Addicted to the hunt: A Vampire Knight fan fiction

(A/N So here's the thing. One of our fellow fan fiction authors requested that I write a story for her and her favourite fandom, Vampire Knight. I love Vampire Knight, so instead of writing the next chapter for my DN story, this came into existence. But I will get to work on my DN fic once I've uploaded this ^_^

It took me a while to actually come up with a plot for this, but I've got it pretty much sorted, I think. This is a Shiki x Rima story, and at this point they will be evil. Bwahaha. Or at least, total bad-ass teenage rebellious adolescents, but it's all the same these days right?

Oh yes, I shall keep the rating 'T' for now. I don't know if that will change later on though, probably. This is for you Lea, enjoy!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight

Chapter 1: Stirrings of rebellion

His icy blue eyes surveyed his fellow classmates as they stood behind the towering gates that blocked the entrance of the moon dorm, hiding the true nature of its patrons from the day class.

Standing here, in the shade of the massive gates, he could let down his guard. The sun wasn't shining bright on his face, so he wasn't worried about getting sunburnt. Yet.

The other students stood together in pairs, or off to one side. At the head of the group, and closest to the gates, stood his cousin, Kaname. He was facing towards the sound of Yuki Cross' voice as she shouted at the day class students. It was obvious to him and all the other night class students that Kaname possessed some strange fixation with the tiny girl, but none of them could fathom the source of his attraction.

That being said, all the students practically doted on Kaname, referred to him with great respect, and would be willing to fight to their own deaths to protect him.

Frankly, he didn't see the point. Perhaps it was because they were connected by blood, but he had never felt the compulsive need to put Kaname's life above his own. And why should he? Realistically, even if the small population of pure blood vampires did cease to exist, the vampire race would live on.

All the purebloods represented was very old, and very frightening power. The way he saw it, they were effectively dictators to vampire society, and he did not respect them any more then he respected other vampires.

Annoyingly, everyone else seemed to see it differently.

At least, that's what Shiki thought, until his eyes were drawn to the equally bored looking girl now standing next to him.

Rima turned her gaze to see what Shiki had been looking at, and rolled her eyes when she realised what it was.

"What a comforting figure" she said, sarcasm clear in her voice.

"Why Rima," Shiki began, teasing her, "You sound almost like you don't fawn after the exulted Kaname-sama! Surprising…" He trailed off, not bothering to hide the smile on his face and Rima looked up at him with unamused eyes.

"Don't act surprised Senri. He's just another vampire whose blood happens to be pure. I feel kind off sorry for him; only, I don't understand why everyone is so obsessed with him all the time."

She broke off, and Shiki was a little shocked. That was probably the most he'd ever heard her speak in one go. That was one of the things he liked about her, she didn't drabble on like a lot of people do.

After all, conversation could be exceedingly dull at times.

In fact, a lot of aspects of his life were dull. Cross Academy took up most of his time. If he wasn't at school, he was modelling with Rima, and that was definitely the most exciting thing.

Shiki was incredibly bored; he hated this conformist, structured life he led. Why couldn't he do something different for a change?

Well, what's to stop me?

He looked again at Rima, who was still looking at him. He drew in his breath when he realised that she had been watching him that whole time.

"Senri, what are you thinking?" Rima's voice managed to be bored and curious at the same time. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he was impressed.

"I'm thinking that I'm bored, and that I don't want to go to class. I'm thinking… that I want to do something."

He hadn't meant for it to happen, but he realised that he had just made his last sentence sound like some failed attempt at a dramatic affect. Shiki groaned internally – he hoped Rima didn't notice.

"I'm bored too. I want to do something, instead of going to this boring school all the time. I don't learn much anyway."

Just as she finished speaking, the giant gates swung open with a horrible screeching noise. The horrible sound of high pitched squealing followed after, and Shiki began to grimace at the very thought of all the adolescent girls wanting to throw themselves on him.

Almost grimaced. He was a model, after all.

The members of the night class began the long walk to the classrooms, being watched every step of the way by the predatory stares of the day class.

He also hated this – the lack of privacy.

Between dealing with the girls from the night class, the prefects, Kaname, and his modelling career, Shiki got hardly any privacy whatsoever. He longingly wished for a break from all the unwanted attention he got. He didn't know about Rima, but he would not be surprised if she felt the same way.

"This is such a bore, do we really have to put up with all this attention?"

