Vampire Knight

Guilty Temptations

Chapter Seven: The First Bite

I took another whiff of the heavenly smell lingering in the air. I sighed, slightly shaken at my realization. I lifted my head to look at the figure standing above me, and I immediately blocked my nose from any scent.

"A-Aidou-senpai," I choked.

Aidou looked at me solemnly, kneeling down and taking my hand away from my face. He grabbed my other hand before I could repeat my action. He didn't say a word, but with my hand in his, he began to take off his tie, and undo the first few buttons of his uniform. I shook my head, "W-What are you doing?"

Aidou mumbled, "I'll admit that I don't like you very much, Shiori-chan. But you are a pureblood. A rare pureblood. It is only right that you have blood to drink."

I pushed him away. "I'm n-not going to drink your blood, Aidou-senpai!"

"But you need it," Aidou placed his grip on me tighter. "For your own good."

He leaned himself over me, placing his neck against my shoulder. My eyes widened, the temptation was far too hard to resist. I grunted, trying my best to not give in. Aidou said boldly, "Just drink it, you vampire!"

"B-But I can't!" I shut my eyes.

"You're going to have to someday," Aidou murmured.

I breathed, gasping for air loudly. "I'm sorry—" And I did it. I pierced my fangs deep into his throat, letting what seemed to be gallons of blood into my body. I felt Aidou flinch, and let go of my hands. I wrapped my arms around his neck, suddenly loving the taste rushing around on my tongue. I gulped a mouthful every time, feeling addiction to the flavor. My lips were attached so long against Aidou's neck, I let go, breathing heavily. Aidou looked weakened, lying on the ground, trying to catch his lost breath. I licked up all the blood around my mouth, and blurted out, "You taste… so good."

Aidou gave me a slightly knowing look and said, "You needed it. I don't want another pureblood to die. There are only so many of you left in the world."

Still, I craved more from him, but at the same time, I didn't want to, seeing how much I'd taken out from him. I crawled over to his side, grazing the surface of his collarbone with my lips, collecting the remains of the seeping thick and red liquid. I heard him groan quietly, and I apprehended the fact that I was giving pleasure to someone I disliked. I winced, and sat back up. "I'm sorry," I whimpered.

A few days later, during class, I sat in my desk quietly, avoiding the uncomfortable stares given to me during the end of the lesson. Aidou practically slammed his hand down in front of me and smiled. "Yo, Shiori-chan."

Now I wondered why he decided to smile like that after confessing that he didn't like me. I looked up at him, with little confusion, and greeted him back. "Uh, hi, Aidou-senpai."

"How are you feeling?" He asked, taking a seat on top of my desk.

I mumbled, "What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing's wrong with me, Shiori-chan! How silly of you to ask such a question!" Aidou laughed loudly.

"You said that you didn't like me, remember?" I cringed, shrinking back into my seat.

His expression turned serious, and he nodded. "Well, of course, I don't like you."

I muttered under my breath, "So straightforward."

"But I appreciate the fact that you like my blood. Which is why I decided to be slightly nicer to you, and if you ever have more cravings for blood, you know who to call," He winked.

I gaped at him, suddenly feeling a chill from his new personality. "Uh, yeah. Sure. Okay?"

He grinned. "Oh, the holidays are coming up, what'll you be doing? Perhaps, visiting your long lost family?"

I grimaced, not liking the idea. "I… don't think I'll be visiting them. I don't even know where they live. I might just stay in the dorms for the break… What are you doing?"

"Gee, I don't really know. I don't think I have anything planned. Maybe you and me will be able to have a pleasurable time together," He said slyly.

I smacked him on the head, blushing and saying, "Don't say such perverted things!"

"I didn't mean it to be perverted," He chuckled. "Maybe you've just got a dirty mind."

I glanced at the wall clock in the classroom, realizing that class was almost over. It was almost 5am. I gasped, noting that I was going to be late. I stood up abruptly, making Aidou flinch slightly. "What's wrong, Shiori-chan?"

"I-I'm going to be late!" I said frantically, piling up all my books in a rush.

"Late for what?" He raised an eyebrow.

"My job! I'm starting today, and if I come late, they'll have a bad impression of me!" I struggled to lift the heavy pile in my arms.

"Job?" He was taken aback. "Why the hell do you need a job for?"

"Because unlike you, I wasn't born rich, and even if I was, I'm certainly not receiving any money from my family," I grunted, walking quickly but carefully down the stairs.

