Silence is golden… well, most of the time.
Author: Suryallee
Rating: T, Mature for later chapter's contents!
Parings: Rido Kuran/Senri's mother, Sayori / Senri Shiki others
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight and its characters nor the Manga or the story.
Authors note: This is a un-beta fic, Sorry for the grammar and spelling: I am native German, please be kind.
Warning: m/f. if you have a trouble with such pairings, please leave now.
Story: Takes place in the Rido ark, with slight twists.
Summary: A simple twist in the original storyline and Rido kidnaps Sayori. The repercussions are strange to say at last and give way to an unknown love for Yori in the end.
This will be the last update today, sorry, have to go to bed now. Good night everyone and let me know what you think, ok ^^
Suryallee
Chapter eight
Rido who unexpectedly fell onto the unused side of her bed startled Yori so much that she instinctually hit him with her latest tome over the head.
His surprised "OUWW!" had her giggle not much later.
She earned a light glare but he let it at that. he had startled her deliberately after all.
Pointing lazily at the book she held while rubbing his sore head Rido gave her a questioning glance.
"Learning the dance I see?" She nodded once and put it to her other side down onto the pillow that lay there. "I do. It has more steps, pirouettes and turns in rhythm and etiquette as expected but that is only predictable if one thinks about the matter at hand." She answered equally cryptic what made the Vampire laugh.
"Ah, Yori Chan. You are too well taught in eloquence as it seems. It makes sparring with you so entertaining! However, why the sudden interest?" She gave him one of her trademark calm looks that made Rido feel like a stupid acting child in under a minute. "Why, indeed…" He covered his discomfiture up with amusement and laughed again. He hated her strange effect on him. As far as Rido could tell, Yori was the only one that had ever managed to do so, and if he had any saying in this, she would stay the only one!
It was embarrassing and Rido did not like to feel like this, nor to have no control over it.
He made himself nonchalantly at home on her bed.
"So tell me, what have you learned so far." It wasn't a request, it was a clear demand. She humored him by doing so. That turned into an argument a short while later that drew Hitomi into the room and after a while Senri too.
The odd and now debating pair, wasn't exactly what he had in mind when he had given Yori the books, so much was sure! None the less the two were entertaining and her thoughts about his species and what seem to drive them was actually rather remarkable to hear. She had some really intriguing ideas and had seemingly sorted out a lot of the problems of the interactions between humans and Vampires on her own. Senri found himself listening to Rido and Yori after a while willingly.
None of the two gave in an spat but both stood their grounds in the debate they had running, neither did both ignore the value of the others mind or knowledge.
For the first time ever Senri saw another side on his father. One that had him fascinated in a short time. Rido actually did know a real lot when it came to his own kin and to humans. How surprising! His long live, no doubt but still, Senri had never given it a thought before and that was now ramming it home how little he knew about his own father.
"… You don't understand?" Yori shook her head and crossed her arms. "No. I don't. Why is it so necessary for you to use Blood to get your mind across? And keep in mind that I have not your senses nor your powers, Rido san. I am merely a human. We do not need to take to such extent to express our feelings and come across anyways." She scratched her head, a rare sign of Yori's confusion and silent anger to not get the problem that Rido had asked her about sorted out on her own.
The tall Vampire on her bed looked up at the crown of her bed deep in thought before he suddenly stood and pulled Senri from his chair to haul him into the space that he had just vacated.
He sat down next to the confused youths again without further ado.
"And so, your words explain why humans have so many problems with each other to begin with." He told the two as well as Hitomi who had silently moved closer to all three in the meanwhile.
The two had been on and off a debate about the use of Vampires to use blood to transmitter certain motives or simply emotions and thoughts via the liquid. It was fascinating to say at last. Also, she feared what Rido had in mind with it other as to apparently have finally found someone for once, who could keep up with his fast mind in such matters and discussions.
Suddenly Hitomi crawled onto the bed also and positioned herself between her son and the kind girl.
Rido did not seem to take notice, Yori and Senri on the other hand did.
