[FANFIC] FATED (Night One: LUNACY)

Title: Fated
Author: Ai Mori
Fandom/band: Jrock/LUNA SEA, Kuroyume/Sads, Plastic Tree
Genre: Romance, Angst, Fantasy
Rating: PG
Pairing: J x INORAN, Kiyoharu x Ryutaro Arimura
Disclaimer: I don't own any people here, and I'm not writing this to harm any people on this fic. They are real people (i know) and this is pure fiction.


Author notes: Yeay, another vampire themed fic from me. sorry it took a while to updated this blog and fic. This one is a multi-pair and multi-fandom band. and just a few notes to read regarding the characters: I take LUNA SEA from their REW era, Kiyoharu from 'aibu' MV and Ryutaro from 'fukurou' MV (on his 'makeup' mode) and from Merry-go-around the world dvd (for his daily looks).
And so very sorry if the plot is confusing (but i hope it's not that confusing though) because i took two perspective.... ah alright alright.. like usual comments and review are gladly accepted :)

STORY

NIGHT ONE : LUNACY

"Are you thirsty?," Kiyoharu asked J who is still leaning to the wall, staring out of the window.

"You better found humans and drink their blood," Kiyoharu lit up his cigarette.

"And you?"

"I'll stay here. There's always a possibility of someone will found us and attack us here", Kiyoharu answered.

"I'll go with you, J-san", Ryutaro stands up.

"Okay", J nods.

"Be careful, those vampire's hunters are everywhere", Kiyoharu put down his cigarrette for a while, and leaned over to kiss Ryutaro's forehead before bid him farewell.

“Don’t let your guard down too, Kiyoharu-san,” J said before they fly away from the abandoned house where they lived.

***

Inoran just sit in the luxurious room, watching a pile of book in front of him. He drag a cigarette and light it up, feeling bored.

"Have you done reading it?", Sugizo asked.

Inoran nods. Then he stand up. "I'm gonna take a walk for a moment." He grabs his coat and wear it.

"Where are you going?"

"Somewhere nice and quiet," Inoran replied.

"Take this," Sugizo give Inoran a knife. The knife is made of silver, so beautifully decorated, and the handle has a blossom rose design and a round symbol with words LUNACY at the end of it. The leather cover of the knife also has a ruby on each side of it.

"What for?", Inoran looks confused.

"You won't know when and where the vampires will attack you," Sugizo put the knife in Inoran's hand, insists that he must bring the knife with him tonight.

"Do you still think that they are exist here?" Inoran raised an eyebrow, he never believe that vampires still lived among them. All he knows that the vampire hunters already chase them away out of this town.

"Well, we have to be careful. I've got several reports that some people died mysteriously due to blood loss," Sugizo explained.

Inoran sighed, "Okay." He keeps the knife on a pocket beneath his coat, then start to walks away from the room, with cigarette on his hand.

"Ino," Sugizo called.

"Yeah?" Inoran stopped.

"Remember to stab them in the heart. Otherwise they won't die."

Inoran nods and continues his steps.

***

J stops in a rooftop as he see someone walks out from a luxurious house. From this height, he still can see perfectly that the person who walks down there is holding a cigarette and smoke it. He seems a little bit bored and he's all alone.

J grins. Finally his chance to avenge his brother's death came.

J's brother, Hide, is killed by Sugizo -the vampire hunter- when they are fighting. Thus made some vampires fled out of the town. Hide was known as the vampire leader in this town.

"Should we attack him now?", Ryutaro asked.

"Nope, let me deal with this one," J still watches the young man below them. He knows the young man. He is Inoran, Sugizo's younger brother. Unlike his older brother, Inoran is actually not a member of the vampire hunters. J has been watching over him ever since he got the plan to take a revenge for Hide's death, but he can only do that from far away. Usually Inoran will go out with Sugizo in the night. That's why, if J was too close when he watched them, he afraid that Sugizo will know his presence. But tonight, Inoran goes out all alone, without Sugizo.

J knows that what he's going to do to Inoran is a little bit unfair, but at least that will make Sugizo suffered too.

"Alright, I'll be on guard. If you need anything.."

"I'll call you, don't worry, Ryutaro-kun," J grins and walks fast, following the young man.

Ryutaro watches him in silence.

***

Inoran enters one of the best taverns in town and order a beer to relieve his thirst. The tavern is usually full of people, but not tonight. Maybe those people are tired. But it doesn't matter. Inoran glad that he can get some peaceful moment in this tavern.

