Nor so diabolik and nor so lovers
Chapter 4: The dinner party
Someone knocked on the door insistently, along with screams and scratches, the noises made Kim wake up. She incorporated and rubbed her eyes, Subaru was still sleeping peacefully next to her.
"Hum? It's not locked," she suddenly realized when she lifted the lid. Subaru told her only a powerful creature could open the coffin. He left it half open for me? Since I said I wanted to go to the bathroom at night... Kim wondered, turning at the vampire. For a moment, she couldn't help but contemplate his delicate features, which were beautiful if he stayed like this: just calm. "Nah, it must be a coincidence..."
Kim came out carefully of the coffin, to not wake him up. Closed the lid and walked towards the door, wearing a big simple nightgown that exposed her body full of patches and bandages. She put her ear on the wooden surface to hear who it was.
"Subaru, open the damn door! Kim, help!"
"Yuzu!" The brunette opened the door without thinking twice. "Are you okay?!"
Yuzu was wearing a nightgown, she looked very pale. The first thing she did was take Kim by the shoulders.
"Ah... ah..." The girl was panting with her eyes wide open. She tried to speak but didn't seem to be able to.
"That perv did something to you?" Kim wanted to know, worried about seeing her in that condition.
Before she could answer, the aforementioned appeared behind Yuzu.
"You're so mean, petty bitch. A moment ago, you told me I could do whatever I wanted to you," Laito commented mischievously. Yuzu paralyzed upon hearing his voice, and the vampire, aware of the effect he had: spoke into her ear. "Don't you think it's rude for you to run away like this? We barely warm."
"Ah... Ah..." Yuzu kept panting. She hugged Kim to protect herself.
"What did you do to Yuzu?!" The brunette hugged her too, concluding that her suspicions were true.
However, her shriek attracted Reiji to the scene.
"What is all this fuss about?" He interrupted them, standing in the middle of the hall with his usual elegant bearing and disapproving expression. Laito glanced at him, taking a step back from Yuzu. Reiji sighed, realizing that his brother was doing his thing, this time not with one but two humans. "I came to inform you that dinner is ready."
"Dinner? Food!" Kim jumped with joy, remembering yesterday's banquet. "Let's go, Yuzu! I doubt that this idiot does something strange in front of others."
"Hm... You underestimate us, petty!" He warned, grinning at his prey. "It was she who accepted being my toy. Isn't it, petty bitch? Don't you want some love before eating?"
Laito got closer to the girls, trying to provoke Yuzu, who looked up with fear. She still couldn't get rid of what happened minutes ago. Her body hurt so much that she resisted, something she never did. But this only got Laito more excited and forced her to have sex anyway. The faces of Kanato and Tomoka crossed her mind, making every lunge painful.
Yuzu hardly escaped from the bedroom, going to Kim in despair.
"I think I had enough of your love for now, Laito," she replied weakly. Took Kim by the hand, ready to follow Reiji into the dining room. The smile of her keeper didn't disappear, but his aura darkened.
"Oh, I forgot about Subaru." Kim stopped walking. "Do I need to wake him up?"
"Surely, it is crucial that all family members attend the monthly dinner," Reiji answered, stopping for a moment to study them up and down. "You two... won't go down dressed like that. I'm right?"
Suddenly, the girls remembered they were wearing their respective nightgowns. These being inappropriate outfits for the occasion. Not to mention that Reiji seemed to hate informalities.
"I will change clothes in the bathroom," Kim declared, nervous by feeling exposed between two mistrust vampires. "You come, Yuzu? So we can watch our backs."
"Ah... sure," she answered distractedly.
"I'll punish you if you don't hurry," Reiji warned before disappearing.
Laito grabbed Yuzu's arm with a big smile and took her away from Kim.
"What are you talking about, petty bitch? Your clothes are over here, I will dress you."
She was so weak that she couldn't stand against him. Kim noticed it and claimed to Laito:
"Hey! Let her have some privacy!"
"That's unnecessary between us," he hummed. "Although you may not understand because both you and Subaru are kids."
Kim rolled her eyes. Since talking to him was a waste of time, she approached fearless to Yuzu and hold one of her shoulders.
"If this guy does something you don't like, just tell him!" Kim retort, sick of seeing how they treated her.
