Disclaimer: Vampire Knight belongs to Hino Matsuri
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Warning: Bad grammars, OOC, OC's
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Kurenai Maria
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With a tender smile and naive face which seems annoying now, Hazuki Airi says this: "How if it's Kaname-senpai?"
Fortunately, both Nina and Sayori don't eating or drinking anything right now. If so, they must vomit all of their food or beverage. So, instead of vomiting, their eyes just grow wider. They look funny because their mouth opens and paused.
Nina got into reality again. "Where did you get that idea?" she snapped out.
Airi put her index finger in front of her lips, gives her reassured smile. When Nina realizes that she was screaming out loud, she coughs to retain the situation. Both Airi and Yori giggle. One of Nina's eyebrows rises up, shows her amazement to se her two friend giggle at her.
"Well, since Kaname'senpai gave you that gentle smile." Airi grinned. Nina's cheeks become red and feel hotter abruptly. They even don't knw each other yet that day. But this girl has seen it.
"Y-you saw it?" she stammered.
"The whole school saw it, Nina. That's why you were being chased that day, weren't you?" Airi reminded her about the embarrassing event. Nina's cheeks become redder.
"You also chased me that time?"
"No. Of course not. Only me and Yori who stayed on our place, didn't we, Yori?" Airi turned into Sayori. The brown haired girl just nodded and giggles.
"You such a good observer," Nina complied Airi.
"Actually, I am not. It's just because that happened in front of everyone and it was so show off, so there was no way for me to not notice it too," she explained. "Say it; are you in some special relationship—with Kaname-senpai?"
The red colour on Nina's face is gone when she hears that question. Now, she thinks about it. Kuran Kaname is a pureblood vampire and is admired by everyone both humans and vampires (due to her father words, he could gain these many vampires because of him) while she is just ordinary human with acute disease. Somehow, it is sounds tragic for someone as glory as Kaname ends up with her. That pureblood had saved her three times and always been nice to her, but when she thought Kaname may like her, that pureblood always broke it by behave coldly. Now, it has become common for her to see Kaname behave coldly. If he behave warm and smiles at her, it would make her worry and wandering if Kaname is all right. Fortunately, there was only once Kaname behave strangely. And it was the worst. You remember? When she got sick few times ago and Kaname said those romantic words? Ugh.. just think about it makes her feels eerie. She never saw Kaname like that. But now she relieves because he behaves cold like usual.
Nina sighed. "I don't know."
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Moon Dorm's Hall
At day time like this, most of Night Class's students have asleep in their room, closed with no sunlight can get in, except for those who have concerns in their heart, they will stay awake until they can satisfy their concerns. Well, like the fellow companions of Kuran Kaname in the hall. They all still awake.
The girl with wavy hair speaks first. "Kaname-sama's sister, what do you think of her?" Souen Ruka asked everyone in that hall.
A blonde haired man smiles friendly. "I think she's cute but a little childish." Ichijou Takuma said while reading his mystery novel.
A maroon haired man who sits next to Takuma said, "Like a human." Shiki Senri said with expressionless face.
The double ponytail girl who sits behind Senri said, "She has no charisma at all." Touya Rima said. Her expression is much like Senri.
Aidou Hanabusa who sits alone in single sofa lays his back. "Is she really a pureblood? I mean, she doesn't look dangerous at all."
"However, she's a pureblood. May be she just push her presence for us." Ruka cut it off. "Besides, it's not I'm worrying about."
Kain Akatsuki turns to her. "Then, what are you worrying about?"
Ruka look up beyond the stairs. Her eyes stare at the closed door of Kuran Kaname's room. "Why Kaname-sama called that girl here suddenly?"
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Ichijou Takuma asked her.
Ruka glares at him. "Like you forget how his reaction was when I ask him about his private things!" she snapped. Then, she looks down as if she is really in despair.
"You're jealous to both that girl and Yuuki-sama?" Touya Rima teases her. But Ruka doesn't answer. Rima wins.
