Yuki did her duty diligently. She kept the Day Class in line (the best she could) at the changeover and made sure everyone was in their dorm building within the hour. Now she decided it was the perfect time to get some answers. Zero had been missing since the night of Ichijo's party. She'd attempted to visit him on Sunday but there had been no reply at his door. She'd also called in to talk to Kaien, but all he'd offered, were his assurances that everything was alright, but it had done little to ease her worries.

Early Sunday morning, Yuki had asked about the man at the pool who'd fired at Zero. But her father figure hadn't been very forthcoming and had ushered her out of his office and sent her to bed. She'd gone to him again today to ask of Zero's whereabouts, but Kaien hadn't been at his desk and when she'd asked the secretary on the ground floor office, she's told her he'd left on business. Her prefect duties kept her from seeking him out during the afternoon, but she hoped to corner him tonight.

While she patrolled, Yuki spotted Toga Yagari as the last of the Day Class students walked into their dorms and watched him march up the steps and into the school building, seemingly without a care that he was walking into a building currently occupied by up to seventy high-level Vampires. Yuki hurried to catch up to the man and demand to know what had become of Zero. Once she'd caught up, she saw him casually walking down one of the corridors, a book in hand and resting carelessly on his right shoulder.

"Wait!" Yuki called and jogged to catch up. Her hands reached out and tugged on the back of his dark blue blazer, pulling him to a stop. "What's happened to Zero?" she demanded as Yagari turned with a questioning scowl on his face. Yuki ignored the uneasy jump in her heart at the sight of the eyepatch, and the scar that peeked from beneath it, and kept her expression firm. Yagari didn't answer, so Yuki pressed further. "He wasn't in school today, and the Headmaster isn't here either. What did you do to Zero?"

Yagari remained stoic for so long that Yuki feared he'd just shrug her off and leave her in ignorance, but finally, he spoke, his voice a deep, gruff baritone.
"We put him in isolation, of course."
"Isolation?" Yuki mimicked in a whisper. The word sounding far too clinical to come from someone who claimed he once, care for his former student.
"It's inevitable he'll go mad one day. In the meantime, the aim is to prevent any more casualties."
"But, is he ok?" Yuki asked, hoping to at least have one of her worries negated.

Yagari turned to look at the small girl his mentor had raised, his ever-present frown deepening at the wide-eyed innocence of her expression.
"Get lost! I don't have time to mollycoddle you!" he admonished as he turned to walk away but her hand shot out again and caught his jacket, pulling on it insistently.
"But where is he!" she demanded.
"That Hermit has dropped enough on my lap, so go do your own job, Prefect. I have to attend to my students." Yuki looked on, puzzled, but didn't grasp at his jacket again. She let him walk away to one of the classroom doors. He stopped with his hand on the handle and said, "I'm the new Ethics teacher for the Night Class." With that, he opened and shut the door behind him, leaving Yuki to gape in disbelief in the hallway.

As Yagari entered the room, his senses instantly bristled at the number of Vampires inside the small space. He recognised sixteen individuals in the room all but one being of Level B or higher. As he reached the desk, allowing the Vampires mistrusting eyes to follow him, evaluating his every step. He swept his eyes over the room. The Pureblood was leant against the wall to the right, near the windows of the classroom. His most trusted circle around him. His eye, shot to the left, where the lesser Vampire sat.

Her forest green eyes stared back, unflinching. Her expression was unreadable as she sat, straight and tall. She was seated away from Kaname and his lackeys, preferring to sit alone and nearer the back of the room. His eye lingered on her before sweeping back over the others.
"I am Touga Yagari, your new, temporary, Ethics teacher." He let that sink in before a small malicious grin spread on his face. "Good evening, Vampires."

