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SHIKI

Chapter 3: Jealousy

Everyone in the Night Class was talking about what happened before classes began.

It seemed no one blamed Rima for losing control since Kaori tried to mock her in front of everyone. I had hoped to try and stop it in time so Kaname wouldn't have seen. If she would have really injured Kaori things would have gotten really bad for her. She had never done anything to draw any type of negative attention to herself and Kaname didn't seem upset. I would have to try and talk to him about it.

"I'm sure she's going to be alright Shiki. Don't look too depressed, it'll make you get early wrinkles."

I was so caught up thinking I hadn't felt Takuma next to me.

"It's noth-"

"Thank you for protecting me today Shiki. I didn't know Rima was so short tempered." came the voice of Kaori, standing in front of my desk.

Looking uncomfortable Takuma gave me a small nod before leaving me alone with her.

She spoke again once he was gone leaning across my desk.

"Or should I say jealous?" she whispered in my ear.

I couldn't say anything to that.

Was she right? Had Rima been jealous? It was like having cold water thrown on me, no that wouldnt have really bothered me but I still remained silent.

I couldn't thinkof anything to say and she took advantage of that.

"I can read people really well, Shiki. I already told you, all you have to do is come find me and I'll tell you everything you want to know" she kept whispering in my ear, her long hair creating a curtain of blond around us.

I'm not sure what my face looked like, but it seemed to please her.

Smiling she walked away, back to her seat alone. This time not as many people in class seemed to be looking at us but they still were probably wondering what "that" was about.

"She sure is weird." Takuma said sitting beside me trying to lighten the mood but I could only think about what kaori said.

Was Rima really jealous? But jealous of what? This was the first time she saw Kaori. It didn't make any sense, then again Rima was so much like me I wasn't so surprised it didn't make much sense.

Just like me, Rima does things at her own pace.

"I'm going to get some air"

"ummmm ok then..."

I could tell that he wasn't sure if he should let me leave alone or not but watched me walk away without saying anything.

Popping a blood tablet into my mouth I left the room.


I stood in the middle of the quiet and dark hallway before deciding that it wuld be most likely that Rima would be in her dorm room. After all where else would she be going?

Exiting the school building I made my way into the campus grounds where all the trees and grass made everything beyond it look pitch black.

Even the moon that was shining fully and the stars that were there didn't seem to illuminate the passage way but it didn't bother me, after all I was a nocturnal creature.

I kept walking with nothing but silence and darkness when I heard a metal sound being pulled out very quick. I hurried more and before I knew it I came into a scene that stopped me.

That vampire hating vampire Zero was there standing infront of Rima pointing his Bloody Rose right at her face. I felt my blood boil and before I could even move there was another flash and into view came another vampire student.

I never saw him before but he was wearing the Night class uniform. He was a vampire. And he was standing between the gun and Rima keeping her safe.

Yuuki came into view not too long after and stopped Zero forcing him to pull away his weapon before she grabbed him by the arm and dragged him away.

I was grateful and felt myself calming down as Rima safely walked away from the scene when the new guy started to talk to her. I didn't understand this feeling of hatred for him that came from the moment he called out to her and she turned to him too, but that was nothing like what I felt when he took her hand and kissed it.

Rage built inside of me at that moment and I wanted to kill this vampire. To keep him away from Rima.

When I heard him say that he assumed who she was and introduced himself I decided to show myself before she had a chance to say anything to him.

Sensing someone behind her she turned around and looked surprised to see me standing right there.

"Rima are you alright from this afternoon?" I asked pretending that I hadn't seen anything of what just happened and working very hard to calm myself.

She looked at me still a little shocked before answering.

"Yeah, Im okay."

I wanted to reach out for her then and there. To hold her in my arms and tell her that she really would be alright but I knew I couldn't. She didn't know that I had witnessed the last five minutes and knew what happened.

When I looked at her again she was looking at the floor almost as if she could read what I was thinking.

Reaching out I put my finger under her chin and gently made her look at me again.

"I'm glad that your okay but you should be more careful, Rima." i said holding her gaze.

She smiled a sympathetic smile at me.

Before either of us had a chance to say anything, the new vampire and my new enemy spoke.

