(Outside the Prison)
The team had taken Mika out of the prison. Although it was more like he was being dragged out. Kimizuki slammed him up against a wall. "What the Hell was that bullshit?!" Shiho shouted at him.
"Go screw yourself Kimizuki." Mika said before trying to leave, only for Mitsuba to block him.
"Why were you helping a vampire?" She asked more calmly.
Really at this point Mikaela didn't care about telling them because he was sure they would understand. But he just had to get back to Yuu right now. Kimizuki had turned on the UV lights in his cell before taking him outside. If he didn't turn them off soon, Yuu would die of sun exposure. "I don't owe you an explanation."
Mika then felt Kimizuki's hand grip his shoulder and throw him back against the wall. He hit his head against the concrete and it hurt like Hell. "You're all buddy buddy with a freaking noble?! The same noble who tried to kill me too! And you seriously don't think that I need one Hell of a good reason?!"
Then finally, Shinoa pulled Kimizuki back and looked at Mika. "Please just say something because I'm kind of freaking out here. I mean, it looks like you've started working for-"
"He's my brother!" Mika blurted out. He mostly said that because he just wanted to shut Shinoa up. He couldn't bare any of them thinking for one second that he would work for the fangs.
Everyone then looked at him in surprise. They looked at him like he just said someone had died. The only brothers they knew Mikaela had were little kids. And human. This made no sense to them at all.
"What?" They all said, almost in unison.
Mika sighed. He hadn't meant to say that. And now he would have to take the time explaining this to them. "Okay, I must have told you a million times about the brother that we had to leave behind in the vampire city. That's him, in there." He said while pointing towards the prison. Then he began walking towards it again.
Then Shinoa stopped him. "Your insane if you think that explanation is going to settle everything." It was clear she still had some trouble processing it, but she still wanted the whole story.
Mika let out a large sigh. "Come on. Yuu will die if he stays under those UV lights much longer."
Shinoa nodded and turned to Yoichi. "Would you please go and turn them off?"
"Sure thing." He said before walking off.
Then everyone left looked back towards Mika.
"I saw him on my first day on guard duty and I knew it was him the minute I saw him. Then just to make sure I checked the prison records and the name he gave them was Yuichiro Hyakuya." He said before looking away. "I've been giving him blood and stuff since then."
"And Akane knows too?" Kimizuki asked.
Mikaela nodded.
"Why would you keep this a secret from us and Guren?" Shinoa asked.
"I didn't want you to have to keep the secret with me. Plus, I know the higher ups will happily kill Yuu anyway." Mika explained.
"That's no excuse." Shinoa pointed out. "We're suppose to be a team and you kept an important secret from us."
"I know, you're right, and I'm sorry." He said sincerely.
Then Mitsuba chimed in. "I'm going to tell Guren about this. Maybe he'll be able to do something to help Yuichiro." She said before walking off.
"I'll come with you." Kimizuki said as he joined her.
Mika finally made his way back to the prison before Shinoa stopped him again. "One last thing."
Mika groaned. "This is the last one so make it good."
"Based on the way he talked to you, it sounded almost like Yuichiro didn't know who you were. How do you explain that?"
Mika faltered slightly as he answered. "He...he doesn't remember anything."
(Later at a Bar)
Mika was sitting at the counter of a fairly empty bar drinking a shot of whatever was on the menu. His already bed migraine got worse when he heard Kimizuki's voice behind him. "One diet coke on the blonde's tab." He said as he took a seat next to Mika.
"I didn't take you for the type to drown yourself in booze." Kimizuki said.
"I only do this when I feel like my life is falling apart." Mika responded.
Kimizuki narrowed his eyes at him. "Listen. Guren's going to help. He won't let anything happen to your friend."
"Brother." Mika corrected.
"Right. Brother." Kimizuki was never able to understand how Mika was able to consider non blood relatives his family to such an extent. He envied him for that. Shiho then turned back to Mika and was surprised to see a smile on his face despite the his sour attitude a moment earlier. "Are you drunk?"
Mika giggled. "No. Just thinking about how convenient it all is."
Kimizuki raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Just imagine. If I hadn't gotten into this squad. If I hadn't gotten into that fight with you and been posted on guard duty. If I hadn't turned on the lights in Yuu's cell. If any of those things happened, I wouldn't have seen him again."
"Are you sure that's a good thing?"
Mika turned his head back to Kimizuki quickly. "What's that suppose to mean?"
Kimizuki sighed. "Okay I can't bite my tongue any longer. He is a vampire. You get that right?"
"Oh, he's a vampire? Really? I hadn't noticed." Mika said sarcastically. "That doesn't change a thing."
"Yes it does." Kimizuki put his fingers to his temples like he was getting a headache. "Mika, I'm saying this as a friend. You more than anyone else here knows how cruel vampires can be. Has it occurred to that they used to be human too? Just like Yuu."
Mika stopped drinking to think about that. He actually hadn't. It was just easier to think of them as monsters. "Not really. But Yuu is nothing like them."
"But he is." Kimizuki said as he began to raise his voice. "When I was fighting Yuu on the battlefield he killed soldiers. He bit my neck. And most importantly, his eyes were already red. That means he had drank human blood already. Maybe from livestock. From a kid like you."
Mika didn't want to think about that so he got up to leave. "I'm not listening to this."
"Mika!" Kimizuki shouted. "All the things that made him Yuu are gone now. He's just a vampire."
"Screw you Shiho." Mika said as he walked away. Then he turned back for one more moment. "And you know what? You wouldn't be saying any of this shit if it was your sister in this situation." He said before turning back around and leaving.
Kimizuki just sighed and left for his place.
Yuu woke up covered in sweet from his nightmare.
Yuu never liked dreaming. It was mostly just images of his human life but not enough to form actual memories. It felt like they taunted him.
But it got even worse as of late. As Krul had explained to him, during his human life, other humans had experimented on him and made him something that was neither human, vampire, nor demon. It gave him certain powers. And one of them took place in his dreams.
Sometimes when he had dreams, they happened in real life at a later time. He had dreams of killing that boy in the vampire city weeks before it happened.
Yuu, to some extent, had the ability to see the future in his dreams. And this one horrified him.
The first thing he was aware of was warm blood dripping down his chin. Yuu could also feel pressure on his legs so he was probably on his knees.
As his sight cleared up, Yuu noticed two other vampires, Lacus and Rene, looking back to him and smiling. They were moving their lips but he couldn't hear them.
Then Yuu felt something else. His hands were on the ground. But it didn't feel like solid gravel. He looked down and was horrified by what he saw. It was Kimizuki. His eyes were shut and there was blood dripping from his neck. The same blood dripping down his chin.
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