Sitting against a stone wall inside of the Vampire City, Mikaela couldn't help but recall the day that Yuu was brought into the orphanage. There was a welcoming party and the kids were excited - Especially the younger ones. He remembered Fumie's laughter. He remembered Kota and Ako putting up the balloons and the streamers, and he remembered reaching out to shake the hand of the new kid.
Yuichiro had turned away for some reason, his green eyes stormy with some sort of... spite? No, it looked like he was trying to conceal something. Yuu was usually keeping something to himself when he acted mad, antisocial or whatever it was that Mika couldn't pinpoint. Maybe it had been a rough time that led up to his arrival at the orphanage run by the Brotherhood of a Thousand Nights, he had reasoned to himself back then.
Back then, and even now, he could vividly recall the series of events which led to his own arrival there. Being thrown on the highway by his own mother and watching the car blow up as he lay there with a few bones broken. At the very least, his parents saved him from a darker doom, right? But Yuu was different. He'd overheard one of the adults at the orphanage talk about how Yuu's parents tried to stab him with a kitchen knife. Something about a demon. For a fleeting moment he felt sorry for Yuu, and decided against it. All it took was a glance at Akane's warm smile to know that everything would be different now because they had each other.
Even if the world outside of the orphanage was against them, they were still family, and that was all that mattered, right?
And that was why, he couldn't let Yuu isolate himself and be alone. With the curry rice in his hand, Mika stood up. He walked over to the wooden door which led to their room. He lifted the latch and opened the lock slowly, such that it wouldn't make a sound and wake the others. It was late, after all. Way past their usual bedtime. Except, Mika couldn't sleep. He had been thinking about many things; the bittersweet memories just one of them.
Mika climbed up onto the bunk bed, still carrying the metal container containing the food. He hadn't eaten any of it yet - Somehow, sitting outside in the night breeze of the Vampire city had stolen his appetite. Maybe he'd save it for the next day, or share it with the others in secret. He wanted to see them happy again, after all.
A shadow shifted.
"Yuu?" Mika spoke softly, and the figure sat up. Yuichiro rubbed his eyes.
"Huh..."
"Did I wake you?"
Yuu shook his head. "Can't sleep."
Mika smiled a bit and laid the container down. "Well, eat, then. You don't look like you've eaten yet." He knew that Yuu was a kind person despite his ramblings about killing vampire all day long. So naturally, he'd probably have given his food to the other younger kids.
"Coming from you," Yuu retorted, crossing his arms and turning away.
Mika chuckled softly. "I've eaten," he said. From Yuu's position, he probably couldn't see Mika's expression. Mika was thankful for that, even though what he said wasn't a total lie. Ferid's mansion had a lot of food, toys and flowers. It looked like heaven, except heaven with a price. He remembered seeing other kids there - The other ones who he followed into the mansion in the first place, who donated their blood to Lord Ferid for such benefits. But on hindsight, when he considered that price... He realized that he couldn't let any of the kids from the orphanage go there.
So. He never told them where the food came from.
"Hey... Mika..." Yuu called him back to attention to the real world. Mika blinked. Yuu was holding a book from the library in the Vampire City.
"Huh?"
"When we escape, what do you want to do?"
Mika shrugged and smiled a bit.
"Go to school. Be with everyone. I don't care if we live in a terrible place, as long as we are together and free."
"And not controlled by the stupid vampires. I'm going to kill all of them!" Yuu took a spoonful of curry rice and ate it. He waved the spoon enthusiastically to illustrate his point.
"Keep it down, you'll wake the others."
"Mm not. You're not taking me seriously, are you?"
"I am."
He remembered falling into a blissful sleep, and waking up in the orphanage again. Why did that scene always have to come back to him?
No...
It was a dream. He told himself that. He closed his eyes, and opened them again. Then he saw everyone, and he saw Ferid. He saw them in the hall of the Vampire City, so close to the door which was the only thing barring them from the outside world.
He screamed and reached out to them, but instead they fell away from him, blood splattering the pristine floors.
No...
It was still a dream, right? A nightmare. Or rather... A bad recollection. Maybe it was all a dream. Was it? Including the part where he was bringing curry back to the bunk?
Maybe...
That, too, was only a component of the past.
Something about the chronological order of things didn't make sense to him; everything was a torrent in his mind. He choked back a cry, begging internally to be freed from this ever changing flow of unpleasant scenery.
"Mika?" At the threshold of his consciousness, he heard a voice calling out to him. "Mika, are you okay?"
Slowly, he felt the grogginess of sleep melting away as he drifted back to the waking world. Finally.
He opened his eyes, lying still for a moment. Everything felt damp, and he figured out that he was crying.
"Mika?" Yuu ran a finger through Mika's hair as Mika lay on his lap. Mika sat up, studying the small cabin.
The ceiling was cracked, and there was sunlight streaming through the windows. And it smelled like the ocean. He remembered now, everything that had happened since then. Since they had left the orphanage, and since he had become a vampire. Since he had reunited with Yuu. Just a few moments ago he had wished that everything would be fine when he woke up. Maybe there was still a slim chance that he would wake up in the orphanage again. Maybe Vampires didn't exist, and they were never used as livestock. How nice it would be to be with everyone again...
