If Shizune heard Reiko's voice, she didn't show any signs of it. She continued to stare at the doorway, red eyes shining with need and want. They were just moving shapes to her now...pulsing...beating...flowing...too much...it was too much...too much!

With an inhuman shriek, Shizune leapt up onto all fours and launched herself at the nearest body, landing on top of them. Pinning the struggling form down with her weight alone, she reared back her head to strike. 

It shined brightly in the low light, gleaming in an unnatural tint. Everyone had seen it as clear as day. Just as they were about to witness the death of another.

Fangs.

Shizune bit down on the neck, her teeth penetrating the flesh to rip a new opening. Then she drank her fill. The one underneath her let out choked garbles as they struggled in vain to escape. Struggles that soon became weaker and weaker as the life continued to be drained out of them.

It was over in mere seconds.

Gasping, Shizune separated her grip and rolled off the form, panting and coughing violently, taking the time to wipe spare droplets of blood off of her lips. Sitting up, she began to recognize her surroundings once more as her vision cleared up. Shinobu....Reiko....and...

Cold fear shot through her spine, and Shizune turned to look at the body before her. Lifeless. Limp. Dead. "No.....no, no, no, no!" Shizune backed off, trying to put as much distance between her and the new corpse. She looked at Reiko, the only one with a weapon, with scared eyes. She had seen it all.

"I...I-I didn't mean to...I only wanted enough for...no...I didn't w-want to..."

Whatever confidence Shizune had prior was shattered now as a new form of trembling overtook her. Shiori....where was Shiori...she would understand...she had to!

And that's when she finally noticed it. The screams of the children had ceased into nothingness. As if sated that blood had finally been drawn. The first real kill. Dealt by Shizune herself.

"K...K-K....Kabetake!"