With a sigh, I opened the door and stepped inside. The person I saw sitting there nearly sent chills down my spine.

"Yo."

Golden eyes glared up at me, hidden behind a mass of black hair. The features of this being were of a human, not a lycan. Turning back to Hiroki, I asked, "Are you sure this is the lycan?"

"Yep! They change back into human form when they want to, and this is what we got," came the reply. Then the scientist leaned in closer, whispering, "Honestly, I think he looks a lot cuter in this form!"

I quickly closed the door behind me, slamming it in the guy's face. "Shut up, perv," I breathed before sitting across from the man. He looked oddly... familiar, but deep down I knew I never met him before. I watched his golden eyes narrowed as I stared at him, studied him. Why... why did I know him?

"So... you're the one who attacked us?"

A smirk spread on the guy's face as he tilted his head back in a cocky way. "Yeah, and what of it?" he asked sarcastically.

"What of it?" I repeated. "You nearly killed four people and murdered a girl."

He looked away, his eyes closing and black hair falling before his face. "I didn't kill a girl; exactly what are you accusing me of?" he muttered.

"You... what's your name?"

"Why?"

"... I want to know something..."

With a scoff, he crossed his left leg over his right knee and leaned back in the chair. "Mao Rui," he replied.

I shook my head. No, it didn't ring a bell. But still, I had an annoying feeling that he and I were connected somehow. "What do you want with Cross that's so important? What does he have that's killing for?" I asked through bared teeth.

A scowl formed on the lycan's face. "Like I would tell you; I already gave you my name, so isn't that enough?" he growled. "Besides, who's Cross?"

Lurching across the desk, I took a hold of his collar, pulling him closer to my fangs. "Listen, after what you did to me and Cross, I expect more than a few answers from you. See these fangs? One wrong word from you, and I'll drain every drop of blood from your worthless body."

He laughed, pulling away from my grasp. "You wouldn't like my blood; no vampire likes the blood of a lycan," he replied. "Shall I describe the taste for you?"

"I'm the one asking questions here, jackass," I growled. I stood, circling around the table and studying him at all angles. Golden eyes. Black hair. A sinister smirk. Somehow, I couldn't get it out of my mind that I knew him. "You... you're not related to Matsuo Amane, are you?"

"Her name is not Amane! Nor is it Chiaki!" he shouted back suddenly. "Wei... her name was Wei..."

Wei... she never mentioned another name. Was there something major that I was missing? "I'm not understanding... how are you related to Wei; she was a vampire, and you are a lycan."

"They lied to her."

"Excuse me?"

"Wei was found by the Matsuo family when our clan gave her up," Rui sighed. "She was raised thinking she was a pureblood, but no... The Matsuo family had taken in a lycan without even knowing it. I found her again a few years ago and tried to teach her who she really was. She never listened."

"Is that why you killed her? Because she wouldn't listen?"

His eyes widened. "What?! Wei is dead?!"

He didn't know she was dead? How was this possible? He must have killed her; he's the only link we had to her death and Cross' attack. "Yes, she's dead," I replied.

"No..." Rui gasped as he covered his face with his hands, hiding the tears. "She was alive when I last saw her!"

"She was?"

He blinked twice. "Yeah, she was with a man."

A man.

"What did he look like?" I asked, my grip tight on his shoulder.

Rui lowered his head as he thought back to last week's events. "He was tall," he began slowly, "and he had shoulder-length blonde hair. He was wearing a black coat, and he took off his glasses when he saw Wei walking up to him. Did..." He stood, grabbing my shoulders and shaking me, "Did that man kill her?!"

Cross.

Wait.

Wei was dead by the time Cross left the hospital to go to the Kuran's; there was no possible way that the girl whom Cross saw was Wei. "No, he didn't kill her," I replied. "Wei... Wei was dead by that time." I stood there watching as he fought off the tears, but soon, he covered his face again with his arm and let the tears fall. Frankly, I was getting annoyed; now the case made NO sense. "Come on, man up," I stated in an annoyed tone.

"Man up?" Rui asked as he pulled back his arm and glared up to me with flashing golden orbs. "Wei was my little sister; how do you expect for me to 'man up' when my only sister is now dead? We lycans have been asleep for over a century; I just woke up twenty years ago, and now my sister is dead. I have no one to hang on to now."

My brow furrowed. "But what about that colony of lycans somewhere, huh?" I asked, thinking back to Hiroki's words. "You can go back to them, right?"

"... they're all dead... I'm... the last of my kind." Rui looked up to me, his black hair falling before his face. "If you know anything about lycans, we can't breed with mere humans; just other lycans. The lycans could have survived if Wei were still alive, but now... my lineage stops with me."

Now I understood why he was crying; Kaname would have shed the same tears if he had lost Yuuki. This man... he wasn't only crying for his sister's sake, but also for the sake of his species. I looked away, shuddering. Strangely, I knew what he was going through, and it made me feel the pain of guilt. But still; with Wei dead, that meant that there was still a killer out there, someone who was still looking for Cross. Whatever it was that tricked Cross did a damn good job of ripping him apart. "Don't worry," I stated, "we'll find your sister's killer."

Rui looked up to me with widened golden eyes. "I… apologize for attacking you last week. I could smell Wei, sense her presence. I thought you were trying to take her away again."

I patted him on the shoulder. "Now that you told me, I understand."

He looked down to his hands, staring at his tan palms. "What should I do now?" he asked. "I have nowhere to go... no one to go to. It's happening all over again…"

What's happening all over again?

"... Have you ever thought about becoming a vampire hunter?"

Before he could answer, my phone began vibrating in my pocket. I looked at the caller i.d., wincing. "Sorry, I have to take this," I stated before stepping out. "Hai, moshi moshi. Make this quick, I'm in the middle of something," I stated.

"Zero-kun?"

It was Yuuki. And she sounded worried.

"Yeah, it's me. What's up? Is Cross okay? Did something happen?"

"Yes, he's fine. Zero-kun... I got my test results back from the doctors..."

"Is something wrong? Yuuki, tell me!"

"No, I'm fine! It's just... I wanted to tell you first..."

"Tell me what? Quickly, I'm doing something for the case," I said hurriedly.

"Zero-kun, I'm...

... I'm pregnant..."