"Yuuki... what do you think of this?" I held up a picture I drawn and she smiled.
"It looks nice. You're pretty good." I beamed, ego growing. I drawn a picture of a butterfly.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Hey! Yuuki Cross!" Aidou shouted annoyed. "What are you lazying around for!? Were you even studying for the next lesson!?" He noticed my picture of a butterfly and the paper on Yuuki's desk. "Nice picture Amaya- What's that Yuuki!? Were you drawing!?" Yuuki screamed and covered it up.
"It's-Ah,-this is, Don't look! It's a letter you jerk!" Pushing him away, hurting his neck. I flinched. Yuuki quickly stood up and placed her letter in a draw, locking it.
I stood up and knelt down next to him. "You alright?"
"Yeah... hurt my neck though." He mumbled, sitting up and rubbing his bruised neck. I smirked and leaned down, kissing it. I felt his blood rush faster- he's blushing! Aw...Gotta love my Hanabusa. I leaned away, ignoring his flustered face.
"Does it feel better now?" I teased. Yuuki ran back over to her desk and sat down. He stood up.
"Ah, whatever. Let's just start the lesson." He muttered walking over and sitting down next to Yuuki, taking out a textbook. "I work hard as your private teacher, so come on. Hurry up and open your textbook. Besides, it's even harder having her-" He pointed his thumb at me. "-distracting me all the time! Now, page 167." He scratched the back of his head and glanced at Yuuki, who was still moping. "Stop fretting, it's not like I'll tell Kaname-Sama anyway. If he knew you're still writing letters we can't risk mailing out, that would make him even more worried for you." I nodded in agreement and laid my head on Aidou's shoulder, yawning. "He's already worrying himself sick feeling bad about you having to stay hiding indoors for your safety. By the way, who were you writing too?"
"Yori." Yuuki answered. He thought for a moment before a look of realization crossed his face.
"Oh, her." I then thought of something and grinned.
"Maybe Hanabusa could get the letter delivered discreetly." I told her, smirking. Hanabusa continued,
"If She gets at least a 75 out of 100 on her next test." Yuuki groaned, making me laugh. "One thing though, No talking about where you live or anything Vampire-related. I left the Academy without erasing any of Sayori Wakaba's memories, but I don't know what might have happened after we left."
"Aidou-Sempai." Yuuki said, surprised. She then said, "Thanks but no thanks. I don't mind waiting until it's safe. I prefer not to endanger the place where Kaname and I can live together."
"Yuuki." Kaname said, entering the room.
"Kaname-Sama!" Aidou said, getting out of his chair.
"Kaname-Sempai!" I exclaimed after Aidou.
"Onii-san!" Yuuki said, surprised. "I didn't know you were coming back from your trip today!" She sounded happy. "I'm so glad you got to come home earlier!"
"I'm sorry, Yuuki." Kaname apologized. "I just dropped by to say hi. I have to leave immediately." Yuuki frowned, saddened before leaning up to kiss him on the cheek. I laughed and Aidou slung an arm around my shoulders freezing at an,
"Ahem!" And some coughing. We looked to see Nagamichi, Aidou's father- and my, ah, Father-In-Law, kinda, standing there.
Aidou panicked.
"We must hurry up, Kaname-Sama, or else-"
"I'm aware of that." Kaname told him.
"Aidou-Sempai's father! And isn't he your father-in-law or something like that?" Yuuki asked me confused. I shrugged.
"I think. I'm not really sure what the correct term is, considering I'm not married to Hanabusa or anything."
"But you will be!" Hanabusa smirked, wrapped an arm around my waist and kissing my cheek. I felt my face heat up.
"Yeah, but-!"
"Ah!" Nagamichi looked at Yuuki in surprise. "I'm sorry! I forgot to salute you!" He bowed and then noticed me and Hanabusa. "Hanabusa, Amaya." He greeted before walking off.
"Take care, Onii-Sama." Yuuki told Kaname, smiling.
"I will, thank you." He said. "Yuuki, only a little more and I'll be able to have you breathing the outside air freely again. We've arranged to have a meeting with the Vampire Association."
X.X
"Yuuki! Where are you heading-you're bleeding!?" I exclaimed, finally catching up. Damn girl took off without warning.
