Prologue
"Kanon, wake up," a thirty-five year old Karin said, shaking her daughter awake.
"What's wrong, Mama?" Karon asked, sitting up in her bed and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.
"You're going to be late for school again."
"OH NO!!"
The fourteen year old girl quickly jumped to her feet and looked at the clock. 7:45! She had overslept again. After pushing her mom out of the room she quickly got changed into her school uniform. She wouldn't have time to get her dark purple hair looking nice, so she quickly put it into a ponytail and grabbed her bag.
That dream I had last night, she thought to herself as she grabbed the lunch her mother had made and ran out the front door. It just seemed so real. Why always the same one. What's wrong with me.
"Kanon has had so many problems lately," Karin said shaking her head before sitting down at the table to eat her morning breakfast. It was then when she noticed a bat hanging in the tree just outside of the apartment. "Oh hello again."
That bat always seemed to follow Karin around. At first she thought it was a bad omen, but as the years passed she started to feel comfortable with the animal around. For some reason she got the feeling that somewhere in the world, someone was closely watching her. But that was just a silly thought, right? Little did she know that all of her feelings were right. Ever since the day her mind was wiped by her family, her sister had been watching over the Usui family, making sure the happiness stayed. The truth was that nobody regretted wiping Karin's mind as much as her younger sister, Anju. She missed Karin so much that she had completely lost all connection to sanity.
Over the years the younger sister watched with pride and envy as Karin and Kenta's family slowly developed. Unlike the rest of the Maaka family, she wished she could be like Karin. She wished she could walk under the sun. Years ago she had fully awoken as a vampire and was clearly the most gifted of the family. But she missed the days when she was able to eat the foods that Karin made for her every day. Her family could tell she was starting to lose it as well. She spent so much time spying on Karin, Kenta, and Kanon, that her bats remained around the Usui family twenty-four hours a day.
"Karin is happy now Anju," Henry Maaka had once told her. "Why do you strain yourself so hard? Kenta will not betray our trust now. Let her grow."
"I can't papa," Anju had replied. "I like watching over big sister. Seeing her happy makes me happy."
The Maaka family had almost completely broken apart since Karin had left. Carera and Henry were always arguing. Anju had completely secluded herself from the rest of the family. Ren couldn't stay anywhere near that house after wiping Karin's mind clean. He felt so guilty that he decided to move away with his wife Bridget and his son, who would be turning fifteen soon. Nobody had seen from him since. Elda had become angry with the family's decision and decided to go back to sleep. All in all, Karin had brought life to that house, but nobody realized until she was long gone.
"Big sister," Anju's voice said from within her coffin, "we will be together again someday."
Even though she said that, she doubted her own words. Little did she know, Kanon would make that sentence come true.