Hey! I'm glad that you seemed to enjoy the prologue, as I've wanted to play around with this idea for a while now. Anyway, here's what is technically the first chapter.

The Sakamaki household was unusually quiet that evening. Normally, one would hear either Kanato's crying and/or hysterical screaming, Subaru cursing up a storm, Ayato butting heads with someone over what he perceived to be a jab at his pride, Laito making some sort of loud, obscene moans, and Reiji scolding them for how noisy they were all being. Shuu, however, never made a fuss about anything unless it was about one of his brothers disturbing his near constant rest. Needless to say, a moment where there was any peace at all was indeed rare.

Intending to take full advantage of such an opportunity, Ayato decided to take a short nap on the loveseat near the main entrance that lead to the staircase. One might think it an odd place for a catnap, but this was Ayato's house. He had the right to do whatever he wanted, provided that Reiji did not show up uninvited and spoil his fun.

Take your personal activities to your rooms. Please, Ayato should not be bound by rules set by someone who was not even the firstborn son! As if he would listen to Shuu, either.

He really only bothered opening one of his eyes when he heard the twin oak doors at the front entrance open. He could hear the thunder roar from outside, the fierce storm raging on. What did pull him out of his daze, however, was the sound of wet feet padding loudly against the marble floor. From the sound of it, the person intruding on both his home and his sleep was not wearing any shoes, making him briefly wonder if some random, unlucky transient had approached the mansion for whatever reason.

Ayato decided to finally get up from the loveseat when he heard the rain-drenched footsteps suddenly stop, whoever was in the hall seemed to be just stand there, completely unmoving. Walking towards the general direction of the footstep's origin, he was rather surprised to see a young girl around his physical age, barefoot and drenched head to toe in rainwater. As he suspected, she was standing in the middle of the hall, not making a sound, and turning her head in different directions to obverse the main entrance of the mansion. Her long brown hair was matted against her face and body, having become heavy with water. Her clothes were in no better shape either as they stuck to her body. She had also dropped a large, leather duffel bag onto the floor next to her. Her feet were not only wet but also filthy, having tracked through wet mud outside to get to the mansion. Damn, Reiji was going to be pissed when he saw all of the dirt on the entrance hall's marble floor, he thought briefly.

Ayato raised an eyebrow. Had she walked all the way here through the storm or something?

He made no effort to be hide himself as he marched over to the girl, ready to confront her about waking him up and tracking mud on the floor.

"Oi! Who the hell are you?" he yelled, not really caring if any of his brothers heard him. Besides, he had an annoying human to deal with., he could be as loud as he wanted.

In an instant, the girl snapped her head towards him, staring him down with her cold, hazel eyes. Ayato flinched, the girl's unnerving glare catching him off guard and momentarily stopping him in his tracks. He had never seen such a cold, penetrating glare on a human before. The human girls he had dealt with in the past were docile, polite, and obedient. After all, that was how the Church had raised them to act before they sent them to Ayato and his brothers. But this one… he did not quite know what to think about her. But what he did know was that she was seriously annoying him.

"Hey, stop staring at me! Answer my question!" he snarled, becoming more and more irritated by her lack of outward emotion. Despite the harshness in his voice, she still did not make a sound, almost acting as though she did not hear him. But he could definitely tell that she had in fact heard him, choosing to not verbally respond and just continue to direct her unsettling gaze at him.

Inwardly chastising himself for allowing a human to freak him out, he went back to walking towards the girl until he was standing directly in front of her, matching her glare with one of his own. Still she did not move or say a word, she just continued to look up at him with her damn creepy eyes.

Having enough of this nonsense, Ayato grabbed her chin and yanked it upwards, exposing her neck to his acid green gaze. He let a smirk run across his face as he examined her, deciding that she would at the very least make a good meal for him. While she definitely was not what he would consider to be cute, she was at the very least not ugly, given that she actually had a nice, heart shaped face now that he was getting a better look at her. He figured she could be considered attractive if she put some effort into maintaining her appearance and did not look like such a slob, what with her stringy, unkempt hair and worn clothing.

