Rays of Midnight

'Yelan Li told me that her son would be on his way here, since there was to be a ceremony to welcome the new born into the nest.' Sakura was washing a few dishes, running the information that Yelan Li had given her while she was in her study, before she fed on her Yelan thought it courteous to inform her about the things happening in the household. Since she was after all part of the family, which Sakura thought was a bit funny in a sadistic way. Even though She kind of thought Yelan-li as a mother.

'Her son had turned a companion for himself.' Sakura leaned on her other foot as she wiped the sweat from her forehead, it was odd. But lately as she was getting older she found that the feeding times took less time, and she healed a lot faster. Which was good, she wasn't complaining, but still. Maybe Yelan Li did like her since she didn't suck her dry.

"Child." A voice sounded behind her, Her body stiffened involuntarily, "Yes Lady Yelan?" She said, willing her voice to not shake. "Be sure that everything is ready for Xiao-lang and his mate, I want it impeccable when he arrives."

She awkwardly bowed, her hands still in the sink. "Yes Madam." "Good."

And with that she was gone.

"Creepy Bitch."

"Kero!" Sakura scolded him, hardly noticing his presence on the window sill.

He stood up, gracefully leaping down from the window and pawed his way up her tattered dress, neatly perching on the sink, "We were both thinking it. She's always drooling over you." Kero huffed while he idly licked his paw, "I don't see why you should take anything from her."

"She adopted me when my family abandoned me, I can't just leave. It would be ungrateful of me." She said. Kero glared at her indirectly, "Why should you devote your life to her? Haven't you sacrificed enough of yourself for that overgrown mosquito?"

Sakura felt a bubble of laughter start in her stomach, Kero noticed. Her eyes would sparkle when she even did the faintest smile. "You deserve to be happy.." kero said softly, "You glow when your happy..." He said, almost sadly. "I'm in debt to her, I can't leave her when she can't protect herself in the day light... She needs me."

"She deserved a good staking. Right through her wrinkly puny chest." Kero said hatefully, "Kero-chan she doesn't even look old."

He scoffed, " that's only because shes always feeding on you. Its a surprise your still alive with the heavy blood she drains, specially on the full moons. You're barely alive some nights, " He spoke in a worried tone.

Drying her hands off she reached to hug him tightly, "As long as your with me Kero-chan, I can do anything." She said seeing the cats whiskers quiver slightly, as if he was blushing. "Shut up Sakura you know i'm no good with the mushy stuff." he said while at the same time snuggling into her. She felt him purr while she held him close, inhaling his fur.

She gagged slightly, " Kero you smell like the dead!"

Kero gasped in response, "Well you don't exactly smell like a basket of roses yourself." He said struggling to get out of her hold when she stood up straight. "What are you doing.." "Washing you." "NO! SAKURA, I HATE THE WATER, SAKURA!"

Throughout the castle you could hear an eerie cats howl, as if someone was skinning it alive. When in reality zooming back in it was just Sakura gently scrubbing away the cats dirty fur.

"You seem really taken with that feline." Said a voice, Sakura quickly passed it off thinking it was one of the servants working the night shift. "Oh, Kero hates his baths." She said brightly, "But it's only temporary, I'm not letting him sleep with me if he's all filthy." She spoke adding more soap to her hand.

"And mother lets you sleep with that thing?"

Sakura froze. She fingers stilled completely on Kero, she could faintly feel the fabric of his fur as she turned around to see who it was. When she did she saw a young man, roughly around the age of 20. His hair was a beautiful dark color, his eyes pitch black in the loom of the room that surrounded her. She opened her mouth but before she could speak he smiled at her, the pale of his skin made her speechless, "You're.. beautiful." She spoke, as if in a trance. "Sakura?..." Kero meowed, she snapped out of it and looked back to her cat, and then suddenly, a savage bite on her neck was given. Razor sharp teeth hungrily dug into her flesh, Sakura dropped the soap and yelled out in both surprise and a great deal of pain. She struggled but it only made him clench down on her harder, in the background she could hear Yelan's chilling laughter.

"Thats enough... i'll die.." She said, panic rising in her as she began to lose feeling in her finger tips. "Stop.." She begged her voice beginning to lose itself. "Please.."

She vaguely saw Kero attack the person behind her, when he finally released her, she tumbled onto the floor, her world spiraling. Everything was blinking around her even though her eyes were not, she could smell blood and felt warmth of something tumbling down her front.

Forcing her neck to move she looked and noticed her own blood pouring out of her. Her breathing became uneven, she reached to cover her neck hastily and forced herself up. "K-kero.." She wanted to say, but the only thing that she managed to utter out was more of an oddly sound between a grunt and a gurgle.

All at once she was out, panic gone, feeling depleted, consciousness non existant.