Chapter 9 ~~ Next Night
The 'Morning' proceeded normally. Aido woke up, showered, and dressed. He waited for Kaname downstairs. They all (the night class) walked to the school. But Kaname hung back to talk to Yuuki and Zero; Aido couldn't help but sneer at this. In the classroom he took his normal seat, and Kaname took his by the window.
The rest of the school 'day' went normally too. He ate lunch with a few other nobles, including his cousin Akatsuki. He was sad that Kaname didn't eat with them yet again. "Probably to see his boyfriend on patrol," he'd thought bitterly. He sat through all his afternoon classes restlessly, waiting for his last of the day: Yagari Toga's ethics class.
At long last the bell signaling the day's end rang, and the teens began filing out of the classroom to go back to the dorm. Aido took hit time packing up and slowly walked down the steps to yagari's desk.
"You coming Hanabusa?"
Looking towards the door, Aido saw Akatsuki waiting for him. "Yes. I just need something explained is all. Why don't you go catch up to Ruka?"
A slight blush crept onto Akatsuki's cheeks at the mention of the girl he was crushing on. "okaaaay….. See you later then," he replied before walking off.
"What do you want Hanabusa Aido?" a gruff voice pulled him back to the task at hand.
"Just to ask if it would be ethical for a vampire and a Hinter to have a romantic relationship."
"No. and I've never heard of such a dumb thing being tried in the first place," Toga said coldly.
"See that's what I thought. Apparently Those Two think they can beat the odds."
"Who is 'Those two' vampire?"
"As if you don't already know, everyone knows. They've been talking about if for weeks now."
"Cut the crap brat and tell me what you're talking about."
"Struggling to keep his composure in the face of the hunter's insulting tone, Aido continued with mock innocence, "If you really don't know I don't want to let the cats out of the bag, well closet in this case."
"Either start making sense or get out of my classroom."
"Pushy much? I'm only talking about our pureblood prince Kaname-sama and yours and Cross' hunter Zero." At the older man's surprised look he put on a mask of apologetic guilt. "I guess you really didn't know. Oopsie."
"Are you trying to tell me that Zero, who hates every vampire just for existing is dating Kuran? I find that hard to believe." he waved a hand dismissively.
"I thought you might say that." Aido pulled out his cell and messed with the touchscreen a moment. "Do you find it so hard to believe now," he asked, a picture of the couple kissing he'd snapped earlier displayed on his screen.
Yagari stood there, staring at the evidence of his student's betrayal clear as day in the digital photo. He couldn't believe this even though it was in front of his eyes. Zero, who hated vampires as much as feared them, who swore to kill every last one of them was being held by, and even kissed by one of them.
He sneered, entirely disgusted that Zero had fallen so far. Keeping his voice even he addressed the smug teenager before him. "Can you email this to me?"
"Of course, put the address in here."
"Yagari entered his info in the send box and a few moments later a new mail icon popped up on his computer screen. "Thanks," he said flatly and turned back to a reading a stack of papers on his desk, clearly dismissing him.
Aido walked out the door and down the hallway, proud of himself. "Now if all goes to plan he will put an end to their farce of a relationship."
"You do know that of Kaname should find out your role in all this he won't forgive you," a feminine voice said; stopping him from opening the door.
"Seiren this does not concern you. Leave me be." He turned to face the girl standing beside the window. He had no interest in what she was saying. It was making him feel guilty for some reason. "Besides I've done nothing wrong. If you want to threaten somebody do so to the teacher. He holds their fate in his hands, not me."
"You lie to yourself as well as you lie to others it seems."
"Enough! What happens now will not be my fault so shut up already." He wrenched the door open, still trying to convince himself of the truth in his words.
"If that is what you believe, so be it. I won't mention this unless directly asked by Kaname-sama."
"I appreciate that, but as I've said i'm blameless from this point on." Without waiting for her reply he left. He decided to walk around a bit to clear his head of what Seiren had said to him. He most certainly did not like the feelings of mixed guilt and shame it was making him feel. He kept repeating to himself that nothing was his fault now. That it wouldn't be his fault if things went badly. When he finally felt back to normal he hurried back to the dorm, hungry for some real 'food'.
He went straight to the kitchen after returning to get a glass of water to dissolve blood tablets in. when he walked in he was met by a sight he'd never seen before: Kaname Kuran was flipping through a cookbook. "K-Kaname-sama, I didn't know you were here. I thought you were going out tonight. And if you don't mind me asking, what's that book for? You have plenty of personal chefs."
"Never you mind why I buy things. I was actually almost ready to leave when I saw that this had come in the mail for me. Why are you returning so late, it is unlike you to dawdle at the school," he said without looking up.
Suddenly flustered Aido responded. "Oh, uh… it was nothing really. I… uh just got distracted on the way back is all."
"You are behaving suspiciously Aido. You had better not have done anything stupid and gotten in more trouble."
"Of course not Kaname-sama. I've followed your orders to stay out of trouble to the tee," he smiled brightly.
"So you say." Kaname eyed the blonde carefully. "Take this to my room for me and leave it on my desk. I should be back in a few hours." He tossed the cookbook at him and turned to leave.