After some drinks, Inoran decided to leave the tavern.

"Be careful, young man. There are bandits everywhere now," the owner of the tavern warns him.

'Great, after vampires, now bandits are also in this town,' Inoran sighed.

"Okay, I'll be very careful, thanks," Inoran smiles after paying his bills, and walks out from the tavern.

The moon is still shining brightly in the sky. Inoran is running out of cigarettes, so he decided to go back home. He doesn't notice that some people is following him.

As Inoran walks to an empty street, he noticed that he has been followed by an unknown person. He turns and tried to walk to the other way around when a person also appear in front of him, smiling.

"Looks like we got a nice catch tonight," the third person appears.

Now Inoran is being trapped with those people. He still tried to stay calm and slipped his hand to the pocket in his coat where he hid the knife Sugizo gave him.

When those people step forward and tries to attack him, Inoran fights back.

***

J watches everything from above. He noticed that Inoran is still amateur on using a knife, so different with his brother. He only sit on a rooftop, watching everything with anxiety, wondering what will happened to the young man who supposed to be his prey tonight.

***

"Shit!" Inoran makes a wrong move and it gives his enemy the advantage to hit Inoran's hand and make his grip to the knife loosened. The knife fall down to the street and being stepped by one of the thugs.

"There's no need to fight back, just give us your money, and we'll let you go."

Inoran stares at them fiercely and punches one of the thugs on his face. That punch makes his nose bleeding and someone push Inoran to the ground.

"I'm gonna kill you!" The thug shouts at him with anger.

Inoran grabs some dust in his hand and throw it to the thugs face.

"Damn! I can't see!"

Inoran seizes the moment to runaway.

"Catch him! Don't let him get away!" the thug shouts while rubbing his eyes and the other two start to run, chasing Inoran.

***

Skillful, nope. Smart, yes. That's what J thinks of the young man.

He grins and flying down from the rooftop.

"Shit, that brat hurts my eyes!" The thugs still complains and rubbed his eyes.

"Don't worry, you won't feel that hurt again soon," J said. He noticed the knife that is still lying on the ground. The vampire hunter's knife. J takes it from the ground and keeps it in his pocket. This way Inoran won't be able to kill him.

"Who are you?!"

"J-san, I think he is in danger," Ryutaro suddenly appear from the dark side in the street.

"Alright, thanks, Ryu-kun, I'll leave this one to you. You can take him to Kiyoharu-san if you want," J said before leaving.

Ryutaro nod and came to the thug.

"Who are you guys?" The thug, still rubbing his eyes, trying to reach his gun, but Ryutaro hold his hand before he can release a fire and bite his neck, he really doesn't care with the thug's scream of pain.

***

"Let me go! I'm gonna kill you all!", Inoran is struggling to let himself free from these thugs.

He was caught by them when he tried to run to a small street.

"No, we're the one who's gonna kill you," one of the thugs showing his gun, "if only you are more cooperative with us, we won't have to kill you."

Inoran still trying to get his hands free, but the thug behind him is very strong.

"Don't worry, we'll do it fast."

A scream from the previous street distract the attention of those thugs. Inoran felt something strange happens behind him when the thugs in front of him panic and searching for the source of that screaming voice. When the thug in front of him turns his sight to him again, he looks surprised.

"Wh.. What happened here?"

The thug pulls the trigger and releases a shot. The bullets flying through the side of Inoran's body which make Inoran feels scared and trembles. The next one will surely hit his body.

The thug release another shot, and it almost hit him again. Then he felt his hand is free and someone whispers in his ear, "Go away."

Inoran do what the man said. He tries to run, but he's also curious of what's exactly that happens behind him.  It’s weird because he didn't notice that there's someone else behind him except the thug.

Inoran finally decided to look back, because he wants to see who is the one that helped him, and he stops running when he see someone tall with a short blonde hair is now standing in front of the thug, grabbing the body of the thug that previously caught him, now dead.

"What the hell that just happened?" Inoran looks confused. He never sees that tall-blonde man before. He looks scary, but at least he helped him.

Inoran accidentally stepped on a branch and the sound makes the thug looking at him again. "There you are." The thug releases a shot on his direction.

