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Hiro leaned against the wall impatiently with a glare in his eyes. K went over to him and asked, "So was Shuichi with Yuki?"

"No," Hiro replied.

"Where can he be?" K asked to no one in particular with a thoughtful look on his face.

The phone suddenly started to ring, snapping K out of his thoughts. Hiro was the one who picked it up to silence the loud noise. "Yeah?" Hiro gave his little greeting.

"Don't bother looking for me," was all that was heard before the phone hung up.

Hiro removed the phone from his ear to look at it strangely. He recognized the voice. Shuichi. "What?" Hiro whispered.

"Was that Shuichi?" K asked. Hiro looked over to him to see K holding onto a sniper rifle. Seeing the blank look in Hiro's eyes, K stated innocently, "What? He needs to learn that being late is not a good thing."

"By shooting him?"

"Do you know any other way?"

Sighing, Hiro did not reply. He was silent for a minute before saying, "It was Shuichi, but he said to not bother looking for him. He should know better than to tell me that. I'm going to look for him right now. Now shooting him if he gets here before I get back."

"You're no fun," K stated as he lowered his weapon. As soon as Hiro walked out the door and closed it, K whispered to himself, "But I don't have to do what you say."

As Hiro headed out the door, he took out his cell and called Yuki, thinking he would want to help out. 'Hello?' Yuki's voice came through.

"I got a call from Shuichi."

'Where is the moron now and in what kind of trouble?'

"He didn't say. All he said was to not bother looking for him." Yuki was silent for a minute. "I'm going to look for him," Hiro stated when he didn't hear Yuki speak. "Are you going to as well? Or do you not care what happens to him?" Hiro knew how Yuki was when it came to Shuichi. He acted like he never cared, but when the ASK lead singer did things to Shuichi, Yuki was ready to kill him. Hell, Yuki almost broke one of the band member's neck who had nothing to do with it.

'I'll look,' Yuki said before hanging up.

Hiro closed his phone and walked around, hoping to at least spot some pink hair. Eventually, he spotted Yuki walked on the sidewalk. "Any luck?" Hiro asked the blonde man, who just shook his head. Hiro could see the anger in Yuki's eyes growing.

"Well, well, well," a voice from the alley next to them said in an amusing tone. "What do we have here?"

Hiro and Yuki looked over to see a guy with shoulder length red hair and gold eyes. "What do you want?" Yuki asked in a threatening tone.

"Just curious about something," the stranger replied. "Aren't you Ice Heart's human? Or the one he was with last anyway?"

"Who's Ice Heart?" Hiro asked.

"My mistake. You don't call him by that. You call him by his given." The stranger leaned against the brick wall of the building, smirking at Yuki and Hiro. "You two really are his, aren't you? Your scents cling to him. Now I have to remove your scents, or at least cover them. I can have fun doing so. You're looking for him now, am I right? Good luck. When Ice Heart doesn't want to be found, he can't be. Trust me on this. I've tried every time he disappears."

"Who the hell is Ice Heart?"

"Like you don't know him," the red-head said dangerously.

"Aoshi," another voice, a familiar voice, behind Yuki said, making them look. "Knock it off. You're just confusing them."

"Shuichi, love, that's my nature."

Walking past Hiro and Yuki, Shuichi stood in front of Aoshi and grabbed something out of his hand. "You've been drinking again," he said as he looked at the half filled beer bottle. "I'm not even going to try and get you to quit." He looked at the red-head before saying seductively, "But, if you stop pestering these humans, I'll give you a little present later."

"I'm going to get that present anyway, Icy Baby."

"I told you to quit calling me that." Sighing, Shuichi hit Aoshi on the chest before saying, "I'm going back to our little club. I'll see you later."

When he turned and walked off, Aoshi yelled out to him, "You better not disappear on me again, Ice Heart." Shuichi just gave him a 'whatever' kind of wave. Looking at Yuki and Hiro, he said, "You two better stay away from him. He normally doesn't like it when I get rid of humans that can't let him go, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him." Aoshi walked off as well when he was done speaking.

"Now we found Shuichi," Hiro stated before taking a look around. "And we lost him again."

"Ever think of turning around?" someone said behind him, making him jump in surprise. "I told you to not bother looking for me," Shuichi stated. "Why didn't you pay attention? I said to it make sure he doesn't kill you both! Aoshi is a cold blooded killer who won't hesitate to drain you dry. That's what he did to my past humans that couldn't keep away from me."

"What are you talking about?" Yuki asked. "Why are you even around him?"

