The Presence of Happiness

She struggled, despite the fact she knew there was no way he would break his hold on her. Again she tried to scream, but it was muffled by his hand, and with a dramatic inhale, he sank his fangs into her shoulder. Tears welled up in her eyes, his pain sharper than she remembered it to be. She tried to call out for help, but her voice failed her. She needed to do something soon. At this rate, she'd die.

Help me…

He pulled away sooner than she had expected him to, considering he usually drained her until she had reached her limit, and often even past that.

He whirled her around, pinning her up against the wall, his knee between her legs, his hand still over her mouth.

"What the fuck is this?" he spat.

Her eyes widened in horror, not knowing what he was asking or what sort of answer he was looking for. She murmured against his hand, trying to get him to remove it. It was getting hard to breathe.

"Tch. Don't fucking look at me like that."

Her eyes darted across his face. How else was she supposed to look at him? If he didn't let her go she'd really-

"So even someone tit-less like you managed to become a full woman," he spat, a smile that was not at all what a smile should be, plastered on his face. His grip around her mouth tightened, as he leaned his face in close, so that it hovered just above hers, "Didn't I say I'd be your first everything? I won't let this go lightly."

Finally, he released her, and Yui nearly tumbled to the ground, coughing and taking in large breaths of air, her hand clenching her chest.

"What a joke." He said in a rather bored tone, looking down at her pathetic form. "I'll kill those guys later. Come on, Chichinashi."

"N-No…" she trembled, backing away.

His eyes widened, before they narrowed in a deadly glare. "Oy. Just who do you think you're talking to?"

"Eve?"

Ayato looked up at the voice, nearly growling. "The fuck do you want?"

"Eve…" Azusa repeated, "Are you…leaving?"

"Azusa-"

"Yeah. The hell are you gonna do about it?"

"Does Eve want…to leave?"

Ayato grabbed her roughly, so that she tumbled into his chest, "Tch. Like that matters."

"No, wait! Azusa-"

Azusa's face became cross, as he stared down the pureblood. "Let…Eve go…you can't…have her…"

"I can take whatever I want." He snickered, opening his mouth to sink his fangs into his prey.

"No." Azusa narrowed his eyes, his voice more forceful than Yui had ever heard before.

Ayato snickered, circling his hand around her waist, "Watch me," he smirked.

His teeth only had the chance to just scrape across the pale skin, however, because he was roughly pushed away, hard enough so that he fell onto the carpeted hallway floor.

"So you wanna fight? Ha! As if you could win against the Great Me!" Ayato spat out, wiping his mouth and standing up quickly.

Azusa guided Yui away with his arm, pushing her behind him, "Eve…stay here…I won't let him…ruin your happiness…"

Ayato rushed for the youngest Mukami at full speed, tackling him to the ground easily, falling in a large and heavy thump. The two were tossed around on the floor, struggling to gain the upper hand. Azusa reached for his knife, but Ayato was too quick for him, kicking it away, nearly hurling it at Yui in the process. Yui screamed at them to stop, promising Ayato she'd go quietly if he'd just leave Azusa alone.

"Heh. Too late for that, Chichinashi." He grunted, having finally grabbed a solid hold of the half-blood, picking him up and tossing him against the window, glass shattering all around, the stray shards cutting into Azusa's skin. Yui let out a horrified screech, and blurted out nonsense in a panic, finding Azusa unable to move.

She rushed over to his side, desperate to help, but before she could do anything, she was grabbed roughly by the waist, her feet flying up into the air. She screamed again, struggling to free herself from Ayato's grasp, who held her under his arm as though she were nothing more than a sack of flour.

"Let me go! He's hurt can't you see that?"

"What do you care? Weren't you just saying you'd come quietly?" He laughed, leaping up towards the broken window, and about to fly out of the mansion.

"Oy." A deep voice broke through the commotion, and Ayato felt the back of his shirt being pulled. In a matter of seconds, he and Yui flew across the hallway, the two of them smacking into the opposite wall.

"The fuck you think you're doing with our Sow?"

Yuma stood threateningly over Ayato, glaring at him and then placing a foot over his chest.

"You wanna fight too?" Ayato spat, "Fuck you. Chichinashi is mine!"

From behind Yuma came Ruki and Kou, and the fire in Ayato's eyes seemed to fizzle out. Even he was able to realize he'd lose four to one.

With an incredible amount of rage he managed to get out from under Yuma's foot and jump out the window again, yelling something or other about how he'd be back for his food.

"Because Chichinashi's blood," he inhaled, showing off a crazed smirk, "is the best."

By now Yui had already rushed to Azusa's side, pulling out the larger shards of glass. She held him up against her chest, not caring about the blood that would inevitably stain her clothes, and allowed herself to bury her face in his hair.

Azusa didn't know what to do about the sudden contact, the only thing registering in his mind being how good Eve smelled.

"You're not hurt are you?" her voice shook, but still she did not let go, "I was so worried."

