Part 1

He could hear the rapid heart beat of his dear Kisaki behind the wooden door of the pantry where the young man hid. He could hear so clearly their vaguely muffled whimpers and gasping behind his clasped hands in his vain attempt to hide his noises from the extra sensory hearing of his attacker. "Kisaki, my dear, come out of there. You have nothing to be afraid of," Nishimura Kyo said with a large grin on his face, the wide smile flashing his cigarette stained fangs into the darkness of his kitchen.

The short man moved towards the pantry, his bare feet making no noise on the tiled floors. He felt a rush of excitement spread down to his groin and rush back up to his head as he neared the pantry door, his eyes fixated on the handle. The moment he turned that knob and found the young man hiding from him, he would feel the sweet release he had not felt in some time. "Now, now, Kisaki, please open the door, it's your lover. Open up, my dear," Kyo called to him, standing straight in front of the pantry door. He could hear a gentle sobbing and his grin widened. Kisaki was crying!

Kyo's hand twitched as he reached out for the door and closed his fingers about the knob, his muscles tightening with nauseating anticipation of what was to come. He could hardly wait, but the acts beforehand made the finale all the better. Slowly, he turned the knob, listening carefully to the heart beat that was now racing. He shuddered with excitement again, feeling the hair on his arms stand straight up from the mere thought of what he was about to receive.

The door opened and Kyo stared down softly at the shirtless young man curled up on the floor of his pantry, the young Kisaki with his hands shaking and protecting his throat. His cute face was streaked with tears and his entire body quivered in fear at Kyo's form before him. His black hair was messy and covering his eyes, his mouth twisted in a frown as he tried to say something. "Pl…please…please…" Kisaki sobbed over and over.

Kyo bent down in front of Kisaki, his knees popping as he did so. He reached out and stroked a finger across the black haired man's face, turning it so his nail would scratch against Kisaki's face harshly and draw blood. The young man whimpered as Kyo leaned forward and licked the short line of blood from his cheek. "My little Kisaki, I love it when you quiver beneath me," the blonde whispered into Kisaki's ear, running his hand along his cheek. He then jerked his head so they were face to face and he stared into Kisaki's frightened, blood shot eyes.

"Please—"

"Why did you run? Are you now afraid of me?" Kyo asked with a mix of anger and love in his voice. "You weren't afraid of me before. You never ran from me before. Why do you betray me?"

Kisaki's eyes grew even wider and he tried to draw further into the pantry, but Kyo held firm to his chin and jaw. "I—I…y—you never tried to hurt me…you—" the young man stuttered, his voice filled with terror.

"I would never hurt you, my dearest Kisaki, I would never harm you," Kyo whispered, leaving in his voice a tinge of suspicion. He stared at Kisaki's confused eyes, allowing a faint smile to form on his face. He brought the hand clutching the younger man's jaw down and grabbed his arm, dragging the limp Kisaki to his feet with ease as he stood. "Come here, my Kisaki. I would never harm you."

He wrapped his arms around Kisaki's quivering body, drawing the young man in close. "I would never harm you," Kyo repeated softly, trying to get the nervous young man to lower his arms from his neck. After a moment, Kisaki lowered his shaking hands and wrapped them around the shorter man.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I thought you were trying to—" Kisaki began, his face suddenly appearing embarrassed and apologetic.

"Make it up to me, baby," Kyo said suavely, running a hand down the center of Kisaki's chest and resting it on his abdomen. He grabbed Kisaki's hand and turned, pulling him into the living room and switching on the lights. "You look so…wonderful."

Kisaki bowed his head, still appearing embarrassed and his cheeks turning red. His pants hung low on his waist and his torso remained naked, his undefined chest heaving up and down as he recovered from when he had rushed from Kyo's upstairs room to hide in the pantry. Kyo wrapped his arms about the gasping high school student and leaned his weight onto him, forcing him to fall back onto the couch with Kyo atop him. Straddling Kisaki's lap, Kyo leaned forward, his lips barely touching with his lover's.

