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A rather tall man sat behind an oak desk in a semi-dark room picking at his claw-like nails with a knife as he listened to the man sitting in front of him. The man finally finished and the brunette looked up from his hand
"So let me get this straight a vampire has killed your son and threatened to kill you, correct?" he paused as the man nodded hurriedly,
"And you want me to slay said vampire?" the man nodded again,
"I don't know, normally killers don't take requests from their victims they normally just jump right to the jugular and finish quick," he said pointing to his client's neck in the same spot as the mentioned vein
"did you look to see if your son's skin was white, pupils fixed, lack of breathing whatsoever, any signs of death?" he said listing a number of different things all quite obvious signs of death
"No I didn't. I don't care, even if he didn't kill my son he still won't leave my home, and is using him as a feeding source; I want him out!" the father interrupted
"Do we have a deal or not!" he said standing. The brunette behind the desk sighed
"Sure, sure one vampire extraction eighty bucks pay now," he said leaning back in his chair
"Eighty bucks your joking, eighty dollars for one vampire?" his client almost yelled
"I won't pay it!"
"Fine, then leave, I'm quite sure he'll leave on his own once he's had his way with you and your family."
That got him the man in front of him stopped dead in his tracks and, sighing, turned around
"All right I'll pay,"
"good we have a deal." he replied shaking hands with his new customer, setting a time later that evening the man left quickly.
"Yami you're going to pay for this when I'm through," Seto muttered to himself picking up his knife again.
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Yugi had awaken after a while feeling rested for once he was now staring at Yami intently seeing that said being was sleeping with his violet eyes wide open. Yugi leaned over him staring back into the vampire's eyes as he snored lightly he poked him lightly in the arm
"Yami," he whispered Yami blinked once and shot up from the bed yelling
"Am I late for the war briefing?" before blinking a couple more times getting his head on straight he looked back to see Yugi doubled over hiding his nose behind his hands.
"Yugi?" he knelt down next to the bed looking at him concerned as tears started to form in his eyes
"Sh, come on let me see," he said slowly pulling Yugi's hand away from his face. Yugi had a nose bleed; apparently in Yami's rush to get up he'd accidentally elbowed Yugi right in the nose. Yami picked the now crying Yugi up and headed for the bathroom, setting Yugi on the counter when he got there he grabbed some tissue and put it to Yugi's nose tipping his head forward slightly. Yami started rummaging around through the cabinet looking for some gauze to replace the tissue with unfortunately all he found was a long expired bottle of Tylenol and a couple rolls of toilet paper so instead he would just have to settle for tissues. Yami took Yugi back to the safe bedroom and sat him down next to him stroking his back gently
"I'm so sorry Yugi, you startled me," he said cuddling
"I didn't mean to hurt you," he said holding on to him. He took the tissues away from Yugi's face his nose had stopped bleeding and he was now looking up at Yami he said the first thing that came to his mind
"Your eyes," Yugi squeaked out
"My eyes?" he looked over at the mirror over the dresser
"Oh, I see, my eyes are special they change red in the dark to help me see," but Yugi remembered earlier
"But the sun was out earlier and they were red,"
"Here I'll show you then," he said taking his lens case out; he picked one up with his fingertips and held onto the back of Yugi's head
"Hold still," he said as he put one into Yugi's eye. Yugi blinked a couple times everything had gone black in one eye
"Yami?"
"I'm blind without these during the daytime," Yami replied gently taking his contact out of Yugi's eye he said simply smiling.
"How did you get into my old room anyway?" Yugi said standing and pulling Yami with him
"Ummm, I erm, got blown into the roof, by the storm, in mid jump." Yami said rubbing the back of his head with his free hand and blushing as the smaller one led him down the stairs by the hand; Yugi got to the bottom and looked around cautiously before heading towards the kitchen
"Are you hungry?" he asked
"I don't eat," Yami replied sitting down
"And you won't be anymore!" Yami heard someone shout at him from the doorway he turned just in time to see the only door out being slammed shut and heard locks click and stuff being piled against it Yugi had dropped his glass upon hearing his fathers voice so suddenly the glass had shattered and brought Yami's attention back to Yugi who was standing there shocked
"Yugi it's okay your dad isn't in here," Yami said standing and hugging the sweet kid standing next to him Yugi relaxed and finished making his dinner after cleaning up the glass; Yami had just grabbed an apple and sat next to him as they ate.
