Nazlanmak: pretending reluctance or indifference when you are actually willing or eager
Chapter 7
Yui woke up and found herself sweating.
A nightmare?
Flashbacks flooded her mind; her groans, Ayatos hands, his bite marks, the taste...she bit him!? It all must have been a dream! A nightmare! It had to be!?
She could never have done this?! To go so far... it all seemed to be some twist of reality. Perhaps she'd never even woken up?
She got up to go to the bathroom when she caught a view of herself in the vanity.
It wasn't a dream. She had marks of Ayato's lips, almost bruising her all over her body. Her uniform in blood, barely covering her body.
She rushed herself out of the clothes and into a casual dress. She was much too awake now to go back to sleep. The thunderstorms outside made her squeal.
She had to go for a walk... she had to get out of this room. She had to figure out somehow why she was having such strange reactions to things...
She left her bedroom. Perhaps she could find some answers elsewhere...plus she didn't like the idea of being trapped in her room while the thunderstorm was clashing outside.
She'd never gone so far with any guy in her life...but Ayato wanted her to say it so badly...but at the same time he didn't have to be so forceful. Would she have? She wasn't sure...that pain again...the strange rush...it was like she had been drugged...
Yet it was making her red in the face to think about it; a part of her liked it. A part of her also decided his blood tasted good. Being bit by the brothers never had made her suspect she was becoming one. It couldn't be. They bit people all the time; that didn't mean you became a vampire. Perhaps it was a medical condition...it hadn't helped that she'd barely eaten in the last few days...
Perhaps some food was the real answer. She never liked finding comfort in food alone, but perhaps being alone to eat was best now.
She stepped around the corner and saw someone pass...a shadow?
"Is somebody there?" Yui felt compelled to see who it was. A part of her knew she might regret it but she hated being alone during thunderstorms so-
"Shhh. You'll wake the rest of them up. It's as dark as night out there but it's day. Have you no manners?"
She felt a hand cover her mouth. Again, a different smell then what she'd smelled on Ayato...but something strong filled her nostrils. The voice; she recognized it.
She turned around to look at the figure and saw only red eyes. A stranger? With a flash of light she recognized him; it was Reiji...
"Come into my room where you wont disturb the rest of the household. Some of them are sleeping. Contrary to the appearances outside, it is mid day."
"You - you look so much different without your glasses..." She stumbled into the room. His red eyes almost glowed in the dark; his face somehow less refined with the glasses. Much more...
"I don't actually need glasses. A vampire's eyes are perfect, but I admit it makes me focus."
"Focus? How? If you don't need them that is..."
"Awfully inquisitive. Did you consider you might be acting somewhat nosy?"
"No-I...I just want to understand...I'm not quite sure of much at the moment..."
He stopped himself. This was no way to get on her good side was it?
"My mother. I wore them because it showed my mother I was focused. Perhaps a psychological attribute I once decided to take on as if to prove to my mother I was nothing but focused...and now I refuse to take them off. Shu was always my competitor, so I made sure my mother knew I was the one to take action. He was always a passive prick...simple. Emotional. Neglected all responsibility as he does now moping around. If you'd excuse my language: a simpleton and a pretentious idiot. When it came down to it, I'm not happy to admit your father was the one who killed my mother...in the end I wish it had been by my own hands. She never once gave me recognition for all I did."
Yui stepped back. This wasn't really the Reiji she knew but on the other hand she felt badly for him. She remembered the way she'd seen him as a child. His story fit.
"My father?"
"Vampire hunter. He'd probably kill you now to be honest...it was easy setting a paper trail to my mother. She had one off estate escape home when she got too bogged down by the competition of raising a son to become head of our bloodline. Nothing is as it seems...is it?" His red eyes peaked through his dark hair. He looked much edgier... dangerous. Rebellious. Much less composed.
A bang of thunder broke the silence.
"Ahh!" Yui jumped and fell backwards onto her butt. She winced with pain.
"Thunder is your vice?" Reiji's eyes rose. "Perhaps tea can calm your nerves."
"No I-"
"Really I wouldn't trust Ayato's bickering talk about my food or drink...I admit I am one for concocting the most interesting combination of herbs to see what kind of effects are mustered but if you must know..."
Yui flashed back hearing Ayato's name. She felt her hand absently trace one of his marks. Reiji caught it.
"I see Ayato has already done more convincing. Laito informed me from the grapevine that BLUE is your colour of choice today? Is it?"
Yui was surprised. Why would Ayato tell Laito and Reiji about her undergarment colour? Why was it such a big deal?
