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So I wrote omakes and the bio anyways and will be posting them. The bio will be at the end of this chapter along with the very first omake! I'll mark the starts so you can skip them if you like, and the bio will be last.
Sighing as she wakes from her hour of sleep in the Sun Dorms, Yuuki quickly assesses that Yori has already gone to bed and that her alarm is telling her she has about ten minutes before she will be late for the evening switch over.
Quickly throwing on the Day Class uniform that she'd changed out of to sleep, she grumbles sleepily to herself. The uniform consists of a black jacket over a white dress shirt, black mini skirt and black knee high socks, the jacket lined over with white patterns. She pushes her feet into her combat boots, which had been a gift from Kaname just like her last pairs, which she had grown out of a month and a half back, and then ties the red ribbon around her throat to complete her uniform, her fingers briefly lingering on the necklace Cross had given her as a gift a week ago. Yawning as she braids her hair back into a french braid, she tucks Artemis into it's new holster up her sleeve against her right arm and makes her way out of her dorm.
She's about three minutes from the dorm and going to be on time before she looks down and realizes that she isn't wearing the armband that gives her "recognized authority" as a school Guardian and she makes a sharp noise of disapproval, running back to the dorms as fast as she can, now more awake.
She manages to get the armband and then makes her way to the Moon Dorm gates at a run, pinning the red cloth just before she gets into sight of the large gates. There's already a group in front of the doors, a good majority of them female but some males as well. They're all clustered close to it, which would not only prevent the doors from actually opening, but also puts them too close to them in the first place.
"Hey!" She yells, though the action is uncomfortable. She moves in front of the group and stands with her hands on her hips, trying to seem intimidating and probably failing. "For one, it's past curfew! None of you are supposed to be here right now! And for two, you're too close! Back off! At this distance, the doors won't even be able to open, and wouldn't it be rude to make the Night Class late for their classes just because you're being selfish?!"
"Don't get so high and mighty just because you're a prefect!" One boy yells in protest, several girls chiming in their agreement. Yuuki sighs and plants herself a little more firmly in place before she hears a soft click behind her. The group in front of her immediately backs up and parts, leaving her standing dead in front of the gates, probably looking like an idiot. She quickly surveys the group and then moves herself to stand near one girl who looks a little too enthusiastic.
She's had to intercept a lunging girl more than a few times, so she wants to at least try and be prepared to do so again.
The Night Class, in their white uniforms that are otherwise exactly like the Day Class uniforms begin to file out in one large clump, though with some stragglers. Leading the pack is Aidou, with Takuma off to his right. Kaname is in the center of their grouping, with Kain on his left and Souen on his right, with Seiren just a little behind them. Yuuki can just barely see Rima and Senri in the back, maybe a dozen other Night Class students trailing behind them.
"Good morning, ladies!" Aidou greets in a cheerful voice. "Still as pretty as ever, I see!" There's a muffled shriek from nearby, and Yuuki has less than a second to try and prepare herself before all the nearby girls swarm forwards, their voices melting into one high pitched "kya". Despite her firm footing and experience, Yuuki is still shoved right off of her feet and into the ground, her palms connecting just before her face could connect and saving her from bashing her nose into the cobble stones.
She's just pushing herself up when a large hand rests against her shoulder, and she sees a white clad body kneel down before her. She looks up quickly, sitting on her knees and bracing her upper body with her arms. It's Kaname, and he's looking better than she's seen him in a while- less tired and sad.
"Are you okay, Yuuki? They're always so difficult to manage, aren't they?" He asks, referring to the Day Class mob. She offers him a small, tired grin and allows him to help her stand up.
"I'm just fine, thanks," she says, taking a careful step back and out of his grasp as she feels the eyes of probably dozens of girls drilling into her back. She sincerely doubts they'll manage any meaningful retribution for getting so close to Kaname, who they see as some sort of god, but it's better to be safe. He straightens to his full height before her, and glances over the watching students, who have gone mostly silent. The Night Class is a few feet away, all watching as well with wary eyes.
