Promise

Hello readers. I want to give a special thanks to Wing, Dragonfire04 and kerrie. T-T your reviews mean so much to this authoress. That's why i'm posting this now.

I got a call in for a job so it may be a while before i am able to post again, so i'm posting what i have done of chapter 5. I hope you enjoy it and you review.


Chapter 5- A monster from the past

Irihi froze in his seat inside the pub. A strange sensation ran through his cold veins, heating his body from within. His nails bit into the table, his eyes glowing red for a moment. The pure look of astonishment on his face alerted the vampiress clinging to him.

Ruby ran her fingers up and down Irihis arm and down his shirt playfully, hiding her sudden alertness behind a seductive smile. She looked up as the ‘meal’ she’d ordered was set on the table in front of them and she smirked, pulling Irihis arm looking at the pale white body, it’s heart still beating slightly out in the open air. “beloved,” she purred. “Why don’t we share this together. It is what lover’s like us do after all.”

Irihi pulled his arm from her grasps, rising from his seat at the table without a word. Ruby growled, attempting to reclaim her grasp, her nails catching at Irihis cloak as he moved towards the door. The cloak slid through her fingers like water, evasive as Irihi was of her grip

Malakai chuckled behind his glass causing the red eyed woman to narrow them on the black haired vampire. He smirked at her and nodded to himself. Things were going as planned. The bond the pendent created between the two would most defiantly alert Irihi to the teens predicament.

But the two he’d sent, by now, would have torn the slayer apart or the teen would do exactly as he hoped and kill the two lupins.

“relax, my dear,” he purred. “for all goes according to plan.”

Ruby gave him a chilling glare. “This plan of your had better not harm one hair on my lords head,” she said sharply, her red eyes cutting at him.

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Tsukiyo rushed towards the back of the house, blood running heavily down his leg. The torn flesh made a sick sound as he moved, and the blood ran hot to cold as it rushed from the new wounds. He let out a feral growl as the male jumped at him from the front, slashing at his chest with yellowed claws.

Those claws dug four deep furrows in his chest as he jumped back too late. He stumbled hitting the wall, smearing the red liquid onto the wood. The two lupins paused sniffing the air and licking at the blood already on the floor. The scent of blood was driving them into an even greater frenzy

He turned and ran into a separate room. His fathers room. He knew his father had kept an old wooden sword under his bed. A wooden toy of sharpened wood. He reached beneath the bed, gripping the wooden toy just as the female jumped on top of him, her fangs sinking once more into the already torn flesh of his leg.
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Malakai eyed the ‘meal’ in front of him darkly and lifted his eyes to Ruby.

“Fear not,” he chuckled reassuringly. “Your lord will ne’er be harmed…..this is all merely a test. We must find the weak leak in the slayers bond to your lord…”

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Tsukiyo let out a dark scream of pain, violently twisting, his mind blocking out the burning pain as the lupins fangs dug deeper into the macabre flesh of his wounded leg. He thrust the wooden toy forward, plunging it into the creatures chest, ripping it back out, his breathing labored, eyes wide.

The creature let out an ungodly scream, crumpling to the ground twitching and writhing as if in great pain before it’s body crumpled into a fine black ash on the floor.
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“You cold have asked me,” Ruby grinned. “Don’t humans say the truth sets you free?” She sipped the dark crimson liquid from her glass, teasing the edge with her tongue. “What exactly would the truth do…hmm?”
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The male lupin hissed wickedly entering the room, crawling on it’s belly like a cautious animal, saliva and dark blood dripping from it’s yellowed fangs and claws.

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Malakai smirked faintly tipping his own glass to Ruby. “The truth will get us everything. I have my fun…and then you can attempt your own method.”

He drank deeply, draining the goblet sighing in dark delight. His yellow eyes glittered hungrily as he licked drops of scarlet from the rim.
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Irihi burst into Tsukiyo’s home, nearly loosing his ungodly balance as he came through the hallowed doorway.

“Tsuki!?”

The signs of battle were obvious and the very familiar scent of blood pilfered the air. But that wasn’t what sent Irihis cold heart even colder. The scent was Tsukiyos blood, and much of it, but worse still, the filthiest stench lingered among the blood scent.

