IMMORTAL GORE

Chapter 7: Realization

Disclaimers : I do not own GA, nor the VK's ideas about purebloods and stuff.

-Back to Reality-

After few hours had passed, Mikan had finally woken up, seeing a tall figure was next to her, she presumed it was Yoichi as she scanned the room with her dozing eyes "Yo-chan...where am I ?"
"You're in my room and I'm not Yoichi, he had gone outside to take your medicine." Natsume felt annoyed as he had to watched out for Mikan, since it was Aoi's command.
"Ah...i see" the girl was too weak to talk back.
"Go back to sleep" Natsume commanded.
"I can't , I had a weird dream about mother. She looked so beautiful as I was in her embrace, I could feel how much she loved me" Mikan's face was redder as her fever has gone up lightly. Natsume ignored her words as he kept his eyes on the book.
"I've never thought one day things would turn out like this...After my father died, I was so lonely, I had managed to live through the days with the money daddy left, until the government despoiled my place, no one was by my side except Yo-chan. But I had to protect and made sure Yo-chan would not suffer with hunger. Everyday I would wake up and keep stealing and keep walking aimlessly on the streets." Mikan continued as she tried to keep her breath steady "And now, somehow I don't feel that way anymore as I have Yoichi, you and Aoi nee-sama" she grinned foolishly as it drew Natsume's attention to her. Feeling awkward, Natsume had to admit that her smile was beautiful, it was brighter than the sun in the summer, it was warm as the new-made loaf of bread, as he was drawn to her smile. His brother instinct told him not to hurt his sister yet the brain told him the other way.
"This girl must be joking. She's an idiot" chuckling as he remembered the first time they met.

"Onii-sama, although I know that you dislike me because of our mother but let's bury the past and move on together shall we? You don't have to face anything alone anymore since you've got me and Aoi onee-sama and even Yoichi would gladly help you...I thought that I would live in this world alone without a family, I wouldn't even dare to think that there was a chance for me to call onii-sama and onee-sama. And yet I met you out of no where, who had brought the truth to my origins, I'm truly glad that i met you Onii-sama" Mikan mumbled through her words self-consciously.

Natsume was practically frozen due to the honesty in her words, there was something in her words that stirred him inside. Maybe having another sister isn't so bad, and it wasn't this girl's fault in the first place, if he planned to blame it on Mikan...he felt like...he was just another clone of his deceased father. No it can't be. But it was true...he would follow his father 's steps if he wanted Mikan to suffer. He had just done something which his father had done before his suicidal.

Natsume grabbed his face in his palms as he tried to think through while the little girl's fever had burned her insides. She then turned to Natsume, lightly running her fingers on his wrist, a feeling of coldness from his bare skin made her fingers flinched. Nevertheless, the cool feelings was so comfortable transmitted to the heat inside her, she once again reached out for his wrists and pulled it gently to her face then placed his palm on her burning cheeks "I've told you already Onii-sama, please do not suffer alone, let's go through all of this together, teach me little by little, and I'll be your best supporter and I'll protect you instead" Mikan chuckled.

Natsume could feel his heart thumped fast as her words were running roughly inside his mind, he had never been sympathized by anyone before. He did crave for someone would stay by his side and being his supporter, he had tried to keep up the Hyuuga's influence as well as everything, practically carrying all heavy duties on his shoulders since he was small. And yet this girl over here whom he just had just talked to, whom he used to blame on everything , said that she wanted to protect him. Those words she said had made Natsume wanted to protect this girl instead.

Unconsciously, Natsume leaned down and planted a kiss on Mikan's forehead "Take a rest for now. You've been talkative and your fever has gone up."
Mikan replied with a smile "Yes Onii-sama" then she drove to sleep.

Unnoticing, Yoichi who had stood at the door overheard their conversation, he then slowly walked in when Mikan had already slept and placed a wet towel on her forehead "Don't you dare doing anything reckless to Mikan, she trusted you, you know that well don't you Natsume? She does seem tough in front of everyone, she wants to protect everyone she loves, but she is just a vulnerable girl who had just passed her 17th birthday" Natsume just remained silent and walked out of the room.

