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Chapter 9

Anrui was beginning to feel numb as time ticked away wastefully. Uhhrg at this rate I'm going to become a dried up mummy, the girl managed to hold her thought as she glanced at Zero, his silver hair only visible. As dark spots were dotting her vision, Zero let go of her as he wiped his stained lips on the white cuffs of the school uniform smearing blood in an unruly pattern.

"Get out," the boy in front of the teen coldly stated as he glared hard at the floor, sweat dripping down his forehead as some remaining beads of blood trailed down his chin and onto his odd tattoo on the side of his neck.

Feeling a vein pop in her temple, the thistle eyed girl crossed her arms in front of her chest as she glared at the prefect. "No."

"You idiot, after all this you still plan on sitting here, with a disgusting monster?" Frowning, Anrui managed to lunge forward at the boy with whatever strength she had left, straddling his chest as she pinned his wrists to the floor. As if stupefied by the sudden action, the boy just looked up semi-wide-eyed at the bistre-head. "Don't you dare tell me to piss off," snarling the girl squeezed the silver-head's wrists tighter. "When I'm finally able to help you, you push me away," scrunching up her eyebrows the girl raised her voice slightly, "I'm your friend so don't you dare tell me to get out or piss off, whether you're a trashcan or a vampire!"

"I can kill you," his impassive tone told the girl on top of him that he was in no jokes for her sarcastic humor.

"I'd like to see you try," giving him an arrogant smirk, Anrui leaned closer unaware of the minimal distance between the two.

"Baka," shrugging his wrists away from her grip, Zero swiftly moved his hand on her thigh before grabbing it and roughly pulling her off of his torso. Falling on her back the girl let out a small 'Ittai' she realized she was trapped between well toned arms as silver eyes pierced into her thistle ones. "You stubborn ass," grumbling like a sulking child, the silver-head let his head fall next to Anrui's as her eyes softened only slightly.

"Anytime, just tell me," he's so warm, the girl thought as the heat radiated from the male's body to her own.

Comfortable….

"Ume, stop snoring in my class and come here to solve this function!" The substitute teacher yelled from across the room as a snot bubble retreated back into the said girl's nostril, blinking her eyes as if the light was dazzling her.

"Hai," slurring the girl pushed her chair back and stood up before sauntering over to the black board. As she tapped the piece of chalk on the board, the teacher inwardly smirked. Ha! Of course that stupid idiot can't solve this type of function-

"I'm done," with his mouth agape, the teacher looked at the compounded function problem as he glanced back and forth from the textbook's answer to the board. How did that class-idiot get the answer in just a minute?

Turning back towards Anrui, his imagination gave him the impression that the girl that was now once again snoozing on her desk next to Yuuki had oni-like horns as fangs protruded from her mouth while she was jeering at him with those ruby red eyes.

"UME DETENTION!"

"NANI? WHAT DID I DO?"

"YOU CHEATED DIDN'T YOU?!"

"NANI? I EXCEL IN MATHS! WHY WOULD I CHEAT?"

"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! DETENTION ANYWAY AND DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK UP AGAINST A TEACHER!"

"ASK OUR ORIGINAL TEACHER YOU LITTLE MAN! AND YOU CAN'T GIVE ME DETENTION I HAVE BUSINESS!"

Snorting arrogantly the man glared at the petite female as she slumped in her chair as a dark miasma was being emitted from her. Meanwhile the prefect was clawing at her skirt, containing her anger as Yuuki held the girl's hand under the table, trying to calm her down. There was no way she could have detention today, she had an extermination mission today given to her by the Headmaster. Even though he could have asked the people from the Hunter's Association….. Thinking to herself the girl stared at her formula filled notebook. Cross wanted her to be able to defend herself and also to be a vampire hunter successor. Successor of whom? If anyone was to be a successor for Cross it would have been Zero or Yuuki. Whatever the Headmaster wanted, Anrui was still determined to finish the man's request.

And as school ended, the substitute teacher got a call from the main office telling him to let the girl go this once and she will make up the detention at the end of the week. Putting the receiver down, the teacher was met with such a dazzling and wide smile that he felt like throwing up. That little oni! I'll get her! The man raised his quivering fist as the bistre-head skipped out of class, followed by a chuckling Yori.

Running up to her dorm, the Day Class student jammed the key into the lock and swung the door open, surprising her roommate. "Nadeshiko, I'm going to be out for a while so take care!" grabbing her dark navy trench-coat off the coat hanger Anrui waved a goodbye before once again running off.

"Be safe!" shouting out Nadeshiko adjusted her glasses before giving a small huff. And here I wanted to actually brush through that tangled mob that she calls hair…next time then!

Arriving at the Headmaster's office, the dark-haired girl knocked before coming in once she heard the approval. Inside Kaien Cross was already holding out a file as he smiled warmly towards his adopted daughter. "Come back safe," the man said as the girl took the file and bowed deeply. Hmm, now where are you hiding level E?

Yuuki was restless, she saw Zero slip out of school grounds a while ago, and now it was Anrui's turn. Just what is going on? Where were they going together that she was not informed? It was obvious that they couldn't be on a date because the two hated each other's guts out! And the Headmaster was a bit panicky when she asked him about the two, so what exactly is going on?

