Rosario + Bakemonogatari
Disclaimer: I do not own Rosario + Vampire nor do I own Bakemonogatari. Both works are owned by their rightful creator (Nisio Isin and Akihisa Ikeda).
A/N:
TrixBella here, a filler chapter to keep you guys occupied. Hope you guys enjoy!
Chapter 0.5: Kissshot Kaii
-Shinobu-
Pushed down on the dirt. Held against my will.
With my second servant's fangs in my neck, sucking my blood, I can finally repay my debt to him.
I can finally die…
"Haha"
"Hahahahahahahahahahaha"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
I'll die laughing. That's right. Death. My saving grace.
Suddenly his feeding stopped. He extracts his fangs from my neck, and looks at me.
I gaze into his eyes,
"What is it, servant?"
No response.
"I still have half of my blood yet."
"…."
"Now that I have so much blood drawn out of me I cannot move, but if thou do not hurry, soon I will revive, thou know?"
I feel the nervousness from his gaze. He continues to stare.
"H-hey Kisshot." He finally speaks.
"What is it?"
"In what way…did you plan to turn me back into a human?"
I tutted. "Do thou care about such things now?"
"I care. It's important." I pursed my lips. I care, is it?
I cursed that companion of his "That damn portable food. She should have stayed silent."
Said portable shut her mouth.
Then she started walking towards us. A slow pace. She had put back on her shirt and had tied back her scarf. Her bouncing breasts indicated that she wasn't wearing a bra underneath her shirt. Though she wasn't bothered by that, she kept walking.
"Heartunderblade-san." Spoken with such respect. "Did you plan from the beginning to be killed by Araragi-kun?"
"….."
"In order to turn him back into a human."
Damn, perceptive this portable food is.
"Do not talk such rubbish, portable food. As if there was any ground for it."
A retort came from the portable food, "Then please tell me in which way you planned to turn Araragi-kun back into a human. I researched it, and as for methods to turn a vampire back into a human I found nothing else."
That's right. There's nothing else. Nothing else but to dissolve the master-servant relationship. Nothing else but to kill the master. To kill me.
"Ha. It was a known fact." I snorted.
"It is just that in the first place I never wanted to turn this servant back into a human. I just lied to him to make him gather my limbs. I will tell all kind of lies in order to regain my complete form." So that he can kill me.
"Even the reason I turned this guy into a subordinate, to tell the truth, was simply due to my circumstances."
Get him mad. Make him kill me.
"That's not it. You made him gather the missing parts because if he killed you in an incomplete state he would not turn back into a human, isn't it?" Very perceptible, this portable food.
"If you are not killed after you regain your complete form, it will mean nothing—"
"Rubbish. Way off the mark."
"Then why did you come here?"
The portable food's face held extreme composure. Even though I am superior and her inferior, she speaks to me normally.
"Araragi-kun had a reason to fight you, but you don't have it." The portable food claimed.
"You covered it up with reasons like a chance to show your full power or something like that. But in fact you came here to get killed by Araragi-kun, right? Just for that, right? Making the conditions an even match, you deliberately stirred up Araragi-kun."
I couldn't speak. She was right. What else can I say?
My servant spoke, "Ha-Hanekawa."
The portable food looks sternly at my servant, "Araragi-kun, be quiet."
Spoken like a true master talking to his slave.
"Of course, there wasn't any ground for this. I just couldn't help but feel something was weird, but a while ago, because you did not kill me who interrupted the fight. I understood. You..."
Blasting all the Youki I could muster at her, I tried to shut her up.
No reaction, as if nothing happened. I inwardly half-laughed and half-cried.
"You plan to die."
I was inwardly crying now. I held back a sob, kept my emotions frozen.
"…Thou should have stayed silent, portable food."
My servant's eyes were wide as saucers. I continued,
"After saying it what do thou plan to do? After saying it, do thou think my servant will be able to kill me?"
My servant squeaked an "Eh?"
