A GIFT, AND A CURSE
Love Hina is the property of Ken Akamatsu, all other characters belong to me.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello again everybody, yet again I will be answering your questions to the best of my ability ok, so let's begin.
Innortal Making Keitaro energetic in sunlight would be something to make him unique among vampires, however I don't feel that is needed to make him unique. I have however taken his incredible resilience while he was human into account, and he will have some unique ability because of it, I just haven't thought what that is yet.
Mantis Man I will be trying to slow things down a bit, and I plan on it taking some time for Keitaro to accept what he is. If I made it seem like he was ok with it I appologize, that was not my intention. I also am going to get into Keitaro's head very soon actually, this chapter to be exact. I'll also get into the heads of the girls as they watch Keitaro change. As for Keitaro's sire, his backstory will be told at some point along with the question why did he turn Keitaro, though the sire's backstory will be the condensed version for the sake of my sanity. I also see your a fellow WW gamer, always good to here from one. As for the Kindred lore I'll explain right now. What I have borrowed from the game are obviously the concept of the beast, I mean it just makes sense that the way a vampire acts is part instinct. I also borrow their use of a persons true faith being what makes a vampire recoil from crosses and the like and for those same objects or places in the case of holy ground harming them. After all some evil, debased person shouldn't be able to put a cross infront of a vampire and drive him off, said person is probably just as bad if not worse than the vampire. Also borrowed is how animals can sense a vampire's true nature as well as the stake through the heart only paralyzing a vampire, which is quite acurate to real world legends by the way. I also borrow their way of creating other vampires, though their is one other way to become a vampire, and that is to use powerful magic. Sense Ken Akamatsu used this way of making a vampire in his manga Negima, I will use it as well. Finally, they may seal wounds made from their fangs by licking them, I also borrowed the mystical link between childe and sire though this is from Vampire: The Requiem.
Michael Mack Actually the story isn't in the WOD, it just borrows a bit from their vampires. Also neither Keitaro or his sire are of Clan Nosferatu because their isn't one or any other clan from V:TM/R. I just like the word nosferatu as a term for vampires, and I don't intend on bringing in any thing from Hellsing either. So no Alucard , no Hellsing orginazation or any of that. Nope my vampires are just vampires, not Kindred, Cainites, or anything like that just vampires. Sorry if I made it seem like it was a WOD based story. Perhaps I will do a story sometime placed in the WOD, though weather old or new I'm not sure.
Ksim3000 Actually I haven't played V:TM Bloodlines, but from what I have seen it looks pretty cool. Also the vampires in my story don't make people ghouls, because they can't, at least not in the V:TM/R sense. With the right powers they could raise flesh eating ghouls like you see in Hellsing. Now Motoko being turned into a vampire is an intresting thought. Though for some reason I see her trying to kill herself if she did become one, but I will definately consider it. One thing I want to say about this chapter is that this is being written in his journal, so that's why it looks the way it does. Now though on with the story.
CHAPTER THREE: REFLECTIONS
Well it's me again Keitaro Urashima and this morning I was a normal person just like anyone else. Well maybe not just like anyone else but pretty close. After all how many people are three year ronins trying for Tokyo U, or are the manager of an all girls dorm? Not many I'd wager, but as strange as that might seem that is nothing. You seethis morningafter I was sent flying through the air, yes flying through the air courtesy of one of my tenants, one Naru Narusegawa, don't ask how it happened ok. After I landed and pulled myself out of the small crater my impact made I decided to just stay in town for awhile and let Naru cool down. Now shortly after I decided it was time to head back home I stopped off at the local hardeware store to buy some things to fix the hole in the roof that my body made when I was punched through it. When I left the store night was starting to fall, and that's when things would really start to get strange.
After I had walked a ways from the hardeware store a trio of muggers decided that I would make a good target, lucky me huh. Before I knew it the three shoved me into a nearby alley and I was soon held at gun point by their leader while the others each had a knife. Now like most people I was scared I mean who wouldn't be when your starring down the barel of a gun. So I did what anyone would do, beg for their life. They wanted my money and I was more than glad to give it to them if it ment I didn't get killed. Contrary to what my tenants believe I am not immortal, damn tough to be sure but not immortal, at least I never thought of myself that way. So I gave them my wallet.
