The late spring blossoming trees of the Sakuras were beautiful to this wonderful season. Everything about the spring's blossoms was a magnificent one that just makes a person literally jump for joy. Its radiating scent and majesty mix with the everyday fast human working world of those who had no time to admire its beauty. The soft petals kissed the top of a young dark brunette's hair sticking to it like glue. She reached up to grab the pink substance that landed on her head.
"Sakura blossoms…now that I think of it; I've never really stopped to admire its beauty."
She stared at the huge colossal tree that nested the pretty pink flowers and separated itself from humans in the subterranean of the forest, its blossoms fluttering to earth with its magnificent.
The brown haired girl stared at it for about 5 minutes till she shrieked and had to remember where she was going. "Oh I'm late, I'm really late!" She ran down into the forests whizzing past scenery, like a mash of green blur, and stopped at the house she had arrived at.
"*Pants* Made it…hope they won't…won't fire me. Whew!" she walked the dirt pathway that led to a Shikoku Mura style house that had brown wooden steps that led to the entrance of the sliding door. The black lining of the main roof had chips of paint raining down to the ground and gray sad windows giving it a ghostly reflection, a topiary garden surrounding the exterior of the house bringing a little beauty to its lack of luster.
She timidly knocked on the black door that had an embedded gold script in the middle that spelled in kanji letters 'Yamazaki'. A tall ghostly pale man in about his forties answered the door and was wearing a business like suit. He had black hair that was turning a bit gray at the top and piercing apple red eyes that could destroy a person's mind mentally.
"Um, h-hi Mr. Yamazaki, I'm sorry I am late. It won't happen again."
She said bowing respectfully. The man's unemotional face didn't change a bit. He stared at the girl's appearance. Her hair was in a loose ponytail, the strays sticking to her sweaty skin. She wore a vivacious yellow and white striped spaghetti top with a black jeans jacket over it and a purple and blue book bag; light khaki shorts the wobbly strings waving wildly in place, also red white blue and green shoes.
"It better not happen again or this 'mistake' can decline your payment." He said calmly. The brunette shakes her head vigorously in response.
"Don't worry I'll be on time every day, even before the sun awakes!"
She put her hand to her forehead and waved off like a general salute; he simply hmm. Mr. Yamazaki let her inside into the interior design of an ordinary modernized Japanese house. They both took off their shoes and placed them at the entrance putting on house slippers. He opened the fusuma, which led the both of them into a room that was the living room which the usual lacking of furniture had a 4 ½ tatami, a giant dark amethyst soft plush sofa that sat across the family's T.V.
Another single black armchair sat vertically, next to the T.V., with the main table in front of it which held a blue coffee mug sitting on top of small white cloth. He motioned for her to sit on the couch as he dragged the table back in place and sat in the armchair.
He crossed his fingers examining her carefully, making more sweat spill from the nervous girl. She was passing out flyers for a babysitting job for a little hard earned money. Mr. Yamazaki had chose her because on the flyer it said she was hardworking, determined, and loyal, and it didn't matter on how much you could pay her she was willing to the job. If this girl kept true to her word, she would keep her job. He kept his intensifying gaze licking his dry lips at the nervously smiling happy brunette until she broke the ice.
"Um…I--"
"What are your qualifications, Chikako?" he interrupted her. The young brunette shot up when sudden name spoken.
"Oh um, I make good grades, A's and B's, I am very friendly with children and I have a résumé that qualifies my community service hours with the little bundles of joy." She smiled gleefully while pulling out a white sheet of paper from her book bag and handed it to the ghostly neighbor. He took it and scanned his monotonous eyes over the document. He seemed amused.
"I am very pleased that you would overexert yourself to so many activities like, Meals on Wheels?" he eyes glazed over to the sheepishly smiling Chikako.
"Well, you know gotta help the elderly!" she swayed her body happily. He amused himself. She was set to kind for her own good. She was friendly with children, so why not? But his child was not the usual kind like any other. Her experience will need to double before she could handle the monstrosity that slept on the comfort of his crib.
"It also says you hold a second job, fast food worker at Wacdonalds is it?" Chikako nodded her head vigorously. Chikako was always the energetic employee of the month, four times, but hey who's counting? He plastered an evil toothy grin across his pale face that launched shivers down her spine.
"Let's put your skills to a test. Come, follow me child."
He gestured for her to get up and followed him up the stairs where the 'devil' child was supposedly to lay. He opened the fusuma and the bundle of joy laid resting upon the black crib, childish toys hanging above him for entertainment. He stirred awake when he heard the presence of two adults walking in.
Like any other normal baby would do, he started bawling for hunger, wetness, or still didn't get enough sleep and Chikako reacted fast on her heels. She held the black haired, brownish reddish eyed baby in her arms swaying him side to side like a nurturing mother.