"I suppose he marked your skin up too. How immature of him. One knows if you truly own a women's body and soul you don't need to proclaim it; she'll simply come running back to you and never wish to touch another." He held out his hand to assist her up. She took it.
"I'm making you tea, sit down on a chair."
She was going to persist but somehow felt that perhaps a repeat of the last time wouldn't happen if she didn't set him off; had they moved on from that? Or was she still his guinea pig?
"To be perfectly honest I couldn't get to sleep myself. Even in the day I am restless; we don't need to sleep but it helps so one's mind is clear..."
She watched him. He did look more disheveled then normal; his shirt was much more open, loose around his neck, unbuttoned, and now that he took his glove off to make tea he looked all the more warn for ware.
"I can't sleep either." She admitted.
"Thunder I suppose?"
"No...well, yes...but...I can't seem to say it."
"Well there's no point in hiding it. It's rude to lead on to say something only to lead the person your speaking to hanging on."
She bit her lip.
"I think I bit Ayato."
Reiji nearly dropped the cup of tea. "Ahem. I suppose you ought to know. Laito was right, you'll only go insane if we keep if from you any longer..."
Yui's eyes widened. "You know?"
Reiji turned to look at her, his red eyes turned to the same sadistic eyes she saw that day he had he trapped in his room after she'd drank that numbing tea. "Oh yes. You're probably very lost. Did I ever tell you... or perhaps...?" He walked over mixing the tea and set it beside her. "Do you remember anything that happened when Cordelia took over your body?"
He crossed his arms and faced the window in his room. A bright flash of lightning illuminated the space.
"Not much... I almost wish I did..." She bit her lip.
"On the contrary it is probably best you didn't...I'd hate to think that you would remember anything that happened with Richter. Cordelia loved playing him for a fool. I'm proud to say she couldn't manage the same to me."
"She wanted to trick you?"
"She wanted me to play her game: to kiss her, and let her woo me. To follow her as head of the Sakamaki family, like a sheep, as Richter almost did...or appeared to be doing. However, as much I would love to take over the family, I would hate to enthuse a hag like that."
"Did you-kiss- her..." Yui blinked realizing now that means he would have kissed her body.
"Yes, she kissed me. In fact the only reason why I didn't push away was because it was you. You'd be satisfied to know she slapped me in tern of denying her advance. I turned her down. So in fact one could say that you need to pay for slapping me like that..."
"But I didn't do it!" Yui looked frightened.
Reiji's sadistic laugh filled the air. "But in a sense you did. Why are you not drinking the tea I made? Have you any clue how rude that is? It's not going to hurt you like before. I've already tried a new combination on someone else earlier this week."
"I don't know if I can-"
"Trust me? Had I let Cordelia go any farther we may have done much more than kiss, so I suggest you do me the right and drink the tea I made to calm your nerves. I'm not the one who jumps by the mere sound of electricity, but I am the one attempting some petty form of kindness."
She swallowed. She took the tea and drank a sip.
It tasted normal. In fact it tasted good.
She took another.
However, something about it was familiar. It tasted almost like-
Ayato.
Ayato's blood.
Her eyes slowly widened as she dropped her glass and covered her mouth.
"How much of my good china wear will you break? What is the issue with the tea?"
"I know...it's taste it-" Her eyes were wide.
"What does it taste like?" His face twisted into a sadistic grin as he walked over to her and led her to her feet by pulling her face up by her neck. "Say it."
"I-I-cant-"
"You can't? Or you don't want to?" He looked at her with a sly grin. He put his lips to her ear. "Accept the fact; you love the taste of our blood."
"Why do you do this?" She cried out.
"I'm not doing a thing. From the moment you were divided from Cordelia your heart had to be reawakened...life after death...you stabbed it, so I had to do damage control. It was the only option."
"I-I-"
"You're turning into one of us. I'm saving you from death by feeding you my blood, because if you don't drink, you'll die. None of us want to see that do we?"
"Where is my choice?"
Reiji blinked. "What is your choice?"
"I-I- don't know."
"Then we will keep you alive until you do." He stared down at her, his eyes grown serious. "Now after all this commotion I think you truly do owe me greatly."
He bit down on her neck and began to suck.
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"Ahh-" She clutched her chest.
"You're going to have to learn to do as we do; take when you need it otherwise you'll be dead within a week. Perhaps I should heal some of these awful tainted marks he left on you." Reiji began to lick over the marks he'd made on her, erasing them with his saliva.
