He sunk his teeth deep into the flesh of the unconscious girl. Blood poured into the depths of his mouth. The sensation was unlike any he'd ever had before. The feel of the blood being sucked from the wound, and the warmth on his toung. He shivered at the delight of it. He pulled her closer in need of more of this sensation. Faster and faster the blood traveled down his throut into his belly. More. He needed more!

The girl moaned and he knew that he had taken enough, but why couldn't he bring himself to pull away from her bare neck? He tried harder but only succeded into sucking more blood from the already dizzy girl. What was going on!? Why couldn't he stop!? The girls eyes opened slowly to get a look at her attacker.

"Zero...." she whispered. "Why...." His eyes popped open as hers slowly faded into nothing. All there was left was a blank look starring up at him. She wasn't really seeing, just sort of looking in his direction. He pulled away when all the blood was drained from the corpse.

Pulling her closer, tears fell from his clenched eyes. "Yuki....forgive me!" He hung his head over the girl and cried. All he could do was cry. The girl who was most precious to him was---

"YUKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He sat up panting hard. Looking around for any sign of her corpse he lay back down. "A dream, it was all a dream..." His roomate was awake by then starring at Zero.

"Dude! It's two in the morning! Can't you ever sleep!?"

He chuckled at the irony of that sentence. A creature of the dark sleeping during the night, it wasn't right. "Sorry, Takada, it won't happen again!" He replied but his roomate was already snoring and drooling in his sleep.

Zero rolled onto his side and starred at the wall. What does that stupid dream mean? he thought. Every night! I wake up screaming because i kill Yuki! I--

"Huh?" There was a knock on the door. "Who is that at this hour!" he grumbled and got out of his bed. Slumping to the door he opened it a crack to see the girl from his dream.

"Zero, we have a problem!" Her face was upset and he could hear her heart racing. She must of ran all the way to the boys dorm. He starred at her neck as it pulsed each with one of her heartbeats. Badum...Badum...Badum...

He shook his head. "Huh?" He was inches from her neck, and his teeth hurt with hunger. "Uh---" He pulled back. "What is it?"

She looked concerned. "Have you eaten, Zero?"

He nodded. It was true, for the most part. Taking blood tablets was different from eating it from the source...He was starring at her neck again by then until he shook it off. "Well? You wake me up at two in the morning and say we have a problem? What is it? It better be good..." He was already loading his gun.

Again, the sheer irony of it! He, a vampire, was also a vampire hunter.

She nodded answering, "The headmaster...."

He looked up. The headmaster. The most annoying man on earth, naturally needed his help. If only he could sink his teeth into his neck he'd---He was about to bite her again. Damn, why couldn't he shake off these urges!?

"What about him...." he pretended to be interested in the gun he held.

"He's missing!" She had tears in her eyes and she looked desperate. He hated seeing her this way.

"Well then, come on. Lets go find him--no wait. You stay here, i don't want you in trouble."

"But--"

"I said stay!"

She nodded and walked into his room without another word. Zero turned and walked out of the boys dormatory.

Hours passed of looking in the headmasters most obvious and least obvious places. Where the hell is he?! There was a rustle in the bushes and Zero turned and shot his gun at it. The squirrel scurried up the tree in terror.

"Just a squirrel...i'm being paranoid..." He sighed and turned around then jumped back. "Gah--"

"You're getting slow, Zero." Kaname laughed at him. "You didn't realize i was following you for at least half an hour..."

"I don't suppose you know what i was doing."

"No, that's what i came here for, but when i saw you didn't notice me i thought i'd have a little fun, but you got boring so here i am!" he gestured to himself. "Now, why was my Yuki upset?"

"Your Yuki?"

"Don't be so stupid, Zero. You know who she likes better and i can tell you it isn't you!"

"Oh really? Is that so?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact it is. Now if you don't mind telling me why she's so upset i'd like to be--"

A shot rang out into the night and Kaname fell to his knees. "Why you little--"

"Has she giving you her blood? I don't think so! And guess what, i get it almost every week!" Zero grinned. "She gives it willingly too, and unlike you i didn't have to force her or beg her for it. She did it on her own accord."

"You little pest!" He barked. "She would never!"

"Seems you don't know your little Yuki as much as you thought..." he grinned. "Who thought Yuki would keep that a secret?"

Kaname's face was red with anger. His eyes flammed with the knowledge of Yuki's newly formed tiredness. She never looked the same as she had before Zero started feeding on her. He wasn't proud of it, but he made sure not to lose the gloating look on his face.

If Yuki knew what he was doing, she'd kill him! He hated to admit it, but she loved Kaname more than himself. His face faultered for a second hinting Kaname off. He recovered quickly.

"Kaname, go back to class. I'm doing my job, now leave me alone."

Kaname opened his mouth in protest but slowly closed it looking at something behind Zero. "It's time we ended this!" A light flashed behind Zero as he turned to see what Kaname was grinning at. Kaname dodged the blast just in time to see Zero get flung into the tree.

His body was limp and still. Kaname grinned and turned to look at his classmate. "Thank you Aido."

Aido smiled and looked at Zero's unconscious body. "Is he--dead?"

