Hola readers! :)

I am super duper sorry that I didn't have this chapter out earlier, goodness knows the amount of work I've had and how lifeless I've been just studying. I've finished my exams this week and was all "I NEED TO WRITE", so this is a product of one of those nights added with some other random moments where I had the time and ability to write (I also had writers block, hence another reason for this chapter's delay).

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VAMPIRE KNIGHT, AND I CANNOT AFFORD THE RIGHTS TO IT. This is me expressing my fandom for VK. Though I will say that I've used some lines/quotes from VK Volume 8 (?) chapters 36-38 (I think).

Chapter 2: The Intrusion

Five Years Later

The Kuran Family went through every precaution after that fateful dinner five years prior. With the promises that took place during Yuuki's "celebration", the other Purebloods stayed true to their word and Yuuki's existence was kept unnoticed by any other vampire that was not directly notified by her parents – and they had only told the other Purebloods. Haruka, Juuri and Kaname held their faces in the vampiric society and nobody had ever noticed the slight change in their demeanor towards the Vampire Council, except the Council itself.

During the course of these years, the Kuran clan had seemed to disappear from the Council's infinite traces. While Haruka, Juuri and Kaname were often seen at balls and at gatherings, their private life was exactly that, completely private. Servants were not kept in the house and could not be used as interrogation to find out what the Kurans were up to. At gatherings, the three seemed to be able to ask questions rather than answer them, and along with that, no other vampiric family seemed attached to them in any familiar way. Did the Kurans have no friends or allies? While Purebloods were known to keep to themselves, this clan had seemed to be able to bring their secrecy to a whole new level.

Rido was gone without a trace. After that significant night, none of the vampires had seen him, and he had gone into hiding. Haruka and Juuri had sent out spies to find at where he was but it was to no avail, it seemed as though he had been wiped off the Earth with only false trails leading them in circles. The Vampire Council's corruption brought assumptions that with their power he was being concealed, but Haruka would not speak out in case it was otherwise.

And so the Kurans did whatever they could to save their precious princess, Yuuki. She was young, only five years, and although she was unknown to the vampiric society and lived solely with her father, mother and brother, she always had a smile on her face. And the life of this loved one was worth keeping secret until the time came and all threats towards her had disappeared.


"Onii-sama! Onii-sama!" She cried, jumping up from the plush sofa and into the arms of her beloved brother. "Welcome home Kaname-oniisama!" and he brought her into his arms and enveloped her in his warm embrace, although the coldness from outside stuck to his jacket, Yuuki did not care.

"I'm back home. It's nice and warm in here." He spoke, and smile reserved only for Yuuki playing on his lips.

"Yes! Otou-sama made a fire! Okaa-sama is roasting some chestnuts!" She exclaimed, pointing to the flames of red and yellow that was contained in the fireplace. The scent of slowly roasting chestnuts wafted in the air, leaving the room with a warm wintery feel. Yuuki then slightly shivered in his hold. "Why is onii-sama so cold?"

"It was snowing outside. Snow is white and beautiful and cold. But Yuuki is like the sun, because you're warm, so I'm not cold anymore." He placed his coat to dry on the coat hanger and went back to Yuuki to hold her hand and walk her towards the couches which she had just been sitting on.

Juuri sat on a large velvety couch with carved intricate designs of flowers on the wooden arms. By her side lay an opened picture book which she had been reading with Yuuki. On that page, it depicted the sun and gave a brief description about the outside world, a world which Yuuki had never been able to glimpse at. Haruka sat in front of her, and thick plain covered novel went unnoticed in his hands as he watched the interaction with his children. Hand-in-hand and enjoying each other's warmth, they walked towards their parents and sat on a sofa in the middle of them. It had been a while since all of them were in a room together, with Haruka's business trips, Kaname meeting other vampires his age and the numerous balls all of them had to attend (all except for Yuuki of course).

"Thank you for letting me visit Ichijou-san." Kanama spoke politely, setting his eyes downcast as he looked at Juuri. Somehow, Yuuki had slipped out of his grasp and was pattering along the lush carpet towards her book beside her mother. After she had obtained her possession, she went back to Kaname snuggling close to him as she revealed its contents. Before she could indulge herself within the pages, Kaname whispered in her ear "I saw a rose that blooms once every ten years, and next time, I'm going to pick it, solidify it in resin and give it to you."

"Really Kaname? Is it really pretty? Look Kaname, it's a sun. A sun is warm?" she wondered. While the tone of her voice expressed a question, her upbringing and lack of selfishness would not voice out a sense of longing or want. She seemed content with what she already had, but her onii-sama could spot a difference.

