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The Red

Chapter 7

Red, White, and Blue

"Do we have to bring Zero and Yuuki with us?" Yuki whines.

The Headmaster nods and Yuuki starts dragging the two of us out. "Come on it'll be fun!"

"Not with Kaname's lover…" I mutter.

"Let that go or I'm sending a bullet through that thick skull of yours," Zero snaps.

"You can't threaten Maki-cha like that you tinny dck!" Nana defends.

I laugh and I stop when Zero point the Bloody Rose at her. "I wonder what Guardian Character blood looks like smeared over the school halls," he growls.

I rip from Yuuki's (HOW IS SHE MISSING THIS?) grasp and wrestle the Bloody Rose out of Zero's hand as Nana squeaks for dear life and shields in her egg in my pocket, Yuki coming up and pulling me away before Zero can get the gun back. "MEANIE!" Annie does the XP face.

"GIVE THAT BACK YOU BTCH!" Zero screams.

Now I squeak for Mother Life and run at 81/mph. To those who just read this for Kaki, you're mean and she's in Day Class. We're in Day Time. She's in Class Time. Wondering something? Why am I here? Well, let's just say…

…I'M FCKING TERRIFIED YOU BTCHES!

I MEAN COME ON! What if someone throws another rock? What if I blurt out in class? (Gasp) WHAT IF BARNEY COMES TO EAT ME? (Great now Yuki has me doing it). Out of panic, worry, and the fact that the Bloody Rose shot my foot causing me to look down, I ram into a wall and the 'X' Negative now contains an annoyingly huge crack that can be sound throughout the fcking hall (…sorry for calling you btches if you care…). "Don't tell me you cracked the wall!" Yuuki huffed, prying me off. "Oh…ouch!"

"Yeah," I wince, grabbing my abdomen. "Hurts more than you'd think."

Yuki runs over. "Oh my Gd are you okay? (Gasp) Oh fck! We need to get you to the-"

"NO!" I snap. "No! No! I can breathe! I can walk! Then I can LIVE!" She blinks at me and starts supporting me to the infirmary, in which tick marks appear on my forehead. "Are you deaf?"

"No," she smiles.

I shrug her off. "Come on Yuki, it's a crack, it will-"

I feel blood coming up and cover my mouth. Zero and Yuuki come up, wondering what's wrong, but I couldn't tell you what they exactly said because I'm busy hurling blood in a trash can. Yep. In a school with vampires, I'm throwing up in a public trash can. I should do that every day and eventually I'll wake up DRAINED! I push out of the trash can (do you know how low I have to get in order for it to not jump back at my face?) and wipe my mouth with my arm (_l_) and walk down to stop and shake my head at the sound of blurred voices. Yuki comes up, looking more and more worried. Sht.

"Maki…" she sighs. "I know you hate schools, but the infirm-"

"It's not that," I whisper, "it's just the fact that it's pointless to show the ring to a common person just for a healable crack."

She huffs and stuffs her hands in her pockets. "I'd do the same with X."

I look down and we're still walking. Right, she has that 'X' Essence (which I find to be just as btchy as Sorrow). "Well, at least it doesn't keep changing."

"Well, in a way," Yuki shrugs. "Bad, good, or neutral. I decides on it's own."

"Jeez…" I mutter. "Sorrow, X Essence, X Negative, Deathly Willow Characters, Vampires, portals to 'De future, relationships, Death, Life, why is everything just so dmn confusing?"

"I don't know," she shrugs. "I guess life just hates people like that."

We eventually reach the gate (with Yuki, do you think it can EVER be in silence?) and the Headmaster hands Yuuki and Zero the usual list of their shopping chores (how the fck did he get ahead of us?) and we're already half-way down the steps before we hear a gasp. "MAKI! YUKI!"

We look up and our jaws drop.

Mack with blood all over.

-XxX-

"Oh my Gd what happened?" Yuki runs down with me.

"Oh, no worries," he holds up a needle. "I was out doing research."

"Are you sure because it looks like you participated in America's Civil War," I blink.

He laughs. "Yeah, I guess, but those Red 'X' Eggs don't like it when you're sticking them with needles…especially this one."

He goes through his pocket and Jus's egg flies out without a Red 'X'. Figures because she changed with him in the middle. He takes out a…

…light teal.

Deep crimson stripes.

Quarter notes over the fat middle stripe.

Quartz.

He places her in my trembling hands and I jump at the sound of footsteps. I stare up at Zero with Yuuki behind him. "Well are we going or…" He catches sight of the egg…

…the one with one honking mother 'X'.

Yuuki tilts her head. "What happened to that egg?"

I gulp and take a step back. Why does Quartz…oh right, we already went through all this sht but…I feel so empty knowing one of my eggs has a Red 'X'. The egg jumps and everyone gasps. The Red 'X' glows and another 'X' shoots out, slamming into my forehead and knocking me back to the bottom of the steps. "Maki!" everyone exclaims (save me) and run down to help me up.

Okay, why Zero is helping I can't understand, but Nana and Annie and Jus fly down to help me up. I pat my abdomen and cover my mouth, running over to a trash can to puke up more blood. Jeez I feel like Zero with the blood tablets! I take my head out. "Maki-cha! Maki-cha! Don't be sad! MAKI-CHA!"

I freeze and rapidly look around. "Who said that?"

"Said what?" Zero raises a brow.

"Nobody said anything," Yuuki blinks.

Yuki points at Quartz's egg. Of course she heard. "Yuki! Commoner! GET ME OUT!"

"Mina?" Yuki takes out Mina's egg. "You're alright!"

"Of course I am commoner! I'm the Queen! To be taken down be something as typical as an 'egg lock' would make that dmn Kiseki win!"

"Oh what's with people and cussing?" Quartz squeaks. "One day, that's ALL I ASK FOR!"

