Chapter 17
The smallest of the vampire boys stood motionless as his dear lover wept into the bed sheets and re told the horrors that she had just been exposed to. At first, his skin crawled at the thought of his most trusted brother mutilating the girl. Now he was at pure rage. The emotion building inside of him was more than he and ever experience and it seemed that at any moment, his being would crack open and all of that anger would spill out and cause a full out war among their tight knit family. He watched helplessly as the blonde cried, "And then he-!" followed by the most monstrous verbs imaginable. Her words were so vivid that he felt that the torture was actually being done to himself. On any other occasion, perhaps he would have liked it but not even he had done most of it before. All he could do is wait and listen, but the horrors just continued.
"What will we do when he returns, Azusa-kun?" Yui said quietly. She was exhausted after the long period of uncontrollable sobbing. Azusa had sat on the edge of bed and brought Yui's head onto his lap, stroking the stray hairs off of her sweat caked face and attempting to soothe her at the best of his ability. He was struggling to find the right answer but eventually responded, "You're going to stay in Yuma's bedroom tonight. And Ruki... well, I suppose I will figure it out..." The human girl stared up at her vampire savior with tired eyes and nodded her head, allowing herself to finally drift off to sleep in his grasp.
"Azusa," Yuma said in a low tone, "I don't want to be in the middle of this." He watched as his younger brother tucked in the defenseless girl into his own bed, her head on his pillow and her body covered in his personal covers. He shifted uncomfortably with his arms crossed. The feud between the brothers was completely foreign to him and after seeing the damage Azusa had done to Kou earlier, he wasn't sure that he should be speaking to him at all about the matter. "Don't worry..." Azusa said in his usual calm fashion, "I will make sure he knows nothing of this..." He turned to face his taller brother, a gentle smile spreading across his cheeks.
Azusa waited patiently by the door all night. He held his dagger with one hand and stroked the blade with his other, awaiting his brother Ruki's return and prepared for anything. There were a few close calls that consisted of Kou sneaking off to the kitchen and attempting to surprise him, despite just being sliced hours before. "No right feelings, right Azusa?" He called out with a giggle, his mouth filled with leftovers from dinner. Azusa simply nodded, hoping to quiet him just before he heard the steady footsteps of someone approaching the front door. It was Ruki.
There was a slight pause before Ruki touched the doorknob and opened it, not the least bit surprised to see Azusa waiting only a foot away with his weapon of choice for the night. Ruki was hardly threatened and planned on walking right past him before Azusa said, "Did you see Kou when you were out there? I think he has been rummaging in my closet...my blade has been touched..." His voice trailed off and he held the knife up for Ruki to see himself. Sure enough, it had been smudged and was covered in crusted blood that he assumed to be Azusa's himself. "No," Ruki said stiffly. Good. He hadn't found out about the girl yet. "He wasn't at school today either. Why didn't you go?" He began stripping himself of his jacket and hung it beside the door to his right, fixing up his shirt before walking along side his brother. "Ayato-san roughed me up more than I'm used to," Azusa said, "I slept most the day. I plan on going back to that..." The boys nodded at each other and parted ways. Ruki was walking in the direction of Yui's prison.
As the room of secrets came closer, Ruki began unbuttoning the front of his school uniform with each step until it completely exposed his chest and firm belly. He cracked his knuckles before stopping in front of the door, muttering lowly, "Prepare yourself, livestock," before undoing the locks one by one on the door. When the door finally opened, he was outraged to see it was completely empty. The restraints and bloody powder blue dress were still on the floor. Ruki charged into the room, anger overtaking him, and began to search underneath the bed. He was in disbelief. "That fucking-" he began to say before spinning around to be face to face with Azusa again. Azusa struck him, slitting cleanly across his throat before pushing him onto the bed where he had participated in the worst of all sins. Azusa spat at him before mumbling, "You... are the true livestock." He then walked out, shutting the door behind him and making sure to clip and check every lock efficiently.