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This FIC is about the story of three friends who are studying Medieval History,

who win a scholarship to defend their Master's thesis in Romania.

Based on the old vampire movies from 1990.

I hope you like it...

Chapter 1 - The search

In the middle of the mountains lost among the Carpathian Mountains, in ancient Transylvania, now Romania, in an imposing castle built in the Middle Ages. A dark-haired man with long black hair, medium height, piercing eyes, an enigmatic smile, with fair skin as white as snow. Wearing a beautiful silk and satin suit entirely black, tailored to his curves and shaping his legs, and beautiful black leather dress shoes. He's sitting in the throne room, which once belonged to an ancient kingdom and now serves as a historical museum of local culture.

The dark-haired man was bored, it was very boring running a museum, he didn't need it at all, he had accumulated countless riches over a long time, he only did it to connect with the present time. His friend, now blond, discovered new shades that matched his old dark hair, entered the throne room and struck up a conversation about the existence of new colleges and courses relating to the history of that region.

— "Tell me more about these courses, I'm looking to do something different," said the dark-haired man, interested in his friend's prose.

_ I heard among the guests who visited the museum about a college that teaches medieval history to students defending their master's thesis, how cool would that be?

How useful this could be to reduce my boredom. _ The dark-haired man doesn't understand his friend's vision of this faculty.

_ Think about it! We're in a castle from the Middle Ages, which is the source of their studies." The blond said, impatient that his friend hadn't yet understood.

— So what? Where are you going with this? After all, where is this college?_ The brunette was getting even more annoyed, with no patience for figuring out riddles.

_ Wow! You're slow today, haven't you eaten yet? The college is in Tokyo, and that's where this opportunity came from, to expand, to open our doors to the outside world._ The blond ran his hands through his hair in indignation, coming closer to where the brunette was sitting.

-I think you drank something bad yesterday. Can you explain to me the relationship between my castle and this college in Tokyo? What do you mean opening the doors to the outside world? _ The brunette is starting to get irritated by this totally meaningless prose.

_ Man, that's hard! We're going to offer scholarships for students to come and study as part of their academic thesis. Do you understand now? _ The blond explains his intentions with the college students.

_ Let me get this straight, we're going to give an all-expenses-paid trip and accommodation to students from abroad, just because I have a good heart. What is your intention in bringing people from abroad here? _ The brunette looks thoughtful, puts his elbow on his knee and holds his chin, staring at the blond who is crouched down in front of him.

Imagine the fun they'll have walking around the castle, snooping around and asking questions about the myths of the region. We could help by telling them our stories and even taking them to the festival. _ The blond man finally tells them the purpose of his plan, to bring in outsiders who won't be afraid to poke around and try to uncover the local secrets about the vampire myth.

- You're a genius! New people, we can talk to, teach, seduce and feed off their ideas, figuratively speaking of course! Perfect!_ Now the brunette understood what his blond friend was getting at, bringing in outsiders for them to seduce, putting an end to boredom and planning a very sexual adventure with the foreign visitors.

_ Thank you, Master Aoi, I'll get ready to travel then. _ The blond sighs and smiles because now he can go by plane, which is a very fast means of transportation, much better than traveling by ship which took months to arrive and he got very hungry during the trip, and some passengers always died strangely every time he was on board.

_ Hurry up Reita, do it! Find three nice guys, preferably if they're already friends, on the same course. Let me look up a Japanese name on my cell phone so you can introduce yourself at college. How's that? Suzuki Akira? _ The brunette chooses the new name they'll be using now.

_ It sounds very rebellious, a bit of a bad boy for me. Master Aoi, should you choose a new name too? Something darker and more mysterious like Shiroyama Yuu, I saw it once in a magazine, it belonged to a successful eccentric executive in Japan._ The blonde Reita also gives the brunette Aoi a Japanese name.

- I like it, I'm Shiroyama Yuu now, give my regards to the students, I know you'll have good taste in choosing. Don't take another minute, the festival is in two weeks. The dark-haired Aoi, now called Yuu, smiles at Reita, who hurries off to fulfill her Master's wishes.

