After the girls were put in their shared room they just stared at their surroundings. Like downstairs, the guest room walls were a pale cream color, the floor was white carpet, the bed was huge. It could probably fit seven people in it, the sheets looked expensive. Heck the whole size of the room was the same as Tara's living room minus the dog hair.
"Can you believe we're here?" Tara finally asked, spinning around excitedly.
"Did you see how cute Kanato was?" Charlie gushed plopping on the bed realizing just how soft the mattress was. It felt like you were sitting on a cloud.
"I think you mean Shu," Tara sighed like a girl in love.
"Nah Neko-chan, Shu's alright but Subaru and Kanato are cuter. What do you think will happen?" Charlie finally asked, staring at the ceiling. There were so many little designs that connected to one another that you could get lost.
"I don't know…I hope everything turns out okay," Tara mumbled.
"I mean are we affecting the storyline at all?"
"I don't know, it's not a very solid one to begin with," Tara grew quiet. Watching her best friend rant, just letting her speak her mind she didn't want to interrupt.
"I can hardly believe we're here. We're with the boys, does that mean that we'll see the others too? What if we meet their dad? Then what? What role do we play in this series? My brain is killing me. I have so many questions and barely any answers. What I really want to know is how the hell we got here." Charlie sighed knowing she wouldn't get any sleep tonight…day, whichever.
"Think of it this way, we'll have the best time ever because we get to meet our favorite characters and make sure they get the love they need and deserve."
"Maybe…" Charlie couldn't stop the questions from forming.
"Get some sleep, we'll probably find some answers when we wake up," Tara said softly, crawling under the covers for bed, expecting Charlie to do the same. She did but she didn't sleep, her body begged to sleep but she was worried about her head. For all she knew she could have had a concussion.
"Yeah you're right." Tara gave her a small smile and squeezed her hand. It didn't take long for her to fall asleep. After a moment, Charlie got out from under the sheets, rummaging around the room. She eventually found a somewhat interesting book to read. It looked like a diary or something along those lines. Handwritten cursive sprawled across the pages.
'It's been my third week here at the mansion. These boys are driving me insane. Sneaking into my room at night, the constant biting, I'm surprised I'm not dead yet. I've lost so much blood.'
This must be from one of the other girls who lived here. Charlie could have read more but something in her gut warned her not to. She wasn't sure, maybe it was her inner self telling her it was a bad idea? 'God this was like one of those fanfictions where the person gets sucked into the anime or movie and they have a person in their head dictating what you can and can't do.'
Maybe this is happening because they died? Could Tara and Charlie really be dead?
Charlie eventually got back in bed, taking a short time to rest her eyes and her brain. The time to wake up came faster than Charlie had thought. She didn't feel tired, not really, she felt sick to her stomach. It was probably the lack of food in her stomach, she could feel her stomach doing little growls and gurgles. It had been hours since she last ate.
Tara slept soundly, moaning in her sleep at times or rolling around and kicking. It was somewhat amusing watching her sleep. She could sleep through a blazing fire but if someone actually tried to wake her up she'd rip their heads clean off. She had a mighty temper first thing in the morning. She was even nice and grouchy for her alarm clock.
Though this alarm clock was a loud bang. The bedroom door slammed open, bashing against the wall. Ayato was sent to wake the girls. Or more likely get a taste.
Tara shot out of bed disoriented looking around confused.
"Time to wake up," Ayato spoke in a commanding tone.
"Time for you to go get barbed wire shoved up your ass and through your spinal cord to your brain, fucker," Tara snapped back, her sleep driven mind making her moody. Oh no. She needed coffee.
Though Charlie knew the dangers of waking her best friend, she couldn't help but laugh at her comment. All she could think of was the Silent Hill movie, and was having a very hard time not falling over laughing.
"Excuse you, you won't speak that way to yours truly!" Nope. No holding back. Charlie had tears falling freely, she was laughing so hard. Falling out of the bed, slipping to the floor, clutching her stomach and curling into a ball. Ayato let out a growl of annoyance.
Tara gave zero fucks. She probably would later but right now she didn't care at all.
"Get dressed."
"Suck a dick."
Charlie howled even louder than before, pain erupted through her abdomen, and the commotion caused Kanato, Laito, and even Reiji to appear. Taking notice of Ayato and Tara's glare off, Laito and Kanato looked amused.
