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On with the story!
Leisurely Ayato strolled over to where the small group of girls were, "So what seems to be the problem here ladies?" The red head smoothly joined.
A blue haired girl with shimmering green eyes was wiping her face before hiding her face in her friend's shoulder once again.
"I can't believe him!" She hiccuped furiously in between sobs.
Don't ignore me! The fiery haired vampire fumed mentally.
Must keep calm… He reminded himself.
Politely questioning a brunette in the group of females the green eyed boy questions, "The aquamarine haired girl mentioned a he? Who's the guy?"
One of wailing girl's friends, a blonde with brown eyes, turned to Ayato, "Why are you here? Do any of us even know you? If you don't mind could you leave?"
"Look here blondie, I'm here to be nice and help out your friend so either shut up or let me know what's wrong!" He shouted out of frustration.
Her brown eyes narrowed, "How rude! Rae did you hear what he said to me?!"
"Calm down Lauren, but um…" Rae, the brunette, paused since she didn't know what to call the boy.
"My name's Ayato."
"Well Ayato, our friend is going through a breakup so if you don't mind she needs to be alone."
Soon after the girls entered some clothing boutique and Ayato felt sorta pissed for being blown off.
Subaru came out from his hiding spot in a nearby tree, "Oh yeah, real nice job Ayato." He remarked with a snicker.
"Whatever." The redhead scoffed to his younger half brother, "Their loss."
Spotting a lone elderly man on a bench in a nearby park his sharp emerald green eyes lit up.
Hopefully this guy'll be more willing to accept the efforts of a good samaritan.
As he sauntered over he switched out his confident smirk in favor of a more concerned gaze, "Hello and good afternoon sir. Are you in need of any assistance today?"
"Why yes, yes I am!" The man stood rising up slowly to eagerly shake hands with the vampire. "You see I'm new to the area and I wanted to surprise my son by visiting him at his house but it appears as though I'm lost." The kindly old spinster spoke gently.
Why would a father see any need to visit his son casually unless there's something urgent? 'That man' never simply visits for the sake of visiting.
Carefully he approached his new target with a pleasant greeting, "So sir, might I inquire why you happening to be visiting your son?"
"Oh sure," He nonchalantly replied, "My son's not feeling too well and his birthday is coming up so I want to surprise him to show him I care, ya know?"
Show him that you care? Why would he need to support his son when he's ill? If you're weak too bad, he should take care of himself and be ashamed that his father even needs to visit him...
Shu ended the exchange with a businesswoman with a smile and a wave goodbye as the two parted ways the young curly haired woman gave Shu her number and a kiss on the cheek.
"Really, thanks again for your help, call me any time."
Standing with his mouth agape Laito spluttered, "Fufufu, look at you Shu, this is the tenth person to give you their information and hardly any time has passed since your little bet has begun! Since when were you so good at interacting with the blood bags? I mean...uh, mortals?"
Shimmering blonde hair gleamed just a little bit more angelically as the sun began to set, "I dunno, I'm just gifted, I guess. It's not difficult." He shrugged, "All you have to do is be able to anticipate human behavior. Any time you think something isn't worth getting upset or you feel the urge to laugh then that's when you should help seeing as humans are more in tune with their emotions than immortals."
There seemed to be some sort of shock present on Laito's face, "So all this extra sensitive stuff can get girls to like you, right?"
The elder vampire's eyes narrowed, "I suppose it can."
"Would you be willing to teach me?"
"I've already got one red headed psycho under my wing I won't recruit his perverted twin," Shu smirked, "Maybe next time."
Overdramatically sighing Laito dropped to his knees, clasped his hands together, and began to plead.
"Oh please Shu! Have I ever told you that you're my favorite brother?"
All Shu responded with was a laugh as they strolled down a smooth paved sidewalk free of cracks and other blemishes. The blonde made a left speeding up by a hair his half-brother was hot on his heels.
"You're lying Laito-chan, but that's okay."
Silently the duo encountered a park where their sensitive ears picked up on the sniffles of some adolescent girl.
A seemingly predatory gaze settled upon the blonde's features as he spotted a group of girls hiding the source of the melancholy melody, "Looks like I've found my next target…"
Ayato was never the best with directions but as a vampire he couldn't ever get lost if he could identify a scent.
