Disclaimer: as always, I don't own Nightwalker.
Chapter Two: Riho's Confession
We stared blankly a head of us; Cain was coming closer and closer. I had no idea what to do. I stood dumb founded as Shido stepped forward.
"What do you want Cain?" he asked, stepping slightly in front of Yayoi and I, almost as if, we was trying to protect us from something.
"I have come to tell you a message" Cain's deep drawling voice, flooded my ears, his slight Transylvanian accent sent shivers up my spine.
"What is it" Shido asked, still standing guard over Yayoi and I.
"That girl of yours…Riho…well ill have you know that she is doing just fine…under my care" his voice rang out in my head once more.
"What….YOU LET HER GO CAIN!" he shouted almost immediately.
"Why are you so quick to jump to conclusions my dear Shido?" Cain asked smoothly
"Don't play smart with me, YOU KIDNAPPED HER!" Shido yelled in a rush of fury.
"What makes you think she didn't come to me on her own?" Cain asked raising his thin blond eyebrow.
"I know Riho, she wouldn't do that!" Shido exclaimed, a slight bit of hurt in his voice.
"Maybe you don't know her as well as you think…" Cain said, before he began to descend backwards, laughing the whole way.
"CAIN! GET BACK HERE! RELEASE THE GIRL!" Shido shouted stepping of his guard.
"We will meet again…my darling Shido" his voice came from a distance.
"What the hell was that?" I asked stepping in front of Shido trying to see were Cain went.
"That was…our attacker" Shido said looking up at me.
"He bit that man?" Yayoi asked. "That doesn't make sense, why would he come all the way out to Japan just to bite someone?"
"He's trying to lure us in." Shido said. "And he's using Riho as bate."
"But what if what he said was true?" I asked, trying to state our options.
"RIHO WOULDN'T DO THAT!" he yelled in a fury. It took me quite off guard.
"i-i-im sorry" I stuttered. Shido was breathing heavy, and for a moment I saw a small tear in his eye.
"no" he said" im sorry"
Yayoi and I both looked up; he wasn't in any shape to take on a case. Not like this he wasn't.
"What do you say we go back to the office and I make you some coffee?" Yayoi said taking his hand.
"Then you can come have a little sugar hum?" she said, pulling the scarf around her neck down. Revealing the side of her neck.
"Thanks Yayoi, but I just want to relax right now" he said refusing her offer.
I wasn't the only one surprised at this, Shido hadn't feed in days. He had to have something. And im sure he was going to get it when we got back to the office, even if we shoved it down his throught.
Back at the office we were all still trying to swallow what had just happened. I myself couldn't believe that Cain was the one behind this attack. And I also couldn't believe that Riho had just joined his side. For no reason. She was always a good kid, and I had no idea what made her turn sour. Every time I asked Yayoi and Shido, theytried to change the subject.
Still reluctant to eat anything, Shido sat in his desk trying to fight off a determined Yayoi.
"Come on Shido you have to eat something!" she said trying to force a glass of blood down his throught.
"Im not HUNGRY" Shido shouted, trying to push the glass away.
"Don't your going to spill it!" Yayoi said frowning "Then you'll have a hell of a mess, and an angry landlord."
"Good! I don't want the damned blood!" Shido said, still trying to fight Yayoi off.
"Shido what's wrong with you? You haven't eaten in days! You must be famished!" I said looking over to them.
"Well im not" Shido said, finally winning over Yayoi who gave up.
"What a waste of my own blood." She said putting the glass down. I frowned still un-happy about Shido's lack of hunger.
"Shido?" I asked
"What?" he asked, straightening out the collar of his shirt.
"Please tell us what's wrong!" I pleaded
"Nothing is wrong" he said "im fine...now lets get down to this case." He said totally changing the subject.
Yayoi and I looked at each other and gave the "he's hopeless" looks, then sat down around Shido's desk to discuss the Case.
"Now we have 1 body, and no evidence as to what killed him." Shido said looking over the file.
"Well we do have two suspects as to who it could be…Riho or Cain…those bite marks support that." I said looking at the file on the desk.
"Well if it's Cain, we can expect that there won't be another body for a while…but if it's Riho…we can expect a lot more, in a smaller period of time." Yayoi said.
Just then the door burst open. A small timid man peeped through the door.
"M-M-Mr. Shido sir?" he asked timidly
"Yes?" Shido asked.
"I have a telegram for you!" he said holding out a piece of paper.
"Thank you" Shido said getting up and taking it from the man. The man nodded and bowed out the door.
"G-good day Mr. Shido" he said and shut the door. Shido read over the paper.
"We have another body" he said. "This time it's a little girl." He said. A serious look befell his face.
"Riho" Yayoi said, saying what was on all of our minds.
"Riho" Shido nodded.
In moments we were on the scene. And again there were no police officers. I stood in the middle of the park and gazed around.
"This looks like the kind of place people would dwell." I said looking out in the direction of the sun, which was now setting.
"What I don't get is, why is she attacking during the day? Were everyone can see?" Yayoi said standing over Shido who was observing the body.
"Because, she's letting this get to her head. She thinks she's the greatest vampire there was." Shido said standing up.
It was then that I saw the small figure of Riho step out from behind a tree.
"Well aren't you just a clever little girl?" Riho said stepping in front of me. "I see Mr. Shido was quick to replace me" she said narrowing her eyes.
"And just what makes you think im your replacement?" I asked, getting slightly annoyed at her arrogance.
"Well look at you, you're a cute, smart, sensible. Loveable, girl…and in high school none the less." She said circling around me. "You have to be a replacement."
It was then that Shido and Yayoi joined us at the edge of the forest.
"Riho…" Shido said, stepping forward a little.
"Mr. Shido" she said an arrogant smile spreading across her face.
"Why did you do it?" Shido asked.
"I did it because Cain told me too" Riho retorted
"Why? Why did you join him?" Shido asked.
"Because he promised me something you never did." Riho said slyly
"What that?" Yayoi asked, she sounded disgusted.
"Love" Riho said. She stared and laughed.
"What the Hell is so funny?" I asked even more annoyed at her than before.
"You poor unsuspecting mortal…" Riho said, and swooped down to bite my neck.
Before she could even think, I bit my finger and revealed my sai's. The look on Riho's face was both shock and anger.
"You're a night breed" She said angrily
"No Shit Sherlock" I said standing in a ready position. Riho glared at me.
She was just about to attack me back, when she stopped dead at the sound of a scream.
"Oops, that's my master…I must be off" she said and disappeared into thin air. her shrill giggles heard far off in the distance
"I smell another body" Yayoi said, drawing both mine and Shido's attention to her. I dropped the sai's and the disappeared on the ground.
"Let's go" I said. And we all ran in the direction of the scream.
Few! Longer chapter this time! Ok ppl I hoped you liked! R & R! Flame if you must! After all bad criticism is what drives me to improve!