Crimson Moonlight

Dark eyes scanned the white haired boy lying in the bed next to him, humming blissfully as he curled in the covers. He still seemed content, even after being scolded the last three times after Phoenix attempted to cuddle.

Dante didn't cuddle.

"Going for a drink." Dante grumbled, slipping out of bed and fully aware of the scarlet eyes that were tracing his hard corded, naked figure.

"Okay! Be careful!" The words were little but melodious bells.

He sighed, not even bothering to pull his dark hair into a pony-tail. He suddenly felt like he'd had a one night stand, and the other party didn't get the hint. Still, it wasn't at all bad. Phoenix was obedient, didn't speak out of turn, and was submissive to the highest level. He only asked to cuddle, which Dante refused, and occasionally attempted to call Dante by name, which he wouldn't allow.

"Don't leave." Dressed, he left, closing and locking the door behind him.

Phoenix pouted. Dante could be cold, but in the bed he always became more human. Growls, moans, and soft animalistic noises. And even if he did spank him, or clench him tightly, Dante always had a certain gentleness to him in sex, very mindful of his lovers limit and mindful not to breach it.

Smiling, wrapping himself in the motel bed's covers that were drenched in Dante's sweat and scent, he drown himself in the pleasant musk.

A knocking at the door. "Who is it?"

"Ayase."

Not bothering to ask for permission, he heard the brunette hunter's key unlock the door, the busty girl slipping into the room. She giggled and winked as she slipped onto the bed.

"Ms. Ayase, why are you here?"

"Don't call me Ms! Makes me seem old." In truth, Ayase was well over two hundred years old, of course being a demon her aging varied from humans and she was merely a teenager in demon years. "And I came to have some girl talk!"

"Girl...talk?"

"Yeah!" Her eyes lidded, Phoenix suddenly very aware of how close her face was to his. "How is he? I've never had him myself, no sticking the pen in company ink and everything. I've thought about it once or twice...cause god he is so good looking...but...y'know..."

"He's big..." Phoenix couldn't believe he even considered indulging sexual secrets with someone else. With Mathias, he'd never talk. But then, looking back, Mathias didn't compare with Dante in terms of sexual gratification. "Real big...the first time, when I was in heat, even then it scared me. I thought I was gonna rip down the middle." A blush crept across his bronze face.

"Oooh!"

"But...he's so gentle...even if he acts rough by spanking me..."

Her golden eyes widened. "He spanks you? Lemme see, your ass red?"

"N-No!" Phoenix stuttered. No way was he exposing himself to anyone that wasn't Dante.

"Aww...pwease..." She pouted. "It's not like I'm gonna stick my dick in you or anything....mostly from lack of having one but...."

Phoenix blushed, creeping out of the covers, keeping it held tight over his delicates as he carefully twisted his body and exposed his rather angry red ass. Even against the tanned skin, it was a very dark shade of red.

"Daaaaaaamn." Her words only caused Phoenix's blush to darken. "He let you have it good."

"I-It looks worse than it feels...." A pang of hurt in Phoenix's chest. "I just...I just wish that once, only once...that he'd kiss me...."

"He doesn't kiss you?"

A shaking of his head, the tussles of white hair dancing sadly in the light of the room. "No...he..he bites and kisses everywhere but my lips....I just...really want to feel his lips...he could do anything else to me..."

A wave of pity washed over Ayase, watching the scarlet eyes wetten with tears. Dante may have been a bad pick for him. The dark eyed hunter wasn't capable of coddling Phoenix. She wondered if he'd been abused by Mathias in the past. She personally knew the son-of a bitch, and he was a heavy drinker. And an angry drunk at that.

Phoenix didn't need sex. He needed love.

"You know something Snowball...." Phoenix wasn't sure how he felt about the nickname. "I like you." She hugged him, pulling him close and allowing the small trickle of tears to stain her blouse. "You need anything, just ask me, okay? I'll be big sis."

"Big...sis?"

"Yup. Now get some sleep. We're leaving early in the morning."

"Where are we going?"

"..." Ayase wasn't quite sure how to explain that they were going to capture the other seer, Ren, to fulfill their mission requirements. "Let us handle that...you just relax." Tucking Phoenix back into bed, and leaving an affectionate "Night, Snowball..." She left the room, shutting out the lights behind her.

Dante downed his third drink of the night. The whiskey's sweet inebriation was making lights dance in his head and was making the rather portly waitress tending him seem a little bit more attractive with each serving of liquor.

Another whiskey glass slammed onto his lone table. Who dared to interrupt his private time?

