"SEVEN DATES"
Fan Fiction story / Season 3
By: Lovely Vero
Starring:
Klaus & Caroline
Matt & Rebekah
Chapter 7
"Tokyo"
Part 1
虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず。
If you do not enter the tiger's cave, you will not catch its cub.
The first memory that would forever stay in Caroline's heart regarding her visit to Tokyo would be the exoticism of the rain. A part of sweet hope, a trace of nostalgia, a hint of fear, and a range of flamboyant colours mixed with a spicy/flowery scent.
The previous days would stay in her heart forever, even if the venomous bite of doubt and fear had seeped into her heart.
Caroline followed the Japanese butler along the corridor of the 55th floor of this Tokyo luxury hotel, while directing her steps toward Klaus's penthouse suite. The butler opened, with the help of a smart card, the two prestigious entrance doors, before making a reverence in front of Caroline as an invitation to enter inside the luxurious multi-rooms apartment.
An Asiatic décor welcomed her inside the walls of the penthouse.
"ありがとう – Thank you" Klaus addressed the man, in both languages, while nodding his head, and sliding a generous yen bill in the butler's hand.
"あなたは夜の私のサービスを必要としている, Mr. Mikaelson"
"Are you in need of my services for the night, Mister Mikaelson?" The assigned butler asked Klaus.
"いいえ朝食に戻ってきたよ" Klaus responded in Japanese.
"No. You'll come back for the breakfast."
The butler nodded his head with respect, while lowering his upper body for a reverence, before closing the entrance doors behind his heels.
Caroline scattered the modern, palatial, suite: luxurious hardwood floor, dark mahogany wooded furniture, with an Asian design accent, "L" shape low sitting sofa in exquisite leather, with comfortable silk multi-colours cushions, and a few extra big ones, sporadically placed on the floor. In the middle of the living room, a four glasses wall room, hiding a small Japanese garden, with an aquarium of tropical fishes, and in addition, placed on the ceiling, a skylight reflecting the night starry of Tokyo.
Klaus was exchanging with the Japanese butler, when she took the opportunity to walk along a narrow corridor, where different paintings of talented Japanese artists were placed on the wall for display. She finally reached a wooded sliding door, hiding an exquisite bedroom, with a low, to the floor, Asian bed, with a glass wall that was leading to a very modern bathroom, with as addition on the ceiling, another skylight. But, that was nothing compared to the magnificent view of Tokyo, thanks to a top to bottom windows wall, and a glass door that was leading to the terrace, where luxury outdoor furniture and a modern Jacuzzi awaited her.
Caroline took a deep breath in her lungs at the extraordinary view placed in front of her sight, a hand placed over her chest, while taking a few walking steps toward the security ramp. She grabbed it with her two hands to keep her equilibrium. She felt dizzy and overwhelmed while standing, under the stars, in front of this magnificent city. She closed her eyes, for a few minutes, with her eyelids filled with tears, a hand placed over her mouth, before feeling two manly hands slide on each side of her hips, with two strong arms encircling her waist, and a muscular chest pushing on her back. She felt a soft breath on the right side of her neck, and a low whisper in her right ear.
"You need to let out, all your feelings, Love." Klaus murmured softly to her.
"This is so stupid!" She mumbled incoherently, while feeling a range of convulsions and a flood of tears hitting her entire body.
"Shh…" Klaus whispered to her, his chin resting on the top of her head, his left hand caressing her hair, with his right encircling her waist, before closing his arms tighter around her shaking body. "I got you, I won't let you fall." He whispered, while closing his eyes, and listening to her outburst of profound pain.
"It hurts so much…What's happening?" She mumbled, between two spasms.
"I know, sweetheart." He whispered, while turning her body around in his arms, her head now resting on his chest. "I got you in my arms now, you can lean on me." Klaus murmured, while caressing her back to calm her down.
She grabbed the fabric of his t-shirt with her left hand, while encircling his waist with her right one, before letting out all the anger, the sorrow, and the turmoil of the past year, since she had turned as a vampire. She had never given the chance to mourn the human Caroline, to get rid of all this pain buried inside of her. She always showed the better, stronger part of Caroline Forbes, in front of her family and friends. And now, in Klaus's arms, she was finally accepting her need to be comforted.
She cried her sorrow for what seemed to be a very long time, before passing the back of her hand on her eyelids to sweep away her tears. Klaus opened his eyes, and lowered his sight on Caroline, before grabbing her chin to raise her head, while locking his sight with hers.
"Are you ok, Love? Talk to me?" He asked, while caressing her cheeks, her hair, and the delicate line of her jaw.
Caroline kept quiet, while drowning her sight in his blue eyes, before parting her lips in a secret prayer to be kissed.
"You must know the effect that you have on me, by now, Caroline?" He murmured, while caressing the length of her bottom lip, with the tip of his thumb, in an unbearable caress that created a delightful range of shivers in her entire body, before slowly lowering his head near hers. His mouth met her trembling lips, his breath infiltrating a new life into her soul, with the tip of his tongue caressing their lengths, in sweet kisses.
Caroline mumbled sounds of pleasure, while mouthing his name on her lips, which made Klaus, groaned his pleasure and deepening his kiss even more. He took possession of her mouth, before sliding his tongue in her delightful moisture, with his hands now placed in her lower back. He pushed his pelvis in full contact with hers, while making her realize his obvious hardness of his desire.
