DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING EXCEPT MADISON! Oh if only I owned D... *sighs dreamily*

Ya, I know, this chapter is short, but I couldn't help it! *sighs*

Enjoy anyways! :)

Chapter 2: Meeting D and Battling Spiders

"D, what are we going to about her? It's not like you to randomly pick up strays. Especially not cute strays!" said a raspy voice. Silence followed the comment and the voice continued, "Come on D! You can't tell me you aren't the least bit interested in this woman!"

A deep voice replied in a monotone, "If you continue I will cut you off of my hand and feed you to some wild dogs." The raspy voice chuckled and replied, "Alright, I'll be good for now. But I will get my way eventually, even if I have to-"

The voice was cut off suddenly with the sound of someone clenching their fist so tightly they actually cracked their knuckles. What the heck is going on? Am I dreaming about Vampire Hunter D again? But this sounds too real. This can't be right. And why do I feel like I'm on a boat. Realizing that I was asleep I slowly woke up.

Last night's events poured into my head as I looked down at the horse in front of me. I froze when I realized that there was someone sitting behind me and slowly turned to see who it was. To my surprise-and pleasure-I found out that it was D. I blushed when I realized that his arms were around me so I wouldn't fall off, and holding onto the reins. What a way to wake up! He noticed that I was awake and looked at me solemnly with his blue eyes.

Before I even had time to think I started blurting out, "Thank you so much for saving me! I don't know what would have happened to me if I had stayed out there!" Luckily, I caught my tongue before I could embarrass myself even more. He was still staring at me intensely as I blushed as bright as a tomato.

He finally asked, "What's your name and how do you know me?" I replied hesitantly, "My name is Yuuki. And I know your name because…..I…..um…have heard of you before. I just didn't think that you would be so tall!" My face steamed again so I turned so I couldn't see him. After a few minutes of looking at his hands on the reins I asked, "So where are we going?" He replied coolly, "The next town." Hmm…I guess he's still wandering about.

Next thing I knew I asked curiously, "Does your left hand have a name?" He froze behind me for a moment before replying, "What are you talking about?" I felt a little irritated because I really did want to know and retorted, "The symbiote on your left hand? The one that's really funny?"

I could feel that his aura had gotten darker but suddenly his left hand let go of the reins and he put it palm up to me. It was a regular palm, (Of course) but curiously I reached down and touched it. It was smooth, soft and slightly cold. Hmm….I poked it once, trying to get a reaction out of it when the hand suddenly bit my finger.

"Ow!" I exclaimed and looked down at the hand with a glare. The symbiote was there looking at me with a smirk and said, "Well that wasn't very nice of you! Didn't your mother teach you not to poke someone you just met?"

I retorted, "I should be asking you that question! You bit me!" He replied matter-of-factly, "I just wanted to see what you were."

As I rubbed my finger he said, "Hmm…..human, healthy but with slight blood loss, and…." He seemed surprised for a moment before looking at me right in the face.

"What?" I asked a little worriedly. To further my worry he asked D, "Do you feel that?" D nodded from behind me and answered, "I know. She's been affecting me ever since I found her. It wouldn't be a surprise if she was it."

The symbiote nodded in understanding as I quickly asked, "What are you two talking about? All I know is that some random vampire brought me from my house because he thought that I was the Bloody Rose."

Now that must have thrown them off because D unconsciously stopped the horse and symbiote exclaimed, "HE WHAT?" I muttered awkwardly, "What, I said a vampire kidnapped me from my house. What's wrong with that?"

The symbiote shook his "head" at me and said, "You know what I mean. Now why does this vampire think that you're the Bloody Rose?"

I answered truthfully, "I honestly don't know." They both seemed to think about this and I couldn't help but think, 'Please help me D!' For a moment I thought that D had read my mind because he shifted on his horse and said, "I guess we have no choice but to keep you with us." I could tell that the symbiote was thrilled with this agreement because of the large grin on his face and because he muttered, "D spending time with a girl, how unusual!"

D ignored him and started the horse again. I smiled and said happily, "Thank you so much D! I know that you usually don't let people stay with you since you like to travel alone, but I really appreciate what you are doing." D looked down at me, getting a good look at my smiling face, and just nodded. I thought that I heard the symbiote say something that involved the words "appreciate what you are doing now" and "can't wait till later", but that must have been my mistake because D hardly seemed to notice.

When we arrived in town it felt like everyone was avoiding us. I sort of figured that this was going to happen since D has a dhampir, but it was still really rude of them. Luckily, we found an inn that would take us but the way that the manager gave us the keys made me think that we weren't the most welcome of guests at his inn. Just as I thought that this couldn't get any worse, D opened the door which showed one bed, a couch, one bathroom, and one closet.

I blushed at the thought of D sharing a bed with me and quickly said, "I'll take the couch!" With one jump, I flung myself onto the couch but as soon as I landed on the couch D picked me up and sat me on the bed. As he sat down on the couch I cried out, "Why did you do that? I was perfectly fine with sleeping on the couch, and I know you need a good rest if we get into trouble!"

