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The ball and Shizuka's death were only a few weeks ago, yet somehow it felt like it was only yesterday to the Suzuki pureblood. Amaya didn't know everything that had happened that night. She had the feeling that Katsu was keeping something from her and she needed to know what. Zero was back from staying at a medical center for a while for recovery. Amaya was never told exactly what he was recovering from and what could have possibly happened to him to cause it.
And it wasn't long after that that the academy had a rude visit from the Senate. Kaname Kuran, surprisingly, stood up for Zero, which was odd since most would have thought that he wouldn't dare stand up for a former human like the silver-haired hunter.
The brown-haired Suzuki pureblood was in the library of the academy one afternoon after that visit, holding a book in her hand. She rested her head against the wall that she was leaning on. She was tired. While Zero was gone, she was given orders left and right about former humans being the town. Of course, she took care of them with ease, but hey, there were a lot of them.
Katsu looked down at the book once again. It was a book on vampires and werewolves. The pureblood smirked at herself, finding it funny that she had picked out a book like this. She placed it down on a table and walked out of the library.
"Werewolves… Is that what they call them now," the brunette whispered to herself.
The brunette walked back to the Moon dormitories and up to her room. There she pulled out a beautiful white dress with a pattern of red roses that ran down the right side out of the closet. She was going to the Aido villa with Amaya and several others of the Night Class for a soiree that was going to take place there. The Headmaster had already approved of her going, so the patrolling was going to be left to her master to handle.
The brunette got herself dressed and brushed her hair so that it shined. Her hair was now laying over her right shoulder, curling just slightly at the ends.
Amaya came into her room only a few minutes after Katsu was done getting ready. The smaller pureblood was dressed in a light blue dress that had straps that lay on her shoulders. Her blonde-streaked, black hair was pulled into a bun instead of it being down. The ends of her hair curled slightly as well.
"You ready, Katsu," she asked.
"Yep, let's go," Katsu answered.
As they walked, Amaya told her cousin that their grandfather had a small, black limo waiting for them outside. Tayio was going to be at the soiree as well. Why wouldn't he be? He is a Suzuki pureblood after all.
The two Suzuki purebloods got into the back seat of the limo and told the driver where to go.
"Katsu, do you think a lot of purebloods will be there," Amaya asked.
"There will be a few, but not many," Katsu responded, "Why do you ask?"
"Well, I'm just a little nervous since the last time I was at a soiree, it didn't go well."
Katsu smiled. "You'll be fine. And if Ichio is there and tries anything, I will tear him to pieces without a second thought."
"Do you think he will try anything?"
Katsu shook her head, "No, but like I said if he tries."
Amaya giggled a little, "You really don't like the Senate, do you?"
"Nope, hated them ever since I was born."
A few minutes passed by...
"We're here, Amaya-sama, Katsu-sama," the driver said as he made the limo stop at the front of a very rundown manor.
"Is this really it," Amaya asked as she got out of the limo.
"Yes, it is. It just looks rundown so that humans don't come in, but downstairs is where the soiree is," Katsu explained. The brown-haired pureblood led her cousin downstairs once they were inside of the building. Underneath, the building looked brand new. Golden wall. Red carpeting here and there except for the portion that was meant to be a dance floor. Every piece of furniture had no speck of dust. As Amaya and Katsu walked down the stairs and stepped down onto the ballroom floor, all the vampires turned to them.
"Please, all of you, go back to your conversations," Katsu ordered politely.
They all bowed to the two Suzuki pureblood before moving back to their conversations. Katsu led Amaya over to the right side of the ballroom, where she knew Akira was waiting for them. The white-haired aristocrat came from around a pillar, dressed in an amber dress that flowed behind her. Her long hair was down and placed over her left shoulder so casually. Her hair was also straightened completely. Not a hair out of place.
"Amaya, Katsu, I'm glad that the two of you were able to come tonight," the aristocrat greeted them, "I thought I wouldn't be able to see you guys before I went back home." Akira had to go back home because her father had discovered her going to Cross Academy once again. Most likely she was going to be in big trouble for it this time.
"Well, we wanted to talk to you before you left and this was going to be our last chance," Amaya explained.
Katsu looked around the ballroom. She noticed that most of Kaname's friends were there, except for one. It was Senri that was missing. The brunette was sure that a vampire like him would have come along as well, but she guessed something had come up.
Her black-colored eyes finally landed on a certain vampire hunter though, Zero.
