(A/N: Sorry for the long wait for this chapter! I recently started Uni so I'm a little behind with moving out and everything! Thank you so much for all the lovely comments, favorites and follows :) I really appreciate it, and they kept me motivated enough to write this next chapter.

It's a little boring because I'm introducing a new situation, but I hope you'll still like it. It's also kind of jumbled, but I hope the chapter after this one will iron out any creases in the story :)

There is also a change in tone in this chapter, I hope it isn't too jarring.

Nagisa had never been a fan of school; He had always been somewhere near the bottom of the class, and his teachers and peers never let him forget it.
But this had to be one of the weirdest situations he'd been in at school (who was he kidding... The weirdest!).
At the front of the class was a bright yellow tentical monster (that he could only assume was some sort of demon) and it was somehow meant to be his teacher.

But despite this said yellow abomination of reality standing at the front of the room, the entire class' attention seemed to be directed towards Nagisa himself. He could feel their stares on the back of his head, and noticed the way they all quickly looked away whenever he glanced at them.

He sat ridged in his chair, tense from all the attention. He couldn't believe he was here in the academy again (even if it was far away in the E class building), honestly, he couldn't believe anything about the situation he was currently in; It was just too absurd.

It had all started yesterday, after he and Karma had escaped Asano's clutches and found themselves being confronted by the yellow monstrosity who was currently teaching the class.

"You better have a very good reason for skipping class today!" The being said, it's wide grinning mouth not moving as it spoke. Karma and Nagisa both stared at it in shock. The Vampire was the first to spring into action, swiftly jumping in front of the human protectively, pulling out his knife.

"What is this? Another one of the hunter brat's demon summons?" He murmured, mercury eyes narrowing.

"Hey! I'll have you know I'm not somebody's summon! I am a autonomous being!" The yellow Octopus thing fumed. Nagisa just gaped at it.

"Hey, Karma. Do you think there could of been hallucinogens in the water Asano gave me?" The blue-haired boy said, the leaves crunching under his foot as he stepped back. "Because I'm seeing something strange right now."

"I am not a hallucination!"

"It kind of seems like a hallucination." Karma agreed.

"No! No! No!" The Yellow Octopus said. It suddenly zipped from the floor to the top of a tree so fast it appeared to have teleported. It spoke in an upbeat voice. "Allow me to introduce myself; I am the ultimate super-being of destruction. I will destroy this planet in one years time unless somebody can stop me (but that isn't likely). Oh, on top of that I'm also Nagisa's teacher."

"The teachers at your school are weird." Karma stage-whispered to Nagisa.

"H- How can you be our teacher?" The Blue haired boy blanched. He had no idea what this monster thing even was!

"Oh, that's easy. I told the main Government of your land that the only way I'll stay in one place so they can attempt to assassinate me is if they let me be the class 3-E teacher at the hunting academy." The Octopus trilled. Nagisa blinked, his blue eyes full of confusion. He had learnt a lot of new, disturbing things in the past week or so, but this had to be the craziest.

"But... Why?" The blue haired boy said, slowly. The yellow monster zipped down from the tree so it was right in front of Nagisa in less than a second, leaving a flurry of leaves and debris in it's wake.

"That isn't important, Nagisa." The yellow thing said. "What's important is that if you don't come to class, I wont teach, and then there will be no chance to stop me from destroying the planet."

Before the blue haired boy had a chance to answer, Karma stepped forward, his lips growing into a grin, his mercury eyes narrowing. Despite being several feet shorter than the 7ft something so-called super-being, the Vampire still managed to give the impression he was looking down on him (it was, male, right?)

"You don't seem all that scary, Calamari." Karma said, slowly walking forwards, drawing his knife. He opened his mouth to grin, revealing a lethally sharp set of fangs. "So all I have to do is kill you and we wont have an issue, right?"

The red head dived forwards at his impossible vampire speed, skilfully brandishing his knife.

He missed the Yellow Octopus by mere inches. He swiped again, and suddenly they were sparing; Vampire vs Super-being in a fight too fast for Nagisa's eyes to follow. It was just a blur.

Everything that was happening was so sudden and so strange the hunter couldn't even process it.

