New story. I've also been watching way too many Harem anime recently, so my mind is all kinds of wrong. Anyway, let's see what you guys think.
The Scarlet Influence
Chapter 1- Fate of the Unknown
One boy on his seventeenth year of age. An average physical structure with a good amount of strength. The magical embodiment of unknown energy and origin flows through him. He's bright in every way, and for everything that he has done to help, people have nicknamed him the Prince of Light, others say him as the Prince of Shadows. This boy was of the few male Youkai, no one with knowledge of his mysterious past.
Yet he cannot remember the recent three years of his own life.
Every night, he has the same dreams bothering him, stuck to his memory like glue. He thought they were bits and pieces of his lost experience. Even then, it was as though the dreams were to remind him of someone, his "significant other," as one might say.
-Age 14-
"Hey, are you new here?" A girl asked. The boy shakes his head.
"I'm familiar with 'here,' but I don't know the name of this area. I figure I'd find out after the death of my parents and the isolation I put myself through."
"So you've been alone all this time?"
The boy sighs, "I plan to stay that way."
"Iie, I don't want you to be lonely," She positions her parasol to lend out a hand to the sitting boy, "This is Gensokyo, by the way, a place where I emigrated to. How do you like it here? Did you come from the human world?"
"Human world… The Other Side… And Gensokyo… When did you emigrate here?"
"A very long time ago, before you were born." The girl smiled, he was trying to figure out who she was.
"Before I was born? You look about the same age as me, let alone very pretty."
"Arigato. I'm European, but I barely used those languages. Besides, I accustomed to the Japanese language as you can already tell."
"Right. I was wondering where you got those clothes."
Their meetings were then frequent which passed a quick month soon after. The boy was comfortable around his new friend, and for her help to him, He decided to do something where some had felt was odd for a male, even though it wasn't that big a deal, brewing tea.
The girl had taken a sip and smiled, "A sweet and raspberry like flavor. Should I say you matched one of my servants?"
"I just wanted to do something within my power to give as a token of appreciation for helping me. Although, I couldn't match the tea color with the red of your eyes."
"Blood?" The girl observed. She pointed to his left cheek, where the cut was embedded.
"Oh, this. I was really clumsy and had the unlikely cut from the table corner while I tripped and fell. I thought I had cleaned up the mess, but I guess I didn't clean all of my excess red fluid. I apologize."
"Let me clean it up for you," She reached for his face and paused for a minute. A warm feeling as she got closer had grew, not just from his pure light, but also from her own heart as well. She set herself from being self-centered to keep in touch with this one boy. It was then she shakes her head and involuntarily licks his blood from the cut. He blushed from the contact.
"W-What was that?"
"Gomennasai, I guess I should tell you that I'm a vampire. I was also a little immature of what I did just now."
The boy couldn't continue. Her looks and innocence had strengthened her answer. All he could do was smile. With the dark energy he sensed from her, there was some radiance among it. He found little understanding of society, let alone the role of an individual or a role of the genders. One thing was certain, he had interest in this vampire.
"Suki."
The girl's eyes widen. He doesn't realize that the word usually means a declaration of love, nor did he want to say it out loud. He sighs, knowing he can't take it back. He was caught in a warm embrace.
"I like you too. Let's meet up again tomorrow, okay?"
Another month had passed and the first thing the boy had heard from the girl was giggling.
"Nani? What's so funny?"
"I dunno. I didn't see you wearing any pants, just shorts."
"I just found pants more comfortable…"
"I never said you were wrong. I like it," She smiles.
The boy's heart was racing like the past month. He keeps thinking that it was because she had returned his feelings. Shaking the thought off, a red rose bud is revealed from behind.
"A red rose?" She blushed, "How sweet."
"I was told a single red rose was life long devotion to whoever I gave it to, then the rose bud was meant as innocent love… I think I've done something wrong."
"Do you really want to go that far as to giving life long devotion to me? I don't know if I should say you're growing up a little too fast."
"I want to give my devotion to you, until the end of time." His emotions were taking control. His heart was being spoken rather than his mind. It just had to be let out somehow.
"You're so thoughtful. I wish I had a blue rose for you. Your kindness, determination, your light, everything about you is not attainable anywhere else. A mysterious, yet lovely aura I want to know more about."
"What does that mean?"
"Baka. I'm saying that I love you."
I love you. Three words that can lure anyone into a deeper relationship. The boy had barely known his parents, let alone them deceased at his fifth year of age. Other than them, no one had loved him, at least until now.
"I keep forgetting," The girl shakes her head.
"Doshita no?"
"I don't know your name. I keep reminding myself to find out, but I forget yet again. I'm…"
The boy smiles as she spoke her name, "It's a wonderful name. Mine is Kohaku Hikaru. 'Amber radiance' is how I would translate it, I don't know if anyone else thinks the same way."
That was three years ago. Lost memories of Kohaku. Now he lives a life of happiness, leaving his dreams as dreams.
Reviews are appreciated. Any questions and concerns will most likely be answered in the next update.
