CROSSED. A VAMPIRE KNIGHT//TOKYO GHOUL FANFICTION.

[28] I'm unoriginal

'What was that about?' Yuki snapped me out of my thoughts, bringing me back to reality.

'Just a pedophile trying to coerce me into doing lewd things.' I chuckled. Yuki looked at me gravely, obviously not thinking that was funny.

I stuff my hands into my pockets and spin around, heading back to the main building. 'You coming?' I look over my shoulder at Yuki.

She quickly runs to catch up with me, doing okay at keeping pace with me now that I wasn't hurrying around.

We make it back to the building, her walking in with me.

'I'm going to collect Zero, you should get some sleep. We can do the night shift.' I pat her head. She pushes my hand off and nods without a word, walking through the building to the other side. Thank god she's actually taking my advice for once.

I walk up to the headmaster's office and go in without knocking, seeing both the headmaster and Zero still in there, talking about something rather serious.

'What's going on?' I walk up to the desk and see paperwork and files sprawled all over the top.

'I've been assigned.' Zero grumbled, holding up an all too familiar file. Figures.

'So the hunters are testing out your loyalties too huh?' I plucked the file from his hand and opened it up, reading the assignment.

He snatched back out of my hands and held it stiffly in his opposite hand, away from me. 'I'm not planning on tagging along anyways, I was just curious.' he rolled his eyes and put the file back on the table.

'It is true that the hunters are giving you both assignments to test you, but you shouldn't think too deeply of it, they're only making sure.' Kaien looked up at me, over his glasses.

Suddenly he jumped out of his chair, the aura around him going from gloomy to flowers in .2 seconds. 'But if anyone can do it, I'm sure my dear son can!' he cooed, going to hug Zero. Zero dodged the headmaster and turned around, taking the file with him.

'For the last time, I'm not your son!' Zero slammed the door shut just as I exited, making an 'o' so dramatic exit.

We walked along the path, just before it split into the two directions, his hand intertwined with mine. Zero was quiet as he thought about something or other, and I was humming song lyrics to myself, happy we could spend time together.

Zero broke the silence first as we reached the crossways. 'I've gotta rest up, can you do a night shift by yourself?' I pouted and looked down mopily, I thought we could spend some time together...

I sighed and put my hand on his shoulder. 'Yeah, I can. I'll miss you though.' he rolled his eyes, a coy smile on his lips.

'Yeah, I'll miss you too. See you.' he waved at me as our paths separated. I don't even know if classes were still running but I better go back and check. I think I felt at least a couple of vampires' presences in the building while I was there.

I turned around on my toes and walked back, still exhausted. It's been more than 24 hours since I last slept, I'm running on sheer willpower at this point. If my classes are still going, I'm going to sleep, and if not then I will sleep outside.

I finally get to the building, it took longer than usual since my normal pace of walking has slowed down to a literal snail. I weave around the corridors and find my classroom... pretty much empty. There were a couple of vampires hanging around but there wasn't actually a teacher in the classroom. No one I really knew was in here anyway.

I look at the vampires who look back at me. 'Where's the teacher?' I asked, trying to make myself sound more authoritative.

'He left to go see sir Ichijo, Lord Akara.' I look up to see a girl with pink hair and bright green eyes staring at me, her face red. Her eyes weren't on mine, and I realised what she was looking at.