Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight. I wish I did though, Zero is so freaking awesome. Anyways! I own the OC Sukui.

This is a darker story, so I hope I can pull off eerie, scary, and suspense. Here it goes!

Editing Help: Jane Catt, Synk, and MidnightWolf697 (check out their stories, they rock.)

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1. Monsters Are Real

"I'm telling you mommy." a little girl squealed, clutching the blue quilt on her bed to her tiny body, "There is a monster in my closet. Its going to eat me." A woman in her late twenties with dark brown hair and kind blue eyes consoled her trembling five year old. "No there aren't sweetheart, monsters don't exist."

"Yes they do!" The little girl exclaimed, monochrome eyes brimming with tears, "It has scarlet eyes and wants my blood." the mother sighed and ruffled her daughter's chocolate brown hair, "Vampires don't exist sweetie. Now go to bed." the mother headed out, exhausted. The digital clock showed the time in a eerie bright red, 3:30 A.M. She'd had a long day at the office, and her daughter waking her up so early to talk about monsters was slightly frustrating.

"Mommy!" the girl cried in desperation, "Don't leave me!"

"Sukui!" exclaimed the women, her patience finally taxed, "There are no such thing as monsters! Now, go. To. Sleep." she finished with a hiss, leaving the room at last and letting the door behind her shut with a soft whoosh!

Sukui pulled the blanket even tighter, her knuckles white, eyes widening, and breath sporadic and choked with tears. The door just in front of her - the closet one - creaked open, and glowing scarlet eyes shone from the darkness at her.

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Sukui jerked awake, heart racing, bones aching as she laid crammed inside - ironically - the closet of an abandoned cathedral. Now eighteen, she stood and stretched in the cramped space, slowly opening the door, a silver knife raised in defensiveness, just in case.

When she felt the coast was clear, she holstered the knife at her thigh, and straightened the knee-length, denim shorts she was wearing to hide it. "No blood-suckers today." she whispered to herself in relief, "Thank you world." Almost lethargically, Sukui strolled over to a shattered piece of mirror hanging on the wall.

She blinked at her short, dark brown hair and her one showing silver colored eye. She grabbed a make-shift comb, made from rusted nails and a sliver of wood, and brushed through her hair. Chuckling dryly, at the simple-ness of the moment. Of the false safety.

As the comb pulled her bangs back, they revealed her other eye, which should have been that sharp gray, but it was violet instead. Glowing with an unearthly light, the purple was dark, yet bright at the same time. A strange circle-like cross was centered at her pupil, and spanned her cheek and forehead with the solid dark purple, and tiny black daggers pointed in the space of the cross, like a tattoo.

Sukui let her hair fall, and cover the strange eye. For added measure, she strapped on a black eye patch. "I'm ready for the day." she said to herself, lacing up her faded blue ankle sneakers. She trekked forward in the old ministers room that she had been inhabiting for months, and looked through a giant hole that used to be a window. Down on somebody walking down the alley way beside the old church.

Sukui remembered back to the flashback dream she had, how afraid she had been that fateful day, and how she had tried to fruitlessly convince her mother that vampires were real as those bright and hungry eyes stared out at her from the closet.

There was no denying that fact, especially since her throat burned with the sight of the human, and her one eye gleamed the same blood red as the monster in her closet. Yes, monsters were very real, vampires were real.

And she was one of them.

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Alright, so, I have been sitting on this for awhile. I love Vampire Knight, it is my favorite :D so writing this is going to be awesome. I already have major plot points down, so I'll just weave the build up as I go along.

Okay, so at first the VK characters will only show up briefly. They will gain a major hold in the story gradually (for as long as I need, they will be here officially after, at the most, chapter 10.) so that I can properly set my character into the story line.

The time this is set is in the anime, after Toga shows up. When Yuuki is learning about Zero's slow decent into a level E. This will be employed when Sukui becomes more involved with Cross Academy. I chose this part of the story for a reason, so I hope you will enjoy this! I know I am excited to write it!

Thanks for reading, now review please?

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