Chapter 2! A day late, but enjoy reading either way! Next time Kureto appears, so let's see how Yuu will cope with all this. The female Yuu is calmer when it comes to danger, but more emotional when it comes to people and stuff.

"Well…. Did not expect you to be a girl…"

"Yeah, heard that before." Yuu replied. She looked around and her eyes rested on what seemed to be a little girl sitting on a sword. Everything else was white.
"Ah well. Welcome Yuu. My name is Ashuramaru." She narrowed her eyes. "And… I'm not a girl." He snorted and Yuu widened her eyes.
"Are you my sword?" Yuu then asked. The boy narrowed his eyes in annoyance.
"No, not really stupid girl…" Ashuramaru replied as he dashed towards Yuu.

"...!" Yuu couldn't even react as the little boy pierced her chest with his right arm. For some reason, it didn't hurt. "What was that for?! Why doesn't it hurt?" Ashuramaru chuckled.

"This is your inner world Yuu. I'm here to conquer it and make you a demon."
"A demon? Hmm." Yuu took a step back and removed the arm out of her body.
"You seem awfully calm about this." Ashuramaru said a little disappointed.

"I need your help Ashuramaru. I need your strength to get revenge for my family. To kill every vampire in this world."

"Hmmph. And why would I help you? There's nothing in it for me."

"Don't be like that. You won't be alone anymore." Yuu said as her memories started to flash by. She saw Mika getting killed again. She grimaced and Ashuramaru laughed.

"Revenge huh? I can work with that. Give me your desires and let's go from there…."

Suddenly, Yuu was back in the real world and blinked a couple of times. "That was pretty fast." A mocking voice said behind her. Kimizuki was already standing there with his twin swords in hand.

"Shut up." Yuu looked at her newly gained katana and wondered how strong Ashuramaru actually was. She guessed she hadn't shown her anything yet.

"Watch out!" Guren suddenly shouted as an arrow was fired from Yoichi's bow. His face looked odd and he grinned. "Are you two ready to kill him?" The lieutenant colonel said as he drew his sword. Yoichi had turned into a demon and had lost control. Yuu gritted her teeth.

"Yoichi! Snap out of it! I know you're still there!" "Let me help you here.." Ashuramaru whispered and Yuu felt power running through her veins. She felt her consciousness fade just a little as the demon gave her strength to bring back Yoichi to his senses.

"What are you doing fool!?" Guren shouted as he noticed the purple runes on Yuu's cheek. "Don't give in to the demon too much!" But Yuu felt amazing and jumped towards Yoichi, ready to strike.

"Yoichi! Come back!" She shouted as she parried incoming arrows. Kimizuki charged at Yoichi as well now and tried to hit the bow. Yoichi laughed as he evaded every hit.

"Yoichi is gone! He couldn't work up the courage to best me!" The demon shouted mockingly and readied his bow again. Yuu charged again and managed to get close to the demon, hitting the bow away. She then hugged Yoichi tightly and the demon froze. "What are you doing… Yoichi is gone."

"He's not! Give him back!"

"Ggrrrhg!" The demon raged but couldn't move. "Y-Yuu…"

"Yoichi!" The demon stopped grinning and the boy in Yuu's arms fainted.

"I can't believe you-"

"I brought him back right?" Yuu interrupted Guren and grinned.

"You let your demon in so easily fool! Are you stupid? You could've turned into a demon just like Yoichi!"

"But I didn't." She got a smack on her head in return from the lieutenant colonel. "Ouch!"

"Stupid brat!" Shinoa hummed again, which annoyed Guren to no end. "This, will kill me eventually. I'm sure of it."

"Well I'm thankful!" Yoichi exclaimed happily as he tried to hug Yuu. Who in response, pushed him away.

"I think we deserve some praise." Kimizuki added.

"Yeah you did well on surviving." Guren then said. "Don't go and throw away your life now." He glared at Yuu. The girl glared back and got slightly annoyed.

"Why am I always the one getting glared at."

"Do I really need to explain that?!" Guren exclaimed and Shinoa laughed.

"I'm asking for it am I?!" Yuu shouted and everyone turned quiet. She bolted as her eyes got slightly teary. "I'm so done!" She ran upstairs, as hard as she could. No one followed yet. Yuu then decided to go back to the tree she fell asleep against last time.

Once there, she climbed in it, to make sure no one saw her. "You're pretty upset." Ashuramaru's voice echoed through her head.

"I'm done being treated like this. I'm not just some child you can order. If Guren hates me so much, he shouldn't have rescued me. Or better, got me to someone who could actually help me. All he does is complain."

"You're right. You should kill him."

"What? No." Yuu peered through the leaves as the sun was setting. How long had they been down there?

"Yuu! Where are you Yuu!" Yoichi. The one who actually cared.

"Yuu! Please show yourself!" That was Shinoa's voice. She was close by. Yuu didn't feel like revealing herself. She was fine up in the tree.

"Yuu come back! Tired of your petty bullshit!" Kimizuki as well. Yuu sighed, but didn't care.

"Brat!"

"That asshole…" Yuu muttered.

"Get down here!" Guren's voice was suddenly really close and apparently, he was standing right below Yuu. His fault, since Yuu was startled and lost her balance.

"Wha-aa!?" Guren's eyes widened as he saw her fall but couldn't react in time. Yuu fell right on top of the lieutenant colonel and he groaned when his back hit the ground.

Yuu was sitting on Guren and was glad she landed softly. She then looked down to see a pained, but really angry Guren. "Crap."

"Get off." He groaned and Yuu quickly got up and grabbed her sword that laid a few steps away. Guren stood up and Yuu noticed his face scrunching up in pain. Apparently he had landed on a rock.
"A-are you ok?" The black haired girl tried.
"Yeah…" Guren wiped the dirt of his uniform. His anger had faded, and instead he looked a little sad.
"There you are!" Yoichi exclaimed as the rest of the group joined the black haired couple. Yuu froze on the spot. The lieutenant colonel saw it obviously, and sighed.
"Well, I'm glad we found you. Don't go and do stupid stuff kid." He turned around and walked away towards Yoichi. "Yuu needs some time to himself." And with that, Guren made sure Yuu was left alone for the day. Even though they wouldn't understand, Yuu felt herself getting at ease. She would apologize to Guren later.

Back in her room, she changed into her pyjama's. Just in time, a few seconds later someone knocked on the door. "Open up Yuu. It's me."
"Guren?"
"Yeah." Normally, Guren would open the door without warning. Yuu walked over to the door of her small cubicle of a room and opened it. She looked up at Guren, who was a little higher than she expected.
"We need to talk."