"Hey you! What are you doing wandering around randomly and getting hurt!?" Aidou demanded, panting, showing us that he was just running. "Do you have any idea who Kaname-Sama will get angry at if he finds out!?" He walked up, curious now. "What are you doing, really?"
"I thought I smelt the scent of Kaname-Onii-Sama coming from it, so I..."
"Actually, now that you mention it-" Aidou began. I cut him off.
"What the hell is this place?" I was confused. My memory was fuzzy, so I couldn't remember exactly.
Aidou gave me a look and I shrugged. "I don't remember hearing about a place like this in this house before." Yuuki nodded.
"I didn't know of it either." She told us. "I was kinda sensitive a few seconds ago, so I found this place by scent."
"You've got blood on you." Aidou pointed out, noticing the blood on her chin. She blinked and tried to wipe it off. "You...No way. Don't tell me you actually bit yourself? Did you honestly think you could feed off yourself!?" I sent him a look. "What are you, a moron?"
"Hey! I did the same thing!" He sent me a surprised look.
"When?" I hesitated.
"A few months ago...You were kinda...busy." I blushed and defended myself. "I was hungry!"
"I was just too hungry, okay!" Yuuki explained, annoyed. "I wasn't really thinking so I just went CHOMP! I just did it out of curiosity, but it was kinda pointless. Talk about a nutrition fail." I snickered at that. Hanabusa crossed his arms and sighed.
"You're getting blood from Kaname-Sama though, aren't you?" Aidou questioned. Yuuki looked to the side, embarrassed.
"I do. In a rather spoiled manner but..."
"Then why are you hungry?" He asked. Silence. He sighed again and took out a packet of blood tablets. "FOr now, just go ahead and take these."
"Please don't give those tablets to Yuuki." Kaname said, appearing out of nowhere. I screamed in surprise and nearly bumped into a wall. Aidou blinked as he and Yuuki turned their heads.
"Kaname-Sama!" Aidou exclaimed.
"Thank you Aidou, but it's okay now, so you can leave us. Same goes for you, Amaya." I hesitated before leaving along with Aidou, taking his hand in mine.
X.X
"Well, then. Shall we start?" Ruka asked us. She noticed Yuuki's curled up form in the corner behind the curtain. I sweatdropped and attempted to comfort her. "Hey, come on.."
"Ruka-San. I'm no sure about this after all." Yuuki began, depressed. "It might be to dangerous! I'm worrying more and more..."
"Oi! What happened to the corrupted Yuuki I knew?" I demanded, glaring at her. She looked up surprised. "The Yuuki I know would be like "Come on! Time to stop being a pansy and face it like a man-er, woman!" I struck a pose.
"Your right but..." Tears fell down her face. "I'm so nervous!"
"Stop that!" Ruka demanded. "The maids from the Aidou family can hear you!" SHe looked at the maids. "Please do not mind them, please proceed." We screamed as the Vampire maids attacked us, ripping off our jackets and clothing. Leaving us in nothing but really thin dresses. I shivered and rubbed my arms- I was getting goosebumps from the cold.
"I can do it myself-!" Yuuki screamed as the col air hit ehr skin. SHe shivered. The Maids of Pure evil walked away.
"Let's start the manicure." Ruka told Yuuki. "I'll do both of your nails so they come out just right." She grabbed Yuuki's hand and looked at her nails, surprised. "It seems you've become so much better to do them then before. They're so well done that we can just leave them the way they are." She dropped Yuuki's hand and grabbed mine, looking at them. "Nice try, but not quite right." I pouted but noticed Yuuki's embarrassed face. Ruka followed my gaze. "Oh, Kaname-Sama did them for you himself, didn't he?"
"I told him that there was no use for it and that he could stop but..." She explained as Ruka grabbed a nail file. "He said "This is far too much fun, I just can't stop now, now matter what you say of it." Yuuki gained a thoughtful face as I commented,
"I would say he's gay, but he's dating you. Even though that technically is incest." Yuuki shot me a look and whacked me on the head. "Ow-Hey! There's the Yuuki I know!" Yuuki blinked in surprise and laughed.
"Yeah, but I'm not sure what to think. Him being good at manicures? Just what does he plan to do in the future!?" We laughed. Ruka smiled.
"I'm so glad that you and Kaname-Sama are getting along well." Ruka said as she lifted my hand up again and started to work on my nails.
"Ruka-San!" Yuuki exclaimed and smiled.
