Bender: I got this idea from a movie I watched, BloodRayne, this weekend when I stayed over at my Aunt friend's house. It was freaky!
Ikuto: What's so freaky about that?
Bender: It was a house where a guy killed his family O_O
Amu and Ikuto: O_O
Ikuto: I'll protect you Amu! -glomps Amu-
Amu: IKUTO! WTF!? GET OFF OF ME!
Bender: Amu cranky XD Sorry for not updating all weekend. I kinda disappeared off the face of the earth. I had to leave on Saturday at like noon and went down to Fremont. I had a wedding to go to at five thirty.
Ikuto: -sarcastic- Aw! I wish I could've gone with!
Bender: -ignores the sarcasm and mutters- Yeah well if you were there then I wouldn't have been so bored!!! And dear God1 I had to listen to nothing but country music for FIVE STRAIGHT HOURS!!!
Ikuto: Wow. Now I actually feel bad for you.
Bender: TT-TT You should. Disclaimer!
Yoru: Bendercat doesn't own Shugo Chara!-nya!
IKUTO'S P.O.V.
"Why don't you ever learn you third rate baffoon? No matter how many of us you hunt there will still be more. Why do you even bother hunting us? Your kind will never win. You'll all be taken over by us and lose the last of your mortal lives." The filthy vampire smirked then spat in my face.
"And that's exactly why I hunt you poor excuses for a monster." I spat back then drove the stake deep in his heart. I watched his bones and skin turn to dust before I left the alleyway where I had caught him.
"Got another one, eh Ikuto?" My so-called "partner" Kukai asked and placed his hand on my shoulder.
"No thanks to you." I muttered and smacked his hand away.
"Not my fault you want to make them suffer...Why do you do that anyway?"
"I have my reasons." I murmered and walked back to our carriage. We were on our way back to The Order for our next assignment.
Kukai groaned. "Aw! Come on Ikuto! Why can't we hang out here for a while? You never know, there could be another vampire here!"
"You're just saying that cause you want to flirt with the waitress at the bar."
"S-so!? Not my fault she's hot!"
"Womanizer..." I muttered.
"I learned from the best." He smirked.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"You taught me everything I know, man! All the girls worship the freakin ground you walk on!"
"They do that out of their own stupidity. They think that if they treat me like a God then I'll magically fall in love with them." I rolled my eyes and pulled him into the carriage. "Now c'mon. I heard that there's another vampire that was found over in London."
"I don't wanna go!" Kukai whined.
"...I heard it's female."
"Faster driver! To London!"
I rolled my eyes and leaned my head on the window. The last thought that came to my mind was my father, then I dosed off.
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"Stay away from them!" My Dad shouted and had his sword ready to kill the intruder. The intruder grabbed the other end of his sword and pulled my father closer to him.
"Just give us the children and we'll let you live!" He hissed and bared his fangs.
"Souko! Get them out of here!"
"But what about you!?"
"Just go! I'll hold him off!"
I stood in the doorway and stared at the scene unfolding in front of me. My five-year-old sister stood beside me, clinging onto my pajama shirt.
"Ikuto! Utau! Run!" My father barked, causing Utau to tighten her grip.
"Daddy! Mommy, what's happening to Daddy!?" Utau cried and buried her face in my shirt.
My Mother got down to our eye-level and hugged us both to her. She buried her face in our shoulders.
"Ikuto, I need you to do something that won't be very easy. Okay?"
I nodded my head and felt something warm and wet drop on my shoulder.
"I need you to take Utau and hide in your guys' special place. Can you do that for me? Can you do that for me and your Daddy and stay there until the sun comes up?" Her voice cracked twice. What's wrong with her? What's going on? Why is she so sad...?
Utau started to cry and I nodded again. Our Mother pulled away and looked at us both.
"No matter what happens, your Mommy and Daddy will always love you. Alright?" My Mother's voice cracked.
I nodded for the last time before she leaned closer to us and kissed our foreheads.
"Now go. Run!" She cried and pushed us towards the door.
I looked back just in time to see my Father's dead body in a pool of his own blood, and my Mother trying to hold the scary man off. That was the last time we saw our Mommy and Daddy. The night after my eighth birthday.
I felt someone shaking me by the shoulders. I instivelly whipped my hand out and hit something warm. I opened my eyes and saw Kukai glaring at me.
"Fanks man..." Kukai muttered with my hand shoved in the middle of his face.
"Sorry sorry. It's just...I had that dream again..." I muttered with my bangs covering my eyes.
"Sorry man. Are you sure that's what really happened in the first place? Are you sure that wasn't all just a dream in the first place and your parents just gave you up?"
I shrugged and stared out my window.
"Did you get the information on the new hunt? I need to blow off some steam."
"Yeah. She was last seen in London, England."
"Description?"
"About medium height, and very slim...You sure we have to kill her? She sounds hot!"
"All that you know about her is that she's a thin girl." I rolled my eyes and tried to create a mental picture of the putrid beast. I shuddered. It was hideous as always.
