AN: I´m having a little too much fun making Yuki a total dimwit... LOL
Yori massaged her temples, feeling increasingly agitated as she waited for Aidou to arrive. Why had she agreed to this again? There was a dysfunction in her brain. She had turned down an evening of riding with a group of girls from her class for a movie…with a vampire. Wow, it sounded so much worse when she thought those words… Her life seemed like a parody at the moment, and despite knowing it would be better to end whatever kind of connection she had to Aidou, she continued allowing it to unfold before her. When the upperclassman appeared, carrying the movie and a brimming bag of popcorn, she almost laughed. It was outright comical, that´s what her life had deteriorated into.
"You have servants in the Night Dorm, don't you?" Yori asked, eyeing the popcorn. There was no other explanation for it.
Aidou laughed. "I don't suppose I could have made this myself?"
"Probably not," she teased.
"It was done by my werewolf and fairy slaves," he replied drolly, passing her the film so he could withdraw the key from his pocket and unlock the door to the classroom.
"You say that like it´s not possible, when my school happens to be overrun by vampires."
"You present a fair argument, but I have never seen or heard of either a fairy or a werewolf." With that, he pushed open the door and they passed inside.
"Or it´s a well-kept secret, which I´m sure you´d tell me the truth about if I gave you more of my blood." She shook her head.
"That´s not fair," he protested. "I promised I wouldn´t bring up that topic. Don´t taunt me with it." He glared at her sullenly as he put down the popcorn and began to set up the projector.
A jolt of surprise ran down her spine. He was right. "Sorry…"
"We agreed on that one, right?" he clarified, gesturing to the movie in her hands.
She passed the case to him with a nod. "I need a comedy after so many exams this week."
"I don´t suppose you´re counting Yuki as one," he proposed jokingly.
Yori rolled her eyes. "Be nice. Yuki is my friend."
"Then tell her to stop making out with Kiryuu all over our lawn," he grumbled as the movie came on and he moved to sit down beside her.
"Wait, making out?!" Could it be her friends had finally progressed their relationship? It seemed nearly impossible.
"Well. Sort of."
"Don´t scare me. I thought they might actually have gotten a clue."
Aidou snorted a laugh. "Fat chance."
The film caught their attention now, although the screen was oddly dark. The scene was one at night, in a cemetery, and a lone old man carrying a flashlight explored the rows of graves with a perplexed look on his face. Yori felt the same. She didn´t think a comedy about two business men should begin in a cemetery, but then again…
"Well, this doesn't really seem like the summary..." Aidou frowned dubiously.
"We're already watching it, so we might as well keep going."
"Okay," the blond acquiesced easily, and the man continued to investigate a crypt that stood ominously in the middle of the foggy cemetery.
The music played against her nerves and up her spine. Something was about to happen. Something terrible. Only, she wasn´t sure what. And just as the man reached out to touch the coffin standing in the center of the crypt, it happened. A shadow passed underfoot, and… Yori barely watched the screen through the spray of blood and flesh that followed.
Horrified, Yori reflexively grabbed the blond's hand, squeezing her eyes shut as she attempted to forget what she had just seen. That sight was going to be a token feature of her nightmares for weeks to come, she was sure.
The upperclassman had gone pale, but he managed to turn to her and say, "You said this was just as friends. No touching." He glanced at her hand pointedly.
"I changed my mind." She swallowed as the music dropped ominously again, and to her relief the blond's fingers immediately twined through her own.
"Good, because...what the hell is this movie?!" The pressure of his hand increased, and she giggled.
"Aidou-senpai doesn't like scary films either?" she inquired.
"No. No he doesn't." He blanched.
"I thought this was supposed to be a comedy!"
"I think someone put the wrong movie in the case," Aidou suggested meekly, leaning towards her as though her presence would shield him from the events on screen.
No sooner had the words left his mouth than the nightmarish creature began to devour the old man´s corpse with gruesome detail. Yori felt as though her eyes were going to pop out of her head. She had a personal bone to pick with whoever had mixed up the cases to the movies. This was going to scar her for life. The only comfort she could draw was that Aidou was holding her hand just as tightly as she was holding his in a grip inspired by pure horror.
The pair only managed to watch half the film before Aidou switched it off and declared it a night. "I think that´s quite enough. I´m going to be sick." He quickly extracted the film and replaced it in the case.
"People enjoy these movies… That´s the truly scary part…" Yori shuddered.
