For JoshNeku, who had a question about Ri and Rei's origin, and Sweet-Cyanide-Homicide, who wanted to see more of this fic.
Gold eyes blinked open slowly seeing an unfamiliar rafter-ed ceiling. The owner took a moment to collect his thoughts and go back over his steps for the night to see how he'd ended up in someone else's room. He'd had the day off from school so he slept until noon, showered and dressed before going out to get lunch at Carl's Jr with two of his friends who just ended up unintentionally making him feel like a third wheel because they were a couple.
'Stupid Ven and Terra.'
He went back home, stole some of the candy his mom and sister were planning to hand out to trick-or-treaters, watched some Halloween themed movies that came on TV out of boredom, went to freshen up and changed into the outfit he wore for clubbing, and went out to go to a party where he met- oh! Now he knew where he was, that sexy little silveret's room. Reiku.
Vanitas realized he had a weight on his chest and looked to see a familiar head of silver hair and a pale hand resting over his heart, and he was holding the small body by the waist. Van turned his head towards the window and winced at the sting in the left side of his neck; with his free hand he felt around the skin until he found two tender puncture marks which made his remember he'd willingly slept with a vampire. And became one to be his mate. But damn if it wasn't a great night!
'Though I could do without the scratches down my back.' He added mentally when he sat up slowly to feel more stinging wounds 'Little minx.'
He moved Reiku to lay on a pillow while he got out of bed pulling on his jeans, forgoing his boxers just because he could, and went to the window to see what time of day it was. He got his first look at his new home of Halloween Town, dark and macabre, hauntingly sinister to the mind, especially so in the light of the sunset.
"My kind of place." He murmured to himself.
He turned to look around the room; the walls were black with wisps of dark blue rising from the baseboards to just above half-way up, a wooden floor with dark blue rug taking up most of the center, a dark wood dresser and vanity table holding a silver mirror, with crimson red painted along the edges and contours. In a corner of the room and hanging from the center rafter above the floor were wrought iron lamps with, judging by the bulbs, black lights. Van decided to see if his overall appearance had change due to the bite he received before being brought here, though he wondered why a vampire would have a mirror if they couldn't see themselves anyway; or were they really doorways like in Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman? He looked and was surprised to see his reflection; the skin around his eyes had darkened with shadows, he had fangs that could hide behind his closed mouth, and his skin had paled just a bit.
"Huh. Go figure, I can see myself."
"But don't touch unless you like burning."
Van turned to see Reiku looking at him from the bed and he smirked, "Evening gorgeous. Can you see the number you did on my back?"
The silveret's eyes flashed, "Payback for the number you did on my ass."
Purring seductively the newborn vampire crawled back onto the bed until he hovered over his mate, "You liked his as much as I did, if your begging and screaming my name was any indication."
Reiku's face flushed a dark red but before he could snap back Van had kissed him hard and ground their hips together drawing a loud moan from his throat.
"Reiku! You two knock it off and come down stairs! Mom and Dad want to meet him before the Ceremony!"
Riku's voice made them jump and Reiku pouted at the door.
"I don't interrupt you Bro-Bro!"
"Now! Or Dad'll come in!"
Reiku paled to a sickly tone, "We're coming! We're coming!"
On the other side of the door Riku smirked as he led Sora down to the living room by the hand. His brunet mate had changed beautifully; his skin tone had darkened, more around the eyes making the blue pop more in a stunning manner, and his fangs barely peeked from the corners of his lips. But the poor thing was nervous at meeting Riku's parents, so he clung to the older's arm hoping he could hide.
"Hey." Sora looked up at his mate seeing him smiling reassuringly "Don't worry, they'll love you."
"How can you know that for sure? What if they don't like me because I used to be human and they wanted you to marry a pure blooded vampire? Or because I'm a boy?" Sora asked.
Riku chuckled fondly, "Sora, my mother was a human when he met my father."
The brunet blinked jaw-dropped, "Really?"
Riku chuckled again leading him into the dining room that connected with the kitchen. Sitting at the table were two men, one who looked like an older Riku with and angular face framed by the bangs of his long silver hair, but his eyes were a cat-like green. He wore leather pants and boot, and a trench coat, his chest exposed. The other man had short auburn hair that fell over part of his face but still showing his blue eyes that looked almost like Riku's; he wore a black leather outfit too, with a dark red trench coat over it. Both had goblets in front of them.
