Chapter 8: It's hot, I want to have a bath!"- Yuki The Countess
". . .So the answer is the square root of thirty." The math teacher, Mr. Minus explains to the bored students, who see no benefit of learning math. Being killers doesn't really require math at all. At least that is what most of them believe.
"AH! It's so hot, I want to have a bath!" Yuki yells out as the pressure of the useless math finally gets to her. The teacher stops his monotonous lesson to glare back at Yuki, who glares right back. Her cheeks are flushed at the heat that only she seems to feel so intensely.
"You will get the chance to bathe after classes. Now is not the time." He tells her. Yuki stands up abruptly, and digs her nails into the desk. Her hand is taken, and she jumps. She looks over at Alice observing her nails.
"Don't do that. I don't like the sound of that." Alice says with a grin. Yuki looks at her, and pulls her hand away.
"But I want a bath! I want your blood! The blood of life!" She pulls out her blade from its holster and smiles maniacally, but Laughing Jack grabs her wrist.
"Goodness you behave like as if I can't defend myself." Alice says swinging her legs back and forth.
"You'd let her stab you." Laughing Jack reminds her. Alice giggles and nods her head, she sees his point.
Alice puts her arms over Laughing Jack, and looks over at Yuki, who is red with heat. Wanting so desperately to bathe. "If you want fresh blood to bathe in, why don't you go to your room right now? I left a little something for you." Alice says with a giggle. Yuki starts to calm down, and smiles gratefully at Alice.
"Excuse me! Young lady return at once!" Mr. Minus calls out for Yuki, who ignores him as she rushes towards her dorm room. She kicks the door open, and rushes towards the bathroom.
She stops, and smiles. She walks towards the blood filled bathtub, and looks at the writing on the wall. "~ with love, Alice" She reads. She giggles, and also finds chocolates placed next to the bathtub.
She touches her pocket, pulling out a lighter to light up the candles that were also set up around the bath.
"What a wonderful friend." Yuki says happily as she prepares to bathe in the sweet smelling blood. Her tense body feels at ease once her whole body is submerged. She lets a content sigh escape her and runs her bloody fingers over her bloody arm.
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Yuki has gone to her next class since she spent almost two hours in her blood bath. A nice gift from Alice. She perks up as students start to enter the room. She looks past them all. Looking for the students she considers friend material. She sighs as she finds Scarlet walking in with Silver. She waves them over, and Scarlet waves back. She pulls Silver along to sit beside Yuki. She frowns at him, but holds her tongue.
"No! Sit there. This special seat is taken." Yuki says wiping at the empty chair beside her.
"Hm? Who is it for?" Scarlet questions her.
"Alice." She says with a sweet smile. Scarlet frowns.
"Alice, huh? Yuki, you should be careful with the way you deal with Alice." Yuki frowns at her.
"Don't talk about Alice that way!" She yells out at her. She thought she could get along with Scarlet, but one wrong word messes that up. She no longer wants to be involved with Scarlet.
"Now, Yuki. No, need for the anger." She jumps at Alice's voice. She hadn't heard her approach her.
"Alice!" She jumps on the girl, and hugs her.
"You don't give up, do you, Yuki?" Alice questions as she removes Yuki's arms from around her.
"You're so mean, Alice. So hurtful." Yuki now tries a sarcastic approach since her angry outbursts seem to get her nowhere with Alice. She even adds a pout for emphasis on her sad mood.
"Aren't I?" She giggles, and skips away from Yuki. She frowns, and walks after her.
"Alice, why do you keep running from me?!" Yuki demands to know. She's not used to anyone being this difficult. Alice giggles.
"I'm not running! I'm skipping! I just can never stand still! I get bored easily!" Alice says with a chuckle. She stops, and Yuki bumps into her back.
"In fact I'm so bored that I want to play a game!" Alice says tilting her head to the side. Yuki cringes at the snapping bone.
"What kind of game?" Yuki questions her. Alice snaps her neck back together and twirls around.
"Lets play hide and seek. Hide and seek in pairs." Alice suggests. Yuki likes the sound of that.
"Okay, we'll be partners then." Yuki says to Alice. She shakes her head.