Mr. Yamazaki grinned devilishly, "Your first task is to figure what he wants." Chikako nodded.
"Okay, but uh where's the bottle?" he pointed to the southeast of him where they had just travelled from the washitsu. She put the baby down gently and speeded into the kitchen to find the bottle and the baby formula mix.
'So vulnerable and yet so weak, I could take the life out of her just that quick. ' he thought lustfully.
But damn society rules for being the way they are and him and his family had to remain a secret for they were the last of their kin on earth. But why even let such an unreliable filthy human wander aimlessly in their home. She could tell the police and bam they would cease to exist from oblivion. That damn baby. If only he hadn't to work so hard away from home that damned baby wouldn't be begging for motherly love which he couldn't give as terribly he was suppose to be. For now they could only rely on her.
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"Okay, hot water, baby mix, and um of course the bottle!" Chikako rummaged through the family's cabinets and succeeded in finding a blue bottle with a clear suckle. She combined the ingredients together and shook it. When done she test it to make sure it was too hot. Perfect, just the right temperature. She trotted back upstairs to the room. Mr. Yamazaki was sitting on a chair right next to the door while the baby continued its endless crying. She cradled him trying to appease his thunderous cries and swayed him softly to get him to drink his formula.
"Wow, your son is a big boy. Not to be rude, but how old is he?" She sat in a chair next to the crib and glance her dark blue eyes over to the father.
"I would say about seven or eight months considering he is almost big enough to crawl on his own." She nodded. Mr. Yamazaki, having nothing else to do, stands up and heads towards the door to leave.
"You seem to know what you're doing; I have no more reason to bother you much further." Chikako continued feeding the baby and nodded. "But would it be a bother for you to wake up my other son, he's been sleeping his ass far too much this week." Chikako looked at him bewildered. He never said he had another son.
"N-no bother at all."
He nodded and went his way. The baby was still awake and stopped crying and half the formula was gulped. Chikako held the baby in her arms and went to where she assumed the other son's room was located. She timidly knocked black wooden door to the room. Strange, it seemed like almost everything in the house was black; the walls, the doors, like it was their favorite color. The door was slightly ajar so it opened halfway by itself. At least the walls inside the room were dark red, like Chikako's favorite color.
"Oh um sorry, but uh your father said to wake up…" she walked into the room with the quiet baby and turned her head to the right to see his purple bed was hiding behind the door. He slept soundly like a peaceful angel and he was half naked. No shirt, all torso. Chikako blush the same color like the father's eyes. "Holy crap!"
"Isn't that…" "Xavier, it's time to wake up." 5:28 in the afternoon. Who would sleep that long? Xavier stirred a bit to the sound of soft voices repeating his name. "Xavier, Xavier it's time to wake up!" He opened his vibrant red eyes to a blushing blue eyed brown haired wench.
"Who the hell are you?!" he spat irritably. Guess the family wasn't afternoon people. Chikako cringed back from the sudden anger in his voice. She cleared her throat, "I'm Satō Chikako, remember we go to the same school Gesshoku Itami High, you're in the same classes as me." She smiled warmly. "It's weird; I didn't think he even lived here." Xavier seemed to blink as if he processed the given information.
"Why are you here though?" His anger increased by two percent when he saw she was holding his brother. He sat upright and pulled on a red and black shirt with a black jacket from his clothes hamper and wore it much to Chikako's delight.
"Well, I was hired by your dad to babysit your brother but I never knew you lived here too."
"Shocking, isn't it!" he said with dry sarcasm. Chikako rolled her eyes and smiled. "Um, are you hungry?"
"You were hired here to babysit my younger brother, not me. I'll feel like eating, when I want to." He proceeded to lay back into his bed. Chikako sighed and left his room to go downstairs with the now giggling baby. She smiled at him and makes more silly faces and frustrating grunts at him. He giggled as the both sat on the living room floor.
"Okay Ryo, start crawling to Chikako. Come on, you can do it!" she encourages the sitting still, confused baby. He started giggling when she made frustrating faces.
"C'mon Ryo, crawl to Chikako!" she demonstrated for him to follow. Ryo continued laughing. "Silly baby! C'mon, you can do it! You can do it!" she showed him a goofy smile.
"This girl is an idiot! Her face expressions are hilarious! What, she expects to teach a dog to crawl?" Ryo laughed at the now rolling girl.
"C'mon, Ryo! Crawl!" she sighed lying on her back. Ryo began crawling slowly and began tugging the brunette's ponytail. Chikako exclaimed happily and picked up the boy still grasping her shoulder length hair. "Yay, you did it!" she started clapping happily. She heard a deep voice chuckling to their selves. Mr. Yamazaki?