Oh well. Even though she was not his usual type, he figured he could still have some fun with her. Besides, she needed to be punished for disturbing his rest.

Grabbing her by the wrist in order to pull her towards him, Ayato took her wet brown hair into his other hand and pried her head upwards so that he could have better access to her neck. He had to admit, the sight of her unbitten, exposed, and pale neck did make her a bit more appealing to him. He buried his face into the crook of her neck and took deep breath of her scent, knowing that this always drew out a scream from humans. However, the nameless girl surprised him once again by having a very unusual smell. She lacked the sweetness that usually drew him in, but she had a strange zing to her that he could not completely identify. Strange, but not unpleasant; just like her.

Ayato dragged his tongue across her neck, anticipating the shocked scream and the shiver that would wrack her body. But alas, he was again disappointed when she had no reaction to him violating her personal space at all. No screaming, not chills running down her spine, nothing at all. It felt was as if he was about to feed on one of Kanato's stupid dolls.

Her lack of wonderful reactions was really starting to get on his nerves. At the very least he still was looking forward to hearing her shriek in agony when his fangs plunged painfully into her skin, though.

Before he could make her cry out in pain, however, he heard an all too familiar voice behind him.

"Ayato, what's all the commotion?" Of course, his damn brother always had to ruin the moment!

Stupid Reiji, always spoiling his fun. Not only had the girl not given him any good reactions, his uptight older brother had to walk in on him when he was getting to the best part! Now Ayato was in a truly foul mood.

"Damn, not you, Reiji..." He growled, looking behind him to see the bespectacled vampire standing there with his arms crossed and a look of distain on his face.

"This is the entrance hall. This is meant to be used as a place to greet our guests. Take your activities to your private room." Reiji lectured, his magenta eyes roaming from Ayato to attempting to get a good look at his newest prey. Groaning in frustration, the red-haired vampire stepped away from the rain soaked girl, who stood in her spot completely still.

Reiji took in the girl's appearance, and needless to say he was not pleased with what he found. Apparently not thinking to bring any sort of protection from the storm outside, she was completely drenched, a puddle of rainwater forming beneath her. What appalled him more, however, was her filthy, bare feet. Was this human truly so uncivilized that she saw nothing wrong with going barefoot and tracking mud all over the floor of someone else's house? He rarely saw such abysmal manners in a person, whether they be human or vampire; he made a mental note to thoroughly discipline this girl after he figured out why she was there in the first place.

Nevertheless, he still made his way to her, stopping when he was standing directly in front of her dripping-wet form.

"And who might you be?" Reiji made no effort to hide the disdain in his voice, wanting the human in front of him to know fully well that she disgusted him. For a few moments, she continued to stand there, not making a sound, until she finally spoke for the first time since arriving at the Sakamaki household.

"I am… Yui Komori… I was told that I was going to live here…" Her voice sounded flat and gravelly, possessing no more emotion than her face did. It also sounded unused, so it seemed as though she was a woman of few words. Though to be honest, both Ayato and Reiji would have preferred she remained silent; her voice carried a strange air of unease.

"I have heard nothing of the sort," Reiji replied, looking to his younger half-brother for answers. "Ayato, explain the situation to me."

"Eh? How am I supposed to know what's going on?" the red-haired vampire protested, turning his attention back to the girl whose name was apparently Yui. Not that he gave a damn about whatever her stupid name. "You didn't mention anything like that to me, Oddball."

Her hazel eyes shifted to Ayato as she narrowed her gaze into a sinister glare, silently letting him know that she did not care for his questionable choice of nickname for her. He turned his nose up and looked away from her, partly from his own haughtiness but also from his wanting to avoid direct eye contact with her.

