p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The ride home was not always this /br /Kanato is whispering to Teddy about what was on his mind, Shu is sleeping up against the window, Reiji is reading his book, Subaru is looking out the window, and depending on Laito or Ayato, they would mess with her. But not tonight. In fact, something about the six of them seems…off. The blonde wasn't sure what to make of it but they seemed on edge. Reiji looked a bit more tired than usual but masks it pretty well with a book hiding in front of his /br /She knew better than to speak out but she did so /br /"Um…did everyone enjoy their time at school today?" Yui /br /"Mmm…" Kanato grunts in warning, shaking his head. "You interrupted my conversation with your loud, obnoxious voice. Please silence yourself. He doesn't feel well, right Teddy?"br /br /Yui halts at Kanato's command and just silently nods, staring at the stuffed animal. It was precious to him of course but what did he mean by he was not feeling well? Laito turns toward his brother, staring at Teddy /br /"Don't stare so casually at him," Kanato barks out, scooting away from his brother. "He gets nervous…"br /br /"Honestly," Reiji slams his book shut which makes the young woman jump in surprise. "I am enjoying how quiet this commute is. But if I hear any more bickering, I'll punish you all accordingly." His eyes looked sharp. If one were to press their index finger along the edge of those eyes, they would bleed. Reiji is always intimidating, more agitated than /br /"Hey!" Ayato shouts back at the second-eldest. "I didn't even do anything wrong this time. You better watch your mouth and don't lump me and Chichinashi into your punishments!"br /br /"Would you all shut up…?!" Subaru asks in annoyance, turning away from the window. "I liked when all of you were quiet!"br /br /Shu said nothing as he continued to listen to his music. (span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"He must be having an intense dream if he isn't awakening to this…or listening to his music loudly,)/span Yui thinks to herself before the car pulls up to a stop at their mansion. Quickly all of the brothers file out while Shu and Yui are the only ones in the car. She goes to wake him up before Reiji grabs her /br /Startled, Yui looked up at him. Something…there was something…br /br /"Forget that good-for-nothing. Come inside." Reiji pulls her out of the limo while she yelps, slamming the car door. She looks over her shoulder to see the car pull away. Yui was sure Shu would teleport back to his room eventually but she still wanted him to wake up. As the two made their way up to the front door Reiji let go of her /br /"Reiji-san…are you alright?"br /br /He turns to her which makes her shrink back further. "I would of enjoyed the escort home if you hadn't asked that stupid question. My head hurts from my brother's senseless bickering. If you wish to make it up to me," Reiji eyes her nape to which Yui covers./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"br /They stand there for a moment before he looks /br /"You don't even try to turn and run from me, but you still make weak attempts at protecting yourself. How foolish. Do not bother me or my brothers for the rest of the day. Understood? That is your punishment."br /br /"W-What do you mean…?" Yui asks, becoming a little bit taller in her confrontation. "You all seem…different.. Did something happen at school today or–"br /br /"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"If you wish to spend the night in the dungeon, keep talking. I do not have time to deal with your disobedience."/span Reiji warns, going to grab at her wrist again before Yui steps away. She shakes her head furiously and /br /"I-I'll behave…! I promise…"br /br /Reiji sighs and walks up the grand staircase, disappearing into the darkness. Just as she went to look around, all the brothers had disappeared too. The sun was rising soon so she may as well also get sleep like the rest of them or work on assignments. The moment she had decided on what she wanted to spend her time alone, she was already laying on her bed the moment she got into her /br /The triplets didn't want to bother her, nor did any of them. It was strange. Yui was so used to being pushed around and drank from but now they seemed disinterested in doing anything of the /br /"It isn't like the usual Mama Reiji," Laito would say to her as they had lunch together in the gardens at school a couple weeks prior. "He seems more distant and even Shu-kun is more into his music than ever. Kanato's stuffed bear, according to him, is sick. And Ayato-kun is getting on my nerves…maybe it's that time of the month for us vampires, ehh Bitch-chan?