Rimnerel: Okay, hello everyone!
Tala: Why are you—(sees her hair and his mouth drops open)
Kai (notices too): What the hell you do to your hair?
Rimnerel: Like the highlighting I did? Isn't it cool!
Kai: Right. (shakes head) Anyway, we would like to thank all the reviewers and hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as the last one. This is all me this chapter, so you better enjoy it or I will kill you all.
Rimnerel: We're supposed to be easing them with this story, not scaring them more, baka. Forget what he said folks, enjoy the chapter.
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What was it?
The young Hiwatari vampire sat in his study staring out at the evening scenery. Watching the sun give off its last few rays of light before setting completely. Many of the nocturnal creatures were beginning to rouse around this time, ready for nightly hunts or mischief. The vampire leaned back in his plush chair, his legs crossed, his eyes closing to think once more. Going over the event of the previous night before.
What was it that had stopped him? What kept him from ripping that hunter's throat out? That hunter...he was a member of the infamous Ivanov clan that hunted vampires. Kai was certain that particular family has been around for many centuries. On two separate occasions, when he was much younger than he is now, he met hunters from that family. Yet neither felt like that one from last night. Those other two he met almost six decades ago, he never once hesitated extinguishing their lives.
But...
"It doesn't make sense," the vampire murmured to himself. He was so use to killing humans when he didn't need to feed that...he felt disturbed by the absence of such a relaxing task. The dual haired vampire frowned, thinking of that feeling when he was near the hunter. Something powerful and alluring pulsed from the human. A scent so faint, but familiar it caught his attention almost immediately. As if...
The Hiwatari heir was interrupted in his thought, feeling a mouth press against the back of his neck. The frown on his face deepened as he used his seventh sense to toss the figure away from him. The person went down with a soft thud, followed shortly by a groan.
"What was that for?" The person got up from the ground, brushing himself off. Kai turned his chair around, opening his eyes to look at the figure. A young man with blue hair in a low ponytail stood in front of him, his blue eyes studying Kai. The young man was dressed in silk, dyed the color of midnight blue, trews with a soft cream colored singlet.
"I thought it was you," the dual haired vampire continued to frown. "What do you want, Tyson?"
This male, sadly enough was a member of the Hiwatari family. One of the full-fledged vampires decided to foolishly wed a turned vampire, bringing into the world a child of half pure breeding. Kai was completely disgusted when he met the child. At the time Kai was no more than four decades old when Tyson had just reached half a decade.
Even then, Kai realized how much of a pest the half-breed would become. It was no secret by most in the family that Tyson pursued Kai, wanting to become the older vampire's lover. It wasn't that Kai did not find the blue- eyed vampire attractive, that was far from the truth in fact, but because of the blood that coursed through his veins, Kai disregarded Tyson's advances. The stench of human blood was faint, but still easy to pick up. Kai could not stand it especially after his parents, were slaughtered by one when he was seven.
"What do you mean 'what do you want Tyson'? I came to say good evening to you. Why are you always being so mean to me?" Tyson pouted as he walked up to Kai, climbing into his lap. "You were out late without me last night, weren't you?"
"If I was," Kai said dryly. "What do you have to do with it?"
"Kai!" Tyson said, nuzzling his face against Kai's neck. "You can be so unreceptive sometimes. I know you really don't hate me. I am related to you, and you treat me with some respect, the few times you care to be nice. You know I would do anything to please you, all you have to do is ask." Tyson moved his hand to play in the mass of blue. "What were you thinking of anyway?
"A hunter," Kai responded, making no more to encourage the half-breed in his lap. Kai closed his eyes again, conjuring up the image of that hunter with the red hair and dangerous, defiant azure gaze. The air in that hunter aroused a predatory nature Kai only had in hunting his meals. One way or the other, that hunter was going to become his.
"A hunter? One you recently killed," Tyson grinned softly.
"No. I let him go."
"You what!" Tyson sat straight up, staring at the older vampire with utter disbelief. "Why would you let a hunter go? That's not like you at all."
Kai opened his eyes, staring Tyson in the eyes directly. "Because...he was too irresistible to kill." That was enough to bring a flash of jealousy into Tyson's face. His blue eyes turning crimson as he started vamping out. A smug smirk crossed Kai's lips, a flash of white showing like always. "He seduced me into letting him go, so I did."
"How dare a—a human think that he can have you," Tyson exclaimed. "I'll kill him myself before I let him come near you again."
"That would be interesting. He was from the famous Ivanov clan of vampire hunters here in Japan. If you believe you're strong enough for them, then by all means try. But remember, they have the ability to counter vampiric magic," Kai stated.
