-|| Shun ||-
"Hello everyone," she greeted to everybody in the class as she stood in front of the classroom, bowing her kind head to show respect and rubbed her the back of her head shyly."My name is Haruna Tohru. It's great to be here with all of you."
Everybody, girl and boys, in the classroom started to lean in forward against their long desk as the very timid Tohru hears mumbles or small whispers from here and there. Some look amazed, disappointed for some reason, or some may look like they just want to get out of class. Spotting many students try and talk to their neighbors about her which made her feel a lot more uncomfortable than before.
The graceful girl you see, her name is Haruna(har-roo-nuh) Tohru(toh-roo). As you can see, her personality is nothing but high spirits, enjoyment, and exhilarating. Probably, you may not find a mean bone in her body or any negative emotions that she uses, unlike anybody in this world. Tohru is more like a sweet angel, help out anybody who needs support or needed someone to pour their hearts to. If she ever makes anybody to be disappointed in her, she'll never forgive herself to make someone feel very awkward around her. Always and always, everyone will always see her in a bright mood and a cheerful smile locked onto her lips.
But she can be rough around the edges a little.
The patient teacher had nodded, ignoring every student's hand that had been raised for a question about this generous girl right before them."Thank you, Haruna-san. It's such a pleasure to have you in our class."
For one moment as a pause when he was about to start his sentence, the instructor was already crying into tears of Tohru's soft face. Without letting the teacher continue onto his announcement, Tohru thinks she knows where her seat is. She glanced at an empty seat right by another calm girl with short hair and pretty chocolate brown eyes.
She could tell because that's the only empty seat compare to the rest of the people's seats are all pack and no room to squish in. It didn't bother her at all, she's gets really ecstatic when it comes to new people all around her.
Leaving the sobbing teacher behind to calm himself down, she went to take her seat so they can start the class.
Step by step, everyone's stare still kept their eyes on the considerate Tohru who walks up the polished staircase up to the lonely seat.
Mostly, she would find some whispers of joyous comments about her features and she graciously to speak of someone like a teacher, like speaking royalty to the King of England. But they all should know that no one in this common universe would act so genially on purpose to make others admire them. Tohru is not that kind of a selfish person as you can see.
But something caught her calm attention on her way to her location for the rest of the year. She realized one strange human being who she felt so perilous of the image of this one boy who sits behind her spot. No mistaken of his brilliant silver hair color blocked his tranquil view. His deep lilac eyes stared so blankly at the stupor female standing in front of his determined desk with a large pale hand pressed over his silent mouth and nose with pausing breathes muffled under that hand. His eyes extended of Tohru's normal appearance.
Strangely, Tohru, with her vacant expression, didn't know that this boy in her sight is having some heavy difficulties to just stay in one room for the next forever-lasting two hours. Not to mention that this is same male who made her collapse without an apology was given to her. After words, running away from her sitting position with hunger flickers in his eyes.
Then again, he still had that starving look written all over his face. Burning his eyes against hers, this meal before him. The boiling in his stomach is swelling up again, not allowing any of her scent enters through his nostrils. Or probably not breathing the air inside of this oppressive cage he's in to suffer.
"Kiryuu-san!" screamed out the teacher."Where the heck do you think you're going? Get back here this instance!"
The seventeen year-old just jolts up from his seat and hustled out of the fainted classroom immediately, like if there was poisonous gas scattering around the whole school. Of how he ran out like that, both of his hands masked his face out for air.
Everybody's eyes stared at the direction where the silver haired boy had scorched out, leaving the confused Tohru in a daze once again. Mumbles and whispers increasingly wonder what has gone into the cold-hearted Kiryuu all of the sudden.
"Was it something I did?" she asked herself in perplexity of the same reaction that Zero had done.
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But it seems like the girl who is sitting next to Tohru's spot answered for her."Don't worry about it. That's just Zero."
Tohru turned to her by her reply."Zero?"
Giving it a try, saying his name for the first time, a tingle sensation vibrated in her tongue by mouthing out the word. Strangely, it felt nice.
The girl nodded."I'm Wakaba Sayori by the way. I'm supposed to meet you earlier but there was many things I need to do, so sorry if you do get lost with anything."
"Er, no its alright," Tohru replied politely, shaking her hands to not accept the apology from her."I just went to the Chairman's office if I need any help."