"You won't run from me again?" Kyo asked, running a finger down the side of Kisaki's face. The young man nodded and the blond kissed him hard, crushing their lips together. He parted his lips and forced his tongue into the other's mouth, feeling his excitement building and his body growing hot.

He moved one hand to the back of Kisaki's head, running his fingers over and over through the teenager's hair. He suddenly tightened his grip around the teen's black locks of hair and yanked his head back. "No!" Kisaki cried and screamed out as Kyo bit down hard into his neck.

Kyo moaned as the warm, slick blood flowed into his mouth. He felt his own blood rush straight to his groin, making him hard with excitement. He grounded his pelvis against Kisaki's, smiling as a faint moan emitted from his victim. Finally, he was satisfied.

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The sight before Terachi Shinya was one he could hardly comprehend. At least a hundred darkly clad teenagers wandering around such a spacious underground area, carrying faintly red drinks and wandering to curtained areas. Off in the corner was a glowing neon bar with a tall woman tending it, speaking flirtatiously with the other patrons of the Blood Bar. All around were chairs, couches, futons, anything to make the "bar" comfortable.

"How did you talk me into this again?" Shinya asked his older brother, Die. The red head looked down at him with a grin, his lined eyes shining with amusement.

"Oh hush, you know it's cool. Only a select few people are allowed into this place, you should be happy they consider you worthy to enter," Die laughed, tapping his brother playfully on the head. "We come here all the time."

Shinya looked at Hara Toshiya and Niikura Kaoru, glancing between them several times and finding it hard to believe. "You both come here with my wacko brother? You come to this…place?" he shook his head in disbelief and then glanced back at the scores of young adults in the room, men and women alike extremely close to each other, biting each other. "So someone please explain this place to me."

"This is for all the vampire enthusiasts, people who want to be vampires. They say those drinks have real human blood in them, donated from people who come here," Die explained. "You sit, drink, talk. It's said that some of the people who come here are real vampires and others are fakes with their teeth sharpened, that's what the curtained areas are for, to drink. Or…what ever else involves the exchange of bodily fluids."

Toshiya laughed. He wrapped his arms around Die's waist and leaned forward, gently biting down on his neck and pulling away as he giggled. Kaoru shifted uncomfortably at the display of affection between the two and moved a little closer to Shinya. "Doesn't it bother you to see your brother with another guy? I mean…it's your brother…with a dude," Kaoru whispered to him.

"I've known about that for years, those two have been joined at the hip since we were little, you know that," Shinya shrugged, his attention turning back to an excruciatingly thin girl ordering a drink for the bar. He watched the taller woman pull out what look like a blood bag and start pouring it into the cup until the thinner girl put up her hand, then the bartender stopped.

"We've been friends for ten years and we're not making out and biting each other," Kaoru scrunched up his nose.

Shinya eyed his older friend, trying to find out what the nineteen year old was trying to get at. He could not see his eyes hidden behind his large black sunglasses, but he imagined there was something amiss on his face. For years Shinya had hidden the fact he was just like his brother, that he liked guys as well, but he could not bring himself to tell his best friend that. Things would become far too awkward for them.

"Hey, Die, if you can break away from being a fanny bandit for a second, explain to me who is said to be a real vampire. I'll be the judge of this," Kaoru said, looking around at all the abnormally pale people wandering around with drinks of blood and what he guessed was to be alcohol.

"Alright, I'll show you around. Shinya, you want a tour?" Die asked his younger brother.

"No, I think I'll go get a cup of water," Shinya shook his head.

His brother shrugged and motioned for Kaoru to follow him. Shinya sighed and moved over to an empty bar stool, leaning on the bar top. He could not understand his brother's obsessions: vampires, ghosts, aliens, anything of a paranormal nature. It was all so strange, for never before had his family even mentioned such things, they had been such a traditional family until their mother died. After that, Die became obsessed with the occult, vampires, ghosts and just about everything else that would make him into the "weird kid" in high school, especially after he began telling everyone to refer to him as "Die" instead of his birth name, "Daisuke".

