#animestory

“You're my problem.” he said blankly.

“I don’t see how I don’t even know you.” I stated.

“You don’t remember me kicking your ass last time?” Akio asked with a smirk on his face.

“If I had digested more blood you wouldn’t have.”

“Well I'm a half breed and barely need it so why should you? You're a weak full breed, it's ok to admit.”

“Say that again to my face.” I snapped.

“I already did. I bet you knew about their past didn’t you. You knew and you said nothing! All this time you knew they were vampires and didn't do anything.” Akio snapped back.

Neither of us realized that Hikari and Yua had walked into the room along with Yua’s new bodyguard.

“I wasn’t allowed to say anything because I was under direct orders! I was protecting them from monsters like you. Does Hikari know you were stalking her for months?”

“Why are you so obsessed with her all of sudden. Shouldn’t you be worried about your girlfriend?”

Before Haru could shoot back Yua walked up to me and slapped me across the face and it stung a lot. “Do you know how much we struggled with this! People are fucking trying to kill us and you're concerned about direct orders!”

“Yua you know I didn’t lie to you on purpose.”

“Is this why you left me without a word? You broke my heart, left me and then came back as if nothing happened but where the hell did you even go? Back to my parents?”

“No, I went to meet your brother. I reported to him when needed and he told me to keep my distance from you guys for a while so I did and I had to leave. But when I wasn't there he watched over you”

“We have a brother?” Yua and Hikari said at the same time.

“Were you really not gonna tell us anything?” Hikari's soft voice came up.

“That's why I told you and your sister to come here so I could tell you everything in a more calm manner until this fucker here had to ruin it by sticking his fukin nose were it doesn’t belong.” I pointed at Akio rage in my eyes.

“If you would have said something sooner, a lot could have been prevented. I'm pretty sure it wasn’t your mission to date one of the girls.” Akio snapped back.

I started towards him but Riyoshi blocked me by stepping in front of him. “You don’t wanna do that, let's save you the embarrassment now alright.” He tapped my shoulders before walking back next to Yua and putting his arm over her shoulder.

“ Really dude?”

“Get over it. You may not like it but she’s mine now.”

I looked yua deep in the eyes “Yua my feelings for you are real. I know I lied and I’m sorry but I swear my reasons were justified.”

Yua looked at me as tears ran down her face. “You out of all people. I trusted you the most. Would your reason have been justified if we were killed? What if you were too late huh? What would you have done?”

“Yua-“

“No this isn’t love. You broke my heart twice because of your lies. I can't take a third.” She shook her head, tears still visibly falling down her face. Riyoshi turned her into his chest and held her for comfort. Something I wish I could do right now.

“I understand your decision even if I wish you would have chosen differently.” I looked Riyoshi in the eyes.

“I hate you.” The seriousness in Yua’s tone burned through my soul but I had no choice but to accept it as I wasn’t the best boyfriend to her nor the best protector.

“Ok well as much as I like to see my sister in despair, can we please be civil and just hear what Haru has to say so we can know what the hell we're dealing with?” Hikari chimed in, obviously annoyed by the bickering.

“Okay it’s true I knew you were vampires when we first met but that wasn’t exactly our first time meeting. Your memories were erased so you didn’t recognize me even when I introduced myself. I was only supposed to watch over you along with your brother-”

“Yeah but you had other plans and wanted to date around right?” Riyoshi interrupted. I side eyed him before moving on.

“Your parents knew someone or something was coming after you. They wanted to give you a chance to live. Maybe even have a normal life. I was supposed to be there for you when you fully transformed and bring you back home since you’d be strong but things didn’t end up that way…mostly because of some people.” I said glaring at Riyoshi.

“What happened the day we left and why did we leave?” Hikari asked and hugged Hisako closer. She seemed sad and confused.

“Well someone who worked alongside your family was suspected to be working with someone else on the outside. They were going to take you away and use you as ransom but we didn’t know why.”

*flashback*

“Hikari, don't be so worried.” Saki reassured her, ruffling her hair.

“How can I not? I won’t even know who you are.” She cried out. Saki smiled, kneeling down to be at eye level with Hikari.

“Yes I know. But we’ll be back together one day. Okay?” Hikari engulfed her sister in a tight hug.

“We know we're only doing this because someone in our own kingdom betrayed us. And this will be a chance for you and your sister to have a normal life” Queen Rei said to her daughter. Hikari nodded and grabbed her mother's hand. Saki fixed the girl's face coverings.

“Let’s go.” King Sammuel said approaching us.

We walked through the dark forest to avoid being seen by anyone. It was early in the morning and freezing cold. I saw Hikari grip Yua’s hand harder like something was wrong. I whispered her name but she was too focused on something. We were almost at the clearing which was the halfway point. Hikari stopped all of a sudden standing at the edge of the clearing.

“What’s wrong? Do you sense something?” Queen Rei asked.

She nodded with closed eyes. “There’s people up ahead. Vampires. Not good ones”

“They found us. I can sense about 12 of them but there’s probably more” The King said angrily.

“Saki you and Haru protect the girls and get to our meeting spot. Michi stay with us and fight.” We took off running as blood curdling screams came from behind us. I looked back and there were already bodies on the ground with blood oozing out of the bite marks while some were in pieces. The royal family would spare no when it came to their family. Running through the mud we finally got to the meeting spot with the others not too far behind.

