Hi there! So yeah, like I said, I write a AU fanfiction about Kouko and Suzu. Sorry for my crappy english, this isn't my first language. First, it was suppose to be a one-shot, but the story I had in mind was to long for that. So, it would probaly have minimum 2 and maximun 4 chapters. Hope you'll like it ;)
Disclaimer: I don't (obviously) own Akuma no Riddle
The sun was now over, it was night time, the moment where the creatures of darkness could easily show themselves, without worried about the sun's light or the humans, who normally was sleeping the night. The unfortunate people who were still awake and outside their house were easy targets for these creatures. This is why some humans decided to create a catholic organisation of hunters to fight these monsters and protected their own specie. This organisation majority targeting the most infamous and dangerous creature, the blood suckers, the vampires.
One of their members, a fifteen years old girl with black hair, patrolled tonight. She was considered like the worse member of the organisation. In fact, the young girl didn't want to be a huntress, even if she hated vampires. Usually, the church adopted orphans and trained them to become hunters, it was what happened with the black haired girl. After being a member of this church organisation, you couldn't quit it, whatever the reason.
The black haired huntress entered into a back street. She heard from one of her boss that there had a vampire into this area. Nervous and a little bit scared, she walked into the back street, searching the creature. She didn't see anybody, humans or vampires. After few minutes of searching, she decided to go. She was sure that if she came back to the church without killing any vampire, they will all laugh at her, and her boss will be bad. But she didn't really care right now, she didn't found any vampires, and she didn't want to stay all the night outside.
Suddenly, she saw someone. She stopped to walk and hid herself behind a wall. She watched carefully the other person. It was a young girl, with short blue hair. She was wearing a traditional japanese clothing. This wasn't good, she seemed to be obviously a civil. If there really had a vampire here, this young girl would be in danger. Also, regular people weren't supposed to know about vampires, if this girl saw the vampire, she could be killed by the organisation. The black haired girl didn't want to her to get hurt or kill, for her, it was most important the safety of innocent people than killing vampire. It wasn't a value that other members of the church had usually.
When she arrived in front of the other girl, she noticed that she looked pretty pale, like she was sick. She also noticed her golden eyes, really shiny. This girl seemed to be really weak, a perfect prey for vampires.
"You shouldn't stay here, there are a dangerous person in this area" explained the black haired girl, trying to find a good excuse.
"A dangerous person? Here? I didn't know, thank you to have warning me" said the golden eyes girl.
This girl talked in a strange way. The black haired girl noticed that she was talking like an old person, even if she seemed to be a teenager. But strangely, when she was looking into her eyes, she seemed to be older, more mature. Worried about her safety, the huntress decided to stay with her until she reached her house.
"I'll escort you to your house, if you don't mind" proposed the huntress.
"Really? Thanks, I was really scared of this dangerous person" replied the other girl. "Hey, can I have your name please?"
The black haired girl hesitated. She wasn't supposed to say her name to strangers, but this girl wasn't a menace, and she'll probably don't see her again anyway.
"Kaminaga Kouko" she answered. Even if she didn't care about the other girl's name, it would be impolite to no ask hers. "And you?"
"Shuto Suzu"
The two girls began to walk, heading to the back street's exit. Kouko noticed that Suzu had difficulty to walk. She really seemed sick. Maybe she should take her to an hospital rather than her house.
"Are you alright?" asked the black haired girl.
"No, I'm really hungry" replied Suzu.
The huntress sighed. She thought that the golden eyes girl was so pale because she was hungry, that she had some anemia or something like that.
"Well, we should hurry, you could eat something when you be at your house"
But when they were about to quit the back street, Suzu suddenly grabbed Kouko and pushed her against a wall. Too much surprised, the black haired girl didn't react.
"I'm sorry, but I have no choice. I'm so hungry, I can't control myself. You seem to be a really nice girl and I'm really ashamed to do this to you, but I can't help it"
Suddenly, Suzu's golden eyes became blood-red, and her canines became sharper. Kouko realized her mistake. She thought that a girl who looked so weak couldn't be a vampire, but she was wrong. In her life, Kouko didn't see a lot of vampires, she only saw ugly and creepy vampires, and Suzu had nothing to do with this. She was a beautiful woman, she didn't look like a monster.
