Seventh Night

A compulsion of sudden agony spread throughout Yuuki as she aimlessly ran out of the school building. She hadn't the faintest idea of where she was running to, but she could no longer take it. She could no longer mindlessly sit there and hear words speak of Zero's departure over and over again. No. Yuuki felt as if would lose her very own sense all together. She buried her weary face into her trembling hands, lost and unsure of what anything meant anymore.

"I-I'm losing it…" Yuuki thought to herself as grief knitted into her brow. "I'm scared. I don't know what to do anymore…"

She peered through an opening between her two fingers as the sun blindly projected into them. She removed her hands away from her face now as she raised one arm over her forehead; to elude the sun's radiant brightness.

"I didn't know…that Zero leaving like this would make me so…sad."

Her gaze slowly lowered downward, with trouble caressing into them. She stood there silently, unmoving, alone. A restless debate of an indecisive controversy welled up inside of her mind. She just wanted things to go back to normal. With Zero. With everything. A sudden resolve seeped itself into her debate as she now looked up with a strong face, as if cleansed from any melancholic thoughts. She smiled slightly. Without a care in the world.

In a few mere minutes, the Moon Dorm, the dorm of the vampires, vividly captured it's presence in front of Yuuki's still firm eyes. It was strange, she thought, coming to the dorm during the sunny bleaked day; because the dorm felt like a normal dorm. Not one that was accommodating a couple dozen vampires inside it's bowers. However, at the night, now that was quite a different matter. Yuuki had been on the grounds of the Night Class only a few small times before. The auras she felt wavering in the wind and very atmosphere of it always seemed to frighten as if acting on it's own will. She slowly walked to the doorstep of the dorm building with caution. The doors creaked in a screeching tone as the two doors opened on either side. Yuuki peeked half of her timid face in nervously, grasping one side of the doors lightly.

"No. I can't turn back now." She agreed inside of herself as her eyes furrowed into one's displaying determination. Then she took little steps, step by step, into the richly furnished hall of the vampire's dorm. The wealthily carved majestic-ness of the hall did not strike or faze her with wonderment. She's been to the dorm plenty of times in the past; so she was pretty accustomed to it's appalling elegance.

"But what do I…" Yuuki's hands folded together in a notation of nervousness as she held them up close to her lips. Her eyes now revealing a strange fear. "Why do I feel scared? Is it because…that Zero is here now?"

Her thoughts were interrupted as, to her surprise and slight tint of annoyance, she saw a glance of bright blonde hair and blue marble eyes appear before her now.

"A-Aidou…senpai." Yuuki said with a long face of expressing disdain at the witty vampire's encounter. Not that she particularly disliked him, but because she had had quite a bit of…unpleasant experiences with him in the past.

"Yuuki!" Aidou happily exclaimed, seeming less like a horrific vampire. "What brings you here?" Cunningness flooded into his face as Yuuki unconsciously took a few steps back; wishing that she had Artemis with her now.

"I-I came to—" Yuuki began stammering with a nervous smile.

"…See Kaname-sama?"

"N-No! No…it's not…that…"

"Then…?"

"Z-Zero." She looked down gripping her hands together in front of her as if anticipating a severe punishment.

"Oh. Kiryuu." Aidou bluntly remarked. "Everyone was so surprised that he came here about a week ago."

"Y-Yes. I—"

Hey, Hanabusa!" A voice called out from one side of the room, interrupting Yuuki between her stammering statement. Aidou and Yuuki both turned their heads to the direction of the voice as they saw Aidou's cousin, Kain Akatsuki. His light orange-yellow hair pounced wildly upon his head; a dull expression fleshed out the features of his face. An expression clearly stating, "I really don't want to be here."

"Oh, Akatsuki!" Aidou exclaimed, taking a few steps near him.

"What're you doing?" Kain asked as if suspicious of the two of them being alone.

"W-What do you mean?!"

Kain's lazy, sleepy eyes drifted over to the now timid Yuuki. "Why's Cross here?" His eyes sharply glanced back at Aidou with a menacingly flare. "You weren't breaking any rules again were you, Hanabusa?" Ominous tone of a low voice lowered over Kain's words.

"O-of course not!" Aidou, clearly offended, retorted in a fluster of his arms.

"Then?"

"She says she's here to see Kiryuu." He jolted one finger behind himself at Yuuki.

"Kiryuu?"

"U-Um…" Yuuki said slowly, thinking it was about high time she included herself in the conversation. "I'm sorry to suddenly intrude on you guys in your dorm, but…"

"Kiryuu's probably asleep." Kain unintentionally interrupted.

"O-Oh?" Yuuki looked surprised, but deep down, she knew of it's realism. The realism that Zero would now sleep during the sunlit day, and embrace life at the moonlit night…like a true vampire. But Yuuki stubbornly refused to accept it's reality. She contrived a small, weak smile, trying to appear as if not conflicted with Kain's statement.

"T-That's fine! I'll just…talk to him later." She swiftly turned her back on the two vampires; a clack of her boots resounding on the marble floor.

"If you say so…" Kain yawned, rubbing his ruffled hair.

"Hey, Yuuki…" Aidou called after her quietly as she was just about to leave the dorm. "You haven't talked to Kaname-sama much lately, huh?"

A very, unnoticeable small smirk made it's way onto his face. Yuuki did not know how to reply, as the truth in those words convicted her sorely with pain and slight guilt. Yuuki silently left, without answering. A shadowing feeling of missing something lost formed inside of her forlorn heart. Trouble caressing into her lowered eyes.

Yuuki knew that it was true. What Aidou had deceitfully chanted behind her in a low voice whilst she took her leave. She really had not spoken to Kaname much ever since Zero's entering into the Night Class baffled her. Zero was the only person she thought of lately. In the past, this would have aroused a question within her mind, but now she could discern the answer easily.

"Because I love…Zero." She whispered to herself. "I…I could never hope to be with Kaname ever. But even if I could…" Her eyes dimly narrowed at the brightness of the sun as she stepped outside of the dormitory and it's grounds. "I…I would still want to be with Zero." The conclusion of this was so easy for Yuuki to resolute.

"Yes…I only love Kaname in that of admiration. But Zero is different." A small smile strewn into Yuuki's kind face.

"Zero…ever since you first came to the Headmaster and myself…I always felt so much grief for you. I…always…wanted you to be happy. I tried to smile and be cheerful everyday so that you…" A pleasant wind furred past Yuuki, pleasingly calming her in some strange, vague way. "So that you could smile, too."

The blueness of the azure sky painted with white, soft clouds and a serene gentle breeze flowing in harmony with the petals of flowers, eased the pain within Yuuki if only for a short time. Admitting her true affectionate feelings for Zero to herself seemed to lift a great burden off of her back. A weight that appeared to hover over her for years…but now that she finally resolved all of these questions, and calculated a solution for these emotions, that weight gradually lessened.