Lips curled upward into a smirk as the predators vision fell upon it's newest prey; unmatched and horrifying orbs of emerald and ruby levelled upon the throat of the vastly inferior other, their own eyes becoming startled before fear overtook them as they saw their own end in the eyes of the demon
"Stay away!" they shouted, only to fall on deaf ears as the beast continued its approach, hands slackly behind their head and slowly caressing their way through the velvety silver of his mane, as dazzling as his deceptively beautiful face, as if he were an angel. Though, he didn't quite seem like an angel with the soft spatters of blood upon his cheeks as well as the diluted crimson mixed with his saliva over his otherwise pearly fangs.
He chuckled, the demon had the gall to laugh at the others incoming demise, and it was then that he knew that this monster could laugh here, just because he could...
He was just powerful enough to have earned the right
The nameless face fell to their knees and tears cascaded down their cheeks as they looked up at the hellion of whom had stopped right before them with that killer smile, both metaphorically and literally.
They watched as the monster brought his perfectly manicured fingers - upon the end of his fair, silky hand to their cheek and gently cupped it, willing the other to lean into it and simply accept their fate, for it was he who decided it
"I'm going to devour you" he said with a soft smile, and the words almost melted their heart as much as it almost made it explode, "And then any other survivors throughout the area" he continued, yet any semblance of caring or reason was gone from their thoughts.
They were already entitled for death, it didn't matter what he told them, he simply wanted them to know before they died.
Because he knew that they couldn't do anything to stop him
And he revelled in the knowledge of that...
"My name is Kiria Yoshii" he started as he leant in, his lips barely apart from theirs as his breath cascaded against their features, "You're a beautiful young girl..." he drawled, his eyes looking to her lips as he bit his own, "...I almost don't want to kill you..."
The girls eyes widened at those words only to be shot down in the next second as he smirked, right before everything she knew was bathed in crimson...
"Almost..."
"Good lord..." Tsukune paled as he looked at the report before him, not only was there too much blood shed in the document with over five hundred slaughtered and dismembered, there was also too much blood actually on the document, actually still caked in it with more dripping onto the marble floor beneath Tsukune's feet...
"Yeah, the walking tobacco stick reacted kinda like that too" Tsukune looked back up to the older male before him, looking as bored as ever with those half-lidded eyes that just told tales of how little he cared of such 'mundane affairs' in his opinion. A sigh emerged from his porcelain lips and he raked his fingers through his platinum strands, "Not that I care, humans right?" he shrugged before smirking at Tsukune's precedented glare
"You're scum, you know that?" he said before leaping back more than a couple feet, on his guard as he grit his teeth at the sight before him; the hellion licking his fingers clean of the blood at the tips of his fingers before humming in satisfaction as Tsukune felt the thin trail of blood trickle down his cheek
"Your blood always tastes the best.." he purred in a dreamy state, "I think this will be payment enough for me to forgive you for that little slip of the tongue there Tsu-kun, eh?" he asked, chuckling a little at the pun on his name he managed before turning away from the younger boy, stopping only to turn his head enough for a single eye to pierce through the younger boys very soul and being
"See that it doesn't happen again"
The words were spoken softly and graciously as only the other could pull off so tremendously but the inner caution and malice was enough to bring a man to his knees, even more a boy like Tsukune. Hell, he probably would have been on all fours striving to calm his dire heartbeat if it wasn't for Akua's lessons in hiding weakness in such situations.
That and his legs were fortunately locked enough not to buckle from fear...
He finally exhaled loudly as Kiria left his sight, managing his breath and reeling it back under his control once he had calmed down his rapidly beating heart
"I need to learn how to deal with him..." he muttered to himself, finally bringing the document back into his sight before sighing at the prospect here; another slaughter but this time the majority were people, and the few monsters were some who had nothing to do with Fairy Tale or even Yokai lifestyle, simply low-class monsters trying to live peacefully amongst the humans, meaning they were basically killed under the guise of simply being other humans.
That meant one thing for Tsukune; whoever or whatever killed these people, did so indiscriminately, leading him to believe that the culprit or culprits did this without knowledge of the Yokai of the world or at the very least didn't do this for or against them.
Either he had terrorist on his hands or coldblooded killers, and as easy as this would be to solve, it really just was not Tsukune's place to interfere; Fairy Tale dealt only with renegade monsters, humans or organisations concerning or complicating the Yokai's existence negatively. This was neither at first glance so it would be best to leave it be...
"You know who did it, don't you?" Tsukune asked, calling out to the smoking branch leader behind him who simply responded with a chuckle
"You do too" Miyabi replied cryptically, not even stopping as he continued his journey through the hallway, turning down the same corridor Kiria had earlier...
...
