Curiosity

By Misa Izanaki

Kale raked a handful of dark red hair out of his eyes

with a sigh. Running The Body Shop should have been
fun -- big emphasis on the ‘should have been’ part. Sure,
he had some of the hottest strippers and drink boys
working for him, but even they couldn’t save Kale from
all the paperwork involved in running the place. Kale
sighed again. If there was one thing he hated more than
anything else, it was paperwork.

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 “Oh, to hell with this.” Kale sat back in his chair and
glanced at the clock. It was nearly midnight and as good
a time as any to call it a night. Whatever was left on his
desk to do could wait until tomorrow. Besides, Dante
was probably getting impatient and Kale never liked to
keep his lover waiting.
Dante was a sweet boy and a good bartender. He was
gorgeous, too, even with all the body mods. Not that
Kale minded them any -- well, except for the gouges
Dante’s horns left in the headboard. Too bad Dante
sometimes had the attention span of a goldfish.
Yeah, Kale needed to go home. He wasn’t going to
get any more work done, not with Dante on his mind.
Kale shut his computer down and headed out the door.
He peeked into the main area of the club just to make
sure things were going okay. Kale was a bit of a mother
hen, especially when it came to his ‘boys,’ not that
anyone would ever call him on it. Not to his face,
anyway.
Everything seemed to be in order. Frankie was at the
bar mixing drinks and chatting with that pretty raccoon -
- dog -- whatever he was -- guy who had moved in with
him over Christmas, while the drink boys flirted and
delivered food and drinks to waiting tables. Itsuki, one
of the bouncers, nodded at Kale from his corner of the
room. Yup, nothing else for Kale to do except go home
and see what Dante was up to.
Kale took the elevator up and ran his hand over the
palm scanner at the door. He stepped inside and kicked
off his shoes. No one tackled him to the floor as he
opened the door. Well, that was a surprise. Kale was
used to a much warmer welcome then that. “Dante? Are
you here?”
There was no answer and the apartment was dark
except for the flicker of the TV. Kale’s keen eyes picked
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out Dante’s form sitting on the couch. He was clutching
a pillow to his chest and staring intently at the TV.
Whatever Dante was watching had the boy totally
entranced.
“Dante!”
“Wah!” Dante jumped, tossing the cushion he was
holding in the air.
“Easy, love, it’s just me.” Kale slipped around the
couch and patted his lover’s tail.
“Damn, it Kale, I really wish you’d make some noise
when you come in.” Dante grumbled, his lion tail
twitching like an angry cat’s under Kale’s fingers. “It’s a
little unnerving, you know.”
“I did make noise.” Kale poked at the small goat
horns that peeked through Dante’s hair. “You were just
too engrossed in what you were watching.”
“Well, it is pretty interesting.”
“It must be.”
“Either way I’m glad you’re home. I was going to
wait for you downstairs, but I got tired of watching
Frankie and that new boyfriend of his.” Dante shrugged.
“So how’s the paperwork going?”
“There’s more to do, but it can wait.” Kale slipped
his arm around Dante’s waist and pulled the boy closer.
“I keep telling you to hire someone to help you out.”
“Yeah, we--” Kale glanced up at the TV only to see
what looked like two very naked men moving together
on a bed. One pinned the other to the mattress and they
started to fuck. Once they were locked together in hot,
sweaty sex, the one on top pulled his partner’s head back
and bit into the soft skin of the man’s neck. Kale blinked
and glanced at Dante, one eyebrow raised in curiosity.
“What the hell are you watching?”
“Vampire porn.”
“What?”
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 “I borrowed it from Aoi. It’s about this guy who gets
turned into a vampire and is driven to fuck all these
other hot guys because of his eternal thirst for blood and
come. I know it sounds cheesy, but it’s really hot.”
Dante turned the TV off and smiled at Kale. “Of course,
I don’t have to watch this anymore, since I have my very
own tall and hunky vampire.”
“I’m only half vampire, remember?”
“I know, I know.” Dante tapped his chin
thoughtfully. “Hey, do you still drink blood? I mean, I
know you don’t have to, but have you ever... you know,
bitten anyone?”
“I can drink blood, but I’ve only done it once and it
wasn’t a terribly pleasant experience.” Kale did not like
where this conversation was going. He loved Dante to
death, but the boy was really too curious for his own
good.
“Would you ever think o--”
“No, Dante!” Kale shook his head. Dante had no idea
what he was asking or the risk involved. Kale was not
going to lose another lover over this mess.
While Kale didn’t have to drink blood to survive, it
still gave him a rush like nobody’s business. The last
person he'd drunk from had freaked out and never
spoken to him again. Of course, that was after he had
called Kale a whole bunch of very unflattering names.
Nothing hurt more than someone you loved calling you
a monster.
“Why?”
“Remember what happened last time a vampire tried
to feed on you?”
“That doesn’t count.” Dante crossed his arms over his
chest stubbornly. “I panicked because I didn’t know
Rolan was a vampire... or your dad for that matter. I

