It had been a week since Yui first found the girls room... (name)...yui wondered what kind of woman she was...

One day she snuck out feeling it would be the best time to see her while everyone was asleep.

"Excuse me?" Yui asked gently knocking on the door as she opened it

"Mmm?" The girls shadow sat up slowly and rubbed her eye yawning "who is it?"

"Yui komori" Yui answered quietly closing the door "I'm sorry to bother you...I was told to stay away from here. However I wanted to speak with you"

The woman chuckled and waved her over

"Come on in Yui, those boys don't own me" she said amused "although they seem to think they do"

Not long later, Yui sat on a chair beside (names) bed. It was placed there, she was told, by Reiji when Kanato wanted to be read a story by (Name) but refused to sit on the floor.

The woman was extremely kind, although everything she did seemed a bit forced.

"May I ask what you are sick with (name)?" Yui asked carefully

"You may, but nobody knows what it is really..." she frowned "I got sick a few short weeks after I came here...at first I'd just faint at random...then if I was bitten too many times I'd have a fever spike and be bed ridden. After a while it just took a turn for the worst...one day it was being odd as normal...then I had a fever spike...and I suddenly got really sick. I know I'm a burden...I'm not of any use anymore." She smiled a bit bitter..."that's why Reiji won't visit me...he sees me as a hindrance for the most part. And Ayato and I tend to but heads..." she giggled

"But they won't let you go home?" Yui asked saddened

The young woman sighed softly and looked out the big windowed doors that lead to a small balcony

"I don't have a home anymore Yui, all I have left is here now. I'm okay with that...for the most part. But I do wish that if I am dying...that it would just get it over and done with"

"You can't mean that!"

"Yui...I'm sick...I've been sick for a very long time. 5 years now..."

"but don't you have people to live for? At least one person you can't leave behind?" She asked feeling desperate to know that you wouldn't give up and die

"Well..."

"Live for that person (name)" Yui smiled holding your hands

"Should I live for K-Kanato?" she squeaked blushing darkly then continued to mumble quietly and incoherently

"yeah!" Yui smield softly "I'm a bit surprised though"

"wh-why?" (name) asked stuttering, her little heart pounding a mile a minute

"Kanato...seems like someone who acts too childishly for one to have romantic feelings for" the pale girl thought out her statement carefully before she tried to convey it to the sickly woman before her

"Kanato...kind of reminds me of someone from when I was little. This someone used to hold onto my skirt and follow me around like a lost puppy." (Name) explained "except, Kanato has a strange air about him. As much as I feel the need to care for him...I know he's more than capable of over powering my body with his own."

Yui watched her explain a bit perplexed on how she should feel about it. (name) cared for the violet haired triplet and his more childish side was something she easily would care for – something Yui chalked up to maternal instincts. But (name) also said that Kanato could easily overpower her, so that meant she'd seen at least some instance where he's acted more like a man rather a small child.

"he's closer to your age...I think" (Name) sighed "it's a tad confusing with the whole fact that they are vampires, isn't it? Even I don't know if they're truly the age they claim to be."

Yui simply nodded in agreement. She'd often wondered the same thing and at times it made her worry, herself.

"is Kanato kind to you, Yui?" (name) asked playing with a strand of her hair

"other than threatening to pretty much cut me open and feed me to "teddy"?" she asked with a shrug.

To this, (name) laughed as if it were the funniest thing she heard all day

"i-I'm serious!" Yui pressed "he seriously was going to feed me to that teddy bear"

"mr. Teddy, as that is what I have been allowed to call him, is not one to trifle with" (name) said between her attempts to pacify her giggles and Yui wasn't sure if the sick female was warning her or was teasing "On his more childish side, the one everyone sees 90 percent of the time Kanato is with them, Kanato can be clingy and needy...I find it utterly adorable..." she cooed almost as she held her weak palms to her cheeks.

Neither girl noticed the presence of a not so childish emerald gaze that swept over their forms as they spoke. This observer of the scene stood on the other side of the room in the doorway, not hiding in any particular way...but all the same didn't bring attention to themselves.

