo smiled, and looked at Takuya. "Oh, there's this girl at the Kefka Team. She's supposedly human, but we think she might have had a witch cast a spell on her to become a demon. She's not a very nice girl… really creepy." The waiter explained, and pouted.

"Well then, we know who Takuya's opponent is." Izumi smiled, and then looked at Azumo. "Are we chitchatting or eating? Fooodd… I beg you, you… whatever you are! Please? I'll love you forever!" The blonde whined as she shook Junpei.

"Hey!" Takuya yelled, pointing a finger at her. "I didn't agree on that!"

"There's also another guy whose supposed to be human… there's a lot of humans this year! Isn't it exciting?" Azumo asked.

"Why? Do you find it enjoyable to watch humans get ripped limb from limb?" Izumi hollered, her mood switch in part to blame because there was no food.

"N-no…" Azumo answered meekly, looking ready to cry.

"You don't want to upset him." Yamaki warned.

"Why not? He upset me first!" Izumi scowled.

"Because I don't think his boyfriend behind him is taking too kindly to it." Ruki answered her, and pointed at the glaring figure behind Azumo.

"Oh…" Was Izumi's great reply.

"Kita-kun, do we have any blood?" Azumo asked. The person behind him sweat-dropped. It was a man with long blue hair tied in a low ponytail, and wore plain jeans with a white t-shirt along with a green scarf around his neck.

"Uh…" Kita gave him a dumb-founded look in response.

"I'll go see if there's any in the kitchen." Azumo smiled, and bounced off. Still confused by the question, Kita just followed after.

"FOOD!" Izumi cheered, tears of joy rolling down her cheeks. "We shall be eating soon!"

"You sound as if you haven't eaten in years." Kouichi grumbled. "Which I haven't! No! Don't try and make me feel better! I'm just a ghost! No more than a silly poltergeist." He sniffled.

"All right, I'll be sure to let you wallow in your own self-misery." Takuya smiled, before poking a strange thing in a basket. The restaurants he went to in the past gave complimentary nachos, or bread… this place gave… this weird brown stuff.

"That was mean…" Kouichi said sulking.

"It's vengeance for the sleepless nights you used to give me." Takuya grumbled. No, he didn't hold grudges… whatever gave you that idea?

"Might want to be careful with that. While it's a delicacy to most of the inhuman guys, it's a hazard to you humans." Junpei said smiled.

"Why?" Izumi asked, blinking at him. She decided to join in the poking, because the brown stuff jiggled like Jell-O. It was funny! Poke poke poke…

"It might be because it'll bite your fingers off if you keep poking it." Ruki grumbled, and using her spoon, (or that's what it looked like) she smashed down on the brown thing that seemed to have developed a taste for trying to bite off Takuya's fingers.

"Really? Hahah, that was a close call for you." Izumi laughed at the brunette's close-encounter. She squeaked however when Junpei had to electrocute the brown thing, hoping to snag some of the blonde's finger.

"Not as close as you though." Takuya shot back in a singsong manner.

"Will you two quit it?" Ruki snapped, quieting most the table again.

"Hey Yamaki… what do we know about this Kefka guy anyway?" Tomoki asked, taking his place as the peacemaker.

"Other than he wants to take over the world, and has the most annoying laugh around?" Yamaki asked playfully.

"Yeah. Besides that." Tomoki nodded.

"Not much I'm afraid. Back on his home world, a land filled with magic and Espers, he tried to take over. Thankfully a group of people stopped him, along with a half-Esper. Beyond that… I don't know much." The blonde sponsor explained truthfully.

"Oh… know anything about his group?" Tomoki tried.

"I know the names of those in his group. It's the upside of being a sponsor; you get a list of all the sponsors and a name of everyone in their group. Beyond that though, it's a matter of whether or not you can recognize the name they put down. As you should know, it's easier to place a fake name and no one know who you are, compared to putting your real name." Yamaki sighed.

"Well… tell us their names… or code names, whatever." Takuya grumbled, which was soon followed by his stomach growling.

"All right." Yamaki shrugged, and took out a sheet of paper. "Akabane, Angst, Dilandau, Kuro, Rosiel, and Void as the back-up." He announced, and put it away.

"Two of them have quite the creative names." Izumi sighed.

