Kiss of a Vampire
"What is Ikuto's wish?"
Chapter Nine: Part II – The Move
"Ne, Amu, I have something to ask you."
I looked up to see him standing in the doorway. I had just woken up, makes me wonder how long he's been standing there. I hummed and nodded while rubbing sleep out of my eyes. He sauntered over and plopped himself on the bed. He stared far away for a little while, and then turned to me, his eyes clear. "How would you feel about moving?"
"UTAU! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Yukari barked, stomping after the golden haired singer. She turned innocently, looking at her manager, and waving before flipping around again and walking away. She continued on walking until she came to her house. Something was off, she could feel it. It had something to do with Ikuto, and she was pretty sure she knew exactly what it was.
She sighed heavily before grabbing her clothes and hastily shoveling them into a duffle bag. She was going to get to the bottom of this, before he could get away again.
Move? He wants to move? Why is he asking me though? "Um…well I don't … know?" I just looked at him confusedly. He smiled at my density, which I didn't like one bit.
"Let me explain then. Now that you are contracted with me, there's no need for us to stay here anymore. Besides that, I don't want you to be here when those around you pass, since we won't. I thought in the beginning that we might have to say you died, so your family at least has closure, but if you don't want to do that –"
"When you say leave here," I interrupted; I didn't necessarily want to hear the rest.
"I mean leave this world completely. We'll be going back to where vampires are supposed to be…I never really got permission to stay here for so long…"
"Oh wow…but there has to be another way than to fake my death. That would be horrible! Making my family mourn death that never even occurred… no, I won't do that."
"If you can come up with another plan, I'd be happy to hear it."
I sighed lying back, I had one alright, but I wasn't quite sure if it'd work. "Is it possible to go back and forth between Earth and this…place?" He nodded, his eye brows furrowed, thinking. "Well, if that's the case, we could just say I'm moving in with you, and come back every once and a while."
"That would work all except that you're only sixteen, Amu. Your family wouldn't let you run away with a twenty year old man, not to mention I could get arrested."
"We won't really be on Earth, who would arrest you? And besides, I was accepted into a boarding school in America a while back. We could just tell them I'm going there, and you're going to college, so…" He blinked owlishly at me.
"Why didn't you tell me that before?" He yelled playfully tackling me with a hard kiss. But when it ended he was serious again, "It's still a big decision, why don't you think on it a bit, ne?" I nodded, agreeing feverishly.
It had been half a day and I was still considering it. My mind, though, was made up from the beginning. How could I not want to go? He already said we would visit sometimes, but that when we did we'd have to disguise ourselves as older. I didn't care about that though. I would still be able to see my family and friends every once and a while, and besides that I'd be able to stay with Ikuto, who wouldn't have to worry about acting human anymore. Not to mention, I wanted to know what this vampire world thing was.
I was so wrapped in thought I didn't even see Ikuto standing in the doorway, which is pretty hard to miss since the room is white and he's quite tall – not to mention clad in black. When I finally came to, it gave me quite a start. He grinned at me, a bright red apple in his hand. "You're going to hurt yourself if you think that hard." I just stuck my tongue out at him, aggravated that my headache was so amusing.
"Here," he said holding up the apple, "Let's play a game."I looked at him quizzically.
"A game?" he nodded. "With an apple?" He smirked dangerously. Oh boy.
Utau stomped up to Ikuto's "house". More like his shack, but it was contemporary so whatever. He was probably planning to go back soon anyway; he was already in trouble with the Council for staying on Earth so long. The Hunters have probably been complaining since so many of them have been on Earth. She was no vampire, but she knew the drill. So she stomped inside the coffee shop before walking back to his house. You had to transport by night, and man was she tired.
She was also trying hard not to focus on her poor manager, who will most likely freak out when she learns her client has gone missing. But whatever, this was more important. Although they weren't blood related, due to their shared…predicament, Ikuto and Utau still thought of one another as siblings, they had grown up together after all.
