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Shingetsutan Tsukihime: A New Life

Author's Note: The Following occurs after the anime. Will contain spoilers so read at your own free will.

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Chapter 1: A Glimmer of Hope

"…Arcueid…where are you?" Shiki said sitting on his bed, dressed in his school uniform and glasses. It's been nearly a month since the incident with Roa, not much has changed though…except for Shiki though. Right after the death of Roa, Ciel disappeared along with the memories of anyone she ever knew. Shiki didn't mind this at all, but he did wonder why she didn't erase his family's memories. But his only thoughts for the past weeks were of Arcueid. "I know you're not dead Arcueid…I need you in my life…my life is empty without you." Shiki has been like this almost everyday since she died, it couldn't be helped.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!

"Master Shiki, if you don't hurry you'll be late for school again." Shiki could tell that it was Hisui who was outside his door. She opened the door. "Master Shiki?"

"Oh, sorry Hisui. I'll be down in a second." Shiki assured Hisui. She gave him a little bow and left. What's the point anymore? It's getting harder and harder to pass every day…I really need her. Shiki gathered his things and left his room finally. He entered the dinning room, where Akiha sat on the end of the table with Kohaku pouring her a cup of tea. "Good morning."

"Good Morning Master Shiki." Kohaku greeted.

"Good morning nii-san." Akiha said while taking a sip of her tea. "You're going to be late again. You'd best hurry."

"Yeah…" Shiki took a quick bite of toast then left the house in a hurry.

"He's been spending countless hours looking for miss Arcueid, I'm worried about him." Hisui said as she walked into the room with a trey of biscuits.

"You're not the only one Hisui." Akiha said with a sigh. Nii-san, you must not push yourself There must be something I can do…but what?

Shiki spotted Satsuki by the gates of the estate. She looked a bit worried but still maintained a smile when Shiki stood beside her. She was always waiting for Shiki no matter what before school, even if it made her late. She didn't care much, he was her crush after all.

"Tohno-kun, we're going to be late again." She said softly.

"Sorry Satsuki…let's go." Shiki said with no expression, much like how Hisui always spoke. They walked together as they usually did to school. Satsuki had been spending a lot of time with Shiki in and out of school ever since Arcueid died. But it wasn't like Satsuki really remembered, thanks to Ciel's handy work. Only himself, Akiha, Hisui, and Kohaku knew about the incidents that occurred. "Arcueid…"

"Hmm? Did you say something Tohno-kun?" Satsuki asked when they stopped by the street when the lights flashed 'Don't Walk'.

"…It was nothing. Nothing to be concerned about…" He looked in front of them across the street. His eyes slowly grew wider as he saw a woman standing across from them, staring right at him. It was Arcueid staring at him. Shiki ran forward. "Arcueid!" He took a step back though when a big moving truck zoomed right past in front of him.

"Tohno-kun!" Satsuki yelled and ran up to catch him from falling back. Shiki kept his sights forward as the truck passed by. She was gone, as if she was never even there. Satsuki let him go. "Are you okay Tohno-kun?"

"D-did you see her?!" Shiki pointed where he thought Arcueid was standing. She just took a quick glance at the spot and looked at Shiki.

"What are you talking about Tohno-kun? We are the only people here." She said.

"…Nevermind…" Shiki sighed as the light switched to 'walk', they crossed the street together. Were my eyes just playing tricks with me or something? I must be going crazy or something, I'm starting to see things that aren't there…No…that WAS definitely her…it just has to be…

You ARE just going crazy okay? A part of Shiki's mind was arguing back at his thoughts. You know that she's never going to return to us. I mean, it was our fault that she died! We could've stopped her! But now she's dead okay! DEAD!

No…I can't accept that, I WON'T accept that. She's alive and she's somewhere here in Japan…I just know it.

You're in denial you idiot! Just admit it! She's dead and she's never coming back!

SHUT UP!

