Here is it. Chapter 4! It's me Riku of course saying all of this, but we hope you guys have been enjoying this story so far.

One note, since the romance in the story comes later, we have changed the romance genre tag to adventure. If we could, we would add so many more genre tags, but we are only allowed 2. Anyways enjoy!

Chapter 4

Over a month had passed since Riku and Saru had gotten their drink from Tatara. The sun had just set, still leaving a bit of resuigle light in the full moon, on the other hand, was slowly rising up from the horizon. As they stayed to the shadows, they made their way through the park, looking for anyone who still may be in the area.

"All right, let's hope things will go more smoothly tonight," Riku muttered as they walked.

"Hmph," was the only thing Saru replied with as they walked.

Riku sighed as he decided not to try and start up anything with him. They walked a bit more until they heard a sound coming from somewhere nearby. They slowly went a bit closer to see that they had ended up near the town's skate park. Though it seemed that it was already cleared out for the night with the exception of two people near a half pipe ramp. They were taking turns going back and forth on the ramp, doing a few spins when they went up in the air.

"Seems like we won't have to share this time," Saru commented.

Riku nodded. "Yeah, but that does not mean you get to go overboard this time."

"Oh, please. That was only the one time, and I highly doubt that even you would have let that bastard run around free any longer. Although I will admit," Saru paused and licked his lips hungrily, "He was delicious."

Riku groaned as he rolled his eyes. "And this is why Zack doesn't allow you to go hunting out on your own anymore."

Saru chuckled before speaking. "Yet you're the one who's stuck as my escort all the time. Feels more like a punishment for you than for me. It's not like you're strong enough to stop me." The last line was filled with heavy sarcasm.

Riku rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Whatever. I do what I am supposed to and that is all. Let's just give it over with then."

The two of them approached the skate park and started to head towards the two near the half pipe ramp. They could now see one of them had brown hair and the other had a chestnut color. The two of them stopped what they were doing and noticed Riku and Saru coming close. The one with the brown hair got down from the ramp and spoke to them. The other went back to skating back and forth on the ramp.

"Hey, I didn't expect to see anyone else come here this late."

"We were just walking around when we heard you two over here, so we decided to check out what was going on," Riku replied.

"Well you two have come to see the future best of the best," the boy said as he grinned widely. "My name's Sora and that's Yata. And we are working to be the next best professional skateboarders."

Yata stopped when he reached the top area of the ramp. He looked at the group below him before giving a confident chuckle. "Yeah just you guys wait. You'll hear about us in the papers one day."

Saru snorted before speaking. "You're more likely to end up in the paper as a murder victim that as a skateboarding star."

"Oh yeah? Well, who asked you!" Yata retorted with a huff before getting off the ramp and standing next to the group.

"The only interesting part about watching you skateboard is anticipating you falling on your face so that I can laugh at your misfortune. If you'd live long enough for it to happen, it'd take you a century to get good enough to impress me."

Riku was about to try and tell Saru to tone it down the the insults, but then he noticed that Sora was staring at him with curious eyes. He turned to focus his attention over to Sora. "Uh… Is something wrong?"

Sora snapped out of his slight daze. "O-Oh! Sorry. I was just looking and… um got a bit distracted."

"Distracted?" Riku asked, not quite knowing what he meant.

"Yeah, it's just your hair… the way the moonlight shines on it. It's really pretty," Sora said before blinked a few times. His cheeks reddened slightly as he turned away, rubbing the back of his neck. "Ah sorry! Just kind of said that without thinking… hope that I didn't sound too weird with that."

Riku tensed up slightly as he nearly forgot to take in a breath. A memory resurfed in the back of his mind right after Sora spoke. Closing his eyes he quickly shook his head as he tried to put away the thoughts, but they still stuck there. "N-No… it's fine." Riku said through a forced breath. He was about to say more, but his thoughts were cut off by Yata's loud voice.

"What the hell did you just say to me?!" Yata shouted as he glared right at Saru.

"So you're deaf too? I said that a midget like you would never succeed as a skateboard star."

Yata's eyes filled with rage as he grabbed a clump of Saru's shirt and yanked him closer. "You say that again and you'll really be asking for it."

"You're a short, temperamental, loudmouth of a brat and you'd better let go of me before you regret it." Saru snarled the last bit.

Sora and Riku stared for a moment before Sora stepped forward and tried to speak up. "Whoa! Hey Yata, calm down. Don't need to start up anything."

"I'm not just going to walk away and let this f**king guy insult me," Yata grumbled as he refused to let go of Saru.

Riku walked over to Saru on the other hand and placed a hand on his shoulder. He gave a serious glare towards his brother before he had a chance to reply back to Yata. "Come on, don't make things any worse."

Ignoring Riku's words, Saru's right hand shot up and grabbed Yata's wrist. "I recommend that you let go of me before you regret it."

Yata though did not even flinch or loosen his grip. He kept his serious glare looked on Saru. "Make me."

