Silence is golden… well, most of the time.
Author: Suryallee
Beta: Laura
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^^; Happy first of May to you all!
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, err moreshot now… however. It is called Accidental Happiness, I am still not happy with the first chapters I put up… most likely I will work it over again, ah well. Thank you kindly for the new reviews, my dear readers, bows.
One thing more, Laura was so kind to make herself the massive work to correct this chapter as well as my old ones, thank you dear! I will replace the older ones as soo as I find the darn time here. Between writing, work and family I have a little trouble managing right now. Sorry!
And I apologize again for the delay.
Suryallee
Chapter 11
Morio looked with widened eyes at the door.
Scratching his head, the Vampire gave a half grin. "Eh? Did I say something wrong to the little birdies?" Under him, Shou gave a snort. Looking down the Vampire raised a brow."And what was the meaning of this Oh so intelligent hint?"
Shou, being beyond the point to don't care anymore just let another grunt escape while burying his head under his arms. Suddenly he looked up again and fixed his gaze with Morio's.
"You have to be kidding me! You mean you really have no clue, old man?" At the surprised and confused look of the old Vampire he shook his head in defeat. "Has the long sleep of yours somehow damaged your brain? You can't go and kidnap people like you want to and neither you cannot simply take over the life of others just as you did to the two and me! It is simply a No Do! And get up, will you? This hurts normal people, you know?" Morio looked at the door, then back down on Shou and back again to the door.
Giving Shou a grin the vampire got up.
"Guess I overdid it a little ne, Shou-kun?" The young man just blinked before he sorted his bones out and stood slowly himself. Eying the other warily, the human tried to stay at arms length away from the red head whilst rubbing his sore back. He shouldn't have worried because Morio instead to look at Shou, walked over to the door and with one slight poke of a finger the entire thing was out of the hinges and hanging in the air… literally hold by nothing else as , well… air.
Grinning sheepishly at the shocked looks of Yori, and Senri, and Shou, Morio scratched his head.
"Oops my bad, children." His mien grew somber out of the sudden. "Sorry about that but I think we better do talk a little before your father, my dear Senri, succeeds in running in my poor doors." Senri looked at Yori and she back at him with a clear look of mutual agreement. Both had the same thought about Morio right now.
'He is as mad as Rido.'
Morio seeing this chuckled and shook his head. Dragging the resistant Shou behind him inside too, he put the door back into place with a flick of his wrist.
Sitting down in a chair the vampire motioned to the others to sit too. All three exchanged a look and then did silently what he wanted.
"Power is a marvelous thing, don't you agree my children? And since we are at it, I am not like Rido!" Morio gave the shocked looking Yori and Senri an amused grin. Then his gaze fixed Shou's. "And no, I am also not an old geezer or whatever else you just thought about me, nor am I a mind reader, you impertinent little peanut brain. Actually I am just someone who is very old and who is used to get whatever he wants without any hassle or resistance on the way."
The three across of Morio exchanged another look of clear disbelieve.
Senri gave the old one a tense look. "When are you going to explain to her what you did?"
Mori heaved a sigh, a good question, he thought. Seeing Yori's eyes widen and her hand fly to her neck with a clear look of horror he heaved another. "Seeing her looks right now, I think I can spare me to explain the details already, boy." It sat not well with him that the girl now looked clearly distressed at the entire revelation. It made Morio cringe a little. Silently he cursed his brainless state after waking from such a too long nap, much too late this time.
Shou next to Yori cursed silently under his breath.
He had an inkling what had happened to the teenager next to him. Senri did what came first to his mind and before Yori knew it she was repositioned from her spot on the bed into Senri's lap and arms had encircled her already when she found her bearings back. She did say nothing and simply took on the offered comfort for once. Burying her face into his shoulder she tried to calm the maelstrom of confusion, hurt and horror down that currently tried to swallow her mind. All the time she cried softly without to make much sounds.
The old Vampire watched this calmly.
"I can only apologize to you, child." He addressed the lost looking Yori softly. She gave him a dubious look. "I wasn't… myself when these fools of my servants found you two in the tunnels to my caverns and brought you to me. Luckily for you, I bit the boy first or you would have been dead now." The young woman shuddered violently and then nodded slowly. Morio stood and went over to the couple to sit in her vacated spot.
Looking directly at the frightened, looking Yori, the gaze of the ancient being softened to an extent that Morio rarely showed to others in the last millennia.
