~ my apologies for the delay. i lost my muse for awhile

"Yoshi-kun."

The boy was doing his best to meet the intense blue eyes, but it was difficult. Shu lay on the bed, gazing at Yuki.

The boy had woken up with Shu lying next to him. His wig was off, his short blonde hair messy from sleeping. Yuki now lay there next to Shu, as a boy. He was nervous, waiting for a reaction other than his name being said. Was Shu angry? It was hard to tell since the eldest Sakamaki always held a neutrally bored expression.

Minutes passed, the silence making Yuki's heart pound. Then something happened.

Shu rolled over, now on top of the other boy. He pinned his hands near the others head, out of the way and his tongue glided over his fangs subtly prior to moving down to Yuki's neck. His tongue grazed the bare skin there and then he moved to his shoulder. His fangs met the skin, nipping slightly. Then he went lower to Yuki's collar bone.

Yuki was too surprised by this new behavior that he forgot to resist, to even speak.

His fangs came out, meeting Yuki's warmth before he pierced the skin. He drank for a few moments and then shifted to Yuki's other shoulder, biting him there too.

A few more moments passed.

Shu had trailed his fangs lightly over the arm he held up. Once he neared Yuki's wrist, he pierced the skin, the sweet substance filling him up.

Once he finished, he dropped Yuki's arm with a sly smile on his lips prior to leaving the room.

Lying there, Yuki blinked his amber eyes. Shu wasn't mad then, was he? His reaction had been similar to Laito's - uncaring. But what was the smile for...

Glancing around, he ran a hand through his hair to fix it and then picked up his wig. Putting it on, the brown hair fell around his shoulders and he rose off the bed. Walking into the bathroom, he gazed at his reflection. When Shu had been feeding, he hadn't felt the emotion of depression like before. Yuki didn't know if that was good or bad anymore.

The boy immediately noticed the new marks on his body. Four of them. Changing into long sleeves, he covered the one on his wrist and readjusted the hair over the ones around his shoulders.

Sighing softly, he left his bathroom and then his room. Walking down the long hall, Yuki made his way to where he thought Reiji's study was.

He realized after a little while that he couldn't find it. Yuki had been down this hall quite a few times in the past few weeks but... he still got lost.

Looking around, he began walking in another direction. Straight didn't seem right anymore. The problem was that all the walls looked the same. No variety.

"Why?" He mumbled to himself.

"Learn." The voice was so loud that Yuki was sure all the Sakamaki brothers all throughout the mansion could hear it.

And it was Reiji's voice.

"Why are you yelling Reiji?" Yuki asked anxiously.

"Learn."

Yuki blinked, covering his ears. Reiji spoke again and that's when Yuki realized that the voice was coming from inside his head.

"What..."

An ice cold grip enclosed home. He glanced around with his eyes but no one was there. Yuki tried to move but he couldn't. He was struggling so hard that when the energy trap left, he almost fell on his face.

Yuki's eyes were wide with shock. What had just happened?

"Play Kiti!"

It was Ayato's voice. Just as loud as Reiji's, if not even louder. He tried to get up but that didn't work.

"Stop" he whispered, his voice unable to go any louder.

"Aw come on Bitch-chan~" Laito's voice.

"Suffer with me!" Kanato's voice.

"Pathetic." Shu spoke now.

Yuki was so overwhelmed. Emotion after emotion crashed over him.

"Fight!" Subaru screamed.

Rage, passion, depression, fear... Everything came at him at once. The Ticking had gotten worse.

"Get out!" Yuki screamed. That did nothing.

"Learn." "Play!" "Suffer!" "Come on~" "Pathetic." "Fight!"

All of the Sakamaki's voices echoed repeatedly in his head, with each one came the repressed emotion of each vampire.

As a minute passed, it intensified. The voices were deafening and Yuki stared at the wall in front of him.

"We're playing with you, Kawai Kiti!" Yuki could feel the smirk on Ayato's words.

"You're being tested." The scold in Reiji's voice ran through Yuki's body, making the distaste stronger.

"Fight!" Subaru yelled again.

Yuki glared at the wall and a switch flipped. Subaru's anger coursed through him and with a sudden impulse, the boy was jolted to his feet.

The Sakamakis' voices didn't cease and neither did the emotion behind them.

With the new wave, Yuki screamed and ran right into the wall with a loud crash. The image of Shu's sly slip of a smile surfaced in his head and then there was silence.

He had knocked himself out.

hope you enjoyed this chapter ~