Author Note: I'm trying desperately to get this up before midnight, because I promised an add today. Sorry in advance! Zero has a bit of an odd moment in this, but he's really frustrated...
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight. I make no profit from this.
"Yuuki, my precious daughter..." Headmaster sighed and slumped against his desk. "I know losing Kaname has been hard on you. I understand that being at the moon dorms helps. So as long as your grades don't fall..." He muttered 'any further' under his breath, and then continued. "And you keep up with your prefect duties, I see no problem with you spending some time at the moon dorms."
"WHAT?" Zero screamed. "You're letting her spend time with those bloodsucking monsters? Headmaster, you can't be serious!"
"Zero, you know very well what it's like to lose someone." Headmaster shook his head sadly. "If you hadn't had Yuuki... well, I don't think you would've made it this long... for various reasons."
"I hate you all!" Zero screamed and ran out.
"PMS?" Headmaster asked.
"Possibly." I shrugged and tried to muster up a small smile for my foster father. "I'm not going after him. The night classes are cancelled tonight, so I'm just going to go back to the moon dorms..."
"Ok, Yuuki, be good." Headmaster watched me leave, and I ran as fast and as hard as I could to the moon dorms.
"Takuma!" I ran into the moon dorms without knocking, throwing myself at him the first second I saw him.
"Yuuki!" He tried to manage a smile. "You were called to the headmaster's office, are you in trouble?"
"No." I tucked my face against his chest. "He just wanted to tell me that it was ok to hang out here as long as my grades didn't slip and I still did my prefect job." I smiled up at Takuma, but then I felt the back of my shirt being lifted up. "A-Aidou!" I tried to move away from him, but Takuma being so close gave me nowhere to escape to.
"Can you feel this?" Aidou ran his fingers along my back.
"Ai-Aidou!" I pressed up against Takuma, trying to get away. Takuma, by the way, was giving me an odd, curious look. "Stop it right now!" I was now plastered to Takuma, trying to keep away from Aidou.
"Does that hurt?" Aidou's voice was all innocence, but his eyes betrayed that.
"Aidou, leave her alone." Takuma said finally. "She doesn't want to be touched."
"I'm just checking that I didn't damage her." Aidou whined. "After all that ice, I'm worried about her..." He dropped the back of my shirt. "But there doesn't appear to be any damage, so I'll let it go, this time." Aidou kissed my neck, right on my pulse point, and when he pulled away he flashed his fangs at me.
"Aidou that's enough, you're going to scare the girl." Takuma stepped between Aidou and me, shielding me from him.
But I wasn't scared of Aidou's fangs. I wasn't scared of fangs in general like I had been as a small child. This time, the pearl white daggers entranced me.
But then Aidou was gone. Takuma was holding me against him, as if I was a small child that needed comforting. I tipped my head back to look up at him, and consequently, this made our faces very close.
"Don't tempt me, Yuuki." Takuma whispered, his breath on my lips. "I wouldn't want to do something that Kaname wouldn't want me to."
"Wouldn't Kaname..." I swallowed hard and tried again. "Wouldn't he... want me to be happy, even if he couldn't be with me?"
"I don't want to betray him in any way... even if he is gone." He was still so close; his breath on my lips tickled and tingled at the same time, leaving an electric feeling in my veins.
"If he's not coming back..." Deep breaths, Yuuki, I told myself. "If he's really gone... I want to be with someone who appreciates me just as much." Slowly, I added, "I'm scared of the future, Takuma. I'm scared of being alone, of having no one to live for." I finally tipped my head back down, tucking my face against his shoulder.
"As long as you have friends, you'll have someone to live for." Takuma kissed the top of my head, and I could feel the warmth of his lips through my hair. "And I'll be your friend for as long as you want me to stand by your side."
"Do you... do you only pity me because I lost Kaname too?" I closed my eyes, leaning against him slightly. "Do you really understand... how much it hurts?"
"Don't doubt my intentions." Takuma squeezed me gently. "I understand all of your pain, Yuuki... Kaname was like a brother to me, we knew each other since we were very small. He was the best brother anyone could've had."
"Lord Kaname was very special." Aidou said as he walked into the room. "He will be missed."
"Aidou..." I half turned in Takuma's arms in an attempt to look at Aidou.
"Call me Hanabusa damn it!" Aidou's temper flared for a moment and then he relaxed only, to flare again in a moment. He came over to me and grabbed me, holding me against him, tearing me away from Takuma. "Stop acting like my feelings for you are nothing!"
"I can't handle this right now!" I yelped, trying to make a run for the door. "Stop it, Aidou just stop it!"
Instead of making it to the door, I fell onto the rug, tears starting in my eyes. Aidou had run off, but Takuma sat beside me, holding me tightly.
"Shh, Yuuki, I'm here..." Takuma whispered in my ear. "I'm here..."
Author Note: Well, the document uploader is giving me crap about uploading this story lately, so if I disappear off the face of the earth, I'm sorry. I'm just beginning to notice that half the time, this looks like a threesome fic. Sorry. I really try to manage it, but it doesn't always work the way I want it to. Also! Takuma and Yuuki were so close to kissing, but the moment wasn't right. Who do you want Yuuki to be with and why? Thank you for reading!