Sakura lies on her bed, staring at the ceiling. She hates Sundays, nothing to do. She toys around with ideas in her head. "Study?...Nah." She thinks to herself. "I could watch a movie...but I've already watched all the ones I have..." Her eyes look towards the phone built into her wall. "I could call Akira..."

Sakura frowns for a moment. Her and Akira haven't talked since they kissed the night before. Akira walked her back to her dorm, hugged her, and wished her goodnight. She's worried. She doesn't know if they're dating now. "Akira doesn't seem like the kind of guy to just kiss, but then again I only know him a few days..." Sakura muses aloud. "Are we going out now...? Ugh, why didn't I ask yesterday!" Sakura exclaims, squinting hard in frustration. Sakura thinks for a few moments before deciding to call him. The phone rings once. Twice. Three times.

"I don't think he's home." A voice says.

Sakura jumps and looks around, before seeing Akira standing on her windowsill, smiling as if it was nothing. "Akira?" Sakura asks, both amused and surprised. "The one and only. Well, there's probably other Akira's, but you know what I mean." Akira says, smiling pleasantly. Sakura giggles at him, finding the little joke funnier than it is. "What are you doing out there?" She asks. "Well, I just got bored in my dorm, and thought I'd drop in." "How did you know which room was mines?" Sakura asks, very curious as to how he found her room. Akira tries to think of an excuse. He'd followed her scent to find her room, but he doesn't think she needs to know that. "I, um, saw you, through the window. So, may I come in?" Sakura smiles at Akira. "Sure, just let me open the window." Sakura opens the window, and Akira jumps in. Akira looks around the room, taking note of everything in it, as well as taking in the scent of the room. Akira does that automatically, as he was trained to when entering a new environment. "Nice room, very tidy." Akira picks up a stuffed animal that was lying on her bed. He chuckles when he sees it's a wolf. "Like wolves, huh?" Akira asks, amused by what she doesn't know. "Oh yeah, I love wolves, they're such amazing animals. I know everything about them." Sakura says gleefully, enjoying the mention of her favourite animal. Akira chuckles to himself. "I doubt you know everything about them. But anyways, enough about wolves, I'm here to talk about you."

Sakura tenses up a little, getting slightly worried. "Is he going to say he doesn't want to be with me? Did he just steal my first kiss?" She thinks to herself.

"...I was wondering if, you know, um..." Akira starts, visibly nervous. "...Do you want to like, be my..." Akira's eyes snap wide open. "What the hell do humans say for mate?" He thinks to himself. "...My girlfriend?"

Sakura blushes and smiles, before hugging Akira tight. "Yes, I'd like that very much Akira." Akira lets out a sigh of relief, and hugs Sakura back, relieved both that she said yes, and that he'd used the right word. "So, um, now what do we do?" Akira asks, not used to even the concept of human relationships, let alone being in one. Sakura giggles, seemingly amused by Akira's cluelessness, until she realises, she doesn't know either. "Um, I don't know...what do you want to do?" Sakura asks. A few minutes pass, the new couple trying to figure out a way to spend their time, until Akira grins. "I think I have an idea." Akira grabs Sakura hand. "Come with me."

Akira starts to climb out the window, dragging Sakura along with him, much to her surprise, but she complies, following him. They climb down the day dorm, Akira basically dragging Sakura off the edges, but catching her every time. Akira leads her away from the day dorm, towards the Twilight dorm. As they near it, Akira takes a turn, leading to the stairway to the forest below. They walk into the forest, Sakura smiling, happy Akira has taken her to her favourite place on the campus. Akira walks around sniffing the air, looking for a certain scent. After about ten minutes of what Sakura thought was a nice walk for a first date, Akira locates the scent he was looking for. "Here we go." Akira says, to both himself and Sakura. "Come on, this way."

The couple start to jog through the dense forest, Sakura being dragged along, but not unpleasantly, by her new boyfriend, who she hasn't stopped looking at since they agreed they were a couple. She loves his eyes, admiring them silently as he drags her along. After a few minutes of jogging, they come to a clearing. "Look." Akira says to Sakura.

