Author Note: F**k school. I can edumacate myself damn it! First week in and I'm already going up walls! Ew! When did that happen? It's taking up all my writing time! Anyway, here's your second-to-last chapter. Hope ya like it :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight which I guess is okay, but I don't own the song Yellow either. That goes to Coldplay.
Y is for Yellow! :)
The students of Cross Academy were scared. When they spoke it was in nothing louder than hushed whispers. They all made their way from class to class in herds, afraid of being alone. It was the calm before the storm, they all knew. For the past week, there had been nothing disruptive going on around campus. Whatever storm was coming was going to be savage.
However, none of the Day Class students—save Yuuki and Yori who were pretty in-the-know—were even half as scared as the Night Class. Why? Because not only was campus quiet, but Kaname was gone.
"Was he kidnapped like Yori was?" Yuuki asked.
"I wasn't kidnapped," Yori said. "I went around staying in different hotels."
"Or so you claim," Yuuki muttered.
"Maybe he saw a watermelon, climbed into a ditch, and died," Zero suggested hopefully. This idea was ignored. Suddenly, a giant rock came and hit Shiki in the back of the head.
"Ouch," he said in a monotone voice. Rima patted the bump tenderly. Kain picked up the rock and found a piece of paper, stuck to the rock by a piece of yellow duct tape.
"It's...a note," he said puzzled as he separated the rock from the paper with a pair of scissors.
"What's with all the freakin notes and missing people?" Zero exploded.
"When people go missing, notes are frequently left as clues," Yori said in an infuriatingly patient voice. Zero took a deep breath. He could handle this. He could. Really.
"What does the note say?" Ruka asked. She snatched it out of Kain's hand and read it silently. When she finished, her eyes filled with tears and she passed it on to Ichijou with a loud sniffle.
Come to the academy gates right now if you ever want to see Kaname alive again.
"I knew he was kidnapped," Yuuki said proudly.
"That looks suspiciously like his handwriting," Yori observed. "I saw it on his paperwork that he turned into the Chairman once."
"Do we have to go?" Zero asked.
"Kaname turned in paperwork?" Ichijou said looking impressed.
"Let's go save the dorm leader," said Shiki flatly.
"You're so excited, Shiki," Rima commented slightly surprised. He shrugged.
Zero cursed his life as he followed the odd group to the spot where they were supposed to go save Kaname. Why was he going? Yori had pointed out that they needed more than one sane person around. Zero could've kicked himself.
Well, there's always the slight chance that his kidnapper with kill him anyway, he thought gleefully.
Two hours later
Zero was all but skipping on the way back. They'd waited and waited and Kaname still hadn't showed up. Life was great, he thought smiling smugly on the inside, scowling on the out. And that was when he saw the dorm.
Everything was an appalling shade of bright yellow.
Zero didn't mind yellow, really his didn't. But everythingwas bright, bright, neon yellow. Everything being the roof, the walls, the ground.
"How did we not see this?" Ruka squeaked looking horrified.
"I kind of like it," Rima said so quietly only Shiki heard it. He nodded thoughtfully.
"Do you think the inside is like that too?" Ichijou asked worriedly.
"I bet it was a fan girl trying to imitate my hair," Aido said cheerfully.
Looks like she got it pretty good, Rima noted.
Yeah, the whole dog-pee yellow shade is identical, Shiki confirmed. Suddenly, a little yellow blob came scurrying up and Rima let out a little squeal.
"Mr. Squeakers!" she cried delightedly and scooped the little mouse in her cupped hands. Suddenly, she frowned. "Why are you yellow?"
"Squeakin squeaka squeakishmur!" the little mouse…uh...squeaked (?) happily (?) in response.
"You were dunked in yellow paint?" Rima gasped. "Poor baby!" She fawned lovingly over Mr. Squeakers and the mouse sucked it all up greedily.
Shiki let out a low growl just as a low, furious squeak came from beside his feet. He looked down and saw a little she-mouse doing her best to scowl at Rima. Finally! Someone he could relate to! The mouse he took to be as Mrs. Squeakers looked up at the vampire expectantly as if to say "this is up to you buddy seeing as I can't do anything here." Shiki gave an obligatory nod and took two calm steps toward Rima who was cradling Mr. Squeakers to her face, giggling in a very un-Rima like fashion which quite frankly was scaring everyone else. He promptly pulled the mouse away from her by the tail and set him down next to his raging wife.
"You got paint on your face, Rima," he said quietly and wiped the paint away before kissing her without warning. He pretty much radiated "possessive" (which didn't appear to bug Rima at all) and all male creatures in visible vicinity who treasured their family jewels jumped away. The rest of the group—which had now grown by two mice—scooted away hastily. At a considerably faster pace, they entered the Moon dorm. And jumped right back out.
More. Yellow. Several people swore loudly while Zero howled with laughter.
"Isn't this great?" But it wasn't the silver haired boy who spoke.
"Kuran?" Zero asked after he'd pulled his jaw back up from the floor.
"I tricked you all!" Kaname squealed as he danced around in his now yellow paint-splattered My Little Pony PJs. "I got you away and while you were gone, I painted the whole dorm yellow!"
