Prologue

Yui's dream:

Yui opened her eyes to see standing herself in an open field where some kids were playing. She went near them and saw several male children were gathering around. In the center two little boys were fighting with wooden swords. She heard their conversation. The stronger looking boy won and others were cheering him. He then demanded a weaker looking boy to fight him which he refused. Then they heard something.

"Stop that, YOU IDIOTS!"

They all startled and looked towards where the thin high-pitched child voice came from. It was a very cute little girl.

Yui took a good look on her. Even though she was little, her golden eyes were shining with anger. She had long silver hair flowing with a headband.

"What's the problem with you! He said he won't fight means he won't fight."

"Yeah...because he's weak. He he..."

"Being strong doesn't make you mighty."

"Oh really? A girl like you won't understand the power of being strong. Let's go everyone. She's a nuisance."

They all left leaving the girl. Yui saw the tears flowing from the girl's eyes. She sobbed for a while but paused and thought of something. Then wiped the tears and said,

"Well, in that case...I'll become strong...and protect the weak..."

Yui opened her eyes. She has been having weird dreams for a while but all they were regarded to the vampires. This one is nothing like that. Yui sat up and thought. Who was that girl? She thought of asking Reiji or Ruki about it but sighed. Their answer will be as usual, "It's none of your business". She got up to get ready for school still thinking about the little girl.

Somewhere in another city:

Akatsuki was busy preparing dinner for his dear mistress. He placed mega size sushi, rice, pork chops and other foods on the table. Each food was contained by very big size bowl because there was a living thing in the house whose single meal was almost equal to a normal human's whole day meal. After decorating the table, Akatsuki went over to her room.

"Shizuma-sama, please wake up. It's almost time."

"Umm…ninja. Five minutes more."

"You've already said it several times, princess. You need to wake up this time or you'll get late."

"It's your fault for getting me sleeping at this time."

"It can't be helped. After all, you're going to a night school. So your habituation is necessary."

Unwillingly the golden pair of eyes opened. Soft pink lips flashed a warm smile inhaling the delicious scent of foods.

"That was a perfect wake up call, Akatsuki. I'll badly miss this."

At dinner table,

"Yum…yum….that was one hell of sushi! I don't wanna go, ninja!" She pouted.

"You only have to complete this properly, Shizuma-sama."

"Yeah yeah….that's the point..." Suddenly she stopped eating.

"What's wrong, princess?"

"Akatsuki, I've done a lot missions and blew out hundreds of demons. I don't know why I've this bad feeling in this case."

"A bad feeling?"

"Yeah, kind of strange. I feel really sorry for Komori Senpai. But there are some questions in my mind. How he did know that his daughter was taken by vampires. And why he didn't contact with us earlier. And about the vampires…do you really think that I can have that chick alive after these many days she went there….."

"And Mr. Komori said with confidence that his daughter was still alive…."

"Yeah….that's the weirdest fact. What the hell is going on exactly….."

"You're worried because you need to deal with vampires?"

"No…no. I'm not worried, I'm ANNOYED! For one, this mission will suck for sure. For two, the word vampire pisses me off." She scowled.

"I understand. Then what about me and yourself?"

"Akatsuki…" Shizuma said in a serious tone. "You know you care a lot for me and other humans. The memories I have of my father, he was also kind to the humans. He encouraged me to become a fighter to protect the humans. So, you and he are perfectly different. As for me, I have some superhuman strength but I like the way humans lead their life. I don't think the regular vampires have that kind of senses. Besides, a girl has been taken by a group of vampires. If I let them go, they will kill other people. So, I need to wipe them out of this world."

"I apologize for expressing myself like that. But sometimes things are not like as they show up."

"It's fine. I'll find it out. But I'm telling you, it will be a real surprise if the girl is alive."

"Then that surprise might lead you to another surprise…."

Shizuma stared her butler for a moment. "Sometimes you turn into a jerk, butler."

At the train station, Shizuma hugged Akatsuki.

"I'll miss you, ninja."

"Please get it done and come back as soon as possible. After this, we won't take any more mission regarding vampires."

"You don't have to." A third voice said.

They looked towards the man who said.

"Mr. Komori? What are you doing here?" Akatsuki asked annoyed.

"As a client, I came here to wish her luck."

"Thank you, Komori Senpai. But you better wish your own luck instead." Shizuma said not wanting to mock.

"Do your best. Finish all of them."

