Chapter 11

Alcohol, Awakening and Aizo

Gakupo was unconscious for many hours after we got him to Rei's house. Eventually I must have fallen asleep waiting for him to wake up. When I woke up the next morning Gakupo was still unconscious. Rei carried a bucket of water with an evil smile next to me.

"Want to wake him up?" Rei asked with a devious smile.

I smiled evilly. "Let's do it…but we probably should take him outside."

Rei chuckled. "Yeah, that probably be best."

By the time we got Gakupo outside, I could see the people in town going on with there normal routines but some stopped to see what we were doing. Rei and I lifted the bucket with evil smiles.

"The waters ice cold right?"

"Gumi, you underestimate me. Of course it's freezing."

"On three." We both smiled evilly. "One…two…three!" We threw the water onto Gakupo and his eyes shot open.

"What the hell?" Gakupo yelled. He looked around then glared at us. We were on the ground laughing like Hyenas. "Gumi! Rei! You bastards!" Gakupo started to get up but he was obviously too weak and he slid back down to the ground.

I stopped laughing. "Are you alright?" I crawled over to him. "It's just exhaustion right?"

He nodded. "Yeah…Did they hurt you?"

"Don't be worried about me when you were unconscious from exhaustion." I kissed his forehead. "No one laid a had on me."

"Alright." Gakupo took my hand. "You're such a bitch."

"I know."

"Was the water necessary?"

"In my mind it was."

Gakupo groaned and laid his head on my lap which got my pants wet but I didn't really care. "We made it."

"Only a life time of running left."

"I can't wait until you're a Half Breed. Then you'll be able to keep up."

"Shut up you ass."

"Half Breed?" someone said. He was a rather large man with big muscles and about elbow length red hair. He looked really tough but also kind in a way and he looked a lot like Gakupo and Ron. Maybe this is Gakupo and Ron's father.

Gakupo's eyes widened. "Old man? What are you doing back?"

"A Half Breed? That's going against your beliefs." He tapped his foot. "Well boy? You gonna defend yourself?"

"I'm not because you right. It has been a tradition since the Female wolves died for us to mate with Half Breeds. Eventually were going to need them. Then what are we gonna do? We'll die off."

"We can handle this." Gakupo's father said.

"We'll see. While you do that, I'll be raising my kids." Gakupo looked up at me "Not that loving you is a bad thing at all."

I rolled my eyes. "Ass." I clunked him on the head playfully with my fist. Gakupo gave me a smile.

"I want her out of my Village by the morning." Gakupo's father said.

"Hold on a second!" Gakupo objected starting to get up but he fell back down onto my lap.

"Don't do that. You're too weak right now." I looked at Rei. "We need to hydrate him. Food wouldn't be bad either."

"Right away Captain Gumi." Rei ran into his house to get what I asked for.

"Gumi. "Gakupo's father said as if he was pondering that name.

"Yes my name is Gumi Juon and I am the daughter of a Vampire and a Siren. One of the rarest pairings in history or so I've been told. How I was born to be a Half Breed, I'll never know, but I won't let you tell me to leave after Gakupo went to so much trouble for me to stay here. He ran none stop for days." I looked down at Gakupo who had red cheeks. I could tell he was burning up. "Damn, you're sick." I placed one hand to my forehead then one to his. "Yep, you're burning up." I smiled. "Good thing I thought to bring that first aid kit with all that medicine, am I right?"

"It sounded unnecessary at the time." Gakupo mumbled.

"Well now your sick so your gonna march your ass up to that house and your gonna sleep until your better…or Rei will carry you."

Gakupo chuckled. "I can handle myself."

"To hell you can!" I helped him up. "Move your ass then since you can handle yourself."

Gakupo laughed awkwardly. "Please help."

"That's what I thought." I slid my arm around his back. "Come on. Before you pass out again. I guess dumping a bucket of water on you was a bad idea."

"You think?" Gakupo yelled. I smiled and kissed his cheek. "It was Rei's idea, not mine."

"Gumi." Gakupo's father said.

I turned as Rei came running out of the house with a bucket of water and a sack of what I hoped was food. "Help him inside."

Gakupo took the bucket and down it with in 30 seconds. "Let's go." Gakupo's father walked over to me. Gakupo stopped walking. "If you hurt her…I'll kill you." Gakupo shut the door to the house.

He looked down on me. "My name is Aizo Kamui and I am Gakupo's father." He held out his hand. I shook his hand firmly. He half smiled for a brief second. "If you want to stay here, your gonna perform the coming of age ceremony like every other Werewolf your age. You have two days to prepare." He turned to walk away but he stopped. "Even if you are kick out of this Village, I know Gakupo will follow you…so I'm only gonna say this once…welcome to our family." He walked away.