"Rosiel… sounds like the name of an angel." Kouichi whispered, suddenly no longer in his 'depression'.

"Oi, Kouji, you're being weirdly quiet." Takuya stated, before poking the vampire in the shoulder.

"Would you quit that?" Kouji growled.

"Not until you answer my question." The brunette replied, giving his friend a large grin.

"You didn't ask me anything!" Kouji hissed.

"Yes I did. You just didn't catch it." Takuya responded, still grinning.

"Yeah, if we're not careful, an angel of death." Izumi mumbled, and flopped on the table with her upper body. "Woe is me… no food yet."

"Each and every day, Izumi-chan… you act more and more like a cat." Junpei stated sadly.

"Do not." Izumi snorted.

"Here is your food!" Azumo announced happily, carrying a few plates, with Kita behind him with a cart.

"I now love you forever." Izumi squealed, sitting straight up and no longer lying halfway on the table.

"Really? Yay! I love you forever too!" Azumo smiled, and Izumi meeped when receiving a glare from Kita. The black-haired man passed around everybody's food and drinks (in Kouji's case blood), before bowing and leaving to serve creatures at a different table. They all ate in content silence, and Takuya had ceased his poking harassments against Kouji. Once everyone had their fill, Yamaki yet again got up and the others were forced to follow after him, in order to not get lost. He took them to where the bulge in the coliseum was located, proving their earlier assumption to be accurate.

"What do you mean that's not our room?" A loud-mouthed teenager hollered. The troupe stopped, and tilted their heads at the scene before them. There in the middle of the hallway, stood the referee Cursed, who had narrowed eyes at seven teens who looked ready to throttle her. The oldest looked to be in his earlier twenties, with brown hair as he shook his head at the younger ones. There was a teenage boy with strange blue ears poking our where normal human ones were, reddish-purple hair, and wild eyes. His clothing was ruffled, and no more than a white shirt, flamed jacket, and shorts.

A calmer looking teen stood next to him, although annoyance was apparent in his eyes. He had blue hair, soft eyes, and a gray school uniform. Green antennae poked out of his bangs hairline, and his nails curved in a manner similar to stingers. Behind him was an older teen that was restrained by another one. The restrained teenager had large, wild brown hair with equally brown eyes, a white shirt, and green jacket with a pair of pants. Other than slitted pupils and claws, he looked normal at first glance. The other who was restraining him had blonde hair, strikingly blue eyes, and wore a similar outfit. He had wolf ears, but other than that, not much different from a human.

The remaining two were female, one older than the other. The elder had pink hair with red highlights, and what looked like she sprayed sparkles in her hair. She had brown eyes, and wore a tank top with 'you're just jealous because your boyfriend likes me better' in sparkly pink letters, and the shirt itself was blue. She had on a black skirt, with high heels, and two petals stuck where human ears were supposed to be. The younger girl was next to her, with purple hair, and brown eyes as well. She wore a faded indigo shirt, and a sky-blue jacket over that, and some jeans. Like most the others, instead of normal human ears, she had something else jutting out, except hers were feathers.

"I mean, you idiot, that this room was assigned to someone else. Not. Your. Room." Cursed ground out, giving him an irritated glare.

"Just let it go, Daisuke." The blue-haired teen whispered.

"No way Ken! If I let this go, who knows what else they'll try and get away with!" The one with blue ears, or as we now know is Daisuke, snarled.

"I'm not trying to get away with anything." Cursed sighed, and put her right hand on her forehead as she tried to massage it and make the situation go away. "This room was designated for Terra's group. They still have four members, and so they're still in the tournament (mind you they've been bumped pretty low)." She explained.

"Our invitation said we had room 567, you stupid fox!" The one with claws and slitted eyes yelled.

"Taichi, get a hold of yourself!" The blonde grumbled, still attempting to prevent his friend from getting into a fight with the referee. What a silly thing to do. The referee holds fights; she doesn't partake in them.

"Yamato, let me go! Let me at her! I'll rip her ears off! I'll bite her tail!" The restrained clawed one, or Taichi, continued on with his yelling.