Yuzu still seemed disconnected from reality. Because of severe anemia, her movements were lethargic and her skin was still pale. Laito didn't let her go, waiting for her reply. What else could she do? Yuzu directed her tired gaze to Kim.
"Last night, Subaru bit you multiple times, right?" The sacrifice started talking normal again, though coldly. "From that glaring mark on your neck, I can guess he did it very hard. When you were squirming in pain under his body, did you ask him to stop?"
"F... for sure!"
"And he did?" Her blunt question leave her speechless. Yuzu sighed resigned. "Do you get it now? These guys don't know about boundaries."
By her expression, Kim knew that Yuzu was speaking from her own experience. The things she had lived inside the walls of that mansion forced her to assume the imposed role from those abusive vampires. And eventually, she will have to do the same, right?
"I'll go get dressed..." she mumbled as she returned to Subaru's room. But before entering, she pointed at Laito and warned. "You, do nothing indecent to her! Or... at least not so obscene!" She slightly blushed and closed the door.
Laito let out a laugh.
"So sweet, I think she likes you." Yuzu didn't flinch, which he used to whisper in her ear. "It shows that she doesn't know what kind of whore you are."
Kim checked if Subaru was still sleeping so she could change her clothes calmly. Hesitated for a moment, in case he woke up and appeared from nowhere as usual. Watching sideways at the coffin, she stripped off the vampire's shirt, standing almost naked. The bandages and underwear were the only things covering her body, protecting each of the wounds that Subaru inflicted on her.
She looked at her figure in the shattered mirror, remembering sorrowfully Yuzu's words. He is a vampire... He's just taking care of me to drink my blood... reminded herself, trying to put away the insignificant gestures of kindness that Subaru had with her. Keep thinking he is a good person was pointless. That he was gentler than his brothers was more than enough to help her survive inside the mansion.
With all that in mind, the girl changed her bandages and dressed up before softly knocking the coffin's lid.
"Won't you go to dinner?"
No answer. He didn't hear me or he's still sleeping? She wondered as she prepared herself to lift it, to no avail. Just then, she heard an answer from the inside.
"No. Leave me alone." Subaru sounded annoyed.
Kim sighed and complied with his request, walking towards the exit. He's not supposed to let me go because it's dangerous for me being alone among his brothers, but now he pisses me off... My goodness! Crossed her arms as she tried to understand the vampire's logic. Although, if she thought about it, she enjoyed being able to go out and stretch her legs.
The mansion was so big that she got lost a couple of times before reaching the dining room. When she did, she noticed all the Sakamaki brothers but Subaru, sitting around a long elegant table. Yuzu, next to Laito, looked downcast, staring at her plate of food.
"Where is Subaru?" Reiji demanded to know as she walked in. Kim wandered her attention between Yuzu and him.
"Said he's not coming, so I didn't insist and came here," she shrugged.
"I told you it is mandatory for everyone to attend," Reiji spoke firmly and frowned. Kim got nervous, realizing he wasn't very tolerant.
"B... but-", she babbled.
"Bring him. I won't say it again."
Reiji gave her a sharp look, making Kim reconsider her decision. Actually, she preferred to deal with Subaru's rotten temper, before complicate things with him.
"Agh, fine. I'll wake him up," she mumbled resigned before returning to the bedroom, denying. "Damn four-eyes, always bossing around..."
"What such deplorable manners," he sputtered, irritated.
Yuzu followed her with the look, worried about being alone again with that deranged group. It was the first time she attended the Sakamaki brothers' monthly dinner, so she didn't know exactly what to do. The table looked impeccable, but no one touched their food except for Kanato, who wasn't patient enough to wait for the others. Reiji wasn't happy with this, but he didn't argue with him either, he just judged him silently.
"Those two are taking time..." Ayato added after a while, kind anxious.
"Maybe Subaru feels bad. Vampires can get sick?" Yuzu whispered at Laito.
"No way, petty bitch! Afterward, we are immortals," he smiled playfully.
"A sick vampire? Are you an idiot or something?" Kanato intervened, who stopped eating to stare at her across the table. This simple comment made the sacrificial bride feel chills down her back.
One of the principal reasons she didn't want to attend that damn dinner was because of him. She didn't want to see him. She preferred staying inside Laito's room before facing Kanato. But her "keeper" insisted; besides, she was afraid to make Reiji angry. Choiceless, she showed up anyway.