"It's my pleasure," he reassures, reaching out to rest a palm on her head. It's barely there a second before Zero appears at her side, looking stormily-angry. He looks like he wants to tear Kaname's hand off of her head, but refrains, though his aura seems to get significantly darker as Kaname pointedly leaves his hand there for a moment longer before Zero speaks.
"Class is starting, Kuran," he reminds in a flat tone. Kaname removes his hand from atop her head, though his fingertips trail along her cheekbone for a moment before he turns.
"Oh, you're so scary," Kaname taunts as he begins to walk away with the rest of the Night Class. As they linger behind, they see a girl with long black hair pull herself free of the pushes on the side of the path. She says something they can't quite hear, offering Kaname a rose. He accepts it with a smile, and the girl runs back to the group beginning to cluster behind the guardians.
"Hey, Yuuki." Zero's head rocks to the side and he gives her a blank stare. "I know it's none of my business how you and Kaname interact with each other, but you do remember the rules, right?"
"Shut up!" She grumbles. He turns to look behind them and Yuuki turns as well, catching sight of the rose in Kaname's hand turning to ashes just before her vision of him is gone.
"Listen up, brats! Get the hell back to your dorms!" Zero shouts, actually managing to startle Yuuki despite the fact that she expected it. "Why do I have to deal with you crowding around screaming, going 'kya kya' every damn day?! Scram!" The group of Day Class students shriek and run as though Zero will chase them down and kill them, shrieking in terror.
Yuuki almost wants to laugh at them, but now that there's no pressing duties other than to trail the vampires to make sure they all go where they're supposed to go, she's actually rather angry with Zero. Without even looking away from the back of the vampires as they follow behind, she punches Zero in the ribs as hard as she can.
"You were late again! Useless jerk!" She snaps. He always either shows up late, or not at all, and none of the students respect her nearly as much as they fear Zero, and it makes her job incredibly difficult.
"That hurts!" Zero yelps. "I'll get you for that," he then warns as they hurry forward, having dropped slightly behind the group.
"Maybe, but will it be worth it?" She retorts with a nonchalant wave of her hand. He scoffs, keeping one hand pressed against the sore spot on his ribs and tucking the other into his pocket, watching Yuuki's back as she moves slightly faster than he. Her braid is messy, and there's a leaf stuck in it near the end, probably from her fall earlier. He turns his attention away from that, grabbing her by the back of her uniform jacket and taking long strides to walk even closer to the vampires. She squawks a little in indignance at his action, but doesn't really protest, as he sets her down moments after they've caught up.
Leaving the vampires in their class, they make their way to the faculty building to speak to Cross, as since he's the headmaster, they have to make their reports as guardians. Zero falls slightly behind Yuuki and reaches out to take hold of the end of her braid.
"Zero?" Yuuki turns, still walking, and gives him a confused look. He wordlessly holds up the end of her braid, which is messily tied off with a leaf sticking out of the end. She flushes a little and turns back forwards, not saying anything further as she feels Zero untie the end of her braid and begin to undo it, handing her the hair tie a moment later.
Her hair, now reaching just slightly past her waist, is always a hassle. She'd taught Zero how to braid it when he lost a bet maybe a year ago, and while that had been a time of strife due to how difficult it was to get the tangles out at first, he'd gotten much better at it since then (of course, so had Kaname and Kaien, who she'd gone to to get help with the tangles, which she's pretty sure Zero used as motivation). Soon they're arriving at the headmaster's office, and Zero is beginning her braid anew, the tugging slightly painful but mostly soothing.
"This is ridiculous," Zero says without preamble once they enter the office and the doors are closed behind them. He finishes off her braid and extends a hand over his shoulder for the hair tie, which she gives to him without a word as Cross visibly tears up at their "closeness". Cross is currently tucked into three blankets and a shawl, his hair a mess and his hands wrapped around a steaming mug of what smells like hot cocoa. Zero ties off her braid then rounds her to plant his palms on Cross' desk.
"How can you possibly expect just the two of us to guard those blood suckers and deal with the screaming idiots, Mr. Chairman?!" Zero demands hotly, the old argument appearing once again. Just behind Zero, Yuuki clasps her hands in front of her stomach and sighs.
