Hello again, my faithful readers. I'm sorry that this chapter is a few days late but I never heard back from my beta and I didn't know whether to just go ahead and post this. IN the end I did because I did say it would be sunday and I did not want to disappoint. So I just looked over it myself and the entire time I done that I could not stop listening to 'When Your Evil' by Voltaire. It goes so well with Vani :). Also I have a question to all my reader, a few days ago a friend of mine asked me what song would fit this story and I think 'Take a Bow' by Muse would fit very well. What do you think would suit ? I'm just curious haha. Anyways enough delays, on with the story.

To say that Prince Vanitas was angry would be the understatement of the century.

He was completely infuriated with what he had just seen in his brother's room. The oldest prince stormed into his own room and slammed his door shut with a force that made the entire frame shake. Vanitas threw himself onto his bed with a loud groan without even acknowledging the small woman standing at the foot of his bed. It wasn't much different than usual, he never really paid attention to Xion any other time.

"A-are you alright, your majesty?" Vanitas twisted his head to glare at the black haired maid who just seemed to cower in fear. It didn't satisfy him though. Usually feeling the fear from people was enough but sometime he needed to hear it. Vanitas let out an animalistic growl as he picked up a glass bowl that was on his bedside table and threw it towards the black haired woman. He heard the glass shattering as it collided with the maid's face. Vanitas's face was full of glee as a blood-curdling scream filled the room as glass embedded itself all over Xion's face.

Vanitas was fixated as he watched the blood dripping all over the screaming maid's face. He wondered what Sora would sound like with blood dripping all over his body while he was tortured into insanity. That thought alone done things to Vanitas that nothing else could and that included his feisty younger brother's assault on his lips after they're kiss. Vanitas brought himself out of his erotic and blood lusting daydream to answer Xion's earlier question.

"Do I fucking look like I'm okay, you stupid woman!" Vanitas stared at the maid, still fixated by the rivers of blood on her face and he felt nothing for her pain. Sora, on the other hand, would have run to help her in anyway he possibly way he could. That was what was so sickeningly sweet about his brother. The way he was the complete opposite to his little brother. Vanitas was pure evil and he knew it. People saw him as a demon from hell which is where the nickname 'Demon Prince of Radiant Gardens' came from. It pleased Vanitas to know that people were so frightened of him.

Sora was only two years younger than him. He was only sixteen and he didn't fully understand life yet. He was like an angel and what kind of 'demon' would Vanitas be if he didn't corrupt a poor, little, innocent angel.

"Get the hell out of my room" Vanitas snarled as he watched Xion scurrying out of the room with her blood soaked face held in her hands. "Useless". Vanitas knew that Sora couldn't have forgotten what he told him last night. So what the hell gave his little brother the guts to attach himself to the pathetic piece of trash that was in his room. Vanitas found himself worrying more about what was going on between his brother and the peasant than the possibility that his brother was a traitor. The prince let out a loud sigh as he fluttered his eyes shut. He hadn't got much sleep last night as he was too busy with his thoughts of what happened with Sora. He decided he would have just a short nap.

"What do you want from me?" Vanitas saw his little brother standing and staring at him with his hands on his feminine hips. He was still in just a towel and Vanitas couldn't help but just stalk over to his brother and pin him to the wall. Sora's wrists were so small that Vanitas could gather both of them in just one of his hands. Vanitas watched intensely as Sora struggled. He could practically smell the innocence off of his little brother.

"Your so innocent. So corruptible" Vanitas smirked as he let his lips attach themselves onto the soft skin of Sora's neck. "How could anyone hope to resist you" Vanitas loved the feeling of Sora's struggle beneath his fingertips. It was extremely erotic. Vanitas trailed his tongue up Sora's neck until his mouth was right next to his brother's ear. "Your too innocent for your own good. You need to be tainted and I'll be the one to do" Vanitas grinned as he nipped at Sora's ear none too gently.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Vanitas smirked at Sora's comments as he started to struggle even more. Your my brother, your supposed to love me and care for me so why are you doing this?"Vanitas pulled his mouth away from Sora's neck and pressed his head against the side of Sora's.

"I'm doing this because I love you and because I care about you. I don't want some creep to get their paws on you and infect you with their peasant infections This way I can keep you safe." Vanitas grinned like a maniac as he let his free hand trail down Sora's body. However his hand came across an obstacle in its path.

Stupid towel.

"I'm begging you, Vanitas. Stop" Sora was in a full blown sobbing fit now and Vanitas just let out a violent growl and ripped the towel away from Sora's body. "Help!" Sora's cries for help only made Vanitas laugh.

