Darkness filled the small room and the only source of light came from an open laptop sitting on a wooden desk. In front of it sat a girl wearing a sweatshirt and sweat pants along with a messy bun to keep her hair up. It was around 3 in the morning and the teenager had yet to go to sleep. She spent her night hours watching different animes along with reading manga online. Currently, she was finishing the last episode of an anime she found earlier. That anime was none other than-
"I'll take it from here Author-san," I said to no one while closing my tabs and turning off my laptop.
My name is (Y/N) (L/N) and the anime I had just finished watching was titled Diabolik Lovers. I had just binged both seasons to it and was severely disappointed. All the guys were complete jerks, sure they had terrible pasts but still. That gives them no reason to go around turning people into wax dolls or forcing them to drink spiked tea.
Probably should have listened to those reviews on MyAnimeList but oh well. Too late, I'll just fall asleep now and find a new anime to bing tomorrow after school. I collapse on my bed and allow sleep to consume me.
The obnoxious noise of my alarm clock wakes me up and I begin my morning routine. Before I knew it I was out the door on my way to the bus stop. While waiting I pulled out my phone and started to look up anime recommendations. I had picked Diabolik Lovers last night because it had vampires but that was a mistake. I ran across a cute slice of life anime by the name of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and decided I'd watch it tonight to recover from last night's trash show.
The bus arrived and I got on and sat my self. It was cloudy and dark and all in all dreary. Today was just going to be another dreary day just like normal. After some time more kids started to get on and the bus became real crowded.
I was relieved to freed when we arrived at school. I began to make my way through the crowded hallways and entered my 1st period which was English. I took a seat in the back of the class and began the warm-up while other students entered the class.
I was finished with it by the time the tardy bell rang and everyone was in class. I was still looking down as I was reading fanfic on my phone and trying my best not to get caught. I put my phone away when I heard my teacher say something about a new student.
She made a hand motion at the open classroom door which is where I guess the newbie was hiding.
The boy walked in and she introduced him to the class. "This is Subaru Sakamaki, his family has recently moved here from Japan. I expect you all to be kind to Mr. Sakamaki."
My mouth fell as I stared at him. This had to be a dream because standing on the other side of the room was one of the trash vampires from that anime I watched last night. I pinch my arm to wake myself up but it failed.
The teacher looked around the room searching for an empty seat to put Subaru and noticed the one next to me.
"Subaru you can take the empty desk back there next to(Y/N)." She said while pointing to the only desk available which happened to be next to me.
The boy didn't say anything and just walked to the desk and took a seat. I felt my heartbeat skyrocket and my palms started to sweat. I slowly turned my head to look at the albino and his eyes quickly met mine with a glare. I stared at him with a mixture of fear and curiosity. He turned his head back to the front and I was left staring.
I wasn't sure what to do so I decided to try talking to him because chances are I was gonna have to eventually.
"Pst! Pst! Aye Subaru, I'm (Y/N). Nice to meet you." I whispered to him.
He didn't say anything but there was no way he didn't hear me since our two desks were connected; he was literally right next to me.
I decided to make a second attempt at grabbing his attention.
"Hey!" I whisper yelled at him, which he continued to ignore.
Starting to get annoyed at him I decided to say something that was bound to get a reaction. "You know life's always better when you're riding a Subaru."
It worked because he turned to look at me and I could see the anger in his eyes. I grinned at him, happy that I had finally got his attention.
Before he could go back to ignoring me, I popped a question. "Hey, so, like, you're a vampire, right?"
His eyes widened in shock at my question.
"How do you know that?" He asked.
I giggled and replied to him. "Oh, so you can hear me. I was beginning to worry."
"Tch, answer my question, idiot." He said to me while glaring.
I stayed silent for a moment and looked at the clock.
Grinning I replied to him. "Hmm, I would but the bell's gonna ring. How 'bout you find me at lunch?."
Before he could say anything else, the bell rang and I grabbed my bag and hurried to my next class. I wonder if I'd meet the rest of the brothers today and if I did, would I make it home alive with all my blood?
My thoughts were quickly interrupted when I hit a large traffic jam in the hallway I was in. Barely anyone was moving and at this rate, I was gonna be late to my Algebra class. Let me say my Algebra teacher had no mercy to late students or any of his students.