"You're treating him like a dog, besides he has always been able to crawl on his own." Said an amused Xavier. Chikako rolled her eyes. "I suppose you're hungry now, right?" Xavier nodded coyly. He clasped his hands together and started rubbing them.
"So wench, what kind of lunch have thou prepare for the 'prince'." He smiled as he jumped from the stairs and plopped himself onto the couch. Wench? Chikako quirked her eyebrow irritably.
"Oh no, no, no, I believe I heard that Xavier will feel like eating when Xavier wants to." She said in third person.
"Yeah and I'm feeling hungry wench so scurry into the kitchen and maketh me some food." She smiled.
"But I'm not your babysitter, so I respond to Ryo's demands only."Xavier stood up facing the girl, eye to eye.
"He can't talk so I suggest you makey with the foodie."
"He doesn't need to talk to tell me what he wants, so make your own food lazy."
"Oh, I guess Father will have to hear the terrible news of our useless maid not attending to any of Ryo's needs. You'll be fired on the spot."
"Babysitter! And your father won't fire me; he knows I'm good with kids, so blhht." She blew a raspberry at him. He grabbed her body closer to him and stared at her seductively.
"But your word against mine wouldn't matter." He whispered hoarsely. Chikako angrily pulled back and emitted a growl from her lips making Ryo laugh. Blackmailing. He had to do that! Chikako sat Ryo down in his highchair. She furiously pulled out an apple from the fridge and threw it at the approaching guy who caught it.
"There, lunch is served!" she wanted to storm out of there but was grabbed by the ponytail. Her entire body was then pulled closer into a warm surface. Xavier wrapped one arm around her abdomen and hooked the other around her neck holding the granny smith and put his head on the left of her shoulder. He smiled maliciously.
"Where do you think you're going? We're not done yet." He whispered seductively in her ear. Chikako started to shiver. He brought his cheek closer to her neck rubbing it. She froze in place.
"S-stop it, Xavier!" she tried pushing him away but his hold on her only tightened. He slipped a finger into the lining of her pants and traced around her curves. 'Nice soft skin.' He slipped out his warm tongue and started licking the side of her neck seducing her almost baring his fangs. Chikako screamed in terror. She had finally slipped away from him when he started laughing and released her.
"You're a sick pervert!" she wiped away the saliva quickly. Xavier smirked.
"Don't tell me you didn't enjoy that." She glared at him.
"No, I didn't," she started backing away from him.
"Aw how cute, you're blushing!" Chikako felt her face. Then she started blushing more.
"You took me by surprise, you big jerk!" Xavier wiped the tears of joy from his eyes. Alright enough teasing the maid- er babysitter before she gets really mad and leaves. Or so she thinks. Xavier winked at her and walked away eating the granny smith. Chikako was relieved, but was still fuming inside.
"I'm here for the extra money and just that!" she calmed herself and walked towards the smiling Ryo. "Oh, so you think this is funny?" Ryo only guffawed as Chikako sighed playing with him and his toys.
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10:03 p.m. Chikako had to get home so her poor gramps wouldn't starve to death. Where was Mr. Yamazaki? She made dinner for Ryo, including Xavier, and patiently waited for the dad.
"Hey, do you know when your dad's gonna be home?" she asked the chicken eating teenager. He shook his head 'no' and finished his food without drinking his water also did the now sleeping Ryo. His sippie cup was left untouched. Strange, she shrugged. She hummed a little song to herself.
Haruka sora hibiiteiru inori ha kiseki ni
Mayanaka no aoi ni todokete nagareteku namida no tsubu
mayoinaku tsutsumikomu nukumori ni deatta
masshiro na yuki no you ni doko mademo sunao na KOTOBA
tetsu no hane matotta boku wo ugokashiteku
Kizutsuku tabi ni yasashikunareru
kimi no sono egao dake mamorinukitai
negai ha hitotsu
toki wo koekizamareta kanashimi no kioku
massugu ni uketomeru kimi ha hikari no tenshi
ano hi mune ni tomotta eien no honoo
fukai yami tokihanatte jiyuu no TOBIRA hiraiteku
tsuyoku hatenai mirai heShe hummed the rest in her head until she felt warm hands grasping her shoulders. Ugh, the one and only person. Funny how he's the strong, quiet, resilient type at school, yet he has a different personality at home.
"You have an amazing voice, did you know that?" He smirked seeing the blush form on her face.
"T-thank-you, I guess…" she said timidly pushing her index fingers together. He rested his head on her shoulder again and whispered hoarsely.
"You know what will make you look cuter?"
"What?"
"If you wore a skirt." He pulled away to face the wrath of fury. Chikako turned around facing him with amusing eyes.
"Is being perverted the only thing you think of?" His smirked only widened.
