I was peacefully sleeping, when a few sun rays disturbed my rest. It was already time to wake up and prepare for night school... Wait a minute... Sun?! I jumped up in my bed and screamed out in horror. My room was not pink! It was blue!
"What the..." I took a look through a window - birds and butterflies were playing catch, rabbits were hopping around and flowers were sucking in those delicious visible sun rays. It was so peaceful and... Disturbing. Sakamaki's garden was nothing like I was used to. The god damned rabbits were there! Everything seemed the opposite from how it used to be.
"Oh my gosh, so I must be pretty now!" I ran towards the closest mirror, ignoring the fact that my body felt exactly the same. But mirror revealed the hard truth. Something did change about my face, but it wasn't nice... It was actually so horrible I screamed out once again.
"What's wrong?! Did you hurt yourself?" And as I was used to, somebody was already in my room, but I had no time to worry about it, I was having my own personal crisis. "What happened? Why did you scream?" Yet another voice. I turned around to face the two brothers, Ayato and Laito.
"Can't you see?!" I pointed at my nose.
"See what? All I see is your pretty face," Ayato crossed his arms.
"How dare you say that... ab-about me? Wait, what did you just say?"
"Oh, my dear Puppy-chan! Please forgive my brother for running into your room like that, but your scream was so filled with terror! What are we supposed to see on your face that made my dearest so upset?" I shit you not, I saw tears in the corners of Laito's eyes.
"I got an enormous zit! Right on the tip of my nose!" I made countless circles in the air with my finger to show those blind bastards the problem at the hand.
"You look perfect with or without zits and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!" Ayato was gently clenching my shoulders and slightly shaking me to get the point through my head.
"Okay... thank you?" And then it finally clicked to me. Ayato wasn't teasing me - he was reassuring me. "Okay, guys, where's the catch?" I pulled away from the two of them.
"What do you mean, Puppy-chan?" Laito cocked his head sideways. They were showing me kindness. Actual kindness! And what was up with that Puppy-chan?!
I would rather believe that our entire world was created by an otome game company who didn't lack ideas for traumatizing character backgrounds than believe that Sakamaki's could show real kindness towards me. Something or someone was messing with me real bad! Was it you again, God™? I swear to the REAL God that I will make your life into a living hell, just like you've made mine!
"Are you alright? You seem to be a bit disturbed this morning. Did you have a bad dream?" Ayato approached me with worry shining in his eyes.
"Actually, yes." Let's see how will they deal with disrespect. "I was having a very long nightmare with you and all of your other brothers included. You were but a bunch of stupid blood thirsty sadistic vampires who were getting off from torturing the little old me in various ways." My words seemed to have a strong impact on those two... but not a kind of impact that I was expecting to see.
In a blink of an eye I was stuck in a tight embrace of Ayato.
"I am so sorry you had to suffer an entire night like that. Laito, hurry up and tell Reiji to make her a cup of calming tea! Now!" This was enough for me.
"Enough with this crap! Cut your acting! I know you're just screwing with me!" I pushed myself away from Ayato, who... let go of me immediately.
"I'm sorry, I guess it wasn't appropriate from my side to touch you without your permission. It won't happen again, I promise." Please, hold me somebody or I will hit my my head while falling. What the hell were they all about?! I ran out of my room. I had to make sure I was drugged or something! That couldn't be true! They were being too nice! Even treating me like a human being would have been a miracle from their side!
I knew there was one person who could prove to all of us that Ayato and Laito were messing around with me... And repainted my room... And bought some rabbits and butterflies... Okay fine! Something DID happen and I had to find out what, so I ran to the room I would never approach.
"Kanato, your Teddy sucks! It looks awful! Let me burn it!" I ran into his room, screaming profanities at his precious toy. No matter how well their plan was, there was no way Kanato would control himself that well... Was that sobbing that I was hearing? I took a look at the crying corner and my concerns were confirmed... Kanato was crying.
"It's okay, Teddy. She didn't mean it. She probably woke up in a bad mood and said those terrible things without thinking." Kanato was rubbing Teddy's back as if toy was the one being hurt. Hello, guilt! Stop calling me a bitch! Stop it! Stop it!
"Oh, I am so sorry, Kanato, I didn't mean to say that..." I knelt besides the sobbing boy and gently rubbed his back. Now, Kanato despised being touched. If I die, I die now.
"It's okay!" And wet faced Kanato suddenly got into my lap. Kanato. Was. HUGGING. Me.