"By the way," She said thoughtfully. "The Hunter meeting is being held in the last floor of the same building, isn't it?" Ruka sent us both looks. "At the ball, you may happen to see people you know from before, but please, try and remain ladylike."
"I'll be careful." Yuuki told her,nodding seriously. I blinked and shrugged saying,
"No promises."
X.X Aiko's PoV
"Come on Rima. WHat are you doing staying behind?" Shiki asked the orange-top. I blinked, still not understanding what I was here for.
"I...I really didn't wan to come here!" She told him, raising her voice. "Besides, we're not even part of the Kuran fraction anyway..."
"No, but Amaya and Yuuki are here." I told her, really wanting to see my friend. It's been a whole year. A pocky stick dangled from my mouth. "Please RIma."
"At least out of familiarity, I should stand with my two cousins. I want to do this." Shiki told her. Rima gained an annoyed face and marched forward.
"Gr...And to think I have to work tomorrow! I hate the Dorm President!" She ranted. "He did let us knwo that Takuma was safe and well, but he also told us not to go searching for him! And on top of that,he didn't tell us where we could find him!"
"Yeah, it kinda sucks." I said, agreeing.
"Its so uncool." Shiki agreed.
"Totally sucks!" Rima finished.
I then though of something and asked, "Why am I here anyway?" I blinked in surprise and looked down when something grabbed my hand. I looked upa t Shiki, surprise forming on face.
"Because I want you to be." He said simply. I felt my face heat up and heart beat quicken slightly.
"Um, excuse me!" A familiar voice from behind us said. Where was it from...We turned around to see a guy carrying trays- couldn't see his face though. "Sorry, could you three get out of the way? I'm in a hurry." That politeness...that voice... Is it-? He lowered the trays and we could see his face. RIma, Shiki, and I all blinked. We did so and stared at him- he turned his head and blinked at us.
"T-Takuma?" I asked, surprise and shock clear in my tone.
X.X Amaya's PoV
"Looks like Yuuki and Kaname decided to finally show themselves." I commented and Blinked as Aidou wrapped his arms around my waist. I tensed and blushed slightly as he nuzzled my neck.
"You really shouldn't tempt me, Butterfly." I sent him a surprised yet confused look.
"How the hell am I tempting you!? I'm just standing!" He bit down lightly on my neck, drawing out a moan. I felt him smirk and but harder and eventually started to suck on the skin. I elbowed him lightly- letting out a small moan- and glared saying, "Now isn't the time! Not in a freaking crowd!" Aidou removed himself and pouted childishly.
"Aw...Fine. But to answer your question, you're dress. Quite revealing, not that I'm complaining. I felt my face heat up and pressed my legs together, somehow hoping that the dress would get longer.
I was wearing a black strapless dress that crisscrossed in the back. The top was smooth leather, while the bottom poofed out, making the dress end at mid-thigh rather then at my knees. Under the leather part of the skirt, was blue fabric, helping with the skirt shortening. I also had a blue scarf thing that wrapped around my arms. All in all, the dress revealed a shit load of leg, back, and neck and shoulders.
"It wasn't my choice! The Maids of Complete evil forced it on me!" I growled at him. He chuckled and pulled me as close to him as possible, making my back touch his chest.
I looked around and froze at the familiar lilac gaze.
Zero...
We had a small staring contest and I quickly bowed my head- remembering Ruka's words- and turned my head, facing heating up slightly. And it was then I smelled something. Two familiar scents filled my nostrils and I blinked, asking AIdou,
"Hanabusa...are there any humans here?"
'Not very many. But they all reside in the Great hall." The one scent is closer then the other... I panicked. If memory serves correct...
"Thanks Aidou, Excuse me!" He let go in surprise and I made my way through the crowd, bumping into Yuuki, then into Sara Shirabuki.
"Yori! It really is you!" Yuuki exclaimed.
"Are you alright!?" I asked worriedly, completely ignoring the fact that Zero was right next to me.
"Yuuki! Amaya!" Yori exclaimed, smiling. "This woman was going to go help see you and-" She gestured to Sara, who Zero still had a grip on. Yuuki looked at him and said,
"Can you please let go of her? She is one of our precious guests." Yuuki told him. Zero looked down at her and said,
"Don't touch me."
"I'll stop touching you if you let her go!" She fired back. Zero quickly let go of her wrist. I cast Zero a glance and quickly looked away.
