[Ouran Group Chat]

Me: Hello guys, I have a new pen name, InfiniteSnow (previously MetallicTitanium).

Kaoru: Who cares?

Me: Well if you don't care and start sulking with that awful attitude of yours, I know your weak point as stated from the previous chapters of the story, right?

Hikaru: Damn she's onto us! She's not even scared!

Kaoru: …

Me: *casts a dark look at Kaoru and smiles an evil smile* I know your weak point is Haruhi, so if you want the charming un-fairylike ending with her, then you better shut your mouth up if you have something dirty to say.

Kaoru: WHAT? WHY!

Me: Well if you keep blabbering stupid things all the time, I could have her paired up with that narcissist Tamaki Suoh. Now, you wouldn't want that, would you? Unless you want him to turn her into a vampire instead of you and claim her as his own? *chuckles*

Kaoru: …no…

Me: Perfect. Now shut up unless you want a twist in the ending.

Kaoru: Fine. *sulks*

Hikaru: learn to shut up, Kaoru, or she will really make it the big time, man.

Me: Thank you. Looks like your twin is smarter than you, Kaoru.

Kaoru: !

Hikaru: Thanks…I think.

Me: No problem. *smiles*. On with it, I do not own Ouran High School Host Club or it's characters, but I do own the plot-line and the new characters put in there. Enjoy.

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Haruhi went into the library.

She went to the non-fiction section, and got a book about herbal plants, remedies, and miracle cure to several diseases.

"If only Azu-nee would unlock her door now," Haruhi was desperately trying to come up with ways to cheer up Azumi.

Azumi had been in a wretched condition after Hikaru trying to console her, later on using forceful tactics to make her come back to him.

Oh, Hikaru, and his childish nature and possessiveness hasn't left him even after he got married?

Ouch.

And how poor Azumi was refusing! And Haruhi was left to wonder what in the world happened to such a close couple!

Before Haruhi could touch the spinal cord of a book she wanted to take out, she had the best idea on how to make Azumi happy.

[Haruhi's POV]

I ran out the library and down a few grand halls (damn these rich people), to where I was seeing Mizumi pacing an area over and over with her hands half-clutched in the air.

When she saw me, she wept so hard, alarming me.

"Haruhi! You just have to find a way to make Azumi better! She had refused to eat anything for the past few days!" Mizumi wept.

"And she has been starving herself of blood!" Mizumi wailed.

"Wait, I have two answers. Number one, I can try making some ramen and grilled cheese sandwiches, proportions bigger because she has been on starvation mode. And number two, I do not know what to do about her thirst as it would be her upmost wish to keep me from being a vampire as long as she can," I answered.

"Her body is breaking down," Mizumi simply sniffed before burying her face in her palms.

"Come now, let me make the meal and let's see if she will eat it," I urged her.

"Are you sure…?" she asked me as if I had never touched cooking utensils in my life.

I sweat-dropped, "Yes, I am really positive."

I went towards the kitchen despite her protests on how someone else could do the cooking for me instead.

I stepped into the massive kitchen and walked past all the astonished maids. I, with a lot of patience, managed to make a big bowl of ramen, two full grilled cheese sandwiches, and a cup of hot apple cider.

Putting the hot meal on the trolley, I gently wheeled it up a ramp way that maids use to wheel stuff up and down, upstairs, to Azumi's room.

I knocked with 4 gentle raps.

"I said, leave me alone, Mizumi!" a sob came from the other side from the door.

"Azu-nee…" I trailed off.

"H-haruhi?" she whispered.

"Who else calls you that?" I mused gently.

"…" she didn't even reply.

"Azu-nee, will you open the door, please? I made you lunch…" I gloomily exaggerated my last statement, "and if you eat it, then I can prove Mizumi that I can cook!" I dramatically hit my right fist in my left palm.

The door unlocked, and shuffling went back to the bed and under the covers.

Sighing, I opened the door, wheeled my trolley in, closed the door (and locked it).

I went to Azumi's bedside with the food. Parking the trolley square next to her, I took off my bedtime slippers and crawled in the sheets next to Azumi.

"W-what are you doing? Let me sleep! Vampires sleep in the day!" she tried to cover herself.

"Not until you eat," I pouted.

[Azumi's POV]

It hurts.

It hurts so much.

Mitsuya is almost next to me.

But it is so ironic because I saw her die in front of my eyes.

Why, why, why? Why is this happening to me again? Was that pain already enough?

"You know," Haruhi was shifting so that she could sit up. I sat up as well but sniffed.

