Blue Kitsune: I'm sorry I'm late with this, but I been on vacation for a while and was trying to think of a great Naruto story to cross Yu-gi-oh or something, if anyone has any ideas let me know.
Kaiba: Enough already, get on with the story for Christ Sake!
Blue Kitsune: Ah, are you really that desperate to get with Tea so soon Kaiba
Kaiba:Blushing like Hell Sh-shut up, just hurry up so we can get on to the scene with me and Tea in the lemon--
Blue Kitsune: Kaiba Hey don't say anything about that yet, it still needs work so don't rush me or I swear I'll
Tea: Holding back a annoyed Kaiba Relax Seto we can do our own later....if you behave and say the disclaimer.
Kaiba:Smirking and hugging her then pressing his lips against her, then pulled back to sayBlueKitsunedoesnotownYu-gi-ohorNightwalkers, so there! Then goes back to making out with Tea
Blue Kitsune: Well on with the second episode of Nightwalkers and Yu-gi-oh
Chapter Seven: The six sense and the actress's contract to stardom
Kaiba woke up when he felt sunlight hitting his eyes and heard Mokuba calling him to get up. He yawned and stood up from his chair where he had slept in the night before, working late as usual. He stretch himself and heard his back crack from sleeping upright. Somehow if I keep doing this, I'm going to think I'm the vampire instead of Téa.
Téa...he remember how in just a few days, he learned there were such creatures called nightbreeds and she was a vampire. And now he had been drawn to that mysterious world through her to help out in any way he could against those breeds. If he could, he thought.
He walked into his bathroom, showered and got himself dressed for school. He walked down the hall to where Téa's room was and knew she must've been ready by now and was waiting downstairs.
He had discussed with her to come and live with him at his mansion, as seeing that she need a larger place to stay and that he wouldn't mind having her company with Mokuba and such. She said ok and Yayoi didn't seem to mine it either. All seem well as they started to pack all of Tea's things and boxes and got them over to Kaiba's mansion. Then there was the thing of getting Téa's coffin here.
He still felt unease about how those women think when they placed the huge crate in the car and placed it in Tea's room. He had come in to check how they were doing with the unpacking when he saw them unloading the coffin to Tea's closet. He was quite shocked to see the coffin but Tea told him it served as her bed when she sleep, that she would rarely use the bed anyways. He would never think of daring to see how she slept in that thing ever.
Kaiba walked down the stairs, past the hallway to the kitchen where he saw Téa making pancakes for them.
"I thought I smell something good besides you." She looked up and smiled when she saw him come in. "Morning, Seto. I told your chef to let me cook breakfast today. Hope you don't mind." He smiled back at her. "Not at all Tea, they really look delicious." He sat down at the table where Mokuba was also waiting as Téa set the food on the table. Mokuba looked up at her as she set his stack on the plate. "Thanks big sister." He had now considered her a part of their family and hoping that it was going to be always now that he learned of her being a vampire after Seto and she had told him of the incident and such.
She nodded and ruffled his hair. "You're so welcome Mokuba." And took a seat opposite them, sipping the blood juice she had. Guni came fluttering in and saw the stack of pancakes.
"Oh boy! The mother load!" She flew down, pick up the biggest piece and started taking big chunks of the pancake. She finished it in ten seconds. "Yum!" She said rubbing her stomach and then grabbed another one.
The phone ranged and Téa went to pick it up.
"Hello, hey Yayoi! I'm glad to hear you --oh, oh my!...uh huh. Interesting? I see...ok thank you for telling me. Bye." Kaiba finished his meal and followed Téa to the living room.
"What's up?" He asked as she turned on the TV and change it to the news. According to the news, the actress Yukie Tsukimura had just committed suicide by jumping out of her apartment window. "What a pity. I happened to admire her performances," Kaiba said as he sat down to watch. Mokuba and Guni came in and saw them watching the story unravel about the actress's late suicide. "Man why would someone do that?"
"People want to be remembered like hero and seeing themselves going to glorious deaths is what they thinks is the best seeing it would make them immortalized as the greatest even after their deaths. Sometimes I believe that people think that they get more plays dead than they did alive. So they believe suicide is the big ticket for them." Téa told him.
Mokuba winced, "Gross! Well there is no way I want to be remembered like that." Guni settled on his shoulder. "I agree, cause once you're dead, you're dead."
