This story will start where the anime left off and use mostly the anime as it's backbone. It will be rated M for future chapters.
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Prologue:
Over a year had passed.
Kaien Cross was battling with the world at this point. Lost were the letters from his Yuki. Gone was the legacy of his dream of his school.
It was simply too hard to reestablish the day and night classes. Although most students had their memories erased, rumours began to fly when some of the students had dreams of that night. It was a spark that led to a flame. A political unsettlement with any of the vampire race who had their kin at the school.
On top of this, he'd discovered some things that had led him to question the nature of his own partaking in these recent events. His hopeful disposition had sometimes blinded him. Zero, however remaining tormented and melancholy, had revealed that it had been in fact Kaname that had allowed Rido become fully alive again. Whether it had been the only means to which to destroy him, or Kaname's own selfish wish for a clear statement to be made about his power as the last Kuran left, it had made him question how much right the Kuran family had to make such decisions. Either way, Rido was a pure blood, and Kaname's hand was that which both awoke and destroyed him. And while Rido had destroyed the other pureblood Kuran siblings...an eye for an eye never created peace.
While he had understood Kaname's logic...the planning it had taken to bring Yuki back and even to make sure the Bloody Rose landed in the right hands to destroy Rido, he had seen the after effects. Perhaps mostly in how effected Zero had been.
Now, as part of a newly established Vampire Hunter guild, he stood himself torn. Many vampire hunters had re-joined, now following the lead of himself Kaien Cross and Toga Yagari, while still subject to a new rounder table of democratic decision making in order to prevent bias ruling. They too were worried about the nature of the Vampire Pure-blood's power. Like it or not, the Kuran's now held the most power and by default had become as close to a new monarchy as one might suspect, especially now that the Senate was basically abolished. One thing the Association nor many Vampires wished for was another bias Senate. So if the Kurans were to keep power, the Vampire Hunter association was all that was keeping them in line.
In summary it was decided that the Association wanted someone to keep an eye on them.
So, now, Headmaster Cross turned to look at Zero with a kind smile, as if none of this had just been clouding his brain.
"My dear son, Zero..."
"Why do you want me here?"
"What else is there for you to do?"
Zero bit his tongue. Nothing. No vampires were living here right now. Danger was in the structure of rebuilding the school. Danger only came with a few odd jobs from the new association. Danger only came when a part of him hungered for blood. He had tamed his E level cravings, perhaps now with the power of his brother within him. But at the same time, Headmaster Cross, was never one he could trust to give him trivial jobs or ridiculous demands.
Cross turned away again to the window. "Something has been bugging me for a while now... while the Bloody Rose seemed to have destroyed that damned Rido Kuran, I find myself pondering something."
"What?" Zero felt a pang. What dirt was this to bring up? Why would Headmaster Cross unearth this, after nearly a year of strange quiet peace.
"Kaname once told me only Pure Bloods can kill Pure Bloods. I know that lore to hold truth. And while I don't question that the Bloody Rose is a pureblood's weapon...perhaps the closest thing to a pureblood incarnate in weapon form, but...in your Hands Zero...no matter how strong, you are not a pureblood but the holder of pureblood blood."
"Do you think I didn't do the job? Are you saying I'm inadequate?!" Zero found his temper rising. Another thing he missed; Yuki's ability to bring him down. Or at least warn Headmaster Cross to cut it out. Still...this was quite a low blow.
"No, no. I saw it too...from a far, mind you. But, perhaps we ought to consider that Rido's want for the Kuran line to end with him far surpasses anyone's pride for killing him. What's more..."
"Kaname planned it all. I'd be surprised if he missed something. I am who I am now...because of him." Zero couldn't help but feel fury. He'd been at peace for a short while after Yuki left. But pieces of himself had begun eating away, sad memories like ghosts haunted these grounds, and frankly he'd only had what was left of himself as the proclaimed strongest Vampire Hunter alive, the anomaly of being a vampire himself, as a grounding mechanism. A sort of pride that he had to depend on, knowing the truth of it was he was a blood based Frankenstein monster that Kaname had created.
Headmaster Cross sighed. He heard this resentment in Zero's words before. What Zero had a hard time seeing was that, well enough, if not for Kaname's planning Zero would be an E level vampire by now. Zero was fated for pain and destruction either way. "Even the best chess player is not perfect. Perfection is an illusion, a construction Zero, of humanity's need to create an ideal... A semantic mishap perhaps. And nobody asks for perfect. Which is why I still love you even if you are not what you hoped to be." He held back tears and Zero nearly scoffed.
Cross adjusted his glasses. "On the same note...please do not hurt me after this but-"
"Do you forget that I know you too are one of the best Vampire Hunters?" Zero rolled his eyes, never convinced any more of his Headmaster's passivity.
"Ahem... well I mean, I ...actually I tried to convince the Hunters Association not to interfere, but I also may have told them you were best for this job."
"What job?" Zero had not realized there was a job at question here.
"To ...perhaps...watch over the Kuran family, in lieu of their lack of trust of Kaname's power and...my own suspicions of Rido's rather immortal being..."
"So is your goal to punish me?! First you accuse me of failing to kill the one vampire who could destroy everything...after I manage for once, to do something right...and now you want me to go watch as Yuki gets to snuggle up with-"
"Say no more. I'll get someone else." Cross managed to shrivel down, as if he was defeated entirely by Zero's words.
Zero turned away and sighed.
"No...don't. I'll do it. But consider this; somebody needs to be looking into that Rido bullshit. Even though I doubt it. I suggest my dear old tutor does this...I will try to find out what I can about this reincarnation shit too if I must, but if Kaname steps out of line..."
"You do not have permission to kill any Purebloods. You are a vampire and you cannot kill him. However, I will give you some discressions as to what you think needs to be done. I want you to act as an access point...if the Kuran's can find a way to make everyone calm down and allow vampires a chance to exist as a night class again..."
"I'll do what I can." Zero mumbled and turned away to leave.
"Oh, and before you go..."
"Yea?"
"Please say hello to my dear Yuki for me! I must receive another letter from her soon!"
Zero slammed the door so hard that a painting fell off the Headmaster's wall and crashed into pieces.
Outside Zero looked to his hand, battling with the weight of his new assignment, and his own capacity to handle it. "I guess I'm coming to kill you sooner than I thought...Yuki... if I don't kill your lover first."