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D winced in pain and stopped the bleeding of his wound with his had. He knew that he had to do something to patch it up soon because he couldn't just heal himself like full vampires can.
"Hey D!" Left hand called, "You ok? Its your wound isn't it?"
"Im fine" D lied and took the reins in both hands.
"No you're not!" Left hand barked, "Your wound will be infected if you don't treat it!"
"I said that I am fine!" D tightened his hands and tried to focus his attention to the road ahead of him. The sun wasn't far from the horizon, but it didn't matter. Kurai Ichi is a dunpeal, and can travel by day like he can, and finding him would be more difficult. D's thoughts was interrupted by another jolt of pain in his wound.
"See!? I told you so!" Left hand smiled, "C'mon! I can smell a river nearby, you should go and wash it! You're not going to be able to find Kurai Ichi or fight him well in this condition"
D paused a moment and finally gave in. D saw a small river a short distance away. He kicked his horse toward it and suddenly stopped.
"What is it D?" Left hand asked
"Quiet" D hushed, "There is someone there"
"Someone? Is it Kurai Ichi?" Left hand asked.
D looked ahead and dismounted his horse silently. He looked around and began to eye the bushes that was on the other side of the river. "C'mon out" D slowly gripped the hilt of his sword.
The bushes ruffled more and more, until a figure finally stepped out, a young woman. D examined her features, her skin was pale and her long hair was white, and her eyes where blue, so blue that the sky nor ocean can compare to them.
"L'look....please don't hurt me!" The woman nearly tripped into the water from her exit of the bush, "I was only trying to get some shade!"
"Shade!?" D was surprised, "It's not nearly hot enough for a thick coated cat to get a sweat!"
"Well I uh....I have a little skin condition, I can't stay in the sun for too long!" The girl tried to come up with a good excuse for the menacing stranger in front of her.
"Can't stay in the sun too long...." Left hand began to get suspicious, "Sound familiar D?"
D nodded in agreement and took a step closer to the river, "You're not a real human are you?"
The woman froze and then turned away. Her behavior was evidence that D was right, she is a dunpeal too.
"Who are you?" D could feel that his patience was failing him.
"My name is Hikari..." The woman slowly answered, "Hikari Ichi..."
"Ichi?!" Left hand nearly yelled.
Leila began to get worried. Jandel left to look for Kurai Ichi a few hours ago, and he hasn't heard from him. Leila was staying in a fairly modern home in a town close to what's left Sington. Jandel really didn't want Kurai to find Leila, so he thought that she would be safe close to the area that he attacked.
Leila wanted to go with him, but they both knew that she was in no condition to fight, it would be any day now and the baby would arrive. Leila finally walked to a chair and sat down, "I really gotta relax...all of this worrying and pacing around can be doing me or the kid any good" Leila looked out the window and began to watch the sunset "Ahhh....much better"
"Yes I am a dunpeal..." Hikari admitted, "My father was a vampire and my mother a human..."
D could tell that Hikari was ashamed to talk about herself, so he tried to change the subject, "Why where you in that bush? It didn't look like you where there to just get some shade...the sun will be setting soon"
"Well you see..." Hikari began but noticed the wound on D's shoulder, "Oh are you ok?! That's a deep wound!" Hikari wadded her way across the river and tried to examine the wound,
"It's fine..." D said coldly
"But it could get infected! Just hold on..." Hikari reached into a small low pocket in her raggedy dress and pulled out two small plants and dipped them into the water, "Here you go...just put them on your wound, they work better when they are wet"
D just looked at the small herbs and took them without saying anything, Hikari gave him a strange look which served as a signal to say something,
"Thank you" D finally said, and placed the herbs on his wounds, "Now would you mind telling me why you where hiding here? And why would you just happen to have herbs with you?"
Hikari slowly sat down by the river and dipped her feet into the water to soak them, "I was wounded a little while ago, so I used some herbs to heal me, I gave you what I had leftover"
"Who wounded you?" D asked,
"My brother...."
"And he is....?" D asked again, already knowing the answer,
"His name is Kurai Ichi, we are twins. He really hates humans, especially the ones that killed our father" Hikari explained, "But I don't care...I don't care about my father or vampires! I can barely put up with myself! Kurai wounded me when I told him how I felt, and I ran off....I think he's now hunting down the humans that killed our father..."
"Hikari...I know how you feel" D slowly walked behind her, "I know that this is hard, but I need your assistance... can you tell me where Kurai Ichi is?"
Leila laid her head on a table near the window and began to doze off. She felt very sleep.
"I guess I should just get to bed...the sun has already gone down" Leila began to walk upstairs and suddenly stopped...she heard something.
Leila walked back to the window and looked outside, "What was that?" she asked to herself
Leila looked in the moonlight just outside her window. Her face paled when she saw that there was a large dark figure walking toward her.
Author's note: As you can tell...I am very busy. I took the little spare time I had to write this chapter...yay me! Im sorry for not updating...I have to get my resume out to different companies so that I can get a job soon. Anyway we have a new character...Hikari! In Japanese it means 'light' or 'brightness'. What a nice name for Kurai's twin sister! I know I know....its not THAT original, but you gotta give me points for trying right?
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