Chapter four.... I`m really glad how this is turning out. Also, this chapter is just a bonus chapter, written in Aido`s POV, and rated M for some *ahem* implied mature content. The readers like it, so I`m good! And just for input like always, how do you like Akira? She`s one of my first OC`s, so I would like to know how likeable she is.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Vampire Knight, or else things would be different....
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Aido`s POV:
Walking down the corridors in the humid summer air, there was a gentle breeze, and it ruffled through my perfectly messy hair. Well, it wasn`t a natural messy like Shiki`s was... I could admit that I used some hair products on it. Well hey, it wsn`t going to stick up like that by itself!!
Anyways, I was doing my nightly check of the Moon Dorms, something that was a regular on my schedule. If I forgot to do my check, I would hear noises coming from my closet as well as banging on the windows. Akatsuki would tell me to shut up and go back to sleep, but I would spend the rest of the night wondering what the strange sounds were.
On my usual route, I`d go past the classrooms, through the courtyard, and past all of the other vampires dorms. Shiki and Rima`s was the last place to pass before I went to bed, but when I passed this night, something odd was going on.
I was always the last one up - that was my title, the nighthawk. No one ever dared to stay up past me. Yet there was a faint glow coming from the open door, something that I couldn`t choose to ignore, unless I wanted to be up for the next month wondering what it was about.
I was not snooping as Ruka accused me of. Snooping is when you get into someone`s personal posession when they`re not there. Shiki and Rima were there, because I could hear both of their voices when I put my ear near the open space between the door and the doorframe. Rima was speaking fairly low, and then another piece of "evidence" struck me. Neither had been at class a couple hours ago, something very unusual for either Shiki or Rima to do.
My hearing sharpened as I got more curious by the minute. I couldn`t help it!! I needed to know soo badly and I had a feeling it wasn`t something that they were going to tell me willingly.
"Senri, please don`t do it..." I heard Rima plea, her voice weak and faded. Again, unusual for the strong vampire I knew.
"Rima, I`m sticking it in whether you want me to or not..." Shiki exclaimed before getting off his chair and siting down on something else. I thought that since Rima`s voice and the chair scraping on the floor sounded they were near each other, that he probably sat beside Rima.
Then, Shiki`s voice replayed itself in my head. "I`m sticking it in you whether you want me to or not..." My mind jumped to the dirtiest thing possible for me to think of, but the more I listened, the more valid my answer seemed.
"But I`ve never had one in me... what if it hurts??" Rima asked while I heard the rustling of the sheets. Evidently she was on a bed, and was helpless as she layed there.
Wait... I thought in my mind, trying to add up the pieces. Shiki`s on Rima...she`s on a bed...he`s going to stick someth...RAPE!!!
I was not jumping to conclusions. I KNEW that was what it was. All the clues added together and fit perfectly in place. Of course I wasn`t going to go in by myself. I needed some sort of backup... Akatsuki could help me with that. So hesitantly, I left the doorway after I heard Rima let out a small moan of pain, and Shiki try to calm her down.
I walked briskly down the hallway, trying to get to my dorm as quick as I could. Rima needed help, and as far as I knew, I was the only one that had heard what was going on. Sure, I wasn`t very close to Rima, but still... and I surely didn`t want to know what had happened and not tell anyone.
I whipped the door to my dorm open and basically pounced on Akatsuki, in hopes it would wake him up. And thankfully, it did.
"Hanabusa, what do you want??" he asked me aggresively, obviously displeased with his 3:00am wake up call. He threw the blankets off his body, and of course, him being Akatsuki and all, he wasn`t wearing a shirt.
I looked at him in a panic, seeing as I had scarred my mind for life, and he got the wrong message from it. He looked to the other side of the room, but calmed down when he saw Ruka in her bed, sleeping happily, having a "sweet dream".
"What is it??" he asked again, running a hand through his messy hair.
I couldn`t start talking about it in broad daylight, well not daylight, but you get my drift. So instead I leaned close to him and whispered everything that I had collected as evidence into his ear. He somehow remained emotionless, something that even I, the genius of Cross Academy, couldn`t master.
When I finished, I went to look at his face, and saw nothing. No expression, no worry, no panic. Just a straight line for a mouth.
"How can you do that when I just told you what was happening??" I said, dumbfounded as to how he coould keep calm in a situation like that. I mean, I was pretty cool in almost every situation, but Akatsuki was always cooler.
"Go back to sleep Hanabusa," he told me, picking up the blankets and then throwing them over himself again.
My eye twitched in horror. How could he not be reacting right now?!?!?!
