Chapter 5

Doubt, Dread and Dracula

You know of all people I expected to kill someone, Kiyoteru defiantly is not on that list. I would have suspected Piko more then Kiyoteru. I looked at Kiyoteru and Luka. Luka had her arms around Kiyoteru's arm and her head on his shoulder. She didn't show any emotion on her face but I could tell in her eyes that she was happy there.

"So…why'd he do it?" I asked.

"Because Luka asked him to." Kaito sat down on the couch and patted the spot next to me.

"Why would she do that? She could have remained a human."

"Luka was something us vampires call Blood Brides. Luka was a human who lived in this mansion with my clan before they burned this place to the ground and left me behind. Luka was of course my personal Blood Bride though, no matter how hard I tried to love her, I never wanted to marry Luka. Not that she's not appealing but she wasn't the one I loved. I had fallen in love with a witch at the time but it was kept a secret. My clan did not tolerate straying from our rules and traditions.

"It was around that time when Kiyoteru had stopped by. It's a rule for all houses of any Mythical creatures to allow Elder's into there home with no questions asked. Kiyoteru almost immediately fell in love with Luka. After he first saw her, he spent a lot of time with her. Because Luka was supposed to be by my side at all times, I was forced to be with them as well. At one point, I just decided that I could marry Luka because Kiyoteru loved her more then I ever did.

"So in light of there love, I agreed for him to make her into a Corpse. They ran away soon afterwards and left me to give the news back to my clan. When my clan found out I had lied to them, they tried to kill me for letting my Bride escape from her contract to me. They tied me to a chair with rope dipped in silver and left me to burn. It was Luka who saved me before I burned to death.

"After that Kiyoteru and I decided to build a mansion for any kind who needed a place to stay could stay with no questions asked. It was what Luka wanted. Now it's a host club which Luka asked for. This place is mostly under Luka's decision. Kiyoteru only seems to want to make Luka happy and I understand that as well as respect him for trying so hard to keep his women happy. Luka gave up her humanity for Kiyoteru and he will forever be indebted to her. Humanity is a big thing to give up for mythical creatures. You should remember that Gumi."

I didn't know what to say. It was like my eyes were completely opened. I had no idea they had a complicated past like that. That is beyond forbidden love and having to give up your humanity just so you could be with the man you loved is like the icing on the cake. I honestly never expected it though I could tell while I told that story, that it wasn't an easy one for him to tell. Being burned alive while being burned by silver isn't exactly the best idea.

"So…your clan burned you alive?" I asked.

"Almost" he corrected. He looked towards the closed curtains as if he was looking much farther then the curtains. "They never truly trusted me and many didn't like me. They believed I was a cruel ruler so when they found out I had helped my bride escape, they jumped on the option to get rid of me." Kaito ran his fingers through his hair. "Sometimes I wonder if letting Kiyoteru take Luka away was a good idea…but when I look at how happy they are, I see that I did the right thing. I feel like all that pain was worth it as long as there happy." He half smiled at me.

"That's…sweet…you know for a vampire" I said awkwardly.

Kaito chuckled. "I'm a little hungry. Do you mind?"

"Oh do you want me to get you somethi –"my eyes widened. "Yes I do mind! I'm not a snack!"

Kaito smiled with fangs showing. "I believe you're still human Gumi." He laughed evilly.

"Ok king of darkness, put your fangs away before I rip your fangs out and stab you with a stake." I snapped.

He smiled and shut his eyes as if he was at peace for a brief moment. "You're a very interesting girl Gumi. I find myself telling you things I shouldn't. You're very easy to talk to. No wonder Gakupo loves you so much." His eyes opened and before I could pull away he grabbed my arm and pulled me closer so he could whisper in my ear. "But if you ever want sometime away from Gakupo, I'll be more then happy to oblige."

"I don't think so Dracula" I pushed away and glared at him.

