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Chapter 1: Encounters and Enchantment
A dark velvet tapestry with shimmering stars and a silver crescent moon hung above the pale desert of Clow country. The night was warm and heavy over the royal capital city. The evening breeze was soft and urged all: from merchants to kings; to sleep and dream of tomorrow. While most of the city slept, in the pearl domed palace of the princess Sakura, a young man with pure black hair and rare emerald eyes ignored the urge to succumb to sleep, instead to sit upon a terrace to look for the impossible dream. Subaru Shiro, the pure-blooded vampire stared in the distance over the proud pearl edifices and the humble sandstone hovels lit with cheerful yellow lanterns. The princess Sakura took him and his protective twin brother, Kamui as honored guests into her magnificent palace when they had appeared in her desert kingdom. They traveled from city to city, from world to world constantly, rarely resting, always running from their dark and relentless shadow. The hunter that never sleeps, the hawk that circles and searches for them, is a tall fair skinned man with one wolf gray eye and one gleaming glass eye, dark swept hair and a deceptively kind smile.
Seishiro.
Subaru sighed softly as he gazed upon the gleaming city lights, his heart heavy with guilt. He had fought with Kamui once more over the matter of Seishiro which ended up leaving them both hurt and angry at each other. While Kamui chose flight, Subaru wished to confront his nightmare, his shadow and forbidden love. His brother's soft lavender eyes became hard as amethysts when Subaru suggested they stop running. "Absolutely not! I won't let him catch up to us!" When Subaru reminded him of the blood he shared with Seishiro and how it drew their pursuer, Kamui eyes flashed an eerie yellow and he caught Subaru's chin forcing his brother to look at him.
"If he ever does appear before us, I swear to you…I will kill him."
Green eyes filled with tears as his twin released him and stalked from room. Kamui was always trying so hard to protect him and now he had hurt one of the most precious people in his lonely life. But…I still cannot hate Seishiro, he thought sadly as he stared out into the darkness, the soft breeze stroking his hair.
"Subaru…"
The name was uttered so faintly that for a moment he wondered if it was merely the whisper of the wind.
"Subaru…"
"Kamui? Is that you?" Subaru called out. That voice sounded so tender and filled with longing, that at first he assumed it was his brother, approaching him with gentle apologies and forgiveness. Suddenly, a subtle sweet scent swept over him with a sly gust of wind from the east. Sakura flowers…Subaru's back stiffen for a tense second before relaxing as his eyes glazing over with a sudden nostalgia and desire to follow the scent and…
"Subaru…"
To follow that voice that spoke his name so enchantingly. Without another word he swiftly slipped his silk ebony cloak around his slender shoulders. Sparing one last backward glance towards his rooms he silently leaped from the balcony and landed cat-like on the sand dusted streets. Subaru nose flared as he breathed in the smell of the night life. A bouquet of spices, sand, human sweat and rich fruits assailed his senses, but the alluring and extremely faint scent of the cherry blossom was no where to be found…there it was! It now blew in from the south and Subaru latched onto it like a blood hound. His feet flew over the dirt packed roads, his cloak flaring out behind him like black wings. His logic within his head began to ring the warning bells as he left the palace farther behind him. It cried out on how Subaru was leaving the safety of a well lit populated area and recklessly running headfirst into the dark desert waste land. It begged for him to snap out of the spell that was luring him away from his brother. Unfortunately, Subaru did not heed his instincts warning until he smelled his own blood…
"Subaru."
Jade eyes blinked as Subaru shook his head, clearing away the last cobwebs of his dream-like trance. White sand blew at knee height, twining around his legs and apart from the whistling wind, it was perfectly quiet.
"Where am I and how did I get here?" he thought before his eyes landed on a dark figure standing parallel from him. Subaru's mind froze and his heart beat escalated to biblical proportions and his eyes became the fierce gold of raptor as he caught the whiff of his own blood emitting from the shrouded figure.
"Its been a long time, hasn't it Subaru?"
"Seishiro."
I used a quote from the Ghostbusters. Lemon squares to those that review and extra for those that find the quote.