Well... I thought of this story after reading this excerpt from this other 'insert-self' type of story. I was bored and decided to put in my OC and Takashi Morinozuka to see how it would look, and then the idea dawned upon me.

To let you all know, it kinda doesn't do much explaining in this chapter, so if you are confused, bear with me. More will be explained in furthur chapters. I have twisted the characters a little bit, but not very much. All that I've really changed is that Mori talks a little more than normal, but... his protective character still remains.

Also, warning to all, the story kinda dives right in, no brief summaries of what's already happened. Plus... this has absolutely NO relation to 'A Love For All Seasons' but... the characters are pretty much the same, except have different positions in the story. And there's introduction to new characters and etc, etc.

This is kinda like a twisted Twilight/Vampire Knight/Vampire Academy story, with relations between all three you can spot within in this story, but... neither of those three belong to moi... and I didn't really take any super important ideas from there. I only took the 'common knowledge' known of vampires and vampire hunters. (eg, vampires are hunted. Not all are necessarily evil, etc etc. and of course, the popular 'forbidden love' aspect.)

Disclaimer: Ouran High School Host Club (c) Bisco Hatori
Claimer: everything else (c) me

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Chapter One: Senior Life

"Hmm… which book should I choose this time?" 17-year-old Kazumi Shirozaki murmured as she picked up a red-leather book from the top of the dusty bookshelf in the local library, gazing at the silky cover with beautiful chocolate eyes.

Without warning, the bookshelf wobbled and tilted towards her. Before she could even think to move from underneath it, there was the sound of wood hitting flesh, and she looked up to see a young man in an Ouran High School uniform holding it up easily with one arm almost fully extended. The broadness of his shoulders cast a shadow over her small figure.

"Excuse me," he said in a soft, silky voice, turning to push the bookshelf back into its former proper position before looking back at her. "Are you alright?"

"Um… yes, t-thank you…" she stammered, suddenly recognizing his luminous grey eyes. "Um… pardon me, but you're Takashi Morinozuka from my class, aren't you? Back at Ouran Academy's High School?"

He nodded, bowing to her. "Yes, and you are Miss Kazumi Shirozaki, correct?" he inquired. "Please, call me Mori."

"Yes," she answered. "You're part of the Host Club created by Tamaki Suoh, correct?"

He dipped his head. "Yes, I've seen you there before several times, meeting with Kyoya Ootori," he said, his voice strained as he spoke the second-year's name.

"Ah yes," Kazumi agreed, "even though his family owns a medical company and he's usually really stern and stuff, he's amazed me with stories about vampires and vampire hunters."

Takashi smiled. But in the truth behind that smile, Takashi was a vampire, as was the others of the infamous Ouran High School Host Club, except for their newest member, the she-host Haruhi Fujioka; and Kyoya Ootori, who was a vampire hunter, but at a truce and friendship with the others. Haruhi happened to be one of Kazumi's best friends as they lived right next to each other. For the past six years throughout Ouran Academy, Mori had been secretly watching Kazumi from afar, captivated at her kindness and soft beauty.

"So, um... did you come to the library to study, or just find a quiet place to read?" she asked a bit awkwardly, trying to avoid getting lost in his grey eyes.

Mori took a moment to think about it before cleverly answering, "To study." A playful glint shone in his eyes before he slightly bowed to her. "I will leave you to your reading, Miss Shirozaki. Please be careful around this library, these bookshelves are old and falling apart."

Looking down at her book, she replied, "Um, thank you." When she looked back up, he was gone, and she looked around in surprise, but he was nowhere to be seen.

"Hmm… what a strange, yet incredibly handsome boy," she murmured quietly to herself, though in secret Takashi heard as he lurked silently in the shadows, watching and "studying" her.

- - - - - -

Later that night, as Takashi sat on the roof of the Morinozuka mansion, he stared into the night sky, the dark blanket of night littered with tiny lights of stars.

"Takashi!" a tiny blonde vampire hopped onto the roof, a little pink stuffed bunny cuddled in one arm as his cool honey eyes analyzed his cousin. Mitsukuni Haninozuka, also known as 'Honey', slanted his eyes in curiosity. "Why are you still so interested in Kazumi Shirozaki from our class? It's already been one semester of our third-year! She's just a human; food! But yet you treat her like she's your pet."

