Title: The Haunting
Summery: '"I saw my sister, Erica". "Your sisters dead Hanabusa" Kain stared at his cousin. "I know" Aidou sighed...' As secreats begin to reveal themselves and strange murders begin to increase, who is there you can truly trust.
Language: English
Rating: K+
Genre: Drama and Supernatural
By: Maxine/Stebbins -Stella-
Fanfic: Anime-Vampire Knight
Includes: Gruesome scenes and possibly self harm further on. No more really for this chapter right now... We will see as the story goes on.
Spoilers: There will be no real spoilers in this story but I may talk about them in these little bits, if I do I will put a big 'SPOILER: EPISODE...' before I write it so you know.
Chapter Four: Lost Memories And Hidden Truths
"Where are Kain and Ruka?" Ichijo asked.
He had taken the headmaster to the mess and then went in search of Kaname, he had run into Rima who told him Kain had been hurt but by the time that they had gotten to Kaname, he really couldn't care less about that, after all, Kain would heal. Ayaka was dead forever.
"They went to the Aidou mansion, some reason they thought it might help find Aidou" Shiki said, sitting on the large settee, legs spread and hands behind his head
"Find Aidou?" Rima blinked
"He isn't here, where's Kaname?" Shiki asked
"Um he is behind us... He seems a little... down" Ichijo said carefully
"What do you mean?" Shiki frowned
But before anyone could answer, Kaname came back in again. He was very stressed and annoyed. Once Sharon had awoken she had, frantically, told him that she had seen Aidou drinking Ayaka's blood. He quickly erased her memory once he had received the whole story and then began to walk back to the night dorms where he ran into Ichijo and Rima. Ignoring all the day class girls that squealed and called for him as he passed and all the announces of how they constantly ran in front of him. Yoru had disappeared but he wasn't very worried about him, the new boy was odd and very different even for vampires. Seiren had been sent to make sure that Aidou didn't exit any of the gates, over the wall or through any bushes, he didn't actually know he was already gone.
But when he went in and asked to speak to Aidou and found out he had, in fact, gone, he felt a hard heavy feeling of sick in the bottom of his stomach, leaving as soon as he was caught, this just made him seem even more guilty, and it made Kaname feel sick. Then he asked where Kain and Ruka were.
"What do you mean?" Kaname scowled after they had told them where they had gone "How will that help?"
"Well... Kain saw... Erica and felt she was trying to tell him what to do" Shiki said sheepishly
"You have got to be kidding me" Kaname growled "We are going to find them and Aidou and sort this whole mess out! Come on!"
"Where to?" Ichijo asked, hurrying to follow
"You said they were going to the Aidou residence, we will start there, Rima, Shiki, you two stay and watch the dorm" Kaname said
"Yes Kaname" they said together
With that, Kaname and Ichijo went to fetch Seiren and head for the Aidou home. They found Seiren by the large gates, walking back and forth. Kaname told her to come along and she followed without question. They got there a lot quicker than Kain and Ruka, because Kaname wasn't playing around, he 'borrowed' a car and drove it, passed the speed limit and onwards to the home. He managed to avoid all traffic cops and didn't slow when they went down the path with the holes. Ichijo smacked his head hard and groaned while Seiren gripped the seat and bent low to avoid this. Although he was going at a ridiculous speed on bumps and holes Kaname only seemed to jog up and down slightly in his seat.
When they reached the home they saw Tsukiko and her father just making their way up to the large doors. Looking back and spotting the car and the vampires. He stopped and told his daughter to go in without him. Giving a small bow she hurried inside. Lord Aidou waited for the car to come to a stop, just a few feet from him.
"Kaname, what may I ask is the pleasure?" he asked
"We were wondering if you have seen your son, Hanabusa?" Kaname said as he climbed from the car, Ichijo and Seiren following him.
"No, I am afraid not. Is he alright?" thick worry was in his voice and Kaname hadn't the heart to tell him that his son was suspected for murdering day class girls.
"We just cant find him, that is all" Kaname nodded then asked "What about Ruka and Kain? Didn't they come by?"
"No, should they have?" Lord Aidou blinked
"Well, yes but... Do not worry, it is probably nothing" but it was clear, Kaname was disturbed by this news
"Would you like to come in?" Aidou offered
"No thank you, we should be going" Kaname smiled and got back in the car. Once again, saying nothing, Seiren and Ichijo followed him. He started the car and drove back down the path, Aidou watching them, this time he drove more slowly than before. Moving along in silence, thinking hard.