"Would you like something to drink, hun?" the woman serving drinks asked.

Shinya looked her over, hiding his shudder as he stared at the many piercings bulging from her flesh. "No thanks, I—"

"Get him a super sweet ninety-ten of vodka," came a sudden deep yet soft voice. "And a plain hundred-zero for me." Shinya turned barely and saw a short blond man standing behind him, his hands rummaging around his pockets. He had slightly heavy cheeks and a wide jaw, his chin tinged with a bit of black hair and his eyebrows angled and shaped. His eyes held the same smirk as his thick lips and his pale face seemed so friendly compared to the darkened teens wandering around the bar.

Shinya looked back at the bartender and watched in surprise as she bowed down low and mumbled something to him before rising and moving to make the drink. The shorter man hoped onto a bar stool and faced Shinya. "I have come here everyday for many years and never before have I seen your face," he said, his voice leaving a tinge of mystery. He held out his hand. "My name is Nishimura Kyo, I'd like to officially welcome you to Club Kamisori."

"Uh…thank you, I suppose, my name is Terachi Shinya," he shook Kyo's hand surprised by how strong the little man's grip was. "This is my first time here, and in all honesty it was my brother who happened to have dragged me here. I was curious as to where he, his boyfriend and one of my friends were always going, so they brought me here."

Kyo nodded in acknowledgement. "I understand that this place can be very…confusing," he said. "I'd like you to keep coming back so you can develop a deeper understanding of this culture, of these people."

"Culture?"

"Oh yes, my people's culture," Kyo grinned, revealing cigarette stained teeth and a pair of fangs. Shinya paused and wondered if those were fake or if he was so greatly involved in the culture to the point where he had his real teeth filed down. Either way he was a very strange and disturbing man, but not quite so strange as the others. "Us real vampires, I mean. Not like the fakes who wander about this place with sharpened teeth. There are very few of us vampires left, and we are very spread out."

Without a word, Shinya simply nodded. He could not tell if the young man was just playing with his head or if he was truly insane and believed he was a vampire. He had the image in his mind of this cute stranger wandering about the city and pouncing on helpless people, thinking that he were a real vampire and trying to drink there blood. Shinya shuddered again, it was such a strange and disturbing though he simple did not want to think about it.

"So tell me, Terachi Shinya, what do you think of this place?" Kyo asked, glancing about the room before returning his gaze in Shinya's direction.

He felt his face grow suddenly hot. He was not sure of what to tell the blond haired man, he did not want to lie but he did not want to say he liked it in fear that he would be invited back and feel obligated to return to this strange place. "It makes me feel uneasy; this isn't my cup of tea, if you know what I mean. This is all beyond my comprehension, to tell the truth," he said honestly.

Once again Kyo nodded and smiled at him. "That is perfectly understandable, this can often take a few times of coming here to fully accept these people and who they are, but trust me, Shinya, you will grow accustom to this society," he said softly, leaning in closer and speaking in a softer tone to force Shinya to lean in as well. "I can see in your face that you are considering not returning, this place is strange and foreign, but let me assure you that this is the best place you could be. This is a home away from home, this is a sanctuary, a society with its own separate rules and laws, there is another world beyond this bar that you could enter if you become a regular here and are found worthy."

The bartender set down to two drinks on the table, one looking a darker red than the other. She pushed the darker substance to Kyo and she pushed the light drink in Shinya's direction. Kyo took his drink and took a long drink from it before setting down the glass and looking at Shinya. "Go ahead, drink up, I'm paying," he smiled.

Shinya stared for a long time at the drink, trying to figure out what it was. He didn't want to think that he was being served real human blood, there was no way. Blood was a biohazard material; there was no way anyone could ever safely consume it. It had to be fake. Hesitantly, he raised the glass to his lips and took a slow sip, surprised that the drink tasted sweet, like strawberries; vaguely he could taste the strong flavor of vodka. He took a longer drink, surprised by how good the drink was; he knew there was no way they would serve real human blood, it was just fake blood, something to scare people.

