Okay, this plot bunny came to me at some ungodly hour last night, more specifically, early early morning. Anyway, I just thought that I'd go ahead and type it up, just to see where it goes.
I Do Not Own Heart no Kuni no Alice. -T because I'm paranoid-
NOTES:
*Yaoi- Boy's Love
*Mangaka- A person who draws manga
*Uke- Boy on the bottom when doing 'activities in the bedroom.
"Vivaldi~! Can we please stop and get something to eat? I'm super hungry!" Alice groaned, as she clung to Vivaldi, her head hanging low. Her friend, Vivaldi, just rolled her eyes at her friend's lack of will power. "Can't you wait until we get to Blood's house? When we get there, I'll make him get us something to eat." Vivaldi sighed as she scanned her surroundings, trying to remember if her brother's house was located before or after the Playschool.
"But Vivaldi~, my stomach freakin' hungers! Do you hear that rumbling noise? That's my stomach talking, and I'm pretty sure it's saying 'Feed me now, or I'll eat all your insides!" Alice whined, clutching her stomach.
"Well, you're just gonna have to suck it up until we get to his house, we're down to our last two dollars, and we're downtown. I don't think they sell cheap food here." Vivaldi dismissed Alice's pleads for food, and focused on her map, which she had marked the location of her brother's house on. "So, if we turn left here, then we need to take a right there . . . ." Vivaldi mumbled, not noticing that Alice had suddenly gone unusually quiet. Vivaldi started thinking, 'If Blood really does end up sending us back to our hometown, where does that leave us? Mother and Father probably wouldn't allow Alice and I to see each other again, and that would mean that Alice would be left all alone with her family... No! That can't happen, not after what they've done to her... I'll just to explain to him in private of our circumstances. Yes, that will work.
After a few minutes of a silence that Vivaldi thought was comfortable, Alice spoke. "Hey, Viv? W-when we get to your brother's house, d-do you think when he finds out we ran away, do you think he'll send us back? I-I don't wanna go back, not to those people. And what a-about my manga?! They'll never let me work on it, they'll throw all my drawing tools away, and if I try to resist them again, the-they'll do that again. I-"
Before Alice could continue, Vivaldi silenced her words with a hug, Vivaldi spoke softly, "Don't worry, if he even tries to send us back, I'll blackmail him. -Insert evil grin here- Remember that one time at the Amusement Park? Yes, yes, I have copies of the photos, so we'll be fine, okay? I did promise to fully support you and your dream, so trust me, okay?" Alice nodded, showing a tiny smile, wiping the tears that had suddenly gathered at the corners of her eyes. "Anyway, we're almost to his house now, so let's hurry, I think it might rain soon."
Vivaldi and Alice soon rushed in the direction of Blood's house, sometimes stopping to admire the windows of the boutiques that lined the streets. Thunder rumbled loudly from the sky as they reached Blood's house. "Wow, I thought his house would be smaller..." Vivaldi commented, staring at the humongous house in front of them. The house was huge, it was surrounded by trees, which were surrounded by one, huge fence. "Uh, let's go knock and make sure we've got the right house." Vivaldi strode forward, Alice walked slowly behind her, very nervous. Would Blood really not kick them out?
"Well, here goes nothing."
Knock Knock.
BLOOD'S P.O.V.~
"Is everybody here? Yeah? Okay, good. Now, -Ahem- I've gathered you all down here to remind you that my sister is coming for a visit. Now, most of you didn't know I even had a sister, but I do. I expect every single one of you to be one your best behavior while she's here. Reasons being, that one, she was probably sent here by my mother and father, to spy on my private life. If she's sees any of you acting like a bunch of douche bags, she'll tell my mother, then my mother will call me back to that hell-hole she calls a home, leaving all of you to live on the streets. So you better behave, or it's the streets for you! Most of you, excluding Julius, Gray and Gowland, of course,"
Blood sends a slight nod to said people, "Act like a bunch idiots all the time. I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd actually act sensible for once. To make sure you guys are absolutely trying your best to behave, I'll be willing to give an incentive to those who behave. I have decided that since you idiots have enough of a difficult time remembering even the most basic of manners, the incentive will be a big one."
