Hey, guys! Sorry it's be so long. School's been taking a lot out of me... Anyways, this is going to be a long one to make it for it! Also, just something you should know - in order to make this work, Yuki will not be in it as much. Up to until the parts we she starts to get into Kaname more, she won't be in most of the parts she normally is, okay? Hope none of you have a problem with that!

Also, the reason that Akane doesn't know many of the Night Class students names is because she doesn't feel its important. She is that type of person, the one that feels if you're not important, you're name is equally un-important! And, there's a thing going to happen with Yagari... and no, he's not in love with her - I've seen that in too many fics. But I have a plan with him, so bare with me.

Just a quick, useless sidenote: I imagine Akane with a sort-of older Vannelope voice.

c:

"I forgot about the errand!"

I stood in front of the headmaster's desk, a frown on my face. I had totally forgotten about the errand he had assigned me to run about a week ago, and I was really upset. I didn't want to do work or anything. Maybe if I failed this errand, I would get expelled...? My insides started to fill with happiness at my new plan.

"I know what you're thinking, Akane, and I will not let you fail," said the headmaster, and I deflated a bit. "That's why I'm sending Zero with you to make sure you'll do what you're supposed to."

"I hate you."

"Okay~!" he chirped.

Frowning, I sat down in a chair. Knowing I'd have to wait for Zero to come, I crossed my arms and glared at harshly as I could at the headmaster. He didn't seem to notice; he just continued humming and doing whatever he was doing. So I huffed and leaned my head back, staring at the ceiling, wondering if there was any way I could expel myself here... "Why's he taking so long?" I barked two minutes later, bored.

"He's coming back from a P.E lesson, Akane. Calm yourself."

I huffed again and buried my head in my hands. Slowly, I looked up and caught sight of a framed picture of Yuki on his desk. Almost stupidly, I grinned, and reached up, my hand just itching to knock it over. He loved his Yuki, right? And he would most certainly be mad if I had just broken it, maybe even eaten the paper... For a moment, I furrowed my eyebrows. Did I serously just think about eating the paper? I shook it off and went back to leaning forward...

And then I was suddenly lifted out of the chair. "Hey!" I yelped, swinging my arms.

"Morioka."

"Zero! Aw, dangit, I wasn't going to do anything, you should know me better by now!" I started to kick my legs, wanting more than anything to get free of his grip on the back of my uniform. "So, please, just let me go and we can talk this out-"

He tossed me towards the open door, and luckily I landed on my feet. I stuck up my nose and closed my eyes. "Rude!" With that, I left the classroom. I could hear the headmaster mumble something about me, and then I heard Zero's footsteps behind me. "Wrong way," he said. Without opening my eyes or responding, I turned quickly and headed outside.

I had mananged not to say a word, but finally getting to the town, I couldn't help myself.

"It's been so long!" I cheered happily, swinging my arms all over the place and grinning. Briefly I wondered what we had to do here, and realized that I had totally forgotten to ask what we had to do for the errand. Happily, I turned around to face Zero, starting to walk backwards. "Hey! I forgot what we had to do for the errand... so now we don't have to do anything!"

He pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and threw it at my face. I caught it and peered at it, raising an eyebrow. "What? All of this is food! Why do you gotta be so damn responsible?" I yelled angrily, and turned back around, sticking the crumpled up food list in my pocket. "I don't want to do any of this."

Then a light bulb went off in my head.

"Zero!" I screamed again, and he shot me a glare. "How about you do all these," I said, shoving the paper into his face, "And I'll do nothing! Feel free to tell the headmaster that I was mis-behaving! In fact, tell him I murdered someone! That oughta get me out of here..." Without looking back, I ran off, into the depths of the town.

Ten minutes later, I managed to find myself in a nice-looking cafe, the one I had visited with Yuki. Sitting down, I ordered something small and ate, looking quite pleased with myself. Afterwards, I'd head back to the headmaster, he'd be screaming at me with the police behind him, and I'd be booted out...

"Kanny!" Two hands landed on my shoulder.

Spitting out what was in my mouth, and whirling around, I came face to face with Kiki. He smiled happily at me and sat down in the chair across from me. "What are you doing here? I thought you had to bring someone with you..."

He grinned. "Vampire, remember?"

"Oh sure, just blurt it out." I rolled my eyes and continued to eat, crossing my legs.

