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An eighteen-year-old girl was walking down a long white-walled hallway in her grandfather's mansion. Her long, blonde-streaked, black hair was curled at the bottom. She was wearing a long, white dress that had a black rose pattern that ran around the bottom of the dress completely. The pattern then ran up the right side of her dress to her right hip. Her arms were covered in long, black gloves that ran up to her elbows and covered her hands. She was walking towards the ballroom where a soiree for her was being held. Her grandfather was celebrating the fact that his granddaughter was going to be fully accepted as the Head of the Suzuki family. She saw no reason why to celebrate, but apparently her grandfather did.

Ba-boom!

A painful headache appeared only seconds later, causing the girl to lean against the wall next to her. Her right hand came up to her head, holding it there as the pain continued to throb. Her hair fell in front of her face, covering it from sight.

She gasped as a vision came into her thoughts, painfully showing her something that was in the past, or at least that's what it looked like. She saw a young woman standing before a furnace. She was wearing a long, dark blue dress with a black cloak and hood over it. The woman looked an awful lot like herself. She had the same colored eyes and hair. The woman appeared to be holding something in her right hand, something a deep red color.

A dark red color stained her right hand completely. From her hand dripped blood onto the dirt floor as she continued to hold the thing. She had a hole in her chest where her heart was supposed to be; a deep black hole to be exact. She threw the thing in her hand into the furnace to her left. The orange-red flames engulfed the thing hungrily, almost like it was waiting for its dinner. The woman closed her eyes and breathed in deeply before fainting. A man came up from behind her, catching her in his arms before she could fall too far. He lowered her gently to the ground. The young vampire could see only his eyes. They were a dark shade of red, almost familiar-like if the ravenette had anything to say about that.

The vision disappeared as quickly as it came. The girl stood up slowly, using the wall as support. She still had her hand on her forehead. The headache hadn't quite disappeared yet.

"Amaya," yelled someone down the hallway.

The girl looked over, her dark blue eyes showing that she was still in pain. She looked at the open door to see a tall, blonde-haired man wearing a black suit leaning out of the living room. His hands were placed upon the sides, keeping his balance and all. It was her grandfather, Tayio Suzuki. He was looking at her; his black eyes filled with concern.

Tayio ran down the hallway towards Amaya. He stood beside her, placing his right hand on her shoulder. "Did you have another vision," he asked, knowing all too well what could have caused the young woman to be in such pain.

Amaya nodded, still looking down at the floor.

"I want you to tell me about the vision later," he told her as he led her to the ballroom, "Now's just not the time."

"Alright, I can do that," Amaya finally replied.

Tayio walked her into the ballroom, keeping a hold on her right arm. The room was huge. There were enormous windows along one side of the room. The white curtains were pulled back to let people look outside at the night sky. On the right wall was the orchestra, playing away. There were several people in the room, probably fifty or sixty people. Some people Amaya knew from the other parties she had gone to with her grandfather. There were a couple people she knew who were Kaname's friends from Cross Academy walking around the ballroom floor.

Amaya suddenly realized, with one glance around, that everyone was now bowing to her and her grandfather. This action annoyed Amaya since she felt like she was being treated like royalty, even though that was not the case. The Suzuki family, even though pureblood, were not that far up the status. Since their alignment with the Hunter's Association, not too many of the older pureblood families got along with them. That didn't include the Kuran family; they were a good family friend to the Suzuki family.

The ravenette gave a small nod; a sign that told every guest that they could all stand up. Some were still looking at her, almost like they were waiting for her to come over and greet them. To have a pureblood talk to someone of lower class was an honor, something of which the ravenette still didn't understand. Her dark blue gaze looked over at a brown-haired, dark red-eyed, teenage vampire. It was Kaname Kuran. He looked to be eighteen, but she knew better. He was a lot older than he looked.

Kaname turned to her when he finally noticed she was looking at him. He was wearing a black tux and white tie. He gave her a gentle smile before continuing his conversation with a few friends.

The Suzuki pureblood wandered around by herself, greeting people here and there as she went. She met up with a couple of her grandfather's vampire students. They seemed to be enjoying themselves, which was good. The small pureblood was hoping the students would try and have some fun at such a party. After all, within her and her grandfather's training, it was tough work. A break was good every so often.