"Come on Wakaba. You already saw them, so that's enough." Zero said and began to walk away.
"Yuuki, Amaya! I'm glad to know you both are doing well!" Yori said as she walked away.
"Same here, Yori." Yuuki told her. I waved, grinning.
"Take care! Don't beat up Zero to badly!"
"MY, My. What a delicious looking human, isn't she?" Sara asked us. I glared and Yuuki gave her a look.
"Stop. Yori is a friend." Sara- she has such weird hair! I mean, look at her bangs!- tilted her head and smiled.
"Of course. You hear that everyone? The human is a precious friend, so you musn't touch her." She looked at Yuuki. "By the way, it's a pleasure to meet you, Yuuki-Sama." She knelt down so she had her face close to Yuuki's. "I'm Sara Shirabuki. Let us be good friends. After all, there are so few of us Purebloods left. I'm sorry to leave you so soon, but I must go greet Kaname-Sama and Aliza-Sama as well." I tensed up at Aliza. Sara smirked and walked away. I blinked and glared at her as she walked away. I jumped in surprise when a hand was placed on my left shoulder. I turned my head and came face to face with a complete stranger.
He had green hair- what?- and yellow eyes. Even weirder. He was wearing the basic tuxedo and had glasses. He was one of the few people who were able to pull off the glasses look.
"Excuse me miss, but I couldn't help but notice how tasty you looked. May I have a taste?" He asked, moving towards my neck. I made to push him away, but someone beat me to it. The man's hand became Ice- soon his arm. The man back up and looked at his arm in shock. Two arms slid around my waist smoothly and pulled me back, so I slammed into a chest. A familiar, comforting one at that. "A-Aidou Hanabusa!" He bowed quickly. "Please forgive, I didn't realize that she was yours." He quickly stood up and the ice on his arm vanished. He walked away- Aidou glaring at him the entire way.
"They should all know better." Aidou growled, tightening his grip on me. My face heat up. "Anyway, Kaname-Sama told me to tell you something. He asked me to go arrange for you to be able to go spend an hour with your friend, in a moment. So go ahead and wait for her back in the drawing room. Just give whatever excuse you like for your momentary departure. The same goes for you, Amaya." Yuuki glanced back at Aidou surprised, before grabbing my hand and ripping me from Aidou's grasp, and making me run with her. "Hey!"
"A whole year without seeing you. And you sneak in taking so many risks just to come and see us." Yuuki muttered when we made it. "Even though I should have taken the risk to meet you instead."
"Aiko..." I whispered, missing the brunette even more.
X.X Aiko's PoV
"Well, please don't get a mistaken idea, you three." Takuma began depressed. I wanted to go over and hug him just to make him cheerful and bubbly again. It's so weird seeing him upset. "It's like she's poor and couldn't afford servants...Sara-Sama just likes to treat me as her personal slave."
"She made you prepare all that tea stuff for her?" Shiki asked, deadpanning.
"Her whimsicality could rival that of a certain someone."
"She's a bitch." I commented bluntly. They looked at me surprised. "I'd beat her up. Kick her ass, and feed her to the Level-E's." Takuma sweatdropped at my choice of words.
"Anyway Takuma. If you were fine, why didn't you come back or at least contact us?" Shiki asked.
"Yeah." Rima agreed. "We were worried about you."
"Sorry." Takuma apologized and smiled at us. "I really couldn't take the risk of making the wrong move." He explained. "Because I can't manage to read through her well enough to figure out what purpose she has for imprisoning me."
"Imprisoned!?" Shiki demanded.
"She imprisoned you Takuma!?" RIma exclaimed and demanded, "What did she do to you!?"
"Did she torture you to make you obey her!?" I demanded, pissed off.
"NO, no! It's fine! It wasn't anything like that!" He said, trying to calm us down. "SHe's just short tempered and capricious is all. But she also has cute sides!"
"Senri, do you think he's being controlled by her Pureblood power or something?" Rima asked, looking up at Shiki.
"Hopefully it isn't what I think it is." I said and sighed. It would be like him to do that.
"Nah, I think she just has him wrapped around her little finger." Shiki said bluntly. "I just hope he didn't fall in love with her." I sighed and looked at Takuma.
"This is really a bad habit of yours, Takuma."
