Thanks for the reviews and sorry for such a delay in chapter writing. I'm so busy now and my mind is always flipping between my stories (all unfinished...I have a problem, I know...). I finally found some time to work them out so I'll try to keep updating! Please let me know what you think!

Warning...some dark M-rated stuff ahead.

Muckrake: to search out and expose

Chapter 10:

Thana blinked. "Where am I?"

"Be quiet."

Thana nodded. Surprised by her own obedience she clenched her fist. She saw his pale green eyes contrasting his dark skin, and noticed a strangely subdued malice in them.

"Tell me the truth, do you really wish to harm Lady Yui?"

Her mouth moved. "I wouldn't care if she dies."

"Why?"

"I want Ayato. He was mine. I derserve to be a Sakamaki Queen."

"And you'd kill the prodigy to which King Burai's daughters heart resides? All for your own gain..." Savide was leaning against a window. They seemed like they were in some closed dark abandoned classroom. His question was nonchalant but she found herself no restraint to answer.

"Yes." She bit down on her lip.

"My poison makes you do what I say. A version of venom that affects how your neurons and brain responds to my voice. My persuasiveness is alone one of the few reasons why my sister and I are so reputable under Burai. I always get what I want...a hypnotic plague one might say." Savide rose. She was seeing the details in this man. The same one on the bench earlier, whom left a snake bitten mark on her thigh. Irritated by the Burai demon's approach; as if she was some human prey, she was stuck as she was.

"But the boring part of that is I'm never quite satisfied with anything truly passive, as passive as all my victims become... Now, I could tell you not to go near her. And you probably wouldn't...at least until my venom runs its course, but then we can't be sure you wouldn't try later."

Thana's eyes widened as she tried to push herself up, on what seemed to be a small couch, possibly one that had once resided in their lounge now retired to this abandoned room.

"Silence speaks volumes."

His voice seemed to hold so much power and yet was never a king's call. Savide looked at the girl. Perhaps it would be amusing to send her off on an errand to attempt to confess to the Ayato Sakamaki brother or cause some drama, or perhaps it remained better to just be-rid of her and tell her to kill herself in the name of her love for him with a silver dagger...

Perhaps Sepsei was right in dragging this out. Their seemingly passive approach may rely on it.

"She is our Queen as well...or will be...and you can clean up the Sakamaki blood later if you still wish to...but for now let me teach you the reality that you will succumb to." He pushed himself off the wall and approached her.

"It's her fault." Thana scoffed.

"No. It is yours for thinking you could destroy her. Bare your fangs all you want, I will show you why the Vibora is still a stronger clan. You will not ever consider her, or touch her after this. If you do, silver will burn your soul."

Something flashed in Thana's eyes. Like his words were a binding weight. "What are you-"

"Stay still. And tell me this, why are all vampires so pompous when it is as easy to subdue them as humans are to bite?" He had now pinned her down, Thana's body frozen like ice. Immobilized by command.

Her face coiled into a bitter look. Savide knew it well. He and his sister were infamous for getting what they wanted from the opposing sex – in combat or not, it was easy to decree information when you could control someone to some extent. His long-standing look of mildness had come from years of achieving his own satisfaction and result – that was not to say that he didn't find it amusing.

His hand groped her breast and he saw the first reaction. Pleasure mixed with pain created the strongest bind of his venom's word.

"Should you step too close to her your skin will burn." His vibora eyes glowed near yellow.

Thana felt his hand like hot coals to her skin; while vampires never burned in sun, it was always said the feeling of silver felt like a devil's fire.

Should you think of her too hard, my image will haunt you."

His fangs played against her vampire skin, he looked dangerous for once, and his voice was strong with his persuasive nature. A full bite out of a vampire's neck and one could call this a day.

Should you think of him, you will only think of me." His voice however cool, was made to engrave stone.

Savide approached her core, his tongue delegating the feeling of ecstasy between her thighs. Trapped and immobilized, it found its way beneath panties feeling the dexterity of a vibora tongue. Reaching farther than any other vampires had within her before, it created a shiver of pleasure. Her jaw locked, in restraint from a moan.

"You are terribly wet."

Mixed in her range of emotions; skin of fire, trapped and near consumed, Savide had already managed to hypnotise her. The poison of his making had affected her mind.

He did not wait a moment more to take his member from beneath his black pants, his white one shouldered jacket contrasting the darkness around them. With a sure thrust the vibora demon caused a sharp groan to escape her mouth. The man was well endowed and well versed. As her mind wondered of thoughts of her previous claims; of Yui and her wish for a chance with the brother, she was left in a strange state of both pleasure and pain by his venomous curse alone.

Turned over so he was now behind her. Savide could hear the restraint in her voice.

His rhythmic thrusts, and circled motions caused her to shiver as a thought of vampire pride left a taste of disgust to be intermingling with another demonic race. Savide, however conscious of where she was waited until she was on the brink of release, fastening his pace, all to stop at the one crucial moment that it truly mattered.

