Chapter 3
The Way Our Lives Never Should Have Been
by lieiavalon2044
I got more reviews! ^_______________________^ Thank YOU!!!! Thank you Kittengrl39 for reviewing again and thank you Windkit! Ok, well... I can't say why Youko's acting like a vampire... And Windkit, I am well aware that you have a story with a girl named Suiren in it. It's very interesting I ought to know because I read it. ^^ Thanks for your support you two! And because I got several more reviews after writing this very thankful thank- you paragraph, thank you to Shadow Jaganshi, Eclipse2010, and whoever reviewed under 'Howdy!'. Thanks for your support peoples!!! ^^
Suiren balanced the steaming mug of hot chocolate as she opened the door to the lab. She blinked and stepped forward looking around the lab in amazement. The purple liquid coated the floor and was speckled with bright red spatters, which seemed restricted to a tiny area. Glass also lay in places, but most of the shards looked moved, out of place from where they should have fallen.
'Hello...' a voice whispered in her head. She blinked and looked around, spinning a complete 360 degrees before she decided that the room was empty and she was going mental.
"I'm going insane... I'm going insane... I'm going insane... Too long cooped up in this lab... Too many sterile things..." she muttered, looking around frantically before starting to dash back up to her non-sterile room.
'I know you can hear me...' the voice said, sending chills down Suiren's spine. She stopped, turned around at the door and visually searched the lab. She gulped, and glanced toward the tank where the second boy floated. She walked closer to the tank and jumped when his third eye opened swiftly and began to glow sinisterly, entirely focused on her.
'Good... It is you...' the voice said again.
"You're talking to me?" she asked, now standing within five feet of the tank. (I'm going insane... I'm going insane...)
The boy remained motionless, still suspended in the purple fluid.
'You are the one that watches me aren't you? The one who has made sure I remain healthy in this ......... thing?' it questioned, seeming louder than when it first spoke.
"Yes. I am the one that has watched you, making sure you stay alive and well... How are you talking to me?" Suiren asked, watching the boy's face, wishing he'd open his eyes and look at her.
'Do you not see my jagan? My third eye I am using to send these messages to you... Suiren?' it said calmly. Suiren blinked but decided that she should clear her mind with a drink. It was what she'd gotten the hot chocolate for.
Suiren sipped the hot chocolate, missing the moment when the boy opened his eyes. He blinked, allowing his eyes to adjust to the sting of liquid against them. So she was the one who had spent so much time watching over him and being near him. He'd felt her energy first a long time ago, before his jagan could function fully and had gotten used to her coming and going. Suiren opened her eyes and gasped, her own eyes widening at the sight of his eyes open.
"Um... Uh..." she looked down at the floor. What was she supposed to say to him? It would be the first sentence he'd ever hear her say and it shouldn't be too respectful, but not too disrespectful either.
While she was thinking, she'd stepped back and was now pacing back and forth. Through the purple liquid, which contained lots of glass and she was wearing slippers. Thankfully she was also wearing pants, not a dress. But in the downside, the shirt was much too loose for a girl of her build and got tangled up in her arms.
"KYA~AAAAAAAAA!" she screeched loudly, slipping and falling hard on her butt. She got up slowly, nursing her backside and glanced up to see that he was staring at her with a sort of intrigue. Then he smiled. Then he did as well as he could manage to laugh, but the mask covering his mouth came off.
Suiren watched as bubbles shot up and out from his mouth and he frantically grabbed for the mask again. She felt herself smiling... She felt it coming... It was coming and it wouldn't be stopped... No matter who could try... It would come...
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
She couldn't help her laughing; it just came out. She ended up falling over again, into the liquid which didn't hurt her at all, as the boy recovered his air with long slow breaths. He finally looked at her again and scowled, putting his hand against the glass. Where the crack was.
To say it simply, the tank exploded with about the force of a small bomb, more than enough to send Suiren and the guy inside the tank flying in opposite directions. The guy was leaning against the wall now, entirely in shadows, and Suiren was against the other, unconscious and soaked.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The mans fox ears flicked and his tail swished lazily. The girl had given him some proper robes and now she was resting, nestled between the covers.
'Now that I think about it...' he thought absently, fingering the red silky edge of his robes. 'I'm actually getting cold up here.'
He looked at the covers. They had to be warm, but he couldn't take them off the girl without her being cold. And he had a strange feeling that if he attempted to get under them at the same time that she was under them, there'd be consequences. But he was really cold.
