Rin kept looking down at his muddy and wet sneakers. It was weird how just a few words could hit him this hard. He's not a human? What the hell is happening? Is this some sort of joke or prank? 'Cause if so, it is working.

"What do you mean?" Rin lifted his gray eyes to already smiling stranger.

He snapped his fingers and in the distance Rin heard as it was women's high heels clicking on the floor. And he was right.

"You're that girl" Rin's eyes, first time at his stay here, recognized at least one familiar figure in here. But it wasn't the pleasant one.

The one who was coming was the same black haired girl that he met in his former house basement. She was carrying a silver platter with a box of cigars, a cutter, lighter and an ashtray on it. The same girl looked at the boy behind grills, as if she haven't done anything.

"I think you had met each other?" the man said taking one cigar into his hand and cutting the end of it "Yagami Rin this is one of my surface workers Eiko. Eiko, you already know Mrs. Yagami, our guest of honor" he said the last part mockingly as he lighten up the cigar and took a deep breath of smoke inside of his lungs.

Eiko gave Rin flirtatious eyes but with a hidden pride behind it. Of course Rin noticed the hits of pride in the girl's face. She probably was happy as a little kid who caught long searched bug in her arms. Just let me wipe that smile of your face, Rin thought to himself.

"Eiko, you say? I believe that in Latin 'Ei' means 'Drooling' and 'ko' in Thai means 'Dog' "
As it was expected the girl from smiling went to frowning. But what Rin wasn't expecting was his butt hitting the hard floor.

"Ouch!"

"Just hilarious, Mrs. Yagami" the man flicked the cigar and the ashes from it fell in the ashtray.

"Thanks for your compliments, Mrs. Bond" Rin didn't bother to stand up. He just stretched one leg out and the other one brought closer to his chest making it as his elbow supporter. No need to waste his energy standing, because from the looks of it he will need the last of bit of his strengths.

"That's not my name" the stranger corrected me.

"Well, I'm sorry but the nicknames will be coming until I know how to call you?" get to know your enemy step by step.
"One way or another I will tell" he breathed the smoke "But for now, how about, we come back to our little topic that we were discussing before? About what it was? Ah yes, your true nature"

"This is a very nice practical joke but too bad not a fun one"

"Who said it was a joke? Certainly not me or Eiko" the man leaned back in his chair taking a deep smoke.

"Then what the hell?" Rin was finally found himself losing his patience.

"So you are willing to listen? Good. To begin with, tell me, do you believe in vampires?"

"…No way" Rin whispered to himself. His eyes got a little wider filled with disbelief and confusion. He didn't understand are these guys for real or not.

"I guess, you do believe in supernatural after all, not to mention you are partly one of us"

"You mean…I…?" Rin leaned closer.

"It shouldn't take long for that peanut in your head that you call brain to process the information. You're not a full-blooded vampire but…" he stooped and prepared another cigar for himself. The first one he smoked really fast that it seems that he didn't even take one at the beginning "…you can reach the point of the pureness in some way"

"I'm not a vampire" Rin stood up and came closer to the gates, with a rage filled eyes which were lit on fire by the lies that this strange man was telling him right now.

"No one is calling you one. You are not awake as a vampire but unfortunately for me, your type can change into one after constant interaction with the pure-blooded" the man stood up as well as Rin and came closer to the anger boy who was almost the same height as he. Every word said right now, sounded so casual from his lips. Like it was just dinner's conversation or chit chat.

"No "Rin grunted "You can't fool me that easy and especially with a fairy tail"

"Your sister would disagree" he blew the cloud of smoke to the boy's face.

"Don't bring her into this conversation"

"Why not" the man gave a devilish grin "If she was here, she could tell how real the vampires are"

"What?" Rin's breath trembled.

"She is living with them. Haven't you met your sister when you came here?"

