Note: This is my second encounter. I hope it's as enjoyable as the first, "The Two Humans".
Vampire Knight: Collective Friendships
One Shot – Regular Class Mates
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A female day class student, upon entering a suave headmaster's domain noticed his absence. She sighed in frustration and pushed back a thread of her short brown hair.
'I needed to speak to Headmaster, but ...'
The female's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of nearing footsteps.
"Hm?"
The man carrying the insignificant sounds of footsteps stood in the doorway of the room. He was tall compared to the girl.
He called from behind her, "Sayori-chan is that you?"
She turned to the male student in his white uniform. "Oh, Ichijou-san? What are you doing here?"
She was abrupt, "Has Yuki-chan been giving you trouble?"
"No, not at all." He laughed, waving his hands to assure his words. His left hand with a manga book tucked behind his thumb.
"I was hoping to speak to Headmaster Kaien." He gave a benevolent smile.
"Oh?" Sayori questioned. "Well it looks like we've both missed him."
"Yeah, I see..." He agreed, leaning back on the frame of the door.
Sayori tightened her grip on the books in her arms and carefully leaned forward to peer over at his wandering eyes.
"Hmm?" Ichijou noticed her.
"So how are they?"
"They?" Ichijou wondered. He raised an eyebrow.
She answered kindly. "The Night Class. I've noticed that you leave the moon dorm more often than they do."
She said, "A messenger maybe?"
Ichijou blushed. His demeanor, modest as he scratched his head with eyes shut. "Well..."
Sayori thought for a moment before taking out some sort of box from her left pocket. "Um... here." She shook the box and a few candies fell in his hand.
"You like sweets right?" She asked, putting the box of candies back in her pocket.
His eyes widened. "H-hai, thank you."
"That's a treat for honesty." She mentioned.
"Itadakimatsu!" Ichijou quickly ate the tiny candies he had been given.
. . .
Sayori began after a few moments of watching Ichijou's enjoyment of the small candies. "Ya'know?"
"I might feel more content with the night class students if they would share a secret or two with us day class. It might be less of a bother in the evenings..., but maybe that would just make matters worse."
He tipped his head to his side in awe at her thoughts. He stayed silent, carefully listening to whatever else she may say.
"I suppose it is amazing, that you all look well..., like Idols." She gave a soft sigh. "They are just regular class mates. Only, you live in a different dorm."
Ichijou stared on at her. His silence became a deep consideration for the idea.
"You're right." He honestly complied with her.
She looked back at him, not once wanting to forget the words from this night class upperclassman.
"You're right." He repeated. "Well, about the class mate thing." "Although, I'm still not sure if we're all regular students like the day class."
"They are regular students, I didn't say average ones." She smirked.
Ichijou chuckled. "Ah, yes."
"So, well..." She smiled a gentle smile.
"Yes?"
"Headmaster-san!" She called out, "If you're here, I'm leaving now." She passed Ichijou whom was still leaning back in the doorway.
"W-wait Sayori!" Ichijou was hesitant. He stumbled from turning to catch up with her.
"Yes?" She made a slight turn back to him. "What is it, Ichijou?"
Ichijou corrected his poster. He grinned at her for a moment before bowing a gentleman's bow. He asked, outstretching his hand to her, "May I walk you to your dorm?"
Sayori was blunt. "No. It's fine, I can walk myself."
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"Sayori!"
Sayori walked into class. She noticed the empty seat next to her classmates, meant for her. "Sorry I'm late."
A young brown haired male cried, "Where were you? Lunch is almost over and you promised we'd share your lunch!"
Sayori looked at him with disapproving eyes. "I don't remember promising you anything like that."
The male rested his head on his hands. "You're so mean sometimes Sayori."
"Kyaaaa!" A crowd of students screamed as they ran down the hallways of the school building.
Sayori's male friend wondered. "What the...?"
Sayori without a word pushed herself up and out of her seat.
"Hey what are you gonna do Sayori?"
She walked into the hall to find many day class females in black uniform among a very alien uniform. She worried, "Is this really..."
"My name's Takuma Ichijou and I like sweet things!" He declared.
Sayori shook her head. "Well…, you're embarrassing?"
"Sayori-chan!" Ichijou cried when he noticed her behind the other students.
A day class teacher yelled. "What is wrong with you girls? Everyone, back to class!"
Sayori handed Ichijou the box of candies. "Here."
"Arigatou." He grinned.
"You're welcome." She said. "Now please leave."
Ichijou nodded to her and gladly left the school.
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Collective Friendships
One Shot – Regular Classmates - End
To be continued...
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After Thoughts: Thanks for Reading!
[1] Honestly, I almost wrote this cute line after Sayori-chan says "There's your treat for honesty. Takuma-sempai would say. "I love you! Now where's my sweet Sayori!" Sayori snatches the candy back. "No candy for you, liar." Ichijou - "It's not a lie..." teary eyed. Heh heh.
[2] Heh, heh. Sayori and Takuma seemed a little Ooc to me the first time I wrote them. I wasn't so sure on their personalities and I thought that Ichijo seemed to pull an Aido and the end, but someone seems to disagree with me. .
[3] I added some honorifics back in as most of you probably haven't noticed. The endings of my one shots here are gonna be vague on showing the character's gained friendships. Just a note..
[4] I just love how they were so hard to write for because they don't actually talk much in the manga or the anime and it was a bit frustrating trying to get everything to flow properly but... I'm glad I'm done with this, for now.
[5] The collection.. it is not done yet. There are still more one-shots that I want to write about. I blame myself for this. Darn you.. you... Sorain! I should scold myself more, but I'm happy with this chapter.
Thanks again for Reading!