~"br /br /Shortly after that, Laito too would not act the /br /Yui repositions herself to stare up at the ceiling. She hadn't seen Mifuyu around too much. She also seemed preoccupied with other things that didn't concern the blonde. Why was she starting to worry? Why was everyone around her starting to act differently around her?br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Ba-dump./spanbr /br /That heart of hers…it's been giving her trouble again. Not as much as it did when she first arrived at the household though, the pain wouldn't /br /Out of nowhere a heavy weight plops onto the bed, which makes Yui jump. She sits up to see that Shu had just teleported into her bedroom, still "asleep." Eyes still closed like they were before in the /br /"Shu-san…?! What are you doing in my bed…?"br /br /All he did was smirk, a chuckle leaving his throat. "What does it look like I'm doing…? Sleeping."br /br /"But not in your own bed? You scared me half to death…!" Yui inches slightly away from Shu before he wraps an arm around her /br /"If you keep being this noisy, then I'll have to kick you out of this room." Shu teases as he fully pulls down the young girl into his grasp which makes her move around in protest. "Come on, if you keep struggling like that it means you like it…~ You perverted woman." His grip would only tighten. Yui then stops as /br /"Shu-san, I'm not in the mood. I am very–"br /br /"Worried about us?" He answers for her. "You're so ridiculous." Shu brings her closer to his /br /"...Do you know what's happening?" Yui asks, neverending questions piling on top of each other as Shu shifts his movement on the /br /"Do I…? Haven't got a clue," Shu sighs but then laughs again. "Unless you give me something in return, I can give you a theory of what's going on."br /br /"Eh…? Wait, really-?" Yui perks up at his /br /"You must be deaf," The eldest insults. "If I tell you what I think is going on, then you give me your blood in return. Understand?" Yui sits on the offer for a few minutes. It was a relief playing with her like this, as terrible it sounded to her. Perhaps he was feeling better?br /br /"Okay…I accept."br /br /Shu sits up with Yui on the bed and brings her to his lap, legs hanging off of the side of the bed which causes her to flush slightly. The tender moment the blonde thought she was getting was interrupted by him unbuttoning her school uniform. She lets this /br /"Do you know why Reiji acts the way he does right now?" Yui shakes her head at his question, pink eyes staring into his ocean. That handsome smirk returns. "It's because of your little so-called best friend; Mifuyu Satomi."br /br /"He does seem a bit close to her…" Shu only laughs at her naivety as he sniffs more of her neck. "She drives him crazy. The only malice that freak has ever expressed was toward me, not even the rest of my brothers would get those eyes. But her, oho…he even splintered a door with his own eyes."br /br /Yui's eyebrows raise in concern. "He…broke a door? Ah–!" The eldest peaks more into her shirt, more buttons being undone. "Be a good girl and stay quiet. Listen to what I have to say, or I'll have to leave you hanging~"br /br /Yui pouts at his sadism and remains quiet, to which he chuckles. "Ever since those two humans died a few months back, and him getting involved with whatever that foolish woman is doing, his anger has only increased. He's more irritable but he knows how to hide it very well away from others…but I'm his big brother. I will always know when something's wrong." Shu does soft kisses along her /br /"...However, there is something strange about him. It's not just that woman giving him a hard time. Rather, something else is…leeching off of him. I am sure you have noticed that one by one all of my brothers are being affected by Reiji's attitude?"br /br /He was right. First it was Ayato. He started treating Yui like how he did the first time they met. Nothing more than prey. It was constant blood sucking until Reiji had pulled him away one night, now he doesn't do it as often. Next was Kanato. He wasn't expressing any irritable nature but kept complaining that Teddy had grown sick. Subaru goes out a lot more often, coming home with some blood on his clothes. He would explain that he didn't need Yui's blood and that he could survive off other humans' blood. Slowly, Ayato would join him. Laito would be the second to last to be affected…and it happened at school with Kanato, when they were cornering Yui. How he acted seemed normal, but after Reiji snapped at the two brothers, Laito backed down. Remained /br /Shu would be the only one left that seemed /br /"Hah, by your silence you not only listen to me, but you understand exactly what it is I'm saying, mm?" Shu glides his fangs across the blonde's neck before sinking into her skin, causing Yui to flinch in pain. Why was this happening? Did it have something to do with something she was not aware of? Perhaps the Adam Eve plan was affecting all of the brothers in their own personal life and it all started with Reiji?br /br /Nothing was /br /He pulls out his fangs from her /br /"I've kept my distance