Kanra was totally wrong about that. Her mind did not rest, it was impossible, not with her phone buzzing, and, obviously, she couldn't find Shizuo anywhere.

Always unpredictable and always pissing her off.

Without much to do anymore since the beast didn't seem to show up, she bought take-off ootoro at Russia Sushi and went back to her appartment, painfully aware of the weight of her phone in her pocket.

She had to repress the urge to check it, she could have embarassing reactions she wanted to avoid having, all the more while in public.

Her urge became more and more pressing as she entered her appartment and, finally, she gave up, checking the text :

Stronger than the prey ;

Is my hunger

She smiled, she should have known, it was definitely not like him to abandon a goal so easily. Somehow, it made her incredibly happy.

It couldn't be what her beloved humans called love, could it?

Starting this moment they would regulary exchange mails, flowers and gifts would be delivered in front of her door but he never appeared.

They still met, but only for work.

Shiki never mentionned anything else, only work, always work.

She didn't either, after all, Shiki-san was a client during these moments, nothing else, every one of these encounters made her sad, but she would always find something with a letter in front of her door when coming back.

Kanra liked Shiki's handwriting, it was just like him, strong, decided, straight to the point, but during the rare times she had witnessed him, she was surprised by how smoothly he was doing it.

One day, during one of their meeting, she couldn't resist anymore and asked,

"Ne, Shiki-san, what do you really want with me?"

"Informations"

"I wasn't talking about work"

"Then I already told you. I want to go out with you"

Leaning toward him she said, "That's not what I could call going out. We only see each other for work, we haven't gone to a date together since the first night ..."

"That wasn't a date, I just don' like eating alone"

"Yeah whatever. What I was trying to say is not that I don't appreciate everything else but it's not enough if you want to go out with me"

"You're greedy"

"I've always been"

He smiled, "Fine, let's go"

And, like a child she answered, "Yahoo!"