You Will Only Be Mine

After a lot of back and forth, Natsumi-san was able to pull me and Ai away, though it was more of her struggling with Ai not wanting to leave me. It is honestly impressive how Natsumi-san had to actually try to get Ai to let go of me. Let's not talk about the person who was being stretched like a rubber band. I can still feel the pain in my neck and arms.

Ai was somehow forced to sit down at her seat, and both our desks were turned to face forward. Natsumi-san stood before us, tapping her feet on the ground and rubbing her head. "Now back to the original topic," she said and faced me. "Did you feel anything like this prior to these incidents? A sudden urge, a voice telling you to let loose and give in?"

"I'm not sure about the voice, but when I was even human, I did have some urges from time to time," I said and glanced at Ai. "Especially around Ai."

"How long has it been like this?" she asked me, and I started thinking back on this.

"Maybe for about a month now?" I gave a rough answer, and she nodded her head. She went into deep thought for a moment, and I waited patiently for her to answer.

I did speak up especially about this topic. I don't really know what to do about this. Move away from Ai and Akira? But how long can I even do that? How long before my urges build up to the point where it would be too much for me to handle? What if I lose control completely and turn into nothing but a rabid monster? What then? I can't ask Natsumi-san to stay by my side all the time to keep me in check, so what do I even do?

"If I have to guess, these urges that you have will go on for about another five or so months," she spoke up after some time, and my heart sank. I took a deep breath and clenched my fist. Five months of having to deal with this stuff? No, that is too long. "Consider yourself lucky because that is a lot shorter than what regular vampires have to go through."

"How do you even come up with that number?" I asked Natsumi-san.

"Well, I was with Ama yesterday, and we were comparing the changes that were occurring in your body as compared to that of a normal vampire, and things were not in your favour. Your body changes too quickly, adapts to whatever it is put through in an instant, and is evolving twice as fast as a normal vampire. For now."

"For…now…" The words left my mouth as an unknown dread came over me.

"You are already stronger than most critters, novices, and even some new nobles, so your body has the capabilities of handling power of that magnitude, but the issue arises that your blood has still not fully matured. We are predicting that your blood fully maturing refers to you being able to wield powers as akin to the first, though we are not sure. So that means you will go through being a critter, to a novice, to a noble, high noble, and then the first within the span of two years. You understand what I am trying to get at?" she said, and my head fell into my hands.

Wait, wait, wait, this is too much information right now. So what? You are telling me my body will change a lot more drastically later on? Doesn't it take about three hundred or so years to be a noble? And a high noble? What even is a high noble? I don't even know what changes need to happen for me to even be as strong as that. Why is Natsumi-san dumping everything on me right now?

"I am telling you this right now because I want to make you aware, things are a lot more uncertain than we originally thought. What you are experiencing right now is only the start of it, so you have to steel yourself to go through this, Kazuki," she said and leaned against my desk. "Things will not be easy. I know you understand that, but you have to understand this from the get-go."

"You know, that isn't very comforting, Natsumi-san," I said with my nails digging into my hand. "I never asked for this. To be honest, I never wanted any of this. Just why does this have to happen like this? W-why?"

My voice started breaking. Is it too much for me to handle? Yes, it is. I can't even process everything that has happened to me, and things just don't stop piling on top of each other, do they? I get out of one situation and then another pops in like a long-lost brother. I never asked for this stuff. If anything, I just wanted to live a normal life. Go to school, spend time with my girlfriend, get to college and have a job, and live a good life like that. None of this was what I wanted, so why does this have to keep happening?

My blood was the reason why Dominic even set his eyes on my family. Yuna died because of this twice, and so did my parents. All because Ethan thought it was a great damn idea to have me inherit this blood. Damn it. Damn it all. Why did I even have to fucking exist? What is the point of my even being around if my very being is damned to be a reason people around me have to suffer? Why? Just why?

"KAZUKI," Natsumi-san yelled, breaking me out of my chain of thoughts. I looked up and felt something wet falling down my cheek. Oh no, I was crying again. Ai and Natsumi-san are going to worry. What am I even doing?

"Listen to me," she said, grabbing my face. "Did I say there was no way out of this? I just mentioned that things will be tough, and you should understand that. I am sorry for dropping this on you so suddenly, but I didn't want to give any false promises or hope. Yes, things will be tough; they will absolutely be, but who said to be alone in this? You damn hypocrite, you talk about how there are so many people by our side and we can rely on, but what are you doing in the same situation? Stop trying to take on everything by yourself. You are still just a kid."

"I…" I couldn't say anything. At this point, I don't even know why I was crying or feeling this way. Looking at the look on Natsumi-san's face just made me want to cry more. Now that I think about it, there was so much more I wanted to talk about with her. There was so much explaining I needed and wanted to vent about.

"For your issue right now, there is a way to tackle it," she said, and my eyes widened. A lump built up in my throat, wanting to come out as words, but it was stuck right there. "You need to drink blood more regularly. I am not talking once or twice a day. I am talking in little increments of it multiple times a day."

"But, how?" I asked a stupid question.

"What do you think I am here for, Kazu-kun?" Ai said, raising her hand as she spoke. "You can drink from me whenever you want, as much as you need. Even more than you drink from Akira," she said the last sentence in a low tone and super-fast pace.

"Not just that, you need to be more used to drinking blood out of bags," she said, and I got a bit confused by why she wanted that in particular. "Blood bags only have a certain amount you can put into them, and we can properly monitor how much blood you are consuming day by day. That will be hard to track from Ai and Akira's bodies directly. We need an accurate number every single time. You are an anomaly, Kazuki, so that means we would need to be as precise as we can with each measurement."

"I…see…" I said in a low voice. Everyone is being so considerate and worried about me. I doubt if I even deserve that.

SMACK

I got hit in the head by Natsumi-san. "What was that for?" I said, rubbing my head.

"For thinking something stupid," she said and cracked her knuckles. "Is it out yet, or do I have to use more power?"

"I-It's out, please spare me, oh great Kawazuki-sama," I said, jumping out of my chair. Vampire or not, having Natsumi-san hit you any harder is a death sentence.

"I'm happy you are back to normal," she said with a smile on her face. I lowered my guard and stared at both of them. Taking a deep breath, I quickly collected my thoughts and let go of the air.

"Now that that is taken care of," Natsumi-san said and extended her arms. "You two forgot to give back your weapons to the VEO. It has already been two days, do you understand what that means?"

I quickly ran towards her and took the keychain out of my pocket, placing it in her hand. Ai did the same with her hairpin. Once she had collected both our weapons, she went and picked up her books and started walking out of the room.

"Class dismissed, go home now, you two," she said before leaving the room.

Ai and I stared at each other and did as we were told.

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