Yesterday had been horrible for Hanabusa. That little kid was turning his life into living hell! He had lost count as to the number of times she had unintentionally gotten him into trouble. And then, then she'd look at him with the most innocent eyes, and he'd forgive her. Big mistake. Five minutes later, because he'd forget to be wary, she'd do it again.

Hanabusa just wanted to stay in bed, and sleep the day away. He turned, and pulled the blankets up. Yeah, it would be nice to stay in bed all day…

"HANABUSA!" A muffled yell woke him up. He opened his eyes to an ugly face. He did the first thing that came into his mind. And that was screaming like a girl. When he finished, he calmed down enough to realize it was a mask. His mask. The one he used to scare people he didn't like.

"Jeez, kid. What are you trying to do? Give me a heart attack? Where'd you find that anyway?"

Sora shrugged. "I forgot."

Hanabusa facepalmed. "Just take it off…"

Sora tugged at it. "I can't"

"What?"

"I can't get it off! It's stuck!"

Hanabusa tried too. "How did you get it on?"

"I don't know!"

With one strong pull, he got it off. He sighed. "Please, don't do something like that again! What if I wasn't able to get it…" Hanabusa stopped when he noticed she was tearing up "Hey…don't…"

"Th-that hurt…."

"Um…if you don't cry, I'll…I'll…I'll give you one of those!" He pointed to one of his shelves, where he stored his collection of junk. Or as he referred to it, his treasures.

Sora was cheerful once more. "Ok!" She said, and skipped off downstairs.

"That was a mood swing…"

After getting dressed, Hanabusa headed downstairs and into the kitchen.

"That's VERY interesting Sora…" He heard Yuuki telling Sora.

"What's very interesting?" He asked, coming in to the room.

"Oh, hello, Aidou-senpai!" Said Yuuki. Not in a very pleasant way.

"W-what's wrong…"

"Sora's been telling me how she guessed you were a vampire!"

"Oh…"

"I doubt Kaname would like it."

"Eep."

"I'll be sure to tell him, if you don't give me anymore lessons."

For the second time, Hanabusa had been reduced to throwing pillows. He had agreed to Yuuki's conditions, figuring that either way, he would get a good slap for Kaname.

"Stupid KID!" He snarled, and threw another pillow at the door. This time too, it opened at the wrong time. Hanabusa feared it was Kaname, but it was only Akatsuki. But it still hit him in the face, and he burnt it.

"Ruka told me about the kid. I assume that's the reason for you behavior?"

"How old are you, Sora?" Asked Ruka

"I'm six and a half!"

"And what's your last name?"

"It's confusing, I don't remember."

"Oh. And how did you get lost?"

"I was following someone who was selling the prettiest marbles! And when I looked back, my mommy was gone…"

Ruka felt sorry for the little girl.

"Miss Ruka?"

"Yes, Sora?" Ruka replied.

"Can I go play with Hanabusa?"

"Sure."

"Ok, see you later!" Sora jumped off her seat, and ran upstairs; only pausing to get a teddy bear Yuuki had given her.

She walked along the corridor leading to Hanabusa's room. Sora heard another voice in there. 'Goody!' She thought, 'More people to play with!'

"…reason for your behavior?"

"Yes she is. I HATE her. She's gotten me into so much trouble! I wish she'd never come here!" Hanabusa huffed and turned to the door. Sora was standing there. He jumped. Had she heard…?

She had. The tears were already falling. Sora ran off without a word, leaving the teddy behind.

"Kid! WAIT!"

But she had already left. Hanabusa picked up the bear. "Oh man…Yuuki's gonna kill me for that one…"

"I'm starving!" Hanabusa said, as he sat down at the table, waiting for the food to come to him.

Ruka looked around. "Say, where's Sora?"

"She isn't back yet?" Hanabusa cried.

Ruka turned her death glare on him. "Just WHAT did you do?"

Hanabusa kicked a stone. Stupid Ruka. She said he wouldn't get a thing to eat unless he went out and found Sora.

Grumbling to himself, he walked on, until he found a fork in the path. "Aw…which way do I go?" He was still pondering on this, when he noticed someone coming down the path.

The someone saw him too. "Hi, Hanabusa!"

Hanabusa looked up forlornly. "Hi Kagami…."

Kagami was a childhood friend of Hanabusa's. She said she had been coming to dinner, but he had gone and forgotten to tell everybody at the mansion. If she found out…sometimes, though a good deal lesser than Kaname, she was still scary.

Kagami had green eyes, and brown hair which she always left loose. It hung till just past her shoulders. She was about the same height as Hanabusa, but a little shorter. Her favorite accessory was a locket with a mirror inside. It was an heirloom passed down through the family for generations, always given to the daughter that had the power Kagami had.

She took a step back. "Woah. Serious you is no fun. What're you doing anyway?"

"Eh? Oh, I'm looking for the kid. Want to hel- WHY IS EVERYONE CRYING TODAY?"

"Y-you horrible person! And you didn't even TELL me about the wedding!"

Hanabusa realized she had gotten the wrong idea. "NO! NO! It's not what you're THINKING!" After a hurried explanation, Kagami calmed down.

