Momo: Hmm I am getting mixed feelings about Ryu... Anyways, thank you, my awesome readers for the reviews! Sorry, I'm a review whore, I NEED them *cough* Anywho, enjoy!

Aiko's POV

My eyes flitted open to the annoying blare of that damned alarm clock I have. I scowled and shut the irritating contraption off. Honestly, one of these days, that stupid thing is going out the window, but now wasn't the time for that. Today I have to get up and get ready for class. I got up out of bed and walked over to my closet to get my uniform, then went in the bathroom to take a shower.

Thoughts about the upcoming day were running about my mind. Would Yagari-sensei try to kill us with a boring, long, and antagonizing lecture? Is that new kid smart? Or nice at least? He seemed shy, so I won't ask him anything right away. Arashi might know since he's rooming with this guy. It's better than making the poor guy nervous, which didn't seem so hard to do with how timid he seemed.

I got over my thoughts before I got lost in them, got out of the shower, dressed, and got ready for my classes. Honestly, I was about to trip over my feet trying to hurry up. I spaz too much, but I'd rather not face Yagari's or Natsumi's wrath if I'm late. Plus, I don't have a desire to be stuck with screaming boys and girls. Too irritating.

After getting ready, I bolted downstairs, found Tenshi, and stood next to him. "Jeez, did you run a marathon before coming downstairs?" he asked. "No. I was just in a hurry." I panted. Tenshi just rolled his eyes. "You spaz too much." he teased. "Screw off." I muttered. As I straightened myself up, I noticed something weird... Arashi wasn't with Tenshi. Normally he's down here waiting for me with him.

"Hey Tenshi, where's Arashi?" I asked. He shrugged. "I don't know, but it's kind of weird for him to be late. He might be helping Ryu out with getting used to all the daily routine crap." he answered. he had a point. Great, his and mom's crappy paranoia antics were starting to rub off on me. Lovely. I don't like being paranoid. Not that they do, but they always are. I don't understand why for either of them. Arashi never has anything to worry about. Mom worries about five kids, counting dad, but she always seems to be looking over her shoulder, fearing something. It's best not to ask her, but I still can't help but wonder...

My thoughts were discontinued when I saw Arashi and Ryu descend the staircase together. They both walked up to us, Arashi yawning as he did. "Gah, I didn't sleep well." Arashi muttered. "Well if you'd let that rediculous paranoia of yours rest, maybe you'd sleep better." I suggested. "It wasn't that, I just couldn't sleep. Anywho, you all remember Ryu. He's a senior like you Aiko." he said.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Ryu." I greeted kindly. He smiled slightly and nodded, mumbling a quiet hi. Yup, timid was the perfect word. "So, you like it here so far?" I asked. He nodded, but then finally spoke. "Everyone has been nice, so it's good so far." he answered quietly. Then we were interrupted by Natsumi. "Time for classes everyone." she announced as the doors opened. "Well, you're gonna hate it now. The fangirls are such a pain in the ass." Tenshi grumbled. Yeah, and the fanboys are any better? They never leave me, Natsumi, or the other two girls in the class alone.

"Fangirls?" Ryu asked with a completely oblivious look on his face. It was so cute! "The day class has a huge fetish for us, so they scream and cheer. It's annoying to be praised over like that, but they don't take that into consideration." I explained. He nodded in understanding and walked outside with us. I wasn't surprised when a lot of the girls took their attention to Ryu. He wasn't exactly hard to look at. Still, the screaming was giving me a headache. The constant "Kuran-senpai!", "Kiryuu-senpai!", and "Ichijou-senpai!" from everyone was getting extremely irritating.

When we FINALLY got to the school, I sighed in relief and turned around to face Ryu, who looked overwhelmed. "Wow..." was all he could manage to say. "Yeah. Annoying isn't it?" I asked. He nodded slowly. Poor thing's ears probably hurt from all the screaming. "Well, not you have to get through Yagari-sensei, which is a full time job within itself. He is so boring, I guarantee you will fall asleep on the first lecture." I explained. He just listened to me wordlessly and took in what I had to tell him.