Horror filled Irihis ice blue eyes. He would knew the stench of a lupin anyway. Half vampire, half werewolf, Lupins were crazed blood thirsty creatures that held no morals and only insatiable blood lust. “Tsukiyo!?”

He ran into the houses deeper parts, trying to sift out Tsukiyo’s scent from the strong odors.

Tsukiyo looked up from the crouching lupin in the doorway, Irihis voice echoing through the empty rooms. The moment his attention altered the lupin jumped at him. Tsukiyo let out a sharp angry cry, slipping down and thrusting the sword up. The lupin impaled itself on the sharp wooden toy, collapsing on top of him. It’s weight was crushing.

“Irihi!” he cried out, his eyes wide, as he struggled helplessly to push the beast off of him. Unlike the other it wasn’t rotting. He’d missed the lupins heart and surely did not wish to be beneath it when it arose from the shock of being impaled.

Irihi rushed towards the sound of Tsukiyo’s voice, his eyes narrowing in rage at the scene before him. As easily as picking up a feather, Irihi lifted the lupin from atop of Tsukiyo and swiftly ensured it’s death. Shaking the ash from his hands he knelt over picking up the teen into his arms, staring into Tsukiyo’s almost black eyes.

“No other but him could have done this…,” he murmured to himself. “He seeks you once more?”

Tsukiyo stared up into Irihi’s face, his cream skin ashen, his cheeks streaked with dirt and blood. The wound on his leg had begun to halt its feverish bleeding, but the deep furrows raked across his chest and the deep bite wound from the male still bled.

“who?” he whispered softly, pressing closer to Irihis chest, which strangely, felt hot against his skin.

“The one you spoke of before, your families murderer. Do ye not remember?”

Tsukiyo managed to give the worried vampire a half hearted glare. “I do not remember his name…but these are his creatures. These type of Lupins are what attacked my family….they are starved beyond all thought or reason. Their only instinct is to feed…”

Irihi cradled Tsukiyo close to his chest, hushing the boy gently as he left the room, heading into another room, untouched by the violence that had occurred.

“where do you keep your supplies?”

Tsukiyo winced trying to sit up. He lifted his arm and point to a small hatch door. Irihi had taken his into one of the slayers rooms, oddly enough, the room of their medic. The hatch led to a spare room in the catacombs where the medical supplies wee always kept graciously stocked.

Irihi followed the direction Tsukiyo directed and opened the small hatch staring down the dark stairs.

“Donna move,” he demanded gently as he descended into the dark room, his eyes easily searching through the darkness surrounding the supplies. One by one he went through separate baskets filled with herbal remedies and medicines, followed by bandages and a needle and thread.

He moved back up the stairs and approached the bed, showing Tsukiyo the medicines he’d picked up. He did not know much about humans or their bodies, just how easily they succumbed to infection and disease.

Setting down the small pile Tsukiyo picked up a small bottle and took out two small green leaves. Herbs swallowed to ease pain. He went to the faucet in the room and filled a basin with luke warm water and took a cloth from one of the shelves. He fed the two leaves to Tsukiyo and peeled off the remains of his shirt. He lifted up the wet cloth, slowly cleaning the blood away from open wounds.

Tsukiyo winced as Irihi cleaned away the blood from the furrows and though the herb helped to numb the sharper pains, it did not take all of it away. He looked up at Irihi with a glance, feeling oddly ashamed he’d allowed himself to get attacked as he did.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered softly causing Irihi to turn, staring into the teens shame-dark eyes.

“Sorry for what?”

“For being so careless….so foolish,” he said wincing as Irihi applied some pressure to the cloth. “I did not expect to be attacked by those creatures…I thought that monster to be gone…but…”

“He’s still out here,” Irihi finished for him and shook his head. “It is nothing for you to blame yourself for. I, my dear friend, should be blamed for not protecting you as I should have. Instead I was elsewhere.”

His gaze dropped to Tsukiyos open wounds, his tongue flicking out to lick the corner of his mouth. He resented the urge to lick away to new blood from the teens wound. The blood smelled so fresh and young. He felt it through the pit of his being, his stomach clawing with hunger and lust for just the tiniest taste. Silently, with inner disgust he refused.

