Embarrassment 20: Freak
Kanon had decided not to tell anyone about the conversation she had with her teacher, but she had no clue why a police officer had come to her classroom looking for her. Actually, if she was remembering correctly, this was the second time that somebody had showed up looking for her while she was gone. She just hoped that somebody hadn't caught her feeding on a person. It would cause too much trouble for her family and that was something she wanted to avoid at all costs.
On her way home, she decided to pass by Julians to say hello to Karin. Karin was so happy to see her that she nearly burst out into tears again. Kanon thanked her mama for the bento, telling her it was delicious, only making Karin happier
"I promise to make you a special bento everyday," Karin said, hugging her daughter.
Kanon told her mama not to worry about how she was feeling, and that she would try extra hard to be a proper vampire to make everyone proud. The young half-blood didn't really like the sound of that, however she had a feeling that Karin would want to hear it. If it would make her mama smile, she was willing to do anything.
Karin gave her a weak smile. Deep down, she was thinking about her childhood. Her entire family was always urging her to become a proper vampire. Even when she started producing excess blood, her mother and father had always urged her to be act like a real vampire. However it never seemed to work out because Karin was so much like a human. But looking into the light red, cat-like eyes of her daughter, and the very small fangs that protruded from her gums, she knew Kanon could do what she could not.
"Kanon, I will love you no matter what you are," Karin reassured her. "Human or vampire."
Kanon felt better hearing her mother say that. Since Karin knew that there probably wouldn't be any food at the Maaka mansion, Karin went into the back and got some food for her daughter. Her daughter took the food, gave her mother a kiss, and left Julians. Karin just watched her young daughter go, before returning to work. There seemed to be a lot more people at Julians than normal. She was probably going to be working late.
My fifteenth birthday is going to be in a couple more months, Kanon thought as she crossed the road and headed into the park. Then I can get a part time job and help out with the family. After all, Mama and Papa had a job while they were in high school.
Kanon knew when she was getting close to the Maaka mansion by all the bats that would suddenly be flying overhead. She knew that it meant that she was passing through the barrier. If an intruder tried to find the mansion, or even come near it, the bats would react and keep the intruder going in circles. Kanon wasn't completely fond of the bats. She wondered though, since vampires are naturally adept at using bats, could the same be said for Kanon? She noticed one of the bats sitting on a tree branch nearby.
"Come here," Kanon said softly, putting her hand out for the bat to fly to.
The bat just stared at her like she was an idiot, and when she took a step toward it, the bat took off into the sky. Kanon sighed. I guess I can't control bats either.
She actually didn't mind that too much. She would rather keep her distance from them and would find it very hard to explain to her friends at school if too many bats followed her around all of a sudden.
To nobody's surprise, nobody was awake when Kanon entered the Maaka mansion. It took her a few minutes for her eyes to adjust to the pitch blackness of the room. She tried her best to feel her way to the dining room where she ate her meal alone. She had a good idea that Anju would be wanting to take her out to feed again once night fell so she decided to sleep until then. It wasn't too hard seeing that she didn't get any sleep the night before.
Right on cue, when the sun had started to set in the sky, Anju awoke and climbed out of her coffin with Boogy in hand. Ren was waiting for her in the hallway. Anju was surprised to see him awake so early.
"Just to let you know," Ren said. "Bridget and Tohru will be visiting in two weeks. It seems I've been away from them for too long. Bridget figured out that I was just using this visit to escape them."
"Oh Tohru Maaka?" Boogy said, snickering. "How has he been? He doesn't seem too urgent to see you."
"Tohru is too selfish to care about anybody but himself." Ren said, glaring at Boogy. "I doubt he has even realized I'm gone."
"Sounds just like you, Ren."
"And what about you, Anju? Are you planning to take Kanon out again? Don't you think it's a little dangerous making her blood increase so often. If she's anything like Karin..."
"Kanon isn't like Big sister," Anju said immediately. "As long as Kanon drinks blood, the nosebleeds won't kill her."