Now when they looked in my wallet their wasn't a huge amount of money, partly from my trip to the hardware store earlier, though most was because Kitsune blackmailed me into buying her sake. My lack of funds did not go over well with the three muggers who looked ready to beat me to a pulp. Instead their leader decide I should be punished. His idea of punishment was killing me. So yet again I begged. He didn't care this time. I can still remember the sound of him pulling back the hammer on the gun as if it just happened. I guess that's the kind of thing you never forget. You know how people say that your life flashes before your eyes just before your eyes, well it's true. I saw all kinds of memories from when I was just a kid. Like when I was staying at the Hinata and I made a promise with a little girl that we would go to Tokyo U together, or my memory of the day she had to leave and I was runing after her car.
Other memories appeared as well like those of my little sister Kanako, my parents, my Aunt Haruka, and my best friends Haitani and Shirai. Probably the most promenent memories I saw were the ones I had made while I was staying at the Hinata as it's manager. Like the first day I came there, man what a mess that was, or the day Shinobu came to live their. So many memories not all neccisarily good but still important to me. I also realised that I may never get to fullfill the promises I had made to my promise girl, ormy promise to Naru. And who will take care of the girls if I'm not their. They might all be forced to leave, all because I got killed in an alley. I just simply couldn't die here not like this but what could I do. If I do nothing I die. If I try to get away I die. It looked as if my fate was sealed.
Fate, you know I don't know if I ever believed that things were predestined or if we make our own fate, but at that moment it which ever it was I don't know but if fate is predestined then fate had dicided that today it would royaly screw me over. Once my life had stopped flashing before my eyesI realised something, I was still alive. Right there I was about as happy as anyone could be, or at least I should have been. There was one problem though the leader of the muggers was holding his gun at my back. It appeared I was still more or less screwed, but I noticed that the alley we occupied looked different. There was fog all along the ground and there shouldn't have been, I also saw the bodies of the other two muggers that were with him. They looked like they were out cold but I couldn't tell from were I was.
Then I noticed a man standing not more than probably ten feet away and he was walking towards the mugger and I slowly. I could tell that the mugger was scared of this guy like he had seen the devil himself as some westerners would say. I looked at the man before me I saw nothing to be afraid of except perhaps his size, he was a big guy not giant big but he definately towered over the average Japanese person. He also had short brown hair and his eyes were gray and wore a long coat like you see in movies like the Matrix or something similar. It was then the mugger yelled at him to stay away or he would kill me. Now this was not what I was wanting to here especially after I thought I was going to live. But that strange man just kept walking. I wondered if he was actually trying to get me killed.
The mugger finally said my death would be on his hands, then he shot me in the back. I remember the feeling of the bulet as it tore through me. I realised it hit something vital I don't know what though. Then I remember everything starting to go dark or maybe it was just the alley I don't really remember. As I lay there dying I saw a bright white light at the end of a long tunnel it seemed to beckon me towards it. I would have gone to it too had a voice not stopped me. The voice asked em if I could hear it. I said yes and asked who it was. It said that wasn't important right now, and that I was most likely going to die, it said it could save me, but if I excepted it's offer I would never be the same again. The voice said to me do you want to die or go on. The choice is yours. I did what any one in my position would probably do, I chose to go on. After all I had promises to keep, I had people I had to look after. I would not abandon them, ever.
It was after I chose I felt a slight pain in my neck, then that pain became pleasure. When it stopped I felt something being dripped into my mouth I couldn't help but drink it. I only drank a few moments but during that time the light I had seen dissappeared. I didn't think to long on that though for then I awoke, and I was hungry or was it thirst. Whatever it was it was driving me crazy I felt like I would kill for more of whatever I drank. The first thing I saw was that strange man, something inside me told me to attack and feed. So I did or at least I tried to but he held me by the back of the neck like one would a kitten. He said that I was still hungry and that he could solve that problem. It was strange I heard what he said but it meant nothing to me all I could think about was, blood.
It was then the strange man held in his other hand the mugger who had shot me and put him in front of me. When I saw him two things went through my mind. One was to kill the person who had harmed me and the other was to feed. I grabbed the mugger and burried my face into his neck and tore into his throat and drank deep of his blood. My conscience yelled for me to stop. That what I was doing was not right, but ther was another voice. At least I think it was a voice I don't know for sure it just kept saying, Blood. Feed. Hunger. And so I kept drinking. Oh how sweet his blood tasted it was better than any meal I had ever had, even the meals that Shinobu cooked. Yet at the same time it was foul and disgusting.
