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Summary: Mimiko's past suddenly haunt her. Is it a fragment of her memory or is it just nightmares at night that would go away at a certain time? On the other hand, Jiro became aware of Mimiko but was being held back by the memories of his past lover, Alice Eve. How would the story go for the two? Read and Find Out. Please Read and Review and Enjoy.
Chapter One: Memories
For an orphan that has no memories of the past like me, everything started on that particular but random encounter with the head of the department I'm currently working at, Mr. Jinai. The memories I have on that first encounter with him was so vivid, I could still remember what he looked like and what he told me and even the place we met and what the place looked like. I am not that sure but I guess we were in Hong Kong back then, everything around me were dust that were being flown away by the wind while I stand on the middle ground looking at the oblivion that clouds my way. I didn't move even a little, when someone out of the dusty road ahead appeared. He looked like in his twenties and he wore a black coat with a Tommy gun on his right hand. He has a cut on his face but no blood flowed from it. He walked towards my direction and points his gun at me, his eyes back then were furious and it has no emotions at all, I didn't move and looked at him. He fired it but it missed me.
"You're not one of them, come with me. You must've been scared." He said as he smiled at me. I just looked at him at that time as he carries me in his back towards their camp and there he let me took a rest.
A week after that, he brought me with him at his house somewhere then a day after that we went to what we now called Special Zone. It was an unlikely place for a child like me to live; he told me that the said place was being occupied by the so-called vampires which co-exist with humans. At first, I didn't know what the difference between a vampire and human is until he put me into school. I learned from the school that vampires suck blood out from humans in order to live and there once a war that happened at Hong Kong, which is now famous for the name of Sacred War, which unified the race of vampires and humans in order to annihilate the Kowloon children. During my childhood days, I stayed at his house for some years until I can go to work and earn money for myself. He stood as a father and mother to me at that time and I'm very thankful for that fateful day.
Right now, I'm leading a blissful life without any problems, maybe there are some but they're just little ones and doesn't affect that much in my life. Days had passed and everything became a routine for me but one day I receive that hateful call early in the morning telling me to work. I was sent at a beach outside the boundaries of special zone, there was a report that there was a vampire in that area and is causing too much commotion on the people around so I, as a compromiser of the company, must clean this mess made up by that vampire and because of that, the Mochizuki's and I became acquainted to each other.
I didn't know anything about them at that time except that they're siblings and that they're the only ones who have that kind of bloodline aside from that, they were planning to go inside the special zone for a personal reason, they didn't tell me why. I tried to interrogate them but I failed and so I give up, maybe later on they'll tell me who they really are and their reasons behind for wanting to go at the special zone. Days had passed and many unusual thing happened to me while I'm with the Mochizuki's, at first we were attacked by the suppression team of the company then we learned that there were Kowloon children on Miss Wong's party and my blood was being sucked by Jiro. Even though it was prohibited, I let him do it. The Mochizuki's reach the special zone but to where Jiro and Kotaro are, there is always trouble. I don't know if they are troublemakers but I believe that they're good persons.
Days had passed and many more things happened, Jiro wasn't allowed to stay at the special zone then my apartment was being burnt and the worst, there are Kowloon Children who infiltrate the Special Zone. It seems like history repeat itself since it started like how the sacred war started and probably ends like how it ends during the Sacred War. During the chaos, Jiro and I have a little bit of argument which ends up a whirl of instance where in Jiro used his eye raid in me and I said something that I didn't now how I come up with it. Also during that time, when we met with the Walker, Jiro protected me and in return I gave him my blood. Because of that, I regain the resonance and overheard everything about the eleventh yard. In addition to that, I discovered who Kotaro is for Jiro and what lies ahead for the silver blade.
Overhearing Jiro's conversation with Mr. Jinai about the Eleventh Yard and the truth behind the Special Zone makes me feel unease. I don't know why it is like that but I'm quite sure that it has something about my past. Within my ten years stay here on the Special Zone, I never ever think about my past, it never came to my mind to look for the things I forgot anyway no one looked for my past. I'm happy how things are before I knew the existence of the Eleventh Yard.
