Yuu may have found a new family, but he's still a real catastrophe. As someone is about to find out.
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It has been a week since Yuuichiro has been collected by Krul Tepes, queen of the vampires of Japan. She came to know when to feed him, that he liked only warm milk, that he should be changed regularly and that he slept a lot. Apart from that, she had brought other clothes. Yuu trudged in the room, under the careful supervision of Krul. However, the vampire has a kingdom to administer and should therefore be absent. Normally she always shut the door carefully. Yuu was however keen and approached the exit more often than not. So once, a little pressed by a meeting of the Council of High Progenitors, Krul came breezed into the room. Yuu took the opportunity to slip away. To him the adventure! His adoptive mother needlessly closed the door and went away in the opposite way. Yuu trudged into the palace.
He came to a staircase. The height frightened him and he left. For now, the palace was nothing within his reach unlike the Eusford's mansion. Passing near vampires standing guard, armed with spears, Yuu jostled in one that fell on the head of one of the guards.
" Oh ! What's wrong with you ?" asked the receiver.
" Nothing it just fell."
" Well hold it more carefully."
"I'm holding it perfectly, don't be that close that's all !"
Yuuichiro continued on his way without worrying about the little quarrel. He found an armor. Yay, a toy. He immediately reached for the shield. It was a little high though, so he couldn't get it. Yuu knocked against the knee. With any luck, it would fall like the others. Minutes later, a roar rang. Yuu grabbed his shield, round, curved and made of wood. He went in, toppled and overturned the shield.
"Agah !" he commented, on the floor.
Yuu pulled away, the shield remained half on his back. Whatever, as long as he could move he did. He walked thus for a while dragging his burden. Then, as annoyed he proceeded to get rid of the shield. Yuu shook his bottom, leaned back and put the shield backwards. The baby went back in, then began to tilt. What he did not see was that he was on the brink of a staircase. Yuu stretched his legs under the leather strap across the shield, waving longer and approaching the edge. Happened what had to happen : the wood circle slipped. Yuu found himself hurtling down the stairs sitting in his shield.
"Weeeee !"
Downstairs, a vampire stopped before this vision. Yuu came to him at full speed and crashed. The vampire sprawled face against steps, while the child continued his wild ride. And it was not about to stop, because the palace overlooked the city and therefore included sloping roads. Yuu slipped on a walkway, failing to make a strike with the guards. At a turn, he passed the curve on a wall. As to add more fun to the game, Yuuichiro swayed by pulling the strap. Which made it slightly changed its trajectory. He hit a column, which sent him to another staircase that he descended into twitching. A slope succeeded stairs, boosting the speed of the convoy. The baby was already far from the palace.
He went down to the bottom, before finally the vehicle stops for lack of speed. Yuu laughed cheerfully. The baby then abandoned his shield to continue its exploration. Small as he was, especially that close to the ground, no one paid attention to him. The child came to a large house. He branched off and went in. The child walked towards the door. Closed. He leaned over, then as with armor decided to knock on it. But this was not enough to open it. Or so he thought, because one moment after the baby has deviated the door opened. Yuu turned around and slid into the opening.
"Who in there could just knock and disappear ?" said a voice.
The door closed, footsteps echoed on the floor. Yuu for his part, had already spun into a room. An anteroom, where silk curtains hung, and various trinkets were stored on a small coffee table. It was here that the baby went first. He leaned on the table, then reached for a shiny egg. He put it to his mouth, before he joyfully smashed it against the table. He then grabbed a small figurine he threw over him. Yuu then handed the maximum to reach the vase in the center, in vain. Instead, he turned his interest to the runner fitted with pompoms. The boy put one in his mouth before going elsewhere. Of course the weight of the vase braked and pulled a corner of his mouth, however Yuu merely turn around and keep shooting. The vase fell, rolled and smashed to the ground.
" What was that sound ?" someone asked elsewhere.
"How do you want me to know ?"
