Ugh!! Why is Junior year so hard?!? I get a bunch of assignments and I don't even have time to update my story daily T_T I liked staying home and write my chapters just like that! It's what I did with my first one! Anyways enough of me complaining;) I finally finished Ch. 3 and I hope you all enjoy it!

Chapter 3

"Damn it!!"

Ayato slams his fist in the wall and growls.

"Where the hell is she?!"

Since Yui's disappearance, Ayato hasn't been drinking any blood. He's been starving himself and he hasn't been in the best mood lately.

The red headed triplet plops on a chair and crosses his arms and tch's like he's a child in time out.

"How dare she run away from Yours Truly?! She's supposed to devote herself to me!!"

He growls and snatches up a glass vase from a table and is about to throw it at the wall. A hand shoots out and grabs ahold of his wrist with the case in a firm grip before he could throw it.

"Throwing a temper tantrum like a spoiled child isn't going to bring her back Ayato-kun."

The triplet whips his head around and sees Rena there staring down at him with her cold eyes. He yanks his hand away from her grip and hmph's.

"Whatever! I can do whatever Yours Truly wants!" He snaps.

"How long have you been dehydrating yourself of blood Ayato-kun?" She crosses her arms.

He doesn't answer her. He only stands up and storms off.

"That's none of your business! Now piss off!!"

"Are you going to starve yourself until Yui-chan comes back? Because if you are then you are an idiot!"

He stops in his tracks and looks at her even more pissed off.

"Whaddya say?!"

"Only a fool would ever make such an asinine choice like that. What kind of man would kill himself for his selfish and idiotic desires?"

He glares and growls violently at her and she crosses her arms.

"Hmph, you shouldn't even be acknowledging yourself as a great individual. Because to me, you're nothing but a weakling who can't even handle simple situations like this."

"You bitch!!!" He snarls.

She looks away and closes her eyes. "Face it Ayato-kun, even you can tell that you're giving up on yourself too easily. If you were superior as you say you are then you need to act like it. Otherwise you're nothing but a fraud. A pitiful fake."

She looks back at him with a grim gaze and glare. "If you starve yourself until Yui-chan comes back then not only will you be killing yourself, you'll be killing her too. And we both know what will happen if such a tragedy occurred."

His anger slowly subsides into a cautious feeling. He knows that look in her eyes. He did know what would happen if he were to kill Yui. He's always known since the day he's met Rena and even though he doesn't acknowledge most of her warnings, he wouldn't even dare to cross her. Not in a million years. It wouldn't matter if he was part of the family, she could still easily kill him without hesitation if he did harm or kill someone Rena cared about.

Ayato stays silent and the huntress can already tell that he's calm now.

"It is my duty to protect this family Ayato-kun. But it also yours as well. Especially with Yui-chan. She needs you to be strong, she needs you to fight, she needs you more than you and her will ever know. And if you can't see that by now, then you don't even deserve to be with her."

She turns and walks out of the room. Ayato stares after her and plops down on a chair again and sighs heavily while rubbing his temple. He glances at the table and sees a blood package on there. He looks up at the door where Rena had left and back at the blood bag she must've left for him. He picks it up and holds it in his hands. He scowls at it and thinks about tossing it away but what Rena had told him really stuck with him.

"If you starve yourself until Yui-chan comes back then not only will you be killing yourself, you'll be killing her too. And we both know what will happen if such a tragedy occurred."

Not only is he secretly afraid of Rena, he's also afraid of her being right. What if he loses control of his thirst and he ends up draining all of Yui's blood? What then? He'll not only lose his own life but he'll lose her as well. And deep down in his rough and cocky exterior, he's always cared about her. Hell he was devastated when that witch mother of his almost took her away from him.

Ayato finally sighs in defeat and annoyance and takes a swift but long drink from the bag, grimacing at the bland and bitter taste of the blood that was inside.