Suddenly, there was a sickening sound like flesh being pierced, and Nagisa looked up to see that Karma had stabbed the monster through the head with a knife. The Vampire grinned triumphantly

"Now that was just too easy." He said. Then suddenly, the steel of the knife started to melt, turning into a runny silvery liquid that was absorbed into the creature's body.
Karma let go of the hilt and jumped back.

"You know, metal weapons have no affect on me." The yellow octopus said, it's beady black eyes turning a flashing bright red. "I just absorb them. They actually make me stronger."

Both Nagisa's eyes widened. What the hell was this dangerous thing?

"What are you?" Karma asked, watching in horror as his weapon was destroyed. The thing ignored his question, and instead zipped forward at an impossible speed (It looked like teleportation). And the next thing either of the boys knew, Karma was being grabbed by it's appendages. They wrapped around his arms, preventing movement, one of them had hold of the chain around his Lapis Lazuli necklace.

The Vampire stood perfectly still; If this snapped, it was the end. He would go up in flames.
"Please! No!" Nagisa cried, running forwards then stopping himself- He didn't want to provoke the thing.

"You- you were just playing with me when we were sparing, weren't you?" Karma said through gritted teeth. He wasn't sure of a way out of this one. Was he going to die?
The things faces switched from yellow to orange for a brief second.

"You are correct!" It said, happily, it then pulled out a cardboard take-away box of noodles. "I also had enough time to get Nagisa some food. Poor boy must be starving."

To both the human and the Vampire's relief, the thing let go of Karma, and slithered over to Nagisa, holding out the food.

"Go on, take it." It said, the blue haired boy felt he had no other choice but to take the box. It was still piping hot.

"Just- how fast are you that you can get to Murmastu's ramen shop without us even noticing?" The Human asked, wide-eyed.

"I travel at a top speed of mach 20." The yellow octopus said, the ever-present grin still on it's face. . "That's twenty times the speed of light. Since we've established you can't kill me so easily, will you stop you truant behaviour?"

"I can't just go back to school!" Nagisa said, urgency in his voice. "I ran off with a vampire! And I fought with one of the academy's elite hunters! I'm a fugitive! I'm pretty sure that the Director wants to kill me!"

"That can't be right!" The Monster, there was a sly look in it's eyes. "According to your file, you were kidnapped, and you have no record of any crimes."

"But the director still knows what I've done. No record wont stop him from killing me." Nagisa said, solemnly. Karma was stood in front of him in that protective stance again, but by now they were both aware that if it wanted to, the yellow octopus could kill them, and they'd be dead before they hit the ground.

"Nagisa," The yellow thing said, it's tone now warm somehow, caring. "The director can't kill you. Since my arrival there are Government officials all over the place, and they wont let somebody with no record be unlawfully executed or arrested. And I'll always protect my students no matter what."

Nagisa looked at him,'why do I feel as if I can trust this monster' he thought to himself.

"So, what's it going to be?" The yellow thing asked him. "Will you come to class or will you be responsible for the destruction of the earth, Nagisa."

Really, despite Karma's protests, what choice did he have?

After that, Nagisa was taken to a serious-looking Government official named Mr Karasuma, who was sat in the 3-E building (a tiny wooden shack on the top of a hill covered in dense forrest).
He looked out of place with his immaculate uniform in the dingy surroundings.

"So, you were taken by a Vampire and now you've returned." He said, sat at his desk with a mountain of paper work in front of him.

"S-something like that- " Nagisa mumbled. Said Vampire was currently outside the building, spying for any trouble.

"Don't worry." The official said in a firm tone. "Since you have no criminal record, the town has no grounds to punish you. We'll make sure of it."

Just like that, Nagisa's whole life was uprooted again; He went from being a fugitive to being enrolled in school again just like that. It was dizzying, really. He hadn't quite wrapped his head around the sudden altercations.
It was just too sudden- A yellow octopus threatening to destroy the world if he didn't go to class? How could this be real?

"I don't trust this. It seems like a set-up." Karma said, as Nagisa left the building after his meeting. The Vampire melted out of the darkness were he had been hidden, wrapping an arm around the human's shoulder.

