chapter 21
This chapter was updated on December, 19, 2011
That haiku in the story is not mine.. you'll know what I mean later.. I just can't find the link for it..
Who's looking forward for melodrama? *hint hint*
This is actually a REALLY long chapter. I split it up so that if you are busy you can stop and come back later, but I think the sections are a bit uneven. Anywho, enjoy!
Hokkaido
Haruhi was full of anxiety, she tried her best to make her heart stop beating so quickly. Akane sat next to her, taking deep, calm breaths. The two of them sat silently outside of Gorou's room, waiting for him to speak to them. "Would you please tell me what's going on?" Haruhi pleaded "You've barely spoken to me since we got here." Akane shook her head,
Gorou slid the door open, giving Haruhi and Akane a warm smile. "How are you today, girls?"
"Fine, Gorou Ojii-sama." Haruhi said. Akane's gave a short "hmmph", and nothing else.
"Haruhi, why don't you come inside? We can talk in here." Gorou gestured for Haruhi to follow him inside, slowly moving his cane around to not bump into the table. Inside of the room was a small, elegant coffee-table. Gorou-sama sat on one side, and Haruhi on the other.
Ojii-sama?"
"Yes?" he said, his blind eyes still.
"Why won't anybody tell me what's going on? I don't like the air of mystery that's surrounding everybody."
"Haruhi...It's all very complicated.. you have no idea how delicate this situation really is. The Elder's advised me not to tell you, but I convinced them to let me. Forgive me for sounding melodramatic, but I thought that you had to know, and you had every right."
"Elder's this, Elder's that! They aren't kings and queens, they've just been causing this entire family misery with their medieval ways and closed-minded personalities!"
"I understand completely. Would you let me continue?" Haruhi let out a short "humph" and let him finish his speech. "You don't have to talk. Just listen to me, because there is no easy way to say this."
"I already know that I'm not a human." Haruhi said curtly. "Just tell me what this whole Blending scheme is all about."
"Haruhi..."
"Please...Jii-sama...I just can't." she said, curling her hand into a fist and biting her lip. "I've already accepted that, I just want to move on." Gorou took a deep breath, and began his story.
"We have an ancestor, who was the first Blended soul of the Fujioka line. To this day, none of us know how it happened, but her soul and body was combined with that of 8 mythical beings, or deamons as we call them. I don't know all of them, just a few; a werewolf, vampire, Yuuki-onna and a mythical fox of some sort. The other four have never been recorded. Every five generations, this phenomenon happens to one member of the family, but with a new deamon added every time the cycle goes on. Sometimes, variations of some deamons occur, especially with the fox. "
Haruhi put her head in her hands and rested them on the table. "This is too much information for under five minutes... Wait... so then.. is everyone else a-"
"Yes. But the rest of the family that is alive and awake at the moment, they only have one spirit."
"Awake..what?"
"Only the other people from the past who are… "Blended" just like you, they are still alive, but they are just.. dormant, in a sense. Being who you are, it makes you immortal. Well not completely immortal, if you are killed then you die. Your natural life just extends.. until the end of time.
"Why.. why wait to tell a person this until they're 15?" she said, her voice shaky.
"You're lucky. If it wasn't up to me, you would have found out in two years. Kiyoshi and Tadashi just found out this year."
Haruhi clenched her fist, That's why they've been around so much lately. The bastards just want to keep an eye on me.
"Were you ever going to tell me that my parents were related beforehand?" she asked, trying to be polite as possible.
"What? Haruhi... I think you're mistaken... Your father had complete disregard for the Elders' rules when he was a child, why start during adulthood?"
Haruhi let a relieved sigh. "I'll kill Kiyoshi the next time I see him."
Gorou chuckled, "In this house, that's bound to be soon."
"So... we're all... you know?"
"Tadashi is a werewolf. Kiyoshi is a vampire. Ironic, yes?"
"Yes, yes. Akane?"
"Akane is a Rain-sprite, and her mother is one of the ones that stayed human." Gorou said cooly.
Haruhi asked him questioningly, "Some of us stay human?"
"Rarely. Anyone else you would like to know of?"
"My father...Wait, does my father know about me?" Haruhi thought it was a dumb question, but had to know anyway.
"Yes he does. He just doesn't know that..you know."
