The midnight breeze blew through the many gardens of the Mukami grounds, the rustle of the bushes creating the music that relaxed Subaru. The teen was still pissed that "He" ordered the Sakamaki brothers move to this place. Co-living with the Mukami siblings was goanna be torture for them. The head of the family, Ruki already explained a few of the rules here; One being no biting their sister Maikio, No feeding in public areas of the home, and no killing the cat. He wasn't sure why they made no killing the cat a rule, but then again one of his brothers Kanato was one for doing sick things to smaller creatures.
Subaru continued to walk thinking bout the moment they arrived, the tallest Mukami brother ushered the youngest out to the garden talking about needing her help to gather the vegetables for dinner since there where more then the normal 5 people at the table. She looked over her shoulder at him as she was dragged away. The look in her eye was one of slight fear, not the Subaru could defend against. He did destroy one of her violins the first day she joined the school when she helped Yui up after nocking her over. Yeah he may act like a moody jerk but he actually felt bad about it after Yui told them all why the girl held her hand. Reiji sternly told the bride that she needed to watch her surroundings more carefully and to not engage the young girl.
"Enjoying the moon light?" A feminine voice startled Subaru out of his thought.
Looking to the right to where the stone rose garden wall rose in a column to about his shoulder high, sat Maikio. Who's hair was pulled into ribbon pony tails, he face turned to the sky, and she was leaning back on her hands. The girl didn't even look at him while she addressed him, just watched the sky. Her light blue jumper falling off one of her shoulders showing pale freckled skin that slightly glowed, her black ruffled skirt that hit above her knees and her long stockings helped create a innocent image of this sister. Granted he thought the Yui and her where on the same scale of beauty but opposite ends. One end you have the sunny life of Yui who was warm like the sun, the other end the pale glow of after life of Maikio cold like the moon. Total opposites but the same.
"So your quiet when your not brooding with anger." She stated.
"It's a lovely garden here." He said absently.
"Yes, I normally tend to them and I'll play my violin out here too." She gave him a gentle smile.
"I see."
Watching the girl push off her perch and landing on the ground in front of him, she brushed off the back of her skirt and turned to him. That's when he noticed that her dusting of freckles glowed and her pale eyes shined under the full moon they had tonight. He remembered that his own mother had the same shine when she wasn't wallowing in the depression that the man who fathered him created. She just stared at him, like she was trying to get a glimpse into his soul.
"So I've decided, you put on an act of being a moody teen for everyone, so you won't become insane like your own mother or someone close to you." She explained tapping her nose with her index finger as she thought.
"Why do you think that?" He asked adding a little bite to his voice.
"Well, because you haven't bitten off my head since I snuck up on you." She stated as she turned and walked away.
"I think you have misread me." He muttered out loud.
"Nope, I haven't, your like Yuma, the moody brooding type on the outside but you actually care about others." She stopped to look at him.
Subaru watched as the wind played with her gentle curls that caressed her face. For some reason she reminded him of his mother long before she went crazy with the depression. She was kind and gentle known as the white rose among the vampire community. This girl was like her, if anything he might speculate that Christa was reborn as a human and turned, that's if he believed in reincarnation. But who knows, Cordelia and Retcher was able to place Cordelia's heart into Yui when the girl was born to come back. But Subaru was sure that reincarnation was just a myth, that it wasn't true and never happened. Least of all it wouldn't happen to him.
"Are you coming along?" He watched as she tilted her head to the side waiting for him to fallow like a puppy dog.
"Why?" He asked crossing his arms smirking at her.
"Well I guess you don't want to see a secret place that even my brothers don't know of. I mean us youngest children should stick together." She quirked her eye brow at his stance.
The two babies of their families watched each other unknowing that both of their eldest brothers watched from the windows of their rooms. Both seeing that the girl was able to get through to the moody teen, Ruki knew this since she got Yuma to show a different side of himself instead of the moody anger he showed when Kou would annoy him. Shu could see that she, if found out by the others in the vampire community would be compared to Christa the White Rose with her kindness and gentle looks. The brothers watched as Maikio walked over and dragged Subaru way towards the area of the river. Ruki knew that she needed a spot on the property to get away from all the men in the house, especially with 10 men now living together. Turning away from the window Ruki went back to his reading that he was doing before he caught the moon light shine off Mai's hair.
Maikio dragged Subaru through the woods on the property to a small alcove near the river. The trees surrounding the area, and she bought rose bushes that her brother was goanna get rid of since they where dyeing where they where in the gardens. She planted them to create a secondary wall to hide behind. She already was hear before she heard Subaru in the garden and figured he needed a thinking place like she did at time.
"Here we are!" She let go of his arm and spun around in a circle.
"Aren't you still afraid of me?" He asked as she stopped her spinning.
"Well after the run in with Laito at school, I came to realize your not so scary, moody yes but you're like Shu." She cocked her head to the right looking at him again.
At that moment Subaru realized that she was the moon light that danced around the roses and that he hoped that his brothers wouldn't see this. Or that his father wouldn't use her like he used Subaru's own mother for experiments. That Yui was a sacrificial bride and that he would still crave her blood but he knew the bride wouldn't chose him when Ayato was always around her.
