krystalkatzficz | The War part 56

“Masaki, would you like me to read to you?” Sho asked an hour after Nino and Satoshi had gone into the wastes and Masaki glared at the vampire that had always been with him. He didn’t want to fight with Sho, Sho had always been a part of him and it was amazing to see him in the flesh but he couldn’t get over the feeling that there was something that he wasn’t telling him and he couldn’t stand that.

“I’m not a child anymore, Sho-chan, and you can’t comfort me by reading to me”

“No, I suppose I can’t. Masaki, I am sorry...” Sho whispered almost sheepishly running his hand through his hair and causing his fringe to ruffle. Masaki remembered the action well, it was something the vampire always did when he was troubled by something. When he had first found his way to the library he had seen the action a lot, and then again when he had been taken by Nino.
“If you were sorry, you wouldn’t keep lying to me Sho-chan. Nino lies to me, when he thinks its for my own good. I hate it but I understand it, I never thought you would lie to me...You always promised that you wouldn’t, Sho-chan...You said that you would always be honest with me, no matter how much it hurt but now you are lying to me...” Masaki shook his head and then stalked his way through the library. He had spent so much time here as a child that he knew it as well as Sho did and he knew exactly where he was going. It was the same place he had first appeared all those years ago. This had been the one place that he had felt safe in the entire world, even when Nino had found him he had felt safer here in the depths of a dusty library with only Sho for company. The man had been everything to him and he thought he had been everything to Sho, it hurt that he was keeping secrets. He knew that Sho and Nino probably thought that they were helping but the truth was he hated being left in the dark, he hated people knowing things that he didn’t.

“You are not completely human, Masaki-chan...You never have been” Sho’s voice followed him down the corridor and Masaki froze mid-step turning to look at the vampire with the bright red eyes. “I created you...You are a homunculus...”

“A what?” Blood rushed through Masaki’s ears as his heart raced inside his chest. He didn’t know what Sho was saying but he turned to look at him with a lifted eyebrow his mouth growing dry.

“I hated what the vampires and werewolves had done to the planet, and to humans. I hated it so much that one day I read an obscure book that talked about homunculi...” Sho gave a twisted sort of smile as he walked towards him and Masaki knew that he was being honest with him. “It seemed so easy. I could bring the humans back. I went out into the wastes and I found blood...Human blood. It wasn’t easy but eventually I found enough to get a complete sample of DNA. I spliced some of it out and replaced it with the blood of a vampire. I chose Satoshi as he was the bravest and best vampire I knew...I followed the book perfectly but something went wrong.” Masaki froze wishing that he hadn’t pushed for an answer wishing that he could tell him to stop speaking. He even wished he could accuse him of lying again but he knew that Sho was only telling him what he wanted to hear, the truth. “The thing that I created was just a blob, a mass of organs and tissue that wouldn’t survive a day...The creation of Homunculus is illegal, it had been for hundreds of years and here I was the prince of Vampires with a failed Homunculi. I had to get rid of the evidence. I took it back out into the wastes and left it there, as far away from the library as I could manage...”

“...And then...”

“And then I came back here and I destroyed everything, all of my research, my samples everything. I thought that I had gotten away with what I had done. I thought there was no evidence and then out of no-where you appeared in my library” Sho gave the softest smile then, his eyes glazed over in remembrance. “You were so perfect, so amazing...Just what I had wanted to achieve but you weren’t...There...You were like mist...You faded in and out of my life on a whim, but the more I got to know you the more I realised how perfect you are. Then you were taken by Nino and I thought you were gone...I tore my library up wanting to get to you but you charmed even the prince of werewolves. So much that he thinks of you as his son, and when you almost died he fed you his own blood...”

“What? But...But why?” Masaki blenched in disbelief his eyes almost bugging out of his head as he heard that. He remembered being sick, he remembered crying in the middle of the night and then he remembered feeling better. Nino had been vague about how he had gotten better saying that he had given him medicine that had cured him but now he supposed that that was when he had given him blood.

“You are half vampire, you need blood to survive, Masaki-chan, Nino didn’t know that at the time, he just read a story that werewolf blood had healing powers and he wanted nothing more than to save you...” Sho had reached him now and took his hands in his own. His skin was cold but Masaki didn’t even notice. He had gotten what he wanted he had heard the truth and now he wished that he hadn’t. “You are not human, but you are amazing...Half vampire, who fed off of a werewolf. You are something the world has never seen before...But...To me, you will always be my Masaki...”

“Why...Why do I see ghosts?”

“I can’t answer that, I promised your father that I would try to cure it though. If you will let me...” Sho squeezed at his hands and Masaki stared at him for a long time before pulling his fingers free and whispering;

“My entire life has been a lie...”

“No, no it hasn’t...You are who you have always been, Masaki-chan, the only difference is that you know where you came from...Nothing has changed Masaki-chan, Nino loves you...I love you and you technically have a father...Satoshi’s blood runs through your veins...You are as much his child as Rhian is...”

“I...I need...I need to think...I need...I want to be alone...”

TBC

A/N: So Sho couldn’t keep it a secret for more than an hour >.< Masaki should learn to be careful what you wish for ne >.<