Chapter 11
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Ever since the kiss, Rena and Yuki seemed to be more open with one another. At the same time, things couldn’t feel more awkward. They could talk to each other and learn new things about each other, yet, whenever Yuki flirts, Rena would get embarrassed, and bringing up topics like romance, love, or even the kiss itself, they would suddenly become shy and silent.
During training, Rena was getting distracted as she watched Yuki practicing with a dummy. She saw the vampire with a concentrated look in her eyes, her brow laced with beads of sweat. Wearing a black tank top, Rena caught a glimpse every so often of the vampire’s perfect chest, which made her jealous that hers was rather small in comparison…
“No..! Don’t get distracted!” She yelled in her mind, trying to keep herself sane.
“Concentrate!”“Rena-chan, are you okay?” Jurina asked.
“Y-yeah…” Rena’s eyes darted around the room, trying to avoid catching another glimpse at the alluring vampire.
Finishing her training, Yuki come toward Rena and took the towel that was placed not far from her and wipe her sweat off. Rena kept staring as her eyes couldn’t find the power to unglue themselves from the vampire.
“Take a picture; it will last longer,” Yuki said, not even taking a glance.
“S-sorry…” Rena quickly apologized, looking away.
Yuki chuckled. “Why are you suddenly distracted by me right now?”
“Don’t ask me that. Like I’d know the answer myself…”
“Y’know, I noticed the other day, you seemed to have let your guard down a bit.”
Rena’s eyebrows furrowed. “Eh? What do you mean?”
Without saying anything, Yuki grabbed the girl’s wrist and pulled her to the restroom where they could talk in private. She whipped her head back and stared intensely at Rena.
“Yesterday, I caught you staring at me. And when I was staring back, I used my hypnosis on you for a moment, and it looked as if you were being pulled into a trance.”
“Wh-what?” Rena became confused.
“Your willpower. Your ability to resist my hypnosis. It’s weakening, isn’t it?”
“Haa? How should I know? I--” Rena tried to say, but stopped when Yuki suddenly grabbed her and pulled her closer.
“Haven’t you ever been a little curious? Of what it feels like,” the vampire whispered.
“W-well… maybe a little.”
“Do you want to know?”
“Could you really..?”
“Don’t worry. I won’t make you do anything or try to take advantage of you. I just want you to feel what it’s like.”
Rena pondered on the offer. She was really suspicious of whether or not the vampire was just going to make her do something embarrassing with her hypnosis powers. However, she couldn’t help but be a little curious as to what it was actually like.
“What’s your answer?” Yuki asked.
“...Oh, alright. Let’s do it.”
The vampire smirked. “I was hoping you’d say that.”
She held Rena’s chin and looked deeply in her eyes.
“Don’t fight it. Relax and look deep into my eyes.”
Rena did as she was told. She stared deeply into Yuki’s pitch black orbs, becoming drawn into her alluring gaze.
“You won’t resist. Give up your mind,” Yuki said softly and slowly. “There’s no need to worry. Slowly, let your mind become empty…”
Hearing the vampire’s hypnotizing voice, Rena’s mind slowly drew a blank. Her whole body became limp and her eyes drooped down sleepily, her dark brown orbs turning dull and blank.
“Rena, are you there?” Yuki whispered.
“Yes.” Rena replied in a drowsy voice as her gaze burned into Yuki’s.
“You’ll listen to what I have to say, and obey without question. Is that clear?”
“Yes.. I’ll listen and obey…”
Yuki gave a playful smirk.
“I said I wouldn’t do anything… but I’ll still have a bit of fun~.”“When you wake up, you’ll have no recollection of being hypnotized. However, from now on, you are no longer cool or serious Rena. Until you hear me say the trigger word, ‘Rena, wake up now,’ you will be silly Rena. You will be carefree and playful, the complete opposite of your usual self. Do you understand?”
“Yes… I will be the opposite of my usual self…”
“Good,” Yuki smirked and snapped her fingers, waking the girl from her trance.
“How are you feeling?” She asked, grinning at Rena.
“Weird~” she replied grinning madly and pushed Yuki away playfully. Yuki couldn’t help but snicker a bit.
