-|| A Guest ||-
It was the middle of the day for everyone to get back to their dorms after dinner, how exhausting and a long day that Tohru just had. She met a lot of new people around the academy. She couldn't believe how many students will give their attention to her on one day. Most of them are pretty nice, but it soon became bothersome to her. But she thought she had enough attention for the day, ridiculously exhausted from shaking everyone's hands and greeting one another, one by one.
But you know what else is in her mind? No one had found out that she was in some hesitation while other students explained about themselves. Sayori was more concern on her behavior, she was the only one who noticed the blank look in Tohru's eyes. She has to admit, the scene when the odd-looking Kiryuu had stepped outside the hall and gave Tohru confusing thoughts about his actions. The timid girl tried to tell herself that it's just another boy who doesn't seem to like her, but there has to be a reason why. She just knew him.
Tohru knew that anger was not in his lilac, lavender eyes. When she first saw him with that lost expression, she knew there was something more than just a shock stared at her. To her, Zero is the only person who acts strangely around her. She even took a whiff of herself before meeting other students of Cross Academy, asking them if she smelled bad. It was a weird question, but neither one of them ask her why. So she doesn't smell bad at all...
It made her wonder why that this strange teenager would have many difficulties by being himself around her. It made Tohru curious, very curious. Maybe one day, she will introduce herself properly, instead of running into him and scare him away with her scented odor. No one had ever acted this way towards her, so she's going to find out why. But since it's her first day of school, she will take things easy and let time show her what's going on.
Moments later, the young teen girl turned the knob to her new room. Sayori and Tohru became great friends while the day went by quickly. The Wakaba girl didn't ask too much about Tohru herself, she only found out that she transfer to this school because of some family situations. She didn't ask any further.
Once Tohru and Sayori entered the room, the two found some extra boxes and dull suit cases resting by a clear white bed. Tohru's belongings neatly set to the side out of the walkway of the free space in the middle. The room seemed a lot for different than the other dormitories that she had seen. The environment looked more heavenly and bright. Everything is just plain white, window sills freely open wide for the sunlight to glow around the room. It also includes the carpet, clean and plain white. Other rooms didn't have this kind of background to their living, it kind of made Sayori anxious of how the Chairman would give a normal girl, like Tohru, more of a comfortable place to sleep.
The vampire's best friend made a short chuckle while examining the walls."...I guess the Chairman sees something good in you."
Now that, Tohru has to disagree about that idea. Closing her gaping mouth and turned her head towards her."What? No, no, no, no. I-I...I barely know the guy! I can't be someone... special ..."
"Well, it is a good room, I have to admit," she continued, glancing at the luxurious color.
Nodding, the new student made her way towards her luggage and her old dusty brief cases. Some of her school supplies were already set on her brand new desk at the corner, some may be next to her bedside or underneath. But Tohru would know that there's nothing to be lost and found, shrugging and started to unpack her clothing in her wide wardrobe. It does seem kind of unfair that someone like her would get this kind of treatment from the principal. People can envy her for this which is not going to be good.
Sayori helped her with her materials, her school books in the right places and other personal possessions in some secret locations where nobody would fine. It surprises the young girl that she finds an unfixed keyboard. The legs were broken apart to fit itself in the rectangular box. She got the idea that Tohru plays.
"So how do you like Cross Academy, Tohru-chan?"
"It's uhhhh...great! The school is bigger than I imagined," keeping her head down, Tohru placed picture frames above her bed. She felt oddly uncomfortable staying here for some reason. She didn't feel like she was meant to be here.
The concerned Sayori noticed her space, eying her with a questioning look on her face. She didn't quite know what the brunette girl could be thinking about, so far when everything could be good for her. She looks like the kind of girl who might do an excellent job in school too.
She approached to her new friend, placing a gentle hand on her bony shoulder, easing her body with respect and kindness.
"Is it about Zero-kun?" her chocolate brown eyes stared at Tohru's baby blue ones. Her voice in a low tone, it made the brown haired girl feel a little confused.
Her head hang in low, eyes to the ground as she pictured the hungered teenager again. His purple stare with a desire to kill in his glowing eyes, the dull pale skin colored his body, the look of being careless and self-esteem. But running away from her couldn't bother her that much. She had a few people running away from her when she's hungry for food.
Tohru looked towards another direction, avoiding of making eye contact with her new friend."Um, ... maybe? I know that I don't know him as much but his reactions when he sees me are very bizarre."
She nodded in response."I know... He never acts this way to anybody. I'm starting to worry if..."
By her pause, Tohru was anxious to know the rest of her statement. She looked deeply in her eyes and saw some bad memories starting to abrupt in her head.
"If what?" the brunette girl asked, trying to not push her to answer but at least for a try to know some things about this school.