"Hmm, lets see…" Suddenly he struck and bit his son right into the neck. The sudden cry was cut short and suddenly Senri seem to go limp in the grip that Rido had on him. after a moment his eyes did widen and Rido stopped his sudden attack again. One lick and the puncture wounds did close.
Giving his son a look he nodded his chin to Yori.
Senri rubbed his neck with a glower before he turned to Yori who was shielded somewhat from Hitomi from him.
"Uhh, he lets you know through me, that he thinks that you look from the wrong angle at the problem?" Yori looked at Senri with a wide eyed stare until she seem to calm again and think the words over. Finally she nodded to herself. "I see. At least I think I do." Her gaze met that of Rido again.
" So you are kind of telepathic in a way? And doing so establishes a kind of link that is necessary to transfer thoughts and such? Is that it? Is it really that simple brought down to it?" Rido gave her a slow nod. "Yup! I knew you would get it. Well, the gist of it, anyways, its much more and I think you got that too."
Their strange debate ended there for the day.
It left Yori in more thoughts to sort out in the near future. Leaving her alone after that, she took to read and study more. Before she went to take another nap.
In the early evening she was roused from a light slumber from screams coming from downstairs.
Warning, Violence after this, please do not read further if you cannot stomach that!
When she appeared downstairs Rido was just holding up a boy, of not more than ten years of age by the neck. The child sported a red cheek and looked near to fainting. Without to think, Yori took the letter opener on a nearby table and threw it at the Vampire to make him let go on the child.
The opener struck gold and went into the arm that held the crying boy. Letting go with a hiss Rido stopped his servants from attacking Yori and he grabbed the boy again only to toss him over at Yori roughly who instinctually caught him. Then Rido wrenched the dull blade out of his arm under the eyes of Senri who was in his mind hold and on his knees on his left side and could do nothing to prevent Rido from attacking Yori if he wanted.
Another hiss and it was turned and tossed and flying at the girl.
Against her will Yori raised her hand at the flying object instead to duck down, only to have it get stuck deeply in her own arm this time. She winced audibly but did not make more noises as that. Suddenly she was struck by a force that Yori could not explain. It held her painfully down on the floor and force her in under a second in a way into an uncomfortable kneeling and bowing position.
His voice washed over her.
"You will not try such a stunt again, Sayori! You are excused from further punishment only since I know that you acted on instinct here to safe the boy, nothing more. You will stay this way until I are finished here. You boy, be silent or I will really go and eat you!"
With that the agitated and already healed Vampire turned to an unknown man to kneeling to his right that Yori could barely see from her position on the floorboards. He looked somewhat familiar to her but she couldn't place the blond. Behind her, the scared boy had clutched at her shirt and was now whimpering almost wordlessly into it. His sobs slowly soaked her shirt but Yori did not mind.
Next to Rido, Senri was also in a kneeling position with his fists balled and a dark look in his eyes. They glowed unnaturally red and this shocked Yori even more if possible as the performance of Rido did it. She gulped and tried to concentrate on the other Vampire in the room again.
Hitomi was nowhere in sight.
"What did I tell you what I wanted you to do, Mijaka? What was it, tell me!" The Maid kneeled also in the line of sight of Yori. She was shaking badly and in front of Rido in the chair and Yori silently prayed for the servant woman's life.
"Master, you told me to search you a excellent cook, a few more servants and Maids, for a butler for you and the young master and for additional Maidservants for Mistress Hitomi and the young Miss. As well as for a proficient gardener."
Yori could practically hear Rido nod. "Exactly. So why was I brought a boy?" The Maid dared to look at the Vampire on Rido's left before she looked down again and did give her answer. "Lord Shiki Takahashi was told of your wishes as is it the norm, to bring me adequate choices from out of his house servants as it is the normal routine to do so.
Since he is your disciple as well as he is a Noble and my superior. He in turn brought me his choices to look at them and if they have the required references and skills to present them to you, Master. He also was the one who took the responsibility from me by force when I told him of your wishes and went to search for humans to be turned who have the preferred references by himself, when he found no one in his household to accommodate adequately to your wishes, Master."
Rido hummed a tune.
He fiddled with his sleeves.
