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Guide to Readers:

"Yui Komori." = talking

'Yui Komori.' = thinking

"YUI KOMORI." = shouting

"Yui Komori." = singing

"Yui Komori." = calling

'YUI KOMORI.' = writing

'BAM!' = denotes sounds

Previous Chapter Summary:

After Yui's embarrassing request, Ayato insisted to help Yui dress herself before heading back for the last class... up until he decided to punish her instead.

Night 4

"It's More Than A Warm Bed"

Yui was completely paralyzed. Ayato had threatened to bite her tongue off from her mouth. It is true that Ayato have done other methods of punishment on her, but this was the first time she'd ever hear that sort of thing from him.

She desperately searched for the right words inside her head. How could she stop him? If she starts talking, he might think of it as defying him. That would make things worse for her. But if she won't tell him to stop, she might end up unable to speak for the rest of her life. Thus, still making things worse for her.

'God! Please save me!' She prayed.

"Shall we begin?" Ayato stated grimly, his eyes turning darker than usual.

Yui wanted to escape, but it seems like her own will has left her. She couldn't move nor could she even utter a sound. 'Stop!' She screamed inside her head.

"I request you to please put out your tongue for Yours Truly." He said.

But Yui only clutched her teeth shut.

"Heh, I did ask you nicely. So don't go blaming me when things get more painful than it's supposed to." Ayato beamed an eerie smile before he leaned closer to her face.

Yui felt the sharpness of his fangs as he bit down on her lower lip. She whimpered in pain but stubbornly kept her mouth shut. This really wasn't the first time for this. He'd bitten her in the same place once or twice before, so it doesn't really hurt that much... or so she hopes.

Ayato, in turn, acknowledged her brave front but he would not be swayed by only that. "Seriously, it would be a lot easier for you if you simply do as I say. Your stubbornness wouldn't do you good."

He then pinched Yui's nose with his free hand to obstruct her breathing. To make it more difficult for her, Ayato pressed his lips over hers so she wouldn't have any choice but to open her mouth and gasp for air.

'It hurts!' Yui could already feel her lungs constricting. She couldn't hold her breath much longer. Only a few more seconds and she'll...

"Gah!" She conceded, allowing her mouth to catch her breath.

But unfortunately for her, Ayato took this opportunity to coax her tongue out and bite on it violently.

Yui was electrified with this new degree of pain. She couldn't take it, so she squirmed to get free from Ayato's fangs. She forcefully turned her head to one side which eventually made it hurt even more.

She started to bleed a lot. Her tongue almost split into two as a result of her struggle.

It didn't take long for her to acknowledge the pain which Ayato had inflicted on her. Tears inevitably fell down her cheeks as blood came dripping from her lips. The inside of her mouth felt like it was burning, as if someone had placed a live flame inside it. She realized then that the taste of her own blood wasn't sweet. It tasted awful - like that of a rusted iron.

She began to cough violently, her blood was starting to choker her. Yet Ayato laughed in his own pleasure.

"Ah... this sight of you. Your blood's spilling all over your clothes. It's quite troublesome to waste your blood like this. But I love this look on you." Those were his cruel words to her.

To which Yui sharpened a glare at him.

"Yes, go on. Look at me with those eyes filled with hate." Ayato grinned darkly. "It wouldn't save you anyway. In fact, it only makes me... more excited."

He finally buried his fangs deeply into the hallow part of her neck and drank her blood to his own fulfillment. Yui wanted to scream, but the slightest movement of her wounded tongue was enough to make her nerves go crazy with pain. She had no choice but to keep silent against her will.

In the end, she cried to comfort herself.

This was her punishment. It would have been alright if this was only a dream, but to her misfortune, this was her only reality.

She felt her body go limp. Her vision became cloudy. Was this the result of blood loss? Or was it because of the excruciating experience? Clearly she doesn't know. But the only thing she was certain of were the words she screamed inside her head before everything went blank.

'I hate this. Truly. I hate it!'

- Later at the Infirmary -

Yui woke up on a bed she's not familiar with. The walls were so white at first, she thought she might have already died.

She turned her head from side to side, forcing her mind to figure out where she was.

'Is this the infirmary?'

"Are you awake?"

She sat up in alarm when she heard a voice in the room.

"Oh, sorry. I shouldn't have done that." Reinhart appeared from behind the curtains. He had just finished closing the windows since it was starting to get cold.

