Okay, so this is the first real fanfiction I've ever publish with hopes of finishing. Please forgive me if it's terrible.
"Yui," I groaned, burying my head in the younger girls shoulder, "Are we there yet?" My sister glanced down and shook her head.
"Just a bit longer, I think." My head dropped, along with my spirits. Why did our dad have to send us away? I could watch over Yui fine while he was gone. But no, of course living with a bunch of strangers would be safer. My knives jabbed into my stomach as I leaned over. I let out a growl and tried to ignore it for the rest of the drive.
I retrieved my cell phone from my pocket and changed the current song from Three Days Grace to Hollywood Undead. My Earbuds have never left my ears since I first got my cell. The only time id ever be without my music and earbuds would be in the water or in some parallel universe. Funny thing is, I could hear almost perfectly with the volume on full. It made Dad and the others at the church pissed, they saw it as disrespectful to constantly be listening to music.
"We're here." Her voice brought me back from the clouds.
"Yes! Finally!" I yanked my backpack up and hightailed it out of the car, glad to be rid of it. Yui, graceful as always, stepped out and thanked the driver before pulling her luggage out of the trunk. I didn't have to bother with suitcases, all of the things I cared about could be packaged neatly into a backpack and one short blonde girl.
I glanced up at the house and my jaw dropped, following the example set by my left thigh high sock. I hastily tried to straighten out my clothes as Yui turned back to the driver, wanting to make sure we were at the right place. I could not go into a mansion such as this looking as ragged as I did now.
Suddenly wishing I had bought more modest clothes, I pulled down my shorts the whole 2 centimeters they'd stay past my ass, worked on calming my wild blonde hair, and begged Yui to let me use one of her cardigans to cover my stomach. I didn't even consider making sure my socks were even, they had been a lost cause from the moment I put them on.
A droplet of water fell on my head.
"Rain?" Yui pulled me to the door and knocked. We waited but no one came. I was about to grab my sister and leave, but the door opened.
"Well, that's not creepy." There was no one around to have opened the door. My mind grew alert, something wasn't right in this place. I scanned the area while my sister walked inside. "Yui!" I quickly followed "We can't just walk into people houses!"
"We're going to be staying here soon, though. And, I highly doubt they're serial killers or something." I sighed at how naive she was. "Hello!" She shouted and I almost face palmed. You just announced our location, you dolt. If someone comes for us now, it'll be your fault. My instincts have never been wrong before and right now they were telling me to grab Yui and run far away.
"Oh!" She gasped and ran over to an attractive redheaded boy sleeping on a couch. I surveyed him warily, my job was to protect my sister and something about this place screamed danger.
She reached out to touch him but jerked her hand back as though she'd been stung.
"He's cold!" She leaned over and put her head on his chest. "And he doesn't have a pulse!"
"Yui." I hissed sharply. "You don't do that to strangers." He wasn't dead, I could tell that much. So what was going on? "Get behind me. Now." Either she didn't hear the edge in my voice or didn't care, because all she did was pull out her phone.
"We have to call the police!" She started to dial but a hand trapped her wrist.
"Damn." It was redhead. "You're so noisy. Why're you being so loud when you don't live here?" It wasn't a question. He was dangerous.
"You're alive!"
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Yui. Behind me." We all spoke. This boy wasn't right. She got up and started towards me but was stopped. The redheaded boy had practically thrown her down under him.
"Get off of her." My voice was low and hazardous. He ignored me and my hand twitched towards my knives.
"What are you doing?" She stuttered out.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm going to take you of course." He leant down and licked her neck. The expression of fear on her face was too much. My hand didn't just twitch this time. In an instant, one of my two favorite knives was buried in the wall less than an inch above his head.
He slowly turned to look at me and smirked, his green eyes dancing with bemusement. His mouth opened to say something but he was cut off.
"Ayato. Save such activities for your own room." Yui took his distraction as a chance to wrench my knife out of the wall and jog back to me. I was crouched, ready to attack anyone who threatened my sister. The man had glasses and dark hair, typical.
"Help us!" She begged the new man, terrified. He turned and glared.
"And who might you be?" I frowned back, I was furious right now. Glasses did not want to be on my bad side.
"Yui and Jazz Komori. We were told we'd be staying here." The glare still on my face, I relaxed a bit. My arm wrapped around the smaller girls shoulders and she smiled up at me to calm me down.
"I heard no such thing. Ayato?"
"Sorry, glasses. We don't have much information either." My regular mood was mostly back despite the suspicion I still felt. He shot me a glare before motioning for redhead- 'Ayato' to continue.
