Chapter 3

It wasn't long before the door opened, and Kaname stepped outside. Zero had slowly begun retaining his consciousness, and Kaname went to tell a worried Yuki. The scene he stepped in on was not what he expected.

. "Yuki!" He knelt down and shakes her gently, trying to wake her. "Yuki wake up!"

Hearing Kaname's plea, Zero and Kaien run out the door, but stopped in their tracks at what they heard next.

"Bad...vampires" Yuki murmurs in her catatonic state. "One way to..stop..." Her eyes slowly open, a rusty color glowing under her usually brown irises. "So cold..." She whispers. "Scared..." Her eyes flutter shut again, and suddenly Yuki jerks upward, eyes wide open, back to her normal brown. She was in cold sweats, terrified, and almost incoherent. She glances up, not even seeing Kaname. Her eyes catches Zero's and she launches herself at him. "Scared!" She cries into his shoulder.

Zero's eyes widen as she passes Kaname and throws herself into his chest. "Y..Yuki..." He swallows a bit shocked to see what just happened. Kaname growls in anger silently and clenches his fist.

"Yuki..A-Are you okay..?" Kaname asked, doing his best to keep his irritation in check..

Yuki just continued to cry. She murmured things that made no sense. Except...To Kaname they made perfect sense. And it worried him. Only he and Kaien Cross knew of who Yuki really was, and what truly happened that night 10 years ago. When his world, and her world were turned upside down. The end and the start of his life with her.

Zero just stayed there, he didn't know what to do. He never was good in theses situations, and never saw Yuki like this before. Yuki was crying, and not over something like Kaname or him...but about something else entirely.

Kaname stood suddenly, and stepped away from the three on the floor.

"Kaname?" The headmaster calls out after him. Yuki pulled herself away from Zero and glanced behind her. Kaname had, indeed, left. "Kaname..." Yuki whispered.

Kaname walks down the hall quietly as he held his anger in. It burnt like a lighted fire that was a never ending rage of hate. He was seething. He knew he shouldn't have treated Yuki that way, but to have him choose that...that thing over him was just unheard of. How was it that Zero was the one she felt the safest with, when Zero was the one tearing her throat open at any given opportunity? It unnerved him, and Kaname had to admit to himself, it was time.

Kaien watched Kaname leave, and with a sigh he stood up to follow. "I'll be right back!" He said and and he left, following the pure blood down the hall.

"Kaname! Wait!" the headmaster calls out. "Kaname, please listen. I know what your thinking..and I have a respect for that, but you know if you let out her true self Zero will have lost all respect for you and me and Yuki as well!" He says and Kaname sighs stopping.

"Headmaster Cross. It's time" He says simply.

"What about her? What about Zero?" Headmaster Cross argued. "What of what she wants? You know Zero will consider her a liar after that. He's finally starting to heal because of her. Would you really take that away from them?"

"Aren't you tired of hiding the truth from her Cross? You are her so called step father after all." He narrows his eye's. "Or are you just wanting to keep her protected by a white lie?

"That may be it, but I also believe that Yuki should have a say in all of this." The headmaster looked at Kaname seriously. "If you are determined that it is time to awaken her, then explain it first. Give her a chance to understand it all. Don't just throw it in her face. She's only 15."

Kaname sighs. "I guess you do have a point there...I'll tell here in front of you though, just in case she wants to, we will need to keep Zero away from her after...I don't want him to interfere. This is Yuki's choice, not Zero's." And with that Kaname turned to walk away. "Tonight, call Yuki into your office. I will tell her then." He says letting out a heavy sigh, The thought of Yuki choosing Zero over him...It sounded so stupid. No it sounded absurd! Yuki would never choose Zero over him, Because Zero was a vampire hunter and didn't understand the hell that she went through. 'Dammit...I can't lose her.." he thinks as he then vanishes around the corner, out of sight of the headmaster who was now just standing there, concern darkening his features.

Zero looked at the brunette girl that was sitting in his lap, her legs on either side of him. She was looking at the door with a longing look, her eye's glimmering form the tears. 'Of course..she want's to see Kaname. Why does this not shock me...' Zero thinks and looks away from her.

"Dammit just go..I know your wanting to go after him. so just do it." He sighs and stands up with her in his arms. He sets her down on her feet again. "You really are going to be going after him for the rest of your life.." He say's in his regular irritated voice. "You shouldn't cry either..it worries others." He wipes her tears away. "You should have seen the look on Kaname's face when he saw you passed out." He adds on and walks over to his bed and sits, burying his face in his hands."Well go after him. What the hell are you waiting for..I'm not going to waste you time for your 'Loving Vampire'.." He says looking the other way.

