Chapter five: Living nightmares and bloody kisses

Téa laid down inside her coffin in Yayoi's room. She barely listen to what Yayoi was saying on the phone to the school as she claim to be Téa's aunt and that she had come down with a fever of a 110.5. She wanted to laugh but she barely had the strength to chuckle as she closed the lid to her coffin and slept.

'Come to me.....Come to me...'

Someone was calling out to her as she looked around where she was, trying to find where the voice was coming from. Who's here, where are they calling from. From the shadows? Was it calling her from the darkness? It called out to her by her name alone.

'Come to me...Come...'

Her name... what had it been? She couldn't remember. Her name and the memories of her mortal past had been taken. This dream was the only memory she had of being human before she ever became a vampire. And every time she slept, she dreamed of the same unforgotten past by which she had last been human and entered the world of darkness as a vampire that day....

She had been in Egypt, this wonderful mystical city of great history and legend. Of pharaoh who rose mightily and found conquest and rose as high as the great pyramids during this glorious era. Ra, the eternal sun god, watched over this ancient civilization that stood once proudly.
Her skin, tan not white as it was now and dressed in a linen shift and reed sandals as she ran down the sandy path towards the mighty temple of the Goddess of Life.
She was alone in the shrine as she stepped towards the statue of Isis, wife of Osiris, God of the Underworld and mother of Horus and looked at her brethren's holy face. The sunset made her face aglow with fire and light as she pray to the goddess for her salvation. Sanctuary to be protected and to cry the bitter remorse over a lost that been taken from her. She cried tears that could not stop it's everlasting flood which ran salty and clear, not yet of red and taste like blood as she was to later cry when she become one of them.

She prayed and prayed for the Goddess to not let the thing she most feared to come and take her away, making her one of them and for her eternal Ka to never be released. She was truly afraid, any mortal would be from what she had seen and what had been taken from her. She feared that he might be waiting for her out there somewhere and prayed that the Gods would give her protection from this monster. Although the monster looked human. Even though he was not.
How life and death seem to have a sense of humor as their own idea to save her by having that one person she had feared from the beginning. She would have prefer to ask Anubis to have taken her very soul then than become what she was if she had known.
She waited and waited until she felt certain she could headed safely home with the Gods protecting her now.

Please let your Child not be tainted by that wretched beast of which might be Set's own, one that has drink the blood of man.

Protect me from this evil being, oh mighty mother of Horus.

Protect this one's Ka from the likes, oh wife of Osiris.

Protect thy Isis, Goddess of Life.

She was getting ready to leave when she heard someone calling. She turned around and gasped as she saw who it was, coming out of the shadows and stepping towards her. She wanted to scream and run for her life but she was too scared and was frozen at the sight of him. He continued to come closer and closer to her, his fangs bare and ready to taste her. She yelled, "Stay back, stay back!"

Téa gasped and woke up in a mound of cold sweat drenching her skin and clothes. She sat up right and held one hand to her chest, trying to steady the pounding of her overbeating heart. This always happened whenever she relived her worst nightmare and memory. "God I hate this, why do I have to dream them. Damn that bastard!"

She got out of her coffin and went to the kitchen for a drink. Guni was waiting for her in a teacup filled with water, bathing.

"About time you woke up. God you sleep like the dead, no offense." She said as Téa entered the room. Tea went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of pig's blood and took a long swallow. She looked at the time on the clock hanging on the kitchen wall. It was past five thirty. "Sleeping for half the day isn't a crime you know."

"Yeah well, Yayoi called. Said to be ready at--" Guni stood up in the cup too fast and overbalance it, sloshing half the water out onto the table. Tea handed the imp a dish cloth to dry up. "Thanks Guni. I'm gonna take a shower now. And don't worry, it will be twenty minutes. You can time me if you want." She said, heading back to the bedroom to the bathroom. Guni did a little 'o' with her hands. "Will do Tea! So hurry up before I decide to quick you one Hell of a wake up call!" She joked.

The day had turned icy cool as autumn set into Domino. The wind did no good either to add to the expense as it swept over onto the street where Kaiba was walking. He grasped the white trench coat around himself as another cold gale blew by. Good grief, how cool can this week get? First it had been 70, now it's actually 61. I'm not surprised that it hasn't snow yet. He shivered again. He was wearing a long sleeve black shirt with leather pants and knee-high boots.

