~2 Months Later~

I bounced around in my S.U.V, having fun and singing Last Christmas by Wham!.

I might've looked crazy to other people, but I didn't care...

I'm in the Holiday Spirit.

Turning my music down once I got down to a certain part of the street, I turned my S.U.V in the driveway after the gates... opened...?

"Huh? Usually, they're locked..."

Parking the vehicle left parallel to the entrance doors, I turned off the engine.

Unbuckling my seatbelt and opening my door to hop out, I did a short happy dance.

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart~

But the very next day, you gave it away~-"

"This year~

To save myself from tears, I'll give it to my special sister~"

Amazed by that melodic voice, I turned to look at my beloved little brother, Kanato.

"Hi, sweetie!" I said excitedly and ran up to give him a hug. "I missed you so, so much! My cute Kana-kun!"

"Welcome back, Big Sis," he softly spoke, hugging me back.

I pulled back, taking in his appearance, "Did you..cut your hair?"

"Mother Lucille did."

I nodded, "Ah, okay. *Smile* So how've you've been? I know I called on the weekends to see how everyone's doing, but I want to know what's been up with you apart from everyone else."

"I've been.." He glared at the ground, "..fine for the most part."

I tilted my head, losing my smile. "Kanato, are you sure? You know you can tell me anything, right?"

He glanced back up at me, "...It's what you need to know."

"Huh?"

"Well, well, well, look who's back~," a voice behind me mused. "And what are you wearing~?"

A grin stretched on my lips and I turned around.

"It's a...Mrs. Claus dress."

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He looked me up and down, "So, Mrs. Claus, have you bought me a present? Or are you the present~?"

"No, I got presents in the back," I said, pointing behind him to my S.U.V.

"Ohh?" He pulled me to chest by my waist. "What did you bring me?"

I lightly blushed, glancing away, "Just know...I'm glad there's online shopping and I didn't have to go through the embarrassment of walking into a store for it..."

"Even I'm a little curious now..." Kanato mumbled, "But no so curious if it's for Laito," he quickly spoke.

Twirling out of his grasp, my face bumped into a chest...a plumpy chest...

...breasts.

I took a step back to see my Mama with her hands on her hips, staring at my outfit.

"What...are you wearing, child?"

I smiled embarrassingly, "I may or may not have came from a Christmas party 3 hours ago...and I think someone spiked the eggnog," I giggled the last part out, cheeks warming up.

"So Miya-chan is intoxicated?"

"Kinda~," I mused.

"And you drove all the way here by yourself?"

"Maybe~."

"First of all, young lady, you're only twenty and yet, you're driving after drinking? You could've gotten hurt, Miyami."

"But I'm not, so I'm fine. Besides, the drinking age in Japan is 20 after all."

"The fact that you could've gotten hurt and caught though, honey-"

I glared, "Like I said, I'm fine. You don't need to worry yourself about me. I'm a big girl now, I can take care of myself."

I walked pass her, heading up the stairs.

"Now, where are the rest of those little rascals..." I said loud enough for the three to here.

-Lucille's P.O.V-

I stared at my daughter, entering the doors.

"She's really going to hate me after this," I sighed out, then looked down.

"I doubt it, Mother Lucille. Big Sis loves you too much to hate you," Kanato spoke.

I rest my left palm on his head, patting his soft, fluffy hair.

"Thank you for the comforting words, Kanato."

I looked to the vehicle, "I wonder what she bought all of you...?"

"You don't think she bought anything for you?" Laito asked me.

"Now, why would she buy me anything? What is there to buy me? I have nothing I want nor need except here," I said with a smile, "All of them are here."

I walked to the S.U.V and pulled the handle to lift up the hatch. "There's a lot of things gift wrapped... Boys! Help me take them inside, please?"

-Miyami's P.O.V-

I stretched my body, hearing bones pop and strain.

"*Sigh* What a long drive..." I mumbled, rubbing my left hand on my lower back.

I looked around me...

"Nothing's really changed..and it's the holidays... Well, what was I thinking...?" I talked to myself.

Taking two steps towards the staircase, I stopped...feeling something off. The air was..different.

