Vampire Hunter Girl

….Hey Jealousy….

I came into Cross Academy halfway through the year. I was a new day class student. I had jet black hair and bright green eyes. My full name was Christina Emily Way. But I prefer Chris. My Mum was a Vampire Hunter. She met my dad when she was visiting Britain. He was a Doctor. So she brought him with her and now he's a doctor for the Vampire Hunters. They had my older sister seven years before I was born. So when I was twelve she went out with my mum as a fully-fledged Vampire Hunter. That was the day they both died.

It was half way through the school year, it was eleven o'clock in the morning on a Saturday and I had just arrived with my father who was holding my medium sized totally wrecked brown suitcase. I had my hair tied back tightly and I was in my new school uniform. My dad had told me to keep my hunter weapon hidden under my skirt. We hadn't told the headmaster when I went in for a quick interview but I look a lot like my mum and with the name I had no doubt he suspected who I was.

The sun was high today. There wasn't a single cloud in the sky. Day class students were out and about sitting and chatting, while the day class students were distracted me and my father moved into the school building where the headmaster had said he would meet us with his adoptive daughter, Yuki Cross, and Zero Kiryu. Zero Kiryu, was a vampire Hunter. He was like me. But He had lost his whole family, while I had only lost half.

We saw them waiting, Headmaster Cross was standing with a large, kind of creepy smile, Yuki was smiling kindly her eyes where large and she had a pixie hair cut that suited her well. Then my eyes rested on Kiryu.

Silver hair covering his face so he didn't have to look at me, I could see clearly the tattoo on his neck, he was tall and muscular, he had ear piercings and he and was slouched as he rested against the wall. He obviously didn't want to be here, he was probably wishing to be killing some vampires, I know I was.

I gave a gentle wave to them as I neared and Zero finally decided to push off from the wall, he didn't raise his head but at least he had the manners to stand politely, even if he didn't say anything. Yuki stood beside him she was too perky if you asked me, she was probably like the rest of the day class girls swooning over the night class, those blood suckers, freaks, mutations…. "Hello" My father greeted and I stopped walking realising that we were standing just in front of them. I nodded my head as well and finally Zero raised his head, he didn't make eye contact but I could see clearly his violet eyes, they looked so lost, I felt like I needed to hug him but I knew nothing about him other than what the association had told me during my training and so I came to my senses and decided not to.

"Eduardo-San, Christina-San, it's a pleasure to have you here." The headmaster greeted us kindly and Yuki bowed slightly. I bowed in return and smiled at her, she smiled to, although she was always smiling from what I had seen of her so far.

"Thank you for letting me join so late in the year." I smiled at them all in turn and took my suitcase from my Father and hugged him tightly, I wouldn't see him for some time but I planned to write to him so it wouldn't be too bad. He squeezed me extra tight and whispered to me, 'stay safe, and don't show off your hunter skills to anyone.' It wasn't advice it a warning, my father like me to have a normal life whenever I could but I usually trained anyway, hunting was natural and normal to me.

He walked away after giving me a tight hug and then I followed the headmaster and Yuki to my dorm room, luckily I got a room to myself. Zero wondered off somewhere without Yuki or the Headmaster noticing but I did. My room was simple enough, a bed, a desk, everything I would need to be a normally student at a regular boarding school. But this school was anything but regular.

~3~

I walked out of my dorm when I was settled, I had been given a list of places where I would need to go, the classrooms, the dining hall, the stables, but I was most interested in the pool. Swimming was my sport; it also helped with my asthma. I got it from my dad, I was supposed to be a doctor like my dad but I changed my mind when my mum and sister were killed. I grabbed my swimming suit and a towel and made my way to the pool, I checked to make sure it was empty first which it was and then changed; everything was so clean here, so far it felt more like a hotel than a boarding school.

I wrapped my gun up in my towel and brought it to the edge of the pool with me, I obviously couldn't keep it attached to my thigh when I was swimming someone would see it!

