Samurai's Red Eyes (Vampire Knight/ Prince of Tennis Fanfic)

The Nature of The Heart

Since the day Echizen got back home with his immediate family, they've noticed so many changes at his personality. They felt like the Ryoma that got back home isn't Ryoma at all. He stopped playing Tennis which made Nanjiroh confused. "Why would he stop playing?" he asked as he is staring at the Tennis Court they have on the temple. He was so annoyed more that whenever Echizen goes back home from school, he locks himself in his room.

The old Seigaku Tennis team which consists of Tezuka being the captain decided to go to his house to visit him and try to do something to make him happy again but Echizen seemed to separate himself to them. "I don't want to meet them!" screamed Echizen from his room. He's currently crying hard that time.

"Your friends just wanted to see you!" Nanako tried telling him.

"I don't want to!" he screamed again.

"I'll drag you out!" told his angry and bewildered father. He opened the door using a key and dragged him at the first floor of their house. Echizen stared at the happy faces of his senpais looking back at him but suddenly, he felt needle pricks on his head. Pieces of his lost memory that is connected to them comes back to him painfully, making him scream and get away from them.

Miyaki was just keeping an eye at him for days but when she noticed that he needs help coming from a person who can calm him down, she knew she has to appear before him.

He ran as fast as he can. He even stands up away from the cold earth whenever he fell down just for him to get away from them.

"What happened to Ochibi? Why'd he ran away and looked scared at us?" Eiji asked them. No one can answer his question.

...

She followed him at the deepest part of the forest as he was running and screaming in pain. After that, he's already at the tallest tree where she found him crying hard while he was hugging his legs. He had so many fears since the day he woke up at the hospital.

Rinko-san and Nanjiroh-san also followed him but they have noticed that Echizen is already hugging a girl and is talking to him, making him stop crying. "My son before doesn't cry. What exactly happened to him for all over that year that he ended up in the hospital? Who is that girl?" he asked Rinko.

Rinko seemed to have an idea but she wasn't sure. "Her face's familiar that it seemed I've seen him in my old pictures with my grandfather."

Miyaki held him up and told him, "Don't be afraid, do you understand?"

"I can't help but cry. Whenever I see my old Senpais, my head is aching," he said.

"I'll tell your parents about it," she said. She dried his tears and guided him back with her smooth hands on his back to where his parents are. Echizen separated from her but upon walking beside his father, he fainted in his arms.

"Who are you?" asked Nanjiroh as he carry him.

"You won't believe me because I don't look like one," she said.

"Your eyes! It just looks like Echizen's! Wait... but... that cannot be true...," Rinko said.

"It seemed she can confirm my connection to you and why I have calmed him down. His vampire instinct is not perfectly deleted by Yuki. It seemed before she died, the only thing she did is put all his memories into his subconscious," she said.

"What do you mean, Vampire Instinct?" Nanjiroh asked her.

"I am Rinko's grandmother while I am Ryoma's great grandmother. I am a pureblooded vampire," she told him. Rinko's finally saw in her memory who she is to her.