"Funny how a family this "close" doesn't share anything with each other. It's pretty hilarious, actually, how many secrets we keep from each other." Haruhi said, scratching her head lightly. "I take it the Elders don't want me to tell Otou-san either?"
"Heavens no. But to hell with the Elders for this, he's your father."
"Thank you Ojii-sama. I appreciate that."
"No, no. Don't thank me Haruhi. I am just another protestor in this silent rebellion against the higher authority of this family, and will not tolerate my family being treated as if they are in a dictatorship. Now, are you all right?"
"As someone who just found out that they're something completely and absolutely different from what I was raised as and told I was, I think I'm doing pretty good."
"That's the spirit, Haruhi. The worst part about these things is telling the people that their entire life is a complete lie. Well then, if you'll excuse me, I have some very important business to take care of. Can I ask you to step outside for a little while? You can tour the house even, you haven't been here before, have you?"
Haruhi laughed "Alright, Ojii-sama. I'll be back in a little while." she said.
"Oh and Haruhi?" He asked as she was getting up.
"Yes?"
"There's one more crucial detail that you need to know."
"..Yes?"
"Each one of those demons..."
"Go on.."
"They're triggered by a different emotion. That's why you haven't been experiencing full-on demon mode."
"Wait... all through my life, I've been experiencing different emotions.. why didn't they-"
"Because in your subconscious, you did not know who your truly were. Now that you do, it had triggered something in your mind to cause a physical reaction with each feeling. Understand. I just want you to be careful, and keep as calm as you can. It won't happen instantly, it's more of something that gets bottled, and bottled up, then just suddenly explodes."
"You have my word, Jii-sama. I'll be "calm." she said, and gently closed the door behind her. Akane, of course, was nowhere to be found in the hall. Haruhi leaned against the opposite wall, buried her face in her hands, and let out a muffled cry.
"Er, Haruhi?" She heard a voice from above. She rotated her head about 55 degrees and saw Tadashi standing above her. He was wearing one of the plain, black kimonos as well. "You uh.. heard..."
She looked away from him. ''Y-Yeah. Of course, all the weird stuff has to happen to us."
"Heh heh... huh." he sighed. "So..um... shall I take you on the grand tour?" he asked, holding his hand towards her. She refused his hand for support to stand up, struggling with her cast.
"Fine." she said, still not looking at him. He put his arm underneath her arm and around her back to help support her, despite her protest. Their walk was silent, piercing silence.
"So now you know about...us." He said quietly, Haruhi's reply was a quick "hnn." "And that Kiyoshi's a vampire... and that Ryuu is a dragon."
"What?"
"Yeah. Freaky shit, huh?"
"Stop trying to make it funny."
"Just trying to lighten up the mood Haruhi, didn't realize that was a crime."
"It's just not the right time to say things like that, Nii-chan."
"You know what, I'm trying to be sensitive and all because I know that this is probably a really stressful day for you, but you're making it really hard not to-"
"Then just shut up. You had no problem with that when I knew absolutely nothing about my life."
"Is that what this is about? You're having a tantrum because I didn't tell you something that you weren't frigging ready to know about? God, Haruhi, I'm the only one here that has common sense. You're only 15."
"Only 15? Only 15?" She stopped walking, "Do you realize what the hell I just went through? I just found out that my entire life was just some made up fairy-tale, weaved together by a bunch of idiots that would decide to tell me what I was years after I needed to know, instead of raising me like that? Do you know what it's like to have to sit there for weeks, watching your cousins talk about your family like they're some sadistic murderers? Do you?"
"Yes, Haruhi! I went through the same damn thing! You didn't have to sit there for weeks knowing that your baby cousin was going to have her life ruined by a couple of bastards who think that we're just playing pieces in some game! You didn't have to watch her hug and kiss some random dude from Europe, and you didn't have to watch her treat you like absolute shit every since her asshole brother died!"
Haruhi slapped Tadashi straight across the face, the whiplash sending herself backwards. Her hand left a mark, her nails scratched his skin- but not very deep; blood didn't even come, but it still hurt. The two of them were left there, awestruck. "Don't you ever, talk about Ichirou like that again." She spat. Her words were like poison to him, sending an electric wave jolting through his body.
"Haruhi.. Haruhi I..I'm so sorry.. I didn't think about what I was saying.. I was just so angry I-"
"Just shut up..shut up and leave me alone." she said, before limping off in a different direction.
