Characters: Sakamaki Ayato / Komori Yui / Sakamaki Subaru

Series: Diabolik Lovers (Anime)

Content: Romance / Hurt & Comfort

Status Type: Ongoing

Note: This begun from where Yui stabs herself in the Anime adaptation, but assumingly where Cordelia does not re-possess her body. Yui also does not reawaken as a vampire.

Blood. Fresh, dark blood, gushing out as if a dam had broke.

Ayato gulped, but there was no blood thirst. The only thing that hit him was a wave of panic and desperation, as his hands moved instinctively to cover over the wound in her chest.

Don't die on me, Yui.

She had stabbed herself, in order to save him, to save everyone. If she hadn't done it, he mightn't have had the opportunity to strike at Richter with a final blow.

She's so stupid. She's so damn stupid.

Ayato slipped out of his blazer and covered it over Yui's wound hurriedly, his breathing ragged. He turned around and yelled at Shu and Subaru, both of them whom stood a side. Shu looked composed and Subaru had a slight look of concern.

"The both of you, do something!"

Subaru replied, "Reiji's already on it."

Ayato turned to stare at Yui's face, which is only getting paler by the second. Humans are so frail. Just a mere stab from a knife and she can't even self-heal. But of course, he is only sorely reminded once again that Yui isn't like him. Ayato takes and presses his blazer down on her chest, holding her hand in one of his. He notices she's cold and very much not what he is used to.

He knew that his brothers, Laito and Kanato had gone after a bleeding Richter, the damn uncle of theirs, so infatuated with the old hag of a dead mother that he had been the cause of all their problems. He hoped Laito and Kanato would burn him and may he never step foot into this house ever again. If it hadn't been for Richter, Yui might be okay.

If only I was stronger…you might be okay.

Ayato's worries only showed more evidently on his face with each passing moment. Yui was going to bleed to death.

"I can't take this anymore," Ayato swore under his breath, and just as he was getting up to stomp to Reiji's, the man appeared, clasping a small bottle of potion in his hand. The light red potion swirled gently inside.

"Is this…is it going to save her?" Ayato asked, almost snatching the bottle out of his hand.

Reiji replies calmly. "It's a healing potion, for her physical wound. Now hurry."

Ayato nodded once, unscrewing the cap to the bottle. He gives another glance at the girl, who's lying silently on the sofa, unmoving. She was too still and too pale, her usual self almost unimaginable to him already.

Ayato took a swig of it, and then leaned down to press his lips onto hers. He then opened his mouth cautiously to let the liquid flow in and down her body. It's a surprise to him, how he is feeling such desperation to keep her alive.

And then they waited. Laito and Kanato had returned, Laito reassuring that they've burned the old man downstairs good 'once and for all'. Shu, Reiji and Subaru were also there. All of them were waiting to see if the potion had worked or not.

"What are you doing, Ayato?" Laito asked, when he sees Ayato get up from another seat towards Yui, who's still lying there.

"I want to see if the potion's worked or not."

He lifts up his blood-soaked blazer and puts it aside, noticing that no blood seems to be gushing out anymore. He then opens the tear in her dress further, where Yui had put the knife into herself.

"The blood's stopped. She's healing."

Just immediately after the words left his lips, he notices her twitch. She is coming around.

"Yui. Oi, wake up, Chichinashi."

Yui peels her heavy eyelids open, struggling to adjust. Her body felt terribly weak and her head, as if a bus had just ran her over. In front of her was a handsome face, his expression concerned.

"Chichinashi, are you okay?"

She squints a little, as if trying to discern a faraway signboard. She was trying to read his face.

"Who…are you?"

Ayato grabs at the collar of Reiji's jacket, this close to slamming him against the wall and breaking his neck.

"Are you fucking around with me? You never said the potion was going to erase her memories!"

Reiji had a hand around Ayato's arm, ready to defend himself if the red head was going to go ballistic (which is actually already happening, in his opinion.)

"It does not. As I've said, it's for the healing of her physical wounds."

"Then why the hell doesn't she remember me? It's got to be your damn potion."

"Now, can we not insult the person who just saved her life?" Reiji said, almost too calmly. "I'm afraid I don't know what happened either, as of right now."

Ayato let Reiji go in a fit, creases forming across his forehead. He couldn't understand. She didn't hit her head when she fell because he was the one who'd caught her. So, why is it that Yui isn't recalling things?

"Maybe it might seem unimportant but if you haven't already realised," Reiji said, "The only person she can't remember even a single thing about is you."