"Just asking..." She looked away. Despite Yuzu tried to avoid his gaze, Kanato kept his eyes fixed on her.
At that moment, Kim came back along to Subaru. Panting and with her clothes slightly ripped, attracting all eyes because of the traces of blood on the girl's skin.
Ignoring practically everyone, Subaru slipped in a chair with his prey next to him. Enchanted by the abundant food, Kim didn't wait for Reiji's instruction before devouring all she could, making him feel on edge. Ayato, Laito, Subaru, and Yuzu also started eating. Kanato kept looking at the sacrifice as he smashed the food on his plate with a fork, and Shu stayed motionless in his chair like he just fell asleep.
"So..." Laito broke the general silence, leaning forward with a hand on his cheek, "Subaru, do you guys already did it?"
This single question caused Subaru to spit out the water he was drinking and Kim to choke on a piece of meat. While the brunette coughed and beat her chest multiple times to recover, Ayato made an annoyed expression.
"I... Is not what you think!" She objected, flushed.
"Shit..." Subaru tried to hide the blush on his face by covering his mouth. — Not very useful— "To think you interrupted my precious sleep because of this stupidity..."
"He just got mad because I wake him up and he bit me to punish me," Kim said defensively. "But what's that for punishment if he does every time since I arrived at this place!" She blurted out, turning to Subaru. "Besides, why now if we were about to dinner?"
He answered with a grunt.
"Vampires are not satisfied if they don't drink blood," Yuzu explained to her. "Unlike us, humans, they can dispense with food."
"Wow, petty bitch! You have learned a lot. It must be because I taught you well..." Laito commented while the sacrifice snorted and Kanato glared at him. "So... little Kim still is a virgin," he said fluently, giving her a suggestive look. She blushed and jumped on her sit, without understanding why he was talking about her intimacy in front of a bunch of guys who didn't know her at all. "Hm, Subaru is just a child after all..."
After hearing this, the albino got up in a fury and hit hard on the table.
"What did you say?!" He shouted. Across the table, Laito wouldn't stop smiling. Is the provoking him? The brunette wondered, reacting immediately:
"Subaru, calm down!"
"Shut up and eat!" He scolded, putting a tablespoon of peas in her mouth.
"Mph!" Kim fell silent, disgusted by the taste.
"See what I mean, petty bitch?" Laito pointed at the scene between Subaru and Kim. "My little brother is too slow with the girls."
"Ah, yeah..."
These comments made the albino even more enraged, who removed the spoon from Kim's mouth to point at Yuzu and Laito with it.
"You two better choke with the food or I'll kill you!" He yelled at them, placing one foot on the table, making a pretense of wanting to get on it.
"This doesn't taste good!" Kim intervened, disgusted by the peas.
"Shush!" Subaru forced another tablespoon, silencing her complaints.
"Subaru, behave," Reiji demanded. Judging by his voice tone, he really upset him with his demeanor.
"These humans are so annoying... They only came to disturb this house. Isn't it, Teddy? We should get rid of them..." Kanato's wide, spooky eyes slowly returned to Yuzu.
She was dumbfounded. Is he serious?
"It's more fun this way. Don't you think, Kanato?" Laito asked. "Eating just with men is not interesting."
"Ha! It would be more interesting if you share a little bit," Ayato objected, still very upset about the situation. "I'd like to taste Pancake's blood."
Kim shook upon feeling his emerald gaze on her. She had enough feeding one vampire, two was impossible. Also, they both have a horrible personality. She made a face at the thought of dealing with Ayato.
"Shut up, moron!" Subaru bellow. Addressing the redhead this time and throwing him his plate with peas. Ayato pushed it away in the air, making it crash on the wall and shatter.
"Subaru will never leave Kim to go out of his room because of comments like those," Yuzu mumbled, trying to ignore those rage outbursts — quite common among them—as she ate.
"What's that about?!" Ayato jump, altered. The sacrificial bride turned to him, defiant.
"I mean he knows what I. That any human at your disposal is a lost cause. Are you going to deny it?" She declared, putting aside her passivity and getting a laugh from the redhead vampire. Yuzu stayed quietly enraged, remembering Tomoka and what happened on her first day at the manor.
To her misfortune, Kanato noticed what she was thinking. Smiling maliciously and embracing Teddy.
