"I am completely astounded by your laziness. You haven't even given your eve a weapon yet! You live up to your title sloth" Misano sighed as Kuro sat in on the table, obviously in cat form.

"Hm? That's Right. Why haven't you given me a weapon yet Kuro? " mahuri asked, looked down at him."What's the point in doing something so troublesome . wouldn't you two rather just look at how cute I am!" Kuro cooed rolling on his back happily."Your not that cute!" Yuno rolled her eyes the two boys, She sighed and turned back away petting teto's tummy, toto shakes his head and continued is conversation with mio

"I have a lot to learn, I barely know anything about vampires or what I should be doing as an eve" mahuri said, flashes of when ryusei got bit

What are you know that there are people I want to keep safe, I can't sit back and do nothing if the boys are attacking humans

"Do your really thing you need a weapon?" He asked

"What I do know that there are people I want to keep safe, I can't sit back and do nothing if vampires are attacking humans" Kuro then sighs "Do your really thing you need a weapon?" He asked

"If it gives me the power to protect others, yeah of course" mahuri nods

"Wait a sec... What's about to happen? Aren't you going to explain things first?"

'BANG'

a large confetti can went off, flying all over him and landing in his hair.

looking around the dark gray blue world that had scribbles everywhere and small birthday party set up.

Finally looking in front and saw a creepy black cat standing on its hind legs with pink facial features."Welcome! Happy birthday!" It cooed its voice dark and echoey.

"Happy birthday! Your inside of Kuro now" It repeated ."Come on! Follow me!" The cat ran off, mahuri followed after it."Your here for something right? Your very own birthday present!" The cat exclaimed as mahuri looked around

."uh. My birthdays a ways off- wait your talking about a weapon aren? Who are you?" He asked in confusion."I'm another part of Kuro! I'm in charge of his power!" The cat explained slipping around in front of me.

."Now it is time for you to chose your fate! Unwrap which ever one you like" the cat smiled gesturing to a huge pile of presents

."Out of all of those?" He panicked as the cat held up a beautiful cake that had my name frosted to the front in it."Yes happy birthday mahuri. Pick any box and obtain your very own power. Though you must know that you may not return it once you have already opened it"  the cat smiled.

"But you will become a stronger person who can't protect others and not depend on anyone but us" the cat quickly added smirking as he said

."Oh man... This is so hard" mahuri
muttered."Choose very carefully the ending will be the same no matter what routes for you to take. But what is important is that your choice will reflect who you really are as a person." He found the smallest box that was white  with a red bow

." Well on that case, I'll take the simplest looking one, when he touched the box, I'd dissolve and formed what looked like a broomstick

"Well, you pick the broomstick" Kuro says as mahuri was brought back to reality

"A fitting weapon for a commoner" misono says, mahuri gasped when the broom starts flying, it heads towards yuno's broom, who zoomed into the air, now both broom sticks were flying around

"Now that I think about it, you tried to attack me with a mop the first time you saw me In this form. What's the deal? Do you have a weird thing about using cleaning supplies as weapons?" Kuro asked as the brooms flew in a circle pattern

"No of course not" Mahuri said, it then flew down and, turning blue turning into what looked like a tattoo around his wrist, and broomy flew back to yuno "Like A tattoo?  What the hell?" He muttered examining it

"I don't get  how this thing is a weapon, how will I be able to fight with it?" He muttered

At some restaurant

"You can't put a plate back on the belt once you've touched it, berukia" tsubaki said as his subclass was about to put a plate back on the conveyor

"What, seriously? This stupid place has too many rules more importantly" he grumbled, eating what was on the plate, meanwhile someone was dragging something with him to the restaurant they were eating at "tsu tsu isn't that joker a little late? How long are we going to have to wait?" Just then the person they were waiting for arrived in the doorway

"Look. Not very long at all" tsubaki smirked "Hi, sir anywhe-" the owner along with the customers gasped when they saw his state, covered in blood, and dragging a person body

"Looks like someone is in a bad mood"

"Let's get outta here" one guy says in a panic "Wait for me!" His buddy runs after him "tsubaki, you called?" The guy with blood asked "Why don't you explain what you're holding first?" Tsubaki questioned "I'm pretty sure this guy was following me around earlier" they said, dropping the body

