The Dark and Light side of Love

WARNINGS: More lime (yay!), language, and vampire gimmicks; it’s not really blood-play (non-vampire), or is it? *shrugs* Call it what you want, it’s still in here.

Kakarot’s POV

After some directional issues, we managed to get back okay. Except, now we’re dealing with my enraged father. So, I’m now in a situation where I’m standing in front of Vegeta, who is pressed into the wall and my arms are stretched out trying to protect him from my outraged father and his most strongest body guards. Who are waiting at a chance to get a hold of my soon-to-be-mate.

“Kakarot! Where the hell have you been?! I was worried half to death when I couldn’t find you anywhere! I actually had to send out a couple of search parties looking for you! I thought maybe you got kidnapped! Then you come back in the middle of the night, weak, with the King of Shadows carrying you, who is in perfect condition! Have you completely lost it?!” My father ended his rampage by getting in my face and throwing his hands in the air.

“Father, if you would just calm down for a minute, I will tell you why.” I answered calmly.

He huffed and finally sat down in his comfy desk chair. I eased off of my beloved a bit so I wasn’t squishing him and lowered my arms a little. “Alright. Now, as you can see, Vegeta decided to come here on his own. So, no one is allowed to touch him.” I growled out the last sentence as I looked over the twenty guards that stood before me. “When I mean he decided to come here on his own, I mean he’s decided to become one of us.”

I paused to let that last sentence sink into my father’s frustrated head. His expression of anger soon turned into one of shock. “You’re kidding…”

I shook my head. “He will stay in my room and I will look after him. No one is allowed near him and I would also appreciate it if no one knew where he was at. He’s my responsibility and I assure you that this situation is in my hands now.” I looked at my father intently.

He looked at me in turn with disbelief. He cleared his throat, “Well, alright then, son. You seem to know what you’re doing and I’ll leave it to you to take care of it. If you need my help, you know where to find me.” I nodded and he looked around at his men. “Men, you’re dismissed, except for you two.” He pointed at two random guards. “Kakarot, I’ll have these two escort you to your room.”

I rolled my eyes. “Father, I’m more than capable of going to my own room.”

He walked towards us and stopped a few feet away. “I know that, son. But with all the curious eyes in this place, I don’t want them asking questions. Even though everyone’s asleep, you may never know who might be up and about. Now, you’ll have two guards stand by your door at all times, hold on let me finish.” He held up his hand as I started to argue. “I want this situation to be in control. If you need anything, they’ll be sure to get it. Right, men?”

The two guards turned toward their ex-King and bowed. “Yes, your Majesty.” They answered at the same time.

I rolled my eyes again, already knowing the routine. “Alright, thank you father.” I relaxed my protective pose a little more and turned my head to see how my beloved was doing. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and a look of boredom on his precious face. I smirked.

Father clapped his hands like he was getting ready to come up with another plan. “Alright, now, you’ll need a lot of supplies. Towels, cold water, blood…”

“Father! I haven’t even bit him yet! Can’t we wait until it takes affect?” I interrupted him, almost rolling my eyes again at his excitement.

“Sorry son. It’s better to be prepared. Speaking of prepared…I have to go see my colleagues about the possible angry army of Shadows that might attack us soon because of their missing King. Men, escort these two to my son’s room and keep them there. I’ll see them shortly.” he started to leave the room.

I heard Vegeta groan behind me. I stepped a few feet out in front of him to give him some room and watched dad leave the room. The two guards headed toward the door as well and stopped and looked at us. They glared more at Vegeta. I turned to him, “Well, love? Shall we get this over with?” I smiled at him, trying to comfort him.

He smiled slightly back at me and pushed himself off the wall. He walked to my side and I wrapped an arm around him to keep him there. We walked through the door and started heading down the hall, with our two ‘escorts’ following us, of course.

I felt Vegeta slump his shoulders. “Don’t worry, love. It’ll all be over soon.” I tried my best at comforting him.

