snowblackxx: Thank you so much, I was really worried I made him OOC... course I'm afraid I also made Subaru OOC... And don't worry I'll try to make sue above else she doesn't become a brat... Well maybe a little if it's Reiji. And you'll just have to see how things develop with the boys and Rin herself. Either way thanks for the support. :)

The garden was mind numbingly larger than Rin had originally thought it was. She was slowly growing more and more scared. She was left alone again, and she couldn't help but be upset with Laito. Yes, she'd hardly met him, but she was still hurt that he'd leave her alone.

Rin took a small gulp as her hands naturally found their way to the hem of her dress, and she looked left and right, forward and back, but no one was there.

"Excuse me! Is someone named… named… Is anyone here?!" She yelled, realizing she'd forgotten the name of the person she was looking for again.

'Is he really here?' She thought, growing more and more doubtful and worried.

Rin probably wasn't there for that long, but that didn't change how much she hated this. She didn't like this loneliness, she didn't want to go back to that endless darkness.

What worried her most was that she didn't even know how she got out of it. Which meant she also didn't know how she'd get back in there. For all she knew, taking a single wrong step would send her right back into that nightmare. For all she knew, she never actually escaped it.

Her stomach noted in itself, and Rin felt a stinging in her eyes. However, she got both her hands, and lightly slapped her cheeks. After a few light slaps, she gave her head a good shake. She tried to calm herself down. It was her that said she wanted to meet this other boy, so she'll just go ahead, and once she finds him, she'll be fine. It didn't matter if it turns out he's horrible or friendly, as long as she was with someone.

Then, she saw a stone statue, and she had an idea. She was a child, which meant she was short, which meant it was harder to see, which meant she should try getting higher.

Rin dashed over to the with a slight hope boiling in her chest. Once she got to it, she immediately started climbing up on it, remembering how cold her bare feet were when they touched the stone. She was careful, but she was also quick. Somehow, climbing came a bit natural to her small feeble hands.

Eventually she was at the top and clung tightly to what she realized was supposed to be a head. She looked forward, and saw more of the area better. However, other than the flowers-that she paid little mind to-there was no other form of life.

She felt her heart constrict on itself at seeing she was alone again. Not only that, but she suddenly became very aware to the fact that it was a cloudy night. There were no stars, moon, or any other light. It was dark. It was cold. It was empty.

She tried to take a deep breath, but found her lungs still being pounding by her heart.

"Hello! Is anyone there?!"

There was no reply, there wasn't anything. Rin couldn't even hear so much as a rustle of wind. She began to shiver, and not just because of her freezing feet and hands. She quietly sniffed.

"HELLO! IS ANYONE THERE?!"

But again, no reply.

Nothing.

There was nothing.

It was just like back then.

She was going back to that time not too long ago.

After she'd just awaken.

After she'd just met new people.

After she'd finally gotten a family.

She wanted to get to know them.

She wanted to no longer have to be alone.

All alone… Like she'd always been.

"HELLO-!"

She had leaned a little too much. The statue was too tall. She lost her balance.

She'd begun to fall.

. . . "Ahh-." Then she felt it, right when she about to scream.

Something cold and strong. Similar to what she felt not too long ago. Someone was holding her. An arm was wrapped around her small frame, and her face was burried into a hard chest.

For a moment she could only blink, wondering what had happened.

Then, Rin looked up, and saw who it was.

He looked about as old as the other boys. He had fluffy looking hair that was pure white with tinted pink. It looked so soft that she wanted to actually reach out and touch it. What took her off guard most were his eyes. They were the deepest shade of red she could ever imagine. They really were beautiful.

"Oi." She didn't react to the annoyance in his tone, she could only continue to stare at him. "What the hell were you doing? Not only were you being too loud but you actually went and nearly killed yourself?"

She blinked up at him. He was a person. He was right here holding her. He didn't seem all that nice, and he was physically cold, but he was real.

"Are you even listenin-?"

Rin couldn't help it. She was afraid, too afraid that she was really a goner. That she was really going to be alone. That she'd really have to live another go at that place that was too… hollow.