Blood straightens up, eyes looking down at the floor, his stature deflating with a long sigh. "Rent will be taken care of for two whole months for those who behave." Grins and smiles attached themselves to everyone's face, excluding Blood's. A young, purple haired boy raised his hand, smirking as he said, "Uh, Blood? Yeah, I have a question." Blood looked dryly back at him, "Yes Boris?" he nodded his head slightly, signaling Boris to go on. "Okay, so, yeah, I have two questions, actually."
He held up one finger, "One, how old is your sister?" Blood's eyes furrowed in, "Uh, 16 or 17. something like that." Boris' grin grew wider. "Question two, is she hot?" Before Blood could react, Boris had already fallen to the ground, having been hit by his stepfather, Gowland.
"Boris! How could you say something like that? Have you no manners? Did li'l ole' me teach you to act this way? You are going to apologize young man! How uncouth of you to ask that! Apologize now, or you can't have your own apartment, nope! You'll move right back in with me!" Before Gowland could scold Boris anymore, Boris stood up, holding up a hand to Gowland's face.
"Yeah yeah. I'll be real apologetic this time, I'll even use some of the vocabulary you taught me." He turned to face Blood, a scowl clear on his face.
"Oh, Blood, can thoust ever forgive thee for the inexcusable questions I had brought forth unto thee? Can thoust forgive thee for asking such redundant questions? Of course thoust sister is beautiful, and as a gentleman, I can, without a doubt, assure you that I do not jest when I say that I will not partake in the act of flirting with your sister. My word isn't for naught, I trust you completely to place your honorable faith in me. After all, you, my dear sir, are such a man with extravagant tastes, so without further ado, I sincerely apologize for being such an utterly, perfect, fool." Boris smiled, enunciating the last three words. With that said, Boris bowed deeply, his purple hair covering his right eye as he smiled sweetly up at Blood. Blood sighed, shaking his head.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. Just, just, all of you be on your best behavior!" Blood was about to exit the room, when all of them heard a rather loud knock at the door. Knock, Knock.
Blood gulped, turning his head towards the doorway. He glared at all his boarders as he walked by them. He stopped before the door, taking in a deep breath. "You all better behave yourselves..." He muttered, before opening the door.
Blood grinned widely, his eyes adjusting to the brightness of the outdoors. "Why, hello Vivaldi! It's so nice to finally see you after all these months!" He smiled, welcoming his little sister into his arms. Vivaldi scowled, walking inside, revealing another person behind her.
'She didn't say she was bringing a guest...' Blood smiled politely to the young lady before moving onto his sister. "Cut the crap Blood, I'm not here to spy on you, so stop acting like you have manners." Blood glared at her. "What act? I'm a perfect gentleman, I do too have manners! I just wouldn't normally show them to someone like you." Vivaldi rolled her eyes. "Yeah, 'kay, sure. Anyway, since you're pro'lly wondering why I brought another person on this visit, I can explain, but not here in front of your boarders." Vivaldi turned to meet them.
"Hi. My name is Vivaldi, and we'll be seeing each other around. That's it. I don't need to know your names, I don't plan to get close with any of you." She turned back to Blood, "So, shall we go into your study place? It's kind of a long story." Blood sighed in defeat, already walking to the study, Vivaldi followed, leaving Alice standing in the entrance way.
Alice gulped, all these people were staring at her now! "U-um, h-hello! My name is Alice Liddel, I hope we can all be great friends in the future!" She bowed, a blush covering her face. She straightened back up, pulling at the bottom of her gray hoodie, biting her lip. She chanced a glance at the crowd of people in front of her.
A small, mousy looking boy came up to her first. "Hi there! My name is Pierce, no need to get all shy, you're such a cute little thing! I'll be your friend!" Alice smiled slightly, still blushing. 'Cute little thing?' She was slightly startled by a purple haired boy dressed in punk like clothes, "Hey! Pierce, no fair! You can't do that! You just can't call dibs on the cute one!"
Pierce cowered behind Alice as Boris drew closer and closer. "Anyway, Alice, was it? Hello, my name is Boris! Pleased ta meetcha'!" Peirce hugged Alice from behind, squeaking "Go away, you stupid cat! Alice is my friend!" Boris grimaced menacingly, glaring at Pierce, "Shut up, all you do is annoy me! Shall we have to play the punishment game again?" Alice froze. Her heart beat quickened, her eyes flashed to Boris'.