because of these events. It's really troublesome…I don't mind too much though. It means a lot of them can leave me alone more than usual, heh."br /br /"Will…will they get better soon?" Yui asks, breaking her promise. Shu's hand goes for her throat, giving it a light squeeze. "Eep…!"br /br /"I don't know. It's none of my concern. Maybe it has rubbed off on me and I just don't feel it yet. I don't care enough to know though. What I do want is your blood, and since they are not focusing on you, you can give your blood to me." Shu purrs into Yui's ears, causing her to /br /"Ah…Shu-sa–!"br /br /"I knew you would be in here, you good-for-nothing."br /br /Reiji's voice cuts through the room. The sweet blood that would be wafting in her room now would not affect the second eldest. He looked mildly composed, but the two blondes knew that there was rising anger within /br /"So annoying…you always have to show up when things get like this, huh, little brother?"br /br /"Please refuse to call me in such a manner."br /br /"Ahh, scarry~" Shu teases Reiji, the megane vampire's eyebrow /br /"Reiji-san," Yui starts to speak but is halted by the wave of his gloved hand. "I do not need your worry, Miss Komori. Shu, leave her room at once. You will meet in the living room ."br /br /"Like I'm gonna do that. You're so annoying, Reiji."br /br /Just like that the blonde vampire disappeared before their eyes, leaving Reiji and Yui alone. He would merely blink before turning away from her. "Um, Reiji-san, are you sure there is nothing the matter…? I know that…you've been working hard on something perhaps, and maybe you're annoyed by that girl…so maybe you should–"br /br /"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Do not bring her up in my presence/span," Reiji says quickly, his voice filled with disdain. Yui looks down at her legs as she holds her /br /"Clean yourself up. You disgust me." And then Reiji disappears from her room, closing the door behind him. He teleported into her bedroom before, yet he uses the door to escape. Yui swallows a lump in her throat. What was going on…?br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"You reeallly wanna know, little girl?/spanbr /br /Yui's head jerks to look behind her and then she holds her head. Right. It was that same voice from before…when she was on the rooftop after breaking up Mifuyu and Yuma's situation. "What do you want from me…?" Yui asks out loud, falling back on her bed. Heart beating out of her chest, she holds a nearby pillow. "You're behind this are you not? Answer me…!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"My, my! You're so feisty! And accusatory. Does it hurt your feelings that much that they are all grumpy? I thought you wanted to escape from this place?/spanbr /br /"There is no way I can escape. It's useless."br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Come now, if I offered you a way to escape, would you take it? Of course if you did, I would have to put someone else here instead to take your place. Such as your friend–/spanbr /br /"I already told you I don't want you to do that…!" Yui shouts, hiding her voice behind the pillow the moment she does so. "I'm not doing that to her, she's my…"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Friend? Is that all she is to you? It doesn't even look like she cares for you like how you care about her. Feels one-sided to me./spanbr /br /"How would you know? Do…do you even know Satomi-san?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Wouldn't you like to know?/span That voice would chuckle. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Everything that I could ever offer to you is right in front of you and you don't even take it. Such a foolish girl you are./spanbr /br /Yui doesn't say anything for a moment before hiding her head. "Just go away…" She /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Do you want me to tell you a story instead, little one?/spanbr /br /Yui doesn't say /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"It might give you some clues as to who I truly am. You won't really know until you meet me, so I'd listen if I were you./spanbr /br /She then sits up from her bed and rests her back into a nest of pillows. "Okay…why are you wanting me to know about you?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Because, we were meant to be together, little one./span That voice cheerfully explains, sending chills down Yui's /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Long, long ago; two people were sent to create human kind. Adam and Eve. You would know this story, wouldn't you? You're quite the religious girl./spanbr /Her heart stops for a moment but doesn't say a /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Uhu, but the story you know is quite different from the one you were taught. You see, it started with Adam and Lilith. This was Adam's first wife. They were both made from the same cloth, destined to be with each other to start a new race of their own. But Lilith was more stubborn. She didn't listen to her man at times. They would always compete on who would be at the very top. Such a petty fight./spanbr /br /(span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Lilith…?