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.
Sorry people, but my life demands from time to time that I tend to my daughter and my family^^;
I found no time to work on this earlier. I have a real life still, you know? I also put up one other story and currently work on an Aido/Yori Oneshot. Hopefully, that will be out in two or three days. Thank you kindly for the new reviews, my dear readers, bows.
And I apologize for the delay.
Suryallee
Chapter nine
"Tell me again how we ended up, down in here…"
Senri`s voice sounded tired and worn out. Next to the slightly dirty looking Noble, an equally dusty looking Yori rubbed her tired face and heaved a sigh. "Because you did not listen? Maybe?" The Vampire that sat leaned against the dirty wall beside her, looked up at the roof of the tunnel in exasperation.
"Why is it my doing that we ended up here when the floor gave in? Tell me this, oh wise woman!"
His normally mellow and almost bored sounding voice held a tinge of irritation this time. His pale blue eyes fixed Yori's calm brown ones in the almost darkness with a look of utter aggravation. It did not seem to work on Yori thought, she suddenly glared back with equal heat and folded her arms in her annoyance at the stubborn Noble beside her in the tunnel.
"You really want to know that, Senri Kun?"
He nodded. "Fine! A list it is then. Maybe… because you woke me up with kissing me without my consent given? What got you a deserved slap. Which then lead to you growling at me, what had me taking a run out of your room that lead to a chase, that ended in the wine cellar?" Here her glare had become that heated, that Senri next to her, cringed at seeing it. His face was tinted red and his eyes tried to avoid looking directly at the still rather incensed looking young woman.
Yori huffed and went on retelling the events that lead to their current dilemma.
"Or maybe, your inability to listen to reason lead us finally to the back part were the faulty floorboards unexpectedly gave way under the both of us?"
Senri suddenly moved until he was half in Yori's face, one hand leaned against the wall for support.
"How the hell should I have known that the ground under the house was defective, eh?"
She snorted. "I never said that you did, just what happened." Yori looked away from Senri in one of her rare childish moments. The vampire huffed at that and sat back down too. Actually, if Senri was honest, Yori had a point here, damnit!
He couldn't resist the temptation when he awoke next to the sleeping girl and had simply kissed her lightly on the lips.
How should Senri have known that Yori would instantly awake from that and then slap him? …Ok, maybe he should have thought that through first… err, or not done at all? Anyways, it had ended in a stupid chase around the house and finally had ended up with both, falling down a naturally formed slope inside the ground below the wine cellar.
Senri groaned and closed his tired eyes.
The dust down here hurt his eyes constantly, he had just barely managed it to catch Yori before both had fallen down. To make the matters worse, there was no fucking way for both to crawl and climb back up! The slope was too long in the way back up and the stone broke under your fingernails and with the softest applied pressure into tiny pieces uf crumbs.
Since Rido wasn't in the house at that time, Hitomi still sleeping and the servants out or busy on errant's, both Yori's and Senri's screams had gotten no help to them.
In the end the girl had come up with the idea to send the blood bat out to get Rido. Wherever the damned vampire had vanished too in the first place! It was a wonder in the size of Godzilla that both had survived the fall relatively unharmed anyways. How? They both had no idea at all. They got away with scratches and blue and purple colored bumps as well as with in Senri's case, a sprained ankle and in Yori's, a broken finger on her left hand.
And where the hell were they here anyways?
The two had taken to look around for another way out after an hour or so had come and gone by with no one coming to their aid. Their stumbling around took over a good of two hours and the only thing they had managed so far, was to end up inside a tunnel that had some holes in the ceiling that let the little afternoon light fall inside. At least Yori could see something again! She had sorely depended on Senri's night sight inside the tunnels. It was pitch black down here until they had reached this wonderment of natural caving out.
Currently both took a pause, she from half carrying Senri around and he from hopping on one leg.
Spotting a rat, Yori arched a brow and suddenly got back to her feet. She startled Senri with it. "What? Is something wrong?" He gave her a alarmed look and also got back to his feet. His ankle was better already. At least he could now walk somewhat unaided. And these old tunnels gave him an creepy almost eerily feel the deeper they ventured into them.