"Nobody can hear you, Sora. The only people who stay in the side of the castle are the two of us." Vanitas pushed himself against Sora's naked form and took in all of the brunette's cries for help. He had Sora exactly where he wanted him.

Vanitas awoke with a jolt. Sweat was dripping down his body and making his clothes stick to his body. It was pretty uncomfortable. The eldest prince rolled his head over to stare at the clock on his bedside table. It read '10.36. P.M'. Vanitas let out a loud groan as he shot up into a sitting position but something stopped him from moving any further. Vanitas let out a growl as he trailed his hand down into his pants so he could grab his painfully hard erection. Vanitas knew that everyone would think he was sickening for lusting after his own brother but he didn't care at all. He was to break Sora and steal his innocence and claim it before anyone else could.

Riku lay on Sora's bed with a small book -which Sora gave him- in his hands. It kept him entertained while Sora was off in search of something to eat. He had dismissed Namine a few hours ago but he decided that he was hungry about twenty minutes ago so he decided to run off to get something. Riku had to admit that he was surprised. Sora could be a clever and strong boy one moment and the next, he could be a cute, innocent teenage boy. It was hard to believe that Sora was the son of someone as ruthless as Terra.

Riku had to wonder to himself why Sora gave him a history book to read whilst he went off in search of food. The part of the book that Riku kept staring at was the the family tree on the sixth page. Maybe he was supposed to figure something out from it. The book couldn't have been that old as Aqua's name on the tree had a small 'd' at the side of it and the year of her death at the side of it. The thing that confused Riku is that Aqua's relatives were not listed. Nothing was listed about the late Queen's background. Riku had no idea what he was supposed to be working out from this. Sora's was currently the last born into the 'Royal Family'.

"Wait" Riku muttered out loud to himself as he finally noticed something. Sora's name was listed as Sora Hikaru whilst Vanitas's name was listed as Vanitas Yami. So why was Sora officially listed to have his mother's name while Vanitas had his father's name. Did Terra really hate Sora so much that he didn't want his own son to bear his name.

Riku didn't bother to lift his head as he heard the door creaking open.

"Did you give me this book for a reason or something, Sora?" Riku smiled as he lifted his head to look up but the smile was wiped instantly off of his face. "Prince Vanitas" Riku let the book fall from his hands and onto his lap from where it slid onto the floor as he stared at the eldest prince who kept advancing towards him. Riku didn't know whether he felt consumed with anger or consumed with fear. Vanitas was much more intimidating up close.

"Filthy peasant!" Riku watched as Vanitas came to a halt at the edge of the bed. Riku took in the appearance of Sora's older brother. It obvious that the two looked like each other since everyone other than Cloud and Kairi had mistaken Sora for Vanitas but the difference between the two brothers was that Vanitas's mere presence just sent fear and terror into someone while Sora didn't have that affect. Riku wouldn't say that the younger prince wasn't dangerous because that would be a lie especially after seeing his marksmanship skills.

"I don't know what you did!" Riku could only blink at the words of the venomous prince. "But if I see you with your disgusting hands on my brother again, I will have you slaughtered in the most painful way possible" Riku didn't even have time to scream as Vanitas's hand shot out like a lightening bolt and grabbed Riku's hair so that he could forcefully pull him off the bed and onto the carpeted floor. "You've been warned" Riku told himself not to scream from the unbearable pain that was coursing through his body. It was getting hard to see from the tears that were welling up in Riku's eyes from the pain but he could just make out Vanitas's figure leaving the room. The only the thing that Riku could do was lay on the floor and hope that the pain would subside.

Sora sat in the medical ward of the castle beside a shaking Xion. Sora had been on his way back from the kitchen area when he heard the sobbing coming from the area and decised to investigate and what he saw horrified him. He couldn't believe that Vanitas could just do that to someone.

"I'll make sure that you don't have to go near him again. You should go back home for a few months, Xion" Sora had spent the last fifteen minutes gently wiping Xion's wounds with cotton wool soaked with disinfectant. He heart sank into his stomach when he looked at her and knew that his brother done this to her. Her pale face was little with hundreds on scars and a large bandage was placed over her left eye. She was never going to see out of that eye again.

"No!" She sounded terrified. "I cannot. I must deal with this, your highness" Xion pulled away from Sora's hand that been tending to her wounds. "You should go. Don't you have someone that your looking after" Sora took in a deep breath as he looked at Xion.