So, she began to cry. She cried and cried and cried. She wailed loudly, and buried her face into his chest to try and better feel his existence. She also felt her small hands curl up tightly into his tattered shirt.

She didn't want to let go of him, and she didn't want to go back to being alone. That's all she wanted, that's all she asked for.

Rin never wanted to be alone again.

….

He really had no idea what to do. He heard yelling earlier, but he just ignored it, thinking it would either go away or someone else would come and deal with it. But, after not even a second he heard her yelling suddenly cut off, and the quiet sound of wind from her falling.

… He just wasn't going to be held responsible for the brat dying, so he just went ahead and got her before she slammed her head on anything.

Yes, she was about to get very intimate with something hard, but he didn't expect her to go off and start crying. She was clinging to him as tightly as a human child could, and he could feel his shirt get more and more wet with her tears.

...He just sighed, and decided to take a seat and wait until she was done-she didn't seem to notice.

It's not as though he comforted her, he just let her go off and let it out.

'Is this the kid Reiji kept talking about?' He wondered, realizing he wasn't listening all that much when Reiji was giving out the details.

All he knew was that she was here because she had special blood. He could already tell since her blood had no scent-it was almost creepy. But, apparently it's also supposed to be able to burn the skin of vampires like acid to humans.

So, their father being the way he is, dumped her on them to study her-even though Reiji will be doing all the work.

And then the rest he didn't bother with.

Looking at the girl now, he didn't expect her to be so small. Course, he never spent much time with kids.

'So she's the one that's going to live with us. If it weren't for her blood, she'd be dead before anyone knew it.' He thought, being very aware to her soft, tearable skin, and her fragile, breakable bones.

She was only a child, but she had already been cursed to live with them of all people.

Finally, she took her last sniffs, and started to pull away from his chest, and he looked down to her.

She used her arm to wipe off at her moist eyes, and then she shook her head lightly before looking back up at him with bloodshot eyes.

...She was just staring up at him.

… "What?" He asked, finally annoyed with her quiet stare.

However, like before, she seemed not to care about his irritated tone-or she didn't notice. "What's your name?"

… "Why?"

"'Cause, Onii-chan told me someone would be here, but I don't remember the name of person I'm looking for."

'Onii-chan? There's another one?' "Subaru."

Then, to his surprise, her eyes-still slightly red-lit up with enthusiasm and a smile began to grow on her face. 'Wasn't she just crying a minute ago?'

"Yeah! That's the name!" Then her eyes slightly widened as though she were remembering something, and her eyes fell on his shirt. She looked back up at him with guilty eyes. "I'm sorry that I got your shirt dirty." Her little hand went up to her lips, and she looked pitifully ashamed.

..."It's fine." He mumbled.

To which the little girl's bright teal eyes-now gone of red-lit up happily. "Yay! Ne, Subaru-Oh Subaru!" She looked similar to an excited pup.

"What?"

"What do you want me to call you?"

… "Huh?"

"Kanato said it's ok if I call him Kanato-chan. But what does Subaru want me to call him?"

"...I really don't care."

"Oh. Then can I call you Subaru-cha-?"

"No!" He immediately growled.

But, again, like before, she didn't so much as flinch. "Ok. Then, Onii-cha-"

"No." He said, this time with a sick feeling in his stomach.

"Oh…" She looked up, and put a finger to her chin, lost in thought. Until, her eyes snapped open with an idea. So, she looked back up at him with a large smile. "Then, Subaru-kun!"

… He didn't particularly care about it-in fact it annoyed him since it's what certain annoying people called him. But, she kept looking up at him with those big eyes…

...Subaru pressed his lips together, and just looked a little to the side-not wanting to look her straight in the eyes. "Go ahead" He mumbled.

"Ok, Subaru-kun~!" She sang in a happy voice-somehow annoying him. "My name is Rin, and I'm going to be your little sister."

