Akira was sitting at her usual sit at the back. The class is about to start in three... two...
"RIIIIIIIIIIINNNNGGGG!" the bell rang. All of the students went back to their sits. She waited impatiently for the teacher. Seriously, why are there teachers that arrive so late?
"Dude," Hiro called her "What's up with that early frown? Girls will go away if you always frown like that." He reminded her. She is hiding her true gender because being a Hime is not an easy job. She disguises so everyone is going to have a hard time looking for her as a Hime.
She just sighed as an answer. Then the teacher entered the room. "Sorry class for being late!" said the teacher. "I was blah blah blah blah blah and was blah blah blah blah..." Akira wasn't able to hear any of the excuses of the teacher; she was already doing some doodle on her notebook. She doodled some chibi ninjas and random anime characters.
"...And by the way," said the teacher "I want you to meet our new student," she turned to the door. "Mr. Tokiha you can now enter the room." That's when she only lifts her eyes to check who the hell that new student is. A brunette boy entered the room; some girls have this faint squeal when they saw how cute the new student is. Well, too bad she's not interested. As the boy stopped in front of the class, his eyes checked-out the whole room then he stopped his stare at her. He looked at her straight into the eye. That was for few seconds, the boy only removed his gaze from her when he started to introduce himself.
"What the hell was that?" she thought to herself, cocking an eyebrow.
"My name is Tokiha Takumi, seventeen years old," he paused "I hope I'm not going to be a great nuisance to your studies." What a weird way of introducing himself, she thought again.
The teacher said some few things to him then instructed to where he is going to sit, "You can go sit next to Mr. Okuzaki."
"Oh well," she thought as that weird-Tokiha-new-guy nodded and approached the empty seat beside her.
Takumi Tokiha entered the classroom. When he stopped at the front he looked around. He is used to the reactions and treatments from the girls. He could see admiration in their eyes yet someone took his attention. That little guy at the back, there's something about that person that disturbs him. The teacher instructed him to sit at the back – with that person whom the teacher called 'Mr. Okuzaki' on his right side.
When the teacher started the discussion, he sighed. It's the same with the other school he had attended ever since he was a teen; he got bitten and became an immortal. He doesn't know why his sister wants him to attend schools. At least unlike any other schools, there was this guy, his seat mate whom the teacher called Okuzaki. There was something about his eyes. He was sure as hell that there's something different about this guy. He looked outside. He sighed. Good thing the sun didn't shine. Or else he would have gone underground again and sleep.
After an hour the bell rang. The students stand up. "What the hell?" he asked. It's not break time yet.
"We're going to the auditorium," said the girl who's obviously flirting with him.
"I see," he answered plainly. Then there was that Okuzaki-guy with some classmate of them. Then this Okuzaki-guy looked at him. Then there was that strange thing again about his eyes.
"Hey, what can you say about the transferee?" Akira asked Hiro. Hiro shrugged his shoulder.
"Maybe he's going to be the next heartthrob of the Academy. Did you see how the girls squealed when they saw him?" said Hiro they're already at the auditorium.
"Uh… yeah, I did see that," she said "But what I'm saying is that, he kept on looking at me."
"And why on Earth will he do that?" Hiro asked her. She shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe you guys had seen each other before?"
"Well, I don't think so." She said "I'm sure as hell that I never seen him before." Really, things today are getting much weird. Can you imagine a girl disguising as a guy because she is a Hime and now a random boy would look at him straight into the eye as if he was saying something?
"Takumi," Mai called his brother. Takumi looked at her.
"What?"
Mai gave him a smile that doesn't really looked like a smile but more like a twisted lip. "We need you to find a place to stay."
He cocked an eyebrow "Do we really have to do that?"
Mai laughed that kind of laugh that can send creepy chills up to your bones "Of course! How are we supposed to find those 'bitches' if you don't have a place to retreat on?"
"Yeah. I know that," he said "But what am I saying is that why are we doing this? We have been doing this for almost 2 centuries!"
"Ugh!" said Mai, rolling her eyes "Enough of the dramas! The Hime star is driving nearer and nearer!" she said as points to the sky. He looked up and sees a large star burning crazily. It appears like it's near to the moon. "Funny, only people like us and them can see it. Oops! I forgot we're not people!" again she chuckled.
"We're doing this for power right?" he asked.
"Yes frater carissime," the Latin word for 'My dear Brother,' "Sunlight will never affect us anymore, or even those vampire slaying weapons that are designed to kill us." She touched his pale cold cheek. His sister was not like this before. He, his sister, and the other vamp-half-Hime and their siblings and consorts waited for the Hime star to come to Earth because of an old legend that when they're able to absorb the heavenly flame of the star, they'll regain the humanity.
If only it didn't happened…
Rome, Italy
1800s
"Egidio!" Gisella- his sister, shouted. He faced her. Then she said in Latin, "We need to move." He nodded. He took his bow and arrow. "Analisa, Antonello and the others are already waiting for us."