The dark-haired Yuu gets up from his throne and heads towards the castle kitchen, the part open to the public is separated from the rooms where they live. When he arrives at the kitchen, there are some servants there. Yuu tells them that he will be waiting for dinner, served with good wine and a dessert.

A pretty young waitress with a tray in her hand goes into the dining room, Yuu is sitting at the head of a huge wooden table with lots of chairs. The young woman places the tray on the table, with a bottle of red wine and a crystal goblet and a plate with a well-done raw steak, she serves the brunette by pouring the wine into the goblet and handing it to him, who holds the goblet, smells its bouquet and tastes the red wine, then rests the goblet on the table.

He pulls the girl's arm to his side, bringing her close to him. He feels the pulse in her wrist quicken and sees the blue veins pop out.

Yuu then takes the young woman's wrist into his mouth, revealing his fangs, and feasts on that vital nectar, sucking it frantically, satisfying his hunger and thirst for blood. After all, he was a vampire who had many possessions and riches, and he had learned in the present day that there was no longer any need to kill the victim and hide them as in the past.

Now he knew people who offered to feel his bite, and enjoyed it as if it were a drug. He didn't understand that in this new generation, but it was great, because he always had blood at his disposal. He no longer had to hunt or run from hunters, in a way it was a very good life, but he was always bored with the ease that money provided him with, Reita's idea was very good, he could play and hunt again, seduce and make him his servant, it seemed like a lot of fun when he thought about waiting for his friend to return.

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Reita's POV

Just a few hours into the flight, I was already in Tokyo. A few years ago, Master Yuu and I had spent some time here in Japan, before the wars we had learned a bit about the culture and its language. I headed for Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, having already researched its location. It is located in the Keihanshin metropolitan area and is one of the country's main institutions of higher education. The institution is one of the Japanese universities that offers the most courses in English, and is now offering a full Master's degree in Medieval History.

I had already called the Rector and arranged a time in the afternoon for us to talk. He was very interested in Shiroyama Yuu's proposal, and asked to meet him at the university grounds to see where the course was being held in the evening, and perhaps meet the students.

Without wasting any time, I took another form of transportation, the bullet train, which is very famous in the country, and in less than an hour I had arrived at my destination. I was welcomed by the Rector, who took me on a tour of the university to meet the Medieval History class.

Around 10 students were interested in the content on offer, and the subject was a thesis defense for a Master's degree in Medieval History. The Rector asked the professor for permission to announce the news by introducing me as the assistant to Curator Shiroyama Yuu of the Bran Castle Museum, known as Dracula's Castle, and to see if there were any interested parties.

_ Nice to meet you, I'm Suzuki Akira. Everyone looked at me and I watched them.

As he spoke, I watched the students, hoping to find some boys who would please Master Yuu, when he mentioned that the scholarship would be offered to three students with all expenses paid and accommodation in the old monastery that had withstood the Turkish attack.

A tall blond boy, wearing a blouse that fell to his shoulder and long boots over tight leather pants that shaped his crossed legs, turned to his colleague next to speak to him, a dark-haired boy with short hair bleached violet, wearing tight jeans with boots, a white shirt with a vest over it and a gray scarf around his neck, but what caught my attention most was when he turned to talk to his blond friend, he gave me a smile with dimples on both sides that I fell in love with right away, and what a good laugh he had.

There was one boy left to complete my search, a short blond man with a nervous and electric manner, wearing a velvet suit, with a high-heeled boot, his jacket was open to the chest in a V shape, he spoke quickly and had a calm voice and sometimes a strong bass tone, approaching the other two, I sharpened my hearing to listen to them and realized that they were interested in the castle and the monastery, the way they talked to each other seemed to be friends. I believe I had found friends with a mutual interest and who were willing to travel and research the region.

But I couldn't point them out in the midst of everyone without a plausible reason, so I had the idea of telling the Rector to pass on a list of those interested and the possibility of traveling in less than a week, so that I could eliminate those who were wondering whether or not to go. Once the list had been drawn up, the Rector said goodbye and told me that he would look into the requests and get back to me soon with an answer.

We went to his office, and he began to talk about the bureaucracy involved in a proposal of this size, that in order to be registered and valid as a Master's thesis, he had to do tests with the students, exams and put together reports to wait for a response from the University Council, as well as the question of residence visas for studies and other things.