Shizuma stared him with a weird look. Then the siren of the upcoming train is heard. She got on the train and waved them goodbye. When the train started to move she smiled to Akatsuki and stared Seiji Komori while thinking,

"What's wrong with him? It seems now he is more into killing the vampires rather than rescuing his daughter. Did he finally realize that his daughter was already dead? Does he just want me to kill them for revenge? Then he should have come with me…Whoa! What's that…?"

Her eyes fell on someone who was standing behind Akatsuki and Seiji. The train sped up and crossed the platform before she could have a good look on him. The only thing she got that the man had long dark green hair.

When the train was out of sight, Akatsuki grabbed Seiji,

"What's it you're hiding, Komori? If you truly want to see your daughter alive or avenge her death, then you have to inform us everything."

"Akatsuki-san, you seem to care more about Shizuma-san than the mission."

"Of course I do. I didn't want to discourage Shizuma-sama that's why I didn't express myself. But I feel too that this mission is not safe for her."

"Look Akatsuki-san, you and Shizuma-san both care about humans, right? So, if you don't take such kind of mission, those monsters will increase themselves and will be threat to human existence. As a vampire hunter, I could do it by myself. But as Shizuma-san is a half-vampire and has gone through a lot of hard training which increased her abilities, she's more capable in this job."

"Yeah that's right but….hold on, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT ABOUT HER!?" The vampire ninja grabbed the shirt collar of the human.

"…..I told him." Another voice said.

Both of their eyes went wide with shock as they looked at the interrupter.

"It's been a long time, butler."

That night at Ryotei Academy:

The cafeteria was alive with the noises of the students. This is the only place where it actually feels like a school campus. Most of the time, Ryotei Gakuen Academy remains calm and quiet. And it is not because of the tight schedule of classes. Whoever joins this school, probably goes under some unknown aura which keeps them away from others, makes them lose their feelings and remain indifferent with any occurrence. Although the normal students and teachers have no idea about bloodsucking demons wandering among them in human forms, this campus is not like the other noisy high schools. Still, some extrovert students keep the school lively by typical gossiping and hanging around with friends, or processing stupid ideas like normal teens. Among those few students, Haruna Minamoto is the one who actually achieved 'Miss Idiot' title for setting up traps for History teacher, having funny make-up to impress the guy she has crush on, making other students screaming in the library and so on. Her pigtails in pink hair also gave the matching idiotic image even though she was pretty. The cafeteria was her favorite place to announce her own remarkable ideas to make another ruckus. Momoka Sachan and Xen Kekashi were the two patient fellows to digest all of her activities. But she was their dear friend because they were also sick of this awfully cold environment of their high school. As usual, they were talking and having snacks at the cafeteria. On the other side, some fangirls were crowding around the idol of the school.

"Your concert yesterday was awesome, Kou!"

"I loved every song!"

"Let's hang around sometime, Kou-kun!"

"Thank you girls, love you all!"

"Look over there…the usual show has started." The pigtailed girl snorted from the opposite side.

"Of course it has. If there's an idol, then there must be a show…." The blonde human guy mocked the other blonde.

"We shouldn't pay attention to them. He'll think that we're jealous." The words from redhead Momoka did not match with her baby face.

"Wow, Momoka's maturity is growing faster than her height."

"And Haruna's maturity is still on knees." The shorter girl shot back at the taller girl.

Somehow these three were also among those few students, who never liked or were never interested in most popular guys in the school, Sakamaki brothers and Mukami brothers, who were famous for their looks and status. But one thing about those vampires amuses the three humans. And it is when the members of two families meet each other. The reason of their confrontation is always same.

After a while, some other group of girls hollered, "Look! Who're coming!"

The three friends turned their heads only to see the Sakamaki brothers entering with the short blonde girl who was the object of hatred and jealousy of most girls. Ayato showed his might by knocking out two guys who were occupying the largest table. Reiji went to counter to order food. Shu sat down, closed his eyes and got back to his favorite and only work, sleeping. Laito started to flirt with the girls who were delighted to see them, Kanato became annoyed with the noise and started to complain his Teddy. Subaru only kept watching his Mukami rival with a pissed look. Yui was observing everyone in the cafeteria. It has been a while she came here. She noticed that two girls and a guy were the only people in the cafeteria room, who seemed to ignore them.

Kou's fangirls were still around him. Then one girl asked,

"Hey Kou-kun, what type of girl you like?"

A wicked smirk appeared on the idol's face, "Rather than telling, I better show you an example….." within a moment he came towards to the table where the Sakamakis sat. He grabbed Yui's hand to pull to stand her up and wrapped his arms around her shoulder and announced,

"This is my type of girl…."

Yui was too shocked to protest. It just happened before realizing. Ayato rushed to them to pull Yui to him.

