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Possible ages for the characters-(I based them on the Chinese Zodiac animal years/personality, I know Zero was born in the year of the dog, Yuuki's year is the pig and Kaname's is the rooster... just like me... and Ai was born in the year of the rabbit, while Hisoka was born in the year of the snake! I believe that Kaito was born in the year of the horse because of his personly and ability to work well with Zero.)
Ai Hayashi-16
Yuuki Kuran (in Vampire/Human years) 17
Zero Kiryuu-(In Vampire/Human Years)18
Amaya Hara-22 (In vampire years)
Kaito Takamiya-21
Hisoka Tenma-26 (In vampire years)
Silvia Tenma-27
Kaien Cross-253-or older
My Blood Red Rose Chapter 14 - Broken Memories
(An hour before Zero Kiryuu was attacked by Hisoka's shadow) Third person point of view ~ Right after Kaito Takamiya, Raiden Hayashi and his female companion passed the hotel.
Kaito Takamiya warily followed Raiden Hayashi and his rambunctious female companion, down the barely populated streets of this town.
He had just passed the hotel that Zero and Ai were staying in, and it was very close to midnight. He would just have to check up on them tomorrow.
The soft glow of the moon and a few flickering street lights were still not enough to pierce through the dense night air.
He felt it.
He felt that invisible presence smothering his body again, squeezing his lungs and making his usually limber body, tense and stiff. The presence was like the wind, sometimes it was strong and at other times, he barely felt a thing, but it was always there.
Always taunting him.
Kaito clenched his fists in anger, as the memory of his first encounter with the Pure-Blood, Hisoka Tenma, replayed in his mind.
'How dare that bastard taunt me about my late brother. It was because of beasts like him, that Taito became just another name on the execution list. A level-E that wanted nothing more than to rip Zero and I apart!'
Kaito stopped his inner musings and tried to pay more attention to the people around him. There were humans and a few hunters, even a stray animal or two. But, something still felt out of place.
Normally, there would be an Ex-Human or at least a level End or two, walking beside the humans and hunters, but the only vampire like presence that he could pick up on was from him and Raiden.
'I wonder where all those blood sucking leeches, crawl off to?'
Raiden stopped in front of a building, before he turned towards Kaito with a smile.
The building was like all of the others. It was a fairly built brick structure with some windows in the front. It had three floors, with two pairs of windows leading up in rows of three on each side and one more row of windows at the back.
He knew that Kaito did not trust anyone outside of his small circle, but he had to tell one of his fellow hunters what he had found and maybe Kaito could help protect his new friend, from further harm.
"Here we are Takamiya-San, once we enter this building, I will tell you everything."
Raiden opened the door and let the girl enter first, then Kaito went in, right before Raiden.
Raiden took one last look at the streets, to make sure that he was not followed.
He gave a sigh of relief and entered the building right after, never noticing that the building was casting two shadows, instead of one.
Kaito kept an eye on the girl the entire time.
When she felt his gaze boring into her, she looked back at him for a second or two, blushed, and then looked away.
Kaito rolled his eyes in annoyance and continued to follow the other two down the hallway. The building was not a five star hotel, but it wasn't a total dump either. This place was spacious, warm and inviting.
"Okay Silvia, here we go. When we get inside, go get that box that you found and show it to Takamiya-San."
Raiden instructed the girl after he had opened the door.
She rushed in and Raiden and Takamiya followed. Kaito slumped on the couch, he was the only one still in the living room, which gave him the opportunity to be alone with his thoughts.
'That girl, her name is Silvia. I feel like I've seen those eyes before... those icy blue eyes...'
He wondered where he had seen that eye color before, it wasn't that her eye color was out of place, it was just, that the mere sight of her almost transparent blue eyes, slightly stirred up his core.
Suddenly, a large brown box was thrown into the room and it's contents were scatted all over the floor.
"What the fuck is your problem!" Kaito yelled back at Silvia, as he heard her giggle at his sudden outburst.
"There are more boxes like that one in the closet, I'll bring the rest out later!" Silvia yelled from inside of the bedroom.
She had almost thrown an entire box of glass framed photographs and sheets of paper at him. There was now a mess on the floor, so with a sigh, Kaito decided to shove the papers back into the discarded box.
He picked up a photo and looked at it with little to no interest, but, as he looked at it once more, he noticed two small children with light blond hair and icy blue eyes. His eyes widen in realization.
Raiden appeared in the doorway of the kitchen with his arms crossed, looking away at his fellow hunter.
Kaito got up with the photo in his hand, wanting an explanation as to why Silvia was in a photograph with Hisoka Tenma.
"Sigh, I found her a few years ago, I had to keep an eye on her... but that was no excuse to neglect my family."