"You're…a vampire!" shouted Kouko, taking her cross. "Get away from me, you monster!"
Affected by the divine object, Suzu let the black haired girl go and recoiled.
"I see, you are one of them, you're a huntress…well, I thought I would attack an innocent girl, that make this easier for me" said the vampire.
Suzu jumped on Kouko, who tried to protect herself with the cross. It was too late, the vampire grabbed her arm and kicked her right into her stomach. The huntress fell on the ground. She took her stake, trying to stab the vampire's heart with. But the vampire was stronger than her, she took away her weapon and sat on the huntress, restraining her.
"You're pretty weak for a huntress, you know? Well, good for me, I'm not a powerful vampire"
Laying on Kouko, Suzu approached her mouth from her neck. The huntress could feel her sharp teeth slightly touched her vulnerable skin. She could also feel the cold breath of the vampire on her neck. Tears began to roll from her blue eyes. She always knew it, that if she continued to be a huntress, she would die this way, killed by a vampire, like a mere food for them. She always knew deep down that she'll eventually died in the same way that her family. When Suzu's teeth penetrated her skin, the pain was unbearable, but she didn't find the force to scream. She felt all her energy being drained from her body, before fall unconscious.
Arrived to her house, Suzu headed to the living room, a still unconscious Kouko in her arms. She approached of the couch, laying the huntress on it. The vampire went to the bathroom and took a plaster. Kouko's injury in her neck continued to bleed, so Suzu put the plaster on the wound to stop the bleeding. She took and chair and sat next to the black haired girl.
Suzu didn't know what to do with her. She didn't like killing, she always tried to avoid killing if she could. But Kouko was a huntress, she should kill her, otherwise she could bring the other hunters to kill her. Even if she thought that, Suzu couldn't kill her. Kouko wasn't a bad person, she didn't deserve to die. In fact, this girl didn't look like a huntress. She was weak, completely terrified and crying when the vampire bite her. She looked like a normal girl. The vampire didn't understand why she was a huntress.
The vampire rose up and went to her bedroom. She changed her cloth, she was now wearing something more comfortable, casual wear. She returned to the living room. Kouko was still sleeping on the couch. When Suzu approached of her, the huntress suddenly woke up. When she saw the vampire coming toward her, she panicked, and tried to attack her. Before she could do anything, Suzu pushed her on the couch, forcing her to stay on it. The vampire was in front of the huntress, who was shaking of fear.
"Try anything against me and I swear I'll not spare you this time" warned Suzu.
Kouko noticed the plaster on her neck. She remembered the vampire's bite and suddenly began to panic.
"Did you turned me into a vampire?" asked the huntress, worried.
"No, I only drank your blood. You need to drink vampire's blood to become one. Oh, you risk to be a little weak for few days, I drank too much of your blood. You know, virgin's blood is the best kind of blood for a vampire" she said, with a smirk.
The black haired girl suddenly began to blush. It was kind of embarrassing for her to be uncloaked about her sexual situation, especially by a vampire.
"You…sinful pervert! Why should I believe an evil creature like you? Your kind is only good to kill and destroy human lives!" shouted Kouko, regaining some courage.
Suddenly, the vampire grabbed her collar, gazing Kouko with her golden eyes. Suzu didn't seem to be angry, but her gaze was certainly menacing.
"You're pretty rude to me, Kouko-chan"
"Don't call me in a so familiar way, you filthy monster!"
"You seem to really hate my specie. Why? Is it the reason why you became a huntress?" asked Suzu.
"No, I didn't want to be a huntress, but I really hate vampires. You're monsters, creatures of Satan, unnatural being! It's because of your specie if I became a huntress. Monsters like you killed my family, I became an orphan because of them! My organisation adopted orphans like me and trained them to become hunters. Without your disgusting specie, I would still be a normal girl, it's because of vampires if my life is ruined!"
