Here's the next chapter! Sorry this is a little short, but I just wanted to make a short chapter before the ball. Please bear with it until I update with the ball chapter! I do not own any of the characters from Vampire Knight, except two new characters that I made up. Hope you enjoy the story! Please comment and review the story.

Chapter 8: Practice Makes Perfect

"One, two, three, one, two, three, come on Yuuki! Try to keep up with Kuroki and let him lead! And stop looking at your feet!" Takeshi said while Kuroki and I practiced. I glared at him and very childishly stuck my tongue out at him before focusing on practicing. The ball was in two days and my dancing wasn't very good, so I asked Takeshi and Kuroki to help me practice. Well, Takeshi said his dancing was ok, but Kuroki's was better. So, while we practiced, Takeshi would be giving tips on the side.

"Don't listen to Takeshi, Yuuki. You are doing very well, why don't we take a break? Maybe Takeshi will dance with you while I rest." Kuroki winked at me before walking over to where Takeshi was and motioned for him to take his place. Takeshi glared at his brother for a second before he sighed and got up. He came over to me, bowed slightly before taking me into his arms.

While he led me around, I tried not to look down but once, I made the mistake of looking down. Takeshi saw and he sighed and picked me up and put my chin on his shoulder while he still danced. After a couple of protests, he finally put me down and looked me in the eyes. "No more looking down, ok? You don't need to worry about it, just let me lead and trust me. You don't have any trust in your partner, it will wound his pride. Keep your eyes either locked on mine or just look straight forward." He said before we started to dance.

For another hour, Takeshi and I danced and I didn't look down at my feet. Kuroki cut in after two hours and danced with me. When it was about dinner time, we walked back to the chairman's place. I was so glad to be able to take off my shoes and sit down. I sighed in content when my feet started to feel better. Takeshi and Kuroki sat next to me, waiting for dinner, and while Takeshi watched the TV, Kuroki read a book that was lying on the table.

Sometimes I would read with Kuroki and other times I would be watching a TV show with Takeshi. When the chairman called us for dinner, I got up and grabbed Kuroki's hand, taking him with me to the table. Takeshi turned off the TV and got up. We didn't talk much at dinner and the chairman was really quiet. When I went back to my room, I took out my dress that I was going to wear and sighed. The chairman said that the guardians needed to blend in so the vampires wouldn't suspect anything.

It was a nice dress, black with spaghetti straps and it fit nicely. My shoes were black and they were like ballet shoes with the black laces I had to tie around my calves. I sighed and put the dress back. I sat down and started reading a book for my class. After two hours of reading, I went to bed.

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