(AN) It's a little long, and there's a time skip, but that's because I just really want to get into all the stuff I want to get to later. But if it feels a little rushed please tell me. But before I can get to the more romantic or main point chapters I have to first show and explain the life they had before, and the way it will develop and grow. Please, enjoy.


VampireSiren: Haha, well Subaru is unconsciously sweet, and I'm so glad you said that because I'm always worried I'm writing a character wrong, so thank you. And Subaru couldn't just let little Rin call the pervert "Onii-chan." XD

NightlyRowelTree: Thank you ^^

Itachilover: I try to update whenever I can, and thank you so much~. And, I do try to make Rin as best as I can!


"Hi, Reiji!" Rin exclaimed happily as she waved up at the dark haired male that stood at the entrance of the dining room. She ran from Subaru's side over to Reiji, and-

She tripped on the hem of Subaru's shirt, and face planted onto the floor… She began to pull herself upright, and-with her eyes slightly watery-she reached up for her reddened nose. "Owww." She moaned.

Then she saw a pair of nicely polished shoes in front of her, and she looked up to see a very annoyed Reiji. She smiled up at him as she got herself to her feet. "Hi Reiji." She said with no real care in the world.

"Why are you wearing that?"

Rin looked down at the shirt that was far too big for her, and then she looked back at Reiji with a smile. "I climbed a tree and then my dress ripped. Subaru gave me one of his shirt to wear, and it's so big!" She giggled happily at the bagginess of her sleeves.

Reiji didn't look any happier. "Young ladies shouldn't be climbing trees."

Rin tilted her head slightly. "I'm not a lady." She pictured an old woman sipping from a teacup wearing a feathery hat.

"Unless we were given false information on your sex, you are."

. . . "Huh?"

Reiji's eyebrow twitches slightly. "Why didn't you just put on one of your other clothes?"

To this Rin suddenly pouted. "Because all the other clothes are pink!" She whinned.

"But Rin-chan would look nice in pink~."

Rin spun around with a smile on her face to see Laito smiling down at her. "Laito-kun!" She exclaimed with a smile.

"No more 'Onii-chan?'"

Rin quickly shook her head. "No, Subaru-kun said I can't call you that anymore." Her expression became sad and guilty. "Is that ok?"

Laito glanced over his shoulder at and angry Subaru, before looking back to Rin. "If it's Rin-chan, you can call me anything~."

A smile grew on her face, and she was just about to speak before she heard a voice to her side. "Were you trying to have the brat call you 'Onii-chan?'" She turned to the voice, and saw it was Ayato making a sick face. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Neko?" Rin tilted her head to the side.

To that, Ayato looked mad again. "Oi, stop calling me 'Neko!' It's Ore-sama!"

Rin thought about it for a second, and pointed up at him with a smile. "Neko-sama!"

Ayato just seemed to get madder. "You little-"

"Now now Ayato-kun, are you really going to let your temper fly for a child~?"

"Enough out of the both of you."

Rin looked up to Reiji as he looked down at her. "Now, if the dresses weren't for your liking, what would you prefer?"

"Um…" Rin tried to think about it, but only drew to blanks.

"Can I dress her up?"

Rin looked over to yet another voice, and saw that it was the purple haired boy. "Kanato-chan!"

She noticed him giving her a weird smile as his hair slightly shadowed his eyes, but her smile didn't waver.

Reiji looked annoyed at the idea. "I don't want to risk either you injuring her, or you injuring yourself by trying to feed."

Kanato looked at him angrily when he said that. "I'm not stupid!"

Rin didn't know why, but she thought Kanato looked cute when he got pouty. Then, she remembered what Subaru had told her. "Oh! Subaru-kun told me you guys are vampires!" To that all four of them looked down at her with slightly widened eyes. "Is that true!" She cried with excitement.

After a moment, Laito gave her a wide smile. "Yes, would you like to see?"

Rin tilted her head at the question, and noticed his hand move down to touch her.

Then, suddenly, she saw Subaru right next to Laito, and Subaru had a grip on Laito's wrist. Rin saw the immediate anger in his red eyes, and Laito only smiled. "What the hell are you doing?" Subaru growled.

Laito giggled at the question. "You always jump to conclusions too quickly Subaru-kun~."

"Oi!" Ayato called. "You can't drink! No one drinks before Ore-sama!"

"You're both ignorant fools if you really think you can drink her blood." Reiji sounded annoyed, Rin observed.

"You think Ore-sama can't?!"

"Shut the hell up you damn idiot!" Subaru snapped.

"Oh, are you two fighting again~?"

"None of you can kill her before she becomes my doll!"

"Kanato, I never agreed to letting her become another one of your toys."

"You can't just kill little Rin-chan Kanato-kun~."

"Coming from the pervert!"

"If Kanato gets to dress her up, why can't Ore-sama drink her?"

"I never gave Kanato permission, and I've explained this twice to you already, that if you try to drink her blood, you will burn from the inside."

"Also, Rin-chan doesn't like you~."

"Fucking idiot."

"Oi, shut up Subaru!"

"Then you shut up about the 'Ore-sama' shit!"

