A/N: Hello hello everyone! If you haven't read the title of this story or you didn't participate/read about what I did with my VK-in progress series this is the story I decided to move forward with as of now. It was number five of my first chapter and I got some really great reviews.
If you are completely new to my stories and way of writing hello and pleased to meet you! I predominantly write Vampire Knight fanfics although I have a few other fandoms mixed in and fandoms I've simply yet to start uploading (hint hint it's coming soon y'all!). I coin myself a pretty versatile writer when it comes to the types of fics I write overall but I do gravitate towards more intensive, mind-fuck, gay but not necessarily pairing centric, LONG fics. You either get a one-shot or 14 chapters without a lot of in-between. If that's not your thing I get it and good luck finding stuff more suited for you.
If you are returning welcome back! It's a new story holy shit! I'm still glowing from the reviews you guys have given me for both Sayo and Actor which are becoming the more popular fics from me and I'm excited to share this one with you all too. Here's the thing, the pairing isn't decided yet! I haven't decided if it should even have a pairing or if I should switch things up even more, maybe have Zero paired with Kain again since I was asked to write more KainRo stories, should I stick with Kaname? Move onto the other night class members or Kaito or Yuuki? I really don't know so please leave your suggestions for me if you have any! As usual, I'll give you warnings, updates, and briefs before every chapter in my author's note sections so it is helpful if you read them but I know they can get lengthy. I will do my best to cut them down after this one. I don't have an estimate on how long this fiction will be yet because I really don't have a ton planned out. We're on this journey together y'all. I hope you enjoy this first (short) chapter again please leave reviews, comments, helpful criticisms etc. I want to hear it all. Hope you enjoy!
~Len-kun
Silver Wings
Blood hit his nose with a burn as he patrolled the campus of Cross Academy, someone was injured, a student of the night class? Not likely, that left either a wandering person, a low leveled vampire, a hunter who had their aura suppressed, or someone from the day class. None of those were favorable options but as a guardian of the school and a hunter he had to go check it out. Moving from his normal route Kiryu Zero headed towards the woods behind the moon dorms. As he got closer to the source of the smell, Zero quickly realized that the resident pureblood vampire and his group of nobles were already there. 'Annoying.' He thought but soon his mind was taken over by focusing on the injured. The vampires were there but not moving closer to the being, meaning it either had to be a hunter or a human. That could be a problem. Picking up his pace Zero found himself standing in front of a group of vampires circled around a badly beat up day class student. She was surrounded by hunter charms preventing the vampires from getting any closer.
"Kiryu-kun." Kaname announced his presence, the nobles parted way for him and Zero roamed the charms with his eyes before taking out a small silver knife.
"You're not going to immediately accuse us of attacking a day class student and get us kicked out of the school? I'm shocked." Aido sneered as Zero knelt to the ground and placed the knife parallel to the girl. Zero rolled his eyes slightly.
"Only a rookie would be so stupid, a vampire like you couldn't place these charms, and her wounds are obviously done by someone who wields charmed weapons and magic. Not vampiric nature. So why don't you tell me everything you know." came the answer though his focus was mainly taken by the victim of the attack not the nobles.
"We found her like this not long ago, suggesting she hasn't been here more than fifteen minutes. We thought she was most likely trying to get pictures of us or something but there's no evidence on her of that." Takuma stepped in to inform the elite hunter. Zero simply nodded and mumbled something the others couldn't understand before the barriers broke and he picked up the girl's wrist. On it, a symbol had been engraved into her skin. A clear message to those who could understand what it meant Takuma assumed when Zero's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"What is that?" Kain questioned this time though he wasn't sure Zero had heard him. The other seemed to be highly focused on something.
"It's a crest, the crest of a group of rogues I didn't think we'd have to deal with so soon." the silverette replied with a slight sigh as he picked the girl up, checked to make sure she could live through the journey to the Sun Dorm infirmary, and stood with her carefully in his arms. "You should head back to the dorms, night class, we'll take care of this soon but until then do alert the Headmaster if there are any more incidents." he added before taking off to the Sun Dorms without looking back.
'Rogues? But I why would they come here and attack a day class students no less...that doesn't make sense.' Kaname thought with narrowed eyes. 'Kiryuu-kun knows more than what he is telling me.' the pureblood concluded with a sigh of irritation. Getting information from the boy was like pulling teeth.
