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Trials of Darkness	By : yume1122 Category: +M to R > Nightwalker: Midnight Detective Views: 1689 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I started this fic several years
ago, & have since fallen out of love with it. I WAS a fan of RihoxShido�but then I discovered the joys of CainxShido! ^_^

Anyway, I�m gonna take a stab at
finishing this �just need some encouragement. ^_~ �*cough *reviews! *cough *

Just for reference: This is set in the future, so Riho,
Shido, & everyone are about 150 years older. (This doesn�t apply to Yayoi,
however. She�s dead; gomen if you were a fan.) Well, Riho went out to learn for
herself what it meant to be a vampire, returning to Shido as promised about
fifty years later. In the interim, other vampires like Shido & Riho, who
don�t believe in killing, began to set up shelters all over Japan,
usually within monasteries of various religions, where they are supported by
sponsors. Riho has contacts in various of these now
from her travels, one of which is in a Shinto shrine outside Kyoto.
When Riho returns to Shido in Tokyo,
she finds that Yayoi has grandchildren & Shido was forced to move away from
the neighborhood they had previously inhabited by his changeless ( & gorgeous) features. He has moved into a Christian
monastery which serves as the shelter to the vampires of Tokyo.
They settle down there, & Shido continues to fight the night breeds
alongside the NOS. Cain is never heard from throughout all these years, and
Riho in her happiness with Shido almost completely forgets he exists. O, yeah,
and there�s some pretty sketchy stuff coming up in later chapters. So I hope u
like it!

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Every evening for the last 200
years, I�ve awakened to a beautiful sight. The first thing my eyes light upon
is a face � a glorious face, framed by soft lavender hair. I see the
well-shaped nose and brows, the gentle lips, which hide the source of his
sorrows. Sometimes, I wake to see his deep, marine eyes watching me lovingly.
These first moments of every night give my eternity purpose.

There was an unhappy interlude when
my nights began differently, though. When I awoke that first night, I was alone
in the coffin. I was scared at first. I didn�t remember where I was. For a
moment, I simply was Yamazaki Riho again, a normal human girl. Except, I was surrounded by wood and shadows. Then I came to
myself and pushed the lid farther down. I dressed quickly and hurried
downstairs to look for Shido. He wasn�t in the church offices or the sanctuary,
his regular haunts. Everyone else was still at evening mass in the chapel, so I
couldn�t ask them. I headed to the infirmary on the second floor.

�� Hey, Riho!� Satsuna greeted me as I entered the main room
to find him watching TV alone.

�� Hi, �Suna. How�s the wound?�

�� Sister Ana
found traces of silver, so I�m not outa� the woods yet.�

�� Hmm. NOS
must�ve been expecting�
a *dangerous* Breed,� I joked. He threw a pillow at me with his
good arm. I laughed and dodged. �Well at least that explains why a simple
gunshot wound hasn�t healed in over a day. Hey, have you seen Shido around?�

�� Suna�s
face took on a puzzled look as he tilted his head. �He didn�t say good-bye to
you?�

�� What?�

�� He left
around noon. It rained today. He came
by here to tell the Father he was leaving.�

�� Leaving?!�
My breath caught in my chest. �Where was he going? Why? When�ll
he be back?!� What was going on?

�� Why would
Shido go out without telling me? � unless it was after
a Breed. But he would�ve been back by now. The sun had already set. Oh, no.
What if he�d been hurt?

�� Suna sat
up on the couch, careful of his wounded shoulder. �Calm down,
Riho-chan. He�ll be back soon enough. And it�s not like you�ll get any
older while he�s gone,� he chuckled. I gave him a sour look. Then
plopped down next to him.

My anxiety was obvious to him. �If
it�s any help, I heard him say something about the vampire sanctuary near
Kyoto. Shido probably flashed there, and he�ll flash back when he�s done. You
worry too much.�

He was probably right. I was just
being silly. Shido would be back soon. He�d been around a long time and could
take care of himself.

But why hadn�t he told me?

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I waited in the rectory until
Father Izawa came from mass. As he walked through the door, his face said he�d
been expecting me.

�� Now, Riho,
listen to me, child. Shido couldn�t tell you. He � �

�� Why not?!�

�� Let me
finish.� He came over and sat me down on the sofa I�d just jumped up from.� He
didn�t know when he�d be back exactly and he thought you�d insist on going with
him.�

�� What�s
wrong with me going to Kyoto? I spent fifteen years there!�

�� How do you
know he�s in Kyoto?�

�� Satsuna
overheard you when he left.�

�� Oh, dear.� The Father suddenly looked worried, but I was
too stressed to notice.

�� Why Kyoto, anyway? What�s going on?�

�� Father Izawa
came back to himself. �Oh, nothing too serious.
There�s just been as excess of attacks of late. They called for help and Shido
answered.� He began to remove his ceremonial robes. I stood and followed him to
the closet.

�Well, if that�s all, then why didn�t
he want me going? I could help!�

�Oh, Riho.
Shido�s very capable and he loves you very much. He didn�t want you
compromised.�

�Why would I be compromised?
They�re just Breeds!�

�My, my, so many
questions.� He chuckled and I subsided, trying not to look too guilty.
�Walk with me to dinner, Riho.� I followed him out of the room and down the
corridor towards the dining hall. He was silent for a while. I could sense he
was holding something back.� Our steps
echoed off the tile and stone as moments seemed to turn to hours. I finally
couldn�t take it anymore.

I snarled as I grabbed his arm and
turned myself. �Tell me what�s going on!�

But he only chuckled at my now
golden eyes and bared fangs. �Riho, my child, don�t try that on me. I�ve faced
up to far more dangerous creatures than you.� He put a hand on my cheek and I
dropped my face. �You�re as gentle as a kitten. I know you�re anxious, but
trust me when I say that everything will be fine. Just have faith in the Lord.�

I sighed. �Father, you know I ��

�I know, I know. You�re a damned
soul. Yes, Shido�s given me that lecture.�

I couldn�t help but smile as my
eyes returned to normal. Shido had his ideas about our lifestyle and was set in
his ways, but that�s how he coped with his eternity. Sometimes it grew difficult
to listen to his pessimism though.

�� The priest
saw my look of introspection, and patted my shoulder as he walked away. I
sighed again. He turned back to me, having remembered something.

�I�ll send someone up after dinner
so you can eat.�

�Oh, that�s alright. Sister Sarah
fed me yesterday.�

He chuckled again. �So that�s why
you�ve been so energetic and she�s been tuckered out.� He winked at my blush
and disappeared into the dining hall.

I returned to our rooms and plopped
down in front of the TV. After a while, though, I got bored and turned it off.
There was no one around to make comments on the news or point out how pointless
the shows were. I even missed Guni, who had gone to visit some cousins in the
forest. She may have been the most annoying bitch of a fairy I�d met in my 150
years, but she was better than no one. I sighed and went downstairs to sit with
Satsuna.

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�� So, um��..

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