Chapter 3: Cursed part 3

Yui was stunned by the 6 foot beast who glared at her with pure hatred in his eyes. Shivers wracked her body and her teeth chattered, as fear descended upon her. No matter how terrifying Ayato looked to her, inside was a young man screaming out for help, and she felt like she had to do something.

The numbness in her body subsided, as she took a step towards him, in attempt to end his suffering.

"Ayato," Yui softly called out. "I know it's him! It has to be!" She nodded after much consideration and thought.

The hard expression on his face faded into a painful, confused one, when tensely staring her down.

The blond took a step closer to him and held out her hand tentatively. "Ayato, I know it's you in there... Can you hear me?"

Subaru's eyes widened from her quivering hand to her frightening face. "Are you insane?! Step back!"

Next, a thunderous roar echo throughout the room again, and everything shook within it.

Yui was stopped in the middle of her step when an arm wrapped around her waist protectively and yanked her back against a hard slender chest. She glanced up with a short gasp escaping her lips and noticed that it was Shu who was holding her tightly in his strong embrace.

The beast gritted his teeth at Shu, and growled viciously before he took off out of the window. The glass shattered as he broke through it previously.

Reiji dropped his arm to his sides in defeat, along with the shot gun that landed on the floor. "Unbelievable... ANOTHER WINDOW!" He stalked over and stuck his head through the hole that had already been made. "AYATO! COME BACK HERE AND FACE WHAT YOU'VE DONE!" He demanded furiously.

"Psst! You're wasting your time," Subaru pointed out. "He should be long gone by now."

"Inexcusable!" Reiji grumbled angrily. He pulled his head back inside the room and fixed his glasses that fell off his face from frustration. "Wait till I get my hands on that inconsiderate brat!"

Meanwhile, Yui thoroughly stared at the window Ayato jumped out of, while Reiji continued to complain about his younger brother actions. All she kept thinking about was the fact that one of the six brothers could transform into a beast, and not not to mention, on a full moon. "If that was the case, could this also mean that the other five can transform too?" So many questions roamed through her little head. Now she knew the real reason why Subaru wanted her to leave from the beginning. He was protecting her from knowing the truth.

"You're shivering" said Shu, who still had his arm wrapped around her waist.

She gave him a perplexed look.

He stared back at her with those blue eyes that beautify reflected off the moon light. "Now that you know part of our secret... do you still want to stay here?"

"Part of it? Wait... there's more?"

"See, I knew it. There's no way she could handle our family's curse. That's why I asked her to leave so she wouldn't get involved." Subaru explained bitterly, as he glared at her from the corner of his red eyes.

Yui eyes grew bigger. "Family's Curse? How come this wasn't mention to me before?"

"Isn't it obvious by now?" Reiji spoke out from the other side of the room. "Father sent Ms. Komori to live with us for a purpose... From the information we gathered so far, it's already clear she doesn't have any place to go, nor does she have any relatives to stay with... We also know she cooks rather well and is very helpful around the house." He added on. "I personally think she was sent here to help break the curse."

Subaru snorted with amusement. "Why haven't we picked up some random girl off the streets before?" He questioned with a pause in his throat. "Oh I know... because it sounds ridiculous!"

"Reiji's right... she's different from the others." Shu proclaimed, before he unattached his arm from around her waist. "I sensed it from the moment she walk into our home... Ayato sensed it too from what I was told, and he wasn't particularly sure about that being the reason why she's here."

"So what if she's here to break the curse?" Subaru asked, as he looked back and forth between his brothers. "Are we suppose to go back to our old lives afterwards and forget about everything?" He anxiously questioned. "Personally, I like the way things are now."

"That's because you adapted to living a mortal life of immortality," Reiji reminded.

"Wait... So let me get this straight," Yui started to speak after taking a deep breath. "You guys aren't humans at all? Then... Then... what are you?"

"Of course not... We're pure blood vampires," Shu confirmed. "A curse was put upon us by the devil himself."

"And the man you met the other day is the king of all vampire," Reiji declared flately.

"YOUR FATHER IS THE VAMPIRE KING!" Yui yelled in utter shock. She fell down on her knees in a daze because she couldn't believe it. "Now I've seen everything."

Subaru glanced away from his nails and narrowed his eyes down at her. "Now that you've seen everything... will you leave like I asked you to several times before?"

She didn't respond to his question at first, and after long minutes of contemplating, she finally gained the strength to answer with something reasonable. "I don't know why or how the curse happened... but I do know one thing... since I arrived yesterday evening, you three has showed me nothing but curtsey, and I'd like to return the favor." She stopped and eagerly glanced at each of them before continuing. "If that means I have to help break you're family's curse, then so be it. I won't leave or give up on you guys."

