sorry once again for taking so long -_- but I got in lots of trouble for fighting lol oh well I hope that the wait was worth it and enjoy this chapter ^^

SHIKI

Chapter 18: In cold blood

I had given up all hopes of getting her back. Of her being mine and no one else's. Of living through eternity with her.

This feeling I now held inside made me see no future without her. Because without her, there would be no point to living.

As I watched her slowly descend down the aile to where her father was awaiting for her, I felt myself start to die from the inside.

She, a vision so beautiful in blue and white as the sun set behind her, even as I felt myself start to crumble made me smile.

For me, time stopped here, at her wedding where she would vow to love someone else.

Her elegance with every step she took closer to the man she was to marry in mere minutes, I would remember. I would remember her. All of her.

I would remember because I would still love her. I saw as she placed her delicate hand in her fathers as he led her up the gazebo where HE awaited for her.

He would have her for eternity, and I had lost her.

Taking one last look at her I turned and walked away as she faced HIM now, ready to give herself all to him for all eternity.

Walking away had been harder than I imagined.

Even now as I stood in the room where her scent came from strongest, indulging and getting lost in the scent that I had always loved, I wasn't sure how I had managed to get here.

But I didn't care anymore.

I rested my head against the grand window pane, not grasping the fact that she was now gone from my grasp. Forever.

Anything.

I would do anything to her back. To turn back time and make sure that the one she marries is me and only me. I had always thought that I had nothing but time with her, but that was shattered the moment Rokoru showed up. And I didn't do anything about it, and now its too late.

Closing my eyes I remembered everything about her.

Her smile, her scent that smelled beyond anything this world could offer, even from its finest fragenceses. The touch of her lips, the gleam in her eyes that only I could see.

And then I heard it.

The sound that made my heart start up again. The fotsteps I heard running toward the door, this rooms door.

I raced towards the door feeling my heart race faster with each stride I took and pulled it open each second knowing that this was no illusion.

Upon seeing her there I took her into my arms feeling as she held me to her.

She was mine, I was hers.

For eternity. Now and forever.

I held her tight against my body, as I felt her cry, but I knew that it meant she had somehow gotten what she wanted too.

"I love you........ I love you" she told me through her tears over and over again.

The words I longed to hear.

Without saying anything I began to kiss her with full force, letting out years and years of feelings that words couldn't describe how much I needed her, how much I loved her.

She knew how I felt now even as I whispered, "I love you" against her lips.

But my happy ending came to an end the moment I heard her quiet small gasp as something cut through her heart.

As her body began to fall in my arms I heard her.

"Long time no see, Rima" came the acid cold menacing voice of Kaori as she smiled looking down at her from behind.

I felt Rima's body go limp in my arms and held her tight as I met kaori's mocking cold glare as she quickly and ruthlessly snatched her hand from Rima's body.

Upon seeing Rima's blood on Kaori's arm I felt myself lose control. I looked at Rima's body in my arms and kissed her on the lips before laying her down on the sofa.

In one quick motion I was standing in front of Kaori as I drew a fist back and hit her on the her chest sending her flying out of the building causing the window to shatter into thousands of pieces raining down after her and on to the grass floor outside with a thunder like noise.

I could see the pain she was in by that hit. The shock that she was in was clear on her face.

Slowly getting up she looked up at me.

"WHY?" she asked looking deceived.

Stabbing my palm with my nails, I felt the blood harden, full of power.

Without thinking I pierce her body form all different points hearing her shouts as her pain increases. Pulling them out, in one quick motion she gets up and vanishes into the forest beyond.

"What happened to her?" came the angry voice of Rokoru as he rushed to Rima's side.

"She's not breathing! What happened to her?" he asked again.

I couldn't find it in myself to answer. I walked over to her and cut a vein from my neck. I tried to get her to drink it, but she wasn't moving, wasn't breathing.......she had become lifeless.

There was nothing I wanted to do but lie beside, but I had to kill Kaori. I had to make her pay for what she did.

Without warning I was out the window and was joined by Morgan in mere seconds.

Even though she had gottnen a head start, I was able to flawlessly follow after her.

She had Rima's blood on her.

It was deep in the center of the forest when we came to find her, standing holding her self together through the pain having thought that she was far enough.

Slowly she turned, looking happy in sadistic way.

"There was no way," she began, "I was going to lose you to her twice!" she yelled.

I didn't hesitate. I ran straight to her. I was going to make sure that she suffered the most painful death that only a pureblood could give her.

Putting a hand through her chest right next to her heart she fell to the flor, but I made sure that it didn't kill her.

I made her look at me as she tired to stop her pain screaming in pain. Directing all my anger out on her I watched as slowly her body started to pull itself apart from my barely contained anger. Slowly and painfully hole after hole started to puncture through her body causing more and more blood to surface matching up to her deathly screams, music to my ears.

With my hand I punctured another hole through her heart grabbing it, but not pulling it out. Her screams of desperate unimaginable pain kept coming as I squeezed it tightly between my claws. No matter how much pain I put her in, it wasn't enough for me. There was no way this was ever going to make up for what she did to Rima.

Grabbing her by the throat with my hand, I started to claw at it, opening it up slowly but surely.

Blood.

Blood was everywhere. Her blood. Just the way it should be.

Letting her heart go, I wrapped my fingers around her left arm and ripped it off slowly hearing every crack and every tissue, muscle and fiber holding it together tear off.

She cried and screamed so loud I heard from a distance as birds quickly fluttered away.

But I wasn't going to kill her.

I wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of me killing her, which is what she wanted.

"Morgan" I called over my shoulder though I was still clawing at Kaori's throat who was still alive.

"Yes master?" she bowed.

"Kill her" I ordered as I backed away from her body.

"Slowly and painfully" I added.

"Yes master" she bowed again. When she looked up I saw the red in her eyes and knew that she would carry out her order.

I didn't have to stay. As I ran back to Rima's side I was able to hear the horrid screams of Kaori in the background hoping that I would make it back in time.

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

~~****VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!******

I have two different endings for this. One where Rima dies, and one where she doesnt. Both are very different. Vote for the one U want. Choice A will mean a sequel to this story ^^ I'll leave it up to the fans and option B will also have surprises when trouble comes in trying to save her. Its ur choice to save her!!