Alright!! I got Ch. 6 done!! Enjoy!!
Chapter 6
It's another quiet night at the Mukami mansion. The brides including Yui, are all together with Selena since she's still too weak and sick to move.
"I really appreciate you all being here for me. I'm sorry if I'm such a burden on you all." Selena says as Yui dabs her forehead with a cool wet rag.
"Selena-san, you're not a burden on us at all! You're just sick and no one but us can take care of you!" Yui says.
"Yeah and besides, the Mukami brothers are gonna leave for school in a little bit so we're gonna have to take care of you anyways!" Sayori says sitting down on the end of her bed.
"I know that. But still-"
"But still nothing." Aina takes her hand in hers. "You're like a sister to us Selena-san, so no matter what, we will always take care of you whenever you need it! It's what family does!"
"She's right." Rena says. "Family looks out for each other 24/7. Even if it will be a challenge. You even said so yourself."
"Yep! And what kind of people would we be if we didn't look out for you?" Luna asks making Selena smile more.
"Yes, you all are l right. I just don't like it when I'm in bed doing nothing while all of you do the work. But that's how it goes."
"Especially when you're having a baby!!" Sayori squeals in her head, trying so hard not to say it out loud.
Rena smiles softly but it fades instantly when she felt a presence within the room. She lifts her head up to the doorway and sees Ruki standing there. When the women see Rena looking at him, their attention turns to him as well.
"R...Ruki-kun." Yui says while everyone else stares at him.
"All of you. Get yourselves dressed."
All of them stiffen from confusion.
"Get dressed? What for? Are we going somewhere?" Aina asks.
Ruki tosses a pile of six school uniforms on the couch next to him.
"Our uniforms?" Yui asks.
All of them widen their eyes and look back up at the blue eyed half-breed.
"So you're... you're gonna let us...go to school?" Luna asks and Ruki turns his back to them before walking away.
"Hurry up and get dressed."
He walks out and everyone looks at each other. What is going on?
~(XXX)~
Everyone except Selena and Yui are dressed into their uniforms. Selena couldn't go anywhere since she's unable to get out of bed while Yui decides to stay behind to look after her.
Rena helps Aina put on her pink bow while Sayori and Luna just finished putting on theirs.
"Is this really okay?" Luna asks. "Why would they be letting us go to school with them? Won't the brothers be there?"
"I have no doubt that they do know." Rena says putting on her own bow on. "And if I'm being honest, I have no clue of why they're allowing us to come with them to school. Their intention was to remain hidden from them and now they're allowing that secret to be revealed by us. This may be unusual, but this is the one chance we can use to contact the brothers."
She turns to Selena and Yui. "Once we find them and tell them our situation, I'm sure that they'll come here to retrieve you."
Both of the blondes nod and Selena smiles when she imagines the thought of seeing her beloved Shu again. The rest felt the same way when they thought of their mates as well. They wonder how things are going to be once they see them again.
"Well as much as Yui-chan and I don't want to be left behind, it's best that you ladies get going. You don't want to keep those mongrels waiting." Selena says and they nod.
"Very well. Take care of her Yui-chan. We will see you soon. And do be careful." Rena says to Yui, who nods and smiles.
"Farewell girls!" Selena waves. "If you see Shu-san, tell him that I'm sorry for not coming and that I hope to see him again real soon!"
"I will relay that message to him when I do see him." Rena nods and the others walk out, waving to Yui and Selena.
They walk down the hallway all the way to the den room where the Mukami brothers are. When the women arrive, they all noticed that Yui and Selena weren't with them.
"Hey, where's Peaches at?" Yuma asks.
"And Eve?" Azusa asks tilting his head curiously.
"They're not skipping out on school today are they?" Kou asks.
Rena looks at Ruki. "Selena-san is too ill to get out of bed and Yui-chan decided to stay and watch over her until we get back."
She and the rest walk past them. "So they will not be joining us today."
The brothers watch them leave then glance back at the stairs before departing themselves.
~(XXX)~
It was a long and deadly silent ride to the school and once they arrived, the brides and Mukami brothers exit the limo and walk inside the building. As they're walking, the women look around hoping to spot one of the brothers nearby but none of them were in sight.
The brothers stop walking and the brides look at them, curious of why they stopped. They all started to walk in a different direction away from them.
"Ok! You be good girls!" Kou waves as he leaves.
They all stare after them with utter confusion and shock. Are they really going to leave them here alone?! Rena narrows her eyes and looks at her sisters and Luna.
