* Rejet owns Diabolik Lovers. Except Julia, she's an OC.


Guide to Readers:

"Yui Komori." = talking

'Yui Komori.' = thinking

"YUI KOMORI!" = shouting

"Yui Komori." = singing

"Yui Komori." = calling

'YUI KOMORI.' = writing

'BAM!' = denotes sounds


Previous Chapter Summary:

Irritated for having to be summoned to the Vampire King's Castle, Ayato decided to piss off his father by stealing something of value to him, not knowing that Yui was already at the mercy of Kanato at that time.


Night 7

"The Escape Plan Plus The Potion"


- Vampire King's Castle (Southern Tower) -

"Ayato-san. Shouldn't you be resting a bit more?"

"Shhh... I'm thinking." Ayato paced uneasily around the room. He had successfully penetrated the barrier and got himself inside the tower, where his father kept The Little White Rose. But unfortunately, he blacked out shortly after his grand entrance, and had just woken up from it.

Much like Ayato, Karl would do anything to monopolize whatever that fancies his attention, even if it were a person. So discovering a beautiful prisoner inside the castle wasn't really such a shock.

If you people are curious to know, the treasure that Ayato found trapped inside the tower was admittedly one of the prettiest ladies he had ever known. It is much like her Title that The Little White Rose was starked with an incredibly innocent beauty. A rare sight among the creatures of the Dark. She had curls of snowy white hair that reached down to her waist, and ruby colored irises which reflected much softness in them that it would seem unbelievable that she was born a vampire. Her body was petite and fragile yet she held the stature required from a lady, making her more alluring to the feasting eyes.

"But... you know your wounds wouldn't heal properly if you keep moving like that."

"I'm fine, Julia. See?" Ayato ripped open his dress shirt to reassure his companion. The injuries that were engraved into his body were almost gone, indicating that his body cells were quickly regenerating.

Julia, who happens to be The Little White Rose, sat silently on the bed and looked at him for the moment. Then she smiled. "You haven't changed. You really are a no good person."

"Back at you. You're still the whiny pretty face I know."

Julia just had to drop her jaws at his statement, and Ayato simply reveled at the expression on her face.

"Ayato-san! That's-"

"Ah! Ayato-san! Ayato-san! Ayato-san! You keep calling me Ayato-san."

"But that's your name."

"No, you're not supposed to call me that."

"Then what else would you want me to call you?"

Ayato glared at her. "You honestly don't remember?"

"If I did, then I..." Julia suddenly trailed off her sentence the moment she realized what it was. "Oh, you mean that name."

"Precisely."

"But you know I can't! Someone would be particularly upset if I called you by that name."

"Like hell I care about that guy. Yours Truly commands you to address me by that name."

Speechless, Julia was stunned by Ayato's stubbornness.

"Hurry up, brat."

"Really. Couldn't I just call you by another name?"

"No."

"But I do remember also calling you The Great You in the past."

"I let anyone call me that."

"But then again, I've never actually addressed anyone else by that name, even to the king or him. So doesn't that make it more unique than the other name since you're the only person I call The Great You?"

Ayato paused in contemplation as he considered Julia's argument.

'The brat has a point.'

He simply eyed the girl, before making a decision.

"Fine. Just make sure that your mouth remembers not to call anyone The Great You other than Yours Truly. However, I would one day force you to call me by the other name."

Julia sighed. "Yes, I understand. You won't let me have a choice in the matter anyway."

This time, Ayato could not help but to smirk at her submission- the way she simply sat down on the bed and pouted in silence. 'Ah... if only Chichinashi would be this obedient.'

Again, a cold shiver traveled down his spine. He's coming to believe that he probably was truly missing the girl at the Manor.

'No. Now isn't the time for that.' He brushed off the thought, knowing he still had to escape from this tower and take Julia with him as planned.

He started walking around the room again, calmer and more purposeful this time. 'The barrier around this tower is strong. That person must have been the one who created it. My back door could only open a passageway through the barrier but since I haven't fully grasped the concept of opening a perfect door yet, passing through it would still inflict an enormous amount of harm to the body. And to be honest, I'm not sure if my body could survive the consequences just like the first time. Furthermore...' His eyes traveled towards Julia. 'I don't think this brat could handle the impact. It would be troublesome if she either faints or dies while we're escaping.'

