I'm really sorry that this is a late chapter.
But anyway, I don't think you want to read my apologies so I present you Chapter 4 of Ruby Walkermen.
*Chapter 4*
Ruby POV
"Chip, Chip, Chip." Birds sang outside the window around 6.30am.
"Uh… Shut the damn birds up!" I screamed. Although I had woken up at 6am in the morning for the last few years, the sun was never this horrid in America!
Annabeth dug me out of bed and dragged me to the bathroom. After an hour of cleaning and packing, I was ready for class. Not bad, these uniforms actually hug our body shape.
"Annabeth, how can you wake up so easily in the morning?"
"Well, I woke up at 6am for the past 10 years. What do you expect?" Annabeth looked at me questioningly.
Not wanting to waste any more time, I ran out of my room to the dining area in Cross Academy to see if I was able to catch Yuuki there. Well Annabeth and I are in the same class with Yuuki. While Annabeth caught up with me easily at human's speed.
"Good morning Ruby-san and Annabeth-san."
"Good morning Yuuki, would you guide us to class since we are classmates and this is our first day of class. And the girl beside you is?" I politely inquired.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce you to one another. This is Sayori Wakaba, and Yori, this is Ruby Walkermen and Annabeth Heo."
"It's nice to meet you." Yori, Annabeth and me said at the same time.
We sat down for breakfast and chatted about random things until it is time for class. We walked to class together, and then Annabeth and I had to introduce ourselves to our new classmates.
"Hello everyone, my name Ruby Walkermen and this is Annabeth Heo. I would want to ask you if you have anything you want to know about me instead of me just talking about myself."
Somebody in class had heard about me being the CEO of the Walkermen Cooperation and prompted, "Are you really the CEO of the Walkermen Cooperation?"
I said after a moment's hesitation, "Yes, I am."
Some of the boys in class whistled appreciably when I said I was. The English subject teacher said to us that we could sit at any available seat and we looked at the only available seat and that was next to Zero himself. As Annabeth sat next to him, and I next to her, he glared at us, like we were going to take out a gun at anytime and shoot him with it.
We took out our textbooks and the English teacher started the lesson. I mumbled to Annabeth about how easy was the English textbook and she nodded. Sensei noticed our exchange and said to me, "Well, Ruby-san, since you came from America, let's hear you read the 6th paragraph of Hamlet by William Shakespeare."
"Everything that his mother Gertrude or the king could do to raise his spirits was useless…"
"Thank you Ruby." Sensei stammered out after I finish reading the passage in flawless English.
Annabeth chuckled under her breath and whispered to me. "Ruby, if you cannot read that passage properly, I would use it against you for the next 100 years."
"Ha! As if I would give you the chance." I laughed.
(A/N Ok everyone from here there will be a time skip to the time when the night class exit their dorm. From here on, we will follow the progress of the Vampire knight Anime. )
I went to lean on the tree that was at the side of the path while Annabeth stood beside me, where the night class will exit from their dorm. Yuuki ran into a group of fan-girls and shouted.
Yuuki (Y): "Hey, don't push"
Fan-girls (FG): "What!"
Y: "Ok, ok, step back! It's already curfew for the day class students so return to your own dorm!"
FG: "By saying that aren't you just trying to keep all of the Night Class students to yourself, Cross-san? Just because you are the chairman's daughter, it's not fair!"
Y: "You're wrong! It's my job as a prefect to…"
Fan-girls: "Aidou-senpai!"
Hehe, the day class girls are charmed by Aidou. The last time I saw Aidou, well, he just got under my skin.
Yuuki pushes the girls back while shouting "You can't do that!"
Whoops…! The gates are already opening; Yuuki really cannot control the day class, can she?
The day class girls actually arranged themselves into neat roles to the side before the night class stepped out. Haha haha look at Yuuki's expression, she looks really amazed and irritated at the same time. Finally, Yuuki gets the signal and moves aside.
"Hey, Annabeth don't the girls look blessed when the night class step out? They seem love the night class don't they? I know we are inhumanly beautiful but…"
"Good morning, ladies! I could hear you!"
"Ruby, looks like the culprit for all this commotion is Aidou Hanabusa; I guess he is a ladies' man"
(Just insert exchange between Aidou and the fan-girls.)
Then, Aidou caught sight of Annabeth and me, and came over to start a conversation.
"Hello again ladies, I am Aidou Hanabusa, and you are?"
Trying not to be rude in front of his fan-girls, Annabeth replied in a polite tone while I conveniently ignored him "I am Annabeth Heo and she's Ruby Walkermen. It's a pleasure to meet you Aidou-sempai."
