With a chime of bell, that was how the last class ended. How the teachers' teaching duty, and the students' learning duty was cut off. The teachers could have their leave, but the students had another duty to fulfill, under a few more attendants' superintendance. And that time was now. It was called 'Cleaning Time'.

Meanwhile in a certain classroom, which was the class Yui also attended with a small group of teenagers, there was cleaning just like how there is in other classrooms. But there was an oddness in that classroom.

She was wiping the seat which belonged to her with a great diligence and speed. Alone. The others have skipped. Again. Leaving the whole weight of work on her shoulders. Shadow fell down on her forehead like a black curtain. The hazy beads of sweat were on her face, some planted, some trailing down very slower than a turtle. Her face was crumpled up like a paper from the tiredness.

A few minutes later, she wiped the sweat off of her forehead, set the heavy breath free from her lungs. This was the last phase of work, and she was finally done. She rotated her head, examining the sight of the room. It was all clean, with every detail refined and not missed out a single flaw. Yes, she did this all alone. She cleaned the whole class all alone. But she became dirty with all the drench of sweat by hardworking.

Her grip was tight on the yellow, wringing swab. She started her paces to exit the classroom and put the cleaning materials back to their place.

She soon went out of the room where she put the cleaning materials back to. Just when she also exited the classroom she went back to her handbag, a boy with red hair and piercing catlike green eyes encountered him with his arms crossed and left foot tapping on the floor.

"Oi Chichinashi! You done cleaning?" he asked her. Behind that mild expression he was fed up with waiting.

"Yes." she answered with a small and slow nod.

"Then come on, we better get going. Reiji will get doubtful and pissed off." his raspy tone raised up a little. The small voice his left foot made by tapping on the floor came to a stop.

She nodded again as an answer, and followed after him as he started walking up.

Ah, finally, she drew herself to bathroom. She was going to take a bath to purify her body that the dirty sweat drenched. She turned the door knob so no one would be able to enter and interrupt her on her most private moment. She let out a deep sigh as she leaned her back on the locked door with her hands pressed between her back and the door they were leaned on. The slick wood of the door would almost make her slide down. But soon, she twitched her head in the realizing of the fact that she should quit hesitating and start bathing before any of the Sakamaki brothers interrupt her.

She left the door. She walked up to the large tub, and turned on the tap. She measured the temparature of the water that ran down in the surface of the tub. It was cold, but she was sure enough that it will go warm. She withdrawed as she wiped her wet fingertips on the fabric of her skirt and stood on the middle of the bathroom. She began to strip, and drop her clothes on the cold white tile. Then she walked up to the tub, gripped her both hands on the side of the tub as she severally lifted her legs and dived them in the bathtub. Just as she let her body in the tub, she felt the cold sting in her spine, she shivered. Nevertheless, she crouched down and released her grip from the side of the bathtub.

She shivered really bad, because the water was freezing cold. She might get sick of this cold. Her arms crossed and hands gripped on her humeruses. She opened her firmly shut eyes and turned them towards the tap. For a moment, her one hand let go of its grip from her arm, and reached out towards the tap. Maybe if she played a little with its settings, the water will warm up. And she did. And the water soon warmed up, too.

Relieving a little, she started to enjoy this moment. She didn't even remember that she would actually be in fear of insecurity. She applied the limpid water on her whole skin. The water looked like crystal as she made it splash. Somehow, she felt relaxed. She dreamed for a moment that she was in a crystal empire, with limpid and clear rivers and a very huge and splendid crystal castle. And she was going there as a princess.

She picked up the lavended soap that stood on the little tray at the edge of the bathtub. It was slippery, she thought it might slip and fall from her hands any minute. She started to slide the soap around her whole skin. A few groups of foam formed on most parts of her body. Now was time to make them fall.

Once again, she started to splash the water on her body. She wiped the bubbles away. There was a squeaky feeling when she wiped her wet skin. She continued to clean herself.

*run*

Suddenly, she felt a sludgy feeling that quite gave her the goosebumps with a hint of disgust. It was flowing...she felt...(l...lower...)

She looked down...to see...on that pure water...

She reached her hand down...and raised up again...

And saw...the crimson red.

There was a big shock and trepidation strick all over her face as she looked at her stained hand that stood strictly towards her horror-stricken sherbet pink eyes.

(Wait...)

She felt like remembering something...a fact...

"Haaaahhhhh..." she heard a deep breath expelling. She froze, turning her eyes on the door, like she's been pricked by a very painful syringe. She crawled down more inside of the tub, only her frightened eyes at the sight and her fingers holding on the tub's edge.

"Well well well..." the door creaked open like a horror movie, and a head of a male passed his head through the half open door. It was a male with black fedora and deep green eyes, smiling wickedly at her.

