Chapter 20:

Rido's P.O.V

Rido Kuran walked through the dead of night in the town of Hiroshima (It's a real word, meaning a type of town). He was there to 'hunt' for something to eat and to look for Ashlen. The male purblood was in somewhat of a bad mood. He had been in that town for about a week now and, with avoiding vampire hunters and other vampires that would want to cause him trouble, he still hadn't found his girl.

A small part of him didn't even know why he cared for this girl. That side of him told him to just forget about Ashlen and move on. Actually, when Ashlen was younger; around the time he met her, Rido had planed on eating her along with her parents. He had just planed on waited a few years since the young girl would have more blood in her by then.

Although a bigger part of him told him to keep looking for the young human, witch, girl. He didn't know if he'd admit it but he was in love with Ashlen. He didn't care that she was still young; Rido was a purblood vampire after all and if marring your sibling was OK then it should be OK to be in love with a young human..... witch girl. And it was a love that started with just a simple hug.

Rido sighed as he stopped walking for a moment to put a hand through his hair as he thought. He then frowned, balling his hand into a fist which pulled some of his hair yet he ignored it.

'I've really screwed myself. I've lost the one person that wanted anything to do with me……… the one person I wanted to have something to do with.' He added inside his mind. There were plenty of women that wanted something to do with Rido when they meant him, but the feels were never the same.

The only thing Rido had to do with those other women was when he would rape her and feed off of her blood to satisfy his cravings. Although, after that, Rido would ether leaving the woman to die, being pregnant or didn't give a care about the woman and sometimes he would just kill her afterwords.

Also, do the results of rapping then women, Rido had figured out he had a few kids. He knew for sure of his son, Senri Shiki, since he'd been told of him from Ichio and the uncle of the woman he raped. He also thought he might have a daughter as well but he wasn't too sure about that; their was no prove to it.

Sudden movement to his right made Rido snapped his head to that direction. He saw a human man walking with a brown jacket slung over one shoulder as he held one hand in his pants pocket and hummed. Rido's blue eye turned red as he eyed this man hungrily yet made a face. The purblood preferred the blood of females but this man seemed to be the only human out tonight.

So, using his vampire speed, he ran to the human and was in front on him in a flash. The shocked look on the man's face made Rido smirk.

"Who the fuck are you?" The man asked in a shocked, pissed, annoyed toned voice. Rido glared yet smirked.

"No one you'd ever heard about, Human." Rido said cruelly before attacking. The man didn't even have time to cry out before Rido roughly grabbed the back of his head, yanking it back, before the vampire sunk his fangs into him. When the man did cry out, the purblood grinned, enjoying it.

In the middle of his feeding, Rido came to a complete stop when a certain scent came to his nose. He quickly let go of the man, who was still alive, before looking around rapidly; trying to spot the source of her scent.

Finally, sitting on a bench, a little in the distance, was Ashlen. Even from that far away she could see that she was looking down with a frown; sad about something. A smile, one that wasn't a smirk, grin, or any kinds of evil, appeared on his face.

When he heard her sigh and saw her stand up, he used even a faster speed to get to her then he did with the man, who was now, by the way, laying on the ground sleeping. He appeared behing Ashlen in less then a second, wrapping his arms around her waist and arms. He had to smirk when the girl only came up to his shoulder; he had forgotten how short she was to him.

Ashlen let out a loud, high pitched scream but Rido only smiled softly as he sniffed her neck deeply. This was indeed his Ashlen.

"Rido-Sama, let go of me." Ashlen said, twisting her head back to him. Rido only smiled when he heard her voice. He didn't even care if her voice was full of fear; he just felt content to have the girl, his girl, back in his arms.

The vampire then looked into her eyes and frowned. He didn't mind the fear in her voice but the fear in her eyes seemed like too much to handle. He was used to people using that look on him, but not Ashlen, never Ashlen. He re-closed his eyes eyes and gritted his teeth together, piercing his his bottom lip.

The scent of his own blood reminded him on how hungry he was and he stared at the girls pulsing neck. He felt his heart beat fast and his blue eye returned to red.

Ashlen saw this and started to shake in fear, making Rido feel angry with hurt. He felt something in his heart snap and he glared down at the young human in his arms.

"Fine, you want to fear me, fear me." He snarled before baring his teeth and digging them harshly into Ashlen's neck. Ashlen cried out in pain but Rido ignored it as he sucked fiercely at the blood that entered his mouth.

His heart hurt when the memory of tasting the girl's blood came back to him. He narrowed his eyes to her hands, which were trying to peal away his arms, and notice that she still had the scar. A small tear escape Rido's eye as he continued to drink.

After a small while, Ashlen's struggling weakened and then stopped all together. Rido, finally realizing what he was doing, pulled away and looked at the sleeping pale form of the girl in his arms.

"Ashlen, wake up." He ordered, shaking her hard. The girl's head only rocked from side to side, eyes still closed. "Ashlen, WAKE UP!!!!!" He ordered again, much more demanding this time. He got the same reaction as last time.

For the first time in his life, fear took over the male purblood. He had let his anger take him over, like it always did, and he feared he just killed the only girl he ever cared about after his sister; Juuri.

"Ashlen, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Rido whispered to the pale girl that layed limply in his arms, her skin getting colder and colder.

~End of Dream~

Rido's eye opened and batted. He sat up to see he was only in his room of the small hide away house. He sighed deeply before licking his lips. No blood. There was no blood on or in them.

The purblood frowned as he looked down at his lap. He was sad for two reasons. Number one was it was only a dream so Ashlen was still out there somewhere. Reason number two was he felt guilty for killing someone he cared about, even though it was only a dream. Rido sighed and looked out his darkening window.

'Just another night closer to finding you, Ashlen; I wont give up until I do.' The vampire thought before getting out of bed and getting changed before leaving the house.

Small contest: Hay, I want to have a small contest. I want some random ideas about Rido, Aido or Ashlen that I can use in this story. The first Five people to give me ideas I like will get a prize. They can ether get a Rido or Aido one shot or appear in the story somehow.

I would like some random ideas of Rido/Ashlen flashbacks.

Hay, I'm starting to get stuck on ideas so ideas from you will really be helpful.

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