Inoran too confused to do something and he just realized it the moment before the bullet hit him. Inoran closed his eyes and thinking that this is probably the last moment on his life. But he feels strange because he doesn't feel the pain. As he opens his eyes, he is shock to see someone standing in front of him, using his body as a shield to protect Ino from the bullet. The person who protects him is the tall-blonde person that he sees before.

Blood is coming from the wounds where the bullet hit him and this making Ino worried, "h..hey.. Why are you doing this?" Inoran asks.

"I just can't let you die now," the person answered.

"But I don't know you," Inoran is a bit confused because he never knew this man before but this man willing to sacrifice himself to protect him.

"It doesn't matter," a shot hit his body again. Leaving another blood-stained wound near his chest. He's almost collapse to the ground.

"Hey.. Listen, just go away from here, you shouldn't die just for a stranger like me," Inoran looks panic.

The man just grins. He grabbed something from his pocket. It’s the knife that Sugizo gave him.

"Both of you will die now," the thug looks mad and going to give another shot, but the tall man throw the knife at him and stabbed exactly right on his heart, making the thug died instantly before he get the chance to release his shot.

Inoran is amazes by the tall man's skill, but then he realizes the bleeding wounds in the man's body.

"Hang in there, I'll take you to the hospital," Inoran searching anything that he could use to stop the bleeding.

***

J is staring at Inoran who still trying to stop his bleeding. He wouldn't die just because of being shot like this, but this is the first time he sees someone cares about him like this. He also didn't understand why he stepped on to protect Inoran like this. He could just let the thug kill him, and then drink his blood later. J gave excuses to himself that he should be the one that kill this young man himself, he doesn't want those thug taking his prey tonight.

Inoran managed to grab a cloth that he takes from the thug and wrapped it up on J's wounds.

"I hope it could stop your bleeding temporarily until we get to the hospital," Inoran said.

"No, don't take me to the hospital," J requested.

"But your wounds......,"

"I'm gonna be alright..." J just realizes now, this man that now still trying to take care of his wounds looks so beautiful. Different than his older brother, he seems so innocent and pure. All these times, J could only look at him from far away, but as they are now face to face like this, somehow, it kinda amazes him.

Inoran put his hand around J's shoulder to help him stand up and walk. "If you don't want to go to the hospital, I'm gonna take you to the doctor that I know."

"You really don't have to do that," J said.

"You're going with me, like it or not," Inoran insisted.

J sighs. This young man is so stubborn. Inoran's head is already close enough to him. It will only need one bite on his neck, then his revenge plan will be succeed.

Meanwhile, Ryutaro walk closer to the thug who just being stabbed by J when J already walked away with Inoran. Ryutaro took out the knife from the thug's body and examine the knife. "Lunacy," he mumbled. It would be a trouble for them if J couldn't kill Inoran.

***

Inoran still helping J to walk, "what's your name?"

J replies briefly, "You can call me J."

"Your name is really short," Inoran chuckles. "My name is Inoran."

Inoran takes J to someone's house. There's a bench located near the front door of the house and Inoran help J to sit on the bench. "Your body is getting cold, here, take my coat. I'm gonna wake him up first," Inoran took off his coat and give it to J. Then he steps to the front door and knocks it, "Ryu-chan, are you awake now? Please open the door!"

J holds Inoran's coat. It’s usual for him to feel this coldness; he's not a human after all. He throws a glance at the house. It's like the other houses, nothing unusual.

The door is opened and Inoran came in for a while, leaving the door unguard. Even from this distance, J could see what the living room looks like. There's a couch with a lamp and pot plants, a beautiful carpet and a nice chandelier. But he stands up when he see several decorated items hanging on the wall. A sword with something like an emblem with the words LUNACY written on it. He have to go, otherwise this person will surely kills him.

J hurrily takes a few steps away from that place and jumps to a rooftop. He watches it from far away when Inoran came out and search for him panicly.

***

"Are you sure?" Ryuichi ask Inoran with disbelief.

"Of course, he's just here a few minutes ago!" Inoran replied, looking around him to search for the man that helped him before.

"You're not drunk, aren't you?" Ryuichi staring at Inoran from head to toe.

"I'm not! For God sake, Ryu-chan, he helped me, he stand up in front of me and took those shots for me! He saved my life!"

"Well, but he's not here," Ryuichi yawn.

"He got shots, Ryu-chan! That's why I want you to help him."

"Listen," Ryuichi hold Inoran's shoulder. "He's already gone now. Maybe he didn't want your help. Maybe he's okay now."

