Ok. Here we go! Another chapter! This is a continuation of Chapter 5, don't worry. I know I left you all on a bit of a cliffie but here's the rest! I was typing away and soon I realized that Chapter Five was seven pages long! So I had to start this one. This chapter is juicy with a bit of Rai bashing. You learn more about them as people though. I like to think of Rai, as his creator, as a character who will grow with time. You will be seeing him play a HUGE part soon! I'm not tellin'! This is actually a kinda sad chapter…
Disclaimer: shatter my dreams…I can dream can't I?!! If you think I own this, your loonier than Tsuki.
Tsuki:Hey!!
Chapter Six- One Date Too Many:Part Two
"So you're the kitten that my brother has been so enamored with! You must be something special. My brother hasn't had a date in four hundred years!"
Kinau liked her. She had a bubbly, happy personality.
"Let's see you then!" Tsuki exclaimed, standing him up and turning him around.
She smiled.
"I like him, aniki. He's cute and well armed. I hear that you are one of the Lady's Elite. And at such a young age! Oh, can I see your hair?!"
He laughed and pulled the two stilletos out, letting it fall to it's full length. Tsuki let out a small 'Wow'. Rai was watching all of this with some amount of pleasure. He wanted Tsuki to like him. He had been afraid that Tsuki would hate Kinau. If she did, she would probabaly try to kill him.
"Well, I will bring you some wine and we will see what Kinau wants to eat, hm?"
She bustled off, happily humming to herself. Kinau was fighting to get the bun back up.
"May I?" Rai asked, offering his aid with a gentil air.
Kinau handed the pseudo hairpins to him. The vampire stood, stepping behind him. He was just close enough for it to be uncomfortable. He replaced the pins with ease.
"How did you do that? You never put your hair up!"
He just laughed.
"Having a sister for a thousand years will do that to you."
Tsuki bounced up with a menu and a glass of wine. Rai sipped on the drink while Kinau gave a dismayed look to the menu. It was all in a language that he couldn't read! Probabaly French.
"Gomen, Rai. I can't read this…"
He gave it to Rai who began reading it off for him.
"…And there is the fillet mignon with the side of green beans in chive and garlic sauce with a croissant. That comes with a drink of your choice."
"I think I'll have that, actually. And an orange juice, please."
Rai looked up at Tsuki who had waited patiently.
"He will have the fillet mignon plate, onee-san, and the orange juice."
She beamed.
"Excellent! Then I'll bring that right out!"
"Merci beaucoup, Tsuki." Rai thanked her.
She once again hurried off and Rai took the time that Kinau was looking around to observe the assassin. He was gorgeous. At the beginning, when they first met, Kinau was skiny and short. His eyes had held the same fire though. The fire that attracted Rai to him in the first place. Over the years, however, Kinau had grown into maturity. Sure, he was still small, but his frame filled out and muscle developed and now he was like a dream. Almost serpent like in his movements. Graceful and sensual. The thing that made it so endearing was that Kinau hardly had a clue as to what he was doing. He knew that he could drive people wild with his movements alone but that same body could also be used to exhibit a fierceness only seen in the most cold-blooded killers.
He never forgot what Kinau was. Not for a second. Yet…he wanted to hold that lithe frame in his arms and have him by his side always.
"Tsuki-sama is a very interesting person."
"Hai. Yes, she is."
"She is fun. I like her."
Rai looked at him with another unreadable expression.
"I'm glad. I hope you'll get to know her quite well in the future."
Kinau stared at him like he'd said something serious. In not so many words, he had. Rai made sure that Kinau didn't forget that he wanted him. Made him remember that he wanted him to be a vampire. Made him remember that he was Heero and Duo's enemy. Kinau suppressed a shiver.
"So, tell me about your childhood." Rai said out of no where, cutting into the awful pause.
Kinau became abnormally relaxed considering the topic. It was like a light switch had been flicked on. Immediate. Maybe Kinau was coming to terms with his past. Then again…maybe not.
"My Aunt Petunia hated my mother. She always had. My mother was compassionate, beautiful and strong. Everything that my aunt was not.. It was the type of hate that coils in your stomache and seethes in your stomache like poison. Rage."
He stopped and Rai got a vision of that pit of nameless rage in Kinau's own eyes. He ran on it. It burned in his eyes like a flaming inferno.
"Then my parents were killed and I was sent at eleven months to my only living relatives: My Aunt and Uncle Vernon. Her hatred apparently transferred to me directly after my mother's passing. I was freakish. Nothing but a pest to burden the family. They forced me to wear my severly overweight cousin's clothes, do all of the house work, and when my Uncle's co-workers were visiting and my Aunt was away, I became the family whore. My Uncle got off on beating me. My Aunt loved watching me starve and suffer. I had fucking bars on my windows."
Kinau had to stop to compose his feelings again. He had to be calm. Calm. He sighed heavily. Rai noticed his hands quivering.
"I wasn't a virgin when I came to Duo and Heero…Not by a long shot…"
The vampire nodded in understanding. Inside, he was furious. How dare someone else touch his kitten!! Kinau gave a bitter laugh.
