Alright, we've made it to the 3rd chapter! I'm happy you guys are liking it. I've wanted to do a story like this for a while, where I try to go for a darker interpretation of a witch. Well anyway, on with the chapter. I hope you enjoy!

When Ayato, Laito, Kanato and Subaru each separately made their way to the parlour, Reiji had already begun to question "Yui", who was sitting on the blue couch, responding to each of Reiji's questions with silence. The bespectacled vampire was getting more and more impatient with the human girl, not that he would allow himself to outwardly show his irritation in his demeanour, remaining as stiff and poised as always. He was a proper gentleman, after all.

"I will not pardon your rudeness nor will I ask you again. You will tell me about yourself and inform me on how you came to enter this house." He repeated, his voice trying not to strain with agitation. He merely allowed his eyes to narrow onto her face, not that his glare seemed to have any effect on her.

Laito, teleporting himself directly behind her, could not help but laugh at the amusing spectacle.

"Well, well, well, you seem to be having quite a bit of trouble getting her to speak, don't you Reiji-kun?" He teased, resting his hands on Yui's stiff shoulders. He bent down to her level, brushing her long brown hair out of his sight and exposing the side of her pale face.

"Don't worry; I can get her to make all sorts of noises~." Laito crooned, before licking her cheek with his wet tongue. The sultry look on his face turned into one of surprise, however, when she did not react at all to his inappropriate actions. Not only that, but her taste was rather strange as well. It was definitely that of a human's, but off in some way. It tasted warped. Luckily in her case, warped did not necessarily mean unpleasant.

Ayato, angry that Laito dared to touch what he had clearly said before belonged to him, marched over and pushed his triplet brother away from her, the fedora wearing vampire landing on the floor.

"What did I tell you about touching what's mine?" he grumbled at his brother, who nonchalantly picked both himself and his hat up from the ground. He smiled at his angry brother, clearly thinking that this whole situation was very amusing.

"Don't be so rough, Ayato-kun. I was just getting a taste~." He said, licking his lips. Ayato opened his mouth to retort, but was stopped by Reiji raising his voice at them.

"Enough. I do not care if you two want to squabble like children, but now is not the time." Laito merely shrugged his shoulders while Ayato swore under his breath and turned his nose away from his triplet, not wanting to admit to Reiji that he had been acting childishly in the slightest. The bespectacled vampire ignored both of them, however, and turned his attention back to the girl on the couch. Surprisingly enough, she had moved, but only to use her hand to wipe off Laito's saliva from her cheek. She then rubbed her hand into the blue couch in an effort clean her hands of the spit, which made Reiji grimace in disgust. It was quite clear now that this girl had absolutely no manners; he would definitely have to punish her later.

"So then, I guess you're the woman he told me about…" A voice called out from near the fire place. All five vampire turned to see Shuu, the eldest Sakamaki son, lying on the brown couch next to the marble fireplace. He did not even bother to open his eyes to address his younger brothers; he still looked as though he was fast asleep.

"Shuu, do you know something we do not about this woman?" Reiji tensely asked his lazy older brother, adjusting his glasses and narrowing his magenta eyes into a glare. Reiji did not care for Shuu at all; though it could be said that Reiji did not care for any of his brothers, but he definitely hated his older brother the most. He never made any attempt to hide his feelings towards his him, not that Shuu cared in the slightest. Shuu did not really care about anything, to be honest, which only made Reiji hate him even more.

"Maybe…" The eldest Sakamaki son replied half-heartedly.

"Don't "maybe" us. We want to know." Kanato spoke up, glaring at his eldest brother while he buried his face into his teddy bear. He was growing tired of all the confusion; he wanted to know who the girl was.

"The other day… that man contacted me…" Shuu began, the mere mention of "that man" putting everyone slightly on edge.

"He said, "We have a guest arriving from the church, so treat her with respect."" He finished, having said all that he could be bothered to say. Let his brothers figure it out from there, he was tired….

"What? So then Oddball over here is the prospective bride?" Ayato asked in slight disbelief, wondering why those idiots from the church would send such a slovenly girl to them as a bride. They usually had better standards than this.

"Oh, so that's all?" Kanato said, not all that thrilled from the answer he had been given.

"To be honest, she's more like a sacrifice than a bride." Laito chimed in, now casually leaning on the blue couch next to Yui.

Shuu piped up again, suddenly opening his blue eyes as he remembered a vital detail from that man's instructions.

"Oh yeah… he also said that we cannot kill her." Laito perked up at this, looking to Yui with a knowing grin on his foxlike face.