"You don't even know where you're going!" he cried
"I have enough common sense to figure it out." She muttered.
"You always do this Haruhi, never face your problems, right? Always run away from it. I'm the problem, don't run away from me. Deal with me, punish me, get rid of me. Just please don't leave me."
Haruhis' throat began to tighten up painfully quickly as she walked away.
"So, yeah. That's basically how I wound up lost." Haruhi said, finishing her story. Kiyoshi looked at her with disbelief. Haruhi and him were sitting at a table, both of them with glasses full of water.
"You both lost your temper." Kiyoshi said, poking at the ice cubs with his finger. "But more importantly.. How did you get here without crutches?"
"Amazing things happen when people are on a mission." Haruhi hissed, taking a gulp of water. The temperature of the water was just right. "So.. how's life as a vampire?"
"It's...it's taking some getting used to. Especially since I was-" the both of them said "raised as a human" at the same time.
"I can't even imagine... it's not fair."
"Hey, new look for a new life." Kiyoshi said, pinching her cheek. When she began to scowl, he said " I'm sorry, that was out of line. But I just had to."
"Freaking pretty-boy, trying to get away with everything."
"Hah. You're too kind. Come on, I'll take you on that "grand tour" that you were promised."
Haruhi thought for a moment. "Technically, I just gave myself the entire tour so-"
"It's funny. You act like I'm giving you a choice. Let's effing go." He said, grabbing her arm and pulling her up. He put his arm around her back, and supported her as they walked out of the room. "This right here, this is the hall. It's where people walk to go to places where they need to go."
"Nii-chan.." Haruhi groaned "Don't make this any more of torture than it is." The two of them had their mini argument during Kiyoshis' tour about how he was being irksome, until they finally reached where Kiyoshi was heading the entire time.
"This, this right here is the freaking kitchen. This is where the creation of food is done. Now, we're going to eat, and we're going to eat like we've never eaten before. And by that, I mean that we're out of food and only have cup ramen and salt."
Haruhi sighed "Onii-chan... Why didn't you just tell me you were hungry?"
"Because then you would've wanted to talk about the subject, analyze its' meaning, and observate the truth about it."
"Observate? That's not a-"
"Stop observating."
After lunch was over, Kiyoshi and Haruhi went on with their tour, passing by the yard. They saw Akane, talking on the phone with someone. "Miyuki, I swear to you, I'm with family. I can't spend time with you today, I'm busy." she said. Kiyoshi cleared his throat, and Akane look up. Her eyes went wide at the sight of Haruhi. "I..I'll call you back Miyuki." she didn't wait for her friends' reply before pressing the disconnect button on her phone. "So.. How was it?" When Haruhi didn't answer, Kiyoshi replied for her. He stood behind her and made his voice go higher, like a small girl.
"Nee-chan, how could you keep something like this from me? Do you not love me anymore~?" he asked, hiding behind Haruhi the whole time. The corner of Haruhi's mouth twitched. He head rotated towards him, and she shot him a poisonous glare. He froze, and backed away from her, "I'll just uh.. I'll just... bye Haruhi." He said, before going back inside of the house.
"Haruhi I-" Akane started. Haruhi interrupted her by running towards her and hugging her tight, sobbing into her shoulder.
"I never wanted this, Nee-chan! I..didn't ask for any of this!" she cried in between sobs. Akane put a hand on her back and head, trying to comfort her.
"None of us wanted this, Haruhi. Not a single one of us did. Yet here we are." She said smoothly. She let Haruhi cry on her shoulder, when after a little while she said "I'll tell you a story. Why we're all in this mess."
"Some story."
"Come on, let's go for a walk."
Akane led a reluctant Haruhi down the halls of the house, and finally stopped when they found one with portraits and portraits hung on the wall. "Now.. close your eyes." she said.
"I'd rather not."
"Haruhi!" Akane whined "You'll ruined the whole surprise! This is the best part!" Haruhi sighed, and shut her eyes; allowing Akane to guide her towards her destination.