"The Kowloon King's Ashes were buried at the Eleventh Yard; therefore the Special zone is a massive graveyard of the Great King of the Kowloon Bloodline…" Mr. Jinai told Jiro about it and I can't take it away from my mind.
After that event, it seems normal for me, well aside from the fact that Jiro and I are now partners in crime and are living together under one roof together with Kotaro.
"When the right time comes, I'll give to him my blood."
"What will happen to you then?"
"He'll probably drain all of my blood so maybe I'll die."
Kotaro, with that innocence, who would've thought that in the end he'll murder his brother just to return to him what he owns, but wouldn't it too much? Days have passed after the chaotic events have happened; everything inside the special zone was now under control and is safe the only thing that is chaotic is my mind and my heart.
Each day that pass by, little by little, I became aware of Jiro's existence. Every time I looked at his lips during morning, I always remember how it feels like when it touches my skin and the ecstasy that it gives me whenever he sucks my blood.
"Mimiko, you're drooling" he always says that each time he catches me every morning day dreaming. As usual I'll reply him with something so loud like "I'm NOT drooling" then we'll be in a fight. Well, it just a light fight and after we ate, we'll make up.
Today's a bit different though. When I woke up, I sense no one's around the house since usually every morning Kotaro would always wake me up with a loud scream and a warm smile on his face but today he's no where of sight. When I went down, I find a piece of rose lying in the floor and with the rose, there's a letter in it. It was kind of nostalgic but I know why, I picked up the rose and read the letter.
"Meet us in the park today in 7 in the morning don't be late. -Jiro"
Is it a date with Jiro? Nah! That couldn't be possible. Wait! What time is it? Then I looked at the clock and it is about 6:30. Oh my! I'll be late. I hurried towards my room to change my clothes. I pick the white dress that I used to wear when Mr. Jinai found me way back, it was pretty ruined back then but I always go to the dressmaker to repair it, so right now it fits me well. I run towards the park where he told me to go, but he's nowhere to be found. I looked around the park and saw under a big shady tree a bouquet of white roses, I walked towards it and slowly I picked it up. At first I was hesitant but oh well no one dares to care about this bouquet of roses. I smelled the white roses and then a note fell down from it.
"Go Meet Rinsuke at the Coffee and Tea shop, he'll be waiting for you there. -Jiro"
"What in the world is he really up to?! He wants me to go here and now there! Is he nuts?!" I shouted without even giving it a second thought. To think that he would waste my precious time for this! Urgh! I should be at work at this point in time, I hope Mr. Jinai wouldn't mind if I will be pretty late for my work. Jiro if I see you, I'll pour you some water so that you'll learn! I said to myself.
I went inside the shop while stomping my feet like a little kid. I glance through at the people inside the shop and looked for Rinsuke. I spotted him at the most shady corner of the shop with his gloomy face, I'm wondering why is he like that? I went near him as he slowly raised his head towards my direction.
"You must've been tired, here's a little compensation from Jiro." He said gleefully as he showed me a piece of a red ball candy.
"What's that?" I asked him pointing at the odd thing at his hand as I grab a chair and sat across him.
"Jiro told me to give it to you, he even wake me up for this. Jiro-chan's is such a meanie!" he told me. After that, he ended up jabbering at me his tantrums he goes through when Jiro asked him to do a single favor. I grabbed the candy from his hand and eat it wholeheartedly. It has a bloody red color and it tastes like rusty metal but in at the latter part, it became sweet. Is it coated with blood? Somehow, it rejuvenates my senses. The sweetness that melts down inside my mouth, like a chocolate, by some means lessens my wearisome state and refills my energy without any reason at all.
"Mimiko-chan, he said to me that when you eat it don't bite it. Just let it melt in your mouth." I do what he told me to do and I enjoy what I am eating right now.
"Oh, what happen if I bite it?" I asked out of curiosity, I wanted to know whether it has a surprise center just like other treats that I have eaten before.