So she stomped right inside, black duffle in her right hand, and mocha latte in her left, but nearly dropped both at what she saw. At first she thought it was rape, but when Ikuto unlatched his mouth from the half eaten apple and said something about impoliteness she figured he was just being a friking pervert. Poor Amu sat on her haunches facing him, she popped the apple out of her mouth and into her hands, juice still running down her chin and onto her rumpled tank top. Utau and Amu both were blushing madly.
Ikuto wasn't flustered at all, but angry that his little "game" had been ruined, just when it was getting good.
Well, that was certainly something, I thought while Utau played with my hair – both of us still a little embarrassed. I admit it probably looked pretty bad, since she couldn't see the apple at first, but even after she did, she seemed a little ruffled. I can tell how this situation would be quite awkward, as if her "brother" and her best friend hooking up wasn't enough; she walked in on us doing something that probably gave her the wrong idea. "Why are you even here?" Ikuto groaned walking in and flopping onto a chair – because Utau made sure to take up all the extra bed left.
"I'm going with you."
"What? No!"
So she did know? Well then…
"It will only be for a little bit! I need to check back in with the Council, and I want to see Kazuka, then I'll be coming right back. I'm starting a new CD, remember? Besides, I'd need your help to get there anyways, might as well just tag along." Ikuto grumbled to himself a bit before agreeing. I didn't care either way, and Utau was pretty happy.
"For your information," Ikuto started slyly, obviously still trying to shake her off, "Amu doesn't know if she even wants to go yet so-,"
"No, I'm sure we should go." He looked at me, completely defeated. "But it will take some time to convince my parents its ok; I mean they haven't seen me in days since I've been "sleeping at a friend's house". I don't want them to get suspicious." Ikuto nodded, obviously torn between being happy that we were going to live together and aggravated because she'll be there as well.
My parents were thrilled that I'd be going to the school. Apparently it was a very good one, too bad I won't be learning anything. Well anything about humans. We set the date to leave, pretending to buy plane tickets for a night three days from today, and I began to pack. Ikuto said to bring everything I wanted for the rest of my life, because although we'd be coming back, it'd be weird if I was always bringing crap back with me. He assured me that this place – which I hadn't heard the name of yet – was almost exactly like Earth, only more dangerous. Well, not for me, except for people who hated Ikuto – I'm sure there are a lot of those. I was worried about being eaten, but Utau explained that the Contract makes it illegal for anyone but Ikuto to even touch me in a way that isn't friendly.
Utau was the Contractee to a vampire named Kazuka, who was also one of Ikuto's good friends. They were actually a few years older than both Ikuto and I (obviously). Apparently that whole "I'm in love with my brother" was just a ruse to aggravate my boyfriend to the deepest levels: it worked.
So when the night came, I said goodbye to my family, Rima, and Kukai – who were the only friends I really cared about- and we set out. Ikuto was going to college at a university near the school, and Utau was going to meet a company about her new CD, so naturally we all decided to go together. It was a pretty good plan if I may say so myself. So we left, actually just going back to Ikuto's place.
When we got there he drew a weird symbol on a large mirror in the living room. After saying something under his breath, it began to glow and we walked through. As I passed through it, everything felt cold, like water rushing over you. I could feel it on every strange of hair. It was thrilling and scary at the same time. Once on the other side, I read the sign in front of me and held back laughter at the tackiness of it all – no wonder no one wanted to say what it was called.
Welcome to Transylvania.
Coming in the next chapter: Vampire World
"It's like Wal-Mart, only with Vampires." Man, we haven't even been here for a week and things are already getting weird! Who's this big Council I keep hearing about? And I thought things would calm down from now on…Nah, that'd be way too easy.
WHOO! It is DONE! You know, I'd planned to prolong it and make this story end with Amu being turned over, but screw that. It'd be wayyy too much like Twilight, and WAY too easy for our favorite little SC! Characters :3
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