Hymns of Heaven

Chapter Two: Vampires

People killing people dying
Children hurting you hear them crying
can you practice what you preach
would you turn the other cheek?
Father Father Father help us
Send some guidance from above
Cause people got me got me questioning
where is the love?

Where is the love? (the love)

Where is the love? (the love)

Where is the love?

I awoke up as I felt the warm rays of light on me. I let my eye flutter open and stared at the stained glass of the Virgin Mary. Today was Saturday and I felt like staying in the church and sleeping. I would have it I didn't remember all that happened last night.

I immediately sat up, grabbed my things and ran back to the house. My grandparents were still asleep so I took a shower and changed into my work clothes. On Saturday's I had work from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. I didn't have to work more than ten hours and the job paid well (pays $50 an hour…she works at a really rich restaurant.). From there I had… Okay this was way too confusing. I took out my mini planner.

Monday

7 a.m. – 2 p.m.: school

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: free

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: dance class

8 p.m. – 10 p.m.: college mythology class

Tuesday

7 a.m. – 2p.m.: school

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: free

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: dance class

Wednesday

7 a.m. – 2 p.m.: school

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: free

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: dance class

8 p.m. – 10 p.m.: college medical class

Thursday

7 a.m. – 2 p.m.: school

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: free

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: dance class

Friday

7 a.m. – 2 p.m.: school

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.: free

6 p.m. – 7 p.m.: dance class

Saturday

8 a.m. – 6 p.m.: work

7 p.m. – 9 p.m.: dance practice

Sunday

9 a.m. – 12 p.m.: choir practice/church/mass

Yup, that was basically my schedule. Sometimes things changed and I had to work around the class and practice, but overall I got enough sleep and did well in school; in other words, all freakin' A's.

It was now 7:28 a.m. when I finished writing my letter to grandma and grandpa saying I had work and I would be home and 6:25 or so. I walked to work thinking about last night. It still scared me to no end and I really didn't like the feeling that was churning in my stomach. It felt worse than being reprimanded for something little as breaking a pencil. I got to work right on time and started to do whatever I did. I worked the register, played waitress, and worked in the back to help the cook every so often.

While working, I couldn't help but feel someone's intense gaze on me. It felt so weird. I stared off into space and continued my job. After a while, I came to a man that looked like he was in his late twenties. He smirked and looked me up and down. The uniform here at 'The Ocean Kingdom' was a ridiculously short black skirt; black 1 ½ inch heels, and a red and gold silk tank top Chinese shirt.

I tried my best to smile and strained out, "How may I help you sir?"

He chuckled and said, "How much for you sweetheart?"

I forced a smile and replied, "I don't think I'm for sale sir. Now please remove you hand from my waist."

He sneered and let his hand travel downwards towards the hem of the skirt. I glared dangerously at him and took a deep breath.

'Breathe…don't kill him. You can't afford to lose your job Aki. Just breathe and count to zero from ten.'

His hand ran across my exposed thigh.

'ten…'

Inched up…

'nine…'

Tugged at the skirt…

'eight…'

Slipped under m-

"AKI!"

I backed up from the man and turned around and saw a Kiba and Shino. I smiled widely and ran over to them.

"Hey guys!" I yelled happily.

We talked for about a few minutes before I seated them and took their orders. When I left, I shuddered in thought of what I would've done if Kiba and Shino didn't show up.

'I probably would have punched the day lights out him that's what.' I thought amusingly.

After work, Kiba and Shino walked me to dance class filling me in on what happened to Ino this morning.

Apparently, she had gotten in trouble for getting caught making out with Shikamaru. Who would've thought?

Hilarious. I thought those two were just cute together. I walked into the dance room and smiled to my teacher. She smiled back and said, "Hello there Masaki-san. How are you today?"

I smiled and replied, "Fine thank you."

After some small talk, I changed into a pair of tight biker shorts, and a tank top. Kuroki-sensei made me tie my hair back so it wouldn't get in my face when dancing; even if it was already too short. Normally a lot of my dances were a mix of ballet, some karate moves, flips, hip hop, and jazz. I would combine the fast beats of my all time favorite band, Linkin Park, and made a fast and enticing dance. I didn't really practice; I just made up the moves as I went along. It was fun in my opinion and a great way to let of stress. I stood in the middle of the room and when Kuroki-sensei signaled me, I started dancing to the song 'forgotten.'

