It's been over a year since the original one-shot for this story came out. But I decided to write a continuation to it.

So we have more UmiMaki now. In the timeline of the story, it's been several years since Umi contracted with Maki. She's graduated college (Maki's still in it), and the two of them got married.

Umi wishes to assure you that their marriage was purely for legal reasons.

Maki thinks otherwise.

They have a child in this chapter. Can it be considered a chapter if the last one was supposed to be a one-shot? I'm calling it a chapter since it's in the same story file as the one-shot.

I don't think the rating needs to be bumped up but if you think otherwise, please tell me and I will adjust it.

Umi lay in the bed, her eyes still closed. I can't move. She shifted slightly, feeling the grip on her tighten from just that small movement alone.

Maki breathed quietly as she continued to sleep. As aloof as she was while she was awake, she became amazingly clingy as soon as she fell asleep. This sort of occurrence in the morning had become the norm in their apartment.

Umi moved her free hand and placed it on the blanket directly over where she knew the seal still was on her chest. Maki's mark on her, which was matched by an equivalent seal on the vampire's chest. It had grown darker over the years, which had confused Maki in the beginning. Neither of her parents possessed seals that darkened as time went on, but Maki had assured Umi that nothing was wrong. Umi pressed down on the blanket until she was able to feel the faint pulse of her heart. Her other arm, pinned against Maki's chest, felt nothing. Of course she wouldn't have a pulse. The lack of a heartbeat, among with other smaller things, always kept Umi reminded about how different the two of them were. Part of her wished that she had been born a vampire, just like Maki, so that they would be on equal standing. The rest of her was glad she was still alive, still mostly human, for Maki fell asleep contently each night to the sound of her heart.

Umi was glad to be alive.

She checked the time on the digital clock they had next to their bed. It took a little bit before she realized exactly how late the two of them had slept in.

"Maki, wake up!" Umi shook the other girl with her free hand. She received no response and shook Maki again, more roughly this time.

It worked. Maki stirred, her eyes fluttering open. She rested her head on Umi's chest, gazing up at the older woman. "Morning already?"

"Yes. You have to get up." Umi wished she was able to move, or even sit up, but she was still largely pinned down by Maki. "You have class today, remember?"

Maki nodded, her eyes shutting again. She was falling back into her dreamland; mornings and vampires didn't mix. Even Maki, who had been training herself to follow a human's day-night cycle since she was young, had trouble getting herself up in the morning.

Umi shook her again as roughly as she could with one hand, not stopping until Maki started to look irritated by it. "Out of bed. Go on."

"Okay…" It was more of a soft mumble than anything, but Maki pushed herself into a sitting position. She moved until she was sitting on the edge of the bed, where she stayed put for a few seconds.

When the time she spent sitting there went into a minute, Umi crawled over to her. "Maki!" She placed both hands on the girl's shoulders and shook her again.

"Ah? Sorry…" Maki forced herself off the bed as Umi sat back. The redhead stumbled off to the bathroom, still half-asleep.

Umi sighed. "Mornings and vampires really don't mix." There was a thud in the bathroom soon after she said that. She sighed again, and got up to see what damage Maki had done to herself this time.

Umi and Maki sat across from each other at the kitchen table. Maki sipped quietly from her cup as Umi ate leftovers from the previous night's dinner. Maki rarely ate food, as no matter how much she ate, it wouldn't satisfy her hunger.

Maki looked like she had something on her mind; she was fiddling with the mug in her hands. Slightly tilting it one way, then the other, without spilling a single drop. It probably wasn't the bump on her head that she was thinking about. As if coming to a decision, she leaned forward over the table. "Hey...Umi?"

Umi swallowed the food that was in her mouth. "What is it, Maki?"

"W-What d-d-do you think-" Maki's face had turned bright red as she stammered. She took another sip of her drink, trying to calm herself down a bit. She looked down at the table top as she continued to speak. "W-What do you think of h-having a c-c-child…?"

"A child...huh?" Umi took another bite of her breakfast, even as she pondered the topic Maki had brought up. It took a few seconds for the implied question behind Maki's actual one to sink in. Once it did, however, Umi choked on her food.

"U-Umi?!"

"I-I'm fine." Umi coughed, trying to clear her airway so that she could breathe again. She wiped her mouth with the sleeve of her shirt, not caring about the lack of etiquette at that moment. "A c-child? Maki, where'd this idea come from?!" She couldn't stay calm about it, no matter how she tried to calm down.

Maki was still agitated, from both the embarrassment of bringing up the subject in the first place and from watching Umi nearly choke herself on breakfast. "B-Because at school yesterday, they were talking about iPS cells and it seems like research is going so that two girls could produce children too…"

Umi put her chopsticks down so she could put her face in both hands.

"Umi? I-I kinda want a child…" Maki put her cup down as well. She reached over the table and took Umi's hands in her own. "Please?"

