Blue Kitsune: Ok that's it! If no one is going to have any suggestions for you know who, then I'll continue on with my story as it is, so don't go complaining to me! Well enjoy! Read and review!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter nine: The Chase of a Nightbreed and the beginning to the Golden Dawn

Down the alleys, running for his very life, a thief crisscross the dank ways until he reached a dead end. Two men were chasing him and they thought they had him as he was cornered in. The thief did not give in that easy. He dropped the bag of money he stole and held a shotgun in his hand.

"Don't do this." One of the men said, as he kept his partner at a distance bay so the crook wouldn't shoot. The thief's hands were shaking on the gun bad and one wrong move could make the gun shoot.

"Stay away, get out of my way." The man who had spoken up first raised his hand and took one step. That was all it took. The gun fired and hit him straight in the head, and he blank out.

The injured man was taken to the hospital where the bullet was removed and he laid in a coma. "It's lucky he survived but I am afraid there's still the worse to come when he has to know..." The doctor told the man's partner as they looked at the x-rays on the screen.

Meanwhile a breed hanging inside the vent heard most of what the doctor said and went to the room where the man lied. He went through the oxygen mask and crept inside. The man's body convulsed and then opened his eyes to have them dilated.

Later when the doctor went to check on him, the bed was empty, he was gone. "Impossible, after suffering from a gunshot, how did he manage to get and walk right out of here!" He said as he looked in the empty room. Something strange was going on....

&

Téa and Seto were sitting in a cinema theater together watching a movie. It wasn't exactly a date to be considered but thanks to a certain little mischief brother, it was. Mokuba had told them he wanted to go see a movie and said he would later meet at the theater and would find them once they found seats, so as to not wait for him.

It was a simple plan he thought: sent them to a romantic movie and let the sparks fly. Boy I can't wait until I have a vampire sister-in-law! He thought as he watched them go into the theater together while he watched from behind a secret safe spot. Once he saw them go in, he decided to go do something, so he headed over to the arcade across the theater, that way he would see them coming out later. He just wish he could see it in action, he thought.

The movie wasn't all that bad but it didn't give the impression for romance, not for one vampiress and a certain human boy. Seto barely watched the movie as he looked over at Téa next to him from time to time. He couldn't take his eyes off her sometimes as he watched the way her face stood set and her eyes lay expressionless. She stared lost in thought as the sun rose on the screen. Wonder what she's thinking? He thought.

Tea for all she knew, was thinking of very little of the movie, but when she saw the sun rising on the screen in all magnificent colors of red, orange, purple, the orb a shining beacon to command the world to rise and start anew.

How long has it been since I last seen the sun rise like that as a mortal person? Before I ever became a vampire? She wondered this many times as her memory started to fog over again and recall her very last day as a human being, the day back in....

In the goddesses' temple. It was still clear to her. Or at least, that was the way she remembered. That day was to forever haunt her for all eternity as she recalled the earlier scene of what had happened that day. She had been going somewhere before when she caught sight of something and saw the horror as she stood there. She saw a man whom she had knew and cared deeply for in all her years as a human, being bitten by another with long blond wavy hair, dressed in eligible garments of high importance nobility in that era. She knew the blonde-haired man as he had befriended her when he first arrived in the upper city of Egypt and had been affection towards her. But she had cared for someone else, she recalled dimly. And he was being bitten by him. That man she thought of as a friend before. And the person in his arms, the one he was draining of blood...

Who was he?

Was he her friend? Lover? Husband? She couldn't remember now anymore. The years prior to that were no more but a blur to her, all gone and taken away from her, leaving her as a empty vessel without her memories of that person. She stood frozen and transfixed as she watched this happen and realizing that the man hurting this 'person' was not a human.

A monster, that's what he was. A creature that would sense her presence anytime soon and possible kill her.

Run, run! Her mind cried and she immediately obeyed. She quickly ran, running as fast as her sandals would, her mind seeing that beast image and killing inside her head again and again before she reached the temple of Isis. Her havon.

She rushed inside and immediately went to praying to the goddess for help.

