Ch. 8
(Yui's POV)
His body was still trembling until not so long ago.
His actions were adding to my bewilderment.
For a second, I allowed myself to think that... he actually looked so broken... more broken than I am giving the way he's shivering now.
It was definitely a first for me to witness such a sight.
What could've happened... for him... to look like this?!
But, as if possessed by a spirit, he burst out in rage, saying the most unexpected things that one could hear coming out of a beast.
No, I somehow felt guilty now for calling him that.
"I can't allow a human to make a fool out of me!"
He rustled.
"I'd rather have myself killed... than bear seeing a lowly mortal... crying over..." but he grinded his teeth and didn't finish his utterance.
What is wrong with him!?
Upon feeling the painful squeeze he was giving to my shoulders, which he pinned down to the floor, I felt the tears in my eyes dry at once.
"E-Enough with your insanity already!" I struggled against his grip.
He maintained a grave yet pissed face as he prevented me from releasing myself from his fangs.
"No!"
I shrieked as he tried to force me down again, pressing his weight against my body in trial to make me completely motionless, but my determined brawl, followed by him dropping his guard to curse at how I was trying to hit him caused the two of us to end up falling on the floor, him on top of me.
I flinched.
"Oh, my bad, I forgot you were injured..." he said in nothing nearing an apologetic tone.
My eyes widened.
It's gone, the softness in his voice.
"Which reminds me..." he now was looking down at me, with his glinting crystal blue irises, a deviant smirk plastered on his lips, "I did come here to check on your wounds."
His smirk just deepened as his eyes trailed down from my face, him leaning down and resting his jaw on my stomach.
"N-N-No thank you! I'm fine!" I squirmed to his move.
"Since M Neko-chan was not behaving at all earlier..." his fingers slid down from my shoulders, leaving a ticklish sensation as they trailed down to restrain my arms, hard enough to make me groan. "Ah, sorry." he just squeezed his grip around my forearms even more, for his nails to pierce through my skin.
"C-Cut it out! D-Damn y-you!" I said amongst my gritted teeth.
He's about to break my bones, and he shows no sign of stopping!
"I-It hurts!" I gave in to the pain, "S-Stop!"
He hovered over me, finally letting go of my now sore limbs and instead forces me to look him in the eyes, lifting my chin with his hand.
"..."
He just stared deep in my eyes, with one of his irises suddenly flashing in a crimson shade. My lips started to shake, anticipating what was to come.
The thurst... t-the b-b-bloodthurst...
He opened his mouth for me to see his fangs.
H-He's going to b-bite me!
I instincively squeezed my eyes shut and flinched,
"Tsk!" he clicked his tongue, "Don't suddenly look away from me!" his fingers moved my chin up and I opened my eyes, slightly taken aback by his reaction.
"What made you look like that?" he questioned, his intense gaze making it hard for me to breathe. "What? Did you finally regret not having strangled me to death back then?"
"W-What?" I mouthed my surprise with a hint of annoyance.
His mood swings were hard to keep up with!
"Hah! Admit it!" his right eye started to glint in red again. "Or could it be that you're scared now?!"
"Yeah! Right! Absolutely! And if an angel of death was to manifest before me now, I'm willing to even trade half my life-span just to wipe that smirk off your irritating face!" I burst out at once.
He knitted his eyebrows as if in disbelief.
"M Neko-chan..." he gaped slightly.
"Stop calling me that!" I retorted. "And for the freaking 10th time... GET YOUR ASS OFF ME!"
I then started to look around me,
"Why aren't any other vampires appearing already?! I'd rather take them all down at once than be alone with this two-faced, misleading, douchebag!"
"Pffft..." I heard a snort, before I saw, what I believed has made a nerve pop. "HAHAHAHAHA!" he was dying with laughter. "Oh my! I can' t even! HAHAHAHA!"
His laugh echoed in the empty room.
I said I wanted to wipe that smirk off his face, but now I had him holding his stomach and rolling on the ground with laughter.
As annoying... as fuck...
For him to call me a cat all the time, when he's now acting like one.
No wait, you dummy! This is the golden chance you've been looking for! He did get his ass off me!
I quickly sat up and even intended to stand, and then, and even if it was the last thing I'd be doing...
"I'LL KILL YOU!"
I jumped on him and had my hands around his neck, not wasting any time at all and I gave it the tightest squeeze I could muster.
Yet a sharp pain stung my arms.
Damn it! I forgot the pain he caused me!
Dropping my guard for a moment resulted in me going back to square one.
"M Neko-chan..."
Here he goes.
"Did you just now... try to kill me?"
It felt like an endless loop, me trying and trying to fight them, and them always winning.
I sighed.
"Did you possibly, want me, to stand by, and watch my predetor enjoy torturing my soul, in every way possible?"
I spoke calmly.
"I know it's helpless, and that you would always overpower me, but if I were to just watch you do that without a shred of defyness... it would be just as good as giving you a ploy to treat me no differently than a toy or a pet."
Yes, it's not the impossible winning that I'm looking to achieve,
It's having them, swallow their tongues with the insults kept shooting at me whevever they had the chance to - i.e. all the time,
I need to hold onto the pride I had... as the only thing left for me... the pride in being... Yui...
Whoever she actually was.
...
I had the impression that he disappeared for a second, since he wasn't making any noise or saying anything.
He had his eyes widened, him staring fixedly at...
My exposed thighs!
"D-Don't look!" my heart started to drum and I screamed.
"Oh, " He blinked himself out of his daydream.
But it didn't take long for the corners of his lips to curl up.
"You're growing more interesting by the second."
"H-Huh?!"
How can they find amusement in every little thing I did?!
