There was an awkward silence between the two men facing each other in the dimly lit room. Hagi, although often looking less than ecstatic, wore a face of pain. He was deeply hurt by this... by what value he was compare to Kai. That bastard was a mortal! Hagi was over a century years old and counting...

Kai rubbed the back of his neck before breaking the silence, "Well maybe..." His voice faded as he was at a loss for words. This puzzled him too. Why wouldn't she remember him? he thought to himself.

Hagi gave a short sigh and bowed apologetically before dismissing himself from the room.

At the breakfast table, Lulu was passing around plates of pancakes. They were an elegant shade of gold, large and fluffy, with fresh butter smeared at the top of each stack. The twins were sitting on either side of Saya, running their mouths about themselves as if to impress their aunt.

"-and I'm the smarter one-"

"And the weaker one." Kanade snickered.

"Eyaa," Hibiki yelled, standing up from her seat to confront her twin who was already at her feet.

Saya watched this with furrowed brows before placing hands on both of their foreheads and tightening her grip to force them back into their seats. Kai looked on as casually as he could with a nervous smile, relieved to see Saya wasn't as much as a threat as he imagined. Ever since he allowed the girls to sleep in the same room as Saya, she seemed to catch on pretty quickly. She was all smiles , always grinning around them.

It had been 3 weeks since Saya was reintroduced to the family and she already knew all of their names and instinctively recognized her relation to the twins, Kanade and Hibiki. Saya was not placed back in school, instead she was being read to by Lulu and taken for 10 minute walks with Kai every afternoon.

Hagi, on the other hand, idly stood by watching her every movement. He was no longer dressing her or catering to her every needs thanks to Saya's neices and was often found piggybacking her big brother, Kai. Kai's reasoning was to allow her to recognize her allies to enforce her good behaviors around pedestrians and at home, little did he know he was digging Hagi a deeper hole, creating an even more unbearable distance between chiropteran and chevalier.

All the dark knight had left to himself was the short moments in which he satisfied her inhuman cravings. Until now, he dreaded allowing her to lust over blood. At this point, her fangs aroused him and brought shivers to his pale body. He wanted that penetration she delivered without remorse, without care to his well being. And then there was the suction... It stimulated his blood flow and enticed him to hold her but nothing more than that. If he were to make love to her while she did not care for him, it would be empty, meaningless, without climax or true heat.

Today he was tempted to leave her for a longer period of time without blood. Selfishly he thought, wouldn't it excite her more to see him after neglecting her of what she wanted?

With only a small bow of his head, he picked up his case, slipped on his shoes, and left the restaurant. Outside the air was fresh, salty and clean. He pondered on what it must feel like to be mortal, to have natural feelings and desires... To hunger, to starve and to suffer.

Perched on sea cliff, he hung his long legs off of the edge and closed his eyes. The crashing waves roared in his ears, drowning out his misery, taking him back to when he was alive.

Saya was running around out on the beach with Joel's hat to rebel against Joel not allowing her to open her birthday presents early. Hagi was still fairly young, a pre teen enviously admiring the fun life Saya had in her possession. It wasn't till she tried to hide under the table Hagi was carefully dusting sand off of that he noticed she wasn't completely dressed. She was wearing a slip and untied corset. He blushed and was forced to snatch the hat from her when Joel gave him an awful glare.

Saya sucked her teeth and tackled the servant to the ground, pinning him down with her stronger arms at his wrists and rear firmly seated on his small chest. "You snitch! Ruining my fun!" she pouted playfully before giggling and blowing a stream of cool hair onto his face, shifting the loose strand of her out of his eyes.

"Saya..." he uttered in a pained voice.

"Hm?"

"You're crushing me..."

She gasped apologetically before glowing red and crossing her arms in front of her chest, "Are you saying that I'm fat?"

"Uh-"

*CRASH*

The waves soaked the two leaving Saya laying on the young Hagi, breathless but cooled down. When she opened her eyes she began to hysterically laugh. Hagi scrunched his nose not quite catching the joke till he realized he couldn't see through one eye.

A star fish was clinging to his right eye.

After peeling it off of his pale flesh, the two stared at each other and then resumed laughter. Joel only watched from afar in amusement.

*CRASH*

The waves awoke Hagi from his memory. He bit down on his lip, fighting the curved end of his lips to suppress his grin. What was there to smile about? He certainly didn't know.