Vampire Knight

Innocence

A VK Fanfiction

Vampire Knight

Innocence

Night 21

Merged

It was an ordinary day. The sun was shining brightly up in the afternoon sky and the kids were running around in the park. There was laughter, and giggles and love filled the air. It was love that covered the ground with blood…

If he closed his eye he could see it all before him: Kira, the Hunters Circle's Princess, stolen from them, right before their eyes. The Pureblood seemed to come from nowhere, hungry and thirsty. He attacked the kids without a second thought and grabbed the first one he could. Which sadly was Kira.

She was torn away from Kaito's arms, and the Hunters chased the Pureblood to a cemetery. It was here, that Yagari wished he was a real Saisho. A destroyer. A monster, just like the Vampires. When they rounded the corner, Kira was limp in the Pureblood's hands, blood spilled onto the Pureblood's chest, all over Kira's clothes. And the damned Vampire sobbed. Cried like he knew Kira. Cried like he loved her. Wana grabbed his daughter and Kaien kept the Pureblood safe.

It was here that the Hunters Circle slowly started to separate and fall away. Yagari wondered what would have happened if they had stayed close together. Would Senji still be alive now? Would Ichiru have been different? Would Zero be a Vampire?

Yagari blew out a cloud of smoke and leaned back in his chair as his memories twirled and twisted back to a time where his precious students were still children, "I wonder what would have changed had that Pureblood not ripped us apart."

No one knew who the Pureblood was, or what he wanted with Kira or long he'd been watching her. It was the first time someone directly attacked one of them, and Yagari considered it a personal offense. Just like when Shizuka Hio attacked the Kiryuus and he came out of retirement to hunt her down––

Kenni stopped doing his homework and looked up, "Something is different…the winds are changing…"

"A Mary Poppins reference isn't going to help you with math, kid," Yagari snapped. But Kenni didn't stop staring out of the window. His eyes locked on the moon, "Oi, kid. Focus on math."

Kenni looked at Yagari with a blank stare, "Where is Kira?"

Yagari blinked, "She's…um…out. She left the Association, and we're hoping that she'd come back for you."

"Okay, but where is she now?" Kenni asked, "Is she okay?"

Yagari took the cigarette out of his mouth, "Why do you ask?"

Kenni looked out of the window and stared at the moon, "The wind changes when she's not okay…," he stood up suddenly and walked around the table.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?!" Yagari demanded as he shot to his feet and grabbed Kenni's sleeve, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to find my sister," Kenni replied. He shook Yagari off, "Dad will know where she is. And he's probably at the Association. So I'll ask him."

"You aren't allowed in the office if you aren't a Hunter, Kenni-kun," Yagari snapped as he followed the kid.

"Then I guess I'm going to be a Hunter," Kenni replied as he shrugged into his jacket and wrapped his scarf around his head.

§Vampire Knight§

Innocence

"When you wake up, you won't exist anymore. Just like we planned…have our plans changed? Or have you changed?"

Her eyes fluttered open slowly. They seemed to glow in her snow white face. Her hair and skin was stained with blood and her lips had a blue tinge to them. She sat up slowly, throwing her legs over the metal bed where she laid. Surrounded by the bodies of her fallen comrades.

"How is this possible?"

Wana stepped forward and gently caressed his daughter's matted hair and tucked it behind her ear, "She won't respond now. It will take her a while to remember everything. She's just a shell now."

"Her heart stopped, Wana. Stopped. She was dead in my arms. We're in a morgue for god's sake! I held her dead body in my hands."

"Kira cannot die by losing blood or any other trivial deaths like humans can," he kissed his daughter's forehead. "She can only die like a Vampire. But this works to my advantage. Too many people know about her ability and Bakemono is still abusing it despite all the warnings. Her death will mean that she is safe…no one will hurt her. It's better this way."

"Better for who?" Kaien demanded, he slammed one of the metal tables behind Wana, "Wana, what is going on?!"

Wana turned to Kaien while Kira still stared ahead. His hand never left his daughter's shoulder. Wana sighed, "Do you remember that sunny day when that Pureblood took Kira and drank her blood?"

"It's a day I wish I could forget," Kaien hissed.