After practice, I went home, made dinner, ate with my grandparents, did any homework, took a shower, bid my grandparents good night, packed some thing for my 'sleep over' in the church, and got ready to climb out the window.

I checked my bag again just in case I forgot anything.

'Alarm clock, check; cell phone, check; flashlight, check; Taser, check; matches, check; knife, check; baseball bat, check; blankets, check; pillow, check; Mr. Snuggles, hey…where's Mr. Snuggles?'

I looked around my room and saw a baby blue teddy bear with a white stomach sitting on my bed. I squealed and grabbed Mr. Snuggles. Mr. Snuggles was given to me by Kiba, Shino, and Shikamaru. Why it took three guys just to buy a single teddy bear? Because it was from an expensive store and the teddy bear cost $132.

I smiled and climbed out my window. It was a little chillier tonight and I was wearing a tank top and shorts. Not good for you health. I brought an extra comfy blankie. (A/N: Cx)

I snuck into church again and did the same thing as last night; lit the candles, set up my bed, set my alarm, and put my Taser right next to my pillow. It was damn good Taser too! Sakura had bought it for me for about $70. It shot out about 625000 volt. That was pretty good. Hehe, no guy comes near me.

I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling of the church. A mural was painted on the ceiling. Angels flew here and there, cupids, clouds, it was absolute perfection. I sat up when my watch alarm rang midnight. I sat up in praying position and said my prayers to god.

"God, I ask thee nothing more than protection, happiness, luck, and love for all those close to thy."

I smiled and whispered, "Amen." I was used to this. No matter where, I always prayed at midnight. I looked at my watch and suddenly noticed on small thing.

Today was my little sister's birthday. (A/N: it's a new day because it's past midnight.)

I smiled.

'I have to sing her happy birthday, or at least talk to her. I have to visit her grave today too.'

I kneeled in front of the altar and started talking.

"Hey Mika, how are you today? Happy 11th birthday little sister; I'll visit you later and I'll bring your favorite flowers for you. I hope mom and dad are okay. I haven't seen big brother yet. It's been so long. I hope that you're watching over me and protecting me."

I smiled and walked back to my bed. Slipping under the blankets, I closed my eyes only to be awakened again within a few minutes by a familiar bang.

I jumped and grabbed my baseball bat. I hooked the Taser on my shorts and got ready to hit anything that moved.

Bang!

I jumped again. The light provided by the fire was enough for me to see everything in the room. I walked back over to the trap door I found yesterday and lifted the carpet from it.

Bang!

I jumped and held back a squeak. I stared at the trap door.

Bang!

The trap door shook due to the impact of whatever was under it. I gulped and unlocked it quietly.

'God help me!' I yelled in my head.

I gripped the bat tighter and as the trap door swung up.

Without even comprehending what was underneath, I swung the bat. The metal met something and I heard a loud curse.

"FUCK!"

I jumped, closed my eyes, and swung wildly. This time, something stopped my bat. Now, I must say, I might not be the strongest girl around, but I did grow up playing soft ball and baseball. My swings were very hard, plus the bat was made of aluminum. I opened my eyes and saw a pale hand holding the bat. The pale hand was connected to a pale arm that was connected to a body clad in black and atop the body was the head of the one I found out was…

Sai…

My eyes widened, I let go of the bat, and I took a few steps back. A blonde head popped up from the trap door and yelled, "Hey, what the hell hit me!"

Sai, turned around and stared at Naruto. "A metal bat dickhead."

"What did you say you bastard!"

Another voice was heard, "Shut up dope."

"You shut up Sasuke bastard!"

I stared in shock and fear as six figures emerged from the trap door. Sai's gaze landed on me.

"Hey Sasuke,"

"What is it?"

They all turned and looked at me. I freaked and ran. I ran straight for the door or something.

The door was three meters away when I collided into a warm and well toned chest. I squeaked and fell back only to be caught around my waist and pulled close to the body.

My eyes caught sight of yellow.

'It's Naruto.'

"Cute little thing isn't she?"

He grinned and nuzzled my neck. I struggled against him and tried to get out. His hold only tightened on me. I reached for my Taser and flipped off the safety, then electrocuted the hell out of him. He let go of me and yelped and fell to the floor. I jumped over the seats and ran towards the altar. I grabbed my knife and prepared to stab anything. I looked back over to the trap door and found them gone.

