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RIMA

Chapter 2: A sharp pain

"We will see you back here for another shoot soon Rima"

"Yea" was all I could respond. Finally I was able to go back to school.

There was only one reason i wanted to get back there. Shiki. Was he doing well? He never was one to care what really happened and that almost cost him his life, not to mention mine. But what did mine matter if after so long of being together I would lose him?

"Thanks for your hard work Ms. Touya". I walked away knowing that honestly it wasn't hard work. To me modeling was just a away to kill time.

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Looking at the screen of my cell phone I was a little disappointed when it didnt say the name I had wanted to see.

"Hello?"

"Rima?"

"Yea''

"Listen, you might want to come home soon and quick." Ruka advised, confusing me.

"Why?" I wondered almost bored. It was pretty early for us but most humans would be sleeping at such an hour.

"I just saw Kaori and Shiki together."

Instantly I froze.

This could not have been right. Was Ruka lying? No she wasn't my best friend but she wasn't an enemy either, she was the only one who knew how I felt about him but never said anything.

"Maybe she needed help in something?" I wasn't sure if I was trying to convince myself more than her. Maybe it meant nothing.

It meant nothing.

It meant nothing.

It meant-

"I heard her say that she could give him what he wants and that she'll be waiting" she added her further proof that it was something.

I didn't know what to say. What could I say? Did I have any right to get jealous? He didn't belong belong to me after all.

"I'll see you when I get to the school" was all I could respond, barely.

Kaori the new student in our night class. I heard of her but because I had been away for a week I never met her. Trying to make sense of what I was just told I grabbed my luggage and headed for the exit to the awaiting limo that would take me to the air port.

"Ms. Touya, there is a clothing company that would like you to become the face of their new line for winter. You would have to move to America though. Are you interested? The agency-"

"I'm not interested but thank you. Tell him my deepest apologies but I will not do it." I said walking away before she could try to convince me.

The flight back to school didn't take long and it didn't take away the strange feeling in my stomach. Ruka was the only one who wasnt asleep when I got back to the school dorm.

"So what are you going to do?" she asked closing the door to our dorm and sitting on her bed.

Normally my emotions were always in check and I made sure of that but the thought of losing Shiki to someone else, someone who would spend eternity with him, someone who I never met was almost enough to make me mad.

"I'm not sure." I said starting to unpack.

How long had they been spending time together in the week that I was gone?

"This was the first time I saw them together." Ruka stated reading my mind.

"How can you tell what I'm thinking most of the time?" I wondered aloud.

"I can't. It's because I went through something like this too myself" she quietly answered looking at the floor.

I felt bad for her. To love someone that much, even let him drink your blood to find out that it didn't full fill his thirst. Everyone at Night school of course knew Ruka's love for Kaname was useless., but she still loved him. I wondered with a sharp pain in my chest if that one day would be me, bound by my love to someone who didn't want it.

"Which is why you can't let Kaori try to get between you and him. And if you do knowing that you could have done something, will you really be able to live with that descion later on?"

I knew what she was saying was right but was it really what he would want too? After being through so much with him, I started to wonder exactly how much I meant to him. To him what was I?

"I won't make a decision based on my feelings alone."

I could feel her looking at me but I didn't want to look back.

"When a vampire finds someone, its a bond that lasts eternity."she reminded me. And she was right. Knowing I loved him it would be almost impossible to try to love someone else. I knew deep down in my heart that he would definitely be the one to full fill my thirst completely but would I be able to fill his?

"And still knowing this, you don't want to do anything?" she was trying to provoke me and I knew it.

"I said I wont make a decision based on only my feelings alone." I repeated myself sounding bored.

"You really aren't going to do anything? Your really going to let her take your happiness?"

I could feel my eyebrows start to pull together, a sign that meant I was about to get really mad.

"Why? Why aren't you going to do anything?" Ruka kept asking.

"Because! How am I supposed to know how he feels about me? How am I supposed to know what I am to him!? What I mean to him!?" I angrily shouted at her. She had gotten to me.

"Did I tell you that my cousin Rokuro is coming by today? He'll be staying here for quite some time" Ruka announced with a wink smiling at me.

"And did I mention that he's not 'seeing' anyone?" she added.

I didn't like her game but I was willing to play along until I found out how important I was to Shiki. Until I found out what I meant to him.

Walking out the dorm room fully dressed in my uniform I felt a wave if relief as I started into the face of the person who had become so important to me. He smiled a little as he made his way beside me.

"Rima, welcome home" he calmy welcomed me back. Would he always be like this if we did spend eternity together?

"I'm home. " I smiled back.

"Did anything new happen while I was gone?" I asked cooly.

"No. Nothing much." he answered back just as calm.

"mmm"

"How was the shoot?" he asked.

"Boring. I don't want to go back" I sighed.

"The don't"

"Mother would get mad if I don't show up. We are after all supposed to work together with the humans. Did you forget?"

"No Im just not so sure we should intertwine with them. Some of us may not be able to resist if we smell the scent of their blood. Then a war will most likely break ut between the humans and us." Shiki said looking down at the floor.

"Ne, Shiki." I started.

"Hmm?" He still wasnt looking at me and I knew what he was thinking.

"If anything, I know that you'll be able to resist. Your stronger than what you give credit to yourself."

