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Title: Logging off Life (Chapter 1)

Author: MeteorLeopard (HoneyBadger)

It had been Kaname's idea, Aidou recalled, to set up a School Messaging Network. His motives to 'further positive relationships between the Moon and Sun Dorms' had at first seemed ludicrous and, now that the system was up, did nothing of the sort, in Aidou's opinion. After all, how was it possible for the students in the Sun Dorms to know if they were speaking to another Sun Dorm member or a Moon Dorm member since everyone went by code names?

Anonymity was the name of the game here.

This was a point that he was currently discussing on the said Messaging Network. At noon, when any sane vampire would be asleep and far away in dream-land, he was still up and rubbing his stinging eyes, typing quietly on his laptop's keyboard. There was one particular person whom he was engaged in conversation with.

HazelNut: Shouldn't you be heading to bed soon?

He smirked as her message popped up on his screen. Even while typing informal things she paid close attention to her spelling and grammar, preferring to avoid shorthand. He brought his fingers to his keyboard, preparing to type his reply.

Ice101: Why would you ask something like that? I don't sleep at noon.

He had to always watch his words. The last thing he needed was for this girl to find out that he was in the Moon Dorm and then pull a screeching fan-girl on him. He really didn't want that. She had been nothing but utterly intriguing to talk to.

He knew that she was from the Sun Dorms since all of the Moon Dorm's occupants had announced their own code names to one another at the beginning of this spectacle to avoid any confusion between the members. Again, that had been Kaname's idea.

The slight ding of his laptop alerted him to another one of the Sun Dorm girl's messages.

HazelNut: Yes you do. All Moon Dorm students do.

His eyes widened slightly at her insight. Or was she just guessing?

HazelNut: I am not a fool.

He had to shake his head. She truly was something else, always leaving him stumped. So despite his careful act to keep up the charade of being a Sun Dorm member and merely on lunch break like she was, she had seen right through him. What an extraordinary human.

When Kaname-sama had first introduced the system he had made it mandatory for each Moon Dorm member to create their own account. Aidou had enthusiastically created one immediately, though a mere two days after opening it and having already hoarded up a swarming mass of contacts (most of them self-invited) and his inbox swamped hourly, he'd closed it again. Now he'd opened a new account under a different name and had resolved not to use it again.

He was doing pretty well, despite the fact that he was actually currently online and losing sleep by talking to someone.

But it was only one person that he spoke to. One person only had this contact because Kain had so lovingly opted to show him where the 'Hide' function was. So now, with the 'Hide' function enabled, Aidou found that his new account was hidden from all private computers and servers and only viewable through the school's few official sources. He supposed that this was how this girl had managed to get a hold of his account, though she insisted that it had been pure chance.

Not that he minded much.

HazelNut: Get to bed. I won't be responsible if you pass out in class tonight. Sleep well.

Aidou's fingers paused over the keyboard as his eyes widened somewhat at her message. A quick glance at his wristwatch told him that the Sun Dorm's lunch break still had another 20 minutes left.

HazelNut has signed off.

He stared at the alert on his screen for a moment before it faded away. He blinked once before an unwilling grin crept onto his features. That girl truly had just signed off to get him to go to sleep. He repressed his chuckle, not wanting to wake his sleeping cousin, and folded his laptop shut before sliding it under his mattress.

This whole cyber-space relationship had been going on for long enough for Aidou to develop slight rings under his eyes from lack of sleep, so her forceful suggestion had come as a relief. He let a smile creep onto his face as he drifted off into slumber.

It was nice, he mused, to talk to a girl from the Sun Dorms without her mooning over him.

It had been an accident really when she had come across his account.

Her position as a librarian during break times and after school had her sitting behind the desks of that large, book filled room for hours and, during one of the lulls of students entering to borrow books, she had gone through the computer's filing system to try and create some semblance of order in the otherwise chaotic data storage space created by the half-senile old lady who normally ran the library. Luckily, Yori mused, the lady was due to retire soon. Not only was her work performance deteriorating but the woman's old body couldn't keep up with the workload and everyday tasks of running the faculty.

So, seeing the need for another person to know the system as intricately as her, the old librarian had trained Yori, a permanent regular there, to manage the school service.

