Thanxs again and as always to my kick ass readers and those who rewiew and add my story to their favorites list and story alert list etc. I would also like if you awsome readers would recommend this story to friends since id like to see how well im doing with this and all and THANK YOU and here it is enjoy :) Oh and the new VK chapter is out and I looooved the Rima and shiki thing it was sooo cute and the way shiki insisted telling Yuuki that he didnt reject the tea because it was her but that he aint really want it. This just lets us know that Shiki is really a great person and I hope that im doing a good job portraying that about him here.
SHIKI
Chapter 5: Nightmare
Walking out of the class I was glad when Kaname said that he wasn't going to punish Rima only ask that she keep her distance from Kaori. I had asked him after everyone had left the room.
Without even having to tell him what I was thinking he stayed behind and he told me Rima wasn't in any trouble since she never did anything wrong before. I got the feeling that he suspected Kaori as much as I did that something wasn't right with her. And just like me he intended to find out. Quickly disappearing like he always does as he walked out the classroom I went to my desk to grab my book.
I was feeling relived. Rima wasn't in any trouble and she would be back in class tomorrow. That relief was soon gone.
Walking out the door I walked right into my nightmare.
I was not prepared for what I saw.
Walking out I saw him her holding her hand while they ate candy apples. She even seemed to be having fun until she saw me.
And her hair.
I noticed that there was something new in her hair. Two pins that looked like a rose with white leaves in diamonds where centered in her ponytails. After she saw me she dropped her apple and he quickly letting her hand go caught it before it hit the floor.
I had never felt my blood boil the way it did at that exact moment. Knowing I was soon going to lose it I left the scene walking right past her with barely a hi.
She too seemed frozen. But she didn't know what she was doing to me. She was tearing me apart.
If I would have stayed I knew I would have been inviting temptation to kill him for touching her. When one thinks about it logically its easy to see that it wouldn't have been fair to him. He wasn't doing it on purpose and he didnt seem to have any evil around him. But when I thought about it I also didnt care. I would have snatched her away from him and made it known that she was mine and no one elses. I would have bared my fags to show him that I wasn't going to giver her up to him this stranger, but I didn't.
Because it was simple. She didn't seem to feel the same way. How would have she reacted?
Clenching my jaw shut I kept walking. I didn't want to think about what they might do next.
"Shiki! There you are! I thought you were hiding from me" Takuma said coming from behind a tree holding his books.
I wasn't sure what I looked like but from the look on his face he seemed to know something was bothering me, but he didn't know how much.
Silently he walked beside be as we made our way to the front entrance of the dorm.
Reaching the hall to my room I noticed that he seemed to be holding something back from me.
"What is it Ichijo?" I asked looking at him directly.
Looking away he sighed and seemed to be dreading to tell me.
"Ummm.... I'm not sure if right now is the time to tell you but ...ummm....you have a new roommate. His name is Rokoru Minori. I know I know!!! Its just that there was a shortage of rooms since he came so late in the yer and we didnt have any vacant rooms........... so since ............you don't have a roommate it was... kinda..... obvi..."
Letting his sentence trail off he looked away and smiled sheepishly at me.
"mmm" I nodded when I saw the wall behind him start to crack from my lack of control over my powers.
I turned to open my dorm door letting letting him know that I was done talking and that he should leave now.
"Umm.. I'll see you later...then " he half smiled before walking to the other end of the hall into his room.
Throwing my books on the bed and walking back to the pale white door I waited to hear the sound of his door closing before leaving my room.
I half walked half ran out of the building leaving through the back and into the forest that lay unhidden behind the school.
Once there I let go of my hold on my emotions and soon there I was able to hear all around me the breaking and destruction of the trees and floor around me. It was to the point where a fire was slowly starting to form around me when I heard a voice I was starting to remember all to familiar.
"Following you is always a good idea. Fun too." Kaori smiled sitting on top of a tree that had been half destroyed because of me, surrounded by darkness.
I only got madder seeing her there with a smug smile on her face. I never knew what she was thinking and unlike Rima that wasn't something I liked about her.
"What do you want?" I demanded seeing the fire around me start to come even more alive responding to my emotions.