It took a while but finally Gakupo was asleep. From my little to no training as a doctor, I determined he had the simple flu so I gave him some medicine and got him off to bed after he ate. I hate seeming him so weak…but I guess it's my fault. If I never agreed to run, he wouldn't be in this state.

By the time Ron came for me I was asleep by Gakupo's bed holding his hand. Ron shook me and I almost woke Gakupo up with my sudden jerk of awakening. Ron pointed at the door with a sneaky smile then tip toed out of the room like I'd think a Robber would. I sighed and followed him out of the room.

"What?" I moaned rubbing my eyes.

"I challenge you to a drinking contest." Ron said with a proud of himself smile.

I sighed. "Fine." Rei was already asleep as far as I could tell. He was asleep on the couch hugging a pillow which was pretty cute. He's really adorable for a Werewolf. Ron led me outside and across the Square to a house that was buzzing with the sounds of clinking glasses and laughter from big strong men. When I walked inside, I saw 6 Werewolves sitting around a table drinking from big beer mugs.

"There's the lady of the hour." One of the guys said. He had short red hair and was built like a body builder.

"Gumi this is Akaito, Taito, my older brother Rai, Zeito, Kai and Youe" Ron said pointing each of them out to me.

"So you Gumi." Kai said getting up from the table and looking at me with impassive eyes.

"Kai, don't scare the girl." Taito said.

"How is she gonna survive in this Village if she can't handle being intimidated? Especially by her new brother in law." Kai walked over to me and held out his hand. "Welcome to the family sis."

"Glad to see someone if your family is civilized." I said then glared at Ron. I shook Kai's hand and he pulled me into a hug. "I've always wanted a little sister."

"You know Gakupo's gonna kick your ass now right?" Youe said leaning back a little in his chair. "I believe he told everyone if we lay a hand on her, he's gonna kill us."

"Gakupo's being a tough guy. He's too weak to do anything which means I need to occupy myself." I grabbed a empty mug and started filling it with beer.

"Yeah! Now were talking!" Akaito cheered.

I sat down in a chair and looked up at Ron. "I challenge you to a drinking contest. If I win, you won't ever try to kill me but if you win then nothing changes."

"Nope. If you lose, I want you to get married in our Village." Ron said.

"Why would you want that? And it's not my decision, its Gakupo's. He hasn't proposed yet."

"But you said you were his Fiancé!" Ron yelled.

"Fiancé to be." I shrugged. "It's not like we've had time to do anything romantic in a while but we both know where things are heading. When we have a stable position, he'll propose."

"Well you have one here."

"Not unless I do this coming of age thing in 2 days."

The guys laughed. "Good luck with that one Gumi." Ron laughed. "But my rules still stand."

"Fine. Deal." I grabbed my mug. Youe pored Ron some beer and Ron took it like he knew what he was doing. "Bottoms up." I down the first one faster then him and slammed my mug on the table. Ron held out his mug for more. I did the same.

"My money's on Gumi." Akaito said.

"You're only beating on her because she has boobs." Ron snapped.

"Guilt is charged." Akaito said eyeing my chest. I glared at him then took my mug which was now filled to the brim with beer curtsy of Rai. Ron and I nodded then down our second mug. The alcohol was starting to hit me now but I held out my mug and waited for it to be filled just like Ron.

We were 7 mugs in before Ron started to really get tipsy. By then I was way drunk but I wasn't gonna let him beat me. Alcohol poisoning my ass. I downed yet another and held out my mug for more.

"Gumi, maybe you should stop." Kai said placing a hand on my shoulder.

"No way. I'm gonna kick his ass."

"But he can do at least three more." Rai pointed out leaning back in his chair. "Plus you're still human so you could die."

"Screw you!" I downed another and sighed. Ron had finished another as well and was really looking like he couldn't do three more. Just a few more! I waited for my mug to be filled and I downed another.

By then Ron was just barely finishing his mug. He dropped his head onto the table. "I'm done."

"Yeah! In your face!" I down my mug and turned it over. "A deals a deal! You can't kill me now or ever!"

"Fine whatever." Ron mumbled.

I groaned. "Someone take me home." The guys laughed.

"I got it." Rai said. He held his hand out to him. I took his hand and he yanked me up and into his arms like a babe. "You all should rest up. Tomorrow we have to train this one."

"Can't you do it?" Ron moaned.

"We haven't trained a woman for this course in years. She'll need all the help she can get." Rai said. "Plus I'm sure Gumi's gonna want to wear something she can move around in."

