Blood Ring

Chapter 5

Oikawa opened his eyes in his own chambers. All of his body was aching and the pain around his stomach was getting worse as he gained conscious.

"T-the H-hell?" Oikawa yelled as he tried to sit, but miserably failed. He sang into his pillows one more time with a big cry. His chamber door literally kicked open at that time by freaking Hanamaki. Hanamaki run over to Oikawa with Yahaba at his tail, carrying more pain killers. Oikawa was struggling in the bed, crying from the pain.

"The hell is this? It HURTS!" Oikawa cried.

Hanamaki pushed Oikawa back into the bed. "Don't move! Yahaba bring the pain killers and sleeping pills here! We gotta put him down! NOW!"

Oikawa did not understand but he was in too much pain to think and follow the conversation going on around him. The room was filled with maids and doctors in a moment and so many people was trying to smooth the pain. But he needed answers more than pain to go away, dammit! He grabbed Hanamali's collar and pulled his face to his!

"Explain what the hell is going on Takahiro! The last time I checked I was not injured!"

"Oikawa I promise I will tell you everything but you need to sleep now. The pain will only get worse."

Oikawa shivered as if the room was freezing cold or he was burning. He didn't let go of Hanamaki though. "You WILL tell me NOW!" he barked.

Hanamaki was surprised that his prince could yell with the amount of pain he was in.

"O-okay" Hanamaki mumbled and Oikawa finally let him go, sinking back to the pillows.

"Out." Hanamaki instructed. Yahaba hesitated for a moment but with the heated look from both Hanamaki and his prince he left the room with the others, leaving them alone.

"Are you sure you wanna do this now? I can always tell you later" Hanamaki mumbled.

"Hanamaki" Oikawa growled "NOW!"

Hanamaki took a deep breath. "Okay. But you will not like this." Oikawa just stared at him and waited for him to continue.

"Well, you were never told what 'blood ring' really was because the late king, your father, insisted that you will never have partner. And honestly... at the moment I feel like that was the best decision that he ever made as the King." Hanamaki waited and looked at Oikawa. Oikawa was getting inpatient and looked ready to kill Hanamaki. Hanamaki set down to the chair next to Oikawa's bed and clenched his hands together.

"I guess you knew the basic stuff that everybody knew. Like with the bond, the human has to do everything that the vampire contractor of his says and the vampire can only feed from the human that he is contracted to. But Oikawa, there are certain things that you didn't know; especially concerning your parents.

They were not bonded with the 'blood ring'. Blood ring can only be formed between a human and a vampire and both of the king and queen were vampires. The Queen, s-she had a blood contractor and he was a hunter. They liked each other, and god knows ,maybe they even loved each other since it was common knowledge that the marriage between the king and queen was NOT a love marriage."

"Hanamaki" Oikawa interrupted. "What the hell are you trying to say to me?"

Hanamaki sighed and got up from the chair he was sitting on. He started to pace around the room.

"What I am saying is that there are rules that have to be fallowed and KNOWN before making a contract" he snapped.

"There has to be certain amount of like or LOVE between the human and the vampire or the blood ring will never work. If the human doesn't willingly give his blood to vampire his blood becomes a poison to the vampire. Furthermore, the vampire, YOU, will be experiencing all the pain that your contractor will be feeling! Your mother killed herself Oikawa. She killed herself after her significant other, her human contractor was killed by your father. She killed his human contractor and doomed him to feel half empty for the rest of his miserable life and killed herself. If the human vampires contracted to dies, our soul dies with them. And we just become empty shells; no more." Hanamaki's voice got lower towards the end of his story and he stopped.

He couldn't look at Oikawa. He couldn't know what he was feeling. The blood ring was only a agreement if both of the contractors agreed to the terms. But Iwaizumi was unwillingly dragged into this and this was definitely going to show its effect on Oikawa. Hanamaki raised his head after a while of silence and looked at Oikawa's big, brown eyes.

"Oika- Tooru. I am so sorry. I should have told you this earlier; before you did it but.." he went silent again. "I just couldn't"

Oikawa couldn't believe what he was hearing. His father had told him that his mother was killed by hunter and that's why that he had hated all of them until now. He was led to believe that he missed his time with his mother because of hunters, but all along, it was his father's fault.

"Y-you must be wrong Makki." Oikawa wined. "W-what am I supposed to do now then? My whole life, my believes, were all nothing but lies" he cried. He was angry. He was angry both to his parent, for lying to him and leaving him, but also himself for letting his love and loyalty for his father to lead him to this darkness.

Oikawa closed his eyes and prayed this was all a bad dream. He understood now. He understood the reason why vampires didn't create an army of humans to make them do their dirty work. It was called 'blood ring' for a reason. His ignorance had finally led to his death and there was nothing he could do about it. Iwa-chan would definitely not would be willing to feed him. He was either going to die from starvation or from getting poisoned.

"Tooru" Hanamaki cried and run to his bed. He grabbed Oikawa's hand to his and stared down at his watery eyes.

"We will figure something out" he mumbled. "Don't give up on me!"

Oikawa only could smile to his friend's worlds. "There is nothing we can do Makki. I am dead man walking." He whispered.

"No you are not" Hanamaki said with a stained voice. "it's not goanna be easy Tooru but I have a plan."

Oikawa's eyes got bigger. He didn't want to get his hopes up about living but he wanted to trust his friend.

"W-what is it?"

"All you gotta do is, make him love you"