He practically told Rima what he had been thinking with that one sentence, but he knew she wouldn't tell anyone. How could she, when she felt the same way?

"We just have to put up with it. There isn't anything we can do about it." She sounded resigned to her boring fate, but Shiki felt a sudden burst of determination.

"Isn't there?" He posed it as a question, and Rima looked at him quizzically.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, suppose we snuck out. We wouldn't need to tell anyone, and we could leave when everyone is asleep and be back in time for class."

Rima didn't sound particularly thrilled by the idea. "Or, we could just skip class."

"We skip class all the time, all of us do. That's boring. We should sneak out."

"Senri, believe it or not, I do need sleep. And what about the sun?"

Shiki blanched internally. It was true. He detested the sun.

"Fine, we go during class then?"

Rima gave a long sigh.

"Yeah, I'll come with you I guess. Only because class is so boring though. At least this way I don't have to listen to that Yagari guy all night."

All of a sudden, the students of the night class arrived at the classrooms. They stepped inside, the doors swinging shut behind them, temporarily relieving them of the high pitched squeals of the girls from the day class.

Shiki sighed. Truly, this life was tiresome.

As the vampires made their way through the mahogany corridors of the building, they passed the Kiryuu boy, who had evidently been shirking his duty as prefect. His lavender eyes glared daggers of hatred towards the students as he turned to proceed down an alternate corridor.

"The nerve! How dare he look like that at Kaname-sama!" Aidou's outraged voice mirrored exactly what the other night class students were thinking – all except two anyway.

"I like him." Rima said quietly.

Shiki privately agreed; the boy was fascinating, and he appreciated and respected his strength of will.

Seeing Zero had made Shiki think of the time he and Rima had left to kill the rogue level E vampire. Neither of them had wanted to go, but it was a good deal more interesting then what their days typically consisted of.

He still remembered clearly the intense, albeit brief clash he had had with the deranged former human – in fact the details seemed permanently fixed in his mind…

…

They had walked in to see their prey hunched at the top of a flight of stone stairs, his deranged eyes peering at the girl below him in bloodlust.

Aforementioned girl had assumed a fighting stance, but they both knew that she would not be able to protect herself from this insane killer for long.

Shiki ran forward, leaving Rima standing in the doorway, and pushed the tiny prefect behind him. He knew the true reason why Kaname had sent them – they were to protect the girl, and at any cost. As the thought ran through his mind Shiki gritted his teeth to think of the heartlessness of his cousin.

He shouted a warning to the girl, and pricked his finger with his fang.

Blood shot from the wound, twisting and turning to form a long a deadly whip. He wasted no time, and flung his weapon towards his adversary.

There was a flicker of movement and the vampire was gone having moved with lightning speed to crouch in a dusty corner.

Shiki mercilessly cracked his weapon towards the vampire repeatedly; fire running through his veins, adrenaline spurring him on to take down the fleeing enemy. He had fought before, but it had been some time, and he was well and truly caught up in the thrill of the action.

Finally the vampire took of down a corridor, and as the dust cleared, Shiki could help but be surprised for not having hit him.

Rima scolded him for not having finished the task, declaring that now she would have to help. She sounded bored, but Shiki caught the undertone of excitement in her voice.

He turned to see the little prefect had chased after the vampire, and he allowed a sigh to slip past his lips.

He and Rima turned to follow the girl at a leisurely pace…

...

Shiki snapped himself of out his reverie, realising that he and Rima were the only ones standing outside of the classroom.

"Senri, what are you doing? Come on." Rima enunciated her final word, but it was quite obvious that she didn't want to go to the lesson.

"Rima" Shiki paused to get her attention.

She turned to look at him, the newly risen moon reflecting of her quizzical sapphire eyes.

He continued to look at her, noting the way her fiery hair framed her face, which was quickly morphing into an expression of annoyance. Quickly, he stated his purpose:

"I know what I want to do."

(A/N We're going on a vampire hunt, we're gonna catch a big one ^_^ What do you guys think? Interesting idea for a fic? There will be more action scenes like the brief one in this chapter, but they will be original, as opposed to this boring one.

Did this chapter make it blatantly obvious that I hate Kaname and love Zero? No offense to any Kaname fans out there, but Shiki's speculation is reflective of my own personal opinion. If you don't agree, than fine.

So, will Rima agree to Shiki's plan? WHAT IS Shiki's plan? How the hell am I going to work the romantic aspect into the story?

Reviews are appreciated guys, thanks very much.

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