"Good?" Kyo asked with a smirk.

"Yes, surprisingly so," Shinya smiled. "For a moment I thought you were serving me real blood!"

Kyo grinned as Shinya continued to drink the reddish liquid and they sat in silence for a moment as he did so. "It is real blood," Kyo finally said as Shinya drank the last gulp.

"Excuse me?" Shinya was unsure if he had heard the blond correctly.

"Its real blood that you just drank," Kyo reiterated with the same grin he had had on his face while Shinya drank the liquid.

"There is no way, you're just messing with me. I've tasted my own blood before and it does not taste like that," Shinya shook his head and smiled nervously. "You are just trying to scare me."

"Tsuki-chan, show my new friend how you make a super sweet ninety-ten," Kyo said to the bartender and laughed.

Tsuki bowed low and mumbled something indecipherable before grabbing a glass, a blood bag, and three large bottles. "This is O positive blood, a super sweet ninety-ten is ninety percent O blood and ten percent vodka," she said in soft voice, pouring the blood into the cup at the same time she poured a bit of vodka. "Then I had three tablespoons of sucralose liquid and strawberry flavor. It over powers the natural taste of blood and most of the alcohol, so it's sort of like a beginners drink, when you're still getting used to the taste of blood."

Shinya remained silent for a moment, trying to comprehend and process of what she had just said to him. He felt his stomach lurch and he hunched over, feeling his throat tighten and his mouth begin to water excessively. "Let's go," Kyo grabbed his arm and hopped off the stool and began dragging Shinya towards the door. Shinya stumbled out the door and leaned one hand against the wall and began heaving, the bloody drink rushing out of his mouth and splattering on the floor.

Kyo rubbed his back as he heaved, smiling all the while to himself. "It's alright, you'll get used to it," he said softly as Shinya vomited up the entire drink.

Shinya gasped over and over, trying to catch his breath. He wiped the tears that had spilled down his face and slowly rose, looking at Kyo with bloodshot eyes. "Are you going to be alright?" Kyo asked, placing his hand on Shinya's shoulder.

"Yeah, I'll be fine," Shinya wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and looked in confusion at Kyo. "Why did you let me drink so much of that disgusting drink?"

Kyo shrugged. "I'm not sure, I thought that if you drank it first and figured out what it was later, that you wouldn't mind it so much," he explained. "Sorry. Here, come inside and I'll get you something to drink."

Shinya nodded, unsure of whether or not he should trust the mysterious and undeniably abnormal man. He had just fed him human blood without informing him, but at the same time he felt drawn to the little blond haired man. He followed him inside and could not help himself but to stare at the short man's perfect bottom, shaped flawlessly in his gently tight faded and torn blue jeans.

He had not even thought again about the drink as he followed Kyo back into the bar and sat down on the couch that Kyo had moved to. "Tsuki-chan, a bottle of water please," he called to the busy bartender. She stopped everything she was doing and brought over to him a bottle of water, bowing as she handed it to him. Shinya took the bottle from Kyo and quickly unscrewed the cap, sloshing the water around the inside of his mouth before swallowing it.

"I apologize about that, I thought that if you were still skeptical about it as you drank it and found out after, you'd be okay and like it. I've done it with many of our members, but you are the first to physically become ill from it," Kyo said.

"It's alright, I'm just…I dunno, a little grossed out," Shinya shrugged as he took another drink from the water bottle. He set the water down and looked at Kyo, noticing that the little man was staring oddly at him. "What?"

"Do you do drugs?" he asked with a grin.

"Uh…why do you ask?" Shinya's cheeks began to turn red.

"You have a strange heart beat, so I'm assuming you've come down from some sort of drug."

Shinya wrung his hands together. What should he say? Could this place be overrun with police trying to catch drugs users? And how on Earth could Kyo know anything about his heart beat? "A little weed, that's it," he admitted, bowing his head slightly. Why had he just said that? Telling this stranger, this man he had never met before a day in his life, that he smoked pot.

