Chapter one
"Once upon a snow…"
My sixteenth birthday has come, celebrating wasn't necessary for me. An orphan from a house called haunted; I was always feared. I never knew how to live, what family is either. Until I saw the beginning of the snow fall. A man with silver hair had come without fear in my territory….yes all was once upon a snow….
He went to my territory which everyone feared. I thought he would run if he knows where he is, yet he stepped up to me pointing his gun. His eyes were unreadable, yet I can sense an aura of a beast.
"Who are you?" I asked without any sense of fear.
"Prepare for your death." He was about to click his gun.
I thought it was the end of my life; a life I couldn't even appreciate for sixteen years. But then, a girl with dark hair guarded me from my almost death.
"Zero, don't work so recklessly" she shouted at the boy who was supposed to kill me. He willfully lowered his gun and placed it at its position. The girl went to me; she was smiling so softly that no one has ever done for me.
"I'm sorry at what my companion did to you earlier but you're not a level E, am I right?"She asked with a look of wariness. I nodded without knowing what it means to be a level E. she took my hands and stood me up and then she smiled. They had taken me to a place outside my slumber. It was a triangular field; three buildings occupy three corners of the field.
"Oh no! It's almost dawn!" the girl holding me was getting worried over something I do not know.
"Zero, take her to the chairman's office, I'll handle it here" she went away quickly leaving me and the silver haired boy alone. I looked at him and he stared with a glare.
"Let's go before we get caught up with the chaos around" he shoved my wrist and went our way.
In the chairman's office…
"Oh, I see…well Hello~! I am the chairman of this school~Kaien cross!!" he was more like a child rather than an old man.
"The two people who took you in are my two darling kids! Yuuki and zero!"
"Shut up! Whoever told you that I was your kid!?"
"Waah!!~kiryuu-kun is being mean! By the way, where is yuuki-chan?" he searched for her.
"She couldn't wait till here to not see his brother/ fiancée after the pass hour." He was a bit upset on this.
*it seems like zero-kun has moved forward…I guess things will change from now on* thought of the chairman "well then please let her proceed to the moon dorm"
"Why?! She's not a vampire! Isn't she?"
"Let her stay there for a mere time, until profiles are given about her."
"Chairman! Were here!" Kaname and yuuki entered the room. Kaname was caught by the aura of the new girl.
"Well then please proceed to the moon dorms" the chairman became serious and took a sight at Kaname nodding his head. Kaname also nodded stiffly and went back to the dorms.
At the moon dorm…
"You know, you look cute in my night dress, you can wear it if you like! ~you're so cute~!" yuuki was so glad to meet her.
"Why are you so happy?" I asked.
"Well, back then I had a dear friend on the other dorm but now, we don't see each other because of some circumstances. So I'm really glad to have you sleep with me even just for a night." She had such a sweet smile.
"By the way, what is your name? You know mine right?"
"Y-yuuki…" I mumbled
"You do know! How about yours?"
I shook my head as a no. I never did have a name, and what is a name anyway?
"Well then, how about I give you one?" she smiled
I widened my eyes with sparkles. I thought that she would only pity me, but, she didn't. She even thought of giving me a name. It made me smile. I never thought someone in the world would appear like her.
"Hmmmm…what name matches" she was really thinking hard
"…?" I waited
"I know! Your name will be Tomomi-chan"
"Tomomi?"
"Yah, Tomomi, it means a beautiful friend"
"Beautiful friend" it echoed through me and it gave me gladness, from now on, my name shall be Tomomi; a beautiful friend.