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The moon was her sun...

The night was her day...

Her blood is their life...

But they are her prey...

I squealed with excitement as I leafed through a few of my letters. Before tearing open the two that gathered my attention one from my house and the other from my castle in the demon realm.

"Who're the letters from?" Laito asked as he lay with his head in my lap. Laito had been rather affectionate lately not that it was necessarily a bad thing…but it did make me worry. He was being even more clingy than Ayato and I didn't even believe that was even possible.

"My precious son and my adorable daughter."

"Son? Daughter?" Ayato's voice was gruff and was the opposite of Kanato's. "Mi-chan when did you bare children?"

I blinked though I wasn't fazed when Laito's voice was joined by his brothers who had probably been eavesdropping to make sure Laito wasn't getting too much of my attention.

The boys had set up a schedule of sorts on who and when they could spend time with me and what they could do during that time.

Reiji used his time to talk learn more of the demon realm in general when I restricted him from asking about my court.

He also used this time to test his creations on me not that I minded more of the ones he chose were quite innocent and I wondered if he had used all of his harsher potions on Beatrix.

Kanato used his time to have the most elaborate tea parties but of course that was only half the fun… the other occupants of our tea parties were corpses that Kanato often apologized for when they began to reek much like human flesh does.

I listened to him as he explained his little process of turning the help into his dolls before being unable to resist the temptation of offering him a few pointers on for decomposing flesh.

Afterwards it seemed Kanato was a ball of chaotic activity before much like a child that consumed too much sugar crashed against me.

The time Kanato spent with me, I believed was the most time I had ever seen Kanato sleep so peacefully.

The dark circles under his eyes became none existent as the days stretched on, his skin taking on a healthier glow and I was sure he even grew a couple of inches more as I made sure he took my blood in higher doses than his brothers.

It made me wonder just what was it that was putting my little bird under such stress that he couldn't or wouldn't sleep…that left his body in such a weakened state that he wasn't growing at the rate of his brothers like it should have been.

With Subaru, when we were not taking care of the rose gardens, we hidden there in secret. There hidden by the thorned delights the albino was quick to let out the more secret childish side of himself…demanding that I read to him or sing to him while he rested his head in my lap and drifted off to sleep. In those quite moments he so often reminded me of my angel.

And speaking of, Shu was the only one that could enter the garden, and so the blonde often joined ups laying his head on my lap or shoulder closing his eyes merely content to listen to my voice.

Ayato was the one that was the most active besides Kanato, Ayato like to play and so did I. Our games ranged from pranks to pillow fights to sword fights though not always. There were times Ayato mellowed and merely just stared into my eyes as he clutched to me hanging to me desperately like a life line…like he was afraid I would slip from his fingers.

"I've never had a child Kanato, but I have adopted a couple over time. I have a son, whom I adopted when he was a tiny baby whom I named Kino but before him I adopted a girl named Shizuma. I knew her family as they were close to mine before she was born then Shizuma was born and tragedy struck her family…I couldn't leave her alone to find for herself in the demon realm, and I wouldn't subject one of our kind to the hands of mortals especially one of our young girls."

The boys seemed to take the news in stride.

"So, what do the letter say?" Ayato asked trying to read my letter to which I held away from him making him pout.

"That they miss me" I said cheekily.

"Why does Shizuma-chan refer to you as Oneesama instead of Haha-ue or at least Okaa-san?" Laito asked and I pulled my letter closer to me as he took advantage of me holding to letters away from his brother to read them himself.

Because she wishes too, she long since understand that I was not her real mother and if she wishes to refer to me as her big sister that is fine as well.

"Is she visiting us?"

"No," I said, standing and striding towards to exist "But Kino might, I shall prepare a room for him."

The boys didn't react the way I had expected them too upon Kino's arrival. I had expected them to go into a jealous fit every time Kino got too close to me or anytime that I doted on him but they didn't seem to detest him at all. For the most part the boys seemed unperturbed by the fact that he claimed me as his mother so long as he didn't claim Karl as his father in the same sentence. Nothing brought out the boys fangs faster than the thought of me sleep and breeding a child with Karl. A couple of weeks later and Kino begrudgingly had to return to the demon realm though promising to send Ayato who Kino seemed to have a strange attachment too, a copy of his favorite game.

The boys were back to normal, which meant their sires were able to come back to them.

Beatrix returned in much better spirits than she left, though she was even more reclusive and when I asked her what happened during the time before my arrival she shook her head saying that the past was the past.

