Chapter 1: Yuuki's Nightmare
WARNING: Contains spoilers for chapters 30 onwards (I think)
Setting: It is Yuukis birthday in 3 days, so she wants everything to be fine, even though she doesn't care much for her birthday anymore she still likes to act excited about it. Yuuki is currently in her dorm room with Yori. Yori is still asleep, but Yuuki hasn't slept well lately, she has had recurring nightmares.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight
Firstly I would like to say thank-you to alyzzahp , hope777 and Twilightxeclipse12 for being the first people to review my first fan fiction.
Now on with the show, well chapter really, but you get the point:
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"What the hell, where am I?" Yuuki asks.
"What's going on? Oh no, not this dream again, it always seems so real. I need to get out before it really starts. But how do i get out?"
Yuuki began to panick and tryed to remain calm but failed, this nightmare was the only thing she was scared of, as she feared it would soemday become real. "Damn it, I am trapped inside this recurring nightmare, maybe if I close my eyes it will go away." After about a minute she opens her eyes again.
"Shoot, it doesn't work, well, maybe if I follow this nightmare through then I might reach the end and wake up, it's worth a shot."
"Okay, you can do this Yuuki." She tells herself.
"Past the two red, creepy looking, glowing eyes, follow the signs to death and despair, don't look, don't look at the dead bodies of your friends, just keep going, none of its real." Yuuki mutters to herself in attempt to keep herself calm.
"God, its dark here, even for a vampire, so what's next in this crazy dream, oh yeah I remember, the memory of that night, the night ten years ago when Rido killed my parents, that bastard, I will get my revenge someday."
As Yuukis nightmare progresses into flashbacks of her past she begins to wake up.
"Almost there," Yuuki exclaims as she nears the end of her dream.
Suddenly Yuuki sits bolt up right in her bed, she's covered in a thin layer of sweat and she is panting.
"God I wish that nightmare wasn't so hard to get through, oh well at least I am awake now." She whispers to herself, careful not to wake Yori. She knows that as a pureblood vampire, she isn't supposed to be afraid of anything, but living amongst humans has changed her attitude from being a cold vampire, to being warm and very fearful like a human. The nightmare scares her, she doesn't really know why, because its an illogical dream, nothing that happens in it could ever happen, or so she thinks.
"I better go take a shower." Yuki opens the door to their ensuite bathroom in their dorm room that her and Yori share. Yuuki looks at the clock before closing the door, she realises that it is only 4am. She hasn't slept well in weeks; she comes in late at night from her prefect duties and then is kept up because of the nightmare. Luckily she is a vampire and can last a long time without much sleep.
As Yuuki is having her shower, she lets the droplets of water rush down her body as she contemplates her dream, she cant make much sense of it, there is no reason for her to be having this nightmare, she got over the death of her parents a long time ago and she is strong enough to actually save her loved ones if a similar situation ever arises now, which is very unlikely of happening.
Yuuki steps out of the shower, dries herself and gets changed into her uniform that she left hanging up in the bathroom the night before.
Yuuki has calmed down now, but is still in a daze as she is deep in thought about her recurring nightmare, she doesn't want to close her eyes to go back to sleep, because she fears those haunting eyes will be there again, staring at her, so she decides to go for a walk instead in an attempt to clear her mind.
Yuuki slips her socks on and laces up her boots and exits the dorm room quietly so as not to wake anyone. Her dorm room is on the top floor and she knows that she will probably get caught by someone if she tries to make it down all the stairs, so she uses her quick thinking and decides to go down two of the seventeen flights of stairs by walking very quietly and stealthily and then find the nearest open window and jump down from there.
As Yuuki nears the intended window, she hears voices coming from a few flights down, on the thirteenth floor, they appear to be two girls voices and they are ascending the stairs, Yuuki shifts into her prefect mode and immediately starts to wonder down the stairs to see what's going on. On the fourteenth floor she bumps into the two girls who she had heard before.
"Why are you girls up so late?" Yuuki asks them.
The first girl replies, "sorry miss prefect, but the water in our dorm room isnt working."
"We just went down to the main bathrooms on the tenth floor so that we could get a drink of water, and i was afraid to go by myself", the second girl states quickly.