~(XXX)~

"You know very well that carrying multiple weapons on the school grounds are forbidden. I will not allow you to carry such lethal weapons." Reiji says as Rena loads her hand gun with silver bullets.

"Calm down Reiji-san. It's only a few. Besides, you never protested when I had my gun with me."

"You are a hunter Rena. It is your duty to posses a weapon within your care and I have come to respect that however I am not fond of knowing that my mate is carrying lethal weapons when it is not even necessary."

Rena sets her foot on a chair and slides a small knife in the strap around her thigh.

"Normally I would agree with you on this Reiji-san, but truth be told, it is necessary. Ever since Yui-chan has gone missing, I have been extremely cautious. If I am to remain calm, then I must be prepared."

"Nevertheless I strongly forbid you to do this. As I have told you before, it is improper for a lady to have a weapon on her."

Rena sighs softly and straightens up.

"Reiji-san. You are an intelligent and a reasonable man. And I understand if you find this unacceptable. Believe me, even I do. However, I strongly believe that I will be needing these weapons from now on."

She turns to him. "You know me very well Reiji-san. You know that I would never do something this reckless if I wasn't sure about this. So do try to understand that this is something I need to do."

The bespectacled vampire stares down at his mate and sighs while pushing up his glasses.

"I have said it once and I will say it again. You are a provocative woman. I find your dedication to protecting this family to be quite aggravating sometimes. But I suppose it's who you are and what you're meant to do. So I will allow you to take the weapons but under one condition."

"And what is that?"

In seconds she's pinned down on a couch by him and she's surprised and confused by his sudden action.

"You will allow me to remove them from your body and punish you for turning me on." He whispers in her ear as his hand slides up her thigh to the small knife under her skirt.

How in the world did she even get him excited? She shivers when his hand goes up higher and removes his glasses. Does it really matter anymore?

"I can easily accept those terms." She whispers yearningly.

His lips captures hers in a rough and passionate kiss.

~(XXX)~

The sun sets along the horizon and it's time to go to night school. Everyone is in the limo until they all arrive at the school.

"I'll be escorting Aina-chan to her classes today Rena-san so you don't have to worry about her walking alone today." Selena says.

Rena nods once to her and smiles pleased. "Thank you Selena-san. I will see you all after school."

Rena turns around and walks away with Reiji and Shu while Selena smiles at Aina.

"Come along dear! Let's get you to class!" The two walk off into the hallways.

"Well I suppose we better get going too." Sayori says and Luna looks around.

"Luna-chan?" She asks noticing her gazing.

"Hm?" Luna looks at Sayori who raises an eyebrow at her.

"Are you alright? You look nervous or something."

"Oh, it's nothing Sayori-san." She waves her hands. "I'm just a little tired that's all."

Sayori stares at her until she shrugs and walks off. "Okay! Then let's get going."

Luna knows that she should tell someone about that blonde man. But truth be told she was scared. The way he looked at her yesterday was frightening and she hopes that she won't see him again. She sighs and runs to catch up with Sayori.

~(XXX)~

School goes by for a few hours and both Selena and Aina are walking down the hallways. Selena is rambling on about Shu and his laziness while Aina remains quiet.

"Honestly! I don't understand how that man can be so lazy! All he ever does is sleep and it's quite ridiculous! He needs to be a little more productive if you ask me, I mean he is the eldest son of the family after all, he should be learning how to take charge!"

Aina says nothing and Selena looks at her curiously. "Aina-chan. Is something the matter? You've barely said a word. You're not becoming a mute again, are you?"

Aina shakes her head. "No. I just... For some unknown reason, I'm starting to have this weird feeling. Like something bad's going to happen. I don't know why but it's making me nervous."

"Well that's not good. I wonder why you feel that way." She looks down and rubs her chin.

"I've been feeling like this ever since Yui-chan has gone missing." She says hugging herself.