"She might be a knuckle head, but blonde has heart," Shu mumbled under his breath.

Subaru gazed at him curiously, then glared at Yui, as he punched his fish into the wall. "What makes you think you can come around and suddenly change everything?! You're only a girl... and you know nothing about our family! Once you find out what we did, will you still help us?"

"Subaru! That's enough," Reiji commanded.

"Shut up," he hissed at him. "You might like being a monster, but I like being a mortal!"

"How could you possibly like living that way," Shu asked his youngest brother. "We haven't aged in a centery and without any vampire abilities, people will start to suspect something. We can't even heal ourselves if something dangerous was to happen to one of us."

"Right. Kanato almost died because he thought he was still able to jump off the balcony without getting hurt," Reiji reminded and exhale. "Boy, was he wrong."

"Excuse me," Yui interrupted in attempt to gain their attention. "Is Kanato also one of your brothers?"

"Yes... he's also Ayato's twin," Reiji informed.

"Ayato, Kanato and Laito are triplets, but you haven't had any encounters with the other two yet. Thank god for that," Shu easily explained.

Her mouth dropped when she heard this news. "WHAT? Ayato has 2 other brothers that look like him?"

"Tch! They're fraternal," Subaru grumbled from annoyances.

I wonder why the other two are missing..." Yui wondered.

"Ms. Komori," Reiji called out, which fully caught her attention. "What you witness here tonight was only a part of the curse that was casted upon 3 of our brothers... As you can see, Ayato is one of them... and his twin brothers can also turn on the full moon. They may live mortal lives as Subaru, Shu and I do, but they're curse is far more greater. I can only image the pain the triplets go through every time the full moon appears. Because of this, they separated from us."

"It's their own damn fault!" Subaru shouted. "If they haven't done what they did, we wouldn't be in this predicament now!"

"Calm down," Shu spoke in a hush tone. "What's done is done. We all did something that got us here to begin with. Ayato, Kanato and Laito are not the fault for that."

Subaru scowled at his oldest brother. "Tch! Believe what you will! I'm done trying to get through to those stupid triplets! They're lost causes," he clarified before walking over to the entryway. "I can't be bothered with this anymore tonight, I'm going to bed!" Subaru exited the room without so much as a goodnight.

At that moment, Yui knew that something was off about Subaru. He may seem angry and loathed everything around him, but deep down inside she bet he generally cared about his family. When he asked her to leave earlier, she could tell off the back that it wasn't easy for him asking her to go. Maybe there's more to him, then what's on the outside and comes out of his mouth. In result, Yui made it her mission to get through to him once and for all.

On a Tuesday morning, the sun shined through the window, making Yui slowly peel her eyes open. She adjusted to light as she felt a warm body next to hers, with an arm wrapped around her waistline holding her close. Despite the arm being in the way, she turned around to face a male who peacefully slept under the blanket with his bare chest showing off. A pleasant smile formed on her lips, while assuming that this person was only in her dream.

From what she gathered so far, he had unruly reddish hair, very fair skin complexion and handsome young feature that made him look innocently cute while he slept.

Yui reached out to brush his cheek with her fingertips. When she did, his expression became tense and he made a grunting noise that startled her out of a daze. That's when she realized she wasn't dreaming anymore and someone was definitely sleeping in her bed.

All it took was one loud scream to wake him up out of his slumber. He eyed her once he became fully awake and his glares at her were threatening. "Damn it! You're a loud one." he groaned, as he sat up in the bed completely naked. The sheet was covering the lower half of his body and he extended his arms up over his head as he stretched. Yui leaped out of the bed with the blanket draped around her small frame.

"Ayato! What are you doing here?!"

Hearing his name escape her lips made him grin mischievously. "What does look like? We're sleeping together... Now come back to bed, breastless!" he demanded with his hand patching down the empty space beside him.

"No way! This is completely inappropriate," She retorted back.

His face became serious, and his eyes darkened. "No! What's inappropriate is you defining yours truly!"

Before she could make a retort back again, he pulled her by the wrist back down on the bed and held her arms above her head, while heatedly staring down at her.

"Ayato, let go," she cried.

"Defining me will get you nowhere," He spoke with a smirk still planted on his face.

"Please Ayato! You're hurting me," she whimpered, pleaded and thrashed around.

Her cries caused him to chuckle. "Say the magic word and maybe I'll think about it."

"Ayato, let go of her," someone commanded from the opposite side of the room.

