-CHAPTER III: CAGED BIRD-

(Len's POV)

"Hmp...Morning already?"

I mumbled, while lazily open my eyes. The chirps echo through the main bedroom. Rays of light shined through the glass window, ran on the red wallpaper, dust on them reflect 1201 years of an undead soul...

I turned myself, looks at the girl lied next to me...

Ah...Such a pure and rare bird...

I sat up, then prepare for another day in my never ending life...

I went back to the room after my bath, she's still asleep...

Looked out the glass, I sighed.

"This is going to be a long day..."

I heard soft whining, from the girl sleeping on the Victorian bed.

"Oi! Wake up." I lowered my voice while look at the clock on the wall.

7:00 A.M.

I went over her, slowly and quietly. Her golden hair shine under the soft sunlight, covered her body like stroke of gold, they must be at least knee length.

She sat up, slowly, painfully, glared at me with a hateful sight, then she just look away, without a word.

I walked toward to her, while said to her with a low octave voice.

"You want to be late, ne?"

She shot her yellow cat eyes at me "Why do you care?!"

I chuckled, then climb on bed, crawled until I was only centimeters from her face.

- I don't...All I cared now was only having you turned over, repeatly screaming in desperate and pain-

- Enough! Just...give me a second!

Ah...what a sensitive soul...

She climbed off bed, her hands hold tightly on the blanket. Make sense, because on her body lied nothing but a pair of stocking.

"Am I going to be naked for school?"

Her voice mixed between embracement and confuse. I dragged my eyes over the pile of fabric on the floor. They're soaking and torn apart, I eyed back at her, like immediately she blushed and look away.

"The closet on the left, open it."

She stare at the closet, back to me, and back to the closet like I was joking.

She held the blanket against her chest, walked toward to the clothes keeper, I glued my sights on her, amusingly watch her hair fluttered whenever she take a step.

The closet was opened. And as I expected, she gasp in amaze.

It was filled with girls clothing.

"You...really...keep..." Her voice shook, and her eyes are full of surprise.

"Where they came from, doesn't matter, ne?"

...From my mom and sister...

-If you look closer, there should be a uniform. Hurry up, or we'll be lat-

-...May I ask where's the toilet...

...As I thought, a long day...

"Passage is downstairs..."

She said while I dragged her hand on the way to the balcony.

"You though that we're actually gonna walk?"

The door flew open, the sunlight licked the dark places in the tower. Neru covered her eyes. Her hair flew in the wind, immediately her blood reaches my scent, my clear aqua eyes switched back to the sharp, hellish crimson...

Not only her body but her blood was just so tender...

"Wait...why are we..."

Before she could finish her sentence, I grabbed her hand and jump over the edge.

We were flying.

"BWAAHH! PUT ME DOWN! I'M AFRAID OF HEIGHTS!"

She yelled, hug tightly on my neck and hide her face behind my head, refused to look back to the ground.

"Coward."

I whoosh up, upon the cloud, where no one can find us... Even if they do, they would think I was an UFO...

She started to cried, maybe she did scare of height...

"...Hold on, almost there..."

...

"...And don't throw up on me..."

15' of screaming and we finally landed on the school top. Where Neru dizzily spin that she almost fell down...

"Get use to these things..."

She blinked, and flushed in the darkest pink...

When I caught her from falling down, our lips were just millimeters away...

I let her go, she laid a hand on her lips, blushed heavily...

"Downstairs...hurry up..."

Neru took a deep breath in front of the principal door.

"I can't believe I'm doing this..." She grumbled her hand grip on the door knob and twisted it open.

"Good morning...Kaito sensei..."

The door slammed back.

I lean on the door, to have a clearer hearing to their conversation.

- So you wish to leave the dorm, yes?

- ...Yes sensei...

- May I ask why?

- ...I have found...a new resident...

Wise move not telling him...

The door opened, she took heavy step from the room, throw me an angry glare. Add to her surprise, I return Kaito nod with a grin...

The bell rang, lunch time.

- Don't you aware that people would see you drinking...this?

- Who cares what they think, it looks like tomato juice...if they it was blood I would bite them, end of the story...

I said while took a sip from my bottle of blood.

Story of my meal...I kill people, cut them in to half, eat their heart, and filled their blood in to some wine bottles. In short, I kill and drink blood for lunch...

Oh, me...

"...Here" I placed a 100 yen on the table "Buy something; it'll be your food for this whole day..."