"We kill each and every one of them. I don't care what they look like, I don't care how much they beg for mercy, we destroy every one of those abonations." I said with a deadly glint in my eyes.
Kukai looked lost in thought. "...Hey Ikuto, if someone important to you became a vampire, would you still hunt them?"
"What do you know? What happened?"
Kukai looked out the window and tried to avoid my question.
"I'll find out sooner or later. Might as well just tell me now."
Kukai sighed heavily. "It's your brother. Well your kinda-brother. Whatever you call the kid that calls you "Onii-san"."
My heart stopped. Tadase. I could feel my anger bubbling up. I yelled at the top of my lungs. "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! I'm gonna go out and kill all of those mother fuckers I can find!" I erupted with rage and jumped out the carriage.
Kukai jumped out and went after me with a look of utter shock. He never hears me swear like that. The most I really say is damn and hell.
"Ikuto! Ikuto calm down you crazy bastard!" He grabbed me from behind. I started to tremble.
"I have to kill him..." I cried. "I have to kill my own fucking brother! And all because of those-"
"Ikuto! Calm down! It's not for sure yet! There might be a way to save him! Just calm down!"
I took a deep breath and started to think of new ways to torture the vampires.
"C'mon, let's go find that girl so you can blow off some steam."
"Don't. Call. It. A. Girl! That monster is not human!"
Kukai flinched back. He knew not to mess with me when all I could see is red.
"Well let's go. The village is just over that hill." Kukai said and started to pull me up the hill.
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"Get back here you abomination to mankind!" I yelled and chased down the demon.
She kept on running and stopped at a dead end. I could see her starting to shake.
I shoved her to the ground and sat on top of her stomach.
I ripped her hood off her head, and looked down in horror.
It's...crying? But vampires can't cry...Then what the hell is she!?
"Please...please don't..." She cried further and shielded her face from any blows.
"What are you?"
She trembled further and didn't answer my question.
I sighed angrily. "Say goodbye to your last breath you-"
She pulled her hands away from her face. I gaped at what I saw. She's...pretty? But all vampires resort to their true forms before death! Their true, hideous, evil form!
"What the hell are you!?" I shouted and grabbed her by the shirt.
"Please let me go!" She creid harder.
"Tell. Me. What. You. Are!" I growled and pulled her closer. Our faces were about an inch away at this point.
"I'm a half-vampire!"
"Then why aren't you trying to defend yourself!?" I barked.
"I'm afraid..."
"W-what?"
What the hell!? I'm an inch away from her! Most of those goddammed vampires would try to bite me and tear my face to shreds!
"I'm afraid that you'll start to lose blood!" She snapped and looked me in the eyes.
"Why the hell would you be afraid of that!? You're a goddammed vampire! It's in you nature to spill the blood of the innocent!"
"But I'm not like them! I'm not like the bastards that killed my sister!"
I froze. She...hates her own kind...?
"What are you talking about?" I mumbled and softened my expression of hatred.
"My sister, the only person left of my family, was killed by those savages! I was able to escape after the bit me, so I'm only a half-vampire!" The brims of her eyes filled with tears at the mention of her sister. "I'm just trying to avenge her. Avenge her, and find the stone of ..."
"What?" I got up and pulled her up with me. "What's the stone of St. Adam?"
"A stone that can change me back. Change me back to a normal mortal."
"That...exists? That can happen? You can go back to being human?"
She nodded and looked away. "Me and the others..."
"What others?"
She looked at me with a pleading look in her eyes. "Please don't kill them. They're the only family I've got. They don't hurt anyone so please..." She trailed off.
"They don't...They don't hurt people?"
"No. They only hunt animals."
"...What about you?"
"I've never even tasted human blood."
"What about-"
"Not animal blood either. The only blood I've ever tasted was my own."
"You...drink your own blood?"
She nodded.
I grabbed her hand and started to walk out of the alley.
"W-where are you taking me? Please don't kill me! I'll leave her and I'll never come back! Just-!"
"Quiet. I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not even going to let anyone touch you. You're going to help me."
"H-how can I help you?"
"You're going to help me hunt."
"No! I refuse to go near those savages!"
"You're one of them!" I snapped.
"I'd rather you just kill me now!" She spat in my face.
I softened my expression. "Please. I just need you to point them out. Point them out so I can get revenge for the both of us."
She thougt about it for a minute. "...Fine. But I refuse to kill anything or anyone."
"Great. Let's go." I smiled and pulled her along.
"No one else is going to hurt me right?"
"Don't worry. I'll protect you."
She smiled up at me. "What's your name?"
"Ikuto. Yours?"
"Amu. Hinamori Amu."
I nodded. "Cute." I immediatelly slapped my hand over my mouth. Amu gave me a questioning look. "Sorry. It just...slipped out." Amu laughed at the slight blush apearing on my cheeks.
"It's okay. To tell you the truth that's the first time anyone's ever said that to me. It made me kinda...happy I guess."
"Then I guess you're welcome."
What the hell do you think you're doing you idiot! She's one of them!
