I had closed my eyes and kept quiet, unknowingly falling into sleep.

'All of a sudden, my body feels tired. This won't do..I have to keep myself up...' I thought as my vision became blurry.

Seeing someone in the distance of what I thought to be an illusion, the person hopped closer to me.

As they came closer, I saw that it was myself..or my true demon..or so she claimed.

"Need a boost in your body?"

I now knew I was in her realm.

Crossing my eyes, I looked away, "I don't need anything from you that will result in you taking my body over again."

She smirked, "...You'll thank me later~."

When I blinked my eyes open, I felt wide awake..and I looked at the markings on my hands that were glowing a brighter gold than normal.

Realizing we were under attack, I gritted my teeth and cursed as I heard a malicious giggle in my head.

"Damn you," I said before summoning Himezuru-sa, then plunging it at the top of the roof.

Making sure not to stab Yu or Mika, I slid open the roof, using my hands to pull myself up from the car...

Or that's what it felt like.

When I got on top, I looked at my right hand to see it was regenerating from what looked like..sand?

"...What the hell are you playing at?!" Mitsuba shouted at me.

"The hell if I know!" I said, focusing on the J.I.D.A soldiers surrounding us.

"Sayomi, you just transformed into sand and appeared on the roof in a physical appearance. That demon of yours is doing something to you," Mika said to me.

"We'll worry about that later," Yu told us both. "Let's see how they react to what I said earlier.."

I blinked in confusion, 'Yu said something earlier?..Tch, how much did I miss while going through that..transformation..?'

"Yuichiro Hyakuya is a deserter that we must attack. He's a companion to the vampires!" one soldier shouted.

"Ah, they're expecting-"

I literally rolled my eyes and gave Yu a 'are you serious?' look, "Yuichiro!"

Sheathing Himezuru-sa back into the white sheath I created to hold her power in, I noticed that most of the soldiers aimed their blades or bows and arrows at me.

"It's the heir! The Vampire Queen! Men, keep your guards up!"

I made a closed eyed smile and put my hands up in defense, "You all need not to worry or aim your weapons at me nor my companions. I am sure we can solve this with logical understanding to why we're here and be nice about it.." I glanced to Guren, "Right, Lt. Col.?"

He glanced to me with a bit of shock, probably for calling him out for help, "Ah-Listen, everyone-"

Before he could say another word, he was cut off by Crowley and Bathory pulling in front of him while in the car.

"Hellooo! The vampires have come to attack~!" Bathory mused happily.

Glancing to him, my eyes narrowed as I jumped off the car and ran towards him at a speed that no one could see me.

Grabbing him by the collar once he stepped out the car, I hit my head against his harshly.

As the soldiers panicked, I knew the head butt did some effect because I am a vampire, and he was bleeding from his forehead..or I think was both of our blood..? He slumped to the ground.

"You're more of an idiot than Yuichiro!" I scolded him.

"My Queen..." he choked, then looked up at me with some..type or masochistic look, "Having the honor of you touching me with malice is wonderful~."

"Ughh," I groaned, letting go of his collar.

I heard Yu's laughter far behind me and I glanced over my right shoulder to glare at him, resulting in him shutting up and gulping.

~Tiny Time Skip~

"Uhm, wasn't that a nice joke? I also want to help, so untie me soon," Bathory spoke.

"Shut up, or you'll be tied forever," Guren grumbled.

"I didn't think we'd return to Shibuya like this," Shinoa spoke with her usual sarcastic smile.

"And besides, with a vampire," Kimikzuki added.

"With four-.." Narumi looked to me, I smiled in response, "Mmmm...three vampires.."

Unintentionally being dramatic, I leaned my head on Mika's left shoulder and quietly sobbed happily as he rubbed my back with his right hand.

"After all this time, I have been accepted by the most weary of them all. You have my gratitude, Makoto Narumi.."

"...This is not a good welcome...It was good to come back here?" Mika said, then asked either one of us.

"Being a enemy to the Hiragi House is not good either," Mitsuba spoke.

"By the way, the last time they called us, they tortured Kimizuki and me," Yoichi recalled.

I stared at Yoichi and leaned my head off Mika's shoulder, 'Yoichi, I know better to think you really said that with a slight nervous smile...Deep inside, you must have some type of disgust..?'

