Disclaimer: I do not own vampire knight. everything belongs rightfully to matsuri hino~! :)

hey guys. I'm back. :) sorry for the long update, but i've been quite busy lately. (Lame excuse, I know.)

But, let's not bore you with this boring intro.

-Tsuki :P

Why are you tormenting me?

"Shiki?"

I blinked open my eyes. Ichijo was standing over me, his manga safely cradled in his arms. "You look really tired these few days. Been getting enough sleep?"

"Yeah," I answered tiredly. "I'm fine. Just...tired I guess.."

"Is it the 'Rima-chan' thing?"

Before I could tell him to mind his own business, a teacher approached us and told us we had to get ready for the second day of SPORTS WEEK.

I rubbed the sleep outta my eyes and headed down to the sports track. It was a relay race today. I had to run alongside the track with the runners to make sure none of their passes were fouls.

Great...running. For a vampire, running outdoors in the day under the sun wasn't one of our biggies. To make things worse, today was super extremely sunny.

I sighed...A fellow nightclass classmate would wait for me at some pit stops with a bottle of blood(which would look like tomato juice) to refresh me. I stood at the starting line, waiting for the day class students to come.

Then, a bright head of strawberry blonde-golden-orange-y-oh heck, hair passed by my line of sight. I whipped my head around immediately.

Rima. There she was, standing at the bleachers in front of the track. She was holding a white parasol but...she wasn't wearing her ribbons. Her hair was let down and was blowing in the strong breeze. That's odd...Rima never ever goes out without her ribbons. Maybe...she lost them...No not possible. Rima may be many things, but she's definitely not a scatterbrain. She never loses anything. In fact, she's a neat freak.

I thought back to my childhood days and smiled...

~Flashback~ 8 years ago, Shiki household.

"Ne...Shiki...Your room is too messy!" Rima yelled at me while standing at my room door, her hands on her hips. Her hair hung gently over her shoulder. Her eyebrows were furrowed and she wore the most adorable pout on her lips. I looked at the miniature Rima and smiled.

"Geez! You're hopeless without me!" She grumbled and began re-arranging all my things, packing and dusting them nicely.

"Yeah, I know I am..." I said quietly under my breath. Rima was busily cleaning up everything when she suddenly stopped. She bent down and picked something up from the floor, staring at it in silence. I looked over her shoulder to see what she had found.

It was an old long ribbon. The colour was a little bit faded, but you could still see it's intricate design and pattern. "You like it, Rima?"

"It's really...pretty," she replied, completely mesmerized by it. I smiled and took it from her hands. She made a move to complain, then turned and saw me crossing my room. She saw me focused on a pair of scissors that was on my bedside table.

"Shiki!" She ran across to me, a panicked look on her face. "What do you think you're doing?"

"On the contrary, I haven't done anything yet..." I mumbled, not really listening to what she was saying. I picked the pair of scissors up and snipped the ribbon into two. "Now I have."

"Shiki! Why'd you do that?" Rima yelled at me, tears ready to pour out of her eyes. I walked over to her so that I was right in front of her.

"Shiki! Answer me-" She stopped talking when I grabbed half of her hair and bunched it into a side ponytail before tying half of the ribbon around it. I did the same with the other half of her hair.

She stood there, looking at me with her mouth open. I gave myself a victory yell in my mind: Successfully made Rima speechless.

"Shiki..." She said. Her cheeks were slowly becoming redder by the second.

"You can have them."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah...They're just something that makes my room messier. You wouldn't want that, would you?"

She shook her head and smiled. I don't even think her smile could get any bigger. She skipped out of my room humming a tune. I chuckled at her behaviour. Then a sudden realisation struck me.

"Oi Rima! What about my room?"

~End of flashback~ Present time, Cross Academy sports grounds

I continued staring at her until she finally turned her head and made eye-contact with me. Almost immediately, she turned back and stalked away. No, I couldn't let her run away from me again. I ran after her as fast as I could, avoiding all the spectators and competitors coming onto the track.