He answered with a groan. “It’s not that. I completely forgot how my men would react. I bet you anything Haru’s going to take over and lead them now.”

I tensed at his loyal guard’s name, whom I just made as my worst enemy. Haru. I’m going to have to remember that name.

Vegeta looked up at me when I didn’t say anything. “Kakarot, it’s alright. Haru’s not a threat, at least, not yet.” He ended in a worried tone. I hugged him to me tighter.

We walked the rest of the way in silence and we finally made it to my room. Is it just me or was that walk longer than usual? Maybe I’m just excited. “Here we are.” I announced as I opened my door and into the spacious room. I let go my beloved and turned to close the door when I saw the guards take their place on either side of the outside of my door. I forgot they were following us. I turned to see Vegeta looking around the room in sadness.

I walked over to him and rubbed his arms. “What’s wrong?” Is he disappointed of my room or is he having second thoughts?

“I’m just getting a good look at my prison.” He answered sadly.

I lifted his chin and kissed him sweetly. “Not for very long, okay? You’ll just be in here until you get your strength back. It won’t be so bad, I promise.”

He smiled sadly at my reassurance and I kissed him again, except longer and deeper. His arms went to my neck again and I held him tightly to me, the both of us knowing that the time has come. I gently moved from his mouth to his jaw. He froze and my lips went to his ear to gently whisper, “Close your eyes, it’ll all be over soon.” One of his hands went to my hair and I felt him nod unsurely. I slowly made my way down to the mark that I made earlier and gave the same care to it that I did before. A few more gentle kisses and then I brought my fangs out to dig deep into his cold neck. He groaned loudly, but I couldn’t tell if it was in panic or pain. I purred as his cold, sweet blood rushed onto my tongue and I drank greedily as my power came back to me. His blood is mine to drink, his body is mine to touch, and his soul is mine to have. I held him tighter to me (if possible) as I repeated that phrase in my head.

After a minute or so, his hands loosened around me and fell to his sides. He moaned a few more times as the beautiful crimson left him. I drank him slowly because I knew this was the only chance I’d get to taste him like this. I’m the only one to drink him. He’s been saving his blood for me and I’m relishing in it completely. I stop drinking when I know that he has no more to give and his eyes are heavy lidded, threatening to close forever. I pick him up and gently lay him on my bed. “Almost there.” I whisper to him. I grabbed my knife that I have on me at all times and slice my wrist open. I move it just above his mouth so he can drink it. He tries lifting his head up so he could have more and I settled it on his cold lips. He suckled greedily as if he couldn’t live without it, and in truth, he can’t. I smiled at this.

After a couple minutes, I move my wrist away from his lips and watch how the golden liquid danced over them. I lean down towards his face and watched for anything unusual, whatever that was. Pain, maybe? I stroke his hair, “Love, how are you feeling?”


He moaned in response. “W-weak.” He managed in a weak voice.

I gave him a sad look. “It’s okay. It’s normal. Your fever should be starting soon.”

As if on cue, there was a knock on the door. I sighed and stood up. “I’ll be back in a moment. Don’t worry; I’m not leaving the room.” I kiss his forehead and his expression relaxed.

I answered the door and father walked in, followed by a few guards with the supplies that he mentioned earlier. “Did you turn him already?” he asked kind of urgently.

I nodded. “Yeah. Why?”

“Oh.” He looked behind me at Vegeta and groaned, putting his hand over his eyes.

“Why? What’s wrong?” I looked back over at my beloved to see if he was okay. Even though he might not be at the moment.

“It’s just that, I wanted to interro-, I mean, ask him about his army. We don’t know anything about what they don’t already know and when they’ll attack.” He looked back at Vegeta sadly.

“Wait. Back up. You were going to interrogate him? After I said that no one was going to touch him?” Anger was built up in each word as I said them.

“Kakarot!” My beloved yelled for me, I believe he was in panic and in pain.

I rushed over to him, moving the guards that surrounded him out of my way. “What is it, love?” I felt his forehead, then saw the blood that was left on his wound. “Give me a wet towel.” I demanded hurriedly.

