here's the fifty-first chapter of my first ever 'Vampire Knight' fanfiction, which is still my only 'Vampire Knight' fanfiction, 'Life with Yuuki: 'Vampire Knight' as Told by Zero'. this fifty-first chapter is also the second chapter to feature Zero's story throughout the 'Vampire Knight' series from the first season of the anime which takes place in the eighth episode, 'Gunshot of Sorrow'. this fifty-first chapter is a good two-thousand-two-hundred-ninety words worth of pure storyline. don't worry about any comments from me disguised as author's notes in this chapter, because there are none. the storyline basis of this fifty-first chapter doesn't include this explanatory headnote, right here, nor does it include the (mandatory) disclaimer that makes up the paragraph following this headnote, which I always insist needs to be present in any of my fanfictions, as some of them are rewrites of other bloggers' fanfictions on here. I know it's not a very good thing to do, but at least I admit to it. OK, enough pleasantries between me and my audience. on with the disclaimer I insist is mandatory.

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.


As the thoughts about how that Kaname Kuuran had once again taken credit for what I had done for my darling Yuuki swam about from within my head, I had also thought about what that Kaname Kuuran had said to me about his reasons for letting me live. He only ever saw me and everyone else in his path as his pawns. It was the one thing I felt as though I could actually find a common ground with the students of the Night Class. All of them and I were both nothing more than his puppets on strings. I did not know what Yuuki and the rest of Cross Academy, Night Class or Day Class, saw in that guy. By then, however, I was fully determined more than ever before to not even stay as one of that secretly horrible man's pawns in his own little game of chess. I was in the headmaster's bathroom and still had only one thing to say about that Kaname Kuuran's reason for not once killing me.

Yours Truly: Kaname Kuuran has nothing to do with it.

That was when I could hear someone opening the door to the headmaster's bathroom from on the other side of said door. When I saw that it was only Yuuki, I felt both relieved and embarrassed by having my privacy invaded ironically by the girl from within the Day Class to whom I had always felt the closest.

Yours Truly (continued): Will you learn to knock?

Then, Yuuki had the nerve to lecture me about knocking when she was the one who barged in this time.

Yuuki Cross: Oh, come on. Like you're one to say something. You're the one that never knocks.

Then, my Yuuki turned the other way with a blush still decorating her face. I knew it as her 'Kaname Kuuran' blush. I bet she had been thinking about the guy all the way over to the headmaster's bathroom, and her own thoughts of that Kaname Kuuran cost this poor, ever distracted girl her own ability to focus on even the path in front of her.

Yuuki Cross (continued): You know the lock is broken, so hang a towel on the door.

My brain: Excuse me, not my mother, but I did happen to hang a towel on the door. You were the one who was too busy daydreaming about your Kaname Kuuran to focus even on your intended path to the headmaster's bathroom.

My scatterbrained Yuuki still tried her hardest to keep up her knowledgeable front by continuing to lecture me about not having hung a towel on the door when I did hang a towel on the door to that idiotic headmaster's bathroom, for her information.

Yuuki Cross (continued): Maybe if you would've done that, then_

My Yuuki finally took a look at the door when she saw it; the towel I had so obviously placed on the handle to the headmaster's bathroom door. The expression on her face upon that kind of realization from her said everything I needed to hear from her. Sometimes it was like this girl just could not focus and think of her beloved Kaname Kuuran at the same time even if her focus would save her life. The way I saw things regarding her that time, it was basically either that or my Yuuki was just not as observant as she had always wanted to be.

I did not even know why my Yuuki had always insisted upon making an adult of herself. She was just far too childish to be thought of as an adult by anyone. It was not necessarily a bad thing when it came to her, in fact it was no weakness at all on her. If any quality of hers was a weakness at all, it had to have easily been her own selfish need to be treated like an adult.

Then, I remembered just how much older than my dear Yuuki that Kaname Kuuran exactly was. My dearest Yuuki really had to have felt obligated to be mature enough to be worthy of the affections of that Kaname Kuuran of hers. I knew that he was her hero, but she should never have even been trying to push herself to grow up just for the sake of a guy, never mind a guy who was not as perfect as the front he put up for the public eye.

Yours Truly: I wonder what Kaname Kuuran has in mind for you.

Yuuki Cross: Huh?

I knew that it was not exactly the smartest response from her, but that kind of response from my darling Yuuki could easily be heard from out in space by aliens. She just gave me a look of pure confusion thereafter.

Yours Truly: Nothing.

I turned myself around to face away from my dearest Yuuki.

Yours Truly (continued): Never mind.

Then, I began to unbutton my shirt as I prepared myself for the bath/shower.

Yours Truly (continued): Just leave already.

I could hear my beloved Yuuki start talking back to me from behind.

Yuuki Cross: I just…

I guess that she really was a child at heart, but it was not entirely the worst thing there ever was about her personality. Like I had said before, my darling Yuuki's need to feel like an adult was a lot more of a weakness than that part of her had ever been.

Yuuki Cross (continued): You're wrong. You said that I would've preferred to give my blood to Kaname, but I never wished for that, at all.

So, my Yuuki actually thought that lying to me about it would soothe my savage rage about the whole thing by then, did she? I had to say that for a girl who thought she was hard to figure out, Yuuki sure had a way of making herself a little too easy to read. If she were any kind of book at all, I think she would be easier to read than even a children's book, she was so obvious.