Everything he was saying started to give me a headache, it was going to take too long, I didn't have much time, the festival was in 2 weeks, even getting the boys' passports in order would take me almost 5 days to get on the plane. So I took the easy way out, turned to the Rector and hypnotized him into marking the boys I liked, that he didn't need to worry about all the paperwork regarding the scholarship, that everything had already been sorted out. So the boys would be transferred from the Tokyo University course to the Museum Curator for their research.

I told him to tell the boys the next day that they would have three days to pack, as their flight was scheduled for the fourth day in the evening.

With their academic records, I found out their names to make their passports: the tall blond was called Takashima Kouyou, the dimpled brunette was Tanabe Yutaka, the short angry one was called Matsumoto Takanori, now we just had to wait for the Rector to tell them the good news and wait for them at our castle. Master Yuu will be very happy with them hanging around and investigating, I hope he has a good time.

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POV OFF

After a few days, the young students were elated and ready to board their flight from Tokyo airport to Brasov in Romania. Five days had passed since Suzuki Akira had gone to the University and offered the scholarship for his Master's thesis in Medieval History. When, the next day, the Rector called Yutaka-san, Takanori-san and Kouyou-san into his office to congratulate them on being chosen to win the scholarship, they were immensely happy, but then he warned them that Akira-san had left clear instructions that they would only have a few days to pack, that their passports with visas would be authorized for departure in five days.

So there they were, traveling to another country in search of knowing and proving their ideas and theories about the vampire myth and proving their possible existence. After a few hours' flight, they would soon be arriving at their destination. They had made an itinerary of the places they would be researching. While they were packing their suitcases, Uruha researched the castles, Kai was more interested in the fortified churches, Ruki liked the architecture of the buildings and had already made sketches of the locations he had only seen photos of online.

Arriving at Brasov airport, they disembarked, very tired, they didn't know it would take so long, but they were already in Romania and needed to get to the city of Sighisoara, where Count Dracula was born and Bran Castle is located. As they headed towards the exit door to look for a cab that would take them there, they saw a man in a dark suit with their names written on a sign.

_ Ohayoo! Yutaka-san, Takanori-san and Kouyou-san, did you have a good trip? Shiroyama-sama sent me to take you to Sighisoara. Come on, the car's waiting," says the driver, greeting them.

_Arigato, it's very thoughtful of Shiroyama-san to worry about us._ Kai says and the others nod.

They follow the driver who puts all their luggage in the trunk, the friends get into the back of the limousine, and the driver drives on for another two hours to Sighisoara. The vehicle is well equipped, with an LCD screen for videos or music, as well as sweets, chocolates and drinks in those little bottles with a mini fridge, which had a bottle of sake and glasses for them to enjoy along the way.

_ I can't wait to meet our host Shiroyama, is he handsome? _ Uruha sighs and speaks of his interest.

_ Of course! He must be a millionaire to give us a scholarship and pay for all our expenses. Look at this car, I never thought I'd get into one someday _ Ruki says, admiring the car and everything inside.

_ I wanted to meet Suzuki Akira, I thought he was so mysterious with that stripe on his nose, I wonder what he's hiding?_ Kai mentions having admired Akira that day even though he's only been in the class for a short time.

_ You're forgetting that we came here to study, not to date. You two really don't have it in you. _ Ruki complains that his two friends are already thinking about finding partners.

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Sighisoara, in Romania. Located in the mountainous region of Transylvania, it has a medieval feel, with little churches, colorful cottages and old buildings, as if it had stood still in time. And it's there that you'll find the birthplace of Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian prince who inspired the most famous vampire in history.

Vlad's birthplace, located in the center of the country, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and, amid mysteries and legends, is the starting point for a tour of Transylvania. Sighisoara is a fortified city whose main attraction is the Clock Tower. With 102 steps, it is also home to the History Museum where we will meet Shiroyama Yuu. Full of fanciful stories, the tower was built in the 13th century, has been renovated and now has an inn at its base that maintains the place by renting out rooms.

It was late in the afternoon and they went inside to check in and see the rooms. The inn wasn't very big, and the attendant said that there were only two separate rooms, otherwise it would be a problem to share a room and have one person stay alone in a room.