Then they turn back to the news where they saw a young woman named Yoko Asahina, Tsukimura's understudy, on the screen as she talked about her late mentor's death.
That's odd, why do I have a sudden feeling there something wrong with that women? Kaiba thought as he watched the woman on TV. It made the hair on the back of his neck stand up and shivers down his spinal cord. And was it just his imagination he was seeing dark outlines coming off her or was the picture a little fuzzy. Kaiba turned and looked at Tea, seeing her expression turn darker as she looked more closely at the woman, barely listening to the news anymore now. And he knew that something was up, especially since that phone call from Yayoi.
"Tea is there something I should know about?" She nodded her head but didn't say it. "I'll explain later." She said to him and went to grab her bag from her room. He turned off the set and wondered what Tea was going to tell him as they got ready to leave for school.
Kaiba and Téa decided to talk outside during lunch instead of inside the cafeteria with everyone inside, still talking of the actress's suicide.
She had her sunglasses on as they sat on the roof of the school, isolated from people hearing them talk. She placed a hand over her glasses, shielding the light that was blinding her.
"Damn it, I hate this." She hissed as they sat down on the side of the building. "You think the sun goes down at this time when it actually gets brighter at noon."
"I thought vampires turn to dust in sunlight?" He had been curious about whether that myth had been true or not, he was still amazed how she was able to walk out in the sun. She nodded. "That's true but we are capable of walking in the light after passing a certain age and full experience of being full vampire. And since I am a half vampire however, I have to wear one of theses." She pointed to the ring with the bat crest with ruby eyes. "We use them as a protection guard when we go out in sunlight. I have necklaces, bracelets, chokers any kind for any occasion. But sunlight can still make us feel weak and blind at the same time."
"How old do vampires have to be to be capable of walking in the light?"
She thought it through then said, "I think you have to be over ten thousand, or close to it." Then she decided to change the subject. "But never mind that. So about the news, tell me what did you think about the suicide and Miss Yoko?"
He shrugged. "I just didn't think it felt right to me, seems like it's got foul play written all over. And the strange thing is, I sense...nevermind, you think I'm going crazy."
"Sense what? You mean you sense something about Yoko?"
He nodded. "I just all of a sudden, felt this weird vibe coming from her. Almost a dark and menacing one. It gives me the chill to think of it." Guni appeared out from behind Tea's hair and looked at him. "Wow sounds like you just got yourself the six sense."
"Six sense?"
"It's a side effect when a breed enters and then leaves the body, the person is tainted with some of the breed's DNA. This sometimes is very rare to get when you know fifty percent chances are the person's already dead or that the breed had taken complete control of the body." Téa explained.
"In other words, you have the ability to sense other breeds and find out exactly what kind or how many there are in an area." Guni smirked. Kaiba sighed, rubbing his head with the back of his hand.
"So it's like that movie with that kid seeing ghost. I'm able to sense nightbreeds, great how exciting. As if I wanted to make another encounter with them after that last one tried to take control of me. Great, just great..."
Tea walked over to him and places a hand on his shoulder. "Seto, I know this is new to you now all of a sudden, but right now, we need to figure out this case before it gets anymore strange than what it seems."
"What do you mean by that? Beside that doesn't seem like a suicide and something weird about that Yoko woman."
She sighed, "Remember when Yayoi called today this morning? She told me to watch the news and let me know something that wasn't placed in. 1) Yukie Tsukimura's manager body was found on the stage where she had been due to perform on, half eaten and 2) they found pieces of body parts inside Yukie's stomach which match his DNA."
Kaiba cringed in disgust as he heard those words coming out of her mouth. He felt he was going to be sick.
Body parts, eaten by Miss Tsukimura, the actress? Had she gone cannibalism or crazy or both? But he listened as Tea continued. "I think the actress Yukie had a breed....but there's something wrong that doesn't seem to add up. Something that isn't right."
She stood up and place her hand under her chin. "Why would a breed go to all the trouble of finding a body and then abandon it like that? That is not the way a breed works, something doesn't make senses..."
Guni flew over towards her. "Yeah and breeds don't committed suicide. And you want to know something, I think that actress, Yoko or whatever her name is, is our prime suspect in this case. She's an understudy right and you know how understudy want to become stars on the stage and can call for desperate measures sometimes? And you also want to know something, she had been crying fake tears on TV. An actress knows how to move an audience when being watched on stage or TV."
