Finally got it done. Happy now, but still sad. All right, let's continue.
Love Hina: Aoyama Generation
Ch. 7: Unknown Genetics
"Ananda Amala is a distant niece of Kaolla Su," Kitsune explained. "That's one of the main reasons that they are so alike." Ananda winked at Shadic and gave him the peace sign, signaling that what Kitsune said was true. "She also seems to have the 'electronic prodigy' part of Su, also."
"So what you're saying is that, we have another Su in this building now?" asked Shadic, remembering the stories that Motoko told him about her and Su. Shadic shook his head fast, and said, "Is there any difference between the both of them? I want to know that."
"You're dang right, there is!" exclaimed Ananda. Her voice sounded like a happy squirrel on a sugar rush. Kitsune described the differences to both Shadic and Shinobu, who was terrified at the idea of a Su-clone inside Hinata-sou.
"First off, she definitely is less painful that Su, which helps all of us out," Kitsune began. "That means there are no random flying-kicks-to-the-face. Secondly, she is more caring for people in pain, unlike Su."
"Do you guys mind if I head off to bed? I've gotten terribly sleepy since you got us to rush here," Sakura was saying, looking at Shadic with a question for him in her eyes. "Yeah, me too," Shadic joined in. "I need plenty of rest for my morning Kendo practice," he said, looking at Kitsune and Katsumi.
"Well, you both look very tired." Kitsune looked at Katsumi and they both nodded in sync. They both looked at them and said, "Go right on ahead."
Both Sakura and Shadic got up and headed upstairs. Shadic looked back at Ananda, seeing her give him a seductive look. 'Quite odd,' he thought to himself, and he turned to the direction he was heading.
They got to the floor that both of their rooms were at, but Shadic stopped Sakura. She turned to ask him why he stopped her, but he spoke first. "I don't like this at all," he said to her. "There is something not right with her."
"I get the fact that she reminds you of your mother's stories of Su, but why are you acting against her?"
"I turned to do a quick scan of her, and she gave me a gesture of 'physical touch'," Shadic relayed. "I also noticed something in her eyes, not natural." He moved along the hallway. "No one's eyes are that bright, but violent at the same time. It's like seeing gold, then realizing that it's burned ashes covered in paint. It's unnatural."
"Are you saying that Amala is possessed or something?" Sakura asked him. She didn't really study Ananda at all, but she got a weird feeling after she sat across from her.
"What I think is," Shadic continued, "she might be one of the few possessed by the Red Moon Curse." Sakura heard about it many times, but never really could grasp it's meaning. "What in specific?" Sakura asked.
"In this case, I believe that in her current form that she's harmless. But if the red moon is shown on her," Shadic felt a cold shiver down his spine, a feeling that he barely got. "She could become a Seeker for that moment of time."
'What the hell's a Seeker? And why does Shadic look like he's seen a ghost?' Sakura thought to herself. It was a long period of silence for them both, then Shadic spoke up.
"A Seeker is a specialize form of assassin, in which a blade that is housed inside the arm muscles retracts, making the blood turn black," Shadic started. "The Seeker then searches for a victim, either friend or foe, and stabs the victim in the heart. The blade is actually a vampire fang, in which the host of the blade sucks the life out of the innocent or guilty. Once most of the life is taken, the Seeker will retract the blade, making the victim bleed faster. In a matter of time, the person dies. Once the red moon has disappeared, the Seeker returns to normal state, unknown of the crime he or she has fulfilled."
"My God!" Sakura exclaimed loudly, in horror of what Ananda is. "Your saying that she'll become one of these things one day? Why didn't you say something about this earlier?"
"It's not like I wanted to worry anyone or anything like that," he replied. "Besides, Seekers only hunt the blood of the opposite sex anyways. That's a drawback."
'Wait a second!' Sakura began to think. "Shadic, how do you know so much about Seekers anyways?" she shouted at him from two doors away.
"This may surprise you, but I used to be one of them." Shadic only responded. He opened up his door and entered his room, sliding the door shut and locked. Sakura had a look of confusion on her face, trying to grasp this all at once. After a minute or so, she entered her room, locking the door behind her.
###Shadic's Dream###
"Please, save me!" he heard from behind him. It was a little girl with brunette hair, crying with her head bent down with her hands covering her face. Shadic walked up to her and kneeled to be level with her. He put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Everything's gonna be ok," trying to calm her down.
There was a sharp pain coming from his chest. Shadic looked down to see a black fang pierced into his heart, the fang originating from her arm. He looked at the face and saw a terrifying face from his past. The girl-now-teenager stared into his face, blood dripping from the sides of her lips. "How bout this for your love!" shouted a partially distorted but excited voice of his past promise. "And thanks for keeping me dead!" The pain threw Shadic's head back and caused him to scream in great agony, blood spewing from his mouth.
He awoke, breathing heavily. He quickly opened his robe and looked at his chest, which he still felt the pain. There was no proof of a Seeker's blade, nor was there a mark of hands. The pain was not real, and it disappeared suddenly. Shadic did notice that he had tons of sweat pouring out of him. He got up from the bed and looked at the clock. '2 in the morning?' he thought to himself, walking out of his room to the bathroom in the hall.