It was scary how much this man knows about what Rin did in his past days. But apart from that, the boys started recalling those couple of days when he met up with Kaya. He did noticed something was not okay with the girl, something was indeed bothering her to the bone. The details were so blurry but he did notice something abnormal. He did noticed blue and green dots in her neck…on her wrist…But how come only now, when there is nothing he can do, all these imagines coming back to him. That guy. That guy with the red hair and weird fashion scents from Kaya's class, the same one with who he played basketball, he and Kaya back then exchanged this cold vibe looks. Could it that he was one…of them?

"Kaya is…"

"Surprised? Bet you are having a lot of questions right now" the man laughed.

"You're lying!" Rin slammed his fist on the metal gates making it creak.

You could see that the stranger was getting annoyed by this boy's denies over and over again. So he decided to make a little presentation. He grabbed Rin's hand and pulled it to his side making the boy press his face to the gate. Rin grunted in the pain but in a moment gasped from the sight he was seeing. The already massive man's fangs were getting bigger in addition with another pair of sharp teeth. His eyes glowed in animalistic light and pupils changed like a cat pupils form. Everything happened in front of Rin's eyes, this could not be faked.

As the man finally saw the boy's reaction he let go of his and took a smoke.

Rin took a step back and rubbed his wrist. His whole life the only person in their family who by heart believed that something like vampires could exist was Kaya. All the jokes that he made in the past concerning supernatural; creatures, the fact that he will go hunting them; everything was just for the sake of joke.

This isn't a joke.

And if this guys is telling the truth that means Kaya, his only sister, is trapped with the vampires.

"You finally getting it, Mrs. Yagami" the man sat back in his chair.

"Hold on" Rin looked deeply into the man's eyes "If I'm partly vampire as you said, then how about my sibling? How about Kaya?"

"They are your siblings. But your sister is a different story" he flicked the cigar and this time ashes fell on the floor "She's in the process"

'This is ridicules' I thought to myself while leaning back on the pillows in my silence in the ward was killing me. In the atmosphere I could feel the tension which basically came only from me. Just a few steps away from me, was sitting the vampire in the armchair. I tried not to look at his direction as much as possible but from time to time took a glimpse of him. He seemed exhausted for some reason, the way he was leaning his head in his palm almost with his eyes closed... I wouldn't mind if he would fall asleep. It would just make things easier to me.

Besides that, I kept cursing Laito in my head. Just wait for what I have in mind for him. He's making all this Ayato situation more complicated to me, nevertheless I'm working on getting rid of these feelings for him. Laito just keep pushing the things in the direction that would leave me and Ayato alone. It almost seems like his goal is to get us together… Oh, screw him, like that will ever happened.

'From your dreams, I have kind of different view on this'

'Great, you're awake'

'Always nice to be back in businesses'

I brought my legs closer to my chest for a moral comfort. At the same moment I felt that, I have catheter in my arm. With my fingers tips I touched the contours of it. Probably this was the moment when I started to realize where I am for real. Looking around was all I needed. In some way it frightened me. And also the fact that I didn't know what happened to me and no one is telling me anything.

"So…" I turned my head to Ayato who looked like just woke from hearing my voice "How long have you guys been here?"

"Long enough" he rubbed his eye. Ayato's voice sounded exhausted and really not in the mood of talking.

I mouthed 'Oh' and nodded, looking back at my hands. Well this is going better then usually. At least we are not fighting. But right now fighting would sound better then an awkward silence.

For now, I decided to not ask him any more questions and just be with my own thoughts…

'Heyyy-'

…as I said, being with my own thoughts and letting this all situation to sink in. So, let's go all this through. I woke up in the mansion, felt sick, puked, puked with…blood. And then I remember passing out just the moment when I left the bathroom and after that waking up in this place.

The thought just what happened early made shivers go down my spine. 'Am I dying?' this was the first thought that came to my mind. But I guess they would tell something to me in this case, right? Maybe Reiji will know something or Laito, he's good at catching up with all the news going around this household.