“We have to hurry. There’s more coming.” Michi the older brother said out of breath.

“I promise we’ll all be together one day. We all have to get stronger to protect each other and our kingdom.” King Sammuel said

“I know. I’ll take care of Hikari. I promise.” Yua smiled with tears forming in her eyes. The girls quickly said goodbye.

“You’ll fall asleep. A family will adopt you but Michi and Haru won’t be too far. Okay?” The girls nodded and hugged their mom one last time.

“I love you girls.” Queen Rei cried while waving her hands in front of them, erasing their memory.

“Wait so that’s it? Haru that doesn't explain why the VHA is after us. Why couldn't our parents protect us if they're so strong?”

“Yua, you have to discuss this with your family. I'm sure Riyoshi can tell you all about the VHA”

“When? Hmm? The VHA is looking for us so we can exactly go back to them now can we!”

“I'll take Hisako back home and your brother and I will take you. All of you.” I said looking at Riyoshi. The air was tense and the room was silent. After a few minutes of silence Akio said something.

“The VHA has plans to take control of the vampire population. The organization was going to use you and your powers to do so.“ Akio spoke up.

“Why?” Hikari quickly asked, turning towards him.

“No one knows for sure but it was all a part of Amelia’s master plan. No one really knows what’s going on in her head. I can tell you one thing for sure. She made sure that the VHA sees your family and everyone under them as the enemy.

*Later that night*

Yua’s Pov

How many times did I have to be hurt? How many times did I have to be lied to? I sat alone with my back against the bedroom wall. I didn’t know how to feel about Haru. Everything I knew was a lie. He says he has feelings for me so why don't I feel as if our relationship was a lie.

“When will you forgive me?” He asked

“When you feel the way I feel. When you spent just as many nights crying over me the way I cried for you.”

“Yua you know I love you-”

“Bullshit. Haru just go. Haven’t you done enough?”

“Yua…” he reached for my hand and I pushed him away.

“You can’t fix us. Not this time. I just wanna go home. Back to my family. Maybe one day I can forgive you but not right now.”

“You’re not the only one hurting, you know? How do you think I feel seeing you with Riyoshi? How do you think I feel knowing that you already moved on?”

”I haven't moved on.”

“This is it. I know she was here.”

I just need to pick up on her scent then this should work. I sat down on a bench and waited for the train. I checked the train number once more. It matched up with what I saw before. Closing my eyes I focused on the scents around me once I locked onto Hikari’s scent. This would guide me to her but I had to stay concentrated since the scent was faint and she was already very far.

I followed it to the first stop which was Yokohama and I was led to an abandoned church. I walked around the area the church was in and I caught two more scents, definitely male and definitely vampires. Did they have something to do with why they left?

“I swear if that stalker has her I'm going to kill him.”

I tracked the scents for a little while longer until I ended up in Yokosuka. Walking to a nearby alley I caught scents of a lot of vampires but the scents weren’t complete in some way because they smelled human at the same time.

The only two scents that concerned me were Hikari's and the scent of death. Someone definitely died here. Hikari's scent gave me the chills because it was different from what is was in the church. It still smelled like her but something had changed. I knew she was in danger.

It took me till the next morning but I finally tracked Hikari’s scent to a cabin and then my eyes locked on her but she wasn't alone. I locked eyes with a boy who looked around our age. The stalker? I thought. I wasn't sure but he was in the way of me getting to Hikari and he had to go down.

“Hikari!” I yell running towards her. She turned around with wide eyes.

I started walking towards them when Hikari looked at me and the boy turned around. That's when I started running ready to attack. My legs flew at him first he dodged almost immediately but he’s not fast enough for me. As soon as my foot missed him the other foot went for the kick and it landed perfectly right in the back of his neck.

“Ahcck” he grunted aloud as he hit the ground and looked up at me wide-eyed, shocked and confused.

“What did you do to her?! Why does she smell like a vampire?!”

“Why do you smell like one huh?” he shot back.

“Uh uh I’m asking the questions what did you do to my best friend you jerk!?” He stood in front of Hikari sticking his arms out, standing between her and I.

“Best friend? Yeah right. Like she would be friends with someone like you.” he yelled back getting defensive. I got ready to swing at him again when Hikari grabbed my arm stopping me.

“Let go. He hurt you, he's mine for the kill.”I growled, my eyes never left his.

“Look at me okay?” Hikari asked me gently.

I sighed and looked at her. “He didn’t hurt me or turn me, he protected me.”

“Then how are you—?”

“She was already like that.” the boy replied. I pulled Hikari towards me and looked at him.

“Stay away from her.”

“Sako..” Hikari whined from my arms.

I looked at her. “ Where's Yua?” I asked.

“Listen to me! Yua is fine! I am fine! He is not the enemy!” Hikari yelled at me breaking free from my grip and I just looked at her with big eyes . Shocked, I had to do a double take. “ Wait, what do you mean he’s not the enemy?”

“Exactly what I said.” Hikari responded and looked at the guy who nodded his head but he definitely kept his distance from me.

