Rain
RK doesn't belong to me.
AN: I revised this chapter, its now in third person point of view, I decided this was the only way I could do this fic. Sorry, but the third chapter will soon follow, trust me on that.
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The darkness of her hidden room surrounded her with an eerie silence that seemed to follow her where she went…not the way she was. Only Tomoe brought the cheer, the laughter and conversation that used to follow her about like a blanket of kind sunlight, something she could never see or feel again.
How she envied that. Everyone else in the whole city could reach for that warmth coming from the sky, but she never could. Well, she could leave the house when the sky was thick with clouds, and at night, and only then. It could kill her if she did.
"Kaoru-sama, its time to get up, the sun has set and the night waits in its beautiful manor!" said Tomoe from the door, her voice like music as it went about her. Only she could say something like that to a vampire that had bought her on the black market. Kaoru may have looked 16, but she was much older, time having gone slower for her, making young for her age.
"I am up dear, up as I will ever be!" she called back, moving from her bed of earth, shaking off the dirt that stuck to her body like dust.
"I drew a bath for you, I just started the fire though, so it may be a while before it's warm enough, but everything else is ready!"
"Thank you."
She left the room, and saw Tomoe going down the hall, her hair swinging with the gentle sway of her hips. The girl looked back, her eyes shinning in the dim light of the candles that adorned the room. "No problem, it's all in a days work."
Yeah right! The girl did just about everything! Except for bringing in the money to pay for the food and bills.
Kaoru just smiled back, a fang peaking out from under her lip, making her smile more cuter, or dangerous, your pick, but it didn't matter either way. She turned and headed towards the bathroom, stripping off the gown she wore at day; it would need to be washed soon. She scrubbed herself and washed the soap and dirt from her body before resting into the tub, the water just right by that time.
The water was warm, and she enjoyed it quite well. Though, she would never really enjoy it, the water at her village so long ago never did have water such as this, it took forever to draw a bath that it was just a waste to do so in the first place! She got out and dressed in a clean yukata, leaving for the room she had everything set as if she was human.
There waiting in a chest, was the gear she used for hunting, the black of a ninja, but sleek and showing her curves. Something normal women would never wear, and she wasn't normal.
Putting it on, she started into the night, but something stopped her, a small knock on the door. Kaoru had known about the secret meeting between Tomoe and her lover, but never once had she seen the man's face in the light of a lamp, only from the dim markings of the moon.
He was tall, handsome, with caring, gentle eyes. Akira was his name, Kiyosato Akira, a man of his word and strength. And Tomoe had right to fall for such a man.
How lucky she was, to have such a man care for her, to be loved and cherished in a way that the gods would one day give greet account…something she herself had always wished for, in the darkness of the night and warmth of her village home.
But, it would never be. She only loved one, and he was the reason behind who she was now, the creature she had become.
The meal she had chosen, a man walking home in the warm night, his feet staggering beneath him, and his breath reeking of sake. Something she normally didn't like, but she—or he—wouldn't complain, not that she had seen anything to complain about. She was getting a meal.
The blood seeped through her mouth as she sank her fangs into the jugular that she found, making her want more and more, enough to fill her stomach. She resisted though, and left enough for him to live until someone came along and found him passed out in the streets.
She traveled deeper into the woods, tell she came to a river, and she watched the water flow in the moonlight. Leaves floated along the surface, hitting rocks and getting stopped along the edges of the bank, waiting for the water to pick them up once more.
It was like her, stuck in time until something came to take her into the world that no longer belonged to her once more. Dreams, a fantasy, for she could no longer be able to do something like that ever again.
She sighed, and sat down on a large rock at the water's edge, closing her eyes and just taking in all that was around her.
Maybe it would've been better of she had someone to live this life with, to have someone by her side. Someone she could trust in, hunt with, fall in love with…Anyone, it didn't matter. No, it never mattered…
Tomoe would never be her choice though.
"Ah child, it seems you are in need of some company tonight."
And she froze.
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AN: I took about the same ending as in the old one, but it's a little different, last time she meet Akira, but in this one, she didn't.