A/N: I want to give a big thank you to everyone who reviewed in the last chapter. So I really want to start doing more things when I update, so I'll be adding some things to the author's notes. I'll try to do this with all my stories. I'll have the Review Corner, which is where I'll post my favorite reviews from the previous chapter. I'll probably always do a quote that reminds me of the chapter you're about to read, or just one I love. I'll also be putting the song I'm listening to while I post the chapter, just so you guys can see some cool songs to look up.

Review Corner:

Sky Fairies: I always support nalu so reading this was kinda unexpected for me. But it was really good! The story is amazing and well written. I look forward to more!

AttackonKings: well then poor Gray...he really loves her and kisses her and then that happens. This reminds me a lot of Vampire Knight. I probably already said that, but it is so similar. It's like the opposite point of view. I love it so much and I can't wait for next week because GrayLu week! excitement! :]

Quote: Only a vampire can love you forever. ~Anonymous

Song: Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romace 3 Obsessed with this song! There's actually a great AMV for Fairy Tail on YouTube for it.

One more thing! This is very important. I'm actually planning to right a novel. Exciting, I know. Anyways, the main character of my novel (when I actually get around to write it) is appearing in this story! I really want to add her to some of my stories to mess around with her, you know, see what kind of personalities I like with her best. I really want you all to tell me what you think of her as the story goes on. If you want to see what she looks like visually, I have (I believe) one picture on my DeviantART and multiple on my Instagram. So make sure to check that out :)

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Gray tapped his fingers against his desk impatiently. Lucy wasn't in class yet, and he was bored. It's been a week since Yukino, Sting, and Rogue left on their special mission, and Lucy seemed bored as well. Apparently night was hell for her without them. They weren't even allowed to go hunting. He was sure he would have been bored if he were in their situation.

"Lucy isn't here?" Erza asked, sitting in her seat. Gray shrugged. "I figured you would know why."

"Why would I know?" Gray noticed that everyone seemed to be waiting for him to say where she is.

"Aren't you two dating?" Natsu asked.

"What? No!" Gray felt his face heating up.

"You guys seem to be super close. We just assumed," Loke said. He pushed his glasses up on his face. "But since you aren't, I guess she's available."

"I would never date you," Lucy said, taking her seat. Everyone's faces lit up. "I just had a little complication so I'm running late. Nothing to worry about." A deadly beast terrorizing the town was something to worry about, but she killed it.

Gray noticed that she had a bit of blood on her cheek. He quickly wiped it away with his thumb. She smiled, silently thanking him. Their little scene, luckily, went unnoticed.

"Gildharts?" another teacher asked, opening the door to the classroom. "I have your new student here." He pushed the student inside before closing the door and leaving.

A girl with electric blue hair stood in the front of the room. The bangs framing her face reached her chin, and the rest of her hair was tied up in a pony-tail. She wore a black skirt and an orange hoodie. She had combat boots on her feet. Everyone watched as she unwrapped a lollipop and stuck it in her mouth. She had beautiful crystal eyes.

"My name is Kiruka Yukimura," the girl introduced herself. "It's a pleasure to be in class with you all." She let out a typical schoolgirl giggle. Gildharts told her to sit wherever, so she sat in the empty seat beside Gray.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Erza said. She quickly introduced the group.

Kiruka jumped up and sat on Gray's desk, crossing her legs. She smiled sweetly at Lucy. She pulled a lollipop from her pocket. "Would you like one?" she asked kindly.

Lucy smiled back and reached out to grab it. She felt a stab of electricity go through her hand the second she grabbed the candy. It fell to the floor and shattered. A strong scent filled her nose. It was like rotting flesh and blood. She resisted the urge to gag.

"Oh my! We're a bit clumsy, aren't we?" Kiruka giggled again. "Don't worry, I have many more." She pulled another one out. "Perhaps one that isn't so strong?" She waved it in the air. The scent was strong enough that Lucy could smell it, even through the paper.

"I need to use the restroom!" Lucy quickly blurted out, hurrying out of the room. She panted as she went down the hallway, using the wall for support. She managed to get to the roof. A huge wave of thirst hit her all at once until she felt so dizzy she fainted, something she always wondered if she could do.

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"Kiruka, why don't you sit with us?" Levy asked. Kiruka smiled and agreed, sitting down at the packed table.