"Are you feeling better?" he had asked her as he walked slowly towards the bed.

Yui simply nodded at him since it hurts her tongue when she speaks. It had stopped bleeding. She felt thankful for that, but she could still taste iron inside her mouth.

"Honestly, I was a bit startled when Ayato-kun brought you here half an hour ago. You were stained with your own blood, I was stunned." Reinhart told her.

"But you're a doctor, aren't you? Things like blood wouldn't... Ouch!" Yui felt her wound throb as she spoke.

"Careful now. We wouldn't want to strain your tongue. It was quite difficult for me to make it stop bleeding." Reinhart smiled warmly at her before he moved to get something in the closet.

"How about you use this for awhile? Refrain from using your tongue too much." he handed Yui a large notebook with a pen attached to it.

Yui nods at him in gratitude, before she reached for the notebook.

'Communicating wouldn't be a hassle anymore.' she felt relieved, but eventually realized she had other problems.

'HOW ABOUT EATING AND DRINKING?' she quickly wrote on her note.

"Ah, yes. Please also refrain from drinking hot beverages. As for food, well... I advice you to eat something bland and something that does not require you to chew. Of course, nothing hot either. Plus, you have to drink these medicine." Reinhart handed her 2 small bottles. One which contained blue tablets while the other one had white.

"The blue ones are antibiotics. It would prevent you from getting an infection from that wound, and also it helps speed up the healing process. I encourage you to take it 3 times a day. The white ones are pain killers. Take one when your wound starts to bother you. But please do refrain from overdosing yourself. I'd get into a heap of trouble if you do."

Yui could only nod in comprehension and kept the bottles inside her pocket.

She then wondered what time it already was, so she asked the doctor about it by writing it down the notebook.

"Time?" Reinhart glanced at his watch. "Well, it's 5 minutes before students are dismissed for the night. Don't worry. If your teachers reprimand you for being absent, I'll inform them that you were resting in the infirmary the whole time."

Yui smiled in gratitude, but sighed for having to miss two classes tonight - especially Takayanagi-sensei's class.

"How about you take a rest for awhile?" Reinhart said to her. "Ayato would be returning to fetch you soon. He seemed really concerned awhile ago."

Yui was startled with this so she suddenly formed a cross with her arms to indicate her strong denial of the idea.

"You think he's not?" Reinhart inquired in amusement.

She simply nodded before she wrote down her answer. 'I'M MERELY FOOD FOR HIM.'

"Hm... I beg to differ. He threatened to kill me if you died out of blood loss. You were bleeding a lot."

'BUT THAT WAS ENTIRELY HIS FAULT!' she replied.

"Ahaha... Well, at least, he didn't kill you."

'IT'S BECAUSE HE LIKES MY BLOOD TOO MUCH!'

"Alright. Alright. Calm down." Reinhart smiled. "I understand where you are coming from. Ayato might have done a little too much violence."

Yui suddenly raised a brow at the word might.

"Okay. Ayato have done too much." he laughed. "And here I thought your relationship with him have improved greatly for the previous months you've been living together. Isn't it about time for you two to move on from your prey-and-predator lifestyle?"

Yui blushed. 'THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!' she wrote down.

"That might be true. It is indeed rare to find love between a human and a vampire. How can one be intimately involved with one's favorite food? But enough of this, how about you rest for awhile?"

Reinhart carefully made her lie down and covered her body with a blanket. He then gave her a nod before he turned off the lights and went back to the other room to finish his paperwork.

Yui silently watched him until he was gone. To her, Reinhart was a very mysterious person. He seems to know a lot about the Sakamaki Brothers - their real existence in this world. For quite some time since she first met him, she'd been wondering about it.

'What are you, sensei?'

Yui sometimes suspected him as one of them. Although, Reinhart never really sucked her blood, which then leads her to suspect that he may just be a human who really has strong connections with vampires.

She then closed her eyes. She didn't want to know any more than she does. She's simply glad she has someone she could talk to. Someone who knows her situation in the Sakamaki Household.

At least, she doesn't feel alone anymore.

Yui buried herself under the blanket. She feels exhausted somehow.

'Sigh... I really don't want to see Ayato for awhile.' she thought, distressed.

She knew his presence was inevitable since they're living under the same roof. Basically, she couldn't do anything about it. But it did bother her that Ayato has been more and more violent recently.