"I don't see what's so bad about it!" He said cheerfully. He then smiled apologetically and closed his green eyes. "I'm sorry. Sorry I caused so much worry." Shiki grabbed Takuma's wrist and stepped back saying,
"Takuma, if she's not forcing you to stay or anything then let's go." He suggested. "How about you at least come greet the Dorm President? YOu two are such close friends after all." Takuma gained a sad look and pulled his wrist out of Shiki's grasp. I blinked surprise.
"Nah, Sorry, but I'll stay with Sara-Sama." He said. "Sorry."
"Don't tell me that...you and him are still dwelling on the issue that happened between you two over a year ago?" Takuma laughed nervously.
"Maybe it would be easier for me to just leave it at that then explain all of that." He said. "I just want to...leave things how they are for a while longer." He held up a finger and smiled brightly. "Besides, Yuuki-Chan has finally returned to Kaname-Sama's side after all those years. I really don't want to disturb them right now. The truth is...DUring the ten years spent with Kaname, I watched him agonizing from having lost Yuuki as if he'd lost the other half of himself. It changed the way I viewed Purebloods. Maybe it's that way because they live eternally, But...It also makes their suffering limitless and like a blaze in which they can willingly cast themselves, forever burning down without respite. It was as if...he was doing that to punish himself."
X.X Amaya's PoV
Yori tackled us in a hug the second she saw us. We laughed happily, thought I was still slightly sad.
"Hanabusa, there's something you need to know too." Akatsuki said, appearing by the door. The three of us pulled apart and look at the two cousins.
"What's up?" I asked, blinking.
"The other Pureblood Lord that would be at the party, Ouri-Sama, has disappeared from his drawing room earlier."
"That is-" Yuuki and I tensed up at the exact same time, the scent of flesh blood reaching our noses.
"There's a smell..."
"Of fresh blood suddenly." Yuuki finished, eyes wide. "Where?"
"The smell of blood?" Yori asked. She looked apologetic and said, "Sorry, I can't help with that. I can't smell it."
"No, I'm the one who's sorry. I shouldn't have worried you like that." Yuuki apologized. I nodded and pulled away, trying to locate the scent. But...Yori has to get back to where it's safe. "Aidou-Sempai." Hanabusa looked down at her. "Amaya and I will go check out what's wrong! It's weird for this to happen at a party watched over by the Hunters. So please stay with Yori and protect her." I nodded.
"And- ANd Aiko too if you see her!" We made to take off but stopped when giant Ice crystals formed around us.
"Kaname-Sama has expressively asked me not to leave your side, no matter what happens."
"Yuuki! Amaya!" Yori gasped in surprise. I clenched my fist and the ice crystals melted immediately, the room rising a few degrees.
"IN that case come with us! Both you and Yori, Hanabusa!" I growled. "It's close anyway!"
Time skip
"Wakaba, stay over here." Aidou ordered as Yuuki and I rushed over to the door.
"It's alright. Just stay out here for a bit." Yuuki told them as I opened the door. I blinked in surprise at what I saw and heard Yuuki gasp. The Chairman looked up surprised and said,
"OH hey, Yuuki, Amaya." He greeted, sweatdropping. "Ah, stay over there. We wouldn't want your dresses to get dirty, now do we?"
"What the hell happened here?" Yuuki demanded, surprised.
"A truly regrettable occurrence." Kaien said, standing next to Zero. A man was lying on the ground, his hand wrapped around a knife that was stabbed into his chest where his heart was. "Apparently one of our hunters, fell into a scenario where the only option left was to take his own life with his weapon. Here, see?" He gestured to the man's hand, where he was beginning to turn to dust. "He slowly starting to turn to ashes, starting from the very tips of his fingers. And also..."
Zero spoke up. "On his neck. You can see the marks from where he was bitten by a Vampire." My eyes widened and my gaze traveled down to his neck- where in fact, two bitemarks lay. Yuuki clenched her fists, pissed off.
"I will find the person who did this..." Her tone held a threat to it. I looked at her in surprise but nodded.
"I'll help and personally kick their ass!" I slammed my fist into my hand, determined. Somehow, after the whole Rido-Ark battle, Yuuki and I always did everything together. We're like twins, inseparable, but completely different in every way.
"Stay out of this. Both of you!" Zero growled. "This isn't something to play with." He still didn't look at us. I glared at him.
"You think we don't know that!?"
