"You're going to a school in Japan? That has Vampires in it?" Lizzy asked me. She also came from a Vampire Hunter clan like me.

"Yeah, I guess. The Association kind of has ignored us ever since my aunt and uncle got killed, since they were more talented. I only get missions when necessary. Also, as I am half-blood myself.. duh. I only got it out for Level E's." I explained.

"Kiryuu Elise, you are insane. It's good your Japanese though so there won't be much of a language block. Also, your kickass at killing Level E's. They probably need you more there than here. I can handle it." Lizzy puffed out her chest but looked at me and laughed.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm kind of anxious though. My cousin Zero is going to be there and I heard he is on the verge of being a Level E. That's depressing. I mean I see him when I visit Kaname-kun but.. this is different." I tugged on my dark chocolate lock, glancing at Lizzy's new expression.

"He'll manage. He is a Kiryuu after all and you're a fighter, so then he has to be of course!" Lizzy was spewing nonsense again. Her ice blue eyes went excited, her short light brown curls bounced and her cheeks seemed rosy against her pale complexion. She was get prepped for something.

"What's up? You look like your getting ready to kick ass."

"Oh um, why I came here. I got a mission from the losers," she meant the Hunter Association, "and have to report to England for a week. I thought you might miss me but now you throw the information of you going to Japan for the next few years of our teenage years! You better visit, bitch." Lizzy huffed and looked teary-eyed. I smiled at my dramatic friend and hugged her.

"Of course, I will. When I can, of course. I can't just leave on a whim, you know that. " I scolded her teasingly.

"Yeah, I'll help you pack and we can talk since your leaving tomorrow." She announced our work and mustered to get a few suitcases.

We talk and chatted while packing my clothes away.

I'm Elise Kiryuu, from the infamous Kiryuu clan. My father is a younger brother of Zero and Ichiru's father. I had the same tint of lavender eyes but medium length dark brown hair that had a slight curl and wave to it. I was also incredibly pale and 5'3, small for coming from a Hunter Clan.

My mother was a mystery. I really did not know who she was. It was kept extremely secretive from my father. I have only one memory of my mother. It's really vague though since I was young when she left. I only knew she was a pureblood Vampire, so it made me half I guess..

"Elise, please be careful. I love you.. you'll soon accept the arranged marriage. Forgive me for leaving you so early."

Those words.. what did they mean? An arranged marriage? I never understood it. There was also something very odd about my life.

I was regularly visiting Kaname Kuran. I have been all my life, or he visited me. I never know why.. it was really confusing.

But I look to him as a brother figure. He's formal and kind of cold towards other but is protective when I visit. He's also gets really upset whenever I have to return to America. I have a feeling I may really be his sister or something. My mother was pureblood, after all. Also sometimes, my eyes would sometimes turn to a doe eye brown. It was all very confusing.

"You there Elise? Your kind of zoning." Lizzy's voice strung me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, sorry! I'm fine, just was thinking about stuff."

"Okay.. just don't over think and give yourself a headache." I nodded, she was right.

Lizzy left after eating some dinner with me. I got into bed and closed my eyes, ready for the hectic day tomorrow will be.

"Elise! Wake up!" I heard the shouts of my father. I sighed and got up then walked out of my room and walked down the wooden steps.

"I'm up, I'm up." I told him groggily, rubbing my eyelids.

"Kaname is on the phone, he would like to speak to you." My father grimaced. He didn't like him much but tolerated me going to visit or him coming here to visit me. I sighed and grabbed the phone.

"Moshi, Kaname-kun." My voice tried to sound cheery.

"Just woke up, I see?" I heard the light chuckle of Kaname.

"Yup! How's Yuuki doing?" I asked him. I know Cross Yuuki very well, we were kind of like sisters. After the years of going to Japan on weekend stays, we liked to talk

"She's doing fine. I'm doing well, thanks for asking."

"Oh shush, I was getting to that part. I got to get ready, we need to leave soon. I'll see you soon, Kaname-kun!"

"Bye, Elise. Have a safe flight." He hung up.

I shoved a muffin in mouth, went into a trek up the stairs and into the shower. After rinsing my hair with my shampoo, I quickly stored toiletries in my small bag. I brushed my teeth, put on some makeup, dried my hair and combed it deciding to leave it in its natural state of waves and curls. I threw the rest of the things I would need and packed it away in one of my suitcases. Then I got dressed.

I decided to wear some skinny jeans, my grey converses, and a lime green tank top that would be covered by my black pullover hoodie. After this strenuous routine, I grabbed my black and blue polka dot suitcases then made it down the stairs safely.