"So, I don't care," declared Tyson. "You're mine, no one else, especially a dirty human can have you, ever."
"You, are still a child, Tyson," Kai said simply. "You still have so much to learn about not just the world, but those in it that hate you. Though you may be 48 years my junior, you are so contumely ignorant of the fact that you are nowhere near my level. I am not your playmate, nor will I ever be." Getting up from his chair, Kai ended up dumping Tyson on the floor.
"Kai!"
"I have thing to do." Not bothering to look at the other on the ground, the heir to the Hiwatari family walked out the room. Leaving a very upset Tyson, ready to lash out at anything that happened in his path at the moment.
Laughter filled the room as a young man with short green hair walked into the room. This young man was part of a cousin clan to the Hiwatari family. His name was Oliver, and he was the last person Tyson wanted to talk to right now. A cold, amused grin rose to Oliver's lips, looking over the fuming half-breed. "Poor, poor Tyson. Kai just doesn't understand your feelings, huh?"
"Shut up!" Tyson seared the older, green haired vampire with his red eyes. Oliver who was unfazed by the boy's glare continued to smile with amused humor.
"He is right you know. You are still a child. You throw these little silly tantrums when you can't have your way. You kill anyone who may be partly interested in Kai, and keep him to yourself if he does pay the slightest bit of attention to you. Face it, he finds you as amusing as I do. So does everyone else." Oliver easily moved out of the way as Tyson lunged at him fangs bared. "Maybe if you proved to be more than a clinging puppy, he might reward you."
Turning away from the snarling boy, Oliver began walking out the study. Tyson, figuring it was best to strike then, lunged for the older vampire again. Oliver shifted a glance to the blue haired half-breed's, suspending him in mid air. Tyson struggled to free himself from Oliver's power with no success. Tyson continued to snarl at the older vampire, a slew of curses escaping his lips.
"Foolish whelp, you should know better than to attack a full vampire in such a manner. Hasn't your mother taught her half-bred son anything about how much stronger full vampires are to you sorry excuse—?"
"Oliver." Kai leaned against the doorway to the study. "Let him go, he's not worth the effort. He'll learn sooner or later where his place is."
"As you wish," Oliver bowed. Releasing Tyson from his power, he walked out the room. Kai stared at Tyson shaking with anger and humiliation on the ground before leaving the doorway.
"Come with me," Kai said to Oliver.
"Where?" the other vampire inquired.
"I'm going to ask my grandfather something. You know how I don't like to go alone. The old man will start criticizing me, and that will take hundreds of years to get through. For some reason, I don't live up to the expectations of what an heir to this family is supposed to be like. Think it's the clothes?"
"I supposed it's your resistance to conform to his demands," Oliver smiled. Despite Oliver being 70 years Kai's senior, the two managed to get along very well. "Even when you were a young whelp, you refused to do things his way. You always questioned his demands, and did things your own way, at your own pace. It's inevitable."
Kai chuckled at the remark. "Too bad he doesn't feel like dying any time soon. That would make my life that much easier. But he would probably come back to haunt me from his grave."
"I have no comment on that. Speaking of graves, I heard you met up with an Ivanov hunters last night," Oliver spoke.
"Quite a young one too," Kai murmured.
"Do I detect interest in your voice?" Oliver replied, shifting a glance to the dual haired vampire. "The great Kai Hiwatari taking interest in a human? I thought that was below you?"
"It is. This one was different."
"How so?"
"His scent...it wasn't that of a normal human. It called to me."
"Called...to you?" Oliver blinked, staring at Kai for a long minute. The male's dark eyes flickering with memories Oliver could only think were of the past. One time before, more than five decades ago, Kai told him something similar concerning a vampire that was killed by a pack of hunters. "It was like that other time?"
"Stronger than that time. Much stronger."
"Stronger...hm...I wonder," Oliver said, his brows furling together as he thought over the situation. "A human's scent coming close to that of the vampire you once knew. Coincidence, I doubt that seriously."
"You think there's a connection then?" Kai replied, as the two round a corner, which would arrive them at his grandfather's chambers in no more than a minute.
"They might. They may not, who can really tell at this point," Oliver voiced, stopping in front of a large oak door engraved with sliver and ruby. Kai was about to poise his hand to knock, when a hand placed itself on Kai's shoulder. Both vampires turned around, sensing the demonic energies of Kai's grandfather's advisor. The demon with short purple hair stared down at Kai and Oliver with a lifted brow.
