Chapter 6: The Jealously Game Part 3

Yui gaped at the redhead as her pink eyes widen and they rapidly blinked. She doesn't comprehend nor was she fully aware if her ears heard him correctly. But if so, did Ayato Sakamaki just confess his love to her inside a gigantic bathroom, while forcefully being restrained against the off-white colored wall. The blond decided to let her guard down without realizing what she was doing. She let her arm fall to her side and stopped wrenching away from his hand that was seizing her wrist.

After a few minutes of being in a state of stupor, she fastens her mouth and gulped. "Did-did-did… did you just say w-what I-I think you just said?" She tumbled over her own words, even though she was thoroughly mindful of her stuttering.

"Goddammit, breastless! I said I love you!" Ayato repeated, knowingly adding in a extra word or two.

Yui redden in rage with her cheeks poking out like a blow fish. "Do you have to be so… so –extra!?" She yanked her wrist away from his grasp and looked away from him with her arms crossed over her chest. "Jeez, you really know how to kill the moment."

He accidentally snorted when bursting out into a roar of laughter. "When you make a screwed-up face like that, it gets hard not to tease you."

Yui nodded. "All right… I guess we're done here." She swiftly brushed pass him and walked towards the door.

Ayato extended his arm behind him and seized her forearm with his hand. "It's rude to walk away, especially after someone confesses their love to you." He pronounced, keeping his eyes forward.

"It's quite odd that you say that….especially since I confessed how I felt about you more than once. Each time you turned me away and I'll never forget that." She said, yanking her arm away.

Ayato was render speechless. Without a doubt, the vampire knew that he was at fault. He couldn't forgive himself if he let someone else have her, mainly his younger brother Subaru. Now, there was a 3rd person added to the equation and his name was Yuma Mukami. Even though Yuma wasn't related to Yui by blood, he still had the closes relationship and access to her, especially since they live in the same house together. Then he thought, 'What was I thinking, leaving her at the Mukami's residents with 4 male vampires?' He knew that it was mostly because they'd take care of her. Deep down inside their hearts were pure, even if he didn't like to admit himself. So basically, this was all his doing from the start. Nobody else, but his. He couldn't let her walk outside that door, without some type of an apology.

"I'm…I'm sorry," He blurted out loud and clear.

Yui came to a halt at the doorframe with her hand gripping the knob. 'Did he just say sorry?' She mused. 'No…it must be my imagination.' And with that being said, she shook her head and opened the door. Ayato glanced over his shoulder at her and she didn't even bother to look back once. This troubled him to no end.

The blond girl quickly walked towards the staircase that led to the main floor where everybody was at. However, she was approached by a shadowy figure that stepped out of the shadows.

"I take it, the conversation didn't go well with Ayato-san," asked Azusa.

She looked up at him and frowned. "So you heard us, huh?"

He bobbed his head. "Please don't hold it against me. I was only worried about your well-being, so I followed Ayato and he led me straight to you... Of course he didn't notice that I was lurking after him."

Yui lifted her arm and cradled her younger brother's cheek with the palm of her hand. "Thank you for looking out me Azusa. But you can't tell anybody that I was with Ayato alone inside the bathroom. Promise me?"

He took her hand off his cheek and kissed it. "You have my word, onee-chan."

"Thank you," she said, smiling a sad smile.

"There is one condition that I need to ask you for," he continued.

The blond girl rolled her eyes. "What is that?"

Azusa grinned with glee. "You have to smack me like you did with Yuma last week. I won't like no for a answer."

Yui eyes widen. "What! That is totally out of the question!"

After 20 minutes of none stop bickering with a certain hot-tempered vampire, Subaru was exhausted. He never fought so much over a female before in his entire life. The young vampire thought that his older brother Ayato was horrendous. But after tonight, he came to a conclusion that Yuma was 10 times worse. He wouldn't stop babbling that mouth of his about Yui, and that ticked him off. After Yuma was finished going off on a rampage on him, he fell asleep on the nearest sofa like nothing happen. 'What was so great about Yui Mukami?' He would've asked himself. That was before she kissed him the way she did tonight.

Subaru brushed his lower lip with his fingertips. When she kissed him, he felt his skin prickly all over and his vision become a blur. How could one kiss change everything over one night? It wasn't like they didn't lock lips before. The point is, Yui loves Ayato and his moron of a brother loves her back. Nevertheless, Subaru only pretend to be blonde's boyfriend, and nothing more. As much as he didn't want to respect his brother's claim, he still had some respect for Yui. Who knows, maybe after seeing Ayato true-colors, she'll get over her feeling for him and move on with her life. Then he'll be allowed to make his move on her, but for real next time.