Cordelia returned a week after Beatrix much to the displeasure of her sons. I hovered over her as she had returned looking like a ghoul freshly risen from the grave, though the more I doted the more she seemed to shrink away from me. She like Beatrix never told me what the boys did prior to my arrival nor did she tell me what had happened to her while she was away…her distance certainly hurt but I figured she would tell me when she was ready.

I returned to the estate a smile stretching across my face when I didn't find it in shambles but instead before dog piled by the boys and Shizuma who surprised me when confessing that she had been staying longer than I thought. The boys seemed to tolerate Shizuma much like the Sakamaki to Kino, though they however didn't appreciate how Shizuma seemed to cling to me singing my praises dawn til dusk.

"You're sitting in my spot…again" Ruki huffed as he glared at Shizuma as she took the seat to my right.

The silverette looked over at him unbothered by the dark glare he was shooting her way and merely smiled. "But I thought you said this seat was for the second oldest in the house?"

"Yes, that's why it's my seat."

"Ne, but Ruki-kun, you are not the second oldest in the house…I am, so that means I can sit here."

Ruki glared at her.

"Don't worry you can sit next to your neechan." She said patting the seat next to her. "I don't mind."

I snickered behind my hand as Ruki looked ready to throttle her. "You're not my nee-chan! And I have told you already you wretch not to speak to me so familiarly!"

"Oneesama." Shizuma called to me completely ignoring Ruki's temper tantrum.

I looked over at her curiously, like I wasn't aware that the next thing that was about to come out of her mouth was going to be insulting as hell to Ruki. "Yes, darling?"

"I think it's time for Ruki-kun to take a nap, that or perhaps as diaper change…" She said before dodging a knife he had thrown her way.

"I am not an infant you imbecile! I don't wear diapers!" Ruki snarled with flushed cheeks.

"Whaa, well how was I supposed to know? Your so little and you cry like all those human children I hear about all the time!" Shizuma whined though I could tell by the mischief in her eyes she knew exactly what her words were doing to Ruki.

"I'll kill you!" Ruki snapped before lunging for her, to which the older girl dodged.

"See you later oneesama!" Shizuma giggled running from Ruki as he chased after her.

I snickered, I could only wonder how they had managed to last so long without killing each other before I came home.

The Mukami Mansion

Things went back to normal…well not really…

The boys watched their caretaker carefully.

The boys had noticed the abrupt change in her demeanor a day after her return from the Sakamaki residence.

The woman would be fine for most of the day, but as the sun set she would grow steadily tense.

When the sun fully set they could often find standing outside on the porch, nails digging into the metal rail making it wither and contort under her ire as she glared out at the trees that surrounded them, seemingly seeing something that they couldn't see.

"Ruki-kun, I'm worried about Michiko-san…. There's something going on with her…" Yuma said for what had to be the hundredth time that day.

"And what would you propose we do?"

"I don't know but she's hurting again worse too I can feel it…can't you." Yuma whimpered softly.

Ruki let out a sigh. "Let's get the others."

"They are with her…" Yuma said and Ruki nodded as the both left the room.

"Yeah…" Ruki could feel it though he was sure it didn't compare to Kou or Azusa. Kou did after all have the demoness's eye and Azusa had been previously living with the demoness. Out of the four of them Kou was the most aware and entuned to Michiko, Azusa being a very close second.

They found her behavior rather odd, though neither of them we're foolish enough to speak it out loud, she was a being much stronger and older than them.

Ruki and Yuma came across their brothers being quite literally draped beside the woman, much like a lioness with her cubs though she was much more dangerous than any lioness...

Ruki and Yuma knew that she had smelt them enter her room which now resembled a nest of sorts but she neither looked their way or stopped her current ministrations of dragging her serpentine tongue across Azusa face even as Kou lay curled up in a ball under her chest.

They her learned during this nesting time, words would not be exchanged lest not in the human sense that they were used to, instead rumbles that reverberated deep from within their chest, grunts, whimpers and growls were the only sounds exchanged and allowed in her presence.

She didn't stop them as they climbed into the nest though she did finally pull away from Azusa who quickly took that chance to distance himself from her least she decide to continue her ministrations.

Ruki nor Yuma moved as slitted fuchsia orbs leveled them with an appraising look, her nose flaring giving them a sniff before letting out a puff of air and focusing her attention on Kou who was stirring beneath her.

Ruki and Yuma let out a breath neither knew they were holding, they had been spared a bath it seemed.

They made their way to Azusa who was a blushing mess as stared between the remains of his clothes and his brothers.

His cheeks puffed up and he let out a huff submitting to his nudity, as they snickered at his lack of luck.