"You should be proud dad, I managed not to trip this time!" I beamed at my father and he gave me a small smile.

"Let's get to the airport." I nodded and rushed out the door. Dad already unlocked the trunk so I shoved my suitcases in there. He closed it and then rushed into the driver side and started pulling out of the driveway.

"I'll miss you.." He said a minute into the ride.

"I know, dad. I'll miss you too. But I won't be gone forever." I started laughing at his apprehensive face.

"Make sure to tell Zero I say hello." Dad reminded me.

"Yeah, yeah. I will."

"Be careful, too."

"I know, I know. Dad you worry too much."

"It's only natural a father worries about his daughter." Dad's face began to look more solemn than ever. I was starting to worry.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

He wavered for a moment but answered, "Nothing. Just going to miss you is all. Oh, we're here." I looked at the window as he was right, we had arrived at the airport.

"I'll miss you daddy," I hugged my father and he popped the trunk so I could get my things.

"Be careful and make sure to call me every now and then, okay? If anything comes up with the Association you know to do," I nodded and he continued, "Now have a safe flight." I walked out and grabbed my carry-on and suitcases. I waved while my dad drove off.

*** (A/N: I'm skipping the whole getting in the plane and being in it sha-bang. It's annoying and kind of not needed. Heh. So what's up? Yeah.. back to the story!)

I was sitting in the cab on my way to the Cross Academy. I sighed as the humungous building was getting closer.

The black cab finally halted to a stop and I knew we had arrived. I rubbed my eyes, slightly tired. Probably jet lag.

My heart started beating furiously faster. I could feel my palms get sweaty so I tried to furiously wipe them on my jeans. You know that feeling of butterflies mixed with being anxious? Multiply that by 10. I was freaking horrified. My feet wobbled on the cobblestone pathway but my hands were firmly glued to the handle of my suitcases. The weight of my carryon and duffel seemed to turn into tons. My legs were like lead, not wanting to move.

This school sure is intimidating.

"Elise, you okay? You look pale." I heard the familiar voice of my cousin, Zero.

"Zero! Yeah.. nervous." I put down my stuff and rushed over to hug my awkward cousin, Zero. I smiled at the familiar sight of him. His disheveled grey hair, cold lilac eyes, and the usual sour look on his face. But he had the smallest smile seeing me.

"It's good to see you, Elise." I smiled into his chest, I loved my cousin. He was awesome.

"Good to see you too. Dad says hi."

"I got to take you over to the headmaster's office. Follow me." I nodded and followed his tall figure. He sure got taller the last time I saw him..

I glanced over at the grounds. This school sure was gorgeous but pretty old-looking. Not to mention it was huge. My old school pretty much was the size of the Day Class dorms. I'm glad though I haven't ran into any vampires yet excluding Kaname. He's fine.

"We're here." Zero opened the old wooden doors and then went up the cement spiral staircase. I sighed but followed up. Soon we reached a dark oak door and he opened it up to reveal Cross Kaien, the headmaster of the Cross Academy.

"Good evening, Elise-chan." Headmaster said cheerily.

"To you too, headmaster." I nodded and did a slight bow. This wasn't our first meeting but I've only seen him three times out of all the visits I have made here. And I visit four times a year. I'm 16 and have been visiting since I was 5. I'm not sure if I had visited before that. It's really all a blur, my past.

I can only remember something attacking my family with a man and what seemed to be my mother. I was also hiding in the corner with a girl. Maybe a sister? But my father wasn't there at all.

It's awfully confusing.

Anyways.. so here I am. In the headmaster's office. This is fun. Not.

"So, you'll be in the Sun Dorm, since your Vampire side is stabilized. Once a month you need blood, correct?" Headmaster asked me intently.

"Yes. A few ounces is enough to keep it at bay. Usually the first day of the month to make it last. My father recommended on that day I shouldn't attend as I have.. withdrawal symptoms." I sighed.

"And these withdrawal symptoms are?"

"Migraines, mood swings, I'm restless, I have a hard time concentrating. If it's really bad, I start having vampire senses awaken. I can smell blood, I get very.. thirsty, and my eyes will glow red. Also my pureblood powers are somewhat revived. It's pretty bad but it hasn't happened in a while." Headmaster looked taken aback, Zero was giving me a shocked glance, then I noticed Yuuki was there.

"Oh! Yuuki!" I smiled and waved. She smiled back. She already knew about this, having experienced it once on my visit. I was close to having my vampire side awaken.

