Lust

Mamoru was awaken by the sound of curtains closing. When he looked up, he saw Usagi closing the curtains, and pulling down shades all over the apartment, shutting out all of the morning sun's light.

"Did you sleep well?" She asked as Mamoru stretched slightly and yawned.

"Yeah, best night sleep I've had since..."

"Since that night at the club...I know what you mean"

"Yeah, I started having these dreams, the day after you disappeared, I don't know why I was having them, I just..."

"I had dreams too..." When Mamoru looked up at her, she was looking down at the floor. She slowly began to shiver as she continued.

"They were...horrible to say the least...they were, anyway, are you hungry?" He watched her in confusion 'what was up with the change of subject?' he thought as she went into the kitchen. 'Wait, Usagi in the kitchen?' he immediately jumped up to keep her away from his immaculate kitchen.

"Hey, Usagi, you probably shouldn't..." He had made it to the kitchen doorway when he suddenly felt too dizzy to walk, and fell onto the wall. Usagi was there in less than a second, leading him to his couch.

"You shouldn't be up yet, it's not like you just gave blood at the hospital or something, you should know better!" He smiled

"What? Why are you smiling?"

"It's just...I never figured you for the motherly type" she smiled down at him, and sarcasticly laughed.

"Haha haa, anyway, what do you want to eat?" Mamoru grimaced.

"Are you sure you can cook, I mean are you sure..."

"I'll make you soup, ok? From the can" He smiled at her again.

"I'll be right back, you just stay here, just...don't move" She ran back into the kitchen. Mamoru did as she said and stayed on the couch right where she had left him, until she came back. When she came back to him, she set down a bowl of broccoli cheese soup, and rice in front of him, along with two glasses of orange juice. He looked up when she walked over to a corner of the room, and away from him.

"Why are you doing all this?" She stuttered when she answered, keeping her gaze to the floor beneath her.

"I, I...I just feel...guilty" He smiled again, to prove that he didn't blame her for the lack of blood.

"It isn't your fault" She brought her eyes to his.

"I can't control myself anymore...at least when I'm...when the thirst takes me...I guess you can call it thirst...." She suddenly felt awkward, and Mamoru could see it. She changed the subject, sounding overly cheery.

"Anyway, you go ahead and eat that, ALL of it, I'm going to take a shower" He watched her disappear into his bathroom, and continued to eat his meal.************************************************************************

Mamoru found himself in another dream, he knew it was a dream, so this time it didn't scare him as badly. Everything was once again red, but this time it wasn't blood, it was the movement of a breeze blowing through satin drapes. Deep red satin drapes. He kept walking, and found himself out on a balcony, staring at the back of a girl with long blond hair. He froze only a foot away from her. He gasped as she slowly turned to face him, not expecting too such beauty. He smiled when Usagi's smiling face met with his.

"I know who you are..." Her warm hand came up to his cheek.

"Be careful around me, I'm dangerous" He smiled, and took her hand in his.

"You're like moonlight in the dark...you're the source of light for everyone. There's no way you could be dangerous" She smiled again.

"Don't you remember what you read? Vampires act on impulse..." Mamoru suddenly became aware that someone was very close to him. He opened his eyes to see Usagi standing across the room from him in nothing but a towel. She was soaking wet, her long hair fell to her ankles dripping with water.

"Do you have anything I can wear, so I can go wash my clothes...no point taking a shower and putting on dirty clothes" She smiled nervously. Of course, Mamoru didn't know why she seemed so jittery, and Usagi didn't want him to know that while he was napping on the couch, she had been whispering things in his ear, creating his dreams.

"I uh...I" He was speechless, she was beautiful, she had to know that she was messing with his head, she was every guys fantasy for god's sake.

"I uh...yeah I got some shirts you can wear, I don't know about the pants though, they might be too big for you but..."

"No it's ok, any shirt you have will be ok...I mean, you're like two feet taller than me, any shirt you have will fit me like a dress, it'll be ok" She smiled again, and Mamoru stood up to retrieve the garments.

"OK, I'll get a shirt, and then I'll go wash your clothes" He said as he walked in to his bedroom. Usagi watched as he pulled out a white T-shirt, and tried despretly to keep his mind from wondering back to her beauty. He came back and handed her the shirt.

"I need your stuff so I can take it to the laundry room" She nodded and stepped back into the bathroom, to get the all too skimpy black dress that she had found herself wearing when she had first awaken. She looked at the dress with disgust, she had worn it for two full days, and she still didn't like it any more than she did when she first saw herself in it. Her thoughts were broken when she felt the heat of Mamoru's gaze on her. She smiled when she realized he was starring at her legs, trying to avoid the rest of her towel covered body.

