[One-shot #1: Zero Kiryuu/ One look/Family]

I watched as Zero Kiryuu, the silver-haired, orchid-colored eyed vampire, try to hold back a crowd of wild fangirls that were rooting for the night-class students. Yes, I said vampire. I found out, not too long ago, that Zero was a vampire- no... a Level E vampire, so to said (by Headmaster Cross). He had a bead of sweat at his temple as his arms were out-stretched while the fangirls pushed, and shoved one another when the gates opened.

"Xera-chan!" Yuki whispered, hissingly. "Keep you mind focused!"

"Oh right! Sorry, Yuki-chan!" I chuckled as I kept a small group of fangirls in lined as they cried out their idols' names.

Kaname, the brown-haired beauty .

Aidou 'Idol-sama/etc', the blue-eyed Idol star.

Akatsuki, the orange-haired 'Wild' idol.

Ichijou, the happy-go-lucky blonde.

Senri, the 'quiet, yet glamourous' model.

And of course the female night-class students Ruka and Rima.

To top it off, all of them had one thing in common, and that is being a vampire as well. Unlike Zero though, they sometimes drink fresh blood, while our silver-haired knight takes blood-tablets.

Though I had also found out he'd bitten Yuki and that she turned out to be a vampire as well. It was nice to have two vampire friends, but the fact that when they crave blood, they lock me up in a room while they 'calm' themselves, still isn't comfortable.

I was also a vampire hunter as well, though I took care of vampires that were strays and could not control their bloodlust (ones that were just crawling the streets outside of Cross Academy, though it's rare for either student to be out).

"Ouch!"

I felt one of the fangirls stepped on my toe with their heeled shoes and I scowled at them, making them backed away, but more excited when the night-class students passed by. Someone touched a lock of my hair when they passed by, and I turned around to see Aidou smirking his usual smirk.

Damn him, why the hell do I even know him?

Once the fangirls settled and the night-class students left, I plopped to the ground, exhausted and rubbed my foot.

"Are you okay?" Yuki asked, worriedly as she bent over.

"Yeah... it's a bit sore, but I'll get over it eventually," I chuckled and stumbled to get on my feet. But once I took one step forward, my toe striked my whole foot with pain and I toppled forward, only to meet the body of a male.

"You should be careful, rather than spacing out before," Zero glared at me as he helped me to my stance. "What caught your gaze that made you so spacey, today?"

Pfftt, he said 'spacey'... oh right.

I blinked and thought back to what I was looking at.

...

Then I gasped silently.

It wasn't WHAT I was looking at.

It was WHO I was looking at.

And it certainly wasn't the night-class male students...

It was Zero himself!

I was staring at Zero, during that time and paid no attention. That's why Yuki told me to snap out of it!

Wow... I'm pretty dumb.

Zero's brow arched as he watched me and I chuckled slightly.

"There...was a squirrel... it was tanning... in the sun."

"You make up bad excuses," he sighed.

"But it was true!" I lied. "It was... really tanning! Odd, huh?"

Zero just sighed heavily and ruffled the top of my head.

"Let's get going, class is about to start."

We soon went out separate ways since Yuki and Zero still had duties to attend to, and I still had one class to get to. It was pretty boring and I learned nothing as usual, until I was called into the Headmaster's office thirty minutes into the period.

I was just casually walking down the halls to his office, when I stopped and felt something... odd. Not odd ... but weird. It wasn't coming from the school... but outside of it.

How the hell can I feel something that isn't even five inches away from me?

My hands wrapped around the silver door knob and as I turned, I saw the Headmaster leaning against his desk, eyes focused on the window that faced the outside world. I closed the door behind me, alerting him of my precense and walked over to his desk.

"Why did you call me, Headmaster Cross?" I asked, blinking.

"There is a disturbance. But I guess you already felt it, right?" He glanced back and gazed at me.

I felt a shiver run up my arm as I nodded.

"I know you are commited to Cross Academy's duties, but there is something bothering me that's happening outside."

"And what is that?"

"Some stray vampires have been threatening to break into Cross Academy for Zero, and/or Kaname Kuran, and some have attempted to leap over the walls. Though I have extinguished the situation myself, they keep coming. I know this must be hard for you, but Zero cannot find out, or else he'll easily get caught on with rumors. And if one of our students find out that they are, indeed, vampires there'll be a big problem," he explained to me.