"The Hiragi House? What is that?" Mika questioned.

"Explaining it would take too long," Mitsuba responded.

"I'm not interested, so don't explained...I'd like to say that, but I can't do it. So...Yu."

"Yes?"

"What is the Hiragi House?"

"Dunno."

"Ahaha," Shinoa laughed.

I deadpanned at Mika, "Honestly, Mikaela, you could've asked me."

He glanced to me after he had a deadpanned reaction, "...I wouldn't have thought you knew a lot about this "Hiragi House" since you've been here for a short time."

A grin slowly etched up on my lips, "The question is what don't I know?...Well, just because I'm kind of an seraph, I don't know when God is going to pitch a fire ball at this damned world," I spoke sarcastically to which he frowned at me. I chuckled, "Okay, I'm sorry, I was hoping you'd smile or laugh a bit. In short, the Hiragis is a higher, petty classed version of Shinoa that runs the army and is in main control, just like Shinoa with her sarcastic jokes," I summarized.

"Hey, I am not petty or sarcastic," she whined..jokingly. "If anything, you're being sarcastic, Sayo."

"I think..I understand now," Mika responded, glancing at Shinoa skeptically.

I laughed, similar to Shinoa's laugh. I think I made some of the soldiers uneasy with my sense of humor. They must've thought vampires didn't have one and took offense to me disrespecting the Hiragis.

"My Queen," I heard Bathory call me, "Could you convince the humans that I am not a threat?"

Feeling Mika's hand move from my back to my right side, he gave a light squeeze and I shadowed my face with my bangs to mask my blush.

'Oh, crap..I have to respond, but Mika totally caught me off guard..I didn't even notice his hand was still on my back!'

With extreme confidence, I lowered my blush to a faint pink and looked back at Bathory with a glare.

"No. For pulling the stunt you did earlier, you deserve to be tied up and dragged on the ground," I said with venom in my tone, then I turned my head forward again.

Mika slid his hand down to my waist and squeezed it a bit.

"Mika, this is torture.." I said quietly.

"He needs to understand who you belong to," he whispered.

I looked up at Mika..getting some type of dangerous aura radiating off of him. He glanced at me and smirked a little, licking his bottom lip afterwards.

Somehow, some way...I was a little confused, surprised, and "turned on" by that..at least, that's the word we humans say when feeling attraction to someone.

Looking back ahead, I saw a woman with blond hair in a side ponytail and small cut bang in front. Her eyes are cyan blue..just like Mitsuba's.

Glancing between Mitsuba and the woman, I concluded they are sisters.

I squinted my eyes in confusion, 'Does everyone have a sister now? Well..except me, Yu, Mika, and I'm unsure about Narumi...well, I could count myself as Mika and Yu's older sister, but..it's different now that I'm aware of my feelings..'

"There is no place for traitors here. So how is it you're not dead? You have no shame?" I heard someone say.

I paid attention again to see that Mitsuba was being lightly and slowly choked by her sister.

Narrowing my eyes, I was about to interfere, but Mika had kept his grasp on me..and Yu had done so instead.

Glancing back at Mika, a frown settled on my lips and he closed his eyes, shaking his head..meaning he wanted me to stay out of it and not get hurt...since I am the vampire princess in a way...

Listening on to the conversation, I turned my head away and closed my eyes when Mitsuba's older sister degraded her for living.

'What's wrong..with living...?' I asked myself in my thoughts, trying to find an answer..if there was one. 'Dante..tell me about her...'

'That is Aoi Sangu. She and Mitsuba are, of course, apart of the Sangu Clan..which is now a branch under the Hiragis. She's pretty cruel and cold..if anything is her weak spot...it's Kureto Hiragi.'

Unconsciously nodding—which confused Mika, I resumed back to hearing the conversation...

Until I heard something in particular that pissed me off.

"...I see. Did you sleep with this guy? Is that why you betrayed us?"

Accidentally, I pushed Mika away with a too much force—resulting in him crashing into Crowley—from me and approached Miss Aoi.

I smiled, "Don't mistake them, Miss Aoi. There was no need to go over such boundaries," I told her.

She glanced to me, "...You..."

I tilted my head, "Hm?"

"..You have her face. That woman always had trouble surround her..to make it worse, she and Kiiro were working behind our backs. That makes you a traitor, too."

