Emotionless Love
Chapter Two: New Acquaintances, New Discoveries
Flashback-Edward's POV- 13 years ago-(continue)
I couldn't believe what I was reading. Bella. My Bella. Had told me in her letter not to follow her. Follow her where?
"To the past life." This girl answered who she proclaimed to be Bella's cousin. She looked at me as if I was asking these questions out loud. Without even standing, I started to ask her various questions. Luckily, she had the answers I was looking for. She had been visiting Bella and Charlie for a year now and she too came back to the house, seeing it in flames.
"I remember that same week she was writing that letter to you. I asked her why such harsh words and well....." I stood up and gave her pleading look, " well, she said that she didn't want to see you."
I guess I understood what Bella meant, but I didn't want to. How could she do this to me? Why couldn't she just live her life as I expected her to? How could she expect me to keep living without her?
Moments later I realized that the girl was walking away, I didn't even ask for her name.
" Well, my job here is done. I'm going home." she said and disappeared into the trees. Frankly I didn't care what she did with herself. Bella is gone, the love of my life, no, my whole existence is gone. Worst, she tells me not to follow her in death. Had I really hurt her to such an extent?
I decided to go back to the house and check out the damage. The house was burned to the ground. Practically everything was gone. I searched through the debris only to find the stuff I had hidden away from Bella. The picture of us,which didn't burn completely, the plane tickets Carlisle and Esme gave her to visit Renee with which she'll never get to do and lastly the CD I made her. Which somehow survived. May I never play that song again. How can I? Bella won't be there to hear me play it. I miss her. I've missed her for that past year. I won't ever fall in love again. I can't. I won't. I will forever love Isabella Swan-even through death-
-End of Flashback-
14 Years Later
"Edward?" my adoptive sister Alice called.
"Yes" I answered snapping out of my thoughts. I looked around at my family faces and saw their miserable expressions. I can't bear to see them like this. I've got to get out of here. Because of my stupidity I let them suffer. And this is my punishment.
Alice's POV
"Edward wait a ---" Honestly, he can be such a child sometimes. Doesn't he know that we're all grieving too?
I lost my best friend, my sister. We lost a valuable member of our family. Esme treated Bella as one of her own. Every so often she would break down in sobs and Carlisle or Jasper would try and calm her but that rarely works.
And poor Jaz, its hard on him to keep all the emotions in check, let alone not feel responsible for what happen. That vision I had of Edward dry sobbing infron of...Bella's grave, I will never forget that vision.
Normal POV( In third person)
Aro, Marcus, Caius and all the guards were present for the arrival of the second largest coven, the Toudou coven.
"Akira my friend!! It is an honor to have you present for my birthday!!" Aro greeted with the traditional Japanese bow.
"Yes well its not everyday that you celebrate your five-thousandth birthday Aro" A tall man with auburn brown hair who looked like he was in his thirties responded. Akira Toudou, is the head of the Toudou coven and is highly respected for his gifts. Other than both covens being completely friendly to each other, truthfully the Volturis are very intimidated by Akira and his coven. Occupied by Akira were his eight guards, four of those eight guards are his most trusted and closest to him. The other four are mere understudies to the first four(names not really important)
" These must be your guards, am I not correct?" Aro asked eyeing the cloaked group.
"Yes and recently I have acquired a new addition to my guards, Hitomi." Akira introduced motioning to his left a medium size vampire wearing a light blue cloak covering everyone inch of her body leaving her mouth visible. To her left stood her partner in the same coloured cloak. To the right of Akira stood another pair of guards but in velvet red cloaks.
"I've already seen all of their faces"-he motioned to the other seven- "but may I have the honor of seeing Miss Hitomi's lovely face?" Aro smiled, perverted.
Her partner stepped in front of her and Akira blocked their view altogether, " I'm sorry Aro, but I was planning on keeping her identity secret til the night of your party, as a surprise." Akira answered.
"Akira-sama" called the vampire wearing the velvet red cloak and began whispering into his ear in fluent japanese. Akira nodded his head and the same vampire motioned something to the other four guards and all disappeared into the shadows.
"Is that Miss Lina's voice I recognize?" Aro asked.
The female turned her attention to Aro and gracefully lifted off her hood, " It had been a long time Aro-sama" Lina greeted bowing her head causing Aro to do the same in respect.
" Jane, be a good child and please escort the Toudou`s to their room" And the little vampire appeared and bowed her head.
As Jane walked in front of the coven when Hitomi spoke, "Sill weak from our last encounter Jane?"
Jane glared at her and let out a high pitch screech, causing everyone to flinch.
"Hitomi." Akira disciplined her in a serious tone and she immediately silenced herself.
Edward's POV
I couldn't stand being in the same room as my family. I couldn't bare to look at them and remember what I had put them through. What my stupidity did.
I needed air, though technically we vampires can't breathe but I just needed to get out. As I walked along the Volturi's home, I couldn't help but feel disgusted by being here. As I came closer to the end of the hallway I suddenly stopped and heard a familiar high pitch scream. Jane. God how that little vampire is frightening. I noticed a unfamiliar group of vampires were walking in the opposite direction. From what I`m guessing the tall man between the four was the head. I continued walking not even bothering to make eye contact with them but the moment they walked past me and I them it hit me like a rock, Freesia`s. I couldn`t help but stop and turned around. It couldn`t be. Is my mind playing tricks with me? No, its not possible. She is dead, right?
