A/N: This is a fic I wrote a long time ago, but I'm re-writing it because of the horrible, not making any sense grammar it had. I also changed a lot of parts of this fic.

I read the Manga and I must say the ending was a bitter-sweet one. However, the final episode's events from the anime were not the same as the manga so this is a try of a continuation for vampire knight guilty events.

Disclaimer: The characters of this fic belong to Matsuri Hino. I don't own any of Vampire Knight Characters.

..She's a Pureblood..

Chapter 1

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Cross Kaien smiled as he opened the door; he already knew who was waiting at the door.

At the door stood a brown haired girl; Zero's new partner in their 'soon to start' vampire hunter mission.

Kaien usually chose hunters depending on their power and whether to fit the mission on not, but this time, he chose this girl depending on his heart. She seemed to resemble someone so much. Kaien couldn't help but wonder if she would be able to change the state Zero was at; a lifeless state.

The fact that she didn't lack the necessary power was an advantage too.

"Where's my duty-mate?" She asked, wondering why only the chairman showed up when it was getting late for the duty.

"He'll come any moment now "Kaien answered shortly, debating whether he should invite her in for a cup of tea or not; Zero would come out any moment and they were in a hurry.

. Kaien whispered to her: "Be careful, he's not so nice"

He whispered because he didn't want Zero to hear what he was saying, for Zero hated when Kaien told people about him.

In a second thought, Kaien figured that it wouldn't matter if Zero heard him or not. Zero didn't seem to mind, nor care for anything anymore. He sighed at that thought.

"Ah! So he's not a day person? Don't worry I can deal with him" She said cheerfully, very confident in her 'switch mood' abilities.

Kaien sighed again in response, thinking: 'She has no clue what she's dealing with'

Ever since Yuuki left to Kaname's side, no, ever since she left the humans' world to the dark side, Zero has been living like a walking corpse.

He spent the night in his room, but Kaien wasn't positive that Zero was getting any sleep. At meals time, Zero always peeked at Yuuki's usual seat by the dining table before starting picking at his food. An unreadable expression was always seen on his face. As if his soul left his body.

He went to the stable and spent most of the day with Lili, but even his horse-friend didn't bring life to his eyes. Not even a bit. He was dead inside.

He did not utter a word nor show any response to what anyone said. However, he never refused any vampire hunter mission that was assigned to him. It seemed like killing vampires was the only thing that took his mind off thinking.

Kaien hesitated whether to tell Zero what type of duty it was or not. In the end, he decided to leave that part out. As long as Zero didn't ask, Kaien's head was safe; it wasn't exactly a mission that Zero would agree to take.

'I just hope she would cast some light on him' Kaien thought while looking at Aoi; the girl who was standing at the door.

At the exact moment of Kaien's wish, shivers went down his spine. It was as if an evil spirit stood behind him. Tentatively, he turned to the source of the sudden coldness.

With a very dark aura surrounding him, stood Zero. The aura could somehow spell the words: 'Get closer, and you're dead'. It was obviously not Zero's day.

Kaien frowned, thinking: 'Maybe I was wishing for the impossible'

Aoi smiled nervously when she saw him. She felt her smile trying to leave her face due to how heavy and somber the atmosphere became. However, she braced herself and jumped to Zero's side, pushing him forward, and saying: "Hurry up! We'll be late!"

Zero, for the first time in a long time, got literally bewildered. A nostalgic feeling overwhelmed him. The situation was similar to a memory he had, a memory of Yuuki when she was asking him not to skip his classes. Aoi was pushing him the same way Yuuki pushed him so he would start moving.

Zero observed as this new girl mounted, dumbstruck at how much she and Yuuki seemed alike. They shared the same aura, almost the same smile. Even her hair is as short as Yuuki's hair.

However, that only reminded him that Yuuki wasn't there anymore. 'yuuki is just a memory' he thought as a he mounted his horse.

Their journey started. The sky was clear and the weather was cool. A gentle breeze blew by every once in a while. They crossed the boundaries of the city, passing by the small bushes and little flowers that spread alongside the pathway.

Everything seemed perfect to make anyone in his best mood. However, that wasn't the case for Zero. It was as if Aoi's presence brought back everything freshly to his memory.

He felt his heart aching when he recalled the painful reality of Yuuki's disappearance, not that he could forget it for a second. He was just trying futilely to ignore it, but it couldn't be helped; he missed her smile, he missed when she used to shout at him.

He missed when she used to fall asleep randomly on any place of house, and then he would have to cover her by a blanket for her not to catch cold. He missed how she clumsily tried to help with the house chores. It was much better if she didn't think of helping to begin with, but he missed to see her futile tries.

He missed how she was there besides him everyday. He missed how she could see right through him although that irritated him at times. He loved every tiny thing about her, but that doesn't matter anymore.

'The Yuuki he knew was dead now. She doesn't exist anymore on this earth'

He repeated those lines many times, and each time, they would successfully smother him.