Humans and their food...I would vomit if I eat it...

"Where...did you get these?"

Neru asked me, in suprisement, she definitely have lots of questions in her mind...

"My meal."

I answered, blankly. She looked at me, in shock, I think she understand...

...Still, I took this vampire life is a pleasant more than a curse...

(Neru's POV)

"This mansion is yours for using, and so does things here." He said. "...I'll be back 2 hours after dawn..."

He said it like I was freely to do everything I want...

The door closed, locked from outside.

I sighed...Guess that stuck here forever is not a joke...

Now when I looked back to the living room in the daylight, there was lots of superior electronic stuff, an LCD was the first thing I saw, cable and everything is normal. A case is under the LCD, in there...

Were R-18 films...

He has a nasty mind and a filthy soul that was what I though...

I took a bath, the bathroom design was modern, too. More than my old house I could say.

I went back to the bedroom, and realized how messy it was, mostly was because of fabric on the floor, and blood stains everywhere.

I'm inside a house of an undead sexual abuse and a serial killer...

I opened the left closet, still surprised. The clothes inside were all perfectly fit for an normal 16-year-old. Could he have plan this long ago?...

Eh...maybe not, most of them were worn out and old fashioned...

I picked to wear a dark yellow night glow with a white undies, keep it simple that was what I though.

There was a piano and a guitar in the bedroom, so he could play instrument, maybe good, because there were loads of music sheet on the table nearby.

Also there was a big bookcase in the room, no ladder, because he could fly...no surprise...

I picked a random book with a dark blue color and flip a random page.

'Her clothes was ripped off, as I put my finger into-'

I closed the book.

"...I hate this guy even more now..."

Still, there was a book that caught my attention; the cover was much older than the others, that I feel the cover could be ripped off if I touch it.

This book was much more different. Everything was handwritten, very beautiful handwritten, the letter on the cover was French, so does the first few pages.

Then there comes a part that written in Japanese.

" day/month/year.

Today I died.

I lost my soul. My reflection was gone.

And my heart has stop beating.

I'm a monster everyone afraid.

I want to end this pain. I wish I have a way to kill myself...

Worse of all, I woke up alone, my sister and my dad were gone...

...My dad...

He causes this curse on me...He bite me...

Why?..."

The pages stained by blood, they dropped like tears do...

I continue reading his past, learnt his pain, how he continue cursing himself for being a blood sucking monster.

I was actually felt a little pity for him, and then...

" day/month/year.

It felt so good...

I did 'that' to a lost girl in a village near by...

I wonder why...I lost control when I just glanced a bit at her...

And it even better when she screaming for mercy...

At last, I cut her in half and eat her heart...

Ufufufu...Tonight is another full moon night, maybe I shall catch a prey..."

There was no use pitying on him. He was a monster after all...

I continue reading, hundreds of pages pass by, then I immediately gasp on a familiar name.

"...glad that I am with Kaito-sensei now, he showed me how to live easier with this life..."

K-Kai...to...

"I-It...Can't be...this was written more than 1000 years ago..."

The rest of the book was blank...

I heard the sound of the door opened...

"9 already?"

I ran down the stair, the slim figure slowly closed the door.

He was covered in blood, on the back of his white shirt was two ripped holes, where his bat-like wings would stay.

"You look even more seductive in that glow..."

He said out loud, I looked back on myself; the glow was two strings, thin and short, maybe I should think a bit closer with this outfit...

From far I could see his fiery red eyes, glowing and dragged on me. Even at this distance I could feel he was smirking...

"Konibanwa...Master..."

I whispered, words seem stuck between my lips...

"Ah...you catch up on this real quick aren't you..."

He walked toward to me, and held me against to the stair railing. Then slip one of the strings down to my shoulder...

"...You know what to do when we go upstairs, ne?..."

He locked my lips with his, as he rub his tongue on to my, tastes of blood flew in to my mouth, saliva drop down to my chin, wet and hot...

Then he let go of me.

"I'm going to wash these things down the drain, so go up first."

I silently dragged myself upstairs, tears fall out, I don't know why...

His warmth clanged on to me from the back, my naked body felt so painful it could break...

-How was that...

-S-stop...It...hurts...

He turned me around, and lifts my legs on again, then he just pushed inside me...

I cried, he smirked, and start to thrusts me again. I know he would only stop until I fainted...

He whispered into my ears, whenever he wanted me to serve him...

"I want you...my doll..."