"Tch." He pouted "How should I know? You didn't mention anything, Pancake, Coconut."
Yui started to speak but I cut her off.
"Pancake? Coconut? What the hell kinda nicknames are those?" I figured this was going to piss me off so I gripped Yui's hand for comfort.
"Well." He drawled, smirking again. "She's flat as a pancake while you..." He stopped and shamelessly checked me out. "Aren't." Surprising everyone, I let out a bark of laughter.
"Maybe you aren't so bad, dude!" That was kinda funny. "Do you make it a habit to go around nicknaming woman you just me by their breast size?"
"Plus, I want to crack you open and enjoy what comes out." Again, not creepy at all. I let the smile linger on my face, no matter how much I wanted to hurt him.
I leaned close to his ear and breathed out "If you ever do that to Yui again, however, I'll have to kill you." Glasses cleared his throat.
"Here is not the place to discuss this. Follow me and we will sort this out. See to their luggage." An old man came from the shadows and took Yui's bag. I was glad I brought a backpack instead. Creepy. Yui clutched my arm tight and met glasses' request. I glanced behind and shot a threatening grin to redhead.
We trailed behind glasses until we arrived at a room with a couple couches and multiple chairs. One of which was occupied by Ayato. We took a spot on one of the couches and I resisted the urge to lay my head on her lap. That wouldn't be polite. *insert sarcasm here*
"So, let's start. Introduce yourselves." Glasses pissed me off. "I'm Yui Komori and this is my older sister Jazz. We-" A giggle sounded throughout the room.
"Is it true? Are there really two cute little human girls here?" I turned to the unfamiliar voice but no one was there. Instead, I felt a wetness on my cheek. Confused, I glanced to the side and saw another redhead with a hat. "She's sweet!" He concluded. Damn, these guys were hot, but they still set me on edge. At the first sign of trouble, I was ready to throw Yui over my shoulder and fight my way outta this place.
"Oh, let me have a taste, too!" I heard Yui yelp and the familiar protective feeling welled up inside of me and I drew her to my side and glared at a purple haired kid holding a stuffed bear. Awe, how cute was he? I felt my gaze soften but quickly replenished it. These guys weren't normal. There was something wrong here.
"What is it with y'all and licking people?" First Ayato, now these two. This was becoming an irritating habit I'd have to stop.
"Stop it, you two. That isn't appropriate to do to women you've just met."
"Awe" Redhead #2 pouted "Isn't it only natural to want to taste something so yummy?" I needed a better name for him. "Kanato agrees with me." The kid smiled and nodded.
"Knock it off, you guys." Ayato again. "Have you forgotten yours truly saw them first? Yours truly is going to be their first everything!" He stated proudly. A bit late there, darling. Quite a few of my first have already been taken.
"Lame." Oh, let me guess. Another hot teenage guy? "I'm so sick of you calling yourself yours truly."
"What the hell?" Redhead growled and stood up. Drama! "Damn it Subaru, I know that's you!" Ding Ding Ding, I got it right! A hot teenage guy with white hair and red eyes peeled away from the shadows.
"I'm right here." He looked straight at me, almost completely ignoring everyone else. I returned his gaze with an equally frosty one. "I knew I smelled humans. Who do you think you are to wake me?" I could understand that, I'm a monster when people wake me up.
"How'd you get in here?" Yui was afraid again. She had moved away from me as we spoke so I pulled her right back into me and rubbed her arm.
"Answer my question first!" He punched the wall and it practically shattered beneath the force. Damn, he had strength. I wondered if I could do that, most likely. I was incredibly strong as well. Always had been. Yui breathed heavily and I continued to hold his gaze.
"Has anyone heard anything about these two young ladies coming to live with us?" No one answered, all of us content to sit in silence apparently.
Yui squirmed until I let her go and stood up, carting me up along with her.
"This has probably all been some misunderstanding, so we'll be going now. Sorry to cause you trouble." She dragged me along with her and I could feel the fear leaking off of her.
"Wait." Glasses, again. "I am trying to figure out the truth of the matter. Don't you think it would be rude to leave now?" Yui tried to stutter out a reply but it wouldn't work, so I cut in for her.
"Considering how uncomfortable you've made my sister feel, no, I do not think it rude of us to leave. I apologize for the trouble we may have caused, but we'll be leaving now. Bye!" I took control and shoved Yui on her way.
"Are you the young women he mentioned?" Another one? Really? I look over to the other couch and a tall guy was sleeping on it. Blonde, like us.
"Shu, do you know something about this?"
"Maybe."
