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Chapter 2

Sophie sat on top of the entrance way to the moon dorm with Yuki stood on it next to her, blowing her whistle and directing the busy bustle of girls attempting to batter down the door "Are they always this noisy first thing in the morning?" Sophie groaned agonisingly, watching the longing expressions on the girls below her "No actually, it is only because tomorrow is St. Xocolatl's day, they always get excited before the actual event"

"What the hell is St. Xocolatl's day?" Sophie replied turning her attention towards Yuki and frowning at the unfamiliar event "you don't get out much do you?" Yuki said sweetly and smiling at her. She wanted to be friends with the new girl. She could tell from the way she was that she didn't always get along with other people, and assuming from a lack of experience. Although she didn't know why, in fact, she knew very little about the rough girl and it frustrated her that Zero seemed to know more than she did. She wanted to try and connect with her never the less, much like she wished that of Zero.

Sophie's keen ears heard the bell ring from within school louder than everyone else and she jumped to her feet, still on top of the wall "Okay ladies, class is about to start and I suggest you head over to it now while I'm still too tired to be in a bad mood and start shouting" She said patronisingly, as she stood hands on hips above all the girls. Her messy red bangs half covered her eyes and she did look intimidating. "You can't tell us what to do new girl!" One girl shouted out in rebellion and others soon followed her "Yeah!" The riot continued and Sophie crossed her arms losing her temper.

"I have to offer my chocolates first!" A student said whilst on the shoulders of another girl, attempting to scale the wall. Yuki's golden whistle blew a second time and as it dropped to her chest, Sophie noticed the engravings on it said 'Yuki's whistle, keep your mitts off Zero!'

"You are breaking health and safety, please get down from there!" The girl on the ground began to stumble and the short girl on her shoulders began to fall back. Time practically slowed down for Sophie as her senses amplified because of the vampire blood with in her. It's not because she was completely cold hearted and wanted to see the poor girl hit the ground, it was if she moved now to catch her it would be pretty obvious she wasn't human moving at that speed. A familiar scent hit Sophie and she realised that Zero wasn't far.

The girl continued to fall, only to land in the silver haired vampire's arms and Sophie snorted to herself at what a show off he was being. The girl in Zero's arms blushed as he put her down and barked orders at the girls surrounding him "The night class never leaves the moon dorm during the day, if you have something to give them come back at twilight tomorrow. If you continue to make a fuss every year over this one event it may be cancelled! Now class has already started move it now!" His words only received him over fifty death stares from all around him. The girls took off talking about how mean he was.

"Geeze Kiryu, do you want these girls to hate you?" Sophie said in a mocking tone, trying to push some buttons. "Well I don't see them throwing roses at you either!" Sophie laughed through her nose at him then returned to watching the now disappointed students storm off, clutching their hand made chocolates tight.

Sophie's P.O.V

I'm not even considering going to class today. I know I am supposed to be here to learn to get along with humans better but why should I? I have been educated privately within the Hunters Association up until now and only have the utmost intention of becoming a hunter, so why should I waste my time with these stupid love sick girls?! On top of all that I am ridiculously tired, how am I supposed to keep guard at night and keep in class at day? Not happening.

I jumped off the wall and landed safely on my feet. I only wished I had my skinny jeans on so I could shove my hands in my pockets as a walked. "I hope you are going to class" Zero said to me with cold eyes I could feel digging into my spine like hard and icy daggers. I didn't turn back to look at him, only kept walking as a said back at him "As if you are going to go yourself" I waved my hand in the air to dismiss the situation and could still feel his gaze attempting to freeze my very heart and stop me in my tracks. "Actually Sophie, Zero usually only misses the later classes" Yuki said over to me and I shrugged "Well it's not like I am here for the education anyway..."

I could tell from the questioning voice Yuki used next that she didn't understand what I meant. "What do you mean? Then why are you here?" I stopped, thinking carefully about what I said next, and then turned back around to face them both "Because it was required of me."

Yuki had her head down on her desk in the last class of the day. She knew that the round tonight wouldn't be hard because the girls stay up and make more chocolates, not run around outside. She was thinking about creating some chocolates for Kaname but didn't think her cooking would suffice. She looked over to were Zero would be sat and thought about where Sophie would be and what she would have done all day.