/span) Yui wonders. (span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Who–?)/spanbr /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Adam did not like Lilith's proposal to be seen as equal. Her act of rebellion made him angry and he sent her away from the Garden of Eden. She would be sent away but she did miss her beloved. Even if she was assigned to be with him. So after months of travel, she did eventually return to visit her love…only to find that he had found another woman. Her name was Eve./spanbr /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Eve pitied Lilith in being sent away by Adam, and begged Adam for her to return. Adam was sure to convince his wife that Lilith was a demon. A witch who would not listen to any man or woman. That she wanted to rule all, be above all. Which was simply not the case. Eve could not believe Adam, but she had no choice but to be by his side, for she did not want to be alone. Lilith, not wanting to seek revenge, left the two alone in the garden. But out of Adam's paranoia, he would go find her to kill Lilith…/spanbr /br /The voice /br /"...Then what happened?" Yui asks /br /The voice would style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" He would never find her. Once he returned to that garden, Eve would have disappeared and that lovely place they called home had rotted. What only remained was a fig tree. He starved and wandered the world in agony to search for his beloved and the witch who ruined everything…Quite a sad story isn't it?/spanbr /br /"..." Yui swallows another lump. "Why are you telling me this…? How much do you really know about me?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Oh, I know just about everything, Yui Komori. How special you are. How you came to be, and the situation you were forced into. I know it all. I see it all. I watch every single thing that you do, the boys too. You are truly never alone./spanbr /br /"Then, are we in danger?"br /There was /br /"...Voice?"br /br /More /br /"Please answer me…! I need to know so I can–!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Protect them? Protect your friend? Uhu…fufufu…fufuahahaha…! You are just so adorable, Yui Komori! You really are what He says./spanbr /br /"W-Who says…?! Who are you…?!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"You'll come to find out soon, /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Eve./span/spanbr /br /"...!?"br /br /Yui jumps from her bed and looks around worriedly. She leaps up from her bed to throw back her curtains to see the sun rising over the trees, blinding her. Backing away from the window, she falls back on the bed. "Who…who are you…?" She holds her head, tears starting to /br /"What's happening to me…? Am I going crazy…?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Bang, bang!/spanbr /br /"Oi, Chichinashi! Shut up in there will ya!? You keep making all that noise in there I'm gonna make you regret it…!" Ayato shouts from outside her bedroom door. Yui stills and she looks back. She wanted to tell him what she just heard…until she remembered Reiji's /br /That voice she keeps hearing…br /br /"...I'm sorry, Ayato-kun. P-Please sleep well…" Yui calls out. She hears Ayato bang the door one final time before stomping down the /br /Yui falls back down on the bed and hides beneath her covers, urging herself to go to sleep. Lilith…Lilith…was she really that bad of a person?
Did she really drive Eve away from Adam, and the garden rotted because of her? She was Eve. She hadn't chosen her Adam. Who was Lilith in this world….?!br /br /This couldn't be answered before she fell asleep./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"br /They stand there for a moment before he looks /br /"You don't even try to turn and run from me, but you still make weak attempts at protecting yourself. How foolish. Do not bother me or my brothers for the rest of the day. Understood? That is your punishment."br /br /"W-What do you mean…?" Yui asks, becoming a little bit taller in her confrontation. "You all seem…different.. Did something happen at school today or–"br /br /"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"If you wish to spend the night in the dungeon, keep talking. I do not have time to deal with your disobedience."