Life as we know it

AN: Okay, so this is my first story on FF. So if I fail miserably I apologize and you can feel free to tell me how much my writing sucks. So, on that note I'll tell you a little bit about the story. So this story is basically following some of the story line and plot from Vampire Knight with the same characters in it. With the addition of my own OC, Amethyst Phoenix, who is a pureblood like Kaname Kuran. She is from the thought to be extinct Phoenix clan; she was raised by Touga Yagari. Who as you all know is the top vampire hunter so along with being a pureblood is also a hunter. She trained with Zero when she was younger and is just about the only vampire that Yagari and Zero can stand. She has long straight amethyst colored hair which changes color depending on her mood. (It'll be explained a little later in the story why her hair and eyes do that.) She has amethyst colored eyes that again change color with her mood. She wears a glove on her right hand because although she can control her powers her right hand has a corrosive touch. It can cause anything to melt, explode, or turn into a pool of black acid on contact. This is also a bit of a love story between Takuma Ichijo and Amethyst. Her relationship with most of the Night Class will be revealed in this chapter since; this is when she arrives at Cross Academy. So that's about it, so again I apologize if my writing sucks and I also apologize for any grammatical errors or spelling errors in advance so if I have missed some please feel free to point them out! Reviews and flames are greatly appreciated! (They are appreciated cuz any criticism is helpful!) Thanks,

Black Rose Tattoo

I do not own Vampire Knight, it belongs to Matsuri Hino.

Chapter 1: The Arrival:

I yawned as the limo pulled into the gates of Cross Academy. Today, or more accurately tonight, I was supposed to start going to school here. I yawned again, damnit I was tired. It technically was the middle of the "night" for me since this is when I normally sleep. The limo stopped and I stretched. It had been a wicked long car ride to get here and quite honestly I was excited to see what my new school looked like. Most eighteen year olds would be dreading the arrival at their new boarding school but considering everything I have gone through and have done in my life. Let's just put it this way, I don't give a damn. Going to a new school actually seemed easy! I heard my driver's door open and close and I pulled my bangs out of my face. My waist long, amethyst colored hair was currently tied in a tight braid. I pulled the hood of my black hoodie up so it partially covered my face and my hair couldn't be seen. I put on my favorite pair of sunglasses and exited the car. I felt my black leather boots hit the pavement and I sighed, I was finally here. I stood up straight and my back cracked. I saw my driver grimace slightly at the sound of the popping bones. I walked over to the trunk of the car where the driver was standing pulling out my bags and I grabbed a couple out of the trunk. Including my favorite black back-pack filled with essentials to leading my life. Such as: several journals and pens, a sketch book or two, my iPod, several anti-vampire weapons and last but not least some of my favorite mangas. I grabbed the two sheathes of my twin swords that besides the black choker with a golden phoenix on it were the only thing that I had left from my clan. The driver gave me a puzzled look. Purebloods normally aren't expected to do much in the form of physical labor, since they were basically royalty. Touga Yagari, my foster-father though raised me differently since he is the top hunter in the world. He taught me to do things for my self and not expect others to do things for me. I looked around the academy grounds, it was in the middle of a forest so it was secluded, there were several huge buildings which I guessed where the dining hall, or whatever they called it here, the Sun dorms which were for the humans and where they held the classes.

"Hi! You must be Amethyst-sempai!" I heard a small voice exclaim.

I spun around slightly alarmed that I hadn't sensed the approaching presence before now, probably from my excessive lack of sleep. I turned around and saw a small girl with short brown hair and almost auburn colored eyes. She was kinda on the short side and was looking up at me a little but she looked harmless enough.

"Yea, I am. Sorry but I don't know your name." I said sheepishly.

"I'm Yuuki Cross, I'm one of the prefects here at Cross Academy as well as the adoptive daughter of the headmaster." Yuuki said.

I had to hand it to the girl; she could give a hell of an introduction.

"Pleasure to meet you Yuuki." I said.

"Oh and that's Zero," Yuuki said as she pointed behind me.

"Zero? Zero Kiriyuu?" I asked.

"Yea," I heard a relatively pissed off voice say from behind me.