Zero was skipping last class because of how tired he was and had wondered off to his favourite hiding spot. In the barn there was a horse that hated everyone that wasn't Zero and he felt comfort sleeping beside him on the hay. He was shocked when he arrived to see Sophie stood leaning against the horse's pen, gently stroking his head.

"What are you doing in here?! This is my spot get out!" The horse whinnied as if rebelling about his new friend being kicked out so easily and Sophie balled her fists.

"What the hell! I have been in here all day! Why should I move now just because you said so?!" She stomped her foot on the ground as a child would in a tantrum and Zero looked at her amused. "What have you done in here all day?" He was eagerly looking around to try and find something out of place or destroyed he could have a go at her about but found nothing. It wasn't until he noticed a little black book sticking out from under the hay that his lips began to curl into a smirk "What's this?" He said as he reached down for it "No! Kiryu get off it's mine!" She shouted as she lunged forward attempting to prevent him from reaching it.

He stepped aside quickly and she almost stumbled, but caught herself on one of the pens behind them. She went to lift her fist to swing it down hard on the lavender eyed boy stood before her, but he caught it before she had a chance and held it tight "You may have some abnormal strength, but you are still half human, meaning I am stronger than you"

He gripped her wrist tightly and she winced at the pressure. "K-Kiryu..." He release his grip and while she was surveying her arm, he reached for a second time to retrieve the book and flick through it.

It was nothing more than a sketch book that belonged to Sophie, the book it was filled with beautiful pencil sketches of flowers, animals and to Zero's surprise, hunter's weapons.

"Are these your drawings?" He asked sounding genuinely interested in them "Yes they are. Now just give me back my book and I will leave you be..." Zero paused for a brief moment before sitting down on the hay and continuing to browse her drawings. "There was something I was meaning to ask you actually...about your blood" She frowned at the word "What about it?"

"You say you are half vampire but I though the aristocrat vampires came from half vampires? Why are you not as strong as them or have any powers?" Sophie realised she wasn't getting out of this one easily "Well if you must know..." She took a seat in a second hay stack opposite him "the half vampires you are referring to are half human, half pure blood. I am half human, half vampire that was once human." She froze at her own words. She wasn't even half vampire, she was half level E. And she had never even realised it before now.

She looked up quickly to see if Zero had though the same thing and it was obvious from the look on his face that he had. He was frowning and looking right at her. She pulled herself up again quickly and was about to leave "I wasn't finished talking to you..." She stopped at the entrance to the barn and rested her hand on the door frame.

"What more do you want, Kiryu...?"

"Can you...drop to level E?" There was a long eerie silence that seemed to last forever before Sophie had the courage to reply "I...don't know..." Without another word she left the barn.

Sophie's P.O.V.

So many questions are running through my head right now... When I was being brought up, I was protected from discovering blood and my abnormality. The hunters wanted to see if I could live as a human, unaware that I was in fact, half vampire. When I think about it now... I realise I was nothing more than just an experiment. I was never told to call anyone mom or dad. I was never brought up amongst other kids either. I keep thinking in my head the only reason I was allowed to enter this school was just another experiment.

I was sat under one of the trees near the moon dorm's entrance, waiting for the love sick girls to return and cause a ruckus. The very thought of my earlier talk with Kiryu sent shivers down my spine. There was a lot that was never discussed within the hunters association where I grew up. There was still a lot I knew that if not discussed with me, was behind my back. I still remember the day I discovered I was different...

(Flash Back)

Sophie was seven years old and was being scolded by one of her tutors for asking if she could call him dad. It was all she ever wanted as a child. She was looked after by so many different hunters she had no one close "If you have people close you care about, you could lose them and it will hurt child. It is best to look out for yourself and yourself only, so don't go caring for anyone, ever" Was what he had told her. Of course as a child she was upset and angry so she had stormed out of the room.

She didn't understand her strength when she took her bedroom's door off of i's hinges and cut her knuckles from the splintered wood. "owwie..." She looked down at her knuckles and was fixed on the red liquid oozing from the small cuts. She didn't know that blood had a smell, and when she could smell the sweet scent of it she felt something strange inside her. Her mouth began to tingle and she felt her teeth move by themselves in her mouth.

