Here is another ^_^ the story is beginning to take a turn MWAHAHAHHA! I'm so happy! Hahaha, thank you for reading this beginning part is a flashback BTW…onwards

My father kept me caged away ever since my mother disappeared. It used to be that I could walk out and play in the yard, but eventually that changed and I was told to be indoors at all times. That too changed. I'm locked in my room, windows barred and doors locked and bolted with the rarest medal that not even my own father can break through.

I sighed to myself as I watched the birds fly past. I was holding onto a small doll that Sarah (the maid) had given me a few months ago. Looking down at the doll I smiled the least bit, thinking about what she had said as she had handed to be along with a small comb:

"Dearest child," I could see the pity in her eyes as she looked down on me. "Your father doesn't hate you he just doesn't want anything to happen to the last treasure he has."

"But if he cares so much than why is he mean to me!?" I was frantic and terrified that my last hope of love had taken me away from the farthest place I could go, outside.

"Take this doll sweetness, but don't let anyone else see it." She looked around frantically, "even if they ask if you have a doll, say 'No' no matter what." And she was gone out the door once more.

With a sigh I tossed the blonde beauty back into its hole in the wall behind the pillows of my window-chair. My father was slinking down the hallway now, and I could hear him as I scurried back to my place on the bed. He never liked me on the window, and one day when he had found me there he had broken my four fingers on my right hand saying:

"You go near that window again and I'll break your body in two!" His eyes had the same mad furry in them as my mothers had during her last days.

My fingers healed in minutes of course, but still. It hurt just as much anyways.

The door clicked as my father's steps stopped.

"Mae." He glared down at me on my bed, knowing all too well what I had done. "What are you doing?"

"Just sitting, that's all."

I could hearhis breath stop. "WHAT?"

"Sorry, I forgot to say 'sir'."

He glared down at me and nodded once before taking a step into my domain and looking out the bared window. For that smallest second I saw the man that he once was, brave, strong, smart, and my father.

"Are you okay in here?" He was gazing down at my hands that were picking at the edge of my pillowcase.

What? I thought to myself over and over again. Is the a dream? But despite my disbelief I shrugged like I didn't care at all, screaming to my heart and my father's that he would see I was lying. He always did all the other times I lied. He had to see it this time. He didn't.

"I'm glad you're okay here," he smirked and his green eyes clouded over once more. " Your mother always told me she hated it here; said that she would not have her daughter grow up in such a cage…" He spat the word 'cage' out with such furry that I flinched, he noticed and spun to face my direction again, "It's not a cage. You know that, right, Mae? You know it's not a cage."

His head was beginning to tilt and I could hear the crack of every fiber in his neck, the tearing and wheezing of my skin as muscles as they were pulled and broken in every which direction. As his neck tilted, and his eyes dug deeper into my soul I felt myself beginning to be pulled away; my heart was racing, and I'm pretty sure I was screaming for him to stop, but the more I screamed the more him smile widened and the more his head tilted until one big snap, followed by silence. And there his voice was once more:

"Your mother always told me…told me all the time. This cage will kill us all."

I gazed off into the night while I sat at the edge of the night class gates. I guess it wasn't exactly night because it was technically 5am, but whatever. I was staring off into the darkness of…day? With a sigh I closed my eyes and listened to the silence of the morning, the vampires were all stirring back to their dorms and within the day class I could hear the small heart beats beginning to pick up pace as the minds were woken from their slumbers.

I was pulled from my bliss when I heard a low cough of someone clearing their throats. Kaname. He was smiling up at me with his cocky, closed eyed grin. I hated it. It reminded me of a disgusting presence.

"Ho, ho, ho." I smirked down at him, rolling over on my stomach and crossing my legs back. "You little delve, what are you doing up at such an hour? And coming from the SunDorms too."

He chuckled before walking further into the courtyard of the night class. "That's not any of your business now is it?" He glanced up at me, but I wasn't thinking about him, I was thinking about Zero, trying to find his whereabouts with my mind, reaching out for his fragile senses. "Where is the oh so great Zero you're always with?"

I shot a glare down at him, and he was smiling like the ass he is again. "Shut the hell up Kaname. Go away before the sun comes out and burns you up." I went back to looking off into the distance. This time I thought that I could hear footsteps approaching, "seriously though, you should go," I hopped down from my perch. "I can hear someone in the forest."

"They're not as close as you take them to be, and they mean no harm." He was smiling.

"How can you tell?"

