Graceful Swan-maiden of the Lake.
The snow fell wildly outside in the darkness.
The snowstorm had increased further.
"Mummy, the wind says strange noises." a small beautiful boy with golden brown hair and pale orange eyes, stated at his mother.
Ruka sat by the window, watching the snow fall wildly, being thrown at window by the wind.
She turned her head and gazed tenderly through her dusty-rose eyes at her three years old son.
His hair was spiky as his father's yet curly as his mother's.
Ruka padded the soft sofa-like furniture standing below the window.
"Aoue, you want to sit here beside me?" Ruka asked with a gentle voice.
Kain appeared in the door, smiling at his small amount of family members.
The rather large living room was cosy and warm as a lit fireplace was burning with a bright orange flame.
Tamaouji shook his head at is beautiful mother.
He pointed with a small pale finger at the fireplace.
"Mummy I want to sit with the fire." he said with a hesitant smile, tilting his head to the side.
"By the fire." Kain corrected his son as he place a big elegant hand at Aoue's tiny shoulders.
Ruka smiled at her son and as he happily ran to sit in front of the fireplace, Kain reached out his hand to Ruka and walked with beside her carefully.
Ruka glared with a smile across her lips, at her handsome husband as she uttered softly; "Nothing is going to happen to me, Akatsuki."
Kain gazed downwards at her as she said so, revealing that he was worried about her condition.
Ruka tugged her pale purple scarf around herself gracefully.
"Well, I wasn't saying that anything was going to but you should be a little more considerate towards yourself." Kain said as he placed himself beside Ruka on the small sofa in front of the fireplace, Aoue at their feet with his toys surrounding him.
"I can take perfectly care of myself, thank you." Ruka said with a smile as she leaned her head up against Kain's shoulder.
He tugged her into himself with a careful greedy force.
"That's the point, you don't have to. I won't let you." Kain said with his deep voice remaining in the air about them.
Ruka didn't answer but gritted her teeth as her stomach pricked.
It lasted a brief moment.
Kain asked concerned; "Is something wrong?"
Aoue looked at his parents. At first he didn't understand much then when he saw his mother's hand stroking her stomach to make the pain seem less painful he asked with a saddening voice and concerned eyes; "Daddy is someone hurting mummy?"
Kain smiled at his son although he kinda wanted to ask Ruka himself. He answered while gazing lovingly at Ruka; "A little girl is knocking upon mummy's belly from the inside."
Kain touched Ruka's round belly with as much tenderness as he had inside of him.
Ruka chuckled sweetly at Kain.
The way he acted as a father was the loveliest thing she could ever imagine.
"Daddy should read mummy's belly a story so it wont knock on mummy's belly again." Aoue said childishly, his eyes shining with happiness of his brilliant proposal.
Kain smiled at Ruka.
She nodded at her husband thinking; if not for my sake then for Aoue.
Kain was about to rise from the sofa when Aoue was already on his way to a tiny book shelf beside the fireplace.
It was something Kain had been instructed by Ruka to have as a gift to their son and future daughter.
In that tiny shelf, was placed little fairytale books.
Aoue ran towards them again, stopping by them both as he tried to be careful with his mother too.
"This one." the tiny beautiful boy uttered excitedly at his father who took his son in is arms and placed him in his lap.
Kain held the book and found the fairytale he found the most interesting.
He smiled at the book and his son and gazed lovingly and proud at his pregnant Ruka.
He read;
A young prince was once living in big castle.
His mother, the queen is preparing the castle to celebrate the prince' 21st birthday.
His mother expects him to choose a girl to marry at the ball.
The prince isn't happy about having to marry someone he doesn't know.
He wants to live a free life.
Still, his mother demands him to marry as it is expected of princess at a certain age.
Depressed, he heads off hunting into the woods.
"Mummy is the girl inside you calm now?" Aoue asked gazing up at his mother.
Ruka smiled stroking her son's hair as she asked; "Not quite yet."
Ruka smiled, slightly blushy, at Kain, hoping he got her hint.
He did and kissed both cheeks.
In the forest prince suddenly sees a beautiful swan swimming in a lake.
He prepares to shoot it, but somehow can't make himself – there's just something about it. Getting closer, the swan transforms into a creature, more human than bird, a gorgeous young girl dressed in white feathers.
She is Odette, queen of the cursed swans.
The young prince cannot take his eyes off her.
He has never seen anything this gorgeous, and he falls in love with her at first sight.
Odette tells him she and a whole lot of other girls has been turned into swans by an evil sorcerer Rothbart.
The girls can only attain their human form at night.
Rothbart appears in the shape of an owl and the young prince immediately wants to go and defeat the sorcerer.
Luckily, Odette stops him and explains that if he kills the sorcerer, the curse on the young swan-maidens will never be broken.
Only a vow of eternal love is strong enough to brake the evil spell.
"Daddy I don't wanna hear any more. It's not happy." Aoue said, turning around to hug his father.
Kain understood his son's words. However, the story inside Kain and Ruka's head weren't the story written on the pages of the book.
"Then I'll tell you story of another beautiful swan princess." Kain said to his son as he placed his arms around the little boy.
Aoue nodded slowly. He must be tired.
Kain closed his eyes, imagining the scenario as he started;
Upon a shining lake floated a beautiful snow white swan-maiden.
She was very young and her feathers were soft-looking and fair.
She swam gracefully trough the glittering pale blue water everyday to show off her gorgeous features.
However, the beauty she was granted had become that of a curse.
A creature as beautiful as she, was in constant oblige to not disappoint her fellow swans.
Each day she floated lightly on the lake with her delicate head trapped inside lonesome thoughts.
A fellow swan from another clan of swans eyed the young maiden as the most delicate to him.
He wanted her to always be by his side.
Sadly, he was born mute therefore, instead of uttering endless words of love, he swam to her side in the middle of the lake everyday.
The swan-maiden did not know of his affections until very far into both of their lives.
Kain stopped, stroking his son's small back, checking if he had gone to sleep.
He was barely awake as he muttered; "Not very happy ..."
Ruka smiled and chuckled lightly.
Kain looked at Ruka, fascinated by her soft features.
She embraced her delicate belly as she finished Kain's and her own story;
However, even if it took them long, their affections just came to grow further.
And today, somewhere in this very world, they are as happy as ever.
Kain rose from the sofa, the little vampire boy in his arms sound asleep.
Ruka got up too, Kain insisted she held onto him.
He bend down and kissed her forcefully yet gently.
The birth of his beloved daughter was yet to come and he he hadn't had enough of little children of his running around himself and his young delicate beloved.
I thought and thought of a story for them :( and nothing came to me.
Then as I looked upon a lake before the apartment where I live with my family, I thought; The Swan Lake!
Ruka is beautiful and she's a vampire.
At night the swan turns human and at day she's a beautful swan.
Vampires in VK doesn't go out much at daytime (hardly at all) and when it's night she's out in the open air with her fellow vampires.
Everyone can see that Kain protects and cares for Ruka so I wanted to change the story of the Swan Lake (since it is one of my favorites) and make it Kain and Ruka's love story ^^
Kain doesn't outright say that he loves Ruka so I made him a mute swan :) I hope you like it those of you who read this.