I woke up the next day and smiled. I'd had an awesome night at my celebration. I felt myself yawn and turn to the side where Hana's bed was.
"Wake up party girl!" I tossed a sock at her (don't know where that came from).
"Huh?" she mumbled, rolling to my side.
"Morning." I smiled.
"Hey, wild party, huh?" She grinned back.
"Yep, it's Saturday; wanna go visit Zero and Yuki?" I asked her. She nodded.
"I gotta see Ichijo though." She informed me.
"Why?"
"Me and him are gonna read some manga."
"Ok, ask him if I could have my Zombie Loan back, 'kay?" She nodded.
"So, you and Zero had fun last night." She wiggled her eyebrows.
I sighed. "He's just my friend, Hana." I opened our closet and looked through my clothes. "We need to do laundry by the way."
"Don't change the subject." She stared me down, serious. "You got him to smile, Kizu-chan. He likes you, and you like him too."
"No I don't, Han-chan." I denied. I think I don't like him.
She shook her head. "Do I look like Aido's ass? I'm not stupid, I have eyes."
"Why ya been staring at Aido's ass?" I raised an eyebrow. She blushed.
"I do NOT stare at his ass. I merely glanced one day out of curiosity." She admitted.
"You like him!" I smirked.
"At least I'm willing to admit it!" She shouted. We changed the subject and got dressed. I put on a neon orange t-shirt with the Metro station logo, a black hoodie that said "Sparks Ignite" in the back, black skinny jeans, and some paint-splattered converse.
Hana threw on a neon green tank top that said, "You know the grass is better on the other side when it glows," some of my black arm warmers, denim shorts, her DC's, and her hair up.
"Let's get goin' to the Headmaster's residence. They should be up." Hana told me and I followed her out, my ipod blaring the song "Disco" through my ears.
"She's dancin' at the disco, yeah, she's dyin' on the dance floor." I sang as we walked in to see Zero and Yuki sitting in the living room area.
"Morning my little dove and my duck!" Hana dramatically greeted.
"I'm the dove right?" Yuki joked. I nodded, laughing. "So, what's Sparks Ignite mean?"
Hana and I burst out laughing. "It's our band. Me, Hana, and Spencer." I told her.
"Oh!"
"It's quite funny. At one of our gigs at the roller rink, we started sparks off the guitars, that's how we got the name." Hana explained.
"Good news, I talked to headmaster about Spencer, and he said as long as he gets a job as a prefect he can attend here." Yuki informed us. We smiled.
"Awesome, it's three again!" Hana exclaimed.
"So, what should we do today?" I asked them. "Hana's going to hang out with Takuma."
"I'm going out to the town with Yori." Yuki sighed, standing up and saying sorry before leaving the room.
"It's good; Zero?" I turned to him.
"I have something too." He stayed quiet.
"What is it?" I raised a curious eyebrow.
"Prefect stuff." He dodged it.
"He's monitoring a soirée tonight." Headmaster told me, entering the room. Zero glared at him.
"What's a soirée?" I asked.
"A party that high-class vampires attend." Cross explained.
"Sounds like a big shindig…" Hana said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"Do they…feed on humans there?" I tensed up slightly.
"Not usually." Cross replied. I exhaled a breath I didn't realize I was holding. "Actually, if you have nothing to do, the soirée could use another guard."
"Um…I guess. I can't be of much use though." I shrugged.
"Just a watchful eye to help Zero." Cross smiled and left the room. "Oh, dress formal."
"Gr…" I growled to myself.
"Perfect, I already have an idea!" Hana laughed evilly.
"Oh God, strike me down, please." I sighed, "Guess I'll see you later Zero." Hana practically pulled me out the door.
"Gotta make you look good for Zero!" Hana shouted.
"Sh, he's got hunter hearing remember?" I hissed.
"For a girl that claims she doesn't like him, you're pretty jumpy when I talk about it." Hana pointed out.
"Can we please just stop talking about it for five minutes?" I groaned.
"Not until I get an answer. I hope you know, either you tell me, or I find it out myself." Hana laughed and pointed to my forehead. "Even if it means going in the plains."
"You wouldn't." I glared.
"Oh, I would." She glowered back.
"I can reject you, ya know." I grinned. I win. She snarled and walked away.
"I'll find out one way or another, now go think of a good dress!" She ordered.
"Bossy, much?" I called back to her, walking toward the dorms.
~Later~
"I look like an idiot…" I snarled to Zero. I looked down at my attire. A black cross-bodice dress that had thin straps, flowing to my ankles, lotus designs at the bottom, cuts at the side so I could fight in it, and black low-heeled strap shoes. I had to leave my hair down.
"You look fine." He reassured me. I watched all of the vampires.
"Their…famous people." My jaw dropped when I saw a very familiar person. "Amy Lee's a vamp? And the lead singer of Cinema Bizarre? Oh god, is that Metro Station?"
"Don't pounce on them." He teased. I glared at him and my eyes widened.
"Don't tell me that's Hailey Williams." I almost cried. He sighed.