She raised her hands on his chest, before sliding her wandering fingers in his hair, while feeling her own breasts becoming extremely sensible at the touch of his muscular chest. Klaus's muscles suddenly tensed with anticipation of giving her more sensual pleasure.
But as soon as this uncontrollable desire for him surfaced, she snapped out of it by pushing him away from her standing position, with both of her hands placed on his chest. She backed away from him and pointed a finger at his direction, with a hand placed over her chest, to calm herself down.
"Don't touch me, Klaus!" She warned him.
Klaus's chest rose under his heavy breaths with his eyes closing under the pressure. He passed a hand through his tangled hair before putting both of them on each side of his waist.
"Caroline, calm down, you have your nerves all over the place, Love." He regained his calm.
"You took advantage of me and the fact that I… I'm lost at the moment." She replied.
"You're more than lost, Caroline…You are mourning the human Caroline inside of you…And, believe me, Love…" He addressed the issue, while closing his fists in anger, and locking his sight in hers. "If I had wanted to take advantage of you, I would have compel you, put you on my shoulders; bring you into my bed, before ravaging your body by making love to you for hours, while making you forget all the other men before me."
Caroline startled, while blushing intensively at his saying, before lowering her sight.
"It's on my terms, Klaus, I suggested this agreement." She warned him.
"No, it's on my terms, Caroline!" He lashed out at her, while sighing with anger, before adding. "You're mine when you are with me, I control the game!"
"Everything is just a game to you, isn't it?" She yelled at him. "Let just play the "Alpha Man" game, to display the super power of the Original hybrid!"
"But you see, sweetheart, "You" started this, "You" came to me with this agreement, I certainly didn't!" He lashed out, while pointing a finger at Caroline. "Now, if you could only become half of the woman that I know that you could be in my arms, you would finally confess that you came up with this stupid idea of dating agreement because you needed a brilliant idea to find your way into my bed. When all you had to do is simply ask, Love."
Caroline blanched under the insult, while taking a few walking steps to reach Klaus, before slapping him across both cheeks.
Klaus groaned his anger and disapproval, before raising his right hand to his cheeks, while rubbing his red skin.
"You raise your hand one more time on me, Caroline, and I swear that I'll put you in my bed sooner than you think. And I will give a damn about respecting your wishes, if this should happen again." He busted at her, before walking toward the sliding glass doors and entering the luxurious penthouse bedroom.
Caroline sighed, before closing her eyes and crouching on the terrace floor, her head buried in her hands.
Caroline entered the penumbra of the bedroom, with the bright rays of the moon to direct her walk. She took a few more steps toward the bed, where Klaus was lying on the silk bedspread with his right forearm placed under his head, on the pillow, while keeping is sight on the ceiling, with one of his knees elevated.
She coughed several times, while nervously rubbing her hands together, and noticing no reaction from his part. She took one more step before sitting at the foot of the bed, and taking a few glimpses in his direction.
"I'm sorry, I was out of line." She murmured, while lowering her sight. "I was standing in front of this panoramic view of Tokyo, and all my emotions suddenly took the better of me."
Klaus turned his head to look at her, with a smile spreading on his lips.
"Apology accepted." He responded, while nodding his head.
"And thank you for bringing me here, Tokyo is a beautiful city." She acknowledged.
"You're welcome." He answered.
She nodded her head, in thankfulness, while lowering her flushed cheeks. Klaus had shown her kindness, more than once, and was making her doubt his true evilness.
"You're right; I did not mourn my human self yet." She confessed, while shrugging her shoulders.
"What makes you so afraid of embracing your vampire side, Love?" He asked, while sliding his left hand under the pillow.
"I don't know how to control it." She murmured, while avoiding his sight. "Stefan showed me how to control my urge to feed human blood, but for the rest I don't know?"
"Who said you need to control it. What if it was the other way around, what if you needed to embrace it?" He asked her.
Caroline closed her eyes in annoyance. Why would she think that he could understand her point of view?
"I'm sorry to have disturbed you." She said in annoyance, before feeling his right hand grab her wrist.
"Stay, hear me out, Love." He asked her politely.
She looked at him for a moment, before lying at the other extremity of the gigantic bed, face to face with him, her head resting on the other pillow.
"The human Caroline is gone forever, as much as you want her to still be here, she'll never come back." He started explaining to her.
"I know that now." She whispered, while feeling a lump in her throat. "I just miss her so much." She added, with tears filling her eyes.
"She is here. She just transformed into something so much better, and magnificent." Klaus responded, with a smile from ear to ear. "Why can't you see it, sweetheart?"
"How can you even say that to me, you of all people? Aren't you the one who said to me on my birthday that you have thought of ending your vampire life more than once?" She asked him.
"You remember all the things I've said to you, I'm quite touch, Caroline." He responded, while smirking.
"Oh, that is beside the point!" Caroline mumbled, angrily, between her teeth, while rolling her eyes to the ceiling.
"But you're right, I did, I wanted to die! And then, I remembered that I was a force of nature, all by myself, and that I needed to stay and fight, and procreate our species." He responded to her.
"Procreate our species, by killing innocent people?" She lashed out at him, while shaking her head in disbelief.
"I don't expect you to understand as of today, Caroline, but you will understand some day." He answered her.
She rolled her eyes to the ceiling once more, while turning her head on the pillow, and staring at the ceiling, before asking in a murmur.