"I admit that it must be difficult to deal with so much all the time," Cross concedes. "So thank you for your hard work!"
"At least find someone else to help me before the whole thing implodes, if you're so set on this! She's no good at this sort of thing!" A thumb is jabbed in her direction, and a hot spike of indignation lances through her.
"I'm not going to take that from someone who's late half the time and absent the rest!" Yuuki protests, lifting a fist to gesture angrily at his back.
"Impossible," Cross denies, taking a sip of his cocoa. "Due to the role of the guardians, whom are instrumental in successful co-existence, you two are the only ones I can trust." He informs them seriously. "Besides," He droops a little, "it's a thankless job, with long hours, sleepless nights and no respect. No one else would take it. I know that my adorable daughter and loving son won't let me down."
Zero's hands press down much harder on the desk suddenly, the wood caving downwards sharply at his strength as he becomes visibly furious.
"You have taken care of me," Zero growls, withdrawing from Cross' desk to stare him in the eyes, his aura heavy with his irritation. "But I don't remember ever agreeing to being your son!"
"You always obsess over the details," Cross complains, lowering his legs so his feet connect with the floor and flapping a hand at Zero. "It's such a pain. You're my son in my heart."
"Hey, Yuuki," Zero calls for her attention, as though she wasn't paying attention in the first place. "Don't you have anything to say about this? He'll listen to you more, as his adorable daughter'."
"Eh? Well, the Day Class is really annoying, but the Night Class has been pretty well behaved, all considering. And it's pretty tiring," she lifts a hand to the back of her head and digs her fingers into the center of the braid, ignoring Zero's irritated glance at her hand. He hates it when she messes up his work, especially when it's so soon after he's done it. Noticing Cross' increasingly disheartened look, she hurries to smile. "But I'm mostly just happy to help!"
"You're such a good girl, Yuuki! I'm so proud of you!" Cross wails, getting trembly and teary eyed. "Yuuki is the only one who truly understands my pacifism!" He clenches a fist close to his face, which is getting increasingly flushed and teary eyed. Yuuki takes a step back and Zero takes two, the both of them getting out of the line of fire as Cross springs to his feet and poses dramatically, one hand over his heart and the other stretching upwards like he's about to perform a shakespearean soliloquy. "And me? I dream that one day we will break out of the dark cycle of hatred that haunts the relationship between humans and vampires! I believe that if the youth of today can grow together with open hearts and inquiring minds, we can finally build a bridge whereby out two races will be able to live together in harmony! That is the glory of education!" Cross twists, one arm flying out and extending his top most blanket as a type of banner. "That is the purpose of the Night Class!"
Yuuki kindly doesn't voice her thoughts on the matter as she patiently watches Cross' dramatics with a sense of resigned patience.
"...I'm going on patrol," Zero informs, turning and walking out with plugged ears. "This nut is all yours, Yuuki." The door slams behind him and Cross freezes in place, seeming incredibly depressed.
"It's a shame… But I do understand why Kiryuu feels the way he does," Cross says, relaxing into a more natural pose and wrapping himself back up in his blanket. "Even within the vampire community, there are evil creatures that still prey on humans. That's why it would be a disaster if the truth about the Night Class ever got out."
A thought occurs to Yuuki then, and she frowns slightly at it before shaking her head and striding for the window, spotting Zero already making his way down the path for the patrol they're supposed to share.
"It will be okay, Father! Just leave it to us guardians!" She calls behind her as she peels open the window, wanting to cheer him up from his somber mood. Cross appears visibly touched and a tad sparkly eyed as he waves. "I'm going!"
"Yes! Yes!" Is called out from behind her as she jumps down the three story drop, landing with a careful roll so as to not injure herself or get a bleeding wound. She catches up to Zero quickly enough, and he acts as though he doesn't know she's there for most of the patrol, until they separate to each lap around the Sun Dorms and school building (Zero taking the school building and Yuuki taking the Sun Dorms), and he tells her to be safe before disappearing.
