"She knows us?" No one gave Hanabusa the answer to his question, instead ignored him. I always find that sort of funny when people do that, I don't know why, though.
"It's... Yume. Nice to meet you." I gave a big smile, remember not to use my teeth. Over the year, my teeth have gotten sharper and more noticeable, so Kaname told me to try my best to not show my teeth in front of other people. Especially humans.
Luka stood up. "My parents talk about you all the time and say you aren't a pureblood." She pointed her finger at me in an accusing way. What's with her? "Is that true?" Well, it's a pleasure to meet you too, Luka. We can go get some hot tea together in the afternoons so I can get your hair wet.
What I'm saying, is that this whole thing has escalated in only a few sentences, and not in the friendly way.
"It depends... on what you call a pureblood." I wonder which part doesn't make me a pureblood?
She put down her finger and stomped her foot. "I knew it." I didn't know she could be that much of a child, even if she is one. Oh, never mind.
Kaname stepped in. "Luka, please do not be rude to Yume. She may not be a friend of yours, but she is still my friend." Awe, was it that obvious we wouldn't be friends?
I think someone who does everything in the name of their parents are a bit too attached. Not that I'm saying never follow your parents, I'm saying that even if someone is older than you, it doesn't mean they have wisdom in everything.
Senri and Rima stood up and me a box of pocky.
I love pocky! "Hi." And then they sat back down. Senri was the one to say the only word, but I guess it was the nicest thing I had received since coming here. I chuckled and looked over to hear rustling.
Hanabusa was standing up and just about to talk. "Hime-sama, is something wrong with your eye? It's completely black." Eh? I scratched the back of my head, trying to ignore the question for as long as I could. I tugged at Kaname's sleeve and he saved me from the uncomfortable question, for both of us.
"Hanabusa, please do not meddle in business that is not yours." Hanabusa froze with an odd expression on his face and nodded.
Takuma stepped forward and addressed everyone. "Now that we're all here, why don't we play a game?" Rima looked up at him.
"What kind of game?"
It was Hanabusa's turn to speak. "Maybe... Um... a board game?" there was a moment of silence until Takuma snapped his fingers.
"How about Monopoly?" Everyone nodded and stood up, well, those who weren't standing. Monopoly is a weird game, the kind of game that will leave the best of friends arguing for a week or two. But, whatever, I guess.
We had finally finished playing a few games of monopoly. Weird. I know. But the first started to get unorganized, so we stopped playing. And then we played again, which was the best game ever! It was fun, but it was still fast enough that it didn't go on forever and then start to get boring.
In the actual game of monopoly, Senri had won. At first, Hanabusa was winning and had climbed his way to the top by destroying both mine and Kaname's stuff, and then Senri just started winning and took all of the AIDO CORP. I gotta give Kaname's cousin a hand for that.
And monopoly wasn't the only thing that had happened in this garden. My familiars came back! Yay!
Or, as I call them, Crow-chan. Crow-chan used to spend lots and lots of time with me in the library and whenever I went outside, but I hadn't seen them all year. Probably because they didn't know about the... 'move'.
Yeah, let's just call it that.
Anyways, I had only seen one or two a month at my bedroom window, but I think they found me. Currently, I had on on my and one on each shoulder. Kaname hand one on one of his shoulders and one on his head. The rest were all around us.
There were a few in the trees and a bunch on the ground. We had decided to play monopoly outside, and I think that's what helped Crow-chan find me.
"Hime-sama, we are going to leave soon, alright?" I looked over at Takuma, who was holding the box that had monopoly on it. I nodded. "Me and Aido will go put the game away, then we can leave." I nodded again, only half paying attention.
Takuma sighed. "Kaname-sama, please make sure she knows." Kaname nodded. I was sitting on Kaname's lap throughout the whole game, and it was sort of uncomfortable with Crow-chan on my head.
Kaname sighed. "Do I have to say anything?" I shook my head slightly.
I chuckled. "I'm not deaf, you know." He nodded.
Waiting for Takuma and Hanabusa to come back was silent, except Rima and Senri talking here and there. Hanabusa must be bothering Takuma, and the reason I say that is because that's one of the main things I've learned about the boy in my stay.