You're a fool! Don't you realise that she died in your arms?! She's never going to come back-

Just shut up!!! I love her too much to just let her go like this! I will find her one way or another!

Dammit you're pathetic!

"Tohno-kun...?Tohno-kun? You there?" Satsuki said, breaking his train of thought. He realised that they had all ready gotten to the school gates. Many of the students were just walking into the school, seems that they got there just in time. "I'll talk to you in 2nd period okay?"

"Huh?"Shiki was only paying half attention. He just nodded at her with a small agreeable grunt. Satsuki smiled at him and ran inside. Shiki stood still and stared at the school. "This place just brings back bad memories…"Shiki thought of the time that Nero attacked them in the school. The visions of her death then flashed before his eyes as Roa cut her. Shiki cringed at the thought and headed for the school.

Shiki entered his classroom and took his seat, ignoring what his teacher was saying about an upcoming assignment. Shiki spent most of the time staring out the window just reminiscing about the past happy moments he had with Arcueid. The time they went to the movies…the time Arcueid saved him from Nero's wolves…and the time they made love. He rested his head on his desk, he was slowly falling asleep from the long search from yesterday for Arcueid. Arcueid…where his last thoughts before he drifted off into a sleep. But as soon as he fell asleep, he felt a paper ball hit his head and he woke up. He looked around the class to see who threw it.

"It was me." A girl to the right of Shiki in a desk said. She had long blue hair with red eyes and wore all black, even the big bow on the back of her head. Shiki was a bit weirded out because she looks like she was only about…13 years old. She looked at Shiki curiously. He noticed that she had large pointy ears…

"…" I've never seen HER before. When did they allow 13 year olds to attend high school? The little girl looked straight into Shiki's eyes. "I-is there something on my face?"

"So…you're the one that she loves. Shiki Tohno was it?" She asked him.

She? "Yes, my name's Shiki Tohno." He answered. He looked around the class and saw that everyone was carrying on with the class as if he wasn't even there.

The little girl took another good look at him again. She sighed. "I see. Arcueid wanted me to give you a message." Shiki instantly stood up and a glimmer of hope and anticipation lit up his eyes.

"What?! Arcueid?!"

"Calm down! Sit!" The girl commanded. Shiki looked at her and soon realised the seriousness of the tone of her voice. He took his seat slowly and never took his eye off her. "Now look here. Arcueid doesn't want you looking for her anymore. It pains her to see you suffer day after day looking for her."

"But I love her!" He pleaded and stated.

"You think she doesn't know that? She loves you too you know that right?" She sighed and breathed lightly. "But she knows that things could never work out between you two. You are both just too different. She's the true ancestor of the Crimson Moon…and you're just a human." Shiki stayed silent and listened closely. "You'll eventually grow old and die and be lost in people's memories. Arcueid will live on forever and never age. Don't forget this fact."

"So you think I don't know that or something?!" Shiki stood back up. "So you really think any of that matters to me?! I love her okay? I want to spend my entire life with her. She's everything to me!"

"…" She was quiet

"…It's the truth…" He muttered under his breath.

"…Len." She whispered.

"What?"

"My name is Len."

"Len…" Shiki repeated to himself.

"Your will and love for her truly amazes me you know that? It's by far the strongest feeling I've felt from a human before. I'm truly impressed. So…you may just be the one…" Len said as she closed her eyes. "…It's time for you to wake up."

"What?"

"Tohno!!!" a voiced yelled out of nowhere, making Shiki awake from his sleep. Shiki looked up at his teacher at his angry look. "You sleeping in my class again? I'm serious Tohno…" Shiki looked over at the seat where Len sat, but no one sat there. Just an empty seat. Shiki looked back at his teacher.

"Oh uh, sorry about that." He said back to his teacher, making him sigh. Several of the other students started to laugh at Shiki, as this was nearly the 20th time he fell asleep in class. Their laughter was soon cut off by the bell ringing for 2nd period. Shiki gathered his things and left the class. A dream…? It was all just a dream? Why would I dream something like that? He entered his English classroom and took a seat beside Satsuki in the back of the class. She greeted him happily and shared her English textbook with him.

