DISCLAIMER: I do not own Vampire Knight. If I did, it probably would've ended differently.
UPDATE: I fixed some grammatical errors that I failed to notice before. I apologize if there are still a few left in.
Author's Note: As you've probably concluded from the story's summary, this fanfiction will feature original characters. I haven't created or written original characters since I took a Creative Writing class four years ago, so I deeply apologize if they're poorly written. I'd also like to say that I haven't written Vampire Knight fanfiction, or any type of fanfiction really, in years, so I've no clue why I wanted to start this and I apologize profusely if there's already a story with an idea similar to this. I wonder if it's because one of my friends and I had the idea years ago, but never finished coming up with plot points that could easily coincide with the canon story or something along those lines before we fell out of contact. I'd also like to admit that I have not watched or read Vampire Knight since the manga ended, so I hope that the canon characters won't be too out of character and I deeply apologize if any of them are even slightly out of character. I will be referencing the manga for major events that occur at Cross Academy, so I hope that will help to further jog my memory of each character's personality. This author's note has gotten quite lengthy, I apologize for that. Please enjoy the chapter.
A girl no more than fifteen years of age sat in a seat on the train next to another girl who was at least sixteen years old. The second girl was fast asleep with her head resting on top of the first's shoulder. The slightly younger girl looked over at the person who had grown to be her sister with a slight smile before she turned her attention to the necklace that was around her neck. It was a very simply necklace, a silver chain with a circular pendant that had a rather peculiar design etched onto its surface that she couldn't even begin to describe. The matron at the orphanage had given it to her mere seconds before she and her fellow orphan left for Cross Academy, a prestigious boarding school in the north. The last words she'd received from the matron hadn't stopped resounding inside her head.
"If you take this off, Rie, your true nature will be revealed."
Rie wondered how exactly the matron had known what she was and could only conclude that the elderly woman had been a part of the Hunter's Association, a group dedicated to killing off certain vampires, or rather beasts in human form, before she started up the orphanage. She had tried various times to accept the fact the matron, the woman who had looked after her and various other orphans over the years, had been a hunter, but she couldn't bring herself to. The matron didn't fit any of the images she'd had of vampire hunters; she was too nice, too kind to fit the image of a hunter.
"Big sister?"
Rie was drawn out of her thoughts by her friend's voice. She looked over at the older girl with concern clear in her gray eyes. "Yes? What is it?"
"How much longer until we reach Cross Academy," she yawned.
"We'll be at the station soon, Kozakura," Rie informed her. "I hope you haven't forgotten that we'll need to walk to the school."
"I know," Kozakura replied as she attempted to smooth down her shoulder length red hair.
The train halted at their stop within the hour and the two girls grabbed their suitcases then exited the car they were in. Rie found a map of the town on one of the station's walls and quickly located Cross Academy. The school was a mile or so out of town to the north. She informed Kozakura of this and the redhead groaned at the thought of having to walk through town and then another mile just to reach a school. A slight narrowing of the eyes from Rie immediately ceased Kozakura's urge to have a more verbal complaint about having to walk at least four miles.
The two set off on their trek to the academy and only stopped at a convenience store to get something to drink. Rie waited outside while the redhead went in to get some beverages. She looked up at the sky and noticed how night was quickly approaching, it was almost time for the vampires to be fully active. The girl hoped that they didn't run into any of her kind on the way to the academy since she had no desire to deal with anything or anyone from the society she'd left behind years ago.
"Wow, it's so pretty," Kozakura said as she exited the store and looked up at the sky where stars were beginning to appear.
"Yeah," Rie softly agreed after a few seconds had passed. "Let's go, we're late enough as it is."
She turned and headed in the direction of the academy, the wind blew her waist length chocolate hair all around her as it picked up.
"Sis, wait!" The redhead tightened her grip on the plastic bag before she hurried after the younger girl. "Can't we look at them for just a bit longer," she inquired when she finally caught up to her.
Rie didn't bother to look over at Kozakura because she knew that her friend already had the puppy-dog eyes readied. She knew that if she looked over at her, she'd cave instantly even though standing around to look at stars was something they couldn't afford to do at the moment. "I think," the brunette hurriedly searched for something to say in order to avoid having to look over at the redhead. "We can look at the stars anytime once we're at Cross Academy."
"Promise," Kozakura questioned, hesitant to believe her friend.
"Of course," Rie nodded to further confirm her statement. "I suppose we can sneak out if there's a curfew."
"Awesome!" The redhead's face lit up like Christmas had come early and there was a skip to her step that hadn't been there before.
The rest of their journey to Cross Academy was made in silence and they arrived at the school about an hour after the sun had fully set. They walked up the stone steps to the school's enormous wooden gate, it did nothing to stop their image of the school being like a castle since there was a high stone wall that they could only assume surrounded the campus. The large wooden gate creaked open and a petite girl who looked to be about their age stood there. She had shoulder length brown hair and cinnamon eyes, a welcoming smile was on her face. The girl wore what could only be described as the school's uniform. The uniform consisted of a white blouse underneath a black jacket, a cardinal red ribbon tied over the chest, a black miniskirt, black knee-high socks, and sepia colored boots.
"Welcome to Cross Academy," she greeted them. "I'm Yuki Cross."