Ruka grasps her arm. "Why Kaname-sama smiled at her? And then that girl, instead of gave him respect, she acted weird as if she has seen a ghost!" Ruka snapped again. "Didn't she know how lucky she was?"
"Ruka, I think Nina did it because she is surprised. She is not so close to us either, remember?" Takuma tried to calm her down. "Besides, I think she is cute when surprised like that."
"You're right; she is cute... and awesome." Aidou murmured. His cheeks a bit blushed. This reaction is seen by both Rima and Shiki.
"You like her." Both Shiki and Rima stated in unison.
Aidou stands up. "No, I'm not!"
"How shame!" Ruka grumbled. "How can you like such a girl? She has said bad things to Kaname-sama at Ichijou-sama's party. Moreover, she did it in front of Kaname-sama's himself."
"But she already said sorry to dorm leader Kuran herself, I heard." Kain Akatsuki cut Ruka off.
"Yes. That's why she came here few days ago with Yuuki-chan. You remember?" Ichijou wanders. "Her nervous face is also cute! It makes her body looks smaller than its actual size."
"However..."
"Ruka, cut it off." Kain shouted at Ruka, stopped that girl's mouth at a second.
"I think Ruka is right, Akatsuki." Ichijou said. "It's weird for Kaname called his sister suddenly to this academy. Then, I saw something different from him few days lately."
"What different?" Ruka asked in worry.
Ichijou put his chin on his hand. "Well, I think Kaname is keeping some distance from anybody, including me." Then he sighed. "Geez, Kaname's mood easily changed since he came to this academy. As long as I knew, he is uncared about everything except his sister, but now... he is unpredictable... I can't know what he's thinking about right now."
"Who knows?" Ruka murmured. "Kaname-sama is unreadable."
Suddenly, all of them sense a strange presence. It is followed by a strong energy explosion that makes all of them trembling in fear. Everyone stares each other in worry and confusion. No one speak. Each of them is wandering what is this power and where it comes from. Then they know it. This power belongs to a vampire hunter, an anti-vampire weapon to be exact.
Then Ichijou stands up of his sofa. "Kaname!" he yelled and run to the stairs. He runs toward Kaname room and opens it.
He stands there; his eyes opened widely when he sees the curtain are blown by the wind. The windows are opened. And Kuran Kaname is nowhere to be found in that room.
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Ten minutes before
Her vision like crashed television: blurred and trembled. It shows her no more than a figure of a dark haired boy who only few years older than her. The boy comes to her with two hands opened, as if he wants to hug her. And it is what happens. The boy hugs her tightly. The boy's hug feels so warm. She will enjoy it, if the boy is not trembling while hugging her. She tries to releases herself from the boy, but can't. The boy doesn't let go of her. Then the trembling stop but the hug feels cold, make her feels eerie.
A hand falls upon her head. "I'm sorry, Nina."
Her heart is aching when he hears that voice. She had very bad feelings, afraid of what the boy can do to her. She afraid the boy will take something important for her.
"Please, don't! Please!" She doesn't know whether it's only her mind screaming or her mouth speaking. Before she figures out, everything goes dark.
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Cross Nina wakes up from the nightmare. Her body is sweating and trembling. She looks to left and then right. There is only tree around her. Right.
How could she forget? She went to this small wood of her school, looked for some quiet place to read the text books.
She turns to see the corridor not far from her; she can see the boys and girls walking there. It's still crowd, that mean it's still break time. She didn't sleep over. She breathes a sigh of relief.
Then Nina laid her back on the tree. Her head looks up at the leaves and the branches which protect her from direct sunlight. She closes her eyes slowly, let the trembles stop. Her mind wandering, tries to remember why she trembles like this. What kind of nightmares that makes her scared like a coward?
The figure of the boy appears again. Her neuron work, send the impulse to her brain and make some conclusion from the new information she got. Now she remember the dream: a figure of a dark-haired boy and the feelings that she felt when the boy touches her head... she feels like the boy will take something important, very important for her. But she does not know what.
