welcome to the forty-third chapter of my only 'Vampire Knight' fanfiction, 'Life with Yuuki: 'Vampire Knight' As Told by Zero'. this is forty-third chapter is just one of a few more to come in the very near future. my readers have my word on that. I've become so inspired lately. I suppose what they say is true about breaks leading to breakthroughs. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think that a break from a few of my other story bloggings on this website might be just what the doctor ordered for me. that'll be my strategy for the rest of my days writing on the Microsoft Word app from on my desktop computer, sending the documents to my document manager and then submitting them to become new chapters in my fanfictions. there are still a few or more stories of mine that I'm still pretty sure I need to rewrite, though. I can always focus on those later. I have to get on with this chapter in my only 'Vampire Knight' fanfiction. I promise that I'll get a few more new chapters up in this story, but I'll need to focus.
anyway, this chapter is a good long one-thousand-four-hundred-eighty-eight words worth of pure storyline. it is a storyline that doesn't include the ranting I typed up at the top without even realizing it, this headnote, right here, nor does it include the (mandatory) disclaimer which makes up the paragraph following the headnote, here. I don't know if I should tell you the contents of this chapter's storyline, but I will tell you that I added a bit of extra material to the ending of this chapter for a solid measure about what I think happened as soon as Yuuki Cross left the scene and went back to her dorm room. there is a comment from yours truly just after the very end of this chapter disguised as an author's note. it even has the A/N word symbol in front of it. OK, on with the (mandatory) disclaimer.
disclamation: I don't own 'Vampire Knight' in the manga or in the anime. I can do nothing except write this fanfiction as I hate on Viz Media for the way they ended the 'Vampire Knight' anime. I hate Kaname Kuuran so much, I would kill him if I was in the series, myself, especially with what he does just to get the mindless followers that are the Night Class students off of his back. anyway, Matsuri Hino-san owns the manga and its sequel 'Vampire Knight Memories'. I haven't read much of the manga, but then again, I notice an insane amount of resemblance towards 'Vampire Knight' and my one true manga, 'Fruits Basket'. if you ask me, those are both far better love stories than 'Twilight' could have ever even hoped to be.
Yuuki held onto me as my blood seeped out into the pool water from the bullet wound inflicted upon me via Master's anti-vampire gun. I groaned at the pain.
Yuuki's Cross: Zero!
Then, Master began talking about my wound from back up at the edge of the pool deck.
Master: Even if it's just a graze, it probably hurts like hell. A spell was put on that bullet to kill vampires.
I only clenched my teeth and groaned at the pain from my bullet wound even further.
Master (continued): Zero, even with your thirst for blood, do you still have a reason to brace yourself?
I opened my eyes back up and looked at Master once again to see that he had finally let that ugly cigarette out from between his lips. I then closed my eyes once more as I prepared myself for what I knew was more than likely going to be my dying hour just before I felt Yuuki place her arms around me. I could even hear what she was saying during then.
Yuuki Cross: Mr. Yagari, listen. It's clear to me that you and Zero have a connection with each other that I don't know anything about, but I will not let decide Zero's fate for him. I will not let you kill him.
Judging by the words that came out through his lips next, I guess that Master could neither understand nor believe what Yuuki was doing.
Master: Are you saying he isn't a level E, yet?
Yuuki might not have been willing to let Master kill me, but I was not about to let her sacrifice herself for the sake of the one who drank her blood when finally giving into my selfish thirst for blood. So I held her shoulder in my hand.
Yours Truly: Yuuki.
Then, I pushed her grasp onto me away from me so that master could do his job and kill that of whom needed to be killed, which at the time, meant yours truly.
Yours Truly: It's OK.
I looked into Yuuki's eyes and then turned to look at Master ready for what was to come to me.
Then, things quickly spiraled out of control when the idiot headmaster came running towards us all, screaming at Master like the voice of panic.
Idiot Headmaster: You took things too far!
Then, he made a grab for Master's anti-vampire gun.
Idiot Headmaster (continued): I thought there might be a problem, and look? This is a perfect example why I hate vampire hunters.
Master, of course, did not buy the idiot headmaster's 'hatred of vampire hunters' one little bit. I knew I certainly did not buy it. The idiot headmaster, himself, used to be a vampire hunter before he retired for the sake of working only as headmaster of Cross Academy.
Idiot Headmaster (continued): And how much longer are you going to keep a girl in cold water?
The idiot headmaster then turned to Yuuki and I.
Idiot Headmaster (continued): You must be freezing. Here. Grab my hand.
