[Disclaimer:] See? I told you that I don't own this.

Silently, Gakupo slips into the bathing room. Kaito's clothes are by the side of the pool and the teen has his eyes closed. The ring is placed gently on hte folded clothes and then he quickly leaves the room.

He walks down the hallway a few hours later. He had just finished the paperwork and he needed something to take his mind off of the annoyance of it. When Kaito passed by, the ring was on his left hand, middle finger. He didn't even glance at Gakupo, just hurried on by him.

To tell the truth, Kaito had been surprised when he saw the ring sitting on top of his folded clothes. Someone had come in and he didn't even notice. Kaito guessed that it had been Lily, after all, he had told her about the diamond ring.

Lily was in the dining room, serving a meal to Gakupo. He was surrounded by paperwork, clearly frustrated and getting even worse. She looked up at him.

"How was your bath?"

"It was good, thanks." Lily smiled and flicked her fingers, almost smacking Gakupo in the head. He frowned.

"Lily, did you put my ring on top of my clothes?" Gakupo choked on his tea when Kaito asked that question. He had not been expecting that one. Lily frowned and shook her head. Kaito turned to Gakupo, who was suddenly very interested in his paperwork.

"Thanks."

"hm?" Gakupo glanced up before returning to his work, "I don't know what your talking about." Kaito raised an eyebrow delicately.

"Didn't you put the ring with my stuff?" Gakupo shook his head too fast, his hair whipping around his head, almost smacking Lily. When she complained, he glared at her.

~Suspicious.~ thought Kaito. He hadn't been expecting Gakupo to lie. Neither was he expecting this kindness from him. Narrowing his eyes, Kaito throws the question onto the table,

"What are you planning?" Gakupo blinks in surprise, then dissolves into laughter. Lily has a smile on her face,

"This is the first time in a while that he has laughed like that. Normally, he never does that." When Kaito looks at her, she continues even though Gakupo has stopped laughing and is now glaring at her.

"Gakupo's family never liked him. He suffered while he was with them. As soon as he could, Gakupo left and never looked back."

Mentally, Gakupo sighed. He was glad that Lily hadn't went into detail. He still had nightmares about his past and often cried in her arms. Personally, he never wanted to go through that again. Pain erupted from his stomach, Lily shrieked his name, and like a switch, the blackness along the edges of his eyesight swallowed him whole.

Lily stared. She had never expected for Kaito to do that. Stabbing Gakupo when he wasn't even paying attention wasn't fair, it was just cheating. Kaito was looking down at Gakupo with a smirk on his face, and it was clear that he had been planning this. When Kaito moved in for the final blow, Lily was just a little bit faster. She stood protectively over Gakupo's bleeding body and spread her arms out, daring Kaito to attack her.

"Why are you in the way?" Lily could hear the anger in his voice.

"He didn't do anything wrong to you! Leave him alone!"

Kaito hissed, "Didn't do anything wrong? HAH! He murdered my family while they slept. Why should I spare his life when he didn't spare anyone in my family?" Lily blinked slowly, almost as if she was trying to comprehend the information that she had just received.

"The young master hasn't killed any Vampires in his entire life. And 16 years ago, we hadn't even moved here. What are you talking about?" Now Kaito was confused. Lily was helping Gakupo up, he had a hand on his stomach, trying to hold the wound together while she went to fetch the first-aid supplies. While she was gone, Gakupo patted the seat beside himself,

"Sit beside me. I'm too weak to do anything anyway." Kaito nodded and sank down beside him. Had it all just been a misunderstanding? Arms slowly wrapped around him and kaito felt himself being pulled against Gakupo's body, blood soaking into his shirt. It didn't feel so bad, and Kaito wasn't disgusted or trying to pull away.

"If you didn't kill my parents, the who did?" Gakupo spat blood into a bowl that had held soup only just earlier before speaking.
"I have a twin brother, his name is Gaken. He might have done it..." Gakupo trails of again, collapsing into a fit of bloody coughs. Lily is back, she pulls off his shirt, and picking up a clean cloth; soaked with water; begins to wipe the blood off of Gakupo's chest. She hands one end of the bandage to Kaito and he helps her wrap it around the wound. When it was pulled tight, Gakupo gasps in pain and shuts his eyes. Both Lily and Kaito swing the injured lord into their arms and carry him down the hall, towards his room.
Several hours had passed. Kaito now felt really guilty about what he had done. Moving quickly, he glided down the hall and knocked on the door to Gakupo's room, he had to apologize.