She motioned him to stay silent and pointed at the rat. "Huh?" Her eyes shortly rolled at his outburst. "They must have gotten inside here somewhere. Can you detect something like a waft or such?"
Senri looked sheepishly at Yori then he concentrated on the tunnels they were in.
After a while he nodded slowly. "Yes. It comes from the way we were going in direction before. You're right, there is a soft draft coming from that course it smells funny thought, like old things or mold? Anyways, it comes from over there." His hand vaguely motioned to the opposite path that they had come from. Both exchanged a nod and slowly made their way down the tunnel road again.
Still, Senri couldn't shake off the feeling that something else as Rats were watching them in here. It made him jumpy and feel claustrophobic all the time.
A good hour later the two ended tiredly up inside a bigger looking, prehistoric cave. Above them, the subdued sounds of a well used road made it clear that they had to be just under the traffic of the city. But before Senri or Yori could say or do something, both blackened suddenly out almost simultaneously.
When Senri awoke again, he found himself back inside a bed.
Turning quickly he saw with relieve that whoever had brought them here had laid down Yori next to him. What, however, made him gasp and loose his face was the fact that she sported a healing up bite wound on her slender neck now that wasn't his!
With an enraged growl, the now livid Noble was up… only to be pushed down again instantly.
"Calm down! She is fine and better off that way anyways you foolish boy child."
Looking up with another growl of utter anger, Senri looked at the owner of the new voice with the odd accent. The vampire was male and clothed in what looked to be a garb from out of an ancient time. It looked soo weird to Senri! He had red hair and red eyes, the latter seemed to glow unnaturally like fire pits. Without to head any reason Senri attacked the other again, only to be pushed down yet again with seemingly no effort from the calmly at him looking male.
The man shook his head in vexation.
"Did I not tell you just a minute ago that it is of no use to fight me? Ahh forgive an old fool, so is it then, I see…"
The other fell silent again. He currently held Senri, who had a third time tried to attack him, suspended up in the air with what looked to be a hand formed of stone. For the first time Senri had woken up he realized that he was facing up with a seemingly freshly awoken very old Pure Blood. Still, his rage wasn't abating. That Vampire had stolen His Prize! He had wanted to turn Yori, the red haze of serious fury clouded his mind and Senri trashed lividly against the hold on his body.
The other watched that serenely from his still crouched position on the stone titles next to the bed with Yori sleeping inside.
Heaving a sigh, the male stood and tipped Senri once against his forehead with one finger. It instantly blew the anger and hurt out of the teenagers mind like a wind-blast. Well, the most of it. At least he now could think clearly. "She is still alive, child, Focus!" A critical look from out of two fire colored eyes fixed at the darker red haired vampire for a moment before it moved to the girl and back slowly.
Senri finally followed the idea and looked down at Sayori.
To his uttermost relieve, Yori still breathed albeit slowly and even looking paler as usual, she looked rather all right. For the first time since he woke, Senri too felt the fatigue and weakness that came with loosing too much blood. A throbbing in his neck told volumes about the way it had left him.
He glared back at the Pure Blood in front of him with righteous indignation.
Two rather amused looking firepools looked back at the still incensed glaring youth, before the tall and muscular man suddenly flicked a finger against Senri's nose. "Sleep you silly little lovesick fool and stop resisting my spells, like you do it now again, truly! Such a stubborn Child! I am no treat to either, you or this girl child. I needed blood to fully wake up, that was that.
My stupid servants brought you two here without my blessing and it was too late already when I got aware of it.
However, I still need to feed and recover more and until I have, you will rest, end of story. This was barely enough to fix my outer appearance to some extent. Even given that it was your blood I took first… well, at least it stopped me from making more mistakes beforehand and from now to have to atone for more then only this."
The gaze became poignant before the other Vampire changed the look to a stern reproach. With folded arms the tall Pure Blood leaned in until his gaze fixed Senri's with no more as an hands span apart. Both frowned silently for some seconds at each other in an staring contest. Then the stranger sniggered madly for some seconds.
Leaning back he anew shook his wild red mane.