Suzu, still grabbing Kouko's collar, stay silent for a moment, before adding something.
"You wanted to be a normal girl? Vampires ruined your life? Well, me too"
The huntress was surprised. She didn't understand how a vampire could have her life ruined by other vampires, and how she could want to be a normal girl.
"Don't try to trick me, vampire! How can it be possible, you're just trying to…" began to say Kouko.
"You seem to forget something really important about vampires. We used to be humans before. I was a human before, I was a normal girl, and because of a vampire, I became an evil creature who is hated and killed by hunters. I'm sorry for your family, but I have nothing to do with this. Don't justify your hate for vampires only because for what one vampire did to you!"
"Shut up! There have so many people who lost someone they loved because of vampires, you're all evil! Even if you were humans before, you're now nothing more than filthy monsters that deserved to be exterminated!"
Now Suzu was definitely furious, even if she tried to remain calm.
"You shouldn't say those kinds of things, especially if you didn't know anything about who truly are vampires. I didn't choose to be a vampire, it's something that was impose to me. I was human before, and I was in love with someone. He knew that I became I vampire, but he was still accepted me. But, your organisation didn't accept this, and he gets killed by a hunter! Yes, the majority of vampires are evil, but there have vampires that are peaceful, that just wanted to have a normal life, but they can't, because of hunters! You aren't better than us you know. You killed every vampire, even the ones that didn't do anything wrong, and you also killed humans that know about their existence"
Listening to Suzu's angry speech, Kouko was terribly confused. Since she's a kid, her organisation always teaches her that vampires are all evil and that they all deserved to die. But what Suzu was telling her seemed to be honest, but she couldn't admit that a vampire could be something else than a horrible monster.
"Immortality isn't a gift, it's a curse. I'm condemned to live for eternity as a monster, to be hunted by your organisation, to be force to hurt humans and drink their blood in order to survive. But the worse, it's the loneliness. I didn't get along with my own specie, if I became friend with humans, they risked to get kill by hunters, or they'll grown up and died of old age. Every people I loved are dead, and I'm still alive, condemned to feel the pain of losing someone for eternity. I doubt that you can understand the pain I feel" said Suzu.
"I can't understand the pain of being immortal, this is true, but I can understand the pain of losing someone we loved and be forced to be someone you didn't want to be. I lost my family, the only member in my organisation that I like died in front of me, and I'm forced to be an huntress for the rest of my life. Yes, I'm not immortal, but it's still painful for me to know that I'll hunt vampires for the rest of my life, and probably died young because of this fate" replied Kouko.
A little bit touched by Kouko's words, Suzu released her collar and recoiled from her. She was still so young, but she already endured so much sufferance in her life. Well, it was nothing compared to more than one hundred years of sufferance that the vampire endured, but it was still more tragic than the majority of other humans endured in all their life. She also felt some kind of connection with the young huntress.
"We both suffered in our life, we both became something we didn't want to be, and we both want to have a normal life. The comparison is interesting" said the vampire.
"Don't try to compare you to me, I have nothing to do with you"
Suzu sat next to the huntress, intrigued by the younger girl.
"You're still hostile to me, even if I didn't kill or hurt you seriously" she said.
"Well, you bit me and drank my blood, so yes"
"You know, hunger is unbearable for vampires, if I didn't drink your blood I would become crazy and probably killed someone"
"I doubt that you'll let me go. I'm a huntress and I now where you lived now. Spared me is dangerous for you"
"I know, but I can't kill you. I just have to move somewhere else, it's not the first time it's happen to my anyway" said Suzu, with a sad smile. "You can go now, I won't stop you"
Kouko rose up from the couch and headed to the door. Before quit the vampire's house, the huntress looked at her. For some reasons, the sad look that Suzu had on her face made her sorry for her. Kouko didn't understand why she felt some empathy for a creature she was supposed to hate, who was her natural enemy. Still confused by this, she left the house, letting Suzu into her own loneliness.
So, what do you think about this AU fanfiction?