Toshio Ozaki was lying down on his bed in the motel in some small village in Korea. Unfortunately for him the events which had occurred in the village hadn't been caused by vampires as he had originally suspected. The trip had been a waste of time.
He sighed.
After all this time he should be used to disappointment.
That didn't mean he wasn't hurt.
He wanted to find his best friend, even if he was a shiki now. It was his main reason for living at the current time. Being a doctor was only a way to get the money he needed for his travel.
When he found Seishin he fully intended to kill him, along with Sunako Kirishiki.
They had taken everything from him; they had taken his wife and his friends in the village. Now it was time for payback.
When the phone in his room started ringing he jumped, startled. He frowned. The only people who knew how to contact him were the Tanaka siblings, and they only called if it was about something extremely important.
He quickly stood up and picked up the phone.
"Yes?"
"Ozaki-senpai, it's Kaori." The female voice on the other end said, confirming his earlier suspicion.
"Did something happen? It's unusual for you to call me." He pointed out, waiting impatiently for an answer.
"Yes, actually… you see…" she stammered, not really sure how to tell him. "We have a guest here…" She started.
Ozaki tightened his grip on the phone, his heart thumping in his chest.
"Kaori, who is it?" He demanded, expecting the worst.
If he stopped to think about it logically then she didn't sound scared enough for it to have been Seishin or Kirishiki.
"Yuuki-san." She answered quietly, waiting for his reaction.
Ozaki's eyebrows furrowed in confusion at her answer.
"I thought he was at some art exhibition." He voiced his thoughts out loud.
"No I mean… Natsuno Yuuki, not his father." Kaori said quickly, understanding the older man's confusion.
Ozaki sat on his bed again, thinking about what he had just heard.
"I thought he was dead." He whispered, shocked.
"No, he said the explosion didn't kill him. The blue haired guy is also still alive." Kaori continued.
Ozaki listened to her as she repeated everything that Natsuno had told her about the situation regarding the shiki.
"When are you going to disappear?" He asked when the girl stopped talking.
"Yuuki-san said that we needed to leave immediately. I think we will be gone before morning, as soon as Akira and I are ready." She answered, sighing slightly.
Ozaki wasn't surprised. It had to be hard for her to go through all this again.
"Are you sure you can trust him?" He asked again.
There was a moment of silence.
"I don't know." Kaori admitted. "But he had had plenty of chances to kill us already and he hasn't. Not to mention he proved that he can be trusted back in Sotoba."
Ozaki nodded his head even though he knew she couldn't see it. The young boy had showed he wasn't on the bad side multiple times four years ago, but was it still true? After all, fouryears was a long time. There was no way to prove that Natsuno hadn't begun drinking human blood and become addicted to it. For now though, the only option was to trust him.
"Inform me of your location every time you change it." He said, standing up and walking to his closet. "I will be back in Japan as soon as possible and I'll try and find you. Do you have my cell phone number?"
"Yes, you gave it to us."
"Good. Oh and Kaori?"
"Yes?" He could hear the slight tremble in the girl's voice.
She had to be terrified.
"Be careful."
With that he finished the call.
=S H I K I=
Kaori put the phone down with a heavy sigh.
She had tried to be careful for the past four years, but apparently it hadn't been enough.
"Nee-chan!" She was pulled from her thoughts when her brother ran into the room with a startled expression on his face.
"Is it true? What nii-san said?" He looked at her with hope on his eyes, hoping that she would disagree and tell him it was a lie.
As if the presence of Natsuno Yuuki in his room wasn't enough proof.
The look in her eyes confirmed to him that every word the older boy had said was true.
"We're going to disappear?" He asked again, looking down.
"I'm sorry Akira." Kaori said, walking over to her brother and resting her hand on his shoulder. "But we can't let them get us, we have to run."
He merely nodded his head.
"I'm going to pack." He said, going back to his room and passing Natsuno on his way.
"He didn't take it too well." The werewolf stated, leaning against the wall.
"He started a new life here. He has new friends and new hobbies." Kaori explained, looking in the direction her brother had gone in. "We thought that nothing was going to get us here, so he started to get used to his new life. But now he has to leave it. I'm not surprised that it's hard on him."
Natsuno watched her for a moment with curious eyes.
"And what about you?" He asked, not taking his eyes from her.
Kaori blinked, surprised.
How did she feel about leaving their small apartment?
"I'm not as used to this as he is." She answered honestly.
"You don't have friends here?" Natsuno asked, eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Kaori had always seemed like the type of person who made friends easily.
"I think that after… Megumi… I didn't want to get too close to anyone." She replied.
Sure, as time went by she had realised that it was only a one sided friendship.
Even so, Megumi had been her friend since they had been little.
Natsuno watched for a little longer, thinking about something.
He was angry at the pink haired girl, even though he knew that she was dead.
She had done everything she could to crush the girl in front of him. Both before and after she had become a shiki. First using the brown haired girl when she needed something, and later treating her as trash.
Then, she had killed her father and told Kaori that she deserved it.
All because of a stupid jealousy.
He sighed quietly. He truly regretted that both the siblings had to go through this again.
"Get dressed and pack. We will leave soon." He said finally before leaving the room, letting the girl have some privacy.
edited: Dark Akuma Hunter