The water was so refreshing, so cool; there was a hint of chlorine but not suffocating like some other pools. I started with lengths first, breaststroke. On top of my towel was my inhaler, I hated having to carry that thing around, the last two I had went out of date and I hadn't used them at all, but like my dad says, "It could attack at any time." And I knew this was true, when I was younger, we went out for a family meal and someone sprayed something, at that time my asthma was bad and so I was set off first, my dad was talking to me, trying to calm me down when he breathed in a lot of the spray and he started choking once it settled in his chest, we all thought he was going to die but he inhaled some of whatever is in the inhalers and once it kicked in he was fine but you could tell the suddenness of it had caused him some pain.

I had been doing lengths for about twenty five minutes straight, it felt odd not doing it without my dad keeping track of how many I had done or telling me to go faster or make smoother movements. I hopped up onto the ledge and swished my feet back and forth and looked at the water it was so soothing and peaceful.

I quickly had the feeling I was no longer alone, I didn't want to pull my gun out, but I had a feeling it was a vampire. No. I knew it was a vampire.

I grabbed my gun and jumped back into the water and pointed it behind where I had been standing. I looked up to see Zero Kiryu pointing his own gun down at me. I smiled a little and lowered my gun and moved back over to the edge of the pool. So I was mistaken, it wasn't a vampire, that was a first. "What do you want Kiryu?" He had also lowered his gun and knelt down at the side of the pool while I put my gun back into the holster I had pulled it from.

He tilted his head at me then reached for my weapon. "Is that a hunters weapon?" he asked, he was a hunter to I had no reason to stop him looking at it; we were kin in the association.

"Yep, it was my mother's weapon. Then it was my sisters. A load of good it did them." I replied and then started back stroke in the lengths of the pool at least this way Zero would be able to walk back and forth and talk to me as I swam.

"What do you mean?" He asked looking at me; I couldn't wait to tell my dad that he had left me alone for two hours and already I had pointed my gun at a fellow hunter.

"My mum was with my sister when my sister got her first list, they were both killed and they had been told there was roughly ten Level E's in total. Turned out to be closer to a hundred, we still don't know why there was so many in one place. Personally I think it was a damned Pure Blood." I answered and stopped swimming to look at him; he was kneeling by my towel and had found my inhaler.

"And what's this?" He asked, I sighed and swam back up to him. I rested my arms on the edge of the pool beside his feet, for someone who hadn't even said a word to me when he had first saw me, he was quite curious in me now.

He had my inhaler in his hands and was spinning it. "My inhaler." I replied and snatched it off him. "I don't need them anymore but my dad makes me carry them just in case." I replied and dived back under the water, the water was cool. I needed to cool down.

I swam back up to the surface and took in a deep breath; Zero was still looking at me. I was staring back at him. "Does the headmaster know?" He asked as he reached for my gun again.

"Don't touch my gun, you have your own!" I snapped and swam to the edge of the pool again and climbed out grabbing my towel. "To answer your question…" I barked "He probably does know but no, I haven't told him." I wrapped my towel over my shoulders and started walking away, gun in one hand inhaler in the other. I could feel his eyes following me as I walked.

I stopped and turned around "Something you need Kiryu?" I snapped, he was a fellow hunter so I had respect for him but I couldn't stand people staring, it bothered me. But his gaze, it was making me insecure; I had never felt insecure before, could it be because I was away from home, away from my Father, everything that was familiar to me had just been snatched away.

"You know about the night class right?" He asked and started walking towards me.

"Well duh…" I responded and watched him slowly as he crept forward his steps almost timid.

"So do you know about Shizuka?" He asked, I had some knowledge about her, basically I knew she was a pure blood and that she was dead now.

"Pure blood and deceased." I answered "That's it." I honestly could answer anything more without sounding stupid.

"She was the one who attacked my family, killed my mother and father, and took Ichiru." He explained and without knowing it I started walking towards him. "Kuran's with Yuki, and I'm jealous." He confessed and we we're now within two meters of each other. "Oh and Shizuka bit me and I've bit Yuki." He stopped and inhaled deeply before whispering "And Ichiru is now here at the Academy too, so I'm having tons of fun!"