"What now?" Ichijo brought up the courage to ask
"I do not know, we need to find Ruka or Kain so we can find out where Aidou is" Kaname grumbled
"But how?" Seiren asked
"..." Kaname remained silent driving calmly as he thought.
Ichijo and Seiren followed his silence, knowing that he needed it to all be quiet for a bit. They continued to drive, strange enough when he reached the end he turned back around again and drove down the dirt road again. He done this six times but Ichijo and Seiren stayed silent for the whole time. In truth Kaname was hoping he would be able to smell on of their bloods or even run into some kind of clue. When he received none he stopped the car and got out, Ichijo and Seiren immediately following him.
"Split up and look around, call if you find anything" Kaname said heading off to the woods.
They both nodded and headed in their own direction off to the woods. Eventually one of them would find the temple and call the others over, then they would see the truth, but the question was, By the time they do find it, will it be too late?
*VK*VK*VK*
They were still holding hands as they walked through the large doors and into the even larger room. Everything made of stone with barley anything in it, the only real thing was a large eagle stone statue at the end. And the only other this is the body laying in front of it, covered in blood.
As they move closer and closer into the room, they walk towards the body. As they get closer they notice more and more details, like the fact that this person had blond hair and wore a lot of white. Then they realized that it wasn't just some random person. It was Hanabusa.
"Hanabusa!" Kain called he pulled his hand free from Ruka and ran down towards his cousin desperately.
Ruka behind him, she yelled at him to wait, who knew what could be going on here but Kain ignored her and fell to his knees beside Aidou. Then he realizes with great relief that Aidou is still breathing, just unconscious. Kain pulls him so he is laying on his back in front of him, arms by his side. His clothes, normal so neat and carefully worm, now ripped and crinkled on his skin. There are no visible wounds on his body but yet he is covered in blood, his normal blond hair stained along with his white uniform. His shoes have been taken and apart from the blood on his cheek he is colourless, pale and sickly looking as before, large bags and dark circles under his eyes. When Kain touched him he realized he was even more cold than normal, this scared him a bit.
"Ruka, come help me!" Kain called to her
She kneeled beside them, she stared, in open shock at Aidou and reached over, gently brushing a strand of hair from his pale face. She swallowed and then stood, saying she will get the door. As Ruka ran back to the large doors, Kain began to whisper to Aidou, telling him it would be OK, and went to pick him up.
"Akatsuki the door wont open!" Ruka called
"What do you mean?" he said stopping and looking back
"It wont open!" she called
"I will be right back Hanabusa" Kain promised in a whisper, then stood and hurried over towards Ruka. He stood beside her, grabbed the door and tugged but it didnt budge. He bent down but stopped when he saw that the large whole that Erica had crawled through was gone, it was fixed and normal. "What the..." he frowned
"What is going on?!" Ruka shouted and began to punch the wood, trying to break through into the door but failed when it did not even crack
"I don't know, calm down" Kain said then turned around to make sure Aidou was OK but froze.
"What is it?" Ruka said turning and then freezing like Kain
Aidou remained where he was, laying on the ground, peaceful yet stained with the red blood. But there were also two new additions to his side. On his right, snarling and smirking at the same time was a large black shadow hound with strange yellow and red eyes, growling and drooling onto the stone floor, its fur a matted mess, half of one ear gone, a long tail. By his head on his left, there is the one and only Yoru, smirking that superiors smile Kain always hated when he saw it on anyone.
"Yoru?!" Ruka gasped
"Good evening Akatsuki, Souen" Yoru nodded at them each
"What are you doing here Yoru?" Ruka whispered, Kain was at a loss of words
"Please do not call me that, it was just a name I chose in case any of your kind had heard of me before" he smirked and shook his head "Please, call me Ryou"
"Who exactly are you?" Kain hissed
"I am a very old friend of Hanabusa's" he smirked
"What does that mean?!"
"He belongs to me" Ryou snarled, he still had that smirk on
"You better explain the truth now or else!" Kain shouted
"Forgive my cliche but, you cannot handle the truth Kain" Ryou chuckled his voice was so much lower and darker
Ruka and Kain made angry moves towards him. Yoru, or Ryou, didnt seem the least bit intimidated, but he looked like he wanted to talk so he stepped forward and laughed horrible.
