Captured Hearts

Chapter Thirty-two: The Lonely

Science Center for Supernatural Beings- Japan Branch- The Hunter's Bedroom, 5:00 AM

Hibari sat up, tiredly rubbing his eyes, then looked at the man who was placing tails, fangs, and other materials into a suitcase. "What are you doing?" Hibari asked. The hunter looked up, then moved what seemed to be a dried merperson tail into the case as well.

"While I'm out, I may as well scrounge up some money," Mukuro sighed, "I mean... I did earn this."

"You're leaving already?" Hibari whimpered, standing to start getting dressed.

"It hurts me too, Hibarin," Mukuro sighed, "I've already told Dino to help you back into a non-suspicious area. Stay here until he arrives, clean yourself up a bit. Arrivederci, my vampire."

Hibari watched as the hunter walked away, and pouted, knowing that he wouldn't see Mukuro again until the next full moon. With that in mind, the elite vampire tied on his cape, and sat down on the bed, trying to fix up his hair. He waited patiently, at first, but soon became restless, for his fangs were starting to feel numb, and cold. He'd allowed too much blood to enter his system last night- and now, he was going through a small withdrawal. Mukuro's sweet blood was pulsing inside his body, mixed alike with his own... Ah, that sweet heartbeat that seemed to create a second rhythm within Hibari's body.

The vampire reached up, brushing his fingers over his fangs, and moaning quietly as he felt along the white blades. He gently rubbed the slit on the back of the fangs, then paused, and stopped. What was he doing? He was above that senseless self-service. Much more might lead him to bite himself, and such wouldn't bring any good end. But then again...

Hibari shook his head. This was no time to fantasize about certain bodily fluids.

"Hibarin?" Dino greeted. "You in here?"

"Here," Hibari said. Dino walked over to him.

"You and Mukuro 'mated' last night?" he asked. The vampire nodded, blushing. "Well, all right. I know about your relationship with Mukuro. Just don't let Basil find out. C'mon... help me out with the centaurs before I take you back."

"They're feeding now...?" Hibari asked. The tamer nodded, and the vampire then remembered being told that the werewolves and centaurs had switched schedules. "All right... I'll go..."

Meanwhile, in the vampire's enclosure...

Basil lied on the ground, sniffling pitifully as the images flashed across his mind. His bond with Hibari had grown to the point where he could feel what his mate was going through. And he did not approve. His mate had gone behind his back and mated with Mukuro- the gravest sin a vampire could commit. To betray one's mate was to show a complete disregard for vampire society- and to say, bluntly, that they did not love saidmate. After all, in a true love relationship, neither vampire would ever do something so decietful and cruel.

"Basilicum... talk to me," Fon murmured, sitting down beside the young vampire. "You don't need to put yourself through lone suffering."

"Hibarin... my lord... my mate... he mated with another," Basil murmured. "He mated with the hunter. I could see it... the pleasure on his face... I hast been so good to him... I did not suspect anything when he started to taste odd- I thought it was Heartsickness. But no... it was the blood of the hunter I hast tasted! That tainted blood now runs within me, too!"

Fon sighed, and petted Basil's head, pitying the young vampire for what he had to go through. He knew what it was like to lose a true love. He vividly remembered the day his father left the family, and even more clear was the dispair of his mother...

Nine hundred years ago...

"I'm sorry. I've fallen in love... with a hunter! In fact... it's always been him... not you...," breathed Alaude. "I'm sorry." Elena stared at the man, stunned, before her eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Do you mean Daemon Spade?" she shouted. Alaude looked down, shameful.

"He already has children for me to raise on my blood... you must see that it would be an advantage for vampire society if I were to make a hybrid of hunters by injecting them with my blood."

"What about the son you already have?" Elena cried. "What about our Fon?"

"He is a beautiful child, I see that," Alaude sighed, hanging his head. "And he has a delightful resemblance to my brother, of the Hibari clan. He and his cousin will become very close."

"No. No, I won't play along with this!" Elena snarled. "I refuse to let Fon come into contact with Hibarin any further! I will raise him solely on the blood of my clan, and he shall want for nothing."

Fon stared at his parents from the bushes, his eyes wide with stress as he tried to comprehend what was going on. His father didn't love his mother? That was impossible! Fon had been told all the stories about what true love is like, and how two vampires mate, how new vampires are born, how to avoid hurting a partner in blood exchanges... all of these things to prepare him for choosing a mate... and yet, this was happening?

Fon loved his parents very much, and even more did he love interacting with his cousin, Hibari Natsu Kyoya II. He loved crossing the sea into Japan so that his father, Alaude, and the leader of the Hibari clan, Alaude's brother, would meet up in a family conference. He loved everything about his life...

