Safe Haven

Ex vampire hunter Kaien Cross was at his humble abode, sitting in front the blazing fireplace keeping himself warm by drinking tea and reading a book. As he sipped his tea quietly, he heard knocking at his door when one of his pupils turn towards the corners of his hazel eyes before fully turning his head at the front door.

Unaware of him having guests at such a late hour, he stood up before placing his tea cup down on the saucer and walked towards the front door. While walking towards it, he heard more knocks as they were slow and weak until hearing a familiar woman's voice on the other side.

"Kaien…"

He heard his lover's voice on the other side as his hazel eyes widened through his eyeglasses.

"Tsubaki?" He said before opening the door to see her and Akihiko in her arms. She and the four year old pureblood looked worn out, malnourished and even broken sorrow in their matching emerald green eyes as Kaien noticed the blood stains, tears and rips on their clothing.

He quickly invited them in from the cold storm as he led them towards the couch.

"Tsubaki." He called out her name as the pureblood mother wasn't paying attention. She seemed distracted for some reason that she didn't want to look at the loving gaze of her lover. "Tsubaki, love, look at me." Kaien said, once more while on his knees looking up at Tsubaki's sadden green eyes. "Do you want me to take Akihiko-chan away from you?" He questioned.

Tsubaki's only response was a nod as she loosen her grip from the worn out four year old pureblood who tried to close his eyes. Once place in Kaien's arms, he somehow went to sleep as he can smell an alluring scent of heirloom pumpkin, melting caramel and spice. Akihiko's arms wrapped around Kaien's neck, smelling more of the delicious scent as he wanted to stick his fangs into his neck and taste his delectable blood.

But the four year old pureblood decided to be more careful and polite, since he should probably wait on his mother to arrive with her fresh blood after feeling better.

After covering the small child with warm blankets, Kaien return back to Tsubaki who was crawling weakly onto the white carpet as she was making her way towards the front door the house.

"Bloom… my baby… I must… go find her…" Tsubaki said tiredly, while crawling towards the door. Once her hand was on the door knob, Tsubaki felt Kaien's hand touched her cold fingers as he decided to lift her up in his arms, and taking her back towards the couch.

"No… Kaien… I must go back…" Tsubaki cried, trying to break free as she was weak in his warm arms, smelling his body scent of autumn spice.

"No, my love, you need to sit down for a minute." Kaien said, before he sat Tsubaki down on one couch, before sitting down next to her and pour her a cup of warm tea into a new cup.

Tsubaki's shaking hands reached out towards the warm cup as Kaien place into her cold palms slowly, before the pureblood mother drank it with her emerald green eyes.

"What happened, Tsubaki?" Kaien questioned, before noticing her stomach was flat in front of him.

'Did she had the little one already on the way here? But where is my child? Did he or she died?!' Kaien thought, before watching Tsubaki place her teacup down onto the other saucer as she had her hands in her lap, not looking up at his hazel brown eyes.

Now, Kaien was looking at emotionless lovers eyes as she started mumbling words under her breath that he couldn't hear. Vampires like her can hear, but him he couldn't detect what she was saying. Something has happened to her, and she didn't have the courage to tell his lover. He took a deep breath, before lifting up Tsubaki's chin as her emerald green eyes looked at his hazel ones.

"Tsubaki, listen to me…" Kaien said once more. "What happened? Did something happen? What happened to our little one?"

He removed his fingers from her chin as Tsubaki look at Kaien's hazel brown eyes through his concerned shaped eyeglasses.

"We… We were attacked." Tsubaki managed to say through her tears.

"I'm here, love." Kaien said, before pulling Tsubaki into his embrace as Tsubaki rested her head underneath her chin. "Take you time."

"But… There isn't much time, Kaien…" Tsubaki cried, as more tears ran down her emerald green eyes before closing them. "Rido came back… and he probably has Sora and our baby… my little girl…" She sobbed, having her face against his chest.

Kaien now knows that his lover's ex abusive husband and her eldest brother has probably taken his little girl to use her tainted blood for power or maybe as a slave to obey his every commanded, knowing that his baby was born as a Level B vampire.

