[Quick note! Rima & Omi are now Hibiki & Kanade! I finally found Ikehata sans written work! =3]

Kai was hunched over the sink, his hands sparkling with bubbles and the water steadily running over a clean dish. His eyes were small slits and gentle heaves made his chest rise and fall. Kai hadn't made it to bed after doing all the chores he could possibly think of in order t be awake for Hagi's return.

His sudden absence had him worried and he dared not try sleeping with him out of the house. His disappearance could mean anything. Kai supposed that if he waitted long enough, the tall dark knight would show up sooner or later. However, what the middle-aged man hadn't anticipated was his own fatigue shortening his night watch as much as it did.

Already some of the early suns rays shone through the blinds. The orangey light danced on the tile flooring before stretching up his leg and lighting his face. The twitching cornea made him awaken groggily. He raised a hand and rubbed his right eye with a soapy wrist. The stinging made him regain more consciousness.

"Shit, that hurt." The light he was reflecting suddenly dimmed though and a small sigh made him reach for an unwashed utensil from the sink.

Shakily holding it up to the dark figure, he then realized this was no enemy. It was only Hagi who had his head tilted awkwardly, observing Kai's weapon. A filthy spoon?

Turning red and tossing it to the sink he crossed his arms, "And where were you?"

Hagi's slim eyes watched the half full sink and running water as if interested by it and said in his monotone voice, "Not washing dishes all night..."

Kai's brows twitched irritatedly before he slapped the handle to turn it off and wiped his hands on the front of his pants. Without taking his eyes off of him he added, "The girls were worried. They thought the police took you for being so old."

There was a long pause before Hagi smiled and Kai broke into a muffled chuckle. It was true, the twins were aware of his age and his immortality. They didn't fully understand it and Kai and Hagi had decided telling them about Chiropterans was like hitting puberty so come the time they near the deep sleep they would know everything. In the next year or so it would be time but until then the pair would embrace the twins naivete.

"Well if the police didn't come and take you, where did you run off to Gi-gi?" Hibiki was still awaitting an answer.

He was at the bus stop with the twins but their curiosity was nerve wrecking. Kanade always waited before interrogation which of course meant letting her younger sister mangle the victim before she picked at the distorted remains. In this case, she was waiting for Hagi to lose his patience with Hibiki before adding in to the torture.

"I went to the beach," came his reply. He was looking dead ahead waitting for the yellow bus to come up from the hill and said nothing more.

"The beach," the twins repeated in unison.

"That's right, the beach."

The two looked at each other with raised brows and identical looks of confusion. Suddenly they shrugged and turned to hear the whistling of the bus as it began screeching to a stop.

"Hmmm...!" Hibiki moaned.

Hagi gave her a sideways glance fully prepared for her complaints or last minute questions. Instead, the two sighed and got on their toes to reach as he bent forward allowing the traditional pecking of either side of his face in their farewells before parting.

Hastily they skipped up into the vehicle and shuffling and aggressive movement could be seen through the window before they forced their way to a window and leaned out of it while waving.

"Bye-bye Gi-gi," they chimed together.

Hagi grinned and held up one wrapped hand in return as the yellow bus rolled on and out of sight. With the remaining hours he'd have with the girls safe at school and Kai busy at work, he'd have more time to see the tomb and figure out what to do if Saya was still out of her sleep.

It was still so very dark. Her body was numb from the cold breezes drifting in from the ocean just a walk away. Her naked body trembled from the cold and her eyes were slightly open. They glowed and sparkled in the darkness she was left a prisoner to. Still the girl was frustrated. All she wanted was that person that made those lovely sounds to come back.

Wearily she rose to her knees and ran a hand over her throat. She was healed as if nothing happened at all. Was it the music? The man? The darkness or...was it just who she was? Perhaps the man had answers...yes he would! He knew who she was didn't he? He called her...he called her Saya right?

Without a moments hesitation she let out a small wail through the crack and then immedietly pressed her ear to it. She waitted...and waitted...and waitted...but thre was no response, no strumming and no words. Her brows furrowed and she let out another of her ear splitting screeches. He had to come back! She didn't want to be alone, no-where was he!? Again she screeched but threw herself to the ground helplessly.

He would come...she felt it...in her heart. He would come back to her, she'd make him.

Hagi was in no rush. He was at the foot of the long set of stairs when he suddenly heard the horrid yell. So...she was still awake? Impossible! He made sure she was contained, had no blood source and no company. Hadn't that put her back to sleep the first time she awoke too early? The tall man left behind his swift pace and sprinted up the stairs. He figured she must have heard him for as soon as he stood at the front of the tomb the moaning stopped.

He rested his cello cas against the wall and knelt before the door. Hagi kept his nose to the door and inhaled in short sniffs. There was no sign of fresh blood. She hadn't been so drastic yet. Perfect timing he could almost say but what would he do now that he was here.

"Saya..." he said quietly. To his surprise there was a soft reply.

"Saya."

Hagi nodded as if she'd see and said, "Yes, that is your name is it not?"

From the silence around them he could hear her breaths echoing in the tomb before she answered, "I...I amSaya."

Hagi continued to listen. She was sitting with her back to the rock and her head rested on her knees. She was waiting and he realized what exactly for.

"You like it do you?"

"Mn..."

"Then it shall sing for you..."

For the next three whole hours, Hagi remained seated outside of her tomb with his cello. He played her long and sad tunes that slowly moved her back to sleep but when he'd stop to leave she'd awaken and whine till he took his cello back out. Even a Chevalier could exhaust himself but he never dreamed it'd be from this. No matter, if it was what she wished it was what needed to be done.