"What choice do we have though?" Nagisa sighed, looking to Karma then looking away suddenly, blushing. Why did he have to remember that kiss now of all times? The Vampire was so close-

"What? Your heart-rate just increased." Karma said, smirking at Nagisa (how did he go from serious to teasing in two seconds flat?).
"It's nothing." The Human said, turning away. He felt his face heat up even more, he attempted to cover it with his hands.

The Vampire easily took Nagisa's wrists and pried his hands away from his face, laughing as he did so.

"You're being weird." He chuckled.

"Stop it." The hunter said. He tried to make it sound like a warning, but it came out more like a plea.
Instead of letting go, Karma pulled Nagisa closer, and pressed his lips to his temple, making the hunter gasp.
"

Just because your going to class now doesn't mean I'm gonna leave you alone, kay? You're not free of me yet!" The Vampire said with a grin, as he walked ahead, vibrant red hair a stark contrast against the shadowy forrest.

Nagisa stood still for a moment, watching him walk ahead, his heart thundering in his chest. It was probably just normal for Karma to be so intimate, it was stupid to get wound up about it, he told himself. But the hunter couldn't help the warm feeling like a jittering ball of electricity in his heart every time Karma kissed him.

It was the morning after that when Nagisa came to class, were he was sat now, the subject of whispers and rumors. He supposed he could't blame them.
Being 'kidnapped' by a vampire was the type of thing people gossip about.
His life had been uprooted for the second time in a few weeks, he had no idea what to expect now.

Asano finished cleaning his sword, scrubbing the last disgusting stain of vampire blood off it, then violently chucking the rag in the bin. He put the blade back in the cabinet with the rest of his weaponry.
His room was more akin to an armory than a bedroom, there were no posters or ornaments, he didn't keep anything around that wasn't necessary. The walls were a pale listless grey colour that matched the equally dull curtains. The academy was visible from the window.

The events of that morning kept playing over and over again in his head; He had them! He could of easily disposed of that traitor Shiota and the Red devil both.

But for some unfathomable reason, he hadn't (Actually, the elite knew the reason why, he just wasn't allowing himself to acknowledge it). He just focused on being angry. How could an Elite like him suffer such a humiliating defeat?

"You better have a good reason for skipping class today." A deep baritone voice said from behind Asano, startling him. He whipped around quickly, coming face to face with the director; He was smiling, looking vaguely amused.
(How the hell did he get in here without me noticing?)

"Of course." The Elite said, quickly regaining his composure. He stood straight, eyes ahead. "I thought that vanquishing a swarm of newly-turned vampires heading for the outskirts of town took precedent over school work."

He said the lie smoothly, with no evidence that he wasn't telling the truth. His father couldn't know what he had done- how he had failed (and how he may of broken a few laws). He just hoped the man had been too busy with whatever national crisis had been going on that had Government officials holding secret meetings with him in the academy.

"Your job is to guard the town, not go chasing after Vampires on the outskirts. That's for qualified hunters." The Chairman said. Something about his tone made Asano's blood boil. Sure, he hadn't completed the academy so he didn't have an official qualification, but he had slaughtered more filthy vampires than most veterans.

Qualified hunters were sent off to other lands to work, in order to make money for Kunugigawa, meaning the protection of the village itself was left largely to so-called novices like Asano.

"Am I in trouble for protecting the town now?" The strawberry blonde grumbled. His father laughed, it sounded brittle and humorless.

"No, no, of course not- you're in trouble for failing your mission to kill the red devil then lying about it!" The Chairman said, smile not leaving his face.

Shit.

He knew.

Asano's first reaction was to dart forward and make a grab for his sword, but the Director was faster, moving in front of the weapons cabinet with ease.

"So, you thought it was acceptable to not only break the rules and trespass onto forbidden parts of the academy, but also break a generations old law about summoning demons?" The Chairman said, despite his smile there was a wickedness behind his eyes. His posture was rigidly perfect, but he seemed moments away from snapping.

"You can't proove- " The blonde started to say.

"Non of what you did would be a problem. If you had succeeded." The Director cut him off. To an outsider, he appeared calm, but little details like the way his eyes widened and pupils dilated told Asano he was livid. "As you should of done. Your trap had no holes and they walked right into it. So why did you allow them to live?"

