I'm so, so, so ,so so sorry for the long wait. Even though I didn't have a writer's block like other times, I wasn't in the mood to write at all. And also, I had received some reviews, some of them helpful to get back into writing and some about the grammar etc mistakes in my story. Again I'm sorry, English is not my mother tongue but I'm trying to make the story at least bearable to read. Anyway, enjoy!

Night 20

I didn't get much sleep last night. For the most part I was just tossing and turning, trying to find a comfortable spot on my bed but failed miserably. Not that it would help me relax. My mind was still filled with thoughts about everything that happened that day and mostly about my sister's current situation.

What the hell was I doing? Letting that leech get close to her and not even stopping him. But would that be enough? I knew that Yuki was always dreaming about finally admitting her feelings to him and now he was welcoming them with open arms. But was that really it? Was he really interested? Or was it another game of his in order to gain something?

And then, there was Ichiru. How in the world did he end up here? I thought that the chairman was wiser and smarter than letting him enroll the Academy when the last time he was here he working for a pureblood that was planning to disturb the peace in our school. Not to mention he tried to kill Zero. So, what was he thinking? Did he trust him? I knew for sure that I didn't. And I was sure that Zero didn't want him here either. So why wasn't he objecting at all?

"Angel, are you ill too?"

"What?" I turned to look towards Yori that was giving me one of her most concerned looks. I just shook my head as my hand clenched my books tighter against my chest. From the corner of my eye I could see Yuki looking at me worriedly but a faint shake of my head was enough for her to let it go, for now at least. That's what I needed right now. To have her worrying about me while she was having it worse than me.

She didn't get much sleep either. The nightmares were getting much worse now. She even woke up screaming in the middle of the night and I had to hold her for more than an hour in order for her to calm down. I've never felt so useless before as she kept shaking like a leaf and especially when she refused to go back to sleep while trying to hide her tearful eyes all the time.

"How about you, Yuki? Are you really all right? Both you and Angel didn't eat breakfast. Maybe you should rest or even go to the infirmary…?"

Our friend sent me a hopeful look as she spoke, but I just shook my head again. I had spent the whole time since we woke up trying to persuade her to go see the school doctor but she refused every time. The only thing I could do now was to keep her in sight at all costs. She looked so pale today…

"I'm fine. I just got a lot on my mind. " Yuki said with a small smile as we made our way towards the dorms' exit. "And I got stressed out, that's all."

You were never good at lying, Yuki.

"What would get you stressed out-? Oh! Kiryu-kun! Good morning!"

I felt my lips quirk a little despite my current mood and before I could stop myself I walked ahead of my two friends to reach the silver-haired hunter.

"'Morning." I muttered as I lifted myself on my tip toes so that I could peck the corner of his lips lightly. He just hummed in contentment before I pulled away only for one of his arms to wrap around my waist keeping me close.

"You look tired." He said as he leaned closer to brush his lips on my temple. I teasingly pushed him away, taking a few steps back before I headed towards the door.

"Such a mother hen. I think that the chairman is finally getting into you." I tried not to laugh at the sound of someone clicking his tongue in annoyance and chose to ignore him as I opened the double door only to freeze at the sigh that waited us outside.

I stood frozen for a few seconds trying to comprehend what I was really seeing right in front of me. Finally, I took a step back quickly before I slammed the door shut, turned on my hills and walked towards the opposite way.

"Uhh…Angel? What-?"

"We'll use the back door today." I said simply, cutting my sister off and trying to avoid any questioning only to feel someone grab my elbow and start dragging me back towards the door.

"H-hey! What are you-? Zero, stop dragging me! Oh, you're gonna regret not listening to me!"

"Sure." I narrowed my eyes dangerously at the boy, feeling my blood boil when I saw him rolling his eyes at me like I was some small child he had to deal with. Jerk.

"Alright!" I exclaimed when we reached the door again and he released my elbow. "Have it your way. But don't say that I didn't warn you, you jerk."

"Language!" Yuki exclaimed as she and Yori came to stand beside me while Zero opened the door for us. I just gave her a pointed look. Really? She was in the mood to lecture me at this time in the morning? She can be worse than Yagari sometimes.