Azusa walked to the edge of the nest only the stop when a warning growl ripped from Michiko's chest.

She hadn't stopped her ministrations with Kou, though the blonde seemed to bask in the act of being licked clean from head to toe by the demoness, as he purred under her tongue. The boys knew the warning was clear. They were not leave the nest.

Azusa sighed before lowering himself before looking at his brothers.

Yuma tsked before taking off his outer shirt and draping it over his younger brother's nude form nodding when Azusa flashed him a thankful grin in return.

They waited patiently lounging across her eternally hotter than human form as had become routine for them to do least until Michiko suddenly stood from Kou completely unconcerned with her own lack of dress. She stood before them in a rust colored nightie that clung to her form and covered her though just barley.

Though the boys had yet to seen her demonic form, they weren't entirely sure that they wanted too.

The way she stood like a predator, slitted fuchsia eyes glowing unnaturally bright, her ears elfin twitching at any sudden sound…fangs doubled and elongated as if waiting to rip open up an outsider's throat…she looked demon enough as it was.

They watched and waited as she stared out at the night sky of her balcony that was constantly left open, not that they had to fear of anyone daring to break in if they valued their life.

She let a menacing growl escape her lips and Ruki blinked swearing that for a second, he saw something black and shining appearing around her eyes and then she was gone.

"We won't have much time, she's in a worse mood tonight than before so say what you must quickly." Kou said sauntering over to them unashamed of his nakedness.

"Have you figured what's wrong with her?" Yuma asked not missing a beat.

Kou shook his head and Ruki frowned not enjoying the relaxed air around his younger sibling.

"Are you even trying, you seem most content with her hording you like a covert treasure as she does." He felt the words slithered from his tongue before he could stop them.

Kou narrowed his eyes at Ruki. Both of his eyes, they learned as a recent development flashing fuchsia before he turned his head away scoffing. "Green is most certainly not your color Ruki-kun."

"Kou-kun… this is… serious…" Azusa said slowly stepping between his two older brother's when he saw Ruki's eyes darken and fangs elongate at Kou's words.

Kou's eyes moved towards Azusa. "You think I don't know this? Michiko-sama is hurting, I feel it…and I think she knows that I feel it which is why…"

The brothers remained silent waiting for him to finish.

"I think it might have to do with the others." Kou said after a moment.

"What makes ya say that?" Yuma asked with a frown. "Ya think she misses them already or something."

"I-I don't know, all I know is the day after she got back…that night she came to me…"

"What?! When why didn't you say anything?" Ruki demanded.

Kou shook his head. "I didn't think anything of it. The first night she didn't do anything, I woke up to her staring at me."

"She was watching you sleep?" Yuma asked with a frown.

"Yeah…at least I thought she was…"

"What does that mean? Either she was or she wasn't." Yuma pointed out.

"Well its just, even though she was looking at me…I…it felt like…it…"

"She wasn't…seeing you…?" Azusa offered, and Kou nodded.

"Yeah. The next night was the same, she came to me and watched me sleep. The third night she slept next t me, pulled me into her arms and whispered that I didn't have to ever fear, that she would come for me as long as I wasn't too stubborn to call for her." Kou said with a shrug.

"What does that mean?"

Kou shook his head as he didn't have an answer to give. "She come to me every night and held me rocked me to sleep and made me promise not to be a foolish idiot and call for her if I ever needed help."

"Anything else, besides her seemingly recent obsession with coddling you?" Ruki asked not liking anything that was coming out of Kou's mouth.

"Y-yeah…Every night that she came… she was also very adamant about giving me more of her blood…" Kou admitted and ignored how his brother's voices caught.

"So, then…. your eyes…" Azusa trailed off.

"Yeah…I think all the extra blood is now why my eyes are even more like hers than before…" Kou said before looking his brothers in the eyes to see them not wearing a pleased expression. Another thing I noticed was that the more blood she gave me each night the more I begin to feel…connected to her."

"…what do you mean connected?" Ruki asked.

Kou frowned. "It's…hard to say…it's like I can just feel her…"

"I know… what you mean, what… do you feel …from her?" Azusa asked nodding his head.

"Pain…" Kou said immediately before frowning as he bit his lip. "When night falls I feel a strong pain from her but-"

"But?"

"I…I don't think…I can tell she's not hurt…"

Azusa's eyes widened as his older brothers frowned at Kou's words.

"How can that be?" Ruki muttered. "She can feel our pain too, but none of us are hurt."

"That's right and your connected to her, so the pain ya feel must be from her." Yuma said.