"I'm no longer Yuuki Cross, who knew absolutely nothing about he world! I'm no longer the Yuuki cross who didn't have the power to do anything!" She shouted at him, peeved. "And Amaya isn't the girl who knew everything but couldn't do anything about girl!" I looked at her surprised. To be honest, I didn't expect her to say anything about me in her rant. "If something bad is happening, we will do whatever it takes to protect our loved ones! No doubt about it!" Wow...She knows me better than I know me! That's...kinda creepy.
"Yuuki." Kaname said appearing out of nowhere from behind us. "You should head back to your room before the scent of blood affects you. Same for you, Amaya."
"Kaname!" Yuuki exclaimed. She turned her head to look at him. "But the party is-" Zero cut her off.
"With what just happened here, that joke of a party is obviously over." Zero told her, blinking. "Kuran." Oh, he's nice.
X.X Back at the mansion
Basically, we were all shoved back into the car that brought us to the party and driven back to the mansion. Now, we were currently hiding out in Yuuki's room.
"So your saying it was a suicide committed by Ouri-Sama?" I asked, trying to keep things straight. I am so deeply confused right now it isn't even funny. I went so long without reading the manga, everything's so flipping fuzzy.
"Yeah." AIdou said. "The investigation came to the conclusion that Ouri-Sama killed himself, by turning that Hunter into a Vampire to strike the final blow, since he couldn't do that. And afterwards the hunter killed herself." I blinked.
"That's...interesting." Yuuki said awkwardly.
"It was just announced now." Aidou finished and mushroom sighed. "The Hunter Association is pretty angry...It's no wonder."
"I'd expect them to question whether it was really a suicide, or suspect other people of killing him." Yuuki said, sighing. "That at least I would understand."
Aidou gently placed a book on the table. "Yeah. Apparently they initially theorized that maybe another Pureblood could have taken control of the Hunter that was turned, to kill Ouri-Sama." He explained. "That theory had momentarily made all Purebloods at the party suspects in the case." I thought of something and crossed my arms behind my head, asking,
"But who would have anything to gain by killing the dude?" I wondered.
"Well, yeah, but..." Yuuki trailed off. Didn't...what's-her-face kill him? The blonde with the weird haircut?
"Well, I can tell you for sure." AIdou said to us.
"What?" Yuuki asked.
Aidou went into chibi-mode and pointed dramatically at Yuuki. "Even now, you don't understand much of our society! You're practically a little toddler stumbling a world of unknowns for you, so-" He took a deep breathe and continued. "-don't go thinking you can just barge right in and make a difference in situations as if you were some grown up or something!"
"I realize that." Yuuki said and I tried not to burst out laughing at her next words. She threw her hand out dramatically and said, "Which is why I plant og row up as fast as possible! I must study a lot!" She walked over and slammed her hand on the text book Aidou placed on the table repeatedly.
"H-Huh? O-Okay!" Aidou said, surprised and shocked, not sure what to say.
"There's a lot I want to talk about with Kaname-Onii-Sama when he gets back, so let's not waste one moment! Come on! Quick! Teach me already!" She pulled out her chair and made to sit down but paused.
"What's going on?" Aidou asked. I blinked and stood up straight, answering.
"There are more people outside-again." I added as an afterthought.
"Now way, Again!?" AIdou exclaimed. "Ah, come on!" He grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the door. He let go as soon as we were there and he threw the door open. "Please forgive us, but Yuuki-Sama isn't having any visitors at the moment! So we would like to ask you to kindly leave." I waved, stepping next to him.
"Bye-" I froze, a familiar scent hitting my nose.
"Oh, but I merely wanted to salute her quickly." A man said.
"I just wanted to see her to give her a present." A woman said.
"Hey, Hanabusa." A familiar monotone mail voice said.
"Are you going to shoo us away too?" A female voice said.
"Is it just me or am I just going everywhere you guys go?" That was the final straw. I ran over and tackled the brunette. "Whoa!"
"AIko!" She quickly wrapped her arms around me.
"Careful there Amaya-can't breathe!" She gasped and I quickly let her go. I then ran over and tackled both Shiki and Rima in a hug. I quickly let them go though.
"You three are here too!?" Aidou exclaimed and quickly corrected himself. "Er-I mean, We were asked not to let anyone come in until Kaname-Sama returns so...Weren't we Seirin, Amaya?" Seirin gave him a blank look.
Rima groaned. "Your the worst type of suck-up."