"This is room number 566! You morons!" Cursed shrieked, and grabbed Daisuke before dramatically shaking him. "Can't you read your Roman Numerals? Are you blind! OR ARE YOU NOTHING BUT A MUSCLE-HEAD?" She hollered, before the oldest of the seven people pried her off.

"Calm down, please." The man pleaded.

"She's right you know." The purple haired teenager pointed out.

"Miyako isn't pulling our chain, guys." The pink-haired one said, nodding.

"Of course, only the women have any sense around here." Ken sighed.

"Gennai, I'll let your team off just because one of your members attempted to flatter." Cursed grumbled, and yanked her arm free from the older man.

"Gennai? That you?" Yamaki asked, pointing at the oldest man of the other team.

"Why Yamaki, I didn't expect to see you here." Gennai, the other elder, exclaimed.

"Mimi, what's going on?" Miyako, the purple-haired on, whispered.

"Beats me." Mimi, the pink-haired one, shrugged in answer.

"Ah! Gennai! Stop associating with the enemy!" Daisuke yelped, panicking. Meanwhile, Gennai and Yamaki proceeded to have a delightful conversation involving pumpkins and tea.

"I knew Yamaki had a few screws loose, but this is ridiculous." Junpei grumbled.

"Hey Takuya, those two guys seem to have a fuse as short as yours." Kouji commented, earning a glare from his brunette friend.

"Don't make me answer that, you'll regret it." Takuya muttered.

"What's that? Are you mad? Maybe you have a shorter fuse." Kouji said, rubbing his ear as if he was having issues hearing.

"Don't make me push you into the sunlight! You could use a tan, y'know! You're paler than your brother!" Takuya snapped.

"No I'm not!" Kouji growled.

"Ah, they get along so well." Kouichi said, wiping away an imaginary tear.

"Yes, you are!"

"How can I be paler than a ghost!"

"Remember the good ol' days?" Yamato asked Taichi, the two now strangely calm.

"Of course. How could I ever forget the times when we would try and kill each other each day." Taichi answered, smiling.

"Now the two of you are always fighting to see who's on top in bed at night." Mimi commented, giving them a sly grin.

"Yes. I'm ahead by two points right now." Yamato said, giving Taichi an evil grin.

"It's not time for us to go to sleep! I still will pull ahead!" Taichi muttered.

"I'm happy you two can share your personal business so freely with us." Daisuke complained, sticking his tongue out in disgust.

"And here I thought we'd be the oddest sight in this thing." Izumi whispered to Junpei. He nodded his head in agreement. Tomoki blinked in slight confusion, before yanking on Takuya's jacket, gaining the brunette's temporary attention.

"Yeah?" He asked.

"What do they mean by 'on top in bed'?" Tomoki asked innocently, not entirely understanding.

"Uh… I'll explain when you're older." Takuya reassured him, and patted the young boy on the head.

"Hey, you two are humans!" Miyako said, pointing at Takuya and Tomoki. "I can smell it." She explained, nodding her head.

"Easy pickings." Taichi grinned, smoke coming out of his mouth. "If we fight them, it'd be a piece of cake! Hahahahah!" As he laughed insanely, his boyfriend (Yamato) joined in.

"Why I ought to…!" Takuya growled, and Taichi grinned at him.

"What? Going to smack me with a stick?" Taichi asked grinning. Not giving the other a warning, Takuya leaped at him and a fire quickly broke out. "Oww! Oh, fine I'll show you how to play with fire!" He growled, and fortunately (or fortunately?) Cursed got between the two.

"Hey hey hey! Others are staying here! Save the assassinations for outside the coliseum, and the fighting for the arena, would you?" Cursed ordered. Yet again, Yamato resumed restraining Taichi, as Kouji wrapped his arms around Takuya to stop him all the while avoiding getting burned himself.

"No wonder they don't get along." Mimi smiled.

"Why?" Miyako asked, blinking up at her.

"They have the exact same personality!" Mimi explained, and proceeded to laughing with Miyako joining in.

"She's right." Izumi grinned.

"It warms my heart to see our fighters get along so nicely." Gennai smiled, as Yamaki nodded his head in agreement. The blonde man then adjusted his glasses so they covered his eyes again, and looked at his apparently old friend with a warm smile.