Please protect me from that man, no beast, she thought as she reached the safety of the temple. She remained there, praying and hoping for all the goddess's protection until the sun was nothing more but redness in the sky. That was when he came to her. She could sense him when he came behind her and knew he had been here the entire time after all.

Him.

The vampire.

Cain.

"Listen to me, my love," he spoke in a seductive tone that render her weak, frighten and powerless to fight against the very likes of him. "There is no such thing as the afterlife. Where there is light, there is always darkness. And only the darkness of eternity that awaits us. "
"What is it? W-w-what is it you want from me?" She asked, afraid what he would do to her. It was possible that she was likely to end up like his last victim.

He would kill her and drank her blood! Oh god!

He smiled softly and caressed her cheek with one of his hands, cold as ice. After a moment of silence, he said, "I find you particularly, enchanting, beautiful my dear, my rare jewel of the Nile. So young and lovely, so full of life." He pulled a lock of her brown-auburn hair and lightly caresses it. He smiled wickedly. "You are at the very ripe to the blossoming of the rose to your living beauty. A beauty which much be eternally preserve my darling." She did not like the sound of that. She might have been better off dead now than what he had in mind for her. She wanted to run, to scream for the gods to help her but knew it was already too late as she looked into his eyes.

His eyes, predatory and glowing, told her all of what she knew was to come, from here on end.

She cried, her tears trailing down her face as she looked at him. "You shall become my immortal bride." he said. He leaned his face against hers and licked the tears away. His tongue made her shudder by his touch as he went to her ear and whispered, "For we will share this dark abyss together. You and I wandering into the forever nights as the immortals for all eternity."

"No...." She whispered as he smiled coldly down at her. "No, please.... stay back...stay away!" She cried as he held her face in his hand and lowered his lips to her throats. She screamed and felt the undying pain as she slowly die and then revive once more as a creature of the night like him. A vampire.

The eternity to darkness had been opened to her that night.

"...Téa, Téa are you ok? Come on Tea." Kaiba was shaking her lightly by the shoulder when she didn't seem to respond when he was calling her name. The movie end a couple minutes ago and the credits had been playing, but Tea had remained still and silence and this made him worried. Come on Tea snap out of whatever you are in! "Tea!"

Tea was then getting out of the dream-memory as she felt Seto shaking her to wake up and calling out her name. When she looked up she saw people were leaving and the movie was over. Oh no, I can't believe it, had I been like this through the whole movie, she started to rise from her seat but suddenly feeling weak in the knees, she fell right back down.

"You all right?" Kaiba asked, concerned in his voice as he helped her once she got the blood circulating in her legs to move again. She froze when she heard his voice. That voice, where had she heard that before? It had belonged to someone else. If she could only remembered.

Where had I heard it, sounding so trusting and full of love? She looked at him and stared into his deep blue eyes. She nodded. "I'm ok, just that my legs fell asleep that's all. Heh heh." He looked at her strangely but said nothing else. They walked out of the theater where they saw Mokuba running up to the ticket booth. He had seen people coming out of the theater and figure the movie was over and quickly rushed over to them. He smiled and waved at it as they came out.

"Sorry I missed it you guys but I had to do something else for a friend of mine and see..." He said as he explained his excuse. Kaiba and Téa looked at one another with the same look on their faces. Right. Mokuba shrugged. "So how was the movie?"

&

The three of them walked down to the subway station to catch the next train back to the street where the mansion was. Mokuba walked ahead of the two and stared around until he saw something that caught his eye.

"Téa look at these!" He pointed to a stand with little jewelries on it. "Wow cool!" She looked at them and said, "Yeah you're right. These are pretty."

"They're also cheap. Two for five at a good price." The man running the stand said. Kaiba rolled his eyes but he was glad Mokuba was enjoying himself as he and Tea looked at all the fake pieces on the rack. He watched as Téa looked at the tinkets attach to the cloth and examined some with a happy glint in her eyes.

Funny, she's a vampire who's probably a lot older than I don't know, yet acts just like Mokuba's age in a way. Hunting breeds for a living and yet she still proves to have a human's heart. How natural.

Mokuba meanwhile noticed something and picked it off the stand. A pair of crosses.