Touching her hair softly the old ones eyes took on an faraway look for a moment before he seem to catch himself and blinked several times. His voice, when speaking again held more of an odd accent as before. "I… I have not made a childe in ages, little one. Certainly not accidentally, what is a little miracle all in itself by the way. Looks like I too have forgotten how it affects me to have one. I am an old fool, Sayori. This all, must bewilder you badly." His voice took on a sad note as he spoke the words. The ages old pain in the words made Yori suddenly want to hug the odd Vampire.
He looked, how to explain? So incredibly lost? Sad? No, absolutely miserable was the most fitting word here.
"What happened to your children, sire?"
Morio looked up surprised right into Yori's brown eyes before he gave her a sad smile. "Childe, child, not Children. There is a difference, albeit a small one to Vampires like me. You see, Yori-chan, Childe are made Vampire offspring, if done right that is. Children, they are born ones, no matter if human children or Vampire, they are always born. What you are is a Childe. A true made Vampire in the older ways and not a turnling of these modern days. Nowadays, our descendants seems to have forgotten or better said they have lost the abilities to make them."
Morio seemed shortly to think something over meanwhile he let Yori digest that.
"You see Yori, in the old times the Vampires were on the edge of extinction at one time. We never were that great in numbers in the times in the past. Births of children were rarer as they are today. The most of the Vampires in my time and even before were made ones and not born. But the ability to create such successors this way seems to have disappeared out of the lines or there wouldn't be so little of the old lines left."
At that Senri's eyes widened. He got an idea about what the old one spoke about and if he was right with his musings… "You! You are one of the legendary Ancients! By the gods, you truly are that Old?" His eyes stared unbelievingly at the Vampire Lord next to him and Yori while Shou looked wide eyed from Senri to Morio and back.
At Morio's slow nod, Senri gulped.
No wonder then that he had the constant feeling of being suffocated from the very air around the old one! Morio had to be that old, that his aura of power and age constantly permeated the very air. Around truly old Vampires, this leaking of power into the surrounding space could be poisonous to even other and younger Vampires. He had met only one being comparing to in age, like this Morio in the past, and that had been Takuma's grandfather, Ichijo Asato.
And Asato-san had not even been anywhere near to the Age which Morio must have reached in his life!
The air around that old Noble too had felt heavy and laced with power like a poisonous cloud of miasma.
Seeing Senri gulp and try to back off, Morio stopped the young man instantly. "Don't look so alarmed, Senri, I know of the dangerous nature of my age. You have nothing to fear here. My power is under control, be assured of it. It is not the first time I have woken up in the past. I know the danger well."
At that, Senri calmed a little.
"But isn't the very air around you dangerous for Yori, the human, and me?" Morio nodded sagely. "Normally, yes, but in this case no. She will be not affected, because I made her my Childe. You, well, you my boy are something that I haven't seen for a long, very long time and to speak of the lovely boy behind me, he is temporally immune, since I feed him a little of my blood. But for the most others, yes, it would be pretty dangerous to come into my near presence without my consent or protection. Without my control over it, it could even kill Humans and Vampires alike, under certain circumstances."
His fire eyes locked with Senri's pale blue ones calmly when seeing him pale even more.
"You did what? But that will cha…" Morio's hand motioned Senri to stop speaking. Confused the younger Vampire did so and closed his mouth. "I am aware of it, child, what that will have as repercussions in the end. It is not your business, it is mine and I know what I do. What is more important is something other right now, Yori?"
Seeing her gaze fly from Senri to him when they spoke, Morio got the feeling that the young woman actually understood a lot more than the most would believe and besides that, he did not want to frighten the already upset enough child, Shou behind him even more with problems that the human could not deal with in the now.
When her calm gaze went to him, Morio smiled. She was a fascinating little precious, this Sayori girl. He could see the brilliant mind that did lurk in her gaze as well as the rare caring nature. A little, Morio envied Senri for the rising affection he felt growing for the younger Vampire inside of the girl. And the boy? He clearly loved her already enough to attack even Morio for hurting her. The latter warned the old Vampire from it to not underestimate Senri in the future.
That child had power to back him up if needed, even if Senri wasn't aware of it of yet. He did have it, and Morio actually looked forward to unlock the potential that he felt inside the boy.
