Last chapter! I feel accomplished. Yay. This the end! *dramatic music plays* Feel free to read any or ALL of my other work, too! No pressure...hehe...*PRESSURE PRESSURE CRUSHING PRESSURE*
"Ruka?" You awake?" Rima popped into her joint dorm, directing her comment to her - oh, she's sitting up in her bed, I guess she's awake - roommate, Ruka.
Ruka looked up from the laptop in her - well, lap - and smiled brightly. "Good evening, Rima! Are you off to your shoot?"
"Yeah. Aren't we jolly today?" Rima cocked an eyebrow. "Everything all right? You're not all freaked out over nightmares..."
"Oh, that," Ruka scoffed and waved a hand in nonchalance. "I've got that covered. I'll be fiiiiiine."
"..." The pig tailed vampire look quizzically at her caramel haired friend.
"What?" Ruka asked with a sneaky grin. She knew 'what' .
Rima peered behind her out the door to check the hallway. When the coast was clear, she eagerly leaped for the foot of Ruka's bed and sat cross legged, eyes sparkling and eager.
"Dude, is it true?"
"Since when have you ever called me dude, Rima? When have you ever called anyone - "
"SO NOT THE POINT!"
"...Sorry..."
"Well, is it, thought?"
"Is what?"
"What they're saying?"
"Who's 'they'? I still don't know what 'what' is!!"
"DID YOU AND KAIN KISS?!?!"
"...I think I'd rather be in the nightmare right now..."
"Aw, you're no fun." Rima pouted and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Rima?" A familiar classmate of theirs with a distinct auburn mop leaned in the dorm doorway. "Sorry to ruin you're little chat, which I'm sure must be very important to, oh, the future of our race or something..."
"Right! You have to go! Well, see ya, Rima!" Ruka was extatic to push the smaller blond from her bed.
Once the models left, Ruka returned to her Google search. Ways to fall asleep when you're not tired. How to make yourself fall asleep. Can I force myself to sleep? Ruka had become suddenly aware that, well, since waking up oh, less than an hour ago from her last dream, she wouldn't be tired enough to sleep again until the next night.
Well, shit,
she had thought, that's pretty inconvenient. I want to get this over with NOW!
"Hey." spoke a husky, warm voice. Ruka looked up from the screen to the doorway where people kept appearing suddenly.
"Kain."
"Ruka."
"..."
"..."
"Last night was..."
"Different..."
"To say the least."
"Yeah."
Ruka blushed and tried to ignore it. "Are we still good? We're cool, right?"
"Oh yeah, deffinitely."
"..."
"..."
"Y'know, being cool with it doesn't mean we have to forget it happened."
"Of course."
"...You don't want to forget it happened, do you?"
"No." He smiled. "Never."
She copied his face and extended an arm in his direction. "C'mere."
He went to the beckoning hand and took it in his, sitting on the matress and pulling her playfully into his lap. He gazed over her shoulder at her interweb search.
"Ways to fall asleep? Um, tire yourself out, maybe."
"I want to sleep now, thought."
"...Nyquil, then?"
"Kain!"
He laughed. "Sorry. Had to say it."
"I'm not drugging myself to get to sleep!"
"I know, I know! It was a joke Ruka."
"...It wasn't funny."
"Okay, so what's your plan, then? Do you want me to get you some coffee or something?"
"...Won't that keep me awake, Kain?"
"Not if you load it with sugar."
"You're making absolutely no sense."
"If you get your bloodsugar-" He took a second to process that delicious sounding remark. "soaring high, when it crashes, maybe you'll be tired enough to sleep."
"...Oh. - OH! That's actually...not a bad idea. Sure Atkatsuki, I'd take a coffee."
"Well alright then." He gently slid her back out of his lap and stood from the bed. "Be right back." He leaned in to peck her on the cheek, then casually strolled out the dorm door.
That kid was faaaaaaast.
"Did that even take you a minute?" Ruka asked as Kain apparated in the doorway very soon after he had left.
