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Chapter 8 - Reunion
Lucina and Yuuki sat on the ruffled up light blue sheets of Lucina's bed with snacks littered all over the bed along with a few stacks of cards. Their hands flew across the cards, taking cards from one stack and putting it in another. The stacks of cards that belonged to each girl was quickly depleted until Yuuki slapped her hand on the smallest pile out of the two in the middle.
"YES! I win this round!" Yuuki smiled triumphantly.
"Yeah, you win... AGAIN!" Lucina groaned. "I give up. You win the game. Are you sure that this is your first time playing spit?"
"Yup, I've never heard about it in my entire life. We should clean up if we're done. all these snacks too..."
Yuuki started organizing the playing cards and Lucina gathered all the candy wrappers, potato chip bags, and soda cans into a pile. Yuuki looked up after putting the cards in the box to see the pile of garbage in Lucina's arms. It was so tall that it nearly hid her mouth behind it.
"The Chairman's going to have a fit when he sees all of that in the garbage when he wakes up," Yuuki sighed. "It was all from his secret stash in the locked closet in his room. Who knew that he had a secret obsession for junk food."
Lucina grinned mischievously. "Oh he's going to have a fit all right but his anger won't be directed at us."
"Do I want to know where this is going?"
"Of course you do. This is to stop Zero from being so edgy. He's been like this nonstop since the skull thing. It's not like Lucas is going to appear out of nowhere and kidnap me," Lucina joked.
"Shouldn't you be more worried. You know... 'cause he... what he did..."
"I was kind of expecting him to show up the day after the incident. The guy hates procrastinating but he hasn't shown up yet so I guess he either has more important things to do or something unexpected happened."
Yuuki then eyed the pile of trash and gave Lucina a questioning look. Lucina walked straight out of their room and a few moments later she came back grinning even wider.
"So where did you put the garbage?"
Lucina grinned and leaned towards Yuuki's ear and whispered.
"No way! You didn't!"
"You bet I did!"
"I'm home you slackers!" Zero hollered from the first floor. I can't believe that they ditched patrol. I had to run all over the school grounds today. All those girls from the day class just had to choose today of all days to infiltrate the school to get to the night class students... and two girls actually made it to the class. "Kyaaaa! Kyaaaa!" Kyaaa my butt. They're screams are so annoyingly loud. I'm going to skewer those two girls.
"Hnnnn? What do we have here. Yuuki?"
"We have one very grumpy Zero, Lucina."
The two girls were standing in front of Zero, grinning wildly. Zero completely froze in his tracks. Something's up... Something is definitely up. Something is very wrong here and I really don't want to know but it looks like I'll be dragged into it anyway.
"What's going on...?" Zero asked cautiously.
"Nothing's going on? What makes you say that?"
"Unless you count that the Chairman who is frantically looking for something that seems to have mysteriously disappeared."
Zero looked around the house which had been turned upside down. The thing he's looking for must be really important if he trashed the whole house looking for it.
"Zero-kuuuun! I'm looking for something but I can't seem to find it. I've looked all over the house except for your room because it's locked and I know it wouldn't be in there because you wouldn't do such a terrible thing. Can you please
help me look for it? PLEAAASE?" Chairman Cross begged Zero who sighed.
"Fine, I'll help look. Let me take a shower first."
Zero went to his room and turned the knob but it was locked. I didn't lock the door... and I think the Chairman mentioned something about it being locked too... Zero cautiously opened the door and took a peek. "WHAT THE HELL!"
"What's wrong Ze-" Chairman Cross broke off when he saw what was inside Zero's room. "-ro... HOW COULD YOU! MY SECRET STASH! ALL GONE!" Chairman Cross wailed.
Inside Zero's room, on Zero's bed, was a huge stack of potato chip bags, soda cans, and candy wrappers. Zero's mouth opened, closed, and opened again. How the hell did this get into my room? Oh wait... I think I know the answer to that. He turned around to see the girls trying extremely hard not to burst out laughing.
"Why Zero! How could you do such a thing? I thought I knew you inside and out! You have never eaten this much junk in your entire life!" Lucina said as her eyes opened widely in mock surprise.
Zero scowled. "I did not eat all of this! It was you two, wasn't it?"
"Are you kidding me? Do you know how much weight we would have gained if we ate all of that? You, on the other hand, can lose it so easily with your early morning... what do you call them...? Those thingies you do every day to keep your shape...? Oh right. Your forms."
"Chairman! You have to believe me!"
"Zeeeeeerooooooooo... How could yoooooouuuuuuuuu..." Chairman Cross continued to wail as he clung to Zero's leg.
"Get off of me!" Zero cried in outrage. "I didn't eat all of those! ARGH! There's no use trying to explain this." He cursed under his breath and gave the girls a glare.
Lucina giggled. "That's Zero's 'I'm-going-to-kill-you' glare. We should go."
Yuuki nodded in agreement just as the doorbell rang.
"Saved by the bell."
