Hi again minna! Here's Chapter 7 of Vampiric Vows! This is the second part of the first day that Tezuka and Sanada had been kidnapped T-T

This took so long omg I'm so sorry btw ._.

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Title: Vampiric Vows

Rating: T

Main characters: Fuji Syuusuke, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Yukimura Seiichi, Sanada Genichirou

Minors: Atobe Keigo w/ Hyotei, Rikkai regulars etcc =)

Word count: 3034


To the reviewers: thanks so much =DD

Yushi KuNiSuKei – Fuji broken is so scary T-T


Chapter 7

The dull, grey room would be very much depressing if not for the trapped souls glowing faintly, washing the walls with a soft cerulean colour.

Cerulean... Tezuka Kunimitsu thought. It's not even a day and I've already missed Syuusuke...

Then, without warning, Yagyuu Hiroshi's image disappeared for a split second before reappearing beside his kouhai, Kirihara Akaya, but that action caught everyone's attention.

"Yagyuu-san, your image... just disappeared for a second there." Kawamura Takashi managed to say, being almost tongue twisted and whatnot.

"Ne, Shiraishi," Echizen Ryoma looked up to the pure vampire with his usual stare. Those fierce, golden glare reminded Shiraishi Kuranosuke of the super rookie in their team, Kintaro. "Any ideas behind that scene?"

The Bible smirked before wiping it off his face. "It means that Kite was stirring. If he wakes up completely, Yagyuu here would be back to where we were."

"As expected of the Bible, and the captain of Shitenhouji," Sanada Genichirou stated. He, like Tezuka, was known as a man of few words. However, deep down, Tezuka knew that his friend was very much impressed with Shiraishi.

The eight in the room, including a quiet Hitoji Yuuji, had become close to each other after hours of spending time conversing with each other.

However, the vampire souls all knew that something was amiss, but kept quiet about it. The hunters had looked normal from the outside, but the six weren't fooled by their poker faces; they could tell that a part of both Tezuka and Sanada are missing.

Syuusuke/Seiichi, the two thought, absent-mindedly forgetting that the vampires could read their minds.

I miss you...

:~:

I miss you... were the words that Yukimura Seiichi and Fuji Syuusuke spoke within their minds after they had parted their ways. They didn't definitely miss each other, but rather the vampire Hunters that were supposed to be with them.

Fuji sighed as he leaned back against a bench on the rooftop garden. He knew, deep down, it was no one's fault that Tezuka and Sanada were taken by the revived vampires. But he just couldn't stop blaming himself for it, since friends and family were his top priority beneath all that sadistic streak within him.

He knew that next to him, Kikumaru Eiji was worried, looking at him. "Do you need some alone time, nya?" his cat friend asked.

Fuji said nothing but nodded his head. Eiji got up to walk to another part of the garden, not before looking at the tensai one last time. He knew, he just knew...

That Fuji's mask was slowly cracking.

:~:

"Do you think that he'll be alright?" Yukimura asked to a particular trickster next to him.

"Puri." Niou Masaharu said, sadness tinting his voice. "He should be, at least. That's what I think."

"That's what you think..." Yukimura repeated his words slowly. Of course Fuji wasn't alright if he kept blaming himself. Before Eiji even realised that Fuji was breaking down, Yukimura had known for sure that his friend was in a deep mess.

And a big one too.

"Be awed by ore-sama's presence!" A voice shouted, getting the demigod's attention. Yukimura wasn't as quick as Fuji when it comes to hiding his emotions, but his smile was able to make anyone forget about what they saw on his face. He noticed a group of silver jerseys standing within meters of the distance, with one special person with his finger in the air. Niou smirked as he recognised as to who it was, and Yukimura smiled as he approached the newcoming group.

"Welcome to Rikkai Dai, Hyotei regulars. I've been told you'd come to practice with us today."

Atobe Keigo smirked as he noticed the Rikkai Dai captain. "Ah, we did. We'll choose opponents for practice matches later during your practice, na Kabaji?"

"Usu." Kabaji Munehiro replied.

Yukimura, not knowing Atobe's true motive, widened his smile, "Make yourselves at home, please."

"Of course ore-sama would." Atobe gestured to his team to follow him. Having walked merely a few steps, the Hyotei King turned his head slightly to face Yukimura. "And also, meet ore-sama after your practice. For now, let me wash your courts with ore-sama's prowess!"

And with that, he took off into the direction of Rikkai's tennis courts.

"Isn't he just the same, Niou?" Yukimura gave Niou his sadistic smile.