As she heard some noise coming from the outside, she walked out skipping. Yuki followed behind, trying to hold her laughter. She saw Sae and Sayaka fighting about something.
“Sayaka, there is nothing between me and Ume-chan.”
“Then why were you hugging and kissing her?” Sayaka growled.
“It’s was just friendly kiss.” Sae urged.
“Sae-chan~” Rena jumped on her, hugging her arm.
“EH….Rena-chan!!” Sae blinked confusedly.
“Here you are~. I found you!”
“R-Rena-chan?” Sae’s eyes widened. “What are you doing?!”
”Sae-chan, where were you? I keep waiting for you since three hours ago.” Rena snuggled against the tall girl’s shoulder.
“Why? Did something happen?” Sae asked trying to broke away from the hug.
“Eh? Don’t tell me you forget our date?”
“Date?!” Sae and Sayaka both exclaimed.
“Sae-chan, you promised~” Rena puffed her cheeks.
“How dare you!!” Sayaka's eyes become teary as she slapped Sae’s cheek.
“S-Sayaka..!” Sae held her burning cheek.
Sae looked at Rena and pushed her away, breaking the hug. She quickly hugged her girlfriend tight and buried her face in her neck.
“SAYAKA IS MY ONE AND ONLY!!!” she cried.
“Sae-chan!!” Rena glared as she grabbed Sae by she shoulder and broke the hug. “You said I’m the only one in your life?”
“What?! No I didn’t!”
“Sae! How could you!” Sayaka broke Sae away from the girl and slapped her hardly on the other cheek. “You playboy!”
Sayaka then stormed off, Sae holding both her cheeks as she chased after her. “Sayaka wait~!”
Rena started laughing. Yuki walked up to the girl and looked at her.
“Did you see that? I really got ‘em, huh? Hahahaha!” Rena said while giggling.
“Yeah, it was amazing.” Yuki said patting Rena on the head.
“Hmm~ now where is my cute little sister~?”
The hunter started sneaking down the hall, looking for Jurina. She went to the training area and saw Jurina drinking from a water bottle on the bench.
“Jurina~~~” Rena ran in and hugged her sister tightly.
“Eh?! Rena-chan?!”
“JuJu you look sho cute!!” Rena said pinching Jurina’s cheeks.
“Itaii! Itaii! Rena-chan, stop!”
“I can’t help it~ I wub you~~~”
Rena started repeatedly kissing the younger girl’s cheeks.
“What’s wrong with you?” Jurina try to break free but Rena tighten her grip.
“You don’t love me?” She tilted her head.
“Wha..? N-no, Rena. I do love you! But--”
“Yaaaay~ JuJu luvs me~~”
Jurina then happened to notice Yuki watching from afar. She glared at the vampire and motioned her to come closer.
Yuki snickered a bit and walked over.
“What did you do to my sister?” Jurina asked. “And I knew you had to do with it since you both left at the same time.”
“Okay, I must confess,” Yuki said, “I hypnotized her.”
“Haa?!”
“I used my hypnosis to make her act silly and carefree. That’s why she’s acting, erm… clingy. Hehehe.”
“Well, can you snap her out of it?!”
“Not yet. It’ll ruin all the fun~”
“Jyu~rina~” Rena poked Jurina’s cheeks, giggling.
“Hello guys~” Takamina come and saw Rena clingy on Jurina.
"T-Takamina, help!" Jurina pleaded.
“Rena-chan??” she blinked.
“Takamina-san~” Rena broke from Jurina and walked toward Takamina holding her in the air and spinning her around like a child.
“Wooah! Rena, hey, what do you think you’re doing?”
“Spinning you~ you look sho cute~ And tiny~”
“Well, if you don’t and put me down? I’m starting to get airsick.”
Jurina and Yuki burst into laugher.
“You’re right!” Jurina said in between laughter. “This is fun! Let’s make her do something else.”
“Got any ideas?”
Jurina whispered in the vampire’s ear and pointed at Rino, who was training by herself with a punching bag.
“Awesome,” Yuki grinned, then turned to Rena. “Oh, Rena, Sashihara-san said she wanted to play~”
“Honto?!” Rena asked dropping Takamina and walking towards Rino. Takamina ran to the trash can and vomited as she felt dizzy.