"Me too," Wana glared over his shoulder at Kaien, "Where you protected the Pureblood that killed my daughter," Wana tucked Kira's hair behind her ear. "Except, that damn Pureblood came back when you were fighting our brothers. He said he could help. He gave his blood to Kira while she lay there and she came back to me, back to life. I waited for years for her to fall to a Vampire state, but it never came," Wana pulled Kira to his chest. "And for some reason, his blood didn't change Kira's. It mutated with hers and she's neither human nor Vampire. She's not even a half-breed. My dear daughter just exists."

"So when we all thought Kira died––," Kaien felt his heart stop for a second. He didn't want to protect the Pureblood because of what he'd done to Kira, but he couldn't betray Juuri like that. Not after all the hard work he'd done to change.

"Kira died that day, that night she woke up, completely healed and completely human. Except when a few years later Kana was killed by a Level E and Kira brought her back from the dead," Wana kissed his daughter's forehead, "I brought Bakemono in to see if he could help my daughter. It was then that we discovered the mutation. Because Kira died and came back, she is able to send her energy to others that have died as well and bring them back, just as the Vampire did for her. Bakemono stole blood from Kira for years, modified it and sold it off to the highest bidder who wanted to bring someone back from the dead."

"Like Takahiro," Kaien cursed. He rubbed his chin, he had no idea that Kira's blood was so powerful, "What about Ramona? Who brought her back from the dead?"

"Ramona was never dead," Wana shrugged. "Senji lied about her being dead so when the twins asked when they got older everyone would tell them the same thing. Azumi and I were the only ones who knew where Ramona was."

Kaien cursed again and leaned against the steal table for strength, "A mutation? But how did Ramona find out that it was a secret when no one else knew?"

"We're the cursed Hunters, remember?" Wana whispered. He hugged Kira close to him, "We're cursed, as are our children. I've been fortunate that Kana and Kenni are safe but my little Kira…," Wana buried his face in Kira's hair. "I can never protect her. I've tried and it always backfired on me. She had to leave herself, keep herself safe. That's why she always ran…but Bakemono always found her."

"Why don't you just kill Bakemono?" Kaien demanded, "Slaughter him? No one would hate you, Wana. You wouldn't be considered a Saisho."

"I would if I could," Wana replied with a sad sigh, "But Kira brought him back from the dead for a reason. If he is to die it must be by her hand or else she could die, too," he chuckled slightly. "I'm too afraid to risk it."

"Wana, what did the Pureblood say?" Kaien was beside him now, furious that he hadn't know this secret but also fearful for where the girl's ability might take her.

"The Pureblood has a special ability to manipulate blood and he wanted to turn Kira into a Vampire. Apparently my beloved daughter is not easily manipulated and the absorbed his blood into hers," Wana kissed her forehead, "The Pureblood has a deep regard for her. I'm not sure if he loves her or is fascinated with her or both. He stalks her though. That's how I know about Bakemono. Kira hasn't told me for some or other reason. Probably to keep that idiot safe."

"So Kira is unable to die under normal circumstances? She has to be killed through the heart?" Kaien asked. Wana nodded, "But that means she's immortal as well?"

"Well, she'll live longer than the rest of us, maybe," Wana kissed the top of her head again, "This is the second time she's died. Perhaps I need to make her disappear completely. Take the advantage and run and keep my daughter safe."

"…no, dad…," Kaien felt his heart stop for the third time today. Wana pushed his daughter away and looked at her, "I can't leave them…I just found them again…"

Kira's eyes were still glazed over, her speech was slow and shaky, but it was Kira sitting before Kaien. He grabbed her hand, "Kira-chan, perhaps you should disappear? Your ability is powerful and unknown and can be used against you. The boys, they will heal."

"I won't…," Kira responded. She still stared straight ahead, "I can't keep running away from who I am, dad. I'll tell the guys…they will understand…," Kira moved slowly, like her body was stiff and sore. "The plans have changed…no more running away from who I am."

Kaien stared at Kira. She was cold and shaky but Kaien saw something familiar spark in her brightening eyes. She reminded him of himself when he was younger, when his Vampire genetics over-powered his Hunter ones. It was exactly the same as him, Kira's was just a direct transfusion. And for the first time he'd met Kira, he saw what his brothers meant by calling her the Hunters Princess.

"We will figure something out," Kaien said suddenly. Wana looked at him, the hatred in his heated glare was gone. Kaien knew Wana would never forgive him for protecting the Vampire that attacked and killed and changed his daughter so long ago, Kaien hated himself for allowing it to happen, but there was resolve in his blue eyes, "And we will use it to our advantage. And no one else will have to know."

