Diabolik Lovers: Daddy Edition

Chapter 15

“That f*****g bastard!” Kanato grits his teeth after his outburst. As of right now he stands over Yui’s unconscious body, looking over the clear white skin that is now marked at the hands of another. Her platinum blonde locks spirals and curls over the pillow while canned out from beneath her head. He saw how her eyes remained closed and her delicate eyes lashes caresses her now dull and lifeless cheeks that seem to hollow. His eyes shift to her once soft lips that are chapped and pale, no longer holding the light dusted shade of pink. He loved to kiss her the most, to feel her warmth through his icy skin and relish at the touch of flesh and blood massaging his aching fangs.

She was his— theirs! To drink from, to defile, to torment, to love. How could they have not known until it was to late? He knew Reiji wouldn’t concede quietly yet he still left them alone.

The storm continues to rage on outside the bones of the manor, but there is one that is greater brewing deep into the crevices of the house that is being stirred violently by the remaining occupants. They want revenge. Blood. To make Reiji pay for his sins against them. Even if not one of them give a damn about human religion, this is their Eve; and Ema has provided them a garden, a sanctuary. They’ll rather die then watch it fade away into oblivion. Especially not by the hands of that neglected, self-entitled, four-eyes sadist.

Kanato is soon joined by the rest of his siblings. Each appearing to surround the unconscious high school girl. However, Ayato strolled in carrying a wailing little Ema who doesn’t seem to be calming down in the slightest.

“Hey, the kid won’t stop crying and I did everything!” He informs them of his dilemma.

“Let me see her, Ayato.” Kanato begins as he sets Teddy down on the bedside table. Ayato simply clicks his tongue as he passes the infant over to his older sibling. Kanato holds Ema but the child continues to sob uncontrollably. That’s when Kanato realizes three things wrong with this picture.

“Close the curtains. She’s afraid of the weather.” He says as he holds his child close to his chest. Suddenly the room goes extremely dark, until one by one candles are lit all over the room by Laito himself.

“Done.” The fedora-wearing vamp hums.

The curtains only blocked out the flashes of lightning and only nulled the booming claps of thunder but it helped, now Ema has stopped wailing at the top of her lungs.

“Next, where’s Bunny? I gave it to her for these reasons. She needs him.” Kanato states while glaring at Ayato who had the audacity to remove it from her prior to his arrival with the crying infant.

Ayato ignores his gaze with a click of his tongue before going off to fetch the stuffed animal.

“She doesn’t need it. She’ll be fine without it once she grows up.” Ayato grumbles. Kanato simply lets his brother’s words fall on deaf ears as he snatches the stuffed bunny from his unappreciative grasp. He shows the baby girl her droopy-ear companion. Thankfully, the child has calmed to a whimper but still allows crystal-like tears to slip down her puffed rosy cheeks from her sky blue eyes. Kanato sighs in relief but still has one more thing to do that will guarantee the child will stop blubbering.

The violet haired teen simply rests the infant down on the bed. The baby girl quickly goes quiet and solemnly crawls over to her unconscious mother’s still form. Ema moves closer to Yui’s face and pats it gently only to blink away the rest of her tears. The baby wraps her arms around Bunny’s neck and curls into her mother’s bosom. The melancholy sight strikes a feeling through the cold hearts of the Sakamaki brothers. A feeling that none of them were used to nor enjoyed.

“It’s his fault. We need to make him pay.” Subaru grits out.

“How do you suppose we do that since four-eyes ran off?” Ayato comments, crossing his arms over his exposed chest.

“We wait, Reiji knee that killing Yui wasn’t an option. Not because it was His orders, but because not even he can resist the siren song that her blood sings. He’ll be back, all we need to do is wait.” Shuu interjects, his form lounging about as if he could care less. However, his relaxed facade betrays how truly feels. A raging fire burns through his veins and his royal blue hues only darken with a menacing glow in the candlelight.

“When he returns, we’ll be ready.”

...