"Alright, open your eyes." Akane said. Haruhi did as she was told, and looked at the painting that Akane was gesturing at. Her jaw dropped. "Haruhi, this is Fujioka Amaya." The girl in the portrait had long brown hair, tied in a neat braid with a red ribbon. Her eyes weren't as circular as Haruhi's, and they were a different shade, but the resemblance was uncanny. "The First." Haruhi simply stared at the picture, for lack of a better response. Brown hair and eyes seemed to be a very common trait in her family. She took a step back from the picture, as to avoid anymore shock, and her eyes drifted off the portrait on the right of Amayas'.
Isamo. Unlike how Amaya had some differences in appearance to Haruhi, this was the spitting image of Isamo. Narrow face yet strong jawline, the bags under his eyes were apparent, and his eyes were exactly the same. It was as if Isamo had been someone who was copied directly out of the portrait.
"Akane, please.. please tell me that-"
"Hah. This day just keeps on getting better and better, huh? Isamo's a vampire, just like Kiyoshi. He's Amaya's older brother too. What a wonderful family we have.."
Haruhi took a deep breath. "Why am I not surprised?" She began to massage her temples, circling her fingers around the area over, and over.. and over again. She saw another portrait on the right of Isamo's- another woman- but her eyes always went back to Amaya. But then, she noticed another peculiar portrait to the left of Amaya, one that didn't even look like he was related to them. He could've been half- japanese, at the most. This man had scraggly, auburn hair.
"And him? Don't tell me, he's a-" Haruhi started, jokingly. She was about to say
"Werewolf. And a wizard. Probably the greatest one ever known.. devoted his life to trying to find a way to help himself and others like him. And no, he's not like you or Amaya, he was attacked by a werewolf when he was a kid, but born a wizard."
Haruhi thought of Harry for a moment. "Gorou Jii-sama told us stories about the great wizard who was on a quest to free a race... and I always thought he was symbolizing Jesus.." That was until Harry...Wait, Harry! Crap! How am I supposed to tell him all of this?
"Wow. You made that connection faster than I did." Akane said. "Okay, that lady in the picture next to Isamo, she's important. Her name's Akira. Remember her. So, how it went down was that.."
And so, Akane began to tell Haruhi the story of their dear ancestor, Amaya. The wizard was married to Akira, the older sister of Isamo and Amaya. Eventually, the two divorced and the wizard had time for himself. Specifically, to finally achieve his lifetime goal of freeing people from the curse of the werewolf. He remained in close contact with Amaya, and Isamo, (the two siblings had never met before, despite the circumstances). Amaya aided the wizard in his search around the world for everything he needed- as the entirety of the Wizarding world had come to despise the man. Isamo remained his go-to-guy for any important information he needed to know about his ex-wife.
The wizard and Amaya, after many years of friendship, grew to love each other. At this point, Isamo and Amaya had finally met each other. Akira- the only human out of the three children- had grown to despise all beasts after her separation with the wizard. She would not have it, the happiness of two , and the day before the wedding of her sister and ex-husband, Akira had sent two of the most skilled assassins off the capture him. There was a battle, and the Wizard was then nowhere to be found. Amaya was sure that her fiancé was deceased.
Amaya was sure to have her revenge. She sent spies to check on her sister, and spied on the place herself. Akira had fallen in love with a man who she had no idea of his real self. She had, once more, married into the line of magic. But this time, it was dark magic. The man was able to speak with snakes, yet hid his gift from his wife. The only muggle he had ever loved. He generally disliked those with not magic, and yet there we was. The man already had a child, and had no intention of having another. One was enough for him to let his bloodline live on.
Amaya watched the "family" carefully, noting down each subtle move of each person. The twitch in the mans face whenever the woman spoke of her disgust of the magical world, yet he loved her. The humorous grunt the child let out whenever his magic would make his step-mother give him what he wanted. Amaya even noticed the stack of letters that Akira had been piling up, her ideas to send to the Warlord to pass a law to mark the beginning of an era of persecution of witches and wizards.
That was the final straw. Amaya stole one of the letters, and placed it neatly onto the table where the man could see it, when Akira was away from her home. The man flew into a rage. Amaya hid among the shadows, and watched as her brother-in-law left her sister, and took his child with him. He despised all non-magic folk since that day, and that hate went down through his family. Akira was left in a sobbing mess, and Amaya made herself visible to her. "Pain." is all she said " You could've done nothing. And someone of the same blood as you is the reason for this pain." And she vanished.