"I'm Sakibara Aoi" Zero's duty-partner said in a try to dispel the pensive look Zero had. He showed no response whatsoever as if she was talking to a wall. She pouted slightly.

"The weather today is nice, isn't it?" She attempted to start a good conversation with the silent, silver-haired guy, but starting a conversation didn't seem that easy.

"We're mounted since two hours and you didn't say a single word" She stated, slightly irritated.

"…" was the only answer she received, but she wasn't going to give up yet; she asked:"Do you know what kind of mission we have?"

She still didn't get any response. Thinking that he must have ice instead of blood in his veins, she decided to go on talking 'till she manages to break his wall.

She was determined to break it even if it was made of ice. She wasn't going to carry on a full-night duty with a statue. That would be nerve-wrecking to her.

"We must protect the purebloods…"She trailed off; trying to recall the names she was told. As soon as she remembered, she said:"The Kuran's princess. I guess her name was Yuuki"

Zero's eyes widened, his heart skipped a beat. He suddenly halted the horse.

'After we turn around, the next time we see each other, I will kill you'

That line instantly returned to his mind. Although that promise occupied his mind every day, it felt far. He wasn't ready for such a meeting now. He wasn't ready to face her yet.

A victory smirk reached Aoi's face.

'Finally! I got a response from you!' She thought while stopping her horse too.

"Why did you stop? We must hurry" She stated, a bit baffled now; he seemed in some sort of a conflict in his mind.

Making the horse detour, Zero said: "I'll pass"

"W… wait!"Aoi shouted in confusion, turning her horse to follow Zero who was backtracking.

'This is not the response I wanted!' she thought. She had no idea how trying to make him talk backfired that way!

As soon as she caught up to him, she said: "Get back, we're already late!"

He didn't look at her nor gave her any sort of prove that he heard her. He wasn't going to do what he didn't want to do even if the world was to kill him. Besides, if he faced 'her' now, he would kill her, the exact opposite of their mission's objective.

"Come on!" She begged. She hated to be alone in missions. To her, having a wall to talk to was better than having nothing. She had to convince him to continue the mission somehow.

Zero abruptly stopped his horse again, paused for a moment, and then detoured back to their destination. The mission meant nothing to him now. If Yuuki's existence seemed to haunt him anyways, he wasn't going to run away anymore; he might as well end this ordeal once and for all.

Aoi sighed in relieve and then followed him. She looked at him in great bafflement.

`What is he thinking? I can't understand him at all`

She looked at his facial expression that wasn't anything like the expression from before. It felt as if anger and hate were emitted from him. She wondered what was it in what she said that made him change like this, but no answer came to help her.

Reaching their destination, Aidou Senpai was standing at the gate to welcome them. He seemed literally dazed.

"Wow! I can't believe Kiryuu Zero is standing here!" He said; out of all hunters, he didn't expect Zero to be on this mission.

"Do you know each other?" Aoi, feeling a bit out of place, asked.

Aido looked at the girl who just asked, and said: "Well, yeah… somehow" And then he held her hand while kneeling and saying:"Will such a cute lady dance with me tonight?"

Aoi blushed deeply, instantly charmed by him. If there was anything good about vampires to her, then it was that they were so charming.

"Let's go through with this. What are we supposed to do?" Zero asked, slightly irritated; Aido was still flirting and thinking he would obtain blood out of it. Zero could see right through him.

Aido frowned, and hissed while getting up and brushing his cloth: "You're still as bad tempered as ever, Follow me"

Both of the vampire hunters followed Aido's lead while he explained:

"We have a party tonight, and we're expecting an attack, but we don't want to worry our guests by showing them that we are using vampire hunters as protection, so you must attend the party wearing the appropriate cloth that will not attract much of an attention. I'm taking you to the dressing room"

Upon reaching the dressing room, Aoi leapt across the room in excitement.

"Woah! That's the heaven of dresses!"

Everything seemed to sparkle to her as if she just got into dream land. She rushed eagerly to the dresses, checking the different designs and colors in great joy, however, in no time, that joy changed into confusion.

Her sight blurred due to the tears that gathered in her eyes; she had no idea what to pick! it was cruel to make her choose between those splendid designs.

And so, she tried to calm down and walked to the men attire's side. She picked a suit that caught her attention and rushed back to Zero who was still standing at the door.

She stretched out her hand with the suit she was holding, and said:"Look Zero, this suit will look perfect on you!" Her blue eyes were gleaming. The color of her eyes seemed to be the only difference between her and Yuuki.

Zero looked at the suit nonchalantly. He wasn't aware of what he was looking at; his mind was clouded; this girl resembled Yuuki so much in everything she did now to the extent he was starting to lose his composure.

He kept telling himself that she is not Yuuki and that the Yuuki he knew is dead, but the more he told himself that, the more he loathed vampires and felt like suffocating. He got out of the building without saying a word, leaving a confused Aoi behind.

