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Chapter 4: The Nightmare To Confront

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"Daddy! Daddy! Look! Look!" I called excitedly, a huge smile on my face as I ran through the house, my hands cupped together as a bright green light shone through them. My hair was tied back into pigtails that bounced up and down as I half skipped, half ran, my face covered in mud and sticks with pieces of leaves clinging to my hair. I ran through the kitchen, almost slipping on the tiles and came to a halt just in the hallway facing the open front door as two men stood before me.

"Daddy!?" I called my smile disappearing from the tension that filled the air as one of the men turned his head to look at me.

His face twisted in worry and fear. "Nami?" He looked at the other man and glanced back at me once more. "Nami, go to your room." He said sternly with an undertone warning to it that I didn't understand. I glanced between him and the stranger, and then back at him. "Daddy?"

"Nami! I told you go to your bedroom!" He snapped, glaring at me, still sending a warning. I flinched and backed away in hurt from his tone, everything going blurry as the tears started to form in the corner of my eyes.

"Now, now. There's no need to be so hostile with a young girl." The man chuckled, patting my dad's shoulder as if to reassure him but only made him stiffen even more.

"Nami." Dad looked at me, his eyes now pleading with me when they flickered down to my hands, and filled with fear. "RUN!" His voice echoed around me as the house seemed to warp and become disjointed.

I franticly looked around as the walls seemed to reach out to me, making me jump and cry out in fear and my heart started to beat loudly in my ears. "RUN NAMI!" I looked back at him as the man sent him flying backwards out the house and the door shutting loudly behind him just as I saw him land on the ground outside.

I whimpered, backing away in fear as the man turned his full attention on me.

"Now, now, young girl." He slowly started to stride towards me, a dark smile forming on his face. "Why don't you come with me, and end all the problems right here and now."

My shaking hands still cupped together around the light glowed brighter with each step of his. "W-what d-do you w-want?" I stuttered my voice cracking and the tears daring to blur my sight as I blinked repeatedly to clear them.

He chuckled again and shook his head from side to side. "Uh uh. That's for me to know and for you..." My heart missed a beat as my back hit against the wall and I came to a halt, cornered and trapped. The man reached out for me and I cringed back as his hand grazed over my face, trailing up my hair. His eyes sharpened as he took in my appearance. "Where is she?"

I shook my head, not understanding his question; the tears now were running down my face. "I don't-"

"Nami! Nami!" My Dad's voice cut me off as I heard him banging on the door. "Daddy!" I cried, begging for him to come and save me.

The man chuckled once more, not even noticing dad's banging, before looking around. "Pathetic. You are just going to hide away and let your daughter pay what you owe?" His eyes rested on me once again. "Either way, it's a win-win for him."

I whimpered as he reached out for me. "Daddy!"

"Nami!" A woman's voice echoed in my head as a bright green light overtook my vision.

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My eyes snapped open, my heart beating fast and out of control, and for a second all I could see was white until it slowly faded away and took in the white curtains that surrounded me.

I laid there for a second more, letting my brain catch up to what I had just dreamt. I didn't remember ever experiencing something like that during my childhood, but then again, most of my childhood had many missing pieces to it.

I closed my eyes and relaxed, releasing a breath of air and clearing my head, feeling much rested and less drained.

"Ah, it seems our little patient is awake!" A male voice sang.

My eyes shot open and I glanced to the side just as the white curtain was swept back to reveal a young looking man with blonde hair and a white doctor's coat on. He smiled softly down at me as he spoke. "Hello. How are you feeling?"

I tilted my head to the side to get a better view of him without having to sit up, he was very good looking. "Good, I suppose. Um...where am I?"

"That's good news. Oh, you are in the infirmary, you collapsed during second period and were brought here by a few students."

"Oh..." I didn't know what else to say. I slowly pushed myself up and leaned back against the headboard as the doctor went and brought back a glass of water and some crackers. He handed the glass to me first, letting me take a few gulps before giving the crackers to me, to which I gladly snacked on, my stomach making a loud grumble of approval, my face flushing with embarrassment.

He disappeared again behind the curtains, only to reappear this time with a chair. He sat down, closing his legs and rested the clipboard on his knee with a pen in hand. He looked up at me and gave me another soft smile as he asked "When last have you eaten?"