'It must be because the full moon is coming? But he's also becoming more unreasonable. He says he's always irritated at me, but he seems to love punishing me a lot. Why can't he just leave me alone if I'm such a nuisance to him. Really... What am I supposed to do with that kind of attitude?'

Yui stirred in bed as she tried to lull herself back to sleep.

She had just found a comfortable position but she was suddenly disturbed by a persistent tapping from the window beside her bed. She quickly sat up to check who it was. To her horror, it might as well be Ayato of all people.

The room was dark as well as the outside, so she could barely make out the person who was prying his way through the window.

'What am I doing?' Yui scolded herself for being an idiot.

'This might be a burglar or something. I should call out to Reinhart-sensei.'

She prepared herself to scream but hesitated when she realized that by doing so, her tongue would start bleeding painfully.

'Yui! This isn't the time to be thinking that way!' She shook her head. 'I'd be in a more dangerous position if I don't scream for help.'

'KACHAK!'

Yui panicked when she heard the window open. She had opened her mouth to call out to Reinhart but her voice wouldn't come out.

"What's this? Someone had already occupied my bed." the mysterious person grunted as he jumped inside the room via the window.

"S-Shu-san?" Yui felt relieved to see him. This made her feel odd since he was also a Sakamaki.

"Ah... It's the noisy person." Shu commented when he recognized Yui's presence. "What are you doing lying in my bed?"

Yui opened her mouth to speak but a painful sting from her wound reminded her that she shouldn't be talking. So she quickly grabbed the notebook which Reinhart had given her and wrote down her answer to Shu's inquiry.

'I WAS RESTING SINCE I FAINTED EARLIER. YOU COULD USE THE OTHER BED IF YOU ALSO WANT TO REST.'

Yui had pointed at the bed adjacent to hers, indicating that she was referring him to lie down there.

Shu only raised a brow at her. "There seems to be a misunderstanding here. I want that bed. The other one's too far."

Yui was flustered on how he wants her bed since she's already lying on it, so she ended up writing once again. 'BUT IT'S ONLY A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM THIS ONE. IT'S NOT TOO FAR.'

Shu furrowed his brows in frustration. "Really. You're annoying. It's troublesome to always explain things to you. Anyway, what's wrong with you?"

She gave a blank expression in response to the question.

"Why are you writing down your responses?" Shu sighed.

'Ah!' Yui grasped the conversation. 'AYATO BIT MY TONGUE TOO MUCH SO I CANNOT TALK FOR AWHILE OR ELSE IT WLL BLEED.'

Shu suddenly smiled for awhile, seeming to contemplate on something. "That seems like a nice way to shut you up."

Yui flinched at that statement.

"Move it." he then suddenly climbed up Yui's bed and covered himself with the didn't fail to notice Yui's shocked expression before he had closed his eyes to sleep . So in addition, he had told her. "This bed is nearer. I'll sleep here. You transfer to the other bed if you'd like."

Yui could only drop her jaw at this. 'Really! This person is just too lazy to do anything!'

She sighed once again, and decided to transfer to the other bed since Shu had already invaded hers.

'Eep!' She squealed inwardly, startled on how she was suddenly pulled back into the bed.

"W-What are you doing?" she voiced out, ignoring the fact that it hurts her tongue when she talks.

"Nothing." Shu yawned in response.

'Nothing!' Yui repeated the word. "S-Shu-san! I'm not a pillow so please stop turning me into one." she scolded, as she felt him wrap his arms around her.

"So noisy. Just stay still and warm up the bed. You're practically good at that since you're still human."

'But didn't you just tell me to get out of this bed!'

Yui sighed in defeat "Is this why you wanted this bed? Because it's warm?"

"No." Shu murmured lazily against her ear. "I told you... This bed is nearer. Why don't you listen to what people say? It's bothersome to repeat everything for you."

Yui frowned at that. 'Just talking to this person drains all the energy within me. It's better to stop talking anyway. My tongue already hurts. I guess I just have to wait until he falls asleep so I could escape. Ayato would be furious if sees me like this.'

She suddenly blushed at her thoughts. 'W-Why did Ayato suddenly come to the equation?! Uh... M-maybe because I'll get seriously hurt when he gets angry. Yeah, that's it. It's only normal to think this way... I guess.'

"Stop squirming." Shu grunted in a whisper, as he held her tighter against him.

