EH:Hello! Um...I realize that I only have two reviews (Thanks Rin!) but I decided to post the second chapter. I hope you all enjoy and please review! Even if it's just to say that my writing sucks or something.

-Chapter Two: Transfers-

--Shine, bright morning light
Now in the air the spring is coming
Sweet blowing wind
Singing down the hills and valleys--
-.hack/sign, Fake Wings-

-Hisoka's POV-

It's been a week since I dreamed about mine and Muraki's meeting on the beach. A week since I've had a decent nights' sleep. A week since me and Tsuzuki had...well...sex. Though neither have really felt like it, sure there's been a kiss here and there but. He's been preoccupied with something, at first I thought it was just the case getting to him but...

No. He's been keeping his mental walls up to high for that.

A voice says softly. I sigh; he's probably just worried about me.

But he's expressed his concern about your not sleeping. If that was it, he wouldn't still be hiding.

He's not hiding.

Just like Dante-sama?

I freeze, the pen in my hand falls from my grip. Tsuzuki must notice because his walls crack and his worry seeps through.

"Hisoka?"

I slowly turn towards him, wide eyed. My mouth opens but no sound comes out. My throat fells raw and parched. A hand grips me shoulder, Tsuzuki's concern is coming full blast through my shields. I faintly hear his voice calling my name, I feel myself fall into his arms. A buzzing noise is pounding in my head, I see Tsuzuki staring down at me, concerned, before my vision goes black.

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The sun rests just above the ground; the sky is decorated in many shades of red and yellow. A lone figure stands on a small stone balcony that connects to a large stone castle. The figures' long silver hair is blowing in the wind; his light blue eyes are staring into the sunset. His white robes are dragging the floor.

"Um...excuse me?"

I feel myself say, the voice is mine but it's not at the same time, I mentally shake my head. The male turns around, smiling softly.

"Hello. Yu-kun."

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My eyes snap open, to find a white ceiling above me. My breathing is ragged; I glance over to see Tsuzuki asleep in the chair next to the bed.

I must be in the infirmary.

Tsuzuki's breathing is shallow but steady; he seems to be peacefully sleeping.

Which for him is a rare but good thing.

I think to myself as I reach over, regretfully, shaking the brunette lightly.

"Tsuzuki."

I say softly, my voice is raspy.

After a couple of more shakes Tsuzuki amethyst eyes open, staring sleepily at me. He blinks, clearing away the cloud of sleep. Tsuzuki jumps up and hugs me.

"You're alright!"

I hesitantly hug back, "Hai,baka. I'm fine." I say softly, inhaling the sent of his shampoo, its apple if you must know. Anyway apparently Watari heard Tsuzuki outburst because less then a minute later he comes running into the room.

"Tsuzuki,what going on!"

Watari stops as he sees the two of us hugging, a vague sense of embarrassment as well as jealousy slips through my mental barriers.

Jealous of me and Tsuzuki or...?

My thought trails off as I notice that Tsuzuki is now sitting back in the chair next to the bed and Watari is checking my vitals. Tsuzuki's hand is resting onto of my own, he offers me a small smile as Watari lets out a sigh of relief.

"Well, bon. Everything checks out normal, my guess is that you just passed out from fatigue. Have you been having trouble sleeping?"

I turn my gaze from Tsuzuki to the geniki blonde scientist/doctor, who stares at me expectantly.

"Well...I...uh..."

I stutter out, Tsuzuki's grip on my hand tightens.

"He hasn't really slept at all in about a week."

I turn around glaring at the brunette beside me.

"Baka!"

Watari stares at me, "Bon? Why didn't you tell me this before?" he asks, sitting down on the opposite side of the bed from Tsuzuki.

I slowly turn back to him, "I wasn't affecting my work..."

"Until today."

Tsuzuki finishes for me, he moves to sit on the bed, next to me. His hand is still gripping my own tightly. His mental barriers must still be up high because I can barely feel his worry and concern, where usually he gives me a headache because of his nonexistent barriers. I'm not sure whither I prefer one or the other, I'm really to tired to think now though. As Tsuzuki sits down, I move closer to him, resting my head on his chest. He and Watari are talking but I'm not really paying attention to the words. I slowly feel myself being dragged into darkness; a small smile graces my lips as I welcome the abyss of sleep.

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Unfortunately my sleep doesn't last long, it seemed like within five minutes Tsuzuki was shaking me awake, later I found out that it was like five hours, but anyway. He's saying something about a staff meeting; I slowly open my eyes, staring into his warm smiling face. I let a moan of dislike escape my lips to signify that I'm awake, mostly because I don't really feel like talking but also so he'll stop that accursed singing. Now don't get me wrong he's not a bad singer but still, it's very annoying and is making my head hurt worse then it already is.

"Hisoka? You awake?"

He asks and I nod. I feel his happiness wash over me, I smile to myself.

Good. At least he's somewhat back to normal.

