The tables have turned.

Dadsuki smiled at my assumption, replying: "Heh.. You said exactly what I thought you would say."

He looked me in the eyes and continued - "However, I do partially hate you for what you're becoming."

I looked at him confused, and then at my own hands, saying: "But.. I have been like this for as long as I remember."

He looked me up and down, examining probably how petite I actually was and replied: "Thanks to your mother and that boy, yes.. That's exactly what ruins it though. You're not.. Supposed to be this way. And after what happened I am sure you got to witness I am no ordinary father."

I raised one of my eyebrows and said, crossing my arms: "Yep, I noticed that."

"I.." - He sighed and continued - "Alright, here's the thing. People around you.. They are all under your level.. But you.. You descend with them. I am trying to give you a noble life but you want to live like a peasant! You're getting away from your true nature each day..!"

"Look.. I just wanna have a normal life where I get to spend time with my friends."

He glared at me, surprised, replying: "NORMAL?! YOU ARE EVERYTHING BUT NORMAL, YOU ARE A HYBRID!"

"What about it?! Can't I be around my friends because of that?" - I started getting more nervous because of him yelling at me.

He looked at me, crossing his arms, replying: "No, a hybrid is not supposed to be around humans so much.. I am already unsatisfied that you are not a pure-blooded vampire, but that's my fault.."

I looked away, replying: "Was it necessary for me to go back home just for this?"

I saw him get taken aback by my comment, I heard him ask: "Oh, so you don't want to know why I abuse you? You wanna live this lie and have fake friends?!"

I finally looked up at him, angry at his assumptions once again and said: "I do wanna know.. And they are real friends."

He crossed his arms and looked at my broken arm.

"How's your arm doing?"

I looked away, holding my broken arm: "It hurts."

"Hmph.. If you were pure-blooded like me, you would be able to heal within seconds.." - He annoyingly affirmed.

"Well, I'm obviously different.." - I lifted my broken arm up, looking at it annoyed.

His annoyed gaze turned into an angry glare as he said: "You're not even a good hybrid.. Weakling, WEAKLING!"

"Stop that!" - My eyes started glowing slightly red.

"Why, it's the truth! You eat human food and befriend humans.."

"Being different isn't that bad..!!"

Dadsuki looked angrily at the floor, trying not to lose his patience and said; "Okay. Let me explain this in a human way, since this isn't getting through your head.." - We then locked eye contact as he continued - "Imagine you saw someone eating and sleeping with pigs, how would that look, hm?"

"STOP THAT.. RIGHT NOW!!" - I looked angrily into his eyes, my eyes glew bright red from anger and pent up stress.

He slightly smiled, looking at my eyes, asking: "Why?"

I growled as he continued: "Again, it is the truth. Humans are nothing but pigs compared to our kind and look.. Your eyes are bright red.. That is a sign of the nobility of our nature.. The nobility and kind you're rejecting.. And don't show that attitude toward me, you don't stand a chance."

"Prove it..!"

I crossed my arms while he looked at me, surprised, yet.. smiling..? He said: "Oh? You want to challenge me? Stupid girl.. No matter what you do.. It's useless.. Useless.. USELESS!"

I reached my own limit of anger and finally kicked him in the stomach with all my strength, getting him to fall to the floor, as I shouted: "I TOLD YOU TO STOP THAT!!"

He looked up at me with his eyes blacked out, saying: "Bad girl.."

I looked at him, surprised, saying: "Wha-"

He threw me upwards and I hit my back on the ceiling. I fell to the floor, closing one of my eyes as he said: "USELESS! You're gonna fight with a broken arm? Bold of you.."

I felt my arm slowly heal while I lowered it down and said: "Broken arm?"

When it was healed, I punched my Dad using my recently healed arm.

He looked over at me and said: "...I see you got some abilities from me.. But it takes you a long time to regenerate.." - He smiled and continued - "Your arm may have recovered.. But that punch felt like a mosquito bite!!"

He hit me in the jaw and I got angry, and as MC appeared, I looked over as he shouted: "LEAVE HER ALONE!!"

Dadsuki let out a chuckle and looked MC in the eyes, saying mockingly: "Oh no, the hero is here! Whatever will I do now? Please don't hurt me.."

He grabbed my leg, which took me off guard and threw me at MC, using me to hit MC to the ground with my body weight, while he continued: "PLEASE, TAKE HER, I'LL BE GOOD, I PROMISE!! UAHAHAHA!!"

I looked up at him annoyed, saying: "Will you cut that out already? I know you're lying.."

Dadsuki regained his composure, but still smiling, looking at MC. Me and him got back up and I muttered: "I have to make a decision or this endless circle won't be broken.. Right?"

My dad looked at me surprised and asked: "Decision? What decision?"

"On which side I should pick.. MC's or yours.." - I answered, looking up at him.

He grew impatient quickly, as expected, and said: "Well, hurry up, pick your choice!". After a few moments, he calmed down and continued: "..Natsuki, this whole time you were staying further from me.. I did horrible things to you in a desperate attempt to keep you from this dangerous world. I think it's about time you try and turn a new page.."

I looked away, after hearing my dad out. All my thoughts were spreaded like sheets of paper on some sort of theory book, what do I do.. I want to know more about myself and my nature.. But MC cares about me..

After a few moments, and my thoughts gathered in one place, I said: "I've decided.." - I looked at both of them and continued - "I choose your side..". In saying that, I pointed at my father slowly.

He smiled widely and said: "Finally.. After so much.. Come here!"

I slowly hugged my Dad and looked over at MC, whispering: "I'm sorry.."

While he hugged me, he said: "I'm sorry for all the things I've done to you.."

I looked surprised and asked: "Wait.. for real?"

