The war chapter 16

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Aiba squeaked as he watched the werewolf prince walk off with the vampire leaving him alone with the vampire prince and the Ohno’s wife. He was glad that Nino was looking healthy again but he couldn’t understand how any of this had happened. Sho…Sakurai the vampire prince had told him that his friend and owner had gotten into trouble and done something both stupid and dangerous. That much was obvious for even him and he couldn’t work out how this was going to work for either of the two that had gone upstairs looking like a couple in love.

“Ouch!’ He shouted when teeth sank into his hand and he looked down to see a beautiful pair of blue eyes looking up at him a cute little cherub shaped mouth wrapped around his thumb.

“Rhian, no! Let him go!” Sakurai barked his eyes flashing a deep red and the little girl immediately let go hanging her head blue eyes flashing through an array of blues.

“But his blood tastes sweet…” Rhian whined loudly and Aiba had to admit that he felt more nervous here then he ever had in the werewolf camp. Not once had Nino ever tried to eat him even when he had been at his snappiest this week.

“That isn’t the point” Sakurai snapped making the girl fall silent again as he  took his hand studying the little wounds that were still bleeding a little. “Sorry about that…”

“Um…It’s okay…Um…” Aiba whispered flushing under the stare that he was getting from vampire. It was a hungry look but not like he wanted to eat him, it was something else that made his heart dance and a shiver face up and down his spine. The vampire gave a smile squeezing the hand a little before letting him go.

“You will have to come with me, angeli…” The vampire said and Aiba wished that he had asked Nino to help him study the old languages. Werewolves and vampires it seemed, spoke with a mixture of English, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, and some times even ancient Egyptian. They had been around for a very long time and they had picked up a mix of everything. They had a common tongue but Aiba liked it when Nino slipped when he was very angry and upset. He could guess that angeli meant angel and that caused him to blush as his heart beat frantically against his ribs. “I doubt that you would be safe here…”

“I said that I was sorry uncle Sho…” The little girl said her feet shuffling on the tiles her  hands behind her back and even Aiba felt sorry for her though it was his hand that was still stinging. He didn’t want to stay, even though he didn’t want to leave Nino, the woman was giving him angry looks her lips pressed together in a thin pale blue line her hands resting on her hips.

“It doesn’t matter…There isn’t room here for angeli to stay…” Sakurai said and Aiba found himself swallowing down a lump from his throat “My apartment in the library will be much better…And your friend will be coming there when he wakes up…”

“You should leave now…” The woman said bluntly and Aiba hung his head at the sharp tone the rope around his throat tightening a little as Sakurai led him out of the kitchen and through the living room out into the hall. From up stairs he could hear a series of low grunts and moans and Aiba blushed thinking about what was happening up there wondering how they were going to explain that to the little girl. “


You shouldn’t take it to heart, angeli, my sister is not normally like that…” Sakurai told him as they walked through the foyer of the apartment building and then out onto the street. There was nobody visibly in sight but Aiba could feel them in the shadows looking down at him and with a shiver he actually took a step closer to the vampire prince. “And my niece…She is not used to being around humans…She is so young that the call of her blood is like a painful ache within her…It is why we normally separate the children from the livestock…I mean humans…”

Aiba’s ears burned at the term ‘livestock’ he had heard it a lot of the time growing up, never within hearing distance of Nino though…Not since that first and last time when Nino had first turned into his alpha wolf in front of him. The male werewolf hadn’t known what hit him when the alpha wolf was suddenly sitting on his chest and snarling down at him. Nino refused to call him as anything more than a friend but Aiba knew that the werewolf prince thought of him as his brother or maybe even a son. It was amusing since he was now taller than he was.

“It’s okay! You don’t know any better…” Aiba shrugged with more confidence than somebody with a rope around their throat and hands should. But he knew danger, he had been trained to it his whole life and he couldn’t feel any danger coming off of the proud and important vampire. There was tons of amusement and interest though and Aiba knew that he wasn’t going to be harmed in anyway “You’ll always think of us as food…Like we’ll always think of you as the enemy…”

“Oh? And are the werewolves any better?” Sakurai asked tugging on the rope enough to make him look at him and Aiba gave a little shrug and a smile.

“Not all of them no, but Nino is…He doesn’t think of me as food…” He answered and Sakurai let out an almost loud laugh that he quickly reined in his head shaking from side to side as he hummed in agreement leading him up a set of broken stairs. He wasn’t sure where he was being led but it felt a long way from Nino and for the first time Aiba wished that he had put up more of a fight to stay.

“No, he thinks of you as a pet…” Sakurai mumbled bringing him back to the conversation and Aiba laughed his cheeks flushed a little.

“hehe…He says that when he’s embarrassed that’s all!” He said confidently. He had been given to Nino as a pet 17 years ago when he had only been 1 years old. Nino was all he had ever known but as he was so nice and so loving that had never bothered him. Until recently his life and been solely in the house on the castle grounds and they had been pretty happy together. When it had been announced that Nino would be leaving to join the fighting Aiba had insisted on going with him “He’s my best friend…”

“...A strange relationship…” Sakurai hummed and Aiba shrugged looking up and wondering where they were going. So far they seemed to have moved right away from the battle fields and into the heart of an old city. His feet were growing tired but Sakurai didn’t seem to sho any signs of tiring. Their conversation stopped for a while and Aiba stayed as close to the vampire as he could. The dead city stretched out all around him and he found it impossible to believe that there were once thousands of people, humans, living and working here. “You do not fear me but you fear the ghosts of a city?”

“I don’t find you very scary…” Aiba shrugged as a cool wind whipped around him. There was no night or day but the light did dip and it had now chilling the air. He had been born with a special trait, something that Nino had always told him that he had to keep a secret. Ever since he could remember he had been able to read auras of people. It was why he didn’t feel scared being alone with Sakurai like this. He could read his aura. His was darker than Nino’s but it was also lonelier and it had a beautiful red glow that told him that he was to be trusted. The city on the other hand, it was dark and oppressive and he was glad of the red glow from Sakurai.

“You are a very strange human…Most people do find me scary…I am a crown prince…” Sakurai said and Aiba was glad that he sounded more amused than offended and he gave a grin.

“So is Nino…You just don’t have a scary aura…You…” Aiba groaned realising that he had said too much when the weird red eyes turned to look at him with amusement and understanding.

“An empath…Hmm, how interesting…” Sakurai said pulling a golden key from around his neck and Aiba looked up in surprise to find that they had come to a stop in front of a door that was three times bigger than it needed to be. “Welcome to my home…”

TBC

A/N; I’m sorry about this! I was trying to save and the app froze causing me to loose more than half of what I had written >:[ so I had to re-write it and it was late so I'm worried that it isn't that great  >.< I hope it’s okay >.<