Three days have passed. Yui is still rendered unconscious and vulnerable so she is under constant watch by the vampires that care for her wellbeing and the child they adore. Laito took care of watching both Ema and the young woman since he could tell that neither wanted to be apart from the other.

“Y’know Little Mama, you’re hurting us by staying asleep for so long. What are you dreaming about that keeps you from us for so long? Could it be that you’re dreaming of me? Of all the naughty things I’ll do to that body of yours, with my hands, with my fangs? I’m getting excited just thinking about all the lewd dreams your having. Hurry and wake up soon, okay? Then we can work on making your dreams a reality.” He sings as he leans over to plant a kiss on the young woman’s cold lips, feeling her breath escape and fan over his nose gently.

He has to reassure himself that she’s merely asleep and not on her death bed. And he isn’t the only one. Subaru and Ayato come in during their shift to try and reason or threaten her into awakening. Laito has even heard Kanato singing to the girl and child on his watch. Shuu’s visits are often the most silent since he favors to simply join the sixteen-year-old in bed to feel the heat radiate from her skin with Ema resting between them. He may even place an earbud in her ear feeling as if it’ll help in some way or form. They all wish for the young mother to awaken soon, so that they can return to their blissful lives together that she created for them.

Laito watches as Ema makes another attempt to waking up her sleeping mother only to get the same response.

“Hmm, that’s enough little one. If Mama wants to sleep some more she can. I want her to wake up just as much as you do.” He says while pulling the girl away into his arms while remaining seated on the edge of the bed. The little girl in his arms merely babbles with her stuffed companion glued to her side.

“Besides little Ema, I need you and Mama close incase that sadistic glasses-wearing bad man shows up again.” He shows a playful smile to the infant which makes her smile in return.

He tosses the girl lightly into the air only to bring her back down and to his chest.

“And that bad man may be here right now.” He observes with his voice dropping low in pitch as his emerald eyes glare at the large wooden doors that is the only entrance to the small room.

...

In the front of the house, the doors slammed open alerting the residents. One by one the Sakamaki brothers appear to assess the situation only to face a horde of familiars clambering through the entrance.

“Reiji, so that’s what you’ve been doing.” Shuu acknowledges his younger brother.

“Indeed, I thought I should come prepared since all of you have seem to lost the little brains you had left.” Reiji states as he steps from beyond the pack of low level vampires.

“Hand over the infant, and we can get back to our normal lives.” Reiji demands.

“To hell with that! Screw you!” Ayato yells, displaying his opinion on the matter.

Reiji looks around and simply sighs once he sees that none of his siblings were willing to comply. No matter. He readjusts his spectacles and with a quick snap of his fingers, “Then let the battle commence.”

...

Hours of tireless fighting ensues. Reiji has ordered that the main target would be Ema but the familiars didn’t even make near the room that held Yui and Ema. Each servant being slaughtered mercilessly by the vampire brothers. They bared their own scars and bruises that decorate their chiseled physiques but pressed on in the fight against the second son. The claps of thunder and flashes of lightning as the rain pelts the windows and doors of the manor surrounded them all in a fight to the death.

Soon Reiji realized that he would be outnumbered. He didn’t expect for his brothers to put up that much of a fight, and the fact that the reason they are is to protect that blasted child upstairs made his vision blur with blind fury.

The first to cross his line of sight is Shuu. Forever the thorn in his side, Reiji estimates that if he couldn’t get rid of the child then at least he could rid himself of another nuisance.

Shuu is distracted by slicing down three of Reiji’s familiars at once to notice the blade his brother wields behind his back.

Reiji quickly takes the lung. That moment when the blade pierces through Shuu’s heart to earn a grunt or even a scream in pain and agony, Reiji relishes it.

If it only happened.

“Stop!” The house nearly shakes at the feminine voice that orders everything in that room to halt. There, at the top of the stairs stood Yui with Ema whimpering silently in her arms and clutching Bunny to drown out the noise of outside.

Yui could be seen out of breath, sweat coating her forehead and dripping down her brow. Her shoulder length platinum blonde tresses is disheveled and her apparel matched its state. The brothers look to the young mother and the child with disbelief but Reiji smirks and takes his opportunity.

