EN AU: part one

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Kippei was hungry, again, but that wasn't new. He was also busy, and that was. Sort of. He'd been continually busy since he'd woken up this time, and he was pretty sure that was unusual, not that he remembered precisely. Whatever. What mattered was now, and the fact that he hadn't just woken up, but he'd been jarred awake by something that it had taken him awhile to figure out--later, after he'd already reacted to it. He'd found himself tracking something, someone, following him to a place Kippei didn't recognize where there were far too many people. It was necessary, somehow, the sense of this human was fascinating.

Kippei had been watching him for several weeks now, which was keeping him busy indeed, and also frustrated, and had realised that the human was a pet (that should have been obvious, but he woke up slow, so sue him), his name was Shinji, and he belonged to a vampire named Akutsu. Kippei grinned to himself, showing all his teeth; it wasn't exactly a pleasant expression. Unfortunate that simply killing Akutsu and taking Shinji was likely to be more trouble than he wanted; he'd prefer to steal Shinji and disappear, but killing people, even other vampires, tended to make disappearing more difficult than he liked. Therefore, he was watching and learning the pattern of the house and working on coming up with another plan, taking the occasional break to feed when he really, really had to. It would be a hell of a lot easier if the human ever came out of the damn house. Jumping him would be easier, and stealing him too. Either, both, preferably both at once.

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Kippei shook his head, reaching out again to trace the line of Shinji's collarbone. Really, it was hard to keep his hands off him. Something about him was just fascinating, and it made Kippei's whole body ache with hunger and need.

"I can stop you," he growled, a low rough sound and he was still grinning, rather like a wolf. He moved closer again, straddling Shinji's legs and sitting on them so he couldn't kick anymore. "I'm going to keep you," he murmured, leaning down to capture Shinji's hands and licking his cheek again. "You're mine," he breathed against Shinji's skin. "You're part of me, you belong to me. You belong here." With me.

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Shinji struggled, but it was rather useless with Kippei sitting on him and holding his hands still and licking him and he had never felt so completely powerless. At least Akutsu took his thoughts and feelings into consideration and played by clan rules. Akutsu loved him despite what he wanted. Tachibana Kippei loved what Tachibana Kippei wanted, and that was that apparently. Still, Shinji shivered at the words; the kinds of things he had never imagined anyone would ever say to him. They made him feel...special. Like someone wasn't just waiting for an excuse to get rid of him. The kinds of things he had only ever dreamt Master would say to him. It damn near broke his heart to hear them from a stranger's lips.

"Who are you?" He didn't understand why it hurt so bad.

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Kippei studied him for a minute, the pain in the dark blue eyes, and it made him sigh. Shinji was making things more complicated than they had to be. He should realize that. It was very simple really.

"I'm yours," he said, shrugging matter of factly. Obviously, if Shinji was his then he was Shinji's. "What, you think I wanted a pet?" he asked, amused.

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"But..." Shinji frowned, even more confused. "...I'm a pet. What else would you want me for, its what I am, Im not anything else." It was confusing and it hurt and he couldn't move or run away and he didn't want anyone to bite him; never wanted Master to hate him and he wanted to go home and it all piled up and he suddenly clenched his eyes shut and burst into tears.

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"Mmmm," Kippei answered, distracted by the tears. Really not fair for him to be so damn pretty when he cried. "I'm going to keep you," he answered absently. How many times did he have to say it? Shinji was doing way too much thinking about this.

Kippei himself had hardly thought about it at all. It was just the way it was. Shinji was his, Kippei wanted to keep him, permanently, and the fact that Shinji was a human pet who belonged to someone else was a minor detail. "I want you," he murmured huskily, leaning down to lick the tears off of Shinji's cheeks. "I want you forever."

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Keep him? Like...huh?

"Forever? You....you would never sell me? Ever? I can stay with you even when I'm old? All the way til then? Til I die? You would keep me forever?" No one ever kept a pet that long. It had to be a trick to get him to let the vampire drink, but it was tempting as all hell. Tachibana Kippei knew exactly the right things to say; the things Shinji most wanted to hear. The cool tongue on his cheeks made him shiver and lean in to the wet touch.

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Kippei leaned back a little, keeping hold of Shinji's hands, though he changed his grip so he was more holding them, caressing, than keeping them prisoner. He doubted Shinji could hit him hard enough to matter even if he decided he wanted to try. He tilted his head again, giving Shinji a half-puzzled, half-irritated look.