"I thought you said you didn't eat," Yugi said looking curiously at him.
"I don't, I eat for the fun of it I don't have to eat if I don't want to," Yami responded taking a huge bite out of the apple in his hand. Yami saw the door open out of the corner of his eye; he'd been listening to the light sound of someone moving the objects blocking the door now for a few minutes.Yami wasn't surprised when he saw Seto slide into the room
"Yami what the hell do you think your doing?" he hissed as he sat the bag he was carrying on the floor
"Protecting Yugi and having a small snack," he said smirking.
Yugi on the other hand took this chance to slide off his chair and hide behind the counter peeking out at the stranger that had sauntered into the room and was now rubbing his temples like he was frustrated.
"Why me? Why do I put up with you?" Seto asked
"Because you just find me so irresistible." Yami said trying to sound cute and getting nowhere
"What did you do?" he asked whipping out a pen and a small pad of paper to write Yami's cockamamie answers down so he could avoid it later.
"Well Yugi was really sick so I decided to help him out he told me his dad had let him get that way so I just scared him off for him; I didn't even hurt the man," Yami said as Seto's pen scratched away it stopped when Yami said
'His dad let him get sick?'
"You moron; can't you stay out of other people's business for once in your life?"
"Hey I didn't mean to do some of that other stuff and you've had your share of mess ups too, what about that time you set fire to-"
"Yes! But not as many as you; and that one mess up turned out good the girl won the war didn't she? Anyway, you can't even go a whole year with out getting in trouble," Seto said sighing heavily
"Come on lets just get this over with," he said, before diving at Yami and pinning him effectively
"DIE YOU VAMPIRE SCUM!!" Seto shouted loud enough so that anyone outside the door would hear he swiftly reached into the bag he'd been carrying and drew out a cross swiftly plunging it into Yami's chest Yami stopped moving completely going completely limp his eyes rolled back into his head. Seto stood dusting himself off he reached down and picked up his bag rifling through its contents Yugi from his hiding place though didn't give him the chance He darted at him grabbing hold of his arm in a vice grip Seto looked down at him and raised the little boy a few inches off the ground
"so you are the one Yami helped out?" he said softly as though nothing had happened his other hand was still going through his bag and pulled out a small dart Yugi stared at him scared; had his dad hired someone to kill the both of them?
"You're going to kill me?" Yugi said letting go of Seto's arm and scrambled away from him
"No I'm going to save you; Yami seems to be attached to you" he said gabbing onto Yugi's arm and pulling him in close with is back facing him
"Now hold still and try to endure the pain," he said as the point of the dart pierced Yugi's skin. Yugi freaked when he felt it though, and did even think about what Seto had said Seto had to quickly take the dart out so that Yugi wouldn't hurt himself.
"I told you not to move," Yugi looked down suddenly when Yami moaned he was still staring at the ceiling but he was blinking and everything, his head turned
"Seto would you mind taking your damn cross out of me?!" he said rather annoyed. Seto took this chance to stick the dart right into Yugi's neck he gasped at the sudden intrusion there was a slight twinge of pain but nothing he couldn't handle. Seto eased Yugi down onto his knees and to where he was laying on his stomach he placed Yugi's hands where he wanted them
"Don't move," he whispered before standing and going to the door and opening it; Yugi opened his mouth and eyes staring at Yami who was right next to him.
Seto stepped out to face Yugi's father
"You may see the face of the one who 'killed' your son," he said stepping out of the way Yugi's father looked in there lay Yami cross through his chest and Yugi laying next to him the dart stuck firmly in his neck
"What have you done to my son?" he shouted turning sharply to Seto
"Sir I had no choice the child was raving mad about me killing your vampire. Upon a closer inspection you will see that he has indeed claimed the child as his," he said pointing to Yugi's neck where the bite marks from Yami's previous bites.
"you see sir Vampires make other vampires by draining their victims till close to death and then replace that blood with their own this one's name was Yami I've been tracking him for months," Seto explained walking up to Yami and bent down he quickly jerked the cross out of him. Yami had to keep himself from groaning in comfort. Seto then turned to Yugi and quickly plucked the dart out of his neck he was thankful Yugi's dad had been occupied with looking at something metal that was sticking out of his bag because Yugi visibly flinched when he pulled the dart out.
