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Blood's Price:
Chapter Four
The next day, Yuuki called in sick. Yori left for work after making sure her sister had enough pain reliever.
After several hours of much needed rest, Yuuki woke. It was probably a good thing that she hadn't told Yori that she'd spent her energy on the wards the night before. Yori would have thrown a fit.
She changed into sweatpants with the words "Tokyo University" down the side, and a vintage tee. She dressed Haruka in a matching University sweat suit with a little "T" cap.
After eating breakfast, Yuuki pulled out a suitcase and began packing. All of the necessities went into two bags -a backpack and a suitcase.
She packed two toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, sunscreen, three pairs of sunglasses, four different colored pairs of contacts, two sweaters, two pairs of shoes, some anti-vampire, disguised weapons, pictures of the Wakabas, blood tablets, fake IDs curtesy of Akira, $500 in cash, a cell phone, and a first aid kit.
Storing these in the closet, she began altering photos in the house, changing her appearance and eliminating Haruka. Opening up the last scrapbook, a photo fell out. Picking it up, she smiled. It had been taken a week after she had begun living with the Wakabas. The neighbor had taken a photo of the four of them.
Akira and Lita stood in the back, holding hands. Yori and Yuuki stood in front of them, arms around each others' shoulders. She was wearing some of Yori's clothes, all of which were baggy on her half starved frame. The smiles on everyone's faces were so happy.
/Flashback/
"A little to the left you two." Yuuki and Yori stepped slightly to the left. "Perfect. Okay, everyone say Peter Piper picked pickles."
"Huh?" They all started to laugh at the ridiculous phrase.
/End/
"We were all so happy at that moment." She smiled and slipped the photo into the scrapbook's lining. Then she flipped through the book, adjusting the photos that needed to be changed until she came across another photo. This one was of the day she and Haruka had come home from the hospital. They had all crowded into the living room. She turned and stared at the couch.
/Flashback/
"Have the new Kaa-san sit in the middle holding her baby." Obediently, Yuuki sat on the couch. Lita handed her Haruka. "Now, Yori," Akira continued, "sit on her left side. No, I meant my left. Lita, can you sit on the other side? Okay, minna, smile!"
/End/
"I sat right here, Kaa-san was on my left and Yori was on my right." She sat on the couch and looked around the room. Haruka crawled over from the scrapbook and tugged on her pant leg. Picking him up, she buried her face in his hair. "Maybe it would have been better if they never found me."
"Yuuki-chan, I'm home!" Yori called from the door. Yuuki appeared wearing a red hoodie and jeans. "New clothes?"
"Hai, I ordered Chinese food for dinner. Come to the kitchen." Taking off her shoes, she followed her sister to the kitchen. Yuuki turned around and hugged Yori.
"Nani, where's the Chinese food?"
"It's in the fridge…Gomen, Yori, gomen." Yuuki was beginning to cry. She pressed her hand to Yori's forehead.
"Yuuki…" Her eyes rolled back and she collapsed.
Yuuki half dragged her to her bedroom and then dressed her in pajamas. After setting Yori on the bed, she walked to her room, where her neighbor, Rei, was sleeping with her son, Jun. They were wearing the Tokyo University clothes Haruka and she had been wearing earlier. "At least you and I are practically the same size, Yori. No one will notice if you have two closets of clothes."
A small laugh escaped. "I'm sorry Rei and Jun that we had to change your memories and borrow your clothes." She grabbed Haruka from the crib and raced down the stairs to the bathroom, where she pulled on a black wig that matched Rei's hair and popped in brown contacts.
Then, grabbing Jun's diaper bag –it was filled with Haruka's things- and the suitcases from the closet, she put on Rei's shoes and exited the house. If anyone was watching they would think it was Rei and Jun leaving.
She had disguised their vampiric presences and attached them to the house. Only a pureblood would know they weren't human. The presence on the house would wear off in seventy-two hours.