"I'm sorry, but come one, you're 16; you can't blame me for getting excited… Now, about this kid…"

"Yeah?"

"About wee big? And wee wide? Dark hair in a ponytail? And CUTEST eyes?"

"Yes!"

"She was walking that way." Kagami pointed over her shoulder with her thumb. "And she didn't look happy."

"That would be the direction of Hillson Village?"

"Yes, I suppose."

"Let's go."

Hillson village was having its annual fair that day. Complete with a maze of stalls, huge crowds, and even a few rides. Plenty of places for a little girl to be.

"How about we split up?" Kagami suggested. "We'll find her faster."

"Ok…how about we meet up near that bell tower in an hour?"

Kagami nodded, and went away, melting into the crowd. Hanabusa stared after her for a second, and then went in the opposite direction.

A half hour later-

"WHERE IS SHE?" Hanabusa screamed. The usual din drowned out most of his noise, but the few people directly next to him hurriedly moved out of the way.

While he was considering trying to find Kagami, she found him. Or rather, she ran right past him. "Get back here!" She yelled at someone farther ahead. She paused when she spotted Hanabusa, and dragged him off too. "Hurry up, Hanabusa!"

"Did you find her?"

"Yes, no we have to catch her!"

"She's running?"

"No, the person who's carrying her is running!"

"She was kidnap-"

"Oh shut up, I lost track of him…" She thought for a second, and then taking a look at the humans around her, she took a deep breath.

Hanabusa had seen that look before. "Oh no, no way, no, no, no! You are NOT going to do something only a vampire can do and get us killed by a hunter!"

"I have no intention of letting that little girl get killed either!" She jumped, rising above the heads of the villagers, and using the gained height to her advantage, she spotted the kidnapper. After landing on the roof of a stall, she gestured for Hanabusa to follow, and then proceeded to go from stall roof to roof, swiftly catching up with their quarry.

Hanabusa sighed, and followed, ignoring the horrified looks the villagers were giving them. Why did Kagami have to be so impulsive? She was just as bad as Yuuki.

"Kagami! Stop!" He pounced, and knocked her down. "We'll be killed by hunters for disrupting human festivities or something!"

"Fine, fine. I'll take care of it. You go get the child." She faced the still unmoving villagers, and opened the locket around her neck. There was a mirror inside it, and Kagami held it up for everyone to see. "Now everybody…look at the nice pretty mirror…" Kagami's voice seemed to consist of many layers. The villagers all suddenly adopted a dreamy look, and obliged.

Hanabusa was already off. Kagami would take care of it. She had pulled one like this back at Cross Academy, to a huge group of Day Class girls.

That was Kagami's power as a Noble. Hypnotizing, deleting and making up memories, pulling people into unconsciousness… in short, anything to do with the mind.

The kidnapper was a Level E. A Level E acting on orders. He would never have gone to all the trouble of running around with a girl in a crowded fair ground. It would have been on the spot drinking for blood.

Hanabusa followed him into the top of the Bell Tower.

Inside the Bell Tower-

"Um…Kid? You in here?" Hanabusa said as he looked over his shoulder. "Of all the places around here, it's the dark creepy one I have to go to…" He thought.

There was a sound behind him. He whirled around. There was the Level E. He seemed to be scared out of his wits. He was holding a struggling Sora under his arm.

"If you try to kill me, I'll drop her!" The Level E looked like he meant it. Standing next to the window, it would certainly be easy for him. "Come closer and I do it, you blonde-haired idiot!"

"Yeah right, and if I leave, you take her away anyway!" He lunged at the vampire.

True to his word, Sora went out the window.

"KID!" Hanabusa lurched to the window and stared down. Sora looked like she was falling in slow motion.

There was no way he could get to her in time. She would…she would… Hanabusa couldn't bring himself to even think about it.

While he was thinking all this, Kagami had finished dealing with the villagers, and was making her way to him. She happened to hear his yell and see Sora plummeting. "Do I have to do everything?" She muttered, and ran off to the rescue.

"Good going, Kagami!" Hanabusa yelled down at her, as she darted under the falling Sora, seconds before she hit the ground. He saw her saying something to the little girl, making her fall asleep.

Well, now that was over. He turned back to the Level E. "Now then, what was that about my hair?"

You really have to feel sorry for that Level E...

"I'm hungry too, now!" Kagami complained.

She and Hanabusa were walking back to the mansion. Kagami carried a sleeping Sora on her back. The Level E had been disposed off. His brain had unfortunately been too messed up for Kagami to see who had sent him.

"Poor kid; I wonder why she ran off? I know, I'll check!" Kagami used her power to see into Sora's recent memories. She cut off the connection, and then faced Hanabusa menacingly. "Hanabusa…" which is all Hanabusa waited to hear before he ran away as fast as he could, to escape the wrath of Kagami.

"You unfeeling, insensitive, immature IDIOT! Do you have any idea what the result of that could have been? You could have gotten her killed! And get back here! You're about to get punished!"

Oblivious to all this, and liking the nice lady who had saved her, Sora slept on, a small smile on her face.