I tilted my head to the side as I thought. (When last have I had something?) "Um...I had… a cranberry juice this morning...u-uh wait, n-n-not this morning, uh this night!" I guess I wasn't really used to the 'going to school during the middle of the night' thing yet. I smiled sheepishly and he jotted down on his clipboard.

"I see, and to eat?"

I shrugged, shaking my head as I had no idea when last it was that I actually consumed a meal. I still didn't know how long I was asleep. It might've been a few hours to days to weeks, any longer than that and I think I would be freaking out.

"I see." He laid the pen down and looked back up at me, his face taking on a serious tone. "I know many female students are...dieting...however, your body still needs food to function. If you don't, the possibility of you ending up here every night is very high."

I nodded as he carried on speaking. I couldn't tell him that actually I wasn't one of those girls. I very much loved to eat and the only reason why I didn't have breakfast... dinner? Whatever! Was because of the vampires that seemed to currently be staving me.

"Do you understand me?" He asked as he ended his lecture.

I nodded and mumbled a yes.

"Good, now school is going to be over in the next ten minutes. You can stay here until it's time to go-"

A bell went off in my head. "Wait! Ten minutes?!"

"Yes." He nodded his head.

I had ten minutes to get away! I threw the blankets off me and jumped up, almost falling over when black spots appeared again but thankfully went away faster this time, leaving behind a small headache, but I could cope with that. "I got to go!" I pushed past the doctor and rushed to the door as he tried to stop me, grabbing for me.

"Calm down now. There's no need to rush." He firmly grabbed my shoulders, turning me to face him, his eyes capturing mine. "Calm down Nami."

I immediately stopped struggling, my body relaxing and the feeling of impending doom subsided into nothing.

"Come and sit down and finish your crackers, okay?"

I dazedly nodded, letting him lead me away from the door and back to the bed as he seated me back down on the side and handed me the crackers once more. I carried on snacking on them, feeling like I was numb from head to toe and not really tasting the saltiness of them.

"Who are you?" I mumbled inaudibly to anyone else beside myself.

"You can call me Dr. Reinhart." He smiled softly. "You should get some more rest well you still can."

I nodded again, laying back on the bed and Dr. Reinhart pulling the blankets up to my chin. "Thank you."

"No need to thank me, I'm just doing my job. Now sleep."

And like that my eyes closed and everything went black once more.

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"What a disgrace." The words sharp and cold startled me awake; however I didn't move or open my eyes to let him know I was. I didn't want to face the new reality of my life. I would rather go to sleep and never wake up than deal with them again.

I felt something cold brush across my face and into my hair, in a stroking motion only to start over again. "Ah~ I think she looks adorable~" My stomach twisted at the purr of his voice right in my ear and my heart skipped a beat. (Laito! He's here as well?!)

"Subaru! I told you to look after her." Reiji snapped, dismissing Laito's remark. A 'tch' was Subaru's response. "Subaru!"

"I told you that no one touches what's Yours Truly, get away from her Laito!" Ayato yelled and I felt the bed dip as extra pressure was added. Shuffling and a yelp as something landed hard on the floor was heard but I didn't dare open my eyes, not even when I felt a presence shift up behind me, my stomach twisting in disgust. "I should look over her, she is Yours Truly property!" Ayato snapped and I felt something wrap around my waist, and the presence pressing up against my back and just increasing my disgust. A cold breath brushed into my hair and it took everything to not jump up out of the bed and run for the door.

"How about Teddy and I look over her." Kanato chuckled darkly as a loud growl overlapped with his sending a cold shiver down my spine.

"Let me look after her. I'm sure to look after her very good~" Laito slyly said and I could image him with that smirk in place.

(Ugh! Gross! Are they all here?!) Now I really didn't want to open my eyes to confront them or the person behind me.

"Enough! She is a first-year! Subaru is supposed to be looking over her." Reiji silenced them.

I could just image the cold look he was giving all of them.

"How long are you going to pretend to sleep? I don't have patience to tolerate your pathetic game."

My heart skipping another beat at his words, and reluctantly I peeled open my eyes only to wish I never did.

