so for the lack of update, I re-wrote this chapter like 5 times I swear...even still, please excuse any spelling errors.

p.s. I'm suuuupper glad that you guys are enjoying my fanfic, your comments literally make my day!

The moon was her sun...

The night was her day...

Her blood is their life...

But they are her prey...

There were many things that I allowed.

I allowed my younger sister to act like a spoiled brat…

I allowed my little brother and law to be ensnared in her acidic web even knowing that she would never love him the way he loved her…

I even allowed my nephews to forgo eating their veggies because their pleading cute faces were just too hard to resist…

What I did not allow was for Karlheinz to take up residence in my autumn home….

"What in hell do you think that you're doing?" I hissed as I glared at him as he lounged on my sofa….my god damned sofa!

"Resting…"

"What are you doing in my house…your answer better be fucking good or you can expect a fist to the face."

"I expect you to physically lash out at me even when I'm not invading your personal space-" He said with a chuckle before sobering up upon seeing my murderous gave. He stood up with his hands raised as a sign of surrender.

"I was just making sure you were well."

"Why wouldn't I be well?"

"Don't play coy I know about what happened? I have eyes everywhere."

"Then you would also know that it was completely pointless for you to come here. Obviously I am well."

"On the outside…what about the inside…aren't you hungry, have you eaten?"

"Not at all, I had a lovely snacks on my way here."

He stared at me. Obviously my answer was not one that he was excepting.

"Now, what do you want?"

"It's about the project."

I let out a deep sigh. "What is it now?"

"If you're this displeased, then maybe I shouldn't disclose-"

"Shut up and tell me already." I growled.

The two of us sat down and talked like adults with occasional snide remark here and there. I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose trying to calm myself. "And what the fuck made you think that I would be ok with this? That I would allow you to do that?"

He remained silent for a moment before speaking. "You might not be ok with it now…but you will…"

I stared at him with narrowed eyes. "What's that supposed to mean?"

I would have laughed at his actions if they didn't put me on edge. Karlheinz the feared vampire king avoided eye contact with me.

"What do you know you that I don't, if you continue wanting my help you need to tell me everything."

He stood. "I think my time here, is done. Think about it Michiko…it is for the best…"

"What are you not telling me you bastard!" I snarled only to realize he had already teleported away.

"Son of a bitch!" I growled slamming my hands on my desk before letting out another growl when the desk shattered.

I closed my eyes at the sound of feet making their way towards me.

"Michiko-chan, are you alright?" Called a familiar male voice.

"How long was he here." I asked instead.

"Surprisingly not long, although he did seem to be looking for something."

"Did he sense you here, you know that bastard is looking for a vessel." I asked with a frown as I opened my eyes. My amethyst glaring into his magenta.

"I don't think so…" The taller male said his hand brushing his wavy honey-blond hair that falls naturally between his eyes away, only for them to fall back into their original position.

"…good...it would be best in your best interest if he never learns that you reside here, I don't like sharing." I said darkly before my mood brightened as his delicious scent surrounded me. "Now gimme your blood."

He tsked pulling away when I leaned towards his neck and I narrowed my eyes. "You trying to pick a fight with me Yukio?"

"No, I just want to know why he was here." The blonde said.

I rolled my eyes. "He was here to piss me off, which he did I'm in a foul mood, now give me your blood."

He pulled back again. "If that where the case why did he offer his blood to you?"

"What does it matter?" I huffed.

"Because his reason matters to me." He said stubbornly.

I paused taking a look at the male. My eyes widened and a smirk streaked across my lips. "Oh dear…Yukio…there's no need for you to be jealous."

His pale face inflamed. "I-I'm not jealous."

I wrapped my arms around him placing my head on his chest. "You are…its cute."

He sputtered out words that didn't matter to me.

"Be silent prey, and let me drink your blood." I said with a huff as I licked his cheek making his face grow even redder.

I tsked at the layers of clothing he had on, but I never minded striping him. My eyes narrowed when I noticed exactly what he had on though. "You have on a coat…you smell like outside."

At his flushed but confused expression I spoke again. "I you left the mansion. Why."

He looked away and I could smell the subtle scent of fear wafting from him. My eyes narrowed and I let out a warning growl. "Why?"

"There was a woman-"

"A dead woman." I said tightening my grip onto him making him wince.

"Michiko-"

"What did this woman want form you?" I said cutting him off.