Class went by rather quickly for the two. Nothing interesting to learn in class but pronunciations. Satsuki and Shiki took their usually seat in the cafeteria together to eat. Inui, Shiki's best friend, took his usual seat beside Shiki as well.

"So Shiki, how's your assignment coming along in Ancient Civilization?" Inui asked Shiki before taking a bite of his sandwich. Shiki just stared at the delicious looking little piece of cake that he had in his bag.

"I don't know. I don't think I'm going to my other classes today." Satsuki and Inui stopped and looked at Shiki. "I…I just need some time to think right now." Shiki packed away his cake.

"Uh, Tohno-kun…" Satsuki said before Shiki stood up.

"I'll see you guys later…" He walked away slowly, leaving the two of them alone.

"What's with Shiki lately? He's been acting all depressed. You know anything Satsuki?"

"N-no. I wish I did though." Satsuki saw Shiki turn the corner and out of their site. "I just want to help him."

Shiki was at the school gates already. He stood there alone with his thoughts once again, he was not having another little mental argument, but he was just thinking of Arcueid. But something caught his eye though. A small black cat ran in front of Shiki out of the corner of his eye. It was mainly a pure black cat that wore a set of bells on its red collar. It took a look at Shiki then ran down the street slowly. Wait a minute…Shiki ran for the cat. The cat looked back and saw Shiki coming and ran faster. After a little pursuit Shiki was still far behind the cat because he wanted too and saw the cat turn into the park, the same park Shiki met Arcueid after he killed her. He turned into the park too and looked around; he couldn't seem to spot the cat. That's strange…Shiki walked around the park and started looking but didn't find the cat, as a matter of fact there wasn't even anyone at the park.

Ring…Ring…

Shiki turned around at the sound of bells to the swings and saw a little girl dressed in black at the swings. She looked exactly like the girl that Shiki dreamed except she seemed…cuter. Shiki walked up to her and she immediately took notice to him, stopped and looked at him.

"…" She looked like she was waiting for him to say something.

"…Len?" Shiki half asked and guessed. She smiled at him.

"Good, seems that you haven't forgotten my name, that's a plus." Len looked down at her lap and blushed. "Could you push me please?"

"Huh?" Shiki looked down at her, she looked at him with big red eyes. "Uh…sure." Shiki walked behind her and lightly pushed her making her swing. He did this for a while and she seemed to be enjoying it. Could this actually be the same Len in that dream I had? Shiki was about to ask this question, but she planted down her feet to make herself stop. "Huh? Something wrong?"

"Someone's here." Len said in a serious tone. Len looked to her right, Shiki did the same. It was Satsuki and she was walking directly to them. "Do you know her?"

"…Yeah, she's a friend of mine from school." Shiki whispered to Len.

"Hmm…okay then. Play along." Len said. Her expression drastically changed to a very happy one. She started to swing by herself with a cute smile. "Wee!!! This is so fun oni-san!" Shiki raised an eyebrow at her and just pushed her lightly. Len jumped off the swing and stood in front of Shiki. "Thank you oni-san, that was really fun!"

"Oh, no problem Len-chan!" Shiki said happily, playing along with whatever Len was planning. Satsuki smiled at the two as she stood beside Shiki.

"So this is the reason huh?" Satsuki said slyly, she looked straight into Len's happy eyes and her heart just melted. "That's so nice of you to spend time with this girl. So what's her name anyway? I've never heard you talk about this cutie before." Len jumped in front of Satsuki and grabbed both her hands.

"Hello onee-san! My name is Len-chan! Shiki-kun was just coming here to pick me up!" Len said happily holding to Satsuki. She looked at Shiki. "Right Oni-san?" Shiki smiled and nodded. "Are you angry with Shiki-kun?" She turned back to Satsuki.