I saw that Yuuki was about to fall in exactly a minute so I sent Annabeth a telepathic message. 'Annabeth, Yuuki is about to fall' Annabeth nodded her head minutely.
"Aidou-sempai, would you excuse me. I have some things to attend to." With that, I ran off with Annabeth following behind me.
I saw that Yuuki was about to fall and rushed forward to catch hold of her. "Yuuki! Are you alright?"
"Yes, yes I'm fine." Yuuki said smoothly.
I sensed Kaname Kuran walked towards Yuuki and said slyly "Your dear Kuran Kaname is coming…"
"Yuuki, are you okay?" Kaname softly asked.
"Kaname-sempai!"
(Some other exchange)
"Good morning, Walkermen-san and Heo-san and thank you for preventing Yuuki from falling."
"Good morning, Kuran-sempai. I would like to be addressed as Ruby instead of Walkermen."
"Good morning, Kuran-sempai." Annabeth said in a monotone.
"Come on, Annabeth. I'm bored let's go. See you later, Yuuki"
I almost managed to walk away before Zero shouted "All of you! Hurry back to your dorms!"
I sat down on one of the benches in Cross Academy and focused my mind to see what will happen in the next few days.
The next day...
"Cross-san, Cross-san!" the teacher of the 3rd period of the day shouted at Yuuki.
It didn't seem to wake her up and Yori-san leaned over to her and whispered some kind of Japanese food like Taiyaki that Yuuki seemed to like as Yuuki woke up instantly and said, "I'll eat it!"
Two hours later, Annabeth and I led our horses, Rocket for Annabeth and Comet for me, to the stables of the school.
As we got there, we heard Yuuki complaining about how Zero was behaving even though he was a prefect. We were going to go through the doors of the stables and asked Yuuki to excuse us. She hurriedly moved aside and continued to complain about Zero.
Our horses' stalls were next to one another and they were on the right side of the stable. The stalls were generously bedded with straw and there were food and water buckets too.
We filled up the water buckets and filled the food buckets with oats and such for the horses as it was nearing their feed time. We finished all these in a record 5 minutes and walked to the front of the stables.
Yuuki was still complaining when Zero's horse, Lily, reared up and snorted at Yuuki. Zero bended down and said some words to Lily to soothe it.
I could hear Annabeth quietly sighing under her breath and I said goodbye to Yuuki and headed back to the Sun Dorms. We waited in the dorms before the main action of the day was going to start. We then headed to the clearing where it was going to happen.
Annabeth and I hid in the branches of a tall tree where the leaves could camouflage us so we could see what was happening without being seen. We saw Yuuki sigh in frustration at two Day Class students that were in the clearing.
She jumped off a low roof of the building. She landed on a branch about 5 meters away from us and she gripped the branch and landed on the ground. A scent of her blood wafted through the air.
She was giving some sort of warning to the two students when she suddenly broke off and snatch out Artemis and swung it at Akatsuki before she realised it was him. Akatsuki had caught Artemis with his hand before it could touch his body. He said, "Wow that was close, as expected from Chairman's daughter."
"Kain Akatsuki-senpai and Aidou Hanabusa-senpai from the Night Class?" The two girls squealed as they high fived each other.
Aidou continued and said that they had smelled some blood so they just came to see what had happened. Then he went on and said, "You're so cruel, Yuuki-chan." His eyes glowed red as he again emphasised that they were here to find out what was happening.
Aidou blinked again and he sniffed the air and said that Yuuki's blood smelled so good. Yuuki misunderstood him and warned him not to touch them or she would report them to Chairman Cross.
Both of us sighed and muttered under our breaths at how much Aidou could withstand the scent of Yuuki's blood before trying to bite her. We closed our eyes and counted to five.
When we opened our eyes, Akatsuki had one hand behind his head and the two fan girls had fainted. "Keep your filthy hands of Yuuki, Aidou Hanabusa." Ruby landed right beside Aidou with eyes flashing silver. Aidou shrank back and Akatsuki goggled.
Zero appeared, drew his gun and pointed it point-blank at Aidou. He said, "Drinking blood within the school grounds is strictly prohibited." As if Zero isn't angry enough, Aidou act like he didn't care about the school rules and said, "But I've tasted it."
Realising what will happen, I shouted "Don't sho…", "Bang!"
In that split second, I was currently in the line of fire, and to protect me, Annabeth jumped from her spot into the line of fire and blood was spilled.
Annabeth laid on the floor unmoving, "Shoot! Annabeth, Annabeth are you alright?"
I ran over to her while she stubbornly said, "I'm fine, really." She tried to sit up but instead, she arched over in pain.
I calmly walked over to Kiriyu Zero and slapped him across his face while calmly saying "You better control your emotions Kiriyu Zero or I will control you."
