Wow! It's been so long since I've updated this story! But I'm really excited for all of you to read this chapter! :)

P.S. This follows the plot of the revised version of my story. So if you haven't read this story in July 2011, be sure to read the first four chapters again before read this or it won't make any sense!

Thanks for all of your patience, guys!

Kuro-chan

Chapter Five: Hostage! 1

Two weeks later…

"You've already tried to take my blood once, you know?" Shiki was still struggling to prevent Rima from drinking his blood, but unfortunately, he was losing the battle.

Rima brushed her fangs along Shiki's veins and then kissed the hollow spot right below his jaw line. "Hmm? I don't remember…"

Shiki stroked Rima's hair, "That's because you were drugged."

Rima was barely paying attention as she licked the spot on Shiki's skin where she wanted to sink her fangs into. Shiki sighed. It wasn't in his nature to refuse Rima anything. So if she desired his blood, she was going to get it no matter how much Shiki was afraid of Rima's reaction to his lustful thoughts.

Carefully, Rima slid her fangs underneath Shiki's skin and began to take little sips of his blood. A groan of pleasure escaped Shiki's lips and his grip around Rima's waist got tighter.

Rima took a couple gulps of blood and she could feel the warm sweetness flow down her throat, pacifying its dryness. Then Shiki's thoughts began to flow into her mind. She saw herself from his eyes, looking up at him and laughing. She saw herself splayed out on his bed, breathing heavily and looking at him with hazy eyes. Then there was a memory of the two of them in a limo which puzzled Rima because she didn't remember this image.

Rima tore her lips away from Shiki's neck. "What memory was that, Shiki?"

Shiki instinctively licked off the blood that remained from Rima's feed. "That's when you first tried to take blood from me. Remember what I said about you being drugged back then?"

"Why were you holding back then?"

Shiki looked away from Rima's face, "Because you were still with Ichijou and I didn't want you to regret doing something with me when you were basically unconscious."

Rima felt a part of her heart open. "So," she whispered, "You held back your desires in order to make me happy?"

Shiki shrugged. "I guess if you put it that way."

"Shiki."

"Hmm?"

"I love you. More than anything."

Shiki smiled and pulled Rima into his arms. "I guess the feeling is mutual then."

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Two weeks ago…

Shiki was waiting with Ruka right outside the gate for their limo. It wasn't long before Kain appeared at Ruka's side, "Permission to explore granted by Kaname-sama. We are to defend ourselves if attacked but we are not to initiate any fights."

Shiki nodded. He was hoping fighting wasn't going to be needed to solve this problem, but when Rima's scent was picked up by Ruka in the garden, she claimed that there was someone else with her. And the dirt trail in the garden indicated that Rima was probably dragged away by force. There were also burnt areas in the garden, which meant that Rima had used her lightning for whatever reason. Shiki clenched his fist. Whoever did this to Rima was going to pay.

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Rima was distraught and confused after talking with Shiki. She took deep breaths to try and clear her mind but found that she had no luck in succeeding. Shiki liked her, as more than just a friend. Shiki liked her and that's all that mattered right now. But no matter how much the two could reciprocate each others' feelings, they could never be together…well, at least not right now since she was already with Ichijou.

She was playing with the petals of a daisy she had plucked off when a man's voice from behind alerted her that she wasn't alone in the garden. How much had she concentrated on Shiki to let her guard down?

"Well, well, aren't you a pretty little vampire?"

The voice was ominous which made Rima jump up to her feet. Her natural vampire instincts kicked in and she crouched low, as if to attack.

There were three men altogether, one of which was bald while the other two wore hats to cover their faces. All three had on long dark cloaks either for protection or intimidation.

"What do you want?" Rima flicked her fingers together to create a spark of lightning. She hoped her voice had a little bit of threatening edge to it.

"We're vampires who are against the monarchial control of the Kuran clan. We're here to take vampires from his faction one by one." The bald man answered with an evil smirk on his face. "We watched you with the other boy earlier. It looks like your lover abandoned you."