She lifted her tong and licked the newly elongated fangs she had never felt before, still transfixed on the blood. She lifted her small hand to her face and slowly licked the blood from her knuckles as her tutor ran in. What he saw was a small child, with blood lusted eyes, licking her knuckles and retrieving the blood from them. "Sophie, no!" He had shouted and pulled her arm away from her mouth but it only made her angry. She pushed him hard and he flew across the room.

When her eyes returned back to their emerald green she saw him holding his arm on the floor. "S-Sensei?" She noticed her hand and flinched "Did I...No I..." Another one of her tutors had entered the room and placed a hand on her shoulder "Come with me young Sophie, we need to talk..."

(End of Flash Back)

That was the day I was told everything. The day I started to hate vampires, and myself. I had hurt my Sensei and tasted my own blood. I gripped myself tightly at the memory.

Yuki had been right, after the rush of girls at the gates the night was pretty quiet. Yuki had dragged Sophie over to the Headmaster's residence to help her attempt to make some chocolates "Yuki, I will not be participating in this ridiculous event. It's not like I have been here long enough to anyway so just make them yourself..."

She went to leave but Yuki stopped her "Please stay, I just wanted to get to know you a little more" after a moment Sophie turned back and sat up on the counter. "Okay, I will stay a little bit. But where is Kiryu, I don't fancy seeing him right now" She said in a huff. "Out with the headmaster." Sophie knew he was somewhere in the house because she could smell him but she didn't argue with her. "And anyway, I know you have only been here a few days and have only attended like... three classes... But I overheard some of the boys in the day class talking about you! Looks like you might end up with some chocolates after all!" Sophie crossed her arms "Do I have to accept them..."

Yuki looked over at her and raised her wooden spoon in the air "Well yeah! What will they think if you don't? You don't want to be seen like another Zero do you?" Sophie's eyes flickered up at her last comment "fiinnneee..." She moaned.

"I told you the other day I felt sorry for anyone who got the hots for you..." The girls looked up to see Zero stood in the door way. "Have you been listening to our conversation Zero!" Yuki shouted and pouted at him. He didn't reply, once again him and Sophie were having a silent staring contest. After a moment Zero flinched and ran up to the sink to grab a glass of water. Sophie was still watching him and had already figured out what was wrong with him. She couldn't help but feel slightly sorry for him. Not being able to down the blood pills he was obviously on must be hard, but she wouldn't know since she could live fine without them.

Sophie watched him bite his lip with a fang and cover his mouth as he licked the sliver of blood before it ran down his chin "Kiryu!" She got up and ordered Yuki to stay in the kitchen while she 'spoke' to him. He stormed ahead of her down the hall "Just leave me alone!" He stumbled and reached out for balance on the wall in front of him.

He slid to the floor and grabbed himself as he heard his heart thump "Ahhh!"

"Kiryu! Listen to me! You can't keep this up..."

"Then what do you suggest I do!? Let myself give into it?!" He barked back at her as the Headmaster came down the hall towards them with a glass of red coloured water. "Zero, this will make you feel better, please drink it..." Zero knew exactly what it was a knocked it from his hands "I see...nowadays, the attacks are occurring more frequently. If you keep refusing, it will become even more painful for you. You must now understand that that things cannot be as they were before..."

He turned to Sophie who was still stood in the hall way watching Zero on the floor "You understand too as well I presume Sophie, this means I will need your help more than anyone's to keep him sane."

"What! And how am I supposed to do that?! Look at him! He needs blood and he rejects the blood pills how am I supposed to fix that?!" the headmaster rested a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him with softer eyes. She had only wished she had someone she could have called her father as she grew up and here was Yuki's father treating her like his own daughter. She looked down at the floor back to Zero breathing heavily. "I will see what I can do..."

"I don't need your help!" She just scoffed at him and left. She was going to find a way to help. But only because the headmaster had asked her to do so.