"So you're a vampire?" I asked suddenly, if he was bit by a pure blood…. Then shouldn't he be a vampire?

"I'm a hunter." He said boldly. So he was a vampire, but he was a hunter. He still had his humanity. That was good enough for me.

"I can see us being good friends Kiryu." I smiled and put my hand out to him.

He grasped my hand and we gently shook hands, I was shivering so I started walking away. Shouting behind me: "My Dads a doctor for the hunters. My gun has no name. I like your silver hair and I'm officially jealous of Yuki for having your attention, and I plan on killing every vampire that I can. Cause they killed my mother and sister." I heard him laugh in a happy yet unsatisfied way and I went to get changed. I didn't see Zero again until my first lesson on Monday.

~3~

Joining halfway through the year was annoying and I didn't have anywhere to sit, I walked in and talked to some girls I hadn't met before and then looked for Zero, he was up in the top corner sitting by himself. Actually there was no one near him like that corner of the class was taken up by Zero's presence alone.

"Zero doesn't like anyone, he kinda gets along with Yuki but that's about it, don't waste your time." A random girl I had never seen before whispered to me before taking her seat, she had blonde hair and green eyes, she seemed slightly evil.

I smiled at her and started to make my way to Zero, when I sat down beside him every conversation stopped and all eyes were on us.

"I hate it when people stare." He whispered to me, he was looking at me with his violet eyes.

"You're not the only one." I replied and pulled out my textbook and a pen and pencil.

"You have really big green eyes." I looked up at him, my eyebrows were raised I was in a little bit of shock. He smirked only for a second, but it was enough for everyone in the room to gasp. "Your eyes are pretty." After that he became silent the teacher walked in, everyone rushed to their seats and got all their stuff out, every now and then there was an old glance at me and Zero who were actually conversing on the topic in history, I noticed the teacher looking at us in amazement when he wasn't shouting at Yuki to wake up.

~3~

"Thanks for the help today, starting half way through a topic is going to be annoying." I laughed as we walked down the stairs. He was staring at me and I knew he was wondering where my gun was.

I stared back at him and we stopped in the corridor, he was quite a bit taller than me and so looking up at him was annoying. "You do carry it on you right?" He asked and gently rested his hand on the area where he kept his gun secure under his blazer.

"Of course, it's attached to a strap under my skirt, normally I'm in jeans and I'm at the association so it's normally on my belt." I replied and we dropped eye contact and started walking to maths, I hated numbers.

"Sit beside me in maths okay?" I looked up at him as we walked, he was glaring like he normally was but by the look on everyone's face he was speaking more to me than he had for the entire time he was here.

"Why are you persistent to have me next you in maths?" I asked still looking at him as we walked, he had asked me several times in history to sit beside him as well. He raised his hand to behind my head I was unsure what he was doing and then I felt his hands on my hair bobble.

"Whaa…" I stuttered as my hair fell around my face, I never had my hair down, it slung over my shoulders and was straight and black, I almost felt embarrassed my hair was the one thing I truly inherited from my mother. I hated the reminder.

"I like your hair down." He replied again although this time he smiled and opened the door for me slipping my bobble into my pocket as I walked past him through the door. Everyone was seated but the teacher hadn't arrived yet and I saw Yuki was already asleep again, and Ichiru at one of the window seats, I think he noticed me and Zero enter, he smiled only for a second, he was Zero's identical twin no doubt.

"Does she do this often, sleep during class?" I asked as we climbed the stairs to our seats. I was trying not to look at Ichiru this was the first time I had seen the two of them in the same place. Zero nodded and slid in behind Yuki and Sayori (I think that's her name, I hadn't been introduced to her yet.) Zero reached his hand out to me and motioned to where I was to sit.

I kept on flicking my hair to behind me but he flicked it forward. "You're really annoying!" I hissed just as the teacher walked in. He did the register and then called out my name.

