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Hey! A new chapter! Yay! Yeah, sorry for the delay everyone. I was going to have this up a long time ago but I got stuck on this one part of the chapter and had to rewrite the whole thing all over again just to make this one scene make sense. Still, I think I could have made this a lot better mostly at the end but oh well, I felt like I kept you guys waiting long enough so yeah. Thank you to everyone who is enjoying this story of mine so far and to everyone who has left a review on the last two chapters. They really brighten up my day, you know? But enough about me, onto the next parallel of the night!

Kyuketsukis were a strange breed of Supernaturals from what Sakaki Yugo had come to understand over the years that he has been one. The basic concept was there that all humans knew about. They had to survive on blood of the living. At first hearing that fact when he was just a little kid, Yugo always questioned why it was blood. Now that he was older, way older, he believed he knew the answer to that age long question. Kyuketsukis were undead, that was a proven fact since they no longer had a heartbeat. They don't have to breath in oxygen like humans do. However, that didn't mean they don't need it at all to survive. Yugo learned that blood carries oxygen around the body. Since Kyuketsukis were unable to breath, they had to get their oxygen from other living things to keep their immortal body in one piece. That's why it feels like their throats are on fire when they haven't had enough to drink, because there wasn't enough blood, or oxygen, in their systems.

Them being an immortal species was another concept that was common knowledge. That one was easier to understand why. They were dead so of course they wouldn't age. Though what made them come back from the dead was a question that still no one had an answer to, not even Yugo. Though his best hypothesis to that question would be that there was some kind of chemical in Kyuketsukis' blood that allowed the brain to friction like a normal human's brain. Kyuketsukis were made when another Kyuketsuki drinks all the blood from a human body, killing them on the spot before force feeding them their own blood. The blood must travel straight to the brain, reawakening it before it completely shuts down, and brings the human concussion back before it's gone for good. At least, that's how they were able to save Yuya from dying, dying.

Their strengths, weaknesses, and abilities, on the other hand, were things that humans made mistakes about all the time. Though the few things that they did get right were that they had super senses and they would turn into ashes if sunlight should ever touch their skin. That was another thing that confused Yugo. First off, if their human bodies were dead, how were their senses better than when they were alive? And secondly, why would their bodies turn into ashes? Why didn't they just instantly die, their bodies hitting the ground like the day they actually died and for that matter, why did the sunlight kill them anyway? In Yugo's eyes, it was just a giant ball of fire in the sky.

Yugo had asked his best friend, Rin, one of the four Mystics, these questions when he was first turned. She said from what she had witnessed over the years that Kyuketsuki, while powerful immortal beasts in human shells, had super sensitive skin. It was like they had Polymorphous Light Eruption, but instead of getting an itchy rash, their skin would literally burn. The same can be said if Kyuketsuki went anywhere near fire. Their skin just wasn't meant to handle warm. Yugo joked in annoyance about how him and his brother should just move to the North Pole and Rin responded with how they would have to survive on bloodicles then. The move to the Arctic was quickly canceled at that. Rin then informed him that their senses were more than likely doubled thanks to the Kyuketsuki's blood to help them hunt down prey to survive. At questioning how that was even possible, Rin just told him that the Supernatural as a whole still had mysteries waiting to be solved at every turn.

So with the truth came the false. Some of which Yugo died of laughter at reading about. Some stories stated that Kyuketsuki could be killed by stabbing them through the heart with a wooden stake. That would do nothing to them other than making a Kyuketsuki very annoyed at you. A hunter actually did that to Yuri once. You can imagine the surprised look on his face when one, Yuri didn't die, and two, when in the next moment he found a vine stabbed through his own chest. Another myth that Yugo found laughable was that Kyuketsuki could turn into bats, or any animal in general, but bats were the most common one he found. Just how, he had asked, were they supposed to take their undead bodies and reshape them into something else? They weren't shapeshifters. They were the walking dead with fangs. Yugo also found the myth about Kyuketsuki being allergic to garlic to be very silly. He actually tried a piece of garlic once. It tasted pretty good in his opinion.

Now, something that most humans don't know about Kyuketsuki was that each one was unique in it's own way. Some had longer fangs while others had a sharper sense than any of its other ones. But the really strange thing about this Supernatural species was that each one had a unique ability special only to them when they are turned. Some were able to read minds, control an element, maybe even actually be able to shapeshift into an animal.

Since the Sakaki siblings were Kyuketsuki themselves, they each had their own different abilities. The only exception to this was Yuya, who was only a halfling. But as for the others, they each got a bonus in power.

