After a dinner of instant ramen and half an hour of cleaning out the two 'storerooms', Aiko and Kayuri had unpacked. Kayuri had needed the helping hand of both Naruto and Sasuke to unpack (Naruto found some rather disturbing objects in one suitcase that all three of them refused to talk about after Aiko and Gaara had walked in to see all three of them blushing and Kayuri scolding them and explaining what they were).
"Well, all that's sorted… now you three boys have some explaining to do." Kayuri said looking at the three with her hands on her hips.
"Yeah! Like how the whole vamp thing works, what abilities you guys have and things like that." Aiko added.
"I still can't believe how quickly you girls accepted it..." Sasuke said, (apparently) still totally astonished and Naruto and Gaara nodded in agreement behind him.
"As we said; Twilighters" Aiko replied, smiling.
"Anyway, getting back on track, vampire stuff…" Kayuri looked at the boys expectantly.
"Um… okay. Well, we can still eat and go out into the sun-."
"And sleep." Sasuke interrupted Naruto.
Naruto nodded at Sasuke and continued, "-but the eating and sleeping really aren't necessary, we can live without them. Of course, all we really need is blood."
Kayuri and Aiko nodded.
"Dude, seriously, get to the good part!" Kayuri whined and pouted.
Sasuke looked at her and shook his head to get rid of the thoughts that had suddenly come to him, and continued where Naruto had left off.
"Well, we have heightened senses; we're a lot faster than average and stronger, as well as other things."
"Do you guys have venom?" Kayuri asked.
"What? No." Naruto scoffed.
"Then how do you change other people into vampires?" Aiko asked, both her and Kayuri were paying close attention
Gaara spoke up for the first time, "No way girls. Not happening."
Kayuri looked at him and said to Aiko, "Wow, he spoke." Then what he had just said hit her, and she added rather quickly, "Wait. WHAT? We were just curious, it's not like we wanna be vamp!"
Aiko looked at her sister, "Not at all suspicious, Kayuri…" she said to her with her amazing, grand sarcasm. It seemed that her dear friend Mr Sarcasm had smuggled himself onto the plane with them. Oh dear.
Kayuri quickly changed the subject to avoid embarrassment and possible death via sister, "Do you guys have fangs?"
Sasuke opened his mouth to reveal two long fangs, which then shrunk back into normal teeth.
"Retractable fangs" he said in reply to the girls' expressions.
'Wowie, that's kinda hot…' Kayuri thought to herself, and then said aloud, "That's so cool!"
Then a bell rang.
"HOT CHOCOLATE!" Aiko shouted, waving her hands above her head and running off into the kitchen like a crazed maniac.
"… And that, my friends, is the signal of supper time." Kayuri sighed at her sister.
"Yes, I'd suppose you'd be looking forward to more food… since you almost ate as much ramen as Naruto – which is a feat under any circumstances." Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Kayuri.
"Hey, I carried two family-sized suitcases around with me today, two!" Kayuri blushed a little.
"At least you didn't have 5 pairs of converses in your bag that weren't yours!" Aiko shouted from the kitchen.
Sasuke mumbled, "And a hair-dryer, straightener and curler…"
There had been a crisis earlier when Kayuri had discovered that she couldn't find the rest of her "small" shoe collection and her much needed hair tools. It turned out she had stuffed them in Aiko's bag when her poor sister wasn't looking, and chucked out some of the stuff Aiko had needed. This resulted in a rather long twenty minute argument and a bruise on Kayuri's shoulder.
"Eh heh heh…" Kayuri laughed awkwardly and then grabbed Naruto by the elbow, dragging him towards the kitchen. "You simply must try some of her hot chocolate!"
"Uhm… Okay. Hey, easy on the arm!" Naruto cringed as her was roughly jerked out of the room.
"So, what do you think, Gaara?" Sasuke asked the red head that had been silently leaning near the door, arms crossed.
"… Naruto was right… I think this calamity has the potential to be quite interesting."
"She was staring at you, you know."
"Which one?"
"The brown haired, more hostile one."
"Aiko?"
"Huh. I didn't think you'd remember their names… You only remember the details of things that interest you…"
They stared at each other for a long time.
"Watch your step, Gaara. They're still humans, even if they know about us." Sasuke said before leaving the room. Gaara glared after him before opening the window and disappearing into the forest outside the school grounds.
"He needs some!" Kayuri stated, pushing Naruto in front of her.
"Oh? You want some, Blondie?" Aiko smiled at him while pouring water from the kettle into some mugs.
"Well, yeah, I guess. Kayuri said it was good… so…"
"Not another word… The ceremonial process is beginning." Aiko then pulled a can of Cadbury's hot chocolate powder and a half a block of chocolate out of one of the green bags she had on the plane and then retrieved a jar of sugar from the cupboard.
Naruto watched in awe as Aiko shovelled into each glass two and a half tablespoons of the chocolate, a teaspoon of sugar and six pieces worth of melted chocolate.
"Too bad you don't have any whipped cream…" Aiko looked a bit disappointed as she set the glasses down on the table.
"You expect me to drink this?! I'll die of a heart attack after one sip! I saw all the crap you put in it!" Naruto looked at Aiko in disbelief.
"Naruto, I'm offended." Aiko told him truthfully as she sat down.
"There's no way in hell it's any good for you, but it tastes better than any hot chocolate anywhere!" Kayuri eagerly gulped down some of hers, leaving her with a froth moustache that was soon wiped away.