I blinked a couple times before covering my mouth with my left hand, trying to not laugh, "...I never pledged anything to J.I.D.A. All I really came here for is to retrieve my family and leave, but..he was too stubborn to persuade, so I didn't even try. But I am grateful that I stayed here..or I would've never met my other family who I didn't even know was dead or not."

Her eyes narrowed, "Tell me, vampire. Do you, individually, have any relations with Mahiru Hiragi," she demanded from me.

"Oh..so that's how it's going to be?" I asked, blinking and my eyes turned red in the process. "Fine, fine. And the answer to your question is I don't know. I never met nor seen her before...well, excluding the times I can see her in the past—but that's not important right now!" I said the second to last part seriously, and the last part happily.

Miss Sangu blinked, "...Hm."

We stood there in an awkward silence...

"...Sister," I heard Mitsuba call.

Miss Sangu didn't pay attention to her, only kept staring at me.

A small smile slid on her face, "Huh..no wonder why Lieutenant General Hiragi took an interest in you. You're the embodiment of power."

"Power...You make me sound like God in the form of a high school girl," I spoke sarcastically before glancing to Guren and he nodded.

(The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya reference, lol XD)

"That behavior-"

"Yes, I understand. That behavior will get me killed..-that's if I can die~," I said the last part to mess with her head, then walked towards him.

"So you think you got jokes?" he asked me.

I laughed lightly, "Jokes? I was being serious~," I said to mess with his head, too, walking ahead of him.

"...Wait, what?"

I only laughed as a response.

Looking around the decorative hall, my eyes began to sparkle at seeing all the gold, jewels, and stones engraving the ceiling and walls.

"Wow..so pretty~!"

"Trust me, my Queen, when you return to Sanguinem, I will decorate your throne with all the jewels you desire," I heard Bathory speak.

I turned my head, slowed down to the point I was walking down to his dragging body, and glared at him, "What I desire?" I looked at Yu, "...I desire few things, and with that little, I am just as selfish any other human being."

"Well, out of curiosity...what do you desire, my Queen?"

I glanced back to him and turned my gaze forward again, "...Love..."

There was silence between us...

Until I heard him chuckle.

I glanced at him with disgust, "Of course, you wouldn't understand. I don't even know why I-"

"Love, you say? Your scent...I can smell it all over him," he teased, glancing to Mika.

Blushing immensely, I stuttered to get a response out, but I couldn't say anything because I was too embarrassed.

Instead, I slapped the back of his neck.

"I-Idiot! Be quiet!" I shouted at him, and he whined in reply.

The slap echoed throughout the hall, making Miss Mito and Mister Goshi look back at us..and a few unwanted others, like a smirking Mika, a confused Yu, a grinning Shinoa, and a pissed off Guren.

I crossed my arms and walked ahead again as Bathory laughed, "A$$hole!"

'How dare he embarrass me!'

"Ohh~, now I know what you are~, Sayo's a little Tsun-tsun~," Shinoa mused.

I looked to her, "...Don't be mistaken," I said as a small crazed smile etched on my lips.

Humming, and twirling in circles, as Shinoa explained a bit to Mika about the Hiragis, pressure kept being applied on my heart.

(She's humming the opening of "Coraline.")

'Dante, I don't like this feeling as we walk farther inside..'

'Shigama Doji.'

Instantly, I stopped twirling and humming, '...I see now. Shigama Doji serves the Hiragis as their demon. Interesting..I wonder if it was to have control of the Hiragis..'

'Perhaps he's pulling the strings..'

I scoffed, "Ha..We're playing on the Devil's playground now," I said aloud.

"Devil's playground?" Yu questioned.

"Yes..but you needn't worry about that. Your Guardian Angel has your back," I said, then smiled and winked my left eye.

Yu made a reaction that even surprised me. His cheeks turned a clear shade of pink and he turned his head away from me.

I blinked twice... 'Kawaii~,' I thought as I cupped my reddish pink cheeks.

Looking ahead, I saw a soldier standing in front of a decorative double door, which I found the design magnificent.

"Only these people can pass. Guren Ichinose, Shinya Hiragi, and Shinoa Hiragi."

I frowned, "I don't trust it."

The soldier glanced to me, "..And the vampire princess, if she wishes to."

