(Sorry for ending chapter one so soon, I really wanted to get it posted to see if people would read it or not. Chapter 2 starts where chapter 1 ended. Again I don't own the Vampire Knight characters!)
"Sure, come in, make yourself at home." she said sarcastically waving her arms towards me.
I just smiled and rolled my eyes; which was a mistake because now she was leaning over me with a hand on each arm of the chair; her face inches from mine.
"Wait…. was that I smile? Wow, I made Zero Kiryu smile!" She joked "Let me get a camera."
"Shut up." I said jokingly while grabbing her arms and pushing her towards her bed.
We both lost our balance and I ended up lying on top of her on her bed. We both began to laugh hysterically and I was about to stand up when I got a whiff of her blood; it smelt amazing even more so than Yuki when she was human. My vampire instincts took over and the next thing I knew I was holding her down and licking her neck.
I could hear her screaming for me to stop but I ignored her and just when I was about to bite into the pretty white flesh of hers; she threw me across the room( I forgot how strong female vampire hunters are) The minute I hit the wall I was back to myself again. I jumped to my feet mumbled a sorry and ran for the door, but she caught my arm just as I swing the door open and said "Zero! Wait!"
I couldn't turn to face her I was too ashamed of what I had almost done. She place something in my hand and said "Here take these, you'll feel better afterwards."
She let go of my arm and I mumbled a sorry one more time before heading back to my room. Once there I looked down at my hand to see that she had given me a package of new blood tablets; I downed about half of them then I laid on my bed for the rest of the afternoon.
When the time came for me to head to the moon dorm, I didn't even bother to stop at Ayame's room; I was still too embarrassed to face her. But she was already waiting for me at the moon dorm entrance. She was wearing her school uniform but she had it unbuttoned to the point that I could see her cleavage and she was wearing her own black stiletto boots; which made her look so hot my heart skipped a beat. She had rounded up the day class students and was lecturing them on the school rules, when I walked up.
"Gees she's scarier than Kiryu." one girl said
"Is that so?" I said to her as I gave her one of my Zero stares.
She cowered behind her friends and shook her head no; which made me smile a little.
"Okay! All day class students it's past curfew so head back to your dorms now!" said Ayame
When all of the students ignored her and continued talking she climbed up on top of the wall and screamed "I said NOW!" All of the day class students took off running towards the dorm rooms after that. She stood there triumphant as the last of the girls stormed off towards the sun dorm.
Shortly after the day students left the night class headed out we stood back and watched as they passed and I explained to Ayame who each vampire was. The minute that Senri Shiki came through the gate Ayame froze; she had her hands balled up into tiny little fists and she was clenching her teeth. She just stood there and stared at him; Senri noticed her and stopped dead in his tracks and stared back at her with a look of horror on his face, the two continued to stare at each other until Rima nudged Senri and said "Let's go Shiki."
He turned to Rima, smiled and said "Right um let's get going."
Ayame watched them leave before turning towards the chairman's quarters and storming off. I caught her half way and said "What was that all about?"
"It's nothing!" she screamed as she ripped her arm out of my hand.
"Ayame? Tell me what's going on!"
"Just leave me alone Zero!" she said before running off.
After I finished patrolling the campus and the night class had returned to their dorms; I headed over to Ayame's room I knocked several times, but she never answered the door; it was unlocked so I went in anyways.
I found her sitting on her floor of her room, staring at a picture. I could tell that she had been crying for hours; she didn't look up at me as I walked in and knelt down in front of her.
"Hey." I said to her
"Hi." she replied still staring at the picture
"Are you alright?"
"I'll be fine."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Tears began to fall down her face as she shook her head no, which made me feel useless, I hated to see girls cry; well unless I made them cry that is; I sighed and said "A Pure blood vampire named Shizuka Hio attacked and killed my family five years ago."
She looked up at me confused so I said "That's how I became a vampire."
