Authors Note: So this is basically a series of unrelated drabbles with multiple, various pairings in it leading from het to yaoi to a three-way relationship. So chances are, somehow, your favorite pairing will be in here. All the drabbles are inspired by photography done by (www. Sasami – takarai. Deviantart. Com) So be sure to check out her pictures, they really are incredible!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight or any of its characters. Nor do I own the movie/book Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which Yuuki makes reference to

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Secret Meetings

Yuuki loved going into the city. So whenever the Chairman needed something done in town, Yuuki jumped at the chance to go. The Chairman always let her, but only if Zero went.

Zero never admitted it, but he liked it too.

Zero liked going into the city, frankly because it left him alone with Yuuki. Away from Cross Academy. Away from Vampires. Away from Kaname.

In the city it was just them and everyone leading separate lives around them.

The two took the subway and came up into the first floor of a Mall, much to Yuuki's delight and Zero's displeasure. It was times like this that Zero told himself no matter how much she ate or punched him; Yuuki was still a girl.

And girls gravitated to the clothes in the Mall.

Men gravitated to the bench outside of the department store, where they would be spending the next three hours waiting for the women inside.

But Yuuki wouldn't let Zero sit on a bench and nap next to the old man, oh no, she dragged him into the store with her. Because Zero was the equivelant to a human Ken doll for Yuuki. She liked to dress him.

"Hold out your arm."

He sighed, but did what she asked. A long time ago, his father once warned him that when it came to department stores it was better to just do what women said, then no one would get hurt.

Yuuki slid the sleeve down the length of his arm, holding the green hoodie up to his neck as her eyes shifted from his face to the sweatshirt. When her fingers brushed against the palm of his hand, unrequested tingles shot up his arm and into his heart.

"I think we should get it." She smiled. "It goes well with your hair, and if you smiled a bit and made a pouty expression you could pass as one of the boys on the poster."

Her best friend held back the desire to roll his eyes.

"We should go look at the pants now. You're due for some new ones."

The thought of her holding jeans up to his waist and running her hands down his legs; of her arms coming around his hips in an absolutely innocent way that wouldn't register as such in his seventeen year old brain. A shiver ran up his spine and he pushed away from her, throwing the jacket over her head.

"No. My pants are fine. Let's just go. I'm tired."

"Zero!"

He walked away to the front of the store, giving her no choice but to follow.

Fifteen minutes later they were going down the escalator, and Yuuki was surprisingly silent. He glanced over at her, just to make sure she didn't space out, and found her smiling wistfully at the descending stairs.

"What's up?"

She blinked, her brown eyes coming to life, and smiled at him.

"I was just thinking about this movie Yori-chan and I saw the other night."

He snorted. "Another chick flick?"

"No!" Her tongue stuck out at him and he smirked. "It was a comedy of sorts. Anyway, at the end of it the two characters are going home from being out all night. And the guy kinda tells the girl that what they have right now is what's important, what's worth living for. To not worry about the past or the future, you know?"

Zero looked at her, taking in her soft smile and her warm eyes. She looked at him and her smile grew as her cheeks tinted pink.

"And they were going down an escalator, and she kissed him."

Typical chick movie.

"But it just made me think." Yuuki reached over and grabbed his hand, her nimble fingers lacing into his long calloused ones. He grasped her palm instantly.

"It made me think about you…and…well, the future." Her teeth scraped against her lower lip, bringing amethyst eyes to focus on her mouth. "Right now, Zero. This." Her hand squeezed his. "This is what's important. This is it."

Zero watched her. Her shining eyes, and gentle smile. Her soft hair and smooth skin. Her tinkling laugh and the way she made him warm with just her voice. His thumb unconsciously brushed against the back of her hand.

Zero wished he could have kissed her on the escalator.