The Vampire Knights
Chapter 10
Begins here...
The next day was St. Xocolatt's day...
I walked up to my full-length mirror, changed into my uniform and plated my morbid black hair. I put on some black eye shadow and eye-liner, just for the fun of it, and I painted my long finger nails black. After that I washed my dagger and pocket knife in the bath... I STILL didn't have my stool so I could look over the basin in my bathroom... I shoved my pocket knife into my back pocket and put my dagger in it's holder.
After I left my dorm and started to walk down the hall I spotted my sister talking to one of her friends, when she spotted me she came running up to me like she was going to prom... I looked at her strangely and asked what she was so excited about.
"I've got my very first BOYFRIEND Tengu!" She exclaimed. I gasped... My little sister... Got a BOYFRIEND before I did...? ...Wow... I MUST be unattractive... But who cares...? I have something better... My family...
"...Wow Kitsune... I don't know what to say..." I said awkwardly. My sister nodded and pointed to a guy walking with a group of girls . He had flaming-red hair, a pale face with a tired expression and a night-class uniform... Wait... WHAT?! A NIGHT-CLASS UNIFORM...?! …. Why was my sister in love with a vampire...?
"Um... You DO know that he's a vampire right...?" I asked her.
"Yep... But he's GORGEOUS ..." My sister told me.
"Riiiiiight..." I said awkwardly. My sister... In love with a vampire...?
"Are you feeling ok...?" I asked her, continuing the awkwardness.
"Yes, of COURSE! I'm feeling better than EVER!" She exclaimed. Yep... There's something wrong with her... I slowly walked away from her... Then suddenly realised... There was a VAMPIRE in the SUN DORMS!
I'm so blonde...
I ran over to that CREEP with my dagger in my hand. The boy was surrounded by GIRLS!
"Get away from Senri!" Some of the girls yelled at me. When Senri noticed me, he put his hands up in surrender... I stopped in front of him with a questioning look on my face... Why did he surrender...?
"Hello... Miss Tengu Jones is it...?" Senri asked me slowly. He seemed so tired that he could BARELY keep himself awake... Poor guy... Wait... Why am I taking pity on this... FREAK...? I stared at Senri's deep brownish red eyes... Was EVERY vampire this beautiful...?
"Um... That's me..." I replied slowly. Why was this guy here for ME...? I stared at him... Thinking about why he was here...
"Can you come with me please...?" Senri asked me. Ok... NOW I'm starting to get creped out... I thought to myself. I followed Senri through the sun dorms until we were outside.
"Why do you want to talk to ME...?" I asked Senri.
"So you could spend some time with ME..." Said Kanam'e... Wait... KANAM'E?! I turned to look at him... He was sitting down on a comfy-looking cushion under a shady tree with a low table that had biscuits and drinks on it... And next to Kanam'e was a SECOND cushion... Was this guy trying to make me his lover...?
"Sit down..." Kanam'e instructed in a kind voice. I slowly walked over to him, but continued to stand. "Rest your feet..." He suggested.
"What do you want..?" I asked him coldly.
"I just wanted to talk..." Kanam'e replied calmly.
"Ok..." I thought out loud as I sat down on the cushion next to him. I turned to him. "What did you want to talk about...?" I asked Kanam'e coldly.
"I wanted to know about your family..." he replied calmly.
"I don't talk about my family to strangers... Besides... I've got a class that I must attend..." I said coldly as I began to leave.
"I didn't mean to offend you... I just wanted to know what your family is like..." Kanam'e explained to me.
"... My parents live among the dead..." I told him coldly as I left him... Buuuuut then I quickly turned back and grabbed a few biscuits.
"Sorry, I haven't eaten yet..." I explained as I ran off once more.
When I arrived at the gate with the rest of the day-class the night-class were already walking down the pavement. I saw Aido, Senri, Kanam'e and a few other students walking to their class.
"Um... Excuse me...?" Someone behind me said.
"Oh, sorry... I'm blocking your view of the night-class aren't I...?" I said to the person as I turned around. It was a tall boy with short morbid-black hair and several piercings. He had a snake-bite (Two piercings on either side of his bottom lip), a nose ring and an eyebrow piercing. "Oh... Hi..." I said slowly as I got caught up in his ice-blue eyes.
"...Hi..." The boy replied slowly. "I... I wasn't going to give this to a night-class girl... I'd like to give this to YOU... You're the girl who beat up Aido... Right...?" He asked me.
"Yeah... I'm the chick who beat up that punk... What's it mean to you...?" I asked him coldly.
"Everything..." he replied slowly. I was beginning to like this guy...
"What's your name...?" I asked him.
"Death..." Death replied. I smiled.
"Death huh...? As in "Death" that demon guy who kills people for a living...?" I joked. Death kept a straight face.
"No..." He replied slowly.
