A/N I updated this ridiculously fast for me (results of procrastination) so if you haven't read chap 3 make sure you do

Chapter 4

While dinner was seemingly uneventful to most of the members seated at the Aido dining table, Yuki could not help but notice that Hanabusa seemed slightly off, and by off she meant silent. Not once did he brag about his intellectual triumph for the day to his mother, nor make any subtle snide comments about one of his sister's outrageous choice in clothing (a bright fuchsia pink tunic style dress with dipping neckline and horrendously bright green accessories, including a rather ugly moss green mini top hat). Lord Aido was not present, as ever.

Yuki always felt like the odd one out when she sat to eat with the Aido's, although she had got used to it by now. To anyone who walked in it would be easy to point out that she was definitely not related to any of them. Firstly, there was the aesthetic side of the argument. Yuki was dark, she had dark wine coloured eyes that were round and consumed most of her face and a very petite frame, but the most obvious give away was her hair. It was dark brown. Everyone else in the room was a striking golden blonde colour with turquoise blue eyes. Secondly, was the substantial difference in physical states. Yuki was human and everyone else was vampire, this was pointed out every dinner time when instead of drinking a rich full-bodied wine with their meal they drank a rich full-bodied person. From a glass of course.

Other than Hanabusa's odd behaviour continuing from the afternoon nothing else really happened during dinner. The 3 sisters gossiped idly, Yuki didn't pay much attention to this, Lady Aido was the absolute stoic model of feminine vampiric nobility with her regal and delicate appearance and air, and Yuki sat quietly and ate as normal. So nothing that unusual.

After dinner however was when something unusual happened. As Yuki was making her way through the dining room doors Hanabusa grabbed her shoulder. This was unexpected and she spun round with her arms flailing fast enough to slap Hanabusa full force across the face, leaving a particularly ugly looking red mark. She gasped and quickly covered her mouth with her delicate hands

"Hanabusa! I'm so sorry, I didn't- I wasn't expecting..." Yuki took in the damage she had done his face. "Oh dear I think that it might leave a bruise..." She trailed off quietly at the end of her sentence, bit her lip and looked down and away.

Hanabusa mean while had not expected this factor to be thrown into his experiment and so he was at a bit of loss on how to proceed. Should he accept the apology? Or should he reprimand her? Or should he just say nothing and walk away. He looked at her and began to feel suddenly very flustered and panicky along with the pain from the slap feeling a lot different than it should be. He should feel nothing but annoyance and physical pain from it, but for some reason he felt a little disappointed 'but disappointed at what?' he questioned himself

"Disappointed?" Yuki's head shot up with a confused expression crossing her dark features "What are you disappointed in exactly?"

Hanabusa paled - even more so than his already vampiric complexion allowed for. Had he said that out loud. Panicking he said the first thing that came into his head "Well," he recovered and smirked with cocky arrogance. "Just in the knowledge of the fact that you couldn't even walk out of dinner without making some sort of clumsy scene", he chuckled, "I mean I knew you were a stupid clumsy human but I didn't think you were utterly moronic." As soon as he said the words he instantly regretted it.

Yuki for once felt genuinely hurt by what he had just said. She knew that Hanabusa often teased her about her clumsiness but never once had he related it to her being human and him being a vampire. She had always felt accepted at the Aido house. Now though that trusting belief in their acceptance of her had been shaken. Is this what they really thought of her, that she was a stupid clumsy human.

The upset and hurt quickly turned to anger on her part, she looked Hanabusa straight in the eye and put all the anger into her voice. "I hope your face hurts for the rest of the week you, you, you-" Yuki was struggling to find a good insult "- fang face!" she quickly turned and ran to her bedroom without looking back and was hoping Hanabusa didn't vamp speed up the stairs to argue with her, because she really didn't want him to see the one tear that slipped down her face.

Fang face? Hanbusa didn't know if it was meant to be an insult or a compliment, he thought his fangs to be 'franchment beau' to his appearance. He guessed insult though after the way she had shouted it at him. He groaned, why was it so difficult to actually have a halfway decent, pleasant conversation with Yuki without him making any snarky comments, and what was worse he may have really upset her with what he said since he had never seen that reaction to his teasing before.

"Maybe I pushed her too far this time" he said aloud. Making up his mind to apologise he made his way out through the drawing room into the hallway and up the main staircase towards Yuki's room. He was however stopped mid way by his father.

"Ah Hanabusa my son I've been looking for you" he was accompanied by none other than Asato Ichijo or Ichio as he was more well known.

"Father. Lord Ichio." He bowed in recognition of who was before him and smiled "how can I help?"

His father smiled at his manners obviously pleased by his obedient behaviour. "Son, Ichio and I have someone we would like you to meet and we hope that you and him will become very good friends"

"Yes" It was Ichio's turn to speak and when he did he smiled the most toe curling smile Hanabusa had ever seen, it made him look like he was scheming something large, evil and wholly unpleasant. "He has not had many friends apart from my son, Takuma, and I-we think it would be...beneficial... for all involved for you to befriend him." That smile was back and Hanabusa involuntarily shivered.

He did not like that they were quite obviously forcing him to befriend some other noble vampire just because he was probably about the same age as him. Although Hanabusa was an arrogant child he was not stupid, and he knew that blatantly disobeying his father and Ichio meant trouble for him. Hanabusa really really didn't like to be on the receiving end of trouble when the discipline was being dished out from his father. So he smiled that cute yet charming smile he was so known for.

"By all means I would be delighted," he looked at both vampires. "I enjoy making new friends, lead the way." He ended his sentence with a smile that would convince even the devil himself that he was nothing but a child out to have fun.

A/N il est franchment beau means quite handsome. My best friend studies languages so I took this knowledge from her, however if any French wish to correct me by all means do so please.

EDIT: I have corrected the small mistake with the french - 25/1/13

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