Then Rido turned to look at a tapestry on the nearby wall.
Inspecting the nails on his now bloodied looking hand, he moved the other and hit the Maid soundly what send her flying through the room. At the same moment every servant in the room was also stuck by a unknown force that send them flying into the walls opposite to their former placing in the entrance hall.
A few more hits were delivered this way before all were yanked back into their former positions by invisible hands. All hurried to go back into position without being told so.
"I will not repeat myself so listen closely." His voice was eerily calm and now Yori understood what Hitomi had meant in the kitchen before. With calling it, that, voice.
Next to her, Senri flinched visibly.
Behind Yori, the boy did flinch too but he kept silent.
"Who is your Master, Mijaka?"
Her answer came promptly. "Master, You are my Master, Master Kuran Sama." Rido gave a disinterested nod. "Then see to it that you only do what I tell you in the future. No matter what a Noble will tell you, you only have to listen and answer to my commands, and only Mine and to those who I give you permission or order to do so, is that clear?"
The Maid bowed deeply in her kneeling position. So low in fact that her now bloodied and bruised forehead touched his boot in the end. "Master, yes, Master Kuran Sama. I have understood clearly, my Master. I am utterly sorry honorable Master Sama!"
Mijaka was relived from her position after some moments from a careless wave of Rido's hand. "Go back in line and don't annoy me again." Yori could only watch Mijaka raise fast and then fast move over to the rest of the now, considerately more servants as yesterday, standing at the wall on Rido's left.
Rido had never let the Noble to his left out of his eyes the entire time the discipline lection of him and Mijaka took. The man was maybe in his early thirties and was sweating up a storm. Yori dared another glance and decided not to like him on sight. Something what she rarely did.
Suddenly the force holding Yori down vanished.
She still kept her head bowed, just in case but her bleeding arm was brought to her chest and she cradled it there carefully.
"Do you know why I did not punish you further for attacking me, Yori Chan?" She chose to show her new knowledge, deeming it better to show obedience in the face of the other Vampires this once. Yori felt that he was testing her and reacted consequently to it."No, Rido Sama." That she wasn't struck down immediately told her that she was right. He seem to nod, deep in thought, then she felt the foreign urge to look up what she did.
His mismatched gaze was as cold as the winter snow and chilled Yori to the bone.
"It was because you did act according to your limited knowledge and out of shock. This time I will let it slide but not another time will it go out this smoothly, be aware of this." She nodded once to show that she did. It seemed to be enough because his gaze went back to the sweating Vampire next to him. despise that, his next words were directed at Senri.
"Senri, take Yori Chan and that human-child and go over to the right side and stay there. And bind her wound but do not remove the knife." The younger Vampire hastened to do that whilst ushering both, boy and Yori over to the right wall. There he told the boy quietly to stay silent what the child did with wide eyes while he ribbed his dress shirt into shreds to bind Yori's arm with the shreds. It didn't bleed much, surprisingly little to be frank but enough to make Yori uneasy around the Vampires in the room.
Senri looked weird and skittish all the while it took him to tend to her wound.
Rido watched them and then he suddenly hauled the Shiki elder before him by his hair.
"Honestly! Did I not make my mind clear on the matter the last time we did meet, Takahashi?" Now both of his eyes glowed eerily red down at the shaking male Vampire. His body was outlined by a faint red and black hue that made looking at Rido kind of troublesome for Yori and Senri too from the looks of it.
Senri looked rather alarmed at the scene before he suddenly gave her a warning look.
Unexpectedly the young Vampire motioned Yori to take the boy and to move behind him. she didn't question this and just did so. Then she made the boy close his eyes and did the same. Out of an instinct she didn't knew that she did possess it, Yori in addition began to hold the child's ears closed. Just in time to prevent the boy from hearing the worst of what suddenly started in the middle of the room.
The sound of ripping flesh and the smells that reached Yori made Sayori feel nauseated.
The screams accompanying the ugly sounds made her want to vomit. Unknown to her, she huddled herself more into Senri's back who did let her do so. The boy suddenly lost conscious in her arms and she just knew that that was Rido's doing somehow. Still, Yori was thankful for it that he spared the boy in his own way.