But she's different from the others.
She is what she is, stupid. She'll turn on you.
Please, she owes me. She'd never hurt me.
You keep telling yourself that.
Fine. I will.
Fine.
Fine!
...Why do you trust her?
...I don't know...I think I-
Amu started to wave her hand in front of my face, and interupted my thoughts.
"Helloooo? Are you still in there?"
"Huh? Oh! O-oh yeah." I stuttered and kept walking towards the carriage. "Hey, does sun hurt you?"
"Nope. The only thing that really hurts me is holy water, and stakes."
"Nice."
"Yo! Ikuto! Did you catch her ye-? Woah! Who's this?" Kukai asked and draped an arm over her slender shoulders. "She's hot!"
Amu stealthily got out of his grip and half-hid behind me.
"Ohhhhh. I get it! Ikuto finally got himself a girlfriend!"
"It's-"
"Stop being an idiot Kukai. This is our hunt."
Amu stiffened at the word "hunt" and stared at me wide-eyed.
"Relax. You were our hunt. Now you're not. Sorry about the idiot. He still isn't house-broken." I put a soothing hand on her shoulder and shot a glare at Kukai.
He put his hands up in surrender. "Sheesh! Sorry! My bad! Didn't know! ...So what's her name?"
"I'm-"
"Her name's Amu."
I looked over my shoulder and saw her glaring at me.
"What?"
"Stop interupting me!" She snapped.
"Meow! Kitty got claws!" Kukai joked.
Amu glared at him. "And fangs!"
"Geez Ikuto, you sure it's safe to bring her?"
I glanced at Amu and saw a pleading look in her eyes. Maybe I shouldn't tell him the truth...
"She knows that if she wants to live she has to behave herself."
Kukai glanced at Amu and she nodded sheepishly.
"Okay well I'm gonna sit up front with the driver, 'kay? I'll leave you two to talk." Kukai muttered and climbed onto the carriage beside the driver.
I jumped in the carriage and extended my hand out to Amu. She stared at it and bit her bottom lip.
"Don't you trust me?"
Amu released her lip and stared at me curiously.
"What?"
"What'd you just say?"
"I asked if you trusted me..." It sounded more like a question.
"Are you...?" She trailed off and shook her head. She grabbed onto my hand and jumped in.
"Who?" I asked when she took her seat next to me.
"Oh no one. Just forget I ever mentioned it."
What? Does she think she knows me? ...Do I know her?
I shrugged. "Whatever. If you don't mind, I'm going to sleep." I said and layed my head down in her lap.
"Ikuto!" Amu squeaked in shock. "What do you think you're doing!?"
"Well, I'm trying to sleep. Tell you what, while I do that, why don't you think of who I reminded you of." I suggested and dozed off.
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"You're never gonna catch me Ikuto!" The small four-year-old girl in front of me giggled as I chased her.
"No! He's my Ikuto!" My younger sister cried from behind me.
"Utau! Not now! Go play with you other Onii-san!" I yelled and tried to gain speed on the girl.
"But she doesn't love Ikuto-kun as much as Utau does!"
"Utau!!! Let me play with Ikuto! I have to leave soon!"
The girl in front stopped in her tracks and I collided with her. She ended up laying on her stomach with me on top of her.
"Ikutooooooooo!"The girl under me pouted. "Get off! You're heavy!"
"Ikuto-kun isn't heavy! Ikuto-kun's seven!"
"But he's still too heavy for me!"
I laughed at the small girl and brushed her bangs from her face. She blushed furiously.
"Ikuto!" She groaned.
"Sorry." I sighed and kissed her forehead.
She blushed an even deeper red. That's when Utua finally caught up and bumped into me, causing me to kiss the small girl on the lips.
I jolted awake to find a pair of beautiful gold eyes staring at me curiously.
"What? What'd I do?"
"You talk in your sleep."
"W-what'd I say?" I gulped. It's never good when I talk in my sleep.
"Stuff like, "Utau", and "Onii-san" and "Sorry". What were you dreaming about? Do you have a sister? A brother? Why were you apologizing? Why-"
I cut her off by pressing the palm of my hand to her strawberry lips.
"Shh. You talk too much, and it's giving me a headache."
"Sorry..." Amu mumbled against my hand. "So what were you dreaming about?"
"None of your business." I glared.
Amu flinched away from my glare and pushed my head off her lap.
"Kukai has a message for you..." She muttered.
I nodded and got his attention.
"What?"
"It's your sister. She needs some help on her hunt."
Crap. Amu's doomed.
I stared out the window when a thought from earlier came to mind.
...Why do you trust her?
Because. I...I think I...I think I might love her...
Bender: Hope ya liked it ^o^
Ikuto: ...Weird
Amu: ...Different
Kukai: ...Why am I a womanizer?
Bender: Cause I felt like it! That's why! :D Mwuahaha!!!
Kukai: Whatever. R & R!
Bender: If ya do I'll have your fav character from Shugo Chara! say that he loves you in the next chappie! (I'm seriously gonna do it XD)