"Aiya, you are a hidden little hothead when angered too much, aren't you little one? Stop pouting about things that are over and done with, young one! Its of no use. You, child, are much too young and weak to fight me, even if I weren't in this frail state in which I am in now, you could never dream to overwhelm me. I am much older and much more experienced in these kind of things as you will be for a long while in the future. And even than it would be questionable a task to archive."
The fiery gaze settled shortly on the young woman in the bed sheets before it softened and was clearly distressed when it settled back on Senri's surprised and still red eyed stare once more.
"Although, I have to apologize to you, to have seemingly taken your chosen one from you in this disgraceful way. That was unpardonable and I will atone for that to you both later, child. I give you my word on that. Sleep now, you need to recover your strength and after that, we will have to have a talk, boy. There is something disturbingly wrong with you. You are not what you are supposed to be! It confuses me greatly… have our children forgotten everything of the past in the time I was sleeping down here?"
He shook his head in displeasure. The red eyed gaze became sly out of the sudden.
"What did the smart female out of your memory did call you again? A Cockatoo? How amusingly befitting from what I can tell already! Well, little duckling, lets have a conversation about how to turn you into a swan later, shall we, hmm? Oh, and by the way, you may call me… Morio. Someone dear to me in the past once thought it was befitting me positively adequately although the original name is different the meaning is the same in your language now… unimportant, it shall do nicely with you two too. You both seem to need a protector, since you both seem prone to get into trouble often, to judge from what your memories showed me. "
He told Senri with his soft timbre voice, then the stranger sniggered softly, clearly amused about something that made Senri feel positively uneasy out of a point that he couldn't fathom. Morio's gaze took on a thoughtfully look before the red head shook his head with a soft laugh at Senri's befuddled now again pale blue eyed expression and then he tapped Senri against his nose with a soft smile a last time.
Before the youth knew what had hit him, Senri fell unconscious again.
In another part of the town, Rido threw a major hissy fit a while later.
He couldn't find a trace of his missing two little ones all over the town no matter what he tried. Something was blocking the Pure Blood Lord in all of his efforts, something old… Surprisingly, it wasn't Kaname's doing this time, of that, Rido was very sure. From what he could trace through his powers, whatever or better said whoever it was, was a powerful and old, if not say ancient being. Recently woken up, if Rido wasn't mistaken here and immensely, almost scarily potent in concealing itself and the other twos auras.
Even Rido wasn't certain what to think of this new player, he refused to feel frightened thought.
The other wasn't exactly doing harm, that much he could tell. He just, just hid the teenagers from everyone else. Shielded everything from possible searchers, may it be scent or aura, nothing was to detect. Almost as if the two had vanished from the earth… his fist hit against a nearby wall of the city hall with so much force and power that the entire wall crumbled inwards inelegantly. Suddenly a almost taunting stray trace of a scent got his attention. It seem to want to lure him to the far south of the town like a tease… that had happened before too, Rido scowled then he grinned manically.
A low curse, a sudden angry roar and Rido was off on his chase again.
Above him, on the rooftop of a side house of the hall, Morio watched calmly the tall and familiar to Senri Kun looking Pure Breed Vampire do so and then vanish. The fire eyed Vampire had a definitely better look on him now. He currently suckled happily away on a blood pack of A Neg through a straw like a child. The concept of straws had highly entertained Morio.
Gone were the gaunt features and the skin shone with health again.
The Mummy look had now fully disappeared and left a being in its wake that gave the impression of a man in his early thirties maybe late ones away to the observer. Vampires rarely showed any age besides of early to late twenties compared to human years. And Pure Bloods even less so than Nobles, his clear age was a sign that screamed ancient to other Vampires. It wasn't because he had rested so long, Morio actually was truly; an Antediluvian.
A true one of the earliest actually, one of the few that had practically founded their race in a way and was still around to watch over them.
His gaze fell onto the empty blood pack in his left hand. He still felt amused about it that humans nowadays used this strange method to preserve blood so kindly for his children. Although he understood for what these packs normally were meant to be used for, Morio couldn't help to chortle at this unexpected helpful development.
The guy next to him didn't laugh along.