"Why do you want me?"
"Tell me why not?" He responded, before adding. "You're the bright light in my darkness, Caroline."
She turned her head to look into his eyes, before feeling a range of intense emotions hitting her all at once, while feeling his hand caressing her left cheek.
"You're not only beautiful, full of light, and strong. You have the capacity to make me forget." He murmured as a confession.
She frowned in surprise, while staring at him. What did he meant by that exactly?
"You need to sleep." He added in a whisper, while caressing her hair.
"Mm…You're right." She whispered while closing her eyes. "I need to go to my bedroom."
"I won't touch you, and I won't seduce you, Caroline. You can sleep with me in here." He added, truthfully.
"I don't believe you." She mumbled, half asleep.
"You should believe me; I could never harm you in any way. But, I would harm anyone who would put your life in danger." He whispered, while approaching his body from hers, before kissing her forehead.
"Tomorrow morning, we'll take the subway and I'll show you all the food markets of Tokyo, a real delight for the eyes." He whispered, near her ear.
"Ok" She responded, before drifting into a peaceful sleep.
Elena Gilbert closed her eyes, while letting a profound sight out of her mouth, while trying to calm herself down. She nervously rubbed her hands on the fabric of her jeans, before directing her walking steps toward the front door of the Salvatore' Boarding House. She turned the handle, before standing straight as an "I" in front of Elijah Mikaelson.
"Elijah." She murmured, while drowning her sight in his, before curving her lips into a timid smile.
"Elena." He responded, while smiling back at her. "It seems we meet again?" He added, while keeping his eyes locked with hers, and seeing her blush at his insistent gaze. "May I enter?"
"Of Course you can." She responded, before signing him to enter.
"Do they have responded to my invitation?" He asked, before sliding his hand on her lower back, while inviting her to pass in front of him, before creating a surprising range of delightful shivers in her spine.
"For the most part, I guess, I am not quite sure who you invited?" She responded, while shrugging her shoulders and entering the parlour room with Elijah at her side.
"Hey, grandpa Original, It's been quite a long time since the last time I saw you? How's everything? Could you go back from where you are coming from?" Damon mumbled, apparently incapacitated by the alcohol, while taking a few unsteady walking steps toward Elijah, with a glass of Bourbon in his right hand, and the bottle in his other. "Can I offer you a drink: Green tea, chamomile, to help the elderly sleep?"
"Damon!" Elena exclaimed, in anger.
"What Elena?" Damon responded, before lowering his face at a near inch of hers.
"This is my house, and this Original/freak show is barging in here, like he owns the place!" He explained himself, while pouring more alcohol in his glass.
"I'm so sorry!" Elena murmured to Elijah, while crossing her arms in front of her chest. "He's been like this since Alaric's death." She explained, while shrugging her shoulders.
"No, Elena, my brother has been like this since ever!" Stefan said, while entering the parlour room. "Pardon my brother, Elijah, he was never known as someone who had good manners." The young vampire added, before pointing a finger at Damon's direction. "And it is not your home; it is our home, mine and yours, Damon!"
"Oh right! My brother the "licking ass"! Forgive me for forgetting that part: How willing you are of bending in front of that Original." Damon replied to his brother, while making a mockery reverence, and nodding toward Elijah.
"Damon, it's enough!" Elena lashed out in anger. "I'm sorry, Elijah." She added, while timidly meeting his gaze.
"No insult taken." Elijah responded her.
"Right, Elena…how could I have forgotten, he got your panties in a twist also, pardon me, Princess!" Damon mumbled, angrily, between his teeth, while making her blush.
Elijah rolled his eyes while sighing with annoyance, before sliding his hands in his pants pockets. He stood in front of the bay window, while thinking that after living more than a thousand years on this earth; he had learned to practice his tolerance and patience.
"Hi!" Bonnie said, while entering the parlour room. "What is this about; I've received a text message from Elijah, to meet him here?" She added, before dropping her handbag on a console table. "Oh…You're here?" She mumbled, while blushing and noticing Elijah standing position near the window.
"Miss Bennett." Elijah saluted, while nodding his head.
"Ok, brother of mine, what is this annoying meeting about?" Rebekah asked, while entering the room with Matt on her footsteps.
"Oh, look who's here, the blond Original chick who slept with the entire male population of Mystic Falls!" Damon mocked Rebekah, while gulping another glass.
"You included!" Rebekah giggled, while crossing her arms in front of her chest, and smirking at Elena, who blenched at the insult, while avoiding Elijah's stare.
"I'm not interested in you anymore, sweetheart; I prefer my one night conquest to be less of a whore!" Damon responded, tit for tat, before noticing Matt's anger directed at him. "What Donovan? Don't tell me, she got you under her spell also?" Damon asked, before seeing the young human boy closing his fists in anger.
"Don't push me, Salvatore." Matt warned, while shaking his head.
"I am not pushing you; man … It's just a friendly warning to not get into her panties too quickly. She can be a hand full that little one, and quite a snake, if she wants to be. One minute she is lying underneath you, the next she is torturing you while chaining you to a wall." Damon explained, while smirking at Rebekah.
"Oh you can admit that you enjoyed it, Damon, I won't tell." Rebekah responded, perniciously.
"Damon, stop it!" Stefan warned his brother.
