Author Note: I know, I pulled another disappearing act. Sorry, I haven't had a computer. Anyway, on to the story. This is Ruka's point of view.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight and I make no profit from this.
"Akatsuki..." I whispered in his ear. "Akatsuki, it's time for class."
Instead of jolting up like he did usually when I snuck into his room to wake him up, he grabbed me and pulled me down on top of him.
"Akatsuki!" I felt my face heat up and put my hands on his chest to push myself away from him. That would be when I realized two things. A) He was shirtless. B) That he had a fever.
"Ruka, you're freezing... come here..." Akatsuki pulled me close, squeezing me gently. When he looked at me for a moment, I could tell his eyes were fever-glazed. "What's wrong?"
"You're sick." I squirmed against him, trying to get away, but it was useless. Akatsuki was 100 times physically stronger than me; I wasn't going to get away.
"Yeah. That explains how shitty I feel." He pulled the covers over both of us and pressed his face into my neck. "Are you going to miss class to be here?"
"If you want me to." I murmured. His breath on my neck didn't allow me to think straight, but I kept thinking that he had absolutely no choice in the matter.
"I feel selfish saying it... but stay." I could feel his lips on my neck, but I knew he wouldn't bite. He would never do that unless I told him that he could.
"Good, because if you said the opposite, I wasn't going to let you have any choice." I smirked but couldn't help but squirm a little bit as he softly kissed my neck. "A-" I began but quickly changed my tune. "Kain! Don't do that." I only used his last name when I was mad, and he usually knew that when I said his last name, it was game over. But the way my voice shook with excitement, I knew he could tell I wasn't mad.
"Ruka..." Akatsuki murmured, and he was still so close.
I took a deep breath in. I shook as I inhaled, not with anger or fear; it was still excitement. "If you think you need my blood to get better, then go for it."
"No." He rolled away from me, letting me go.
I felt cold all over suddenly, and a little like I might cry. Hell, I didn't have a clue why. But I hated that he wouldn't drink my blood. Even Lord Kaname had drank my blood once, but never again. Was there something wrong with me?
"Hey..." I spooned against his back, attempting to keep us close again. What I did next surprised even me though; I leaned over his side and pressed my wrist against his fangs. He fought at first, but when the blood started to roll down his throat, he stopped fighting and drank.
I let him drink for several minutes, and I was prepared to take my wrist away if I thought he was taking too much, but he pulled away first.
"Ruka, don't do that." He wiped his mouth with a Kleenex and glared at me. Trust me, in all my 17 years with him; he had never glared at me. Ever.
"What the hell has gotten into you?" I resisted the urge to slap him. He was sick, and I would not hit him. I would not turn 17 years of trust into God knows how many more of hate for one look. But I'll be damned if I still didn't want to hit him.
"You pity me." Akatsuki spat the words at me and each one burned like acid. "You have your Lord Kaname and you pity me." While his tone sounded more lucid, his words were more unlike him than I had ever heard, not to mention unrealistic. I didn't have Lord Kaname in any sense of the word.
"What the hell are you talking about, Kain?" I pushed him onto his back and held him down. If he wanted to, he could've gotten away, but I could tell that wasn't what was at hand here.
"You have Kaname, and you pity me." Akatsuki pushed himself up slightly, so our faces were closer. "All alone, pining for you. I'm like a little lovesick puppy to you."
At this point, I was wondering if I had consumed something that would've made my blood toxic to him in some way. "I don't have Lord Kaname, he's all Yuuki's." I growled, leaning in close to him. "And if you don't go to sleep right now... and forget this whole huge argument, I will beat the shit out of you. I may have been raised to be a lady but I can fight like a bitch."
Apparently he was intimidated, because he lay down – and passed out almost immediately.
I lay back down beside him; although I was still pissed I didn't want him to die in his sleep.
When he woke up, he was the same old Akatsuki Kain I had known for 17 years, and he really didn't remember any of the night where I had given him my blood or when we had argued.
I noted this, and thought to myself that maybe I should get checked out before I give him blood again.
"Is something wrong, Ruka?" Akatsuki asked from his bed. I was in his doorway, had been for the past hour and didn't plan on moving anytime soon.
I didn't purposely ignore him, I was just busy thinking. I tried to name any one time I had seen Akatsuki with a fever. I couldn't remember any time like that; he always had seemed perpetually healthy, except maybe for the occasional runny nose or allergies that caused his eyes to water.
"You seriously don't remember earlier?" I asked. "Be honest."
"No." Akatsuki blinked at me, his look reminiscent of a confused puppy.
"Does anything... has anything odd ever happened when you had a fever?" I leaned against the doorframe and watched him.
"Well... my parents always said I acted... strange when I had a fever." Akatsuki stood and started towards me, but I didn't move. "That's why you and Aidou never saw me when I was really sick, apparently I had a really bad temper... but I never remembered any of those times. Did..." Shock came into his eyes. "Did I do something to you, Ruka?"
"No." I felt a blush creeping up my face at the implications. "You... said some things. You didn't really do anything..." I chose not to mention the neck kissing.
"What did I say?" Akatsuki took a few more steps and got so close that I had to look up at him, but I kept my mouth shut. "Alright. I'm sorry for anything I said." He added.
"I don't see you as a lovesick puppy." I said, and attempted to turn and – not run, that's not ladylike – walk very fast away from him. Instead, I got grabbed by my hips and turned back around.
"Oh? What do you see me as?" Though my words didn't quite hit home like they would've if he had remembered, he was curious.
"Shh, be very quiet and then I'll tell you." I managed to keep the smirk of my face. As Akatsuki looked at me expectantly, I smiled. "I see you as-" instead of finishing my sentence I pecked him on the lips and made an unladylike run for it.
Author Note: This one took forever... I just have Coexistence now and then I have a lot of fiction stuff to type up, but I'll still be answering reviews. So will you drop me a comment? I love hearing from my readers!