There will be no pairings for now. The Sakamaki brothers will eventually grow to see Yui as more of a sister and friend than a lover. If you don't like this concept, feel free to move on to another story.

Yui stepped out of the cab and examined the house before her.

No. This wasn't a house. This was a MANSION!

She was going to be working here? Awesome! Yui had hit the jackpot.

She turned back to the cab to ask the driver how much she owed him, only to see that he was already driving away. "Wait! I didn't pay you!" she yelled, but he didn't slow.

Weird.

Usually, cab drivers were asking for money before she even left the car.

Yui grabbed her suitcase and walked past the front gate. She was sporting jeans and a simple pink sweater. Her platinum blonde hair was tied back, with the short front pieces hanging loosely.

She was ready to begin her new job as a maid. Yui had recently given up her days working in vampire hunting industry. She had been an employee in quite a large company. They had offered her a position when she was eight, still living in the orphanage. They trained her in karate, martial arts, kung fu, and other fighting styles. But everytime Yui was faced with killing a vampire, she couldn't help but feel that she wasn't delivering real justice. Yui was in no way fond of vampires. Nearly every one she had met had been vicious and sociopathic. But they all seemed so human, too human for her to continue hunting with a clean conscience. In reality, Yui had sort of been fired for allowing so many vampires that she couldn't bring herself to hurt escape, but it didn't matter because she had been thinking of quitting anyway.

As she neared the mansion door, it began to rain. The bad weather gave the mansion something of a creepy atmosphere. It hadn't seemed eerie at first. It looked nice and expensive. Very expensive!

Yui shrugged the strange feeling off. A mansion was a mansion, creepy or not. It could be haunted by ghosts for all she cared.

Yui knocked on the front doors, expecting for someone to open it. Instead, they slowly creaked back until they had opened themselves.

Yui shivered. "Weird."

As she was about to walk into the house, she hesitated. "Am I going to regret this?" She ran off a list of things that could go wrong by sealing her fate with one step through these doors, but everything she could think of was far-fetched and ridiculous. "It should be fine."

The doors closed behind Yui once she was inside. "Weirder," she mumbled to herself, staring at them. Maybe there was a breeze.

It was strangely dark. Everything that furnished the house seemed to be in dull colors, mostly red, white, and black. All of the curtains were shut. Same for the windows.

The people living here must be depressed all the time.

Yui wondered if she should open the curtains to shine more light in, but she didn't want to do something that would make her employers uncomfortable. Besides, there wasn't much light outside now that it was raining.

"Hello!" she yelled, her voice echoing a little throughout the house. "I'm the new maid! Is anyone home?!"

No answer, except her own question bouncing off the walls and back into her ear.

Yui ambled further into the house until she saw a boy near her age sleeping on a couch. He was quite handsome, with red hair and a pale face. Yui observed that his clothes were awfully fancy, but his tie was tied wrong, around his neck like a choker and not under his collar. And one pants leg was abnormally cuffed up only a little below the knee.

That's an interesting style, she thought with reserved judgement.

"Excuse me," she said to him. When he didn't stir, she spoke up. "Excuse me!"

Still nothing. Yui shook his shoulder hard. "Dude! Wake up!" she shouted, abandoning her manners.

His eyes finally opened, and he looked unamused. "Ugh, you're so noisy."

He sat up. His eyes were green. And that, coupled with his red hair, reminded Yui of Christmas.

"I'm sorry, but that was kind of the point. You didn't look like you were waking up any time soon."

He groaned and suddenly grabbed Yui's wrist. He pulled hard, trying to yank her onto the couch so he could pull her under him, but Yui steadied her feet and stood firmly on the ground. She was much, much stronger than the average gal. Confused, the boy pulled harder. Yui wasn't having this. She pulled back, and he fell onto the floor with a yelp.

"What were trying to do?" she asked.

Before he could gather himself, another boy appeared in the entry hall. He had dark purple hair, a stark contrast from the other's red hair. He was also taller. And although they were both wearing the same uniform, his was wrinkle-free and pristine. "Who are you?" he said, adjusting the glasses on his face.

