Chapter Two. A painful day.
That evening found Akatsuki still asleep, and Hanabusa in the bathroom. Wincing slightly, he examined his sore backside, through a lot of shifting things around. It looked terrible, but he could feel it eventually healing. So hopefully it wouldn't last.
"Hanabusa, what are you doing in there?"
Damnit, when did he wake up? "Nothing!" he snapped, "I'm urm, getting out of the shower!"
"Then how come the water hasn't been running?"
"I don't – waaah!" he cried, loosing his balance and falling onto his back.
At this point, the door opened, just as Aido turned onto his front to rush to the sink.
Kain blinked, "H-Hanabusa?"
"Get out!"
His eyes widened as he glanced down the blonde's slender form, to something he'd half suspected. "What the hell happened to you?"
Aido turned as red as his butt, turning against the wall and covering himself with a towel.
"Well? What happened to you?" he spluttered out, "your butt–"
"I fell over," Aido muttered.
It didn't look anything like a fall. "What? Are you trying to tell me, you fell onto someone's hand over and over again?" he asked angrily.
"Get out!" he needed to act like everything was normal, "I need to get ready, perrrrvert!"
Kain turned and slammed the door behind him, whatever it was, and now his mind was racing with suspicion, he was going to force it out of him later, even if he had to lock him up!
"Aido!" a hand clamped onto his shoulder, gripping nails into his skin.
"Ow! Ow, Ruka!" he protested. The light brown haired female vampire glared into his eyes.
"You were with Kaname-sama really late yesterday," she stood up on tip-toe to get a better look at him, "What were you doing?"
"Nothing! Eww, Ruka, you're creepy!" he laughed nervously, shifting around her, "do you give everyone this treatment?"
Ruka raised an eyebrow, "Keep your hands off Kaname-sama. Do you understand, Aido? He is too good to waste his time with you!"
"Urm, yes," he sighed, walking away, "just tell him that," Aido muttered once Ruka was outside a safe range.
"Hey, you're pretty quiet today," Ichijjo sat up on the side of Aido's desk, as he made his way towards it.
"I only just got here," he grinned, rolling his eyes.
"Oh, I can usually hear you talking to Kain in the corridors," he chuckeled behind his hand. "Didn't you get much sleep last night?" he tilted his head to the side when he saw Aido's sleepy eyes.
The blonde yawned, "Nope. Akatsuki fixed the curtains, but I still couldn't sleep."
Climbing off the desk, Ichijo walked towards him, whispering, "So, what happened to the curtains?"
"Was it President Kuran?" Shiki appeared behind him.
Aido went completley pale.
"Shiki, don't shock him like that!"
"No," Kain appeared behind them, "It wasn't President Kuran. I was mad the other day, and threw one of Aido's treasures. It broke the support beam, but I fixed it."
Ichijo and Shiki looked surprised.
"You mean it was you, Kain?"
"Aido didn't do it?"
"Hey! What do you take me for?" he walked past them towards his desk.
"Nothing nothing!" Ichijo laughed cheerfully.
"Hmm," he muttered, flopping onto his seat. Unfortunately, he'd forgotten all about the stinging pain in his backside, which he was soon reminded of: "OOOOWWWWWWWWW!"
Everyone was staring at him, looking pretty confused. Ichijo looked mortified, and had already started asking him questions about his health. Kain winced uncomfortably.
"Did you sit on something?" Ichijo gasped, touching his forehead without really knowing why.
"No!"
"Could this mean, you were up last night doing indecent things?" he held a hand over his mouth, "Hanabusa Aido!"
"Of course it doesn't!" he yelled.
"Aido. Shut-up."
He went rigid as Kaname Kuran came into the room.
"S-Sorry, President Kuran," he muttered, his eyes on his shoes.
"Hanabusa!" he grabbed his shoulder, pressing him against the wall. Aido bit his lip in pain. Kain realized his mistake and pulled back a little, folding his arms, "I forgot, sorry… Did President Kuran do that to you last night?"
"No," he turned to walk away, but Kain grabbed his wrist, and yanked him back harshly.
"You think after all these tears, you still have the ability to lie to me?" he snapped coldly.
"Fine!" he yelled at his cousin, "Yes! Yes it was him! Why do you need to know, Akatsuki!"
"He did that to you…?" he sounded shocked. Was he hoping for a different answer? Was he hoping it was someone he could get at for doing this?
"Yes," he sighed into his hand, "Don't make a big deal out of this, okay?"
Kain's eyes narrowed, "Alright, say I don't. And what if he gets a kick out of doing this, and does it again?"
"The I deserved it!"
"What if you didn't? But he did it anyway, because he can?"
"Kaname-sama isn't that kind of–"
"Well I didn't think he was the kind of man who'd spank you raw the way he did, but–"
"It's not that b–"
"Hanabusa, if you were going to say it wasn't that 'bad', you're stupider than I could have ever imagined. So what, did you enjoy it or something?"
"What? No!"
"Can't you see I'm worried about you? Why did you let this happen to yourself?"
Aido grabbed his wrist, "How the hell could I stop him, Akatsuki? He's a pureblood!" he snarled angrily.
"He's not a monster! Why did you have to go after Yuki Cross again? You encouraged him, I know you did!" he turned his face away, "I'm sick of watching you do this to yourself."
"Akatsuki! How can you say such horrible things?" he put his hands on his arms, staring up at him with large blue eyes.
"I'm going to sleep in with Ichijo and Shiki. You do what you want," he grabbed a pair of pjama's, and walked out of the door, slamming it behind him for the second time that day.
"Wait! Akatsuki, wait!"