After a while of them Rin was very confused to what they were talking about anymore. She was wondering if she should try making them stop-despite not knowing how to-but then she suddenly caught scent of something in the room. She looked over to the table, and saw there was suddenly stacks of delicious smelling items on the table-that fit what she remembered they said was 'food.'

She walked away from the boys-none of them seemed to noticed through their arguing-and she quickly walked over to one of the chairs. Rin tried to get up onto the chair-to get a better view of the food-but she found that she was too small for the long legged chairs. She was about to look over to the still bickering boys to ask for help, but quickly found that her feet were no longer touching the floor.

After a moment of blinking, she noticed that the chair she was trying to climb onto was being pulled out, and she was placed down onto the seat. Rin looked to her side to see Shuu settle himself into the chair next to her, and his eyes practically closed as she noticed the food was suddenly on the plates set up.

It took her a moment to register that Shuu had helped her, so she looked over at him with a wide smile. "Thank you, Shuu." She happily said.

She saw no reaction from him, but decided to just try for the food. She poked a little at the brown stuff-that looked to be the main 'food.' She found it to be tough, and she didn't know what to do with it. She poked at it for a while with her fork, but saw no results.

Then, she noticed a fork and knife being held by another pair of hands come into view. She looked up at Shuu as he cut up a piece of food, and held up the piece for her in front of her mouth. She blinked for a moment before smiling up at him again. "Thank you Shuu." And then she went and chomped onto the food on the fork.

And, as soon as the food touched her tongue her eyes widened, and she felt an unfamiliar sensation take over her tongue as she automatically began chewing on the food. Her eyes shimmered, and her mouth watered at the taste.

As soon as she was done with the chewing and swallowing she quickly moved her body over to face the boys that still looked irritated with each other. "Ne, Ne!"

They all paused for a moment and looked at her-slightly surprised at her suddenly being there-and her smile only grew up to her ears.

"The foods really good~!"


What Reiji had replied to her with, was something she would never forget. No matter how many years she's lived with them.

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"Reiji! Am I done yet?!" The seven year old winned as she walked again across the room-the thick dictionary on her head still steady. Rin really hated daily training almost as much as she hated daily studies-and she was already done with the study's. This was the fifth time she walked around the room since the last time she dropped the book. It also didn't help that Reiji always insisted she wore proper clothes during these hours. Which meant her hair was pulled back into a horribly uncomfortable bun, she was wearing a-at least purple-constricting dress, and shoes that were trying to bruise her feet every time she took a step.

She looked pitifully at the dark haired male as he pushed up his glasses-which Rin learned either meant something really good or really bad. "...It's was decent enough for today. We can continue the lesson tomorrow."

"Yay!" Rin cheered as she took the book off her head as fast as she could, and placed in on the closest table she found. She immediately started stripping off her shoes from her feet, and it was one of the greatest feelings in the world.

"Brat." Rin looked up at the sound of her 'nickname' as she removed the ties and pins in her hair-letting her messy curls fall to her waist. "Come over here."

Understanding what she meant Rin just smiled over at him. "Ok!" She skipped over to her usual seat-getting the feeling back in her feet-and she climbed up onto the chair and looked up patiently at Reiji.

He didn't say a word as he put on a pair of disposable gloves, and pull out his empty, clean syringe. Rin's eyes wandered for a bit around the familiar laboratory-at least that's what Ayato called it-as Reiji did his usual prep. Then, her attention was brought back when she felt the needle go into her flesh, and she let out a small "Ow!" She patiently watched as Reiji slowly drew out some of her blood. Then, he quickly pulled out the needle-another "ow"-and quickly placed a cotton ball at the wound. Rin quickly pressed the cotton ball down-knowing the routine-and Reiji went off and put her blood into three small vials-never filling them up all the way. Then, Reiji moved the cotton ball away-the bleeding having stopped-and put a rose bandage-that Rin had begged for on her trip to the store with him-over the wound.

Rin smiled happily at the purple roses-wondering if Reiji wanted it to match her dress-and then she jumped off the chair, and feeling proud that she'd stuck the landing. She smiled up at Reiji-inspecting the vial closely. She knew he would be busy from now until lunch, so she just waved at him happily. "Bye bye Reiji!" He didn't even look back at her, but Rin could tell he heard her-and that was good enough for her, so she grabbed her shoes and ran right out the door-remembering to close the door behind her.

She then began her happy skip down the hall, and decided she should go to her room to change out of the dress.

Once she got there she didn't miss a step before practically ripping-but not actually or else Reiji would kill her-the dress right off before going over to her closet. It took a lot of arguing and whining, but she managed to get some clothes that she actually likes-unlike the 'forever unworn' clothes Reiji picked out and she shoves to the very back of her closet. She pulled out a black t-shirt with a picture of a white skull bunny on it-Laito had said it was cute, and Ayato asked why it was a bunny. She then quickly dug through her drawers and found the hot pink shorts Laito said went with the shirt. She didn't really like pink, but she had an appreciation for clothes Laito picked out for her. Then, she just put on her faded out black sneakers-that Reiji has tried throwing out multiple times. Rin would have prefered to just go barefoot, but Reiji always scolded her not to.