"Don't 'maybe' me. I would like some answers." I didn't look, but I'm pretty sure that was the little kid with the cute teddy bear.
"It was that guy." Who? "He contacted me a couple days and told me we had some guests arriving from the church and that we should treat them with respect." Who the hell is 'that guy'? Wonderful nickname.
"Are you telling me pancake and coconut are the prospective brides? Both of them?" Brides? Please tell me that's some kind of code word, because there's no way I am going to be a bride. It doesn't matter how hot they are. No way in hell.
"Let's be honest, they're more like sacrifices than brides." Excuse me?
"As if." I muttered, I am not sacrifice material. And I am Yui's elder sibling. Which means either they'll die or I will before they touch her. I hope the sacrifice thing is a joke for their sake. If not, they're going to regret it.
"Oh yeah." Shu again? He was quieter than his brothers, there was at least that to be thankful for. He finally opened his eyes, they were a few shades darker blue than mine. "He explicitly said not to kill them." Kill? I'm not going to let that happen. What the hell are they talking about? I giggled a bit at the thought of them attempting to kill me.
"Really? If that's the case then we're going to have a very long relationship with these two." Redhead with hat guy dragged out the word long to a creepy extent.
"And." Shu cut in, "Right before he hung up, that guy muttered 'And don't let her kill you.'" I smiled a bit, sounds like 'that guy' knows of me. Does he know the extent I will go to save my sister?
"Alright, it appears there is no misunderstanding. Let us introduce ourselves. That is the eldest son, Shu. I am Reiji, the second son. Next are the triplets; Ayato,"
"I won't let you get away next time." Tch, idiot. I won't let you get your hands on her next time. Nor will I let you get your hands on me.
"Kanato," The little kid was older than I thought.
"And Laito." Ugh, I don't enjoy being licked. With people watching at least. So that guys a pervert to avoid.
"Pleased to make your acquaintance, Little bitch, Kitty-Cat."
"Yo." I stood up. "Don't fucking call my sister a bitch." My voice was quiet but my eyes were stormy.
"Ooh, Kittens got claws!" Laito sounded delighted "Perhaps Lioness would suit you better." I sat back and crossed my arms. Both annoyed and amused.
"And Subaru," Reiji seemed annoyed at my interruption. "The youngest."
I nodded as though I was paying attention, but in actuality I took hold of Yui's hand. We had the same idea. I figured we weren't going to stay in this place for long, so I only pretended to listen to them. Yui's and I stood up at the same time and she rushed to speak.
"I'm sorry, this has to be a mistake. No one said anything about brides. Besides, you're all kind of..." She hesitated. "Weird." I felt it again. A rush of power, something that didn't feel quite human. I stiffened and got into a defensive position.
"Yui, call Dad." As soon as the words left my lips, Ayato flipped her phone open. My eyes narrowed further and Yui gaped. She left my side and tried to get it back from Redhead.
"Give it back!" She whined, jumping for it. I was glad my phone was hidden away and surreptitiously covered my earbuds with my hair so they couldn't see the trail the cord created from my phone to my ears. A hand retrieved the phone from Ayato and I was almost relieved until the owner of the hand crushed it.
"Get lost." Subaru was a dick. All of them were. I scowled and was about to punch both of their pretty faces in when the music stopped.
I checked to make sure my cell was still in my pocket but to my dismay, I saw it in Reiji's grasp. The glare hadn't left my face since the moment Ayato jumped Yui, but it darkened as the stupid fucking four eyes roughly flung it behind him. Yui sensed the danger coming from me and abandoned her phones remains then enclosed my waist in her thin arms.
"That," I snarled, a murderous aura settling around me, "THAT HAD ALL MY MUSIC ON IT YOU IDIOTIC FUCKHEAD!" I jumped at him, perfectly ready to kill but Yui held me back. The boy and a couple of his brothers smirked and came very close to laughing. It was as though they thought I couldn't do anything to him. I'll prove them wrong.
"Aww, there, there, you two. You won't be needing phones while you stay with us. We're about to become very good friends." The pervert rested a groomed hand on my shoulder and cackled when I shook it off.
"To tell the truth, I'm feeling a bit peckish at the moment." Kanato purred. I yanked her away and pushed her behind me for what seemed like the millionth time.
"Then go make yourself a goddamn sandwich and Back. Off." She intertwined her fingers in mine and towed me as she ran to get out of the room, but when she tripped I fell down with her. I landed on my hands and knees over top of her. "Yui!" I groaned, "You're such a klutz. Are you okay?" She sat up and stared behind me, more terrified than I had ever seen her. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I carefully unsheathed my knives and took one in each hand. I was ready to fight as I spun to look. Their eyes were glowing red. I jumped up and got ready to run. "Yui, up. Time to go."
