Blood Plus Fic: Anata Ga Koko Iru Riyuu Ch 3

I don't know why I decided to have Kanake and Hibiki have a crush on Haji. They're only children but I had the urge to make them have a special adoration for him. I think it's kind of cute and hope you all think so as well.

Also, please forgive my idiocy if I mess up any of the facts stated in the series or if I miss a point or two established about Chiropterans in the anime. I think I got all the facts correct but knowing me and my terrible memory, I might have messed up a few points.

Title means "The Reason I'm Here Now" in Japanese. I took that title from one of the endings in the anime D Gray Man.

Disclaimer: Blood Plus and it's characters all belong to the original creator.

Chapter 3: Rise of the Chiropterans

"Haji..."

Saya couldn't believe her eyes. Standing right there in front of her was her faithful Chevalie. The last time she had seen him was after the fight with Diva. In truth, she had thought he had died. Despite Kai's efforts to tell her that he was most likely alive, Saya always felt a small amount of doubt in her heart. She had lost so much back then so what reason did she have to believe that her love had survived? But now, there he stood. Looking at her with his usual poker face, his clothes the same, and his cello case still strapped to his back.

Kai's lips curled upward at the sight of his sister's lover. He had always known he'd show up again. Ever since he went to the crypt that spring day with the twins and found the lone pink rose with Haji's blue ribbon tied around the stem. Now that the Chevalie had returned, Saya could truly begin to live again. At least, that was Kai's hope for his sister.

"Oooh, who is that handsome man, Kai?" Kanake asked, yanking on her guardian's pant leg in excitement.

"Yeah, he's hot~" The older twin, Hibiki, cheered unexpectedly, "Can we keep him?"

The twenty-four year old choked back a laugh at the ignorant children. Sometimes they could be so spoiled, it was cute.

Bending down to match the kids height with his own, Kai petted both girls on the head, "Sorry, girls. He's not for us to keep. But you could say..." Kai shot a sinister stare over at the Chiropteran, "That the handsome man belongs to your Aunt Saya."

The twins exchanged looks. He belonged to Saya? Oh well. That didn't mean the two couldn't get to know this new handsome man.

Running over to stand before Haji, the girls put on the best innocence faces they could manage. They then began to shyly rock their bodies back and forth in hopes that this man would find them cute.

Haji noticed the two girls but said nothing. While he was a little surprised to see that Diva's children had grown so big in the few years (and even more surprised to see one resembled Saya), the girls were not what he had come for.

"Hi," Kanake began in a flirtatious tone, "I'm Kanake and this is my sister, but you don't have to pay attention to her. I'm the most adorable!"

"Hey!" Hibiki shouted, pushing her sister in annoyance, "I'm the most adorable!"

"Nun uh!"

"Am so!"

Kai sighed at the twins actions and went to put a stop to their immature feud, "Both of you, stop! We have a guest," Kai looked around at the others, "Actually more then one. Stop being bad or you're both going to your room."

Both girls shot a miserable and also shocked look at their father-figure, "AWW! But we-"

"No buts." Kai said, shaking a finger and grabbed both of them by their wrists, "This is a special reunion for your aunt. Don't ruin it by getting in the way."

Saddened but knowing they couldn't argue, both girls took their spot behind Kai and surrendered their attempts at flirting with Haji.

Meanwhile, Saya seemed to still be frozen in place from the sight of the century-old servant. She wanted to cry. She wanted to laugh. She wanted to hit Haji with all her strength, yet she also wanted to hold him and never let go again. Saya's emotions were so jumbled now and her brain just couldn't seem to sort it all out. All she could do was stand there, looking dumb-founded at Haji. It had been six years since she last saw him. She had wanted to see him so badly and now, here he was. But what should she say to him? What should she do? Furthermore, why had he appeared so suddenly and so...coincidentally after her awakening? Had Haji had some part in her early awakening? Maybe he gave her some of his blood while she slept and that's what woke her up. But if that had been the case, Vietnam's incident would have been repeated, at least that's what was assumed.

Suddenly, the Japanese girl felt something push against her back, sending her forward towards Haji. Looking back, she noticed Kai making gestures at her, silently telling her "Hug him". The girl blushed slightly and narrowed her head. Her heart beat seemed to be speeding up and now, she couldn't bear to look Haji in the eyes. What was wrong with her? Kai was right, she should just hug him. Tell him how happy she was to see him. Maybe even say "Welcome back" or even ask him if he knew why she awoke so early. She had to DO SOMETHING.

"Haji..." Saya mumbled, lifting her head to finally lock her red eyes with Haji's ocean orbs, "W-Wel..."

But at that moment, Saya's voice was stolen from her when she suddenly saw another strange vision flash in her mind.