"Laughing Jack is my partner." Alice says twirling to the late student, and hugging him.
"Partner? Why do I like the sound of that?" He questions. Yuki glares at Laughing Jack. Alice giggles.
"We're going to play a game of hide and seek in pairs. We're together." Alice tells him.
"Who am I going to be with then?!" Yuki demands of her. Alice looks at the crowd of interested students.
"You can be with Hoodie!" Alice says pointing at the student, who was talking with his friends Masky and Broken. Yuki looks around until she spots him. Again she finds it curious that she's not disgusted or spiteful against this man.
"I'm playing?" Hoodie questions her. Alice nods her head.
"Mhm! Don't you want to be partners with cute little Yuki?" Alice questions pushing her over towards him. Yuki drags her feet some, but lets Alice lead her to him.
"Okay! Sit!" Alice surprises Yuki by sitting her on Hoodie. She blushes for an instant, but then the temptress in her easily becomes flirty with him. Alice rolls her eyes, and turns to the other students.
"Partners! Pick your poison ladies and gentlemen! The game will start when everyone picks their partners, and I'm it!" Alice says with a giggle. The students all look at each other, and quickly go to find their partner. Alice laughs, and watches them all. She motions for Laughing Jack to come towards her. He does so.
"Good! Now that that's done, I'll give you all to the count of 100 to hide. My favorite number." Alice says turning her back on everyone. Students shuffle out ready to play the game.
"So, Hoodie, where should we hide?" Yuki questions as she runs her finger on his chest. Flaunting her legs at him. He stays silent. Not sure what to say to this temptress.
"I-I'll go wherever you think we should." He says a little flustered. Yuki wishes she could see Hoodie's face, but she's sure he won't show her.
"Twenty!" Alice calls out to Yuki and Hoodie since they're the only ones left. Yuki puts a finger to her chin before standing up, and pulling Hoodie out with her.
"I wonder where Alice won't look?" Yuki questions looking around the school. Seeing some pairs still running through the halls. Yuki looks around, and heads into the computer lab.
"Do you think there's a place to hide here?" Yuki questions Hoodie.
"No, this is too easy. Alice and Laughing Jack can easily find Ben and Blood here." He says looking over at the computers. Yuki frowns, and exits the lab.
"Okay, where do you think Alice wouldn't check?" Yuki questions Hoodie. He looks around.
"She'll look everywhere, but if we keep moving we'll be alright." He says. He grabs her hand, and they head off.
~0~
"Well, this is no fun. The only ones who are smart are Curious Kitty and Yuki. Blood made it too obvious when I started talking bad, Broken didn't want to play, Scarlet got too giggly, while Carrie jumped on me yet again. I wonder where they are?" Alice questions Laughing Jack.
"You're joking, right? You do know where they are." Alice giggles.
"No, I don't." She says in a sing song voice. Laughing Jack looks at her skeptically, but says nothing more.
"How was it?" Yuki questions Hoodie as they continue their journey around the academy. Hoodie doesn't respond and keeps going. Yuki frowns, and pulls him to her. Wrapping her arms around his neck.
"It's rude to ignore me, you know?" Yuki tells him. "You're cute." She tells him as she lightly tilts her head to the side. "When I want something, Hoodie . . .I get it." Yuki nears her face to his. Daring herself to see what she can feel in that darkness.
She feels lips, and smiles on them. Smiling on the lips that respond to hers easily.
"Ew!" Yuki jumps at the voice and sudden giggle. "Found you." Alice says with a wink. Yuki frowns.
"That's not fair! You cheated!" Yuki says to her. Alice laughs some more.
"Cheat? You're the one making quite a bit of noise with this here man." Alice says skipping around them. "This was fun though. I hope we can play again. In the meantime I shall leave you two to do the dirty!" Alice laughs at her own bad joke before skipping away.
"Alice!" Yuki calls after the girl that refuses to listen to her. She frowns deeply up until Hoodie wraps his arms around her. She smirks.
"Thank you, Alice." She says before turning back to Hoodie. She smiles up at him before pushing him into the computer lab. Wondering what mysteries they are about to be discovered there with each other.
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