"OH MY GOD, THIS IS SOO GOOD!!!" Naruto yelled in excitement, running around the kitchen table at far-from-human speeds while still drinking. He was actually making things fly off the table from the wind he was creating.
"Gah! Naruto!!" Aiko cried out.
Sasuke suddenly appeared in front of him, swiping the mug away from Naruto in one impossibly fast movement.
"What's this?" Sasuke sniffed the contents of the mug. "It smells dangerously unhealthy."
"Sasuke-teme, give it back!" Naruto cried, lunging for the mug.
"You want it?" Sasuke teased, holding it just out of his reach.
"GIMME!!" Naruto shouted. Even though he was a vampire, Naruto was still shorter than Sasuke, and there was nothing that could be done about it.
"Well, since you asked so nicely…" Sasuke shrugged and threw the cup over his shoulder.
"NOOO!!" Naruto dived for the hot chocolate, glaring daggers at Sasuke after he miraculously caught it without spilling it.
"So… you want some?" Kayuri asked, watching with a creeped out face as Naruto crouched with the cup of hot chocolate, going all "My precious…" on it.
"Uhm… Nice Gollum impression, Naruto." Aiko commented, also a bit weirded out. "And we'll need some cookies. We kinda ate all of ours on the plane.
"I'm not touching any of that hot chocolate… if you can call it that. We only have homebrand cookies, by the way. Naruto does all the grocery shopping." Sasuke explained.
"I want five cookies!" Aiko put forth her order.
"Six for me!" Kayuri did the same.
'Great… These two obviously have no intention of doing any work here…' Sasuke thought.
"We're lazy… so we have every intention of exploiting the fact that you guys are vampires. I mean, it's not like it's gonna bother you, right?" Aiko said, folding her arms on the table and resting her head on top.
"And you're quite sure you're not telepathic?" Sasuke said as he pulled the box out from the cupboard.
Aiko laughed, "Quite."
"Hn…"
"So… Gaara isn't joining us?" Aiko asked as Sasuke handed them their share of chocolate-embedded biscuits.
"No." He said simply.
"He never even has dinner. He always goes off right about now." Naruto said, words slightly muffled by the cookie in his mouth.
"Don't eat with your mouth full, dobe." Sasuke scolded, hitting him over the head.
"Bon appetite!" Kayuri said, trying to ignore the fact that her sister's hand had came crashing down on top of her own as soon as it touched one of Aiko's cookies.
* * * *
It was after supper and the two girls had gone to their room, quite literally falling onto their makeshift mattresses, which was slightly painful considering the mattresses' thinness and the fact that the mattresses where on the ground. But... meh.
"Wow...." Kayuri breathed, lying on her mattress in a starfish position.
'Yeah... we're sharing a dorm with real life vampires...." Aiko said, lying on her belly on her own, more jelly-like mattress.
"Don't you mean 'real live'?"
"... They're undead, Kayuri, undead."
"Oh, whoops. Right..." Kayuri chuckled awkwardly at her mistake, "So what do ya think of the guys?"
"As has been said, what, five times now? I think this will be a very interesting year."
"I think Sasuke's hair is hawt."
"Uh... wait a minute, didn't you have a duck fetish when you were younger?"
"...Don't bring that up. Ever. Besides~, you were oogling."
"Oogling?"
"Yeah~. On the plane."
"... I promise not to ever bring it up, ever."
"That's damn right." Kayuri grinned and laughed, "So are we going shopping tomorrow?"
"On a Sunday?" Aiko asked, tilting her head a little.
"Yup. Naruto told me that the mall here is super awesome and really big, so it's open all week. Late night shopping all weekend, too." Kayuri smiled widely.
"Hmm, sounds good."
"Don't feign interest in shopping." Kayuri said seriously, with her 'don't-mess-with-the-shopping' face.
"Well, actually, we need to get a steel bat. I'm not going to break my hand when I need to slap those guys." Aiko stated, making Kayuri nod vigorously in agreement whilst giggling slightly.
"Crap, I'm cold. And tired~... I'll be back in a minute..." Kayuri got up, tripping over a few things in the dark before she reached the doorway.
"Watch the jar of almonds!" Aiko warned, a bit too late though.
"Uh oh... meep!" Kayuri swore quietly and stood back up, "Your jar is okay… my arm, however…"
"Oh, just hurry up and try not to wake the boys." Aiko hissed.
"What a kind sister you are." Kayuri mumbled.
But, never the less, 10 minutes later, (or several crashes and one mega loud sniffing noise later) Kayuri came back wearing a mega-long dark coloured shirt. Aiko cracked up.
"Where did you find that and why that?" Aiko looked at her normally quite fashionable sister.
"I found it in the hamper out there…" Kayuri started strongly, "And it smelt nice…" She finished lamely.
"You know that's one of the guys shirts, right?" Aiko asked half-heartedly.
"No shit, Sherlock, I wouldn't own something so big… neither would you." Kayuri scoffed.
"Whatever. G'night, sis." Aiko said, whilst yawning.
"Night…" Kayuri promptly fell asleep and started to snore lightly. Aiko waited for the sleep talking that would, no doubt, ensue. Once her sister had yelled out (in her Emmett voice), "This is wrong Edward, she's not one of us!" Aiko had teased her about it for months afterwards.
