A/N: Ah! Here, I present you with the sixth installment, seventh (or eighth?) overall of Vampire Nights! Things are beginning to be unraveled by the characters themselves (even I'm surprised at times!) and oh! A very important flashback (I think?) is in this very short chapter! Their past was actually interconnected! I DID NOT know that! Okay, enough blabbering! Enjoy this chapter!

Disclaimer: SDK is not mine, bebeh!

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Blood Six – Solid Memory

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"Been gone for a long time eh? How's the missus?" Bon questioned the miserable man in front of him. The man shook his head and sighed. "How's she?" Bon questioned further.

"Dang darlin' of the Vamps! She's no use no more when she's known her husband's a Creature of the Night, she's fled me," the man collapsed on the counter, sobbing. "I ain't a man! An' she's no woman!"

"What are ya talkin' about?" Bon was now confused with his favorite customer. "You guys changed genders or sumthin'?"

The man only stared at Bon's face and then hid his face in his hands. Bon was in awe. "You did?" Bon murmured.

He nodded, ashamed.

"Aww… man! Get out of 'ere you sissy!" Bon kicked him out. The sad transgender-ed vampire ran away crying loudly.

"What's that all about?" Akari queried as he passed by Bon to continue performing. He chuckled slightly when Bon shrugged. "Okay… I think I know…"

…

"Don't… say a word."

Yuya stared at the nothingness in front of her. Not being able to murmur a word let alone a small scream when Kyo appeared from behind to close her mouth. She was shivering like mad. Her eyes moved slowly from left to right. She can't see Kyo. The smell of fresh blood invading her nose was unbearable. Her eyes stung from her tears forming. "…" Kyo bounded her wrists tightly. She was trapped.

"I'll let you go… if you promise to not scream," Kyo whispered to her ear. Yuya nodded… slowly. "Alright."

Kyo slowly lowered his hand from Yuya's mouth. "Aaaaahhhh- mmph!" he closed her mouth again.

"Hmph… I guess we have to do this the hard way?" Kyo questioned. Yuya shook her head in disagreement. "Do NOT… scream this time or I'll have to punish you…"

Yuya nodded again.

Kyo lowered his hand again only to find Yuya pushing him away and as hurriedly, she tried to open the doorknob. It did not budge, not at all. She twisted it until her hand was sore. It wouldn't and couldn't budge. A force was stopping it, she thought.

"I'm not letting you out."

Yuya turned around to see Kyo's red eyes piercing her emeralds. "…V-Vam-p-pire…" she stuttered. Kyo advanced towards her. "DON'T COME NEAR ME!" she screamed.

Kyo stopped. He stared at her. "…why? Are you scared of me?"

Yuya only stared at him, watery-eyed. "…You killed my family… you creatures killed my family! Monsters! Demon!" she screamed her heart out.

"I am not one of them."

"What about your blood-sucking? You're a leech? Huh?" she threw at him.

"I was human; I was forced to be like this. I am a vampire hunter." Kyo explained and took out a roll of parchment from his coat. "Here are vampires that kill humans without reason." It was a list of wanted vampires, rogues. "I hunt those."

Yuya was afraid of him. It was clear. Her eyes showed fear, as if she was relieving a troubling past. "…I don't trust you…" she murmured, voice shook.

"Fine, be that way. It's no use protecting you if you don't trust me. I'll open the door for you." And the door swung open. "…Run. I'm not stopping you… but, I'll have to tell you this… this area is inhabited by tame vampires but of course… some will change in a matter of seconds. Rogues."

Kyo glared at her and she glared back. "Go and leave and if you die, DIE."

Yuya looked at her feet that felt as if they were bound to the room. "…you don't want me to leave."

Kyo raised a brow. "What?"

"You're bounding my feet."

"No, I did no-" and Kyo started approaching Yuya's immobile body. "What the hell?"

"…what are you doing?" Yuya asked as Kyo knelt in front of her.

