Chapter 11

It was freezing cold. I was even cold. I had my cloak on and tightly around my shoulders with nami walking close beside me. The freezing wind tore through my cloak and bite at my skin. I knew Mana and Sereg were worse off. Even Yoshida looked cold. Aiya was hiding in Mana's cloak for warmth.

I sneezed. Mana looked at me and rose an eyebrow. I glared at her. "Why are we moving when its so dang cold out?" She asked.

"We have to get moving, find some decent cover…" I responded.

"I can go find some cover, I can stand it more than yall, wait here, try to get warm, I will be back" Yoshida commented. We all nodded and started to arrange ourselves. Mana and I were swished together tightly with Nami at out backs, all three of us with out backs to the wind.

Sereg sat down and quickly flopped onto his back. I gave him a weird look. "My side…" He said. I nodded.

"well then get over HERE and lay down" I snapped. He growled before scooting over. So we rearranged ourselves. Nami was tall enough when she laid down so we turned our faces to the wind with Sereg laying next to Nami for warmth and both of us on his other side.

We were in an area now that was sparse with trees. So we were a free meal to the wind. Mana's face was hiding behind my shoulder. "I feel sorry for sereg…" She whispered. I nodded. Nami turned her head around and laid her neck and head on sereg's feet and part of his legs. Sereg laughed.

"Don't worry hes not going to freeze" I said before pulling off my cloak. Throwing it over Sereg I shivered.

"now your going to freeze!" Mana yelped.

"Am not!" I said smiling. "hello heater!" Mana glared at me.

After about an hour of Yoshida not returning we all started to worry, but none of us wanted to move. Mana had kinda fallen over and fell asleep on Sereg's knee. I was surprised she could even fall asleep at all. I hunched down, allowing the wind to blow over me.

"Your going to get sick.." Sereg mentioned.

"No I won't" I sneezed. "Don't say a word…" He sighed.

"Stop trying to keep me warm!" He finally said. Pulling the end of my cloak off of himself he pulled the end over my shoulders. "Your going to freeze…"

"No, I wont, I will live" I said with a smile. He rose an eyebrow.

"Stop it, either way your sick" He reached up and put a hand on the side of my face. "Your face feels like an ice block…" I grinned. "come here.." He pulled me down so my head was on his chest.

"but.." He silenced me.

"No, your freezing already, I am not going to let you get even more sick then you already are! Now stay down and try to warm up!" I smiled slightly.

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It wasn't long till everyone was asleep. Eva finally got more comfortable and was snoring softly. Soon a face popped up. He looked at me funny. "What's with this?" Yoshida asked.

"Well…I cant sit really because of my side so I was laying down, and they just kind of… fell asleep on me.." I explained. Eva stirred. She opened her eyes and looked up at Yoshida.

"Come on I found a good shelter, have a fire going and everything." Eva nodded and sat up before poking Mana and Nami. "Come on wake up and get moving its kinda far…" Eva and Mana stood and quickly turned their backs to the wind. Yoshida offered his hand to help me up. I took it and stood, Nami following shortly after.

The walk there was horrible. The wind was growing more harsh and some snowflakes started to fall. We reached a sort of hill and walked over it, On the other side there was a small cave. We filled in where we found a fire.

Mana let out a happy sigh before going over to warm up. Yoshida went to the far wall. The whole place was warm. Eva cuddled up next to Nami and soon fell asleep again. "So how long do we wait here?" Mana asked.

I laid on my side next to the fire. "We can move from shelter to shelter, but its probably just a storm.." Yoshida said.

"Nami is probably powerfull enough to dig huge holes…she can can make a small cave if we cant find a shelter close enough" I mentioned. Mana and Yoshida nodded.

"Who goes out looking next?" Mana asked. "I cant stand the cold, neither can Sereg…and I don't want to keep sending you out"

"Eva can stand the cold better than both of yall, she can go out next…" Yoshida mentioned.

"For now.. let her sleep" I said.

"Yeah, shes exsausted…" Mana agreed.

"How do you know?" I asked.

"Well.. shes metally weak.." Yoshida said. After he saw the looks on Mana and my face, he continued. "You know that she can go a while without having blood right?" We nodded. "Well basically she can convince herself shes normal and doesn't need blood for about a month tops..but when shes around blood for a day or longer constantly, she is reminded who she really is.. and the lusts become stronger and she gets sick quicker.."

"First, how do you know shes not just tired, and second, why do demons need blood? I thought that was vampires!" I commented.

"Well first off…demons sense each others thoughts a feelings if they are close enough to them, and secondly.. vampires did exsist they breeded with demons.. so eventually demons inherited the trait for the lust for blood, and eventually due to their need for blood to be so strong.. they died out.. leaving us"

"So she just has more of that trait?" I asked. Yoshida nodded. "Bassically I am the reason shes weak, right?" I asked again.

"welllll yeah" Yoshida said looking up. I sighed. Getting up I walked over to Eva. "What are you doing?" I shushed him.

"Don't worry" I assured him before lightly shaking Eva. She opened one eye and looked at me. "follow me for a sec ok?" She nodded and with my help got up, still rubbing her eyes.