"What is going on here?" Reiji demanded, glaring at his younger brother since he had a feeling it was his fault to begin with.
Tara grumbled glaring at everyone then at her best friend. "Charlie shut the fuck up."
"I can't!" she cried, her laughing this hard must be from lack of sleep. When Charlie gets tired she laughs. She laughs at everything.
Tara groaned, pulling her best friend into a sitting position. She got out of bed and walked away to their bathroom where she came back with a glass of water. "Drink."
Charlie, still giggling to herself, took the glass and drank some water. It helped a bit.
"What's the matter with her?" Kanato asked softly, staring at the blonde. She was acting all loopy. Well, loopier than the night before anyway.
"She didn't sleep much I think. She finds everything funny right now," Tara explained, shaking her head in annoyance.
Laito's smirk grew into a devious grin. "Really now?" Quickly appearing beside Charlie he leaned over whispering in her ear. Her eyes widened and ended up spitting water on herself and falling to the floor in hysterics.
"What did you tell her?" Ayato demanded grasping onto Laito's shirt and jerking him away.
"Oh nothing," Laito giggled.
"Charlie calm down, you'll make yourself pass out." Charlie forced herself to take some deep slow breaths. She'd be like this all day if she didn't calm down.
"I'm okay…I'm okay." She smiled brightly up at Tara letting out a giggle every now and then. It wasn't funny. It was annoying.
"Charlie-chan lets go get breakfast. You sit next to me," Kanato called, grasping her wrist, hauling her to her feet, and walking with her out the door. Tara sighed, shaking her head. "She's going to be the death of me, I just know it," Tara mumbled to herself.
"You two are going to annoy all of us aren't you?" Reiji sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Probably. If not by accident it'll be on purpose."
Ayato grumbled as he left the room with Reiji, Laito, and Tara. Tara and Laito were having a conversation on what just happened.
"So anything will set her off and turn her into…that?" He was referring to her hysterics with a smirk.
"Yeah if you say anything random, like pudding or something, she'll start laughing. There isn't anything funny about pudding but she'd be on the floor crying because she's laughing so hard." Laito nodded, storing that information somewhere under his hat.
The four got to the dining room and found Shu, Subaru, Kanato, Yui, and Charlie sitting in their seats. Kanato clutched onto Teddy, his other hand still grasping Charlie's wrist tightly. She didn't seem to look upset about it or even mind. She let him talk and would nod her head like she was listening.
Tara took a seat across from her best friend, watching her carefully before eyeing the magical cup of hot tea she was being offered.
"Here you go Tara! I made it just how you like it!" Charlie handed the cup from across the table a bright smile across her face. Though the bags were evident she seemed to have sobered up.
"You mean how you like it," Tara corrected, accepting the cup.
"Eh, same deal." Charlie shrugged and Tara took the beverage, cringing at the super sweet taste but drinking it anyway.
"Tara," Reiji called from his spot at the head of the table. Tara made a motion that she was listening. "Your classes will be with Shu." Reiji didn't need to explain what would happen if Tara tried to escape. The threat was known.
"Charlie will be in my classes, after that stunt this morning I can see that I will have to keep a closer eye on her." Charlie rolled her blue eyes at that comment. "Excuse me for not getting any sleep. That bed is so soft I felt like I was lying on a roasted marshmallow." She snapped looking back at her food. Reiji chose to ignore her now. Yet, if she kept at it she would be punished, whether she liked it or not.
"That's fine." Tara felt more relaxed and awake, already feeling the tea take effect over her. "We won't escape, at most we'll most likely just bother you all till you enjoy our company," she mused, now awake enough to start giggling with Charlie who nodded in agreement.
Kanato's lilac eyes traveled over the girl beside him, her fast pulse enticed him, and he wondered when he could get another taste, her blood was so sweet. It was practically calling to him now. She smelled oh so delectable, while Tara smelled sweet she still had something to her scent that Kanato wasn't sure he totally liked.
Tara and Charlie grabbed a little food, just enough to make it till lunch. They ate in silence, Reiji made sure of that.
"Yui." The girl jumped at the mention of her name, looking up worried that she did something wrong. "Show our guests to your chambers and give them clothes." Yui nodded standing up, nervously looking at the girls.
Kanato reluctantly let go of Charlie's wrist. She gave him a small smile before disappearing out of the room.
