Chapter one!
"Inori! You can't be out here right now, It's daylight!" This is what woke me up from my peaceful nap in the stables. "Yuki dear—", I was cut off by Lily snarling viciously at said girl. I turned my attention to the horse I was lying next to and I gently patted her leg as I cooed soothingly, "Calm down girl, she's not going to hurt you." I breathed out slowly as I stood and moved towards the sweet smelling girl. "As I was saying, Yuki dear, you and I both know that I would never harm any other student that attends this school."
I could feel her shift uncomfortably as she tried to form her next words. "B-but, Takanashi-sama, won't Kaname-sama scold you? You should really get to your room. What if something bad happens, or what if you end up getting to weak to move." By this point, I had completely tuned Yuki out, instead, my mind was focused on other things. "Yuki-san if you will be so kind as to stop being so loud, I'll return to my room." I said in a calm yet obviously irritated voice and thankfully, the chatter slowly halted. My attention turned towards the slight breeze that tousled my hair, it also carried a rather bitter yet divine scent. "How are you going to be sure that you'll make it back okay?" Yuki said, becoming loud and frantic once more.
"Oh well, I'm sure Zero wouldn't mind guiding me, isn't that right dear?" I stated calmly and I couldn't help but laugh as Yuki gasped, in was clear that the young mortal had no clue that the hunter was even there. "I'll only do it to keep you from taking a bite out of any of the idiot that are skipping classes. And to keep you from yelling anymore." The Kiryu teen said bitterly, first to me then to Yuki. I just merely stepped out of the stable and held my hand out in the direction of his voice. Unsurprisingly, my wrist was grabbed roughly and I was being pulled along the grounds of Cross Academy.
Silence and tension was all that there was in the surrounding air, and after a while I actually began to get the idea that Zero was going to shoot me. However, instead of putting a bullet in my head, he stopped walking and I collided with his well-toned, firm back, and it was all thanks to me being lost in thought. The speed at which Zero whipped around and pinned me to what I believed was a tree, amazed me. I had my eyes closed gently and I held my breath, just in case. "I don't understand-"My eyes shot wide open as words left the teen's lips. "How can something like you, a beast in human form, have a condition like yours?" He asked in a hushed tone, it was clear he was only being quiet in case anyone was around and that it wasn't out of sympathy. The worst part was that I couldn't give him an answer, because not even I had one. "Zero, just because I'm a vampire, doesn't mean that I'm going to be perfect." I said in an uncharacteristically bitter, quiet tone.
I pushed Zero back away from me and finished the walk back to the moon dorms. Unfortunately, gravity never has been a friend of mine. Thanks to my highly clumsy nature, I tripped on one of the steps leading up to my room's floor and I had managed to literally roll up the steps. Once I stopped I easily and calmly stood up, acting as if nothing had even happen. Then that voice rang through the air. "Inori, are you all right?"