"Alright. Now's our chance to find the brothers. However we need to remain calm for they could be watching us. So we will attend to our daily classes as we used to and if we see one of the brothers, contact them as soon as possible. Got it?"
"You don't need to tell me twice!" Sayori crosses her arms while Luna and Aina nod.
"I have science right now so I'll have to be going this way." Luna points behind her and Rena nods once.
"Very well. The rest of us will go our own separate ways as well, so until then, I wish you the best of luck."
Luna turns and walks away while the three sisters walk down the opposite way of the hall. After a minute of silence, Sayori looks at Rena.
"Even if they are here, how do you expect us to find them?"
"I don't. For all I know, they'll find us." Rena says.
Rena freezes in her tracks once she felt an all too familiar presence nearby. She and her sisters look to their right and find the second eldest son, Reiji, leaning against the wall with his common cold and stoic face and glare. Rena turns her body to him and speaks.
"Reiji-san."
Even though she's calm and collected right now, deep inside she's fighting the urge to run into his arms and feel his touch again. It's been weeks since she's seen him.
"And here I thought you'd simply run off." He opens his eyes and glares coldly at the huntress, who is beyond confused of why he's glaring at her like that. "Now I see that you didn't."
"Run off?" She asks. "No Reiji-san, you misunderstand. I've been meaning to contact you but you see, we were-"
"I really have no interest on where you've been nor do I care who you've been with."
Rena stares at him silently. Why is he acting like this? Sayori looks at Aina then back at the two until she felt someone whisper in her ear.
"Why you gotta be so cold girl?"
She turns around and sees Laito behind her with that seductive gaze and grin he's giving her.
"Laito-kun." She acknowledges.
"You abandoned us for new blood. That really hurts Little Bitch." he fake pouts.
Sayori flinches at those words and stares at him with disbelief. What did he just say to her?!
"What?!"
Aina gasps. "You're all so mean." She turns around and faces her mate, Kanato.
"To run away from us into the arms of half-breed vermin." He grimly says. "I can't believe you."
"Kanato-kun." Aina whispers.
He squeezes his bear tightly. "How could you?"
"What, No! Kanato-kun, you don't understand!!" She pleads.
"Yeah what the hell?! We finally show our faces to you and you all accuse us of running away to be with those bastards?! What the fuck?!" Sayori yells.
"We would never do that!" Aina adds insistently.
Rena looks at Reiji and stares at him. "Reiji-san."
She walks up to him and places her hand on his arm. "Reiji-san, please don't tell me that you actually believe this. You know that none of this is true. You have to know that."
"Please remove your hand and refrain from touching me once more. For you will never to be able to touch anything again." He growls lowly.
The huntress stands there, clearly shocked and heartbroken. She then slowly removes her hand from his arm and let's it fall to her side.
What is this? This is not how she wanted things to go. Instead of being in the arms of her mate, she's being accused of abandoning him for those half-breeds and is hated by him now. This causes her heart to ache, along with her sisters, who also couldn't believe that they would be treated like this. How could they? They don't even believe them.
Rena lowers her face and her bangs darkens over her eyes as she clenches her fists.
"I see." She says lowly and quietly before glancing at Sayori and Aina. "Come along girls. It appears we are no longer affiliated with these men."
Rena turns around and walks away from Reiji, reluctantly followed by her sisters. Sayori starts to follow her until she feels Laito wrap his arms around her from behind and whispers in her ear.
"Even though you broke my heart Little Bitch, I'd be more than willing to let you come seek me out whenever you want some 'fun'. You know since that's what you like to do with other men now." He chuckles and Sayori trembles with rage and heartache.
She wants to yell and beat him but what good will that do? He'll still think the same thing of her and her sisters. Like they're sluts. She squeezes her eyes shut and yanks herself away from him.
"Fuck off you bastard." She whispers before running off.
Aina's tears are on the brink of escaping and when she looks back, Kanato and the others are gone. Nowhere to be seen. Aina bites her bottom lip and her tears slide down her cheeks. She sniffles and and wipes her eyes like Sayori is doing too while Rena maintains cold and calm exterior. But deep down inside she's heartbroken and devastated.
~(XXX)~
A couple of classes pass on and Luna still hasn't seen any of the brothers, not even Subaru. Where could he be? Was it possible that he didn't even come to school? Luna walks down the hall to her next class but stops when she sees Kou being surrounded by a flock of girls.
She remembers what Sayori told her about him. That he was an actual popstar.
"Huh. So he really is famous." She says to herself.
She gasps when she felt a cold hand grab ahold of her wrist and yank her back behind the wall. She looks up and her eyes widen once she sees that it was Subaru.