I turned around and saw Zero Kiriyuu, in all his silver headed glory glaring at me.

"HOLY SHIT!!! ZERO!!!!" I yelled before I hugged the grumpy silver head.

"What are you doing vampire?" he spat at me before shoving me off.

Yuuki just stared. I pouted slightly, and gave him my best attempt at puppy eyes. Zero's eyes widened once they met mine.

"Amethyst?" Zero said in shock.

"YAY!!! You remember me!" I said before I glomped him, yet again.

He didn't shove me away this time, he gave me a quick hug and I let go, satisfied.

"You two already know each other?" Yuuki asked in confusion.

"Yea, we practically grew up together." I said.

"She was "adopted" by Yagari-sensei." Zero said.

"OOOHHHHH….okay then, come on! The chairman wants to meet you!" Yuuki said.

"Okay," I replied.

I turned around about to grab the rest of my bags to discover that Zero was already holding them.

"I got them," Zero said gruffly before leading the way to the chairman's office.

I shrugged and followed. We walked up several flights of stairs before stopping in front of a mahogany door. Yuuki opened it seeing as Zero had his hands full and let us in. I walked into the doorway and stopped dead, there talking to the chairman was Touga Yagari.

"TOUGA!!!!!!!" I exclaimed in surprise and joy.

Yagari turned around and smiled at me. We hadn't seen each other in about two years since we both became really busy with our lives. I ran over and hugged my foster father and he hugged me back. I heard a small "Awww…" in the background and let go.

"See Yagari, there is a vampire that you care about!" The man Touga was talking to. Who was dressed weirdly with long, thin, light brown hair that was pulled back in a low pony tail stated.

"That's because she's Ami… and don't associate her with the rest of those damned blood suckers!" Yagari said.

"Here we go again…" I muttered.

Zero nodded and Yuuki sighed, obviously they had heard his rant before. Touga inhaled sharply and opened his mouth to begin his rant and I stopped him, by smacking him upside the head.

"Shut it old man, no one wants to hear your "goddamned blood suckers" rant again." I stated in a deadpan voice.

The chairman cracked up, Yuuki giggled, and Zero stifled, well, attempted to stifle a laugh. Touga glared at me.

"Quit calling me old man damnit!"

"I'll stop calling you that when you stop being old, old man!" I replied.

Touga glared and I stuck my tongue out at him. Zero began cracking up.

"I won't stop getting older you….fucking bloodsucker!!!" Touga spat.

"Oh yea, I forgot about that, damned annoying old man!" I replied.

"Don't make me put a hole through you!"

"You wish old man."

"Is that a challenge?"
"Hell yea it is!"

"Well then,"

"Bring it on!"

With that we lunged at each other only to be held back, Zero held me by the waist and the chairman and Yuuki held Touga back. Zero knew I wasn't going to hurt Touga but still wasn't so sure how much damage I was going to do, while Yuuki and the chairman weren't so sure about Touga not actually trying to hurt me.

"Well, she has your attitude Touga." The chairman laughed after Touga and I had calmed down and had been released.

"Hell yea" I muttered.

The chairman laughed again, clearly hearing my mutter and then proceeded to tell me about his dream and why he formed this academy. I zoned out after the insanely long and boring speech about co-existing with vampires. I yawned, not to graciously and secretly and everyone, besides the chairman laughed.

"Sorry, I haven't had much sleep this past week and a half." I apologized.

"That's okay Amethyst-kun! I'm sorry for not taking into account how tired you must be! Zero, Yuuki can you please take Amethyst-kun to the Moon Dorms?" The Chairman babbled.

"Sure! Come on Zero!" Yuuki giggled happily.

Zero groaned at the thought of carrying my bags again, Touga shook his head. I shrugged and shot a playful glare at Touga as I walked out of the room. I was lead down a forest path up to a two-story white building. I whistled and Yuuki laughed. We walked up to the doors and knocked. I felt my stomach do a back flip, just because of the fact that I had no idea who the rest of the Night Class were considering both Zero (despite being a vampire) and Yuuki were Day Class. The doors opened and I walked in accompanied by Zero and Yuuki. The room was relatively dark and I sighed in relief. In the center of the room stood two men, one with wavy-ish dark brown hair and wine red eyes and the other with blond hair and green eyes. The doors closed and I sighed in relief, I took off the sunglasses and my hood. I pulled my braid out of the hoodie and let it drop to my side.