Of course, when we entered the room, Yagari took the first chance he got to try to embarrass the poor kid. "You. What's your name?" he asked without looking up from his book. I don't care if he is a professional vampire hunter that is one of the best out there, that is freaking creepy! "Ah- uh... my name is Ryu Arashi..." he answered. Nice one Yagari, you scared the life out of the newbie! Why don't you tell him the school has an indoor swimming pool and a class on the roof while you're at it?

Yagari eyed Ryu carefully and nodded. "Welcome to hell." he greeted sarcastically. "Don't mind him, he's an ass." Tenshi grumbled. "Hey, idiot apprentice! I heard that." Yagari snapped. Oh yeah, I forgot. Since he trained Zero, Yagari was also training Tenshi now. So was his dad, but Zero was busy a lot with running the vampire hunter's council. I always thought it was weird that a vampire was running a hunter's council. Oh well, Zero was a nice guy at heart, so I didn't worry much about it.

"In between the Ichijou's." Yagari ordered. Ryu nodded shyly and walked to the seat in between Arashi and I. Poor guy looked utterly terrified. "Hey, don't worry, you'll be fine." I assured. He nodded. "Yeah, Yagari is just an enormous pain in the ass." Arashi whispered. Then he ducked to avoid getting pelted upside the face with a textbook. I stifled my laugh as Arashi growled quietly. "He has the ears of a bat." Ryu stated. "I know. I can't get away with anything!" Tenshi complained from behind us. I rolled my eyes. "Well, if you didn't constantly get in trouble." I teased. I could feel the tick mark on his forehead from here, and it was beautiful.

"Quiet. If you remember before break..." that was all I tuned in for. I had no desire to listen to a long lecture. All I could think about was how fun winter break was. Well... and how weird it was considering what I saw. Wait, I was still freaking out about that stupid letter!? Kaname can handle it, I know he can! Still... I bet Arashi didn't sleep well because of his paranoia. He'll get better soon, so I shouldn't worry. I put my head down on the table and let myself slowly drift to sleep.

"Aiko, wake your lazy ass up." a familiar voice grumbled. My eyes fluttered open and I looked up to see an annoyed Arashi standing up over me. "Oh, class is over." I yawned as I stood up and stretched. "That... was excruciatingly boring." Ryu mumbled. "Told you." Arashi, Tenshi, and I said at the same time. Ryu chuckled a little. We all just looked at him, shrugged, then walked out of the school with him following us. Yay relaxation in the moon dorms until we get tired! It's always nice to relax after one of Yagari's terrible lectures.

"This is much better!" I exclaimed as I plopped down on the couch. I could fall asleep here.... "It's not like you suffered through any of the lecture. You were too busy sleeping in class. Lazy ass." Arashi muttered. "Now, I hate details. Besides, I always ace that class, so it's not like I need to pay attention to something I already know or understand." I replied. My brother just rolled his eyes. Then I felt the cushion sink next to me and looked up to see Tenshi sitting next to me. "You look tired." I stated. "Yeah. I had to stay behind after class to let Touga talk to me. I need to go see the headmaster right now for some reason." he murmured.

Wow. See the headmaster at three in the morning? That's pretty bad. "Why does he need to see you?" Arashi asked. Tenshi just shrugged. "Hell if I know. That lunatic always needs something stupid like a hug or something. Either way, I better go right now." he sighed as he stood up and walked out of the moon dorms. The headmaster is never really serious about anything, so it's nothing we should worry about.

"So, the headmaster is always like that?" Ryu suddenly asked. "You mean does he always act like a complete child? Yes." I answered. "Oh. I thought the voices in his head told him to hug me to the point where my spine wanted to explode while screaming something about me being another adorable collection to his night class." he explained. Whoa, slow down! That's the most he's talked ever since he's been here. "He always does it. Arashi and Tenshi just deck him every time he hugs them. Then the headmaster goes on about how Tenshi is just like his father and how Arashi is like mom." I added.