"Nah, 50 seconds, at the most." He joked, walking across the room to hand her the hot drink.
They did loads of things to waste time, trying to get Ruka to peak in hyperness so that the crash would be brutal. They talked for a while, then took a long walk throughout the moon dorm, then jogged around the moon dorm, woke up Hanabusa from his beauty sleep and ran for it when he started cursing and throwing things. The entirety of their adventures didn't take long, only about 20 minutes, before they returned to Ruka's dorm. It was nearly 8 p.m.
"Phew! I think it worked, Atkatsuki! I'm actually kind of beat!"
"Told you."
"I never would have thought of that; coffee to help you sleep."
"Surprise." he grinned and playfully pushed her towards her bed. "Get under the covers, you."
She did as she was asked, taking off only her uniform coat and shoes and keeping on her skirt and shirt and socks. She laid down flat and glared up at the white ceiling.
"I'm not asleep." She announced.
"Yeah, I can see that. Try closing you're eyes."
She did.
"I'm still awake."
"Take deeper breaths."
She did.
"Kain-"
"Relax. Clear your mind."
She...tried to.
"I'm sleepy, but I just can't seem to -"
Her words were extinguished as her lips were covered by his. She still wasn't used to this. This whole touchy-feel-friends-with-benefits thing with Kain. If you could even call it that.
Not saying she didn't enjoy it.
When her lips were her own once more, she popped open an eye.
"No." He instructed.
"Fine." She sighed and reclosed. "Hey, I think this is starting to work." She yawned, as if on cue.
"Do you think you'll be awake for one more moment?
"Whatever."
"Well, would you let me ask something?"
"Shoot."
"I understand it's probably not a simple as this, but...in your dream, why don't you just run? Can't you just get up and boot it out of there to a safe place?"
Eyes still closed, Ruka smiled. "Where would I go? What would I do? Who would I get for help, Kiryu?" She rolled over under the covers to hide her soft snickering. "It's more serious than just running, they'd all still be dead. And it's so real, you don't have time to react. Sometimes you're body just won't move. Sometimes...sometimes you can't run. You understand that, Kain, right? I'm not crazy, and I'm not a coward. I just...can't leave when I'm in the dream."
It was quiet for a bit. "I do. I do understand." He whispered.
He waited and waited, so see if she would respond. She didn't stir. She didn't move.
"Goodnight, Ruka, my love," Kain quietly rummaged though his pants pockets until he found the item her was looking for. He pulled out a small vile and read the warning labels.
WARNING, Niquil may cause drowsiness or exhaustion. Do not operate heavy machinery while on Niquil. Niquil ensures a good night's sleep to sufferers of the common cold, the flu, mononucleosis...
"Sorry it had to be like this, Ruka," He chuckled. "But it worked."
Her fifth crimson sky was as eerily beautiful as the previous four, but she didn't notice. Her classmates were dispersed in different places, but she didn't care. No one was there to haul her feet out from under her, and she hardly realized it. All that was in Ruka's sights was him. The great, bloodstained pureblood...bastard.
Ruka stomped across the courtyard, not limiting herself at all. She had no cowardice in her heart. Kaname seemed surprised at first, but a creepy smile spread over his face as she neared him.
"Good evening, Souen."
"Oh, shut up, Kaname."
"My my, the vermin talks back tonight."
"I said shut up!" She took a large step closer to him, make the gap in between less than 2 feet. "Listen, you great pompous douche, I'm done with you. You're visions, you're reign, everything. When I wake up from this, you'll have lost a very valuable follower. Leave me the hell alone already."
"Don't you DARE talk to my onii-sama like that, you WHORE!" The petite brunette Yuuki suddenly appeared, wrapped around her brother's arm.
Ruka glared at her. "That goes for you took, you little cunt."
Yuuki growled deep in her throat, and made a move away from her brother, as if she was going to jump Ruka, but Kaname stopped her.