"Your grandfather is feeding right now Kai, you know how he is about being interrupted, what is it you need?" the demon by the name of Boris questioned.
"I was going to ask my grandfather how much he knew about the Ivanov family. Since he seems to be feeding right now, I dare not interrupt his feasting with my simplistic questioning. May I inquire it of you since you are his advisor?" Kai answered. Oliver knew that any chance Kai didn't have to see his grandfather was well taken appreciatively.
"The Ivanov clan? That wretched family, why do you want to know about them?"
"I came across a hunter last night," Kai stated. "Something about him stopped me from killing him. I wanted to know why."
"A male from the Ivanov family that was hunting alone? It doesn't surprise me so much, but the fact that most of that family is spread across the entire region of Japan puts me into the mind set to say that you met the current heir to the family, Tala Ivanov."
"Tala..." Was that the hunter's name?
"Did he wear a crystal around his neck? Perhaps one that looked of quartz by chance?" Boris said.
"In fact he did. I heard that the crystal the members of the family wear is stained with the blood of a vampire, which is why vampiric magic doesn't work on them, is that true?" Kai inquired.
"It's speculated, but no one truly knows if it's true or not. I suppose it would make sense to do that. Humans are fragile creatures; the right injury can cripple them permanently or kill them. They fear what is perfect and superior to them," Boris smirked.
"So, you have no clue the origins of the family, do you?"
"I'm afraid that my years don't stack to that of your grandfather's wisdom," Boris chuckled admittedly, his demon gray eyes flickering over Kai. "That and the fact I never cared to seek out information on the family. Care to share with me why the young master of the house has such an interest in one human so much?"
"Not at the moment. I have things to do." Abruptly turning away, Kai briskly walked away. His mind jumping from one thing to another, night was approaching faster and soon it would be time for hunts. Not just for the nocturnal creatures that sought to sate demonic carvings, but also nocturnal humans that sought to slay those demonic cravings unfurled by the night.
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Rimnerel (yawns): Okay, I'm finished. Great chapter? Not a great chapter? Hey, next chapter's going to be with Kai and Tala in it!
Kai: Finally we get another chapter with the two of us, I hope it's longer than the last meeting we had, and better. Let me bite him!
Rimnerel: Um...yeah...well...I'll see everyone next week some time. I've been getting out of sync with my updating so I will have to get back in the game. Later everyone!
Tala: Why are you—(sees her hair and his mouth drops open)
Kai (notices too): What the hell you do to your hair?
Rimnerel: Like the highlighting I did? Isn't it cool!
Kai: Right. (shakes head) Anyway, we would like to thank all the reviewers and hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as the last one. This is all me this chapter, so you better enjoy it or I will kill you all.
Rimnerel: We're supposed to be easing them with this story, not scaring them more, baka. Forget what he said folks, enjoy the chapter.
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What was it?
The young Hiwatari vampire sat in his study staring out at the evening scenery. Watching the sun give off its last few rays of light before setting completely. Many of the nocturnal creatures were beginning to rouse around this time, ready for nightly hunts or mischief. The vampire leaned back in his plush chair, his legs crossed, his eyes closing to think once more. Going over the event of the previous night before.
What was it that had stopped him? What kept him from ripping that hunter's throat out? That hunter...he was a member of the infamous Ivanov clan that hunted vampires. Kai was certain that particular family has been around for many centuries. On two separate occasions, when he was much younger than he is now, he met hunters from that family. Yet neither felt like that one from last night. Those other two he met almost six decades ago, he never once hesitated extinguishing their lives.
But...
"It doesn't make sense," the vampire murmured to himself. He was so use to killing humans when he didn't need to feed that...he felt disturbed by the absence of such a relaxing task. The dual haired vampire frowned, thinking of that feeling when he was near the hunter. Something powerful and alluring pulsed from the human. A scent so faint, but familiar it caught his attention almost immediately. As if...
The Hiwatari heir was interrupted in his thought, feeling a mouth press against the back of his neck. The frown on his face deepened as he used his seventh sense to toss the figure away from him. The person went down with a soft thud, followed shortly by a groan.
"What was that for?" The person got up from the ground, brushing himself off. Kai turned his chair around, opening his eyes to look at the figure. A young man with blue hair in a low ponytail stood in front of him, his blue eyes studying Kai. The young man was dressed in silk, dyed the color of midnight blue, trews with a soft cream colored singlet.
"I thought it was you," the dual haired vampire continued to frown. "What do you want, Tyson?"
