Disclaimer: Vampire knight is written by Matsuri Hino and is licensed by Viz media, I am not making any profit from this fanfiction or the characters included in it.
Chapter 1
The endless squealing and cheering (Most of which were pleas for either marriage or to birth a certain night class member's children) of the night class' fan club, which mostly consisted of hyperactive female students, although there was quite a few male students there begging for the love of the female night class students. Yuki, the only prefect present at the moment, was struggling to force the crowd away from the entrance gate to the moon dorms and was being easily pushed around by the crowd.
Yuki loudly blared her whistle as she stood in front the entrance to the moon dorms, in a fruitless attempt at making the students listen to her and calm sighed in an exhausted manner, having tired herself out with her attempts at controlling the near-mindless fan girls.
In the excitement Yuki was knocked over by the crowd, "No!" She uselessly exclaimed, trying to get up but being pushed back down over and over again.
Suddenly the gathering of girls quietened down before separating to the two sides of the path leading up to the entrance gate. At the end of the path stood an ethereal figure, but in reality it was just Zero, the sunset shining behind her giving her silver hair a sort of halo effect.
The intimidating girl walked over to Yuki, who was still in such a stupor that she hadn't tried to get up again. Zero leaned down and helped Yuki up and steadied her before letting go of her.
"Are you okay?" The stern prefect questioned with a quietly concerned expression on her face, Yuki found herself blushing at her adoptive sister's care and the fangirls looked on with silent adoration at the rare tender moment between the usually stone faced girl and the other prefect. (1)
"Um, yeah, I'm fine. Th-thanks for helping!" The brunette exclaimed cheerfully, grateful for the much appreciated help.
The two prefects separated and stood a step before each of the side's of the path as the night class made their way to their classes. Most of the large group of girl's attention was drawn back to the night class, although there were a few still paying attention to the lavender eye'd prefect.
Hanabusa, as usual, was showering himself with the praise and attention of his fangirl's, interacting with the blushing and squealing girl's as much as possible while being dragged forward by an indifferent Akatsuki.
As Zero was watching the targets of her annoyance and hatred when something started churning inside of her abdomen, her eye's lowered toward her body and a slight blush dusted over her cheeks. That was definitely weird, had she eaten something bad today? She didn't remember eating any of cross's creation's (Which, really, they didn't deserve to be called meals) so had she caught a bug sometime today? She really couldn't afford to be sick right now. . .
She angrily folded her arm's under her chest, subconsciously puffing her average sized breast's out, and looked everywhere except the night class, hoping they would hurry up and leave for their fucking lesson's already.
From a distance away from the hunter, Ruka observed her curiously, wondering what had affected the girl to such an extant. She had unknowingly observed the girl on so many occasions, under the pretense of the hunter offending Kaname-sama, her eye's were drawn to the silver haired girl's chest, was she trying to attract someone? Maybe her heat (2) had come somewhat unexpected and Ruka found an involuntary twinge of sympathy for the girl. She, herself had gone through quite a few moments like that and understood how embarrassing and frustrating it could be.
With that thought passing through her mind she walked on towards her classes, not noticing the slight blush that she had mirrored from the hunter.
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Dry grass crunched underneath Zero's feet as she made her way towards her dorm. The churning in her stomach had spread through out her whole torso and she couldn't seem to place what had caused it.
As she was walking towards her dorm, slightly hunched over in an uncomfortable state. Two male students had been walking towards their own dorm room's and she walked past them, paying them little attention since they seemed to be doing the right thing, but froze as her nose caught an overwhelming smell.
She couldn't quite describe what it smelled like but it engulfed her, she could hardly stand straight as the student's walked away from her. Suddenly, it struck her. She wasn't sick, hadn't eaten something bad, her heat had already begun. Zero hadn't been able to catch it's cycle yet and only knew what it was when she was in heat, when it was too late for her to plan around it.
Groaning in annoyance at her own obliviousness, Zero quickly made her way back to her dorm, making sure to avoid any males where she could.
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Closing the door to her bedroom, a blushing Zero shuffled towards her bed, sitting on it and contemplating what she was going to do. Sighing for what felt like an eternity, Zero decided she would just have to muscle through with tonight and say she was sick for the next few days. She got up and went to the bathroom, turning on the shower, taking of her clothes and stepping into the shower.
Her silver hair was flattened with the water's weight soaking into it, the long waves of silver locks reaching her waist. Rubbing a bar of soap into her damp skin, Zero proceeded to wash her body, wiping away the day's layer of dirt and sweat.
Rubbing a reasonable amount of soap into the crevices of her body, she wondered how the fuck she would be able to deal with going through heat for her whole life. Being raised as a hunter, Zero had a substantial amount of knowledge on vampires. After all, the best way to destroy your enemy is to know their every move and action, right? So she of course knew that female's went into a heat every other month, she also knew that females who were turned into vampires also went into heat and had been expecting her's to come when she was older, although she was not happy about it.
The only way for a heat to be subdued was for the female to have a vampire mate. A male they had sexually coupled with, and Zero was not fucking having sex with a bloodsucker just so her heat was slightly better.