"Of course! Leave it to me, your faithful follower!" he quickly went up the stairs and into Kaname's bedroom. His eyes went immediately to the huge unmade bed and clothes all over the floor. Then to the books lying about everywhere. Finally to the scattered papers and folders scattered all over the desk by the window. "How unlike him. He must be worried over Zero and that dinner I overheard them talking about earlier to have left his room in such a state. I'll clean it up for him, I'm sure he would appreciate it."
So he set to work. Within an hour or so all the books were alphabetized on their shelves, the paperwork stacked neatly on one side of the desk, the clothes folded and stored in Kaname's dresser, the bed made up perfectly, and the recipe book was on the desk just where Kaname had said to put it.
Leaving the now immaculate area, Aido went to his own room. He had just started on his homework when he felt the intense burn of bloodlust in the back of his throat and remembered that he still hadn't had any blood tablets.
He rose from his own desk and went back downstairs to the kitchen for some water. He heard the usual buzz of televisions, and the clamor of sound effects and chatter of voices from the movies and video games being played on them. He also heard the crack of pool balls and thump of darts hitting a corkboard from the game room. Everything was as it should be. Just after he passed to front entrance, walking into the kitchen area, things changed.
The door was opened and slammed shut. And he smelled blood, but not just any blood. Clean, strong, powerful pureblood. He ran back to the foyer along with every other vampire in the building. There stood Kaname, facing the door, his hands clenched into fists so tight they were bleeding heavily. Their leaders alluring blood was slowly dripping down, forming red pools on the ground.
Without turning he spoke to them: "all of you. Back to your previous activities. I wish to be left alone."
The class vice-president Ichijo stepped forward. "If there is anything you need, we are all at your service Kaname. And if there is anything I can personally do, do not hesitate in saying so."
"I said to leave me alone. Go. All of you go away now." Kaname's voice held an emotion Aido couldn't quite place. Overall the command sounded menacing so all of the night class left as they were told, albeit reluctantly. Everyone was now decidedly on edge from seeing the composed pureblood acting so strangely.
Kaname remained exactly where he was. Aido returned to the kitchen, poured two glasses of water, and soaked two blood substitutes in each. Drinking from one, he took the other to the stoic figure of his beloved Kaname. "You look like you could use this. Also if you want to talk about whatever is bothering you I'd be glad to listen and help.
Kaname made no move to accept the glass, so Aido set it on a table close by. He stretched his freed hand out as if to rest it on Kaname's shoulder, but when there was about an inch left between them Kaname stopped him by speaking in a voice dripping with malice.
"Did I not say that I wanted to be left alone? I really hate having to repeat myself. What gives you the idea that my order does not apply to you? Get out of my sight; this will be the only warning you receive."
Aido stepped back a few paces. He had never seen Kaname so visibly upset before. He did as ordered and left, going back to his room. He found he could no longer focus on his work. He wished he could do more, but knew when not to push his luck.
A short while later he heard soft footsteps slowly making their way up the stairs. Peeking out his door Aido saw it was in fact Kaname. His head was hung forward, his hair covering his face. His shoulders were slumped uncharacteristically; and his hands were still in bloody fists. He quickly re-closed his door, not wanting to be caught.
He listened to the soft thump of Kaname's steps until they stopped outside his door on the floor above Aido's. He heard the door slowly creak open and close after two steps inside. Then complete silence. "He must be admiring my handiwork," Aido thought.
Then there came a loud, anguished cry and a series of crashing noises. This was followed by the sounds of breaking glass, stones cracking, and furniture splintering. The smell of Kaname's blood grew stronger, and it permeated the whole dormitory. These noises lasted almost all night, but everyone abided by Kaname's wishes and ignored it. One thing was absolute in their minds, though; their resident pureblood was deeply upset.
The next morning everyone tried to resume normal life, but the topic of Kaname's behavior hung in the air unspoken. It grew even heavier a topic when he didn't show his face for school the next night. He didn't even leave his room for the next few weeks, and everyone was forbidden from entering his room except Ichijo to bring him food and blood tablets about once a day.
This was very strange and Aido was at a loss even trying to imagine what could have upset Kaname this severely. Soon everyone on campus was worried about him. The most suspiciously thing to Aido was that though Yuuki came by every day to check on Kaname (she was turned away each time of course); Zero had not once showed up to inquire about Kaname. Aido figured that a boyfriend would be worried enough to come see what was going one. He was confused by the whole situation but couldn't help but feel Way back in the back of his mind that he was somehow responsible for whatever was happening.
Author's Note::: Sorry for the wait. I've been pretty sick recently and haven't felt like doing anything. I've been meaning to put up this chapter and Ch. 10 for a few days now. So…. Yea. The whole time I was writing the ending of this and the whole next chapter I would stop frequently saying "I don't want to write this" I'm sure I annoyed the crap outta my friends who only yelled at me to finish them so they could know what happened next. Aaaanyway the purpose of saying that was to let you know that I'm with you guys, I'm hating Aido and I really don't want Toga to come between them. I kept thinking about how horrible a person I was for doing all this throughout all of the next chapter. That and the fact that this whole thing was supposed to be a one- maybe two-shot smut story but it got away from me and turned in to… well, this. I was kinda lost after the smut chapter since that was the basis of the story then I just switched my brain off and wrote and before I knew it this plot twist came out so I'm running with it. I promise a happy ending though! And if I can get even one review by 2pm tomorrow I'll type up chapter 10 for you guys and upload it too by (hopefully) around this time tomorrow