Cross Kaien stared at Zero as though he had grown another head when the boy told him one of the day class students had been attacked by a hunter. "Do you know who it was?" he questioned upon being taken to the infirmary where the girl had been taken and was currently getting treatment.
"I do. There's only one clan that has this crest, and the carving of it into her skin only confirms my suspicions." Zero answered after he thoroughly erased the girl's memories of the attack.
"And who would that be?" Kaien pressed, he had a feeling the attack had nothing to do with something personal towards the girl herself. He figured it was more to gain the attention of the silver-haired hunter and she had been a convenient victim.
"The sole surviving of the Usaki family, Usaki Iori." Zero growled back, he would kill that bastard gladly for playing such a dangerous game.
"That asshole that's been after you since the literal beginning of time?" Kaito questioned from the wall, he had woken up conveniently as the conversation started.
"Someone has been threatening you?" Cross questioned growing deadly serious.
"Wait you mean you don't know, Cross-san?" Kaito raised an eyebrow before flicking his eyes towards the silverette in the room.
"No, I was never told of such a problem, how long has this been going on?" the headmaster questioned glancing over at Zero.
"I don't know for sure, I suppose ever since I met Iori. We were in a similar situation, both the last living members of our family lines and the older siblings of younger brothers though Iori wasn't a twin. Our clans never got along however, we ended up in war and though the Kiryuu blood is superior in terms of fighting we only won by a small margin. We ended up all but killing off everyone in their clan. They've held grudges ever since and since I've been alive, even more so when my parents were killed, Iori has gone out of his way to start fights." Zero sighed, he didn't particularly wish to think about the situation that would eventually need to be dealt with but apparently it couldn't be helped.
"But this is the first time someone else has gotten hurt because of his hatred." Kaito pointed out. Zero nodded slightly and leaned against the window.
"So it was deliberately to catch your attention and tell you something." Kaien sighed with Zero once again nodding.
"It was a warning, telling me that he's coming to Cross and he'll be expecting a fight sooner or later." the silverette explained with an annoyed tone.
"You really think a fight is going to make him stop after all this time?" Kaito inquired clearly not believing that was possible.
"A fight like the one he's looking for? Yes it will. It's going to end the fighting between our clans and for one of us it's going to end everything." the younger hunter answered leaving the room in a long shock-induced pause. As the words finally sunk in, as well as the following implications, there was a flurry of words from the older two males.
"You can't seriously be thinking about a fight to kill each other, Zero that would be terrible!" Cross started out as he came out of his stupor.
"That's nuts! He's an obsessive idiot but fighting cannot be a good way to go about this. Zero, think a bit here." Kaito agreed but the look in his friend's eyes told him it wasn't going to change his mind.
"I have, it's been a possibility since the beginning and we knew that. I can't avoid him forever, and now he is hurting others. I'm not just going to sit here and let this continue when other lives are at risk." Zero argued back as he looked between his best friend, and partner, and his caretaker. Neither of them were happy about it, if he was in their shoes he wouldn't be either, but they weren't going to change his mind. This had to be done.
"Do you know when he plans to come?" Kaien asked with a tired sigh.
"No, but I'm sure we'll know when he gets here." Zero responded as he moved from his rooted spot and walked out of the infirmary. 'I don't know what Iori's full abilities are, compared to the damage I remember reading about this attack was benign. He could have killed her. Why didn't he?' the perfect was so lost in thought as he walked the path to the stabled he didn't notice Cross Yuuki walk up behind him until her voice sounded, quite loudly, to his immediate right. With a small start, he looked over into the Cross girl's unhappy eyes.
"Zero! I've been calling your name for like five minutes! What's wrong with you tonight?" her voice going from annoyed to concerned in a heartbeat. Something Zero always liked about her, she was a little sister to him but she still tried to take on a motherly approach to his well being.
'Something she got from Cross no doubt.' the seasoned hunter mused to himself. "I'm fine, there was an incident tonight with a day class student I'm mulling over." he eventually responded to the impatient perfect. He didn't want to give away his current dilemma but she would forever hound him for a reason to his spacing out. Being out of focus wasn't something ever associated with Kiryuu Zero.
