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The hands of the clock tic away at the hours spent sitting behind the desk of the classroom. The daylight dwindled away, leaving only an hour before twilight, when the Night Class and Day Class would pass each other.

Setsuna's fingers drummed against the desk in quite an annoying manner to her deskmate, whose name she couldn't remember. She would remember timestamps and dates of which her tasks were assigned by the Hunter's Association, but names she wasn't too good with if the person was unimportant. One hand brushed her long, silky, waist length jet black hair back. Her cat-like emerald eyes were shadowed by the bangs cut neatly across her forehead.

"Could you please stop that annoying tapping?" The girl beside her asked in an annoyed whisper.

"No thanks," Setsuna retorted, earning her a good glare from the girl. She shrugged off the look and twisted a lock of hair with her fingers.

"Stupid bitch," the girl hissed.

"Fuck you." Setsuna made no mistake she had a disdain for the girl now. She was never the type to be around the bush. It was alway blunt and straightforward.

"That's it for today's class. Don't forget the homework," the teacher glared from behind his desk.

"Finally," Setsuna let out a breath as she got up, stretched her arms out, and slung her bag over her shoulder before walking out.

"Kyaaa, the Night Class's coming out!" Many girls squealed.


"Tsk, time to cross paths," Setsuna grumbled. Unlike most, this Day Class female despised the Night Class. To the others, they were beautiful, forbidden students of Cross Academy. To her, they were blood sucking vermin that didn't deserve the Earth to walk upon.

Just watching them trample the Prefect Cross Yuuki made Setsuna scowl.

"Stay back!" Yuuki tried to scream from underneath the hoards, but it made no effort, as always.

"Pfft," Setsuna scoffed.

The gates creaked as they opened to reveal the elite Night Class students. The ones with their names know to all stood in front. Kuran Kaname, Pureblood and Dorm President. He was the one who reached out a hand to Yuuki whenever things like this happened.

"Are you alright?" He always asked that. No matter what, he seemed to enjoy having Yuuki by his side.

Ichijou Takuma, Vice-President and grandson of Ichiou of the Council. His grandfather was one of the most feared figures of both the human and Vampire world. So how would someone like that have a grandson as bright and hyper-active as Ichijou? His smiles were too... human.

Souen Ruka, the one head over heels for Kuran. She was the rude, stuck up, snotty nosed brat that believed to be better than all the other girls head over heels for Kuran.

Akatsuki Kain, the Vampire that never dressed properly. His hair was always "Wild", and his black collared shirt was almost never fully buttoned.

Shiki Senri and Touya, two models that have appeared all over magazines. They're gorgeous, like most of the Night Class, but they seem to keep to themselves and their Aristocratic circle of seven, eight including Seiren.

Seiren, the one seeming to be serving under Kuran. Setsuna really had no reading on her, except that she always obeyed Kaname.

And then, last was Aido Hanabusa, with his golden yellow locks and piercing blue eyes. Setsuna stared at his eyes as he flirted with the girls. He apparently loved showing off and being cocky, and he seemed to have Kuran scolding him most of the time for breaking some sort of rule.

"Stupid Vampire…s," she mumbled. Her green eyes followed him as he mingled, asking the girls their blood types. A few jealous shrieks emerged, but she didn't care. She usually heard them from her Dorm room anyways; but never before coming to the Academy. She felt exceedingly tired just then.

"Go back to your Dorms! Making a fuss with all your 'Kyah! Kyah! Kyah!' Who has to work to keep it all under control?" She listened as Kiryuu Zero, the other half of the Prefect pair finally presented himself. Shrugging as the blonde vampire left, she slid down from the high branch and found herself wandering back to her Dorms.

On her way back, she kept wondering why her chest tensed whenever Aido Hanabusa crossed her mind.

"I must be crazy."


In classes, the Prefect Duo had fallen asleep and earned themselves supplementary classes.

"Those two are always asleep," the teacher had said earlier.

Setsuna had seen the chaos that the girls created with the two there. Imagine it without the two of them there.

"Too bad," Setsuna whispered to herself. As the bell rang, every other girl rushed to see the Night Class. Setsuna lagged behind a little.

Screams and squeals emerged as Setsuna passed by the chaotic crowds of crazy girls.

"Ahaaa!" Setsuna had actually laughed at the scene. Aido was freaking out, and the Night Classers were surprised that the Prefects had not shown themselves yet.

"Where are Cross and Kiyruu?" Aido shouted.

"Supplementary classes!" Setsuna shouted back.

"Alright everybody! Settle down!" Yuuki yelled.

"Speak of the devil," Setsuna scoffed before walking off, her bag slung behind her and her free hand in her pocket.

As the night approached, instead of returning to her Dorm as normal, Setsuna wandered into the forest after ditching her school bag on the side of the path. She crept along the shadows, stalking two girls that had come with a camera.

"Oww!" The one with short hair squirmed.

Her left knee had scraped and began to bleed, causing Yuuki, who had caught up with them, to make a frantic scene and rush them away. Yuuki had swung down from the branch, and Setsuna had seen a flash of blood from her palm, where the tree had apparently scraped her.

"You two are defying Academy rules, being out of your Dorms at night!" Yuuki tugged on her Prefect arm-band for emphasis.

"We just wanted to take a few pictures of the Night Class! Just let us get those!" The girl with longer hair pleaded unconvincingly. The other girl was kneeling, covering her scraped knee with a napkin.

"You... you're hurt! Hurry, get out of here!" Yuuki shouted, trying to shove the two away.

Then, Aido appeared with his cousin, Akatsuki. Yuuki had used her oh-so-not-scary rod to try and fend them off before seeing it was the cousins of the Night class.

