Selenophile: one who loves the moon
Selenophelia: one who loves by the moon's caress;
helpless to it's ability to awaken the darkest of desire
Moon child: one born under the power of the moon;
subject to its call in life or death

Chapter 1: Prologue

"So what now?" Ayato asked, as they stood in near silence around Yui's bed.

"Now, we may do well to become worried." Reiji crossed his arms.

"What?" Ayato looked fiercely at his brother.

"Raise your voice anymore and we'll wake the little bitch up." Laito shushed his brother. He knew his brother had grown perhaps more fond of the little Bitch than any of the other brothers; that didn't mean they all had the same selfish need to keep her safe...to want her blood selfishly for themselves...

"I suppose we should take this to my room?" Reiji nodded and the pack of brothers seemed to find their way instantly to his room.

"What's the meaning of this?" Subaru asked.

"It's been nearly what? 2 months? Or perhaps three since Cordelia attempted to take Yui's body?" Reiji looked out at the moon.

"Almost three." Shu said stoically. He knew his brother knew, he always knew the details. He was merely playing this out.

"Nearly three months since her awakening." Reiji sighed. "I never knew you all to be so dense, but it's obvious now that, with another Eclipse...a rare sight to behold waning our Moon, she will become a full vampire..."

"Ah, so the little Bitch was turning vampire. The scent in her blood changed but none of us could suspect...frankly we never knew what that potion of yours did other than divide their souls again..."

"Can you blame us? We've never had anyone change and survive...have we teddy?" Kanato seemed to rock on his heels, gripping his teddy tightly, like he was a rocking horse or rocking chair of some sort. Ayato swore he too was some kind of strange doll; some play thing like his Toy. Cordelia had done a number on them all. He scoffed quietly to himself.

"He's right." Shu said. "But that doesn't mean none of us have noticed."

"It was right of us to not tell her perhaps...but I questioned after she left with those pesky Mukami's. Frankly, I had put blood in every one of her teas...never once had she questioned why tea time had become so regular for her...perhaps she thought I meant to smooth things over after the first time..." Reiji took off his glasses and slid them on his shirt to clean them, his eyes narrowing, a faint smile of satisfaction came overhim.

"Wait...wait? You're telling me you've been feeding her blood...then whose blood was it?" Ayato pounced forward and grasped onto Reiji's shirt, even shorter he could still lift him off the ground a good few inches with his tempered strength.

Reiji glanced down at Ayato and smiled, however still as cool as ice. "Well I was using a bit of left over I had taken from our previous blood banks...I had kept them for my own experiments...BUT you know around the time of her disappearance I may have run a bit dry..."

"So whose did you use?"

"Well I had taken some from all of you...some of you sleep so deeply...so I suppose I put her on a bit of a regimented day by day dose of-"

"Don't even say it was your blood...why do I have a suspicion that you used your blood all along?" Laito piped into his brother's conversation. "You know... I knew you were doing this, that's why I kept saying she belonged to all of us; equal blood proportion running through her veins. However if you used only your blood, Ayato's possessive knack would be absolutely null...however that means you would have conned us all and you really ought to die right here my dear brother. We all have a right...for now...to little bitch."

Reiji's eyes lidded, his smile sly. This was the sadistic self they knew he kept hidden beneath his perfect and orderly persona. "It would be clever of me. But you see I figured it would be best to wait until the third month to feed her my blood...on the verge of her transformation being complete...by the light of the red moon... however it seems we haven't really had the time to feed her...And I already questioned how she lasted this long while she was with the Mukami brothers. Now that the Founders are gone... thanks to..."

"Me." Ayato smiled, his eyes boasting with satisfaction.

"Well, frankly it was you and Ruki who took the lead... but I suppose you wouldn't tag team Yui with Ruki would you? And I'm not just talking a bite out of her neck am I? We all know how you don't like to share...although you did share killing Carla...which I suppose gives you bonus points from "that man" but all the same... I think if you did try you two would tear her to pieces from the inside out." Laito laughed.

"Oh shut it." Ayato growled, tearing his gaze from Reiji to Laito, as he set Reiji back down.

"Why? Can't handle the idea of you having to share Yui, Ayato? ...Or is it the idea of you actually getting a chance to "fully explore her? If you ever gave me the chance...I might be tempted to share her myself...we could both go at it-"

"It's Yours Truly." His green eyes became narrowed, cat like...predator like, as he cut off his brother.

"See, he's really not just possessive to his prey...its more than that isn't it?" Laito to laughed.

"Why the eclipsed moon?" Kanato asked, his head tilted to the side, his eyes nearly as big as the moon itself.

