Diabolik Lovers: Fire and Ice

Chapter 8. Ice

CHAPTER 8 - Ice

"Um, Kanato, I really want to go back." I said, my eyes on the approaching storm clouds. It looked like a major storm was coming and with him nearby I wasn't going to take chances.

"Are you scared of thunder? How cute." Kanato said as he kept pulling me along.

"It's not thunder." I muttered. He ignored me.

"For such a small boy he's strong. Of course he's taller than me but that's beside the point." I thought. My wrist was starting to hurt from the tight hold he had on it.

"Hey, Kanato, could you maybe loosen your grip a little?" I asked as politely as I could.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because my wrist is starting to hurt." I answered.

"We're almost there." He said. He pulled me into an old stone building and dragged me down a flight of stone stairs. Each step into the dark made my blood get colder.

"This place... there's something unnatural about it." I thought. There was a stone room lite by fires at the bottom. In the room were at least a dozen wax figures of girls in white wedding dresses. The scene sent chills down my spine.

Kanato seemed perfectly comfortable. "Pretty, aren't they?" He said.

"They scare me." I muttered honestly.

"They're gorgeous. Would you like to join them? I think you'd make a pretty doll." Kanato approached me and I looked away.

"They're soulless. No warmth, no life, no essence at all." I said softly. "That's why they're so creepy." I added.

"What do you mean?" Kanato asked.

"Everything that's ever lived, that ever had any form of life at all, has a presence. Some call it an aura or a life source but I feel it's more like the warmth of your life. Even you and your brothers have it. But these's wax dolls have no presence, not even the life of the plant materials they came from." I said. I touched one of them and my heart stopped.

I felt myself falling. Blackness surrounded me and I felt weightless. "I'm icing and I don't have a fire." I thought. "Moeru... Help..."

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My eyes flew open and I sat upright, gasping. "Oh, you're awake. You've been still for a long time." Kanato said.

I rubbed my head as I looked around. I was at the feet of the doll I had touched and Kanato was looking at me with surprisingly worried eyes. "The little ghost girl is like me." Teddy said.

"Stop talking, you make my head hurt." I muttered.

"I didn't say anything." Kanato said.

"I wasn't talking to you." I sighed. "I'm so tired." I said softly.

Kanato leaned over me. "You look really good right now." He said. I raised eyebrows and he leaned forward. He kissed my cheek then moved to my neck.

"And you smell like ice cream..." He added after taking a deep breath though his nose.

"Ice cream? Why ice cream?" I wondered. After that I didn't care anymore because he bit me. Unlike Laito, his bite was gentle, and unlike Subaru it was soft. It felt like a bug bite and a kiss.

I squirmed a little bit, since I wasn't a fan of bug bites. I could hear him drinking and liquid, my blood I was sure, ran down my neck. "Kanato..." I started to say.

"Just let me." He said softly. The way he said it pulled at my heart and I couldn't tell him no. By the time he was done I was more than light headed.

"Did I take to much?" He asked innocently as I didn't get up when he did.

"A little bit, yes." I sat up and my vision flickered. I considered laying back down.

Kanato offered me a hand and helped me up. He started pulling me out the room. At the top of the stairs he looked to look at me. "And you can't become a doll yet. You taste to good." He said decidedly.

Suddenly he got yanked out of the stairs, pulling me forward. I almost fell but someone caught my arm. Whoever it was pulled me away from Kanato and I looked at them. "Subaru?" I asked quietly in surprise.

"Subaru." Kanato said. "Why are you so upset? She doesn't belong to you." He said.

"Actually she does." Subaru said.

"Just because you were her first doesn't make her yours." Kanato countered.

"No, but she already agreed." Subaru said. I thought back.

"Agreed? Oh right!" I suddenly remembered two nights ago when Laito had bitten me. "Oh ya I did say that when Subaru had bitten me..." I thought.

"Did she?" Kanato looked at me and I nodded.

"I may have said something like that." I admitted. Kanato frowned.

"That doesn't count, Subaru." Kanato pouted.

"What doesn't count? It's my bite mark on her neck." Subaru counted.

"Not anymore." Kanato said with a sly smile. I touched the spot on my neck as a drop of water hit my face. The rain started falling harder and I looked around. There was a flash of lightning and I saw him. He was a ways off, but he knew I was here.

"Not now." I said quietly.

"Not now what?" Subaru and Kanato turned away from their argument and looked at me.

"Oh, just a ghost that's been following me since I was born." I muttered. "He likes to show up in storms like now." I added, turning away. He was so close that I knew he'd come to me.

"A ghost?" Kanato asked.

"That's right. I can see them. I can see their pasts, usually deaths, too. I saw someone get murdered in your house actually." I added.

"Who?" Subaru asked.

"I don't know. A friend told me that it was the unsolved Sakami murder, if that means anything. The murder weapon was a vampire sword according to him." I added.

"Unsolved Sakami murder? I remember it, I think. It was our great grandfather or something like that who was killed." Kanato said.

"Reiji would know." Subaru added.

"Lets go ask." Kanato grabbed my hand and started pulling me when suddenly the world tipped and all my dizziness caught up at once. I felt myself falling, but never felt the ground.