Old friends.

[Rieko Mishimo]

Sitting under a tree Rieko was thinking of his past. It was a familiar topic for him and he personally wanted to avoid it. The fact that his past wasn't the best to begin with. People he'd hurt, people he wanted to see, but...thats when he remember someone. An old friend, a girl he had feelings for.

Rieko looked around. He had wandered into the woods this night for no particular reason, he just was sick of it all. He wanted peace and quiet and this was a good way to get it. In the dorms there was always someone playing music or something, and it wasn't dark enough for his sensitive eyes. He then looked up and remembered and old story about a guy name Prince Siddartha...the man who created Buddhism.

He went back to his thoughts for a while. The wind blew slightly and the clouds covered the quarter waning moon temporarily. He smiled and closed his eyes. Thats when he heard a crack of a branch. He held his breath, opened his eyes and sat at attention.

[Jazzy]

"In coming!"

Jazzy shouted down as she saw a boy below. The crunching of the branch had been the branch she was standing on. Ya see, Jazzy had climbed been climbing trees for a while now, and she only knew it was because of someone she met once. She remembers a boy and her climbing trees and thought that one day the boy and her might again climb trees. He was in fact the only person she liked in the school. No one ever saw her smile or show any emotion but he had. She remembered that much. Sadly, as much as Jasmine would have liked to find the boy she once knew, the one she had once asked to a dance... She forgot the boys name, what he looked like.

That depressed her a little because she remembered having liked him quite a bit. She really wished she could have remembered to go to that dance with him. As she fell down the tree, her backpack, full of Ice and blood hit the ground first. Jazzy grabbed a tree branch and swung her self up and over the branch before landing on the ground beside the boy at the bottom of the tree. Her chest heaving in heavy breaths. She sighed softly.

"That was a close one. You alright?"

She asked softly looking at the boy. He seemed a little familiar but she didn't know how.

[Rieko Mishimo]

Rieko's heart was beating faster than usual. Blood pumping, he had jumped out of the way with his unusual speed, unnecessarily in the end. The person jumping, or falling out of the tree had found a way to get out of direct falling. He took a deep breath and blinked a few times, trying to calm himself.

When he finally was calm, he took a look at this person. A girl, really pretty in his eyes, and quite familiar. He didn't remember he exactly, but its like he had seen her before. What was it about her....That when a thought hit him. It could be her. She had the same feel, the same energy patterns.

He was tempted to test something. It would be a bit dangerous, but he could control himself, he was sure of it. It wouldn't be the first time controlling himself, though when emotions got in the way he couldn't very easily. He decided upon it then and started trying to feed off her energy a little, getting a small taste...

[Jazzy]

She blinked having seen the boy jump out of the way, then he calmed him self and stared at her. Jasmine tilted her head and looked him over. He was so familiar... Those eyes... She stopped staring off into his eyes. She had seen them before. Then, as she started to slip, she felt a familiar feeling. One she hadn't felt in a while. She shook it off, trying to shove it from her mind. The boy in front of her wasn't feeding off her energy. He wasn't because the last boy she knew that did that, was the one she was going to take to the dance.

"Uhm, I... I am Jasmine."

She said softly trying to distract her self from the feeling that she was losing the energy she was putting out. It didn't really bother her all that much, but it was different when she wasn't prepared for that sort of thing.

"P-people call me Jazzy, Jazlyn, and Jazz... Pick a name and stick with it."

She said softly and set her hands on her hips her dark brown eyes sliding over him, taking in his shape as she tried to put a name to him. He could be the boy she once knew, but she wasn't sure, and she wasn't about to ask and make a fool out of her self. Now, one might wonder why her backpack was full of ice and blood, but that was because as far as she remembered, the boy she liked was some sort of vampire, but... that was what she remembered. She could be very wrong.

[Rieko Mishimo]

She listed off her names, and he was half paying attention, but at that moment, she said the last one. Jazz. It was the girl. He knew her, he remembered her. He could be wrong but he didn't think so, her energy was so much like the girls he liked was.

The last name distracted him and he stopped feeding. He knew she was someone he knew. She had to be, or someone sure as hell like the girl he knew. He thought back. They had promised to go to a dance together. It never really happened. They had also gone climbing trees together once too! She was in a tree. She had to be her.

He looked her up and down again, then stared at her eyes. He gorgeous eyes. They were so familiar.

[Jazzy]

The way he looked at her, it was like he remembered her. Then it must be him right? You don't get that look unless you remember someone, Right?! She was so excited. She had finally found him. The name that seemed to allude her lips till now finally burst forth.

"R-rieko? Is that you?"

She said softly, her head leaning forward as if for a better look. Her brown eyes looking into his own blue. It surely was him. Her arms shot out and she wrapped them around him pulling him into a gentle hug. Though Rieko talked less this time, in fact he had said nothing, but some how she knew it was him. She gave him a gentle squeeze and pulled away smiling again, like she used to when ever he was around.

