Vampire Knight Fanfic-
Mesa no owns Vampire Knight. (That bad Grammar) REVIEW OR PERISH!
Chapter 11-
I looked Ichiru up and down then smiled,
"HELLO! It's good to meet you!"
I bowed excitedly, what so I can't be excited about meeting Zero's little twin brother? He was apparently quite shocked at this. I leaned against the wall,
"What are you doing here? Did you want to talk to me about something?" Ichiru blinked and smiled sweetly,
"Yes and I also just wanted to talk and get to know you better. You're Zero's girlfriend right?" my eyes narrowed,
"Not positive at the moment." I growled and he tilted his head quizzically,
"Oh really, why?" I thought this over, if he already knew my real last name he must know about the fact I'm a vampire, I pursed my lips in question,
"If it has something to do with your vampire nature it's fine I know." I smiled,
"Okay then, Zero just pissed me off with a false accusation." I didn't feel like saying anything more than that and I think Ichiru understood that.
"Oh well that's too bad. You seem like you need to get that off your mind. Do you want to go for a walk with me?" I thought about it but I could handle myself so I shrugged,
"Sure why not."
He led the way with a gallant wave of his arm. I snickered and walked ahead. He moved beside me and started a simple conversation on my life and how things were going. I kept most things hidden but then he brought up my skills with a gun and my heart almost exploded with pride,
"It's not just a gun. I am skilled in every weapon you could think of and more." He smiled,
"Oh really? What's your top three?"
"Oh that's simple; gun, bow and arrow and dagger, sword is in close fourth." He nodded,
"I saw you use your gun, I'm not sure how you can demonstrate your skills with a dagger but I would love to see your skills with a bow and arrow." He said happily, I laughed.
"You are so much more polite than your brother and I always love to show off so why not? My bow and arrow are in my room. I believe you can come with me to the outside of the dorm but you can't come in."
I smiled easily but I was still watching his every move, he may be nice but everyone has something hidden and I think his was pretty big.
We walked back to the dorm and I talked leisurely about whatever I could think of, usually random things that would usually annoy the crap out of Zero but Ichiru took them all in stride. We reached the dorm and he stood against the wall to wait. I went to my room and grabbed everything I needed, bow and arrows, duh. I walked out and went to show off. I found Ichiru exactly where I had left him. He dipped his head in greeting,
"Where shall we go?"
I went over the school grounds in my head and chose the small pine forest on the north side of the campus. The trees were thin and would be a slight challenge to hit.
"The north side of campus." He nodded and allowed me to lead.
Unlike Zero he kept up polite conversation with me. When we arrived I looked at him,
"I can hit almost anything from right here, pick my target."
His eyes narrowed and he pointed to a small birch tree a good three hundred yards away,
"I bet you cant hit that." I smirked,
"Oh really?"
I fell into stance and knocked my arrow. I closed one eye and got the tree in my sights, factored in the wind and gravity and let the arrow fly. I lowered my bow and smiled when it hit dead center. Ichiru whistled,
"I have been proven wrong. You're amazing." I nodded,
"I know." We laughed and I heard someone walking through the forest, no running through the forest. Zero burst through the forest. He took one look at Ichiru and grabbed me, pulling me into his arms protectively.
"ZERO! LET ME GO!" I screamed fighting against his iron grip. He ignored me,
"What did you do Ichiru?" he growled and Ichiru shrugged, the warmth in his eyes gone,
"I did nothing, just talked."
I kept fighting against Zero and he finally looked down on me,
"Luna are you alright?" he had true concern in his voice. His eyes looked me up and down for injuries as if I needed him to protect me at all times.
"I was fine until you grabbed me! Ichiru was very kind to me and he didn't do anything. Now let… me… GO!" I screamed and finally broke his grasp.
I stalked away from him until I was closer to Ichiru than him. I turned and gave Zero the coldest glare I could muster. He didn't return the glare he only gave me a look filled with sorry,
"Look Luna…" he started to apologize but I cut him off,
"Don't start Zero." I growled and glared at him,
"Well seeing the air is almost becoming poisonous from both of your hatreds towards each other, lets go."
