Turning around in that hold, my eyes met with grayish purple eyes.

"Azusa...? What are you doing here? What happened? How long have I been asleep?"

"Miyami...too many questions..to answer...All you need to know...is that I'll..be watching you...until they come back."

Uneasily and reluctantly nodding, I relaxed in his arms, laying my head on his right shoulder.

'I'm so unstable right now...I don't know what has happened to me over only God knows how many days it's been...I'm no longer wearing the clothing I was, just a simple...'

I scrutinized the blue-green clothing I am wearing and my eyes widened. 'What the h-hell am I-I wearing?!...Wait, I think I've seen this before...isn't this the PJ Romper thing Fuko was telling me about a few months ago?'

"Azusa..."

"Hm?" he hummed...I hadn't realize he was breathing in the scent of my hair...

"Can you tell me...who changed my attire?"

"Kou bought it...but I changed you into it...are you mad?"

I pulled away from him slightly, smiling sheepishly. "I'm actually glad it was you who did so...so thank you...?"

He nodded his head. "Kou told us something..."

"What did he say?" I asked curiously.

"He..read your heart...You were...telling the truth..about everything..and you care for...us; I am...happy," he said with a small smile and nuzzled into the left side of my neck.

I honestly found him to be adorable. I rubbed my right hand through his hair. "I wouldn't lie about such things when it comes to family I care for."

"That is..true, but...he said you...will make a...rash decision...I'm worried..for Big Sister..."

"...I cannot make any promises I won't, Azusa...and if I do, it's for the better good," I said solemnly.

His grip moved from my shoulders to my sides, hugging me closer.

"Are you..implying...you'll leave?"

"I..I can't say for su-"

"I won't let...you..leave me...I need you...Miyami...You're our only..hope."

"Azusa, what do―ngh!"

He bit into the left side of my neck...

Though he was being gentle, it still hurt on a scale of 1 to 10 by 4.

He backed me against the door while sliding down the sleeves of the romper down, revealing my shoulders. Retracting his fangs, he bit into my left shoulder.

I wanted to move, but I couldn't due to blood loss...Now that I feel this pain, I realized that I was probably wound up in so much pain and pleasure that I was in and out of consciousness...meaning they were biting me at that time...

"Will pain..make you not...leave me...Miyami?"

"A-Azusa, pl-please―mn~..hah~, it..i-it feels good~."

He retracted his fangs again and turned me around, pushed my body closer to his, and kissed me passionately. Returning the kiss, I felt something sharp slide up my right thigh, opening a cut, letting blood spill.

Sharply inhaling at the air stinging it, I nearly fell to the ground, but Azusa picked me up in his arms and walked to the bed to lay me down.

I began to feel dizzy as I felt his tongue lick up the blood on my thigh...From what I could see in my blurry vision, he was holding a shiny object covered in red in his left hand...a knife?

"...Miyami..your blood...tastes...arousing..." he mumbled, licking the still spilling blood.

(Not the innocent one out of all of them!)

Before I knew it, black filled my vision.

~Flashback~

I walked down the rusted stairway.

As I went down, I heard nothing: no whimpers, no crying, no cries for help...

I navigated myself in the dark the best I could.

Since I heard nothing, I assumed he gave up...

I got to the last step and leaped off it.

There's no way in hell I wanted him to think like that.

I walked by the cells, checking in each one.

But...how could I prevent that when he's treated like trash―though a prince in a sense―and I'm living like a princess?

I stopped in front of the last cell.

Though I 'seemingly' living like that...it's not true.

He looked up at me, "What are you doing here?"

I'm surrounded by this Hell...and I connect with it by empathy.

"I'm here to get you out of there."

I don't need to feel pain physically...I can feel it emotionally.

"You might get in trouble if you do that."

I never understood that about myself...feeling emotions a vampire doesn't normally feel...

"He won't do anything to me. You and I both know this, despite us not knowing why."

He never once scolded me about my emotions or anything unusual about me...as long as I was just kept as his Caged Bird who sings by being different.

"Laito, we both know damn well it wasn't your fault for whatever Cordelia got you in...I am curious to know, but I don't want you bringing up the experience, so don't tell me."

I took a step forward and put both of my hands on the bars of the cell, easily pulling them apart.

I reached my right hand out to him, "Come one, let's go."

Laito hesitated for a few seconds, then initially grabbed my hand with his left. "If something bad happens to you, don't blame me."

I smiled, "Wouldn't dream of it, little brother. After all, this is my choice."

"If you're so strong, why don't you kill her already?" a voice asked in the darkness.

It wasn't so dark that we couldn't see since we're supernatural beings.

"Ayato, Kanato, what are you two doing here?" I asked the two.

"You said you'd catch bats with us earlier," Kanato spoke.

"But we saw you sneaking away here," Ayato spoke. His eyes narrowed, "You shouldn't get involved with him, Sis."

"I will be fine, you needn't concern yourself of my well being," I said softly. I gently grabbed Laito's left hand with my right, walking past the two. "Come along."