"Anyway, what got into you- oh." The sooner all of them took a look at the same sight I was met with earlier the more their faces dropped. Ah, that euphoric feeling of wild satisfaction was making its appearance for the first time today.

There, right in front of us stood four members of the Night's Class and from the annoyed look on each of their faces they were probably waiting for something or rather someone. Or maybe they were just pissed off because I slammed the door on their faces.

I turned to look towards the hunter beside me, giving him the smuggest look I could master but as I parted my lips to voice my victory he shot me his hardest glare. It was more than enough to make me rethink about irking him so early in the morning. So, I did what I knew best and shut it up. For now.

"Hey Cross. Didn't the chairman teach you some manners?" Aido's tone was drifting with venom as his hateful glare focused on my form.

"Which Cross-"

"Don't you dare play this game with me, Cross. You don't want to mess with me right now."

"You're no fun, you know that?" I said, feeling a bit disappointed. There goes my fun with the noble. Perhaps I'll get another chance later at the Moon Dorms' gates or during patrols… And now that I thought about it…

"Why are you here anyway?" Zero spoke a bit louder than necessary, probably because he was worried I would continue messing around and eventually risking my head with the noble.

"It's Dorm President Kuran's orders." Akatsuki-sempai replied as he too did nothing to hide his annoyance that was evident in both his face and his voice. "He wants us to stay by Yuki-sama as her bodyguards."

The four vampires brought a hand close to their hearts before taking a small bow towards Yuki. I raised an eyebrow at that, all of my previous carefree mood leaving me in a second at the mention of the pureblood. Instead, I felt all my anger from last night filling me completely. Yet, I simply coped with one of my coldest looks before walking ahead of my friends.

"Let's go." It was more like a growl and I managed not to meet the stare of any vampire that I passed, not really trusting myself with keeping my cool. Bodyguards? Really? How about planting a chip on the girl so that he would know every move of hers? Possessive freak.

"Is this some new type of bullying?"

Yori whispered to me and Yuki as we walked towards the main building while being closely followed by the four Night Class students. I tried my best to ignore the presence as well as a hunter can ignore the strong aura of a noble and in my case four nobles. And at some point I actually did it but then we reached the rest of the Day Class students that were heading to class.


"Really, Yuki, what did you do?" Yori asked, giving my sister a side-glance.

I was on the verge of spilling everything among cruel remarks about the pureblood but at the last minute decided against it and I just stayed silent, biting the inside of my cheek to stop me from blurting out anything. Those were the longest five minutes of my life as we headed to the classroom. Every girl's heated gaze was fixed on us while they didn't even try to lower their voices as they threw sneaky remarks at me and Yuki. I let out a deep sigh, feeling too tired to even return the glare or the insults and just tried to enjoy the comforting presence of the silver-haired hunter right beside me. But it would be even better if he just threatened them with his gun. Maybe shoot once or twice…by accident of course.

"No fair! It's always the Cross girls!"

"Not only she has Kaname-sama and Kiryu-kun's attention, she's now trying to dig her clutches to the other Night Class students!"

I gritted my teeth, trying to hold back myself from saying anything in response. I knew that last comment was directed to me. It was so typical, them being so jealous for no absolute reason and trying to get under mine and Yuki's skin. But I had to admit that was a bit low even for them.

Just ignore them and keep walking.

I told myself over and over while I tried to keep a straight face and head towards the classroom. But the more the vampires followed us the more the girls' cold behavior worsened, making it almost unbearable to keep going.

"Excuse me!" I almost jumped out of my skin at Yuki's sudden outburst. I turned to look at her shocked only to find her hard and annoyed glare towards the Night Class students. "Kaname-sama may have ordered this or whatever! But I wish you'd think about who you're doing this to, and the place you're doing it!"

Was that it? I sweat dropped at her before I shook my head silently at her. Did she even believe that she would change their minds from following Kuran's orders? Even in her outburst she was still so…kind. Even the vampires looked unfazed by her and some of them a bit bored too. Only Aido's eye twitched as he focused on her.

"Shut up, Yuki Cross."

"Watch it!" I hissed, clenching my hands tightly into fists at the same time Rima-senpai added '-sama' as if to complete his addressing to her. Yet, the noble ignored both of us as he continued.