Inoran staring at Ryuichi then turns his gaze away. "I hope so."

***

"You're back," Kiyoharu greets J who just came back to their place.

"Yeah," J still hold the coat Ino gave him before.

"Nice coat," Kiyoharu commented.

"It's not mine," J replied briefly before stepping to his own room.

"So how's your hunt, leader-sama?"

"Like usual," J then closed his door.

Kiyoharu grins then looks at Ryutaro who already came before J and now is sitting beside him. Ryutaro moves his body closer so he could lean on Kiyoharu's body while Kiyoharu holds his shoulder.

"Seems like he's not in a good mood," Kiyoharu said.

Ryutaro gave Kiyoharu a knife. "His target is a Lunacy member."

"Really?" Kiyoharu accepted the knife and examines it. "So our revenge is going to start soon, right?" Kiyoharu holds the knife.

"But I have a feeling that it’s not gonna be like what we've expected," Ryutaro said.

"Why?" Kiyoharu looks curious.

"I don't know," Ryutaro drag a cigarette and lit it up. "Do you ever see J-san sacrificed himself to protect other people?"

Kiyoharu tried to remember the last time he saw it, "I saw it once, when he tried to protect Hide-san." Kiyoharu noticed the uneasiness in Ryutaro's expression. "What's wrong, baby?" He touches Ryutaro's face.

"Today, he protects another person. A human." Ryutaro answered.

"Really? Well, that's a rare occasion. J usually won't be bothered by something like that."

"The problem is...." Ryutaro silenced for a while then continues, "The person that he protected was the owner of that knife."

Kiyoharu looks shocked. "What?! That can't be...."

Ryutaro nods slowly. "We're gonna be in a big trouble."

***

A week later

Inoran sighed. He's already getting bored with his college lessons. Even in his mansion, everything feels so boring. Sugizo told him to take a combat lesson in order to keep him safe, after he told him that he was almost beaten by some thugs. He knows that it's for his own sake, but sometimes it makes him bored. He wants to try something new. He started it by changing the way he looks now.

He's now trying to put some makeup to his lovely face, and tried a new hairstyle for his long hair. He painted his nails black. Though some people looking at him with a weird looks on their face, but Inoran doesn't give a damn about that. Yet, now, that boredom comes back again.

It's already night-time when he stepped out from the college building. Inoran used his long dark coat, which has the logo of LUNACY on the pocket side.

His best-friend, Shinya, walk along with him. "So, have anything to do today?"

"Sugizo told me to immediately come home after the lessons," Inoran yawn. "What about you?"

"Well, my mother told me to take care some of her stuff today. So I have to go back home soon."

"Too bad, huh? I thought we could hang around before we go home," Inoran commented.

"Yeah." Shinya replied lazily. "Maybe we could do that next time."

***

J watched the two young men below him walking away from the rooftop of a building. They talk about something and sometimes laughed.

J kept his eyes on one of the man. Inoran. He looks different now with his new style. And he's more beautiful than the last time they met.

J secretly following him. He can't stop watching that smile on his face. Ever since that day when he supposed to killed him, J couldn't forget him. He didn't know why. He had to fight the urge to see Inoran these days because Kiyoharu always made him busy with their hunt for blood. Some vampires also came recently, to talk about their plan in order to destroy and have revenge to Lunacy, the only vampire hunters troupe in this town.

J hold Inoran's coat that was given to him when he was shot. He wants to give it back to Inoran. But he will just wait until Inoran is alone, because maybe his friend there is a member of Lunacy. Usually Lunacy's members could notice the slight difference between a vampire and a normal human. He couldn't take a risk to fight against a Lunacy member alone. Not after he saw how Hide was stabbed to death by Sugizo. It's not because he's afraid, but it's just a precaution step.

***

"See you tomorrow," Shinya waved his hand to Ino.

"Yeah. See you," Inoran smiled and waved back to his best friend.

"Be careful," Shinya said and Inoran reply him with a nod. He stands still until he sees the shadow of his friend disappear behind the gate of his house and continues walking after that.

Inoran walks to an empty street that he used to take if he wants to make a detour before going back to his house. Sugizo will be mad if he comes home late, but right now, he just wants to take a break from his daily routines.