"You need to stop." That annoyingly chipper voice could only belong to his ditz of a partner. His dark eyes scanned the busty female that recently entered the bar. Ayase's golden eyes seemed ripe with anger as they glowered down at Dante.

"Stop what?"

"Stop confusing Phoenix! The poor thing's been alone for so long that he's confusing your perversions with affection! You're only going to end up hurting him!" Ayase downed her glass of whiskey, though never before feeling the need for encouragement to stand up to Dante.

"He doesn't say no..."

"Are you hearing me? Or are you too fucking drunk? He thinks you like him!"

"That's his fucking problem!" Dante barked. She was spoiling his drink. "And what the fuck does it matter if I wanna have a little fun? In a few days, it won't matter. After we capture the little bitch my brother's courted, we're dropping them both off to The Eyes cult and that'll be that. Or have you forgotten the rather large sum of money we've been paid?"

"I...I haven't forgotten..."

"Since when do you care anyway? You used to be all about the money."

"People can grow conscious', Dante."

"People can. We're demons, remember?"

Ayase growled, feeling a genuine anger toward her partner, something rare with her otherwise flaky personality. "Yeah, that's right. Fucking ironic statements. We hunt and kill our own kind for a few dollars."

"Whatever." Slamming his glass down, Dante rose from his chair, realizing maybe a little too fast when the bar began to spin. "Later." He left, daring the tender to make him pay his tab.

The next day was awkward for Phoenix. The train hummed a glorious theme as it sped down the tracks, contrasting Dante's silent seething as he sat across from him, his toned figure slouched as the dark eyes stay shut out from the world. Ayase had elected to get her own room on the train, too pissed to stay near Dante.

"M-Mr. Dante..."

"I told you not to call me by name."

"S-Sorry...I was just wondering...where we're heading."

"None of your business." He knew he was being harsher than usual, but a night being harped at by some girl will do that to you.

Nothing else was said. Obedient, and very perceptive. Phoenix knew when to shut up, a very good quality.

Warm arms wrapped around his waist, alerting his senses as his eyes sprung to life, darting to the source as he watched Phoenix smile and snuggle against him. Despite wanting to tear the little Seer limb from limb for his boldness, he found the embrace deeply comforting.

"What the holy hell are you doing?"

"Holding you...I know you don't feel well, and I want to make you feel better."

"Tch." He felt a growl escape his throat.

"We can have sex....if you want too. If it'll make you feel better, I don't mind. You can go rough...I don't really care if it's you."

"Is that what you want?" Ayase's words were still ringing clearly in his head, and for the first time he felt himself genuinely caring whether or not he'd have the boys body and mind. Normally, the body was all that mattered.

"If it'll make you feel better."

"That's not what I asked. Answer the question I asked, damn brat."

Fidgeting, suddenly needing Dante's warmth for himself, Phoenix took in a deep breath. "All I want is a kiss. Not passionate or anything. Just a simple connection of the lips. Loving and warm...that's all...all I ever really wanted." Not even Mathias gave him that.

"A kiss is all?"

"I just...wanna feel loved at least once."

Dante felt a pang shoot through his heart as he scanned the sad eyes that seemed to be on the verge of tears. Again, a first for Dante.

"Go away..." He growled.

"I-I'm sorry!" Phoenix scrambled for the right words. "I-I didn't mean to make you mad, master! I-I...P-please don't make me leave..." He didn't want to cry.

"That's not what I meant...." Dante ran his fingers through Phoenix's soft ivory hair that contrasted so beautifully with his tanned skin. "Get away so that I don't have to turn you over to that damn cult. Forget whoever that Mathias was and find someone who can take care of you, and love you like you deserve. I'm not equipped for it, little one." His normally harsh voice as soft. He wasn't sure if he felt something for Phoenix, or was still drunk from last night.

"Turn me over." The words alerted Dante. "I-I don't mind. As long as I can be by your side until it happens. You're harsh...but you're really kind. I can tell....Even if you don't love me, I'll be content to be by your side."

Fucking brat. Saying such corny things, and for them to actually affect Dante. "A kiss is all you want?" Must still be drunk.

"W-What?"

"Learn to answer my questions. Is a kiss all you want?"

Smiling from ear to ear, Phoenix nodded his head. "Y-Yes! Everything else is just icing."

"Then it's the least I can do. Close your eyes."

Shaking, heart pounding, and knees weak. Had he not been sitting, his knees would've buckled and he'd fall to the ground. The anticipation killed him, seconds became minutes, minutes became hours, hours became days. He almost wanted to reach out and just crush his lips to Dante's, but he wouldn't dare. This moment of intimacy was like a baby deer, make any movement and it would scamper away.

