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He missed her.

Remembering the fact never ceased to send Kaname into a deeper bout of depression.

The school had successfully opened a few weeks ago. Since then, his life had revolved around the nobles- seeking his attention whenever possible- and the stack of paperwork on his desk that seemed to grow daily.

In reality, he didn't have the time to be missing anyone. Yet, somehow . . .

Kaname dropped his head into his hand and sighed. And so it begins. He knew being around nobles constantly would make his life a little more challenging, but he had inaccurately remembered how needy they could be. Especially when there was only one of him, and many, many more of them. It was a surprise that they had left him to himself for so long today.

And he had not expected their neediness to make him miss her so much more.

Yuuki was always so content- so unlike the vampires surrounding him.

If Kaname had been a lesser vampire, he would have groaned aloud in frustration on his blood-red couch in the dark room. It had been nineteen days, six hours and forty-three minutes since that incident . . .

Since Yuuki caught him drinking Ruca's blood.

The day had been trying enough, and as much as he loved to see his little Yuuki, her stubborn independence had not arrived at the correct time. He gathered that much the second he spotted her asleep on the stairs, vulnerable to every vampire in the dorm. Including himself.

He had no idea what possessed him to allow her to continue her risky sleep (he blamed it on her content face, such a contrast to the last time he saw her during the night hours), but he allowed it all the same.

Thus, he had no one to blame but himself when the stress of the previous weeks overcame him, and Kaname turned to Ruka to avoid sinking his fangs into Yuuki's unprotected neck.

He could still picture her wide eyes, hear her soft gasps and the racing of her heart, and smell the tears that dashed to the floor as she ran out, stumbling over her own two feet.

She couldn't be blamed; as much as she was comfortable with the idea of him being a vampire, she had hardly seen his vampiric side before. He should have expected her to wake up at precisely the wrong moment. A weary smirk grew on his lips. Yuuki's timing had never been something to brag about.

He sighed in resignation, leaning his head back. He didn't blame her avoidance of him, but still . . . three weeks?

Kaname cracked his eyes open and glared at the ceiling of the empty room.

Now, Zero had been around Yuuki more than usual, compounding the difficulty of trying to speak with her again.

Kaname propped his knee up as he laid down on the couch, a part of his mind registering the nobles coming closer, finally deciding to seek him out.

The other part of his mind nagged at him, telling him that things may never be the same with Yuuki again.

Another frustrated sigh broke the room's silence just before a knock on the door, followed by Aidou's voice floating through the heavy wood.

"Kaname-sama?"

His moment of peace had ended.

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There you have it; another chapter! I hope you all enjoyed it! Writing is helping tide me over until the next manga chapter . . . anyone else dying for Kaname to finally explain everything to Yuuki? It's taken him long enough!