She felt herself moan; from her heart or his tongue on her skin she wasn't sure.
"Whose blood do you prefer? Mine or Ayato's..." He asked turning her around and pushing her up against a book shelf.
She swallowed. She hadn't the faintest clue; but she couldn't say like this could she?
"I-can-t...I don't know..."
"Don't lie. No blood is ever exactly the same." He slid his fangs down her neck from behind. A streak of blood fell down her back. He tugged at her shirt until it slipped down to her waist. "I suppose Ayato wasn't lying. However it seems your back is untainted." He sucked on the trail that was dripping to her shoulder blade, tracing his tongue up her neck.
She leaned her forehead against her arm. She was completely subject to him from behind. She felt her head spin, the more familiar thump of her heart as it slowed at the smell of blood, as it slowed as she lost her own, as she disgusted herself as she began to crave that sweet taste of the brothers' blood. "Why does it hurt...my chest..." She mustered out.
"You need blood as it is being taken...your heart will slow into a vampiric pace or it will die and you will not wake up." Her blood was much better; it was the same taste but stronger. Like the tea bag of a good cup of tea had been steeping longer; vampire blood was more powerful, but hers, being the human combination of founder and vampire was the ultimate addiction. What Ayato had prevented him from doing was provide her with a strong dose of blood; his or not the reason she'd spent her days in bed weak and her heart thumping was because she'd not had blood regularly.
He slid one of his wrists to her mouth.
"I suggest you take your dosage, otherwise you'll end up like every other female counterpart to this family."
She flashed back to Ayato's persistent pushes to get her to bite down on his finger. They just wanted to keep her alive didn't they? Did they care? Or were they still using her?
"If you don't learn now, you're as pathetically daft as most of the girls of tutored. I'd hate to put you on such a low level, especially now since, soon you'll be more than just a pathetic blood bag..." He brought his teeth from her skin and moved to her ear. "I'm sure you can smell the scent of my blood, bite me. I dare you. I don't mind a little pain now and then. However if you don't take advantage soon I'll just have to place that hand elsewhere..."
His merciless smile crept onto his face again, as he moved his hips closer to her ass, he slid his hand to her breast and began to fondle it, pinching her. His bite moved to her shoulder; more painful.
She needed the blood...she knew she did...but it seemed so wrong to succumb to it all.
He knew she was stubborn, but he had another way if he needed to... biologic systems of a human becoming vampire still needed air. She wasn't as far as they were where drowning was a much more tolerable thing so...
He removed his hand from her breast and returned his wrist to her mouth covering her nose with his hand. "Die or drink?" He grinded his hips up into hers surprising her pressing her upper chest farther into the bookshelf. Her back was arched as far as it could be. As she opened her mouth for air, she found herself automatically itching for a bite.
His blood dripped down her chin, and she lapped it. She succumbed. She wanted to cry but it tasted good. Her head began to spin almost as it did with Ayato the previous night.
Now that she was busy and looked after he could focus on his other hand. He took his free hand, and unbuttoned her shorts.
Yui was surprised by his dexterity. She was lost in the whir of the event. If she gave up his wrist she questioned if she could handle the reality of it; the blood kept her distracted.
He however was comfortable with removing pants with only one hand.
Pale blue lace.
He found a place on her shoulder blade, as he now perhaps needed too an exchange of blood.
"How far did Ayato get with you?" He pulled his wrist away, putting his hand over her wrists, crossed above, supporting her from the bookshelf.
"Reiji-why?"
"Because there are more than one of us in this house who adore more than your taste of blood. Accept the fact that until you change, everyone will be making that perfectly clear to you. Don't deny the blood lust."
He dragged his fingers across her pale blue lace as she moaned. "It's a privilege really; normally I don't make a mortal feel this good, but you're on a brink and frankly I'd like to make my position in this known."
He entered a digit into her, and she felt numb. She waited for the pain of another bite but instead felt the repeating feeling of pecking down the nape of her neck to her back.
"You're pushing back against me." He said.
"Reiji your cruel..." She said.
"Just remember..." He twisted her arm to flip her over to face him. "If you ever need a cup of good bloodied tea, I'll be here to provide, and perhaps tutor you on whatever else you'd like. Actually I'd be interested to sample exactly what your blood would be like in my tea..." He took her lips in hers and kissed her.
thump... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Thump... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... thump... ... ...
She then went limp in his arms. "Perhaps I really was too much to handle. However in time she'll see it was all for her best interest. Had I gone any farther I simply would have played into my father's plan. And blood is a necessity. Now for some tea for myself..."