"I don't feel right leaving you like this"

"I'll be fine. I've been here most of the day. Please return to your chambers" Sora smiled sadly at the black haired maid as he jumped off the hard bed that was in the medical ward. Sora had to wonder why his father even had the medical ward. He couldn't care less if any of the staff were injured.

Sora felt horrible as he left the ward and went on his way to return to his room. He had to wonder what Vanitas would have turned out like if his mother had a hand in raising him. Maybe he wouldn't have turned out so evil.

"Do you listen to anything that I say?" Sora's entire body started to shake in fear as he registered the voice that spoke. "I told you what I would do if I saw that filthy rat touching you" Sora couldn't suppress the whimper that escaped as he could feel Vanitas moving closer to him. "Did you see what I done earlier today, Sora. Did you see what happens to people who defy me?" Sora was forced to look at his deranged older brother when Vanitas reached out and grabbed his chin. "Nobody comes down these halls at this time of night, Sora. Think of what I could do to you here. Where nobody could hear as I break you down" Sora realized how closer Vanitas was to his face and that was when he started to struggle. He was terrified that Vanitas would kiss him again. The thought of that sickened him.

"Why are you doing this to me, what the hell do you want from me Vanitas?" Sora could feel the tears welling up in his eyes. "I'm your brother, why the hell would you do that to me. Its disgusting" One of the most terrifying sounds in the world to Sora was Vanitas's laughter. He could only watch in fear as Vanitas threw his head back and howled in amusement.

"I could keep you safe, Sora. Our great family name would not be tainted. Knowing you, you would fall in love with some pathetic low life and our great family name would be shamed forever. Do you want to taint over two hundred years of noble history?" Sora smiled as he locked eyes with Vanitas once more.

"Out those two hundread years, how many of those have our people been happy in. All of our ancestors were tyrants. Evil tyrants and you are going to follow in father's footsteps to become a tyrant and you will make your children be the same. Being King is about protecting your people and have any of our ancestors done it ? No they have not." Sora managed to pull away from Vanitas.

"Your far too sweet and naive for your own good, Sora. Being King isn't about protecting people. Its about power. Its always about power, little brother"

"Think about everyone down in those towns and cities that are suffering. People with children who are barely surviving while we life up here. Sleep in soft bed and eat all we want while people down there are on the brink of death everyday until they actually do die. They don't life a very fufilling life" Sora knew it was pointless to try and reason with his brother because Vanitas didn't care about anything unless it was useful to him.

"That isn't my problem. If they were born peasants, they cannot hope to be anything more. If your born a filthy peasant, you will die a filthy peasant" Vanitas chuckled.

"Why are you so heartless?" Sora looked at Vanitas with a solemn expression. "Somewhere along the lines, we'll have the blood of so-called 'peasants' in our lineage..." Sora didn't get to finish his sentence as he was shoved painfully against the wall.

"Your sickening, saying something like that" The look on Vanitas's face was the most amusing thing that Sora had seen in a long time when he started to laugh.

"You have the cheek to call me sickening when your the sick freak who kissed his own brother." Sora swore that he had never seen Vanitas looking so shocked. "I'm not the monster who goes and maims a poor girl's face just because she asked a question. Yet you think you can call me sickening" Sora used Vanitas's stunned state to push him away. "If you going to try and make me look bad, just look at all the things that you've done" Sora gritted out as he walked away from his older brother.

"Sora!" The youngest prince just continued walked as he heard his brother calling out to him. "Just remember who is father's successor. If you think I'm sickening now, you think the people are suffering now" Sora felt a tremor go through him as Vanitas started to laugh once more. "Just wait until I ascend to the throne" Sora froze once again as he heard Vanias walking away in the opposite direction. Sora's resolve came back much more powerful than before. He was going to have to hurry with his plan.

When Sora got just outside of his door, he heard what sounded like pained sobbing. Sora poked his head around the door to see Riku laying on the floor sobbing in pain. Sora's eyes widened as he saw the blood seeping out onto his carpet from Riku's re-opened wound.

"Riku!" Sora hurried to the resistance leader's side so that he could carefully push him onto his back without causing him more pain. "What happened to you?" Sora leaned over Riku so that he could pull up his top to look at the wound. It looked a lot worse than it originally was. The dressing was had been mostly pulled off. The blood was flowing out of the wound quite quickly. The area around the wound was all swollen and it also looked much bigger that it originally was. Despite asking what had happened, Sora knew exactly what happened to Riku. Vanitas is what happened.

"V-Vanitas" Sora was expecting that answer as he jumped to his feet and ran over to one of his chest of drawers so he could pull out the same bag of medical supplies that Namine had when she tended to Riku's wound earlier in the day. Sora rushed back over to Riku to take another look at his wound. Sora pulled the remaining of Riku's old dressing off that was attached to the unmarked skin near the wound.