Shizuka stirred, still cold and her neck still ached, but at least she was warm.
'What's that?' she wondered, feeling something... Her eyes snapped open.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
The mans eyes instantly snapped open. He dodged the fist that slammed into the pillow he'd been resting his head on and looked at the girl. She was wearing the same clothes as earlier and now he could see an... He searched his mind. What were those things called? Undergarments? No... That was too loose... Ah yes! Underwear! They were nice blue ones too. And Shizuka must have noticed his stare, as her fist made contact with his stomach about three seconds into his staring.
"You... You!!!" she managed, shaking in anger as she gave him the most horrible glare ever known to human kind. He was bending over, unable to see her face out of the pain in his gut. He slowly sat up, still rubbing his stomach.
"Ow... Dammit that hurt kid!" he said, still wincing.
"YOU PERVERT! HOW DARE YOU... Did you even know what you were looking at?" she asked.
The man looked at her. He couldn't seem to remember anything. Except his name.
"Er... I know they were underwear... And I should have known not to get under the covers with you... I had a feeling I shouldn't have, but I was cold... Uh... Why are you looking at me like that? Oh, what's your name? And do you want to know my name?" he asked hopefully, hoping that she wouldn't remember... The awkward moment after the spotting of the blue underwear.
"You know your name?" she said, a little switch clicking in her head. So what if he knew her underwear were blue? Least she'd know his name so she could properly cuss him out later.
"Yes, I know my name and it's Kurama. And what would your name be?" he said, still rubbing his abdomen which he knew would be beautiful shades of black and blue the next day.
"My name is Shizuka. It's... sort of nice to meet you Kurama, as long as you say nothing about the blue underwear." Shizuka said smiling. Kurama let out a silent sigh of relief, then regained his cocky smirk.
"I'm still cold you know." he remarked, smirking widely. He liked to make her angry. She was adorable when she got angry. And besides, the pain from the punch was already disappearing fast, and there was no way she could inflict much damage without any weapons...
"Hey! What the HELL WAS THE PILLOW TO THE HEAD FOR?!?! AND WHY WAS IT SO DAMN HARD?!" he yelled, waving a hand in front of his face to shoo the feathers away. Shizuka smirked, lay down, rolled over, and fell asleep without a care in the world, ignoring the brick in her pillow. Except for the care about him not getting under the covers at the same time as her again. He pouted a minute trying to think of a suitable revenge, but unable to come up with anything good, he left to investigate the plants he's seen earlier.
~*~*~*~*~*~ (I know that was an ENTIRELY RANDOM SCENE!!! But I had to get some weirdness out... It was classified partly under Humor right? *wink* Oh, yes, it won't always be that sort of humor either... *sweatdrop* I'm not THAT strange...)
The black haired guy looked at Suiren, now standing and fully clothed. He had no clue where the clothes has come from, but they were black and red, loose and altogether, comfortable. He also had a sword now, which hung at his waist. He knelt next to her, his loose black pants allowing him to move easily and still be comfortable. He lifted up her chin and watched to see how she'd react, though she didn't and simply remained there with him leaning over her. He swallowed, his mouth seeming insanely dry for his having just been in a tank of nothing but liquid and his self. He leaned in closer to her and brushed his lips over her neck gently.
Suiren held her breath. She could feel his hand running through her hair and his lips softly caressing (that word make sense there? Ok, just checked... It makes very good sense there.) her neck. She almost cried out in anticipation, mostly nervous as if he was going to kiss her or not. Then she felt a small bit of moisture and immediately began to wonder if it was appropriate for him to kiss her already, though the strange wonder invading her system blotted it out. Then she felt two sharp, sharp points against her neck and panicked.
To Be Continued
First) No, he is not going to be all vampirey and do what Youko did.
Second) Thank you fo rbeing so patient and only getting so little.
Third) I got the idea for the last scene from a vampire book I'm reading. People who see me with that book at school (which came from our school library) have been staring at me. Like this! OO *next person* OO (Hey! maybe she's a VAMPIRE!!!) *next person* OO
Fourth) I do not put subliminal messages in my stories. Believe me. I don't.
I leave tHat to grAndmas, Puppies, Pickles, Yoyos and Harmful Atomic bombs beLow the Earth's surface. BeLieve me. I wOuldn't lie to you Wonderful, Weird, Extraordinary, Extra Nice EleVatEd above noRmal freakY peoples with out Brains, Or granDfather clocks stuck on mid-daY.