"Here ya go" She handed him the dress, and smiled when she noticed the color returning to his cheeks.

"Glad to see you feel better" Mamoru smiled, then nodded his head.

"I heal quickly" he looked at the dress in his hands and smiled.

"You did look pretty good in this..." Usagi frowned.

"Actually, if I had something else to wear, I would...I hate that damn dress, it...it just isn't me." Mamoru once again looked at the dress and noddded his head in agreement.

"It isn't, it's too dark and goth for a hyper odango atama like you, but for right now, since you have nothing else to wear, it must be washed, and reworn." Mamoru ran out of the room, and towards the loundry room of the apartment, before Udagi had a chance to retaliate at his "odango atama" joke. Usagi huffed when she coudn't think of something mean to say to him before he ran from the apartment She yawned loudly, realizing that she had been up all night.

"So tired" She outloud to herself. She looked at the shirt Mamoru had given her, and pulled it on over her head. She walked around the apartment for a little while before finding herself in Mamoru's bedroom. She smiled when she touched the bed, and found it still as comfortable as it had been the night before. She picked up one of his pillows, and breathed in the smell of roses and fabric softner.

"He won't mind if I sleep in here..." She climbed under the navy blue down comforter, and quickly drifted off to sleep.

"Usagi...Usagi, where are you?" Damieno had done it again, he had pushed his way into her dreams.

"Why are you here?" She yelled it out angrily, but she jumped in fear when his handsome figure appeared before her.

"I miss you my love" He reached out a hand to touch her, and she slapped it away.

"I am not your lover, I don't want anything to do with you, just leave me alone" Damieno smiled. He suddenly reached out for her arm, quicker than she could pull away. She twisted away from his grip, but he was too strong. He pulled her closer to him.

"You're thirsty, I can tell...and you're still as beautiful as I remembered you. I want to see you again, in person..." He pulled her closer, his lips were inches from her's. Tears began to fall from her tightly shut eyes.

"I DON'T WANT THIS!!!" She screamed when she woke up again, finding herself in Mamoru's arms, holding her gently.

"It's ok, it was just a dream, Usagi it's ok, I'm right..."

"Mamoru get away from me" He stiffened at her words, confused. Damieno was correct, Usagi was thirsty. She could think of nothing more than the sweet taste of Mamoru's blood pouring over her lips, but she didn't want to hurt him.

"Usagi I don't..." He gasped when she brought her GREEN eyes to his.

"Mamoru, I'm trying not to...but your blood was so...sweet" Mamoru was already to his feet and slowly backing away from her, but he didn't want to leave her, he wanted to tell it that it was ok, that she could drink from him again, but he knew that this time, she would kill him. She moaned softly, as if to protest his leaving, and something made him freeze. He didn't quite know what made him stop in his tracks like that, but he did non the less. He watched as she slowly stood up from his bed.

"Mamoru, hold me tonight...I want you to stay with me" She had a look in her eyes that Mamoru knew was lust...'wait a minute, vampires act on impulse, which means that she's always had this impulse, but she's just now lost control...no way! Usagi wants me!?' He shook his head clear of the thought; she was standing less than six inches from him. She reached out from him, touching his cheek lightly; he still didn't move, but his body began to quiver slightly under her gaze.

"Mamoru...I need you to be with me..." She lifted herself up to his face, and planted a soft kiss on his lips, that was when Mamoru snapped out of his daze. Usagi gasped when his strong hands gripped her by her wrist and pushed her back down on the bed. She looked up with a look of anger and annoyance. She began to move towards him again, but she stopped when he started to open the shades everywhere except the bedroom, which she was in, and yes it was still daylight.

"What are you doing!?" She asked completetly confused by his actions.

"This is the only way I can keep you in one spot until I come back" Her eyes flashed blue for a split second, as a look of fear spread across her face.

"Whe..where are you going?" Mamoru looked at her and smiled. That kiss had done something to him that he didn't know could be done. He wanted her, and he needed a reason to leave her now, and the obvious was just as good as any other reason.

"I'll be back, I swear. Just wait here, I'll be back in an hour or so." She pouted slightly, and reached her hand out to him.

"No, stay here with me..." She wispered the words as if she was affraid he would leave and never return. He said nothing, he just looked at her. She seemed so innocent, and afraid? 'Does she think I'm going to leave her!?'

"Usagi, you know I am coming back, right?" She smiled half heartedly, but said nothing. Mamoru sighed.