"What, brother? You want to have a taste of her also? Elena is not enough for you anymore; you need to rekindle the past I suppose?" Damon asked Stefan.
"Enough!" Elijah yelled, as an order, while making everybody startle and turn their sight in his direction. "You are acting like children! And Rebekah, you should handle yourself better, you're a Mikaelson not a girl from the street. As for you, young, foolish, and egocentric Damon, one day your temperament and insolence will lead you to your death, you're lucky that it is me who's standing in this room, and not a real enemy, or you'll be a pill of dust already!" Elijah warned, while narrowing his sight on the young vampire.
Rebekah stared into her older brother's eyes, while blushing and lowering her sight in shame, before feeling the tip of Matt's fingers brushing the inside of her left hand, as an almost unnoticeable, comfort gesture. Damon frowned, while biting the inside of his cheeks and lowering his sight as submission. Stefan closed his eyes, before nodding his head.
"Please forgive us, Elijah." Stefan presented his apologies to Elijah, while nodding his head. "Why did you ask all of us to have this meeting with you today? You've been away from Mystic Falls for quite a while now?" Stefan asked him.
"Yes, Grandpa, what is the real purpose of this uneventful gathering?" Damon asked, while smirking.
"It came to my attention that Alaric Saltzman was found dead in an alley near the Mystic Falls Grill." Elijah said, while crossing his arms in front of his chest, and slowly pacing back and front. "Damon found his body, am I right?" He asked.
"Yes." Damon responded, while lowering his sight, and closing his fists in anger.
"Now, we all know that Alaric Saltzman, with the help of my mother, had become the ultimate Original vampire slayer." Elijah explained to them.
"Where are you going with all of this?" Stefan asked, mostly intrigued, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Let me explained, Stefan." Elijah replied, with a hand gesture, while continuing his walking pace. "This said the only way of killing Mister Saltzman was with the silver dagger, created also by my mother."
"There is no new knowledge in your saying." Damon busted, while shrugging his shoulders and rolling his eyes to the ceiling.
"To kill Alaric Saltzman, you couldn't be a vampire or a hybrid, or it would kill you instantly at the same time. A human needed to do this task, but the only humans that knew about this ultimate weapon that could destroy the entire line of vampires were: Elena, Bonnie, Matt and Jeremy." Elijah presented his argument. "None of the mentioned humans seemed to have done it, therefore, who could have done it, who would want to destroy our line of vampires?"
"Are you thinking the werewolves?" Stefan asked, while narrowing his sight on Elijah.
"No, that could have been a good guess, if Tyler Lockwood had not been turned as a hybrid or if my brother had not wiped off the map the almost entire population of werewolves, for his main obsession of creating his army of hybrids." Elijah responded, before taking a sitting position on the right arm of the sofa, where Elena was already sitting.
"Then whom could it be, Elijah?" Elena asked.
"I only see one possibility: Another species that would have stolen the ultimate weapon in hope to destroy us in a near future." Elijah explained to them, while nodding his head to her.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me!" Damon exclaimed. "Another species, really, that is your explanation? After the werewolves, the moon and sun curse, what can we expect now, an army of penguins?" He added, while shaking his head in disbelief.
"It's not because you don't believe in other species as powerful as us, that they can't exist, Damon." Elijah responded to him.
"Then the ultimate weapon made by your mother would be in the hands of more powerful enemies than Alaric?" Stefan asked the Original.
"That is in fact my way of seeing this present situation, Stefan." Elijah agreed, while nodding his head.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Stefan inquired.
"Be on your guards, like you were when Alaric had my mother's weapon in his possession." Elijah suggested, before adding. "The one who needs to be protected the most, and by all cost, and this to spare all of your lives, is my brother Niklaus, if this enemy has the ultimate weapon in his hands, Klaus could be the first target, therefore the majority of you could be all dead in a matter of seconds."
"And how do you know this fairy-tale story exactly?" Damon busted in anger, while taking a few walking steps to reach Elijah. "He, obviously, not telling the half of what he knows!" Damon accused Elijah, while scattering the entire room. "Don't be blind, he already knows who the enemy is, it's obvious!" Damon yelled his accusations.
"I've been on this earth a longer time that you have, Damon. I've learned to let go of my oversized ego, and keep some of what I know to myself, and give the parts that I can give to others. One day, only one can hope, that you will let go of yours. I've known my share of enemies over the centuries, most of them died, some of their species vanished with the call of time. Therefore, I can't say, with certainty, who's this enemy." Elijah replied, while locking his sight in Damon's.
"What else do you suggest that we do?" Stefan asked more.
"Stay on your guards, and keep your eyes open. This present danger situation is not about to vanish, not by a long shot." Elijah replied to Stefan, before adding. "Where's your friend Elena?" Elijah suddenly asked her.
"My friend, who are you talking about?" Elena replied, in surprise.
"Yes, the young vampire woman, with blond hair, Caroline Forbes, if I remember correctly?" He asked, while raising one of his eyebrows with suspicious. "I send her an invitation to be present?"
"Caroline?" Elena repeated, before turning her head toward Bonnie.
"I don't know." Bonnie responded, while shrugging her shoulders.
"She had to left town for a family emergency." Matt explained, while seeing Rebekah roll her eyes to the ceiling and closing her fists in anger, which did not go unnoticed for Elijah.
