Bite Me
little vampire cult

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They were walking for a while.

Well, Sakura was not really walking. Syaoran was doing the walking. She was doing the humming.

Along the way she had taken out her (wonderful) IPod, inserted earphones into ears, and turned on her music.

Syaoran, being the curious little vampire that he was, had no idea what an IPod was, for he was not well introduced to the advanced technology of today's era.

So, being the nice, Catholic school girl that she was, Sakura put in one of the earphones into his ear, and Syaoran was quite taken aback when his hearing was met with the sounds of music.

They continued to walk after that, passing along the shadows of nighttime and the vacant streets without so much as encountering a single soul.

Besides Sakura and Syaoran, that is.

...Well, Sakura knew she had a soul. She was not so sure about Syaoran since she did not know a lot about vampires...

"Ne, Syaoran-kun, do you have a soul?" she asked curiously over the music and the silence of night.

"Of course," was his simple and tart response. "I would not be walking the living otherwise."

She smiled, pleased to hear that, and nodded in agreement.

And so went the rest of the trip.

They passed along many streets to the point Sakura gave up trying to figure out where they were and where they were going. She drifted off to sleep at some point, and it was not until they actually reached a stop did Sakura open her eyes and look around sleepily. Syaoran set her down on her feet.

Sakura yawned and rubbed at her eyes before looking at where they had stopped.

She looked quizzical.

She was expecting Syaoran to take her to some big, dark, haunted-looking mansion.

But instead...

Sakura tilted her head as she observed the sign that hung over the small looking cafe. Cat's Eye, the sign said.

"Hoe?" Sakura blinked, but did not have time to question her vampire acquaitance about it because he briskly stalked into the cafe without so much as regarding the Closed sign that blinked in neon red on the door. Sakura hurriedly wandered in after him.

And inside she realized that the small cafe was not as small as she thought it was.

On the contrary, from the inside it looked like a (rather) large cafe.

There was a large empty space with round tables placed here and there and a bar table from where Sakura figured drinks could be ordered from. It was a quaint and homely looking place, something that left Sakura confused as to why a vampire would bring her there of all places. Are vampires not supposed to live in large, scary, haunted mansions?

But then she remembered she was scared of dark, scary, haunted things.

Ghosts in particular.

So she decided to feel relieved more than anything else and inspected the cafe with utmost curiosity, but she kept close to Syaoran as he looked around.

"I am sorry, but we are closed."

They both looked to see a tall, lanky, blonde-haired man step out from the back, smiling a cheery and pleasant smile with his eyes closed and curved in a friendly manner. He paused when he opened his eyes (or eye since one of them was covered with an eye-patch), blinked, and then his smile widened as his gaze landed on Syaoran.

"Aa, Syaoran-kun. You are finally back!"

"Syao-chan! Syao-chan is back!" A small voice sang from behind the tall blonde man. Sakura's eyes widened in surprise when seeing a white round thing jump on to the man's shoulder and hop up and down, chanting in that same singsong voice, "Syao-chaaaan!" before leaping off of the blonde's shoulder and jumping into Syaoran's arms in what appeared to be a glomp.

Sakura peered around him at the white thing with round, fascinated eyes.

Syaoran patted the thing on the head, smiling. "Hello, Mokona."

Mokona beamed up at Syaoran before tilting a bit in order to look at Sakura. Its mouth went into the shape of an 'O' before it smiled widely. "Syaoran-kun brought home a new friend!"

"Oh? Indeed he has!" The blonde man strided over and paused in front of Sakura. He had his hands on his knees as he inspected her before he came to some sort of conclusion, tilted his head, and resumed smiling that pleasant smile of his. "You are a cute little human. What is your name?"

"Ano..." Sakura quickly bowed respectfully in order to hide the slight blush that tinted her cheeks. "Kinomoto Sakura!"

"I am Fye D. Flourite. It is nice to see Syaoran-kun bring home a human friend that he has not eaten yet."

His smile widened.

Sakura laughed... somewhat nervously as the word yet seemed to repeat over and over in her head.

"Oh do not worry! Syaoran-kun would have eaten you already, so I believe you are safe." Fye smiled reassuringly.

Sakura found herself smiling back and already liking this Fye character.

"Mokona tell everyone Syaoran-kun brought home a girlfriend!" Mokona sang out, flying out of Syaoran's arms. He fluttered up the stairs, bouncing every now and then as his singing drifted off and became faint the further he went. "Syao-chan brought home a girlfriiieend..."

- - -

When Syaoran had brought Sakura over to his 'vampire mansion,' Sakura had not been prepared for any of this. She thought, surely this vampire would suck her dry and leave a bloodless, lifeless corpse for her dear, poor father to find (Lord Bless his soul).

...So one would wonder why she would so ignorantly follow a vampire in the first place.

Sakura was a positive, optimistic Catholic girl. She believed good to be in everyone and every thing -- even in vampires! (Like Syaoran).

So she thought: why not give him a chance?

And she did. And she was wise to do so because Sakura had taken a fancy to Syaoran's 'home' and 'family.' Fancy would be putting it lightly. She was already falling in love with it all -- with the 'little vampire cult,' as she so dubbed it (though this one vampire by the name of Kurogane always made it his duty to clear his throat and correct her and say Cat's Eye. It's called Cat's Eye. Not 'little vampire cult...'").

Mokona had taken it upon itself (himself) to introduce Sakura to other members of their group of close-knit vampire family.

She met Kurogane who Sakura had to tilt her head a bit far back just to peer up at. He seemed like a tough character, but she could tell beneath all that rough exterior, he was all mush (She pointed this out to him, but he turned flustered and denied it and Sakura merely giggled. Denial wasn't only a river in Egypt).

She met a female vampire who looked to be about her age (though appearances can be quite deceiving), by the name of Daidouji Tomoyo. She was quite the gorgeous beauty, breathtaking, Sakura thought, even when the amethyst eyed vampiress stared at Sakura with starry-eyes and cooed over her kawaii-ness.

And then there was Hiiragizawa Eriol, who was quite the gentleman. He bowed elegantly and kissed the back of her palm, causing her to blush a pretty shade of red, and Tomoyo positively purred when noticing the scowl that sported Syaoran's face. Of course only he would be possessive of his latest pet.

And then... Lady Nakuru.

Top Female of the Little Vampire Cult (Cat's Eye!, Kurogane so insists).

Sakura's first impression of the Lady was... Regal. Elegant. Beautiful... and then said 'regal' and 'elegant' lady suddenly pounced on Sakura and squealed and rubbed their cheeks together as she bubbled over how adorable Syao-chan's 'new pet' was.

"Hoe? New Pet?" was all Sakura could squeak in confusion, question marks flying all around her head.

...But with every Lady, there's a Lord; a leader of a cult.

And there was a hushed silence when said Lord decided to enter the scene.

Sakura found herself staring into a pair of the most hypnotizing, piercing blue eyes she's ever seen.

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to be continued.