Hi! I am back! My computer has been restored, and I will eternally thank the person who fixed it(They managed to fix it without erasing any of my music or document files)!
Anyway, enjoy! ^_^
Everything in this story is also a work of fiction, and so it does not have any correlation with with real people, places, or etc.
"Aaah, I'm bored!" Aidou wailed in the lobby, flailing his arms around. Akatsuki and Ruka looked at him witheringly, as Rima and Shiki looked on. It was a few hours after they had talked to Ichijou, and they had agreed to let him take care of the affair.
"Honestly, Hanabusa, you'll never grow up," Ruka said, annoyed, "We're supposed to be quietly doing work or quietly spending our leisure time relaxing, you know."
"But I know all this stuff already. I'm bored!"
"Then quietly relax." Akatsuki said, closing his book.
"But I can't relax! I can't relax when I want to do something fun!"
"Then go do something 'fun'!" Ruka cried, taking out her irritation on a period at the end of a sentence, causing the paper to dent.
"But it's raining!"
"Hey, hey, you guys!" Ichijou came in, grinning. "If you want to do something 'fun' indoors, then let's play hide and seek!" Ruka and Aidou looked at him, blown away by his statement.
"…Ichijou, are you a kid?"
"What, you said 'something fun,' so hide and go seek! You guys weren't suggesting anything, so I suggested something. So what do you say?"
"I'll play," Shiki said. Rima nodded. Ichijous looked at them, worried.
"Have you two gotten any sleep?" Shiki and Rima nodded. "Okay, then you can play."
"Ichijou-san…" Rima tugged at his shirt.
"Oh, on that matter, Kaname'll take care of it. This is a good game to blow away any worries, too." Ichijou smiled, and looked up. "Ok, so who's playing?" While he had been talking with Rima and Shiki, the others had been looking at him incredulously.
"Oh, whatever, I'm bored, so I'll play!" Aidou said.
"Aidou-san, that just told us that you really wanted to play.." Shiki commented. Aidou whipped around.
"I do not! But I'm bored, so I'll play!" Ruka laughed.
"Well, I'm not really doing anything, so I'll play." Ichijou's eyes lit up.
"Great! How about you, Akatsuki? Are you playing?"
"Sure." Akatsuki sighed, putting down his book.
"Ok, then! I'll explain the rules!" Ichijou said cheerfully.
"It's hide and seek, so I don't think you need to tell us the rules…" Aidou muttered. Ichijou heard him.
"No! We have to explain the rules so that no one gets lost or goes outside!"
"Just give up, Hanabusa. You should have expected this." Ruka whispered to Hanabusa. He sighed.
"Anyways, the rules! First: You cannot go outside to hide! It must be inside the Night Class Dorm. Second: You are not allowed to hide in a person's room, so hiding is limited to the library, the clock tower, and lobby. Do not hide in the bathroom, either. Third: If you are not found within an hour, everyone found so far will go find you. Got that? Then let's start by picking the finder! I have a number in my head. Whoever guesses the closest to it will be 'it'!" Ichijou closed his eyes. The others looked at each other, sighed inaudibly, and started picking numbers.
"Zero point eight." Shiki called lazily.
"Infinity." Rima called.
"99!" Hanabusa said, not about to be outdone.
"16." Ruka said, folding her arms.
"4." Akatsuki said.
"Ok! The number I chose is… 20! So Ruka, you are 'it'! Count to 30, then you can start!" With that, Ichijou went sprinting off into the hallway. The rest of them stood there, frozen. Ruka sighed yet again.
"I guess I better get started. You guys better make it worth the while." She closed her eyes. "One, two, three, four, five…"
"Uh, we should get started too, I guess." Aidou said, still quite incredulous, and they dispersed.
"-sorry to disturb you so late at night." Voices were coming from the Chairman's room. Who could it be? It was so late… Yuuki opened the door.
"Um, Chairman?" She saw Kamame, and Chairman Cross. They turned to look at her. She jumped. "Ah! Oh, excuse me, Kaname-sempai! Sorry, I'll leave the room."
"No, we were ending our conversation. And I have something to say to you, so stay." Kaname said. "You too, Kiryuu-kun." Yuuki looked behind her. Zero was standing in the doorway, glaring at Kaname.
"So, what did you want to tell them, Kaname-kun?" Chairman Cross cut in.
"To put it simply, there were two separate vampire attacks upon two people outside the academy, not far from here. I understand that you two go outside to buy supplies for school, so I wanted to tell you to be careful upon those trips." Kaname smiled. "Good night." He turned to leave.
"Ah, good night, Kaname-sempai." Yuuki replied automatically.
"So?" Zero asked brusquely as soon as the door closed. "What was that bloodsucker doing here?"
"Hey, Zero!" Yuuki reproached. The Chairman paid no attention.
"Well, as I am going to have to send you out of the academy from time to time, I'll tell you. Kaname-kun was telling me a more detailed version of what he just told you now." The Chairman sipped the tea from his mug. "Well, as Kaname-kun just said, two vampire attacks have occurred. The victims were two models, and it seems as though they know that they were bitten, but they aren't creating a ruckus about it. Rather, it seems like they're trying to hide the fact that they were bitten."
"Eh, why?" Yuuki asked, surprised. The Chairman took another sip from his tea.
"That's what we don't know." Yuuki thought about it.
