"Yori..." he said softly as he turned into dust that was scattered by the wind.
"Rot in hell you asshole." she mumbled as she looked at the ashes and fell on her knees, still holding ''Angie'' tightly in her hand. Eito was by her side in seconds.
"It's over now, it's all over." Eito said, as he hugged Yori tightly, and she hugged him back, as her eyes filled with tears.
"But that still didn't bring mom and dad back." she realized, as the tears began rushing down her face and landing on her brother's shoulder. He held her even tighter, as he began crying too. No one in the room said anything for a while.
After what felt like forever, Yori looked up, to find Aidou was standing over her. She stood up and hugged him tightly. He inhaled her scent, more happy than ever in his life to have her safe in his arms.
"I love you." he whispered in her ear.
"Me too." she whispered back in his. She pulled back, and turned to Zero.
"Zero-Kun?" she said, and he gave her his usual too cool to care look. She smiled widely, as she hugged her childhood friend, and he hugged her back.
Then, she walked to Takuma, who looked at her, and smirked. He took off his sweater, revealing his well-build body. She looked at him shocked and blushed really hard.
"What are you doing you pervert?" Aidou yelled.
"Takuma-Kun what are you...?" she started asking as he gave her the sweater and cut her off.
"Well, I thought you might like to have a shirt on, but if not, I can take my sweater back." he said and smirked as she realized she was indeed shirtless with nothing but her bra to cover herself. She blushed even more if it was possible and almost died of embarrassment, as Aidou began screaming and Zero and Kain smirked.
"Quit looking at my sister you perverts." Eito yelled annoyed, as he punched both Kain and Zero slightly to their arms. Yori quickly put on Takuma's sweater since hers was ripped by Yuuya. As she was putting it on, Takuma kept on teasing her, much to Aidou's screaming and constantly passing out.
"This is the second time I see you shirtless. Are you hitting on me?" he asked and she looked at him annoyed but couldn't help but to laugh. Seeing her laugh, he laughed too. They all did. They laughed harder than they ever had before in their lives.
"Takuma-Kun?" she said, and he stopped laughing and looked at her. She approached him and with a polite smile she said "Thank you for saving my life." and hugged him as well.
She then did the same to Kain, before walking to Kaito, who was still laying on the ground, unconscious, or maybe too weak to open his eyes. His chest moving up and down the only indication he was still breathing.
"Kaito-Kun. Before, he... he told me to stay strong and do what I had to. He placed ''Angie'' on the sheath on my thigh, and I knew what I had to do. It's because of him sacrificing himself I was able to..." she mumbled, her eyes getting teary again. "Is he going to be okay?" she asked, and Zero nodded.
"He'll be fine, he's one tough son of a bitch. We just have to get him out of here." he said, and Yori nodded,
"Then let's go, I don't want to stay here a second more." she said, and stood up to walk towards the exit, Takuma right behind her. That was when the floor underneath them broke down, and they fell down to the basement. Takuma used his speed to pull her over of him, so when they landed, she landed on top of him and didn't get hurt.
"Are you two okay?" Aidou asked. "Yori!" he yelled.
"Yeah, we're fine." Yori yelled.
"Stay there, we're coming down to get you." Zero said, but Yori stopped him.
"No need, you need to get Kaito out of here, we'll be fine, there is a door here that will probably lead us out of here, we'll meet you at the cars." Takuma said, and Zero nodded, as he pulled Aidou, who was whining and pouting about leaving Yori.
As they both stood up, they realized they were into the basement. Yori understood at that moment exactly why Yuuya had insisted to get her there. It was designed to tie someone down and torture them, every inch of the room, and from the looks and the smell of it, it had been used for that reason many times.
"Wow, this place is creepy, no wonder they tell ghost stories about the building." Takuma noted, and she looked at him confused.
"I don't really know where we are. And I have been meaning to ask you, how did you find me?" she asked him, and he shrugged.