Man, I hope Mokuba's warm right now. His hands reached and tighten on the rectangle locket around his neck. The picture inside was of a young Mokuba back when they had been in the orphanage together, before Gozaburo Kaiba adopted them. He had never had taken it off since, neither had Mokuba as the two brothers stick by each other through and through. Although that bond had been sliding down with Kaiba at work and his confrontation with the media and press and so on.....
Nevermind that! Just why am I doing this? Walking down the street when I could be at the office right now instead, he asked himself the twentieth time. Because your brother wanted to go out for dinner, just the two of you alone and spends some quantiny time together, he remembered. He knew he had agreed to meet Mokuba at the restaurant of his chosing, but thanks to an auto problem with the limo and said wouldn't be fix until after dinner. So here he was, walking downtown with everyone moved in and out in his way.

As he was walking by, he noticed a large crowd over by the sidewalk, staring over at the road.

"My word, there's another one..."

"And not by the bridge this time...."

"Strange huh? This one is the same with all the others? Do you think it's moving right up here?"

Wondering what had happened, he joined over to stare at the scene. He saw two-three cars plummet together and the police were doing their best to keep people at bay. Another car accident had just occur and a ambulance had taken a victim who seem likely already dead and drove off.

Seems like these days an accident was waiting to happen, hmmp, he noted. This similar to what happened at Tokyo Bay Bridge and the incident at the tunnel the previous night if he had read the newspaper correct. This must be the 7th-8th one so far. Kaiba heard arguing to his left and turned to see a partol officer talking to his surprise, the same woman who drove off with Téa the night before. Well, this seem interesting. She's a police officer, but why would she have gone and taken Tea with her yesterday if she was an officer on partol? He watched them argued and tried to listened to what they were discussing over with the situation at hand. But they were talking so far away it was hard to make understanding of what they were saying. As soon as they finished the heated discussion and the woman headed to her car and drove off. So much from hearing what that was about, Kaiba turned away and started walking again. He bumped into someone and looked over and saw a black purse on the ground. He went and retrieved it and turned to see the person walking by.

"Excuse me but you dropped your...Téa." He said and she looked back at him. Without her sunglasses on, her blue eyes were perplexed and startled to see him. "Seto! You surprised me." She was wearing a black V-neck sweater, a black skirt with black tights and knee-high black boots. How can she wear something like that when it's so cold out? He wondered as he stared at her outfit. It like too cold to even consider wearing a skirt, but she did look cute like in that outfit. Tea decided to say something to break the ice of the strange silence they had conducted.

"So, um, Seto how's it going?"

He blinked, breaking eye contact on her and said, "Fine, but I'm surprised to see you up and about when you didn't show up at school today."

She shrugged. "I had, er, the flu this morning but now it's all gone. Nothing like a little rest can't do you know." Quick think of something else to say before he gets even more suspecting. "In fact I felt so much better that er, I decide to go take a walk and happened I noticed this." She looked at the accident again and shuttered, "God how horrible. So many accidents happening at once, don't you agree."

"Yeah, right..." He said with a tone half-believing her story. He thought she had something more to it than what she was telling him. He was a bit curious about what happened last night and wanted to ask her, when he looked at his watch and saw he still need to get to the restaurant. He saw her getting ready to leave when the words just spurt out of his mouth. "Say, Téa I was going to meet my brother for some dinner tonight, would you care to join us? If it's not too much trouble that is? Mokuba just can't seem to get enough of you, even though I, I mean he, us-we! We just met you. So um,...Want to Tea? I'll understand if you are busy or something." Great he sounded like a lovestuck fool and wish he could just simply walk away before matters got worse. Téa knew she should really consider on finding where Yayoi had gone off to first, being it's her first priority to find the breed. But I'm certain she wouldn't mind if I took a quick bite. She smiled at Kaiba and nodded.

"All right, just for a while though, cause I have something to do tonight." She linked her arm in his and saw the sudden redness in his cheek as they walked down the street together like a couple. Guni overheard the conversation behind Téa's hair, 'Great here we go with the lovebirds.'

