The hiding girl and the lost Vampire
Author: Suryallee
Rating: T, Mature for later chapter's contents!
Parings: Akasuki Kain /Nadashiko Shindo
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'
Summary: What if Kaname set Kain earlier on free foot again? What if he run into a mousy looking girl names Shindo after that
Chapter fife
The next mid morning greeted Shindo and Kain with a middleclass disaster from Hell in shape of a broken water pipe in the downstairs bathroom.
The water spilling from it had soaked into the tatami mats of the hallway and into the outer wall of the house around the time they had both woken up. Cussing up a wild streak Kain went to stop the water flow from spilling more while Shindo called a professional handyman to repair the mess. Then she went to remove the water from the floor together before it could soak up the rest of lower level of the house too.
Around midday the two and three man of the repair crew had a break with eating take out Udon for once before they all went back to their respective tasks.
Means, Kain and Shindo removed the rest of the tatami mats to dry them outside in the garden while the men tried to replace the tube and demolished the bathroom wall. It had soaked through too much to dry it again and needed to be rebuild. The titles also got removed, holes were made into the ground under it and tubes of the dryer machine were put into them to let hot air dry the cement in time while other tubes removes the water mist this way. Also, the cellar had a low water line inside that needed to be pumped out from the firemen in the end.
The same as in the bathroom followed. Holes, tubes and machines all.
It was late evening when they all left again. Leaving the two inhabitants tired into the house that now had a new entrance until the ground and wall left and right were dry enough again to close the hole with a new wall. Both were drenched from head to toe in water and muck from the cellar. And laughing madly at the hole under the constant noise of the infuriatingly loud dryer machines humming's.
This was like Zero found the two in the demolished bathroom, whilst looking curiosity through the hole in the wall.
"Eh? Di you two want a change in scenery, or why is there suddenly a hole where it shouldn't be one?" true to his normal practical self, Zero didn't bother with the door. He took the direct route into the house and too set down next to the still laughing duo on the bathtub across the hole. The story had him soon laugh madly with the rest at their dilemma.
"We better fix something up to close the hole or else others will try to come in this way soon." That comment got a nod from both, Zero and Shindo. "You do? I will go and make some food as well as tea in the meanwhile. If that is ok and you both will not need me here, that is. To be blunt, I suck in everything that has to do with such major, sorry."
Zero and Kain exchanged knowing looks. By now both knew Shindo's little affinity to attract chaos when it came to do stuff like this all too well.
Kain found out through a tatami mat suddenly ending up on his left foot and Zero knew from experience in the academy. Shooing Shindo out was rather an act of self-defense when it came down to it and all three knew it. Heaving some heavier material in place, Zero casually asked Kain about his willingness to have her make a meal instead to help them.
"What did Shindo manage to drop on you?"
Kain huffed when the wooden piece was finally in place and gave the Hunter a sheepish grin while rubbing his still smarting left foot under Zero's amused gaze.
"A Tatami mat, don't ask! You?"
Zero shrugged back at the curios Vampire.
"A teapot, with hot tea! A bookcase, it fell right onto me when she was standing onto a ladder in the library and lost her balance suddenly. Grabbed onto the bookcase, darn thing was not bolted down enough… you get the point, I am sure. Among other stuff in the past years."
Kain suppressed a snigger.
"She really has a kind of talent of the different kind in these things, eh? I could barely manage it to stop her from falling down the staircase to the cellar today… twice!" Both had a good laugh together at that admission from Kain.
Zero nodded. "Yeah, I know that song all too well. Sometimes in the past years I couldn't decide which one is more prone to accidents, Yuuki or Shindo Chan." He shook his head in expiration. "Its not that she does it one purpose, it is just… that the chaos loves it follow her every step? If she wouldn't be so darn cute all the while when apologizing, I would have shot her already."
Chuckling, both Vampires went on to fix the hole a little up and let it wisely at Zero's observation.
In the kitchen a beet red Shindo had heard them through the kitchen window.
Zero was actually pretty accurate with his thoughts, she had always attracted the chaos around her. Why, she wasn't certain about only that it sure seem to love her out of a point that Shindo did not know and hated.
The water accident from today was a good example of her strange bad luck.
On the other hand, she never got injuries that were serious or had often in the past survived strange accidents without a scratch. What baffled Shindo and all that knew her. She had been found on the steps of the orphanage in the middle of snow in the early of spring. Clad only into a thin sheet and without to have been cleaned up at least.
The nurses had gone half insane in fear of her being cooled down too much from the icy weather.
Surprise! Shindo wasn't? And neither did she catch a cold later… it had been a miracle to all involved in her care that days. This strange luck and bad luck had been her fate since her very first day. Later it had turned out that no one could find out anything relating to her parents. She had gotten her calling name, Shindo, from a loose paper with it scribbled onto it, that was tucked carelessly into the small blanket and that was it.
Shindo had never missed her parents. Actually, she never wanted to meet them ever!
If she was honest to herself, she hated them for abandoning her so brutally and that was that.
Zero staid the night. Playing poker with an always losing Shindo and a harder to get too Kain until she gave up and let both play alone. Watching the two turned out amusing since both had poker faces and were rather stoic in nature too. She got a lots of chuckles out of their glares and mock battles until she went to bed.
2012 By Suryallee