When I had finished feeding, that was when I came back to my senses. I felt satisfied somehow. It was then I looked down at the body of the mugger. He was dead, and I could still taste his blood on my lips. I dropped to my kees and buried my face in my hands. I was horrified at what I had done. I killed another human being. I had commited one of the worst possible crimes imaginable, and I had enjoyed it. Right then I wanted to die for what I had done. It was then that strange man spoke to me. He said I had only done what is in my nature to do. He said he understood how I was feeling and that I shouldn't feel so bad because the mugger I killed along with his friends had done worse things and that I had done society a favor. I yelled at him. Saying it dosen't make what I did right, and that he had made me a monster.
He looked at me with a mixture of anger and pity in his eyes. Then he spoke, saying he had only done what I had asked. That he gave me the choice, and I chose to go on instead of die. He said I would have to learn to live with what I am, and that he would help me learn if I would let him. I thought for a moment on what he had said and he was right I made the choice, and I would have to live with it, that didn't mean I had to like it though. Cause truth be known a part of me hated what I had become and it probably always will. What had I become you might ask. Well I asked this strange man just that. He said I was nosferatu, the undead, a vampire.
When I was told this I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I mean me a vampire. I had always thought they were just stories, but then again I've seen some strange things while living at the Hinata. One tenant can use her own ki to attack people. I should know cause it's usually me. And another from time to time becomes an adult. So I guess vampires being real isn't totaly unreasonable. I aske him if this meant he was my master. He said he was not my master but my sire, my father as it were. He did however make it clear that I should listen to him about what I had become. Then he gave me his name, Lucian Zaharia. I gave him my name, but he said he already knew my name.
I asked how he knew. He said he read my mind, that he knew a lot about me from that. He then said we should return to my home so I could rest. Part of me wanted to do just that go home and sleep and then wake up and find out all this was just a bad dream. Yet another part of me new that wasn't the case. Before we left I asked what we should do about the bodies. Lucian said he would take care of it. He snapped his fingers and the bodies of the muggers were engulfed in black fire. Seeing that flame made me a little afraid but I did not yet know why. I was also amazed at this. Could I learn how to do that? Could I learn to do other thigns that were just as amazing? I asked if he was worried if someone saw that. Lucian said he was not, he made sure that no one would notice, and that he would teach me to do these things in time.
Shortly we started to make are way back to the Hinata. As we walked I noticed that my senses were becoming sharper. I could here people talking in there homes, I could smell the different scents from the city being carried by the wind, I could also smell the blood within the people who walked the strrets. The smell of their blood made me hungry and I didn't like it one bit. The desire to feed from them only made me feel less human. My sight becoming perfect was the last of my sense that I truely noticed to become better. I actually had to take my glasses of just to see, which I truely enjoyed. I always hated wearing my glasses since they made me look like a nerd.
As I noticed my senses changing Lucian spoke to me in my mind explainging some of what was happening to me. He told me about how my sense had become very heightened, and how my my strength, speed, snd resilience would increase as well. He also told me of the beast, what would cause it to react, hunger, anger, and fear. I realised then that being a vampire brought disadvantages as well as advantages. Lucian called vampirism the dark gift, the curse that brings both power and suffering, and that I would learn this in time. What he said made me wonder in what ways exactley would I suffer. If it meant guilt for anyone I might kill or harm then I had already learned that. I don't think I will ever be able to really forget the first person I killed. It is a memory that will haunt me always I think. Even now I shudder to think of that moment, though I try to put it at the back of my mind.
Or did Lucian mean something else entirely, perhaps he will tell me soon. I then realised I would have to adapt to the changes I was undertaking. I even thought I would never walk in the daytime again. Lucian though explained that vampires aren't harmed by sunlight only weakened by it. We are also lethargic during the day so we prefer to sleep then instead. This still worried me though what would the girls think if I slept all day and was only awake at night. Also I would have trouble attending prep school. Lucian then brought an important fact to my attention the girls would not be to happy that he was with me. I agreed completely, but the realised something I had never once mentioned them to him.
Lucian told me he learned of them through his reading my mind. He also learned of some of the things they have done to me. This made me rather embarassed. Lucian said I should be and that he would put some pride into me so that won't happen in the future, because he said that I shouldn't take that kind of treatment from humans. He also told me that I need to take charge of the situation, since I am the manager of the apartments that makes me in charge. Of course if I were to act all bossy they would hate me, and then hit me. Lucian told me than that the girls would have to either stop their actions or I start defending myself, otherwise I could wind up hurting them or worse killing them.