"Oh! Of course not! I was just checking up on him." Satsuki blushed. "I'll see you tomorrow in class Tohno-kun?"

"O-Of course." Shiki answered. Satsuki got her hands free from Len and lightly patted her head.

"Bye-bye Len-chan. I hope to see you again." Satsuki said with a blush. Her face turned more red when Len suddenly wrapped her arms around Satsuki.

"Saynonara onee-san!" Len happily said. Satsuki couldn't do much but embrace Len back. Satsuki left the two of them alone and waved to them before she left the park and turned the corner. "It's a strange thing though; I didn't know you were followed."

"Len, you're a pretty good actor." Shiki stated happily. Len smiled at him.

"Thanks oni-san-err I mean Shiki." Len corrected herself and got flustered. "Anyway though, I think that it would be best if we were to talk somewhere in private. Talking in the open like this, even when no one's around, is a little risky. Arcueid told me your house is pretty big, let's go there for now."

This girl must now about Arcueid. She's one of the few people ever to be in the Tohno estate. I just hope all goes well. "Okay, let's go then." Shiki was about to walk away but Len held out her hand to him and stared at him. Len waited for Shiki. Shiki sighed and grabbed her hand and they walked together away.

"And where do you think you're going with Len?" Shiki and Len stopped in their tracks. Len slowly turned her body with Shiki behind them. A man stood near the swings. Shiki couldn't make out how he looked like, he was wearing a long black large robe that covered his whole body. A black hood was covering his face, but he could still see his mouth, and that smile he had. He looked the same size as Shiki in height. "I've finally found you Len. And you boy, I can't let you go with her. Be gone this instant or else." He slowly pulled back his hood, revealing his fierce looking sage green eyes and short black hair.

"Shiki…run." Len whispered after she let go of Shiki's hand and got herself into a fighting pose.

"No, I can't just leave you here with that guy. He looks dangerous." Shiki whispered back to Len after pulling out his dagger from his back pocket and getting into a fighter pose himself.

"That's because he is." Len sighed. "Look, it's not my fault if you get hurt okay? You should run while you can."

"I won't leave you." Shiki said out loud. The man smirked at the two.

"So you two REALLY want to fight me huh?" The man pulled out a dagger and held it out from under his cloak with his right hand. "I didn't know today's youth wanted to die so badly. My my, times sure have changed." He started to play with the tip of his dagger with his finger. "I guess I'll have a little fun first. But you better not die on me Len." He jumped high into the air and the two and descended upon them with great speed. Len and Shiki jumped away from each other and got out of the way just in time. The man hit the ground with his dagger and made a huge small crater where they stood.

So fast! Shiki thought to himself when he landed. Shiki quickly took his glasses off and looked at their enemy. All I have to do is cut those lines. This may prove to be difficult. Before Shiki could even do another movement, the man quickly dashed towards him. "What the-!" His words were cut off when the man drove his fist right into Shiki's stomach and sent him crashing into a far away tree. Shiki laid against the tree for a few seconds before he started to spit out blood. That punch, it was so strong! He got to his feet and whipped away the blood from his mouth. "Lucky shot!"

"Why you!!!" Len ran up behind the man and jump kicked him on the back. He only tumbled forward one step. While she was still suspended in the air she rose her right fist into the air, a blue ball formed in her hand as she smashed it down onto him. He went down to his knees, but gritted his teeth with a smile.

"Is that all you've got?" The man spun around quickly and grabbed Len by her neck with his right hand. "You've hardly got enough Mana left Len, why continue to fight?" He tightened his grip around her neck.

"Ugh…!" Len held onto his hands around her neck.

"LET HER GO!!!" Shiki came running at him. However the man saw this and threw Len right at Shiki. Shiki was able to catch her, but the force of the throw made him fall to the ground. But he still had Len in his arms. He helped her up quickly. She was gasping for air. "Len, are you all right?!"

