Just A Normal Day
-A day in Kiriyu Zero's life
Disclaimer - I do not own Vampire Knight. No profit is made from this story.
Warning - Un-betaed. Some OOCness on Zero's part
A/N - I tried writing something without much of an actual plot in mind... and it somehow turned into a humor/crack fic. Zero is rather OOC, but I couldn't help it with the tone of this story. It's different from my usual style of writing so I can only hope I haven't botched it up. At least, I hope it might draw a few laughs. Oh, and for the purpose of this story I took the liberty of having Zero and Yuuki continue to live with the Chairman even during their high school years.
7:00 am Wake up to the sound of the Chairman singing... horribly off-key
Zero didn't need an alarm clock. He always woke to that... noise. It could not even be called a song. He would try in vain to bury his head under the pillow but it never worked. Damn his keen vampire hearing. Unwittingly, the peace-loving Cross ensured that the vampire-turned-hunter's first thought upon waking would always be hating vampires. Zero's second thought of the day was ever unfailingly the urge to hurt the Chairman. Badly.
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7:30 am Stare suspiciously at his breakfast and wonder if it's toxic
It was a valid concern. The male prefect often suspected that his vampire physiology was all that kept him from being violently sick after consuming some of Cross Kaien's 'creations.' Yuuki, on the other hand, was most likely born immune to it. She must have been fated to be raised by Cross. There simply was no other explanation for her ability to survive this long under her eccentric father's care. There had only ever been one positive side to the Chairman's cooking. On the rare occasions when Kuran would join them for a meal some years ago, the hunter had the satisfaction of seeing even the pureblood's expression freeze upon sampling a rather unusual dish. It was a pity the vampire never dropped by for a meal anymore. Not that he wanted to eat at the same table as that arrogant pureblood. It was simply entertaining.
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7:32 am Start eating
Once satisfied that his food was unlikely to suddenly jump him or anything, Zero shoved the food down his throat quickly to avoid tasting it.
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8:00 am Take a morning nap
Feeling sleepy still he wandered over to one of his several haunts on the school grounds for a nap. Yuuki would no doubt scold him if she knew but by this hour she was too busy getting ready for school in that typically frazzled manner of hers. If it weren't so familiar he'd have considered it cute. But every single day was a little too much, even if it was her. Now it was just mildly irritating so he tended to ignore it. Finally some peace and quiet...
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8:40 am Is awoken from nap
Somehow he had rolled over so Bloody Rose was digging uncomfortably into his side with the sun's rays hitting his sensitive eyes. Awoken from his nap Zero groused for the second time in the day. He hated vampires.
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8:50 am Tossing, turning...
His lovely nap was ruined.
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9:20 am Goes to class
If he was lucky the teacher would pretend not to see the prefect arriving late. On those days he could just take his seat in the back and idly listen to the lecture or continue his aborted nap. It didn't matter even if he slept through his classes as he usually got excellent grades. Unlike a certain short human also sleeping away in her classes...
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9:21 am Yelled at by teacher for being late
He was usually unlucky.
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12;30 pm Lunch hour
School food was so much better than the Chairman's. Zero ate alone, and if an ignorant soul were to approach where he sat eating he'd emit the dark aura that he had perfected over the years. After all it wouldn't do to seem too friendly, would it?
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1:20 pm Afternoon classes
It was like his morning classes. He listened half-heartedly or took an afternoon nap. But sometimes the prefect decided it had been too many hours since he had last cursed vampires and his own existence. He was ever eager to rectify that.
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4:30 pm End of classes
Stretching lazily, Zero would leave class and head outside as long as he didn't have supplementary classes. When he did have supplementary classes, he admitted it was his fault. But occasionally he'd wonder if the teacher wasn't a tad too sadistic with the whole affair. If his hunter senses hadn't known better, he'd have suspected the teacher to actually be a bloodsucking leech.
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4:50 pm Enter stables to help with White Lily
He could never bring himself to hate the horrid tempered horse. But sometimes the hunter couldn't help glaring at her. Not that it worked. She seemed to regard his hair as some sort of snack or chew toy. Wait... did horses even have chew toys? In anycase, returning to the subject at hand... Not only did he need to shower again if he didn't want to walk around smelling of horse breath (and he didn't), he just knew he was going to go bald. He wouldn't even be able to wear a wig since he was sure silver colored wigs were hardly common. Yuuki would laugh. So would the bloodsuckers. No doubt Kuran would be condescending and humiliate him in front of Yuuki. But what was worse, the Chairman would take pictures. Feeling a horrifying chill run up his spine, he quickly shoved White Lily's head away from his precious hair.
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6:00 pm Dinner with the Chairman and Yuuki
Why couldn't he eat school food like a normal student again? Oh, right. Chairman Cross and his love of 'family' dinners. Zero liked to refer to it as a 'joint-health-hazard.' But he dared not say it aloud. The Chairman might decide make him a specialized liver salad with chili peppers in a misguided attempt to prove him wrong. He wasn't quite brave enough for that.
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6:35 pm Doing the dishes
He didn't particularly relish the chore but it was safest for him to do the dishes. Yuuki being the total klutz that she is often broke them.
