The Blood I Longed

Chapter 3

A/N: IMPORTANT NOTE! I will be changing the point of view into a 3rd person perspective, so please do not be confused:D.

Hashizuka sighed happily once she had arrived to Kaien's house. She breathed silently, looking at her left and right. She couldn't help but wonder of Sakki's whereabouts. Just a few minutes ago, when both were still at the dense, and unbelievably chilly—the kind of chilly that makes you shiver and feel uncomfortable—forest, Hashizuka is a hundred percent sure that Sakki is still in front of her. Now where could that pinky doll be?

Her body tensed slightly as she feels yet another's presence behind her back. She could feel a pair of eyes digging holes into her back. She shifted and fidgeted uncomfortably on the sofa that she sat on. "What were you doing outside, vampire?" the voice was husky and menacing, yet somewhat behind the layers of the tone, Hashizuka could feel nothing but immense pain and loneliness. "And to even let out such a threatening aura. What was it all about?" the voice, presumably a man's voice, demanded.

Her somewhat snowy eyes turned to look at the man before her. He was attractive, if not, simply magnificent and stunning. His silver hair was short, and not to mention, messy as it's strand goes here and there. A pair of lavender orbs met silver, leaving a tingling feeling of uneasiness in her stomach. She could see all the emotions there, swimming freely like a fish in the ocean. His face falls into an even deeper scowl as he realized that the lady in front of him was studying him quite intensely.

The elegant white-haired girl snapped away from her thoughts as she heard the man's growl. It took her only a few seconds to know that the young man before her was the currently hot topic in the nightlife world. Zero Kiryuu, the hunter who was changed into a vampire by the Kuruizaki-hime, Shizuka Hio when his parents were cruelly massacred by the same pureblood. Ever since then, his hatred for vampires, especially purebloods, have changed from a mere dream-job to pure hatred.

"Answer my question, vampire." He stated coldly, his tone making the poor Hashizuka shuddered. She only shakes her head, not wanting to answer his question. This is pathetic, she thought. Why would she, one of the strongest ultimate pureblood to exist, being threatened by this pathetic ex-human? Her once terrified eyes shifted into an icy stare, cold, heartless. "Answer me."

"Why would that be one of your concern, hunter?" Hashizuka stated, tilting her head sideway. His glare at her grow more intense, but the newly confidence Hashizuka didn't even the slightest bit waver as she returned his glare back with the same intensity, just slightly more… softer. The glaring competition went to an end when Yuuki's voice chimed in.

"Zero!" She exclaimed, staring at him with a meaningful look. "She is a guest and she's to be treated correctly!" Yuuki's tone was slightly desperate, which pissed the slightly angered Hashizuka. How dare he make her sister, her innocent, cheerful, and jumpy sister, has such a desperate tone to her words? "Sorry, Hashizuka-san!" Yuuki turn her attention to the silent vampire on the beige sofa. "Zero is constantly like this… so please don't take it to the heart."

Hmmph, nice to know I wasn't the only one, Hashizuka thought, ignoring the urge to roll her eyes and snort. She didn't dare to do that, as that would make her seemed so unlady-like.

Zero leave with a scowl, walking away from the disgusting—as he would thought—vampire. "You know, Zero didn't really hate you all that much…" Yuuki mumbled all of a sudden, making the annoyed pureblood raise her eyebrows at her. "He usually took out his bloody rose when he met a vampire… he didn't. That means he is only annoyed or some sort."

This time, Hashizuka didn't even bother to hold her rolling eyes. "Nice to know I was being treated 'specially'." She grumbled, standing up from the plushy delicate seat, her feet stomping slightly to her room. Just where is Sakki when she needs her the most?

To say that Hashizuka was flabbergasted is a rather fitting statement. Sakki was actually in her room the whole time, cleaning the room and putting all of her friend's items to a honeydew suitcase. "What are you doing?"

Sakki smiled up at Hashizuka cheerfully, grabbing tins of blood tablets, throwing it down into the suitcase. "Of course, packing! What else?"