So I decided things would have to change. Lucian agreed, he said change was needed for growth and that it would be good for them and myself. It was then Lucian dropped another bombshell on me. He said he would be living with me until he felt I was sifficently prepared for my new unlife. Now I have to say I new I would need someone to tech me what I would need to now about what I am, but I never expected this. I knew this would make the girls even more upset than Lucian simply acompanying me. I suppose it was good of him to understand I had responsibilities that I just couldn't ignore and I guess that is why he did it. It was only when Lucian said he would be staying with me for a time that something or rather someone I had not taken into acount came to my mind, and that was Motoko.
If Motoko found out about what Lucian and I were she would try and kill us without a doubt. I told him of this small problem, and he agreed but said not to worry, that she couldn't do much to him and he wouldn't allow her to doanything to me while under his protection. Though I was a bit worried that he might hurt Motoko if she did attack. Lucian was good enough to promise not to do any serious harm to her or any of the girls, this made me feel alot better. Lucian told me my kindness was a rare trait that he hopes I do not lose. I wonder what he ment by that? He also told me I shouldn't tell them I was a vampire, but if I did that they must tell no one else. I really don't know if I want to tell them or not. I worry how they will react to it.
When we entered the apartments we were meet by the girls, who looked like they had formed a mob. It was a little scary to be honest but I have gotten used to it by now. Immediately Naru started asking where I had been all day, accusing me of goofing off, While Motoko helped with accusing me of neglecting my duties. When they were saying all this I cuold feel my beast growling within me. It wanted to see both Naru and Motoko dead for what they said. This was truly worse than when I had smelled the blood of all those people on the street because I wanted to do harm to two people I should care about. If it had not been for Lucian I might have acted on the desire to kill them but luckily I didn't.
As all that happened the only person who seemed to care if something was wrong with me was Shinobu. I told her that nothing was wrong that I was fine. For the second time since I meet her I lied to her and I hated myself for lying to someone as sweet and innocent as her. At least she looked releaved when I told her this. Now this is when Kitsune noticed Lucian and asked about him, and when Motoko took over as leader of the mob at least from my point of view. Let me tell you she was pissed that I had brought another guy into the dorm and she wanted an answer, so I gave her one. I told her that he was a distant realative. Which now I guess is true but that didn't matter to her, and she let me know it.
What I said next suprised everyone especially me. I told Motoko that I was the landlord and that meant I decide who can and can't stay. Now I have to tell you telling her that made me feel real good. However she didn't take it well, so when she told Lucian to leave and he said her demands were pointless, she decided to remove him by force. That didn't go as she had planned. When she attacked Lucian he just stepped out the way of her attack and tripped her causing her to land on her face. Now it may sound mean of me to say this but that was funny when she fell. Lucian then followed up with a verbal thrashing for Motoko. Lucian said earlier that he knew of Motoko's family, but from what he said I wonder if he has history with them as well?
After that we went upstairs were I was going to show him to a room, but instead we ended up talking for awhile in mine after he put up some kind of ward to deal with eavesdroppers. While we talked Tama came in to say hi, and I would soon learn of another problem with being a vampire. The moment Tama got close to me she backed away in fear. Lucian explained that animals can senseour true nature and react in fear, and yet she wasn't afraid of him. Lucian then explained to me that was because he could hide his supernatural nature so he seemed like a normal human, and that would be one of the first things he would teach me. He said once I learn that things will be a bit easier for me. So we worked on that for several hours and I soon learned the trick to it. Lucian told me that I was a fast learner, that it took most vampires several days to learn that ability.Tomorrow Lucian says he'll be teaching me a way to control my beast better as well as a few of the other powers I can do. Well I guess that's all I have to say for now the sun will rise in a few hours so I'm going to bed.
END CHAPTER 3
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Well that chapter went longer than I thought. Anyway if this dosen't look all that great I apologize I haven't wrote anything like a journal entry in many years so don't be to harsh on me. Anyway until next time. You people have a good weekend, okay.
"The dark shall be with us always. I would crush even the moon herself so that it is preserved." Demitri Maximoff, Nightwarriors Darkstalker's Revenge