"Oh Zero." she said while hugging me
"My parent's killed her lover who was on the execution list, she wanted revenge and attacked me and my parents, and she bit me before killing my parents then left me lying in a sea of their blood. I slowly became a vampire and I had almost fallen to level E." I said still hugging her. I continued to tell her everything that happened since I was bitten; and I do mean everything right up until the day I saved her from the vampires.
Ayame stood up and walked over to her desk she picked up a picture frame and handed it to me. I looked at the picture and seen a younger Ayame and Toga along with a beautiful dark haired woman; who looked even more like Yuki than Ayame. I looked at the photo for several minutes before realizing the woman had the same color eyes and hair as Kaname.
"How strange?" I thought
"That's my mom! Before I was born she was kidnaped by a monster; he tortured and raped her for sixty days before the vampire hunter association finally found her. She found out she was pregnant a few weeks later; but when I was born I looked so much like my dad that everyone assumed she must have been pregnant before he kidnaped her. For years my mom would wake up screaming she'd have nightmares about the man that took her, she began to become paranoid and wouldn't leave the house without my father; eventually my dad couldn't take her behaviour anymore, so he moved out and became a vampire hunter teacher, he sent my mother to a hospital and sent me off to live with his parents, who taught me to be a vampire hunter."
"So where is your mom now?"
"She was murdered last year by the monster that kidnaped her seventeen years ago, I tried to save her but he was faster and stronger than me, I had to watch as he tortured and killed her, that's how I got that scar! I was trying to protect her from him."
The two of us sat up the rest of the night talking. I was just about to kiss her; for some reason I really wanted to kiss her, but Chairman Cross knocked on her door. I jumped up off her bed and climbed out the window. It was a good thing that I was a vampire because it was a long way down to the ground.
When I landed I was met by the one person I didn't want to see. Yuki stood directly in front of me with her arms crossed. Looking more jealous then I'd ever seen her look before.
"Look at you sneaking out of a girl's room." she said clearly jealous.
"What do you want Kuran?" I could see the hurt in her eyes when I called her by her last name; she knew that's what I called Kaname and I called him that because I hated him.
"I wanted to know what's going on between that new girl and Senri Shiki, I want the peace kept here and if she's going to be a problem then she's gotta go."
"Ha fat chance of that happening she's here under strict hunter orders, she didn't have a choice. Besides I don't think she'll be any trouble unless one of you does something to cause it."
"Okay, but hunter or not I'll be keeping an eye on her." She said before turning around and heading back to the moon dorm. I was really starting to hate that pureblood princess; I wanted the old Yuki back.
I headed back to my room just before sunrise to get some rest; I didn't need as much sleep now as I had when I was human; so a few short hours would suffice. Before I climbed into my bed I downed the other half of the blood tables Ayame had given me. Soon I found myself dreaming; I had a dream almost every night; most nights they were closer to nightmares than dreams, but tonight I dreamt that I was dancing with Ayame on top of a giant pile of vampire ashes. She was smiling and I was laughing, I seen Yuki out of the corner of my eye. She was at a pile of ash crying, and it took me a few minutes to figure out that they were the remains of Kaname Kuran.
I turned back to Ayame who handed me my bloody rose and said "Look Zero, the last of the purebloods."
I aimed my gun and pulled the trigger, and that's when I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock going off. I headed over to the chairman's bathroom. But when I opened the door the shower was going; I was about to turn to leave when Ayame shouted "Oh hey Zero, I'll be out in a sec okay!"
"Ah sure, I'll just wait outside!" I shouted back
"Wait zero." she said sticking her head out of the shower door. "Can you hand me that towel?"
"Sure." I replied while handing it to her. I then turned and walked out of the bathroom. A few minutes later she came out wearing her school uniform. She still had the top unbuttoned and she had tied her ribbon into a tie instead of the regulatory bow that the female students were supposed to wear. I guessed that this must have been her compromise for wearing the uniform.
