BLOOD+ The New Generation
Chapter II
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An hour had gone by, but the battle was over inside.
Kanai stood, panting with sword in hand, and bright blood glowing eyes. She stood with Hagi at her side, eyeing the blood stained sword.
"You need more practice..." Hagi said, looking away.
Kanai dropped down and leaned on one knee, "I know..." she answered, looking up.
She smoothed her medium long hair, "I need... more blood..." she clenched her throat in agony. Blood was always the problem with Kanai, ever since she was little, and she didn't even make her first chevalier... mainly because she wasn't ready and she never had gotten close to anyone but Saya's old family and her cousins.
Hagi withdrew a dagger from his pocket and sliced a cut into his arm down the line of the vain.
"Here," he said, watching Kanai desperatly claw her nails into his arm and swallow down the blood. "When you drink a chevalier's blood, drink small amounts. Do not drink and stop whenever you're satisfied-"
"I understand," Kanai drew off, and sank her fangs back into her gums. She looked around. The dead body of a half transformed chiropteran was lying on the floor. Her heart sank, "Mr. Daniel was pretty weak when fighting... I still believe he was holding onto part of his sanity..."
"Yes. When a human is infected with chiropteran blood, they will go into a bit of a trance, then they... lose their sanity. Sometimes part of it." Hagi explained, helping Kanai to her feet.
Kanai swallowed, "Did mom come across these half humans a lot?"
Hagi was silent, but drew his eyes away, "Yes. Always."
Without hesitating, the young girl knelt down to the man who had been infected and set a hand on his. He was free...
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It was Kai who awoke Kanai one morning, showing her what had been mentioned in the news. Of course, Kanai's duty was to keep track of everything that went on in the world.
She picked up the paper:
"NEWS: MURDER FOUND AT OKINAWA HIGH SCHOOL, ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS CRIME SINCE YEARS AGO IN THE EARLY 2000s"
With her eyes glowing blood red, Kanai hissed at the read. "Is it a chiropteran?" she asked herself.
Kai put a hand on her shoulder. "The same incident when your mother suffered from amnesia. Keep reading."
"'Kay." Kanai picked up the newspaper and read even closer.
"Student Sako Tamaki had been on her way to the school late one night to pick up her papers from a teacher. The teacher left for a couple of minutes to allow her to pick up her papers, but when Miss Tamaki returned outside; he was found with numerous of cuts and wounds all over his body. In shock, Tamaki raced from the scene..."
Kanai turned the page...
"... and ran straight to the police. With struggle, Tamaki explained what had happened and evidence show that she was not involved with the murder. The man was drained of blood when he was found."
"It's a chiropteran, I'm sure. I'll go down there before anyone arrives and investigate."
"Kanai, you can't leave-"
"I don't need Hagi's permission. He can take a chill pill until I get back. Don't rat on me, Kai!" Kanai said, taking her mother's katana from the little case Hagi kept.
Kai groaned, Saya wouldn't dare ditch... I guess that's one quality she carries from her father... like I could care what he was like.
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Her eyes roamed the dark morning, and with the trenchcoat, Kanai was hidden with the dark. She slipped into the hidden brick enterance, some students had built to sneak pass the gates, and walked beside the murder scene area.
"Eureka..." she smiled mischeviously and bent low. Her nose sniffed the floors, and the scent of blood from a human came to her. Kanai ignored it carefully and found the scent of chiropterans. Two. But one smelled... strange... as if it shared relative blood...
"Hm..." Kanai pulled her arm out and drew blood. She let it spill onto the stone floor at the side, it was her own investigation and with perfect eye sight, the trail of the chiropterans were visible to her. But something bothered her.. there were human footsteps... was it a chiropteran in disguise?
"Of course!" she watched the trail die away, the chiropterans must have taken flight.
Kanai smirked, "You're not getting away from me." she said, now sniffing the air above the footsteps. The scent was still a little fresh, yet faint, but she knew that the chiropterans were headed north.
The Queen leaped onto the brick wall and followed the smell. But she was interrupted when a her cousin showed up. "Kanai?"
Kanai wiped around, "Eva?" embarressed, she covered her nose, a smear of blood was on it.
The girl, Eva, giggled. Kai had described, both she and her sister sounded like their father Riku, but a little bit like Diva sometimes. Kanai thought they had a cute voice though.
They weren't as deadly as Kanai looked or seemed, Eva and her sister Iva were sweet and more human-like.
Kanai guessed it was because they were raised to be like that by Kai, and both of the twins hated war and violence. That's why Kanai had to cover herself from them most of the time. Luckily Iva wasn't around, because she fainted from the sight of blood... unlike Eva who was calm but uneasy at certain times.
"What are you doing out so late?" Kanai asked, wiping off the blood.
Her cousin shrugged, "I just needed to go for a little walk."
"But, isn't it a school night for you?"
Eva froze, "Oh..."
Kanai grinned, but continued sniffing. Even though Eva and Iva were much older, Kanai had a part in playing older cousin-sister since their mother Diva was the little sister in the twin relationship. And they both happen to respect their aunt Saya, someone the twins remember exactly.
"Hey," Kanai looked down at Eva, her bright blue eyes shimmering in through the night. "Why won't you join school?" she asked.
Kanai frowned, "I have too much work to do here... It's complicated also."
Eva smoothed her long flowing hair, "It's not fun when you're not around to play... I still look thirteen because I'm not mature like you and I don't want to grow any older than that. We're chiropterans, Kanai-"
"And you know how much it annoys me to hear that." Kanai looked away.
"Yeah?" Eva tried to smile, but Kanai's fifteen year old appearance and her bright red eyes made her give up. "I guess... I'm sorry. But, just so you know, your mom is just as beautiful as you are and she wanted us to cheer you on. Only, she wanted you to spend time with family once 'n awhile and never let those stupid government agents take control over you too much." Eva explained.
Kanai looked downward, her eyes became invisible, with Eva standing there holding an umberella in her hand. Her beautiful silk blue dress blowing with the night wind.
"Eva! Don't wonder off on your own!" called a young boy about nine years old.
The red-eyed Queen turned to see the gothic lolita dressed male come racing up to Eva. Her chevalier... He looked to Kanai but turned away immediatly.
The other Queen frowned, he was a chevalier she had made when she was just a small girl. This chevalier, Jamie as he was called, was Eva and Iva's playmate through preschool. But, ironicly, he broke his neck from falling off the roof of the school. Apparently, he was showing off in front of Eva. Iva never earned his interest, but she had considered him cute only once.
"Eva..." Jamie tugged on Eva's dress, a little embarressed that he no longer felt the same feeling for her in the past.
Eva groaned, "All right. Jamie, take me home, please. I should get going anyway..."
"Fine." Kanai shrugged.
Jamie led the way slowly, but Eva stopped. "And Kanai,"
"What?" she spoke.
"... You look like your dad, honestly. But in the sunlight, you look like your mom. When you fight, your just both. I guess if you let your hair grow out and straighten it... you'd look like him..." Eva grinned, disappearing into the night with her chevalier.