Eventually, he grew tired of walking in circles within a residential living area which was difficult to find in itself.
The younger of the two sighed, "We've walked past the rock that looks like Mickey Mouse five times now, God damnit!"
"It's fine if you don't know the way, you know."
Snarling the green eyed prince had half a mind to bare his fangs.
If I'm to be the next king simple directions shouldn't be throwing me off!
The redhead paused in his thoughts.
What did Shu teach me?
He thought back.
"Losing your patience with humans often brings out the worst in them as it does with any other species. Try lightening the atmosphere with jokes, an interesting story, or basic questions like asking what someone's hobby is. When you get frustrated close your eyes and take deep breaths or when available drink blood."
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.
"Are you alright? Do you need anything—"
"Please pardon my behavior sir, I apologize. I am completely fine, do you happen to have anything of your son's like a book, note, or picture?"
Furrowing his somewhat bushy peppered brows the old man questioned how retrieving an object would be of any help but he still complied with Ayato's demand.
Eyes closed Ayato inhaled the scent of the slightly tattered book he had and concentrated, he could practically feel his eyes change color.
Casually, the redhead played off his not-so-human behavior and asked for an address as well with a glance of the messy scrawl the teen lied claiming to know where that area was as his nose lead the way.
Whilst walking through the neighborhood the two men engaged in idle conversation.
"I didn't know that there were people who still passionately believed in mythical creatures like unicorns." The vampire released a hearty laugh, "I don't really think those exist."
"Have an open mind," The elder man challenged half-serious with a small smile, "I'm very sure that even things like vampires are real, Sonny."
This geezer is pretty interesting, I'll give him that.
"What's your family like, Son?"
"Rather average I guess."
"Any siblings, how are your parents doing? It must be fine, obviously you were raised to be mindful of people in need and empathize with them," His wrinkled forehead creased, "Why else would you help out a guy like me?"
I would to win a bet…
"No, it's fine, sir, I really don't mind. As for my family I've got five brothers but I only like about 3 of them. I tolerate the other two."
The two paused as they reached a traffic light and took in the wide array of trees with blooming white flowers and large brick fronted houses all around.
"Family is something that's always around I understand it can be hard but try to get along with them alright, Kiddo? There's strength in numbers you never know when you might need them. United we stand divided we fall."
What about when there's a crown at stake?
Ayato remained silent until they reached the home that correlated with the scent the vampire had picked up earlier.
"This is the place."
"Thanks a lot for all your help! Who knows how lost I would've been without you!" To properly show his gratitude he pulled the green eyed boy in for a hug.
I swear to God if this man pick pockets me—
"You're a good person, there should be more Good Samaritans like you around."
Ayato snorted in amusement, "Trust me, you don't want more people like me around. Enjoy your son and have a good life." The young man rebuffed as he pried the man off him.
As they parted ways the old man knocked on the door which was promptly opened by a younger gentleman who received him warmly.
The orange haired man beamed, "Dad, what're you doing here?!"
No longer needed Ayato turned to go back to the park where he was at previously.
"Don't be a stranger, okay kiddo!" The old man waved at Ayato.
"Who's that, Dad?"
"My new vampire friend."
His son laughed, "Oh jeez you always say the craziest things don'tcha?"
The door closed.
A/N: If you want previews at the end of a chapter let me know
PS. I got to watch Beauty and the Beast and Fate of the Furious. Clocksworth had me dying when he didn't want to see his wife and would've preferred to remain a clock. I think I like the live action more than the original, how 'bout you guys? I've got SATs this Saturday wish me luck.
Shout-outs to!:
Azure Shine: Personally, I do think that Reiji sucks as a character and that overly bashing characters is lame; however, what I wrote was not making a mockery of Reiji as a character as I feel like that is similar to how the two would interact in real life. I try to keep every character as in character as possible :)
MariTivolli: Yeah I definitely am a HUGE fan of sibling love especially BROTHERLY love all they ever seem to do in the anime is fight so I'm trying to explore character interactions that exclude Yui a little more.
Guest: Thanks so much for your kind words