"Vampires?" She was shaking, I had to protect her. They shall not harm her. She moved a bit and I thought she was standing, but she whipped out her rosary. "Take this!" She yelled, firmly believing in those old stories. They stood there, unaffected by anything other than amusement. Even Shu let out a bit of a laugh.
"Yui!" Careful of my knives, I gripped her arm and practically threw her over my shoulder. "If you aren't one hundred percent sure something works and you have another option, DON'T FUCKING DO IT." I backed up. Damn, I was glad she couldn't see their glowers. I returned them tenfold and raised my knives into a threatening position.
"Honestly, you can't actually believe there's any truth to those fairy tales." He sat down "The ones that claim Vampires are weak to garlic, holy water, crosses, and sunshine. It just goes to show how arrogant and foolish mortals can be. It makes me furious." He sharply turned his head and made eye contact before Yui kicked me.
"Run Jazz!" I didn't think twice before kicking open the door and taking off.
About five minutes into our escape, I let Yui down and she ran with me. She was slower, so I constantly had to stop and let her catch up to me. Why was this house so big? We ran past a couple of tables of sweets and my mouth watered. Stop, Jazz. No candy thoughts until we're out of here. At the end of the tables was Kanato. He was tightly clutching his stuffed bear as he watched us run by.
"I can't wait to break you." Creepy ass kid. I shoved Yui in front of me, trying to make her run faster. We turned a corner and my heart jumped when I caught sight of a phone. Yui snatched it up and started dialing, but yet again, we were cut off. Literally, the cord was cut. The creepy giggle belonging to Laito could be heard and I protectively put an arm around the younger blonde.
"I told you, you won't be needing a phone during your time here. Now, where is my little bitch and my lioness?" Yui went to peer around the corner ahead of us and I took a step back, bumping into the one we wanted to avoid. His hand slid up and down my arm. "Guess who?" He whispered. I elbowed him in the stomach and started running again.
"The door!" I don't know which one of us yelled it, but we were both grateful for the exit. Yui started pulling on it but couldn't get it open.
"Fuck!" I screamed. "Yui, move!" She jumped out of the way and I lifted my leg to kick it open. The door rattled and I was completely positive it would open the next time we tried it. We each took a handle and pulled until a hand landed on each of our shoulders. Ayato roughly shoved us against the very spot we thought of as our freedom. "Get off!" He let go of Yui as she was the weaker sister and instead placed both hands on my shoulders.
"Did you really think you could escape?" He laughed "The time has come for you to scream. Please humor me by screaming, I want to hear you scream at the top of your lungs! You won't get away!"
He'd forgotten about Yui and she jerked his arm away from me. He stood and snickered as we stared running again. Why do they always laugh as we leave them? She headed up the stairs and I had no choice but to follow. People always go for the stairs and get cornered. There has to be a back door. I heard chains rattle and saw the hall we entered had a door with broken chains on the ground.
"Yui?" She headed into the room. "No, Yui, we'll get trapped in there!" I went in to berate her before dragging her out and continuing to run, however, seeing my sister frozen in the middle of the room didn't work well for me. "A window! Yui, we can climb out!" Yui clutched her chest in pain and stumbled to the floor. I reached out and caught her, wondering what had caused the sudden pain. I checked out the window she was so nervous about and a purple haired woman stared back at me. A wave of helplessness washed over me and I couldn't control myself. It lasted less than a second, yet that was long enough to shake me.
"Jazz." Torn from my thoughts, I looked down at Yui who was clutching an old book to her chest. "We-We-" the words couldn't get past her tongue. I nodded, willing her to continue. "We aren't our father's actual daughters." I cocked my head, I didn't understand what she was saying. Father? What was she saying? Her statement bounced around in my head and couldn't find a way to stick. I slowly shook my head before going back to the window and stepping over the ledge.
"Yui, co-"
"Of all the rooms in the house, you had to pick this one." Shit. I hung my head, weighing my chances of jumping to the ground from where I stood. "We took great care to seal off this room, you shouldn't have been able to enter. Now we'll have to change the locks." I inched closer to the edge. If I could just get out long enough to think of a plan to rescue Yui!
"That's for sure. How did you manage to get in here, little bitch? Hmm? And what about you, Lioness? Did you really plan on jumping out the window and leaving your little sister alone with us?" He grinned in a way that would make a lesser woman flee in terror. I growled at him, I'd never abandon Yui.
