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+-------- Rosario+Vampire Fanfic-------------+
Kei was half way down the beach listening to the crashing waves on this oddly calm night, before he heard someone calling for him.
“Kei!”
Kurumu called out as she ran to him. Stopping, he looked back, “Kurumu? Whats wrong?”. last he saw, she was sleeping peacefully with the others.
“I could ask you the same thing”, she said panting a bit as she stopped in front of him. “you’ve been acting strange lately”. though her tone was firm, her eyes looked to him worried.
Kei’s eyes peeked to the side seeing her eyes, feeling a small twing of pain in his chest. “its nothing”. that was a lie. Even he knew Kurumu wasn’t going to buy into it. So turned to try and walk away “im sorry I worried you”
“kei!” ,she quickly grasped his arm. Pulling his hand from his pocket as he tried to move still. “tell me”
“im fine Kurumu”
“your lying!”
“im not. I just wanted to go for a walk”
Kurumu growled, growing tired of this game. Wrapping her arms around his, and latching on, she looked up to him, “fine! Im going with you. I wont let go until you tell me”.
Kei looked down to her blushing. His heart raced feeling her snuggle to his arm. But looked away solemnly. He had hoped for something like this for a while now. Just the two of them. Alone. A relaxing midnight walk on the beach. And now it was finally happening. And yet, he couldn’t enjoy it. His mind kept going back to that scene. That one image. Of Kurumu and tsukune. Or ghoul tsukune anyway. But tsukune none the less. It was him that she kissed. To bring him back.
Kei was extremely glad his friend was back to his senses. But the sight continued to haunt him. Break him. Make him almost wish he had never come to yokai academy. No matter how much the school for monsters felt more like a home to him than his real home. But at the same time, he knew he would feel too bad leaving everyone. He cared so much for them all. Even Kurumu. Despite the image in his head.
“fine” he said quietly. Slowly starting to walk, Kurumu shadowed his movements. Squeezing his arm every time she felt the slightest bit of distence between them. And with each squeeze, it felt like kei’s heart was being squeezed just as much, until it was difficult to breathe.
After a while, she had leaned her head over leaning on his shoulder, still tired. Peeking over to see her tired expression fore a brief second, he looked back out to the direction they were walking.
“why don’t you head back and go to sleep?” he looked down to her trying to smile to convince her he‘d be fine. But it was weak. She eyed him.
“I told you. Im not letting you go until you tell me whats wrong”.
Kei couldn’t take it anymore. He didn’t know if it was being asked the same question over and over. Or perhaps it was how Kurumu seemed oh so worried, but had feelings for tsukune. Or how her worrying made his heart jump, but crash as it landed knowing how she felt. It was all so…bittersweet.
Pulling his arm from her, he backed away a few steps, “im fine”. his voice was a bit harsh. Loud and sudden enough to startle even moka, tsukune and the others who had snuck out worried, when they saw both Kurumu and kei leaving--Though most of their worry was mostly devious curiosity--.
Kei had started to walk back to the house. Though his heart was breaking even more, having shouted like that. A look of pain flashed crossed Kurumu’s eyes. But clenching her fist she ran at him. She was intent on getting him to talk. Just like before.
“Tell me!” she shouted as she tackled him. The two falling to the ground.
“whats wrong with-..” the rest of her sentence caught in her throat as she leaned up seeing kei’s eyes. Sitting on him, to keep him from trying to retreat again.
“….you…”, she finally finished. But she didn’t need to ask anymore. The look of pain in his eyes told everything.
Making her think back. To all the moments he helped everyone. Even when it would have been a small burden on anyone else. He’d still help with a kind smile. Giving all of himself to others. And even more of what was left to her. Suddenly now of all times remembering to when all the others would cling to tsukune in the mornings on the walk to school. Kei was left walking alone. Despite the fact he was but a foot away from them all. And he’d still smile.
Also remembering how he stumbled upon her crying late one night, out on a midnight walk through the school. One of her moments that got hard for her to bear without tsukune. He did what he could to help. She felt like a child crying about it the few times she did. And he just tryied to help. All the while breaking inside himself. Just to keep her from breaking.
Comeing back to the present. She clended her fists. As they pressed down on kei’s chest. Thinking of her kiss to bring tsukune back, and the moment kei started acting weird. The timing added up. A tear started to swell in her eye, and fell down landing on kei’s cheek.
“kei…..”, she whimpered. Trying to keep from bursting in tears.
“k-..Kurumu?..” he stared up at her. As if trying to back up. As if he could fully break at any moment, and the most distance he was able to put between him and Kurumu would somehow keep him from doing so. Or at least delay the inevitable. His hand balled into a tightly clinched fist, to keep it from flinching. As though each flinch pushed him closer and closer to the edge. Even if only by the smallest degree. He couldn’t afford to loose any more space before falling.