"Why the hell are we taking care of them? They're disrespectful lunatics," Ayato snapped glaring at Reiji, Shu sat quietly listening to the argument about to unfold.
Subaru didn't even bother looking up from his plate, pushing food around and not bothering to eat.
"Your job this morning was to wake the girls and you couldn't even get them to come down on your own." Ayato grumbled to himself. Laito chuckled, and yet another argument began.
Elsewhere, Yui did her best getting Tara and Charlie clothes that might fit them for school. The uniform was tight on Tara while short on Charlie. Yui watched as Tara had to stretch the clothes out a bit in order to breathe. Charlie just didn't even bother completing the uniform. Tossing the tie you were supposed to wear with it back on Yui's bed.
"Charlie!" Tara scolded As Yui tried to help her tie her own.
"You know I can't wear those things! I feel like I'm suffocating," the girl snapped while unbuttoning the top buttons of her shirt again. She was showing off more cleavage than both girls combined and it wasn't even that much.
Yui, Tara, and Charlie walked to the limo together, Tara tugging at the top of her shirt to get some room while Charlie was tugging at the skirt to stay down. They couldn't do this forever.
"God I feel like I'm a stripper or something," Charlie hissed, hating not having pants on.
"At least you can breathe. Yui is so small I think I might not be able to make it through today," Tara complained, cringing when she had to pull at it some more. "No offense." Yui shook her head with a small sympathetic smile.
Everyone stared as Charlie fidgeted with Tara's uniform unbuttoning the top button, not enough for her to show off skin but enough for air to more freely circulate. Reiji gave both girls a distasteful look.
"Thanks." Nodding, the girls jumped in the car with the boys. It was going to be a long car ride.
TIME SKIP:
Upon arriving at the school, Tara and Charlie were actually surprised to see students. In the anime you didn't see any other students, let alone teachers. It always looked deserted. But there were a bunch of them clear as day walking through the front doors like it was, well, a school.
Everyone filed out one by one till the limo pulled away. It made Charlie think of a clown car with all those people stuffed inside one vehicle. It was amusing.
Reiji fiddled with something in his arms for a moment before addressing both girls.
"These are your schedules, lockers, pin numbers, everything you will need." Tara was shocked that he was able to get it so quickly. Though the name Sakamaki was attached to both their sheets.
"Wait, I'm Charlie Sakamaki?"
"And I'm Tara Sakamaki?"
Both girls stared at the second eldest in confusion. "You had yet to provide your original last names. Since you will be living with us, I took the liberty to provide you both with one."
"But we're American. We don't even look Japanese. The likelihood that this could be believable is very unlikely. A common American surname is like Smith or Miller or something. Sakamaki screams Japanese," Charlie explained. Kanato pouted that his older brother was taking all Charlie's attention. He was having fun with her earlier and they had to ruin it by walking in on their conversation.
"Deal with it" was all Reiji had to say.
"How are we supposed to explain to anyone then?" Tara cried out, throwing her arms up and almost smacking Shu and Laito in the face.
A large group of students stopped and stared, shocked to see two American girls talking fluently in Japanese to one of the school's scariest and most attractive boys. They couldn't understand how that was possible. They barely understood how Yui, a small blonde girl who had nothing too physically attractive about her, was able to carpool with the Sakamaki's, and now these two new girls were too.
"You are distant cousins and chose to take our family name when you moved to Japan. How hard was that to come up with?" Reiji growled. Pulling out his pocket watch he noted that if he and Charlie did not move at this instant they would be late for English and he refused to be late for school because those two were incompetent on how to explain who they were.
Reiji, not bothering what Charlie was doing, gripped her wrist, yanking said girl behind him as he walked. He heard the small yelp of surprise and the slight resistance.
"I guess I'll see you later," she called behind them before matching strides.
Tara huffed, annoyed that he was being this difficult in the first place, though she knew he would act this way. Reiji had to have things his way. He was in charge for a reason. But as she looked up at Shu, he gazed at her calmly. "Come on."
As he started to wander off, she followed along, giving Yui a little wave as she and the other brothers went about their days.
Tara's POV:
I couldn't help feeling giddy. Being alone with Shu, who just so happens to be my favorite of the Sakamaki boys, my precious sleepy baby. I remember Charlie and I would argue over who would get dibs on who, but we never had to over Shu because she didn't like him as much as I do.