"Well that's good," Sayori softened her eyes at her."For a minute, I didn't even know how you look like, so I have many troubles of finding you."
"Oh," Tohru smiled."I hope you're not exhausted. I can wonder around a lot."
"It's no big deal."
So the rest of the hours came out pretty okay for the lost Tohru. The teacher was just continuing into his new lessons of calculus, but still, she is very lost to barge into a class when they are in a middle of something.
But so nice of Sayori, she talked it through with Tohru after words. Apparently, Tohru would need more review than to just learn it all in one day . . . tiresome. Only the capable best friend of Yuuki's helped her throughout the time, she was nice enough about giving her the rest of the wearing assignments. Never expect to get so much homework on her first day of school, but Tohru is the type of person who wouldn't let school gets off of her naive mind.
It was really fun for her, at least one person who understood her for two hours.
Speaking of appreciation, all on her mind is mostly focus one person who she met in the first.
His hungering and shock expression appeared when the young Tohru has approached him and run away from her presence. She has no clue why he does that.
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Zero stopped. It was quite enough for him to run away from the building where her scent is arousing the whole classroom. Standing outside the breezy cold air in the mid-afternoon on a day like this, he might be catching a cold. But luckily, or not, he's already a vampire so there is no need for him to be ice cold.
Why does he have to keep on doing this? His aching heart keeps beating so rapidly whenever he sees her. He might probably run away from school again, never again to get involve with another bloody meal and make her find out of all of the secrets he has build 'til this day. Not at all, ever again to make things worse as before.
But he can't help himself.
This girl
looked so fragile . . .
. . . Luscious
How come he never felt this way towards Yuuki? This is completely different, something that he never experienced before.
She looked so normal, yet so scrumptious in every way. Is it even possible to smell of a scent that is stronger than her? Is there more of these people in this world that will make this devouring beast paranoid? But this girl he now sees.
Her permanent seat in front of him
Her distinctive scent blew through his sniffer that makes his hunger evaporate.
So delectable, appealing, heavenly, sweet Haruna Tohru
"Zero."
His aloof body flinched once he heard the deep voice of the old high ranked vampire hunter, a distance away from him. His expressionless stare down at the hand where Zero dug his fingers over his heart.
"What seems to be the problem?" he asked suddenly."You look . . . hungry today. Have you been taking your tablets often?"
Master or not, Zero never learns to give respect to anyone."It's none of your business."
Yagari eyed him suspiciously. He knew all of his lies for someone who trained him to be a hunter, just like him. So he just gave him a look of discipline.
The irritated Zero sighed deeply, breaking his eye contact towards his teacher."I'll tell you everything in the Chairman's office."
"Why not now?" he inquired."This is probably the best opportunity to discuss with your careless situation."
"As you can see! My condition is not one-hundred percent stabled right now!" Zero spat, pressing his chin against his chest.
"Maybe it's not us who needs to fix you," Yagari replied awfully."Besides, I only came down here because your teacher called me that you're ditching class again. But this doesn't look like that you are."
"Well of course," he murmured to himself.
The grouchy hunter turned his back and starts to walk away."I'll let you off the hook for now. The next time when your instructor summons me, you'll be taking kitchen duty for a week."
"Stupid!"Zero yelled."I don't care. It's not like I do anything fun during lunch break anyways."
"Take it easy, Zero. You don't want things to happen again."
Zero wouldn't dare want to talk back to him. If he does, Yagari will be pointing a gun at him before he can take a step.
The seventeen-year old teenager rolled his eyes, standing up once the pain started to heal. Pressing his hand against his moist forehead that damped his whole face of sweat, he's clearly having a major headache from the commotions. But he shouldn't be thinking of this now. Sooner or later, the words are going to be thrown back at him if it's going to be a good or bad thing happened.
Taking a peaking look through his large classroom window when everyone, even outside that includes him, heard the school bell rang. Everyone started to gather around their belongings and went.
Zero's bright lavender eyes glues at the face of the new female student, to examine. To read her expression and everything that might have happened to her before she came to this academy.
Her huge blue eyes glistened by the sunlight flashes through the glass window. Every strands of straight brown hair rest on her back and lay flat on her chest. Her short bangs falls over her forehead, unlike Yuuki who leaves long strands of her hair in front of her eyes.