"Did I tell you to do Mijaka's work? Or to change my tasks for her, Shiki?"
Rido's voice had the quality of a whip. The addressed Vampire shook his head vehemently. "No, Master Rido Sama!" Rido eyed him still clearly infuriated at Takahashi's daring to take over his orders without to have consent from Rido. Yori had dared to chance a look and saw the mans arm lay a few steps away from Mijaka's feet. An ear lay near the chair that Rido sat in. Shiki San clearly did bleed out of both wounds and had a grimace of pain etched into his features. Otherwise he did not utter any sounds nor did he dare to move a limp.
She gulped her heave ruthlessly down again and tried not to twitch even, so that Rido did not find a new target for his insane anger in herself.
"Then I advice you to never again try to think for me, got that! I did not ask for a child to be brought to feed upon neither did I ask for the other blood-bags on two feed to be given to me. I asked for donor's, yes but I meant healthy ones and not the affronting scum you had the gall to bring here before me!" The Shiki Vampire nodded frantically. Still seated in what Yori now in growing terror identified to by a lot of dust on the floorboards around the chair. He dared not to utter another word at the angry Pure Blood. In fear to have him go ballistic even more as before.
"Furthermore, you dared to bring that boy here without my notice! Knowing very well that Wakaba Sayori is my guest here… were you trying to provoke me, Takahashi?" The other Vampire shook his head again, some blood went flying and hit Senri, the servants, Rido and even Yori behind Senri.
She watched shocked the servants lick it off as if that was nothing compelling in the slightest. Rido just wished it away, seemingly disgusted and Senri, he traumatized her even more by doing the same as the servants. At her look he shrugged, Yori chose not to note that and went back in looking at her feet. Discretely wiping the offending fluid from her arm and hand where she was hit from it.
In frontage of Yori, Senri looked at the scene with a blank face.
He knew that Yori had to feel repulsed right now but that did not register completely with him right now. Seeing his father reduce his arrogant uncle this way to the slimmy worm that he was, was somewhat pleasurable for the young male. It satisfied Senri to no extent to see his uncle crumble and beg at the feet of another one for once. He did not care for Takahashi in any way, since that Vampire Noble had done many terrible things to him and his mother in the past. The only beings in this room that Senri currently cared for were the boy to a part and most importantly Yori's safety.
Everyone else was irrelevant for Senri.
So he simply went on to look casually intrigued at the drama in front of him and did his best to shield Yori from the worst of it.
Rido gave the Shiki elder a resounding slap for getting his blood on him.
"Do not think I don't know what you were trying here, you maggot. Too bad that I am a little more nuts as you, you little lying snake. Try that again and you will need a long time to become dust while I will make sure that you will beg for it on your way! Now be gone from my sight, you disgust me and don't come back before you have found a way to atone for your deed."
With that he flung the male across the room harshly against the door.
Senri's uncle was out of it in a flash.
"Senri, take Yori Chan upstairs with you while I settle my business here and see to it that that wound is cared for. Nakama!"
A male Vampire, looking like a man in his early forties came silently over and bowed deeply to the irritated Pure Blood in the chair to give Rido a wet handkerchief. Rido acknowledged that and went on, meanwhile he cleaned the rest of the blood from his face and hands."You will erase the boys memories and bring him back to the orphanage from which that scum took him from. Then you will go and make certain that the lesser Vampires know not to take from there again.
Make certain that I will not be burdened again with such troubles, the Hunters are already mad enough as it is and that Yagari and his troupe are already outside. Let him help you. Go. Senri!"
He gave Yori and Senri a short glance At Senri's acknowledging nod he went on.
"Don't you dare to try to turn her, have you understood me?"
The Vampire Noble paled a little before he nodded shortly. "Yes Father, clearly. And no, I would not do that to her anyways. You should know me better!"
Rido barked a laugh at that before he huffily dismissed them both with a parting set of words that made Yori look a little wary at Senri and Senri scowl at his Sire.
"Actually, it is because I do know you, Senri, that I give you this order."
2012 by Suryallee