I looked terrible. White sheet skin, dark rings under my eyes, disheveled short hair, and so emaciated for starving myself of food and Hikaru's blood.

"I know that you are probably hiding from me because I resembled someone you knew, someone dear," Haruhi started.

I tensed. She has a good grip on clues. No matter she wants to be a lawyer so badly.

"And I know that Hikaru had been forcing himself on you lately to drink his blood, let him hug you, kiss you, all the possessive stuff a childish guy might want to do to his vampire wife," she rolled her eyes in amusement because she never seen vampire couples before.

"I could try talking things with Hikaru, but…" she trailed off.

"But what?" I sniffed.

"Don't you think this important someone that you said you lost and I seemed to resemble her, would she like to see you starve yourself to death and lock yourself from Hikaru?" her brown eyes pierced me.

I had no answer.

"I thought so. Just like me, I wouldn't want to see someone so special to me to lock them up. You should learn that sometimes you might be scared or worried. And that's okay. I am here for you, nee-chan, when you feel like you feel so down, you can always come to me," Haruhi gave me a soft smile that was so identical to Mitsuya's.

"Ok," I felt my energy was spent but I didn't feel hungry.

"You understood?" Haruhi's eyes shined just like her.

"Yeah," I hollowly said.

"You're back! You're back! You're back!" Haruhi gave me a big hug.

I smiled when she broke the hug and poked her bellybutton. That had the desired effect.

"Nyaaaaaaaaaaaa~~~~!" she doubled over into a teeny tiny ball and squeaked with laughter as I laughed loudly with her this time.

"Oh, Haru-chan, you never fail to make my day…" I wiped tears of mirth away.

She gave a childish pout by puffing up her cheeks like a hot air balloon.

I chuckled and sat on the edge of my bed and opened the contents of the lunch she "specially" prepared for me.

Wow.

"Haru-chan, you made all of this?" I picked up my chopsticks.

She proudly nodded, "I told you I don't suck at cooking."

I laughed at that, and ate my ramen rather quickly, ate the sandwiches in a slow pace, and finally sipped the nice warm cider to warm up my dry throat.

When I was done, I pushed the cart away in total satisfaction. Yeah, my Thirst wasn't quenched, but I don't want to make Haruhi offer her blood to me.

I would only be satisfied with Hikaru's, but now he seems less appealing due to the fact that he is on that brat's side.

And I know that sad truth. Kaoru is doing all he can to suppress his Thirst, but it will only be a matter of time before his hunger and love for Haruhi will take over.

And I am scared, will she want this, or will she cry?

Scared…

I'm scared…

He's going to eat me…

He's going to drink my blood, and it's so scary…

I felt the ever needing urge to cry, but with my horrible condition, and Haruhi worrying over me because of my mental and physical state, I have to stay strong.

Filled, I brushed my teeth and fangs (which were probably throbbing), I brushed my hair neatly down, washed my face, and licked the cuts clean.

I then looked at my reflection and thought that I looked 50 percent better, but still looked thin.

I then cuddled down, and Haruhi laughed as she wheeled the trolley out of the room.

"Promise to come for dinnertime here?" I asked. I still didn't want to face that idiot.

"Anything for you, Azu-nee," she smiled.

"When you knock on my door, say that it is you and I will open the door for you, all right? Lock the door when you leave," I smiled at her.

"All right, nee-chan," she giggled softly.

I gave one tiny smile before she smiled back, pushed the trolley out, and locked the door behind her.

Then I fell into a peaceful sleep.

[Haruhi's POV]

I wheeled the cart towards the kitchen, where Mizumi was staring at me with wide eyes the sizes of saucers.

"She…ate…it…?" she asked in slow motion.

I rolled my eyes at her dramatic moves, "Yes, Mizu-chan, she did."

She kept gawking as I slid the cart to the sink and emptied the utensils, bowls, and glasses into the sink.

"She ate your cooking? How was it?" she incredulously asked.

I blankly stared at her, "Well she didn't choke."

Then I started for the doors and went to the living room. Mizumi followed me and bombarded me with questions.

"So if Azumi let you in her room, what did she look like, her physical state of being?" Hikaru came in the midst of the questioning and shot me one.

"Why do you care?" I shot him a glance.

"What do you mean?" he asked completely puzzled.

I sighed and muttered loudly, "What a dense idiot Hikaru is."

"Hey!" he turned bright red.

"So she didn't let you in her room. True and understandable. But if she had locked herself away for a few days, can you visualize how she would look like?" I facepalmed.

His face got drained out of color.