Nina keeps repeating the boy's figure in her mind; don't want to forget all of his detail. Somehow, it felt like... the boy is familiar, like she used to meet him before.
"I'm sorry." The words, the voice, keep repeating on her mind. She tries to remember where she ever hears the sound or see the figure.
"What are you doing here, Miss Prefect?" That tender voice interfered wakes Nina up from her space out. The girl stands, face another girl in front of her.
The wind blows the girl's silver hair. The lavender eyes of her catch Nina. Actually, the face of the girl is as naive as another girl, but somewhat it feels so scary, like there is something more inside her.
Because the answer "It's none of your business" is cruel and rude, Nina chooses to answer: "I'm preparing myself for the exams. The corridor and classes are noisy."
The girl's smile grew wider, makes Nina feels eerie even more and wants to run from that place as soon as possible. "Is that so?"
She has to find logic answer to run from her or to get rid of her. "Maria-san, do you know that wandering in school on day is prohibited for the Night Class?" she asked her. Finally, she got one reason.
With guilty face that seems are fake, Kurenai Maria covers her mouth with one hand. And then, she let down her arms; put the right on the left arm on front side of her body. She looks down, stares at the grass around her feet: behave shyly. "I'm sorry, Miss Prefect. It looks like my practical jokes went too far. Now everyone in the class hates me."
She does not want to know what kind of practical jokes this girl did. Nina glad she wasn't there to watching it. Nina can tell from her imitated shy face that she does not really feels guilty or regret of what she did in the class. Actually, she looks enjoy it. Now she thinks about it, what this Maria want from her?
"Then what are you doing here, Maria-san? With me?" Nina asked bravely, although she afraid of what she could get as the answer.
Kurenai Maria walks aim to her. Her steps are soundless, like her body is made by wind or feathers. In an instant, the girl is right in front of her, in dangerous distance. Nina is trapped between her and the tree. She can't run. Now, the chairman's daughter feels like a mouse that trapped in cat's paw. Kurenai Maria looks straight into her eyes, as if she is trying to read all of her thoughts. Nina tries to behave bravely but the figure of that scary pureblood always appears in her eyes every time she stares at Kurenai Maria for more than few seconds. She can't reply her stares.
"I just want to know you better. Is that wrong? Since our first meeting was interfere by someone else." She raises her hand, trying to touches Nina. The girl freezes on her place. And then the cold hand of Kurenai Maria touches her cheeks. Every of her movements make her fear worse. Her hand is as cold as ice. She feels like she is frozen inside only by her touch. Then the hand moves to play with her hair. "Nee... Miss Prefect, my body is weak so I never came out of my house since I was children. I don't know how to interact with the others, especially in school. Can you teach me, Miss Prefect?"
She wants to answer with "Like the hell I want!" but for manners, she answers: "No problem. I-I will do my best, Maria-san."
"Yokatta!" The girl yelled happily, like a five years old child, and then she hugged her tightly. "Thank you, Miss Prefect."
Nina is too surprise to answer even just give a simply nod. Then she feels Maria looks up to her ear. "I really like a girl like you, Nina-san," she whispered. Her voice now, strangely, sounds more mature like it was not her who is speaking. Like there was someone else inside her. "A girl like you must have such a nice tasty blood..."
The silver haired girl plays with Nina's hair, wiped it. Nina can feel her neck is exposed.
"She will bare her fangs..." Nina thought in fear. The impulse which sent by Maria's voice makes her hand moves by its own, touches Artemis in its holster.
Maria keeps playing with Nina's hair, while the girl is already grasps artemis, take it out of its holster.
Then Nina lost her consciousness. Another instinct is taking control of her body. The eyes of her which usually full of life and warmth now seem hollow with no light of life, like a living corpse.
"Every vampire who bares her fangs in front of humans must..." In her hand, artemis trembling. A mysterious power is flowing onto it, fills it with enormous power, "...be killed!"