"Just try and stay silent for now and tell me once I've treated your wound again." Sora had a face of concentration as he pulled out a large roll of cotton to place it over Riku's wound. Sora then pulled out a thin sheet of plastic to seal the cotton over with. "You'll need to stay there for about twenty minutes now that I've sealed the wound. I need to get your breathing under control now. If you continue on like this, you could render yourself unconscious" Sora pulled back from Riku and gently placed a hand on the top of his chest. "Now, in" Sora's hand fell with Riku's chest as he took in a steady breath. "And out again" Sora smiled as Riku managed to get his breathing under control. He kept his hand on Riku's chest as he took his next couple of breaths just to be sure that he wasn't going to start hyperventilating once more.

"Thanks" Sora smiled at Riku and moved himself so that he could now go and sit against the wall so that he was just a few inches behind the silver haired resistance leader. "So tell me what happened?" Sora rested his head against the wall that he was leaning against as Riku lay flat out on the floor.

"I was just sitting reading that book you handed me before you left and he came into he room. I didn't notice him when he first came in because I didn't look up as I though it was you. He told me that if he caught me touching you, he'd kill me" Sora could feel the fear radiating off of Riku. He knew that since Riku was in the resistance, he couldn't be the kind of person that got frightened easily but Vanitas was capable to brining down the strongest man with a few words. "He seems really protective of you?" Sora noticed Riku's eyes looking upwards at him as if to ask 'why'.

"He's a monster" It was really the only word that Sora could use describe his older brother at this moment in time. "You've placed your trust in me by letting me bring you here so now I place my trust in you. I trust you not to mention what I'm about to tell you to anyone else" Sora saw the small nod of confirmation from Riku. "Vanitas is more psychotic than you can begin to imagine" Sora let out a small whimper as he began to talk about his older brother.

"I doubt that. I have seen the things that he has done in my time." Sora just shook his head the entire time that Riku spoke.

"That's not what I meant." Sora took in a few deep breaths before he crawled towards Riku so that he was sitting right beside his body and staring at the older teen. "You must have seen the marks around Vanitas's lips" Again Riku gave a curt nod. "A guard was killed last night and that was why I was sent to go and speak with my father this morning. Vanitas told my father that the guard kissed him and when he tried to pull away, the guard bit him and that's why Vanitas killed him." Sora saw the horror on Riku's face.

"I have to admit at least he died after laying an injury on Vanitas." Sora started at Riku as he seemed to think.

"He didn't. The guard wasn't the one that bit Vanitas" Sora's eyes started to dart around his room. Hoping to find somewhere else to stare other than Riku's face. "It was me" Sora didn't look at Riku but the small gasp he heard from the silver haired teen made it clear what he must have been thinking. "Last night when you were sleeping, he came into the room. I was in the shower at the time and when I came out I found him hovering over you. I was frightened that he was going to hurt you because that what Vanitas does, he hurts people and he enjoys it."Sora could feel himself growing disgusted with himself as he spoke. He felt dirty and wrong. He had never had that feeling before. "When I made my presence known, he came storming over to me and pinned me against the wall. He kept saying really frightening things like 'You belong to me' and how only he can break me then he just kissed me. I did the only thing I really could in that situation and bit him so he would back off" Sora felt the tears welling up in his eyes and soon they were coming down his cheeks in tiny streams.

"It was your first, wasn't it?" It wasn't exactly a shock to Sora when Riku spoke. While he would still be frightened and upset, he doubted that he would have been crying of it hadn't been his first kiss.

"I was a virgin in every sense of the word until last night. What shocks me more is that he's my brother. He is of the same blood as me, I share the same birth parents as him and he's the one who stole my first kiss" Sora finally decided to look back Riku who just seemed to look as if he sympathized with Sora.

"So if your the one who bit his lip, why did the guard die then?" It was a question Sora didn't know the answer to so all he could do was shrug his shoulders and shake his head. "So your older brother not only has some kind of insane taste for death but he lust after his own brother." Sora sighed and leaned over Riku to pick up the book that was at the side of him.

"I'm terrified to be near him now. I knew he was insane before but I have never been frightened of him before" Sora flicked open the pages of the book to look at the family tree on the book. "Would I have been like him if I was the first born?" Sora wasn't really asking the question to anyone in particular.

"You can't think like that. You turned out to be who you are because of your mother and you have to be grateful for that" Sora smiled at Riku's words. The brunette prince moved and pressed a small kiss to Riku's forehead. Sora looked down at Riku once he pulled back.

