Having killed the vampires, I sheath my katana and turned it back into the key chain. I looked beside me and the door which was closed as I stepped in was opened in less than twenty seconds and I looked at the camera in the room and smirked.
I walked out of the room and looked around seeing everyone’s faces. I did not have to look at the board to tell that they were surprised by my progress. Natsumi-san and Ai had a proud look on their face puffing out their big chest and Iwaguchi-san looked relieved. I walked back and stood next to Ai with the smirk on my face that never disappeared. I am sure they did not expect me to come out of there alive leave even been unscathed by it.
"It seems like you have proven your point," James said and his face appeared from his place as the light was turned on.
"What do you think you are doing?" the woman’s voice said.
"He proved that he can hunt vampires so I am taking him under our organization. That is the final decision, does anyone have any objections?" he asked in an assertive tone and no one dared to disagree with him. "As I thought. Very well, Shiba Kazuki. From this day forth, you are a vampire hunter for the VEO. Your card will be updated about the information and I assign you and Tsubaki Ai under Special class hunter Kawazuki Natsumi and Special class hunter Honozaya Iwaguchi."
"But di- "
"Are you perhaps saying that my decision is faltered?" he asked looking at the other board members and their faces were illuminated by light.
There were four other members of the board excluding James. The woman who was speaking, again and again, had short, brown hair and golden eyes. A man sitting there had a bald head and black eye. The other two men did not speak at all in the meeting but they had this calm and cool air around them. Both of them had grey hair and blue eyes and they looked exactly the same. They must be identical twins.
"And I would also want Shiba Kazuki to head to the medical floor so we can carry out some tests on him. Special class hunter Kawazuki," James said looking at me. Looks like he knows what I am thinking which is good.
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"Sure…"
I started walking but I felt a tug on my arm and I looked behind seeing Ai looking at me worriedly. Oh, this girl worries so much about it.
"It’s fine Ai. You can wait for me a bit and then we will go home," I said giving her a reassuring smile and patting her head. "Besides, Natsumi-san is with me so nothing wrong will happen."
Though a little reluctant, Ai nods her head and I followed Natsumi-san while Iwaguchi-san took her with him. Since I trusted Iwaguchi-san for not doing anything stupid, I did not object at all. If it were someone else, I might have broken their bones one by one but good thing that is not the case.
Wait, what did I just say?
Is Ai’s condition something that can spread?
"What is wrong, kid? We don’t have the entire day," Natsumi-san said and I looked at her. "What is with the expression?"
"Natsumi-san," I called out her name. "Is Ai’s insanely love-struck condition perhaps communicable? I feel like I have caught that somehow."
Natsumi-san chuckled hearing my remark as if I was joking. No, I am not joking. "That just means you being possessive and protective of her. It is quite normal in relationships."
So, it is normal to break the bones of anyone who tries getting close to your girlfriend? Noted.
Who am I kidding? It is not normal. But I kind of feel like it is.
Strange.
Throwing those thoughts in a trash can, I followed Natsumi-san, and…there were more scanners! Someone, please tell me just how many scanners are in this place!!
We boarded the elevator and Natsumi-san pressed the button of an upper floor and the elevator started ascending. I stayed still and soon, the door opened and there was another scanner! Natsumi-san scanned her card and as soon as we both entered, a liquid was sprayed on us. It had a strong scent to it so I think it was sanitizer.
"This is our infirmary and research floor also known as the medical floor," Natsumi-san said. "The doctors and researchers here are the best in the world and they even healed me once when I was at the brink of death. But that was some twenty or so years ago and I was not very good at dealing with vampires. Do you know, your father was my mentor?"
"Dad was?" I said being honestly surprised.
I could imagine dad telling Natsumi-san how to fight vampires and just say. "Just kill them, simple enough."
"He was never great at explaining but watching him fight, I learned a lot and really fast. Other than that, him teaching me was telling me to just kill the vampires," Natsumi-san said as I expected.
"Then he sure would be proud of you when you were to win a big battle," I said in a nostalgic tone matching Natsumi-san’s.
"He sure was. He always saw me as a little sister and nothing more than that. The man was pretty oblivious if you ask me," Natsumi-san said sighing loudly.
I went and placed my hand on her shoulder. "It’s fine. You will find someone even better. Who knows that the person you are looking for might be closer to you than you think. Someone who sees you for you."