The raven-haired third-year shook his head. "No, Kazumi isn't a pet, not to me. I think I'm in love with her, Mitsukuni. She's… different."

He giggled, "You're funny, Takashi. Sorry if I find that a little hard to believe. You know, I heard that Tama-chan is planning on making Haru-chan a vampire sometime this year after he tells her sometime this week what he is. Don't you see how pointless it is unless you turn Kazu-chan?"

"No!" he snapped in defiance. "I will tell her what I really am… in time." But in truth he didn't want to tell her, he wanted to keep his little fantasy going, because he didn't want to drag her into the terrible world of bloodshed. "Perhaps she will understand?" he suggested, "After all, Kyoya tells her of the stories of vampires and vampire hunters."

"You know that there are two possibilities: she accepts you for who and what you are, and you have a some strange, twisted relationship, or she will escape your grasp and run away forever," Honey explained. "I'm afraid that the more likely one would be the latter of the two. Even if she decided to choose to accept you, unless you turned her into one of us, you'd lose her forever. Either that or the other factor; that in which one day you may lose your senses and kill her through your own bloodlust."

The taller vampire shook his head. "I won't allow that to happen," he promised, mostly to himself.

Mitsukuni looked at his younger though much taller cousin, honey-brown eyes shimmering with admiration. "I do have to admit though, I really admire the strength you display in her presence, in school and outside of school. Her blood smells quite sweet, kinda like cake. I'm not sure I myself would be able to keep my fangs from sinking into her delicate sweetness."

"Back off, Mitsukuni," Mori warned, his anger rising as his voice deepened with velvet threat, "I won't allow her to be harmed."

Honey smiled easily, unfazed by the powerful vampire's anger. "Don't worry, my self-control is still very good," he replied breezily, rather high-pitched kid-like voice ringing like wind chimes. "After all, our job is to protect the townspeople from rogue and insane bloodthirsty vampires, and as the Vampire Prince, you will have to fulfill your destiny and kill the Vampire Hunter Princess when she appears in time."

Though it was true that they both acted like Honey was the more superior and important of the two at school, the truth was that Takashi was the Vampire Prince, the one male vampire chosen in several generations that had a vast type of abilities and strengths. The Vampire Prince was the male counterpart to the chosen Vampire Hunter Princess, who had many powers and abilities that were dangerous to vampires all over the world. Both the princess and the prince were required and expected to hunt down and kill each other, with the victor inheriting the other's powers and being able to use their powers over vampire and vampire hunters alike. Unless the prince and princess' powers had not been awakened yet, it would prove a little harder to kill them, as they could only be killed by a single way for each of them. For the prince, he would have to be killed directly through the heart with either a silver bullet or blade as well as be burned. For the princess, she would have to be stabbed through the heart and sucked of her blood; the very essence of her life and power, before dying from the blood loss.

"Takashi, what I'm really just trying to say is that you've got to tell her sometime soon, either before or preferably after you reveal your feelings for her," he continued, "You know there will be others out there that would want to target delicious young maidens like her. And if our enemies knew that Kazu-chan, a mortal, is one of your weaknesses, they'll use her to get to you and place the rest of us in danger all the same."

"Like I said, I won't allow her to be harmed," the dark-haired vampire replied, his nostrils flaring at the sudden smell of blood. "Oh no…" Leaping up to his feet, Mitsukuni also sniffed the air, tasting the sensation of blood on his tongue.

"Hmmm… another one?" he sighed quietly.

"Duty calls," his cousin commented.

Without warning, Mori leaped off the roof and swiftly landed on the ground, running towards the source of the smell, Honey running after him and keeping pace easily.

- - - - - -

Kazumi was walking through the streets, a shopping bag in her hand, as she went late-afternoon shopping for groceries to cook for dinner. It was already dark out, and to make the journey shorter, decided to take a shortcut.

"Well… the day after tomorrow's going to be my birthday," she sighed, "I can't believe I'm turning 18 already."

She continued to walk down the lit pathway.