...
"That bastard..." Tsukune muttered quietly before his eyes widened in remembrance and he looked around avidly in search of something or more specifically, someone, stopping only to grit his teeth in wild frustration
Was he really this afraid of Kiria Yoshii...?
Kiria was pretty pleased right about now, simply laying back in an expensive and overly comfortable armchair as he idly threw butter knives hard enough to impale the solid stone wall around the gagged and cuffed victim attached to it.
He scoffed as the knife embedded itself right next to the terrified targets head, close enough to actually cut the cheek and draw blood as intended. The hellion used the fork in his other hand to bring some more of his meal to his lips, chewing off the end of what seemed to be a finger before clicking his tongue and swallowing his food at the garbled cries of protest sent his way
"What now?" he questioned boredly before smirking as he stood up and sauntered over to what he only saw as meat, "Did you notice?" he asked in a silky whisper as he leant in close, drawing more tears as the prisoner tried to back away, overcome with fear.
Kiria chuckled as he drew a finger through the increasingly profuse amounts of blood puddling around the victims body, all from wounds inflicted by none other than himself to draw out the pain and blood loss, "You know..." he licked his finger clean of all of the blood and shrugged at the flavour, "Your flesh tastes better than your blood, I'll grant you that much..." he said with a roll of his eyes before putting his hand on the mans shackled wrist, slowly gliding along the calloused and wounded skin before finding and gripping his fingerless hand
"Do you feel that they're gone?" he wondered absentmindedly as he carved a bloody 'K' into the mans hand with his sharpening fingernails, "No answer?" he tutted and shook his head as the man tried harder to say something, only strangled sobs escaping through his detained mouth, "Maybe I'll continue the experiment from here, after all..." he smirked darkly as he quickly tore the mans hand from his arm, taking a large chunk of his wrist with it, "...it is mine now" he said, showing the 'K' carved upon the smeared palm.
The mans choked screams filled the air as blood began to spurt violently from the wound, his life was fading as his blood loss became unbearable but Kiria continued to simply watch, even snacking on his new meal as he simply observed the agonising death of a far weaker being.
"Yoshii!" came the deep shout of another man, obviously far older than the young demon who continued to watch as his plaything breathed and bled its last.
"What is it Papa?" he asked uncaringly and sarcastically, not even turning from his freshest kill before him, "Did I do something bad again?" he asked with a snarky chuckle.
Miyabi clicked his tongue and grit his teeth as he marched over to the smaller boy before gripping him by the shoulder, turning him and punching him fiercely through the nearest wall, "Are you out of your mind you little bastard?!" he cried, taking a moment to calm himself as he realised what he had just done...
"Yes, and I feel I underplayed my role still" came the playful tone of the demon who emerged from the rubble with the left side of his face still repairing itself from accepting the brunt of the attack, "I also feel like I've given you enough of these free hits Miyabi" he said in a tone far more deadly, now entirely as unscathed as before the rude introduction.
Miyabi took another moment to realise whom in fact he had hit with all of that force, and promptly sighed at the stupidity of his prior worrying.
Hell, he should've hit him harder if anything...
"Why did you do it?" he asked seriously, then turning his eyes to look at the horrifically wounded, fresh corpse chained to the wall, shaking his head at how used he was to catching such a sight here.
Kiria laughed loudly, "You think I'm rebelling, don't you?" he asked rhetorically, putting a hand out to stop Miyabi as he went to reply, silently telling him that he wasn't done talking, "You know I'm here as muscle and experimentation primarily, but lets be honest and admit to yourself that if there's one thing I can do better than killing discriminately against targets..." he smirked and nodded his head as Miyabi caught on, "it's killing indiscriminately"
Miyabi exhaled angrily, shakily bringing a fresh cigarette to his lips to calm himself down before realising that he had left his lighter back at his office with his haste. He instead took a steadying breath and prepared his next words, "And why would that make this offence any less of exactly that?" he questioned as more of a show, already expecting the answer, one he couldn't really deny
"I'm the wild card" he started, smirking as Miyabi averted his gaze at that, clearly guilty of knowing this, "You know I get 'out of hand', and thus they keep me so highly positioned here, do you know why?" he inclined to which Miyabi gathered himself
"Because you-"
"Because I do what needs to be done but nobody is willing to do!" only to be shot down by Kiria as his smirk became a manic grin.
Miyabi's eyes widened at this and the unlit cigarette fell to the floor from his shock at this revelation, speechless at the hellion's proclamation
"You play peacekeeper for the whole group, we aren't allowed to kill indiscriminately since we haven't really enough power to do so yet; we need to keep off the radar for now as Fairy Tale gains power" Kiria explained, picking up another knife and twirling it deftly between his fingers, "But! You know as well as I do that some monsters slaughter, and they may or may not hold allegiance to your little organisation, thus war is never started as the humans don't really know if it's actually Fairy Tale or even Yokai at all!"
