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"What's your name?" I finally managed to say in a scared shaky voice, "Yumi, Yumi Cross." The boy smoke excitedly. His tail was wagging in a weird way, I wasn't sure if he was going to eat me or not, but... he did just eat that other hybrid, I thought to myself.

 "Why did you eat your own kind?" He looked at me weirdly, "What do you mean?" He said. "I mean like...you just ate that woman, nothing was left. Isn't she just like you?" I said worried, "Of course she wasn't just like me, I can restrain my blood thirsty craziness around you. But I haven't had a decent meal like that in a few weeks,you see, Hybrids can eat each other if we get hungry enough." I became interested, "If hybrids could each other, Could they wipe out their entire existence?"I asked Yumi. "Well I guess they could, but it would probably take years." He laughed.

 He seemed so happy. "How long have you lived here?" I asked another question, I felt guilty, it shouldn't really be my business to ask him that... "About 11 years, so far I've only seen a handful of hybrids or people pass by my tree"That makes sense... This tree is pretty camouflaged. Yumi yawned, "You can sleep on the couch tonight, unless you'd rather sleep with me. But I doubt you're comfortable enough to do that" He said. "W-Well... maybe... I would like to sleep with you, hybrids create lots of body heat right?" I said, "Mhm how'd you know?"He replied curiously. "J-Just research..." I said nervously and blushing a bit. He smiled at me, "Alright!" Yumi said.