"She wanted me to look after her son." He said with a sigh.

I stared at him blankly. "What?"

"She's with child and the child is fine... but she's sick and she's getting better..."

I continued to just stare at him.

"So anyways she asked me to look after him, that's all." He said finishing quickly.

I narrowed my eyes. "She didn't want your blood?"

He sighed. "No, she didn't want my blood. She wasn't a vampire, she was just a human that-"

"Good." I said cutting him off before leaning in and sinking my fangs into his neck. His body shuddered letting out a moan, his hands clutched my body unconsciously pulling me flushed against his body.

keh, I had turned him into a little masochist.

I pulled away when I felt his heart beat slowdown. "Yukio…"

"Yes?" He said breathily.

"You do not have permission to leave this property line." I said sternly.

"Michiko-" he began to speak and my lip twitched at his sudden new found defiance streak. I cut him off speaking over him again.

"And if you do it again, and I'll consider it a breach in our contract and I know you wouldn't want that..."

"But, that child-" He tried to argue.

"I don't care!" I growled silencing him. "Humans are of no concern of mine, humans are nothing more than a food source and entertainment so remember your place!"

He looked down and I grabbed his chin forcing him to look at me. "The life of one human child means nothing to me, if its mother cannot provide for it and if it has no strength to survive than it is better off dead. That is the way of the world."

"I don't believe in that." He muttered as if I wouldn't hear him but we both knew that I would.

"Believe it, because it's true, surely your medical history will confirm that much to you. You humans are breed to die; some of you just expire sooner than others." I said with a shrug as I moved from him leaving him to his thoughts.

~~~Guilty Pleasures~~~

"Michiko-chan!" Ayato said running towards me.

"Hello Hunny." I smiled bending down with my arms open to accept the hug that I knew he wanted to give me.

"Where did you go Michiko-chan, you were here when I went to wake you?" Ayato asked after hugging me.

"I know, I'm sorry but I just went to grab a bite to eat." I said with a soft smile as I brought my hand to his face and caressed his cheek.

Ayato frowned but nodded. He flinched instantly moving closer to me when we both heard Cordelia shouting his name.

"What's on your mind Hunny?" I asked as Ayato shifted on his feet. I frowned at the smell of fear suddenly emitted from his body as the sound of Cordelia grew closer to our position.

He looked up at me with pleading eyes before whispering so softly that if I wasn't kneeling in front of him I would have never even hear him, even with our hearing. "Hide me."

I frowned wondering just what was the boy was trying to hide from when I looked up and saw an less than pleased Cordelia heading our way.

She opened up her mouth and looked like she was about to yell when I spoke to her.

"Good evening sister, you are looking even more radiant today than yesterday." I said politely as Ayato tried to hide himself in my legs.

Cordelia's face twitched her mouth opened and closed like she was now at war with herself on what she was going to say.

"Thank you sister." She said after a moment, before looking between Ayato and I with a frown.

"Ayato, you should be in your room studying, shouldn't you." She said looking at her son with a rather cold look but her voice remained even, no doubt being somewhat controlled with me being here. "You want to make me proud, you must become to best, you must become king, you do not want to disappoint me."

I frowned, imagining how this very scene would take place if I wasn't here, my mind couldn't help but replay the conversation shared between Karlheinz. I looked at my younger sister with penetrating, assessing eyes.

"I-I…" Ayato couldn't even speak to her, but that was ok, his fate was decided before she even showed up anyway.

I placed my hand on Ayato making him look away from her and up at me as I sent Cordelia another bright smile. "Sister you worry too much and apply too much pressure on him and at such a young age…"

"Michiko…Ayato needs to study. He is the heir-"

"Then he can study from me, who better to learn from than me, he would learn better from me than any old books you could give him."

"Michiko."

I raised my hand silencing her as I picked up Ayato holding him on my hip. "I've already decided."

Before she could get out another word I teleported us away.

"All work and no play will make for a dull sport." I said when Ayato looked at me curiously, we in the training room.

"What are we doing here?"

"This is one of my favorite places in the house, I brought you here to teach you something very important."

"What?"

"How to defend yourself." I said seriously.

Ayato cocked his head to the side. "I already know how to fight. I've trained with servants before, mother made sure."

I kneeled down next to him. "That may be so, but I want to teach you something different…if you are willing to learn it from me."

Ayato nodded intrigued.

"Good," I walked over grabbing two swords before walking back and handing one to him.

"You have been trained with a sword right"

Ayato nodded.

"Good, this will make training you a bit easier on me." I said with a smile before I turned serious. "Now, I want you to come at me."

"Heh?"

"I want you to charge me, attack me with all of your might."

"But I do want to attack you"

I smiled "Hunny I will be fine, you don't have to worry about hurting me. ok."

Ayato nodded although he still looked hesitant and unsure. "Ok."

I held the sword towards him. "Now attack me."

He gripped his sword before charging me.

We practiced for several hours with me stopping to correct his form every so often, or me telling him how to attack me more effectively before I told him to take a break. He was breathing heavily and I hadn't even broken out a sweat, but I suppose that was to be expected.

I watched his chest rise and fall and sighed in disappointment. My nephew was still not nearly where I wanted him to be, he refused to come at me with killer intent…and he was still fighting like a human.