The trickster grinned back knowingly, "Pupina."

:~:

"Atobe always like to make an entrance, nya." Eiji sighed, smiling.

"Saa, he does." Fuji grinned. With the botanic plants and some alone time with Eiji, he was becoming back to himself. And seeing Atobe's usual grand entrance, the tensai couldn't help but smile at his actions.

Suddenly, Fuji felt a vibe that shocked his body thoroughly, as if he had been electrocuted. Eiji immediately sensed the uneasiness within his connected vampire, and turned to quickly assist him.

"Fujiko? Daijoubu nya?"

A quick moment of silence passed as Fuji detected what was going on.

"Get Seiichi, quickly!" He shouted.

"Eh?!"

Eiji was surprised at first, but quickly recovered as he pulled out his cell phone and dialled in Yukimura's number. As he waited for the Rikkai Dai buchou to answer, Fuji's face showed more and more signs of panic.

Please pick up, nya. Eiji thought hard. Fujiko needs you.

:~:

As Yukimura approached his team, the regulars started to whisper "He's here, let's ask him," and other sentences relating to that. Smiling to himself, he continued to walk towards them. Pretending as if he hadn't heard anything, he greeted the Rikkai Dai tennis regulars. "Ohayo, minna. Hyotei will be joining our practice today."

"Seiichi." The data master of the school, Yanagi Renji greeted him back first. "Any idea what happened to Genichirou, and may I add in Yagyuu and Akaya? There are high possibilities to what could happen to each of them but for three of them to disappear like that..."

"Especially since Sanada's in it," the Rikkai tensai, Marui Bunta, blew out a bright green bubble using his gum. "It couldn't be a coincidence, right Jackal?"

"Yea. There's no way," Jackal Kuwahara stated. "Unless it's something unnatural that happened, but there's no such thing as the supernatural in this world; I'm sure of it."

"Pupinaccho," Niou agreed, grinning at Yukimura. Yukimura only smiled back knowingly as the two inwardly laughed about their teammates' clueless ideas on the supernatural.

They still didn't know that their dear buchou was a vampire this whole time.

Just then, his cell phone ringed. Yukimura then saw an unknown number dialling him. Nonetheless, he walked away from his teammates and answered it.

"Moshi-moshi?"

"Yukimura! Eiji here, nya!"

"Eiji? What's going on?"

"... Seii, it's me."

"Syuu! What's going on? Why did you guys call me?"

"Charmers are here, Seiichi. Didn't you get the shock?"

Right as Fuji said that though, Yukimura felt the same but stronger vibe. The tensai panicked as he heard his friend cried out loud in pain.

"SEIICHI!"

Just then, Yukimura felt Niou's hand taking away his cell phone. He must've followed me here, Yukimura smiled inwardly as he controlled his pain.

"I'll take it from here, Fuji. Don't worry." He heard the trickster said.

"Niou! Oh, thank god. Please do. If anything happens please let me know."

"Sure. Later then. Ja," and hung up the phone. Niou then looked at Yukimura, who was still suffering a bit from the pain. "You okay, Yukimura?"

"Ah, just that there are Charmers near here."

"Charmers? What are they, wizards or something?"

"Something like that," Yukimura gave Niou a small smile before continuing. "Charmers are humans with the abilities to cast charms and spells like us. But they aren't able to live as long as us, nor will they be able to have abnormal abilities like me and Syuusuke have."

Just then, the duo heard a group of fangirls screaming for Atobe as the Hyotei regulars made their way to the courts. The Rikkai Dai buchou raised an eyebrow as he finished, "They also have charming looks, hence by the name Charmers."

Niou looked at where Yukimura was looking with an amused gaze. "You don't think that they are Charmers, do you?"

"They might." The demigod sighed. "If only Kuranosuke's here with us... he could detect immediately if they are Charmers or not."

"Shiraishi? I thought you could do that too, but why him?"

"He's the best at detection among the three of us." A small smile slipped onto Yukimura's lips. He was still looking at the Hyotei regulars when Atobe, who was still leading his team, looked at him directly in the eye. The vampire was then shocked to find that a tiny dot within his eyes was changing colour, as he heard, Hn, meet ore-sama later after your practice.

Niou glanced at his captain's face and saw his shocked expression. "Oi, Yukimura. What is it this time?"

"They are, Niou. The Hyotei regulars are Charmers."

:~:

"Oi, kimi-tachi." Shiraishi sighed, looking at the Hunters. "Aren't you hungry? It's been a while."

