No Strings for the Puppet.
"I'm hooooome." Rima said with a high sweet voice as she walked through the hallway, on her way to a certain room in the house.
Her cheeks were all blushy and warm.
"Mama!" a small girl at three yelled happily at her mother.
Rima smiled at her petite pretty daughter as she started walking slowly towards the child running to her.
"Mama!" the petite vampire girl welcomed as she ran into her mother's arms.
"Mama is really cold." Toya stated with a smile.
Rima smiled.
"It's because it's snowing outside Toya."
The little girl's eyes widened at once.
Toya faintly remembered what snow felt like when touching it and smelling it.
"Mama I wanna see it." she said with a greedy yet innocent demanding voice.
Rima shook her head.
"No. It's not good to be outside when it's dark. Little girls such as Toya mustn't go outside in the dark." Rima said in a serious manner.
It seemed Toya was about to protest but-
"Toya." Shiki called to his daughter, his voice filled with fatherly warmth.
His eyes, which had ones been said to have been unable to read was now expressing the utmost of love towards his child and wife.
"Shiki." Rima said smiling happily at the slender man approaching her.
Shiki bend his head, Rima leaned up towards his face and granted him a kiss on the cheek.
Shiki widened his eyes.
"Is something wrong?" Rima asked, placing her hands on her hips.
Toya watched her parents.
"Papa." sounded Toya's bell voice.
Shiki and Rima turned their attention towards their daughter.
Shiki went down on one knee.
They both admired their petite beauty's fading, ashy red hair. Long and spiky. Her eyes deep blue ponds of of water reflecting a dark blue night sky.
Her eyelashes were thick long and curly.
Toya pointed a pale finger at her father's face.
"Papa be sweet to mother."
Shiki looked at his tiny daughter and then at Rima. Rima didn't seem to quite understand either.
Toya lifted the fluffy pale pink rabbit Rima had once given to her daughter up to her tiny face and kissed its soft cheek.
"Sweet." Toya stated and brushed her little hand against its head.
Shiki smiled. He rose from the floor, grasped Rima around the waist and kissed her forehead.
He stroke Rima's golden hair as he held Rima close to him.
"Sweet." Toya laughed at her parents.
"Sweet." Shiki said after her daughter, whispering the word into Rima's ear.
Rima blushed, furrowing her brows at her handsome husband.
Rima puffed her daughter's back gently, making the little girl move forward leading her towards her bedroom, from which he had escaped when she her Rima's arrival.
"Bedtime, Toya." Rima said gently, yet demandingly.
She glared lovingly at Shiki.
"What is it?" Shiki asked, tugging Rima further into himself as they trailed after their daughter, entering her pale blue large room.
Rima didn't answer but rested her head shortly on Shiki's slender chest and then walked to her daughter's side to her get into bed.
"Mama ..." Toya said hugging her fluffy rabbit.
Rima placed herself upon the grand bed.
Shiki stood beside his two girls watching them interact, mother to daughter.
"What is it Toya?" Rima asked stroking her daughter's ashy red hair.
Toya looked up at her parents carefully.
"Mama … mama, Toya wanna go to sleep with mother's best story."
Rima sneak peeked to the side to watch Shiki. He stood perfectly still. He hadn't gotten the point of what Toya had requested.
Rima gazed lovingly at her petite daughter again answering; "I shall see to it."
She smiled at the little child getting herself ready for her mother's story-telling, lying her tiny head on her large pillow.
Her entire bed was covered with fluffy toys.
Shiki sat down beside his daughter, stroking her hair as Rima began;
On Christmas Eve, the Stahlbaum family is having a grand party. Everyone is there, celebrating around a beautiful Christmas tree.
Toya listened eagerly, Shiki still stroking her hair as he gazed adoringly at his young wife as she wavered with her arms, outliving the very story before her daughter.
Rima smiled and continued further;
Clara's godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer, gives presents to the children.
He gives a mouse doll to Clara's brother, Fritz..
To Clara he gives a beautiful wooden nutcracker doll.
Toya clapped her little hands as she heard the doll getting mentioned.
Shiki furrowed his brows just a little.
"Toya love dolls!" the little girl screamed, her deep blue eyes shining with happiness of simply the thought.
"Mama knows Toya." Shiki said hugging his daughter with one arm.
"Yes, yes now shh." Rima said with a smile as she was eager to finish the story since this was such a beautiful one.
Fritz is jealous. He chases Clara and snatches the nutcracker. As he does, it breaks. Clara is upset, but Herr Drosselmeyer fixes the doll. Clara puts it safely under the tree. Then the children go off to bed.
In the night, Clara gets up to get her nutcracker. She falls asleep under the tree. As the clock strikes midnight, the Christmas tree begins to grow.
"Papa it's scary isn't it?" Toya said tugging Shiki's shirt as she crawled closer into him.
He securely held her safe and said calmly; "No because papa has Toya and mama. See? It's not scary if papa holds you like this is it?"
Toya had to think a little about that but said quietly, a little tired; "If mama and papa will be together with Toya it's not so scary."
Rima smiled at Shiki.
Her nutcracker doll grows, too!
Mice march into the room, led by the Mouse King.
The Mouse King tries to kidnap Clara!
But Clara's nutcracker, leading the toy soldiers, battles the mice.
They fight bravely, but the nutcracker is struck down.
Quickly, Clara throws her slipper at the Mouse King and defeats him.
Toya breathed out in relief. She'd been holding her breath as Rima had waved around with her arms as if fighting with a sword.
Clara gives her nutcracker a kiss, and he becomes a handsome Nutcracker Prince!
He takes her to a magical fairytale kingdom.
To get there, they go through the Enchanted Forest.
"Mama, Toya will go to a kingdom too right? With my own prince. Toya want a prince too."
Shiki flinched a little, somehow holding onto his daughter more safely.
Rima answered strictly; "Little princesses will get princes if they go to sleep early and behave nicely."
Toya thought a little about that too.
Rima somehow feared that her Toya would then rather let go of having a prince and then instead stay up late.
"Mama, Toya wants to have a prince." Toya aid with a smile and snuggled into her father's arms again.
In the Land of Snow, they see beautiful dancing snowflakes.
Then they go to the palace of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Land of the Sweets, where they are entertained by many beautiful dancers.
The Sugar Plum Fairy does a final then Clara must go back.
She wakes up under the Christmas tree, with her nutcracker doll, and wonderful, magical memories.
Toya's breathing had turned even.
Rima gently grasped Toya away from Shiki and placed her among her toys.
Shiki put the quilt over her and went to the doorway, waiting for Rima to return to his side.
She chuckled at him as she grapped his arm.
He turned off the lights, the only light was that of the snow reflecting into the room through the open curtains.
Rima closed the door safely and soundless.
Shiki bend his head downwards and greeted Rima with a tender kiss, lasting not very long.
He smiled at her as she blushed lightly.
"I didn't get to kiss you properly." Shiki answered tugging Rima safely in his loving arms.
Rima closed her eyes listening to her beloveds heartbeats echo within her own.
This is my idea to Rima and Shiki's married life with a child ^^
Kaname and Yuki's story was Sleeping Beauty.
Rima and Shiki's is The Nutcracker :) ... since the story is about a wooden doll I thought it fit perfectly to Shiki since he was used as his father's "puppet" but he "snapped out of it" with a little help from Rima ^^ who is Clara obviously, in this story.
I hope you all like my idea, or at least just the story :D