"I have a request. Something that you might want to hear too." she said gracefully jumping down from the tree.
"And it might benefit us both. Give us something that we want." she added walking closer to me.
I didn't know what she wanted and I didn't want to know either, and just like that the fire blasted to life. Stepping back from me she didn't seem surprised and in an instant it was put out. Smoke started to come into the air around us creating a small layer of fog.
"You should get better control of yourself" she simply said.
"You control earth"
"Its not a question." she stated.
"Why didn't you assume it was water?" she asked
"Because theres no source of water around here. Thats what people who control water need. A source of it."
"Very good. So what do you say? Do you want to listen to my request or not?"
"No I dont." I said. By now I was back in control of my self enough to not damage stuff, but I knew that if she said one wrong thing then I would lose grip again.
"You can pretend to not know me after all this time. But if you really did forget then I wouldn't blame you, it was after all a long time ago." When she said that I could hear sadness in her voice and I got the feeling that she wasn't lying this time, but I also didn't know what she was talking about.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"It's fine, it was so long ago I'm not surprised that you dont remember." Though she was smiling I could see her dismay.
"Just listen to my request. Like I said it will benefit us both. You get what you want and I get what I want."
"What do you want?" I asked impatient.
Her face lit up. "I want you to take me to the upcoming dance." she said.
The instant that her request hit me I heard a tree snap in half behind her falling beside her and causing a great wind around us.
"What are you talking about?" Get a hold of yourself shes trying to get at something I told myself. I just didn't know what yet.
"The dance, its coming up soon and I want you to escort me there." she said in a colder tone.I had forgotten that the annual school dance for both day and night class students was coming up again but either way I would never have asked her because every year I always went with Rima.
"What makes you think that I would take you?"
"Because I over heard Ruka telling Akatsuki that Rokoru was taking Rima to the dance. That he asked her just tonight. I thought you already knew."
Every year except this one. I looked at her and felt my blood boil again and soon she was on the ground in pain.
I looked over at her and the smell of blood soon followed.
She didn't yell or cry out in pain. She was on the floor bent over herself shaking and holding her shoulder. It seemed I had hit her with my fury by accident.
I got closer to her and saw how deep and bad it really was. She was going to need blood to heal herself.
I lifted my sleeve up and biting my wrist I held it out for her.
Smelling the blood she looked at me, eyes wide. What was it with girls and their eyes getting wider when something takes them off guard I wondered.
"Drink and it'll heal soon." I instructed a little coldly letting her know that this didn't mean that I in any way liked her.
"I...can't drink....your blood your...of ....pureblood...." she was struggling to speak. Her wound must have been worse then I thought or she was in in dire need of blood, either way I knew it was dangerous for me to give her my blood. If it was really hunger that caused her reaction and my blood happened to fulfill her thirst then I'd be in trouble of never getting rid of her and I'd know that I'd have no one else to blame but myself for being so weak. I hated myself knowing that I was going to cause something that would sure come back to get me but wasn't strong enough to do anything about it.
There was also the possibility that my smell would linger within her and that would also cause unwanted problems for me as well.
But it seemed that I was too weak to stop or cared enough to stop as well.
Putting my arm next to her I saw her eyes change their color to a red.
She was hungry or was it that she couldn't resist the smell of a purebloods blood?
Putting my bloody wrist to her face the red in her eyes became more alive and I could see that it caused her pain to look away from it.
"Is it that you're hungry or the fact that even though you know it's a taboo to drink from a pureblood, you still can't resist the smell of my blood?"
She didn't answer but the red in her eyes only became more alive.
Holding her shoulder on the ground I knelled right next to her and put my wrist in from of her mouth. Looking at me for a minute she couldn't resist anymore and hesitated a little before biting me.
It wasn't long before she was completely heeled and all that was left was the blood on her uniform.
Her lips and hair were smeared with my blood when she soon pulled away from me.
She looked at me with cautious eyes.
"I"m amazed that you were able to restrain you're self so well." I said bored looking at her.
"This isn't going to go unnoticed. I drank from a pureblood and committed a taboo. I will be be punished for this, very badly won't I?" she asked looking at her lap.
"No. I'm going to tell them that I force fed you when you were hungry and hurt." I said standing up.