"Amethyst-san, I am pleased to welcome you to Cross Academy. My name is Kaname Kuran and am the president of the Night Class." The man with dark brown hair said.

Ahhh, Kaname Kuran. Another pureblood like me, his clan had been killed thanks to his Uncle Rido Kuran.

"This is Takuma Ichijo, who is the dorm vice-president of the Night Class." Kaname continued.

"Amethyst-sama." Takuma said as he bowed.

"It's a pleasure to meet you both, Takuma-san. Please don't call me "sama" I'm not anyone's master." I said.

Everyone seemed shocked at my statement. Takuma quickly got over it.

"Very well Amethyst-san."

"Just Amethyst, is fine." I said. "Hell, you can even call me Ami if you want to."

"Okay then, Amethyst." Takuma smiled at the thought of being less formal.

"Kiriyuu-kun, Yuuki, thank you for accompanying Amethyst to the Moon Dorms." Kaname said.

"You're welcome Kaname-sempai!" Yuuki said happily.

Zero, just grunted, clearly uncomfortable in being here. I turned around to face them.

"Thank you, for brining me here and for the kind welcome! I guess I'll see you guys later." I said.

"See ya Ami," Zero said.

"Bye Amethyst-sempai!" Yuuki said before dragging them out.

I turned back to face Takuma and Kaname.

"Takuma, why don't you show Amethyst around and introduce her to the rest of the Night Class? I'll see that her bags are delivered to her room." Kaname suggested.

"Fine with me." I said.

Takuma smiled and led me out of the room.

"So as you know that is the main room, it's where we meet before class starts so we can all walk to class together." Takuma said cheerfully.

I smiled and he led me into another room.

"This is where you can hang out if you want to, just talk or read or whatever." Takuma said.

Just as he said that two vampires walked into the room, one male one female. The girl had orange-blond hair tied up in pigtails and was wearing the same white uniform as Takuma, Kaname, and the other boy. With the exception that it had a short skirt like Yuuki's. The guy had short almost maroon colored hair and was again wearing the white uniform. My eyes widened when I realized who they were. The girl turned and looked at me and our eyes met, both equally widened in shock.

"Ami?! You're the new student?!" She exclaimed.

"Yea," I simply said.

The girl ran up and hugged me.

"I can't believe it! My best friend who I haven't seen in god knows how long is going to my school!!!! SWEET!!!" The girl exclaimed.

"Yes Rima, you really should calm down now." I said calmly.

"Sure thing almighty Amethyst-sama!!!" Rima mocked.

"Oh shut, up Sparky." I snapped back playfully.

"HEY! Don't call me that! You know I hate it!" Rima whined.

"And you know I hate being called "Amethyst-sama"."

"Fine! I won't call you that then, and you can't call me SPARKY!!" Rima said.

Takuma and the other boy seemed incredibly amused by this conversation.

"Sparky? Oh, I'll have to remember that one!" The other boy said.

"SHIKI!!! How could you!" Rima whined.

I sighed, and Takuma laughed as Rima stole Shiki's box of pocky which had apparently been in his pocket.

"It's almost time for class so I should probably show you to your room." Takuma said.

He led me away from Rima and Shiki and up the stairs and all the way down the hall to the right to an archway with a double door. I whistled again, like I had previously. Takuma opened the door and explained to me that my uniform was on the bed and the bathroom was connected to the room. As well as the fact that I apparently had a private library, study, and several other rooms available that were attached to the suite. Takuma left and I walked over to the four poster bed. The sheets on the bed were silk and were freshly made. I saw the spotless white uniform on the bed and picked it up. I examined it and put it back down, I put my bags and katana sheathes on the bed and fished through one of my other bags. I pulled out everything I would need for my shower, picked up my uniform and disappeared into the bathroom.

AN: So that was the first chapter! How did you like it? I think Takuma, Shiki and Rima were a little OOC but I just kind of…wrote. Y'know? Please review! I'll start working on chapter two!