Kaname spoke. "Yume, have you noticed anything different?" What? That was... weird.
"What do you mean?" I think Kaname frowned.
"For the past few months, I've felt something odd about you." Well that's weird. I don't remember anything like that.
"I'm sorry, I don't really know what you mean."
He shook his head. "Nevermind, then.
A few minutes after that weird conversation, Takuma came back without Hanabusa. He came up to the group as me and Kaname stood, Crow-chan flying off somewhere.
"Well, everyone, we need to go." Takuma gave one of his famous smiles and waved as me and Kaname walked over to him. "Bye!"
I waved goodbye to everyone there and Kaname spoke. "Good bye."
We were walking into the mansion and out when Hanabusa's mother came with her husband and had a small chat with us, introducing me to the Aidos. They seem like nice people, and I'm starting to see why Kaname trusts them. I smiled and waved to them one last time as we got into the car, Takuma in the front again.
"Kaname."
He looked over at me. "Hmmm?" I looked back at him and smiled.
"I see why you trust them. They don't seem like all the other nobles I've seen."
He smiled. "That's why I chose them as allies." Well, duh. I leaned on him and closed my eyes, falling into a sleep I wish hadn't happened.
Dream
I opened my eyes again to see myself... uh, nowhere? I tried walking but something squishy and wet blocked my foot and made me trip. I fell on my face and used my hands to help my face get out of whatever glorious thing that was. My eyes were closed tight to stop anything form getting in my eye.
It smelled amazing. I don't know what it was, but smelled like an addicting, rare food. I wonder what it is? I Opened my eyes to see a horrifying sight.
Bodies, spread everywhere. I couldn't see the faces, but they were severely messed up. What had just said about them? How could I do that?!
"Because it's delicious, of course." I looked over to see Nini cover in blood. "Look at you, I'm not the only bathing in blood." I looked down with my horror filled eyes to see myself covered in blood and small, meaty red strings.
I stood up immediately screaming. "Nini, what-?"
She interrupted. "The eye is changing. The eye is evolving. After nearly 2 years, your body is starting to take form." Take form? Wha... Nini isn't some creepy fortune teller!
"Nini, what the hell are you talking about?!" Nini looked up at me as I stomped over to her.
She laughed. "Your finally look in a mirror, not picture!" She turned and pointed at a black blotch moving slightly. I assume it's a person with their back to us. "Take a look."
I started to walk over to it, and as I got closer, I saw feet of what looked like a 10 year old and heard teeth banging and grinding accompanied by what sounded like a child eating a cake sloppily make wipers groaning noises. The child had big huge black wings on their back and were crouching.
I looked at their feet and saw something surprising. Their skin smooth, but looked tough.
They froze for a moment and turned, saying something with an unmistakable voice that I couldn't hear over my screams and Nini's laughing.
I woke up with a jolt. Kaname shook me. "Are you alright?" I looked over at him, wide eyed. I realized it was just him and layed back down carefully.
"Yeah, just a bad dream." His face was calm and collected, but his eyes had shown genuine worry. "Nini was there, as usual. But something else was, too. I can't remember what it was exactly, but..." I trailed off, tring to think farther back into the dream.
He sighed. "Try not to think so hard. Its probably just another one of Nini's tricks." I nodded and tried falling back to sleep, only to fail because of a metallic taste in my mouth.
Yay! Ya know, I think this is the first actual cliff hanger 'cause I upload another chapter right after sometimes. And, again, so sorry I don't have another one. Question: how do you want this story to end? I'm mostly curious, but I might actually use the idea. I have a pretty solid idea, the only thing is getting there.
And, uh, sorry its a bit shorter than usual. So, now that I'm done wasting your time (for now), please review! Its cool to here what ya think of my story. Annnd! I edited this chapter, you might see. I will be uploading a chapter after editing this and the next. I will not say what I edited, but you can probably figure it out. I know, its a big change, but read the A/N in chapter... uh... counting, counting... yup, chapter 9. So, see ya!
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I do NOT own Vampire Knight. Only the plot I created and my OCs Tsukiku Julia and Suzaku, and Yume/Nini.