"I'm Rie Wakahisa," the brunette introduced herself. "It's nice to meet you."
"And I'm Kozakura Himura," the redhead said almost immediately after Rie had stopped speaking. "It's nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you, Wakahisa-san. Himura-san," Yuki replied, the smile never leaving her face. "Now, if you'd please follow me, I'll take you to the Headmaster's office."
Yuki led the two to the Headmaster's office while she explained some of the rules. Most of the rules she listed off were pretty basic: no bullying, stealing, vandalism, etc. It was when she got to the rules concerning the Night Class, a group of advanced placement students that had classes as night, that the rules began to get weird. One of them was no fawning over the students in the Night Class, the two girls couldn't begin to fathom why that was a rule, but could only conclude that it had become a major issue. Another was about curfew, apparently curfew for the regular students, the Day Class, began when the Night Class' lessons began. Anyone who was caught out after curfew would face a rather severe punishment to help ensure they wouldn't make the same offense twice. There were two students, known was prefects, who enforced curfew, Yuki was one of them and her partner was some boy named Zero.
They arrived at the Headmaster's office right when Yuki finished informing them of the rules. The short brunette knocked on the door and waited for the okay before she opened it and led the two new students inside. "Here are the new students, Headmaster," she said as they approached the mahogany desk in front of the window at the back of the room.
"Why won't you call me 'Daddy'," the headmaster inquired with a tearful sounding voice.
"Head," Yuki attempted to scold him, but his crying only seemed to intensify. "The new students are here, Daddy."
The headmaster's crying stopped instantly and the three girls came to the conclusion that he had been faking it. "Thank you, Yuki," he said with a smile. "I'll take it from here."
"Of course," she replied with a small, slightly awkward smile. "I'll see you later!" Yuki promptly left and closed the door behind her to give the three some privacy in case a teacher or the other prefect passed by his office.
Rie and Kozakura turned their attention to the man who sat on a chair behind the desk. He had blonde hair tied back into a ponytail, hazel eyes and glasses sat on the bridge of his nose. He wore a green shawl over a tan coat and a dark shirt underneath. If one looked under the desk, they'd see he had on a pair of dark gray pants and fuzzy pink slippers covered his feet.
"Rie Wakahisa and Kozakura Himura, correct?" He continued once he received their confirmation. "I'm Kaien Cross, headmaster of this academy, it's a pleasure to meet you. I assume Yuki's informed you of the rules?" The two girls nodded in response. "Then there's not much left for me to go over other than your class and dorm assignment." Kaien flipped through the papers that sat on his desk as he looked for their class assignment. "It seems you two are in the same class, 1-C." The blonde further perused the papers until he came across their room assignments. "And it seems you'll share a dorm room." He moved his chair over to one of the filing cabinets that sat on the right side of his desk and opened it. Kaien grabbed a set of keys from one of the hooks and rolled his chair back to behind his desk. "Room 205," he handed the keys to Rie and Kozakura. "Yuki will show you the way. If you have any problems at all, please come talk to me, Yuki, or Zero."
"Of course," Rie replied. "Thank you, Headmaster."
The two left the headmaster's office and saw Yuki had been waiting for them. She offered them a small smile before she led them to the girl's dormitory, a little ways off from the school building. Yuki led Rie and Kozakura up to their room on the third floor and informed them that their uniforms should be in the closet before she bade them goodnight and left to continue her duties.
Rie unlocked the door and walked in with Kozakura behind her. The room was bare except for two beds and two night stands. A window was at the back of the room placed between the two beds while a closet was situated at the right of the room, a dresser placed next to it. Rie approached the closet and opened it to find four uniforms, two for her and two for Kozakura. She placed her suitcase inside the closet since she had no intention of dealing with it tonight then shut the door.
Kozakura entered the room, closed the door behind her, then set her suitcase at the foot of the bed she'd use for their time at Cross Academy. She flopped down onto the bed and couldn't help but notice that it was more comfortable than her one at the orphanage. Kozakura closed her amber eyes as she sighed in contentment and snuggled her head further into the soft pillow. Her snoring filled the room within seconds, slightly startling Rie.
Rie looked over at Kozakura and softly smiled at how peaceful her friend looked when she was fast asleep, a time when the world just faded away for her. She knew that the redhead had been living with the matron for as long as she could remember, so she was glad that dreams of what happened to her parents most likely didn't haunt her. That's not to say that Kozakura didn't have dreams about her real parents from time to time, she did, but she had grown up with the matron looking after her that the question of what her parents were like didn't bother her as much since, as far as she was concerned, the matron had been the best mother she could've asked for.
Rie forced herself to stop thinking and to possibly allow herself to get some rest. She took off her sneakers then proceeded to the bed her friend hadn't claimed, the one closest to the left wall. The brunette carefully laid down on her bed and, after reassuring herself that her friend wouldn't need her for the rest of the night, fell asleep.
Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed the chapter and that everyone shown so far was in character! If anyone shown was way too out of character, I apologize and I will be further refreshing my memory on how each individual character acts for upcoming chapters. I also apologize if the way it was written seemed rather... unskilled, for lack of a better word. I haven't written in quite some time, so my writing skills are fairly rusty. Until next time.