Chapter 7: A Drunk Demon, A Wasted Vampire
AN: Hi. How is everyone? (You probably won't answer that, but I just thought I'd ask.) Anyway, because it's Valentine's Day, here's chapter 7. (I'm not mentioning Valentine's Day in this chapter) This chapter features Asuramaru and Mika. Also, at the request of my friends and editors, Shinoa is no longer a contestant (that and I have no idea how to write Yuu x Shinoa. I'll seal up that loose end next chapter). Sorry. Asuramaru's dialogue is in italics. There is slight mention of alcohol, so if you don't like that topic, don't read this. Hope you enjoy. And as usual, if you don't, don't hate me.
Yuu was walking out of his apartment in the evening, planning on taking a walk through the city. He started heading towards the livelier portion of the city, but yelped as his hand was grabbed by someone. Suddenly, he was being dragged in another direction. He looked down to see Asuramaru dragging him by the hand towards the darker side of the city.
"Asuramaru, where are we going?" Yuu asks, slightly afraid of the answer.
She turned around and flashed him an angelic smile. (SN: Well, as angelic as she could with fangs and horns) "Oh you'll see when we get there~" she said. Yuu gulps.
She guides him to a dark alley. They enter and she moves to an oddly placed door. She knocks hard five times. The door swings opens slowly and Asuramaru motions for him to enter. Yuu is skeptical on the safety of the matter, but follows her directions. He enters the building and is met with another door. Yuu reaches out and turns the doorknob. The door opens easily and he finds himself in a very nice underground restaurant/club. It has large velvet couches, black leather booths, polished tables, a very long bar with cushioned seats, a medium sized dance floor in the corner and some source of various types of music somewhere in the room. He looks around seeing various higher ranking military officers sitting around the club relaxing, drinking, and laughing.
He thinks he sees Guren in one of the booths, sitting with someone who looked strangely familiar, but before he can investigate, Asuramaru drags him over to the bar.
They sit down and Asuramaru orders some strangely named drink, the bartender quickly delivers the drinks and also hands Asuramaru a flask of something that smelled slightly like. The liquid was originally a dark red color, but when she poured some of the contents on the flask in the glass, the drink turned an even deeper red. Yuu turned to her with a raised eyebrow. She turned and looked back before understanding his unspoken question.
"It's AB positive blood. I can't eat or drink really anything without adding blood to it first. AB is my favorite aside from yours. You have some other blood type that I'm not really familiar with" Asuramaru said, waving her hand casually. Yuu nodded in understanding.
"Asuramaru. How did the bartender know to have blood for you?" Yuu asked.
"Oh, I come here now and then. I generally just drink these "Very 'Bloody' Mary's" as we call them" she said as she casually took a large swig of her drink.
"What exactly is this stuff before you add blood to it?" Yuu asked, eyeing his drink wearily.
"Oh, it's just vodka salvaged from old warehouses and stores after the plague, tomato sauce, some lemon juice, and couple other things" she said (actual ingredients to a real Bloody Mary). "Don't worry, it's not contaminated. Just drink it slowly. You might not react to it well since it's your first time."
"Oh. Ok then" Yuu picked up his glass and took a small swig. He found it rather cold and spicy. He drank the rest of it rather quickly. Asuramaru looked at him in surprise when he didn't even flinch at the alcohol entering his system. She waved to the bartender and motioned to herself and Yuu. The bartender quickly mixed up another and delivered it quickly.
"I'm surprised. Normally people can't handle this stuff so easily the first time" Asuramaru stated. "Maybe that seraph stuff in you enhances your metabolism."
Yuu nodded. "How does Mika ever come here?" he asked. Asuramaru scowled at the mention of another girl on their indirect date.
"Not really sure" Asuramaru said. "I doubt she is much of a drinker."
There is a creak from a side door by the bar. Yuu looks over to see someone in a military cloak, hood up walk in. They walk up to the bar and shake hands with bartender before taking a seat next to Yuu. The person waves their hand and the bartender zips by depositing a medium sized glass of reddish gold liquid in front of the person. After downing the glass in one swig, the figure next to Yuu pulls back her hood and shakes her long whitish blonde hair free. Yuu looks at her in surprise.
"Mika? What are you doing here? And where did you get that cloak?
"Hi Yuu-chan." Mika says as she kisses him on the cheek, much to Asuramaru's annoyance. "I come to this place every so often to relax. As for the cloak... I stole it from your closet earlier. I needed a way to get through the town without too much trouble due to me being a vampire."
"Ok. Fine" Yuu says. He turns back to his drink, taking a sip from the glass. Behind his back, Mika and Asuramaru are glaring at each other.
Asuramaru gets off her stool and walks over to where Mika is sitting. She grabs the vampire's sleeve and pulls her out of Yuu hearing range.
"Why are you here?" the demon hisses out.
Mika grins a little. "I just thought I'd have a drink tonight. Didn't know you were here too" she says.
"Ok, fine then. How about this. We'll have a contest here. We'll have a few drinks. First one to pass out loses. The winner gets to spend a day uninterrupted with Yuu" Asuramaru says, confident in her ability to hold her alcohol.
"Deal" Mika says, putting out a hand. They shake hands, sealing the deal. They return to the bar.
Yuu looks at them strangely as they wave for one of the stronger drinks. The bartender sets their order in front of them and they both down the alcohol in one swig. Both breathe in deeply and Asuramaru shakes her head. They wave for another round and repeat the process, both shaking off the brunt of the alcohol. This continues for another hour or so. At round fifteen or so, Asuramaru begins to sway slightly and Mika's eyes are slightly unfocused. Yuu pinches the bridge of his nose at the realization that he has to figure out a way to get them both out of the building at the same time.
About five rounds later, Asuramaru face plants on the surface of the bar, out cold. Mika raises her arms in victory momentarily, before she does the same as the demon moments later. Yuu looks at the two girls and then back out to the club to find it rather empty compared to when he walked in.
"This is gonna be a pain" Yuu says as he shifts Asuramaru onto his back, wrapping her arms around his neck and then picks up Mika bridal style. The bartender opens the side door Mika used and lets Yuu out that way. Yuu heads back to his room, due to the fact that that was where Asuramaru's sword was and because he didn't know where Mika lived. Yuu reaches his apartment about a half hour later. After some difficulty getting the door open without hitting Mika's head, he slips into his apartment, closing the door behind him.
As he enters, Asuramaru turns into familiar black fog and disappears into her sword. After carefully setting Mika down on his bed, he turns to go sleep on his couch only to have his arm grabbed by a barely awake Mika. She yanks him onto the bed and wraps her arms around him. She rolls over, pinning Yuu against her, hugging him tightly.
Yuu sighs. He decides that it would be a bad idea to try and escape now, seeing as he was currently being used as a body pillow by a vampire. He decided that it would be best not to resist. He falls asleep, dreading the morning to come.
AN: Wow. That took a while. I'm tired. I'm gonna go sleep now. Oh. By the way, I've received requests for future chapters. So I just thought I'd let you know that I accept requests, but I can't do all of them. Anyway, hope you enjoyed. I'm sorry for any errors or bad story line; I am kinda feeling crappy and half dead. So... peace out. I'm gonna go sleep for the next few days.