Rena tiptoed closer to Rino before pouncing on the girl and tackling her.
“Hi Sasshi~” She playfully bite the girl shoulder. “I’m a vampire~”
“Eh!!!” Rino blushed as she try to struggle. Suddenly Sayaka and Sae ran in from behind and saw Rena biting Rino.
“Holy crap! Rena’s turned into a vampire!” Sae screamed, not seeing that Rena wasn’t actually sucking the girl’s blood. “What do we do, Sayaka?!”
Sayaka glared at Sae still angry about her kissing another girl.
“I will punish you tonight.” She growled before going toward Rena and trying to separate her from Rino. “Get off her, Rena! What’s wrong with you today?!”
Rena roared and bit Sayaka’s hand.
“NO! Don’t eat my girlfriend’s hand!” Sae cried. She ran towards Rena and tackled her to the ground, pinning her down.
“What’s the matter with her?!”
“Rena, snap out of it! Wake up!” Sae yelled.
“Sae-chan~” Rena giggled and suddenly kissed her cheek, causing Yuki to growl angrily in jealousy.
In a snap, she approach them and push Sae away from her.
“Okay, that’s enough,” Yuki stated. “Rena, wake up, now.”
Once she heard that, the hypnosis on Rena was reversed and she was back to her normal self. She looked around confused as to what was happening.
“Eh..? What’s going on?” she asked.
“What happened to her?” Takamina asked.
“She ate some sugar pills.” Jurina replied covering Yuki. “Rena gets really hyper when she eats a lot of sugar. One time, she ate a really sugary melonpan and couldn’t sleep at all.”
“Oh, that’s not good.”
“Rena, you should stay away from sugar,” Sayaka said, then looked to her girlfriend. “Sorry for the misunderstanding, Sae. But I will still punish you.”
“Sowwy…” Sae bowed.
“Was I that bad?” Rena asked.
“You attacked me like a vampire,” Sashihara said rubbing her neck.
“You spun me in the air and made me barf,” Takamina said.
“And you doted on me like puppy,” Jurina said, then smiled. “Actually, I kinda liked it.”
Rena then turned and glared at Yuki. The vampire only gave a cheeky grin. Rena immediately started chasing her, both of them running down the hall, leaving almost everyone confused.
“Welp, that was fun while it lasted,” Jurina said.
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After their little chase, Rena and Yuki were brought back into Sayaka and Takamina’s office to discuss another Royal vampire attack.
“They’re brothers, Hideyoshi and Kakashi. They both have similar powers of mind manipulation. Kakashi can show people dreams or visions that can alter their memories and make them turn on family or comrades, while Hideyoshi can overload the mind with visions that can make them snap and go insane.”
“They sound dangerous,” Rena said, Yuki remaining silent.
“You guys have to be very careful, they can make you fight with each other without realizing.” Takamina warned.
Rena glanced at Yuki. Through her telepathic powers, she spoke,
“These two aren’t easy to kill.”
“It will be fine as long we stick together and control our mind,” Rena answered.
“You two need to have strong willpower. They can be strong, even for hunters trained to resist.”
“Alright,” Rena said as she stood up, along with Yuki. They got the files on the vampire brothers and left the office.
Rena couldn’t help but notice how intensely Yuki was examining the files on the two vampires with her.
“Looks like you’ve gotten used to killing your own kind,” she said.
“I have to do it, for your sake.” She replied not taking her eye off the file.
“Even if you have to kill your mother?”
Yuki clenched her fists. “Yes.”
“She is your mother, you know. Do you really have courage to plunge a silver stake into her heart or to shoot her in the head with bullet?”
“If I have to, yes.”
Rena shake her head and sighed. “You are insane, killing your family for me.”
“I’m not insane. I just want to do what I can to protect you. Even if it means killing my own mother and becoming an outcast to my own kind.”
Yuki closed the files, handing them to the hunter.
“Let’s get moving already,” she said as she headed to exit the building. Rena silently followed behind.
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They were roaming deep inside the forest, searching for them. Rena had tracker that monitored vampire activity, along with Yuki’s heightened senses to locate them, as well. In the distance, Yuki could hear crazed laughter and smell fresh blood.
“This way,” she pointed in the direction they needed to go. Rena followed and kept looking down at her tracker.
