Dusk To Dawn ( Tsusuku X Koichi)

Chapter 2 - On The Watch

"Your pure and innocent like an angel. I can't hurt you, I can't. It would take an eternity for me to give myself if I did. So just fly away, fly away".

I lost track of time with thoughts that he would never step outside that awful place again. I had grown tired of going and coming on a daily basis. I could not tell if he came out when I was not around, that was a different matter. The house was quiet; deadly quiet.

My mind was enhanced by memories of a stranger that I had yet to introduce myself to. Long pink hair swaying in the wind, a light a cheerful voice and finally a talent for music. Those were the qualities of the pink haired boy called Koichi.

As the days passed my hunger or rather my thrust grew stronger each day. I superseded the urge with a 'somewhat decent supply'. Yet with each time the sun rose in the sky when I found myself resting at home; I would have dreams of being able to taste the blood of the boy I have yet to know. In anger I pushed the feeling so far back, that managed to never see that dream again.

While spending my time on the hunt of which drunken person would become my next victim, I sadly noticed that my time and luck was wasted doing so. Yet I had no other choice if I wanted to be in complete control of myself. To be within his presence and to have no control over myself would put him in so much danger. That and he would never even come close to me again.

Not that much is changing now, here I am prowling the streets when I might be missing the chance to be actually meet him.

I am lost in my thoughts not really looking where I am going where I am going when I pick up a strong scent. At first I don't know where because of the smell of alcohol in the air. I just shrug it off and continue on my way. Though it also bought the darker side of me out. Without releasing it I had started to follow the scent, my gums aching as my fangs were just itching to come out. The urge grew stronger by the minute as I had lost the sight of my surroundings and was just focusing on the scent ahead of me.

Then I heard it; a shouting, a call for help. The scent was also coming from the same place. I was going into this situation blind but I had the advantage. I started running towards the sound, the scent. Someone needed help and I needed my next meal as soon as possible.

There in the shadows stood this muscular guy cornering a younger looking person with a knife in his hand. He was holding the knife to the other person's throat and the poor guy was shaking in fear. Just not with the same fear the person threatening would be in an moment.

"Leave him alone!" I shouted launching and pushing the attacker up against the wall. At this point my fangs were bared and showing , probably only inches away from the guys throat too. He may be muscular but with my supernatural strength I was much stronger.

Within minutes I had sank my fangs into his neck and was enjoying the taste of warm blood in my mouth again. I drank until I had a big and lifeless body in my arms and then dumped the body aside. When I turned and look the other guy had already gone, vanished like the thirst that I had within me. I wiped my mouth and decided to head back home, if I went to where Koichi lived by then it would be dawn. Going home seemed like the best choice to at the time.

It had been dark enough in the alleyway in which I had drank from another human. In that darkness of the street I had missed so many things that could have changed everything for the good and for the bad.

All I am saying is that months later on I found out that was the second time I had missed a chance to see and meet the boy I so longed to introduce myself to. Maybe it was for the best that I didn't get to see the horrified look on his face. Maybe it was good that he didn't get see my sharp pointed fangs, my lips covered and dripping in blood. Yes it was definitely a good thing.

Soon I was home and watching the sunrise from my bedroom window. So I hadn't gotten to meet the pink haired boy just yet. Though this is a small town and the world isn't as big as it seems...we will meet my long lost love; one day soon we will.