"Because...when two vampires mate, taking the other's blood is just as profound as two humans copulating." Reiji pushed up his glasses.

"Copulating?" Kanato asked.

"Having sex." Shu said bluntly. "Mixing of bodily fluids. And frankly if she's been deprived for this long she should be dead..."

"Which is why I tell you to keep your biting sessions to your room...vampires should keep their intimate moments with their prey as private as possible...especially now..." Reiji looked disdainfully at them.

"But we too fed her blood. We wouldn't neglect our Eve that." Ruki suddenly appeared in the room.

"Who let you in?" Ayato looked angry. "And how did you know?"

"Frankly, if you really want to know...I don't normally force myself onto someone as other people do, but I did happen to kiss her once and it's nearly impossible to not smell it, nor feel those fangs growing. No mortal has teeth that sharp...but I suppose because she has yet to notice herself..." Ruki said. "We noticed around the time she started fainting in Yuma's arms mid day. We drained her blood but there was no way it should effect her as it did."

"Ah yes, the little Bitch is quite naive and dense. Perhaps this means Ayato is just as naive as her."

"So you've been giving her your blood? Who's ?!" Ayato ignored the dig. His words tormented.

"Well we were going to give her just Ruki's but you know...I don't think any of us like the idea of being out of the race for Adam." Kou appeared. "However we fed her wine. Its customary to drink blood wine at our place...not boring tea...only the most expensive stuff too...I really only want to give the best to my favourite fan."

"Plus there is something alluring to knowing she drinks our blood without even knowing it." Yuma added. "I suppose she can't taste it now that she's turning. Sugar in the tea perhaps? Less bitter wine? I'd like to think I don't taste that sweet..."

Shu stayed silent. He had thought the same thing, but he refused to level with Yuma. Yuma still believed that Shu had killed his family and started the fire. If they became friends again, it would be much harder to compete for Yui.

"Since when did we allow your household in here? How rude...I never invited you in? Frankly, I don't believe our truce stands anymore." Reiji asked, peeved they had done the same thing. "And I am positive my tea was much better...I didn't merely mix it, I infused it. One of a kind, not some store bought brand of alcohol. She is too young for that anyway. Intoxication affects her drastically you know..."

"You know Reiji I don't know if I want to know how you know." Laito gave him a smile. "I suspect you drugged her yourself, but then again, I agree... the truce is over now that the Founders are dead."

"It's obvious our father told us all of this Adam crap and what not so that we'd all end up at each other's throats to keep Yui by our side... so the question is, do we play his game or do we let her choose?" Subaru crossed his arms. "And he wanted to create human and vampire hybrids did he not? If we let this happen we may be subject to his recoil...I'm not sure he intended for her to actually turn vampire."

"I say let her choose. One of us will surely acquire her as our Eve. Perhaps we cannot offer the same thing you do, but she too will be a half blood will she not?" Ruki shook his head.

"Depends how you look at it. Her heart is of vampiric decent to really, she was already half, and perhaps now will be full like us." Reiji said carefully.

"I say if we let her choose, it might be too late...she'd go without biting any one of us just so not to hurt us...that or she'd say she'd rather die..." Ayato looked a bit troubled. "I'm not about to passively hand her to anyone else.

Laito sighed. His brother, like it or not, had clashed with Ruki again. He suspected they'd end up fighting to the death but then again... perhaps they were both right. Ruki played the all and well innocent one, but he wasn't as pure as he perceived himself to be was he?

"Well then we'll just have to persuade her to exchange other bodily fluids first...maybe if she chooses one of us on accident...perhaps fall for us, which wouldn't be that surprising the way she sadistically moans when we bit her... we can persuade her a bit more to succumb to her blood thirst too. If I recall the first thing she said was that she was "thirsty" when she woke up? A little bitch is rarely thirsty for just blood...she is thirsting for passion...to be caressed... so I say, good luck to you all." Laito left the room with a playful smile.

"Oh and don't forget, the moon effects us all too. Don't think that it won't make things much more interesting." Yuma said. "Don't think that just because we're not a pure blood doesn't mean we're not competitive at all."

The left over Sakamaki boys were left in Reiji's room alone.

"Once again, they leave without a formal goodbye." Reiji looked disdainfully around the room.

"I don't care what you say, Yui is mine. Talk to me when you all get stabbed in the chest over her or face a Founder head on." Ayato turned to his brothers.

"Well we did help you destroy them. You and Ruki just love taking the lead. But about being stabbed in the chest, did you mean metaphorically or literally?" Reiji prodded with a sadistic smile. "In fact, we will have to continue this another time. I'm afraid its time for school already."