The poor Doctor in training had been unfortunate to be in charge of the hospital Blood bank this evening and night. Kishimoto Shou's unfortunate team members of this nights shift had ended mostly up as this outlandish guy's dinner, literally, until Shou had taken a wheelchair and had hit Morio with a roar over the head with it in his fright, anger and need to help his coworkers.
He was left alive, surprise, surprise!
Not because Morio felt thankful for the hit, no, he had wanted Shou to explain to him the odd packs filled with blood. After that, the Vampire Lord had simply taken to raid the fridges with one in the mouth meanwhile Shou took on a run out on him. It did not work out for the pitiable human student in the end. Morio had caught up with Shou easily an half hour later and simply grabbed the scared man with one arm whilst still running. In the meanwhile the other hand held on many big plastic bags filled to the brim with Blood packs and had vanished from sight with Shou under one arm.
The man intrigued the archaic being.
Not many humans had ever have the courage to hit him… and with a chair with wheels, no less! He was amused about the spitfire temper Shou showed him constantly by fighting Morio each step on the way. This new timeline he woke up in was entertaining the ancient to new proportions and for once, he was actually having real fun!
Morio was tempted to keep the little spitfire, as he had renamed the dark brown haired and green eyed Shou, who wasn't feeling thankful for having a new nickname at all.
Instead he told Morio under no uncertain terms, where he could shove it, what had Morio first blink unbelieving and then had him laugh almost insanely for a longer while. Much to the growing anger of Shou who was dragged around from Morio, wanting it or not. The blasted Vampire, or whatever the man was, was simply too freaking strong to oppose.
His muttered curses reached Morio's ears and had him snigger again in mirth in no time.
He motioned to his underlings to take care of his things and then grabbed the poor Shou to vanish with him from the rooftop. Both appeared again inside of the grant place that had been Morio's sleeping place for more then ten thousand years. Occasionally he had awoken during his long sleep. To check on the children of his race and then he went to sleep again.
This time, Morio intended to stay awake for a while longer.
It was interesting what he had found out so far. Worth an investigation from someone like him. Also, there was the boy, his new accidental childe and some more things to settle and fix here, like that wayward child of her… So, he thought, that was why I could no longer feel her linger around, eh? He stretched languidly before he let the cussing Shou down from his hold again. The furious man could barely manage it to catch himself in time before the stone suddenly vanished around him and he fell to the stone-tiled floor. Wherever he was now, it looked like a tomb or like a weird palace under the earth to Shou and he did not like the thought to be a captive of an rather odd Vampire at all.
Around him, the other Vampires were busily doing chores and their master simply walked out of the room through a nearby door. Suddenly an invincible leash dragged Shou along. He cursed worse as a drunken sailor at that.
He still did when he was dragged into a room a few doors further down a long and lavishly decorated corridor.
Suddenly a hand held his mouth closed. It was surprisingly warm for someone who… well, was supposed to be dead? Alive? Both? What the hell was this Morio Sama anyways? Vampires were supposed to be dead people Mister Bram Stocker, right? So, why was this one warm? Shou gave up. "Hush, you hotheaded human! You will wake up the children with the ruckus that you make… Tsk, my, my, my, don't you have quite a nasty temper tantrum? One more curse and I will cut your tongue out. Be quiet!" Shou was short on telling Morio what he thought about that, when his green eyes fell onto the couple of teenagers that slept peacefully into an big and beautiful bed. Deciding instead of making his annoyance of having a hand on his mouth known to Morio in another way, Shou did something really brainless for once and bit the surprised Vampire into his palm.
With a flabbergasted and softly uttered yowl Morio let go on the human.
Looking from his hand to the defiantly at him glaring Shou and back at his hand, Morio looked clearly a bid shocked to the for once now slightly better feeling Shou.
Yes, Morio thought with a lopsided grin, this time was indeed fascinating and bizarre. The humans did even bite Vampires here! Taking Shou by the collar, he brought him out of the room with him and had barely closed the door before he dissolved into a fit of hilarious laughter. Biting a Vampire, that human spitfire did… Morio had not had so much fun in a loong while!