"Tch!" He suddenly kicked the shelf near him, causing Julia to flinch in her seat. 'I've escaped that woman's barriers. There's no way I can't escape his. I just need to find a weakness and exploit it to my advantage.'

"Uhm... Ayato-san?"

"What?"

"I... I mean The Great You... Well, you fainted earlier so I didn't have the time to ask you. Plus, I panicked and was flustered to see a person again. Oh, but I'm also very happy that I could finally talk to you after a long while. It's kind of lonely staying in this tower. Usually, the king would send me to stay somewhere far from the castle and live with a few guards watching over me. On those days, I could still get out without being stuck inside a room. But recently, it's different. I was taken to the castle and locked up in a tower. I couldn't get out of here even if I tried. The guards that I was living with suddenly disappeared. I wonder where they went? I hope they're perfectly fine wherever they are. Oh! I'd like to introduce you to them one time... if I find them... or at least was allowed to get out of this tower. And then there are-"

"How long have you been stuck here?" Ayato cut her off, realizing that she's starting to chatter endlessly.

"Uhm... I guess just three nights ago?"

"Three nights ago? And you're acting as if you've been locked in here for three years."

"Wha-? Then you try getting stuck in a room without no one to talk to. Let's see how you feel."

Ayato frowned. Being locked up inside a room was his childhood. There's no way he'd let himself be imprisoned by anyone again. However, among anybody else, he understands the psychological stress of it all, so he decided to simply ignore Julia's retort.

"Hey brat. What was it? The thing you wanted to ask Yours Truly."

"Oh yeah! About that... I was wondering why you're in the tower. Did the king allow you to visit me?"

Ayato snorted. "As if that person would do that."

"Then you're also a prisoner of the tower just like me? That would explain why you were all wounded when I found you. They must have hurt you and threw you in here."

"No, that's not it. I came here to take you."

"Really?" Julia's eyes became lively at the thought. "Aw... I knew you cared so much to rescue me."

"No, that's not it either." Ayato sighed. "I came to kidnap you."

Julia fell silent for a moment, simply staring at Ayato who began pacing around the room again.

"You know... the king would be very upset if he didn't find me in here."

"That's exactly what I want to happen."

...

...

"Then I'll come with you."

"Huh?" Ayato was startled to have quite the willing victim.

"I'll go with you. But at least let me see someone. It's been quite awhile since we last met. He must have been worried all this time."

"Hey, hey. Are you forgetting that you're the victim here? Yours Truly will be the one to decide the conditions of your abduction."

"But I really want to see him. Please let me go see him. I promise I'll behave. I'll obediently follow what My Great Kidnapper dictates. Just let me go see him once. Please. Please. Please. Won't you please?"

"Quiet down or I swear I'll shave all your hair, including your scalp!" Ayato barked at her, which effectively made Julia shut up. "Seriously. You're still spoiled as ever. I'll think about letting you see him."

Julia smiled.

"If you don't cause too much trouble for me."

Julia nodded.

"And if I remember along the way."

Julia frowned at that.

"Now you be quiet so I can think of a way to get us out of here." Ayato told her as he looked out the window.

He had passed out for who knows how long, but the castle was still silently peaceful. No guards nor servants were running around in alarm, which means no one has noticed anything weird yet. No one has discovered his attempt, his devious plans are still intact. And more importantly, if no one's looking for him, that means his father hasn't returned to the castle yet.

"Uhm... excuse me?"

"What now?" Ayato snapped.

"W-Well, I was just thinking. You're still looking for an escape route, but can't we just go the exact same way you came in?" Julia suggested. "Oh, wait a sec! How did you come in here? There's a barrier around this tower. How did you pass through?"

"Tsk. You only thought of that now?" Ayato smirked. "I used a demon's back door to open a rift on the barrier. That's why I got myself in here."

"T-That's amazing! As expected from The Great You."

Ayato grinned at Julia's praises. 'Ah... if only Chichinashi would- Oh shit! Why am I thinking of her?'

Frustrated, he slapped a palm on his face.

"A-Ayato-san? Are you alright?"

"Uh... no, just ignore that, and don't call me by that name."

"Ah, yes. I'm sorry. I was startled."

"Anyway, I can open a back door but I doubt that you will be able to handle the after effects."

"After effects?"

