This is my first fan fiction I hope you like it!
I don't own Vampire Knight, Matsuri Hino does.
9 years before the start of this story a girl named Yuki Kuran lived happily with her mother Juri, father Haruka and older brother Kaname.
Yuki's parent's kept her existence a secret from everyone except her family and close friend Kaien Cross because of the corrupt vampire council who wished to use the blood of purebloods for their own gain, but also because of Rido Kuran, Haruka and Juri's older brother, whom they were terrified would try to take their daughter away like with their first child.
It was because of that Yuki had been confined to the basement of the family mansion since she was born, not knowing anything else about the outside world other than what her brother told her and she read in books.
For 5 years the family lived happily this way until that fatal winter night when Rido came for her.
The blizzard blew almost painfully hard against everyone outside the Kuran mansion as Haruka, Juri and Kaname fought against the vast army of level E vampires Rido had created. Due to the fact that they had no other choice Juri, Haruka and Kaname had left Yuki alone in the basement as she would probably safe from Rido there while they fought of the low level vampires.
The low leveled vampires proved to be no match against three purebloods, but the problem lay in their huge numbers. Each time one of their comrades would fall another one would take its place which was tiresome in the long run.
Haruka had clashed with Rido himself at the start of the battle, but after having been slightly injured by the hunter sword Rido had brought Haruka had withdrawn and Rido had disappeared.
As Kaname used his powers to blow apart the servant who had been foolish enough to try to take off his head and tried to shake off the feeling of nervousness that threatened to overtake him the only thought in his head was, 'Yuki, please be safe.'
Yuki was sitting utterly alone on the couch in the main room of the basement with her arms wrapped tightly around herself, shaking in fright as she smelled all the blood outside.
Kaname-oniisama had told her to stay where she was unless either he or one of their parents came to get her and she had listened to him like a good girl, but as the scent of her beloved ones' blood hit her the scared little girl just couldn't take it anymore and ran towards the secret entrance from where the smell was coming, from hoping to find her parents and brother.
She ran up the many flights of stairs, leaving the small girl quite winded as she had never walked up a staircase before, let alone run.
As Yuki entered the upper levels of her home, she couldn't help but be in awe at the sight of the mansion despite her worry for her family. While the basement was beautifully decorated, it was nothing compared to that.
The design of the walls, floors and ceilings were the same as her basement, but up there she saw loads of expensive furniture, ancient paintings that appeared to have been earlier Kurans and beautiful statues and vases of several stones, clays and glasses.
As Yuki walked through the hallways towards the scent and sound of the battle, she began to sense a dark presence not far away from her. She was curious at first as to why it seemed so familiar, but as it began to move her way the fright took over.
Yuki backed frightfully away from the nearing presence, having recognized it as the same thing that had haunted her in her dreams for a while. When the person emitting the scary aura suddenly disappeared she turned fully around and started to run, intending to go back to the safety and familiarity of the basement.
She had almost reached the room with the entrance when it appeared again.
Yuki let out a shrill scream as a hand roughly grabbed her arm from behind and turned her around and she found herself looking into the pair of mismatched eyes of a tall man with curly dark brown hair, looking strangely similar to her parents, who looked back at her hungrily, a predatory smile gracing his lips.
'Like they're going to eat me.' Yuki thought scared. As she looked into his eyes Yuki felt like a thick fog entered her head, making her mind feel extremely heavy. The last thing she heard before falling unconscious was the man's voice saying to her, "Farewell princess."
During the battle the Kurans had noticed Rido sneaking off, but unable to follow as his servants got in the way when they tried so they had only been able to dispose of the make shift barricades and pray for the best.
Haruka, Juri and Kaname could finally begin to see the end of the tunnel of the current nightmare as they had almost disposed of all the lover vampires when they heard a hair curling scream that almost stopped their hearts. The three of them looked towards the mansion entrance in fear to see Rido emerging with the unconscious form of their beloved girl in his arms.
Rido looked at their petrified faces in pleasure and said in a vindictive voice, "It looks like I have something that belongs to you."
"Give me back my daughter!" Juri screamed with fury, positioning herself to run for her little girl.
Seeing what she was intending Rido moved one of his hands to put on Yuki's neck, effectively freezing all three of them.
"I would think not my dear Juri," he said cruelly. "I have been waiting to taste this precious Kuran blood for 5 years and I have gone tired of waiting."
Using his index finger, Rido cut a thin line on Yuki's face and, watching their furious faces, licked the blood off. "Mmm, tasty." He said, liking his lips.
Kaname, seeing red with rage, ran towards them with the hunter's sword that he had picked up during the fight and held it high with the intent of trying to cut Rido's head off, but a centimeter away from his intended target Kaname's hand involuntarily stopped.
