The next morning was calm and quiet, but it felt like the calm before the storm. Yin could sense this as she stood in front of the sink in Hei's kitchen. She let the water rise a little higher than last time, and then stuck her hands in. She wanted to make sure nothing big was gonna happen when they least expect it. Yin stood there for at least thirty minutes before Hei came into the kitchen yawning. "Good morning Yin" Hei said. She heard his footsteps travel to the fridge. "Good morning" she replied returning to her tracking. "See anything" Hei said walking to stand infront of the stove. He cut the stove on and put a frying pan on the burner, starting breakfast. "No" she replied with her monotone voice. "That's good" Hei said returning to his cooking. Yin pulled the plug to the sink and walked over and sat at the table. "Yes" Yin said.
After a nice and quiet breakfast,Yin washed the dishes and Hei put them away. The rest of their free time was spent chating with Mao about something or another. "So I take it the Syndacite's been pretty quiet" Mao said. "Yeah after all that they should be" Hei said occasionaly looking for sights of the landlady. Yin was standing with her hands submerged in the sink in the kitchen. "Yin's been keeping tabs on some of the members, so we'll be prepared when they start to move" Hei said glancing at Yin. Yin was whatching one of the head man's henchman. All he was diong was running around someone's house franticaly. "Hei" Yin called slightly. "You got something Yin" Hei asked. "The henchman for the head man seem to be searching for something" Yin said as she appeared to be staring out the window. "Do you know what their searching for" Mao asked. Yin shook her head, this was the first time that she had seen them so frantic. Heck she hadn't even seen them search for anything at all. "Well whatever it is seems to be important so we need to keep an even closer eye on them" Mao said jumping down to the wall right outside Hei's window. "We'll try to whatch them as much as possible" Hei said looking down at Mao. "I'll meet with you two at the shrine in the middle of the festival grounds, let's say around ten to eleven" Mao said. Hei calculated that up in his head. "But the festival starts at five" Hei said. He wasn't aware that Yin had drained the sink and came to sit with him by the window. "It's time off for you and Yin to enjoy yourselves" Mao said with a flick of his tail. "Thanks Mao some time off is a good thing" Hei said with a touch of gratitude in his words. "Yin take care and stick with Hei at the festival" Mao said, bringing Hei's attention to the fact that his blind partner had joined them. Yin just nodded slightly. "I'll see you guys later, I don't want to be caught by that landlady again" Mao said recalling his past experiences. "Yeah that wouldn't be fun" Hei said as Mao jumped off the wall and scampered off.
"Yin let me know if you need help" Hei said standing outside his room. It was almost time for the festival, so it was time to get ready. Yin went last since would probably take her a while. Hei sat paitently at the kitchen table waiting for Yin. She walked out and suprisingly enough she had fixed the kimono all by herself. "How do I look" Yin asked devoid of all emotion. "It looks good on you Yin, very pretty" Hei said. The compliment sounded more like a brother compliment instead of a 'I like you' compliment. For Yin that was a good enough answer. "Thank you" Yin said. Yin had let her hair down for tonight instead of leaveing it the way she always had it. Hei took her by the hand and led her out of the appartment, locking the door behind him.
There were a lot of people using the same road as Hei and Yin, so it was very hard to talk about much on the way. There were lots of little kids running around, some almost knocked Yin down, good thing that she needed Hei to lead her or else she would have hit the ground face first. As they approached the first booths Yin could already smell many of the delicious things that were on sale. Hei stared at all the stands as they passed, some for; candied apples, pop corn, ice cream, and all sorts of rices and curries. "What do you wanna do Yin" Hei asked as they slowed down in case Yin wanted something. "A game" Yin said as they came to a stop around the game booths. "What type of game" Hei asked looking at the booths. They had ring toss, balloon darts, the game where you knock over milk bottles with a ball, they even had the game where you throw a ping pong ball into a goldfish bowl. "You pick" Yin replied. Hei went for the milk bottle game since he knew Yin could play this too. Hei payed for the three balls and tryed his hand at them. He ended up only knocking over two. Earning him a medium sized bunny, which he gave to Yin. "You want to try" Hei asked. Yin nodded slightly and let Hei take the rabbit from her. She was handed one of the balls, Hei told her just to throw in front of her. She did and claimed the top bottle. "Good job only two more" Hei encouraged. In the end Yin knocked over all three and was able to claim a prize from the top shelf. "Here" she said handing Hei the large white tiger. He thought it ironic, she was given a dark fured bunny, it's fur was almost black. While he had a white fured tiger,whose fur almost radiated silver. Hei and Yin wandered around the festival grounds untill Hei got hungry. They stopped at a ramen cart and ate, as always Hei always surprised the owners by eating over twenty bolls, where as Yin barely ate one.
After they ate it was almost time for them to meet Mao so Hei decided to start the walk there. Hei got a little sidetracked and let go of Yin's hand, giving the crowd the opprotunity to wisk her away from him. "Hey Yin want to try another game" Hei asked. He turned to see that his blind partner was gone. "Yin" Hei wispered. He was gonna get it from Mao now, but he could care less, he was more focused on the fact that Yin was gone.
Yin was thrown around like a rag doll in the crowd, it startled her to find out that Hei wasn't there with her. "Hei" Yin called out, but no replie came. She was all alone and had no idea where. A hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back. "Hey there, what's a pretty thing like you doing alone at a time like this" the voice was male and familiar, but she could tell she didn't personaly know this person. "It would be so easy for someone to take you and you'd never be seen again" the man said. Yin knew she had to get away, or she'd end up just like he was saying. Yin pulled away from the guy's grip and ran down the street bumping into all sorts of people. "Hei" she called out repeatedly. Hoping for an answer or some help. Before she knew what was happening she was lifted from the street into the arms of a male.