The guys all looked at each other smiling evilly. "I'm in." They all said.

"Perverted bunch of Werewolves." I mumbled as Rai carried me out of the house.

"You really shouldn't have drunken so much."

I groaned. "Don't remind me."

Rai chuckled then grew serious. "So you seriously love my little bro?"

"Yes." I looked up at him. "If I didn't I would have dropped his ass a while ago."

Rai half smiled. "I always knew that dumb ass would fall in love one that's bad for him."

"Figures." I mumbled. "All of you are so damn finicky about Half Breeds."

"Can you blame us? Half Breeds are pamper little brats that only care about themselves. Even the ones who married into our village. There all cruel creatures…but I feel like you're different."

"I am." I was barely able to stay awake. That alcohol was really hitting me right now but I stayed strong and listened. "I'm the daughter of a Siren and a Vampire."

"Ah, so you're the run away Half breed. I heard about you. The old man was talking about it earlier."

I groaned. "And now I'm a fugitive."

"That's what you get for defying the Council. No one does that now a days. That makes you famous. Being a Half Breed from a Siren and a Vampire will make you famous anyways."

I groaned. "Damn it all."

Rai chuckled then grew serious. "Can I ask you a favor?"

"Your carrying me home, I'm pretty sure I owe you one."

"Don't let him die alright?"

"You must be joking; I wouldn't let him get himself killed."

"Are you even capable of protecting him?"

"I can take care of myself…but Gakupo doesn't think so."

"Well of course. You're a woman. Gakupo's one of those kinds of guys that insists on protecting women. He doesn't like to see them get hurt. Ever since he lost Miko, he began to fight for every girl who needs it."

"Did you know Miko?" I asked.

Rai shook his head. "I met her once or twice but I never held more then a five word conversation with her. She liked Gakupo and Ron a lot better then me. The old man really liked her before mom died." Rai began to climb the steps to the door of the house. "And this is where we part ways."

"Thanks for carrying me." I said as he set me down. I stumbled a little. "That is the last time I drink with any of you wolves."

Rai half smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow. After all, you have to begin training."

"I really appreciate you guys helping me but do you really have to. I can handle this on my own."

"Bull shit. You couldn't pass this test without us." He gave me a smile. "Beside's, Gakupo's gonna be out cold for a few days so you're my responsibility."

I hugged him. "Thanks Rai."

He hugged me back. "No problem little sis."

I smiled. "I always wanted a brother."

Rai sighed. "To bad were gonna have to kill you soon."

"Do what you got to do." I smiled up at him. "Cause when you all come after me, I want you to be the one to do it."

"To kill you?" Rai asked.

I nodded. "That's right."

"Why?"

"Because you're my brother in law and isn't it the older brother's job to judge the younger brothers wife?"

Rai chuckled. "We'll see what we do with you."

I smiled. "Good night Rai." I walked inside. Gakupo leaned against the entrance way into the living room with a blanket over his shoulders. "Gakupo! You're awake." I was going to run over to him but my legs were too weak and I had to use the wall for support.

"What were you doing?" Gakupo asked as he tapped his foot.

"I was having a drinking contest." I groaned. "Don't let me drink alcohol again. It's so awful."

"You shouldn't have in the first place. Didn't everyone tell you that werewolves are heavy drinker?"

"Yeah but I wanted Ron to not kill me and now he won't." I coughed. "But right now I wish he would. I feel awful." I stumbled into him and he caught me as if it was nothing. "Go get some sleep. When you wake up go drink some coffee and suck on some Lingu leaf. It'll get rid of your hangover."

"Lingu?" I asked as he helped me towards my bed room.

"It's a leaf from a fruit called Laquando that only grows in a small patch near the village. The fruit is delicious and highly addictive so no one is aloud to eat the fruit but the leaves that come from the plant help cure hangovers. Sayu told me that the leaf relaxes your mind making hangovers a lot easier to deal with. Especially if you suck on more then one of the leaves."

"Can't I just have one now?" I moaned.

"No, you need to sleep and it wouldn't help. It only works for the headaches you get when you wake up in the morning."

I groaned. "Ok." Gakupo guided me into the room and onto my bed. He crawled in with me and held me in his arms. "Did you hear what I said?"

"Yeah I did." Gakupo smoothed my hair. "Did you mean it?"

"Every word."

"You're so brave." Gakupo kissed my hair. "Now get some sleep. You'll need it for the training were gonna put you through."

"No, you sleep all day tomorrow. You're still not better." I said.

"Not gonna happen." Gakupo answered.