"As a master I understand well my servant. He is a fool who saves a dying vampire. If he knew about what the brat called my 'will', would he be able to suck my blood?"
The portable food was at a loss for words. "W-Well…but…"
I gazed at her. I regained my composure now.
"I thought that was the most difficult thing, how can I make him kill me, that was what troubled me." I continued to stare at the portable food.
"Therefore I stayed silent on the method until the last moment. I was already thinking I had no choice but to play by ear... however, although it was unexpected for me, thanks to Guillotinecutter the conditions were ready by chance. If he got so angry just because I ate one person, there was no need to bother worrying about it—"
I stared at my servant, who was staring at me. "- I could get killed by thee while being the villain, the bad guy. Thou did not need to know my intentions."
"Why?" he painfully murmured.
"Servant."
"Eh?"
"I was searching for a place to die."
"A place to die—"
His face gave an expression of realization. I inwardly smirked.
"That was the reason I came to this country. Since the first subordinate died, I never came here again. It was not sightseeing—"
I was interrupted "B-But you," he gulped "You said you did not want to die, our first meeting."
Ah. That's right.
"I thought it was time to die. That was my plan."
But,
"In the end, I became afraid to die."
"….."
"I became afraid to disappear after having lived 500 years." I smirked sadly.
"I feared, I feared to disappear, I did not know what to do. Thou happened to pass by there. I begged you to help me." It was true, I wanted him to help me. Him.
"I…helped you."
"For the first time in my life, I was helped by another person."
"….."
"Whether they were human or vampire, nobody has ever helped me." I was alone. Ever since the first killed himself.
"While I was sucking thy blood, I asked myself what I was doing. Therefore, even if I consumed your blood, I did not eat thee any more - I made thee my subordinate. The second subordinate in a lifetime." I let out a small chuckle.
"I thought that if thou wanted to be a vampire all would be fine. But thou, as I thought, said thou wanted to turn back into a human."I continued to stare at him.
"While thou were not conscious, I grimly thought it over. I decided it at that time."
I will die for you.
"I will die for thy sake."
"….For my sake."
"Thou will kill me, thou will turn back into a human, and this time I will die. I felt I finally found the place to die - the place to die I was searching from 400 years before."
It is how it should be.
"So do not be conceited, servant." I egged him on.
"It was originally my responsibility. If I did not act so disgracefully such a thing would not have happened, and if thou did not save me, that time I would have died."
"…!" tears fell on my face. Eh?
"….What is it? Are thou crying?" Why? Why are you crying?
"Thou are a crybaby, my servant. How pathetic."
"T-That's not it. These aren't tears. This."
The following words I did not expect.
"This…is blood."
"Eh?"
"Blood is flowing—" he choked back a sob "—Even your blood is flowing-!"
I felt something liquid on my eyes. I inwardly sighed.
"Really, thine intervention was unnecessary, portable food."
The portable food looked up, "Eh?"
"And I had planned to be killed showing an opening at a suitable point - but well, fine. Servant, after all thou have no alternative left but to kill me."
My servant replied, "T-That's…"
I replied sternly, "If thou do not kill me."
He gulped.
"I will eat a thousand people per day. If I say this, thou have no choice but to kill me right? As a proof this is not a bluff, if I start by seizing that portable food over there, will thou make up your mind?"
I waited.
"….."
I supplemented, "It is better to pluck thyself the life thou saved. This is, responsibility, right?"
"Kisshot—" I liked being called like that by him.
"Thou are the second person to call me by that name. And thou will become the last."
My servant looks at the portable food, possibly to seek assistance.
Said portable food was biting her lower lip. Even she does not know what to do.
I waited yet again…and again….
"Come on."
I laughed.
"Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on – Kill me servant."
"Damn!" Servant exclaimed.
I startled when he shouted,
"OSHINOOOOOOOO!"
He drew a breath,
"OSHINO MEME!"
That man, dressed in a radical shirt. Flippant and Frivolous.
