Tenth Night

Yuuki approached the Moon Dormitory in a matter of minutes, in regard of her hasty strides. The tenacity that Kaname was indeed innocent wallowed inside of herself with lethal honesty. However, she could, no matter what, deny that a lot of facts and evidence did match up. She did not want to believe, either, that it was Kaname. The doors of the vampire's highly rich dorm came to a halt as Yuuki stepped in cautiously, but still with strong efficient determination. Her eyes darted about the place as she realized dumbfoundely that all of the vampires were in class.

"I should have just gone to the school building…" Yuuki punished herself with a sigh of discontempt. "I wasn't thinking straight…I guess I'm just so enraged about the whole situation."

She pirouetted on one foot, leaving the furnished room behind her in a flash, and strode out of the dorm yet again; making her way out of the dorm grounds with quick movements. It was quite difficult for her to find her way in the dark with all of the looming shadows and lurking figures. But Yuuki had been patrolling these grounds for a few small years, so she had grown quite accustomed to it and its surroundings. She paused briefly and scratched her head, pondering upon which direction to take for a second, when her glance caught sudden sight of two figures standing upon the wet dewed grass. She pursed her lips and felt for Artemis, then made her debut towards them, shouting reproachfully,

"It's prohibited to wander around campus this late! Even if you're of the Night Class, class is in session right now!"

She could not distinguish the appearance of the two quite perfectly, but she narrowed her eyes dimly so as to inquire who it may be.

"Z-Zero! Reitsu!" Yuuki gasped as the appearances revealed themselves like a cloud uncovering the moon; wholly visible. And it was, as Yuuki dictated, Zero and Reitsu. But the position that the two were in quite startled Yuuki as she could see hatred growing in their eyes. She caught a glimpse of Reitsu holding one of the academy's anti-vampire guns towards Zero's head; finger on trigger, ready to release at any given moment. Zero only stood there bitterly, not the slightest bit phased or shockingly bewildered. Without thinking, and as if her body acted on it's own, Yuuki grabbed Reitsu's arm in a pinch, holding it tightly, as the she shouted defiantly,

"What are you doing, Reitsu?! Lower the gun!"

Reitsu did not answer or even look at her as Yuuki felt a placid chill run down her spine yet again. But eventually, reluctantly, he pulled the gun away from Zero's head as he lowered it to his side slowly.

"W-What were you doing?" Yuuki stammered in a frightened voice as she let go of Reitsu's arm.

"Zero?" She spun her head as her dark hair swayed, looking at him intently; excepting an explanation that was embedded into her stern gaze. Suddenly, Yuuki felt Zero grab her own arm roughly as he pulled her away from Reitsu, and held her close next to him carefully.

"Stay away from this guy." Zero spoke in a low voice in reply to Yuuki's confusion of his abrupt action.

"Oh, you've seen my true identity, huh? Kiryuu Zero." Reitsu said with a smudge grin. But the tone of his voice of which he now spoke in sounded different to Yuuki—much different from his usual, settle cheery tone.

"I guess there's no choice." He sighed as he once again held the vampire gun to Zero's head.

"No! Reitsu! Don't!" Yuuki yelled, gripping Zero's arm tighter in horror of this unexpected chain of events. "Don't shoot Zero!"

"Kiryuu Zero—once I pull this trigger, I'll finally have my vengeance." Reitsu now spoke in a calm tone, but his gaze that penetrated through Zero flared with intense ferocity.

"V-Vengeance?"

"That's right. Kiryuu Zero murdered Hiou Shizuka, and the vampire council refused to execute him properly."

"Shizuka again?!" Yuuki exclaimed in distaste.

"So it is all about that woman again." Zero said in a hollow voice as Yuuki could feel the growing annoyance and malice that glowered within him. An awry smile elapsed from his lips as his gaze lowered downwards. "So now you've come to kill me? But that means you're a pureblood then, huh? That isn't your true body."

"You're pretty sharp…but I guess this was the same method Shizuka used to get into the academy; it's quite useful. But you are right." He paused as Yuuki felt fear intrude on her with every passing second; this sudden outcome of events was sinking into an assundering nightmare.

"This really is Headmaster Cross' nephew's body, Reitsu. But my real name is…Tsumi Zannen…and you're right, Kiryuu Zero, this isn't my real body. Purebloods have the power of being able to reside in another's body for a period of time."

"Tsu…mi?!" Yuuki said shaken as her steady eyes bore through this now imposter with fright and bitter coldness. "I've never heard—"

"The Tsumi…" Zero interrupted; his sharp eyes never leaving once the vampire. "Are a very old family of pureblood vampires. But now they're nearly extinct, only a few handful are left."

The metal steel of the gun pressed more firmly against Zero's head as Zero winced from the icy chill that was delved deep into it.

"The Tsumi are nearly extinct because of one class of another pureblood family." The treacherous vampire of the Tsumi, said in a low voice; hatred could clearly be noted in his pallid voice.

"And that family…were the Kurans."

"K-Kaname?!" Yuuki exclaimed to herself in surprise.

"They nearly killed every last one of my family, but the Hious—another pureblood class—interjected in the midst of the feud, and put an end to the bloody dispute. They helped us, the Tsumi, prevail against the Kurans if only by a little. Hiou Shizuka was one of the last of her class, as am I."

He paused in his delicate explanation as a crying wind wafted past them; wavering the grass beneath their feet lamentably. Yuuki felt her head spinning from the tedious event, but it seemed to stop briefly, as she busted out loud saying,

"T-Then the one who turned that student into a vampire was you?!"

"That's right." The small laugh of one who is abhorrently infused with wickedness escaped from the Tsumi vampire. "I came here to kill…Kiryuu Zero—since the idiot of the council won't do it."

"But that's because Kaname told them not to." objected Yuuki.

"Exactly. And that is why also, I'm here to end Kuran Kaname's life, too. I was able to frame him for the whole Level-E incident."

"But why kill—"

"Because he's a Kuran. And because he helped Kiryuu Zero out of his execution. But now that I've been exposed…" he quickly darted his eyes to the frightened Yuuki, as Yuuki could sense the lust covered within his gaze.

"…I'll have to kill you as well."

Yuuki felt too jilted of the fear of his remark, that she wasn't sure how to reply or react. She only gripped Zero's arm tighter, so as to ease her defenseless. Her dark eyes, however, proved to be quick on one outtake. She frightfully saw the finger that the deceiving pureblood vampire held on the trigger as he pulled it back slowly…slowly…the image of it being released, and the image of her unknowingly evading the bullet by throwing herself in front of Zero, vividly never left her mind...

…I thought this was my weirdest chapter ever. =/ Well now my villain and all of his evil intentions have been revealed; next chapter will be the final.