Title: strange and so surreal
Author: Grasshopper (A.K.A. The Undertaker's Muse)
Rated: PG
Warnings: Unrequited love. Set during the latter portion of the time skip.
Fandom: Vampire Knight
Challenge: No True Pair
Prompt: Aidou & Yuuki, Only If For A Night
Spoilers: Set during the time skip (manga-verse); make of that what you will.
Pairings: Aidou+Yuuki, Kaname/Yuuki
Summary: I had a dream about my old school and she was there, all pink and gold and glittering.
Author's Notes: For all that I 'ship Zeki/Aidori, I find this pair completely adorable (yet bittersweet).
Disclaimer: All characters and the series they come from belong to their creators. Grassy can only lay claim to the fic.
"Aidou-senpai? Hello~ Aidou-senpai~"
"What what what what! Must you be so-"
"Hey! You were the one that wasn't listening."
"To. What."
"Me, of course."
"Oh, of-"
"As I was trying to tell you while you flirted shamelessly with the waitress-"
"Oi!"
"-your spoon dripped. The strawberry ice cream looks to already be staining your shirt."
"Ack! No, I really liked this one~"
"Heh. Serves you right. Really, a man shouldn't flirt when there's already a cute girl with him."
"...where at?"
"Die."
"Joking, just joking! Ahaha... Are you reaching for Artemis?"
"Aidou-senpai..."
"Aidou-senpai... Aidou-senpai!"
Hanabusa's eyes slid open, greeted with the frowning face of the Kuran princess he tutored.
"What is it?"
"I'm finished!" With a bright smile, Yuuki waved the papers from her latest test at him.
"Ah, good."
Work, work was good. Infuriating as teaching her could be, better to focus on his student's test scores than on the student herself.
Especially after a dream like that. So, so glad that Kaname-sama doesn't read minds.
Not that Hanabusa would ever betray Kaname-sama - especially by flirting with Kaname-sama's fianc? - but he couldn't help the stray thought. Or dream.
But that was of a different time, a different place. And a different girl.
Kuran Yuuki, though much of her remained the same as the Day Class prefect Hanabusa had known for years, was not the girl he had once delighted in tormenting. That girl, for all she was the unknowing focus of Kaname-sama's attentions, had been someone Hanabusa could be somewhat free around. Someone Hanabusa might have stood a chance in gaining the heart of.
To pursue the vampire she had become, the only heart Hanabusa would gain was his own- After Kaname-sama had ripped it from Hanabusa's chest and presented it to him just before Hanabusa turned to ash.
He just had to ignore the dreams that came to him, the inconvenient thoughts that sometimes plagued him.
And let go of that thin thread of hope that somehow hadn't managed to die.
The End