Tsuki's POV
I guess I got jealous. I thought as I stared at the ceiling. My workplace was the perfect place to trek through the boxes and tumble down if you forgot about your wings. Every hour, there was a new box of sheets waiting for me to organize. As if it wasn't bad enough, Vidka refused to help me.
But... I kept thinking back of when I was first assigned to Kyoko.
*Flashback*
"What?.!" I screamed. I looked at the folder, thinking that this was so unreal. "Why do I have to have a victim?"
"Because," Vidka sighed, flapping the folder for me to take it. I refused, "you kept sucking too many souls and you haven't even bother to have a victim yet."
"Because I don't want a victim! They would just slow me down if I got thirsty for some souls." I glanced at the folder, cursing its existence and how Vidka held it like a delicate leaf. One crush and it would no longer be new.
"Fine!" I muttered loudly, snatching it out of her hand. "This person better be..." Silently, my eyes screeched to a halt.
On the information paper, it read: MOGAMI KYOKO
"Kyoko... that's the name of that little girl! She even has the same golden eyes!" I gasped. "I get to see her again?"
Vidka, confused at my sudden happiness, peered her head to see the photo. "Oh... I remember you talking about her about... 10 years ago?"
"12 years..." I corrected her.
"Riigghht... Anyway, it doesn't really matter since she never saw you. The best you might get out of her is her thinking you are her fairy prince," she pointed out.
She looked at me glaring at her, with piercing cold eyes, and backed away. "Whatever. Just make sure she lasts longer since I remember how your appetite got bigger when I got too many victims each year. Instead of 1, I had about 1000 and what did you do? You ate 90% of what I could've had for lunch." Combing her bangs, she clucked her tongue, shaking her head. "Make sure this one lasts longer, 'kay?" she repeated.
Feeling like this was a nagging mother, I nodded. "Yes, mo-ther."
I snapped my fingers for the entrance of Earth to appear. Apprehensive, all I heard when I stepped into the door was Vidka squealing with glee at my sarcastic sentence of calling her my "mother".
*End of Flashback*
When I think about, she was the only one that I wanted for my victim. Well, other than Ren but because I saw the two when I was 10, I always wanted to meet them again, not knowing that I would in the future.
As I was blinking intermittently, almost forgetting when to blink when I was quickly scanning the names on the crispy, white page, Vidka yawned, breaking my concentration.
I swirled in my chair, also getting annoyed at its pinkness and the chartreuse colour on the doily I was sitting in. I mean, seriously, did the Big Boss really want me to drown in all of this girliness?
"If you aren't going to help, then get out!" I cried out, twitching in my seat. Did the chair had to be with pink fuzz?
Holding back the laughter, Vidka blurted out, "But you look so cute when you are determined in a girl's room! I just have to stay with my son to see this."
"For the last time, I am NOT your son and never will be! And- hey, where did you get that orb?"
Vidka was rolling around a sphere-like object, rolling it in her palm. Grinning, she replied, "Oh, just wondering what Keiko is doing."
I groaned. "Vidka, you just want to see what Ren is doing, aren't you?"
Not surprised at my explanation, she continued to roll it in her palm. "Yeah, yeah... But I am not like those fans that want to just touch him or make him look at in the eye. I just want to see what your twin is up to."
Again, she said twin. After the revelation of who Kuon was to me, she stopped saying twin but bothered me the most with the word "brother".
Before I could go over there and smash the orb, it started to glow. "OH! I got a signal! Hey, do you want to see?"
I shook my head and whirred myself back to the desk. I still had... a hundred stacks of papers to go. If I finish this one now, I could finish the rest of my work in two days rather than a week.
"No thanks. I don't want to become some surveillance camera, looking at my bro-," I choked, "I mean, Ren's moves." I almost said "brother"... I almost said "brother"... I thought as I rocked in my chair, wishing it was a rocking chair so I wouldn't worry of falling over with this swirly chair. Still, why did the Big Boss place me in a girl's environment? WHY?.!
As I was muttering curse words to our god, wishing his punishment was like drowning myself in the sea rather than in pink, Vidka gasped.
Letting out an enormous sigh, maybe one that could fit in a giant's hand, I turned to see a red faced Vidka.
She was stammering inaudible words; heck, were they even words?
I couldn't see what she was looking at because the orb wasn't able to show from the back or the sides, only the front. It was like a piece of paper. You can't read the sides and you can't read from the back since they wouldn't have the print of what was on the front. Unlike human fortunetellers who had a glowing orb for everyone to see at all sides, this one only was able to let the person in front to see.