Kaiba nodded. "I agree with Guni on that part but you are right on what you said Tea. Suppose one of those breed had something to do with Ms. Tsukimura's untimely death? And do you possible think this could be the same one that might have Miss Yoko in her clutches?"
Guni snorted, "Oh please, we don't think, we know. It's plain obvious, genius. You have to be a real wisecrack dummy not to put two and two together." "Well excuse me Guni!" He sneered and stared over at Téa. "Well?"
She said, "There's a definite possibility to it Seto that the breed has taken over Yoko, but we have to make certain. I have a feeling we'll be paying our new actress a visit with Yayoi's help later today after school."
Guni smirked, "See now we're getting somewhere. You heard that Kaiba boy!" She giggled at him as she floated around his head, blowing a raspberry in his face and stuck out her tongue and pull down her lower eyelid at him. Kaiba sighed, "That's all I need right now, a smart ass imp with an annoying attitude." The bell rang and they went down stairs to their classes.
Yayoi was already at the theater when they came by after school. The four of them, with Guni in hiding, walked towards the entrance.
"So what do you three think? Smell fishy doesn't it?" Yayoi said.
"Actually it smelled more like moldy curtains and dust and a hint of breed in this places." Guni said as they headed to the dance room where Yoko was practicing. She was the same woman they've seen on TV. She had short chestnut hair and a body like a dancer. Her movement was skilled and precise as she moved to the beat of the music.
She twirled, jumped and spin as she finished her performance. They watched as Yoko's manager walked up to her and congratulated her.
"Bravo, absolutely stunning, you're like a different person. Almost like Tsukimura, no you're better than her." She shot a glare at him as he said the late actress's name.
"Enough, don't you dare mention her name in my presence again, ever."
I deserve this, I am the one who should get it all, just like Tsukimura did. The fame, the fans, the outstanding glory to which the audience would applaud her for her outstanding performance.
But little did her manager know how far she had gone to get herself to her acting. She had heard recent rumors before that the actress had sold her soul to the devil and got her acting career uplifted. She had stayed late one night and seen what Tsukimura did to her last manager, devouring his pieces and knew that the rumors had been true and that this must be how she started her stardom. So she had asked that same creature to grant her the exact same as Tsukimura by exchanging her soul in agreement. She smiled. How lucky I was to get this and become the greatest actress anyone shall ever know.
Everyone stared at them as the manager and Yoko talked. Yep, that girl had something inside that wasn't right beside the breed she must have, Kaiba thought. Definite #1 suspect in foul murder if there ever was. Yayoi knocked on the door, grabbing Yoko's and her manager's attention. They stared at them oddly. A young woman and two kids, what a sight they were.
"Hey what are you doing here?! Don't you know a rehearsal in session!" Yoko said ticked off. Kaiba cleared his throat. "Pardon me but my name is Seto Kaiba and I'm--"
"Seto Kaiba! The Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaibacorps. Why you're practically rich as Bill Gates!" The manager said astounded. "What brings you to our theater district?"
"I heard about the sad unexpecting news of Tsukimura. I'm sorry this happened all of a sudden. I wanted to say that I was a big fan of hers and..." He took the manager away to discuss in his office, leaving Yayoi and Téa the moment to talk with Yoko. Yoko glared at them. "So why are you two still here?"
Yayoi flashed her badge at her. "We're both police officers and would like to find something out on Tsukimura's--"
Yoko looked over at Téa. "Aren't you a little young to be a police officer." Téa pretend not to hear her comment. "Actually Miss Yoko, we like to know if you knew of anything before the suicide. Anything that might be helpful to us. Did she have something bothering her within?"
"Look kid, why should I even tell you these things. I already told the polices all that I know. I'm a pretty busy woman so I suggest that you leave me alone. I have a show to perform in least than a week and I need to get ready." She said as she made way to leave the room.
"You're more worry about the role that fell into your lap than the death of your late mentor." Téa watched as Yoko's grip on the doorknob tighten and turned slightly to looked over at her. Steely eyes stared hard and cold at Tea. "I think that the best thing for me to do to honor her is keep the show to go on." Then she left, slamming the door shut behind. Kaiba walked back in looking over to the right where Yoko had departed. "Touchy..."
It was eight thirty when they arrived at Yayoi's apartment. Kaiba called the mansion to check on Mokuba while Téa and Guni sat on the couch. Yayoi went into the kitchen to fix them something to drink. He finished the call and sat down beside Tea. His face was lined deep in thought. "It's a definite, she has a nightbreed. I'm positive." Kaiba told Téa. "She just gave me that...you know, from the six sense you told me about."