_ No problem. We'll draw straws and see who gets a room on their own." Uruha laughed, looking at Ruki.

_ You say that because you always win, I don't know how you manage that... _ Ruki complains to Uruha because he steals in this kind of lucky bet.

_ Ruki, I'll tell you what, Uruha and I will draw straws and see who stays in the room with you. The loser sleeps alone. _ Kai solves the problem by casting lots with Uruha.

_ Yeah, I lost! But it's even better that I'll be able to date without a roommate, mumbling that he wants to study _ Uruha teases Ruki, because at college they shared a room.

_ Oh, Uruha, that's all you think about. You pervert. Do you really think you're going to find someone here to get naughty with?" Ruki sighs, because Uruha always leaves his studies to one side in order to get with someone.

Let's go to the bedroom, I don't know why you're trying. You know he's like that and he's not going to change when he's in another country."_ Kai, seeing Ruki's indignation, picked up his luggage and went to the room that the attendant had explained to him and gave him the key, with Ruki following him.

The rooms were on the first floor in a U-shape, with the dining hall on one side and the bedrooms on the other. Uruha's room was further away in the background than Kai and Ruki's, which was closer to the entrance and the food. They were simple, just like the region. Luckily, they had a bathroom and shower inside them, which is not customary in Europe.

There was a double bed in Uruha's room, a TV on a chest of drawers, a wardrobe with two doors and some hangers and a thick, furry blanket - the region was known for being very cold at night. Kai and Ruki's room, on the other hand, had two single beds and a TV attached to the wall, also with a wardrobe and a bathroom included.

Having settled into their rooms, they agreed that a shower and a rest would be welcome. Later in the evening, they would go out to find something to eat, as the hostel didn't serve dinner. As they were driving along, they saw a small bar and a restaurant in the historic center of town, which they could walk to.

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After a good rest, the friends went to the bar to enjoy the evening. It wasn't very big, but very cozy, and it also served pizza as well as drinks. They sat down at a table near the entrance, which had just become free. They chatted and drank beers while they waited for the pizza to arrive. This was their first night in a different place, and the view was very beautiful.

Visit the castle museum and other historic ruins and churches. Ruki and Uruha were sitting with their backs to the street and Kai facing them watching the city lights, waiting for someone to appear.

_ Kai, what are you looking out for? I didn't pay attention to anything you said." Ruki caught his friend's eye, waving his hand in front of his face.

_ Yes, I did, you want to go to the church and wander around some ruins. I'm just looking at the view of the place."_ Kai turns his gaze back to the table and his friends and takes a sip of his beer.

_ Wouldn't your eyes catch a glimpse of a blond with frizzy hair and a noseband? _ Uruha teases his friend. _ Because if it is, there's one sitting at the counter behind you.

_Kai quickly turns back to look for the boy at the counter, and there's no one sitting there, getting angry at Uruha's joke, who's laughing so hard he's almost sick, and is reprimanded by Ruki.

_That wasn't funny, Uruha. All I saw was a dark-haired man in the background who couldn't take his eyes off you... _ Kai says, forcing Uruha to look at the counter, but he's telling the truth.

_Do you really think I'm going to fall for the same trick? _ Uruha replies to Kai, and in disguise he looks at the back of the bar and sees the black-haired man drinking a drink sitting at the counter, who winks at him.

_ Why did you look? He's there, isn't he? _ Kai retorts with Uruha.

_ Yes, I was embarrassed, it looks like he winked at me. Ruki, take a look and see if he's really there." Uruha says, nudging Ruki to look.

_Stop it, you two, we can't have a conversation about anything other than our love problems. Ruki's already stressed out because there's always leftovers and he's got a candle in the air. Let's eat, the pizza's here, I'm really hungry.

The evening goes on quietly and amusingly with them eating, drinking and having fun. Uruha is flirting from afar with the brunette in the background, winking and raising his glass to him, and he returns the gesture. They had already finished their pizza, and when Uruha was plucking up the courage to go, the brunette wanted to get to know him after all those insinuations, but just as he was about to get up, Suzuki Akira appeared at the table and we saw Kai's eyes light up with a passionate sigh and Ruki laughed at his friend, who was embarrassed.

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