"Aina-chan, I know that you miss Yui-chan but-"

"No that's not it. I just... I don't know. It's like my gut is telling me to be cautious of everything around us. I mean you never know what will happen."

"Aina-chan you needn't worry so much! I mean I myself am a bit concerned about what's happening right now but it's not like anything is bad is going to happen. I mean you have your sisters, Kanato-kun, and us to protect you. I mean it's not like we're literally going to run into trouble!"

And just then Selena bumps into something and stumbles back. She looks up at what she ran into and gasps. More like she bumped into someone.

"It's you!" She points to the oversized brown-haired man she had a intense encounter with yesterday.

"Tch, great it's the loud sow."

"Hmph! I see your behavior still hasn't changed a bit. But what do I expect from disrespectful brats like you?"

Aina grabs Selena's arm. "Selena-san, who is this?"

"Oh no one Aina-chan! Just some ungrateful oversized gorilla that has no manners whatsoever!"

"You gotta death wish or somethin' Peaches?!?" He snarls.

"I should ask you the same thing you brute!!" She jabs her finger on his giant chest. "Never in my life have I ever met such an rude and obnoxious son of a..."

As Selena and this man were insulting one another, Aina notices something on his chest where Selena's finger jabbed him. Right there is the necklace with the black pendant. She looks up at the buff man and recognizes his figure. That's when she realized something. He was one of Yui's kidnappers. Realizing this, Aina's eyes grows as wide as saucers and and her mouth is agape with horror.

She immediately covers her nose when it starts to bleed out a little and the man then adverts his gaze on her and so does Selena when she sees him looking at her. She gasps when she sees Aina's bloody nose and runs over to her.

"Aina-chan! Your nose is bleeding!" She takes out a handkerchief and Aina backs away as she's staring at the giant. Selena knows something is wrong but she can't quite figure out why Aina is staring at that man with horror in her eyes. Not to mention that her nose is also bleeding!

"Aina-chan, what's wrong? Why are you looking at him like that?"

Suddenly she points at him screams. "HE'S ONE OF THEM!!!!"

At first Selena is confused but after a few seconds she knew exactly what she meant by 'them'. Selena whips her head at the giant and there she knew that he was one of Yui's abductors. She knew it! She just chose to ignore it! How could she have been so foolish?!?

"I knew it!!! I knew that you were one of them!!! What have you done with Yui you half-breed bastard?!?" She yells.

She chokes when his giant hand clasps around her throat in a flash.

God, just shut up already!!" He snarls.

"Selena-san!!!!" Aina yells before running over to the man and punching him. "Let her go!!! Put her down, you're killing her!!!"

He grins sadistically as he watches Selena struggle and gasps for air.

"No problem."

He then throws the blonde down on the ground and she lost conscious as soon as she hits the ground.

"Selena-san!!!!"

She screams when she's thrown over the giant's shoulder.

"Put me down!!!!!" She pounds her fists on his back.

"Stop your squealin'!"

She sees Selena being tossed over his other shoulder and she's struggling helplessly as he hops on a window sill.

"RENA!!!!" She screams before he jumps out of the building.

~(XXX)~

Luna lays her head on the desk and she keeps quiet until she feels a hand on her shoulder. She jumps and whips her head around to see Sayori again.

"Oh hi Sayori-san. Is class over now?" She looks around at the empty classroom.

Sayori sighs and puts her hands on her hips.

"Alright! Spill it!"

"Huh?" She tilts her head.

"Tell me what's up with you! You've been acting weird since the minute we came to school and it's freaking me out!"

"I... I don't think now's the best time to talk about this Sayori-san." She looks away.

"Talk about what?!? C'mon talk to me Luna-chan! I wanna know what's up with you and why you're acting so... nervous!! You know you can trust me!"

"I know but that's the problem Sayori-san!"

Sayori stares at her confused as hell.

"What?"

"I'm afraid that if I tell you this, something bad might happen!"

She stares at the white maiden and her eyes get wide.