Asano didn't have an answer. There was nothing the Hunter could say anyway that would get himself out of this. Anything he could say would sound like an excuse. He made his violet eyes cold and unreadable.

"No answer? As I expected." The Director sighed, stood still as ever. "But I have a theory. Maybe you couldn't handle killing a human. I would be very disappointed if it turned out you were too weak to carry out your duty."

"Of course not!" Asano yelled, but he answered too quickly, too loudly. It was all the confirmation Gakuho needed. His expression darkened.

"So it is true. Problems with fighting and tactics can be mended through training. Weakness of the mind is not so easily rectified." The Director said, menacingly taking a step forwards. "This world is ruthless, so you must be ruthless if you don't wish to perish. Humans are just as capable of destroying you as the vampires are, if you're unable to kill them, you really are useless. Especially given your position."

"I'm not weak. I could kill a human, I could kill anyone that got in my way!" The Hunter shouted, denying the truth to his father and to himself.

But he knew it was a lie; Murdering a human and murdering a natural-born vampire was nothing like killing a turned.

Asano had killed more turned Vampires than he cared to remember, and he'd never felt anything for them- Not for the caged Vampires he'd killed as a child during training, not when he was slicing their heads off, or dragging them out into the sun during daylight then watching them burn to a crisp before his eyes, not even if they were people he knew as humans.

Even if they screamed, begged and cried he still didn't feel any remorse.

Because they were monsters, not people.
Turned Vampires lived for blood and nothing else, often killing their own family members in pursuit of nourishment. They lost their ability think and talk normally. They became wild beasts, a twisted caricature of their human self.
Killing them was the only option, like chopping off a diseased limb before it could infect the rest of the body.

There were very few turned Vampires who didn't succumb to complete insanity.

Asano thought he'd feel the same way about Nagisa and Karma (A human content with being livestock and another filthy vampire- let me put them out of their misery).
He had been waiting for them when they had broken into the basement of the academy that evening; He knew they'd come.

From a space behind the wall, he could follow them easily, making sure that they walked straight into the trap were his summons were waiting. Asano had felt almost giddy with excitement- He was finally going to kill them!

He listened to their conversation as he followed them silently from behind the wall. It was nothing like he imagined; He assumed they would have some sort of twisted master-servant relationship, but they honestly just sounded like two friends. They seemed to actually care about each other.

It suddenly dawned on Asano that this time he wasn't killing monsters, he would be murdering people. The thought made him feel sick, he quickly tried to push it away. Then the two of them started talking about executions;

"Yeah- at school, sometimes the other kids used to carry out 'executions'. Really it was just an excuse to bully someone." The hunter said as they walked, he was still holding hands with the vampire "They'd usually pick a kid who was a loner or something, and make them the 'vampire'. Then they would beat them up, and that'd be the execution."

"Did they ever do that to you?" Karma asked,a flare of protectiveness in his voice.

"No- the bullies never even noticed me." The hunter said, there was a small smile on his face."Well, besides one time a few years ago." He admitted. "- I was walking home a few years ago when I saw some older students beating up a kid my age. I knew they'd turn on me for it but I had to intervene. I was lucky, really, they didn't hit me too hard- perhaps they knew that they'd already gone too far with the first boy."

It couldn't be.

An old, long buried memory had filled his head;

When he first joined the academy, his abilities were so far above the other children's, so it was only natural rumors about him being a vampire would surface.

He ignored it, most of the time, the other kids were just jealous.

But Asano had underestimated just how far the rumors spread. He wasn't prepared for a group of older boys to ambush him on the way back from school.

He had ended up being completely at the mercy of their 'execution game'. It had felt hopeless until a blue-eyed girl (or at least he had thought it was a girl) intervened. Even when they threatened her, she hadn't backed down. That 'girl' had been Nagisa all along?

It shouldn't matter, something that happened years ago shouldn't affect Asano's actions now, he had told himself, but as the Vampire and the Human made their way through the labyrinth, and the blond followed silently, the feeling of discontent grew. There was an uncomfortable churning in his chest, and he felt a sickening uncertainty he wasn't used to;

He was going to kill people.

But he had to.

He was going to kill a human, a child, really.

