Notes: Yay!! It's finally going somewhere! giggles I'm so happy! glomps nearest person

Warnings: Lime, angst, death, Sano/Saitou

The Heretics Anthem

By: Emmy

Part Two

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If you're 555,
then I'm 666
If you're 555,
I'm 666
(What's it like to be a heretic?)

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Everything was cold, hard and uncomfortable...

The last thing that I remember was that mystery man's teeth piecing my flesh...

Heh, that was Hajime Saitou, damn, I really am an idiot if I forgot who that was... my one and only, after centuries and centuries.

What....?

I never wanted to forget him... time after time I missed the chance for him to make me something like him... I wanted to be with him forever... I finally got it....

Who are you...?

You, idiot. Or at least the part of you that remembers life after life of finding him... or was he finding us? I'm not so sure anymore, but every time we met, we fucking fell in love... at least I think it's love...

So that man...?

Us as a whole'll remember soon. When we awake... he'll be right by us. And then we'll be one... now and forever. Night welcomes us into it's open arms forever... we'll never be afraid... we'll never die... we'll be together... forever...

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We were so close... to ruling EVERYTHING...

We would have succeeded in ruling EVERYTHING if I hadn't been so fucking apt to die... but Jime always told me that he wasn't going to forsake my humanity. He told me that 70 years was enough for anyone to live. He told me that no one wanted eternity... I went along with it, at least until I reached my later 20's... then I asked him to grant me an eternity... with him. He told me no for three generations, but every single time I was reborn I lived through a painfully harsh death... every time...

It was then that my begging had worked. He told me that he would give me the one thing that I wanted... but the last time that he tried (it was actually around the time we were in Germany during WW2) I was murdered. I don't know what happened this time, but it took a little longer to be reborn.

But I should have known why. I was only born into times of chaos, and this was one of those promised times...

But this time he had found me, and got right down to business.

I had my eternity.


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"Are you awake yet, moron?" A voice through my head asked as my eyelids hesitantly fluttered open. I was laying backwards on a bed... but the first thing that I noticed was the fact that I wasn't breathing... it wasn't mandatory. I felt to my neck... two little bite marks lay there. I grinned.

Finally!

I jumped up to my feet, ecstatic that I didn't hear or feel my own heart beat. "Shit... this is great!" I shouted to the world in the darkness of the night and turned around to face Saitou.

A feral smirk worked its way to my lips. "Hey baby, long time no fuck." I walked up to the man and let my fingers linger around his chin, right before I pulled him into a deep, tantalizing kiss. I sucked hard to his lower lip and chuckled as my tongue entered his mouth, scraping along the side of his fang. Blood filled my mouth, or at least the chilly amount that I had left.

It tasted sweet; something that I needed more of...

Blood, my new food source.

I pulled away and looked him in the eyes. He was smiling too, but for some reason I could feel a somber sadness filling him. What the hell did he have to be sad about? We were together now... forever.

I forcefully pushed him back down to the bed with a mischievous smirk on my face, straddling his hips, grinding my erection into his through my jeans and his slacks. "What's wrong with you? I haven't seen you in a long time and this is how you're gonna act? Damn, 'Jime. You're gonna spoil the mood!" I announced, my voice bordering on sexy and teasing.

"I just took your soul and condemned it to that body and hell forever. You're too happy about it." He stated in a dead-pan tone.

"Oh? Is that all? Get over it." I stated flippantly and leaned down to my prey.

His face still remained impassive, but I was going to change that. Now that had all of my memories back, I wanted to make up for all the time I wasn't born or had been too young. I started with some kind of casual conversation, "Hey, Jime? Over the years when I'm not here had there been anyone else?"

I grazed my tongue along my enlarged canine teeth with a smirk. Like a razor...

"What do you think?"

"I have no clue, that's why I'm asking you." I stated quaintly, pulling his shirt off quickly. He shook his head slightly, as if he was becoming annoyed. But he wasn't annoyed. After all this time, I knew that he missed me and he was just trying to act tough and shit. Too bad.

I leaned down, covering his mouth with mine in a tight kiss as I raked my fingernails across his bare chest. He moaned slightly, I asked into his neck, "Well, Saitou? Have I been your one and only?"

He grunted as I licked gently around his ear, "Of course."

His tone was starting to bother me, "Saitou. Lighten up! Damnit, you're depressin' me and we know how bad that is! My humanity didn't mean a lot to me! I've killed so many, I don't need to live like a human! All I want is you!" I bellowed, hoping that he would get the picture. I looked at him for a moment or two and then finally relaxed as he sat up and placed his hands on my shoulders.

"You're going to hate me for it later."

I shrugged my shoulder, "If I do I can always get ya back."

"You're taking this too lightly..."

"And you need to lighten up a bit!" I snapped and wrapped my arms around him, sucking on his neck some more. I needed to do something, I wouldn't take it if he just laid there! I knew that when it came down to it, Saitou wouldn't be able to resist a quick roll in the hay... he never has, he never will.

My hands began to wander down to his waist line when I fiddled with that belt. He was beginning to take a more active role in things as he stripped me of my button-up light blue shirt. Was I really such a prep in this day and age? Shit... I needed some new clothes...

I pulled that belt off of him and pulled down the zipper slowly, reaching inside to grab his hard member. "Lean back down, Jime... I'm gonna make you remember just what you've been missing..."

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I found myself a little more than amused. After going through all of Jime's drawers I had found some really nice stuff. He told me that (before heading out to "catch" us some dinner) he bought the stuff for me. He'd been keeping it for me for a while, and now I could finally wear it. I was rather occupied with painting my nails black when I heard the phone ring back in the den. I groaned. I was gonna smear the polish all over... fuck.

I carefully picked up the phone with my palms and cradled it between my shoulder and chin, asking rather aggressively, "What is it?"

"Sanosuke? It's been a while."

I stopped... that voice...

"Who is this?"

"Don't tell me that you'd forget an old friend."

Then it hit me. "Kenshin!? What the hell are you doing still alive!?"

"That's no way to talk to the man that saved your life so many times."

"Saved my life! You've killed me in a 'accident' more times than I can fucking count!" I exclaimed, he hated Saitou. He always did everything in his power to make sure that Jime was never happy. He's always done that, and I've been a victim of circumstance so many times... but for some reason Kenshin and I were always friends after all was said and done... it never made any fucking sense to me.

But then again, little did.

I groaned, "So what is it?"

"I was going to call and let Saitou know about a little... event... that he had been asking about for a while."

And that got my attention.

What kind of an event could my Jime've been asking about?

"What are you talking about? I'll relay the message." My voice was cold, even to my old friend.

"The date is this Friday night."

"What is?"

"Devil's Night Massacre."

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End of part two