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Infected	By : Himitsu_no_Tokumei Category: Kingdom Hearts > Slash/Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2195 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 7: Cloud
            Dawn was peeking in through the window as the credits of the current movie they were watching slowly crawled up the screen. Neither twin got up to change it, and it was only then that Riku and Leon (the only two left awake) realized that at some point during the last movie their three companions had fallen asleep. The vampire had already realized, and had expected, Sora to fall off to sleep; he did just drink from him. He hadn’t, though, noticed the quiet blonde and his new best friend doze off. Looking over at them, he only wished he had a camera so he could take a quick snapshot of the scene to tease Roxas about later.
            Someone else, though, did have a camera, and Leon stood back enough to encompass just the two teenagers. Roxas had pulled his knees up until they rested slightly on Axel’s lap; his head resting on the older male’s shoulder, drooling slightly. Snuggled up as close as he could get to the redhead, he also had a light hold on the hunter’s shirt sleeve. Axel wasn’t nearly as entertaining. On arm was slung loosely around Roxas’ waist, the other hand resting on the boy’s knee with his head laying gently on Roxas’.
            The snap of the photo being taken woke the redhead, his slight jump jolting Roxas awake as well. Obviously holding the same idea of blackmail as Riku had, Leon quickly hid the camera and turned around so he it looked liked he had turned off the TV and woke them.
            “Huh… is it over already?” Roxas sleepily asked, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand.
            “It was over several minutes ago. Finally up, sleepyheads?” Riku asked, carefully shifting Sora so he could stand. “Now you two, off to bed.”
            “What are you planning on doing with my brother?” Roxas grumbled, mind rebelling against working at the moment.
            “I’m just going to put him to bed as well, then I’m going home,” the silverette assured, chuckling slightly as the blonde leaned on Axel for support. Looking down at his other companion, Leon waved him off and pointed towards the stairs.
            “I’m almost done here,” he said. “Just take the kid up so he can get some proper rest.” Nodding, Riku did as told, careful not to hit his exhausted boyfriend’s head on the walls. Maneuvering into the small room, he gently laid Sora down on the bed, pulling the never-made covers over his slumbering body. Placing a small kiss on the boy’s forehead, he quietly slipped from the room and made his way back downstairs.
            “Be sure to get some rest yourself,” Riku said as he passed by the living room on his way to the door.
            “You don’t just use the window?” Leon joked, referring to the many times Riku had snuck in in the middle of the night to see his boyfriend.
            “No, that’s reserved for hunters and special occasions,” Riku teased back. “Like when my shoes aren’t at the front door.”
            Saying his good-byes as he closed the door, Riku quickly made his way home. Closing the door with the stealth of experience, he nearly jumped out of his skin as Cloud greeted him. “Hello, you’re back late,” the tall blonde said, chuckling slightly at Riku’s reaction. “Or should I say ‘you’re back early’?”
            Calming his erratic breathing, the silverette sent one of his famous glares at the older vampire. “Must you sneak up on me like that?” he asked agitatedly.
            “I didn’t sneak,” Cloud corrected. “I merely walked up behind you silently and hid my presence.”
            “Same thing, asshole,” Riku growled.”
            “So, what were you doing?” he asked, making his way into the kitchen. “I see you’ve fed, too. Was that before or after you met up with Sora?” When no reply was offered, Cloud turned away from his cupboard snooping to see Riku staring at the floor. “Ah, so you fed off him. Not something to be ashamed about, Riku, and I’m sure he let you, didn’t he?”
            “Yeah,” came the simple reply, still weighted down with solemnity.
            “So what did you do after you fed on him?” Cloud asked, inserting in a slightly suggestive tone that had Riku’s cheeks red in an instant.
            “W-we didn’t do that!” the teenager shouted, covering his mouth afterwards for fear he woke his parents. “We just stayed up all night watching movies, Sora, and Roxas, and Axel, and Leon, and I.”
            “Leon, too?” the blonde asked, nearly cracking up when Riku nodded yes. “The kids must have convinced him to do it; he’s always had a soft spot for them.” For not the first time, Riku wondered just how far back Leon and Cloud went, but he kept his mouth shut. There were several hints it was before the former became a hunter. Voice turning serious, Cloud continued, “But I will warn you this, be careful when you do have sex with Sora.”
            “What makes you think I’m going to sleep with him?” Riku asked, kind of irate that Cloud was prying into his personal life.
            “If not Sora then it will be someone else later, though I doubt you’ll be leaving the kid anytime soon,” Cloud stated. “That is, unless you’re planning on being a virgin for the rest of you immortal life. All I wanted to say was be careful. At such a young age you will have a harder time controlling your vampiric impulses. As such, if you were to sleep with him, I’d say probably if you haven’t drank blood in two weeks, there is a good chance you would lose control and turn him.” A grave expression came over Riku’s features, and the young fledgling became rooted to the spot. “It is there in every vampire, it’s just that the older you get the easier it is to control the desire. Understand?”