Amaya smiled, well she at least tried to, pretty much the whole time. She loved just walking around and seeing everyone. She didn't like talking to people very much. Right now, she was walking back to her grandfather's side. He was talking to a blonde-haired, silver-eyed man in a black suit. He was holding a black cane in his right gloved hand. The two of them were standing near the couches in the living room. From what she remembered, he was part of the vampire Senate. He was supposed to be one of the oldest and wisest Senate members.

Amaya really never liked anyone from the Senate. She would prefer having some pureblood family ruling over the vampires; more of a monarchy than a group of men and women sitting around a table. Nothing more and nothing less.

Her grandfather and the man turned to her as she approached them, finally noticing her presence just a few seconds later. The man quickly bowed to her, showing his respect for her. Her grandfather left to go talk to someone else for the time being. He would leave his granddaughter with his colleague.

"Amaya-sama, it's nice to finally meet you," he began, "I'm Asato Ichijo, but you may call me Ichio if you would like."

"Yes, and the same to you, Ichio," Amaya greeted politely.

Ichio immediately straightened up, looking slightly down at the girl before him. His cold gaze stared at her, causing the ravenette to shutter ever so slightly. "I must ask you, are you still planning on going to that academy," he suddenly questioned, "The Senate is just concerned for your safety while you are there, Amaya-sama. We wouldn't want anything to hurt you."

"Yes, Ichio, I do plan on going to Cross Academy. Frankly, I believe it is time for this war to end and peace to begin between vampires and humans. And for your information, I can take care of myself. Or have you forgotten that I am a successful huntress?"

Ichio took her right gloved hand in his left. The blonde-haired man brought her hand close to his mouth. She could see his fangs were already trying to come out. Already the Suzuki pureblood could see this wasn't going to end well, whether the blame was placed mostly on her or Ichio that would have to wait to be determined.

Her grandfather and Kaname looked over at them, suddenly getting very uneasy about Amaya's safety with the Senate aristocrat. Kaname was the only one out of the two of them to react physically. A blonde haired, blue eyed teenage aristocrat vampire named Hanabusa Aido also reacted, concerned for the pureblood's safety. Which pureblood? Let's just go with both for now.

"Purebloods… They smell so much like flowers and shall be treated as so," whispered Ichio, "At least in some cases."

Amaya's dark blue eyes widened; she knew all too well where he was going with this. She was quickly thinking of what to do when Kaname grabbed her hand and forced her body behind his as he stepped between her and Ichio. He pushed her back a bit more, leaving some distance between them and Ichio.

Aido grabbed Ichio's hand in his and stepped to the old man's left side. Kaname still held tightly onto Amaya's hand. She looked around Kaname's right side, only to make him shift that way. She could see that everyone around them was watching closely to the little situation.

"Kaname, Aido," she whispered, softly.

"Kaname-sama and son of Aido," the blonde senator spoke up, looking between the both of them. His silver eyes narrowed in disgust at the sudden interruption. He was quite close to getting a bit of pureblood blood and it was immediately taken away from him. Unfair, but who ever said that life was fair? Especially eternal life.

"Ichio," Kaname greeted, coldly.

"You shouldn't be asking for a pureblood's blood," Aido spoke up through slightly clenched teeth, "It is the greatest taboo in our society, Ichio."

Tayio walked over to the four of them. His black eyes were dark, which could only mean he was getting angry. A friend of his had just tried to take blood from his granddaughter, so who could blame him for getting mad all of a sudden? Where was the trust? The respect? Apparently nowhere.

Amaya looked at him, her dark blue gaze filled with surprise. She didn't know how to react, what to say or even what to do in this situation.

Tayio nodded to her and gave her a soft smile, telling her everything would be okay with just that gesture. And everything would once he led Ichio out of the room and talked for a bit.

"Ichio, I think it would be wise if you left… Now," he stated, looking back to where Ichio was standing.

"I apologize for my behavior," Ichio stated, "It was completely out of line for me to try and take blood from Amaya-sama." He roughly pulled out of Aido's grip and glared at Kaname before bowing to Tayio, no one else, not even Amaya. It wasn't much of an apology at all, but it was most likely the only one that they would get out of the blonde man.

The Suzuki pureblood looked down at the floor as the man left the room, not wanting to make any eye-contact with him or anyone really.

He's just going to talk to him, Amaya thought to herself as she heard her grandfather leave the room as well. He would only chat with the blonde-haired Senator about his previous actions. How the end of that conversation would turn out would certainly be interesting and something the woman wouldn't know until later.

Kaname turned himself around to look at the small, teenage pureblood just after Tayio left the room completely. He was worried and concerned about her. "Amaya, are you okay," the brown-haired pureblood prince asked her in a low voice as to make sure no one heard them.

