A Shiki Story

Eighteenth Night

Violet

Thursday, November 3

The dead bodies became too much for Hayami to hold back at the funeral house so the extra dead bodies were taken to the mountains where they were held Shiki Caretakers. Glancing away from the door she eyed Tatsumi safely from the shield of her sunglasses.

      Tatsumi strode forward in a confident gait. Ducking her head down she pretended to play with a strand of hair that had draped itself on her own gauzy red dress. Chizuru was not the only one who had expensive jaw dropping beautiful clothes.

    Despite all the death the sun was annoyingly too bright. The door without any human based warning was blasted open when the carpenter Yuuki. Gone was his calm, serene façade as the man looked like he had been driven to madness.

    Blade in hand the man stabbed Tatsumi's side. And he's wearing one of his more flashy jumpsuits, too. Typically red, this jumpsuit sported spikes at the shoulders and leopard print at the cuffs and lapel sides of the wide V neck that showcased his muscled stomach.

     He laughed like a mad man earning stares from the both of them. "I did it, Natsuno ! I killed off a Okiagari !" He said as he leaned against a opposite wall. "See ? I'm dependable, aren't I ?" With that the lunatic skipped away.

   "Koide Atelier is reopening after renovation !" His wife surely left him, She thought as he eyes went golden yellow tracking the insane human if he had another idea of 'Killing' them. Nut job, like that would kill them. 

   "Hi !" Tatsumi greeted Natsuno who was definitely a Jinrou. The mad human began to babble on while Tatsumi withdrew the blade from his body with a swing. I could probably fix the cut with some tiny stitches, She thought as she took off her shades as well.

   "Mr. Yuuki, may we come in ?" Tatsumi asked. "The showroom opens in the morning ! Please come in." I'll take that as a yes. 

"So ? What do you want ?" Natsuno asked. "I wish you had told me you rose up." She stayed quite as the two talked. "I didn't realize I was obligated to." Tatsumi must really hate this kid. So rebellious and all, She thought.

   "Well, it's true that it may not be an obligation. Do you know about Jinrou ?" Tatsumi asked after a sip of his tea. "That refers to people like you, me and her, right ?" Hearing this she turned from her attention from the carving to the two Jinrou.

   "Your a smart man as I had thought. Jinrou is a subspecies of shiki. I've only seen five of them, including you. You could say were a rare species. Sunako named us Jinrou. In movies, vampires are often accompanied by a werewolf, right ?"

  "Don't know...I've never seen any like that," The boy answered sounding tired. He must not be drinking any or enough blood. Tatsumi must not have liked what he was hearing, his hand crushed the metal cup like it was a flimsy empty pop can.

    "By the way, with regards to Akira Tanaka, one of your few friends...." The cup was crumbled even more as Tatsumi continued, "I haven't seen him around much these days. I wonder what happened."

   What happened was the kid was poking in stuff he shouldn't have.

"Beats me." Tatsumi snapped, the snapped the table between them with a stomp, grabbed the boy by the throat as his chair was sent hurtling. "As expected, you haven't been sucking blood, have you ?"

   Tatsumi held him high in the air by the throat. He fought for breath but did not resist of struggle Tatsumi's hold. "Jinrou breath and have a pulse. They can walk around during the day and can survive on normal food, too.

  They have strengthened physical abilities and their five senses are more then twice as superb as the humans." Yeah, unfortunately since Mr. Yuuki has not taken a bath in too long. Has the guy forgotten what soap is ?

    She watched as Tatsumi's normally yellow eyes had turned black and red. Either Tatsumi would kill this rebellious punk or not. That was his decision but it would be best to kill him. Rare or not he was trouble.

  But he wouldn't. Sunako wanted more Jinrou and the two of them respected their leader too much not to disobey even when their instincts told them to kill this danger. As Tatsumi went saying he might kill did she follow without a second glance.

"Tatsumi, when we get back to the castle give me your jumpsuit. I'll fix it for you," She volunteered. "Thanks, this is one of my favorites," Tatsumi replied.

Tatsumi

"Thanks, this is one of my favorites." His eyes glanced over at Violet's revealing dress. The bright red dress was cut so low he had the perfect view from any angle. Glad she dressed up, He thought.

   In the city Violet dressed like this but ever since they came here Violet began wearing Kimonos and pretty sundresses. Not that she did not look mouth watering, He mentally added.

Violet

Friday, November 4

Yamairi Area

Chizuru and her newest toy were busy driving one of the jeeps down the hill. "Yahoo !" Yelled the son of the liquor store owner bellowed. "Sunako, you are too lenient with Chizuru. Those two were like Mother and Child.

   "And Chizuru is the child," She commented out loud. Oh well the Yamairi area was all Shiki so if a stray human came he or she would not last long. 

Saturday, November 5

Something was not right down there. "Seishrou ! Seishrou ! Something's wrong ! I think the doctor has betrayed us !" She had ran as fast as she could when she heard Chizuru's screams of terror.

    She had seen the two go down and even from a distance she saw the growing mob holding down the terrified shiki. Normal Shiki are cold and have no pulse !

  However the one driving was a coward and back pedaled. "He left Chizuru !" She snarled in rage, right before Seishirou was going to blow the Liquor Store Owner's brains out of his head. 

    I'm gonna kill that Liquor Owner and his Shiki son !!!! Through the man was twice the size of a normal giant human.

  Sunako said the last part would be the hardest but now they had a bigger problem now. Damn it ! This place was to be their safe base ! A Heaven for them !!!!