This male, sadly enough was a member of the Hiwatari family. One of the full-fledged vampires decided to foolishly wed a turned vampire, bringing into the world a child of half pure breeding. Kai was completely disgusted when he met the child. At the time Kai was no more than four decades old when Tyson had just reached half a decade.
Even then, Kai realized how much of a pest the half-breed would become. It was no secret by most in the family that Tyson pursued Kai, wanting to become the older vampire's lover. It wasn't that Kai did not find the blue- eyed vampire attractive, that was far from the truth in fact, but because of the blood that coursed through his veins, Kai disregarded Tyson's advances. The stench of human blood was faint, but still easy to pick up. Kai could not stand it especially after his parents, were slaughtered by one when he was seven.
"What do you mean 'what do you want Tyson'? I came to say good evening to you. Why are you always being so mean to me?" Tyson pouted as he walked up to Kai, climbing into his lap. "You were out late without me last night, weren't you?"
"If I was," Kai said dryly. "What do you have to do with it?"
"Kai!" Tyson said, nuzzling his face against Kai's neck. "You can be so unreceptive sometimes. I know you really don't hate me. I am related to you, and you treat me with some respect, the few times you care to be nice. You know I would do anything to please you, all you have to do is ask." Tyson moved his hand to play in the mass of blue. "What were you thinking of anyway?
"A hunter," Kai responded, making no more to encourage the half-breed in his lap. Kai closed his eyes again, conjuring up the image of that hunter with the red hair and dangerous, defiant azure gaze. The air in that hunter aroused a predatory nature Kai only had in hunting his meals. One way or the other, that hunter was going to become his.
"A hunter? One you recently killed," Tyson grinned softly.
"No. I let him go."
"You what!" Tyson sat straight up, staring at the older vampire with utter disbelief. "Why would you let a hunter go? That's not like you at all."
Kai opened his eyes, staring Tyson in the eyes directly. "Because...he was too irresistible to kill." That was enough to bring a flash of jealousy into Tyson's face. His blue eyes turning crimson as he started vamping out. A smug smirk crossed Kai's lips, a flash of white showing like always. "He seduced me into letting him go, so I did."
"How dare a—a human think that he can have you," Tyson exclaimed. "I'll kill him myself before I let him come near you again."
"That would be interesting. He was from the famous Ivanov clan of vampire hunters here in Japan. If you believe you're strong enough for them, then by all means try. But remember, they have the ability to counter vampiric magic," Kai stated.
"So, I don't care," declared Tyson. "You're mine, no one else, especially a dirty human can have you, ever."
"You, are still a child, Tyson," Kai said simply. "You still have so much to learn about not just the world, but those in it that hate you. Though you may be 48 years my junior, you are so contumely ignorant of the fact that you are nowhere near my level. I am not your playmate, nor will I ever be." Getting up from his chair, Kai ended up dumping Tyson on the floor.
"Kai!"
"I have thing to do." Not bothering to look at the other on the ground, the heir to the Hiwatari family walked out the room. Leaving a very upset Tyson, ready to lash out at anything that happened in his path at the moment.
Laughter filled the room as a young man with short green hair walked into the room. This young man was part of a cousin clan to the Hiwatari family. His name was Oliver, and he was the last person Tyson wanted to talk to right now. A cold, amused grin rose to Oliver's lips, looking over the fuming half-breed. "Poor, poor Tyson. Kai just doesn't understand your feelings, huh?"
"Shut up!" Tyson seared the older, green haired vampire with his red eyes. Oliver who was unfazed by the boy's glare continued to smile with amused humor.
"He is right you know. You are still a child. You throw these little silly tantrums when you can't have your way. You kill anyone who may be partly interested in Kai, and keep him to yourself if he does pay the slightest bit of attention to you. Face it, he finds you as amusing as I do. So does everyone else." Oliver easily moved out of the way as Tyson lunged at him fangs bared. "Maybe if you proved to be more than a clinging puppy, he might reward you."
Turning away from the snarling boy, Oliver began walking out the study. Tyson, figuring it was best to strike then, lunged for the older vampire again. Oliver shifted a glance to the blue haired half-breed's, suspending him in mid air. Tyson struggled to free himself from Oliver's power with no success. Tyson continued to snarl at the older vampire, a slew of curses escaping his lips.
"Foolish whelp, you should know better than to attack a full vampire in such a manner. Hasn't your mother taught her half-bred son anything about how much stronger full vampires are to you sorry excuse—?"
"Oliver." Kai leaned against the doorway to the study. "Let him go, he's not worth the effort. He'll learn sooner or later where his place is."
"As you wish," Oliver bowed. Releasing Tyson from his power, he walked out the room. Kai stared at Tyson shaking with anger and humiliation on the ground before leaving the doorway.
