Chapter 7: Erase me (again)

Author's Note: Well, there's not much to say. The title is pretty much self- explanatory. After a while I might stop writing the disclaimer. And even if I do, it doesn't mean that I own Vampire knight; it simply means I got tired of typing it.

Summary: This is based on Chapter 24 or 36, I believe, where Rido shows up. I don't remember. If you figure it out, let me know and I'll correct the error. But now there's a twist. He has ambushers waiting outside Aruka's barrier. Is it true when Aruka said she'd give her life for Yuuki? Well, let's find out.

I opened my eyes after the darkness released its grip on me.

"Aruka?" I heard my mother's voice.

I turned my head to the sound of her voice.

"Your fate? Who saved you?" she asked.

"Ancestor Aruka," I answered.

I watched her expression sadden and she hugged, "My poor baby. Your fate will be more horrible than the Curse of the Twins and Purebloods combined."

~ - O - ~

There was a prescence outside, very powerful and I could feel that whoever it was, was here to do something wrong that would change us forever.

Mother walked back in the house and hugged all of us in one big hug. Then she said, "I love you all so much and so does your father. Stay here, I'll be right back."

She ran up the stairs and we stayed downstairs. Confused about what was going to happen... except for me. I knew what was happening, but I didn't dare my brother and little sister to think of the tragedy we all would face.

Juuri's POV

I ran up the stairs to the balcony in front of the house to watch oni fight onii.

Haruka let the beast get Rido, but it didn't do much. Haruka and I both knew what would be happening soon.

Haruka turned to look up at me.

"What you plan to do with Yuuki- the answer is yes," he said.

"And Aruka, too?" I questioned.

"Her, too," he agreed, "You must do it to them both. It's the only way to protect them both."

"You know Kaname will be upset with us," I said.

"In time, he will forgive us and know it was for the protection of his sisters- that it was needed," he said.

I sighed sadly and turned out of the foyer, and ran back into the house, into the hall and down the stairs.

"Yuuki and Aruka, please come with me," I said, gently gesturing for them to come with me.

Yuuki screamed, "Noo!Oni!"

Kaname's eyes were filled with sadness and needless help, but he turned away from Yuuki's pleas and went outside with Haruka.

Aruka's POV

Yuuki cried for Kaname, but he turned away and went outside.

Mother took us into a secret room and closed the door behind her. She bent down and hugged us once more, tightly.

"Soon you will forgive your father and I for what we did," she whispered in our ears, "You will forget all about this life, but when the time comes, you will awaken."

Then blood started oozing down her face. Yuuki and I stared in horror at the blood that came out of her as her body hit the ground.

Yuuki was paralyzed by the sight, but I kept my mind busy, knowing I had to save father and Kaname.

Suddenly, I heard a sword or something pierce through someone's flesh. I grabbed Yuuki and found the door to the secret room and left. I grabbed Maretsu and ran out the door.

Father stood with a sword through his heart. I could see it beating painfully hard to keep itself alive, but failing miserably.

"No," I whispered.

Father put his hand on the handle and although it set up a barrier around it, he was still able to pull it out.

"Daddy, Noo!" I screamed louder as I ran toward him with Yuuki in my arms.

"Thank you for being our child, Ancestor Aruka," he whispered in my ear then hugged me, and whispered, "Now take Yuuki and run. Hide. Do whatever you have to, to keep yourself and Yuuki safe."

Tears streamed down my face as I protested mentally. But after a short while, I obeyed. I got up and ran away from the house.

When Rido tried to capture Yuuki and I, we disappeared to a different location. I landed in the snow on my back.

As I stood up, but realized that a sword was pointed in my face.

"Give us the child," said a snake-like voice.

I split myself so that I had a clone. The clone didn't have the child, but I did.

"No," we both said at the same time and in the same voice.

One vampire grabbed the clone, while the other vampire let his nail grow unbelievably long.

"Give us the child," they demanded again.

"No," I answered again, this time with a death glare and by myself.

The vampire with the talons scratched the clone's back. We both cried out in pain, and kneeled to the snow. But she turned to sparkling dust.