The next day

Sophie had actually gone to class today but was sat doodling all over the blank sheet of paper in front of her. It was her last class and she was sat next to Yuki who seemed to also be doing some kind of stickman doodle of the night class. The bell went and Sophie lifted her arms and stretched up, knowing that it was about to be an extremely busy twilight tonight. She rubbed her fore head and stood up, only to be crowded by a group of day class student boys "Umm...Can I help you boys?" She asked as politely as she could pull off (witch still sounded kind of rude...) "We just wanted to give you some chocolates Hatori..." One of them said "Well that's sweet, but why? There are plenty of other girls around school..."

"Yeah but, they all obsess over the night class students... Even Yuki does, but you don't and we admire you because of it" One of the more smooth talking boys spoke next "And you look good enough o be a night class student but you stick up for us more than them and we really appreciate it so will you please accept our chocolates?"

Sophie's P.O.V

If these guys are serious then then clearly don't like me for my kindness... I guess being a tough and scary chick can get you places, better accept them I guess, don't particularly want to be compared with Zero again..."Okay whatever, but I have work to do so be quick about it"

When Sophie arrived at the moon dorms gate she was carrying a small hand full of chocolates "Well look at that, seems little miss scary got some chocolates after all..."

"Shut up Kiryu!" She shouted as she put them in her jacket pockets "Hey Yuki, what's with the layout?" There were small metal gates lining the entrance way and surprising the girls had lined up in the respected gate quietly so they could offer the night class there chocolates. Sophie sighed "Let's just get this over with..."

Sophie didn't like the transfers, it was when she was closest to the vampires and it made her uneasy and the hatred inside her boiled up. She hated it more than ever today as she watched the monsters receive mountains of chocolates and get worshiped like idols. She would be happy when it was over...

Sophie noticed as Zero clutched his chest and leave quietly.

Zero's P.O.V

Argg...My heart is thumping again...I can't take this I need to get away from everyone... I walked through the trees to arrive at the barn I visited so often for some quiet.

Once I reached it a leaned against it to try and calm my racing heart down. The pain from my chest is like a tightening belt around it. It's so painful I don't know how long I can take this... I heard a shuffling and looked to the side of me "I know your hiding, come out." The same girl I had caught yesterday came out from the side of a tree, holding a box of chocolates tight in her hands "umm...Thank you for rescuing me yesterday Kiryu I...wanted to give you some chocolates to say thank you..."

I felt a thump in my chest again and I wanted the girl to leave. I didn't want to hurt her... I was about to shout at her when a second voiced drifted from the same side. "Don't worry about him, he is just not feeling well. I will make sure to give them to him if you would like, I wouldn't want him to shout at you for no reason..." I turned to see Sophie had followed me and was talking to the girl. "You would do that? Thank you Hatori...and I hope you feel better soon Kiryu, thank you again..." The girl blushed as she skipped away happily and Sophie walked up to me. "Just leave me alone right now!" I shouted at her, slamming my fist down on the side of the barn.

"Oh wow yeah...that's a great idea." She said to me sarcastically and angering me even more "Sorry Kiryu but headmaster Cross told me to help you and I don't wanna come back here after and find a dead horse." She had a point; I did need help, soon. But I just didn't want it from her. "Have you had a blood tablet?" She asked me sounding genuinely concerned "No I...I hate them, they make me sick..."

"Yeah well you make me sick and I ain't complaining. So just take one..."

"Shut up and leave me alone!" I just wanted her to leave me. Why wouldn't this girl just piss off! I watched as she walked up to me. She reached her hand forward towards me and I jumped back, clutching my chest harder and the pain in the movement "Stay still! Where are your blood tablets!?"

"I won't take them!"

"Honesty Kiryu, you sound like a child! If you don't take them your lust could take over you and you could drop to level E! Just try please!" She was shouting at me now as I fell to the floor leaning against the barn wall. "Why haven't you got any on you?" I asked, now struggling to talk "I don't need them and I'm carful so the time will never arise when I will..."

"You can't know that!"

"No I don't! Now give me yours or I'm going in after them!" What the?! Is this girl genuinely worried about me? No, she must just take orders from the headmaster and he job seriously.

"I can't deal with you when you act like a child!" She said to me as she got up to leave. "Take them while I'm gone or I will come after you later." She said walking away from the barn. I just sat there a while longer breathing. Eventually I did take my pills; the pain had gotten so unbearable. I struggled to keep the tablet down, but had to try.