Reiji let out a tired sigh, pushing up his sagging glasses with his hand. What a mess this whole situation was turning out to be…

"I was not informed that anyone was coming to stay with us. Nevertheless, this is not the place to discuss such matters. However," He looked down at Yui once again, taking in her slovenly appearance.

"Considering that you are in no condition to be in the parlour room, you will be escorted to one of the guest rooms in order to make yourself presentable." Just as he finished his statement, out from the shadows came a man who seemed to embody the archetype of the "silent, loyal butler." He took Yui's leather duffel back from where she had dropped it on the ground.

"See to her luggage and escort her to one of the guest bedrooms." Reiji ordered the servant, to which he responded with a nod. The butler looked to her, silently saying that he should follow him. She did just that, walking away with the servant, not even glancing in Ayato or Reiji's direction as she did so. With that taken care of, Reiji vanished from the entrance hall as well, leaving Ayato by himself, confused and irritated.

Several minutes later, Ayato, angry with having his snack taken away from him, ascended the staircase in order to find Yui, or Oddball as he had decided to call her. He thought it was a fitting name, given that if he looked up the definition of the word "odd" in the dictionary he would most likely find a picture of her next to it. It frustrated him to no end that she somehow managed to creep him out. He was a vampire, damn it! He was not one to be intimidated by a lowly human!

Yet here he was, chasing after the girl he did not even get to have a taste of yet.

As he walked through the mansions many halls in search of Oddball's room, he heard a familiar sultry chuckle. Oh wonderful, this was just what he needed right now…

"Ne, Ayato? I heard there was a cute human girl here, do you know where she is~?" asked Laito, standing next to Kanato, his trademark smirk on his face. Ayato's frown deepened at the sight of his triplet brothers, knowing they would try to steal what was his.

"Hn! Cute is the last word I'd use to describe her. She's just some creepy slob!" he scoffed to his triplet brothers, who both widened their eyes in surprise. Sure, they'd had girls who could be best described as plain, but never creepy. It was generally known that humans were not frightening in any way; not to vampires, at least. They were weak, pathetic creatures whose only significant purpose was to be used as sources of blood by creatures of the night such as themselves. They were simply not intimidating.

Kanato tilted his head in confusion, "If she is creepy, why are you looking for her? Ayato's confusing me; right, Teddy?" Kanato asked his beloved stuffed companion, as if he was expecting an actual verbal response. Ayato and Laito had learned to ignore their purple-haired brother whenever he talked to that stupid bear their mother had given him years ago.

Ayato growled in annoyance at his triplet's question.

"Shaddup! It doesn't matter if she's cute or creepy; what matters is that Yours Truly was the one who saw her first, so she belongs to me! Consequently, Yours Truly will be her first everything!" he barked at them, hating the fact that he had to explain something that should have been painfully obvious.

"How lame… I'm so tired of hearing you call yourself "Yours Truly" all the damn time…" an irritated voice rang out from behind the triplets. All three of them turned to look at who had just accosted Ayato, and found that it was Subaru, the youngest of the Sakamaki brothers who had no doubt been woken up from his sleep and came to check out what all of the noise was about.

"Screw off, Subaru! Piss me off again and I'll kill you, I swear!" Ayato yelled at his younger brother, having enough of that annoying kid's crap. Subaru snarled back at his older half-brother.

"Fuck you. You're the one who interrupted my precious sleep." He countered, the agitation between the brothers growing thicker by the second.

"Now don't be like that, Subaru-kun. We were just on our way to see a cute little human girl, so don't be so angry, little brother~." Laito added, which did not at all help to dispel the hostile atmosphere.

"Shut the hell up, pervert! I don't consider any of you to be my brothers, so don't call me that!" Subaru, shouted, letting his anger take him over and punch at the window next to him, causing the glass to shatter into pieces and let part of the raging storm from outside into the mansion. Shards few out of window and fractured into smaller pieces when they hit the ground below. None of the triplets were particularly intimidated by Subaru's display of rage, however. The youngest brother losing his temper and destroying something was very common in the Sakamaki household, so they had all gotten used to it.

