The hiding girl and the lost Vampire
Author: Suryallee
Rating: T, Mature for later chapter's contents!
Parings: Akasuki Kain /Nadashiko Shindo (Yes people, that girl is actually a real character from the manga and books, she was the one that Zero had to catch on the valentines day debacle grins there are more people to write about as Mary Sues and Yuuki or the others ^_- p.s. if you don't believe me, Wiki her, lol ) 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: a typical what if story with the usual twists of yours truly ^^
However, it is after Kaname killed Aido's father, somewhat in that timeline. Shrugs'
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Summary: What if Kaname set Kain earlier free again? What if he run into a mousy looking girl names Shindo after that?
Chapter two
The next morning woke half of the nearby neighborhood with a loud scream.
Shindo's to be precise, when being woken up from a noise and seeing the confused at her looking ghostly pale Kain in her doorway to her bedroom. What in the following lead to A, Kain hastily vacating the doorway and B, Shindo instinctively throwing her night lamp after the man that had spooked her accidentally.
In the end both meet meekly in the kitchen. Both red-faced and mumbling apologies.
And her planer got a new entry, go and buy a new night lamp. His unusual meek behavior gave her headaches. At seeing the mess he had done to her couch the Vampire actually turned ten different shades of red in under a minute, what had Shindo in turn feel bad about her anger the night before and she found herself back placating Kain in the end.
To find out that Cross san had stolen Kain's only clothing had both fume at the headmaster of the academy together. To say that their first few hours together turned out rather uncomfortable was an ironic. They ended up sitting on the couch after some minutes of silent confusion as in how to deal with this all. Then Shindo suddenly got up and went upstairs to her former adopted fathers room to get a bigger box down in the end.
"My adopted father had nearly the same height as you do, Akasuki San. It may not be the most fashionable of attire but it will do, I suppose."
The stoic looking man nodded, still obviously feeling ill at ease, just like Shindo did it too.
While he choose some of the clothes and went into the kitchen next to the tiny living room, Shindo finally gave into her curiosity. She had never before seen the Vampire look this badly taken care of and thus that, he was seemingly starved from what Cross San had told her the night before. He also looked rather sad to Shindo. He had large dark cycles under his swollen eyes, that only came to be when one did cry allot.
"Akasuki San?"
At his softly mumbled replay from the kitchen, Shindo scratched all her reminding braveness together and asked her nagging question. "Uhm… please forgive me my impolite invasion on your private life but, what happened to you? I know that I was never a close person to you in the past and possibly I should not do this but I cannot overlook that you seem to act noticeably like someone who is mourning." Her soft voice tapered off into an unnatural silence that was interrupted only from birdsong outside.
Then suddenly his smooth deep voice startled her out of the short silence spell.
"Why do you think that I am mourning, Nadashiko San?" She gulped and went for honesty this time. "Your eyes. You have the same look in them that I had when my adopted father did die and that others always sported when they came to the orphanage. When they have lost someone they did deeply care about." The rustling sounds stopped for another moment before they took on again behind her.
"You are very observant, aren't you?"
She nodded shyly at the Vampire Noble when she saw him reenter the room. He looked a bit odd, clad into a loose outdated dress shirt and faded looking pants. They clearly were not made in an stile that was still worn, still, Kain looked rather good in them. With bare feet he walked unsteadily over to the couch and sat down again. There she could only watch the tall man suddenly cradle his head into his hands in his despair.
What ever had happened to make him react this way in the past year, it wasn't good!
Putting the box aside again, she gave him his privacy to sort himself out and left the room. Feeling instinctually that he would not want to have her fuzz about him and after she had put the box away Shindo went into the kitchen to head up a blood pack like Cross had shown her and to make a light breakfast.
It was half an hour later when Kain suddenly paddled into the kitchen to slump down at the traditional low table. He sat there just looking out into the snowy small garden through the window and said nothing for a longer while. Finally Shindo got feed up with it and set the glass with now lukewarm blood down right in front of his nose onto the small space that was left between his arm and the end of the table.
"Here, you need to gain on more weight said Cross San and after that, go and take a bath for heavens sake. You stink! And… are that lice in your hair? Eawww, this is… soo…icky!"
The rather blunt comment surprisingly seems to work for him. Because, Kain looked rather wide-eyed back at Shindo before he did exactly what she had told him in her stern no-nonsense voice… after scratching his head wildly. When he came back out of the bath it was early midday but he was clean and for once, Kain looked rather more like his old self and less like a ghoul.
Towel dry hair fell rather haphazardly around the gaunt features and before he knew it, a new glass was set in front of him. Shindo didn't budge when his rather irritated gaze fell on her. Instead she simply staid in place with her arms crossed until he gave in and drained the second glass.
After that they repeated their staring contests for two more times before she stopped to bring him a new glass.
Let him be stubborn, she thought, I can be right as well!
Unknown to Shindo, Kain had come to the same conclusion while they had their silent war of wills and was actually feeling rather amused by it. An feeling that he had not felt in a rather long time. He didn't exactly know, why she was succeeding in them, she was so darn tiny to begin with. Oddly enough, she did win, all three damned times!
Although, the blood did wonder on him already, even Kain knew that he was almost starved.
She did remind the Akasuki heir on a small dog that his family had owned in the past. A very small and nasty tempered Pekinese. That darn beast too had also always won with just looking him and then he had gone and bitten Kain in the heels anyways to get the lazy Vampire child moving… he refused to think that further through! Maybe, he thought, it was the real care that was in her eyes that had made him carve in each time. In the end his tired out body gave out on him and he fell asleep right at the low kitchen table with the heater under the blanked surrounding it to keep the chill from the persons sitting at it.
2012 By Suryallee