Hello, hello! Welcome to Heathens! This was an idea I had came up with, I had it up once before but I didn't like how I did it so I took it down and re-did it! Hope you like it! R&R! Thank you!

Chapter One – Devil's Playground

"Be careful getting home, Komori." Said her fellow classmate, they had tutoring that afternoon, and things wrapped up later than expected. Seventeen year old Yui Komori turned and waved her hand.

"Same to you, Okasa. May God be with you."

The two youths separated at the school entrance. Yui sighed as she realizes that she may very well fail this English assignment again, it was her worst subject. Too bad that wasn't the only thing she needed to worry about. Gripping her book bag, Yui bagan walking at a brisk pace, for it was sunset.

And with sunsets, came the vampires. Yui thought them no different than demons. They were against God, against everything He created. She's never encountered a vampire, and with thanks to her father Yui could only hope it lasts that way. Some humans didn't fear the Night, nor vampires, she's even heard that there were bars and clubs that catered to them. Bars where humans could go and socialize with them…let them…bite them. It was nothing but a place of immorality and sin. Yui prayed for those souls who got allured by them. Yui would over hear girls at her school giggle and show off their marks in the bathroom sometimes. They even bragged about trying to become wives to the men that bit them.

Yui would shake her head in disgust in the stalls, not understanding it all. Why be wives to these beings? Let alone being bitten by them?

But Yui could recall a time where she met someone that she could tell didn't want to have that experience of being bitten.

'You know what they call the District at night? The Devils' Playground. That's what he told me before he...'

Such a haunting statement from a girl in Yui's class, she didn't know what was worse, the coined name or her glassy eyed expression when she told her. Yui saw her neck riddled in bites, and she looked…high off something that day. Yui wanted to ask but the poor girl was zoned out, so she didn't want to push it.

Yui looked up at the orange hued sky, clashing with pinks and purples. How could something so pretty bring something so terrifying with it? How do they do it? Walk the night without worrying about being bitten? Being killed? Yui smiled, realizing that humans are much resilient and stubborn than the super natural gives them credit for.

"Take the good with the bad." She whispered. Not looking where she was going, she ran straight into someone.

"Hey! Watch where the fuck you're going!" snapped a boy. Yui blushed as she dropped her bag in the collision.

"I am so sorry!" she stammered out, but looked into the eyes of angry green eyes. He had red hair and stood tall, wearing what looks like…a basket ball uniform? He blinked at her. The silent stare down soon became too much for Yui. She kneeled down to get her bag.

"I-I am s-orry!" She bowed and tried to leave, but he grabbed her arm harshly.

"Where you going, ah? I'm going to need a lot more than a shitty apology, chichinashi!"

Yui blinked before catching what he just called her. Breastless?! Yui angrily snatched her arm from him.

"Rude!" she shouted. She had no time for this! Vampires were officially out!

"No, what's rude is you running into me like you can't see me! And you need to pay up!"

Is this kid a mugger? Yui shook her head and turned away again. "I have no money."

"Don't insult me, chichinashi! I don't want money." He snatched Yui into a nearby alleyway. Yui was horrified as she tried to yank her arm away. What was the guy thinking he was doing?

"Stop!" she swung her bag upside his head, knocking him off balance. She took his stagger as her window to run. She ran the rest of the way to her house.

"God!" Yui cried out as she slammed the door behind her. It wasn't enough to be attacked by vampires, but Yui had to worry about crazy humans too?! She shuddered at the thought of what that boy was going to do, wanting to do. She pulled her rosary out from under her shirt and kissed it.

"Blessed be, the child of God." She sighed in relief, and went to go take her shower for the night.

Across town

Eren Soseki leaped across the stage effortlessly. She was liberated whenever she danced; it was on stage where she was free. Rhythm had no rules, had no fear, and had nothing to stop it. It flowed like the bleeding rivers. You could say ballet saved her life. Dance and music was everything to the nineteen year old, it was the few things no one could take from her or control; specifically speaking, her mother, Kase. When her performance was done, she took a bow, and the audience roared with applause. Eren stood proudly on the stage, feeling her sweat trickle down her forehead from the bright lights that loomed above her head. The claps would always give her an inescapable high she never wanted down from.

She triumphantly walked backstage, her stagehands rushing her with towels.

"Great performance, as ever, Soseki-Chan!"

"Yes! It was your best yet!" another shouted.

"Thank you, thank you." Eren took the bottle of water that was offered and began chugging. Her jet black bob cut hair stuck to either sides of her face from the sweat, so she was ready to go home and shower. Walking up to her dressing room, she frowned when she noticed her door partially opened. She had a key…unless it was-she pushed it all the way to find her mother sitting on the couch.

"Mom." Eren arched an eyebrow, wondering why she was there. Kase made it no secret that she didn't care for the dancing. She would rather Eren be like her and be a buzzing socialite.

"Your dance was flawless, per usual." Kase traced her finger along the couches' pattern in a boring fashion. That wasn't why she was there.

"Thank you."

"It's done." Kase smiled, the subject immediately changed.

"….What's done?"

"The arrangement. He agreed to it."

Eren's heart sank to the pit of her stomach.

"Mom...please."

"Think of what this will mean to the Soseki name! This is monumental!"

Eren fought the tears that prickled her eyes.

"No! This is all for you and your benefit! I don't want to-"

Kase jumped off the couch and smacked Eren across the face.

"Your father spoiled you too much. I knew this would happen! I did my part for you didn't I? I allowed you to do your pointless little dances, recitals, and whatever the hell else you want to do! You WILL do this! It has been written since you were twelve."

"You're selling me off like I'm some prostitute…" Eren whimpered as she held her burning cheek. Kase pursed her lips before sighing in frustration.

"The family line will not be sullied. You are to marry Reiji Sakamaki. That is final." She held her daughters' face in her hands.

"This will be great. This is good. To be a Night Queen is better than any accolade given in this rotten world. This will be the end all be all to the naysayers about humans with vampires."

Eren just stared at her in response. Had her father been alive, this 'arrangement' would never have happened. Kase stroked her hair.

"My darling Eren, don't look at me that way, with those pretty grey eyes. Just like your fathers. It looks like I'm looking into the blackest of forests in a silver winter." She kissed her forehead and made her way to the door.

"You will be transported to the Sakamaki mansion Friday, so I suggest you start getting ready. I do love you Eren, and someday, you'll thank me for this."

She closed the door softly behind her. Eren stood frozen in place, looking at nothing in particular. Her eyes were wet, vision blurred. This was why she ran to the stage, because her reality was pure and utter shit. She was so high just to have it crash and burn in tiny pieces.

Eren felt her body collapsed in the chair that faced the vanity, it was there she looked at herself in the mirror. There was no way Reiji would ever love her the way she wanted to be loved. Either Kase didn't know or didn't care what Reiji did to her when they were alone throughout the years she's known him. Tears continued to bubble up to the surface, and she grabbed her high heel shoe that was on the ground.

"Shit! Shit! Shit!" she smashed at the mirror until it broke. The fractured lines that showed her face in broken, splintered fragments reflected her heart. Not being able to do anything else, Eren collapsed to the floor and broke down crying.

Awww...poor girl. So what you think? Please leave your thoughts! Until next time!