On one such occasion of organizing the computer's filing system, Yori had needed to reference a novel's publishing date and genre. Yet, upon accessing the internet, she had found a number of alerts popping up in the bottom corner of the screen. Assuming it to be a minimized program that the computer system used for locating information on books, she opened one.

Needless to say that when she had typed in: "The Hogfather, Terry Pratchett," in the small space there the response hadn't been what she had been looking for.

A monosyllabic reply under the name of Ice101 had popped up: "Huh?"

Frowning for a moment, Yori had opted to type a full sentence: "What is the genre of the book, 'The Hogfather' by Terry Pratchett?"

After a moment a reply had appeared.

Ice101: What am I, an encyclopedia? And who are you, by the way?

After a few more replies Yori had managed to understand exactly what was happening. Apparently the old librarian had also gotten into the whole online chat system that Yori found so ludicrous. Yet, after a few more exchanged messages with the strange person, she had redirected the conversation to her own, mandatory account.

And it had continued from there.

Now she wasn't so sure if continuing the contact with the strange person had been a good idea. After all, she had initially assumed him to be from the Sun Dorms but a quick investigation (involving her best friend Yuuki nicking the list of all Sun Dorm accounts and account holders from her father, the chairman) she had dismissed the thought. Apparently the Moon Dorm accounts were kept by Kaname, the head of the Moon Dorms instead of the principal so Yori could not make certain of exactly which member of the Moon Dorms she was talking to.

During the few breaks that Yori had to herself and wasn't in the library, she spent with Yuuki and sometimes Zero. When she was in the library and not organizing shelves or sorting out some filing or helping one or other lost student, she spent chatting to her new friend. He was odd at times, to say the least. And when he wasn't watching it some old grammar or terminology slipped into his otherwise very modern messages. At least, Yori assumed him to be a boy from both his attitude and sometimes flirtatious wording that she quickly crushed flat with her level-headed replies. She did not want a romance or anything of the sort to bloom from an online chat service. That did not fit into her logical mind and she rejected the notion. In fact, she did not want a romance, period.

The thought was frightening to her.

After she had made it perfectly clear (in no uncertain terms) that if he didn't stop trying to flirt with her she'd stop talking to him completely since she wasn't interested, he had stopped, surprisingly. Or at least toned the flirtation down to a bearable amount. Every now and again a twist of words would come across the wrong way but she overlooked it. It just seemed in his nature and Yori secretly liked that rebellious streak to him, though it put her off just as much.

More than once had she found herself wondering which of the Moon Dorm students it was that she was talking to but quickly stopped her thought process. She didn't want to know because then it would make him all the more real. So instead of figuring it out, she opted for something that her mother had dubbed, "The Ostrich Treatment". Sticking her head in the sand and ignoring the facts was something incredibly hard for someone as inquisitive as Yori to do, yet she managed it for her own sanity.

And she had a feeling that she needed her sanity in the future. After all, some of his questions left her feeling more that slightly uncomfortable.

Ice101: What if I told you that I was a monster?

HazelNut: I'd tell you that the nearest mental hospital is but a phone call away and that they have plenty of anti-depressants there.

He'd replied with a flippant remark and changed the subject. She still wondered from time to time if he had wanted to tell her something there. She brushed it off.

He'd even questioned her about her identity once.

Ice101: So are you going to tell me who you are?

HazelNut: No.

Ice101: How about 20 Questions? You only have to answer what you're comfortable with.

HazelNut: No.

Ice101: What if I were to guess a few names and then you'd just have to answer yes and no?

HazelNut: No.

Ice101: How about I tell you who I am and then you tell me afterwards?

HazelNut: No.

Ice101: …you're really stuck on that, aren't you?

HazelNut: Yes.

Yori had the sneaking suspicion that her stubborn side had irritated him somewhat but she couldn't help it. She was going to keep this strictly in cyberspace and purely platonic. She had no room in her life to deal with a real relationship to someone in the Moon Dorms.

A/N: I truly have no idea why I always end up liking the most unlikely pairings, I honestly don't. I don't even choose to like them, my brain just comes up with the suggestion and, BAM, I'm hooked. But on the other hand, I can't say that I mind all too much.

This is my first time writing a Vampire Knight fanfic and I hope that I got all of the facts correct. I did do research and check up on things but please, if you spot a mistake, feel free to correct me. I learn like that.

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