She grumbled in annoyance. How could Sakki be so stupid sometimes? Just the thought that the doll-like vampire could be serious like how she was a few hours ago was impossible. Right now, she looked too innocent for her well-being. "I can see that." Hashizuka rubbed her temple impatiently. "I mean, why are you packing my belongings?"

The other vampire could only chuckled seeing her precious master's action. "We will be moving to the moon dorm, you see. Takuma told me that earlier!"

Her master shot up warily, looking dazzled and bewildered. "Takuma?" she asked, as if asking that she heard correctly. Sakki's eyes, realizing her own words, widened in shock. Oh no, she did not just say that! "You mean Takuma Ichijou? Wait, since when do you use his first name to address him? Do you even know him? When did actually he told you that we need to move?"

Poor Sakki could only nervously scratch the back of her neck absentmindedly. Curse herself and her bigmouth! Now Hashizuka-sama is bombarding her with questions she did not know how to answer! "Urm… I am a childhood friend of his…?"

At this, the once confused and extremely curious Hashizuka Kuran was bewildered. She stared at Sakki oddly, which makes the latter gulp down and sweat profusely. "You knew him? How? Why didn't you—" her words were cut as Sakki pulls her hand, two suitcases on her other hand.

"We need to go now!" she stated nervously, hoping that her beloved master and so-called 'role-model' forgot about her words earlier. She was stupid. She never thought she would say that she was a close friend of Takuma, or even know him at all. Sakki never really want anyone to know her somewhat complicated relationship. She wants to keep it alone. Well, at least, until the time finally came to actually tell anyone. She didn't expect it to be this early.

Hashizuka, feeling her best friend's discomfort, immediately abandon the topic. She was still curious, yes, and it's starting to form some sort of turmoil inside of her. But she would never make her friend feel uncomfortable. She would ask her later, when the time is right… Hashizuka didn't know precisely when, but the tremendously clever pureblood know that the time will come.

As both finally arrived at the moon dorm—which looked like an elegant mansion instead of a dorm—they were welcomed by a pouting Aidou, a bored Kain, and cheerful Ichijo. "Hashizuka-sama, Sakki." The emerald eyed Ichijo said, still smiling widely.

Hashizuka merely nodded, but the fact that Takuma called Sakki with her nickname, which the person only let few call her so, hadn't slip her mind. She growled internally, becoming more curious by the time. "I'm sorry, Hashizuka-sama, to act so ruthlessly without knowing who you really are." She was slightly surprised by Aidou's words as he bow, this time, in his own accord. She smiled when she could feel the sincerity in his tone. He didn't act because he was disrespectful or anything. He was just too loyal to Kaname that any possibility of a threat would make him charge.

The pureblood nod again, her radiant smile comforting all around her. "No need to say sorry, Aidou." She said, touching his shoulders. "Stand up, I've already forgive you long before you said sorry." Her reply makes the cocky, stubborn, and arrogant noble's eyes went as wide as flying saucers. She isn't anything like Kaname Kuran, he thought. If it's her older brother the one that he stupidly disrespects, he would surely obtain two disgustingly large red hand imprinted on both cheeks by now. His slapping hurts awfully.

The sound of a soft, graceful, elegant, yet carefree laugh fills every ear of the vampires that are currently presence. "No need to be surprised, Aidou." Hashizuka stated, still laughing softly. Her laugh was like bells ringing in a beautiful summer day, even though vampires literally loathed summers. The sun was like thousand times hotter on that damned season! "If you are actually comparing me with my brother then, I am seriously offended."

Kain, who stays silent until now, raises his eyebrows in confusion. Most people would be tremendously honored when someone was comparing them with the successor of the Kuran pureblood. He is, after all, filthy rich and unbelievably strong. Then why does his own little sister hate to be compared to him? "Don't be confused, Kain-san." The voice of Sakki interrupted Kain's thought, making him even more confused then he already is. How could both of these girls read their minds like it was no big deal? "Hashizuka-sama—"

Hashizuka frowned a little. "I thought I've told you to stop calling me with sama, Sakki."

