First and formost its an update! I hope you are all happy! This chapter took me a while to get where I liked it! A thank you to LittoGrrlStephie for going over this chapter and catching my many grammitcal mistakes!
Ravyn
Warning: This chapter is rated R for a reason! If you do not like darker R rated contenet then I suggest you stay away from the bottom of this chapter. For all of you who want the full R version (some differences but not many) may I suggest you head over to Guilty Pleasures She is going to be updating the full version in the next couple of days! Remember, this chapter contains VIOLENCE, BLOOD, R CONTENT, AND QUITE A BIT OF SUGGESTIVE AND NOT SO SUGGESTIVE DETAIL.
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Kaoru stood in an attempt to relieve some of her tense muscles; the heat raging in her blood forced her to move in agitation. Reaching up, she caught the ribbon that held her thick hair away from her face and pulled on it viciously. Her hair fell in a dark, sensuous curtain around her over heated form. Kaoru hissed slightly when the cool strands brushed against her sensitive skin.
She had awoken two more times to small furry bodies, and their small gift of blood had allowed her to shake the continuing need to sleep. The second time, the mouse wasn’t the only change to her body. From mid-thigh down, her kimono and under kimono had been sliced. It looked like she had taken her claws and hacked it off in a fit of temper. The sleeves had been torn off at the hem, and she felt cooler, freer. Running her tongue along her bottom lip, she stretched her body like a cat.
Kaoru went very still as an unfamiliar scent caught her attention. Two healthy men stood outside her door, shifting around as if something was forcing them to be…uncomfortable.
Kaoru felt her incisors fall at the faint sound of hearts beating. Quickly. As if something was causing the adrenaline in their blood to heat. Prey. Kaoru reached for what was crackling in her blood stream. It was an instinct to do so, and she delighted in how it echoed in every pore of her body. She was hungry. Her senses were screaming for her to find release from the pooling heat gathering in her stomach, and to fill her tummy.
Closing her eyes, Kaoru ducked behind the curtain of her hair when she heard the shoji door slide open. Sweat, arousal, and the promise of blood assaulted her senses. She could hear the soft lilting of their hearts and the way they goaded each other on. The soft mummers of who got to try first. A game to them; promised nourishment to her. She knew she was impossible to resist right now…not with the way she looked and the way she smelled.
Kaoru judged their body weight, decided that she really only needed one alive. One would have more than enough blood. Kaoru watched as the nails on her hands lengthened and twisted into sharp claws, and forced herself to hold still as her prey drew closer. She had never used her nails like this before, and she contemplated them thoughtfully. They would be drawn to her against their will. Any male in the area, human or vampire would come to her now that she demanded it.
Her hair hid her feline smile, and her fangs glinted in the play of lantern light.
Kaoru purred when one of the men reached out to touch her, falling into her trap. She was so hungry. He froze when he caught sight of her hand, the dagger like nails, but she gave him little time to react. Instead, she brushed her fingers down his throat and watched as his blood spurted out and then dug them in deeper, allowing herself to rip the front of it out. He fell like a ton of bricks, his body hitting the floor delightfully. Smiling, she licked her nails clean slowly as she watched the other man attempt to move backwards. He was clearly caught between arousal and fright and Kaoru allowed her body to move in a sensuous slink toward the open-mouthed male. The fear was delicious, and it fell off his body in waves. He couldn’t move if he wanted to, not after she ran her tongue over her mouth, and offered him a beautiful smile. Not when she was showing long glimpses of thigh.
Kaoru judged his frantic Ki and dismissed him altogether as unworthy. He wouldn’t be able to hurt a child of her race. If a man was going to churn this fire in her blood, he would have to be able to do so brutally. She craved the violence in her first coupling, and this one…he would never be able to seduce her. His blood would feed her, giving her the power to leave this place and look for a strong mate, and she would leave a broken trail of bodies behind her.
"Where," Kaoru purred, "are you going?" Her voice was a dark promise of heated, wild sex. The man froze, even as his brain attempted to register his friend’s still body, the blood running from his torn throat. However, if the bulge in his pants said anything, he was very aroused by her appearance and the carnage. Kaoru shook her head and stalked closer. She was the only one who could get off killing tonight.
Kaoru traced a hand up the man's chest, her now normal nails scratching the skin just under his gi. The man trembled slightly as his body betrayed him. Kaoru allowed her other hand to slip lower, caressing his obvious arousal. He reached down in an attempt to pull the rest of her kimono from her shoulders, but she pouted up at him. He wasn't worth baring herself to. Instead, she tightened her grip on the man's bulge and scraped her nails back up his muscled chest. His breath sucked in and she smirked. Too bad for him she wasn't interested in seeing how rough he liked it. It was easy to read his Ki, her fingers tightening and twisting, the man's moans filling the pale room.
Kaoru watched in satisfaction as the man's head fell back, the guttural sounds of pleasure scraping her ears. Human were so disgusting. Kaoru slowly began to kiss a path up the man's chest, aware of his responses to her hands until she reached his pulse point. Her blunt teeth scraped delicately, and he stumbled backwards. Her tongue snaked out to trace his frantic pulse once. He groaned and attempted to bury his hands in her hair. Kaoru bit down hard, her small white teeth arching into the man's throat hotly as she pushed his heavy frame against the wall. His grip slowly loosened as Kaoru drained him dry. When she took all she needed, she ripped his throat out as well. Playthings were only good for round one.