“Scared pretty boy?” I asked in amusement as I watched him take a step back again. Rolling his eyes he gave me a look so cold. My smile dropped and then it was me stepping back. His stare was very intimidating.

“How about we finish this talk inside?” Hikari trying to calm the tension.

“No she can't come in”

“Akio! Why not” Hikari whined.

“Because she kicked me in my neck, almost taking my head off. She’s a danger to society.” he scoffed at the last part.

I bursted out laughing. “I thought you kidnapped my friend. I'm pretty sure you would have done the same.”

He scoffed. “Too bad. Shouldn’t judge off the bat. I’ll send Yua out so you can talk. But don't leave, it's not safe.” He said, giving Hikari a look. Hikari nodded and smiled shyly which made me snap my head her way. Ohhhh I see what's happening here.

As Akio walked away I gave Hikari a big smile. “What?” she asked.

“You like him don't you?” I smirked.

“Excuse you. No I do not.” She said getting in defensive mode.

“Yes you do because you're defensive right now.”

“I'm not. Oh my god, Hisako. Did you come to look for me or did you come to make fun of me?”

“No I didn’t but that doesn’t make it less amusing or fun I haven’t got to kick anyone in a while because you left me!”

“You have to stop going around fighting people because you think they’re a threat to me.” She shook her head at me and face palmed as Yua walked up to us.

“Hisako hey what are you doing here?”

“Looking for you. Haru is looking and he’s pretty worried.”

“He is?” Yua asked, looking worried.

“Yep and he found someone because his face was wow when I saw him get beat up pretty bad I guess.”

“Yea I already know about that” Yua replied.

“Why aren't you shocked?” I questioned picking up on the easy tone in her voice.

“Because the ones who did it are inside that cabin over there.”

My mouth formed an O shape as things were starting to come together. “Wait, why would they hurt Haru if they are protecting you?”

“Because they weren’t always protecting us. It's a long story that we’ll have to catch you up on but not right now I don't feel like it.” Yua said plainly

“I'll catch her up, she's my best friend anyways.” Hikari said with a smile.

Yua shrugged then looked at me. “ We can't leave. People are after us.”

I nodded my head. “ Kinda figured. But hey why is your dad acting so weird? It's like he doesn’t care that you're missing.”

“Because he doesn’t. I don't know whats up with him and sadly I don't care. My life means more at the moment.”

“Well let's go in the house and finish talking guys. Hikari said cheerfully.

“Didn’t that guy say no?”

“Oh he can never say no to her and he also has no choice. Let's go.” Yua started walking towards the cabin while we followed her.

Later that night Hikari and I were sitting on the couch. She rested her head in my lap as we watched tv.

“So you knew where to find me because of my scent?” she suddenly asks eyes not leaving the tv.

“And from your note. You said you were still being followed so I knew I had to come find you.”

“So have you always known you were a vampire?” she asked, sitting up facing me.

“Yeah my family comes from a long line of pure bloods so I always grew up around vampires. Actually now that I think about it I don't think there's anyone in my close family who isn't a vampire. My family served at the castle for generations. And then we moved to Tokyo from Okinawa and I haven't been back since.” She nodded trying to take all the new information in.

“I'm sorry I never told you. I always wanted to but there was never a good time. I was going to tell you though. I just needed to find a way to tell you without you thinking I was crazy.”

“I would have thought you were crazy either way.” she laughed. “I would still love you the same.” I reached out, pulling her into a hug.

“I can ask my mom if any of our family is still there. Maybe then you can find out how you became a vampire.

“Hisako what’s the Kingdom though?” She asked.

“It’s the place where most of us live. Vampires were always ruled by the royal family. They make sure vampires are protected and keep the balance between us and humans. There’s plenty of vampires who live outside of the kingdom but most still choose to live there. It’s a protected place where only we can go and have complete freedom. No need to worry about accidentally biting a human or being exposed to or worst hunted. It’s like a country of our own. From what I've heard it mostly looks like modern day Tokyo but there is a lot of nature too. t’s run by the Kamiya family who are the most powerful family. They come from the strongest pure blood line.”

“Have you or your family ever been?” she asked, looking up at me. I shook my head.

“No but it sounds amazing. You know not having to worry about biting someone.”

“You seem like you’ve got it under control. You've never tried to bite me. Or have you?”

“Oh I have.” I laughed, causing her to sit up and stare back at me. I grabbed her cheeks, squishing them.

“I'm just kidding. I mean unless you want me to.” I winked causing her to roll her eyes.

Haru’s Pov

“No sir. I haven't been able to find them.” I had to listen to the older man yell at me over the videophone call.

“No I haven't had time to feed-”

“I know finding the girls is the top priority but you need to take care of yourself or you won't be able to help them!”

“Yes sir. I understand.” I felt ashamed. All I wanted to do was protect Yua but i'm probably making it worse. She doesn't deserve this. I don't deserve her.

“She didn’t and she won’t. Stop overreacting. I had an altercation with her so-called boyfriend but that’s it. For him to be a full vampire he didn’t put up much of a fight” I scoffed at the last part remembering the fight. Riyoshi walked angrily reaching for the door handle.

“You got into a fight with another vampire? “I really hate how chill you can be. You fucked up and you know it.” He snarled, slamming the door shut.