'What the hell was that all about?' Shadic thought to himself. 'I thought that I had rid of my past with her, and that clan.' He arrived at his destination, and washed his face. He was surprised to see blood drip from his face, and he looked at the mirror. He saw someone that wasn't him, and she gave him a look of disapproval. "You," he said to her, even though she didn't exist. Shadic punched the mirror, shattering it into many pieces. His hand was now covered in blood and glass shards, some of them lodged into his muscles and bone.
He rid his hand of the glass and blood, and wrapped it so that it would heal. He would have to pay for the mirror later. Shadic wiped the sweat from his back and head, entered his robe, and left back to the room.
Shadic saw a silhouette of someone in pajamas near his door. It was a small person with a pillow, but he still couldn't recognize her yet, until the figure spoke. "I had a pretty bad dream, and I was wondering if I could sleep in your room tonight," came the sound of Ananda, sad and scared.
He knew what she was, but he knew that there was no red moon tonight, so he said yes. Ananda entered first, then he did. "Ananda, before you fall asleep, I want to know something. What was your nightmare about?"
"It always happens, but I can't get it out of my head," she started. "It always starts with me seeing a red moon, but I blackout in the dream only to wake up seeing a fang retract from my arm out of someone's heart. I get scared and wake up before the rest of the nightmare finishes."
"Ok then," Shadic said, knowing that her nightmare might be part of his bad dream. "You might as well take the bed. I'll sleep on the floor. It's always better to have a dream in a bed, than a nightmare on the floor." 'Whatever that meant,' he thought to himself. Ananda gave him a shriek and hugged him tightly, making Shadic stop his movements.
"But, wouldn't that mean that your ki would not help me sleep?" Ananda asked, scared at what could happen in her dreams. "If that happens, then it would have been for nothing!" She slammed Shadic onto the bed, and she jumped onto him, making him gasp for air. "Please, let me sleep in the same bed with you!" she almost shouted. She calmed down, realizing that she almost choked Shadic to death.
"I'm sorry for that outbreak," she apologized, getting off of him and bowing to him. "Please forgive me."
Shadic sat up, and said to her, "It's fine, and yes, we'll sleep together. Just don't do that again, all right?" Ananda nodded, and they both got under the covers. Ananda cuddled next to him, and he channeled some ki into her, calming her thoughts. In no time, she fell asleep. Shadic waited, then channeled the ki much more slowly, so he could fall asleep also. He then just suddenly became asleep.
***The next morning: 7 am***
Shadic finally awoke to the smell of bacon and eggs being cooked. He also felt Ananda's small body near his, looking as though she slept without moving any. His task that night was a success. He hugged her warm body, only to notice something missing: her pajama top. There was only skin showing on her back and nothing else.
'You have got to be kidding.' Shadic's thought was interrupted by the sound of Ananda waking up. "Um, Ananda," Shadic started. "Why is your pajama top missing?"
"I woke up, and it was hot inside the room, so I had to cool down without disturbing you," was her response, and Shadic was now in a flinched state. "Why?" Ananda asked him.
"Well, that's not exactly what you're supposed to do in a guy's room, period," Shadic told her, trying to sit up without uncovering her torso. He face-palmed himself, and noticed her trying to move into a comfortable position while keeping herself covered.
"Are you disappointed in me?" Ananda asked him. That kind of caught Shadic off-guard. "What? I'm not disappointed," he responded truthfully. "I'm just shocked that you did that. It's kind of a big deal in this case." Ananda was confused. "If I was a female, then it's fine, but I'm a guy. Do you know what that would mean if one of them came in and-" He was stopped by a knock on the door and Sakura's voice saying "Shadic, can I speak with you?"
"Ananda, hide underneath the covers," he whispered to her. She did so, and Shadic hid the pajama top underneath his bed. He then proceeded to the door, opening it to see Sakura in a pink robe with bunny slippers. "What's up?"
Sakura leaned forward and kissed him. Drawing back, she said, "You're suppose to be awake, silly. Why didn't I see you practicing when I looked outside?" This caught Shadic in a state of hidden shock.
"I decided to sleep in today," was his only response, not even trusting it himself. However, Sakura couldn't see through this response, and believed him. "Well, breakfast is almost done. I hope that Ananda's awake. I'll go check on her if ya don't mind." It sounded more like a question than a statement.
"Actually, I could check on her for ya, if you need to get something else done." Shadic waited for a response from Sakura. What he got was "Ok. You can go ahead." She headed downstairs and disappeared.
Shadic closed the door, and sighed. He saw Ananda's arm reach from under the covers, and she sat up with the top back on. "I thought you were about to get killed there," came Ananda's comment on the incident. She jumped out of the bed and gestured Shadic to carry her downstairs by jumping on his back. He lifted her a little more, then proceeded downstairs.
They were both greeted by laughs and hellos from the rest of the gang. Sakura and Nariko looked at each other in a comical sense and giggled a little. Shadic put Ananda down, and they both sat in open seats.
Done with this Chapter. It was a little creepy for me, but I made it by. Wait for Chapter 8.