"Even so, they should go out more often. It has to be boring being locked-up all day," the shorter vampire commented as he looked at Yuzu, notoriously thirsty. "Besides, is not like you will not die at the hands of Subaru and Laito".
This comment made the humans aware of the fateful destiny Laito told them about. It didn't matter what they did or with whom they seek protection: their deaths were inevitable.
"True, true," the smiling vampire with the fedora corroborated.
Subaru returned to his seat, apparently calm, though deep down he still felt raging. "And these idiots ask why I don't let her out... They'll kill her" He got secretly worried about the girl eating next to him.
"Well, I don't mind sharing. It'll be interesting, don't you think?" Laito's proposal interrupted the albino's musings. However, Yuzu reacted straight away:
"Laito, you said...!" She snapped, but Shu got up before she could continue.
"You are all so noisy," the blond sounded fed up. "Are you finished?"
"I don't want to eat this filth and you know that!" Ayato shouted, losing control and throwing away his plate with food. He got up aggressively, eager to bite Kim.
"I agree," Kanato seconded, leaving his seat alike. "Laito and Subaru have done nothing to deserve the privilege to hoard all the food, right?"
Both Ayato and Kanato vanished for a moment before appearing behind Kim and Yuzu's chairs. With all that scandal, Reiji had no choice but to sigh in exasperation: officially, they had ruined dinner. Not knowing what to do, the humans looked at each other.
"What? W... wait!" Kim replied when Ayato held her jaw and forced her to stare at him as he pounced on her neck. She grabbed his reddish hair, trying to stop him. "Enough!"
"Shut up, I'll show you I'm the best," he whispered near to her ear, holding her with a lewd and prideful smile. "When you try me, you'll know true pleasure."
In the meantime, when Yuzu felt Kanato at her back, she got up suddenly. The vampire had a fork in one hand and Teddy in the other, smiling from side to side. Possessed by fear, she tried to escape from the dining room but Kanato reached for her wrist.
"Teddy, should I stick my fangs or the fork? She will bleed anyway..."
"G... get away, Kanato," Yuzu mumbled, terrified.
"Ayato!"
In a blink, Subaru appeared behind his brother and took him by the shoulders to get him away from Kim. Unabashedly, Ayato turned around and punched him in the face. Making the younger angry, who surpassed him in strength by far. Between grunts, he pushed the redhead against the wall, a movement that immediately shredded it. Not satisfied with that, Subaru started hitting him repeatedly.
"Don't... put your hands on her again. She belongs to me!" He yelled angrily. And despite Ayato's powerful punches, these were not effective to stop him.
They perplexed Kim. Is he... protecting me?" She wondered, staying still and watching Subaru fight.
"Subaru, control yourself," Reiji ordered with a strict countenance as he put his napkin aside and got up.
"What fun!" Laito exclaimed, alternating his attention between the fight and Kanato's attack.
"Fucking Subaru... Let me go!" Ayato demanded. Subaru lifted him off the floor by his shirt. "You don't have any...!"
"Shut the fuck up!" Subaru yelled back, kneeling in the pit of his stomach.
Worried and terrified, Kim intervened in the fight, placing one hand on the vampire's shoulder.
"Subaru..." she called him gently.
"See?!" He stopped hitting Ayato and turned to see her, "I didn't want to let you out of the room because of this!"
"Is not that! Is about Yuzu!" The brunette pointed across the dining room.
With tears in her eyes, the human tried to run away desperately, but Kanato corned her. Rapt, he got closer to roll his tongue tip behind her ear. Looking for the perfect spot to bite.
"I wanted to see you, Yuzu," he whispered, holding the fork close to her face.
"L... Laito," Yuzu called the name of her keeper, who just watched her impassively.
It was then that Subaru snatched Teddy from Kanato, keeping it out of his reach.
"No! Teddy! Give it back to me!" The shorter one claimed, releasing Yuzu and focusing only on his bear. After a few jumps and curses, Subaru threw the toy away. "Subaru, son of a bitch!" Kanato insulted him before running to get it.
"Look who's talking, psycho," the youngest replied. Then he crossed his arms and turned to see Kim. "For the record, I just did it so you stop bothering."
"Yuzu, are you okay?!" Kim went immediately to the scared girl who remained against the wall. "Hey, you! Why you never help her?!" She addressed Laito indignantly.
