Blood Oath: Destiny

Summary: It has been one year since Yukiro was defeated and Ame awakened as her true self, Ametsuki Hoshioko. She said farewell to the one she loved, Hanabusa Aidou, and set out to begin her new life with her aunt, Shizuka Hio, one she sees as her father who became a vampire right after Ametsuki awakened, Satsujin Akira. As well as her aunt's attendant and one who is a distant relative, Ichiru Kiryu and Maria Kurenai. And even her best friend and her boyfriend, Yuki Kuran and Zero Kiryu. In the years' time, Shizuka has been hard at work tutoring Ametsuki and Yuki in how to behave as proper young ladies since they both lived in ways that are not becoming of a pureblood.

Though shortly after Ametsuki and Yuki attend their first soiree, which is meant to be their first public appearances as princess' of their respective families, another young vampire named Amami shows up saying she is Ametsuki's cousin due to how her father and Kiyoshi were brothers. But the appearance of this cousin sets into motion events that the two cousins are at the center of. Will they be able to escape the web being woven around them or will they only become more entangled the more they resist?

Prequel

The nights were always the same around this place. Nothing ever changed, except the fact that pictures and portraits that lined some walls of the estate showed the two living inhabitants having aged over the years. That of a young man with shoulder length perfect midnight black hair and steel colored blue eyes, and beside him in some was a young girl who was of a very small stature with the same eyes but with white short hair that was up near her jawline, but at the moment it was just past, with the same eyes as her older brother but with a gentler look.

Inside one of the vast rooms, the girl sat wearing a black dress as she was grieving the news that she and her older brother had received, that their father had been found but had been killed. The girl sat on her bed drawing her knees up to her chest as she wrapped her arms around them. 'Why would someone have killed dad?' she thought to herself, granted she did not really remember him besides stories that her brother had told her. How he had been a very strong vampire but had been robbed of almost everything in his life. More so because he had been in love with a woman who had chosen another which had sent him in a downward spiral.

After several moments the girl looked over at the photo album and shifted herself only to move the album to her lap as she traced her fingers along the title on the cover. Kurai. Her family name, for her full name was Amami Kurai, the only daughter born to the family but still the younger of the two surviving members. She flipped the cover to the side as she looked down at the first picture that was her father, a tall handsome man with crimson eyes and elegant black hair tied back by a ribbon at the nap of his neck beside a woman with white hair grown out to her shoulder blades and steel colored eyes.

The only way that Amami could even put a face to her mother was with the old albums that she kept in her room due to how her mother died giving birth to her, and it was near the same with her father with her not really remembering the vampire that fathered her. All due to how he disappeared by the time she was a toddler leaving her older brother, Kal, to raise her as a father and a brother. Sure she had no regrets or any hard feelings towards anyone for the life she had lived to this point because her brother always gave her whatever she wanted, she loved him and would do anything for him.

As she was sitting there thinking on her older brother, there was a faint knock on the door, drawing her attention as she looked up to see that it was Kal as the door opened. He easily towered over his sister because she was only five foot five while Kal stood just over six feet in height, a perfect frame that was complimented by the suit that he was wearing, black due to how both of the siblings were in morning over the loss of their father. He looked toward her with a sympathetic look as he stepped inside and closed the door behind himself only to walk over and sit on the bed beside his sister.

"Looking at the old pictures again, Amami?" Kal asked in a smooth deep voice that was to Amami more smooth than even silk.

"Yeah, I was just trying to remember anything about dad because of how with his passing I have felt horrible that I do not remember him." Amami said only for her brother to reach out and put his arms around his sister and pull her closer to him.

"Shh…" he whispered softly as he held his sister close since to him she had always been more like a child at times, even now that she was sixteen years old. "There is no reason for you to cry, you know that father would have preferred to see you happy and smiling, because of how you are the mirror image of our late mother who gave her very existence to bring you into this world." Kal said before he leaned back and reached up cupping Amami's cheek in his right hand and then using his thumb to wipe away some tears that were falling.

"Okay, I won't cry, even though it hurts to know that both of them are now gone." Amami said as she smiled at her brother who merely smirked at her.

"That's a good girl." He said leaned forward closer to her. "Though there is something I need you to do for me." He whispered only for Amami to give him a confused look before Kal shifted and allowed his nose to brush along her neck only to gently prick her neck with one of his fangs before licking the little bit of blood away before the mark healed over.

"What do you need me to do?" Amami asked as her brother leaned back and looked at her with his crimson eyes glowing slightly due to how as she had suspected he was lusting for blood but her blood would not do it for him. "Whatever it is, I will do anything for you." She declared as her brother smirked since that had been what he had known she would say.

Though it was several moments before Kal spoke to his little sister. "I wish for you to meet our guest that arrived just before we got the news of our father passing." Kal said in a calm tone only for his sister to look at him with confusion on her face at hearing that request.

"Our guest? The one that you have been talking to a lot?" Amami asked for clarification as her brother nodded at her.

"Yes, and he is well enough now that it should be alright for you to meet him." Kal said since their guest had shown up only worn out and in need of a day or so of rest but he had been keeping his sister from meeting the guest for various reasons. "Shall we go?" Kal asked as he shifted from the bed so that he was soon standing beside it holding out his hand to his sister as she inched to the edge of the bed and put her hand in her brothers as he helped her to her feet before turning while keeping Amami's hand in his own as they walked from the room.

After walking down several long corridors to get to the sitting room on the first floor, Amami was left alone with her thoughts in the silence as she walked along beside her brother. Just as they neared the sitting room she could tell by the flickering light that the candles were lit in the room even before her brother stepped forward a bit to push the door open before releasing his sister's hand and gesturing for her to go in. Amami only hesitated a second as she stepped in only to hear her brother follow behind her along with the door closing behind them as she looked toward the chair that had a high back concealing the one who was on the other side.

"My brother said it was alright for me to meet you, even though I have no idea who you are or how you came to be at our home." Amami said as Kal stepped closer and rested a hand on her shoulder.

"My apologies, my lord." Kal said as Amami gave him a confused look. "My little sister does not get to meet others of our kind that often due to how both of our parents have passed and to keep her from trouble I have kept her from the outside world."

Before Amami could say anything to her brother she heard a chuckle from the other side of the chair. "There is no need to apologize for her." A smooth voice that nearly rivaled that of her brother, something that caused Amami's heart to skip a beat for a second before it fluttered and calmed. "Does my voice please you?" the voice asked as Amami knew that they had probably heard the change in her heartbeat a second before.

"It reminds me of my brothers." Amami said truthfully as she tried to angle herself slightly to try and see who was in the chair because she could at most only see a slender arm in a long sleeve shirt that she could tell belonged to her brother. But besides that she could see a slender smooth and what she assumed was a graceful gentle hand. "Though who are you?" she asked only for her brother to move his hand from her shoulder and there was faint shifting from the chair as the figure stood.

They had a perfect build from what she could tell, shoulder length deep brown hair that seemed to not have a single strand out of place. Amami felt her heart skip a beat again before the male turned and fixed his red tinted brown eyes on her as she recognized him right away. The pureblood among purebloods. Kaname Kuran.

A/N: Well there is the prequel for the second book in the Blood Oath series. Hope everyone enjoys this story as much as I enjoy writing it. Until the next chapter.