"Thank you, the both of you," she answered somewhat loudly. The ravenette pulled out of Kaname's grip on her hand. She backed up and looked around the room at everyone. They were all staring at them, completely in shock of what had just taken place before them. She could see that there was some worry within a few of their expressions, but not much. "I'm alright, everyone. Please go back to the party. Enjoy yourselves."

The guests bowed their heads to her before finally going back to their original conversations. Amaya, in the meantime, had turned herself around and left for the balcony, her head down to make sure no one saw her face. She could feel tears of fear running down already. But why?

Why am I so weak and unable to react quickly, she thought to herself, What's happening to me?

Even though she was a strong pureblood and huntress, she still felt weak and helpless at times. It was all these visions. They were making her unable to concentrate on hardly anything at all. What was happening to her?

Amaya opened the doors to the balcony roughly, making them slam hard on the wall behind them. Lucky for her, no one was really around to notice, so didn't end up startling anyone. She walked onto the balcony and stood next to the railing, leaning on it. Her gaze fell upon the sight before her; the moon and stars just brightly twinkling away.

Kaname hesitated at first, but then followed after her. The brown-haired pureblood was unsure if he really should check and see if she was truly okay, however, another part of him told him that he needed to go. Once on the balcony, he closed doors quietly.

"Amaya," he spoke softly so she was the only one that heard him.

Still leaning on the balcony rail, a breeze blew by. It made her long hair blow to the right side for a few seconds before settling back to its original position. She breathed in the fresh air. She just wanted to stay outside for a bit and calm down. "It's my fault," Amaya finally spoke, "I should have been more careful around him. I was careless." She closed her eyes for a second before turning herself around to look at her close friend, hands still placed upon the railing.

His dark red eyes were looking at her, filled with a little bit of concern, but not much. He was never one to show his emotions. "It's not your fault," Kaname answered, "He should have known better than to try and take your blood."

The pureblood prince walked over to stand beside her. His eyes scanned the scenery before him. It was nice out, beside the fact that the moon was on its way down. The party would eventually end, but probably not for a few more hours.

Speaking of the party, Amaya looked back through the windows of the balcony. She could see there were still people talking in small groups while others were dancing. She was surprised that no one was staring at her after that little display. "We should get back to the party. People are probably wondering if I'm really okay or not," Amaya suggested as she straightened herself up a bit.

Kaname looked over his right shoulder as she walked over to the doors. "Amaya," he called out suddenly.

The vampire girl stopped in her tracks. Her right hand was on the door handle, just about ready to open the balcony doors once more. "What is it, Kaname," she asked, without looking back.

He wanted to ask her if she really was okay. Lately, she wasn't eating, or hunting, all that much. She was starting to grow thin, but she was still acting like her old self. Her personality was still the same. Headstrong. Independent. But he just couldn't bring himself to ask the question. "Never mind, it's nothing."

Amaya looked back at him for a second, a questioning expression across her face, but within seconds it was gone before the ravenette opened one of the balcony doors. Everyone watched as she headed back to her grandfather, who was standing by the doors. He had just come back from leading Ichio to the front door. He still looked quite upset. Amaya could tell from the way he watched everyone.

And who could blame him for being upset? After all, an arrogant aristocrat just tried to take blood from his granddaughter.

The old vampire gave her a quick hug before walking to meet with some other guests. Amaya socialized with the guests as best as she could before some of them left.

At one point, the orchestra played a slow song. The Suzuki pureblood watched as several of her guests walked onto the dance floor. They started dancing slowly to the music. She watched as a lot of couples started dancing. This started to make her wish for someone to ask her dance now.

A hand came and rested on her right shoulder. She turned her head to see it was Kaname. He stepped back a little and held out his hand to her instead, "Would you like to dance?"

Amaya looked at his outstretched hand with shock written on her face. She could feel her vampire heart beating slightly faster. She had always wanted him to ask her that, but she wasn't expecting it tonight of all nights. After all, a situation that made the girl feel unsafe happened barely an hour ago. Finally, after a few seconds of thinking, the black-haired pureblood nodded, placing her hand on top of his.

Kaname led Amaya to the dance floor. He stood in front of her, placed his other hand on her waist, and took her left hand in his right. They slowly danced to the music just like the other guests.

