Yes, Master

Shower Thoughts

Cata's phone alarm went off at 8pm. She got up and grabbed her school uniform, which she had set out the night before. She stumbled sleepily into the bathroom and stripped off her night gown.

She was just about to step into the steaming hot spray when she heard the doorknob turn.

"Subaru, wait!" She cried, "don't come in here!"

The door opened anyway. Thinking fast, Cata covered her naked form with the shower curtain.

Subaru opened the door completely. Cats stood before him, naked with nothing but a thin shower curtain and some thick steam blocking his view. He felt something strange stirring deep within himself.

"Ca-Cata, what are you doing in here?"

Cata looked dumbfounded, "What does it look like I'm doing?! You have no right to invade my privacy like this! Get out!!"

Subaru looked down but didn't move.

"NOW!!" Cats clenched her eyes shut, feeling a few tears squeeze out and race down her red cheeks.

Subaru grit his teeth and did the opposite. He walked over and bit her bare neck.

Cats wanted so badly to push him away and run, but she also wanted her neck to remain in one piece.

"Subaru..." Her voice shook with fear and pain. She was all too aware of how close and naked she was to him.

When Subaru finished feeding, she smacked him across the face.

Subaru was shocked. He looked down at Cata. She was bent over, trying to hide herself as much as possible. Still, the wet shower curtain left little to the imagination. He drank her in with his eyes.

Cata could feel his sweeping gaze. She whimpered and pulled the curtain further around herself.

Subaru's eyes landed on Cata's left thigh. The pale skin was blemished by what appeared to be a burn mark. Like someone had branded her leg with the image of an eye.

"For the last time," Cata said through clenched teeth, "get out of here Subaru."

He sighed reluctantly and walked back out if the room. Each step seemed deliberately slow.

Cata glared at his back as he left. A breath if relief moved her entire body. She dropped the curtain and locked the bathroom door.

Subaru heard the door lock behind him. He held his head in his hand and shook his head. What had come over him in there? This girl was doing strange things to him. And that mark on her... It looked familiar. He decided to ask Reiji if he knew anything about it.

He found Reiji drinking tea in his room. Michiko was sitting on the bed in her new school uniform. She was glaring at Reiji impatiently.

"Reiji," Subaru stepped into the view of his older brother, "I need your help with something."

Subaru described the scar to Reiji. Reiji's tea cup slipped from his grasp and hit the floor. He shoved his chair back so hard it crashed into the wall above his bed. Michiko yelped and ducked.

"This can't be possible," Reiji said under his breath. He searched his expansive book collection until he found a book bound in red leather. He flipped to a page with a scarlet bookmark sticking out.

"Is this what you saw?" He handed Subaru the open book.

"Impossible..." Subaru gasped.

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Cata sighed contently as the steaming hot water splashed against her shoulders and relaxed her tense muscles. She had always loved boiling hot showers, no matter how hot it was outside.

The sudden image of Subaru's eyes flashed across her vision. They were filled with an emotion alien to Cata. Desire maybe? No... It was stronger than that. Lust?

Cata blushed then vigorously shook her head. He was a vampire, not a human. Who knew if he was even capable of feeling lust.

She then thought if the look of horror and confusion that he had shown when he saw her leg. She ran a hand across the old scar. Lavender scented shampoo obscured the image of an eye. Cata then ran a hand over the crisscrossing scars that climbed her spine. She sighed.

Cata finished washing herself and stepped out of the shower. She wiped the steam from the mirror. Her pale face, red eyes, and dark circles under them made her look as dead as Subaru and his brothers.

She got dressed in the school uniform and put her hair back in a French braid, letting her bangs fall across one eye. She also wore the same white converse from last night.

She combed her fingers through her bangs and walked into her room. On impulse, she decided to wear her lace fingerless gloves. The were black and reached all the way to her shoulders.

Subaru was waiting for Cata in his room. When she opened the door, he turned to face her. He was holding a large red book in his hands. Cata saw a blank ink version of her scar on one of the pages. She squinted in confusion at it.

"Cata," the intensity of Subaru's voice made her look up in concern.

"Yes? Is something wrong?"

Subaru took a deep breath. He desperately hoped his suspicion was wrong, but there was almost no way it could be.

"Cata, answer me truthfully. Have you ever heard of the Blood Lust Klan?"