Yui had slept for more than a good day after the incident. She had little food, a mixture of liquids involving water and cranberry juice, but other than that, she had mostly been sleeping. The potion had also worked wonderfully, leaving nothing more than the tiniest scare from the knife. None of the vampires had disturbed her, something new and frankly speaking, rather unexpected.

Finally, when she had felt more energetic and made her way out of her room for the first time in a while, she was bombarded by them.

"Bitch-chan~ You're up at last."

"You, I was getting bored playing with Teddy on my own."

"Tsk, are you okay now? Not that I'm trying to be concerned or anything like that."

Yui was taken aback but the ruckus all quite pleasant, although she reckons they'll be after her blood soon once she's all recovered.

"I'm fine everyone! I think I'm getting better. I'm really sorry that I kept all of you worried like that." She smiled.

"Then, you really do remember us?" Laito asked curiously.

"Yes, of course!" Yui nodded. "Laito, Kanato, Subaru…"

"What about Ayato then?" Shu asked, although he was not even directly facing her and instead, slacking on the couch.

Yui swallowed and looked worriedly into the direction of Sakamaki Ayato, who was on the sofa but looking at her. His face looked so serious that it really scared her. But Yui isn't one to lie.

"I'm…I'm really sorry..."

Not one to take no for an answer, Ayato pushed passed all his brothers, grabbed Yui by the wrist and dragged her upstairs back into her room by force. He did not care about her protests nor how his grip must've hurt her. Slamming the door behind, he hurls her on the bed roughly, a dark look over his face.

Yui looks left and right, panicking, and just when she tries to get off the bed to run somewhere to hide, Ayato grabs her leg to stop her. He climbs onto the bed himself, leg wedged between hers so she's unable to get away, pinning her hands above her head. There is only one way, in his opinion, to get her to remember then.

He sinks his fangs forcefully into her neck, not bothering if he hurt her in the process, leading Yui to scream out in shock. Her blood tasted as sweet as ever, the way he knew it was. Yui continued trashing about, but as hard she tried, she was no match for him and his strength. Tears were starting to form in her eyes as the vampire continued on.

"Do you remember me now?" Ayato breathed, his face still buried in against her neck, him licking at the blood. When he didn't receive an immediate answer, he shifted to look at her.

Yui was crying, her gaze fixed on him as their eyes met. This came as a slight shock to him. She should already have been used to his fangs by now.

"Why are you crying, Chichinashi? This isn't new to you."

Yui's tears continued to flow. She had no idea who he was and what he was doing. She remember how fangs that tear into her skin feel like. She also remembers how it feels to realise the blood that's leaving her own body. But she doesn't remember him. Ayato's face was only a vague blur in her mind and try as hard as she might, she can't recall at all who or how he is.

"You're joking…" Ayato says in disbelief, but she realises that he has let her hands go free. Yui quickly sits up, but not away from him.

Ayato continues. "We go to the same school everyday. We're in the same class. Every night, we'll sleep together here, or if not, it's at my room. Every single day, you surrender your blood to me and only me."

Yui stared him, her mind running amok. Everything this man is saying isn't making sense. She remembers things about herself, about this place and the vampire brothers, and not all of it is crystal clear but it gets better bit-by-bit. The only exception is this person.

"Then why," Yui asked, "Why is it that I can remember your brothers but I can't remember you? It doesn't seem right." She was just as perplexed as he is.

That was the thing Ayato can't figure out himself. He doesn't deem her to be lying either. Ever since the first day Yui got here, he'd dare say she'd spent the most time with him. (It was all forceful at first) but she had slowly gotten used to him and he was comfortable with her as well. She had been encouraging and patient and he'd thought she had seemed satisfied with this life. How could it be that she suddenly not remember even a bit of that?

Not one to give up easily, Ayato leans towards her, cupping her tear-stained face in his hands. Her eyes flutter close as he moves to kiss her.

To Ayato, he has poured all of his feelings in that one kiss, whatever those feelings may be. It's almost unimaginable, for him to hold this amount of affection for a mere, weak human-being, but he was desperate for Yui to acknowledge his presence and her memories. They have to be lodged somewhere and he was sure of it.

Ayato deepened the kiss, upon feeling Yui kiss him back. She tasted sweet, nearly as sweet as her blood had been for him. It was almost addictive. He ran his tongue over her bottom lip, kissing her in a slightly hurried manner, the kissing sounds they made clearly audible. When he pulled away first, Yui was seemingly panting and she had a hand gripping on his shirt.

He didn't say anything, instead just looking at her.

"I…I'm so sorry," she apologized.

The next thing Yui knew was that there was nothing but an angry, pained look on Ayato's face. He disappeared the moment she'd blinked.