"He might be someone subclass" tsubaki says "Who knows" they shrugged "Aren't you afraid someone from school might see your current state? It'd be pretty obvious that you're a vampire right?" Tsubaki smirked "Sakuya?" He asked while the teen licked the blood off his fingers  "That doesn't matter to me anymore. They're Liars. That's just something I can't stand" he glared downwards

At the mansion

"And now I awaken my power!" Mahuri yelled, but just like before, nothing..."Why is it anything happening?!" He exclaimed

"You need to be able to pull that weapon out at Will before you can start learning how to fight" misono says, Lily and yuno with toto and tepo on her shoulder

"Hey, Kuro, is there like, a trick to this or what?" Mahuri  asked his SerVamp "I'm busy. Don't talk to me until you can summon it" he responded, playing a video game "Ugh!" Mahuri grumbled

"Mahuri dear, why don't you try focusing on exactly why you wanted this power to begin with, let that thought guide you" Lily said

"But how will that help?" He asked

"Your SerVamp Lacks motivation because you like resolve, that you would like together" misono explained

"If Kuro acts based on how I'm feeling, does that mean Lilly keeps trying to strip because you secretly want to?!" Marlo exclaimed

Yuno couldn't help but giggle

"No, it's because he's a damn pervert!" Misono exclaimed blushing while pointing at lily next to him who was removing his sleeve

"Focus on why I want to power. Okay. Because I want to protect others. Everyone I possibly can. Especially my friends. They've been family to me since I was little. Since I don't have parents I probably value my friends more than most. Hey we should introduce you to them,misono! There's ryusei, Koyuki, But Sakuya Has to be the first. Hes our oldest friend!"

"You can't. You just be getting your friends involved. And besides tsubaki is the only reason we are connected to each other in the first place" misono mumbles

"That's not true." Yuno says making him gasp " she's right, There is no reason we can't all get along, our old friends and our new friend. I want to keep everyone important to be safe, my friends and family number to what we face, will take them down! Right?kuro?" Mahuri said turning to him

"Don't know why you're asking me, you're in charge. I'll do what you say, Kill or protect whoever you order me too that's the job of a SerVamp"

"Oh come on Kuro, don't you even care a little?" Just then he thought he felt something and a small flash from his tatto "Huh? What was that?"

"Ah. Must have be-" suddenly Misano's head dropped and the clock struck the next hour, while the two eves began to worry "Misono?" Yuno called out

he began snoring."Oh I didn't realize it was so late! He always falls asleep st nine of the dot" lily sighed

." like a little kid?" Mahuri asked furrowing his eyebrows."Well why don't we pick this back up tomorrow?" Lily chuckled  " yeah. Sounds good, thanks for all the help and advice, both of you" yuno smiled slightly looking at the purple haired boy

"Our pleasure" lily smiled

At school next day

"huh? Sakuya's out again today?"yuno looking up at the name of the green haired boy

"I know, its unusual for him to be missing classes in a row" Koyuki says."Maybe he's got some kind of cold and is stuck in bed" Ryusei shrugged

"I did call him yesterday, But no one answered the phone at his place, I wanted him to try on this uniform" mahuri said pulling out the butler costume he'd been working on

"Is that a butler costume?" Koyuki asked "Whoa! Did you make that?" Followed by ryusei "Your so crafty mahuri" Koyuki smiled

"This is going to kill it the festival" ryusei grins "Sakuya Will flip when he sees it" He said "Hopefully" mahuri shrugged "I'll stop by later on this house on the way home after school and let him know, I've got to go out anyway for some stuff" yuno says, eating an approved nod from Koyuki

" then I'll go with you" mahuri says stepping forward, catching their attention
" okay, sure" she responds

" ohhh, mahuri following to keep her safe?" reusei grins " t-that's not it at all! Besides it's okay for a friend to accompany another friend!"

They laughed while yuno looked confused to why his face was slightly red

" it's fine, I'll be alright, but we can meet you later" she assured

After school

Yuno stopped at a store to get something healthy for Sakuya to eat, then left the store on her way to his place

"Are there any chips" toto asked while trying to look into the bag " bad crow, this is for Sakuya" she says

"Sakuya is the one always telling stories and has weird hair right? The one we saw the other day?" He asked.