One of the vampires ripped Yuuki out of my arms. And the other scratched deeper into the already bleeding wound.

"Ugh!" I grunted in pain.

If this continues, they'll devour both Yuuki and I, I thought, There's only one thing that I can do that won't kill yuuki, but will kill the vampires and possibly me.

I took all my anger and negative emotions and pulled them to the center of me.

"Aaaaahhhh!" I screamed and the vampires desinigrated. But a big wave of snow shot up toward the sky, causing a heavy blizzard. I caught Yuuki before she could hit the ground. I cradled her to my chest and used the warmth of my body to keep her alive, if not awake, even as my world faded black.

Kaname's POV

I watched as Rido tried to grab for Aruka and Yuuki. But instead of capturing them, they disappeared; he was grasping empty air. Father shattered after he said, "Thank you for being our cute son."

The Rido turned to me.

"You can't kill me, I'm the one who awakened you," he says. The very sound of his voice made me want to utterly destroy him the most painful way I could. But I knew better.

"I am well aware of that, but until I can find a way to kill you," I said as I raised my hand, "Shut your filthy mouth."

And he disappeared. Not nearly shattering, but becoming aprt of the snow. Not long after did a big wave of snow washed over the area, nearly blowing me away, but I held my ground, covering my eyes until it blew over.

"Arukaaa! Yuukii!" I called.

But there was no answer except for the howling wind. I began to run to the wide field of snow, but a hand restricted me from going any further.

"No, don't go, Master-sama," said the chauffeur and butler.

"But Aruka and Yuuki-" I began to protest.

"It's alright as long as Yuuki is with Miss Aruka, they'll both be fine," he said.

I sighed and got in the limo. And mentally, I cried myself to sleep.

+ ~ o ~ +

The chauffers, maids, and butlers walked me into the small sandbox after going through the Ichio's Estate full of noble children.

"Hello, Kanames-sama," Ruka said.

I didn't answer.

"So where's your personal maid?" she asked me.

My heart froze as I thought back at how miserably horrid I treated Aruka. My muscles locked in place and I almost felt like I was in a trance. But I snapped back into reality before they could notice my abnormal silence.

"She's. Gone," I said slowly.

"Where are Juuri-sama and Haruka-sama?" she asked.

It took me a few mintues to answer "They're. Gone, too," I said in the same slow monotone voice.

"They're all dead," I said in a monotone a few moments later.

All their eyes widened, their faces showed sympathy.

"Even the personal maid, Aruka?" Hanabusa asked.

"Yes," I said sadly, even though I didn't feel like saying anything.

Hanabusa's eyes turned a dark blue; like the true color of sadness.

"May I play with you?" I asked them, trying to get over something that would be forever burned in my aching heart until I did something to cure the pain.

I needed to move on and over the death of the most important people to me, even if it was killing me to think of even doing suck a thing.

"Actually, I have to go so I'll see you guys later," Hanabusa said as he stood up.

"Where are you going?" asked Akatsuki.

"Inside, I wanna read into something, but I'll come back later," he answered, and began walking to the front double doors to go in.

"What's really wrong with him?" I asked.

"He was in love with your personal maid," Ruka said, "So now he's going upstairs to probably sulk or cry about it, I hope he gets over it though.'

I looked toward the doors that the pale-blond entered and thought, I can feel your pain, Hanabusa, I know how it feels to loose someone you love. But you will never understand how hard it is when you've lost both of the people who mattered the most to you.

~ + o + ~

8 years passed and they didn't even bother to go look for Aruka and Yuuki.

So I decided to look for them myself. I put on a suit, long coat, my shoes that will keep me warm, and a scarf to go around my neck.

"Where are you going, Kaname-sama?" the butler asked.

"To find my sisters," I said coldly as I began to leave out of the Ichio Estate, "Don't tell the rest of them where I'm going. It's my business and they should keep out of it."

Then I closed the door behind me and began walking back to the old house that my family once lived in.

Aruka's Pov

It was awfully cold here.

Are we under snow or something?

I remembered holding a child to my chest. Protecting her for many months; maybe years.

But wait. Where is she now?

