Author Note: I'm trying to get everything updated before the storm hits. (Panics.) I've only got this and "Of Sunburns and Pocky" to do, and then if I finish those I can go back and work on "Children". We're doing Ruka's point of view this time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight or make any profit from this.
"Ruka, it's raining." Akatsuki stood nearby, holding an umbrella over me.
I, on the other hand, was slumped against a tree, dress muddy, crying out in the rain. I was probably going to get sick, but I didn't care.
"I'm going to die alone." I told him. "Lord Kaname, my only love, hates me. I'm going to die alone."
"Don't say that." Akatsuki sat beside me, in the mud, slouching down and holding the umbrella over me more. "You're never alone. I'm always here."
"You..." I almost started to say you don't count, but changed it quickly. "You're not Lord Kaname."
"True, but I'm always here for you." Anyone else would've been screaming at me, to get over Lord Kaname, to give them a chance. Akatsuki just wrapped an arm around me and held the umbrella over our heads. "Ruka, we should get inside, you're going to get sick."
"Make me." I spat, and suddenly the umbrella was on the ground and I was in Akatsuki's arms and we were headed for the front door to the moon dorms. "Bitch." I muttered in a venomous way that among many others would've gotten me slapped.
"You said make you." He pushed open the door; we were both soaking wet and muddy by now.
"Akatsuki, Ruka!" Takuma looked at us, shocked, from the couch. "What happened?" He didn't wait for an answer. "Wait here, I'll get some towels." He ran off in the general direction of the nearest bathroom.
"I hate you." I mumbled under my breath to Akatsuki. "I really do."
"You wish you hated me." He said and set me on the floor, on my feet. "But you don't."
"Shut it." Shivering, I leaned against him and he held me close. "Why are you always taking care of me, Akatsuki? I've never done anything to deserve this treatment."
"You're there, Ruka, you're there and you're you, and that's enough." Kain picked a windblown leaf out of my hair. "When you get dried off you should go change into something warm. You're freezing."
"I do what I please." I growled as Takuma walked up holding a stack of towels.
When I tried to move away, Akatsuki wrapped me forcibly in the towels and picked me up. I sneezed.
"I told you. You're going to get sick now." He chastised. Takuma looked at us briefly, eyebrows raised, and then wandered off.
"What about you?" I glared at Akatsuki. "Half the time you weren't even under an umbrella. You should get sick, not me."
"I never get sick." He kicked his shoes off, they were too muddy to wear upstairs anyway, and started for the stairs.
"I do not enjoy being wrapped up like this." I sneezed again. "And if I get the chance I'm going to kill you for it."
"Bullshit." Akatsuki said, and I knew he was right. I could never hurt him, not physically anyway. He set me down in front of my room. "Get some clothes and then go take a hot shower." He turned away, but I grabbed his arm.
"Akatsuki." I whispered and reeled him in. "I don't want to die alone." I felt like an idiot to top off my depression, I was so bundled up in the fluffy white towels I probably looked like little white riding hood.
"I know you don't." He held me close again. "Nobody wants to."
"Just this once... if never again..." I began slowly. "Would you save me from that?"
"Are you asking me to go steady with you?" Akatsuki asked, blinking his suddenly huge orange eyes at me.
"I'm asking you... to..." I sighed. "Yes. That's what I'm asking."
"Of course I will." He pulled me closer, close enough that I could feel his heartbeat.
I eventually got into the shower, and when I came out, dressed in my nightgown, Akatsuki was standing at the door to my and Rima's room.
"Akatsuki?" I asked, confused. "What are you...?"
He leaned in close, kissing my forehead. "Goodnight, Ruka."
And suddenly, above all else, it was good.
Author Note: I always picture Ruka and Kain moving really slow once they're in a relationship, just because I think Ruka wouldn't be the type to jump his bones, and Kain wouldn't be pushy. By the way, when vampires go to bed in the morning, do they still say goodnight? Anyhow, I love reviews, and thank you for reading!