NOTE: This is a FF for the ANIME not the MANGA, so please do not moan and bitch about things that are in the MANGA that haven't happened on the ANIME

Prologue:

Zero's POV:

I watched the house. I'd been watching it all day. The only movement had been when they'd entered the home.

Disgusting. These vampires that act like humans. Giving all of us an illusion that they can be tamed. The time had come. Yuki Kuran's blood would be mine.

"PRINCESS!" a voice shouted nearby. A familiar one, Aido.

A twinkling giggle rose from the sound of yelling.

"Catch me if you can!"

"Princess, please! Lady Yuki won't like this! We need to get you inside!"

The bushes rustled and a child broke free and I looked down at her. Her eyes were garnet, like her fathers I was almost certain, and her hair fell down in dark waves with curls here and there. She stared up at me in something close to awe. There was no fear there.

"Lady Kane!" Aido's voice called out to them, but again she ignored him. "Please, stop playing this game! You're father's going to kill me."

Her eyes looked up at me with an intelligence born from a place I would never understand. I looked back at her.

"Who are you?" she asked, her voice reminded me of her mother's when she was young, it was just slightly stronger.

"Don't worry about it, Princess. You better get back before Aido dies of worry."

She ignored me and asked again, "Who are you?"

My hand was on my Bloody Rose, but I couldn't draw it. Even if this was a pureblood vampire...I couldn't draw my gun on this child. Why I could not was lost to me. I'd shot other vampire children before, but this one...this one I could not.

"No one important, little one." I replied patting her head, "Go, your parents are worried."

"Okay, and thank you." she said in her little voice.

"For what?" I asked confused.

"For not shooting me."

My eyes widened in shock. How had she known I was thinking about shooting her? How did she know that I was so close to killing her. I was a vampire, like her. What reason did she have to believe that I would harm her?

She giggled at my expression. Then a voice I knew all too well cut through the air.

"KANE! Kane Kuran! Kane, come to mommy!"

The voice pierced my heart as I watched the girl smile lovingly.

"I have to go. Bye, Mister."

The young princess turned away and skipped back toward the house. I watched from my hiding place waiting for her to tell them where I was hiding, but that never happened.

"Kane, you know better than to hide from Hanabusa." her father chastised.

"Sorry, Daddy." she said hugging him.

I watched her mother smile brightly her hand on her stomach where another monster was forming.

I wouldn't kill her now. I'd wait a little more. Yuki and Kaname were safe. For now. They can thank their daughter for that. I turned and began walking away.

Kane...Kuran...why couldn't I get that giggle and those all-knowing eyes out of my mind?


Chapter One:

Kane's POV:

I shot up in my bed breathing heavily. It happened again. That damned dream. I looked at the clock and saw that it was close to the hour for me to wake so I simply rose from my bed and headed toward the shower. I let the water fall over me and I sank into the feeling, letting it wash away the remnants of the dream.

I stepped from the shower just as a knock made me look up. I opened the door still in my towel.

"Yes?"

"Lady Kane, your father wishes to speak to you." Akatsuki said from his place at my door, keeping his face averted.

I sighed deeply, "I'll be there in a minute Kain."

He bowed slightly then walked away. I shut the door and began dressing. What could Father possibly need at this present moment?

Once I was presentable I walked down the stairs and into the dining room. My father rose to meet me and kissed my cheek.

"Good morning, my little warrior." he said affectionately.

I smiled tenderly, "Good morning, father."

Kaname Kuran could be a scary vampire, but most of the time he was my loving father. I walked over to my mother and kissed her cheek.

"Good morning, Mother."

"Good morning, Kane." my mother said happily, "You look more and more like your father everyday."

I laughed not sure how to take that. Was she saying I looked like a man? I took my seat and looked at my father.

"Kain said you needed to speak with me?" I said looking at him directly.

"When your brother and sister come in we will talk." he replied.

I rolled my eyes. Who knew when the lovebirds would show up?

"You can't be jealous of your brother and sister's love, Kane. You were given the chance first." Mother chastised gently.

"That wasn't my reason for rolling my eyes, Mother." I said matter-of-factly, "I still stand by my decision that I will not marry. I don't want to marry. I enjoy being by myself and I do not need to marry or to have a man in my life to enjoy it. I simply want Aiko and Habiki to hurry up. They move so slowly when they get up in the morning and I want to know what dad has to say."

My father chuckled, "I told you she was my little warrior. Even as a child she didn't want to marry, she simply wanted to fight. Princess is not in her vocabulary."

I blushed lightly as Aiko and Habiki walked in holding hands I shudder to think how close I had been to becoming the love of Habiki's life. Thank the heavens that Aiko had been born to take that burden. Habiki loved with all of his being and I simply wanted to be left alone. He loved everyone in the family with an intensity that sometimes scared me. Habiki pulled out Aiko's chair and she sat down gracefully. See, Aiko was the very definition of the word "Princess". She was graceful and beautiful. She looked more like my mother than I did and she was just as feminine. Too bad I would be the leader of the Kuran family once my father decided to step down, it would have been interesting to see the way Habiki and Aiko ruled the vampiric society.

"Now that we are all here let me begin," my father started looking at each of us in turn.

We watched him with serious expressions as he expressed his wishes.

"Kane, you will be attending Cross Academy this year. We are moving a handful of our students into the school and attempting a merging of the species."

"What?" I said looking at him trying to not disrespect him.

"This has been a dream of your father and I and your grandfather since before you were all born." my mother stepped in with an explanation.

"We are only sending you because I know that the vampires will stay in line as long as they have a pureblood to stand by them."

I nodded understanding his premise, but otherwise not caring.

"You'll also have the eldest children of our new senate to help you and guide you as well."

I took on a bored expression.

"When does she go?" Habiki asked sounding slightly worried and sad.

"In two days time when the term begins."

"How wonderful to see grandfather again." Aiko said wistfully her happy voice trilling, "You are so lucky, Kane."

I nodded, "I'll be ready." I rose to my feet, "But, I warn you, I am not a pawn. Don't treat me as such."

I walked away from the table. I knew my father; when he did things it usually meant he was playing a game and I was not about to become his toy.

Zero's POV:

I stared at my adopted father in shock. Was the old man ill? Or was he just crazy?

"Headmaster Cross, you can't possibly think that allowing vampires back into the school is a good idea?"

"Of course it is!" he replied happily.

"Don't you remember the last time we brought vampires into this school?"

"It won't be the same. This time it will be completely different. And plus, Kaname Kuran won't be the one running the Night Class."

That surprised me. What Pureblood would be ruling over the Night Class this time?

"Kane Kuran will be Dorm President this year with Fumio Ichijo as Vice-President."

"So, it's the same names just different vampires." I said with some amusement.

"Mostly, yes. But, Kane is not Yuki or Kaname, Kiryu. Don't forget that."

I nodded then walked out of the room.

How could I forget Kane Kuran? She'd been a force unlike any other when she was young. I remembered seeing her from afar time and time again. She'd grown into a beauty. But, then most vampires did. And she had this blend of her mother and father in her, but she also had her own power. She was magnificent. She would be a worthy opponent.