"...I was joking..." I explained slowly.
"Oh... Ok...Here..." Death said slowly as he handed me a box of... Something...
"...What's this...?" I asked him politely.
"...A box of chocolates... It's a small box... But I hope you'll enjoy them..." He replied.
"...What are chocolates...?" I asked him. Suddenly everyone around me STARED at me with HORROR.
"You...You don't know what CHOCOLATES are?!" I heard a girl exclaim. I looked around at the people now SURROUNDING me! "Ah, Yuki! Zero! HELP!" I yelled as I sank beneath the crowd. Thankfully a hand reached in and grabbed a hold of... my... BOOBS... Oh, well... The person was helping me... So I guess I shouldn't complain... When I was free of all those people and I was able to breathe, I turned to the person who had saved me from being smothered to death. "Oh, tha-" I stopped as I was kissed on the lips... Aido again... I thought as I looked at the person who was kissing me... Yep... Him again... I thought as I looked into his light blue eyes. When that FREAK had finished kissing me he asked,
"Did you ENJOY that my dear?"
"HELL no..." I replied sternly. "And if you don't get out of my sight by the time I count to 10... You are going... to DIE..." I warned him. I guess Kanam'e heard me, because next thing you know, Kanam'e is dragging Aido by the ear to another group of girls that adore him.
"Why did you have pick HER?!" I heard one the girls wail at Aido.
"She's UGLY!" Another one yelled at him. I didn't CARE that that girl called me "Ugly"... I don't care what people think about me...
"She's HORRIBLE!" Another girl yelled. Ha ha ha... Yeah... You can keep saying that... But it won't hurt me... I thought.
"Watch, this is SO fun to see." I told Yuki as she walked by me. I went up to Aido and kissed him on the cheek. As I predicted... The girls went CRAZY! They all screamed in horror and fainted... I just stood there and laughed.
"Whoa..." Aido said breathlessly.
"Well don't expect it all the time, ok?" I warned him.
"Oh come on baby... Admit it, you love me." Aido said with a sexy smile. I stared at him and said seriously,
"No."
"Oh come on baby." Aido said as he smiled happily.
"No." I repeated. Aido frowned and gave me a warm hug.
"Get off me freak." I told him seriously as I pushed him away. Aido frowned even more. He gave me a kiss on the head and walked off to talk to some girls. When I turned around to look for Death I saw him walking away from me and the crowd.
"Hey!" I shouted to him. He turned his head slightly and looked at me, but walking. I ran after him. When I caught up with him I looked him in the eyes. "Hey... What's wrong...?" I asked him.
"You kissed that "Freak" as if you really loved him..." Death explained.
"Oh..." I realised. "I was joking you know... I just wanted to see the girl's reaction. It was pretty funny... But I get where you're coming from... And I'm sorry..." I apologised.
"Forget it... " He replied coldly.
"Don't be like that... You're a good person... I understand how you must feel... And I'm sorry..." I said.
"...Alright..." Death said as he handed me the box of chocolates.
"Thank you..." I said happily. Death smiled slightly and walked away slowly. I put the box in my the pocket inside my jacket.
After everyone had gotten their chocolates The day-class and I went into our class. That day we had algebra, English, science and a few other subjects. My favourite was History. We learned about a few mathematicians. We learned about the Pythagoras therom, Thales and how he measured the pyramids and Socrates, and how he asked lots of interesting questions, like; Why is the sky blue, why do things have colour and why is water wet...? All those interesting questions... It really made me wonder...
After class I went to the headmaster's office. When I opened the door the headmaster noticed me STRAIGHT away. "Oh, hello Tengu." he said calmly.
"Aren't you going to run up to me, pick me up, squish my cheeks and tell me how cute I am?" I joked.
"No, no. I'm a bit busy at the moment." he explained.
"Oh... Can I help you...?" I asked politely.
"Well... Do you know the plus sign from the Renaissance?" He asked me.
"Oh, EASY." I told him. I drew the sign down on a piece of paper and then explained it to him. "Tartaglia used the first letter of the Italian pi'u (plus) to signify the adding. The plus sign we use now, like this," I explained as I drew a normal plus sign. "is a shorthand of the Latin et (and)." I explained to him. The headmaster looked at me in shock.
"How...How did you know that...?" He asked me speechlessly.
"I used to hang out with a bunch of nerds when ever I went to the library. They also taught me how to read, they taught me maths, about mathematicians... Everything I know today I know because of those nerds. And I thank them for teaching me so many things." When I looked at the headmaster he was balling his eyes out and sniffling.
"That's such a heart-warming story..." he blubbered. "Anyway, stay here and tell me more!" he begged as he turned serious. Dude... There's something wrong with you... I thought.