            The silverette gave stiff nod, gulping down an uncomfortable lump in his throat. “Why is it only during sex? Why not while feeding?” he asked.
            “Because turning a human into a vampire isn’t part of the feeding instinct, but it does have a foot in the reproductive one. Because way back when all vampires could reproduce with one of their own kind. So, if a vampire fell in love with a human, the instinct was to turn them so children could be made. It’s never been extinguished from the gene pool, even though most vampires are infertile now.”

            Riku once more found himself in front of the entrance to Castle Oblivion. It was light out, and the club didn’t open until dusk, so he knew there wouldn’t be the problem of interfering with customers. Xemnas had changed the place a bit, making it into a lounge and bar instead of a host bar. All the employees were vampires now, too, including the four bouncers, Lexaeus, Xaldin, Xigbar, and Saix.
            Opening the door with a defeated sigh, he was immediately greeted by a face he didn’t recognize. “Sorry, kiddy, we aren’t open now,” the blonde woman said, her nose just an inch from his.
            “Hey Riku!” Demyx said right about the same time the girl spoke. She whipped her head around to stare at a grinning and waving Demyx, then shook her head and backed up a step. She seemed to give Riku a thoughtful look, before grinning, showing fangs and glowing blue eyes.
            She’s a Blue-eyes? Riku asked himself. That told him a lot. Cloud had told him before that there were two types of vampires, and the easiest way to tell them apart was with their eyes. They were separated into Blue-eyed and Red-eyed, the most notable difference between the two being that only the Blue-eyed vampires were fertile. They were rapidly on the decline, mainly from inter- and external family wars. At one point all vampires were Blue-eyed, but over the millennia of incorporating human blood into the lines, it thinned to the point where most vampires were Red-eyed, infertile. Blue-eyed vampires also had more strength and speed, and stronger abilities. Cloud’s ability to mend the broken glass from Sora’s window was an example of one of those abilities. With time, stronger Red-eyed vampires like Riku (who was turned by a vampire that was just barely a Red-eyes himself, seeing as to how his twin brother is a Blue-eyes) would be able to use some of those abilities, but not the level someone like Cloud could.
            “This one’s cute,” she said, moving towards him quite seductively. “Think the owner will mind if I play with him a bit?” she asked the other blonde in the room, lightly touching Riku’s shoulder.
The silverette was completely passive, unresponsive to her advances. Politely removing her hand from his body, he looked her right in the eyes and said, “Sorry love, I’m already taken.”
“What she don’t know won’t hurt her,” the girl cooed, hiking one of her legs up his sensually, still trying her game of lust.
Almost physically sighing, he leaned down so his mouth was next to her ear, wanting to be sure he heard him clearly. “I’m gay,” he stated flatly. Her movement stopped instantly, and puffing her cheeks irately, she detangled herself from his body.
“You’re no fun,” she whined, turning away from him and strutting away, muttering something about “now there’s more of them.”
Giving her one last, strange look, the silver-haired fledgling made his way over to the (still) waving blonde. “Riku’s come to visit again!” Demyx yelled, launching himself at Riku, who deftly moved out of the way, watching as the idiotic vampire landed on his face.
Zexion peeked around the corner from the backroom, surveying the scene before saying, “You’ve become quite adept at that.” Almost immediately his nose was back in his book.
“He caught me once, and I’m not making that mistake again,” Riku stated. He had come to the place a couple times before, judging the atmosphere and never quite earning up the courage to actually do what he came to do. Although, this was the first time he had seen that female vampire. “Who exactly was that? That’s the first time I’ve seen her… and she has a… strange… way of greeting people,” he said, his tone holding a hint of sarcasm.
“That’s Larxene, and you’ve been lucky enough to not meet her until now,” Zexion replied, receiving a “hey, I heard that” from the female across the room. “She’s from a very snobby family, and ran away to get away from it. Xemnas let her stay with us when we came across her, but she is gone most of the time before this place opens. As for her behavior… she normally sleeps with the people she drinks from.”
“What’s so wrong with that?” Larxene asked agitatedly. Somehow she had managed to get from the piano on the opposite wall to right behind Riku in a second. Speed like teleportation was another ability he’d learn later, once he got used to his body more. “We always just take blood and run, so I figured I should give my meals something in return!”
“Yes, yes, you’ve said this a hundred times before,” Zexion said, never looking up from the page. “You came here for a reason, right, Riku?”
“Yeah, is the owner in?” the silverette asked, voice kind of low and quiet.
“Um… Yeah… And it doesn’t look like the sign is on the door, so it should be safe to enter,” the slate-haired vampire stated, looking up fro the pages just long enough to look for the ‘do not enter’ sign.
            Figuring it was better not to ask, Riku just quickly eased himself out of the conversation and headed towards the door. Demyx, for some reason, had decided to stay on the floor where he fell, and the young vampire had to step over him. The blonde was immediately on his feet and beside him, smiling like an idiot. “Does this mean you’re going to stay with us?” he asked.