Miyabi shook his head, "So... you mean to say that you play the wild card and kill these people so that those aware of Yokai existence will seek the areas out, yet leave the rest of the human world in the dark in the wake of what is more than likely just a human on human massacre..?" he stated more than asked as he hummed in thought, "It's perfect save for one thing..." he trailed, leaving Kiria to roll his eyes as he saw what was to come...
"I would never condone the murder of several of our own" he said in a dark and booming voice as his Youki became more and more suffocating, enough to kill lesser beings but admittedly not too much for the now-stoic hellion, "You are aware that you not only killed several lesser Youki, but that you also slayed one of our very own funders" he informed the knowing demon who simply cackled as his own Youki matched the original Nosferatu's
"And it was all a worthy sacrifice in order to lure out the hail Mary" he started, "Of course they'll send at least somebody from the group to investigate the murders undoubtedly committed by Yokai" he started before hurling his knife into the wall around the others, "They'll likely send somebody low in rank to investigate what was more than likely performed by a lesser example of our race, assumedly not even a part of Fairy Tale" he laughed darkly, "The weaker ones always squeal the easiest Alu-kun" he purred, "I know this from experience, lots of it"
Miyabi ignored the last little jab at his identity there in favour of thinking the situation over in depth; what Kiria had done here was admittedly far more complex than most would give him credit for. This could send this investigation soaring towards completion with what they could scavenge from the agents thoughts through interrogation, saving the organisation weeks or more than likely months and even years of searching.
One question remained...
Miyabi turned to look at Kiria who was still smirking confidently back at him
What did Kiria want?
"I want Tsukune"
...
What?
Miyabi shook his head and narrowed his eyes as he filed out his thought, "What?" he asked intelligently, to which the Hellion laughed
"I want a promotion, lots of people under me" he began, smiling at his next words, "Tsukune is to be one of them"
Miyabi struggled to understand the intention here, "Why would you-"
"Because he interests me" he replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "I know he's destined for something great, I want him under me when he comes to being as such, watching him grow to do so will also be enjoyable to observe" he said with his constant and undying smirk.
Miyabi thought this over, Kiria would obviously be needed in the future if he could get them away with taking the direct route instead of having to take years tiptoeing around every single legal issue - and there were a lot of them, but there was still one problem...
"I don't have authority over Tsukune permanently, only as long as Akua allows him to be as such, and she herself answers only to the hierarchy of the organisation" he explained to which Kiria shrugged
"Then talk to them; find a way" was his reply, infuriating Miyabi over how he thought such a task would be so easy.
But he would do it, because he saw what Kiria saw; having Tsukune under Kiria and Kiria under him sounded beyond ideal, and Akua would more than likely follow the little prodigy too from how close she was to him so even better still...
That settles it...
Miyabi turned to leave through the grandiose doors and Kiria only smiled as he knew that for this battle he had won
"I'll be expecting word from you soon oh great one" he said snidely, on deaf ears as Miyabi was lost in his thoughts as he traversed his way back through the labyrinth of corridors.
He needed to settle that bargaining soon, but for now he needed to prepare for the coming storm that Kiria had unwelcomingly but thankfully triggered, and Miyabi had a plan already forming...
Tsukune Aono of the Shuzen family, Kiria Yoshi of my own flesh and blood...
He smirked, not too unlike the Hellion himself
You two are going to be my most important assets for what is to come, but how will you fare exactly...?
Done! got this done in two days actually, quite short compared to some of the other chapters I've done and the focus was admittedly far more focussed on Kiria - of whom I intend to make a primary character in this alongside Tsukune and Akua.
I never see much of Kiria and Hokuto on this website, a shame considering I see them as two of some of my all time favourite characters in not just Rosario+Vampire but the rest of known media.
I intend to bring Hokuto into this eventually if some of you were wondering, just farther down the line, quite far down it I believe.
regardless of what is intended, things will start getting more and more heated with each following update until the climax of the arc, the next update won't take too long to arrive, I've just been busy and because of that I neglected my fans. I apologise for this sincerely...
Anyway, these aren't cemented ideas but I'll be going with something along these lines at least, I'm always open to ideas so if you feel like you want the story to go in a certain direction then be sure to put your thoughts forward.
Please remember to Favourite, Follow and Review, I've said it before but they're the lifeblood of authors like me, reviews especially are what keep stories going so I implore you just to stop and leave your opinion if you enjoy my fiction.
Anyway, won't be as lazy from here on so that's good news...
Au Revoir for now readers! ^^