"We had survived days without food before." Sanada stated. "Isn't that right, Kunimitsu?"

"Ah," agreed Tezuka, and said no more.

Sanada noticed the change within his friend. He knew that on the outside, he looked as if nothing had happened, but the Emperor knew that he was missing his lover deeply. He sighed as he, too, was missing Yukimura dearly as Tezuka was for Fuji.

He placed a hand on Tezuka's shoulder before saying, "Kunimitsu, it's gonna be alright. You'll see; they'll bust us out of here."

Tezuka looked at Sanada and smiled, "Arigato, Genichirou."

As the two were talking to each other, Shiraishi's image suddenly disappeared from view. The others were shocked and realised what happened; Mizuki had woke up.

"Buchou!" Ryoma yelled, being the first to recover. "Mizuki woke up!"

Tezuka broke eye contact with Genichirou and looked at the trapped group. Shiraishi was indeed missing, so it would only mean that Mizuki has woke up from his sleep. He looked back at Sanada, to only find a strict vice-captain standing before him.

The Seigaku buchou inwardly smiled as he put back his poker face on for the world to see. Sanada was always quicker to reset his emotions than he was. However, after a few seconds, no Mizuki entered the room.

"What happened to Shiraishi now?" Sanada asked, his eyes showed worry and concern for the Shitenhouji buchou, though his face did not show much expression.

"Let's wait for a minute, Genichirou." Tezuka spoke out suddenly. He had just remembered a similar event that had happened to Yukimura the night before, though it seemed like that was a month ago. And if he remembered correctly, Yukimura didn't certainly disappeared entirely.

Or maybe it's because Shiraishi in his current form as a spirit doesn't have a body, that's why he fully vanished.

Yea, maybe that's it.

:~:

"KURANOSUKE!"

Shiraishi turned around, standing in a white room, towards whoever had yelled his name. His eyes widen as he saw the figure running towards him.

"Syuusuke! What-"

But Fuji Syuusuke hugged him tightly before he could say anything, as a timer visible on a wall counted down from 60.

"I miss you so much, Kuranosuke." Shiraishi then felt hot tears wetting his shirt, and looked down to find Fuji...

"You're crying?"

"I'm breaking down, Kuranosuke, I can't help it." Fuji sobbed even more, and Shiraishi felt heartbreaking. He knew that he was serious this time, and seeing the tensai cry made the whole situation depressing.

Seeing that they had only 40 seconds on the clock, Shiraishi softly asked, as gentle as he could be, "You didn't come just to see me, did you?"

"Yea..." the tensai sniffed. " Are there any ways to prevent Charmers from detecting us?"

The Bible froze, "Charmers?"

"Ah, they're near me and Seiichi. Just tell me, we'll be fine," he hugged a little tighter. "Promise."

25 seconds...

"Well, the only way to prevent Charmers from targeting you is to just put up your upmost guard. The most advanced of them are able to detect any vampires if they didn't placed their defences to the best they could."

"But what if they found you already?" Fuji mumbled.

"Then hope that he or she won't come after you..." Shiraishi hugged Fuji closer.

10 seconds...

"I gotta go now, Syuu..."

7 seconds...

"I know that... but I don't want to leave..."

3 seconds...

"We'll meet up soon..." Shiraishi smiled as he said his words before the time was up.

And "Promise." Was the last word that came out of his mouth, before the both of them faded into nothingness.

:~:

"He's back." Tezuka said that out of the blue, and everyone turned to see towards the direction where he was looking. Shiraishi was indeed returning with a faint glowing light around him. As he fully reappeared in front of his friends, though, his legs wobbled and he fell onto the ground.

"Shiraishi!"

"Oi, daijoubu ka?"

The vampire captain smiled weakly as he said, "Yea, I'll be fine in about-"

"10 minutes," Tezuka cut him off. "Who used the Vow this time?"

"Syuusuke did," Shiraishi looked at the stoic Seigaku buchou, and sadly said. "He can't forgive himself for last night, and because of that he's breaking down. Hard."

Tezuka froze and tensed up immensely. "It wasn't his fault," he said curtly to no one in particular.

"I know," Shiraishi sighed. "But he can't stop thinking that it was his fault."

"Don't worry, Kunimitsu," Sanada placed both of his hands on Tezuka's shoulders. "We'll see them again soon. That's for sure."

:~:

(Time skip to after morning practice)

"What is it, Charmer?" Yukimura folded his arms with his regular jersey hanging loosely but firmly on his shoulders. They were in the most isolated spot of the Rikkai campus and Atobe for once was without Kabaji.

