I apologize for the longer wait; I've been busy with courses and work.

Duende: charm ; magnetism

Chapter 35

"You know...I think my brothers are stupid for thinking it was going to be this easy. That we'd all just court you like this, and everything would wrap itself up in a bow."

"...why do I always mess this stuff up?" Yui looked at the floor.

Shu raised his head a bit. "I mess up everything. It could have gone a lot worse." His deep mellow voice did not sound as if he had much remorse for his own mess ups.

"Are you here to find out if ..." Yui looked at him.

He opened an eye at her. "I didn't give you my blood before. Do you even smell me?"

She swallowed. She did. But perhaps not as strongly as the others. "Sort of..."

"Well I suppose Reiji could have put my blood in those teas...however I feel as if he wouldn't have done something so considerate for me."

"I don't care about blood lust."

"But you've had something with each of my brothers?"

"I can't help it. You all want to know what you taste like and I-"

He closed his eye again. "You enjoy it don't you?"

"Well I-" Yui felt conflicted. She enjoyed it but she didn't like how it was effecting everyone; it was too promiscuous. "It's not what I'd do if I had the choice."

"If you had the choice..." He repeated. "If you chose one...one person...then, would you do it?"

"Do what?"

Nothing came from his mouth. He was slouching on the chair. It didn't look particularly comfortable but it seemed as if he'd almost fallen asleep.

She edged off her bed. "Shu what were you suggesting?" She stepped closer to him. Anytime she'd woken up the brothers she'd always ended in a compromising position but...

She hadn't spent much time with Shu. Although he was the oldest...and she couldn't really read him...he didn't act like the head of the family at all.

"Shu please I-"

He reached out suddenly and pulled her closer. She nearly fell right on top of him and had to stop herself by grabbing his shoulders.

"I thought you knew what I meant. Blood lust. Sex. Intimacy. If it was just one of us. Would you enjoy it more?"

She felt the familiar feeling of the sensation of blushing. She swallowed. "I suppose...but-"

"Then bite me." He grabbed her back and forced her to move closer. She could smell him now. His blood...was it the fact that she had lived for so long with these brothers that she was more sensitive to them? But then she had no clue what Shu would taste like...

But the others were getting so impatient waiting. She had to make up her mind soon...she looked to him and closed her eyes feeling her fangs protruding into the side of his neck.

Another merlot. Arousing. Amazing. But was it better than the other? She wasn't certain...

"Shu – I don't... I can't tell..."

"Well, I don't plan on ever having something that can get taken from me, so I'm taking this, this moment to hear your sounds again." He grabbed her shoulders and with his hand he pushed her down so she was straddling him on the chair. Like his brother, she found herself in the most compromising position with him.

He took no time to grab her hair, more delicately than Reiji had, and move her head to the side. She felt the perforation of his fangs on her neck now, the deal had been made. Any question of love would come second to lust.

His eyes shot open. He hadn't tasted her for so long... he let his brothers fuss on purpose. Whatever he said went...and they were fighting like children. Plus, if she was to be coveted he knew she would be lost one day.

Everything that was good was lost.

His old friend was lost to the flame. A cruel twist that he was reborn as a Mukami.

He had accepted his fate by acting passive; his chance to become head of the family was lost to his rejection of his mother's work to try to set him for that path. His mother was lost. Killed, like most things, by his brother. His brother had been lost to him the moment they were born.

And yet, he wanted to keep Yui for himself. Despite the looming notion, she too would be lost.

But she was right. This bloodlust was pure fire.

He grabbed the back of her head. His raspy deep voice awakened. "I don't think you've quite understood what you've started..."

"I-I can't help it...you ...everyone wants to know and-"

"Then do you not want me to do this to you?" His breath ran up her neck. She nearly shivered. She had to grab onto his shoulders to stay on his lap without falling off.

"Do I have a choice?" She said quietly. She didn't mean to say it so harshly but it was clear...until she could tame this lust she was its prisoner. No matter, as a vampire or human she was subject to the taste of her blood. The one who fit all...perhaps she would never decide on her on fate...perhaps love was a petty notion...

Even she could feel the edge of her fangs, waiting, pulsing into her gums, asking for flesh. Her tongue wishing for blood. Her nose, that aura of the blood and scent of the brothers, of Shu... the one whom she perhaps most wondered about...

He had already pushed off her shirt, edging off her clothing, where it was barely on her arm, loose. Skin was free. She edged forward for his.

