~A Vampire Knight Side Story Part I~

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight or any of its characters ^.^

~Yaiba Surudoi's pov~

I sped along the road in my motorcycle. It was smooth and I loved the feel of my new light green Kawasaki ZX-7RR. As soon as I reached my destination, I sped through the large gate and stopped to get the directions out of the bag that I'd securely strapped to the side of my bike. I put the coffee-stained piece of paper back where it belonged and silently sped to the place the directions indicated. Two more lefts and a right.

I came to a stop at my final destination, not caring that I'd taken shortcuts that strayed from the scribbled little map and ended up riding over the neatly cut lawns and not the cobble-stoned pathways. I hopped down from my bike and took off my helmet, shaking my straight, jet black hair loose. After putting the helmet on one of the handle bars, I pulled my hair up in its usual ponytail and laced one of my boots that had gone undone on the way here.

I silently checked off that I had everything I needed and looked up at the building in front of me. Cross Academy. The school most likely to end up with half of its population drained of blood, but hey, let's put vampires and humans in the same school just for kicks. I sighed at his new philosophy and headed toward the door that supposedly led me up a flight of stairs and then a door at the end of a hallway where my old friend now spent most of his time.

My boots crunched on the grass, tapped along the cobble-stone path to the door, and then I was inside, taking great care not to let my long black leather coat get crushed by the closing door. I pulled the other map out of the back pocket of my black jeans and sighed at the childish drawings of students in the hallways and the artist himself in his office.

But there were no students at this time of the night and I doubted he'd be smiling as widely in the picture when I had to wake the eccentric guy up. I made my way up the stairs and through the corridor down to the maple brown door that I had to eventually find out was locked. A locked door isn't going to keep the children out, much less vampires. I picked the door quickly and let it close with a loud bang behind me.

The desk looked pretty worn out and even looked like it was split in two at one time and there was a cup with a large, scarily pink bunny on it. It had words scrawled below the picture but I didn't take the time to look at it. Where was he? It was pretty hard to believe that he was once the greatest vampire hunter of our generation when he couldn't even give me back up plans/maps if he wasn't here upon my arrival.

I left nothing out of place and left the small office to walk down what looked like the teacher's dorm of the school. It was just a small corridor of rooms and I tried to make out the faded name plates beside the doors. I quickly found his room since it was the closest to his office, but past the master bathroom. I contemplated knocking on the door, but I didn't want to wake up the people in the rooms around his, so I just picked the lock on his door like I did the office and walked right in.

It was nothing but a large bedroom and a closet on one side so it was easy to find the grumbling, sleeping man in the middle of the room sprawled out across his bed in the worst sleeping posture I'd ever seen. Yup, that was definitely him.

Before I could start to wake him up, there was a gruff knock on the door followed by someone entering without waiting for a reply. It was dark and I couldn't see anything except a large figure that froze upon noticing me. The light flicked on and I didn't even have time to see who it was before they lunged at me. I didn't want to hurt the poor fool so I didn't take out my blade guns, or so I liked to call them.

I ducked to trip him but somehow he saw it coming and jumped. Before I could flip back up the barrel of a gun was pointed at my forehead. Okay, so this wasn't just a civilian who happened to come in at the wrong moment.
"Who are you and why are you trying to kill Kaien Cross?"

I looked up and couldn't help but let a smile spread across my face at who I saw, but the movement made me realize I still had my black mask on from my last mission.
"Relax Cyclops, it's me," His eyes widened at the old nickname and I pulled down my mask so he could see my face.

"Way to go Catwoman, I almost blew your brains out. Could you not make surprise visits in the middle of the night and break into Cross's room?" I smiled at the old nickname from when I used to use claws as a weapon choice. The leather ensemble however, I kept.
"Well if Kaien here had been awake when I got here we wouldn't be trying to kill each other," The still sleeping Headmaster grumbled as if in response.

I leaned in close and brushed my lips along his earlobe.
"Kai, Yai has a gift for you," I whispered into his ear, using the old trick that would eventually-
"YAI!" his eyes had opened and he was now nuzzling up against me.
"Why didn't you ever wake me up like that?" Toga pouted.
"I did. You attacked me and I almost ended up clawing your other eye out,"
"Manhater,"
"Womanizer,"
"Yai," We both looked down to see Kai still pawing at me, "you said you had a gift,"

A vein popped in my forehead and I hit Kai upside the head.
"There you go sweetheart, hope you liked it. Would you like more?"
"Ah, Yai. Why do you forsake me?" Toga and I both rolled our eyes.
"Because you don't watch where you bury your head sometimes,"
"Ah! Sorry my little kitten, I'll never do it again," his eyes watered up like a lost puppy but I wasn't falling for it.