"The others…" Azusa said with wide eyes, drawing his brother's eyes. "What if… she is connected… to them…like us…"

Ruki's eyes widened as Yuma sputtered out. "T-then that means…"

"She's been feeling their pain and reacting through us." Ruki surmised.

"But if one of them is hurt, why won't she go to them? She told us before she left that she was going to them because they needed her…why not now if they are in such a pain that even we are feeling the burnt end of it?"

"Michiko-sama is waiting for him to call for her. That's why she kept telling me…" Kou said. Michiko is a prideful demoness, perhaps she is tired of lending a olive branch and is waiting for them to come to her?"

"So someone is hurting one of those Sakamaki…and the idiot is letting them…" Yuma said scrunched up in confusion.

"I… wonder… why?" Azusa said softly. Were they doing it perhaps because the liked pain?

"Well I don't care why they're doing it, but they're hurting Michiko-sama. We have to do something…not just for her sake but for ours lest we wished to be confined to the nest forever."

"Agreed." The boys said as they grimaced at the thought.

The boys flinched, as a monstrous growl reverberated throughout the house, tensed their bodies laying flat with the intensity of power that suddenly aired around pressing down on them like gravity itself…the amount of pure murderous intent that suddenly threatened to suffocate them.

The four couldn't help but whimper out in pain even when the intent winked out of existence just as fast as it came.

The four struggled to look up as a shadow fell upon them.

They looked up surprised to be met with the glowing red eyes of their patriarch.

KarlHeinz.

The vampire king dropped the body of one of the maids into the nest and the boys feed from her without a second thought.

"W-What was t-that!?" Ruki asked for once not bothered by his less than perfect appearance in front of their lord who happened to be decked out in battle armor like he was about to go to war.

"And who the hell are they?!" Yuma asked shielding Azusa and Kou as they took notice that the king was not alone, but accompanied by several heavily armed vampires.

"They would be a couple of the soldiers that serve me, they will be staying here to watch over you because that what you heard…that power that you felt…was hell being unleashed onto the human world."

The brothers shared a frightful look, unhearing of KarlHeinz's words of warning not to leave the house before winking out of existence.

There was only one thought on their mind…only one person they knew deep within the crevices of their soul that told them was capable of bringing down the world.

Michiko.

Sakamaki Mansion

The Sakamaki mansion was as quiet as a gravesite, hours before the storm hit the Sakamaki household.

Beatrix had known a thunder storm had been brewing in the hybrid known as Cordelia Sakamaki the moment she arrived back home. Fury and vengeance had been present in those acidic peridot orbs that she loathed so much.

She knew, she knew, she knew as soon as her vengeful eyes had landed on those rambunctious but ironically well-mannered children of hers, shit would be hitting the fan.

She had planned well and moved as silently as the dead. She packed slowly but surely, and soon there was enough packed away for her sons and even Christa's spawn if he valued his life and chose to come with them.

Beatrix valued her life in more ways than one, that is why she lowered her eyes to her needling when Cordelia punished her favorite son for what she considered backtalking when in fact the boy just refused to tell her anything of what had transpired when they were here along with Michiko.

While she too was curious about what had happened with the demon queen and her sons; she had sensed the shift of their scents, Michiko's scent covering each of them like a protective blanket.

Beatrix wasn't a fool, she knew when not to overstep her bounds. Whatever happened between the boys and Michiko all six of the boy were collectively hush hush about it. Beatrix didn't know if that a good thing or not but she wasn't concerned, she knew Michiko wouldn't hurt the boys unless given incentive.

Cordelia however took their lack of response as open defiance that wasn't tolerated at all…and so saw fit to punish them.

Beatrix was not one to interfere with the problems of another family…she did not wish to tango or come to blows with Cordelia so she did what she always did.

She steeled her nerves, grit her teeth and endured it as Cordelia started her unorthodox punishments like they were enemies of war and not her sons.

She started to chain of abuse by starving them.

She ignored it when Ayato came back into the house drenched in water with a black eye and busted lip that was slowly healing.

She ignored Laito's cries and pleas for Cordelia to stop as she held him down and allowed insects to crawl over his frame.

She ignored how whenever she saw Kanato, his skin growing paler and paler. The dark circles that had disappeared while with Michiko returning with a vengeance and darker than ever as she spied more dark bruises from bite marks that the boy tried to cover up by were loli styled clothes.

However, she could no longer ignore it when the boy's appearance around the mansion however sad it was completely disappeared, but the sounds of their cries reverberated through the floorboards told her she had them held somewhere underground.