Quickly grabbing the white beanie Subaru had picked for her-after she asked him to pick something for her-and raced out the door. She shoved the beanie onto her head, and it barely covered up the curls on her head.

Rin went skipping down the hall. She didn't have anything to do except have a tea party with Kanato, but that wasn't until after dinner.

That's when Rin had the idea to just go ask Reiji what dinner would be! She skipped back over to the direction of his lab as she thought aimlessly about all the delicious foods that could be for dinner.

Once she reached his lab she was just about ready to open the door, but-

"Just hurry up with whatever you came in here to say, and get out." Rin paused at the harsh tone of Reiji's. Reiji was always mean and strict with her, but he never used that tone with her, but he did for…

Rin felt her spirits drop as she realized Shu was in there with Reiji. She didn't want to hear whatever conversation was going to happen, but he feet felt glued.

"He called… He said that he wants you to send him a picture… of her."

...She thought for a moment about what Shu said, and thought that the "her" might actually be her.

"Is that so. I understand. Now just leave already you good for nothing."

Rin felt her chest get a little heavier, and tired.

"Why are you still here?"

"...How much do you take from her?"

"That's not the concern of a good for nothing like you now is it. Now hurry up and leave."

"...Are you taking too much?"

There was a pause, and then she heard the very faint squeak of Reiji's chair. "Are you implying that I don't know how to do my job? Unlike you if I'm given an order I can actually follow it."

"...If she dies…" Rin could hear the shift in Shu's tone, and it made her chest tighten.

"Then you'll do what you've always done. Do nothing and cry about it later. After all that's what you did with that mut… and the dog-."

There was a quick sound of something clattering, and it made Rin jump. She wanted to run into the room, but something was holding her back.

...After a silence she heard the sound of Reiji's chair move again. "Unless you plan on cleaning that up, just leave."

...The silence afterward indicated that Shu had left…

Feeling no more motivation to ask Reiji she walked to her room instead.

Once she was there, she fell onto her bed-covered with freshly cleaned deep red sheets.

She felt tired every time she listened to the boys like that. Sure, they argued every now and again, but what took her energy was whenever they sounded like they were ready to rip each other apart.

Ayato got more hostile, Kanato yelled in a certain way, Shu would just sound more harsh, and Reiji was the one that made her the most tired. Reiji was subtle, but Rin could still feel his hate… Hate…

"We all hate each other."

'If I remember right it was Kanato-chan that said that.' Rin thought tiredly. Only two years ago did she hear those words, and two years ago she underestimated what he meant. As time moved forward she saw more and more of what hate actually meant. They never went fist to fist, but she felt like they would and more if given the chance.

Rinc curled up slightly into her bed, and she felt her chest sink more and more into an abyss.

It scared her, it scared her so much, because she didn't want them to hurt one another.

Shu was quiet, but he would pat her head and give her treats. Reiji was cruel but she enjoyed her time with him. Ayato was mean but… Ayato was Ayato. Kanato was prone to throwing tantrums, but he was cute. Laito was busy so much, and sometimes gave her weird looks, but he was so pampering. And Subaru… Subaru…

Rin slowly lifted herself from her bed, and, without much thought, let her feet lead her to where she wanted to go.

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The roses were as beautiful as they were the first time she really looked at them-instead of looking for a new brother. She loved the pure color that the moonlight lit brightly, and the scent that swept the entire garden. It was all so beautiful, and it was calming to all her troubles. It was like a perfect scene out of a fairy tale, and it was so close.

Whenever she felt sad or confused she would find herself wandering into the garden of roses, for both the presence of the flowers and-

"Oi." Rin looked up happily at the sound of the voice-her hands clasped behind her back. "Why do you keep coming here?"

Rin's smile only brightened up at the familiarity or it, of him. "Because I like Subaru-kun." Rin spoke with glee.

As usual, Subaru just stared down at her, and he just turned away-murmuring something under his breath.

Rin giggled slightly-earning an over the shoulder look from him. She followed after him as he just walked down the way, and she sat down on the cool cement floor as he began to pull out some weeds from a patch of roses.

He ignored her as she stared intently at both the roses and him, but Rin knew he still acknowledged her presence. Rin didn't mind the silence if it was with Subaru, because it was nice. It also meant she didn't have to think that much, and could just enjoy being with him.

After a while, however, she naturally began to just let her words flow-no longer having protest from him like she used to. "Ne, Subaru, today Reiji had me do that thing where I have to walk around the room with a book on my head. He got mad at me every time the book even slightly tilted. He was mean, but I'm glad that I finally managed to do it right!" And she just talked, and was quiet, and talked, and was quiet. Subaru would comment a little, but mostly just calling her or the others annoying. Rin didn't mind, she just liked spending time with him.

Something about Subaru just always managed to calm her, and make her happy-even if he had a temper. She could never put her finger on it, but Subaru… Subaru was Subaru, and that made her happy. That's why she went to him whenever she felt sad or confused. He was her Subaru.