Rima pointed at the bald man and a streak of blue lightning flashed towards him. "Don't you dare talk about Shiki." The bald man spun out of the way to avoid being hit by the deadly electric current.

The three men positioned themselves in a triangular formation to surround Rima. "Girl," one of the black-hooded vampires snarled, "We're professionals at this. You'll only make it harder if you resist." He pulled out an old-fashioned katana while his comrade took out a handful of black needles that were at least five inches long each. The bald man in front of Rima produced a terrifying-looking whip.

Rima jumped high in the air and threw three bolts of lightning at the intruders. She wasn't going to go down without a fight. As she was landing, the bald man, who was best at dodging Rima's lightning strikes, flicked his whip up to capture Rima's right wrist.

Without warning, Rima was thrown to the ground with such force that her head spun. She grabbed the end of the whip that was still wrapped around her wrist and sent a huge wave of blue lightning to the bald man. This time, he had nowhere else to dodge and fell to the ground with an agonizing scream.

Rima turned around in time to face her second intruder, the one wielding the katana. She grinned to herself; how many times did she practice her fighting skills against Ichijou? And this man, compared to Ichijou, was like child's play. She managed to dodge the deadly blade consecutively and kicked the man in the stomach while sending her lightning through her feet.

Suddenly, she felt a piercing pain explode from her left arm. "Shit," she muttered to herself, "I forgot." She plucked the deadly needle from her arm and could instantly feel her blood flowing down her sleeve.

The man in front of her smirked and aimed three more needles for her. Rima spun out of the way just in time and found that her movements were getting sluggish. "Damn it," she cussed, "those weapons must have been poisoned."

The man with the needles overheard her and chuckled, "Not poisoned, drugged." And he was right, because the ground beneath Rima began to spin as she made one last attempt to her electric currents. The man dodged her attacks easily. Rima felt another needle hit her right thigh as she fell on her right knee. As she stretched out her fingers to make a lightning wall for defense, the dreaded whip wrapped itself around her, locking her arms to her body. She was trapped, and there was no one around to help her.

"Shiki," she whispered weakly.

The bald man took out an injection needle from his coat pocket and pierced it into Rima's skin. "This will make you more obedient."

And everything went black.

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"Okay," Kain laid out the map in front of Ruka and Shiki in the limo, "Kaname-sama said that Rima's captors live in an abandoned warehouse right behind the movie theater downtown. Here," Kain drew out another sheet of paper with the blueprint of the warehouse, "is where they hold Rima captive. Since we don't know which specific room Rima is in, I think it would be best if we could split up once we get there."

Ruka sighed, "Splitting up isn't usually a good idea. I mean, these are simple Level C vampires, but they were able to take Rima away by force. That means they must have some type of vampire drug."

"Then what do you propose?" Kain asked gently.

"We go in as a team, kill some of these disgusting Level C's, and then get Rima."

"Do you know how long that will take?" Kain sighed, "Rima might be dead by then."

Shiki, who wasn't planning to join this conversation, decided that he had to interfere here. "I think Kain's idea is the best. We should try to complete the mission as fast as possible."

Ruka scowled, "But what if the two of you get hurt? What do you want me to do, call for backup? Boys are so stupid…so reckless!"

Kain smiled at her, "Not unless we have antidote."

"What?" Shiki and Ruka voiced each other.

"Don't be funny Akatsuki, where could you possibly have gotten antidotes?" Ruka asked in disbelief.

Kain shrugged, "Kaname-sama said we might need them."

Shiki frowned, "Well, why didn't you tell us that earlier?"

"I didn't think we were going to need them until Ruka brought up the fact that they might have drug and…I wanted to hear what Ruka's plans were going to be." Kain looked a little embarrassed as he held up three small glass containers. He proceeded to hand one to Ruka and another to Shiki, leaving the last one for himself.

"You are so silly Akatsuki," Ruka rolled her eyes as she took her glass, but she looked just as red as Kain. "Let's get this over with."