It was late in the evening and Kaname was in Headmaster crosse's office. "Headmaster Cross, how long do you intend to keep Zero Kiryu in the day class?"

"I couldn't hide it from you Kaname. You really are in a class of your own. Your blood line doesn't contain a single drop of Human blood. Your lineage is rare among vampires now..."

"Headmaster Cross please, stop avoiding the topic. I would also wish to talk to you about the girl Sophie Hatori. Do you also intend to keep her in the day class? I fear that she is still too unpredictable to be let out free as the Hunters Association have allowed it." Kaname stepped forward and placed his hands on the headmaster's desk.

"You have only taken slight measures and still treat both like ordinary students. Are you going to let them destroy your pacifist ideology?"

"Kiryu's parents were killed by a vampire and in the blood bath only he survived. How can I be so cruel to him? Sophie was brought up without love within the Hunters Association do you really think she will have been told to accept vampires? Or herself?"

Zero had been surrounded by members of the night class because their president was too busy to notice there little game. "What do you want night class?" He spat out while drawing his bloody rose. Sophie had smelt the vampires leave class and was following them, when she realised what they were up to she jumped up into a tree and lunged from it to land beside Zero "Honesty can I leave you be for five minutes Kiryu! And what the hell do you lot think you are doing out of class!" Sophie shouted at everyone. "Well looks like we got lucky, we can take care of both worms at once..." The vampire Ruka said smiling demonically at them "How strange, I never even sensed her coming..." Another one added.

"Why does Kaname-Sama show consideration to you two filthy humans? I won't allow it, especially with the way you talk to him!" The girl Ruka was obviously very jealous of Kaname's attention. Akatuski was very weary of the situation and didn't want it to happen and so spoke out "Guys we shouldn't do this, if president Kuran finds out..."

He put his arm on Zero's to ask him to put his gun away and Zero lifted him up and slammed him to the ground. "I think we can take 'em on Hatori, what do you say?"

Zero said to her putting his gun away and cracking him knuckles. Sophie smirked up at him at the idea, she didn't like Zero, but she didn't like these vampires more.

"Brave pair aren't we..." Hanabusa said as he froze the ground beneath his feet. "Come and get it vampires..." Sophie said; ready to speedily dodge any attack that came her way. "Hold it right there!" a voice came from the side and every one saw Yuki join the group "Fighting is prohibited!" Everyone looked at her and was clearly bummed out by her. "I don't feel like it anymore..." Ruka said walking off as the others followed "Yeah, I've had enough..."

"And you two what do you think you were doing!?" Sophie began to walk off again "Nothing much..."

"And Zero...You have been acting really strangely lately..." Zero left not wanting to hear about it "just leave me alone." Sophie was a little upset, she wouldn't have minded a scrap with the vampires. The more she thought about it though the more it sounded like a bad idea. They would have realised she wasn't human straight away of course.

Yuki's P.O.V

I don't want him to be like this with me. With is heart closed to me always. I have to find him. I took off running up the steps to the school building he had just entered. I have always been by his side so why doesn't he trust me?! Sophie is just the same, closed about everything, but Zero should trust me! I need to find him and talk to him!

"Zero!" I shouted when I saw him leaning against a post on the stairs "I told you to leave me alone..." He said to me as if he was struggling to breathe "Zero... why don't you talk to me? I want you to open to me!" I got closer to him to try and get him to open up. "Yuki..." I flinched slightly as he pulled me into him. A hug? No.

I felt is warm breathe on my neck as he moved in closer to it. He began to move his tong over my neck and I was scared "Z-Zero What are you?!" My question was answered when he bit down hard on my neck *gulk* *gulk* I could hear the sound of him swallowing my blood as it flowed into his mouth "Z-Zero! No!" He gripped me tighter and I couldn't get away. I'm so scared...

From nowhere a set of arms ripped me from him and I was thrown to the side. There was a smashing sound and I opened my eyes quickly. I saw Sophie holding zero by the shoulders in one hand and had her dagger in the other, she had slammed him up against the window and it had shattered with the force. I was looking at Zero's face.