"You're watching from somewhere – stop putting on airs and come here already! You bastard, I have work for you!"
I looked at him, surprised.
The portable food looked at him, surprised.
Nothing happens though, that does not stop him from continuing though,
"Oshino! I know you are here, with your damn neutral standpoint, there is no way that you aren't watching this place right now! I understand! I don't need an explanation! Come here, I understand what I did, I deeply understand that I am not a victim but an offender! So come here – OSHINO MEME!"
"I can hear you even if you don't yell like that."
A voice, I look up to see the flippant man sitting above the roof of the storehouse. Sitting cross legged, resting chin in his hands, looking really bothered.
"Araragi-kun. It's a first for us to meet in this place." Said the radical man.
"….Oshino."That was all my servant could say.
"Hahaha, you really are energetic. Did something good happen?"
"I've got work for you." My servant repeated. He continued to stare at the radical.
"Do something."
"That is?"
With that, he jumped down from the roof of the storehouse. A physique that makes you believe he has no reflexes, he landed neatly. Without even bending his knees.
What a mysterious person.
Then he walks towards us.
"You are too vague."
"I will pay money." My servant replies.
"It's not about the money."
"Then what is it?"
"It's your own problem." I inwardly smiled. That's it. Make him lose hope. Push him into a corner.
The radical looks at the portable food,
"Yo. Class rep-chan." He waves at the portable food. "Nice to meet you, I'd say."
"….Yes." the portable food nodded.
"Nice to meet you. I am Hanekawa." She lightly bowed.
"I am glad that I stopped in this city just in case, even if the business with Heartunderblade ended. Because by doing so I was able to get to know you."
Portable food was taken aback,
"….I always thought you disliked me though."
"Nah. I never dislike girls. I warn you that if you hear something from Araragi-kun, that's a false rumor."
I laughed a bit.
"In fact you are amazing - although you had nothing to do with the Kaiis, you were affected so deeply, you're really so energetic, did something good happen?" the radical smirked.
A retort came from the portable food. "It's not like I had nothing to do with it."
She narrows her eyes, "Araragi's problem is my problem."
Well now.
"Whoah. Such friendship there." the radical let out a laugh. The kind that made you irritated.
"Or is it youth?"
I retorted,
"Brat." I fixed my gaze on the radical, now sure that he's preventing my desired demise.
"Do not interfere. We have a pact."
"I don't recall having made any pact with you, Heartunderblade," the radical turned to return my gaze,
"I just wanted everything to turn out for the best. It was just better for me if you chose to die in order to turn Araragi-kun back into a human. For me - in other words for humans."
I lay there silent.
"So well, although things approximately went as I thought... Class rep-chan really did something superfluous. It would have been better if Araragi-kun didn't know it."
"I." the portable food responds,
"I think you are mistaken."
"Oh boy. What a nerve, I commend you for your nerves." letting out another irritating laugh.
"Anyway, what do you plan to do about this situation, class rep-chan?"
With no hesitation, the portable food replies,
"That is something for Araragi-kun to decide."
She continued, "If nothing else, ending it all without knowing anything would be too cruel."
"You heard her, Araragi-kun. I am given stern treatment. Class rep-chan's excessive kindness is a cruelty. She really is abnormal. How in the world has she so much faith in you?"
"..." my servant said nothing. The radical faced my servant.
"I just wanted to see with my eyes the after festival." his hand held an unlit cigarette.
"You have come so far, you have come so close, just in case I'll try to listen. The work you got for me as a specialist. And about the fee, oh yeah, it will take over the 5 million yen I condoned you." the radical grinned.
"Anyway, your wish?"
I waited for my servant's reply,
"….I want you to teach me a way to make everyone happy." said in a calm yet determined tone.
The radical snorted, "As if it existed." he shrugged, "There's a limit even to convenience, yanno. That's a theme written by grade schoolers in moral classes. It's not realistic."
My servant looked crestfallen,
"Oshino. I—"
"However."
