Disclaimer: If I owned Vampire Knight I would be a very wealthy Asian. Since I am not I therefore do not own Vampire Knight or any of its characters.

Author's Note: This takes place after Rido attacks the school. If you have no idea what I am talking about then this contains spoilers in fact consider it to contain Spoilers all the way up to Chapter 47 of the manga but can be considered totally divergent from the story from there since well those chapters haven't been released yet :P

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Night 1: The Return of Zero

Cross Academy was a private school, home to the elite night class. Zero had thought it was all over when the campus had been nearly destroyed six months ago, during Rido's awakening. It should have taken years to rebuild all the damage and yet here he stood at the grand gates guarding the entrance to the school grounds and as hard as he tried he could find no sign that the epic battle had ever taken place.

"Zero~! My darling son you're baaaaack!" The call dragged Zero out of his painful memories. His glare became harsher as the frumpy and effeminate man approached. He could never believe this pathetic man used to be the greatest vampire hunter ever. "It's so good to have you back Zero." Chairman Cross said more seriously leading the boy to his personal home on campus. "I've prepared your old room for you and everything." He continued to blabber not caring that Zero rarely responded and constantly glared.

Zero sighed grumpily as he looked out the window at the empty expanse of Cross Academy wondering once again why he had been forced to return.

"Ah, I can't wait to reopen the school to my precious students." The chairman continued to flitter about. "It's so good of you to arrive so promptly. The night class will be returning tomorrow night so they can settle in and help prepare the sun dorms before the day class arrives." That was right … Zero remembered the return of the night class. The rebuilt Hunter's Association had gotten word that Cross intended to reopen Cross Academy and that Kuran was not finished with his plans for it either, putting a great deal of effort and money into helping the chairman rebuild it as fast as possible.

When he first heard the rumors he had originally thought that Kuran was only helping due to Yuuki's sentimental attachment to both the school and the man who had raised her, thus dismissing the whole thing from his mind. That was until the reformation of the night class and the practical announcement of Kuran's wish to encourage Cross' dream of peaceful co-existence. This had severely irritated him because he had believed that the vampires had left the academy behind when he had, but apparently their absence had merely been a temporary trip to consolidate Kuran's power throughout vampiric society.

The Association had begged him to return to the school as both a guardian and representative believing his relationship and familiarity made his their best candidate, not to mention spy, he thought dryly to himself. In fact the only reason he had accepted the idea at all was his total distrust of vampires and his curiosity at what that pureblood bastard Kuran was really planning.

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I'll Also Show You A Sweet Dream

Next Night…

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Author's End Note:

^^: Well I'm sure some of you are confused by the fact that Zero is really the only one who got any screen time but his POV really fit with setting the scene and giving some of the back story. No worries though Yuuki, Kaname, and the rest of the night class show up in the next chapter. Oh and be forewarned the rating may go up I just haven't decided yet.

Just to let you know the more reviews I get the faster I update but don't expect consistent updates as I can get pretty busy with classes.

Also since I'm always looking for more inspiration, Idea Contest!!! Give me ideas for things that should happen in the plot and if I like them you may get yourself a cameo appearance during the chapter that contains your idea! There is no limit submit as many ideas as you get.