Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight. I wish I did though, Zero is so freaking awesome. Anyways! I own the OC's Sukui Cross and Yuri Kuran. Amaya is Jane Catt's and Jane Catt's alone.

I decided to skip the 16th episode because it really doesn't have anything to do with Yuuki, Sukui, and Zero. So here's episode 17! Title edited from episode name.

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37. Satan's Pace

The events from yesterday frazzled Sukui, and in the morning she went to her father's with only one goal in mind, to have a long set down in a bubbly plethora of warm water and world ignorance. Flashes of amber, and a gentle voice saying, "You'll see mommy soon." had been littering her dreams that night, and it was infuriating. Why did Yuri Kuran seal her, what did she seal, and who the heck was Sukui's mother!

"Grawarr!"

"Oh, hello Sukui!"

Headmaster greeted his disgruntled daughter as she brushed past him at the front door of his home, and Zero and Yuuki both with separate bath things and towels, into the bathroom. Headmaster scratched the back of his head as sweat came down, and Zero's forehead vein puffed up at Sukui's abruptness. "Hey!" he called, knocking on the door, "I was going in there."

"Me too Sukui!"

Headmaster continued to scratch his head, not bothering to mention that all of them could have used the showers in their dorms.

In the bathroom, Sukui was popping some blood tablets before going inside of the closed off bath area and turning on the water, dumping in some bath salts and bubble soap. "Sorry Zero," she called out the door sincerely, "I just really, really need to calm down." The first bathroom door opened and Sukui shut the one to the closed off bathroom with a fierce whump!

"Zero! A little warning would have been nice!"

"I need to get stuff done! I'll be here if you need me."

That's all he said, and yet the flurry of butterflies shot through her. "Thank you. . ." she whispered, even though he had not intended to sound endearing in any sort of way.

She settled into the soapy suds, and could have sworn that the amber colors shouting through the air and clouding her vision were butterflies as well. Then a migraine ripped through her, as the voice said, "Oh little Sukui Cross. . . ., you will be with mommy soon."

"Oww. . ." she closed her eyes and clutched her head in pain and put her head between her exposed knees, trying to regulate her breathing. "You will see . . . . Soon."

What?!

"You will see. . . . Soon"

Sukui finally opened her eyes as the headache subsided, but then a new one came as a scream ripped out of her throat. In the bathtub, there was. . . She was sitting in . . . blood. "Sukui!" Zero and Yuuki both exclaimed worriedly, with only Yuuki coming into the little room. "Sukui are you o. . ." then she stopped and slid to the floor, clutching her head as well.

When her eyes snapped open, she screamed too and both her and Sukui exchanged alarmed and tearful gazes. They were both seeing the blood, everywhere, it was terrifying. "You guys! You guys!" Zero pounded on the door.

The next things were blurs for the two very afraid girls. Eventually, they were both on the couch in Headmaster's living room, Sukui being fully clothed but not knowing how, and with aforementioned man Cross standing in the doorway worried, and Zero kneeling in front of the both of them.

"What happened?"

Sukui laughed uncomfortably, she was going to have to lie. Its not like she could tell Zero about the flashes of things, could she? She looked to Yuuki, who smiled immediately, "I think we both just hallucinated." Yuuki deadpanned, scratching the back of her head. Sukui grimaced, so much for the hiding thing.

"Yeah. . . This voice kept telling me I'd be with mom soon."

"I kept seeing a lady in a white dress!"

Sukui and Yuuki looked at each other in a flurry, staring intently. "I saw flashes of amber."

"B-b-blood."

"So much blood. . ."

Cross's eyes narrowed from his position at the door frame and kicked off, striding up the two girls on the couch and kneeling just in front of it beside Zero. "I don't think they were hallucinations. They have something to do with both of your pasts, though more with Yuuki's than with yours, Sukui."

"I think I should take them to the Hunter's Association to see if they can find the records." Zero finally put in, looking at everyone evenly. Cross swallowed and asked, "Are you sure?"

Sukui and Yuuki nodded in Zero's place. "I need to know why these things keep haunting me. . ." they both said in perfect unison, and then they looked at each other. "This has been happening more than once?" Sukui asked the adopted Cross girl. She nodded, "It started at that ball not to long ago, the one with Shizuka."

Sukui looked in awe, those two had more in common with each other than anyone would have thought. So, the group of four (Cross was going to go strictly to watch his 'darling daughters') and even Yagari and Amaya, who'd come back from a hunt (apparently that's what they consider errands, Sukui should've figured.) headed out to the Hunter's Association, which Sukui knew was only about an hour travel from Cross Academy.