"Yeah man. ANd to think how we used to eat lunch with you, together and all. How cruel." Shiki said. I looked at Hanabusa.
"Come on! Can we at least let the three of them in!?" I gave him my best puppy dog eyes and I could tell he fighting himself.
"Yeah, please!? I'll take the blame in Kaname gets angry!" Yuuki said, giving him Puppy dog eyes. He was melting, I could tell. She quickly poked her head out and looked at everybody. "Thank you for coming to see me, despite our house being so far out in the mountains. The household is currently busy, so I'm sorry. I won't be able to receive you. Come on in, Shiki-Sempai, Tooya-Sempai, Aiko!" Yuuki said and the three walked in. I closed the doors. "You're the first people to actually visit since I moved here!"
"Well that's no wonder, considering you guys love shut-in and deep in the woods like this." Rima commented.
"It's practically house-arrest." Shiki added. Aiko sighed.
"How can you cope?" Yuuki laughed.
"It's fine. I'm used to it." She said. "Please make yourselves home in the living room. I'll go make some tea and be right back." She started to walk away, her heels clip-cloping on the ground.
"Eh, you don't really have to bother." Shiki told her. She shrugged.
"Wait! You don't have to make the tea yourself!" Hanabusa shouted, panicking.
"Hey, prefect." Rima started. "Were you always the type to wear pin heels?" She asked. "The image I had of you was someone who wouldn't wear shoes that are hard for you to run in." Yuuki stopped running and looked at her surprised. Her face went red and she quickly looked away, walking faster.
"I-I'll go make the tea right now!"
"Wait!" Hanabusa shouted, about to take after her. I sighed and face-palmed.
"You really don't have to bother with that." Shiki said. "I just came to give you a message from Takuma, really. He said, "I know it's not always easy, but please take good care of Kaname." That's all." Yuuki stopped and looked at him. Aiko blinked. "Well, he hadn't asked me to come all the way here. It was more of a 'Tell her next time you see her' thing. But, I came anyway, realizing that he was worried for you too."
"And it's been a year since I last saw you both." Aiko added , looking at me and Yuuki. Her hand instinctively moved to her shoulder. One name crossed my mind.
'Rido.' That son of a bitch did that to her.
"Senri, can we leave? I'd like to stay but..." She couldn't finish.
"This place is related to your father and it's quite disturbing." Rima finished. Shiki nodded.
"Well...We'll be leaving then. Sorry for the brief visit."
"Let's go. Maybe we can stop by your Mother's." Aiko blinked.
"Good idea. I just hope she doesn't try to bite me again." She shivered slightly. "That was creepy." Shiki nodded and looked back at Yuuki.
"Prefect, don't think I refused the tea because I don't like you or anything like that, okay?" He said. "So, don't make that face looking at me. To have that added to the memory of Rido makes it even worse." The three of them headed to the door and a sad look crossed my features. "I much prefer that carefree look you had when you invited us in. See you around, cousin." They left and a voice from behind us asked,
"Anything else?" The three of us- Yuuki, Hanabusa, and I- got down on out knees bowing. Kaname looked as though he was going to murder! DX "How many times did I ask you three not to open the door when I'm out? And yet, you three are so much like the little pigs from the fairytales who opent eh door with a wolf outside ready to eat you! Regardless of how many times they were told not to do it! I wonder what punishment you three have been hoping for."
"If you want to keep me locked up so badly then you should've kept me hidden and never have introduced me to the Vampire society at all!" Yuuki snapped, pissed off.
"Would you've preferred it that way? If so, then I would have gladly done so."
Yuuki faltered a bit. "Not-Not really..."
"Oh, I know just what to do." Kaname continued, being creepy and scary. I gulped and inched closer to Aidou slightly. "Since you want to study so much, Yuuki, I'll be the one teaching you right now. I'll help you learn a lot of things. As for Aidou and Amaya, their punishment is to count all the chickpeas and green beans in the pantry, and report back with the numbers. Please see to it that they count them all." Kaname told Nagamichi.
"Yes Kaname-Sama. I'll make them count them myself."
"What do you mean by that!?" AIdou demanded as Seirin pushed us towards the kitchen. "And Kaname-Sama! I already told you that the Spartan style of learning totally backfires on her!"
"Hey! Watch it!" I shouted as Seirin pushed us into the kitchen.