"Really? Then I guess that means this is the beginning of a very long relationship with you, Creepy-chan~." He said with glee, his face flushed with excitement as he imagined all of the things he was going to do to her. Reiji cleared his throat, bringing all attention back to him.

"Well, now that everything seems to be in order, allow us to introduce ourselves. That," he motioned to the sleeping vampire on the brown couch, "is Shuu, the eldest son. I am the second son, Reiji. This is the third son, Ayato,"

"You don't get away next time." The aforementioned redhead said menacingly.

"Kanato, the fourth son,"

"Please let me get a taste of you sometime soon…" Kanato muttered, smiling and clutching his teddy bear closer to his chest.

"Laito, the fifth son,"

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Creepy-chan." Laito said, winking flirtatiously at Yui.

"And the last son, Subaru." Reiji finished, looking over to his youngest brother. Subaru said nothing to Yui directly, only grumbling under his breath, "What a waste of time…"

After finishing his introductions, Reiji turned to Yui to get her response. She continued to sit on the couch, but slightly nodded her head to acknowledge that she had heard him, and spoke in her low, flat voice.

"I am… Yui Komori…" Reiji frowned at this, haven been given information that he already knew. It irritated him to no end when people repeated themselves, especially when he was the one who had to do so. This human had better have the best tasting blood in the entire world, Reiji thought to himself. Otherwise he doubted that she would be worth the trouble of hosting her.

Before he could get in another word, Yui sat up from her seat on the couch next to Laito abruptly and began to walk away from the Sakamaki brothers. Reiji, having quite enough of her complete disregard for manners, was quick to scold her.

"It is very impolite to leave before I have even gotten to explaining the rules of the household for you. Really, how inconsiderate are you?"

Still, she acted as though she did not even hear him as she did not slow down her pace. Suddenly, Kanato appeared before her and blocked her path, looking rather cross with her.

"How rude… you think that you can just come and go whenever you please? Yui-san is so impolite, isn't she Teddy?" he said to his stuffed friend, seemingly not wanting to confront Yui herself about her behaviour and instead doing so through his beloved companion. However, as Kanato continued to speak to his bear, Yui's hazel eyes drifted to Teddy as well, her unnerving gaze narrowing down on him. Then, she began to reach out to the stuffed animal, pointing her index finger at Teddy's forehead. When Kanato noticed this, his entire demeanour changed from annoyed but docile to enraged and hysterical. He violently grabbed Yui by her wrist, lifting her up from the ground using his arm alone.

"What do you think you're doing?! Don't you dare think about touching Teddy, you worthless mortal!" he screamed, purple eyes looking crazed with anger. This time, Yui did react to being violently assaulted by an enraged vampire, though not in the way any of them expected. Looking down at Kanato from where she was being held in the air, a sinister grin began to form on her face, as if she were making a mockery of his attempt to harm her. This only angered the purple haired vampire even more, not taking well to his ability to brutalize humans being made fun of.

"What are you smiling about?!" Kanato cried, not wanting to admit that her sudden change in demeanour confused or unnerved him in the slightest. This was usually the time when the human would realize that they were in very real danger and begin to cry and beg for their worthless life, essentially prostrating themselves before him. Of course, this was when he would either kill them or prolong their suffering; whatever he felt like doing at the time. He had to admit, he had never seen a mortal react quite like this when faced with the possibility of a painful death.

Kanato was so focused on his own inner thoughts that he did not see Yui's hand begin to lift upwards, inching its way to his arm that was holding her in the air. Just as she was about to grab onto his wrist, Ayato's angry voice dragged him out of his thoughts.

"You damn brat. Don't touch what belongs to Yours Truly!" he exclaimed, grabbing hold of Kanato's arm and squeezing tightly, causing him to let go of Yui's arm and drop her to the ground. She landed on her feet surprisingly steadily, considering that she had just been in the middle of being hoisted up like a ragdoll. She looked to be completely unaffected by Kanato's assault on her person, appearing completely calm and collected.

Ayato turned his attention to his triplet brother, who was still seething with rage.

"She glared at Teddy! She smirked at me! She had to be punished!" Kanato defended himself, not seeing anything wrong with what he had been doing. His actions had been completely justified; the stupid mortal should be grateful that he had no just killed her then and there for trying to touch Teddy. He could not do that yet, of course. First he had to get a taste of her.

"I don't give a damn your stupid bear. She's the property of Yours Truly, so don't even think about touching her without my permission!" Ayato argued back, hating having to explain this over and over to his simpleminded brothers.

Reiji signed deeply and adjusted his glasses.

"Well, Komori-san, it seems that you are already causing more trouble than y-…" he trailed off after noticing that the human who had started this entire mess was now gone; it was as if she had vanished into thin air. While Ayato and Kanato were still busy fighting, Laito also took notice of Yui's sudden disappearance.