"Zero...I-I think Kaname knows something about my past." Yuki admitted. "Something that I've forgotten...or never knew." Yuki knew that she loved Kaname. She always had. But the thought of her being with him disturbed her. It was unsettling. She had adored him since she was 5, he had saved her life. But...The love she had for him wasn't anything like what she felt for Zero.

Yuki looked at Zero again. 'He'll never understand the difference,' she thought to herself. 'I barely understand the difference. But it is there...'

"Zero...Is it wrong of me...to want to know?" She whispered.

Zero's irritated look suddenly vanishes as he looks down. "No, not really. Your wondering about your past. That's something we all want to know at times if we forget or if it was erased from our memory. But if it turns out as something you wish you would forget...then its too late." He says remembering his past.

"Maybe so. But...would you rather regret knowing, or regret not taking that chance?" Yuki challenged. "I personally would rather knowing and not liking what I hear, than to not even take the chance to learn." And with that she left the room with the intention of finding Kaname. Instead, she ran into the Headmaster on his way back to Zero's room.

"Yuki, whats the rush?" He asks as he walks up with a rather unhappy look on his face. His head was racing with thoughts of his and Kaname's conversation.

"I need to find Kaname...He knows something..." Yuki trailed off seeing her father's face. "What's wrong?"

"Kaname can be such a hand full at times.." He lets with a sigh. "Oh and Kaname wants to talk to you tonight in my office. Zero can can not came with you, it's about...your past.." He says slowly.

"I knew it..." She whispered as response. "I have to go see him!" She made to follow but the headmaster stopped her.

"Not right now Yuki...Please...He's...Just please wait.." he says pleadingly with tear filled eyes. He knew everything..what happened, and how, but he didn't want to lose her just yet.

"You know too...Did you know this whole time?!" Yuki accused. The headmaster kept silent. "You did! You knew! And you never thought to tell me?! All this time, I've wanted to know, and you made me believe you had no idea! Did Kaname tell you? Or did you know before he even showed up?!"

"Yuki! Stop!" He says narrowing his eyes. "I didn't tell you to keep you safe from the saddened truth! Once you know about your past Kanames going to revive your past and who you used to be! I don't want to lose what we have now! And once you find out there is no going back to Zero!" He says as his voice breaks and he lowers his head. "you're not going to ever be the same and Zero will hate you, me and will want to kill Kaname even more..But I can't stop you I guess..To me you have always been my true daughter, one that I will always love with all of my heart...But...you will no longer even have interest in Zero, let alone your mortal friends after your true self is awakened..Yuki." He says and looks up. "I was protecting you for your own good..if you understood you would actually be thanking me.." He says in a stern voice. "And Kaname did inform me before you came..he had straight orders for me to never tell you until the time was right..I had no say..I'm just glad he has chosen to keep it hidden this long...10 full years he's waited...Oh god...Zero is going to be raising hell in no time..." he sighs and runs his fingers through his hair. "Later on..after you find out. Please don't tell Zero...He will be crushed if you do..." And with that the headmaster walks off. "I'm sorry Yuki..."

"Mortal?" Yuki asks quietly. "What does that even mean?"

"Scared," a child's voice spoke in her mind. "There's blood everywhere." Yuki held her hands over her ears, "No, stop!" she pleaded. "Please! Just leave me alone!"

"You know what you are." The menacing voice spoke in her head. "You've known you were different all along didn't you?"

"No I'm not!" Yuki cried. "I'm just Yuki Cross!"

"Are you? Really? Do you even remember your mother? Do you remember your father? Shouldn't you feel shame for not even remembering their names or faces?"

"No..." Yuki opened her eyes as she slipped down the wall to the floor. There was blood everywhere, including all over her hands. "No!" She cries, she curls into herself, hoping to get away from what she was seeing. There was no way it could have even been real.

A/N:

Blade Onee Chan and I have several chapters of this story written, however as this was originally an RP between Nee-chan and I, we are going through the editing process. The editing is quite slow going, I do admit as much, but I'm currently in college (hoping that maybe my editing and writing skills will improve) and I will work on editing any chance that I may have free time. It may take a little bit, but we will try the best we can. Once we have it edited to the last chapter currently written, we will pick up the RP again and convert it as we go. I promise you, it may take time, but Nee-chan and I will finish this fic.

~小百合