"the other side of him...we'll call that the more demanding side for now," (name) continued in almost a daze "he's more intimidating but he can be rather sweet still, depending on if you're doing or behaving in a way he allows. He'll lose it if you over step the boundary that you aren't informed about"

"sounds like a terrible game of Russian roulette" Yui mumbled only to jump out of her skin as a fork was touched to the skin on the side of her neck "KYAHHH!!!"

"shut up...you're bothering Teddy..." Kanato grouched as he stared intensively at the pink eyed girl's neck before grabbing her short hair roughly in his hand, dropping the fork in the process, and dragging her out of the chair. He practically threw her small form onto the ground then stepped over her and sat comfortably.

"Kanato...!" (name) exclaimed more in surprise than in scolding, although her tone did have a hint of it residing in her gasp.

"this is my chair Doll-chan" he grouched his lips pursing in a small pout "I asked Reiji to put it here, not her" he spat the word 'her' as if Yui was something bitter and distasteful

"are you alright Yui?" (name) asked softly leaning over her bed. Yui sat up on the wood floor rubbing her head but nodded slowly to the older girl signalling that she was alright now. This action was one Kanato disliked greatly

"I come to see you with Teddy and you pay more attention to her?!" he screamed pushing (name) down into her pillows

"n-no...Kanato i-"

"(name)!" Yui called but the (h/c) girl shook her head never breaking eye contact with the vampire before pointing to her door in a way that was hopefully unnoticed by the male.

"what?!" he yelled again "I CAME TO VISIT AND YOU CARE MORE ABOUT HER"

"Kanato, that's not true! I was just worr-"

"worried about her? Would you be more worried if I fed her to Teddy?" Kanato asked in a sickening tone, although he was honestly asking the question – or at least seemed to (name) to be an honest question

"I would, please don't do that...Mr Teddy could get indigestion" she offered attempting to protect Yui in this. Most cases she could calm the boy down enough that he'd go back to his clingy childish side. This time though, she was scared she wouldn't be able to

"..." Kanato's green eyes scanned her body stopping a few times to stare at certain spots before he climbed right on top of her, sitting on her stomach.

"K-Kanato?!" (name) blushed darkly

Kanato set teddy down next to her well fluffed pillow where her head rested against before tracing his hand from her cheek down her body

"you're thinner" he commented in a quiet tone

"I'm still sick..." she offered back

"you didn't eat the candy I brought you" he said his eyes not leaving to look at the small bag of candy on her nightstand, but he knew she hadn't touched it. The ribbon was tied perfectly as it had been when he brought it in several weeks ago

"Kanato...I'm...I'm sorry" she whispered in a barely audible tone

The violet haired male dragged his dark circled eyes back to her face

"I don't think I'll be here much longer..." (name) said in an equally hushed tone sullen about it

"you can't leave" he stated and it felt as if her statement had gone over his head

"no...K-Kanato...I'm dying" she clarified her voice creaking as tears welled up in her eyes.

Kanato stared at her once more. She wasn't cooing at him, pressing his face against her chest as she droned on and on in an annoying pitch about how cute he looked, or trying to feed him his sweets. (name) no longer read his stories or offered to tuck him in (or let him sleep with her on occasion) nor was she cuddling him. His purple eyebrows furrowed in annoyance and a touch of anger, although his eyes bore into her own swirling with isolation, loneliness and desperation. He wanted her to run over and knock him over cooing and cuddling him close to her warm, soft body – even if most of the time it was hard to breath as his face often was pressed between her breasts.

"you're not" he denied her. If he didn't say so, then she couldn't.

(name) cracked a smile her tears slipping down her face.

"unfortunately Kanato...I don't have a choice. The world might deny you no matter how upset you get or how big a fuss you mak-" she gasped feeling the prick of fangs stabbing into her skin. A flush blossomed across her face and she squeezed her eyes shut.

Kanato lifted his head, licking his bloody lips. He didn't want to lose a drop of the blood he stole from her neck. Seeing her expression he grinned in an almost sickening way before dropping his face between her breasts hugging her close

"you have to cuddle me (name), you can't leave me" he cried softly his tears wet on her chest as he bared his fangs again aiming for her right breast.

Blood dripped onto the sheets around them as Teddy sat nearby the scene. Witnessing it all.

"I won't allow it"