Chapter 4: Bentos, Birds and Bees
Touga was hanging upside down from the ceiling, being a one-night punching bag.
No that didn’t happen. Wait, you actually believed that? Think again.
Zero had been unsuccessful because Aido was crying. It became the priority of that moment, because if Aido was going to cry, the rest might to join in. After receiving a scolding from Yuki, Zero sulked on the couch, with Kaname being a twit and not helping him (emotionally) by forcing him to sit in his lap again.
Aido had stopped crying, enjoying his place in Zero’s arms. Yuki had picked Shiki up and was wildly amused with the child’s antics of nipping at whatever he could get.
“Sensei, you knew that this would happen, didn’t you?” Zero growled.
“I have no idea what you’re talking about, stupid pupil”, Touga replied, popping a tempura into his mouth.
Abruptly, Zero stood up from Kaname, taking Aido along with him in a hand while pointing to the bags of bento on Cross’ table.
“Then what’s with the purchase of ten bento sets?!”
“I was feeling hungry”, the headmaster sounded.
Zero threw a glare at his adoptive father. “You knew it too. Don’t lie.”
Cross gave a hesitant laughed and hide behind his table, taking one of the bento sets and started to open the upper case. “Well, let’s just eat, shall we? I’m sure the kids are hungry”, Cross said. “Kain, Ruka, Rima, Takuma, Shiki and Aido, are any of you hungry yet?”
Five of the six said yes. Without further ado, Cross gave each of them a bento(except Shiki) and the all sat around the coffee table before the couch, happily and messily eating the food. Apparently ‘etiquette’ had yet to exist in their dictionary.
Zero returned to his sulking mode on the couch and Kaname was halfway to being in the same state, but composure was of slightly more importance. Thus he took to venting on Zero and added to the hunter’s misery by using Zero’s lap as pillow, arm thrown over his forehead.
Cross was not exactly happy of Kaname misusing his couch but he knew better than to tell Kaname off when he was not in a good mood. But the pureblood’s legs were annoyingly hanging over the armrest of the couch…
“Maa, come on Zero. Don’t blame them. It’s not their fault after all”, Yuki said a while later. She was standing near the chairman’s table, swinging a tempura about while she held the tail. “Besides, the gas will only last for a short while.”
Zero huffed, but Kaname lifted his arm and averted his gaze at her, quite intently.
“Yuki…” Kaname suddenly said in a very creepy voice. His younger sister froze and realized she had let something slip. Awkwardly, she turned her head away and started chewing on her tempura.
“Ah ha ha ha. Look at the time. I’d better go make sure the students are back in their rooms…”
“It was your doing, wasn’t it?” Kaname continued. None of them in the room mentioned anything about the gas before, so how would have Yuki known…?
Zero tossed a glance at Yuki, catching her give a ‘geh’ noise.
“You mean Yuki was the one who gave the mission?” Zero said out loud.
Slowly, Yuki turned around, placing a hand behind her head and giving the widest smile she could.
“Well, I thought it would give you two some real life simulation if you had kids…?” Yuki shrugged.
“Just great”, Zero grumbled. “Now why in the world did you have to do that?”
“Well, you know, I really wouldn’t mind be an aunt right now.”
“You’re only 17!”
“That’s right! I want to be a grandfather too!” Cross pouted, before a gunshot rang off in the room and dissipated with a hole in the wall near the chairman’s head. Cross started freaking out.
“Who do you think we are?” Zero grumbled, putting his gun on the couch as his other hand raked his hair back.
“Fe heyhe rahing rahin (the baby making machine),” Touga said with his mouth full. Zero glared as hard as he could at his teacher.
“Well, a kid would be good, Zero! I mean, think about it! You feed him, bring him out for walks, tuck him into bed…” Yuki trailed off, dreaming away.
“You make ‘him’ sound like a dog… I wonder if you’ll ever get married, Yuki,” Zero sneered evilly. Kaname was also chuckling at the insult/joke and at Yuki’s embarrassed face.
“N-no! You’ll teach him stuff! How to read, how to speak… and once he hits the appropriate age it’ll be the birds and the bees!”
The hunter on the couch started choking. “Wha-?!”
“Well, yeah. You’re going to have to tell them about it eventually!”
“Birds and bees!!” Aido happily said out loud, bit of food flying out of his mouth.
“I don’t like bees,” Ruka told Rima, who nodded back.
“Hold that thought!” Zero interrupted quickly. “That’s a very farfetched thought. Why in the world are you getting up to… there?”
“What problem is there?” Touga snorted. “Vampires are very open about sexuality… seeing as their lust for sex is possibly greater than blood.”
“Sensei, there are kids in the room,” Zero growled softly. “Could we keep off the… mature stuff already?”
“What’s ‘lust’?” Kain asked after swallowing his food.
“Yeah, yeah and what’s ‘sex’?” Takuma asked after.
“Well, lust is – pmh!” Touga got cut off when a book was smacked into his face, courtesy of his student.
Yuki giggled into her hand and squatted at the coffee table where the kids were sitting at. “Well, you’re a little bit too young to know, but ‘lust’ is something similar to ‘like’,” she made up.
“Sex is… ‘go at it like bunnies’, you know?” Touga continued after tossing the book onto the chairman’s table. He ignored the glare coming from Zero. “It’s intimate… like kissing.”
“Really?” A few of the kids sounded after each other.
Takuma’s grin suddenly widened. “Then nii-chans lust to go at it like bunnies!!!”
(A/N: replace ‘lust’ with like and ‘go at it like bunnies’ with kiss. That was the intended sentence XD)
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“HUH?”
“Sen…sei…..” Zero growled under his breath. “WHY THE HELL DID YOU HAVE TO SAY THAT?!” He roared, face redder than the ripest of tomatoes. (A/N: He didn’t have the heart to yell at Yuki, so he pushed it all to Touga)
Kaname was laughing into his hand, as Cross and Yuki were too.
“Stop laughing!” The younger hunter hissed down at his lover. The brunette pillowing his lap glanced up with a smile on his face.
With little effort, he lifted his upper half while pulling Zero down and placed a chaste kiss on his lips. Then, he got off the couch, straightening his clothes, leaving a stunned Zero on the couch.
“I bet they work harder than the Duracell bunnies”, Cross jokingly whispered to his friend, who chuckled.
Zero heard that about three seconds later and pulled his gun out, firing at the wall between the two adults. Cross then feinted fainting.
“I’ve had enough. When will they return to normal, Touga,” Zero asked, using his teacher’s name out of annoyance. He kept his gun after.
“In a few hours, depending on how much the contact is between the gas and the… vampires.” And yet another tempura got munched away.
“In any way, I think it’s best we return to the Moon Dormitory, just in case any of them decides to turn back all of a sudden,” Kaname sighed. The young vampires were also done with their bentos, anyway.
“I just want to get out of here,” Zero scoffed.
“The kids will be there, Zero-kun!” Cross sounded. “Remember not to do anything you lust(like)!”
“DIE!!!”