Raiden sat down on the couch and dragged the box towards them.
"So, are you saying that this girl is somehow connected to Tenma... she was a Pure-Blood vampire once, wasn't she?" Kaito whispered.
He wasn't sure whether Silvia knew what was going on or not, and he did not want her interrupting their conversation, well, not until he had the information that he needed.
Raiden nodded before he nosily dug into the box of the Tenma girl's forgotten memories, and pulled out some papers along with a photo or two.
He held the photo up for Kaito to see.
It was a photo of a mother and her children. They were all smiling, except for the only male that was in the photo. His light blue eyes were fixated on nothing, as he stared off into the distance, Kaito could tell that he was as warped then as he is now.
"So that boy is the Pure-Blood vampire, Hisoka Tenma?" Kaito confirmed while he fingered the glass covering, trying to clear away some of the dust.
It seems like this photo had not seen the light of day in years.
"I'm suspecting that the father, Ryuu Tenma, was not there for the family photo," Raiden said before continuing.
"He always did have that blank look on his face, maybe that's why nobody ever bothered with the boy. I think he started to act out, after Kaname Kuran killed off the Senate. Seeing as the Senate did always keep a close watch on him."
Raiden then pointed to the eldest female in the photo, who was holding up a parasol, to shield herself and her children from the harsh rays of the sun.
"That is the mother of Hisoka, and the young girl next to her, is Silvia. She is Hisoka's sister and supposedly, his fiance too."
Raiden then glared back at a picture that he was holding in his large hands. Kaito peered over out of curiosity and took the photo away from Raiden, seeing as his massive hands were blocking his view.
The photograph was of Hisoka and Ai!
Hisoka was laying down on the grass, with Ai by his side. He was about nineteen, while Ai was just eight.
'Wait, wasn't that the same age that Tenma had first met Ai?'
Kaito looked closer at the photograph. There was a cress in the middle between Hisoka and Ai. It seems that the photo had been folded in half, straighten out and folded yet again.
"The only photos of Hisoka smiling, or even having even a stitch of life in him, all have Ai in them too."
Raiden cleared his throat soon after and tried to take a more, professional approach. These photos only strengthened his resolve to kill the Pure-Blood vampire.
"At first, the photo was probably kept by his mother and she folded it in half so that only Hisoka could be seen."
"Then, Hisoka probably took the photo and flipped the already folded photo, so that only Ai could be seen."
"Finally, before someone packed all of these away, all of the folded photos were unfolded, and left in the dark. So, if you look closely enough at all of this pictures with Ai in them, they were folded and always exposed to more light on one side than the other folded half had received."
Kaito suddenly got up from the couch.
"Well, that's all very interesting and all, but, as we speak, Tenma could be killing even more innocent humans, so, unless these pictures can tell us anything important, then there is no point in us even looking at them right now. We have a job to do, so quit playing games and let's go get Ai and Zero."
Kaito always did come off as a bit rude, towards those he did not see fit to call his equals.
Even when Toga Yagari taught him at the age of fifteen, he took the hunter for a fool and the eleven-year-old Zero for a weakling, but he still followed his teachings, seeing as his original teacher was recovering from a fatal vampire attack from when he was on a mission.
He still does not trust his fellow hunters, but he knows that cooperation is essential for survival and the successful completion of a mission.
This information about Hisoka was getting him nowhere.
Kaito suddenly distanced himself from the other hunter, aggravated that Raiden had wasted his time. Kaito walked over towards the door and grabbed the nob, but Raiden grabbed his shoulder in an attempt to stop him from leaving.
Silvia quickly stepped out of her room in a white tee shirt and dark blue shorts.
"Oh, you're leaving already, don't you want to see the diary?" She shouted, waving a worn black, leather covered book in the air.
"Why would I want your journal?"
Kaito asked in a bored, nonchalant voice, he felt like he was going to lose it.
"It's not mine, it belonged to a person with the initials H.T., and it's filled with such pretty poetry too like, um, wait! Let me read you one!"
She quickly flipped through the pages and started to read out loud.
"The redder a rose,
the brighter it shows.
So take this flower,
from this lovely blood shower.
When new blood flows,
I shall leave you a rose,
for those I see fit,
to be called your foes-"
"-Yes, yes, I've heard that one before."
Kaito shrugged the poem off, seeing as he had already heard his former Sensei read it at the crime scene after they found that note in the alley, where those boys were all killed.
"But wait, there is more on the next page and there's a note!"
Silvia happily pointed out, causing Kaito to stay and listen to the rest. It seemed so complete, what more could be said.
"But for those, you call friends,
they will also meet their end.
And the ones you've held close,
will suffer the most.
For you are my weakness,
my only rapture,
Your heart alone,
is mine to capture."