"What's Zero doing here," Katsu whispered.
"I don't know. He showed up a little while before I did," Akira answered back in a whisper, "I think he's here to watch over the soiree tonight."
"They didn't do that at Grandfather's last soiree," stated Amaya.
"They didn't need to because Grandfather is a vampire hunter himself," Katsu explained.
Before the girls could go on with their conversation, many people around them looked over at the stairs. Standing at the bottom of them were Kaname and Takuma, both wearing proper suits for the soiree. Amaya, Akira, and Katsu all bowed with the rest of the vampires. The two Suzuki purebloods immediately stood back up since they didn't need to bow as long as the other guests had to since being purebloods and all.
"Excuse me, I didn't mean to interrupt everyone," Kaname said politely, "Please continue enjoying yourselves."
"Kaname-sama, is it true that you stood up against the Senate to defend this human," asked an aristocratic vampire that was near Zero.
"I did," Kaname answered.
Whispers of Kaname's decision moved around the room like wildfire.
Aido, his father, and his sister approached Kaname as the whispers continued to move around the room.
"Thank you for inviting me, Aido," Kaname greeted, "I'm not comfortable at soirees, so I hardly ever attend them."
"Please don't worry about it," Aido's father spoke before he pointed to Aido's sister, "We have a special favor to ask of you though."
"Father," Aido yelled out.
"This is my daughter, Tsukiko. We hope that you may take a fancy to her."
"I don't know what will happen in the future, but I will remember her," Kaname answered politely.
Before anyone even knew it, almost every parent that was there tried to introduce their daughter to Kaname. The pureblood prince looked over his shoulder at a door that was slowly opening. Soon everyone was looking at it.
A small girl with long, blonde hair that reached her waist and dark blue eyes walked into the room. Naturally waved it seemed. She was dressed in a white gown, flowing all the way down to the floor. It was none other than Sara Shirabuki. A pureblood of dangerous perceptions, or as rumors said such. Katsu almost felt like she was about to punch something when she saw the girl walk into the room, but her friend placed a hand on Katsu's right shoulder.
"Calm yourself, Katsu," she whispered, "She doesn't mean any harm as of right now. Just calm yourself before you make a scene."
"I just don't like her," Katsu whispered back, quickly relaxing; however, her eyes never left the pureblood walking closer to the group of parents and daughters that surrounded Kaname.
"Everyone, please don't make a fuss," Sara spoke calmly, "You're inconveniencing Kaname." Every vampire that had surrounded Kaname quickly made a path for the new arrival to the party.
Sara walked over to Kaname's side. Her arm slipped into his as though telling everyone else that she was with him. It wasn't the polite thing to do, not when she wasn't actually probably with the pureblood prince.
The black-blonde haired Suzuki watched as the dark-haired pureblood prince took her hand away from his arm and kissed the top of it, slowly letting it go back to her side. Amaya quickly looked away from the whole scene that continued before her. It was embarrassing to watch and frankly just annoying. Before the ravenette could even think about what she was doing, she started walking away from her cousin and friend. She headed to a doorway that led to several empty rooms.
Katsu followed her upset cousin. She already had an idea of what she was upset about.
Akira watched as her friends walked away, not intending on following. The brunette could handle the upset girl by herself. She looked back at Kaname and Sara to see the pureblood prince walking over to her now. The other walking in some other direction.
"Where is Amaya going," Kaname asked her.
"Probably somewhere to think," Akira answered.
Kaname's dark red eyes narrowed at her answer. "Do I need to repeat myself," he whispered in an angered tone.
"No. She's going to one of the empty rooms down the hallway." Akira clenched her teeth, holding back her anger from the way the pureblood prince had spoken to her.
Kaname nodded thanks before walking off to find the two Suzuki purebloods.
Katsu finally caught up to Amaya, catching her by her right wrist. "Amaya, stop this," she almost yelled, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know," Amaya admitted, "I moved away from that scene like some jealous girl, yet I'm truly not... I don't know."
Katsu shook her head. This was getting out of hand. "Damn it," she whispered to herself.
"What's wrong, Katsu," Amaya asked, confused.
"It's nothing." The brunette could hear footsteps behind them. "Do me a favor and get into the empty room over there," the brunette ordered, pointing to a door on their right.
Amaya obeyed and did just that, closing the door behind her once she was in the room. She didn't lock the door though. It didn't seem to be necessary.
Kaname walked over to Katsu's side. A stern expression across his features. "Where is she?"