They both looked in the direction the voice came from.

Reiji had his hand resting on the door knob and held his book in his other hand. "I knew you'd be back later in the night... but not once did I think you'd come here to harass our guest... Tsk, tsk, You're a disgrace."

"Tch!" Ayato sucked his teeth, as he gave his brother a black look. "I was just about to get to the best part."

Reiji snored. He wasn't very pleased by his brother's motives that morning. "I bet you were... Come a long now. School start in an hour. Go to your own room and get dress."

The redhead huffed, "Fine!" He removed his grasp from her fragile sweaty wrist and fingerprints seemed to mark their territory with heat on her skin.

She sat up in bed, rubbing her burning wrist due to his touch that he left behind.

Ayato slipped out of bed wearing a pair of royal red boxer briefs. Of course, Yui could've sworn he had nothing on from the angle he was laying in under the sheet. She soon became curious about the time frame from when he entered her room. After all, this was the first time she ever had a man sleep in her bed before.

The second he left her room, Reiji gazed at her and bowed his head. "My apologies. I'm assuming you'll be getting dress for school now."

She swiftly bobbed her head. "Yes."

"I'll leave you to it then." And with that being said he left, closing the door behind him.

"No way! You had a man in you're bed," Takara shouted in shock.

Yui placed her forefinger over her friend's lip in the corridor. "Shhh! Keep it down. Others can hear you."

"I'm sorry Yui-chan. This news is shocking to me," Takara claimed.

"It wasn't like I expected to see him there... he snuck in... Not only that he tried to make a move on me when I woke up."

"It seems to me like he was only teasing you," Tamara pointed out. "If he wanted to do something with you, I'm sure he would've done it when he first got there."

"I don't know," Yui sighed tiredly. "He seems self-centered, really arrogent and a trouble maker from what I've seen so far... Even if he didn't take advantage of me when I was sleep, I'm sure he rather I be fully awake and aware to make his move."

Takara caressed her own chin and nodded with agreement. "You got this guy all figured out, huh?"

Walking into homeroom they noticed that most of the students were missing. However, there was one student in the class with his head leaned against the desk. From the door, Yui could sort of peep out who it was.

She gasped after realization, then leaned over to whisper in her best friend's ear. "Takara, don't scream... That's the guy I was just talking about."

"Really?" Takara's eyes grew wider, before she narrowed them at him. "Want me to knock some sense into him?" She cracked her knuckles.

Yui waved her hands in front of her. "No! That's won't be necessary!"

Before she knew it, Takara was already standing in front of Ayato desk. "You!" She yelled, and slammed the palm of her hand down on the desk.

Ayato didn't budge, not even once. Instead, he laid there, with head down, eyes closed and his arms rested on the surface.

"Takara... Takara..." Yui called in a quiet tone. "Get away from him." while calling out to her, she noticed the important message left on the board left by the teacher. "Food Prep in home economics today?"

Ayato's left ear twitched when she said this. He picked up his head from the desk with a playful smirk plastered on his face. "Food Prep?"

Before Yui could blink, he determiningly charged towards her and grabbed her wrist, as he made his way out the classroom.

"Let's go breastless! We have a home economics to attend," he announced happily.

"Ayato—what! Let go of me," she shouted.

Takara dumbfoundly stood alone in the classroom with her mouth gaped open. "HEY! THEY LEFT WITHOUT ME... how rude," she pouted with her arms crossed over her chest.

The minute they entered the kitchen that seem to be empty Yui immediately became suspicious.

"Eh... Ayato... I think we're in the wrong place... the board specifically said home economics," Yui reminded.

The redhead slams both of his palms down on the counter. "Shut up! Make me the best takoyaki in the world!"

"No! Why should I? We need to attend class!"

"No back talk! Yours truly will eat them for you... Get cooking!" He spoke in a threatening voice.

"You're making no sense," she mumbled.

"Huh?"

"Nothing...I'll go get the ingredients in the cabinet," she announced before walking pass him.

42 minutes later, the takoyaki we're finally done. Yui set them down on a table and added takoyaki sauce, some mayonnaise, and then sprinkled them with some green laver and shavings of dried bonito.

Ayato licked his lips before picking one up with a toothpick and threw it in his mouth. Of course he ignored the fact that it was streaming hot and swallowed it with a grin on his face. "Yum!"

"I can't believe I skipped class... I can't afford to miss a day," Yui complained under her breath.

He looked over at her from the corner of his eye. "Don't sweat the little things... Have some."

She picked one up and took a bite out of it. "These are good."