One of the guards complied and handed me one. I cleaned his wound then pressed a clean part of it to his forehead. “Is it the fever?” I asked my love, trying to see if he was just panicking and wanted me beside him.

Vegeta then arched his back and started panting heavily and moaned in pain again. “No!”

“What is it?” I tried asking calmly, but I think a little bit of panic showed anyways.

Father then came by my side and looked at him more thoroughly. “It’s his heart. His heart’s beating.” Father answered my panicked question with a little bit of shock himself.

“Already?! How can that be?” Okay, now I was panicking. “He should only have a fever! Why is his heart beating before any heat is even in his body yet?!” I was probably breathing just as heavily as Vegeta right now. He didn’t even have that much of my blood in him for any heat to circulate throughout his body.

“I don’t know that yet, Kakarot. But maybe it’ll all go into the process and be okay.” He looked over Vegeta worriedly. He moved the towel from Vegeta’s head and felt it. “Vegeta, do you feel the fever?”

Vegeta shook his head vigorously and moaned in pain again. “You know…your panic…isn’t…exactly helping!!” He tried yelling at us in between pants.

I pet his hair comfortingly. “He’s right. We have to calm down and think. Maybe his heart’s beating to get the blood flowing in him.”

“But he doesn’t have a fever yet!” My father answered with much panic.

I looked at him. “Thanks, dad.”

He gave me a glare. Then we both turned back to Vegeta’s cries. “Vegeta, you let us know the second you feel a fever coming on, okay?” he nodded vigorously as I tried talking to him.

“Alright. I’m going to go get a doctor. Kakarot, stay here and take care of him, I’ll be right back. Guards, stay here and do whatever you can.” Father started to leave.

“Father, wait! I told him I would take care of him. Besides, I don’t want anyone else touching him.” I panicked a little at the thought.

“Oh, of course, Kakarot. You’re doing a marvelous job at it too.” He answered back sarcastically.

Vegeta cried again and arched his back and gripped the sheets. “Okay, okay! Hurry, get the doctor!” I screamed at him.

Father quickly fled the room and I was left with my panicked love, and me panicking along with him. “Okay, okay…uhhh.” I tried to think of what I could do. “Okay…”

“How…is this…okay, Kakarot? I’m…not…okay!!” My love panted back at me.

“I’m sorry, Vegeta! I’m trying to think!” I pondered a bit. “Alright, first of all, let’s control your breathing. Try and slow it down. Go with what I say, alright?” I waited until he nodded. “Inhale…” He did. “Exhale…” He complied. “Inhale…exhale…continue doing that slowly until it feels better.” I calmly explained it to him as I watched his chest rise and fall with my commands.

He took a couple more breaths and then his breath hitched and started panting again. “I…can’t do it! I’ve…never…done this…before! I don’t…know…what to do!” he panicked more.

Shit. Where’s that damn doctor? “Alright, I have another idea.” I moved behind him and lifted him up so his back rested against my chest. “Now, breathe in and out. Feel my chest. You can do it.” I breathed in his ear.

He breathed unevenly for a while, and then he started to calm down and breathe evenly with me. “Only inhale when you need to, and exhale when you have to. It’ll come naturally to you. You’ll get used to it.”

“Kakarot. As soon as I…get my strength back, I’m going to…kick your ass.” He was still panting slightly, but it was much better than before.

I smiled. “I don’t blame you, love. But as long as you make it through this, that’s all that matters.”

Just then, the door opened and my father and the doctor came in. “How is he?” father asked just as panicky as when he left.

I looked up and smiled slightly at him. “He’s doing better now.”

Both he and the doctor gave me a confused look. “Really?” They said that at the same time.

I nodded. “Yeah. I helped him control his breathing, and now he’s fine.”

A low moan and a hitch in breath caught our attention. We all looked at Vegeta and another moan came from him and his head fell on my shoulder. The doctor then decided to check on him. He started lifting his shirt when I stopped him. “Wait, wait, what are you doing?”

