Author note: Ok, here's the thing. I'm not updating a lot like I used to because of stress. Instead of thinking, I should add a one-shot to this collection, I think "I have to write 3 one shots and a chapter and my fiction work!" It kind of kills me inside. So from now on, I'm just going to add whenever I can, to whatever I can. Thank you for reading my author note, and this is Kain's point of view.
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight. I make no profit from this.
Her name was Mitsuko, and we were 13.
Mitsuko Natsu was Ruka's best friend, they did everything together. Since they were 8 they were closer than I thought possible.
But then we turned 13 and their friendship went down the drain faster than foaming drain cleaner.
Ruka and Mitsuko got into a fight over a boy, a boy that Mitsuko had supposedly called "dibs" on, whatever that meant. Then Mitsuko told everyone that Ruka was sleeping around.
Ruka was emotionally exhausted for three weeks. She had no attitude, no spark, she wouldn't leave the house, and whenever Aidou insulted her, she would burst into tears.
I force fed her my blood since she wouldn't eat, let her sleep in my bed with me because otherwise she paced the house all day and cried, and steered Aidou away from her whenever their paths met. I was Ruka's soul protector and friend for once, and without me, she was a mess.
Ruka's parents couldn't have cared less. Her Mother pretended Ruka wasn't there for nearly two months, apparently she believed the rumors about her own daughter. Her father had busied himself with work, and he most likely forgot he even had a daughter.
I thought I would never know the truth about who this boy was. Did I know him? Who could it be?
The years after that always had one thing in common: the anniversary week. The week where the fight had occurred, Ruka became almost completely dependent on me again.
Fast-forward a few years. We were at Cross Academy, going on 18-years-old and the anniversary week had yet to disappear. Aidou had taken to moving to the couch for that week, since he hated seeing us together.
Over the years, Ruka had become less emotional. The anniversary week, I believe, became nothing more than an excuse for her to sleep in my bed with me and a time when she could feel weak and not feel guilty about it.
I didn't mind, of course. Having loved her since early childhood, having her this close was both a blessing and a curse. I wanted to hold her and kiss her, wrap her up in my love, but she didn't love me like that. To her, I was a rock, something she could hold onto during a storm. To her, I was her best friend and nothing more.
Or so I believed, as I had for years.
It was the third day of the cursed week. Ruka had crawled into my bed somewhere around 6AM, but she wasn't asleep and neither was I. She kept cuddling closer to me until she was pressed against me, her shoulder into my chest.
"Akatsuki?" She whispered. "Akatsuki, can I tell you a secret?"
"Yes." I've never denied her anything unless it would get her into trouble and I wasn't about to start then. "You can tell me anything."
"Well..." Ruka pressed her lips together and her eyebrows leaned in towards each other. "You know how I never told you about who the guy was that I got into a fight with Mitsuko over?"
"Yeah?" Before I had been half asleep, now I was at full attention.
"Um..." Ruka turned away from me and fiddled with the bow on her nightgown. "About that..."
I waited, just a little impatient. I had never asked Ruka about this because she had been so fragile about it. I did want to know, though, more than anything else.
"That... that guy was you." Ruka rolled over so we were face to face. "I said that she couldn't have you because you were mine."
I raised an eyebrow, I can't help it. Though my heart was thudding in my chest, I couldn't believe this. "Oh yeah? Am I still yours?"
"Akatsuki, you know you've always been mine." Ruka giggled and smiled just a bit. "And I know I've always been yours."
I smiled and kissed her forehead, then held her close like I had wanted to for years.
As Ruka fell asleep, peacefully for once, I realized that everything had all panned out, and I couldn't have been happier in any circumstances.
Author Note: I kept skipping around in tenses and I drove myself nuts trying to fix everything, but it's late and I don't think I got all the tense changes. It should be past, so if you see anything else, please tell me. Anyway, drop me a comment if you want, and thank you for reading.