A/N: Whoo! A pointless chapter! Well acutally the next couple chapters are just to show how Fye and Kurogane's friendship/relationship goes. Then the plot picks up again really. When it does it will go fast. You'll all be like. "Woah...what happened?" And I'm trying to avoid that so...yeah. Pointless, but fun chapters for all!

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Fye lifted his head off the pillow and glared at the door as a person kept knocking over and over again no matter how long he ignored it. Which was impressive, seeing as Fye had been ignoring that obnoxious knocking for a half-hour now. "Fine! I'm coming!" The blond was not pleased as he pulled the covers off him and went to the door unlocking it and opening it wide. "What the hell do you want?"

"My, we're not in a very good mood." Fye grit his teeth. It was Youou Kurogane. It wasn't so much that Kurogane annoyed him on a constant basis, because the man didn't. It was just that Fye remembered that the last time he'd seen the doctor that he'd been rather angry at him, so that emotion flashed up inside him for a moment.

He wasn't particularly pleased at the moment either, it was only noon and he was already awake. "No. The cat is not pleased when you wake it from its nap."

"Oh, so you're a cat?" Kurogane chuckled.

"I'm nocturnal, I like to sleep for at least half the day...yep, I'm a cat."

"What does that make me?"

"You're awake in day time and you have a loud bark. You're a puppy." Fye yawned widely and placed his hand in front of his mouth to try and hide it. "You're Kurogane the puppy, or even better yet, Kuro-puppy."

Fye noticed a change in Kurogane's facial expression for a mere moment. "Great, just don't start calling me that on a normal basis. Can I come in?"

"You gunna leave soon?"

"I will, just not until I come in."

Fye leaned against the doorway. "Look Kuro-pup, I was up all last night. It's noon, I'm trying to sleep. I'm tired. When I gave you my address I didn't think you would seriously drop by. Now unless you have someone you want me to kill, please just...leave? If you need proof that I'm exhausted, just look at the bags under my eyes. I could pack for Europe I'm sure."

"Not until I get to see what your home looks like." Fye grumbled and went back inside his apartment, but didn't shut the door behind him. This indicated that Kurogane was allowed to follow him inside. The blond man fell into his bed and pulled himself back up to his pillow. "This is a nice apartment. It's much better than the hallway outside. I wouldn't imagine such nice furnishings."

"I fixed it up when I first moved in...could you be quiet? And close the door on your way out..."

"I will, provided I'm the last one out of the room."

Fye made a humming sound and hugged his pillow tightly as he jammed his eyes shut. "I don't see why you wouldn't be, I'm going back to sleep, and no one else has permission to be in here."

"Well...actually I was hoping I could snag you away from your catnip dreams for a couple hours."

Fye opened one eye and looked to Kurogane. "Why?"

Kurogane took a moment to answer, he seemed to be fighting with himself as to how he should answer. "I was hoping we could have lunch or something."

Fye made an unidentifiable sound as he buried his face into the pillow. "Because I look like 'Yuui?'"

"Partially. The other part is because you look so lost. You need someone."

Fye made a laughing noise. "I don't need you. I don't need anyone."

"I saved your life. You needed me then."

"That was a mistake on my part. I just underestimated him, and I thanked you for your help. Even if I did need someone, I don't eat this late, yes noon to me is late. I eat at midnight and six a.m. I'm not hungry and I'm too tired." His eyes snapped open when he felt hands grab him around the waist and hoist him up.

"Too tired? Not hungry? Great! We'll fix that. You're hair looks greasy anyway."

Fye beat against the man's back like a child would to their father who was trying to make them go to bed, as opposed to a full grown man trying to go back to bed. "Put me down pervert!"

"Oh no, I'm not a pervert, not yet." The black haired marched off into Fye's bathroom with the blond over his shoulder. He dumped Fye onto the floor next to the tub and pulled the shirt over his head. "Now I'm a pervert."

"I'll say! Give me my shirt back!"