"Couldn't the two victims be something like beginners in vampire hunting-or something like that, and got bitten- and didn't want anyone to know about it, so they are trying to hide it?" Yuuki said, her eyes showing that she clearly wished that were true. Zero broke her bubble.
"Impossible." Zero said as soon as she finished speaking, narrowing his eyes. He was glaring, and his anger was plain. Every word he uttered was filled with menance and force. "A vampire hunter who gets bitten by a vampire is a disgrace. Besides, even if the two victims were beginners in vampire hunters, they wouldn't have just let the vampire bite them. And they wouldn't keep silent about things like that." Yuuki flinched.
"Ah, that's right…sorry." She apologized, angry at herself. Stupid, why did she have to bring that up? Zero's parents were killed by a vampire. Saying that was probably like…
"Well, it's something outside of the academy, so you don't need to worry much about it while you're in here. Nothing to worry about." The Chairman said, flinging his hands about as if that would make the gloom that had settled in the room disappear. "So? What did you come here for?"
"Uh," Yuuki suddenly started out of her thoughts. "Oh, I just came to say that I'm done with tonight's patrolling, and that I was going to bed. That's all." The Chairman's face turned into an expression of joy.
"Yuuki came to say 'good night' to me! I'm the happiest father on earth as of this moment, Yuuki!" He danced around in his armchair.
"Ah, ok." Yuuki said. She turned to leave. "Zero? Aren't you leaving, too?" Zero looked at her.
"No."He replied. Yuuki smiled.
"Ok, good night." She then left.
"What did you want to talk to me about, Chairman?" Zero asked, irritated, as soon as Yuuki closed the door.
"Well, it's on what you just heard right now…"
"Honestly, Takuma-sama, are you serious?" Ruka asked, after she had found Ichijou hiding in a huge, empty vase in the library. His body had fit inside, but even though he had become as small as he could, his blonde hair, which was visible from outside the pot, ratted him out right away.
"Ah, I got caught!" Ichijou looked around, and saw Aidou. "Oh hi Aidou. What were you hiding in?"
"That's just it. His case was so pathetic; I can't begin to tell you!" Ruka said impatiently, looking at other places. Ichijou inched his way to Aidou's side.
"So, where'd you hide?" Ichijou asked quietly to Aidou. Aidou looked away, annoyed. Ichijou looked at him curiously. Aidou looked away again, and Ichijou looked at him curiously. Aidou's silence finally broke.
"Oh, fine! I'll tell you! I couldn't make up my mind on where to hide, so I was looking for a place to hide when Ruka found me, so there!" Aidou folded his arms, a picture of injured dignity. Ichijou's face was surprised for a second.
"Pfft."
"Ichijou, be quiet! You weren't hiding in a great place either!" Aidou said, as Ichijou broke out in laughter. Ruka looked at him patronizingly as she looked under a sofa.
"At least he made the effort to hide somewhere." She then put the sofa down, and checked under the cushions of the sofa. She sighed. "Found you, Shiki." Shiki, who had been under the sofa's cushions, opened his eyes.
"Ah, I was found."
"Seriously, what would have happened to you if someone had sat on you?" Ruka scolded, going on to search in an empty bookshelf. Shiki ignored her.
"Ah, Ichijou-san's laughing." Shiki pointed to Ichijou, who was, indeed, laughing.
"Quit it, Ichijou!" Aidou said, shaking Ichijou.
"A-hahaha, sorry, it's just, puhahaha, your reaction, hahahaha…."
"He's lost it." Aidou said, turning around.
"…it's just, hahaha, Aidou, you act, hahahaha, so much, like, hahaha, a kid, hahaha…" Ichijou wiped a tear from his eye.
"Wha-" Aidou cried indignantly. Ruka snickered as she checked behind the bookshelf.
"He's right, Aidou-san…" Shiki commented. Aidou looked offended.
"A-hahahahaha…you really, hahaha, are funny, Aidou, hahahahaha…"
"Shut up!" Aidou said, finally getting irritated.
"Haaa… That was fun." Ichijou said, lying on the lobby couch after they had found everyone.
"Seriously," Ruka said, fixing her hair. "Who would have thought that Akatsuki was hiding in the window behind all the curtains, or that Rima was hiding in a book cart?" She tapped her lip with her finger. "Come to think of it, those are very obvious places to hide."
"So," Shiki asked, "Who won?"
"Hmmm. Let's see, Aidou was found first, then me, then Shiki, and then Rima, so Akatsuki won, so he's 'it' next." Ichijou said, counting off with his fingers. "Want to play again?"
"Not right now." Ruka and Aidou said in unison.
"Okay," Ichijou said, smiling. "Then next time, when we're bored."
"Next time, I'll definitely win!" Aidou said. "Well, only if I'm bored enough."
"Aidou-san, that sounds like an excuse…" Shiki commented. Aidou flushed. Ichijou laughed. Even Ruka and Akatsuki couldn't suppress a smile. Rima looked amused, but couldn't suppress a yawn. Ichijou took a look at the clock. It was six in the morning.
"Oh, it's already this late. We'd better go to sleep, right?" Ichijou looked at the others. Rima and Shiki nodded.
"I'm going to bed. Goodnight." Shiki said, yawning and leaving.
"Me too." Rima said, going towards her room. "Shiki, your room is that way."
"Ah. My bad." Shiki said, turning the other way. Ruka snickered.
"I'm going to bed too." She said, and headed towards her room. One by one all of them left the room to their respective rooms.
Thank you for reading! Reviews will be very appreciated!