"Cross!" The teacher's irritated voice wakes her from her half-doze, but she doesn't move, still too sleepy to make an effort. She would do the extra work she'd undoubtedly be assigned later, and rope Zero into doing his as well while she was at it. As was routine. "Cross! Good grief, nothing wakes that girl up… Alright then. Kiryuu!"
From behind her, she hears the boy who sits next to Zero speak up. "Teacher, Kiryuu is also asleep."
"The two of them do this all the time! What on earth are they up to that makes them so tired!? Detention for the both of them!" Yuuki wants to sigh, but instead just lets herself drift back into that space between sleep and wakefulness that lets her regain her energy but doesn't leave her dead to the world. The bell ringing makes her sit up and stretch, twisting slightly in her seat to work out any lingering kinks from laying in such a straining position for over an hour. Next to her, Yori begins to pack her bag.
"Ahh, I don't want to go to detention again," she complains. Usually she would be spending that time taking a nap before switch over and then patrols.
"It's really your own fault for staying out all night and sleeping all day," Yori tells her unsympathetically. "Really, you're such a vampire."
"Eh?" Yuuki looks over at her friend. "You think I'm a vampire?" Her voice is curious but amused, showing no hint of her internal jolt at her casual mention of the word "vampire". Yori gives her a flat glance.
"Of course not, I was kidding."
"Hey, Yori, will you come to detention with me?" Yuuki asks as Yori stands. "Please? It sucks having to spend so much time with Zero!"
"No way," is the immediate refusal. "And I thought you guys were friends?"
"Well, we are, but he's such a pain to deal with lately! He's always in a bad mood and he's so flakey!" She complains, feeling his glare on her back.
"Yuuki. I can hear you." She turns and sees his glare. She makes a face at him.
"I'm saying it because i know you can hear me! You've been a jerk lately!" Yori says something about Zero's attitude from behind her, but she isn't really paying her friend any attention because she's busy pulling her face into an exaggerated expression of irritation and disgust. She does pay attention, though, as Yori begins to walk out.
"Now that I think about it, you two are perfect for each other. But, um, by the way? You're late for detention."
Standing on the roof of an adjacent building with Zero, Yuuki peers into the Class currently being used by the Night Class, faintly overhearing their teacher as he lectures and as she counts out the attendance.
"... Are the first of our kind in the world to test these newly developed blood tablets. Not only are we the pride of the school, we are the pride of the entire vampire race." She finishes her count of the vampires as Zero speaks up.
"So how is Kuran Kaname, your hero, doing tonight?" He prods as he stares off over the grounds with a bland look. Yuuki jumps a little and gives him a somewhat confused look.
".. I assume he's okay?" She glances over and sees that he is paying the teacher attention. "He looks fine. I was counting the attendance, though? To make sure they were all behaving themselves and attending classes as they should." Zero doesn't say anything as she turns her attention from the school building and out onto the grounds between the school building and the Sun Dorms. "Have you seen anyone out?"
"... No," he answers after she's turned to look at him oddly in response to his silence.
"We're probably in for a mostly peaceful night," she says, relieved.
"Hey," Zero calls for her attention, and she turns, pacing towards him so he doesn't have to raise his voice too much so close to the Night Class, not that it would stop them from overhearing them if they wanted to. "The chairman thinks that the members of the Night Class are pacifists… But I don't believe that. So I'm not going to let my guard down, and I'm never going to understand how an adult like the chairman could ever cooperate with them."
Yuuki remains silent, letting him get this off of his chest. She can't help but agree with Zero, just the slightest bit. The vampires in the building behind them… None of them are pacifistic in nature. Most of them are just following Kaname's lead, and Kaname? She isn't really sure why he's doing this.
"The reason they look like humans… that's so they can hunt us down more effectively," Zero tells her, glancing over at the windows of the school building before looking at her. "I'm starting my patrol now." He turns and walks off toward the stairs on the side of the building that they'd used to get up. Yuuki begins to make her way down the side of the school building, pacing along the edge as she looks around for rule breakers, letting Zero's words stew in her head.
