Chapter 452: Uncle
My head felt weird. I was sure I would wake with another awful headache because Ethan’s idea of holding back is just killing me a few less times. Or maybe I am too good at dealing with it now? No, there is no way that would happen.
Then why am I have my face buried in Ai’s chest with my head feeling only slightly dizzy. I could hear her heart beating at a faster rate than she normally did, but my body felt too limp for me to look up and see how she was doing. Her hands were gently caressing my hair, and it felt so nice that I could go back to sleep again. No, that would be a bad idea.
"Ai..." I somehow muttered her name and she pulled my face up to her level and gave me a giant smile.
"Good morning, my prince, did you sleep well?" she asked me, and I slightly nodded my head. "Still too tired? Maybe they did take too much of your blood during the examination. You should mention it next time you are there, you know."
"I...huh...?" I couldn’t fully make up what she was talking about, but I did feel quite tired.
"Something wrong? Not happy to see me?" she asked playfully, and I shook my head.
"No...dizzy..." I said and closed my eyes for a bit. It was weird indeed. I was feeling dizzy, but that wasn’t out of exhaustion or too much sleep either. Is this what being high feels like? I don’t know, but seeing people in movies, I can only make assumptions. More importantly, I was not thirsty. Did I drink some blood already?
I wanted to ask so many questions, but I couldn’t bring myself to word them out. Let’s just stay in the moment and enjoy Ai’s coldness. I snuggled closer to her, and she pulled me into a little hug while she kept playing with my hair. "Your bed head looks so cute, do you know that?" she whispered to me, and I just nodded. Honestly, in the mood I was in right now, whatever she would say, I could only reply with a nod. "Kazu-kun looks so cute when he is sleeping. I should start waking up earlier more," she said and I just nod my head again. "I’m happy that you agree with me. Good boy."
Any worries in my head were thrown out in an instant as I enjoyed my time being pampered by her. She kept whispering sweet words without letting go of me. Whatever she said, I just nodded to show that I was listening to her. Even though I couldn’t fully make up everything she was saying in the moment, I didn’t care. Her voice was putting my mind to peace and I need it after my training with Ethan last night. If this is how I get to wake up every morning because of that, maybe I’ll ask him to train me even more.
"You don’t want to wake up?" she asked me, and I nodded again. "Good, then let’s just sleep in the entire day. I’ll tell Natsumi-san we won’t go to school."
I nodded again, and she placed a kiss on my forehead and pulled the blanket up to my neck, pressing her body against mine even more. She put her leg around my body and completely enveloped me in her presence as I lay there enjoying every last bit of it. My mind couldn’t think of anything except her. She smelled too nice. Her voice was so sweet. Her body was the perfect temperature to put me back to sleep, and she felt too good to cuddle.
"You can rest more, Kazu-kun. You deserve it, always trying your best to make me feel at peace. Let me spoil you a little today," she whispered into my ear, and I nodded. My eyes started to feel heavier I slowly drifted off to sleep.
It was one of the good ones. No dreams, no back to the mindscape, and no disruption to my rest. I don’t even remember when I fell asleep as my eyes opened up again. My body felt a lot better getting the rest it needed, and my vision was obstructed by soft fabric pressed against my face.
"Good morning, handsome," I heard a familiar voice calling me out, and I looked up to see her adorable face smiling at me. "Slept well?"
"Hmmm," I nodded and pulled away a little. Stretching my back and legs. It was one of the best feelings in the world. I looked back at her and then at the curtains. I could see the bright sunlight peering from under them and my eyes widened. "Ai, what is the time?"
"It’s two in the afternoon, why do you ask?" she said and a sweat fell down my face.
"Did we just skip a day of school?" I asked her, and she looked at me, confused, while nodding.
"I mean, I asked you if you wanted to sleep in and you nodded, so I called Natsumi-san, telling her we will be taking the day off," she said, and my face dropped. Oh no, Natsumi-san will be so pissed off. What do I do? Do I go full Dogeza and beg for forgiveness, or cook her a meal? She hates it when I skip school days. "Don’t worry, she said it is fine."
"Huh?" I looked at her, confused, taken aback by the words I just heard. Natsumi-san? Okay with us skipping school? What timeline am I in? "Don’t worry, Kazu-kun, everything is fine. You looked very tired when you woke up, so she said it might be because of excessive blood being drawn out from you. Something about a late reaction to it in vampire, I think?"
"Does something like that even exist?" I asked, rubbing my forehead.
"Do you want to confirm with her?"
"I’d rather not," I said, sitting up in bed. If Natsumi-san said it, I’m sure she isn’t lying about it. Then again, what in my body will even make it so that it is being the case? Is it the training from Ethan? Is that somehow acting as a catalyst for it? It would make sense if I were to ignore all the other red flags I see in this explanation. I would need to ask her about it later and...probably talk about Ethan’s training and the headaches. I was afraid to bring that up since she already looked so worried about me and was so hell bent on doing everything in her power to help me, I didn’t want to pile up more stuff with her.
Then Ethan pointed out how utterly stupid I was acting. Sigh, can’t even say I disagree with him. All this talk about being transparent with everything and not taking so much on me and here I am again. It’s so pathetic.
"Anyways, you are probably hungry, right? How about I make you some Katsu," I said and saw the little half vampire beam in joy. Well Katsu it is for lunch. A very late lunch but that didn’t matter too much.
Before that, I should probably freshen up too. I looked at Ai and saw her in a different set of clothes from what she had last night. "Did you wash up while I was sleeping?" I asked, and she smiled at me.
"I need to be at my best whenever Kazu-kun is around. Can’t risk looking lousy in front of him," she said putting up a peace sign and I chuckled kissing her forehead.
"Lousy you is extremely adorable too. I did enjoy looking at that side of you every morning," I said in a teasing tone, and her face turned slightly red.
"Maybe I will mess up my hair and clothes a little for you..." she muttered, and I planted a kiss on her head before I headed to the bathroom. On the way, a strong, sweet scent caught my attention, and I looked at the fridge. I know this smell; it was a bit different but it was quite apparent as to what it was.
My feet started to move on their own, making their way to the kitchen, and I opened the fridge. In there were all the blood bags that arrived yesterday, labeled with the names of both Akira and Ai. Even though they were sealed and untouched, I could smell them so clearly. Maybe taking a little sip won’t hurt. Yea.
I reached in and pulled out a bag with Ai’s name on it and started taking a little sip. The moment the blood touched my tongue, I felt a surge of pleasure rush through my body as I kept drinking it. It was not as good as when I drank from Ai directly, but it was good enough. I tried my best to hold back and only have a taste, and here I was almost halfway through the bag.
"My, someone is enjoying my blood a little too much first thing in the afternoon," I heard a teasing voice, seeing Ai standing behind me with her hair a little messy, along with her clothes. I quickly pulled my mouth away from the bag and rushed to put the bag in the fridge. "No, Kazu-kun. Growing boys like you need to have as much as you need," she said, holding the blood bag and holding it up to my mouth with a sly smile on her face. "Go on, drink up."
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