Chapter 1. Please Please

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight, if I did, things would be much, much more interesting...kukuku...

Ruka looked longingly out the balcony. As Kaname was hugging that Yuuki again, one single, bitter word appeared on her mind. 'Why?' Why did he ignore her? Why didn't he return her glances? She had loved him even before meeting him, she would literally die for him, and not because he had the power to force her to. No... she would do it willingly, if ever it was necessary. Her lips parted and she asked the question she'd asked so many times before. "Why does he choose her?"

"He doesn't. You can't choose who you love." Kain's soft voice floated to her ears, as soothing as always. He whispered, somewhat sorrowfully. "No one can..."

"I guess you're right." Missing the hidden meaning of his words, the long-haired beauty sighed and turned away from the loving scene that broke her heart a little bit more every time she saw it. Taking a deep breath, she changed the subject. "By the way, why are you dressed so formally today?"

The red-haired vampire looked at himself. He was wearing his school uniform the same way he always did, with his midnight-black shirt loose and an unbuttoned titanium white blazer. The only difference was that he was wearing a white tie today. He shrugged, answering in a bored tone of voice: "I have to go home for a while. We're having the yearly family reunion, and they asked me to dress accordingly." Stupid dress codes...

Ruka arched an eyebrow and asked, sarcastically: "Do you really think a tie is enough to impress them?"

Kain smiled. "There's very few people I want to impress, and none will be at that reunion."

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Aidou was snoring loudly, with his face smothered in his big, soft, fluffy, lavender-scented pillow. He was dreaming of adoring girls with lovely necks, chocolates and sweets. Ah, the sweets...

"Hanabusa, wake up."

CLUNK!

Aidou's aqua-marine eyes opened slowly and he looked annoyingly at his cousin, who had just thrown an alarm clock at him. He lifted his face from the drooled, half-chewed pillow and yawned, rubbing his eyes. "Ahh! What do you want, Akatsuki, it's still so bright outside!"

Kain sat on his cousin's bed and looked at him. "Hanabusa, I need to ask you a favour."

Aidou's expression suddenly turned serious and suspicious. Kain was asking him for a favour? Him? He trusted him? This couldn't be good. "What do you need?"

"As you know, my family's holding a family reunion and I have to go. I need you to take care of Ruka while I'm not here. Please? This is really important to me."

'He wants me to take care of that spoilt brat?' Even though it wasn't something he would enjoy, Aidou smiled. This was the first time Kain had been so honest and sincere with him. The first time that he'd asked him something truly important. "Of course."

Kain stood up and said, casually: "Good. Anyway, I also asked Ichijou. It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I trust him more."

The warm feeling of being trusted was quickly replaced by anger for being choice number two. The blond's face grew like a balloon and he started shouting: "WHAT?! You ungrateful idiot! And here I was, thinking that we had finally bonded for once! How could you do this to me? I thought I meant something to you!! And now I find out that you did it with Ichijou as well? What does he have that I don't? You're just using me and I'm supposed to like it?!"

Kain's face was redder than his hair as he tried to silence his noisy cousin. Didn't he know how to control his fits? "Hanabusa, shut up! People might hear you and take it the wrong way!!"

"No, you shut up!" Aidou ran out of the room, promptly followed by Kain.

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"Shiki, open." The crimson-haired boy, currently resting his head on Rimas' lap, opened his mouth, while the pigtailed model dropped a chocolate ball in it. On the opposite sofa, Ruka was gently sipping her tea, while Ichijou sat on an armchair, occasionally grinning whenever he turned the pages of his new manga. It was a quiet sunset. Was, if not for the two maniacs who had been shouting and now were running down the stairs, one of which was in his pink bunny pyjamas. Lovely.

"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!!"

"Hanabusa, stop making a scene! Look at the state of you!"

This sentence merely provided Aidou with more ammunition. "Oh, I see! Now I'm ugly as well!" He pointed at the other blond in the room. "I bet you also think Ichijou is prettier than me!"

All eyes were on Ichijou now, who turned almost as red as Kain, who was trying to appease Aidou. "Hanabusa, please be reasonable!"

"I am up to here with being reasonable! How could you, you two-faced, low-life, lying backstabber!! I trusted you! I thought I was the only one you would ask to perform that task, but now I see you're just like all the others! You went to Ichijou behind my back!"

Ruka, Rima and Shiki all glanced suspiciously at Ichijou again, who was hiding his face behind his book.

Rima remarked, nonchalantly, and much to Ichijou's chagrin: "I never thought those three were into that."

Ruka added, still sipping her tea: "I guess you never really know people." She gently tapped her index finger on her chin. "Although, the only one that surprises me is Akatsuki."

Shiki finished munching his chocolate and said: "True, the other two have given us quite a few hints, haven't they?"

Ichijou looked at his pink shojou mangas, sweating, while Aidou burst, annoyed at being ignored: "What are you people talking about?" Kain sighed and whispered something to him. Aidou's eyes grew and he pointed his finger at the trio accusingly. "How very dare you!! Who do you think I am?!"

"A lala boy?"

"An okama?"

"A Barazoku fan?"

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS SAYING?!? I'm NOT gay, okay?" Aidou ran back up the stairs, fuming and mumbling to himself. "Really, I never!"

Ruka continued drinking her tea, while Ichijou and Kain exchanged looks. Shiki noticed them. "They're flirting."

Ichijou pouted, in a whiny voice: "Shiki-kun, you're so mean! And Rima-chan and Ruka-chan, you too, accusing me of such behaviour. What if my Day Class fans heard you, the poor little things?"

So, what do you guys think? Right, that's it for the first chapter. I still have much more to write, this just a little beginning for our story. By the way, the chapters' names may seem weird at times, that's because I'm naming them after songs of one of my favourite bands :)

And I should probably say that Yuuki is not a vampire in this story, Kaname hasn't given her her memories back yet, 'kay?

Oh, and in case you're wondering okama is slang in Japan for gay and Barazoku was a gay magazine there (Wikipedia is so helpful) and I have nothing against gay people, just thought a little misunderstanding would be fun, plus Aidou gets to make a scene. Whooo!^^

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