"You're going to help me if i get in trouble?" she asked hopeful.
"I'm only stating a mere fact" I coldly told her.
"Will you accept then? My request I mean." she asked.
"Why do you want me to take you?"
"Because, like I said we will both benefit from this. You and I."
"I will get what I want?" I wondered aloud licking my blood.
"Yes. You will get the thing that you most want. We both know what it is that you want."
"What do you know of what I do or don't want?"
"I know too much whether I like it or not." she answered looking at her hands on her lap.
"I'll make you a deal. You take me and if you don't get what you want, then you won't say anything when they find out the taboo I committed. I may even be put to death."
I didn't understand or really care why she would go that far for me to take her to the dance but as long as I was benefiting from her deal I was going to take it.
"I'll pick you up at seven" I said before walking away.
I could sense that she hadn't moved when I walked away but sensed another vampire nearby.
Entering the Moon dormitory I came face to face with a blue headed purple eyed pretty boy.
I came face to face with Rokoru.
I felt my blood boil again but I made sure that i was under control.
"Hi, I"m Rokoru. Do you know where i can find - wait. You're from my class. Can you point me in the direction of Shiki Senri?" he asked smiling.
"I'm him." I confessed pointing at my self.
"Lucky. I'm your new room mate. Rokoru Minori. Nice to meet you." he introduced himself.
He didn't seem like a bad guy and I felt a little stupid for making him my enemy.
"Nice to meet you" I said sounding tired while leading him to the dorm room.
When I opened the door I was surprised to see how much it had changed from when I came in barely hours ago.
There were now two king sized luxurious beds instead of one and his stuff seemed to be piled by the door.
"I wasn't sure what side of the room you preferred so I thought I might wait for you to come."
He was a nice guy. A really nice guy. I was starting to see how Rima could like him. It was almost difficult not to like him, but he was still my enemy. I wasn't going lose Rima to him.
"Thanks" I halfheartedly said before choosing the right side of the room next to the window.
Picking up his dozen bags he walked to the other side of the room. He didn't bother putting away any of his things away before walking into the bathroom. I heard the water running and he soon came out dressed in a silky black shirt and matching pants.
Hoping onto his new bed he pulled the sheets around his body.
"Good night" he smiled before turning to sleep.
Looking out the window I saw the sun was starting to rise.
Walking to the bathroom myself I closed the door and pulled my shirt off.
Looking into the mirror I clearly saw myself.
Your beginning to look more like that brute my mother once told me. I was happy thinking that I looked alot like her. I'm still not sure if she's right or not, but I never want to be like him.
Trading in the rest of my uniform for my night cloths I went to bed shortly after washing my mouth and face.
Laying in my bed I drifted to sleep thinking about Rima.
When I was able to see again I was a looking at myself from when I was in what looked like eleven in human years.
I was at a party and was with my mother and uncle before I spotted a little girl with two pig tails wearing a short fancy red and white dress. The birthday girl.
I kept looking at her wondering why it seemed that she was sneaking out of her own party. I had always known females to love throwing parties and this was the first time I ever saw one running away from hers. I had to follow her. I was curious.
Walking away from my mother and uncle I stayed a few feet behind her making sure she couldn't see me. I followed her as she cautiously made her way to an elevator.
Once the doors closed I ran up the stairs knowing that she would be heading for the main floor of the mansion above ground.
Out of breath when i got there I saw her, a little red and white dot in the distance disappearing. I quickly followed trying to stay quiet. I came to a stop when she did. Probably thinking of where to hide for the time being without the sun bothering her.
Walking to the back yard of her mansion she went into the forest looking background that was surrounded by trees and bushes outside the pool area.
Keeping my distance I followed her when I stepped on a tree branch. How careless of me.
SHe quickly turned and tried to figure out the where the sound had came from exactly when I noticed that she was poised to fight. I saw her visible shocks of electricity.
Oh good I thought to my self An electric user. I decided it was best to show that I was of no threat to her and avoid being turned to a marshmallow so I walked out with my hands in the air.
I was so close to being electrocuted by her when she stopped herself just mere seconds from practically killing me.
"Don't shoot." I managed to say before lowering my hands into my pockets and yawning.