Yuu dragged the runner now rid of his vase. He spat out the tassel along the route, to be interested in a tapestry. The baby shook it, then used it to get up. Silk is fragile, I let you guess the rest. A curtain in less, exactly. No problem, we will try others. In all, Yuu tore four tapesties. He even picked up a rod that went to stand in a carafe placed on a dresser. Yuu pulling the other side, the rod made lever and lifted the carafe, which was threw against a window in the opposite.
"What the ?!" exclaimed the property owner.
He stood up, his long silver ponytail floating behind him. Another vampire he received that day, a knight with red hair followed, intrigued. Ferid Bathory screamed on seeing the condition of his antechamber. He entered, his hands raised in a gesture of incomprehension and helplessness.
" What the hell happened here ?" he asked.
Crowley Eusford went after him, looking up at the tapestries. Curious, but this mess was saying something. Yuuichiro left the room. Continuing his mop, he burst through the library. Interested in colored books, he seized one at the bottom he opened. After greeting his discovery by tapping it, he resolved to eat the blanket. The book opened, revealing its pages. Yuu let it fall on the wafer. He approached the hands of the pages. The baby soon discovered that they could be tore. He ripped the book, spreading the leaves around him. He then approached a small table he made fall by hitting it with his bottom. The noise of the fall alerted the vampires, occupied to tidy up a bit in the other side. Ferid and Crowley exchanged glances. Leaving behind pieces of torn drapes, they returned to the library.
Ferid made a shocked sound by discovering the book half ripped, the pages everywhere and the little table on the ground, with two glasses of blood broken. Yuu, for himself, was on the other side of the shelving. Ferid went and picked up the book.
" Gah ! That was a single edition !"
Baby Yuu left the library to continue. Like Crowley, Ferid had his weapons room. Yuu ventured in it, then quickened the pace on perceiving armors. That one, he knew how to handle it. There was even more lined up against a wall. The baby attacked one at the end of the room. He managed like others to demolish it, but he innovated. Indeed, instead of collapsing on itself, the armor which was holding a sword, pressed to the ground rocked under the weight of it on the side. So she crashed her neighbor, who went to greet his and so on.
"Say Ferid-kun, is your house haunted or something ?" questionned Crowley.
The noble did not reply and ran out of the library. The latest armor flinched, knocking a halberds furniture. One of them hung a portrait of Ferid and made him a mustache. Another rank of armors received an halberd, and like their counterparts in recent collapsed in domino. One of them brought down his axe on a window, that exploded and toppled. The penultimate armor carrying a spear dropped it into a sword furniture, which wavered before falling. One of the swords slipped and hit the spear in the last row of armors that surrounded the weapons room. The spear swung, hit the neighbor who fell. In short, there remained not a single standing armor. The latest to fall did so under the dumbfounded gaze of Ferid.
The vampire stood on the doorstep, his eyes on the armor before him. He then rose slowly his look, discovering the show. But mostly hanging Yuu's silhouette, who was looking for a new toy.
"Crowley … am I dreaming or is there a baby in my house ?" he asked.
The readhead bowed his head.
" Oh no ! I knew all this mess was familiar !" exclaimed the ginger.
"Wait, you know that kid ?" noticed Ferid, turning his head to him.
" Yeah. He arrived one week ago, tangled in Krul Tepes' hair."
Speaking of her, the meeting had just ended and the sovereign passed how was his protege. Krul found the empty and especially silent room.
"Yuu ?" she called.
Silence. Krul rushed to the bed. Yuu was not below. She looked behind the curtains, nothing next to the cabinet too.
"Oh no ! YUU !"
She went out quickly and came to a balcony. The baby could be anywhere in Sanguinem. She decided to search in her palace. The sight of an armor lying on the ground confirmed to her that the baby was on the loose. She also spotted swirl marks on the floor. Krul followed this track. She heard a guard telling he was hit by a baby on a shield, which made his comrades laugh. She had to find him quickly. Before anyone else who would certainly not have compassion.