Boris blushed slightly at the intensity of her stare. Alice's inner writer began to scribble down ideas for story plots in her head. 'Yaoi, Yaoi, Yaoi! Frickin' Yaoi!' Her inner voice screamed. Her eyes scanned the rest of the room, instantly noticing that it was full of boys. BOYS! Had her dream really come true? Was this boarding house really a boarding house for all men? Who knew what they did here, all alone? Did they all take baths together in an onsen? Had her and Vivaldi's arrival interrupted all their romance? More importantly, would she be able to witness it?
After all, she was a yaoi *mangaka, and this time she really hit the jackpot! A whole boarding house, filled to the brim with yaoi deliciousness! The next words out of her mouth were, "So, is Pierce the *uke?" After that, her head was filled to the brim with ideas, and some very graphic images of their 'love life'. Her whole face instantly turned red, and, of course, she passed out, blood started to drip from her nose as she fell backwards, knocking Pierce back.
Boris smirked. "Am I awesome or what? She totally just fainted from having such a hot guy like me talk to her!"
"Look, Blood, I really need your cooperation on this, okay?" Vivaldi sat in one of the many leather chairs in his study. "Blood sighed irritably, "You haven't even told me for what yet. How can you expect me to agree if I don't even know what I'm agreeing to?"
Vivaldi sighed, she'd just have to come out with it straight off the bat. "Look, I'll give it to you straight, that girl in there is my best friend, yes, I am capable of having at least one best friend. Anyway, we ran away from home and we came here hoping you would take us in." Blood's eyes widened. "You what?! You ran away from home!? Why the hell would you do something as idiotic as that?! Wha-what the..?! ARRGH! You do realize that mom's gonna be coming after you, right?! Why'd you drag me into this? I'm gonna be the first person she'll be calling! What even makes you think that I would do that? If I lie to her, my whole plan for my life will be at stake! Why the he-"
Vivaldi held her hands up, attempting to calm Blood down. "Whoa, calm down. Look, I really, truly need your help on this. I'm not doing this for some stupid, idiotic reason, okay? I'm doing it to help my friend. She's my only friend, and we wouldn't have run away if things hadn't gotten to the point they did. Look, I just want you to hear me out. Alice didn't know what to do, and running away was my idea. I'll take full responsibility if we get caught. I just need you to keep us here for awhile."
Blood glared at his sister hard. "And just how long is awhile, Vivaldi? For whatever stupid reason you ran away-" "It's not a stupid reason! It's really important!" Blood shook his head.
"No. I am not going to lie for you and your friend. You probably ran away just because mother and father wouldn't let you date some guy, and then you probably dragged that poor girl out there into it." Vivaldi turned red, tears threatened to spill out of her eyes.
"N-no, that's not it! Alice r-really needs your help! I know you haven't met her, but she saved me, a-and I was just trying to be a good friend, sh-she really needs our help!" Blood frowned, sighing. "Then, tell me, Vivaldi, why does this Alice need our help?"
Vivaldi wiped at her eyes, sniffing. "Okay, I'll s-shorten the story. So, basically, Alice wants to be a yaoi mangaka. Obviously, because we go to a prestigious all girls school, no one really like that stuff. So, she's not very popular at school, and neither am I. I wasn't popular because I totes LOVE anime and manga, so, yeah. I was getting bullied, you know, name calling and the such. At first, I didn't care, they all just spouted 'Get the hell out of here, you're fuckin' disgusting!', 'Loser!' and 'Ugly freak!' all the time."
Vivaldi sighed, then continued.
"When I started to talk back, that's when all the physical bullying started. They shoved me in the halls, and after school, they stayed behind to try to hurt me. Of course I was scared, I became timid, shy, introverted, all that crap. One day though, Alice transferred to our school, and guess what? She actually tried to stop them! She chatted with me at lunch, and waved away all the glares she got for actually wanting to socialize with me. She saved me." Vivaldi smiled slightly.
