Kapitel 25

"It's enough for today." said Kaname after another failed lesson in controlling powers. "We'll try again tomorrow."

He went straight inside the house without turning around. Juuri panted and walked up to the wall to have something to hold on to. She felt nauseous again. It was then Hiro happened to pass by. He walked towards her when he saw her throw up and put one hand on her shoulder blade.

"It's enough now Juuri, this has been going on for several weeks!" exclaimed Hiro. "You're going back to Aidou now!"

Juuri looked up at him.

"Hiro? What are you doing here?"

"I am momentarily living here if you remember. Not by choice of course…"

"No, what are you doing… outside here?

"Nanno called me a little plague and sent me out." replied Hiro.

Juuri opened her mouth to ask another question but threw up again instead.

"Fuck." said Hiro and helped her to stand up straight. "Let's go to Aidou."

He helped her to walk carefully and they arrived before Aidou's study.

"Come in!" called Aidou when Hiro knocked on the door.

He got quite surprised when Hiro came in with Juuri.

"Is there a problem? What happened?" asked he and sat Juuri down on the bed.

"I don't know." answered Juuri and shook her head.

Aidou turned his head towards Hiro and looked at him questioningly.

"This can't be because of iron deficiency."explained he. "She takes your pills and almost kills Kaito thousand times a day because she empties him of blood. Something is wrong."

"Let's se…" mumbled Aidou. "Juuri, can I take a blood sample?"

Juuri nodded hesitantly without looking up. Aidou went to collect the right material, drew out a lot of papers, went back to Juuri, cleaned the crook of her elbow and collected a little blood.

"What can it be?" asked Hiro.

"I'm not sure… But…"

"But what?" asked Hiro but didn't get any answer.

Aidou dropped a few blood drops in different test-tubes examined a little with a microscope. He then picked up a paper and compared his results with what was written.

"Juuri, have you felt especially nauseous lately?"

"Yes…"

"When were your latest period?"

"Around five weeks ago…"

"It's clear as crystal then." said Aidou and turned around to face the teens.

"What is it?" asked Juuri.

"You are simply pregnant." said Aidou and glanced down at his papers.

"Pregnant?"

"Yes. It's been four weeks already. So now, I am going to give you the two choices you have. Either you abort. Either you keep the child, I become your gynecologist, and we'll set up planning together. But whatever you, try to take you decision within the coming two weeks, in your own interest. And when you have decided what you want to do, come back to me. Alright?"

Juuri nodded even though she hadn't quite listened to what Aidou said.

"Pregnant?" said Hiro and felt how something inside of him broke.

"Yes, what is it you don't understand? Pregnant, there's a fetus developing in her uterus."

"How can you be so calm!?" asked Hiro. "You know who her dad is."

"Yes, but he most likely won't be angry at me because his daughter got pregnant. If there's someone who should be freaking out right now, it's Juuri and Kaito. Or, it is Kaito the father, right?" asked Aidou and looked at Hiro.

"Believe me, I hadn't been conscious right now if there was a chance that the child." answered Hiro. The child is definitely Kaito's… If Juuri of course hasn't been with someone else, but I doubt that."

"No, it's Kaito's." said Juuri with a low voice.

"Alright, then you two can go." said Aidou and began to clear up his work surface.

"Alright." replied Hiro stiffly and they left the room in an awkward silence.

Hiro took her to Kaito's room and they sat down on the bed.

"So… You and Kaito have… You know."

Juuri nodded without looking up.

"How do you think… well." began Hiro and scratched his neck.

His face began to throb and he wished his legs worked so he could run away.

"What will… what will Kaito say?" asked Hiro.

Juuri shook her head again.

"He will surely encourage me to abort… He already told me he didn't want a child now.

"How… How are you really?" asked Hiro hesitantly even though he knew it was a stupid question.

"I don't really know." answered Juuri and shrugged. "Could have been better."

"Do you need a hug?"

As an answer, Juuri leaned against him and closed her eyes. She buried her face in his neck and took a deep breath. "Just don't drink his blood now" thought she. Hiro first stiffened bur relaxed fast and wrapped one arm around her. "In other circumstances this would have been perfect" thought Hiro. Juuri scooted closer to him and wrapped her two arms around his waist. "She smells so good". Hiro buried his face in her hair a few seconds before he backed away to look her in the eyes. He could see the sadness in her beautiful eyes. He couldn't resist though and leaned closer to her. It surprised him a little when she too leaned forward until their lips met.

Juuri closed her eyes and hugged Hiro harder. Hiro put his other arm around her and closed his eyes too. He let his hands reach up to her cheek and felt a tear roll down on it. Juuri was just about to put one hand on his neck when someone screamed:

"JUURI!"

None of them had the time to react before Hiro was ripped away from Juuri and got punched on the face.

"How can you?!" roared Kaito. "How could you two?!" screamed he and began to attack Hiro who either got hit or managed to dodge his attacks.

"Kaito… I-" began Hiro but was cut off by a kick in the stomach.

Juuri noticed that Hiro didn't really defend himself anymore and instead welcomed all the strikes with open arms.

"No, stop!" exclaimed Juuri. "It's not what you think!"