She grinded on him on accident. He let out a slight moan as she bit his neck again.

She was weak. She hated it. But it tasted good.

He pulled up her skirt, slipping his hand beneath her, between where her groin was sitting on his pants and began to rub her sweet spot. One of his ear phones naturally fell out of his ear, as if he was ready to hear her moans to his actions.

It wasn't fair. They had experience with this and she was left with merely adhering to their touch; they knew how to start a fire.

And he was so much taller than her; like Yuma he always towered over her, even sitting. She couldn't help but part her lips from his neck to let out a moan as he plunged his two fingers into her core; she kept her eyes closed, too embarrassed to encounter his stare.

"I'm going to take you once. Then choose. If it matters to you, I don't want to be head of this house. But I don't plan on letting my brothers keep you so simply." His words short and blunt, but held a trace of his age; sultry and soft, keen to the simple truth that to be most safe from the world one must ignore it.

"Shu...I-"

"Don't think I care about protests. Enjoy the fact that you get to lust over each of us once before you seal your fate." He remained the ever ominous man he was, as he enjoyed the sounds of her moans as he quickened. She was still a girl to him...young...perhaps still naive of what she possessed in her being. How his father would use her. How his father had used her to round them up.

But a vampire cannot exist without blood.

She felt the slow release as he removed himself from her. She still had remained averting her gaze; his look was so powerful and strong she only wished she knew more about what went on in his mind.

His hands went to his zipper as his member throbbed, waiting for his turn. He released it, and felt the hot passion rise; he needed more blood.

She felt it on her leg. She wondered why she became so lost to the passion of this blood exchange; she didn't want to be their trained puppet.

She would fall for one or leave...or could she leave? Her mind broke from her thoughts as she felt him again, his tongue tracing against the skin of her wrist before he bit down.

She felt her own tongue trace her fangs; food was blood. Blood meant lust. Suddenly sex was a side effect.

He took his member with his other hand and centred it, as it brushed against her folds, sitting just outside, a tease.

She didn't know how to manage this kind of position. She felt her core crave for it; it wanted the passion, the vibration, the release. She was loosing herself and she could do nothing but-

He suddenly took her by the hips and pushed her down onto him.

Her head knocked back as she took him in all at once, surprised by his sudden action. He was not like this; he was slow and calm. Perhaps controlling but nothing like this...maybe there was a bit more shared than she thought between him and Reiji.

Her hips rotated, adjusting for his size. Flinching at the feeling of being completely full all at once. Her head moved back up and she caught his lidded blue stare.

His mouth curled into a slight smirk as he took her rear to guide her movements. His mouth reached for hers, and like so many times before with the other brothers, she found herself biting onto his lip. Perhaps it was the comfort of lips, knowing that as a human this kind of biting was much less taboo. And yet the taste of crimson sugar on her lips as he pressed her up and down, as she took her arms around his neck to hold on was another dangerous dose of the Sakamaki brothers' intrepid craving for her entirety.

She pounded down against him as she felt him press up into her, her panties only pushed off to the side. She knew fully well this was lewd. It was both horrid and pleasurable and it helped her get no closer to the conclusion she needed to reach.

She was so fragile to him and yet, his brothers were right, the blood lust she provided made them nothing but selfish. He didn't mind, but now...if it came down to it...could he give that up?

Humanity. Had it scared them into caring? Or were they blood stained by the lust?

His mind reeled back to the rush of her sudden shivers that ran up him. Her moan sidled these thoughts away and brought him back to the ever growing pressure that welled up – euphoria.

She felt him, when he hit it, like a running vibration through her, and again he pushed her down and she felt herself grinding naturally – she waited for him to hi tit again, as the tingle ran through her body and as she dabbed her tongue against her lips. The rouge lipstick just Shu's blood made her mouth sweet.

She sunk and rose quicker as he seemed to quicken his pace, his own groin now bucking up against her. She was surprised they had not fallen off the chair as of yet, when suddenly she felt him grow slightly bigger inside her.

She shook, feeling the familiar warmth of release, just as his member twitched inside of her as he too felt it's release. The ultimate high; drunk off blood and lust.

She sunk down. He rose and carried her to the bed.

She looked up at him as she tried to keep his gaze, wondering what words he'd leave with her. But she suddenly felt feeble...again left with no clear answer as to what brother cared most.

"...just remember, no choice comes without a domino effect. Whoever you choose...when it happens..." He sighed, his blue eyes remained lidded as he put his earplugs back into his ear. "...you'll start a fire."