Akira's laws were passed by the Warlord, as she described them as a threat to the very existence of mortals. Amaya resisted her efforts by forming an Alliance, The Guardians of Night and Day." Magical beings were hunted, and protected. As Akira was the only human in her family, the rest of the Fujioka clan joined Amaya in her rebellion.
"Wow.. she did all of that?" Haruhi asked. Akane nodded.
"That wizard I was telling you about, the one who died, he's half English. G-Godric something.."
"I thought he looked foreign.."
"The sad part is, him and Akira's second wife were best friends at one point. They co-founded a school with two women back in England, but that was obviously before the whole dillemma. A place for people like them. Hogwarts, I think the name is.."
"H-Hogwarts?" It seemed like Haruhi's entire day kept on going back to references to Harry.
"I Know, they might as well have called it Pig Pimples. So anyway.." The two of them talked about much lighter subject now, Akane hoped to ease some pressure off of Haruhi's head. She diverted away from all of the talk of death, and persecution, and pain. Akane wrapped her arm around Haruhi's and the two of them walked together, smiling and laughing; like old times. "So.. have you and Harry kissed yet?"
"What? Nee-chan!"
"What? I was just curious.. but have you?" To which Haruhi didn't respond. "You have, haven't you!" the two of them began to argue about Haruhi not being "open" about these things with Akane. Kiyoshi had been slightly far away from them the whole time, but could still hear their entire argument. He decided that he should've gone in to break up the argument.
"Hello, lovelies." He said cheerfully, with one arm behind his back. They two of them glared at him, to which he shrugged. "It was better than, "how goes it bitches?"
Haruhi just rolled her eyes. "We're kind of in the middle of something."
"Actually, you both were just starting something. Haruhi, let's go. It's time to ruin the next part of your day."
She raised an eyebrow "How, exactly, is that going to make me anymore willing to go with you?"
"You get presents." Haruhi crossed her arms. Kiyoshi took hold of her arm and tried to drag her away from Akanes' reach. "Fine, I won't give you the "ruin your day" part."
"Haruhi, he's not going to stop. Just go with him, before he gets really annoying."
"Achievement already unlocked." Haruhi muttered. Akane let out a short snicker, which she tried to hold back in. She pushed Haruhi towards Kiyoshi, and back away.
"Before he starts really annoying me." she said. "Don't do anything stupid, Kiyoshi." She stuck her tongue out at Haruhi, then walked down the hall away from the two. Kiyoshi gave Haruhi a smile, and she raised her eyebrow again.
"What are you so happy about? This day was terrible."
"I found something that'll make you feel better." he said. He brought his arm to his front and stuck out his hand to Haruhi. He was holding a single, black rose with no stem.
There was no such thing as a truly "black" natural rose. The real ones were just a deep, maroon or burgundy colour, with just a hint of black. "Favorite flower, right? "People only like it because of it's gothic taste, not try beauty," right?"
"How did you even-"
"Since this day was so terrible, I figured that I might as well tell you about our extensive rose bush collection."
"You're kidding."
"Nope. We have all of your rose-y needs, along with the all-famous Red Rose, the Black Dragon Rose, the-"
Haruhi gave him a hug "Shut up, and hug me." Kiyoshi had to raise his hand in the air so that the flower wouldn't get squished, and used his free arm to hug her back.
"There's that Haruhi smile again." He said quietly. "You only do it when your boyfriend's around."
"What? I smile when I'm with family too.."
"Not the Haruhi smile.. It's not fair how you save it for him."
"How would you know? You've seen him, what, once?"
Kiyoshi sighed "Enough to know that... never mind."
"What?"
"Nevermind."
"No really, tell me." Haruhi ended their hug "What were you going to say about me and Harry? I won't get mad."
Kiyoshi scratched the back of his head nervously, "It's just that... It kind of seems like.. you're wasting your time."
Haruhi's face twitched. "Is that so?" she muttered. The vain in her forehead bulged.
"Yeah.. I mean... you can't die.. and he's a-"
"So that means i'm wasting my time, because I'm with someone who's eventually going to die. I have to spend my entire life with some person I probably won't like, just because they're immortal."
"Haruhi, don't say it like that-"
"You're all jerks, you know that? None of you can just-"
"What will you do when he dies, move on to the next human?" he muttered, hoping that she wouldn't hear him.
"Excuse me? What the hell do you take me for, some kind of serial dater? Do you really think i'm that shallow?"