Reaching my left hand out, my fingertips came into contact with..some kind of leather fabric.

Gasping, I applied pressure through my tips on whatever..or whoever it is.

"Who...Who is tha-..."

Placing my whole hand on what I assumed was their chest, I rubbed it down slowly.

"Two..four...six...damn, eight...?"

Moving my hand back up to their chest, I moved it upwards...feeling their face and hair...

I looked up to where this per-..Ancient's face may be...

"Carla?"

"It makes me wonder when you felt up, nii-san," a voice beside me spoke.

I blushed, stepping away from Shin. "I never felt him or anyo-..."

I thought about Ayato...

"Well, there was that one guy recently—but that never went anywhere it was a misunderstanding and I had no control over it at the time!"

Carla dispelled his spell, coming into view and glaring at me.

"Who is he."

"That...that doesn't matter right now! What matters is that I'm here. Speaking of "here"...how did you get into my home?"

"Through the front door," Shin simply answered. "Lucille let us in."

"Why?"

"She told us you were going to surprise you all," Shin said with a pout. "We're your family, too, little sister!"

"She told them?! No wonder why Laito and Kanato appeared outside! That woman, I swear, can't keep a mere secret!"

"Ohh~, S Maso Kitty~," a voice from another room.

My shoulders slumped...and so did my knees, which I found myself on the ground, staring at the floor.

"I just wanted to simply come home and greet my family, stay a while for the holidays, and hope everything goes smoothly, but it seems like I can't even get that, God..." I grumbled, pitch becoming higher with each word.

"Get up off the ground. You'll dirty-" Yuma paused. "...whatever the hell that is you're wearing."

"It looks...good on..Sis," Azusa spoke.

I looked up, smiling, "Thank you, Azusa." I jumped to my feet, bringing him in a hug. "You're too adorable for this world!"

"Hey, you—Hey!" Yuma shouted as I increased my height by stepping on the tips of my toes and swinging my arm around his neck to pull him into a hug.

"She's disowned us, nii-san..." Shin said, broken-hearted.

I felt my body being pulled back, but a hand grabbed my wrist, bringing me to a halt.

"Let go...cousin," Carla spoke.

"You know better than to mess with what's Ore-sama."

I looked at Carla, then Ayato, and back at Ca—hold on, what?

I looked back at Ayato, seeing him dressed in...a black suit...

I peeled my lips in my mouth and bit my bottom lip.

"I shouldn't be thinking such thoughts..but I am..."

Ayato glanced down at me, smirking.

My eyes widened, "You a$$hole, pervert of a brother! I'm not talkin' 'bout that! I'm talking about hitting you, and him, with a pot upside your heads!" I snatched my wrist and shoulder away from them, "Let go of me! I'm not some object!"

They let go of me as I demanded, and I brushed down my disheveled hair with the tips of my fingers.

"I won't have this now, not while Mama and I are here. So please...behave yourselves."

I glanced at Carla, "...you cut your hair...?"

"It got in the way."

I closed my eyes, sighing, "Why'd you cut that beautiful keratin?"

He didn't answer to which I scoffed and crossed my arms.

"Sister, how's your new book?" Subaru asked me, seemingly trying to change the subject.

"It's..." I smile, lopsided, "It's going well. I'm already done with part 1. I'm getting started on part 2."

"You aren't using our names, are you?" Reiji questioned, adjusting his glasses.

"Well, damn, hello to you, too, little brother. And no...I'm only using my name."

"Which one?" Ayato and Shin questioned, to which both glared at each other.

"Both Miyami and Amaya. However, I'm still writing under the name of Suri."

Ruki placed his hand on my shoulder, "Be careful."

I shifted my dress by the top edge, twisting my body left and right while chuckling.

"About time someone is concerned about my identity being revealed~."

"I've always been concerned about you, foolish woman," I heard Shu mumble.

I grabbed my right fist with my other hand, "Why are some of you trying so hard to get sucker punched.." I grunted.

"S Neko-chan, what university do you go to?" Kou asked.

"I attend Tokyo University. Why?"