I started to push and shove my way out of the crowd. People were pissed at me for shoving my way though but look my life was on the line. If I didn't make it to that class on time who knows how I'd be publicly humiliated by the teacher.
I soon reached the main hallways but right as I did I heard the warning bell go off. I took off running down the main hallway headed to my main goal. I past a few students on my way but no vampires.
Barely making it I entered the room and took my seat. I failed to notice the difference in the room as I was trying to catch my breath. I only realized it when the teacher brought it to the class's attention.
"Today we have a new student coming all the way from Japan. It's my pleasure to introduce Reiji Sakamaki." Said my teacher while looking at the raven purple-haired male sitting in the desk next to me.
"Shit," I said under my breath. Quiet enough for no human to hear but unfortunately loud enough for a vampire to hear.
Reiji turned his head to look at me and raised an eyebrow. I nervously laughed and introduced my self. "Hello, I'm (Y/N) (L/N), a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
I had no idea if I was using that last word right but I sure hope I was. The only thing I remembered about him was that he was crazy about manners, tableware, and tea.
Reiji seemed satisfied with my introduction and replied to me. "It's nice to see that someone in this school has manners."
"Well, American teenagers aren't very concerned with manners when in highschool. Anyway's, I hear you're from Japan. What are you doing here?" I asked him with a friendly smile on my face.
At this point, we were totally ignoring the teacher's lecture but I doubt any of this was new material to him.
Reiji seemed to consider his response before answering. "Yes, I see that the amount of profanity I've already heard today is deplorable. To answer your question, I'm here temporarily with my five brothers. Our father dropped us off here saying it would be good for us.
I was relieved to know he was here with only his brothers, and it looked like I wouldn't have to deal with the Mukami's.
The conversation seemed to end there and before I knew it I was running to my History class.
I arrived a few minutes early and the class was still partially empty. I took my seat in the back and noticed that the eldest brother seemed to be sitting next to me. I would have introduced myself but he seemed occupied in dreamland.
The bell went off and the class began. The teacher took one look at Shu's sleeping form and rolled her eyes and carried on with class.
Midway we were surprised with a pop quiz which I was not prepared for. I struggled to answer the questions. Eventually, as a last-minute resort, I attempted to glance at my neighbor's paper but unfortunately, he was asleep and his paper was blank.
I whispered and yelled quietly to get his attention. "Pst! Shu! What's the answer to number two?"
He cracked one eye open to look blankly at me. "How would I know?" He asked before closing his eyes.
I furrowed my brows before replying. "Because you were alive during it! Now tell me the god damn answer, Shu."
His eyes shot open at this and he stared at me shocked before answering my question. "Queen Elizabeth…wait how did you even-"
He was cut off by the bell's loud ring signaling lunch. I got up quickly and dropped my quiz in the work basket before heading to lunch.
I decided that I would head to the library to do some further research on the Sakamaki's. I signed in and took a seat in a secluded corner surrounded by bookshelves. I put my earbuds in and turned my music on but my earbuds were quickly yanked out. I looked up to see who had done it and low and behold it was Subaru Sakamaki.
He wore his normal grumpy expression and was holding my earbuds in his hand.
"Look I dunno why your so mad but at least give me my earbuds back. You can talk to me about why you're pissed if you want." I said while looking up at him from my seat on the floor.
"Tch, you're the one who told me to find you at lunch, and now that I found you I want my answers." He said while sitting down across from me.
Well shit, I didn't think he'd take it seriously or would even find me.
"Answers, answers, hmm well on that quiz in history Shu told me the answer was Queen Elizabeth," I replied while looking up Subarus wiki artificial on my phone.
If this albino could be any angrier then he always was well he is now.
He slammed his hand down on the ground before replying. "Dammit, that's not what I was talking about. I want to know why the hell you know what I am."
I rolled my eyes before replying. "And I want to know why you're always so angry. How about if you ask nicely?"
This did not please the angry albino as he just glared at me in response. "What? Too prideful to give a human some respect?" I said.
In truth, the reason I wasn't answering him was that I was desperately searching his wiki page for any information that could help me. I got sidetracked tho and found myself reading the trivia section. The first thing that popped up was that 's management was apparently a loner.
I looked up from my phone to see him still sitting on the floor across from me. I admit I felt a bit of pity for him. It's not fun being alone, but then again he could try to be more friendly.