"Well, if you insist, my name is Ryou, and for a very long time I have had a very large interest in Hanabusa" he explained "I meet him at one of the Vampire balls shortly after he turned four. He impressed me with his brain power and the fact that he had such control over his ice abilities even at such a young age!" a grin spread over his mouth then he remembered he had company and looked forward again "He interested me so much that I asked his parents as much about him as I could before they began to question my questions. So then I asked to take him and treat him as I would. But his parents denied, they loved him too much to let anyone take him from them. So I began to plan using him, but I would need power to do it, so I decided to search for the legendary Shadow Of The Eagle, a very powerful mysterious thing that would allow me to take over the mind of whoever I pleased" he paused, a small smirk as he remembered "It took me a few years but eventually I found the temple which held it, I managed to use it to convince Aidou to move to a place near by, this allowed me to be closer but even though I found the Eagle, I couldn't take Hanabusa's mind, not completely anyway, it was too strong, so I needed to claim the full power of the Eagle, which meant opening the doors of the Eagle"
"But... where does you kidnapping Erica and Hanabusa?" Ruka frowned, remembering the story
"I am coming to that Souen" Ryou nodded "I could not open the door of the Eagle, I do not know why and I don't know how I knew I needed Hanabusa, but I knew I did. So one night I waited for as long as I could, hoping to get Hanabusa alone, but then I thought of a better way, and that was to take both him and his sister Erica, whom I had seen him care for, for a very long time" he said "I decided to take them both, so I did, and tied Erica up against the wall and then set Hanabusa in front of the Eagle-"
"Wait a minute!" Kain interupted "Hanabusa told us you tied him up and lay Erica in front of the Eagle"
"Did he?" Ryou smirked "Well who could blame him, he can hardly tell the truth now, who knows what you would have though, I suppose he told you I killed Erica"
"...Didnt you?" Kain whispered
"No" he chuckled "I did not kill Erica. Why dont I tell you what really happened that day. See if you believe me in the end. Why not let Hanabusa listen as well. You see Hanabusa told a very large lie when he told you what happened, he was afraid of the truth and told the lie, then, living on that lie for so long, he began to believe his own real lie. And soon it was no longer a lie, it was a part of the past" he bent down to Hanabusa and touched his forehead, the blond boy stirred and moaned as he woke up.
"Hanabusa!" Kain cried and went to run to him but Ruka held him back "Ruka let me go!"
"Just be quiet OK" Ruka hissed
Aidou sat up but the large dog jumped on his chest and pushed him down again. He yelled and struggled but Ryou touched his forehead again and smirked. He stood up and Aidou stopped fighting, he stared up at Ryou in fear and shivered.
"Now then, Hanabusa, I understand you told a very big lie that you soon began to believe. I came to fix everything so you can understand again" Ryou smirked and Aidou frowned up at him "Now then, lets get this straight, I in fact did kidnap him and his sister so that I may be able to open the doors and use it to control Aidou" he explained "But I was planning on using Erica to only get Aidou to open the gates for me, I was not sure how much my control over him was. But then Aidou woke up and fought, I stood in front of his sister, tormenting slightly, I enjoyed teasing him, it was amusing. Aidou grew very angry and lost control, since I hadn't tied him up he had stood and ran at me, turning his hand into a long sharp blade of ice. Hanabusa ran at me and went to stab me, but I moved to the side and grabbed his arms, spoke to him, told him, asking why he was fighting me when he was angry with his sister. Why didn't he take it out on her, she wasn't conscious. It was payback. But for a while he denied me, saying I was crazy and a monster. But then... I used the control, not to make him do it, but make him remember the anger and hatred towards Erica, so then, instead of stabbing me... He turned around... and you can guess the rest" he chuckled
"No" Aidou whispered "No... No that cant be it"
"You liar!" Kain shouted and ran at Ryou, Ruka not in time to grab him "You liar!" he repeated
Ryou raised a hand and Kain was knocked away. He was laughing full on now. He looked down at a struggeling Aidou and reached over, stroking his cheek, shooting the memories into Aidou's mind again.
The Real Distant Memory
Aidou was in a very bad mood. Not only had his parents forced him to take his little sister Erica to the boring ballet play but also, he was forced to wait outside in the very hot weather, the hot weather annoyed him, so Erica got praised and loved for her very bad performance and Aidou got to wait standing outside like an idiot.
Eventually she did come out, still being followed by friends and 'fans'. Angry, annoyed and very stressed, Aidou reached over and snatched her wrist, pulling her along. He ignored the yelling of the people and ignored the remarks he got and pulled her along. Her shoes scrapping the ground as she hurried to catch up with him.