Kyo looked clueless and was bothered. He leaned into Yuya and positioned his mouth at her neck. Yuya's eyes widened in terror. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

"I don't know…" and he licked her neck. "I… don't know…" and he introduced his fangs to her skin surface. "I… can't stop myself… I can't control my body…" and he closed his eyes slowly as if in trance.

"Don't bite me… don't!" Yuya pleaded. Yuya's eyes closed too and she can't stop herself.

"Yes… bite her… bite her… suck her blood…" a voice played in Kyo's head.

Kyo's eyes snapped open. "Sakuya! Stop this!" he pushed Yuya away, tearing a little wound at her neck. Yuya yelled in pain.

"Augh! Ah… I'm bleeding…" Yuya clutched her neck hard as if it will close the wound.

Kyo hurried to tend to her but Yuya pushed him away. "What!" Kyo barked, angry at her actions.

"You filthy vampire! I can't trust you anymore now that you did this!" Yuya spat at him, her clothes now red from the blood which won't stop flowing.

"Woman… let me help you." Kyo reached out his hand but was immediately rejected with a slap. Kyo massaged his sore appendage. "…do you want to die?"

Yuya shook her head.

"No?"

"…no. But I don't want your help either. I guess I'm going to die…?" Yuya laughed softly. Her tears now flowing freely down her red rosy cheeks. "…it's my sin."

"What?"

"Mother wouldn't have died, brother wouldn't have died… no one should've died. It was my entire fault. MY fault. Father wouldn't have died…" Yuya sobbed. She lowered her hand from her wound, exposing too much blood that Kyo couldn't take it. He averted his eyes from the red liquid. "I knew he was a vampire hunter…"

Kyo's gaze returned to her being. "What?" he questioned.

"My father, well, he wasn't really MY real father… nor was my brother's. He was someone close to my family, even before he married my mom when I was still young but, I understood every word my parents were talking about. VAMPIRES. My father was called the Legendary Hunter and Sword-smith, Muramasa. He came from Japan, like my real father who was a mix of White too."

"You're meaning to say… Muramasa was your stepfather?" Kyo questioned further.

Yuya just nodded, not caring that her clothes are now soaked with blood.

"Damn all hell! So the reason why I have to protect you is because you're his daughter!" Kyo bellowed, annoyed. "Ah! All this 'blood-that-I-must-protect' crap are all lies!" Kyo laughed sinisterly.

"What are you talking about? You know my father?" Yuya was surprised as well.

Kyo smirked at her. "Know him? I was under him as a vampire hunter! He's practically my father… I didn't know you were related to him when I first met you!"

"Wait… have we meet before? I think I vaguely remember you… but, I couldn't place you." Yuya creased her brows as if she was thinking very hard. "…where have I seen you before?"

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"Yuya-chan, this is Kyo. Greet him." Muramasa ushered young Yuya to meet with a young Kyo in his teens. "Kyo, this is Yuya-chan."

Young Kyo raised his brows. "Quite small to be the one I should protect…" Kyo kneeled down to pat her head. "Hey."

Yuya blushed fiercely and was shivering. "…h-hel-llo…"

"Yuya-chan, where's your mother?" Muramasa asked the red Yuya. Yuya just shrugged. "Okay, I'll go find her. Kyo, why don't you talk to her?"

Kyo just nodded. Muramasa walked away. Yuya was very troubled.

"Want me to show you a few tricks?" Kyo offered.

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"To kill a vampire easily… you decapitate it as soon as you see an opening… but they don't die just yet. You have to stab their heart with a wooden stake and then spray some garlic powder on them as a substitute to garlic cloves and throw them in the river. It used to be like that before that old man forged strong swords such as this…" Kyo unsheathed his long katana. "This is Tenro, it can kill any vampires with one decapitation… or just about anything! That old man has made life easier for us vampire hunters!"

Yuya showed earnest interest in this subject. She paid attention to every word Kyo said. She was waiting patiently for a demonstration. "Uh-huh!" she mumbled and nodded. Her late father was interested in vampires too. He wrote books about them and that is why he and Murmasa came to be good friends. His father died of exhaustion. Yuya was very small at that time and she didn't remember his face very well.