I grabbed Ichiru's arm and dragged his away, ignoring Zero's pained look. After I got pretty far away from there I turned on Ichiru,
"Look, I don't care what happened in your past but I hate seeing siblings, especially twins, fight so I want it to stop. At least when I'm around that is. You got that?" he nodded,
"I understand, thanks for standing up for me." I waved it off,
"I'm sure you would've been just fine without me too." He smiled and shrugged,
"Probably but it would've been more difficult. He seemed very sad when he looked at you. Did you notice?" I scoffed,
"Sure did, don't care one bit though. He messed up big time, thinking I needed protection, accusing me of wanting to devour people…" I shook my head in disgust. Ichiru nodded understandably,
"Ya Zero can be a jerk sometimes." I laughed,
"Sometimes?" he joined me in laughter and I yawned,
"I need to go. I have class in about an hour or two so I need to get ready. Bye Ichiru."
I turned and jogged away from him going towards the dorm. About halfway there I sensed someone there but I ignored it, this was a school of course there were people around. I was wrong to ignore it. I saw a flash of silver and then I was pinned to a tree. I glared at my attacker,
"Zero get off of me." I told him calmly but I made sure he knew my threat, then I remembered I left my bow in the forest, I'd have to go get it tomorrow.
"Not until you listen to me." I sighed and relaxed slightly, waiting,
"Look, I'm sorry I was stupid to say what I did in the stables. I didn't mean it. And I guess I'm sorry for protecting you. It's just automatic. Please forgive me."
I looked at him and I knew he was telling the truth. I relaxed me glare and smiled,
"I guess I did over react a little." He snickered and I glared playfully, then pressed my lips gently against his,
"I forgive you, now can you let me go? There's a tree knot stabbing me in the back."
He laughed and stepped back, I moved away from the tree and rubbed my spine. I was such an idiot, thinking I could stay mad at Zero to long.
"Well, lets go. We have class in an hour or so."
He frowned and grabbed my hand and this time he dragged me somewhere. I grumbled and tried to shift our course to the dorms but he was going somewhere else,
"Zerooo! We need to go to the dormssss! I NEED SLEEP!" I whined and he just snickered.
He led me to the woods and wound through the trees with expertise. I had no idea where we were or where we were going. I started jerking me arm a little more forcefully but he still didn't budge. He finally stopped at a waterfall I didn't even know existed in the Academy. It was beautiful but if he had brought me here when I needed to sleep just to see this…
"This place is pretty but I want to know why you brought me here at five am when I should be sleeping."
He snickered again and pulled me towards the cliffs over the waterfall. From there I could see the entire academy. I still hadn't figured out why I was here.
"So are you going to tell me why I'm here besides a pretty view?" he looked at me and smiled slightly,
"I found this place when I didn't want to go to class. No one can find us and the grass is quite comfortable to sleep on." I smirked,
"Why thank you. I needed that. Except it was to be my first day back… oh well."
I jumped down the cliff and landed like a cat, Zero was right, the grass was comfy. I smiled and patted the grass next to me,
"Come join me Zero. You must be tired too." He nodded and made his way down the rocks a little slower. When he got there he sat down and curled up beside him, to tired to notice the person hiding in the shadows of the trees.
I woke to a sharp burning in my neck. I shot up and clawed at my necklace. The smell of burning skin filtered through my nose, suffocating me. The pain ended and Zane's voice filtered through my mind,
"I thought we agreed you would keep your distance from Kiryu so you wouldn't hesitate when the time comes to kill him."
"I agreed no such thing." I gasped; I noticed Zero was still asleep. Wow, he must be really tired.
"Well then let me rephrase that. Don't get close to Kiryu so you will not hesitate when the time comes."
"Oh what you bastard?" I snarled,
His response was a pain three times as painful as usual burned across my neck. I screamed and curled on the ground. Zero woke up at my scream.
"Luna? What's wrong? Luna? LUNA!"
I couldn't respond, I just kept withering on the ground. The world went black causing the burning to finally subside.
I woke up and my hand covered my face at the sudden bright light. I opened my eyes and studied my hand it was also burned and black marks circled along my palm. I gasped and sat up quickly. The blood rushed to my head and the world spun briefly but I got up anyway and searched for a mirror. I walked shakily into an adjacent bathroom and pushed the door open, walking in. I moved over to the mirror and threw my hair away from my neck and leaned to the mirror. My neck was covered in bandages I frowned and ripped them off. My neck was red all around the necklace and, with the little space I could I moved the necklace. I forced myself not to wince from the pain and studied the injuries. I had a chain of black skin right where the beads had been.
