This is my first Mai-Hime fic is a mix between twilight, vampire diaries, Anne Rice's books and AU.
I don't own any of those.
Let me know what you think and if it's worth it
Enjoy :]
"I'm hungry" a girl with black hair and golden eyes complained "can't we grab a bite? Please Hiro"
"No, Mikoto that would be rude of us" Hiro; a tall man, apparently in his middle thirties, with deep brown eyes, blond hair and pale skin said.
"This time I agree with her, we've been traveling for far too long and it feels like it's going to rain soon" A redhead said.
"We are in their territory now; if we keep this speed we will be there in less than 10 minutes" the man said he looked at his right side to his other companions "how are you? You have been too quiet all this time"
They were five; three girls and two men. All of them, running at an inhuman speed through the thick and dark forest which was barely illuminated by the moonlight. 4 of them were teenagers the youngest (the girl with black hair and the redhead) were running at the left side of the man while the elders (the other male in the group and a girl) were running at his right side.
"We are fine" the boy said and smiled at him, the other girl also smiled but chose to remain quiet.
After a couple of minutes the tall thick trees that surrounded them were left behind and instead they were in an open and wide path it was a big circle, which circumference was traced by trees.
"There it is" the man smiled, his gaze was focused on the big white house that was at the center of the circle
"Pass the ball! Common asshole, throw it! He's open common, do it!" the figure seating on the 'lazy boy chair' said, he had a bowl of corn pops on his lap and a can of beer in his hand, he gulped the whole beer in one go and made a motion of throwing the empty can at the TV. Suddenly he froze hand raised with the can still in it. He sniffed 3 times before seating back now with a smirk on his face. "Saeko! We have company"
Hiro reached the house and was about to knock on the door when it was opened from the other side, none of them was surprised by this. On the other side of the door a man considerably shorter than Hiro and with black hair, tan skin and black eyes stood smiling at them.
"Good to see you again my friend, you haven't change one bit, not that I expected you to" he smirked
"You are not one to talk Kenji" Hiro smiled at him, and they hugged each other patting their backs.
"Come in" Kenji said opening the door wider for them to enter the house "take a seat and tell me what brings you here" he guided the 5 of them towards his big living room were a woman with also tan skin but fairer in comparison with Kenji's, navy blue hair and green eyes was sitting "I'm sure you remember my wife Saeko" he motioned to the woman.
"How could I forget her" he bowed respectfully when she stood up and kissed her hand smiling charmingly at her.
"Always the gentleman, I think I might change my preferences" she giggled at her joke and it only increased, when she saw her husband grimacing, Hiro smiled and patted Kenji's back friendly.
"I'm sure you remember Reito" he motioned to the black haired guy standing next to him "and this is Shizuru" the brunette standing next to Reito bowed respectfully "this is Nao" the redhead just waved "and I'm sure you also remember Reito's sister Mikoto" he ruffled the girl's hair.
"Nice to meet you, can I hunt in your territories please?" the girl said giving Kenji her best puppy eyes.
"Not now Mikoto, we still have to talk" Reito smiled at the girl and she nodded making a Humph noise, and even thought she apparently understood her eyes were looking down and her stomach was growling a bit loud. All 7 of them took a seat, when Kenji offered, and Hiro started to talk
"We're here because our former home has been…" he trailed off as he looked behind him with wide eyes before looking towards Kenji who was grimacing. Before anyone could make a move or said anything, a figure broke through the window and ran towards Hiro snarling, everything happened so fast even for their own speed, when everybody realized what had happened they saw the figure that was going to attack Hiro pinned down on the floor by a Shizuru.
"Take your blood stained hands off of me bitch" the figure said, she was trying to get out of the hold the brunette had her in. But Shizuru had a good hold on her, so it proved to be impossible to even move, the person under Shizuru was growling and snarling at Shizuru who remained expressionless and calm.
"Kuga Natsuki!" Saeko started "Listen to me and listen to me good, you're going to stop the violence and your going to apologize with Hiro and Shizuru"
"wha…What!?" shock was visible all over the girl face, who stopped writhing under Shizuru and looked at her mom with wide eyes "bu…but… mom they are vam…vamp"
"We know what they are, the problem here is that YOU don't know WHO they are… they are friends so stand up and apologize" Saeko ordered, Natsuki opened her mouth several times but nothing came out of it, she couldn't believe what her mom had just told her, she must be dreaming of something, cause she could swear she heard her mom telling her that, they were friends with vampires. She looked at her mom, and she got a very scolding gaze from her, which meant that she wasn't dreaming and she was expected to apologize. She locked gaze with the brunette who was still on top of her.