~~~Guilty Pleasures~~~

"Michiko-chan are you ready to train." Ayato said running towards me as I sat in an open meadow by the mansion.

I turned my head turned him, a picture of innocence with a flower crown resting on my head as he continued to make his way towards me.

"Of course!"

He lunged for me and I caught him spinning him around and around. I had just set his feet on the ground when I felt it.

I wrapped my body around Ayato covering his with my own as several arrows were shot at him.

"M-Michiko-chan" He trembled in fear and confusion.

I smiled blood trickling down my lips. "Ayato…I'm so glad you're ok."

"Michiko-chan…" Tears were flowing from his eyes as I stood griping my sword as I faced the attackers. Three figures stood not so far away staring at us with glowing red eyes.

"Ayato get away from here." I said automatically. I was going to protect him at all costs.

"But-"

"Now they won't hesitate to kill you, get away from here I'll take care of this." I said before running towards the trio.

The trio attacked ruthlessly and I the same….but it was only a matter of time before I was over powered.

One of them chuckled "…how the mighty have fallen…tell me you majesty how does it feel to be at death doorstep?"

I smirked. "Wonderful!"

The male frowned. "Still acting touch even when you're so obviously beaten."

I just smirked angering the male further. He raised her arm before punching me in the face, although that didn't remove my smirk.

The male looked ready to blown a fuse when his eyes landed on something behind me. He began to chuckle.

My arms where pulled back and restrained as I was turned to face Ayato holding his sword out in a fighting stance. "Leave my Michiko-chan alone!"

The figure laughed as he stalked closer to the younger boy as he expertly aimed his sword towards him.

"No!" I yelled flashing in front of Ayato. My eyes widened along with Ayato's as everything grew silence.

I let out an involuntary cough, blood coming from my mouth. "Ayato you idiot, I told you to run…"

"M-Michiko-chan…why" His words trembled.

I grunted falling to my knees. I looked at him noticing that some of my blood had gotten on him.

I smiled raising my hand to his face to wipe his tears. "I protected you, because I care about you more than myself."

His entire body seemed to tremble at my words, I coughed again before looking down as the sword that was showing through my stomach before reaching before me and pulling it from my back.

I let out a strangled cry when the metal had left my body before falling backwards with my eyes closed with a smile.

Before my body could hit the ground though I was caught by smaller hands.

"Ayato…I love you…" I said softly.

I could feel his heart beating erratically, almost as if about to burst from his chest as I felt him bury his face into my neck, his tears feeling like liquid fire against my skin.

~~~Guilty Pleasures~~~

"Is this the first time you have watched someone you love die…" The male figure asked Ayato.

Ayato just stared at the as the male picked up the sword that Michiko had just removed from her body.

"This is part of what it means to be royalty young prince. When you play the game of thrones you either win….or you die." The male said staring at the young boy with hard unforgiving eyes.

"Shut up." Ayato muttered weakly. He looked over Michiko's body. His hand brushing the hair from her face as he whispered. "I…love you too Michiko."

It was the first time he had said her name without the honorific.

The demon trio watched, tensely as the very air seemed to thin. They watched intently. The ground around the young prince and the demon queen seemed to darken before spreading out in a circle.

"I will never forgive you…" The demons tightened their grips on their weapons. When the boy spoke, it was no longer the voice of a child…it was the voice of something sinister…

Dark energy circled around the two before shooting towards the sky. A tower of dark energy...

"I'm gonna kill you…" Ayato snarled maliciously as he looked upon the trio.

"What the hell…."One of the men gasps as they stared into the boys eyes, they were no longer a peridot green, instead his pupils had slit and his iris were slowly fading from that spring green to a vengeful fuchsia…

~~~...…...~~~

I sighed shaking my head but had a smirk on my lips as I watched the fight. I was perfectly fine, my body without the 'fatal' wounds it had moments before.