"I'll do whatever I can to stop them," I nodded.

After Headmaster Cross told me where to find them, which wasn't hard to find at all, I waited till sundown and sat on the edge of the balcony and watched the front entrance. With my Arachnid crossbow strapped on my back, I dangled my feet on the air as I watched with full-attention, not letting anything get to me.

"What are you doing out here, Xera-chan?"

I quickly turned around to see Aidou standing there with a smirk. His bright cyan-eyes glimmered in the moonlight as he stepped out of the shadows, standing next to me.

"I'm waiting."

"For those strays?"

"How do you know?"

"They've been messing with our food source, I want to see what kind of vampires would do this."

"You're too smart to make such excuse," I rolled my eyes, chuckling.

"You're right," Aidou smirked. "My real reason is to see you."

"Of course. You do realize if Zero finds out, it'll be a mess for both of us?"

"Of course I do. Why do you think I meet you secretly? It's fun since it's my first time with a girl like you, but I mean... I don't like the fact that Zero would scold you. Actually, I don't like him at all being near you."

I chuckled.

"Jealous now are we?"

"Yes," Aidou smirked, nodding. "Oh, we have company."

I looked back at the gates to see a group of five to eight blood-hungered vampires with torches in their hands.

"I thought... fire wouldn't hurt vampires."

"You saw Akatsuki with fire, right? They must be level C or D vampires. We can take them."

"You'll get hurt, Aidou. Don't worry, I'll take care of this," I scowled, jumping over the edge and landing on my feet from two floors in the air. "I'm just afraid they'll burn Cross Academy down or alert someone."

"Don't worry," Aidou chuckled. "I wouldn't let a single dirty finger touch your precious skin."

"Did you not just hear what I said?" I frowned and hurried to the gates, crossbow in hand. "Stop what you're doing!"

"Oh shit, it's a vampire hunter!" Vampire A scowled and backed away.

"Stop being a wuss! It's only a girl!" Vampire B growled.

"You vampires really have no manners, do you?" Aidou's eyes turned red and fangs outgrowned. "You must have a thing against females?"

"Bring out Zero Kiryuu, or we'll burn this place down!" Vampire C and D chanted.

I scowled even more.

"Shut your damn mouths! I'm going to give you five seconds to leave before things get nasty."

"Ooohh, what is a girl going to do? Shoot her little arrows like cupid?" Vampire B taunted while holding his torch.

"Five."

"Don't underestimate my dear Xera-chan," Aidou growled. "I wouldn't mind freezing these suckers's butts if I had too."

"You're a noble vampire, Aidou. You shouldn't be saying things like that," I chuckled. "Four."

Suddenly when I was about to say three, only of them leaped over the wall and launched themselves at me. Aidou hissed loudly and took care of that guy. While on my left one of those vampires tackled me to the ground and my crossbow went flying. I kicked him in the shins, held him back with one hand while punching him twice with the other.

I slammed my foot into his stomach and threw him off me, while another one came at me with a torch. I hastely picked up my crossbow, aimed it at his forehead and made a critical hit. He turned into dust and the torch dropped to the ground. I ripped off my jacket and started taking the fire out, when I saw Vampire B's fist come at me.

A pain ran up my shoulder as he punched me and I growled, taking my crossbow and was about to shoot it at him, when another vampire came up from behind me and kicked me on the back. I yelped in pain as I went forward, almost going face-first into the fire and my eyes widened.

"Xera-chan!" Aidou yelled as he used his ice-abilities to take out three vampires that were launching themselves at him. I felt the vampire grabbed my arm, pulled it back straight and Vampire B held my other arm and yanked me an inch up by my hair.

"ZERO KIRYUU! YOU BETTER COME OUT RIGHT NOW, OR I'LL BURN THIS PRETTY GIRL'S SKIN!"

"NO!" Aidou screamed, eyes filled with anger as the vampire I'd taken down, tackled Aidou down.

"Aidou!" I yelled.

"Not coming out, huh?" Vampire B chuckled. "Well now, I guess he doesn't care if we burn you, huh?"

