Ch. 5
(General POV)
By the time that Ruki managed to reach the lounge, he found his 3 other brothers, now that they had dinner, having a chatter.
However, his eyes strayed from them to the sofa that should have been occupied by the girl. His eyes widened slightly as his presence caught his brothers' attention finally:
"The meal was lovely, as always," Began Kou, "But Yuma-ni~ refused to give me seconds, Ruki-ni~!" he whined with a pout as he leaned back in his seat.
"Shut it! You were devouring everything and you almost left Azusa nothing but bones you dumbass!" Yuma protested with an accusing voice.
"Azusa was not complaining, you're just making a fuss over nothing, and besides, he never said he wanted seconds!" he stood up and started to yell, Yuma got irritated and rose up himself to tug his collar readying his fist to punch.
Azusa tilted his neck for him to look up at the two with a worried expression. His voice ever so monotone, he phrased:
"Please do not fight over me." He begged.
The argument didn't stop because Ruki was not even paying attention to what he was actually hearing or seeing.
His voice cut through, serious and tense for the three to freeze:
"Where is she?"
The 3 gave him a confused look, Yuma gaped and said quickly, letting go of Kou:
"Who?" but then he realized what he could have possibly meant and his eyes widened slightly, "Wait, weren't you the one who got rid of her?"
Ruki's eyes fell suddenly on the red drips on the carpet that trailed the path towards the main hall that led to the entrance.
He clenched his teeth annoyingly before he dashed forward, the three brothers chased after him.
"Oi! Don't just run-off randomly!" Yuma grabbed his shoulder.
"Yuma-ni is right," Azusa nodded.
"Is there anything that we should know, Ruki?" Kou's voice turned serious suddenly, his eyes' color flashing red.
Ruki found Kou right, he will have to tell them about this, sooner or later that is.
But for now, he thought it was a priority for them to find the girl. It'd be very troublesome if she really had left the mansion and ran outdoors, and with their vampire-magic drained due to the full moon, he couldn't track her blood's scent even though it was very strong and in normal circumstances, he would've just teleported himself right to where she was.
"Ruki!"
Yuma jolted him by the shoulder for his train of thoughts to be interrupted.
"For now, we need to find the girl."
"W-Wha…?"
Kou gaped, Yuma let go of Ruki as he blinked seeming as surprised as his brother was. As for Azusa, he squatted and stared at the blood stains that went all the way up the stairs. His giggle caught their attention as he said:
"She must be in a deep pain~. Going all the way up with her wounds~. Ah~ How lovely," he kept giggling.
"Upstairs?"
Seeing the blood stains on the handrail and on the carpet, Ruki was the first to rush all the way up.
"Dammit! Only if we had our powers now!" Yuma cursed.
The blood led them to the attic; a room that they never used or went up to.
"Fuck, I'm beat." Yuma slouched, Azusa looked up at the window and nodded, "The moonlight…is stronger…than…what we thought."
Ruki kicked the old wooden door of the room, but it was stuck.
"M Neko-chan sure strengthened her fortress." He smirked before he let out a small sigh, "I guess we'll just leave her be for now and come here tomorrow." He was about to head down when Yuma pulled him by the back of his collar.
Ruki held his jaw as he eyed the door.
She must have blocked it with some furniture.
"Damn it." He punched the doorframe.
(Yui's POV)
I hugged my knees even closer as I heard the bumping on the door.
It won't be long before they came in, it won't be long before everything was over for me.
I was hiding inside an old box, I managed to tear down one of the rags that were covering the old furniture and used it to bandage the wound caused by the wolves and which started to look weird and disgusting.
With tears streaming from the pain and the fear that I couldn't control, I even tried to lock the door from inside and push the nearest pieces of furniture to block it.
What should I do? I'm scared, I'm so scared.
The box was so dark and it reeked of my own blood,
Dad, where are you?
I sobbed into my palms silently.
It hurts, every part of my body hurts and the inside of the box was probably so dusty.
(General POV)
"Ahaah, too bad." Kou whined, "I guess we'll just have to wait till the morning." Kou didn't seem the slightest bit bothered by it.
Azusa nodded and Kou patted him on the head with a smile.
Yuma was annoyed by Ruki's unexplainable attitude and he eventually burst out, seeing the black-haired vampire falling to the floor with his back against the doorframe and head dropped down:
"Pull yourself together, we all know that her blood's taste is so addictive and that sucking it once is far from being enough, but still… you need to pull yourself together!"
Ruki's head shot up abruptly, as if stuck by something.
"Wait a minute…" he said almost to himself, before he gave each one of his brother a strange look.
"W-What?!" Yuma's irritation only grew.
"The three of you… had had a taste of her blood…" his voice trailed.
"Yes, yes, and you did see us doing it, why are you so shocked?" questioned Kou, so casually.
++To Be Continued++
A/N: Next is a chapter from Ruki's POV so stay tuned and thank you so much for reading~