Placing the book entirely in her hands, Kaname turned to Haruka and stared at him with a glint of annoyance, only someone who had been with him for a while would recognize the slight change in his character. "How long is it going to be like this? With all of us pretending she's not alive and not doing anything about Rido. He is still very much alive and he should not be."

"Kaname, you know that if we give a slight indication that Yuuki is alive, the Council will come after her. And although Purebloods can easily go against them, with Yuuki young as she is, they will brainwash her." Haruka's eyes turned cold as he began his next topic, "We are trying everything we can Kaname, Rido is untraceable. Nobody has seemed to find him, and even if they have, they wouldn't dare tell the people who oppose him like us."

Yuuki, was quite absorbed in the water colored images, did not seem notice the conversation about her that was taking place. Juuri, after a glance at her daughter, joined in on the conversation. "Kaname, it's not as if we can start a full on war with him without the Council opposing us. You've heard the rumors, they're using Rido as a pawn so that they can control over the vampire world and take our blood for their wants."

"When we find him, it'll all be over quickly." Haruka confirmed.

They sat in each other's comfort, sharing the same room doing their own tasks. After a while, Haruka had abandoned his novel to some paperwork that was neatly piled on the oak coffee table, which he had brought onto his lap as a gold plated fountain pen found its place in his grip and flew across the page. Juuri gone back to the promised chestnuts, turning them around every so often on the metal wok it had been placed on, delighting in the motherly instincts of cooking. Yuuki was pointing out pictures she thought were colorful and pretty, as Kaname began to explain each to the best of his abilities. They cuddled together and Kaname helped Yuuki as he blew to cool the chestnuts that Juuri had accomplished to make. The mouth-watering aroma of the chestnuts filled the acute noses of each Pureblood, and they all began sitting huddled around the coffee table on the floor, abandoning their previous work to the distraction of food.

"It'd nice and warm in here, with everybody here," Yuuki mumbled as she happily munched on a chestnut, "it's not like the dreams I've been having."

"What dreams have you been having Yuuki?" Kanama turned to her, a worried tone masked by his politeness.

She shuddered as she recalled her dream. "Lately, I've been dreaming about a man with two different colored eyes, one red and one blue. He's always here. And he's always staring at me onii-sama." Her innocent eyes looked up at him with a glimmer of hope. "But if onii-sama is here, everything will be okay, right?"

Wide eyed with horror of the recognition of the man with the multicolored eyes, Kaname brought Yuuki closer to him, resting his chin on the top of her head so that she wouldn't be able to see his expression, and wrapping her in his arms tightly. "I will always be with you Yuuki. I'll always protect you."


"… and after the prince kissed the princess, she woke up and they lived happily ever after. The end." Kaname read aloud the fairytale as he peered at Yuuki.

She lay on her bed gazing at her brother as he read the book which she had given to him as her bedtime story. Every day before she went to sleep, Kaname read her a story to make her fall asleep. His dreamy voice filled her ears with the tales of princess and princesses and the troubles they faced, but they always had a happy ending. She was wrapped around in her thick layers of blanket with her head resting on a feather stuffed pillow peering at his eyes. Kaname had intentionally made his voice dream-like, to ignite the sleep inside of Yuuki, but there she was, intently looking at him with no signs of sleep apparent.

"More Kaname onii-sama! More!" she squealed, kicking her feet up and down.

"But Yuuki, you have to go to sleep." He told her, coating his voice slightly with the deep authority he controlled over vampires. With her eagerness, she felt none of it.

"But Kaname onii-sama, I'm not sleepy -" a rebellious yawn escaped and she clamped her hands over her mouth. A tint of red appeared on her cheeks and she ducked her face under her blanket.

"Is my dear little Yuuki lying to me?" Kaname reached over and touched her lip "Your body is telling me that you're tired."

"If I sleep, you won't be protecting me from my dreams! You won't be there when I wake up." she whimpered, the covers muffling her voice.

Kaname brought her hidden face to look at him "I promise I'll be there when you wake up. I'll stay here until you fall asleep so that you won't have any bad dreams." He gently nudged her aside and she scooted over to accommodate his body on the bed with her. Placing a gently peck on her forehead, he whispered endearingly, "Good night Yuuki."

She rested her head on his shoulder. He watched her close her bright eyes and felt her edge closer to him. When her breathing became soft and slow, Kaname calmly encouraged her head onto her pillow and silently got out of bed without any creaking. With one last look at his sleeping princess, he shut the door.

"Is she still having nightmares? Did she make you stay with her again?" Haruka voice boomed from behind Kaname. He rested his shoulder on the wall, arms crossed and eyebrows furrowed. His attire was of elegance and class, he dressed as he was going to go out, though he untied bowtie hung around his neck.