"How dare you, bastard! Pancake belongs to Yours Truly."

Subaru also approached and grabbed Kou's collar. Kou began to protest,

"What's with this flare, Subaru-kun? I was just showing them what kind of girl I like."

"Shut up, fucktard! We all know WHAT EXACTLY you like about her!"

"Well…..you guys also adore her for the same reason, don't you? We just want some..."

"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?" Ayato also grabbed him.

Everyone heard their talking. Yui's surprise has now turned into fear. She weakly managed to say,

"Please stop….. I don't want you guys to fight."

"Now you're telling them to stop….where you're the reason of this." The fangirls took the chance to blame Yui.

"I don't understand what they see in this girl…."

"Don't they ever get tired of fighting over her…?"

"Ayato, Subaru…..release him right now. I don't want you two act uncivilized like him." Reiji came over finally.

"No way! He needs Yours Truly's mighty beat-up to learn some lesson." Ayato sneered.

The three friends who were ignoring the commotion at first, now paying their full attention. Because this is the way they usually get entertained by the popular vampire guys.

"Looks like the beginning of the second show…" Xen amusedly commented.

"It's a shame that our cafeteria doesn't have popcorns. I wish I had some right now." Haruna moved her chair around to face the fuss like a real audience.

"That poor girl…..I don't understand how all the girls get jealous." Momoka sighed with sympathy for Yui's pathetic situation.

Ayato was about to blow the idol face with his fist, then a hand grabbed Ayato's hand,

"There's no need to start a fight over a silly reason."

Kou broke free and stood behind the owner of that husky voice , "You're just in time, Ruki-kun." He was panting.

"But that doesn't mean that you have no fault."

"Sorry."

"Tell him to stay away from Pancake!" Ayato growled.

"Kou is a dick who likes to stir things up, but ya guys are idiots to fall on his trap." Yuma mocked munching sugar cube.

"Shut the hell up!" The redhead growled at this mock. Subaru sat down saying "Tch!"

"Looks like they've stopped." Xen whispered from the other side table.

"Aww man...the fun was just about to start. Screw that nerdy Mukami!" Haruna cursed Ruki for not being able to watch the upcoming fight show.

Momoka was blinking between the Mukamis other than Kou and the entry of the cafeteria. When did those three enter?

Yui heaved a sigh of relief. She was about to thank Ruki but Reiji spoke up,

"Looks like you're the only one who knows some manner. Why don't you teach some your brothers?"

"Excuse me, I think your younger brother was the one who started to fight in front of everyone. So, I doubt who needs to be the manner teacher..." Ruki shot back.

"I'm correcting my wrong commentary about you. Where the defect is in the eldest one, then how the younger ones can learn something." Reiji sighed.

"At least my brothers obey what I ask, unlike yours. I can't complain though. After all, the eldest is a sleeping beauty and dictionary is needed to understand the lectures of the second eldest son of Sakamaki family."

"...Ehh? Are they starting again?" Momoka raised an eyebrow.

"And now it's between the brains of those." Xen sounded a bit worried.

"Then it will be the third world war." Haruna was amused again but not like before because they always saw Ruki and Reiji to restrain their brothers from fighting.

"This is not expected from Reiji Sakamaki and Ruki Mukami." A new deep voice said which was loud enough to draw everyone's attention. He was the chief of the school committee as well as the doctor of the school, Reinhart.

"Whoa! It's Reinhart-sensei!" Everyone exclaimed to see one of their favorite teachers.

"Look, this isn't like what you see." Reiji tried for defense.

"It's fine. I always see you guys doing it. Now I just want to inform not only you but also every student that it's time to correct your behavior to hold the school's reputation." Reinhart said with smile to make it easy. "Besides, I came here to inform something for which everyone's friendly attitude is necessary."

Now everyone in the cafeteria actually paid some attention because Reinhart usually does not come by himself to talk. He started,

"You see, even though Ryotei Academy is the most elegant high school in this town and has every kind of facilities for a student, we don't have many students that we should have and many students are leaving before graduation. It's because the school time and most students prefer day school. All these I'm telling because what I want to inform is that we are having a new student tomorrow. So, it's necessary for all of you to be nice enough so that we won't lose her."

"What?! A new student in the middle of the year?"

"A transfer student!?"

It is a quite surprise for the students. Usually teens of that town never prefer Ryotei Academy for the timing and distance from the locality. So, transferring there is out of question. But Reinhart told something more which actually made their jaw dropped.

"Yes, and she's coming from the city of Kyoto."