"You are an accidental Childe of mine. I wasn't planning on ever have another one. None of mine are still in existence. They all have… left this plane of life a long time ago. In an old war of that you most likely have not even heard about. One of the many and stupid miscommunication problems of our kind in the past. It's another of the many foolish things that we did when we were younger and much more passionate in our means to reach our silly goals.
Oh, do not look so saddened at me, Yori.
That was so long ago… oh all right! It sure still hurts, but not as much as it did it once. It lays in the past now and that is good that way. I still have their and my descendants to look and fuzz over, Yori as well as my memories. Trust me, you all keep me busy enough with your antics!"
This moment, a gong like sound rung low through the entire room throughout the hallways of the entire place.
Looking up alarmed, all but Morio looked spooked at the door from where it had come from in direction. The ancient gave a lopsided thin grin at the sound. "Your father dearest sure is a piece of art, you know that, Senri?" The younger Vampire made big eyes at that comment. "You mean… don't tell me that, that was my Father?"
Morio nodded amused.
"Yup!" He told Senri cheekily with a smirk. "The one and only… luckily for us all. Watched him before, searching like a mad dog after you two. That he did not bite heads off on the way was it all. Goodness, what a lovely and chaotic madcap that one is! I haven't seen such a one in Ages, literally, child. He surely has the main doors of my humble home already halfway out of the hinges with those power based punches of his. Well, in the power department that lad lacks nothing!
That Rido has already crashed through all of my wards in the tunnels with it, in the last three hours and trust me; that alone is a rare feat to do! If he would just not lack the equal amount in sanity, then Rido could have been a true sovereign of our kin. Ah, well, not to change. His madness is a part of his charms, I guess. Why don't we go and meet him? I mean, before he damages my poor housing anymore as he has done already." He drolly told them all.
Standing the old Vampire Lord suddenly turned to Yori.
"Do not feel afraid, little one. Neither he nor I would ever harm you willingly. He will not, because he grew fond of you, and I not, because you are my Childe now. I will have to teach you a lot of things, child. I even see forward to it. Actually this may not be a bad thing, looks like I needed someone like you again in my life. Although, I am sorry Yori-chan, that I did this to you in my hazy mind. Please forgive an old fool? Ah, before I forget my name in Morio. As I told Senri Kun here before too, it isn't my real name, but a good translation into your language of this time of my true one. "
She nodded slowly at his words. Even gave a small smile.
"I am not happy with this, as I think you can tell too, but I will deal. I realize that I can change nothing as much as I wish it to be otherwise. So, yes, you are forgiven. This all is just a little too much added to the rest of the late events, I think." She told the gently smiling Ancient softly in her calm manner. Truth spoken, Yori couldn't help as to like this stranger somehow.
She had been fearful at first, but the more this man spoke, the more he reminded Yori on her own father.
It helped with the situation, somewhat.
To her surprise, they had to walk for fairly a while before they reached the entrance part of this fortress, no other word did fit here as well as this one, to describe Morio's 'Humble Home'. On their way behind the calm Antediluvian, the trio made big eyes at the richly decorated place. The walls alone were works of art and elegance. Gemstones and mother of pearl inlays were everywhere, building beautiful pattern on the walls on in the doors to rooms, closed to them.
Most were geometrical in design but some walls showed entire pictured depictions of a times or people and animals of long forgotten eras.
Yori was speechless at the sheer beauty of this place and for more then one time, Morio had to softly scold the 'children' not to tardy on their way. In fact he had fun, watching their open mouths and big eyes. Their wonderment at his place had him smile at them indulgent. Senri thought, the boy amused him the most.
The pale blue eyes seem to dance with curiosity the most of them all, each time that he spotted a new portrayal of a long gone epoch on the walls. The young man slowly grew on Morio. He too, had a soft spot for history. Yori, she was understandable distracted right now. He got that. Even so, she also looked as captivated as Senri at the illustrations on the way. She just was more subdued as the rather noisy rest of the bunch.
Shou, the doctor student was clearly out of his depth here but that was fine.
He seem to have a likening for the pottery works on their way, standing on tables or in niches in the walls themselves. And knowledgeable he too was, what a pleasant surprise! More often then not, Shou pointed at one piece and told the others something about the stile and epoch of them or the methods used to make the objects. One time he even took one up to look more closely at it with a clear look of wonderment in his green eyes.
Morio had to forcefully take the vase away from the protesting man and to put it back to get him moving again.
That boy was worse than a raven when it came to shiny things, or in his case, pottery works as it looked! Chuckling Morio yet again pried Shou lose from one exceptional piece on their way. Who would have thought that the young human was interested in such things?