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thought I was just getting laid, not part of the dinner
menu. It would be different with you.”
“I don’t know, I--” Kale took a deep breath and tried
to find the right words. He had always been lousy at
explaining things, especially to Dante. “There’s a lot of
control and trust involved.”
Dante crawled into Kale’s lap and nuzzled his cheek.
“How is that any different than when you’re being a
dom?”
“Because me playing at being your master won’t kill
you.” Kale grabbed Dante’s chin and forced the boy to
look at him. “If I lose control while I’m drinking from
you, I could take too much an--”
Dante leaned in and kissed Kale on the lips. It was
brief, but Kale could still taste him. “I trust you, Kale.”
He looked deep into Kale’s pale blue eyes. “Hell, you
know my body better then I do.”
“What happens if I lose control?”
“You won’t.” Dante’s tail trailed over Kale’s thigh.
“You’d never hurt me like that. I know that much.”
“Dante...”
“Please, Kale.” Dante tilted his head back, baring his
throat. “I’m curious; I want to know what it’s like.”
“Why?”
“Because, being a vampire... okay, half vampire is
another aspect of you, just like being a dom and I want
to experience everything that makes you, well, you.”
Kale took a deep breath. There was no way he was
getting out of this. Along with being overly curious,
Dante also had a stubborn streak a mile wide, and there
was no turning back once he set his mind on something.
Dante was also very tempting. Kale had tasted his
lover’s blood once and it was more than enough to stir
the hunger. Of course, Dante had been pretty freaked out

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back then, but now, the boy was offering himself
willingly. How could Kale resist that?
“All right, love, if that’s what you really want.” Kale
brushed a bit of dark blue hair out of Dante’s eyes. He
was seriously beginning to wonder who the dominant
one in their relationship really was. “Get out of those
clothes and meet me in the bedroom.”
“Kale...”
“Now!” Kale swatted Dante on the ass.
“Yes, sir!” Dante grinned as he headed to the
bedroom, shaking his ass temptingly.
Kale sighed and followed his lover, or rather, the trail
of clothing his lover had left behind, to the bedroom. He
had been hoping for a little fun when he got home, but
Kale hadn’t expected anything like this. Then again,
Dante had always been full of surprises. Kale usually
hated surprises, but he always made an exception when
it came to Dante and sex.
Dante was already on the bed when Kale got there.
He was naked and sprawled on his back with his tail
twitching nervously against his leg. Now that was a sexy
sight. Dante had a sweet, lithe little body and smooth
pale skin accented by the body mods he loved so much.
It was hard to picture Dante without the horns, the tail,
the nipple rings, or the tongue stud. They were just as
much a part of him as that smile or those pretty violet
eyes.
“Hey, are you going to join me or just stare at me for
the rest of the night?” Dante ran his hand over his chest
and edged it lower. “You’re not going to make me
entertain myself are you?”
“So eager.” Kale tugged off his shirt and crawled
onto the bed. “I thought you would have learned a little
patience by now.”