Without turning around to face him, Kaname placed his head on the Yuuki's bedroom door. "She didn't force me, I wanted to stay. Yes, she's still having nightmares of Rido. He must be close by." Whipping he head around, he glared at Haruka. "Nothing will happen to Yuuki, do I make myself clear?"

With a tilt of his head, Haruka agreed, "Nothing will happen to her Kaname."

A panting from down the hall brought the men's attention towards a slightly out of breath Juuri. She wore an elegant floor-length black dress made of silk, with a train that followed her around. Around her shoulders lay a scarf of the same material, with the edges laced. Her hair was made up with a pearl comb keeping it in place, but allowed a few curls to escape and bounce around. She had no need of makeup, but her lips were slightly redder and her eyes traced with a hint of kohl. The clapping of her two inch heels stopped as she reached her husband and clicked her tongue.

"You're not ready yet?" she brought Haruka closer to her as she knotted his bowtie, a slight scowl on her face. When she had finished examining her husband's clothes, she turned to face Kaname and sighed. "What happened to your shirt? It's all wrinkled! And where's your blazer and tie Kaname?" She inspected him more clearly, "And what happened to your hair? Did you go to sleep?"

"Juuri, I was helping Yuuki go to sleep." His eyes showed no grimace as Juuri tugged his hair with a brush she produced from her jeweled clutch. "I'll go change my clothes and meet you up at the front of the entrance."

"Hurry, we don't want to be late to the Aidou's dinner party." She informed motherly, as she watched Kaname saunter off towards his room beside Yuuki's. She tsked at his slowness but decided against following him and making sure he changed into something proper; knowing that his upbringing would command him to wear what he knew was formal.

Haruka grinned childishly at her as he stuck his arm out for her to rest on. She happily obliged, nestling her arm in the crook of his. He led them up their winding marble stairs towards the seven foot wooden entrance where a chauffeur was obediently waiting on them. Moments later, Kaname appeared, refreshed and suitable for a dinner party. The driver opened the door of the Rolls Royce for the Kuran family, and they all elegantly climbed in.

As the car sped away, Kaname looked back towards his home and glared. He sensed something off, but pushed aside the idea. His Yuuki would be safe. No matter what happened.


"AHHHHHHHH!" Yuuki screamed, sitting up in her bed, hands automatically covering her face. Her body shivered at the remains of the lingering nightmares.

Her nightmare included two eyes, one blue, and one red, continuously staring at her, no matter where she looked. When she tried to call out for help, nobody was there to help her, even her dear onii-sama. When she tried to escape, the blue and red eyes engulfed her vision and somehow she was in binds and paralyzed. When she tried calling for Kaname again, an animalistic cackling was heard and as the sound drew nearer, Yuuki screamed to ward if off, eventually waking up to the noise of her own screams.

She drew the covers closer to her body, trying to hide her face from whatever evil was after her. Her young five year old body was tiny compared to the large expanse of her king sized four poster bed. Her vampiric eyes assessed that there was nothing in the room with her, no immediate danger. Her heart rate lowered and she breathed at a regular pace. Her ears picked up no sound and she was confused. Where was her family? Where did Kaname onii-sama go?

She silently got out of bed, her warm feet shocked by the cold floorboards. Looking back at the comfort of her bed, she shook her head and went outside her room, in search of her family. Heading towards the light of the hallway, she came out of the shadows of her room to hear silence. The buzzing noise of stillness annoyed her ear, and Yuuki began humming a lullaby which her mother sang to her, while moving to her brother's room, which was beside hers. After hesitantly turning the door knob, she huffed as she saw no being inside the room. Next stop included her parent's bedroom, a room which she had rarely visited and was ten times more cautious in entering, but she stamped her foot when nobody was in there too.

After checking the living rooms, basement, kitchen, dining room and every bathroom, Yuuki's young brain concluded that her family went out to one of those boring parties they talked about. She had always wanted to go, but somehow they left after she went to sleep and came back before she woke up. It was only an hour or so before the break of dawn which meant that Yuuki had very few precious minutes of freedom.

And that's how the adventurous side of Yuuki surfaced. With the knowledge of freedom.

She had never been on stairs, or had ever seen them in the first place. While exploring her parent's bedroom, she had found a passageway that led to a winding structure that reached past the ceiling she was normally at. It twisted and formed a sort of winding "S", with these slabs of floorboards that went higher and higher. Feeling the excitement and fear of doing something she wasn't supposed to, Yuuki took a timid step up, giggling all the while. Another step proceeded, and another one from the alternating foot. Step by step, she was at the top of the staircase, looking down at where she had just been before.

