another chapter installment of my first ever Vampire Knight fanfiction told from Zero's point of view about his time with Yuuki at Cross Academy.

disclamation: do I really need to say it this time, too? I have no comment this time.

I was hoping to start my rounds of Cross Academy night patrol early when I suddenly felt my vampiric instincts react once again out of my control. I knelt down to the floor and dropped my blood tablets in the process. It was not like those things actually did me any great service, though, especially since I could not even drink them, anyway.

My mind wandered back to what happened with my dearest Yuuki today and how that bastard, Kaname Kuran, was once again her hero while I struggled to put up a fight even against my own inner demons. I blushed a little when I thought of how Yuuki tripped and fell into my arms just to 'playfully' steal my blood tablets from me. Then, I dropped back onto the floor at the memory of her smiling that same mischievous smile at me like she thought she was being cute. She was anything but cute at that time.

When I heard someone arrive at the stairs from behind me just a few seconds later, their timing could not have been worse. It could not have been any worse than that, right?

WRONG! To make it even worse than that alone, the person who suddenly saw me on the stairwell fighting my inner demons of blood lust was none other than my dearest Yuuki. Why did she have to be the one at the top of the stairs at that moment? Why did my dear Yuuki have to see me fighting my own blood lust, now?

Yuuki: Zero.

After saying my name, my dearest Yuuki then had the nerve to smile her most compassionate smile at me. I know I should have been grateful for her smile, but compassion and love were not the same thing. I knew for a fact that my dear Yuuki only ever smiled at me in either mischief or because she felt sorry for me. Then, my dear Yuuki began to descend down the stairs as she finally started speaking to me with her true kindness for the first time that day.

Yuuki: You know, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what you've been telling me all along. There definitely are some bad vampires out there. I mean, that thing wasn't_ even a vampire. It was like… it was like a beast in human form.

Of course, that kind of response to the vampire I would one day become was all the excuse I needed to just tell my Yuuki to…

Yours Truly: GET BACK!

It was thankfully enough to stop my dearest Yuuki in her tracks from going further down the stairs.

Yuuki: But… but, why? Zero, I wanna keep talking to you. I want you to open up and share your thoughts with me. After all, we are both exactly the same_

I interrupted her before she could go any further.

Yours Truly: NO! We aren't!

There were a few seconds of silence between the two of us before Yuuki began talking again.

Yuuki: I'm sorry. Maybe I've been a bit self-absorbed lately, thinking that you and I were struggling with the same pain and the same fears, too. I guess I was only seeing myself.

Just when my dear Yuuki was ready to turn around in tears, my own heart took over and I went after her against my best judgement.

Yours Truly: No.

Then as though it could not get any worse, my dearest Yuuki's bandages from today came undone and the scent of her blood overpowered my senses. I pulled my dearest Yuuki back down the stairs towards me and held her in my arms in the worst way possible. She grew frightened at the way I held her.

Yuuki: Zero!

Then, I licked my prey's neck at just the perfect spot from which to draw her blood. Finally, my vampire fangs shot out from my lips and I bit onto my prey's neck. I could barely even hear my prey's voice, anymore. That was until they pushed me away from my meal.

Yuuki: Stop! No!

I could see the look that my prey was giving me. Then, she let go of her neck after a few minutes of holding onto it where I had drank her blood.

Yuuki: Why did you…

That was when my prey's blood began to drip.

I finally regained my senses when I realized just what was going on and who I had attacked in my own lust for blood.

Yours Truly: Yuuki, I-I'm so sorry.

That's right. I finally succumbed to my vampiric instincts and attacked the person I cared about the most in the world in my unjust effort to satisfy them.