Echos of screaming seemed to be coming from every direction at the woman. Blood covered everywhere and the non-human could see blurred figures falling to the ground, probably dead from whatever horror she was foreseeing. Saya stood in the vision, no longer seeming to be standing in Omoro with Haji and Kai. Instead, the girl seemed to be standing in some dark place where she heard nothing but cries for help and pleas for mercy. It reminded the girl of the horrible nightmare and vision she had before and Saya hated it.

"No...stop..." Saya shouted, grabbing her head with both her hands.

"Saya!"

At hearing her name be called, the Chiropteran looked up to see one of the blurred figures turn into a beaten and distressed Haji. Was this a flashback? No, Saya didn't remember Haji being as injured and terrified-looking as he appeared to be now. He seemed to be holding something. It was blurred like the other shadows, so it was impossible for Saya to see. Even so, Haji continued to cry out her name. Saya frowned at her Chevalie's unusual panic. Only one question appeared in Saya's mind as she continued to hear screams, see blood fly, and watch Haji scream out at her in horror: What the hell was going on?

"Haji...?" Instantly, Saya felt her feet take off on their own. She wasn't walking. No, her legs seemed to be moving much faster. She was running. At top speed as a matter of fact. The feeling felt familiar. She remembered running like this during the Vietnam massacre.

Out of no where, Saya then felt something cold in her hands. Looking down, Saya noticed that her katana had appeared in her hands. She then looked back to see Haji was getting closer to her. No, wait...she was getting closer to Haji.

The long-time love of Saya's didn't move as she seemed to run towards him. All's Saya could see was his blue eyes get smaller and smaller the closer she seemed to get. Eventually, Saya had reached Haji. Without warning, Saya felt her arms lift up without her even say-so. Her red eyes nearly shot out of her head when she unthinkingly slashed the sword down into Haji's chest, slicing him into two.

Suddenly, the blurred things Haji had been holding unveiled themselves. The things were..children? No, two babies. One in each of Haji's hands. Blood seemed to cover both infants and the blankets they were wrapped in.

As Haji dropped to the ground dead, Saya felt tears stream down her face. The katana dropped out of the murderess' hand and her red eyes looked at the corpses before her. She had killed Haji. Had she killed the babies too? She still couldn't quite make out who the children were but they looked familiar in some way.

At last, Saya felt the world around her spin and twist, and the girl dropped to her knees and fell into darkness.

"Saya!" Kai screamed as he watched his sister begin to fall backwards. The man took a step forward to catch her but Haji, being the protective Chevalie that he was, beat Kai to it.

Catching Saya with his bandaged hand, Haji balanced the woman in his arms and carefully helped her stand back up. Dizzy and distracted, Saya slowly looked at her Chevalie. She choked back vomit from the sick vision she had just seen.

What had been that terrible thing Saya had just seen? Was it all in her imagination or...?

"Saya, are you okay?" David asked, walking over to her beside Haji.

Saya nodded at Haji, telling him it was okay to let her stand on her own. As Haji released her, Saya exhaled a deep sigh in attempt to shake the bad thoughts from her head, "I-I'm fine. I just had a dizzy spell. Probably because I woke up so early."

David looked to his wife that was standing in the doorway, across the room. Without speaking, Julia nodded at her husband, silently telling him that it was possible Saya could have such spells because of her waking up. However, they both knew Julia would have to do some tests on Saya to know for sure.

Kai frowned at his sister. She had had a total of at least three "dizzy spells" since he had found her. She had never had that much before. Perhaps Saya's reasoning was correct but if that was the case, could they do anything to stop it? Not only did she seem to nearly faint in these times, Kai couldn't help but wonder if there was something else going on when Saya had such episodes that she wasn't saying.

"Saya, why don't you go lay down for a little bit?" Saya's brother suggested, exchanging a stern look with her.

Saya's red eyes wandered over to Haji, "But what about..."

"Don't worry." Kai adverted his eyes at said man, "Haji, would you please stay at Omoro for the night? It'd be a pleasure to have you as a guest."

'Isn't that why he showed up anyways?' David thought, sweat-dropping.

Before Saya could protest any longer, she was being dragged out of the room by Mao who lectured her about her health as they went off to her room. After the girls exited, Kai and David looked sternly at Haji. The calm man nodded in understanding and grabbed his cello case.

~xXx~

"Here you boys go." Julia smiled, placing tea down on the table for each of them.

David kindly thanked his wife and turned back to Kai and Haji who sat across from him. The three had decided to have a private meeting, to discuss obvious matters. Haji would start the discussion.

"Okay Haji, first we wanna know...do you know how Saya woke up?" Kai asked right off the bat.

Haji stared down at the teacup in front of him. He plainly said "No."

Kai sighed, "As talkative as ever I see."

Haji looked up from his tea, "But I do know something that may be connected with her waking up,"

David and Kai rose their brows, confused. Haji looked back down into his tea, his voice still holding its monotone,

"A few weeks ago, while I was traveling through Tokyo, I saw something."

David's stare intensified.