Sayori looked back up and shook her head, faking a smile to mask her true feelings."It's nothing … Some things had happened before you came. I think it's best if you don't know anything."
Another patient silence approached, Tohru did hear some strange events happening at Cross Academy. She heard her family talking about it in another room. She guessed it was a secret hidden from her. But she thought it through. If it was that bad, then there is no reason for her to ask any further. Even though, she knows that there will be things that will be kept from her, she will be ready at anytime for someone to tell her at the right opportunity.
"Yeah...Okay."
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It's been a long day. He was planning on going around town to wipe out some more Level E blood sucking monsters. But with this new feeling in his stomach, his hunger made him stay at the Chairman's house, sitting down his quiet dining room table with his untouched glass of warm hot tea. Sighing, his hand touched his moist forehead, the throbbing pain kicking in his mind once again.
The silver haired boy couldn't take his mind off of the girl who he's been dying to take a drop of red liquid. He thought sitting down and relax would calm him down, he was wrong. The excitement for blood is still there, killing him in the inside until he explodes.
Changing his direction, Zero looked away from the window when a couple of students tried to get to their dorms. Once he turned his head, facing the look of his non-related father with a little spark in his eyes.
"Heeeeelloooooo, Zero-kun~!" he sang loudly, loud enough to scare the nerves out of his poor adopted son.
With a smack on the head, Zero angrily kicked his dad away from the gap between them are closing in, leaving the sobbing Kaien a few feet away from him. Despite the fact that he's still uptight about the whole thing in his office, with the high ranked vampire hunter there to make things a little more uncomfortable of the argument.
The teenager found out about his whole idea for the new girl to come to the same classroom as him. A dumb scheme for his foster dad had set for him in order to forget the one he loved a few months ago. Is he serious?
"You idiot...!" Zero hissed, switching positions in his chair to no face the blank Kaien."You made her transfer into the Day Class on purpose."
The Headmaster shrugged his shoulders and smiled."I just thought things would work out with your problems with my daughter! Maybe there is a chance for you to move on!"
"Well, I don't need your help. I can move on, on my own," turning his head back out the window, he doesn't want to forget everything about Yuuki. Plus, he can't. His memories with her are too painful. His feelings towards her are still raw.
"Besides," he added."There is no way that girl, Haruna Tohru, can get to me. She's just another girl who I want to eat off from."
Kurosu sees this. Hanging his head low as his spectacles reflected, he thought through the things how Yuuki loved someone else than him. It's hard. For someone who loves two men at the same time, leaving the half-human vampire in this school and look after her father.
But it's like prison, leaving the most significant people suffer the memories of her. How very selfish.
"I see...," Kaien whispered to himself.
Maybe it is too soon for the young vampire hunter to restore his love, or even too careless for love in his life. He only has one reason to live for, nothing else. Nothing doesn't matter to him other than getting his revenge from all the pure bloods, that's his number one goal.
"But Zero...?" he called again, with a little hope and slight bit of a cheerful attitude.
The teenager didn't reply back to him, just a silent respond and continuing staring outside his window as evening turns into night. He remembered being the prefect around school grounds, watching every shrilling girl coming to the Night Class gates. Sitting and kicking back as he watched his partner fight through the crowd. That particular person who always lectures him to support her from any screaming girl shoving her around.
Those were the days when everything was normal.
"What if...," he paused again, thinking of what his respond would be, probably with no reply or just another spit, "What if this Tohru girl does get to you? Then what will you do?"
Rethinking it again, Zero has to make a smart answer but it will be skeptical. He doesn't like going back against his words, or maybe lying wouldn't be the problem but he hates it when he gets teased also.
But how far can Haruna Tohru go through? Can she even stand the thought of him being half vampire and human? The way how she looked in the classroom, her appearance seemed too normal. Just an ordinary girl with an ordinary life. Her life could be perfect without knowing the outside of world of mythical creatures existing. And Zero can't let himself be the one to blame. And what's even harder that he can't stay away from her that long, her scent is unbearable. It's like an attractive drug to him, but a human possession that he would like to feed off from.
Shaking his head and closing his exhausted eyes, he finally came up with an answer to his question."Then I would have to kill myself. I only have one reason to stay alive. Pure bloods took that happiness from me since my parents died. I cannot have another life when those bloodsucking bastards are just going to take it away from me again."
Dubiously,the Headmaster can't push him any further. If that's his answer, then let it be. There could a thought in his head that he could be lying, or maybe he's just a hopeless kid. Since his adopted daughter left for one kind that she loves, but also love the person who has been with her since she was a child.
"I understand."
He gently softened his eyes at the lonely Zero, his back facing him and just stared out the window. Simple as that, there's nothing that the Chairman would do to get his attention.
But still, Tohru can be a part of his life. Kurosu can see that, even the 17-year old boy can't make a life here when the broken memories still lingers. Something good that this teenager could be happy again, someone who can treat him better than anyone else.