He felt the hot tears welling up in his eyes again. Even the pleasant image of being with everyone from the orphanage did nothing but to leave a larger, more empty hole in his chest. Why did all sweet things have to come with bitterness? And he let the tears fall, throwing his arms over Yuichiro's shoulders. The last time he did that, was when he drank Yuu's blood. It had been oddly comforting, but he hated himself for it. It was what made him a full-fledged vampire, after all.
"Mika -"
"Yuu, I love you."
Yuichiro's green eyes widened. He tilted his head to a side and blinked, as if to reason to himself that Mika was probably half asleep and didn't know what he was saying.
The corners of Mika's lips twitched upwards. Whenever Yuu did some of his weird antics, it remind Mika of who he was himself. It reminded him that even now, there were some things that never change, and it reminded him to treasure his family.
He hugged Yuu tighter, a hand cradling his head and running his fingers through Yuu's black hair.
"I'm never letting you go."
He remembered the confusion that gripped him when he saw the dark, bony wing that sprouted from Yuu's shoulders. He remembered the maelstrom and the chaos that shook the ground when Yuu fought Crowley in that... Demon form.
The humans made him like that.
Stupid humans. Greedy, ugly humans. He felt his brow furrow as he thought about that; thought in the same way as those equally despicable creatures that killed his family. And what was he, himself? Just an ugly vampire.
Mika scolded himself for letting them convince Yuu to join them in the first place. But then again... Yuu was happy there, right?
He remembered the anger that coursed through his veins as he fought the Moon Demon Army, and the warmth that spread over him when he finally had Yuu in his arms again.
But in the end...
It was Shinoa who convinced the others to let him take Yuu and go, right?
He couldn't work that bit out even if he tried. Part of him didn't want to believe that there were decent people in the Moon Demon Army, but then part of him also realized that there was no other explanation. He remembered Yoichi's expression, and being told that if he was Yuu's family, the rest of them were his family too.
Family, huh...
A faint blush crept across Yuu's cheeks. "M-Mika, are you okay? W-what...?"
Well, maybe it was better to show him instead of try to explain it to him, Mika thought.
Even if it's a bit selfish, I want Yuu just to myself...
He brushed Yuu's bangs gently, leaning down to kiss him on the lips.
"Hnn... Mika..." Losing his balance, Yuu found himself lying on the bed in what he could only describe as an awkward position, which only got more awkward when Mika took the opportunity to straddle him.
"I love you, Yuu." He kissed Yuu's neck, the part where he had bitten before.
"Agh, Mika... I...l-love you too..." He wrapped his arms around Mika's neck, his hands brushing against Mika's shoulder blades.
The heat rushed to Mika's face. It must have been something to do with how Yuu's stutters were cute, or the mere fact Yuu just said that he loved Mika.
"Yuu..." Mika's hands slid across Yuu's collar bones, undoing the buttons of his shirt. He caressed Yuu's chest, tracing his muscles whilst avoiding the tender spots where the scratches were healing. With his lips pressed against Yuu's warm skin, Mika worked his way downwards, undoing his pants.
"Ha.. Mika, I..." Yuu raised an arm to cover his face.
"I love you." Sliding a finger into the waistband of Yuu's underpants, Mika shifted, slipping Yuu's pants down his legs. "Yuu is hard already. I've always wanted to..."
He took the tip of Yuu's dick, running his tongue along the surface. He felt Yuu shiver, and thought to himself how adorable that was.
I thought his stubborn personality was adorable enough, but this...
Is a whole new level.
"Ngh, Mi...ka..." Yuu's eyes were shut tightly, not that Mika would have seen it anyway. He grit his teeth, doing all he could to resist bucking his hips and choking the blonde. The fingers of his free hand found the bedsheets and tangled themselves onto it as Mika took his entire length in his mouth. He savored the sensation. Needless to say, he didn't experience anything like this before so he didn't exactly know what to expect, but... It wasn't like he'd never imagined it before, right? (Or did his research in various formats, for that matter.)
A groan escaped and dissipated into the air as Mika's warm tongue traced the base of his crotch. And then he was inside Mika's mouth again, surrounded by the wetness. Then Mika began to move, slowly at first as if to tease Yuu, then more fervently.
"Ugh... Mika..."
Mika pumped Yuu's length faster, going all the way to the hilt whilst rubbing the insides of his thighs.
"Mika, I'm... I'm going to-" Yuu spoke, interrupted by a sharp cry.
"Then cum."
Mika felt Yuu shudder, and the hot liquid that was ejected from the tip of Yuu's crotch. He let it stay on the tip of his tongue for a while, then relished the moments as it trickled down his throat.
"Mika..." Yuu removed his arm from his face, reaching out to Mika.
His expression... Is really cute.
Mika smiled to himself, drawing himself into Yuu's outstretched arms.
I want to stay forever like this, he thought, as Yuu's fingers tangled with his hair. I want to lay in Yuu's arms, against his chest. I want to listen to his heartbeat; his breathing.
I want us to be together forever, even if it's just the two of us-
"Mika, I love you."
"I love you more."