Staring at the door I shook my head in annoyance at Riyoshi’s anger. ”If only he knew I was staring at Hikari and slipped up by accident becuase my dumb ass couldn’t stop staring. I mean the girl’s beautiful I couldn’t help myself….Wait what am I even thinking? I think i’ve lost it. It's better if Riyoshi doesn’t find out about this.” Slapping my hands on my face in frustration I flop onto my bed and stare at my ceiling.

“The hell am I gonna do about this?” sighing. “That girl is going to drive me crazy isn't she?”

A few hours later it was time to do my work in the kitchen. I stood in silence next to Riyoshi peeling potatoes while he chopped onions. I glanced over at him a few times to see that he still was angry. “Wow he really can hold a grudge.” I rolled my eyes. I technically didn't do anything wrong.

“I really wanna know what was going through your mind!” Riyoshi all but yelled out “I’m angry because you're always careful. What had you so distracted?”

I couldn't tell him that Hikari distracted me right? He probably throw me across the room and go back to chopping onions like nothing ever happened. By the way he was staring at me I knew he knew something was up. I hate that he could always read me.

“Okay, fine. I was watching Hikari. Even on days when we weren’t supposed to be watching them. “I just found myself drawn to her. Some part of me always wanted to be with her. The way she smiled and showed her little dimple was cute. Wow I really sound like a stalker. What the hell was wrong with me?

“Ok Akio i’m starting to think Kira wasn’t a good enough lesson for you at all.” Riyoshi sighed looking disappointed but amused at the same time.

“Kira was not that bad.” I defended.

“Shall I jog your memory? Kira was literally just a piece of ass to you. And when you told her that you didn’t wanna see her anymore she tried to burn you alive. Or do you not remember?”

“I don’t remember it happening exactly like that.” I mumbled.

“This is why you shouldn't sleep with the enemy, But she was pretty enough for you to crack I guess.” Riyoshi shrugged “In my opinion Yua looks pretty damn good though.” Smirking like a creep.

“And you're mad at me? Let’s just put all this behind us and focus on our mission.” Neither of us seen Levi peeking his big ass head watching us and soaking in all the information he could with a huge smile on his face.

“Aren’t we technically compromised? I mean you seem pretty infatuated. Man you're not gonna be able to do shit. On the other hand I have no issue.”

“I got this man. I don’t know why i’m like this. I’ve never felt this before but I promise bringing her in is no issue however killing her maybe.”

Riyoshi nodded his head in approval. “Ok then let's focus on the bigger issue we have.”

“What’s that?”

“The boyfriend that you said you fought. He’s definitely gonna be a problem.”

“Not with the way he fights. The fool isn’t properly trained.”

“Since he knows we have to take him into account. Did you do the kicks when fighting him? Throw him off a bit haha.”

“I did but I didn't really need to.” I laughed remembering that night.

Riyoshi busted out laughing and I joined him. After that we went back to cooking since we wasted enough time already and had little time to finish.

“Boys Mia needs your help in the dining-. What the hell have you two been doing? None of the prep work is done.” Ameila asked in annoyance.

“Well you see what had happened was Akio was having some girl issues and I helped him but don't worry everything will be prepped in no time.”Riyoshi told her and ushered her out of the kitchen. I stared at him blankly and he went back to chopping onions while laughing.

Yua’s pov

Hikari and I were sitting in her bed. I was watching a movie while she was reading manga. We had a plate of cookies between us that we had just baked. It had been a few days since we ran into the boys. The powers haven't came back and neither Hikari nor I have had any weird dreams. I could hear our parents downstairs arguing again.

“What do you think they’re fighting about this time?”

“Who knows.” I sighed . They had been fighting a lot more since that night dad came home late. Some days where okay and other nights our family dinners were awkward.

I looked at Hikari seriously. “This is why we can't tell mom and dad anything. They already have their own problems.”

“But Yua we might die if we dont! News flash those boys tried to kill us! And you're just like oh you have handsome blue eyes who does that?!” Hikari snapped at me

“Well either way we can't tell them Hikari. And will it kill you to think positively about things that don't speak death into existence.”

“You skipped my blue eyed comment.” She grumbled

“Because he has handsome blue eyes and I'm not taking that back. By the way did you get a good look at the older one oh my god.”

“Get out of my room now.” She deadpanned staring at me.

I busted out laughing as she pushed me out of her room slamming the door. I love messing with her. Walking into my room I laid on my bed and stared at my ceiling “What are we gonna do?”

I closed my eyes and rolled on my left side . I slowly opened my eyes when I looked out my window there were two figures facing my direction who looked like the boys from earlier. I immediately jumped out of my bed and ran towards my door but when I looked back towards the window nothing was there. `

I walked towards my window to get a closer look and nothing was there. “Did I really see something or am I hallucinating?” I shrugged, brushing it off closing my window and curtains cause I didn’t need to be spooked again. “Guess I’ll get ready for bed.” Grabbing my bathing supplies and going to the bathroom. I got into the hot water and relaxed my tight muscles. Maybe Hikari was right. We should just stay here. In the meantime I was gonna find that blue eyed boy and throw hands cause he was doing way too much. Or maybe just stare at his handsome face. I ginned thinking about that. “Oh my god Haru would kill me if he heard what I was thinking.” As if on cue my phone that was laying on the sink counter rung. Picking it up, Haru's contact photo lit up my screen.