"Speaking of which, what's the infamous Kanny doing out here without someone either? Last time I remembered, you were just a puny little human." I shot him a glare, but he merely laughed and snuck my food away from me, eating it himself. "Sorry, I'm starving. And I love sweets."

I leaned back, interlacing my fingers. "If you must know, I was here with Zero. I just ditched him so I didn't have to do errands." I rolled my eyes. "The headmaster's got something coming to him if he thinks I'll do his errands for him." I smiled and brushed imaginary dirt of skirt I was wearing. It was one of Yuki's that I had permanentely borrowed.

The door opened and Zero walked in. With a bored look, he said to me, "Found you."

"Lucky you," I muttered, stealing back my food from Kiki, who stood up.

Once he noted there was a vampire standing not even two inches from him, Zero glared at the boy. "I know, I know, I've overstayed my welcome. It was nice seeing you, Kanny," he said to me, flashing his fangs, and I shivered. I watched his back as he left, waving to one of the waitresses.

"He's such a horrible person," I muttered, stabbing the spoon into my bowl.

"Because he's a vampire?" asked Zero, taking the seat where Kiki had sat.

"No," I mused, letting my cheek fall into my hand as I stirred the spoon around, bored. "Vampires are cool. But him and Aido I can't stand. They're just so arrogant, you know?" I licked my lips and let the spoon fall into the dish, finished. "So, did you finish the errand?" My eyes locked on the packages scattered around him. "Wow, did you carry all those? Are you some secret body-builder I don't know about?" I picked one up and tossed it between my hands.

"Without any help from you. Yeah. Yeah. No." He answered all my questions, neatly in order.

For a moment we sat in silence, and I was beginning to get bored. My mind, out of instict, was starting to conjure up all the pranks I could be pulling in this space, when suddenly Zero spoke. "Yuki told me your parents died."

"Did she now?" I asked, amused. "Interesting, isn't it?"

"You're not mad she told me?" he asked, raising an eyebrow, interested.

"No, why should I be?" I leaned back, my hands underneath my head. "It's not something that's tragic. In fact, my parents probably have the least tragic of deaths. They died in a car accident. I wasn't there, I was over a friends... but luckily, I guess, they died on impact. Didn't hurt them. That's something to be happy about, right?" I grinned at Zero.

"I don't know. It just seems you should be sad, that's all."

I shrugged. "I don't think so. What are you going to get out of life, if all you can do is grieve? Besides, I think my parents wouldn't have wanted me to be sad. I'd be a freak if all I did is mope around, and when people asked what was the matter, all I said was 'My parents are dead'. A bit weird, isn't it?" I laughed.

"You wanna know something else?" I asked, now picking up my spoon and twirling up. "My behavior - you know, how I'm childish, I guess - didn't start when my parents died! It started when I was five years old and I saw a class clown on the TV..." I sighed and dropped the spoon back into the bowl.

Zero remained silent.

"Well, you know a lot about me now," I replied, leaning forward. "Gonna tell me anything?"

He looked up, almost disinterested. At first, I thought I wasn't going to get anything out of him, so I shrugged and leaned back. "I had a younger brother. He died along with my family."

I narrowed my eyes at him, trying to see if he was joking, but I saw he wasn't.

I remained silent, picking at the edge of the tablecloth. "I'm not going to say sorry. No, I'm not being mean... You just seem like the type who doesn't appreciate pity. I'm not either. I know how it feels. You don't want them to say I'm sorry, or anything along those lines...because they can't fix it. No one can."

A waitress suddenly came over to the table, startling me. She held a pitcher in her hand, and her hair was tied up. She grinned at Zero, but hadn't even looked over at me. Resisting the urge to say 'rude', I wanted to hear what she had to say. "Excuse me, are you from the Cross Academy Night Class?"

Before Zero could say anything, I clapped my hands, successfully gaining the attention of everyone. "He's not," I said, smiling. "But I am." I stretched my arms out, giving my best pose, and smiled. "Cameras, activate."

She frowned at me. "No you're not."

I sighed, leaning forward and letting my head fall onto the table. Even Zero laughed a little, even if only I could hear it, and even then it was still pretty soft. I smiled. "But you are, right," chirped the waitress, and I raised an eyebrow. "There's one student, Aido, who comes in here sometimes."

That was it, I guess. Zero just got up, and left, announcing he was leaving.