Sakki sighed, then nodded. "Hashizuka hated to be compared with her brother. It feels as if people are comparing which one of them is better." She explained fluently, as if she was used to explaining the reason to many people before.

All three nodded, bowing their heads lowly. "Now, would you please enter the dorm?" Ichijo said, the smile never leaving his face. His emerald orbs glistened brightly, encouraging the pureblood and her friend to come in. "Oh, and Hashizuka-sama?" Hashizuka twirled backwards, facing the grandson of the fearful Asato Ichijo. "Kaname wants to talk to you. He's in his room. Do you need me to bring you there or…?"

Hashizuka almost frowned at the idea of meeting her brother again, but frowning isn't really a good way to show off your bad-relationship with a sibling, so she smiled instead. "No need to escort me, Ichijo." Tilting her face sideway, her fake smile—which looked like a super honest smile—widen a bit. "I could sense him by scent and aura from a mile radius, so I could easily know which room is his." Ichijo nodded, as the three young fit men took the suitcase from the ladies, and bring them inside. "You go to your room first, Sakki." She said, staring at the door. "It would probably take long until I could peacefully go back to my own room."

Sakki, knowing that the siblings aren't really on good terms with each other, nodded solemnly. "Just go back as fast as you could, okay, Hashizuka-sa—Hashizuka?"

The white-haired lady could only fake a smile and walk inside, making all heads of the night class turn facing her. All of them bowed respectfully, knowing who she is, after they went through Ichijo's endless explanation and seeing Kaname's punishment to Aidou and Ruka who disrespect her. She sighed, closing her eyes and shaking her head. "No need to be so formal," she eyed all of them, before finally walking up the stairs to the second floor, following the scent of her older brother.

She stopped in front of a wide, wood double doors. She sighed for the thousandth time for the day—or night, if you mention it on a human's point of view—and knock the door. She could hear a small 'come-in' and open the door cautiously, making sure no noise was made. "You asked for my presence, Kaname?"

His crimson, hollow eyes stare at his little sister for a while, his expression shifted into a dull one. He cared deeply for her little sister, even if her little sister didn't think so. And to even add more sorrow, she looked perfectly like her… the exact same hair, eyes, skin. The only different that Hashizuka looked more childish compared to her… the one he loved so much, the one he cared and hold so much. Just thinking of her could make him feel forlorn. "No need to be so formal with me, Hashizuka." He stated, walking away from the windowpane, towards a scarlet sofa with elegant beige trimmings here and there. He sat there, his elbow on top of the armrest. "Come, sit with me."

The girl could only frown, but sit there nonetheless, though she keep a good five feet distant from him. He puckered his beautifully treated face—the face that make him look like a carefully sculpted porcelain doll instead of a human, or vampire—in annoyance. Why would his beloved little sister keeping her distant? Did she not miss him as much as he missed her? She tug her hands and hold her closer to him, making her breathing stuck in her throat.

"…Kaname? What are you doing?" she longed her brother's embrace, yes. But that doesn't mean that she'll easily gave in to the annoyingly comfortable warmth.

He bury his face on her smooth, silky white hair. Kaname murmured some words that Hashizuka couldn't really comprehend, but she did not care. "Just let me hold you like this for another moment." He spoke with his picturesque voice, almost making her shiver in delight.

But she didn't really gave in there, she doesn't want to be a weak person in his eyes. No matter how much she want to stay in his arms there and lay her head on his shoulder, lap, anywhere, and let his hands hold her waist in a warm embrace, she doesn't want to be called as a pampered pureblood. She scooted away from him, glaring at her older brother sternly. "Don't hug me if you don't want to, don't hold me if you don't even love me as your sibling." Hashizuka stated firmly, struggling so hard not to waver and hesitate in front of him.

His usually expressionless face was painted with curiosity, confusion, and hurt. "Who said I've never loved you? What makes you think like that?"