By the time Shiota and the Red devil reached the door, Asano was in turmoil. He could feel the sinister intent of the demons he summoned in the other room.

The darkness coming from those abominations, the demon dogs, was almost tangible. He could feel it in the air.
The thought of Nagisa being ripped to shreds by one of them filled Asano's mind. He tried to block it out- it had to be done. He wasn't weak, he could do this!

(Silently, he hoped and wished that Nagisa and Karma would turn back).

But they didn't, they opened the door.

The demon dogs were as brutal and as viscous as he imagined. They were merciless, even the Vampire could only just hold them off.

His plan was working, but Asano only felt despair. The stench of the demon dog was heavy in the air like festering flesh.
Nagisa was bitten.

From behind the wall, Asano could see the demon tearing through the small boys arm. He had to stop himself from intervening then and there. (He had to let them die).

Demon dog's attack whatever they see, even though he summoned them, Asano couldn't intervene without calling them off, or else he'd be killed too.

Even if he wanted to, just saving Nagisa and leaving The Red devil to the dog's mercy wasn't an option.

He watched as Nagisa began to succumb to the sedative effects of the poison, and the Red devil tried to hold off the Demon dogs, getting bloodied and beaten in the process.

The Vampire was sacrificing himself to save Nagisa. Why? It didn't make any sense, Vampires only ever really care about themselves, wasn't he going too far just to protect his blood supply?
I'm going to murder these two people.

Demon dog venom was poison for humans. If he didn't get an antidote, Nagisa was going to be killed.

Something about his body lying there, still as a corpse, small and bleeding made his heart clench.

Suddenly, Asano couldn't take it any more. Without even thinking about it, he took his knife and made a shallow slice on his hands.
"Vanquish." He muttered under his breath.

Within seconds, the demon dogs dropped to the floor with a thud like the corpses they were.

He smashed through the old crumbling wall with relative ease, and grabbed Nagisa's half conscious body off the floor.

Around the corner, he could here light foot-steps of the Vampire approaching. He had been injured, but not drastically. And he still had Nagisa's blood flowing through his veins.

Asano wouldn't win a fight against the vampire, especially not in the dark.
So instead, he took Nagisa and left, lifting the boy onto his back. Asano could smell the blood from his wound.
'What the hell have. I done, I could of killed them'.

He bit his hand in frustration, making his way through the academy's secret tunnels towards the chemistry room were potions were kept. Nagisa's dead weight on his back reminded him of what he had just done, the mistake he had made.

He wasn't sure if he was regretting saving him or making the plan in the first place. Right now, The red devil was probably in the bowels of the academy frantically searching for Nagisa.
Asano reached the chemistry room, crawling out of the secret passage on his hands and knee's, pulling Nagisa out after him.

The academy was empty as he expected. The Elite quickly scoured the cupboards, pulling out the antidote, along with a few other vials; Vervain, Hemlock, foxglove,

As quickly as he could, his brain started to hash out a new plan; The Vampire clearly cares about Nagisa, he could use him as bait! He just needed to find some abandoned place on the outskirts of town to use!
It was a last minute frantic plan. Asano half knew it would fail. He hadn't released his own weakness before, but he was a hunter, not a killer.

Now, he was stood in front of his father. The man probably knew exactly what had happened, more or less.

"You know, I don't keep around weapons I don't have any use for." The Chairman said. That madness within his eyes was seconds from being unleashed.
"I will kill them." Asano said, more to himself than anyone else, as the Director walked towards him. "This will be the last time I let weakness stand in my way- "

(A/n: Sorry for any gramma errors and such in this story! And sorry again for taking so long to write it! So, Nagisa is in an assassination classroom, but that wont stop him from working with Karma to bring down the academy (Who knows, maybe his classmates will be able to help). Also, there are his growing feelings for Karma which he is still confused about..

I didn't want Asano to be a one dimensional villain, so I included more characterization for him in this. Even though he's a brutal hunter, even he has some moral problems when it comes to killing Karma and Nagisa (Especially Nagisa). He's kind of on a cross-road, he could either bury his feelings of guilt and become truly ruthless like his father wants him to, or he could decide to make his own path.

Please review! Let me know what you think, or what you'd like to see! they really motivate me to write :)