"what are you doing out here?" she questioned me roughly clearing her weapon away.
"I'm just.........looking for my contact" It was all I could think of at the moment though I didn't fool her. I saw her smile a little and didn't want her stop.
Her smile was beautiful.
"You are a vampire. You don't use contacts. What were you really doing out here?" she asked more friendly this time.
Sighing and scratching the back of my head I decided to give up and smiled.
"I saw a girl escaping from the party so I thought that she might need someone in case something happened to her at least she wouldn't have been alone." I confessed, feeling a little embarrassed.
I wasn't sure if she was mad because she didn't speak for a while and only looked at me. I wasn't sure what she was thinking and I liked that about her. She seemed different to the other girls that I've met.
"What are you doing out here?" I asked her hoping to make up for whatever it was that I said to get her mad. I was going to make her my friend and I wasn't going to ruin it.
"I...I was looking for someplace to hide" she answered. I felt relief. She didn't hate me.
"Why?" I probed trying to get her to talk more.
"It's too noisy in there and I hate going to parties so I decided it was my opportunity to sneak out." she said almost as if I should have known. So she didn't like parties either. There was one thing we had in common.
"Hmmmm. I also dislike parties" I told her wanting her to know that we were similar. An idea of a perfect spot to take her to make her happy came to me and I was going to take her there to show her that she could trust me. Maybe we'd even learn more about her.
"I know" I told her pointing my chin towards the other direction wanting her to follow me.
She hesitated before following me but I glad she decided to come along. We walked in silence for several minutes while I carefully led her towards her front yard making sure to take ways where no one would see us and make us go back inside.
When I saw the place I smiled.
"Here it is."
She looked past me and noticed that it was her front yard.
:You took me to my front yard?" she asked confused.
"They won't e able to find us here" I yawned continuing to walk. I was glad when she found out what I had meant. She saw that it was the perfect place to hide. It provided both shade and coverage.
"It's the perfect hideout" I said before taking a seat on the grass. Without worrying about her dress she sat beside me and watched the blue summer sky.
"I'm Senri Shiki by the way" I introduced myself not looking away from the sky.
"Rima Touya" she introduced herself also without looking away from the sky. Maybe she was also shy around me the way I was starting to feel around her?
Sitting there with little small talk here and there we spent the rest of the day relaxing. I had found out that she didn't like dolls but didn't hate them either. She liked eating cookies with jam and had never really spent much time playing with other kids her age.
She was basically isolated, like I wanted to be. I hadn't realized it at age but even then I was being controlled through my uncle and the council of ancients always using my mother to make me do what they wanted. She was lucky that she didn't have that and I would never have left her alone if I knew that something like that was happening to her too. I'd have stayed by her side.
I longed to have the life she did. I was young then but I also knew that I couldn't be wrong about the fact that I wanted to spend eternity with her.
The rest of the time for me passed to quickly because before I knew it the night sky had shown itself illuminated by stars and soon I heard footprints around us. It was about time that they found out we were missing but at the same time I was feeling sad that they had. It seemed too soon.
"It seems that our play time is over" I said trying not to let my dismay show on my face.
When I saw her nod her head I got up with a sigh. How I wish I could have read her mind to see what she was thinking.
Helping her up I wondered when would be the next time I would get to see her again. I was a bit anxious that I wouldn't and I wasn't going to let that happen.
Turning to face her I asked her head on.
"Will you be my friend?"
Her warm smile quietly answered me. It was sucha warm feeling one that I hadn't felt before if ever that I smiled back and wrapped her in my arms before I could stop myself.
"Happy Birthday" I said trying to cover for what I had just done with small embarrassment letting her go.
Feeling someone quickly approaching for me I told her to hang out again with me making sure that I made it in time before they came to get me.
I didn't wait for her answer this time. I didn't want to giver her time in case her answer was a negative one.
I waved goodbye to her just as her servant appeared before her.
That night when I got home my mother and uncle scolded me for what I did saying that they were worried sick about me and Rima.
"But you're the ones who didn't notice til so late" I calmly pointed out for them which they took for a wise ass answer.
They continued to scold me for about an hour that night while I sat on the living room sofa facing both of them. I tried to look sorry for what I had done but I couldn't I had met Rima and that's all that mattered to me. They could yell all they want at me, which they did but it was useless. I wasn't even listening.
