Supernova
Well, if you want a disclaimer, look in the prologue. I'm too lazy.
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"That's it, Riho! Push with your mind!," Shido encouraged his fledgling.
"I'm trying, Shido," she replied flatly.
"Visualize!"
"I've got it!"
"You have? You ha- OOF!"
Shido went flying into the wall. They were in his office, but it was a slow day since there were no cases, and Yayoi wasn't
there to make smart remarks, so Shido was using this time to teach his fledgling Riho how to block attacks telepathically.
"Oh, Shido! Are you alright?," Riho asked nervously, running over to him and helping him up.
"I'm fine, don't worry about me! I don't care if I get hurt a little bit, it's helping you to learn. But you know, I think next time
we should practice in a nuthouse," Shido laughed. "Padded walls," he added, seeing Riho's look of confusion.
"Yeah. . . Say, Shido, do you want to go out to a movie tonight?"
"Uh, I don't know, Riho, I...uh...have some paperwork to catch up on."
"Oh. Okay then."
Shido saw the sad, bewildered look on Riho's face. He moved to pat her shoulder, but she jerked away.
"We never do anything anymore, Shido, except these lessons. Do you even love me anymore?," Riho asked.
"Of course I love you! I'm just so tired from the lessons, Riho, that's all," he replied.
"Then why bother with them?"
"Because you have the potential to be one of the most powerful vampires in centuries, Riho, that's why. Look at what
you've learned in the past week! It took me nearly a month to learn a fraction of that!"
"If you say so, Shido."
"Now come on, Riho, let's call it a night."
"Okay."
The two vampires walked out of Shido's office hand in hand, the picture of a happy couple. But that picture was only a
surface appearance.
//Why do I do this to her?//, Shido wondered, disgusted with himself.
"Do what to who?," Riho asked.
Shido kicked himself mentally. He'd forgotten that Riho could read minds.
"Nothing, Riho. I just...wish I would stop being so dependant on Yayoi, that's all," he lied.
Riho stared up at him. //Why does he lie to me like that? What is he hiding?//, she thought as they walked up the stairs to
their home.
Shido opened the door to their apartment, and motioned for Riho to walk in.
"You're not coming?," she inquired.
"I just remembered, I've got some paperwork," Shido replied, and kissed Riho on the head. "See you later."
"But-," Riho began, but the door closed, cutting her off.
She stared at the caricature that had been drawn of them one night on the street. They'd been so in love then, as was evident
in the picture; Shido's head rested on Riho's shoulder (he'd been crouching down a bit) and she'd given him bunny ears,
which he hadn't discovered until after the artist was done. It was hung on the living-room wall, and whenever Yayoi and her
new husband came over, it was a source of amusement for them.
"What happened?," Riho whispered, walking over to the century-old couch and collapsing on it. "What did I do?"
She buried her face in a pillow, and the once-happy little vampire girl began to sob.
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"God, Cain, I feel awful about this," Shido muttered to the blonde vampire.
They were in Shido's office, where they'd been meeting every night that they could, for the past six months.
"You just can't resist me," Cain laughed.
"Do you think I'm proud of that? I'm not blind, I can see the change in Riho, and she's growing more and more suspicious
every day! One day, she'll snap, and all hell will break loose."
"She's pathetic, Shido, she won't be that much of a problem if she does," Cain waved his hand dismissively.
"No, Cain, that's not true! She has the potential to be one of the most powerful vampires in centuries."
"So that's why you stay with her?"
"I stay with her because I love her just as much as I love you!"
"No you don't, my lovely Shido. I see it in your mind; you find her too clingy, too needy, too...well...HAPPY to ever be
with you."
"But then, why do I stay with her?"
"It's a mystery to me. Guilt, maybe, for making her a vampire?"
"I don't know, Cain. I just don't know"
Shido walked over to his desk and slumped down in the old and battered chair behind it, resting his forehead on his arms.
"Oh, don't feel this bad, Shido," the blonde vampire whispered, rubbing Shido's back. "She's just one of the failures."
"But she's not, Cain. She could be even more powerful than you if she wanted," Shido murmured into his arms.
Cain glared at Shido. "Are you really that stupid, to think something like that?," he snapped, rather offended. "But no
matter, why don't we forget about all of this for a few hours?"
"Gladly," Shido smiled.
"Well, get up then, Shido! We can't have sex in one of those swiveling office chairs!"
Shido hopped up on the desk and began to kiss Cain passionately.
Two hours later, the two vampires lay entwined on the old and rather decrepit sofa in Shido's office, just relaxing. (They
had moved there from the desk.)
Suddenly, Shido looked out the window and cursed, startling Cain from his very light sleeping.
"Wha...?," the blonde vampire yawned.
"I just remembered! Riho!," Shido replied, frantically pulling his clothes back on.
"What about the pathetic little moron?"
"Look, Cain, it's only one hour until dawn!"
Cain got up and lazily started to put on his own clothes. One minute later, Shido, now fully dressed, kissed Cain on the cheek.
"Tomorrow night?," Cain asked.
"Definitely," Shido replied.
Shido walked back upstairs to the apartment that he shared with Riho.
"Riho?," he called, opening the door and walking in to their living room.
A vase came flying out of the darkness, straight at Shido's face. He quickly ducked, and it shattered on the wall behind him.
"Where were you?," came Riho's ice-cold voice.
