Well, here's the sixth chapter!! Sorry if I took a bit long to update!!

20 years ago

Rin ran through the undergrowth, branches and leaves whipping her cheeks as she ran through the moonlit forest. Tears, silvered by the moonlight, ran down her stung cheeks. She was running from the campsite, running from the nightmares that suffocated her in her sleep. It had been two weeks since the death of her mother, two weeks of pain inside her.

A gnarled root suddenly snagged Rin's ankle, making her fall onto her front, her nostrils suddenly filled with the smell of grass and dried leaves and soil. Looking up desperately, Rin found herself in a small hollow, the curving brambles forming a small roof above her head. She curled up, hugging her trembling knees to her chest as tears coursed down her bramble-stung cheeks.

Somewhere outside her shelter, a branch snapped, warning her of a presence even before the moon clouded over and two different colored eyes gazed down at her through the gaps in the branches of her hiding place.

Sobs rose in Rin's throat, choking her with tears. Her sobs rose to a high pitched wail of sorrow so deep that it became mother to an even deeper anger.

"Why?"

And then when there was no answer, "Why, why, why, why, WHY?"

Rin's sobs lapsed into a soft lull, until she finally stopped, but tears still fell from her chin. Kain shifted, standing up to sit beside her with his back against the wall.

"Tade… You see she broke tradition… Do you not wonder what makes your witchcraft so powerful?"

Rin continued to sob, hugging her knees and curling up as tight as possible; she didn't reply.

"Vampire blood… You see, every four generations, the daughters of the Kage clan are meant to marry vampires, to strengthen the bloodline of the clan… Of course, they could always marry vampires even if they were not from a fourth generation… But Tade was, and she didn't want to… She didn't want me, she wanted a weak, filthy, normal human bastard… Such a shame…"

With a whisper and sigh of leaves in the wind, Rido was gone.

"Witchcraft…" The word formed on Kain's lips without him meaning to, and deep inside him, as he looked at Rin's slumped shoulders and glorious, cascading hair, he felt a beast stir and awaken, stirring with awe and respect for Rin deep in his heart. But what it awakened with, was far more powerful, mysterious. He couldn't fully grasp it, but it made his heart hammer and tighten as his eyes fell on Rin's form; it made him want to hold her and tell her to forget the past, made him want to prise her open to spill her dark past into him, let him carry a part of her lonesome burden.

At that moment, as Kain was slowly untangling the complicated knots of this feeling deep inside him, the scene between her and Kaname flashed through his mind, leaving a stain over his deeper feelings, making him drop his task of finding out what this was. His loyalty to Kaname veiled something from him, made him deny. Because if he hadn't remembered that she had confronted Kaname, that she had shown such disrespect, he would have continued to dig into his heart, and he would have found out… that what he was feeling… was the small flickering flame… that would soon give rise… to a forest fire… of Love.

Kyaa!! I don't mean to be too narcisstic, but I just love the last few sentences... XD

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