"Fine, i accept your excuse, but just be quiet if you need to go to the toilet in the night again, alright." Yuuki makes a mental note of what floor and room the girls are in. "It's the fourteenth floor, room 3 isn't it girls?" she asks them, knowing full well that it is as she has an excellent photographic memory of everyone's rooms, but she wants to make sure that she keeps the charade of her being forgetful and clumsy Yuuki.
"Yes" they both reply. Yuuki then escorts them back to their dorm room.
Just before she leaves, the two students dare to ask her why she is up anyway; "Erm..., excuse me miss prefect, but what were you doing up this late anyway?" the girls ask.
Yuuki quickly thinks of an excuse and whispers to them; "I was hungry and was going to go get a midnight snack, but don't tell anyone okay", the three girls all laugh quietly at this and then the two girls who share the dorm room close the door and head back to bed.
As Yuuki wonders back up the stairs she mutters to herself; "Gosh, some of the girls here at Cross Academy are so gullible and naive sometimes, no wonder they don't know about the night class."
When she approaches the window again Yuuki scrambles out of it and onto the ledge. "Ahhh...," Yuuki sighs as the fresh cold night air tickles her skin and a slight breeze waves her hair about. Yuuki loves the night, she loves the darkness as she can see very well in it and she loves how its always colder at night and the air seems to be fresher.
Yuuki just stands on the ledge for a few minutes, in the shadows and out of sight of anyone, she stares across the academy, she can see all of it very well from up here, it's a better view from the roof but she can make do with this for now. With her vampire sight she can see very far away as well and she can see across the grounds to the main school building, where there are lights on in one of the classrooms where the night class is having their class.
She can just make out the faint outline of her brother, Kaname, she can tell it is him because she knows that he is the only one who dares to stand by the window during class. She can see him looking around and she knows that he can feel her staring at him and is looking for who-ever is watching him, but he doesn't know it is her of course. She realises that she has been staring at him for a while now so she decides to go for that walk that she came outside for in the first place.
In the classroom Kaname can sense someone is watching him but he cant see who it is or tell where they are, as he darts his eyes around the rest of the night class dare to interrupt him and ask him if anything is wrong; "Are you alright Kaname-sama, is anything bothering you?, you seem distracted". But he just smiles to himself and simply states that he was looking at the view of the beautiful silver moon and sits back down at his desk at the back of the room to finish his class work.
Yuuki jumps down from the ledge silently and swiftly, she lands on the ground with a very small, quiet thud and breaks into an almost silent run away from the dorms. As Yuuki nears the forest she slows down and walks calmly but briskly through the trees, she nears her destination;the lake which is in the centre of the forest in cross academy and sees the reflection of the moon in it.
She is instantly mesmerised by it and stares up at the beautiful big full silver moon, it seems to be glowing and it is surrounded by millions of bright twinkling stars. Set against the black night sky, the view was wonderful and Yuuki was instantly enchanted with it, she sat down on one of the rocks by the lake and stared up at it for what seemed like hours.
Suddenly she heard a rustling sound coming from the trees far off to her left, she could only just hear it with her vampire hearing, and who-ever was making the noise was being very stealthy about approaching her. She decided to play it cool and she stared at her reflection in the lake for a few seconds, then she glanced at her watch to see that the time was 5am, when the night classes ended and they went back to their dorms.
Yuuki presumed that it must be one of the night class students, although she couldn't think how they could find her or why they would be looking for her in the first place. The students of the day class would be getting up shortly, in about an hour she thought, so she resolved to find out who it was lurking in the trees and then escort them back to their dorm and get back to her own dorm room to greet an awakening Yori, all before the day class started to get up.
Just as Yuuki stood up and turned left, she heard the noises stop and she saw a faint outline of someone tall coming out from the trees, she knew that she would have to act like the human Yuuki around them, clumsy and very shy, so she put on her façade and asked timidly; "who is there, come out, i know your there, i could hear you", when no-one answered she brought out her Artemis rod for protection.
Yuuki gasped as none other than Kaname Kuran stepped out from the trees. "Kaname-sempai, what are you doing here? You should be in the night class dorms by now"; Yuuki asked in what she hoped was a shocked and timid reply.
"Oh, I am sorry Yuuki; I hope I didn't scare you at all."
"No, its okay Kaname-sempai," Yuuki replied with a big smile.