"It's not that surprising, ya know." He told me.
"Not that surprising my ass." I rolled my eyes playfully. "Look at you, all tuxed out. At least you don't look like a penguin."
He chuckled. "Ha, ha, I got a laugh."
When I turned, I frowned. "Kuran's here?" He nodded.
"Unfortunately." He glowered at Kaname.
"I still can't believe he tried to kill me." I looked down at my wrist tattoos. "Never mind, I can believe it."
I noticed a guy with long black hair and a big eye-patch walk over to us and put his hand in Zero's hair, and pull it. "Hey, how goes it stupid apprentice?"
Zero pulled out his gun toward the guy. "Cut it out…Master." As they talked, I gasped. Master?
"Um, excuse me, who are you?" I asked him. He turned to look at me.
"I'm Yagari Toga, Zero's "teacher" as you could say." He introduced himself.
"Teacher? As in Vampire Hunting teacher?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Yes. And you?"
"I'm Kizuki Fumiko, his friend." We shook hands.
"Hm, I've heard of you. The Teruling Kaname almost killed, right?" I sighed and nodded.
"Guess it wasn't just my memories he was gonna take." I spoke, frowning over at the Kuran.
"She's fierce, unafraid. I like her." Yagari told Zero, grinning.
"Not unafraid, just got one hell of a grudge against a pureblood." I corrected him. "No one is purely unafraid, because everyone fears something, even Zero-kun here."
He looked down at me and playfully glared. "Well, you know it's true." I told him. Yagari threw his head back and laughed.
"Funny. You've got yourself a good one Zero." I instantly blushed a dark red.
"I'm not his—"Yagari raised a hand.
"I know, but never say never about the future. Fate works in mysterious ways." He wisely advised before walking away.
"Uh…" I was speechless. "Your teacher is quite the character."
"True, very true." He agreed.
"So, hunters have teachers?" He nodded. "That's no fair, why can't the Teru have a teacher in this story?" He just sighed.
"Story? So you do make up your own story of what goes on in your mind." He looked at me.
"H-hey, I do not do that!" I stuttered, blushing. "I just write it down at the end of the day as a storyline. A-anyway, subject shift."
I looked up at the balcony and swore I saw Yuki. Then again, why would she be here? She said she was with Yori. I slipped in my ipod earbuds to listen to Metro Station.
"She's true to me…" I sang.
"You're supposed to be monitoring." Zero told me.
"But it's boring, and I can still hear anyway." I pouted slightly. He turned his head. "Thank you!"
"Is that our music I'm hearing?" I heard a very familiar voice ask aloud.
"Oh, Metro Station heard my ipod!" I smiled.
"They are vampires, Kizuki." Zero reminded me.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot." I nervously rubbed the back of my head. Zero sweat-dropped.
"Help us." I turned to see Kain and Aido.
"What's wrong guys?" I asked.
"My father just practically offered my sister to Kaname-san." Aido growled.
"Aido, he did offer her to Kaname-san." Kain told him.
"That is so messed up!" I exclaimed. "You can't just offer a girl like you do a piece of gum!"
"That is wrong." Zero agreed.
I shuddered. "I would feel so violated if someone tried offering me to a pureblood."
"To vampires, it's an honor to be chosen by a pureblood." Kain informed to me.
"I just don't think its right, vampires, or no vampires. Species doesn't matter, its still wrong." I said softly.
"Are you ok, Kizu-chan?" Aido asked me. I shook thoughts out of my head.
"Yeah, I just…it peeves me off." I hissed through gritted teeth.
When the soirée was over, I followed Zero through the crowd of people. I could hear the ringtone of my cell phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Kizu-chan, I'm here with Spence in town, did you see Ichijo at the soirée?" Hana's voice asked me.
"Yeah, he seemed to be having fun." I informed her.
"Anyway, good news: I'm moving into the Cross Dorms tomorrow!" Spencer took the phone.
"That's great!" I smiled.
"So, ya gonna help me move my stuff in tomorrow or what?" He chuckled.
"Wow, I've gone from soirée monitor to move-in box lugger." I sarcastically said. "I've gotten so far."
"You betcha, see ya tomorrow, sis!" Spencer told me goodbye. "Yeah, see ya at the dorm!" Hana laughed before hanging up.
"Crazy friends." I mumbled, shaking my head. I turned to Kain and Aido. "So, I'll see you guys later, ok?"
"See ya Kizu-chan." Aido and Kain gave me a quick hug before leaving.
"Guess that just leaves us." I smiled toward Zero. "We better get back to the academy."
"Yeah, come on." Zero grabbed my hand and led me out the door. I fought the blush brushing my cheeks.
On our way back, I heard a light noise from behind. I instinctively put a hand around my tattooed wrist, causing them to glow teal. "What was that?"
"It's not a vampire, just the wind." Zero told me. I relaxed slightly, and noticed that the marks faded back to black. "You seem jumpy, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just…I have this bad feeling about something…" I looked down and kept walking.