He couldn't take this.

He known Tsubaki and her other siblings for a long time, but now he knows exactly what to do. Even though he was an ex vampire hunter at the moment, after Rido Kuran disappeared in the past, he wanted to fight back for revenge for his sobbing pureblood lover in his arms and for his special little daughter that he only known for a short while when Tsubaki was pregnant with her.

"I'm not letting him getting away with this, love…" Kaien whispered in Tsubaki's ear, before letting her go as the pureblood mother look up at him with watery red eyes. The ex vampire hunter stood up from the couch as he went into the dark hallway alone.

"Kaien?" Tsubaki called out softly as she used her pureblood vision to see him going into his bedroom that she shared with her in the past, before ending up pregnant.

The pureblood mother stood up from the couch slowly and walked towards the hallway and into the master bedroom to see Kaien putting on his black vampire hunter's coat and pulling out a long case which contains his vampire hunter sword.

"You stay here and watch over Akihiko-chan." Kaien said, before unlocking the case to reveal his vampire hunter weapon as Tsubaki taken a few steps back once noticing the shiny sword's metal that can easily hurt and kill her by slicing off her head or rammed through her heart. "I'll go out there in the snow, looking for him." He said, before having the sword in his right hand and pushing the sword case back into the closet.

Tsubaki places her hand against his chest to stop from moving as she looked up at his hazel brown eyes through his spectacles. "I can't let fight against him… He's too strong… I can't bare to lose you, Kaien." She said, before placing her hand against his right cheek.

"But he'd touch you… And he probably taken our child away from us… I won't stand it anymore…" Kaien said, before his grip around the sword tightened. "Please, Tsubaki, love… Please mo-"

Suddenly, Tsubaki's emerald green eyes widened as she turn her head and it was pointing towards the dark hallway of the ex-vampire hunter's house. The pureblood mother walked towards the dark hallway, leaving Kaien in the master bedroom confused for a few seconds as he decided to follow his lover who was in the living room area. She stood in front of the door as she was quiet and wide-eyed, before Kaien was next to her on his left hand side.

"Tsubaki, what's the matt-" Kaien started to say before Tsubaki index finger was placed against his lips to make him stop talking, and he and Tsubaki heard knocking at the door.

They were weak knocks, just like when Tsubaki show up with Akihiko in her arms waiting for Kaien to open the door.

"Cross-san… Tsubaki…"

Sora Sakurakoji's voice was heard on the other side the door as Tsubaki ran towards the door in a hurry and opened it. As she finally opened the front door, Sora Sakurakoji was on his knees. He looked weak and tired like Tsubaki and Akihiko, but there was something wrong with him. He couldn't look up at Tsubaki or either Kaien as they were both standing at the front door together looking at the head of the Sakurakoji family.

"Sora?" Tsubaki questioned, before standing on her knees as he noticed that a part of his face was broken and it was showing cracks on his pale and cold facial skin. "Oh no, Sora!" She cried.

He was experiencing death after the fight against Rido Kuran. He knew he couldn't stand up and fight against him even though he was the only person in the family besides his adopted mother Shizuka Hio or the Kuruizaki Hime who had the pureblood ability of his ancestor's blue flames.

"I… not going to… make it…" Sora managed to say, before Kaien and Tsubaki helped him into the house.

After closing the door behind them, Sora tried to walk on his feet, but his own two legs gave out as he yelped out in agony, until both Tsubaki and Kaien heard a small coo sound in front of them.

"Here… she's safe…" Sora said slowly, before revealing that he had Baby Bloom in his arms. She didn't have her pale blue blanket wrapped around her small baby body, just only a long sleeve white nightgown gown, an overnight swaddlers diaper and pale pink socks were covering the baby's body. "She… was hanging… from a tree branch away from Rido… when I found her… Her blanket is with Rido…" He manage to say, before coughing violently as a piece of his face fallen onto the carpet and turn into a glass shard.