Yuto had abilities similar to the lost species of the Shadow Walkers. As the name suggested, Yuto was able to melt his form into the shadows around him. He was able to travel between people's shadows like this to fight or to gather intel when needed. Though the thing that Yugo found the most cool was the fact that Yuto was also able to bend shadows to his will, making them attack his enemies when needed.

Yuri was similar to Yuto with his ability of manipulation but instead of shadows, Yuri was able to control plants. Yugo laughed at that at first but he quickly learned not to make fun of plants when he soon found himself hanging in the air by a vine wrapped around his legs right over the mouth of a giant venus flytrap. The worst part was that Yuri was being nice when he did that. Yuri was also able to make his blood poisonous on command to defend himself if someone should want to take a bite out of him (and you would be surprised on how many times that has happened). However, there was a downside to that ability. They soon found out that if Yuri's blood stayed toxic for so long, it would start affecting him as well, poisoning himself from the inside out. Yugo thanked Karma for that one.

And as for himself, Yugo must have hit the bottom of the barrel in the power department because instead of getting some kind of Manipulation power like his brothers did, he got stuck with…

"Stupid Synchronization ability!"

Spinning around in his swivel chair, Sakaki Yugo screamed his frustrations to the world at being left behind, again, on an important mission just to be the backup if someone bad should happen to one of his siblings.

Yugo had a one of a kind ability that even the Mystics have never seen before in Kyuketsuki history. They called it Synchronization. It was a kind of like a Soul Transfer, leaving one's body to take control of someone else's while in the meantime leaving your own body completely defenseless. That wasn't the case for Yugo, however. His ability allowed him to sync his consciousness with someone else's. His mind reminded in his own body but his consciousness and the person he synced up to would start to act like the same person. Their body, their speech, their everything would be totally in sync with one another. However, the one big problem with this ability would be that the person Yugo synced to and himself would have their personalities mixed. That wasn't such a good thing if Yugo would to say sync up with a madman *coughyuricough*. The madness would become the dominant trait which would be what drives them. In simpler terms, whoever had the stronger will to do something or have a stronger personality trait will become the dominant one in control of the Synchronization which meant that Yugo's own ability could backfire on himself.

That's one of the reasons Yugo hated his ability. Sometimes he would sync up with someone and end up as the other side's puppet instead of the other way around. To make matters worse, if that should happen, Yugo couldn't break off the Synchronization. He was totally at the mercy of the enemy until one of his brothers knocked him out cold, forcing the Synchronization to be broken.

Still, even with all the drawbacks it brought, his brothers still thought it was a useful ability for them to use to keep in touch with each other. From what Yugo had come to understand, since they were brothers, he was able to sync up with them no matter the distance. This way, he was able to keep check over their movements and report it to his other brothers; and if something should happen to one of them, the others would be quickly informed about it and rush on over to help. Yugo used it not to long ago to see if everyone was doing okay. Yuto and Yuri were almost to the crime scene of the latest attack while Yuya was making his way downtown to wherever the hell Yuto sent him off too.

Now Yugo was left here to die of boredom while his brothers got to hunt down whatever was taking so many innocent lives. While Yugo wasn't a cold blooded sadist that Yuri was, his Kyuketsuki's blood was flaring up, demanding for him to get in on the action. Yugo almost wanted to say "screw it" and leave their home to go help his brothers but no matter how annoyed he was or how much his body wanted too, he didn't move a inch from his seat. His brothers trusted him, well at least Yuya and Yuto did, to keep an eye out on them and that was what he was going to do.

Still, why did it have to be so boring?

…

Yugo felt like he was running a marathon. He didn't know how it happened but all of the sudden he was running past endless rows of bookshelves. A library. He noticed right away. Yes, that's where he was right now. Yuto had given him an address to this old fashioned library that had an endless supply of entries of the Supernatural to do some research on what could be killing so many humans. That's when he heard that inhuman cry and the slamming of glass. Whatever was killing so many mundanes was now in this very library and could be after that sweet librarian he just met. Well, he wasn't going to let that happen. Over his undead body he will!

Yugo knew he was getting closer by the second. The cry of the nice woman was what really gave it away. Yugo ran like he never ran before until he sudden stopped when he smelled it.

Blood.

Yugo knew his eyes had slited into those of a predator's. It was almost sickening that he would get hungry at a time like this. And for a person he was trying to protect too! But he couldn't help himself. It just smelled so good!

