CHAPTER 9
Emi's P.O.V.
I wake up to find myself on the ground. I look around and realize that am I still in my own room. I let out a sigh of relief and get up. I walk over to my window and slowly pull the curtains away. The sun's rays shine right in my eyes as I open the curtains. Stumbling backwards, I shield my eyes from the bright light. What the heck? That really hurt I think and rub my eyes. "What's wrong Pop- Tart?" I hear a voice say from behind me. "N-Nothing." I say, straightening myself out. Laito walks over to the curtain and shuts them. "Hey!? I just opened those! It's so dark in this house. How is leaving one window open a crime?" I ask and look him in the eyes. His eyes started to mesmerize me. I forgot what I was just arguing with him about. He moved closer and grabbed me. He pushed me onto the wall and smelled the air. "Mm, Emi your blood smells so good." He slurs and moves my hair away from my neck. I jump at the feeling of his fingers brushing against my skin. He moves his mouth closer to my skin. Dammit! If he keeps drinking my blood I will turn! I need to do something I think. I quickly push him away, not thinking about what I just did. "Oh... You are going to be like that then..." Laito says in a taunting, but slightly annoyed voice as he moves closer to me again. I quickly jump onto the bed and run out of the room, sprinting down the stairs and into the living room. I dodge the couch and run down a hallway, finding an open door with a broken lock at its threshold and run straight into the room. I lock the door behind me and bend down while catching my breath.
Well that was quite the event I thought. I looked up at the room I was now in. It looked broken down and old, nothing like the rest of the mansion. There was one window with no curtains, which was interesting because it was the middle of the day. About every window here had a curtain over it. Mostly everything in the room was covered up by white sheets. There was a withered countertop with teal, purple, and pink jewelry as well as chiseled bottles of perfume in the jewelry's matching colors. I examined the area around me, noticing a bookshelf across from the window. It was filled with old leather books and ancient diaries. Walking closer to it, one book in particular seemed to stand out. It was older than the rest and the cover seemed to be made of a thick brown cloth. As I pulled the book out of the shelf, its surrounding books greedily took up the extra space. But before I could open the cover a force that felt like a tidal wave crashed me against the bookshelf. I dropped the book into the mess of other books that slid their way out as a result of what I had just done. When I looked up from my giant mess, there was a woman standing before me. She was about half an inch taller than me and had purple hair going down far past her waist. She looked to me with cold eyes. I suddenly recognized her and my eyes grew wide. "A-Aunt Cordelia?" She smirked, with a fiery rage behind her eyes. "Sweet Emilia, I thought I taught you better than to touch things without permission." Flashbacks of Cordelia disciplining Kanna and I came back in a rush. We weren't allowed to touch anything without asking first, out of the fear of what Aunt Cordelia referred to as 'messing something up.' Another tidal wave hit my chest as I fell the floor, knocking more books down with me. She reached for the book and picked it up. "It's a shame you didn't get to read this." she spoke in a harsh voice, turning away.
Moments later, Laito appeared in the room along with Reiji and Ayato. "This brings back memories." Ayato smirked. Reiji glared at him. "I think we have bigger problems here than your memories with your girlfriend." Rage filled Ayato's eyes. "She's not my girlfriend!" Laito leaned against the dresser. "So Pop-Tart, what on earth were you doing in here?" I didn't answer. I saw no point in it. I was trapped and there was nothing I could do now. Where is Kanna when I need her I thought while a frown escaped onto my face. Aunt Cordelia was standing out the window now, her back facing the room. Knowing I couldn't stay in a pile of books forever, I tried to stand up as that last tidal wave hit me. Why does this keep happening! I don't want to be in stupid pile of books anymore! The remaining books fell and Reiji sighed. "I'm going to have a lot of cleaning to do." The room began to blur, but I kept myself awake. I needed to know what was going on, and at that very moment I was so hidden in books you couldn't see anything under my stomach anymore. In fact, the book case was so empty and deteriorated, my weight against it was beginning to make it wobble. My eyes grew wide at the size of the wobbling furniture behind me, but the three brothers were too deep in conversation to notice and the books, being heavier than they looked, weren't allowing me to get up. For a moment, I attempted to pull myself out from under their weight, but I was no match for the huge bookshelf that came crashing down on top of me. I squinted my eye, preparing for impact, but it never came. Opening my eyes slowly, I saw Laito holding up the bookshelf with one hand and reaching out to me with the other. "You girls are helpless without Kanna." He mumbled.
