Lavi was dusting the mansion. His current mission was to prevent cobwebs and to eradicate any that managed to crop up. He wasn't especially great at cleaning and, in truth, much of it stemmed from his comfort with uncleanliness. Kanda was, in actuality, the one who wanted the place to be at least somewhat tidy despite himself being a monster.
Lavi thought, cynically, that he might like to know what his fellow vampires (whom he knew in his youth) would think of him if they could but see him now; a terrifying and bloodsucking vampire now acting a resident maid and whipping boy for a demon.
Vampires were social creatures, but avoided demons like the plague. As most supernaturals did. Demons were powerful, aggressive, territorial loners. Anyone with half a brain avoided associating with demons, but then Lavi had always enjoyed going against what was widely considered to be normal behavior.
Still, even he sat back and marvelled sometimes at where his life had brought him. He was a fairly typical vampire a few centuries ago. The only real things he did when he wasn't been busy with his hobby of reading and collecting knowledge were the usual vampiric behaviors.
He found tombs to sleep the day away, avoided demons, and prayed lone humans in the night. He always travelled, never staying in one town for too long, to protect himself from any humans that got it in their heads to try taking another vampire from the world. Once you got used to the motions of it all, the life could get boring. And Lavi was bored.
Then one day, his life changed and here he was.
Lavi, quite delicately, dusted yet another untouched corner of the ceiling. One of the perks of being a vampire was the zero gravity abilities they seemed to gain when hanging upside down. Lavi thought that it was probably a vampiric trait that most vampires didn't appreciate, but he most certainly did.
A loud bang being made by the front doors being violently slammed open and closed alerted Lavi that Kanda was home. The smell of blood and human flesh wafted into the building; undetectable to anything but demons and their "lesser" subclass of vampires.
His master came bearing food.
Dropping carelessly from the ceiling, Lavi rushed to meet Kanda. Having been on the fourth level, he met Kanda on the second floor. What met Lavi was Kanda lugging two bodies behind him; a male's body carried over his shoulder like a sack of rice and the body of a female, missing her head, being dragged behind him.
While he wanted to attach himself to the limp husks and dine immediately, Lavi held himself back noticing something was up with Kanda. Though he seemed like his usual stoic self, he also seemed to be in a strange mood; a bad one.
"Yu? Did something happen?" Lavi asked, worriedly. He did actually care about Kanda... however, if something put him in an even worse mood than usual, the demon in question would no doubt take it out on Lavi.
"Absolutely nothing." Kanda growled, warning Lavi against asking again and Lavi, valuing his life, took the hint. Kanda thrust the headless female body at Lavi. "When you're done drinking, cut it up and store it for later." With that, Kanda turned and walked off, presumably to eat the corpse he still carried over his shoulder.
Lavi silently watched his master's back until it disappeared around the corner. After a second more of that, Lavi ventured to look down at the remains. The body was cold and although it was missing a lot of blood, the wounds had stopped bleeding quite a while ago, sealing the remaining fluid inside the body.
Lavi felt a pang of sadness for the poor woman, whoever she was when she was alive. She must've suffered. Lavi thought, looking at where her head had been cleaved off.
The sympathetic thoughts gave way to hunger as Lavi's more monstrous side began to view the body as food. After all, the person who was in that body was no longer there and Lavi was hungry. He leaned down and bit into the body, letting the life giving liquid seep into his mouth. After guiltily draining the body of blood (though it had lost a lot before then so he was still hungry), he dragged it down to the kitchen.
A dingy area, the kitchen was one of the only parts of the mansion that had not been carefully renovated when Kanda took over the estate. Although the kitchen wasn't much to look at, it was useful and had multiple purposes. It contained a fridge, several cabinets, a pantry, two stone countertops and a large wooden table.
Hefting the body up onto the table, Lavi walked to one of the many identical cabinets, taking out a hacksaw and going to work. During the procedure, all Lavi thought about was what was wrong with Kanda.
Even for the Japanese demon, he was very quiet and especially irritable. Anyone other than Lavi wouldn't've noticed, but the red haired vampire knew his master very well. And, having spent several hundred years with the Japanese, Lavi knew what strange behavior from him was.