"Kneel, the power of God compelled you." He said as he held them up against Téa. She pretend to cringed as he used them to ward her off.

"No....Have mercy I beg of you!" She said between giggles. Kaiba smiled at the two. Mokuba put the two crosses back and was about to leave when Téa opened her purse and pulled out her wallet and gave a five dollar bill to the guy. She gave Mokuba one of the crosses and he grinned at her. He placed the cross around his neck. "Thanks Tea!" He said joyfully.

"You know you didn't have to do that." Kaiba was cut short when she came over to him and place the other crucifix around his neck. "It's the least I can do for our little guy as he set us on our little 'date'. And a gift for you too." She said and smiled as they walked down the station. Kaiba blushed and was thankful he wore his trenchcoat to hide the redness from his cheeks from her. God did he have it bad for her or what. Mokuba waited for Tea to come over before grabbing her hand and walking with her.

"Hey Téa, since you got me and my big brother a gift. It means we have to get you one too. So....What is it do you like? Is there something that is special that you really want? What kind is it, is it something that me or my brother can get for you?" The kid plummet her with many questions before she had time to answer at least one.

Kaiba had a nagging question too and he decided to ask as well.

"By the way Téa when is your birthday?"

The smiled on Téa's face faded and left. Oh man did I put my foot in my mouth now? Mokuba noticed the silence too as he looked up and noticed Tea's face. "Téa you all right?"

She nodded barely. "Yeah, it's just to tell the truth...I don't even remember when it is or what year I was born." She thought back again of what little past she could remember. Nothing else beside the one she knew was all she recalled. That memory and nothing else. Her fist clenched by itself on reaction as she recalled the bastard's mocking laughter at the end when she became like this. Thankfully they didn't see it as she had hidden it inside her jacket. They probably be wondering what that was too.

If I had never met him I probably wouldn't have to wander the cold forever nights like this.

The Kaiba brothers looked at one another confused and shocked and then turned their attention to Téa. She looked grimly ahead of them.

"The only thing I do remember...is-is the day when I was just about to be turn into a vampire by--"

Suddenly they saw people backing away and others running forward. The commotion was coming towards them. A man in what seemed to be a hospital gown was running through with two or three men after him.

Kaiba could sense something else as he stared right at the running man. Before he had time to know what it was, the other guys came and pushed Téa up against him causing him to catch her in his arms. He gripped her tight as he glared at the men who pushed her. "Hey!" He looked down at Tea in his arms. "Tea you alright?" She nodded and got herself back up and then saw one of the guys draw out a gun, pointing at the running man. She placed one hand over his and pulled it back. He turned and looked at her and said, "Hey what the! Let go!"

"Don't you know that it's dangerous to pull a gun out in public. There are people out here!"The guy struggled against her, but she was stronger and then a sudden scream was heard. Téa let go of him in an instant before the guy glared at her and said, "Now look what you done bitch!"

Téa was already running, with Kaiba following toward the scene where they saw one of the men down, holding his eyes. Kaiba saw that the one in the hospital gown was a nightbreed. Long nails and dilated eyes and green saliva. He watched as it trailed down and hit the floor, causing it to melt away.

Acid! This guy got acid drooling from his mouth!

"Watch out he has sort of acid. Be careful!" He said to Téa who heard his warning. The breed clawed his way once at to the two remaining cops and ran towards the subway. Téa chased after it in hot pursuit. She followed it down towards the escalators as she chased it down when she saw someone rising up those stairs.

No it can't be! She stared at the man. Dressed in an elegant black cape over elegant garments from the eighteenth century style but more of this era, the long wavy blond hair, it was him all right.

Cain....

He spoke in the same accent to which she had come to despite over the centuries she had been with him.

"The Golden Dawn is at hand my dear..." And then disappeared from her sight. Cain but how and why...

The vampire, her mentor who changed her five thousands years ago was here in the subway.

Never mind about him, go after the breed before you lose him from your sight. She shook her head and headed further down to where the scent of breed and filth crossed paths together. Damn it I lost him! But Cain, what was he doing here and what did she mean when he said the Golden Dawn was nearing. She headed back up the stairs towards where Seto and Mokuba were waiting.