Rima...Rima...Rima...I could feel the sweat dripping down my back and my hair sticking to my face, but Rima was all I could think about. I finally caught up to her in the corridor.

"Rima!" I shouted and grabbed her shoulder. She spun around and well...she slapped me. I stood there, stunned for a moment.

"Go away, Shiki," she hissed. "I don't want to see your face ever again."

"But I still want to see you, Rima..." I whispered, my cheek stinging from her mighty blow. She turned her back towards me and I could've sworn I heard a sob. "Please Shiki...just go away..."

"Rima..." My heart ached for her. I don't care if she hated me(fine, I do care), all I wanted to do was be beside her. For the rest of my life. I couldn't stand it anymore. I lowered my head down to her shoulder. She didn't make any move to push me away or slap me again.

"Rima..." I said her name again. Then I sank my fangs into her neck.

Rima let out a small gasp and tried to push me off her. "Shiki stop!" She pleaded. I couldn't hear her. All I could hear was the sound of her blood being drained from her body. Oh, Rima...Your blood is so heavenly...I didn't want to let go.

I wanted to suck her dry...Rima's skin felt clammy under my grip. She started to get paler. "Shiki...Shiki, stop."

Her will to get me off her was weakening and her shoves were getting lighter. I stopped sucking her blood and retracted my fangs from her neck. She slid to the floor on all fours and beads of cold sweat dripped down her face.

"Rima...?"

Then, I heard Rido's voice. "Wasn't I right, Senri? You are a monster. You were going to suck the poor girl's blood until her body shrivels up. You were going to devour her completely."

I stared at Rima's pale, heavily fatigued body in front of me. "Oh...Oh my gosh...Rima...I-I am so sorry. I don't know what came over me..."

"Just GET AWAY, SHIKI!" She screamed at me. Then I saw her face. It was the most pained expression I had ever seen from Rima. Tears couldn't stop rolling down her cheeks and she stared at me with that resentful look. I knew what it was...hatred.

"Rima. Please, please forgive me-"

"GO AWAY!" She screamed again and again. "GO AWAY, SHIKI! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

I heard footsteps approach us and I turned around. It was Ichijou. "Shiki, the competitors are all-" then he noticed Rima. "Rima-chan! What happened!"

Ichijou dashed past me and went to help Rima to her feet. "Are you okay, Rima-chan! Omygosh! You're neck is covered in blood..."

Ichijou's voice died down and he looked from Rima's neck to my blood-covered mouth. "Shiki...did you..?"

I looked down, ashamed of myself. I was...going to devour her. I let my hands fall to my side and faced my back towards the both of them. "I'm sorry, Rima..."

Then I ran.

Rido's voice came to me again, as I sat on my bed after the relay race was over. Ichijou hadn't returned yet. I was gazing blankly out the window when I heard him.

"So, Senri...how is that girl you were going to suck dry? Her name was...Touya Rima, am I right? Such a beauty...too bad she had to be friends with someone like you..."

"Shut up, Rido," I growled, even though he was only in my head.

"My, my, how rude. Is that any way to talk to your father?" He mocked.

"I don't consider you as my father, Rido."

"Well, we did have some family issues, didn't we...I would have liked that Rima girl as my daughter-in-law. She'd make a great banquet-"

"Don't TALK ABOUT RIMA LIKE THAT!" I yelled at him. I gave him the reaction he wanted. I knew I played straight into his hands. But, I was just so frustrated and angry...even sunlight didn't seem that demoralizing anymore.

"You shouldn't have fallen in love with that girl, Senri. Look what it brought her. You just caused her pain..." He paused as if thinking about something. Then he chuckled. "the puppet should just stay as a puppet, Senri."

Then I felt his prescence in my mind fade away and I just sat there, gazing out the window again. I heard the door open behind me and heard Ichijou's voice.

"Shiki...We need to talk," he said. "You...and Rima-chan..."

I didn't let him get across what he was trying to say. I turned around and stared at him.

"Ichijou...the puppet should just stay as a puppet..."

That was chapter 4~ I'm sorry I took so long. Please forgive me!

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