"You will get no release until I allow it, and you will walk out of here as if nothing happened." His vibora fangs, longer than a vampire's left another deep bite into her shoulder and he finally allowed her the pleasure that was building, none too late to release himself.

Moments later Thana left the room to an otherwise vacant hallway of the school, as if her encounter was nothing but a dream. Savide already absent from the premises.

Little did they both know, someone had witnessed a piece of the exchange. Laito, however less known than his brother Ayato for his truancy, had suspected the vibora's of some action today after seeing how alike they perhaps were.

Upon his walk in abandoned quarters, places he'd taken previous blood banks, he'd heard some of the noise. Perhaps it was also Laito had an ear for specific sounds of a specific sort.

Yui and the others had just gotten out of their last class. She bit her lip as she fearfully wondered if Thana and the other girls would haunt her again, but instead she only received a slightly irritated look away from the raven-haired vampiress.

Irritation...or was it something else? Pain?

"What's got your face all scrunched up Pancake?" Ayato appeared beside her.

"Nothing...it's just...I thought that..."

For a moment, as if to test fate, Thana looked at the pair. All at once, all she could recall, thinking of Ayato, his face was burned into her thoughts, replaced with Savide. The sting of the poison, and the mix of contempt, instead of wishing for Ayato's embrace was left the feeling of Savide's hands on her skin and tongue below. As if to hide her anguish and pleasure, Thana left, slamming her locker shut and storming off.

"What was that?" Ayato looked lost.

"I can answer that...perhaps sooner than later... limousine?" Laito appeared behind Ayato and Yui and tipped his hat.

"What the hell happened today that I missed?"

The three transported to the limo.

"I don't know what it does matter but-" Laito began.

"Why are we all so excited to leave, perchance, today?" Reiji entered the limo from the door. Kanato and Subaru followed with Shu lingering behind.

"Ignore Reiji...what was it?" Ayato asked, his arm around Yui's back.

"That tall dark and mysterious one...he's quite the persuasive philanderer I'm afraid. A seducer in disguise."

Yui blinked, unsure of what he meant.

"If he is the kind that is persuasive what exactly deems him persuasive for a vibora?" Reiji prodded.

"His words by most...perhaps? Second his body? You tell me, dear brother, since you have studied them?" Laito tilted his head, staring now at Reiji.

"Venom by first. Words by second likely. But who was this girl?"

"Thana." Ayato said before Yui could. "She's terribly irritating. I got sick of her pestering me."

"Oh?" Reiji raised a brow. He looked to Yui.

"She's no doubt infatuated with my dear brother." Laito smirked.

Yui finally got her words in. "She...and some other girls cornered me in the bathroom today. She wanted to know if I was dating you or what exactly it meant...she seemed-"

"A jealous vampiress is not one to trifle with." Shu muttered as he lay on the car seat.

"So, she was a threat...and what came of their exchange?"

"I merely heard some rather threatening words...in between what seemed the sounds of a rather sensual act..." Laito winked.

"So he convinced her to stay away from Yui? For what means?" Reiji questioned this. What good was it to convince a girl, whom otherwise may have tried to seduce Ayato from Yui from doing so?

"We would have stopped her from doing anything anyway..." Subaru scoffed. Kanato knodded.

"Isn't that it?" Laito laughed. "Dear devious vibora protected her...perhaps they wish to outdo us? Have we all gone so soft?"

"What? Out kind us? What good is that? She's not leaving my side." Ayato's emerald eyes looked to hers. She could feel his protective temper rising, and knew he only meant well by his words. She was his. She wasn't going to leave him or the brothers.

"It's terribly passive...and I would not quite call them kind. Nor are we. On the terms of Yui, she is a rather specific sort. If they did cause that girl any grief, hypnosis can be explicitly transparent or opaque. She may know what happened and she may come to act out in another way." Reiji considered what may happen if they approached her. Repercussions for this action varied in possibilities.

"I never would have pegged him for the suave one...and to take one of our own down so easily..." Laito pondered. "Just recalling has gotten me a bit hot and bothered..."

"All the more reason we keep an eye out." Shu added.

"We need to figure out their coy game before they out play us. Also Yui..." Reiji looked to her sternly. "...refrain from too many mid-class bathroom breaks...should anyone else bother you speak to us first. The snakes are finding a way in, so I will make sure to keep them out somehow, but I do not trust these games."

She nodded, however she felt the target on her back become wider. How could she expect or foresee anything anymore, or protect herself so the brothers weren't paranoid?

"Do you think we ought to make it clear she's off limits?" Ayato asked, looking to the others, his eyes landing on Reiji.
"Are you considering a public display again?" Reiji asked.

"Perhaps he's right. Maybe this time we do play our father's sons...as much as I hated the bastard." Subaru nodded.

A stone silence left them in a unified agreement.

If this was a passive and twisted war the vibora wanted, Karlhienz' sons would no doubt step up to the plate.