"Lost him." She told them. Kaiba put an arm around her shoulder and told her that she should call Yayoi and let her know of what happened today and have N.O.S. help search. Mokuba decided to try to cheer her up as well. "Aww...It's all right, you'll get him next time. Why you're the number one vampire nightbreed slayer we know!" He reassured her as he grabbed her hand and walked out of the subway.

"I hope you're right you guys." She said as the three made it out from the subway and went for a cab instead. And I hope whatever Cain meant was wrong to the very end. Don't count on it, she thought bitterly.

&

On Thursday, Kaiba had to call in absent to the school because he had an important meeting schedule he had to go. Téa promised to get his assignments from the teachers and the notes he was going to need. But during classes however, she barely paid any attention to what the teachers were saying or taking down the notes required. All she could do was recalling what Cain said.

What was he trying to say? The Golden Dawn? What was that? Had I missed something from what Cain told me about or was he holding up on me on it until now. Whatever it was, she felt certain that with Cain telling her this bit of fact, this was one bad thing. Her instincts told her this.

By English, their teacher, Ms. Megumi Otsuka, had assigned them to write a creative essay, story or whatever came to mind as an assignment. She did write what was on her mind without thinking over it and handed the paper in early. Right after the bell rang, Ms. Otsuka asked her to stay afterwards.

"Yes Ms. Otsuka." She asked when school was over and she came into the empty class that afternoon. Megumi was a nice lovely lady in her late twenties and was usually cheery and happy but today she seem tired and worn out. Her eyes held a tired look in their depths, like she hadn't had any sleep for days. "Is something the matter?"

"Well I read your essay. It was uniquely written but what does this mean, 'the Golden Dawn is approaching'? Very usually, but strange to sort of speak. Is this something you were thinking of or was it..."

Oh shit! She had gone and written what she had thought and now was being question of it. Quick think of something! "Well I was uh, being creative as you said to do...You know write what's on our minds and uh you see as a--" She stopped when she had looked around at the desk and noticed a picture of Ms. Otsuka with a man wrapping his arms around her. The same man whom she had chased in the subway the other day.

"Who's this?" She asked, pointing to the man in the picture. Megumi looked over at the photo and picked it up. "That's my fiancé, Taki Ryuichi. We're to be married in July. He's a detective and had gone on a case to catch a robbery in progress and I haven't seen or heard from him since. I tried the police, but they were no help. I wish I knew someone who was there to help find him."

Are you the same guy I saw in the station? She asked herself in her mind. Ms. Otsuka looked up at her, a glintful hope in her eyes. "Why did you ask? Did you see him? When? Where?"

"We had the pleasure of meeting at the subway four days ago, that's all I know. Sorry Megumi if I couldn't be much of help." She got up and left before Megumi had anymore question she rather not answer at the moment.

Kaiba had finished his meeting at around 5:30 p.m. and had gone to work on his laptop on the company corporation. He was typing furiously when Guni flew up and sat down beside his screen, looking at him suspiciously.

"What?" He asked, annoyed she was giving him this treatment. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"All right Kaiba spill it. What did you do to her? What did you do to Tea this last couple of days?"

Kaiba blinked. "What the Hell are you talking about? We just went to a movie that's all we did."

Guni snorted. "Yeah right, and what else? I'm pretty sure you guys also did something, like I don't know went and checked into a hotel without us knowing or somewhere private where you could...you-know-WHAT!"

"Are you saying that I, that we did--Guni!?!"

"Hey if the pervert fits. Why else would Téa be apparently acting so doggone quiet and ignoring my wisecracks then it had to been --"

"Does Téa know you have a sick twisted dirty little mind in that peewee body of yours?"

"Who are you calling peewee, hentai pervert."

"Oh I'm sorry, that would've been an insult to other peewees. You're a shrimp!"

"Jerk!"

"Little slut!"

"Asshole!"

"Mini bitch!"

"Bastard!"

"Tiny hoe!" They were glaring at each other by the time Téa stepped in the room. Oh boy, she thought as she walked over and broke them up. "Knock it off you two!"

