The hiding girl and the lost Vampire
Author: Suryallee
Rating: T, Mature for later chapter's contents!
Parings: Akasuki Kain /Nadashiko Shindo (Yes people, that girl is actually a real character from the manga and books, she was the one that Zero had to catch on the valentines day debacle grins there are more people to write about as Mary Sues and Yuuki or the others ^_- p.s. if you don't believe me, Wiki her, lol ) others
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight and its characters nor the Manga or the story.
Authors note: This is a un-beta fic, Sorry for the grammar and spelling: I am native German, please be kind.
Warning: m/f. if you have a trouble with such pairings, please leave now.
Story: a typical what if story with the usual twists of yours truly ^^
However, it is after Kaname killed Aido's father, somewhat in that timeline. Shrugs' This was meant as a Oneshot that did not let go on my since two weeks. Had me forget my other stories together with a Aido/Yori Oneshot that is currently in work here too. Sorry for that, but if I have an idea I have to write it down when still fresh or it escapes me again.
This beast has already made it to more then thirty pages! It's a monster that has grown on its own here, please let me know if you like it,
You're Suryallee
Summary: What if Kaname set Kain earlier free again? What if he run into a mousy looking girl names Shindo after that?
Chapter one
The tall figure of a man stumbled through the heavy rain oft he beginning night.
It could have been already midnight, to choose from the dimness that already surrounded the entire town like a dark blanket. One could see almost nothing through the heavy layer of rain, it was so dense that travelers still outside had trouble to see further as a few meters. And yet, still the tall man walked and stumbled on. The thin trail of blood, the faint outline of bloody imprints that his shoes left when stepping onto the water overflowing surface, were washed away to quickly to be fully noticed.
It was a cold climate that the town showed its townsfolk on Autumn days like this.
No one took a second glance on the obviously not well feeling traveler in their midst, no one wanted to be involved. Not that the man seem to care either. He actually seem to prefer the anonymity just as much the people preferred not to care. One step further down the stone paved road and the curtain of rain that his broad shoulders had parted closed silently behind him again..
Washing away any trace that he had ever been here.
Three months later, same town old part of the shop mile. Sagawa side street…
"Thank you for your purchase! Have a safe way home Nadashiko San!"
The girl, not older than maybe eighteen bowed on her way out of the fruit shop . Nadashiko Shindo was already on her way home in her mind. She was a rather mousy looking young woman with light brown almost blond hair and blue eyes. If anything, her eyes where her most striking feature in the face, everything else on here seem plain and not much striking at all.
She knew this all and still she did not let it get to her.
Her hair was constantly braided and put into a kind of pigtails one the sides of her small skull. So tightly that her best friend at the academy once asked her if she did not got constantly headaches from it. She didn't thought and so, no one paid anymore attention to it. Just like Shindo liked it.
She avoided to get noticed at all costs.
It wasn't that she did not like people, far from it. She just hated crowds and preferred her silence and to be left alone. In the early school years she had often been picked upon from bullies and arrogant and hurtful children. Since Shindo preferred to learn and make herself a future that way.
Shindo was an orphan and as such, she had never had it easy to start with it.
She got into Cross academy as a scholarship student, based on her excellent grades and A classed genius mind.
Sadly that too had made her an early target when she was younger.
Two years before she got her scholarship, she was taken in by an elder man around seventy fife years who had no family and had visited the orphanage in search for a suitable heir for his little wealth that he had assembled in life. Instead of the boy that Mr. Sakkoue had had in mind, he took home a mousy looking girl that had run him to the ground by accident when one of the oh so well behaved boys had stolen her ribbon from her. She had chased the youth and ended up running the rather tall old man over… much to her eternal embarrassment!
The two had four wonderfully years with each other in which Shindo learned to love herself more and many talents that would aid her in her later live, taught patiently from the old man that she respectfully called grandfather from nearly the first day on. And that had loved her like the daughter that he never had.
One spring day, he had passed away silently in his sleep in his study chair.
Shindo had turned just barely eighteen that weak and found herself back to be the lone heiress to a bigger fortune as she had known. Including several free land domains around the most sought after parts of the town. To sell only one of them would have made her rich, so rich in fact that she could have quit school, spend one-hundred-thousand dollar a day for an entire year long and still would have had enough money left in ten years to life comfortably from.