            “No,” Riku said to the male he had come to call friend. His face seemed to fall at that. “I’m just going to see if I can work here, that’s all.” Demyx cheered up a bit, but still looked disappointed. Nodding swiftly, he turned on his heels and ran to the quiet vampire in a bartender’s outfit, skidding to a stop right in front of his chair. Sighing, Zexion let go of his book long enough for Demyx to climb on his lap and position himself so he wasn’t in the way.
            Before he even had a chance to knock, Xemnas’ voice said from the other side of the door, “Come in.” Opening the wooden portal, Riku stepped inside and closed it. “You simply want a job, huh? Still don’t want to spend too much time with your own kind?”
            “I’ve had someone take me in already,” Riku stated, looking away. Xemnas had offered first, almost insisted on it, yet he turned him down. Then not a week later he let someone else in. No matter how he looked at it, it had to be some kind of blow to the proud vampire.
            “Can I ask you for their name?” he asked, folding his hands on his desk in an almost brooding manner.
            “Cloud,” Riku answered, surprised at the shock on the older male’s face. Yes, he knew Cloud was a high class vampire, but from the look of things, he didn’t entirely understand the situation.
            “Cloud, huh? Well, at least you are in good hands,” Xemnas muttered, staring off into a darkened corner of the room. “I just hope it doesn’t bring you too much trouble.” Sighing, he turned back to situation at hand. “Why exactly do you want a job? Why here? I though you despised vampires.”
            “Time changes opinions, I have seen that first hand and in the most astounding way. As for why here, I have taken the time to get to know some of your… clan, I think you called them at one point?”
            “They are mostly orphans or fledgling abandoned by their sires. Zexion and Saix are the only ones I turned. Saix asked me to, and Zexion was deathly ill. Vexen turned Marluxia, then joined up with us when hunters persistently tailed them. Xigbar, Xaldin, and Lexaeus were discovered by Saix. They were young, in vampire years, and on a self-destructive path; I helped them. Larxene, you heard from Demyx asked Zexion to turn him just as Saix had asked me. And Luxord simply asked if he could come with us. Out of all of us, excluding me, he is the oldest. We all ended up traveling together, and became akin to a clan,” Xemnas explained.
            Giving a nod to indicate he understood, Riku continued, “I have become friends with some of them, and I used to work at this place. As it is now, I am doing nothing to help my family, and I want to do something to contribute. At the same time, I am still young and I will have a lower chance of being revealed here.”
            Acting as if he was pondering it, Xemnas said, “Okay, you’re hired. I am guessing you have mixed drinks before?” A small nod was given. “Then you can work with Zexion and Luxord. That is, unless it is really slow, then I’ll put you on cleaning duty in the kitchen; Marluxia will probably like the help. That will also be your job before and after closing time, alright?”
            “Thanks?” Riku said, bowing slightly. “But if I may ask, doesn’t Demyx clean? Why doesn’t he help out in the kitchen?”
            “That boy is only allowed to touch dishes during meal times, and then only if they are firmly on the table. It is almost dangerous to just give him utensils…”

            A month is a long time, and a lot can happen in it. Over the course of a month, Cloud became so integrated in Riku’s family that it was almost like he had always been there, and just forget everything prior to a month before. He was slowly being let into the families past, through home videos and photo albums. His teachings to Riku were going smoothly too, and the silverette was well on his way to becoming an independent vampire. And in that month, Cloud had started to consider himself part of the family. As such, when there was a knock on the door, he got up from what he was doing to go answer it.
            In that month, it had only been luck that kept his whereabouts a secret.
            Sora visited often, so he was simply expecting it to be the teenager again. It was a brunette, but it wasn’t Sora. Both stood there, shocked and rooted in place, for a moment. Leon was the one to move first, launching himself suicidally at the vampire and tackling him to the floor. Cloud’s response was purely self-defense, knocking Leon’s weapon out of reach and preventing the hunter from retrieving any other piece of his deadly arsenal.
            They lay there, wrestling for an upper hand, for several minutes before Sora did show up. “Leon!” the kid yelled, distracting the older brunette just enough to allow Cloud time to safely slam the hunter against the wall. “Not in Riku’s house, you promised,” he said, lower lip quivering and unspilt tears forming in the corners of his eyes.
            “You knew this bastard was here, didn’t you?” Leon yelled. “That’s why you added those extra rules! Isn’t it?”
            “Yeah,” Sora admitted. “He is helping Riku. It’s because he is teaching Riku that Riku can go a month before he needs to feed. I don’t think he’s bad, Leon, or I would have told you. I don’t know why you hate him so much, and I may be wrong about him, but maybe you are too.”
            Scoffing, the hunter glared at the vampire pinning him. Swiftly, Cloud moved back, watching as Leon went and retrieved his weapon. Not even giving the two a glance, he stormed out the door, stopping several feet away. Without even turning his head, he said, “I suggest you don’t let me catch you outside of that house. For if I do, I will kill you.” And then he continued leaving.
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