"Hi honey~ Is this your mate?" the redhead said kindly smiling at the two.
"Sora this is my mother Genesis, and my father Sephiroth." Riku pointed to them when he introduced each parent.
Genesis still smiled and Sephiroth looked at Sora with hard eyes as if to size him up whickh didn't go unnoticed if Riku's warning glare and Gen's kick to his leg was any clue.
"Nice to meet you Sora. You are adorable!" Riku's mother gushed.
"Welcome to Halloween Town." Was all Sephiroth said before Reiku came running down looking flushed while Vanitas followed behind him looking smug.
"I'm so sorry! It was his fault!" the smaller silveret said pointing to his smirking mate.
"You begged for it." Van said shamelessly.
Of course that wasn't the right thing to say in front of his in-laws. Great first impression Van, Seph's glaring death at you and Gen looks like he's about to rip you head off; Riku was just smirking while waiting for the bloodshed to happen. Luckily for Van, Reiku loved him enough to save his life.
"This is Vanitas. I'll help him learn to control his word vomit better, I swear."
Riku scoffed as he and Sora sat at the table, "If Kadaj couldn't teach Reno, what makes you think you can teach him?"
The younger glared as he too sat down with his mate, "I'm not sex-hungry like him, so I don't mind cutting Van off for a week."
Van looked horrified drawing a satisfied smirk from Sephiroth.
"That's my boy."
"Shut up you." Gen smacked his shoulder as he got up to get four more goblets "Kadaj gets that particular feature from you."
Though he kept a mask of indifference, Sephiroth did blush lightly.
"Oh Riku, do you think Josh picked someone this year?" Rei asked.
"We'll see at the Ceremony."
This Is Halloween
Neku studied himself in the mirror. His orange bangs covered the bullet hole completely, but blood from it still stained his face running from the wound down either side of his nose and mouth to his jawline, and the back of his head was matted with blood from where his head hit the mirror from the force of the shot. He didn't know about it until he'd woken up in Josh's room. Josh, at his request, had gone back to the Mortal Plain to get Neku's headphones and MP3 player, so he was alone with the older spirit's guardians Yazoo and Cavin.
Cavin was a spirit from Ancient Rome. He had blond hair and green eyes, and had died in the Coliseum thanks to a lion biting into his throat; now the entire column of his neck and his chest were covered in blood. His husband Yazoo was a vampire born and raised in Halloween Town with his four brothers; he had long silver hair with bangs falling over his face and cat-like green eyes. Neku found them nice enough, easy to talk to; at least they were willing to fill him in on things while Josh was away.
"Who are your brothers Yazoo?"
"There's Loz, the eldest, I'm second, and Kadaj is the youngest of us triplets. We gave our mother hell during the birth." Neku laughed a bit "Then came Riku five centuries later, and Reiku a century after him. Those two were out with Josh last night."
"How long has Josh lived in Halloween Town?" Neku asked.
"Jack and Sally gave him to us about... Eight centuries ago after he was found wandering the Hinterlands." Canvin answered "It took him a while to accept that he was dead, he was a bit of a pain in the ass."
"You'd rather deal with him acting like that than Kadaj's every day self." Yazoo said before drinking from the goblet in his hand.
"I know."
The door opened and Josh came in holding Neku's things, "I'm back."
"Welcome back." Yazoo and Cavin said together.
Josh went over to Neku handing him his headphones and MP3, "Here you go dear."
The ginger-head smiled taking them, "Thank you."
"Neku, are you sure you're okay leaving everything behind from your life?" Cavin asked.
Neku went into thought for just a moment, "I'll miss my friends, Shiki, Eri, Beat, and Rhyme. But I feel more at home here." He leaned his head on Josh's shoulder smiling "I think I'll be alright."
This Is Halloween
The Ceremony that night had a great turn out. There were nearly a hundred new couples that were wed that night under the full moon, Riku and Sora, Van and Rei, and Josh and Neku included. Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King was pleased and happily gave his blessing to all of them and well wishing that centuries from then their own children would be as fortunate. For now, they were happy.
Mentioned RenoxKadaj in there for JoshNeku, I've been RP-ing with her for over a year straight now so there's her gift. Cavin is an OC we made up for said RP, and we got the idea to put him with Yazoo at the same moment even though we're in different time zones across the country. Lemme tell ya that's scary that we seem to read each other's minds at a distance. O_o
Anyway, review please!