"Haruhi, listen, it wasn't supposed-"
"No, you listen." Haruhi spat. He voice became much more bestial and forceful. "You don't tell me what relationships are a waste of time. You don't tell anyone, what relationships are a waste of time. What's the matter with you?" She began to yell even louder. Kiyoshi saw her eyes becoming a burgundy shade. "Did you think that because "It's a waste of time" that i'm going to just automatically end my relationship with him? No!" She was taking deep breaths now, almost like she was panting. Then, suddenly, a small drop of blood dripped from the inside of her mouth onto her chin. A few more fell, and a tear came from Haruhi's eyes.
Things went downhill from there. Kiyoshi's eyes changed from a mystic green, to a deep red. He covered his mouth with his hand and dropped to the floor, holding onto Haruhi for support. "Kii.." she whimpered, then clasped her hand over her own mouth, flinching in pain. "What...is..?"
"No..no.. not now.." he said... gripping her arm even tighter. "It wasn't ..supposed ..to be... Gah! Haruhi.. I'm so.. sorry."
"For what?" she asked muffeldly, trying to wipe away her tears. He looked up at her, his eyes glowing red. Haruhi paused. "K-Kii.. nii?" He reached his neck to her chin, and licked off the few drops of blood that were trailing down. Haruhi didn't move, she could've have moved anyway; she was frozen with shock. When her chin was free of blood, Kiyoshi stood up, and held her tight against hisself.
"Growing fangs really hurts." He stated "I was spazzing out when it happened to me."
Haruhi pushed him away ferociously. "I wouldn't be in this state if it wasn't for all of you!"
"What?"
"Gorou Jii-sama said to keep me cool, but no. You guys had to go and-"
"Well.. wasn't that your fault then?"
"You guys didn't have to go and be so damn irritating! That's freaking it, you need to stay away from me. "
"Oh? Oh so you're just going to walk off again? Real damn mature Haruhi! And you're the one who was saying how you're old enough to do anything, but then you go and walk off like a pre-schooler, afraid to face anything!" He said, yelling back at her.
She stopped in her tracks. "I'm not afraid."
"Damn right you are. You're afraid of facing your DAMN emotions, and facing the DAMN truth. Well guess what, Haruhi, this is the truth. This is effing reality, and whether or not you like it, you have to deal with it."
"I am dealing with it."
"Oh right, sulking off in a corner is dealing with it. You and Tadashi are so alike."
"Hey!" they heard a voice call. "It's one thing to compare her to a kid, another to compare her to me." The two of them turned to see, Tadashi. He was walking towards them, with Akane and Ryuu. Akane shot a poison glare at Kiyoshi.
"This counts as stupid, stupid." She told him, "And you," she said, pointing to Haruhi "You really need to take care of your temper. Jeez.." Akane had a small first aid kit in her hand.
"Hi.. Haruhi. How's it going?" Ryuu asked, waving at Haruhi. She gave him a mediocre wave back. Akane opened up the kit, and took out a two rolls of gauze. She set them gently in Haruhi's mouth. Tadashi didn't even look at Haruhi, and it was fine because she ignored him too. Her cheeks were puffed out from the gauze, and there was a heavy and dark aura surrounding everyone in the hall, in which Ryuu and Akane were sadly caught in as well.
"Come on, Haruhi. Why don't you lie down for a little bit?" Kiyoshi, Tadashi, why don't you go spend some time with Gorou-Jii-sama?"
"Because I don't want to spend time with Gorou-Jii sama." Tadashi said. Kiyoshi pulled him by the ear.
"That means we don't have a choice, idiot." he dragged him along down the hall
"Ow... the hell's wrong with you?" Tadashi yelled
Akane and Ryuu look at Haruhi, who was huffing and puffins angrily. Ryuu put his arm around her back and Akane opened one of the doors to a room for them, which the entered. Ryuu set Haruhi down on the bed, and let Akane take care of her.
"Oh my, that looks painful." Akane said. "The gauze is already soaked." with a pair of tweezers, she pulled out the gauze from Haruhi's mouth and wrapped them up in many layers of paper towels. Haruhi stuck some more gauze in her mouth. Ryuu sat lazily in the chair, wishing that it could rock.
"I'll go throw this away, but then I have to head down stairs to meet my mother. Feel better, Haruhi." She said, waving to her at the door then leaving.