He looked away and said: "Look, I don't hate you.. I did it out of fear, parents get really strict out of fear but.. thanks for choosing my side, even though I made you suffer so much.."

I smiled and said: "Well, everyone deserves a second chance, right?"

He smiled and answered: "Yes.."

We looked at MC at the same time and Dadsuki said: "Well.. Anything to say?"

MC looked at me, and held his elbow, looking away, saying: "Well.. I don't regret the times I've tried to keep Natsuki safe.. She's my friend, that's what friends are for. But even if she ends our friendship, I'll always be there whenever she needs me."

"Well, you don't have to worry anymore, I won't abuse her." - Dadsuki said, looking at him calmly.

I smiled at my dad and then at MC, saying: "Thanks for everything, MC.."

Dadsuki glanced at me and muttered: "Not sure if I can say the same, but okay."

He then looked MC in the eyes and continued: "Well kid, you can go if you want. I won't bother you anymore."

MC walked towards me and hugged me, after that, he waved us goodbye. Dadsuki and I waved back and I heard him say: "I might've underestimated him.. He's really dedicated.."

I smiled to myself and quietly said: "He sure is.."

He patted my head and got up, saying: "Now then! Nat, sit down a bit.. Now that you've chosen my side, I suppose you deserve to know more about your kind, right?"

I sat on the couch and looked at him with curiosity, replying: "That would be ideal.."

He turned his gaze to me again.

"Do you have any questions? I will try my best to answer." - He asked

"Well.. How did I get these powers to begin with?" - I asked him, looking at my own hands.

"Since the day you were born, you can do pretty much most things I can: self heal, superhuman strength.. Yours are very weak though, it takes you minutes to regenerate and your fighting skills are numb. Well, that's because you are poorly fed." - He then looked at me and smiled, continuing - "Alright! It's time for you to uncover the secrets of your true nature!"

I looked up at him and smiled with wonder, saying: "Alright, this will be interesting.."

"Now, you're probably wondering why you're not as vampiric as you should be.. You don't get burnt by sunlight, you don't need blood.. There are two reasons for that: 1) You're a hybrid and you don't exactly need blood to survive and you're resistant to sunlight thanks to your human side. 2) You never tasted blood before so your human side dominated your vampiric side. Luckily, there is always a solution to that.. I want you to grow.."

He took a blood bag from the kitchen and handed it to me while I said: "...Where did you get this blood?"

He glanced at the bag and then looked at me, saying: "Uhhhh.. I think I stole it from a hospital."

I looked at him for a few seconds and he sighed, saying: "Hey, you should be happy I didn't slaughter someone and collected their blood. And that bag isn't that big so eat up."

I started to drink the blood out of the bad and.. for the first time drinking such a thing, it didn't taste all that bad!

"So.. How does it taste?" - He asked.

"It tastes pretty good, actually!" - I exclaimed, smiling.

He smiled back and said: "Perfect, now drink the rest, you haven't eaten in a long time.". I finished the bag and said: "Done!!"

"Perfect! How do you feel?"

"I'm starting to feel stronger, I guess.."

He smiled at me, replying: "That's exactly how you should feel.." - He patted my head, looking at the time and continued - "Now that it's midnight, I guess I can go out. You can come with me."

He led the way, and as I was following him by his side, he said: "I wanna show ya something."

I looked up at him, with my curiosity peaked. I asked him: "What is it?"

He said, keeping his smile: "A little test..". We continued to walk and went towards a dark alley as he continued: "You see.. When the night falls, and everyone goes to sleep.. A lot of dangerous people get around." - He then pointed at an alley full of junkies and other people - "You see those people, Natsuki? Those are the lowest scum of humanity. If you wandered here alone, they would have no mercy on you."

I looked at the alley, holding my elbow, muttering: "Wow.. That's not right.."

"Yeah! So that's why we're going to have a little talk with them… Come."

I followed him, crossing my arms, hiding my fear. As we walked closer, one of the junkies got up and said: "Hey.. You two lost?". Dadsuki looked at the junkie, replying: "Nah, we got the right location.. We were looking for you guys."

The junkie looked at us up and down while muttering: "You two really think you're something, huh.." - He then grinned and asked - "What about that little girl? She seems nice!".

He tried to walk closer to me and I backed away slightly until I saw my dad dig his fingers into the junkie's nose, losing his smile, saying: "Who told you to get closer..?" - He dug his fingers deeper, eventually killing him.

Once Dadsuki dropped him on the ground, the junkies got up and grabbed their weapons ready to attack us. My dad smiled at me with a bloodthirsty look on his face, saying: "Nat, it's time to see how that blood affected you."

I looked scared at the sight of weapons and the junkies, nervously asking: "OH SHIT, WHAT DO I DO?!"

He ordered, smirking: "Kill them."

I nodded and looked at them again, grabbing the dead junkie's weapon, while one of them said: "I'M GONNA CRACK YOUR SKULL WITH THIS BITCH!". By instinct, I started attacking them while they came at me, smiling: "I DON'T THINK SO, PUNK."

As the junkies were trying to get up, the one who was gonna attack me first, said, surprised: "WHAT?! SHE BEAT US ALL ALONE?! LET'S GET OUTTA HERE!!" I grabbed knives from my bag that I had for self defense and threw them while they were trying to escape, killing them while Dadsuki grabbed one of the junkies and broke his neck, smiling.

"HAH, AMAZING! YOU DIDN'T LET THEM ESCAPE!" - He looked at me, with a wide smile.

I looked at the bodies and muttered: "Shit, if mom finds out, we're screwed.. BUT THIS WAS SO FUN!"

He hugged me: "Foolish of me to ever doubt you.. You were born to kill from the very start.. And if your mom asks about what happened, it's our little secret."

I smiled and hugged him back.