As fate would have it.

The thing about being a father.

"What do you mean Tsuki is gone?", Hiyori asked.

"I- I heard a weird noise and then the door was being slammed. I think she might have ... r-run away.", Yukine explained hesitantly.

"This is bad. What if something happens to her? Why did she run away in the middle of the night, who knows what could happen. We gotta find her fast!", Hiyori panicked.

Desperately she grapped Yatos shirt looking him deep in the eyes.

"We will find her don't worry!", Yato tried to stay calm.

The three of them rushed outside calling out for Tsuki but she was nowhere near the flat.

"Damn it. This girl is going to be the death of me. I get that today was a total mess and there is a lot she has to think about but that's no reason to run away like this. Jeez she's only twelve. It's not the time for little girls to run around in the city all on her own. ", Hiyoris panic slowly turned into fear.

"C-Calm down Hiyori. We are going to find her I promise. Do you know where she could have run off to? Or some places she likes to be?", Yato tried to calm her down.

"That is the problem. She doesn't have a favorite place. She is always prowling around at random places. It's different all the time."

Hiyori started to walk in circles pressing her hands against her forehead. Tsuki never once ran away. Sure she was spacing out a lot when she was outside to take a walk but she never did it during the night. The city was full of dangers for little girls like her at that time of the day. The worries she had started to eat her up inside and she couldn't think clear.

Luckily Yato was there. He seemed worried too but unlike Hiyori or Yukine he was still able to control himself.

"O-Okay that's no problem. She isn't gone for too long which means she can't have come that far! We should split up and look for her. That way we are faster. You take the right side and Yukine and I will look for her on the left side ", he instructed.

"Wouldn't it be better if we all split up? I can also go and look for her on my own!", Yukine interfered.

"Are you sure? It's dark and you would be all by yourself.", Yato was worried.

Yato knew that Yukine was terribly afraid of the dark, that's why he suggested that the two of them would look for Tsuki together. But Yukine managed to assure that he would be alright on his own.

"Don't worry about me I'll manage somehow. There are lights in the city anyway so I'll be fine. We gotta find Tsuki and fast. It would take us way to long if we'd only split into two groups."

It took Yukine a lot of courage to face the darkness all alone but he knew that finding the little girl was more important than his fear. Yato wasn't happy about it but he agreed. If Yukine got too scared he would be able to feel it and get back to him in the worst case.

So the three of them all went into different directions in order to find Tsuki before anything bad could happen to her. They looked everywhere calling out her name but never got a response.

Hiyori was looking around the streets for any sign of her daughter but couldn't find her.

Yato was searching for Tsuki at all the nearby shrines but she was nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile, Yukine was fighting with his anxiety. He was so scared that he could barely walk but the thought of the young girl being out there somewhere, maybe facing some kind of dangerous threat kept him going. He had to get over this stupid fear for Tsukis sake.