On Ferid's side, the vampire walked toward Yuu, who was playing with a metal hand. He lifted the small one by the straps and put him to face level.
"So you're the one responsible for all this, huh. But how did you get in here ?" he said.
" Ferid, you should get him away from your face." warned Crowley.
"And why is that ?"
Yuu immediately seized the white hair he pulled, holding the hand of the armor in the mouth.
" OUCH !"
"That's why." smiled Eusford.
He watched his congener attempt to free his hair. He managed to take off a hand. Yuu then grabbed the gauntlet he held in the mouth, and thump it in violent blows to Ferid, as if to tell him to stand still. Crowley sneered (Yuiichiro. 8 months old and already giving hell to vampires. Oh yeah.). Ferid, under the pain, dropped the baby who found himself suspended for a while at the head of the vampire. The latter took him back quickly, won a metal slap and a kick to the chest. Yuu then pulled his lip, laughing at the result.
" Augh !"
Crowley openly laughed this time. Ferid held at arm's length the baby. The latter was still laughing. He waved his metal hand. The noble dodged another blow.
" Can't you hold him since you have experience ?" asked Ferid.
" No thanks. He already ripped some of my hair, too." Crowle, arms crossed.
Ferid then put him down, then arranged himself. In doing so, he noticed a small blue bottom that turned the corner of the door. He froze in surprise: he had just put the baby down that it already spun. Fearing he puts even more bazaar, Ferid rushed. He spotted the child who took the path of the cellar. He did not know if the baby knew how to get downstairs, but he knew he didn't want to discover it. Given the state of the parts he had visited, he would put his blood cellar crumbs. The noble caught him before the entrance.
"Oh no little one, enough exploration for today !" declared Ferid.
He took him under his arm like a bundle and went to the entrance.
"Are you giving him back to the queen ?" Crowley asked, leaning against the door of the weapons room.
" I'm certainly putting him outside ! She'll have to watch him better than that."
Yuu was deposited on the doorstep. The door slammed behind him. Well if he understood well, he was good to go. Which he did. Yuu climbed a sloping path. This seemed to lead to another big house above. Surely he would find something fun in it. At Ferid's, Crowley passed near an upstairs window. He came back and screamed.
"What's wrong ?" said Ferid, a pool cue in hand.
"The baby ! He's going to my home !" panicked Crowley.
He dropped his cue and then ran down the stairs. He almost banged the door before leaving. Quick quick, he should not let this living calamity come home again. Fortunately, his view had enabled him to locate the child, and he was faster. So fast that he exceeded the baby near the entrance. Crowley skidded, gave a masterly shove of his shoulder on the wood and smashed his door. While he was at it, he had an emotional hug with it and the ground. Yuu watched a moment before starting up again. It was very kind of him to open his door. The baby went wide of the vampire when the latter stood up, turning his back to the small one. Crowley looked out.
" Where'd he go ?"
Crowley sat down, seeking the child he thought he had doubled. A shout behind him startled him. Chess Belle got Yuu who had seized her hair. He came in indeed, and had traveled a few meters. Chess hit a dresser and objects above fell, either by land or on the dresser. In order to get the kid away, Chess twirled the little one that sent a kick at a painting. Eusford saw the picture sway before being unhooked. His subordinated took up the child just in time to receive the canvas on the donut (just to know, donut in french can also be used in a familiar way to say head). Crowley closed his eyes for a moment. He then sighed and stood up. He released Chess from the canvas.
" How does he do that ?" asked Chess.
"No idea, but do not lay him down. I come from Ferid's home, and I'm not telling you the mess he put in : the tapestries of the antechamber, the window, the coffee table, the vase which was on, the library and finally the weapons room. He made everything fall. " Crowley told.