"See ya in class." she said before heading down the hall. I watched her go before hopping into the shower myself. That's when it hit me, my thirst for blood, it was her smell it was filling the room and causing the monster in me to go wild, and it nearly knocked me to the floor. I crawled out of the shower and over to my jacket only to find out that I had left my blood tablets in my room. I was just about to freak out when the door opened and Ayame walked in.
"Zero, I forgot my…" she said "ZERO, Are you okay?"
"Tablets… need tablets." was all I managed to say while grabbing a towel and covering my naked self. She dug through her pocket and for a second I thought she was going to pull some out of it. But she had a jackknife instead. She flipped the blade open and made a small cut on her wrist; she then held it out to me. I watched as the blood pooled then ran down the side of her wrist.
I somehow managed to shake my head no and push her arm away for me while saying "NO….."
"Zero, just do it! We don't have time to get the tablets." she replied while shoving her wrist in my face again. This time I couldn't resist the smell of her blood and I grabbed her wrist and began sucking her blood from the wound. It was amazing the hot liquid filling my mouth and then sliding down my throat; and the taste was like no other blood I've ever tasted, it was sweeter, hotter if you will; it's hard to explain but even Yuki's human blood wasn't this lovely. After a few minutes I let go of her wrist and sat back against the wall, while she bandaged her wrist.
"I'm such a monster!" I said to myself
"Crap I said that out loud!" I thought
"No you're not Zero." she replied "At least I don't think you are, and trust me I've seen a real monster."
"Hurry up and get ready or you'll be late for school." She said while walking to the door. I looked up at her and she smiled down at me before grabbing a necklace off the sink and leaving the room.
I managed to make it to class just in time for the bell to ring. All the day class students were crowded around Ayame's seat asking her question after question. She looked up at me as if she was screaming for help. I walked over and sat down next to her and gave the students my normal zero stare; which made all of the students back off.
"Thanks." she said
I turned to her and said "No, thank you."
"For what?" she replied
"For earlier." I said pointing to her wrist.
"Oh that, I was just helping a friend in need, I'd do it again in a heartbeat if it meant helping a friend." she replied smiling.
I smiled back and said "Seriously thanks."
"No problem."
The teacher began his lesson and I watched as Ayame wrote down all of her notes in a neat and orderly fashion. She also included a small drawing of the teacher and wrote notes on what he was wearing and why he shouldn't, which I found hilarious. I laughed for several minutes before realizing the teacher had approached my desk and said "Is something funny Mister Kiryu?"
"No sir." I replied; realizing the whole class was staring at me I sunk down in my seat.
"Good." he said before continuing on with his lesson.
At lunch I found Ayame napping in a tree outside in the courtyard. I climbed up next to her and said "Slacking off are we?" which startled her and she nearly fell out of the tree. She looked over at me when she regained her balance and slapped my arm. I laughed hard for the second time today which was something I don't remember doing in a long time. It felt good to laugh; to really laugh and not just sarcastically laugh.
"You're such a jerk Zero!" she screamed as she jumped from the tree; but I could tell she was smiling as she walked towards our next class.
The rest of the day seemed to run smoothly and soon we were back at the moon dorm gate shooing away the pesky day class students. Ayame froze as Senri passed and this time he didn't stop and stare back; this time he hung his head in shame, like he knew he'd done something wrong to her. Yuki was one of the last students to pass us and as she did she stopped and looked at Ayame.
"Can I help you with something miss Kuran?" she said rudely to Yuki.
"No I was just stopping to get a look at Zero's new partner." She replied
The two girls had a stare down before Hanabusa Aido whispered to Ichijo "She's got the same attitude towards our purebloods as Kiryu."
"Huh I was thinking that she reminds me of him as well." Ichijo whispered back before saying "Yuki we should be going."
The three of them then walked off towards class, leaving Ayame and I standing there alone. She turned to me and said "Okay what's next?"
"Next, we make sure no day class students are breaking curfew, then we go on a hunt, these orders came today, then we check that all day and night class students are in their dorms." I said handing her the papers that the chairman had left under my door last night.
"Well let's get going then." she replied while pulling a gun out of her jacket.
