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Blood Prequel

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"Shit… they bit me…" a shadowy figure leaned against a wall, breathing heavily as he grasped his neck. "Damn… my vision's getting blurry…" he fell on the hard cobblestone road and passed out.

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"Oh my goodness! It's already passed midnight! Mother would be so disappointed!" a very fair girl ran through the dark alleyways of Avon, her beautiful blue dress dirty. "If Lady Okuni would see me now… I am in such a troublesome trouble!"

"That Lord Yukimura is such a pain in the arse! How many times would I have to tell him before he understands I don't drink!" the girl slowed down her pace. She saw something on the ground. "Oh… what is that? It looks like a man…" she approached the figure slowly and held her umbrella close.

Upon nearing, she poked the man with the umbrella to see that the man had fainted… or is dead. She kneeled down, not caring that the hem of her dress getting filth from the street. She poked the man again but to no avail. She sighed and studied her pocket watch. "It's getting late…" she mumbled to herself.

She made up her mind. She decided to shelter the man for the night. She pushed the man aside so that he would lie on his back, so that his face can be seen. She gasped when she saw his face. 'Bloody hell, he's so charming! Mother would approve!' she thought to herself.

She took his right hand over her shoulder and steadied her body with her left hand. 'He reeks of blood…'. The man was quite taller than her. She had a hard time dragging him. Her mansion was only five blocks away, you know?

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She pressed the bell once. A faint footstep was heard. The door opened. A maid greeted her. "Oh, Lady Yuya! You're so late! If the Master should know…" the maid cried. Yuya shh'd the maid and handed the man to her. "Ooh? Who's this, may I ask?"

"My friend, carry him to the guest room next to mine. Do NOT alert the others!" Yuya ordered. The maid nodded and left with the man.

Yuya sighed. "Oh my goodness… what a night!" Yuya tiptoed to her room.

Upon reaching her room, she quietly opened her oak door, which creaked. "Oh no!" she gasped.

"Late again?"

"Oh, mother… I'm quiet sorry…" Yuya apologized to her foster mother. Yuya looked up to see her mother, clad in her silk blue nightgown, looking so disappointed.

"What did Yukimura do now?" mother asked as she folded her arms.

"Lord Yukimura drank a lot again… he insisted to buy me a drink…" Yuya explained.

"Did you?"

Yuya shook her head. "No, I'm juvenile."

"Good, as a lady, you should know how to behave, we are trained to be civilized. Tomorrow, you shall resume your teachings again, I'm sad to say… now, go to sleep," with that, mother left her alone.

Yuya was so pissed at her words. She entered her room with a look of disgust. She turned to close the drapes before she went to sleep. She changed to her nightgown and snuggled herself comfortably on her bed. "God, I hate my life…" she muttered before she went into dreamland.

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Red orbs exposed.

"Oh, are you awake, sir?" a voice said. It was a woman's.

The sound of drapes being opened and rays of light passing through the wide window made the said man wince and curse. "Argh! Shut the drapes!" he yelled out.

The woman gasped. "Oh, I'm sorry!" the drapes were closed again and the man can hear footsteps approaching where he lay.

He dared not look into the eyes of this person. He turned his face away to look at the mirror. No reflection. 'I have to get away!' he thought.

A hand shook his shoulder. "Sir, are you injured? May I look at your injury? May I?" she said again. The man growled. The hand recoiled. "I'm sorry, sir. You can leave anytime."

The man sat up and faced the shivering woman. His lazy crimson eyes looking directly into her jade ones. The woman was hypnotized. "Name."

The woman snapped from the trance. "W-what?" she blurted out.

The man sighed. "State your name, woman."

The woman looked away. "My name is Yuya. May I know yours?" she asked him back.

"My name is Kyo, why am I here?"

"I found you unconscious, I brought you back here." Yuya smiled at Kyo. "Sir, are you… a vampire?"

Kyo flinched. "What?"

"Oh, I'm just joking… but you know… vampires don't have reflections…" Yuya said again. Kyo turned to look at the mirror. His reflection was back. "Haha, you fell for that one! Well, breakfast would be ready in 5 minutes, I'll bring it back here…" Yuya got off the bed.

"You don't have to, I have a weird appetite…" Kyo told her.

Yuya giggled. "What? You drink blood, then?" she mused.

Kyo glared at her. His eyes traveling from her eyes to her exposed fair neck. He licked his dry lips. "Oh, no-" he started. "I need blood…" he finished.

Yuya saw him do what he did. She made her right hand to her neck. She tried to hide her fright. She was having Goosebumps. "Why…?" She asked.

Kyo barked out a laugh. "I'm anemic…" he smirked when he saw Yuya sigh. "Well, I can't leave now… not until the sun sets… can you bring me anything with iron?"

"You are really anemic… right? Well, do what you please to do, sir. I'll be right back." Yuya exited the room with a sigh. "Please don't leave this room."

Kyo looked at the mirror and checked his wound. The bite wasn't as serious as he had expected from a level 5 vampire. "The Shiseiten might be worried… but I doubt that. This bite is more forceful but blood wasn't drained to its full extent… if it was a level 6… I might have died."

"But you're a vampire, you can't die…"

"Stop interfering me, Sakuya… I'm going to drive this Muramasa in you and KILL you… you better be ready."

"Lord Kyo… please reconsider your choice."

"Hell no. Do not interfere with my head or I'll really promise you the most painful death a vampire could imagine…" Kyo took out his iron tablets. "This is all your fault, you bitch…" and he took one of it with a very unsatisfied look. "A vampire who lacks blood in clearly not a vampire…"

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A/N: Sorry coz it's short! Um… the next chapter should be longer and much more satisfying… I think… review if you think that you should. Um… to Paradigm0892, thank you for your reviews and I know what you said for LP are so true but I'm working on it. Um, please leave your e-mail, perhaps? Um… keep reviewing peeps! You brighten up my life. Just so you know, when it's my birthday, I'll update all my stories! Keep in mind! That'll be when? Review!