Inoran let out a sigh and grab a cigarette from his pocket. He still thinks about the thing that happened to him before. About someone who helped him that time. He never saw him again ever since that day. He tried to search for him, there were some people who have a tall figures with blonde hair and some people who used to be called 'J' but none of them is the same J that helped him before.

"Hey," someone called him from behind. Ino turns his head and staring with disbelief when he see the person who's calling him.

***

J flies down from the rooftop as soon as he sees Inoran walks to the place where he almost died by some thugs. It amused him that Inoran is going to the place where he almost lost his life because he knew that some people will just scared to come to the same place where they experienced bad things.

Maybe he was right. Maybe Inoran is really different than any other people he ever met before.

"Hey," J called and Inoran turns his head. He looks surprised. But then he smiles in relief. J must admit that Inoran smile makes him lost his words for a moment. He's just so beautiful that J couldn't take his eyes off him.

"I've been searching for you all this time," Inoran says.

"Really?" J replies, hiding his own excitement behind his cool expression. Yes, he's more excited to meet Inoran rather than when he meets his other prey and that's really weird because J usually doesn't want to know anything about other people.

"Yeah," Inoran steps closer to J. "Are you okay now? How about your wounds?"

"I'm okay now, don't worry," J replies calmly.

"Why did you go that time?"

"Eh? Um... Well... I just...." J nervously trying to find an excuse to answer Inoran. He can't answer that he runaway because he knew that Inoran's friend was a Lunacy member, it will be too obvious. "I... I don't want to be your burden, and luckily I met my friend." Lame excuses as it is, but better than the truth.

But Inoran just smiles, "that's good. At least you are okay now, I'm really worried because I thought you were already....." Inoran doesn't continue his words but J knows exactly what's he's going to say.

"Don't worry, I won't die that easily." J grins. "Why are you here? You might get caught by another thug."

"I was.....," Inoran nervously biting his lip, "waiting for you." He added seconds later.

J just stares at the human in front of him. He is waiting for him? If only he knew that he's going to kill him that time, would he still be this nice? And what is this unknown feeling that comes to him right now, every time he sees Inoran smiling at him?

This is weird and he knows that he shouldn't have a feeling against humans, but he can't stop this.

"You don't have to wait for me again. Here, I'm giving back your coat," J gives Inoran his coat and turns around, preparing to leave, when suddenly Inoran take his hand, "wait."

J turns around and making him face to face with Inoran again, but Inoran tripped over something on the road and bumped into J. Both of them fall down with Inoran landed on top of J and his lips accidentally touch J's lips. It’s really an accidental kiss, a very light kiss but he could feel the texture of Inoran's lips. So soft and warm.

"Ah... I'm sorry," Inoran moves away awkwardly and stand up while trying to hide the blush on his face but fails as J could clearly see it.

"It's okay," J replies after he stands up too and tries to calm himself. He knows it, he should just stay away from this man.

***

"J, are you going to hunt for blood again tonight?" Kiyoharu knocks J's room door, but no reply came from inside.

"Hey, leader-san," Kiyoharu knocks again, then opens the door slowly. The room is dark as always, but there's no sign of J inside the room. The bed is still neat but the windows are open.

"Where the hell did he go?" Kiyoharu mumbles as he walks back to the lounge.

"What's the matter?" Ryutaro asks while walking out of his own room. He just wakes up, his hair is still messy.

"J just left us," Kiyoharu answer, his hand grabs a cigarette and lit it up. "I thought we are going to hunt together again like yesterday."

"Maybe he just wants to do it alone." Ryutaro grabs a bottle that contains human’s blood inside and pour the liquid into a glass.

"I guess so, but he should've told us before he leave," Kiyoharu sits on the couch.

"Yeah," Ryutaro gulped the blood and suddenly took a glance at the Lunacy's knife that is now being held by Kiyoharu. It's a little bit unusual to see J put that knife on the table. After Ryutaro told him that he took the knife from the thug, J kept that knife on his possesion, but now he seems to just left it unguard here.

"I wonder if we could just attack Lunacy and kill all of their members," Kiyoharu plays the knife on his hand.

"It wouldn't be as easy as it seems," Ryutaro staring outside the window. Rain is falling tonight.

"I know," Kiyoharu let out a sigh, "Ah, at least I'm save from the rain. Not many people will come out on this kind of weather."

Ryutaro just stay silent, watching droplets of rain falling down. Something is already happened now, he could feel it. Something that might change their life.

(To Be Continued)