"We need to talk," Katsu spoke, pointing to a different room.
Kaname sighed and nodded.
In the room Amaya was ordered to go into, the small pureblood sat down on the floor right in front of the door. That headache came back, more painful than ever before. It felt like her whole head was on fire with pain. It wouldn't stop. The ravenette waited as a vision quickly crept into her head. She was in a deep forest that was near a small village. She watched as wolves were forced into the woods by people with pitchforks and torches.
"Get out of here, you demons," yelled a person.
"All of you should be killed for what you are," another person yelled.
"Go to hell, all of you," a third person yelled.
A single, snow white wolf stepped forward. Why should we go, it yelled back, We were here first.
A dark brown wolf bumped the white wolf on the shoulder. That's enough, it barked out, We needed to move anyway.
The vision ended there.
They were treated like that even though they killed Level E's, Amaya thought, What are they then?
A knock on the door startled the small dark-haired pureblood. "Amaya, it's me," Katsu's voice came from the other side of the door, "You can come out now."
Amaya stood up and opened the door. Her cousin was standing on the other side alone. "I thought I had felt Kaname earlier," Amaya told her.
Katsu smiled softly at her. "You did, but I talked to him and told him that maybe you and I should go home."
"Do you mean now?"
Katsu nodded. "Sorry, but I thought that maybe it would be the best thing. I also told him that I don't get along all that well with Sara Shirabuki, so that's why I want to leave as well."
Amaya looked at her cousin, shock written on her face. "Really? What happened?"
"Nothing you need to worry about." Katsu led her cousin back out of the manor. She would have to apologize to their grandfather later as to why they didn't get to talk to him at the soiree. Once they were in the limo and on their way home, the brunette looked out the window.
"Katsu?"
The older pureblood looked over at the younger. "What is it?"
"I… I had another vision."
"What was it this time?"
"I saw a bunch of wolves being driven away from a village by people. They were calling the wolves' demons…"
Katsu was silent as Amaya explained the rest of the vision.
"Do you know what these wolves are, Katsu?"
Katsu looked out the window once again. "I might, but that would require me breaking a promise."
"A promise? To whom?"
"I'm sorry, Amaya, but I can't tell you that right now."
At a small manor far from the academy, Senri was standing before his great uncle. He hadn't seen the man for a long time and so he had to wonder why he wanted to see him now.
"So, how is your mother doing, Senri," his uncle asked.
"Well, she's doing better than I expected," Senri answered, "She's fired all her servants though."
"I know. Don't worry about her. I want to show you something." Senri's great uncle led him downstairs to a basement that Senri didn't really know about.
"I don't like this. What is it," Senri questioned.
"You're no longer a child… So as a member of the Shiki family, you have a duty to know the secret I have worked so hard to conceal."
Senri watched as his uncle led him to a door at the end of a hallway.
"Here," his uncle spoke as he opened the door.
Senri looked into the room. In the middle of the room was an open coffin. Above it was a funnel of some kind, filled with blood. The boy looked into the coffin to see that there was dark red blood in it, but that wasn't the only thing. There was a tall man with dark brown hair sleeping in the coffin.
"I've been protecting him," his uncle continued, "He's your father, Senri."
"I thought he was dead," Senri replied as he reached out to touch the coffin, "This is disgusting."
"How could you say that about your own flesh and blood," asked a small voice.
Senri looked over to the other side of the coffin to see a small child standing there. He had two different colored eyes. One was dark red and another was light blue.
"I've managed to regenerate a bit, but this is all I can do... So, I waited for when you were all grown up," the child continued.
"We're ready, Rido-sama," Senri's uncle spoke, bowing at the child.
The child fainted and fell beside the coffin, his hand in the blood. Senri watched as a dark figure rose from the coffin. It was dripping with the dark red blood. The figure turned to Senri, smirking.
"Come here, son, I'm in need of your body," the figure growled as it reached a hand out to the half-bred.
Before Senri even realized what had happened, his body was overrun by the figure. On the outside it was still Senri, but inside was the monster that had waited so long to wake again. A tan, female coyote walked out of the shadows just as the monster gained control of the half-bred's body.
So, tell me, Rido, the coyote questioned, What exactly are you after?
Rido Kuran, who was inside of Senri, looked over at the coyote, holding up two fingers at the same moment. "First, I will get that little pureblood girl to remember everything and have her become my servant," he growled out, "Second, I will kill Rei Sato for killing my one and only true lover."
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