A/N: ok so I'm really in a bunch of mixed moods for lots of reasons so this might take longer than I thought and I want to do a lot this chapter… sry about that. I think I will line today by the way and that means a contest so keep a lookout for the line from a movie kk? And yes that's a hint it is a movie.
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CelestialNomad: u make an awesome cat!! I love cats! And dogs and just about every pet! Anyways sry bout not replying to ur review I didn't expect u to review again! Now I feel bad… GOMENE!!!!! I know I'll dedicate this chapter to u sos I don't feel like a jerk! -
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Now dedicated to CelestialNomad cause I'd feel like a bitch of I didn't do this!!!
Chapter 2: Breakfast and a Name.
The girl stayed asleep for three days. In that time most of her cuts had surprisingly healed including the deeper ones. Also in this time Sho had only left occasionally to take care of his bodily functions and once left for a whole hour or two to go feed since Kei quickly found out in getting the girl home he had forgotten his hunt.
Last night Kei had forced Sho to go sleep in his own bed and that the girl would be fine until he got there in the morning.
Tonight Kei woke up before Sho and went to change the girl's bandages and found an empty bed.
At this Kei panicked knowing that Sho would practically kill him if he didn't find the little girl. If Sho had retained one thing through all these years it was his temper and now he had strength enough to match it.
Kei then spent the next hour and a half searching the entire house for the girl, except Sho's room since he was still asleep, only to end up back in the girl's bedroom. As Kei checked the locked window for the third time Sho walked into the room.
"Kei what are you doing?... And where did the girl go?" A half asleep Sho inquired.
"I don't know Sho. When I came up here she was gone and I've looked everywhere for her and I can't find her no matter where I look." Kei replied with a look that only slightly gave away his fear of getting yelled at by the one he loved but didn't love him (or so he thought).
Either he's really worried or he's scarred Sho thought Either way I don't like him looking like that at me. It almost breaks my heart.
"To find her we have to think like her." Sho stated. "And if I were six again and I was in a strange bed with oversized clothes on I would be…" Sho thought out loud as her walked under the bed, crawled under and turned around to look up, "right where you are." Sho responded.
Kei could hear a small gasp. She hid in the box-spring? Kei wondered. For some reason that really dumbfounded him. Even worse Sho would think to hide there if he was a child. Wait a minute Sho's thinking like a child!? Maybe this little girl can bring back that childish sparkle in Sho's eyes again.
"Why don't you come out from there?" Sho asked softly as he got out from under the bed.
Slowly the girl crawled out of the box-spring and out from under the bed. Both Kei and Sho noticed her eyes were two colors. And not like one eye one color the other another, but literally both eyes half one color and half another. The colors: Bright emerald green and pitch midnight black.
Her eyes baffled both of the vampires. They had never seen anything like them before. And as they stared she just stood there, trembling a little, as she studied them in return.
Sho was the one to move first.
"You must be hungry; why don't we find something for you to eat?" he asked as he stood and offered his hand.
She stared at it for a couple minutes then, hesitantly, she placed her small hand in his. In response Sho gently closed his hand around hers. Out of the corner of his eye Kei saw her jump slightly. And with that the three of them made their way slowly down the stairs, through the living room, past Sho's room, past Kei's room, past the bathroom, and finally made it into the kitchen/dining room.
When they entered the room Sho turned and kneeled to the girl. "Want me to make you breakfast?" Sho asked. She nodded 'yes'. "What would you like to eat?" He asked. She opened her mouth to speak and when she was about to answer her eyes grew wide and her pupils contracted to tiny pinpricks in her eyes.
She placed a hand over her mouth and backed up against the wall. She was shaking violently.
Something's made her scarred to talk. Kei thought.
What happened to this girl that was so terrifying that she even refuses to talk? Sho thought.
Kei, having already raised two children in his long lifetime (Sho and Hana for those who don't know) knew exactly what to do. He walked over slowly (past a Sho swallowed whole by his thoughts) and gently pulled the small girl into a comforting embrace. At first she her trembling grew more violent but it quickly subsided thereafter.
"You don't have to speak if you don't want to." Kei whispered in her ear. Kei stood and led her to one of the empty chairs positioned around the table. Once she was sitting, Kei walk over to Sho, put a hand on his shoulder, and said, "Why don't you sit down? I'll make breakfast."
"Okay." Sho answered as he walked over to the table and sat down next to the girl.
With that Kei went around starting to prepare breakfast. Sho simple started to look over the girl again. She felt uncomfortable with his gaze on her but it kept her from just getting up and running away as fast as she could. Why are these people being so kind to me? This type of person should hate. They should want to destroy me with every fiber of their beings. She thought.
Sho, now finally getting past her entrancing eyes, noticed if her dark brown hair wasn't all tangled and knotted it should hang about to her shoulder blades. Also he noticed not only with the bed-head, with his clothes on her she looked hilarious; if she had been here under different circumstances he might actually be laughing at how outlandish looked. By this time Kei had finished breakfast and was setting it on the table, and sitting down for himself.
