Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino.

Author's Note: This will be the first of many Drabbles and one-shots about the characters of Vampire Knight, minor or not. Review and feel free to request a character by messaging me!

The Ashes of Her Heart

Sakura petals, sakura petals were falling.

Falling, as the Pureblood's world crumbled right underneath her feet.

Her arms wrapped all the more tightly around her love, her unwilling companion, her dying creation.

Had he even fought those hunters? Those villains who had taken his life for no reason?

Somehow, Shizuka thought that he didn't, that he preferred to die. Oh, those gray eyes of his…she had seen the sadness in them, the darkness and despair at having been turned into a creature of the night against his will.

Had been sacrificed against his will. She had desecrated him as well, defiled his being, yet still, somehow in her black heart, she had loved him.

Oh, how she had loved him so very much.

His slim form had wasted away by now- there were only ashes left, and the Hunter couple was still watching her, their gazes wide and shocked, bodies stiff, ready for her to attack.

To attack, so they could have an excuse to kill her as well.

No, now was not the time. Today was not the day.

There would be an opportunity for revenge, an opportunity to spill the blood of her lover's killers.

She would make them suffer for making her alone for all eternity.

No, not alone, but rather, alone to face her worst option yet...Kuran Rido.

Their blood would flow on the ground, their remains defaced beyond recognition. She would laugh as they died, the stupid, stupid creatures.

They had just made her an enemy.

And the sakura petals kept falling.

Author's Note: I have been dying to write an fanfic about Shizuka Hiou, my favorite antagonist of all the villains in Vampire Knight. She held so much sadness, so much grief, and so much darkness in one heart. Yet, she was not without her compassion- she took care of Maria Kurenai and Ichiru Kiryuu, both who were weaker than she, than those they lived with. This will be part of a series of one-shots in a story that I will compile that will hold many short drabbles and whatnot about various characters and pairings in Vampire Knight. Some of the stuff from other fanfictions might be present in there as well, haven't decided yet. And yes, I love writing sad, dark things.