She walked out of the shadows, and the first thing Shido saw were her eyes, which were glowing with anger. She wore her
usual red dress with the sheer yellow shirt over it.
"I had paperwork, and I fell asleep," Shido replied. He shielded his mind just in case Riho didn't believe him.
"Right," Riho snapped.
"Well, I did."
"Let me see your hands. Do they have ink on them?"
Riho looked at Shido's hands. They had ink on them, thanks to his and Cain's...er...activities on the desk. Then, she looked
up at his face, which was tired and sad. In her mind, the evidence all pointed to one thing: a long, hard night of doing
paperwork. She had, in her mind, been terribly wrong, and her Shido deserved an apology.
"Oh, Shido, I'm so sorry I didn't believe you!," Riho cried, running over to him and hugging him. "I love you, I do, it's just...
Oh, sometimes it seems like you're cheating on me or something!"
Tears gathered in Shido's eyes and most of them rolled down his face. //What am I doing, deceiving her like this?//, he asked
himself, still carefully shielding his mind.
"Why are you crying, Shido?," Riho asked, reaching up to wipe some of the tears off of Shido's face.
"I'm just touched that you think so highly of me, Riho," he replied. "Now let's go sleep for a few hours, it's almost dawn."
Shido picked Riho up in his arms, kissed her, and carried her to the coffin that they shared.
The next night, there was more than enough excitement at the office. Apparently, another Nightbreed had gotten loose, and
was wantonly killing people, and Shido and Riho were expected to stop it. The Nightbreed was now on the overpass,
turning cars over and causing too many accidents to attend to at once.
"Riho!," Shido shouted above the deafening roars of the Nightbreed. "Now is the final part of your training!"
"Huh?," she replied.
Shido couldn't reply, as the Breed had impaled him with several of its long, already bloodstained claws.
"SHIDO!," she screamed, rushing to his side.
"Riho, kill the Breed with your mind," he choked out.
As Riho began to concentrate, her eyes glowed red and her hair whipped around her even though it was summer and a
windless night. Her face seemed to glow with an unearthly and evil light, and the Nightbreed shook Shido off of its claws
and began to rake at its own eyes. Once its eyes were out, it began to stab itself over and over, gone mad from the pain that
Riho was causing.
"Riho! Stop! It's dead!," Shido shouted after another minute.
"Oh, God! What have I done?!," Riho gasped, staring at the Nightbreed. "I...I tortured it to death!"
"Riho," Shido instructed, "you must only use that technique when dealing with Nightbreeds. You must never, never use it
on anything else, even a fly."
Riho turned her attention back to Shido. Her eyes had filled up with guilty tears, and she looked exhausted. She picked him
up in her arms, and flew back to the office.
"Well, well. Long time no see," Yayoi smirked from the couch in the office.
"Yayoi?!," Riho asked, startled.
"I came to inform Shido of the Nightbreed, but apparently, someone else did first. I assume he needs a drink?"
Yayoi bent over Shido and allowed him to sink his fangs into her neck, drawing just enough blood to heal himself. After
talking with them for a little while, she left; her husband, a fellow NOS member, had landed himself in the hospital during
that night's incident with the Nightbreed, and she had to go see him.
"Riho, you're exhausted," Shido remarked.
Riho nodded.
"Well, you should go to bed then," he told her.
"What about you?," she asked.
"I'm really not tired yet. I'll walk you to the apartment, okay?"
"Mm-hm."
Shido ended up carrying Riho to their apartment. Since she'd fallen asleep in his arms, he then laid her down in their coffin,
and returned to the office.
"Hello, Shido," Cain smiled. "Miss me?"
"Yeah," Shido muttered.
"Still feeling guilty about that pathetic little failure?"
"She's not pathetic! She can kill with her mind, Cain!"
"WHAT?!," Cain yelled, and slapped Shido across the face, knocking him into the wall. "You IDIOT!"
"I had to, Cain!"
"Well, I suppose that we all make mistakes that dumb at some point in our lives. Mine was leaving you. But still, I'll only
forgive you as long as she doesn't kill you. I slapped you because I love you, you know that, don't you? Everything I've ever
done, I've done out of love for you."
"I love you too!"
Cain slipped his arms around Shido and kissed him on the mouth.
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Riho woke up about an hour after she'd been placed in the coffin that she and Shido shared. She was quite disoriented, but
she knew one thing for sure: Shido wasn't asleep next to her.
"Let's test what Shido's been telling me," she muttered to herself, and walked into the hallway of the building and down the
drafty steps to Shido's office.
"Shido?," she called, knocking on the door.
Rustling. A muffled thump. Then, Shido's voice:
"Riho? I'm busy!"
Riho opened the door anyway, and what she saw shocked her. Cain had Shido backed up against the wall, with Shido's legs
wrapped around Cain's waist, and they were kissing passionately. Neither were wearing any clothes, but clothes were
scattered around the floor below them.
"Shido?!," Riho gasped.
Cain and Shido's eyes widened, and Shido attempted to cover himself.
"Riho!," Shido asked, his voice shrill with astonishment.
"What is this?," Riho whispered, tears in her eyes.
"Oh, Riho, I hoped you'd never find out," Shido sighed, "but you see. . ."
"What? What?!," Riho screamed, crying now.
"I'm in love with Cain now."
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A/N: Okay, this is going to be a multi-chapter story. Feel free to correct me or offer criticism, but be NICE, not spiteful, okay?
Flames will be used to heat my apartment.
-Meowiegirl