Umi would do anything for Maki. That was what it meant for her to be the blood servant of the heir of the Nishikino vampire family line. Umi looked at her unfinished breakfast, then up at Maki's pleading gaze. "...I have to ask why, before I agree to it."

"I...I thought that…" Maki seemed like she was trying to gather her thoughts into a coherent statement. Considering that she had only woken up a little while ago, it wasn't as easy for her as it would be if she had brought up the topic at a later period of time. "I wanted, um, a physical proof of our relationship…"

"I still have another question." It surprised Umi how calm she was managing to sound now. She tightened her grip on Maki's hands, slightly startling the vampire. "Our child...if we do make-have one, will they be like you?" What she really wanted to ask was if the child they created would be a human or a vampire, for she still didn't fully understand the genetics of the vampire lines without mixing humans into it. It would be sad if their child was human, destined to grow old while his/her parents stayed young for a long time.

"Normally, if a pure-blood crosses with a human, their children would have a fifty percent chance of being vampires, though half-bloods, and fifty percent chance of staying human." Maki said. "But you're not pure human anymore, Umi. Our children will have approximately seventy percent chance of being a vampire."

"Yeah...I'm not human." She had taken Maki's blood into her body multiple times now, to keep herself connected to the vampire. To think that a superstition hating child like herself would grow up to become the closest being to a pureblood vampire. She loved Maki, and she was certain that the redhead felt the same way, by the darkened seal on both of their bodies. "Okay, Maki. If that's what you want." Umi smiled. "We'll have a child together."

That had been nine months ago. Umi didn't expect that she would be the one to carry their daughter, but she had no choice other than to accept Maki's reasoning. Despite her entire family being made of doctors, none of them were obstetricians, which meant that they would have to go a doctor outside of the vampires. And, as Maki had no pulse or heartbeat, it would be rather hard for her to pass any normal tests that came with being pregnant. So Umi had to carry their daughter, for they found out the gender of their child a few months back, while Maki hurried through the rest of her school.

"It'll be quick." Maki promised, holding onto Umi's hand as her wife lay on the hospital bed. Umi nodded, doing her best not to scream in pain. A question flashed through Umi's mind, but she couldn't ask it in the presence of unauthorized humans. She should have asked Maki beforehand, but she highly doubted that her wife knew the answer either. She was just worried that their child, if born a vampire, wouldn't have a pulse and then their doctor would think that something wrong had happened.

It was not quick. Umi lay in agony, her body quivering with spasms. Maki held onto her hand the entire time, talking about what they would do once their child was born. Umi tried to focus on her words instead of the pain she was in, but even she was aware of the passage of time.

At long last, their doctor had their child in her arms. Once she had finished cleaning their daughter, the child was passed into Umi's arms. Umi smiled weakly; she was exhausted from the ordeal. Maki reached out a finger, jumping a bit when the newborn grabbed onto it.

Their child had Maki's red hair and Umi's brown eyes. Instinctively, Umi turned their daughter to her chest, careful to cover up the seal to avoid having it noticed. "Maki, what's her name?"

"I was thinking Riko. Riko-chan." Maki said. She leaned over to kiss Umi on the cheek, not wanting to distract her wife from her current action, but still wanting to show her affection.

"Riko-chan! Come here!" The three year old toddled over to her 'mother' obediently. Umi knelt to her daughter's eye level. "Ah~ Say 'ah' for mother, okay?"

"Ah~" Riko opened her mouth widely. Two fangs were prominent amongst the rest of the baby teeth that their toddler was still growing in. The little girl closed her mouth and reached up to her 'mother'. "Up, up!"

"Yes, yes." Umi picked up her daughter and walked over to where Maki was seated at the table, reading a textbook. Maki graduated with a degree, but she had gone back for medical school while Umi raised their child. "Her fangs keep growing."

"She's a vampire. What did you expect?" Maki said, indifferent. The redhead had actually asked Umi for another child but Umi adamantly refused. She had enough with childbirth with their one daughter already. Maki was still sulking over it.

"How much longer will it be before she will seek out a servant?"

"She'll age normally until her mid teens, so probably high school? Like I did."

"Mama, hug!" Riko reached her hands out to Maki now, apparently bored with being held by Umi. Maki took their daughter from her wife and held her on her lap as she continued to read her book.

"I'm not going to let her go so easily." Umi declared. She was definitely going to screen whoever Riko picked to be a blood servant before allowing Riko to feed that person her blood.

Far away, in a little town by the beach, Chika sneezed loudly. She rubbed her nose, wondering why she had suddenly sneezed when the weather was still warm.

"Chika-chan!"

"Mama!" She ran back to her mother and hugged her tightly. "I sneezed!"

"Yes, I can see that." Her mother knelt to wipe the snot off of her three year old child. "Maybe someone was talking about you."

Will this get yet another continuation?

I currently have no clue, but maybe in the future (like in one year from now, based on how long it took for this to come out), there will be a part three.

:D

Bye-bye!