All of that was destroyed that day, however. Alaude left to mate with a human, and Elena found herself unable to continue on. She lied in bed for days at a time, and because of this, Fon was forced to hunt by himself. And one day, when he was out hunting, a woman riding on a sort of centaur hybrid came out in front of him, a bow in her hand. The centaur was greatly adapted to the environment, with feathers mixed within his red hair and pelt, and wearing a coat that easily blended into the forest background. It even looked as though he had false fangs. The hunter, a green-haired female who was clearly pregnant, wearing white robes, fired an arrow at Fon, sending him backwards to the ground, then leapt off of the centaur.

"Stay there, Cozart," she said. "All we need are the fangs. I'm certain that this is one of the Hibaris." Fon gasped as the woman, who could've appeared as a nice human, picked him up by the throat and threw him back into a tree, before taking a pair of tweezer-like tools, and latching them onto one of Fon's fangs. The vampire squealed with pain as the fang was torn out of his body, and he trembled as a few droplets of his own blood seeped onto his tongue. Immediately, he covered his mouth with both hands, not about to lose his vampirehood. "Come now, don't be difficult...," the woman sighed, trying to pry his mouth open once more.

"Mistress Luce!" the mutant centaur shouted, rearing up as a hoarde of vampires emerged from the shadows to protect their fellow. "We need to get out of here!"

The woman turned and immediately leapt back on to her centaur, giving Fon a final glare before wings burst from the centaurs back, and he lifted himself into the air, escaping in that instant. Fon took a moment to awe at the mutant and his 'mistress's escape, before glancing back at the vampires that had protected him. They all bowed to him, and Fon blushed, quietly asking why they would do such a thing. "You are our lord... our master," the vampires spoke in unison. "You are a Hibari. One of the greatest leaders in the movement against human kind. Your fangs are precious. You have lost one... you will not lose the other."

"Well... thank you... but my relation to the Hibari clan is a little... faded."

A young girl stepped up from within the shadows, and approached Fon, then bowed. "My name is I-Pin... Master Fon, will you take me as your apprentice?"

Fon's head was spinning. Everything was happening so fast. He was a young vampire, parents divorced, a fang torn out, and now he was being worshipped by tens of vampires that he didn't know. And it took many years for him to understand just how important he was.

End Flashback.

"Lord Fon?"

Fon shook his head. He'd recalled much more than he'd intended to. "Basilicum, treachery is a rare occurence amongst vampires, and when it strikes, it is devistating. However, as Hibarin's true love, you must accept his decision."

Basil's tears soaked his clothes as he lied down on his stomach, head buried in his arms. "I was positive that Lord Hibarin loved me... I was sure of it... but... apparently, I art not good enough for him... I art weak... I art frail."

"Now, Basilicum," Fon soothed. "You must calm down. I'm sure that-"

"Basil!" The young vampire looked up as Hibari ran over to him, and Fon stood, nodding to his cousin, before walking away. "Basil, are you all right?" Hibari asked. Basil shook his head.

"My Lord... to see what I hast seen be already quite tragic... but to see thou before me... when thou art scented as the hunter. I can smell the fluids of his foul lusts splattered across thy stomach. It disgusts me."

Hibari blushed, realizing that what Basil said was very likely true. He'd hardly 'cleaned himself up,' and now, Basil could smell exactly where he'd been. "Basil... I..."

"No more apologies, my Lord!" Basil all but shouted. "I've had quite enough!" Hibari stared, shocked, as the young vampire grabbed a hold of his shoulders and sank his fangs harshly into the ravenette's throat. The older vampire gagged, and tried to escape, but the fangs around his throat only clamped down harder, and harder, before Fon and Skull both decided to step in. They forced the young vampire to release his mate, and Hibari collapsed, clutching his throat as it leaked out thickening blood. The wound quickly scabbed over, and healed, but even so, the loss of blood from Basil's roughness made Hibari dizzy.

"Basil... I do love you...," Hibari whispered, closing his eyes. "Really... you're... wonderful..."

With that, the elite vampire's conciousness faded, and Basil stood limply in the arms of Skull and Fon, quivering still. "I can't handle it," he whispered, before breaking into a severe cough. "His blood is dirtied... corrupted... it cannot sate my hunger..."

"Hey, Basil," Skull sighed, picking the young one up and holding him over his shoulder. "I'll give you some of mine..."

"You'll get Heartsick," Basil rasped. The other chuckled.

"I don't care."

And Hibari's unconcious mind became increasingly jealous.

-End Chapter

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