It's been four years since i left Cross Academy with Kaname, starting out fresh in a new town, but saying goodbye was the hardest part. Zero promised to kill me if i didn't keep on running, but i secretly knew he would come back into my life, no matter what the stakes. I was too important to him and he was too important to me. Yori and the other day-class students were sent home the day we left, but i had to say goodbye to my best-friend, no matter what. Kaien Cross cried on me and asked me to call him father a bazillion times, so i knew it would give him some satisfaction if i called him father just that once. I didn't know if he had meant for me to hear his last departing words, but i did anyway, and those words were what kept me from going insane. Those words are repeating in my head this instant, like a scratched record, but i don't mind. "Juuri, in the end, Yuuki didn't run away from her fate. Instead, she embraced it." Those words were for my mother, Juuri Kuran, who sealed my pure-blood genes and made me human at the age of 5. It was my mother and my father, Haruka Kuran, who saved me from my uncle's rage. They both died protecting me, and Kaname, my brother although certainly not by birth, took me to Cross Academy to be raised by Kaien. Now with Kaname by my side and our daughter and Zero's son holding our hands, we have returned to Cross Academy, where everything began.