With a sense of sadness, the Headmaster's shoulders eased, "So you watched her? Testing out if she could be similar to Yuuki?"
Questions, questions, and questions...Kaien knew that Zero would want to know if this girl could resemble of the Chairman's daughter. After the attack, many things didn't seem to matter anymore.
"Remember that Yagari is being the principal for the year, not me. So I guess for being the prefect, you can't send news around the academy to me anymore."
Taking a deep breath before heading outside, Zero just simply stated."Yes...I know. But I quit of being the prefect since the Night Class are gone now."
"I still consider you as a prefect, my son!" Kaien smiled."Besides, someone needs to keep an eye on things during night. Maybe vampires will stalk the students during the night and feed on their FLESH!"
Bonking on top of his head, Zero lazily stared down at his foster dad."Don't you even joke about that...Well, I'm gone. I'll be back in a few moments. Vampires are sickening..."
It's also weird 'cause Zero is deliberately, or partially a bloodsucking demon, too.
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"!"
Her foot kicked the girl's bathroom door, pounding on the hollow wall. Getting steamed and a bit flustered by the door that holds up an upsetting sign which Tohru had lost her chance. Devastated on this time, she didn't know how much time she took to pack her things in her new room.
"I knew I shouldn't get that clock from my birthday!" kicking the door repeatedly, continuing to pound her fists to see if anybody who might be wandering in there or would hear the raging noises from the outside.
Banging her vacant head on the door, she clutched onto her vanilla scented towel hanging by her shoulders and a thin black comb gripped by her hand. Tohru cannot do anything about her problem with bathing issues, pounding and kicking will definitely disturb her neighbors.
With her fists attached to the cold door, she whispered to herself."How much I hate asking this but..."
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Standing outside in the cold in her night gown, the brunette girl shivered as the wind approached her delicate body and blew her warmth away. There, in front of her, a man pushing his spectacles up while he examined this new situation in the girls' dormitories. Putting the pieces together in his mind, he absorbed the information from Tohru's mouth into his head.
The Headmaster stared in astonishment, eying down the teenage girl quivering by his doorsteps."Ah...I see soooooooooooo you couldn't use the bathroom, am I correct?"
Nodding shyly and blushing in embarrassment, walking around the school grounds in her pajamas to get to the principal's house. Especially Rule number one, never wander by yourself alone at night. Such a shame...
Laughing hysterically to himself, Kaien patted Tohru's head and stepped aside for her to come in."It's okay! Since it's your first day at Cross Academy, I'll offer you to use my bathroom. Actually, you're welcome here at the home of the HEADMASTER ANYTIME~!"
"Ch-Chairman! I don't mean to be a bother! It is a long day for me but it seems kinda careless of me to intrude your home," waving her wrists and look at the walkway, she could have thought of something else other than going to the Chairman in the middle of the night.
"No, no! I insist!" he grinned, patting her back and forcing her legs to enter the doorway with a nervous stutter."But for today, I want you to call me Otou-san!"
Despite of the statement he gave, Tohru didn't even bother to call him in that sort of way yet. She gawks her round blue eyes as she stared at every wall around her, so this is the house of the Headmaster. Everything so neat and organized, she took the thought that he's single for his his idiotic and motherly behavior, no wonder he's begging Tohru to call him his father. Well, adoptive or not, it would be nice if she gave him the splendid idea of her being his daughter for one day.
"So Daddy?" tingling her tongue, it's kinda awkward to call your school principal your dad."Um ... Where's the bathroom?"
Crying tears of joy, he sobbed happily as he shakily pointed the series of the stairs in front of her."GAHHHH! T-The third d-d-door to your l-left! I-It's so beautiful you called me Otou-san! Y-You're so adorable, Tohru!"
"K-Kurosu-sensei, you can't really think of me as your... daughter, are you? Like I mean, I just came to this school," she sweat dropped as she gave a questioning look.
"I-I know! But it seems like I can relate to you!"
Rethinking it through, Tohru can't possibly find any common trait that could be similar to this older man. Coming into his home and giving her the idea of visualizing him as a father, it seems that she's starting to like this academy already. Nothing too serious, it's better to have this kind of teacher than a strict marine man, that's for sure.
Chuckling at Kaien's act, the young girl took a step forward and gently placed her hand upon her teacher's head. And a sudden stop to his fake cries, he paused at the action of Tohru's hand.
Laughing uncontrollably, the sweet girl smiled brightly at her teacher."O-Okay … Daddy? I think it would be good if you should stop with this childish behavior."
Still, how she said it so unsure of the 'Daddy" part, she still makes it as a joking way to make the air more colorful.
Looking upon her creamed face, Kaien stared at her in a shocking way. A flash of an image came to his head. A gentle hand, a soft laughter, and a tender grin always curling to her lips. The memories are starting to fill in his head by just glancing at this new girl, or to say, a quite comparison to Yuuki.
