[Ah-- she doesn't even know where to begin. The beginning? Her head tips down and she stares back down at her paper. A lot has happened over the years. But maybe it was best to start with her real brother.]
It's just sad... I'm not sure where to start.[She draws a breath. Until not all that long ago, much of this information had been kept from her. It wasn't until after it was revealed that her fiance left.]
Before I was born, mother and father had a child. They named him Kaname, the same name as the ancestor of the family. But the day he was born... my uncle killed him. He... [Having seen the memory through her beloved, it was sickening and horrible. A truly monstrous act.] My uncle...used his body to revive our ancestor. The pureblood don't die... but even so, our ancestor had been asleep for thousands of years. Because of that his body was very decayed. He hadn't...ever wanted to awaken.
[Closing her eyes she fights the tears that brim within them once more.]
When our ancestor realized that he had been awoken by such an innocent and terrible sacrifice, he... erased his own memories, and took on the form of an infant in my real brothers place. Both mother and father realized what happened, but raised him all the same.
[She's quiet for a time, and shakes her head.] It-- it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to someone who is human. [Their lifespan and concerns. It's all supernatural, and even to Yuuki it's difficult to really grasp sometimes.]
I...was born so that I could be with big brother. With Kaname, that is. We were engaged. Just like mother and father.
[She's a little too upset at the moment to spend much effort in being embarrassed. There's a small touch of hesitancy in her voice.]
For the pureblood it's-- It's normal to marry your sibling. Mother and Father were siblings. And-- even though he's a terrible person, Uncle Rido had coveted mother. [The depth of his lust was not something she wanted to remember or focus upon though. She clears her throat.] E-Even though the wardens here said it's a crime, it... is not at home. I was truly happy to know that we'd get married. Just like our parents.
[Although that seemed like an impossible dream, now.]
I didn't know what had happened to my real brother back then. Or that there had ever been someone outside of the Kaname I knew. But- because of what had happened to him, mother and father had wanted to keep my existence a secret. They wanted to protect me.
[She shrugs a little.]
So my home was within the basement of one of mother and father's residences. There weren't any windows, and I was never allowed upstairs. Just in the rooms beneath. If Uncle Rido discovered my existence, then they knew that he would attack me, too. So until I was five, I grew up with just my immediate family down below.