Tsuzuki stands up beside the bed, "We got a staff meeting in five minutes, Tatsumi said that every body has to attend, even you." he pauses and shifts his feet. "I think there's been another murder."

A sigh escapes my lips as I sit up, straitening my shirt.

"Great."

I mutter, pushing the covers back and attempting to stand. I say attempting because the moment I started to put weight on my legs my knees give out and I stumble into Tsuzuki's broad chest. His arms steady me.

"You alright?"
I nod but don't move.

Tsuzuki seems to get the idea because he brushes his hand against my cheek, causing before mentioned cheek to flush crimson. My eyes meet his as he slowly leans down, placing a chaste kiss on my lips. Almost immediately I'm kissing him back,

Baka no Tsuzuki! Why the hell do you have to taste so good!

I ask myself, as his tongue enters my mouth.

Suddenly there is a noise from behind us, we both separate quickly. As I turn around I see Tatsumi standing in the doorway, his eyebrows raised.

"Excuse me interrupting but we have a meeting and both of you are late."

Tsuzuki laughs nervously, "Yeah. Sorry, we kinda got sidetracked."

"I noticed."

Tatsumi mutters as he turns, heading back down the hallway. It's a silent code for me and Tsuzuki to follow him. Tsuzuki takes my hand in his and practically drags me down the hallway, towards the briefing room.

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-Normal POV-

"As we all know prior to last night we have had thirteen murders committed within the last month." Tatsumi says as he runs through the slides of the previous murders'. He stops at the one dated "9/19/99". "This is the victim who was found at 3:42 AM on a beach just south of Nagasaki." He clicks the button again, "As you may or may not be able to tell the victim is female, around the age of twenty-five. Rigor Mortis shows that she probably died sometime within the past two days, also the body appears--"

"If Rigor Mortis has set in, then how the hell do we know that this murder is even connected to the others!" Terazuma yells, taking a drag off his cigarette.

Tatsumi glares at the dark haired man, "We know that it is connected because the body had a white feather lying on top as did all the others."

The room goes silent, that was the only clue that the Shinigami had to go on at the start of this case, a single white feather. That was almost two weeks ago and still they have nothing. No connections between the victims, no odd behaviors prior to murder, nothing. Normally the case would have been called off but the murders kept coming in all with the white feather being the only clue. The shinigami had all been sent to find information, and still nothing.

"Tatsumi-san?" Wakaba asks softly as the overhead lights come back on. The cobalt eyed man turns towards her, his usual professional expression covering his features. "I know that this case involves all of the departments but..." she pauses, "We have other cases in which need our attention. Seeing as the last three have occurred in Kyyushu why do all of us need to be involved?"

Tatsumi takes a deep breath, "Yes Wakaba-chan, Kachou and I have discussed this." He shifts a few papers on the table before picking one up. "This is why we have two shinigami who have transferred to help Tsuzuki-san and Kurosaki-kun with the case."

Cobalt eyes shift to the before mentioned people, who stare back silently asking him to continue.

"The first is a transfer from Europe, Britain to be exact; she has been a shinigami for the last six years and was picked by EnmaDaiOh-sama to help with this case. Her name is Yuki Ani."

Wakaba jumps out of her seat. "Another female!"

Tatsumi nods at the hyper girl.

"Did you hear that Hajime-chan? Another girl is joining the department!"

The before mentioned male nods disheartenly, "Yeah. Just great another one."

"Aw. Hajime-chan!"

Wakaba yells before latching herself onto the dark haired male.

Terazuma stiffens at the touch, before regaining his senses and leaping out of the girl's reach.

"Kannuki! Have you lost your mind!"

Wakaba lets out a girlish giggle as Tatsumi clears his throat a silent treat that can be interpreted as 'Sit back down now and let me finish or else I'll dock your pay.'

The two return to their seats, Wakaba beaming and Terazuma blushing slightly.

"As I was saying. There are two transfers; the other one is also a girl. She used to work in records before EnmaDaiOh-sama personally transferred her to our division. Not much information is known about her, except her name." he says with a hint of annoyance. Though no one's really sure that it's from the lack of information concerning one of his coworkers or if it was because Tsuzuki was currently whispering into his partners ear, in turn was making said partner blush deeply.

"Her name is Tenoh Ayasia."

Tatsumi says shortly, glaring at the two above mentioned Shinigami.

Tsuzuki stops abruptly in his whisperings, turning towards Tatsumi, eyes wide. The cobalt eyed secretary ignores this and continues.

"Kurosaki-kun, Tsuzuki-san. You two are to head down to Nagasaki and investigate the most recent crime scene. Yuki-san and Tenoh-san will both meet you guys at the hotel at six PM." Tatsumi stops talking, glaring at Tsuzuki. "And you both better be there at six."

The brunette comes out of whatever he had been thinking about and nods furiously.

"H..Hai!"

