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Five year's from the death of Katsura Kuran, children giggled as they ran in the garden behind the house. Rido watched as they ran and frolicked as he remembered the way his Mother had looked before she had died. He understood her final sad smile as she died with her loved ones by her side.

The girl with the unruly curls ran through the flower beds happily, while the boy ran after her with a smile of mischief as he grabbed her around the waist and hugged her tightly.

"Haruka!" Screeched the girl "Let me go!" But even the screeching girl was giggling.

"No, your it now!" And then the endless cycle of Tag continued.

After many hours' of running around and playing with a young Vampires energy, the two realized their brother had been watching them with a happy spark in his eyes. "Brother Rido! Come play!"

Rido laughed whole heartedly, spreading his arms like he was tired. "No, I'll just watch you two." They paused to look at each other, then split up. Rido sat in a chair by the fountain, and his eyes first lost track of Juuri, then Haruka. The last glimpses had him perking up his ears in anticipation.

Smirks.

He could hear their soft footsteps, their breathings, and he knew that not even a noble vampire would have been able to deciphered them from a bird. They paused, then came from behind him, while he looked around pretending not to know where they where. They crouched…And he readied himself…

They sprang.

He caught them both easily, Juuri in his right arm, her long hair tickling his cheek, and Haruka in his left, who struggled erratically. Juuri giggled. "How did you know?'

"Yeah, we where quiet!" Injected Haruka.

"Heh, you two should know by now that Brother Rido knows everything." He smiled at Juuri and Haruka, setting Haruka on the ground, and tossing Juuri on his shoulder like she weighed nothing.

And to him, she didn't.

"Hey," She giggled "Put me down!"

"Juuri!" Haruka smiled, "Down!"

In that moment Juuri dropped to eye level with him, smiled, then nodded over Rido shoulder. Rido turned around, just in time to see a slight mass heading for his face. "What are you two-" Rido lifted his hand, grapping the snowball tightly.

Haruka gasped, and Juuri giggled.

Setting Juuri down, she ran to Haruka. Rido watched them with a sullen expression, and as they traded looks, a sly grin on Haruka's face and a mischievous smirk appeared on Juuri's. They looked back at Rido, and he only had time to widen his eyes before it started.

The children rebelled.

Or, that's what Rido would later joke about what happened. In reality they both grabbed each other's forearm, racing towards Rido with their grins wide, Juuri's fangs slightly poking out. As they ran the two hundred feet of distance they let their body drop far too low to the ground, so much so that no human could ever even hope to do. Their left hand trailed in the snow, Juuri's delicate fingers leaving long claw marks in it. At the last moment they broke apart, slipped one leg affront of them and raised up their left hands at the exact same time.

And threw the snowballs at Rido with satisfied giggles.

He caught them both with a wave of his hand, grabbing them and crushing them. The two young purebloods gasped. At the age of five they looked at least seven, and had the developed minds of ten year olds.

Juuri flashed her fangs at Rido in a grin, her eyes alight with the force of a challenge. Haruka's small and sly grin was accompanied by mocking eyes. Every movement they made reeked of a challenge, gripping and pulling on their vampire nature to prevail against another. Rido smiled cruelly.

Their challenge was accepted.

Rido spun, reaching down in a circular motion and using his mind to pack the snow into the form of balls. Juuri and Haruka whipped past each other, Haruka heading towards the forest for cover in the allowed forest, Juuri who followed Rido's every movement, matching it with her own behind him.

Rido first aimed for Haruka, who ducked and slipped into the snow at the last moment. Then Rido turned to Juuri, tossing the ball straight for her. She was crouched low to the ground, and she pushed off with her feet, spinning up in the air and kicking out her right foot to block the snowball, the throwing one of her own.

It snaked for Rido's chest, and he turned to grab it at the same time and identical one spun for where Haruka was resting in the forest. Rido sharpened his nail's, letting the snowball collide into the sharp tips and fall apart before hitting him.

Juuri made a leap and glided over Rido, her smirk making him more energetic than ever. He tossed a snowball up, and she spun away at the last moment, letting it collide into her heavy snow boots.

Haruka leapt up and grabbed her hand, pulling her behind the tree he was hiding. Rido heard several fast thumps in the snow, and Haruka, loaded with dozens of snow balls, came barreling around in the forest cover. He was leaning dangerously to the left, his body almost completely horizontal.

His hand blurred fastly as it glided from the snowballs to Rido. Twirling and slashing with his hands he evaded or destroyed the snowballs. He ran forward towards Haruka, who sent a huge snowball straight for Rido's head. Kicking up snow for cover he watched out of the corner of his eyes as the snowball flew right besides his head, then reached out and grabbed it. The lightweight snow was still floating in a cover, and Rido threw the snowball tightly, hearing a satisfied smack.

Noise behind him made Rido whirl around, meeting with Juuri's eyes only inches from him. She grinned, throwing the snowball, only to have it blow up inched from his chest.

"That's cheating!" She shouted at she slid out of his reach.

"All's fair in love and war, my dear Juuri."

Juuri gasped, looking behind Rido to Haruka. "Haruka, you got hit!"

Haruka smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, Juuri."

Rido laughed at their small quarrel "I guess its just you and me now, Juuri."

In response she growled playfully, spinning on her heals and turning, running low like she had done with Haruka. This time she let both arms drop to brush the white show, scooping up handfuls of snow and throwing them up in the air. Several feet before she reached him she jumped, and jumped high. Rido waited with his last snowball, waiting for the perfect opening. The snowballs she had thrown up never hit the ground, and she slashed the air with her nails, leaving red and dripping slashed in it.

Her eyes flashed red for a second, revealing the magic she was using, and all of the snow hurled towards Rido in seconds, all traveling faster than Rido could watch. Before the first one hit him, he threw. Right as Juuri slipped trying to jerk away from it the snowball collided with her shoulder, and one of Juuri's collided with Rido's thigh.

They both panted and stared at each other, and even Haruka, the always quiet, started laughing.

Once the fits of laughter had receded, Rido looked down at Juuri, who was hugging him tightly. Then at Haruka, who was chattering at Juuri, asking her how she knew that magic. "Yes," Rido nodded to Juuri. "Where did you learn it?"

She shrugged, her hair bouncing lightly. "I just wanted it to happen, and it did."

Rido sighed, gazing at Juuri lovingly. "Our Mother was better at spells that involved elements or blood, while Father was better at manipulating bodies or objects. You carry after Mother in allot of way, as Haruka dose Father."

"I do?" They said in union, and Rido laughed.

"Yes, you two are very much like them."

"Brother?" Asked Juuri hesitantly, looking up at him through his lashes.

"Yes, Juuri?"

"Why did you look so sad when talking about Mother and Father?"

Rido sighed. How would he be able to explain to them about their parents, on the very day one of them died? "Come, let's go into the house. I'll tell you both a story."

The three walked hand in hand towards the old Kuran Mansion. "Brother Rido," Muttered Haruka. "What's the story about?"

Rido looked down at them, a glint of pride and sadness both mixing in his eyes. "About a man and woman, A man and woman who were in no way cowardly. Who stood by you two and never gave up until their life's ended, of a man who loved his wife and their son to the ends of this planet and more. I am going to tell you two the story of a man who left them to fight in the war, so he could protect them, and a woman who left with a small smile on her face as she died brining you into this world."