"That is my business, Yuki," Shuichi said venomously. "You don't have to know every little thing about me. Just don't go looking for me again. And it would be best if you heed Aoshi's words. Like I said, he won't hesitate to kill." Shuichi brushed past them harshly and walked off.

"Okay," Hiro said. "He's defiantly not acting normal." He looked over to Yuki who was watching Shuichi walk away. "Want to follow him to find out what's up?" Yuki didn't look at Hiro.

"Later on when he cools down," Yuki said.

"What about that Aoshi guy?"

"Find out what he wants with Shuichi."

With Shuichi

"Hey, Ice Heart," some girls about his age greeted him with an affectionate tone in their voices as they passed by him, or as he passed them up with an emotionless look on his face. No one would get near Shuichi out of fear of Aoshi. Everyone knew how Aoshi was when someone was getting to close to Shuichi. He continued to walk down the street, hands in his pockets and looking over his shoulders to make sure no one was following him, mainly Hiro and Yuki. He didn't mind if the others of Aoshi's gang followed him because Aoshi was usually the one who told them to.

'Disappearing act again,' Shuichi thought mischievously in his head. He pushed himself over a five foot iron gate and walked into an abandoned place. No one really came here because of the legend that came with it. No one but Shuichi knew that Aoshi was the cause of that legend and gave the place to Shuichi. A barrier was around the place so no one but Shuichi and anyone he invited was allowed to enter. The place looked better back then. Now, its paint was peeling off of it and the iron was rusted. Wooden planks covered the cracked windows. Some of them didn't have glass on them. On the outside, it looked like a dump, but not on the inside. Once Shuichi opened up the door, closed it, and turned around, he was greeted by the darkness. Walking a few steps as he took a match box out of his pocket, he striked the match on the box and held it over a candle.

The faint glow gave off enough light for Shuichi to tell where he was going. He lit the other candles in the room until all of them were giving off a glow. The place had crimson red walls and ceiling. On the other side of the room was a large bed about the size of two king-sized beds. He enjoyed a lot of room on the bed. On it were thick scarlet covers and a few normal red pillows with hot pink cushions in front of the pillows. Next to the bed was a red-wood nightstand, but that was a few feet away from the bed so he wouldn't hit it when he got up. Taking his trench coat off, he plopped onto the bed. It gave a little hiss from the air escaping the fabric that trapped it. He rested his arms behind his head once he got comfortable and crossed his leg over his other one that was bent up.

Sighing, he closed his eyes in thought. After a few minutes, he lowered his legs and moved his arms, falling asleep soon after. Shadows were all he saw when his eyes were closed until a landscape of a forest appeared. In the middle of it was a large gap, and in the center stood a five-year-old boy with pink hair with purplish eyes. He wore a red mini fighting kimono with white trimmings. The strange part about him was that he had pink fox ears coming out of his hair and a pink fox tail coming out of his backside. "Mom!" he called out, looking around. "Dad! Where are you?"

A woman with a beauty that could make any goddess jealous stepped forth from the trees. Her long moonlight hair was in a low ponytail that reached to her knees. Her gentle lavender eyes shined with a motherly kindness that would calm any child, even if they weren't hers. Silver fox ears stuck out of her hair like the boy's, and just like him, a fluffy fox tail came from her backside. She wore a silver gown with pale blue snowflakes on it. Kneeling down, she opened her arms, allowing the young boy to run right into them. She hugged him tightly to her chest. "I told you not to wonder off, sweetie," her silky voice met the boy's ears.

"I'm sorry, mom," he apologized. "I won't do it again."

"That's what you said the last time you ran off and we had to come find you," a masculine voice claimed from the tree next to the boy and his mother. A man about a year or two older that the woman jumped down from it. He had blood red hair that reached the middle of his back and dark red eyes. Red fox ears were in his hair as well, and the same went for the red tail that was wrapped around his waist. He wore a black fighting outfit with red specks all over it.

"But this time I mean it, dad," the boy said as he stood in front of his mother.

"Of course you do," the man chuckled as he ruffled up his son's hair. "Come on. It's getting late. Time we should be heading home." He turned and started to walk away as the woman picked up the small boy and balanced him on her waist. The boy held onto her kimono, gripping it tightly with his tiny hands. When they entered a hut, the small boy was already asleep, curled up against his mother's warm body. She walked into a child's room and placed him on the bed gently before kissing him on the forehead and covering him up with the blankets. He gave a little moan before turning over onto his side and pulling the blanket close to him so that it looked like there was a knot just below his neck.