Tsuzuki says nervously as he stands, Hisoka following him. Tatsumi hands the blonde a file, with bank card on top. Hisoka takes the papers and moves to head out of the room. Tsuzuki quickly follows yelling.

"'Soka-chan! Wait!"

The rest of the group hears a faint 'baka' muttered by a certain blonde before the door to the room is shut.

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"Demo...demo I..."

Tsuzuki sobs through the lines of tears streaming down his face. "It's just ice cream!"

"No."

A certain very grumpy blonde empath spits out for what seems like the thousandth time within the last five minutes. "We have a case to work on, there's no time for ice cream."

Yes, that was his excuse not because it was around 30 degrees outside but the fact that they were on assignment. And as it was the two had been walking down the sidewalk and Tsuzuki had seen a ice cream shop, and from the way the brunette was acting you would think that he had found the greatest thing in the world. So he asked, Hisoka firmly said no, he asked again, and the blonde again said no. This continued for a good five minutes, in front of the shop.

"Pleeeaassee!"

Inu-Tsuzuki asks in a long drawn out voice, his tail wagging furiously behind him.

Hisoka lets out a sigh,

We are wasting time arguing out here, plus its damn cold with the wind blowing like it is.

"Fine. Just let's try and make it quick." He mutters, as soon as the words are out of his mouth the oversized puppy glomps him.

"Sankyuuuuu!"

A twitch mark appears above the blonde's forehead, "Baka!" he yells, pushing the brunette off of him and stomping inside.

Tsuzuki rubs his head, sniffling, before happily following his partner inside the shop.

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Tsuzuki and Hisoka sat in a half circular booth, next to a window, overlooking the bay area. The brunette was currently digging into a large sundae while as the blonde had long ago finished his own simple vanilla cone. In which he had reluctantly eaten, even though he really didn't care for sweets. So now the blonde settled for staring out of the window towards the vast sea.

This doesn't make any sense. I don't get while I'm so damned tired. This all started around the time that I had that dream about Muraki...or was it Dante..?

"Ano, Hisoka?"

The blonde blinks out of his thoughts, turning towards his partner. "What?"

"You alright?"

Hisoka nods, "I'm just a little tired."

Tsuzuki lets out a sigh of relief, "Oh. I thought that maybe you were mad at me or something."

Hisoka's jade eyes soften, "Kono baka. Why would I be mad at you?"

The brunette blinks, "Oh. Well...ah..."

"Unless you've done something you haven't told me about, ne?"

Tsuzuki laughs nervously, "Ah...iya."

Pain. Fear. Lust. Confusion. Happiness.

Hisoka blinks slowly, They're defiantly not Tsuzuki's emotions.

The blonde turns back towards the main area of the shop, he stops at the person standing in front of the table. Tsuzuki stares at his partner in confusion before turning in the same direction. They both blink at the female standing in front of them. She is tall, with medium length blonde hair and blue tips. Her eyes are an astonishing shade of light blue. She's wearing a business suit with a small dark blue blazer over her white dress shirt. The three stare at each other for a good minute before Tsuzuki opens his mouth.

"Ano, Can we help--?"

The female interrupts him. "Tsuzuki Asato and Kurosaki Hisoka?"

Tsuzuki and Hisoka both glance at each other before turning back towards the girl and nodding.

Almost instantly a light smile appears on the girl's lips. "Pleased to meet you, I'm Yuki Ani."

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-Hisoka's POV-

An hour, many introductions, and two more sundaes for Tsuzuki later; we are walking towards our hotel on the eastern side of Nagasaki. Tsuzuki is walking beside Yuki, explaining to her about the case and the basic workings of JuOhCho. I'm walking a little ahead of the two, a faint buzz is swarming around my head.

Damnit.

I think as I rub my temples, slowly. Why does my head hurt so bad? Is it from lack of sleep? I take a deep breath, open my eyes, then close them again. Why?...A field of flowers, blood covered swords, raining feathers...

I feel a hand on his shoulder, shaking me lightly. Worry comes through my barriers. Tsuzuki.

I open my eyes, to find Tsuzuki standing next to me.

"Hisoka?"

Tsuzuki asks softly, trying to hide his concern. Yuki is standing behind him, staring at us, her expression blank.

I nod slowly, leaning towards Tsuzuki. "I...tired..." I manage to get out before my knees get out and I lean fully onto Tsuzuki.

"Tsuzuki-sama, is he alright?"

A female voice asks, I'm pretty sure it's not Yuki but I can't be sure. Tsuzuki replies but I can't really hear him, I feel him pick me up, carrying me in his arms. Slowly my consciousness fades as I listen to Tsuzuki's faint footsteps.

-End Chapter Two-

EH: I know that it's probally very confusing right now but I promise that everything will be explained in upcoming chapters. I already have some of the chapters written and most of the story planned out, I'm just waiting on what you (the readers) have to say. I hope you enjoyed and please REVIEW!