Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Hunter D
Leila watched Kurai Ichi leave to meet the intruders outside. She took this opportunity to try and free herself, but the ropes where far to tight on her limbs to keep any hope of her escape alive. Leila then went into a state of wonder, who was Kurai talking about she having the affection of another? And who was outside? Of course the first answer that came to her mind that D was the one outside, but how could he have known about this place? Leila knew that the best way to find out was to listen to the faint voices outside.
Kurai slowly stepped outside his small castle, but not out of its protective shadows.
D looked at the old deformed castle. The name was well deserved, but it looked more like ruins than an actual castle. Time wore the old thing down to nothing more than an ideal hideout with some sturdy stone walls and a roof to protect its inhabitants from the rain.
"I know it's you" D spoke to the glowing eyes in the castle's shadow,
"How so?" Kurai spoke cooly, "I would also like to know how you found your way here..."
D did not want to take any chances in exposing Hikari to her violent brother. On before arriving to their destination, he instructed Hikari to sit beind him and allow his cape to cloak her while she stayed close to his back.
"Knowing how I found my way here should be the least of your concerns Kurai" D answered, "because you are going to lose a lot more than your curiosity"
"How so..." Kurai did not change his cool exterior "what a strange but interesting twist in plot! I guess it doesn't matter how you found your way here, but the fact still remains that I hold all the cards in this situation!"
"What do you mean?" D asked, obviously confused. How can Kurai have the upper hand here?
"Dose the name Leila ring a bell?" Kurai smiled evilly when he saw D's eyes slightly widen in concern, "It dose huh? I'm so glad to see that you know!"
"Are you saying that you have her?" D questioned, "I find that hard to believe considering her skills and cleverness has a hunter"
"How so...." Kurai's eyes disappeared into the darkness. Left hand, who have been keeping himself quiet through this whole ordeal began to get annoyed by Kurai's repetition, and silently cursed to himself.
Leila listened to the whole conversation, until she was startled by the loud sounds of Kurai's footsteps coming toward her. Leila didn't have time to react when Kurai suddenly bent down next to her and forcefully tore the robes off her now painful limbs.
"Come here..." Kurai spoke coldly and dragged his victim to the cold air outside.
"Is he still there?" Hikari's shaky voice whispered through D's cape
"No..." D whispered back, "You stay here, I'm going in and--" D was cut off when his fears was confirmed,
"Look here D!" Kurai pulled Leila in front of him and held her in place with his right arm tightly around her neck and his left hand took a handful of her hair and forced her to look at D, "As you can see D, Leila's condition doesn't allow her to have the 'skills' and 'cleverness' you speak of"
Hikari slowlly peeked from behind D and under his dark cape, "Who is that with my brother? Is she important to D?"
"As I said before D, the plot has changed!" Kurai explained, "You see my original plan was to use Leila here as bait to draw you here, but somehow you have already made it here so..." Kurai tightened his arm around Leila's neck.
Leila gasped for more air and tried to dig her nails in Kurai's arm, but with no success.
D reached back for his sword, "Let her go" D warned.
"Not again..." Hikari's thoughts of guilt tugged on her heart,
"So D you plan on fighting me?" Kurai laughed,
"Not again..."
"If I have to" D answered
"Not again..."
"How fun..." Kurai continued to laugh, "I'll get to kill two hunters tonight"
"Not again..."
"Not again..."
"Not again..."
"Not again..."
"NOT AGAIN!!!"
Hikari left the safety of D's cape and quickly dismounted his horse and yelled in rage, "NOOO! NOT AGAIN! I DON"T WANT TO SEE IT!! NO MORE!!"
Kurai was surprised by the sudden arrival, and smiled, "So that's how you found your way here"
"STOP THIS KURAI!" Hikari's rage grew stronger, "HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE ARE YOU GOING TO KILL! HOW MANY!?"
"Well that depends dear sister" Kurai did not loosen his grips on Leila, "Your continued support of this species drives my bloodlust!"
Hikari's sudden outburst told D that he had to take serious action, it was now possible that he had two lives at stake, D dismounted and stood in front of Hikari to prevent her from advancing further. This course of action pulled on Hikari's anger even more and she quickly drew the knife that she had hidden in her ankle strap.
Hikari pushed D aside and leapt forward toward her brother.
Author's note: Well things are getting better now, all you got to do to find this story is to select 'all ratings' from the dropdown menu! Due to the lack of reviews, I was beginning to think that no one could find this story. When it was first posted I got a lot of reviews! Anyway as you can tell my creative edge is fading, and thus this story is beginning to suck... but I'm gonna try to write more. Thank you few readers! ^_^
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