Embarrassment 3: Half-Blood
A lot happened that night. Karin came home from work to find out that Kanon had passed out on the bathroom floor, or that was the lie Kentu told her. Karin insisted on going into her daughter's room and checking in on her but Kenta kept her out, saying that she needed her rest.
"She might have the same problem I did in school," Karin said. "Poor Kanon. Don't you remember all the times I passed out in school?"
Of course I do, Kenta thought to himself. But it's not for the same reason as you remember. It wasn't anemia, Karin. You were a vampire. Why can't I tell you that?
"Kenta, is something on your mind?" Karin asked, realizing that he had that far off stare.
"It's nothing really, and don't worry about Kanon. She was just too tired. That's all."
He wanted so badly to tell her that her daughter had just bitten some random man in the park before passing out. Anju had erased the mind of the man before helping Kenta bring Kanon back to his house. He could still remember the exact words that Anju had said.
"I'm breaking the rules being here, big brother," she had told him. "Mama and Papa told me that I could never come near you again unless it was an emergency."
"This was an emergency, Anju," he had replied. "And I thank you for helping me tonight."
After tucking Kanon in, Anju smiled and laid her head on top of her cousin. "I never thought I'd be this close to her. She looks so much like big sister."
"Anju, if you miss your sister so much why don't you just meet her?"
"I can't do that. Besides, big sister doesn't care about me anymore."
"That's not true. She loved you more than the whole world."
"But all that is over now." Anju stood up and adjusted herself. "I've got to go."
Anju decided to feed on a fresh soul for the night before heading home. She arrived home hours later and tried to sneak in. But it was too late. Henry had already known that she had gone out. Worse than that, he had seen her with none other Kenta Usui.
"Anju!" Henry's voice boomed through the house when she opened the door. "Get in here now!!"
"Yes, Papa," Anju said softly, entering the through the living room.
"Explain to me why my bats saw you with Kenta Usui tonight!" Henry roared, fire building in his eyes.
Anju never looked her father in the face and her expression didn't change either. "So it is true, Papa, you have been spying on me."
"It's only because we care about you, dearest Anju."
"I went to the Usui residence to check up on their family."
"You broke the rules, Anju. We made a vow never to interfere with their family again. Kenta and Karin can't be bothered by us again."
"Papa, you know that I do not agree with your rules. Don't you even care about your daughter anymore?"
"Anju dear, it's not that Carera and I don't care about our little Karin anymore, it's just that we have to accept the fact that she is happy without us. Over the years, we have come to fully trust Kenta Usui. He has kept our secret for so many years that it would be stupid for him to try something now. But if you go to visit him, it will most surely bring back memories of us vampires."
"Anju," Carera, her mother, said, "what is the real reason that you went to see the Usuis on this night?"
Carera didn't miss a thing. Anju was cornered, if she didn't tell the truth now, they would most surely send out their bats to start investigating the Usuis again, which meant they would find out Kanon's secret. But If she were to tell them that Karin's daughter's vampire powers had finally awoken, they would surely intervene. In the end, she decided to tell them.
"Mama, Papa, Karin's daughter, Kanon Usui, is finally a vampire."
"What?!"
"What is more is that Kanon is a half-blood with the same problems that big sister had. But I have watched Kanon feed, she's somehow different from Karin."
"She's already feeding?!" Henry roared, looking as though he was about to pass out from stress. "And you did nothing to stop her?"
"I couldn't. Last night was her awakening period. Her hunger had reached its max last night. If I was to intervene, Kanon would have had a nosebleed just like Karin did, possibly killing her."
"God, we knew this day would come eventually," Carera muttered to herself. "But why did it take so long? Kanon is fourteen now. She should have awoken a few years ago."
"That is easy to explain," Henry said, sighing. "Kanon is a half-vampire, born from a vampire mother and a human father. Naturally it would take longer for her body to fully reach its potential."
"It gets worse though," Anju said, staring down at her feet.
"Hmm."
"I have seen big sister bite necks for most of my life. But what cousin Kanon was doing seemed so much different. I sensed a large amount of energy coming off of young Kanon's body. She has much more abilities than big sister ever had."
"Are you saying that Kanon may actually have vampiric abilities?"
"It is possible that she may even be more powerful than me and grandma. So even though she creates blood just like Karin did, she has too feed on blood as well. So when she bit that man in the park she swapped bloods with him."
"This is not good. Not good at all. We have got to get her out of there before she feeds again. She cannot be in the human world like this."
"Are you an idiot?!" Carera barked, hitting Henry across the back of the head with her slipper, almost knocking his head off. "We can't just take our granddaughter away from Karin and Kenta."
"But Carera," Henry whined, only to get hit again. "Karin has become a complete human. Even her fangs are gone. We can't have a half-vampire walking amongst her house. Especially after we wiped her memory clean."
"And we can't take away a daughter from her loving family!"
"Why can't we just return big sister's memories, and have her family live with us?" Anju asked.
"The only one that could return Karin's memories is Ren, and we haven't seen him for years," Henry said. "When a vampire erases ones memories they actually take the memories into themselves. I don't know what memories Ren took from Karin, but it was bad enough to put him into a depression and make him leave this house."
"Why can't you just track big brother down?"
"It wouldn't be that easy. We don't even know if he is even in Japan anymore. He ran away with Bridget and his son, Tohru almost fifteen years ago after having a fight with carera and me."
"We have to try something," Anju said. "If Karin finds out that her daughter is a half-vampire it would not go well. Kenta won't be able to hide her secret from big sister for long. I have to track down big brother."
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