Aiko fumbled with her hair, trying to make her braids perfect. Senri Shiki and Rima Touya were basically #1 models-and you wanna know the funny thing? They were er best friends. Rima had bright orange hair, usually tied into pig-tails, with electric blue eyes and pale skin. Senri on the other hand, had hair that resembled Aiko's childhood friend, Amaya Chouko, who has flame red hair. Senri's hair was a Mahogany color and untamed, his eyes a stormy blue. Aiko tends to accompany them and watch their photo shoots. Why they bother bringing her along, she couldn't fathom, but didn't mind. She liked being with them and eating pocky together, so she never complained. Not that she could anyway, her split personality wouldn't allow it.

Aiko's fingers fumbled and tugged on her hair-but the braids were still crappy. She sighed and stiffened when she felt someone grab her wrist and pull her back a bit roughly. She gasped and in surprise and shock and crashed into a young man's chest- a man who was dressed in a tuxedo with a brush in his rather pale hand. She relaxed quickly, recognizing this presence-only to tense, face bright red. She struggled to escape, but the man held a firm grip. He said one sentence and one sentence only.

"You'll hurt you and your hair if you continue to do that, Aiko." The man's voice was monotone and bored sounding, as was the look on his face-yet, if you examined his eyes, you could make some worry in the stone blue abyss. The girl nodded and her eyes widened, blush darkening.

"Senri! What are you-" She cut herself off when he started to brush and run his fingers through her hair. Senri merely blinked before purposely sliding his index and middle finger across the crook of his neck. He was a Vampire after all. That and he wanted to see her reaction.

Aiko shivered slightly at the contact and her hand immediately went up to her neck, where two bite marks used to lay.

Senri frowned-not that he was smiling to begin with. A year ago, his father, Rido, took over his body and bit Aiko. Senri was distraught, for Aiko-along with Rim and Takuma- was one of his closest friends. And even if he hated himself for it, he secretly loved and enjoyed the smeel and taste of Aiko's blood. It was sweet, really sweet, and we all know how much Senri loves sweets. Senri ignored the urge to bite her then and there and resumed to his task; fixing Aiko's braids.

"I'm fixing your hair." He answered, rather bluntly. "If I let you continued any longer, you would've destroyed your hair and hurt yourself." Aiko's face went even redder and she looked down slightly, ducking her head a fraction. Just then there was a click and a FLASH.

Senri and Aiko both looked up to see Rima and Senri's camera man and manager standing there, smirking.

"This'll go wonderfully with the new Magazine!" The cameraman gushed, clapping his hands together excitedly. The manager's smirk merely widened.

"We were down a model. This'll be the perfect opportunity to get a new! Fred, Title!" She demanded, pointing at the cameraman. The man gained sparkles in his eyes and shouted dramatically,

"Senri Shiki's Secret Affections! "Could it be that Senri Shiki isn't as emotionless as we thought?" The man grinned while the manager smiled brightly.

"Marvelous! We must tell the director right away!" They took off before Aiko could even speak.

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"Senri, why is Aiko posing with you?" Rima questioned boredly, confusion clear in her eyes. Her voice was soft, but sharp, and you could automatically tell that you did not want to get on her bad side. "She isn't a model."

Fred grinned widely as he looked at the female Vampire, saying, "Wasn't a model, Touya-San. There is a difference. Besides, she's perfect model material! She has a great figure! And with her lilac eyes, pale skin, and she generally has the same bored expression you and Shiki-san do! Speaking of Shiki-San, look at this!" He held up his camera and showed the image of Senri helping Aiko with her hair. "The young teen was able to bring affection out of Shiki-san! Amazing, yes?"

Rima blinked in surprise, not expecting that. She looked at the brunette and questioned with a bored face, "You were caught with Senri, Aiko? And you became a model because he was caught being soft?" Aiko sweatdropped, laughing nervously.

"Er...Y-Yeah, kinda." She shrugged. "No big deal." Speaking of Aiko, she was now wearing a black leather trench coat with brown leggings and black leather boots that stopped at mid-leg. She also wore a black fedora on her head. Senri was wearing something similar, only it was a dark brown trench coat, with black skinny jeans and brown boots. He also didn't wear a hat. "Besides, it's kinda fun." Rima blinked and sighed, hands on her hips.

She was wearing a red lace dress that stopped a little above her knees, black ankle boots with a heel, and a plain black jacket with sleeves that stopped at her elbows. She also wore a bronze watch on her left wrist and a ruby ring on her index finger on her left hand. She had her orange hair up in a messy bun, so some strands of hair fell down and flared out on her shoulders.

"I should've known you were going to say something like that."

"Well of course you should've." Aiko replied in the same bored tone, personalities switching again. "I'm not that hard to figure out. Sweet outfit by the way."

"If you two start fighting, I'm leaving." Senri stated bluntly in his regularly calm and bored voice. Both girls' looked up at the mahogany haired boy and stated in unison,

"Then leave." Senri sighed and shook his head. Those two girls' may be best friends, but they were a handful. He's gonna need some extra pocky later. His gaze traveled to Aiko's rather exposed neck and his mouth became slightly dry, his throat craving for that delicious sweet taste of her blood. Senri, having pretty good control over his blood lust, resisted the urge and made his gaze travel elsewhere. He will admit, he has some feelings for the strange human that went over "Friendship", but he wasn't going to ruin said friendship just because of some petty feelings. He was a Vampire Aristocrat, she was human. It wouldn't last for long. Now, Hanabusa just got lucky that Amaya happened to be like Yuuki, Vampire turned human turned Vampire, but the chances of that happening with Aiko was zero to none. The chances were very slim. Senri let out a small sigh, despising himself that he let himself fall for a girl he wouldn't even be able to spend his whole life with.

Of all people he'd fall for, you'd think it would be Rima, considering how close they were, but nope. He fell for that split-personality Aiko Tsukigomori, who had shoulder-length, if not shorter, chocolate hair, and light purple, lilac, eyes, which were brought out due to her hair and pale skin. Her eyes, in a strange way, reminded him of cotton candy and she smelt of strawberries. Everything about her was sweet, even her personality. Yes, call that over exaggerated if you will, but he doesn't care. It was the truth, to him at least. Most people found Aiko annoying and loud and bi-polar, thus causing people to ignore her, but Senri didn't. He found her interesting for a human when he met her for the second time; She didn't fawn over him and the rest of the Night Class like all the other Day Class girls do. (With the exception of Amaya and Yuuki) Her blood was also intoxicating and she liked a lot of the same things he and Rima did. She and Takuma got along well, but who doesn't get along well with Takuma? And no, his grandfather doesn't count.

"Hey, how long till this shoot is over with? I'm tired." Senri questioned Fred. Fred gave Senri a thumbs up and said with a wink,

"Few more shots and we're good!" Senri sighed again.

"This is too tiring..."

"Then why do work here?" Aiko questioned bluntly. Senri blinked and looked down at the girl, Rima merely watching amused.