"Hmm… I don't know… but don't try." He said while looking at me, as if he is challenging me to try it. I looked at him while he looked away and called the waitress' attention. He ordered a parfait and a gelato and glanced at my way again. I became irritated because of how he looked at me, I wanted to see right now if what surprise awaited me, but I hesitate to bite it since it doesn't seem so soft.
"Don't try Mimiko." He said again with the same look as before. The candy seems loose now so I took a bite out of it but it just hurt my teeth. What's this?! It's something hard, like a stone. I put my left hand to my cheeks to soothe the pain even though logically it doesn't help at all. He looked at me while giggling all by himself, as if what he saw was so very funny.
"I never thought you'd really do it." He said to me as he handed me a piece of paper. First, I took the hard thing from my mouth and was shocked to found that it's a small pendant a really, really small pendant that is made up of a white crystal, a diamond perhaps. What should I do with this piece of pendant? I looked at the piece of paper to see whether it'll explain something about the pendant but there's none. I asked Rinsuke about the ornament that I've obtained but he only told me that I need to keep it for some reasons, he doesn't tell me the reasons though. He also told me that he file me a leave so that it's alright if I'd be absent for today and take my time at moving around special zone.
Moving around? What's with the moving around thing? Is Jiro making fun of me? What's with this bouquet, me on a leave and the candy with a pendant on it? What's happening to him? Is he gone mad already? He even asked me to go at Zelman Clock's Mansion. Is he gone mad? I want to throw a tantrum right now but I guess it will only do me no good so I leave the thought. I walked towards the Mansion of Zelman Clock and knock. The girl we once saw when we battle Ogist Weisser appeared in front of me. She smiled at me and said that the Mochizuki's are waiting inside the mansion but I still can't enter with the dress that I wear today, she told me that I wouldn't fit in so she led me to a dress shop and looked for a dress that would fit me. She ordered me around the shop telling me to get this thing and that thing and those. I got tired so I sat down. She looked at me telling me that a girl must not lose her poise even though she's tired. She sat beside me with a good sitting posture as if she's trying to intimidate me. I felt inferior so I stood up huskily.
"I TOLD YOU MUST NOT LOSE YOUR POISE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS" What's with this things she's lecturing me being a lady-like or something? It is as if I'm going to attend a perilous party that would determine my life's stake.
"What would the silver blade do if I'm not here to teach you proper decorum?" What's with this? Now telling me that Jiro needs her or something in order for him to survive and that she's of great value than other things around her.
"Now let's go and fit things in that room." She ordered at me as she dragged me at the dressing room at a corner of the shop.
First, she let me wear a long red tube gown with jewels on the hem. I put it on but it doesn't fit me well, the bust is quite too big for me and the waist is too tight for me. She told me that it doesn't look good on me. Then she gave me a blue off shoulder dress with white embroidery of cherry blossoms in its hem. I try it on but I guess it doesn't look good on me, she also thinks the same way as I do. She gave me a white flowing dress with black ribbons on its waist and has this lacey hem that reaches until my legs. It's kind of itchy but it's fine, she looked at me but I receive that disapproving look. At last, the last dress, it was again white, it's a knee-high backless dress. The dress was made with a light flowing type of cloth. She scrutinizes every angle of me like a predator while looking for its prey. She glared at me, walking around me while her right hand was placed under her chin. She looked at my face and smiled.
"I don't think that plain clothes would fit you but this one fits you well. The only thing that's lacking is your accessories." She said happily at me. We went again at the stores and looked for the right accessories but it seems nothing would compliment that plain dress we bought earlier. We took a bite and rest at a shop, and resume afterwards to the bloody walk which took us almost all day. It's hard walking around the special zone since its quite big and travelling by foot was not highly encouraged. We browsed again and went on the last boutique we haven't visited today; there they have ribbons and shoes that have ribbons in it. She bought a three inch white stiletto with weird strings attached to it. At last we went back at the mansion; it is almost dark and I haven't seen Jiro for the whole day. Where's that guy! I want to curse him for treating me like this! I'm dead tired of everything that has happened today. I want to rest but the girl I'm with doesn't want me. Wait! What's her name again? Oh I guess it is Sayaka. We've been together for almost a day and yet I don't know her name, what a shame.