Uncommonly, Zero couldn't read anything from her. It seems like this Haruna Tohru's life is just full of happiness, telling by the looks of her joyful face. She would be the type of person who wouldn't even harm a single fly, but also, a bit active and aggressive.
Aggressively weak
Just when the two girls is heading out the door, feeling a pair of eyes watched behind Tohru's back. Stopping at her pace to catch up with Sayori, she turned to look at her remaining body in one place.
"Tohru-chan . . .?"
The timid girl did not reply back, only to let the eyes have their last stare before Tohru can interrupt that person's observation. If she wants to see who might be that person, then curiosity overwhelmed her body. It will cause too much to worry on this day, but so far, unusual events are already happening. She knew that this school seems a little strange to her.
Turning her head behind her back, she glanced quickly through the wide open window across the room. Only to see someone's uniform flew away from the image of the window, guessing that someone just went away before letting her notice that she's being watched.
Zero just wouldn't want to make him look too suspicious, or else, dragging Tohru into the vampire world. Having one person suffered so much is already enough for him, he'll probably have to avoid this girl. No matter what, he has to shun her away as possible, meaning to change classes or buy a sensor if she is near or not. And this is very serious to him. Letting things happened twice, he'll probably not forgive himself for this.
"Tohru-chan?" Sayori repeated, waving a hand in front of her."What's wrong?"
Tohru flinched by Wakaba's fingers snapped, looking at her with confused eyes."W-What?"
"You look like you've seen a ghost, Tohru-chan. Is everything okay?" she asked once more.
Trying to concentrate on the conversation, Tohru's mind is filled with questions of things happening .Somehow, she feels a bit puzzled or scared. She wouldn't be targeting on Zero. After all the departures throughout this day, she shouldn't go around and start giving him looks that he's the victim.
But no, Tohru just kept him out of the talk and continue to listen to Sayori.
"I. . ."she paused, trying to come up with a better excuse than saying a crazy sentence like 'I thought I saw someone's school uniform out the window'.". . . I thought I saw someone's school uniform out the window."
She froze, remembering what she just said and physically or mentally slapped herself across the face.
It was very odd of her to start saying weird stuff now. It was just Zero's sudden action that freaked her out the most, not the most creepiest thing that she ever seen before but one of the oddest person in her list. But how wrong she will be once Tohru finds out the mysterious things Zero kept from her, from everybody.
To Zero, peeking through the glass window once more before taking off to stroll around the school grounds. Tohru and Yuuki look nothing alike. Denying the fact in his head that Tohru looked so much cuter than Yuuki, but Tohru has a face of a young child. He has no doubt that the two of them will have the exact same personality, ignoring how Tohru acts so polite to everyone that never proves she can't really take care of herself. Dubiously, he doesn't think that she can handle the fact that Zero is a vampire after all. Probably thinking of her fainting or something.
Zero began to head for the Chairman's office before anybody could find him here, especially by the new can already smell her scent rousing out of the building's heavy doors that have been opened widely for students to head back to their dorms.
Quickly as possible, escaping the poisonous scent around the air as he head straight to Kaien's office. He can feel his heart throb violently on the left side under his breast, but it soon faded just when he was in the middle of the school's woods.
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"Zero-kun~!"
By a mid-second, Kurosu suddenly jumps into his arms when the mindless Zero calmly opened the door. The annoyed expression is spread upon Zero's face, feeling his foster dad gripping onto his shirt.
"I'm not here to play games, Kurosu!" yelled Zero, dropping Kaien down to the ground.
"But Zero-kun!" he cried, looking back at the vampire hunter who just stares plainly at the two non-related father and son."He's scary!"
Bowing down like a maniac, Zero just gives a bitter look, not really appreciating worships from the Chairman. How can be a principal with this kind of act? It's probably when most kids think that he's too nice once they did something reckless to make them get away with it.
"Just ignore him," groaned Yagari as he takes a couple steps forward to be involved with the conversation.
Irritatedly, Zero can't stand another minute to be stuck with him while he has something very important to announce of strange, or should say, new expectations.
"Listen to me, Kurosu!" seriously, Zero wouldn't want to mess around only for a second and be forgetful now."I don't have time to kill you, okay? I'm serious and you will listen to my explanation!"
The way how he screamed out at the Chairman like that, it's not something to be joking around with. Well, right now on a scale one to ten, Zero is now in level seven on his temper. Foolishly, an embarrassment for Zero to be adopted by a real crazy man who likes to play around once in awhile.
