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ღ Diabolik Lovers: The Twin Brides ღ

-Chapter 4: A More Reason to Leave-

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After school was over, they all headed straight back to the mansion. Which Minori was glad, since she isn't ready to get bitten again after what happened. She wanted to ask how Yui is, but she couldn't due to her sitting next to you-know-who at the dinner table.

They're having dinner that Reiji's made. It is a little odd to see them all be civil, despite what they have done to the girls.

Minori glance at Yui, wonder if it feels awkward for her, since she is sitting next to Ayato. She is not the only one. Minori is sitting between Subaru, and Shu. So you can imagine how incredibility awkward it is.

It don't really matter to her about Shu. He's not eating, just sitting there listening to his music. She is talking about Subaru. He's sitting next to her all normal like what happen at school never occurred between them. Though she should know by now that Yui and her are just nothing, but food to these brothers...

Minori continue to eat her meal to ease her anxiety. So did everyone except for Shu and Yui. She can understand Yui since she got bit by Ayato and it's harder for her to not seem nervous around these guys.

"You haven't eaten very much, Little Bitch." Minori looks up to see Laito beside Yui. "You need to eat properly like your sister, or you could become anemic. Would you like me to feed you?"

She shoots a glare over at the pervert vampire. "Like hell you are!" She said with food stuffed in my mouth. Laito was going to say something to until Reiji spoke up.

"Laito..." Laito looks over at his older brother, Reiji, and frowns at him in annoyance. "It's bad manners to get to your feet during a meal."

"Yes sir." Laito replied sarcastically. He looks back at Yui with a smile. "We'll continue this later, Little Bitch." Laito walks back to his seat and sits back down.

"You..."

Minori jump in her seat when Reiji's turn to look at her. His face slightly scrunch up in disgust, and annoyance at the way she is eating, and the action she did earlier. "It's bad manners to talk with mouthful of food, especially young lady such as yourself. You are not an animal, so please don't act like it."

She roll her eyes. "Yeah, yeah..." She went back to eating. Then suddenly Shu gets up from his seat, making both the girls look at him in surprise.

"Mr. Shu?" 'Really Yui? You have to call him mister?'

Shu starts walking away mumbling to himself, before leaving the room. "This is a pain." .

Reiji sighed with irritation. "That deadbeat... Nothing good can come of anyone who grows up spoiled rotten."

Somebody has brother issues. "Like any of you are better..." Minori mumble quietly.

"Teddy, what would you like to eat next?"

She glances over at Kanato who is holding his teddy bear and looking down at his food.

"Let's have a banana snowball." Kanato grabs his fork and tried to pick up his food with his fork, but it broke in half when he stab it. A slight sadness flash in his purple eyes, but was soon replaced with sadistic ones that sends chills throughout her body. He began stabbing his food, laughing as he does it. Ayato, Laito, and all the other brothers don't seem to care about this.

Minori looks over at Yui who looks very disturb by this.

"He won't even make the effort to attend our monthly dinner party." Reiji was still complaining about Shu. Minori wonder does he have something against Shu? He seem to complain about him the most out of all his brothers.

'Why? Shu is not as bad as some of the others are. Could Reiji be annoyed that Shu is not taking responsibilities of being the older brother? Or could it be something else?'

"That will be all for today." Reiji announce.

All the brothers except for Reiji, got up and left the room. Yui and Minori look at each other got up as well. 'Finally, Yui and I can have some time to talk since we came home. I didn't see her until dinner... Though she wanted to talk to me about the diary we found in that room.'

"One moment you two." The girls stopped and look back at Reiji. "Both of your table manners are deplorable. One of these days, I will take you two aside and discipline you both thoroughly. Understood?"

"Yeah..." Yui said. Reiji nodded, and turned his attention towards the other twin.

"Another thing, you need to learn to act like a lady. Your manners were disgusting, and were almost like piglet. Either your sister teaches you some manners, or I have to. Is that clear?" Reiji stated with a stern expression.

Minori roll her eyes in response, she never was good at following authority. "Yeah whatever." Reiji's eyebrow twitched at her words, and she could tell clearly by his expression on his face that he wasn't please with that answer.

Reiji looked over at Yui. "Leave the room."