"Hi Elise!" She rushed over and hugged me. I hugged back, glad to see her. We were like sisters after the long times of being together.

"Wait, so Elise-san. When was the last time you had blood?" Headmaster asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, a week ago. On the first day of this October." I answered. Headmaster laid back into his seat and gave a sigh of relief.

"Kaname requested that you would go to the Night Dorms and see him. Yuuki, could you please escort Elise-san?" After Zero heard that, he scowled darkly. I sighed. This was going to be a long year.

"Sure, headmaster!" Yuuki accepted.

"I'm daddy!" Headmaster Cross was whining. I giggled quietly and followed Yuuki.

Meanwhile during the walk, we had talked about various things. How things were going with each other and what was up recently in life. I caught a small bite on her neck, almost faded and gone.

"Yuuki.. your neck?" I asked quietly.

"Long story," She murmured. I knew who it was..

"Zero." I finished quietly. She nodded, not really wanting to talk about it. We had made it to the Night dorms, with Yuuki opening the gates for me.

"It gets pretty crazy when day classes end and the night classes start. Kaname-Senpai will most probably make sure you don't go into harm's way though. Don't be surprised if the girls give you glares or try to push you, I'll try my best to help prevent that though.." Yuuki laughed nervously and fidgeted with her skirt.

"It's okay. I'll just push them out of the way." I laughed along with her.

"I got to go back though. The school should start any minute. You will start tomorrow and just spend the day in the Moon Dorm. Your dorm is actually being figured out right now," Cue nervous laugh, the headmaster sure is forgetful, "so the reason why you'll be spending your day here. Well Kaname-Senpai wanted you too, but have a good day!" Yuuki smiled and waved then ran back to her beginning classes.

"You too! Don't sleep too much!" I laughed and waved back as I saw her retreating figure.

I steered my direction towards the dark wooden doors. I sighed and pushed it open, to find myself walking into the hall away from the stairs.

I seated myself on one of the couches and sighed. I was exhausted from the flight, arriving early in the morning. They must be sleeping or something. I mean, it is pretty early. I wish I could read a book or something.

"Elise-Chan! We were expecting you to arrive a little later." I heard the kind voice of Ichijo Takuma fill the room. He was in his pajama's but smiling and happy as ever. His vibrant emerald eyes sparkled at me. You could call us good friends.

"Hey, Ichijo. Yeah, for some reason my chauffeur arrived a bit early. I guess I'm supposed to spend the day chilling here. My dorm assignment hasn't been figured out yet." I explained my early appearance.

"I see. It's good to see you though. The rest should be up in an hour or two but please help yourself. You know where the kitchen is and the library and all of that. If you get tired, you know where the guest room is. I'll be heading back to sleep myself." Takuma gave a kind smile and headed off back to his room.

"Okay. Have a good sleep!" I smiled and laid back on the sofa. This is going to be boring without anyone to talk to. I heaved myself off the comfy couch and to the kitchen were food is.

Mmm.. food..

Ignore that.

I tiptoed over to the kitchen to find it completely empty. I glanced through a cabinet and just found blood tablets. Okay, obviously not there. I opened the next cabinet. Guess what it is?

Blood tablets. Jeez...

So with new power, I raced through the pantry. Now this is more like it. I grabbed pizza Goldfish, sour cream and onion chips, some cookies, and Oreo's. They had kept the food I usually keep in supply for my visits. Oh no. Pocky.. I love those thin lengthy biscuits dipped in milk chocolate with a passion. But. I knew who they are for. Rima and Shiki.

Fuck.

I can't eat the Pocky. I had learned my lesson from the last time. Don't touch, eat, consume, or even misplace the Pocky.

Flashback (Elise at age 12)

I wandered through the Moon Dorm, feeling at ease. I yawned and noticed that Kain-kun was still awake. He should be sleeping! The night class students just came back about 3 hours ago.

"Kain-kun! Why are you still up?" I asked him, he turned his head and I saw his amber eyes look awfully weary.

"Sorry. I was thinking. Don't worry about me, Elise." I nodded but Kain should be asleep. I shrugged it off and walked over into the bright kitchen. I opened the pantry and saw the miraculous food, Pocky.

But I knew Rima-Chan and Shiki-san would get pretty angry. I grimaced and tried to keep my eyes off the tantalizing sticks of goodness. Rima loved me.. I think.. she wouldn't mind right? Shiki was unemotional and impassive, as always. He would probably say oh well and just have someone get more.

