new blood

Chapter 13

Rosalie didn't know what to make of the mysterious man, but one thing was certain. He was far more powerful that she would ever be. The brothers seemed to know him but she couldn't remember if she had ever met him before. It irked her. He was familiar, irritatingly so. And he knew who she was it seemed. But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't recall ever meeting the man.

She looked to Yui to see if she recognised the man, but she seemed just as confused as Rosalie was.

"It would do you well, Reiji, to heed her warning. We do not want war with her people again," the tall golden eyes man chastised. Rosalie couldn't help the look of satisfaction that danced across her face as the superiority fell away from the raven-haired vampire's features. War was an extreme that she wasn't willing to go to, especially if endangered her friends. But she wasn't going to tell Reiji that.

The room was uncomfortably silent for a moment before Ayato decided he had had enough of it.

"Why are you here?" The tension that had been hovering over them was palpable as they waited for the oldest of them to speak. The only person who didn't seem to feel it was Yui, although it didn't surprise Rosalie in the slightest. Yui was a normal mortal who would see them all burn in hell for simply existing. And for that Rosalie hated her.

"The Mukami's have brought to my attention that you haven't been sharing with them. So, I am going to rectify that. I am giving you an hour to pick one bride to keep with you. The other is going to stay with the Mukami's. You should choose wisely before I return." And then he was gone.

The Sakamaki's watched the girl's reactions to the news and it seemed that, for once, they were in agreement. 

They were both shock and horrified. Yui showed more shock than Rosalie and Rosalie seemed more horrified than Yui. They all watched as the brunette stalked out of the room and listened as she stormed up the stairs and slammed a door somewhere in the house.

Ayato looked back to their blond mortal but she didn't acknowledge him and walked away in a stupor.

"Why do we have to share with those half-breeds?" Kanato demanded childishly. Ayato and Laito nodded in agreement. They didn't want to give up Yui's deliciously sweet blood, but then again none of them wanted to lose Rosalie, and Laito liked the spicy quality of her blood. None of them had ever figured out what had happened to cause that spiciness but Laito speculated that it was her magic that cause it.

"Does it matter! We have to send one of them away. My vote is, send the little one away," Subaru huffed. He didn't much like the little brunette. She had to be completely insane to enjoy spending time with the triplets.

"I agree. That menace is useless to us. With the Human we will at least be fed," Reiji sneered.

"Oh, shut up. Just because she didn't give any to you doesn't mean we don't get any," Laito snapped. It irritated him that they were so willing to send her away. He knew Rosalie didn't like the Mukami's, especially Kou, but if they sent her away he was worried that she would vanish, and they would never see her again. He didn't know why it worried him. There had been plenty of brides that he didn't give a damn about but for some reason he cared about Rosalie. It wasn't love he knew that. But it felt similar. Almost the same as how he felt for Ayato and Kanato, but it was still not completely the same. But he knew for sure that he didn't want her to go.

"Yeah, Rosie is way less annoying than pancake," Ayato agreed, before looking to Kanato to back them up. But he hesitated. He was thinking. He liked Rosalie, and so did Ayato and Laito which was a rarity in itself, because he knew they didn't like her only for her blood. He knew that Shu wasn't willing to cross her which was rather smart.

"Right Kanato?" Laito coxed. The purple haired vampire clutched his bear closer and started mumbling to it, not willing to agree or disagree with his triplet. Frustrated, he stormed away, intent on finding Rosalie and proving to the others that she was better than Yui. She was better behaved, she was polite and sassy and kind. She didn't sprout non-sensical things about made up gods or the church. She wasn't ignorant to the world. She had faced horrors and still was nothing like any of them. Surely that made her special enough to stay with them.

His first stop was her room, then his, the game room, the music room and finally the rose garden. But he couldn't find her. She was somewhere in the manor, but he couldn't find her. As the time started to run out he became more frantic until he saw her sitting in the shadows by the stairs, with her bag sitting beside her.

It was clear that she knew what was going to happen.

"There's no point," she told him when he appeared beside her. "Shu, Reiji and Subaru want me gone. I'm not useful to them. Kanato and Ayato prefer Yui's blood. They've probably decided it while you were gone." The red heaired vampire looked down at the small mortal with something akin to sympathy in his gaze. She didn't have any hope for the others, but she hadn't condemned him. She trusted him to keep the Mukami's away from her. She didn't trust his brothers to do the same.

"You aren't leaving!"

The soft footsteps that approached them drew Laito's attention away from her and onto Yui who was stood near them with her own bag. Rosalie thought it was sweet in some twisted way. That she had so much hope for Rosalie that she had packed and come to the front door to wait for her fate. She motioned for Yui to sit with her. Yui hesitated, glancing at Laito, before she approached and sat down, pulling her legs up to her chest to mimic Rosalie's own position. Laito sat down on her other side after a moment. Rosalie was right. His brothers would have decided without him. It wasn't like they ever listened to him anyway.

So, the three sat together as their remaining time together drifted away. They didn't talk, there wasn't much to reminisce about now that they thought about it. Laito and Rosalie had ties to one another after spending so much time together, but the furthest interaction Rosalie had with Yui was being stabbed in the heart. It was odd that the anger she had felt about that had diminished since then. It was replaced by vampire's, sunsets, school and bonding over awful childhoods. It seemed so minor compared to everything that had happened afterwards.

Eventually Karl Heinz reappeared, and they stood to meet him head on. Rosalie had far too much pride to show anyone else how defeated she felt about the whole thing. If they were going to send her away, then she wasn't going to let them have the satisfaction of knowing how much it hurt her. No way in hell was she letting them know any of it. And she trusted Laito to keep it a secret from them.