"W-What?-"

"Leave, otherwise shall I punish you as well." Reiji said in a serious tone. Minori could not help but tremble by the way he said it. She looks over at Yui, and nodded at her. She needs to leave. Minori rather take the punishment instead of her. Yui's too nice, she don't want to see her broken before they leave this place.

"Go sister, I'll be alright." She gives her sister a smile. Yui clearly didn't buy it, but she knew she would keep pressing her on to go.

Yui nods and leaves the room, leaving other two completely alone.

Reiji sigh as he sets down his silverware. "Humans are such annoying creatures..." He starts walking towards Minori. "So stupid that they don't even realize that one wrong move; their existence could be terminated by beings they believed to be myths."

She knew what he was going to do to her, and she is glad he's not doing it to Yui. She will admit, she'll accept what she has to do to survive. It's the only way to keep on living in this hell hole. Keep on fighting to survive in this cruel world.

She pulls down the collar of her grey shirt that she is wearing. She changed when she got back here, since her uniform has bloodstains on it. She turns her head to the side to reveal her neck to Reiji. "No need to say anything else. I already know my punishment is you going to bite me. "

Reiji stare at her in shock, but soon replace by amusement. "Seems that our little Piglet accepts her position now before her sister."

She glares at him. "It's the only way to survive in this house with you monsters."

Reiji chuckles, "Yes... You may leave, my hunger isn't famish enough to drink your disgusting blood." He walks over to the table. He turned to look back at her with a sadistic glare. "Though I should warn you, little Piglet. There are far more things I could do to you instead of just a bite."

She shudder at his sentence and not another time to waste. She hurried out of the room, and towards Yui's room. 'Okay I take it all back what I said about Kanato, and Laito. I think Reiji scares me the most!'

"What! It's blank!" Minori grabs her father's diary from Yui's hand to see what her sister is saying is true. "How is that possible?! You and I both saw words in this book in that room!"

Yui shakes her head. "I don't know Minori, but..." She pulls out that picture of their, and them. "This photograph is our only clue..."

Minori lets out a frustrated breath, tossing the book back to Yui. "Great... Not only do we need to find a way out of here, but also find out why our father isn't our father..." She said in irritation. "God is sure just wants to make our lives living hell."

"Minori..." She glances over at Yui who was touching her neck. Her eyes narrow as she remember seeing her being unconscious with Ayato above her. "Did they told-"

"No... I came in the last-minute when you were unconscious... I'm sorry Yui..." She looks down at her feet in shame. "If only I have never left and then that bastard wouldn't have-"

"Don't Minori. We both knew this was going to happen eventually to us... It's the only way to survive in this mansion with them..." Yui said sadly. She's right, and so is Subaru. Only the ones that fight can live. They must keep fighting to live in this world.

'Which reminds me.. she doesn't know.'

"Yui..." Minori scratches the back of her head. "Subaru bit me..."

She stared at her in shock, probably because she didn't think it was going to be Subaru first. Then her eyes sadden as she look down at her feet. Probably blaming herself for what happen to her to as well.

"Look... it's not your fault. Like you said, we both knew this was going to happen to us. To be real honest, I am very glad Kanato or Laito hadn't bitten me yet, and I'm hoping it to keep it that way." She said as they laugh softly.

Yui put her hands on Minori's shoulder, and smile. "We'll make it through this, together..."

She smile back. "That's my line, dork." Minori push her back and laugh. "I'm going to go take a bath and I'll be right back."

Yui frown. "I was going to go take one!"

She smile evilly at her. "That's too bad." Minori runs out of her room and towards her room. Grabbing the clothes she need and a towel quickly as she can. She hurried towards the bathroom with the items she has gathered, and also making sure she wouldn't run into any of the brothers on her way, especially Reiji.

A small grin spread out across her face when her finally made it at the bathroom. She opened the door to find Yui not inside. Her grin widen with triumph, filled with pride. 'Ha! I beat her!'

She turned around to lock the door so she won't come in and start hollering at her. Minori walk over to the sink and set down her stuff.

She snap out of her thoughts when she hear splashing noises coming from the bathtub. She turned to look to see Shu, in his clothes, sitting in the tub. Of course he is listening to his music with his eyes close. Seriously, is this guy really that lazy?

She walks over to him to see he didn't even move nor open his eyes. It was like he was unaware of her presence just like back at school. As much as she want to talk to him, and get on his good side. She needs to take a bath and go back to her sister.

"Shu..." She jab his chest.