"Go to sleep, Orokana. The more rest you get, the faster you will recover. Maybe then I will be able to drink your blood?"

"Oh won't go to sleep angry, I must stay awake and plot revenge"

"What are you talking about?" Ayato narrowed his eyes in confusion. This woken up the vampire a little bit.

"About the root of evil in this world. One of the devil bosses for James Bond. Your family's Joker for Batman"

"…Laito?" Ayato sank deeper into the armchair "You started this war with him by yourself, deal with it"

"You sound like Reiji"

"I'm not"

"Kay" I lifted my eyebrows.

Now we were back to silence. But I was about to break it again since there's still one question which wasn't answered.

I sat on the bed and turned to Ayato again.

"I'm gonna annoy you a little bit more"

"Don't these nurses have something that would put you to sleep for at least ten hours?" Ayato looked over the door.

"That's sounds nice but, I have to know what the hell happened to me? And I have an idea that you know something about all this"

Ayato just looked at me blankly, keeping the silence treatment. This was not turning well to me since I started to feel how my cheeks started to get hotter from embarrassment which I couldn't explain why I was feeling that way. At the moments like this all I could say to myself was 'Girl, you need to control your estrogenic based feelings on this cold-blooded dum dum'.

"I'm too tired to think" he stood up with a sight.

"Two points. First, you just sounded like an old man. Second, you're avoiding the question"

"Annoy Reiji or Shu with this, okay?" now he sounded irritated. The boy, not even looking to my direction, went to the bathroom, leaving me alone in the ward. Still without a clear answer about my condition. But he said that Shu might know something about all this. It's a bit hard to get something out from Reiji, it's possible, but it takes a lot of knowledge about communication with vampires. And just some basic knowledge on how to deal with Reiji. Shu is a little bit easier to handle. Just a couple of rules, restrain yourself within the right distance between yourself and the vampire. Annoy him lightly, just enough so he wouldn't be able to sleep peacefully. Then he will ask what do you want lewd women? Of course you will tell him that 'I'm not lewd'. And this kind of conversation will take about a minute and after that you will just say what you want and he for the sake of peace and quiet will tell you the information that you wanted to know.

After a couple of minutes sitting alone, I heard water running.

'Is he taking the shower?'

I thought to myself double-checking the direction from where the sound was coming from. Thank God my bladder is empty 'cause for those guys it takes forever to finish cleaning themselves up. Also, it's just proves my theory about vampires developing from cats. Have you seen how long it takes for a cat to finish licking itself? The same thing goes with the vampires, never-ending routine. Hold up. Just a thought popped in my head.

As carefully as possibly, without making any sound I climbed out of my bed and sneaked up to the door. Slowly opening the door I walked in already steamy bathroom, also with a smell of shampoo. On the toilet seat I saw Ayato's clothes laid on and the only one towel hanging on the hook nearby the shower curtains. It's a good time to test my silent-walking-on-wet-tiles skills. I quickly grabbed the towel and went for the boys clothes. When I got everything in my hands all I needed to do was to patiently wait till he will come out of shower. So I stood leaning against the door-frame thinking if I thought this through right.

I heard how he turned off the tap. From the curtains his hand reached for the towel which supposed to be on a hook but unfortunately…

"Looking for something?"

Now his head popped from the curtains.

"What do you think you're doing?" he glared at me.

"Getting answers from you. Now, choose. Either you're telling me what the hell happened to me or you can go Adam's style all the way, 'cause I am not giving you these back" I pointed at his clothes.

"You are truly Orokana, aren't you?" He snickered under his breath after that giving me that smirk "I don't know how about you but I don't have any complex concerning my body" and then he opened shower curtains fully exposing alllllll of his….. all-iness. Before the image managed to burn into my memory, I turned my head to the other direction.

"Just take it"

"Don't tell me you got embarrassed" I felt how he took all goods from my arms.