"Yui Komori." She held her hand out. "It's very nice to meet you."

He glanced at her hand with a look of disgust before simply staring at her.

Yui slowly let her arm fall back to her side. "I don't have cooties if that's what you're worried about," she laughed awkwardly, trying for humor.

He didn't find it funny.

"And your name?"

"Reiji," he replied curtly.

"That's a nice name."

He said nothing.

Yui leaned in close and whispered, "You don't have that many friends, do you?"

The boy behind her, who had stood up from the floor, laughed.

Reiji frowned.

Yes! A reaction from him.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her, point-blank.

"I'm your new maid."

"Maid? I wasn't informed of this."

"Oh. Really. I think your father hired me. He didn't mention a maid?"

"What do you know about this, Ayato?"

The boy scoffed. "Like I know what our father does. He didn't tell me Pancake was moving in with us."

"Pancake?"

"Yeah, you're as flat as a pancake."

"And you're shorter than a stack of them," Yui retorted.

Ayato growled, standing up straight so he towered over her. "What are you talking about? I'm taller than you."

"Not by much," Yui said.

Reiji sighed. "Let's move this conversation somewhere else."

He led Yui to what seemed to her like a living space, Ayato following from behind. Yui listened to his movements carefully, making certain he wouldn't try something else.

Reiji asked Yui to sit down, but she said she'd feel more comfortable standing.

"Oh, a human!"

Yui jumped at the voice and reflexively whipped her fist back. It connected with something.

"OUCH!" Yui heard someone yell.

She turned to see a third boy holding his nose. A black fedora hid the top layers of his dark orange hair. He had been trying to lick her cheek to freak her out and see her squirm. He enjoyed doing that to humans, especially the girls since he was such a ladies man.

"I'm so sorry!" Yui hurried to apologize. "You just came out of nowhere! It was instinct!"

"How did that hurt so much?" he grumbled in pain and bafflement.

"Wait." Yui dug into her pockets to grab a band-aid. "Here. Need a band-aid?"

"Why do you carry those around with you?" Reiji asked her.

"Force of habit." With Yui fighting vampires in the past, she was always one to have a bandage ready in her pocket in case one bit her.

Reiji clearly didn't understand.

As Yui placed the band-aid in the boy's hand, she saw he had a small mole on the left side of his chin.

Another boy, this one younger-looking than the rest and with a lavender color to his hair, was next to appear from out-of-nowhere at Yui's side. He was holding a teddy bear with an eyepatch over its fake eye. "I wonder how you taste."

He leaned in but Yui backed away.

She laughed a little. That weirdly sounded like something a vampire would say. "Like a person. I imagine you taste the same," she joked.

"Laito! Kanato! You are acting impolite towards our guest!" Reiji scolded.

Laito shouted, "I'm impolite. She punched me in the face."

That's true, Yui thought.

"And anyway, wanting to taste a treat isn't impolite." Laito's voice had gone low and sultry, and Yui didn't like it.

A treat? Something was definitely off about these boys, but Yui held out hope that they were just severe introverts who didn't know how to interact with people.

Ayato announced, "Just so you know Your's Truly saw her first, so Your's Truly will be her first in everything."

"What if I've already had my first in everything?" Yui asked, ignoring how weird that sounded.

Ayato was thrown off by the question. "Well, have you?"

"No, but hypothetically speaking." Yui hadn't even had a first kiss. Or date. Or. . .anything really.

"I'm really sick of you calling yourself Your's Truly," a boy who was now suddenly in the room grumbled. "It's annoying so stop."

Oh. Yay. There are five of these people. Whoopee, Yui thought glumly.

This one's hair was white, with pinkish undertones and pinkish-red eyes to match.

"A human scent woke me up," the boy said.

A human scent? Now that really was something a vampire would say.

Please, no.

Maybe they were just that strange.

The boy looked to Yui and said, "Who do you think you are, daring to interrupt my sleep!"

"How did my smell wake you up?" Yui asked, hoping he would say she smelled so terrible it would wake anyone up and not that he had the heightened senses of a vampire.