"I don't know baby, do you want me to be perverted?"
"Don't call me 'baby'." He rolled his eyes. He then started playing in her hair and removed the blue scrunchie that held her ponytail and started running.
"H-hey! Give it back!" Her hair fell loosely at her shoulders as she chased the black haired teen.
"You look 10 times better without it!" he called over his shoulder. Chikako only increased her speed as he led her upstairs and into his room. He jumped into his bed follow suit by Chikako who tackled him both of them collapsing onto the floor with Chikako onto of him demanding her scrunchie while she pulled his shirt.
"Alright, alright don't hurt me!" he gave it back to her where she re-tied it letting some strands fall.
"Hah! That's right, you better give me back my scrunchie!" she yelled still sitting onto of the grinning boy.
"Alright you got your scrunchie back, so why are you still on top of me?" Chikako hadn't realized until she shrieked and backed away from him. Xavier chuckled and stood up helping the teen up. He pulled her closer to him and hugged her.
"You want me." He whispered.
"Yeah as soon as I get struck by lighting and my eyeballs ripped out, that'll happen." She said sarcastically. He pulled back and walked out his room leaving the brunette. She followed him downstairs and waited again for Mr. Yamazaki at the front door. She glanced over at Xavier who was mindlessly flipping through channels bored out of his mind. She joined him sitting on the couch at comfort's zone clearing her throat. Again she cleared her throat getting his attention.
"What?"
"Do I?"
"Do you what?"
"Do I really look cuter with my hair down?" she said staring at the tatami. Xavier shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah you do, a lot." His eyes were transfixed on a scary movie of a demon chasing a young girl to eat her alive. He smirked a bit when, from the corner of his eye, he saw her blushing. She did a lot of that today, even from little compliments and was so cute every time she blushed. She pulled out her scrunchie and let her hair snaked freely to her shoulders. She ran a hand through her hair and straightened her bangs.
Mr. Yamazaki came in the door with his authority stricken face acting like nothing ever amuses him. He glanced over at the smiling teenager who bowed respectfully for his coming home. He reached into his pocket and pulls out her payment and handed it to her. She accepted and bowed once more.
"Domo arigato!" she puts on her shoes leaving the slippers and leaves. Mr. Yamazaki nodded. Xavier gets up to head to his room, but his father stops him.
"Does she know?" Xavier cringed from his touch. He turns letting his father face his back.
"I'm not that stupid to reveal our secret. And what's worse is that you even let a human into our house." His father straightened his posture.
"You know you and I can't even properly take care of Ryo. We need her. And even if she does know, we can always 'rid' of her immediately." He licked his lips tastefully. Xavier eyes widened. He angrily turned to face his parental unit.
"Don't you dare lay a hand on her, or I swear I'll kill you!" he pointed at his father's face. But, Mr. Yamazaki only smirked at his threat.
"Such loyalty…misplaced. You almost seem to love her…like your filthy human mother." Xavier did the unthinkable; he charged right ahead to punch his father who only grabbed his wrist and threw him against the blacken wall injuring him.
"So weak, like the humans. It's even a bother we let them live on this world seeing that they nearly wiped our entire generation. A fool you are, such a weak half demonic fool."
Xavier rose on his knees wiping blood from his mouth staring at his father. "If you hate them so much, why you would mate with one?" he had a whimsical smile on his face.
"It was a mistake, never intended to happen." His father left the room leaving an angry scowl on the eldest son's face.
"Someday you'll learn…but before that happens I will kill you." Xavier thought bitterly.
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Okay, another new story from moi. Plz r&r and before we sign off let's learn a little Japanese words from the story.
Sakuras: Of course 'cherry blossoms'
Shikoku Mura: Um, you may need to find that one out because I only got the house and not the entire history.
Kanji: A writing system for Japanese that uses pictorial characters based largely on Chinese ideograms.
Fusuma: Thick paper-covered sliding door.
Tatami: Covering base floor mat
Washitsu: Japanese living room
Domo arigato: Thank-you
Also the song used in here is Eternal Blaze by Nana Mizuki. Here's the English translation:
"Resonating in the far sky are your prayers turning into miracles.
My overflowing tear drops dissolved into the blue midnight,
and without hesitation, I was drawn in and met you in a warm encounter.
Your honest words where as white as now,
I collected my iron feathers and started to move.
Each time you get hurt, you become nicer.
I just want to protect that smile of yours till the end
That is my only wish.
My sad memories transcended through time
The one who will accept them is you the goddess of light.
What shined that day was the eternal blaze of your heart.
Ill break away from my darkness, the door to my freedom
and strong unending future is opening."
And if you guys can figure out what species the family is your prize will be the next chapter. Plz r&r :)!