"It's decided." I tilted my head and he responded with a grin, "I'm going with you."

"The hell you are," I bluntly replied. "I don't intend babysitting while attending college. I do that on my time off."

"Aren't you being a little harsh?" Yuma asked.

"Don't give me that. I know what's harsh and I know what's-" My legs trembled, but I regained composure, chuckling, "The alcohol was stronger than I thought..."

"Alcohol...? You drink?" Carla questioned, taking a step towards me.

"I didn't intend to before I got here, but one of my classmates spiked the punch." I placed my hand on his right shoulder, "But I'm fine. You shouldn't worry."

With that being said, I pulled him into a hug.

"So...how'd that situation with the guy you like so much go?" Laito asked.

I continued hugging Carla, but my grip became firm...

"He...the Vice President...Serizawa...Hi-Hiroshi..." My voice began to break.

"Don't tell me he broke your heart? So help me-" I interrupted Subaru.

"He died."

*Silence*

"...How?" Azusa spoke first.

"H-He a-and I were on a date..th-then something ran out in the r-road...he tried to swerve around it..bu-but ended up off the road..."

Tears began to drip on Carla's dark velvet shirt and his arms tightened, in a comforting way, around me.

"I-it took a-a long time for me to come to, and I was bleeding, and he was bleeding, and to the point he bled out before I could do anything, and I blamed myself!

The tears began to increase in numbers, non-stop as if soldiers charging into war.

"If I would've kept my distance, this would've never happened to him! It's all my fault, it's all m-my fault! I'm immortal! I-I could've hel-ped him!"

"Don't blame yourself. There's nothing you could've done," Reiji told me.

"No...I was right there with him. Whatever that was, I could've notified him to avoid it...I don't care if he knew about my identity. Whatever that was, I could've hunted it to down."

"Humans are weak creatures. You of all of us should know that, Amaya. They die every day. If you ever thought for a moment that you would be with that human, I would've caused that accident to happen."

I pushed away from Carla, staring at him with animosity.

"How could say su..."

"If it's to protect you and keep an eye on you, then I would. No matter what relationship you have with a human, friends like Kei and Fuko, I would kill. A love interest like that Vice President of yours. Even your so-called "bro"-"

I slapped him.

"Don't. You. Dare. Say. It." I warned. "If I would've known love of any kind would make anyone or anything say this...I shouldn't have never given it to none of you when I realized my surroundings at the age of 3."

Walking pass him and bumping into his shoulder, I covered my disappointed face with my bangs.

~Tiny Time Skip~

["They givin' you hell up there, Miya?"] Fuko asked.

"No...well, yes. I just got back and one of them wanna throw isolation and solitude in my face."

["Isolation and solitude?! Sis, this ain't it. Which one said that?"]

"Carla."

["...*chuckle* you mean the one with that deep, deep voice~?"]

"Yeah."

["...how old is he?"]

"Twenty now."

["...hook me up, girl."]

"What?! No!"

["C'mon, girl! Hook me up! That boy is fine, okay? He's just your cousin! It's not like I'm dating that cutie pie brother of yours Reiji-kun, or worse, Subaru-kun, your youngest."]

"Aww~. What about me, Miss Fuko~?" Laito whined from my left.

I jumped and looked up at him with a "why the hell are you in my room?" expression.

["Oh? Is that Laito-kun? Well...you just look like the fk boy type."]

I lost it at that, me and Kou both—who happened to get in my room beside me on my right.

I accidentally snorted, making Fuko and Kou laughed harder.

"How mean, Miya-chan~," whined Laito again. He crawled to me. "What I do to her is what I can do to you, Miss Fuko~."

["...what an tempting offer, but no thank you—waaaaait a minute! What you do to her?! What kind of incest is he doin' to you, Miya?! I want it, too!"]

"Oh, no! Kanato came down with the sniffles! I gotta go pamper and love on him now! Call you back in a hour or two~!"

I ended the call with the press of a button and sighed aloud.

"Stop giving that girl bright ideas, Laito."

He chuckled, "She's imaginative, and I like imaginative people~."

I huffed, "What do you two want?"

"Your blood," they both said in unison.