Both Yuuki and I could get out of the pool very well even without the help of that imbecile, thank you very much.
Idiot Headmaster (continued): Or not.
Yuuki was the first of us to get up from off of the ground. When she did, she acted as though she had a thing or two to say to Master.
Yuuki Cross: I wanna know now! Who are you?
It might have sounded as though she were just asking Master his name, but I knew perfectly well that what Yuuki had really wanted to know from him was his role in my life. Master, of course, was more than willing to provide my Yuuki with an answer to her question directed towards his role in my past.
Master: When Zero was training to be a vampire hunter, I was his mentor. Right, Zero?
Master then turned his head towards my direction as I walked by. I suppose that he might have decided to let Yuuki know about his role in my life since she was already well enough involved in my fall to level E.
Yours Truly: It's true.
Master then directed another glare at my Yuuki before speaking to her once more about what she almost let happen to her by putting herself at risk.
Master: You really are the adopted daughter of that silly twit. Zero was about to attack you, yet you consider me as your enemy.
Yuuki glared right back at Master yet again before he donned his cigarette once more.
Idiot Headmaster: I'll take over from here. Yuuki, go back to the dorm.
Yuuki Cross: But I_
Idiot Headmaster: It's alright, Yuuki. I said I'd take care of things from here, and I will.
Yuuki Cross: Yes, Headmaster.
Then, the idiot headmaster cried up a monsoon of crocodile tears to my Yuuki.
Idiot Headmaster: It's still father to you.
Yuuki Cross: Uh, yes, um, father.
As soon as Yuuki was well on her way back to the girls' dorm in the sun dormitories, I heard Master do something I never had expected him to do in a million years. That's right. My vampire hunting master, Master Toga Yagari, actually chuckled a little at the idiot headmaster's insistence that my precious little Yuuki call him 'father' in place of 'headmaster' like he insisted everyone else do.
Master: 'Father'? You really don't know when to set limits, do you, Master Cross?
I know it sounds a little ironic considering how they are to my knowledge about the both of them, but I would have been lying if I were to say that I was not the least bit surprised when I first learnt that the idiot headmaster of Cross Academy was actually my own master's vampire hunting master.
Sure the hopelessly idiotic geezer was a retired vampire hunter, but he was still the vampire hunting master of my own vampire hunting master, nonetheless. I found it pretty hard to believe even when Master first introduced me to the idiot headmaster of Cross Academy the night that I was first turned into a vampire by that arrogant pureblood vampiress.
I met my precious little Yuuki not long after Master had taken me to the idiot that was Headmaster Cross that night. I still remember that horrible time when I only continued to feel the beyond god awful touch from that woman who turned me into a vampire. She was pure evil. There is no such thing as a trustworthy pureblood vampire, I had always said and would always continue to say about their breed of bloodsuckers. Nothing and no one could ever turn my opinion of vampires around, not even my dearest Yuuki.
Meeting my beloved Yuuki the night I was transformed into a vampire eventually turned into the best occurrence of my life which I could never have done anything to deserve. Of course, it was not very long before even that was ruined by another pureblood vampire who was called Kaname Kuuran.
I suddenly felt Master's voice flash me back to the present day the following time he spoke to the idiot headmaster.
Master (continued): Right then, back to the matter at hand. Exactly what should I do with Zero, here?
Master then looked at me with a vaguely emotionless expression on his face.
Idiot Headmaster: I think that we might just need to quarantine him in case anyone else might be hurt. I'm terribly sorry, Zero. I hate doing this sort of thing to you, but this is no longer a game for anyone. It's been turned into a matter of life and death in many, many ways. We need to find some way to halt your fall to a level E vampire. I won't be losing anyone else because of the vampires.
Just what or who was the idiot headmaster even talking about when he said that he would not be losing anyone else because of the vampires? I remembered when he told me about whoever it was that one time just before establishing the Night Class at Cross Academy.
I never could take being compared to the vampires by other humans who were, dare I say it, fans of their kind. I smelt like they did, I had looks that were similar to theirs, I even survived on the same life source as they did; the blood of any given living human. I had to stop being like them. I would have given anything to turn back the hands of time to when that woman slaughtered my family and I in that bloodbath of that night.
Who was it that the idiot headmaster lost who he seemed to value more than anybody else? I suppose I would find out someday, but the present days both behind and ahead of me were not that day.
A/N: gotta say, I kinda agree with Zero about the idiot headmaster and his wondering just who it is that he had lost to the vampires. who exactly did Headmaster Cross lose to the vampires anyway, if anyone important in his life?
