Chapter nine:

Kaoru is racing through the city looking left and right to try to figure out where in the world Hikaru could be. He slows down to a stop after a bit of running unable to find his brother so far. "Hikaru…" He slightly mutters in worry. His mind briefly contemplates calling upon the clan for help but he shakes that thought away. He opens his eyes halfway as he had closed them to shake his head; he had also tilted his head down a little doing so a little before opening his eyes. "No. I have to keep involving the clan as my last resort." He raises his head opening his eyes fully. He begins to continue to look for his brother He just hopes that he will be okay and be found quickly. He skids to a stop almost running into someone who he turns to.

The person is a slightly short male who looks up slightly at Kaoru.

Kaoru instantly smells a scent of dog coming from this person. His eyes try to change to red as a slight growl escapes his mouth. He tenses just in case he has to defend the area from this wolf.

The wolf who remains in his human form slightly gives Kaoru a look of slight disgust and thoughtfulness. He makes a humph noise before turning away and dashing off.

Kaoru would give chase but he then realizes that the other was outside of his clans territory so instead he just makes sure that his clans scent is there. He rubs himself against a tree to add another marker by a spot that smells of wolf that he can't really mark. He then heads off to continue his search for his brother. He almost runs past an alley way before he skids a stop. He takes a few steps back to look into the alley where someone is standing back to him. "Hikaru!"

Hikaru jumps at the sudden shout of his name and spins around to find Kaoru rushing towards him.

Kaoru in relief jumps towards his brother arms out to embrace his slightly older twin. He accidentally knocks him down however.

Hikaru manages to wrap his arms around taking most of the hit of the fall. "I'm so glad to see you." He tells his brother to assure him that he is alright.

"Me too. I was so worried when the host club said that you hadn't shown up. So I went looking for you." Kaoru admits hugging Hikaru close with his forehead against his brothers shoulder.

"I got worried when you didn't return last night so I went to see if I could find you." Hikaru admits to his brother keeping his own arms around him. "I'm so sorry that I had worried you. I just wanted to know that you were okay." He explains to his slightly younger brother. "By the way, what happened last night? Where did you go? Why did you just disappear for the whole night? It'll be okay you can tell me."

Kaoru pauses upon hearing the questions in which his eyes fall to being half open almost in thought as he tries to figure out what to tell his twin brother. "I had to check something. It took longer that I thought that it would." He tells the other closing his eyes softly.

"Check something?" Hikaru asks with a growing interest and curiosity at what is happening with his brother.

"You don't need to worry." Kaoru tells him and finally he shifts to sit up a bit until he is hovering over his brother. He opens his eyes to look to meet his brothers own eyes.

Hikaru pauses with deep worry as his eyes seem to scan flickering to completely take in Kaoru's own eyes.

At this sight Kaoru becomes worried wondering what is wrong. "What is it?" He asks the other who stops examining his eyes.

"Kaoru… Is something wrong? What happened?" Hikaru questions him raising a hand up almost hesitantly. His hand reaches halfway to his brothers cheek before stopping in midair.

Kaoru becomes a bit more confused and worried upon being asked these questions. "Hikaru?"

The next words that come from the older twins mouth causes Kaoru to freeze where he is.

"Your eyes. They're red."

Kaoru moves one hand up towards his own face in shock after a moment or two of being frozen on the spot. "Red?" He questions making Hikaru realize that his slightly younger brother didn't even know that his eyes had changed color.

It scares them both that this happened without Kaoru's knowledge or will for it to happen.

Kaoru closes his eyes a little tightly trying desperately to turn his eyes back to normal.

At this Hikaru reaches the rest of the way up placing a hand on his brothers cheek.

Kaoru relaxes at the gentle familiar touch. He slowly opens his still red eyes halfway at first then fully to look Hikaru in the eyes once more. He finds a smile dancing in his brothers eyes when their eyes lock together once more. He feels truly calmed from this as if it was like a spell was cast upon him to make him completely relax into his own brothers touch.

"It'll be okay." Hikaru speaks in assurance to his brother who lets out a breath as if releasing all that tension to disappear into the air. "We'll figure it out."

Kaoru nods softly at this and he slightly nuzzles his brothers hand his eyes closing softly. "Yeah…" His voice is just as soft as his nod was. "We will."

Elsewhere…

"And you are sure of what you saw?"

"Yes. I am very much sure. I swear I saw it with my own eyes. I can confirm that it smelled like what we were looking for too."

A figure turns with a tail flicking upwards from the side as if flicking in anger. "Then it would appear that we have figured out the mystery. Soon it will be time to take action against this. We cannot allow such a beast to continue running around after all." The figure turns to the other standing there. "Put our lower ranking alphas on alert."

"It'll be done." The other figure dashes off leaving the first figures sight.

"I will make sure that pathetic being will know true pain." The first figure speaks to no one.