He watched them comfortably from his seat.
"Ah? Do you think petty bitch doesn't get pleasure when Kanato tortures her?" He commented calmly. "She's a bitch."
His words had an adverse effect on Yuzu, who felt like falling apart as she panted on the brink of a panic crisis. Kim knelt next to her to help her calm down, holding hands.
The vampire with the fedora just smiled, ignorant of the emotions his prey was going through. Subaru ensured that none of his brothers approached Kim while she was unprepared, especially Ayato who was still hurt.
Reiji analyzed the mess his brothers leave behind: the crockery broken and scattered on the floor, food everywhere, the remains of Ayato's blood and the wall shattered—again—by Subaru. He sighed heavily.
"You better clean this mess," he ordered, arranging his glasses. Upon hearing this, Shu was the first one attempting to leave the dining room. "For sure. I didn't expect you to help."
The blond ignored his brother's insidious comment, and before going out he turned to see Laito.
"With your cares, the sacrifice is going to die in someone else's hands," warned him in a whisper inaudible to the girls. Said that Shu withdrew. And Laito, far from being affected or surprised, just sang softly:
"I wonder".
Ayato tried to incorporate, but his mouth was bleeding a lot.
"Shit... how humiliating," he mumbled before disappearing.
Kanato rolled up for at least a minute as he held Teddy tightly.
"Damn Subaru! You'll pay for!" His high-pitched screams startled the rest. Hysterical, Kanato rebuked Subaru with teary eyes, "Teddy is...! Teddy!"
"That happened to you for wanting to hurt Yuzu!" Kim yelled back, sick of his whining.
"How dare you to talk me like that! You..."
"That's enough," Reiji sentenced, tired of arguments. Next, the magenta-eyed vampire addressed humans. "You two clean everything. If you don't know how to behave, I will take care of ending your miserable lives."
The threat made Kim back up. Her intuition told her that the "four-eyes" talked seriously.
"Ah? That's not fair, Reiji," Laito complained, "I was thinking about having fun with petty bitch after dinner."
"You better shut up!" Yuzu snapped, standing up when she heard him. "I've agreed to do every damn thing you ask of me, and then your little brother almost pierced me with a fork! You said you would protect me and you lied!" After this outburst, everyone looked at her in silence. Even Laito seemed surprised. Just then, Yuzu assimilated what she just said. "Uh... whatever," she babbled, losing the decisive attitude that led her to oppose Laito. "That's why... Kim, can I sleep with you?"
Upon hearing her question, Kim turned to Subaru.
"Can she?"
"No," answered him.
"But, it's a great opportunity! You'll have two preys for yourself!" Kim tried to convince him with her best smile.
"I already told you I'm not interested in this girl's blood," the albino reminded her indifferently. "Besides, having her close will take away my appetite. She smells like Laito from head to toe."
"But..."
"I said no! If you keep insisting I will not save her skin again!" Subaru walked towards the exit.
"Please!" Kim threw herself at his feet and grabbed one of his legs.—Movement that almost makes him fall — "You can save her from that pervert! I promise to take her out for a walk and feed her!"
"She's not a dog! I have enough with you as a pet." Subaru tried to get rid of Kim by moving his leg up and down, but she didn't seem willing to let go. "Fuck! You are so annoying!"
"Aaah!" Kim protested, holding on to Subaru. "Yuzu, convince him!"
The aforementioned gulped, walking towards him.
"Subaru, I won't bother you, I just..." she was talking until Laito appeared behind her and covered her mouth.
"Oh, Subaru. I'm sorry that my adorable pet is making a drama out of all this. We won't bother you."
Laito walked out the door while still covering his prey's mouth despite her protests.
"Wait, Yuzu!" Kim exclaimed, but before she could do anything, Subaru pounced on her.
"Wait a minute, Laito. These girls must clean," Reiji reminded him, trying to stop his departure. When he turned to see Kim, neither she nor Subaru was in the dining room. "Eh? Where is she?" Reiji asked Kanato, who also disappeared. "My goodness! They both went ahead."
Looking around, Reiji noticed he was alone in the messed up dining room.
"I will have to clean everything... again."
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I don't know why, but Reiji always makes me laugh so much.
This chapter is kinda comic relief, I guess?