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Disclaimer: I do not own vampire knight or the main cast but I own Kimiko and Ruka's step dad Ranmaru ^^ he's made up btw as I do not know what Ruka's family setting is actually like.
A Twist in Fate
Chapter 8: A Twist in respect
Kimiko always thought that nothing could scare her after she saw her parents be killed by a vampire but she had clearly underestimated Ruka. Ruka had woken her up early and said that all the girls were going for a spa day so that they would be ready for the gatherings of the week.
Kimiko had gotten some form of a salad put on her face on purpose that confused her, had hot rocks put on her back which was suppose to relax her, her body was also put into what they called a "mud bath" it was disgusting in her opinion but the others easily relaxed into it, the part she DID enjoy though was when she got a manicure and a pedicure.
But that wasn't what Kimiko found scary.
After that they had gone to get their hair done, Kimiko did not appreciate the people pulling at her hair and telling her she needed to take better care of it. They also did her make-up, Kimiko wasn't a stranger to make-up but she chose to go without.
But that also was NOT what scared Kimiko, no the torture was still ongoing as she was forced into a tiny corset by Ruka and the maid as they tried to make it tighter.
"Can't... breath" Kimiko tried to get out.
"Suck it up!" Ruka growled and pulled on the strings tighter.
When Ruka and the maid were happy with the tightness of Kimiko's corset they tied it up so that it wouldn't pull lose and the maid helped Kimiko pull her dress over her head.
Kimiko was wearing a simple black, sleeveless above the knee cocktail dress; there was a layer of black lace over the top of the dress. The dress was made out of black satin, the skirt was poofy with a petticoat underneath to make it poofier and around her waist was a silver ribbon that tied at the back into a small bow to make the dress even tighter.
Ruka easily got into her corset and then the maid helped her put her dress over her head. Ruka was wearing a purple dress, the main skirt came till her thighs and then had a half sheer layer over it but behind her, the top was a sweetheart line with jewels at the top of the dress. A silver belt held the shear layer in place around Ruka's waist. Both girls wore simple silver heels.
"How do you walk in these things?" Kimiko complained as she tried to walk around the room with her heels.
"What are you doing? You look like a penguin!" Ruka laughed as she watched Kimiko waddle around the room in her heels.
"Don't laugh at me! Can't I have a pair of flat shoes?" Kimiko pouted.
"No! You need to look sophisticated!" Ruka said firmly.
"Oh my! You two look lovely!" Ruka's mom said coming into the room, Kimiko quickly stood against the wall so the woman could pretend to acknowledge her but speak to Ruka.
"We luckily did make-up at the salon so it's just a matter of teaching Kimiko to walk in her shoes then we should be done," Ruka said smiling.
"Look at you three lovely ladies," Ranmaru said coming into the room. "Actually I'd like to steal Kimiko for a few minutes if you don't mind."
Kimiko nodded and slowly made her way to Ranmaru who offered his arm and the two walked out the room.
"I know Ruka will have probably told you otherwise but it would best for you to address the night classes students formally when others are in your presence, the vampires don't take well to us humans addressing them informally and feel they are superior to us," Ranmaru tried to explain.
Kimiko smiled at him reassuringly, "Don't I know that, Ruka and Aido were no different when I first met them, especially regarding one Kuran Kaname, I kind of expected as much but thanks for the warning Ranmaru-san."
When they finally arrived at the gathering Kimiko was sure she must have stepped through some form of a time portal, it was an extremely old building but the inside was beautiful and had a very Victorian era feel to it. Inside several vampires were already associating among themselves as they sipped blood tablets out of wine glasses, Kimiko turned down a blood tablet glass when a waiter offered her one which caused him to raise his eyebrow.
Kimiko spotted some of the night class students like Takuma, Rima and Shiki mingling among the crowd when a glass of actual champagne was offered to her.
"For the human~" Aido teased next to her.
"Thank you Aido-san," Kimiko whispered in a teasing voice and Aido glared playfully.
"Ah is this your... friend, Hanabusa?" Aido's mother asked.
"Yes, this is Kimiko, mother," Aido introduced Kimiko who bowed properly in respect.
"Aido-sama, it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance," Kimiko spoke softly but loud enough for Aido's mother to hear.
"At least this one has manners," Aido's mother said smirking.
"Thank you Aido-sama," Kimiko said respectfully, while she snickered on the inside when she saw Aido's mother glare at her, his mother was clearly trying to insult her.
Many of the other night class students parents tried to same thing with Kimiko but much like Aido's mother she just smiled and pretended to be ever so polite which was more of a slap in the face to them.