She wants to be optimistic, she does, but Zero always says something to make her doubt everything and think about things she doesn't really want to think about. Like the vampires' supposedly pacifistic natures. Or about Artemis' reactions to both Zero and herself, which have been gradually getting… sparkier during their spars. Or about the books she'd borrowed from Cross' personal study and stashed in her room in the house for research, because it's been months since Zero started to act so strangely and he hasn't told her anything.
She hears faint voices and frowns, jogging to the far edge of the building and looking down. There are two girls in the middle of the path leading up to the school building, both of them sitting on the ground. Quickly gauging the distance, Yuuki complains quietly to herself.
"Day Class students breaking curfew again?" She drops down, rolling slightly but getting a minor scrape against the side of her hand when she almost lands on it and moves it poorly. She quickly presses it against the inside of her sleeve to stop the bleeding and makes her way toward the two day class students, who had startled quite loudly at her "sudden appearance".
"Who-?"
"Hey, you two!" She calls, her braid slapping against her back as she straightens with a small bounce before making her way in their direction with stern purpose. "I want your names and your class! Wandering around like this is strictly prohibited!" She glares at them, making a point to pull on her guardian cuff to show them that they've definitely been busted, rather than been called out by a fellow rule breaker.
"We just came to take photos of the Night Class students. What the hell is your problem?" One demands as Yuuki realizes that she smells blood just as the other girl sniffles a little. Her eyes immediately moving over, she spots the girl with a long scrape on her leg, stretching from her knee to her calf.
"You're hurt? We should get to the Dorm Nurse quickly, then! It could get infected!" She tries to subtly hurry them along, knowing she's doing poorly but just slightly too panicked because that's a large cut and they're literally just outside the building where over 20 vampires are located.
From behind her, there's a soft sound, and Artemis falls from her sleeve at a twist of her wrist, the rod extending instantaneously as she turns.
"You're not allowed outside now!" She snaps, rotating her body and swinging Artemis around for a punishing blow against the offender, putting herself between the vampires behind her and the girls, who have both frozen stiff.
"How scary," Kain smiles at her, one hand having come up quickly to block the strike. She can see Aidou behind him, staring at her with something like contempt as Kain's gaze just seems bored to her. Artemis sparks punishingly and Kain withdraws his hand quickly, Yuuki twirling the rod quickly in her hands to it is stretched horizontally across her front.
The stupid girls behind her are squealing and fan-girling in response to the two Night Class students, heedless of the tense air around them.
"We smelt blood and decided to come take a look," Aidou tells her smoothly. "You're really so mean to us, Yuuki." There's a quick shiver of unease through her at his casual use of her first name despite the fact that she'd never given him permission to call her as such. "After all," his eyes flick downwards to focus on her injured hand, "we came here especially to see you."
Yuuki twists Artemis outwards to point an end towards the vampire who has taken three steps forwards to stand in front of Kain, who tucks his hands into his pockets to watch them with half lidded eyes.
"It's such a lovely scent," he informs her. "The scent of your blood." The girls behind her shriek in happiness that he "said we smell nice", heedless of the mentions of blood or that way he hasn't yet even glanced in their direction. "Did you fall earlier? Because the scent I was talking about… was your blood."
His hand clamps around the wrist closest to him- the wrist leading to her injured hand. She makes an attempt to yank out of his grasp, and manages to jerk him slightly in place and his fingers slip, but his grip does not loosen. She uses her free hand to baton-twist Artemis and then swings at Aidou, who has begun to bend over her hand.
Artemis doesn't manage to connect before Aidou is grabbed by the collar and yanked backwards, though that doesn't prevent Aidou's nails from digging into her skin and creating a sizable gash from just to the side of her main artery and then to the meat of her thumb. She yelps loudly and draws her hand close to herself, immediately tucking it close to her torso and twisting it up inside of her jacket, Artemis crackling warningly with her pained surprise and mounting anger as she twists it up to brace against the back of her arm, rotating her hips so she's facing the vampires with her injury away from them.
"Knock that off," Kain scolds Aidou. Aidou licks the blood on his fingers, flashing his fangs and eyes glowing red, and Yuuki hears the girls behind her collapsing. Kain's eyes, very faintly luminous near his pupils, connect with her own and she can see wariness in them.