"(Gasps for air) I'm okay." Len had an enraged fiery look in her eyes. "Fefnir! You're gonna pay for that!"

Fefnir? So that's his name. Just what the hell is his deal?! Shiki held his dagger out in front of him. Take this! Shiki ran at Fefnir and suddenly vanished before him.

"What's this?" Fefnir wondered calmly. Len looked up ahead. Shiki suddenly reappeared above Fefnir and slashed his dagger down towards his head. "Heh…" Fefnir just reached up and grabbed a hold of the blade of Shiki's dagger and threw him away towards Len. Shiki landed on his feet and slidded to a stop beside Len. Blood was dripping from his dagger. Fefnir looked at the long cut on his hand and let the blood drop. "Nice try."

Dammit, I missed the lines! "At least I wounded him." Shiki said with a hint of joy. Len shook her head in disagreement.

"You call this a wound?" Fefnir laughed and let the blood drip to the ground. "I guess it'll have to do." There was now a small pool of blood by his feet.

"Shiki! Watch out!!!" Len yelled at Shiki.

"Take this! Blood Strike!" Fefnir whipped his fist towards Shiki. Simultaneously the blood under him quickly shot right at Shiki in the shape of a long stream. It was for too quickly for Shiki, he couldn't even think of what to do. But in a slow motion, Len had pushed Shiki out of the way just in time to the ground, Len fell down with him. The blood stream went straight through a tree, leaving a big gapping hole. The man put his fist back to his side. "Hey, no fair."

"Thanks Len-!!!" Shiki saw the wound she had just received to her side. There was a big cut to above her left hip. A small amount of blood was coming out. "Len!" She looked at her wound.

"Guess I wasn't quick enough." Len got to her feet with Shiki. "Don't worry though, I'll be okay."

"Are you sure about that?" Fefnir laughed and lifted up his index finger and pointed at the trail of blood he made with his last attack.

"Oh no!" Len yelled.

"Bloody Storm!!!" Fefnir yelled out and rose both his hands into the air. The blood formed all around both Shiki and Len and formed a magic symbol. It was a symbol of blood.

"Shiki!" Len pushed Shiki out of the circle just in time. The blood symbol shattered into several sharp pieces of what appeared to be glass and rapidly spun around Len like a whirlwind, cutting her with every revolution. She was getting cuts all over her body and through her clothes, but those stay on. "AGHHHHHH!!!"

"LENNN!"

"Dammit you foolish girl." Fefnir let down his arms and the storm stopped. Len stood in her place, completely covered with hundreds of cuts to her body. She stood there breathing heavily, ignoring the searing pain. Shiki ran to her side.

"Len! Oh god!"

"D-don't worry…(Deep Breathe) I'll live…" Len said weakly. She took one step forward then fell forward flat on her face. Her eyes seemed like there was no life in them. Shiki kneeled down and lifted her in his arms.

"Len! Oh my god!" She wasn't answering him at all. Just staring at him with those lifeless eyes. Shiki felt her pulse, she was still alive though.

"Damn, looks like I over did things!" Fefnir laughed out loud. "Oh well. At least she's not dead."

"You…you bastard!" Shiki yelled at the top of his lungs and faced off against him. "You're going to die for this!" Shiki glowed with a faint light. He ran at him with great speed then jumped at him. Everything went into slow motion. "CHOKUSHI NO MAGAN!"

"What's this?" Fefnir took out and uppercut slashed at Shiki's body the second he got near.

"UGH!!!" Shiki flew backwards with a giant cut on his body. He kneeled down and couldn't move from the pain he was feeling. "I-I can't believe this…" Fefnir walked up to Shiki.

"Yeah well neither can I. I knew you two were weak but wow, this is REALLY weak. I should just put you out of your misery." He rose his dagger into the air and was about to drive it right into Shiki's head. But something made him stop.

"BLACK KEYS!!!" A voice yelled out from above. Fefnir jumped back as 3 swords quickly struck where he stood.