"Not what I think?! I think what I saw is more than understandable! You're cheating with him!"

"She didn't cheat!" exclaimed Hiro and spat blood on the floor. "It was a moment of weakness, she needed comfort!"

"And you think you're allowed to kiss her just like that?! Because she needs comfort?! You're nothing to her!"

"I know!" exclaimed Hiro. "You have every right to be angry…"

"Kaito!" exclaimed Juuri and wrapped her arms around Kaito's middle. "It's not Hiro's fault, it was I who started it! I… I'm pregnant." said she and pressed her face against his back.

A long silence followed. Then Kaito ripped himself from Juuri's hold and began to launch attacks at Hiro again.

"Is it yours?!" screamed Kaito. "Was it you who did it?!"

It showed that it became harder for Hiro to both stand up and talk.

"I… I have nothing to do… to do with the… the child." said Hiro and coughed more blood out before he gave Kaito a bloody smile. "I would have remembered how children are made at least. This is not my fault…"

"Not?!" screamed Kaito and continued to beat Hiro up.

"Stop it, you're going to kill him!" exclaimed Juuri.

"It's the best thing he can do." said Kaito. "To die."

"I've eaten one time." said Hiro and fell down on his knees. "He can't kill me, if he could I would've resisted."

"Please, stop." begged Juuri and gaabbed Kaito's arm, but he shove her aside to free himself from her grasp.

"Like hell!" replied Kaito and continued.

Hiro was progressively pushed towards the window until he was dangerously close to the wall. Eventually Hiro stood against the window and Kaito continued to hit him until Hiro lost his balance and fell out from the window.

"HIRO!" screamed Juuri.

"Hope this taught you a lesson." said Kaito with clenched fists.

Juuri stood up from the ground and ran to the window but Kaito stretched out an arm to prevent her from getting closer. She tried to push him away but he was much stronger. Even her vampiric super strength wasn't enough.

"Best you forget him." said Kaito.

"A little hard to forget someone you saw only seconds ago!" heard they a voice say from outside and looked out.

Even though Hiro was covered in bruises, open wounds and blood he sat up. His neck was bent in a weird position.

"I'll probably pass out after this." said he and grabbed his hair. "That's why I must do this… CHIRO IS A DICK-SUCKING LITTLE GOBLIN WITHOUT A BRAIN!"

Then Hiro pulled hard at his hair putting his head on the right place again before he passed out. Kaito and Juuri were confused until they saw a furious Chiro come out of the house. "Aha… so he was technically calling for help" thought Kaito.

"WHO DARES!?" but Chiro interrupted himself when he saw Hiro. "HIRO!?"

He ran towards Hiro and checked his pulse.

"NANNO! ISAO!" called Chiro and laid Hiro's head on his lap.

The two of them came out, as well as everyone else to see what happened.

Kaito turned around and walked away. (Not to check on Hiro and apologize though)

Juuri turned away from the window too to run to the only place she knew when nothing else worked: Hideki's room.

"What in the world happened?" asked Yuki. "Was it one of Toshio's men? Did they find us!?"

"No madam." replied Nanno and glared at Hiro's injuries. "Had it been an enemy he would have defended himself. He let it happen."

"And what does this mean?" asked Yori.

"That it was a friend." answered Isao who also looked angry. "Luckily he heals fast, but I'm still going to beat up the jerk."

"What the hell happened here?!" exclaimed Chikao and rushed to the others. "Who did this!?"

Chikao looked very desperate but pretty furious too.

"Something tells me that it is the person who's most mean to him." said Kazuki and went inside the house. "Toilet…"

"Who?" asked Takuma confusedly. "And did he just say toilet? When it comes to that boy I have no idea if he must go to the toilet or accuses the toilet of having done this…"

"Usually it could be both." said Isao and clenched his fists. "But Kazuki surely meant this brat Kaito. Hiro have told me about Kaito's aversion for him."

"But why would Kaito do this?" asked Takuma. "What did Hiro do to make Kaito hate him so much?"

"I exist, that's the reason." said Hiro and opened his eyes. "But right now it was because I kissed Juuri because of my damned boy brain. I just deserved this."

"And why did you do that?" asked Takuma.

"Because I'm a fucking idiot." answered Hiro and closed his eyes again. "If you want… if you want more details ask… ask Juuri… I don't care what happens now, I should never have called for help."

A million thoughts floated in Chikao's head and all the possible feelings weighed down on his heart. He was angry, no furious! But also sad and betrayed!... but even so he wanted to laugh.

"You can't have anything right? Of course someone takes him too away from you! You're totally worthless, dream sinful dreams about him while his heart is in Juuri's hand. Traitor! Traitors, all of them! He is yours!"

"Traitors…"

"They take away everything you love! Juuri and Kaito deserve to burn!"

"Chikao?" said Takuma confusedly and put a hand on Chikao's shoulder. "What is it?"

"Kaito tried to kill him! He loves to see everyone you love disappear from your life! He deserves the same!"

Chikao clenched his fists and turned around.

"Chikao?" repeated Takuma.

"I'm going back in." replied Chikao and went back to the house. "He won't get out of this unharmed." thought he and tried to find Kaito.