"I remember one day, I was cooking and I hadn't eaten in four days so I blacked out because of my anemia. I woke up to my aunt screaming. There was smoke coming out of the pan and she took it and cracked me upside the head with it. After that, my uncle came home and he and my cousin 'punished' me. I thought I was going to die…"
Another thoughtful pause followed. Rai took a sip of the thick wine. Tsuki brought Kinau's food but sensed the strange mood at once. She sat an orange juice down in front of him and walked away quietly.
"Once, to hide that he had broken into my Uncle's liquor cabinet, my cousin sat on me and poured two bottles of the horrid stuff down my throat. My Aunt was visiting her sick sister for the week and I didn't leave my Uncle's bedroom until the day that she got back."
Kinau took a few bites and hummed in approval.
"And then I went to school. I trusted the Headmaster unquestionably until I heard the Prphesy from the teacher who had given it. I …ran. I was a weapon. I am still a weapon, but a weapon by choice. I have choices and family. I have people who see me as who I am instead of who they want me to be."
Rai watched him with a strange darkness in his eyes.
"You have had quite a life."
Kinau shrugged, eating the food with much adoration. It was so good! Rai set his glass down, catching the teen's attention again.
"Soon you won't have to wear that glamour. Soon, you'll wear your scars like trophies and I will worship every one of them. You won't have to hide them from me." He whispered almost inaudibly.
His announcement stopped Kinau, shocking him into silence. A cold chill went through the teen at the intense look in the vampire's eyes. Rai tilted his head to the side.
"You really are afraid."
He snorted derisively.
"Was there any doubt in your mind?"
"Of me and them."
He shook his head.
"Why do you have to…"
He seemed to grope for the right choice of words. It eluded him expertly so Rai jumped in to offer suggestions.
"Make you absolutely crazy about me? Make you want to jump into my arms begging? Cause naughty thoughts to fill your mind."
The vein in his forehead throbbed irritably. Rai made him sound like some sort of otaku for the vampire masses. Or just for one vampire. He was such a big headed narcissist.
"Always know how I feel and make me feel awkward. Like some little kid."
Rai was laughing, a rich sound that turned things low in his body. He leaned forward, mirth glistening in his eyes.
"I have never considered you a 'little kid'."
The heat in his voice and expression made Kinau glare, a blush staining his cheeks. That pervert never changed.
"Ecchi."
Rai sat back in his chair and smiled, watching him eat. It unnerved Kinau abit but he was determined not to let it bother him. Rai's eyes were just eyes. Just unnatural vampire eyes. Duo and Heero would give birth to a sea urchin and a whale if they could see him now. Sitting at a table chatting with his enemy. But…was Rai the enemy? He didn't want to kill them. He was just some pervert trying to get into his pants. Then again, he did want Kinau to be his fledgling. Not a good personality trait there. Trying to bring people over to the dark side while screwing their brains out. Made for difficult dinner conversation.
It was then that Rai's stare got annoying.
"Stop it. You're being creepy." Kinau said indignantly.
"And where else should I look, Koneko?"
"…"
"I thought so."
Rai took a sip of his wine again, draining the glass.
"Why do you call me koneko?"
"Kittens, Koneko, are aborable, playful and curious to no end." Rai explained.
Kinau, now done with his food, drank his orange juice from the wine glass that it had been brought in.
"Yet kittens are so fragile, just like you."
"How am I fragile?"
He grinned, obviously amused by the question.
"Don't worry about it, kitten."
"Tell me…!" Kinau whined, pouting when Rai refused.
Tsuki came up with a bright smile. On her tray were two bowls of red ice cream. One was slightly darker.
"Cherry for you, baby red. The special cream for you, mon frère."
Kinau smiled brightly even though Tsuki had just made it sound like he was going to definitely be a vampire. He tentatively took a bite and purred with delight.
"It's so good, Tsuki-san!"
"I thought you would like it."
"Mmmm…."
Rai saw the look in his sister's eyes early and backed up his chair from the table. She was such a pretty boy otaku(read 'fangirl', btw). The stars in her eyes shone brighter than the overhead lights. She did that fangirl squeal and threw her arms around the unsuspecting Kinau.
"Call me onee-san!" She cried lovingly.
Rai choked on his special cream. Kinau stared at her like she had grown a second head. She continued to smile at them. She looked at Rai, a certain slyness in her voice.
"Is he not the one you constantly claim you will sire? You're so whiny about it! Everyday it's: 'He will be mine!' or 'If I can't have him, no one can!'. Oh! And here is my personal favorite! 'I want him under me flushed and excited.'"
Kinau raised an eyebrow at Rai. The look spoke volumes. He turned, giving the male vampire a mischevious smile. He pouted up at Tsuki with an irresistable cuteness that he used on Duo all the time.
"Onee-san, Rai hurt me lots! Look what he did."
He pulled up the shirt, showing her the still large bruise he sported from his last encounter. Her eyes grew chilly as she took in the damage. He winced in real pain when her hand ran over it. Her fingers were cool.