In a single movement, Saruhiko tore Yata's hand away from the fabric it held and threw the shorter male to the ground. Riku eyes widened as he immediately reached forward and grabbed hold of Saru's shoulder's, gripping them tightly as he tried to pull him back. "Saru! Back off, now!"

Saru grunted as he tried to fight against Riku. Despite Riku being a bit weak due to the fact he currently needed blood, he was still far stronger. Riku didn't give up though, and with a deep breath he yanked on Saru's shoulders again, managing to finally pull him back as well as causing him to let go of Yata.

"Why do you choose to fight me on his behalf? Did you forget why we came here in the first place, brother?" Saruhiko turned to face Riku, snarling out the last word in emphasis.

"That is not what is important," Riku replied as he pulled Saru to his feet, now moving his hands to hold onto Saru's wrists. He twisted them slightly while trying to keep his composure. "You went too far and almost caused a scene."

"Yeah he f**king did," Yata grumbled as he stood up. Before he could even do anything else Sora grabbed onto him and tried to hold him back.

"Yata, it's your fault as well that you two almost got into a fight. Just relax already," Sora said, hoping to calm down Yata.

Riku then cleared his throat as he looked at both Yata and Sora. "I'm really sorry for any trouble that my younger brother may have causes. He tends to be a bit blunt… most of the time."

Yata and Sora blinked a few times before staring at Saru and then back at Riku. "Younger?!" They both asked at the same time.

Riku nodded and quickly answered while flashing a small grin. "Yeah can you believe it? He just grows like a freaking beanpole."

"Tsk." Saruhiko just turned and attempted to leave, yanking against the hold Riku had him in.

"Hey!" Riku shouted in surprise as he tried to stand his ground and keep Saru from moving away.

"I'm heading home. Whether you choose to come with or not. You can explain to our older brothers why we went out tonight but didn't feed." Saruhiko remarked, tugging again as he attempted to leave.

Riku exhaled sharply and then moved forward at a fast paced walk, and pulled Saru along with him, not once looking back to see if Yata or Sora would say anything else. Once they were back in the forest, Riku started to lose his moment of anger. The memory from before danced around in his mind again and his grip slowly loosened around Saru's wrist. Without a moment's hesitation, Saru quickly broke the hold Riku had on him and hopped back so that he wouldn't be caught in Riku's grasp again.

Riku staggered forward slightly, but didn't bother to try and grab Saru again. The memory still wouldn't go away in his head, and it was breaking his his previous frustrated facade. He placed a hand to his face, gently over his mouth, as he let out a long, slightly shaky sigh.

"Now what's got your panties in a twist?" Saru asked "I haven't gone through that drawer of yours since the last time, so I know it wasn't me."

Riku whipped around to stare at Saru, but no words left his mouth. The only thing Saru could see was that Riku's eyes were wide, as well as looking full of hurt. It may have been hard to tell, but just maybe his eyes were starting to water.

Saruhiko looked at his brother's sad expression with curiously, and a flicker of another emotion that briefly flashed through his eyes. "Do you want to talk about it now, or just head back?"

Riku looked to the ground. "We will need blood though… b-besides… if I talk about it… better to do it when we are home and Zexion can be there."

Saru sighed. "Do you honestly think yourself capable of continuing to hunt tonight?"

Riku lowered his hand from his face as he looked back up at Saru, his eyes still filled with sadness. He let out a rather audible unsteady breath. "I… I don't know… It's just…" he trailed off as he couldn't find a way to finish his words.

"I'm going to presume that's a no. You still have time left before you're at your limit, right? Then let's go home." Saru stepped closer and placed his hand on Riku's shoulder.

Riku nodded. "Yeah…I'll be fine for now."

Yata and Sora stared as they watched Riku drag away his… appernely younger brother off away from the skate park and into the forest. Once the two were finally out of site, Yata realized that Sora was still holding on to him. He abrualrty pushed Sora off him as he grumbled.

"Get off me already!"

"Oh sorry! I guess I was just too distracted by what just happened. What even was that?" Sora asked.

"How the hell should I know?!" Yata said as he threw his arms up into the air.

"Well… whomever they were, they were strange. Too bad we only learned that the taller one is Saru. I wonder about the other one though…" Sora hummed thoughtful as he crossed his arms.

"I don't know and I don't care. Let's just get back to what we were doing," Yata said as he turned around to pick up his skateboard. He paused those as he quickly checked his pockets. "What the hell?!"

"What? What is it?" Sora asked.

"That f**ker took my wallet!" Yata shouted as he gritted his teeth.

"Wait seriously?"

"Do you see it anywhere around here?" Yata asked, hoping that it was actually just laying around on the ground.

Sora quickly started to look all over the whole area that they had been around. But he didn't see Yata's wallet anywhere. He frowned and looked back at Yata. "No I don't see it anywhere."

"Dammit," Yata cursed. "That guy has my wallet now and I have no idea what he could do with it. Saru… f**cking monkey."

And now Riku and Saru have met Sora and Yata! What will happen next? Find out next time! Let us know what you thought!