We walked towards the mouth of the cave. Stepping outside I stood against the side of the hill about 10 feet away from the mouth of the cave. That way the wind went over the hill and missed us. I pulled Eva over so she was in front of me. I pulled back one of my sleeves and held up my arm. "here" Eva seemed a bit confused for a moment. (a/n: shes still a little drowsy from her nap )

Her face suddenly turned red. "W-what?" She asked stunned.

"I'm serious"

"Wait! First how did you know? And two no way!" She said stepping back slightly.

"Yoshida kind of filled us in on how you guys work, why didn't you say anything?" I asked.

"Because I didn't want you guys worring! Its not like I die or anything…I just kind of… don't really move around a lot…" She looked at the ground when she added the last part.

"We would have worried if you got sick!" She sneezed. "Your sick and in need of blood, dangit Eva just do it!" I snapped.

"but.. I don't want.." I cut her off.

"Eva...we need you to get though this" She sighed before gently grabbing my arm.

Ironically enough she picked the cut that she had originally given me. I could tell she really didn't want to do this the way she was so slow and gentle about it. I swear I didn't even feel pain at all when she picked back the scab to let blood flow to the surface. But I will admit that it tickled when she started lapping up the blood. I was literally clamping my mouth shut trying not to laugh, because the cold breeze tingled my skin where the blood had been, and where the slightly open would now was.

She let go of my arm and took a small step back, eyes downcast. I couldn't help but to chuckle. She looked up at me, confused. "It didn't hurt at all, for one, and don't be so upset. Your fine now on the blood end, but maybe this will help fight your sickness."

"But what if I took too much blood?" She asked worriedly.

"I can almost guarantee you didn't, and if you did, I will recover from that quickly." I said smiling. She finally smiled back at me. "Come on lets go back inside…" She nodded before quickly zipping into the cave. I pulled down my sleeve and walked back in.

Walking back over to the spot I was in, I flopped down on my side.

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"Eva, what happened?" Mana paused. "Your face.. its red" She started laughing. I could tell I turned even brighter red right then.

"Oh leave her alone" Yoshida said from the corner of the cave. "Its none of our business" Even he was laughing.

I looked over to Sereg laid. He was lightly laughing too. I was being laughing at. Nami sat up and put her head on my shoulder. I choked out a laugh and hugged her big head. "Im sorry we shouldn't be laughing" Yoshida apologized.

"no, its ok" I said before telling Nami to lay down. When she did I laid down with my head just behind her front legs. I buried my face in her fur and sighed.

"Oops" I heard Mana whisper. I ignored them.

After a while they fell into conversation about other stuff. I just acted like I was asleep. Something touched my foot and curiosity got me and I opened my eyes, looking down at my foot. I didn't see anything. I looked around my foot to find what had touched it. I found another foot. I followed it up to find Sereg. He grinned at me.

I smiled back before sitting up. "Good evening" Yoshida greeted.

"I was never asleep" I said getting up. I walked over and plopped down next to Mana. She smiled at me. I rested my head on her shoulder. "Hey, we havn't talked in a while…" I stated.

"Yeah I know.. sorry"

"Its ok…" I paused. "hey, I'm bored…" She laughed.

"Yeah I know this is boring for all of us, this is why we have each other to keep us company.."

"Yeah I know, and I hate to say it, but I kind of missed when it was just us living back at the town."

"WHAT?! You LIVED together?" Yoshida yelped. My head snapped up and looked over at him.

"Not like that you Pervert!! Both our parents died remember? We were close so we just stayed together! Jeez!"

"oh… ok" Sereg was cracking up. "Sorry I just wasn't really expecting that…" He explained. I sighed.

"Its ok, its just that freaked me out when you started to yell like that" I said calmly. He just grinned.

"Anyways, yeah I miss those days too, but change happens, and I think your still injoying it a bit" Mana teased. I glared at her.

Night time came slowly after that. I sat with mana and we held a small conversation about the pros and cons of day and night. Eventually we all agreed that night was cool because it was when you got permission to sleep. And oddly enough that's what they did!

I was left awake. I was sitting more towards the mouth of the cave, just surveying the cave. I sighed. "Damn it, damn my heredity!" I said smashing my fist into the ground. "I don't want to be this way, to need blood, and have to take if from a friend or even myself" I sneezed. It was the straw to break the camels back. I let out a small sob. Tears streamed down my face, dripping to my hand.

Two arms wrapped around my shoulders. I blinked. I was so lost in my own thoughts I didn't even notice someone had come up behind me. "hey now, whats wrong?" Sereg asked, putting his chin on my shoulder, his legs on either side of me. I sniffed.

"Nothing, its ok.." I said wiping my eyes with the back of my hand.

"Your lying." Sereg stated.

"N-no…" He hugged me tighter.

"Come on, what's wrong?" He asked again.

"I'm sick, and I had to take your blood just to keep me from getting sicker!" I sniffed again.

"Mmm, your fault"

"HEY!" I snapped.

"well it is.. if you weren't trying to keep me warm before, you would have never gotten sick in the first place, but having to drink my blood, its alright, how many times am I going to have to tell you?" He asked.

"But..you would have been cold if I had-" He cut me off.

"Everythings going to be alright, ok?"

"…" I paused. "Yeah, I guess."

I fell asleep like that, in his arms. I really didn't want to have to take his blood, but he was ok with it. He was ok with me. That thought just kind of lulled me to sleep.

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Alya- AWWW So cute!!!