Mokuba was the first to see his brother coming in and waved him over to the table he had reserved. She and Kaiba took a seat with him when they found the little black haired girl. He smiled when he saw Tea sitting with them. "I see you brought onesan, ni-sama." Téa blinked and heard Kaiba growled in a low voice, "Mokuba enough, Téa is not your sister. She only here because I invited her, so there. Now you see what I mean." He told her when he looked at her. Just when it seem that Mokuba was ready to tease his older brother until his face turn red, the waiter appeared and asked them if they would like anything to drink. Mokuba ordered a cherry coke, Kaiba order iced tea and Téa a glass of water. The waiter left them and gave them a moment to look at their menus and talk while discussing certain things. Kaiba looked over at Téa and noticed she was shivering a bit.

"Cold?" He asked. Téa looked up from her menu and stared at him. "Not really. It just that the air condition in these places always tend to bring it down a few degree than outside. It makes me feel like I just walked into a freezer. But I'm alright thanks for asking." She was about to scan her menu once more when she felt something soft and warm-cloth being laid on her shoulders. She looked and saw it was Kaiba's white trench coat. She stared at him, seeing him go back to reading his menu, his face as unexpressive and stone-cold like the one he had on usually at school.
She touched the trench coat gently and looked at him again amazed and surprised at his behavior. I can't believe that all those talks and rumors at school. Him, Seto Kaiba, cold, emotionless, hostile towards anyone and not capable of feeling anything or towards anyone when he's in the presences of people. And not having any friends at all. How sad, she thought. She looked more closely at his face and stared at those cold blue eyes that were carefully concealed beneath the brown bangs and the ice that he had created. Maybe it's due to the fact he lost his family and had to protect himself from cruel reality? A barrier of coldness and ice wrapped around his heart in which he had to make all around him, to make sure he would never be touched or used by anyone or he'll wind up lost in the hands of his own hatred.
She saw Kaiba turn his head to look over to Mokuba who smiled up at him and he smiled back. And the only one he has left to trust is his brother, if he lost him then....

"Téa are you alright?" She heard Mokuba called out to her. Losing her train of thought, she looked up and saw both of them turn and stared at her. She nodded. "Yeah I was just thinking too much that's all."

"About what?" Kaiba asked. The waiter appeared again with a basket of bread and then left. "Well?"

"I um, was thinking of--" Suddenly a strong aroma hit Téa's nose like a ton of bricks. Garlic! A vampire can't even stand in a room filled with the smell of garlic. She watched as Mokuba took a piece and started to eat it. Oh god, I think I'm going to hurl. She felt nausea as the scent made her stomach churn even worse. I think I really am going to be sick. She saw Mokuba handing the basket to her. "Téa want some, it's good." She shook her head. "No thanks Mokuba, I'm actually allergy to garlic." She was thankful the basket was put aside. Kaiba decline too, telling Mokuba to not fill up too much before dinner came.
It was half an hour later when they ordered their food but Tea ate a little but took quick bites of her medium rare steak. A vampire had to eat protein, with occassion of some blood remaining in the juice to eat cooked meat. She then looked at her wristwatch and saw it was half past nine. She said, "I wish I could really stay longer but I have to go somewhere now." She handed Seto back his trenchcoat and was getting up to leave.
"Thanks again Seto for the meal. It was nice meeting you again Mokuba."

"See ya Tea!" Mokuba said. Kaiba looked at her as she was getting ready to leave. "Téa about your job..." He was saying, but she left in a sudden rush before he could get the words out of his mouth. A strange girl she was. A beautiful strange girl however.

Téa was busy walking down the street, scanning with her eyes and opening her ears to see if there were any signs of the nightbreed about. But to no avail, none. "Damn I was so sure the wound I gave it would slow it down. As much as make it too weak to move on."
"Oh yeah sure, you expect a nightbreed to give up that easy huh?" Guni said emerging from Tea's hair and sitting on her shoulder.

"Breed are very easy to get angry and can be more troubling when they're wounded. And annoying for the matter." Guni looked behind them and then turned back around. "Speaking of annoying, look who it is behind us." Téa turn as Guni jumped back into hiding. She saw Kaiba and Mokuba running towards her, carrying her black purse.

"Téa, you left this at the restaurant." Seto explain when he reached her and handed the purse. She took it out of his hand. "Oh thanks, um listen, sorry if I ruin your plan for tonight..."

"It's ok, we didn't have much an idea to do later anyways." Kaiba said, "How about some hot cocoa?" Mokuba said yes and Téa agreed. "Why not? A cup of hot cocoa on a cold day like this should hit the spot?" They reached a coffee shop downtown and had the cocoa while they walked. Téa didn't drink hers however, she kept it in her hands and talked with them as Kaiba pulled out his cell phone and called his driver to see if the limo was fixed and to go and picked them up. "Well I guess I'll be going now." She said, starting to walk away when Kaiba grabbed her arm. "Wait, we can drop you off at your place." But she shook her head.

