Someone requested a story for Fragments, in which Yuuki comes back and Zero does not die. This is that story. I will keep the other things from Fragments, consider this a continuation of sorts, or even an alternate ending.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino. Her characters are only borrowed from time to time for my personal enjoyment.
Were his eyes deceiving him? Was she just another figment of his shattered heart, of his precious angel, or a real girl? The object of his interest was the petite girl with short, dark hair who was waiting patiently to cross the street. Zero wouldn't have even seen her if he had not been scanning the streets for vampires, unusually eager to kill.
Ever since her death, he had thrown himself into his work, had cared little about his own well-being, despite the concerns of others. He didn't want their pity, he needed his Yuuki. But she was gone, never to appear again. The world had gone on, yet she did not, her fragments piled into an urn that was buried next to a lonely grave. And now, it seemed as if his mind was playing tricks on him, conjuring up a girl who looked, and smelled, yes, smelled, like Yuuki. Usually, his hallucinations weren't so vivid, so alive. In contrast, they were faded and blurry, leaving him with only an impression of her smile, of the warmth in her eyes that he so craved.
As if she had noticed the intensity of his stare, the girl looked up, and their line of sight met. Her eyes were a different hue- not the reddish brown he so loved. She was biting her lip, as if nervous, and seemed to fidget under his gaze before abruptly disappearing into the throng of people. He didn't know the color of her eyes, only that she didn't have Yuuki's. He wanted to tell her not to leave, to stay so that they could talk- about what?, so that he could confirm something- what was there to confirm in the first place?.
He had thought of her as Yuuki, clearly, he had just imagined things. She did not know him, nor did he know her. She was a different person, not his Yuuki, not the girl who had died. If she was even close, it might have been appearance, nothing more. Lips pulling downwards into a frown, Zero Kiryuu left the streets of the village, heading back to the Association building, built out of what had once been Cross Academy.
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She had stared at the silver haired man when she felt a pair of strange eyes boring into her, had fidgeted and ran from his all-too intense, amethyst gaze. Although Yuki was sure that she had not seen him before, there was a part of her slumbering mind that had, for a moment, thought of him as familiar, the part of her that she often dreamed about, wondered about. Biting her lip again, the seventeen year old gnawed on it without mercy as she headed into the warmth of the home she shared with her parents. Why had he stared at her like he had just seen a ghost?
Why had he looked at her in the first place? And who was the girl in the memories and utterly too realistic dreams that she had been recently experiencing?
Author's Note: This is the beginning of the AU of Fragments, in which Zero died at the end. In this, he has not committed suicide, but hallucinates about her often, confusing the line between illusions and reality. This girl is Not the same Yuki, but she has fragments of memories from the one who died, making her a reincarnation of sorts. I don't know if I like this story or not, it's hard to tell right now.