"I'll be back, but right now it's kind of dangerous for me to be around you right now, but I'm going to take care of that, and I'll be right back, I swear" He was satisfied when she smiled again, this time looking more hungry than innocent. He left his apartment, and Usagi behind, for a few precious minutes of thought, and shopping.

Mamoru walked down the streets of Tokyo in a daze with a large paper bag, and a shopping bag in his hands. He had just broken into the medical research lab at his college, and stolen about three bags of fresh human blood. It was still daylight, but the light was fading fast. It was a Saturday, so it wasn't too hard breaking into the lab. He found that his powers as Tuxedo Mask also helped in the robbery he had just committed, but that's not really what was on his mind. He was falling in love with the girl that had just tried to suck him dry, on top of that, it was Odango Atama! He wouldn't let himself admit it was love, he just told himself that it was some sort of vampire magic, and he would have been right, except that he began falling for her before she started the mojo. In a mater of fact, he had feelings for her since the first time he saw her, when she was still human, but he told himself that it was a platonic attraction, and nothing more. He walked swiftly back to his apartment when he imagined the agony she must be going through being there all alone and hungry.

"She must be going insane" He whispered to himself as he hurried to his apartment before the sun completely set.

Usagi was going crazy. Since Mamoru left the apartment....wide open to the sun, she could do nothing but lay in his soft bed. She now knew just exactly what the full force of the thirst felt like. Ever since she had been made, she was given more than enough blood, or she took it before she needed it so bad that she could kill, but for the last couple of days, she had no blood but the sip she had gotten from Mamoru. .....Mamoru...she began to fantasize about his sweet blood spilling over her lips. She noted that his blood was sweeter than any other blood she had tasted, but that wasn't why she wanted to taste him, she wanted him to feel the exquisite ecstasy of her kiss, before she felt the exquisite sweetness of his. ...She ached for him, she knew it was nothing more than the thirst that had taken her over, but she also knew that when she asked him to stay with her, it wasn't the blind lusty requests of a hungry vampire...it was her. She ached for him to be in her arms, but she couldn't do anything but wait, so she continued to lay on his bed trying to calm the quickening of her blood yearning breath, fanasizing about her arch enemy.

He had been gone for almost two hours when he returned to his apartment, it was no almost 7:30, and most of the apartment was covered in shadows.

"Usagi?" She didn't answer him.

"Usagi...USAGI?" She still didn't answer his call for her, he walked into the bedroom, slowly opening the door. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw her lying on the bed, with her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep.

"Usagi..." He called her name softly as he moved closer to her still body.

"Usagi...I know you aren't asleep" A smile slowly pulled at the sides of her mouth, while she eyes slowly opened. Mamoru sighed with defeat when he saw they were still green. He jumped when she reached out a shaky hand to him.

"You came back..." He smiled at her, but sat up quickly when her eyes suddenly flashed with pure hunger.

"WOAH! Calm down Usagi, I got you something" He quickly pulled the bags of blood from the brown paper bag he was carrying without taking his eyes of the girl that was now taken over by a curse that made her need for blood want to drain him of every drop he had. When her eyes fell away from his neck and to the blood in his hands, she pounced on him, taking the precious liquid from his grasp. He knew that she was far gone, so he just left the room leaving her to her life source alone.

"Mamoru..." She said his name softly as her eyes slowly became blue again, and she realized what she had almost done to him.

"I could have...I wanted to...oh my God, I can't believe I wanted him that bad" She spoke the words to herself in disbelief. She jumped when she heard the door open again. She backed away when he stepped into the room, an action that obviously confused him.

"Usagi, what..." She cut him off abruptly.

"Mamoru, I'm sorry, I...I wasn't myself, I just...I...I" She quickly bought her eyes to his face, the look of confusion looking extremely sexy at the moment, she let her eyes wonder over his beautiful features, and midnight eyes, before she realized that she was having trouble keeping herself from imposing a kiss on his lips. She looked away quickly.

"Well...anyway, I'm sorry" She quickly walked away from him, careful to keep their gaze’s apart.

"Usagi?" She stopped when she heard him call her name.

"Yes?"

"I uh...That dress that you were wearing seemed like it may have been a little uncomfortable, so I got you some clothes too while I was out." He handed her a large shopping bag. She smiled widely.

"Thank you, Mamoru....but you really didn't..."

"I...I know, but...I couldn't stand seeing you in that dress one more time" She smile slightly, her voice suddenly deepening.

"I thought you liked it?" Mamoru smiled back while walking from the room.

"A little too much" She watched him pace around his room, now suddenly shy, and felt a type of longing she had never felt before. She knew then that she needed to be with him. She knew, that she her soul was forever a part of his own.