All the other students gasped and looked each other. Reinhart continued,

"First transferred student in the history of our school who came from another city. So, you understand that no wrong impression should be created. She will stay at girls' dorm and join as a first year student. So, formal introduction will be held at first year class. I request you all to treat her nicely." With that, the committee chief left.

As soon as Reinhart got out, the reaction was like a sudden bomb blast.

"I still can't believe my ears what I heard..."

"Transferring here is crazy...and it's a girl!"

"Moreover she came from another city to join THIS SCHOOL."

"The girl sure has some guts."

The reason of their reaction is the school itself. Even though Reinhart pointed the night-time schooling as reason, there were other rumors outside.

After a while talking about it, most of the students evacuated the cafeteria. Eventually there were only 14 students remained. Haruna, Xen, Momoka, Yui, and the vampire guys.

"That old man held us just to inform this!" Ayato spoke up first

"Fufu The girl sure is brave enough to join with us. I can't wait to see her..." Laito said in his perverted way playing with his fedora.

"This school and its people are annoying. They all should die. What say, Teddy?" Kanato holding his bear closely.

"Whoever it is, who cares?" Yuma said sitting a second table. The other Mukamis have also joined him.

"This...sounds...interesting." The youngest Mukami finally talked.

"Ever since I joined this school, everything got weird and strange. Now this one." Xen sighed at the furthest table. Remembering how his father got him admitted forcefully to this school.

"Haruna and I'll find out tonight about her."

"Give me a call then, okay?"

"Why? You wanna talk to her?"

"No...no just curious about what kind of girl she is."

"Unbelievable Xen! You never dated any girl here to keep your so called 'manly' image and now you're curious about someone who you haven't met yet." Momoka tried to tell on him.

"Ugh...don't sweat it, Momoka. It's just because all that hypes."

Haruna's reaction was not normal. She did not say a single word after Reinhart left.

"Haruna, what's wrong? You're awfully silent." Momoka asked noticing her.

"Kyoto..." Haruna paused with a dull face which is really unlike her. "Is that the city Sensei mentioned?"

"Yeah...why?"

"Me and my family came from that city last year."

"Oh...but what's with that face?"

"You don't know about the disasters in Kyoto? Lots of missing and not found yet, probably all dead. Many of my school-mates were gone among them. My parents shifted here for safety. So I couldn't even finish my middle school there. Ryotei was the only high school which accepted me without my middle school degrees so then I joined here. I wonder if that girl is coming for the same reason."

"Why didn't you share with us before?" Xen asked concerned.

"Because I wanted have full fun in my high school life and didn't want to remember bad things." Haruna sounded depressed.

The three friends were so into themselves that they forgot the remaining ten guys and the girl who were not talking any more. Momoka finally noticed this.

"Alright, cheer up Haruna. We're here with you now and we'll sure have fun."

"What about a movie after class?" Xen proposed.

"Sounds fun." Haruna smiled.

When the three friends left, a weird silence surrounded the room which made Yui to feel very uncomfortable. No one could say that sound pollution was being created a while ago. So, she broke the silence,

"Those three seem really close to each other, don't they? They must be very good friends."

The girl looked at both the families for some answer. But these vampires have nothing to say about human friendship. So, not a single reply came even though there were ten guys. She sighed with embarrassment.

"I feel we all should take caution."

Yui startled at the sudden response. even though it was not for her. And the source of the voice was more surprising.

"What do you mean, Shu?" Reiji asked his older brother who was actually awake for long.

"I had this same feeling before we had been attacked by the First Bloods."

"If that horde of wolves come again, they won't get away that easily..." Yuma clenched his fist.

"No...he's right probably." Reiji interrupted. "We have been gone through this before. We were lucky that took a minimum damage. So, we should be careful before something happens."

"But those assholes retreated, right? You guys think they might attack again? Then let them come and get their ass kicked." Ayato scowled.

"Maybe but now it's not them I'm talking about..." Shu replied.

"Ehh...? Then what did he mean by all of that?" Yui thought with a puzzle look.

"The new girl is coming from Kyoto city." Ruki answered reading Yui's expression. "And you all heard what they talked about missing and murders there."

"So, that city is filled with demons?" Subaru asked.

"...Not only demons." Shu said. "But also vampires."

At midnight:

Haruna and Momoka returned their dorm room after watching a movie with Xen. They were tired so they changed into their sleepwear and went to their own bed but began to gossip.

"That was a great movie. The action scenes were freaking awesome." Haruna said.

"Yeah…Xen sure knows to pick the right one."

"And thanks for cheering me up."

"Anytime."

Before closing her eyes, Momoka remembered something.

"Haruna…..you awake?"

"Yeah….what is it?"