"When we found out you were gone, I realized time wasn't on our side, we needed to find you and fast, or else you would die. So, I contacted every single vampire living in Japan, as the Council's president. The Hunter Association sent their hunters to investigate every lead, until we came across this place. It was once an asylum that belonged to that monster, which was shut down about 50 years ago, as he killed all the patients here. It fitted the description, as none of us even thought that it was a possibility you would be kept here. It had all the criteria to keep someone as a prisoner, and some vampires that live nearby claimed to have smelled a scent like yours." he said, and Yori nodded.
"I see, so the Alliance actually worked together to find me, huh?" she asked, smiling, and he nodded.
"Uh huh. Now, there are many rumors that there are ghosts in this building, and judging by all the rotten corpses we saw while searching this place, there probably are." he said, and she looked at him confused.
"So, wait, ghosts are real?" she asked, and he nodded.
"Sometimes, not always, when you hear of a haunted house, the souls of humans might actually be trapped there. That's what both Sara and my grandpa always said." he said, in a serious tone, as he walked to the door and kicked it open. When he opened it, Yori, holding Angie tightly, exited the room.
He followed her quietly as they walked passed the empty halls of the abandoned asylum. It was pretty much destroyed completely, and you could see holes everywhere on the walls and floors.
The smell wasn't any better. It smelled like something roting there. Or rather someone. He had read about the asylum a few years back. But, the name of the vampire that owned it was never announced to him, so until he had questioned the previous Council members, a few hours ago, he didn't know it belonged to Yuuya.
Suddenly a scream was heard all through the asylum. But it didn't sound human at all. It was like the sound hell would make. Yori recoiled and Takuma couldn't help but to laugh. He always had found it adorable how easy it was to scare humans.
"Are you scared Yori-Chan?" he asked with a smirk.
"Just a bit. I mean, this place is really creepy." she said quietly.
"Well, your stalker sure knows how to pick a honeymoon destination." Takuma said and they both laughed. They kept talking for a while, when suddenly Yori, who was moving ahead from Takuma opened her eyes wide and a smile was drawn into her face.
"Hanabusa?" she yelled as she ran towards someone. But that wasn't Aidou. It was one of the ghosts. The ghost of a man holding a butcher's knife. But he didn't seem to have noticed them. He was just staring at the ground. Yori was somewhat hallucinating
"Yori stop." he yelled and ran extremely fast and grabbed her from around her waist. She began struggling and yelling at him.
"What are you doing Takuma-Kun? Let me go to Hanabusa!" she yelled angrily as she escaped his hold and ran straight to the ghost.
As she got right in front of him, he realized there was someone there. He picked up his knife and was about to stab her, when Takuma ran, picked her up over his shoulder and ran away from there.
She then seemed to wake up. She looked at him and then back at the man who was now chasing them with a knife. The man was enormous, much bigger than Takuma and he was also a ghost, which gave him even more strength than even a Noble vampire like Takuma had.
She began to panic but he just kept running as fast as he could. At some point, the man lost them and he slowed down. He looked around, when he spotted a janitor's closet. He opened the closet's door and got inside, pulling Yori in too. Then he closed the door and locked it from inside with the key that was luckily from the inside of the closet.
"Takuma-Kun, what are we going to do?" she asked worried and scared.
"We are going to have to hide in here for a while, until he leaves." he said calmly and she started breathing more calmly.
"Don't worry Yori-Chan. I won't let anything happen to you. You're Aidou's other half, and it would kill him if anything bad ever happened to you. I would rather die before letting someone else I care about get hurt." he blurbed out and she looked at him surprised.
"You mean with Sara-sama?" she asked but he didn't answer. Instead, he simply looked to the ground with a sad, maybe even hurt look. "I am really sorry for your lost Takuma-Kun." Yori said softly and he looked at her surprised. She was the first one to give him her condolences, since everyone else just assumed that he didn't love her, that he was her victim and nothing else.
"Th... Thank you Yori-Chan." he said.
"Was she your other half?" she asked and he smiled.
"Not sure..." he said and looked really sad.
"No, I don't think she was. You are meant to spend your whole life with your other half, so the fact that you will not spent it with Sara-sama shows that she clearly wasn't. Which means that you have yet to meet her." Yori said with a kind warm smile. "Which is why I don't think I am Hanabusa's other half. I am human and he is a vampire, so I will die and he never will. I can spend the rest of my life with him, but he can't spend the rest of his with me." Yori said and Takuma placed his hand on her shoulder.