I grabbed ahold of Laito's hand as he pulled me out from under the wreckage. He pulled me into his arms. "You're such a troublemaker Pop-Tart." He smirked. "I'm so thirsty now." he spoke, moving my hair out of the way once more. I tried to make another escape but Laito was one step ahead of me, holding onto my wrist. "Let me suck you again Emi." Fear washed over my face as I tried to pull away. "Laito, you can't. Please don't do this! Not right now. Reiji turned to me. "You don't have a choice in what we choose to do." I looked to him with pleading eyes. "You don't understand. You really don't. I don't want to be- you can't take any more yet. I'll lose it all." Laito, Reiji and Ayato exchanged looks of confusion, just long enough for me to pull from Laito's grasp and make another run for it. With no time to think, I ran directly into the closest room. The bed in this room was unmade and there were clothes on the floor that looked like Kanna's.
I noticed the door in the corner of the room I was now in, which must've been a bathroom. There was steam coming from underneath the door and sounds of running water from a shower inside. Judging by Kanna's clothes being on the floor, I assumed that it was her who was in the bathroom. In the room as well, I found exactly who I wanted to run into; another one of the brothers.
"Oh… hey Subaru…. do you happen to know where Kanna might be?" I questioned. He pointed into the direction of the running water. I was right, she was in there after all. There were two fresh fang marks on Subaru's neck. "Subaru are you alright?! How did you even get bitten? You're a vampire!" Subaru opened his mouth to respond when the water in the other room stopped. He covered his neck and turned away "Go get your sister a towel."
"Kanna!" I yelled in a worried voice, while handing her the towel. Kanna took it slowly, keeping eye contact with me. "Emi are you alright?" I looked down at the floor as she wrapped the towel around her body. "No." I responded shortly, swallowing hard in order to moisten my suddenly dry throat. Kanna and I remained in the bathroom as someone new entered the bedroom with Subaru. "Emi, Laito is looking for you." Ayato's voice rung my ears. I looked to Kanna desperately "Keep him away from me."
Miyuki's P.O.V
I stepped down from my bed on shaky legs. My mind was everywhere. What had Kanna done? What happened to Emi? Did Kanato just fridging kiss me? I had no idea what to do. I noticed a small fish tank in the corner of the room. I stepped closer to it, kneeling down to get a better look. Brightly colored fish swam around, some contained in little glass boxes just big enough for the fish to swim around freely. A small orange and white fish at the bottom of the bowl stood out to me. Upon closer inspection, I realized that its eyes were missing, it its fins were slightly torn. The other fish had been nipping at it. I immediately filled a cup from my side table with water and allowed the fish to swim inside. I placed it on my dresser while I searched for a better home for the fish. Inside my closet, I found a large blue glass bowl which I transferred the fish to before adding some food.
"You're hilarious." A voice came from the doorway. It was Kanato, he had not really left apparently. "That fish's life is so small it hardly matters in this world, yet you value it enough to move it to a completely different bowl."
"Well unlike some people in this mansion I have a heart." At this comment Kanato frowned, turned, and left. I decided to go looking for Kanna and Emi, they had probably moved from Emi's room by now.
Walking into the living room, I saw Reiji. I stared at him with wide eyes until I got his attention. "Can I help you?" He asked, without even turning to look. "Do you know where Kanna and …" I stopped short, Emi came flying straight past me with Laito lingering behind and smirking. I don't even think she noticed my presence. Five seconds later, a door slammed shut. "Never mind," I answered while looking at Reiji.
A loud thump sounded from room as I reached it. I pressed my ear against the door but all I could hear was muffled voices. I tried to turn the doorknob and go in but there was something or someone leaning against it. I tried to listen still, it had been a while and I was worried. I went to pound on the door but before my hand could make contact, the door swung open, whacking me in the face and shoving me against the wall. A few people exited, it seemed no one had noticed me.