"What are we going to do with our little one?" Tsubaki questioned, as Kaien taken in the baby into his arms for the first time. "With our baby being half human and half vampire, Rido's bound to come back since he now has Bloom's blanket."

"Protect… her…" Sora managed to say. "Train her vampire… abilities… before he returns." He slowly pulled out a small bottle necklace which has the essence of his deadly blue flames inside from inside of his black coat. "Inside of this… has a piece of me in the small bottle… give this to her… when she turn into… her… vampire side…"

Suddenly, Sora fallen onto knees as the more he started coughing up violently more blood was coming from out of his mouth while having his hand covering it. Baby Bloom started crying uncontrollably as she smelled it in the air when her mother Tsubaki held Sora up.

"She'll… be magnificent when she… grows…" Sora said quietly that only Tsubaki can hear over Bloom's wailing cries. "Don't… let… Rido or anyone… take her… away…" After saying that, Sora fallen backwards as he landed onto his back until his body started showing more cracks before his body decimated into glass shards and dust, leaving only his clothes onto the carpet floor.

"We'll never forget him, love." Kaien said, now having a quiet baby in his arms. "He save you and Akihiko-chan and even our little one."

"You're right." Tsubaki said, agreeing with her fiancée. "Our top priority is protecting the children from harm…" Then she stood up, and turn around to face Kaien and Baby Bloom. "Isn't our daughter beautiful?" She questioned.

"Sora was correct. She does looks magnificent." Kaien said, while looking down at wide-eyed baby. "Bloomie has my hair color, but what's with the pink streaks in her hair?" He questioned, while looking at them until Bloom grabbed onto his ponytail, making Kaien yelp in surprise of who did Blake managed to grab onto his ponytail. "Bloomie! Why would you hurt Papa?!" He whined as the baby giggled happily.

"You two are definitely going to get along." Tsubaki laughed.

"Of course, I love my little Bloomie already." Kaien said, before placing soft multiple kisses on her forehead as the baby was giggling more while holding onto his chin.

"Mommy?"

Then they heard Akihiko's voice as Kaien and Tsubaki turn around to look for him, since his voice was coming from the hallway. Somehow, they didn't see him, but Tsubaki felt her son's presence entering the living room area and they heard a small squeaky mew from below them.

Kaien and Tsubaki look to see a black cat with glowing red eyes before the eye turned back to emerald green while the cat look up at them.

"Aki- Akihiko?" Tsubaki questioned.

"Aww, a kitty cat!" Kaien squealed, holding Baby Bloom in his arms.

"I'm not a cat, Cross-san!" The cat retorted using Akihiko's voice. "It's me, Akihiko! Daddy put a spell on me!"

"Oh no." Tsubaki said, before picking up her cat like four year old son as she noticed him twitching his nose until he finally sneeze. Akihiko was transformed back as a vampire in his human form, but he was naked in front of everyone. Kaien yelped in surprise while covering his daughter's baby like eyes, as Tsubaki manage to get a hold on his son without making him fallen out of his mother's arms. "What are we going to do about this? First me, my son…" Tsubaki questioned, before looking back at Sora's remains. "Sora… and now my little girl. Our family is doom, Kaien." She said, holding onto her naked son, before Kaien managed to find a blanket and wrapped his stepson with it.

"No vampire or hunter is not going to separate us…" Kaien said while looking at Tsubaki's emerald green eyes. "That's why I'm building the academy where both humans and vampires can co-exist, love. And little Bloomie-chan and Akihiko-chan can both be an example for Cross Academy that we're going to run together."

"If you say so, Kaien…"


I feel bad after killing off Sora Sakurakoji. He played as Bloom's goddaughter in this story. But there will be more of seeing him in the past in future chapters in the story.

If you remember my first story The Sakurakoji Hime, Rido was the one who turned his son into a black cat so I decided to bring it back in this story, knowing that he'll be a cursed kid.

So what will happen in the next chapter now? Shall I continue more of the prologue chapters? Or shall we get started with the story sixteen years later? It's up to you my readers!