Romance Fan Fiction ❯ Heartful Demon ❯ Our Meeting ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Chapter 1 Our Meeting
By Kaogme...

He tenderly slid his fingers across her face, gentlialy taking a hold a locket of her hair. Being impaled by her
careless experison as she slept. Being the demon he was, he never cared for anyone, for nothing less, a human. But the girl that lied in front of him, he didn't know how to feel. He just gazed at her. "It's like an angel fell to hell, then rose back up with no pride...how pitiless." he spoke to himself. He looked at the girl, "I should leave her to rest, for she is wounded." he said, with a bit of worry in his voice.

Yosjirou's servent, Nobu, was at door, waiting for the young lord."M-my lord," he muttered,"Is the girl dead?""No," Yoshirou replied," She's just wounded. But some rest is sure to help.""You're healing her wounds!?"Nobu said, with a shock in his voice. "Yes." There was uncomfortable silence, for a few moments, when Nobu finally said," Oh, I get it. You're going to heal the wrech's wounds, then you're going to kill her!" Nobu found his face in the dirt, seconds later." Now why would I kill her, after I took the time to heal her wounds?" Yoshirou scowled."B-but my lord!" Nobu's mouth shuttered," You said every human deserves to die, no matter what." Youshirou said nothing. He just started walking. Nobu scrambled up," Wait! My lord! Where are you going?" He ran after Yoshirou. When finally catching up with him, Nobu tried to catch his breath," Where, a-are, we going, my lord," he tried saying once more. Yet the young lord was still silent.

" M-my lord...?""I sugest you not talk to me, right me, Nobu..." He said with much angry, yet still, there was sarrow," Don't follow me anymore."

Hearing these words, Nobu tripped himself, creating him to roll forward." I said not to follow me!"This time, he spoke with only angry. Nobu got to knees, and started bowing."I'm sorry my lord! I didn't mean to follow, I-I just..."looking up, he saw that Yoshirou had left.My lord is acting odd today...could it be that girl?

Meanwhile, the young lord had escaped to his greenhouse. The greenhouse was Yoshirou's place to get away from everything. Nobu, his most loyal servent, didn't even know of this secert place. It was for Yoshirou, and Yoshirou himself. He walked around the flower-filled area. The flower's aromas surrounded him. He picked at the roses, gathering one of every color. The young lord looked at what he had picked. The girl may like these...I shall give them to her after she has awoken. He placed the flowers on a wooden table, with small stubby legs, in the coner of the house.

He walked further into the greenhouse, when he noticed a flower. A flower that was unknown to him. All he knew was everyon called it " The Flower of Hell". He never knew why, he just knew what they called it. When he saw the flower, he keep thinking what Nobu said, about human. It went through his head many times. He stood there, staring at the flower, which it's black petals glistened in the sun. I know I said that, but...`wondered `This girl, I don't want to kill her want to kill her. Why? Why can't I kill her? Yoshirou had never felt this way before, he just quickly crouched down, and put his head into hands. His black hair, hanging from his head, surfaced the floor arounded him.

"Why? Why! Whyy-!! Why can't I kill her!!" he yelled sorrowly, into his hands. He can't understand his feeling. The young
lord was so confused.

He had never had a human in his shrine. Well, he did have humans, only they were corpses. He would kill any human in his way, even if the human was helpless. Except for this one time, he didn't kill her. He found her wounded body at the door of his shrine. When he saw her face he remembered that she was the girl, who would watch him, and bring him food, when he was resting near her village.

Yoshirou had become terribly wounded after a battle with another demon. He managed to escape, before any further damage was done. He was going through the forest, which was near a village. He was walking, waith a limp, aimmlessly for days. He hadn't had food nor water. He was so tired and beaten. The young lord had lost too much blood, so he slumped down, to the closest tree. He lied there for many hours, in a dark red, bloody puddle.Then...

A girl, showed up, from behind a bush. She had some raw fish and a bucket of water. The girl slowly walked torwards him. While trying to balance what she held, she tried bowing. It was lousey, but the young lord excepted it. She placed the food before him, and backed away. She sat down, on knees, which was covered by flithy, old kimono. The girl studied Yoshirou, very carefully. About an hour passed, and the food was left untouched. The girl decicded to speak, when she opened her mouth, Yoshirou interrpted her," Save it. I don't eat human food.""And why not, sir?" The young lord became annoyed,
" Don't you see, you damn wrech! I'm a demon! I eat human flesh!" The girl's eyes widen and she backed up a little." But...
you didn't eat me yet...," She remined him."Wrech! That's only because I'm wounded and can't move!" Hearing that, she stood up and backed away behind a tree." Damn wrech! I don't want to have anything to do with you! Get out here!" he hissed, very harshly. The young girl listened this time and ran back to her village.

Why does the girl even try to help? Yoshirou wondered, as he cautiously fell asleep.

It was in the middle of the night, the moon was full, and was over the head of Yoshirou. Who layed, sleeping peacefully. The young girl came back. She hid behind a tree and watched the sleeping demon. The moon's light made the demon's hair shine. Creating the light to bounce off his hair and glisten around him. He's handsome was the first thought that came to her head. She walked closer to him. She tried looking at his face, from where she was, to see if he was asleep. She stepped silently closer to the young lord. When she reached out her hand to touch him, she quickly ran back behind the tree. She peeked out and saw it didn't wake him, so she walked over to him, bend down and looked at his face.

Looking at him, she saw that he was a truely handsome man. While bending over above him, she lost her balance and fell right on top of him. As soon as she fell, he woke. " Wrech! What do you think you're doing?" Hearing his voice, she knew he was awake. Her face flamed, with embarassment. She got off him quickly," I-I'm so sorry, sir!" He glanced at her and turned his head away. "Feh! You're just lucky that I can only move my neck, or you would be dead right now..." She looked at him, with a scared look in her eyes. "Hey!"he finally snapped back at her.

