"YUKARI'S MISSING?!" Shion slammed her fists on the desk.
"Hey, calm down, Shi." Hana said.
"Calm, down, Sangu? CALM DOWN?!" Shion exclaimed at her clubmate.
"Our friend is out there somewhere, and you want me to sit back and relax?! Sure, let me rest my feet on the desk for an hour or two!"
"Archer, don't you agree that we should go out and look for her?!"
The so called 'Anime/Manga Nerd' of the club peeked an eye from behind the cover of his manga.
"…maybe?"
He then retreated back into his book.
"Where's Kaito?! Is he STILL making that test up?!" She shook the room with her demanding voice.
"Hiragi-senpai, I'm sorry for being late." Kaito ran into the club room, his glasses practically falling off his face.
"I'll excuse you if you tell me if we should go out and find Yukari!" The President said.
"Why not, after we're done with our homework, of course."
"Very well, I'll be getting ready for our departure while you're working." Shion said in an inside voice as she started to pack up their bags.
*Yukari*
/He's such an idiot….making a move on me like that…/ I thought as I tried to find the dining hall.
/But….he's been really lonely….staying in this huge place for a hundred years…./
I sighed.
I didn't understand my feelings right know that my stomach was drowning my thoughts in rumbles.
I then met with that curly blond mess I was thinking about.
"Mikaela….um…Hai-o…." I felt my face heat up.
"Hello Yukari…" He said as his face got a bit red.
"I was just on my way to the dining hall, so if you wouldn't mind…."
"Yukari, I really do love you, and I hope you feel the same way." He blurted out.
"But….didn't we just meet like, two days ago or something? How could you feel like that after such a small time?"
He was silent.
"Yukari, have you ever gotten a job to locate a sword?"
"Yeah, I think about four or five times…"
"Have you ever gotten your hands on a black and green one before?"
"Black and green…" I thought aloud, trying to remember.
"I have, yes."
"Did it ever try to….possess you…?"
"No, I don't think so," I began. "But since that day, I've been having freaky dreams."
His eyes widened.
"What kind of dreams?"
"Some had children laughing, some had them screaming, there was even a figure that would talk to me from time to time, and it acted like we were old friends even though I've never met him before."
"Did you happen to get his name?"
I thought for a while, digging through every area of my memory.
"His name….was…..Asuramaru…."
*Mikaela*
"No….it can't be right….you can't….be…" I backed away cautiously, but I fell over a knot in the hall's rug.
"Why are you acting so weird?" She stepped closer.
"….wait….there's only one way to know….if it's true…" I thought aloud before grabbing Yukari and taking her into my room and plopping her on the fluffy bed.
"Mikaela what's going on?" She demanded.
"After what you've told me, I think you may be someone I know….but I have to make sure that it's true…"
I came next to her and sniffed, checking the scent.
"W-why are you smelling me?!" She tried to shove me away, but I had an iron grip on her arm that was strong yet gentle.
/I should have expected that you would've smelled different./ I thought to myself.
I then lengthened my fangs.
"Mikae….la…?" Her eyes had a flaw of fear at the sight of my fangs.
"The other way is the blood test…Yukari…please forgive me…"
She opened her mouth to respond, but by then, I had already bitten into her neckline.
She didn't make a sound, which was odd for someone who had never been bitten before.
I took a good enough sample of her life force, and concentrated on its flavor.
It had a metallic flavor, like all blood should have, but….then it was the tangy, citrus, flavor, and then it faded into a sweet taste….It tasted like the first drop of blood I drank when I became a vampire…one hundred years ago….
I drew back and met with her emerald gems, noticing the different light to them.
"Mika…." She winced as she rubbed her neck sorely.
"How did your eyes change back to blue….?"
I felt my eyes swell as I pulled her into a tight embrace, no one else knew about my real eye color before I became a vampire….it was really him.
"YU-CHAN….I-IT REALLY IS YOU….I KNEW IT!"
I had tears of happiness falling down my cheeks uncontrollably.
"Mika, what happened? Why are you crying? Why does my head hurt so much? WHY AM I A GIRL?!"
A storm of questions came out, but I was too overjoyed to care….I was finally back with my Yu-chan that I had lost all those years ago.
"M-mika, you're….squeezing me…" He tried to wiggle out, but his face developed a tomato hue for an odd reason before I let him go.
"Why did I have to reincarnate as a girl…?" He whispered, keeping his arms away from his chest.
"Yu-chan, I'm so happy that I've seen you again.." I wiped the tears from my face.
"Okay…" He said as a question, most likely meaning that he didn't remember how he died.
"Can you please explain why I'm wearing a dress?"
"Oh, you see…." I told him the whole situation about how Yukari had come here and how I came to know who she was and even telling him the span of time it had been since he had been killed and what was going on now.
"I…was killed?! And it's been a century since the end of the war and the present day?!" He was processing all the information I had just given him.
"Yes…and I was thinking-"
"Sir, we have news of humans arriving at the underground gate!" Corra's voice said quickly from the other side of the door.
"Corra, tell Krul and Ferid that I'll be there!" I ordered as the sound of her footsteps echoed down the corridor.
I held a hand out to my long lost friend with a paring childlike smile.
"Let's go, Yu-chan~."