"Subaru-kun!" She exclaims.
She wanted to say a lot of things to him, especially hold and kiss him now that he's here. But once she opened her mouth, pain shoots through her wrist by his tightening grip.
"Ow!" She winces and looks into his red fury filled eyes.
"Let's go." He growls before dragging her away.
He takes her up outside of the school building and Luna winces frequently as her wrist aches from his death grip. Why is he acting like this? Why is he treating her like she did something horrible to him?
"W-Wait!! What's going on?! Why are you acting like this Subaru-kun?!"
She gasps when he yanks her over the gate walls and slams his hands beside her head with a loud clank, causing her to jump.
"Subaru-kun! Why are you-"
"Is this what you want?" he asks lowly. "Are you... with them now because that's where you want to be?" She stares at him with utter disbelief when he asked her that.
"Answer me!" He demands and she flinches.
"What? Subaru-kun, how could you say that?! I never wanted to-"
"Might as well break it to him Angel."
Luna gasps and Subaru whips around and sees Kou sitting on stone wall that surrounded the hedges with his chin propped on his hand, grinning with amusement.
"Kou-kun." Luna says and glances up at Subaru, who's glaring daggers at him.
Kou grins more and stands up. "So you honestly want her back?"
"What?" He asks.
"Oh please. You're just pissed off 'cause we got your little cupcake."
"You bastard!" He hisses at the blonde.
Kou chuckles. "Oh I get it. Does baby Sakamaki wants his little bride back because he looves her?"
Luna looks at Subaru and expect him to answer that immediately. She knows for a fact that he loves her. He's told her that since the day she became a vampire. But then the unthinkable happened.
"You gotta be kidding me."
Her heart literally broke into pieces when he said that. He said that as if he was never in love with her and didn't care at all.
"You can't lie to me about it y'know Subaru-kun." Kou's right eye glows red.
Luna gasps when she felt Kou wrap his arms around her from behind. "If you want her back that badly, then why don't you just take her from me?"
Subaru grits his teeth and growls.
"I mean she is your so-called mate after all. Ain't that right Angel?" Kou asks Luna who stares at Subaru with sincerity in her eyes.
She wanted him to take her away from Kou but he did nothing but stand there. She couldn't believe what she was seeing right now. He was doing nothing. Nothing. He was supposed to be protecting her and keeping her safe from danger. Sensing that he's not going to do anything, Kou grins.
"Hm. Nothing huh?" He looks down at Luna. "Guess he's not so committed to you after all huh sweetheart? Well so much for love I guess. Let's go Angel." He says gently pulling Luna with him as he walks away.
Luna exclaims when she feels herself being yanked away from Kou by Subaru. And before she knew it, he bites down hard on her shoulder and sinks his fang in. Luna gasps and grabs a fistful of his shirt.
"S-Subaru-kun!! Ah!!" She moans out of pain since he's biting her so hard.
"There you go kiddo! Now that's what you should have been doing from the start!" Kou says.
Tears roll down from the maiden's eyes and Subaru pulls away, not even meeting her heartbroken gaze.
"This is stupid." He growls before walking away.
Luna falls on her knees, holding her bleeding bite mark that Subaru left behind and starts to cry. Once Subaru's gone, Kou kneels down to her and she gasps when he turns her head, exposing her neck to him.
"Oh man. He made a real mess of you here Angel."
She pushes him away. "Don't touch me!!
She slaps him before running back inside the school building. She runs down the halls, sobbing until she runs into someone: Rena. The huntress looks down concernly at Luna and the white maiden hugs her tightly while bawling on her shoulder.
At that point, Rena didn't need words to explain what had happened. The bite mark on her shoulder and her heartbroken tears said it all. So the huntress hugs Luna, along with her sisters that felt her pain.
~(XXX)~
School ended and the four women met up with the Mukami brothers at their limo. Each of them got in until Ruki was the last one left. Before he got in the vehicle, his senses told him to look back. And when he did, his gaze fell upon the five Sakamaki brothers that are gathered at the school entrance, just staring back at him. He stares at them for a while until he enters the limo and shuts the door.
When the vehicle is about to drive off, the four women look out the same window and see the brothers. They stare at them until the limo drives off, leaving them behind from their sight.
They all lean back in their seats and say nothing. Though Luna's hand reaches up to her neck and lightly grazes Subaru's bite mark. His hurtful words kept replaying in her head.
"Does baby Sakamaki want his little bride back because he loooves her?" Kou asks.
"You gotta be kidding me."
It almost brings tears to her eyes but she decides to keep it in until she gets back to the mansion.