"The offer will remain on the table." He took my hand and kissed it then walked away with a princely smile on his face which really freaked me out for some reason. I can't believe he's interested in me…but he might be messing with me…and I'd like to keep my blood in my body then in his mouth. I don't exactly like him taking interest in me anyways. Beside's the fact that he's a vampire but his princely character that he uses to disguise his evil vampire personality is so creepy.

"Hey girl!" someone said. I blinked and few times and realized it was Miki. She seemed pretty angry. She sat down next to me and glared at me. She looked kind of adorable with her angry face. "You have a lot of never trying to steal my Piko!" She's worried about that of all things? I laughed. Her face turned bright red. "Quit laughing you back stabbing human!" She grabbed me by the neck. "No one laughs at me!"

I pushed at her hand but she didn't lighten up. If anything she tightened her grip. Someone on the other side of the room got up abruptly and ran over to us.

"Let go Miki" someone said. In the corner of my eye I saw purple hair. It must be Gakupo.

"Miki, this is bad for business" Kiyoteru said getting up from where he sat.

"I don't care! This bitch needs to learn her lesson!" Miki hissed squeezing my neck hard. I had no idea what to do. I could barely breathe and if she squeezed any harder I wouldn't be able to breathe at all. Gakupo grabbed Miki by the hair with angry flaming purple eyes. "No! You won't pull your mind tricks on me!" Gakupo forced her to look into his eyes. Miki's eyes widened and she immediately dropped her hand from my neck. I coughed and rubbed my neck as I tried frantically to breath.

"Gumi are you alright?" Gakupo asked. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye. He looked almost too scared to touch me.

"How dare you?" Miki hissed. She pounced on him tugging at his hair and clawing at his face. The host who had guests were taking them outside accept for Kaito who was taking his guest up a flight of stairs that didn't lead to the hosts rooms…so where is he taking her.

"Gumi…are…are you alright?" Luka said nervously as she hesitantly placed her hand on my shoulder. I think that's the first time I've heard her say anything!

I coughed. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks." I coughed again then sat back down on the couch. Luka looked at Kiyoteru with in pained eyes.

"Don't stress yourself out Luka." Kiyoteru said patting her on the shoulder. She nodded sheepishly and looked down at her shoes sadly. "Luka says she hopes our not injured."

"Why can't she tell me herself?" I asked.

"Because Corpse's can barely talk. It took a lot for her to even say what she did to you." Kiyoteru pulled her into a hug. Luka obviously is still sad about it.

"Oh" I nervously reached my hand out to her. She looked at my hand with fear. "I'm sorry Luka. You didn't have to stress yourself out for me." Her eyes widened. She waved her hands in objection.

"Luka says, oh please don't say that. I don't mind. I'm more then happy to get to speak to you at all." Kiyoteru stated.

I half smiled. "So am I. I look forwards to getting to know you better. After all, I think I'll be around for a while." She looked at me with extremely happy eyes.

"Luka says, yeah in a loud and excited way." Kiyoteru stated.

I laughed. "Come on Kiyoteru, show some amusement and excitement." Luka nudged him and mouth yeah to him. She smiled.

"Hey! A little help!" Gakupo yelled trying to prey Miki off oh him. It looked like Miki was some kind of evil monkey that was attacking a gorilla for stealing her banana.

"Miki" I called. Miki growled at me. "I wasn't laughing at you. I was laughing about what you said. No offense to Piko but I wouldn't date him in a million years. Sadly, I'm tightly bound to that idiot." I pointed at Gakupo.

Miki jumped off of Gakupo and brushed herself off. "Good because he's mine." She flipped her hair over her shoulders and walked away. Gakupo looked like he had just gotten hit by a train. If only I could sit and laugh but I've got something more important to do.

I pulled out my notebook and wrote down 200 points. Gakupo looked at the pad and his eyes widened. "Why so many?"