Preoccupied, he did not notice the faint blush and the annoyed frown that crowned Tsukiyos face. “I do not need constant protection,” he whispered softly, slightly embarrassed. His heart jumped violently every time Irihis graceful, long fingers touched his ivory skin.

His breath caught catching a flash of something heated in his dear friends eyes.

Irihi arose from his position and threw the bloodied rags in a nearby corner. “You are aware that someone is after you and I’m possibly in their way. For all I can believe, this could have all be plotted. I do not want you hurt, Tsuki. I wouldn’t like to see my only friend killed.”

Irihi exited the room, maneuvering down the hall to the kitchen of the large house. Suddenly saddened, Tsukiyo eased off the bed, wincing as pain racked his body, his leg burning though he ignored the throbbing and followed the vampires path, moving into the kitchen to stand behind him.

“Irihi…forgive me. I did not stop to think about how…how you felt,” he said, his tone low with shame. Irihi turned around and walked up to him, silently lifting him, once more taking him back to the other room. Then he left the room and returned with a small glass, setting it on the beds stand.

“You’ll need this. Drink it swiftly, so I can complete your healing.”

Tsukiyo smiled faintly and nodded, picking up the glass. He recognized the scent of the herbs mixed into the liquid. They were often used to kill infection. He tipped the glass and drank the concoction down, ignoring the natural bitter taste.

Irihi watched as Tsukiyo drank down the bitter smelling liquid to the last drop. His body stilled as his gaze fell to the teens convulsing throat, moving temptingly with each swallow. He took the glass and sat it on the floor and picked up the bandages on the floor and quickly unrolled them from their wrappers.

“The night is getting old. I should be heading back to the grounds soon. Do you think you will do fine alone, or do you wish for my company?”

Tskuiyo smiled faintly, the faint smile growing warm after a moment, his eyes shuttering slightly. “I believe…I will be fine for one day. During the daylight hours I am safe…I would not wish for your kiss to become suspicious of your absence.”

Finishing the bandaging, Irihi tightened the knot and then hugged his friend, burying his nose in his hair. The teen smelled of sandal wood and of fire. And of blood. “That would be fine…I suppose.”

Tsukiyo leaned against his, his eyes closing as he relaxed in the older mans arms. His lips parted as he whispered, “…yes.”

Irihi took pause as he caught another whiff of Tsukiyo’s hot blood under the fresh bandages. He could feel it rushing through the teens veins, feel it flowing into his. Without a second thought, he pulled the bandages on his chest back slightly, just enough to see the torn skin and gently latched his fair lips over the fresh bleeding wound, sucking gently, lapping at the scarlet liquid with relish.

As he did so, his hands curved around Tsukiyos back, his hands caressing in small motional circles. Tsukiyo’s breath caught, his eyes fluttering slightly, his hand tightening, grasping onto Irihis shirt. His lips parted to whisper but nothing short of a small breath escape.

The vampires mouth on his body, on his wound, seemed to chase back all the pain, his graceful hands on his back sending his muscles into a state of relaxation he’d never dreamt of.

Irihis eyes snapped open suddenly, pulling back, Tsukiyos blood staining his lips. He licked it off, savoring the taste for a moment before pulling the bandages back in place, giving the teen an artic stare. “Good night, dear friend.”

Tsukiyo laid back on the bed, his eyesd fluttering shut, Irihis ice blue eyes the last thing he saw before he faded into darkness, an odd peace engulfing his, the pain of his wounds numbed.
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Irihi marched down the street, thoroughly disgusted with himself. He turned the corner, a mere block from Tsukiyos home. He paused seeing two familiar figures approaching him. Ruby brightened the moment she saw him and rushed to the vampire lord with open arms.

“I was afraid you’d abandoned me,” she exclaimed, attaching herself to his arm like a leech. “Irihi, love, don’t scare me like that anymore. We should stop teasing each other so much.”

Irihi ignored Ruby and turned his artic gaze onto Malakai. “You are apart of my kiss you said?”