After that, he found the librarian's corpse. Her fresh body was being eaten by a wendigo. That's what he found out was killing so many people, a wendigo, a human turned cannibal monster. Yugo knew he was snarling at the creature but not because he was angry but because he was hungry. That thing was stealing his dinner! Wait...dinner? Wasn't he not supposed to have any human blood?

That thought made Yugo realize something. Wasn't he just at their home? What was he doing in a library? And why wasn't he allowed to have any blood?

Yugo got his answers soon enough when the wendigo screamed at him. The monster's screech was deafening to the ear and as soon as Yugo moved to cover his ears from the sound, the wendigo was on him, tackling him to the ground and making him drop his Pendulum Saber.

Wait...Pendulum Saber?

Yugo gasped when he realized what was happening just as the wendigo dug its fangs into his arm.

…

"Yuya!"

Yugo woke up with a start, gasping for the breath that he didn't need to survive. A look of pure horror was on the third eldest Sakaki sibling face as he realized what just happened. He somehow synchronized with Yuya when he fell asleep. How he fell asleep to begin with was a question that he was going to have to ask himself later but right now…

"Oh no, Yuya!" Yugo didn't even bother trying to sync up with Yuto or Yuri at the moment. He outright leaped out of his chair and made a ran for his motorcycle. His little brother was being attacked by a wendigo! Yuya wasn't a full Kyuketsuki! He didn't have the creature's full strength that Yuri, Yuto, or himself possessed! That thing could have already killed him by the time that Yugo got ahold of his siblings and made their way down to that library even with their super speed.

Yugo dashed down to their garage where he kept his white runner. Kyuketsukis were lightning fast but nothing compared to the speed that Yugo's bike possessed. He built it himself with Rin's help to make it the fastest vehicle in the Supernatural world, maybe even in the whole world. It ran on Yugo's Kyuketsuki blood and magical power that Rin provided him with. Yugo gritted his teeth together, feeling his growing fangs stabbing into his gums while doing so, as he threw on his helmet. As soon as the engine was running, he shot out of their home and into the night, not even bothering to open the garage door in the process.

…

It didn't take Yugo long to find the library for two reasons. The first being that he remembered where it was at from his synchronization with Yuya and the second being that Yugo was pretty much a bloodhound when he needed to be when it came to his siblings. Once when Yuri got Yugo really pissed off at him, the former went all the way to Paris just to get away from the later but much even to Yuri's surprise, Yugo was able to track him all the way there to beat him senseless. Yuto had to quickly arrive then to separate them before they ended up destroying the Eiffel Tower.

Once arriving, Yugo pushed a button on his helmet to raise his visor up. It was quiet. Way to quiet. Since they could only see movement, wendigos were known for making lots of noise to draw out their prey. Either Yuya was somehow able to kill that thing or…

Yugo's hands tighten into fists at his side. There's no way that thing could have killed Yuya and left. No he refused to believe it. Yuya might be a halfling but he wasn't helpless. There could still be a chance that he was in there, fighting for his life against that thing.

"Don't worry, Yuya, I'm-"

The aromatic smell hit him out of nowhere that it almost made Yugo fall off his bike from the trance it put him under. He could feel his fangs piercing at his lips, begging to be lowered out at the scent of blood and whose blood it was all too familiar with.

The smell was getting closer as whoever was bleeding was making their way out the library and Yugo growled in hunger at it. His eyes narrowed into slits at he let out an inhuman growl. He got off his bike just to move slowly over to the building. The door to the place opened up and as soon as Yugo had a clear shot to whoever was coming out of the building, he pounced at them-

-only to be met with a punch to the face.

Yugo yelped as he hit the ground, holding his nose as it took the full blow of the hit. "Ouch! What the-"

"Wow, if I knew it was you, I would have hit a lot harder."

That voice. Oh god, don't tell Yugo it was...

Yugo looked up and sure enough, it was-

"Yuri," Yugo hissed his older brother's name.

The second eldest looked down at his youngest brother in disgust. That didn't surprise Yugo. Yuri hated him and he hated him back just as much. It was their form of brotherly love as Yuya called it. Speaking of Yuya-

"What the hell are you doing here, Yuri?!" Yugo questioned as he stood back up to be eye to eye with his brother. "Where's Yuto and what-"

Yugo's words got stuck in his throat as he noticed a few things right away when he got back on his feet. The first being that Yuri was covered in blood. Yugo knew it wasn't Yuri's own blood because his clothes were still intact and he knew first hand that Yuri's blood smelled like rotten fruits and vegetables. No, this blood was what made him lose it there for a second. That's when Yugo noticed that Yuri was carrying something, no someone, on his back. Stepping fully out of the building, Yugo went as pale as a ghost when he saw who it was.