"Well best be going," Seto said picking up Yugi under one arm and throwing Yami onto his shoulder he started to walk out the door when Yugi's father grabbed his coat and turned him around
"Where are you going with Yugi?" he asked sounding like he himself could kill.
"The bodies of vampires must be disposed of in a certain way unless you really want them to come back to life in a couple of days," he said and brushed the man off before proceeding out the door and towards his car. Seto carelessly threw the two into the back seat and got in himself. Yami and Yugi finally moved after Seto had started the car and was on his way down the road.
"oooooh, I can never get use to that cross," Yami moaned holding a hand to the spot where the cross had entered his chest and hit his back Yugi moved a little alerting Yami of the position they were in Yugi was laying on top of Yami practically straddling his waist with his face inches from Yami's neck. They both quickly sat up trying to disentangle themselves; Yugi unfortunately brought his knee down really close to Yami's groin in the struggle for space in the back seat of the car; Seto was watching the two in the rear view mirror was chuckling as he watched Yami curl up and roll sideways like a dead bug.
"Oh sorry Yami," Yugi said once he settled into his seat Yami had ended up with his head on the floor and his feet in his seat
"Its okay," he squeaked trying to get up as soon as he was in his seat he was hit with a hug by Yugi
"I'm sorry," he said again holding tighter
"Yugi, I said it was okay," he said petting the boy's hair lightly
"Not that, I'm the reason you got hurt," Yami's eyes softened
"Oh, Yugi, it's all right it doesn't hurt I've been going through that act for years, see" Yami said gently taking Yugi's hand and pressing it against the hole in his lower chest; it was already starting to heal over. Yugi looked up at him
"You are okay?"
"Yes, I make money that way… well Seto gets money at least." Yami said glaring slightly at the back of Seto's head
"Seto?" Yugi said curiously looking at the driver of the car
"Ah we have not been properly introduced, my name is Seto Kaiba, vampire hunter extraordinaire," Seto said as he turned into the driveway of the mansion he and Yami owned
"If you're a vampire hunter why isn't he dead?" Yugi asked, not hopefully just as a wondering question.
"I don't exactly kill them unless they really are doing damage normally I just stab them and relocate them somewhere else later." Seto explained.
"But you stabbed him with a cross," Yugi said opening the door and stepping out with Yami and Seto.
This time Yami answered "just plain movie superstition some vampires are affected yes but we're a special type I'm an Egyptian vampire I was created before the cross came to be now give me a silver ankh and I might have some trouble." he explained walking with Yugi up the steps to the mansion.
"Oh, what do you mean by 'we' are there more of you?" Yugi said looking up at him with curious and slightly frightened eyes
"You're looking at the backside of the other half of the we," he whispered snickering as he pointed to Seto
"Wow! You're a vampire that hunts other vampires Seto?" Yugi asked loudly
"Who told you that?" Seto asked completely aware that Yami had done it; Yugi innocently pointed to Yami.
"I don't like you." he said flatly to Yami
"Oh yes you do you wouldn't have lived with me all these years if you didn't," Yami said. they had been standing outside the door chatting when the door was opened by a blond man with big brown eyes he was wrapped in a robe and had sunglasses on he dove at Seto almost knocking the tall brunette over as he planted him a big kiss right on the lips when he pulled away Seto replied to it by saying
"I love you to Jou, but we have company," said Jou looked over his lovers shoulder and down at Yugi he blushed slightly and moved out of Seto's arms
"gomen nasi I'm Jou who are you?" he asked kneeling down to Yugi's level
"Y-Yugi, sir," Yugi said nervously
"Well Yugi welcome to our home I hope your stay is as good as mine," he added smiling as he led Yugi into his new home.
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Gruzzee: man this was a long chapter it took me a while to write it and yes for those of you who are wondering this with contain fluff between Yami/Yugi and Seto/Jou
Cazi: YEAH go fluff! Maybe you could add a lemon in there too ((evil grin))
Gruzzee: well Cazi maybe we'll just have to see in the mean time R&R and come back for more