"What school did you move from?" Erza asked, trying to start conversation.

"I was home-schooled," Kiruka said. She unwrapped another lollipop to eat.

"You eat those a lot," Natsu said. "Are you addicted to them or something?"

"They're all I ever eat, actually," Kiruka laughed. "It's a special diet I found online."

"You're beautiful just as you are," Loke said, grabbing her hands. "I wouldn't change anything about your beautiful body."

"It's good to know that someone thinks that," Kiruka said, smiling at the playboy.

Gray rolled his eyes. It was just like Loke to go after the new students. He felt a vibration in his pocket. He quickly pulled out his phone and saw a number he didn't know. He answered it anyways, and he was glad that he did.

"G-Gray?"

"Kara?" Gray asked, eyes wide. "How did you get my number?"

"That doesn't matter. Can you come get me?"

"What's wrong?" The distress in her voice was obvious.

"Something's wrong with me. I got really thirsty and I feel funny. I-I wanted to drink someone's blood. Why did I have that urge? I'm really scared, Gray."

"Why didn't you call Lucy? She would be able to help you more than I could." Gray noticed that he caught the attention of everyone at the table. He needed to watch what he said.

"Her phone was in my backpack. She must have put it in mine on accident. Will you just come and get me? We can research this at the library."

Gray bit his lip nervously and looked towards the office. He could lie and say that his sister was sick, but then she would have to fake sickness. Would it be safe to have her go to the nurse? He realized what he could do. "I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Thank you."

He snapped his phone shut and sighed. Family emergency it was. He noticed that everyone was still looking at him funny.

"Is everything okay?" Lisanna asked. "It sounds like whoever Kara is is having some troubles."

"Uh, yeah." Kara was having quite the problem at the moment. Lucy said before that Kara hadn't hit "vampire puberty," as she put it so he would understand, so she wasn't as strong and didn't crave blood. But it seems like she may have started it. She wanted to drink human blood, after all.

"Listen, I have to get going," Gray said. "Will one of you guys take my tray up?" He didn't even wait for someone to say they would.

After convincing the nurse that he was extremely ill, Gray was on his way to the middle school. It was very easy to ask the office to let him take Kara. They even let him go to her classroom to get her, which was nice.

He knocked on the classroom door twice, and he saw the teacher wave him inside. "If it isn't Gray," she said, smiling. "It's been a while. How are you?"

"I'm good, Miss Kagura," he sad, scratching the back of his neck. "I just came for my, uh, Kara." He didn't even think of making an excuse of how they were related. He saw that Wendy was in the room, so he couldn't say sister, since she was his actual sister.

"Have a good day, Sweetie," Miss Kagura said to Kara before going back to writing on the board.

Kara quickly packed her backpack up. She moved over to Gray a little too fast. He grabbed her shoulders, trying to get her to calm down. He looked and Wendy and Romeo were the only ones watching him. He smiled and waved before leaving.

"Mmm, you do smell good," Kara said, leaning back into Gray as he led them out of the school. "Lucy told me you did before, but I never knew what she meant."

"She said that?" Gray asked, blushing. Kara nodded, leaning into him more. "I won't be able to walk if you do that any more."

"Carry me," Kara sighed, almost falling to the ground. She seemed to be in a total daze. Gray really didn't understand vampires sometimes. He picked her up anyways. He was a bit nervous when she put her face in the crook of his neck, but he was confident that she wouldn't bite him.

"Is there anyone you could call to ask about this?" Gray asked. "Lucy never really went through this since she was old enough to have been through it already, right?"

"Rogue or Yukino," Kara said.

"Are they both like you?" Gray didn't want to say vampire, since Lucy warned him about that.

"Sting is, too." Kara's eyes went red. She felt her fangs pop out. His neck was completely in reach. She found herself licking his neck.

"Kara, don't," Gray said sternly. Lucy's told him before that once you drink human blood you can't go back. That's what she's heard, at least. And Kara needed to learn to control her urged.

"But you smell really good." Kara took in a big whiff of his scent. He tensed up.

"You'll never forgive yourself if you do." He was getting desperate.

"But your blood will be so sweet, since you're a virgin."

Gray found himself blushing a deep red. He wasn't sure if she meant virgin by no one ever drinking his blood or the most common term, but he figured either way she would be wrong. But still, it was embarrassing to think that either of those would change the taste of your blood.