Ryuu blew quick and small hurts of fire into the air, which rapidly disappeared "Cool, huh?"
"I guesch." Haruhi said, the gauze impeding her speech.
"You wanna see something really cool?"
Haruhi shrugged. Ryuu stuck his head out of the window and pointed his head to the sky. He took a deep breath of air and blew a great ball of fire. It flew through the skies like a meteor, dancing with the clouds. "If schomone schaw you, they'd tchake you to the schiensche lab." She said stiffly.
"But it was cool, right?"
"I guesh.." she said, looking away from him. "Can you fwy?"
"In my.. true form, yeah.."
"Trhu fohm?"
Ryuu just stared at her "What do you think that means, Haruhi?"
"Scho hows life ash a jhagon?"
"How's life as a vampire?"
Haruhi gave him a disgruntled "hnn." and nothing more.
"Well, this conversation isn't going anywhere, I'm not going to try to make it go anywhere. Hope your gums heal up from the ripping and tearing of fangs sawing their way through your flesh." he said, heading for the door.
Haruhi mumbled a goodbye, then layed her head down on the pillow. She closed her eyes, and let out a deep breath through her nose. This day will soon be over, Haruhi. Just stick it out for a little while longer.. Then you'll be able to sleep.. Just a little while longer. She took the pack of thick paper towels from the first aid kit that Akane left behind, pulled out the gauze that was in her mouth (while shutting her eyes tightly) and wrapped it in many layers of the paper towel. She found a waste bin next to her bed, and threw it away. "Akane could have just used this one instead.."
She heard a light tap on the window, nearly screaming, she saw a young boy holding on to the hinges of the top of the window. He poked like he was straining to hold on, and his the struggle he was putting up with was obvious on his face. Haruhi dropped down to the floor immediately, gasping and hiding behind the bed. She sudden movement was hard on her leg, but she couldn't help a reflex. She heard a thud on the window, and a muffled "I swear to god I'm not going to hurt you, but please let me in before I fall to my death." Shakily, Haruhi got up and made her way towards the window.
She unlocked it and slid it open, carefully so that he wouldn't fall. He put his leg inside of the window , put the other on in, and quickly jumped inside. Haruhi was still trembling, so and he gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. She angled her body away from him, crossing her arms and turning her face to the side. "Who…who are you exactly?" she asked when she finally plucked up the courage to speak.
The boy gave her a shining grin and pinched her cheek with his thumb and next two fingers. "Such innocence in these sparkling eyes. They're exactly the same." Haruhi slapped his hand and backed away from him.
"I said, who are you?" she repeated, this time much more angry.
"Before I can tell you about me, you have to convince me you're really the person I'm looking for. How do I know that you aren't just a clone? You could be a spy, even."
"Who are you looking for?"
The boy gave her another one of those mysterious grins, "Mae hi y mae ei lygaid yn disgleirio." Haruhi did not respond, but instead gave him a confused blink. He thought for a moment, and finally had an idea.
"Watching those brown eyes, myself reflected in them, they no longer care."
"Sorry, I don't see the beauty in poetry.. Can I help you? Who are you, anyway?"
The boy sat down on the bed, and stretched his arms out over his head. He patted a spot on the bed right next to him and gestured to her to sit down. When she didn't move, he started talking. "Long story short, my family acts as a guide for your family. We know all about you guys, and most of you know us."
"A guide?"
"You know, for that special soul in the Fujioka clan."
"Special soul? You need to back up there, bub. That's private information."
"No no, really, it's fine. My family's known yours' for god knows how long. It's not a surprise to me. So anyway, the people before you with this ability always had one person from my family to look out for them, as most of them were new to the magical world."
"Stop it..I already don't like being some kind of monster as is… I don't need you making it sound any more macabre."
"Monster, my god no. You should think of yourself as a rare being, a jewel even! It's an honor to be-"
Haruhi cut him off "Please stop glorifying what it is. Basically, in my DNA contains a strand that is only passed on every five generations, causing a mutation that will make me a killer."
"Is that what you're afraid of? Becoming a beast of the night? What is wrong with that?" He said. Haruhi sensed a hint of aggression in his voice. She saw that his body twitched mildly, the way people get when someone says an unintentional insult about them.