Sakura looks into the clearing, wondering what she's looking for, until she sees it. A gasp of awe emits from the girl.

In the clearing, is a pack of Grey Wolves. Not a large pack, but a pack all the same. Beautiful grey coats cover the bodies of every wolf. Sakura watches them as they laze around in the clearing, obviously full from a recent meal. Wolf cubs play, tackling and falling over each other in the soft grass. The sight has Sakura almost to tears. She's never been this close to a wild wolf before. She marvels at the strong animals as they go about their lives, uncomplicated by responsibilities, other than hunting, which must be fairly easy for them, they're all very well fed.

Akira grabs Sakura's hand gently, causing her to look away from the wolves for a moment. Akira is smiling at how much she is enjoying the wolves. "Come on, let's get closer." "But, they might see us." Sakura says, obviously a little scared. She knows how territorial wolves can be. Akira bends down to her level and kisses her on the cheek. "Trust me on this, we'll be fine." Akira says with a smile. His soft smile reassures her, and she nods gently. Akira walks slowly into the clearing, walking closer to the wolf pack. At several points, Sakura thinks he's going to stop, but he just keeps walking to the wolves. He isn't at all afraid of them. They're his kind, he knows how they think. Akira walks right up to the alpha of the pack, a shocked and frightened Sakura being tugged behind him. The wolf looks up at Akira, who delivers a stare to the animal, his eyes changing from their usual blue, a brown-yellow colour sweeping over his eyes, unnoticed by Sakura, looking directly into the wolf's eyes. After a few moments of this staredown, the wolf lies down on its stomach. Akira smiles, and his eyes revert to their normal shade of light blue. He turns to an amazed Sakura, and says, with a smile "Alright, we're fine now." "How, the wolf, you just...how did you do that?" Sakura says, stunned by Akira's control over the animal. Akira grins. "Let's just say I know how to act with wolves. Now, go ahead, pet him." Akira says. "Pet him? But, what if he"- "He won't bite you. Seriously, go ahead, I know you want to."

Sakura gawps at Akira, but does as he says. Slowly, very slowly, she puts her hand out to the wolf, waiting for a reaction. When she gets none, she moves her hand closer, and closer, until it finally comes into contact with the wolf's head. Sakura smiles, her mouth still open from the shock, petting the wolf on the head, marvelling at how soft the animal's head is. She turns to Akira. "I'm petting a wolf!" She exclaims. Akira smiles, enjoying her happiness at the simple act of petting a wolf. "Yeah you are, enjoying yourself?"Sakura simply nods in response, not able to find any words for the sheer amazement she's getting from the process. Akira continues to smile, and then sits down and whistles sharply. A wolf cub runs over to him, and bounds into his arms, where Akira plays with it to keep himself amused while Sakura pets the wolf. Sakura continues to pet the wolf, until it lets out a short grunt. Akira stands up. "They have to go now, stop petting him please." Sakura immediately complies, and as soon as her hand lifts from the wolf's head, it stands up, lets out a short howl, and bounds off as the rest of its pack follow him into the trees. All but one cub, the one Akira was playing with. The young cub jumps around Akira's feet, wagging it's tail. It doesn't want to leave. Akira crouches down to it's level and lets out a short growl. Not threatening, more stern. The cub whines, and then runs off into the forest after it's pack.

The couple stand in the forest in silence for a few minutes, gently holding each other's hand, until Akira turns to Sakura and says, with a smile, "Well, did you enjoy that?" Sakura simply stands on her toes and kisses him on the cheek, before giving him a hug and saying softly, "Thank you."

The couple start to walk back to the day dorm, hand in hand. In the distance, the pack can be heard howling. They both close their eyes and listen.

Music.

Zero sits on his bed, a book in his hands, reading silently. Yuki is in class, and he's decided to fill the time by reading the book Kaname gave him. Neither him nor Yuki need to go to class, due to their positions in the disciplinary committee, but Yuki chooses to go to class anyways. Zero doesn't mind, he admires her desire to learn. Zero seems to learn everything easily since becoming a vampire.