"Are you still not listening? I said that already." Several times. "I want to keep you forever. I'm not going to let you die. You're mine and I want you and I'm not letting go of you ever."

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Shinji frowned, settling down because he had to think and panicking and crying wasn't helping when Kippei just took it as a nice excuse to lick him. Forever. But this wasn't Akutsu...Shinji wanted to stay with Akutsu for forever.

"Pets die, stupid. How old are you anyway? I didn't know they made stupid vampires."

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Kippei shook his head impatiently. Was he being dense on purpose? "I'm not the one who's stupid," he growled, moving his hands to Shinji's shoulders and shaking him a little. "Pay some fucking attention for once. I said I didn't want a pet. Humans die and I'm not going to let you. You can't stay a human." He let go and sat back on Shinji's legs, frowning a bit. He knew Shinji wasn't stupid; he didn't know how he knew that, but he did. He was being very incredibly stubborn, however, and Kippei was running out of patience.

"You know, I don't have to let you agree to this," he pointed out. "I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with you in the first place." He was muttering to himself now, more than a little annoyed. Actually he knew why he was bothering to argue--it had been fun and interesting and sexy, but he was bored now.

"Here, shut up," he ordered, and he pushed Shinji back down on the bed, leaning down to lick at his neck again, swiping his tongue over the pulse there and sucking on it briefly, and then, finally, sinking his teeth in with a soft growl and drinking deeply of that intoxicating blood. God, Shinji tasted as good as he smelled; it made him shudder with the shock of pleasure.

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No! No, no no no no oh god no! Tears flooded down Shinji's cheeks and he went completely limp from the shock of it. No one else had ever bitten him; no other teeth had ever touched his flesh. No one had dared. It had never hurt so badly; nothing ever had. He just lay there, staring at the ceiling in shock, too stunned to move. Too filled with a desperation to believe it wasn't true to stop him from continuing what he had already started. It was done anyway; he would never be clean again. Master wouldn't want him...ever again. He was better off dead.

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Kippei drank more than he meant to--he had intended to make a point, nothing more. But Shinji tasted good, better than good, and it took him a minute to remember that this was not the best time and place to leave Shinji too weak to move. He licked apologetically at the wound, then looked up at Shinji, frowning slightly when he saw that Shinji was crying again. So damn stubborn. Kippei sat up, rolling off of him and then reached down to pick him up, pulling Shinji into his arms and swiping gently at the tears with the back of one finger.

"It's all right," he murmured, feeling relieved now that it was done, that link to Shinji's old life broken, for Kippei knew as well as Shinji did that Akutsu would not be happy to have his pet tainted by someone else. He was a little bit sorry, but only a little bit. If he was going to keep Shinji, there was no other way.

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"It's not alright!" Shinji mumbled brokenly and he felt lethargic as all hell to boot. He wrapped his arms loosely around Kippei's neck, because he was all he had and he just cried for a life he had adored; still adored and wanted back and god, could Tachibana Kippei really give him even a tiny piece of that back? It wasn't possible surely; he had to die, but he couldn't even find the strength to struggle out of that strong grip.

"What did you do? What have you done? You ruined everything. I told you not to and you did...why did you do that, you weren't supposed to do that..." He was just mumbling incoherantly, no more able to stop his mouth than he had been able to stop Kippei.

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"Hush," Kippei told him, tired of explaining, but he spoke gentler than he might have, enjoying the feeling of Shinji in his arms, right where he belonged. "I told you, I'm keeping you. Forever. Sleep now. We're leaving soon." He laid Shinji down again and curled up around him, sighing contentedly and nuzzling his temple, unable to keep from making soft little licks at the skin, down the side of Shinji's face and kissing the rise of his cheekbone.

"I promise, it's going to be alright," he said firmly, looking down at Shinji's sad, tired face, and thinking again how pretty he was when he cried. He smiled faintly to himself; Shinji would get over it, he was sure, but even if he didn't, he was still beautiful and he was Kippei's and Kippei was never going to let him go. He couldn't quite resist the temptation to kiss Shinji one more time, claiming his mouth the way he wanted to claim the rest of him, an insistent, relentless kiss, but slow and gentle for all of that. He'd told Shinji that he was going to like it, and Kippei was determined to show him that it wasn't the end--it was just the beginning of the way things were supposed to be.