"So it's true... Something happened..." I whispered while comforting the crying boy.
"Are you already calm? I will bake you a cake. What do you say?" Kanato slowly let go of me, wiped away the remaining tears, smiled and destroyed my sanity completely.
"I don't like sweet things, but if you bake it, I'll eat it," He said with a bright smile.
"You don't- you don't- you don't-..." Again and again I was repeating these words like a broken record player.
"R-Reiji-san! Our little sister is feeling unwell! REIJI!" Kanato ran out of his room, leaving me alone. Wait a minute... SISTER?! Okay, I know what was going on, Ayato stole some sort of potion from Reiji, made me drink an entire bottle of it and knocked me out cold. I was just hallucinating. Yeah. Everything was not real. Yeah. I was probably dying, but oh well. Yeah!
"Kanato, is she still in your room?" Distant voices were rapidly getting closer. From the sound of the steps in the hallway, I could say that those guys were practically running towards this room.
"Kanato, I told you not to be too clingy! Why didn't you listen to me?!" Angry voice of Subaru was right behind the door. At least one thing didn't change, at least his anger remained there to comfort my crippling mind.
"I wasn't..." Was he starting to cry again. NO! THIS NEW KANATO WAS TO BE PROTECTED!
"Do not upset Kanato!" I ripped the door open to come face to face with Reiji.
"We weren't upsetting him, we were just trying to teach him some good manners. But we are more concerned about you. Laito told me about the nightmare you had. Come to the living room, Shuu is already waiting for you there."
"Why in the world is he waiting for me?" I asked, refusing to move an inch.
"He's the only one who can comfort you, now come." Well, I've experienced quite a lot while living with the sadistic brothers, so I guess it wouldn't hurt if I followed the nice Reiji.
Shuu was, indeed, waiting for me in the living room. He already had a very soft and cuddly blanket prepared.
"Come here," Shuu waved to come closer, "We're going to cuddle, if you don't mind of course," He stated ever so casually. Was this a business deal for him or something?
"No. You need an exorcism. All of you need to go through a god damned exorcism! WHAT'S GOTTEN INTO YOU?!" Why weren't they being their usual selves?! I just stood there for a while... They were treating me nice. Nice! So why in the stupid world was I complaining?!
"You know what? Okay, I will cuddle with you. I will." My voice had this higher note of sarcasm. Just sit near Shuu and do nothing. What could ever go wrong, am I right? Especially when they were possessed by this disturbingly nice ghost.
"Reiji asked me to calm you down. You had a nightmare, didn't you? Tell me about it." As I sat down besides him, Shuu draped the blanket over me and pulled me to his lap. This was a third embrace received today and hopefully the last one.
"I..." Let's test them some more, "I had a dream that all of you died." I turned my face away from Shuu to hide my smirk. He was rubbing my back as if I was a scared child.
"We are here, all well and alive. Listen to this," he pushed my head against his chest, "My heart is telling you that there's no need to worry." Yeah, his heart was beating quite hard and he was really warm as if he was a... human.
"Shuu? What is your main source of food?"
"Why are you asking something like that? Ever heard about grocery stores?" He chuckled. Were they not vampires? I started feeling a little bit dizzy from all of that mess around me. I had to investigate even further.
"Shuu, I'm still feeling sleepy... May I sleep here?"
"Of course you can. I won't move an inch and protect you from all of your nasty nightmares." He adjusted his hands so we both could stay that way longer. Okay, I won't be lying - being someone's little teddy bear was nice, but that 'nap' wasn't my main purpose there. I was only pretending to fall asleep. In reality, I was wide awake and alert. Shuu was listening to music until Reiji came to the living room.
"How is she doing?" I could pick out a soft scent of lavender tea.
"She fell asleep just recently. I guess we shouldn't have watched that movie last night," Shuu chuckled.
"Goodness gracious, what have I told you about horror movies before sleep? Now you see the result." I could already imagine Reiji's furrowed eyebrows as he was fixing his glasses.
"I also brought a cup for you. Drink up or it'll get cold." Reiji brought a cup of tea for Shuu? Now THIS is what I call a miracle! Jesus, move to the side - we've got a new thing.
"I can't do that now," sighed Shuu, "I might wake her up."
"Don't worry about the tea then, I'll make you a new cup once she wakes up." Or perhaps all of them decided to hunt down and kill the Ice Queen from their closet? Maybe this was the main reason for their bullshit? Maybe...?
