krystalkatzficz | The War part 18 (Reply)

"Um..." Aiba swallowed his heart hammering against his ribs the sound of blush rushing past his ears. There was something in the vampires tone and the way that he had inched closer to him that made it hard to breathe. Aiba had always been attracted to both genders male and female and he suspected that the vampire in front of him was the same. He was a very attractive man and there was definitely more to him that met the eye. He had seen the way that people reacted around him but he could also see his aura and he knew that no matter what people thought he had a caring and almost lonely side. Anyone would, Aiba thought looking out of the window at the forest of books, if they were the ones sitting in here day in and day out. He smiled his heart calming down though butterflies were still preforming ballet inside his stomach as he said slowly “You know the story?”

“I know the truth…I heard it from the source…” Sakurai said with so much confidence in his tone that he actually believed him. Nino had always told him that the story was forgotten lost in history but then again the werewolves never had library like this one. Aiba wanted to hear the story so much but he suspected that if it was a common story that it wouldn’t be so much of a secret and he doubted if a human was meant to hear it. He licked his lips swallowing down another lump from his throat and asked;

“But…Isn’t it against the rules to tell me?”

“It’s against the rules for you to be in here…” The vampire smiled his fingers moving so quickly that it was like a blur in the corner of his eyes but when they touched his face it was gentle like a stray hair and the look that came into the vampires eyes was warm. Warmer than his fingers at least, werewolves were as warm as humans but vampires weren’t. They weren’t as cold as ice but they were far off it and Aiba wondered it had anything to do with their slower heartbeats and he wondered how Nino could cope with it. “But you are not meant to exist…So…I think that it will be fine to tell you…”

“What…What do you mean?” Aiba asked nervously, Nino had always told him that his ability was weird but he didn’t think that it was that special…At least not in a world where vampires and werewolves existed.

“You really don’t know do you? You’re a miracle and that is why I call you Angeli” Sakurai told him with a strange little smile on his face his fingers continuing to move across his face tracing every feature that he had slowly “The perfect fusion of a vampire and human…”

“…What?”

“One of your parents…Was a vampire…” Sakurai told him and Aiba swallowed deep again breathing through his noise “I would think it most likely that it would be your father as it was harder for vampire women to conceive with human men…”

“…My dad was a vampire?” Aiba asked slowly refusing to take that in as he ran his tongue over his teeth. They were perfectly straight without the sharp pointed canines that Sakurai had. There was no deceit coming from the man though so that men that he was telling what he thought was the truth “How can I be half vampire…I can’t even stand the sight of blood?”

“…The half breeds…They had all of our strengths but none of our weaknesses…Let me tell you the story, Angeli…” Sakurai said and slowly Aiba nodded knowing that there was going to be a lot of explaining needed for this because he just couldn’t understand how he had suddenly gone from being a weird human to a half vampire that shouldn’t exist. “Okay…You know that we are very old…In fact it was the Persians were one of the first civilizations to have tales of blood-drinking demons. My family line is from Ancient Babylonia and Assyria and I’m the direct descendent of Lilitu the first vampire…She was the mother of Lilith…”

“Who?” Aiba asked feeling a little guilty that he had, Sakurai had said it with such determination and almost pride in his voice that he honestly did feel bad that he had no idea who Lilitu and Lilith were. Sakurai didn’t seem to mind and just ruffled his hair before explaining again;

“It doesn’t matter really but Lilith was the mother of the daughters of Lilu from Hebrew demonology…It was one of the few things that humans got right but that was back when vampires and humans were intertwined…” Sakurai hummed a little his nose wrinkling as he said with distaste “Lilitu wasn’t a very pleasant person…And it was fair that she was rightfully considered a demon as she liked to drink on the blood of babies. She was the first of the Estries, female shape changing, blood drinking demons, and they enjoyed wandering among the population, seeking victims…”

“Um…Okay…But how did she come?” Aiba asked still struggling to keep up and he was frankly irritated when Sakurai shrugged saying;

“Most vampires believe that we are another branch of evolution…There is strong evidence of this…We are fundamentally the same as humans after all but with some…Differences…”

“Okay…So she wasn’t really the first but she was the first one that made contact with humans?” Aiba whispered and was glad that Sakurai gave him an almost delighted smile pleased that he was keeping up.

“Yes…She wasn’t exactly the best representative of our kind…Of course humans told stories of us before Lilitu, Lilith and the Lilu but Lilitu was the first tangible one the humans had contact with…It is family rumour that she felt justified in her actions as she was raped by a human but as it is rumour only and I don’t think it justifies anything I don’t believe it…” Sakurai murmured with a shrug and Aiba was pleased that the vampire didn’t try and justify the actions of somebody that attacked children. In his mind there would never be an excuse for that. “The Estries were taken care of by a small band of humans and vampires but their children were taken and raised by others…And they became worshiped as gods…Seti, Horus, Ra, Zeus, Ares, Apollo and all of them...And as gods they began to reproduce with the humans…Resulting in half breed children…Some of the most famous being Hercules, Helen of Troy and Theseus...They all looked human but they had the abilities of the vampires…”

Aiba felt his mouth grow dry his head buzzing with all of the information that he was being given, so far none of it was helping find out why the war had started but it was interesting to learn of all of this, he was confused though that Sakurai was insisting that he was like Hercules. Nino had read him stories about him when he was a kid but he had never dreamed that he was real.

“The half breeds turned on their vampire parents though…Believing that we had enslaved the humans and…I agree…” Sho hummed his fingers running against his own face now. “It was a very bloody war most of which was forgotten about or corrupted…The result was an almost culling of our species…We fled once more into the shadows…Before we had numbers to protect us but then they were almost lost. They created the werewolves then…A daytime guardians…For years we lived in peace the vampires and the werewolves…And then my father did something unbelievable…

“Your…Your father?” Aiba asked his heart pounding against his ribs as he realised that this was it…The reason that they were at war…That the sun had been blocked out. Sakurai smiled grimly his eyes narrowing as he stared out into the library his eyes focusing on the dusty shelves “What…What did he do?”

“He fell in love with his guard…” Sakurai answered and Aiba blinked in surprise his mouth dropping open as he hissed out;

“What?”

“Your Nino’s father, he was my father’s guardian once upon a time…” Sakurai said and Aiba almost let out a shrieking laugh picturing Nino’s sweet and caring father being in love the cold vampire that they had met tonight “…He fell in love with him and I believe him when he says they were in love…”

“And then…What…Happened?” He asked managing to hide his disbelief enough to look at the vampire that was sitting next to him and Sho sighed scrapping his fingernails over his chin as he said;

“My father believed that he had the best of both worlds and he knocked up my mother…The whole war is because my father couldn’t keep it in his trousers…”

TBC

A/N: Hmm…I hope that this is okay ^_^