"I hope."
Yep, my father was oblivious and she definitely wasn’t. Not in a million years!!
We entered through a big sliding door and people wearing bright white lab coats were all doing their own work. They did not pay heed to our presence and kept diligently doing their own work. Natsumi-san looked around as if searching for someone and then started walking. I followed her quietly as we passed through many different rooms with a glass window and I could see everything that was going inside.
Some rooms had samples of blood and they were running some tests on it. Some were dissecting a live vampire! What the hell?
"What the hell?" I muttered seeing that.
The vampire’s body moved around a lot as he was being dissected but every time he did the slightest of the movement, his body would jolt up. He was handcuffed to the bed with silver handcuffs. This just looks like torture.
"Don’t look. This is not even the most messed up things they do here," Natsumi-san said to me without looking back.
I gulped thinking about her words. What the hell are they going to do with me?
I was taken to a room which had a big machine. A woman walked in front of us with a cheerful smile on her face. She had long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail and sapphire blue eyes. Someone I need to stay away from because she gave off a crazy aura for some reason.
"My, so you are the Shiba Kazuki-kun I was told about," she said and I am sure I saw her lick her lips. "My name is Amantha Heilberg but just call me Ama."
I just nod my head returning the greeting and did not say anything as Ai’s rules were playing in my mind. Don’t look at other girls, don’t talk to other girls and the breathing rule was not valid.
"I did my job, he is all yours, and be gentle with him," Natsumi-san said and what do you mean by being gentle?
"Oh, I will. I wouldn’t want an adorable specimen like him to be hurt. He is too precious for that," she said and rested her face on her palm.
Everything about this woman said danger.
She wore a white lab coat which went down only to her hips. From there came out a garter belt and thighs highs that highlighted her plump and soft thighs. No, don’t look. I know how much I love thighs but no, Ai’s are much better. Think about those two god-gifted works of art.
Ama held my arm and started pulling me. I was taken to a room and she then held my t-shirt and in one fluid motion, took it off me. Wait, how? She did not even touch my skin while doing this. What kind of magic trick is this?
"Next, your lowers," she said and extended her hands.
"Wait, wait, wait! Please wait a minute," I said retracting my steps. "Why am I being stripped right now?"
"Oh dear, that is because I want to take your measurements before the tests and that is best taken when you aren’t wearing any clothes," she said and her eyes scanned me from top to bottom and I feared my life. "That includes the under- "
"There is no way I am going to take that off," I said covering my body with my hands. I don’t really like showing off too much skin and this woman is crazy.
"Is that so? Too bad," she said in a dejected tone slouching her shoulder. Why are you disappointed. "But you still need to take off your pants."
"Okay, I am taking it off."
I quickly took them off her and she covered her nose with her hands and turned around. I looked and saw some drops of blood falling on the floor. Oh god, Ai is going to kill me for sure after this and also this woman.
"My, you have such an amazing body," she said wiping her nose off the blood and acting as nothing happened. "Do you perhaps exercise every day?"
She walked forward and her fingers started tracing my chest and then my arms and her eyes then fell on my neck. She made a little dejected expression due to that.
"Aww, looks like you have been taken. I don’t think I would like to steal a boy from some other girl no matter how good of a specimen he is," she said and I let out a relieved sigh. "Or can I?"
If I stay in the same room as this woman any longer, I will definitely be assaulted and I fear I may enjoy it.
"Please let’s not drift to any other topic and get these tests over with. I am exhausted for the day," I said to her rubbing my forehead.
"Say, are you a virgin?" she said making me cough loudly.
"Why are you asking me that?" I said loudly being flustered as the memories of yesterday played back in my mind.
"Looks like you aren’t. Too bad," she said and then picked up a measuring tape and wrapped it around my chest. "But I can work with that."
Someone save me!
After an hour, the tests were over and they were nothing out of the normal except for Ama staring at me all the time. Other than that, it was just a normal health checkup. After all that, I was right now standing in James’s office along with Natsumi-san standing next to me.
"So, what do you want to talk to me about?" he said without wasting any time.
"Are you sure no one, even a vampire will be able to hear us here?" I asked him and he nods his head. "Okay, so it is about Ai. About her being a half-vampire."
"I thought you accepted that fact and just went with it," Natsumi-san said and I looked at her.