"Then why so early in the morning?" Aidou followed me, looking obviously unsatisfied that I was leaving so soon.

"What do you think, Aidou-senpai?" I asked. "I'm starting to dislike the sun. I can only handle a few hours with it beating down on me, so I try to get the early mornings where the sun doesn't come up after a while."

"What type of job is it?" He questioned.

"Why do you need to know?" I scoffed.

"Because what if you're doing some sick job where you have to do prostitution?" Aidou frowned.

I rolled my eyes. "You really think that I would want a job like that?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. Tell me, what type of job?"

I shook my head. "I don't see why you should know." And I began to run ahead of him with the books in my hands, hoping to get rid of him sooner or later.

I finished getting ready, getting changed into my uniform, and began to start my new job. I'll tell you now, it's not very elegant, but it is cozy. And since I work in the morning, most of the rude customers have left. And it was the only one that would accept my work experience and such. I only had one job before that, but I had to quit it; I was looking for a higher salary pay. So, I now worked at a restaurant bar. It's not as bad as you think it is. The other waitress girls and bartenders were very kind, and the owner, I'd only met once, but seemed very nice. I walked in the door, and was greeted greatly by the other employees. I smiled back at them, and started to do my job, which was to collect orders from the customers. Everyone was startled when the door slammed open, and a huffing Aidou stood at the doorstep.

"A-Aidou-senpai?" My eyes widened as I said this.

His eyes trailed around my body and he grabbed my arm. "What the hell are you doing at a dump like this!?"

"Hey, Shiori-chan, who's the guy? And what are you calling a dump, buddy!?" A fellow female employee, Arisu, snorted from behind the bar.

I struggled to get out of his grip. "This place isn't a dump! It's perfectly fine! And since I work in the morning, no creeps are lurking around, so you have nothing to worry about!"

"What do you mean, creeps!? There are creeps everywhere in this place! Look, that guy who you're serving right now? He's staring at your breasts, not your face!" He frowned.

I glanced down at the man in front of me, whose eyes were gazing at my chest. I turned so he wouldn't be able to see them anymore. Okay, so there was one creep. So what?

"And what are you wearing!?" Aidou looked disgusted when he saw my attire.

"This is my uniform," I answered.

"Some uniform," He scoffed. "I knew you had a job that had something to do with prostitution."

"Are you calling me a prostitute!?" I glared.

"With the clothes you're wearing!? Yeah, I guess I am!" Aidou stared daggers at me.

My mouth dropped open, hating his bluntness. "Ugh!" I jerked my hand away as I heard some employees murmuring, "Look's like trouble in paradise."

I yelped, "He's not my boyfriend!"

"Then maybe he's trying to tell you something, Shiori-chan!" Arisu laughed uncontrollably when she saw the look on my face.

I sighed, walking away from Aidou. "Just let me do my job. You don't have any right to stop me from doing this."

"No, I don't," Aidou agreed. "But I don't want you to be working here. Quit this place and I'll give you the money!"

"I'm not going to take your hand-me-downs, Aidou-senpai!" I exhaled angrily, upset that he would think I'm so poor to accept charity from others.

"Then find a better job than this!" He stomped over to me.

"What job, Aidou-senpai?! This is the only place that would accept me. I'm inexperienced in everything, so this job is the only one I can do without stuffing up!" I tried to avoid his stare.

"Oh, please!" Aidou ran a hand through his hair frustratingly and pulled me outside of the bar. "You can do better than this place! I'll find you another job, so just quit!"

You can imagine how long we argued for, and being the smartass Aidou was, he won. I resigned my job just when I was accepted, which pissed me off. When Aidou and I left the restaurant, he shoved his jacket in front of my face. "Wear it unless you want to get raped by pedophiles."

The thought made me sick, and I grabbed his jacket to wrap around my body. I muttered, "How am I going to pay the school fees if I have no money? You'd better find a job fast or else I'm coming back here."

"Oh whatever," Aidou grumbled.

The holidays soon came around the corner, and probably the whole school had left to visit their families. Ruka, Rima, Ichijou, Kain and Kaname left to go to Aidou's mansion, which was strange, considering Aidou himself didn't go along with them. We waved them off, and once they left the dorm, I stared at Aidou, who immediately left the place. I followed him, asking him where he was going. He shrugged, not answering as he headed for the Day Class dorms.