/span Reiji warns, going to grab at her wrist again before Yui steps away. She shakes her head furiously and /br /"I-I'll behave…! I promise…"br /br /Reiji sighs and walks up the grand staircase, disappearing into the darkness. Just as she went to look around, all the brothers had disappeared too. The sun was rising soon so she may as well also get sleep like the rest of them or work on assignments. The moment she had decided on what she wanted to spend her time alone, she was already laying on her bed the moment she got into her /br /The triplets didn't want to bother her, nor did any of them. It was strange. Yui was so used to being pushed around and drank from but now they seemed disinterested in doing anything of the /br /"It isn't like the usual Mama Reiji," Laito would say to her as they had lunch together in the gardens at school a couple weeks prior. "He seems more distant and even Shu-kun is more into his music than ever. Kanato's stuffed bear, according to him, is sick. And Ayato-kun is getting on my nerves…maybe it's that time of the month for us vampires, ehh Bitch-chan?~"br /br /Shortly after that, Laito too would not act the /br /Yui repositions herself to stare up at the ceiling. She hadn't seen Mifuyu around too much. She also seemed preoccupied with other things that didn't concern the blonde. Why was she starting to worry? Why was everyone around her starting to act differently around her?br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Ba-dump./spanbr /br /That heart of hers…it's been giving her trouble again. Not as much as it did when she first arrived at the household though, the pain wouldn't /br /Out of nowhere a heavy weight plops onto the bed, which makes Yui jump. She sits up to see that Shu had just teleported into her bedroom, still "asleep." Eyes still closed like they were before in the /br /"Shu-san…?! What are you doing in my bed…?"br /br /All he did was smirk, a chuckle leaving his throat. "What does it look like I'm doing…? Sleeping."br /br /"But not in your own bed? You scared me half to death…!" Yui inches slightly away from Shu before he wraps an arm around her /br /"If you keep being this noisy, then I'll have to kick you out of this room." Shu teases as he fully pulls down the young girl into his grasp which makes her move around in protest. "Come on, if you keep struggling like that it means you like it…~ You perverted woman." His grip would only tighten. Yui then stops as /br /"Shu-san, I'm not in the mood. I am very–"br /br /"Worried about us?" He answers for her. "You're so ridiculous." Shu brings her closer to his /br /"...Do you know what's happening?" Yui asks, neverending questions piling on top of each other as Shu shifts his movement on the /br /"Do I…? Haven't got a clue," Shu sighs but then laughs again. "Unless you give me something in return, I can give you a theory of what's going on."br /br /"Eh…? Wait, really-?" Yui perks up at his /br /"You must be deaf," The eldest insults. "If I tell you what I think is going on, then you give me your blood in return. Understand?" Yui sits on the offer for a few minutes. It was a relief playing with her like this, as terrible it sounded to her. Perhaps he was feeling better?br /br /"Okay…I accept."br /br /Shu sits up with Yui on the bed and brings her to his lap, legs hanging off of the side of the bed which causes her to flush slightly. The tender moment the blonde thought she was getting was interrupted by him unbuttoning her school uniform. She lets this /br /"Do you know why Reiji acts the way he does right now?" Yui shakes her head at his question, pink eyes staring into his ocean. That handsome smirk returns. "It's because of your little so-called best friend; Mifuyu Satomi."br /br /"He does seem a bit close to her…" Shu only laughs at her naivety as he sniffs more of her neck. "She drives him crazy. The only malice that freak has ever expressed was toward me, not even the rest of my brothers would get those eyes. But her, oho…he even splintered a door with his own eyes."br /br /Yui's eyebrows raise in concern. "He…broke a door? Ah–!" The eldest peaks more into her shirt, more buttons being undone. "Be a good girl and stay quiet. Listen to what I have to say, or I'll have to leave you hanging~"br /br /Yui pouts at his sadism and remains quiet, to which he chuckles. "Ever since those two humans died a few months back, and him getting involved with whatever that foolish woman is doing, his anger has only increased. He's more irritable but he knows how to hide it very well away from others…but I'm his big brother. I will always know when something's wrong." Shu does soft kisses along her /br /"...However, there is something strange about him. It's not just that woman giving him a hard time. Rather, something else is…leeching off of him. I am sure you have noticed that one by one all of my brothers are being affected by Reiji's attitude?"br /br /He was right. First it was Ayato. He started treating Yui like how he did the first time they met. Nothing more than prey. It was constant blood sucking until Reiji had pulled him away one night, now he doesn't do it as often. Next was Kanato. He wasn't expressing any irritable nature but kept complaining that Teddy had grown sick. Subaru goes