《M A N I A》|| Various! Slight Yandere! Anime-Manhwa-Manga X OC

《XIII》

A long, slightly wavy jet black haired girl could be seen in the kitchen as she was making some food for the reason that she hadn't had any lunch yet while humming a random song that soon attracted the nearest person's hearing or… the most sharp hearing one.

Out of nowhere, arms began situating themself around the girl's waist that caused her to startle a bit and whirl her head to look at whose arms, only to see those striking green eyes. Her face softened at the sight of the person that just arrived as a smile made its way to her lips before she nodded her head at him as a way of her greeting and went back to make her food.

"What are you making?" The person asked, looking over the food she was cooking in question.

"Food." Eztia answered in a tone that was used when she was stating the fact, then she noticed a "were-you-serious?" look was formed on his face and giggled. "All right, all right, I'm just making a tomato and spinach egg sandwich and miso soup. Nothing big, young Master Ayato." She wondered if he wanted her to make his favourite food, which was takoyaki, and decided to ask him as she opened her mouth. "Do you want some takoyaki, young Master?"

The moment she saw his eyes twinkling as he bobbed his head eagerly, Eztia could not help but get reminded of when he was still a child, making her smile widen at the memory of him and his brothers who tried to make her play with them.

"Okay then."

While she was still making her own food, Ayato continued to watch her before he put his chin on her shoulder, but then a certain smell hit his nostril, making his body stiffen for a moment and a frown appear. Wanting to check it, the reddish haired boy started to bury his nose onto her shoulder and the stronger the metallic smell got, the deeper his frown had formed; he noted that there was also a certain person's scent on Eztia he was really familiar with.

"Who has bitten you?" Ayato inquired; he could tell which smells of blood that were from wounds and from vampire bites, he was not stupid.

Eztia tilted her head up and glanced at her shoulder that did get bitten, then focused on cooking back. If she heard his voice very intently when he questioned her earlier, she perhaps caught a faint growl in his voice.

"It's young Master Reiji."

"That tableware otaku?" Gritting his teeth, Ayato gripped her shoulders and made her face him, his face uncharacteristically contorting into a serious expression. "Are you all right? Did he force you to give your blood to him? Or did he do something more than that? Ore-sama swears ore-sama is going to--"

"I'm all right, young Master, I'm all right." The jet black haired girl winced and grimaced, immediately patting one of his hands that were gripping her shoulders for the reason that they got tightened and tightened as the physically teen threw her more questions; his grip was really strong, you know, so when it was gripping where her just treated wound was… in short, she needed to grab a hold of something at that time. "He didn't force me or do anything bad to me. And thank you, young Master, but there's no need for you to worry about me."

Once he realized that he had hurt her, Ayato quickly moved his hands away from her shoulders and clenched his hands as he bowed his head slightly, making his bangs hide almost his upper face.

The girl rubbed her shoulder that had the wound through her clothes to ease the pain and unconsciously took a step backward, which did not go unnoticed by the male and made him think Eztia was afraid of him now, yet he did not want to believe that and just shook the thought away.