"We'd best get going. Our room is in the six-hundreds, we should visit sometime." Yamaki grinned, as Gennai agreed whole-heartedly. As this exchange went about, their members were staring at them as if they had lost their mind.

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Izumi squealed in delight as she pounced on her designated bed, which was a large purple cat bed, with a fluffy pillow and a frilly blanket. She stretched out, and nuzzled the soft material it was made up of. The room was gray, had two large bathrooms (one even had a garden tub), a big screen television with video game systems, a fluffy black carpet, and all kinds of beds. There were no windows, and only one door that would open if one of the seven occupants used their fingerprints to show they were who they were. Junpei had a very nice stereo connected to a miniature generator to recharge himself, thus pleasing the Thunder Demon quite a great deal. Even better, it was conveniently placed next to Izumi's sleeping area. Tomoki had a simple bed with green blankets and sheets, and two comfy pillows. Next to it was another bed, larger though and had red sheets and two fluffy pillows.

"This place looks almost as if it was prepared just for us." Kouichi noted, floating around to locate a place all his own he could haunt.

"It was." Yamaki answered, gaining everyone's attention. "I've still yet to figure out how to manage it, but every room is situated for its occupants' needs, along with things to keep everyone inside pre-occupied as they wait for their next match. There's a cat bed for Izumi, a stereo for Junpei, a small bed for Tomoki, a larger bed for Takuya, a chair for me, and finally a closet for Kouji." The blonde man explained.

"No place for me or Ruki?" Kouichi asked, looking put down.

"I can conjure my own bed." Ruki answered blankly.

"No place for you. Especially not near me." Takuya hissed warningly.

"Oh, I'm so happy you invited me!" Kouichi cheered.

"That wasn't an invite!" Takuya yelled at him.

"Thank you Takuya, for taking the horror upon yourself for us. We'll remember you for your noble and loving deeds, always!" Izumi said, turned away as if crying (the brunette knew she was really laughing though).

"They even gave a pillow with the chair. Good." Yamaki said as he talked to himself, commenting on his chair. They weren't sure why he wanted to sleep in a chair, but hey whatever floated his boat.

"Wow, it's softer than the bed at my house!" Tomoki commented in awe, lightly bouncing on his bed like an easily amused child.

"I can't believe you guys." Ruki whispered harshly under her breath, but loud enough for everyone to hear. The all looked in question at her, curiosity in their eyes. "Earlier today, you were so upset about the Terra match… and now look at you! Goofing around! Does nothing affect you all for long?" She snarled angrily. They all stared at her, then glanced at each other and shook their heads and sighed.

"Ruki, quaking with fear won't do us any good. You know that." Izumi explained softly.

"Oh, but laughing and goofing around will?" Ruki questioned them, her voice reaching an unnatural cold not even Kouji ever conjured when they first met him.

"No, but it's better than doing nothing. We don't know anything about our opponent, so we don't know what plan of action to take, and it's not like they'll let us build graves for Kagami and Mizu." Takuya explained this time, and for a moment Ruki had no response.

"Do you even have a reason for being here?" Ruki asked finally. "Every time I look at you all, I wonder if I'll ever manage to take care of my own reason."

"Of course. My main reason is… well, I know a lot of humans. They're all my friends, and I refuse to let Kisei try and get rid of them without a fight. Besides… I'm hoping maybe the cat spirit that's melded with me will just… detach itself after all the fighting. It'll finally go away." Izumi had begun her small speech in a normal voice, but along the way it lost its volume.

"You do realize if they find out you have a spirit residing inside you, they'll take it as against the rules and immediately permit your opponent to choose whether to attack you or the creature." Ruki said in rising anger.

"The cat is more of a curse really. When the cat has a reason to go onto the afterlife, it'll lift the curse. It's not of Izumi's own choice, and thus, they cannot get mad at her for it." Yamaki explained, giving the blonde girl more of a steady ground to be on around the red-haired witch.

"I originally came because Izumi wanted to." Junpei sighed, and looked at the blonde girl, who gave him an encouraging smile. "But now I think I want to take down Viledeath or Eimin, whichever. What they did to Mizu and Kagami was cruel, and they need to understand how it feels. Maybe Eimin; I can zap reality into his insane mind." The Thunder Demon growled, his voice not shaking with anger but becoming harder to understand from the static in it.

