A/N: Hey ya'll! Here's the next chapter of The Devil. Thank you to everyone who has replied to this story, it really makes me happy :). Enjoy :)
The next evening found Zero lying naked next to the pureblooded ancestor in said pureblooded ancestor's bed, the sheets just barely conserving any modesty- but let's be honest- he left modesty behind after his first thousand years.
He was the first one awake- apparently someone needed their beauty rest after someone else decided to latch onto the former someone's throat, not once mind you, but several times over the night.
A smirk played along the lines of his lips at the pleasant flashbacks- Zero could almost taste the power behind the ancestor's blood atop his lips even hours after.
He sat up with a stretch and his eyes closed in satisfaction as several joints popped.
Sighing, he scanned the room for his clothes, an eyebrow cocking when he eyed the tattered remains of his shirt in the corner- the buttons scattered like stray bullet casings against the cool hardwoods.
He ripped the sheets away from his form and stood with barely a care, collecting the mass of torn fabric off the floor and holding it up to inspect.
After a moment he sighed and tossed it back upon the ground.
At least it wasn't another ruined uniform- that would certainly have been fun to explain to Cross.
Kaname began to shuffle in the bed as he came awake as Zero went snooping in the pureblood's drawers for a pair of pants.
No doubt the ancestor would like to discuss the new developments to his plan that Zero posed.
With a cry of victory that finally awakened the brunet on the bed, Zero located a pair of sweatpants- quite possibly the only pair that Kuran owned.
"Find something you like?" Kaname drawled, a teasing note making an appearance in his voice.
Zero rolled his eyes, "Oh, absolutely."
He slid the pants on as Kuran stood, making his way over to the closet to donn actual clothes- how droll- Zero making sure to memorize the sight of the ancestor's oh-so-perfect ass.
Kuran caught him a moment later and Zero rolled his eyes at the amusement present in the other's wine colored orbs.
When the taller male had dressed and had handed the silverette a violet silk button up to put on (which Zero did with a surplus of attitude, of course) they headed into the connecting study, each taking a glass of brandy (Zero taking two, knowing he was certainly going to need more than that).
Kaname sat back onto a leather chair beside the fireplace whereas Zero chose to perch himself on the companion leather couch in front of the flames (beside the table where the soon-to-be-empty brandy decanter lay.
"So, Kiryu… tell me, what are you?"
Zero sighed, "Do you really want to know?"
The fire popped and crackled and Kaname did not ask him to continue- they both knew Zero would not have stayed had he not been prepared for Kaname to ask questions.
Zero blew out a breath, but his lips became slightly upturned at the edges.
"Well… I was human for a time-until the Shizuka incident. Before I was living as a human… I think the closest thing that's ever been right was when I was called a yokai- though I consider myself more of a spirit in all honesty. Ichiru asked me if I was a god when I revealed myself to him when we were children."
"What did you reply?"
Zero rolled his eyes, but his smirk deepened.
"That I was the closest thing I had ever met to a god- that I had never met someone who was my technical equal. Only my creator had ever surpassed me and I don't know where the fuck Krowe is at to even bother asking about my creation. Let alone Krowe's idea as to what I might be."
Kaname cocked a brow when Zero glanced at him from the corner of his eyes as he downed his second brandy.
He quickly refilled it, "Next question."
"How old are you then?"
Zero laughed, "Seventeen."
He paused, "All joking aside- I stopped counting somewhere around twelve thousand years. I vaguely recall the Climate Change- which would make me even older- but I don't like counting that since I was so young I can barely remember when it took place or how old I was when it did."
Kuran looked shocked- or as shocked as he ever looked- but Zero quickly glanced away, already sensing his next question.
"Do you remember what everything was like before?"
Zero shrugged, "A bit- well, enough to tell what the ramifications of the climate change were. I remember the Last Race sorta. But I hadn't really met anyone then- I'd only seen them from afar.
The Last Race being the known race of humanity before the Climate Change, that is.
They had been varied and from what he had seen- very conscious of their world shifting before their eyes. They had tried all manner of measures to prevent it- but of course they had failed.
One of their failures had even resulted in the creation of the original vampires.
Not the Ancestor's mind you- the original race had been crazed and near immediately put down- but the scientists that had developed them had kept samples of their blood and discovered it could cure any manner of illness in humans.
Then the Climate Change had happened and most all the Last Race had been wiped out, leaving only the peoples who had first consumed that blood alive.
They had gone on to sire children- leading to the current race of humans that lived now.
