After Azusa had regained her confidence, Ayato was quickly bored and released her. She exited his room calmly and walked down the hall towards the kitchen, needing something to drink. Azusa needed to regenerate her lost blood. On the way there she passed Subaru sitting on a windowsill. She said hello and he acknowledged her presence. She was glad he was still on good terms with her after what happened.
Unfortunately for the blue haired imperfection, she also ran into Laito. He seemed to appear right in front of her.
"I'm sorry Laito but I'm nearly out of blood... I can't give you any right now." Azusa said, stepping around Laito hastily. If she let him take her blood he'd take all of it, he'd kill her. And then she would come back. Then she'd lose the title of mortal, and that was the last thing she wanted. But Laito grabbed her arm anyway.
"Ah ah ah. You can not deny me your blood, Usa-chan.," Laito said, appearing in front of her again. "You still have blood for me to drink." Laito gave a devilish smirk and his green eyes glinted in a way that made Azusa's heart skip a beat. She reminded herself not to show fear.
"You may not kill me." Azusa said, angry now. "Laito, let me go." Her emotion was palpable in her tone of voice. Laito pushed her harshly into a wall, knocking the breath out of her. Laito laughed, and while she was still catching her breath, leaned over to her neck.
"Laito." A firm voice came from behind Laito. If Azusa could have sighed she would have. Laito swore quietly, Azusa could only hear because his mouth by her ear. Laito dropped Azusa and she forced herself to stay on her feet. She put a hand on her chest and Laito turned to Reiji with his mischievous smile. "The agreement was that we wouldn't take enough blood to kill her." Reiji said sternly, pushing up his glasses. "It'd be rude to go against that."
Laito sighed, "You're no fun." He smiled again before walking a few steps away and disappearing. Reiji turned to Azusa who had just regained her breath and was brushing herself off. Her long blue hair would certainly have several knots in it now.
"Thank you, Reiji." The girl said, gazing gratefully at her brother with her blue optics.
Reiji just pushed up his glasses, "I was simply doing what was right, don't think of it as anything else." He said, his voice smooth and even. He took a brief glance to the side in both directions before talking again, "Please follow me to my lab, I need to speak with you." Reiji walked towards the red carpeted stairs, not worried about Azusa following him. The young girl had to jog to catch up.
"Pardon me asking, but why the lab?" She said as she matched her pace with him.
"Because Shuu will be in the study, and it'd be impolite to take you to my bedroom." He said without hesitation. Azusa had to walk quickly up the stairs to keep up. Why was Reiji in such a hurry? Maybe he just wanted to avoid his brothers? Was what he needed to talk to her about urgent? Azusa felt her blood turn cold when she wondered what they'd be talking about. Maybe he just wanted to kill her himself?