I couldn't feel her, which was a very bad thing. I had to get up and find her. But how was I going to get out; it was very dark here.

You have to try.

I used my hands (if I could find them) to push me up. And snow covered my entire body, but I was able to see what was around me.

More snow.

I had been covered in snow.

Now wonder it was so dark and cold.

But I had to find the child quickly, so I got to my feet and began walking. But it didn't occur to me until after I walked half way through a forest of trees, that I didn't know the child's name nor did I know what she looked like. So how could I possibly look for her?

Then I drew my attention to the little girl standing in the middle of the wide range of snow.

Who is she? Is that the child?

I was about to walk faster and help her, but a man with terrifyingly bright red eyes appeared out of nowhere. Something about him told me that he was not a human.

"Are you lost, little girl?" he asked her, almost purring.

She didn't answer, she only looked at him with fearful eyes.

"Well, then let me suck all your blood," he said and smiled menacingly. His teeth were as sharp as a canine.

He's a vampire, and so are you. You just don'y know it yet.

The man started to shift her body, making it so that he had better access to her neck. But she screamed, "No, please, no!"

And the canine man was just about to bite into her neck, but a teenager (or at least he looked that young) showed up. He struck his entire arm through the man's neck, saying, "You are a disgrace to other vampires."

He pulled his arm back out and the man fell to the ground, desinigrating into dust.

The teenager looked at the girl, lickingthe blood off his finger as his eyes turned red, too.

Get on your belly.

I sank to the grow slowly, careful not ot make myself audble and catching his attention.

"What are you doing out here by yourself?" he asked the girl.

She still didn't answer.

"My name is Kaname, are you alright?" he asked, extending a hand to help her up.

She took his hand and he sheltered her body from the harsh wind that blew a second later.

I covered my face to stop it from hitting me, but snow covered my head (again).

When I looked up again, they were gone. I searched everywhere for them with my eyes. But all I saw was snow, trees, and more snow.

So I got up and started running. I was scared out of my mind of what I just witnessed earlier in the field of snow. Plus, I was hungry, so hungry; I swear I could eat practically anything.

You have to calm down or you'll-

And I fell on my face, It didn't hurt much. But I rolled over onto my backside and breathed hard.

"Just let the coldness kill me, I don't care," I said aloud, even though I knew no one was even around to hear me.

My voice was soft, pretty; unrecognizable.

Then next thing I knew, there was a sword was pointed to my throat.

Thank God, because dying from the cold hurts a lot more than a quick slice from a blade

"Kill me," I begged the man flatly, the blankness clearly expressed in my eyes.

And he raised the sword a little higher, ready to make a strike through me. I closed my eyes to brace myself for the quick pain then the emptiness of death.

"Wait!" a female voice interrupted his mission; my dying request, "Please tell me you're not going to kill her with her own sword?"

I let out a sigh as my body laid back toward the snow, it wasn't any kind of sigh. Just simply a sigh of a dead ghost, perhaps.

"And why would I not? It would be like dying with her own filfthy weapon," he snarled at the peaceful voice.

"Look at her," pleaded the wonderful voice, "She already looks half-dead. Doesn't that make you wonder what happened to her?"

"No," the man spat darkly, then glared at me.

"Well, I do wonder and I will take her in," she said

"Don't know what she is?" he hissed, pure with hatred.

"Yes, but I don't care. And you should know the difference between the good ones and the bad ones," she says, although I detected the darkness in her sweet voice.

"If you stay around those creatures for more than two months, you'll have one of your own," he spat the word like it was a disease.

"Then so be it," she said and picked me, my legs dangling over her arm while my head hungs numbly over her other arm.

"Ugh! You're so stubborn. One day your stubbornness going to be the death of you," he growled at her.

"Well, I rather be kind-hearted and opened-minded, than coldhearted and narrow-minded," she hissed at him.

I bean to close my eyes, was I tired? Or was I loosing a lot more blood than I needed to loose?

And through tiny slits, I saw her look at me and ask, "Are you alright?"

I couldn't answer. I didn't have the energy to even make a sound.

I sighed a ghostly sigh and everything went black.