Atobe smirked, "You finally figured it out now? That's too slow even for you, Yukimura."

"Just tell me what you want," Yukimura frowned. "I don't have business with you."

"Ahn, is that the way you talk to ore-sama, vampire?"

"What do you want?" Yukimura willed his aura to be a sweet, innocent wind with danger tinted within that sweetness. He smiled when Atobe shivered slightly, being affected by his aura.

"I heard about your –"

"Yukimura!"

The two looked towards the yell, with Atobe looking slightly irritated, and saw who it was.

"Aren't you Kenya?"

Oshitari Yuushi was leading his cousin Oshitari Kenya towards them. Of course, Yukimura realised. Atobe would have told Oshitari Yuushi and possibly his teammates to where he was.

"Sou, they invited me here." Kenya gestured to Atobe and Yuushi. "But let's just talk about the situation at hand first. Or should we talk later since there's no time left?"

Kenya turned to Yukimura, "You have classes, don't you?"

Yukimura smirked, "Not any more."

As he said the sentence, the entire surroundings turned to a yellow colour. Time had stopped for them.

"Since when did you had that power, Yukimura?" Atobe asked as he looked around his surroundings.

"Always," replied the Rikkai Dai buchou.

"Now, before ore-sama got rudely interrupted," Atobe glared at the cousins. "I was told of the kidnapping. And ore-sama declares that Hyotei is willing to help!"

Yukimura blinked, processing the words in slowly. "How can we trust you though?" Kenya cuts off.

"Eh? Kenya, I thought you aren't a supernatural." Oshitari Yuushi was surprised as he looked at his cousin.

"I allowed him to be unfrozen when the time stopped." Yukimura smiled.

"J-Just answer my question!" Kenya looked away, a little shy at the attention he just got.

"If ore-sama hates vampires, ore-sama would be fighting Yukimura right now."

"But we're given three days so we could think of something then." Yukimura thought deep.

Just then, a strong breeze blew around them. "What the heck, didn't the wind died down along with the time?!" Kenya shouted, resisting the wind current.

"Yukimura, what the hell are you doing?!" Atobe yelled; the wind was getting stronger, harder to resist.

"It isn't me!" Though Yukimura knew clearly as to who is was, as a slender figure materialised beside him. It looked as if a wooden doll had came to life but painted with a light blue.

Yuushi, though, wasn't fooled by its innocent appearance. He muttered a spell, and the figure clutched his stomach in pain. The wooden figure's appearance then melted downwards, revealing the true person behind.

"Fuji Syuusuke?" Atobe smirked. "Nice entrance, although if Oshitari didn't interrupt, it would be approved by ore-sama."

"I was just trying something," Fuji smiled. "So can we just discuss this later? I believe Seiichi here have classes."

Fuji swiped his hand in the air, and the surroundings returned to its normal colour.

"Hn, calling him by his first name? You must be very close, ahn?" Atobe smirked.

"Maybe," Fuji winked as he dragged Yukimura away from Atobe.

Syuusuke! We could've just agreed things there!

I'd rather discuss this at home where it's safer, whether time froze or not.

Fine...

:~:

(Time skip once again, to around like 8pm)

One by one the souls had disappeared from the group, indicating that the vampires had woke up. And right when Kirihara disappeared, being the last of them, the door banged open. The 6 vampires then marched in, with Kite dragging in a sleepy Tanishi.

"It's you guys." Tezuka calmly greeted.

"What do you want?" Sanada spit out.

Mizuki smirked, before saying in a soft but dangerous voice, "You'll find out very soon."

:~:

"You said that you were coming tonight."

...

"Busy? That's just lame, Atobe."

Fuji, along with Yukimura, Eiji and Niou, were waiting for Hyotei to come by their house. But it seemed that Atobe was busy and couldn't make it.

"You could just ask the rest to come if they're free." Fuji replied, being the one on the phone.

...

"Fine, tomorrow night then."

...

"Okay." And hung up.

Yukimura looked up at Fuji, "So what now?"

Fuji sighed as he replied, "Since they can only come tomorrow, then let's just wait for them. Tomorrow is a Saturday anyways, we would only have morning practice."

"At least we have practice nya," Eiji sighed.

"Puri." Niou agreed.


FINALLY DONE OMFG.

That took way too long.

Remember the poll for the trilogy is still ongoing! And I'm continuing this story still even if it takes a month, I swear ;-;

Chapter 8 should either be the first part of the second day if not the full day.

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See ya'll later =)

xx ~Emily