"Ahhh, Christina Way… where are you…?" He asked and I raised my hand, he about fainted seeing me next to Zero, come to think of it everyone did.

I leaned over to Zero as the lesson started and whispered "Why is everyone staring at you? I take it your very anti-social?" I whispered to him and he glared at me, "Okay so your anti-social, why am I suddenly an exception?"

"Because A, You're a Vampire Hunter. B, you want to rid the world of the Vampires. And C, You're interesting unlike every other night class obsessed person in this place." I let out a small laugh in the silent room and everyone including the teacher turned to look at me and Zero rolling our eyes and then carrying on writing down the equations.

~3~

We left the final class of the day, throughout the day I had learned a lot about Zero, and I had got him to start calling me Chris, instead of Christina. He had disciplinary committee and so he said goodbye and I'd see him tomorrow. I was on my way back to the dorms when the same girl who had told me that Zero was a waste of time said, "Aren't you on your way to see the night class?" She almost squealed now she looked more like an obsessed fan girl.

"I have no interest in seeing the self-obsessed night class." I spat out and carried on walking.

"Have you even seen them? Their sooooo hot!" I wanted to slap this girl, a vampire would only kill her if it got the chance, she was such an idiot. I turned away and then she shouted to me, "Kiryu's going to be there!" I stopped in my tracks, "I noticed you two got close really quickly I thought maybe seeing you might make him smile." I nodded my head,

"I would like to see how long Zero can keep his cool around the Night class, show the way." I still didn't know this girls name and she had been in all my classes today. I followed her and some of her friends and saw all the day class female students huddling around the entrance to the Night class dorm. Yuki was at the door shouting for them all to get away and back to the dorm rooms and Zero was hovering. I stayed as far back as I could and watched them all scream, one was screaming for Aidou, one for Kaname, and there was even the class president shouting for Ruka, all of them Vampires no doubt.

Soon enough the gates opened and all the girls lined up as if this was now the read carpet. I didn't stand in line and I started walking away, I couldn't be bothered being here anymore, I walked slowly hoping that Zero would notice me.

I turned around when I felt someone catching up to me when I saw a vampire, tall and blonde, a bunch of day class girls where running after him shouting 'Aidou'. "You must be new; it's a pleasure to meet you." He smiled he obviously like playing with the day class girls or maybe just loved the attention.

"Hmph." I grunted and carried on walking, everyone gasped and I suddenly felt another hand on my shoulder,

"That's very rude you know." This time I smacked the hand of my shoulder I could tell by the voice and presence in the atmosphere that this was the Kuran Pure blood.

"Hands off her Kuran!" I recognised that voice as Zero, who wrapped his arms around me and then pushed me to the side of him as if to get me away from them.

"I can handle myself Zero!" I snapped but Zero didn't drop the pure bloods gaze. Eventually Yuki came over and 'broke' it up but the tension between the two was unbelievable.

Zero eventually turned to me and I sighed, "I would have been fine." I poked him in the chest. "I ain't a damsel." I poked him again.

"I hate him." Zero muttered and I laughed.

"No kidding."

Zero laughed and poked me on the forehead. "What was that for?" I pouted jokingly resting my hands on my hips and leaning forward.

"Why did you poke me?" He asked in returned and I smiled.

"I'm a girl; most guys think it's cute when we poke them in the chest." I laughed "What's your excuse?" I was smiling at him; he was a nice change from it just being me and my dad and all of his friends sons who loved science.

Zero was like me in so many ways, yet so different and curious to me. He face was like a stone wall and I just wanted to tear it down to see what was underneath his exterior. I wanted to meet the real Zero; I wanted to be his friend, someone for him to lean on.

"Do you think you could do me a favour?" He asked me and reached for my hand, my heart made a loud thud in my chest and I missed a breath, I'd been here three days and yet a boy had my heart racing.

"Tell me what it is first?" I asked and looked at our hands, mine resting in his softly. How had he done that? Manage to grasp my hand so gently and why hadn't my instincts pulled my hand away?

"Help me make Yuki, jealous."