Without ever glancing back, she carried onward, to the unknown part of her house she had never been allowed to go to. Surely without her family here, nobody would know she went upstairs, right? She ran around, skipping and touching all the furniture. The upper part of her house seemed to have been carefully furnished, with vases and ornaments to show case the Kuran's wealth. Downstairs was cozy and warm, and upstairs was cold and uninviting. The lack of familiarity urged Yuuki to explore more and more, making her stop and stare at paintings of her ancestors, feel the coolness of the wooden doors, and run her fingers on a table to have no dust stick on it. She looked at every room and saw what it had to offer, although none of them seemed as inviting as the stairs she had gone on.

While remembering the time and feeling the pull of her comfy bed, she stopped her investigations to go to her real home underground. She peered at the mysterious upstairs one last time before heading back to the staircase, when she heard a noise.

It wasn't just any noise, it sounded as if somebody was singing her lullaby, and it sounded just like her mother, soft and sweet. Feeling guilty that she had been caught, she went to turn herself in, following the sweet melody coursing through the air.


"Thank you Kuran-sama for attending our humble soiree!" Aidou and his family bowed towards the "royalty".

Juuri, tilting her head, charmed the Aidous with her smile "Thank you for inviting us! It's good to have Kaname meet other vampires his age."

A regal smile came from Kaname. Hanabusa's arrogance and pride caused him to glower at the higher ranking vampire, which gave him a smack on the head.

"'Excuse my son, but please feel free to come by any time you want!" His mother said, drawing back her hand.

"Thank you for dinner. Now, if you will excuse us, the sun is beginning to rise and we should be on our way home." Haruka spoke, placing a hand on his wife and son's back and steering them elegantly towards their car. After being settled in and on the road back, Haruka said "Kaname, do you also feel the strangeness in the air, or is it just my young instincts acting on me?"

Kaname's eyes turned crimson, a shade his "parents" had only once saw before. "Something is wrong. Very wrong. I sense his presence in the air. We must get back home."

After quick commands to the chauffeur, the Kurans were speedily on their way home, the dread of his arrival in their hearts


The sound led Yuuki through a series of rooms and hallways that her first exploration had not encountered. She moved her feet unknowingly, her body encased with the sound of music. She even hummed to the familiar tune, lighting skipping towards her destination. At some point, she even closed her eyes, trusting her instincts to take her to where her mother was, that was until she bumped into a wall and her expression turned from bliss to annoyance.

It wasn't actually a wall that she had run into, but more of the arm to another staircase. While the other staircase she had walked upon was made of wood, this was made out of marble and its cool touch surprised Yuuki. It was so bright and shiny that she could see her reflection quiet clearly in the stone. She looked up to where the staircase led, but to no avail. This staircase seemed to go on forever and ever, but the mother was up there. She was positive about that. After calling out her mother's name, she began climbing the stairway, holding onto the marble for support. The stairs ended right in front of a room, with the doors closed, but the song was still as distant and clear as Yuuki had heard it several walls away.

"Okaa-sama?" Yuuki whispered, turning the doorknob with tentatively, going as slow as possible to avoid any creaks. "Okaa-sama, I'm sorry I went upstairs. I went really far upstairs. Is this what you call a tower Okaa-san?"

With the door fully open, her eyes focused on the being inside the room and her eyes widened. Inside, it was not her mother who was singing the lullaby, but rather a very pale lady with long flowing ivory hair which reached the floor. Her pale blue almost white kimono fanned out around her, causing her to almost look like an angel. She was sitting delicately on a stool, with her arms out on a contraption that Yuuki had never seen before. She was working with a sort of wheel and some thread, humming Yuuki's lullaby all the while. The twinkling of bells was heard as she slowly swayed her head to and fro to the song she sang. She seemed too focused on her work to notice Yuuki's entrance, and if she did, she did not acknowledge her. This was the first person out of her family that Yuuki had ever met.

"You're not Okaa-sama." Yuuki affirmed.

There was no response from the lady in white; she just continued doing her work.

Yuuki walked closer to the lady and the wooden machine, curiosity getting the better of her once more.

"What are you doing?" she asked, hoping this lady would answer her back.

The woman turned to face her, her lilac tinted eyes boring into Yuuki's and almost reaching into her soul. Her face was not cruel, nor was it kind, it seemed passive and almost depressed.

"I'm making some thread with this spinning wheel. Would you like to help me make some too?" A forced smile appeared on the woman's face, and Yuuki's young caring heart felt no other urge than to help her out.


Yeah. Cliffy. I know. After such a long update, I give you a cliffhanger. Anyways, I hope you've enjoyed reading it, and if you see any mistakes, you can point them out to me. I'd appreciate it if you reviewed, though I'm not forcing you to,and critisims are acceptable! THanks for reading! :)