"Lucy!" Kara suddenly yelled, falling out of his arms. She ended up on the ground. She was pouting towards the school. "She's on the roof."

"You can tell?" Gray asked, completely shocked.

"I just got my extreme sense of smell at school. That's why I could smell you now. But I know that Lucy wears vanilla perfume, and Rogue always tells me that she smells like the sweetest strawberries. So I know it's her. Get on my back and I'll jump up."

Gray pouted as he got on her back, surprised that she could carry him. He didn't like how Rogue described Lucy's scent. Quite frankly, it made him jealous. How could he compete with a guy that knew every detail about Lucy and could protect her?

All his jealously slipped away when he saw Lucy collapsed on the roof. He ran over, dropping to his knees at her side. Kara was just standing above her, completely stunned.

"Give me your arm," Gray said. She titled her head in confusion as she did so. He checked to see if she had a pulse, so he could compare it to Lucy's. She had one that was just weaker than a human's. Then he checked Lucy's. "It's like she's asleep."

Kara rolled Lucy over onto her back and lifted her eyelid. "Her eyes are red. I don't know if it's possible, but she probably fainted since she didn't have enough blood."

"Then we need to give her some," Gray said. He was wondering if the would carry her back for some or if Kara had extra with her. He saw her lean down so her neck was by Lucy's mouth. "No, don't do that."

"She needs blood," Kara said. "I wouldn't be able to carry her back home. I'm not that strong. Jumping up here was extremely hard with you on my back."

"I'll just carry her," Gray said. "We won't be able to go as fast as you would want, but we'll get there." He easily lifted Lucy up like a baby. "We have to jump."

"But-"

"No, just jump," Gray cut her off. She nodded dryly and jumped. He went over to the edge, sucked in a deep breath, and jumped off the three-story building. He hit the ground hard, attempted to do a roll, and slid across the pavement.

"Are you okay?" Kara asked nervously, running over. She gasped when we saw that Gray was bleeding. His arms were all torn up and large slashes were in his jeans.

"Run home without us. Get some blood and go do your thing in the library. I'll take care of Lucy," Gray commanded. He knew that he would hurt himself with that fall, but it was something he had to do. "Just go!"

"Please take care of her," Kara said. She would have been crying if she was able. She turned around and ran home.

Gray groaned as he stood up. He took his shirt off and ripped it into strips, tying it around his arms wherever he was bleeding. He just let his legs go.

The walk to Lucy's was very long. He had to take back ways so no one saw him bleeding and tried to help him. He was more than happy to be able to step through the door. But that changed quickly.

When he stepped inside, he saw Yukino coming out of the kitchen. Her eyes went wide. "You're that kid," she said. "What's wrong with Lucy?"

"She collapsed at school," Gray said. He noticed that there were a lot of bags in the living room. "Did you guys just get back?"

"You must be the boy Kara was crying to Rogue about," Yukino said in a not-so-friendly tone.

"You know, it's quite odd for a mother to run off on a vacation with her daughter's boyfriend," Gray said, acting innocent. He knew that Yukino didn't know that he knew about what they were.

"Let's not worry about that. We need to take care of Lucy and yourself. Mind telling me what happened?" Yukino asked skeptically. She took Lucy from him and set her on the couch.

"Yukino, Rogue wanted me to ask-" Sting stopped talking when he saw Gray. He followed a stream of blood down his leg that pooled into his shoes. He took a step forward, but held himself back further. He was pretty good around humans, but not heavily bleeding ones.

"Sting, just go back downstairs," Yukino said, suddenly realizing the situation. Gray was bleeding a lot, and he was in a house with Sting, who had never been around bleeding humans. She wasn't aware that Kara was home, or she would have been worried about that as well.

"He smells...tainted," Sting said, his eyes wide. "Some one had drank his blood before."

Yukino snapped her gaze to Gray. She could smell it, too. There was a distinct smell of vampire on him. "You know about what people call 'vampires?'"

Gray's eyes went wide. "Vampires? Are you serious? They are just something people made up to scare each other," he quickly spat out. He really couldn't afford to have them find out, especially if they were able to smell Lucy on him. "Are you saying that they're actually real?"

Yukino leaned over so she could whisper in Sting's ear. "You're such an idiot!" she hissed. "He was probably bitten then had his memory erased."

