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Edited in February 2018

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The Change of Destiny

Yuuki's POV

A ball, how interesting. I can go with Zero and try to loosen his serious face and dance with my father and my cute baby brother. Though that is what I'm planning to do, till now, the last preparation day, I couldn't relax at all. It's all because Zero became too serious, ten times worse than usual since that transfer student, Maria Kurenai came to this Academy. All Zero did was pierce his gaze to her direction, glare at her, and if not that, warned me all the time that I shouldn't get too close to her because she is dangerous.

I think I know instinctively that Maria Kurenai is dangerous, or more accurately the one residing in her body now is, because for some reason her character doesn't match with her, and I just know that even if without a proof and I believe my instinct. So, besides the tour, I never approached her. But for that matter, I didn't have to try because she is a Night Class student and I am a Day Class student. But I think she wants me to approach her, I wonder why.

And there is also Ichiru who with each day passing becomes closer to my brother to the point like Ichiru is his shadow, but that is simply ridiculous because Ichiru's appearance is usually stark white except when he is wearing Day Class uniform. I wonder what's happening with those two. I think Haruki isn't the type to demand something after he helped someone and I know that the Kiriyu brothers owed my brother so much, at least that is what the Kiriyu brothers thought.

And there is also Haruki, my cute little brother that I fail to protect so many times that I, as the older sister, feel ashamed. What kind of big sister am I? But that aside, after that incident, Haruki and Kaname-senpai become closer each day and I think that those two spent their free time in the presence of the other. Was Kaname-senpai going to seriously pursue my brother in a relationship? But that's strange because Haruki is still as oblivious as always. That aside, lately I think that there is some of my memory missing. I wonder if Kaname-senpai erased it or Haruki? Anyway, if they do something, I am sure that they have their reason. And so, I will let Haruki and Kaname-senpai out of my mind, and focus my mind on Zero. And for now, there is the ball.

Unexpectedly in the last minute, I got a dress from Kaname-senpai and a necklace from Haruki and surprisingly the dress and necklace match each other perfectly. I wonder if those two bought them together, and so I discarded my uniform and wore the dress. Finished, I went to the ball with a determined mind and heart because my dream showed me that something terrible was going to happen today.

Haruki's POV

'I hate ball.' That's what I thought the second after I heard the news of the ball. But what can I do? The ball was going to happen even if I didn't want it. Fortunately, it's not like in my previous dimension where the main actor was me what with that stupid Triwizard Tournament. This time, I just a student with the duty of a guardian, nothing grand. And with that in mind, I went to the town to buy something for my beloved sister, who I'm sure doesn't have a dress and is planning to go to the ball with her uniform because that narrow-minded sister just thinks about her duty as a guardian first and as a woman second. And that is why now I am in the town, sightseeing, without telling anyone.

'Ichiru is going to be mad when he finds out I'm not even in Academy. And then there is Kaname, if he finds out I'm going to the town without anyone, he will ground me for who know how long. Honestly, what's with those two? Acting overprotective all the time. I'm sixteen going on seventeen for goodness sake, and there is also my true age. I'm not defenseless! And now here I'm brooding like some stupid teenager.' After I talked to myself inside my head and became aware that I was babbling nonsense, I huffed and sighed.

I walked a little longer, getting closer to the town, looking here and there and I crossed the path of a jewelry shop, and I thought that it would be nice to buy some women accessories for my dear sister and entered the shop. It was just a few minutes before I got what I wanted, but it seems my luck didn't last long because when I exited the shop I came face to face with the poker face of my dear 'brother' who entered the shop with some of his Night Class.

"Oh…" I started, hastily concealing my shocked and panicked expression, "Good afternoon Kuran-san, and Night Class. It's such a coincidence to meet you all here, but Ichiru is going to search for me if I don't meet him in five minutes." I explained, or lied, as fast as possible and tried to get out of that place, but it's all just a plan in my head when I looked at Kaname's eyes and saw some barely concealed anger and worry.

"You are lying Haruki, I can see it as clear as day, and I met Yuuki, Zero, and Ichiru in the Academy's gate when I was going to the town just some minutes ago. Stay here and your punishment won't get worse." He said, or commanded, without any chance for me to protest, so I just look at him dejected, not a pout, and I nodded. And that is my interesting story to start the ball's party, a few hours before the damned ball started, and also some interesting turn of event which will change part of the story.