“Looks like I have no say in this. I’m stuck with a guy who doesn’t know when to not be a asswhole” Yua complained with her arms crossed over her chest.

“Really princess just when I thought we were getting along.” I said sarcastically, giving Yua a devilish grin.

She cut her eyes at me before speaking again. “ There you go again. Do you ever stop, we've been arguing forever but I can go longer.”

I sighed. “Look Princess, that's just me and you're gonna have to get used to it. If it makes you feel any better I do feel bad for hunting you down after realizing you guys didn’t even know what you were.”

“Wow you're capable of feeling bad?” She asked sarcastically.

I smirked at her. “Yes, I am. Don’t make me take it back.”

She nodded her head giving a small smile. “Ok then.”

That small smile she gave caught me by surprise. She was beautiful. I couldn’t lie about that. Snapping out of my thoughts I cleared my throat. “Alright how’s your upper body strength?”

“I don’t even know if I have upper body strength to be real with you. My legs are very strong though.”

I nodded. Then walked over to the doorway to the house and tapped the training bar I had attached to it. “Think you can do at least ten pull-ups?”

“I mean I can try.” She said as she walked over to me and put her hand on the bar handles.

“Switch your hands the other way.” I instructed.

“Ok.” She said following my instructions and slowly lifted herself up. She was doing fine for the most part until she got to six and was ready to quit. “ I can’t do it anymore, my arms hurt.”

As she tried to drop down I grabbed her waist. I felt an electricity shoot through me as my hands touched her skin. “Keep going and make it to ten.”

“I can’t.” She whined

“Never say you can't, you have four more tough it up.” I let go of her waist and she worked up the strength and did the last four before dropping down and groaning as she hugged her arms together.

“See you did it.”

She glared at me. “My arms are killing me.”

“You’ll be fine. All you need is practice and with me helping you--”

“I’ll be dead by next week with you helping me. I want a new teacher.”

I laughed at her whining. “You're stuck with me princess.”

“Why do you keep calling me princess?”

I was caught off guard by that. I cleared my throat. “No reason.” I said as I walked away

I felt someone kick me in my back. “Were you going teacher?”

I just raised an eyebrow and looked at her.

“You know what I think?”

I shrugged. “What.”

“I think you like me which is why you're a jerk ninety percent of the time.”

“What gave you that idea.”

“Hikari. And the fact that you call me princess all the time.”

“Huh Interesting.”

“Don’t worry I think it’s cute that you have a crush on me. I mean I am very pretty, however I am a taken woman.”

“I never said--”

“So what’s the next drill.”

This girl was something else. I liked the fact that she was confident and strong headed. “ Let's test your core.”

“Ok, sit ups?” She asked and When I nodded she started almost immediately.

3 hours later…….

Yua and I were wrapping up our training when a dagger came flying in my direction and sliced the side of my neck.

“Ahh.” I hissed as I touched my neck and then saw blood. “Where the fuck?”

“Oh my god! Are you ok?” Yua asked as she got closer but then she gasped and suddenly took a step back.

“I’m fine, just a little scratch is all.” I looked Yua in the eyes and noticed her eye color was changing to a bright red. “There's that bloodthirst I was talking about.”

“Why am I suddenly so thirsty? And why do you smell so good?” She began to walk towards me one more time. I stayed put curious at what she would do.

The closer she got the hungrier she looked which made me wonder how long it had been since she started feeling this way. I wanted to see how long she could go. “ When did you awaken your powers again?” She didn’t answer as she stopped right in front of me staring at the blood dripping from my neck.

“Yua.” I called her name and she looked me in the eye. This time I didn’t see just her red eyes, I saw her fangs. I slowly took a step back before speaking to her again. “You're not in your right mind now.”

She moved faster than my eyes could blink which told me her vampire instincts were fully active at the moment and she had her fangs in my shoulder. Two minutes later she let go practically jumping away from me and she was breathing frantically.

“Oh my god i’m sorry I didn’t mean to-”

I put my hand up to stop her rambling. “It’s fine, it didn't even hurt.”

“It’s not fine.” Yua said, her eyes tearing up. I took a step toward her and she instantly backed away and ran into the house.

“Yua!” I called after her but she ignored me and kept going.

I sighed. “I guess she’s taking being a vampire harder than I thought.” I looked towards the door she disappeared behind. Then I decided to go bandage my bleeding shoulder. After I walked out of the bathroom I found Yua sitting on the couch wiping the tears off her face. I sat next to her and she looked up.

“I'm sorry.” she mumbled looking down again.

“I told you it’s fine. You’ll get used to it. Plus if I wanted to I could have stopped you.” she snapped her neck in my direction.

“You let me bite you? What’s wrong with you?”

“I needed to see how far you would go. I could have snapped you out of it.”

“You're a nut.” she got up running upstairs.