Rido smirked at Kaname and with a mocking voice said, "You can't move your hand, can you?"
Kaname tensed and Rido laughed before explaining, "You can't kill me because I am the 'master' who woke you from your coffin."
Kaname glared at him and drove the sword though his stomach, right underneath Yuki. Rido, taken aback, stumbled backwards with the sword, still in Kaname's hand, sliding out and touched the wound.
Haruka and Juri, seeing an opening, rushed forward trying to grab Yuki, but Rido jumped upwards and, grimacing slightly from the pain of the wound, landed on the balcony above the first floor.
When they and Kaname tried to follow the remaining level E's that had been forgotten blocked them and, though easily taken down, given their master time to escape.
Kaname, Juri and Haruka could only watch as Rido and Yuki disappeared in an array of bats with the departing words, "Say goodbye to your precious little girl…"
After a few seconds of shocked silence at what had just transpired Juri broke down in tears. Haruka walked over to her and hugged her tightly, trying to offer some comfort to her although the heartbroken expression on his face wasn't helping much.
Kaname, standing a few meters away from his parents was staring at the spot Yuki disappeared, silent tears flowing down his face as well.
For all three of them it was as though a horrible nightmare that they weren't waking up from, but about an hour later, after slowly but surly realizing that it indeed HAD, they walked inside, grief stricken and looking utterly lost.
Not long after the vampires living in the village close to the mansion, attracted by the smell of pure blood that had blown there, came to investigate what had happened.
The vampires later brought news of the disappearance of Rido, but the Kurans just locked themselves inside their home for weeks before entering society again, trying to stay as normal as possible, but never once did any of them ever go close to the basement Yuki used to stay, not bearing to go close to all those happy memories of her.
Rido re-appeared a few miles away from an unfamiliar house though he knew who lived there. It was simply the first place he thought of that would be the last place his family would think t look should they do so.
Although it hadn't appeared that way the wound Kaname left was quite severe, not to mention painful. Although not fatal, Rido knew it would take him awhile to recover from it.
He knew that if he just drank the little princesses' blood he would recover instantaneously, but decided against it. He hadn't thought much about it earlier, but as he now looked over her Rido saw how much she resembled Juri as a child. The little girl even smelled somewhat similarly.
He would wait for her to grow up into a woman before he would decide on eating her or not. Besides, where was the fun in doing it now?
With that in mind he placed his hand on top of her head and closed his eyes, concentrating hard on the task before him. The usual purple hue that appeared when a vampire sealed away someone's memory was a vivid red as Rido focused some of the last of his strength on sealing away Yuki's entire memory.
After he was done he put her on the snow covered ground, knowing she would be found later, and left for the vampire council where Ichio was.
Kaien Cross, retired vampire hunter and chairman of Cross Academy, awoke in his house with the feeling that something was wrong. It wasn't something dangerous, but it made him uneasy nonetheless. It was like something terrible had happened.
Trying (and failing) to shake it off over a fast breakfast Kaien decided to take a walk in the forest surrounding his home as he often did when he had felt restless over the years. He walked from the kitchen with a sigh over to the outer door and put on a simple coat, a scarf and a pair of gloves. It was winter after all.
He left the house and walked down the main road before taking off into a forest path he knew was there. Kaien walked around in his own world, enjoying the morning sun filtered through the trees and the way the light made the snow glitter.
But as he walked deeper into the forest Kaien's hunter instincts alerted him to an out of place presence that set him on edge. Kaien stopped short when he smelled the scent of a vampire, none the less a pureblood and contemplated whet he should do now.
On one hand it was a level A vampire, but for some reason the scent was so faint. His curiosity got the better of him he went towards the clearing it was in, but stopped when he was just inside.
Not because he didn't want to get closer, but because he didn't see it. His instincts had never failed him before though and he knew the vampire was there, but where.
He looked around the clearing in search of something out of the normal when he saw something almost in the middle. There was what seemed like a bit of clothing, but there was no way a pureblood would be buried under the snow. Right?
Kaien walked cautiously over before bending slightly to pick up the clothing.
The only problem was that it was stuck to something.
He let go and used the same hand to lightly brush away the snow covering whatever was weighting the clothing down and froze before starting to dig as though his life depended on it. What he found couldn't have shocked him more.
A small girl who couldn't be more than five, maybe six, lay there in just a small pink dress.
Hurriedly Kaien took off his jacket, picked up the little girl and wrapped her in it. She was deathly pale and very cold to the touch and even though he knew purebloods didn't get sick, let alone die, from something like this he hurried towards his house with her.
Right then and there who she was didn't cross his mind for a second.
This was the first chapter (obviously).
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