Recognizing the scent of Annabeth's blood, Aidou asked if Annabeth if a pureblood.
I knew this was going to happen and said smoothly, "Yes, she is." By then, Kaname and the rest of the Night Class had appeared and of course heard my proclamation.
"I know that you would want to question me but I will attend to her wounds first. Shall we discuss this later, Kuran Kaname?" While emotionlessly staring at Kaname, and I used my power to teleport back to my dorm room.
Currently in Ruby's room
"Stop moving, I will not be able to heal the wound properly if you move around so much."
"You don't have to do this for me, Ruby. I will heal if I rest."
"How could you be so careless, Annabeth? You know that even if I get shot by an anti-vampire weapon, it will not hurt me."
"I'm sorry, I forgo…" Annabeth coughed.
She can be very stubborn at times. (Sigh)
A white light shined from my hand as I proceeded to heal Annabeth's wound. After I finished healing Annabeth's wound, she had already fallen asleep.
There is no need to hide my abilities anymore since everything has already reached this stage.
Making sure that she is fine, I left the room and walked to the chairman office and telepathically summoned Michael to Cross Academy.
After reaching the Chairman's office, I knocked on the door and I heard a very cheerful, high pitched "Come in".
As soon as I opened the door and took a step in, I was slammed into the wall. Talk about Aidou, Kain and Ichijou being violent, that sucks!
"Well, this is a lovely welcome. Aidou, Kain and Ichijou can you let go of me?" I asked in a sickly sweet voice and they ignored me.
"I swear that I will not hurt anybody in this academy, is that what you want?"
"I had enough. Let go of me." I put some authority into my voice.
"Your loyalty towards Kaname is admirable. You can actually ignore a command on pureblood level."
"LET GO OF ME!" Aidou, Kain and Ichijou crashed into different walls in the room. Aidou on the left wall, Kain on the right and Ichijou beside the window behind the Chairman's desk.
Chairman stared at the three guys that smashed into his office walls, then at Kaname and finally focused his attention on me. His mouth opened, closed and opened again, but was still did not manage to form a coherent sentence.
"Please take a seat, Ruby-san" Kaname said.
"Thank you, Kaname-san" I said quiet.
I went to the nearest seat and started to sit down when Aidou started to jump up and he began to shout like madman. He shouted incoherently, "How dare you disrespect Kaname-sama!..."
Ice crept towards me and surrounded my right leg. "It's not that I do not respect Kaname-san but it's not necessary for me to call him 'Kaname-sama'. Aidou, it is not like you respect me, do you?" And the ice that held my leg to the ground turned into mist.
I sat down on the chair and said to Kaname after Aidou, Kain and Ichijou returned to stand beside him, "What do you want to know?" Chairman Cross chimed in and queried, "What are you?"
I raised an eyebrow and said, "Vampire and…" But Kaname cut in and said, "Then, how can I not know you?"
Ignoring Kaname's last question, I continued, "And you really don't remember me, Kaname Kuran? Though it has been some time since you have met me, I think it is impossible to forget me and my twin brother." By now, Chairman Cross was busy trying to constrain Zero from shooting me with his gun.
But all of them in the room took some time to gape at me when I proclaimed that I had a twin brother. Ichijou looked at me like I just said that the world would end tomorrow and whimpered, "You have a twin brother?"
Kaname said, confused, "How can I have met you when I don't even know who you are." Well, I'll just have to let him remember. Then he will probably know who I am, I thought with dry humour.
I moved at vampire speed so that I can place my hand on Kaname's forehead before the nobles can react. I whispered into Kaname's ear "Dear Kaname, could you have really forgotten someone whom helped you win the war 10,000years ago, Kuran ancestor?"
"How did you know?"
"I have my resources; anyway did you remember who I am?"
"Yes, I have. What are you doing here?"
"Kaname-san, I would need a favour from you soon. And in return, I will help you once. Also Chairman, my brother will be arriving in Cross Academy tomorrow."
I turned around and looked at Zero, who obviously, is staring at me with his infamous cold stare and warned him. "Don't you dare use your gun to shot Annabeth or anyone else coming to Cross Academy tomorrow. Or I will destroy your gun and your hand right in front of you."
As usual Zero doesn't listen and point the gun straight at my head. I laughed humourlessly "Why not you shoot me right here and right now, Kiriyu? I can tell you that it doesn't hurt me… much, much less kill me. I will let you test that theory one day, but good night." He cocked the gun when my back was faced to him while Chairman cut in and said, "On the other hand,…" Everyone in the room except Kaname, Zero and Chairman snickered at the unintended pun and Chairman glared at us and continued "Well the meeting had ended peacefully…"
*End of Chapter 4*
That's the end of Chapter 4, so please review.
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