A pair of strong arms picked me up and threw me over their shoulder, much like I had done to Yui earlier. I recognized the white hair and started squirming. It was true that Subaru was one of the less creepy ones, but he was still a vampire and I was not going down easy.
"Subaru. Let me down." He shook his head, "She's scared! I have to help her!" I roared, bending my legs and using them to push off his chest. I crouched over her like a lion guarding its young, such as my new nickname implied. "I won't let them hurt you." I murmured into her ear.
"Remember you are my prey, please don't move." I managed to contain my reply and mold it into a snarl, but Yui didn't yet understand the gravity of our situation. She wasn't as strong as I was, more naive as well. We could escape, but only if we could work out a plan, get them to trust us.
"We're nobodies prey!" She yelled at Kanato. I let a grin slip out before quickly covering it up with a scowl.
"I've heard enough of your excuses." The youngest vampire punched the bookshelf, sending books tumbling down on top of us. I immediately blocked Yui from the hit.
"Subaru" Laito sang crawling over to me, "You hit my Lioness with your books! Calm down." Yui curled up beneath me, shaking with both anger and fear. Laito took hold of my chin and dragged me over to him. I couldn't resist, most of my strength had been used to protect my baby sister.
"That's the look that gets my juices flowing." Boy did that sound dirty. Ayato was gripping Yuis chin in much the same fashion as mine. My fists tightened as I tried to reach for my knives. My efforts were thwarted, however, by Kanato grabbing hold of my wrists.
"Perhaps I'll partake as well." Laito mused, tilting my head to an uncomfortable angle.
"I'd like a taste as well."
"There's one thing you must understand." God, glasses was a dick. He didn't deserve me using his actual name. He cleared his throat as he glared. "You can never escape us."
"Oh, just get to the point. If you try to escape, we'll kill you. You're dead." He stared directly at me as he spoke the last part. I wondered if he realized that out of the two of us, I was the one who'd orchestrate an escape. I managed a weak laugh.
"Kicking a girl while she's down, you all are weaker than I thought. Cowards." I choked out. I doubt they'd have bested me if I wasn't so worried about Yui and our father. I tried to draw in a breath. Laito was strangling me, I hadn't been able to breathe for a while now. "Sorry, Yui. He's killing me, I might actually have to do it now." The vampires leaned in. Her eyes widened and she nodded. I hated it when she was frightened, especially when it was my doing.
"Please stop!" She begged them. "Please stop it right now!" I could feel the blackness enveloping my eyes when a crash distracted me. Laito loosed his grip on my throat and I gulped in air. On the floor, a broken picture lay. Shu had knocked it over. Confusion overtook me, why had he helped us? Was he better than the rest of them? Better than I'd thought? I peered up at him and he returned the stare.
"My bad," he muttered, our gazes still locked. "Looks like I accidentally knocked something over." He turned his back and left the room, I caught a glint of something in his hand as he left.
Yui and I were both breathing heavily as Ayato raised his hand. Yui passed right out and I jolted over to her.
"What the hell did you do?" I hissed, check on her over for any bite marks or injuries. The remaining brothers looked at me in shock. I picked her up and carried her in my arms bridal style. "Where are our rooms? There's no point in fighting now, Yui's too much of an easy target to incapacitate me with."
"How are you still awake? What Ayato used is guaranteed to knockout any human." Laito ignored my question, apparently he preferred to answer questions with more of them. Reiji, however, pointed me in the direction of our rooms. I decided to sleep in Yui's room tonight, just in case. I started in the direction of the door before stopping.
"Ayato? Do you remember what I told you?" His head tilted in confusion. My mouth stretched into a grin and I could feel the anger and power wafting out of me. "If you fucking hurt her, I'll murder you. Brutally." My eyes drifted over all of them before landing on Ayato. "Do not take me lightly, leech." I turned on my heel and dropped Yui off in her room before going to place my stuff in mine. I dumped my pack in the floor before sliding to the ground." I'm so sorry, Yui. I couldn't protect you." My eyes watered up and I wiped them dry. No way was I going to cry. I'm stronger than that, I can deal with this.
I went to check out my bed and saw my phone laying in the middle with a note beside it. 'Don't think anything of it, it's just that no one should have to go without music. Don't tell anyone.' I finally let my tears fall. Thank you, Shu. I hugged the phone to my chest before hiding it beneath the mattress. I stepped out of my new bedroom and left for Yui's to sleep. I collapsed on her bed and smiled as she automatically entangled herself around me. I kissed her forehead and curled up with her.
"I'm sorry, Yui" And then I fell asleep.