I yelped as he threw me forward and the next thing I knew, my shoulder was caught on fire. I screamed and tears literally came out as the burning sensation went through the fabric of my button-up and to my skin. I nearly screamed in agony as I saw the skin burned away, with the blood seeping down my arm.

It hurt real bad... and I wasn't kidding.

I was screaming in pain while trying to get it off as I ripped myself from the vampires.

"XERA!"

In the corner of my tear-filled eyes, I saw Zero, Yuki and even Kaname running towards us. Zero's eyes with now crimson-red and his fangs were outstretched. Kaname was pissed that his right-hand man was pinned to the ground by dirtied strays, and Yuki was screaming my name.

The last thing I felt and saw was Zero shooting his Bloody Rose bullets at the vampires, and something cold and freezing on my shoulders. That was when I passed out from enduring the pain badly.

When I woke up from my sleep, I found myself in the infirmary and people were argueing. I could barely here them with my ears buzzing and my vision blurred from the tearstained and maybe even eyecrust from not opening them.

I wiped my eyes with my non-injured hand and soon saw that it was Zero and the Headmaster argueing.

"Why didn't you tell me they were looking for me?! Why did you send Xera out instead?!" Zero yelled, angrily. For the first time, I never knew he could do that.

"If I sent you, someone would find out and I knew that Xera would stop them."

"She was BURNED! How was that taking them out?!"

"During her blackout, you saw that light, am I correct? Both of you saw it."

I noticed Yuki standing beside Zero as he rasied his voice at Headmaster. She was very worried and I thought I saw tears about to explode from her eyes.

"What does that light have to do with Xera?" Yuki asked.

"It wasn't you, nor the night-class students that took out those vampires. Sure you can shoot them and they'd turn to dust, but the moment she passed out that light made all of them dissappeared and all you saw was blowing dust. Xera is human, but she has this ability called "Photokinesis", meaning the ability to control light or manipulate it," he said.

I did what? I'm a WHAT?

"She's able to feel danger in the air from feeling the light outside and in the air there are heat molecules that would spike up when strays like those of last night, appears."

"You mean... you USED her?!"

"Yes and no."

"What is that suppose to mean?" Zero frowned.

"Zero..." I spoke. "Please... stop."

He stopped frowning and glanced towards me, eyes widening a bit. Yuki gasped in surprised and hurried to my side, bombarding me with questions, mostly repeated 'are you okay?!'.

"I'm feeling a bit icky, but I'll be fine," I chuckled slightly. "Headmaster... so you're saying I have an ability as a HUMAN?"

"Maybe a human... but there's no signs of you being a vampire, that is for sure."

"She can't jump off the fifth floor without Zero carrying her," Yuki smiled slightly. "That's a relief."

Zero said nothing, but stare at me the entire time.

I glanced away from the eye contact and felt uncomfortable.

"I'll speak with you after you recover," Headmaster Cross smiled. "Let's go Yuki. I want these two to talk things out."

"Oh, alright. I'll just... tell Aidou to not worry, since he's been refusing to take any blood after you got hurt..."

"Tell him to visit," I smiled weakly now from hearing that.

Yuki nodded as she left with the Headmaster. Once the door closed I glanced back at Zero, who's eyes were now trying to pierce through me.

"What is it Zero? Why are you staring at me like that?" I asked, frowning.

"I'm... sorry."

Say what now?

"What?" I frowned now.

"I'm sorry, Xera. If I'd known... you wouldn't have gotten burned like this..."

His eyes filled with gentleness as he walked towards me. I looked up at him as he continued to gaze at me.

"It's fine Zero. It really is. I wanted to do it, so basically it's my fault for spacing out. I have a bad habit of doing so... and it nearly costed me my arm, huh?"

Zero took a seat on the bed side and his hand reached out to me. I watched as he slid the shoulder of my gown down and I nearly winced as I saw the horrible burn mark on my shoulder.

"How many days has it been?" I managed to say without stuttering.

"Four days."

So it scarred...

"I see..."

"I'm ... sorry," he said again.

"Zero, stop," I looked at him. "Please. It's really okay."

I flinched as he gently placed his hand on the burned mark and he also flinched at the touch of it.