A second later, Maria gets herself hit a tree forcefully. She is thrown ten meters far from her stood place. Nina is standing in ready-for-battle position with full fledged artemis in her grip. Nina looks at her had-fallen-prey coldly; no mercy is seen in her eyes. There is only cautious in it. Electric pulse is still can be seen from artemis's body, it mean the anti-vampire weapon just barely attacked a vampire.
On the other side, Maria is trying to gets up, facing Nina once more. If it's human, they will faint and never wakes up again. But even if it's a vampire, if they get attacked by an anti-vampire weapon, it's almost impossible for them to gets up that fast. This silver girl, strangely, she can smiles calmly as if she feels no pain whereas the tree where she hit back then is cracked open on its body. The girl frowns when she fully stands up, touches her right shoulder. It looks like she isn't totally unwounded.
Again, strangely, Maria smiles at Nina. "The eyes that full of hatred..." she murmurs. "I see... I get it now."
"Maria-san!"
Nina's eyes opens wider when she sees another girl appear behind Kurenai Maria. The girl appears so sudden until Nina didn't sense any presence of her. This girl must be strong. And the reality said so. This girl is different from Maria. This dark haired girl is sensed stronger than her. This unknown new girl has a very dark aura which hidden behind her bright aura. She gets one conclusion: this girl is a pure blood vampire, the strongest and the most dangerous kind of vampires.
"I have to kill her too." Nina concluded.
Slowly, a new power streams down through her every bones and muscles. The power flow into artemis, make the anti-vampire weapon shivering. A light slowly appear from it, getting brighter and brighter each second. Nina let her power fills artemis until one hand stops it. She turns around to see who the fool who dares disturbs her. Right before her eyes, stands a dark-haired man who stares deeply at her.
A familiar feeling hit her chest, but she ignores it. This man is a pure blood too: a must-killed creature.
"Nina." Unexpectedly, the new guy grasps artemis. The electric sphere appears when his hand made a contact with its body.
Nina is surprises to see it. This is the first time she sees something like this. This pureblood is so stupid. Doesn't he know that this is an anti-vampire weapon? Of course he knows. That's why he grasps it. But then why he didn't let go of it? It will only hurt him.
Yeah who cares?
Nina notices that the pureblood's grasp on artemis is not tight. There is a chance for her. In one movement, she can let artemis go of him. Her gaze moves to the pureblood guy. Her gaze runs down to his neck. God, such a beautiful neck! His neck is so exposed... it looks like can be sliced by one swing. It must be awesome to see his head is severed from his body, seeing all those blood come out of him like rain from the sky. It must be beautiful. She begins to imagine how easy it would be. The sensation when she takes a life... it must be great...
The whole cruel thinks totally vanishes when two arms pulls her into a hard and muscular chest. The warmth covers her body when the hug grows tighter. The same familiar feelings hit her chest again. Now she had no strength to fight it. The feelings flow into her, create the warmth that relaxes her. Her grasp on artemis looses.
The pureblood guy leans down; drag himself closer to her ears. "It's okay now," he whispered.
The whisper makes her relax more. Then Nina closes her eyes completely.
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Kuran Kaname sinks the girl in his arms deeper to his chest. He hugs her tightly.
Nina almost went rampage just now. She attacked a student and if he didn't stop her right at the time, she would kill her.
Kaname stares at the fainted girl in his arms. He knew this will happen. He knew all the risk of accepting Kurenai Maria into this academy. He accepted all those risks, but now his heart ached when Nina stares at him with those cold-looking eyes. The eyes are hollow, filled only with emptiness and the strong intension of killing. The girl wanted to kill him just now. He has no doubt Nina will kill him mercilessly right here, right now, if she hadn't been stopped at the right time.
Now he can prevent it, but until when?
The thought hit his chest. The fact is always make him upset. He sinks her deeper to his chest. Even when her awareness has return, he never let her go.
