Hei guys, this is my first Vampire Knight fic. I normally write Naruto fics, but I just read the manga and immediately became addicted to it. I decided to write a story about it. However, I apologise if some stuff I write are wrong since I am still reading the manga. Like names or something.
Oh and just to tell you guys, in this story, Oda is an OC of mine... Just a heads up.
Disclaimer: Vampire Knight belongs to Matsuri Hino...
CHAPTER 1: PROLOGUE
The boy stared at the cold, grey walls, hugging his knees on his bed. It is winter right now and the temperature in his room is quite low. Although the boy is cold, he did not pull the blankets to try and warm himself. As a matter of fact, the boy does not even feel cold. He just somehow find the walls somehow interesting, although there is nothing to be staring at.
The boy is around ten years old and is an orphan. Well, at least he thinks he is an orphan. His adopted father, Kaien Cross, is the chairman of this school found him in an abandoned alley, hungry and on the verge of death. That was precisely a year ago. He liked his adopted father. He finds him funny, always trying to cheer up his family by cooking new recipes, claiming that it was original, although he and his adopted sister, Yuuki Cross, doubted it.
The only thing that Oda knows about his past, or at least what his adopted told him, is that his parents were vampire hunters, people that hunt vampires down. Oda never knew how the chairman got this information but Oda just trusted his words.
His adopted older sister, Yuuki, is a pretty girl with large brown eyes and shoulder length black hair. He finds her to be like his real sister, always playing with him when they have nothing to do and scolding him when he did something wrong. Although he hated it, at least he gets to feel how it is to have an older sister always watching over you.
A knock on his door startled the boy. The door creaked noisily as it opened and the boy turns to face the person. It was Yuuki.
"Yuuki-Chan?" The boy greeted with a questioning look. It was rare of Yuuki to enter his room, normally just delivering a message from the outside of his room.
"Oda-kun," Yuuki started, walking to her adopted little brother, "Dinner is ready."
Oda, his full name is Oda Cross. The chairman named him Oda, which Oda found it strange. Sadly, Oda has no recollection of his real name so this will have to do.
"Is the chairman back?" Oda asked, getting off his bed.
"He's still away on a trip, but he should be back tonight…" Yuuki answered, walking next to Oda as they walked down the corridor leading to the dining room.
The chairman is currently away on a trip without telling his two adopted children what his business was, not that they asked. Although the chairman by right is now their adopted father, they rarely called him 'father' and just prefer calling him chairman, much to the chairman's dismay.
"He's sometimes so troublesome…" Oda mumbled, his hands in his pockets.
Yuuki just smiled as a response. In the one year that she knew Oda, that was his favourite, which was troublesome. Oda just likes to lie on his bed and sleep, although he can work hard when asked to. Other than that, he spends most of his time on his bed, either lying down or just like how Yuuki found him earlier, sitting on his bed and just staring at the walls.
The two took their respective seats and started to eat what Yuuki cooked. Yuuki can cook pretty good sometimes, but other times, could be disastrous. Oda would then complain and say how Yuuki is so troublesome. Then the two would be in a 'brother-sister' argument, but unlike most sibling arguments, they would laugh at the end of the argument, and this is mainly because of Oda's happy nature. He is an extremely care-free person and always see the good in everyone and everything.
Heck, Oda even trusts the vampires here in the academy. Yes, Cross academy contains both humans and vampires, studying in the same school but in different dorms. The humans, have lessons in the day and live while the vampires have their lessons in the night and live in the 'moon dorm.'
Although all the vampires in Cross academy have their bloodlust controlled, that does not mean you can trust them completely, but Oda trusts them fully. The only vampire that Yuuki and Kaien trusts completely without any worry is Kaname Kuran.
"So…" Oda broke the silence with food still in his mouth, "Did you talk with Kuran today?"
Yuuki instantly blushed at the mention of his name, "Wha-what? Why do you want to know that?"
Oda has both eyebrows raised, "Is that a crime?"
"You're being annoying." Yuuki muttered as she took another spoon of her food.
"And you're being troublesome…"
Yuuki rolled her eyes and the two once again ate in silence. Of course Oda can see that Yuuki's cheeks are still bright red from the mention of the name of Kaname. It is quite obvious that Yuuki has a crush on him, but Oda never knew when this started since when he was brought in a year ago, she was already like that.
After they finished eating, Yuuki started washing the dishes while Oda helped by collecting the dirty dishes and handing it to Yuuki to wash them. Although Yuuki does an excellent job in doing this, there will always be a small puddle of water on the floor from her washing. This always happens and there is no escaping it, no matter how many times Yuuki tries not to repeat the same mistake.
At that moment, there was a knock on the door and both Yuuki and Oda thought that it was the chairman. Oda went to open the door but it was not the chairman.
"Oh, Kaname?" Oda had a hint of surprise in his voice, "What brings you here at this time of the night?"