"Next time let´s just go to the movie theater. You know what you´re getting there." He closed the case with more force than was necessary, staring down at it as though it had personally offended him. Honestly, it had.
Yori nodded before she realized what she had done. Aidou didn´t seem to notice her momentary lapse of total despair. She had agreed to spending even more time with the blond vampire. Out of town. She had to stop. Someone had to restrain her. But… He was unexpectedly fun and easy to get along with… And she had altered her former decision that they watch the movie together as friends…even if it was just to crush his hand in horror and disgust. She grimaced. She was becoming nearly as idiotic as Yuki.
When they exited the building, Yori saw that dusk had fallen. The sky was dark and the street lamps were the only light to guide the way back to the dorms. There was a faint chill in the air tonight and a slight breeze that stirred the leaves of the trees as though they were touched by the breath of phantoms. Anxiously, she stared in the direction of the dorms. She knew monsters weren´t real, but she couldn´t shake the images of the desecrated bodies from the film…
"I´ll walk you back," the vampire suggested a tad nervously as his eyes darted around, sharpening over each shadow, each movement of the leaves around them. He was just as scared as she was. Under different circumstances, she would have found the situation humorous.
The caramel-haired girl didn´t even consider refusing the offer. Uneasily, they began to head back to the dorms used for the Day Class students. Aidou attempted a conversation about class, but it was brought to an abrupt halt when a hissing, slithering sound rustled just past their heads. Yori let out a squeak at the same time as Aidou gasped, and within moments of leaving the building the pair were already clasping hands for dear life once again.
"It was just the wind," Aidou said, most likely to calm himself.
"Right," she agreed nervously.
Moving cautiously, it was only a matter of moments that a second occurrence passed. This time, a dark shape was moving towards them with rapid speed. There was a crunch, the intake of a breath, and as the shape loomed up in front of them Yori yelped, finding herself hiding in the blond vampire's arms. Aidou angled her slightly away from the threat, hand outstretched as though to ward off the shadow, though Yori thought the gesture was futile. Unless Aidou possessed some strange vampiric power she knew nothing about? She wouldn´t put it past him.
The shape skidded to a halt, straightening. "Yori-chan? Idol-senpai?" Yuki looked stupefied.
"Y-Yuki-chan!" Yori managed in a squeaky tone.
"What is going on? Why are you holding on to each other like that?" Yuki glanced around, one hand on the strange weapon she had been given to patrol campus with. Yori suspected it was effective against vampires.
The caramel-haired girl took a breath, calming her frayed nerves, and stepped away from the blond vampire. "Nothing, you just scared us."
"More importantly, why are you together at this hour…?"
"We met up on the path a moment ago." Yori smiled casually, although the tremor in her voice betrayed her anxiety.
At the same time, Aidou whispered in an eerie tone, "Yuki, haven't you heard?"
"What?" She leaned closer, intrigued.
"It's all over the news. There's a man escaped from the insane asylum, an ex-convict and a murderer, and the last anyone has seen of him, he was loitering near campus."
Yuki scowled skeptically. "I haven't heard that, senpai... I'm sure the Chairman would have mentioned it..."
"Yo," a deep, masculine voice rumbled from behind them, and Yori squeaked a second time, latching on to Aidou's arm. Even Yuki jumped, withdrawing her weapon.
"Akatsuki. Geez. Announce yourself a little better," Aidou muttered, when the three had recognized the tall redhead.
One corner of Kain's mouth twitched up. "Enjoy your movie? All alone?"
"How... Don't talk about that now!" Aidou hissed with a pointed glance at Yuki.
"Just asking," the redhead said casually. "I'm sure Yuki-chan can escort Yori-chan safely back to the dorms, so...let's go."
"Shit," Aidou muttered, and Yori realized belatedly what Kain was hinting at. He knew. Knew about their evening together... "Okay, yeah." Ignoring Yuki, he bade Yori a goodnight and then disappeared back down the path with the redhead.
"Rude," Yuki accused Aidou's back. Then, "I wonder what that was about?"
Yori shrugged. "Let's head back."
"Okay," the brunette agreed. "Then I´ve got to patrol."
Yori nearly sighed with relief. She didn´t have to walk back to the dorms alone. Despite that, she felt a new kind of nervousness gnawing at the pit of her stomach. Kain knew she had been with Aidou. And if he knew everything, would she have to lose her memories despite all her efforts to prevent just that?
AN: Anyone like scary films/horror? I like suspense but keep your horror, I feel sick watching it... :/ Now how do you suppose those cases got switched? LOL