Yuki watches as the blood trickles from the edges of Zero's mouth. Her blood. Zero licks his lips, savouring every last drop of her blood. Yuki stands, staring, as Zero makes his way over to her, slowly walking towards her. As he takes his takes take him closer to her, she watches as a few drops of blood fall from his mouth and land on his bare chest. "Bare chest?" Yuki thinks to herself. She looks at her vampire, her love, and sees that he isn't wearing any clothes. Yuki gasps, admiring his body, before looking down and seeing that she isn't either. She squeaks and crosses her arms, attempting to cover up her naked chest. Zero smiles at her shyness, as he gently holds both her hands and uncovers her. "Why are you covering up? Isn't this what you want?" Yuki considers for a moment, before blushing and nodding. Zero moves closer, wrapping his arms around her, pressing their bodies together. He grabs her chin gently, the way he always does before he kisses her. But this was different. He wasn't just guiding her, he was moving her. He pulls her closer, until their lips connect. This wasn't his usual gentle kiss. This kiss had so much raw passion behind it. Their lips mash together, kissing each other quickly, as if dancing. Slowly, Zero's tongue snakes its way into Yuki's mouth. Their tongues slide over each other, as if finding solace and comfort in the touch of the other's tongue. There they stood, Zero and Yuki, naked as the day they were born, kissing each other like they never have before.
And then Yuki woke up.
Yuki sat, up in the bed, her breathing quick and shallow. She turned to Zero, who was still asleep. She couldn't believe what she had just dreamed about. That has never happened before. She stares at Zero, seeing him in a new light. As well as seeing his calming grey eyes, she now sees his muscled torso, and his body in general. She never realised how amazing Zero really looks. She had fallen in love with him for his kind nature towards her, and his willingness to protect her no matter what. She never even stopped to consider his looks, other than his eyes, hair and height. Yuki looked at her vampire Adonis as he slept, biting her lip. She shakes her head, lays back down beside him, and closes her eyes. "Another day Yuki. It'll happen." She muses to herself. She clings onto Zero, and slowly falls back to sleep, hoping another dream like that won't invade her mind. That would only make her more impatient.
Akira lies in his bed, staring at the ceiling of his room. He likes his new room, it's small, cosy. He wonders when Ichigo will wake up. Akira had to pick him up, put him in his bed, and tidy up the main hall. He hadn't expected Ichigo to be out for so long. "I guess I hit him harder than I thought..." he says quietly to himself. Akira looks out the window, out into the forest surrounding the dorm. He marvels at how beautiful the trees look in the light of the moon, and how luminous the moon itself is tonight. As stereotypical as it sounds, he's always liked the moon. He hears some shuffling in the trees outside the dorm, and smells something strong too. A floral scent, though no one flower. It's like a mixture of all the flowers he can think of. He takes a deep breath in, as he really likes the smell. Akira gets up and goes to his window, looking for the source of the noise, and this wonderful aroma. He opens the window, and listens for a location. The shuffling continues for a moment, and then stops. But now a new noise has taken its place. This one is more subtle, harder to notice. A steady noise. A necessary noise. Breathing. Akira leaps out the window to locate the source of this breathing.
He lands on the balcony a floor down from his, before springing onto a tree and leaping across them. Listening for this breathing, and smelling this scent. They seem to be connected, emanating from the same location. As he bounds from tree to tree, clinging onto the branches expertly, landing each jump precisely, the breathing grows louder to his heightened hearing. After about five minutes of this tracking and jumping, Akira notices a figure sitting in the branches of one of the trees. He sits atop a neighbouring tree for a few minutes, simply watching the figure. They didn't have a scent he recognised, most certainly not another of his kind. "Could they be a vampire?" he thought to himself silently. He took a long sniff in. He couldn't quite tell the difference between humans and vampires yet, as he hasn't been around vampires enough to get their scent. Although that white haired boy had a familiar smell to him, no other vampires seemed to smell different. After debating with himself for another few minutes, he decides to drop in and see this visitor to the forest.
Akira leaps from his perch, landing on the tree with the visitor, a few branches below them, so as not to shake the tree too much. The figure, who Akira can now see is a girl, around fifteen or sixteen, yet out a yelp when he landed. "Sorry to drop in on you, did I frighten you?" The girl pauses for a second while she returns her breathing to normal. "Y-yes, you did. I didn't expect anyone to show up. I'm usually alone here." The girl says. "Oh, I'm sorry. I just saw you from my room, and I wanted to see who you were." Akira was very careful to say "saw" and not "smelled". They wouldn't understand his heightened sense of smell. "I can leave you alone if you want? I was just curious as to who was climbing the trees of this beautiful forest so late at night."
The girl smiles when Akira called the forest beautiful. "It is beautiful, isn't it? I come here nights when I need to be alone, like tonight. People rarely see how amazing nature is, let alone admit it." The girl was now smiling directly at Akira, seemingly pleased with his description of the forest. "Well, I certainly see its beauty." I'd have to, I've lived in it most of my life...he thought to himself. "You said you wanted to be alone tonight. I can leave if you want, I understand the need to be alone sometimes." The girl's mouth drops open, as if shocked another person understands her. "No, it's okay you can stay. It's interesting to talk to someone here for once." The girl smiles at Akira, as she's been doing since he arrived. "Oh, thank you." Akira smiles back, before taking a breath in automatically "You smell astounding. It doesn't smell like perfume, it smells more natural. It's simply amazing." The girl blushes and smiles shyly. "I, um, thank you...I'm sorry, I didn't get your name yet." Akira bows politely, before saying "Akira Regendorf, at your service." "Sakura Sakamoto." Akira looks at Sakura, smiling. He's never had a conversation that lasted this long with a human before, and he's certainly never been on full name basis with a human before.