"Because I you protected me even though I probably could have handled it." I looked him over and covered my mouth to refrain from laughing. "I'll give you 20 more points if you let me laugh at you."

He sighed. "Go a head." I fell on the floor laughing and that lasted for a good ten minutes. By the time I finally calmed down Gakupo looked pissed.

"Ok gorgeous, I think you've earned my help at fixing your…look." I giggled.

"You better be done. That was totally not worth 20 points."

"Hey, your only 40 points away from a kiss. 500 point's equals make out." I pushed him towards the stairs.

"And when did you start calculating that?"

"When you were working on the kitchen. I got bored." I pushed him up the stairs and towards his room. "First order of business, take a shower. You look like shit."

"Thanks sweet heart." He sighed.

"5 pointed for being a good sport."

"You know eventually you will be all mine." He pointed out taking off his shirt.

"I'm buying time and you help me by doing the stupid things you do every day" I sat down on his bed.

"What are you afraid of?" he asked looking at me with confusion.

"I'm not afraid. I just don't want to be pregnant. I feel like I'm the girl in high school that get's pregnant because she got knocked up at some high school party."

"You know it's nothing like that."

"It is for me!" I snapped in frustration. "There was this girl in my high school that gave birth to three kids in high school. I'm not gonna be that girl! I don't care if no one knows or finds out about it for the rest of my life!" I hugged myself and sighed. "I want to have my life before I'm forcibly put into yours."

Gakupo hugged me. My eyes widened. "You know I never wanted to force you into this. I'm not going to make you do anything your not ready for even if I despise waiting for you."

I shut my eyes and hugged him back. I could feel his muscles against my chest and it made it a lot harder for me to reframe from kissing him with him being so sexy and shirtless.

I pushed away and wrote down 35 points for comforting me. "Looks like I win a kiss." I subtracted 5. "Why?"

"Cheap line." I pointed at the shower. "Now take a shower so you can put your close back on."

"Are you saying I'm not appealing to you Gumi?"

"Oh please, don't even go there. You know you a big hunk of man candy." I mumbled.

He half smiled his devious smile. "What's man candy?"

I growled in frustration. "It means you're a hot steamy hunk of sexy! Why can't you get that through your thick scull? You sexy ass dip shit!" Gakupo laughed. "Shut up!" I yelled.

"Tell me again" Gakupo said with his devious smile that always pisses me off.

"Take a damn shower before I take off more points!" I yelled.

"Alright gorgeous." He kissed my cheek.

"Hey! That's against the rules!" I snapped.

"Nope, I'm pretty sure with 200 points I can kiss your cheek."

I sat down on his bed angrily. "Take your damn shower." I grumbled.

"As you wish." He walked into his bathroom.

By the time Gakupo was done I was dosing off. I guess the idea of a cat name is kicking in on me. All that crap Miku told me about inheriting qualities from cats was spot on. When he came out I was about to completely fall asleep. If it wasn't for the fact that he was naked I would have actually been happy to see him. He can't put on a damn towel?

"Go get some sleep. You look tired." He kissed my forehead then started to get dressed. I grabbed his hand as he finished putting on his boxer shorts. I was still a little dozy so I guess what I said next was due to that.

"Stay with me" I pulled on his hand a little.

He half smiled. "You're lucky my next appointment isn't for another two hours." He slid into bed next to me. I laid my head on his chest and almost immediately fell asleep.

I'm slowly realizing that I'm becoming the world's most laziest cat. Mostly because I slept for 5 hours and then still felt tired after I had gotten a good 9 hours of sleep that night. I groaned and rubbed my eyes. Gakupo was of course gone but just as I was about to get up the door to his room slowly crept open. I quickly laid my head back down on the pillow and pretended I was asleep.

Who ever it was crept back over to me and crawled into bed next to me. Defiantly Gakupo. He managed to get me back into the position I originally in which probably wouldn't have woken me up if was actually asleep.