The first face I saw was Laito, his green eyes burning into mine as he slyly grinned, his arms crossed over and laying on the bed with the right side of his face resting on them, inches from my face. I quickly diverted my gaze up to Reiji that was standing to the right behind Laito's crouching form, glaring down at me with cold, sharp eyes, Kanato on the left side behind Laito creepily smiling at me. Changing directions, I noticed Subaru was standing further to the right side, a scowl in place, arms crossed over his chest and eyes burning in anger. I flinched back into the presence behind me and Ayato groan in my ear, his arm still possessively wrapped around my waist only to tighten a bit, like in a warning.

I froze over, not daring to move, consciously aware that my heart was now beating hard again and wondering how much longer my heart last at this rate if it was always in a frightened state, I was pretty sure it wasn't good for your heart to always be beating fast.

Reiji sighed, pushing up his glasses. "Let's go, I don't have time for this nonsense." He turned, walking to the door, Kanato following after him and revealing that on the bed next to mine, there laid Shuu, looking fast asleep like usual. Laito didn't move for a second, still grinning when a growl from behind me had him rolling his eyes, standing up and looming over me as he sent me a wink before following after Reiji.

I released a weak sigh when the door closed behind them but neither Ayato nor Shuu nor Subaru made a move to follow. I glanced over at Shuu and then over at Subaru wondering what they were thinking.

"Fuck off." Growl Ayato, his arm tightening even more, and making it slightly difficult to breathe, my eyes widened in fear and my heart picking with speed.

"You first." Subaru growl back baring fangs.

"How troublesome." Shuu sighed shifting to sit up. "There's too much testosterone in this room." He muttered and just like that disappeared into thin air. (Coward!) I screamed in my head, feeling abandoned once again by him.

Before I could even blink, I was pull from out of Ayato's grasp and up to a standing position, my back up against a chest and arms wrapped around my front, securing my arms to my side and unable to fight back, even though I was too disorientated by the suddenness of it too try.

"Subaru!" Ayato snapped jumping up from the bed. "She's mine!"

"Get lost." And just like that, the room started spinning and blurred together, my stomach twisting and threatening to throw up whatever food I may have had in it.

Suddenly the arms around me disappeared and I fell hard to the rough ground, scrapping my hands and bashing my knees hard, a cry of pain leaving my lips as I felt the skin peel back and start bleeding.

I stayed on the ground, not daring to move as my eyes had to adjust to the non spinning environment and waited for my stomach to stop threatening to throw up. I closed my eyes and breathed out tiredly before reopening them and pushing myself up, taking in my surrounding as I did. It seemed I somehow ended up in the garden of the mansion, the white roses surrounding me.

"Beautiful…" I mumbled absently as I stared at them, I could see them better thanks to moon being quite bright, it was just a matter of days before it would be full. I glanced up to the side to see Subaru standing there, a haunting look on his face and eyes trained elsewhere. "Su-Subaru?" I gulped, hastily taking steps backwards, his eyes flicked to me and I froze, forcing a weak smile. "Uh, thank you saving me back there from Ayato."

He took a large step towards me, my body flinching back remembering the time he bit me. He stopped and sighed, shaking his head. "Idiot. Why would I try and save you." He laughed darkly, his eyes settling back on me. "You're just prey, nothing else." For a split second an emotion flashed in his eyes but I didn't catch what it was.

He started walking towards me, my body jumping and getting ready to fight if needs be, however instead of trying anything he simply walked past me and carried on to the mansion. I watched after him, slightly perplexed by his behaviour, for some odd reason I got the feeling that something was wrong with him, that this wasn't how he normally was.

I frowned, my body still in fight mode with my hands up clenched together tightly. I shook off the fight inside and followed after him. It wasn't like I could find my way out of this maze even if I tried and there would be no point in wondering around the garden in the middle of the night either. One of the brothers would surely find me anyway.

By the time I had finally got to the front doors once more and walked through them, my stomach had long gotten over its 'I'm going to throw up because the room is spinning' faze and was now growling loudly and proudly, although only irritating me further as the sound of my stomach seemed to echo and I was worried one of the brothers would suddenly appear to bit me because of it.