"Creepy-chan?" he called out, finally getting his triplet brothers' attention. Looking around the entire parlour, it was clear that Yui was nowhere to be found.

"Where did she go?" asked Ayato. While angry that his new prey had escaped him once again, he still wondered how she had been able to leave the room so quickly without even making a sound.

Reiji, looking to see that Shuu was gone as well, most likely deciding to go back to his room to sleep, turned to Subaru for answers for Yui's whereabouts.

"Subaru, did you see where the bride went?" he asked his volatile younger half-brother. Subaru frowned in annoyance.

"What am I, her keeper? I don't know where she went." He grumbled, his reason for not seeing where she went hiding the more embarrassing fact that he had simply not been paying attention. Before Reiji could ask him any more questions, Subaru himself vanished from the room with the intention of going back to his coffin and getting some rest before school.

With Subaru gone, Ayato decided to look for Yui himself. With her long list of offenses, such as ignoring him, leaving without his permission and allowing his brothers to touch her, he would be sure to decide on an especially gruesome punishment for her. Though he had to find her first, of course.

"Oddball! You'd better show yourself! Hiding is pointless anyway, I'm going to find you eventually!" he called to her as he exited the parlour, intent on locating his prey.

Watching Ayato leave, Laito got up from his seat on the couch and stretched his arms out. While he had never seen a sacrificial bride act in such a way, he was definitely glad she was going to give them a good chase. The hunt was always more fun and ultimately satisfying when the prey gave them a good show by thinking they could actually escape from them. It truly amused Laito to no end.

"Well, I suppose I should go and join in on the fun. Want to come with me, Kanato?" he said, looking to his angry triplet. "If we find her before Ayato, we can have all sorts of fun~." He finished excitedly, a blush forming on his face. Kanato looked at his brother, a dark expression still present on his face.

"I still need to properly punish her for daring to try and touch Teddy. She's going to be begging for my mercy while she suffers horribly, right Teddy?" he looked down at his stuffed bear, his frown giving way to an eerie smile.

Laito, taking Kanato's response as a yes, walked confidently out of the parlour, his purple-haired brother following behind him.

"Then let's go. We can't keep our dear little sacrifice waiting~!" Laito exclaimed, he and Kanato disappearing into the winding corridors.

Reiji signed deeply.

What a troublesome bride they had been given.

Out of all of the Sakamaki brothers who were actually making an effort to find Yui, Subaru was the least likely to be the one to find her. He had woken from his rest once again and decided to take refuge in the rose garden. While he felt slightly intrigued by the new sacrificial bride and her odd behaviour, he was not interested enough to go chasing her around the mansion. Let the other bastards that live here hunt her down, he thought. But when he had made his way to the rose garden there she was, on her knees in the pouring rain in front of one of the rose bushes.

From a distance, it almost looked like she was in some sort of prayer. She was kneeling before the roses, her hands clasped in front of her, lips moving as though she were reciting scripture. She very well could have been praying to God to see her through this nightmare she found herself in. Many of the other brides had done the very same thing, actually thinking that prayer could save them. They would always be proven wrong in the end.

He felt the flames of his rage ignite when he realized the reason she was kneeling in front of his roses was because it appeared that she had just finished digging around in the muddy dirt, leaving herself covered in soil and many of his precious roses dug out of the ground and thrown to the side. Furious, he began to make his way over to confront her when he stopped in his tracks when he got a better look at exactly what she was doing.

Kneeling in front of the destroyed roses, rather than praying as he initially thought, she was actually whispering to something she was clasping in her hands, eyes closed and deep in thought, practically a trance. When she stopped, she held her hands high above her head before dropping the unseen object into the hole she had dug, sealing it back up with the previously discarded soil.

Feeling his anger return to him, Subaru walked over to Yui to let her have a piece of his mind.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" he yelled at her. In stark contrast to her usual response (that being none at all), she turned to look at him with a blank expression on her face. She began to speak in her strange, low voice,

"I'm planting. That's what you do in a garden, after all." It was not an apology, nor was it an attempt to justify her actions. She simply told him what she had done, as if she saw nothing wrong with tearing up someone else's garden of carefully groomed white roses. In all honesty thought, Subaru was slightly surprised that she decided to speak to him when she would not say a word to his brothers earlier.

Not satisfied with her plain response, he grabbed her by the wrist and tugged upwards, pulling her up from her place on the ground. Covered in mud and dirt, she looked up at him with her hazel eyes, not looking pleased at all with his rough treatment towards her.