"I want to protect everyone." Tomoki stated, nodding his head. "Make sure that no one gets hurt." Despite this having been a noble desire, he still didn't realize the impossibility of said statement.

"I didn't take too well to a bunch of weirdos," Takuya grouched, and glanced at Yamaki who feigned innocence before continuing. "Intruding inside my house, nor do I appreciate some of those same weirdos wanting to kill me and all other humans." He ended, shaking his head.

"So you all have reasons." Ruki sighed, before glancing at Kouji who said nothing. The vampire raised a brow at her, before realizing she was asking him to give his own. Walking over, he flopped into Takuya's lap (who had been sitting on his bed cross-legged) and sighed.

"I just don't like Zanshi." Kouji replied, shrugging. The brunette looked down at him with a raised brow, but said nothing.

"And here I thought you'd have a reason better than any of us here." Ruki incoherently said to herself.

"Bedtime! For tonight's story, I will tell the grand tale of six warriors setting out to save the world from psychos!" Kouichi announced, before floating away from several shoes being thrown at him. "Hey, at least I'm not offering to sing Kettobase by Utada Hikaru." He grumbled.

"You'd kill that song if you did." Izumi groaned.

"Kouichi, just shut up and let us sleep for once." Takuya grumbled in warning, as Kouichi huffed away to the smaller bathroom he chose to haunt. Poor Kouichi, he was just doing his job (that if he didn't do, Serlio would surely drag him away).

"Lights out." Yamaki announced, and right away the ceiling lights turned off leaving the room in total darkness. It was eerie, and left no room for anybody to see at all.

"Oi, Yamaki-san. We didn't even change into our pajamas." Tomoki pouted.

"Just say 'change-night' and you'll be in them." Yamaki said lightly. A chorus of 'change-night' echoed in the room, followed by squeaks of alarm. "Comfortable in them?" He asked, and nodded (even though most of them couldn't see that) upon hearing their reply of 'yes'.

"Kouji, why are you still in my bed?" Takuya asked, finding himself to unable lay down properly due to Kouji's arms wrapped around his waist. When that happened was anybody's guess.

"You make a good pillow." Came Kouji's reply, making the brunette merely roll his eyes at him.

"If you're going to be that way, at least let me lay down. I don't want to sit up all night. I'm not like Yamaki; I'm picky." Takuya grumbled, and felt Kouji move away so he could. The brunette scrambled under the blankets and plopped his head on his pillow before sighing. Tomorrow would be nice, they were fighting in the daylight. Of course, Kouji probably wouldn't take that too well, the guy couldn't stand it. He had a pretty good reason though, most creatures had a tendency to not like what was capable of killing them.

"See you in the morning." Kouji whispered, and brushed some of Takuya's bangs out of his hair.

"Yeah yeah, sleep well bloodsucker." Takuya yawned, not caring about the cold fingers moving across his forehead. Sure, it sent shivers up his spine just because it was something cool against his warm skin, but that was a normal reaction.

"I'll do that. I'm not liking sleeping at night, but hey…" Kouji shrugged, and lightly kissed Takuya's cheek before going to the closet.

"Nnmm… sweet dreams." Takuya sighed softly, nuzzling his pillow. The vampire glanced at him and smiled to himself, before going to his resting place until Yamaki or Kouichi would rudely wake him up. The next battle would be tomorrow, and for the first time they would face a life or death battle. There was a chance they would live, but at the same time, that meant they had to kill. If they failed to murder their opponent, they would die and leave their friends behind to mourn their passing. How funny how life works…

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A/N: Gomen nasai! I know, this chapter took a year a lots of threats before it got updated! ...okay, so maybe about six months but still. So sorry this chapter came late! I grovel before your mightiness! Oh, and thank you so much for beta-reading PixLea-san! I hope you guys approve of this chapter... their first battle is in the next chapter. And the space thing was... because doesn't like me apparently.

KendoSakuyamon: Please don't cry. T.T Yay! 30 sanity! All right, you shall have a flipping train. :Hands you teh train: Oohh... pocky...

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Kenzy-Chan: Yesh. Sure, I'll try and contact you before the next chapter is done, okay? Sorry it took so long to add more... I still need to read the updated chapters.

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