Part 1:
Night. Night was where she lived, where she was born, and where she hunted. Night and darkness was her home, she thrived there, hunting for her next meal. Silently, she moved briskly through the night, stalking her prey unnoticed. She was very selective, and she had come across the perfect meal tonight; no blemishes or disfigurations, no fat, nothing... perfect. Her target reached an apartment, and climbed the stairs. She followed in the shadows, invisible to any human, silent, and deadly. When the door opened, she slipped inside. A mere step, too fast to be seen. Hidden among the shadows, she waited; waiting for the perfect time to strike. It came quickly, she tried to be quick, gently biting her victim and piercing the soft neck tissue. Death came quick to the victim, who was too tired to put up a fight. It wouldn't have mattered anyway. She licked the remaining blood off her lips and disappeared into the night.
Shuuichi Minamino walked into his history class to find a girl he had never seen sitting in his seat. "Excuse me, he said walking up her, silently hoping she wasn't a crazed fan girl, "but that's my seat."
"Is it?" she replied apathetically, and continued to stare out the window. She brushed a strand of blond hair away from her eyes. He didn't need this, not today, it was Monday! "Can you move, please?"
"I am perfectly capable."
Shuuichi rolled his eyes, "Will you?" She seemed to consider it, before responding, flatly, "No."
Deciding against arguing further, he took an empty seat at the back of the class room, next to a pile of newspapers. One of the headlines caught his eye, "Strange Murders Breaking Out In Tokyo; Bite-Marks on Victims has (have?) Police Baffled." The news was, needless to say, unsettling.
It was a hot day for the end of fall, almost 85 degrees. He was drowning in the heat. The teacher's droning combine with the extreme weather was making him drowsy. He scribbled lazily in his notebook, half-listening to the teacher's lecture about a feudal Japan princess. The new girl didn't look like she wanted to be there, quite the opposite, in fact. He turned his limited attention back to the teacher, who was commenting on the peaceful time and the monarch's strange death. Shuuichi was alert when the teacher mentioned how she died, but before he could finish, the bell rang. Damn, of all the rotten times. Pandemonium erupted as the students filed out for lunch, but Shuuichi stayed to ask a question. He strode up to the teacher's desk, "Sir, how did the princess die again?"
"Well…"
Shuuichi stopped listening, something was bothering him. He felt a shiver begin to go up his spine. Suddenly Shuuichi felt the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. He spun around to see the last of a cold glare from the new girl's deep, gray eyes, before they continued down the hall.
The first thing Shuuichi noticed when he enter the lunch room, was the new girl sitting alone. Sighing, he went over to talk to her, He felt a little guilty, though he didn't know why. Maybe it was her eyes, that cold stare, like he had done something wrong. "Hi," he said, sitting down opposite her, "I think we got off on the wrong foot this morning..."
She cut him off snidely, "Brava, you actually think," she said like it was an amazing phenomena, "You're not a complete drooling monkey after all." He noted her annoying skill of being extremely sarcastic and very apathetic at the same time. Trying to keep his cool, he continued, "I'm Shuuichi Minamino."
"I'm not caring."
He was about to lose it then and there, but she continued, "No, that's my name, Nita Shimasu, it means 'does not care'."
The bell rang shortly after, and she simply got up and left without another word.
End of Part One:
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