Kyo raised his eyebrows. "Me and you will have to light up some time," he smiled a toothy grin. "It is discouraged amongst my people to use mind altering substances, as it is in your culture, but I find it far more fun to play with things of harmful form when there is no possibility of being able to keel over from using too many 'shrooms or something of that nature."

"…Sure," Shinya said with an awkward smile, unsure of what to say in response. Hell, he would have no problem coming back to the bar if he could have someone smoke him up for free. "After I threw up all over the place, you want me to come back? I mean, I'm not really into all this craziness, you know. I don't even believe in vampires, no offense, of course."

"I'll get you to believe," Kyo said softly, leaning in closer to Shinya.

Shinya's stomach suddenly fluttered and he felt his face grow even warmer than it already was, feeling the urge to kiss the blonde's soft lips. "I doubt that you could," Shinya said half-mindedly, unable to focus. There was something about the little man that made him unable to think of anything else.

"Is that so? How do you explain the freezing cold touch of my hands?" Shinya shuddered as Kyo ran the back of his hand along his neck. "My fangs? The fact I can hear your heart racing in your chest at this very moment? Or my ability to make you want me?"

"Who said I wanted you?" Shinya asked, his voice barely above a whisper, his entire body tingling with anticipation.

"Your heart," Kyo whispered, grabbing the taller man's chin and leaning against him, their lips touching gently for a moment before Kyo pushed harder.

Caught off guard and unable to hide his desire, he moaned into the kiss as it became passionate. He felt Kyo's lips upturn into a smile before he continued to kiss him, his arms wrapping tightly around him and Kyo climbing atop him, straddling his lap. Shinya's mind was spinning as he kissed the little blond, having no idea why he would so quickly let a man jump on him when he had just met him. Kyo was some sort of freak with a vampire and blood fetish who had just fed him blood and now he was making out with him a place filled high school freaks, not to mention his brother and his best friend whom he had not come out to.

But he did not care, he could not break away from the exhilarating kiss.

Shinya slid his hands up and down Kyo's back, getting closer and closer to his bottom. His hands ran gently over his buttocks and he felt Kyo smile again; something about that filled him with even more desire. He could not explain the feeling coursing through him, why he wanted him so badly. He arched his back as the little blond dug his nails into his back, dragging them all the way down and peeling up a small bit of skin. When he arched, his pelvis ground up against Kyo's, forcing him to moan into Kyo's mouth again, the pleasure replacing the shocking pain.

"Do you want me?" Kyo whispered in Shinya's ear, his hot breath making Shinya shudder.

"I…I…" Shinya was not sure how to respond.

"I want to fuck you," Kyo whispered. "I'm so hard, I want you. And I think you want me, too."

Shinya blushed as Kyo's hand ran over his lap, the palm of his hand pushing hard against the bulge in his pants and drawing another moan from the taller man. "I—"

"Shinya?" a cry of shock erupted from the other side of the room and immediately the tall teenager broke away from his focus on Kyo. He looked and saw Die, Toshiya, and Kaoru walking over to him, all three of them with an expression of disbelief. Shinya tried to push Kyo off of him, but the little man stayed atop him, his arms wrapped tightly around him.

"Stay here, don't get up yet," the blond whispered. Kyo kissed him hard, pulling his attention back onto him and away from the three that were two steps away. Shinya could not help but to kiss him back, not even thinking about the fact his brother was standing right next to him, speechless.

"Terachi Shinya, I want you to come back here tomorrow at six o'clock. I expect you here, alright? We need to continue our…conversation from before," Kyo said as he finally pulled away, releasing the Shinya from his grasp and jumping back to stand up.

Shinya stood up, his cheeks bright red and he tried to pull his shirt down in the front to hide his erection. He glanced down at Kyo and noticed that the little man stood there as though nothing were wrong. "I'll be here," Shinya said softly, more so towards Kyo so his brother would not hear.