Grumbling to herself, she decided that she would investigate because no matter if it was something dangerous, than she would risk it all to protect her most precious friends: Zero and Anrui. Otherwise what would happen to our beloved trio?

Sneaking past security cameras, the girl headed towards the direction where she thought Zero would be and sure enough, she caught sight of that unmistakable silver hair. As she decided to sneak up on the prefect, Yuuki bumped into a small child.

"A-ano, gomen," bowing slightly, the brunette noticed that the child was alone and all thoughts of finding Zero had vanished. "Are you lost?" No words were uttered by the child as Yuuki simply smiled. "It's okay, don't be scared. We'll go find mommy alright?" Taking his small hand in hers she felt him tug slightly towards a certain direction. What a relief! He knows where his oka-san is, letting out a sigh the girl followed after the little boy as unbeknown to her the grip of the boy tightened immensely.

Suddenly skidding to a stop in a secluded alleyway, the child turned around and hugged Yuuki, catching her by surprise. "Onee-san…" his voice was so soft the chocolate-eyed girl had to strain her hearing to catch what he said. "You smell so good." Immediately he lashed out as her as he sank his fangs into her hip while his claws reached towards her face. Letting out a scream Yuuki pulled out her weapon Artemis as she swung carelessly at the creature, one hand holding her hip where the vampire had bitten her.

What is he? He can't be a vampire can he? He's not… he's not like Kaname, flashes of the crimson-eyed vampire and the knight class crossed Yuuki's mind as she pressed her lips tightly together, standing in a defensive position. The moment the level E once again sprung towards her, she jammed her weapon in the middle of his chest and pushed him down, holding him in place as her fingers quivered slightly from fear, seeing the creature froth at the mouth as his eyes indicated pure evil intent. Planning to strike the vampire once and for all, something hard made contact with her head as she stumbled downwards, feeling something wet trickle down her temple. Standing in front of her was a woman with greasy black hair as her fangs and claws looked as monstrous at the ones the child possessed. Damn it they were working together, Yuuki winced as she felt dizzy. She should have prepared herself better and not been too careless!

"Let me eatchu~" slurred words escaped the woman's mouth as she wobbled over towards Yuuki, but not before she let out a shriek as she fell to the ground. "I was expecting you in the abandoned church," an oh-so familiar voice said as Yuuki widened her eyes. Standing there, grabbing a fistful of the woman's hair as the creature shrieked on its knees was Anrui, impassive eyes glaring at the child as if daring him to move even a muscle. "A-anrui!" calling out the thistle eyes girl looked over to see Yuuki on the gorund.

"Yuuki-chan! What are you doing here?" slightly releasing her grip on the woman, the level E tried to escape but was still held down as Anrui pushed her head all the way down on the ground, stepping on it as if it was a footrest. "Don't. Move."Spitting out the girl hissed at the vampire.

"I came here to find you and Zero," Yuuki said as she stood up, dusting herself. "Zero? He's here?" Confused the bistre head cocked her head to the side. "You're not with him?"

"Nope!" Nodding slightly to herself, Yuuki quickly jabbed her weapon at the child as he hissed. "Arigatou," smiling Anrui winked at Yuuki as the latter nodded solemnly. I can't let Anrui-chan to deal with… with these things alone, thinking the brunette held the vampire immobile as possible as she could while she glanced over at her companion.

Anrui meanwhile had taken out her tonfas as she pressed one against the level E's throat. "I'm guessing you're the one who's responsible for all the missing children at night," trying to spit into the girl's face, the woman missed as the prefect dodged to the left avoiding blacked spit. "Rude," proclaiming dramatically the girl was interrupted as something caught her eye.

"Ume?" Zero said in disbelief as he had his gun raised for defense. "Zero? What are you doing here?" as she gripped the woman's hair tighter causing her to shriek. "Patrol duty for a level E, what are you doing here?"

"Extermination of a level E." The two looked at each other for a while before Zero turned around and stared at Yuuki. "And now you, what are you doing here."

"I was looking for you and Anrui!" Yuuki huffed as she pouted slightly. Zero throwing a glance at the bistre-head sighed, before wrapping his arm around Yuuki's shoulders and guiding her away. "W-wait! This child h-he-" "It's fine, leave it to Ume," stepping on the boy's ankles and breaking them in the process Zero lead Yuuki away as he put his hands over her ears slightly, turning her head away from the crime scene that was about to occur.

Seeing that the two were a good enough distance, Anrui smirked before yanking the woman's head all the way back and revealing her white neck as she laid her tonfas carefully on it. "Gomenasai," with the single word said she with one action swiftly slit the woman's throat as her blood splashed onto Anrui's face before the level E decomposed into sand. The boy seeing this started to scream even louder as he attempted to crawl away. But quickly pulling him by the back of his shirt the dark-headed girl turned him so that his back was facing her before quietly muttering, "I'm sorry this happened to you." In mere minutes sand particles remained on her hands as the student wiped her tonfas clean before putting them back in their sheath. "Now I just need to give back the papers," wiping her cheek with the back of her hand Anrui sighed and started to walk back to Cross Academy. The two fallen vampires imprinted into her mind as she immediately thought of how Zero almost mutilated her neck the other night.

Zero can't possibly be a level E right?

What blissful thinking.