Smiling softly, the woman walked out of the room and closed the door. The sunset's color seeped into the window until it was dark. Not long after, the woman came rushing back in, shaking the young boy quickly, trying to wake him up. He opened his eyes after rubbing them. "Mom?" he asked. "What's wrong?"

"There is no time to explain, my son," she said as she picked him up. "But we must leave now."

"What about dad?"

"Your father is holding them off."

"Who?"

"Don't worry about it, my dear. I won't let them harm you." She held him close to her body for reassurance before the door opened and quickly closed. The father came in, but he was bloody.

"Nika," he breathed out. "Hurry and get yourself and our son out of here."

"Dad," the boy called out with a shaken voice. "What's going on?"

"Just stay with your mother, son."

There were loud bang coming from the door before Nika quickly slipped out the window and ran off with her son in her arms. She ran a good couple of miles before something hit her legs. An arrow. She fell to the ground, landing on her side to make sure she didn't harm the boy. "Sweetie," she said to him softly. "Listen to me. Do you see that hollow tree with a opening at the bottom?" The boy nodded his head with his ears laid back. "Go and hide in there, and no matter what, don't come out."

"But mom," he was about to argue, but Nika stopped him.

"Please, my son. Just listen to me and do what I say." Hesitantly, he nodded and ran into the gapping hole that was in the hollow tree. He watched his mother pull the arrow out with a hiss and give out a yelp the second it came out.

"Well, well," a voice said not too far away. Nika looked up with a deadly glare. "Thought you could run away and escape, did you?" He drew a sword from its sheath that was strapped at his side. "Not putting up much of a fight, are you? Oh well. You don't have to worry about your mate any longer. He's dead now." Her eyes widened in shock, as did the five-year-old boy's. "Now join him in Hell!" He swung the sword, slicing her neck opened. She fell to the ground as her own blood formed a puddle around her. The stranger turned around and yelled out, "Find the boy!" There was a rush of people flying by the man before he ran off as well.

Waiting a few hours, the boy climbed out of the hole and went over to his mother. Cold bloody mud squished between his toes as he walked closer to her. He laid on her, sobbing quietly, for what seemed like eons. Hearing footsteps coming closer, the boy froze. What if it were those bad men that killed his parents? What if it was a stronger hungry demon looking for a snack? Many thoughts crossed his mind. "Well, if that isn't something," a voice said behind him, making the boy look up. He saw a red-haired man with gleaming gold eyes. He had red fox ears and a tail along with a bag over his shoulders. "So you're still alive, huh?" The boy gripped tightly onto his mother's kimono. "Calm down, I'm not going to hurt you."

"Who are you?" the boy's whispered voice met his sensitive ears.

The man sat down next to the boy, but not in the bloody mud. "I'm not the one who killed your mom, if that comforts you," he stated as he slipped the bag off of his shoulders. "But if you want my name, it's Aoshi."

"Aoshi?" the boy repeated. He nodded.

"So, kid, have any family that you can live with?" The boy shook his head. "No one to take you in?" Again, he shook his head. "Then how about this: if you tell me your name, you can stay with me. I'm not cold-hearted enough to leave a defenseless kid out here with no one to look after him. How about that?"

The boy thought for a second as he stared at the cold dead body of his mother. "Ok," he softly said.

"So what's your name?" Aoshi asked.

"Shuichi," the boy replied.

Shuichi woke to a loud knock at the steel door. "Shuichi," Aoshi's voice called out. "I know you're in there. I thought I told you no disappearing acts."

"The door's unlocked," Shuichi yelled out as he stretched. Feeling something sharp digging into his skin, he looked at his hands to see claws instead of regular nails. "Transformed in my sleep again," he mumbled under his breath.

"The door may be unlocked, Ice Heart, but the barrier is up," Aoshi yelled through the door.

Sighing, Shuichi placed his clawed hand on the wall to open a hole in the barrier. The door opened, allowing Aoshi to enter. He stared at the pink-haired teenager on the large bed, seeing the ears and tail. "Did you transform in your sleep again?" he asked. "Or was that intentional?"

"In my sleep," Shuichi replied as he laid back down on the bed. "How long ago did you find out I wasn't there?"

"About an hour ago. I just got there and didn't sense you anywhere close by."

Shuichi moaned as he stretched before sighing, "I thought that I should catch up on some sleep."

Aoshi smirked and climbed on top of the teenager resting on the bed. "Dream any good dreams?"

"A memory of death," he replied.

Sighing, Aoshi lowered his head and stated, "Look, I know you didn't agree with it, but that's just the way I am. I'm overprotective of you."