"Nope. Wouldn't want such a nice shirt to get ruined." The doctor grabbed Fye by the neck and shoved his head over the side of the tub and turned on the shower getting Fye's hair completely wet.

"COLD!" Fye screamed. "Cold, cold, cold!" The blonds arms pushed against the tub's edge, but Kurogane's grip was stronger and kept him there.

He ignored Fye's screams for a whole minute. "Look, would you like me to turn the hot water all the way up?" At this Fye shut up and stopped trying to get out of his grasp. Kurogane could just see Fye's face at this moment even though the blond wasn't facing him. The face was defeated yet annoyed, it was rather cute to envision. He took shampoo off the tub and laughed. "I see you have conditioner as well..."

"Of course. Otherwise my hair breaks." Kurogane laughed at Fye's grumbling tone. He poured the soapy substance into his hands and massaged it through Fye's blond hair. He felt like he was in college again, he felt like Yuui had never left. He could see so much of Yuui in this person, but this person was so different as well. Yuui would never have yelled or argued. Yuui would have never had the guts to even point a water-gun at someones head.

Fye shivered beneath him as he sprayed the soap out of his hair with the shower head and he made an erking noise when Kurogane grabbed a towel and dried the mid-neck length hair. "There you go. Awake?"

Fye stood to his feet and continued to dry his hair. "No. I'm just cold."

Kurogane frowned. "You going to come with me? Lunch? I'll pay, come on, it's a free meal."

Fye sighed and flopped onto his bed again. "I'm not some college student, I'm not a starving artist. I can get by without free meals."

"Please? Really, I'm saying please, and I never say please."

"You just said it three times."

There was a sigh, "Fye..."

Fye sighed and looked up at the man. "Fine. Get me a clean shirt and I'll go with you, but it's your fault that I'm not going to be sleeping right for a week."

"I can live with that." Kurogane went into his closet and his dresser. "Do you have anything that's not black?"

"Try the bottom drawer."

"This drawer is completely light blue."

"Got a problem with that? It's my favorite color. The black is just for my job. Like your doctor's white coat." Kurogane quickly took a shirt from that drawer and went back to where Fye now sat trying to tame his unconditioned hair. He was doing poorly. He'd gotten one side to lay in it's gorgeous waves, but the other side was being stubborn and looked like he had never brushed his hair. Fye quickly took the shirt and pulled it over his head before giving up on the brush and attacking his hair with a dampened comb.

"You care greatly about what you look like, don't you?"

"To an extent...my hair is within that extent...and you didn't even condition it..." At last he set the comb down with a satisfied look on his face. "I'll have to fix that later, for now it's all right." Fye stood to his feet and hoped on one foot as he pulled on his shoes. "So where are we going Kuro-puppy?"

"Do you have a favorite restaurant?"

Fye shook his head, his mood improving by the second as he got over the fact he had just been in a cold shower and had been woken up. "Nope! I mostly eat fast food."

"And you're that skinny?"

Fye laughed, the laugh was as clear as crystal, and it sounded just as pretty too. "Of course! I run around a lot too! Just take me wherever you please Kuro-pup!"

Kurogane gave a small smile. "I like that laugh. You should laugh like that more often."

Fye grinned and pulled on Kurogane's arm, "I do! It's just that Kurogane hasn't seen me not annoyed or upset with him yet! Come on! Come on!"

"Are you sure this happiness isn't just because of your lack of sleep?"

Fye nodded. "Uh huh!" Fye managed to pull Kurogane out the door, closed the door, and locked it. "I really am a typically happy guy Kuro-pup. It's just all the times you've seen me before now have been when I was either annoyed with you or my job! When I get over my annoyance I become an annoyingly happy person."

"Your job annoys you?"

"Sometimes I don't like my clients. I really don't like my current ones." Fye's smile faded a little as they exited the apartment building and Kurogane ushered Fye into his car.

"Then why not stop being an assassin? If a different job would make you happier, why not go and do that job?"