It amused Morio to no end.
Reaching the entrance hall, the doors, true to Morio's musings, were halfway out of their hinges already.
They also looked more then slightly dented and a hole here and there in the thick metal doors made clear that Rido had landed a few good punches at them in the past hours too. Shaking his head Morio looked at the damage. "What an moron! My poor doors! It will take half an age to repair the damage done by that hothead…" He made a move with his left hand and the doors opened inwards. That unsuspected move send Rido, who had just taken a run at it, flying into the hall like a cannonball, from the momentum before he could stop it.
He did land with an exclamation of pain and anger right at the feet of Morio who stared down at him with folded arms and an arched brow.
A string of curses filled the silence out. Whilst Rido sorted his bones out and stood. A dark cloud of seeable power surrounded the agitated Vampire Pure Blood Lord like a shadow. He too folded his arms and then glared back at the Ancient. Morio shrugged before he suddenly waved one hand in the air. The power behind it seem to grasp Rido by the neck to slam him face forward into the wall to his left and then into the wall to their right and back, then the same invincible hand shook the Pure Blood a little like one would a young dog before it brought him back in front of Morio to let him hang there in the air while Rido cussed up a storm of profanities and rubbed his hurting head.
"Will you settle down now, you insolent child, or do I really have to go ballistic at you?"
That seem to grab Rido's attention. He currently resembled a scolded cat, bristled imaginary fur and claws extended, inclusive. His glare could have melted an iceberg under a second, but he kept his trap shut for once. Morio sighed. Looking at the ceiling his invisible hand shook Rido again, albeit a little more forcefully this time and then he calmly dunked the poor Vampire Lord into a water well in the floor.
It took fife more of the not freely taken plunges in the water before Rido seem to get the message and did shut up again. He was still glaring thought. Now the father of Senri resembled a really steaming mad and wet rat. Senri had stomach hurts from his wild laughter and had to sit down. Next to him, Yori tried to hide her sniggers behind her hands while Shou shook his head at the stubborn Vampire helplessly.
Morio arched another brow at the unremorseful glower.
Meeting it with his own fiery eyes he released an own miasma of seeable dark power then the Ancient calmly sat it out.
The two forced warred for minutes noticeable in the air between the two then Rido's visibly backed down. In the end Rido huffed whilst wringing his dress shirt calmly out and looked away first. Not a fat chance in hell that he would give in no matter if this was an Ancient or not! Shaking his head at Rido's antics, Morio shortly looked at the youngest red head in the room. It no longer wondered him were Senri had his stubbornness inherited from. It was rather clearly obvious to him now. "Do you want to keep up with this childish act or will you behave now?"
Another defiant stare was send at Morio before Rido crossed his arms and nodded.
"You are clearly the stronger one of us, fine! Have it your way then, old one, now let me down, this is ludicrous! Besides, you were the one who started it; you stole my two little gems!" Morio grinned thinly, sure as hell that this brat would not let that go… He couldn't help to note once again, that Rido would keep him on his toes with ease from now on. To bad thought, for Rido, that Morio was far older and had been himself a troublemaker in the past! He had a fast experience with dealing with menaces such as Kuran Rido and even given that Rido was of a class of his own, he still would have to make a run for his money if he ever wanted to best Morio in the future.
He sniggered at the last thought.
It earned him an annoyed look from said Kuran Pure Blood, who still hung suspended in the air.
"My, my, aren't we a lovely little lunatic, my little Kuran?" Rido snorted at that. "I take that as a compliment." He leaned in when he was released. "Besides, that's need to be one of a kind to notice another, neh?" Morio chortled madly at the daring brat, as he silently had already duped Rido in his mind. Suddenly he reached out and took Rido by the ear.
"Ow! What is that for? Let go!"
Shaking his head Morio rolled his eyes at Rido's outburst. Then he calmly walked out of the hall with the snorting and laughing trio of younger people in Rido's and his wake. "Oh no, my darling boy, I don't think so. You and I will talk and that, civilly or else I will rip you in shreds, got that?" Rido growled but finally gave in.
"Curse you, you Ancient pest! Yes, I got the drift, now let go!"
Morio did so, with a bark of laughs.