But the Ancestor's had first appeared almost a thousand years after the deaths of those original vampires and even Zero didn't know how they had appeared- how they originated.
If anyone could say it probably would have been Krowe- indeed, Zero would bet anything Krowe was directly involved- but Zero hadn't seen Krowe in over three thousand years and figured he wasn't going to anytime soon either.
Maybe the old bastard had finally died- one could only hope.
Zero glanced back at Kuran to see the brunet's brows slightly rumpled in thought.
The silverette could guess as to why- he no doubt seemed a brilliant discovery- after all, it wasn't often people as old as he was were met.
Zero downed another glass of brandy, pleasant warmth filling his body and lowering his inhibitions (a voice that sounded suspiciously like Ichiru snarked that they were already low enough in the older silverette's mind).
"So what was the Climate Change, if you claim to be that old?"
"Oh easy- it was of course the earth striking back only it didn't wipe out everything so it was more like the earth was set back thousands of years timeline wise. Only with the addition of vampires. The only way I know that is because we're getting close to living quality that the Last Race had before they perished."
"But anyway..." Zero drawled, "I thought you wanted to know about me."
It knocked Kuran out of his tizzy and Zero grinned, sipping his glass.
They were silent for a moment, all except the clinking of their glasses as Kuran slowly refilled his own (Zero was winning at 4:2 by the way) and the popping of embers in the fireplace.
Kaname took a drink from his glass, his face still and free from expression.
But when he glanced at Zero his eyes held a warmer emotion beneath the surface- an unnamed emotion that compelled Zero to lean forward with a wry grin.
"Why would a twelve thousand year old spirit choose to insert himself into the lives of a hunter clan?"
Zero leaned back, "Firstly because they are my descendents (which we both know certainly makes things easier) and secondly because… the stirring is at hand."
"'Stirring'?"
Zero nodded, "I take it you've never heard of it."
"No, I haven't."
Zero shrugged, "It's meaningless for physical beings like vampires or humans- but spirits thrive during the stirring periods, which only usually last for a decade every other century."
Kaname cocked a brow, "Indulge me, Kiryu. What is 'the Stirring'?"
Zero grinned, "Fun times."
"Fun times, that's it?"
Zero rolled his eyes, "The Stirring is many things- usually a rise in the creation of new spirits- spirit breeding season, essentially. But among other things the Stirring empowers elder spirits and grants new powers and abilities to spirits in general. It's also when it's most likely for humans to spot hidden spirits and attract a mate, etc…"
He trailed off with a wave of his hand.
"Spirits produce children?"
"Yeah, occasionally. It's how I created the Kiryu line- I produced three half-blooded sons with a vampiress and they each married…" He trailed off once more.
Kuran cocked a brow, "When?"
Zero blew out a breath, "Gotta be three thousand years ago now- my hunter line is the longest surviving. Well, until recently anyway."
He sent a pointed look at the pureblood.
"But your children were vampire born…"
Zero shrugged, "One of them swore off their vampire blood and became a hunter and married a pureblooded hunter female. Of the other two- the elder married another Noble vampire and produced only female children, the younger was killed by a high-aiming hunter. His new wife killed the hunter and the hunter's family as vengeance."
He cocked a brow of his own as if to say 'ironic, right?'
He downed the rest of his drink and refilled it once more before downing it completely.
Shit that's nice. Drunk before breakfast/dinner. I should do this more often.
A loopy smile came over his face and it didn't even bother him when Kuran rolled his eyes at him.
"You're a lightweight."
"No, I just don't usually get drunk on vampire grade shit. On human brandy it takes me at least a whole bottle to get wasted."
They went silent and Zero leaned back and closed his eyes.
The cushion beside him pressed down as a Kuran leaned in to whisper in his ear.
"I don't suppose you have any spiritual gifts that you can use in the bedroom?"
Zero peeked through one narrowed eye, "Maybe…"
Kuran's warm breath fanned across his throat, his lips a hair's breadth from his goosebumped flesh.
"No one will disturb us till mid meal."
Zero smirked, "I'm sure I can think of something to distract us both then…"
He spared a bit of the power he'd gained from the ancestor's blood- his features softening, his hair growing longer, his frame shifting to that a woman's.
Kuran chuckled in his ear and Zero felt the shirt he wore get ripped away beneath the pureblood's sharp claws.
Soon followed by those hard found sweatpants.
Zero whimpered and Kuran laughed.
The bastard.
With vengeance in mind Zero clawed off the ancestor's shirt as well, climbing into his warm arms- arms that gripped the silverette tight, the brunet's nails drawing blood and igniting the supposed level-D's lust like a lit match to gasoline.