I chuckled weakly.

"I must be a freak now that I have this scar, huh? You're even... shocked by it."

"You're not," Zero glared at me. "You're not a freak, Xera. I'm not shocked... I'm regretting. I can feel the memories that night when I watched you get burned... you were crying out. You were in... pain. All I could do was fight... but in the end it was you that took care of it. It made me feel like I did nothing to save you."

"You did. You carried me here, didn't you?"

He said nothing.

"You stayed at my side, didn't you?"

He still said nothing.

"And you accept me for who I am," I smiled sweetly. "Thank you, Zero."

"If you weren't spacing out so much, you wouldn't get hurt ."

Maybe if I didn't pay attention so much to you, I wouldn't be feeling this way, now would I?

"What is the reason you are so... out of everything?" Zero frowned. "What's so special you can't get your eyes and mind off of?"

You.

"It's nothing," I lied.

"You're lying to me. You lie whenever your eye lowers and they get darker."

I bit the bottom of my lip and scowled slightly.

"You," I whispered.

"What?" Zero said, frowning.

"You," I said a bit louder.

"Xera, what are you-"

"I said you!" I looked up at him with desperate eyes. "You're the one that's so special that I can't get my eyes and mind off of!"

Zero stopped talking and his eyes widened. His hand slid down my arm like someone had taken out the battery and now laid on my hand. I glanced away, pained at how I confessed.

I'm so dumb... I can't even confess my feelings corrected.

"You're not... lying are you?"

"Why would I lie about my feelings?" I muttered. "You can ask Yuki. She knows I've been looking at you whenever you have to hold back those fangirls. But maybe you're too busy focused on her, you don't even notice."

"What're you saying?" Zero asked.

"I'm saying... it'd be nice if you could see me once in a while. I know you're trying to keep Yuki safe and you like her a lot, but I mean... one look would be fine... It makes me feel rejected whenever you avoid my looks," I said.

"It's my priority to keep an eye out of Yuki. I do like her, but if you'd pay more attention to your surroundings then with Aidou, you wouldn't miss me."

"What?"

"I'm saying, I do look at you. I do worry about you when you're not looking. I do care when you get hurt. I do like you... even more than Yuki if I think hard about it and dig deep into my heart."

I nearly gaped in my mind as he said that.

Did he just say something so romantic? Now this day just gets even more weirder.

"Besides," Zero glanced away. "-if you saw Yuki with Kaname you'd know their bond seems stronger than mines. And Yuki even said herself, my bond with you is stronger than hers."

"Are you... confessing to me right now?"

"It might be... but I'm still over thinking."

"It's fine," I said slightly jealous, but didn't show it. "As long as you see me once, I'll be okay."

"It's not just once."

"What?"

"You should pay more attention to who sees you more than Aidou when you're with him," Zero scowled and growled a bit.

Is he... jealous of Aidou?

"Zero... Aidou is more like... a best friend to me."

"To him you're more than that."

"But I don't feel the same way... he's more like... an over-protective son."

Zero's brow arched.

"Son?"

I nodded.

"Like... Yuki is like my daughter, since I'm a month older than her... and Kaname... is like... my... oldest son... who seems to have a relationship with his younger sister..." I made a pained face to think about our age gap. "Damn... Kaname must be more than 10,000 years old to think of it... he could be my great-great-great-great-great-great- long lost grandfather... but then again he's like an older son... and.. you're like... the dad of all of them."

"You do realize," Zero looked away, a bit frowning. "-you just said they were like your children and said I'm like the dad of them. Did you think that wouldn't make us the parents of those three?"

Holy shit, I said that... I cannot believe I said that...

"Oh... man it was better in my head," I sighed.

Suddenly, Zero laughed.

"W-What?" I frowned slightly.

"You're unbelieveable. You just named the most impossible family in the generation. To have your son older than you, what kind of a mom would you be?"

"I ... don't know ... ANYWAYS, I said he was LIKE. It's not like I'm going to find out he ACTUALLY is, okay? Sheesh."

"Although... I wouldn't mind it."

I blinked and gaped.

"H-Huh?"

"Raising a family... never thought of it. Especially not with you," Zero chuckled.

I scowled.