Kaname smiled and, quicker than Ruka's reaction time, whipped a hand up to her face. He cupped her chin and smirked, boring straight into her eyes. "Ouch. My heart."
"Don't touch me." She jerked out of his grasp, but her only retorted in ensnaring her wrist. She wrestled for freedom again.
"Whilst I have you here, let me ask you, Ruka..."
"I don't have to answer to you -"
"Yet somehow, I think you will." His grin widened, and Ruka tried not to think of what passed through his triwsted hind and he grappled her wrist firmer, pulling her to him slightly. "When did I lose you, Souen? What made you decide to -" He tugged her suddenly, causing her to stumble forwards over a corpse and land land on his front, faces just passing each other. His lips drew to her ear. "Leave me?"
She halted her infernal struggling and glanced up to the bloody clouds. "Tactics like this, Kaname, dirty ticks like this."
She could feel his smirk beside her cheek.
"Whatever will I do without slutty Souen as a pawn?"
"I know what you can do, sire," A distinct click of a pistol cocking snapped behind Kaname. "Go to Hell."
BAM.
Kaname was still smiling as his body went limp and heavy on Ruka, her arm slipping from his grip as he hit the ground. His fall to death revealed Kain, uniform and firey hair now splattered in the pureblood's priceless blood, only feet behind his body, Bloody Rose in hand.
Ruka smiled at her new found lover as he turned the vampire weapon to Yuuki, frozen in place with a glance at her dead brother.
Th little bitch sunk to her knees at her brother's side and wept before another shot rang through the night.
Her eyes flickered open as she stirred happily. It's over. They're done. Finally. And it was so easy! She breathed in, rubbing her eyes, then stretching her arms as she sat up a little.
Her fingers brushed a certain softness, unlike the fabric of her sheets or the stiff wood of her head board. It felt like, almost, maybe, no...
Hair?
"Kain? Is that you?" He must have stayed after I fell -
A gurgly, desperate murmur sounded far from her bed, in the opposite direction of what her hand was on.
In the mere split seconds before bursting her eyelids open, she strung her fingers down the strands at her fingertips.
This hair was much too long to be Kain's.
Now her eyes were open. Across the dorm room, in the corner by Ruka's computer desk was dear Atkatsuki, bound tightly in white ropes and gagged. Behind him - oh, behind him, grinning wildly, eyes ablaze, was the brunette bitch herself.
Kain grunted eagerly under the gag, eyes brimmed with horror as he motioned with his gaze for Ruka to look...just...beside her...
Ruka gulped and slowly turned her head to her outstretched hand. A cold bed of sweat ran down her back. Her lips trembled, too afraid to let out even a whispered scream at what - who she saw laying beside her, arm around her, on her bed.
"Why, good evening," His enchanting smile glittered, like the white inscissors visable through his slightly opened lips. His long, dark hair hung around his face and smoldered his crimson eyes. Like the nightmarish sky, Ruka was reminded.
He leaned into her, forcing Ruka flat on the bed as she tried so aimlessly to lean away. So now, it seemed, he was looming over her on the mattress, a hand beside either of her shoulders.
"This is for leaving me, Souen." He enclosed upon her, lunging down for her throat as he pulled back his lips and his fangs bared.
Kain screamed under the muffling gag and fought violently against the bindings. Behind him, watching both scenes with excitement and enjoyment, Yuuki giggled at his struggle.
Ruka's mind throbbed and her eyes burned, along with her neck. She could feel the blood being pumped and pulled from her arteries - her heart - as the powerful, insane, beautiful vampire drained her of life.
He dropped her when she was well to be done for, smiling down at her as her empty body began to quake. Her lifeless gaze was fixed upon her bound lover, seething and frothing with nothing minutely less than pure horror.
Kaname layed down on her a last time. "Sweet dreams." He chuckled, pressing his soaked crimson lips on hers just as her breathing finally stopped.
*smiles evily* Yes, yes that did just happen. Mwah ha ha ha. You'll be looking over your shoulder ever night in bed now, no?
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