"Umm…I would call it mixed feelings. I'm between wishing for you to put on some clothes as soon as possible, and the fact that about ten seconds ago I just received some new material for making fun of you"

"Nice try, Orokana. Or is it like you saw a chance to see me naked after a shower. Hehe sometime it's surprises me how naughty your thoughts can become"

"I'm most certainly not" with that I slammed the door in vampires face "Tch. Va fa' Napoli"

I had no intention of seeing him naked. Who does he think I am, some needy girl who he can just pick up on a street or something? I still have some values left. Or maybe…? Wait.

'D-Did I want to see him…naked?'

I quickly shook away this thought and got away from the door back on my bed. It was surprising how roles turned over for a moment. Usually I say something that makes him furious and uneasy to stay calm but in this situation he just threw the first of his aces in this game.

'That mind fucker'

Someone knocked on the door. Without waiting for invitation, the nurse came in, carrying a tray with what it seemed like a medication powder and transparent container with a pink like yogurt substance in it.

"Good morning, Yagami"

"Morning" I smiled to her.

This was the same nurse that I saw when I woke up. She looks quit young, about 27 years old. Shortly cut black hair with a fringe. Good vibes were coming from her, giving the idea of a sweet person. She placed the tray on a stand next to my bed.

"The doctor said that it's okay for you to eat this. This should help for your stomach to recover. Just eats small bites and if you will feel nauseous again, don't force yourself to finish this and just give me a call" She pointed at the red button on a remote controller.

"Thank you very much"

My heart was overwhelmed by the sight that I will get something to eat. Sure, it was a bit scary to put something in my mouth but hopefully this time I won't puke it out.

The nurse nodded and left the room. At the same when one door closed, the other one opened. Ayato walked out rubbing his wet hair with a towel. He already was dressed up, he only didn't put on his scarf and jacket.

"What is this?" he pointed at the container which I was holding.

"Food" I took a spoon and gave a first taste. As I thought it was strawberries yogurt. Actually it's been a while since I taste it. I almost forgot how good it is. As the nurse said, I mixed the medication powder with the yogurt and took small bites.

"Good for you" he replied sarcastically.

The concept of 'food' for both of us is very different. I bet until I won't recover from whatever happened to me, they are not allowed to suck my blood. I would say that for Ayato it's a big disappointment but the past week he didn't drank from me and I rarely saw him in the mansion. Well, one pointer is that I was the one who keeps avoiding him but apart from that it became suspicious to me.

"Sorry. You wanna try it?" I offered him the container and the spoon.

"Are you mocking me? He laid back in the armchair.

"That wasn't my primary intention but okay" I mumbled to myself and continued eating.

I was halfway done eating my snack and some unpleasant feeling rose in my stomach. I cleared my throat and placed the container on the stand. I sat on the edge of the bed, taking deep breaths in.

"What's the matter? Choke on your delicious food?"

"Oh how I wish" I laughed nervously. Take from me legs, take from me arms but don't take the joy of eating food from my life.

"This is gonna be pretty" I said before walking fast to the bathroom and straight away I knelt in front of the toilet and prepared myself for upcoming 'fireworks'. And so it came. From the other side of the wall Ayato had a great show of orchestra I'm-not-digesting-this.

I could feel his presents close to me. He probably was standing in the doorway observing the situation. But that was the last thing that I wanted to think about.

"Well this is pretty" he commented.

"I know, right?" I managed to reply and puked one more time feeling how acids were irritating my throat and mouth. I laid my forehead on my arm which was placed on the toilet seat.

"I hate the world" my voiced echoed "I hate that we all exist"

"Don't be drama queen" Ayato squat down near me and started rubbing my back.

"It feels like a time travel into a stupid stupid place"

Weird. That's how I could call the time that we had been there together. The emotions between us kept swinging like in Katy Perry's song Hot&Cold. But besides awkward touch of his on my back and killing silence between us, it was nice to know that I'm not all alone in all of this.