"The beast clan.", Zero reads to himself, "The beast clan is the joint most dominant clan in the night, even with the Blood clan, or vampires. Members of the beast clan can transform into an anthropomorphic animal at any point in time, provided they aren't injured or extremely fatigued. This transformation involves growing (no cases have been recorded of the transformed animal form being smaller than the human form), causing the addition of both height and muscle, the average member of the beast clan measuring seven feet to eight feet tall (male), and six to seven feet tall (female), when fully transformed. Transformation involves the growing of hair, usually covering the entire body, animalistic features, claws and fangs, both of which are extremely strong, the changing of eye colour, the growth of a tail, and extreme muscle mass forming. This muscle mass rarely slows them down. Most members of the beast clan possess extreme physical strength, as well as speed, mental awareness, and fighting skill when fully transformed, although in human form they are still significantly stronger and faster than average humans, though slightly weaker than medium level vampires. They also have the ability to communicate, but not directly control, the animal which their beast form derives from, in both their human and beast forms. Beast clan members can transform partially as well as fully, such as growing claws, changing their eyes, and growing out their fangs and hair without changing their shape. The only recorded types of beast clan members are Wolf and Tiger, although the Tiger form was only recorded a few times, making the wolf clan the dominant species. Theories state that any animal is possible, but no records exist of any other species."

"The wolf clan, or Werewolves, have an extremely strong sense of smell and hearing, and a very high level of sight also. In full beast form, these senses are amazingly powerful. Even in human form, the sense of smell is greater than that of trained sniffer dogs (werewolves can be trained to sniff out explosives and drugs better than dogs). Werewolves tend to live in closed off settlements, usually in forests, but have recently started integrating into human society. Attacks on humans are not unrecorded, although they are rare. Werewolf alphas put the attacks down to diseased or mentally ill werewolves. The wolf clan usually live in packs, as wolves do, directed by an alpha."

Zero puts the book down, unable to read anymore. He is both afraid and intrigued by what he just read. "Extreme physical strength is right..." Zero says, rubbing his shoulder, which is still a little sore. He decides to ask Kaname about it later, wondering if they are a threat to the Night dorm.

Zero grows suddenly tired, and decides to take a quick rest. He puts his head on the pillow, and very quickly drifts off into a sleep.

Akira walks in through the front door of the Twilight dorm, having left Sakura home. He thinks of the day he had, of Sakura's smile. His thoughts are interrupted by a mocking voice, not actually mocking him.

"Akira! I see you've been out."

Akira smiles forcefully. "Yes, Ichigio."

Ichigo grins his cocked grin, one side of his mouth higher than the other. "Exploring the campus? Sizing up the enemy, and more importantly, the potential recruits." Ichigo says, a hint of superiority in his voice.

"Exploring the campus, yes." Akira says softly.

"Come, we have something to discuss." Ichigo says, before walking up the a stairs. Akira, against his own wishes, obeys his alpha, and follows.

Kaname sits at the desk in his room, reading an original copy of William Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice", one of his favourite plays, when he hears a knock at his door. "Come in." He says in his elegant, calm voice.

The door opens, and Yuki walks in. Kaname smiles at the unexpected visit from her. "Good evening, Yuki. How can I help you?"

Yuki tucks her fist up under her chin, Kaname smiling at the pose. "I was wondering if I could ask you a question about vampires." Yuki asks shyly. "Of course Yuki, what would you like to know?"

"I was wondering...can a vampire make a human pregnant?"

Kaname raises an eyebrow, confused by the question. "Not easily, it's rare for a vampire to impregnate a human. It usually only happens when both patners wish to have a child. Why do you ask?" Kaname says, a confused tone in his voice.

Yuki smiles softly and blushes after getting the exact answer she wanted. "Oh, no reason, we just did some sex ed in class today, and I was curious about vampires. Thank you Kaname!" Yuki says, before walking out of the room.

In her mind, Yuki starts planning.