"Hanabusa! Cut it out!" she shouted at him "Cut it out! I can't keep up! What are you doing?!"
"Be quiet! I just want to get home already!" Aidou growled
"What is wrong with you?" she frowned
"Oh nothing" Aidou said sarcastically
"What is with you?" Erica said pulling her arm free "You should be happy" she laughed "You're the brother of a beautiful star!"
"Shut up!" Aidou shouted
"What is with you?" Erica snorted
"Having a sister that shows off every time you do on things that aren't that important. Or maybe having to give up my plans to take you to stupid dances. Or even just the fact that you think you are all that when in reality I am better than you could be in any day" Aidou snarled
"Oh! I see! You're jealous of me!" she laughed
"I am not!" Aidou roared
They were arguing the whole way and didn't even notice the man that was following them. They continued to argue when they turned a corner and the man jumped in front of them. They both yelled and turned to run, Aidou forgot about his power and Erica acting from pure instinct. But they didnt get far when he grabbed them and covered their mouths, allowing fumes to sink and knock them unconscious.
When he woke, he was on the stone cold hard floor, curled into a tight ball. His body was shaken and his mind was buzzing, he had an awful head ache and his lips were bitten and bloody. As he sat up, he had an awful lurch in his stomach that made him gag and cough, saliva rising up and slipping down his lips, passed his chin and onto the dirty floor. His hands were still caught into tight fists, his nails digging softly into his skin, leaving long blood red marks into his palms.
When he looked up he felt a shiver run through him, chilling him to the bone. Why was it so cold. It was warm when he and Erica where out, why was he so cold?! Shaking and afraid, Aidou stood up and looked around. Erica was against the wall, her wrists and ankles bound, they were done so tightly that it had cut into her skin and she was bleeding badly from the cuts.
"Erica" Aidou whispered
"Good morning Aidou" Ryou said, grinning as he walked over towards him
"You... You attacked us!" Aidou roared and jumped to his feet, in pure anger he ran at Ryou, angry and mad, shaking he couldn't control himself. He ran at him, using his fist to make a large long ice blade running from his elbow to the tips of his fingers.
Swinging it around and going to stab Ryou all the way through his body, planning on killing him for kidnapping them. But before he could Ryou moved out of the way and grabbed both his wrists, twisting and holding him in place before he could do anything about it.
"I dont know what you are doing this for?" Ryou sighed
"What are you talking about?" Aidou growled
"Fighting me. When you are really just mad at Erica" he smirked
"I am not mad at her!" Aidou shouted
"Yes you are, and you want payback" Ryou grinned "She's unconsious, she cant fight you back"
"Shut up!" Aidou snapped
"Come on" he held his hands tightly by their wrist and placed a hand on Aidou's head, using the magic from the temple to seep into Aidou, he could not take control, not like he wanted to, but he could make him angry, show him only the worse things "Do it... Cut her up"
Aidou shook, suddenly angry, he pulled his arms free but didn't attack Ryou again. Instead he allowed both his arms to grow long blades. Shaking, Ryou kept a hand on Aidou's head and continued to make the hate grow inside him. He allowed Aidou to rise his blades and bring them down against Erica and...
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Aidou screamed, he clutched his head and screamed, the wolf jumped back as Aidou rolled around, screaming in agony and fear. He wriggled around and sobbed, tears streaming down his cheeks as he kicked out and shook his head, screaming and screaming.
"Hanabusa!" Kain shouted and looked at Ryou "Stop it! Leave him alone! Just stop it!"
Ruka looked back and forth, from Kain to Aidou to Ryou again. She went to the doors and tried to open them again, to call for help, but once again they wouldn't budge. She looked back and ran to help Aidou but Ryou stopped them with a simple whistle, allowing his hound to pounce on Ruka.
"Stop it now!" Kain shouted
"No, I have been waiting a long time for this" Ryou smirked and continued "After he had shredded her to bits, and I watched, Aidou stared at what he had done, he felt guilty, cried, said he was sorry, begged to undo it. But it couldn't be undone. He grew angry at me as well, it excited me, I wanted Aidou more than before. It was so much fun to have the feeling of having him. I wanted to permanently have him though, so I tried to trick him, told him that if he opened the large Eagle doors behind the Eagle then he could bring Erica back. I told him to dip his hand in Erica's bloodied body and then to smear it on the Eagle's chest. Then, after the Eagle had moved, I told him how only he could open the doors"
Kain was shaking, Ruka was being held down by the hound, snarling at her, and Aidou remained on the floor, sobbing and kicking, begging for it not to be true. No one was able to understand any of it.