I freaked out again and my heart was beating widely. I looked around the church frantically and didn't find anything.

Suddenly, someone grabbed my wrist and my knife dropped. My Taser fell to the floor soon afterwards and I struggled against the hold of the person. I even tried to turn around to bite them.

"Feisty isn't she?"

It was Naruto. I could tell from his voice.

"Let me go!"

I heard a husky laugh emit from his throat. He yanked me against his chest and held me there.

"Now why would I do that?"

Someone walked up in front of me. Long black hair, red eyes, pale complexion; it was Itachi. He grasped my chin and forced me to look at him. Silver met red. I glared dangerously at him and tried to bite him. He chuckled at my sad attempts to get free and asked,

"Little one, what is your name?"

I snorted and yelled backed, "Why the hell should I tell you!"

Then Sai came over and said, "Just drink her blood and get it over with. She's going to alert someone that we're here. Besides, I'm hungry too you dickless wonder."

"What did you call me?"

"Don't bite her just yet dobe."

"EH?"

Naruto turned around and everyone looked at Sasuke. His dark eyes landed on me again, and I felt like I was going to die very soon. His eyes were freaking scary!

"Why is that little brother?" Itachi asked Sasuke.

Sasuke snorted and answered, "She's the one who let us out. She broke the damn curse."

Every one of their eyes looked at me and Naruto let me go.

I fell to the floor and glared at all of them.

So then, what do you do when you're surrounded by six dead sexy guys who want to drink your blood?

Scream

Yell bloody murder

Yell at them

Run

I would choose answer C. I jumped up and pointed at Sasuke.

"Who, no, what the hell are you!"

They looked at me for a few seconds and then Neji spoke up.

"We're vampires."

I stared at him dumbfounded.

"Ino was right…"

At that moment, I wanted to scream bloody murder, but I opted for a different choice. I bolted.

I ran straight for the church door so fast I didn't even know I was outside till I locked the church doors from outside. I fell to the ground and stared off into space.

"No fucking way…"

I ran towards my house, climb the tree, and went into my bedroom. The whole time, I was chanting in my head the words, 'This is not happening. I'm just dreaming.'

I bolted my window and climbed into bed and let sleep come over me totally oblivious to the six pairs of eyes watching me.

"Cute little thing."

"What's her name?"

"I don't know, but what I do know is she set us free."

"I guess we should thank her by making her our little new pet."

"Her eyes…"

All of them looked at Itachi.

Naruto spoke up. "What about them?"

"They're silver, exactly like the ones that sorceress' eyes."

"Her descendant maybe?"

"Could be."

Next Morning

I woke up early and took a shower. I dressed in a pair of jeans, a tank top, and a light sweater. I climbed out my window again and ran to the church. Practice was in an hour and I had to clean up my mess. Grandpa would kill me if he knew I was sleeping in the church.

After I made sure there were no creepy vampire freaks, I cleaned it up, and went back to the house to make breakfast.

When grandpa and grandma finished breakfast, I did the dishes, and then went to go help grandpa open the church.

When mass and practice were over, I told grandpa I was going to go out.

I grabbed my shoes and went off towards the library.

When I got there, I ran straight to the mythology and legends section.

After reading through a billion books, I found something interesting.

According to legend, many centuries ago a sorceress bearing the name of the angels' sealed away six vampires; as was her job.

The vampires were rogues and tried to obtain the power of immortality, and thus sought for the sorceress. After finding her, they used many cruel and evil methods to make her comply. When she gave them the power of immortality though, she also gave them a curse.

'You shall bear this curse for many centuries to come. For the mistreatmentHe and pain you have caused me, you shall sleep for all eternity! That is your gift of immortality! For the only way for you to be set free once again to roam the world is if a girl who possess eyes of silver, hair as black as the raven, and a heart as pure as the angels sets you free.'

After sealing away the six vampires, the sorceress created a burial place to seal them away. After creating it, she locked the vampires away in a secret room built under the ground. She locked them in coffins made of holy wood and created padlocks to keep the coffins closed. Only one key was made and she kept it close to her at all times, making sure that the vampires were never set free again.

I nearly fainted.

'Silver eyes, black hair, heart as pure as gold? What the hell was this? A damn prophecy!'