"Well," I said, turning towards the waitress. "You just learned your lesson. First of all, don't say I'm not pretty, because I know that's what you were implying." I flicked my black hair. I know I wasn't the prettiest thing, but did she have to say it out loud? "Second of all, don't mention Aido in front of him. They were dating, but recently they had a tragic break-up-"

A spoon hit the side of my head. I looked over, yelling, watching the door swing shut.

"Nice aim, Zero!" I called happily. I turned back to the waitress, pointing to the desert on the table. "Because of you, that's on the house." With that, I turned. Luckily, Zero had grabbed the packages so I didn't have to. I went outside, but he was nowhere to be found. I crossed my arms and huffed. "You're just a sore person!" I screamed, hoping he heard.

Deciding just to head back, I scrambled around, trying to find the shortest route to go back home. I managed on finding this one alleyway that looked pretty close to home, so I headed down it. A small cat was strolling past, and I couldn't help myself. I bent down. "Hi, pretty kitty!" I grinned like an idiot and went to pat it, but it lunged at my hand, sinking its teeth into my hand.

I screamed, falling back, watching as it ran off. "You better not have rabies, you flea infested feline!" I clutched my hand to my chest, watching as blood started to seep from the wound. Thankfully, it wasn't that bad, so I just stuffed it inside my coat and continued down the alleyway. My arm was starting to sting, so I pulled it out and peered at it.

Something suddenly was whooshing through the air, so I watched as it grew faster, flying straight at me. Letting out a yelp, I ducked underneath a escape stairwell, covering my face. It stopped there, its smoke morphing into the face of deranged man. The fangs just further revealed it was a vampire, and I glared and cursed.

"Your blood doesn't smell that good," it said, "but I'm sure it tastes much better."

"Not today!" I spit at it, ducking and trying my best to wriggle away, by getting on my knees and scurrying away. I only managed to knick my knee, the pebbles scraping it gently. I quickly stood up and attempted to run, but suddenly someone had grabbed me around the waist and was whipped out of the way of the oncoming vampire. The silverhair was suddenly in my view. "Zero!" I yelped.

I was suddenly thrown over his shoulder as he started to run. "Why don't you have a weapon?"

"I didn't know I was going to attacked by a vampire!" I screamed, banging his back as I watched the vampire follow us. We hit a dead end, and I watched, with my eyes wide as the vampire appeared in front of us. I closed my eyes, burying my hands into Zero's jacket as I awaited death. Hey, maybe my parents would enjoy the death I had recieved...

"Akane, open your eyes," I heard Zero say. He had put me down, but I had just latched onto him tighter.

"No way! I'd rather die with my eyes wide closed..." That didn't make sense, did it?

His hands grabbed my face and forced me to look at the alleyway, where a pile of dust lied at the bottom of two night class student's feet. I didn't know their names, but I recognized them from some of my pranks. "Oh. I wasn't scared," I mumbled, brushing my outfit clean of any dust. They I realized once more they were vampires, and clutched my hand to my chest, which was still bleeding. "Just tell me what was going on, and why you guys were here."

The one with blonde hair shrugged. "You can figure that out tonight."

I watched as they left, leaving me shrouded in questions. "What's that all about?"

"It doesn't matter. Let's get going."

I grabbed his arm, stopping him from moving. He turned back, his eyes locking with mine. "Just a small question," I squeaked, smiling. "Unlike that stupid waitress back at the cafe... you'd mistake me for a member of the Night Class, right? Basically speaking... you think I'm pretty, don't you?"

For a long moment, he was silent. "Sure."

I squealed with happiness and threw my arms around him, giving him a hug he didn't return. I didn't exactly care. I was just happy he had said anything at all. With that, I let go and started off the return back to the school.

I had skipped out on the dinner the headmaster had made. Only Yuki and Zero had went, and I didn't feel the need to attend. I had to bandage my cut. Ria had spotted it, and had grabbed my hand, her eyes narrowed. "What did you do? Get bitten by a vampire?"

I chuckled. "Why would you think that? No, I got bitten by a cat."

She rolled her eyes and let go of my hand, laughing along with me. "Only you, Akane."

I had just finished my homework and had decided to go out and stoll along the sidewalks for the night when Zero had caught me. "We have to go patrol a Night Class party?"

"Oh!" I said, clapping my hands. "So we get to figure out what they were there for?"

"I guess so."

