Yori just makes it out of the vampire birthday party but her secret has been exposed to the vampires, Yuki is oblivious and Zero has been shot just another day at Cross Academy.


Yori was lucky Yuki went for a shower before she returned, Yori had only just changed into her night clothes and dived into bed when Yuki came in. Yori heard her sitting in bed and she wondered what she was thinking about, Yuki gasps and Yori sits up looking to her, her friend had a hand over her own mouth.

"Yuki?"

"I'm sorry did I wake you?" Yori doesn't answer, getting out of her bed and going over to hers, she sits with her on the bed.

"Yuki is it something I can help you with? You seem troubled lately" Yori felt bad but maybe if Yuki felt like confining in her she could help, even though Yori was well aware what was wrong, Yuki started crying and Yori hugged her.

How on earth can I help them?

Yori thinks sadly holding her best friend crying over things neither of them could control.


Zero wasn't in class today and Yori knew Yuki was worried, she zoned out of everything looking around as if he would suddenly appear. Yori stood watching as Yuki supervised the changing from the Day Class to the Night Class, Kaname and Yori locked eyes for a moment but neither said anything, nor did she speak to the others, she kept her eyes away and waited.

Yori overheard Yuki argue with Yagari about Zero later, she could guess where he would be kept.

Maybe I should visit?

She wonders, she stands where she is while Yuki stands outside the Night Class room that Yagari disappears into, she half wonders if the Night Class will hurt him being a hunter.

Yori remembered back to when she met Yagari.

*Her parents were out working and he came over to babysit her, neither of them where happy about this.

"You're holding it wrong" Yagari says for the fifth time, Yori glares at him, repositioning her handle on her swords. She liked to fight with twin katanas, though she was trained to shot, and fight hand to hand combat she felt more comfortable with swords or Chinese ring daggers.

"Better now, thrust, block, swipe, duck and thrust" he orders, Yori does exactly as he says, he gets her to continue that until her arms are shaking from the strain.

"Good, you'll make a good hunter yet" he says.

"I don't want to be a hunter" she says, even though she was ten, she glared up at him as if she was older.

"Tough, you're a hunters kid, it's in your blood especially considering your father's a councillor, he's in the running to be the president one day"

"I don't care, I don't want to kill anyone"

"Vampires aren't people"

"How do you know? You only kill them!"

"Because they kill people! They suck their blood, they are parasites!"

"They need blood to live I understand that but…does that really make them bad? We eat pigs and eggs and cows! They just eat a different part of people and we decide we're better because of it!" Yagari narrows his eyes at her.

"When you put it like that I understand what you mean, but in the end even aristocrats are nothing but parasites, they use and manipulate human for their own gains"

"You could say that of all humans" Yori argues, Yagari shakes his head.

"I'm not arguing ethics with you kid, you will be a hunter and you will kill vampires"

"You may be right, but I will only ever kill the really bad ones and I will make sure for myself rather than trust 'orders' from headquarters"

"What are you saying kid?" he asks warily.

"I don't trust all the politics involved in the association, I don't trust politics in general it's a flawed concept and people; human or vampire will always us it for their own ends" Yori doesn't say any more and the two of them didn't speak again.*

She saw him around every now and then but they didn't talk and now here they were at Cross Academy a school for humans and vampires. Yagari exited the room a dagger was impaled in the book he was holding, Yuki talked to him again about Zero and Yagari eventually told her where he was, Yuki raced off but Yagari remained.

"How long are you going to hide?" he asks Yori rolls her eyes of course he would be able to tell she was there, Yori comes out.

"Was shotting Zero really necessary?"

"He was about to feed off your friends neck, what do you think?" Yori looked away.

"What are you even doing Yori?" he asks, she looks to him.

"I'm trying to help my friends"

"Miss Cross doesn't know you as well as she thinks she does, Zero's losing control and you're hiding behind the scenes lying to them"

"I'm doing what I can" Yori defends.

"Which is what exactly?" he asks peering down at her.

"I have their backs" he narrows his eye at her.

"That's all you really can ask of your friends I guess" he says with a shrug, Yori lets a slight smile appear.

"Head back to your room Yori, before you're caught, I won't protect you from the headmaster if he finds out"

"I don't need protection" Yori states turning and walking away. She hears Yagari remove the dagger and is prepared when he throws it at her, Yori does a handstand flip kicking the dagger into the wall expertly, she lands now facing Yagari again, the dagger stuck in the wall, she removes it.

"Did I pass whatever test you were trying to give?"

"Perhaps, do you still carry a weapon?"

"Of course"

"Good, keep it with you" with that he turns and leaves, Yori still has the dagger in hand, walks away, back to her room for real for once. Yori puts the dagger in her drawer wondering which of the Night Class it belonged to, she'd give it to Takuma later, he'd return it.


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