Tch, it's not like she didn't deserve it, Subaru thought.

Catching the white haired vampire off guard, she pulled her wrist out of his grasp in one fluid motion, standing still while she tended to her arm that had been scratched by his nails. While they had not broken the skin and only left angry, red streaks on her pale complexion, Subaru was reminded of the reason that she was here. To be their own personal juice box.

On one hand, it would be rather annoying to see Ayato bitch and complain about how he had not been the first one to suck the new bride's blood. But on the other side, she technically belonged to all of them, so he had every right to drink her blood whenever he pleased.

Grabbing her by her bony shoulders, Subaru pulled her to him, her head facing her chest. He bent down to take in her scent, finding rather unusual just like his older half-brothers did. Once he found a nice vein to feed from, he opened his mouth wide, revealing long, sharp fangs. Just as he was about to tear through her flesh with his teeth, he flinched when he heard her begin to whisper in his ear.

"Are vampires always as direct as you when they feed?" He shoved Yui away from him in surprise, causing her to stumble back, though she managed to save herself from falling backwards into the mud. Steadying herself, she just stared back at him with her eyes, as if she were looking into his core.

"So… you know…" Subaru managed to get out before he started to step away from her.

When the brides would inevitably find out they were vampires, there would be a variety of reactions. Most would try to immediately run away, others would scream, some would faint. There had even been a few that was entranced by their true nature, seeming to have a very strange idea of what vampires were really like. They were usually the ones that died the quickest.

He wondered exactly when she had realized what they were. Perhaps it was when Laito licked her, or when they were all discussing her strange scent. The Sakamakis' were admittedly not as discreet as they were supposed to be when they talked amoungst themselves, even when the bride was present. There was no point to do so, really, since she would find out what they were sooner or later.

"Yes, I do." Yui said. Subaru narrowed his red eyes at her, wondering why she seemed so calm about the fact that she was now living with six dangerous vampires who would eventually kill her. Did she not know that her life was in great jeopardy?

"So then, do you know why you're here? What we're going to do with you?" he asked her.

"You're all going to eat me. That much I assumed." She stated in a calm and neutral tone of voice.

He was truly beginning to think that she was just incredibly stupid and had no sense of self-preservation. No, that was not correct, he then thought. There was an awareness to her, an aura of fearlessness. She knew exactly what she was doing.

Which only served to confuse Subaru even more.

"You will definitely die if you stay here. Doesn't that scare you at all?"

"Not particularly, no."

Subaru's grimace turned into a full blown frown, showing his inner agitation. It seemed like this insipid human really did not care in the slightest that Subaru, or more likely one of his brothers, would end her life.

Why were all mortals this incredibly stupid? Didn't they care about their own lives?

Yui's expressionless face curled itself into a grin not unlike to the one she gave Kanato earlier. She was now giving off an air of confidence, as though she felt that there was truly nothing to fear. She began making her way out of the garden, striding closer and closer to Subaru before she stopped, now standing shoulder to shoulder with the white haired vampire. Ominous smile still on her face, she turned her head to the side to face him.

"Your concern is noted, but I'll be just fine…" She practically whispered in his ear, her voice letting him know full well that she was not intimidated by the situation in the slightest. She then strode off back into the mansion, leaving Subaru standing there in the garden, not really knowing how to react.

Part of him was affronted by the mortal's arrogance, another was frustrated at her complete lack of awareness of the danger around her. One small piece was feeling insulted about the fact that she interpreted Subaru's curiosity about her self-awareness as concern for her wellbeing. He didn't give a damn about her; he just wanted to see if she truly comprehended the situation she was in, that's all!

It never failed to amaze him just how stupid humans were.

As the annoyed vampire exited the garden in a huff with the intention of retreating back to his coffin before school started, he failed to notice the long forgotten hole in the middle of the rosebush that Yui had been so diligently attending to just minutes ago. The loose, damp soil filling the hole had begun to pulsate oh so slightly, gently rising and falling from the ground. But as soon Subaru was gone, the breathing became more and more intense, the seemingly living clump of dirt now resembling a beating organ.

Around the small ditch, the carelessly discarded white roses suddenly and rapidly began to wilt, even though they had only been plucked from their push mere minutes ago. The stem began to go limp and turn brown in colour, the petals become wrinkled as they lifelessly dropped off from the once beautiful flower onto the mud. As the flowers became withered old visages of their former glory, a long, black appendage wrapped itself around tightly around them before dragging the wilted roses below the earth, claiming them as its' own.

The pulsating earth began to slow and relax its beating, as if content.

Okay, so that was the 3rd chapter. I hope you enjoyed it, and feedback is always welcome!