To that, Subaru snapped his eyes to her confused. "Little sister?"
Rin just nodded enthusiastically. "Uh huh! That's what Onii-chan said."

"Who the hell is your older brother?"

Rin returned to confused look. "You know him don't you Subaru-kun? It's Laito."

Right after she said that Subaru felt a vein pop in his forehead, and the image of the pervert laughing came to mind-sending an uncomfortable chill down his back.

"Is he into little girls now?" He murmured darkly under his breath.

"What was that, Subaru-kun?"

He looked down at the very young girl sitting on his lap with her head slightly tilted. Then, he thought about the pervert. Then, he thought about how small and fragile she is. Then, he thought about the pervert. Then, he thought about how she was an innocent child that had no idea of adult things. Then, he thought about the pervert.

Finally, he gripped on her shoulders, and leaned in closer to her-looking extremely pissed off. "You're not allowed to call him that anymore." He growled.

However, yet again to his surprised, Rin showed no reaction other than mild confusion. "How come?"

"Because I said so." He said with a slight twitch.

She looked slightly guilty. "Really? But I even promised him." Then she began to look lost in her own thoughts.

"I don't care. That damn bastard is just a pervert that apparently has stooped down to this level." He continued to mumble with a certain aura floating around him.

"Well…" Rin just said, seeming to not have noticed a single word Subaru was spewing, and looked back up at him with a little smile. "I guess I can just call him Laito-kun."

Somehow this little girl's attitude was bugging him. Maybe it was because he's just not used to someone like this, and she was actually the norm he hardly ever hung around. Maybe it was just the matter of her little ignorant bliss while she was in the position she was in. Or, maybe it was just annoying knowing what would happen to this little purity of hers.

"You should just stay away from him in general."

She tilted her head slightly at him. "Why? I actually think he's really nice."

He just stared at her for a moment. She was really young, she looked around six, and here she was oblivious to what was really happening around her. She's in a place that will only hurt her, but she's too young and naive to even so much as get that. 'Is this something kids just do?' He thought to himself. 'Try to cling to people without even knowing them?' Somehow, this thought also annoyed him.

He lightly gripped her small, chin-letting go of both her shoulders-and made her look up at him directly in the eyes, and she just went along unguarded. She blinked up at him with those big round eyes that reflected off the light of the moon nicely. 'A child like this will easily break. Just like we all did.'

"This isn't a happy world. It's not a place someone like you should linger in too long. As far as lethal danger, you should be safe, but you'll find yourself losing yourself. There's no happy ending, or beautiful moments in a place like this. It's only an endless pit of darkness and savagery. So, if you're looking for a happy family, you've found the wrong place."

He watched her carefully as her eyes widened in the slightest at him, and whatever laid behind those teal irises remained unreadable to him. "..." She just stared at him, and, "Haha~." She let out a little giggles-completely taking Subaru off guard. "Kanato-chan said something like that too. He said that you guys all hate each other. But that's ok."

'That's ok?' He thought bewildered to himself. "Weren't you listening?" His temper slightly flared-thinking she really didn't hear a single word of his.

However, she only nodded with a cheerful smile still plastered to her face. "Uh-huh!"

It just kept bugging him. She was really taking it all half-assed, and wasn't giving it a proper thought. She's in a dangerous place, but it kept going in one ear and out the other.

He's trying to warn her, but for some reason she didn't seem to get it. "So then why are you still unconcerned. Do you even know what we all are?!"

She just tilted her head once again confused at the question. "People?" She said, but in no way sounded confident in her answer.

'They never told her?' He thought, even more annoyed now. 'Why the hell haven't they told her?'

Then, he began to realize, that maybe the whole reason she wasn't as scared as she should be was because she didn't know just how bad it was. She didn't know that this so called 'family' she was getting was nothing but a bunch of monsters. She wasn't scared because she really didn't know.

"...We're vampires."

Her eyes snapped open wide until they were perfect round circles. For a moment she looked absolutely speachless. "...Vampires…" She whispered quietly to no one in particular.