Soft. Too soft. In stark contrast with his hard toned frame, the lips against his were like sweet silk that pressed against his lips. So soft, so warm. No tongue in his mouth, no teeth nibbling his lips. Only strong hands gripping his sides and those tender lips against his own. And it was the only thing Phoenix ever wanted, and so much more than he expected. He whimpered when the lips pulled away, his eyes opening to verify what had just happened.

"Wipe that dumb look off your face. It was only a kiss." No, it was so much more. Dante was stunned by how much it had affected him. His blood had never before boiled so hot.

Before he could turn away from the intense ruby orbs, Phoenix again captured Dante's lips, not caring if the other scolded him. He nibbled Dante's soft lower lip, settling himself into the broad-chested hunter's lap and opening his mouth in a begging gesture for Dante to take initiative.

Phoenix was pleased when Dante took the hint, thrusting his tongue deep into Phoenix's mouth, raking the wet muscle over every inch of Phoenix's mouth, his hands exploring the curves and hollows of the Seer's body.

Their kiss broke, Phoenix never bothering to wipe the drool off his chin as he sank his face into Dante's solid chest. "S-So good..." Never before had he felt this way. He felt like he'd missed out for so long, despite being relatively young in demon years.

"Bad news." Phoenix felt alarm rack through him. Dante was pissed now. Yet, as he looked and drown into the black depths, he only saw mischief glinting. "The first kiss was free, you didn't ask for the second. Punishment time."

Shuddering, Phoenix relaxed, feeling Dante's electric fingers hook under his vest and push it off his shoulders. Those soft lips again pressed against him, their tongues dancing between their mouthes and Dante's large hand raked down his slender toned chest.

"S-So good...no one but you...could make me feel this way..." Choked hitches for air as Dante licked a slick trail down his bronze chest, Phoenix's hair wet and sticking to his face as he threw his head back in soft, muffled cries. "A-Are we really gonna do it in a train cabin?"

"Any problem with that?"

"No, no problem at all, master...." He kissed the top of Dante's head, still skiddish of punishment, but trying to take little initiative in small ways.

"Call me Dante if you want too." He lowered his head, holding Phoenix's body in a sitting position on his body as he took a coffee nub into his mouth, licking and biting the diamond bud.

"D-Dante!" He cried out, his hand clenched tight on the back of Dante's head.

"Yeah. There you go, scream my name, just like that. Makes me hot." He ground his erection against Phoenix's bottom.

"C-Can I take out your pony-tail?"

"Go ahead." He was treating the twin nipple to the same attention he'd gave the first. Clumsy fingers grabbed his hair-tie and almost harshly yanked it out, his black trickles spilling over his broad shoulders, purring as he felt Phoenix's fingers brush through them.

"May I..."

"Stop asking for permission all the damn time." Dante growled as he placed a rather cruel bite just below Phoenix's nipple, licking the purple blemish that formed. "If you want to do something, do it. I'm not gonna just not fuck you for doing it. You're getting fucked, whether you want it at this point, or not."

"I want it so bad..." Phoenix's fingers pushed the leather coat off of Dante's shoulders and tore open the shirt underneath. As Dante's tongue worked his body, bites and kisses along the flat of his stomach, he couldn't do the same to Dante's, but just looking was more than appealing, the hard toned body shimmering in the sun's golden light that peeked in through the train window.

"Take your pants off...you're gonna ride me."

Nodding, Phoenix pitifully got out of Dante's lap, slipping off the loosely clinging pants on his hips, his naked body exposed to Dante's lecherous eyes. Phoenix watched with eager eyes and a watering mouth as Dante pulled his very large sex from from the zipper hole of his jeans. He pulled some lube from his coat pocket, adding a very healthy slick-shine to his cock.

"Ready?"

Phoenix nodded, straddling Dante's waist and easing himself down onto Dante's large meat. Dante's nails raked into his thighs as he eased himself down, impaling himself completely on the meat. "Feel good?" He rumbled.

"Y-Yeah. Y-You're so big though."

"Take your time then." Dante pushed his lips against Phoenix's, feeling and enjoying the Seer melting under his touch.

"Danny!" The cabin door flung open, a very angry Ayase storming the room. "I've got more I want to-..." Her eyes fell on the two in a very intimate moment, a soft blush streaking across her face. "N-Nevermind...I'll come back later..." A nervous giggle and a swift retreat as Dante growled like a mad dog.

"Tch, bitch..."

"F-Forget it..." Phoenix sank himself to the hilt on Dante's cock, moaning against the lips pressed against his own as it teased his prostate. "S-So big..." He moaned, hot breath raking across Dante's lips.

"Start riding. I don't like being teased."