There's a rustle of leaves, and suddenly Zero is appearing next to her, one hand already extended outwards and pointing Bloody Rose at Aidou with an expression of frigid rage and disgust, standing just slightly in front of her.
"Drinking blood on school grounds is prohibited." He snarls, then, "getting drunk on the scent of blood and losing yourself to your nature, vampire?" Kain drops Aidou quickly and Yuuki shifts slightly to stand more to the side of Zero than behind him. She can tell he's really tempted to shoot Aidou, but so long as Aidou doesn't-
"It was only a taste."
She has barely a second to react, Artemis flashing upwards and hitting the underside of Bloody Rose's barrel, knocking his shot off course as the familiar sound of gunfire explodes into the air.
"Stupid, you can't just kill him!"
"Whoa, that was scary!" Aidou exclaims, his eyes wide and his body slightly hunched inwards. Yuuki lowers Artemis again and Zero levels Bloody Rose at the vampire again as Yuuki glances over toward where she can see the sigil glowing, Just barely a foot above Kain's head. Kain, himself, looks pale and somewhat shaken, probably having ducked and wove to avoid being shot when the gun had gone off in his direction.
"What the-"
"It's called "The Bloody Rose"," comes a familiar but somewhat unwelcome voice from towards the school building. Yuuki frowns and looks over to see Kaname approaching. A quick curious thought- How does Kaname-nii know about Bloody Rose?- is shelved for later thought as he continues to speak and Zero lowers his arm. "You should be more careful, Aidou, it was made to kill creatures like us."
"Kuran…" Aidou murmurs with visible dread as Kaname seizes him by the collar in a way similar to what Kain had done.
"The chairman will need a full report of this incident, so I'll take care of these fools. Is that agreeable, Kiryuu?" Kaname asks, hefting Aidou slightly off the ground as the air gets tense, meeting Zero's frigid gaze.
"... Just get them out of my sight, Kuran."
"Kain." Kain jolts slightly, pointing at himself. "You are just as guilty as Aidou." He deposits Aidou behind him and Kain walks over there. "Yuuki, about the girls who fainted. Shall we take care of them too?"
"Ah, no. Thanks, Kaname-nii, but we'll take them to the chairman to have their memories modified." She casts the two collapsed girls a slightly sympathetic but mostly annoyed look.
"I see. Well, then… Sorry about this. I will make sure they know the errors of their ways." They walk off and Zero holsters Bloody Rose. She collapses Artemis and her hand, which had still been wrapped with her jacket inside of said jacket, gives a quick, painful throb as Zero grabs ahold of her forearm to give her injury a cursory look.
It's still sluggishly bleeding, and his expression darkens as he uses his free hand to loosen his tie. Yuuki watches in surprised silence as Zero wraps up her injury with said tie, then ties it off, tightening it with his teeth before releasing her.
"Come on. We have to get the girls to the chairman, and then we can get you some bandages." She probably needs stitches, actually, but she can't go to the nurse with an injury like this. She will deal with the inevitably terrible scab and pain. "It reeks of blood, here… I can't believe that they like this scent." She blinks and makes an experimental sniff, realizing that her blood really is saturating the air. It's just hers, so she hadn't realized. She watches Zero heft a girl up into a fireman carry, grasping the other in a princess hold, leaving her to trail behind him, cradling her hand close to her chest.
This is the first omake, inspired by a quick trip around the Kingdom Hearts tag on tumblr, and that guest who left the long review and mentioned periods.
"SEA SALT ICE CREAM"
The discovery was a complete accident, really. Zero had been trying to find a way to appease Yuuki's crazy salt cravings and her want for cold things- which had nearly led to Yuuki outright drinking soy sauce, which he had refused to let happen out of "moral duty". Yuuki didn't really get why he was so upset- she's perfectly healthy despite her salt intake, so why shouldn't she be allowed her favorite treats when she was bleeding out and in so much internal pain?