'So, that was the case huh? The kid really didn't kno-'

"That's so cool!" Immediately her eyes lit up with excitement, and her little hands turned into fists as they went up to her chest.

Subaru was caught dumbfounded, and realized that her lack of fear wasn't because she didn't get it, it was because she was an idiot.

Despite his surprised expression, however, Rin's eyes continued to be lit up like the morning sky as her smile didn't shrink. "So you guys can drink blood right?! Can you also fly?! What about turning into bats?! Oh, or maybe you can-Mmmm mm m mmm."

Out of pure annoyance, Subaru could only cover her little mouth with his large hand to stop her nonsensical rambling. He's really never delt with kids before in his life, but he was starting to doubt that they all acted like this.

"Why the hell are you acting like this?!" He yelled at her, finally losing it at her ridiculous act of not understanding even the slightest thing to her position. It's not something to be so happy over and celebrate. "Do you not understand your situation!? You're acting like you're not afraid!" 'What the hell is wrong with this girl?' Subaru thought furiously.

In no way was this a good thing for her. She's in a house full of vampires, and instead of having the proper reaction and be afraid of it, she only gets herself more excited over it.

"M MMMM." After realizing she'd keep this up despite his hand over her mouth he just removed it and let her talk. "It's 'cause I'm not." She said very matter of factly.

...Subaru wasn't annoyed this time. He finally saw it. It didn't matter how many times he told her over and over again how dangerous of a situation she was in, or if he told her she'd die, she'd accept it. She didn't seem able to quite grasp what it meant to die or hate, but somewhere in her she did. She had been listening. She knew what he was trying to tell her, but for some reason it really meant nothing to her. Why was that? Why is she so unreactive to these words of his? Was it because she was brave, or because she was stupid?

"...Then what does scare you?" What could possibly scare a child like this?

And, with no hesitation at all, she went off and said, "I don't like to be alone."

"Alone?"

This time, she actually thought about it. And, this time, she didn't seem happy. "Well, I've only been awake for a while, and I don't remember much but… But I know that I don't like to be alone." Her eyes lost their shine, and they stared absentmindedly forward without actually seeing. She was lost somewhere else, and to see her in such a state was nothing short of unsettling. "The only thing I can remember is this really dark place… It was dark and cold and it was really really really lonely… I don't like that place, not even a little bit…"

...The longer she spoke, the quieter her voice got, the shakier her tone became, and the more lost in her own memory she looked. Finally, finally, Subaru understood. He understood what was wrong with her. Why she wasn't afraid of them. Why she didn't seem afraid of anything around her. It wasn't bravery or idiocy. She couldn't be shaken by something as cruel and dark as this place. Because you can't be afraid to be broken when you already are.

He didn't know why his chest felt heavy, or maybe he didn't want to know. When he looked down at her she was a little girl. One much too young to have the look that she had right now. To have the memories that she seemed to have. He knows what it meant to have eyes like that, and to see it on another child, bugged him. What exactly happened to her, he didn't know or give two shits about. The only thing he could think was that maybe that smile from before wasn't as annoying as he thought.

Subaru didn't know when his hand went up to her head, but it did, and he didn't think much to remove it. He just watched as she flinched out of her daydream, and look back up at him. Not even a second passed by before she flashed him another smile of hers. "So I don't really mind what you guys are like or what you are. I'm ok with it either way. As long I don't have to be alone, I wouldn't care if you were the bad guys~." She gave a little giggle.

He was only confused all over again as he looked at her eyes that went back to their shimmer.

"How do you do that?" She only tilted her head, and, before she could answer, he continued. "How can you suddenly snap from despair into happiness? It happened before when I caught you and you went on crying, and then you smiled in no time at all. Then, it happened right now? How you do that?"

She blinked up at him confused to his question, and he was just as confused himself.

However, she just smiled again. "Well, when I thought about that sad thing I was sad, and when you saved me… well I don't really know why I cried. But, I don't need to cry anymore because I remembered that I wasn't alone. I'm not alone right now, 'cause you're with me now, Subaru-kun. So, I'm happy."