"That's not what it is..That's not what is it at all." She said. "All I wanted out of life was to become a lawyer, like my mom. Maybe start a family, and die peacefully. This happened at the wrong time.. the wrong person."
The boy let out a sigh, Haruhi wasn't being cooperative at all. "Wales." He stated simply. "I'm from Wales, and my name is Andras. 15 years of age, by the way."
"You're from Europe? That's where-" The both of them said the same thing at that moment, only Andras saying "your boyfriend is from" instead of "my boyfriend is from."
"See? I told you, I basically already know you.."
"And yet, I barely know you. For all I know, you're some hunter that just wants my bones for some creepy, ritualistic, underground brotherhood for the-" There was a sudden pop! and white smoke everywhere. Haruhi coughed, waving her hand in front of her face to blow the smoke away from her mouth and nose. "What the hell was that-! A..Andras? Where'd you go?" she asked, still sputtering through coughs. Andras was gone, as if he disappeared within the smoke.
"Er.. down here." She heard, a slightly softer voice say. Slowly, and eerily, she turned her head down, looking at the small Andras in his brownie form. The two of them just stayed there, looking at each other with a blank look on their faces. The gears shifted in Haruhis' brain, and she was so shocked that she tried to let out a scream, but couldn't. Soft whimpers came from her mouth and nothing more. Andras crawled onto her leg, and sat criss-cross. "I know that this is really weird, but I figured since you're finding out about all the magic in your life-"
"Magic.. Harry told me that.." she mumbled.
"Oh, Harry. Harry Potter." Andras grumbled "Your lover, the wizard? Yeah, found out about him too, did you?" Haruhi didn't even bother asking Andras any more questions. "I can see that you need time to collect your thoughts, I've given you enough of a shock for one day. See you later, cariad." And with that, the small boy was gone. Haruhi let her top-half collapse onto the bed.
"I think..I don't have any more doubts about Harry telling me he's a wizard." she whispered. "I need an Asprin.. and a nap... or both."
There was a rapid knock on the door. "Haruhi? May I please come in" she heard a familiar voice say. Andras hid under one of the folds of the covers, then shot Haruhi a "thumbs up".
"Ryuu-nii? Is that you?" She asked, getting up from the bed. "Of course you can come in." she said, opening the door. "Wait a minute... there's something different about you.."
"That's because.. I'm Kohaku." he said simply.
Haruhi smiled, "Well, it's nice to finally meet you!"
"And you too. I'm sorry I couldn't meet you sooner, how are you adjusting to the.. new life?"
"Which one are you talking about?" she asked sheepishly, one side of her mouth rising up.
"The Fujioka one.. I take it that it's going to take a lot of getting used to?"
"Right you are.. so.. how was your trip?"
"It was alright.. I left the actually prototype of my design that I created here, so I had to show the companies the basic blue print and a video of what it could do."
"Oh cool, what was it?"
"Humanoid robots. My main point was to show how far science has come, I don't have a fixed idea for what they're for yet.. "
"Oh my- that's amazing!"
"Not really, the prototype that was left here has apparently been causing havoc. You see, programmed it with debates of global figures, hoping that it would've been able to lead very stimulating conversations. That wasn't the case.. it ended up saying the words of dictators from around the world, and much , much worse. Akane absolutely hates me now, and some idiot spilled liquids on, and it's been going around playing pranks on everyone."
"Oh my god.. THAT's why everybody hates you?" Haruhi asked "That's terrible! Have you gotten everything straightened out?"
"Sort of.. It's going to be awkward to explain to my brothers.. They had no idea that built one.."
"But really.. robots.. that's pretty amazing. Just make sure they don't go around taking over the world."
Kohaku let out a small laugh. "I won't be the idiot behind that mess."
"You know, you're different from everybody's descriptions about you."
"We're five brothers.. don't we all look the same?"
"No, not appearance, I was thinking more long the lines of personality. Besides, you, Kiyoshi and Tadashi look nothing alike. Just Ryuu-nii and Masa-nii."
"..What about Hisoka and Keichi?"
"... What? Who are they?"
"My brothers..?"
"So you mean... that you three.. are actually.."
"Three? Me, Ryuu, Masayuki, Hisoka, Keichi, Kiyoshi, Tadashi. That's seven of us. I'm surprised Oka-san never had a single daughter.."
Haruhi's day just kept getting better and better.
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