Those weapons…Shiki looked at the weapons on the ground. Those are…Ciel's… Right after he thought that, Ciel dropped down to her feet in front of him. She was dressed in her usual church like clothes. She looked right at Fefnir with great anger.

"Damn you Ciel! Why now?!" Fefnir ran out the park in an attempt to escape.

"You won't get away that easily." Ciel said to herself. She looked down at Shiki and was shocked at the wound he had. She Looked over at Len's body and gritted her teeth then looked back to where Fefnir ran. "Shiki…you'd better hurry and take Len home." She ran for Fefnir and was soon out of sight.

Ciel wait! Shiki yelled in his mind. He got to his feet and placed his left hand on his wound. Len…I have to help her… Shiki limped over to Len's body and lifted her on his back. Just…hold on Len…

At the Tohno estate, Hisui was by the front door by the stairs. She was looking up at the sky with a peaceful looking expression, though it was actually pretty hard to tell. She looked ahead of her and saw a bird off in a tree. Hisui held out some bread crumbs and waited as the bird flew onto her hand and started to eat the bread.

"There you go…" She watched as the bird looked at the front gates and flew away. Hisui looked and saw Shiki opened the gates and walk in. She saw that he was covered in a lot of blood. "Tohno-kun!" She ran for Shiki but was a little slow. He fell on his stomach unconscious with Len still on his back. Blood was quickly forming under them in a pool. "Nee-san! Nee-san! I need your help!" Like a flash of lightning, Kohaku came running through the door.

"What is it?!" She spotted Hisui and ran to her. She gasped at what she saw. "Oh my god. We'd better hurry up! Quick, take them to Tohno-kun's room! I've got special potions stashed away in there!" Kohaku grabbed Len off of Shiki's back and put her on her own. Hisui lifted up Shiki and walked him inside the house. When they got inside and headed for Shiki's room, they laid the two of them beside each other on his bed. Kohaku opened up the floor board under his bed and pulled out a green potion. She lightly poured the substance onto a clothe and dabbed their wounds. "It's a good thing they're unconscious, or else this would definitely burn like hell." Kohaku glanced at Len. "Who do you suppose this girl is."

"…I don't know, but Shiki was holding her. Maybe he was trying to protect her?" Hisui suggested.

"Maybe. But what in the world did this to them?" Kohaku finished up. "Okay, let's wrap them up before they get any infections."

"Just how are we going to explain this to master Akiha…"

"WE don't have to explain anything. THEY will when they wake up." Kohaku said when she pointed at Shiki and Len.

End Chapter 1

Zero Eiyuu: Ugh…sorry that was so long…at least I thought it was long. But oh well, that's the first chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. You will notice that Shiki tried to attack Fefnir with his Arc Drive. And another thing is that Fefnir is an OC, just to let you all know. Oh well, stay tuned for the next chapter.

The next chapter will be is called 'Chapter 2: Shiki's New Found Hope' and here's a scene from it I had written all ready.

"Shiki-kun, you will listen to me and hand over Len to me." Ciel demands. Len is hiding behind Shiki in fear of Ciel in her battle suit.

"No, not until you tell me why! WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT LEN FOR?!" Shiki yells out loud so everyone could hear him. Akiha stays silent, she never heard him talk like that before. Ciel calms down and goes quiet. Len just looks up at Shiki. "First that Fefnir guy wants to take Len and kill me, then YOU..." Shiki points at Akiha. "want to drink her blood for some reason. And now you Ciel. What's the deal here?"

"Shiki..." Len whispers to herself.

"Shiki-kun. You don't understand-"

"Oh yes I do. Everyone around me wants Len for some crazy reason. And I'm sure you're not different." Shiki states.

"Shiki-kun...you should know something about Len..." (Zero cuts off the scene from there.)

Zero: Sorry about that...err...I guess the next chapter will just come when it comes...sorry. Bye minna-san...