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Ruka approached the abandoned building from the eastern entrance. Shiki took the western side, and Kain decided to just barge in through the front door.

Ruka surveyed her surroundings as she approached the east door. Giving the door knob a turn, she found that it was locked…of course. But that wasn't going to stop Ruka. The vampire took out a small bottle of nail polish remover and nail polish. She coated the handle of the door with a thin layer of nail polish and then emptied the entire bottle of nail polish remover on the door. She sighed, "What a waste…"

She then took out a packet of matches and lit the door on fire. As soon as the fire hit the door handle, it blew itself in. "Works like a charm every time." Ruka reached through the hole where the door handle used to be and let herself in. Before she stepped a couple of feet into the room, she came face to face with a vampire holding long black needles in his hands.

The man sneered, "Another girl, slave to that idiot Kuran. Would you like to join your friend?"

Ruka answered calmly, "I have no intension of doing so unless it is to rescue her."

"How were you able to get through the door?" The man glowered at her, but there was real curiosity and disbelief in his eyes.

Ruka stared him down. "It involves the process of thermodynamics and the chemical reaction of toluene and acetone. However, I don't believe your brain is intelligent enough to handle thermochemical stoichiometry, so we don't need to worry about how the door blew in. What we do need to worry about is the fact that the door did blow in and the fact that I'm going to kick your ass." She knew that she shouldn't cuss, as a noble daughter of the Souen family, but the man in front of her had just insulted Kaname so she let herself throw out some bad words. Besides, she was going to kill him anyways so it wasn't like he was going to find a way to report her inappropriate language to her mother.

"Well aren't you the arrogant little bitch? What makes you so sure you can defeat me?"

Ruka gave him a deadly cold smile, "Because I can make your worst nightmare come true."

The room around the man began to shift and Ruka disappeared from his sight. There were swords, knives, and weapons of all kinds circling him in arbitrary patterns. Without warning, the weapons began to attack him from all directions. He threw out his needles, but to no success. The objects were ripping him to pieces and he couldn't do anything about it.

"What is this?" The man screamed, but he was cut off by a blade slicing through him. "Where are you bitch? Come out and fight!"

From the side, Ruka watched as the man's screams echoed in the room. Eventually, she saw him fall to the ground clutching his sides as if in pain. She approached him slowly and finished him off with a swift cut from her small vampire knife.

Ruka suddenly felt Kain's presence approach her from the room to her right. She tensed, in case she needed to defend herself from an oncoming intruder, but as Kain walked into the room with an abnormally large yawn, Ruka relaxed her muscles. "Goodness, you scared me."

Kain didn't look damaged at all. In fact, he looked like he was ready to go to sleep. "I just burned up like fifteen guys. These people really think they're able to wield katanas? Wait until Ichijou hears about this." He tried to stifle a yawn. "How many did you take out?"

Ruka looked embarrassed, "Um, one?"

Kain shrugged, "You create illusions and mind-control. Those aren't very combat-type powers."

"Gee, thanks."

"We'd better hurry and get Rima. Shiki's basically ready to blow up this entire warehouse; he's pissed off."

"Oh?"

Kain laughed a little, "You blew up the door handle to get in and I just kicked open the front door. Shiki used his blood whip and tore down the entire western wall."

Ruka sighed, "He needs to learn to be more subtle…and so do you. What are the two of you trying to do? Attract enemy to yourself?"

Kain shrugged again, "You girls have your way and we have ours. At least we get the job done, so don't complain."

Okay, here's what pisses me off about writing fanfic stories: I have tons of people reading, adding my stories as favorites or alerts, but no reviews. Thus, I feel quite insulted. It takes me around five hours to write and edit each chapter and people refuse to spend 5 minutes to review.

If you read the story, please take the time to tell me what you think. I would always love to get feedbacks :)

P.S. I apologize for all the KainXRuka in the story! But I love them almost as much as I love ShikiXRima! :)