~ | o | ~ | o | ~ | o | ~ | o | ~ | o | ~ | o | ~ | o | ~

Everything started to clear up. The color went to where it was supposed to.

You were in the forest, you had a wound really deep. You lost alot of blood and now a woman is protecting you from a heartless man.

My eye started to open as everything began to fall into place.

"Are you alright?" said a soft voice.

I looked around searching blindly for the person the voice belonged to.

My eyes locked with a beauty figure; it was probably a female. But at this moment, I couldn't tell. When my eyes finally adjusted, she asked, "Are you alright, sweaty?"

I grunte, sighed, stretched, and said, "I'm fine."

The voice that came out of my mouth surprised me. I placed my hand on my throat to make sure that I heard it right.

"Is this my voice?" I asked myself, my throat viabrating unnnoticeably.

The woman laughed and I watched. Her laugh was cute, I almost laughed, too.

"What's your name?" she asked me.

"I. don't know."

"Well, where's your family?"

"I. don't know."

"Do you know how old you are?"

"No, ma'am," I said. This even surprised me; I had no clue who I was, what I was, nor where I used to be. Nevertheless, I couldn't tell how old I was. Plus, I didn't even know what I looked like.

"Hmm.." she sighed.

"Does it matter? The monsters don't really age like humans," said the man standing against the wall.

"Stop being so cold-hearted; geez, you're starting to act just like them if you ask me," she said to him, then looked at me, "You look like you're probably eleven or twelve."

I looked at my body. I was pretty short to be twelve, so I must be eleven.

"Probably eleven," I said.

"Okay, eleven it is," she said, "Now, let's give you a name."

"What? Are you going to keep her for a pet?" the said sarcastically.

"Stop it!" the woman hissed at him.

I laughed at their bickering. They kinda reminded me of siblings.

"Hmm.. how about we name you 'Auryanna Miyoka'?" the woman said, chuckling a little bit.

"Auryanna Miyoka?" I repeated to myself, pondering over the name. It was a good name, very pretty.

"It sounds wonderful to me; it's a pretty name," I smiled at the woman, then the smile quickly faded when I asked, "What do I look like- physically?"

I was standing in what seemed to be a small cabin. The wood looked like it had just been built, and it seemed to hold a dark red of the color. Almost like the wood was cherry, but not in a way of eating if, of course. We were sitting beside a dresser that nothing on it, but a cloth on the top.

The cloth was white, heaven white, actually. The kitchen, or from where I was sitting, was to my right; while bedrooms were to my left. Two bedrooms, possibly 3, stood in their own space as the two angels surrounded me. One very concerned, and the other, wanting to kill me.

I couldn't blame him, it was better to put me out of my misery than to let me live in the world of life even though I felt half dead.

"Don't you know?" asked the woman in confusion.

"Afraid not," I replied simply, "I don't remember or know anything about myself; including my identity."

"Weel, your hair is white like the snow, but carries a soft pink hue in it. The ends of your hair is a dark blue color. Your eyes are a light lavender color, but both your eyes and hair, deep down, seem to have originally been brown," she said.

So, it's true that when you're in the snow, your heart seems to harden with it. Turning both your eyes and your hair the color of the emptiness, depending on the uniqueness of your wellbeing. Your body will change, but your personality will not.

"Well, in that case, I look just like you," I stated.

She checked her hair; hers was the same color as mine. So were her eyes.

"'eh, well, don'tcha look at that?" she said to herself.

Then she looked back at me and smiled.

"I don't mean to be rude, but... do you have any food? I'm really hungry?" I said, then my stomach growled in response to the word 'food'.

"Yeah, sure," she said, got up and began to walk to the kitchen. Then she stopped and said, "Umm... wha kind of food do you eat?"

Suddenlt, I heard her blood pulsing so loudly in my ears, it felt like she was sitting right beside me, although she was plenty feet away. And everything had a red hue to them.

"Oh, yeah, that's right!" she exclaimed, then walked back over to me.

she revealed her neck then cut it with her fingers.

"What are you doing?" I asked, catching her wrist.

You are a vampire, don't you need blood?" she asked confused.