Then suddenly, they heard someone trying to open the door. Takuma's first instinct was to pull Yori behind him in a protective way. The door slammed opened and both Takuma and Yori were extremely surprised to see Senri, looking at them bored.
"Senri? What are you doing here? When did you get in? I thought you would wait in the cars with Rima." Takuma said, and Senri shrugged.
"Well, I couldn't take any more of Aidou's nagging about not trusting you alone with his Yori, so I told him I would find you and bring you back." Senri explained, and then turned to Yori. "You okay?" he asked her, and she nodded
"Yes, thank you for asking senpai." she said, and he nodded.
After they exited the asylum, they found everyone waiting for them by the cars. Aidou grabbed Yori and hugged her tightly, refusing to let of her. Zero and Kain had taken Kaito to a hospital, and the rest of them had agreed to meet at the Kuran mansion, where Yuki and Kaien were waiting for them.
When they finally got there, Yuki ran out of the mansion and rushed to her best friend, hugging her tightly.
"Yori-Chan, I... I..." she said, but couldn't complete a sentence, as she was crying.
"I'm okay Yuki-Chan, I promise. It's over now, it's all over..." she said, and felt her eyes tearing up.
"Sayori-San, I am so glad you're okay!" Kaien said in a way too serious tone for him, as he hugged them girl too, along with Yuki who still hadn't let go of Yori.
"Yori..." Eito said, and Kaien and Yuki finally let go of her, as she turned to her brother. "Why don't you go take a bath, it will help you. After that, we need to talk." he said, and looked really nervous.
"Uhm, where can I take a bath?" she asked, and Yuki grabbed her by the hand.
"Come on, we decided it would be best if you stayed here with me for a little while. I'll take you to your room." she said, and began pulling Yori inside the mansion.
"Hey Eito." Aidou said, and Eito turned to him.
"Yeah?" he asked, and Aidou looked serious.
"I have news. About what we were talking about." he said.
"You mean about me being assigned to a vampire that has control over his thirst so I might be able to not look at my little sister as dinner?" he asked, trying to joke but his words came out bitter.
"Hey, you're doing a great job so far Eito. Most turned vampires wouldn't had been able to contain themselves so well so soon after their transformation." Takuma said, and Eito took out the box with his blood tablets, and swallowed the last three remaining.
"Well, I just finished the last of the box you gave me before I left to save Yori, which isn't a good sign Ichijo. Hell, I don't know how long I can keep this up, and I don't want to hurt anyone..." he said, as he felt tears filling his eyes.
"Good, because my sister has agreed to help you." Aidou announced cheerfully, and Eito looked at him confused.
"Your sister?" he asked, and Aidou nodded.
"Yes, my sister Tsukiko. She just moved out of our mansion and we were going to assign her a bodyguard anyway, so, since she knows about Yori, she said she wanted to help. You'll act as her bodyguard, and at the same time, she will help you control your thirst." Aidou said, in a happy voice, as he felt really clever for thinking it all. He was, after all a genius, as well as handsome as hell.
"Is she hot?" Eito asked, and Aidou began yelling at him.
"Tsukiko Aidou is two human years younger than Aidou Hanabusa, meaning she would be sixteen." Kaien explained. "She was supposed to come to Cross Academy with her brother, but due to her fragile health at the time, she, along with his other two, much younger sisters, were home tutored." he added, and Eito nodded.
"Okay, I'll take care of your sis, if you take care of mine." Eito said, and winked at the furious now Aidou, who was yelling and screaming at Eito.
Author's note
Hey guys. So, the Yuuya arc is almost over, I'll update soon with another chapter to finish it off completely, and after that we'll go to a new arc completely. I hope you all enjoyed it, and that you liked how I decided to finish Yuuya off, as it was a real struggle for me. On another note, the siblings will meet, and they'll be spending a lot of time together, as I explained, since Tsukiko is going to be Eito's sober coach. The next chapters will be much more calm with less action, as they'll be dealing with the aftermath of all this, and how much it has affected Yori. Thank you all for reading it all, and 'till next time, stay awesome!
Kisses,
the Author.
