Between Night and Light
Hurrying down the stone steps, Emily Clemons ran from a grouchy Zero.
"Get back here! It's passed curfew you baka! Emily-san!" He shouted after her, chasing her down the path and across the field.
"Nya, Zero you'll have to do better than that if you want to send me back to my room, ha ha ha!" She laughed with a hoarse voice and cheer-filled grin. She dashed through puddles left over from the morning rain, tightly clutching the manga books to her chest as though her very life depended upon the safety of each and every page.
"Emily?" A confused Yuki hastily called. Emily dashed round Yuki's figure.
"Hey, Yuki!" She bellowed back, as Zero bumped into the shocked prefect only to cause them both to hit the graveled path - hard.
"Zero?! You baka!" Emily heard him grunt at Yuki's shrill yelp. Laughing them away, she continued on her quest.
"I will get these back - it's my mission!" She exclaimed to herself, stopping only to glance up at the moon dorms looming before her. "I promised today at twilight, but I didn't have time. I've got to give them back." Emily mumbled to herself.
Slowly opening one of the towering front doors, Emily sniffed, "I wonder where he'll be? I've never actually been to the dorm before now." She wondered aloud, as her wet shoes scuffed against the tile floor.
"Ah, now what do we have here?" A chilling voice asked. Emily gasped, dropping the manga to the ground and spinning round to make a run for it.
"Ah! No, let me go!" She shouted in fear, as arms encircled her.
"Now, now… I thought the day class girls liked us?" He chuckled, enjoying the human squirming within his steel grasp.
Violently shaking her head, Emily let out a small cry, "Please," She whispered, her head bowing with grief, "Please, let me go…"
His smug expression changed, a frown making its way upon his ethereal face.
"What's this?" He muttered. Dropping to the ground, Emily's eyes widened, "A book…" He said with confused expression, "Ah!" He exclaimed, "A manga!" His grin returned, as a devilishly handsome smirk danced across his luscious lips, "You're the girl Ichijou is waiting for, are you not?" He tentatively asked, attempting to smother his mischievous tone with an innocent gaze of curiosity.
Stuttering, Emily swiftly looked away from his enticing eyes. "I have to return it to Takuma-kun." She quietly murmured.
"Hmm…" He tapped the manga against his chin lightly, whist pretending to think for a few moments. At last he said, "I can't allow that."
Gaping, Emily rushed to his side.
Holding the book out of arm's length just in case, he laughed, as she desperately grasped at the front of his white uniform jacket.
"Please!" She begged, tears glistening in her eyes, "I really need to take it back to him. I need to apologize for being late. I'll do anything, I promise!"
Aidou's eyes sparkled with excitement, "Anything?" He asked. She nodded, and nodded, and constantly did so until he handed the book over and grabbed her shoulders, asking fervently, "What is your blood type?"
She stared at his anxious face, utterly confused, "My - my what? I - I - I don't know, I'm not sure… I've never had a blood test."
His grin widened, "Would you like one?"
She winced, "No! Needles hurt!"
He sighed, wrapping his arm round her shoulders, "I give you my word - this test! It is like nothing you've ever experienced."
She looked at him with a face of wonder, innocence and the like.
"Aidou! What are you doing to Emily-chan?" Ichijou's voice called from the top of the staircase.
His smile disappearing, Aidou left the now blushing girl alone and walked towards the kitchen. "I'm hungry…" He muttered with a grim glare at the Vice President.
Sighing, Takuma glanced down at the beauty that was almost preyed upon, 'She shouldn't have come. It's dangerous here, with so many vampires around.'
"Takuma-kun…" Emily unconsciously whispered to herself, savoring his name, "Um, I… I brought your manga back!" She told him, holding it up and waving it like a flag.
Smiling gently, Takuma slurred out a 'Thank you' before walking her to the door, "You should go back Emily, it's almost sunrise."
"Oh! Yes, of course. You probably need your sleep, huh?" She muttered with a shy laugh.
"Hmm." Ichijou absentmindedly replied.
Emily gazed up at his concentrated face in confusion, "Takuma…"
He glanced at her quickly, his eyebrows rising in surprise. Emily's eyes widened, "I mean - ah, Takuma-Kun… err, you seem distracted." She finished quite lamely.
He chuckled, "I was just wondering what you and Aidou were doing together before I came," Emily gasped, a blush wavering over her pale cheeks, "He didn't do anything to you did he?"
"No…" She said softly in a slight daze, "I mean - No!" Emily shouted loudly in shock, "I know what it must have seemed like Takuma-kun, but I've never met him before. I know I don't usually talk to strangers, like, ever, but I didn't have a choice with him. He just started talking and I tried to leave, but he wouldn't let me. Then you showed up once he asked about blood types and blood tests." She babbled, watching Takuma's smiling facial expression dim just a little.
After some thought, and an insistent frown of distaste upon his visage, Takuma guided her towards the front doors, "Its fine Emily-chan. I'm sure it was merely a misunderstanding and I'll be certain to speak with Aidou about his manners around you as well."
"Umm, okay." Emily mumbled, as Ichijou opened the doors. The pair squinted, as the early morning light poured through the opening.
"I'll see you soon, right?" Emily asked uncertainly, watching Takuma's face brighten and his emerald eyes shimmer in the rays of sun.
"Of course Emily, I'll always have time for you." He whispered in her ear, as her face unconsciously became ablaze with heat. He leaned down and delicately pecked her upon the cheek.
"Until twilight then, Emily…" He said with delight, as he saw her form dashing towards the Sun Dorms. "Twilight…"