"Are you done having fun yet?" Ayato asked, somewhere off to Subaru's left side. "I bet you feel like a man since you recklessly stole what's mine."

Subaru narrowed his eyes at his brother with a sly smirk on his handsome face. "Oh come on, Ayato. The jealousy thing is getting old now. You snooze, you lose, brother."

Ayato twitched at his brother's allegation, then he tightly clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white. "Oi, don't get too comfortable! I'll reclaim my woman when the time comes!" He loudly declared. "Heed my warning… You may have her in the palm of your scrawny hands now, but her heart, her blood, her body, her soul, her everything, they all belong to me!" The redhead paused while darting his eyes at him. "She won't get away from me next time."

Subaru sighed. "Glad to hear that you're still an inconsiderate conceited asshole. For a second there, I thought that you left your pride behind, along with your humanity, all over the perfectly polish concrete floor. But I guess not, since you're still so damn petty."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Ayato growled with a flustered face. "Ay, I'm talking to you!"

"Impossible… I'm too tired to explain anything else... and frankly. I don't care." Subaru responded, leaving his brother standing there looking like he was about to explode.

"Oi, Subaru! You have a lot of guts defying me!"

Subaru continued to walk off the property completely ignoring his brother's demand. "Tch, piss off," he muttered before taking off into the sky.

That following morning, Clary and Yui were cleaning up the huge mess that was left over the house that night. As for Naomi, she was preoccupied upstairs in one of the bedrooms, completely forgetting that she had cleaning duties as well. Clary huffed and puff as she cleaned off the broken glass off the floor with a broom and dust pan. She was infuriated by her friend's inappropriate behavior.

"Wait to I get my hands on that girl," Clary claimed. "She's totally skipping out on us for some guy! I'm appalled."

"If you're referring to Naomi and my brother Ruki," Yui confirmed. "Then yes…yes she is. They've only been dating for 5 hours."

Clary set her dust pan and broom on the side of the wall and walked over to the table. "See, I knew this would be a hassle. We should've never tried to set those two up together," she complained. "If I knew that I was going to lose one of my best friends –you know what, ignore what I said."

Yui dropped her cleaning cloth on the table and walked over to her friend who was now sitting down on one of the chairs. She carefully placed the palm of her hand on Clary rear back and rubbed around in small circles.

"I'm starting to think that Naomi isn't the problem here. Why are you really upset Clarissa?" Yui warmly asked her.

Clary took a deep breath and sighed. "Both my friends now have boyfriends and I have nothing. You both will be spending a lot of time with them, and I will be spending a lot of time alone with nobody to talk to and call my own. Foremost importantly, Christmas is almost near and I want to spend it with somebody special instead of alone this year."

"You don't have to. You came to my place last year, remember?" Yui reminded.

Clary raked her fingers through her long white hair and lowered her head down. "It's not the same, Yui. I mean, yes you girls are special to me. But I don't want to spend Christmas as the fifth wheel. I'll just be dragging everybody else down with me." She told her with a sad expression.

"Tsk-tsk, what a shame... You have my condolence sweetlips," said a comforting deep voice near the doorway.

Yui and Clary looked over the tall and slender handsome young man leaning against the wall looking smitten. He had shoulder length auburn hair and a fedora hat that covered the top of his head. They knew all too well who he was. But why was he still here?

"You," Clary hissed. "Why are you still here?"

"Would you've believe me if I tell you that I fell asleep in one of your private rooms," he responded. "By the way, you have a nice collection of panties. Very revealing for my liking."

Clary was streaming with her own pent of rage, with one glared you could literally see the vain vessel popping out of her forehead. "How dare you look through a ladies things?! I should have you punished and locked up for your crimes!"

"Clary, calm down." Yui said, tugging her friend's arm before looking back at the unwanted visitor. "Laito! Please, leave? I can't hold her back much longer."

He sighed in disappointment. "Fine… it's too bad to, since I was looking forward to getting acquainted with both of you." He said, looking at his long slender fingers and nails.

"Think again! You have no idea how much I detest you right now." Clary said, clenching her teeth.