~Tiny Time Skip~

I was humming a tune as I used ointment, wrapped Laito's arms and hands with bandages, and place bandages on major cuts.

We, as in he, I, Ayato, and Kanato, are in my room. Laito sat on the edge of my bed, Ayato was leaning against my wall across from us, and Kanato sat in my office chair turned away from my desk.

"You didn't answer my question earlier."

I cut the extra bandage on Laito's right index finger with scissors.

"...It is not my place to do that," I sighed out.

"Why not? You hate the 6;+c# just as much as we do. Don't try to deny it, Miyami," Ayato spoke harshly.

"...You know that saying, "I brought you into this world, and I can take yo?u out of it"?...I think you should do the job yourself-...no, yourselves. I want no part in-"

"Please, Big Sis...without you, we wouldn't know how to go about it," Kanato begged.

I looked to Laito for help. "...You're the smart one, I would expect you to know something about planning a murder."

My hands balled into fists as I looked down. Yes, I hate Cordelia...and I'm sorry to God about lessening that hate to a dislike...but killing her? I rather see her be tortured and not letting her die in the process.

"Is...torture not enough to satisfy you all?" I asked them.

"No," they spoke simultaneously.

"...Planning a murder is called homicide...and I'm about to commit it."

Kanato approached me and hugged me; I noticed he dropped Teddy to do so.

"You'd really do that for us?" he asked, looking up at me since I'm two inches taller than him.

I put a smile on my lips, "Of course I will. I'm your older sister, I'd do...[almost] anything to ensure your happiness."

~Flashback Ends~

I slowly moved my head to the right, but something was preventing me from doing so.

Attempting to open my eyes, I could only get them open enough to see a thin slice of the world around me.

Moving my eyes to the right, I saw familiar blond curly.

I could tell he is drinking my blood...but I couldn't feel anything; my neck and some of the other bitten parts are numb.

He leaned up, "Finally, you're awake; didn't know how much longer I could've gone drinking from an unconscious one."

"I was...unconscious?" I asked with a raspy tone.

"Tch, I told Ruki you were getting weak from us drinking your blood―unconscious or not―for a month."

My eyes widened, "A-A month?"

"Yeah...and we had to keep you kept down here in the basement ever since that Ayato guy showed up four weeks ago..."

"..Ayato?"

"Ayato Sakamaki, you're related to him, right?" he asked, wiping the blood from his chin with his left sleeve.

"Y-yes...why...why did he come here?"

"The answer is obvious, to take you away from us. Honestly, I don't want that to happen...but with the silent frantic state Ruki's in right now, I want you to get out of here before he accidentally kills you."

I stared at him with concern, "...He still abides by Toug-...Karlheinz's orders?"

"Apparently so. I'm guessing we are of no use to him anymore since none of us can become Adam, but he refuses to believe it."

"I understand that Ruki is grateful to Karl for helping you all out when you had nothing, no one, and were considered worthless, but this has gone too far..."

"Wait...how did you know about that?" he asked with wide eyes.

"A lot of things are happening to me and telling me―unconscious or not―things I don't, yet do, understand. Hey, Kou...could you help me escape?"

He looked away from me, seemingly contemplating.

'Please, Kou...I know you can find it in that half human heart of yours to help someone who is slowly dying,' I hoped for him and myself.

He looked back at me, then slowly nodded.

"I can get you out of here right now because they're at school; however, I'm going to have to go with you to get home. You're weak and frail, and those guys you mentioned are coming for you, right?"

"Yes."

He pulled the gray cover off me and picked me up in his arms to which I wrapped my arms around his neck. This time, I was wearing a black tank top, black leggings, and a short jean jacket.

"Once this is all and over, I want you to give me something in return."

"I could offer more of my blood if-"

"I'm...full for this month...How about a date~?"

My cheeks faintly heated up as I looked at my thighs, nodding shyly.

"Hehe~, okay then~...While we're on our way there, you should get some more rest."

I nodded again...knowing I haven't been getting much rest or peace during my slumbers.

~?~

Darkness surrounded me as I tried to look all around me, but chains on my wrists above my head restricted me from doing so.

"I got you now, Little Red Riding Hood~."

Looking back in front of me, I saw a wolf bearing its teeth at me.

I recoiled in shock...especially because it transformed into...

"Carla's not here save ya now, imouto~. You belong to me and are under my mercy until the time you wake up. Let's have some fun~."

For once in my long life, I actually felt terror.

(Not much of a "Kou drinking Miyami's blood" scene, but he did get a scene with her and coping with her. Oh, yeah, every time Miyami would go unconscious―which has been a lot of times for a month―, she doesn't have exactly pleasant dreams about the past; she is in a conflicted state because of the Eve thing going on inside of her...which is making her weak + plus the blood loss = ...well, the thing I will introduce next chapter. By the way, I'm sorry about the url links mishap in the previous chapters; at that time, I hadn't any idea about fanfic not letting those save, so I'll go fix them. Now, onto the build of that bright idea I was talking about last chapter!)