Finding a Little Sister in the House 3/?
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estiroseTaiga looked at his assistant/guardian as his little sister sat despondently in the living room. The girl had done nothing but cry and look miserable ever since Taiga had taken her to safety. She had eaten some human food – and Kurosawa-san had managed to feed her, so at least she wouldn’t starve to death – but it still broke Taiga’s heart to see her so upset. It wasn’t like anybody was going to hurt her, after all, and somebody had to teach the poor girl to be Fangire.
Bishop had come and gone; he had made disapproving noises, and Taiga had been sorely tempted to throw the man out. It wasn’t Wataru’s fault that she was half-human! If someone showed her the right way, then she would be Fangire!
“I’ll take her to bed tonight,” he told Kurosawa-san. “She should have somebody nearby.”
“I’m not sure that’s a good idea, King,” Kurosawa-san said, in his usual polite tone. “You are both underage.”
Taiga smiled his most charming smile. “We are sleeping together,” he said pointedly.
Wataru, on the other hand, looked horrified. “You are teenagers, my King. Even if she is your Queen, you are still too young to sleep together,” Kurosawa-san said.
“I’d rather sleep alone,” Wataru said softly. It was the first time she’d said anything to him. And of course she’d be used to sleeping alone – she’d had her own bed at home, didn’t she?
But she would be his Queen someday – and he firmly believed she would be Queen, no matter what Bishop had said. It would be good for her to get used to that too. Being his Queen and sleeping with him. He had some porn – maybe he’d share it with her?
“You’re sleeping with me,” Taiga said firmly. “We belong together.”
“I don’t wanna,” she said, though it was mostly to the floor.
“Perhaps you should listen to her,” Kurosawa said. “I’ll make up a room for her.”
Maybe she really did want her own space. It wasn’t like anybody could get her, after all. Not here, not in Castle Dran, not in the middle of the Fangire Forest. She was safe, and maybe he could wait. If for a few days. Then he’d get her to share his bed. Where he could protect her and be there for her.
“Do that,” Taiga ordered, and Kurosawa-san slipped off. He held his little sister again. “Don’t cry. Nii-san is here for you.”
Saying that only caused her to cry harder, and Taiga frowned. What had he said that had upset her? He’d only meant to comfort her.
“Mom,” she moaned as he held her in his arms. Taiga wondered why she’d love a traitor, and then remembered how clueless she’d been when he’d overheard her and her Kivat and her not knowing what the glass shards meant. He’d be surprised if she knew what she was.
“Wataru,” he said. “Do you know what a Fangire is?”
She shook her head, hair flying all over the place. Taiga frowned again. It was as he suspected; she had no clue as to what she was. She had been kept in ignorance, and he intended to interrogate the man that he’d found at her house about why she didn’t know. And he’d better have a good reason.
“We’re superior to humans. We live longer, and we’re stronger. Your mother – and mine – was Fangire.” A traitor, to be sure, but still Fangire biologically. The fact that his little sister could feed was reassuring. It made her Fangire even when she didn’t think of herself as one. The fact that she had to be fed would prove to anybody that she was a Fangire by blood.
“If the Fangire are superior, why didn’t she ever tell me?” Wataru asked. There was an anger in her words, and Taiga petted her hair.
“She went insane,” Taiga said, “She fell in love with a human and abandoned almost everything Fangire. She wanted a human child, so she raised one. Never mind that she had to feed you.”
“I always had enough to eat,” Wataru said defensively.
“Not human food,” Taiga told her. “Life Energy. Human Life Energy.” He continued to pet her hair. “You need it, even if you don’t know it. Mother always fed you. Or that man that came to your house….”
“B-but… Oomura-san….”
So, that was the name of the man. Or at least his human name. Taiga would find out more when he had a chance. “He’s Fangire too. Maybe he was the one who fed you. But in any case, someone made sure you were fed what you need.” At least someone had cared enough to do that.
“We’re hunters. Humans are our food,” Taiga said gently. “I don’t know when Mother went insane, but there’s nothing either of us can do about it. She broke the law and she’s gone.”
Which made Wataru cry more. Taiga held her, realizing that it was their mother that she grieved for. Which was kind of silly, because she was a traitor, but Taiga guessed that if he’d been as mislead as Wataru had been, he’d be grieving too.
He resolved to make her forget, to let her see all the glory of being Fangire. And then she would see where Mother went insane, and she’d embrace her Fangire side too.
But in the meantime, there was nothing he could do but comfort her and make her comfortable with him.
After a few moments, someone cleared their throat. He saw Kurosawa escorting one of the elders, Dawn, in.
“So, this is her,” she said. Her face was neutral; he couldn’t tell what she was thinking.
Taiga nodded. “She didn’t even know what Fangire were,” he said, feeling his heart break.
“May I touch her?” she asked. She eyed Wataru as if she was a particularly exotic specimen. An exotic poisonous specimen.
“Why?” Taiga asked. He didn’t want anyone to hurt his little sister right now.
“I want to check her for spells,” the Elder said. “May I?”
Taiga nodded. “Please.”
The Elder put her hand on Wataru’s neck and chanted. A minute or so later, she looked up. “She’s got something on her to prevent her from reading as Fangire,” Dawn told him. “As I thought. Your mother was sane enough not to condemn you to a half-human Queen.”
“Fix her, then,” Taiga said, glaring up at her. “The more Fangire she is, the better.”
“I’m not sure if I want to bring human blood into the royal bloodline,” Dawn told him, folding her arms. “Might as well toss her back to the humans.”
“She’ll starve!” Taiga roared into the Elder’s face. “She’s Fangire! She’ll die if she doesn’t have Life Energy!”
He was only vaguely aware of Wataru running out of the room, sobbing.
Crossposted from Ramblings Yet Once More here.
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Date: 2012-10-10 12:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-11 01:05 am (UTC):)
and Sorry about what I did in the other story.
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Date: 2012-10-12 01:54 am (UTC)I may yet figure out what to do with this fic, but it's stuck mostly because Taiga tends to hog the POV, and Wataru's too incoherent to do anything except try to hide somewhere and then try to leave Dran.
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Date: 2012-10-12 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-13 02:31 am (UTC)As for trying to get some help, she really hasn't run across anybody who seems to like her, with the exception of Taiga, and she has the impression that Taiga wouldn't let her leave. She's at the point where she's considering jumping through a window.
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Date: 2012-10-13 04:06 am (UTC)