"Y-yes?"

"What's in your hands? Behind your back?"

"How did you know?"

"Your scent is different. There is a scent of flowers, mixed with your's."

"You remembered my scent?"

"Don't get the wrong idea! It's a demon thing!"he snapped back quickly."Now...what's behind your back?"

"Oh, um, this."She took her hands from behind her back, reviling to him, a flower."Why do you have that?"

"Well, it's called"The Flower of Hell", and"

"I know it's called the flower of hell, i have mant of them! I just wondered why you brought it here, with you?" he yelled back at her, annoyed again.

"Well, this is the first time I saw this type of flower, and I didn't know what to do with it, so..."

"You're giving it to me?"Yoshirou said, looking at the girl with a smerk.

"Well...Yeah."

"Please, go..."

"But..."

"Just. Go. PLEASE!"

The girl nodded and placed the black flower in front of him and backed away. Before she left, she turned around and said," Please except the flower!" Then she gave him a glance of her smile. His face flamed, and he turned his head away, to hide his red cheeks. The young lord kept in that position, until he couldn't smell the girl's scent. He turned his head forward, and looked up in the sky."What a stressful day..." He gentlialy, closed his eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.

He woke smelling fish, but this time, cooked fish. He looked to his side to find that someone had placed fish down for him. I also smell...her He heard a bang, and a rustle of leaves came from the tree."Come out! Come on! I know you're there, girl!" The young girl came from behind the tree, with a bucket of water. She walked torwards him and sat down, placing the bucket down. He looked at her. She looked at the fish and then looked at him, meeting his eyes. Then, she moitioned him to the fish again. She was trying to tell him to eat the fish, she had cooked.

"so, you cooked a fish for me?"he muttered, after a moment of silence. She nodded, and he turned his head."I can move my arms again..." When he faced torwards her, he saw that she had backed away. But he saw happiness in her eyes, that same moment. "So, did you catch the fish yourself?" She nodded. He looked at her," Why won't you speak?" She didn't say anything, just sat there. He studied her closely. Looking at her hair, face, arms, hands. And dare I say, her chest. But he mostly studied face. The face that once smiled at him, now frowning. He couldn't understand why she was so sad for, he had never felt that way before.

When he looked at her neck, he noticed a cut, that was still bleeding. The blood rushed down her small neck, she flinced from the pain."That cut. On your neck. What happen?" She looked at him. And began to cry, from the pain. She ran to him sobbing. The young lord didn't know what to do. He was very confused."Hey. What's the matter?" She didn't say a word. She just clung to him sobbing. He looked to the sky, closed his eyes then reopened them, while taking a deep sigh. He looked at the girl, took a hold of her chin, and leaned his head torward her neck. Took his other hand and held the back of her head, so she couldn't move. The girl was stunned by his actions and tried getting away, but his strong hold held her still. His lips touched her neck, where the cut was. She gasped. Lips still compressed to her neck, he opened his mouth. Licking the blood clean off her. When no more blood was left, he still licked at thc cut, so it wouldn't bleed anymore. Her face flamed by the strange, yet comfortable, feeling coming to her.

Few moments later, he took his tounge away, but didn't release her from his hold. The young lord put his mouth to her ear. "Now...tell me. What happen?" he whispered gentialy, yet demanding. He let her froms his hands and gave her a serious look. She looked to the ground,"Why didn't you kill me? You can freely move your ar--" Yoshirou had put his hand over her mouth. "I asked you a question first...Answer it!" She nodded. He took his hand away and let her speak. "I'll start from the begining. When I was small, my parents were forced to work for the village lord, leaving me behind. I was given to another family..." "So you were adopted?" the young lord said, interuppting. She nodded.

"These people had children, much older than I was. Thinking I would apart of the family, I came in shyly, yet happy. Everyone was staring and talking, secertly to each other. It had to be about me, it just had to, because someone yelled out, is she a girl or a boy? Everyone laughed. They got confused by my filthy kimono. I knew from that fact, that I wasn't family." Her eyes started to water. " I was their servent. I had to work for them, do what they said. They even put body up for sale, whan I was 12." The young lord's eyes had widen,"Was your body sold yet?"he asked, doing nothing to cover the worry in his voice. She nodded. His eyes keep widening at her words." S-so, your not pure? You were forced to have sex?" She shook her head."No. Just when he slid my clothes off, and touched me...I became very scared. With all my force I pushed him back. And I ran out into the forest. That's when...I saw you" She jolted her head up, to face him.

The demon's eyes could no longer became wider. His haert raced by the experison upon her face. " I hid in the woods, until the morning", she continued," the morning I brought you food. When I came back to the village...the customer had left, taking his money with him. They became angery and beat m-"" W-wait!" Yoshirou interupted," They beat you!?"" Yes, they can do as they wish to me...so they can beat me. When I had the chance, I snuck away from the village, last night, so I could help you." He flinched slightly at her words."They found out, so the wife tried slapping me. But I moved my head and she slapped my neck. Then they yelled at me to do the chores. I did as they pleased. They said the firewood was stacked unevenly. The wife said "Just die, you bitch!" I yelled at her with anger," My parent will come and take me from this hell, before that happens!" She got pissed off and grabbed a knife." A tear fell from her eye." She tried slicing my neck, but only cut the side. I fell to the ground, as she throw the knife down, almost hitting my hand. Then...she said," Your parents will never come for a filthy girl like you! Now leave!," That;s when I cooked the fish for you and brought it here." Tears fell to the ground.