"And we will keep you safe," Wana hugged his daughter and kissed the top of her head. "The Hunter's Circle always looks after their own."

Kira began crying in her father's arms. She was trembling, and she clasped onto Kaien's hand tightly, so tight he was surprised that his hand didn't break. Kaien brushed her hair back and looked at Wana who was staring right at him. A look he hadn't given Kaien in a very long time.

"This secret dies with you," he whispered.

"I'll keep it to myself for all eternity," Kaien said quietly.

Wana smiled and picked Kira up in his arms, "You have a distraught son to attend too, President-sama. I will take care of Kira. Make sure the boys are okay."

"What should I tell them? I can't tell them that she came back to life," Kaien shut his mouth quickly. "Ichiru may understand though."

"Exactly, but tell everyone else that her heart started again," Wana was already by the door. "And everything else?"

"Everything else is buried," Kaien said with a small nod. Wana nodded and he left the room with Kira in his arms. Kaien was left alone in the morgue amongst his fallen comrades who did not survive their attacks. It was heart breaking and Kaien didn't want to believe that it was just her blood mutation that brought the Princess back. He wanted to believe that her heart was strong enough to overcome it. But he felt no heartbeat.

Kaien fell against the table where Kira's blood had pooled and he stared at the dark red puddles. If Bakemono was the reason she had run away from the Association, Kaien was going to make it so that she never had to run away from him again. But…that would make him a Saisho. Oh well, it's not like he hasn't killed a Vampire Hunter before.

§Vampire Knight§

Innocence

Zero was sitting beside a sleeping Kira who had come back to life. He couldn't quite grasp the concept that Kira wasn't a Vampire even though she'd been bitten by a Pureblood Vampire, but she was still different but human.

When Kaien explained it to him, Zero just stared at the girl. He couldn't remember Kira being followed by a Pureblood, or being bitten by one or her being different. He did remember her being sick though, maybe this is what she meant.

Ichiru looked impassive, completely unchanged by the fact that Kira was a mutant. He even had a theory that because her Hunter blood and Vampire blood were competing inside of her body, it made her weak and that is why people often said that she had a weak constitution just like Ichiru.

Kaito didn't want to be anywhere near Kira once the chairman told him everything. He even wiped his mouth and slammed the door behind him, cursing all the times that he'd play-kissed Kira when she might as well have been a Vampire herself. It seemed harder for Kaito to accept that Kira could've been a Vampire than Zero. Zero was uncertain about how he felt about it. He couldn't do anything except for stare at her sleeping body.

Her shoulder was bandaged, her wounds were already healing. The mysterious Hunter that had saved Kira had brought Zero's brothers back and vanished into thin air, leaving a paper flower for Kira and wished her well. Maybe Kira would know his identity when she woke up. If…if she woke up.

"So, she's like me but not like me," Zero said more to himself than to Ichiru.

"She's not a Vampire, no. But she was bitten by a Pureblood, like you were," Ichiru replied. He wouldn't touch Kira. None of them would. In fact the only one who held her hand at all was Kaien, "Instead of the Pureblood's blood turning her, it merged with hers. So she's neither Vampire nor human. She's just a thing."

"She's Kira-chan," Kaien snapped once he entered the room. He closed the door behind him and took up his usual place beside Kira. He decided to tend to her himself seeing as Bakemono was MIA and no one else would touch her, "And it's okay to be weary of her now, but don't be afraid of her."

"I'm not afraid," Zero snapped. He stood up, "I'm…I don't think I've ever known Kira before. If the real her died all those years ago, then the Kira I grew up with is a fake. She doesn't exist…"

"Don't say that, Zero––" Kaien whispered but he stopped when Zero chuckled.

"It all makes sense now," he chuckled. "Why she played Peace Keeper. Why she got along so well with Vampires, because she is one of them," Zero walked over to Kira and leaned over her sleeping body.

The bite mark he'd given her was now overshadowed by the bite mark from the Level E. Her blood seeped through the bandages and sang to Zero, but is anger overwhelmed him to such a great extent that he actually felt like he was about to puke.

Zero kissed Kira's forehead for possibly the last time ever.

"I don't want to see you ever again, you stupid Vampire."

§Vampire Knight§

Innocence

A/N: I don't own Vampire Knight. Still don't know who Kira should be paired with...that is all.

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