"What a strange scent…" Kanato's voice broke through, causing the three other vampires to look at him. They had not noticed the purple-haired brother staring off into the dark hallway, seemingly enraptured by the human's smell he had just picked up. This reminded Ayato of what he had come there to do in the first place, which was find Oddball. He hated that he had allowed his brothers to distract him like this.

Ayato walked past his brothers in a huff and continued his search for Yui, not caring that the four other vampires began to follow behind him, wanting to see the girl for themselves. Even Subaru, despite his hostile demeanour, could not lie and say he was not the least bit interested in the human with the odd scent that was causing such a fuss. When the girl's scent became stronger, they came across an odd sight.

A servant, the same one that had taken Yui's leather bag and escorted her to a guest bedroom, and currently busy knocking on a door with one hand and jiggling the knob with his other. His face was panicked, worried about what would happen if he did not get into the room.

"Miss, please! Reiji-sama has requested your presence in the parlour, you mustn't keep him waiting. Please open the door!" he called to her from outside, desperate for her to open the door and apparently still having not noticed the four Sakamaki brothers standing not too far from him. When he did catch on to their presence, he turned to them like a deer in headlights, afraid of what they will do to him seeing that he failed his orders.

"Y-Young Masters… I was just c-collecting the human girl from the room we provided her with…" he muttered, still nervous at the possible consequences of showing incompetence of any kind. He was hoping he would be spared Reiji's whip, which was what the bespectacled vampire used to discipline others with. He could see that while Laito and Kanato were merely curious, Ayato and Subaru looked angry at the sudden obstacle that prevented them from getting a look at the human. The agitated red-haired vampire marched over to the poor servant and tugged at the collar of his shirt, glaring directly into his terrified eyes.

"Don't you know how to unlock doors? How stupid are you?!" Ayato yelled at the now cowering servant. He held out his arms between him and the irritated vampire prince as a sign of pleading.

"But A-Ayato-sama… The d-door is not locked!" Hearing this, Ayato responded with the o-so-eloquent,

"Huh?" He let go of the butler at allow him to explain.

"As the Young Masters surely know… the rooms that we keep humans inside of do not have locks. That way no human will be able to shut any of you out. But even though this door does not have any sort of locks, I can't seem to get it open." He explained, hoping that Ayato will show him some semblance of mercy and let him go. Although he proceeds to do just that, he throws the butler across the hall, landing painfully on the carpeted floor. Ayato does not pay him any mind, however, as he is now standing directly in front of the wooden door.

"Oi! Oddball, open the damn door! You're pissing me off!" he yelled, having enough of playing nice with the girl who seemed to become more and more annoying. Just as he raised his fist to pound on the door, it opened by itself, gently swinging open to reveal her.

Yui was sitting at the foot of the large, pink canopy bed, completely motionless and glaring directly at Ayato as if she was waiting for him. Her long hair and clothes were no longer wet, though he noticed that she had still not put on any sort of footwear. Her hazel eyes were just as unnerving as before, burrowing into his green orbs. When she abruptly sat up from the bed, Ayato flinched at the sudden movement. She walked forward until she was directly in front of him, Ayato unconsciously taking a step back to allow her to leave the room.

She completely ignored the four vampires staring at her in confusion, wondering how she had locked a door that did not have a lock and how she had seemed to open it again without even touching it. She looked to her right at the butler, who had been able to pick himself up from where Ayato had thrown him. He too flinched at her gaze.

"R-Reiji-sama has ordered for you to come down to the parlour, please come t-this way…" he managed to stutter out as he walked down the hall with Yui following behind him. The four Sakamaki brothers just stared at her walking away, all coming to the conclusion that yes, there was indeed something very wrong with this human…

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Please leave a review, and I'll get started on the next chapter as soon as I can.