Eyes with a blood coloured luster...fangs protruding obscenely from his lips. A beast in human form. This was his true self.

"I told you Kiryu if you messed up I would kill you!" Sophie shouted at him into his face trying to wake him back into reality. When he came to, he had heard her say it and was looking at her face "I also told you the same Hatori..." Within a second his gun was pointed at her chest. It took Sophie a moment to realise why. She was in such a rush to pull Zero off of Yuki that she had forgotten about the blood. She sniffed in and instantly let go of him, dropping her dagger and falling to her knees as she covered her mouth and nose with both hands. Zero looked over to Yuki, now with a more traumatised expression on his face, remembering what he had done "Y-Yuki I...!"

She was backing up the stairs slowing watching him and Sophie at the bottom of them. Sophie was trembling and holding her mouth and nose so tightly she must not have even been able to breath. She didn't want to smell the blood. It took her a moment to realise she had cut her knees on the glass on the floor as well and was watching the blood from them drip out onto the shards of translucent glass. She had to breathe though and so let go and tried to stand up. She rested a hand on the wall and leaned against it.

Luckily, Yuki didn't realise what was going on.

Kanama had left the Headmasters office at the smell of blood and was now standing between Yuki and the pair at the bottom of the stairs. "You have been reduced to a blood firstly beast, Zero Kiryu..." Yuki was worried that he was going to kill zero and jumped in front of him "No wait don't...!" She had lost so much blood that she fainted and fell into Kanamas arms. "You devoured her so mercilessly, she can't even stand up...was her blood so delicious?" Zero covered his face with his hand. What had he done?

Kaname then turned to Sophie who was stood wobbling against the wall, still covering her nose with her eyes shut tightly. "I understand the hunters told you to fight it...but it will only hurt you..." He said to her before leaving her and Zero on the stairs.

Sophie could feel her fangs trying to elongate but she wouldn't let them. It was hurting her so much keeping it back but she didn't want them to. Zero was still shocked about what he had just done he couldn't even think straight, he hadn't noticed Sophie still there hurting. "K-Kiryu I..." He snapped out of it and looked over at her.

"You told me you could handle more..." He said now in a low, menacingly cold voice, reaching again for his gun. "And you...You told me you..." She couldn't finish her sentence.

Never had she smelt so much blood. It was still all over Zero's face, on his clothes and hands, and on the floor. It lingered in the air and she couldn't escape it. It surrounded her and kept her in its sweet embrace as she tried to fight it. She fell onto a higher step and held herself tightly.

"You need blood" Kaname said from behind her from returning from taking Yuki to the headmaster. "No...No I don't...I just need to..." She tried to get up and leave but Zero stopped her by holding onto her shoulders. He looked up at Kaname "Blood or blood tablets?" Kaname came to the side of them and looked at her gipping her mouth and whining. After a moments observation Kaname concluded that she was in too bad a state to rely on the blood pills. "She will need blood. She could be a danger if left like this. "I'm not a danger!" She struggled to shout "I don't need it! I don't...!"

"Listen to me very carefully Hatori, I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this as it is my job as a member of the disciplinary committee to keep our students safe. If I had it my way I would just kill you now on the spot but I don't need the Hunters Association up my ass." He pulled Sophie in as if hugging her and she ended up with her face on his neck "N-No Kiryu don't please!" She tried to pull away, she could hear his heart pumping blood through the vessels in his neck. "Do this for her and I will forgive what you have just done to Yuki..." Kaname said about to leave "I don't need your forgiveness! Only Yuki's!"

Sophie didn't know how long she could control herself so close to his neck. She could smell the blood on him and she clutched his shirt tight "Z-Zero...I can't...I won't I..."

"Well you're not going anywhere until you do...I'm not letting a second blood thirsty monster roam about..." He said slightly sympathetically. He knew how she felt at that moment and he knew himself that when you feel like that, especially when you hate it, you just want it over and gone. "I am not...a vampire..."

"You're not human either..." He said putting a hand on her back so she couldn't attempt to get away from him.

She was breathing heavily now. She didn't know what to do. There wasn't much she could do. She lowered her head more closely to his neck and could smell the blood on his shirt. It filled her lungs like smoke and made her close her eyes with want.

What could she do now?