"Well then, keep Miss Forbes informed." He said to all, while rising on his feet. "Rebekah, can I have a word with you, please." He asked, signing her to follow him with his right hand, while taking a few walking steps away from the assembly, toward the entrance door. He turned his sight at his sister and assured himself that no one could hear them. "Where is Niklaus?" Elijah whispered to her.
"I don't know where he is these days, Elijah." Rebekah murmured, while shrugging her shoulders. "He's been absent most of the time, while seeing his blonde bimbo!"
"That's what I thought." Elijah replied, while taking his blackberry in his hands. "He was absent for what reasons?" He added as a question, while checking his reply messages from Klaus, unfortunately there was none.
"They travelled." She replied, while rolling her eyes, in annoyance.
"What do you mean they travelled?" Elijah asked her, while grabbing her shoulders.
"I think they went to Paris." Rebekah answered him, completely dumfounded by his reaction.
"Damn him!" Elijah mumbled angrily in his teeth, while dialling a number.
"Elijah you are starting to scare me, what is going on?" Rebekah asked him, while grabbing his left forearm.
"Yes, Mikaelson here, Is the jet available to take off?" He asked his interlocutor. "And the plane landed in which country?" He asked more, in front of a nervous Rebekah. "Thank you!" He added, before closing the line, and nervously passing a hand through his hair. "Fuck! The airplane landed in Tokyo in all places!"
"Elijah, you are really scaring me now, please you have to tell me what is going on." She begged him.
"I have to go, Rebekah … But before, what can you tell me of his past actions, and whereabouts the last past weeks?" Elijah asked her, while grabbing her arms.
"I don't know. He's been seeing Caroline Forbes, on and off. I couldn't say what sick agreement they have between them, Elijah. None of her stupid friends are even aware that they're seeing each other. Caroline Forbes has now left to visit a family relative in a fake emergency; she is with Niklaus, that I am sure of it." Rebekah busted the truth to his brother.
"Could he have compelled her to follow him?" Elijah asked more.
"No." She replied, while shaking her head. "She has been lying to her friends, and she even compelled Matt Donovan to forget about an encounter we had with them, couple of days ago."
"He's putting her in danger." Elijah said, while frowning, before putting his hands on each side of his waist.
"What danger, Elijah?" Rebekah begged him to tell.
"Stay safe as much as you can, I have to go." Elijah replied to his sister, before storming outside the house.
"Elijah, what is going on?" She yelled, while standing over the threshold of the door, before seeing him walked toward his car.
"Is he leaving?" Elena asked Rebekah, while reaching her standing position, to which Rebekah nodded her head.
"Don't you have enough men pinning over you, Elena? You need to have my brother also?" She added, before seeing Elena storming outside the house after Elijah, while ignoring her say.
"Rebekah?" She heard Matt voice calling from behind her, before turning on herself and staring in surprise into his eyes.
"What did you mean when you said to your brother that Caroline compelled me?" He asked her, while closing his fists in anger, before asking. "What memory did she erase?"
"I've tried to explain it to you several times, but you've refused to believe me." Rebekah tried to explain once more.
Matt closed his eyes, while sighing, before pushing Rebekah out of his way, and getting out of the house.
"Matt, please listen to me?" Rebekah screamed, while running after him.
"I'm fed up with listening to all of you and most of all, I'm fed up of you, Rebekah, and I'm fed up being in the middle of this supernatural stuff. I just want to regain my true human self!" He lashed out, before reaching his truck, taking his place on the driver seat, and starting the engine on a squeal of tires.
"Matt, I only wanted to protect you." Rebekah whispered, with tears filling her eyes, while bending her upper body, with her hands placed on her knees.
"Elijah?" Elena called, while running after him.
"Elena." He replied with surprise, before sliding the car key in the driver's door.
"I know you, Elijah." She said upfront, while reaching his standing position and sliding a strand of her long hair behind her right ear. "You're hiding something. Something or someone, I'm not sure, but I feel that it is even scarier than what we could all imagine."
"We always had that special connection between us, Elena." He replied, while smiling and drowning his sight in hers. "We are able to feel the deepest thought of the other."
Elena blushed at his saying, before raising her hand on his right forearm.
"I'm afraid, Elijah. I can see in your eyes that you are worrying about something also, and I've always known you, as unshakable and extremely sure of yourself." She explained her concerns to him, before adding. "And, what I saw in your eyes, today, was human fear."
"I'm not human, Elena. You've known that fact about me for a long time now." He replied to her, while raising one of his eyebrows, and smiling.
"For me, you have the qualities that make a person human." She replied to him.
Elijah stared into her eyes for a short moment, while feeling a range of intense emotions, hitting him, all at once. He swallowed a lump in his throat, before lowering his sight and opening the passenger door of his car.
"But, I'm not human anymore; therefore you shouldn't put me on a pedestal. Don't be afraid, Elena; I'll assure your safety and security, nothing will happen to you, and your friends, under my wings, I'll make sure of that." He promised her, while nodding his head and taking a sitting place in his car, before starting the engine.
"It's not me that I am mostly worried about." She whispered to herself, while looking at the car disappear at the horizon.
Caroline startled, while hearing the door close behind the charming Asian secretary who had politely asked the young woman to follow her inside an interior garden, while using impeccable English.