^^ Have fun everybody. Thanks for reading! ^^ JA!!! ^^
The Way Our Lives Never Should Have Been
by lieiavalon2044
I got more reviews! ^_______________________^ Thank YOU!!!! Thank you Kittengrl39 for reviewing again and thank you Windkit! Ok, well... I can't say why Youko's acting like a vampire... And Windkit, I am well aware that you have a story with a girl named Suiren in it. It's very interesting I ought to know because I read it. ^^ Thanks for your support you two! And because I got several more reviews after writing this very thankful thank- you paragraph, thank you to Shadow Jaganshi, Eclipse2010, and whoever reviewed under 'Howdy!'. Thanks for your support peoples!!! ^^
Suiren balanced the steaming mug of hot chocolate as she opened the door to the lab. She blinked and stepped forward looking around the lab in amazement. The purple liquid coated the floor and was speckled with bright red spatters, which seemed restricted to a tiny area. Glass also lay in places, but most of the shards looked moved, out of place from where they should have fallen.
'Hello...' a voice whispered in her head. She blinked and looked around, spinning a complete 360 degrees before she decided that the room was empty and she was going mental.
"I'm going insane... I'm going insane... I'm going insane... Too long cooped up in this lab... Too many sterile things..." she muttered, looking around frantically before starting to dash back up to her non-sterile room.
'I know you can hear me...' the voice said, sending chills down Suiren's spine. She stopped, turned around at the door and visually searched the lab. She gulped, and glanced toward the tank where the second boy floated. She walked closer to the tank and jumped when his third eye opened swiftly and began to glow sinisterly, entirely focused on her.
'Good... It is you...' the voice said again.
"You're talking to me?" she asked, now standing within five feet of the tank. (I'm going insane... I'm going insane...)
The boy remained motionless, still suspended in the purple fluid.
'You are the one that watches me aren't you? The one who has made sure I remain healthy in this ......... thing?' it questioned, seeming louder than when it first spoke.
"Yes. I am the one that has watched you, making sure you stay alive and well... How are you talking to me?" Suiren asked, watching the boy's face, wishing he'd open his eyes and look at her.
'Do you not see my jagan? My third eye I am using to send these messages to you... Suiren?' it said calmly. Suiren blinked but decided that she should clear her mind with a drink. It was what she'd gotten the hot chocolate for.
Suiren sipped the hot chocolate, missing the moment when the boy opened his eyes. He blinked, allowing his eyes to adjust to the sting of liquid against them. So she was the one who had spent so much time watching over him and being near him. He'd felt her energy first a long time ago, before his jagan could function fully and had gotten used to her coming and going. Suiren opened her eyes and gasped, her own eyes widening at the sight of his eyes open.
"Um... Uh..." she looked down at the floor. What was she supposed to say to him? It would be the first sentence he'd ever hear her say and it shouldn't be too respectful, but not too disrespectful either.
While she was thinking, she'd stepped back and was now pacing back and forth. Through the purple liquid, which contained lots of glass and she was wearing slippers. Thankfully she was also wearing pants, not a dress. But in the downside, the shirt was much too loose for a girl of her build and got tangled up in her arms.
"KYA~AAAAAAAAA!" she screeched loudly, slipping and falling hard on her butt. She got up slowly, nursing her backside and glanced up to see that he was staring at her with a sort of intrigue. Then he smiled. Then he did as well as he could manage to laugh, but the mask covering his mouth came off.
Suiren watched as bubbles shot up and out from his mouth and he frantically grabbed for the mask again. She felt herself smiling... She felt it coming... It was coming and it wouldn't be stopped... No matter who could try... It would come...
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
She couldn't help her laughing; it just came out. She ended up falling over again, into the liquid which didn't hurt her at all, as the boy recovered his air with long slow breaths. He finally looked at her again and scowled, putting his hand against the glass. Where the crack was.
To say it simply, the tank exploded with about the force of a small bomb, more than enough to send Suiren and the guy inside the tank flying in opposite directions. The guy was leaning against the wall now, entirely in shadows, and Suiren was against the other, unconscious and soaked.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The mans fox ears flicked and his tail swished lazily. The girl had given him some proper robes and now she was resting, nestled between the covers.
'Now that I think about it...' he thought absently, fingering the red silky edge of his robes. 'I'm actually getting cold up here.'
He looked at the covers. They had to be warm, but he couldn't take them off the girl without her being cold. And he had a strange feeling that if he attempted to get under them at the same time that she was under them, there'd be consequences. But he was really cold.
Shizuka stirred, still cold and her neck still ached, but at least she was warm.