Akio’s pov

We decided to eat dinner outside tonight. Riyoshi and Yua had already gone to bed leaving Hikari in the back alone. She was sitting on one side of the sofa reading a book while I was on the other end. She smiled from time to time enjoying her book. Earlier when we held hands I felt something differently. I feel the connection. Being at the VHA for so long you learn a lot about our kind. Some vampires have the ability to sense their soulmate through feeling and instinct. Maybe that’s why I was so protective over her. I was physically drawn to her and couldn't stay away. I barely knew her and was ready to risk it all. Damn maybe Riyoshi was right. Maybe I was whipped.

“Why are you staring at me?” she asked, smiling. I was so focused I didn't realize she had stopped reading and was looking back at me.

“I wasn't.” I mumbled turning away from her.

“Is something bothering you? You were staring at me for like 5 minutes.” she laughed.

“Im fine.” she moved closer now sitting face to face almost a little too close. “Tell me. What’s up?” she asked, concerned. She waited for me to reply and when I didn't say anything she spoke up.

“Were you thinking about me?.” That caught me off guard. By the way she was smiling I couldn't tell if she was joking or not.

“Why would I be thinking about you?”

“Well according to Riyoshi you have a crush on me. Is that why you're out here with me and not inside? Because you want to spend time with me?”. I quickly stood up turning away from her. I could feel my cheeks heating up again.

“Come inside, it's getting cold out here. I don't need you to freeze.”

“I'll come in when i'm done with this pa-.”

“Now!” I told her turning back to look at her. She quickly got up and made her way to the couch.

“I'll go to bed when I'm done with this part. I promise.” I nodded.

“By the way do you know where that dagger I lost earlier went?” She shook her head. “No but I think I smelt blood earlier but I'm not sure.” Hmm if something happened Riyoshi would tell me. I walked into Riyoshi and I’s room being quiet so I wouldn't wake him up. I shut the door behind me and the lights turned on causing me to jump back.

“What the hell. I thought you were asleep.” I told Riyoshi who was staring at me annoyed. Did I do something wrong? Who knows what I did this time to piss him off.

“I had to make sure you didn't try anything with Hikari.” I rolled my eyes at him sitting on my bed.

“Nothing happened so you can go to bed.”

“Aren't you missing something?” He threw my missing dagger on my bed.

“Why are you always getting me into trouble huh?”

“No why are you always getting me into trouble!”Riyoshi  snapped and then showed me his shoulder and my mouth just hung open.

“She went straight for my neck then cried about it.”

“I'm sorry man. I was looking for that dagger though.”

“How did this dagger make its way to my neck? That's all I wanna know.

“Hikari doesn’t have the best aim. It must have slipped.”

“Slipped huh. If I punched you and said my fist slipped I would be wrong.”

“I said sorry man why are you trying to assault me?”

“I got cut by a dagger and my blood drank.”I got in my bed and turned away from him pulling the blankets over me.

Yua and I ate breakfast that consisted of juice and pancakes. After we ate I took a shower. I took off my jacket and shivered because of how cold the room was. I pulled off my beanie and tossed it in the pile of my clothes on the bathroom floor. Something about it felt off. I quickly turned back and picked the beanie up. This wasn't mine. It was Akio's. I guess when I was packing I grabbed his hat and not mine. I shook my head, placing Akio's beanie on the bathroom counter. Yua isnt gonna let me hear the end of this is she?  When I came out of the shower Yua was under the blankets snoring loudly. There was a chair by the window so I decided to sit there and read for awhile. Well attempt to read over my sister's snoring. The sky was gray and cloudy. It looked like it could rain or maybe even snow. A few minutes later it started to rain. I watched the rain fall down and leave droplets on the window. I ran my fingers over the cold glass turning the water into frozen ice. Placing my palm on the window it started to heat up and immediately melt. The window turned hot making me move my hand back. What don't tell me I have fire powers now? The room was cold so I grabbed a blanket off the bed and wrapped myself in it. Before I knew it I had fallen asleep.

Yua's pov

I sat at the edge of the lake watching the ducks take a late night swim. The moonlight beamed down on the water beautifully.

"Yua you're gonna freeze" Haru said from behind me, making me jump. He wrapped his jacket around me and sat beside me. He was still dressed in his training gear meaning he must have just gotten back.

"What are you doing out here anyways? It's late."

"Feeding the ducks."  I told him handing him the bag of bread crumbs. He tossed a hand full and the ducks gathered around. It was silent between us but it was a comfortable silence. The only sound came from the ducks happily eating.

"Still thinking about what your mom said?" Haru finally said. I nodded bringing my knees to my chest.

"It's a lot of responsibility. Taking care of my sister and one day taking over the kingdom. I don't know if I'm ready for that yet.

"Well I know once you fully turn you'll be ready. I can already see it when we train?

"Yeah?" I questioned turning to look at him. He nodded. "Your parent's see it too. You've already learned so much. Don't stress about it. When it's time you'll do fine. Plus you have Hikari and I." He smiled.

"Yeah but you're the only one that Will remember any of this" I laughed. "Even when I do see you again I won't know who you are."

"You'll remember one day too. Once you get your memories back you'll remember everything. Including this moment now.  that part was true. One day we'll all be able to come back to the castle. There won't be people coming after Hikari and I. Well if they do we'll be ready for them.

I woke up to the sound of rain hitting the window. It was pouring rain. Checking the time on my phone it was 4:52pm. I closed my eyes trying to process the dream I just had.