Kaname's POV

I stood on one of the balconies in Cross Academy's hall in the main building, away from the party but also not far from it. From the corner of my eyes, I could see Haruki loitering around in the shadow, doing his duty as guardian but I'm sure also carrying out some of his private schemes. Some minutes later I saw Yuuki enter the hall with the dress I bought and the necklace Haruki bought. She is beautiful from the point of view of a man, too bad the one who will become her partner in life is that hardheaded Hunter. And speaking of that Hunter, he is like always, just sulking in the corner of the room, overseeing the party like a hawk. My thoughts were disturbed by none other than Yuuki thanking me for the dress and asking me if I knew where Haruki was. She also asked me about the necklace that perfectly matched the dress and I answered her with 'Haruki and I went shopping together,' a little white lie. I bet if she knew Haruki went to the town alone, he would get a handful of a lecture. After that, I asked her to dance with me. I could feel two pairs of eyes bore a hole in the back of my head, one of suspicion and jealousy, the other of confusion and jealousy, though I bet Haruki didn't even know that he was jealous of his own sister. Honestly, I don't know what I should call Haruki, oblivious or innocent or simply dense, I could only blame his previous life that didn't allow him to feel anything, not as human and not as a powerful being.

"Kaname-senpai, this past week I dreamt about something sad," she suddenly spoke, and my wandering thoughts immediately came back to the present. I widened my eyes slightly after I processed what Yuuki said. "After a long time, at least my dream changed, but I think this change is just temporary. The dream predicted about something today, the previous dream stopped because that dream already was on the way to becoming reality, and here the new dream. A very sad dream, but I won't tell you Kaname-senpai because you are one of the key actors. I just hope you will change your mind about what will you do tonight, but if you do I can only sidestep and watch, all you do I'm sure you have a reason behind it. Thank you for listening to my babbling." And then she let go of my hand and bowed to me then turned around. In that flash of motion, I could clearly see the determination in her eyes. Just like that, I could see her exit the hall to go to somewhere I know very well to start the play.

'I'm sorry Yuuki, but I won't back away now. I am doing all of this to protect you and Haruki and also because I hope to protect the world that she loves so much.' I thought and recited my scheme once again in my mind before I executed it for real.

Haruki's POV

From the corner of my eye, I could see that Yuuki left Kaname at last. For some reason, I was relieved though I don't know why. Some minutes later Zero left his post and exited the hall, no doubt to chase Yuuki. I don't know what those two will do but I can predict it. All of it was centered on that transfer student, Maria Kurenai, or precisely the center was the one who borrowing Maria Kurenai's body, the pitiful princess, the princess who takes revenge blindly.

Shizuka Hio, the pureblood princess from Hio family who took Zero and Ichiru's parent's lives and also the vampire who Zero hates so much. Because of her foolish actions, Zero despises pureblood vampire above anything else, that won't do for if that continues, Yuuki's fate will become a rocky one and I don't want that for my beloved sister. There is also Ichiru, who if I remember correctly, instead of hate he seemed to feel something more like respect and interest in Shizuka Hio. Of course, this little piece of information didn't come from Ichiru's mouth directly but from his story about his encounter with Shizuka Hio every day in a month before she killed his parents. From his story, I could say that Shizuka Hio at first wanted to use Ichiru to enter the house with a bribe of a better condition for his body considering that Kiriyu's twin is a rare occurrence for a Hunter family and there is rumor about the weak condition of the younger one, I can safely say that the bribe will work if I never did what I did to Ichiru and Ichiru would betray his family to Shizuka Hio. But after she failed that, eventually she still could break through the house and kill all except Zero and Ichiru, Zero with the sad 'accident' of turning to a vampire. Ichiru survived that nightmare because that day, Ichiru and I went to the town to do some shopping because that night was a few days before Ichiru and Zero's birthday, so the prime witnesses were Ichiru and I. After all of it, Ichiru was still interested in Shizuka Hio. In that time, I couldn't understand why he was interested in his parent's murderer, but now I think I can understand because from the start Ichiru and Shizuka Hio's fates were connected, just like Zero and Yuuki's fates.

After some time, more or less thirty minutes, I could see that Kaname exited the hall. After his presence was gone from the hall I quietly called Ichiru, and he came to me not one minute later.

"Ichiru, search for Maria Kurenai in the old Moon Dorm and after that come to me. You will know where to find me when you are there and please hurry, we don't have much time. Don't worry, I will give you what you crave so much that it hurts and at the same time save Zero from becoming a monster." And with that, I left Ichiru who stared at me wide-eyed and took my next step to save some people, or vampires, who deserve to be saved.

Third Person's POV

Haruki arrived in time to see Kaname leave Shizuka Hio's body to crumble in one of the rooms and also in time to see Hanabusa Aido flee in a hurry after witnessing Kaname 'killing' Shizuka Hio. Concealing his presence and form fully, Haruki then waited in the corridor until Kaname's form vanished.

"A pitiful princess, if you stayed in your cage you wouldn't encounter this pitiful end, but also if you stayed in your cage like a good princess the story wouldn't proceed. Two options with the same bad ending, honestly what good have you brought to this world Shizuka Hio-sama?" Haruki talked in between approaching the broken body.