I finally had a chance to be with him, or any of them for that matter, but knowing me I'd fuck it up somehow. I don't totally know what to do with boys.
I've never been in a relationship. I've never done anything with anyone in general. Charlie claims she was my first kiss but she wasn't. I refuse to accept that she's my first kiss. We were drunk on New Year's Eve and it had just passed midnight and we were trying to kiss each other's cheeks to welcome the New Year and next thing I know she's cheering about stealing my first kiss. We were shocked at the time of course, but she still thinks it's hilarious. I still refuse to allow that.
Now that I was going to be spending a lot of time with Shu I could try to get close to him. If anything he'd see me as a nuisance or just as food. There was no way possible that someone as cute as Shu would want to be with a potato like me.
I'm not pretty, I'm pudgy, I have a stupid face, I'm not sexually attractive at all. The one time I thought I might have gotten a boyfriend the guy hid in my lap when we were on a haunted hayride and then ignored me for a week and said I led him on.
Students and teachers around watched us as we walked. I'd be staring too, he's so pretty. He's so precious when he's sleeping. I can't stop my heart from wanting to leap out of my chest like those cartoons. He's that pretty.
"Aren't we supposed to go to math?" I smiled awkwardly up at the tall blonde, lord he was tall. Taller than me, anyway. I was practically drooling. I loved tall boys.
"It's at the end of the hallway." His voice was like music to my ears, beautiful and soft, and I felt like I practically had a river of drool falling down my chin.
I couldn't trust myself to speak again. I'd make a fool of myself in front of Shu.
Walking inside our class I immediately recognized Ruki sitting in the back of the class staring into one of his books. Ruki Mukami. Oh lord. If he speaks I'm going to die. I've loved Ruki ever since I learned about him. He ranked right up with Shu in my favorites.
Shu's large hand grasped my arm dragging me to the back of the classroom to our seats. I just wanted to talk to him. Back home for Ruki's character song I just listened to him talk and will not be ashamed of drooling.
I couldn't stop staring at him. Even if I tried. But still, I got to share the class with Ruki and Shu! My life was amazing!
"Today we have a new student, Sakamaki Tara. If you don't mind saying a few things about yourself."
Standing from my desk I stare at my hands nervously. "Hello, I am Sakamaki Tara, I recently just moved from America and am staying with my cousins." Tara quickly sat back down taking a few deep breaths.
"Welcome to Japan, Sakamaki-san." I nodded, blushing a rather deep red at all this attention. Taking a glance Ruki was staring at me, I couldn't tell what he was thinking, his expressions were always unreadable. Glancing beside me Shu had his eyes closed, listening to his music, for all I knew he could be sleeping. I think he's awake and just secretly paying attention but he still might actually be asleep right now.
Our lesson began, and I still could feel Ruki's gaze on me. I tried not to make it obvious that I wanted to attack him. Attack as in attack him in cuddles not attack in battle, obviously. I kept sneaking glances at him when I was sure he wasn't looking.
He might have caught me though, he had an adorable, smirky half smile on his face whenever I would happen to glance over at him. I wonder if he's in my other classes too?
Charlie's POV:
After Reiji yanked me away from the boys and Tara, I was having some difficulty keeping up. Sure he had gripped onto my wrist but it didn't feel comfortable. I tried to shift so that he was holding my hand instead but he didn't like that idea.
Students all around watched and whispered to one another surprise. Walking inside our classroom my eyes widened. I immediately recognized two others in my class. One surrounded by gushing groupies was none other than Kou Mukami. Not going to lie, the first time I saw him I thought he was a girl. How he dressed, how he acted from the anime, and so on. After learning his history and doing my own bit of research I just wanted to hug him and tell him everything would be okay.
Of course he was a famous pop star who had millions of screaming fans who would practically throw themselves at his feet so he didn't have to walk in a wet puddle.
In the back right corner closest to the window was Carla Tsukinami. I'd recognize those golden eyes and white hair anywhere. First time I saw him, Tara was telling me about the new characters, how the new ones were royalty. I instantly claimed my dibs on him because holy shit he's hot. I tried finding countless pictures of him without his scarf over his mouth and wasn't disappointed when I did find those pictures. Carla was beautiful. First time I heard his voice I drooled. I still drool thinking of his voice and I'm not someone who usually likes deep voices.
Ask anyone.