Yours Truly: Is that so?

I had to admit that as clear a person as my Yuuki truly was, contrary to her own self-beliefs, it was almost completely unfun to watch her even try to be as vague as her own crush, that Kaname Kuuran. I had always wondered why she had wanted to be as hard-to-figure-out as he was, and it pained me to admit it, but every single time I found an answer as to why she would want that sort of thing, I always drew the source of my answer in with her infatuation with the guy that she had always so clearly confused for love.

Yuuki Cross: That all you have to say? You're the one who brought it up in the first place.

I could hear Yuuki approach me at the headmaster's bathroom counter from behind me.

Yuuki Cross (continued): Listen; my responsibility is to make sure that I give you blood. That's what I intend to do forever. So with that in mind, I can't just go around giving my blood out to anyone who asks. Knowing you, you probably think that me making sure you get blood is just annoying and pushy.

Was Yuuki really serious about trying to play the part of the victim in that last comment from her? I was the one who had to put up with the burning bloodlust constantly in my throat, and she had the nerve to act the part of the damsel in distress on me by then?

Yuuki Cross (continued): Are you listening? And this time, you had better not turn me down, alright?

With those two comments from her, I had decided that enough was enough from Yuuki's lips. I could take her constant yammering no more.

Yuuki Cross (continued): Hey, you are prepared for this. We both decided_

Of course, I had managed to intentionally catch my Yuuki off-guard when I tested her in my bloodlust by pushing her and slamming her into the wall of the headmaster's bathroom. She even gasped at me for it.

Yuuki Cross (continued): Right now?!

My Yuuki sounded as though she were slightly afraid of me at that very minute. We stared at one another for a second or two. Then, I went and pretended to want her blood before I finally backed away from her with my own response to all of her comments.

Yours Truly: You're an idiot. You're the one who's not prepared. That's obvious.

I turned back towards the direction of the door which led to the bath/shower just before I finally made it clear that I wanted my privacy at the time.

Yours Truly (continued): Just go!

Then, I felt something(s) of my Yuuki's being flung at me in her surprise fit of anger at me.

Yuuki Cross: I thought you were serious, stupid!

I felt something slide down my neck and find its way onto my left shoulder just before I grabbed it with my right hand. The minute I held it in front of my face, I had fully realized exactly what it was. It was none other than my Yuuki's underwear, specifically her bra. She grabbed it back from my hand in sheer embarrassment with a slight hint of anger still lingering in her voice from before.

Yuuki Cross (continued): You try to test me like that again, and I'll really let you have it!

Then, my Yuuki slammed the door to the headmaster's bathroom in her frustration with me, no less.

A few short seconds later I heard the door to the bathroom with the broken lock open back up once again. Only this time, it had turned out to be none other than the idiotic headmaster who had a way of making my life at his own academy a living nightmare from one way to the next.

Headmaster Kaien Cross: What's wrong? Yuuki seemed like she was upset about something.

What else could I say other than that guy had a way of a metaphorical pain in my neck worse than that woman who butchered my family ever was? Whether he would do those kinds of things to me out of innocence or ignorance, I knew nothing of. All I knew was that he had quite possibly the worst timing out of anyone on the planet. All I wanted by that point in the day was to cool myself off for a bit with a bath or even just shower.

Headmaster Kaien Cross (continued): It's perfect timing, though. Zero, I need to have a word with you if I could.

Well, so much for my bath/shower. What the hell was wrong with the hopelessly stupid, old geezer? Had he always been as happy-go-lucky as all of that sickening personality, or was it something more recent than just his whole life long? I had no choice but to make a mental note to ask Master about it one of those days.

A short while later after I finally got dressed and met back up with the idiot headmaster in his office, he presented me with a letter of origins unknown to me until he had revealed the contents of said letter a little prematurely, though not the complete content of it.

Headmaster Kaien Cross: This is an order from the Hunter Association. It's a request to hunt down a Level E serial killer, and it's for you, Zero.

I took the letter from the idiot headmaster and chose to look over all of its contents on my way to hunt the creature down, should I have decided to take the job.

Headmaster Kaien Cross (continued): It'll be your first assignment as a hunter.

So, this job was going to be my first ever assignment as a vampire hunter, was it? There was simply no way I could refuse it by then if that were the case.

Headmaster Kaien Cross (continued): It's despicable. This is just their way of seeing if you have what it takes to carry on the Kiryuu name. I told them the other day that you were doing just fine.

I knew that he was trying to be like my father with all of those comments from him, but it was not like I did not want to do this assignment. I had needed something at the time to get my mind off of Yuuki and what she meant to me, and somehow a vampire-hunting mission sounded like just what the doctor ordered to treat a broken heart such as mine by then.

Yours Truly: Listen, I_

I was ready to accept the mission anyway, but the idiot headmaster sounded as though he had something against me going on the vampire-hunting mission.

Headmaster Kaien Cross: Unfortunately, Zero, this is something you can't refuse.

That was it? That was what the headmaster had wanted to warn me about with this vampire-hunting mission of mine? That was all there was to his comment about it?

I swore that sometimes it felt as though this guy did not even know me at all for someone so keen on becoming my surrogate father. I was as much of a vampire hunter as Master was, and I was even twice the vampire hunter that I bet the idiot headmaster was before he retired from the profession to work at this crappy institution of lower learning and higher one-sided crushes.