Now she was standing alone, in the middle of this gigantic and beautiful flowers garden, while rubbing her hands nervously. Maybe she should not have accepted this invitation? Maybe this Arian Satō was not a friend of the Mikaelson Family or Klaus? Maybe she was in danger? Caroline shook her head, while closing her eyes. This was Tokyo, not Mystic Falls, she reminded herself, while grasping a sense of reality. She was not in any danger, and she had no reason to refuse this invitation, she repeated in her mind to convince herself, while taking, in her hands, the invitation card from her handbag.
Miss Forbes,
Please accept this humble invitation.
Join me for lunch, along with Mr. Mikaelson, at my Head Office Enterprise.
My driver will pick you up shortly.
I am an old friend of the Mikaelson family.
Regards,
Arian Satō
Satō Family Enterprise
The chauffeur had mentioned to Caroline that Klaus would be joining her and Mr. Satō shortly. And as Klaus had told her yesterday morning, while showing her the food markets of Tokyo, it was one of the biggest insults to refuse a host invitation in Japan. This said she had been into the obligation, and without any other choices but to accept it. What was she supposed to do? He had left her alone for a few hours, to attend some business matters, without any warning from his part that she was, technically, forbidden to refuse this invitation.
She looked at the space around her, before taking a few walking steps toward a range of exquisite tropical flowers. These ones more special at her eyes than the others, her delicate petals opened on a range of light to dark pink color.
"That specific Asian flower is named: チェリー- Cherry." She heard a voice addressing her, in both languages.
Caroline turned on herself, while placing a hand over her chest and drowning her sight into the one of a young, tall, and handsome Asian man, who took several walking steps to reach her standing position, before holding his pace, smiling and tilting his head to the left, while studying her facial feature.
"Cherry blossoms in Japan are symbolic of the transience and impermanence of life because they don't bloom for long. The fall of the Cherry blossoms also symbolized the warriors who have died in battle, thus connecting the blossoms with the samurai Ethos." He explained, before taking her right hand to kiss its back, while staring intensively into Caroline's eyes. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Forbes."
While meeting Arian Satō for the first time, Caroline felt a range of shivers hitting her spine all at once, wonder, curiosity, intensity, but most of all: fear.
"I don't know much about exotic flowers." Caroline replied to him, while slowly pulling her hand away from his.
"Life is a mean to an end, we are meant to learn everything about what's surrounding us, would you say, sweet Caroline?" Arian asked, while inviting her to walk toward a stone path filled with more tropical flowers and plants.
"I guess." Caroline replied to him, while nervously swallowing a lump in her throat.
"You are overwhelmed by my presence, aren't you?" Arian asked, while smiling to her.
"I …" Caroline baffled, before lowering her flushed cheeks.
"My humble apologies, this is obviously the bad effect I have on people, every time I meet someone new. It must have been a bad Japanese curse murmured in front of my baby crib, would you say?" He said to Caroline, with his most charming smile.
Caroline smiled back, before lowering her sight.
"No, please...It's obviously me who had lost all good manners for a moment. Thank you for the invitation, Mr. Satō." She replied to him, while nodding her head in respect.
"Please Caroline, call me Arian, we already established a deep flowers connection between us." He added, while winking, before sliding his hand on her lower back to gently push her toward a table setting, inside a gazebo, near an artificial small pool of water, filled with red fishes.
"Fishes symbolized wealth in the Asian culture." He explained, while pulling a chair, and inviting the young woman to take a sitting position, before taking his own in front of Caroline. "Can I offer you Jasmine tea?" He asked her, while taking a tea pot in his right hand.
"Please, thank you." She responded, while handing to him a porcelain cup. "It's magnificent. I mean the garden in the middle of a corporate building, it's not something that you see very often, I suppose."
Arian raised his sight, before smiling and handing her tea cup.
"I have this defect, Caroline; I always need to be surrounded by beautiful living things." He replied to her. "The corporate world can rapidly become, dark, cold and impersonal."
"Well, it's certainly gorgeous." She added.
"As you are yourself while standing in front of me." He replied, while making her blush. "Another defect, Caroline, I always speak my mind."
"Mm…How are you related to the Mikaelson family…I mean…They are…I mean…You must know…I mean…" Caroline stammered through her sentence, before lowering her head, to hide her rosy cheeks. She was making an idiot of herself.
"What you want to know is: if I know what they are? The answer is yes…As I know what you are Caroline." He replied, while taking a gulp from his tea cup, his piercing black eyes set on watching every of her moves. "Let just say that I am an old acquaintance of Elijah, knowing that his brother Klaus, was in town, it was my obligation to invite him and yourself, for lunch, Japanese hospitality tradition, of course."
For a strange reason, Caroline had the certainty that his last sentence was all made up for her intention.
"And Mister Klaus Mikaelson will be here soon, don't worry. That is what you're thinking, aren't you?" He asked, with a smile spreading on his lips. "Along while wondering if I could kill you in this garden, before throwing your dead boy as food for the fish." He added, with a mocking tone of voice.
"The thought crossed my mind." She honestly replied, while smirking herself.
"I'm not in the habit of killing beautiful women, Caroline, and even less, one that caught my eyes, something that did not happen to me since a long, long time." He replied, while making her blush even more.
"Are you in the habit of killing something else than beautiful woman, Arian?" She asked him, tit for tat.
"Touché!" He exclaimed, with a laugh, before adding. "You are not only beautiful; you're intelligent as well, another quality that's adding to my growing attraction to you."