"This." Ayato hovered his hand over his wounds.

"Your back door does that?!" Julia paled.

"No, the barrier does that. At my current level of the skill, I could only open a rift which allows me to penetrate through any barrier but still receive some degree of impact in the process of passing through it. If the barrier is weak, it would only send a light current throughout the body. But if it is strong... you get quite fucked up like I have."

Ayato paused, waiting for Julia to speak her mind about the matter, but when he noticed she wasn't going to, he continued. "Now do you understand why we can't use my back door? You'll get seriously hurt and may possibly cause you to die afterwards. I have no use for a dead hostage so we better find an alternative escape route."

"Really?" Julia suddenly spoke, a trace of disbelief was heard from her voice. "I find it very odd, you know."

"What is?" Ayato arced a brow at her, curious as to what more she has to say.

"I've touched the barrier a lot of times, but it doesn't hurt me."

Ayato's eyes widened in surprise. "Say that again?"

"The barrier doesn't harm me. If I touch it, it only feels like I'm touching an invisible wall- a very sturdy one at that."

'I see.' A sly grin curved up the boy's lips. 'So that's how it is. The barrier harms the intruder but not the prisoner. There's still a way to get out of here.'


- Sakamaki Manor (Reiji's Room) -

Reiji's room was different from the others. If one was asked to describe it, he'd probably say it was more like a laboratory, with a queen sized bed located at a corner and an arm chair placed near the hearth of the fireplace. The room was mostly occupied by large cabinets, filled with carefully labeled bottles and jars, a bunch of herbal ingredients, tools which aided Reiji with his experiments, and a few of his tableware collections.

Yui was currently sitting on an armchair as she patiently waited for Reiji to be finished with his concoction. Apparently, he was still mixing a pulverized substance into a flask of blue fluid, and was carefully boiling it over a Bunsen burner.

The room wafted with the mixing scents of unknown chemicals and ingredients. Just staying in here for a few minutes already made Yui a little dizzy.

'How can Reiji-san last hours in this room?' She cautiously placed a hand over her nose to keep her from inhaling any more of the strange odors, fearing it may be quite lethal for a human such as her.

Adding more to her discomfort, her wound had been bleeding due to Kanato's tantrum earlier.

"Please excuse me for the wait."

Yui felt the need to sit up straight the moment she heard Reiji's voice. She had then focused her eyes towards him, watching him approach her with a bottle of some unknown liquid clasped on his right hand, and a flask of bluish fluid on the left hand.

"Initially, I was planning on giving you this potion." He mentioned, as he lifted the bottle to Yui's eye level. "Unlike your mundane medicine, this will cure any shallow wound and restore it back to its usual state."

"That's amazing." Yui could not contain her astonishment. "How about the other one?"

"Ah, this? This is what you'll be taking." Reiji smirked, eyeing the blue fluid inside the flask.

"Eh? What's wrong with the one in the bottle?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. Are you trying to insult me?" He arced a brow at her.

"P-Pardon me. I didn't mean to be rude or anything." Yui instinctively lowered her eyes, fearing she might end up angering yet another vampire.

"Tsk! Then do listen carefully. I would not like to repeat this. The liquid in this bottle takes complete effect after a day, while this one..." He raised the flask to her face. "This will cure your wound after an hour."

Yui dropped her jaw at that. "That's fast!"

"Precisely." The vampire grinned with pride.

'Awesome! Reiji really is a one of a kind genius. It's no wonder he could come up with this sort of stuff.'

"Now take this. Drink it. And leave at once. Your blood is flowing out from that wound of yours. The scent is killing me." Reiji quickly moved away from her and opened the windows to let the air inside, probably to blow the scent he was referring to.

Yui appreciated how this older vampire would avoid drinking her blood if it wasn't necessary. Although his main reason for doing so was because of his pride. He didn't want to fall prey to his vampiric instincts and solely depend on some human's blood. It was up to his foolish younger brothers to do that in his stead.

"Human." Reiji called out to her, noticing how she was simply holding the flask. "Did you not hear what I just said?"

Yui flinched in fright. She was indecisive of what to do next. She had run to Reiji's room as a temporary safe haven from Kanato, but she honestly would think twice before taking in whatever Reiji would give her.