"If Kaname-sama has decided that you are special then we must treat you special too. A human girl like you probably won't understand-"

"That he is a perverted freak? Most likely." I muttered but not low enough, causing the vampires to fix me with their cold stares. But that was it. Not even a proper insult or something for speaking inappropriate for their leader. Were they ill or something?

"Funny."Aido commented dryly before he focused back on Yuki. "But no. It's important to understand that is the dignified way of aristocrats like us." His gaze returned back to me as he continued. "So, try not to make our job more difficult."

I rolled my eyes and I clicked my tongue at him as I turned on my heels and made my way towards the classroom's door, trying not to fume too much.


I tapped my pen repeatedly on my notebook as I stared boringly at the teacher who was too engrossed in his lecture to even notice that the whole class was in a similar state like me. He kept talking and talking, his eyes focused on his book or his notes while he would sometimes write something on the board.

"So, if we use this formula here then…"

"Oh, for god's sake…" I muttered exasperated, slamming my forehead on my hand as I took notes lazily. From beside me came a deep sigh, which I chose to ignore as I kept scrapping on my notebook whatever the teacher was writing on the board.

"You're much more desperate today."

"Can't you blame me? I don't understand much of what he's saying!" I whispered, not even bothering to conceal the helplessness in my tone.

"Hasn't master already taught you and Yuki this unit?"

I turned my head towards him in order to fix him with a hard glare, my eyes narrowing even more dangerously at the way the corner of his lips lifted. Not to mention his voice was filled with that familiar smugness that made me was to slap him at the back of his head.

"Not funny, Kiryu." I hissed as I returned my attention at my abandoned notes.

"I beg to differ."

"Keep this up and you soon will be joining Aido outside the classroom."

The hunter only clicked his tongue in annoyance as he moved his lavender orbs towards the board and stared with a boring look on his face. Of course he would be bored. He didn't even need to spend more than half an hour to study and he would be getting high scores in maths. Unlike me and Yuki that spent whole afternoons and possibly nights.

"Why is he still out there, anyway? It's actually getting annoying to feel him so close." I muttered grumpily only to receive a deep sigh from the hunter as he shook his head slightly.

It was clear that he was as bothered with this new turn of things as I was. Not only did we have to put up with them every afternoon and nights but now it would be in the mornings too. Thanks to that perverted leech, of course. I knew I wasn't going to gain anything by just telling to them to leave us alone. Their prince's orders were much more important than the school perfects'. Were they lobotomized or something?

Something warm was placed on my knee only to make me realize that I was patting my leg impatiently as I was lost in thought. I turned to look towards the hunter, who was seemed focused on the teacher's lecture but I knew I had his full attention. I only stared at him with a blank look on my face before I spoke in a low voice.

"You're invading my personal space." I watched carefully as the corner of his lips lifted up in a smirk.

"You never minded before." He said in his usual calm voice but I could detect the slight playfulness in it. I rolled my eyes trying to look apathetic but the slight warm feeling on my cheeks was not actually helping. I tried to shift a little in my place, making an attempt to release my leg only for his hold to tighten slightly before his hand moved up to my tight.

My body tensed even thought I tried to take a deep breath to calm down only for it to come out shakily. Without taking my eyes off the board, I slid closer to the hunter until there wasn't any space left between us before I leaned my head to his, bringing my lips close to his ear.

"If you keep this up, you'll end up patrolling the school grounds alone."

His hand slid up some more.

"Zero-"

"Cross!"

"I didn't do anything!" I exclaimed only to receive strange looks from every person in the classroom. Well, except from the hormonal, stupid hunter beside me that was trying desperately to hide his smile and Yori who was leaning over an unconscious Yuki and-

Wait, what?!

"Cross, what's wrong?!"

"Yuki!" I exclaimed as both me and Zero shot up from our seats at the same time and ran across the room to where she was seated with Yori.

As soon as I reached her, I wrapped one arm around her as I brought a shaky hand on her forehead trying to feel if she got a fever. The whole class had gathered around us with some of them looking worried while others where just curious.

"Everyone get back to your seats!" The teacher exclaimed but no one was really paying attention to him. "Kiryu, Cross, take her to the infirmary and see to it she's alright!"