However Aina let's her tears fall. She doesn't sob but just sits there with wet tears strolling down her cheeks.
"To run away from us into the arms of half-breed vermin." He grimly says. "I can't believe you."
Why would he even say that? How could Kanato even believe such a thing? He should know that she would never abandon him like that. She promised him.
Sayori squeezes her eyes shut and grits her teeth and she crosses her arms.
"Even though you broke my heart Little Bitch, I'd be more than willing to let you come seek me out whenever you want some 'fun'. You know since that's what you like to do with other men now." He chuckles.
She clenches her fists and shakes. That son of a bitch. How dare he say that to her?! He doesn't even know what really happened!!!
Rena stares out of the window, watching the trees and bushes near the road whip past her. All that seemed to stay put was the white crescent moon in the night sky.
As she stares at it, she can't help but think of Reiji. Her eyes slightly narrow and her fists clench.
"And here I thought you'd simply run off. Now I see that you didn't."
Run off? Her? His one and only mate whom he believes that ran out on him to be with the half-breeds that abducted Yui? The thought of it makes her anger boil like sizzling acid. How dare that man say that to her face? How dare he assume such astounding presumptions when he didn't even care to listen to her side of the story? How dare he?
~(XXX)~
When they arrive in the mansion and the brothers go their separate ways, Rena looks Luna and places her hand on her shoulder.
"I'm dreadfully sorry for everything that's happened today Luna. Especially with Subaru-kun."
Luna says nothing but keeps her saddened filled eyes on the floor.
"We all were betrayed by them."
"I just..." Aina says softly as she too looks down at the floor grimly. "I just don't understand. Why...? How could they say such things to us? When none of it is even true?"
Sayori squeezes her eyes shut and grits her teeth before storming up the stairs.
"Who gives a shit?! They all could go and die for all I care!!"
Rena watches her storm up the stairs until she is no longer in sight and sighs before looking at Aina and Luna.
"I think it's best that you two should go and get some rest now. We all had a rough night tonight and I assume that you need some time to yourselves."
She starts walking up the stairs. "If you need anything from me, I'll be with Selena-san and Yui-chan. I need to explain to them what happened. Good night."
When she's gone, Aina looks at Luna and wraps her arm around her shoulders and leads her up the stairs and all the way to her room, before departing to her own.
~(XXX)~
"What?!?" Selena exclaims in absolute shock and disbelief as she sits straight up.
Yui stares at the huntress in shock. "You mean to tell us that the brothers are... are..."
Rena looks away from the shocked blondes and sighs. "Yes. They are no longer affiliated with us. They were lead to believe that we have abandoned them by choice to live with the Mukami's. They won't believe a word we say to them even if we did try to tell them the truth."
"No! That can't be!! Shu-san would never believe that!! He knows that I would never leave him!!!" Selena yells desperately as she struggles to stay up.
"Selena-san, please calm down. Lay back down before you get sick again." Yui pleads with her as she's trying to lay her back down.
"This can't be true!! It just can't be!!" Selena yells as tears reaches her eyes.
"I thought the same thing when I heard Reiji's deceitful words come out from his mouth. But apparently it is unfortunately." Rena sighs softly and stands up from her seat. "This obviously needs some time to process. So I will retire to my room until tomorrow evening. So until then, don't strain yourself too much Selena-san. Good night."
Rena exits the room and Selena buries her face in her hands and sobs. Yui is at her side, desperately trying to comfort her.
"Selena-san, I'm so sorry about Shu-san and everything. But everything will be okay."
"How Yui-chan?! How will everything will be okay?!" She yells causing Yui to shrink back. "We are held prisoner here for lord knows how long and our own mates won't even lift a finger to come save us!! They say we abandoned them but really they abandoned us!!! How could they do that to us?!?"
She sobs some more and Yui looks down solemnly.
"You're right. I'm sorry Selena-san."
"No I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled at you like that." She whimpers while wiping away her tears. "It's just... it's hard for me to accept that Shu-san isn't coming here to save me. It hurts. It hurts me so much." She whispers while looking out her windows.
"Oh Selena-san." Yui hugs the broken woman, who bursts into tears once more.
~(XXX)~
Rena stands next to her windows in her dark room and stares out ahead at the vast forest.
"So you have no interest on where I am nor who I am with huh?"
The huntress narrows her eyes and her fists clench.
"Well. We'll see about that once I free ourselves from away from this prison. Then we'll see just how cold and cruel you and your brothers can truly be. Reiji-san."
(Sigh) The heartbreak! Freaking brothers. See you next time on Chapter 7 everyone!!