"Well she started it!" Kaiba said, pointing to Guni who fluttered away and went to sit on the windowsill. "Hentai pervert!" She whispered not to quietly. Kaiba glared at her. If looks could kill. Tea ignored this and brought Kaiba's attention back by telling him what happened.

"Seto, listen I found out who our breed was back in the subway. He's Megumi's fiancé, our English teacher and he had been a detective on a robbery case before he had an accident. Could you check all the hospitals and their files on a Mr. Taki Ryuichi?"

He did, tapping into the hospital files and finding patient 'Ryuichi' in less than five minutes. He showed it to her.

"Said he had got shot in the head by a bullet. To the left temple and had been comatose at the time. Which mean..."

"The breed could easily take over his body while he was out cold. And I think I know where to find it." Quickly she grabbed Kaiba's phone and called Yayoi. "Yayoi we found the breed down in the subway and I'm going to need your help." Soon she and Guni were running to the station unaware that Megumi was going by as well. Taki been down at the station, maybe he's still down there and needs my help. Taki hang in there.

Téa and Yayoi and Guni went as far as below the station as where Téa had last seen the breed gone. "This breed better show up soon, or I'll be extremely pissed for wasting my time." Yayoi said as she flashed her light down on the ground level, "Any sign yet you two?"

Téa shook her head. "Nothing, but I can tell you one thing. Down here is a breed's paradise. Dark routes to run freely and away from the sun, a definite home where a breed would head." Yayoi's and Téa's flashlight flashed about the area. Then they heard someone grunt in behind.

Yayoi grabbed her gun and flashed her light to where they heard the noise. The light shown on a young woman whom Téa recognized as her English teacher.

"Megumi what are you doing here?" She asked and then suddenly saw a drop of something green hit the floor, sizzling away and then a low animal-like growl. She turned quickly to Yayoi. "He's up there!" She pointed her flashlight above and there was the breed.

What leapt down below them could barely be described as human.

"Taki?" A concerned Megumi asked. "Is that you?" Yayoi backed her away as she drew out her gun. "What are you doing? Stop, that's Taki over there."

"Lady," Yayoi said, " I don't think that's your fiancé anymore." Megumi stared at her wide eye. "What?!"

"It's true, he's already been taken over by a nightbreed, a creature of darkness." She prepared to fire her gun when the breed attack her, knocking the gun out of her hand and ripping the blouse. Téa bit her finger and lashed a blood whip at the breed, pushing him to the side. She lashed again as the breed dodge it but Téa got it once more as it tried to jump at her. She knocked it against the pillar. The creature looked at her and said, "Meg-Megumi!"
"Taki! It's Taki all right! He's alive. Taki!"

At the sound of Megumi's voice, the breed retreated within Taki, regaining his human consciousness. "Me...Megu...Megumi?"

Time to finish this! Téa ready herself to do the final blow when something shot at her, a bullet past through her left shoulder. She released the whip and place a hand on the opening. She then looked over to where Megumi held Yayoi's gun, pointing straight at them.

"Don't move, please don't. I don't want to do this." She went over and help Taki up on his feet and supported them as they made their way out. Téa got up slowly on one knee and started to follow them when the pillar and ceiling started to collapse where the two had gone.

Damn it.

Then a soft chuckle was heard above. She looked up and saw Cain standing on one of the ceiling blocks looking down at her.

"Cain you...." He smiled and disappeared. "Bastard. Damn you Cain, damn you to Hell!" She yelled, loud enough for Yayoi and Guni to hear and hopefully to him as well.

They headed back to the mansion where Mokuba was waiting for them as they entered. "Yayoi what happened!" He said as he saw Téa's shoulder bleeding and the gaping bullet hole. "She just got shot in the subway by some woman." Yayoi explained as she placed Téa in a chair to sit. It would take a while for the bullet wound in her shoulder to heal. A regular bullet had no effect on her, but this was silver from Yayoi's gun and it hurt like hell as it would do to any creature of the night. Breeds and vampires. Lucky that she didn't get hit in the heart or else she'd be dead! However fortune, she was thankful that it was not like the others inflicted on her by those nightbreeds, which required large quantities of blood for her to heal, blood which Yayoi and now Seto provided for her.