The feeling of fear hit Caroline once more. She stared into his eyes for a short moment, before lowering her sight, with the welcoming arrival of the secretary who had previously welcomed her.
She nodded her head in respect to Caroline, before lowering her upper body near Arian's right ear, while murmuring to him that his presence was required in his office.
"My apologies, Caroline, it seems that the corporate world is calling me once more, I need to leave you by yourself, for a very short moment, and in the meantime, my secretary will bring you something to eat." He excused himself, while rising on his feet, before storming out of this paradise garden.
"Miss Forbes, what would you like to eat, and are you in need of any blood?" The secretary asked her, with the most charming smile. Caroline regained a sense of reality from the mysterious and mystic spell that she was under in the presence of this man named: Arian Satō.
Rebekah was pacing back and forth in front of the fireplace in the parlour/living room of the Mikealson Manor, while checking, for the hundreds of times, her text messages on her cell phone. Not a single message from Klaus, Elijah or Matt? She suddenly heard the doorbell sound of the main entrance. She ran toward the entrance door, before turning the handle, and standing immobile in front of the human boy.
"Can I come inside?" He asked, in a neutral tone of voice.
"Sure…Please." She responded nervously, while seeing him pass beside her, before closing the door.
"I don't want to be a pawn in the middle of this vampire war, Rebekah." Matt confessed to her, while putting his hands on each side of his waist. "I am done being the one that everybody laughs at for being most of the time clueless about what is going on around him."
Rebekah nodded her head, while blushing, and rubbing her hands nervously.
"I understand, I would probably feel the same way at your place." She responded honestly to him.
"I feel ashamed." Matt added to her, while passing a nervous hand through his hair.
"Why? Why would you feel like that, Matt? You're an awesome guy, no … You are actually more than awesome, and you're kind, considerate, generous, and perfectly human in so many ways." She replied to him.
"And a fool, you forgot a fool, Rebekah." He added to her.
"I'm sorry, I truly am, Matt." She responded.
"I'm sorry also." Matt said.
"For what, I'm a manipulative bitch; didn't you hear Damon? You should never apologize to me, Matt. I screwed up, in many more ways than one, I always do." She responded to him.
"No, you actually told me the truth for once, about Caroline, when I was refusing to believe in you." He replied to her, before asking. "What did she make me forget?"
"Eh… Mm… I don't know if I should tell you. It's in the past now." Rebekah responded, while lowering her blushed cheeks.
"I beg you, Rebekah. I need to know." He asked more.
"She made you forget about a night, in which you find her in the arms on my brother." She explained to him, while avoiding his sight.
Matt groaned, while closing his fists in anger.
"What else? When and where was that?" Matt asked her.
"It's not important … The prior reason that she did it was because she needed you to forget her encounter with Klaus." She explained to him.
"What does she want with your brother, for God sake?" Matt wondered, while pacing back and forth in front of her. "No offence, Rebekah, but he is her number one enemy."
"None taken, and I don't know, Matt. I did not figure that part yet." She replied to him, while shrugging her shoulders.
"I'm such an idiot; I always give my complete trust to my friends and family. And at the end of the day, I'm the one who's always mocked." He added, while lowering his head, and closing his eyes.
"No, I never mocked you. You've been so good to me." She confessed.
"Were you there?" He asked, before adding. "I mean, that night, where you there with me?"
"Yes, I was with you." She nodded in response.
"What were we doing?" he asked more.
"You brought me to the lake, we…" She started explaining, before blushing. "We took a walk and then we sat and talked."
"That is all? We only talk?" He added more, while narrowing his eyes at her.
Rebekah turned her back at him, while nervously rubbing her hands together. What was she supposed to do now? The man was feeling unloved and unappreciated, and she was part of the reason. She understood too well that feeling of not belonging anywhere, or with anybody.
"We …" She started, while closing her eyes.
"What did we do, Rebekah?" He asked her, while putting his hands on her shoulders, before turning her body to face him.
"We had sex … I mean, we made love." She murmured as a lie, to a speechless and shocked, Matt.
The glass skyscraper of the "Satō Family Enterprise" presented itself in front of Klaus's sight. The building was located in one of the most corporate downtown street of Tokyo, while standing in all its glory, with its opulence and powerfulness. Klaus got out of the limousine, before closing his fists in anger and unfolding the crumpled card he held in his closed fist.
Mr. Mikaelson, your presence is requested for Lunch.
Join me with your delightful friend, Caroline Forbes
A limousine will drive you to my head quarter around 12:00 pm
Regards,
Arian Satō
Satō Family Enterprise
Klaus stormed inside the building, while pushing the revolving doors in a hurry, with the narrowed gaze of a wild animal chasing his latest prey. Caroline had been abducted under his careful, security watch, and not a single leaving soul would stay alive after disrespecting him and her safety, this way, not even the soul of one of the members of the most powerful family of Tokyo, and certainly not this: Arian Satō.
Arian Satō was sitting in front of his modern glass desk, in his comfortable leather desk chair, with behind him, the most breathtaking panoramic view of Tokyo.
The white marble floor, the red Asiatic rugs, a majestic abstract paint on the wall, and floor to ceiling bamboos, where the only decorating aspects of this very bare, minimalist, luxurious, modern office.