Tara and I watched the first episode of season two on youtube when it first came out and we screamed and squealed so loud we woke her dad who was upstairs in bed. We watched it three more times that night.
Blue and gold glance in our direction. I stood frozen, my body stiff as Reiji yanked me closer. They saw me. Oh boy.
"Sit." I did as told, sitting in the seat he told me to sit in. Holy crap! I'm in a class with Carla and Kou! I couldn't help the giggles build up inside me.
My head still hurt but it was much better than before. Reiji rummaged through his bag until he pulled out two notebooks and a pen. He placed one note book on my desk. "Do not lose this."
"If you honestly think I'll lose a notebook you're insane," I sassed, snatching the pen from his hand. Oh, it felt nice in my grip. He gave me a small growl.
Flipping open the book I wrote a smidge, stopping to marvel at how nice it wrote. My pen now. God it looked good and it wrote beautifully. It's the small things like this that make me the happiest I've been in a long time.
"I need a new uniform Reiji." He nodded reading his book. I felt weird having to keep tugging at the skirt. I hate skirts. I hate dresses. I hate anything that exposes my legs so much. Pants give me a security that I'm not going to expose my privates.
"I agree, I will personally order both of you new uniforms during our break. You should only have to wear that one for two more days." Reiji wasn't that big of a jerk. I mean as long as you did as he said he's actually not a bad guy. Just bossy.
"Thank you…" He nodded glancing up when our teacher walked in. He must have been in the teachers lounge getting a coffee or something.
"Ah, a new student." Our Sensei called spotting me immediately. How couldn't he spot me?! I'm a freaking American surrounded by Asian students! He seemed energetic and excited to start the new day but he could be faking it.
"Please, please come to the front and introduce yourself." Oh god no. Reiji gave me a look, a warning look, worried I might say something wrong.
Forcing myself to stand in front of the class I started to fidget, stretching my skirt down as much as possible. If anything I felt like an anime character in some hentai. You know before the sex.
"I'm Charlie Sakamaki, or do you say the last name first? I'm from America and I'm staying with my cousins, I don't think there's much to say so I'm just going to…" I started to inch toward my desk in the middle of the room again.
"Nonsense. Tell us something interesting about yourself. So you're from America? What do you miss most?" I blinked a few times smiling to myself. What did I miss most? Smiling sadly, I realized I missed my baby boy. She missed her Ares. He was this beautiful chunky pitt who was just pure muscle. Scared the living crap out of everyone when anyone first met him but he was really just the world's biggest sweetheart.
"Probably my dog. Practically the love of my life, had to leave him back home when we moved." Glancing around the students she noticed Kou staring at her strangely. He didn't seem to fully believe her which made her feel antsy all over again. Looking back towards the teacher she watched him smile at her.
"Well Miss Sakamaki, what do you want to do in life? Life outside of school?" Sensei asked, looking generally interested. I focused all my attention on him, ignoring the students. It was the best I could do in order not to turn into a ball and disappear.
"At the moment I want to work in a hospital setting. I like the idea of helping anyone I can even if it's just making someone smile when they aren't feeling good." I shrugged my shoulders as if saying I was done talking about it.
"That's very noble of you Miss Sakamaki. Perhaps you should spend some time in the nurse's office, your uncle should be able to help." I shifted nervously. That's right. Karlheinz was the school doctor.
"Yeah…I'll have to keep that in mind." I forced a smile before rushing off to my desk. There was no way in hell that I was going to see that man willingly. I'd rather sacrifice myself to the dark lord Lucifer than willingly talk to him.
Glancing at Reiji, I could only imagine what he's been through because of him.
"Hey new girl." Glancing to my left I saw Kou leaning over, Sensei had his back to the class talking about something for history before he got into the English lesson. "You really related to him?" He nodded his head to Reiji. Reiji growled low under his breath making a small shiver run down my spine.
Kou could tell if I was lying or not. If I said yes he'd know, if I didn't say anything he'd be suspicious. I knew Carla could hear me as well as Reiji. I forced a smile before looking away. It was too early to tell who I could trust and who I couldn't. Right now I was putting all my faith in Reiji and the Sakamakis. Good lord, that was probably a bad idea.
Carla's intense gaze burned into my head, and my stomach was doing flips, I wasn't sure what to do. This was supposed to be every fan's dream being a part of their favorite anime but why do I feel like I'm in some sort of hunt and I'm the prey?