Well it could take fifteen-twenty minutes for the hole to close up and heal, but at least she wasn't dead that's for sure. She slumped back in the seat as Kaiba came down the stairs and saw her. He was about to say something when Guni told him. "Long story short: chasing breed, got shot by a woman who claim the breed's her boyfriend the end." Kaiba went over to Téa. "Are you going to be ok?"

She nodded. "It's not a big of a deal. It will probably take a twenty minutes to heal. Just think of it as a scratch...ack!" She winced and grabbed her shoulder. The process of healing was working and her muscles were pulling tight as they tried to remend the lost pieces, a very painful one when your body had to do such a thing. While it was doing this, she then looked to the side of the room.

"But why was he doing in the subway there?" She asked herself.

"Who?" Kaiba had heard her say something and a another person in the subway beside Yayoi and Guni. Just who? He wasn't sure whether to be annoyed or jealous if someone else had been with her down at the subway beside Yayoi and him. "Who are you talking ab--" Suddenly he felt a sharp nip on his ear.

"Oww!" He saw Guni fly up to his face and said, "Serves you right. Now come with me to your office. Now." And flew away. Kaiba did, before looking over his shoulder at Téa who raised her head in her hands, murmuring things.

Mokuba and Yayoi had went into the kitchen to fix up a snack and get Téa a bottle of fresh blood from the fridge, stored and disguised in wine bottles. She was still lost in her thoughts when she heard his voice speaking out to her.

"Well, my dear it seems we have a lot to discuss about, don't we?"

Téa looked up startled as she saw him standing by the fireplace, watching her.

"You..." She snarled, "What is that you want Cain?" She had to resist rising out of the chair and strangling that bastard's throat until he was dead and chop him into tiny pieces and feed it to the fish.

He merely chuckled. "Your anger makes your charms looked more irresistible my love." He smiled his fangs at her. "But Téa you should insist on telling your friends to stay out of this case this instant."
"Why should I? When have I ever taken orders from you Cain?" She growled, "And what so special about this case that should have me stopped? It's just another breed like all the others, isn't it? Or is there something I don't know about!"

Just then Yayoi and Mokuba came out of the kitchen, Mokuba carried a tray of cheese and crackers with Yayoi carrying a bottle of blood and a glass. It was then they saw Cain.

"What the..." The bottle slipped from Yayoi's grasp but did not break as Cain had quickly retrieved it and looked at the label on it. He moved very fast before she even blink. One moment he was standing there by the fireplace and then he was again with the bottle in his hand.

"Hmm...Pig's blood, how typical, how revolting, purely disgusting. It tastes nothing more than that of swine's itself instead of the finer qualities by which humans provide." He threw it towards the fireplace, where glass and blood scattered on the wood piled on it. Yayoi was about to draw out her gun as she stepped in front of Mokuba.

"Don't Yayoi!" Téa said and Yayoi looked at her and saw the momentarily fear in her eyes and lowered her gun down. Cain smiled at her, "A wise move, Tea. Anyway, listen well again, stay out of this case. The Golden Dawn is approaching even as we speak. And I want you by my side to witness this."
"Do you really think I'm that interested in this Golden Dawn of yours, least of joining your side to see it? What makes you think I would wa--"

He walked over towards her, his eyes glowing as he looked into hers and whispered, "Remember I know you, you are very curious about it as well as mystified by the idea. I know everything there is to know about you Téa..."

And then he disappeared. Mokuba was very shocked and frightened when he saw the stranger disappeared like that.

"W-Who was that?" He asked, his voice shaking as his whole body rattled when after that stranger appeared. That guy certainly gave him the creeps. More likely that he felt a sudden winter chill settled in the room and he rubbed his arms absently for warmth.

He's as cold as ice. No worst, he's much worst than ice, Tea thought. Yayoi walked over towards her to check if she was all right. "That was him, wasn't it. The one from the subway."

Téa said nothing but nodded. "Yes."

"Him who? You guys, who was that man? And why did he, he, you know gave me the willys!" Téa and Yayoi looked over at the frighten boy, then Téa sighed and said, "You remembered that I was telling you who the vampire was that changed me? That was Cain you saw just now. He's the one who turned me into what I am. He also the one who holds all of my memories of my past life before I even was a vampire."