Arian raised his sight toward the double entrance door of his office, while hearing the shrill noise of a fight behind the walls, before dropping his golden platted pen on his desk top, leaning his back on the chair, with his hands joined in front of his face, and a sarcastic, devious smile on his lips. He saw the doors being pushed open, with several of his guards jumping on the back of the intruder, their heads being snatched away from their bodies, hearts pulled from their abdomens, in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately for the intruder, the number of guards won over his strength. He was thrown on the floor, and maintain in an immobile position.
"Mister Mikaelson, I supposed?" Arian asked Klaus, while arching an eyebrow. "Firstly, let me thank you for accepting my humble invitation to lunch, and secondly, for this unexpected display of entertainment. As you say in America, I am always a sucker for a good fight." He added, with a smile, while rising on his feet, in an impeccable, high quality, two pieces business suit, before sliding his hands in his front pants pockets, and taking a few walking steps toward Klaus's lying position on the floor.
"Let me go, or I swear..." Klaus mumbled angrily in his teeth.
"Thirdly, my humble gratitude for reminding me that my guards are for the most part, complete idiots. You made me realized that their training in Asian combat needs to be re-evaluated. The ones you killed did not deserve any lesser pain for their incompetence." Arian concluded, while signing his remaining guards. "Let him go!" He ordered them, before adding in his natal language. "体を取り除く- Get rid of the bodies." "
Klaus was put back on his feet, and the guards got rid of the dead bodies in a matter of seconds, before leaving the two men face to face, in the middle of the office.
"The marble floor will need cleaning, to get rid of the blood, but it can wait." Arian noticed, while smirking, turning on himself, and directing his walking steps toward a wall panel, before pushing it and reaching for a glass on shelf.
"Can I offer you a glass of saké Mr. Mikaelson?" Arian asked Klaus.
"Where is Caroline?" Klaus inquired, while closing his fists in anger.
"Lord Klaus, One of the youngest of the Mikaelson family, the bastard child if my memory serves me well, please forgive me if I am mistaking…So impatient and unwise, and yet, so strong and frightening at the same time, very interesting combination of strength and weakness for an Original vampire." Arian analyzed, while making Klaus wince.
"Nothing would give me more pleasure than ripping your inside out at the present moment." Klaus mumbled between his teeth, while narrowing his sight on the young Asian man.
"And what an honour it would be to become one day your worthy adversary. Your brother had warned me about you, and I basically disregard his saying, I see now, that he was speaking the truth." Arian said, before adding. "And, we both know that you won't harm me in any way, at least for the time being, you need to assure the safety of Miss Forbes."
"Elijah? You know my brother?" Klaus asked, suspiciously. "I doubt that he had mentioned you as a friend?"
"Let just say that we are past acquaintance, with opposite and similar goals." Arian explained, while taking several gulps of his Saké, before subtly changing the subject of conversation. "What a pleasure to have met your friend, the delightful Miss Caroline Forbes."
"Leave her out of whatever this is!" Klaus warned him, slyly.
Arian took a few walking steps toward his desk, before leaning his back on the desktop and smirking.
"Love is the greatest weakness for a vampire, Mr. Mikaelson." Arian mentioned to him, before adding. "I was not interested in a woman since more than four hundred years, taking my physical pleasure from them, but without any real connection, but that was before meeting your delightful lady friend. How many years it's been for you since the Tatia Petrova scandal? Quite a few I believe. Caroline is quite a catch if I may add … A very beautiful, intriguing and strong woman…I hope you won't mind, if I am putting myself in the running for her attention?"
Klaus took a few walking steps to reach Arian's position, while narrowing his angry sight on his gaoler, before biting into his contracted jaws.
"You hurt her; and I'll make sure that your entire family will be drowning in their own bath of blood. Did I make myself clear?" Klaus whispered, while locking his sight in his adversary.
"Crystal clear" Arian responded, with a smile.
Klaus startled suddenly, while raising one of his eyebrows, and pointing a finger at him.
"I met you before?" He said, while studying the man's facial features.
"I believe you're right." Arian confirmed, before crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Paris, at the Moulin Rouge, I apologize for bumping accidentally into you." Klaus mentioned, completely dumfounded, while realizing that this enemy man had followed him since quite a time now.
"I believe you did. I was actually quite impressed by your knowledge of my natal language." Arian responded to Klaus.
"One thousand years on this earth gives you enough time to study a lot of things: continents, languages, technology, people, but most of all, your enemies…What did you study in life? What is your goal, Mister ArianSatō?" Klaus asked, while studying him intensively.
"You're wondering what I am, aren't you?" Arian asked, while smirking.
"You're not human, you're not a vampire, and you're not a werewolf, so what are you?" Klaus asked him.
"You know, Arian is actually my international first name, as an international business man, who's dealing quite oftentimes with north, central, and south America, I needed my first name to have an English tone attached to it." He started explaining to Klaus. "Usually, only my friends are granted with the privilege to call me by my real first name, but like you, I don't have many friends, Mr. Mikaelson. This time around, I am willing to make an exception, if I may, myself, call you by your first name?" Arian asked. "And no Klaus, I am not human; my family is actually the last of the Kitsune species." He added, before pausing briefly, and finally announcing.
"So, please, feel free to call me Shinichi!"
Thank you for reading: "Tokyo – Part 1", which was the seventh chapter.
A few of the scenes were rewritten.
This story is now completed.
REVISED DATE FOR THE SEQUEL: "SEVEN SINS" / autumn – winter 2013/2014.