"Hikari?" I called out. She didn't respond so I sat up and noticed she wasn't in bed with me. I saw her sleep in the chair with the blanket falling off. I picked the blanket off the floor and wrapped her in it. She stirred a little in her sleep mumbling something.

"Hm?" I asked.

"Akio..." she mumbled again.

"So first you steal his hat and now you're having dreams about him" I smirked.

I laid back in the bed starving up at the ceiling. This dream was just like the last one. This time everything was more clear. Maybe what I was seeing was a memory. Everything about it seemed real. Plus Haru and I talked about me not being able to remember. What wouldn't I remember? That night? Or was there more? The last time I tried to talk to Haru about it he got defensive. Maybe that's why. He mentioned that I would start to remember. Did he not want me to? I knew then but now I know he's not telling me something. It would make sense with the way he's been acting lately.

"I knew he was lying."

"Who?" Hikari asked. I opened my eyes and she was standing over me. I grabbed the pillow next to me hitting her in the head with it.

"Why are you watching me sleep?"

"Why'd you hit me?" She pouted.

"Why are you having dreams about Akio?" I shot back.

"What?"

I cocked my head to the side grinning at her, she rolled her eyes and picked up the pillow hitting me with it. After hitting me she sat down across from me. I sat up while Hikari stared at me.

"Why are you staring at me?"

"I'm hungry" I signed, grabbing my phone. "You're always hungry

"Sushi"? She nodded smiling happily.

Riyoshi Pov

"Where the hell are they?!" Haru growled giving Akio and I a death glare. He tried his best to be intimidating but he wasn't. Honestly I don't know what Yua sees in this guy.

"We told you we don't have them.'' I said, stepping closer.

"I don't believe you. Now tell me or get your ass beat."

I chuckled and looked back at Akio. "Do you hear this guy."

"Yea he's pretty delusional and persistent." The younger one said in an annoyed tone.

"Aye! I'm right here and I can hear you." Haru walked up to me grabbing my collar. "Tell me where they are." he demanded.

"So you're like the bodyguard? You suck man, Like legit who trained you?"

I must have pissed him off as his face scrunched up and he launched me as far as he could but his throw had no aggression whatsoever. I landed on my two feet easily. "Now you pissed me off."

"Yo Riyoshi we are really wasting our time on this dude. I kicked his ass like a week and a half ago so imagine what you could do."

I sighed in irritation. "Don't ruin this man I need to let off a little steam anyway." Akio put his hands up and backed up as if I needed more space.

"Ahh lil tough guy huh. Your mommy teach you that?" Haru taunted.

"What are you 11." I said as I pulled at least 5 daggers out of my weapons belt "Any Last words buddy?"

"Yea. I'm not your buddy" Haru spat.

"That attitude makes me wanna shoot you instead but I have no wooden bullets for you today."I sucked my teeth mad at myself. "Too bad you'll die slower I guess." I shrugged then launched all 5 daggers at him.  He dodged a couple of them but since I'm savage I threw a few extra that he didn't see. Hitting him in both legs,his Right ankle, his chest and face.

These hits weren't fatal but he won't realize that till later. I ran up and kicked the dagged further into his chest and watched him fall to the ground groaning in pain and eventually passing out. "Damn that was quick"

"He might get back up, he had more fight in him when I was up against him."

"You didn't launch 5 daggers into his pressure points though. And the one in his face will definitely leave a scar.

"Did that one for fun."

"You really scare me sometimes man." Akio said with a straight face "he's not dead tho. I thought you were gonna kill him."

"Nah I really wanna shoot him so he'll have to wait till I finish carving bullets for that."

"Why do you wanna use weapons so bad?"

"Because I cant use them on Levi and I really wanna shoot him."

"Makes sense." Akio nodded in understanding and turned his attention to the knocked out vampire.

"That is just sad. Imagine being that weak Amelia would have our head for a failure this bad."

"You're thinking about Amelia, I'm thinking about our big boss, imagine that."

"You're right. That's worse."

"Let's go find those girls. It's about time we get your favorite hat back." I told him in a stern voice.

"Why is your anger suddenly directed at me?"

"No reason. But if you fuck this up just remember." I motioned my arms as if they were around his neck. "Remember this?"

Akio gulped "That's not right."

“Did you really just kick me?” Riyoshi said as his eyes got darker. He grabbed his shirt while Akio smirked. 

“Hit me, Nothing new.” He challenged. 

“Is anyone gonna tell us why we're here and why there are people coming after us?” I asked attempting to break up the soon to be fight. 

“Not right now princess.” Riyoshi said with anger still seething in his voice.

I cut my eyes at Riyoshi. “No, you're gonna explain now. We wouldn’t be running if you hadn’t been chasing us! Our life was fine until you guys waltzed in and ruined everything. Now we have nowhere to go.” That was partially true. We still had to deal with our parents and Saki but if it weren't for them then we wouldn't be where we are now.

Riyoshi aggressively let go of Akio, almost making him fall. “Who are you talking to?”

I looked around then back at him. “I mean you're the only Riyoshi here.” I looked at Akio “Why don’t you explain since your friend seems a bit slow and temperamental.”