Sighing for the, what, sixth time?, I walked over and looked at what was all the fuss about. It was rare to see Vidka blush for something other than me accidentally calling her my mother or me looking all cute when I wake up in the morning.
What I laid my eyes on, I didn't want to see again. Fast like lightning, I snapped my fingers for a door to appear so I could get to Earth. Yanking the knob sharply, almost tearing it off from the complicated door, I shouted over my shoulder, "Can you do my work while I'm gone? And turn that orb off if you are going to blush like a tomato!", and fell into the starry space. Ignoring the steps that I could've took, I immediately opened my wings and looked at the round ball that humans call "Earth". I had to go to Japan since what I saw on the orb:
Was Keiko and Ren kissing each other.
Ren's POV
Hearing her snap her fingers and saying she got rid of all the goop and smells out of my kitchen, I went to check if this was true. Looking out the door from the guestroom, I saw no remaining smoke or green slime coming out from the sink (how does porridge get green anyway?).
I patted her head when I got back, saying a job well done. She then mewled, curling her fingers and tilting her head so I could pat more of her head.
As I was finished feeding her the porridge I so desperately tried to make, I suddenly got a hug from her. Surprised, I thought that was her way of thanks and hugged her back. My response to that?: a nuzzle in the chest. Keiko licked my cheek, flapping her ears and laying her tail on my lap until she pushed me onto the floor.
Surprised at her actions, I was too slow to react when she laid a kiss on my lips. It was so soft how her lips were. I was blushing like mad and she must've felt it since she had her hands on my cheeks. I also wanted to kiss her back but decided to kiss her on the cheek, just to be on the safe side.
Except, that wasn't enough for her. I immediately found my lips on hers, but this time, I was kissing her back. I was surprised at how her tongue got entrance but licked her back as I began to taste more of her.
I soon found my back on the floor kissing her while she was on top of me. We would spend minutes kissing each other before surfacing back for more air. I felt like I was in paradise. Even though Keiko didn't remember herself as Kyoko, this was still Kyoko kissing me.
But, I kept hearing this hissing sound every time I kissed Keiko; my body began to go cold and limp. Then, I suddenly remembered:
*Flashback*
"Why do you always call me a victim?" I questioned, tilting my head. I touched the arm of the couch and sat next to her quietly.
"Because if we don't like the people we are assigned to," She licked her lips in a seductive way, "we suck their soul out."
I shivered. "Then do you hate me?"
Keiko glanced over. "Nope! Since you gave me something yummy!"
"That's good..."
"But be careful! Tsuki hasn't let a single one of our victims live! He just bites them like a vampire but instead of blood, he drinks their soul! Even if they aren't our victims, he still does it if he gets thirsty."
"I see..." I sweated. "And you?"
"Nope! Since I can't bear any fangs..."
I pictured her licking her plump lips before touching them innocently. Oh, how my mind could go on how she would look like in my dreams but... she didn't look so innocent. Her eyes sharpened, wings larger, and her tail lashed back and forth.
"A kiss on the lips is enough for me."
*End of Flashback*
Terrified, I tried to rip my lips off of hers. No matter how good she tasted, there was no way I was going to risk my soul off to her.
Even if it was to the girl I love.
Who knew that kisses were so deadly?
Keiko's POV
As he dipped his tongue to the far back of my mouth, my lungs were at their limit. I just had to break free but... I wanted to kiss him a little longer. Even if he already loved someone else, to kiss him like this meant he loved me, not her.
But was that true?
Surprised, my eyes widened to see the darkness again. All this time, I was kissing him but I never knew how his warmth was draining. I felt warm but him? Not so much. He felt like an icicle rather than the warm man I was hugging earlier.
Uh oh. Did I just...
"REN!" I shook his shoulders, feeling him flop up and down. He was very limp right now. "YOU AREN'T DEAD ARE YOU? SPEAK TO ME!"
I gripped onto his shirt and cried on his chest. "I SHOULDN'T HAVE KISSED YOU! PLEASE DON'T-"
"Die? I'm not dead yet. Don't kill me off like that."
Gasping, I looked up. I couldn't see him but I could feel his smile shining through the black.
He was alive.
HE WAS ALIVE!
"REN!" I hugged him. My tears were streaming through, covering my cheeks with salty, wet tears. I felt him wipe them off but he seemed to be having a hard time doing that simple task. I must've taken too much of his soul.
"I'm sorry I did that, Tsuruga san." I crawled off of his lap and bowed into a dogeza. "I am such an ungrateful kohai..."
This time, I felt a weight cast over my head.
WHAT DID I JUST SAY?.!