"I think there's something we wanted to do."

Haruna thought a bit. "Shit! I almost forgot. Let's go to check now."

"Right now? I thought you're sleepy. Besides we can figure it out tomorrow. She'll be in our class."

"Nope…..we can't get at the class what we can get at the dorm." Haruna insisted.

"But she'll be sleeping at this time."

"I'll get her up by scaring her. Then give her a treat tomorrow as an apology."

"Idiot." Momoka sighed. But she was curious too.

They went to the room no. 133 which was set up for the new student. Surprisingly, the door was unlocked and they found no one there. No sign of any backpack. It was empty as before.

"What the hell…" Haruna was annoyed.

"Maybe they got her another room."

"Then let's go downstairs and find the room number…."

Suddenly Momoka's eyes went to the window to see something horrible. There was a figure.

"Who's there!"

"What's it, Momoka?"

"There…." She pointed. But there was nothing. "What the…! It was there just now!"

"What was there?"

"A man. I saw a man out there."

"What're you talking about? We're on fucking third floor!"

"Ehh..?"

"I think you're really tired. You go to sleep. I'll figure what's going on."

"No, I'm fine. Let's go."

They came to the ground floor for dorm teacher. But she was sleeping in her room. They went to the front desk.

"The registration book is here. Let's check it." Momoka found a file from drawer. There was the list of rooms with student names.

Room no. 130 - owned - Mihara Kasane - 2nd year

Room no. 131 - owned - Amane Gaku - 1st year

Room no. 132 - owned - Yumiko Hanzomi - 3rd year

Room no. 133 - ownership cancelled by ...

"Haruna, the seat has got cancelled tonight."

"Damn….I thought of fooling around her in dorm." Haruna scowled. "We wasted our sleep for that running away bitch..."

"It's our fault to get all hyper about her…"

"Whatever it is, I'll make her pay in the class. Anyway, what's the name?"

"It says…Shizuma Tsubaki."

Momoka looked up to see Haruna was not standing there. She had fallen down on the ground fainted.

Few hours ago:

Shizuma stood in front of the gate of Ryotei Girls' Dormitory. She noticed that the dorm and the other buildings was dimly glowing with mild lights. Then some bright flashes caught her attention which was coming from the opposite side. She turned her head around to see the Ryotei Gakuen Academy beaming brightly from a mile away and enlightening the entire open space around it. The school campus is really gorgeous and far greater than any modern school.

"Looks like a flower that gobbles bees up..." She investigated on the situation there before taking the mission. Still, she couldn't help but admire the view. But not for long as she sensed a presence behind her. She took out the revolver from her blazer to turn around but surprised to see the stranger.

"THE FUCK...NINJA! You scared me!"

"I apologize princess, for startling you."

"What's going on? Why are you here!?" Shizuma was confused to see her butler.

"Shizuma-sama sorry to tell but you're not staying here. I've arranged a home for us."

"WHAT!"

"I didn't express it earlier but I also had the same feeling about this mission. This is too dangerous for you."

"Dangerous?" Shizuma chuckled, "To me the word means fun."

"As I thought, I can't restrain you from it, that's why I ain't going to leave you alone."

"Fine by me. I was looking forward to having a dorm life with other girls, but your mega-sushi can make it up."

Akatsuki took his mistress to their new home. The typical Japanese house was at a residential area in the town center and a bit far from her school. But Shizuma was happy.

"Now it looks like a home, I was getting sick of living in that rat hole." Referring the apartment they had in Kyoto.

"I'm glad that you liked it."

"But how could you manage all by this time?"

"Well you know that we got a supervisor on us."

"Yeah yeah that Snowman...let's go inside, I'm so tired...but before that I'm hungry" The silver haired hybrid-vampire giggled and entered the house. Akatsuki stood for a while and thought,

Please forgive me for my insensibility, Shizuma-sama. I should've known earlier about the vampires you're gonna face. But don't worry, me and Socrates-senpai won't let anything happen to you. And this is the real opportunity for proving yourself. You've to do it not only for a client but also for mankind and, yourself! But as I said you,

Things are not always like as they show up."

"Richter-san, I think we made a mistake to hire them for this job. I don't think she can make it." Seiji was worried now.

"She'll definitely do it, the process might be slow but it will happen."

"She only seemed to care when I talked about saving my daughter. And she's not that money seeker either... Above all, she's a vampire herself even though not fully. She might bring Yui back but I doubt if she'd get rid off the vampires."

"That's where you're mistaken Seiji-san...actually it's all the opposite of what you think." Richter corrected him.

"Shizuma will do this not for anyone else but for herself."