I looked up at him. "Please Gakupo. I want you to be at your full strength. What if we have to run and you're too weak to carry me?" I laid my hand on his cheek. "Kai and Ron will take care of me. You just rest ok? I promise I won't be dead when you wake up."

Gakupo chuckled. "You trust them more then you should."

"I think you don't trust them enough." I kissed him quickly. "Sleep."

He sighed and slowly fell asleep. I stayed up a little longer. Gakupo worked so hard to get us here. I keep saying I'm not worth it and I know I'm not but it makes me feel good to have him care for me. I meant what I said to Ron. I knew we'd never be together no matter how far we ran…and I think Gakupo knows that as well but I think he looks at it as a time limit. How much time he has left with me? How much time he has to love me? To marry me? To have his children? I don't how much time we have together but I want the same thing. I want to compact a life time of love into the time we have left.

Eventually they'll take me away…but I won't accept it until I'm done with Gakupo. After I've finished what we started. Even then I don't feel like it will ever be enough for me to accept being taken away from him…but I feel like when we finish what we started…I'll be able to die in peace knowing I got that far.

Ever since I was a kid I wanted to get married, have kids, live in a big house where the kitchen doesn't blow up every time I cook something because mom messed with it again. I want to be able to have that even if it's only for a day. Knowing that that's an impossibility…I'll have to hope that I can at least get half of that.

Who knows, maybe if we can find some isolated place where we can raise our kids in some small little house, we could do that…but even that would be too good to be true. They'll never stop searching for me…and I'll be forced to marry Mikuo…and I'd be sitting in an invisible jail cell with that blue haired ass hole for the rest of my life…well until I die…which could be a very long time.

This is unfair…but then again what about life is fair. As Haku tells me, fairness is an illusion. We can only accept what life has thrown at us and use it to our advantage…but I doubt I can even do that.

The next morning, I awoke to Ron shaking me awake. It took me a second to figure out what was going on but when I did realize, I carefully slid out of bed without waking Gakupo up and left the room.

"Get dressed in something you can run in that you don't mind getting dirty cause were gonna work you to the bone." Ron said.

I sighed, walked back into the room, grabbed my bag and headed to the bathroom. "I'll be out in a minute." I'm not excited about this at all but it's not like I have much of a choice. If I want to be accepted by Gakupo's father, I have to do this…and I can't fail.

This coming of age ceremony was insane…well for a human girl. The first task was an obstacle course which I could do fine. I did a lot of obstacle courses at my old school. The second task was hunting which would be really difficult. Luckily Gakupo's father agreed to let me use a weapon since I'm not a mythical creature yet. I'm not good at hunting but I'm sure I can catch something. Plus I had three days to catch something which is more then enough time…right? The third task was the one I was worried about. The third task is a fight with someone from the town. I could pick who ever I wanted…but I had no idea who.

"Fight me, I'll let you win." Rai said with a smile.

"No, I'm gonna do this fair and square. Beside's, your father would know you let me win. I want your father to accept me when I concur this coming of age ceremony. I'm sure I can at least do two of the three tasks."

"I'm sure you can at least do the obstacle course but can you really fight someone?" Ron asked.

"I don't know. I think tomorrow should be working on that." I answered then sighed. "But I was thinking I'd fight Aizo Kamui."

"What?" everyone yelled.

"You can't fight Aizo! He's the strongest werewolf in the whole town!" Youe yelled.

"You'd have a better chance trying to kill a man eating shark." Kai chuckled.

"Even I can't beat him. You don't stand a chance." Rai said.

"But how much respect would he give me if I beat him?" I asked curiously.

Ron sighed. "If you miraculously beat the odds and defeated my father, he'd probably resign as the town's leader and give it to you as an early wedding present."

"Then I'm fighting Aizo Kamui. End of story." I said.

"You're insane." Zeito sighed.

"Completely delusional." Taito agreed.

"I think she can do it if she can beat Rai." Akaito announced.

"I guess but he's still better then me." Rai pointed out.

"Well then she'll need to be patient and look for openings." Akaito said.

"Sounds good to me." I smiled. "Now let's get training."

By the time I had mastered the obstacle course, I was covered in mud. Even my hair was soaked and it was so disgusting but I did master it. I even did it tree times without failing on anything. By then it was around 1 O'clock which meant it was time to practice hunting.

The guys took me out into the woods and showed me all the spots where they usually find there prey. They even showed me how to set traps only using forest vines. It was a lot fun to learn it all and the guys were so patient with me. They always explained everything clearly and made sure I got it right. I really feel like they all want me to succeed. By the time we all headed home, Rai had to carry me home. I was beat.