"What's THAT suppose to mean?! Did you think you would grow up and have babies and raise a family with Yuki?!"

"No!" Zero scowled. "You brat, I would never think that!"

"You're BLUSHING! UGH, now I've starting to doubt that confession was just a lie."

The moment I said that, in a split second, I found myself... under Zero, as his eyes burned with a liliac color. Not red though. I felt my heart racing fast as I stared at him. Both hands at the side of my head, his silver hair fell over his face as he was ontop of me.

"That confession wasn't a lie"

"How do y-you prove it?" I scowled. "Who knows, you might be thinking you like me, but instead really love Yuki."

"Love and like are two different matters. I don't love Yuki. I don't like you."

"W-What?"

Zero leaned in close to me and he got so close, that both our noses touched. There was barely any gap between our bodies as they pressed together and I felt his heart racing with mines.

"I like Yuki. But I love you."

"Y-You say it so straightforward, h-how do I know if i-it's-"

Just when I was about to finish what I was about to say, Zero's lips pressed up against mines and I just laid there... eyes wide open. His eyes were closed and I suddenly felt myself... kissing back after a moment of silence.

Once he felt me kissing back, he smirked against the kiss, earning a scowl from me and the advantage of using his thumb to part my lips and collapse his over mines. His thumb rested under my chin as his hand wrapped around my neck while he kissed me even more passionately.

I kissed back with a little force and when it was over, both of us were left breathlessly. He collapsed beside me, arms wrapped around me as he held me close to him. Now we were both laying on the bed together as my face was buried in his chest.

"Why... do you love me?" I asked quietly.

"I don't know," Zero said. "It's just you yourself that attracts me. Everything about you just makes me how I am. I love you for that."

"I... was also confused."

"About?"

"You... my feelings. I was confused if I had these same emotions towards you or not... It was so blurry until you made it clearer just now. If just a little more time... I could love you more than you could love me."

"That's impossible," Zero chuckled softly. "It's too late for doubts now. I don't need anymore thinking. I know. So I have no time to think. All I have is this time with you. Because it's all that I'll have, until things get serious."

"I don't care... as long as I'm with you... I'm fine with only one look."

"It's not a bad idea."

"What isn't?"

"The family idea. If I... manage to surpass this whole level E thing, I want to make a family."

My eyes widened as I looked up at him, who was smiling.

"R...Really? No thinking this time?"

"Maybe a little bit... but it's a good sign for it."

"Maybe we'll have a boy like Aidou, a girl like Yuki and another boy like... Kaname," I smiled.

"I'm not having a boy like Kaname," Zero frowned. "No."

"I know," I chuckled. "Your relationship with him is like cat and dog, with Yuki to be the mouse."

"You must be the sun then," Zero smiled.

"What?" I blinked. "I'm the.. sun?"

"That watched over us, gives us light... and make everything work out."

I chuckled and kissed him gently on the lips.

"A family with Zero Kiryuu. I wonder how many day-class girls are jealous over it," I smirked as I looked into his dreamy liliac eyes.

"You must be the luckiest woman, huh?" he smirked back.

"I know I am. Though it'll be horrible for Aidou..."

"He'll find someone else," Zero chuckled.

"You're so cruel," I laughed.

"He can't have what doesn't belong to him. And that is definitely not my fiancee."

"You know your words, huh?"

"And you don't know yours. Opposites attract like they say, am I correct?"

I nodded and we kissed one last time, before being interrupted by Yuki and Aidou who came to visit.

It was definitely a horrible time for Aidou... but he said he'll get over it when he finds someone as equal as me. Yuki was uncomfortable with it at first because of her confusion between who to love; Zero or Kaname and Zero straightened it out with her.

I decided to take him to the ball the night-class students had held for everyone, surprisingly, and he beated me to the question before I could even speak. Non-the-less he had a rose with him as his proposal for both the engagement in the future... and the ball. It was a bit fast, but I accepted them both and Zero didn't mind seeing me in two dresses.

One for the ball...

And one of the wedding of the future.

How nice... a family with my... Level E vampire boyfriend/fiancee and a family with a mini Aidou, a mini Yuki and maybe a mini Kaname if Zero decides on how many times he takes me to bed that is.