Next to him Rido rubbed his smarting ear with a dark scowl but he did not attack Morio again. After some moments he followed the elder sullenly along. Damnit! But did that old one have an impressive amount of power or what? One look at Yori showed Rido a new dilemma… or now lack of another one? He shrugged. Better the Antediluvian then him, Rido thought. Now at least he wasn't responsible for her turning whatever Kaname Kun would say, although he was a bit miffed that the old fart had beaten him to it.
A short sniff, a lingering look was all that Rido needed to tell that she was a, honest to the fucking hells, Childe!
This red eyed menace had to be older than dust to have the power and knowledge of how to still make one of those! Well, good for Yori-chan. Rido had to suppress a snigger at the thought of Kaname-kun finding out that change of plans. As he knew the Ancestor of the Kuran line, Kaname would have a heart attack when finding out.
He planed to be there when he did; Rido wanted to see his face then!
Rido grinned manically at the thought, now whistling while he followed Morio along in his insolent mannered self. On the way, he jumped over a stone in his way like a child at one time, hit the unsuspecting Shou suddenly over the head to then walk whistling away, was tripping Senri out of the blue and made funny faces at the back of Morio's head while walking and smirking at Yori afterwards.
Morio simply ignored the silly prankster in his back. The rest cussed more or less at Rido's frolics while Yori shook her head at his clowning around
That Rido sported some large bruises from the trashing into the walls did not seem to get to his attention in any way. The blood that trickled out of an already closing wound on his forehead was occasionally licked away from him, otherwise Rido did not even wince once.
Shou walked as far away from that lunatic as he could manage it.
That man gave him the creeps, majorly!
The insanity that shone out of the look of childish acting Vampire with the shockingly old eyes, made Shou antsy to be around him and that hit had hurt! Suddenly a bucket appeared in the air above Rido's head out of the blue. The entire load of water was dumped on his head when he made a new attempt to sneak up on the poor Shou to harass him.
"Stop it kindly to pester my little human or the next one is filled with shit."
Morio did not even turn around to say it to Rido; the effect was never less the same as if he had done so. Pouting Rido showed his hands into his pockets and walked on. "Spoil sport." Was mumbled at the back of Morio before he aimed a quick sullen glare at the now behind Senri hiding Shou.
Yori had enough of it. Taking Rido by the hem of his ruined shirt, she simply dragged him along with her.
To Senri's surprise, his father let her do so!
Shaking his head at the man that was his father and supposed to be over three thousand years old, Senri rubbed his face in his annoyance. Why did he have to be the son of…that? Currently Rido hugged Yori like one would a child whilst she gave him a look that would have send Senri running already. If it had been aimed at him, what it wasn't. Rido thought, he simply sulked and backed off a little.
What was equally confusing to watch.
Another bucket suddenly appeared, clearly smelling abhorrent. It hung suspended in the air above Rido like a silent warning. The Vampire mumbled another curse and stopped to pester them all… for now. Next to Rido, Yori held her nose closed, the smell was absolutely disgusting!
Suddenly Rido made a mad dash over to Shou and Senri and before they knew what he was up to, he hugged both tightly whilst he tipped the bucked over above them all with his own power over.
Curses and screams of utter fury filled the hallway out whilst Yori and Morio could only watch the drama unfold itself from out of a safe distance away, both headshaking. Shou was currently aiming a side table at Rido's head, whilst Senri had taken to it to box his father in the side. Rido dodged the most of their attempts to hit him, all the while he taunted them insanely and grinned manically at them.
Morio rubbed his eyes at the sight of three grown men covered in shit.
Yori simply looked at the ceiling as if she hoped for divine help with these madmen.
In the end, Morio lost it and before Yori knew what had happened all three vanished in a swirl of dark mist. For a short moment she could practically taste the power of the old one in the very air and it made her dizzy. Then the sudden low sounding angry screams, coming from out of a faint distance, told her that the Ancient must have discarded them all somewhere else.
Next to her Morio wore a self-satisfied grin.
"Do I even want to know where to exactly you took them to?" Her brown eyes had an amused look inside of them that made Morio titter seeing it. "Senri and Shou Kun are in the baths, although the water heater is still not working so it should be a bit cold in there. Enough at least to cool down their respective tempers I guess. As to Rido's whereabouts, well, I thought a detour to the refuse bin would teach the little clown a lecture."
The faint sounding screamed curses from said Vampire, coming from somewhere under their feet told Yori all too clearly what Rido thought about the thematic. She left it at that, it was better for her sanity.
2012 By Suryallee