"Wrong deaths."

Aoshi lifted his head, looking at Shuichi in the eyes and saying, "Oh, that time. Well, aren't you glad that I came across you that night? I mean, if I never found you, you wouldn't be alive right now. You would have been eaten by another demon or something."

"Oh, and you don't eat me?" Shuichi asked playfully with a seductive smirk on his lips.

"One thing that I love about you is that you are so perverted during the Red Sun. Either that or extremely horny."

"Well, right now, I'm tired." Shuichi rolled over onto his stomach and rested his head on his arms. He felt Aoshi lifting up his shirt and slightly turned his head to see what Aoshi was doing.

"I thought that you might have been getting a little too hot," Aoshi said with a grin. Shuichi knew that grin all too well. Aoshi had other things on his mind. Shuichi sat up a little to allow Aoshi to remove his shirt for him.

"Pants stay on," Shuichi stated as he laid back down. He heard a groan come from the red-head on his back and smirked. He felt fingers moving along his spine, making him shiver a little before they started to rub his shoulders. He moaned softly as the fingers loosened the knots in his shoulders and helped him relax. "What made you decide to give me a massage?" Shuichi asked, too relaxed to turn his head and look at Aoshi.

"Thought you could use one," he replied. He kept massaging one of Shuichi's shoulders as he ran his other hand down the teenager's spine, feeling his muscle shiver to the very touch of his fingers. Aoshi lowered his head once he moved his other hand to Shuichi's side to nip and the pink-head's shoulder with his small fangs.

"You took your shirt off, didn't you?" Shuichi asked when he felt Aoshi's bare chest against his back.

"And if I did?" Aoshi asked seductively into Shuichi's ear.

"Nothing," he replied. Aoshi started to run the tip of his claws along Shuichi's ribs as he continued to nip and lick at Shuichi's neck. Shuichi slightly turned his head and gave out a low moan. Aoshi placed on of his hands by Shuichi's shoulder and his other at the teenager's waist, lowering himself down a bit. He nipped at Shuichi's lower back, holding him down by his waist. Shuichi raised his head a little, tilting it back and stretching his arms out in front of him. Aoshi started to lick along Shuichi's spine, raising himself up until he reached the neck before he started to suck on it. "Aoshi," Shuichi moaned out. "Please, stop that."

"Why? I can tell that you're enjoying it."

"Because if what you're doing now lead to something else, you won't have enough energy later on."

Resting his forehead on Shuichi's shoulder, Aoshi sighed heavily. "Alright," he said. He got off of the bed and picked up his shirt that he tossed aside earlier, putting it back on. "Put something else on," Aoshi said. "There's going to be a rave with all of the fox demons in the city in our club."

"When you say put something else on," Shuichi stated as he got out of the bed and to the closet that had a sheet of ice blocking the way into it, "you mean put on something sexy on so you can show me off, right?"

"You know me too well," Aoshi stated. "I'm going to talk to the guys. Maybe go get a few drinks. I'll see you tonight."

"Fine," Shuichi yelled out as Aoshi went out the door. He wiped his hand on the sheet of ice, making it disappear as his hand lowered on it. When the ice was gone, it uncovered a large room that had a missing door to it. That was the reason for the ice. Inside of the room were thousands of clothes. Some were for when he was in his human disguise, some were for him to just walk around, but the rest were for parties. He went over to the area where he puts his party clothes and picked up some clothing before walking out of the room and raising the ice sheet again.

One thing that Shuichi did to the ice whenever he made it to cover the room was give it some curves that made it look like a curtain was hanging there. He took off the clothes he was wearing before putting on the new ones. He wore a tight small black leather jacket on top of a black fishnet. One his hands were black leather fingerless gloves that reached a couple of inches past his wrist with chains on top of the holes where the fingers came out of, making it look like he had chain tattoos on his fingers if he had his fingers in the right place. He also had baggy leather slacks that were the same color as the rest of his outfit. It had chains hanging from the pockets, some were along the stitching, but the very bottom of the slacks was covered with chains that covered his feet, almost. He put on a pair of black leather boots with chains for laces. He knew how much Aoshi liked his chain outfit. And Aoshi knew how much Shuichi loved to tease him when he wore the outfit.

Me: ok, second chapter done. I'm glad every1 likes my story. So R&R so u can find out what happens in the next chapter. And I might change the rating to M unless rated T allows for explicit scenes. Next chapter: Yuki see Shuichi somewhere and learns a few more things about him and what's going on.