."  No offence, but I don't think he'd get along with that stuck up brat" he states ."Stuck up brat? You mean Misano?" Yuno hummed

"Yes. Say how do you know this Sakuya again?" Toto asked

."We were childhood friends he was with  Mahiru and me when both their parents died...we've been friends since elementary..." just then their was a weird staticky feeling in her head

" or wait was it middle school..." she tried to remember, but something felt wrong " Sakuya lost both his parents just like mahuri.." she then paused for a moment

"..wait....how did they die again?...I should know" she stopped walking and placed a hand on her forehead

" and where does he live...why can't I remember?...his address...I've gone with mahuri so many times....When was the last time I went there?...'

"What am I saying, we've Known each other since we've been kids after all of you" she started to feel a pain in her head "Are you okay?" Toto asked worried

"Why is my head hurting? We were inseparable!" She then Felt something crack

"This Sakuya...who is he again" she wondered in shock, without knowing something approaching her from behind, until she felt heard and felt a hand "yuno?," She turned her head jumping with a gasp, it was Sakuya, and he looked equally surprised

"Whoa, it is you. I'm not just seeing things, right? What are you doing, all the way out here?"

"Sakuya, you scared me! But more importantly Where have you been!?" She says in surprise " I've been worried!"

."I can explain," he started. " after I left mahuri when we met up, at The station, a vampire totally attacked me! So I holed up at home! Scared!" She looked shocked while Freya peeked form the bag suspiciously "Soooooo.. so how much do you wanna bet I made that up on the fly?"  He smirked

"You and your stupid stories! I'm serious! Anyways, here's your dinner!" She yelled shoving a grocery bag of food on his head

" sometimes I wished you'd act a little serious" she said pouting

Just then a scream broke out. She turned her head to the sound of a woman screaming " someone's in trouble!-"

" yuno, this way" Just then he grabbed her wrist and pulled her arm and dragged her into the alley with him "Hey! Sakuya! What are you doing?!" She exclaimed

" stop!" She yelled but he refused to listen
."Relax. I'm.. your friend. I would never do anything to hurt you." slowing down as the two reached the end of the alley.

He had stopped further up than her, keeping his gaze ahead of him "Sakuya?" You could hear the nervous tone in her voice, "Where are we?"

"Be honest yuno. Do you trust me? If you trusted me you wouldn't lie to me, not ever"

" Sakuya?...your being weird..why are you trying to say?" She asked " there's one thing I have to know..." she grew confused " how much of our relationship was a lie, or was our entire friendship a complete sham?

Suddenly She was lifted from the ground strings ties around her body so tightly she could barely move, and toto and Tepo, who was take out of his hiding place had suffered the same fate, tied in strings  " what the?!" Just then

Suddenly two swords dropped and they landed on either side of of her familiar and companion ."toto! Tepo!" She yelled trying to move in the wires but they just tightened.

Just then they heard the sound of someone yelling and footsteps running towards them.

Mahiru coming this way. "Yuno!" He yelled, "I heard a scream and came looking for you!" Kuro was on his shoulder pretty much looking like he was about to fall asleep.

Before he could make it a step closer, two swords slammed into the ground by his feet, temporarily keeping him from moving.

."Now for the applause! This spectacular is about to begin!" The familiar pink haired vampire cooed as he jumped from the building where he had been staring down at the group they caught " the runaway bride has now been caught!"

"Yuno, mahuri I warned you didn't I? That there our vampires around here? I told you so SO SO SO MANY TIMES TO BE CAREFUL!!" He screamed his voice dark and incredibly frightening.

Yuno looked at him with wide eyes."yuno...your friend is Tsubaki's subclass!!" Toto exclaimed, she felt tears well up in her eyes and slowly stream down her face

"Sakuya" Mahiru muttered

."Mahiru do you ever get the feeling that everything you ever knew about the world had been created five minutes ago? You probably think that's crazy. After all you have memories of the past but what if those are fake memories that were recently implanted in to your brain? What I've only been your best friend for five minutes? Can you prove something like that is impossible? Can you prove anything actually existed more than five minutes ago?"