"Yuya," Yugo breathed his little brother's name. Yuri had his arms wrapped protectively around the youngest with Yuya's head resting on his shoulder. Yugo could see that he was bleeding, the blood trail getting all over Yuri's clothes in the process as it dripped onto the ground. He wasn't conscious and Yugo feared the worst.

"He isn't dead." Yuri informed him, almost in an annoyed tone. "He's just resting as his body is trying to heal itself."

Thank god, Yugo let out a sigh of relief as he smiled at Yuya before turning to glare at Yuri once more. "Now you have some explaining to do, Yu...hey, where the heck are you going?!'

Yuri had started walking off when Yugo started speaking. At that simple question, Yuri didn't stop moving but simply answered, "you seriously expect me to just stand there and answer your stupid questions while Yuya is bleeding out?"

Yugo gritted his teeth at that comment but much to his displeasure, Yuri was right. He could question him later after they got Yuya fully treated back at their home. Yugo just hoped that Yuri would be honest with him for once instead of acting like a fay and answering his questions with a question. He tend to do that a lot. But since Yuya was involved, Yuri would more than likely be in a serious mood because of this, even if he did sound annoyed with him. So with a curse under his breath, Yugo got back on his bike, lowered his visor back down before following Yuri back to their home.

…

Back when they were first turned, Yugo learned something very important about Yuri. When he didn't have that crazed grin on his face, you were majorly screwed.

Yuri was in a serious mood ever since they got home and that put Yugo on edge. After getting on a fresh pair of clothes, a simple purple top and jeans, since his old ones were stained in Yuya's blood, the Kyuketsuki had been studying a map this whole time, ever so often making marks on it here and there. Yugo, on the other hand, after bandaging up Yuya before placing him in his bed to rest up, was sitting on the couch, feasting on blood bags. Yuya's blood really did a number on his stomach and he didn't realize how hungry he was until he grabbed the first blood bag he saw and started inhaling it. If just the smell made him lose it in two seconds, Yugo wondered just how Yuri didn't jump Yuya when he had the chance. Yugo knew very well that none of them could control themselves when they smelled Yuya's blood. Maybe it has to do with the fact that his blood was still half human and maybe that's why it drove them all nuts.

"So let me get this straight," Yugo paused to take a drink from the fifteen bag he had in a roll now, "Yuto and you found that wendigo just when it was attacking another human. When you were battling it, Yuto and that girl suddenly disappeared on you. Then that wendigo just up and left, you followed it to that library that Yuya just so happened to be at, and watched it kill that woman without doing anything to help?!"

Yuri didn't answer. He was to focus on his work that in truth, he hadn't even heard a word that Yugo just said but Yugo, being Yugo, continued on since he was to angry at his brother to notice the fact that he wasn't listening.

"And then, when Yuya entered the room, instead of telling him that you were there, you allowed that wendigo to attack him, use him as its punching bag, until Yuya finally snapped and ripped that thing in half all the while you stood there like an idiot and did nothing?!"

"None of this makes any sense…" Yuri was mumbling under his breath.

"Hey!" Yugo stood up and pointed at his brother. "Are you even listening to me?!"

"Fusion, shut the hell up. Can't you see I'm trying to work here and you just existing is making me dumber by the second."

Yugo swore he felt a blood vessel pop at that. "Why you little-! And it's Yu-!"

Yugo placed a hand on his forehead when he got dizzy all of the sudden. "Hold that thought…is it just me or is the room spinning?"

Now that made Yuri look up and it might have been Yugo's imagination but he could have sworn Yuri was smirking at him. He couldn't tell for long because in the next second, he felt his body hit the ground as his mind blacked out.

…

It didn't take long for Yugo to wake up but when he noticed where he was at, he wished he was still out cold. Why you might ask?

Because he was now in Yuri's personal greenhouse.

Oh and he was tied up.

Tied up by a vine.

Tied up by a vine that was hanging over a giant pitcher plant.

God and he thought the venus flytrap was bad.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Yugo groaned looking down into the acid pit of the carnivorous plant before growling as he struggled to get himself free from this curse some vine.

"I wouldn't struggle so much, Fusion, otherwise you might just fall into the pitcher."

