Welcome to Snow Rose. Chapter One: Lost Memories Emerge
Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight or Vampire Knight Guilty
Note: This chapter starts where episode 7 ends, with a few tweaks.
"I tried. I tried my best to remember." I said as Kaname held me in his arms. Snow fell all around us, on the cold winter night.
"Yuki. Stop. That's enough. It's time that you wake up, before you go mad." Kaname voice was gentle and kind. I closed my eyes, feeling him hold me closer. Suddenly I felt his breathe on my neck. It's cold. I thought opening my eyes. But somehow I feel warm. Then suddenly I felt something on my neck. "Kaname." I said in a somewhat frightened way. I grabbed his hair in my hand. "What are you…"
Kaname hand was suddenly on my mouth. What is buried in my neck? I could feel him biting me hard, as he tasted my blood for the first time. Suddenly I felt dizzy.
"Yuki." I could heard a voice somewhere near me. "Remember who you were."
It was silent for a moment and then I could feel something pressed against my lips. I opened my eyes again slowly and suddenly realized that Kaname was kissing me, but there was something lease else to the kiss. A hot liquid went down my throat. This taste. I thought astonished. It's Kaname's blood.
I closed my eyes again and let the kiss continue, and then it was over. I stared up at Kaname.
"Have you woken Yuki?" Kaname asked as he wiped a speck of blood from my lips. "Do you know who you are?"
I touch his face and he smiled. "I'm..."
I stopped as I heard the sound of a gun beginning to fire above me.
"I know that smell. That's Yuki blood. However." A voice from above said. I looked up at the person.
"ZERO!" I shouted.
"Now I sense two vampires!" Zero shouted down at us. "Kaname! You've turned Yuki…"
But I stopped him. "No. Stop it Zero. He…" I stopped suddenly and fainted into Kaname's arms.
In front of my eyes images flashed. I saw one image in particular that kept flashing before me. Mom, I thought, as the image grew stronger. It was my mom. She was smiling in every image that flashed before me. She was also, almost always laughing with another woman who looked exactly like her. A few seconds later the images ended and a long lost memory came into view.
"I saw a rose that blooms every 10 years. Next time I see it I'll encase it in resin and give it to you." I stared at Kaname. He was my best friend and acted my big brother. He was always there when mom, Yuri Cross, was away on a guarding job for Kaname's parents, Juri and Haruka Kuran. She was a guardian for-hired ex-vampire hunter and the younger sister of Kaien Cross.
"Would you really Kaname?" He was always telling me lies. One time he told me if I made a wish on a rock it would come true. He was grounded for a week after that - literally in the ground. They wouldn't let him come up for a month.
Before he could answer, my mom came running through the door. She was covered in blood and was holding the Artemis Scythe, which was also covered in blood. Her eyes had a sad and worried expression in them. Behind her, Juri stood with the same expression on her face.
"Kaname, Yuki. We're under attack. Get out of the house as fast as you can. Juri is there a way out besides the front entrance?" My mom looked over at Juri, who nodded her head and motioned to follow her. She led us to a small room that had nothing in it, expect for two light sources on either side of the door. Juri pulled one of them and a narrow passage way was relieved to us.
"This comes out near the Cross Academy. You'll need to tell Kaien what's going on, he'll be able to help us. Yuri, go with them. A mother should protect her child no matter what." Without another word Juri ran out to help her husband fight the enemy outside. My mom pushed me inside, closing the passage way door behind her, and we began our walk toward the surface.
We'd been walking for about an hour when I finally saw the light of the moon. Mom pushed past us to check the perimeter while Kaname and I stayed inside the passage.
"Come out slowly and don't make any noise." Kaname went out first and I followed by closely. Mom was standing near a tree, looking around for any enemies. When she saw that the coast was clear, she walked quietly in the direction of the Academy. Kaname and I followed quickly behind her, when I suddenly heard a sound form behind the trees. I looked in the direction of the noise and screamed.
"Mommy!" My mom made it just in time to stop the vampires with the Artemis Rode. There were six of them, four men and two women, all wearing dark colours from head to toe. They all had scary red eyes and exposed fangs. They scared me so much I wanted to run and hide behind my mom, but I knew that I shouldn't while she was fighting vampires.
"Kaname get Yuki out of here now!" My mom shouted has she killed two of the vampires. Kaname grab me by the hand and we started running away. I looked back as mom fell to the ground in a heap and the remaining three vampires ran toward us.
Kaname pick me up and started to run toward a small cave. When he got in he shattered the ceiling, letting the falling rocks block the entrance and killing two vampires that followed us. He turned and looked at me sadly.
"Kaname, what happened to my mommy?" He walked over to me and toke me into a warm embrace. He didn't need to tell me, I knew by the way he hugged me that my mom wasn't coming back. I started to cry as he held me there in cave.
"You should never have seen something like that. You don't need to remember anything about a life that has no parent to protect you. I'll help you forget everything. I just want you to be safe." Kaname bought his hand up to my forehead and everything around me went black.
When I finally woke up one of the remaining vampire from that night was coming toward me and Kaname was there to kill him and save me.