"Why is she so damn pretty?" he sighed. I had to pinch myself form under the blanket to reframe from smiling. His hand smoothed my hair over and over again. "If only…" he stopped petting my hair. If only what? "Why can't she be a little bit easier with this?"

I knew that was what he was thinking about. He just wants to get in my pants. For some stupid reason, I'm kind of ok with that. It's just like being around a high school boy. It is really true that almost all guys in high school want sex. Gakupo just wants it for a more important reason then just to do it.

I looked up at him and yawned. "Hey" I sighed.

"Hey" he half smiled. Is that his signature smile or is it just me? He seems to do that a lot. Sure it's sexy but quit it. "Nice bed head."

"Your one to talk. Your hair looked so fantastic after you got mauled by a girl barely half your size." I grumbled then laid my head on his chest again. "I'm still tired."

"Then go back to sleep."

"But I don't want to."

"I distinctly remember someone saying that the first night I spent with my future wife."

I growled. I had a feeling that wasn't his mind control talking. Damn him. That's probably something I'd say in a situation like that if I wasn't under mind control. Damn him for doing that to me. I had almost forgotten about it. Good thing I remember. I'll hold that over his purple head.

"Shut up you ass." I grumbled. "I'm not in the mood to hear about how you put me under werewolf mind control."

"Oh please, I just prevented you from being able to resist me. You did everything else on your own. If you had no desire to do anything with me, I wouldn't have been able to get you to have sex with me in the first place."

My eyes widened. "You ass." I hissed. I punched him as hard as I could in his side. "For your information I'm sure you most defiantly had more to do with it."

He chuckled. "I'm sure I didn't. Why would I lie when this obviously infuriates you. It's kind of funny." I climbed over him and grabbed my notepad from the floor and wrote minus 30 for trying to piss me off. "Oh come on Gumi. Be a good sport."

"I don't have to. I have a notepad." I hit him over the head with it.

He chuckled and pulled me close to him. "I could always make you do that again."

"Is that really what you want Gakupo? To force me into something I don't want and have miss guided sex again? You know you wish I actually wanted to don't you?"

He sighed. "I know" I wrote down plus 10. "What's that for? I thought you'd subtract points since I even thought about forcing you to do something you don't want to."

"10 points for just saying no."

He laughed. "I love you." He ran his hand down my cheek.

"Ok I'm done with this." I slid off of him and sat down on the edge of his bed. "Quit being such a guy." I stood up and ran a brush through my hair. "I'm going home for the day. I'm most defiantly not gonna get another customer today. If I get a customer, let me know."

Gakupo rose from his bed and caught my hand. "It's late. Let me walk you home."

"It's right next store and I can handle myself." I pointed out. Gakupo tightened the grip on my hand. "Fine, but don't you think you'll get a kiss if you walk me to my door."

"I'll only dream I will." He smiled. I rolled my eyes and let him led me home. Yeah I know, why don't I just kiss him? Why can't I just get past the whole pregnancy and have sex with him? Well guess what? He doesn't have 1000 points yet so ha ha!

Yeah I know…I'm such a pansy.

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Ok so Morumotto-chi sent me a review and asked me for a Miki scene so what did I do? I gave you guys a special Miki scene. Hope you lobe it Morumotto-chi. That scene's just for you. If you want to see more of any of the characters, just shoot me a review ok? I honestly don't know what to do with the next chapter so any ideas are appreciated. Thanks so much for reading this far.

Sorry I don't write more chapters. I just get caught up in writing Kyousei sometimes and I'm writing a legit novel which I'm almost done editing so I'm super excited. I'm gonna try to post more chapters though. I know that I'm a little behind. Sorry everyone that I'm so slow at writing. I have such bad writers block lately but I was committed on finishing this chapter today and I have officially down it so ha ha! Thanks for reading guys!

P.S. Morumotto-chi, how many muffins do I get for my Miki scene?

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