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Chapter 9: The St. Chocolat day bouquet.
Later that evening in Cross's kitchen...
Mochi sat still on the kitchen counter with a displeased pout on her face as she sat next to Yuki's cookbook. The dragon wondered why the female prefect suddenly decided to snatch her away from her mother and dragged her into the kitchen. Before she could make her way down, Yuki pulled out a flat rectangle box, that smelled somewhat delightful. She recognized the box and the scent, it was similar to the ones that she saw by the gates. Yuki started to peel the tinfoil cover, uncovering a brown shaped rectangle inside.
"Do you know what this is?" Yuki asked as she brought out the brown rectangle in front of her.
Mochi tilted her head to the side in a curious manner, before shaking her head.
"Your mama may not be here, but I think that he wouldn't mind, since your my little taste tester, once I'm done."
"Chok...lits?" Mochi asked
"Chocolates," she corrected, as she broke off a small square from the bar and offered it to her. She sniffed at it with caution; it had a sweet and strong scent to it; it was too foreign for her. She backed away from it and whimpered at her.
Yuki smiled at the stubborn dragon and broke the square in half. She gave the bigger half to her and popped the smaller one into her mouth.
"See? It's perfectly fine. How do you know you don't like it if you don't try it?"
Mochi examined it again, it had an ugly brown colour. But she remembered her mama talking about being a picky eater and it would be bad to say no to family members when they share food. It would be an insult to her mama, for not taking her teachings at heart.
She closed her eyes, took in a deep breath and popped it in her mouth.
Yuki smiled at her reaction. Mochi's eyes shined brightly for she had discovered a hidden treasure. " Now then, that's enough distractions, it's time to get to cooking!" cheered Yuki as she started gathering some kitchen equipment from the drawers, as Mochi watched guarding the cookbook.
Unknown to the girls, Zero was silently watching them. Sighing, Zero shook his head and left the girls. Yuki yelled, "Mochi stop running around with the bowl on your head, that's not a helmet!" Zero stopped walking as he heard something crash in the kitchen and sighed before walking away, only to gasp and stumble before he fell against a wall, near a window. The Headmaster came by and held out a glass of water and a blood tablet.
" Zero, you need to stop pushing yourself. You're going to put Mochi in danger or worse...drink from her."
Zero slapped the objects away, the glass shattered as it hit the floor.
"Over...*Huff* my dead body...*Huff* I will protect her...*Huff*...and I will control it."
The next morning in the Day class...
"Didn't get enough sleep again Yuki?" Yori asked Yuki who was stretching and yawning as the bell went.
"Yeah, sort of," Yuki said, scratching her head as she looked at Yori.
"Oh, I see. Homemade chocolates." Yuki blushed and showed Yori the wrapped present.
" Well, that's what I planned to do. But my little taste-tester couldn't eat anymore, so I had to buy these from the store...I really suck at these type of things." said Yuki as she sunk her head in shame.
"But who is this 'little taste-tester' you mentioned, is it somebody I know ? " asked Yori curious as to who helped her best friend other than herself.
"Well, she's...umm" Yuki tried to explain.
"Her name is Mochi, Headmaster's new adopted daughter. She's still a toddler, but she's also under my watch," said Zero from behind them.
"Wow, the Cross family seems to be expanding. Can't wait to meet her," said Yori with a smile.
"Speaking of Mochi, care to explain how many chocolate samples did you give Mochi?" asked Zero in a cold tone, Yuki stiffed at the tone, before slowly answering the silver-haired hunter with a nervous tone, "Maybe four or five bunches...nothing too extreme..." Yuki replied avoiding Zero's glaze.
"I see, maybe that's why Headmaster and I needed to calm down a certain hyperactive child till 5 am in the morning," said Zero in understandable sarcasm.
Yuki continued to laugh nervously, before muttering an apology.
"Hurry!" said a girl towards her friend.
"Let's go before the prefects get there." the other agreed.
"Aido-senpai!" one of the girls cheered as most of the students already left the classroom, including Zero.
" Time to get to work," Yuki stood up.
"Good luck, your going to need it." said with a smile.
"Thanks!" Yuki chirped as she followed Zero out the door.
Zero's P.O.V (Unexpected? ;) )
After picking up Mochi from the Night class, I tried my best to hide her in the big oak tree that I have found about two days ago and it turned out to be a great hiding spot to camouflage Mochi from student's eyes, but I will still be able to see her clearly during my patrol near the gates.
"Okay Mochi, mama has to go on patrol now. Be good and stay here okay?" I explained, Mochi nodded. I smiled softly and gave Mochi a peck on her forehead.
"Alright. See you later." I said jumping off the tree and made my way towards Yuki to help settle the crowd.
Once I got to the gates, I saw a huge mob of Day class fangirls squealing and shirking in a way that could even pierce a vampire's ears. As gates opened, the noise got even worse. I walked towards the crowd and was instantly able to maintain some of the girls with a single stare, then turned my attention towards Yuki in the distance as she blew her whistle.
"Okay! Everyone settle down! Day class girls, please go to the gates you want to give your chocolates to." Yuki quickly told the girls before the gates opened. She quickly jumped out of the way, as that idiot Aido came rushing out, saying something some shit about taking accepting all of the chocolates before Kuran told him to behave. "And start!" Yuki yelled out loud enough for the girls to hear her. The Night class walked out the and towards their gates. Well, some of them walked to their gates while others ignored their gates completely. Senri, however, was not so lucky and was dragged to his gate by Ichigo.
