Another night, another demon. Tonight, we were partnered up to look for it. It was something called an aobozu, and we'd been searching for what felt like at least an hour. So, here I was, patrolling with the twins, who were in identical bad moods.

"This is dumb, we've been wandering around forever, and we still haven't found the stupid demon. Why do we even need to be here?" Kaoru complained.

Hikaru was silent, rubbing his temples. Kaoru glanced sideways at his twin. "Hey, what's wrong?"

Hikaru looked up at him. "I've got this splitting headache, and I...oh, no."

We had to backtrack a few steps, as Hikaru had suddenly stopped walking and was gazing in horror out the window.

"What is it?" I asked, looking out onto the grounds, clearly illuminated by the light of the full moon, trying to see what Hikaru was looking…at…

"Oh, crap!" I exclaimed. Somehow, none of us had realized tonight was the full moon, and now we didn't even know where Kyoya was to place a ward on Hikaru.

"What are we going to do?" I asked nervously, backing up as Hikaru fell to all fours, his pained groans turning to growls, fur sprouting from every inch of his skin. He let out a howl and turned to us, ready to pounce, his olive eyes feral and wild.

Before he could strike, a high-pitched scream rent the air, and a girl toppled out from behind a curtain a few yards away and fell on her back. Seeing an easier target, Hikaru turned around and leapt at the frightened girl, who screamed again, trying to scramble away, but Hikaru was too fast.

"No!" I yelled, jumping at Hikaru. Crashing into the werewolf from behind, I managed to knock him away from the girl. Unfortunately, I landed on his back, and he rolled over so that he was on top of me. I tried to push him off, but he was too heavy. Hikaru snarled, lunging in for the kill, and I was sure I was a goner.

I closed my eyes, bracing myself, but the blow never came. Hesitantly opening one eye, I saw Kaoru on Hikaru's back, his palms clasped on either side of the werewolf's head.

"I'm sorry, Hikaru," he said, and with that, Hikaru passed out - right on top of me, but hey, better than getting clawed to death.

Kaoru climbed off the doggy pile and dragged his brother off of me.

"Thanks," I said, getting back to my feet.

"Never thought I'd have to do that to Hikaru," Kaoru mused somberly.

I didn't know what to say to that, so I focused my attention on the girl that Hikaru had attacked, who was sitting against the wall hyperventilating. Now that I got a good look at her, I saw that it was Kairi Okano, the twins' regular from my class. I crouched next to her and tried to calm her down.

"It's okay, it's not going to hurt you now."

"What - what - what happened to Hikaru?" she asked, looking up at me, eyes wide.

"Hey, you're Kairi, right?" Kaoru interrupted, walking over to us.

"Y-yeah, that's me," she confirmed.

"What were you doing here?" Kaoru questioned her.

"Um, well, I left my bag at school, and I need it to do my homework for tomorrow, so I came to get it, and then I saw you guys and I was wondering what you were doing, so I, um, followed you," she explained, looking embarrassed.

"What were you thinking?" Kaoru suddenly exploded. "Why on earth would you just follow us around the school in the middle of the night?"

"I-I-I just-" Kairi stammered, looking startled.

"Kaoru, calm down, it's not like she could have known why we were here," I scolded him.

"That doesn't matter, she almost got herself killed!" he yelled.

"I'm sorry, I was just-" Kairi started, but Kaoru walked over to her, leaned down, placed his index fingers on her temples, and she fainted.

"Kaoru, you can't just-"

"Relax. I cleared her mind and put her to sleep so she could have a peaceful rest," Kaoru said wearily.

I smiled. "You were worried about her, weren't you?"

"Shut up. She was just getting on my nerves." Kaoru denied it, but he blushed a little.

"Whatever you say," I said, dropping the subject. They acted like they didn't care about anything but each other, but the twins could be nice guys when they wanted to. "What are we going to do about her?"

Kaoru opened his mouth to answer, but just then Tamaki and Kyoya ran down the hall.

"Boushi! Kaoru! We were looking for the demon, and then we realized it's the full moon! Hikaru-"

"Yeah, we know. Great timing, Milord." Kaoru rolled his eyes, gesturing at the unconscious werewolf and girl on the ground.

"Oh, well, I see you have the situation under control. Hey, isn't that Kairi Okano from Host Club?" Tamaki asked. "What happened to her?"

"Long story. Do you think you could find her bag and take her back to her house?" I asked him.

"Um, sure." Tamaki looked confused, but he agreed.

"Kyoya, could you go ahead and place a ward on Hikaru?" Kaoru asked.

"Of course." Kyoya nodded and pulled out his notebook. He wrote something down, and Hikaru began to glow with a bright white light, and when it cleared, he had changed into a small brown wolf. "That ward should hold every night until the moon wanes, but I'll come over in the evenings to make sure. He'll still be a wild animal, but conscious of his actions, more in control of himself."

"Thanks, Kyoya," Kaoru said. "I'm gonna head home now." Looking exhausted, Kaoru scooped up the slumbering wolf and walked off without another word.

"If you two will be all right on your own, I'll go ahead and take Kairi home now," Tamaki offered.

"Hunny-sempai and Mori-sempai are still out there somewhere, we'll be fine. Her bag's probably somewhere in one of the first-year classrooms."

Tamaki nodded, gently picked Kairi up, and started down the hall after Kaoru. I couldn't help but think it was a good thing Kairi was a fan of the twins rather than Tamaki, otherwise she'd be sleeping right through her dream come true.

"So, did you really forget about the full moon?" I asked Kyoya as we wandered the school, on the lookout for the demon and the third-years. "I mean, I would have thought you'd have a lunar calendar or something so that this wouldn't happen."

Kyoya sighed. "Regrettably, that isn't the case. I did forget about Hikaru's condition until after we had already split up. It's a difficult thing to adjust to, for all of us."

I nodded, surprised Kyoya had admitted he had forgotten without sounding the least bit annoyed I had suggested it. "I don't know if I'll ever get used to it," I admitted. I still had to suppress a twinge of guilt every time I thought about my part in Hikaru's "condition," as Kyoya put it, despite everyone's insistence that I shouldn't let it get to me.

Kyoya looked like he knew what I was thinking, but said nothing. Finally, we came across Hunny and Mori, who looked like they had been in a fight but had come out mostly unharmed.

"Bou-chan! Kyo-chan!" Hunny exclaimed, running over to us. "You guys weren't paired up with each other, where's everyone else?"

"They, ah, had to go home," Kyoya said simply.

"Okay." Hunny accepted the explanation without question, even though he could probably tell there was more to it than that. "Well, Takashi and I killed the baddie, so I guess we can all go home now too."

"Sounds like a good idea," I said. "Oh, can someone take me home? My ride left." The twins had volunteered to drive me tonight, but it didn't look like that would be happening.

"We can take you," Hunny volunteered.

"Thanks, Sempai," I sighed. All I could do at this point was hope that this would get easier for all of us over time.