“oh kei..” another tear droped down onto his cheek, as she softly grasped his fist in one hand. Her other hand resting firmly, but softly against his chest, above his heart. Making kei wince a bit. Knowing she could feel just how quickly and off rhythm it was beating.
“…im so sorry”, she said quickly falling down to him. Kissing him before he could react. The sudden kiss catching kei off guard. His hand flinched, breaking the tightly formed fist. His heart seemed to skip a few beats, making him loose his ability to breathe. But as Kurumu lowered her body onto his, pressing to him to kiss more firmly, he gasped finally able to draw breath. Breathing in deeply. But stared up at her. His eyes relaxing as he started to fall into the kiss. Kurumu pressed closer, so that they both could feel the other’s heartbeat, against their own. Her hand sliding across his, interlocking their fingers together, and squeezing. Squeezing tighter as she felt kei’s hand flinch again.
A bit hesitantly, kei’s hand started to squeeze around her’s. just as he squeezed, he leaned forward into the kiss, to kiss back. But as he did, Kurumu pulled back.
“im sorry kei. Im sorry im sorry im sorry im sorry”, she repeated, shaking her head, laying it on his chest. Her tears soaking his shirt.
“kuru..mu?..” kei panted. Trying to catch the rest of his breath from the kiss. And looked down to her confused, with a slightly dreaming look in his gaze.
“you were always there. Always helping. Regardless of your own well being. You always tried to do what was right. And I…” she lifted her head, just enough to look up to him. Tears streaming down. The sight of her crying so much made kei sadder.
“…I only made it worse. You kept me from breaking, when you were closer and closer to breaking, yourself. But I still couldn’t see it.”.
Kei looked down. Up. The side. In any directions Kurumu’s eyes weren’t. feeling his start to swell just seeing them looking to him in his peripheral. Knowing they’d just let loose if her velvety purple eyes made contact with his.
“I want to help you. Like you helped me”, she continued, resting her hand over his heart once more. Her touch soft and gentle. As if knowing the slightest wrong move would just shatter him. But firm at the same time. As if trying to keep the pieces from falling out of place.
Kei winced again, a tear squeezing from his eye. He pulled back, seeing Kurumu lean down to kiss him again.
“stop, I-…I don’t want you to do this out of pity”. his eyes continued to search around. But still kept finding their way back to her’s. quickly moving them away before he couldn’t hold it anymore.
She looked down to him, hurt. She realized that she wasn’t doing it out of pity. Or doing it just to make something “right”. she was doing it cause it felt right. Because she didn’t want to see him hurt anymore.
But as his eyes finally fixed on hers, he saw genuine pain. The same kind he had been feeling lately
Laying her forehead down onto kei’s. her eyes relaxed and slowly closing as she nuzzled him.
“is not pity…” she said slowly. Kei’s eyes relaxed, but he continued to draw away.
“…its love”. slowly she leaned down, kissing him.
A chill shot through kei’s body, hearing those words and feeling her kiss again. His heart pounding hard enough he was sure the others could hear it back at the cabin. She let go of his hand, but only long enough to wrap her arms around his neck, making kei’s hand flinch again. Softly, his arms raised. Hesitating a bit, but wrapped around her. Giving a gentle squeezes, as he kissed back. He felt a small shiver run through her body, similar to his chill.
Kurumu pressed a bit more firmly through the kiss before softly pulling back. She stared down with a warm, but shy smile to him. He stared back up, bashfully. Leaning her head into his neck, to snuggle with him, they both layed there for a few moments. His arms securely and tightly wrapped around her.
Giving a gentle squeeze of her own, she looked back up to him. Smiling still. His eyes looked bashfully around, but set on her once more. Trying to seem calm. But trying only made him seem more shy.
Giggling softly, she kissed his cheek.
“daaaaaawwww!”
They both flinched hearing yukari’s voice. Raising their heads up, they looked around. Seeing yukari standing out in the open, with everyone else. Her hands clasped together, and her eyes big. Like she had just seen the next big cute lolcat video. Everyone else smiling
Both kei’s and Kurumu’s face burned brightly. Not having realized he others were there unil now.
“you guys really are cute!” moka said as everyone ran up to kei and Kurumu.
“arnt they?”, yukari giggled. “I guess they make a kinda cute pair”, koko said pouting to the side. While they did to her, she was sad there was one less to vie for tsukune’s attention, to ge him away from moka.
“im happy for you two”, tsukune said smiling.
“im happy theres one less to contend with for tsukune”, mizore said with her usual calm and quiet demeanor. Leaning to tsukune’s arm. Making tsukune blush, and chuckle a bit nervously. “not that im not happy for you too”, she added.
Ruby bowed, with perfect poise “congratulations you two”.
All the while kei had sat up, but Kurumu still sitting on him. She tightened her arms around his neck, burring her face into him. As if trying to hide. While just as shy, kei tightened his arms a bit more securely around her. As if trying to help her, but hide his face with her.