out a lot more often, coming home with some blood on his clothes. He would explain that he didn't need Yui's blood and that he could survive off other humans' blood. Slowly, Ayato would join him. Laito would be the second to last to be affected…and it happened at school with Kanato, when they were cornering Yui. How he acted seemed normal, but after Reiji snapped at the two brothers, Laito backed down. Remained /br /Shu would be the only one left that seemed /br /"Hah, by your silence you not only listen to me, but you understand exactly what it is I'm saying, mm?" Shu glides his fangs across the blonde's neck before sinking into her skin, causing Yui to flinch in pain. Why was this happening? Did it have something to do with something she was not aware of? Perhaps the Adam Eve plan was affecting all of the brothers in their own personal life and it all started with Reiji?br /br /Nothing was /br /He pulls out his fangs from her /br /"I've kept my distance because of these events. It's really troublesome…I don't mind too much though. It means a lot of them can leave me alone more than usual, heh."br /br /"Will…will they get better soon?" Yui asks, breaking her promise. Shu's hand goes for her throat, giving it a light squeeze. "Eep…!"br /br /"I don't know. It's none of my concern. Maybe it has rubbed off on me and I just don't feel it yet. I don't care enough to know though. What I do want is your blood, and since they are not focusing on you, you can give your blood to me." Shu purrs into Yui's ears, causing her to /br /"Ah…Shu-sa–!"br /br /"I knew you would be in here, you good-for-nothing."br /br /Reiji's voice cuts through the room. The sweet blood that would be wafting in her room now would not affect the second eldest. He looked mildly composed, but the two blondes knew that there was rising anger within /br /"So annoying…you always have to show up when things get like this, huh, little brother?"br /br /"Please refuse to call me in such a manner."br /br /"Ahh, scarry~" Shu teases Reiji, the megane vampire's eyebrow /br /"Reiji-san," Yui starts to speak but is halted by the wave of his gloved hand. "I do not need your worry, Miss Komori. Shu, leave her room at once. You will meet in the living room ."br /br /"Like I'm gonna do that. You're so annoying, Reiji."br /br /Just like that the blonde vampire disappeared before their eyes, leaving Reiji and Yui alone. He would merely blink before turning away from her. "Um, Reiji-san, are you sure there is nothing the matter…? I know that…you've been working hard on something perhaps, and maybe you're annoyed by that girl…so maybe you should–"br /br /"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Do not bring her up in my presence/span," Reiji says quickly, his voice filled with disdain. Yui looks down at her legs as she holds her /br /"Clean yourself up. You disgust me." And then Reiji disappears from her room, closing the door behind him. He teleported into her bedroom before, yet he uses the door to escape. Yui swallows a lump in her throat. What was going on…?br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"You reeallly wanna know, little girl?/spanbr /br /Yui's head jerks to look behind her and then she holds her head. Right. It was that same voice from before…when she was on the rooftop after breaking up Mifuyu and Yuma's situation. "What do you want from me…?" Yui asks out loud, falling back on her bed. Heart beating out of her chest, she holds a nearby pillow. "You're behind this are you not? Answer me…!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"My, my! You're so feisty! And accusatory. Does it hurt your feelings that much that they are all grumpy? I thought you wanted to escape from this place?/spanbr /br /"There is no way I can escape. It's useless."br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Come now, if I offered you a way to escape, would you take it? Of course if you did, I would have to put someone else here instead to take your place. Such as your friend–/spanbr /br /"I already told you I don't want you to do that…!" Yui shouts, hiding her voice behind the pillow the moment she does so. "I'm not doing that to her, she's my…"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Friend? Is that all she is to you? It doesn't even look like she cares for you like how you care about her. Feels one-sided to me./spanbr /br /"How would you know? Do…do you even know Satomi-san?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Wouldn't you like to know?/span That voice would chuckle. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Everything that I could ever offer to you is right in front of you and you don't even take it. Such a foolish girl you are./spanbr /br /Yui doesn't say anything for a moment before hiding her head. "Just go away…" She /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Do you want me to tell you a story instead, little one?