Ino's story was right too. Our church was built on 'cursed' lands. I wanted to kill something right now.

I checked out the book and went straight to the dance hall.

After about 3 hours worth of dancing, I finally made my way home. It was about four o' clock in the afternoon. I walked past a cemetery and stopped in mid stride.

'Mika's birthday…'

I ran off to find a flower shop and bought some magnolias. I came back to the cemetery and found her grave sitting beneath a willow tree in the middle of two other graves.

"Hey Mika, I told you I would come."

I set the flowers down and just sat there for a little bit.

"Aki? Is that you?"

I turned around to see blonde hair and green eyes. I yelped and fell back.

"Oh my god, Kay, you scared the crap out of me!"

"Oppsies, I didn't know."

I stared at Kay. Kay was a transfer student from America. She attended the medical college classes with me at night. She was actually the only person I actually made an effort to talk to.

She had the prettiest blonde hair. It was pretty long too. It reached her knees if she let it loose, but most of the time it was braided and tied with the pretty green ribbon I gave her a couple months back.

Kay had beautiful green eyes that could rival Sakura's. Kay met my friends once and we all hit it off pretty fast. We were all good friends. Kay was kind of like me, but instead of all her family dead, it was just her mom.

I sat there in the cemetery with Kay for a while and we just, talked. Finally I asked Kay, "Hey Kay, do you believe in vampires?"

"I don't really know. I mean, I've never met one, but they still could be out there you know." I nodded and smiled.

"Do you want to come over for a little bit?"

"Yeah, come on lets go."

Kay and I left the cemetery and made a bee line for the church. I guess I would just go there since those vampires were gone. 'Hopefully…'

After Kay left

I called up Ino and told her the whole thing.

"WHAT!"

Yeah, I kind of went deaf after the conversation, but yeah.

She ended up calling Sakura, who called Temari, who called Hinata, who called TenTen. Yup, we were all arguing about it.

(Script form)

Ino: You've got to be kidding!

Me: I'm not! On the first night, I found that trap door, and I don't know how, but I woke one of them up!

Sakura: This is just way too freaky.

Hinata: Did they do anything to you Aki-chan?

Me: Uh, no, but the blonde one, Naruto, tried to drink my blood.

TenTen: Did you Tase his ass?

Me: Fuck yes.

Temari: Good. Did you kick him in the balls too?

Me: Not yet.

Sakura: Damn…

Ino: Why don't we all come over?

Hinata: Yes, we should. You don't have to sleep in the church anymore. Right Ino?

Ino: God no! I can not, should not, and will not let my friend be eaten or killed or what not by any vampire or anything else because it's my job!

Me: I feel so much better.

Sakura: Good, because you should.

Me: Dude, check this out too. I went to the library to do research and I found this damn story about a sorceress and how she sealed away six vamps and they'll only be set free by a girl with black hair, silver eyes, and a heart made of gold. I don't know about having a good heart, but there aren't many people around with silver eyes and black hair.

Temari: Damn girl, you've gotten yourself into a huge predicament.

Me: Of course I have!

TenTen: I need to come over there with a shotgun, rifle, grenades, and some kind of nuclear bomb or something!

Me: Give me a Browning nine millimeter semiautomatic pistol or a twelve gauge shotgun and I'll be happy.

TenTen: I got a twenty gauge.

Me: Good enough.

Hinata: You two are scary when you talk about guns and weapons.

Me: That's because we're mentally unbalanced.

TenTen: No you are. I'm just psycho.

Temari: Actually, Aki is schizophrenic. I'm the mentally unbalanced one, Ino's the screaming banshee, TenTen you're the psycho, Sakura is the one with ADHD, and Hinata's just plain to adorable and cute for her own good.

Me: Kay came over and she's like totally sadistic when you piss her off. This one guy in my medical class became her victim when he called her an ugly bitch. Dear god, those screams are forever embedded into my brain.

TenTen: That's my girl.

Temari: She's fucking pretty too! How dare he call her an ugly bitch! Well it takes one to know one! That stupid son of a bitch should burn in hell!

Hinata: Please don't fucking cuss because that shit isn't cool.

Everyone: …HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Hinata: Tehehe…

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Done with chapter two! I'm sick, and I hate it. Anyways, hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I'll try and update mercenary's life and ingredients to your living hell soon. Love you if you review, love you still if you don't.

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