He vanishes from his current spot to right behind Yui. The girl yelps and clutches her child close to her chest. Even though she tried to defend the child, Ema is ripped from her grasp and the glasses-wearing vampire raises the blade high above his head.

Yui, though terrified, quickly jumps and holds on tightly to Reiji’s arm.

“Reiji-San, please! Don’t kill her, I beg you!”

“This child is nothing but a nuisance. She needs to be disposed of quickly.”

“Why, Reiji?” Shuu asks, suddenly appearing to remove Ema and Yui away from the vampire. Yui sighs in relief once handed back her child safely, and hugs the whimpering baby girl.

After finishing off the rest of Reiji’s familiars, the other brothers join Yui and Ema at the top of the stairs.

The second son of the Sakamaki family could be seen glaring harshly through the lens of his frames with a snarl putting his handsome face to shame.

Yui only looks back and matches his glare with a soft and tired look. She didn’t want to feel anger, resentment, or even fear any longer. All she wants to know is, why? Why? Everyone else has come to accept or at the very least tolerate Ema, but why can’t Reiji?

“Reiji-San,” Yui begins in a soft voice, “no more excuses, why can’t you just leave Ema be? Is it because I “defied” you? Is that it?” Yui inquires only feeling a long sense of despondence.

Reiji straightens his form and shifts his gaze to the whimpering in the neck of her mother. He felt the eyes of his siblings glare into his being but ignores them.

Why did he detest the little runt?

He glances at the faces staring back at him. He deduces that he never really did hold any true animosity towards the infant. He remembers when his anger truly festered.

...

It was after Laito grew an attachment to little Ema, he believes. Watching how his younger brother and Yui formed a bond and fawn over the child. He studied how the longer she stayed the more attention and love she received without even trying. He felt the anger and annoyance rise and boil over as he toiled away in his study as he heard the infants laugh and the others merriment.

...

It reminds him of how lonely and neglected he felt during those times. Foolish, really, now that he thinks about it. He, Reiji Sakamaki, is jealous. The vampire chuckles, startling his siblings and the young woman. His deep chuckle soon turns into a hearty, bellyaching, sad, pathetic laugh. He simply drops the blade in his gloved hand and presses that same hand to his face. He wears glasses and yet he’s been so blind; how could he have been so blind? Him, of all people.

“...I’m sorry.”

Pardon me? None of them seem to believe the words that cross his lips.

“I’ve seen the error of my ways, unfortunately. I suppose that... Ema can and has become a permanent resident of this house.”

Yui as well as the others could only stare in shock, and wonder what change could have swayed the second son’s mind. Either way, Yui saw the look in his eyes that were no longer filled with deceit and repulse but found sincerity in them and believed his words to be true.

“I believe you, Reiji-San. Thank you, but please understand that I may never forgive you or trust you again after this day.” Yui says tiredly as she manages to finally rock the crying child to sleep. Reiji looks down, and though it could only be caught his elder brother, a small and quick smile graces his lips. However, the moment soon ends when Yui suddenly feels herself growing weak, and the room begins to spiral. She faints into the arms of Subaru who picks the girl up as the bride she is, while Ema is tucked safely into the arms of Shuu.

“Let’s get them back to the room. She still needs to rest, crazy woman.”

As Shuu and Subaru take their leave, Reiji seems to think it’s time for him to depart as well, but as consequence would have it, the triplets surround him, effectively blocking his way.

“Did you honestly think you’ll get away with an apology and slap on the wrist from Yui? Think again, four-eyes.” Ayato growls.

Reiji knew this was coming and decides to accept his fate and the fact that it rests in the hands of his homicidal half brothers.

“No, I suppose I did not.” Reiji agreed.

The triplets smirk as devious plans and ideas begin to formulate in their minds as the perfect revenge.

And though he is a man of science, Reiji Sakamaki could only pray that he doesn’t die that day.

At least now, he realizes, the storm has finally come to an end.