Laito stared at her in a moment of silence. He couldn't believe that there was such a beauty that still existed in this world. Of course, there were plenty of beautiful women out there, yet this one caught his eye like no other.

"What are you gawking at now," she snapped in a demanding tone.

"You, before I wake up from this dream." He responded. "If so, then I don't want to ever wake up." As he winked at her, his lip curled into a smile.

"Save the flirting for someone who's buying what you're selling," she retorted back.

He shrugged in despair. "All right, don't say I didn't try. I'll take my leave first then. Bye-bye now." With one last look, he blew them a kiss before turned away and vanishing on the spot.

Clary huffed. "Bloody hell, he's annoying!"

"Its in 'his nature," Yui announced. "He can't help, but be a flirt. That's all he will ever be. Speaking of which, I wonder if his father was the same way."

Clary stared over at her friend. "What is this? Are you sticking up for that perverted playboy?"

The blond lowered her head. "Umm, not necessarily. But I think he actually likes you, Clarissa."

"Who likes who," Naomi asked as she skipped down the stairs with Ruki sauntering close behind.

"You would know if you were down here instead of fooling around upstairs." Clary informed her.

Ruki raised his eyebrow. "Are you jealous? Because if you are, jealousy sure doesn't do you justice, duchess."

"Oh, put a sock in it Ruki-sama! I am far from jealous and that's not why I'm upset," Clary stubbornly told him.

"She's right," Yui said, under her breath.

Ruki started his sister from head to toe. "Why are you being like this, livestock?"

She glanced back at him with an alarm look and waved both her hands in defense. "Oh no! When I said that, I didn't mean the sock in the mouth part, Ruki." She accidentally meant to add in. "We were a bit caught off guard by a certain visitor and Clary got into it with him."

"More like stalker! Need I remind you, he went through my panties draw?"

Naomi tapped her finger on her chin. "That sounds like Laito-kun."

Everybody looked and blinked at Naomi like she had four heads and a tail sticking out from the backside.

"How'd you know?" Ruki asked with a suspicious look.

The girl awkwardly chuckled and played it off like she didn't say anything. "What? I don't know what you mean. I have no idea how his name came up. Ha-Ha! Silly me."

"How suspicious." Yui said, nudging her friend by the elbow.

"Very!" Ruki flatly said, scowling at his girlfriend.

Naomi nervously hid behind her friend. "Can he still see me?" She whispered.

"I'm afraid so," Yui lowly answered.

"Well, I'm going upstairs to take a nap. Let's go Yui." Clary said, turning away.

"Wait! You two are leaving us," Naomi called out.

Clary stopped what she was doing and whipped her head around. "Of course, help yourself to cleaning the house. You have plenty of time to make up for your lack of participation," she responded.

The raven-haired girl stomped her foot. "How rude!"

Ruki leaned towards her ear. "That's what you get." he whispered inside her before nibbling on her earlobe.

"AHHH! RUKI CUT IT OUT!"

Next week at school, word got around that Subaru and Yuma got into a huge argument at Clarissa's party last weekend over Yui. You'd think that after a few days the news would die down. Unfortunately, the gossip continued to leave everybody wondering what was really going on. After Yuma's confession, the entire school had it in their heads that Yui was seeing her adopted brother behind closed doors and cheating on Subaru. They also included that she was messing around with 3 different men at the same time. Whatever the word was, it was spreading through school like some type a common cold.

The minute Yui walked through the entrance on a Thursday evening, her classmates begin to talk about her behind her back. She took off her shoes and placed them inside the shoe locker before slipping the white ones on. While closing her locker's door, a couple of girls walked passed her and mumbled the word slut. Yui completely disregarded what they said and swung her book bag over her shoulder. This wasn't the first time one of the girls called her bad names earlier this week. By now, she was already used to it and she refused to let anyone bring her down.

"Oi, Yui!" called a manly voiced from behind her.

She glanced over her shoulder and smiled at who it was. "Hi, Subaru! You finally decided to come to school, huh?"

"Looks that way," he muttered.

She nodded. "Did I mention about how sorry I am for leaving you alone with my brother?"

The young vampire rolled his eyes. "Only 100 times, 101 if you count now."

Yui chuckled while patting his chest. "Oh Subaru, you and your sarcasm!"

He looked down at her hand that was resting on his chest and reached out to hold it.