Pushing up his spectacles to the top of his bridge, Kaien slowly stood up and straighten his clothes to look more casual. But to the two people in the room still think of him as an idiot. Clearing his throat and walked back to his chair.
"Very well."
Now that things are more calm and motionless, the Headmaster and the vampire hunter get to hear the Kiryuu's complaints. Finally, things are more normal than before.
"So what is it, Zero-kun? Are you keeping up your grades?"Kaien started to have some small talk which it isn't the point for him.
"Stop talking like that," Zero said harshly, getting all tensed again and stared meaninglessly at his inorganic father.
"Tell me," he demanded before really asking his question."Who is she?"
Kaien looked as if he didn't know what he is speaking of,specifically. The word 'she' must ring a bell in the Headmaster's head but no common idea what Zero must be referring to.
As the silence approached, Kaien started to fumble with a stack of students' files in folders."Who are you referring exactly?"
"You know who," he stated."This girl came to this school today. She is freshly new who came into the Day Class. I've been having bizarre revulsion since this morning and the first thing I knew that a certain someone came here."
He shouldn't have said that this person is fresh. Indeed fresh and new, freshly appetizing that made his mouth water already. It was clearly seen for Kaien to see hunger was filled in his eyes, maybe getting the idea a little bit. Motioning his head at Yagari, he allowed him to rummage through a closet full of formidable and forbidden vampire weapons for a killing-spree. Pulling out a container or two of small blood tablets, if that is what Zero is asking for.
"Tell me," he demanded again."Tell me everything about this girl. Was there any kind of vampire substances that are involved in her life?"
Maybe by taking a student's file, Kaien started to examine the life information about this girl which he spoke of."Oh . . . You mean the girl with the blond hair?"
"No, you idiot!" Zero disagree, his temper is already reaching to his limit."You know exactly what I'm talking about. That girl. . ."
Glaring down at the ground below him, trying to picture the new student who made his hunger begged for more blood. He hated it. Again, it has to happen today and right now. After what he had been through, he's stuck with another delicious human in this school.
Whispering her name finally, saying her name for the first time must have killed him already.
"Haruna Tohru."
Pressing his hand over his right eye, he concentrated on the name. His lavender eyes had a tint of bright crimson in the middle of his pupil.
The Chairman and the vampire hunter knew what's going on, dense enough or not, they got the picture. With Kaien made a head gesture at Yagari, throwing two large packs of blood tablets in plastic bags on his desk.
"Hear Zero-kun," Kaien said stiffly, pushing the bag at the edge of his desk for the Kiryuu vampire to take."This will last you long."
As Zero gripped onto it slowly, Kaien laced his fingers together and echoed the name of the new student who came to this academy.
"To tell you the truth, Zero . . .," he started moderately,". . . her profile didn't have the entire info written, just only half of it. And it doesn't say anything about vampires or anything."
"Then switch my class!" Zero suggested."I don't care if I'm put with a high or low class. I just wanted to stay away from her!"
"I can't do that, Zero. There are too many students in this academy and the district already put her in the class that she needed, so I guess I can't do anything with that."
That's what he want Zero to listen, but Zero might know that there is a specific fact about her involved about ferocious vampires. He would just believe in that, fingers cross behind his back.
Kurosu leaned back into his old battered chair and stared at Zero in a concern way.
Resting his cheek upon the back of his hand, he asked."Why are you asking this exactly?"
How much he doesn't want Tohru to end up exactly like Yuuki, afraid that Kaien might adopt her into his house and make her homemade breakfast every morning.
Zero just broke the eye contact in between the two people in front of him. The expression on Kaien's face, he might know what Zero is gone through. Well yeah, he purposely transfer Tohru in the Day Class but not because to tempt Zero. He didn't know that Tohru's blood scent could drive the poor teenager insane. Insanely starving by the second, Zero just opened the plastic bag stuffed his mouth with the white pills that disintegrates on his taste buds.
"I think I know," the Headmaster replied, smiling in a way of approval.
It made the funny haired Zero getting really annoyed, closing the bag in front and held them tightly in his hand and began to walk out of the office.
"You get the picture."
"It's okay, Zero-kun~!" again, his foster dad just suddenly changed his attitude."You're just being melodramatic! Have a nice day! I hope that things will work out~!"
Tch, yeah right. . .
I'll also show you a sweet dream next night