A/N: A mood of humor hath bestowed upon me the content of this chapter, good reader. I hope thou dost enjoy the telling of this sliver of the tale. };)

Chapter 15

The doctor stared at Shoko Aki in shock. "Shoko-san, is this a joke?"

She gave him a confused look. The man had pulled her from the waiting room to have a talk with her about Sho's "condition", and still hadn't made himself very clear. He seemed a bit miffed about something. "I don't understand. My client was complaining about feeling strange this morning, so I brought him in." She explained as she took a seat in his personal office.

He sighed. "Then I am most certainly the wrong individual you need to bring him to. I do not specialize in human physiology. If you want your pet to be cared for properly, you need to take him to a vet."

"W-Why would I take a vampire to a vet? W-What are you implying?" She sputtered out with worry. Could he have been lying to her this whole time? How could she have made such a huge mistake?

"He is most certainly not a vampire. He is 100% human male. A very healthy specimen too. The Tokyo Zoo would do well to have such a stud to breed with their females. Where did you find him?" He asked with curiosity.

Shoko groaned, wondering how in hell she could have been so mislead, and what was her boss going to do to her if he found out. She looked at the doctor a little worried. "I didn't... and I can assure you, that not even 24 hours ago, he was 100% a self-absorbed, arrogant vampire. I have no idea what is going on."

The doctor shook his head. "And I can assure you, that the young male sitting in that exam room, is 100% human. A human that I sincerely hope you have registered, and have a license for." He sighed, she obviously didn't, judging from her reaction. "Look, I won't mention this to anyone, but you'll need to take him in, have him chipped, examined by a licensed vet and registered immediately. You may want to have him tattooed also. They will be able to instruct you on how to care for him properly, and he'll need yearly check-ups. He'll also need his vaccinations. You do know how frail they are, and how they spread disease once they get sick."

She heard him speaking, but the words just kind of swirled around in her mind and were a little muffled in her ears. She looked up at the man. "Do you know of anyone that can do this discreetly?"

He sighed and pulled a small black book from a pocket in his lab coat. He thumbed through it, pulled out a business card then wrote a name and number on the back of it, and finally handed it to her. "He can help you with everything, but he is in high demand. I'm sure that he won't have a problem considering the quality of that one. He specializes in exotic pets." He commented casually.

She stood from the seat in front of the doctor's desk and started to leave the small office in a daze.

"You may want to purchase a training collar. I hear that the adolescents can be somewhat unruly, especially the males." He suggested as her hand touched the doorknob. "I hear that having them altered can also make them a little more docile."

Shoko Aki could feel her knees almost buckle and left the room to get her pet/client.

She honestly didn't know what to say or do. This was one of the most important decisions she would ever make in her life. "M-My parents?" She looked up at Lory, then Kuu, and finally Kuon.

The men in her life knew this was a big decision for her, aside from her betrothal, but she hadn't been told about that yet. Kuon didn't wish for her to feel pressured into something like that after her first experience of the heart. Kuu was on the side of her parents. He believed that no parent should be separated from their child, especially after discovering that said child was alive. The child that they'd thought once dead. Lory understood. Being an orphan once himself, he fully understood Kyoko's apprehension.

It all sounded too good to be true, the concept of long lost parents that wanted you. It was every orphan's dream, but in a way a nightmare too. Would they be disappointed in what they'd finally found, after searching for so long? Would they still love her or was she just simply a bookmark in that chapter of their lives? Did she have other siblings and would they despise her for taking their parent's attentions away from them? So many thoughts and only one very heavy decision.

"Kyoko-chan..." Lory said softly. "You don't need to make a decision right now." He shot Kuu a glance, that told him to keep his thoughts to himself. "I know how you must be feeling right now. This is a lot of information to process. Take some time to think it over and come to me when you're ready." He told her in an understanding, parental tone.

She felt the pressure of the situation ease from his words. She hadn't known how much it bothered her until that moment, and Lory had guessed right in his assumptions. He didn't experience the same with his birth parents, but he most certainly had the same thoughts and feelings with his adoptive parents. This was going to take awhile to ease into. One does not just dive headlong into a situation like this and just start automatically being affectionate to a complete stranger, because that's exactly what they were to each other. They would essentially be starting out as complete strangers, not as daughter and parents.

This was the absolute worst! How was she supposed to tell her charge that he wasn't what he thought he was? Honestly? She believed him when he'd bragged that he was some vampire noble, when she'd first met him. He looked like one, he smelled like one, and he definitely behaved like one. Not once did she believe that he was human. Could Kyoko-chan have done this to him? If she did, then how? It wouldn't be the first time that the girl had shocked and amazed them. He really should have apologized to her or at least not opened his trap, and spewed his garbage at her constantly.

Shoko Aki sat in the waiting room of Sho's new "doctor", and pondered the idea of just handing him over to Kyoko to care for. Although, she was pretty sure that Kyoko wouldn't take kindly to having that responsibility again, from what she'd gathered from before. Sho hadn't exactly been very respectful of her when Aki had first met him. Aki seriously believed that he would not be safe with Kyoko at the moment, unless he went groveling to her on his knees. This situation, she decided, would definitely merit an emergency meeting with her boss. The outcome of that meeting would be interesting to say the least.

"Shoko Aki?" The doctor called from the doorway of the waiting room and motioned for her to join him.

As she settled into his office, the doctor began to give her the results of the examination. "He seems a bit aggressive. We had to sedate him for the exam and vaccinations. He's been microchipped, and he has the standard tattoo of registration on his left buttock. I'm going to suggest obedience training, and give you a diet and exercise regimen. That should help mellow him out. You may want to consider having him neutered. That usually helps curb the aggressive ones, too. If you decide not to, you will need to take precautions when he's around other females of his kind. You may experience attempts to mark his territory, that can easily be curtailed with exercise and training. Do you have any questions?" He finished as he slid a pamphlet titled, "You and Your Pet Human" across the smooth surface of his document littered desk to her.

Shoko sat there dumbfounded. HOW THE EVER LOVING FUCK DID THIS HAPPEN?! She screamed out in her mind. She nodded numbly. "Th-Thank you, Sensei. C-Can I t-take him home now?"

"Oh! Of course you can. He's only a little groggy, but he'll be easy to handle. Just give me a call if you need anything." He answered cheerily, then he gave her a bow as they rose to leave the office. She nodded in acknowledgment, still in shock. It was official, Sho was registered as her pet human. Whether she wanted it or not, she was solely responsible for him.

Thousands of kilometers away, in a New York apartment, on the 23rd floor, a platinum-haired singer listened to the interesting news from the spirit of a young woman. His eyes went wide, and he shot the milk he was drinking out of his nose, then fell into fits of uncontrollable laughter, rolling on his living room floor. He honestly couldn't help himself, it was just too fitting, all things considered.