The Midnight Lullaby

Chapter 8! It's time to celebrate that I made it this far. *Dances around the room like a total idiot.* Anyways….ON WITH THE CHAPTER!!!
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Chapter eight: Creatures of the Night. Part two

The moonlight shone on Yuki as he glared at the wolf in front of him. His blonde hair glowed as well as his golden eyes. The wolf started to circle around him and Yuki watched for any signs of sudden movement. At last the wolf pounced. Yuki dodged and like inside the building it hit a wall.

"You really love kissing the walls don't you?" Yuki mocked. The wolf shook it's head, turned to him, and growled. Yuki ran down a side ally and the wolf followed. Yuki came to a stop when he saw a fence ahead. On the other side was a river and Yuki turned to see that the wolf was getting on his, fast. He stood his ground when the wolf stopped in front of him. They both stood there seeing who was going to make the first move. Finally the wolf attacked. It landed on Yuki and he struggled to make sure that it didn't bite him again. When he was able to he got a foot under the wolf and kicked up. The wolf was taken by surprised and went over the gate, into the water. There was a howl as the wolf was carried down the river, out of sight. Yuki stood up and sat down on some crates, trying to catch his breath. When he got his breathing almost under control, he headed back to the concert hall. When he arrived Tohma was sitting on the stage with Shuichi next to him. Hiro and the kid, whose name Yuki forgot, was cleaning up the equipment. He stopped next to the hole, hearing Tohma's and Shuichi's voices.

"What if he severally got injured or killed," Shuichi was in a panic attack mode.

"As I keep on telling you don't worry about him. He isn't going to be killed by a mangy mutt." Tohma said trying to calm the singer down…which wasn't working.

"But…" Shuichi cut himself off as Yuki walked in. "Yuki!" He jumped off the stage and ran up to him. "I-I thought…" Yuki looked down at him.

"As if that mangy mutt would take me down," He said. Shuichi smiled. He looked him up and down and noticed the bite wound on him arm.

"Yuki, your arm!" Shuichi gasped. Tohma notices as well and got off the stage. He walks up to them and took Yuki's hand and lifted it up. He winced as his arm goes up. Tohma looked his arm over and shook his head.

"Is Yuki going to turn…you know…into a werewolf?" Shuichi asked. Tohma laughed.

"Oh no, that's impossible." Yuki glared at him and he stopped laughing, but still had a huge grin on his face.

"What do you mean impossible?" he asked looking confused.

"Oh, you'll find out eventually," was all he said. Sakano came running up with a first aid kit he found and opened it towards Tohma. Tohma started grabbing stuff from it, cleaned and wrapped up Yuki's wounds. "There, feel better?" he asked. Yuki pulled his arm away from Tohma.

"Not until it's healed," he responded making sure he didn't miss anything. He looked at Shuichi who was giving him a look that told him he didn't like the answer received.

"Shuichi!" Hiro called from the stage. He turned and Hiro motioned him over. He walked over and Hiro leaned close to him.

"I want you to head back to the apartment and take Yuki with you,' he instructed him. Shuichi was about to protest, but Hiro stopped him. "I don't know if I can completely trust him, but we will have to since he seems to able to beat off a wolf by himself. I want you to keep an eye on him though just in case."

"I know that we don't many questions answered by them, but I think we can trust him. Shuichi said to him with a weak smile. They heard Tohma speak.

"Well Mr. Sakano, I would figure out what to do about the fans. It will be hard to get some of them back into the concerts after that attack." He told the nervous manager.

"I-I know, I'll think of something,' he stuttered. Tohma smiled.

"I bet you will." Shuichi and Hiro walked up to them. Yuki turned to them.

"I'm heading back to the apartment, I'm sick of being here." He turned to leave.

"I'm going home too," Shuichi said following Yuki.

"I'll stop by to see how you are doing later,' Hiro called as they walked out of the building. They were walking down the street. Shuichi was walking close to Yuki looking around for any sign for anything furry and ready to pounce on them.

"You don't have to worry, just walk normally." Yuki told him. Shuichi did as he said, but didn't let his guard down.

"Hey Yuki, are you a werewolf hunter?" he asked him. Yuki looked at him.

"You could say that, why?" he took a pack of cigarettes out his pocket and took on out. He placed the box in his pocket and lit the cigarette.

"Well, you were able to fend yourself from the wolf and I thought that it was, well….amazing."

"If you say so," Yuki said. They came to the apartment a few minutes later. Shuichi unlocked the door and they walked in. Shuichi shut the door behind them as Yuki walked to the kitchen.

"I'm going to make dinner," Yuki said.

"Um, can I help?" he asked. Yuki turned to him.

"Fine, but just get me the things I want. I'll deal with the cooking." Yuki said with a sigh. Shuichi smiled and nodded. "Get me a small and medium pan." Shuichi went to one of the cupboards and grabbed them. Yuki grabbed them from him. "Okay, now the utensils and ingredients." They went on working together to make dinner. Shuichi set the table as Yuki brought the food to the table. They sat down and started to eat. There was an awkward silence between them.

"Hey Yuki, do you think that…the werewolves would stop coming after me?" Shuichi asked breaking the silence.

"I don't know, I don't even know why they are after you." Yuki told him taking a sip from his beer.

"Neither do I, I wish I did." Shuichi said looking down.

"Why don't you ask Tohma, he seems to know?" Yuki asked. Shuichi pouted.

"I did, but he wouldn't tell me anything. He just shrugged it off."

'Typical Tohma,' Yuki thought taking another sip of his beer. There was a noise nearby and Yuki quietly put down his beer. Shuichi went silent as well, looking around for the source. There was a scratching noise next and Yuki looked at the balcony doors. Silence took over the room once again.

"Yuki?" Shuichi whispered.

"Shh," Yuki told him not taking his eyes off the doors. What seemed like forever was only a few seconds later when the glass of the doors shattered. Yuki jumped out his seat as the creatures entered the room.

"You guys never give up do you?" Yuki said. The creatures chuckled and stepped forward.

'They're the vampires from earlier!' Shuichi thought taking a step back. The three vampires were grinning, their fangs showing. One of the males stepped forward.

"Who knew it were you we were dealing with Yuki," he said to him. Shuichi froze when they heard him say Yuki's name.

"Who are you?" Yuki asked.

"Don't worry, we aren't after you. We are after him." The girl said nodding at Shuichi.

"That's doesn't answer my question."

"We'll answer you, if you live that is." The three vampires zoned in on him. Yuki jumped in front of Shuichi and blocked all three of them.

"Hmm, as to be expected," said the male to his left. "But not good enough." He moved and swiped his leg to knock Yuki over. Yuki jumped up avoiding the legs, but got hit on the side of his face. He went flying into the wall and landed onto his knees. The vampires cornered Shuichi. Yuki stood up, feeling the blood dripping from his head onto the ground. He ran towards the vampires and punched one of the males, making his stagger back. The other two turned to him.

"You handle the kid Layla, we'll handle him." The girl nodded and grabbed Shuichi by the arm.

"Hey let go of me!" Shuichi shouted. She ignored him and headed to the shattered doors. Yuki went to stop her, only to get cut off.

"Not so fast," the vampires said. They ran up to him and punched him in the stomach.

"Yuki! Yuki!" Shuichi's voice drifted away as the girl jumped off the balcony.
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Oh I am so cruel aren't I. Thanks for the reviews guys and for sticking with me. Don't kill me for the cliffy and I should work on the other one XP. Who knows what I am going to do. Anyways, until next time. ^-^