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 “I have.” Dante trailed his hands over Kale’s broad
shoulders. “I have lots of patience. If I didn’t, I would
have dragged you out of your office hours ago, or better
yet, I would have hidden under your desk and sucked
you off right there.”
“It’s a wonder I get any work done with you around.”
“What are you talking about? I’m one of your best
bartenders, remember?”
“You’re also a wicked boy who needs a periodic
spanking to keep him in line.”
“That, too.” Dante glanced up hopefully. “Are you
going to bite me now?”
“We’re doing this slowly Dante, or not at all.” Kale
gave Dante a serious look. “Got it?”
“Yeah...”
“Good.” Kale caught Dante’s hand in his own and
nipped gently at the boy’s fingers.
“Mmm, I never noticed how sharp your teeth are.”
Kale trailed his tongue over the inside of Dante’s
wrist, biting into the thin skin there. It was a warning
bite, not hard enough to draw blood, but hard enough to
give Dante an idea of what he was in for. There was no
protest, not even a whimper of pain. Dante just inhaled
sharply as Kale’s teeth sank into his wrist.
“Do you want me to stop?”
“No!” Dante gave Kale a desperate hungry look.
“Please.”
“I haven’t even started yet.” Kale’s eyes wandered
down Dante’s body and fixed on rock hard cock
straining against Dante’s belly. “And you’re hard
already.”
“C-can’t help it.” Dante blushed brightly. “You make
me feel so good.”
Kale shifted, straddling Dante’s legs and pinning the
boy to the bed. He leaned closer and bit into Dante’s
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collarbone. Kale lapped at the area, easing the ache of
the bite with a swab of his warm, wet tongue. Dante’s
skin was sweet with just a hint of salt and that, along
with the breathy little moans slipping from those soft
lips, made Kale very hungry.
He nibbled his way down that lean chest, paying
extra attention to Dante’s nipples and the rings laced
through them. Kale’s teeth grazed one of the hard nubs,
making his lover moan again. Oh, he did love that
sound.
“Kale, no more teasing, please...” Dante lifted his
hips, rubbing that eager cock of his against the hard
muscles of Kale’s stomach. “I can’t take much more.”
“I thought you wanted me to drink from you?”
“I do, but wouldn’t it be even better if you were
fucking me while you did it?” Dante brushed his tail
over the hard bulge in Kale’s jeans. “You know, like in
the movie I was watching.”
“I do like the way you think.” Kale patted Dante on
the hip and slipped off the bed. “Find the lube for me. I
need to get out of these jeans before they get any
tighter.”
“Okay.” Dante peeked in the drawer beside the bed,
but came up empty-handed. He then leaned over the side
of the bed and fished around underneath it. There was a
triumphant look on his face when he sat back up again
and a clear plastic bottle in his hand. “Found it.”
“Good, now on your hands and knees.” Kale kicked
off his jeans and climbed back on the bed.
“But wouldn’t it be easier if I was on my back or in
your lap?”
“Dante...” Kale gave the boy a serious look. That was
usually enough to get Dante to do what he was told,
unless, of course, he was looking for a spanking.

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 “Yes, sir.” Dante shifted onto his elbows and knees
with that pert ass of his in the air. His tail was swishing
back and forth, being difficult as usual.
“Dante, do something about that tail, or I’ll have to
tie it up, again.”
“Sorry.” Dante clutched his tail to his chest.
“That’s better.” Kale took the lube and squirted it
into his hand. He rubbed two slick fingers between
Dante’s cheeks and eased them in.
“Ooh, Kale...” Dante pushed back, trying to take
Kale’s fingers deeper.
“That’s it, love, let me in.” Kale pulled his hand back
and added another finger to the mix before pushing back
in. He twisted his fingers and started to move them in
and out, fucking Dante slowly with his hand. Another
moan slipped from Dante’s lips, muffled slightly by the
pillow he was gnawing on.
It was so tempting to just fuck Dante then and there,
but Kale had other plans. Dante wanted to know what it
was like to share blood with a vampire and Kale was
going to give him the full experience. Kale knelt up,
with his fingers still buried knuckle deep in Dante’s
tight little body, and sank his teeth into the velvety skin
just above the boy’s tail.
“Aah!”
Kale lapped at the bite, taking the edge off the pain.
A mix of sweet spice and copper spread over his tongue.
That set off something in Kale’s gut. It had been so long
since he'd tasted blood, so long since he’d drunk from
anyone. Kale felt like a starving man and Dante was a
banquet laid out before him. He shook that last thought
from his head. Dante was his lover, not a meal and he
had take things slowly if he didn’t want to scare the boy
or hurt him. Kale took a deep breath and eased his