"It's simple," he was testing me; I could sense it in his tone, "I don't deny what I am." And he was gone.

I froze as the smiling face entered into my mind again, followed with a cracking noise. I know who he reminded me of. My father.

…..

It was the same routine again: Yuki gets attacked by crazed bitches, Kaname saves her, Zero gets butt hurt, I laugh. The same for the next three days, but with each day that passed on I began to hear the snapping noises more and more. They were beginning to take over my ever step, every moment of peace, ever second of every day till I was constantly having to lock myself away in my own mind and just run in the night. Every night I had the same dream of the intense kiss, I had had it so much that I was beginning to imagine the bruises on my arms from where the guy in the dream had grabbed me to pull me closer to him. I couldn't sleep anymore, and my mind was always ringing.

Just this morning I had walking down the hall and ran into Yuki, but I had her for something else and pulled her to the ground. I would have killed her if it weren't for Zero who had thrown himself on me and pushed me into the wall at full force. I apologized of course, but I couldn't go on like this anymore.

The Chairman was begining to notice my ticks and twitches. I jumped when I heard a door shut, screamed when someone touched me, and when no one was looking I was always thinking of my father: his dark eyes, his soulless dark, green eyes.

I was sitting under a Sakura tree when I heard Kaname.

"Mae?"

My eyes shot open, and I froze. He was standing over me, his eyes were dark red, and the moon's light was gleaming off of his perfect skin.

"You know you can't do this anymore."

The cracking was getting louder and my breath began to catch. Yes you can, he's tricking you! He thinks you're the stupidest vampire in the world! Tell him you know he's tricking you-no! Tell him you're even better a vampire than he'll ever be.

I smirked up at him, making my mind so jumbled and confused that I knew he could see is around me, knew I was losing my mind. "No. I'm better than you Kaname. I can hide this for as long as I want to. Purebloods don't have problems, we're not scum. You of all should know that already."

His eyes were wide, "Mae you need to leave." Within an instant his hands were on my shoulders, "you need to leave this place before you mess everything up. Before you wake Yuki up, before Zero begins to see. Mae, are you listening to me!? Leave of I'll kill you!"

I looked deep into his eyes and saw it. He was serious within an instant I stood up and bolted to the front gate. The more I panted for air, the more the cracking was ceasing to stop, and I was gaining my mind back. What are you doing! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! I kept running, even when the tears were forming, I kept running, not even bothering to wipe my eyes off. I didn't look back and as the night began to shift into day I realized what I had left at back at that ashen mansion. I realized why my father had kept me locked away for so long. I remembered the boy in the snow as the flames ate away at my most prized possessions. I remembered the boy who had said that he would be back. The boy who had played with me in the yards, but I had not noticed. I remembered.

I cried out to the sky and fell to my knees, tearing at my hair and slapping myself in the face, "wake up! Wake up Mae! You just have to wake up!"

The boy in the snow turned in my direction as I gazed at him in my memories, and I saw his eyes: golden.

"Wake up Mae!" I screamed and screamed and screamed. But the memory flooded in, the face seeped into my memories.

The boy smiled so light and pure to my broken self, and he accepted me.

I screamed again before falling to the ground as the name oozed into my heart:

Krad. The angelic little Krad. The boy my mother had loved so dearly, the boy who had been my father's pride. Krad, the boy that stained my hands red with murder. Krad. The boy I had let kill my soul and the boy who had watched my family burn in flames with a smile.

With his bright smile and tender laugh the world went dark once more.

….

Zero couldn't believe what the Chairman was telling him. Mae wasn't gone. She had to be here still.

He charged through the door of the office and ran to her room yelling her name as he barged in. All of her things weren't gone, but she wasn't anywhere. Her bed hadn't even been made, and as he turned the corner to go to his own room he ran straight into Yuki.

"What is it?" Her eyes were full of sadness.

"I think she was afraid."

"What are you talking about?" He scoffed, "Mae's never afraid of anything, she's tough."

She looked at her feet before lifting her hangs to her bruised neck, "She was acting weird this last week." She looked up, "I think she needs us."

He froze, staring at Yuki's blue skin, "Yuki, I'm going to go find her."

She was smiling as he turned away and ran to the front door, "good luck Zero."

…

The girl had a full head of hair that's for sure, but from her position and the snow that was slowly piling up on her body one could obviously see that she was a damsel in distress.

The boy chuckled before cradling the girl up in his arms and carrying her in the direction of the town. This was going to be fun.

Lots of cross over action in this one :) I love it! Thanks again guys!