Author's note: Yes, I do know that I should be updating something else but I had a thought about this at school today and…I always wanted to write a fic like this. (This is one of the stories that originally came from my old account)

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Shiki walked around the play ground. He was so bored of all the stupid humans around. But with mother always busy and maids not smart enough to tutor him, the young vampire had to go SOMEWHERE, and this 'somewhere' just turned out to be a human elementary school. Shiki was sorting through his thoughts when he heard a yelp.

Probably one of the stupid girls saw a bug, he thought darkly. All the same, he walked over to where the sound came from.

Sure enough, it was a girl who squealed but she was at the top of the monkey bars, shivering like a cat stuck in a tree. She was also a vampire. Shiki wrinkled his nose. Did he know her? It seemed like it. She had strawberry-blonde hair and big, beautiful cerulean eyes that were currently filled with fear. No one else seemed inclined to help her so Shiki shuffled over.

"Do you want help?" he asked her politely. The small girl nodded and then it clicked in his head. Touya Rima. That was her name. Her mother and his mother had been talking over lunch a few days ago.

"I can't get down," Rima explained lamely. Shiki almost smiled but stopped when he realized that it might not be the best thing to do.

"Jump and I'll catch you," Shiki said. Rima tensed.

"You won't catch me," she said as if she had heard the line many times but it had always been a lie.

Shiki frowned. There wasn't really much else he could do. If she didn't want to cooperate, then the stubborn girl could just stay up there. Not like it matter to Shiki…yet it felt like it did. He needed to help her.

"I promise that I'll always catch you," Shiki promised her. Rima's lower lip quivered.

"Always?" Rima asked him uncertainly.

Now Shiki smiled, the first genuine smile in a very long time.

"Always," he said. So the almost-stranger scrunched up her face as if hiding from a monster and pushed herself off the monkey bars. Shiki almost caught her.

To be honest, he hadn't really been thinking about her weight.

So Shiki fell over and Rima landed on his lap.

"You caught me!" she said with a small smile.

"I promised I would," Shiki reminded her. They got up and Rima took his hands.

"Can we be friends…for always?" she asked him sheepishly. Shiki didn't think about how the promise he made to himself: no friends.

Because sometimes, another little promise will come along and run over the first promise. Rima was the new little promise.

"Sure," he said and Rima hugged him tightly. It was an new experience for both of them because they were so used to be alone. But it was…nice, in a way.

And then they plunged witlessly into friendship, not counting on what may happen in the future; not wondering if something may happen and their promise of 'always' might be broken.

Because right then, nothing mattered.

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It was short, but I'm not really used to writing stuff like this. Remember: REVIEW!! Please?