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Author Note: Just thought I'll mention something that was already mentioned in passing before. Whatever happened with Natsume's previous Rasa, happened 200 years ago.

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Chapter 11

"Would you like me to defend Master?" Yuu asked as he drove. Mikan was curled up in the passanger seat, feeling miserable. She had asked him to just drive, and not go anywhere.

"No."

"Would you like me to tell you what happened?"

"I want Natsume to tell me." Mikan said sounding scarily close to tears.

"Then do you need me to help you in finding more creative ways to insult him?" Yuu asked, with a slight smile, trying to ward off the threat of tears.

Mikan finally looked at him, and then nodded.

Yuu taught her insults and curses in seven different languages and their meanings. Then he taught her some whose meanings he refused to divulge. Mikan was feeling better by the end of it, and she knew how to make someone feel like slime in seven different languages.

She planned to let Natsume have it when she got back.

"You make a wonderful Mistress, by the way." Yuu told her.

"Huh?"

"You could have slapped Master in front of that messenger, but instead you chose to show that you were unaffected. Those are the qualities of a good leader." Yuu explained.

"Nobody but me gets the better of Natsume." Mikan said quietly.

Yuu gave her a long sidelong glance. "It was not just the messenger's words that infuriated you."

"He lied to me." Mikan said, her anger coming back full force.

"Did he ever say that you were his first Rasa? Did he ever say that vampires only have one Rasa?" Yuu asked.

"That's semantics and you know it. It was a lie of omission. But..." Mikan stopped, and turned away from him, staring out of the window.

"What is it Mikan?" Yuu asked gently.

"I told him I loved him today. I mean it. I do, but to him, all I am is his Rasa. But even there I am second to someone else. Even there I am not the only one. It hurts, Yuu. At least when I thought I was his soulmate, I thought I was the only one. What if he's wrong, and I am not even..." Mikan stopped, unable to finish the sentence.

"You are his Rasa. His Black Moon. Believe me, I can tell. As for being second to someone, he met her twice Mikan. Ask him to tell you, and then you will understand." Yuu's voice was kind.

"Not now, not today. Can we just not go home? Please?" Mikan pleaded.

"Maybe you can go see Anna? Talking to her might help." Yuu suggested.

"What do I tell her? I am telling her so many lies, that I do not even know where to start, what to say, and what not to say." Mikan said, and she could not keep her voice from sounding choked.

"You can tell her the truth. Maybe omit the vampire part, but the rest of the truth. Even if you choose to tell her the truth about vampires, I will respect your decision." Yuu answered.

"Okay." Mikan whispered.

"She's sleeping now." Anna said quietly to Yuu. He nodded, his expression grave.

"Is all of it true?" Anna asked, coming to stand in front of him.

Yuu looked down and met her gaze. He could feel her emotions, and there was no betrayal inside her.

"Yes. It is all true." Yuu said quietly.

"So you're one of them." Anna said, cocking her head to the side.

Yuu felt his mouth quirk in a half smile at her choice of words. He was here, with her, yet he was one of them.

"Yes." He replied.

"Prove it. Show me your fangs." Anna replied.

Yuu stared at her in absolute amazement before he burst out laughing.

"Heavens woman! Have you no sense of self preservation?" he asked, when he finally stopped laughing.

Anna was glaring at him.

Still chuckling, Yuu pulled out a dagger, and before Anna could say anything, he made a long deep cut on his palm.

"What are you doing!" Anna cried grabing his hand in hers, but even as she watched, the cut healed.

"Truth." She whispered.

"Oh yes." Yuu replied, his voice turning cold.

Anna looked back up. "I still want to see your fangs."

Yuu grinned, and his incisors were long and pointed. Anna raised her hand, and lightly touched his lips, pulling them apart, so as to better see. Yuu's breath caught but he said nothing, allowing her to do as she pleased.

"If it is all true, if she is so special to him, then why can he not keep her happy?" Anna said, and there were tears glistening in her eyes. "Why is he breaking the heartof his souldmate?"

"He is trying his best." Yuu replied.

"Lying is his best?" Anna asked, her eyes narrowing, her hand moving from his lips to his shoulder.

"Natsume met his first Rasa when she was a child of seven years. He made sure that she would be safe and well taken care of, and then he went away so that she could grow up normally with her family. When we came back ten years later, she was his bride to be, and during the ceremony, she tried to kill him, and then herself rather than marry him. She knew about vampires, and she hated them with every fiber of her being. Natsume saved her life, by making her drink his blood, and then he left. He chose to let her live in peace, and be alone forever, rather than make her miserable. Yet she still killed herself because she believed he had tainted her with his blood." Yuu spoke, his voice harsh, passionate.

"I saw my friend nearly give up on life after that. He had been happy for ten years. Looking forward to the day he would be reunited with his Rasa and yet when he went there, he found a woman so blinded by hate, she could not see what was right in front of her."

"There is no comparison between Mikan and that girl who ended her sorry existence 200 years ago. Natsume may never admit it, but he is terrified that Mikan will hate him. Tell me, in such a case, how was he to tell her about all this?" Yuu's face was inches from hers.

"He should have trusted me." Mikan said quietly, and they both turned as one to see her in the doorway.

"How could he Mikan? The one human who should have never betrayed him, did it in the worse way possible. It takes a lot to trust after that." Yuu said fervently.

"He is not the only one who has been betrayed." Mikan replied, and Yuu gave her a chiding look.

"Are you truly feeling so petty that you will not forgive him even after you know the truth? Even after you know that right now he is living through his worst fear, of you hating him?" Yuu asked.

Mikan stared at him for a long moment, before she walked towards the main door of the house. She opened it and called. "Koko!"

He appeared in front of her, and knelt.

"My lady." Koko murmured respectfully.

"Will you drive me back home? Yuu will be guarding Anna." Mikan told him.

"Of course." Koko stood up in one fluid motion and strode over to the car. Mikan looked over her shoulder at Yuu and Anna who had followed her to the door.

She hugged Anna again, and then on an impulse, she hugged Yuu too.

"You should be honest too." Mikan whispered in his ear while he was hugging him, then she left the house. Anna and Yuu watched the car drive away.

Once it had vanished, Yuu pulled out his phone.

"Master, she is coming back to you with Koko. Try not to mess up again." Yuu said when Natsume answered.

Before Natsume could say anything, Anna cried out, and Yuu pulled out his sword, and moved in front of her, his eyes fixed on the doorway where a bloody figure stood.

Kaname moved closer to the door, one hand pressed to his chest, trying to stop the flow of blood.

"Kaname!" Yuu cried, rushing forward, eyes scanning for enemies.

"Koko has betrayed us." Kaname whispered right before he collapsed.

At the manor, Natsume's phone broke into pieces from the force of his grip on it.