"Do you seriously think I will stay quiet after hearing Ai only has ten years of her life left to her?" I said in a serious voice. "I have already lost enough people in my life and Ai is not someone I want to be on that list. So, that brings me back to my main point. I had a little talk with Ethan last night."
"Ethan? As in the first?" James said and I nod my head.
"Yes, there are many things I have kept from Ai till now and these are some of the things. I asked him about this matter and he asked me to find this…diary that he owned. He told me that all the answers to my questions are in the diary," I said making both of them raise their eyebrow. "Remember I told you that he gave me a "mission"? I have this feeling that my mission has something to do with this diary."
"So, you want us to find that diary?" James said and I nod my head. "But why do you think we will listen to you?"
I stayed quiet for a little because I already knew that James knows what I am going to say next.
"Why did you think I join your organization as a vampire hunter? To hunt vampires for you?" I said and chuckled. "I had the option to walk away anytime I want which includes even now but I am staying here because I want to find out a way to save Ai. I don’t care about my life since I know Ai will make sure nothing happens to me. So, I am making sure nothing happens to her. I was never fighting for myself."
"Quite an interesting pair you are," Natsumi-san said chuckling. "Entrusting your life to each other is something really hard to do."
"But I am doing that. I have already entrusted my life to Ai. As long as she is with me, nothing will happen to me so I have to make sure she is with me, forever," I said clenching my fist. I will not let anyone else I care about leave me. Not anymore, not ever again.
"Very well, we have our branches overseas and I will ask them but do you know where you can exactly find this diary?" James said.
"He said it is somewhere in Europe. I know it is a very vague answer but according to Ethan, it was the only thing he could remember. Most of his memories have been locked out and he can’t really remember the exact place," I said putting my hands in my pocket.
"Well, it is better than asking to find it on the entire globe but I have to say…" James said and looked at me. "…you are trusting me a lot."
"Oh, I am not trusting you at all," I said making my intentions clear and he raised his eyebrow. "It is because like you said, we two are similar. You are smarter than you actually show and I am trusting your ability."
"Fair enough. If that is enough then you can go," he said and I walked out of the room.
I met Ai outside with Iwaguchi-san and she was tapping her feet on the ground being impatient. Seeing me, she ran and hugged me nuzzling her face in my chest but her mood soon darkened.
"I smell another woman on Kazu-kun," she muttered in a cold voice.
I quickly explained everything to her and somehow calmed her down and we bid our farewell to Natsumi-san and Iwaguchi-san. Soon, both I and Ai were in our house and I unlocked the door with a key.
Ai was the first one to step in and as I locked the door, I couldn’t hold myself back any longer.
I moved forward and hugged Ai from behind. Ever since I got to know about her, I just wanted to keep her closer to me. I am very good at hiding my true intentions and emotions and I have been desperate all this time. I felt like if I even take my eyes off her, she would just go away. I don’t want it. Not at all.
"K-Kazu-kun," Ai said surprised by my sudden actions and I pulled her closer.
"Don’t let go. Never ever," I muttered out my true thoughts and my hands slid on her neck and pushed her hair side showing the bite mark I gave her. "You should not forget who you cannot ever leave."
I bent my head and started licking the place I bit her which made Ai’s body jolt and she let out a moan. I held her face in my hands and she turned around. My hand was around her waist and I pulled her closer to me. I caressed her face with my fingers and brought her in a kiss.
Both our tongues battled for dominance but I won instantly. It soon escalated as I pushed her against the wall and deepened the kiss. My tongue explored her cold mouth and Ai let out little moans from time to time.
"It no longer feels new to me," I said pulling away. "I have gotten used to kissing you now."
"Is that a bad thing?" she said tilting her head and I kissed her again.
"No dummy, it is a good thing. It is common for couples to do that, right?" I said and pulled my collar aside exposing my neck. Ai’s left eye started glowing but she was holding herself back. "Did you think I did not notice? You have been holding yourself back since yesterday in the bathroom, right? As a vampire’s lust increases, their blood lust also does the same, right? Here, drink up as much as you want."
Not being able to hold back any longer. Ai pinned me down on the wall and dug her teeth in my neck. I slowly got down and made Ai sit on my lap as she slowly sucked my blood like a little kid drinking milk from a bottle. The little sucking sound resounded in the house and I hugged her closer.
As she sucked my blood, I could not help but recollect the events of yesterday.
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