'What is he talking about?...'

"What did I say to you guys when your mom died, do you remember? Was I even there?"

'Wait...why don't he in my memories from the past...' mahuri wondered

Suddenly he pulled out three knives " just how many of your memories are lies my friends!" ran towards mahuri " Sakuya no!" Kuro had always jumped in Front

"Kuro!!"Suddenly Belkia attacked him too."No stop!" Yuno struggled angrily like her familiar and tepo around the strings as they two subclasses jumped away

' he slashed Kuro...he was going for mahuri...he's killing people! This has to be a bad dream!'

."Your making it up! Your not actually a vampire right?!" Mahiru screamed."Oh you'd live if that were a lie would you? If vampires didn't exist and I wasn't one of them you could chalk this up as some kid of trick! Psh people always wanna believe the lie that's most convenient for them! Vampires take advantage of that and tend to hypnotize humans" Sakuya chuckled softly his voice dry and threatening, a tone yuno never heard before

"You two were easy to fool. You wanted to connect with someone so badly." That's when yuno's eyes darkened

And she was almost a doll again

"Mahuri... Why'd you have to get involved? If you hadn't picked up that cat. If you hadn't lied to me then I might still be standing by your side right now. We could have woken tomorrow still best friends! Things could have kept going like they were!" Sakuya began to cry.

" damn it yuno! Why'd you have to be the witch!" He yelled "Why does the world around you fall apart around you so often, its not fair!"

" Neither of is meant to lie! We just didn't want our friends getting caught up with vampires! We wanted to keep you safe! To protect all of you guys!" Mahuri yelled

"SHUT UP! your still lying to me which means you really don't trust me!! If I was actually your best friend then you would have told me the truth no matter what!! DON'T YOU DARE SAY YOU WERE LYING TO ME TO KEEP ME SAFE! " He screamed

."we were!" Mahuri exclaimed

"You know, I hate liars more than anything. Once someone lies to you, you lose all trust you can't believe a word they say ever again!" He looked down glaring darkly at the ground.

Suddenly he scrapped his nails across a broken mirror and mahuri winced at the ear splintering sound

."It feels like my entire bodies being torn apart . that what happens when your best friends lies to your face" he began to laugh crazily."Your being a tad bit dramatic but suppose so" I sweat dropped."AND THATS NOT ALL!! IM NOT STUPID! I KNEW THE WORDS COMING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH WERE LIES!! BUT I JUST STOOD THERE PRETENDING IT WAS OKAY! I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WHICH MEANS YOU MADE A LIAR OUT OF ME TOO!"he screamed.

'Kuro...come on!...we can fix this somehow!...the two of us will work together again and make things right!..' meanwhile belkia was covering his ears form the agonising noise, however a certain pink haired didn't seem affected by it " yuno...." toro grunted but the pink haired girl didn't reply

' we...have to stop him!'

Mahuri began to struggle on the strings again when he noticed Kuro move slightly. "Kuro?!"

"There's no point" he stated "W-What? What do mean there's no point? Of course there's a point!" He exclaimed. "Drinking your blood isn't going to help anything. Not when you like this.." He grumbled "What.."

"The stuck up brat explained it to you didn't he? We're linked, that's the reason I'm so lazy. Because you lack certainty powered by the resolve flowing through the veins of his eve. That means my power is only equal to the strength of your will. You don't have any resolve right now. I can't tell If you want me to protect your friend or to kill him" Kuro sighed

" look at yuno! She's having the same problem!" His eyes widened as he looked towards the blond

' wait...it's happening again...' that flashback of when she first started acting empty when she fought tsubaki '...something else is wrong with her...'

Just was cut from his thoughts as the strings holding the four up dropped and mahuri fell harshly to his knees."Argh!"

He looked up in surprise and saw Misano standing in front of them with Lily, who was holding the swords that were stabbed in to Kuro's back

."M-Misano?" He gasped."Stand back mahuri shirota! Yuno gasai! I'll take care of this!" Misano exclaimed

."Hold on a second! You can't that's our friend Sakuya!" Mahiru exclaimed from beside me."Right! I'm their very best friend in the whole world! So what are ya gonna do with me huh?" Sakuya smirked

"This guys was one of you friends? What a pity. We won't get along, vampire" Misano muttered.

