XeniaKunoichi: Lol, I'm really not sure which piece Senna would be in a chess game. I'm still trying to figure it out myself. A knight is a good possibility though.

Sakura02: I didn't remember which side moved first either. I just googled it and most of the sites said white went first. Yes, I can't believe we're already in the 50s for chapters. I swear if this one winds up being like Akatsuki Baby…

Lina Schiffer: I horrible at chess as well. I can play a fairly basic game but unless I'm playing against a five year old, I rarely win. I have a hard time beating the computer on easy…

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Aidou looked around the area nervously, clutching a tiny snowball in his hand. The full moon made the snow sparkle in the cold night and cast shadows all over the place. "Senna, you come out this instant! This isn't funny!" He whipped around when he heard someone giggling but saw no one. "Senna, I'm serious!" He yelped as the back of his head was suddenly bombarded by freezing cold snow. "Senna!"

Senna rolled around on the roof of the mansion, howling with laughter. "I got you, Aidou-nichan!"

Kaname chuckled as he rolled a large ball of snow around with Yuki's help. "Senna, stop torturing Aidou and come help me and Yuki with our snowman."

"Okay." Senna gracefully leapt from the roof and landed a few feet in front of Aidou. She stuck her tongue out at the flabbergasted noble vampire before skipping over to Kaname. She tilted her head to the side as she looked at the rather large ball of snow in front of her. "Why are you doing that?"

"Well," Kaname explained. "this is going to be the bottom of our snowman so it needs to be really big. Can you help Yuki?"

Senna looked thoughtfully up at Yuki before throwing herself on top of the ball of snow. "Okay! Yuki-neechan, roll the snowball!"

Yuki blinked but did as Senna asked her. She gasped as the ball of snow rolled forward and Senna fell off the ball. "Are you all right, Senna?"

"Again!" Senna grinned as she brushed the snow from her hair and climbed back onto the snowball. She laughed as Yuki continued rolling her around on the snowball. Every time she rolled off, Senna brushed the snow off herself and climbed right back on. "This is fun!"

Kaname sighed and plucked Senna off the now rather large snowball. "I think that's enough for the bottom. Let's make the middle now."

Senna and Yuki continued the process with Aidou coming over to help. Senna yelped as a particularly rough push on the snowball sent her flying. She glared over at the triumphant smirk on Aidou's face. A wicked idea came to her mind and she began sniffling. "Kaname," she cried out. "Aidou-nichan hurt me on purpose."

Kaname bit back a laugh as he went over to Senna. He knelt beside her. "What's wrong, Senna?"

"My knee hurts." Senna cried. "I think it's bleeding."

"Well, let's look." Kaname looked at Senna's white stockings which were in pristine condition. "Oh my, it looks really bad. There's a lot of blood."

Senna's eyes widened. She had only been pretending that her knee hurt. Was she really bleeding? "Let me see!" She cried out in alarm.

"No, no." Kaname gently pushed Senna back so she couldn't see her leg. "It's rather bloody and I don't want you to get all upset seeing it. I think we're going to have to cut off your leg." He scooped Senna up and began carrying her towards the house. "Don't worry, it won't hurt that bad."

Senna began kicking around. "I don't want my leg cut off!" She screamed. She blinked as she kicked her leg up into the air and saw that there was no blood. She looked incredulously at her leg and then at Kaname whom could no longer hold in his laughter. Senna puffed her cheeks out indignantly. "You tricked me!"

"Forgive me, Senna." Kaname laughed out. He stopped when he saw the wide eyed, terrified look on Senna's face. "What's wrong?"

"You laughed!" Senna shrieked. "It's the end of the world! We're all gonna die!"

"Oh, Senna." Yuki rolled her eyes as she took Senna from Kaname and took her back over to the now completed snowman. "What do you think?"

Senna tilted her head to the side as she studied the snowman. It had two rocks for eyes and different rocks of varying shapes and sizes for its mouth. Two twigs were used for its arms and Aidou was just finishing putting a carrot on the face for its nose. "Pick me up." Senna ordered Aidou.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Aidou muttered as he lifted Senna up. He blinked as Senna began drawing on the face of the snowman. "What are you doing?"

Senna grinned as she pulled her mitten covered hand away. "It's Kaname!"

Yuki had to stifle a giggle. Senna had drawn angry eyebrows on the snowman and added a pair of fangs protruding from the mouth. "Senna that's not funny."