"Come with me," Kai said to Oliver.
"Where?" the other vampire inquired.
"I'm going to ask my grandfather something. You know how I don't like to go alone. The old man will start criticizing me, and that will take hundreds of years to get through. For some reason, I don't live up to the expectations of what an heir to this family is supposed to be like. Think it's the clothes?"
"I supposed it's your resistance to conform to his demands," Oliver smiled. Despite Oliver being 70 years Kai's senior, the two managed to get along very well. "Even when you were a young whelp, you refused to do things his way. You always questioned his demands, and did things your own way, at your own pace. It's inevitable."
Kai chuckled at the remark. "Too bad he doesn't feel like dying any time soon. That would make my life that much easier. But he would probably come back to haunt me from his grave."
"I have no comment on that. Speaking of graves, I heard you met up with an Ivanov hunters last night," Oliver spoke.
"Quite a young one too," Kai murmured.
"Do I detect interest in your voice?" Oliver replied, shifting a glance to the dual haired vampire. "The great Kai Hiwatari taking interest in a human? I thought that was below you?"
"It is. This one was different."
"How so?"
"His scent...it wasn't that of a normal human. It called to me."
"Called...to you?" Oliver blinked, staring at Kai for a long minute. The male's dark eyes flickering with memories Oliver could only think were of the past. One time before, more than five decades ago, Kai told him something similar concerning a vampire that was killed by a pack of hunters. "It was like that other time?"
"Stronger than that time. Much stronger."
"Stronger...hm...I wonder," Oliver said, his brows furling together as he thought over the situation. "A human's scent coming close to that of the vampire you once knew. Coincidence, I doubt that seriously."
"You think there's a connection then?" Kai replied, as the two round a corner, which would arrive them at his grandfather's chambers in no more than a minute.
"They might. They may not, who can really tell at this point," Oliver voiced, stopping in front of a large oak door engraved with sliver and ruby. Kai was about to poise his hand to knock, when a hand placed itself on Kai's shoulder. Both vampires turned around, sensing the demonic energies of Kai's grandfather's advisor. The demon with short purple hair stared down at Kai and Oliver with a lifted brow.
"Your grandfather is feeding right now Kai, you know how he is about being interrupted, what is it you need?" the demon by the name of Boris questioned.
"I was going to ask my grandfather how much he knew about the Ivanov family. Since he seems to be feeding right now, I dare not interrupt his feasting with my simplistic questioning. May I inquire it of you since you are his advisor?" Kai answered. Oliver knew that any chance Kai didn't have to see his grandfather was well taken appreciatively.
"The Ivanov clan? That wretched family, why do you want to know about them?"
"I came across a hunter last night," Kai stated. "Something about him stopped me from killing him. I wanted to know why."
"A male from the Ivanov family that was hunting alone? It doesn't surprise me so much, but the fact that most of that family is spread across the entire region of Japan puts me into the mind set to say that you met the current heir to the family, Tala Ivanov."
"Tala..." Was that the hunter's name?
"Did he wear a crystal around his neck? Perhaps one that looked of quartz by chance?" Boris said.
"In fact he did. I heard that the crystal the members of the family wear is stained with the blood of a vampire, which is why vampiric magic doesn't work on them, is that true?" Kai inquired.
"It's speculated, but no one truly knows if it's true or not. I suppose it would make sense to do that. Humans are fragile creatures; the right injury can cripple them permanently or kill them. They fear what is perfect and superior to them," Boris smirked.
"So, you have no clue the origins of the family, do you?"
"I'm afraid that my years don't stack to that of your grandfather's wisdom," Boris chuckled admittedly, his demon gray eyes flickering over Kai. "That and the fact I never cared to seek out information on the family. Care to share with me why the young master of the house has such an interest in one human so much?"
"Not at the moment. I have things to do." Abruptly turning away, Kai briskly walked away. His mind jumping from one thing to another, night was approaching faster and soon it would be time for hunts. Not just for the nocturnal creatures that sought to sate demonic carvings, but also nocturnal humans that sought to slay those demonic cravings unfurled by the night.
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Rimnerel (yawns): Okay, I'm finished. Great chapter? Not a great chapter? Hey, next chapter's going to be with Kai and Tala in it!
Kai: Finally we get another chapter with the two of us, I hope it's longer than the last meeting we had, and better. Let me bite him!
Rimnerel: Um...yeah...well...I'll see everyone next week some time. I've been getting out of sync with my updating so I will have to get back in the game. Later everyone!