Walking through the familiar stone hallways reminded Sukui of the first, and the last day she'd even been to the place. Though, the last time was less than savory. She'd been trying to find Zero through the system, frantically but all of the records confirmed him dead, and that had been about five months after Shizuka had brutally ripped the rug out from under her.

The Association president was no more understanding of Sukui's frantic search for the male than Shizuka herself would be it seemed, so Sukui hadn't bothered telling them her location so that they could ask her to do missions, she'd been done with them then. Things were different though, when she strode towards the record library with the other four people beside her.

"Hello! Yagari's, Cross's, Minami, and Kiryu." the Head of the Vampire Hunters Association greeted, her fan in front of her mouth. "What brings you here?" To Yuuki's surprise, but to everyone else's knowledge, Cross answered the questionable woman before him, "We are here to look at some records regarding Sukui and Yuuki Cross."

"Ahh! I see, came out as her father. Good for you."

The President's snide comment earned a sharp glare from Sukui as she swear she saw Kaien twitch in shame. The President locked eyes with Sukui, and even though the girl only had one showing, what with her original Cross uniform back on after all of the trouble, it sure held a lot of malice.

"Well Yagari duo, and Cross trio. You know where the library is. I will be taking Zero to the uncategorized records, I have some valuable information to share." her words rang finally, and Yuuki, Kaien, Toga, and Amaya went to the library. Sukui stubbornly stayed with Zero, having an uneasy feeling rise in the pit of her stomach.

"Alone, Sukui." the President stressed. Earning yet another pointed glare from the girl. Zero sighed and looked at Sukui, who was frivolously trying to hide her concern, not that she knew or would even admit it. "It'll be fine, I'll meet you in the library, alright?" Sukui nodded, though reluctantly, "Alright you stubborn old guy," she tried for a smile, "Be careful."

He nodded simply.

Sukui left towards the library too, and was met with Yuuki pulling out several volumes of texts from sixteen years ago, Sukui figured she needed to start looked for records from eighteen years ago so she began. They were in a bookcase behind the one that Yuuki was looking through, and as she was flipping through the first, Amaya came to stand beside her and lean again the bookcase as Sukui read. "You know, they are going to be very hard to find, both of you girls records were hidden."

Sukui rose an eyebrow, "Why's that, Ama?"

Showing no sign of feeling for the nickname other than a quick small smile, she continued, "Both because they wanted you safe. You with the power, and little Yuuki with that and the stalker."

"Yuuki is being hunted?"

"Yes, by her Uncle." Amaya sighed. Sukui remembered Maria telling her the same thing, that she was being hunted by her uncle as well. . . Was there a connection?

In the pregnant silence that followed afterwards, Sukui looked through numerous volumes, until she reached the C's, of course they had been in alphabetical order, and she hadn't even bothered to think that way.

"Alright Amaya, here I go!" Sukui swallowed, being careful with the falling apart records. "Association sure likes to be a lot spookier than necessary." Amaya commented, and Sukui nodded in agreement as she began flipping through the pages gingerly, eye flitting up and down, reading every sentence and every paragraph before flipping the to the next page, it was a tedious process at best.

After scaling several pages, she found her page:

Sukui Cross/(couldn't see, it was smudged)

Adopted by Sakura Minami at infancy for (more illegible writing) and in (illegible), Japan.

Father: Kaien Cross - Vampire Hunter - 200 Years old

Mother: (Indiscernible smudge) - Pureblood - (more incoherent fades in writing)

Sukui stared, and stared, and stared at the page. Amaya strode next to her, seeing as the girl was completely and utterly paralyzed. "Sukui? Are you alright?"

Pureblood. Pureblood. Pureblood. it seemed to chant over and over in her head as if the words had a mind of their own.

Is that what Yuri had sealed? Pureblood. Pureblood. Pureblood. What? Pureblood. Pureblood. Pureblood. But wait, Kaien wasn't a pureblood, just a vampire hunter totally loaded with vamp blood, did that make her a whole or a half of a pureblood? Oh her brain hurt, hurt so much at that though that she was even more of the thing that she despised above all else.

"I think I'm gonna be sick. . ."

"Sukui? Sukui!"

Amaya saw her tipping and reached for her, but she was a second too late.

The girl's legs gave out and she collapsed to the floor, the pages of the tattered and dated volume floating everywhere. Sukui's vision began to blur and she faintly heard Yuuki scream before she completely lost hold of reality.

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