"Never trust a beautiful woman," Kaoru purred at the dead man. With the fresh blood in her veins, Kaoru allowed herself to increase her sensuous call. Either someone would come and relieve the great fire in her blood, or she would kill every man that entered this room. Her senses twinged as she turned toward where she could sense great amounts of Ki, and her tongue slipped around her mouth to clean it of blood. More males.
Kenshin stood inside the hotel, his eyes darkening with temper as Aoshi asked questions. Sano was better used as a watch dog in these situations and Aoshi was better at mind probing. His fangs burned with the need to bury themselves in Enishi's throat and he wondered how long the young man thought he was going to be able to hide from him.
Not long. Not now. Now when he had her. Not when her scent echoed in the small room, the softest wave of jasmine to warn him she was there. Gritting his teeth, he waited patiently for Aoshi to get a room, and then followed him up the stairs. Death lingered on the air. It was as he had told her: she was his to hurt and no one else's. Placing his hand on the doorknob, he entered the vacant rooms and moved towards the strongest disturbance.
Sano and Aoshi moved swiftly behind him, their eyes glinting with the same demonic-like glee. Enishi needed to learn how to play with the big boys.
Feeling the barrier that hid those inside, Kenshin walked in. He frowned when he caught sight of a slightly terror filled Enishi and turned to where he was and stared. Enishi looked up and smiled bitterly. His eyes glinted. "Come to collect your panting whore, Battousai? I am sure she is debating even as we speak as to whom she will spread those long legs of hers for." Enishi's words were careless. Kenshin's molten gaze swung to Enishi with the force of his full anger behind his eyes.
"What did you do?" His voice was bitten off as if each word was pulled from his body. Enishi winced as a moan came through the wall. It was definitely female. The eyes of every male in the room swung toward the door. Enishi watched dispassionately as Kenshin's body went rigid, his bangs falling forward to slide into his eyes.
"Someone didn't bond his little mate properly," Enishi drawled. "She went into her mating cycle when I attempted to take control of her mind." His posture was casually nonchalant. "She killed the two humans I sent back there to guard her."
Kenshin's jaw muscles worked hard for several long moments before his eyes narrowed. He could smell her now, all jasmine and hot arousal. Enishi was between him and her needy little calls. The door behind him was open, but the hallway was darkened enough that he couldn't see anything. His eyes swung back to Enishi's and he noted the way droplets of sweat rolled down his temple. "You unleashed her mating cycle," Kenshin softly remarked, his words bitten off in dark fury.
Enishi raised a brow. "Who would have thought it was possible with only a half-bonded whore?" It looked like he was going to say something else, thoroughly taunted, when a slim feminine hand snaked around his waist and jerked him backwards.
Enishi's eyes went wide as he was inside the door jam, and a form that was decidedly female pressed up against him, her hand dropping from his waist to smooth suggestively across the front of his hakama. All the three men in the room could see was the long length of a naked leg and a mass of dark hair as she rose up on her tip toes to nip at his chin and nuzzle behind Enishi's ear as she continued to explore his lower-half.
"What's wrong honey?" Kaoru's voice crooned from the hallway as Enishi made a low panicked noise. "You don't like to play?" Her head moved as she sucked on the skin behind Enishi's ear and the man gave a tortured moan. Her small hand was making work on the knot on his hakama while the other was doing decidedly wrong things to the outside of his pants. However, her teeth grazed against his neck, drawing a slight bit of blood, and her tongue lapped it up. Then she hissed.
They really couldn't see what happened next, but Enishi was suddenly tossed from the hall, a good deal of his chest gushing with blood. Kenshin turned and looked at the doorframe and went still. Kaoru was leaning against the doorframe, calmly licking her nails as she watched the men. His eyes lowered to where he could see the long, slender length of her calves up to mid-thigh. Her kimono parted enough to show off tantalizing glimpses of breast-bindings, her hair wild and loose around her shoulders, and her little pink tongue flicking in and out as she delicately cleaned her nails. "You taste a bit too sweet for my liking," Kaoru drawled as she took a bit more suggestive pose.
Her eyes swung to the other three men as if measuring them. Her eyes flickered around before she sighed. "A girl just can't find what she needs around here, can she?" Kaoru turned away from the men and left the room, her hips swaying with a seductive rhythm as she walked back into the other room. Her voice had been a drawl of awareness down their spines and Sano gulped audibly.
Enishi picked himself off the floor and glared at the other men. "She is on a rampage." There was a strained note in his voice and Sano sighed. Too bad her nails hadn't been a few inches higher.
"That was Jou-chan?" Sano finally asked his voice rough. "She..."
"Is mine." Kenshin calmly stated, his voice surprisingly even. For all that he was standing so calmly, there was a spark of temper flickering in his eyes and a set to his jaw that Sano found difficult to interpret. "Aoshi, kill Enishi. Sano, either aid him or stay out of the way."
Sano opened his mouth, but Kenshin cut him off. "I have to go and deal with her before she tears a hole in one of the walls and starts molesting the rest of the guests." There was a note of dark possession in his voice and Sano's teeth clicked shut. He turned to watch as Enishi picked himself off the floor and glared at the men while Kenshin slipped into the hall to stalk his mate.
Aoshi didn't really say anything as he moved forward, so Sano simply decided to follow his view. Sano wanted Enishi dead and then he wanted out of there as soon as possible. Being around the two who were fixing to have an orgy in the back room was not on his high priority list. Not when Kaoru was like a sister to him.
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