I shut my phone off and put it in my pocket. I wasn't sure what I should tell him. The one thing I was sure of was that I was not telling him he's a fictional character from an anime. A quick google search of his name will tell him that so no need for me to risk anything.
After a few seconds of us both sitting in silence, it finally hit me. "Your teeth," I said to which he just gave a confused look. "They're really pointy and your eyes were red tho maybe that's because you're an albino. Anyways it was meant as a joke but I guess you really are one so cool I guess."
The albino looked a bit shocked and confused at my statement. "You're just gonna accept it like that? Hell why do you even believe it, I could be lying to you."
I put my hand on my chin and acted as if I was pondering on the thought before replying. "True but for now I'll believe you. Anyway since your new you probably have no friends right? so why don't you and I be friends?"
He looked at me in disgust as I smiled back at him. "No way," he said flatly. This tho did nothing towards me.
"Too bad we're gonna be best friends whether you like it or not!" I said while standing up.
Before he could object again the bell rang telling us to go back to class and I was off, but before I was too far away I turned around and yelled. "Don't forget to return my earbuds!" Needless to say, the librarians weren't too happy about my yelling.
History flew by and Shu was too busy napping to question my earlier comment. Once class was finished I hurried myself to my next and final class for the day, Creative Writing. I was looking forward to today's class as our teacher had told us last time that we would begin our yearly project.
Every year we were assigned a topic or topics to pick from to write about and we would turn it in at the end of the year. Last year when I was a freshman I had been told to write a story taking place in medieval times. It had taken a good bit of research but I had enjoyed it.
I walked into the room only to stop dead in my tracks. There amongst the other familiar students were three unfamiliar yet known faces. In the middle row sat Kanato Sakamaki talking to his stuffed bear. Off to the left of the room was Laito Sakamaki flirting with a group of girls. Last but certainly least was Ayato Sakamaki sitting in the back looking like he wanted nothing more than to not be here.
I decided to take a seat up in the front row. As much as it pained me to be sitting in front row it was better than sitting near any of the Sakamaki's. Not much time passed before the teacher walked in and begun class.
"Hello, friends, as I'm sure you've all noticed we have been joined by three new faces. I hope that you guys and gals help them settle in and catch them up." Ms. Tavener said while walking to her desk.
She picked up a small bowel and walked to the center of the class. "Now I know you all are excited about learning the topic of this year's project. This year our theme is mythical creatures or beings. To decide you all will be pulling a slip of paper and whatever you get you will write about."
Chatter erupted immediately at this, some sounded excited, ours sounded worried. I couldn't blame them depending on what you pulled could tell you whether you'd have an automatic A or heaps of studying to do on some mythical creature you know nothing about.
The chatter continued till our teacher yelled "If your talking and you know it clap your hands!" To this, we all clapped. While childish it did get our attention.
"Now I'm going to come around and each of you is going to grab a folded slip from the bucket but no one is to look at them till I say so."
With that, she started to walk around by rows. I got mine pretty fast since I was in front but that also meant I had to wait in suspense as everyone grabbed theirs.
When was finished she walked up to the front and counted down from 3 loudly and then told us to look.
There were shouts of excitement mixed in with shouts of confusion. I think I heard one kid yell "Naaldooshii". I on the other hand stared at my slip of paper in shock. What was the probability that out of 20 something students I would be assigned, vampires?
I was really tempted to glance back at one of the three vampires but stayed facing the front. Teach told us that for the rest of the class we were to think up a story and title. Other than this bit of class time it would be up to us to take the time to write our story.
The whole time I sat there staring at my paper. Is the universe trying to tell me something? If so I'm not getting the message.
I gave in and turned around to look at the three vampires. I made eye contact with Ayato first who gave me a smirk. My eyes darted away and next thing I knew Laito was giving me a wink and mouthing "Bitch~chan". I blushed a bit and looked at Kanato who was holding teddy and he just gave me his classic creepy "I'm going to kill you and turn you into a wax doll" smile. I looked away and stared at my notebook. It appeared all I had to do was look at three sadistic vampires because I already knew what I was going to write and the title.
Just before the bell rang I wrote at the top of the first page How to Survive Modern Day Vampires.
Right after that, the bell rang and school was over for the day. As I walked out of the school and was faced with the bright rays I smiled. It was gonna be a long year and who knows if I'd survive. In order to write my story, I was gonna have to get close to the vampires, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get that story. Even if it meant getting bitten a couple of times.