Vampire Knight © Matsuri Hino


Demons are Worse
Chapter VII


Previously:

The two glared at each other, dark blue meeting gray blue. It was like red vs. blue. And the prize for winning was Mei-Hui. Senri walked over to them, grabbing a hold of Mei-Hui.

"She's mine!" Hanabusa said possessively.

"…you only like her for her blood." Senri said, taking Mei-Hui's body to her bed.

"What about you!?" Hanabusa said.

Senri looked at Hanabusa. "I know what she goes through…and besides…she's already mine." Senri said monotonously, but it was at the same time, confidently.

"Tsk. Whatever." Hanabusa backed away this time. "You don't know that." And Hanabusa disappeared from the room.

Senri placed Mei-Hui in her bed. He placed a pack of pocky next to her before disappearing.

Senri's POV

I knew Aido was up to something. I was right to come see Mei-Hui. He was trying to get Mei-Hui even though he has so many other human girls who would willingly give their blood to him. Mei-Hui seems so fragile…even for being a demon hunter lady. The look in her eyes say that she has more to tell. She seems like a humble person…much like me. I think Rima and her would be good friends…but that Rodrick person. So that was the person we met that time. Hm.

Hanabusa's POV

Damn it! Shiki is challenging me! Telling me that I didn't like Mei-Hui-chan but only for her blood! That damn Rodrick had done the same! Hmph. It doesn't matter. I'm going to make Mei-Hui-chan mines! Besides…I've…

"Hanabusa…where were you?"

I looked over to see Akatsuki. "Nowhere in particular."

Mei-Hui's POV

"It happened again! Why is this happening!"

"Rodrick, are you talking about how you are getting cut off?"

"Yes Mei-Hui! This is bad. This is dangerous!"

"…what happened with Aido-senpai?"

"Ugh, nothing really. Nothing you need to worry about. Oh, and about that silent vampire. I found out the reason for him being called a pureblood vampire."

"Wha-what is it?"

"Hmph. Just simple really. He's still a Level B vampire. That weak of a demon called him a pureblood because that boy is the son of a pureblood."

"…why did the demon fear the pureblood vampire?"

"I looked that up too. Oh, our time is up…how convenient."

"Oh…"

"I'll tell you another time Mei-Hui. Go now."

"Yes, Rodrick."

I woke up in my room. I wondered…what happened last night? I looked on the side of my bed to find a box of pocky. I never brought any pocky. The only person I could think of with pocky was Shiki-senpai.

"Mei-Hui-san!" Yuki-san crashed through my door. "I forgot to go over the details about the monthly checks!"

"Y-Yuki-san?"

"I totally forgot! I'm soooo sorry! Well, I'm here early to tell you about it to save time later." Yuki-san said, ignoring the fact that I should be changing. "We do monthly checks on confiscated items such as pictures of the night class to protect their identity."

Oh…so the students didn't smuggle in drugs…but the night class? Were these girls really obsessed with the night class? Then again…they were fans…

I nodded in understanding.

"Oh, and we do catch a few who take in illegal stuff, but that's a story for another time. And we make sure they don't have the usual weapons and stuff that you can't bring into any regular school."

…Maybe some of these students did bring drugs…I was a bit nervous…

"And we start right after school ends. These girls are crazy…some went as far as to hide some pictures in some of the most unexpected places you'll never believe. Oh, you and me will handle the female dorms while Zero handles the guys."

I nodded again. But I was suddenly glomped on by Yuki-san.

"Wah~ Why are you so cute!?" She said out of nowhere.

"H-Huh?"

"Oh, sorry! Well, I'll see you later! Okay? Bye!" Yuki-san left the room.

I-wha-who? What? Nobody has ever called me cute before…and if I was called cute…it was usually a trap by a demon…my face flushed from being called cute. It was a first time that someone ever genuinely called me cute, other than my family…Yuki-san was so kind.

At the end of the day, we went about the dorms to take away confiscated items. Yuki-san told me about how we had to do the same with the night class. We found quite a big bunch of night class student pictures. The girls whined as they tried their best to hide them. I hoped not to find a girl with drugs…but sadly, we were out of luck. There was someone who actually used illegal drugs like cocaine. At the end of the day class confiscation, we brought her to Headmaster Cross, who dealt with her. Kiryuu-kun brought in a relatively small bag of confiscated items and two boys who brought in drugs.