I hit him again and this time he yelped a satisfying 'ow'.
"Yeah, you will. And then you'll get this punishment tenfold,"
"Aw, come on kitten," Toga pitched in, using the annoying nickname Kai had given me, "it's just male instinct," he pulled me back into him and I elbowed him in the stomach.
"This is why I hate hanging out with you guys, much less running missions with you. So why did you call me here Kaien?"

He straightened his back and turned serious.
"There's a new student here who's a female vampire hunter in training-"
"And you need me to carry out her training? This is one of Toga's kids though. I didn't get training from a woman and I turned out alright," They both looked at each other and then burst out laughing, leaving me to hit them both.
"Okay, who's the second best vampire hunter at the moment?" They both indicated me, "and who's the best?" Kaien and I looked at Toga.

"See my point? She's better off with this stronger, hard-headed, trigger-happy, womanizing…ugh, fine I'll do it. But only because I'm afraid this guy's going to get arrested for being a pedophile,"
"Hey, I don't hit on women younger than me," he defended and I gave him that look that said 'oh really?'.
"Under the age of twenty. Happy now?" he revised and I smiled.

"Well, technically speaking, the best vampire hunter in this room is Kai, but his new pacifism just might kill us all," I nodded, finally agreeing on something with Toga. I looked over at Kaien and almost fell over. He had glasses on and started pulling his hair up.
"Since when can you not see? And your long hair's so pretty," I strode over to him again and played with his hair, blocking his chances of pulling it up.

Kaien looked at me with the piercing eyes I'd seen long ago when he was still a vampire hunter. When all three of us had hunted together. Those eyes that said he could read my very soul. I could never hold a gaze with him for very long when he had that look.

"Kai," I whispered, barely audible.
"Yaiba," he said my name. Not Surudoi-san, Yai, or kitten, but my first name. He'd only said it twice before. Once when I was on the verge of death and second when I'd been completely rejected by him. That was when he'd told me about his past. But that was a long time ago and it didn't take long for Kai to revert back to his oddness.
"You're so grown up and cute!" he jumped around me in a dance that looked like it could bring rain and Toga ended up holding the man by the back of his collar to stop his silly charades.

Toga looked apologetically at me and I brushed it off.
"So what am I going to do? Stay here? I'm not a certified teacher like Cyclops here,"
"Ah, I was just getting to that. You're going to be the new English teacher. I had to erase the memories of my last one and there's a vacancy for the position. Toga teaches Ethics," Kaien answered.

"When in the world did you get the time to learn Ethics?"
"When Cross gave me a book when I started the job,"
"So you're just winging it?"
"I'm teaching them and that's all that counts,"
"So you're just winging it?" I repeated and he gave up.
"Yeah, I'm just winging it. What I want to know is if you can even teach in an outfit like that," His eyes raked over my skimpy leather ensemble and I gave him a death glare.

"I was working before this,"
"I see that," he looked at the two guns strapped to my belt and I covered it with my coat.
"Since when do you use guns?"
"They're easier, long range, and have a second trigger that makes a blade come out of the hilt so I can fight up close as well,"
"You still look like a cat though," He referred to my deep green eyes that looked like cats' eyes. He had tons of jokes asking if I could see in the dark and whatnot, but thankfully he didn't bring that up.

I looked over at the clock on Kaien's bedside table and yawned. The small hands said it was 5am meaning I only had two hours to sleep before having to teach English. It wouldn't be a problem since they both knew I could speak and teach eight different languages. Having to travel around the world came in handy after all dad. I hadn't spoken to both my parents ever since I became a vampire hunter ten years ago.

I'd met Kai first when I was sixteen, and then Toga at age nineteen. They were both considerably older than I was but we were the top three vampire hunters in the Association at the time.
"And now you're an old twenty-three year old who has yet to get laid," Toga scanned my body again, "although I have no idea why,"
"Lecher. And I wasn't reminiscing,"
"You were silent for five whole minutes, so yes you were. Now let's go to sleep before it's time for my class today," Apparently he'd noticed the clock and yawned as well.

"Kai, try and get some sleep. And new pajamas," I laughed as I looked at the blue pajamas with red and yellow rocket ships. Toga on the other hand wore everything he usually wore, except his hat was missing.
"Will do. Get some sleep I mean," he replied as Toga and I walked out the door.
"Oh, and Surudoi-san?" he yelled after me and I stopped, looking curiously at the Headmaster.
"Welcome to Cross Academy," he smiled and I returned the favor before closing the door behind me…