Kaname stares directly at those black eyes when it's opened. The first time, the awareness is not fully recovered yet. Few seconds later, the eyes are opened in surprise. The girl pushes him. Now Kaname doesn't try to defend her. He let go of her.
"K-Kaname-senpai?" she snapped out surprisingly. Then she stared at artemis in her hand. She froze, gazed artemis in her hand and Kaname by turn, looking for some answers. Kaname knew what was on her mind. "W-why artemis... what..."
The pureblood prince stares at her intensively. He sighs. "Nina, come with me. We will meet chairman."
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"I never expect this accident could be happening." If there is a time when Kaien is in his scariest state, then this is the time. "And the worst part is... you were the one who did this, Nina. This is not what I expect from my own daughter."
Cross Nina looks down deeply, stares at her own feet. She feels so tiny right now, like a human who is standing among the titan. And the entire titan is looking at her with hungry eyes, ready to devour her on sight. She has no bravery to see her father. There is no logic explanation in her mind to be given to him. She doesn't want to defend herself, anyway. She is guilty, she admits it, likes or not.
She bows deeply. "Forgive me, Dad," That was the only thing that passes on her mind. "I'm sorry I have disappointed you."
She can hear her father sighed. God, her father never sighed that way before! "Nina I knew wasn't someone who would attack someone else randomly. Tell me, Nina, did Kurenai Maria do something bad on you?"
This words which out from his mouth makes Nina relief. Her father doesn't too mad at her. She stands in front of her father. For the first time since an hour ago, she dares to stare at him. However, her hands tremble greatly when she meets him on eyes. Her father is deadly serious now!
"She..." Nina stammered. She tries to remember anything but it's difficult. Her mind is foggy. Fortunately, the memories came back to her slowly. "She said... something." She shut her eyes to remember it. She tried hardly to remember.
"Said what?" Kaien asked.
Then the words that tumble from Maria's lips appear on her mind. Those disgusting and terrifying words... "She said taboo things." Nina answered firmly now. "She said that a girl like me had to have tasty blood."
Kaien put his finger below his chin, thinking seriously. He stares at Nina deeply and frowns, makes her heart beats faster. Several seconds later, he put his hands on table again. He stops frowning.
"Even so, that's not the right reason to attack someone else, Nina, whoever started it." Kaien stated firmly, there is no joke now. "I gave you artemis to defend yourself, not to hurt people. You understand?"
Nina looked down again. Her bravery is gone. "Wakarimashita."
"You may go now."
Nina walks aim to the door with no enthusiasm. She is never been scolded this worst before. As she walks, she thought hardly. She never stops thinking of what should she do now, to repair everything. Is she ready to meet Kurenai Maria again to say sorry?
"I think not." Nina thought pessimistically. It's not because she felt sorry for the girl or feeling guilty. The truth is...
That girl is truly scary! She must not come closer to her unless she comes to her first. Yes, that's a good idea! She doesn't have to think about it again. It's solved! Now the only think she has to think about is...
"Nina..." When she realized, she hasn't left the chairman's room yet. She is on her way to grasp the door's handle. She turns around to faces her father again.
"What?"
"If you have any problem, never hesitate to discuss it with me, will you?" Now, Kaien looked gentler than few seconds ago.
Nina gave him a tender smile. "Sure."
When she closes the door, she lays her back on it. She breathes a sigh and put her hand on her face in frustration. God, this is so frustrating! How this thing could happen?
Suddenly, her father's words pass on her mind. It surprises her. Why her father knows she has a problem?
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Fuala, end of the chapter! \(^-^)/
It's time to re:review
For myra k kuran: Thank you. And for your questions:
Zero? He is not here. But I've told you before that ichiru is here. You're free to guest what happen to Zero four years prior to this story.
Yuuki used to love Kaname as a lover before. But it's gone already. I will tell you why in later chapter.
For Gemini Slacker: Yep. I will make him like that. Besides, that's Kaname we all knew, right? Don't worry, everyone has their own fate, and they will meet that fate someday, sooner or later, including Nina.
