Hearts Reunited - Chapter 21: Demon of the Night

Purin-chan: Time for the plot now ^-^. Oh and my chapters won't be coming up so fast
anymore because I'm limited to 2 hours a day (so I can get birds for pets ^-^). Gomen.

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Ferio had locked himself up in his room for almost two days now.
"Fuu-chan it isn't your fault," Hikaru said, trying to comfort her crying friend.
"Yes it is! It can't be anyone else's fault!" Fuu screamed through her tears.
They were standing outside Ferio's room. Fuu was supposed to check on him and make sure
he was alright, but she broke down crying before they reached the door.
Hikaru looked up at Umi for help. Umi just shook her head sadly. Hikaru helped Fuu up
and lead her away from Ferio's room.
"Maybe another time..." Umi thought, following after the two.

"Fuu PLEASE eat..." Umi said placing down a plate of "food" in front of Fuu. Since Fuu
had become like this, everyone else had just had to suffer starvation. The only food 
that was served was Umi's "specialties" (^^;;;;).
Fuu shook her head. Tears fell onto her glasses, and from there fell onto her lap.
(Has anyone else but me had that problem with glasses X_x;).
Lantis, Eagle, Hikaru, and Ascot all sat on the floor against the wall behind Fuu.
Hikaru was crying too, and switched between Lantis and Eagle's shoulders when they got
too wet to soak up anymore tears. Ascot's stomach grumbled every fifteen minutes.
(I'm not gonna let this fic turn serious without a fight >O! Where have I heard that
before O.o; *Chibi Zelgadis pops up* CZ: That's what I said about Slayers)
Umi walked up to the group and shook her head in defeat. The last time Fuu ate something
was two days ago.
Hikaru ran up and hugged Fuu from behind.
"Fuu-chan, you aren't trying to starve yourself are you?" Hikaru gasped through her tears.
Fuu placed a hand on Hikaru's arm. She gently lifted it off.
"I promise I won't starve to death Hikaru-san. I just need time to sort out my feelings..."
And with that, she ran down the hall into her room, face buried in her hands.
Hikaru fell down on her knees, crying harder now. Lantis walked over and embraced her 
gently, wiping away her tears.
"So what do we do now?" Ascot asked Umi.
"Like we have a choice. If Fuu doesn't go check on Ferio, someone else has to," Umi 
muttered. "So do we have any volunteers?" she asked.
No one raised their hand.
Umi collapsed with her back against the wall. Fuu wasn't the only one not eating.
"So where do we go from here..." she thought to herself, closing her eyes to rest.

Fuu fell down onto her bed, crying into her pillow. She then took off her glasses and cursed
at herself mentally.
"Ferio probably hates me now..." she thought, crying harder into her pillow. Right now she 
wanted nothing more than for him to hug her, kiss her, and tell her that he loved her.
She stood back up and wiped the tears away from her red eyes. She put her glasses on and headed
down the hall towards Ferio's room.

There was a knock at the door.
"Who's there?" Ferio snapped.
"Fuu..."
His eyes narrowed. "Fuu who..."
There was a pause from outside the door.
"Well?" he finally said.
"Nevermind. Sorry to disturb you," she said.
"Tch..." He went back to staring out the window.

Outside in the hallway...
Fuu sat with her back against the wall, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"He's already forgotten about me..." she thought.
Fuu suddenly regained her courage.
"He couldn't have forgotten about me. He promised that he..." she thought, wiping her tears away
with her sleeve. She walked into the room beside Ferio's. There, she got her sword out and cut
a small hole in the wall that she hoped wouldn't be visible on the other side.
What she saw stunned her.
A shadowy figure emerged from the broken mirror. It appeared to be a female.
Fuu's eyes welled up, but she refused to cry.
The figure circled Ferio, who was standing hypnotized. She looked him up and down. Then she
leaned up to him and kissed him.
Fuu clenched her hand into a fist. She didn't know who it was, but she already hated her.
The lady released the kiss, and moved over Ferio's neck. She opened her mouth with a hiss
to reveal...

Fangs. Vampire fangs.

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Purin-chan: Yes it has to be Ferio. None of the other guys would fit the part *wink*. I'll get
the next chapter up real soon (I hope).