"The light in the hall will make it look like someone's awake," she whispered, ignoring the switch. It was on a timer, so it wouldn't turn off for a few hours, making it look like Yori was going to bed.
Opening the door, she walked out of the house and down the front path. With one last look back, she murmured, "Good bye." Then she turned around and walked away.
Ichijou and Kain watched the house from a distance. After Aidou's miss step the day before they had taken over the watch. It was an unspoken agreement that Aidou wouldn't be watching the Level D again. Movement came from the house. The neighbor and the son were leaving.
"She's carrying a backpack and suitcases now, Kain."
"Hnn, maybe she's borrowing them form the Wakaba's."
"Hai, that's probably it." The mentioned pair vanished around the corner, going back the way they'd come several hours earlier.
"Haruka-sama and Wakaba are still in the house, so that must be it," Ichijou whispered, returning to watch the house.
Yuuki got on the train and got off down town. They made their way to Ninth St. and entered the doors of the Plaza, a fairly nice hotel.
"Welcome to the Plaza, madam! How my I help you?" the bellhop asked.
"I'd like a room for one, please."
"Smoking or non-smoking?"
"Non-smoking please."
"Room 513 is available."
"I'll take it."
"What is your name?"
"Juuri Koyama."
"And how will you be paying Koyama-san?"
"Cash." He told her the total and she handed him the money. He passed her back the room key.
"Please enjoy your stay, Kayama-san. Kazuo-kun will assist you with your bags."
She didn't bother to unpack anything other than her pajamas. Walking into the bathroom, she stared at her reflection. She didn't recognize herself. "Everything had changed now." Taking off the wig and contacts, she got ready to shower.
After the shower, she got dressed in her pajamas and then gave Haruka a bath, He glared at her as she set him in the water. "Don't glare at Kaa-san. It's not nice, Haruka."
Scrubbing him clean, she giggled. His hair was all wild and foamy. "Haruka looks so kawaii and so pfft…funny."
After drying him off, she ordered room service and watched him crawl around the floor in his pajamas. Putting the wig and contacts back on she waited for the server. Soon a knock came from the door, and a tray was rolled in. Setting a tray on the small desk, she thanked the server. He bowed and wheeled the cart away. He bowed and wheeled the cart away. She fed Haruka in silence before eating her own food. Then she placed the tray in the hall.
Haruka fell asleep soon after. For awhile, Yuuki watched him.
I wonder, would you be happier with your own kind, Haruka? Am I being selfish? You won't have a normal childhood like you should. Always on the run. Hidden from the world. What kind of life is that? What kind of mother am I to give you such a life?
Maybe you'll hate me for what I am doing. But to lose you…to a world where you are wanted and loved only for the price of your blood, I cannot bear the thought of that.
One day, I will die and then you will have to face the choice of staying in the life I gave you or joining them, you're true race. What will you choose then? I pray you make the choice that makes you happy.
But until then…Until that day, I will do everything in my power to keep you safe and ignorant of such awful things.
Turning away from the bed, she walked unto the balcony and stared out at Tokyo. Such a busy, polluted, city and yet it makes me sad to think I'll be leaving here. I found a family and started a perfect life in this place and now I may never return. I've finished with my eighteen months of happiness.
Tear after tear ran from her eyes as she struggled to hold back a sob. Closing the balcony door, so as not to disturb Haruka, she fell to her knees and let the tears run. The weight of her troubles had finally captured her. I should not be crying. I cannot be crying. I have to keep a smile for Haruka. I have to be strong. And yet the tears won't stop. Why? Why did this happen to us? Why were we discovered? Why must there be vampires? Why could we not have lived in peace? Why must my darling be in such danger? Why must our lives be destroyed? Kami, why?
No, I must stop. Tears will do nothing. I must keep a smile on, for him. I have to be strong. Wiping away the tears, she reentered the room, closing the balcony doors behind her. Then she lay down on the bed, curling around Haruka's sleeping form.
"Everything has changed."
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