"Okay" I whispered without thinking and it was weird as I felt one of his arms wrap around my waist and his free hand brush across my cheek.

My body and mouth was agreeing to everything he was saying and doing yet my mind was screaming stop.

"Chrissie." He whispered and rested his forehead on mine.

"What...? Its Chris and what are you doing….?" I asked as he tightened his grip on me. His face was to close, it was making me warm and dizzy, my heart was beating abnormally. Maybe I was coming down with fever…?

"There is day class students watching us, and Yuki will come and shoo them away and then she'll notice us and soon the entire school will now that the unsociable Zero Kiryu has a girlfriend." It was all a plan to get Yuki away from Kuran, I didn't like being used but whether I like it or not I had just agreed without thinking, and now people had seen us. I couldn't back out know I was his friend; I wanted to show him that I really was his friend.

"Chrissie-" He started

"Chris." I interrupted.

"Chrissie's more of a name for a girlfriend" He replied and I just merely nodded. Why was I agreeing to this, I hated Chrissie! I was Chris! Ugh….. But I had to play along and so I rested my hands on his shoulders, he leaned me back a little and brought his face closer. "Chrissie, I'm going to kiss you now." He whispered his breath was hot on my face, as he leaned in I decided to stop breathing and close my eyes.

His lips pressed softly against my own and my heart started racing so fast that I was sure it was just going to explode, this wasn't my first kiss, but this felt wrong on so many levels but right on so many levels to. His nose brushed softly against mine and he pulled away allowing me to breathe again.

"Sorry…" He apologised to me and leaned up. I was staring at him totally dazed grabbing onto his shoulders trying to get some balance, my knees where wobbling.

"Zero!" I heard Yuki's voice and he turned allowing Yuki to see me, her face was shocked at first and then it became sweet again. "I didn't realise you were going out with her Zero, isn't this the kind of thing you tell me about." She smiled and I thought Zero was going to scream at her or something but he just sighed.

"Am I not allowed a private life?" he snapped and pulled me properly to his side, I was just doing as I was told, where was the hunter in me?

"Anyway I'm going back to my room; I'm shattered; I'll see you later Zero." I gave a bit of an awkward smile and a bit of wave before trying to get away fast enough but he grabbed my wrist and pulled me back to him, his lips colliding with mine 'WHY!?' a Little voice in my head was screaming.

I wanted to pull away, I knew I shouldn't have agreed to this at all but instead I whimpered okay to his request and now I was kissing him back which obviously caught him off guard a bit, heck it caught me off guard!

Although it seemed to encourage him more after he realised and he squeezed me closer to him, I wasn't sure if this was just an act or if Zero was actually enjoying kissing me but he did push closer to me, he was so forceful that I stumbled and had to grip on to his blazer.

He let me go (when I realised I couldn't breathe and pushed against him) and we fell apart, we were staring at each other as if we should be denying that it ever happened but to the whole of the school we were dating now? It was natural for us to kiss each other right? But that was a bit intense I wobbled trying to get my head screwed back on straight.

"Sleep well Chrissie." He gently smiled and I nodded my head in his direction and then in Yuki's direction and her jaw was dropped.

"Goodnight Zero, Yuki…" I then ran as fast I could, I couldn't let myself fall for Kiryu, he was just using me to make Yuki jealous, he doesn't have feelings for me. As I ran I felt tears well up in my eyes how could he kiss me like that, how could I let him, he was using me for his own reasons. I stopped by a tree and pressed my fingers to my lips, I couldn't believe I had just been kissed like that, his first kiss had been so soft and tender and then suddenly it was as if he craved me with all his might, It was probably because Yuki was there.

He didn't want me, he wanted Yuki. I was just his friend, helping him in a crisis. Just his friend.

I had to remember that,

I was just Zero's friend,

I'm just helping him,

I can't fall for him.

A/N

So chapter 1 I hope you enjoyed it! I hope to see you in ch2

title is Hey Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms (Not that it has any relevance to the chapter!)

Rain!