A/N: Hello! :D I'm here with more nonsensical dribbles/drabbles/whatever else people call them short thingamabobs, and hope you all like it :)

I don't know if there's a need to make things clear prior to reading this, but just in case this raises some O.o-ness, Yuuki is an elementary school teacher (more specifically, for the first graders) and little Kaname, Ichiru, and Zero are her students. Aidou is a kid too, but in another class. Most, if not all, will be from Yuuki's side of things, so the kids' thoughts won't have an active role.

Warning: Mm...only if screaming kids aren't your thing XD That and maybe a bit of baby-slash between our favorite boys. I've made them pretty obsessed...

Disclaimer: To quote someone else, 'People, it's fanfiction'.

Cross Academy Elementary

Cross Yuuki loved her job. Really she did. There was no better motivation for getting up every morning than the little munchkins she had to look after at Cross Academy. She would do anything, absolutely anything (within reason and legality) for the precious angels she was entrusted with.

It was just, sometimes, they could really try on her patience, which she prided herself on having a fair amount on.

Holding in a heaving sigh, she smiled warily towards one particular group of children who meant the world to her. Currently involved in a shouting match.

"I said get away from him!"

"He doesn't want to!"

"Yes he does!"

"No he doesn't!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

And what was the subject of all the shouting doing as he was so viciously fought over? Playing with a set of trains, licking his lollipop. His complete attention was on setting up the most complicated railroad line with his limited materials.

Yuuki supposed anyone would learn to develop some selective hearing if they had to endure the inevitable fights every single day.

And the only way to stop those two was when—

"Stop it." It was softly spoken, he hardly ever raised his voice, but it might as well have been a scream if the reactions of the two shouters were anything to go by.

"S-sorry, I didn't break it did I?"

"Yeah, he's an idiot, but he wouldn't do it on purpose!"

"I know, but you almost stepped on the rails. Next time, you might, so stop it."

"Okay."

"Yeah, sorry Zero."

And they quietly settled around him to help with his railroad building as though the fight never occurred. She didn't know whether to be amused or worried at the relieved sighs of the other children and staff members.

Yuuki remembered having to step in between them during another one of their tug-of-wars and nearly ended up with a bald spot on her head for her efforts. Kuran Kaname and Kiryuu Ichiru, otherwise so docile and polite, turned into complete terrors when Kiryuu Zero was involved.

Some of the more gossip prone teachers joked the two must be bi-polar or whatnot due to their sudden changes in attitude and behavior. For just as quick as it was for them to lose composure, it was just as easy for them to regain it. And the trigger for both was Zero.

Sayori, a fellow colleague, once proposed the idea of keeping the boys in separate classrooms, much to the misfortune of two innocent teachers. For if they thought keeping them together was bad enough, it was worse when they were apart.

Ichiru had refused to sit still for longer than five minutes before trying to sneak out to see Zero, and Kaname, ever the model student, managed to reign himself in only to let loose even more drastically during breaks and recess.

In order to keep damage to a minimum, it was decided they needed to have Zero in the same room with them at all times, and Yuuki, who's track record was the cleanest when it came to dealing with them, became their permanent homeroom teacher.

She didn't mind it. As she said, she loved them to death. She just wondered how and why they came to be so fixated on one person. Zero seemed to function well on his own, so was it just a one-sided thing?

"Yuuki, how do you deal with those two?"

"Eh? Oh, Yori-chan," she smiled. "Ah, I don't know. They're nice boys though."

"Everyone knows they're nice boys, Yuuki," Sayori smiled wryly. "When they're on their own."

"Well, keeping Zero with them helps a lot," she answered slowly. "They might fight because of him, but they stop because of him too."

"I feel bad for Zero-kun," Sayori said softly, sending the boy a sympathetic glance. "If I had to deal with that everyday, I might as well go insane. I'm surprised he hasn't snapped already."

Yuuki giggled nervously. "Really Yori-chan, they're not that bad."

Sayori shook her head. "Hopefully, this'll just be another thing to laugh about when they get older."

"Kiryuu!" A high-pitched shriek sounded across the room. Yuuki cringed and Sayori groaned.

"There goes another one." She muttered. Just as Kaname and Ichiru were attached to Zero, Aidou Hanabusa (and Souen Ruka, though at a more discreet level) was just as attached to Kaname. Every time he came over to Yuuki's class to look for the pale brunet, there was always another battle to be fought over, deciding whether or not the blond would be awarded with Kaname's presence for the day.

"What?" Both Kiryuu boys looked up disinterestedly.

"The older one!" The high-pitched shriek demanded.

"What?" Zero drawled, eyes already back on the trains.

"You took Kaname-sama from us again!"

"He did not!" Ichiru shouted.

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Aidou!"

And now Kaname was involved.

"But Kaname-sama!"

"I want to stay with Zero. Don't you like being with Kain and Ruka?"

"Uh, yes."

"Then it is the same for me with Zero. I like him, so therefore I want to stay with him."

"But you like us too, right Kaname-sama?"

"Yes, but I don't like you as much as I like Zero. I want to stay with him more."

"Ka-Kaname-sama!" A loud wail. Yuuki got up worriedly. Sayori held her back with an amused smile.

"Ha!" Ichiru laughed. "Of course he does! Duh! Everybody likes Zero!"

"I don't!" Aidou cried. "I hate him!"

The hated boy in question continued to suck on his lolly.

"What did you say?" Ichiru's small hands balled in fists and Yuuki could see he was ready to spring at any moment. Sayori too, got up beside her, finally starting to look a bit concerned.

"Aidou…" Kaname didn't look at all happy either. "You wouldn't like it if I told you I hated you. Don't say that to Zero."