Eyes from around the room narrowed in recognition of his name. Akane listened as the quiet murmuring broke out.
"That's the name of the best Vampire Hunter right now."
"This is who we have to teach us ethics?" The whispering went on and Akane could tell the man was enjoying the unease he was eliciting.
"He must be the one behind the gunshot from the other night!" Akane heard Aido accuse from a few rows over. She looked back at the Hunter and watched as his eye scanned the faces of his students again. She made sure her features were as blank as stone when his eye, finally, landed and fixed on her for a second time.
"Relax, I'm a fully qualified and certified teacher, perfectly capable of leading this class." His reassurance was not felt by Akane or her classmates. Aido even moved a few seats closer to her, not pleased Akane was so close to the one thing trained to kill their kind, and this man could do it with ease.

"I had heard you were in the middle of a case overseas. Coming here, leaving such an important mission, must mean you have been assigned a new target," Kaname surmised in a conversational tone as he turned a page in his book. "Someone within the Night Class, perhaps?" Yagari chuckled darkly at the Pureblood's accusation.
"Regrettably, my roster is currently blank, Kaname Kuran. But if I find you dozing off in my class, I may be inclined to change that." The bristles went up on all their backs immediately. That had been a clear threat and even Akane narrowed her eyes at this man.
"How dare you speak to Lord Kaname that way!" Ruka yelled after springing to her feet.
"I'll keep that in mind, Teacher," Kaname said, glaring at the Hunter.

The lecture had been long and detailed. Akane had taken notes diligently, despite the unsettling feeling she had for her teacher. Moreover, she wasn't sure why they needed an Ethics class to begin with. A thought she'd carried over from the Day Class. Miu had explained to her, that, because so many of the students were either influential, be it politically, financially, or just your average famous musician or actor, the school felt they had a higher level of responsibility to ensure all their students understood their actions had consequences and that their influence could directly affect the general population or society.

Akane was still struggling to understand why they didn't know this already, but she'd dropped the matter and had already decided not to ask a bunch of Vampires, why Ethical Studies was a part of the curriculum. The thought of Rin Yamiyo had brought a conclusion that some things just couldn't be taught to some people.

"Are there any questions?" Yagari asked as he finished his final speech about Virtue Ethics, some of which, flew right over Akane's head. When he received no reply, he concluded the lesson, but as he reached for a book that he'd dropped on his desk some minutes ago, he brought it in front of to his face. A knife was suddenly embedded in the book, going right through the pages to the other side. Akane had jumped in surprise, her eyes popping in horror at the realisation, one of her classmates, had brought a knife to school, and no one seemed particularly surprised by it!

Akane held her breath as Yagari lowered the book and examined the knife briefly before he looked up at the class, unamused.
"I think I'll keep this," he began derisively. "As a memento of the time, I taught Vampires." Akane watched as he walked, unhurriedly to the door, his eye flashing up to her momentarily as he gave one last pass over the room. He sensed the blade before I even heard it flying! What in the hell kind of Human is he?

"That bastard!" Aido seethed as he took the empty bench beside her. "He was way out of line! Just because the Headmaster knows him, he thinks he can speak to Lord Kaname that way?" Akane said nothing. She was still reeling from the knife incident. Aido sighed, annoyed, before leaning back in his chair and folding his arms. He leant his head back and frowned up at the ceiling as everyone else talked, waiting for their next teacher to get to class.

"You know," Aido began thoughtfully. "He was paying close attention to you throughout the lesson." Akane had been reading and correcting her notes from the lesson when he spoke. She stopped and lifted her head to the Vampire. She'd noticed Yagari's eye lingering on her longer than some of the other students. He'd even openly stared at her when she'd raised her hand to ask a question, but she again said nothing. What would be the point?

"I don't like it," he spat after staring into the middle distance for a time. Akane scoffed.
"The guy has one eye and I doubt you can tell a Hunter like that, where he can and can't direct it." She was going for amusement but Aido easily noticed the uneasy tone of her voice. The door opened as their next teacher walked in, ready to begin their History lesson. "It doesn't matter anyway. Our next class is starting." Aido didn't protest but remained by her side through their next four lessons.