Everyone who wasn't dancing watched as the two purebloods danced along with the music, even Tayio watched them slowly dance across the floor. He even clapped with the rest of the audience after the song ended. He was impressed that his granddaughter had danced with someone that night. Tayio had thought for sure she wouldn't dance at all. Amaya wasn't one known for dancing that much at soirees or anything even if there were people who had asked her. She was more of a socialize kind of girl when it came to parties and such.

When the song ended, Amaya curtsied to Kaname and he bowed to her. He led her back over to her grandfather before he walked away to his friends.

"I'm sorry, Amaya, I didn't think that Ichio would do something like that," her grandfather finally told her.

Amaya shook her head. "Grandfather, it wasn't your fault. I should have been more careful. Now if you don't mind," she responded before walking off. Amaya walked around and talked to the last several people that were there. A few hours later, around the time the sun was just about to appear, all the guests that were not staying at the Suzuki manor finally left.

The blonde-streaked, black-haired vampire quickly went upstairs to her bedroom as soon as the sun started to rise. She dressed herself in her light blue nightgown before finally laying down on top of the white covers of her bed. She fell asleep quickly. She was tired from the party and all that she wanted to do was rest for a while.

Around six in the afternoon of that day to be quite technical, Amaya woke up from the sound of servants busily moving around the manor. Most likely they were getting the manor ready for the day.

The ravenette stood up from the bed to find on the white couch, the one against the wall across from the bed, a pair of black shorts and a dark blue tank top. She sighed and walked over to the couch. She knew one of her maids had laid out those clothes to help her out with getting ready for the day. After changing into the outfit, Amaya walked down to her training room in the basement. There she could train her vampire hunter skills as long as she wanted. She loved to stay down there for hours, just to practice. It helped her clear her mind of anything that was worrying her.

She took a hold of Kuroyoru in her right hand. Almost a second later, in her right hand, the black scythe appeared. On the black blade was the crest of the Suzuki family, a silver wolf howling to the sky. The vampire hunter weapon somehow never rejected her touch. It was almost like it had a mind of its own and preferred her holding it than anyone else that included any and all vampire hunters. It was an odd weapon, but it had been within the Suzuki family as long as the young lady could remember.

The black-haired pureblood hit a button on the white wall with her free hand. It was the button that activated the training program. All she had to do was cut any objects that were thrown at her. She dodged the first two before cutting them in half right behind her. Amaya was trained to dodge before attacking, but every once and awhile, she would attack first. She liked to change up her routine.

Amaya kept going for another thirty minutes before she became even a little tired. She was now breathing hard from the workout. The pain in her head came again, but this time it was different. The pain was just that, pain. There was no vision. Well, at least that was one plus side about the pain in her head, but it was odd for it just to be pain. There was always a vision with such a feeling.

The ravenette held her head with her left hand as the pain began to lessen and lessen in strength. The pain in her head was gone as quickly as it came. It usually didn't last very long at all, which was good in Amaya's eyes. She knelt down onto the floor, placing Kuroyoru in front of her. She could feel herself relax and could feel all the stress leaving her body as she focused on her breathing.

The blonde-streaked, black-haired pureblood picked up Kuroyoru and walked over to the wall to lean against it. She sat there for awhile before getting up and doing the training program again. After the second time, she ran upstairs to take a shower, which ended up being quite short actually. Amaya came back out in a light purple sundress type clothing. She had a white towel over her shoulders to let her hair air dry itself without getting her dress wet.

Amaya walked out to her bedroom balcony to sit down on the chair that was out there. She found her favorite book on the side table and opened it. Two notes fell out and landed onto the balcony floor when she had opened the book. Amaya immediately picked them up with her right hand. The notes were from a long time ago and Amaya kept them since then. One was a letter from her parents and the other from her brother. They had given them to Tayio before her seventh birthday party. They somehow knew they were going to be killed and that she would somehow survive, so they wrote her letters explaining everything. Well, at least that's what her grandfather had told her. She was supposed to read it once she reached her eighteenth birthday, which was coming up in a couple months.

She smiled to herself at the very thought of her family. She missed them terribly, but she still remembered all the wonderful memories they had when they were together. It wasn't a complete loss in that sense, but still a loss. The ravenette couldn't help but feel a small, longing feeling in her chest.

"Amaya," called a deep voice to her right. She looked to see her grandfather standing in her bedroom, only a few feet from the open balcony doors. "You never told me what your vision was yesterday," he stated, walking over to stand next to Amaya's chair.