"See!" He took two more and continued to enjoy.

As the blond took a small bite out of another one, from the corner of her eye she couldn't help but noticed his crisom tie was tied incorrect. She place the rest of her takoyaki on a napkin and turned to face the redhead.

"Come here," she said, turning him around to face her and reaching up to grab the tie around his neck.

He froze in his spot and his eyes widened. "Oi! What are you doing?"

"Fixing your tie." she responded, as she wrapped it correctly around the neck.

The redhead became slightly flushed and turned his gaze away from her. "You don't need to do this... I've been wearing my tie like this for centuries."

Yui smile broadened, "I need to teach you how to tie a tie correctly then." After she finished tighting it into a knot, she worked her way down to button up his shirt.

Ayato redden harder with his jaw dropping. "What- don't touch there!"

Yui giggled softly.

"What? What's so funny?"

"Oh nothing... it's just that... you act kind of like a child," she teased.

Ayato felt the vein in his forehead throb in irritation. Then his eyebrow twitched ever so slightly, before he brushed her hand away from his chest, and his face grew hotter. "How dare you! ...I have you know I'm no child and I'm a lot older than you think."

She lowered her head and faced forward. "I know... your brothers told me everything... well not everything but some of it."

He gribbed both her shoulders and turned her back around to face him. "What did they tell you? I want to hear every last detail!"

She blinked at him from being shock. "Not much... just that, you guys were once vampires and your father placed a curse turning all six of his sons into mortals."

Ayato signed, which sounded like he was relieved. "You got it right for the most part... a cursed was put upon us, but it wasn't by my old man... My grandfather, the devil himself placed the curse on my brothers and I." He paused and tensely stared at her. "What you saw last night was my grandfather's doing, and that's all I can tell you... Don't ask me anything else about it." He lighten his grip on her shoulders and dropped his hands to his sides, before turning his back to her.

Even after he told her about who casted the curse, Yui felt like this information wasn't enough and she needed to know more about them. "How come you and your twin brothers turn into beasts, but Shu, Reiji and Subaru don't?"

His shoulders hunched. "Are you that dense, you can't listen to a simple request?" He questioned, then glared over his shoulder at her. "What my brothers and I turn into is none of your business!"

"But... I want to help you guys!"

A cruel smile crept on his face when she said this. "Of course... that's the reason why your here." He walked back over to her, then swept everything off the table, and pinned her down on the top of it. His knuckles brushed against her cheek. "You can help me with something, but it's gonna cost you a lot."

In shock, she didn't break eye contact with him. Therefore, he begin to unbotton her shirt. "I wanted something since I first laid eyes on you."

"Like what?" Yui asked with a trembling voice.

"Tsk, you are truly a disgrace!" Reiji spat, as he eased his way through the kitchen. "It's only been your first day of school, and already I find you cutting class with Ms. Komori... You make me sick!"

Ayato's eyebrows furrowed into a tight scowl, as he glared at Reiji. "You're really starting to get on my nervous," he hissed.

Once Ayato loosening his grip on Yui's wrist, she wiggled away from him and bolted out the door quickly.

Outside, she ran into Subaru who was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed, staring at her. Yui automatically stopped in track, blinking confusely at him.

"Subaru... what are you doing?"

"Come with me." he demanded. Before she could retort, he was already walking pass her. So she followed closely behind him.

"Where are we going?"

"Somewhere quiet... Now stop asking questions." He replied, his voice was gruff.

They entered a stairwell that led up the stair to the roof where he took her. The second they got to the outside, Subaru turned around to face the blond.

Yui stared thoroughly into his eyes. "Is this about asking me to leave again?"

"No... it's not." He answered before sauntering back towards are. "Turns out, we have a lot more in common than I thought we had."

"Wha- What do you mean by that exactly?" She took a few steps away from him.

"Both of our mothers are decrease and our fathers aren't around us... Don't you see, those are two things in common so far."

Yui bobbed her head. "I guess you're right..."

"We're loners... I never met someone I can see myself through in their eyes." Subaru sincerely admitted.

Yui didn't know how to responded, she was speechless from hearing those words escape his lips. "And..."

He cuffed her cheek with the palm of his hand and tilted her face to meet his. "I want us to become friends... real friends..."

A/N: That's the end of Cursed. Next chapter part will be called Friends. I wanted to say thank you for the positive reviews. Also thanks for the favorites and follows. For those of you that are concerned about Subaru, Shu and Reiji having their own hinting curse other than just being mortal, you will find out later in story. They most certainly don't turn into beast though. Thanks again for showing interest in my story. See you guys soon.