Kaname shrugged. "Who cares, he will be when i'm done with him..."

He carried Zero's body to the river and hung him upside down. The ropes knawed at his wrists making them raw against the cold winter air.

An hour passed and Zero slowly opened his eyes. "Yuki?" His vision was blury with a tint of red. Little dots of black threatened to take him back into the darkness of unconscious. "Where am i?" A sound filled his ears. Water, lots of it, all rushing. Something cold touched the tips of his hair. He shivered at the touch. What happened?

"Kaname? Why did you leave him over the river?"

"To teach him a lesson, by the time the sun rises his head will be completely under the water." Kaname smirked. "It's all going according to plan Aido, don't worry."

"Kaname! Kaname!" Yuki shouted running up frome behind him.

"Hello, Yuki." His grin turned to a loving smile almost instantaneously.

"Kaname, have you seen Zero? I sent him out four hours ago to look for the headmaster, but he hasn't returned!" She had tears burning her eyes just thinking of what could have happened to him.

"Where's the headmaster?" He was baffled. So that's what Zero was doing.

"He went missing last night, and i woke up Zero to look for him with me, but he told me to stay at the dorm and now not only is my foster father missing, but so is he!!!" She gripped his arm and started to cry on his shoulder. "What am i going to do?!"

"Yuki..." He hated seeing her so hurt. I'll go find the headmaster. No promises on Zero though." He bent down and kissed her forehead then turned to walk off. The headmaster's missing? But, what does that mean?

Zero closed his eyes as the freezing water filled his vision. Every part of his body ached. His wrists were bleeding from struggling so much, and his head pounded from being upside down for so long. The dots grew larger and his mind was starting to shut down.

Yuki, help, he thought. Never in his life had he accepted defeat, but now, he did. Kaname won, and Zero had to pay with his life. His surroundings faded and his eyesight turned to black as he fell into an eternal abyss.

Yuki ran around helplessly looking for Zero. "ZERO!" she cried. "Oh zero, where are you..." She held her hand to her chest and closed her eyes. Zero, where are you!? Why haven't you returned!? She opened her eyes at the sound of running water. Looking around all she saw was the hall she'd ben standing in. That's odd.

She ran down hallway after hallway yelling, no practically screaming his name. After dusk came, she'd all but given up. Zero was gone.

Zero pulled himself out of the freezing water with all his energy. His shivering continued and the rope burns grew larger as he continued to struggle. It was getting colder outside and soon, he wouldn't have the strength to lift up and breathe. With a long last breath he dropped back into the water letting the blood pour back into his head and the water fill up to his neck.

Memories flashed in his mind. Each of them was Yuki's smile. But the last one was of her crying, dressed in black and calling out his name. In front of her lay a white marble casket with a picture of him ontop of it. The headmaster wasn't there though.

Zero shook his head. What was he thinking!? That never happened...He closed his eyes. This is it.

His body gave into the current and he relaxed letting fate take him under its wings. Yuki, forgive me. His eyes felt heavy, he was slipping back into inconsciousness again.

There was a faint yell from under the water. He couldn't make out what it was saying only that it was that of a girl. And by the sound of her voice she was distressed. She was getting closer and she heard what she'd been yelling.

"Ichiru! Ichiru!" He felt a tug at the ropes and then his face hit the bottom of the river with and relief swept threw his aching arms.

Zero groaned as he sat up to see Maria, his twins lover. "Maria?"

"Ichiru! Who did this to you!?"

"Maria, it's me, Zero. Not Ichiru."

He saw the shadow sweep across her face. "Oh, i'm sorry."

"Thank you for saving me."

She stared at him. This was to be expected, he'd shown nothing but hate towards her and his brother. "Y-You're welcome." She turned to walk off then hesitated and turned back to him. "If you don't mind, who did this to you?"

He shook his head, "That's my business."

She nodded and walked off into the woods. It was only then did he realize he was still in the water. Slowly he stood his stiff joints popping in protests.

Walking threw the hallway to his dorm he heard her calling him, "ZERO!"

"Yuki?" He looked up just in time to be jumped by her. She clung to him as if he were the only sturdy thing to hang onto during a hurricane. "Are you ok?"

She looked up at him tears escaping her red, worried eyes. "You're wet, why?"

He smiled. "I splashed in a few puddles on the way here."

"Zero, where have you been?!"

"Looking for the Chairman, like you asked."

"You could have come back to tell me you were ok!!" She dug her head into his chest. He gently wrapped his arms around her.

"I'm sorry, i won't worry you again."

She felt warm on his chest. "You're hurt."

He shook his head. "It's nothing..."

She looked at him then moved her hair from her neck. "Do what you have to Zero, i don't want you to be--"

In a flash he was drinking from her. The warm liquid seeping into his mouth making all his senses go haywire. He pulled her closer and she grunted in protest.

Zero's drinking more than usual...Her vision was slipping. "Z--Zero, stop, that enough. Zero! You're hurting me! ZERO!"

He couldn't pull away. It was more than he could handle. Yuki pushed against his chest trying to pull away, to no avail. He was by far the stronger of the two.

"ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Her voice rang out in the hall until there was nothing but silence. A deadly silence.