"Looks like you have zero logic so let me answer it for you," I was getting irritated with his dense brain.

He froze, and Kaoru gave me a surprised stare, with eyes as big as Mizumi's.

"She was as pale as snow, dark rings underneath her eyes, disheveled hair, cuts on her forearms and legs (before she healed it), and she was completely emaciated. Now, is that the ideal image you would like your sweetheart to be in?" I glared at him.

"Wha-!" he started, but I cut him off.

"My word I was so worried, because she even hesitated on letting me in her room!" I threw my arms up.

"I didn't know!" Hikaru tried to defend himself with that, but I wouldn't take that as an answer.

"What do you mean you don't know? You don't know that you caused her endless pain?" I flashed him an angry look mixed with anguish.

I turned on my heels and went in the opposite with Mizumi at my side.

Tears pricked at my eyes as I sped into a run. This is a horrible world.

I ran to the garden as far as I could, and tried hiding in the tall limbs of the tree.

Soon I heard rustling, and gasped to find that Mizumi was chuckling underneath her breath. She was sitting on a branch right next to mine.

"Mizumi, since when can you climb?" I gasped in wonder. Think about it, my mother couldn't climb rocks.

"My vampire abilities," she laughed and rested her head back. For that moment, I blushed and felt a tad bit inferior.

"But it is nothing more, really, I think you are wonderful just the way you are," she assured me.

I nodded, but didn't feel so convinced.

"Anyways, that was quite a show you placed on there," Mizumi sighed.

"It…just reminded me of my own self," I lowered my head in frustration and balled up my fists.

"Hmm…? In what way, Haru-chan?" she poked her head in my direction with a curious face on.

"When Hikaru said that he didn't know that Azumi was going through so much pain for some unknown reason I don't know, I kind of felt that he must've thought that Azumi was just pulling on a tantrum and he must've neglected her to a high degree. Maybe he cared for her, but I kind of felt there was a part of him that might've thrown her in a corner," I brought my knees to my chest.

"Ah…I see. With your argument, I have to say it makes sense, Hikaru does care for Azumi, but his childishness might come in his way of completely worrying for her. Maybe he neglected her a bit, through his worrying about his own world, his own perfect marriage, he might've been dreaming a little. That is the way with those two twins. They are kind of locked up in this world of possessiveness over 'toys'," she shrugged, "But how does this have to do with you…?"

"Because when Hikaru was speechless with everything I told him and argued that he didn't know all along, it kind of reminded me of the way of how father treated me after mother died. When mother was alive, he tolerated me because mom was there. But when his only jewel was gone, he paid no interest in me in my own well being, so I felt a connected to Azumi when I had my outburst there," I warily lowered my face in my hands.

"So you led a lonely life?" Mizumi had such soft comforting eyes when she smiled at me.

A few tears dripped when I looked her in the face an almost saw mother.

Mother, mother, where have you gone?

I reach my hand to the mirror expecting to see her face.

But I don't.

The mirror breaks, and my connection to the light of my life is gone…

The mirror pieces slice my skin in several places on my arms and legs.

I break down to the ground on my knees, bring my hands to my face and sob to my heart's content…

Mother, where have you gone?

"Yes," I replied in a small voice, tears spilling out of my eyes, "and I don't want to go back to my father who had caused me pain all my life."

"And I won't let you leave here, all right?" Mizumi climbed to my branch and hugged me tight.

I sobbed into her dress, but found the strength in my weakness to nod.

"Yes. I don't want to leave," I cried.

And with that she hugged me tighter to dull my throbbing pain.

Mother was always here. And now, she is in the form of Mizumi.

[Kaoru's POV]

I was in the dining room with Hikaru, and now it was surprising to know that he didn't have the energy to throw a tantrum.

"My god…I guess I am a fool not to know that Azumi was in this state," he buried his hands to his face.

"She really changed us," I nodded.

"What have I done…" he murmured.

At that moment, the Thirst reacted, and my fangs started to throb painfully. I rasped in pain. I just took painkillers 5 minutes ago!

"Kaoru!" Hikaru came to my side.

"It's growing…" I rasped.

He dashed off. Minutes later he came with three pills and water.

I never took it before but I knew they were blood pills.

I took the pills and dumped them in water, and watched them become dissolved perfectly but not as perfect as her blood.

My eyes turned from gold to red at the sight and smell of the blood-like liquid.

I drank it. It was awful, but it seemed to subside my Thirst.

When I was done, I set the glass down.

I want to know, Haruhi, what are you from the inside…?

I will show you a better dream next time…

InfiniteSnow