Looking at Rima he smiled. "I'll see you later Rima. It was nice getting to know you."

He added a wink at her before giving me a small nod and turning to walk away to disappear with the darkness.

I felt my blood start to boil again and took a small step back from Rima.

"Come on" was all I could say as I made my way toward the indoor cafeteria. She was by my side in an instant and everything seemed natural again but I still couldn't bring myself to calm down completely.

"So who was that guy?" I couldn't help but ask.

"hmmmm, I'm not really sure myself but he says that his name's Rokoru Minori and he's going to stay at our school for a awhile and he's Ruka's cousin."

If he was going to spend time on campus would that mean that I would have to worry about him as a potential threat from now on?

What did he want with Rima if anything? Did she too find him intresting?

"Who was that girl and why did she want to start trouble with me?" Rima asked wondering aloud and breaking my chain of thought.

We were in the halls again in the opposite building from the classes and it stayed silent before I could respond, the over sized windows letting in the moons light.

"I wish you hadn't tried to attack her. It was lucky that I was there in time to stop the hit from hurting her." I started.

Beofre I could go on and tell her that she shouldn't waste her time on someone like Kaori she spoke.

"I'm going to go back to my dorm. I shouldn't have left."she amost whispered before quickly turning and walking away.

But I wasnt going to let her go that quick.

In an instant I was standing in front of her again looking at her. Her eyes widened a little seeming surprised by my sudden action.

But she quickly looked away. Reaching out with my hand I put my finger under her chin and once again made her look at me. Her skin on mine felt warm and natural.

"Ne, Rima. Why wont you look at me?" I softly asked her looking into her beautiful eyes.

She opened her mouth to speak but the voice that came from behind me wasn't hers.

"Shiki! There you are. Kaname~sama asked me to come look for you and see if you are alright." came the bemused voice of Kaori.

Not looking away from Rima I saw her smile a little.

"You should go back to class." she said shaking her head a little.

"Rima. Are you alright?" I wasn't going to leave without an answer.

"Yeah. Shiki I'm alright. I'll see you tomorrow in class if Kaname~senapi says I can go." she added before she walked away. This time I knew I couldn't stop her so I watched her walk away.

Turning around to head in the opposite direction I walked past Kaori like she wasn't there but she was soon at my side walking beside me with what looked like a smug smile.

"Kaname~sama didn't tell you to look for me" it wasn't a question.

"Did I interrupt something? It seems this time she didn't try to savagely attack me. Too bad, I would love to see her suspended maybe even expelled from this academy." she laughed to herself.

"I don't know what you see in her or why you like her so much. She seems boring. You have bad taste. She's-"

I turned to her and in a flash of lightning I drew back my hand and slapped her.

I watched her fall to the floor shocked. She put a hand to her face where she was now bleeding. Looking up at me her eyes seemed to tremble.

"Shut up" I said looking back at her with cold eyes.

She then started to smirk a little and before she could say anything I walked away leaving her there on the floor. I had never hit a female ever before in my long life nor had ever really wanted to but Kaori had what she had coming to her.


Walking back in class I noticed Rokoru already there sitting next to Ruka and talking happily with one another with a not too happy Akatsuki not too far behind with Aido.

Takuma was soon beside me explaining who the ''new guy'' is.

"His name is Rokoru Minori and this is the first time that he's ever attended a school before since he'd been home schooled like most of us before entering the academy."

It caught my attention when I heard that he didn't mention that him and Ruka were cousins. Why did he not mention that?

"Hmmm" I nodded before going to join Aido and not so happy Akatsuki.

"Shiki" he greeted me.

"I need you to do something for me." was all I said.

This seemed to catch his intrest. He nodded signaling to go on and explain his blue eyes widening a little.

"Look up who Rokoru is exactly and who Kaori is too."

"Heh. I was also intrested in who Kaori is. Something doesn't feel right about her. But why Rokoru?" he asked confirming what I thought. He also knew that something was weird with Kaori.

"He doesn't feel right to me either." I answered. Taking out a box of choclate Pocky I took one out and bit into it before offering him some. He smiled wickedly seeming eager.

"I'll have it ready as soon as I can" he said taking a pocky stick out and running a hand through his blond hair.


~End of a sweet dream but I'll show you another one~