"I felt unwanted and really insecure, mother and father didn't help at all, they were ashamed, to have one of their children be made fun of at school, they started to be excluded from the social circle. They began to take out all their frustration out on me, yelling at me after school, asking why they couldn't have a normal girl, calling me useless. Yeah, I know, sad." Vivaldi wipes away at her red eyes.
"But Alice knew what that was like, her parents were the same. So we helped each other, defending each other, encouraging each other, listening to each other rant, crying because we actually believed that we were the losers, watching anime together, reading and recommending manga. It was great, to have a friend like that. Then, one day, she made me promise to not tell anyone, or show anyone what she was about to show me. She took out a sketchbook." Vivaldi looked up at Blood.
"Blood, you should really see what she can do, she's really talented at drawing, but... -Sigh- You know how her parents are like ours? Well, that could be an understatement. They're super rich, they're elites, that means they cannot, no matter what, be excluded from the social circle. But guess what? They were, because Alice was being excluded at school. The people who bullied us told their parents that we were losers, and their parents naturally started to avoid Alice's parents. They got mad, really really mad at Alice. You have to understand, you see, Alice has a perfect older sister, Lorina, and they expected her to be perfect too. Only, Lorina's not perfect, she's really mean and nasty to Alice, acting as if Alice wasn't even related to her. Alice put up a brave front though, I never knew anything about how her parents were, until that started happening." Vivaldi's eyes filled with tears, she started sobbing.
"A-at first, they were small, insignificant cuts and bruises that Alice claims she got from falling and bumping into things. At f-first, I-I d-didn't n-notice anything d-different, b-but then, the bruises m-moved from her arms an-and legs to h-her face a-and neck, s-she told me s-she was rea-really clumsy. -Gasp- I-I t-told her t-to t-tell -gasp- me wh-what was happening. S-she tried to smile, b-but then sh-she broke down a-and told me wh-what was happening... I-I c-couldn't -Sob- l-let them do th-that to her! I-I just d-didn't know wh-what else to do!"
Blood's eyes widened... Vivaldi was bullied, Alice was bullied, and beaten because she was just different. "Vi-Vivaldi..." He stuttered, how was he supposed to go about this? Vivaldi attempted to make her tears stop, but failed miserably. Blood clenched his hands, walking cautiously up to his sister.
"Look, I had no idea the situation was that bad, I just, I thought... I'm sorry. I'll help. I have a few questions though. I-If Alice's parents did that to her, why didn't you tell the police?" Vivaldi sniffed, "You don't get it, Alice's parents, they... they have a ton of power over the whole town, like I said, they're really rich. If we told the cops, no one would believe us, the cops wouldn't do anything, Alice's parents actually own almost every building in the town,including the police station. This situation really sucks..." Vivaldi sniffed again.
Blood sighed, wrapping his arms around Vivaldi. "Well, I guess you and Alice can stay." Blood smiled, offering Vivaldi a tissue from the box of tissue on the table next to them. She accepted it, wiping at her eyes as they walked out of the study, hearing the conversation the boarders were having.
"Dude, what the fuck is wrong with the bitch? She just fucking passed out."
"Black, it's not very nice to cuss." "Shut the fuck up White. Fucking bastard."
"My friend! Alice, wake up!" "Shut up Pierce, she's just in shock of how fuckin' hot I am!"
"I'm going back to work, Ace, stop poking the poor girl." "But Julius! She's so interesting!"
"Hey, Gowland, maybe if you play your fiddle, she'll wake up and be amazed by your 'skills' -Snicker-."
"Hey, that's a great idea! Thanks White."
"NO!"
"Look at all that blood coming out of her nose... EW!"
"Ha Ha! Nightmare's such a wuss!"
"Sh-shut up! Am not! Gray, tell Ace to stop it! -Cough-"
"Nightmare, get over here, you're coughing up blood again, sit down so I can give you your medicine."
"NOOOO! Gray, you're such a jerk! ACK! Getawaygetawaygetaway! I don't want medicine!... BLEGH."
"Ew! Nightmare, it's not nice to throw up blood next to my friend!"
To be Continued... Maybe... If you guys want me to... Nah, just kidding :D I'll continue it anyway! All your thoughts can be magically transported to me by clicking the review button down below. Till next time~!