"H-Hey, what do you think you're doing?" I grabbed his sleeve as he tried unlocking the door to the boys' dorm.

"I'm bored," He replied.

I was about to ask him another question, until I was interrupted by a familiar voice. "Aidou-senpai? Shiori-chan?" We turned and saw Yuki, seeming to be in a little bit of an argument with the Dorm Head of the Girls' dorm of the Day Class. It didn't seem big, but it looked like she was getting told off for being out when curfew was almost near. She quickly ran up to us and whispered, "It's no use sneaking in, because all of the boys are gone for the holidays, but what are you doing here in the first place?"

Aidou stepped back, not liking how he got caught by the prefect. "It's not like I-I'm here to see Kiryuu or anything!"

"AIDOU-SAN~!" The Dorm Head squealed. "What are you doing here? Night Class students aren't allowed to go to the Sun Dorms!"

Aidou smiled cutely, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm about to run away now, so could you keep this a secret for me?"

She nodded and grinned, "Of course!" And she waved, walking away happily.

It seemed that she didn't notice my presence at all. Which irritated me a bit, but I was fine. The door in front of us unlocked, and opened, revealing Zero. Zero said, "Aidou-senpai, I'm sure Night Class students aren't allowed to be in the Sun Dorms."

I glanced at him for a moment, and looked down at my feet, hoping he wasn't mad with the way I treated him that day. Yuki spoke up, "Z-Zero's right! You two should be heading back to your dorm!"

Aidou mumbled, "I don't want to go back there." We paused, suddenly feeling the chilling aura surrounding him, and how depressed he looked. But then he stopped, pouting childishly. "So, I'm not going back!"

Zero glared at him, "I'm willing to force you to go back, Aidou-senpai."

He stuck out his tongue and began to run. "That's if you can catch me first!" I watched the pair race around the courtyard, and Zero was amazingly faster than I thought. But then again, so was Aidou. They ran for hours, and Yuki and I sat on the doorstep, waiting for them to finish off their game. Yuki took that opportunity to talk things out with me, which, I didn't really want to do.

"Shiori-chan?" Yuki spoke.

I turned to her. "…Yeah?"

"About the other day…" She nervously smiled.

I cringed. "What about it?"

"Are you mad at me?" She quietly asked.

"N-No, of course not. I was just a little stressed at the time, you know, assignments and stuff. It's no big deal, really," I lied.

She took a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank goodness, I wouldn't know what to do if you were mad at me."

And that's when Zero leaned against the wall beside us, huffing and puffing like never before, while Aidou was still in tip-top shape.

"M-Maybe we should go to the Chairman's private lodging?" Yuki suggested, hoping a fight wouldn't break out.

I agreed. "Uh, yeah. You two should have a rest. It's already night time."

So, we went upstairs, and after discussing why Aidou didn't want to stay in the Night Dorms, he ordered us to create him a homemade meal. He sat himself at the small dining table, and waited for his dinner to come. Yuki left to set the four glasses down at the table, leaving Zero and me in the kitchen, in an awkward silence cooking our food. Yuki was gone a long time, and I didn't know what to say to him, so you can imagine how much I hated my situation at that time.

"I smelt blood when you left," Zero's voice murmured as he began to boil the soup.

My head lifted, and my mouth went dry. "I-Is that so?"

"What happened, Shiori?" He asked, not bothering to look over at me.

I smiled forcefully, praying like hell to God that the truth wasn't written all over my face. "I-I don't know what y-you're talking about, Zero-kun."

"Shiori, you have a crappy poker face," Zero admitted.

I frowned. "S-So what if you smelt blood? That could be some other vampire!"

I felt a hand touch my shoulder, and somewhat forcefully turn me around. Zero then was facing me, and he said, "I know you had something to do with that blood. It was coming from the direction of where you ran away. Tell me the truth."

I grimaced. "So what if I do? What on Earth will you do to me?"

He sighed. "I just want to know what you did, and who you did it to."

"You think I sucked a Day Class student's blood!? I know better than that, Zero-kun! I would never attack a human like that!" I cringed.

"I never mentioned a human," He said, his grip tightening on me now.

The soup began to boil; the bubbles were slowly rising to the top, which told me we had been having the conversation for a while now. Yuki could walk through that door any moment now, and listen in on our talk, so that left my decision.

Would I tell Zero the truth?

Or continue to pile lies on top of another?

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