"Oh my God, you're not cheating on Subaru with another dude are you?!"

"No!!!" She shoots straight up from her seat. "Never in my life would I ever do such a thing!!!"

"Then what is wrong with you?! What are you hiding from me?! Talk to me damn it!!" She shakes her arms.

Luna stares at Sayori for a long time until she hangs her head down.

"Remember the guy from yesterday? The one who was swarmed by girls and who talked to us?"

"Snotty blondie?" Sayori asks and Luna nods. "What about him?"

She sighs. "I think... he was one of Yui's abductors."

"What?!"

"He had a lot of bracelets on his right arm, the same ones we saw that night of the accident! And... he also looked at me weird yesterday. Now I can't be too sure because I don't need to jump to conclusions. But I really have a bad feeling about him Sayori-san. That's why I've been so nervous. Because if he is one of them, then what are we going to do?"

"Well I'll tell you what I'm gonna do! I'm gonna find that little prick and see what he knows!!" She storms out of the classroom and Luna chases after her.

"W-Wait!! Sayori-san!!!"

Sayori spots the blonde walking down the hall and she storms toward him.

"If that little shit help kidnap Yui-chan then I'm gonna freaking rip his dick off!!!"

Luna grabs her arm and tries to stop her.

"W-Wait!! We don't know for sure!! Sayori-san!!!"

"Hey you!!!" Sayori calls, catching the blondes attention.

"Ah! Hi there little kittens! Fancy seeing you two again!" He waves with a smile.

Sayori grabs two handfuls of his dress shirt and slams him against the wall.

"Where is she?!?" She demands.

"Sayori-san!! Stop!!" Luna pleads as she runs to her side.

"What have you done with our friend Yui?!? Where did you and your fucking half-breed pals take her?!?"

"Sayori-san I said stop it!!" Luna yells.

"Stay out of this Luna-chan!! This dipshit knows something and I'm gonna tear the information out of him if he doesn't fucking spit it out!!"

She slams him against the wall again only harder.

"Now talk!!"

He stares at her until he chuckles.

"Wow, you're pretty feisty Neko-chan. Guess the kitten has some claws on her after all."

Running out of patience from this infuriating man, she whips out a small silver knife Rena has given her and presses it up against his neck.

"If you don't start talking right now, I'll cut your throat and you'll be nothing but a pile of fucking ashes!! And don't think I'm bluffing!! There's three more of you and we'll eventually get the answer from one of them!! So fucking spill it!!!"

He stares and puts on a sly grin before teleporting away. Sayori jumps back and looks around. Then she hears Luna scream and she whips around only to find Luna being in a throat hold by the blonde.

"Luna-chan!!! You fucking bastard!!! Let her go!!!"

"I didn't hear a please in there Neko-chan!" He wags his finger. "You know it's not polite to ask for something when you don't even say it nicely. But if you really want me to let her go, then fine!"

He suddenly throws Luna at Sayori and they two women hit and slid across the ground to the wall. Luna immediately goes unconscious and Sayori is on the brink.

Sayori groans as her head aches from the impact of the hard wall and tries lifting herself up. She then sees a shadow looming over her and when she looks up, a foot kicks her face and everything is black.

~(XXX)~

When her class was over, Rena took the opportunity to look for the dark-haired man she saw yesterday. And after searching for him with the school building for a while she decides to look outside.

She walks out onto the entrance steps and looks around, trying to see if she could sense his presence. She didn't sense anything from there either.

"It may be possible that he didn't even come to school today."

She sighs with that conclusion and turns to go inside. But she then freezes when she felt his presence from way up above. Her head whips up at the rooftop and sees nothing but she knows for a fact that he's there.

She takes out a grappling hook gun and aims it up at the roof. She pulls the trigger and the grappling hook shoots out into the sky until it falls and hooks onto the rooftop wall.

Once the hook is locked and secured, Rena is then up in the air as the gun is lifting her up to the roof of the building. She lands on her feet when she's up there and straightens up when she walks forward to the dark-haired man that had his back to her.