"You have very pretty eyes" Sora grinned as he leaned over Riku's face.

"Not as pretty as your eyes" Sora chuckled at Riku's comment. "I always thought that you were the prettiest member of your group" Sora locked his eyes with Riku for a few seconds before he pulled away. "I should get you back up on the bed. I'm tried and I'll be up early tomorrow" Sora jumped to his feet so that he could lean down and wrap his arms around Riku's shoulders so he would be able to ease the older male slowly up onto the bed.

Terra stared at the to people in front of in in annoyance. It was far too early in the morning to be dealing with them. Just because he trusted them the most, doesn't mean they have to go on and on about things he already knows at ten in the morning.

"Have you been keeping an eye on your youngest son" Terra eyed the tall sliver haired man and arched an eyebrow. He knew that he could trust both Xemnas and Larxene with his life but they could get a little repetitive.

"You asked me that five minutes ago and I told you that Vanitas was watching him. I have more important things to worry about than if Sora has traitorous motives" That was a lie and he knew it. Sora was one of his biggest concerns at the moment. Hindsight was such an annoyance. If Terra had known what Sora would have turned out like because of his stupid mother, he would have taken him away from her when he was born just like what he done with Vanitas.

"Father!" Speaking of Vanitas, Terra lifted his head to see his eldest son coming towards him. "I've just heard from Namine that Sora is going to ride out tomorrow. She does not know where but he is set to leave before dawn breaks" Terra grinned at the information. He turned his attention back to Xemnas and Larxene as did Vanitas. Terra noticed something as Larxene locked eyes with Vanitas. He saw a spark of something. It could be a spark of malicious intent which would have thrilled him or it could have been something else. However the blond woman soon turned to stare back at Terra

"Forget what I said earlier. Assemble a small but elite group of troops just in the small chance that Sora is betraying us." Terra turned his head back around to look at his son. Vanitas would make a great king someday. "Vanitas you will lead this group and follow your brother. You will take Diablo with you and if you do see something, you will sent him back to me with a note but do not strike until Sora is heading back. This could be a false alarm but on the other hand it might not be" Terra stood up from with throne with a huge grin on his face. It didn't matter if Sora was a traitor because if he was, he would just be leading Terra to the resistance. He actually hoped that Sora was a traitor, it would give him an excuse to get rid of his useless son.

"Sora, I have a question" Riku stared at at the back of the petite prince as he ran around his room picking up bits and piece for his trip outwards tomorrow. "How come you have your mother name and why is none of your mother's family mentioned in the family tree in that book you gave me yesterday" Riku watched as Sora stopped what he was doing to just stare at him in confusion.

"I don't know. That is the answer to both questions. I don't know why I have my mother's name instead of my father's and I know nothing about my family on my mother's side. All I knew is that she was from a noble family from very far way and she and my father fell in love at first sight" Sora shrugged his his shoulders. "Can't understand why though." Riku's thought went back to his first meet with Sora.

'He wasn't always like that". 'He just changed over time'

"You said that your father wasn't always like what he is now and he just changed over time?" Riku noticed that Sora seemed to be avoiding his gaze.

"I lied. If I told you that he was always like that, you might not have decided to trust me. I want to be able to separate myself from my father and my brother. I'm not them" Riku smiled as the young prince finally decided to look at him.

"Your nothing like them, Sora. You've proven that to me" Riku seemed pleased with himself as Sora began to walk over towards him.

"All I have to do now is prove myself to the rest of your group" Riku felt the bed dip as Sora pressed his knee onto the bed so he was half kneeling and half standing. "I will be leaving at dawn tomorrow. I'll be back about six in the evening" At least the kid had an imagination.

"Sora, Traverse Town is over half a days walk from here. To get there and get back will take more than a day" The small chuckle that Sora let out could only be labelled as 'cute' in Riku's eyes.

"Your forgetting that I won't be walking to Traverse Town. I have Destiny. She is the fastest horse in Radiant Gardens and possibly the world. I can get from here to Traverse Town in little more than five hours. So don't worry" Riku just flashed a smile at Sora.

Despite trusting Sora, Riku couldn't help but get the feeling that something bad was going to happen and usually when Riku gets that feeling, he tends to be right.

Vani is a bad man, I hate him...Nope I still love him. Well its a shame, Terra has stolen Malificent's Birdy haha. Also am I the only person that think Vanitas and Larxene would maek one hell of an evil power-couple. Anyways things start to get dangerous next chapter mwhahaha. Bye bye see you in a few weeks -waves-