Zero strolled between the trees in what seemed to be a forest, trying to get some fresh air. It was a full-moon night. Just as the day, it was a perfect night despite the chill the atmosphere had. A little squirrel descended from a high tree. Upon seeing Zero, the squirrel fled.

Seeing that, Zero sighed heavily; he was certainly scary in his current state. He took a deep breath to clear his mind. The party was going to begin after few hours, much to his misfortune; he didn't want to think of anything. Time would only make him dwell in a sea of merciless thoughts.

He closed his eyes to let serenity overwhelm him, but such a thing wasn't possible for when he closed his eyes, he saw Yuuki smiling at him.

Alerted, he snapped his eyes open; the fresh air he wanted was filled with a different scent, a scent that he didn't want to be close to, a scent that he wanted to annihilate from the surface of this earth. His eyes flashed anger as he immediately drew his bloody rose, pointing it at the direction of where the smell was emitted from.

A petite figure appeared from behind the tree he was pointing at. The figure belonged to no one but the one who haunted him for a long time; Kuran Yuuki.

The chocolate haired girl said: "I'm not going to stop you; keep your promise" A woeful look on her face. she was calm and collected, nothing like the old Yuuki who would be at loss for action in such a situation.

Zero observed her woeful expression and how her long hair bangs danced in front of her eyes due to the blowing wind. As if nature could sense the storm in their hearts, air was blowing fiercely to go in harmony with them.

He observed the dark aura that was surrounding her, which only confirmed further that she wasn't the Yuuki he once knew, not even a tiny trace of her was left.

'click'

He was becoming ready to pull the trigger when…

'Stop!'

Aoi stepped in front of Yuuki, forming a body-shield for her. She shouted: "We must protect her, not kill her!"

Furious, Zero shouted: "Move aside or I'll have to kill you first!" His voice croak due to how loud he shouted. His shouting voice carried much more pain than he thought it would. It carried much misery, regret, hate, and the painful silence. The painful silence that he kept all this time came to live as his worst enemy. He didn't want all his feelings to burst out like this, but could he control such a rage?

He just wanted to end it all.

"Then kill me!" Aoi shouted in determination while Yuuki couldn't move a muscle; his shout pierced through her chest, shattering her heart and forcing her to freeze on her spot. She could feel all the emotions his voice carried, one by one, and those feelings weren't having any mercy on her.

Zero looked at Aoi's eyes, and his heart skipped a beat again. He lowered his bloody rose, slightly trembling due to the rage that over whelmed him.

Something within Aoi's eyes, despite being blue, reminded him of the determination in his Yuuki's eyes so much. He was losing this battle. His resolve was breaking. There was no way he could shoot the Yuuki in Aoi. He silently left, not even looking behind.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what happened to him" Aoi apologized to Yuuki. Recovering from her frozen state, Yuuki smiled feebly at her.

"It's fine" Yuuki said in a very plaintive voice, and then she trudged her way out of the forest.

An eerie silence controlled the area although there was fierce wind blowing moments ago. Aoi touched her cheek; it stung. A branch that was carried by the windy storm must have grazed her. She could care less. She looked at the spot where Zero was standing, thinking:

'His eyes … The moment they met mine… my whole body started to shiver!

What kind of person is he? `

The princess of Kuran's family walked back to the mansion, trying with her utmost will-power to stop the tears that were escaping from her eyes. She squeezed the fabric that was covering her chest tightly as if that was going to lessen the pain she felt.

She never wanted zero to hate her, she never wanted to put him through that much pain, and she never wanted to see him in that much rage!

But she's a vampire now, nothing is the same. Everyone treated her differently. All the vampires feared her. Zero… Zero relinquished her as if she was a plague. She never asked to be a vampire, but she couldn't blame him.

If he was going to kill her, to her, it was much better than living and knowing she's hated by him.

She never thought she loved him before, not in this way. Not in a way that never let her have neither the relief of sleep nor the taste of having whatever she wanted. She never thought that she loved him in a way that made him occupy her mind all the time although she was besides Kaname, the one she always admired all the time.

She never thought she loved him in a way that made her feel the urge to cry just by thinking of how he might be thinking of her now. She hated how she was only a reason to cause him more and more pain, and she hated how much she missed him and wanted to be with him!

She cursed the fact that she is a vampire now a thousand times, and this time was no difference. She wanted him to kill her; she didn't want to be a burden on him anymore. She wanted him to be free.

`If he killed me, will he be at ease? `

A thought hit her. She knew that even if she is not the Yuuki he knew anymore, they had that bond between them. She could tell she still resided in his mind somewhere. That was the only explanation for how pained he seemed.

He must be hating her now, but if the old her was still by any chance in his heart, then wouldn't killing her hurt him? Wouldn't it cause him more guilt and pained feelings? Wouldn't it torture him? She didn't want him to dwell in hate any further, but she still didn't want him to have any regrets, even if the chance of that was close to none.

'Zero, you can hate me, but I won't let you kill me yet' She thought in determination after wiping her tears.

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A/N: How was it? Let me know.

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