When he was going to answer me, father cut in. “Kakarot, relax, he’ just checking his heart beat. Besides, we need to get him out of those clothes anyways when the fever hits.”

I nodded, uncertain, and Vegeta moaned a little louder. “Kakaroooott.”

“Shh…I’m right here. It’s ok.” I stroked his hair and kissed his temple. “Has your fever started yet?” I gently whispered to him. He nodded slowly. “Okay, good.” I sighed with relief and started searching for the wet towel. I felt the cool wetness of it and wondered how good it would feel on him. With that in mind, I put it on his head. He moaned at the coolness of the towel and closed his eyes.

I watched the doctor put the scope on his slightly heaving chest and paused it in every other place.

“Kakarot.” Father spoke up. “You should probably start feeding him ki, since his fever has started now.”

I nodded. “Right.”

I raised my energy a little and slowly started to transmit it to my love’s panting body. “How does that feel?”

It took him a moment to answer. “Good.” He relaxed a little more in my gentle hold and closed his eyes.

The doctor looked up then and dropped the scope away from Vegeta’s panting chest. “His heart is beating unevenly, but...it seems that it’s trying to circulate the blood that’s in his system now. Your highness, I recommend feeding him more of your blood soon and feed him ki as long as you’re able.”

“How long will the transformation last?” Father asked suddenly.

The doctor turned to him, “it’s hard to say since it just started, but my guess would be…6 weeks.”

Father and I both gasped, “Six weeks! It’ll take that long?” I couldn’t hold back my surprise.

“Well, like I said, it’s hard to tell.” To my surprise, the Doc looked like he was disappointed too.

I looked back at my love to see if anything new has happened. He was still breathing heavily and his eyes opened halfway. He sighed then, “Vegeta? Are you okay?” I wanted to know what he was feeling.

He nodded and he looked up at me, “I’m starting to…get a little hot.” He panted out.

I stopped feeding him my ki then. “Oh. Well, maybe we should get you out of those clothes.” I paused and looked up at everyone around me, all looking at me as if waiting for instructions. “Alright. Doctor, can you stay somewhere close, just in case we need you?” Which I was hoping we wouldn’t, but something told me we would. It hasn’t even been an hour since he’s been bitten ad we’re already having problems.

He nodded. “Sure. I can stay in the King’s study, if that’s okay with him, of course.” Father nodded.

“Good.” I looked at all the guards that surrounded us. “Everyone else, you’re dismissed and leave the supplies you came with.” The guards set down what they had in their hands and turned to leave the room. “Also…” Everyone stopped. “I don’t want anyone to know that he’s in here. If I find out that anyone else knows besides everyone who is in this room, I will personally enjoy making your lives so miserable that you’ll probably wish you could join the Shadows instead.” I ended my threat with a death glare and a growl.

“Alright, alright. We get the warning.” Father answered my threat casually, and then walked over to the guards and whispered, “and for God sakes, do what he says.” I heard it anyways. A few of them swallowed loudly while others nodded and left the room quickly.

I turned my attention back to Vegeta, who was more calm, yet still panted and winced every once in a while. “Can you guys give us some privacy? I’ll call you when I need you again.” I referred to my father and the Doc.

Father looked at me for a moment, thinking if he should abide by my words or not. “Alright, son. I’ll have someone bring you something to eat and blood, so you can keep tending to him. Send a guard if you need us. C’mon, Doc.” He obeyed and left the room, followed by the doctor.

I sighed and turned my gaze back at my love again. “Okay, first things first,” I said again. “Off with your clothes.” I said with a smile.

He tried smiling back, but failed. I wonder how much pain he’s in. I brought up both of my hands to remove his tattered coat and slowly pulled it off, so as to not cause him anymore discomfort. As soon as the coat slid off his arms, I started working on his blood-red tank top. I grabbed the hem of it and slowly pulled it up to his chest. I wrapped an arm around his waist so I could take the rest of the top off. When he was free of it, he sighed with relief. “Does that feel better?” I asked with hope.