All three of us stare at him.
The radical puts the unlit cigarette in his pocket and raises a finger,
"There's a way to make everyone unhappy."
I was dumbfounded by his words, and so were my servant and the portable food.
"In other words, I'm talking about distributing onto everybody the burden of unhappiness generated by this situation. Nobody will have their wish fulfilled, but if that's fine with you, the way exists."
.
"..."
"Concretely...yeah. Araragi-kun, come very close to kill Heartunderblade. Almost strip her of her special characteristics and abilities as a vampire, make sure she doesn't die though. This will result into you acting as a seal for her, rendering her almost useless in that state. She will turn into a human-like pseudo-vampire."
And then, the radical continued.
"Araragi-kun, you won't be able to turn back into a human, but you will be able to come very close to it. You will be sealed as well, rendering you almost useless in that state. You will turn into a vampire-like pseudo-human. You will have the ability to unseal Heartunderblade, and she will have the ability to unseal you. You must devote the rest of your immortal life to Heartunderblade and Heartunderblade for all immortal life must stay close to you."
"Then—" the portable food speaks,
"In other words, we, the humans—"
"Yes. Give up on exorcising a dangerous vampire. Give up on the complete elimination of the Kaii Killer, The iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded vampire, as well as her subordinate. If she's sealed, she loses most of her powers. Guys like those vampire hunters won't be able to find Heartunderblade out. That is to say, the risk remains. If Araragi-kun and Heartunderblade are unsealed, they will be eventually found out."
If he does that...
Everyone will be unhappy. No one will have their wishes fulfilled.
I won't die, and my servant will not be able to revert back.
What a joke!
"...Do not joke around, brat!"
I yelled, catching their attention,
"What on earth does a brat who did not even live a tenth of my life understand what I have been through! Do not say convenient things. I do not want to survive in those conditions! There is a limit even to disgrace! I do NOT want to live in shame! My place is to die here! And at last, I found it! At last, I can die! I. Will die for my servant's sake! Let me die for his sake! Kill me, kill me hurry up KILL ME! I do not want to live!"
"That is why you will become unhappy. Your wish will not be fulfilled. Although the one who decides will be Araragi-kun. Yes. It's as class rep-chan says."
I face my servant. Cold, hard gazed fixed upon him.
"SERVANT!"
"As I said now, do not be taken in by that brat's fast talk. I do NOT want to live."
I pleaded him. I wholeheartedly pleaded him.
"...And yet, I..." my servant says. I watch him with anticipation.
"I want you to live."
My undead heart started beating. I choked back a sob. My beloved servant caresses my hair. Watching his gaze, affection was all it held.
"I will not say it once. I will bow my head likea servant any number of times. So don't try to have a cool death, live an awkward life for me. Don't search for a place to die, search for a place to live."
I tried hard to regain my composure, but from his unwavering reaction, it meant that it was not working. I felt more liquid coming out of my eyes.
"I-I beg thee...please, servant. Somehow...kill me. Kill me, somehow turn back into a human. Help me—"
"I'm sorry Kisshot." my beloved servant calmly states, "I will not help you."
I opened my eyes, sweat upon my brow, ragged breaths in my body. I felt a pair of arms surround my body, it was comforting for some reason. Managing to calm down, I looked at the clock beside me, 4 A.M.
"Relax Shinobu-chan, it's going to be okay, I will be here for you just as much as you are here for me." A voice behind me whispers, further relaxing my beating heart. I turn around and reciprocate the hug my beloved servant is giving me,
"Fool, who said I wasn't fine."I teased him, giving him a light peck on the lips.
He chuckled, "Go back to sleep Shinobu-chan, it's going to be a big day tomorrow, and I need your help getting through with it." He mutters, before finally going back to sleep again.
A smile formed on my lips, watching his steady breathing and calm face. I ran my hands through his hair, smelling his scent yet again. I mutter a goodnight, closing my eyes.
Yes. He'll be with me for eternity. As will I.