Haji focused his ice-blue eyes on the others, "...I saw Chiropteran."

Kai shrugged, misunderstanding. So what if he had seen them? They had appeared before in groups.

"You forget that we wiped them out when we murdered Diva, Kai." David explained, thinking back to six years ago on that day. They had bombed the Oprah house, killing all the remaining Chiroterans and with Diva dead; no one could make the Chiropteran popular grow anymore. There was no one to sing the song that turned humans into the beasts, therefore there should be no more of them roaming around other then the three still living.

"The only person who would be able to make the population grow again would be either Saya, or the twins. But I doubt the twins have learned of that ability yet." Haji flashed a questionable look at Kai, silently asking him if the girls showed any signs of becoming like their mother.

Kai shook his head, unable to recall seeing any signs.

"Then Saya could be the only one who would be able to do it." David began, pondering aloud, "But...she wasn't awake a few weeks ago. She just woke up yesterday." The older man looked to Kai who nodded in agreement, "Then who...?"

Haji pushed his teacup away from him and shut his eyes, "I have a theory. The Chiropterans have learned to mate and are spawning."

"Mate?" Kai jumped from his seat in alarm, the wooden chair falling to the floor at the force of his rising body, "That can't be...if that were possible, wouldn't they have done it that way before? The Chiropterans could never spawn off of each other when Diva was alive...at least there was no record of it."

David nodded, explaining how the Red Shield had never learned such things during the time they spent researching the creatures. The main question now was why and how were the beasts able to mate now, but not before?

"That I am still unsure of but I am nearly positive that is the case at hand. I believe it must be connected to Saya's waking up. That is why I came here to Okinawa." Haji looked from Kai to David, "To warn you all."

Kai nodded but froze a moment. His hazel eyes widened slowly when he thought. Saya's brother leaned towards Haji and spoke in a hushed tone,

"Then you weren't aware of Saya's waking up, were you?"

"No." He closed his eyes, "I was surprised when I came here today to find her with you all. And of all the years I have known her, Saya has only woken up early once. The Vietnam incident."

All three men sighed. They were more confused then ever at the situation. Saya's early awakening along with a new rise of Chiropterans beginning again. What were they to do now?

"I am going to ask Julia if she will perform some tests on Saya." David began, raising a hand at Kai before he could intervene, "Just listen, Kai. I have already called Joel and Lewis. We've all agreed to meet at the new HQ for the Red Shield first thing tomorrow. Because of this new piece of information Haji has provided us with, it is crucial we learn as much as we can about everything as soon as possible."

The younger human groaned, wishing to argue with his old enemy's words but knew he couldn't. It was true that they needed to move on this info given to them. Perhaps along the way of their search, they would discover the reason behind Saya's reawakening and the rise of the demons. Kai only hoped that in the process of it all, the agonizing past that he and Saya had lived through six years ago wouldn't be repeated.

~xXx~

Drooping a pink nightgown over her body, Saya brushed back her raven hair to rest on her shoulders. The visions she had had ever since she had woken up still plagued the girl's mind like a terrible disease. She still could not come up with the rhyme or reason behind the terrifying things her mind had cambered up. Perhaps it was just a result of her awaking so soon. The girl was sure they're be side effects to come with her new start at life again.

Letting out a long yawn, the Japanese woman laid down into the bed her brother had made up for her and drifted into a deep sleep...

~xXx~

A strong blizzard raged outside a warn down cabin located among a large forest somewhere unknown. Lights from inside the structure flickered on and off, the power threatening to surrender to the terrible weather as the icy wind rammed against the generator located beside the cabin.

Four figures stood in a line inside the structure, a chair behind a wooden desk rocking back and forth by the weight of their boss that sat in it.

"Sir, we have confirmed that Saya Otonashi has, as you predicted, woken up." One of the shady men said, a paper going from his hands to those of the other person beside him.

"And the population of Chiropterans in Japan are multiplying at a faster rate now that the Queen has risen again."

"Excellent." The man in the chair smiled at his lackeys, taking the paper in his hands now. He studied the writing with crystal eyes, his mustache twitching upward with his the curl of his lips, "Everything is going just as I planned..."

The boss looked back to his men, causing the four to salute in respect as their leader rose from his seat. After telling two of the men an order, the leader looked back to the remaining lackeys,

"It shall only be a matter of time for Saya Otonashi and her faithful Chevalie. Now, we simply wait." Said the boss, his body rotating so his back faced those who obeyed his every order.

Evil chuckling began inside the cabin and within only a matter of minutes, turned into insane laughter. At that moment, the clock began ticking; Slowly but surely, for the Chiropteran Queen known as Saya.

Author's comments: I deeply apologize that this chapter took too long to get posted. I was stuck on one point of this chapter for so long that I have given up on this fic for a short time. It might be that way for the next chapter as well unless I can get rid of this writer's block.

Reviews are greatly appreciated as well as suggestions for things to happen in future chapters.