The three ate in silence; Kei and Sho keeping their eyes on the small, peculiar girl, and she in return stealing glances at both of the vampires looking at her. She noticed that the smaller, blonde haired, fair skinned one was older and seemed less depressed than his tall, brunette, tan friend. He must have been through about as much of hell as me. She thought. No, no one's been through as much darkness as I have. And no one ever should.
After they finished eating the three sat in silence. After a while Sho asked, "Is there any way you can tell us your name? We can't just keep calling you 'you'." The girl nodded 'yes' and then started motioning with her hands like she was writing. Sho had a questioning look but Kei understood her tacit request.
Kei left the room but returned quickly with a pen and paper. She smiled brightly with a look that said 'thanks a lot' and wrote down what she wanted to say. She turned it around to show them. It read 'My name is Kitsuda. What are yours?'
"I'm Sho and this is Kei." He said motioning to Kei. She took the paper back and added 'Nice to meet you Sho and Kei. May I now have my things so that I may leave and trouble you no more?'
It was written sweetly enough, but both of them could tell it was just a ploy to be able to leave. They decided not to let her go just yet because she was still wounded slightly, and to be completely honest Sho didn't want her to go and return to living off the street; he was desperate to make sure he didn't return to the hell he once knew.
Kei was the one to speak first. "Why don't you get a bath first, get clean, and while you do that we'll wash your cloths?" Kitsuda gave an unsure nod 'okay'. She gave Sho a look that asked 'Can you show me where the bathroom is?'. Sho led her to the bathroom and got out a fluffy towel for her, then he left and he heard a soft click as she locked the door. When the water stared he meandered out to find Kei sitting on the couch looking worn-out.
"I never thought I'd be doing something like this a third time." He said as Sho walked over. "Not that I mind but, I'm not sure she really likes me."
"Oh? And why is that?" Sho asked curious.
"I don't know she just seems to evade looking at me. Maybe I'm just imagining it." Kei replied shaking his head. "God, she reminds me of you when you were little. Though you never tried hiding in the box-spring." Kei laughed. "I guess you never got a chance to but you did drive me just as nuts as her."
"What do you mean?!" Sho inquired slightly offended.
"Well before you woke up I was looking all over the house for her for an hour. You were still asleep and since you had left before she hid and I made you go to bed and leave her alone," Kei sighed, "I thought you would be mad at me." He finished quietly. Sho couldn't see his face very well but Kei's words felt weird.
"Why would I be mad?" Sho questioned trying to find something that even he didn't know.
Kei gave a small half-hearted 'heh' and said, "I don't know, there are times you get made at the smallest thing but this wasn't small at all. If I hadn't asked you to go to bed that night you would have been there when she woke up. I wasn't even sure she was still in the house by the time you woke up. And if she had run away I thought you would blame me for you not being there." I thought then you would have no reason to live at the end of the month. Kei added silently.
There was a silence and then the two heard the water start running in the bathroom.
"Ne, Kei. I already threw out her old clothes. What is she going to wear."
Kei thought for a little bit and then said, "I think I might have saved a few things from when Hana was little. She can wear them." At this Kei went off to his room to rummage in his closet for some of the clothes he saved from when Hana was small. He ended up finding a white shirt and black skirt that looked like they would fit Kitsuda. Since he knew he didn't keep any underwear Kei found a black pair of shorts and pulled them out as well.
The water had turned off almost three hours ago and Kitsuda still had not emerged from the bathroom. Kei had left the clothes in front of the door, telling her they were there. She had taken them in almost half an hour ago. In the meantime Kei and Sho talked on the couch about nothing in particular.
After the two vampires were feeling thoroughly awkward being able to talk about nothing important, she emerged from the bathroom looking completely different. Now that she was showered she appeared fresher, they could see that the only wounds she had were very thin scratches on her upper arms, and Hana's clothes fit her perfectly. Also sometime during the three hours she was in there she had cut her hair. What was once long no was very short in the back and became longer as it reached her face.
She took one look at their faces and went to the kitchen to retrieve the paper from earlier. On the back she wrote 'Well, thanks for the clothes but may I go now?'. Sho practically jumped up off the couch and said, "Why don't you stay here a while longer? You don't have anywhere else to go right?" She wrote in response to this 'No I have no place where I want to be. But I want to leave.' "Please stay. It would mean a lot to me." Sho replied. She wrote the next passage with a confused watery, look in her eyes, 'You're so nice to me, but people like you aren't supposed to be this nice to people like me. You must know that! So why do you continue?' Sho's answer to this was, "Because I choose to."
Kitsuda was silent for a while, unmoving. Sho could tell she was thinking something over really hard. At long last she wrote 'Fine. I'll stay. But call me Kitsu please. Kitsuda always sounds so formal.' As she finished writing she looked up and smiled.
And that was how Kitsu began to live with Sho and Kei.
Ending A/U: A little longer but hey look I updated really quickly! - YAY me! I don't know when the next post will be but know that I write a little each day so it's always progressing. CONTEST TIME!! Name the movie where the quotes Why do you continue? and: Because I choose to. are from. Whoever does gets the dedication. I know this is pointless trivia but I just have this quote stuck in my head. That's it for now! Tanto is SO going to bed now! Oyasuminasai!