He nodded gently. “Do you want me to take off your pants too?” I wasn’t sure if he was cooled off enough or if he wanted to be completely disrobed.

It took him a moment to answer and he nodded again. “Okay.” I answered more assuringly to myself than to him.

I slowly got up from behind him and laid him back gently. I moved to the side of the bed and sat next to him, at his waist. I undid his belt and zipper and again wrapped my arm around his waist so I could lift his hips and pull off his tight pants, which revealed dark blue spandex shorts. As I moved his pants down lower, I removed his boots as well. He moaned as the cooler air hit his heating skin and there was another sharp intake of breath. I scrunched my eyebrows with worry and folded his clothes neatly on the floor at the foot of the bed, next to his boots.

I moved towards the head of the bed and removed the cloth to feel his head, it was getting warmer. “How are you feeling?”

He looked at me with a glazy look to his beautiful black depths. “I’m…thirsty.” He sounded so weak. Doubt suddenly hit me. I hope I’m doing this right. I’ll never forgive myself if I let him die.

I nodded. “Oh, right.” I looked at my wrist to see if it was still open. Instead, it was already starting to heal. I bit into it and winced, then gently laid it over my love’s lips again.

He closed his eyes and drank greedily as before and I stroked his hair and kissed his rapidly heating forehead. He moaned in relief of the burning leaving his throat and I smiled a little. “Tell me if you feel anymore pain and I’ll try my best in relieving it.” I whispered to him. I was glad that the fever started. Maybe father was right. It will all soon go into its process and maybe things will go more normally from here.

He nodded slightly and kept drinking. Then, there was a knock on the door. I looked towards the door and became a little defensive suddenly, then thought that it could be the guard bringing me nourishment. “Come in.” I looked back at my love’s face, and then looked at the rest of his body. I covered his lower half with a sheet as the guard came in.

He set the food and blood down on my dresser and bowed once before he left. Wow, it’s rare that someone shows that much respect to me anymore. Usually everyone is so loyal to only my father. “Thank you.” I managed to say to him before he shut the door.

I felt tired all of a sudden and looked back at Vegeta, who was still drinking my blood. “Alright, Vegeta. That’s enough. I’ll give you more later.” He moaned in complaint as I retrieved my wrist. Then I got up and walked towards my dresser where my strength and energy lied. I paused, however, and thought I should give him my ki first.

I walked back over to him and kneeled down to lay my hands on his head and stomach and once again transmitted my ki to him. He half moaned half purred at the feeling of the warm energy entering him. I did that ‘til I felt I had no more energy to give and stopped. I leaned down and kissed his warm head softly again and smiled at the feeling of warmth in my beloved. “Rest now, love. I shall get more ki and blood in me, so you can have more of it later.” I stroked his face once and got up again to walk to my dresser, which was a little hard to do.

This is the only use for my energy now. I have to save it for him so he can make it through this okay. I devoured my food and Shadows blood as my love struggled to sleep. As soon as I was done, I went back over to him and lay next to him. I held him in my arms until I knew he was asleep and I soon curled up closer against him and secured my golden tail around his warming thigh. I smiled at the feeling of his warmth again and fell into a restless sleep.

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This was actually a little hard to write. I was starting to get so into it that I had to read it a few times to make sure it was making sense or it wasn’t too weird. I wanted to add more on this, but…I don’t want to have a cliffhanger either. See, I told you all that I don’t appreciate cliffhangers. Not even in my own stories. Yeah, I love you all that much. Now, I’m writing the next chapter as we speak; now it’s just the matter of when I’m going to update it. It seems I only have time to update on weekends now, since I have a job now. Goody. I’m not updating every weekend, I’m sorry to say, but I will try and update every month, hopefully more than once. So, please bear with me on this story. It’s getting hard to write. I know what to write, I’m just trying to figure out how to write it. Reviews please. I only write if I get ‘em.