"You know Zero, it's not that complicated. The day class girls fawn over you as much as they do the night class...they just don't approach you like they do Aido-senpai and the others. So! Who confessed to you? I bet it's a girl in our first period, isn't it? You know you're going to have to bring her to Cross' place for dinner. He's going to want to know everything." Yuuki rambled on to a spaced-out Zero until he caught a few choice words that didn't add up.
"Confess? What are you talking about, a girl got injured and-" before he could continue Yuuki cut him off deadly serious.
"What happened to her, you know if you bite a day class st-" Zero cut her off with a hard glare that told her much more than words would have.
"If you would let me finish. The girl was hurt by a rogue hunter, she's in the infirmary now and I'm trying to figure out the best way to address the situation." he nearly growled at the girl for implying he would have lost control of his vampiric nature and hurt a student. Something he'd kill himself over if it ever happened so he vowed to himself.
"Oh...I see, does Kaname-senpai know about it already?" the smaller perfect questioned hoping to ease her adoptive brother's glare.
"Yes, he and the night class found her, however he's likely not pleased about the lacking information around the situation. Something he'll have to live and deal with. You should be more careful now too. Hunters aren't going to be scared off by a girl in a day class uniform even if she has a hunter weapon on her. Stay out of trouble and let me take all your secluded patrol routes until we have this cleared up completely. This isn't a negotiable topic. I know who we're dealing with and you don't. Period." though the heir to the Kiryuu clan name didn't enjoy working alongside vampires if anyone else had found the girl it would have been the start of a mass panic through the school. To his immense relief Yuuki didn't argue and just accepted that he knew what he was doing and he did, to an extent. He couldn't tell Yuuki everything but he knew how to keep her out of harm's way. As was his duty according to a certain vampire prince whose presence neared Zero's location as soon as he sent Yuuki back to Cross and the perfect's quarters.
"You realize that by associating yourself with her you only serve to endanger her above a random day class student don't you?" Kaname's voice greeted his ears, cold and calculating. Much like that of Zero's once sensei, Yagari Touga, that taught the night class alongside working as a professional elite hunter.
"Don't worry, I don't plan on letting her, or any other student, become a victim to the ways of someone that tarnishes the name of the hunter society as a whole." Zero responded without turning to face the vampire, he would never willingly allow the brunette to see his slightly unfocused emotions that ran through guarded eyes.
"And just how do you plan to do that? Even as a Kiryuu you have your limits when it comes to dealing with other hunters considering their weapons will work on you much better than even a day class human." the pureblood pointed out, mentioning the hunter's vampire status was simply to get him worked up and angry. Zero knew that tactic well but he refused to give in to it this time. Instead, he sealed his thoughts and steeled his eyes before turning to the night class president.
"Yuuki will not be in a path of danger. I stand by what I said Kuran. If you'll excuse me, I have things to do." respect was something needing to be earned in Zero's eyes, hence why Kuran wasn't given any before the hunter started to walk off continuing to the stables.
'Then I suppose I need to talk to Cross if I want more information on what's happening around here.' the brunette told himself before heading to the sun dorms. A place he normally wouldn't willingly go to with it being so close to day class hours, but this was for Yuuki's sake. He had no time to be selfish about his dislike for day class girls.
Upon his arrival to the door of the headmaster's office, an infuriated Touga threw open the door before the vampire could read for the handle. The glare that was shot at him would have made most creatures leave at least a ten-foot radius between themselves and the veteran hunter, however to Kaname it only confirmed his suspicions that Zero was heading into something much larger than he was planning on letting anyone else know. As the beings passed one another Kaname could feel the hunter's magic sparking against his aura even breaking to his skin. Slipping into the room before the doors shut Kaname had the slight urge to rub his arm form the lingering feeling of magic but of course he resisted. Instead, he followed the hushed voices of Takamiya Kaito and headmaster Cross until he found who he was looking for. Without so much as a warning, Kaname announced his presence to the room giving Cross a look that demanded answers from the older ex-hunter. "I told you he'd show up sooner or later." Kaito clicked his tongue in irritation giving the vampire prince an annoyed look, Kaname could tell both he and Cross were tired and worried. He didn't think it would take much to break them down to get answers but it would come at a price for sure.
"Kaname-kun, pleasure to see you this evening. I assume you are here concerning the recent events with a rogue hunter that attacked one of the day class students." Kaien was polite but his usual childish demeanor was gone, replaced by someone fare more tired and serious.