"My dear Yuuki I thought I told you to just call me Kaname, we have know each other for years now, don't you think you can drop the sempai," Kaname ended with a dazzling smile that even Yuuki couldn't resist.
"Oh yes, sorry Kaname-sempai, erm..., I mean Kaname." She blushed as she said just his name, but she couldn't understand why. She then stared into his beautiful brown eyes that almost looked black, they seemed to draw her in and it took a lot of her will power to think of something else besides him. She noticed Kaname was staring intently into her eyes too but didn't think much of it; she thought that if they weren't siblings then Kaname probably wouldn't even look at her twice.
All Kaname could think of was how much he loved her and how much he wanted his Yuuki back beside him, but he knew it wasn't the time and got lost in her deep chocolate coloured eyes as he dwelled on his thoughts of her.
When Yuuki finally snapped out of it, she began to mutter something about going back to the dorms, that was when Kaname finally broke out of his thoughts too and listened to what she was saying. "Erm..., Kaname, I think we should head back to our dorms now, I am sure you are tired from class, and I have to get ready for my classes soon."
Kaname answered politely, "good idea Yuuki, may i escort you back to your dorm room?". Yuuki didn't think this was a good idea but when Kaname offered to do anything for her , Yuuki knew it was more of an order and just couldn't say no to him anyway, so instead she replied; "Yes, thank you Kaname-kun."
Kaname sighed as he noticed she had added kun to the end of his name, he was about to object, but thought that at least it was better than her calling him Kaname-sempai like all of is followers did. He definitely didn't see Yuuki as a follower, but as more of a precious flower that he needed to take care of and then he could watch her bloom, and if he waited patiently and long enough then she would be his in the end, forever.
They both walked silently side-by-side together back to the girls dorms, both lost in their own deep thoughts, Kaname's of Yuuki and Yuuki's strayed from kaname back to that of her nightmare, she had decided not to tell Kaname about it as it would only make him worry and she didn't want that. Then her thoughts slipped to him again, she loved her brother very much and couldn't stop thinking of him, but she pushed these thoughts away and decided to think on them all at a more later time.
As Yuuki and Kaname entered the dorms they began to ascend the stairs together, they had to be very quiet because everyone was still asleep, and boys weren't supposed to be in the girls dorms anyway, but since Kaname had insisted, they had to be stealthy and careful on their way up to the seventeenth floor.
Yuuki played her act again and 'accidently' stumbled a few times on their long journey up the countless stairways to the top of the building. Yuuki pretended to trip several times too as she was supposed to be a very clumsy girl. Luckily Kaname caught her every time just before she completely fell to the floor. Yuuki knew that she could rely on him, so she had no doubt that she would ever injure herself or actually fall.
By the time they reached Yuuki and Yori's dorm door it was almost 5:45 am, Yuuki couldn't believe how time had flyed by and she thanks kaname for escorting her back to her dorm room. But just before she can enter her room, kaname asks Yuuki what she had been doing sitting alone by the lake at 5am.
Yuuki doesn't know what to say so she just decides to tell him that she was restless and wanted to go for a walk, she hated lying to Kaname, but it was for his own good, and a girl had to have her secrets, even if Yuuki did have many more than any other girl.
As she explained to Kaname why she had been up and about he seemed to believe her and she convinced herself that it wasn't really lying, more like stretching the truth, since she really had been restless and had only gone for a walk.
Yuuki thanks Kaname again and tells him that she must be getting ready for classes now, she enters her dorm room to see Yori still asleep in bed, she closes the door and leans against it, she strains her hearing so that she can hear Kaname descend the stairs, and several minutes later she hears him leave the girls sun-dorms and make his way to the night class dorm building. She then let out a heavy sigh and wandered over to the calendar that was hanging up on the wall next to the bathroom door.
Yuuki looks at the calendar to check what date it is, its Monday the 2nd of December, it was getting close to the Christmas holidays when everybody would be going home, except her, since the academy is her home now, she was relieved that she would get a break from her prefect duties, but she would also miss Yori.
As Yuuki is scanning the beautifully decorated calendar made by Yori, she notices that in big bold pink letters it says Yuuki's Birthday. Oh no, not another birthday without my family Yuuki thinks to herself, "oh well, its only once a year, just three more days then I can get it out of the way for another year," Yuuki sighs to herself.