Hehe the look on Ryu's face was priceless. It is hard to believe that the chairman of a school such as this could be such a.... well, idiot sometimes. Still, he was a kind man, so none of us could hate him. Plus, he's been around ever since we were born, so we really couldn't hate him. My spine hates him though. You know, at this point, everyone's spine just wants to rebel against him and like, kill him or something. Hehe mental images. It's funny and weird at the same time.

"Anywho, the chairman is a great guy though, he's very kind, so you can't hate him. Arashi, Tenshi, Natsumi, and I can't hate him because he's know us since we were born, so in a weird, twisted way, he's like family." I said as I stretched. Ryu just nodded. "So, you've all been friends since you were little too?" he asked. "Well, me and Arashi have been friends with Tenshi since we were little, and same with Natsumi, even though she's our cousin. The cool thing is that she wants us to treat her like family, not a pureblood princess." I answered. He nodded again, this time with a smile. There was still more I wanted to know about this guy though....

"What about your family Ryu?" I asked. The smile immediately vanished, and he sat down next to me, his gaze fixated on the floor. "My dad died before I was born, and my mom and I argue a lot." he answered. Oops.... I didn't mean to make him sad. Way to go Aiko, make the new guy cry. "I'm sorry." I apologized. He looked up at me and smiled half-heartedly. "It's okay. You didn't know." he assured. I wasn't convinced, so I gave him a quick hug. A subject like that is very sensitive, and I don't want him to be sad. When I pulled back, his face was flushed an interesting shade of pink. I giggled slightly. "Thanks..." he whispered shyly after a minute or two.

"Np problem... I think I'm going to go to bed now. I'm tired." I announced, yawning in between my words and heading up the stairs as I did. I heard a "Goodnight." from both Arashi and Ryu. I said goodnight back and headed to my room. When I got there, I wasted no time in taking off my school uniform, throwing on an over-sized t-shirt, and collapsing on the bed. It was only about a minute or two after my head hit the pillow when I drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

Arashi's POV

Oh crap, he likes her already. The way Ryu blushed after my sister hugged him. Either that or he isn't around girls very often, because the guy's face is STILL pink! "Well, maybe we should get to bed too. Especially since you didn't sleep well." Ryu suggested as he stood up. "Yeah, you're right." I murmured as I stood up and followed him to our room. He went into the bathroom to change while I just changed in the bedroom.

I was thinking about what would happen if Ryu liked Aiko already, why I wasn't sleeping well, and why the chairman would need Tenshi for so long. The guy still wasn't back, and he had left about a half an hour ago. It made me wonder if anything was going wrong. The chairman never needs us this late or this long, so I wonder if he, or his parents, or even mom and dad are alright....

Damn it, I need to stop being so paranoid! I was letting my imagination control my fear, and it was really starting to piss me off. One of these days, my paranoia is just going to get the better of me. Either that, or one of these days, I'm going to be the first vampire to die of a stress-induced stroke. Heh, that would be interesting, but it would really blow at the same time.

I just growled and myself and threw myself onto the bed, throwing my arm over my eyes as I did. I don't know why I was suddenly having problems sleeping. I do know it was starting to get on my nerves though. "Hey, are you okay?" Ryu asked. I moved my arm and looked up at him. "Yeah." I lied. I heard him lay down in his bed, since I closed my eyes again. "Don't worry. There's nothing to worry about." he assured, as if reading my mind. Who knows? Maybe he was. I didn't care at the moment anyways. All that mattered to me was trying to get some sleep, which I eventually managed to do.

Though sleep would not protect me from the nightmares we were about to endure...

Momo: I am so sorry I haven't updated in so long! I've been really busy with school! Anywho, hope you all enjoyed! Please review! ^-^