Kizuna (Bonds)
Chapter 1
"Mommy, Mommy, look! I caught a caterpillar." A young redheaded girl with doe, pink eyes, wearing a green frock that came till her scabby knees, of about five years ran towards a blonde woman whose eyes mirrored her daughter's. She seemed to be in her early twenties. The woman put her book down and turned around to look at her daughter and saw that she indeed had caught a dull green caterpillar. Yui smiled at her daughter, Akari's antics. The redhead looked at her with excitement dancing in her eyes. She asked excitedly, "Can I keep it?" with a big toothy grin. Yui nodded and said, "Sure of course, sweetie." Akari hurriedly turned around and ran into her room.
Unlike most children, she wasn't afraid of bugs and insects. She wasn't even afraid of the dark. Yui was proud of her daughter for being brave. She sometimes reminded her of him. The platinum blonde shuddered a little. But how couldn't Akari remind her of him when she was his daughter. Yui sighed. Thinking about that… creature always scared her. How could someone so handsome be so demonic? This tells that appearances can be very deceiving.
Yui shook her head and continued reading her book. He may have turned her life upside down but just like every cloud has a silver lining, something good came out of that as well. She smiled when she thought of her little girl. Her daughter may have been result of a rape but she still loved Akari with all her heart.
No matter what he had done to her in the past, she will not let him ruin hers and Akari's future, Yui thought with determination. However, the young woman was surprised that he or the others hadn't managed to find her in the last five years. Of course, it wasn't like she ungrateful or anything, still it seemed suspicious. Yui sighed and got up to take a walk in the small garden outside their comfortable house. Since today was Sunday, she didn't have to go to work at the café.
She walked down the stone path and took a look around. The garden wasn't anything special but the blonde felt comfortable there. She was lucky that she had managed to rent a place like that. In the start, it had been difficult for her to find a place to live when she had escaped from that hellhole with the help of a certain silver-haired vampire but she managed to get a place anyways. Seems people did take pity on young, helpless, knocked-up teenagers, Yui mused.
The woman stayed outside for a while until it began to darken. She went in the kitchen prepared dinner for both herself and her daughter. When she called her daughter to dinner, she didn't answer. Yui called again but the young redhead didn't answer. The blonde grew worried and went to check in on her daughter in her room and found that she was fast asleep. When Yui reached her bed in an attempt to wake her up, she found a drawn picture lying beside her. It seemed that she had been drawing before going to sleep. When she looked closely at it, her heart skipped a beat. She picked up the drawing and stared hard at it. It seemed that her eyes hadn't betrayed her as she first thought.
The drawing wasn't very clear as it was done by a five year old but still it was very good considering her age. It showed a tall, young man with unruly red hair and pale skin. His facial features were not very clear but Yui could to bright green eyes. He seemed to be smiling He was wearing a white shirt with buttons opened all the way down the chest and a red scarf wrapped around his neck. He was also wearing a black blazer along with pants of the same color; however the right leg was rolled up to his knee. The young woman gulped when she saw the picture. How could her little girl draw something like this? How did she know that person? Well, she was going to find about it at dinner.
She put the drawing down and gently awoke her daughter, who groaned and her doe, red eyes fluttered as she awoke. "Mmm…Mama? What…time is…it?" Akari said, stifling a yawn. Yui smiled, momentarily forgetting about the picture. She ruffled her daughter's hair and said gently, "Time to get up, sleepy head. It's dinnertime." The redhead nodded and got out of her little bed and went to the bathe with red covers on it. Almost everything in her daughter's room seemed to be red. It was her favorite color after all. Just like him. After Yui got out of her room, with troubling thoughts, Akari soon followed suite except that she wasn't having troublesome musings like her mother. After they both ate dinner chatting about different things, Yui got up and did the dishes. Then she decided to interrogate Akari about the drawing.
"So, I saw the drawing you made earlier. I must say I am very impressed though where did you get the idea?" The blonde asked sitting beside her daughter on the sofa. She was currently watching her favorite anime on the television. Akari looked up from the screen and at her mother as she answered, "Oh, you mean Tomato-kun? You see, as I was drawing, a picture popped into my head and I drew it. Since his hair was so red like mine, I named him Tomato-kun since I couldn't give him my name." she giggled at the last part. Yui looked relieved that her daughter didn't know a thing about the subject of her drawing. "You sure have a creative imagination. That's my girl." She ruffled her daughter's hair proudly who just gave her a big toothy grin, both of them unaware of the figure who was watching them both longingly through the window discretely with his emerald eyes.