"I must say, you really scared me earlier...Akira." Sakura says, pausing before speaking Akira's name. "Well, I'm sorry Sakura, I wasn't thinking. I shouldn't have just jumped over to you like that." Akira replies, genuinely worried about scaring her. Sakura smiles. "It's okay. The way you jumped was really impressive though. I'm surprised you did it so easily, you must be quite the acrobat." Akira got a worried look on his face. "Yes, acrobat..." Sakura picks at one of her fingernails nervously. "It was really impressive..." Akira smiles, suddenly very eager to impress this human, but not sure why. "If you thought that was impressive, watch this." Akira leaps backwards off the tree, doing a backflip in the process, and lands on the top of a nearby tree. "Wow!" Sakura shouts, "That was amazing!" Akira blushes slightly, and leans on a treebranch, pushing it forward and snapping it, sending him falling off the tree. Sakura gasps, and screams "Akira!" as he falls towards the ground.
Akira acts on instinct, letting the wolf side take over momentarily. He reaches out and grabs a nearby branch, swinging his body forward with the motion of the fall, sending him flying through the air towards Sakura's tree. Akira lands, with a thump, against the tree, digging his nails into the bark and holding on. Akira climbs up, using his sharp, tough nails to dig holes to grab on to. Within a minute of falling, Akira is back up on the branch beside Sakura, smiling as if nothing happened. Sakura watches for a moment, her jaw hanging open, before Akira nervously says "How...how's that for impressive?"He is more upset about screwing up in front of Sakura than he is about falling. Sakura, not able to find any words, just takes a step forward and hugs Akira. Akira sits, frozen for a minute, not sure what to do. He's never been hugged before. His kind are the most affectionate in the world. Akira raises his arms and wraps them around Sakura, hugging her gently, as if afraid of hurting her. "I'm okay Sakura. I'm sorry for scaring you." There was a pause of a few minutes, in which they just hugged, Akira enjoying the display of affection from the pretty girl who smelled amazing, before Sakura giggles and says "Akira, you are an idiot. Let's get down from here." Akira nods, and watches as Sakura breaks the hug and starts to climb down the tree, at a slow, human pace. Akira grins, climbs down beside her, and wraps an arm around her. "I have a quicker way down."
Akira digs his nails into the tree and slides down the tree, holding Sakura in one arm. Sakura screams, but not fearfully, as if she's having fun. In less than a minute, they reach the bottom, Sakura giggling like a child. "That was so much fun! How did you do that?" Akira grins at her and cleans the sawdust out from under his fingernails. "Let's just say it's a natural talent. Now, Sakura, can I walk you back to your dorm?" Sakura smiles at Akira, blushing slightly. "Yes, that would be lovely Akira, thank you. The walk back always creeps me out, it'll be nice to have company." Akira smiles down at her, taking in her features. Blonde hair, although he can tell it's dyed that way, he can smell the chemicals. Hazel eyes, with flecks of green in them, like little trees. About up to his chest in height. Akira blushes when he realises just how pretty the girl he's spent the last hour with is, or at least how pretty he finds her. He coughs awkwardly before saying "Well, let's get you home then." The two walk off out of the forest and back to the main part of the school, towards the day dorm. The walk is long, as they have to walk to the steps leading from the forest to the dorm. Akira could scale a tree and jump, but he knows enough about humans to know they can't. They walk in silence, nothing needing to be exchanged, but not awkwardly. It's a comfortable silence. Sakura looks up at the boy she's walking with. Tall, dark blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, and obviously well built. Guys like him normally wouldn't talk to her. They'd be too busy focusing their attentions on the girls from the night dorm. Sakura smiles, wondering if the other girls will be jealous when she tells them about him.
After a while, they get to the day dorm. Akira looks down at Sakura and smiles. "Well, here you are Sakura." Sakura nods "Yeah, here I am..." The two stand in silence for a moment, before Sakura hugs Akira. "Thank you for tonight Akira. I enjoyed myself." Akira hugs back, still not sure how tight to hug, and says in return "You're welcome Sakura, I enjoyed myself too." "Will I...see you around school?" Sakura asks, hoping for a yes. Akira smiles at her, feeling warm in the cold night knowing someone wants to see him again. "Yes, I promise. I get to choose my classes, so, um...I can choose your ones, if you'd like..." Sakura blushes, hugs him a little tighter, and smiles. "That would be great Akira, thank you." The pair stand in the darkness, hugging each other, before Sakura finally says "Goodnight Akira, I hope to see you again tomorrow." Akira nods. "Goodnight Sakura, sleep well. I'll see you tomorrow." And with that, Sakura turns and walks into her dorm, leaving Akira standing in the dark.
Akira turns and walks back to his dorm, scaling the walls when he gets there, and climbing back into his room. He lies on his bed, thinking of the night he just had, about Sakura. Sakura realised something that was new to him. He was upset that she was gone. He felt happy in her presence. He misses her already. He thinks about her scent, her voice, how she looked. He can't get her off his mind, until her finally goes to sleep about an hour later, anxious and excited to see her again tomorrow.
In the day dorm, Sakura was thinking the exact same thing.
Both Akira and Sakura fell asleep smiling that night, an experience that neither of them had been used to before. Each was the last thing on the other's mind as they fell asleep.
That night was the best either of them had had in a very, very long time.