We were going to do the night class soon. We learned that the three students were kicked out of Cross Academy. It was a shame…they were brought on the wrong path. We made our way to the night class dorms. I stood behind Yuki-san all the time, Kiryuu-kun led the way.

"This isn't the first time we did this. We've been doing this for quite a while now really." Yuki-san explained.

"Don't let your guard down." Kiryuu-kun said.

"I won't…" I said quietly.

We entered the night class dorms. It seemed…nice? And spacious. The vampires were all hanging in the big room in the middle.

"Oh! Yuki, Zero, Sun-san!" Ichijou-senpai gave us a warm welcome. "That's right, it's your first time here isn't it, Sun-san?"

"Yes."

"Oh, well, it will be easy. We don't really have anything that we're not allowed."

"We don't know that Ichijou-senpai." Yuki-san said. "Let's go, Mei-Hui-san." She smiled to me.

I smiled back. "Okay."

I looked to see Shiki-senpai. "Ah, Shiki-senpai…thanks." I said, knowing that vampires could hear me with my small voice.

He seemed to pull out a smile, but I didn't look for long because I faced forward to follow Yuki-san.

Narrator's POV

Everyone heard Mei-Hui's 'thanks' to Senri. They looked at him, expecting an answer. Expecially Rima. He didn't say anything, acting as if nothing happened. He continued to eat his pocky. Hanabusa wasn't sure why Mei-Hui said 'thanks' to Senri, but he obviously didn't like it.

Mystery POV

"Ahah. Now that violent man can't come out to take my little Mei-Hui's body now. Hmm~ Now all I have to do is wait…but that's a long ways from now. Oh wells. But those vampires have some nerve, drinking from MY girl. Hmph, it doesn't matter anyways. They'll all just wither away in front of Mei-Hui~"

Yuki's POV

Mei-Hui-san and I were making our way to Ruka's room first. There wasn't much to do with the girls' rooms. They were always so neat and no one really had anything we needed to confiscate. I led Mei-Hui-san through the routine going into each female vampire's room. We didn't find anything and went back to the main room.

Mei-Hui's POV

These vampires kept their rooms so nice and clean.

"Ne, Mei-Hui-san. Would you like to go shopping with me and Yori next week?"

I hadn't really gone into town much now that I thought about it. It was only at night and for a hunt. "Uhm…okay."

"Great!"

I nodded in silence again. We entered the big room with all the vampires waiting. The only one that wasn't there was Kaname-sama, at least, from my knowledge. Yuki-san and I waited at the bottom of the stairs.

"Ah, please, Sun-san, Yuki, sit down." Ichijou-senpai said, pointing to a few empty seats.

Yuki-san went to sit on the single chair. I went to sit a couch. Immediately after I sat down, Aido-senpai came to sit on my right side.

"Hi, Mei-Hui-chan!"

"Hey? Aido-senpai." I was very suspicious of him.

Narrator's POV

Hanabusa sat next to Mei-Hui.

"Hi, Mei-Hui-chan!"

"Hey? Aido-senpai."

Everyone could feel the girl's uncomfortable feeling. It was dreadful, especially because the cause of it was Hanabusa. The next thing the night class knew was that Senri sat on Mei-Hui's other side. A few raised an eyebrow at Senri's actions, but didn't question it. Rima now knew the reason for his…odd actions. Yuki also raised an eyebrow. Akatsuki knew something was up now.

"Shiki-senpai?"

Senri looked over at her before looking at nowhere again, finishing the end of his pocky stick. Hanabusa made a move, hugging Mei-Hui on the side, pulling her towards him and away from Shiki. Yuki was getting a bit nervous now. Where was Zero at? The next action brought everyone questioning about the new prefect. Senri laid his head on Mei-Hui's lap. Both acts caused Mei-Hui to get very flustered. Rima noticed Senri was definitely out of character…or was he?

"Yo, vampires." Zero came down the stairs.

He glared at the two vampires close to Mei-Hui.

"We're done, let's go." He said.