After the bathroom 'explosion' I took a nap which lasted for seven hours. Good nap, I say. But not that good dream. As much as I remember, I was running down the hospital hallway. No one to be found, no spirit alive in that place. And then out of nowhere '28 days after' shit started to happen. All these zombies came after me. And not the slow ones it was like those were Olympics sprinters. Like gazelles they were jumping over the tables, fallen cupboards and stuff like that. But things got more peculiar. I swear the God one of the zombies called me by 'Perra-chan's' name.

Basically, at that moment I woke up.I reached for a remote controller and pushed the button to turn on the lights above the bed. It took just a few seconds for my eyes to get used to the light.

Suddenly a heavy pressure on my legs fell. Startled and confused I looked what was that and surprise, surprise, one part of my dream was explained.

"Perra-chan~ Nice to see you awake" Laito fell with his whole body on my legs making it harder to me to move. He playfully swung his lift up legs which made his all body move against my legs. "I was calling you, but it was impossible to wake you up" he puffed his cheeks.

"There is a reason for that" I tried to pull out my legs from underneath him "Anyway, what are you doing here?"

"Me and Ayato changed places. Now we are taking turns on looking over you" the vampire rolled over from me and sat on the edge of the bed "So tell me, how everything went?" he had this mockingly, amused, devilish voice while asking me these kind of questions all the time.

"You, slutty butt box. Don't you even dare" I note the word 'dare' by getting my voice couple of tones lowers.

"What did I do?" he acted all innocent.

I got out from under the sheets and went to turn on the light switch on the wall.

"You know that this is hard to me to get over" I whispered to him angrily.

"Why are you whispering?"

"I don't know. It feels right in some way. But that's not the point" now with more rage I marched over him "I don't wanna have these feelings, nor will this work out for us. So please whatever you are doing right now, like trying get us in a small space, stop it. 'Cause this ain't gonna lead anywhere"

Laito examined my face. Every inch of it and every point of my expression. He does that a lot: reading people's faces. That's one of things that he's good at which sometimes annoys me. Since he found out about me having crush on Ayato he non stopping kept read my face expressions and non-verbally kept giving me the hints of his naughty thought when all of us are eating together or going to the academy.

"Do you believe your own words?" he crossed his legs and leaned back with his hands.

"What? Yes. I do believe"

Laito smiled "Sit" he gestured me to sit next to him on the bed.

Still unwillingly and hesitating, I did what vampire asked me to.

"Why do you think this is wrong?" Laito spoke up.

The question surprised me. I didn't think this through that way. Since that night when I had a dream about Ayato, my instant reaction was denial. For such feeling towards such person, was explainable to me. Even my first thought was to get psychiatrist help for that. Why did I react like that? Could it be that I'm just afraid that there won't be a mutual feeling from him?

"So?" Laito asked one more time.

I woke up from my thought like from trans-state.

"Umm I. Well….This could be…In other words"

"You don't know" the vampire interrupted.

"…No. But it doesn't prove anything" with secured voice I stated "These feelings are doubtful"

"Very well then"

The boy shifted closer to me, his thigh touching mine. Whatever he was having on mind, it didn't seem to be something that I would agree on. Even through my pajama's pants I could fell the coldness from his hand which was right now grouping my tight in a very unpleasant way to me. When I raised my head to protest his actions, Laito was already leaning closer to me with slightly opened mouth. And his target was my lips. But before anything could happened, I grabbed a pillow from the side and hit with it his head, making him stumble.

"Wow! Hold your horses, dude" it was a laughter, it was hysteria. You choose, 'cause it's just a remix of all.

Laito adjusted his fedora and got back in the previous position.

"Perra-chan~ why did you rejected me?" he complained like a little child "Or do you want to be kissed by someone else?"

"Laito, no"

"Oh, but Laito want for you to say 'yes' " he gave a second chance in attempt to kiss me but I just hit him with a pillow again and stood up from the bed taking few steps away from the vampire.

"Sigh…your no fun, Perra-chan" Laito moaned in disappointment.