"I apologise for coming so late," Kaname bowed slightly, "I was hoping to speak with the chairman…"
At this point, Yuuki has heard the voice of Kaname and is currently standing behind Oda, "Oh, Kaname."
Kaname smiled, "Yuuki, nice to see you."
Kaname nervously stuttered, "Ni-nice to see you t-too…"
Oda sighed in defeat. Knowing his sister, she will be taking over the conversation now. Kaname of course, not being rude, would sometime ask Oda some questions that is irrelevant to the topic just so that Oda would be left out. Oda was however, used to it and left the two to talk alone. The chairman isn't back so the talk between the two would most likely last around five minutes at the most.
Oda walked back to his room and decided to get some sleep. It is getting pretty late, although for Kaname, this would be early for him since night time is like day time for vampires. Oda laid down on his bed and pulled the blanket to his chest. He can hear Kaname saying his goodbyes and the door closing. Just as he predicted, the conversation lasted up to four minutes.
After another ten minutes, Oda was about to doze off when he could hear the door knocking and the footsteps of Yuuki walking to open the door. It must be the chairman. Oda decided to just ignore it since he was already sleeping and the one thing that Oda hates the most is disturbing his sleep.
But his wish never came true. He can hear that Yuuki seems shocked about something, her voice raised. He can also hear the chairman trying to calm her down and this was enough for Oda to investigate what is really going on. He jumped off his bed and ran out of his room.
He can see Yuuki with both of her hands covering her mouth in shock and the chairman has his right hand on Yuuki's left shoulder, trying to explain something. Oda walked to them and he then he saw something that he did not expect. Or to be more precise, someone.
It was a boy, around the same age as Yuuki or maybe a year older. He has silver hair and purple eyes. But the one thing that most likely shocked Yuuki must be that the boy is drenched with blood. His clothes, hair and even face has blood all over him. Even Oda is caught by surprise by the sight of the boy.
"What's going on?" Oda asked, walking to the chairman but his eyes never leaving the silver haired boy.
"Oh, Oda…" The chairman did not expect the boy to be still up at this hour, "I thought you were sleeping."
"I was about to, until Yuuki screamed." Oda explained.
"Well, I kind of expected it," The chairman replied truthfully, "You two probably didn't expect me to bring someone here after my trip, did you?"
"Who's he?" Yuuki asked through her mouth covered with her hands.
"His name is Kiryu Zero… His family was killed by a vampire and he's the sole survivor of the attack. I just had to bring him with me." The chairman explained, patting the silver boys head.
"Vampires?" Yuuki repeated the word. Just hearing the chairman explain that the boy's family slaughtered by a vampire brought memories of her incident six years ago, when she was about to be killed by a vampire when Kaname appeared and saved her.
The chairman nodded, "His family are vampire hunters by the way, the same as Oda's parents."
"How do you know?" Oda asked.
"I just know…"
Oda sweat dropped at the answer he just received. Yuuki and Oda look at the silver haired boy. He seems to have no expression throughout their conversation. Well, that is the expected reaction. After all, his family just died and you don't expect him to be cheerful or anything.
"Yuuki," The chairman said, catching the girl's attention, "I want you to help clean Zero up and give him some fresh clothes. After that, bring him to me and I will take care of the rest."
Yuuki nodded her head and took Zero's left wrist and brought him to the toilet to help him wash up. Oda watched the entire scene and then looked at the chairman. The chairman has a worried expression on his face.
"So does that mean you're adopting him too?" Oda asked, smiling.
"Most likely," The chairman replied, looking at Oda, "After all, I was an ex-vampire hunter and with him coming from a family of vampire hunters, I can teach him some things that he need to know."
"Is that a good idea?" Oda asked, "I mean, this school is inhabited by both humans and vampires."
"Don't worry," The chair assured, "I have a feeling that once he sees that the vampires are actually nice, he won't go and hunt them down."
"I hope you're right." Oda said and started to make his way to his room.
"And I just might train the three of you.." The chairman suddenly said, stopping Oda in his tracks.
"What?"
"Well, the students in the day class does not know about the true identity of the night class and I will need some students that I can trust to make sure that it remains that way…" The chairman explained, his left hand rubbing his chin.
"That's like being a prefect." Oda pointed out.
"I guess you could call it that."
"So why do we need training just to be prefects?"
"You still need to be careful of the vampires. Although Kaname and some of the vampires would like to live in peace with the humans, there are certain vampires that are more hostile to the humans and you three might need to defend yourself from time to time."
"Sounds dangerous." Oda said, but liked the sound of it. After all, it just might be fun rather than just studying.
"Look, it's getting late. I will explain the details tomorrow to you and Yuuki and then to Zero once he's more at home here…"
Oda shrugged and walked back to his dark room and lied down. However, he did not fall asleep immediately, his head still filled with thoughts on what the chairman just said. Maybe studying in Cross academy won't be that bad.