"But," Aidou, the little blond, looked to be on the verge of a breakdown, large pools of tears gathering in his wide blue eyes. "But he doesn't even like you back!" He pointed an angry finger towards the older twin. "All he does is eat his candy and play with toys – by himself!"

In the silence that followed, muffled crunching could be heard from Zero biting into his lollipop.

"He does so like him back!" Ichiru took a menacing step forward, unknowingly giving aid to his rival just for the simple sake of refuting Aidou's claim.

Kaname on the other hand, didn't say anything for himself in his defense, biting his lips with a mournful look towards the object of his obvious affections.

Aidou, catching onto the proverbial chink in their armor, took full advantage of it, his eyes gleaming with triumph. "No he doesn't! He doesn't even say anything!" He crowed. "If he did like Kaname-sama, he would have said so!"

Even Ichiru couldn't come up with anything around that. He sent a curious look to his brother. "Zero, you like him right?"

Soft crunching.

"Zero?" Ichiru pressed. Kaname just looked more anxious.

There was a pause in the crunching in which Zero slowly looked up from his seat on the floor. His eyes were impassive as he spoke. "You're all dumb. I don't like any of you right now."

The words had a devastating affect on all three surrounding boys. Ichiru went pale as a sheet, Kaname following not long after, but his eyes also welled with tears, and Aidou blinked before laughing uproariously.

Just as Yuuki decided it was time to step in, Aidou's laughter came to an abrupt stop only to be replaced by a cry of horror as he clutched his face. "You!" He said raggedly, glaring death at Zero. "You… You just kissed me! Ew!" And he did have a right to be fairly disgusted, Yuuki saw, as his hand came away faintly colored from the lollipop and sticky.

Zero smiled a sweet smile, his lips a violent cherry red from his candy with a wet sheen accentuating its bright color.

Giving another glare, Aidou ran off with hardly any of the victorious dignity he'd gained.

Another bout of silence ensued until there was a soft sniff and a whimper.

"Zero? We're sorry we made you mad. Please don't hate us!"

Kaname nodded emphatically, clutching at his shirt as he trembled.

As ridiculous as their wild reactions were, Yuuki couldn't help but feel for them, her own heart giving a pitiful twinge. Their emotional wellbeing counted so much on Zero's words. Surely he would grant them a bit of mercy?

But the older twin could be terribly blunt sometimes…

Zero gave his two shadows an assessing glance before his expression softened. "You guys were dumb, you know." He started. "But I said that to make the other dumb one go away and I never said I hated you."

"Can I get a make-up kiss?" Ichiru implored. The kisses were another Kiryuu twins thing before it turned into a Kiryuu twins plus Kaname thing.

Apparently, the brothers' parents had taught them when you forgave someone, a proper 'make-up' kiss was in order, and no one had told them differently. The teachers all thought it adorable and saw nothing wrong with their show of childish affection.

Zero made an exasperated show of rolling his eyes, but smiled and nodded, licking his lips clean before pressing them against his brother's cheek. He turned and did the same for Kaname before Ichiru had time to protest.

"Well, it's okay this time, I guess," the younger boy allowed grudgingly. He did frown when he saw that Zero was dabbing the end of his sleeve against Kaname's face. "What are you doing?"

His question went unheeded as Zero softly murmured, "Don't cry for dumb reasons, Kaname, I do like you." He cleanly ignored Kaname's muttered reply of, "It's not a dumb reason," and simply quieted him with another chaste kiss to his other cheek.

"What about me?" Ichiru pouted, already knowing the answer and wanting to hear it anyway.

"You too Ichiru."

And as Yuuki watched the beaming smile on his face, she amended maybe it wasn't all one-sided on their part, since Zero never responded so well with the other kids either. Only Kaname and Ichiru seemed capable of pulling out more than a few monotonous words or a blank gaze.

"So that's how you deal with them," Sayori laughed quietly, "you don't deal with them at all. They seem to know how to resolve things on their own." She sent Zero a particularly shrewd glance. "Better keep an eye on that one. He knows more than you think he does." The young Kiryuu heir wasn't completely unaware of how strong of a hold he had on his brother and the Kuran boy. What he said in front of Aidou had been deliberate, most likely to drive the blond away as quickly as possible, and when that didn't work, he went with just plainly grossing him out by kissing him, knowing how much the blond disliked him.

And he'd done it just as Yuuki was about to take things into her own hands.

As passive as he seemed, for a six-year-old, he knew how to play his cards well enough, knowing how to utilize people's reactions to his benefit.

Though she did doubt the boy knew just how deep Kaname and Ichiru's affections ran, and she wondered if she'd stay long enough to see its outcome. The Academy did run all the way through high school…

Yuuki laughed softly, "Um, yeah, that's how it usually goes, but you see, they're not bad, right? It's nice to see them care about each other so much."

"You think it'll last?" Sayori asked, almost curious.

"Mm…dunno, everything seems like forever when you're that young," Yuuki said wistfully.

"Well, at least it's guaranteed they'll look good when they're older," Sayori shrugged.

"…Yori-chan?"

"Don't tell me you can't tell," she teased. The boys were adorable, one of the many reasons they were so doted upon by many of the staff members. It even made some of the other parents envious, seeing such perfection in a young child. Kaname, especially, held a lot of attention for his delicate features.

And when the boys' parents had come in for conference day… The looks and stares seemed never ending.

"Well, at least the most dramatic part of your day is over," Sayori smiled, "the rest of it will probably be easy to handle."

"Kaname-sama!"

And in came Souen Ruka.

Exchanging a glance, not even Yuuki could hold in a wary sigh this time.

And thank you for reading! Now that I look back on it, maybe I should change it to pre-school or something...XD