He had been in town for groceries, Yuuki with him but at a distance due to him bypassing her in the junk food aisle. He had left the shop a little early while she was in the check out lane, and had spotted an ice cream parlor several buildings away. A flash of memory- which he quickly suppressed- had led to Zero grabbing Yuuki upon her exit and towed her to the ice cream parlor.
They'd entered the shop, and Zero had realized his mistake once they were at the counter- there was a special going on, and it was for a blue popsicle-ish type of ice cream that they'd called "Sea Salt Ice Cream", and Yuuki had gone disturbingly starry eyed upon seeing it. She'd then bodily dragged Zero to the counter, ordered five of them (and a bowl of mint chocolate chip for Zero as an afterthought) and then sat down. She'd eaten three of them in less than so many minutes, and the next two in as much time.
She'd then gotten into an argument with the shop clerk that had nearly ended in tears (for the shop clerk) on where Yuuki could buy the ice cream in bulk, or get it delivered. They'd been kicked out before Yuuki could get her answers, and Yuuki had tramped through town with Zero holding their groceries and feeling a little helpless as she looked for another ice cream parlor. Finding another had taken a half hour, and then Yuuki had burst into angry tears upon finding that the parlor they'd been kicked out had been the only one in town to sell sea salt ice cream.
She'd gone home with Zero, still in tears, and Zero'd been graced with a look of complete disgust as he walked past Day Class students with a crying Yuuki gripping onto the back of his casual shirt as she stumbled along behind him. She'd been intermittently sniffling and then wailing about how much her cramps and back hurt, but witnesses had only seen the tears and heard incomprehensible wails.
They'd made it to the house, and Cross had practically teleported to the front door at the sound of Yuuki's cries, bundled her into the inside of the blanket he'd had wrapped around his body and demanded Zero tell him what had happened. Zero had explained the situation, feeling considerably out of his depth, and Cross had disappeared to his office with Yuuki and a stern glint in his gaze.
The next day, Zero had entered the kitchen to find Yuuki curled up in a kitchen chair, several popsicle sticks on the table, as well as the salt shaker and yet another sea salt ice cream in her grip. Cross had been sitting at the table across from her, watching her with a soft and fond but worried smile.
And here's Yuuki's bio (that I really like and will therefore post).
Name: Yuuki Cross (Kuran)
Age: 16
Height: 5'0", 152 cm
Birthday: December 24th (the day she was picked up by Kaname and brought to Cross' home).
Moral Alignment: True Neutral (would be Chaotic Good, but she only really goes out of her way for her chosen few people).
Current Theme Quote: "I can't exactly describe how I feel, but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Character Flaws: Usually impulsive when implementing her plans (though said plans are usually good quality). Has a fear of abandonment/abandonment issues that were inherited through her past self that make her unwilling to challenge the status quo with her close people unless there is no other option, or it is causing harm somehow. Romantic or intimate-romantic situations make her uncomfortable/anxious. Is occasionally overwhelmed by powerful emotions, as she usually feels emotions in a more dulled way. Frequently lies to herself about her mental/emotional state and pretends that "everything is alright" and has a habit of acting in ways that are complimentary to others rather than the way she really wants to.
Past Self: Mostly unknown. A single amber eye and sallow skin are the only physically defining features remaining. Chaotic-Neutral alignment (will do what it takes to survive or be happy, does not really care about others or the consequences of her actions long term). Mildly-psychopathic (kept in-check by sheer force of will and her few bonds), and asexual. Has a lot of esoteric knowledge. Is being "eaten" by Yuuki's vampire self due to proximity, and will never be able to fully integrate with Yuuki due to this as well as because when she had been in the process of integrating last time, Juri's spell had fractured her consciousness and caused a large sense of self to go missing.
Likes: the excitement and adrenaline of a fight, salty food, winning, physical affection, Cross, Zero, Kaname, being strong, the color purple, protecting her precious people, being trusted.
Dislikes: violence just for the sake of violence, bullies, being unnecessarily singled out, being alone for too long, her weird dreams, lying/liars, when her precious people are unhappy/hurt, not understanding something, spicy foods.
Fact: Yuuki would have remembered her entire past life by the time she was seven if not for Juri's spell, but will never do so because of it.