Yuki sighed in relief. "Okay. C'mon Mei-Hui-san." Yuki gestured Mei-Hui to follow her.

Mei-Hui tried to get out from Hanabusa's hold and to move Senri's head off her lap. She was stuck. She looked at Yuki for help. Yuki sighed.

"Ai-"

"Aido." It was Kaname. "Shiki."

Both vampires reluctantly released their hold on Mei-Hui and got off of her. Mei-Hui finally lifted herself off the couch, giving a small thanks to Kaname and following Yuki.

Kaname looked at the two vampires after the prefects left. Hanabusa was feeling a bit down that the fun was gone. Senri felt indifferent about it. The rest of the night class looked at the three. Even Takuma was interested on what was going on between the two. It couldn't be that they both fell for the demon hunter…right? But a lot of things could happen. A lot. Kaname looked at them and turned around, to lock himself in his solitude self.

"Shiki…" Rima said, catching everyone else's unwanted attention. "What's…going on?" She asked the inevitable question that everyone else wanted to ask.

"Nothing much…" Senri went back to eating his pocky.

Hanabusa looked at him and then walked up to his room.

"Oi, Hanabusa. Wait." Akatsuki wanted to ask Hanabusa what was going on as well.

"Don't ask Akatsuki." Hanabusa said calmly, eerily calmly.

Akatsuki gave up on asking.

Everyone in the night class knew it had something to do with the new prefect. But they didn't push it, for it would have caused a riot.

"Mei-Hui-san, what was that about?" Yuki asked Mei-Hui with great curiosity.

Even Zero couldn't lie about him being curious.

"Uhm…I don't know really." Mei-Hui answered honestly.

"Hmm…Well, it doesn't matter. Let's head back to our dorms." Yuki said cheerfully.

Mei-Hui planned on dealing with the ghost the next day, but Rodrick told her not to, because something wasn't right. He couldn't take over her body. Mei-Hui decided to push it for another week. Day after day of the next week, Hanabusa or Senri would do something to her, hug her, hold her arms, or try to take some of her blood. Mei-Hui was confused. Was her blood really that good to them?

"Damn those vampires! I would have killed them if I could!"

"Rodrick, what about the pureblood vampires and demons? You haven't told me this whole week."

"Oh, right. I'm sorry. About that situation, it seems that because purebloods are like alpha werewolves, they can scare away demons, much like an alpha werewolf."

"Oh…"

"Yes, and because that silent vampire has some of a pureblood's blood in him, he has the ability to temporarily scare away a demon. A bit convenient really. But that other pureblood, the true pureblood, he's what kept demons away from this school. Much like that human vampire. I still have yet to figure the spell cast on her. I must also find why I can't control your body."

"Okay Rodrick. I'll leave you to your work then."

"Please do."

Mei-Hui's POV

"C'mon Mei-Hui!"

"Yes, Yuki-san!"

"Mou~ You still call me with an honorific. Just 'Yuki' is good."

"Yes...Yuki."

"C'mon Yori-chan!"

"Yes, yes. Good morning Mei-Hui-san."

"Good morning, Sayori-san."

"Let's go shopping! I got us permission to leave campus for the day!" Yuki said proudly.

Today, we were going shopping like Yuki said. I was wearing a white long sleeved shirt with a snowflake print on it and black skinny jeans. I put on a snowflake hairpin to fit my look. I had my jacket on since it was cold out today.

"Okay." Sayori-san said.

We were making our way to the gates that lead out of the campus and into town, but we stopped to see Touya-san and Shiki-senpai.

"Oh, Rima, Shiki." Yuki said, greeting them.

"Touya-senpai. Shiki-senpai." Sayori-san said respectfully.

"Good morning Touya-san, Shiki-senpai." I said, bowing.

"Ah, Cross…and her friends." Touya-san said.

"Are you guys going out to model again?" Yuki said, trying to make conversation.

"Yeah." Touya-san replied.

"Oh, well, we're leaving school anyways too. Why don't we all go together…" Yuki laughed.

The two vampires didn't seem like they wanted to come with us, and Sayori-san had a blank face as well. Touya-san looked at me and then back to Yuki.

"Okay. Let's do that." Touya-san said.

"Great!" Yuki said.


End of Chapter

AN – Another update before November ends.