"What do you mean gone?"

Juuzou was leaning on the porch railing of the orphanage talking to Miss Akanshinshi, who was well into her third beer.

"Don't ya watch the news?" she asked, taking a swig out of the brown bottle. "Three little brats disappeared. Kaito, Hitomi, and Nenyoti. The cops found Nenyoti's bones in the woods. Still don't know where the twins are. I don't care if they find them or not."

Juuzou grit his teeth. "Skeleton?"

Miss Akashinshi nodded. "Bones were picked clean. Thought it was a ghoul, but the CCG checked it out, and there was no kagune secretions."

"Alright," Juuzou said, letting his head drop. So his children had been missing for a month. "Wh—what did they look like?"

"Scrawny lil' things. Couldn't eat much more than soup without getting sick. They both had somethin' wrong with their stomachs."

"Like hair color," Juuzou clarified. "Eye color too."

Miss Akashinshi stared at her beer and then at Suzuya. "What organization did ya say you was with?"

"CCG," Suzuya said, flipping open his badge.

Miss Akashinshi shrugged. "Well, Hitomi was the smaller of the two. White hair, same length as yours. Bangs. Green eyes. Pale lil' thing."

Juuzou's heart twisted. He had a little girl… That looked like him. She was small and scrawny like he had been. And she had his white hair. "What about Kaito?"

"Scrawny too. Bit taller than Hitomi. Teal hair always hangin' in his eyes. Eyes were weird; they were blood red. Like yours," Miss Akashinshi said. She looked sadly into the now empty beer bottle.

So the son had resembled Eto more. But he had his eyes.

"Thank you for the helpful information," Juuzou said, taking a long look at the orphanage. He couldn't help but wonder what life here had been like for his… children. Even though, they were part ghoul, they were his. What would he do when he found them?

He began to limp along the dirt trail back to the main road, thinking of the predicament he was in. Alright; he was an investigator. He had had past sexual and romantic relations with the One Eyed Owl. And twin children had come of it. Where did the children stand? Their father was a well known investigator and their mother was the leader of Aogiri.

His thoughts were interrupted by a female voice.

"Suzuya?"

The white haired investigator looked up from his red slippers only to see a small woman standing on the dirt trail with him. Her hair was all tucked up in the floppy hat she wore. Suzuya could not see her face due to the hat's shadow, but he would know that voice anywhere.

"What do you want, Yoshimura?" he growled. "I've let you live, what, twice now? Do you really wanna try your luck a third time?"

Eto ignored his statement. "What are you doing here?"

Juuzou sneered. "Coming to get the kids of course."

"They're mine to take, not yours," Eto growled.

"Well," Suzuya said, adjusting his suspenders. "Don't waste your time. They're gone."

"Gone?" Eto stared at the investigator blankly. "How are they gone? Like someone adopted them?"

"Nope. Three kids went missing. They found one."

"And?" Eto asked, trembling.

"He was picked clean. Nothing but bones."

Eto stared at Juuzou. "They ate him?"

"Seems to be the case."

"W—why," Eto stuttered. "Why would they eat him? If there was human food available…"

"I talked to the lady who runs the orphanage," Suzuya said, twirling a strand of white hair. "Apparently they couldn't eat much more than a bowl of soup without getting sick. They both had something wrong with their stomachs."

"Oh," Eto said weekly. "Wh—what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to find them."

"I'll help you."

Suzuya laughed. "I don't want your help! Why would I trust a filthy little liar like yourself?"

"Because," Eto said. "I have a lot more people that'll help me."

"And by people you mean ghouls."

"Whatever," the author huffed. "The point is, it'll be easier to find them with my help."

Juuzou glared at her. "I can do it myself."

"Alright, fine," Eto said. "Don't I at least deserve to know what the kids look like though?"

"Since when I find them I'm not taking them to you, I guess I'll just tell you," Juuzou said, voice dripping with hatred. "Hitomi's small with bangs and white hair. Pale with green eyes. Kaito was a bit taller. Hair same color as yours. Red eyes."

"Thank you," Eto said.

"Don't thank me, you monster," Suzuya said. "I hate you."

Eto said nothing to that statement, and she turned and began to walk back to Naki's mansion. She looked up as she walked. It was stormy, and it looked like the sky was going to open up any minute.

She thought of what Juuzou said. He hated her. As much as that saddened her, she knew deep down she deserved it.

When the door of the mansion swung open, Naki was sitting on the steps. He smiled at first, and then frowned. He stood up and walked over to the half ghoul.

"Where are they?" he asked.

"They're missing," Eto said sadly. "They ran away from the orphanage."

"What?" Naki said, eyes growing fearful.

"And Suzuya is looking for them. We have to find them first."

"I can send my servants to go look!"

"That's what I was thinking," Eto said. "Can you gather them here? At the base of the stairs? So we can announce it to them?"

"Yes," Naki said. He pulled a little clicker out of his pocket and pressed the button. A loud ringing suddenly went through the building, causing Eto to jump.

"I didn't know you could do that," she said.

"It's for making all the servants come to one place if I need them," Naki explained. "They come to the bottom of the stairs."

Sure enough, within minutes, every servant was gathered at the foot of the steps. Naki climbed up several steps, and Eto followed him. He turned to address the crowd that had gathered below. Eto smiled at Ju San, who had her eyes fixed on her master.

When everyone was assembled, Naki spoke. "As many of you know, Eto has children. Twins. A boy and a girl. They have gone missing. And a dove is trying to find them!"

"Suzuya Juuzou," Eto said, butting in. "Is a dangerous investigator. He is after the children. The twins are five years old. The boy is named Kaito. He has teal hair and red eyes. The girl is Hitomi. She has green eyes and white hair. Find them."

Naki nodded. "And if you desert. I will find you, and I will eat you."

That was enough to put an uncomfortable look on the servants' faces. They continued to stand at the base of the stairs, awaiting further instruction.

"Well, half of you get out and find them!" he shouted. "You have two days. When you return, if the kids still have not been found, the other half will go look! If you find them, bring them back here!"

With that, half the servants scurried down the hallway and out the door, with Eto noting that Ju San was one of them. The remaining servants continued staring up at their master.

"Get back to work!" Naki shouted. The servants hurried away to return to their chores, leaving Naki and Eto alone on the staircase.

"So we gots a lot of time to do nothin'," Naki said.

"I can think of somethin' to do," Eto said, beginning to unbutton the blond ghoul's shirt.