Aidou shifted again, frowning. In the cafeteria? His practical side told him he shouldn't have expected anything definite, and should be glad that there was still a possibility of Akatsuki being alive... But then there was his impatient, worried, and aggravated side that just wanted to bite someone. Or demand that Renji stop wasting his energy on other things, rest up, and then follow Aidou's wishes. Not knowing thoroughly upset Aidou more than anything, but there wasn't much he could at the moment, now was there?

It was both good and bad luck that Allen Walker approached when he did. It saved Aidou from answering Renji's inquiry, but it also made him want to slam the ugly brat's face into the table. And keep doing it until he started snivelling. He hadn't forgotten their earlier exchange. Then the kid shot him a look, and his bloodlust spiked. Aidou returned the reception with a cold glare of warning, dangerously inhospitable. His eyes were just barely retaining their normal cast, one step away from shifting to the unnatural mercurial state of a vampire ready to harm.

Needless to say, he didn't let his gaze linger. Damn everything.

"Another time, maybe. Thank you for the help; I'll repay this debt when you wish," he said to Renji, sliding out of his chair. There was no reason or desire to stay any longer. "Though I'd appreciate it if you kept the specifics of this meeting to yourself." It was hard not to look at Allen when he said it. It had less to do with what Aidou had revealed himself, and more to do with... keeping Akatsuki's disappearance to himself. No one knew them here, no one cared whether a vampire went missing, and it was only Aidou who felt the loss.

And if Renji was correct, now he had something else to consider on top if it all.

_{[bowing out and going here]}