Sakuya just laughed tilting his head back in amusement "I'm not very good at fighting but I'll do my best.. If it really brings you pleasure" Lily hummed before summoning his scythe and swinging at Belkia as he lunged at him."Not a very good plan. Do you think you can take me down alone? That's pretty damn cocky of you rich little punk!" Sakuya scoffed

."I wanna know when and why you got close to yuno and Mahiru! What were your motives!" Misano yelled angrily."Huh? Your talking like some kind of jealous boyfriend whose been cheated on, why do you care so much about them.....? Didn't you just meet them a few day ago I mea-"

"It doesn't matter when we met! It matters what they said! The shirota and gasai called me their friend! " Misano exclaimed."Their friend.." Sakuya looked behind Misano at them

."You child! You would believe such an obvious con?! There's not a lie that's more over used than friendship! Your stupider than I thought! You can't even tell when someone is just saying what you want to hear to be polite!"

Misano's eyes darkened and he held out his arm."What are you doing now? What's a kid like you gonna do against me? Your so easy. Your a lonely eve who's about to get knocked off the board" Sakuya huffed." separating from your SerVamp was an idiotic mistake"

"Ah some applause please! Ready for the securing belkia and his magic murder box!" Belkia cooed taking a weird box from his jat."Lily only left my side because he had a good reason too. Watch closely you two. This is one way I can use my power" Misano explained standing closely on front of them.

"If an enemy target comes between lily and I. Our weapon activates"Watching with wide eyes they saw a blue sphere type thing appear below belkia and lock him in Misano's chair "goodnight and sweet dreams"

" wha the hell is this thing?!"

."Your kidding me! Misano's weapon is a chair?!" Mahuri muttered with Kuro in his lap

Suddenly lily came up behind belkia with the scythe under his neck

"Nighty night now!" Lily cooed.Before cutting belkia and throwing him at me feet.My eyes widened and I looked down at the pinkette."One down" Misano mumbles.

"But it looked like you chopped his head off!! " Mahiru exclaimed. "My power only destroys the mind not the body. To be honest with you I'm out of practice but it's good to know we can still put up a fight" lily smiled turning to us slightly. "Misono really wanted to show off for you yuno~" lily cooed.

Her eyes widened and blushed slightly. "Hey! Quite Lily!!" Misono exclaimed blushing slightly himself.

. "Its unfortunate. Mahiru and yuno were talking about how excited they were to introduce their friends to me. He wanted you to be first" Misono sighed turning back to Sakuya

"They really wanted to introduce us? I see"  Misano's posture tensed up.

"I wish we could have stayed friends... Even if it was only for just another week or two. I was actually pretty pumped to go to the school festival that was coming up" Sakuya sighed.

."If only if things had turned out differently... Who knows, Misono you and I might have even been friends ..." Sakuya smirked."misono! Don't let him distract you!" Lily warned

"Mahiru, yuno, I wonder what your new friends intentions are, sounds to me like he wants us to fight, is that it?"

Misono break the chain " misono! What are you doing?! Where'd he go-" just then lily was cut off by someone appearing behind him, which turned out to be belkia?! " hi there, I'm the grand duke of skewering belkia" his voice was different through, he then lifted the sword he had stabbed Lily's leg off with " looks like somethings wrong with your leg!"

" those strings...who's moving you?" Lily glared

Then.....

....Sakuya attacking Misono .

Yuno looked up just in time to see blood fly everywhere."N-No Misono!!" Yuno screamed

Lily quickly ran to his side and the Sakuya stood in front of Mahiru."So just how much of what I said earlier was lie? Mahiru? Yuno? Does it make me a liar to fail to mention we aren't alone?" Sakuya laughed evilly

."So there's someone else here. Pulling the strings" lily hissed.

"Sakuya why are you doing this to us?! What the hell happened to you?!" Mahiru screamed angrily."I thought the four of us could all be friends! And you ruined that! You need to stop this!"

"M-mahuri....y-Yuno..."both looked and saw Misono looking weakly in my their direction ."M-Misono ?!"

"Did I do...something out of line? I just wanted to protect my new friend" he asked weakly.