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fingers out of Dante’s ass. More lube squirted over his
fingers as Kale slicked his cock up.
“Are you ready for me, love?” Kale slid his length
over Dante’s hole.
“Ooh, more then ready.” Dante glanced over his
shoulder and gave Kale a hungry look. “I want that fat
cock in my ass.”
“You mean like that?” Kale pressed the flared tip of
his prick against Dante’s ass and pushed into him.
“Ooh, yeah!”
“You’re so hot, so tight.” Kale ran his hands over the
smooth skin of Dante’s back, petting his sweet lover as
they fucked.
“And you feel so good in me.” Dante arched into
Kale’s touch.
Kale slipped his arms around Dante’s mid-section
and pulled the boy against his chest. One of his hands
trailed over Dante’s nipples and tugged at the rings laced
through them, while the other wrapped around Dante’s
cock.
“Kale!” Dante groaned and tossed his head back
against Kale’s broad shoulder.
Slim fingers tangled in Kale’s hair, pulling his face
closer to the pale expanse of Dante’s neck. Kale could
hear the blood pulsing just beneath Dante’s skin. The
scent of it blended with sweat and sex made Kale’s
mouth water.
“Please, Kale.”
The soft purr of Dante’s voice made the decision for
him. Whatever doubts Kale still had slipped away and
he sank his teeth into Dante’s neck. Kale didn’t have
fangs like his father did, but his canines were still sharp
and cut into Dante’s skin easily. Blood, hot and sweet,
seeped into Kale’s mouth as he slammed his hips
forward.
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 “Oh, Kale, oh-- fuck!” Dante panted and his entire
body tensed and clamped down on Kale’s cock and
sticky warmth spilled between Kale’s fingers. Damn,
that must have been intense. Then again, between the
feeding and the sex, it had to be.
Kale kept moving, riding the tremors of Dante’s
orgasm. The fresh blood, singing through his veins,
heightened Kale’s senses. Everything was clearer,
sharper; even the friction of his cock sliding in and out
of Dante’s ass was more intense. He held Dante against
his chest, drinking deeply as he fucked his lover with
quick, hard strokes. With one last thrust Kale came,
filling Dante with heat.
“K-kale! T-that hurts.” Dante squirmed against
Kale’s chest.
Kale swallowed another mouthful of blood and kept
drinking. It had been so long and Dante tasted so good
that Kale didn’t want to stop.
“Kale!” Dante struggled, trying weakly to push him
off.
That snapped Kale back to reality. He pulled away
from Dante’s throat and laid the boy down gently.
“I’m sorry.”
“Nothing to be sorry about. I-I didn’t mean to freak
out on you, but I was getting a little light-headed.”
Dante smiled at him. “I don’t think I’ve ever come so
hard.”
“Just lie still, okay.” Kale leaned down and lapped at
the angry wound on Dante’s neck. “I need to take care
of your neck.”
“Ooh, that tingles.” Dante wiggled beneath Kale’s
warmth.
“It’s healing, too. You’ll have a bit of a bruise, but
that’ll go away in a day or two.”
“That’s right, you have healing spit.”
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 “Yeah.” Kale rolled onto his side and brushed some
of the sweat-damp hair out of Dante’s face. The boy was
looking a little paler than he should have. “You feeling
okay?”
“Just tired. You wore me out, I guess.”
It was more than that, and Kale knew it. In the brief
moment that he'd lost control Kale had taken too much
and Dante was paying for it. Damn it! Kale only had one
real option. He just hoped that it would work. Kale bit
into his forefinger.
Blood welled on his finger tip and he held it out to
Dante. “Here, this should make you feel better.”
“Okay...” Dante wrapped those soft lips around
Kale’s finger and sucked on it. It would have been
damned sexy if Kale wasn’t so worried. Vampire blood
would keep Dante going until his body recovered on its
own. Kale just hoped that being half vampire was close
enough.
“Better?”
“Yeah.” Dante perked up and his color was already
back to normal. He licked the last bit of blood from
Kale’s finger. “You’re very tasty, by the way.”
“Thanks.”
“So what do you want to do now?” Dante scooted
closer, his tail trailing over Kale’s thigh teasingly. “I
don’t know if I can get it up again, but I’m willing to
try.”
“You should get some rest, Dante.” Kale kissed
Dante on the forehead. “You lost a lot of blood.”
“Only if you stay with me.” Dante twisted a bit of
Kale’s hair around his finger. “You must be pretty tired,
too.” He leaned closer and nipped at Kale’s bottom lip.
“You did pound my ass pretty hard.”
“True.” Kale lay on his side as Dante snuggled
against his chest. He was too wired to sleep, but Dante
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didn’t need to know that. Kale would just wait until the
boy was asleep and go watch TV or maybe take a walk.
“Night, Dante.”
“G'night.”