Horn Skuld came and asked why the baby was here. The 13th progenitor revealed that the Queen had to keep it. He took the small one he turned face against the outside. Thus, Yuu could not catch anything. After that, towards the palace. During the journey, Yuu swung his feet while babbling. Some vampires stopped at their passage and looked round eyes. Tired of this attraction, Crowley laid down Yuu and camouflaged him under his cloak. A little further, he saw Krul Tepes. The vampire called out.
" Would you not have lost anything by chance? " he asked, showing Yuu.
The baby was asleep after his wanderings. Krul heaved a sigh of relief, and asked him where he had found it. The noble told her the whole adventure while handing her the child, that she collected. Then he wanted to know why the child was still in the capital. Krul told him she brought him back and left in human company, only to find that no one had recovered. Touched by the little one's distress she took him. Yuu opened his eyes at that moment. He smiled discovering Krul.
"So you scamp ! That way you messed with this trickster Ferid ? For that alone it's worth it to keep you! " Krul said, amused.
She rubbed her nose against the child's one, who laughed. Krul then put the little one face against her. Seeing Crowley, the baby sent him a merry chatter suggesting that he thanked him for the ride. The noble raised his eyebrows and smiled. He then returned to Ferid, rather relieved to have avoided a catastrophe.
Krul returned to the palace, and then to her room where she decided to feed Yuu. He drank his milk greedily, sitting on the bed of the queen. This one then laid him in his stroller when he is asleep contentedly. The sovereign gazed. He was very cute for a little human nonetheless.
The next day, Krul left Yuu alone again. The door was locked, he had his toys to be busy with, she could go about her royal occupations peacefully. Or so she thought. Yuu felt a little draft. Passing in explorer mode, he walked to the window-door leading to the balcony. And that was ajar. Yuu tucked his face into the opening and then pushed.
There he is, out on the long balcony that ran around the floor. The baby ran several meters before finding an open window through which he passed. He came in a little room where a table he overturned. To the door, it was the coat rack turn. Yuu walked around the room but could not get out. Thus, the small boy went back to the window and went out. Taking advantage of what a vampire came out, the baby went into another room. This time, the back door was open. So there he is in the hallways, always advancing bravely. He came to a row of statues and went behind. He went up a little, passed between the stone bars of a balcony above and continued. Then came in the opposite direction a procession of vampires, in that the one in the center appeared to be the most important.
The convoy caught the attention of Yuuichiro, who turned and crawled to the procession. Among the vampires visiting Sanguinem was a small wooden cart bearing gift bottles of blood to the Queen. A chain dragging underneath was perfect for the baby, who used a stop in front of the throne room, to grab the chain and do so drag. Krul was on her throne, looking forward this vampire who came to speak with her. Other high-ranked nobles from Sanguinem, namely Ferid, Crowley and Chess and Horn were also present.
" Still that conceited as I see." Said Crowley.
" You said it. He's a 9th progenitor and makes sure everyone knows it." sighed Ferid.
It was then that the carriage carrying the tribute of blood stopped in front of them. Krul was greeting her congener, when her eyes were drawn to a movement. She was petrified when she discovered Yuu coming out from under the cart.
" Tell me I'm seeing things." said discreetly Horn Skuld.
" I dunno where our queen is keeping him, but it looks like quite the strainer." added Crowley.
" And what do we do ?" asked Chess.
"Nothing at all. That could brighten up that boring visit." Ferid replied with a sarcastic smile.
Krul meanwhile, cleverly distracted the 9th progenitor. But how would she recover the little one unnoticed ? He certainly won't fail to do his things.
Yuu for one, approached a first vampire. The latter wore socks tied with a ribbon. The child untied each ribbon and shook them a little. Finally, he interlaced and tangled them. The baby continued and noticed the next vampire, to whom he did the same under the amused look the other nobles. Krul glanced at him from time to time, and saw the catastrophe coming as her subjects. Yuu untied and tied each ribbon. He then went into the cart, climbing the arms resting on the ground. He flipped ass over head among blood bottle crates. The noise alerted a vampire.
