Hallo soulgals and genlteghosts I'm Masoyan~ a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I welcome you to my first published fanfic! I binged watch and read this series so hard because it's so goooooood! This is M because of language violence and some lovely lemons~
Owari no Seraph doesn't belong to me. Enjoy!

Chapter One

"Hurry up and find her before the vampires do!"

"Damn bitch how dare she betray her own family!"

"We should just leave her to die!"

She ran.

17 year old Kuragari Natsuka ran as fast as her legs would take her through the forest of the mountain side in the middle of a rainy night. She had been running for nearly an hour now since she finally managed to escape from the prison that was her own home. The shouts behind her were growing faint, but she didn't dare stop.

Where would she go though? It's been three years since the Catastrophe happened. Her family survived only because they had made a deal with the vampires before it happened and they were all spared. The closest human populated cities she knew of were Shinjuku and Shibuya. Both are miles away, but she doesn't have much of a choice.

"Spread out! Daito-sama will not take kindly to failure!"

Faster she ran. She carefully sped over the wet slippery forest floor until her foot got caught under a tree root and she fell face first hard into the ground. When she rose her head, she felt warm liquid pour from her nose and a powerful surge of pain shot through her. She covered her mouth to muffle the scream of her nose being broken and curled into a ball. Her attempt at escaping the hellhole was failing. They'll lock her up in her "room" again. Her two older brothers and older sister will berate her for being a disappointment. That man who calls himself her father will beat her again.

"Pathetic," Natsuka told herself with a weak laugh. "Are you really just going to give up here? Come on Natsuka, pick your ass up and keep moving dammit."

She braced her hands on the cold ground and pushed herself up, staggering to her feet and jogged into the darkness again. No more voices followed after her. All she heard was her erratic heartbeat and the pelting rain. She'll go to Shibuya. No she needs to get to Shibuya where the headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army is located. Yet there are a lot of problems between there and where she is now. The vampires, the Four Horsemen of John, her pursuers, the distance, the rain. She'll be lucky if she manages to get out of this forest in one piece.

Her legs gave up on her and she collapsed underneath some bushes, breathing hard and still bleeding a little from her nose. Freedom didn't have a sweet taste. It was a metallic muddy taste. Her strawberry blonde hair was matted with mud and many strands feel lose from her ponytail. Grey eyes stared blankly into the blackness of the forest. She knows she's breathing and her heart is beating, but she feels dead. Just as dead as she was living in that godforsaken house.

She hugged her raincoat as close as she could to her shivering self, the soaked plain shirt underneath and her jeans forcing the warmth to leave her body. The once white sneakers she wore were now a dark brown with leaves and twigs sticking to the wet fabric. Natsuka wanted to sleep. She knew if she did that she might not wake up. Her body isn't responding to her mind yelling at her to move anymore. She just wants to close her eyes and sleep...

"What a poor little thing~ sleeping in this awful rain."

Her body shot up from a familiar voice and found herself face to face with the silver haired grinning seventh progenitor Ferid Bathory the vampire. She backed up as fast as she could, her back thumping against a tree trunk. She's definitely dead now. Ferid straightened himself and stood before Natsuka with his gentleman like grin.

"Aren't you a bit cold my dear?"

"If you're here to kill me Bathory then get on with it."

"Oh my I have no interest in killing you. That wouldn't do me any good now would it? You are rather too precious to leave this world just yet."

"Here to alert the others then?"

"Not that either. I'm just wandering this dark rainy forest and I happen to stumble upon the youngest daughter of Akamoto soak wet and shivering."

Natsuka pushed herself up along the tree, her legs weak. "Quit bullshitting and just tell me why you're here."

"You're words have quite the bite my little livestock. I told you why I'm here didn't I? You made it this far in such terrible conditions without having anyone come close to catching you. Impressive indeed."

She kept quiet this time, looking around her to see if she had any options of distracting Ferid and running for it. But she's entirely powerless and before she would even take a step, he'd kill her. Ferid easily noticed her fidgeting and in a blink of an eye he had a hand tightly around her throat, holding her up against the tree. She gripped onto his arm, clawing at the sleeve and gasping for air.

"Humans are such weak creatures aren't they? They keep trying to find new ways to wipe us vampires out, but they haven't done much."

"B-bakoff..."

"I have something you might like my little flower. You're going to Shibuya and speak with the head of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army right?"

Natsuka flinched.

"I take that as a yes." He dropped her along with a sealed metallic case the size of a book that landed in her lap as she choked and coughed to breathe. "This should help you greatly when speaking with them."

"W-why are you...why are you helping me?"

"Oh don't get me wrong my dear I'm not really helping you. I know you want to kill me and the rest of the vampires that walk this world, but I think it's more fun watching two sworn enemies fight over such ridiculous things. Don't you agree? Try not to die on the way to Shibuya alright?"

She was going to ask about the case, but Ferid had vanished before she could. It felt a little heavy and the raindrops tinked as they hit it. She traced a hand over it and felt a symbol etched in the metal, but couldn't tell what it was. Whatever this may be, Natsuka had a feeling it wouldn't be something to her liking. She stood up slowly and took off running again, not looking back once.

~0~0~0~0~

It had been a week since then and Natsuka had finally reached Shibuya. But she still had some ways to go. During those seven days, she managed to find some water and food, a couple of places to bathe and sleep as well as some clean clothes. Yet she was way beyond exhausted and her body ached. She staggered down the abandoned streets, holding onto a metal pipe and wondering when a Four Horsemen of John would show up or when a vampire might ambush her. She had a feeling that it was Ferid's plan of keeping them away until she was behind the walls of Shibuya. The idea of a vampire helping her didn't sit well with her stomach.

When she felt like collapsing again, the giant defensive wall of Shibuya came into view. She had made it and before dark too. The sun was setting though so she quickened her wobbly pace, tossing the pipe aside. It wasn't quite the feeling of relief she felt in her heart. It was more of a determination. Now that's she here, she can join the Vampire Extermination Unit. The two guards that were posted there tensed up and stood ready to fight when the battered out of breath Natsuka stumbled before them.

"Identify yourself!"

"My name...my name is Kuragari Natsuka. I'm hear to speak with the one in charge."

"Kuragari?" the other guard muttered. "I've heard of them. Aren't they joined with the Akamoto family?"

"Yes they are. Do you have any proof?"

Natsuka glared and let out a growl as she pulled out a silver pocket watch with a black sun, the Kuragari family crest, adoring the front and held it out before them. They verified it and become a little more at ease as she placed the watch back in her coat pocket.

"You aren't a vampire right?"

"I'm offended. I spent a whole goddamn week running from the vampires. Do I look like one to you?"

"N-no we just needed to make sure. And we-"

"If you're even thinking that I'm bait I will take that sword and shove it through your throat."

The two guards flinched back from her remark and looked at each other. They turned away from her for a moment, muttering among themselves on what to do. Natsuka was patient. Since she's here, she doesn't have to worry about too many enemy attacks. She can almost feel Ferid's amused gaze on her back and hear his sick laughter of enjoyment. She let out an angry breath, cursing him quietly and the guards turned back.

"Alright Kuragari-san, we'll take you to speak with Hiiragi Tenri-sama."

Tada! First chapter is done! If there's anything confusing now have no worries. Over time things will be explained and be more elaborated. Gotta make it interesting right? Sorry if it may seem a little short.
I do hope you enjoyed it. Ciao amici!