IMMORTAL GORE

Chapter 10 : Friends or Foes ?

"He-" before the little weakling could finish her sentence, a deadly white handkerchief blocked her mouth causing her to collapse unconsciously.
Aoi enjoyed watching everything from the side. "Hn" a smirk was made as she got on the car and left.

"This chick is sure priceless. I didn't think I would get to drink a pure blood, it has sure turned me on" the two men bursted out laughing, surrounding the little girl as they were untying her red obi "Man, check out her flawless white skin" the man slurped at her neck as he was about to dig his dirty fangs onto her skin. Suddenly a harsh kick had snapped the dirty man stopping his disgusting act.

"Well well well what do we have here." a deep smooth voice was heard.

"You motherfucker! I'll fucking skin you!" The man's anger had bursted out while gaining his conscious, but as soon as his eyes fixed on the tall well-built figure standing in front of him, his face turned pale.

"A-Akatsuki-sama.." the disgusting man's attitude was 180 degrees changed.
The man knelt down, bowing his head "M-May I-I ask w-why a noble vampire like you wandering in places like this.." the sentence did not sound like a question as he was too scared while his companion had run away for his own sake.

"Oh. You asked me why?" the guy sarcastically said "I was just taking a look at the festival" his eyes narrowed "then an unappropriated disgusting scene caught my attention" grabbing the man's throat harshly, he started to digging his fingers thoroughly into the neck's skin while the man was sincerely pledging "Pl-please...w-we.." the man gasped for air desperately.

"Oh, I forgot. I wouldn't want to dirty my hands would I?" then he let go the dying fish. As soon as the man was let go, he got on his knees, inhaled and exhaled like a fish needed water. Weakly getting up on his feet, the man tried to run away, all of sudden, sharp blocks of red ice ripped off his body from the inside causing his organs flew out .

"Dogs like you shouldn't be alive" the figure coldly said.
Then he moved towards Mikan's body as his grasp cupped the girl up "They didn't protect you well did they." his eyes darkened staring at the girl "This time I'll protect you instead Mikan."

"Natsume! Natsume!" Aoi was terrified calling out her brother as she ran into his room "M-Mikan, I couldn't find her!" putting on her sincere mask.
Natsume turned around at his sister with an expressionless emotion yet Aoi could sense his insides were all stirred up "What happened?"

Going along with the fake mask, she sniffled "W-We were at the festival, th-then Mikan said she needed to buy the howalons, I-I had agreed and let her go" her sniffling was harder "Then I waited for her b-but she didn't come back! S-So I got back here and ran up to her room to see whether she was there but all I could see was a note left on her bed. D-did she actually leave us?" Aoi was shivering as she handed Natsume the short note :

"I've had enough of this so please don't look for me. Goodbye.

-Mikan"

"All along, I had thought she trusted us s-so I wanted to make her happy by taking her to the festival, connecting our sister's blood. Yet...she used the chance to escape. I...-I had loved her so much." Aoi knees buckled as she collapsed on Natsume "Please... please tell me that's just a lie."
Natsume stared blank at the note as his mind was trying to program what was happening, non words escaped from him. Slowly carrying Aoi to his bed as he stroked her cheek "Take a rest Aoi. Forget about her, at least you still have me."

"Yes brother" Aoi shuffled around facing the other side as a tint of smirk was made on her lips. Such an idiot you are Mikan-chan.

After making sure Aoi had already fallen asleep, Natsume quietly left the room. The large door was opened as he entered inside the room. It was empty. Although he knew in the beginning, she didn't have anything to bring with her except that dirty ragged self of hers into this mansion yet Natsume felt as if everything in this house had all gone. Her usual loudly shouts in the morning when the maids woke her up, her running steps down the stairs, her chirpy voice calling him...just those few things had enough made his hearing sense wanted to shut down whilst his other senses would have to bear through these feelings.
3 months, 12 weeks, 84 days were nothing compared to a person's life-time yet Mikan had managed to find her self a special seat in his cold heart. Slamming his knuckles on the wall, He was still not convinced.

Finally, morning had arrived, the usual atmosphere in the dining room completely changed. Yoichi could possibly feel something was wrong in here.

"Where's Mikan?" he asked while eating his breakfast. Aoi stunned, "Shit, i forgot that he's still in the house training under Natsume's command. He might ruin my plan if I made a mistake." Aoi wandered with her thoughts as she forgot the question.

Yoichi put down his knife and fork, he asked again "Where is Mikan, Aoi" he emphasized her name causing her to flinch, without thinking she mur mur "Mikan is gone".

Suddenly, Yoichi kicked his chair and grabbed Aoi's collar from the opposite side of the table "What did you just say?". Breathlessly from the grab, Aoi couldn't speak.

"Calm down and Let her go Yoichi" Natsume was now standing behind Yoichi whilst the breakfast knife was aiming at Yoichi's back neck. Supressing his anger, he let Aoi go as his face darkened "Tell me what happened."

Expressionless face, steadied breath, calmly fixing his eyes on the table. Those were Yoichi's reaction after he heard the story from Aoi. He knew her too well, Mikan would never leave him behind. Even if she had escaped, there would have been a reason, at the very least, she had listened to his advice about running away from this place.

Yoichi started to get worried as he could sense something strange was happening. Walking quietly to Natsume's room he knocked on the door

"Natsume, I want to talk."

"Come in" Yoichi got in the room as he saw Natsume was drinking his pills.

"Do you have any idea about Mikan?

"The only thing I know is that she had gone."

"No" Yoichi denied "I've known Mikan long enough to understand her and I'm sure she won't do it without a reason. Don't you trust her Natsume?"

Natsume did not response as he turned his sight outside the window "How troublesome"

"Damn it" Yoichi punched harshly on the side wall as he let out a curse

To: nix 4/29/13 . chapter 9

I hope he will -3-

To : MusicIvory 4/30/13 . chapter 9

I'm terribly sorry about for updating so late ~ tests had drowned me. And I won't drop this so please rest assured -w-

I'm very blessed seeing there are still people who enjoy my work . Arigatou ~