"Are you happy to work with the chronically ill?" When Kurogane gave no answer Fye continued to speak. "See? Life isn't really about being happy, is it? Life is about doing what you're good at so you can have money."

"So you can be happy."

"So you can live well. I think we both know that money doesn't truly bring happiness." The rumble of the car started and they moved out of the parking lot and onto the street. "May I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Why are you so curious about me? Is it my powers? Is it because I look like "Yuui?" Is it because I'm an assassin?"

"All that and so much more. Like I said earlier, you look lonely. You don't only look like Yuui, your eyes look like mine used to."

"You used to have blue eyes?" The sad part of this statement was that Fye sounded perfectly serious.

"No...the emotion behind them. You want to know something that you know you'll never know."

From the corner of his eye he saw Fye bow his head, he couldn't see the exact emotion on his face without risking the car to crash into a telephone poll, but he could guess the emotion from the voice that spoke next. "I see. So you're like that too. You too, have an unanswered question."

"Lunch was good." Fye bowed deeply and smiled. "Until today I was sure I'd be annoyed by you for a long time, but I actually had a lot of fun. I can truthfully say that is the second best memory I have. I...look forward to seeing you again Kuro-puppy."

"Then feel free to come to my place if you want. I'll make time for you Fye, but stop calling me Kuro-puppy, it's Kurogane."

Fye tilted his head to one side in curiosity, "Can I call you Youou?"

"I'd prefer you not..."

"Then Kuro-puppy it is!" Kurogane couldn't help but to smile as he shook his head in slight frustration. "I'll see you later, okay?"

"Yeah. I enjoyed myself too Fye. I look forward to seeing you too."

"Good. I'm so glad that feeling is mutual!" Fye waved and ran off before he could see the expression on Kurogane's face. The expression was shocked at first, but then it faded away into a extremely sad face.

"Why?" The doctor asked as he watched the door that Fye passed through close. "Why is it that they are so alike, but so different? They look the same, talk the same, smile the same, but they're hearts are so different. Yuui was so pure and truly happy, why is it that Fye only smiles and jokes on the surface? Why can't something be simple for once?"

The man sighed. "I just hope those aren't the last words Fye says to me...like they were Yuui's last words..."

"Don't run." Fye pointed the pistol to the man's head. The man ran. "I said to not do that!" The man didn't stop. "Damn it!" Fye's hand shook as he tried to shoot the gun. The F.A.I. beside him looked like it was only sleeping, Fye hoped that it's 'sleep' would go on forever, it had been particularly hard to kill.

"I...can't do it..." Fye sunk to his knees. He had to do it, he was an assassin, he had an assignment. However, this person was just afraid, who could blame him? To see a man fall dead before his eyes for no apparent reason? It was just a waste and pure murder!

Fye raised the gun in the air and shot. There was a scream and a thud. Fye jumped to his feet and ran to where the man lay. He was clutching his leg and stared at Fye with a look of fear that Fye could not even imagine feeling in his own body. "I said; don't run. Now, I can aim this thing at your head and end your life or I can do what I wanted to and leave the police to fix you up. They'll be here soon since I shot the gun. Live or die. Pick."

"L-l-live sir, please, d-don't kill me!"

Fye lowered the gun and a relieved look came to his face. "Good deal." His golden eyes flashed and he knelt down. He smiled gently, pushing some of the man's hair out of his face. "This won't hurt, and even if it did, it wouldn't hurt anymore than the pain you're already feeling." He placed two fingers to the man's forehead and a moment later the man's eyes closed.

Fye quickly stood to his feet and ran. He didn't have long. Only a few precious seconds before the man regained consciousness and about three minutes before the police would come. He had to get out of the area quickly. He'd been sloppy tonight. He was starting to care more and more about the innocent, was it his tapes? Or was it Kurogane?

As Fye drove home he heard the sound of police sirens. He hoped the man wouldn't bleed to death.