Beatrix knew she couldn't stay in the mansion when Michiko no doubt came to check on them, she would need to be far far away form the hell that she knew would undoubtedly be unleashed.

"Reiji." Beatrix said to him gathering his attention from his experiments. She with- held her shiver as the reminder it was one of those same experiments he had effectively weakened and tortured her with.

"Mother…" He said staring at her with a pinched expression, before frowning when he saw the bag in her hands. "Are you going somewhere?"

"We. We are going somewhere, leaving this mansion." She said softly. "We must leave with haste"

He frowned crossing his arms but didn't make any moves to follow her. "Why?"

"Death will soon be upon us, and I do not wish to be here to look her in the face." Beatrix said with a grimace while wondering when exactly her obedient son had grown so defiant against her.

Reiji's frown deepened and was about to respond when the hair on Beatrix's arms stood.

Her bodies natural reaction to a much deadlier predator than herself…a clear warning to flee before it was too late…

Their eyes were drawn towards the window to gaze at the doom-black clouds, pregnant with malice that churned and roiled outside their home when a thundering sound suddenly filled the air.

Her eyes darted to the side landing on her eldest son Shu who now stood beside her with Christa's son Subaru as his shadow.

Her eldest son's eyes were locked onto the thunderclouds outside the window, but she knew his unwavering gaze was looking quite beyond that.

"Shu what's the meaning of this?" Reiji asked with a usual scowl towards his older brother, but Beatrix could see his apprehension.

Shu was rarely serious or held tension about anything. His calm and laid-back position had a way of calming and reassuring safety to his younger brother though she knew he would never admit it.

Beatrix knew that when Shu got serious or tense with any situation it set the other boys completely on edge.

"She's coming." He said nervously.

The other three occupants stiffened at his words though for different reasons.

Subaru watched his older brothers, Shu had just confirmed that Michiko was coming back because who else would Shu be talking about?

And yet…

Subaru frowned as he remembered the nervous tremble in his eldest brother's tone…Shu was never nervous and his voice sure as hell had never trembled as long as Subaru had heard him speak…not even when their good for nothing father had reprimanded him.

Subaru tensed because Shu was tense, but Subaru grew fearful at Reiji's silence and Beatrix's response to Shu words.

For as long as Subaru had known the woman she was as emotional as growing grass…but now…

He took in her wide and panicked eyes, the way her hands trembled as they gripped her luggage…she was afraid. Barefacedly afraid…and she by the looks of it was ready to flee for the hills as fast as a rabbit was to a wolf hunting it.

"Is that a problem?" Subaru's question came out gruff like he was annoyed but he was only curious.

"Depends…" Reiji said slowly as he continued to stare at Shu whose gaze remained towards the darkening sky.

"On?"

"Why she's returned…"

Now Subaru was irritated. "What? She's not allowed to come home?"

"Be not a fool." Reiji huffed. Michiko's always welcome, this is her home…

"But?" Subaru pressed.

"She just left not so long ago…what wouldn't make her come back so soon." Reiji said looking at him.

That made Subaru wonder. Reiji had a point…not that he was gonna tell him that, but he had made a point none the less. Why was Michiko coming back so suddenly?

"It's been awfully quiet…" Shu said suddenly and for the first time he tore his eyes from the outside to give each of them a measured look before finally landing on his mother.

"Where are have the triplets gone?"

Just as the question slipped from Shu's lips was it like a seal had been broken.

Subaru was tackled to the floor when an ear-shattering roar reverberated through the air. He whimpered as the windows shattered, held his hands over his ears as he felt a warm liquid slide from them.

He smelt it before he saw it…blood.

The house itself seemed to lean to the side as if reeling from the vocal assault before something shot through it.

They weren't anywhere near whatever it was but they still felt the backlash as the force of whatever had attacked the house sent waves of demonic energy through the house the force through them through the walls and out towards the edges of the property.

"What the fuck was that!" Subaru sputtered his voice hoarse as he tried to look towards the house but found it hard to do so with the amount of chaotic energy pressing down on him.

"M-Michiko…"

Subaru's eyes widened. "w-what?!"

"She's certainly not happy…" Reiji added.

Subaru managed to turn his head towards Shu and his eyes widened further as he noticed that Shu's back was littered with pieces of shattered glass that hit him when he had covered him.

"W-What? We have to do something."

Shu grit his teeth as he managed to actually face towards the house that seemed to buckle under her demonic energy. "We can't…we can't do anything until she lets us."

Reiji coughed blood spilling from his lips as he managed to also look towards the house as another earshittering roar resounded and shook the mansion. "What the hell is going on in there?"