"...ke up... wake up..." Hm? Why was my bed shaking me? Oh right, I fell asleep on Shuu, nothing new. But I would usually wake up with two tiny holes in my neck and this time I felt nothing. Oh yeah, right, they were possessed by the nicest demons alive, or should I say, dead?
"What do you want?" I rubbed my eyes as I tried to sit up.
"It's time for school." Oh damn it! I thought all bad things had disappeared, but here we were, talking about school!
"Can't I pretend to be sick?" I pleaded my living pillow.
"No, you can't. Go put on your uniform." Reiji's voice scolded me from right behind me and Shuu.
"Okay, mom, I will." I got away from Shuu.
"How many times have I told you not to call me that?" I froze in place. "What?" I used to call him that when he was his normal self. I haven't called him that in this weird reality.
"I am your brother, not your mother, so please address me that way." Again with that 'brother' stuff? I only had one brother and that dude was nothing like these six brutes.
"Since when am I your sister?"
"Since the day you were born, or conceived if that's how you'd prefer to phrase it." A shudder ran down my spine. To be a daughter of that dude who picked me up from police? Thanks not.
"Yeah, okay." I changed into that despicable school uniform and went down to the limo. All of the brothers were already waiting for me.
"Come here, Puppy-chan~ I saved you the nicest seat right next to me!"
"She was sitting with you the last time! Now it's my turn!" Subaru yelled out.
"Gentlemen, please, no more fighting over me. I'll just sit on the floor and everyone will be happy." I sat down in the middle of the car. Ayato... Well, old Ayato would push me down there to humiliate me, but this time I took that seat on my own free will.
"What are you doing, you idiot?! You can't sit there!" Ayato sprang towards me.
"Yeah, Teddy doesn't like that either." Kanato slowly sat down right next to me.
"Oh Puppy-chan! You're no dog! If you're sitting there - I'm sitting there too!" And Laito flopped down right behind me. I was literally surrounded by triplets.
"How dare you get close to her! She's MY big sister! I'll beat all of you for touching her!" Subaru screamed. I wasn't an expert but did our Tsunbaru turn into a Yandere?
As you can imagine, the rest of our trip was filled with Sakamaki brothers fighting over the place under the sun and by that I mean they were fighting over the 'best' spot on the floor. Their beatings and abuse used to leave me exhausted, but this was also no better. At school I managed to escape from the triplets, I but kept running into Subaru, who was more than happy to 'accidentally' meet me in the hallways. And how did I know that he was following me all the time? Let's just say that this one white haired girl got really upset after entering the girls' bathroom at school.
After some real effort, I managed to get rid of my white tail.
"Oh man, I'm beat." I was dragging my feet as if my shoes were made out of lead, but I still managed to walk into someone.
"Hey! Watch where ya going, pig!" This voice could only belong to one person.
"Kou?" He was wearing black sweatpants and dark blue jumper. His nails weren't coloured and he wasn't wearing any accessories. What have you done to Kou, you sick God™?!
"Yeah. As if it's a first time you've seen me, now get outta my way - I gotta train." What kind of sick bastard turned him into a jock?!
"Come on, little Kou, you can't talk to a lady this way~" That voice... No. No!
"Yuma?" I turned around to see him in a white school uniform (I didn't even know they made those in different colours!). Yuma looked just like that dude Urie Sogami from the Shikou Academy. Their clothes were basically the same and that look in Yumas eyes... We had this school festival and I had the misfortune of meeting Urie there. It wasn't nice, it wasn't.
"Yes, it's your flawless Yuma," He gracefully strode towards me. I could already see the sparkles and flowers in the background as be approached me. And gosh, the amount of perfume on him was suffocating! Was he trying to gas everyone around him?!
"Tch, get lost," Kou put on a hood and walked away.
"It's okay, my Princess, I will make sure you forget all about that meanie," Yuma tucked a red rose he was holding into my hair.
"There's nothing to forget, so leave me alone." I pushed him away from me since he didn't know anything about personal space.
"Oh~ Come on, sweetie, I can make you happy in one way," "He took a good look at me from head to toes then back to my head, "Or in the other~ You can choose which way it's gonna be." Yuma stepped towards me. Fuck this shit I'm out.
"Oh really? I'd be the most happy if you left me alone!"
"Oh, come on! Don't be like that, come with me." Although I was struggling to get away from him, Yuma started to drag me towards some obviously abandoned storage room. This was bad! Laito once did that to me and let me tell you - the only good thing about that situation was the broomsticks I found to beat Laito up with and escape.