Egidio and Gisella moved swiftly, until they heard someone screamed. They stopped. They saw Analisa crying over Antonello's dead body. Then a woman in violet cloak pointed a sharp vampire dagger under Analisa's chin, making her stand-up. Egidio and his sister couldn't move.
The woman in violet cloak said, "You have no right to live in this world." They saw how the dagger made Analisa's skin burn. Analisa screamed as her body was consumed by red flame. Egidio could only stare at that disturbing scene. That's when he only noticed the other dead bodies of their members. The woman-in-violet-cloak's other 'friends' were also there. Watching how the bodies of Analisa and Antonello burn. Gisella grabbed him by his arm and escaped before those slayers see them.
It pained them to think that the only thing they know about that slayer was that unique dagger and that violet cloak. The next day, they went back to the place where Antonello, Analisa and the others died. Gisella kneeled down at the place where Analisa exactly died. She took a pocket knife from her pocket, and cut the skin near her pulse.
"I swear, Analisa, Antonello and the others, that I will avenge the persons who did this to you …" she let her blood dropped on the ground. After that they travel from a place to place. Their names changed and changed, from Egidio to Paolo, Paolo to Rafael, from Rafael to Vincent…
End of flashback
Hiro was walking on the hall way of the boy's dorm. He looked at his wrist watch it was already 7:54PM. He sighed at the thought that Akira may not be at their dorm at this time. He said he was going to join the charity works of their school. He started to fish for the keys in his pockets when he felt a shadow passed behind him. He just ignored it and turned the doorknob when another shadow passed behind him. This time he turned around.
He started to look for those bastards who are playing trick with him. Then he heard a very feminine voice.
"Looking for me?" said the voice. He faced the woman. She was a short-haired girl with… PURE BLACK EYES? She tilted her head then again disappeared. Was she floating? Then as swift as the wind, someone grabbed him and then buried its fangs to his neck. He screamed in pain. His sights became blurred and then he fainted.
Akira was then back at their school. She looked at her wrist watch; it's already 8:10. "Hmm… Hiro must beat the dorm right now," she told herself. When she was about to enter the boy's dorm, she noticed a group of students having commotion, at the front of her and Hiro's dorm room!
Some of their classmates approached her.
"The hell have you been?" one of her boy classmate asked her.
"I was with the other teachers and students. You know the charity works?" she said.
"Well, you gotta see this," Then they made their way to crowd. She gasped when she saw the dead body of Hiro hanging inside their dorm.
"Oh gosh! I can't believe that Hiro will do that to himself!" said the voice behind her back.
"You're right Hiro was a very cheerful person I don't see any reason for him to commit a suicide!"
"Heart problems maybe?"
"Or maybe Family problems?"
The voices kept on talking and talking. Akira could only focus at the dead body of her friend. Who the hell in the world would do it to him? Hiro doesn't have ANY enemies. She's sure as hell about that. Then as if the wind blew hard and made the corpse turn to them. Hiro's eyes were wide open and it turned exactly to her direction, making the corpse as if looking straight at her.
"Okay Kids move out!" said the teachers. They started to move against the crowd of teenagers.
A teacher approached her. "Mr. Okuzaki you are going to be moved to your 'temporary dorm room.' You are going to stay there for one week. The police are going to have an investigation about Hiro's death." The teacher explained. "Follow me."
"I wonder why the heck does 'temporary dorm room' sounds creepy?" her boy classmate said.
She threw her back pack to the bed. She's already in that temporary whatever. "Not bad," she told herself. At least some students and teachers helped her get her things to that room. She took a bath and wore her pyjamas. She sat at the bed.
"Man! This death issue creeps me out!" she whispered to herself. She covered her face with her hands and sighed.
"Hiro…" she said "Who the hell did this to you?"
The she felt the wind blew hard, she looked at the window. Who… the hell opened the window? It was close when they were getting her things! She's sure as hell! Well maybe because one of her bastard classmates opened her window?
She approached the window. The moon was so big and beautiful that night. Only Hiro was dead. She was about to close it when she spotted something on the grassy fields of the academy. Someone was walking. She immediately grabbed her bag and took her spotting scope that she bought on her birthday last year.
She saw that new kid. What's his name again? Takumi Tokiha? That's when she only noticed that he was wiping his mouth.
"What the hell is that so-eww liquid on his mouth?" she asked herself as she looks on that new kid.
Takumi was walking under the moonlight. "What a catch," he told himself. He just had 'dinner.' He wiped the blood on his mouth. Then he felt something or someone was looking at him. Then he noticed something from the dorm rooms. There was an open window. Then something had hit him.
"Okuzaki," he said. He doesn't know why but he's sure that it was his seatmate. Then Okuzaki closed the window as if he saw some ghost.
"What are you doing here?" a familiar voice said from his back.
"Mai," he said and turned to his sister. "I just had 'dinner'"
Mai just shrugged her shoulders.
"It's him!" Akira told herself as she clutched her pillows. "It's him who killed Hiro!" She saw it was blood that he was wiping. Yet she doesn't know why it was on his mouth but who cares! It's blood and Hiro is the ONLY person who died that night. She's going to make him pay!
"I'm going to kill him with my own hands!" she told herself.