/spanbr /br /Yui doesn't say /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"It might give you some clues as to who I truly am. You won't really know until you meet me, so I'd listen if I were you./spanbr /br /She then sits up from her bed and rests her back into a nest of pillows. "Okay…why are you wanting me to know about you?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Because, we were meant to be together, little one./span That voice cheerfully explains, sending chills down Yui's /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Long, long ago; two people were sent to create human kind. Adam and Eve. You would know this story, wouldn't you? You're quite the religious girl./spanbr /Her heart stops for a moment but doesn't say a /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Uhu, but the story you know is quite different from the one you were taught. You see, it started with Adam and Lilith. This was Adam's first wife. They were both made from the same cloth, destined to be with each other to start a new race of their own. But Lilith was more stubborn. She didn't listen to her man at times. They would always compete on who would be at the very top. Such a petty fight./spanbr /br /(span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Lilith…?/span) Yui wonders. (span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Who–?)/spanbr /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Adam did not like Lilith's proposal to be seen as equal. Her act of rebellion made him angry and he sent her away from the Garden of Eden. She would be sent away but she did miss her beloved. Even if she was assigned to be with him. So after months of travel, she did eventually return to visit her love…only to find that he had found another woman. Her name was Eve./spanbr /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Eve pitied Lilith in being sent away by Adam, and begged Adam for her to return. Adam was sure to convince his wife that Lilith was a demon. A witch who would not listen to any man or woman. That she wanted to rule all, be above all. Which was simply not the case. Eve could not believe Adam, but she had no choice but to be by his side, for she did not want to be alone. Lilith, not wanting to seek revenge, left the two alone in the garden. But out of Adam's paranoia, he would go find her to kill Lilith…/spanbr /br /The voice /br /"...Then what happened?" Yui asks /br /The voice would style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" He would never find her. Once he returned to that garden, Eve would have disappeared and that lovely place they called home had rotted. What only remained was a fig tree. He starved and wandered the world in agony to search for his beloved and the witch who ruined everything…Quite a sad story isn't it?/spanbr /br /"..." Yui swallows another lump. "Why are you telling me this…? How much do you really know about me?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Oh, I know just about everything, Yui Komori. How special you are. How you came to be, and the situation you were forced into. I know it all. I see it all. I watch every single thing that you do, the boys too. You are truly never alone./spanbr /br /"Then, are we in danger?"br /There was /br /"...Voice?"br /br /More /br /"Please answer me…! I need to know so I can–!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Protect them? Protect your friend? Uhu…fufufu…fufuahahaha…! You are just so adorable, Yui Komori! You really are what He says./spanbr /br /"W-Who says…?! Who are you…?!"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"You'll come to find out soon, /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Eve./span/spanbr /br /"...!?"br /br /Yui jumps from her bed and looks around worriedly. She leaps up from her bed to throw back her curtains to see the sun rising over the trees, blinding her. Backing away from the window, she falls back on the bed. "Who…who are you…?" She holds her head, tears starting to /br /"What's happening to me…? Am I going crazy…?"br /br /span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Bang, bang!/spanbr /br /"Oi, Chichinashi! Shut up in there will ya!? You keep making all that noise in there I'm gonna make you regret it…!" Ayato shouts from outside her bedroom door. Yui stills and she looks back. She wanted to tell him what she just heard…until she remembered Reiji's /br /That voice she keeps hearing…br /br /"...I'm sorry, Ayato-kun. P-Please sleep well…" Yui calls out. She hears Ayato bang the door one final time before stomping down the /br /Yui falls back down on the bed and hides beneath her covers, urging herself to go to sleep. Lilith…Lilith…was she really that bad of a person?
Did she really drive Eve away from Adam, and the garden rotted because of her? She was Eve. She hadn't chosen her Adam. Who was Lilith in this world….?!br /br /This couldn't be answered before she fell asleep./p