"Well... There's the sign for subtraction that was favoured in Greek times by Diophantus. The subtraction symbol we use today MAY derive from a bar medieval traders used to mark the differences in product weights." I drew the medieval sign down and then the sign we use today. When I looked up at the headmaster he was taking notes.
"And, and... Keep going, don't let ME distract you..." he said as he scribbled down another note. It felt nice to have someone want to hear what you want to say.
"And...and the multiplication sign! The one we use now is based on the "St. Andrew's cross" It was known when this symbol," I explained as I drew the sign from "Before" and "now". "This sign was employed by Liebnitz in 17th century Germany. But he found that the sign we use now was too similar to algebra's x (unknown)." I explained as I smiled happily. "And in 18th century France J. E. Gallimard used a backwards D for division. The sign we use today MAY come from the simple fractional line, embellished by an upper and lower dot." I continued to explain.
"Very interesting..." The headmaster complimented me. "Anything else?" He asked.
"Well... yes..." I told him.
"Well... Speak away!" He told me.
"Well... Some ancient tribes, it is believed, used a base of 2 to count by; 1, 2, 2-1, 2-2, 2-2-1 and so on. While other tribes used a base of 3; 1, 2, 3, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-3-1 and so on. Soon, when people became farmers and builders, the most advanced people PUSHED their basic counting limit HIGHER. Many people decided to use their fingers and toes to count, thus amassing NEW numbers all the way to 20- at which point fingers and toes ran out... Early 20-based systems are STILL remembered in the French words for 80 and 90, "quatre-vingt" and "quatre-vingt-dix", which mean "Four-twenty" and Four-twenty-ten", and there was also a 20-shilling pound of the old British monetary system, all used in the traditional British system." I explained. "Sorry... I sound like a real nerd don't I...?" I told the headmaster.
"No, you don't, you sound like a GENIUS!" He exclaimed. "Now we FINALLY have something INTERESTING to teach the kids!" he continued to exclaim.
"Wow... Thanks..." I said breathlessly, this crazy old man was going to teach the kids about what I had just said! I was actually quite excited and proud of myself, and the nerds!
"Um... Oh, also... One of the crudest ways of writing numbers is preserved for us in the Roman numerals I, II, III, IV, V, VI and so on. This is a technique in which EVERY number is expressed as the addition or subtraction of a few basic symbols. We use a SIMILAR system when we keep a score by |, ||, |||, |||| and so on. It is also believed that the written symbols for numbers which we use today- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 originated from the Hindus." I told him.
"I think my brain has exploded..." the headmaster wailed. I laughed.
"Anyway... I didn't come here to give you a maths lesson... I came here to ask about my stool... I can't look over the basin... I can't even TOUCH the edge of it..." I explained to him.
"Uhhhhhhhhh..." he said mindlessly.
"Yep... His brain exploded..." I thought out loud. I wrote a note down on a piece of paper and left.
When I walked through the door to my dorm, I saw Kanam'e standing in the middle of my room.
"... What do want...?" I asked him.
"To talk..." He replied.
"You SURE like to talk don't you?" I said rudely. I knew I was being rude, but Kanam'e didn't seem to mind... Well... Either THAT or he ignored me.
"I went to the cemetery today... And came upon your parent's graves... You're orphans aren't you...?" He told me.
"Shut up..." I said to him coldly.
"And you didn't tell anyone because you were afraid to be split up from your siblings..." Kanam'e continued calmly.
"I said SHUT UP!" I screamed at him.
"I understand how you feel..." he continued.
"SHUT UP!" I screamed again as I shoved him towards the door, but as I looked at the door... I saw Zero... He gasped.
"You're... Orphans...?" He said breathlessly.
"...Yes..." I said regretfully. Zero seemed surprised.
"...I'm...Sorry to hear that..." He said respectfully.
"Shut up..." I replied coldly.
"Please be nice... We know how you must feel... To have both your parents taken from you by the thing you hate most..." Kanam'e calmly said. "The two of us have suffered the same fate.." he continued as he looked at Zero. I looked at them both and then sighed.
"I... I lost my mother first... And... And then my father... Just when we needed him the most..." I trembled as I began to cry.
"It's ok... I can see in your eyes that you've been through a lot of pain... Especially since you now know that Zero is the very thing that you fear most..." Kanam'e explained. Zero gasped.
"You're... You're afraid of me...?" Zero sighed. I sniffled.
"No... You're just the thing I HATE the most!" I yelled at him.
"Please... don't vent your anger on Zero... I know that you've been through a lot of pain... But you mustn't yell at the people trying to help you..." Kanam'e told me wisely.
"...I'm sorry Zero..." I said as I sniffled again.
"It's alright..." He said as he put his hand on my shoulder. Kanam'e put his hand around my waist.
"We'll take care of you..." Kanam'e comforted me with a sweet smile.
The Sweet Dream Still Continues...