I greedily grabbed the box and ripped open the silver bag that held my future happiness. Should I go into my room and eat them? I walked back over to the couch to still find Kain just sitting there and thinking. I sat next to him and ate my Pocky in peace.

"Want one?" I offered.

"No thanks. I'm going to bed. See you later." Kain walked up the stairs and into his dorm with Hanabusa.

"Sleep well, Kain-kun." I murmured and ate another stick contently. I nibbled and nibbled on the delicious candy until they were gone. It was a smaller pack so it didn't take as much time to eat some.

"I smell Pocky, Shiki." I heard the distant voice of Rima-Chan. Oh no.

"Yeah.. the scent of it is around us." I rushed into the kitchen and throw away the box, cleansed my hands of the chocolate smell.

But my breath.

I rushed over to take a sip of water from a water bottle I had left out last night. I gulped the water hurriedly, almost choking. Gum. Where the heck is the gum?

My hands flashed around a small countertop until I felt the presence of a gum pack. I threw a minty stick into my mouth and chewed furiously until all traces of Pocky were gone. Then the pair walked in with glares on their face. I swear, they could melt ice with those glares. Usually they barely showed emotion.

That just made it worse.

"You ate our Pocky," I winced but nodded.

"I'm sorry," I coughed out, fearful of what my fate was.

"You're forgiven this time, but the next time there will be repercussions." Shiki-san stated in his monotone like voice.

"Yes, Shiki-san." I muttered. The two models stalked off back to their dorm rooms to catch up on sleep.

From now on, I'm buying my own Pocky.

I winced, I had learned my lesson. With that in mind, I cringed back from the temptation. I clutched my munchies even tighter and went into the huge refrigerator looking around for some water bottles.

Ah! I grabbed the Japanese worded water bottle and walked over to the couches. I opened the bags and started eating my wonderful delights.

It's pretty bad to eat this stuff 8 in the morning but oh well. I have 4 hours to kill until everyone is really awake.

I walked over to my carryon and continued reading my book, The Diary of Anne Frank. I have read this books hundreds of times but it never got on.

With a great book in my head and food on the table, I relaxed.

It was around 12. They should be steadily waking up now. Usually when I visited, it was a mob of people walking down the steps. I sighed and laid down on the cozy ivory couch. My eyes closed but then I heard the voices.

I opened my eyes to see Aidou leaning over me. What a creep.

"It's good to see you too, Aidou." I smirked at his messy hair but his blue eyes were bright as ever. The night class was plagued with good looks.

"Humph. I liked it better when it was Aidou-kun and you adored the ground I walked on." Aidou swished his blonde hair back and glared playfully.

"I never did, I don't even know what you're talking about. The moment our eyes met, we had it out for each other. Too bad people like to think we're a couple." I laughed. It was true, whenever we were walking in town and bantering people liked to think we were a couple and mentioned how cute we looked together. I usually blushed crimson red and Aidou made it worse by putting his arm around my waist. Truth is, we're really just close friends that love to fight.

"You enjoy it, you'll never realize." Aidou put his hand to his forehead and sighed. He's so childish.

"Hello Elise, I see you and Hanabusa are already going at each other." Kain gave a small smile.

"It's always that way, Kain-kun." I laughed and Hanabusa scowled. He was being thwarted. Oh, Hana-Chan..

"Hana-Chan lose the scowl." It was my nickname to irk him. He always got flustered and annoyed with I used it. I sat up against the couch. The crew was here to greet my arrival.

"Hey Rima-Chan, Shiki-san, Ruka, and Seiren-san!" I greeted them all. They all gave their silent hello's and hi's.

I searched in my carryon to find Rima's favorite American candy, the infamous Skittles. No one usually guessed her as a sucker for fruity candy, but boy she loved it. I made sure to get the really big bag. Not the small kiddy sized one. I tossed her the bag and she caught it, with the smallest hint of a smile on her face.

"Thanks." I shrugged and said a silent your welcome.

I then tossed Shiki his own personal favorite, Sour Patch kids. They had good taste in candy, I must say. I tossed his bag and he nodded.

"Thank you, Elise-san."

"No problem." I smiled at him. He was really likable if you actually got him to talk every once in a while.

"Elise, you never get me sweets or anything." Aidou pouted. I poked his forehead and he stumbled back a little.

"You never ask for anything, that's why." I laughed at his frown.

"Anyways, Kaname-sama would like for you to go into his study." Aidou told me. I nodded and walked up the staircase, leaving my Vampire friends behind.