Normal POV
When the Toudous were settled into their temporary room and it was secure both inside and outside, the three remaining guards pulled off their hoods. Hitomi on the other hand was asked to keep her hood on for other purposes and personally she preferred to keep it on.
"Honestly, that Aro freaks the shit outta me" Lina stated, "Really, am I the only one who is freaked out by that man or what!?"
" Its just you Lina" a tall, pale man who looks like he's in his twenties replied. He had dark chestnut brown hair and looked around six foot five.
" Well you know what Kaname? Technically you feel it too because you feel what I feel so there" Lina shot back sticking out her tongue.
"Very mature Lina" Hitomi said causing a harmony of laughter around the room.
Two days Later
Every coven and vampire were present for Aro's birthday and the celebration took place in a medival style ballroom, which looked about half the size of a football field.
Everyone was seated on a balcony peering down at a clearing where the entertainment entertained. The decor of Aro's party was red silk and silver table wear. The chandelier hanging down in the middle had a faint glow to it bringing out everyone's beautiful features. Soft music played in the background as everyone enjoyed the evening.
Aro's most important guests were seated in the same table as him and everyone else and their covens sat around him.( A/n picture a square opening looking down) To the left of Aro seated Akira and his two bodyguards standing behind him. And beside Akira seated Carlisle and Esme.
"You must be the famous Carlisle Cullen I've heard about" Akira said extending his hand as a greeting.
" I wouldn't say famous but yes I am, and you must be Akira. Aro had mentioned about your presence." Carlisle shook his hand politely. "This is my wife Esme."
" It is a pleasure to meet Mrs. Cullen." Akira bowed his head to her. "I've heard stories about your gifted coven Carlisle and I am very impressed by them, you use them as your guards?"
" This is where you are mistaken my friend. Those five are not my coven or bodyguards but my children. They are purely my family."
Akira stared at him in shock and collected himself, " Please forgive my rudeness, I hope I did not offend. I too treat my guards as my own." Akira apologized, " Carlisle, I've also heard that you and your family are vegetarians, is that true?"
"You've have heard correct, we prefer to feed on animals and I take it that you feed on those part of society?"
"In fact we do, you can't honestly expect the second-in-command coven to be vegetarian, what would others think? But that doesn't mean I don't have others in my coven who drink animal blood."
" Oh really? Are any of them present with you now that are like us?" Carlisle asked sounding very intrigued.
"Why my guard Hitomi is in fact a vegetarian, she only just joined a few years ago"Akira motioned for her to step forward, "Hitomi, please say hello to Carlisle Cullen and his wife."
In the shadows the girl known as Hitomi stepped out into the light dressed in her light blue cloak only revealing her pink lips, " Konbonwa (good evening) Cullen-sama" she greeted politely and bowed.
At the next table over, not far from the main table Edward and the other Cullens were seat along with the Toudou's. Edward wasn't paying attention to the conversations but staring blankly at nothing. Then, two thoughts he heard snapped him out of his boredom. One thought, was his adoptive father Carlisle and one was one he did not know of. If it had been a smaller room he would be able to pin point the person but there was at least over a thousand guests. ' This Hitomi really intrigues me a lot, I wonder if I could talk to her and ask some questions, certainly one of which why she covers herself up like that.' Because of that, Edward himself looked toward his direction and stared at the mysterious girl. Then he turned back his attention to the other thought. ' Damn it all, because of that poor excuse of a vampire here, she's been even more quiet.'
"Excuse me?" Edward blurted out forgetting where he's currently at. Everyone at the table turned their heads towards him.
"Is something the matter Cullen-san?" one of the guards in the velvet red cloak asked. Before Edward had a chance to answer Alice elbowed him in the gut ' What's the matter with you?' she thought.
" Sorry, I was just thinking." Edward answering glaring at Alice. All the Cullen siblings eyed the coven and all wondered why they hide their faces. They didn't want to ask but they all stared at Emmett, who was waiting for someone to say something so he could crack a joke.
"Since all of you are at the edge of your seats just wondering why we wear these cloaks is because we wear it out of respect for our master. And since we don't know anyone here, we cover up. But since I know one of you I can let mine down." explained the same vampire in the velvet red cloak sitting beside her partner and Jasper looking across the table at Edward. A pair of olive tan hands with numerous rings on, swiftly and gracefully lifted off her hood. Revealing her jet black hair and red eyes. In result causing Edward to gasped in shock.
" You...." he tried to spit out the words.
" Yo, been a long time hasn't it Edward?"
-End of Chapter-
SilverCrossesBurningRoses- Well that ends Chapter YOU EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED. I just want to remind you that in this story there will some Japanese in it but fear not I will have the meaning of it in brackets.
If you have noticed the Toudou's address the Cullens differently, I will explain that. In Japan it is polite to address someone in different suffixes.
"-Sama/ -Dono" Is used when adressing someone of a higher rank (i.e King, Lord, etc)
"-San" Is used when addressing someone you've just met.
" -Kun, -Chan, or just name" Is used when you know the person and you're somewhat close to them.
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