He in fact, had to sit down onto the marble floor tiles in the end of his laughing fit. His long red hair moved around his body like snakes the entire time.
It seem to have a will of it's own and fascinated Shou who could only scowl at the laughing madman on the tiles. In the end, Morio had to wish the tears out of his eyes. Occasionally a titter still escaped him but that was tolerable. Yup, he would definitely keep this human around for a while, he was highly entertaining him to no ends.
Still sitting on the tiled floor, he pointed at Shou to sit down too before he leaned back comfortably against the wall inlaid with gemstones behind him. Giving the still mopping human a fanged grin the Vampire chuckled again. "I advice you to not try that again, unless you want me to reciprocate? I doubt it, human that you want to experience that in the near future. Albeit, maybe that is your wish that would be of no problem either way for me…"
As expected Shou sputtered at that and try to glower holes into the infuriating red head across from him.
"NO!"
A new chuckle left the thin lips.
"Very well. Listen, human, your name is Shou and your age is what? Twenty one, correct?" At the reluctant nod of said man, Morio smirked at the poor Shou. "oh, to be that young once more… I am much older child. Before I forget, my human pet, I am awaiting a guest, so to speak. It is better that you do not meet with him without me present… ever, is that understood? He is insane, uncontrollable and witty and under no circumstances a one to annoy." He was suddenly up and directly in front of Shou in a matter of seconds.
The man could only blink surprised at the speed and then gulped whilst nodding.
Leaning back a little with a grin, Morio folded his arms before unfolding one halfway right away to tap with one finger against his lips in thought.
"Ahh, but we have to do something about that scent of yours, my dear healer. If I leave you run around unmarked, that Rido wild-child will surely do something not advisable to you my little spitfire and we can't have him do that, now can we? I would have to kill the lovely madcap for disobeying me and that is not an endeavor which I want to undertake now. He is…needed for the future. His idea about a new line, a good initiative of the child so much is certain, the way although he takes on it needs to be polished and worked out more… so much to do, so many things need to be brought back in order. I fear I will have to wake the others up with her brat in the play… so annoying a problem, that poor misdirected child is…"
Without to give the, at a complete loss feeling and blinking, Shou a chance to recoil, the Morio was up again and had him into a sure hold. Right the moment Shou's Brain caught up and he did open the mouth to cuss at Morio, an arm was forced against his mouth and Shou was forced to gulp down some blood. It was over and done and he free again in under a minute. Choking and spitting the man tried to get the taste out of his mouth again. Much to the amusement of Morio who watched the spectacle with a strange glint in his eyes. By now, Morio knew Shou well enough to predict his next moves. And as expected, Shou attacked him with a roar. In an blink of an eye, Shou found himself bewildered back serving as a temporally seat for Morio who simply sat on the enraged Human no matter how he trashed.
"What is this? Another madhouse… why me? Why are you sitting on that poor man and who are you?"
Both sets of eyes, one fiery red, one green, fell onto the petite frame of the young woman, standing in the now open doorway and rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
Yori looked mystified at the two unfamiliar persons on the tiled floor. Suddenly the red eyed stranger gave her a sweet smile that she could not help but to give back.
"Why, salutations to you my lovely child. I hope you slept well? You must be Yori Chan, right? Anyway, welcome to my humble home for the last few thousand years under the earth. The sun was truly a bid too bright an companion to sleep under, so I instead chose to do this here. We will have much to talk about with each other in the near future Yori and as to why I sit on the lovely Shou Kun here… ah well, he was a bit… say,naughty? So I took a time out with him. I soo love to torment the little brat! He is endlessly funny when he gets exasperated like this."
Yori could only blink confused at the Vampire that was cheekily grinning up at her and who addressed her so sweetly while Shou under Morio, broke out into a new bout of various creative curses.
Behind her, Senri mumbled something about the questionable brain-functions of odd Pure Bloods before he took a hold on Yori and simply pulled her back into the room with him to close the door with a slam. He should have headed his foreboding feelings in those damned tunnels!
Senri thought and then scowled at the door.
2012 By Suryallee
Side note:
Morio- means Protector in Japanese as I was told. It seems to fit him. =^.^=