His answering smile made me feel relieved. He was satarting to believe in himself more.

"Rima I-"

"Thats right Shiki. You are stronger than what you think" came an unfamiliar voice from behind Shiki. By now we were with all the other students in the night class gathered in the main hall until the prefixes called us out.

In front of us stepped a girl wearing our uniform with straight long blond hair green eyes high cheek bones a beautiful straight nose long blond eyelashes, she was no doubt a vampire. This was Kaori.

Others turned to look at us and the new girl.

"Nice to meet-" she began.

"Ne,Shiki who is this person?" I interrupted her looking from her to Shiki sounding bored.

"Im Kaori Takashiju. Pleased to meet you." she said doing a quick bow.

"hmmmm" was all I responded to her before I started to walk away from her.

"Didn't anyone ever tell you its rude to walk away when someone just introduced themselves?" I heard her call over her shoulder to me.

By now everyone in the whole night class was watching to see what would happen next. She was mocking me and I wasnt the only one who knew it.

I turned around knowing well what was going to happen next, feeling my eyebrows start to pull together was never a good thing.

I could feel the power of electricity running through my vains boiling in my blood.

I was starting to lose control and I could feel it but it didnt matter as long as I wiped that smirk off her face. She was mocking me and she wasn't going to get away with it.

Without hesitating I pointed the electricity toward her making sure I wouldnt miss.

I could feel myself start smiling anticipating the hit one her body when she was taken off guard by my attack.

Just centimeters from hitting her a blood red thin vine stopped the attack from hitting her.

It was Shiki's blood vine that stopped the hit.

He stepped in front of her blocking my view on her.

"Rima, what are you doing? You can get expelled for this." Shiki asked stunned by my behavior.

He was right and I knew it but at the moment I couldn't care less. This was the girl that could one day take him away from me and I would stop her.

I never let myself get out of control but this was one thing where I had to do something to hurt her.

I raised my hand again not sure of what I was going to do exactly but the moment i lifted it it was frozen in place by ice.

"Rima, this isn't like you at all!" came the worried voice of Aido. He quickly emerged from the crowd and stood beside Shiki, also protecting Kaori from me.

There was a quiet pause in the room.

"Touya-san, I will speak to you after classes are done, but you are to not attend them today." In the mist of all the chaos I hadnt seen Kuran Kaname~sama here.

Everyone became silent upon hearing his voice, waiting to see my reaction.

"Yes Kaname~sama" was all I responded having calmed down. With that I managed to break the ice with a charge of electricity running through my hands.

Everyone followed after Kaname~sama and soon I was left alone in the Moon dormitory.

Most of the first three hours spent in my room I wondered why Shiki stopped me. Was it because he wanted to protect her? No matter what the answer I couldn't help but feel defeated in some way. If she knew that that would be my reaction then she must have known that Shiki would have stopped me.

Was it her plan to provoke me? Whatever her reason was I know I lost control but I cant bring myself to regret it so I decided to get some air, there were still another six hours to kill.

"Touya~senpai! What are you doing out here? You should be with the rest of the Night Class inside." Yuuki questioned.

"Something happened and Kaname~sama said it would be better for me to not attend class today." I answered. Everyone knew that upsetting Yuuki in anyway would lead to nothing but disaster if Kaname~sama found out, which he always did.

"Kaname~senpai said that?" she asked eyes sparkling at the mention of his name.

"Mmm"

"Since he knows then, please be careful and you cant wonder off school grounds" she ordered before waving and running into another direction.

After several minutes of mindless walking I heard a noise that sounded like metal.

I turned to see what it was and came face to face with Kiryuu's gun.

"Did you wonder off, vampire?" he coldly asked watching me with his hatred filled eyes.

"The other prefix knows. And so does Kaname~sama." I stated just as coldly.

"Is that so?" he asked still pointing his gun at me.

The instant I turned to walk away I felt someone come behind me. I knew it couldn't be Kiryuu because the movement was too quick.

"Would you mind lowering that anti-vampire weapon? She doesn't pose a threat and right now neither do I" came an unfamiliar male voice. It was beautiful, calm, sweet yet demanding.

I turned to see who this person was but all I could see was the night class uniform and a mesh of hair so black it seemed to glow blue in the night.

His body was infront of mine creating a wall between the gun and I.

"Zero! Stop! I already spoke to Touya~senpai. And this is a new tranfer student who was looking around the school grounds with the permision of Kaname~senpai and the chairman." Yuuki quickly made her way to Kiryuu's side and he put away the gun. It seemed she had a habbit of disappearing and appearing at any given notice.

"I'm so sorry. Please forgive him." she apoligized taking a quick bow in front of us before walking away, him being taken by force as she scolded him.

"Its okay, he's only doing his job" the mysterious guy calmly stated.

This was all getting annoying, with a sign I turned again to leave but was stopped by his voice.

"No thanks to your savior at least?" I sensed a hint of a playful smile.

"I was fine. There was no way he could have done anything".

"You must be Rima. Pleased to meet you. My name is Rokoru Minori." he smiled while taking my hand and kissing it once. I thought I felt someone else's presence there but couldn't be sure. My heart was beating a little faster than normal, but just a little.

~End of a sweet dream but I'll show you another one~