"She'll never be a real vampire, no matter what you do," Ren warned. "Half-vampires will never be accepted by either humans or vampires. They are freaks of nature, just like Tachibana."
"Kanon is not a freak!" Anju hissed. Ren shuttered slightly when the picture frames on the walls around him cracked.
"Whatever you say, Anju," Ren said, walking off down the hallway.
"Don't let him get to you, Anju," Boogy said nervously.
Taking a deep breath Anju entered Kanon's room and woke the girl up. Anju was determined to show that Ren Maaka was wrong about Kanon. Just because she was born from a human father and a vampire mother, didn't mean she couldn't be normal.
The two of them left the house as soon as the sun had fully set and darkness had covered the sky. Anju wanted to find out the extent of Kanon's vampire powers. Each vampire had different powers that they were proficient in. Ren could manipulate any mind and wipe almost anybody's memories without much physical work. Anju could control bats better than any vampire in Japan. So what could Kanon do?
In order to test Kanon's powers she would have to be near a person whom her blood was attractive to. In other words, they had to find an angry person. At first there were no takers. Kanon and Anju walked around town for almost thirty minutes and Kanon never got so much as a whiff of anger in the air. Anju started to doubt that Kanon's blood would even start to increase tonight, since she had bitten someone just a night before. Kanon was starting to get tired of waiting for her blood to increase as well.
Back at the Maaka mansion, Henry and Carrera were sitting in the family room when they heard pounding on their front door. Elda happened to be the first one to the door and opened it to see Karin, tears streaming down her eyes.
"Karin!" Elda exclaimed, catching her granddaughter as Karin fell into her arms, crying harder than ever before. "What happened?"
"Kenta...Kenta...Ken...ta!" Karin screamed. She was delirious, making no sense at all. "Who did this to you Kenta!...Kenta please talk to me! You can't be dead! You just can't be!"
"DEAD!" Henry and Elda both exclaimed.
"Karin...Karin talk to me," Elda said, shaking some sense into her granddaughter. "What happened to Kenta Usui?"
It was no good. Karin just continued rambling on. "So much blood! Who did this! It's all my fault!"
"Henry, take Karin," Elda ordered Henry, handing her his daughter.
"Where are you going, Mother?"
"I've got to go find Kanon. I've got a feeling somebody is after her."
With that, Elda ran out the door and called all of her bats to spread out and find Kanon and Anju. The problem was that Kanon and Anju had ventured into a very dense part of the park because Kanon's blood had finally started to react. There was a girl sleeping on a bench in the middle of the park with a strong scent coming off her. It had taken so long for Kanon to find one person that Anju had had time to feed on three different people. Since she drank more blood, her body stayed in the young state.
"About time," Boogy said. "You sure are a picky eater, Kanon."
"I'm sorry."
"Little niece, how are you feeling."
"It doesn't seem to hurt as bad as it usually does," Kanon said, honestly. "But the longer I wait the more I can feel my blood expanding within me. It's very uncomfortable."
"You should never wait until it hurts to feed, Little niece. But if when you bite a human you must always get rid of any evidence. That means that you must erase their memories of you ever biting them."
"I think I can do that."
Kanon approached the young female, feeling the fangs in her mouth slowly increasing in size. The closer she got to that person the harder her heart pounded until she was just a few feet from the girl. Her mouth was watering as she lowered down towards the woman. But before she could ever sink her fangs into the woman's soft flesh, the sound of a pistol echoed through the trees.
"You bite her and I blow your head off, monster," a man's voice said from behind her. She and Anju both turned around to see a young, handsome man with brown hair was pointing a gun straight at Kanon. "I'd step away from the girl if you know what's good for you."
And with that, part two of the Chibi Vampire: New Blood story is over. So far Kanon and Karin have been doing nothing but crying. But there lives will turn around soon enough. It's not that I was happy taking Kenta out of the picture but it is going to make for a very interesting continuation now that Karin will be living with the Maaka's. BTW, thanks for all the reviews. It helps keep me going. I've never had so many fans and I love to watch my traffic climb. I'll post the next part at lightning speed as always so please keep reading.