I decided to set off on a mission to find the kitchen and get my mind off of my life. Many people ate when they were placed in stressful situations and I believed I had right to as well.

After a few minutes of wondering the ground level of the mansion without any mishaps, finally I had managed to find the kitchen,

I tried to be as quiet as I could, wondering around the kitchen, tying an apron around my waist and finding all the ingredients that I needed to cook, well a voice in the back of my head was saying that was a bad idea but I just brushed it away.

After finding some things that would do well to have as a meal, I set off to start the cooking. Grabbing a fry pan and pot, filling the pot with water and putting it on to heat up, mixing ingredients together, cutting and dicing vegetable, marinate chicken, and quickly adding noodles to the water once it was boiling.

I smiled sadly remembering the times I used to cook for my dad when I got old enough to although he always insisted that he cooked instead. (I wonder if he's okay.) I sighed, a feeling of guilt occupying my hunger. I carried on stirring the pan and trying to get over the feeling and pushing the thoughts to the back of my head.

"I need to have something to eat. I can't go around passing out from hunger all day long." I mumbled absently, humming a melody that I composed when I was little or I think I composed; maybe I just heard someone singing it and took it as my own.

"What do you think you are doing?" Reiji's voice appeared behind me.

I stopped stirring for a second before I started again. "I'm making myself something to eat. I don't know how long it's been since I've last had something, and you only gave me a juice to have when I woke up." I said, mentally giving myself a high-five as my voice came out even and holding strong.

"It's rude to use someone else's things without asking for their permission first." His voice with that undertone of anger and warning but still keeping it neutral and evenness to it.

I sighed and slowly turned around to face him. His arms were crossed and if looks could keep he certainly would have with his. "I'm sorry Reiji-san. I beg of you to allow me to use the kitchen appliances to make something to eat." I bowed slightly and kept my eyes down.

I heard him sigh and take a step closer. "You missed all but one of your lessons on your first day of school." He started drawing nearer. "First, you so rudely overslept and made all of us late for school." He took another step. "Second, you ran out of your second period and off to that good-for-nothing." Another step. "Thirdly, you pass out and had to be taken to the infirmary." Another step, the tip of his shoes just visible as I still held my head down. "Fourth, because of you somehow manipulating Subaru to keep the others away from you, Ayato is having a tantrum and causing chaos for me. And fifth, you now doing whatever you want in someone else's house without their permission. What do you think my reply will be?"

I sighed within, feeling the anger inside build. I looked up at him, my head still hung down but I couldn't stop the glare I gave him. "Firstly, I wouldn't have overslept if I hadn't been bitten and had almost all my blood drain from me." I stood up straight giving him my best glare I could, although as soon as I opened my mouth, Reiji's eyes hardened and narrowed even more than I thought they could but that didn't stop me or the anger within to boil down. "Secondly, who the hell wouldn't run away from you-you monsters! Thirdly, I hadn't eaten a thing since I have arrived here, talk about hospitality! Fourthly, I never manipulated Subaru; it was all his own doing! And fifthly! I think I deserve to have something to eat because….because….I'm… really hungry!" My voice cracked at the last few words that came out more of a beg than anything else.

Reiji didn't say anything, instead took a few more steps until he was towering over my small frame, the look in his eyes glowing with danger. I realized my mistake then. I had messed with the wrong vampire and now was going to pay big time.

"Wow, go Bitch-chan~" Laito cheered appearing around the door of the kitchen, smirking. "I really love that feisty side to you~." He giggled and tilted his head to the side and smirk wider.

I froze, eyes darting between Laito and Reiji when Reiji suddenly sighed, his eyes closing briefly for a second before reopening to gaze down at me. "You really have no manners or respect for others; it seems I will have to break that wild animal inside of you." He smirked. "I will thoroughly enjoy it.

I stared widen eyed up at him, no words leaving my mouth.

"However, firstly, if you insist to cook so much, then you should also cook for the rest of us."

"The rest?" (Wait! Vampires eat?!)

"Yes. You will cook for all of us. Now hurry up. I expect it to be ready in thirty minutes, which should be long enough for a human such as you." He turned and walked out, Laito eyes never straying from me as Reiji passed him without a word.