I giggle and look up. "Can we sit down for a second?"

-XxX-

"WHAT THE FCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T FIND HIDU?" Kaki nearly strangles Mack in the Parfait Shop.

"I mean-ACK!-that I can't-YAK!-find…HER! MAKI, STOP READING-ACK!-MANGA AND HE-YAK!"

So I'm reading the second volume of Vampire Knight, so what? Remember that Yuuki took Zero to the Parfait Shop on a trip? WHERE DO YOU THINK WE ARE? I…I have to guess Yuuki knows Zero's a Level D falling to E, but who knows? I can't just go up and ask 'hey, do you know if Zero's a vampire?' because that'd result in said Level D-E strangling your favorite M-E. "It's research," I snap. "Yuki, help me out."

"She has a point," Yuki sighs. "I mean you heard Elizabeth and Emma! This is the future, so we know NOTHING of what's going to happen."

"I'm still surprised I haven't seen any robots…" Annie blurts.

I look down at Quartz's egg and huff. "Jeez…I really hope Hidu missed it."

"Doubt it," Kaki lets Mack go. "I mean she wasn't with me…"

"HEY!" Cassie chucks microphones (WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?) at us. "YOU HAVE US! YOU'RE NOT ALONE!"

I glance at Nana and pat her head. Her eye is twitching. "Something wrong?" I sigh.

"Kiuie hasn't come out yet!" she huffs, crossing her arms.

We all blink and turn to her. "WHO?" we all exclaim.

"Kiuie," she points to a table.

I turn…to Zero. Mack and Jus laugh. "That Emo? Please! What I've heard, he's a complete mess. Why would he have a Guardian Character without an 'X' straight through? Or at least broken!"

Yuki crosses her arms with Annie. "Just because someone has feelings doesn't mean they can't have a Character!" they snap. "Right guys?"

Kaki and I nod. "That's sort of cold dude," we shrug in unison.

A waitress (HONKING MOTHER TRUCKS, AND LITTLE RED THOUGHT THE BIG BAD WOLF HAD LARGE EYES!) with (obviously) big blue eyes and a nice enough expression just whispering 'kill me now' walks up with our ordered parfait. "Here you go!" she giggles, walking off.

Kaki digs in along with Mack, Cassie, and Jus, while Annie, Yuki, Nana, and I all try to at least enjoy it. I mean we're not made of money, so this can't be regular. I hear a meow and my head shoots up to the door. Right there in front of the window is a black cat. It meows loudly once more and pounces off. Before I know it myself, I jump off and dash out, everything tuning out like…that day in the alley with all that ice…I shake the memory to the back and chase after the cat. Maybe I can bring it to Lyra or Annie, and then they could…I guess translate… but do I really know a lot about them since we just met? Well, since I have to be prideful every five minutes, I know them better than you, so HA! I skid to a stop and I grunt. Cat lost. Me lost. Quartz lost. Mina lost. Ikuto lost. Yoru Lost. Sanity LOST. Hidu LOST! I mean seriously that's too much people! I scream and kick the wall next to me, seeing I'm in an alley.

"FCK! FCK! FCK! WHERE THE HLL DID YOU GUYS GO!"

"Well, well, well, lunch!"

And yes, the way it's written means 'Ikuto-Sorrow-'X' Essence-Demonic'. I gasp and turn around to the mouth of the alley to a guy with long blonde hair and anemic skin (look it up since I doubt I'll live long enough to tell you). A regular brown coat and black boots are torn and/or worn, the top of a blue, long-sleeved shirt revealing. It reminds me of what I looked like captured by Easter, but eh, what 'cha expect? He looks up with this HUGE Ikuto/demon/Santa smirk (now what do you think I mean by Santa?) and his eyes are literally pulsing blood, like…the Crimson 'X' eggs! SHT! IF THEY ARE EGGS FOR VAMPIRES I'M KILLING HANABUSA (that'd be celebrated for generations…)!

"W-What do you want?" I demand.

Jeez, after swearing if I ever met a vampire I wouldn't ask that, here I am, asking that. "You of course…" he walks closer, me absolutely frozen, and leans next to my ear, hands slamming down on my shoulders and clutching them tightly. "Beautiful."

I laugh a little. Eh, at least Ikuto called me something more 'touching'. "Yeah, HOW ABOUT THIS BTCH!"

I knee him in the baby provider and he roars, stepping back (a weakness for every male!) and allowing me to RUN THE FCK FOR IT! He chases me and I keep running. I'm seeing red, I'm pretty sure my face is blue, all I need to become the American flag is white, and that's the 'X' Negative. My new name is American Flag Dead-Drop, okay? Thanks. That's my last request to the good readers (to those out there who don't like me and would rather me to die*COUGH, COUGH ZERO*, _l_). I turn a corner and I feel claws slash my back, making my eyes grow wide and all zones out. The 'X' Negative was hit, and now all I feel is ice coldness. I only see white and blue ice spears emerging from the ground…dripping red. Vampire dust blows past me and into the nothing, and my sight grows darker. The ice shoots at me and wraps around my abdomen, letting multiple 'MAKI's tune in. I swear…

…I want to stop killing people, but I can't.

Zero runs up and shakes my shoulders. "What happened?"

Yuuki looks around and spots the dust. "Was there a vampire?"

"No way! Maki can't kill a vampire!" Kaki snorts.

I point to the pile and then at my abdomen. "It-I-she-do-it-they-thy-jig-ad-as-fck-honest-why-I-I-I…"

Yuki pats my back and hugs me. "It's over, we're here, you're safe."

I wish I could believe that.

A.N: Poll, poll, poll, poll, poll, poll, POLL!

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QUESTION TIME: Put yourself in Maki's place. Would you have gone after that black cat?