"It is you isn't it? Where have you been?"

[Rieko Mishimo]

"Jazz!" it was the girl he had known before. The only girl that he could feed from without being afraid of hurting her. The only girl he had feelings for on this planet. He smiled so huge and pulled her back for a bigger hug. He couldn't resist but to do it.

He pulled away and looked her up and down again. It was all coming back, all the memories, all the fun. The emotions were coming back too and it was amazing. He couldn't help but stare. He reached out and grabbed her hand to make sure she was real.

[Jazzy]

There was no answer to her 'where have you been?' question, but that was alright. At least she didn't make a fool out of her self and hug a complete stranger. He even hugged her back, it was abit stronger then her initial hug but that was fine. She didn't mind at all. He reached out and took her hand and she smiled. She almost forgot that there was a few packs of blood in her backpack, but once she remembered she slipped her hand out of his and turned to grab the bag.

"Rieko... I have some stuff for you."

She said happily as she pulled the blood package out. She turned around and offered it to him. As usual, Jazz couldn't hide her self from him. Then again, he wasn't like everyone else. After giving him the packet of blood she flopped down on the ground and sighed softly. She had headphones around her neck, and the long wire drifted off into her pockets and disappeared. Jasmine dusted her hands off trying to get rid of the bark.

"Those trees still give me problems, but I think you were the only one to hit your head in one while talking to a girl."

The girl smirked up at him and pushed her pigtails over her shoulders.

[Rieko Mishimo]

Rieko grinned and took the blood. He thanked her and bit into it. It tasted pretty good, as far as blood went. Without thinking of it, he started to draw it some energy from its closest source. Jazzy. He didn't mean to, but he didn't exactly notice he was doing it.

While he was drinking she mentioned him hitting his head. It was a funny moment, but he had to correct her. "A pretty girl....can't forget the pretty part." he said with a grin, drinking a bit more. He had sat down next to her and had also closed his eyes.

The wind blew lightly and he grinned. It wasn't very cold out, and it wasn't too warm. The moon shown only a little and wasn't particularly bright. Thats when it hit him. It's like she had expected him. It could be dangerous to have someone expect him to be somewhere.

"How did you know I would be here today?" he asked her tilting his head to the side. He had already finished the packet of blood and tossed it to the side.

[Jazzy]

"A pretty girl....can't forget the pretty part."

Jazzy laughed and shook her head.

"Always the charmer Rieko."

She pulled out a sketch book and a pencil. Her eyes turning to the paper as she felt energy being drawn out from her. She looked at Rieko and tilted her head a little.

"Rieko... your Alice acting up or something?"

Jazzy didn't really mind that energy was being taken. He needed it to survive, she gave out more then she needed. It worked. Her pencil lightly touched the paper and then she heard his question about how she knew he would be out here. She looked up from her paper and over to him.

"I didn't. I just decided to carry the stuff with me in case I ever ran into you again."

Her eyes lowered.

"Sorry about not going with you to the dance. I got sick. I tried to get a dorm bot to go and tell you but... they were all busy. After I got better I went out looking for you but... when I couldn't find you I thought..."

Her voice trailed off. Her pencil staying stationary on the paper. She had felt awful that he had been stood up for the dance. She had forced her self to forget him after she couldn't find him, but as of late she had been wanting to find him again, feeling so alone and upset with her self for never having told him why she couldn't go to the dance.

[Rieko Mishimo]

When she had mentioned his alice, he realized it was acting up and he quickly got it under control. He smiled sheepishly and just sat there. When she explained the spare blood, he nodded his head in understanding and grinned. "Thanks."

"Its ok....for the dance I mean. Things happened and well....to make it easy, I couldn't show up either." he said thinking of all that had actually happened. He looked at Jazz again and smiled when he saw she was about to draw, or write.

(Sorry that this one is so short!)

[Jazzy]

So it seemed both were busy the night of the dance. Which, in retrospect was good, because if either one had been stood up it would have been upsetting. Jazzy's pencil began to scratch at the paper. Her drawing block having vanished. The young girl loved to draw, but after having losing touch with Rieko, she lost touch with her skills. Sure she could still draw but they all came out looking more like a 4 year olds work. It seemed the block was gone now and she began to draw. First light strokes, then darker ones. When she was finished, it looked like Rieko was sitting under a tree. She flipped the page and began a new one.

"So, Rieko... what were you doing out here? Looking for me?"

Jazzy asked with a smirk as she looked over at him.

[Rieko Mishimo]

"Looking for you....Looking for myself." He said quietly, going back into a thoughtful mood. He went awkwardly quiet and it bugged him. He knew that he should probably say something but nothing came to mind.

(WILL FINISH SOON!! SORRY)