Tsuki's somewhat frighteneing gaze directed itself toward her brother. Rai seemed swallow hard.
"Aniki. You will finish your night and then report back to immediately. You recall very clearly how I feel about childabuse."
Rai's whole demeanor went stony as Kinau fixed his clothing. He seemed almost ready to shoot back a sharp reply. Tsuki spun around and left. Rai didn't look amused.
"You just had to do it didn't you?"
"Hai. By your sister's personality, I knew that she wouldn't take kindly to you hurting me and I had to pay you back for it somehow. And isn't this a lot better than shooting you again? I don't waste any ammo like this."
He still wasn't laughing. Funny, that. Neither was Kinau.
"Indeed. You never do stop working, do you?"
"I am my job. So no."
"Come on then. I'll take you back to the club."
They left without further ado, saying their goodbyes to Diane on their way out. Rai opened his door for him, much to Kinau's irritation, but, grudgingly, he climbed in. The vamp slid in gracefully on the other side. A slow, lulling type of music was playing. It was oddly soothing and Kinau found he rather liked it. It ebbed and flowed like the sea at high tide. He could almost hear the moon through it. Vaguely, somewhere down the road, Kinau knew that Rai had playe dit to relax him but he couldn't seem to muster the energy to care. His mind was in a fog.
"Kinau?"
"Hai…?"
His voice sounded slow and drowsy like a sleeper's when just woken.
"Let me have a kiss." Rai said softly.
He was close now, his hand cupping the teen's chin.
"A kiss?"
"A kiss. Just one little kiss."
His flushed lips connected with Kinau's already half parted ones. The kiss was chaste at first. Just a brush.
'He's so strong. His hands could crush me…They could…They…'
His thoughts faded as the kiss deepened and he was sucked in. It was as if a cloud had covered his rational thinking and floated with it out the window. Rai's tongue touched his bottom lip while his hand tightened, asking and demanding entrance. Kinau either had to open his mouth or let him crush his jaw. He opened his mouth. Rai tasted like blodd and wine, although it wasn't an unpleasant mixture. Kinau barely felt Rai's hand creep to his waist under Duo's loose shirt. He was pulled flush against the vampire. Eventually, he had to stop for air and sanity came creeping back.
He lay in Rai's arms panting. Vaguely, Kinau could feel his heartbeat where his hand rested on the man's chest. The chest he was currently using as a pillow moved up and down with every breath. How odd. Rai was using up energy to make his heart beat and to breathe. To make himself seem more human than he was. He didn't want to spook Kinau.
"You…are such…a bastard.."
The vampire grinned.
"You didn't seem to think so while I was kissing you."
Kinau pushed away, angry again. He was suddenly ashamed and furious. In fact, he was overcome with it. Ashamed that he had enjoyed it, even for a second. Furious at Rai for pulling such a low stunt.
"Now you are angry at me."
"Of course I'm angry at you! I should have known you pull some bullshit stunt like that! You are such a jerk!"
Rai leaned toward him, a serious expression replacing the pleased one. It took Kinau momentarily off guard. It was unsettling how he could do that.
"Show me your scars, Kinau. Show them to me so I can know them. So I can know you."
The strange tone in his voice compelled Kinau to grant him his request but he was still mad. For a second, he entertained the thought of saying no. When he looked at the expression in Rai's eyes, however, he knew he wouldn't.
"No more tricking me." He said and wished he hadn't. He sounded like a little kid.
"No more tricks, I promise."
He sighed, slipping off the shirt. Kinau closed his eyes. He searched through his mind for the place in which all of his strong magic occurred. It was a large pond surrounded by reeds. Dark of twilight fell like a blanket around him. Kinau stepped through the reeds on the bank and onto the water. It was solid as land. In the center of the pond under the water, a glow pulsed. At the first pulse, eleven hovering orbs lit up as well. The soft glow was comforting. The balls flitted around like fairies on a spring night.
The Lady had helped him create this place and to safeguard it against people who may stray unwelcome into his mind. Kinau held out a hand and one of the eleven zoomed into his open palm. He tapped it twice before it popped out of existence. He opened his eyes, the soft world dissolving back into the depths of his mind. Rai was looking at him with anger. He traced the ragged scar over his collar bone where bone had been broken clean through his skin. A stab wound decorated his shoulder. A circular pattern of sharp puncture marks was on his stomach. It took Rai a minute to realize what it was. A broken bottle had been shoved into his flesh.
He pulled the boy forward so he could rest his head on his chest while he looked at his back. Rai blanched when he saw. Whip marks littered the pale skin.
'Who could do this to a child…?'
"I was eight when those were done." Kinau said blandly.
Scratch scars from his uncle were on his hips. Rai touched every one, determined not to forget. Rai wound Kinau's hair around his hand, jerking the teenager's head back. He leaned in beside his ear.
"Tell me where they are. Tell me where the people who did this to you are. Tell me now!" Rai hissed angrily.
"In England…Surrey, Little Whinging(is that spelled right?)"