A/N: Sorry for the delay, I've been f*cked up sick for the past few days! After speaking with some friends we have an epic plot in mind that I hope you guys like. :D
"What's this?"
Both boy's heads snapped towards her at the same time as if pulled by strings, their eyes widening in horror. The figure standing in the doorway seemed both amused and displeased at the same time as he sauntered forward and kicked a fallen box out of his way. Mika was the first to respond in which he abruptly stood up in a fluid motion and placed himself between him and Yuu, who was still crouched on the ground looking stupified.
"Ferid Bathory," Mika spat the name like it was bitter on the tongue. "What do you want?"
"Mikaela Hyakuya." Ferid returned the name-calling, only this time he purred it, making Mika's stomach twist. "And his princess, the long-awaited Yuichiro Hyakuya. Reuinited at last- and by the looks of it, in more ways than one." Ferid's eyes twinkled as he noticed the change of Mika's eye color. "Did you finally get a sweet taste of your own family's blood, Mika-kun?"
"You sure do like to talk a lot," Mika said simply, though Yuu could tell by the stiffening in his shoulders that Ferid's remark had stung. Yuu stood up and faced Ferid.
"This has nothing to do with you, Ferid," Yuu growled.
"That's where you're wrong, my friend," Ferid purred. He moved forward again with a snap of his fingers, causing Mika to rear up again and move back in front of Yuichiro, guarding him. "This has everything to do with me. After all, I don't think miss Tepes would be too happy to know her pet ran away from home, and with the local stray tom as well."
"I don't care about whether she's happy or not." Mika's voice was colder than before, but being reminded of Krul made his stomach twist. "There's nothing she, or you, can do to stop me."
"Maybe not," Ferid relented, "but what about you? Running away with Yu-chan... it has its risks, doesn't it? Especially now that you don't have a steady source of blood. Unless you plan to use Yuu for all your bloodsucking needs?"
Mika flinched and didn't respond.
"I don't care if he sucks my blood till I'm dry," Yuu snapped as he moved out from behind Mika, much to the blonde vampire's dismay. Mika aimed to shove him back with a shoulder but Yuu dodged and rose up to Ferid daringly. "Mika is my family. I'd do anything for him if I thought it did him good."
"Well then, why don't you give him to me?" Ferid gave a pleased smile. "After all, if he runs away with you, he's defenseless. He's also going to need a constant supply of blood, and by the way things look he will lose control eventually. If not now, tomorrow. It's only a matter of time until he forgets whose blood he's sucking and gets a little greedy." Ferid watched as Yuu's face dropped a little. "But don't get too upset, little Yuu. All you have to do is give him to me, and run back to your human friends. I promise I won't lay a finger on his precious face."
"Liar," Yuu spat, growing angry as he mentioned his human friends and returning Mika. Mika glanced at him, shocked, but he continued. "My human friends have been using me since the start, just like you're using Mika for your little games. I'm sick of my family being played with so half-heartedly." He clenched his fists. "If you want me to give up Mika-" he paused here to roughly grab his friend's wrist in his hand and trap it, "-you'll have to cut off the finfers of my cold dead body, because I'm never letting him go."
Ferid stared at him, a little stunned, but recovered with a sly smile. In a fraction of a second he had his sword extended to point right at Yuu's face, the tip of the blade pressed to his forehead where it made a slight incision. Blood trickled from the cut and down his face. Mika bared his teeth and stepped forward while pulling his sword out swiftly, but Yuu stopped him by gripping his wrist tighter and sending him a look.
Ferid noticed this exchange and gave a maniacal grin, stepping forward and lifting his arm so the top remained pressed ever so lightly into the boy's forehead. He lifted a gloved finger and swiped it across the trickle of blood running from his face, before lunging backwards just as Mika dove for him again, ripping himself free from Yuu's grasp.
"You're just as reckless as Mika-kun," Ferid lamented almost poutingly as he brought his bloody fingers to his lips. Mika stared with unconcealed fury as Ferid licked his fingers and gave a satisfied smile. "I can see why Mika chose you to turn him into the monster he always loathed. Your pure blood tastes delicious." Without another word, he disappeared through the doorway, the sound of his cape flapping the last reminder of his presence.
For a few minutes after he left, both boys were completely silent. Yuu busied himself by pressing a gloved hand to his forehead and stopping the bleeding, and Mika occupied himself with tearing off the rest of his pants and putting on a less strangling pair. The few minutes seemed to stretch like hours as neither said a word to the other- Mika trembling with barely concealed fury and Yuu trying not say something that would make the vampire snap. But of course, Yuu was an idiot.
"It doesn't hurt that bad, you know."
What a careless, stupid thing to say to the boy who he had kept from killing the one man who infuriated him more than anybody else. Kept him from killing the person who had slaughtered most of his family like livestock, and then, of all things, dared to not only touch but injure the only remaining member. Mika, in short, was absolutely livid. And Yuu's words not only made him snap: they made him shatter like glass.
Just seconds after Yuu spoke Mika had slammed him against the wall with surprising force, the impact enough to shake the various items strewn along the ground. Yuu winced, but he knew he deserved that much. Mika finally looked at him, and in those red eyes he saw a look so cold it could kill somebody, a hatred that ran so deep it could drown someone. Yuu flinched at the sight, realizing how much he had hurt Mika. But he wasn't going to apologize.
"Mika, I-"
"Shut up," Mika snarled, his voice lethal and also primitive. The sound was so pained it almost sounded strangled, and Yuu obediently fell silent. His green eyes searched Mika's, holding them even though they were blazing with fury. Mika seemed to be fighting some kind of battle in his head, a battle that could have been the next world war if Yuu didn't intervene.
Hands trembling slightly from the leftover fear in his gut from nearly fighting Ferid, Yuu touched Mika's cheek and cupped it with his hand, hoping to offer some kind of physical comfort to the blonde boy that would distract him from the conflict raging in his mind. His fingers threaded between Mika's soft hair and it caused the vampire's blood red eyes to widen before narrowing thinly, the war in his eyes finally subsiding as one side reigned victorious.
"Mika-"
"Shut up." This time it was a whispered command, Mika's warm breath gently brushing Yuu's face and causing the boy to realize just how close they were: so close that if Mika leaned forward just another inch... The small gap between them yawned open like a chasm in Mika's eyes, but it didn't take more than a moment for him to pass over the abyss and brush his nose against Yuu's. "Don't say anything."
And then he kissed him.
A/N: ... *loud screaming in the distance*
