Chapter One

The night air was cool on Maya's skin. It was a welcome feeling after a hard days work in the infirmary. The kids at this school were serious hypochondriacs. Anything from a cold to a paper cut and straight to the infirmary. She was exhausted.

It was hard work being the academy nurse and part of the disciplinary committee, but that's just what you got saddled with if you were lucky enough to be the younger sister of Kaien Cross, headmaster of Cross Academy. But at least now, after the chaos of curfew for the day class, it was finally quiet. She hadn't even caught anyone sneaking out tonight.
'A good omen, surely,' she thought to herself. She paced around a secluded part of the school grounds. It was a small garden which she had helped Kaien plant, one of her favourite places on the grounds. Barely any of the students knew it existed making it a nice place to escape to.

Ring! Ring!
'Never a dull moment.' She thought sourly. Sighing she answered her phone hoping not to see the name she expected. 'Damn,' she should be so lucky. Rolling her eyes she answered the phone to Kaname Kuran, president of the night class. The vampires.

"I was having such a good night as well Kaname, what is it?" she said, an edge of humour to her voice. Some of the night class students cringed at the way she spoke to Kaname. He was a pureblood vampire, the highest of ranks in the vampire community and must be treated as such. But to Maya he was just an old family friend, plus Kaname never seemed to mind the way she was anyway. He forced a small laugh on the other end of the phone,

"There has been an incident involving Aido Hanabusa and two day class girls. We have erased their memories and would appreciate if you would meet us in the infirmary immediately."
"I'll be there as soon as I can." she replied, hanging up the phone. Aido was always causing her trouble. He just couldn't help disrupting the peace at the academy. Most of the time Maya thought that he didn't even do it for the blood of the students, just to cause some mischief. It made her laugh but she knew Kaname enforced strict punishments.

Upon entering the infirmary, Maya was expecting to see two day class girls lay in two of the beds in the infirmary but she was greeted by only Kaname and a sheepish looking Aido.
"Where are the girls?" she asked, removing her coat. She glanced at Kaname quick enough to see him shoot a stern look towards Aido.
"They weren't injured," he replied through gritted teeth, having a lot of difficulty maintaining his composure, "However Aido here is in need of more blood tablets as his supply is evidently running out." he shot another look at Aido causing him to look at the floor. "If you will excuse me, I have other matters that need my attention. Goodnight." He left in a gust of air. Maya had barely blinked before she was alone in the room with the golden haired boy.
'That was awfully… strange,' she thought to herself. Kaname never lost his cool, ever. Maybe Aido's antics were beginning to irritate him more than usual?

Regaining her usual cheerful mood, Maya started towards the medicine cabinet behind her desk.
"Sooo, been up to your usual tricks have we Hanabusa-san?" she said, giggling to herself. Aido's nervous expression made her laugh. What did he expect Kaname to act like after he broke the rules? He had been in this position so many times he should be immune to it by now. "You can relax," She continued, "Kaname has gone." Maya continued to rifle through her medicine cabinet, looking for her supply of blood tablets. She finally found one box hidden at the back,
'I could have sworn I had another box or two here' She thought. She stood momentarily in thought, staring at her medicine cabinet until Aido managed to speak, something he rarely struggled to do.

"Kaname-sama is really mad at me this time." He muttered, staring into space. Maya sighed, looking at Aido's guilty expression. Though she didn't need to look at his face to know how he was feeling. She could practically hear his thoughts in her head. He was panicked and pretty much mentally hyperventilating. Bringing him out of his trance, Maya grasped his hand, placing the blood tablets in his palm. Aido glanced at them before moving his gaze to Maya.
"How was tonight any different than your usual trouble making Hanabusa-san?" She smiled, trying to inject a little humour into the situation. Aido not smiling was like an Oreo without any cream, just plain wrong. He looked at the ground, shifting his feet slightly before mumbling his response,
"I bit Yuki." Maya's eyes widened with surprise. No wonder Kaname was so angry. It was no secret that Kaname had more than a soft spot for Yuki. He was the one that had brought her to Maya and Kaien so many years ago. Though Maya was almost as young as Yuki was back then she could still remember it very well. Ever since that night Kaname had visited Yuki often, he was the biggest part of her life. Aido saw Maya's shocked expression and immediately attempted to somewhat redeem himself,
"I only bit her hand though!" He exclaimed, jumping up onto his feet, his eyes manic.
Looking at him, his wide eyes, his hands running through his hair and his overall terrified demeanour Maya couldn't help it. She laughed. Hard. Aido didn't know what to do except stare at the nurse dumbfounded until after a while, he couldn't help but laugh a little too. Aido panicking was one of the funniest things Maya had seen, probably because it was such a rare thing to see. Aido was a lot of things, funny, cheerful, annoying and sometimes serious, but he never panicked like a housewife who had left her iron on.

After what seemed like forever, they both finally stopped laughing. Aido had returned to his seat whilst Maya had all but fell off of hers. Calming down Aido turned to Maya,
"So, are you not mad?" Maya hadn't thought about it like that. She should be mad, after all Yuki was like her sister but on the other hand, they shared a school with vampires. As hard as it was to think about, things like this were bound to happen at some point.
"Well," Began Maya, "Technically, I should be kicking your ass right now," She shot a playful grin at Aido who feigned terror much to Maya's delight, "But seeing as Yuki didn't get brought to me, you can't have hurt her that bad. I'm just going to have to keep an eye on you more from now on Hanabusa-san." Maya grinned and so did Aido. She could tell he had calmed down a lot compared to how he was when he came in and was glad she had helped. Looking at the clock Maya saw that it read 4:30. "It's gonna be light anytime soon Aido, you better get back to your dorm." When she said this Aido jumped from his seat, like he had almost forgotten that he had spent the best part of the night stuck in the infirmary with her.
"Ah, right, I better go, thanks Maya-chan" He beamed, shooting her one last brilliant smile before departing.

4:30. That gave Maya a good three, maybe four hours sleep before she had to get up again.
'I really need to get Kaien to pay me more' She thought sarcastically to herself before retreating to her room for some well deserved rest.