"It's ok I'll just walk back to the apartment." She figured if she didn't see Yayoi on the street, she might have left a message on the answering machine. But Kaiba insisted that it would be much easier and faster by driving. In the end, they wait for ten minutes before the limo drove up and everyone enter. Kaiba told him to drop Téa first to her apartment.

When they arrive, Kaiba went with her to her room number where she stop to grab her keys. "Thanks you Seto. I really had a good time." It felt strangely odd, almost saying it was a 'date' even thought it wasn't. It had just been the three of them eating a meal together and then walking shortly around town with cocoa. Kaiba seem to not care.

"Maybe we could do it again sometime." He said.

She looked at him and said, "Maybe." But she doubt that would ever happen. She couldn't. They couldn't. It wouldn't work out right, she knew but he didn't. She grabbed her keys and set to opening the door.

"Téa." He said and she turn around to see him staring at her. Her heart beat faster than she ever imagine as she looked up at him, gazing deep into his midnight gems and then felt his lips touched her. She was confused and surprised at the action but then relax as she reacted to the kiss. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled herself closer to him, pressing her body against him. She sighed to herself as he wrapped his arms around her waist and felt him rubbing his hands up and down her entire body. She could still taste the cocoa, feeling it heat down her body as he coaxed with his tongue against her lips to enter her mouth and gained passage. The temptation in her caused her to lose control of herself as the kiss deepen, pressing her lips harder and firmly against his. Her canine teeth elongated inside her mouth and nip his lips softly. She felt him jumped in reaction to the bite but soon he got over it as she continued to kiss him gently, making him groaned in pleasure. A tickle of blood enter her mouth as she sucked this the concuction she had created.

The taste of blood and chocolate was absolutely delicious. It tasted so exotic, so elegantly pure of life. It was something that could almost be as wonderful as the immortal nector Ambrosia, drink to the gods.

It also tasted...deadly sweet.

And she liked it.

She drew back her lips, look at him with her eyes half-hooded, still lost in that blood kiss. She licked her lips, tasting the remaining taste of their unbelievable kiss.

"See you later Seto." She pecked him on the lips, gentle but firm and quickly step in and closed the door.

Kaiba was feeling lightheaded and freed minded for the first time in his entire life. He can't believe it, that kiss, oh man, wow, what a kiss! He was in that state for a while after he walked back to the limo and when they headed to the mansion. Mokuba stared at his brother and saw him smiling dreamily as he watched the apartment disappear in the distance. He smiled smugly to himself too. My big brother has a crush! Finally, and both brothers were silent as the limo drove back home.

When Kaiba reached his room and booted up his computer to do some of his work, Mokuba came up to him and said, "You like her don't you? That's why you allow her to see your 'normal' self instead of being a jerk all the time." Kaiba stared at his brother, clearly both surprised and annoyed at how his brother found out. "And what's that suppose to mean." He said in a fake bored tone.

"Well you know, you don't act all ticked and say 'back off' or 'get to work', or being rude like you usually do with the Big Five or people at school or the office. I say that it's a good deal you're seeing someone special in your life. Counting me of course." Kaiba rolled his eyes and pretend to care less what his brother was saying. But it was true, he was not just liking her, he was falling head over heels for her. She was truly the most mysterious girl he ever met, yet he like her because she was different somehow.

Very different indeed.

He smiled as he rubbed his lips where she had kissed him. His lips were swollen and felt he had a small cut that made Kaiba wondered how she could have bitten him like that. Even though she nipped him hard, still she did kiss amazing. He sighed again to himself, remembering that wonderful kiss.

Blue Kitsune: Ok that's only half of what I originally had for this chapter, but I saw it going too long so I decide to cut them into part and wanted you guys to read this, the 'kissing' scene. Hope it wasn't too bloody. Heh Heh!

Guni: Blue Kitsune does not own Nightwalkers or Yugioh, althought she does so she can kick Cain's--

Blue Kitsune: Guni!

Guni: Fine his butt! But I still say his ass because he one and!

Blue Kitsune grabs a jar and places Guni in a jar.: Ok so please review ok and I'll have the second part up soon.