"So we see," Ichijou said slowly as if he were trying to coax a rabid animal into submission. Zero himself was waiting for the Pureblood to start frothing at the mouth.
"Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow," Kaname sang happily.
Everyone winced. His singing hadn't improved since the Brittney Spears songs in the shower incident. When Ichijou thought about it, he realized that Kaname had also been wearing the My Little Pony pajamas during that debacle. Was that what had pushed him off the sanity cliff? Maybe. But if that was the case, why was this happening so close to the end of the Alphabet? Wait. What Alphabet? Ichijou hadn't known anything about any Alphabet. He frowned, now more confused than ever.
Kaname's horrid singing continued until a loud shriek filled the air, drowning out the sound.
"What happened?" the Chairman asked, eyes wide. As we all know, the Chairman is quite an eccentric fellow and if he's appalled by something, it must be very appalling.
"Do you like it?" Kaname asked dreamily. "Yellow is such a nice color..." The Chairman was at loss for words.
"Wait!" Ruka yelled suddenly. "I know what's wrong with him!" All jaws dropped and every pair of eyes turned to the usually composed vampire who was looking extremely terrified at the moment.
"What is it?" Kain said.
"The bunnies from Happy Time have returned!" she wailed and several people screamed.
"I thought we got rid of those!" Zero exploded. Ruka nodded as the pair remembered their temporary truce in which they'd pretended to be brainwashed and were brought into the studio where the Happy Bunnies were producing their mind-controling show. (A/N: think South Park. You know, that one totally epic episode where the crab people turned all the guys metrosexual?)
"We got five minutes to get in and get out," Zero whispered. Whispering really wasn't necessary since he and Ruka had beat the crap out of all the guards surrounding them.
"I can't believe they actually fell for our pretending to be brainwashed," Ruka said shaking her head. She had found some black stretchy jumpsuits and insisted she and Zero wear them, much to his irritation. But the whole world was at stake and he didn't have time to argue with her.
"Well, they did until you punched one of the bunnies," Zero snorted. Ruka scowled.
"He groped me!" she insisted and Zero rolled his eyes. He was sorely tempted to say "don't flatter yourself" but as previously stated, Zero was kind of busy saving the world.
"Let's just do this and go back to expressing our extreme mutual disgust for each other, okay?" he growled and Ruka sighed dramatically before nodding her head in reluctant agreement.
The unlikely duo snuck (quite sneakily if they did say so themselves) into the room where the bunnies were talking.
"Just like in the South Park episode," Ruka said. "Beat them to death with...our bare hands?"
"We got vampire strength," Zero offered irritably as if her lack of remembering such things was painful for him. With a loud battle cry that Ruka found childish, useless, and all around idiotic, Zero ran forward and threw himself upon Hoppy. Following suit—minus the yelling—Ruka tackled Skippy gracefully and tore at his throat.
The following battle was brutal and bloody, but the vampires came out victorious. Due to the gore that was so grotesque and cheese-ball it was straight out of some slasher movie without any plot whatsoever, the final decision in the editing was that the fight scene should be left out and kept in the zombie/Jason/Friday the 13th/etc. movies where it belonged. Point is, the whole thing was nasty.
Ruka and Zero came home the heroes who had saved the world from Happy Time.
Or so they'd thought.
"But the bunnies haven't appeared for months," Aido argued.
"Skippy...is...my...master," Kaname declared, suddenly going rather robotic. "Must...kill...everyone...with...yellow...paint."
"Does he mean yellowcake?" Zero asked with a snort.
"That was one heck of a fail if I ever saw one," Yori said dryly.
"So how do we fix him?" Yuuki asked.
"If there's no cure, can we kill him?" Zero piped up hopefully. Kaname let out a yelp. Everyone turned to see a valiant Mr. Squeakers had climbed up onto his shoulder and bitten his ear, drawing blood. The Pureblood vampire jerked back and Squeakers fell to his almost obvious death only to be caught by Shiki who had appeared from no place in particular with Rima beside him. Shiki placed Mr. Squeakers down on the ground.
"Why is it always the guy who hates the other one that saves him?" Yuuki asked. Nobody answered since they were all to busy ooh-ing and ah-ing at Mrs. Squeakers who was squeaking up a storm with her husband in her...uh...paws as she cried little mousy tears of joy at his bravery. She looked up at Shiki and squeaked something unintelligible but considering the circumstances, probably meant something like "thanks for saving his life." But that's just a guess.
"What happened?" Kaname asked looking bewildered. He turned around and saw the world had turned yellow. His jaw dropped and he whipped around back to face everyone else, eyes wide.
"Nice to have you back," the Chairman said.
"Who painted the dorm yellow?" Kaname demanded. After several frustrated sighs, groans, mumbled curses, and irritated facial expressions, the small crowd dispersed, leaving Kaname to not only clean up the mess, but wonder who the culprit was.
Yes people, that is the story of what happened after chapter H. I never really intended on doing that, but the opportunity showed up and I had no choice. One chapter left! So how 'bout some love/reviews?