Almost instantly the girl felt her blood boil and stood up without trouble eyes flaming

."No Misono you did perfect. I'm sorry I didn't help... You did something noble...

"damnit!" Mahuri exclaimed clenching his fists angrily, yuno too was angry but also...something else...she couldn't put her finger on it, and that what's has her in the phase she's in

Suddenly someone grabbed her from behind and heard the distinct sound of a blade opening and the hot breath of someone Much taller than her on my neck."You have no idea Yuno. No idea how your supposed best friend felt this whole time. Hanging out on the way home from school. The more fun I had with you guys the drier my throat would get!" He hissed

"It gets so bad I think of killing someone. I guess that's just to be expected. Its just the way I'm wired. Vampires exist to hurt people, humans" he hummed " no...it's not an excuse.." she muttered, only she sounded lifeless

Suddenly he let go, she looked over to see him standing on Mahiru."Mahiru!"

" sakuya don't make me do it!" She yelled

"But its true guys! And honestly the guilt feels pretty damn good too! It's all part of being a vampire! The reward for my thirst! Now listen if your going to try and kill me be serious about it! Otherwise...I'll attack your new friend again and this time HE'LL DIE!!" Sakuya growled crushing his head in to the concrete.

Just then he heard the sound of someone whisper in his ear " your a liar...would you do to them what they did to you?" She whispered " you won't betray them..." he turned around in alarm, while mahuri watched as yuno fell on her knees

"Sakuya-"

"Keep quiet mahuri..." he turned to find Kuro next to him "You can't fight him in the state your in!" Kuro

."Huh? Wait your wounds" his eyes widened."They're better. So it'd be smart for us to run now" he stated.

."No way Kuro!"He began stomping towards Sakuya."We have to go!" Kuro exclaimed grabbing his hand

" we can't go! Misono's hurt! Look at him!" The boy exclaimed

."Do you really wanna use your power like this? You haven't done anything you'll regret yet. You can walk away with a clear conscience" he exclaimed

"I can't just sit back and do nothing!" He ripped his hand backs and started stoping towards Sakuya " your not listening mahuri..." Kuro began as mahuri took off his wrist band "what I mean is your unsure of yourself right now..." Sakuya has caught the band that had been thrown " Sakuya!" With his hand out, he summoned his lead

"Good. your doing the right thing, mahuri. All liars should deserve to be killed" Sakuya smiled slightly.

On the roof

The girl who was controlling belkia then noticed how Suddenly it began to rain "its raining, even though the moons out" she said " but I thought you weren't going to be joining us here today" behind her, was tsubaki, watching the fight

"And why not, otogiri? I want in on the fun" he smirked as she turned to look at him " it's a problem"

He leaned forward " so mahuri shiota, I want to see the true shape of your despair, it would be interesting if you bacame the key.please"

He saw his so called beloved shaking " please show me your power my dear, like you did before..."

He felt another presence behind them " you sure took your time..." he smirked

" I was busy, and when you said you wanted to test someone, I just had to see for myself, the walking dead still okay?" The person asked

" just make it something she can handle"
Tsubaki said

Meanwhile

mahuri swings his broom at Sakuya. And smacked him

' don't loose sight of yourself, don't be swayed' while Sakuyas body skid to a halt ' I hit him. I hit Sakuya...' something in Kuro changed, and he felt it " don't get swallowed!"

' i Dont think I'm the one swinging' it was like something was controlling his body ' it's like I'm the one being swung around'

"It won't stop bleeding. Is it because of that broom? What do you know. Maybe you will he able to kill me!" Sakuya exclaimed rubbing his bloody eye.

'Wait a second. What does he mean by that?...I'm not gonna kill Sakuya!' His broom started fading " no. Don't go down that path. You can't mahuri" Kuro yelped

' what's happening...' yuno shook " you won't be able to stay human!" He held himself back ' I don't want to kill anyone! Especially not him! We were friends! This isn't the power that I asked for!' He yelled as he charged him, and hit him,making him cough up blood 'I can't do this! I wanted to protect people!'

Yuno was about to jump in when she felt another presence ' Wait...what's this?....' she felt her body shaking  ' why can't I move?...this presence...I remember it...but from where....'