Hi everyone, Michi Leona here. Happy Chinese New Year to the people who celebrate it and I'm really sorry if you're impatient about my other stories. I've been sort of.. dead for the past year or so.

Anyway I got into VK a few months ago and after just finishing chapter 47 I came up with an idea for a fanfic, so here it is! A word of warning before you start, this fic has spoilers for chapter 40-47. So if you haven't read those then you might want to wait until you do.

Finally, I don't own VK and I never will. Enjoy!

A Little Planning

The room was dark. Shadows were cast behind empty chairs and heavy curtains. There was little light, except what a small dim lamp cast over a man's features. Light pale skin. Kind, yet serious beige eyes looked on behind glasses. Thick strands of hair, the same color as his eyes hung in front of his face, and were pulled into a lose ponytail at the back of his head. His mouth was set in a straight grim line. Headmaster Cross Kaien sat down quietly into a chair at the far end of the oval- shaped table.

Yes, Cross Kaien. The Headmaster of Cross Academy. Also former vampire hunter.

Besides him, there were only two others in the room. One, a man, was seated beside him. Messy, rumpled, black hair came down in scraggly clumps around a tired, weary face. An eye patch covered his right eye, and his left shone dim silver. Small scars nicked his skin, showing signs of past battles. The other person was seated right on the opposite side of the table, far, far away from Cross and the other. Face covered by the cloak of darkness, the person remained unknown and silent.

As Yagari placed his hand onto the table, a small thick cloud of dust appeared. He scowled.

"Doesn't anyone ever clean this place Cross?" he asked.

"No Yagari." The headmaster answered, expression calm and somber" No one comes here anymore. It's the reason I chose this place to talk with you two."

Yagari looked across the room, "Hmm," he snorted, "doesn't look like she's going to be talking any time soon." He took out a cigarette from his pocket, "You have a lighter?"

Cross's eyebrows rose, "What happened to yours?" he asked.

"Got lost in the fight."

Cross looked at him skeptically, "You don't have a spare?"

Yagari twirled the cigarette in his hand, "I have twenty others in my suitcase but I don't exactly have time to get them now, do I?"

Cross frowned, "You'll die from choking one day."

"Don't care."

Cross tossed a lighter to him. Yagari caught it with ease and quickly lit the cigarette, before putting it into his mouth with a content expression on his face. He breathed out, forming a cloud of smoke. He sat back, reminding Cross of a cat who's just had his milk and cream.

"So about the school," he began, "what are you going to do now Cross? Continue running it? Close it down? Remember, the Day Class knows all about the Night Class now. They'll probably want to go back now anyway."

Cross said nothing for a while, then he spoke, "Before I had already made my decision to close down the school."

"Thank Goodness-"

Cross interrupted, "Now however, I'm having second thoughts."

Yagari snorted disbelievingly, "You're mad. What could there possible be now to give you second thoughts?"

"The students."

"What about the students?"

Cross grimly smiled, "They don't want to leave."

Yagari made a face. "You're lying."

"I'm not." Cross turned his gaze to him, "Believe what you will Yagari, but I'm telling you now, none of the students want to leave the school, even if there are Vampires."

"Hmph." Yagari breathed out another cloud of smoke. "Well then who cares anyway about that? Do the students a favor Cross." He said, "Send them out of this hellhole. You've seen how they've been attacked today. You keep them here, they'll get attacked even more."

"Then we'll teach them how to fight." Cross said.

"Them?" Yagari snorted. " Those spoiled, pampered, children? They're no better then babies if they're going to fight against vampires Cross!"

"You'll find their resolve astounding Yagari."

"And I suppose you want me to teach them?" Yagari made a face at the thought. "No thank you."

"You won't be alone."

"And who else will there be?"

Cross leveled his eyes with Yagari's and slowly answered, "The Night Class."

