𝚂𝙰𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙴 ~ 𝙹𝙹𝙺

12

☽S̵̙͕̀̃Ḛͭ̉̇͟L̸̖̽̌͂A̷͙ͭͫ̕Hͥ̽ͣ̃̔☽

☾ Two words.
Vampire. Politics.
Now I was stuck in the Madame's room. The only vampires who could be around me were Megumi and Maki. They were my guards and the Madame was burdened with being my butler.
She brung me three meals a day, she cleaned up, she attended my bites that still would not heal completely. They wouldn't bleed, but they would just stay there and be painful.
If I needed a bath, Maki would take me and stay with me inside while Megumi guarded the outside.
I was not allowed to see any of the masters, not even Geto himself who made the rule.
This was so...
Not unfair but like...
Irregular.
This had never happened before.
"Good morning trouble~"
Maki cane into the room, I was just zoning out looking out at the courtyard when she arrived.
"Hey Maki..."
"Stop thinking so damn hard, I see the smoke rising from your ears."

She turns me by my waist to face her, staring at Ryōmen's bite on my neck and shaking her head.
"It has been five days."
"Has it..?"
I raise an eyebrow, tilting my head slightly, though the strain sends shockwaves of pain through my neck and I straighten out quickly.
"Mhm. I overheard Geto talking about thralling you in two days time if Nanami and him cant find a solution."
"I have only been here for six months though..."
Maki chuckles,
"Yeah and you are the unluckiest girl in the world trouble."
I agree.
"Some women would kill to be in my position though. I mean, it's not unheard of to be thralled before two years, it is just the tradition here."
Maki nods, pulling me out of the sun, I feel bad because she was probably starting to burn up.
"Maki, will things get calmer once I am a thrall?"
"Probably not. The masters are already super hostile with each other right now because of this situation. Geto has Kamo chained up somewhere, Sukuna is condemned to his wing BUT we all know he does not take orders from him. Nanami came clean to Geto the other day about you and him having a moment in the hot spring-but since they have to work on this solution together they are stuck in the same room only speaking when necessary-"
"He has Choso chained up?"
"Mhm...don't get any ideas-"
"But I told him he could drink from me! I am supposed to be punished!"

Maki frowned, shaking her head.
"You know you could never be punished because these are men in power. The power to compel and control. The power the threaten and bend you to their will. You may think you are always in control with them, but we vampires know that you as the human are never in control. Trouble, look into my eyes."
Maki takes my chin up in her right hand, taking her glasses off with her left, I stare into her eyes, and my skin started to heat. The hairs on the back of my neck bristled, my heart began to race.
This is why I feel such attraction towards all of them?
"You are compelled to like me."
She leans in, our lips only centimeters apart,
My eyes shut and I wait for her to meet my lips with hers...
"Selah."
My eyes open slightly to look at her, I didn't even know when I gripped her sleeves...
"Maki..."
"You understand why you are never in control and why you cannot be at fault for all of this?"
She takes a step back, and my body feels like a radiator as our bodies were no longer pressed together.
But reality tackled me - I almost kissed Maki.
Just from her looking at me and getting closer.
No wonder Shrine Maidens never engaged with any of the masters or fledglings in years past...

"You would risk it all just because of the things we can do to you to make you feel the way you do for us Selah. Remember that."
I felt sick in the next instant, covering my mouth with my hands that had started shaking out of nowhere.
"Im sorry."
Maki rubs my back,
"In two days, you will become Geto's thrall and there will be a war waged in the temple because of it. None of it is your fault. They all did this knowing just exactly what they can do to you, a vulnerable human girl."
My stomach swirls.
Was I being manipulated by them all this whole time?
A knock came at the door and as Maki opened it, I threw up in a bin, and I began to cry.
My feelings of affinity towards all of them were never my true feelings at all.
"Selah?"
Satoru...
"Go away."
I cough, my face still over the bin.
"I cant do that. This is urgent actually."
I glanced back and saw Maki move between him and I on the floor, she glared at him.
"You aren't supposed to be here Gojo."
"Maki. This doesn't concern you. Move or I will use force."
"Use force then-"
And she was sent crashing into the wall in a blink, I gaped at her unconscious body to my left, then I find Satoru's brilliant blue eyes down on me.

"What do you want from me..? Where is Megumi?"
I look out the door and he was also knocked out cold...
"Satoru-"
His left hand gripped my hair, pullinv my head to angle backwards, exposing my neck clearly, and he bit down.
I scream at the pain, but then feel the burn of pleasure and cover my mouth with my hands.
Commotion started coming from outside, and Satoru left my neck, and I watched him bite his tongue, his own blood beginning to trickle down his lips...
"Satoru...?"
And he kissed me.
His blood filling my mouth, his tongue pushing me to swallow...
And my body burned with unfamiliar power.
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༞END OF PART ONE༞