I opened my eyes to see myself lying on my bed in the Headmaster's home. Kaname did bring back l my memories back. I not only remembered the night my mother died but also times before that, before my mom even started working for the Kurans'. I remembered the day my mom started the guardian for hire job after leaving the Hunter's Association, I remembered the families she worked for, I remembered the first time she toke me to see my father, the aristocratic vampire Hiroshi Tsuki - I guess that meant I was a vampire, even though my mother was hunter - and I remembered the first time I meet the Kurans'.
The memories rushed by so fast, it's not surprising that I fainted. The memories came at me, like a hit to the head, after the all those images. I was amazed at what my life was like in those first five years of it. It was no wonder I didn't know who or what I was when I awoke on the snow-covered ground.
I decided to look around to see if the headmaster was anywhere beside me. But instead of finding the headmaster I saw someone else. He had his head on the foot of my bed. His hair was silver and the colours of his closed eyes was an indigo violet. I knew him long after I'd lost my memories, he was so familiar, he was always there for me when I needed him and I was always there when he needed me.
"Zero." I softly whispered into his ear. "Zero, wake up." I felt him stir as my words reached his ears. He gently lifted his head to look at me with his beautiful eyes. I smiled at him and gently kissed his forehead. For a while we didn't say anything, we just stared at each other. Eventually it was Zero who broke the silence.
"So... how are you feeling?" He didn't look at me when he spoke.
"Dizzy." I smiled broadly, but he continued to face the wall.
"I'm sorry." He said suddenly. "I almost shot you with Bloody Rose. I was going to punch Kaname in the face but he told me something, handed your unconscious body to me and walked away."
I looked at him. "What did he say?" Zero didn't answer; he just kept looking at his hands. "Zero, What. Did. Kaname. Say?" I said the words very slowly so he could understand what I said.
Zero finally looked up. His face had a sorry expression on it. "He said he didn't turn you into a vampire. He gave back you back your other half. He told me to look after you and never let you get hurt again. Then he said something that surprised even me. He said 'good-bye Zero. Tell Yuki we will see each other once again' and that was when he walked away and I ran you straight here after that. Yuki what did he mean by 'gave you back your other half'?"
Zero stared me for a minute and I told him everything I knew. My mom, my life with her before the Kurans, my dad, Headmaster Cross or Uncle Kaien, which I'm probably going to have to start calling him now, and how I met Kaname. Zero stayed very still though the whole thing. I almost thought he was in shock. But when I finished he snapped out of it.
"So that's why you smell like a vampire; you're half vampire, but you're also half vampire hunter so it not as bad as I thought. You must have been a pretty amazing kid to have done and remembered all at. Of course vampires have amazing memories and since you're half-vampire you would have that memory capability. Wouldn't you say so headmaster?"
I looked behind me to see the headmaster standing in the doorway. He was staring at me with worried eyes. I looked at him curiously. He looked nothing like my mother, his sister. He had long straw blonde hair that was tried in it's usually ponytail and pale gold eyes. His face was thin and plain and eyes were covered by a pair of ordinary looking glass. My mother had red-brown eyes and long chocolate brown hair. Her face was round and beautiful.
"I see Yuki has regained her memories of the past. Do you know who I am, Yuki." Uncle Kaien said. I nodded as he walked over to me and pulled me into a hug. "I'm so glad I have Yuri's little girl safe and sound. I wish she was still alive so she could see how beautiful you are."
Uncle Kaien hugged me for a while, until he finally let go after he realized I was couldn't breathe. I looked over at Zero and asked him the question I should have asked first. "How long was I unconscious for, Zero?"
Zero looked at Uncle Kaien, he nodded and Zero looked at me. "Four days."
I gasped. "Four days? I've been unconscious for four days!" I couldn't believe it. Then I looked into Zero's eyes and saw worry in them. "Zero. What happen while I was asleep?"
After I asked Uncle Kaien got up. "I think I'll go check on the Night Class. They are probably restless after what happened." Then he left, leaving Zero and me alone.
"Start at the beginning." I told Zero in a commanding voice.
Zero sighed and began. "After I took you here, vampires and hunters started coming to the Academy in hordes. Unfortunately they were after me from killing Shizuka Hio, so Headmaster Cross and my Master hide me in the same place I was the last time I started turning into a Level E.
"I don't know what happened when I was down there. I was there for awhile until Ichiru came and told me to drink his blood. A vampire had attacked him believing he was me.
"I hesitated at first but after he shot me with the Bloody Rose, I eventually did drink his blood, all of it." Zero stopped for a minute, he looked as if he was going to cry.
"It's okay Zero, he asked you to do it. He's with your parents and the woman he loves now." I said, trying to comfort Zero.
"I know." Zero looked at me and the tears that were beginning to come out of eyes left. "After I… after that happened I left the basement and began killing every vampire I could find. I was stronger than before, since Ichiru had that pureblood vampire's blood in him.
"After I kill them all, I went to get Ichiru's body to bury him in the forest. I came up here after everything had cooled down." Zero finished and looked up at me. "You were the only thing that kept me from going insane from all the power I possessed."
Zero leaned in. "Thank you." He whispered to me before pressing his lips on mine. It was so much different from the kiss I had shared with Kaname, besides there being no blood, this kiss felt as if my body had long awaited it. My heart throbbed as we kissed; it told me that I was where I should be.