My head was throbbing. I get injured too much. I thought to myself, placing a hand on my forehead as I followed after them. Laito and Ayato were bickering. "Why did she run from you anyway?" Ayato asked. Laito looked to him. "I just wanted something to drink." "And she ran from you?" Ayato asked again. Laito nodded slowly, smirking. "That damn fool, we're going to have to punish her." They started to walk towards Subaru's room when Yui stepped out from the hallway. "Ayato what's going on?" She asked. "Nothing for you to be concerned about Yui." Ayato responded with a smile. Ayato noticed me standing in the room and turned Yui towards me. "Stay with Miyuki ok? I have some things to take care of." Yui nodded, confused, and headed towards me.
"Emi, Laito is looking for you." Subaru said in the room in front of me. I could hear Emi's muffled voice, full of desperation. Kanna was with her, but she was still in a room with 3 vampires besides her. Yui was standing there, discomfort apparent in her face but she still seemed to keep a smile up as she looked down at me and held out her hand. I accepted it and in a moment, I was on my feet once more.
I thanked Yui and we both headed into the room. Immediately, Ayato was standing in front of us immediately. "Yui I believe I told you not to come in here" Yui looked at me with a worried expression. "You told her to stay with me. Not to stay out there" I replied.
I looked away from Ayato but still caught a glimpse of annoyance in his face. Blowing it off, I focused on my new surroundings. The carpet was green, and so was the bedspread. At the foot of the bed there was a small wooden coffee table, and across the room there was another table with a deep green chair. There were two windows with white closed curtains as well. I then turned my attention away from the room and turned to see the people who were in it. "Subaru can you throw my clothes into here?" Kanna yelled, ignoring all the other brothers who were questioning why she was in Subaru's shower. The sound of clothing hitting the floor sounded moments later, and both her and Emi walked slowly out of the bathroom. Emi's eyes were filled to the brim with fear and Kanna was gripping her pocket chainsaw.
"What's going on" I wondered aloud. Kanna looked to me, and then to the brothers. "How did Emi end up in here?" My question was straightforward and aimed specifically at Laito. Laito laughed, and responded "Pop-Tart decided to run from the fun." I looked over to Emi. Her skin looked pale and she was weak and Kanna must've figured that out too, because when Emi turned to Kanna with pleading eyes she immediately knew what was going on. "We were going to have to tell them eventually." Emi looked worried. "I don't want to be here right now." "You can't hide from this forever Emi" Kanna looked to Emi with a sympathetic smile. "No, I'm not a vampire Kanna, I know I'm not a vampire." Emi ran out of the room and the sound of a lock clicking sounded behind her bedroom door. What?! Emi is a vampire? But how? Wouldn't the brothers have noticed? This doesn't make any sense. She would've told me. They would've told me if this was true.
Kanna's P.O.V.
I let out a chuckle and looked around at the surprised faces. "Oh yeah.. About that vampire thing. Emi was born with a small amount of vampire blood. Since she was a little girl that vampire blood has been increasing in amount, very slowly. We don't know why or how it's doing it, but it's doing it. Now that she is in a place where people want to drink her human blood *death stares Ayato and Laito* the vampire blood is increasing in amount, much faster. When the vampire blood takes over Emi she is no longer human. She will turn into a vampire. That's why she doesn't want you two dingbats *death stares Ayato and Laito again* drinking her blood."
Laito laughed. "So Pop-Tart has a secret after all" he mocked" "We're still going to have to punish her for running away" Ayato butted in. Annoyance washed over my face. "Idiot. Can't you think about anything else right now?"