I sighed, "I not too long ago just got back and they already want a bite of me... Fine, make it quick."

Laito went for the left side of my neck, making me whimper a little and fall back into Kou's grip.

"It's been a long time since I pierced thst lovely coffee skin," Kou mumbled before biting into my right shoulder, massaging my sides.

Suppressing a groan at the massage, it was harder to do so even more now because Laito got between my legs, massaging my thighs underneath.

Fluttering my closed eyes halfway open, I saw Laito staring at me with some kind of...

Sorrow?

Despair?

Sadness?

Emptiness?

He focused back on taking drinking blood, then pulled away briefly.

"Be in the dining room in 15 minutes," he mumbled before licking the blood trail.

'What was that look? I've never seen it on-...yes, I have. It was a very long time ago, but I clearly remember it.'

The look he gave me was the same one when Cordelia left him in that cell.

~Tiny Time Skip~

"You..have a surprise present," my Mother said happily..with a forced smile.

"What's the surprise?" I asked with a smile.

No one responded, not even Father.

My brothers either looked gloomy or..contained anger.

"...Well?" I pushed gently.

Mama looked at Ayato, then away down at her half-eaten food.

"Ayato..tell her."

I looked at him, waiting on his an-

He grinned, revealing the tips of his fangs.

"You're going to belong to Ore-sama forever."

I blinked...

Then laughed aloud like a drunk woman...which I kinda was.

Grabbing the strawberry champagne glass in front of me, I poured it in my empty glass, now giddily giggling.

"That was a good surprise prank, all of you. Now, really, what's the surprise?"

*Silence*

A frown slowly etched in on my face...

"You're jesting...?"

"I would never lie to my older sister."

"Ugh..I hate that smell..."

"What smell?" he asked.

"Bull$#;t," I said with a nod of my head, sipping my glass of champagne.

"Miyami..." Mama began, "Your..Father and I decided..it may be best for you."

"Best for me, huh..." I mumbled, gently swaying the liquid while staring at it.

"Yes. I know you..I know you want your freedom and whatnot, but there are just some things out there that are dangerous..and you don't need to be around them. You're already..drinking, smoked, leading men on at parties-and I also understand you want to earn a major in your study. But..responsibility demands sacrifice."

The glass in my hand shattered into tiny little pieces.

"Authority must be obeyed...or it must be overthrown", and I'm down with the latter."

(Queen of Hearts, Alice: Madness Returns.)

"Wha-t...?" she asked in a broken voice.

"*Chuckle* "You shouldn't ask questions you know the answer to."

(Queen of Hearts, Alice: Madness Returns.)

She narrowed her eyes as a warning.

I made a dull smile, "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws (Martin Luther King Jr.)"; of course, in their own way. "Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law (Henry David Thoreau)" and I will so gladly."

I licked my bleeding hand, the blood was quickly drying up though.

"Blood is one of the important essentials of a person... What do you think will happen when they end up like a raisin?"

*Silence*

"...it'a another way of escape from tyranny," I whispered. I glanced up and made a closed eyed smile. "I agree to it, give up my rights and freedom, and all. I won't be a 6;tc# about it."

*Silence*

Sliding my chair back and getting up, I turned around, walking towards the dining doors.

"Miyami."

I stopped, "Yes, Father?"

"You won't disappoint, would you?"

"Întotdeauna am fost micuța prințesă a tatei. Aș putea?"

("I've always been Daddy's little princess. How could I?")

~Tiny Time Skip~

After taking off the complicated outfit and putting on a ankle length black sweater dress, I laid on my bed, staring at the surface of the canopy with a blank daze on my face.

'What...have I done?' I placed my hands over my face.

Turning on my left side, I saw snow falling outside...

But some dark fabric blocked my way.

I felt hands on top of mine and slid them off my face.

"What was that all about down there?"

A pout shifted onto my lips as I shifted my gaze to the forest green ones before me.

"I don't know...I kinda snapped at her because she made me seem like..I was irresponsible and not independent."

Ayato pressed his forehead against mine, "You and I both know that's a lie. She must've..had some motive for this?"