Malakai smirked to himself seeing the thread of suspicious weaving itself through Irihis gaze. He nodded slowly, staring back, his yellow eyes glimmering with amusement. “I was, but back when the kiss fled from the slayer threat I went to earth and stayed in these lands. These lands which I had called home for many a century. Why inquire, my lord?”

He gave Irihi a taunting half smile, as if daring the lord to say what he knew the other man was thinking.

“I don’t trust outsiders.”

Irihi stormed past Malakai, mistakenly pulling ruby along side him. The vampiress glared daggers at the yellow eyes vampire, his thoughts obvious in her eyes.
She thought her plan the better. It would have been decisively quicker.

Malakai paused slightly, his nose flaring as the wind picked up a very familiar scent from Irihi. His eyes dilated with fury for a moment. Irihi had fed from his pet! The vampire fought down the possessive animal that rose growling inside of him and counter with, “I am not an outsider, my lord. I was a very close friend to your Lord father.”

He stared him down coolly, “Though it may take time for you to trust me as your father did.”

He glanced at ruby and smirked giving he a slight nod as if to say ‘go ahead with your plan’. He cared little as his own mind was already formulating a second plan.

“forgive my rudeness, But I have no memory of you. Being the reason I can not trust anyone I dare not trust in the presence of those I am destined to protect.”

Ruby internally flinched at Irihis words. Her red eyes flashed with cruelty and a sudden blood lust. His words were not meant for their kiss but for that human brat. She pushed away from the vampire lord with an angry hiss.

“Everyone in our kiss trusts him. You ne’er remember him because you were always roaming about freely. Your father let you and only you of the younger fledglings leave the site. You were favored, being his son. I, among the females, was favored and chosen to wed you, love. Or have you no memory of that neither?”

She hissed with the tongue and venom of a snake. Irihi did not even bother to spare her a glance. “I didn’t forget.”

Malakai smirked idly to himself. “Do not fight,” he chided gently, hiding his laughing eyes by closing them. He reached out and touched Rubys arm gently, a link created between the two through his power. ‘my dear, be at ease…we are able to break apart their pathetic bond…very soon.’

He removed his hand from her arm, shattering the link to her mind. Irihi began to walk ahead and Ruby stared after him. “I don’t understand.”

She held her head down as Malakai chuckled and raised his voice a bit. “Could it be that you have fallen in love with the human, Lord Irihi?”

That succeeded in forcing the vampire lord to hault, his voice calm as he responded, “what human do you speak of?”

Malakai smirked coolly. “The slayer of course. His blood scent is all over you…and it’s quite obvious…as to how the human spoiled chit feels about you.”

“I am afraid I am misunderstanding your words. He is only a friend. How woud you know anything about our friendship or how he feels?”

Irihi turned, keying in on Malakais words.

“He is a slayer and yet against our code you have encountered him thrice now since your return and he hasn’t attempted to harm you…nor Ruby who he believes is your friend…and you have yet to drain the child and rid our kind of his for good. But you merely tasted him as lovers do…”

The vampire smirked, waiting for Irihis rebuttal as he watched the man stop dead still hesitating.

“As stated before,” Irihi said slowly. “He is a friend. I stopped myself from killing him for he is not to be blamed for the deaths of other vampires. It is called survival.”

“Slayers kill with no thought nor reason,” malakai state softly. “their mere reason for existing is to kill our kind. Survival has no factor in what their kind do…”

He started walking away from them and glanced over his shoulder and smirked. “I’d figure out what you wish to do with the boy, Lord Irihi…before something snatched him from you. The death of a loved one can break even un-beating hearts.”

The black haired man vanished down the shadowed path, his footsteps silent as the nightfall.

Irihi let out a feral growl as Ruby ran up to him, latching onto his arm. “I want to go home,” she insisted, keeping her hold. “Let’s go home together.”

Irihi nodded sharply in agreement, glaring up at the sky where the night was already beginning to fade away.
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Hoep you enjoyed part of one chapter 5. I'll get the secondhalf finished first chance i am able.

Oh and there will be the much awaited intimacy scene between our vampire lord and slayer in chapter 6 so wait for it and you wont be disapointed.