Yui simply nodded to apologize. But she couldn't help but get too red with all this. She simply hoped that her bed companion would quickly got to sleep.

She ended up wondering how this wasn't the first time Shu had randomly grabbed her for warmth. He's also one of the 3 people who doesn't often drain her blood, the other two were Subaru and Reiji.

In contrast with the blood lusting triplets who comes at her whenever they like, the 2 older brothers and the youngest would only drink her blood if she had greatly made them upset. Unless she does something too troublesome, she's practically safe around them.

'Come to think of it. Do vampires always punish people who displeases them? If they just learn how to forgive, then it would be a lot easier on the world... Or at least on my part.' she pondered thoughtfully.

'Hm... Is Shu-san asleep now?' She tilted her head to one side to look at Shu's face.

She unexpectedly smiled at what she saw.

'He looks so peaceful.' she thought. 'Now, I better be going before Ayato arrives.'

'BAM!' The infirmary entrance door had just been slammed open.

"Chichinashi! You awake?"

Yui flinched at the sound of Ayato's voice coming from the other room. 'Oh no! He's here.'

"Ah Ayato-kun. Great timing!" She also heard Reinhart talking. "Komori-san had just woken up but before that, I have an unfinished business with you. Sit here for awhile..."

Yui sighed in relief when Ayato didn't abruptly enter the resting room. Reinhart have unknowingly stalled him for her.

'Reinhart-sensei! I thank you from the bottom of my heart.'

She quickly took this opportunity to push herself from Shu's embrace. But to no avail, Shu would only hold her tighter.

'This is bad.' She panicked. 'If this goes on, Ayato would...'

"What are you doing? You're disturbing my sleep." Shu muttered, with his eyes closed.

"A-Ayato!" was all she could stutter out.

"Tch! What a troublesome woman." he replied before he covered Yui with the blanket. "It's too tiring to get up and leave so just stay still."

Yui fell silent. She didn't have much choice... Well, actually she did.

"Why don't you just let me go?" she softened her voice, fearing Ayato would be able to hear her under the sheets.

"It's too late for that now."

And thus, he was correct. Yui could hear footsteps coming nearer. She then froze when Ayato suddenly demanded for her.

"Chichinashi! Hurry up. We're leaving." Ayato announced selfishly.

His greens eyes searched around the room and noticed Shu who was sleeping on one of the beds.

"Oi!"

"..."

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Ayato raised his voice.

"Mmmm... What?" Shu muttered, sounding quite sleepy as he looked at his younger brother.

"Have you seen her?"

"...Who?"

"The hell? Who else will I be looking for?"

"How will I know who exactly you are looking for, if you wouldn't tell me. Seriously."

Ayato was taken aback by this for a few seconds. And so, he ended up scratching the back of his head. "Tch! I'm looking for her... Yui."

"Ah... The noisy one." Shu gradually closed his eyes and feigned innocence. "She's not here."

"Haaa?" Ayato sounded suspicious. "That's odd. I swear I caught her scent in here."

"Aah... If she's in here then she would be here. Really. It's too tiring to talk to you."

"Why you... Tch! Ah... Whatever! She could go home by herself. I have more important matters to attend to." Ayato quickly gave up and left.

Yui kept still for the next few minutes until she was certain that Ayato wasn't coming back. She felt quite odd. It's as if she didn't want to be seen with another man - or something like that. But somehow, Yui felt thankful for Shu, for covering her up with the blanket and perhaps his scent so Ayato wouldn't find her. But basically, he is the cause of why she's cowardly hiding under the sheets in the first place.

'Oh well... It's still a good thing. I don't want to face Ayato right now. I'm still quite... mad at him.' She thought with content.

"Hey."

Yui jolted a bit when Shu finally pulled the blanket to reveal her.

"How long are you intending to hold on to me?" Shu looked at her in amusement. "Do you want me that badly?"

Yui blushed as she realized how she ended up burying herself against Shu's body when she was desperately hiding her presence from Ayato.

"N-no! That's not it!" She squealed, pushing herself in the process. "I... I have to leave now." She quickly excused herself and moved to get up from the bed.

"That wouldn't be necessarily now." Shu had pulled her back on the bed and straddled atop of her.

"S-Shu-san! This! What are you doing?" Yui was surprised with the situation.