"I thought he believed me, he had stopped fighting and instead nodded, he did as told, dipped his hand into his sisters body and went over to the Eagle, then rubbed it and smeared it onto his chest. I stood behind him and watched, making sure he was doing it right, he then waited for the Eagle to move and stepped up to the gates. I thought he was going to do it" he smirked "But he out smarted me. He opened the doors and allowed me to step forward but then, ran at me, pushing me into the doors and slamming them shut again, he washed the blood from the Eagle chest as I tried to escape and then" he paused and shrugged "from what I could hear, he went back to his sister and sobbed for her"
"No" Aidou sobbed shaking, he rolled onto his side and curled into a ball "NO!"
"You can't be telling the truth! You have to be lying!" Kain shouted
"I am not, now that Aidou remembers, he remembers it is the truth" Ryou smirked
"You could be playing with his mind!" Kain argued
"I told you" Ryou chuckled "I can't do that to his mind, I could just about make him angry, and I can give him back true memories, but I cannot create false emotions or memories"
"No!" Kain snapped and hurried to go to Aidou but Ryou stepped between them
"Wait Akatsuki, there is more, do you not want to hear the rest of the story, how I came back? Why I am like this?" Ryou teased
"...Let me be by Hanabusa" Kain begged "please"
Ryou smirked and ignored him, he continued with the story "I spent many years stuck in the Eagle Doors. I could not absorb the energy, if I did I could very well be killed, I would need to wait until the doors were opened again. It took many a years but finally I had some help, my old hound had been lost after I was gone but went and found someone to come and give themselves in order to free me, my first intention was to grow stronger, to become the person I once was, stronger than anyone could imagine, but I could no longer hold my body, it was unravelling, becoming undone, useless to me. So I used the body of the dead boy that helped me out. I dont know his name but to avoid being recognised I created an anagram from my name to create Yoru. I then found his home and lived among them for many years, feeding secretly to regain my strength, I waited a very long time... But I was patient.
"Finally word came to me that Hanabusa had gone to a very special school, immediately I applied for the school and finished off the family I had been using, I entered the school, but for some reason Hanabusa seemed to have sensed me, he sensed my escape and from then on had nightmares from the past of what really happened, only they were mixed up so they didn't make sense. I then made my plan, I was to trick the night class, I needed them to believe that Hanabusa was killing off day class students, that way, when I eventually took him and left, no one would come looking" he chuckled "I managed to get in the mind of one of the weak humans I had bitten, I made him go back to the day class and bite them killing them, he was no important, some random person, then the last girl saw him, I couldn't have hoped for better. You see what she really saw, was a short, black haired, dark skinned, chubby boy, but when I rearranged her mind, she thought she saw Aidou.
"Then I found the perfect place to leave off, pushing Kain down the stairs. Everyone would think he had gotten too close to the truth and Aidou ran away. I returned to his room and led Hanabusa back here where I knocked him unconscious and prepared everything. But shortly after I sensed your presence, so I hid, and locked the doors" he keeled beside a still sobbing Hanabusa "For days now I have been reminding Hanabusa of who he belongs to, but now I wish for my body back... Then... I fill finish you and your pathetic friend, and take my leave with what belongs to me"
"What do you mean?" Kain gasped
"I need my body back first of all" Ryou said ignoring Kain, he made Aidou sit on his knees and pulls his hands down, carefully taking his chin and forcing their eyes to meet. Aidou's eyes were red and wet, full of fear and confusion. Ryou's were full of lust and longing, he leaned forward and whispered to Aidou "Shh Aidou, I wont hurt you, come, become mine, just give me back my body and become mine"
Aidou probably could have fought, but fear was keeping him back, so instead he just knelt in front of him, crying weakly, staring at him with his large blue eyes. Ryou leaned over and moved his white uniform, then, showing his fangs and ignoring Ruka and Kain whom yelled and tried to reach him. Ryou sunk his fangs into Aidou's neck and began to drink, in an effort to gain back his body and finally own Hanabusa for once and for all.
TO BE CONTINUED...
No one answered my Aidou genius question from chapter two which is sort of what I mean in this so... If you get what I mean I am just assuming I am right,
Sorry if there are bits you dont understand, if you want, review asking me and I will send you a mail back explaining, or add it to the story if I forgot. Gonna be ending soon so review now!
I will only continue if I get at least one review per chapter, otherwise it will just become one of those stories that gathers dust (not literally, lol XD)