Zero wrapped his hands through the pureblood's thick waves, locking lips and battling with the brunet for dominance.
A bang sounded as Kuran flitted back into the bedroom with the naked silverette still in his arms, the door closing with another bang as he dropped the silver haired level-D on the bed.
Zero felt his lips curl into a pout and the distinct weight of breasts bounce on his chest as he settled back onto the bed.
"I think I like this particular gift of yours." Kaname drawled, sinking a knee down on the edge of the bed and forcing Zero to fall back against the mattress to make room for him.
"I thought you might." Zero confessed and latched a hand on the male's neck, drawing him closer to kiss once again.
Kuran won quickly in the battle for dominance and Zero loved every second of it, unleashing his aura partially to reveal his pleasure at their current tangle of forms.
Kaname ran his hands along Zero's waist, teasing his erect nipples with his fingertips before ripped his lips from the silverette's own in favor of moving them southward to nip and lick the red tips of his current form's breasts.
The silver haired ex-hunter moaned and allowed his head to fall back onto the pillows as Kuran's hands crawled even lower, caressing his heated skin with a whisper's touch.
Zero tensed when he felt the vampire touch his heated thighs, quickly recalling why he had loved shapeshifting into a woman.
Multiple orgasms- fucking yes, please.
Kaname's fingers probed the delicate folds, Zero's own hand creeping down to meet him.
Kuran didn't allow it though and quickly caged both of the silverette's hands above his head.
"I don't think so…" He murmured and Zero moaned as he teased the hard bud of his form's clitoris.
With a few strokes Zero was languid with his breaths coming in hard pants.
Kuran entered him then with two fingers, testing the waters.
"Just fuck me!" Zero snarked and Kaname rolled his eyes.
"Are you sure you don't want me… here?"
'Here' being Kaname's head perched between his thighs, warm breath teasing his heated sex.
"On sec-on-d-d thought…" Zero stuttered out as the brunet's tongue struck out and licked the sensitive bud of nerves.
Zero's hands entangled themselves in Kaname's hair and the silverette moaned- not even questioning when Kuran had let go of his wrists.
His body felt lit alight with flames of lust and his heart raced as he came underneath the ancestor's ministrations.
"Ok-k-k, now would you fuck me?"
"Impatient," Kuran fucking tsked and Zero pouted like the twelve thousand year old child that he was.
That pout disappeared in the blink of an eye and he whimpered when suddenly Kuran was back at his entrance, aligning their hips with barely a moment's hesitance before he entered and stretched Zero's sex open.
"Fuck!"
Bet you can guess who that came from.
Kuran chuckled and balanced himself on a hand over Zero's shoulder before he began to thrust slowly- too slowly.
"Faster!" Zero pled and Kaname began to pick up speed- going harder as well.
Oh fuck me- he's good.
Zero moaned, his hands clawing onto the pureblood's sides before creeping to his back, the scent of his powerful blood filling the air.
He needed it- needed to taste Kaname's blood on his lips.
One of his hands crept around and up to encompass the other's neck, pulling him down to kiss with sharp teeth.
Zero could hear Kaname groan almost from an afar as he nipped the brunet's lips till they bled.
Dark wine, brandy, cherries, and a hint of dark coffee.
Zero moaned and Kaname gave a harsh thrust before he readjusted them to where Zero was sitting up in his arms, his knees braced on either side of Kuran's own, virtually sitting atop the ancestor's lap.
Zero became more active in this position, grinding himself atop the other, driving Kuran's cock deeper than ever before as the pureblood continued to thrust himself into the silverette.
"I'm going t-to- fuck!" Zero moaned and he felt Kaname kiss along his neck before piercing the delicate skin with sharp fangs, spurring the silverette to orgasm.
Kuran did not cease his thrusts however and it only drove Zero's orgasm to new heights and to last longer.
Zero sank his teeth into the pureblood's throat as well and barely noticed as his partner came inside him- too entranced by the song of Kuran's blood on his tongue.
In fact it was only when Kuran pulled away and merely licked at Zero's closing wound did Zero pull back and lick the ancestor's own injury clean.
Zero still gripped him tight as he rode aftershocks, his hips still grinding back against Kuran's own.
Zero glanced at Kuran's face to see his wine gaze fixed on Zero's own eyes.
Something glittered beneath the surface, pulling Zero to kiss the pureblood.
Kaname let out a growl at their combined taste and Zero near purred with excitement as they settled in for another round.
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