Shizuka Hio who was already between of the worlds of living and death still maintained her consciousness and tilted her head upward to see Haruki. Unexpectedly she smiled, "If I'm not mistaken… you're Haruki, the boy who Kaname kept, but it seems you're not one of his pawns." She said and now tilted her head sideways.

Haruki, without a warning, hovered his hand over Shizuka's crushed heart and released some sort of blue energy, "Kaname Nii-sama really didn't have any mercy, to think that after taking some of your blood then crushing your heart, he really wants power that bad just to create a playground. And to answer your 'not really question', I'm not one of his pawns because I have my own agenda that if he knew about, he might not agree with what will I do."

"What are you doing?" Shizuka Hio asked Haruki warily because for some reason her already drifting conscious little by little was coming back to her, and her already crushed heart was beating again gradually.

"I brought you back to life Shizuka Hio-sama because now is not your time to pass to the other world. Fate is still waiting for you. I didn't do this for you, not really. I do this because one of the important people to me can't find his happiness if you are dead. Your so-called love with that human-turned-vampire that you sacrificed all for isn't your mate. Think again Shizuka Hio-sama, who was the one who you wanted to convince the most whatever happened, and then you just left him alone because you knew that you couldn't use him and just tossed him around after that like some dolls. The one who you protected, but his parents you sacrificed." Haruki convinced Shizuka Hio with his green eyes piercing through Shizuka Hio's purple-grey eyes and the two just staring at each other for some time.

Shizuka Hio's POV

"Ichiru…" I can't believe this. A name that I tried to forget with all my might just rolled from my lips because of this child.

For some times his hand just hovered over my chest, and also for some time now I felt alive, like my supposed crushed heart never was crushed.

And then without my knowing, his hand now sat in his lap and he smiled so innocently and sweetly to me. I tried to sit and I found that I could sit without any pain or difficulty. "You already know it, even if that time he was only a child and you supposed it was not appropriate to approach him, but now he is already seventeen years old, and he will live longer than any human or hunter because I gave him my energy for one full year ten years ago, that is if you didn't have any intention to change him." he said to me and I realized why his supposed weak body is so strong that I couldn't believe anything about the rumor.

"Is that so? Then thank you for saving him, but I can't be together with him, I'm his parent'ss murderer, and just like you said, I'm just a pitiful princess who was blinded with the rage of revenge, and even if he accepts me, there is no way his brother will accept me." I talked him out of his supposed agenda.

"That's not true." Came the gentle but strong voice of the one who was destined to me. I turned around and come face to face with him who was carrying Maria Kurenai's body bridal style with a fierce gaze to me, "That's not true. Even if Zero is against you, I would go with you anywhere you wanted. At first, I didn't know why my mind and heart screamed at me to not hate you for my parent's death, but after seeing Yuuki and Zero, I know. I can't hate you because you're my mate. It's true that I'm just some brat, but if you can find happiness with me then I will go with you."

I, too startled to think because the deviance in his strong voice, could only utter one word, "Why?"

And then I could see his gaze become soft and gentle, "Because your existence, Shizuka Hio-sama, is too sad. And I know that if you die I will never know what true happiness is, and because I'm jealous of my brother's happiness, I will take my portion of happiness."

I could only smile sadly at his words, 'Is it really okay to be happy? I, who everyone thought was just some pitiful princess,' but before I could answer his strong words, the one who saved me clapped his hands.

"Okay, that's enough for now. We have to get you out of here as soon as possible. Ichiru… come here please." And then just like that, he stepped beside me. "Grab this you two, and Ichiru please don't let go of Maria Kurenai. I will see you one or two hours later. I will send Maria Kurenai's things to the place where you will be transferred to. Thank you for taking the chance to be happy Ichiru, and also Shizuka Hio-sama, Maria Kurenai will become your true attendant that will never betray you. Please believe in yourself Shizuka Hio-sama." And just like that after we grabbed some sort of pendant, there was a feeling of being sucked into a tube, and before we knew it, we were in some sort of family room in who knows where.

Haruki's POV

Once they disappeared from my face, I hurriedly created a broken body in a state of being barely ruined, then concealed my form and presence and finished just in time to the appearance of not only Zero and Yuuki, but also Akatsuki Kain in the door frame, Zero with his gun drawn, Yuuki with a horrified expression, and Akatsuki Kain with an expressionless face but also suspicion under it. Right after they came into the room, Shizuka Hio's fake body crumbled to dust. They stood frozen not long because of Yuuki dragging Zero away from this room as soon as she came back from her frozen state, and Zero just obeyed Yuuki, still with an expression of disbelief. They vanished from the room in time for Zero gain his control and change his expression from disbelief to understanding, but also fury.