"Did Mochi make it back home safely?" asked a familiar voice. My heart nearly stopped the sudden greeting but ignored it as I turned around to see Kuran, "No, there are too many people for Yuki to handle alone. But don't worry she's safe."
"I see." I hear the pureblood say before he started making his way to the gate.
However, before the fangirling was finally starting to get on my nerves, I started to feel the ground below me start to shake again from yesterday. I faced Mochi's direction. 'Mochi, what are you doing?' I asked myself as I started rushing to lead the girls to a safe area again.
"Day class students please, get to safety before you get hurt-" "Kya! Look up there, what's that?!" I heard a girl yell as she pointed in the sky, I stopped at my tracks as I looked as to where the student was pointing. The branches of the trees started to grow at rapid speed and the green patches of grass by the forest area began growing on the stone path.
I watched in awe as the whole area was now covered in what seemed to be a nature wonderland. The outgrown tree branches were now acting as a roof that covered the sky but not so much as some spots of the rays shone through, the freshly grown grass on the path looked so much like a perfectly trimmed carpet led on the floor.
"W-what's going on? Did it just stop growing?" I heard a random student say.
"I think, but what's going to happen now ?"
"Hey guys, look! Something growth out of the trees!" said, random male student.
Everyone looked at the direction of tree branches, to see fully brown like flowers bloom beautifully and released a sweet, yet familiar smell in the air..."Chocolate?" I muttered in disbelief.
"D-do you smell that? It smells just like chocolate!"
"What? That's impossible."
"It does, let's pick one!"
"Yeah, it's!"
As more and more students got closer to the trees to pick a flower they eyes shined in admiration. Till another female student announced "Hey! Everyone! Try taking a bite out of the flowers, they're all made out of chocolate!" the student's eye widen in shock.
"No way!"
"Let me try one." " "Me too!", I just watched in curiosity as one by one the student's started taking a bite out of the flowers and said in unison "IT'S SO GOOD!" I smile slightly as I continued to watch the others enjoy their flowers.
"Goodness, Mr. Kiryu it would seem that Mochi has performed yet another miracle. "
"Yeah," I replied simply as I watched Mochi wag her tail as she could see the joy and smiles of the students below."But there has been the best St. Chocolat day's I have ever experienced. " I said with a rare smile, I heard Kuran chuckle before picking a chocolate from a nearby branch and handed it to me, I stared at him in confusion. But the pureblood just smiled at me which gave a shiver down my spine, till I felt something soft like lips touch my cheek. I blushed a bright red as it became clearer what had happened, "W-w-what..." I tried my best to say something, but words refused to leave my mouth. I could not believe it.
"Happy St. Chocolat day, Zero," Kuran said before winking at me and walked away towards Yuki while I just tried my best to cover my blush, as I made my way towards Mochi to send her home, while mentally cursing that pureblood.
"Uwaa!" I heard a shout, I turned towards Yuki only to see her buried with Kana-I mean Kuran's fangirls. But her chocolate gift lay beside her. I picked the boxed gift up and yelled "Hey, Kuran!" before throwing the gift at him.
The pureblood turned and caught the gift.
"It was on the ground."
"Zero!" I heard Yuki shout, but I ignored it and got Yuki's group in line.
"Thank you, Yuki I will humbly accept it." I hear the Pureblood thanks, as I watched him finally walked away. Till Yuki started punching my body and arm.
"Why did you do that?! I was about to give it to him during the end of Night class role-call!" she shouted at me.
"Just watching you got me irritated, so I did you a favour. Ouch!" I complained, Yuki stopped punching me and gave a shy gaze at the floor as she turned around.
"I didn't know what to do, I thought that it would be awkward to give him a gift during the crossover..."
"Why would think that?"
"Because...his so different from me..." she muttered sadly, I sighed but before I could say something, my eyes wondered till I saw a gap in Yuki's hair revealing her neck. My throat immediately went dry, my heart started pounding rapidly.
'Shit, why now?!' I thought, as I started walking away from patrol begging that it would stop the thirst...at least before I get Mochi down from the tree...
Normal P.O.V
Later that evening...
"Kaname-sama, isn't it a bother?" Seiren questioned Kaname. "I'll hold them."
Kaname disposed of the boxes into Seiren's hands "You can eat those. I just want these two." Kaname said, lifting a chocolate flower and a small box close to him.
During night patrol...
"This afternoon's stunt sure was something Mr. Prefect, did you plan it?" teased Aido with a raised eyebrow, while Kain just leaned against the opposite side of the same tree as Zero.
"No, Mochi planned it all on her own well." Zero replied casually, for once not annoyed at all with the vampires present.
"Cute," said Rima and Senri in unison, each with a small rare smile on their perfect faces.
"Shut up, my head still hurts from those girls screaming. Can you speak more quietly ?" Kain growled as he faced them.
"Well, we were just done talking, we better go before Kaname-sama or Ichijo notices that we're not at class, later Kiryu, " said Aido, before Kaname's inner circle all went back into the forest shadows, leaving Zero to continue his first peaceful patrol.
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