Yayoi came back, a bandaged wrist, carrying two cups of hot coffee and a glass of fresh blood. She set it down on the table and sat down beside them. He continued, "When I was about to come into that room, we passed close, almost to touch and she suddenly made me feel like I just took a walk in Alaska during winter wearing only my boxers."
"Were you able to tell what kind?" Kaiba shook his head slowly. "I'm not sure, I can't be certain but I can tell you one thing, it's got some kind of craving. Craving for flesh, at least that's what I think."
"Well there's no mistaking it, we'll have to keep watch on her, before the breed starts to cause trouble." Guni said. "I couldn't have said it better than myself Guni." Kaiba and Yayoi took their cups and drank. Tea held her glass however and sat quietly as she thought over what she had just learned of Yoko's conversation with them.
She wants to be a star and will do anything for it, even...no I can't think that, but still what are the possibly that she might have? And how long would it take for the breed to take over Miss Yoko, it's not likely to start eating soon, is it? She wondered this as she and Seto left and headed back to the mansion.
Meanwhile that night, Yoko had been having dinner with her manager at the finest restaurants in town. They were discussing the new ideas for her as the upcoming star on the stage. But when their meal arrive, she watch as he ate his steak, cutting and stuffing the meat into his mouth. She suddenly felt ill, and ran out of the restaurant and outside to where she ventured into an alley. What's wrong with me, my chest...it's feels so tight! My god what's wrong with me?! It was there that she noticed a dog. The dog barked at her as she walked close to it and her shadow started to loomed over towards the animal....
Téa and Kaiba sat together in back during fourth period at school. She was talking to him when she saw Yugi and Joey coming towards them.
"Hey Téa, where were you yesterday, we kinda got worried that you didn't show for lunch, so maybe you could sit with us today."
She wasn't sure what to say to them when Mai, Serenity and Isisuke came in with a crying Miho into class. Tristan came over to them. "Miho what's wrong, what happened?" He asked. Miho sniffled and looked up at him.
"Oh it was awful, Max, my poor little Maxis, he got...he got....." She couldn't finished the rest of her sentence as she wailed and buried her face into her hands. Mai patted her on the back while Serenity and Isisuke lead the gang outside the room. They told them what happened.
"She had went outside to feed him his breakfast and when she didn't see him, she checked out back and found him...lying there in blood, his remains everywhere...." Isisuke explained. Serenity shivered as she went over to Yugi. "Oh Yugi, this is horrible. This is the fifth dog they found this week. And it had to be Miho's." She cried into his shoulder as he patted her on the back reassuringly. Kaiba looked over at Téa. She looked back at him. "Could it be..." He nodded as he saw the look in her eyes.
Not in front of the others, later. Agreed, we've to discuss it with Yayoi and see what she might have found out, Kaiba and the others went back in as Miho was taken into the nurse's office.
Fifth dog...eaten...only one creature to do this and man this is going to be hectic for sure, he though as Kaiba sat down in his seat.
When they reached the mansion and headed to his home office, Yayoi was already sitting with Mokuba on the couch drinking some coffee brought by one of Kaiba's servants. "Your brother allowed me in. Sweet kid with a heart of gold." She told him when he saw her sitting in the office. Mokuba came up to them as they sat in their seats. "I heard about the awful rumor of the dog killings Seto, is it really possible a nightbreed doing this?" Guni popped out and looked at him. "What do you think, there only two kinds that could do this sort of thing, breeds and crazy satanic people." Téa walked over to Yayoi and asked if she found anything at any of the scenes. She pulled out a plastic bag and laid it on the desk to be seen. Inside contain strands of hair, silvery by the looks of it.
"I admit it isn't much of a clue, but there were strands of this found on some of the dog's remains and get this: also on Tsukimura's corpse too if the morgue had specific stated. I think this mystery is starting to unravel itself as we speak."
"So that may not have been a suicide at all." Yayoi nodded. "Yoko has to be the one behind it, she the very likely suspect we know so far." Kaiba said as he looked over at the hairs in the bag. Téa said nothing but walked away from them and grabbed her jacket. She turn towards them, "I'll be going on a short walk and paying a certain someone a visit, I'll call you later Seto where to pick me up alright." He nodded. "Just be careful..."
She smiled at him, "Aren't I always." And left.