"Thank you, you don't realize how much that means to me," Kyo said softly, sliding his arm around Shinya's waist and pulling him closer for a moment before leaning up on his toes and kissing the tall man again. "I can't wait, Shinya."

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"Do you realize who you were with?" Die asked as he drove down the street. "Do you…oh God! You were making out with Nishimura Kyo!"

"Drop it, Die," Shinya groaned, burying his face in his hands. He could not even believe what he had done, kissing the blond, wanting the blond. They had just met and they were sitting in bar where people drank blood and believed they were vampires. What the hell was wrong with him?

"No, you seriously have no idea who he is, do you?" Toshiya turned around from the front seat to face Shinya.

"Some weirdo who believes he is a vampire?" Shinya asked in an uncertain tone.

"Are you kidding me? He isn't a wanna-be! He has been running that bar for over fifty years, he founded it. Everyone wants to get with him, to say that you've even gotten a hug from Nishimura Kyo is an honor," Die explained. "What did he do? I mean, how did you start talking to him?"

Shinya shrugged. "I went up to the bar, he ordered a drink for me, after I found out it was real human blood I got sick so he walked me out, then bought me some water and then…uh…"

"You made out with the oldest known vampire to the area," Toshiya shook his head. "You have no idea what that means, do you? For anyone to be with him is an honor, though those who have dated him took the honor too seriously, and its said they all end up dead when Nishimura gets bored with them or feels insulted."

"Isn't that what happened to Kisaki? Why he disappeared like a month ago?" Kaoru asked, finally speaking since they had entered the car. Shinya felt awkward, it was the worst way to come out to his best friend and his brother. He could only imagine what Kaoru now thought of him, making out with some strange man he had just met.

"I think so. Tsuki-chan is his maid and she said something about his clothing still being at Nishimura's house but she hasn't seen Kisaki in about six weeks," Toshiya said.

"I never liked Kisaki, he was weird," Kaoru commented.

"Yeah, he was a rude little mother fucker," Die added.

Shinya's eyes grew wide. "Stop. Wait. Are you saying someone was possibly murdered at this bar and you guys haven't gone to the police or anything?" he asked in shock.

"Are you retarded? You go up to a cop and tell him there is a blood bar hidden underground run by a five hundred year old vampire who has been killing its patrons, that guy will laugh in your face. Or worse, you tell them that the owner of the blood bar has murdered someone and fifty cops storm in there and tear the place apart. Either one is definitely not a desirable outcome," Die shook his head. "You don't tell anyone about the bar and you especially don't tell authoritarians. That place has been going for half a century and it is going to keep running as long as no one fucks anything up."

Shinya bit his lower lip and wondered for a moment if what they had said was true, that Kyo could have killed someone he was with. He did not want to believe that those sorts of things happened around his brother and that his brother and best friend were okay with knowing that someone had been murdered there. He did not want to believe that Kyo had murdered someone because of his sick obsession with vampires. A part of him was willing to go back to the bar to hang out with the strange young man, there was something appealing, something that made him unable to think about anything else but that creepy little man.

"So, Shinya, will you come with us again tomorrow to the blood bar? Obviously Nishimura wanted you to come back," Toshiya snickered.

Shinya continued to gnaw on his lower lip and looked out the window, watching the rest of the world go by as they drove. There were people, so normal, having no idea of the strange places that existed in the city. They were completely oblivious to the dangers around them…

"Yes, I'll be going back," Shinya said, glancing at his brother for a minute. He stared back out the window and watching the people on the streets walking swiftly down the block. As they turned a corner, Shinya saw a short blonde haired man in dark sunglasses leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette. He removed the cigarette from his mouth and grinned, waving at the car as it went by.

As Shinya settled into his seat, he realized he had just seen Kyo. He did a double take, glancing back but not seeing him in that spot as they went further down the street. "I must be seeing things," he mumbled under his breath and continued to stare out the window, watching the Kyoto streets go by.