White, Brown or Black...?

( Zero x Yuuki )

prompt : bunnies

Disclaimer: I do not own Zero, Yuuki, absolutely nothing of Vampire Knight. These words, however, are mine.

He still hadn't figured it out yet, but he was damn sure he hated the word 'bunny' by now.

The moment he and Yuuki had walked into class that morning, Yuuki had been surrounded by all of her annoying little friends. They had been huddled together off and on during the moments the teachers weren't looking or when the teachers had left the class alone to work, but he'd caught the words white bunny, brown bunny and black bunny every now and then...

He was fairly certain no other connotations could be applied to 'bunny' other than that it was a small animal. The way Yuuki would blush and look his way made him curious though and kind of blew the one-connotation-word theory out the window.

So why did she keep looking back at him!?

For once, those damn girls weren't looking at him scared either― they were wearing smug little smiles instead...

“Zero?” A voice spoke from beside him, tentative and concerned. He jumped, having fallen into a trance over the situation. He wasn't going to have to wait very long after all, he mused, as Yuuki was sitting beside him and leaning close to him in her effort to get his attention.

“Yuuki.” He acknowledged. “So... Having a nice conversation over there?” He asked airily, acting like he didn't really care. He got the desired reaction, however, when she blushed and looked away from him.

“Uh, yeah... really nice.” She agreed, fidgeting a little.

“What's all this talk of bunnies?” Beating around the bush could only entertain him for so long, after all; blunt was the way to go.

“What!?” She nearly shrieked, only at the last second remembering where they were. “I, uh... what?”

He smirked. “Come on now, you weren't that far away. What is so fascinating about these bunnies? I didn't know they made you blush so red.”

“Well, uh... we weren't talking about bunnies as in... well...”

“Hm?”

“Well, the girls were asking me if I was a white, brown or black bunny.” She explained, as if that would clear everything up and magically enlighten him.

“Okay. The colours stand for something?” He prompted, shifting closer to her when she glanced back at her group of friends. Ah, so he wasn't supposed to know? That little tidbit of imformation made it all the more alluring. He'd be damned if he didn't get it out of her.

“Yes...“

“And?”

“I can't tell you that!” She hissed.

“Why not―”

“Zero, Yuuki... how many times am I going to have to separate you two?” The teacher suddenly bellowed from the front of the class. It was true though; whenever they sat together, they succeeded in getting nothing done and distracting their classmates. As such, they were almost never allowed to sit beside one another in class. “I'm going to ask you to leave... you can take care of your business with each other outside and when you come back, if you feel you even need to come back at all... I expect to see you on opposite sides of the room. Understood?”

Yuuki had gone completely white. “Yes.” She squeaked meekly and grabbed Zero's arm, all but dragging him out of the room.

When they were out of sight of the classroom, she finally let his arm go and leaned against the wall. “He's such a jerk...” She muttered.

“Ah, well. Gives us more privacy!” He grinned in a rare moment of playfulness. She fixed him with a confused stare, wondering at his state of happiness.

“Are you okay...?”

“What does white mean?”

Blushing madly, she attempted to walk away, but he decided to trap her against the wall with his hands resting on the wall on either side of her head. “Come on, Yuuki. You'd think after all we'd been through,” he reassured her, eyes dropping to the curve of her neck, “that you'd be a little more comforta―”

“White means kissing, hugging, nothing more than the normal.” She let the words tumble out of her mouth, looking up at him innocently.

He arched an eyebrow. “And brown...?”

She sighed. “Everything except outright... sex...”

He chuckled. “I guess I don't have to ask what black means. But... what did you say?”

She grinned up at him. “Black of course!”

Caught off guard he sputtered and backed away from her as she pushed his arms out of her way. “What!?”

“B-L-A-C-K. Black. I'm just a dirty little girl, huh?” She laughed, winking at him. Served him right, she thought, backing her into a corner like that...

“You'd better be lying to me!”

( AN. ) I was actually not going to write a note, but... I felt like I needed to let you know that I find Zero, in this chapter, to be hitting the OOC side of things. Maybe it's just me, maybe it's not, but I decided in the end to let this one slide into this collection.

Hopefully it's not so bad, though! Otherwise we can apply the AU verse to this chapter and pretend it never happened! And yes, this is based on something that exists in my life, so it's not some random free-for-all idea, haha.

Sorry for my massive hiatus, but I am back now for all my stories. I promise it won't be happening again anytime soon, because the hiatus only happened because I had an academic-driven semester and now all I have left are electives. :)

Til' next time!

-Bree