&

Kaiba and Guni were unaware of what had been going on down stair as Kaiba had closed the door, making the room as soundproof as possible for them to talk.

"Guni, you've known Téa for a long time, haven't you?" He asked.

Guni nodded, "Yep, I certainly have, for a long time now."

"Okay then, I don 't know anything about her. Not by much at all...she so very secretive and I get worried for her sake. So tell me what's this about? Téa said something about someone and I..." He tried to find the right words to say it, but it was very hard without placing the idea of it in mind.

Was the guy an old boyfriend of hers from a few years back or something? It was eating him from the inside as he thought the guy was an old love. Why he wasn't sure but damn him if he didn't get a straight answer. Guni stared right at him. "Kaiba let me ask you something: do you have feelings for Téa?" He blushed and said, "Well...I um..."

"Hmm, thought so. I must say, Kaiba, I may have given you a hard time before, but you're definitely an ok kind of guy." She was silent for a moment before she said, "Listen, the guy Téa was talking about was.... Cain."

"Cain? Who's he?"

"He's a vampire, a real nasty one to be exact. He has no compassion or care for the feelings of others. He cares about no one but himself and his own pleasure. He views life as a pleasure with killing innocent people and drinking their blood to the very last drop. And he wouldn't take no for an answer with anything. Especially from anyone. Téa told me once he had fallen deeply in love with her, but she didn't like him. She didn't remember much about her mortal past but she said it was because she had cared for someone else and you see how he had taken it."

"So he killed the person who loved her and turned Tea into a vampire?"

"Afraid that how it was. And I haven't got to the worst part yet. After she left him a few centuries back, Cain took all of her memories away. From the life she had before she ever became a vampire."

"Wow, that's awful. I can't help not imagine what she must've gone through, being like this and not remembering her life as a human and the very humanity she had left. Talk about a real nasty son of a bitch Cain is."

He looked back Guni. "So nothing?" She shook her head. "Nada. Not of her parents or when she was born, not even her real name. It's like trying to look at a clear sheet of paper and trying to decode it for answers."

He sighed. And to think I had asked her when her birthday was and she couldn't even remember what day, month or even year she was born. "Guni can you also tell me something? I know and realize that me and Téa both look to be of the same age but..."

"Whoa there Kaiba!" Guni replied. "There 's an age difference all right, but it' s not what most folks would think. Kaiba as you may or may not know; vampires tend to live for an extremely long time, if not forever. Do you know how old she is?"

He shook his head and she sighed as she started to count on her fingers. "Let see.... it's been ten years since we first met and she was approaching her.... ah ha! Now she's five thousand and seventeen years old."

The door was knocked and Mokuba peeked his head in. "Hey big brother, um dinner is almost ready?" Guni went over to him. "So what are we having?"

"Chicken and rice. Want to help?" Guni flew over and landed on his shoulder, "Sure what the hey, beside I think I hassle your brother enough for one day." And they left, leaving Kaiba to think of what had just been told to him.

Five thousand and seventeen years old and not remembering anything of her mortal past before she became a vampire. I never knew...to go through such long and everlasting pain to deal with. After I first met her, I thought that she'd make a nice girlfriend and have a nice going relationship to follow and thought possibly our future together.

But I never imagine I was the one who was too young for her. I'll grow old and will definitely die as I should. After all, I am only human. Whereas for Téa, she will live on for all eternity, forever stuck in the body of a sixteen year old girl.

Kaiba ran his hands through his hair and thought of himself an old man, wrinkled skin and white hair with a teenage girl by his side, never growing old or dying. I guess it's not fair for me to love Téa if only to have her suffer of losing me as I age and died.

I don't want that to happen, I wish there was a way to help but I just a mortal person fated a mortal life. I won't let that happen to her, I just...he sighed as he left a note, saying he was going to Kaibacorps, to work on something and leaves the mansion.

Blue Kitsune: I decided to do a cliff hanger here until I get some more reviews and finished writing the last few episodes. So please read and review if you want more!!!!!