"Get off me" she said baring her teeth, Shizuru stood up slowly and gracefully, while Natsuki as soon as she was able to, stood up abruptly and with closed fist trembling with anger.
"Duran!" they heard voices coming from outside the house before a group of 2 boys and 2 girls rushed inside the house, they were getting in fighting stances when Natsuki's voice made them stop.
"Don't, stop… It's ok… leave" she spoke through clenched teeth
"But Duran…" said one of the boys; a tall guy with spiky black hair, tan skin and a scar across his cheek took a step forward eying the girl's clenched fists and jaw.
"I said leave, it's ok, I'll explain tomorrow" she growled.
"Nat…"
"God fucking damn it; don't you fucking know the meaning of leave? I'll talk to you guys later at the peak, I promise, now get the fuck out!" she turned to the group still speaking through her teeth; they nodded and walked out of the house sporadically looking over their shoulders. The room was filled with an uncomfortable silence for a couple of seconds that felt like years.
"This is new" Hiro was the first one to talk "first time I meet an alpha which is not a male"
"That's because it's not common, I think there are not more than 5" Kenji said proudly "It's a funny story actually we were…"
"Dad" Natsuki entire body was now trembling, so she spoke the word empathizing the word.
"Fine, seriously you're so…" he was about to say something else when her wife glared at him, so he just cleared his throat and explained "Natsuki, this man, is the cause that I'm standing right here" he smiled at the memory and looked over his daughter "take a seat and I'll explain" Natsuki looked at him, and it was clear she was saying something like saying 'I'm not moving', so he continued "when I was around your age, I was so mad because your grandfather won't give me the leadership of the pack, I felt so ready and yet he kept treating me like a child, I ran away from home, to the north where I heard lycans without pack used to hang, they were free and cool or so I believed. They would pick up fights with the local vampires, because north lands are no one's lands, I thought they wanted to take them out of there, to make them stop feeding of human's blood, unfortunately the only thing they wanted was power, so they fought till one of the both bands gave up or died, when they realized we were outnumbered, they wanted to run unfortunately just a few were able to escape, I went back to help the ones left behind and was about to become a rug in front of the fireplace in one of the vampires' house, when Hiro saved me" he patted the vampire's back.
"What are they doing here?" she asked still curtly.
"We were about to discuss it when you made your flashy entrance" Saeko scolded her "I'm beginning to think Natsuki is the one not ready for being the leader of the pack" Natsuki snapped and turned her glare towards her mom, she actually couldn't help it, her body was still trembling with rage she could barely keep her human form.
"Don't glare at me" her mom said annoyed. Natsuki breathed deeply but it wasn't helping that much so she decided to switch her glare towards the group of vampires.
"Like I was saying" Hiro began and cleared his throat, it was clear the blunette was trying hard to keep her emotions in check and he didn't want to make it more difficult for her "It is me now the one that needs your help" he looked at Kenji "Vampires back there in Japan apparently do not agree with the low profile way of living anymore, we are the only one left of our clan, It was a big fight even some of the member of our clan turned their back on us, they did not like that I stood up for humans and made them drink animal's blood, they took the control of Japanese vampires from us, so we are here to ask your permission to stay here for some time, you of course know we do not drink human's blood and we will keep a low profile" he stood up and bowed his head respectfully and rested his right fist above his heart in a signal of respect, immediately the rest of them stood up bowing their heads too, Nao was the last one to stand and she sighed deeply before bowing ever so slightly. Hiro, Kenji and Saeko looked at Natsuki, she was the one that had the final word after all.
"You may stay, for I'm in debt with you for saving my father's life, even thought I wasn't born at that time. For as long as you need or till I change my mind" Natsuki growled the last part.
"Thank you" Hiro said smiling and bowing again.
"You can stay here, the house is big enough" Saeko smiled at them and Natsuki looked at her with wide eyes but Saeko just looked back with a raised eyebrow.
"Fine, whatever, it's your house anyways, I'll stay at Mai's" Natsuki turned around and went upstairs a couple of seconds later she returned with a leather jacket a backpack hanging on her shoulder, she was about to walk towards the door when she turned to glare at Shizuru, who did something not even her clan expected, she smiled at the blunette, this pissed Natsuki even more because clearly she expected some kind of confrontation, however she couldn't help the blush that crept over her cheeks, she frowned trying to cover her blush and left slamming the door shut .
They were silence again for a couple of minutes till…
"Can I eat now?" Mikoto asked as her stomach growled louder