For a few seconds, Yagari stared at him, a spark of disbelief showing in his eyes. "Now I know you've gone crazy Cross." He said. " The odds are against you. You're under arrest, the Vampire Council's assassinated, Kuran's gone with your adopted daughter, Ichijou's disappeared, and my idiotic student has gone as well to go after Kuran." Yagari scowled. "There's no way you can continue running the school, let alone have Vampires teaching in it."

"That's why I called you two here."

Yagari looked bemused, "You want us to run the school? If so I'm sorry but I'll have to not-so-politely decline. There's no way I'm running it."

"Let me speak first." Cross sat back in his chair, laid-back. In fact for a short moment it even looked like he was back to the cheery, carefree chairman he had been before. However the moment passed. "I'm not asking you to run a school." He said, "In fact I even doubt it can be called a 'school'."

"But you just said-"

Cross interrupted, "I will close down the school. However in it's place, you'll make another."

"What?"

He continued, "Not an academy, more of a small school. For," Cross took a deep breath, "Vampire Hunters."

Silvery eyes glanced up, "Keep going." Yagari said interested. Perhaps this talk wouldn't be quite so time wasting...

"You'll tell the Hunter Association that you're training Vampire Hunters." Cross explained, "You'll say that you've realized that I've gone mad and that this is your way to repent for the wrongs you've done."

"They'll believe that?" Yagari said disbelievingly.

Cross sighed, "Yagari, you're the top ranked Vampire Hunter in the association. They won't quite believe you, but they won't throw you in prison either."

Settling with that explanation Yagari continued, "Who's going to be in the school?" he asked.

"A couple of students have expressed their interest..."

"And you're going to let them?"

Cross shrugged, "You don't have to teach them fighting only. There can be medical divisions, academics, and all of that. Just keep the school vampire-centered."

"Which students actually want to participate in this madness?" Yagari asked.

"Wakaba Sayori for one."

Wakaba Sayori... Yagari thought back to the school register. "Wasn't she your daughter's roommate?" He asked, "No wonder she's agreeing. She's caught you're daughter's madness."

Cross's face grew sombre as he softly said, "I have no right to call her my daughter anymore."

Yagari stayed silent in thought for a few moments then asked, "What about the Night Class?" he exhaled some more smoke, "You said they're going to help. Are they also in this?"

"They're in it." was the simple reply.

Yagari sighed, then snarled, "Enlighten us Cross. Tell me how on Earth are you going to let the Hunter's Association put Vampires in a Vampire Hunting School!"

"It's quite simple. We'll use the Hunter Association's past relationship with the Vampire Council." Cross explained, "The night class are mostly all nobles and such. They'll be there to help. Since all of us have the same 'target' in mind, then we should help each other. Besides," he said, "It'll help the students. What better way is there to learn how to kill vampires then meeting them yourself?"

Yagari thought about it. "So," he finally said, "we'll be like the shogun in the shadows, manipulating everyone else using trickery and negotiation."

Cross looked at him hard. "Will you do it?"

Yagari snorted, "Do I have a choice?" He placed down his cigarette, "I'll do it."

Cross nodded, it was hard to tell what he was feeling under his stony expression. He turned to the third figure, "And you?" he asked.

The figure shuffled forward, just barely in the light. Cross could almost see a smile. A female voice replied, "Course I will. It sounds like fun. Better than the other tasks I'd have to do."

For the first time that evening, Cross Kaien smiled. It was a smile of relief and happiness.

"That's good." he chuckled, "Now I know that my precious ducklings will be in good hands while I'm in prison."

He bowed to both of them, "Well then," he grinned, "Shall we go?"

Yeah I know this was really short, but this was just an idea that I thought of. Please review and let me know if you like it! I could say that I won't continue this until I have 5 reviews, but I'm not that mean. Still, please review!

Just for clarification:

"The Shogun in the Shadows"- This refers to Shoguns (Military Commanders/ Dictators) who thought up strategies and formations during times of war.