What she never did.
One land area she did give to the orphanage and the others she kept holding on just as the old man had taught her to do. It brought her the attention of many land hungry money sharks and conartists who were after her fortunes but she never reacted to advances nor to treats of these shady people. After a while the most gave up.
Thus that, the old man had been sly and crafty and he had thought of the upcoming trials of Shindo beforehand.
The contracts with his lawyers saw to it that she was protected until her twenty one birthday and further if she wished to continue to work with these legal representative's that he choose to look in his stead after her interests. Shindo went once a month to his little mausoleum to bring him fresh flowers and care for the grave. After that she visited the law firm to sign contracts or to be informed of changes in law and money issues, Cross san allowed it kindly.
Besides that Shindo had what one called a superior logical mind.
Analysis came easy to Shindo as well as the ability to put seemingly random facts together rather fast. It helped with the greedy people who wanted her fortune as well as with her prospective job wishes for her future, she wanted to become a profiler. Shindo also wanted to study psychology, both together would aid her well in the times to come. What was what the old man had told the, sometimes painfully shy, girl when she had told him about it. After their talk back at the orphanage he had smiled and then had gone and had straight adopted her.
Today she was on her way back from the graveyard and law firm and was buying her groceries on her way home.
It was almost ever the same shop that she went to. A small shop secluded positioned into a side alley that only a few neighbors used to buy from. It was family run and suited her rather homely tastes in fruits and vegetables just fine. She did not need to buy fancy stuff for names only. Shindo was a not exactly sitting on her money but she wasn't overly careless with it either. Her life had taught her to keep holding on what she had, that was all.
In that small shop she could tell were what had grown and how it had been treated and she preferred it that way.
It was when she rounded the corner to go to the main street when it happened.
"Ouwphf!" "Omph!"
Two surprised voices called out almost simultaneously before both Shindo and a man fell right into the wet puddles of water on the floor. They had roughly run into each other when not seeing the other in time. In her case, she simply got a blue bruise on her delicate backside, in his, well he hit the wall to the left with his head and was instantly out like a light.
Blushing madly while concerned she tried to give first aid to the poor victim of her usual clumsiness. The man was clad into a thick mantle made of fine wools but looking dirty and had a hood was covering his head. When she removed it to have a better look on his injured head she got a shock.
There before her on the stones of the sidewalk lay a male around twenty years that she had not seen since more then a full year.
"Akasuki Senpai? Oh gods! I run over Akasuki Senpai! Why happens such things only ever to Me!"
To transport the tall man herself was out of question for Shindo. He was too heavy to transport him and too tall too. She did the only thing she could come up with in her frantic mind and called the part time driver of her adopted grandfather to help her to get the unconscious Akasuki Kain to her small house. He offered to bring him to a hospital, what she denied. Knowing very well that she could not bring him there. Why? She knew since the attack on the academy of what the former night class had consisted of; Vampires.
And Akasuki Kain had been a member of that class.
Hospitals and doctors were soo out of question!
So where did that leave her in the end?
Gulping the young woman took up her cell phone and called Cross Kaien at the private school.
Later in the night, the ex-Hunter left the odd couple alone again. He had checked Kain over and had left her fridge filled with blood packs that Shindo furiously ignored when needing something out of it. He had given the injured and oddly emaciated looking vampire two of the packs via feeding him like a small child. A third one, the still not fully awake vampire had consumed himself, albeit clumsily and messy like hell.
Kain may not have been aware of it but he had ruined her most beloved couch with the white, brown and dark brown cow print muster that way that night!
She would never get those bloodstains out of the formerly white parts ever and Shindo knew it.
Kaien had looked rather awkward when seeing the mess and her dark fuming looks. But his obvious shown worry for the red blond Akasuki heir with the Amber colored eyes was apparent and so, Shindo said nothing and instead made a note in her planer to have the couch professionally cleaned in the near future. Calling it a night and wondering why the tall man looked so sick and ill when being a Vampire, Shindo went upstairs to her own bed to catch on some sleep.
2012 By Suryallee