They both stared at me. Akio was shocked at my boldness and Riyoshi was triggered. “Wow i’m talking to brick walls.” I looked at Hikari “Sis, we are as good as dead at this point, what are we gonna do?”

“You have a mouth on you.” Riyoshi finally spoke.

Riyoshi smirked at me and walked right in my face. “Let’s get one thing straight alright. I don’t take orders from you so watch your tone next time.”

“Well you see I don’t take orders either so we might have a problem.” and then I smiled in his face which caught him off guard but I wasn’t looking at him I was looking at the ice dagger now floating towards him. The dagger went above my head facing Riyoshi then I heard Hikari speak.

“Get out of my sister’s face or this will be in yours.” Hikari said tauntingly

Riyoshi glanced at Hikari and back at me. Before walking over to a nearby couch and leaning on the leg of it. “Wow you two are something else.”

“We get that alot now are gonna answer my question or not we need answers.” Akio walked over to Riyoshi and tapped him on the shoulder. “Might as well tell them.”

Riyoshi sighed and then looked at me. Obviously he was still triggered. “If you must know we worked for the VHA and were assigned to bring both of you back under a certain timeframe which we failed to do.”

“Bring us back for what and what is the VHA?”

“Well I wasn’t done so be quiet and listen.”

“Sorry.” I mumbled under my breath

“The guy you met yesterday was Levi, an underclassman of ours and very jealous of Akio and I. We don't get along so he jumped at the chance to make us look as though we were trader’s. The VHA is short for Vampire Hunter Association. Our boss wanted us to bring you two back but they didn’t give us a reason why.”

“Ok what does the Vampire Hunter Association want with us?” Then I started to think about the words Vampire Hunter and got even more confused. Riyoshi laughed and Akio laughed with him while Hikari and I just stared blank faced.

“Oh wow.” Riyoshi stopped laughing after registering our faces. “You two are actually serious.” I nodded my head.

 “Do you even know what you are.”Riyoshi asks me. 

I looked at him confused. “I’m human and in highschool what kind of question is that?”

“So, Is he always this aggressive?” Hikari asks Akio since they were both standing off to the side.

“Is SHE always this aggressive?” Akio answering a question with a question. Hikari just looked at him with a done face and just sat down before answering Akio. “She’s been like that her whole life sadly.”

“Same with him.” Akio answered.

Riyoshi looks at me with a blank expression before sighing. “Damn that’s tuff. I’m sorry to break it to you but you're a vampire princess.”

Hikari, getting excited, nearly flew off the ground and jumped up “ A princess!?”

Akio gives her a dirty look. “It’s just a metaphor, what's wrong with you?” he said, giving Riyoshi a look. 

“Is that what you heard?” Yua asked “he said we’re vampires and the only thing you picked up was princess?” she yelled. 

“I mean Vampires are pretty cool.” Hikari shrugged.

I sighed and turned back to Riyoshi. “Don’t vampires drink blood? I've never tasted an ounce of blood in my life.”

“You're a pureblood so the blood thirst should start once you fully awaken your powers and from what it looks like you've already started.”

“Is that why I can chug down a gallon of water in minutes?” Hikari chimes in

“Yea she's been extremely thirsty.”

“So she’s already feeling it. But you're not?”

“Nope, but she got her powers first.”

“Well then you’ll have to wait but both of you are pureblood vampires and purebloods are not from around here.”

“Where's your parent’s and how did they not tell you?” Akio asked in a confused tone.

“Well we were adopted when we were five and four years old. Our adoptive parents are human or well I think they are.” I said getting a little sad thinking about my mom. “Was she worried about us at all? We've been gone for almost two weeks and they haven't come to look for us. They didn't even call.”

“Now that I think about it. My boyfriend, what did you do to him?”

“I find it really sad you call that weakling your boyfriend.” Riyosohi shook his head in disappointment. “If you must know he was actually out looking for you and ran into us accusing us as your kidnappers. I mean that was our goal but we didn’t have you yet. He got annoying and I shut him up by putting a few daggers in him.”

I gasped and was about to say something until he continued to speak.

“Actually your  boyfriend got real lucky because I wanted to kill him but I didn’t have any wooden bullets for him.”

“Oh my god why would you need wooden bullets for Haru?!”

“Princess please don't tell me you're this slow.” He seemed as if he was going to tell me something until Akio elbowed him.

“What” I asked Riyoshi urging him to finish

“Oh I just love wooden bullets. Saves me a lot of money and I can make them more dangerous.”

“You have some serious issues.”

“Thanks for noticing. I have a knick for spilling blood, that's why I was one of the favorites of the VHA.”

I was slightly disturbed and then I walked over to Hikari. “Keep your distance from that one.”

“I like how you're barely noticing he’s a sociopath.”

“Oh I knew. I just didn’t realize how bad it was. We should run when they fall asleep.”  I whispered

“You know we can hear you right? I’m not a sociopath though I’m just not afraid to get my hands dirty. And neither of you are going anywhere.”

“Who made you the boss?”

“I did. You both need us if you're gonna survive anyway.”

“Why should we trust you?”

“Because now we're being hunted by the same people.” He then looked at Akio. “Also for some reason he’s willing to protect your sister which got us here in the first place so you're stuck with us since wherever he goes I go.”