Something like Suicide

Day Twenty-five -056

It wasn't even light out when Kaoru hear a pounding on the front door. At first his heart quickened at the slight hope that Syo had come back home. He threw his covers off and spring out of bed only to have his hope smashed to pieces at the sight of Nagi's crying face.

"Nagi? What are you doing here? What's wrong?" The adrenaline wore off leaving him sleepy and wanting to return to the warmth of his bed.

"It-It's Kira! He told me to find you while he dealt with that-that monster." The small teen wheezed out.

"A monster?" He said quizzically in his sleepy stupor.

"Yes. A monster." Nagi said frantically trying to pull Kaoru out of the door by his shirt sleeve. "You have to help him."

"Slow down Nagi. Even if I wanted to help him it's barely morning. How could I help? Even if I wanted to I don't know what's going on. There is no point in getting frantic." The older of the two tried to be rational. Whatever it was that had scared Nagi, it wasn't it's first time putting that hint of fear in the young teen's heart.

Still, Kaoru's heart practically shattered as his small friend looked up at him with wide tearful eyes. "But if we don't hurry Kira might be in danger."

That fear, the not knowing what might happen. It would be one thing if it were them, but to not know what was going to happen for someone in their family. That was far scarier.

"Nagi..."

"Please... He's my big brother."

Natsuki watched and waited. He knew what Kaoru would do if he offered. He knew that he would be going against Haruka to do such and act. In one night he had went from the most loyal person, Haruka's number one most trusted, to this. He had already betrayed her. And he had used a friend to do it.

And all because of those blue eyes.

Being with Kaoru had made him feel alive. It had been so long. The last person who had touched him with that kind of warmth and compassion had... He shook his head not wanting to bring up century old memories. What mattered was now, was Kaoru.

But time stood still when he saw that boy running up to his blonde's door. It wasn't because he was a child that upset the vampire, it was because he knew that child. As he watched the sleepy person he had come to cherish try to calm the child down.

"Isn't it a lovely sight." He could hear Eiichi swiftly moving his way through the ticket. "If you want I will take that boy, so as not to be in your way."

"You reek." Natsuki said not turning around.

"And well I should killing a struggling prey can get messy." Eiichi lifted up his arm in discussed shaking a few drops of onto the pure white snow below. "So if you don't mind-"

"Touch that child and I will crush your windpipe." Natsuki said, throwing an arm in front of the brunette before he could move.

He smirked. "You aren't a killer. You bake cookies and like to cuddle with small furry animals. You couldn't hurt a fly."

"Leave before you find out how cruel I can be." Natsuki reached up touching his glasses.

"Geez, whatever man. Getting rid of that kid doesn't do anything anyways. When this place burns people on the outside will just think he's mad and throw him into one of those loony places. killing him now would just be kind."

"Kindness would have been leaving this place after eating those people in the woods. Or after draining that old man dry. This is not kindness. This is cruel."

Eiichi laughed at him, his voice think with sadistic pleasure., as he retraced his steps back into the woods."This is who we are. And I absolutely love this life that you call a curse."

It wasn't long before the sun was up and five dead bodies were found. In fact, Eiichi had made so easy to find even a blind man would have found them. If Kaoru would have guessed it looked like he was showing off his kills. Of course it had been really hard for Nagi to see his brother's broken body staked through the heart and pinned to the front door to their home.

Strangely enough, after he had forced the younger boy into staying at his house. he noticed the bodies of three people he didn't know. The people of the village were all to eager to point fingers, but they weren't sure who to point at. Three unknown bodies had appeared. their deaths had not been accidental, or even self inflicted.

"What do we do?" a few people muttered as Kaoru shuffled through his friend, neighbors, people he called family.

"Who would do this"

"Even outsiders aren't safe."

"Are we going to die?"

That frightened voice that asked had come from a child. It reminded Kaoru of the time Syo had asked him if he was going to die. It was right before they moved th the village, when he had learned of his illness. Back when they were both so young and together.

"Of course not." Kaoru said proudly as he stood in front of the bodies that were now sprawled out on the ground. "We need to find what did this."

"You think an animal did this?"

"Are you crazy?"

"I know what did it." His voice lowered. "Vampires."

Most of the villagers, mainly the men burst out laughing at him, while some whispered about his sanity.

"I can prove it." He said his tone serious. He bent down picking up Ren's head by his hair. "They have fangs."

"And how do you know this." One man asked what everyone was thinking.

"Because they took my brother."

A soft mumble spread until it rapidly became an uproar. "We have to find him!"

"He could still be alive."

Kaoru smiled. A panic would get him somewhere with his search. It would get the revenge Nagi would need to overcome the death of his beloved brother. Instead of hiding under the sheets emotionless, letting Kaoru's mom think he was Syo. Finally, everything was falling into place. There was just one thing missing.

Natsuki...

Prepare yourselves, the end is near.

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-SK