'What's that?' she wondered, feeling something... Her eyes snapped open.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"
The mans eyes instantly snapped open. He dodged the fist that slammed into the pillow he'd been resting his head on and looked at the girl. She was wearing the same clothes as earlier and now he could see an... He searched his mind. What were those things called? Undergarments? No... That was too loose... Ah yes! Underwear! They were nice blue ones too. And Shizuka must have noticed his stare, as her fist made contact with his stomach about three seconds into his staring.
"You... You!!!" she managed, shaking in anger as she gave him the most horrible glare ever known to human kind. He was bending over, unable to see her face out of the pain in his gut. He slowly sat up, still rubbing his stomach.
"Ow... Dammit that hurt kid!" he said, still wincing.
"YOU PERVERT! HOW DARE YOU... Did you even know what you were looking at?" she asked.
The man looked at her. He couldn't seem to remember anything. Except his name.
"Er... I know they were underwear... And I should have known not to get under the covers with you... I had a feeling I shouldn't have, but I was cold... Uh... Why are you looking at me like that? Oh, what's your name? And do you want to know my name?" he asked hopefully, hoping that she wouldn't remember... The awkward moment after the spotting of the blue underwear.
"You know your name?" she said, a little switch clicking in her head. So what if he knew her underwear were blue? Least she'd know his name so she could properly cuss him out later.
"Yes, I know my name and it's Kurama. And what would your name be?" he said, still rubbing his abdomen which he knew would be beautiful shades of black and blue the next day.
"My name is Shizuka. It's... sort of nice to meet you Kurama, as long as you say nothing about the blue underwear." Shizuka said smiling. Kurama let out a silent sigh of relief, then regained his cocky smirk.
"I'm still cold you know." he remarked, smirking widely. He liked to make her angry. She was adorable when she got angry. And besides, the pain from the punch was already disappearing fast, and there was no way she could inflict much damage without any weapons...
"Hey! What the HELL WAS THE PILLOW TO THE HEAD FOR?!?! AND WHY WAS IT SO DAMN HARD?!" he yelled, waving a hand in front of his face to shoo the feathers away. Shizuka smirked, lay down, rolled over, and fell asleep without a care in the world, ignoring the brick in her pillow. Except for the care about him not getting under the covers at the same time as her again. He pouted a minute trying to think of a suitable revenge, but unable to come up with anything good, he left to investigate the plants he's seen earlier.
~*~*~*~*~*~ (I know that was an ENTIRELY RANDOM SCENE!!! But I had to get some weirdness out... It was classified partly under Humor right? *wink* Oh, yes, it won't always be that sort of humor either... *sweatdrop* I'm not THAT strange...)
The black haired guy looked at Suiren, now standing and fully clothed. He had no clue where the clothes has come from, but they were black and red, loose and altogether, comfortable. He also had a sword now, which hung at his waist. He knelt next to her, his loose black pants allowing him to move easily and still be comfortable. He lifted up her chin and watched to see how she'd react, though she didn't and simply remained there with him leaning over her. He swallowed, his mouth seeming insanely dry for his having just been in a tank of nothing but liquid and his self. He leaned in closer to her and brushed his lips over her neck gently.
Suiren held her breath. She could feel his hand running through her hair and his lips softly caressing (that word make sense there? Ok, just checked... It makes very good sense there.) her neck. She almost cried out in anticipation, mostly nervous as if he was going to kiss her or not. Then she felt a small bit of moisture and immediately began to wonder if it was appropriate for him to kiss her already, though the strange wonder invading her system blotted it out. Then she felt two sharp, sharp points against her neck and panicked.
To Be Continued
First) No, he is not going to be all vampirey and do what Youko did.
Second) Thank you fo rbeing so patient and only getting so little.
Third) I got the idea for the last scene from a vampire book I'm reading. People who see me with that book at school (which came from our school library) have been staring at me. Like this! OO *next person* OO (Hey! maybe she's a VAMPIRE!!!) *next person* OO
Fourth) I do not put subliminal messages in my stories. Believe me. I don't.
I leave tHat to grAndmas, Puppies, Pickles, Yoyos and Harmful Atomic bombs beLow the Earth's surface. BeLieve me. I wOuldn't lie to you Wonderful, Weird, Extraordinary, Extra Nice EleVatEd above noRmal freakY peoples with out Brains, Or granDfather clocks stuck on mid-daY.
^^ Have fun everybody. Thanks for reading! ^^ JA!!! ^^