She remembered the last time he had offered her something to drink. Unknowingly, it was mixed with poison which left her body paralyzed but still susceptible to pain. She recalled how she cried as Reiji countlessly lashed her unmoving body with his whip. And the reason behind the cruel whipping was because she accidentally broke an antique vase in the manor while running away from Laito one dark night.

"Well?" She heard him say, getting rather impatient with her inaction. "Would you rather let me shove that down your throat?"

Yui sat up straight at his warning. Of course she wouldn't like that.

'Oh well...' She sighed inwardly, as her hands quivered while she raised the flask to her lips. She couldn't say no to him anyway, not in this manor, so she gulped down the blue fluid in one go.

She crinkled her nose at the taste. It was quite bitter and sour at the same time. Plus, it slightly burned the tongue.

"Done?" Reiji neared her once again taking the flask from Yui's hands and proceeded towards the sink to wash the flask.

Yui watched silently as he was leisurely busy with his hobby- which was obviously cleaning.

"Did I not tell you to leave?" Reiji told her, still facing the sink.

"S-Sorry. I was about to do that but... Uhm... T-Thank you for the medicine." She said, standing up and bowing curtly in the process.

"Hahaha... Don't talk such nonsense." He said, now deciding to face her as he dried his hands with a towel. "You should know by now what your existence means to me. You're a mere guinea pig for my experiments- just a test subject to satisfy my curiosity."

Yui's face grew paler at his cruel words.

"The one you took in was still in the experimental stage. Needless to say, it's not yet in its perfect condition."

"But you... W-Would this kill me?" Yui stuttered, even more afraid to actually hear the answer.

"It's a possibility. Death could be a side effect but I am not entirely sure. That is why it is your duty to come and report to me if you feel strange after drinking it."

"That's... cruel."

"Haha." Reiji couldn't help but brush a hand through his hair, seeing the helplessness on Yui's face. "It's already a given that your so called feelings doesn't matter in this house." He suddenly frowned at her. "Now tell me... How do you feel?"

"But you just told me my feelings doesn't matter!"

"Ah... Perhaps one of the side effects was to worsen your stupidity."

"T-That's mean!"

"Obviously, I was not pertaining to your emotional condition. I was asking about your body condition. If you weren't so obtuse, you would have realized that."

"S-Sorry." Yui blushed. 'Wait! Why am I the one apologizing. He's supposed to be the one doing that!'

"Hm... I guess the side effects wouldn't manifest this early." Reiji muttered more to himself. "Then please leave at once. And don't come bothering me unless it's about the side effects."

And with that, Yui immediately stormed out the room without a word. It wasn't that she was being obedient to Reiji. She was simply upset with him that she can't stand being in the same room as him right now.

"My, my, that girl. I shall one day drag her into the dungeons and correct her manners." Reiji noted to himself before returning to his routines.

- End of Night 7 -


Author's Blabbering Nonsense... More Than An Author's Note:

There we go. Ayato and Yui moments without each other. But not to worry, the next chapters would be filled with them... Plus other characters whom I fancy. What would you guys want them to do? Let's make them fall in love with each other and actually admit it before something really bad happens.

Julia is an OC. The name just popped up inside my head when I was writing about her. I wonder who she is for Ayato?

Also, I was wondering how Ayato would react if he knew that his brothers were all over Yui while he was away.

Feel free to suggest some Yui x Ayato scenes. It's not so bad to see them actually doting on each other, right? I'd love to read all about it and squeal like any other fan girl while I play it inside my head.

Cheers to the following beautiful people:

* User 630xxxx: Thank you for your detailed suggestions. I shall take note of one character since she will fit perfectly somewhere in the later chapters, but can I change the name?

* User 590xxxx: Sorry. This chapter still separates Yui and Ayato from one another. Although I will definitely make up for it in the next chapters.

* User 567xxxx: I think this chapter answered your first question. The next chapter would definitely answer your second question.

* User 605xxxx: It took awhile but here you go.

* User 523xxxx: Something bad always happens to Yui when she's alone with any Sakamaki. Perhaps Ayato could be a little nicer to her?

* User 580xxxx, User 573xxxx, User 261xxxx, User 639xxxx, User 455xxxx, User 606xxxx, User 631xxxx, User 115xxxx, User 561xxxx, User 557xxxx, User 442xxxx: Thank you for your support. I am truly very deeply grateful!