If Yuya and Yuri didn't share pretty much the same voice, Yugo would have ripped Yuri's vocal cords out a long time ago just so he wouldn't have to hear that smug bastard's voice ever again.

"Plus," Yuri continued from where he was leaning against the stem of said plant, looking up at Yugo with that smug look on his face, "it would be such a shame to kill you without getting to have any fun first~"

"You son of a bitch!" Yugo yelled, struggling even more to get himself free. He didn't care at this point if he fell into the pitcher or not. If he was able to get out of it to murder Yuri then he was fine with taking a few acid burns here and there.

Yuri waved a finger at him. "Temper, temper, Yugo, and you do realize we share the same mother right? Who are you trying to insult here?"

"Shut up, you bastard! What the hell did you do to me so I end up like this?!"

Yuri smiled innocently at that. "Oh there's so much one can do in a short amount of time when someone leaves the room to go check on a love one. Poisoning their blood is always the first that comes to mind."

Yugo might not be the sharpest tool in the shed but what Yuri just said was easy to decode since he knew his twisted brother all too well. "You drugged the blood I was drinking when I went to bandage Yuya?! What the actual hell, Yuri?!"

"All's fair in love and war, my dear Yugo. Do you think it was fair that my poor jester was the one to get hurt when I was the one that engaged the wendigo in battle? No, I don't think so."

Yugo narrowed his eyes at that. "What are you going on about, Yuri?"

Yuri simply sighed as he shook his head. "That thing made my jester, my Yuya, bleed in my presence. Only I am the only one that can make Yuya bleed, to make him scream. I wanted to give that thing a piece of my mind but no, I couldn't and do you know why that was the case, Fusion?"

Yugo bit his tongue just so he wouldn't correct him on his name. "I don't know! Why?!"

"Because Yuya's blood is pure ecstasy and we both know it." Yuri answered before he snapped his fingers and Yugo gasped as the vine wrapped around him tighten. "It's a common weakness we share, sadly. However, tonight, I found something that was even more amazing than that."

"W-what?" Yugo questioned, wondering just what the heck Yuri was going on about as his plant squeezed the life out of him.

"The monster that Yuya can become." Yugo froze as that look of pure madness spread across Yuri's face. "You should have seen it, Fusion, when Yuya ripped that wendigo to pieces. It was breathtaking. Then, he went charging at that dead librarian. He was so hungry, I almost wanted to just let him devour her. The poor baby was suffering so much and still is. He could have been fully healed by now if he just took a single drop of her blood. But no, I stopped him. I didn't want to. I'm regretting my decision so much right now you have no idea but I had too because I couldn't bare the thought of him hating me for taking his humanity away. It's sickening really."

"So?! What does any of this have to do with me being tied up in the air by a plant of yours?!" Yugo was through with Yuri's BS now. He wanted some real answers before he slams his face into the ground.

"To be honest, none of this has anything to do with you, Fusion. I'm just still a little bit bitter that I couldn't have murder that wendigo myself for hurting Yuya. So," he smiled that cold dark smile at Yugo, "I'm going to take my anger out on you is all. I hope you don't mind?"

"Wait-?!" That was as far as Yugo got before he released a soft cry as Yuri's vine tighten even more around him to the point he could feel bones being crashed. "D-damn you, Y-yuri-!"

"Oh, don't hate the player, Yugo, hate this sick game that we are sadly forced to play."

He had officially lost it, Yugo realized, and much to his anger and horror, he was completely powerless against Yuri at the moment. Sure he could try to synchronize with his brother to get himself free but like he said, Yuri was losing it at the moment and synchronizing with someone who wasn't right in the head wasn't the smartest thing to do.

Matters could have only gotten worse from there for Yugo if it wasn't for the fact that Yuto showed up at that very moment.

At the sound of the door to the greenhouse being opened, Yugo was surprised to see a beaten and bruised Yuto standing there and he looked majorly worried but that was quickly changed to anger when he noticed what was going on.

Yuri didn't look very pleased by Yuto's entrance. "Oh there you are, Yuto. I was wondering where you ran off too but if you don't mind, I'm kinda in the middle of-"

The punch to the gut caught Yuri off guard. The second eldest curse as he held his chest in pain. "Damn it,"

"This is no time for one of your sick fetishes, Yuri!" Yuto snapped at his younger brother. Wow, Yugo gulped, something really bad must have just happened if Yuto was using force. "Now, release Yugo and hurry back into the meeting room, both of you! We got a serious problem on our hands."