Everyone held his breath. Yuu had the presence of mind not to move. When he moved again, his little head appeared. He leaned over the edge of the cart, discovering a wooden dowel keeping the wagon closed. He grabbed it, pulling and reaching it away. The door opened under the weight of the child, who remained hung on and then fell on the side of the cart, while the bottle crates slid out of the cart. The 9th progenitor turned at that moment. Krul waved her arm. The air stream it provoked drove back Yuu far back. The baby slipped on his backside while turning.
"Aaaagaaaa !" he commented, his head spinning.
Yuu snorted, then rolled onto his hands. He returned near the trolley when the visitor reported that the time of submissing his gift had come. He snapped his fingers to the attention of his servants. They began to attention before pulling away and form a line. Quarter turn, and forward to the cart. Yuu's work also made his effect, and everybody sprawl, who on the ground, who on crates. And above all, on the cart when Yuu climbed on one arm. He was thrown into the air as stone by the catapult.
"Oh. I doubt he'll survive that." commented Ferid, between two laughs.
Krul horrified followed the progression of the baby. Yuu lands on a curtain, in the hollow formed in the middle, on top of a glass. The sovereign gave a quiet sigh of relief. Yet he had to stay there.
"Of course. Admittedly, this is not an ordinary boy we have here." resumed Ferid with a smile.
Meanwhile, it was a complete mess down here. Some boxes had broken under the weight of vampires, bottles had suffered and 9th progenitor was slightly ridiculed. Krul lifted her eyes just to see how was Yuu. She saw his little face that emerged from the curtain. He seemed frightened by the height to which he was. Fearing that his tears betray his presence, and having no desire to explain, Krul took advantage of the confusion of his visitor. Quick as lightning she sped toward the curtain, jumped and grabbed Yuu she gently placed on the ground before returning to her place neither seen nor known.
" Well played." commented Crowley.
The visitor bowled out his servants, apologized to the sovereign who took this opportunity to dismiss him politely. Yuu trotted toward familiar faces. Crowley smiled, held out his foot and brought the baby behind him, lifting him by the waist.
"There. Since you entertained us I'm hiding you." he said.
Krul gave him a nod. The vampire procession headed for the door, the noble closed with a sigh.
" Well for once it was distracting !" exclaimed Ferid.
"Speak for yourself !" retorted Krul.
"How about we go beside the throne room, so to savor our guest's gift and keep an eye on our little clown ?" suggested Crowley, picking up a bottle.
Especially that the clown in question already spun. Krul caught him, lifted him and brought with her in a small room.
" But how did he get out of my bedroom ? I made sure I carefully closed the door this time." she said, putting him down.
"That's a mystery only you are able to solve. And I strongly advise you to do it as soon as possible. I sure as hell don't wish to find him under my roof again." said Ferid, uncorking a bottle.
"Aaaaahaaa ! A tiny baby frigthening the mighty Ferid ? Now that's rich !" spoke in Krul.
"It's more his innate ability to mess up in others that scares me. " corrected the vampire.
The blood was poured into crystal glasses and served to everyone. Yuu approached Crowley, then get up by pulling on his pants. The vampire froze, eyes on him. Yuu fell back on his backside. He walked around the leg of the red, then leaned on the couch. The child obviously was trying to climb. Krul approached and lifted him by placing her foot under his buttocks. Yuu resumed fours then went to collapse on the redhead.
"Woah, I hope you're not here to pull my hair ?" asked the ginger, putting his glass away.
Yuu approached his head with a cheerful laugh, grabbed his nose before lying down, visibly pleased to have achieved his objective. He ended up sitting on the belly of Crowley and did not move. The latter was relieved.
"Anyway, our guest may be pompous, but he can choose his drink. " Ferid said contemplating the ruddy liquid.
" Hell yes, that's delicious." approved Chess Belle.