But he just laid on the couch and tilted his hat forward so the light was out of his eyes. It was very polite of him to give a stranger the bed. I sighed and continued, "Well, thank you. It's nice that you're giving me the bed." I couldn't help but smile at his lazy form and said, "Do you want me to put the sword in the corner? It would be uncomfortable to sleep on."

He hesitated for a moment before tilting his hat back to look at me before replying, "Alright." Excitedly I hopped off of the bed and leaned over to untie the strap that was holding his sword. Aw that is such a cool sword! I can't believe he's letting me touch it! Smiling to myself, I managed to undo the strap and picked up the sword.

A grin was on my face as I looked at it. Curiously, I traced my finger around the strange looking skull symbol on the side of it and said unconciously, "Wow, this is a really cool sword!" He didn't reply, but just watched me as I carefully put it in the corner. In another bound I was back on the bed and facing D.

To my surprise he was staring back at me, causing me to blush. I quickly turned so I was faced away from him and started to think. Oh he probably has tons of girls that have had crushes on him! I mean, he's really hot so why wouldn't they? Oh god, what am I thinking? Just as I thought that I envisioned him without his armor and my face turned beat red. I shook my head to clear my head of such perverted thoughts and sighed. I'm not that pretty anyways. My sister is prettier than me. Unconsciously, I looked down and remembered my enlarged bust with a smirk. Well…..at the very least she definitely doesn't have these babies.

I giggled to myself and decided to get myself settled down for the night. As I crawled into my bed I was surprised to feel something fuzzy inside of it. Tiredly, I grabbed it so I could see what it was and was startled to see that it was a tarantula. With a scream I flung it away from me and ran over to D. He made a groan as I climbed on top of him and practically screamed, "D! There's a spider! There's a fricking huge spider! Please kill it!"

The spider started to crawl towards D and I on the couch which made me freak out even more. But D just gave me a gentle shove to disentangle me from him and slowly walked towards his sword. Just as I freaked out on the couch and started to wonder if D was just toying with me because of how slow he was walking towards the sword, the bed that I was in before started to leak spiders. Another shriek from me made D spin around to see the pool of spiders growing on the ground. Without a second thought I grabbed the pillow beside me and started swatting the spiders away from me. D on the other hand was slashing the spiders.

How can there be this many spiders in one bed? Almost stood up to step on the spiders but I knew that it was a bad idea. I looked over at D to see how he was fairing with the spiders and was horrified to see a gigantic spider the size of a backpack clinging onto his back. He was trying to get it but he was too busy getting the other spiders on the ground to actually have enough time to kill the stupid thing.

Sucking in a deep breath, I crunched my way over to D and punched the spider that was on his back. As I pounded the spider on his back he continued to keep the smaller spiders away from us with his sword. I yelled at D as I continued punching and kicking the spider on his back, "See, this is why I hate spiders!" I thought that I saw him smirk for a second but it was instantly replaced with a serious look. He replied, "Yuuki, take my sword. I'll hold the little ones off."

With a quick exchange, I grabbed his sword and speared the spider with his sword, like giant shish kabob. Quickly I flung the spider off the sword and out the window, causing the window to shatter as it exited. Luckily, the spiders somehow knew that their leader was dead and decided to follow the spider out the broken window. D and I watched as the spiders exited and when they all were out of the room I asked in a worried tone, "I can share the couch with you, right?"

He looked at me and gave me a serious nod as if he didn't want to fight anymore gigantic and frightening spiders either. (Well, they were frightening to me.) D tiredly walked over to the couch, checked the cushions, and then plopped down on the couch. As he laid down I started to blush a little but sucked it up and walked over to him and the couch. Uncomfortably, I looked around to see where I could lay but D's a pretty big guy with broad shoulders, and a buff body, and long legs, and long sexy black hair….Again I shook my head as my face turned red and decided to lay down right on top of him.

My shyness starting to come out I asked, "Um…..D, could I….um, lay on top of you? I don't want to take up your personal space but…..you're really big and there's not a lot of room on the couch…" He just looked at me and gave a simple nod before pulling his hat down again. Oh this is going to be soooooo awkward….Taking a breath I carefully climbed on top of D and snuggled up between him and the couch.

Well, this is much comfier than I thought it would be. Using D's arm as a pillow, I put my arms around his arm and snuggled a little closer to him. I mumbled tiredly, "Goodnight D. Have sweet dreams!" He replied back with what I thought was a touch of softness, "Goodnight…..Yuuki." Next thing I knew I was asleep.

Gigantic spider kabobs, awkward sleeping arrangements…..I think I accomplished what I wanted here! ;) Well I hope u all enjoyed what I wrote and pretty please review!

It will make me write quicker if you do! *Smirks and laughs wickedly before hiding in my lair*