W00! September! My birthday is almost coming up! *does happy dance*

My dad's birthday was on the third and I had to make the cake. But what happened was I was getting the cake out of the pan by flipping it onto a large plate and as I was doing that, the pan fell on my arm. Ah, also, it just came out of the oven. =w= But that's it for me~ this chapter is Egiost, not Romantica because I needed the chapters to be in a certain order for the future chapters!

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Chapter 25: A day to prepare

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Nowaki sighed. He was at the apartment alone. Akihiko went to the underworld to make an army and his boyfriend was out shopping to fix dinner… The worst part was, Hiroki locked Nowaki inside one of the bedrooms so he wouldn't fallow him. Nowaki looked around the room then rolled around on the bed. He hated being alone. It was boring, lonely, and he felt abandoned… Nowaki sat up and stared at the window across the room. …a window… Nowaki smiled and ran up to the window. He opened it and looked down, he wasn't that high up, and at the bottom were some bushes. Nowaki smiled wider and hung his legs out the window then pulled himself out. He took a deep breath then jumped. Nowaki's shirt flew up from the wind blowing up towards him and the bushes were getting closer.

Nowaki landed butt first into the bushes, "Ow…"

Nowaki stood up and walked out of the bush while rubbing his butt. He would have used his feet but he was bare feet. Nowaki lifted his head and smelt the air. Hiroki was close by so he started running. Nowaki stopped immediately when he pasted the pet store. He backed up and looked in, ignoring all the other pets. There, in the window, was a ball of yarn. Nowaki's eyes widened and stared at the blue ball of string. He frowned because he didn't have any money… his smiled reappeared, but Hiroki did. Snapping out of his thoughts, he started to run again.

"Oi! Let go of me!" Hiroki shouted from a distance.

Nowaki's heart jumped, and then he gave a small hissing noise before running faster. He turned into around the corner then into the ally where he saw Hiroki being held by one of his arms by a man in a black trench coat.

"You are a vampire. Therefore, you will be serving Usami-sama in the war tomorrow."

Hiroki pulled his arm away, "I refuse!"

Nowaki's eyes widened. He remembered that scent…, "Hiro-san!"

Hiroki looked at Nowaki running towards him, "Nowaki what are you—WOAH!"

BANG! As soon as Nowaki tackled Hiroki to the ground, along with him, the vampire slayer has shot a bullet.

"It's you again, isn't it?" Nowaki hissed.

He pulled down his hood to revel Sumi, "Hai! My orders were to have all the vampires on Usami-sama's side. If they refused, then I would have to kill them."

Nowaki stood in front of Hiroki, "You will not get to my Hiro-san!" he hissed.

Sumi smiled and held out the gun, "What do you have to use against me?"

Nowaki hissed and ran at Sumi, "Nowaki! Stop!"

BANG! Nowaki stood at Sumi. His arm with the gun was lifted up towards the sky with Akihiko behind him.

"You… You're the one who shot Misaki. Right?" he asked with anger in his eyes.

Sumi smiled, "It's not like it was on purpose. You ARE the one who pulled my arm away in the first place."

Akihiko growled and started to twist his arm slowly. Sumi's eyes widened and turned to Akihiko with his free arm and punched him in the throat, making him let go and staggering back.

Sumi held his arm and looked at Hiroki before running, "If your not going to join, then you'll die in battle."

Akihiko sighed and rubbed his throat, "Are you guys ok?"

Nowaki and Hiroki both nodded, "How did you know we were here?"

Akihiko shrugged, "I saw the note Hiroki left and I opened a bedroom door, blocked by a couch, and saw a window open. So I decided I would go out too."

"Can we go before anything else happens?" Hiroki asked as he stood up.

Nowaki smiled, "Can I carry Hiro-san home?"

Hiroki hit Nowaki on the head, "BAKA!"

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Nowaki laid on the floor on his back, with his tail waving as he threw the ball of yarn in the air.

"Nowaki, you've been playing with that non- stop for the past 30 minutes…" Hiroki said as he twitched.

Nowaki looked over at him, "But it's so fun!"

"… Let me see that…"

Nowaki crawled over to him and held the ball out, "Are you going to throw it again?"

"No" Hiroki grabbed the ball then threw it, "Yes"

Nowaki turned and started to run after the yarn. He managed to a piece of string but the rest of the ball rolled onto the floor. Nowaki, still holding the string, walked over to the ball and started hitting it around him, and throwing it up and down. Before Nowaki knew it, he was tied up in string and fell onto the floor.

"Hiro-san! Can you help me?!"

Hiroki looked from the kitchen and groaned, "Fine."

Hiroki walked over to him with scissors and began to cut the string.

"Ok there you—"

Nowaki hugged him and sent him on the floor, "Thank you Hiro-san!"

"H-hey! Get off of me!"

"I just want to thank Hiro-san for helping me!"

"Get off!"

A few more minutes of arguing there was a knock at the door. Nowaki looked at Hiroki.

Hiroki stood up, "I'll get it…"

Nowaki followed after Hiroki as he opened the door.

"Who are you?" he asked the man with black hair, coat, and glasses.

Nowaki twitched, "Hiro-san. Shut the door."

He laughed, "I just came here to talk to my son."

Hiroki stared at him hen shut the door, "He's sleeping."

Just as Hiroki turned, the door was kicked open, "What the hell?!"

"Where's Akihiko?"

"Right here. What do you want?"

Nowaki and Hiroki turned to see Akihiko walking in with a pissed look on his face.

"Akihiko. You know that boy is nothing but trouble…"

Akihiko sighed, "You want me to call off the war don't you?"

"Hai. I don't want either of my sons dying for a human."

"I happen to love that human."

"What exactly do you want?"

"…A happy ending with Misaki…" Akihiko narrowed his eyes, "And if you can't accept that, then I'll fight against you too."

Fuyuhiko sighed, "Your risking your life for a fantasy?"

"Who are you to decide it's a fantasy?"

"Because demons like us don't get happy endings. Just like at me and your mother for instance."

"That's you and mother. Not me, I'm different… Now, I would like you to leave."

"Akihiko, please reconsider."

"Out."

Fuyuhiko frowned, "Fine. But I'm sorry to say I will be taking Haruhiko's side for this…"

Akihiko narrowed his eyes, "I don't need your help."

His father shook his head and left. The room was silent.

"So your father is taking sides…?" Nowaki spoke up.

Hiroki sighed "Seems that way."

"Don't worry, I already have an army." Akihiko said taking out a cigarette.

"How many do you have?" Nowaki asked.

"Couple hundred thousand."

"Do we really need that much?" Hiroki gawked.

"It might actually seem like we need more."

"Are you seriously willing to do this?" Hiroki asked.

"I'm willing to do anything for Misaki…"

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Songs listened to; Dam Dadi Doo/ Still Waiting/ New Drug/ Comatose/ Riot

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Question from AnimeAngelRiku to Hiroki&Nowaki~

Would you like your cute yet somehow funny dream to become real?

Hiroki: *blushes* WHAT KID OF QUESTION IS THAT?!

Nowaki: HAI! *smiles wide*

*looks at Hiroki*

You have dreams about the kids too Hiro-san?!

Hiroki: N-no! I don't!

Me: Aw Kamijou-san! You know you want a family!

Hiroki: WHO ASKED YOU?!

Me: You know if you didn't want a family, you wouldn't have tolerated with the kids in the dream…

Nowaki: *still smiling*

Hiroki: SHUT UP!