"You`re just imagining things..." he continued, obviously not impressed. He rolled on his side to begin to sleep again, but I pounced on him, again, but this time he wasn`t moving for anyone.
"I know what I heard!!!" I whisper yelled into his ear again. Apparantly it sounded more like a whistle to him, and he covered his ears, trying to protect them from the noise.
"Will you shut up and let me sleep if I prove there`s nothing going on in Shiki and Rima`s room??" he asked me, swatting my head away like a nuisance. I was not a nuisance. My cat Antonio Luka Hanabusa wasn`t a nuisance either, like everyone claimed he was. Well, everyone except for Ichijo... he gets along with anything and everything. By the way, don`t ask where the cat went. Let`s just say he`s in a better place now....
Anyways, I nodded my head quickly and forced him up and out of bed. He grunted a bit, and it sounded a little scary, so I walked out the door in front of him and he soon followed, and thank god with a shirt on. If there were any fangirls, we would be doomed.
When we got to Shiki and Rima`s dorm, the light was still on and the door was still slightly open. I leaned in close to hear, but then another unknown person spoke.
"Akatsuki, why are you up at this time of night?" Ruka asked, walking sleepily towards us and yawning as she did. Damn, I thought. Akatsuki`s going to be on my back for weeks now.... I woke up his "childhood love"....
"Ruka, go back to bed..." Akatsuki instructed her, and then they started bickering over something. But, I wasn`t paying attention to them, so~, I don`t really know what about.
"Shhh..." I ushered them after I finally heard something from the room. I was hoping it would prove that my theory was right and that Akatsuki would help me instead of standing there and ignoring it.
Ruka paused in mid sentence, and so did Akatsuki. Ruka came closer to me and put her head near mine so that she could hear through the crack. I felt like pushing her right in, but I stopped myself from doing it.
A low moan came from their room, and you could easily tell it was Rima. Ruka`s eyes widened, and she began to lightly push on the door, trying to open it.
I quickly shoved my foot into the crack of the door, and mouthed the words "What are you doing?!?" to Ruka. I had never done something like this before, but I`m thinking barging in when.... wait.... I was going to do that... nevermind!!
"I need to see if Rima`s okay," she whispered, glaring back at me. "She wasn`t at class, and she sounded like she hurt herself."
I wanted to tell her, but I didn`t. She would tell the whole student body by morning, and then Shiki would be after me with is blood whip. Yet... we were going to solve the problem and all, and she did know Rima better then any of us, so maybe she could be useful...
I leaned in to her and whispered everything I had whispered to Akatsuki in her ear, and she listened intentively. Nodding along with everything I said for once instead of bickering and telling me I was a retarded baka. Something very unusual for Ruka to do.
Once I was done, she stood up a bit, much like how Akatsuki did when he decided to go with me. I thought she`d believe me, but she didn`t.
Then more movements inside the room. I motioned the two over, and they two put their ears into the crack of the door.
"Senri, I`m scared....please don`t do it...." Rima`s voice was faded, like she had been pleading for a while with him.
"Rima, it takes two seconds.... now hold still so that I don`t miss... It`ll hurt even more if I do, and I`ll have to do it all over again...." Dirty. Filthy. Rapist.
Ruka`s eyes widened in horror when she heard the last sentence. Obviously she finally understood what I had told her. I looked hopefully to Akatsuki, and he too had the same expression that I had- utter surprise and shock in one.
"I`m going in there," Ruka exclaimed, curling her fingers around the wood door. "I, Ruka Souen, am not going to let my friend get raped."
See... I wanted to stop her, again because she would blame it on me and Shiki would come after me in the night, but I didn`t really want to go in there and help Rima while that was happening, so better her than me, right?
Akatsuki grabbed my wrist and pulled me to where Ruka was standing. "You are coming with us," he stated, pulling me into the room behind himself and Ruka, who was lurking in the shadows. I followed her, and only then did I actually see Shiki and Rima.
The two had been forced to share a bed in their dorm, and seeing Shiki right now, I don`t think he minded that much. Anyways, Rima was laying face-up in the bed, her face a little red and her hair untied from its pigtails. She was in an extremely skimpy nightgown, very awkward for her, since I knew she usually just wore an old t-shirt or nightgown that was proper to bed.
This was what kinda scared me. Shiki was straddling Rima on the bed, their hips crashed on each other. For some reason, Shiki had no shirt on, and was holding something in his hand. But thank god he still had his pants on... that probably would`ve scarred me.
I couldn`t take it. So much presssure of being quiet and staying hidden. I lept out of the dark and started to shout and yell disses at Shiki and how idiotic he was and how he was never going near Rima again, ect. ect. ect. *big breath*..... but at the end I was just splurting gibberish.