'Hmm… I think Zero knows who the culprit is. I wonder how he came to that conclusion.' I wondered in my mind. Not long after Yuuki and Zero vanished, Akatsuki Kain also turned around and stepped out of the room. 'Well, I changed fate but I didn't change Kaname's scenario that much. The 'fact' in the surface is that Shizuka Hio is dead because of the injury Zero made with his gun. With that Zero will be hunted by the Council because even if Shizuka Hio is a princess with an attitude like a pain-in-the-something, she is still a pureblood. This accident will be seen as disturbing the balance between vampires, hunters, and humans. 'Well… as expected of Kaname Nii-sama, a wonderful scenario, but after that what will he do to protect this little playground called Cross Academy?' I mused, actually interested and a bit worried.

Kaname's POV

After the not-so-incident occurred, I went back to the dorm and cleaned myself. And not long after that two of my most loyal friends, knocked and entered my study and then immediately reported the not-so-incident. Akatsuki Kain reported to what we saw with a blank face, but the one who got my attention is his companion, Hanabusa Aido who looked at me uncomfortably. I sat at my study chair and listened to their report, or more like Akatsuki Kain's report, meanwhile half of my mind went to Haruki. I sighed inwardly and thought 'I hope Haruki isn't too upset about this'. After I thought that, Akatsuki Kain closed his report, and without a glance I ask the one who squirmed uncomfortably beside my doorstep.

"Do you want to add something Aido?" And as I suspected, Hanabusa Aido jumped and looked at me uneasily.

"No, Kuran-sama."

I looked at him and our eyes met, he stared at me but there is nervousness there, I sighed and then said, "It looks like the senate will take action about this. Although she was a pitiful princess that can't be disciplined, she is still a precious pureblood. And Aido…" I paused to ensure that I got his attention, "You can speak your thought to me Aido, don't be afraid, though if you need some time to arrange your thought, then do so before you say and do something you may regret."

Hanabusa Aido looked at me weirdly but I could see some tension leave him, "Understood Kuran-sama."

I gave him a quick nod, "By the way, do you know where Haruki is?" I ask them abruptly, and unconsciously they frowned about the change of topic.

"I'm sorry Kuran-sama, I don't know where he is."

"I don't know too."

But right after those two answered my question, the door to my study opened and showed Haruki, still pristine in his Day Class uniform. "Oh… You have guests Kuran-san, should I go back later?" He asked as a greeting.

"No, it's alright. These two already finished their business with me." And with that, I looked at Hanabusa Aido and Akatsuki Kain with pointed look that clearly said that they are dismissed, and without a second considering, the two of them stood and exited my room.

But when they passed Haruki who still stood in the doorstep, those two put their gaze on Haruki for a second but in that moment, they clearly stated their opinion of Haruki. Akatsuki Kain stared blankly at Haruki, and Hanabusa Aido looked at Haruki with curiosity but also a hint of suspicion. And when I can't feel their presence in my territory, Haruki entered my room and then closed my door.

"Well… It seems this night came with full of surprise." And with that, he took the sofa which he usually occupied when he is here.

I stared at him long and hard, but he didn't even squirm. Then I started analyzed the situation in a lightning speed, from the scent that still clung in his uniform to his disappearing act, and to that expression which was nothing like I predicted when I planned to kill Shizuka Hio, because I knew from his story that at least he would be upset about something like that. "You really have your own agenda, Haruki. Though fortunately that didn't cross with my scenario at all. You bent the facts."

Hearing my answer, he grinned and answered, "I knew you will know Kuran-san. First, I would like to apologize because I bent your scenario to satisfy my own selfishness. Second, I'm sorry if I'm worrying you. And third, if you didn't like it you can punish me as you wish, but I will never regret my actions." He said with full confidence and a smug smile.

After hearing his answer, I chuckled. "It's alright, you can do whatever you want Haruki, I won't forbid you, but please tell me before you vanish into thin air. But there is still a punishment for going alone to the town a few days ago."

At once his smiles become a frown with a pout. "I thought you would forget about that one." He mumbled and I just chuckled.

Then I stood from my chair and approached where Haruki is, "Well, that aside, there is still some hours before the night passed, should we pass the time in the bedroom Haruki? After all, technically you are still a teenager who need their sleep to grow." I said and then offered my hand to him.

His pout deepened, "You know, when you said it like that it seems so strange because you know my true age, honestly stop treating me like I'm a five-years-old." He grumbled but took my hand, but before he could stand, I scooped him to my arms and then carried him bridal-style. "Wha…!? Kaname Nii-sama! What are you doing?"

"Hmm… well this way we could get to my bedroom faster." I said as an excuse, but honestly, I only want to embrace him as long as I can.

But unexpectedly, Haruki just huffed and then wrapped his arm around my neck, "Honestly, I can walk by myself you know." He grumbled and then buried his face to my chest.

I sighed but then smiled when I could feel a smile stretched in his face. And with that we entered my bedroom to rest for some time before go back to the reality.

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