A warning growl was all the trio had been given before Ayato had begun his ruthless attack.

I put my hand to my cheeks as a blush formed on my face just watching him…I could feel the bloodlust… the pure untamed rage.

His attacks were unforgiving…heartless and I swooned at the thought of how he would look when he grew of age to control his demonic energy.

As of now, is whipped around him reckless and wild, untrained….but that wasn't anything I couldn't fix now that I had cracked open that door.

I watched as my nephew let out a monstrous roar as he plunged his clawed hand through the demons leg, the demon letting out a roar of his own.

The three fought him off to the best of their abilities but it was obvious they were out matched.

One of the figures looked to me, his eyes pleading.

I sighed knowing that they wouldn't be able to take much more from Ayato and nodded my head. Next time I would need to hire stronger demons…

They teleported before Ayato could pierce them with his sword.

Ayato confused and now even more enraged at his adversary disappearing act dropped to his knees with his head to the scream and let out the most soul wrenching cry I'd ever heard.

"MICHIKO!" He cried out my name over and over his demonic energy flaring around him like wild fire and I quickly made my way towards him before he could hurt himself.

I wrapped my arms around him letting my scent and energy cocoon his own. "Ayato…I'm here…you are safe…"

He turned slowly as if he was sure but when I flashed him a smile he immediately jumped into my arms burying his face into my chest and deeply inhale my scent, I tightened my hold on him.

"Michiko I thought…I thought you were dead…don't leave me…don't ever die!" He whimpered as his face continued to stay buried into my chest.

"I won't Ayato, I won't ever die." I said to him kissing his head as he held onto me for dear life.

I stood carry him with me as I walked back to the mansion. I bit my lip as I thought over my actions wondering about the future side effects this would have on Ayato. I didn't exactly want to use this method of training letting the boy think I was dead and pushing his mind to the edge of despair…especially considering I never liked it when my father used it on me…

However now I see why he did it, the results were very effective. By giving Ayato such a traumatic experience his demonic blood overloaded his body, cracking his seal and drove him into a fit of feral rage. A cruel thing to do to any child...and yet...it had to be done.

I looked down at Ayato's now sleeping figure, his newly awoken demonic appearance fading away with his energy.

I walked to Ayato's room trying to place him in his bed but his grip on my never wavered.

I sighed before moving towards my own bed chambers.

I continued to hold him as I slide onto into my bed.

"What the hell was that?"

"And my day was fine, how was yours?" I countered instead.

"Very funny Michiko, what the hell are you playing at?"

"Careful if you speak any louder you'll wake him, and considering he is in a very sensitive transitory state…he might mistake you for an enemy and attack you…"

"What give you the right to go and break his demonic seal." Cordelia hissed venomously and I looked at her through my lashes.

I didn't bother with a verbal answer…I simply smirked further pissing her off.

She let out a hiss but quieted when Ayato shifted letting out a low growl clutching me tighter to him.

I smirked at his actions unconscious actions even as Cordelia's expression darkened.

"You can't go doing what you want with him, he is my heir, he belongs to me."

My eyes glinted as I stared back at her. "He was yours...but not anymore, the demonic energy that now flows freely through his body is proof of that, as is the red string that binds us by our rightful nature. Ayato belongs to me now..."

Cordelia bristled her lips in a scowl.

My eyes narrowed slightly on her form. "Did you honestly think you could keep this sealed forever...not that you even have that type of power. No, that was just pure foolishness on our part now...leave us."

"As you wish...sister." My sister's eyes glowed venomously before she teleported away.

I stared at the spot that she had just been in before letting out a sigh and glancing back at Ayato. I pulled a blanket over both of us placing my chin on his head and closing my eyes.

I had unknowingly just painted a target on his back.

OK.

Even though this chapter is not as long as the other I still feel like a lot just went down.

So questions and comment and I'll get back to you.

p.s. I realize that this was suppose to be a lighthearted and playful chapter between Michiko and Ayato but alas...it just wasn't goin down like that. Sorry if it aint what you were lookin for!