***

Kale sat on the roof as the sun rose above the

horizon. He couldn’t help but feel like he'd made a big
mess of things. It went better than last time, at least...
That was true, but the boy had almost died last night and
it was all Kale’s fault. He'd let Dante talk him into it and
he was the one who'd lost control. Kale sighed. Yeah, it
was a big mess, all right.
The door behind him creaked open and muffled
footsteps echoed on the rooftop. It was Dante. Kale
knew that scent anywhere, even muddled with sex and
blood as it was.
“Kale? I’ve been looking all over for you.”
Kale glanced back. Dante was barefoot and bundled
in the comforter from the bed. He looked so young and
innocent, especially with that soft sleep rumpled hair
straggling into his sweet face. “I couldn’t sleep.”
“Then you should have woken me up.” Dante
shuffled closer. “I would have kept you company.”
“You needed your rest. You lost a lot of blood last
night.”
“I’m fine.” Dante pressed himself against Kale’s bare
back. “Your blood fixed me right up.”
“What if it didn’t work though?” Kale buried his face
in his hands. “You could have died a-and it would have
been all my fault.”
“Kale...” Dante’s soft lips pressed against Kale’s
neck. “I knew what I was getting into. I knew the risks.”
“You also trusted me and I failed you.”
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 “Kale, stop talking like that. It wasn’t that big of a
deal.”
Kale shook his head. Dante was warm against his
back. Damn, he was going to miss that. “It might be a
good idea if you took your old apartment back.”
“Oh, no!” Dante scooted around and cupped Kale’s
face in both hands, forcing Kale to look him in the eye.
“Listen, you handsome, brooding man, I’m not going
anywhere.” Tears welled in those expressive violet eyes.
“I love you and I need you.”
“I love you, too. That’s why I--” Whatever else Kale
had to say was lost as Dante kissed him.
“We both screwed up, okay?” Dante brushed his
fingers against Kale’s cheek. “I shouldn’t have pushed
you into it and you drank too much.”
“It was more tha--” Slim fingers pressed against
Kale’s lips, shushing him.
“As far as I’m concerned, we’re even.”
“And you’re not going to let me say anything to the
contrary, are you?”
“Nope.”
“Okay, we’re even.” Kale sighed. It was for the best,
really. He couldn’t have given Dante up even if he'd
wanted to. Kale loved the boy too much to do that. “But
next time I say ‘no’ to something, no arguing. Got it?”
“Got it.”
Kale scooped Dante up and headed toward the door.
“Let go back inside before you freeze to death.”
“Sure.” Dante leaned his head of Kale’s shoulder and
gave him a thoughtful look. “It did feel good when you
were nibbling on me, you know.”
“Dante...”
“What? It felt good.” Dante bit his bottom lip and
glanced at Kale hungrily. “Especially right above my
tail. I almost came when you did that.”
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 “Really?” Kale raised an eyebrow in curiosity.
“Where else would you like me to nibble?”
“I don’t know...” Dante trailed a finger down Kale’s
chest. “But, it would be fun to find out.”
“That sounds like a great way to spend the morning.”
Kale nuzzled the dark bruise on Dante’s neck. “No more
blood, though.”
“Whatever you want, Kale.” Dante snuggled closer
and kissed Kale on the cheek. “Oh, what about work?”
“It can wait ‘til I’m done with you.” Kale carried
Dante down the stairs and back to their apartment.

End.

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