-The Next Morning-

"Mikan-chan !" Aoi jumped on her bed out of nowhere and placed a kiss on Mikan's cheek which made Mikan instantly woke up frightening with the strange way of waking up somebody. "Let's go out today, I'll show you around, we're going to dress you up! Oh gosh I'm sooo excited!" the energetic girl pulled half-asleep Mikan out of her bed and made her brushing her teeth, washing her face, dolling her up. The little girl was spin around like a toy which made her whining.

"Yo-channnnnnn, Onii-samaaaaaaaa. Helppp, Nee-sama is toturinggggg mee. I've just turned into a vampire so I don't like going out under the sunlightttttt at allllll" Ignoring her words, Aoi just pulled Mikan's fingers which were trying to hold on the door.

The amazing wake up scene had made Yoichi and Natsume, who were sitting and having breakfast, chuckled

"Aoi, you shouldn't spin her around like that, she needs time to adapt to the new life." Aoi released Mikan and sighed "Hn. Fine." The youngest girl was then relieved and made her way to the breakfast table. Her eyes immediately sparkled with the food in front of her, as last time, Mikan stunned everyone on the table with her fast-picking-food skill.

How amazing. This can be recorded as World's Guinness, a vampire who eats more than a normal human being, thought vampires only drink blood" Aoi who was now picking her food awkwardly and let out a sigh "I only want to drink blood" Those words were like thunder to Mikan.

She stopped eating all of sudden as a thought ran to her mind "That means I will have to drink blood too. CRAP THERE'S NO FREAKING WAY THAT I WOULD DO THAT."

Mikan slammed the table as she claimed her words "I-WILL-NOT-DRINK-BLOOD. There's noooooo way I will do that !" then she clamped her fangs harshly

"Mikan, don't talk foolishly like that. You will need it , maybe not now but you will. When that time comes you won't be able to control your hunger for blood." Natsume slowly explained.

Hardly accepting the fact, Mikan thumped to her room "Oh it's you little girl" The blond guy whom she flopped on last time suddenly appeared, Mikan instinctively ran to her room fast and got into it safely.
"That was whoosh, that guy is dangerous, I'm dangerous, everyone in this house is dangerous!" She yelled out and curled up inside her blankets. "I'll have to suck blood out of someone eh...No !I will not do it" she then drove to sleep.

After a few hours passing, Mikan's throat started to feel uneasy as if it was burning, tearing up inside , she was thirsty, thirsty so much that made her body shoved into the bathroom and drank the water from the tank. Yet that hadn't helped her thirstiness at all, Mikan knew, she knew she needed blood. Washing her face from the running water, Mikan then looked at her self in the mirror.

Freezing at the girl in the mirror, Mikan was now looked...different. Her old big hazel eyes were now replaced by a pair of darker hazel tinted lightly with crimson, her wavy auburn hair had grown over her small back along with the long bangs cupped on two sides of her heart-shaped face evenly as it made it looked smaller. Mikan made a grin as she could tell that her fangs had become longer and sharper compared to how it used be as well as her skin had gotten paler abnormally.

Accepting this fact was too hard, Mikan slowly walked out of the bathroom as she could hardly stand on her knees anymore. "Mikan, open the door for me" Natsume baritone's voice echoed through the hallway, didn't receive any reply Natsume turned the locker and got into the room, he saw the petite girl who was hugging her knees as her self-control seemed to have gotten loose.

"Onii-sama...I'm thirsty.."

"Mikan. Come." Natsume dug his fangs on the veins of his wrist as ripples of blood gushed out "Drink it" he demanded with a cold voice.

Without hesitation, Mikan immediately licked up the blood from his wrist like a good kitty was drinking its delicious milk.

"You need to learn to feed your own self Mikan" Ignoring those words of his, Mikan kept licking the blood from her brother's wrist while Natsume running his fingers through Mikan's long hair...