Hiya peeps! Rini-chan here. This is an idea that came out of a very, very odd mind...*hides hands behind back guiltily*
NO YAOI! No, really. I'm serious. No yaoi in this fic. I've learned that you can't please anybody when you involve pairings. There will be no lemons, limes, pineapples, OR canteloupes in this fic. It's rated entirely for graphic violence. Some very minor Tea bashing up ahead.
/.../ = hikari to yami
//...// = yami to hikari
(So original, I know. Shut up.)
Blood and Tears
Chapter 1
A dark alleyway.
A flicker of motion in the shadows.
It strikes, the dark gleam of a knife piercing the shadows for a mere instant; then it pulls its prey further into the shadows to finish the kill.
A slurping sound, barely audible.
Someone strolls out of the shadows and down the street, to continue its business.
Then all is still.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Yugi walked into homeroom and sat down. Joey was already there, slumped over on his desk as always. Joey didn't really wake up until third period. Tea was reading, and Tristan was late, as usual.
Not really feeling awake enough for conversation himself, Yugi pulled out a book. He was about five pages in when-
"Students, please welcome our new transfer student," the teacher beamed. How she beamed words, no one could understand, but this teacher managed it. She turned to the new student. "Could you please introduce yourself to the class, dear?"
The girl gave a mutinous not-quite-glare to the teacher, but spoke. "Hi, my name is Katrina Valasa. If you call me Katrina I will personally pound your face into the concrete. You may call me Kat. Can I sit down now?"
The teacher suppressed a sigh and nodded.
Yugi glanced up at the new student absently, and dismissed her as less interesting than his book. Joey barely twitched. Tea walked over to her and tried to make conversation, thus proving that boys are often wiser than girls. "Katrina Valasa, that's a pretty name. Is Valasa a Viking name?"
"I don't know. Refer to me as Katrina again, please."
"Eheh...well, I'm Tea, and this is Tristan, and that's Yugi and Joey," she continued, smiling.
"That's nice." Kat pulled out a book of her own.
"Ah..." Tea was certainly not used to being ignored. "Where did you move from?"
"Southeast Tasmania," Kat said, not looking up from her book.
"Really?"
"No."
The bell rang, saving Tea from further conversation. The day passed uneventfully, as school days are supposed to, and the teachers assigned too much homework, as they are supposed to.
No one knew how few days of normality remained to them, or they would have made sure to enjoy it.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
"See you tomorrow, Mai!" the girl yelled from her doorstep.
"Tomorrow, girl!" Mai replied, and sighed as she started walking to the bus stop. She had managed to lose her license - too many tickets in too little time. Ninety days. Majorly sucked.
A footstep broke through her ruminations - just one footstep. As if someone was trying to be quiet.
The streetlights on this street were broken or burned out - not uncommon in this neighborhood.
She spun around to face whoever was stalking her. No one was there, but she could have sworn she saw a flicker of movement.
It didn't repeat itself, so she slowly turned around again and started walking.
A whisper of sound off to her right was all that warned her of the knife that slit her throat. The shadow pulled her out of view of the main street and laid her down in its lap, slurping greedily at her throat. Blood spurted onto its clothing, but it paid no mind, caught up in the bloodlust.
The constant sound of traffic broke in on this...enchanting...scene, and it lifted its head reluctantly as it felt the spell take effect. Suddenly it grinned evilly and said-
"1985, B positive."
Like a connoisseur. It rose gracefully, looked down and tsked, turning its jacket inside out for the walk home. It was starting to run out of that heavy-duty stain remover.
*rereads last paragraph* o.O Don't ask...it's 12:30 in the morning and I have a rather weird sense of what properly relieves gory violence scenes. I'll go over this again in the morning and post it. Ja ne minna-san!
Morning Note: I get really, really weird late at night...I'll go post this now. Ja ne!
Later editing note: Didn't change all that much. I was just trying to make the tone of the earlier chapters somewhat darker and generally improve the writing quality. Not sure if I succeeded. Go repost now. Ja!