"Look who's blood covered the whole mansion like perfume..."

"L-laito-k-kun?" Yui stammered with a quivery voice as her body shivered again. Her body sinked down more into the tub.

"Ah, that precious smell?" then a raspy young male voice was heard from behind of the door. Laito turned his head, and his smile rose up as if a very big surprise has encountered him.

Yes it did.

A red haired man with spiky straight hair and piercing green eyes; yes, he looked just like his brother, but with shorter hair and catlike ones instead of deep green. He had a cattish smile, a merciless and evil-looking one. He popped his head up through the door too.

"Congratulations!" he exclaimed at her.

"W-what...?" she stammered.

Ayato snickered at that. "Didn't you know? Ya know, about that? " he pointed at the water that's been painted to rosy red.

"I-I do k-know..." she stammered again.

Of course she did. She was just too tensed up, because it happened on a very late age. And in a wrong time and place. Among six sadist vampires, who's got capacity of every power that a fragile human like her doesn't. She isn't even capable to avoid them because of it. And...this was such a wrong moment. This wasn't a normal moment.

"That sweet scent reached my nose." she heard the third voice coming up. It was Kanato. As he came, the door was pushed a little more open. His lips were contracted with the corners arched up, a light smile. He had his Teddy on his arms...but somethings else, too...

Yui zoomed closer to see that the things Kanato held in his arms...were small packets. They had somethings inside of them, which she knew better.

"Nee Teddy, don't you think we should have some fun?" the male's head bended slightly as his eyes looked down on the teddy bear. "Let's throw these on her!"

"NO!" the young lady cried in a slight hoarse tone. She sinked her body even inner to the tub, wanting a magical hole to appear and devour her in itself. The red and heat has rushed all over to her face, nearly taking over her ears. Her knees were drawn to her stomach, her hands protecting her head, she shielded herself.

Kanato ripped one of the packets open. He swept out a certain pad, and began to aim on her. Until...

"Kanato, what are you doing?" A very cold-toned raspy and solemn voice echoed in their head. Kanato felt his wrist being grabbed. Annoyed and frowning, he quickly turned his head to look up and see his elder brother, Reiji.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked as he shot them all a death glare.

"Ahhhh...Reiji, you just interrupted us!" Laito whined, thickening his voice and puckering his lips.

"Yeah, we were just about to have some fun!" Ayato whined aswell but louder and non-thick than Laito, crossing his arms.

Reiji sighed as he fixed up his glasses. "You really have crossed the line. When will you ever learn not to interrupt anyone's privacy, especially when it's a lady?" he scolded his child brothers. Then his gaze directed on Kanato, who's even more childish, "And you, put those pads back to their place. And what you currently are doing is a very disrespectful move."

"Whatever." Kanato huskily mumbled. Him and Ayato frowning, Laito in a childlike sulk with hint of playfulness; they all walked away from there.

After watching them go with a smooth scowl, his head turned back to the bathroom. His sharp red eyes focused on the water overflowing bathtub. He approached with hard steps.

"They're gone, now you may quit hiding." he demanded, his head up forward, not even taking a single piece of sight of her into his view.

With a small quivering voice she was making, she raised her hands from her hand and gripped the edge of the tub. She timidly arched her body, only revealing her head. Her big sparkling sherbet pink orbs looked up to him timidly. Her face went ever redded.

"Uhm, t-thank you, Reiji-san..." she said with a low, mousy, quiet voice. She lowered her head, hiding her mouth and only showing her big eyes.

"Whatever." Reiji replied, still not looking down at her. "You shouldn't be thanking me, because a mere mortal like you are not worthy of it. This wasn't anything anyway."

She looked down, bowing her head right after he said those words. Soon she heard the footsteps of him walking away from here. Then she heard the door creak and close.

She sighed. She slowly stood up, leaving the bathroom. She had to clean up, and this place.

She ran into her room, slamming the door behind her and panting slightly. She ran up to her wardrobe, stripping from her bathrobe and dressing up into her casual clothes. Yes, she didn't forget the pads.

The Sakamakis must be looking for her right now. Now that the scent of blood will lure them for a week, she was completely in peril. Not even a single second to be left alone.

But she couldn't compherend. At the age of 17 - a very late age. Wasn't it supposed to happen first, like at the age of 12? Was it really possible?

She remembered when she was a little girl, her true friends, her confdants; her nuns have warned her. 'If you see blood flowing down, don't be afraid' 'You will get through this just like all the other women'. But she didn't believe them when she didn't see any blood. She thought she'll be the only person who wouldn't get through this. But now she can see...

And now, she didn't like it. Just because of the conditions she lives in...