Instead of answering, he punched the wall. His fist made a huge dent. "You will answer my question first!"

"I thought your question was rhetorical," Yui defended herself. Geez! Someone has anger issues.

Reiji began asking everyone if they knew about Yui's arrival. Each of them said they didn't.

"Maybe this was the wrong address," Yui suggested. If that were true, she'd be relieved.

"I might know something," a sixth boy to make an out-of the-blue that day appearance muttered. He was lying on the couch with a set of earphones in his ears. The bottom strands of his hair looked blonde but the roots were a light orange. His eyes were closed as he spoke.

Please, tell me he's the last one.

"You know something of this, Shu?" Reiji asked.

"That guy contacted me a couple days ago. He said we'd have a guest, to treat her with respect, and not to kill her."

"Well. . ." Yui swallowed. "That was nice of him."

Was Yui working in an insane asylum?

"What?" Ayato said. "Are you telling me that Pancake here is the Prospective Bride?"

Yui retaliated. "If you keep calling me Pancake, I'm going to start calling you Short-Stack."

Some of the boys laughed.

Ayato wasn't one of them. "How dare you! I already told you, I am not short."

"Really? Because if you were tall, maybe you wouldn't act so defensive about your height."

Ayato was growling again.

Yui thought over the phrase he had used. "Prospective Bride," she repeated thoughtfully. "Is that what rich people are calling it now?"

Reiji turned to Yui. "Allow us to introduce ourselves." He looked at the boy lying on the couch, eyes closed. "That is the eldest son, Shu."

"Shoe? Like what you wear on your foot?" she asked, serious.

Laito and Ayato laughed at that.

Shu opened his eyes to glare at Yui.

"It's a nice name," Yui said, trying to recover from that. "I love shoes."

Reiji continued. "I am Reiji, and I am the second son. On to the triplets, Ayato."

The red-head smiled evilly. "I won't let you get away from me next time."

Yui nodded even though that was the creepiest thing any boy's ever said to her. "Good for you."

"Kanato," Reiji gestured to the boy holding the teddy bear.

Kanato looked like he hadn't slept in months. Poor kid.

He gave her an evil smile that rivaled Ayato's. "I hope to taste you soon."

Were they trying to be creepy?

"Sure about that? Because I sweat a lot. Might be too salty for your fancy palate," Yui joked, assuming that he might have been joking, too.

"And that's Laito," Reiji said at the boy in the hat. He hadn't stuck the band-aid on, but there was no cut or bruise to be seen anyway.

He was smiling, too. "It's a pleasant to make your acquaintance, Little Bird."

"Don't call me that," Yui said to him. That nickname wasn't as demeaning as "Pancake," but something in how it came out of his mouth made Yui shiver.

Reiji told Yui, "The last son is Subaru."

Subaru scoffed. "What a waste of time," he muttered, not sparing Yui a glance.

"Maybe I should make a call. To confirm this," Yui suggested, wanting to believe this was a mistake. She would have preferred working at a gas station if it meant she could be surrounded by relatively normal people.

Yui pulled out her cell phone, which Ayato quickly snatched away.

"Hey!" she protested, reaching for it. Ayato held it up high, over her head. "Give that back to me!"

She jumped for it but couldn't reach.

Ayato laughed. "Who's the short-stack now?"

Yui mustered all her strength into her legs and jumped, propelling herself high off the ground and easily grabbing the phone away.

Ayato, along with some of the others, were gaping. "How did you jump that high?" Ayato yelled in her face.

Yui racked her brain for an excuse. "I used to be on a basketball team."

Yui redialed the number of the man who had anonymously hired her. Ayato tried to grab her phone again but she held him back by his head with ease. The phone rang for a few seconds before going to voicemail. "I'm currently busy. If you want to leave a message, press one. If you're a business associate, press two. If you're in the Sakamaki family, hang up. If you're Yui Komori, press three."

Yui looked at her phone strangely. She was Yui Komori. She pressed three.