Kyo noticed Yuya's eagerness in his words. He smirked at her naiveté. "So… you want to see how to slash a vampire half?"

Yuya nodded.

"Alright…" Kyo scanned around for a tree or something that can be halved. He spotted something. "Ah… let's go there." Kyo pointed to a nearby oak tree.

He walked slowly with Yuya's small hand in his big one. She had a weak grip. They stopped and measured the height of the tree. "Look, this tree is fairly big right? Want to see it be halved?"

Yuya shook her head. "No."

"Why? I thought you wanted to-" Kyo was cut off by her sweet quiet voice.

"That's daddy's tree."

"Oh… sorry." Kyo sheathed his Tenro back to its sheath and sighed. "Well, no demonstration then."

Yuya gripped Kyo's hand tightly and pointed to the tree. "Let's sit there."

Kyo just agreed without question. They both sat there like idiots, staring at nothingness. Kyo got bored after 30 seconds and started to show uneasiness. He started to let go of Yuya's hand but Yuya didn't let him. He just stared at her petite hand.

"You're from Japan… right?" Yuya asked after several minutes.

Kyo leaned his back against the trunk before answering. "Yeah… came here way back with Muramasa. Came with my brother."

"Oh…" Yuya leaned back too. Sighing, taking in fresh air.

"Your mother's Japanese, right?" Kyo questioned her. Yuya told him she was not. "Then… why does she look Japanese?"

"She's of a special blood, my brother told me. Her blood made her look young and beautiful. She looks just like a Japanese doll."

"Your brother looks Japanese too… why don't you look Japanese?"

"It's because…"

…

"Master Shiina… no one can trace the whereabouts of Lady Yuya… even the mistress is dreadfully worried," the maid informed the head of the Shiina family.

The man was known for his great forging skills in silver. He took in Yuya and Nozomu when they became orphans. He protected them ever since. Being very strict, not bearing to lose them, especially Yuya but now… Nozomu was dead. Yuya was the only one left. The only heir left. He was worried he'll never be able to pass his company down to her or anyone he can trust.

"…ask for the police's help. We need to locate her and bring her back here. She's very important to us." The head then sighed heavily. "She's the only one left."

"Yes, master."

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"…Ayaka-chan… don't you know where Yuya is?" mother asked her supposed-to-be-daughter-in-law. Ayaka shook her head, reassuring mother that Yuya'd be fine. "I hope so…"

"Yuya'll be just fine, Nozomu will look after her, I'm sure!" Ayaka said optimistically.

'Yuya… where are you?'

…

Both stared at each other in silence. Yuya's face was not getting any redder, just paler. Kyo's eyes were not getting any paler nor was it getting redder.

Yuya broke the silence. "…you used to have green eyes."

"Is that the reason why you didn't recognize me?" Kyo added.

"…could be. Who knows?" Yuya smiled to herself.

Kyo stared at her neck which hasn't clotted. "You're still bleeding."

Yuya stared at her shoulder. "Let it be."

"This place is full of vampires. They're sensitive to blood, everyone knows that."

"Let it be…"

"I can help stop the blood. We vampires have that special thing to help clot blood," Kyo told her.

Yuya turned to gaze at his eyes. "Do you need to bite me first?"

"It's against my job but-" Kyo was cut off.

"Do it."

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A/N: Ah… I noticed I did some mistake with the previous chapter's dividing layout… ahaha… I think no one noticed that… well, whatever! Oh yeah… I know you think Kyo is OOC as a young teen… well, that's just the character I gave him to fit this story! OOC-ness is not vital in AU stories as it focuses more on the new, fresh plot. Hope you enjoyed it and oh, don't forget to review because I did this one with all my heart! Sort of… to show your support, please review, not only mine but others' work too! For you anonymous people out there, review please! R&R, okay? If I don't see any reviews that would suffice me, you guys would need 20 or more reviews for the next chapter. The more reviews, the faster I'll get inspired to update.