After that I made sure to hang out with Rima. Being with her felt so natural that I never wanted her to leave. I pictured her as my wife spending forever with me. I thought that nothing could have separated us from one another until that one day when I got a letter from my uncle.
"Shiki. You have a letter from your uncle." my mother told me as I was leaving to meet Rima.
"I wonder what it could be" I said opening the letter. I unfolded a fancy looking letter with elegant script written on it.
"Senri,
It was taken upon by me so your mother doesn't know what this letter is about. We here at the council have decided to enroll you in the Night Class that has been recently set up by our pureblood treasure, Kuran Kaname-sama. He has set it up in order to bring humans and vampires closer and we support him. To show our support we have enrolled you in that academy. it is far from home and you will be traveling through the underground rails that we vampires use. You will be living there from now on and when you can come home will be decided by none other than Kaname-sama. We hope that you will not disappoint us and become close to our pureblood leader once you get there. Please tell your mother for us and that it will only be temporary so that she will not go into hysterics over this. Be quick for you take your leave in two days notice.
Take care, Sincerely your uncle and the council.
Crushing the letter in my hand I only thought of one thing, what was I going to tell Rima?
We had been friends for so long now I had gotten used to seeing her everyday.
"What's it about?" my mother asked peering over my shoulder.
I gave it to her to read knowing well that she would yell at uncle when he came around here again. Good.
When she was done she was angry and started to tear up.
"Do you have to go?" she asked trying to hold her tears back but we both knew the answer to that. Knowing it herself she crumpled the paper and engulfed it in flames too.
"You have to promise me that you're going to visit whenever you can." she said having calmed down.
I nodded my head before she finally smiled. "Mama's going to be sad without her little boy here with her" she whispered as she wrapped her arms around me.
On the drive to Rima's place I wondered how i was going to tell her and if she would consider going with me too but I wasn't sure if I could ever ask her to leave her life here for a new one. I had been waiting several minutes longer than usual when I noticed that Rimas wasn't coming out of her house.
It gave me more time to think.
By the time she was making her way to the car I still hadn't thought of anything.
"You're a bit late. Is everything all right?" I asked once she was in the car.
"Yea" she answered seeming a little distracted.
I decided that it was best to tell her straight.
"I have to tell you something Rima" I started feeling like a child not wanting to tell the truth because I was afraid of the consequences it would bring.
Looking at me she stayed quiet.
"My uncle has enrolled me in a private academy and I'm to leave in two days. It's pretty far but they have a Night Class designed for vampires especially. I'll be living there from now on too. Kaname~sama has started it in order to help set up some kind of relationship with the humans." I explained hoping that she would know it wasn't my decision. That I didn't want to leave, I was being forced.
I wasn't sure why but I saw her expression change from uneasy to complete relief. Had she wanted to get rid of me this whole time? Was she glad that I was going to be thousands of miles away? Had she grown tired of me?
"Is something wrong?" I asked not wanting to know the answer if it was for the reasons I was thinking.
"I'm also going there. My parent's just told me right before I came out." she smiled.
It was like seeing the light after so long. She and I were going to be together still. I wouldn't have to wonder how she was doing and if she found some other I couldn't help but wonder if she wasn't going to tell me or why .Did she plane to leave and have me find out that she simply left without notice to a boarding school far way? Did she think that I would be fine losing her without a goodbye? She was dead wrong.
"You weren't going to tell me" I stated making sure it wasn't a question.
"I didn't know how to" she smiled. It was one of those rare smiles that I never saw her smile when there were others around. I liked to think that she reserved them for me and for me only.
Closing my eyes and smiling I was more than glad that it was the same relief that I felt. It seemed that we weren't going to be separated to easily.
Waking up the next evening to the sound of my alarm clock I decided that I would not let Rima go so easily, no matter who it was. I was going to stay by her side so long as she wanted me there.
It seemed that the dream made me realize how much I want her and how hard it should be to separate us. Rima may not remember the day we met but I was going to keep those memories with me forever. She was there for me through so much I wasn't going to let her escape.
~I'll show you another sweet dream~