Sono toki wa, mohaya jubun desu – When time's not enough

Info

Name: Kobayashi Chiyoku.

Age: About 500 years old, looks like 25.

Looks: Chiyoku has blue eyes, black waist-long hair and pale skin due to the fact that she cannot linger in the sun for very long. She's about 5 feet and 6 inches tall.

Biography:

Being born in the late 15th century has its backsides. Having to move around every ten year is just one example out of many, as well as the need to change name. Kobayashi Chiyoku was born during this time, and is alive yet today.

The Kobayashi family has been the rulers of their kind since 1500 B.C and they're not planning to let anyone else near the throne if they can help it. Chiyoku is the first and only child of this noble family which makes her unable to go or do what she want, there is always someone watching over her.

The problem is not really those watching her, but her parents who are the one's commanding the servants. Right now is this family of vampires residing in Tokyo, Japan along with the other nobles. The other lower ranked vampires are spread across the world.

Other facts: Chiyoku owns practically nothing besides her acoustic guitar and she's a pretty good player. She's obsessed with music and falls into a trance when she listens to it. And if she's disturbed when listening to it, there's no telling what she might do.

Just because she's immortal and has to move around due to the not aging part, she doesn't have any friends. She used to have though, but that was years ago when she tried to make friends. Now, she doesn't care about such matters, for she knows she'll have to leave them behind sooner or later.

The theory that vampire's are not able to stand the sun is not true. They may not be able to face it as long as normal humans, but being outside for a short while won't do any harm. If they're out too long they might just fall to the ground out cold, but they won't die.

She's not originally from Japan, but from Europe, Sweden, and her birth name is Jennie, but also called "Jen".

Other than this, she usually wears dark clothes and blushes when someone calls her cute because she absolutely hates it.

Chapter I

Of all those times Chiyoku had tried to escape her guards, the 654th time had actually proved to be successful. The only problem was the sun. The golden globes bright rays lit up practically every corner of Tokyo. It didn't matter if she would find a shadowy spot for the sun would eventually reach there. For the time being, she didn't really care about the sun. She was free, and that's what counts, right?

Her feet carried her through the Shounan district. With shades covering her eyes, she watched as people hurried past her, obviously on their way to work or something of the matter. After all it was seven thirty in the morning. But that was not what caught her interest. Further down on the crowded street she spotted a man carrying a guitar case. Picking up her speed, she followed the man until he started up a conversation with another man and jumped into a van which a few seconds later disappeared down the road into a swarm of cars.

Chiyoku stared after the van, slightly disappointed that she didn't have the chance to take a closer look at the man. With a heavy sigh, she once again started walking.

About a week has now passed since Chiyoku ran away from the Kobayashi mansion, and she hadn't returned. The truth is that she have no plans of returning there, only to be stalked, at all. She was happy as she was now free to do whatever she wanted.

During this week, she hadn't seen the man again, although she had returned to the same district several times a day only to get a glimpse of him. No she wasn't in love with this man, merely curious about him due to the guitar case he had been carrying, and she wanted to hear him play. She shook her head lightly and looked at the sky. The sun was hiding behind the gray rain clouds that were currently floating above the city, and it was likely to start raining. Just great.

Now one may wonder what this vampire in particular has been feeding on during this week. While others of her kind would have taken any tasty prey they could find, Chiyoku didn't feed at all. She felt sick every time she had to kill a human. She could have lived on the blood of animals of course, but since she currently lived in Tokyo, a city, and not on the country side, she would have to push that thought aside for now. Back at the keep she would get fresh blood without knowing where it came from, although she could taste the difference, she didn't have to kill herself, which felt slightly better.

Chiyoku was currently sitting up on the roof of one of the many sky scrapers in Tokyo, thinking about how her 500 years alive had turned out. It wasn't the most desirable life one could think of, but it hadn't been a disaster ether. Actually... there was one thing that made her cringe. The fact that she was a noble... her parents had practically ordered her to find a mate, or else they would find one and arrange a marriage for her in order to reproduce and keep the family name alive.

Chiyoku gagged at the thought. Her parents ordered her to find a mate over two hundred years ago, and there was the reason why she ran away. According to them was her time running out, and they were about to set out in search for a good mate for her. She shook her head and rose from her seat, about to leave and find a place to stay for the night when her keen ears picked up the sound of an acoustic guitar. Staring down, her eyes meeting the hard concrete, but her eyes hearing nothing but the calm tunes playing from somewhere below her.

Carelessly, she jumped down to the nearest window and peered inside. She met the emptiness with disappointment, turning to jump to the window next in turn. The procedure was kept up until she was faced with an opened window and another beautiful tune. A small smile clothed her full lips as she watched him play. It was the man from a week ago, doing just what she had wanted him to do. She closed her eyes and let herself get lost in the music.

The music stopped and she snapped her eyes open, only to meet the honey colored orbs of a very surprised guitarist. His golden blond hair fell nicely around his face and his lips made him look oddly like a duck. Cute! Her own eyes widened when realization hit her and without a word, she jumped out of the window and landed on the ground below her, earning a surprised yell from a certain male guitarist and plenty of surprised faces on the street.

Chiyoku looked up and met his gaze once again. Surprise and curiosity lingered in those eyes. He must have understood that she was not a normal human. After all, she had just jumped down from about six meters. Damn...

She held his gaze for another two minutes before facing the concrete and walked off. She had enjoyed listening to him, but was slightly embarrassed as well. Not only had he caught her off guard, but also seen her jumping from such a height... If her parents knew about this, they would surely flip on her accusing her for not being careful enough. Not that she cared…

She ignored the other people looking at her and continued walking. She wanted to get away from this district, she had humiliated herself enough as it was.