He sighed with annoyance. "Leave me be... You already annoyed me enough girl..." He replied with a bored expression. "Just let me have my bath in peace."

"You know you're still dress, idiot."

"Okay, then undress me."

She looks at him in shock, and could feel her cheeks burn from embarrassment at his words. "What?!"

"Didn't you come in here hoping to see me naked?"

She shakes her head vigorously. "O-Of course not! I came in here to take a bath and you were in here! Besides you shouldn't suggest such a thing to a girl!"

Shu opens his eyes and smiles as he chuckle softly. "Want to join me?"

"No! Why would you honestly think I would do that!"

"You're blushing, you know." He said as her cheek burned even more. 'Is he just teasing me for the hell of it? God, he's starting to piss me off!' Shu sigh, he close his eyes tiredly. "I feel so tired."

Just to clear up the awkwardness for herself, she ask him a question about his brothers. "You're all brothers, so I wonder why you're all so different from each other?"

"We have different mothers." Shu began to explain. "Reiji and I are from the same mother... Ayato, Kanato, and Laito are triplets from another mother..."

She look at him in shock. Here she thought they all shared the same mother. That must be the main reason why none of them get along, because of their mothers. She can't imagine how it feels to have brothers with different mothers, nor a father that isn't faithful to their mother.

"I didn't know.. What about Subaru?"

Shu starts sliding down tiredly. "He's also from another mother..."

In instinct, she grabs Shu's hand and pulls him up from the water in the tub. "Shu! Are you crazy!" She feels Shu's hand twitch. His blue eyes widen as he suddenly starts to stare off into space. Like he was caught in some memory. "Shu? Shu, are you there?"

Suddenly, Shu's hand began to tighten on her hand. She tries to pull away, but he's too strong. She could feel his hand begin to crush her own in a tightening grip like he was afraid to let go.

"Shu... Ow... You're hurting me!" She tries to struggle again, but this time Shu must have realize what he was doing since he was now staring at her. He looks down at their hands where they are. "Can you please let me go? Ow..."

Suddenly, Shu pulls her forward towards him. Of course, she lost her balance by this sudden action, and fell into the tub on top of him. Now completely soak with water, Minori grabs her sore hand and looks up at Shu on why he did that.

"Let me drink your blood." He said bluntly.

"What?"

Shu's eyes stared down at her in a serious gaze. "What? Are you frightened?"

He didn't need to say it, because she. She didn't want to get her blood drink so soon after she just got bitten today earlier by Subaru.

She realize she is trembling slightly. He grabs the back of her head, and pulls her towards him. In reaction, she pushes him away from her, and scoots back to the other side of the tub. "No!"

Shu frown. "No? Either you will, or perhaps your sister-"

"NO!"

Shu frowned deepened as he is clearly annoyed now. "How annoying... Well make your choice then."

She looks down at the water. 'I don't want Yui to be bitten by any of these guys, and neither do I... but I have to protect her.. I have to...'

She closes her eyes as her body trembles even more. She scoots back towards Shu, and leans her body out towards him. Slowly, tilting her head back to reveal her neck more to him.

Her eyes tighten further when she feel his hand on the back of her head to tilt her head more. "So very pale... I bet if I bit it through, it would spurt bright red blood like a geyser..." Shu chuckled as he moved his hand to the fang marks where Subaru left on her. "I bet this is by Subaru... The guy need to control his anger. Otherwise he'll kill our preys."

"I-I...thought you were different from them... Why?" She thought at least one of the brothers will be nice, and it was him.

"Make no mistake, girl. I am a vampire." Shu explained. "I will show you a whole new world." He pull her towards him and his breath on her neck.

She wince once more when she feel his fangs pierce into her skin. She clench a piece of his clothing as he drank from her. It didn't hurt that much as the first time, but the pain is still there.

"Your blood is so hot. So delicious just like the first time I had smelled it... I could get burnt by it." He chuckled softly. "You're getting excited. What a dirty girl you are. Your temperature is rising now that my fangs are on your throat."

"N-No, you're wrong..."

Shu pulled away and smiled at her. "I know why you two came to live with us now. Your bloods are of the finest quality." He went back down to drink from her, making her whimper softly, and grip his shirt for support. She held back her tears when she realize what he said is right. She shouldn't have made a mistake to think any of them could be at least kind or good to them.

'Now I know for sure, we need to get out of here...'