If Zero made sure that this girl is not like the Headmaster's adoptive daughter, then Tohru wouldn't come here in the first place. Maybe he's wrong, but maybe he's not sure. Maybe things will happen just like before, or maybe different this time. But it seems like this new girl could be something more than just someone, someone who can support the half vampire with everything she got.
Jolting right back up, Tohru stands stiffly and gave another small smile."Well, Mr. Chairman, sir! Don't hurt yourself because I like cake!"
Sharing a bit of laughter, he rubbed his head and pats her shoulder."Please, just call me Kaien if you like. BUT STILL! Call me your Daddy!"
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After a little hunting, the silver haired boy had finally calmed down with his hunger issues. With everything that has been going around in the school, he feels things are just going to pressure him again. Just like the day when he found out that he turned into a vampire after biting the neck of someone he cared about. The idea of him going into the Night Class with a bunch of bloodsucking monsters, it wouldn't kill him in a day. He would be mostly satisfy with school bullies and challenges on every vampire.
But he does know by being in there, he would be completely lonely. And by looking at him in the mirror, crying out of agony and hating himself forever with the beast inside of him, dying for the warm red liquid in every human being. He can't consider himself a hideous monster, being one of those people who killed his parents and his twin brother. He blames vampires for everything, taking innocent lives for no reason at all.
Again, something is awfully strange of the way he gets "home". The smell around the area is different now. After his little ambition, now there's something so...
...delectable
The stench around his area. Before, he feels completely fine by taking down lives of Level E creatures eating humans, but then the terrible sensation came back did took as much tablets he needed, the starving emotion just jolts back to his heart again,making him throwing out the white pills out of his empty pockets.
This time, the smell is not just unbearable to resist. It's kind of a mix of something else. The odor is strong, identical to a toxic chemical but more...
Sweeter?
He has to admit that it does smell good ,but at the same time, it's terrible. It makes his hunger rippling again, bubbling in the inside like a major stomachache burning in his digestive system.
It's weird, barging in through the home of the Kaien Cross, as well as part of the school's property. Scanning through the first room, he's taking large whiffs from corner to corner. Every step he took, the stench keeps getting aggressive by every second, following the trail where someone had walked.
Mischievously, wavering his lavender eyes in each room. Once the smell keeps getting heavier, it made this poor vampire hunter drowsy by the strong odor suffocating in the room. Stumbling pass every piece of furniture, kicking chairs accidentally and bumping into stiff walls.
This day keeps on getting stranger and stranger wherever he goes. Not one location where he can just have his peace and admire the outside world. Of course, nothing outside is beautiful when mythical dangerous predators are existing to destroy the human race.
Slumping against the wall, hearing the echoes of a certain someone's footsteps.
"Zero-kun? I didn't hear you get in," the Chairman approached, holding a bowl full of chocolate sauce.
The teenager flinched by his concerned voice, keeping his head low and glare at the guy in a pink apron tied around his waist. Taking large steps to get examine the worn out Zero on the floor, kneeling down next to him. Once he set the bowl full of sugary goodness to the side, a hand pulled him into a tight grip onto his shirt. The sudden action made the Headmaster confused and lost into Zero's angry act.
"Who's here?" the half vampire breathed, the croak in his throat made him weak to speak.
Pushing his shiny spectacles, Kurosu pouted and made Zero let go of his collar. Sighing, "Z-Zero-kun...We have a guest. Don't you think it will be nicer if you behave like a gentleman?"
"Is that where the smell is coming from?" he spat, coughing by inhaling the air inside the house. Opening the windows to get the strong, tempting taste out.
Standing up once again, Kaien picked up his uncooked sweet food and made his way to the kitchen."You will see, Zero-kun. You will see."
Things are already strange. Why would he make this day even worse by inviting someone who Zero should be worked up about? But although, the Headmaster doesn't seem so disturb about this person in his home. Or to Zero, it might be one of his precious plans with the association again. But it doesn't seem so evil by looking straight into Kurosu's simple brown eyes, there's no evil left inside.
But this made the poor teenager worried. If he means that it's a guest, does he mean someone in particular that Zero might know somehow. But he rather not want to think about her, the hunger in his body is fighting its way to take over his mind.
No way...
Taking a blood tablet out of his black jacket, tossing it carelessly into his drooling his teeth grew keen and sharp, the fangs started to slowly evolve out of his human the tablet sizzle down to his throat, but he severely heaved out the pill into his large pale hand. Choking bits of the chalky object and coughed of the unfamiliar pain by a single tablet.
Glancing at the half eaten pill with his weak, slightly opened eyes, he doesn't understand why this is happening all of the sudden. This feeling...
It's almost impossible to cure...
I'll also show you a sweet dream next night