"Ms. Komori, I left a note for you in the room you'll be staying at. If you have any questions, which I'm sure you will, the note should answer them. Do not call me again, and if you quit this job you're dead. Goodbye."

Why did she suddenly feel scammed?

"There's no need to look so distressed," Laito said, at her ear.

She was tempted to slap him again, but resisted.

"I'm sure we'll become very good friends."

"To tell you the truth," Kanato began, speaking into her other ear. "I'm feeling a bit peckish at the moment."

"Don't I know it. You smell so delicious it's intoxicating."

Yui coughed nervously and moved away. "Wow! Really? That's the creepiest thing I've heard today. And that's really saying something." Yui leaned her hand against the wall. "OW!" she yelped as a picture frame's unnecessarily sharp edge pricked her finger. There was no picture in the frame, which was odd. Just like everything else around here. Yui shook her hand, as if to shake away the pain. She looked and saw that the tip of her finger was bleeding.

Oh, no!

All the boys, aside from Shu, had moved close. They were staring at her with dark expressions. Their mouths were open enough to reveal sharp fangs.

You've got to be kidding me. Vampires?

"Oh," Yui said, smiling through her anxiety. "That explains a lot." Yui stood there, nodding for a few seconds before shouting, "I'm out of here!" and bolted.

No way was she working for vampires! Not only was it plain weird since she was an ex-vampire hunter. Her old company would see her as a traitor and come after her.

She ran into the halls. She knew she couldn't outrun vampires. She was fast, but they had superhuman speed. She'd have to jump out a window. Knowing vampires, they'd use their powers to keep them locked. She had no choice but to break it open. Yui spotted a window big enough for her to fit through. She ran as fast as she could and propelled herself forward, covering her head.

This was going to hurt. The window broke and Yui fell through it. Her arms had been cut, but she knew how to break a window while leaving only surface-level wounds.

Yui rolled off the grass and started running for the gate. It was closed. She have to climb it. Just then, her phone rang. Yui rarely receive calls, so thinking it would be her anonymous employer, she checked the caller-ID as she ran. It was the same number.

"Are you quitting?" he said once she answered.

Yui stopped at the gate. "What?"

"If you quit, you're dead. Didn't you hear my message?"

"You didn't tell me your sons were vampires. You should know why I can't stay. Get another maid."

"Go back or else. Your room is the pink door. Read the note inside. It should explain everything."

"What will you do if I do quit?"

"I'm a very powerful man. You should be afraid of me, more afraid of me than of that stupid vampire hunting company. Now, go back. If you walk away, you'll regret it."

He hung up.

Yui exhaled. Great!

She turned around and went back to the front doors.

She reached out to open them, but once again they opened themselves.

"Yeah, we get it, doors!" she yelled, walking through them. "You can open by yourselves! Good for you! You don't need to do it every time!"

Yui turned to see the six vampires standing in the entryway. Shu and Reiji looked unamused. Ayato, Subaru, Laito, and Kanato, however, were just a little more surprised.

"Hi," she smiled awkwardly.

"You broke our window," Reiji said, deadpanned.

"Oh. Well, you know. Doors are for boring people." She was about to offer to fix it, before realizing she didn't have any money. "You can take it out of my pay."

"Why'd you come back?" Subaru asked her.

"Oh. Yeah, sorry for that whole scene." Yui plucked a piece of glass out of her hair and wiped her blood on her jeans. "It's just, you know. I realized it was pointless trying to escape, so I just gave up."

When they just stared at her, Yui asked, "Um. . .is there a room with a pink door here?"

"Upstairs," Reiji answered after a little while.

"Awesome. Oh!" Yui curtsied, remembering her manners as she tried her best to pretend this bunch wasn't vampires. "I'm Yui Komori. Your new maid. If you need anything cleaned, come talk to me! I'm going to find my room. I'll come back for my suitcase after I clean the glass out of my hair."

She gave them a thumbs up and quickly walked past them for the stairs.

I hoped you liked it. More chapters coming soon! But you'll notice that future chapters will veer further away from the original plot.