"Scary..." Kain mocked, grabbing the rod and pushing it down slightly. "The Headmaster has trained you well," he smirked. Aido just sniffed the air.

"Shit," Setsuna muttered. She froze in her tracks and swung herself up onto a branch. Her chest tightened again at the sight of Aido. What was wrong with her? Was she sick?

"Aido, get out of here!" Yuuki shouted.

"Such a nice smell..." Aido muttered.

"Aido, if you touch these girls..." Yuuki almost-hissed, if she hadn't looked so scared.

"Did you fall? The nice smell… is you, Yuuki," Aido said, grabbing Yuuki's hand. Setsuna flinched at the contact between the two. He pulled the Prefect closer and brought her hand to his lips, piercing her palm with his sharp fangs and drawing blood.

"Aido..." Yuuki growled.

"Vampire?" One girl screamed.

"B-but those don't exist!" The other shouted.

"I want more…" Aido murmured. "May I partake from your neck?" He asked, shifting his body to hold her wrist from behind her.

The two girls shrieked and fainted at the action.

A shuffle of the leaves and a breeze was there just as quickly as Zero appeared, Bloody Rose in hand.

"Drinking blood on Campus is strictly forbidden," Zero said in a stern voice, pressing the gun against Aido's head.

Just to tempt him, Aido taunted, "But I've already tasted her." It worked the way he expected; Zero shot at Aido. Yuuki had gotten in the way just when Setsuna found herself about to jump in between the two. Her hand had pushed the gun up above, and the shot had fired at a tree.

"Would you put away your Bloody Rose gun? It's a great threat to us," Kuran said as he emerged. "I'll take care of this idiot and wait for the Headmaster's instructions."

Setsuna spat. Kuran, once again, had come to save the day. She was done watching. With one last glance over her shoulder at Aido, she dropped and ran back to her room.


That day of classes was especially long and boring. She didn't pay attention throughout the whole lecture each teacher had given. She had left hand in her pocket, fiddling with the ribbon on the small box of chocolates she had spent all of last night slaving over the kitchen for and in her room decorating till six. Ironic, for she had always slapped or injured a boy for making a racist joke about how females shouldn't be Hunters and should just go back to the kitchen. Now, all she had to do was finish cleaning the kitchen if someone else hadn't already done so, and figure out who to give the box.

"Setsuna! Wake up!" The teacher scolded when Setsuna had fallen asleep for a minute on her desk.

Snickers emerged from many people.

"Ugnn," Setsuna groaned.

The end of Valentine's Day was approaching. Classes had been let out, and girls had trampled over each other to make it to the gates of the Moon Dorms. There, they lined up in rows for the Night Classer they were giving chocolates to. Setsuna didn't bother getting in line. Nobody wanted to get close to her, and she didn't want to get close to them. She watched the whole event from the sidelines, leaning against the wall closest to her. Her arms and legs cross as the girls shrieked. She could still feel the chocolates in her pocket, and an urge to go up and give it to Aido.

"Stupid box..." She grumbled as she pulled out the small container.

"Hamasaki, don't you have chocolate for them?" Girls screamed at her. A few of the Night Classers accepting chocolate from the girls that screamed stared at her. Setsuna just glared back with piercing emerald green eyes hidden behind her blunt cut across her forehead. She fiddled with the crimson red ribbon as the girls giggled with each other. Aido asked a girl her blood type just before Yuuki came and separated the two. That's when Setsuna took her leave, shoving the box back into her pocket.

"Hamasaki-san, aren't you giving the Night Class chocolates?" Yuuki called out as Setsuna leaved. She could feel the prying eyes of some Vampires boring holes into her.

"Oh my God," she growled. "Fine, here!" She shouted back to Yuuki but cringed from the harshness in her tone, chucking the box of chocolates from her pocket right at Aido's head. He had caught it right before it hit his eye.

"Thanks!" He grinned before going back to the other girls.

"Don't thank me," Setsuna spat before whipping herself around and stalking away. Her jet black hair flew around her as she strode off towards the Sun Dorms, her shoes clanking loudly in the silence against the stone paved path.

"Glad I got it over with..." She grumbled, though her cheeks were flushing red.

Setsuna threw her uniform jacket over the coat rack and started stripping down, rummaging through her closet to find a nightgown. She came to a simple pastel pink one that fell above the knee and just to her thigh, with bows and lace lining the nightgown. A special gift, but from whom Setsuna couldn't remember just then. Her head throbbed as she threw that onto the bed before walking off into the shower.

She lathered the citrus scented shampoo into her hair before rinsing it out and rubbing on conditioner.

"Stupid Aido," she grumbled, her eyes closed and her head tilted back to expose her bare neck.

Far off, Aido sneezed three times.

"Hanabusa, are you okay?" Akatsuki questioned.

"I'm," he sneezed once more, "just fine."

As Setsuna ran her hands through her washed damp hair, she grabbed a brush and began running it through her hair. She was wearing the nightgown she had strewn across the bed earlier. Every time she closed her eyes, she could only see the flirtatious smile of Aido or the 'Bam!' movement he did every time. Remembering that, her head started throbbing.

"Damned Vampires, every last one of you." Setsuna sprawled herself onto her bed, her long legs hanging just off the sides of the bed as she popped two Tylenol into her mouth and chased it down with a glass of water. She laid an arm over her eyes and drifting into a drug-numbed slumber. Except this time, the nightmares were replaced with images of her loved ones. Her mother, her father, her younger brother, her older brother. And in that mix, Aido popped up quite a few times. Despite that, she smiled as she fell asleep.

It must have been quite a long time since she slept like that.


So, that's Lurking in Shadows, Chapter One of Uchiki Koneko for you. I'll try and update weekly, but if I haven't posted in a week, I'm busy because of school.