Kaito held a blank look on his face before turning the doorknob to leave. Like before, the poem didn't even make sense, Kaito was a man of facts, not silly poems and sick obsessions. If Hisoka really did love Ai, then why was he do this to her?
'Why should I even ask myself this question, all vampires are immoral beasts, I shouldn't even be surprised by his actions.' Kaito thought as he looked down at the photos of Hisoka and Ai.
She was still so young and unaware of his true intentions. He didn't care about her, he just wanted someone to suffer with him.
"Aw look, it's a picture of a school. Wow, this Hisoka guy is like eleven years older than Ai, but he still looks quite young!" Silvia pointed out.
Kaito decided to look at the photo.
He never wanted to go blindly into a fight with a vampire, especially with a Pure-Blood, knowing what he looked like could help him later on.
Silvia looked towards the ajar window, before walking back into the bedroom.
Either she was bored, or she had a very short attention span.
'Wow, he really did look young. Is this one of his powers. To change the appearance of his body?' Kaito began to go down a list, of all of the facts that he knew about Hisoka Tenma.
"So, he can change the cellular structure of his body to look younger. His shadow can be used as a weapon and take on a physical form too."
Kaito also knew that Hisoka was obsessed with Ai, and he was very reckless when he was killing his prey.
"I think he can also read minds too, and that can be real trouble for us because he can anticipate our plan from the start."
Kaito sighed in frustration.
Now that he knows more about Hisoka's intentions, he really needed to check up on Zero and put Ai in a more protected location.
And if push came to shove, he could use Ai as bait, to lure Hisoka out.
"Is that all the information that you could gather about Tenma, if so, we could go over to that school and-"
"No can do Takamiya, the school was burned down a few years ago. I think that Hisoka was behind it, since he was very adamant about Ai not going to the school dance the day before it happened."
Raiden Hayashi said before Silvia came trotting out of the room and decided to flop on the couch, with a pout on her face.
"There is more information about the Tenma clan in the room not too far from us, I'll let you look them over, to see if we can find any new leads."
Silvia walked over towards the closed window.
She was tired of being left out of the loop, if they would just let her help them, she was sure that she could do a lot. Silvia sighed, she was so bored of waiting for the male hunters to come back out.
'What could Raiden be hiding from me? Does it have anything to do with Hisoka?'
A thick coating of condensation prevented her from viewing the dark streets outside. She opened the window and peaked outside. A lone male with flowers stood near the street corner by a phone booth. A white cloud of warm air flared out of his mouth, his breaths were short and fast as if he had been running earlier.
Silvia never got to talk to guys when she was under Raiden's care and she was so frustrated. He never told her anything and it wasn't like she was in any sort of danger.
She would stay by the window and play it safe.
She was on the second floor, there was no way that she was in any danger.
The male also kept his distance, holding a bouquet of dark red roses.
He was concealed in the shadows and gave a looming glace towards her. Wondering what was wrong, she stuck her head out further, to get a better look.
Hisoka knew that his father had turned Silvia human, lessening his chances at happiness with Ai.
She had always hated his relationship with Ai. Silvia was convinced that Hisoka's love for Ai was a fleeting thing and that it would never come true.
Hisoka willed his shadow to extend a tentacle-like whip and wrapped it around his stunned sister's mouth, then her entire body before he dragged her outside. She struggled and tried to call for the hunters, but suddenly, all of the air in her lungs had left her body.
Hisoka forced his hand into her chest, then as he savored the feeling of the warm blood pulsing out of the open wound, he pried his fingers into the capillaries of her heart. Finally, before he twisted the muscle in its own core, he stared into his sister's glazed over eyes.
He knew that he could not hide his presence form the hunters for this long, and without physically tearing her heart from her chest, he slipped his bloodied hand from the open cavity and dumped her body on the street.
He waited for one of the passing Blood Collectors that his Grandfather had sent out, to swoop down and retrieve her, along with some other sacrifices.
"I remember you once saying that you would do anything to make me happy, your death has brought me my utmost happiness."
He tossed the bouquet of roses on the blood-stained floor. The red pool of liquid began to seep onto the rose's petals, weighing them down and dampening their already dew stained petals.
Hisoka watched as more and more bat-like creatures composed of his grandfather's blood, navigated their ways to their intended locations, oblivious to grandfather's raw powerful blood seeping into's his sister's chest, as the beast carried her away.
SM22: I'm just so sorry for the late update, I had a writer's block, I know how the ending will turn out, but it's hard getting there.
So, here is a question: What do you think about the way I write my character's. I don't have much to go on for Kaito and Zero is so complicated. Do their reactions or opinions seem out of character?
If you want to you could leave a review or P.M. me if you want to talk. ^_^