"I'm shocked how good you are. I thought it'd take you two days to learn all of that." Kai said. "I'm impressed."

"How weak do you think I am?" I whined.

"You're as thin as a twig with no muscle on you. I'd say very weak. I could catch you with little to no effort."

"You're so mean!" I whined. "Big bro, kill him for me."

Rai laughed. "I'll consider it when you kick ass on that obstacle course when it's time for the coming of age ceremony."

"I won't let you guys down." I said with a smile. "I know I can do this."

"I wouldn't get your hopes up." Zeito said as he lit a cigarette. "You're fighting Aizo. You really should fight someone else. Anyone would be easier then Aizo."

"I'm fighting him and that's that." I announced glaring at him.

"Why are you so adamant about this?" Ron asked.

I looked up at the trees. "I guess I just want Gakupo's family to accept me. If I die trying, then at least I tried." I looked at Ron. "I never had a father or any brothers and sisters so being able to possible have a real family…It's like a dream. Growing up as an only child that has to take care of there mom instead of the other way around is difficult. I do love my mother but I wish I could have had a real child hood." I sighed. "But I guess that's a little stupid."

"Not at all. I always wanted a little sister." Ron said. He punched my arm lightly. "But I'm still gonna kill you. You may be my sister in law but that doesn't mean your one of us."

"You'd be breaking the rules of our little contest." I pointed out.

"Is that what we agreed on? I can't remember anything." Ron asked rubbing his head.

I laughed. "That's why you don't drink that much alcohol."

"Yeah whatever. I like drinking." Ron waved me off.

"If I survive this ceremony the first thing I'm gonna do is regulate how much alcohol you idiots drink." I announced. All the guys groaned. "Don't give me that. Your gonna get alcohol poisoning or worse."

"You know what's great about being a werewolf? Alcohol doesn't affect us like you humans. We can drink as much as we want as long as we can handle the hangover the next day."

"Geez." I dropped my head onto Rai's shoulder. "Why'd I fall in love with a werewolf?"

"Are you saying you regret it?" Rai asked curiously.

"Of course not." I looked at everyone and they looked slightly hurt. "Your all a pain in the ass but you're the good kind." I smiled. "If I hated Werewolves, I wouldn't be trying so hard to complete this coming of age ceremony would I? I don't regret anything I've ever done." I sighed. "But I've backed myself into a corner again. I'm being hunted and Gakupo's gonna be killed for harboring a fugitive or some stupid shit like that."

"Bummer." Ron said calmly.

"That's your little brother and you act so calmly about his situation." I asked.

"I already knew Gakupo did something stupid the second he showed up in our village. He'd never have come back unless he had to. It's not that he hates us but he hates the memories this place brings him. It's no just him. We've lost many of our men over the years because of the loss of our women. I don't think anyone isn't haunted by those memories of our women being slaughtered one by one. Even little new born baby girls." Ron looked at me. "Gakupo shouldn't have come. This is going to be stressful for him."

"Especially after having to run Mew's child out of our village." Zeito said sadly.

"Who's Mew?" I asked.

"Gakupo didn't tell you the name of our mother?" Rai asked with a confused look.

"That's her name." I blinked. "It's pretty…but what's this about a baby?"

"Our last brother. He was born while they were slaughtering our women. Gakupo had to run with him and Miko to protect them. They would have killed the baby whether it was a boy or a girl. It was a traumatic experience for him." Ron said.

"Where's the baby now?" I asked. Everyone looked at each other with nervous expressions.

"I doubt you'll see Shou any time soon." Rai said.

"Why not?" I asked.

Ron shook his head then looked at me with sadness in his eyes. "Because Shou's gone insane."

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Hey guys, sorry this took so long but I thought it was a good chapter and I worked really hard on it. Thanks so much for reading this far. It really means a lot to me to see my stories getting so many views so keep on reading guys.

So I watched the whole series of Angel Beats while writing this chapter and honestly, I cried like three times. The ending was so sad and some of the stories were just so sad. Tell me if you cried too cause I totally cried like crazy at the ending between Kanade (Angel) and Otonashi. It was so emotional!

Also I've been trying to decide which character I want to cosplay as for Ota-kon this year and yes that means I'm going. I was thinking I might want to do the LARP this year. If you don't know what LARP is, look it up cause I don't feel like explaining it. Anyways tell me which one I should be.

Musubi from Sekirei

Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket

Nami from One Piece

Kisara Nanjo from Kenichi the mightiest disciple (my favorite show)

p.s. if you haven't seen any of these shows, watch them cause there amazingly good.