We didn't need to be told again as Zero lifted her in his arms and we headed towards the door hot in our heels. All the while, I was caressing her cheek or brushing he hair away from her face with my shaky hands while trying to ignore the murmurs coming from the students. As soon as we exited the classroom, we found Aido at the same spot we left him earlier. The noble's eyes widened when they landed on my sister's form.

"What happened?!"

I spared not even a glance towards the noble vampire's way as both me and Zero continued our way. The sound of quick steps that followed us down the corridor was enough to make my blood boil but I managed to suppress it, knowing fully well that taking my frustration out on Aido wasn't going to help neither me nor Yuki. If it was the pureblood leech though…

I bit the inside of my cheek trying to push away any thoughts about him as I opened the door to the infirmary and allowed Zero to get in first before slamming the door on the noble's face and making my way to the nearest bed. I flipped the covers back for Zero to place the girl on the mattress before I started to take her shoes off.

"You wait here. I'll bring the doctor." I simply nodded as I moved to take off her jacket and tossed it on the nearest chair. A soon as I heard the door closing, I let out a deep sigh as I moved the covers again so that they were covering her small frame. I tucked her in carefully before taking my place on her side, studying the peaceful expression on her face.

A soft knocking on the door made me tense even more but I tried to relax as I took deep breaths. The person didn't wait longer for me to respond as he opened the door slowly. I remained in my place, not daring to take my eyes off from my sister. Neither of us broke the silence for a few seconds before he cleared his throat loudly. I closed my eyes slowly, taking another deep breath before opening them again.

"I just wanted to check-"

"Yes, tell your master that his girlfriend is alright." I said bitterly.

Another few seconds passed without either of us saying anything. Not that I was in any mood to strike conversation with him or any other servant of that man.

"You don't need to worry, Cross. I'm sure she's-"

"It's not just today." I blurted out before I could stop myself. "She doesn't eat well, she's afraid to stay alone, she can't sleep and when she does, she wakes up screaming because of another nightmare…"

I didn't know why I told all those things and to him of all people. But once I started, I couldn't find the strength to stop only when I saw him move closer to us until he was standing right next to me. I moved my tired gaze to him for a few seconds before I focused back on my sister.

"If you're here for that favor you asked-"

"You didn't find anything." It wasn't a question. As if he was sure about the answer I would give him. I sent him a curious look before I shook my head.

"Everything was destroyed as soon as I touched it." I paused as I thought about it carefully before I continued. "The same way every evidence that I found about Yuki's past was destroyed." I didn't even try to hide the bitterness in my tone as our gazes met, a knowing look being shared between us.

"Then you know what you must do. If you want to help her, of course." I narrowed my eyes as I fixed him with a cold stare before I looked away.

"I'll find another way."

"Stop being so stubborn, Cross!" He exclaimed as I stood up from the bed and moved to the chair where I had tossed Yuki's jacket and made to fold it neatly. "If Kaname-sama has anything to do with your sister's past then he's the only one that can help you!"

"I'm not going to that leech!" I hissed at him as I placed the folded jacket on the small table next to the girl's bed before crossing my arms in front of my chest.

"Careful with your words, Cross. Both you and her owe Kaname-sama too much!"

"As if I had ever any need of him!"

"Angel…?" Both me and Aido turned to look towards the source of the weak voice only to find Yuki staring at us with half opened eyes. I sent another glare towards the vampire who didn't hesitate to return it before I took my place beside her again. I gave her my warmest smile as I stared down at her only for it to flicker a little when she tried to sit up but failed. I made to help her but she stopped me before pulling the covers closer to her face.

"How are you feeling?" I asked softly but before she could respond the door opened suddenly as the school doctor emerged inside with Zero following him close behind.

"Now, what happened here?" The man said as he closed the distance between him and the bed. "All of you, out. I need to examine her."

"What? I'm not leaving!" I exclaimed only to receive a cold look from the older man and a sigh from the silver-haired.

"Come on, let's go!" The boy said as he pulled me up and dragged me towards the door with the noble close behind us.

"Hey! Let go! I'm not leaving! What is-?! Is that a syringe he's holding?!"

"Yes and I will end up sticking it in your arm if you don't get out now." Always the charmer that man, especially with me. Not that I blamed him. His hands were always full with me on my first year here. And not to mention he was always true to his word.

"Let's go." I said as I wrapped my fingers around Zero's wrist and dragged him outside the room.

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