"I knew that you and I would meet again huntress." He speaks.

"Have you now? Then you must also know of why I'm here." She says.

"Of course." He turns to meet her cold and deadly gaze. "You're here to find Eve."

Rena's makes no expression when he said that name. But she is confused by him when he said the name Eve. Was he referring to Yui?

"Tell me where she is and maybe I'll consider sparing your life. If not, then I will make you and your accomplices pay for setting foot on the Sakamaki property and kidnapping one of my dear friends."

"I have no doubt that you will uphold your threat. You are ruthless killer so to speak and I somewhat hold a little respect for you, even if you are our enemy."

"So I take it that's a no on revealing Yui-chan's whereabouts?" she asks.

"I'm afraid so. You see, I cannot allow you or anyone else to get in the way of our plan."

"Plan huh?" She raises an eyebrow.

"We need Eve's blood. And we will fight anyone who dares to try to take her away from us."

"Is that so? Well, I'll have you know sir, that Yui-chan is family to me. And whoever threatens my family will either suffer or die by my hands. So if you choose to remain uncooperative with me and refuse to tell me anything."

She whips out her silver samurai sword and is in her battle stance.

"Then so be it."

With her vampiric agility, she jumps up and raises her sword as she begins to fall down towards him. She swings her sword down and it comes know contact with only the stone floor, the culprit had moved from her attack.

She sensed him behind her and she whips around. A foot comes into contact with her chest and she flies back. She rolls on her back and onto her feet in a crouching position. She holds her chest and glares at him.

"You're pretty quick for a half-breed. That's impressive." She says as she stands.

"You didn't think that I'd go easy on you, did you?"

"Of course not." She tosses her sword aside. "Let us leave aside the courtesy for now."

She charges and the two begin to battle into a hand to hand combat. With every punch and kick Rena threw his way, the man was quicker to dodge or fend off her attacks.

Feeling the need to separate herself from him a bit, Rena backflips away from him and spins around, throwing small silver daggers at him. He dodges them, making each one hit the stone walls or floor instead of him.

Now she takes out a long chain and attached to the end of it is a razor sharp silver blade. She twirls the chain in her hand and the blade flies towards him. He jumps up in the air and so does she, still trying to hit or slice him.

He grabs the chain and spins around, making her spin with him and before she knows it, the chain is wrapped around her neck. She chokes and it gets worse when he's pulling on it.

They land back on the roof and Rena falls on her knees as she gasps for air. How is this man stronger than her?! He's a half-breed like her and yet he's strong like the Sakamaki brothers!

She coughs and growls. No. She won't lose!! She rolls back and her feet kicks his gut, making him release the chain and allowing her to breathe again. She swings her leg underneath his and he fall in his back.

Taking the opportunity, Rena pounces on him and gets out her silver stake. She raises it above her head and pants heavily.

"Farewell half-breed!" She growls deadly.

She suddenly thrown off of him and she flies to the concrete wall, making a big crater around her. She falls to the ground and groans.

"Man Ruki! If we hadn't come to find you, then you would've been dead!"

"Dude, did you seriously get your ass whooped by a girl?"

Rena tries lifting herself up but the impact she just went through, really made her weak. But what she could do was see who else was here.

She gasps when she sees two different young men who has her two sisters and her friends. She again tries to get up but her body won't let her.

"Look at that!" The blonde says impressed. "She's still trying to fight! This one's a real trooper!"

"But she's still pretty dangerous. We gonna take her too man?" The buff man asks the dark-haired man who looks down at her.

Rena looks and stares at him with the most deadliest gaze she's ever set on anyone before.

"You will never get away with this. You hear me? Never."

With that her body fully collapses back down and darkness consumes her.

Well!! There you have it!! Hopefully you liked this one and hopefully, I'll update the next chapter soon! So until then, peace!!