"Hmmm… this should be right," she murmured to herself, turning the corner and taking a few steps into a dead-end alley. "Oops, nope, wrong way."

Turning around to walk back out, there was suddenly a tall blonde, pale figure dressed in a large black trench coat, his eyes a dark amber to a gleaming red.

"Um… excuse me," Kazumi said, trying to sneak by the man, but instantly he grabbed her and forced her back with a powerful push, causing her to fly to the floor, grocery bags flying from her hand.

Almost instantly as he began walking towards her, she stood up, her posture that of a martial artist. But it would prove no use against this mythical foe. Without warning, he dodged her initial punch and kick before appearing behind her, grabbing her and pinning her arms by her sides, whirling her around to face him.

Dammit, no! Kazumi thought in urgency.

Before she had the chance to scream for help, the man exposed long fangs as he hissed at her before sinking his teeth into the side of her neck deeply, the pain cutting off Kazumi's breath. As the vampire drank from her, she could feel her lifeblood leave her as a steady trickle of blood streamed down the side of her neck, soaking into her white blouse.

W-What? A v-v-vampire? But they don't exist… do they? She thought as her strength quickly left her as the pain dulled, her knees buckling before the vampire lowered her down onto her back, fangs not leaving her neck. Now her mind told her that she wanted nothing more than to sleep, but she knew that she was sinking into oblivion if she did.

All of a sudden, the fangs were pulled out, what blood left in her was trickling down her neck into a small pool around her head as she could make out hearing two new angry hisses.

W-What? She thought dully as her faint vision swam before seeing a tall blonde figure crumple before bursting into what seemed like dust.

What she couldn't tell was that her rescuers were Takashi Morinozuka and his cousin Mitsukuni Haninozuka. They had smelled blood and went to rescue the poor person under attack. But what really shocked Mori was that the victim was his unrequited love: Kazumi Shirozaki. Immediately they had easily vanquished the rogue vampire, killing him with sharp vampire claws through the heart, as well as the fury and power of the pureblood prince.

"Kazumi!" Takashi exclaimed, kneeling down next to the bleeding, dying young woman. Her eyes were barely open, more or less fluttering uncontrollably before they closed. There was so much blood, and Mori found it difficult to resist the need to drink from her; his one love.

Honey kneeled down on her other side. "Takashi, she's lost a lot of blood. We need to stop the bleeding," he said quietly.

"I know," Mori sighed, brushing away her hair and pushed his self-control to the limit as he leaned down to gently let his tongue run over the bite marks, allowing his saliva to heal the wounds quickly. Instantly snatching himself back from her, he cautiously swallowed the sweet blood, pushing down the urge to take more and ultimately kill her.

"I've got to say, Takashi," Honey commented, "I'm quite impressed that you can resist wanting to drink more from her."

"Quiet, Mitsukuni," Mori hissed, distress in his silky smooth voice, fluently sweeping her up into his arms. "Take her bags, it's best we take her back to her apartment. It's too dangerous if we take her back to the estates. Even with my status as the Vampire Prince I cannot guarantee that they will not harm her."

Easily, Honey picked up the slightly heavy bags and looked at his cousin. "What will you do then, Takashi, once we arrive at the apartment?" he asked curiously. "Shouldn't it be best if you wipe her mind of this incident? Or else this is also the perfect opportunity to tell her the truth."

"I'll take care of her for the rest of tonight, of course," Mori answered. "As for wiping her mind… I'll see how much she knows, and how she handles the new knowledge. If she does not know a lot, I will lie to her. Otherwise I will have to… mind wipe her of tonight's events…"

But still, Mitsukuni thought, dipping a perfect finger into the pool of Kazumi's blood on the ground and putting it in his mouth, tasting it, I think there's more to Kazu-chan than meets the eye. Her blood alone is surprisingly sweeter than cake. Turning to watch his cousin carry the unconscious young woman in the direction of her apartment. But for some reason, her blood feels like a kind of sweet poison flowing down my throat that I just want to continue sucking. Could she possibly be a vampire hunter?

So... here's the first chapter. Please tell me what you think of it! As well as what you like and don't like and want me to fix.

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