"Damn, he went to far this time." I snarled mentally.
I paced the bathroom then turned and locked the door. I wanted to be alone. I kept pacing for hours, listening to people coming in, freaking out and running away no one even thought about the bathroom so I was still alone. I paced and paced until I got bored of that and just sat in a corner and thought. Zane needed to die, I needed to talk to Kaname but I needed to find out how. I finally heard a knock on the door but I didn't answer,
"Luna you sent the academy into a state of panic, come out and tell everyone you haven't run away and you're not dead." I heard Zero's voice filter through the door. I sighed and opened the door, he smiled and I forced myself to smile in return.
"I've been here the whole time, I want to know what took them so long to find me." He snickered,
"They expected you to be long gone. Now tell me, what happened? I just woke up and you were screaming." He looked at me in concern.
"I did something Zane didn't want me to do."
I gestured to my necklace his eyes narrowed. My one remaining tattoo tingled. It was the hunter's seal like Zero had. It tingled whenever something bad was about to happen.
"So Zane did this to you?" he snarled and I looked away, not answering.
He stood up and I looked at him in alarm,
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to go kill that bastard." He snarled
"Zero, you can't kill him, not yet. The time is not right."
I grabbed his arm and pulled him over to a chair, forcing him to sit. He grumbled, grabbed my waist and pulled me onto his lap. I sighed and leaned against him. Then a random question popped into my mind,
"Hey Zero." He grunted,
"When you woke up to me screaming, what were you thinking?" he stared at me and blinked,
"Huh, I don't actually remember. I think it might've been something like, 'what the hell. WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER? IS SHE OKAY?"
I snickered then the chairman and Yuuki ran into the room, panting about not being able to find me. They saw me and froze,
"Luna? WHERE WERE YOU?" I pointed to the bathroom,
"I was pacing and thinking in the bathroom." The chairman starting crying in happiness,
"You had us so worried!" he ran over and hugged me, catching Zero in the process. We both jumped away and glared at the Chairman.
"I am fine. You don't need to worry about me."
I looked out the small window and discovered it was night. I sighed and grabbed my shoes and got ready to go back to the dorm. I put my shoes on did a quick pat down of my arms, waist and my legs than scanned the room. My daggers were missing, all four of them. Finally something glinted and I turned to face it. On a table hidden slightly behind everything else held my daggers. Everyone was watching me as I almost skipped down to them and grabbed them. I walked back over to the bed and sat down, placing each dagger in it's place with practiced movements. I picked up my final one, the Dragon Dagger and smiled at it. This was my most powerful dagger; it got me through all of Zane's mock battles and his crazy tests. I clicked it gently into place and let my sleeve fall over it. Then I stood up and stretched,
"Well, I'm going to my dorm, BYE!"
I ran out the door, leaving no time for responses. I sprinted down the hall and out the door, running into someone and falling backwards.
"Ooow!" I groaned and I looked who I had run into I saw silver and I knew at once it wasn't Zero,
"Hello Ichiru, how are ya?" He smiled under his mask,
"I am doing well but what about you?" I shrugged.
"I'm fine. I've gotta go, see ya." I walked away but I knew he was following me so I turned back,
"Yes…?" I asked, annoyed.
"I wanted to ask you something." He asked,
"Ask away." I smiled a little,
"You seem to be a skilled fighter…" I eyed his carefully,
"Yes…" where was he going with this?
"Do you think you could help me kill someone?" I blinked in shock,
"Huh? Who?"
"A vampire, he's been attacking someone dear to me and I think I need your help to kill him."
"And he is…" I trailed off… again. He wasn't giving me many details, which made me worried,
"His name is Kuro Shinu." I gasped, I knew him! He was one of Zane's associates,
"You know him?" I nodded and thought it over,
"Why can't you do it Ichiru?"
"I am not strong enough. Would you please help?" I shrugged,
"Sure why not? It's a good way to get back at Zane." I turned away and I didn't see his victorious smirk.