Lavi finished hacking up the body, draining as much blood as he could from them into containers. Quickly salting the remains to help preserve them for Kanda, he then carried the many severed parts to the pantry and placed them in a dry place. Finally, Lavi took the containers of blood he got from previous bodies for himself from the bodies and placed them in the pantry, as well, in a bucket of ice to freeze them.
Being a vampire, he had higher-than-the-average-human strength so this was an easy task. Mind you, his strength was nothing like that of a full demon like Kanda, but it was still substantial.
Lavi looked up at the ceiling towards the floor that held Kanda's chamber. His eyes dulled as he thought about what could have affected his master so and wondered what the man was doing at that very moment. Somehow, Lavi thought, I don't think Yu is just going to move on from this.
For weeks afterward, Kanda's strange behavior continued. He said little, he ate little and he never left his chambers. The demon who had always hated to partake of leftovers now did only that. He hadn't gone out hunting since the last, when he was put in his strange mood. But what about it had put him in such a mood?
Kanda, too, was contemplating his own behavior after the latest hunt. The mission hadn't been especially difficult and, while the woman he'd killed was very annoying, there had been more unpleasant people Kanda had tasked himself with killing.
It was something about the couple's relationship that affected Kanda in a way he hadn't expected when he'd initially approached them. The way they acted towards each other, the way they looked at each other, the way they needed each other. It made Kanda think of things he wouldn't normally. Kanda didn't have a romantic partner. Fact of the matter was that he'd never had a romantic partner even though he was an undeniably attractive demon.
Though his personality was less smooth than his looks would imply, he would have had no problem getting a partner for himself. Why didn't he have one, then? The answer was that he hadn't wanted one. At least, prior to now, he hadn't. In truth, he found all creatures rather boring and especially the female ones (they all seemed to have an annoying gene in them). Whether they were human or not, they never seemed to interest Kanda and most irritated or angered him to the point that he couldn't stand to be in their presence.
Many creatures, human and otherwise, were afraid of him, as well. Both because of his frightening and controlling personality and the fact that demons were notoriously strong, powerful and vindictive. They were right to be scared. However, Kanda was an envious soul and he wanted most things he didn't have or that others had. It was indeed good that very few things existed that fell under that description, but now Kanda was thinking about something else he didn't have. Love . . . or something akin to it.
It wasn't that the concept had never entered his mind before then, but it had simply never held much weight. The couple he'd killed, though, that had changed it for him. So happy with each other and yet so willing to die for each other, they'd made the concept look far more attractive to Kanda than it had been before. Kanda was sure that it was something he could and should have if humans such as them could attain it.
Kanda had isolated himself during the last few weeks to think about this new development. This wasn't particularly difficult since he lived in a gigantic but empty mansion with only one other occupant. The home itself was away from prying eyes so Kanda had plenty of time.
In the end, he supposed that he shouldn't judge relationships too harshly until he has tried it as well. Convinced he could possibly find something worth having in one such relationship if he were just able to find the right being to partner with, Kanda came to his decision. There was only Lavi and him in their home at the moment and the demon hardly thought that another body would make it any more crowded.
Kanda had never been one for life changing commitments especially if they disrupted his peace. You could even make the claim that he had commitment issues. But, after much thought, he'd decided that he should and would have himself a love. If they displeased him, he could always have Lavi get rid of them or simply push them off to a corner of the mansion and forget of their existence.
Yet there was still the issue that he disliked most creatures on the Earth and had no intention of forcing himself to tolerate being in a relationship with one of said creatures.
Even if he believed there was a chance he could find a preferable one out of the lot (which he didn't) that met his standards (whatever those were, even he didn't know yet), he had no inclination to spend the precious time, energy and patience to go looking for them. If he sent Lavi to do it, then there was no doubt in Kanda's mind that the vampire would come back with every loose, pretty, big busted and most likely woefully stupid woman he came across. Kanda was already ticking in annoyance at the mere thought of it. No. That wouldn't work.
But he might have been onto something by using Lavi. No, he wasn't going to partner with Lavi. Just. No. Still, the vampire demon was perfectly capable of performing detailed projects and Kanda had just had an idea. One that would give him the things that he desired while still not having to deal with outsiders and that, admittedly, made Lavi do all of the work.
Now, all Kanda had to do was place an order for one lover.