"I thought there weren't any others around?" Sting asked quietly.

Yukino shrugged and turned back to Gray. "Thank you for taking Lucy home. How about I take you to the hospital to patch you up, free of charge?"

Gray was a bit skeptical. He wasn't sure if she was being nice or planning to analyze him more. "Thanks, but I'm not too far from home," he decided to play it safe. He quickly thanked them again before leaving.

"Go tell Rogue that we're going out," Yukino told Sting. "Make sure you tell him to figure out what's wrong with Lucy."

"Where are we going?" Sting asked. He figured they would follow Gray.

"We are just going to go to the mall to shop around. I think Rogue and Lucy need some alone time to talk," Yukino said. "Besides, I have to keep up with the current fashions, right? I haven't bought clothes since last year. My amazing assortment of clothing can't be lacking in any department."

Sting rolled his eyes and went to get Rogue, who was sitting in the library reading a random book he grabbed from the shelves. The blonde quickly relayed the message before leaving the house.

When Rogue got upstairs, he was a little worried to see a the state Lucy was in. He wasted no time in flashing them downstairs to one of the many random sitting rooms. It was quite obvious that she needed blood, so he opened her mouth and stuck his wrist inside. She automatically bit down, starting to drink his blood.

Lucy woke up after a couple minutes. Her eyes fluttered open, and Rogue pulled his wrist from her mouth. She looked up at him in confusion. "Rogue?"

"Don't talk right now." He pressed her face to his neck so she could drink a little more. When she was finished he continued talking. "Why didn't you drink blood if you were thirsty? You have to be extremely thirsty to pass out."

Lucy scrunched her eyebrows together. She couldn't remember when she fainted. She vaguely remembered going to school that morning, so she really had no clue. "Why didn't you tell me about Yukino?" she suddenly asked, changing the subject completely.

"What did you want me to say?" Rogue asked, his face showing honest confusion.

"I just figured you would mention the girlfriend you've been with for five hundred years. That's kind of a big deal. It's the longest relationship I've ever heard of," she rambled.

Rogue actually chuckled a little. "You think that Yukino is my girlfriend?"

"Of course I do. I saw you guys kissing." She didn't understand why this was all so funny to him. They've known each other for five hundred years. That couldn't have been the first time that they kissed, considering that they are childhood friends.

"You make the wildest assumptions." He leaned forward so his forehead was against hers. "Didn't you know that lip blood is way stronger than blood from your neck?" He gave a slight tug on her bottom lip with his one fang, splitting it open. She gasped slightly. It actually felt good to have someone drink her blood, but it was on a whole other level then. It didn't even make sense to her. He bit his one lip, so she licked his blood. He was totally right. How did she never realize this? Blood tasted different from different parts of your body. It made sense in a way.

"So does that mean you aren't interested in Yukino?" Lucy didn't know why she cared so much. She honestly felt like she wasn't that close to him anymore. And she may have started to have feelings for Gray. But that also could be blood lust. She just wished there was someone to ask.

"Not romantically." He touched his finger to her lip, healing it just about instantly. She laughed and did the same to him, but I didn't heal quite as fast. "You probably know better than anyone that I'm awful at expressing my emotions." He paused a moment, looking thoughtful. "Did you really kiss that kid from school?"

Lucy was taken aback. Was he jealous? And could she lie to his face? Apparently she could. "It was more like we turned around and bumped into each other. It didn't even mean anything." For some reason, she felt a pang in her heart when she said that, even though it never really happened.

"You know, Sting told me he loves you," Rogue said. That surprised Lucy since he was being so open about it. "I really don't think I can share with him." He lightly bit at her neck, only drawing a little blood. "Did you know that you can read the emotions of whoever's blood you suck?"

"How?" she asked breathlessly. She wondered if he was reading her emotions at that moment.

"If the blood is hot, the person is angry. If it's cold they're happy. Bitter means they're scared. Sweet means love. And super metallic means confused." He licked up more blood that surfaced to her neck wound. "You can never tell exactly why they feel the way they do. Sting's blood could be sweet, but you would never know who he loves unless he tells you."

"What does my blood taste like?" She just had to ask.

"It's almost too sweet." He was smirking like an idiot.

It was odd because as soon as he said her blood was sweet, an image of Gray popped in her mind. Did she like him beyond friendship? She didn't know.