"Yuma, stop it!" I smacked him. So far - his change was the most disturbing from all of the vampires I knew. I was starting to miss their obvious evil selves with no hidden even darker intentions.
Yuma had already pushed me into the storage room and was about to enter it himself, but a flash of white knocked his away.
"HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO MY SWEET INNOCENT SISTER?!" Terrifyingly pissed off voice of Subaru boomed through the entire school. "I won't show you any mercy, you hear me?!" From the sound of flesh hitting flesh I could tell that Yuma's uniform will soon be dyed in bright red. So, should I just stand there and do nothing while Yuma was probably going to be beaten up to death, or should I step in and save his pathetic life? Hmmmmmm.
"Hey, Subaru!" I walked out of that place. "Stop punching him."
"BUT HE WAS TRYING TO-"
"I know, I know... That's why I'm telling you to use this," I gave Subaru my good old friend - The broomstick. This Yuma was obviously a bad Yuma who deserved a punishment. Now, I wasn't that Kira dude from the News with a weird sense of justice, but I did believe in the 'eye for an eye' law.
"That's my sister!"
"W...ait..." Yuma tried to crawl away from us, but Subaru pulled him into the storage room.
"There's no wait, big boy," my 'brother' smirked sadistically. Finally! I've missed this Subaru!
"Actually, there is wait." And the third Mukami had appeared.
"Azusa, what the hell do you want?" Subaru asked annoyed.
"I just came here to pick up some trash. Kou told that bastard Ruki about the upcoming problem with this creep and I was told to clean his mess." Was he really that Azusa I knew?! Of course he wasn't. He had no bandages on his arms, no weird hat. His clothes were stylish and cool as if he was a k-pop star.
"I still have to talk to him about something, you know," Subaru kicked Yuma, pushing him deeper into the storage room.
"Yeah no. We don't wanna him ruin our new carpet. Bye~" Azusa took Yuma's ankle and dragged him downstairs, ignoring the thumps his head was making. When we could no longer see those two, Subaru ran towards me.
"Oh, my sweetie! I am never leaving you alone again! Never!" Aaand the fourth embrace this day. Why in the worlds did these guys like hugs so much?
"Subaru. Two things. One - you are going to squeeze something I got to take care in the second point. And two - I need to use a bathroom again.
"I said never!" Please, God™, please end this misery of mine! Please!
It didn't end. I was there, in the girls bathroom, standing in front of Subaru, telling him to just piss off, but he was insisting on coming together with me into the toilet stall.
"Anything could happen to you there! Haven't you seen Harry Potter?!
"Nothing could happen and no! Now leave!"
"No!" I swear to RealGod! this was worse than living with the sadistic version of Subaru! Now I really had zero privacy!
"I am not leaving you!" I was pissed. PISSED. So I did what I used to do when my actual brother trespassed into my room - I pushed him away and slammed the door shut.
"Come on! Open the door or I will break my way through!" Subaru was literally punching the door.
"Leave me alone, you fake! Just leave me alone!" I screamed out, covering my head with both arms. It was overwhelming for me.
"I'm never leaving you alone!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO-" I screamed from the bottom of my lungs.
"OOOOOOOOOOOO!" I shot up in my bed. I couldn't catch my breath, I was covered in sweat.
"Why the hell are you screaming?" Grumbled Shuu next to me. I frantically jumped on him.
"Shuu, what is your food source?!" I clenched his sweater and shook him with all my might.
"Have you forgotten that you are our blood source? Or do I need to remind you?" He leaned in towards my neck.
"Oh Shuu, I'm so happy you're here! Don't ever let anyone change you or your brothers! Especially Subaru! HE HAS TO REMAIN OUR TSUNBARU NO MATTER WHAT." I hugged him so hard he would have suffocated if he was a mortal.
"Hn, I think Reiji's tea had yet another nasty effect on you," Shuu closed his eyes. So it was Reiji's poison that made me hallucinate! Oh thank either God it wasn't real! But wait... 'yet another nasty effect'?
"Shuu, what is the other effect of that shit in my tea?" His smirk grew wider.
"Go check the mirror, Rudolph." Oh no... No. No! NO! This better not be real! I ran to the bathroom.
"OH MY GOD! THERE'S A VOLCANO ON MY NOSE!" At the very tip there was a big red zit.