My left eyebrow twitched, "I really don't trust it now..."

"Me neither. I suggest you stay here, Sayomi," Maj. Gen. Hiragi said to me.

I placed my hands on his shoulders with watery eyes, "You're too kind, sir."

His eyes widened for a couple seconds before closing and smiling down at me, "You're too difficult to read, so I don't know whether to laugh or say"you're welcome"..."

I felt a little hurt and sighed, "Abatadio.."

("Dejected" in Spanish.)

"What? You, Shinya? Of all people to be thrown off by, and it's her? I thought you'd be thrown off by yourself," Guren said to Maj. Gen. Hiragi.

He chuckled, "You wound me, Guren."

I softly hit Guren's back with my left hand, "From what I see, Maj. Gen. Hiragi is a nice person..unlike you, ya meanie!"

"Nice to know you're taking the side of someone as deceiving as hi-"

Guren stopped talking and his eyes slightly narrowed at his katana..before looking back at me with a suspicious look.

I tilted my head, "What's wrong?"

"...I take that back, you're deceiving in a good way, I guess," he responded.

I smiled, "Well, I'll take that as a compliment."

"So? Are you going in with us, vampire princess~?" Shinoa asked me.

Slinging my right arm around her shoulders, I laughed, "Ahahahahaha—no. I have no business with him..unless he gives me a dire reason."

Shinoa shivered oddly and let out a shaky laugh, "Aha..haha..um...right."

"Good luck you three. I doubt you'll be needing me since you're all good at fighting..and I do have a bad feeling about something..."

"Shinoa!" Yu shouted.

"Yes?" she answered.

"You don't mind going alone?" he asked in a concerning tone.

"That's my line! Any place is very dangerous now!" she responded, regaining her usual self back. "Well, see you!"

"We're in a dangerous place," Mika spoke.

Yu looked to him with an unworried smile, "But here, it's possible to find a way to become human again," he responded. Yu looked at me, "...And I was thinking..."

Waiting for Yu to finish his response, he shook his head and placed his left index finger on his lips.

Blinking in confusion, I let my eyes turn back to its gold color and look back to Mika, realizing that he was uncomfortable.

"We're in a very dangerous place," he said again, but with emphasis.

I smirked, "Oh...I know. Did you honestly think I let them go in there alone?"

The two were alarmed at my words and looked at me as I laughed, walking towards the room the soldier that said the army had prepared for us.

'...Infiltration complete~.'

-Shinoa's P.O.V-

I tried to keep still and remain serious.

Still, it was kind of hard to do so...

Knowing you have another supernatural being inside you..

And keeping a pet fox hidden in your uniform.

-Shinya's P.O.V-

I stared at her with an uneasy smile.

"Aww, they're such cute Asian tigers~. I wanna take one back to Himezuru-sa with me~," she cooed as she kept petting Byakkomaru.

Before I could even speak, she stopped petting them—to my surprise, they were enjoying it—and stood up straight, then turned to me.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you, Shinya. You've grown to be handsome," she spoke with a smile.

"Of course you would say that. You're who knows how many centuries old, but you've always been beautiful," I replied.

She closed her eyes and placed her hand over her..heart, "You still are bitter sweet."

"To think that Ryota had taken an interest is bewildering..but you were outstanding in skill, despite you lying about your clan."

She frowned a bit, "You want answers, like the next person. What do you wish to ask?"

I narrowed my eyes, "...Is Sayomi something else we don't know of? Is she the actual threat, instead of Yuichiro as a supernatural being? And.."

She lifted her right eyebrow, "The first question, I do not know. The second question, she could be, but chooses not to be and can control her power. And?"

"..Does she have something going on between her and Mika? I've been curious since I've noticed how close they are recently. I want to know," I said with a easy-going closed eyed smile.

She smirked, "Let's gossip~."

-Dante's P.O.V-

I stared at my 'childhood friend', submerged in darkness.

"So..your clever child let you infiltrate here? I wonder how Guren could let his guard down..? I envy her, knowing Guren can be calm around her."

"Long time, no see...Mahiru~."

(When I edited this..I noticed I didn't leavr an author's note, I must've been eager to write this. I've also noticed how Mika has become a little possessive of Sayo...I remember writing this, it just comes as a bit of a shock.)