“We’re getting close…”
“Not much farther now. But, Rena, be careful.”
“Why? I’m a hunter; I can fend for myself.”
“Not what I meant,” Yuki said in serious tone. “It’s Hide…”
“Hide? Hideyoshi?”
“Yes. He is unstable.” The vampire stopped Rena and looked at her. “There’s a reason Hide and Kakashi are so powerful. It’s because they went through different means of tapping into that power’s full potential. For Kakashi, he trained himself in very gruesome ways, but, as for Hide…”
“What?”
“Clyde and the other royals tortured him. Both physically and mentally. They pushed him to his breaking point, until he could tap into the core of his powers. But at the cost of his sanity.”
“So, they basically made him go insane in order for him to reach his full potential..?” Rena asked.
“Yes. Now, he only kills for pleasure and uses his powers to make his enemies spiral down into an insane, suicide crash. And most who endure that never recover. Some even kill themselves. That’s the last thing I want, is for Hide to break you.”
Rena grinned. “He won’t. I have strong willpower. And also…”
Yuki’s eyebrows furrowed as she grew silent.
“Also… I have you protecting me.”
The vampire felt her heart skip a beat. She was surprised that Rena said that. She never thought the hunter would actually acknowledge her as her protector.
“Rena…” She whispered her name as she reached her hand to caress Rena’s cheek with her thumb. “Be careful.”
“I know that already,” Rena smirked as the two continued their search.
Just then, Rena’s tracker went off. They were close to the vampire brothers. They looked in the distance and could see two figures, covered in blood. One of them laughing with mad look in his eyes, the other with a sadistic grin as he licks the blood from his hand.
“That’s them,” Yuki confirms.
Smirking, Rena cracked her knuckles and neck. “Shall we?”
Yuki also grinned, flashing her fangs in her smile. “Let’s.”
Rena pulled out her dagger and they charged towards the vampires. Hide and Kakashi saw the two hunters approaching and they quickly shifted in fighting position.
“Well, well, looks like Clyde-sama was right. You’re a traitor, Black,” Kakashi grinned before throwing a punch towards the vampire girl. “I’ll have immense pleasure in finishing you, right here and now.”
“That won’t happen, Kakashi,” Yuki said as reaches out to grab Hide, who dodge the punch and comes around punching Yuki, but Yuki was too quick. She kicked Hide in the gut, making him groan, but he quickly dodge the other blow and began to turn around the games on Yuki.
Hide jumps in the air and begins quickly throws punch from left to right surprising Yuki. He moves left and then sprint right, about to punch Yuki in face, but he misses it. Yuki jumps back smirking and then kicks toward Hide, but he grabs her leg flipping her over. Yuki falls on her back and Hide pins her down, choking her.
“Hahahaha! Weak, Black! You are weak! You fall for human and become soft! Hahahahaha!” Hide laughed. Yuki bit his hand, injuring him badly.
She quickly jumps to her feet and pushes him back with strong force, then she and Hide are back to fist combat. Yuki ducks and comes back up punching Hide in the face.
Hide steps back smirking her wiped the blood from his lips. “Hahahaha! I feel alive!!!”
Meanwhile, Rena and Kakashi were in heated duel, Rena slashing her dagger and throwing punches and kicks towards the vampire. Rena roughly pushed Kakashi away with her dagger and dropped to the ground, trying to swipe his feet away. He jumped over his crouched form and swung her back, but Rena held her dagger, blocking his attack. He knocked her dagger away as he twirled up from the ground.
“Why do you fight me, human?” Kakashi said as he grabbed Rena’s wrists. “You should be fighting her.”
“No way. Yuki is an ally to us. She’s no longer yours.”
“Oh really?” He suddenly turned Rena around and put her in headlock, whispering to her as she saw Yuki fighting Hide, “She has a secret. Something she never wanted you to know.”
“Huh..?!” Rena struggled, but the vampire’s monster strength was keeping her bound.
“You see… It was her who killed your parents.”
Rena’s eyes widened, the memories being triggered of her past.
“N-no… it couldn’t have been.. It was..!”
“She took Clyde’s form in order to deceive you. She betrayed you by taking your parents lives and pretending she is your ally all this time.”