She looked away from his eyes, afraid that if he keeps staring into those breathtaking crimson eyes, she might hesitate further than she already did. "You only loved me because of her, didn't you?" she raised herself from the comfortable sofa. "You only loved me because I'm the key to her awakening! Because if I didn't exist, she would stay asleep for forever!"

His hollow eyes turned sorrowful, though the expression wasn't really clear to his face. "You really think of me like that, Hashizuka?" his hand hold her wrist, preventing Hashizuka from running away from him. "I loved you not because of that, but because you're my little sister!" he exclaimed somewhat angrily, but remaining calm somehow.

Her eyes were cold as they meet his, stern, and stubborn. "Liar didn't deserve to be trusted." She snatched her slender hands away from him and leave the room at such an inhuman speed. He gazed sadly at the door before closing it, throwing himself to the bed, somehow managing to keep himself look elegant. He could hear a soft knock and Ichijo's voice outside of the room.

Ichijo peeked in from the door, looking sadly at his friend. "So I assumed it went bad?"

Kaname didn't respond, staring emptily at the ceiling above.

Hashizuka stomped away from the repugnant room—as she said—angrily. How could he just ignorantly hugged her like that? And even stating that he really do loved her! How could someone lied so much in one day?! Just the thought of her older brother made her want to throw things away and went into a rampage mode, which could cause the whole academy to explode within seconds.

It was only a few minutes later did she realize that she is completely clueless to where her room is located in. Being on a bad mood already, she almost throw away a beautifully carved made flower vase with intricate patterns engraved from every point. She could barely hold her anger when she heard a familiar, apathetic voice from her back.

"In a foul mood already?" his voice was calm and almost expressionless, but there's a single hint, just a faint glint of curiosity attached. The pureblood turned and scowled at him, making him tilt his head and looked at her confused. He looked so innocent despite his being as a vampire.

"Yes!" she exclaimed wrathfully, making Shiki raises his eyebrows, completely bewildered even though his face remains emotionless. "first, I have to deal with my despicable older brother, then I don't know which room is mine!"

His bored look stare into her angry one. Somehow, just somehow, his eyes and his presence calm her down, slightly, but still. "You could always ask." He stated fearlessly. Yes, that's probably it. Senri Shiki is the only one—aside from Sakki—that didn't treated her like some sort of a God. He treat her like she's just another vampire, and that is the reason why she feel comfortable with him, despite only meeting him for a few hours.

The pureblood blinked three times, then cursing herself mentally. He's right! She's not the only vampire living here! She could always ask somebody, and due to the somebody's respect, they would surely escort her to her room, that for unknown reasons, sounded so appealing right now. She sighed, again, then look straightly at her cousin, even though the latter didn't really know that he is her cousin. "Do you know where my room is, Shiki-san?"

He nodded, and walked ahead of her down the carpeted hall. She took it as a gesture to follow him, and stepped behind him. He stopped in front of a room with double doors, similar to Kaname's, just slightly smaller. He gestured that the room is hers, making her cautiously open the door. "Thank you, Shiki-sa—"

"Just Shiki is fine, Hashizuka-san." She was bewildered by how Shiki addresses her, but let him call her anything he wants. It will be weird if he called her Kuran, after all. And she liked how he didn't really call her with sama or other annoying honorifics that she had become accustomed to.

Hashizuka nodded, smiling. Her anger was already dissipated into thin air. "Thank you, Shiki."

He nodded, then turn to leave to his own room. She stepped inside of her room, immediately falling for the beige-colored bedroom.

The room was painted with beige color, and on the top of the walls are painted black with the form of ribbons. The room was not as wide as Kaname's, but it was, indeed, large. There is a window, covered shut with Prussian blue curtains. There was also a king-sized bed with white sheets and black blanket, both being her favorite color. There are wooden bookshelves at the side of her room, complemented with midnight blue and black armchairs and an alice blue coffee table. There is also a private bathroom for herself to use.

She sighed throwing herself at the comfortable, bouncy bed. It was a long day indeed.

To Be Continued

A/N: Was it too short? I'm not really one to write long at such a short time:""" but I'm afraid if I don't update now it will be quite long until I could continue!:"D

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