The two girls rushed downstairs to the door. Yuuki opened the door and screamed in delight. At the doorway were two people. There was a girl around their age with hazel eyes and short, wavy light brown hair and a tall, familiar man with
wavy black hair, a light blue eye, and an eye patch over his right eye.
"Yori-chan!" Yuuki squealed with delight as she embraced the girl."I can't believe that you're here! It's a pleasure to see you again too Yagari-san."
Yagari nodded his head in acknowledgement.
"Yagari-san! It's been a long time!"
"My, my, you're such a pretty young lady now, Lucina," Yagari smiled. "So where's my stupid apprentice?"
"He's being harassed by the Chairman because he ate all of his junk food."
"Uh huh..."
Lucina smirked, ignoring the two squealing girls.
"Oooh, I see. My stupid apprentice needs to learn how to see past deceptions... Looks like he still needs some training to do."
"Tooooooooogaaaaa. Zero's so meeeeeeaaaaaaan," Chairman Cross wailed, tears streaming down from his eyes.
"Chairman... please get off of me..." Zero hissed as a vein popped out of his forehead.
"Is that even physically possible?" Lucina whispered to Yagari. "I thought that the vein popping thing only happened in mangas and animes."
"Well you can see him doing it can't you?"
"True..."
"Geez... there's way too much noise... Yuuki and her friend are squealing... the Chairman is crying... Zero's screaming at the Chairman... They're giving me a headache... SHUT UP!""So what brings the two of you here?" Chairman Cross asked as Yagari seated himself. Zero politely offered Lucina the remaining seat and closed the door, leaving the two other girls to their reunion.
"I was on my way here when I saw Wakaba-san being cornered by some Level E's. The hunter that was living in that area of Tokyo was lying on the floor in a pool of blood."
"A pool of blood? The Level E should have had drank all of the hunter's blood. Since when did Level E's kill for fun?" Zero mused.
"Ummm..." They all turned to Lucina. "Who is Wakaba-san exactly?"
"Sayori Wakaba-san is Yuuki's best friend and former roommate. She moved to Tokyo before you came here. She knows everything about vampires including that Zero is a both a vampire and a vampire hunter."
"I see. I can make a guess on the Level E's abnormal behavior... Lucas."
"Right, of course," Yagari said.
"You know about him sensei?"
"Yeah, Cross filled me in on the details. It's going to be even more dangerous for civilians now. We'll have to put more hunters out on the field. Oh Zero, the Hunter Association has decided on a mission for you."
Zero's face lit up in surprise. "It's been a while since my last mission. What do I have to do this time?"
"Your mission is to go to France and rescue Itami Ryuu from the clutches of Lucas Cavalier."
"So does that mean the association knows...?" Lucina mumbled.
"Yes, it's something that we can't ignore. All of the Pureblood clans and most of the nobles were notified as well."
"Oh, so we're really going to rescue Onii-chan!" Lucina jumped and down, clearly eager to do what she had wanted to do for quite a while even if her situation had been revealed.
"We're not going on a mission. I am," Zero said sternly. "Lucas wants you and if you tag along, you'll just walk right into his hands."
"So I'm a burden to you? You think that I can't take care of myself?"
"It's true though, isn't it Lucina?" They all turned around to see Kaname who had suddenly appeared and was standing next to a scowling Zero by the doorway. "You aren't strong enough to fight those in the Cavalier clan's home and if you
use your element powers for too long, you're life will be endangered. You're mother was already dying from overusing her powers when your parents were killed."
"Then Zero can teach my how to fight and you can help me with strengthening my powers a little at a time so I don't overuse them, Kaname," Lucina said stubbornly. "I don't care what you say. I'm going to go on that mission even if you tie me up and throw me into a jail cell. I'll definitely get out."
The two vampires sighed. Their friend was too stubborn for her own good.
"Well, do you two agree? It will take a while to get the blueprints of the Cavalier clan's home and making a plan to break in. The security is extremely tight there. It will be hard to rescue Ryuu-san but not impossible. In the meantime, you
two can help Lucina here seeing how she really wants to go," Chairman Cross suggested. "I've also arranged it so one more skilled hunter will come with you on the mission. He will be here in a week or so."
"How long is a while?" Lucina asked.
"Many months, perhaps even a year."
"But that's so long!"
"You're going to need all the time you can get to train."
"Fine..."
"Now, Wakaba-san is back, and seeing how the only other open bed in campus is in Zero's room... Well I'll leave the room arrangements to the four of you."
Sayori, Yuuki, Lucina, and Zero sat in a circle on the two beds in Yuuki's room. Yuuki and Sayori sat on Yuuki's bed and Lucina and Zero say on the other.
"Well, Yori-chan, this is Itami Lucina. Lucina, this is Wakaba Sayori.," Yuuki introduced.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Wakaba-san. You can call me Lucina if you'd like since we're going to be living under the same roof."