"Nfu~ How exciting." He giggled. "I can't wait to see what you come up with to appease our….desires~" His tongue came out and licked his lips, the look in his eyes making me feel naked and vulnerable.

I didn't move or say anything, just watched him until he released a giggled and disappeared through the door, waving a hand at me and wishing me luck, although I felt like he was wishing me the opposite.

I sighed and turned back to the stove, my shoulders sagging with defeat. There was no way that my tiny dish of a meal could feed all of them and secondly….what should I make?

I hurriedly ran about the kitchen, my mind throw and spitting out ideas to what to make, but I always came back to the same question: What could I make that they would actually like? After a lot of thought, I decided to just cook whatever I could get my hands on and just hope whatever came out of it would be enough to their liking.

Thirty minutes later, table set, plates and plates of food covering most of it, and vampires were appearing out of thin air around me. Reiji dissatisfied look was the first face I spotted as his eyes roamed over the food.

"What the hell? What is all of this?" Ayato appeared right next to me, way too close for my liking, and I took a small step away.

"Bitch-chan cooked for us." Laito giggled as he took a seat, glancing over at the plates of food.

"You cooked?" Ayato looked down at me, his brows furrowed.

I nodded in response, my attention on Reiji as he sat down, still looking over all the dishes I made. A hand roughly grabbing my upper arm and pulling me towards a seat, I almost tripped but quickly regained my footing and sat down, Ayato taking the seat my left and Shuu in front of me and looking fast asleep.

"We don't normally eat so late." He yawned, partly one eye to gaze at me. "What's the special occasion?"

I looked away and down at my plate of food I made first before I started with theirs. "No real reason…." I wondered if I could just say that it was because of Reiji but decided against it.

Slowly everyone started to eat, reaching out to certain dishes but not much was eaten, it seemed like I was the only one that was eating, although I didn't mean. I was pleasantly pleased with my meal, but somehow I did overcook the chicken and it was slightly hard to eat.

Shu didn't touch anything, Laito had a few bites but then decided to stare at me the rest of the meal sending me winks and smirking as warning bells went off in my head as to his behaviour, Ayato ate but didn't seem to be enjoy it either, Kanato grumbled to his Teddy about something and glared my way but I quickly redirected my gaze to Reiji who was eating, and cutting the food very precisely, and then there was Subaru, who seemed to be the only one out of them that actually ate, like he enjoyed my cooking.

The silence of the room was cut when Shuu abruptly stood under, muttering that 'this was a pain' and left.

I sighed within, gnawing on a piece of chicken and glancing down at my plate, suddenly missing the loud back and forth talking that Dad and I had at the table.

"That will be all." Reiji announced and just like that, everyone stood up and walked off, leaving only Reiji, Kanato and I. I glanced over at Kanato; the teddy bear held up to his face so just his eyes were visible and clearly showing that he was displeased about something

"I was surprised that you could cook so much in such a short amount of time." Reiji said looking at me and waiting for my answer.

"Oh….Yeah, I guess I'm good at multitasking." I laughed weakly, scratching the side of my face.

"It was disgusting." His voice cold and stabbing me. "Half the food was overcooked and the other half was undercook. Were you trying to give us food poisoning?"

"What! No! Not at all." I shook my head, shocked that I did such a back job of cooking.

"I see." He stood up and instinctively I followed, waiting for his next move. "I have to work right now, so you will receive your punishment later."

I gulped as the picture of him with a whip flashed through my head.

"Kanato. You have school tomorrow; it would be wise to head to bed now." Reiji directed his attention to his younger brother.

Kanato didn't move, just looked at him like he was thinking of something before standing up and sending a glare my way. "I want something sweet to eat." He muttered behind the teddy.

Reiji sigh. "Kanato."

"I want something sweet to eat!" He snapped, his eyes glossing over as tears started to appear and run down his cheeks. "That stupid human didn't make anything nice to eat and I'm hungry!" He cried.

I flinched at his words. "I-I'm sorry." I mumbled, although a part of me thought that I should have said something just as rude back at him.

"Shut up!" He shouted his face now fully visible and the tears had now stopped.

"Kanato." Reiji sighed, pushing up his glasses. "I will agree to you having something sweet to eat."