She looked at me and again shouted at me. "YOUR POISE!" I immediately stood in attention. Oh gawd! I'm tired and this prattling brat doesn't stop on nagging at me. What have I done to be treated like this? She led me inside the mansion and escort me to a room, there she ordered me to get dressed.
I did what she asked me to, I put on the dress we bought and even the stiletto she bought. I went out of the room without tying the strings of my shoes. As soon as I took my first step, I tripped; I thought I would fell flat on the floor but instead I felt a soft warm thing that hugs me tightly. When I looked at the person who held me, it was Jiro in his unusual white tuxedo attire. He looked unexpectedly gorgeous; his jet black hair was being tied in a ponytail while some of it falls at the contour of his face which adds to his charm, I know every girl that would see him like this would fall for him.
"Mimiko…" he said in a surprised tone.
"Jiro…" I said in a dazed tone.
I was being mesmerized with how he looked like. He took my breath away. Really! My heart even skipped for a second as soon as our eyes met. It took me some minutes before what happened settled in my mind. As soon as I recovered from the enthrallment that I experienced, I shove him and run away but I failed, instead, I fall backwards leaving my legs bare and open at the sight of Jiro. My face was flushed, I can tell it besides what would you expect my reaction would be when someone saw me in such a dire condition? I immediately covered my legs with my dress as I tried to stand up; Jiro aided me with a rubicund face. When I successfully stand upright, Jiro looked at me, and then at my feet.
"I don't know how to use such things. They are difficult to comprehend. Cute things like this don't match me very well." I told him shyly. Wait, I think this thing happened to me before or is it my imagination? I don't know but is it what they call a déjà vu? Jiro kneeled in front of me and tied the ribbons at my feet. The feeling of his hot breath on my skin makes shivers run down my spine and his touch makes every inch of my body tingle. I'm familiar of this kind of treatment and this weird feeling which makes my stomach start spinning and then a gush of events took place at my mind, at this state I don't know whether I'm dreaming or not.
I am in a dark room the ceiling's so high, the windows touched the ceiling and the floor, and the walls are tainted with darkness of the night. It was a moonless night. I saw two figures at the dark, one a little girl with long straight hair while the other is a tall boy, their figures are so vague that I only based my description on the image I hazily seen. At first, there's oblivion in the four corners of the room, after a while, the two persons inside the room are now talking to each other.
"Onii-sama! Please help me tie these silly things in my feet." She said in a childish manner, somehow we are alike.
"Silly Yue-chan. You must learn how to do this kind of thing! You're a lady right." The guy said to the girl. I can't see clearly what they're doing but perhaps it has something to do with the shoes, right?
"But Haru nii-sama I really don't know how to use this kind of shoes, aside from that they aren't cute at all, it has those frilly-frilly thing that annoys me much, I'd rather use a plain shoes that this." The girl protested.
"You're so meanie Yue-chan! Don't you know how much it cost me?" the guy said in agony.
"Look I'm wearing it so let me say what I want to say at least. Besides it was you who pursue me to dress up like this. Am I right nii-sama?"
"Eh… you're right gomen… gomen…" the guy said laughing. And then the next thing I heard were silent moans in the dark as the music from the outside hugs the darkness of the room.
After that all I can sense is oblivion.
End of Chapter One: Memories
Author's Notes: Hello Minna-san =) It's been a while since I published my last fanfic under the category of Gakuen Alice which is Forget Me Not. Sorry if I need to put some scenes from the original story, I need it in order to portray what happen before she has those nightmares and how she gain those nightmares that bothers her every night. I hope you liked this Chapter. It is quite long, sorry 'bout that. I hope there would be more to come. I hope =)… Please Review thanks. So tired… *yawn*