Azusa smiled at that, taking the initiative to hug her back, inhaling her scent once again. But he knew that she would eventually pull away. Not wanting to be left with that emptiness, he decided to pry himself softly from her arms first, sitting up on his own, looking into those large, pink eyes. This didn't seem to bother her though, or even cause her to move away. Instead she held on tightly to his hands, as though he might run away.

"Now…Eve-san…and Yuma-kun…can be happy together…" Azusa said, facing the ground.

Yui cocked her head to the side, her pink eyes filled with confusion, "Yuma-kun?"

"Oy, Azusa," Yuma chimed in, "How about you take a look at who she's holding on to for fuck's sake."

Azusa looked from his brother, over to Yui, and then down to their linked hands. He didn't know what to call this feeling that suddenly consumed him. He wasn't hurting, or in any pain of any kind, but he still felt like crying. What was this?

"Yui-san…wants to be happy…with me?"

Yui simply let out a half incredulous giggle, leaning forward to hug him all over again.

Ten Years Later...

"Azusa?" she asked, opening the door, but found this room to also be empty. Where could they be? "Azusa?!" she called out again, but got no reply. She sighed, shaking her head. Dinner would get cold. But that was when she heard faint giggles coming from Christina's room.

She opened the door quickly, but again found nothing. "Christina? Azusa?"

Loud giggles erupted from beneath the bed, and slowly, both her husband and daughter came out from hiding. "You found us Mommy!" the little girl squealed, running up to jump into her mother's arms.

"It seems I have." Yui said with a laugh.

"Christina…wanted to…play hide and…seek…" Azusa explained with a soft smile.

"So I see." Yui smiled at the girl in her arms, "Well we should hurry, Justin and Melissa are already downstairs. We can't have dinner without the two of you."

"Wait wait!" The girl jumped out of her mother's arms, causing Yui to nearly have a heart attack as her daughter landed on the ground, but Azusa simply put a hand on Yui's shoulder and smiled, calming her down. The little girl ran to her desk, scrambled through some papers and then ran back up to her mother, offering her the sheet of white paper. "Daddy and I drew it together!" she said excitedly.

Azusa giggled, "It's us…our family…"

Yui smiled as she looked at the drawing in her hand, their beautiful family of five all represented in some of the best stick figures she had ever seen. "Well, we'll have to frame this." She said proudly.

The little girl's eyes widened with surprise and happiness as she tugged on her father's pants, "Daddy she liked it that much!"

Azusa giggled again as he patted his daughter on the head, "Of course she...would…didn't I…say so?" He smiled, bending over to pick her up and put her on his shoulders.

"Shall we go…down for dinner now?"

Yui nodded happily, and Christina cheered, the three of them making their way out of the room to join the rest of the family downstairs. As she shut the door behind her, Yui made sure to safely tuck the drawing away in the pocket of her apron.

Fin

A/N: I am so sorry this took so goddamn long to finish. I think it's because I hate endings because it's like THE END and that makes me really sad after working on a story for so long D;

Guest: I think Yuma is probably my favorite Mukami as well actually lol.

Gemma: Lol thank you for supporting my decision Xp Plus given the whole time frame it wouldn't have really made sense hehe

Andrea: Gahh sorry it took so long!

01234: I wish I would've added more Sakamaki. I'm pretty biased towards them haha XD

MissDiaHell: Boy oh boy are you in for a suprise. The Mukamis can TOTALLY have kids! :D You don't have to wallow in sadness anymore lol. The only thing is that they can't have the offspring that Karlheinz wanted as the new superior race or whatever since they can't become Adam and therefore wouldn't have the proper blood or genes or something. But they can have kids regardless, just not the kind that would be up to the Vampire Lord's standards.

RamonaFlowers20: I second that. He is definitely bae. But for this particular story it just didn't flow that way. Sorry! I do have a Yuma oneshot though ;)

mayra correa: gaahh sorry to you as well!

If you're still reading this far down in the author's notes then omg you're my favorite type of person lol. Just a few fun facts I thought you guys might like to know: In the original draft, Yuma does freak out at being first and Ruki ends up having to take his place. And, in original said draft, Yui does end up with Yuma. (Gahhh sorry Yuma lovers!)

Other than that, seriously, thank you guys for reading my stuff. It just fills me with the warm fuzzies. Even you silent ones who like quietly go around liking all my oneshots and other things ;) Don't think I don't notice lol. So yeah. Wow. Sakamakis and Mukamis done. I was asked if I was going to do the Tsukinamis. The answer right now is maybe. Both Carla and Shin have oneshots up right now, so I'm not sure I will go for a full story. I will probably end up giving Carla another oneshot though, along with any other boy that happens to catch my fancy lol. But for now I'm going to focus on Masks of Glass which, if you haven't read yet you totally should! Bucket of fun for everyone, and it features the boys as kids :D The main focus is on Reiji and Shu, so if you like them then go give it a read :D As for my next multi-chapter story, it will probably be about Kanato, actually, and that is all I'm going to say, so keep yours eyes open for that. Shoutout to the people following me on tumblr because its mostly just trash posts lol. Ok, I've officially talked too much and I'm so sorry lol. If you're still reading then bless your soul.

THANK YOU GUYS!

~Madame Malfoy