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6:38 pm Blood!
Did fate hate him so? Yuuki once again somehow dropped a dish she was putting away and cut herself on one of the fragments. The scent of her blood threatened to turn his eyes crimson. Having had blood a few days ago, it wasn't quite as bad... but still Zero's bloodlust was bad enough that he felt like he was being squeezed under a pressure of approximately 3 atm. At least it wasn't like when he was starving. That would be the equivalent of 8 atm...
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6:39 pm Stomping out
Seeing one prefect refuse to take the blood of the other prefect, Chairman Cross eyed the former. He opened his mouth to offer his blood only to be stopped by the murderous glare of violet eyes. He never did learn. The brief episode ended with Zero stomping out of the kitchen.
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6:50 pm Bloodlust controlled
Reciting the endless list of 'Code of Conduct for Hunters' backwards to himself did the trick.
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7:01 pm Prefect duties
The Night Class always paraded out of their dorms at 7 o'clock sharp. Zero was usually fashionably late for the ordeal. By the time the fangirls got too excited for Yuuki to handle alone, he'd step in glaring and shouting at the girls. Even as he did so, he often ended up questioning whether he really needed to do this. It only made his life more difficult and it wasn't as if these girls even wanted to be saved. Still, he supposed it was something a hunter ought to do. A mental image of the Chairman and Master Yagari doing this in place of him and Yuuki had him grinning for the briefest of moments. Brief as it was, one of the girls caught sight of that moment. The poor girl would later insist that the male prefect actually looked quite handsome when he was not scowling and barking at them only to be told by her friends that she was having hallucinations.
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7:02 pm Glaring at the Night Class
Every now and then he'd spare a few glares for the members of the Night Class. Tonight was no exception. His glare landing on Kuran, he reflected on the way the pureblood acted so arrogant and yet polite. Really, the smiles and words he directed towards the stuttering, blushing Yuuki were enough to make him sick. He never understood why the girl fell for that. Couldn't she see that the gentlemanly demeanor he presented to her was nothing more than a front? He knew she was not all that bright but this was too much. Sometimes all Zero wanted to do was wipe that placid expression off Kuran's face. He wanted to see some real emotion from the pureblood. And not just the I-am-mightier-than-thou anger that he often saw ever since that first meeting when he had stabbed the other. Purebloods and their masks made him sick.
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7:03 pm Still glaring at the Night Class
Still, despite all this the hunter had to admit that perhaps Kuran was not quite as bad as some of the others here. Cringing at a particularly shrill shriek from a fangirl he whirled to shout at the flirting Aido to move along. Really, that vampire was always making more work for the prefects. And as for the fangirls, he was of the opinion that they could probably communicate with whales with their ultrasound-ish voices. It was a rather random theory, but hey, vampires existed. Who knew what else was possible in this world?
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10:00 pm On patrol with Yuuki
She was gazing longingly at her pureblood savior through the window yet again. Zero refrained from rolling his eyes. If the girl had half such dedication to her studies he would not be required to tutor her and cut back on his sleep. Deciding that he had had enough of her mooning for that vampire, he stalked off.
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11:08 pm On patrol
Quite often, patrolling was boring. He and Yuuki would split up so he didn't even have her company. He had better things to do, really. Sometimes when he felt the boredom would drive him insane before he could even fall to a Level E, he would lie down and count the stars. He kept the activity a secret as it seemed too whimsical. If word of this got out, he was sure not even his glares would be able to hold back the rabid pack of girls in the evening. But... his record so far was 852.
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2:30 am End of prefect duties
The Night Class was escorted back to their dorms. This was a quieter and swifter affair than the evening. Zero was often relieved by that fact. He didn't think his ears would survive that kya-ing twice a day.
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2:52 am Racing to the bathroom with Yuuki
Being taller had its advantages at times. It meant longer legs, faster pace and thus a swifter arrival to the Chairman's bathroom. Now and then he allowed Yuuki to take a shower first but when he was tired, cranky and generally feeling not-so-generous he'd be able to shower first.
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2:53 am Waiting for his turn
He was feeling generous today.
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3:24 am Return to bedroom
The long day was finally over. Or night. Whatever. Prefect duties and his rather nocturnal nature seriously screwed up his schedule. He felt that their sleeping schedules made the prefects half vampire-like. Even Yuuki's little friend, Wakaba, had commented on that. Stupid vampires. And with that last thought in mind he fell into bed to get some sleep. Perhaps tonight no dreams filled with blood and fangs would disturb his rest. One could always hope…
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3:25 am Good night
Both Yuuki and the Chairman had not yet gone to bed. As a matter of fact, they were on their way. Passing by Zero's door they knocked softly before calling out a 'good night' and a 'sweet dreams.' After a moment of silence he answered with a brief 'night.' But a small flicker of something was in his eyes as he did so. As strange and messed up as his life was, he still had this warmth. These two impossble, annoying, odd, frustrating, foolish people who cared. It was what kept him living.
A/N - Hope you enjoyed the story. Reviews and criticism will be greatly appreciated!