Eventually people gave up on insulting Kimiko to her face and instead tried the more indirect approach by whispering about her behind her back but she just calmly stood against the wall and minded her own business.
"Are you having a good time?" A kind voice next to her asked.
"Why Kaname-sama what a lovely honor it is to be in your presence," Kimiko joked.
"Am I whoo'ing you yet?" Kaname teased causing Kimiko to smirk.
"Not in your wildest dreams I'm afraid," Kimiko teased.
"Shall I just ask the lovely human for a dance then?" Kaname asked.
"A dance?" Kimiko asked confused.
"It is step one in the vampire guide book on how to whoo a lady," Kaname joked with a wink.
"Well then I can't say no to that, though you should know that Aido won't be happy you will be dancing with the only woman that will willingly marry him," Kimiko joked.
"I'm sure Hanabusa will understand," Kaname said and lead Kimiko onto the rather large dance floor where a few other people were dancing.
"You guys sure are rather behind on times," Kimiko teased as the two danced.
"It makes it easy to whoo the ladies as you say," Kaname joked.
"I must say I am shocked that even the stoic Kaname Kuran can crack a joke every once in a while," Kimiko smiled.
"I guess I just need to be in the correct company," Kaname said and the two danced till the song ended.
Kaname led Kimiko off the dance floor but was pulled back on by another lady, Ruka and Aido quickly appeared on either side of Kimiko.
"So what was that all about?" Ruka smirked.
"What?" Kimiko asked confused.
"Don't play coy, you and Kaname-sama were definitely flirting back there," Aido said.
"Firstly I don't think anyone uses the term 'coy' anymore and secondly we were not, like I told you guys I have no interest in Kuran Kaname," Kimiko said.
"I would hope not, you are a simple human after all," Takuma's grandfather said behind the 3 friends.
"Ichijo-sama!" Ruka and Aido said shocked and bowed lowly, Kimiko followed their example.
"We were only teasing Ichijo-sama," Aido quickly tried to explain. "Because Kimiko is human we always tease her about being lower then us," Aido said shooting Kimiko an apologetic look.
"Well then you can be glad Kaname-sama did not overhear you," Takuma's grandfather said smirking.
Kimiko was just about ready to tell him what she thought of his opinion when she took a deep breath and smiled.
"Of course, I would never expect someone as great as Kaname Kuran to associate with a lowlife such as myself," Kimiko said smirking.
"Excuse me?" Takuma's grandfather asked shocked.
"That's what we humans are right? Nothing but low lives compared to vampires, the only thing we are good for is keeping the country up, farming, designing, working and creating the very country you live in but that's just us, I'm sure you vampires do some amazing things as well, besides hold spontaneous parties of course," Kimiko said smiling sweetly "after all we aren't nearly as high on the food chain as you are, we humans are the lowest of the low."
It was the first time ever that Takuma's grandfather, Asato Ichijo was at a loss for words as he watched the human girl smile at him sweetly, he quickly turned and walked away.
"Are you crazy?!" Ruka exclaimed after she and Aido had dragged out Kimiko.
"You literally just took on the ex president of the vampire council!" Aido exclaimed horrified.
"What did I do?" Kimiko asked innocently but Ruka and Aido could see her trying to suppress a smirk.
"You have some kind of a death wish, I am sure of it!" Ruka said.
"I just admitted what he told me," Kimiko said smirking.
"But you basically told him that he is useless!" Aido said horrified, "I advise you to not even try to sleep tonight, perhaps we should take you back..."
Kimiko's smirk instantly disappeared and she looked at her two fuming and worried friends.
"Sorry guys... I didn't mean to let you down," she apologized.
Ruka and Aido quickly hugged Kimiko.
"You did nothing wrong Kimiko, this was our fault. We expected too much from you when Kaname said you could prove to them that we could peacefully co-exist," Ruka said gently.
"I think it would be better if I went back guys..." Kimiko said frowning, "now I've inconvenienced Ruka's family too, I can't possibly stay with them anymore."
"Then you'll stay with me," Kaname said.
"Kaname-sama!" Aido and Ruka said shocked.
"You sure have guts Kimiko," Kaname said evenly.
"Sorry Kuran-san..." Kimiko sighed.
"I was rather amused to finally see Asato be put on his place and by a human no less, I have made everyone aware that you are here with me so they shouldn't try anything but Ruka and you will be staying in my villa for the rest of the stay."
"Thank you Kaname-sama!" Ruka said grinning.
"Yea, great," Kimiko grumbled and everyone laughed.
Kimiko: And chapter done XD oh gosh I had waaay to much fun writing this chapter, I love writing this story so much! Imma try and keep it to 12 chapters though cause I need to stop with too long fanfics lol! Okay now for some review replies :D
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