Obedient as always, Phoenix raised himself up, and gently sank himself back down, a gentle riding, his hands braced firm against Dante's chest.

"No, no, no. Not like that." As Phoenix raised himself up once more, Phoenix worried as a smirk slapped itself across Dante's face.

He pushed upward, burying himself rather harshly in Phoenix's heat. Phoenix cried out, clutching Dante's chest as the hunter began to buck his hips in a steady rhythm. Phoenix relinquished control, just riding on the bull of Dante's fucking, moaning and dripping with sweat.

"This is getting uncomfortable..."

Finding his world flipped upside down, Phoenix was flipped so that he was sitting in the chair, Dante over him as his dark eyes wrapped Phoenix in their intensity. Phoenix held onto Dante's back as though he might fall as Dante began to push harshly inside of him, intense humps that rocked Phoenix to his core and built liquid fire in his stomach.

Crooning his body up, Phoenix weakly pressed his lips against Dante's, though lacking the strength to make it rapturous, just short and sweet as Dante rolled his hips and thrust deep inside of him.

Dante's eyes raked over Phoenix's body, the beautiful golden form that quivered and flushed beneath him. Though trying to focus his gaze on the whole being, they continually fell upon one point.

The nape of his neck that teased and taunted him. Biting back the urge to sink his teeth in and make Phoenix his permanent bitch, he gave a few final pumps into Phoenix and emptied himself inside, watching as Phoenix's own orgasm tore from his body and splashed against his sun-kissed belly.

Panting, wet with sweat, and heaving, Phoenix clung desperately to Dante. "C-Could I stay like this...just for a moment."

"Tch...I don't cuddle." Contradicting his words, Dante pulled Phoenix close, feeling the sticky essence squish on his hard belly. "Just for a moment."

Ayase knew that all eyes were on her. She'd never felt so uncomfortable eating a corn dog before, but as every male in the train cafeteria gazed expectantly at her, she knew what was on all their minds.

She sighed.

"Get a hamburger next time, less sexy." Dante's large body sank into the chair across from hers, snatching the corn dog from her hands and taking a bite out of it. He dared any of the guys to find that attractive. "I need a favor..."

"What?"

"Contact our employers. Tell them that we're unable to locate Phoenix, and they'll have to settle for one Seer. We'll take the bitch my brother's mated and hand him over."

"Half the job? They'll want half the money back."

"That's fine."

She laughed. "You love him or something?"

"Nothing like that." He winced. "He can use demonic magic. That makes him useful to us. I think they paid us far to little to hand over someone that powerful."

"Mmmhmmm..." She teased.

"Ooooh! Corn dog!" Phoenix, having followed Dante, leapt into the chair next to his, snatching the corn dog from his hands and taking a bite of it. All the guys were drooling as the feminine boy took the phallic food into his mouth.

Dante growled. At Phoenix for taking his corn dog, and all of the guys ogling him.

Phoenix waved the corn dog in Dante's face, a bright smile plastered on him. It was attractive, Dante couldn't deny it. "Wanna bite?"

He sighed, allowing Phoenix to push the breaded meat in his mouth and taking a bite of it. No sooner than the bite was taken, Phoenix was pushing his lips to Dante's, tasting the sweat sausage on his lips.

A few "yucks" a few "awws" and Ayase giggling like a school girl. Dante sighed as the kiss broke, swallowing the bite down.

He really didn't want to have to explain public displays of affection to the dumb Seer.

"You two...are sooo cute..."

"Shut it, Ayase..." Dante couldn't believe he hadn't yet punched Phoenix as the limber boy wrapped his body around him.

********************************************
Extremely quick update! I went for a super-cute Phoenix this chapter. Hehehe, he's so in love. I know this chapter doesn't follow my teaser, and it's the second time. I was writing that chapter, and checked my reviews and saw the overwhelming want of some Phoenix/Dante so I adjusted it. Besides, that story ark with the Seer worshipping cult will work better if I've gotten a little of this pair established (in that there's some affection between the two.) I love this pair though! Expect more chapters devoted to just these two in the future (and of course their tie ins with the main story)

Seriously, thanks to all who read, enjoyed, and rated. Special, MEGA thanks to my reviewers who I always give a shout out too, so thanks too kylee, Nutty, katzies, SecondStoreyStairwell and my_perversities for their reviews. You guys wanting Phoenix/Dante made this chapter happen, so thanks to you all for making me realize I love this pairing. Btw, the next chapter will follow the teaser. Promise.

Teaser: Dante finds himself more than pissed off when the cult, The Eyes, takes his new boy-toy. Ren finds himself in a bind as well, when Kyrios is taken by the same cult in a misunderstanding.