I went back to the image of the canine teeth and crimson red eyes, and shuddered. I turned away from her, letting go of her wrist.

"If a vampire is what I witnessed in the field of snow today, then I don't want to be one," I said, my eyes looking blank, and my body feeling numb.

"What did you see in the field of snow? What happened?" she asked.

"I was supposed to be protecting a litte girl that I didn't even know. I don't know who she was, what she looked like, nor where she came from. I saw a girl in the snow that could've been her. But when I tried to get to her and see her face, but a man appeared out of nowhere," my voice cracked several times.

"What did the man look like?" she asked, before eyeing the other guardian with a look that said, 'Don't you dare say a word.'

"He had glowing crimson eyes, and his teeth were as sharp and lond as a canine's. He asked the little girl if she was lost and then tried to suck her blood from her neck. I wanted to help her, but my body froze. I couldn't move, I couldn't even look away."

"And where is he now?"

"Dead. He disenigrated inot dust."

"What happened?"

"Right when he was about to bite into the little girl's neck, a teenager showed up. He jabbed his arm through the man's neck; killing him instantly. But then he licked the man's blood off his fingers and his eyes turned the same crimson color as the canine man. The teenager helped the little girl up. I was about to get up to help her, but a harsh wind blew and I covered my face from it. But when I looked up again, they were gone. I ran around endlessly looking for her, but I couldn;t find her. So I just decided to lay in the snow and die."

"Hmm.. it does seem like you have been through alot. You don't remember anything about yourself, your family, nor your heritage, do you?"

"No, ma'am."

"Well, I will teach you how to be gentle and how to be a big sister."

"You're pregnant?"

"No, but I have a feeling it'll come soon." she said then patted her flat stomach.

I felt my hunger grow and before I knew; I had my fangs in her neck, taking her blood.

My sudden movement surprised her and white large wings sprouted from her back.

Her blood tasted okay, but to my surprise it was unbelieveably delicious. But I managed to pull back.

"I'm sorry," I said, licking her blood from my lips then wiping it from my chin.

I could feel the anger boiling inside the other male's body. I already he hated me for whatever reason. Possibly for being different. And now I'm pretty sure that I added another reason to his list for him to hate me and for him to kill me.

"That's okay, but next time, could you please give me warning, 'kay?"she said, smiling softly.

"Yes, ma'am... what are you?" I asked curiously.

"I am a Marphileous; other known today as a Guardian Angel," she smiled.

"You mean like the pretty white wings [touch her wings softly] and war weapons?" I smiled hopingly.

"Precisely, but not all our wings are white. [Eyes the other angel] Like when our hearts darken with our past; out wings are black. [Look at me softly] But I am different amongst all the other angels. My wings can change colors according to my mood and when I let them sprout."

"Pretty," I said in awe.

"Yeah," she smiles in return.

"I wish I knew more about myself, if I did, I'd tell you. But I don't."

"It's alright, we angels have ways of finding information about beings," she said, then leaned forward towards my neck.

"What are you going to do?" I asked, kinda scared that she was going to bite.

(A/N: Ironic, huh? She has the courage to bite someone, but is scared if someone bites her.)

"Don't worry, this won't hurt a bit," she says, then pressed her lips to my neck. She left them there for a couple of moments, then pulled them away.

"What did you find out about me?" I asked eagerly.

"Well, you are part of a very powerful pure blood family line. The information containing your parents, age, who you really are, and where you came from is blocked... Did something happen to you?"

"Not that I remember," I said.

"Well, the only possible explaination for why you can't remember anything is either your memories have been completely erased or they are hidden somewhere deep within. Do you know who erased your memories?"

"No, ma'am, I don't," I said.

She sighs sadly then says with a smile on her face,"Well, it looks like you'll be living a new life now. With me."

"Is it okay if I call you mom?"

"Of course, you can. Since you will be mine, it will only be natural to call me by the name that suits me," she smiles lovingly, then hugged me tightly. I smiled as her wings enclosed around both our bodies, making it warm.

I decided to blend the short chapters together. Maybe this will make me happy.. maybe not.