Shiki stared at me with blank eyes, just blinking. Probably thinking why I was there. I was celebrating like there was no tomorrow - I had just caught him in the act! I would be a hero to Rima!! *cough* No that I...actually cared about her liking me....
Rima looked at Shiki with a wierd look in her eye, and I had seen that look enough. I don`t even know how they did this, but they could talk telepathically somehow...quite interesting, actually. I have to look into it sometime.
Then Shiki let out a bit of laughter, and Rima managed to smile a bit. Ruka and Akatsuki were by me now, and so I had some backup if he tried to hurt me or Rima. Ruka was pouting a bit, but waltzed over to Rima in a hurry and started talking about how Shiki would never go anywhere near her again.
Shiki got off of Rima and sat at her bedside, running a hand through his hair and then rubbing it on the side of his face.
"I bet that looked kinda awkward," he sighed happily while placing the object in his hand out on the bed. My head started to boil with anger, at how he could abuse Rima like that.
"SHIKI SENRI WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO RIMA?!?!?!" I exploded at him, and he didn`t seem too surprised that I did. His expression stayed the same, and all he did to me was point at a small needle like the kind at a hospital, and it was filled with a clear liquid.
"Rima!! You`re burning up!!" Ruka exclaimed in the background after she put her hand to Rima`s forehead. Evidently that was the reason that her face was red...she had a high fever.
"I knew that..." Shiki sighed, picking up the needle and walking over to Rima. He stroked her hair a bit and Rima smiled back at him.
"Shiki, what were you doing before?" Akatsuki asked quite emotionlessly yet again. But this was the way to talk to Shiki, so I told him to go for it.
"Well, when you guy came in," he started, but paused to grab a tissue and hold it up to Rima for her to take a hold of. She grabbed it and blew her nose in it, which was running pretty quickly. "I was going to give Rima this."
He held up the needle and held it firmly in his hand, squeezeing out the extra liquid. He pulled up the chair he was sitting on before and got a hold of Rima`s wrist.
"And why are you giving her a needle?? That`s dangerous, you know," I said in a smartmouth tone. I knew that it wasn`t safe, and yet Shiki was doing it to Rima anyways.
"It`s not when you`ve got a medical degree," he said back to me while he examined Rima`s wrist, in the same tone as I had talked to him. Suddenly I didn`t feel as superior to him.
"Then what was the whole conversation before??" I asked, confused as to what had happened. Well, come on, it was confusing!!
"You heard that??" he asked me, still not looking up from Rima. He was very focused, and frankly I didn`t want to anger him. "Well Rima needs this if she wants to get better, and if she takes it normally, she`ll get an allergic reaction. So I`m giving her a needle. But she`s never had a needle, so she`s kinda afraid of having it, since I told her that it going to hurt."
It all made sense now, and even though I was happy that Rima hadn`t been raped, but I felt like such a retarded baka like Ruka had called me so many times, I felt like I could wear a dunce cap. My face flushed red from embarassment, and Ruka glared angrily at me.
"So that`s what it was al about..." she said through gritted teeth. Her glare was the I`m-so-going-to-kill-you-when-we`re-out-of-earshot look. I winced, already feeling the pain, and sat down on the bed, farthest away from Ruka as I could get.
Shiki finally stopped twisting Rima`s wrist around, and got ready to pierce Rima with the needle. "Brace yourself, okay Rima?" he asked, looking up at the dreary-looking Rima. She half simled and half frowned, and Ruka grabbed a hold of her other hand and held it firmly, something thaat Shiki probably wanted to do, but couldn`t.
He put the needle in, piercing through her skin and down into her vein. I smelled a little scent of her blood, and I knew Shiki must`ve been going crazy from the smell right then. Rima winced in pain and jolted backwards a bit, but quickly calmed down, letting out a small moan of pain from her lips. I kinda felt bad for her, seeing as she didn`t really get a choice in the matter.
As quick as he put it in, Shiki pulled out the needle and quickly put a small bandaid over the spot he had punctured with the needle. He smiled lovingly at her, something that quite frnakly scared me because Shiki never smiles, and told her it was all over. Rima smiled a bit, then rolled over and began to fall asleep.
Ruka let go of her hand and slowly started to turn around.
And that`s when I chose to run like hell.
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Review, people!! How did you like the chappie?? Honestly it was quite fun to write.... Aido has a very interesting point of view on things. And in future chapters or in different stories I might add in my animal OC`s cause they`re so cute ^^. Antonio Luka Hanabusa is one for Aido, created by my friend. :P