"Don't speak as if you don't already know." Shu smirked down at her. "By hiding yourself from my younger brother, didn't you just choose to be with me rather than with him? Thus, you're indirectly surrendering yourself to me, no?"

"N-No! Stop!"

"Eeehhh?" Someone ended up entering the room and disturbing the mood.

Yui quickly shifted her head to see who it was and was relieved to know that it wasn't Ayato.

"S-Sensei!" She called out.

"Oh my, what are you young ones thinking on doing in my clinic?" Reinhart seemed surprised to witness the current scenario. "Please... do take your private matters elsewhere."

Yui immediately turned red as she realized what the doctor had meant with his words. "Oh no. That's not... This is... Um..."

"And here I was wondering why Ayato-kun didn't leave with Komori-san. He must have seen you two together like this."

"No. Ayato-kun didn't see anything. I was hiding underneath the blanket when he came in."

"Ho?" Reinhart smiled thoughtfully. "You were hiding while you were having an affair with Shu-san? I see."

"T-That came out wrong, sensei. This is just a misunderstanding."

"Ahh...:" Shu suddenly interrupted with a groan. "I just wanted to get some sleep but you lot kept showing up and bothering me. I'm going home."

Shu finally got out of the bed and silently took his leave.

'You should have done that much in the first place!' Yui stated inwardly.

"Hm... I guess he's not in the mood to be intimate since you two have already been caught." Reinhart commented as he motioned towards Yui.

"S-Sensei, you're really going at this the wrong way." Yui tried desperately to explain the situation.

"No, I understand it quite well. And here I was wondering why Ayato-kun and Komori-san doesn't have a romantic relationship at all. I see now the reason why. You're already romantically involved with the older brother, am I right?"

"That's... No!"

"No? Ah, I get it. You're a two timer. Although, I do feel bad for Ayato-kun. I didn't expect Komori-san to be a rebellious young lady." Reinhart sighed very sadly to which Yui had no choice but to drop her jaw. He wouldn't really listen to her.

"Reinhart-sensei, please listen to me." She almost cried.

"Hep! Hep! Hep!" Reinhart gently tilted Yui's face upwards. "You should probably stop talking now. Your mouth's starting to bleed again. Haven't you noticed?"

Yui abruptly realized that much. She could taste a rustic fluid inside her mouth, mixed with a slight tinge of was too flustered awhile ago that she didn't even notice .

"Come with me to the other room. Let's treat that wound before you go home - before other vampires get enticed by the scent of your blood. Wouldn't you agree, Komori-san?"

Those were Reinhart's disturbing words to Yui that night.

- End of Chapter 4 -

Author's Blabbering Nonsense... More than an Author's Note:

Yes! I'm finally done checking every chapter and correcting the errors. But perhaps I must have overlooked other errors. Please inform me of such.

And also, when I was thinking about this chapter, I kept wondering how it would be like when one's tongue has been slashed painfully. Really. It made me distort my face when I pondered deeply into it. How would you even make it stop bleeding? It would be weird to put bandages on it. It might also taste really awful if you put ointment on it too. I don't know. It seems very painful.

Furthermore, I've finally decided to announce my top three favorite Sakamakis: Ayato-sama, Subaru-kun and... Shu-dono! Ahahahah... He's such a lovable lethargic pervert. I kept laughing while I was reading the online fan-made translations of his route since he almost always makes Yui do stuffs for him because he finds it too troublesome. This includes spoon feeding him, dressing him, and carrying him to his room. Although he worries me a lot since he keeps on falling asleep almost anywhere he could fit his body in. Ah... He might just end up dying in his sleep one day. Be careful, Shu-dono!

And also, praises to the following people:

* User 567xxxx: Thank you for being an awesome reader. You may also request for a particular scenario if you'd like. I'll try my best to put it in the chapters. Much love for you too.

* Mr./ Ms. Meh: Thank you for the recommendation. I don't usually put short summaries before every chapter, but I do see the point. That is why I already placed a One-Sentence Summary above. Thank you!

* User 544xxxx: Thank you for reading this story. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoy writing this for you.

* User 605xxxx: Oh no! Wherever you are and whatever you do, please don't literally die for more. Ahahaha... I hope you were satisfied with this much longer Chapter. Words just kept rushing into my head. I just had to write them down before I forget. Perhaps its also because I won't be updating this story until my exams are over. Simply speaking, no chapters for the next two weeks. Sorry.