After realizing what she was doing, she lifted her hand off his chest and her mouth went off into overdrive "Oh! I'm so so sorry, Subaru! I-I didn't mean to touch you without your permission! I guess that I got a bit carried a way…so I'm really really really sorry! It won't happen again, I swear!"

The white-haired vampire pulled his hand away and massaged the back of his neck "Uh… Don't worry about it." He said, looking away and blushing. "I'll make an exception for you, but only for today."

With her cheeks burning up, she glanced away from him as well. "You've been doing that a lot of that lately… Making exceptions for me? If we keep going on like this, It'll become overbearing and might turn-out to be greedy."

He silently laughed to himself with a snort. "Don't flatter yourself. I have my limit. You just haven't reached that part of me yet."

She grinned at him. "Thank goodness. That's good news then."

He turned away from her once more. "Whatever you say."

Yui looked down at her timepiece. "Oh my, would you look at the time! Class starts in 1 minute!" she turned on her heel and dashed pass him. "Talk to you later, Subaru, Bye!"

Like a mad woman and pushed her way through the double doors in a hurry. On her right side there was a staircase that led up to the second floor where her near her classroom. Before she even got to the second level, someone placed their hand over her mouth and yanked her out of sight.

"What's going on," she muffled through the stranger's hand. Whoever it was, he or she led them down to the darkest part of the school. They suddenly stop at a dead-end and Yui became scared.

"I'm going to take my hand off, but you better not scream," said a voice that sounded like a male.

He removed his hand from behind and Yui took the opportunity to step on his foot hard.

"AH! DAMN YOU BREASTLESS," he screeched. "You stepped on my foot with your humongous feet!"

Yui gasped in shock. "Ayato?!"

"No duh! Of course it's me! Who else were you expecting?" He scowled at her in the darkness.

She furiously placed her hand on her hip. "Well certainly not you! I thought you were a stalker or a rapist or something."

"Well consider yourself lucky, because I'm neither of those things."

The blond girl snorted. "Could have fooled me. This isn't the first time you pulled something like this."

"Wh-wh-what?" He stuttered. "What…what do you mean this isn't the first time? Explain!?"

"Relax… I was referring to the time you followed me inside the bathroom. What did you think I was talking about?"

Ayato cleared his throat as he got ready to tell a lie. "Don't worry about it. It's not important and I wouldn't tell you anyways."

Yui huffed. "Fine! So tell me, why did you drag me all the way here anyways? I'm not exactly a fan of dark places. It brings back bad memorizes," she shivered.

The redhead frowned at her because he of guilt. "What bad memory? Name one."

"Like the time before I was turned into a vampire. I don't remember much about what happen, but I kind of remember his eyes…"

Ayato gulped. "You do?!"

"Yeah, kind of." She said, glancing over at him. "They were childlike and intimidating… Now that I get a good look at you, they were sort of like your eyes."

His mouth went dry as he chuckled. "Oh yeah? Maybe you need to get your eyes checked out."

"I'm not accusing you of anything, Ayato. I didn't know you around the time it happened. His eyes just really creeps me out, okay? I hope I never see the creep again."

"Can we get off the subject already," he loudly demanded in a snappy tone. "I heard enough as it is!"

"Okay," she said, confusingly. "Let's go back to why you brought me here? We're missing class."

"I wanted to personally apologize to you for what happen this weekend," he replied. "Things got out of hand and I know you probably hate my guts right now. However, What I said to you in the bathroom that night… it-it was true. I just need some time to show you, that's all."

Yui moved her eyes around in thought. "So what you're saying is... that you want to become friends?"

"I guess so… but don't get too cocky," he reminded.

"Okay, I'll be your friend. You just have to stop calling me pancake and breastless all the time. It irks me every time you say it," she complained.

"If that makes you happy, then I won't do it any more," he told her.

"Great, let's shake on it," she said, extending her arm out.

Ayato narrowed his eyes down at her hand and chuckled. "What are you, a politic?" He quickly took her hand and gripped it lightly before pulling away.

"That wasn't so bad, right?" She said, cheerfully smiling at him.

The redhead blushed. "I suppose not."

She giggled at him. "You are such a 2-year-old."

"Tch, think whatever you want! It's you who's misleading with that small body frame and undeveloped dainty breast of yours!"

"AYATO!"

A/N: That's it for the jealously game. The next chapter will be centered on Ayato and Yui relationship and it's called 'Did I reach you?' So look out the update and I will be back soon. Bye guys.