"Or Father offered her a deal and she played into it...? What's his motive?"

"I screwed up, Miyami..when I-"

"Kissed me that day? I figured that's the reason why. He's..he'us using your love for me against me..." I looked him directly in the eyes, "He has chosen you."

"...Huh?"

"As the heir. The next King, of your...our kind, the vampires. He intends for you to make me your Queen so I can be at an disadvantage. He thinks by doing this, I'd give up my position as Queen of the Ancients as well as the Underworld..or he offered Mama an alternative..."

Ayato stared at me with surprise... "He said..that I could propose to you, but he never mentioned that."

"I would think so..or you would've called me and informed me, which would've been bad in his case because he knows he can't harm me. Do that, then Carla would've ended him on the spot. Perhaps even Kino..." I mumbled my illegitimate brother's name, wondering...

"So what are we going to do?" he asked in a serious tone.

"We're going to beat him at his own game. Here's the plan, and we start on Christmas night..."

~Time Skip to Sunset~

I sat in a chair in the library, reading about Alchemic rules and notes.

"Flamel, Cleopatra, Dee, Borri, and other alchemists, were incorrect about transforming lead into gold and claiming immortality since he died. Whoever the creator, they was a genius on the rules of constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing as well as the laws of equivalent exchange."

My eyes sparkled at the pieces of knowledge storing in my memory.

"So you like philosophy?"

I looked up, meeting copper rose eyes, "Kino..."

"Little sister."

I huffed, "That's not something I'll get used to hearing... But yes, I do like philosophy. I kinda wish there was an ideal job for it, like it was nowadays."

"Hm.." he hummed as a response I didn't know how to clarify as. "What..what else do you like?"

I stared at him with 'o' shaped lips, them his question clicked in my head.

'He wants to get to know me better. That's right..I doubt he received much information from them, cousins included.'

"Umm...I like World Language and Literature Composition and Arts. I love writing, which I'm majoring at Tokyo University, Creative Writing. I like history, too..as well as science. You can say I'm a realist and transcendentalist."

Kino narrowed his eyes, "Do you believe in a god?"

"...I don't believe in a god, but I believe in God. I would clarify myself as a Christian Scientist, but the general definition doesn't quite fit me."

"Is that so..." He gently grabbed my chin with his left index finger and thumb. "What if I told you I was that god?"

*Silence*

I opened my mouth...trying to find the words.

"I would think you're lying. Why would God ever set foot in this sinful household?"

Kino's lips pursed firmly into a thin line...but he smirked. "You're right. Why would he."

He let go of my chin and sat next to me, staring at the dusk colored sky through the window.

"What did you think of that mess at dinner?"

I smiled, closing the book, and staring at the same site with calm eyes.

"There's nothing to think when I've already done that earlier. If I am to marry Ayato, so be it."

"From what I heard, you were the one talking about 'incest is wrong' or something along those lines." He looked at me with grin, "Look at you now."

Shrugging my shoulders, I sighed and placed the book next to me on the coffee table.

"I can do us all a favor and easily take the bastard out without anyone's help."

"That's good and all, but I prefer you not. I want to have the honor of doing that once I play him at his own game," I said in amused tone with closed eyes.

Shifting my body towards his, I crawled to where he sat.

"It's been two months and I wasn't able to visit whatsoever, though I called to check on all of you, but I believe that wasn't enough for you." Straddling his waist, I pulled my left sleeve down, revealing my black bra strap and some skin. "Partake of the fruit before she's fully taken away?"

He didn't hesitate. His arms wrapped around my waist, face planting on his left shoulder.

"Don't mind if I do, Lilitu. After the long wait, I was wondering if I'll ever taste the seemingly Forbidden Fruit."

That evening ensued with some pain, some pleasure...

A new philosophy I was hellbent on getting for the big plan of my own.

(It's been way too long since I updated any of my stories. I..haven't exactly been busy, just living life and enjoying it. One night, I've been thinking about what story would I create next. Not a short one, like Blue Exorcist and BNHA. I shouldn't really be thinking about that anyway since I haven't ended some of my stories... Eventually, I'll figure it out.)