What pathetic lives they must've been leading all along...
"You almost got me there..." he shook his head. "But still," his hands tugged on the hems of my dress.
KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I mentally shrieked.
"Hoho, M Neko-chan~ Are you embarrassed?"
Please tell me it's my imagination!
The bastard looks elated, and sounds even happier than he looks.
I feel sick, for allowing myself to be deceived by his flawless act earlier.
He wanted my blood all along... hopefully... just my blood.
"What the…?" he blurted, me realizing that he lifted my dress up and I was in my underwears. "It vanished…"
Huh?
He ran his fingers on my stomach.
I didn't feel any pain...
At all
"But last time… it looked so bad..." he spoke up, his eyes knitted, now staring wide-eyed at where my wound was. "It couldn't have healed this fast... unless..." something was going on in his brain but,
A voice boomed from behind him.
"I asked you to check on her… and not… to attack her!"
Kou was alarmed suddenly as he pushed himself up.
"R-Ruki-ni!" Kou's voice trembled.
I watched as the tall black-haired vampire kept scowling at the blond one, his eyes almost shooting daggers at him.
"I even wondered what could have took you so long…" with every step he took towards Kou, the latter backed off.
"R-Ruki-ni… c-calm down."
Ruki pulled Kou by the collar:
"I-I'm… s-sorry." He squeezed his eyes shut.
Ruki pushed him aside for him to fall on his knees, keeping his head down.
Ruki's icy look fell now on me.
I blushed as I quickly straightened the hems of my dress, covering my flesh!
How embarrassing, damn him!
Ruki just eyed me and then spat:
"Rise."
I blinked.
I was expecting for his next move to involve violence, from how angry he looked.
"M-Me?" I questioned, earning a glare from him in confirmation. "Y-Yes." I quickly picked myself up.
Oh God! Oh God!
No, after all maybe Kou looked far more easy to deal with than this one!
"D' you feel any pain?" he asked.
I was shaking under his intimidating gaze, but I still managed to reply:
"I-I d-d-don't know."
I shook my head, still shaking.
Please don't eat me!
"Eh?" He gasped. "...?" he muttered something I was too busy praying mentally that I couldn't catch.
"I-I mean, I- don't!" I thought I had to make myself clear.
"Good, your wounds healed then."
Did..
He..
just..
sound..
..relieved?
No, this time for sure it is my mind playing tricks on me.
Why would he or any of them sound relieved or happy or so?
I must be at my wits' end.
"Ruki-ni! How could you do it?! How could you allow a lowly mortal like her to have a sip of your blood!?"
My throat felt dry all of a sudden.
H-His… b-blood?
W-Why the hell am I blushing?! I should be throwing up instead!
Ruki let out a sigh:
"Cut it out, you almost sound like them."
Them?
Who?
"Still! I can't believe it!" Kou kept protesting.
No, more importantly…
"Why are you keeping me here alive?!" I emphasized the last word. "I-I mean, you could've just drained me out of blood, did whatever you wanted with me and then left me to die..."
As I thought, I was probably starting to lose my sanity,
Oh no...
The two of them looked my way, their eyes turning red.
Really now?
Or could it be that... they loved the thought I just blurted!
Their eyes flashed back to their 'normal' colors.
"Ah, it's true, she still doesn't know it." Kou laughed.
And SHE is starting to feel like ignorance, in such a situation, could be really a bliss. Especially if that maniac Kou is grinning.
"Indeed... we still haven't had a proper talk." Ruki held his jaw.
No thank you!
"No, wait, it's not like we have to tell her or anything," Kou clasped his hands behind his head and nodded, "It's more entertaining to see her struggle to escape!"
This guy... I can't stand him!
JUST HOW MUCH OF A SADIST CAN HE BE?!
"You're Eve."
Ruki's utterance cut down the stupid thoughts I was having, for me to look at him questionably.
Eve?
What the heck?
After all of what I had to endure...
They were mistaking me for someone else?!
It might be true that a big portion of my memory was hazzy, and yet I still recall my own name and my parents' faces...
I couldn't be anyone else beside Yui Komori.
And thus, I had to speak up:
"No, you got it wrong!" I yelled, "My name is-…"
I was pushed against the wall before I could blink even, Ruki's face was right in front of mine.
"I said you're Eve." his tone was putting so much pressure on me. "We don't give a damn about who you were or what your name was." My chest tightened. "The only reality you are allowed to live in now… is you being Eve and us…" Two other vampires appeared beside Kou, all of them smirking at me. "Becoming Adam thanks to your blood."
...
Eve?
...
Adam?
...
My blood?
The room was filled with the echoes of laughter.
My body slid along the wall, as all I could see now was the 4 vampires.
I slowly shook my head.
"N-No… something must be wrong…"
It was too much...
"You have the heart of the only daughter of the demon lord beating inside you…" Ruki said. "The blood flowing in you… is what we need to become Adam."
"A-Adam?" I stuttered.
"Yes, just as you heard." The brown-haired vampire nodded.
"Eve…won't…be…able…to…flee…us."
The youngest-looking one amongst them added with a lethargic voice.
"Still, I personally would LOVE to see you try." Kou snickered.
The room was silent and I just stared fixedly at the floor, thinking about everything that I have been going through.
No matter how hard I tried to remember, things were hazy in my head.
I clenched my fists.
The only things I did recall for sure, was me having my blood sucked, me being called insulting names, and me begging for mercy.
"If you're done with looking pathetic, get changed into this and meet us downstairs."
I looked up at the brown-haired vampire as he tossed some outfit on the bed.
"And make it quick."
He added before he vanished.
I gripped my head with my hands.
What am I going to do now?
++TO BE CONTINUED++
