“I am not your servant,” Sanji said.

“Yes you are, I'm a vampire and I bit you but didn't suck your blood so that means you're my servant now.”

“You're not a vampire,” Sanji said, a little more exacerbated.

“And he can't be your servant, he’s the hero that will be my companion to beat High Commander Ritten.”

Eva shook her head, walked past the two of them, picked up her plastic teeth, put them in, and said, “I am too a vampire.”

“What kind of vampire doesn't like the sight of blood?” Sanji asked.

“Thath inthignif-” she spit the teeth back into her hand, “That's insignificant! Vampires don't need to like blood.”

“You said you came here because you saw blood outside,” Sanji pointed out.

“I came here because I needed a servant and now I have one.”

“Isn't it a bit late for you to be out by yourself anyway?” Sanji had school in the morning, and now not only did he have to get one girl to the hospital, but he had to figure out how to get another one out of his room.

“Vampires are creatures of the night,” she said in her slow, confident, voice, and then in a faster tone added, “Plus I live two doors down so it's fine.”

Oh no. Vampire girl was a neighbor, she must have just moved in. “Well, yes, nice meeting you, I think it is time for you to go.”

“You're my servant, I tell you what to do, not the other way around. What do you think you're doing,” while she was saying this Sanji guided her by the shoulders up to the door, opened it, and placed her outside. “What do you think you're-”

Sanji shut the door.

Rose had been awfully quiet, and when he turned to scan the room he found her missing. “Rose?”

“In here!” The bathroom door was hanging ajar, and Sanji moved to open it without thinking.

He saw her, then he saw all of her, those clothes that had previously been so revealing sat on the floor in a pile while she stood at the edge of the bath. Sanji knew that he should look away, in the same way that he shouldn’t stare at the sun so as not to be blinded. Yet he couldn’t turn away from the radiance, his gaze landing on one smooth rounded surface after another.

“I need to bathe to get the blood off of me so that vampire doesn’t return,” Rose stated as she looked at Sanji.

He gasped in a breath, he hadn’t even noticed her look at him, “I, um, yes.”

Sanji shut the door, although it seemed as if she didn’t mind him seeing in the slightest. In a bit of a daze he wandered over and sat down at his desk as the shower water turned on. Even with the door shut the images were still crystal clear in his mind, and they would probably stay that way for years to come.

It took longer than it probably should have for Sanji to remember that this girl was clearly not in the right frame of mind and to look at her like that was taking advantage, but it’s not like he did it on purpose.

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After a few minutes the water turned off, and just a moment later Rose opened the bathroom door and stepped out into the room. Just as naked as she had been a few minutes prior, her clothes held off to the side in one hand. This time Sanji mustered the willpower and self respect to look away. She said, “I don’t think these are good clothes for taking on Ritten, do you have anything different?”

“Please just put them on,” Sanji exclaimed, a battle of great conflict taking place inside his mind.

There was silence, a lot of silence, and finally Sanji turned around. She had her back to him, bending over, looking through one of his drawers. Still no clothes.

He looked away, reminding himself again and again she hit her head.

Then a knock came at his window. His second story window. The curtains were open, and Sanji gaped outward at what he saw. It was a pair of legs donning a short pale-yellow skirt, and above those legs was a pink hoodie, their head was out of sight. Whoever it was stood precariously on the small windowsill, and the means by which they had gotten there eluded Sanji.

The stranger knocked at the window again, or really sort of just batted at it with curled up fingers. Then she crouched down, her hands hanging onto the top of the window, and Sanji groaned. “Not another one.”

He had no idea what was going on, had he suddenly become a magnet for crazy people? The girl perched outside of his window wore a pair of fake cat ears and had markered on whiskers. He contemplated closing the blinds, but Rose reacted before he could. She walked over to the window, opened the latch, and said, “Here kitty!”

All while still nude, of course.

The cat girl leapt inward, landing inside and looking around Sanji’s room.

“Um, can I help you?” Sanji asked.

“No,” the girl hardly even looked at Sanji. She made a weird rolling noise in her throat. Did she just purr? “But I think she can…”

The cat girl’s eyes were locked on a very particular region of Rose’s body. Sanji stammered something, got to his feet, rushed to his bed, pulled off a blanket, and threw it around rose, “I thought I told you to put your clothes back on.”

“Yes, this robe will be perfect,” Rose replied and worked the blanket into a more wearable position.

Meanwhile Sanji looked at his newest self-invited guest. The cat girl actually licked the back of her hand as Sanji watched, then she promptly turned and began to search around the room. Her outfit even had a tail dangling down from her skirt. She crouched down next to Sanji’s bed and searched under the frame, at the same time she said, “Why’d you tell her to get dressed?”

“She hit her head, it would be wrong to take advantage!”

“Why did you get her naked in the first place then?” The girl lifted up Sanji’s mattress after not finding anything under the bed.

“I didn’t, she did that on her own! But who are you, and why are you going through my stuff?”

“I’m Niya,” she replied. He had left the world of logic behind… “And you’re a guy living alone. I’m looking for your porn.”

“Sanji, you shouldn’t have that kind of stuff, High Commander Ritten gains power from sin,” Rose came up and shook Sanji from behind.

“I don’t have any of that kind of stuff! And I shouldn’t have to explain myself to you, why are you in my apartment?”

The cat girl… Niya… scoffed at that, “I’m a pussycat, emphasis on the first half, and I noticed you and Rose here had something going on. I wanted in on the action.”

“What?” Sanji asked, struggling to wrap his mind around that package of information. “Wait, you know her?”

Sanji looked at Rose, the girl was staring at a particularly blank piece of wall as if it were the most interesting thing in the world. Niya- he would have to find out her real name- sat down at his computer desk and indifferently replied, “Yeah, duh, we both go to the same school. What’s your password?”

“Hey, turn that off!” Sanji moved over and flipped the power on his computer monitor, “And what do you mean the same school?”

Niya scoffed again at the monitor being turned off and she stood up to further prowl the room while she said, “Yeah, at Lema Academy- the great fix-all school for troubled girls of all degrees!”

Her last words were laced with sarcasm, and Sanji did remember something about a school like that being announced. Had it just opened? The cat girl walked up to Rose, and rose smiled while Niya explained, “In fact, she lives in this very building, a lot of the girls from school do. That’s kind of why I decided to drop down- I’m right above you- I wanted to get away from my roommate. She’s such a creep.”

Niya then reached up to Rose, took the blanket by the edges, and began to push it toward the floor. Sanji rushed forward, “Hey, stop that!”

“Are you gay or something?” Niya asked, tilting her head to look at Sanji, “I’m trying to get a cute girl naked in front of you.”

“But-” Rose began.

“It’s for our quest, darling,” Niya spoke over her, “The purity of your skin will ward off evil minions, or whatever.”

Sanji phused the two apart, he then grabbed a belt and gave it to Rose, “Put that on to keep the blanket in place.”

“But the purity of my skin-”

“That robe gives you bonus stats.”

Rose nodded knowingly and began to put on the belt with a look of great determination.

“Okay, well,” Sanji took a deep breath, “I think you should leave. I need to get her to a hospital.”

“She does seem a bit more out of it than usual, but-”

Three sharp raps came at the door. Tap. Tap. Tap.

“Not again,” Sanji let out a groan of frustration.

Surprisingly the cat girl groaned as well. When Sanji looked at her she pulled her lips back in a human’s attempt at a cat snarl, “It’s probably my roommate.”