Senna laughed as Aidou put her down. She grinned proudly up at Kaname. "What do you think?"

Kaname studied the snowman for a moment. "That doesn't look like me."

"Yes it does." Senna argued. "That's what you look like in the morning."

"Let's come make snow angels." Yuki quickly ushered Senna away from Kaname and the snowman when she saw Kaname debating on whether to smash the snowman to pieces.

Senna blinked slowly and looked up at Yuki. "What's a snow angel?"

Yuki sighed. "Lay down." She instructed. She made sure to lay herself a little over arms length from Senna. "Now, move your arms up and down and your legs in and out."

Senna watched Yuki for a moment before mimicking the teenagers actions. She giggled at the cold feeling of the snow. She looked over in time to see Yuki stand up. "Now what?"

Yuki leaned down and gingerly picked up Senna. She smiled and pointed at the two shapes lying side by side. "See? Snow Angels."

Senna grinned when she realized the shapes did indeed look like angels. "Aidou-nichan, come look!" She pointed excitedly at her angel as Aidou came over. "Look, it's me as a snow angel!"

Aidou stared at Senna's snow angel for a moment before leaning down. He grinned as Senna began screaming at him in protest as he drew horns on top of the head and a tail coming out of the side of the angel. "There, now it's you."

"Kaname!" Senna whined. "Aidou-nichan ruined my snow angel!"

"I think that's enough for today." Kaname said as he came over. "You need a bath young lady. Don't even think about trying to run off." He added when he saw Senna attempting to wriggle out of Yuki's grip. "I'll put bubbles in."

"I want the kind that smell like strawberries." Senna piped up as Yuki carried her inside with Kaname leading the way. She allowed Yuki to strip her down and put her in the warm water in the tub. Senna grinned as she played with the bubbles while Yuki washed her hair. "Can we play in the snow again tomorrow?"

"We'll see." Yuki said softly. She gently cupped her hand over the top of Senna's head while she rinsed out her hair to avoid getting soap in Senna's eyes. "Senna, what have you been dreaming about?"

Senna paused in playing with the bubbles. "That man…I'm always standing in front of a mirror under a sakura tree. It's me but…I'm different. I don't look like me anymore. He always plays with my hair and talks to me." Senna looked at her long hair hanging over her shoulder and frowned at how much darker it was. Of course, she chided herself, it could be because it was wet. "I don't want to change…I don't want him to take me away…"

Yuki lifted Senna from the tub and began gently towel drying the little girl off. "He won't take you away." Yuki said firmly. "He's gone, Senna. He can't hurt you anymore." Both girls looked up as a soft knock came before Kaname poked his head in.

"I'm going out for a bit. I should be back before daybreak." He said softly. He smiled at Senna's tousled hair. "When I come back, we can play another game of chess."

Senna's eyes lit up. "Okay! Have fun, Kaname!"

"Yuki, we need to finish your lessons!" Aidou called from the hallway.

Senna sat patiently as Yuki combed out her hair and dressed her. She waited until Yuki had disappeared into the study with Aidou before slipping down the hallway towards Yuki and Kaname's room. She knew Kaname had probably hidden the folder again since Senna had found it. She scoured the entire room but to no avail. The folder was nowhere in sight. Senna huffed and sat down on the floor, frustrated. She blinked as she noticed something sticking out from behind the couch. She crowed triumphantly when she pulled it out and found it was the folder. "Kaname needs to learn to hide things better."

She stared at the folder for a moment and traced each letter of her name scrolled across the front. A part of her wanted so badly to open the folder and see just what it was that the doctors had always jotted down about her. Another part didn't want to know; didn't want to relive the pain of what had been done to her. With trembling hands, Senna opened the folder.

Her eyes scanned the first few lines on the first page. Nothing particularly interesting. Her name, her birthday, her weight. She flipped through a couple more pages of simple observatory notes on her behavior. She paused on a paper that seemed newer than the others. She read over the first few lines thoughtfully, confusion written on her face. As she read further down the sheet, her eyes widened and her lower lip trembled.

"Senna!" Kaname was in the doorway. He was beside her in an instant as he yanked the folder from her hand. "I told you to leave this be."

"Kaname," Senna's voice cracked as she spoke. "I don't…I don't wanna…I'm…" She began to cry hysterically. Not even Kaname holding her did anything to assuage her tears. "Zero-nichan is going to hate me." She sobbed out. In the back of her mind, a voice whispered that she should've listened to Kaname and never read the folder.