Yuu approached the glass that stood Crowley and put his nose in.
" Wow hold it kid. Not only this isn't for babies but it's also not for humans." said Eusford, putting the glass away.
Yuu protested, including by hitting the chest of the noble.
" Wha ? Am I dreaming or does he want to drink blood ?" wondered Crowley.
"I believe this is just curiosity." suggested Horn.
Yuu grabbed the edge of the glass and held it close to his face. Crowley watched him leaning the object, and the liquid approaching the mouth of the small one. As expected, Yuu made a disgusted wince which made everyone laugh.
"Baaaah !"
He struck the glass with some of the contents splashed Eusford.
" Hey ! This may be not to your taste, but it's not a reason to send it back on my face !" protested the redhead.
"I'm going to fetch a baby bottle. Be careful to not lose him." ordered Krul.
She left. Yuu laid on the vampire who emptied his glass. He handed it to Ferid so to be out of the little dark one's reach. Krul came back a moment later, carrying a bottle in one hand. She put it on the table to take the baby. Except that the latter grabbed Crowley clothes. Krul pulled a bit, but Yuu refused to let go.
"Okay, I get it."
She gave the bottle to Yuu, seated on Crowley. The baby rolled onto his back to drink. When he finished, Krul took the bottle and thought to get him to bed.
"Naaaah !" protested the kid.
Krul then put him back on his red sofa. Yuu yawned and closed his eyes.
"Looks like he adopted you, Crowley-kun." noticed Ferid.
"But … are you letting him here ?" asked that one.
"You saw it as well as me : he wants to stay on you." responded Krul, lifting her hands.
The shoulders of red sagged in surprise. He looked at the baby dozing peacefully on him. Vampires continued their tasting and conversation. Yuu turned around, spread out full length on Crowley. The latter did not know what to think. The child was so small and certainly very fragile. The vampire could break him as easily as straw. However, the baby had chosen him. He had smiled at him with all his innocence, all the sincerity he could muster. Without any fear, with confidence. He seemed to have affection for him. It was strange. A baby among the vampires. And them who look after him as if he were one of their own.
Crowley wondered what future awaited this little one here. Would Krul turn him vampire ? Or would she get him back to the world of men, when he's old enough to fend for himself ? Only time would tell him. Finally, Krul took him cautiously. The baby remained asleep. Arriving in her bedroom, the queen noticed the open window. So that's where he had spun. She would have to find a safe solution in the future. She decided to go to learn in the human world, as he was still asleep. Krul camouflaged eyes and ears before going out. Once on the surface, she went to a baby store.
The proposed election stunned the queen. So many things for baby ! Krul then pulled herself forward from the shelves. She reached the bottom where were exposed parks. That might suit Yuu.
"May I help you ?" she heard.
Krul paused time. Be helped by livestock didn't really please her, but to let Yuu to mess in her palace please her even less. So she made up her mind, made a friendly face before turning back.
" Yes ! I'm looking for a little something to put the little one I take care of in case of absence."
"Aaah a park! Well you see here our best sellers. How old is your baby ? "
Eeeeeh …. Krul gave a range hoping not to be ridiculous. The saleswoman seemed a little surprised, however, she advised the vampire great detail. The queen listened carefully, then announced that she had to think. In fact, she would take what she would need during the night.
Thus Krul Tepes was back in the room occupied by Yuu with a brand new park. Just had to build it. The vampire followed the instructions on the leaflet. It was not easy for her, parts ended up upside down, screws scattered. She nearly reduced the park in matches. It was the mischief of a baby on and about that dissuaded. Somehow, Krul came to build the park. Yuu watched from his stroller. She went out and laid him down, then put him to the park like a cage.
"There ! You won't be able to escape anymore !" she stated, satisfied.
Yuuichiro blinked. Krul gave all his toys by bars. The fact that the baby was supposed to be in the park and not below didn't cross her mind. A good thing done, she could now rest easy.