I kept distance between me and him. Forming my fighting stands, I was prepared to hit back with a pillow again if it's needed. Laito blink few times at the view in front of him that let out a joyful laugh.

"Oh Perra-chan, don't exaggerate. I was just testing you"

"Testing me? For what?"

"It doesn't really matter" he smiled childishly like it would make me forget how just now he tried to steal a kiss from my lips with his god-knows-where-they-had-been-before lips.

'Agh, vampires. Can't love them, but can't hate them either'

*time passes*

'I changed my mind. I do hate vampires'

It all happened fast. Didn't even see this coming. Well maybe I did but I never thought that he will need this for me. But I'm not such a good help judging from the situation. From the looks of it, he is handling everything just fine by himself while I in the meanwhile, lurk in the shadows having nothing better to do (according to Laito's logic).

The vampire wanted to go and flirt with a nurse at the reception table. The young girl was the same one from when I woke up and came here to look for an alive spirit anywhere around.

I was resting my head in my palms while the buttock where resting on the couch. At least something was on the TV for once. From behind I heard those two giggling and flirting all over the place. Jezz, get yourself a room. And I was as always in that position when the only love in my life is also the reason why one day I'll be wearing the glasses.

On the other hand it's good to walk out of the ward and not only be sitting on the bed the whole day.

"I have to go for a moment"

"Oh, darling, don't leave alone" Laito caressed her white delicate hand.

"Hehe" the nurse blushed "I really need to bring back these patients histories. It won't take long, I promise" the women stood up from the chair and walked to the different direction before that she winked at Laito.

And then it clicked to me. Maybe, it's my chance? Maybe this is the opportunity I was waiting for? Maybe, I'll be able to look over my patient's papers and find out the diagnose? Oh this is excited. I guess this will be the closest this to a secret agent experience after the time when I was stalking my brothers and their dates. Never was caught but I guess a fourteen year old girl with military binoculars hiding behind a bench in the park does seem unusual.

"Be fast like a bunny, honey" Laito waved the girl with his fingers. Just in a mere moment his attention from a beautiful nurse was redirect to a girl who was leaning over with her body over the receptionist table with her legs tangling in the air and hands searching over the papers on the desk.

"Perra-chan?"

"Keep the watch. I'm looking for my papers" with breathless voice I commanded.

"Who is this human, who dares to tell me what he should do?"

"The name is Kaya, and keep the watch" I said it again this time looking over the paper on which were written patients names. As the light of hope glowed over my head, I was disappointed as fast as it came. When I found my paper, in the field where the diagnoses should be written it was just some letters and numbers code.

"My diagnoses is numbers and letter? What kind of fucking diagnoses is that?!"

"I think you are in the wrong department" Laito was just observing this all in satisfied smile.

"Hey, Perra-chan, the nurse is coming back" he poked my butt cheek and I quickly stood up in a normal position.

When the nurse sat down in her chair, she first looked at Laito and then at the small person beside him (me). She placed the papers aside and keeping a little concerned look on me, opened her mouth.

"How can I help?" She addressed me.

"She just wanted to know her diagnoses" Laito answered instead of me.

"Oh sure, just tell me your last name" the nurse took the same pile of papers that I was looking through just a second ago.

Laito gave me that prideful, filled with satisfaction smirk. I was going the hard way to get this information while he showed me that all this time I was doing it in the wrong and stupid way while all I needed to do was just ask.

"…Yagami" I said without taking my eyes of Laito's and then I showed him my tongue.

"Okay, I have your paper. Umm…apparently, I won't be able to say you the diagnose. The doctor seems still need some confirmations, until then it's better for you to not know the unconfirmed version, so there won't be any misunderstandings"

"Que? Tú, pollo. Yo exijo justicia" (What? You, chicken. I demand justice) before I got hot headed and started cursing, Laito lifted me up from behind and started to carry me away from the table.

"I will take her to the ward and after that we can continue our conversation"