Sighing, she turned off the shower and grabbed her towel, wrapping it under her armpit's and taking the brush out of the medicine cabinet. Her hair was always very quick to grow, so there wasn't really a point of wasting money on a hair cut, although it was annoying to brush the knot's out of the extreme length of hair. Ichiru had alwa-
She cut herself off. It didn't matter what Ichiru had thought of her hair before he had betrayed their parent's and her. He had never cared for her, even though he had been her world, the one thing she truly loved at that point in time. Now she had Yuki, and Yuki would not be corrupted by a pureblood like Ichiru had been, she would not allow it. (3)
When done brushing her hair she went to place the brush back in the medicine cabinet, which she had to stand on the tip of her toes to reach said cabinet. But dropped the brush when a sudden surge of pain erupted in her chest. She gasped, clenching a hand over her heart and backing away, scrambling out of the bathroom, stumbling over to her bed and slumping over to the bed's side table.
Roughly grasping at the side table's draw and ripping it out of the table, Zero scrambled to find the slip of blood tablets Cross had given to her, just in case. Stuffing a hand full of them into her mouth, Zero struggled to swallow them, clenching her hand's around her throat to try and force them down, her nails digging into the soft flesh of her neck. Her lung's begged for air and her stomach lurching to expel the blood tablet's from it cavern.
"Hurgh. . .uhgh!. . ." Zero choked as she held her breath to keep the tablets down, trying as hard as she could even when her face started turning blue from willing asphyxiation. But Zero's attempts were futile, she eventually couldn't hold them in and choked the half dissolved tablets up with a general amount of saliva and tears running from her face.
Exhausted, she crawled up onto her bed, the blood lust still raging inside her tired out body. Curling in upon herself above the covers of her bed, Zero drifted off into a restless sleep, covered in nightmares.
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Long, silver locks of hair where blown through the air as Zero patrolled the academies ground's. The blood lust had somewhat subsided and she was able to walk around without quite as much of a struggle, although her heat had only strengthened without the distraction keeping it at bay. A blush had stained her pale cheeks and had been there for a while, Zero was thankful that she hadn't encountered anyone tonight, it would have been a rather embarrassing situation.
And of course, with her relationship with luck these years, someone happened to come across Zero, in the middle of a fucking literal forest. Bushes rustled and grass crunched underneath the unknown person, obviously not male due to the echo of the footsteps.
Zero gripped Bloody Rose in it's holster, prepared for a fight if she had to. "Who's there?" She called out into the darkness, hearing the person stop in their walking and stay still for a moment. Her hand clenched around Bloody Rose and she took it out of it's holster, ready to aim.
"It's just me." A smooth and silky voice speaks out of the darkness. Ruka stepped out of the shadows and she looked directly at Bloody Rose, as if saying 'Really? You think that will hurt me?' Of course, most of the night class tended to underestimate her.
Zero lowered her gun, although she didn't put it back in it's holster. Ruka mentally noted that.
"What are you doing out of class?" She questioned, usually it was Aido running around out of class. Ruka tended to follow the rules, even though she showed open dislike for them.
"I left some books in my room that I needed for tonight's class." The dark blonde stated, emphasizing the books she was carrying at the moment. Zero sighed, at least some of the night class weren't as annoying as they could be.
"Okay, I'll escort you back to your classroom." Zero stated, before walking in the direction that night class's section of classroom's were placed.
The two walked in silence, the air blowing behind their ear's the only sound filling the area. Ruka dwelling on her thoughts, this was the first time she had ever been alone with the hunter and there were a few things she had always wanted to ask her, but would it work out how her mind thought it would? Probably not, but this was a very rare situation.
Out of the blue, Ruka decided to ask "Why do you hate Kaname-sama so much?" With as much effort put into making it not sound like an insult, that wouldn't bring an answer from the violet eyed girl.
Zero was curious to what had prompted the vampire to ask such a thing, but with being emotionally drained as she was and with the pre-heat hormones raging through her body, she couldn't find it in her to answer back with a snarky or sarcastic comment.
"I don't expect you to understand my point of view, with the amount of respect you no doubt have for Kuran. But let me ask you this instead, do you find yourself agreeing with hunters like me on a regular basis?" She laquidly pinched the bridge of her nose inbetween her lilac eye's. "I was raised with the purpose of hating vampires, as you know a vampire slaughtered my family right before my eye's. If a hunter did something like that to you, would you be overly fond of me?"
At this, the two had ended their walk to Ruka's classroom, and Zero left with a softly spoken goodbye, leaving Ruka to contemplate her answer to the question. Would she be kind to any hunter after that? Obviously not, definitely not after such an experience. She entered her classroom, setting her books upon her table and sitting down, realizing that she had just shared such an intimate moment with the hunter.
And she had absolutely no idea where to go from here.
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1- I like the idea of Zero having some fangirl's for him/herself, just like the night class. Because, I mean, Zero's just as hot as the night class right? Plus, he's the hard, darkened soul that fan girl's always like to sooth and heal back to it's prior love.
2- As I said in the first version of this story, female vampires go through a state of heightened sex necessity, basically letting anyone have sex with them in such a state. You can guess why Zero wouldn't want it.
3- I always thought there was a little bit more to Zero's hatred of Kaname than meets the eye. The first person he had ever felt love to (In my opinion) was corrupted and taken away from him by a pureblood, why shouldn't he feel that that will happen again if he lets the second he has ever felt love for get to close to another pureblood. To me, Yuki is a mirror of Ichiru to him, and he subconsciously can see that.
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Hi everybody! I hope you like this version more than the first, because it took a lot longer than the first chapter of the first version took to write that's for sure.
Anyway please comment. Any helpful criticism is appreciated!