"Sure!" Ayato replied. "Who's going to be the one to tell Reiji? I doubt he's ever seen this before." At that moment, Reiji materialized into the room. "That won't be necessary, but you are correct in the assumption that I've never seen someone with both vampire and human blood. It does make sense though, you two are the children of a vampire." I looked at Reiji. "Our mother was human." I said. "Your mother must have been someone special." Reiji responded. "Vampire blood is a lot stronger than human blood, in fact her vampire blood should've taken over the second she was born." I took my attention off of Reiji and looked to Miyuki. "Why didn't either of you tell me." She asked. I looked at her with an apologetic look. "She never wanted anyone to know. She didn't even accept it for herself." I was so deep in thought I still had yet to realize that we were still in Subaru's room. "This is a waste of time. Get out of my room!" Subaru yelled as if on cue.
"Pop-Tart isn't a waste of time, don't you want to help think of ways to punish her?" Laito spoke softly with a sly smirk on his face. "You can kill the bitch for all I care." Subaru began. "Now get out." Laito smiled before leaving the room, and the others followed like a herd of sheep would follow Little Bow Peep. I glanced over to Miyuki, but she refused to look at me, she instead kept her eyes glued to the floor and her hands hidden away in her pockets.
"I need to be alone for a while." Miyuki spoke, heading down the hallway. I gave her a sympathetic look. "Wait." I said. Miyuki looked to me with a distressed expression. I opened my mouth to speak when I realized that the brothers were still there. "Can we have a moment?" Subaru turned away from me. "You can always go into one of the other millions of rooms in this hallway, idiot." Did he just call me an idiot?! I will punch him in his motherfucking cute ass face!
I focused back to Miyuki. "Come in here." I said, but Miyuki wouldn't budge. I sighed, "Alright, listen. I'm going to plan a girl's night with you, Emi, Yui and I. We can explain everything there, and maybe learn more about Yui. At least try to hear us out before you give up on us." I begged." Miyuki shrugged. "I've got a meeting with my new pet fish if you don't mind." She replied as she turned and walked away.
Yui's P.O.V.
"I'll tell Emi!" I exclaimed, excitement apparent in my voice. I ran down the hallway and almost bumped into Miyuki. "Hi Miyuki!" Hmm you know, this feels like my first day in the mansion. Except, there's nobody trying to potentially kill me at the moment. I thought. I took a sharp turn and stopped at Emi's door. Knocking on it, I heard quiet sobbing. "Go away, please." Emi's voice was behind the door. "It's just me", I replied, opening the door slowly in an attempt to comfort her. "You really startled the others back there, I think you're safe for a while." Emi smiled slightly, "I guess so." "Well, Kanna wants to have a girl's night. With you, her, Miyuki and I. Would you like to come?" I looked over to her. "Sure…. wait, do Laito and Ayato know about this yet?" A wave of panic hit me. They might cause a lot more problems now that I think about it. "Does Laito know about what, Pop-Tart? Ah, what a pleasant surprise little bitch!" Both of us froze for a moment, in shock of the fact that Laito had gotten into her room. "Tried knocking? It's this new thing. Everyone's doing it these days" Emi replied sarcastically. "You mean like your sister? Who chops doors down with her chainsaw, and Subaru, who barges into whichever room he pleases? Pop-Tart I believe you owe me an apology, an apology with your blood." Laito smirked. Emi looked to me. "He is seriously trying to kill me."
Laito leaned towards Emi, with his fangs out. Suddenly a hand gripped his shoulder and he was forcefully pulled backwards. "Stay the fuck away from her." Miyuki growled. Her eyes seemed duller than normal. "Lay so much as a finger on her and I'll kill your sorry ass." "I've been waiting for this moment." Says a voice. Everyone turns to see Kanna leaning against the door with a smirk on her face. I noticed Miyuki's doll, Miyuki was gripping it tightly by the arm. Laito looked confused and angry, as some of the other boys got closer. Subaru grabbed onto Miyuki's arm, "Behave yourself bitch." He said. Miyuki twisted his arm and slapped him, leaving trails of broken skin behind. Laito smirked. "Oh Reiji! Miyuki is having social issues." "Have you tried letting her calm down? Must I do everything for everyone?" Reiji answered as he walked away. Miyuki barged out of the room and Kanna followed Subaru. Well, that just happened. I thought. Laito, who lingered in the room smirked once more before leaving. "I'm picking out the clothes."