“You’re lying!” Rena yelled, covering her ears as she heard the screams from that day. “Y-Yuki… wouldn’t…”
“Oh, but she did,” Kakashi grabbed her face and made her stare in his eyes, catching her in her weakest moment. “She is your enemy.”
“Enemy…?” Rena started seeing visions. She saw Yuki with cold expression, covered in the blood of her parents. Visions that were created by Kakashi, to deceive her. Rena's eyes became filled with anger. “Yuki…..You…..are…..my….enemy!!”
Rena entered her Gekikara mode and charged towards Yuki, slashing her dagger towards her injuring her.
“Rena, what are you doing?!” Yuki asked shocked. Hide stopped fighting and stared wide eyed at Rena in her current state.
“Yuki.. you betrayed me..! Hahaha! You’re my enemy! I’LL KILL YOU!!! HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHA!!!!” she laughed as she kept slashing, Yuki dodging her attacks.
Hide gave a twisted smile as he watched the battle. “What an interesting girl~”
“You killed them! Hahahaha!” Rena laughed. “You killed Mom and Dad!”
“Rena, stop!” Yuki yelled, trying to reach Rena. “Snap out of it! Whatever Kakashi told you or made you see isn’t real!”
Rena didn’t listen and kept trying to stab her, injuring her badly. Yuki hissed in pain as she sustained multiple wounds. Yuki try to break out of Rena control, jumping in the air she landed Rena back hugging her from behind and locking her.
“I will show you the truth, of what I saw from my eyes,” she said as she held Rena’s head, concentrating her telepathic powers on showing Rena a vision of the past.
It was the night Rena and Jurina’s parents were killed, from Yuki’s point of view. She was standing at a distance. Clyde was covered in the blood of their parents, staring at the two of them with evil eyes and a sadistic grin.
“Clyde was the one who killed them. Not me.”
Suddenly, Yuki felt rough pain in her stomach, her hold on Rena loosened. As she held her stomach, Rena had stabbed her with silver dagger. Hissing in pain, she glanced at Kakashi.
“How dare you..!!” Yuki pushed Rena away and limped towards Kakashi jabbing on his face and stomach.
Kakashi just smirked as he dodge every punch, he received. Yuki let out all her anger with each punch, kick, scratch, and bite. She grabbed him by his throat and bit into his neck, sucking his blood.
“This won’t end well for you…” Kakashi said before coughing up blood and try to free himself from Yuki grip.
But Yuki didn’t let go. She kept sucking his blood until he was completely drained and died of blood loss.
Tossing his lifeless body away, she wiped the blood off her mouth and glanced at Rena who was lying on the ground, passed out. Walking toward her, she picked Rena up in bride style and went to her house.
Yuki laid her down in the bed and kissed her forehead.
“Rest for today, Rena. You deserve it,” she said to the sleeping girl before heading back to the agency, using her super speed to arrive quickly.
She walked in and was approached by Takamina and Sayaka.
“Where’s Rena?” Sayaka asked.
“She’s resting at my place. The battle this time took a toll on her.”
“Oh, poor Rena…” Takamina frowned. “Maybe we should take a vacation. I could sure use a break from hunting vampires.”
“That’s good idea.” Sae squealed, clinging onto her girlfriend’s arm. “Hey, let’s all go to the beach!”
“Can we really go?” Yuki asked.
“Well, I wouldn’t object to some relaxation,” Jurina mentioned as she walked forward. “Plus, I’d love to go to the beach with Rena-chan. We’ve never gone on vacation since a LONG time!”
“Alright then, it’s decided!” Takamina said proudly. “I’ll start making plans for us!”
Yuki sighed.
“I don’t know if Rena will go.. her health doesn’t look good..” “Yuki, why don’t you ask Rena if she can go?” Sayaka asked.
“Um, I will, but.. Maybe we should wait, first. Rena’s mental condition is a bit…”
“Eh? Oh, I see. Kakashi or Hide must’ve really put up a fight. It must’ve been hard for her,” Takamina frowned again.
“Once she’s recovered, let’s plan,” Jurina said with a smile. “Knowing Rena, she will be back on her feet in no time.”
Yuki bit her lip slightly, growing nervous. “I hope so…”
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To Be Continued