"Ma-" He tried to scream for Mana but Gackt slammed his hand down over Shinya’s mouth and spun him around, he hit the wall with the back of his head, nearly knocking him unconscious. Gackt jerked his hand up over Shinya’s hard to stop him from hitting out at him. He pressed his hand harder on Shinya’s mouth as he screamed against his palm.

"Stop it!" He said quietly. "I won’t hurt you if you shut up and stop squirming!" Shinya was gasping against Gackt’s hand, but quit moving. "Will you be still?" Shinya nodded frantically.

Gackt frantically jerked his hand back and forth, looking down both ways of the hall and then pulled Shinya into his room. He threw Shinya to the bed.

The room was totally different than it had been when Gackt himself occupied it. When he had been in this room Mana had let him decorate it himself. Gackt made sure that there was plenty of tans and browns to make the room look more inviting and comfortable. Mana hated it, and now that Gackt was gone, changed everything to an icy or bright blue. Of course, Mana’s favorite color was blue.

Shinya whimpered and jerked around to the other side of the bed. He made as quick a dash as he could (which wasn’t very fast due to pain) towards the bathroom so that he could lock Gackt out and scream for Mana’s attention. In the next second Gackt stood in front of him before Shinya could see him move and held Shinya in place.

Gackt studied the young man, as he couldn’t have before. This youth was much younger than Gackt had been when Mana had grabbed him. The boy was maybe twenty years old, hardly even a man. His blonde, chunky hair hung his face around his eyes and down over his ears. His almond eyes stared up at Gackt in total fright and his arm shook under Gackt’s hold.

He saw the drying blood on his neck and gritted his teeth. He knew he was naked underneath the robe and saw the drying blood on the sheets, a lot of blood, along with the drying semen. The boy had been a virgin, he gritted his teeth, he would bet anything that Mana had seduced or raped the boy. He wanted to kill...Mana was already using the boy for blood and sex!

"Sit down." He told Shinya, and watched him until he sank back on the side of the bed and stared down at the floor, still shaking. He winced as he pressed onto the mattress.

Gackt grabbed some clothes out of the dresser and threw them at the youth. He made sure they were the warmest closes he could find. It was very cold outside now. "Put those on...what’s your name?"

Shinya answered him so quietly that Gackt barely heard what he said, good thing for being able to hear much better than usual humans.

Shinya saw him looking around the rooms, on the chairs, the end of the bed, and the floor. "Where is my cape, Shinya?" He asked it almost to himself but Shinya heard and answered. "Mana sama burned it." His voice was still very low.

He flinched when he saw Gackt grit his teeth and throw a chair across the room. It clattered noisily against the wall and fell to the floor.

Shinya still had not dressed as Gackt had told him to, but merely held the clothes limply in his hand. "Go on, get dressed." Gackt urged. Shinya still didn’t, not wanting to take his robe off in front of Gackt. Gackt sighed. "Look, you don’t have anything that I don’t have myself. Besides, you are so young and skinny that I probably wouldn’t be interested anyway." Gackt lied through his teeth. Shinya was beautiful.

Shinya slowly turned away from Gackt and, feeling very uncomfortable, dropped the robe to the floor. Gasket winced at seeing the caked blood covering Shinya’s upper thighs as he watched from the corners of his eyes. Shinya gasped as he felt Gackt take his arm and pull him towards the bathroom.

In the bathroom, Gackt stopped him in front of the sink and turned the shaking away from him. He rung a washcloth off in the basin of water that had been left by the maids for just this purpose he supposed. He gently wiped the blood off of Shinya’s neck and then started to wipe it away from the back of Shinya’s legs. He gasped and tried to move forward, away from Gackt.

"Be still." Gackt wrung the cloth out again and finished wiping off Shinya while he silently sobbed and shook with fear and nervousness. Mostly he was afraid of Mana coming…as much as he was afraid of Gackt he was terrified of Mana. The fact that he was gentle earlier didn’t excuse the fact that he hated Gackt and would probably kill them both if he caught Gackt being so gentle with him.

Gackt pulled him back into the bedroom and helped him to dress in the thick layers of warm clothes. He didn’t want Shinya to be afraid, he wanted him to trust him. Which he knew would make Mana the maddest.

He wrapped a very long, wool scarf around Shinya’s neck and secured it gently away from the wounds. He paused, he knew a good way to gain mortal trust is to ask permission gently with the scared or wounded if they wanted help.

"Shinya…I want to help you." He stroked the hair out of Shinya’s face. "Do you want to stay here? Or do you want to come with me."

Shinya looked perplexed and then very confused. Who could he trust? Mana had practically raped him, or at least seduced him, kidnapped him, and he drank his blood…but Shinya could see the fangs at the sides of Gackt’s mouth, the deathly pale skin, the red tint of his eyes. Gackt was the same type of creature as Mana, would he treat Shinya the same way?

Gackt saw the doubt and smiled sweetly. He kissed Shinya’s forehead. "Don’t worry. Do you want to come with me?" He repeated and stayed close to Shinya, wishing that he had some warmth to pass off onto Shinya, to comfort him. He felt Shinya nod against his chest. He figured it could be better than staying here, maybe Gackt would even let him go, he thought with hope.