"Like cake?" Kanato was now beaming, smiling brightly.

Something was wrong with him, whose emotions could change so dramatically?

"Yes, and Nami-san will make it for you."

"Me?" I asked, taken aback. Didn't he just say that I did a bad job at cooking and now I'm making a cake?

"Yes, you will." He said calmly sending me a warning. "You should at less try to make yourself useful around the house in your stay."

I opened my mouth to object however he interrupted and added "And burning and undercooking food is not one of them."

I pushed my lips together and sighed. I could at least try to make a cake, although the last time I did, I ended up burning it. Maybe that's why dad insisted on always cooking, I'm just plain o' bad at it.

I sighed and nodded my head, reaching out to collect the plates and turning to go to the kitchen and start the next mission impossible with Kanato happily trailing behind me and me cringing in my skin.

Placing the dishes in the sink, I quickly rummaged around, grabbing all the ingredients and placing them on the counter before tying the apron back around my waist and started the mission of the chocolate cake. Kanato stood watching with an unreadable expression but I tried to not let it bother me too much, although I couldn't deny the chills running up and down my spine now and then, and my heart skipping a beat each time I saw him whispering to the teddy bear.

Time almost seemed to drag on way too long, making me wish for those thirty minutes to rush by like they previously did. After washing and drying the dishes, prepared the butter cream icing and now waiting for the cake to be ready, I found myself staring blankly at the wall, praying that the alarm would go off so I could escape this moment.

"How much longer?" I heard Kanato grumble behind me, my body tensing at the sudden closeness of his.

"Not much longer…." I laughed nervously. "Cake takes a while….." I didn't move to face him, just kept my gaze on the wall, hoping that he wouldn't do anything like lick me or decide to drink my blood.

"I like the icing."

(Oh! Wasn't expecting that.) I turned around to see that him lift his finger up from the icing and into his mouth, he smirk eerily. "I guess she isn't so useless after all, right Teddy?" He dipped his finger back into the icing and then up to the teddy's mouth. "Nice, isn't it Teddy?"

I weakly smiled and hoped it didn't turn out like a grimace. "Thank you."

He tilted his head to the side, like he was thinking and his eyes held curiousness to it. "Did I speak to you?"

"Ah?"

"No, I didn't." He snapped taking a step towards me. I instinctively took a step back, a hurt look flashed over his face and his eyes started to water again. "Are you scared of me?"

"Um…." I stared frozen as tears ran down his face freely. (What should I do?)Fear started pounding in my ears as my heart jumped when he started laughing, a manic insane laugh. "I like that look in your eyes." He reached out, I flinched back, my back hitting into the wall and realizing that I was cornered. (Shit!)

"Your eyes are so pretty. It would be such a pity to have to replace them."

"Re-replace?" I stuttered my voice cracking.

"Yes." He smiled almost dreamily. "You will become one of my dolls soon."

(Dolls?) I almost let out a scream when a loud ringing echoed through the kitchen, my heart now palpitating in my ears.

"Cake!" Kanato now was focusing on the cake in the oven. I rushed to remove it, not wanting to burn it and to start again and waited for it to cool, to which seemed like another decade had passed before it was cool enough to take out the tray. I quickly iced it, not really caring if it just melted off, I wasn't going to hang around here anymore, and raced out the kitchen before Kanato started crying or screaming again or maybe both at the same time, I'm sure he could do it if he tried.

Dashing up the stairs and somehow finding my room without running into anymore trouble, I quickly opened my bedroom door and rushed in, closing it successfully behind me. I sighed in relief; closing my eyes and leaning my forehead on the door, letting my shoulders relax just a bit. (Ah….I'm so tired, I don't know if I can do this every day.)

"Finally, I was wondering how long you were going to be, Bitch-chan~"

My stomach dropped and my shoulders stiffened at the annoying voice. I turned around slowly to confront the pervert currently seductively laying out on my bed and smirking mischievously at me.

"Now it's time to have some fun….right, Bitch-chan~"

(Can't I catch a break!)

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Alright, I have no idea if I did a good job at writing Kanato; he's kind of difficult to write with his mood swings…..I'm trying to keep all the characters as close to their original selves as possible. I hope that I'm doing just that...

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Until next time~