Sayori observed the chocolate-haired girl in front of her. Yuuki had said that Lucina and Zero were childhood friends and they seemed very close. Sayori had penetrated the barrier surrounding Zero's emotions but she had only been able to figure out his feelings for Yuuki. Of course she knew that Yuuki did not know and continued to show her affection to Kaname, who returned those feelings. Maybe if Zero and Lucina got together then Yuuki wouldn't have to be trapped in a love triangle. Sayori's friend was not very adept in the field of love and two men were probably too much for her to handle. It was time for her to play matchmaker a little. "Ah, okay then. It's a pleasure to meet you too, Lucina-san. You can call be Sayori."
"Now that introduction are over, we should decide on the room arrangements," Zero said.
"Ummm, to be honest, I'm not very comfortable to sleep in the same room as Zero-kun..." Sayori said bluntly. "Please don't be offended Zero-kun."
"No, it's fine. I totally understand why you would be uncomfortable."
"So it's down to me and Yuuki. I really don't care which room I sleep in. I'm fine sleeping in either room."
Now all Sayori needed to do was to make sure that Lucina and Zero got the same room. "Is it alright if Yuuki and I share a room? I'd really like to catch up with her."
"That's fine. Well that was easy to do," Lucina said.
"Are you really fine sleeping in the same room as Zero?" Yuuki asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Zero scowled.
"It's fine really. I sometimes slept with my brother when I was little and Sora, Zero, and I shared the same room when they were at my house years ago."
"Sora?" Sayori inquired.
"Yeah, he's the love of her life," Zero teased as he nudged her, smirking.
"He is not the love of my life," Lucina blushed as she nudged Zero back much harder. He was caught off guard and fell to his side on the bed and Lucina blew a raspberry at him. "That's what you get for making fun of me."
"Lucina and Sora sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g," Yuuki sang.
"Yuuki!" Lucina scowled, her face turning as red as a tomato.
Sayori smiled at the playful scene. Looks like it'll be a bit hard to get them together. But this Sora person isn't here right now so that's good.
"I guess I'll start moving my stuff. You should unpack yours, Sayori-chan.
"So you're really fine sleeping in my room?" Zero asked.
"It's our room now and yes, I'm fine with it. How many times do I have to say it? Besides, it'll be easier to go out early in the morning and come back late at night. That way, we won't disturb Sayori-chan and Yuuki's sleep when we go to and from training. By the way, how and when are we going to train?"
"I'm going to train you in the morning before school starts and Kuran's going to train you late at night. You'll have two hours of training with each of us during school days and on Saturdays, you'll be with us for most of the day. You're going to have to put all those hobbies to a stop for a while."
"That's so much work..."
"Hey, you asked for it. Are you really sure that you're okay sleeping in the same room?"
"Yes, for the last time. Are you okay with sleeping in the same room?"
"I rather have my own room but it can't be avoided."
"Not even if you could share a room with Yuuki?" Lucina teased.
"Ha ha, very funny," he said sarcastically. "Not even then because Kuran would be very disapproving and that would make my life a hundred times harder than it already is. Now I'm going to sleep. Try not to make too much noise."
"You're a vampire. You'll hear every little thing."
"Shut up," he groaned.
Lucina giggled and finished unpacking the last of her things. "So do you know who the hunter that's coming here is...?" Lucina asked but Zero had already fallen asleep, or he seemed to. She rolled her eyes. "I know you're awake."
Zero let out a loud, fake snore. "Now I know you're awake," Lucina giggled but Zero went on to pretend to sleep and Lucina went into a fit of laughter. She tucked Zero in and lightly kissed his forehead. "Good night Zero-who's-obviously-sleeping-by-the-sound-of-his-snoring." Lucina then opened the window and Kage jumped inside the room and onto the bed after Lucina checked that his paws were clean. She then climbed into bed and snuggled next to her warm, furry friend.
"Tch, what happened now!" a blonde teen with one emerald eye, the other being golden, hissed with annoyance. "I was finally going to get what I wanted today but no. You useless fools had to go call me so NOW WHAT!"
Although noticeably much taller and well built than the blonde teen, the two henchmen trembled in fear in his presence. "S-S-Sir... W-We a-a-are t-terribly s-s-sorry. The p-prisoner has e-e-escaped."
"THE PRISONER HAS WHAT?"
"E-E-Escaped s-s-s-sir."
"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAIITNG FOR! LOOK FOR HIM!"
"W-We h-have s-s-sir. E-Everyone is looking f-for him."
"WHY AM I THE LAST TO KNOW!"
"W-We are d-deeply s-s-sorry s-s-sir."
"USELESS BUMBLING FOOLS! YOU CAN JUST GO JUMP OF A CLIFF."
The two men stared in horror at the teen before their eyes glassed over. "Yes sir." The two marched out in total synchronization and within couple of minutes a piecing scream went up. Music to my ears.
"You have such a bad temper," another teen with a black pixie cut said as she examined her nails.
"Look who's talking Ms. Rebel. I'm not the one who dyed my hair black."
"Hmph. We should catch the prisoner soon. He can't have gone too far."
"We better."
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