"I didn't see that much, but I did see a woman throw something into a furnace of some kind," she replied, "Grandfather, is there something in my past I'm not supposed to know?"

Tayio hesitated before finally shrugging, "I guess so, but I can't think of what it could be. Was there anything else?"

Amaya looked at him. She wasn't sure if he was lying or not. She couldn't see his face very well. That was the only way to tell if he was lying or not, "Yeah, the woman fainted, I think, and a man with dark red eyes caught the woman before she fell onto the floor."

"Hmm…"

Amaya looked back up at her grandfather, "Grandfather, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, Amaya, it's nothing. So did you do some training today?"

"Yeah, I did."

Tayio was relieved slightly to hear that, "Good. I apologize that I couldn't help you with anything. I had a long meeting today."

"It's okay, Grandfather," Amaya replied to his apology.

"One more question, Amaya. The pain from the vision… How bad was it?"

"It was the same as the last one, maybe a little bit worst."

Tayio nodded and then left Amaya's balcony without another word.

I bet he still has other business to take care of...He always does, Amaya thought. Looking back up at the night sky, a long and deep sigh escaped through her lips. The ravenette picked up her things and walked back into her bedroom. There was no point to stay outside to read when it was becoming too dark to see. Well, she could see, but she had to make sure she didn't do anything too extraordinary. It was to make sure if a human did see her, her guards wouldn't have to kill that person to keep the family's identity a secret.

Amaya switched on her bedside lamp. It was a very dim light, but at least it was something. She sat down on her bed and placed her back on a pillow. She continued to read her book for a while until someone knocked on her door.

"Come in," she told them. Amaya looked up from her book as she saw one of her maids walk into the room. She had brown hair up in a bun and hazel eyes.

"Excuse me, Amaya-sama, I was just coming to give you your dinner," the maid explained, placing the tray of food on Amaya's desk.

Amaya stood up from the bed once having placed her book onto the night table to the right and walked over to her desk. Her maid in the meantime had pulled out the leather black desk chair for her mistress.

"Thank you, Lillian."

"You're welcome, Amaya-sama." The maid left the room, closing the door behind her softly.

The ravenette looked down at the tray before her once she had seated herself down. There was a steak, medium rare of course, and a wine glass filled with water. Next to the glass was a small dark blue tin box. It was filled with the blood tablets that Amaya has to take in order to keep her bloodlust under control.

The Suzuki pureblood took one tablet out and placed it into the water. She watched as it dissolved in the water, making the water turn a very light red color. Amaya picked the cup up with her right hand before finally taking a sip. She recoiled from the bitter taste of the fake blood. It was absolutely horrible, but it helped her survive without real blood for a while. Amaya placed the cup back down so that she could begin eating her dinner.

I guess Grandfather has another meeting, she thought to herself, He only lets me have my dinner in my room if he has a meeting around the time for dinner.

Amaya shrugged. She really didn't care. She would rather eat in her room than listen to her grandfather make some kind of deal with a client. She was used to it; after all she had lived with her grandfather for a long time. In the human world, her grandfather was a very famous businessman. When a business made a deal with another, her grandfather was somehow involved with that deal. So, over the years, her grandfather saved a lot of money over the years because of that business.

The black-haired pureblood finished eating her dinner in no time at all. She decided to go downstairs to say good-bye to Kaname. He was leaving in order to go back to Cross Academy before the school week started again. Amaya was going to join him in a day or two, but right now she was going to stay and help her grandfather with his classes if she was needed.

She stopped at the top of the stairs to see Kaname and his friends pulling on their coats. Amaya sighed in relief. She was glad that she made it in time to see them off. Amaya assumed their suitcases were already in the car since they weren't next to them.

Kaname looked up at the ravenette, once he had noticed her presence, and gave a soft smile.

She waved good-bye to him as Lillian led all of them outside to the waiting car. She was going to miss having Kaname around, but she knew she would see him soon. The ravenette turned around in time to see another maid approached her.

"Amaya-sama, this is for you," she explained.

"Who is it from," Amaya asked as she opened the envelope.

"I don't know. It just appeared in the mail."

Amaya looked at her strangely before the maid left her side. Amaya looked down at the letter. It said:

Amaya Suzuki,

I can't wait to see you soon. I have seen you outside of your manor and I will say you have definitely grown so beautiful since the last time I have seen you.

It wasn't signed at all, which confused Amaya a lot. Who won't sign a letter that they might feel was important? Or creepy in this matter.

Who the hell is this from, she thought to herself.

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