We started off down the path, and I frowned when suddenly I was picked up out of the air and swung around. They then set me on my feet, and I turned. It was only Aido, who was smiling at me. I frowned. "Way to be a pervert," I sniffed, and then started to laugh, shaking my hand. "Just kidding, you actually got me! That takes skill. So what are you guys here for, anyways? I'm sure Zero and I could have found our ways."

"We were told to guard you, because there are so many students out," the one I didn't recognize said.

"I'm honored," I spoke, smiling.

As we made our way down, I watched as all the people on the grounds turned to look at us. Feeling almost like royalty, I waved to them, doing a wave I had seen on TV once. I watched as the blonde guy from earlier was standing near a table, and he brightly announced it was it his birthday. He even knew my name, but I didn't feel all that ashamed.

"Zero, you go find out what happened," I told the said guy, and then started off to head into the party.

Aido grabbed me again, pulling me back. "You can't go out by yourself," he told me.

"Then come with me," I told him, shrugging. I started off dodging through the crowd, and finally ended up where I wanted to be. "Kiki!" I shouted, yelling at the guy I had been looking for. He had been eating a slice of cake, and when he saw me, he raised an eyebrow. He nodded to Aido, who was standing next to me.

"What's up, Kanny?"

"You left this at my dorm." I held up a pair of plastic vampire fangs. "Ria almost had a heart attack."

"Because she was trying to figure it out, and came to the conclusion we were vampires?"

"No, because she liked you so much," I answered truthfully.

He pushed a piece of cake into my mouth, and I frowned, crossing my arms. "Calm yourself! It's a party, enjoy yourself." He winked me and left, leaving me chewing the rest of the cake until I swallowed it.

"It's actually pretty good," I said thoughtfully.

Suddenly, someone was bumping into my shoulder as they ran past me. I stumbled to the side, turning my head to yell at the person, when I saw it was Zero. A bit curious, I nodded my thanks to Aido, knowing I probably wouldn't come back. "Tell blondie I said happy birthday! And that I'll learn his name sometime."

I raced off, following the path I saw Zero take.

I finally found him by the pool, a bunch of pills in his hand. I knelt down, raising an eyebrow. "What are you doing? Are those drugs or something?" I chuckled lightly as I scooped them up in my hands, peering at them. "And no, I wasn't worried about you. Just...curious," I said quickly.

He suddenly grabbed my shoulders, tightly. "Those are blood tablets, Akane."

"Oh, wow." I chuckled nervously and attempted to wriggle out from under his grip, but he wouldn't budge. "Come on, you're fine..."

It wasn't until about four seconds after he had done it that I had finally realized he was biting me. I let out a yelp. I know I told him I'd rather him come to me than Yuki, but right now I was just a tad shocked and confused, and maybe even a little scared - although I would never admit it - and thrashed a bit, making both of us fall into the pool.

I could see him through the water, his eyes locking with mine. I shrugged, hoping he could get the message that I had panicked and had forgotten. For a moment, we were still under water until I realized my lungs were going to burst. I popped up with my hair sticking to the back of my neck. Zero popped up moment later, bending over, asking me if I was alright.

I was about to reply when a bullet suddenly whizzed past the middle of us, scaring the daylights out of me. I jumped and grabbed onto Zero, letting out a little screech.

My ears were ringing, and I could hear what the person who had shot the gun had said, but apparently it meant something to Zero because he turned, eyes wide. I frowned, trying to make sense through the deep ringing of my ears. I turned, coming face to face with a rather scary looking man. I yelped, swimming backwards. The man eyes locked with mine, and almost went wide for a second, but he composed himself.

I latched onto Zero, feeling the gun was making me scared. "Don't hurt him!"

He pushed me back though, and shook his head at me. "Don't worry."

Footsteps sounded behind us, and I splashed around in the water a bit to see who it was. The headmaster had come running from who knows where. "This is why I hate vampire hunters!" I glanced up at the man who was holding the gun. So he was a vampire hunter, huh? I turned around to see if Zero was okay, but he had already gotten out of the pool.

About to turn around to get out myself, someone gripped the back of my uniform and pulled me out, keeping me about two feet off the ground. Was I really that small? "Why does everyone grab me like this?" I thrashed around a bit. It was the vampire hunter holding the back of my neck, and he seemed to be glaring at me. "Hey, wait a second-"

I was thrown over his shoulder, like I had been with Zero not even four hours earlier.

"No!"

Maybe even I attempted stabbing him I'd be expelled.