Disclaimer: i do not own Vampire Knight or its characters, i only own Ayaka, Shuhei, Ragan and Daisuke.

Chapter 3

"This is a whole new level of disturbing" Shuhei said as the night class walked out of the moon dorm to be greeted by a horde of girls. Ayaka yawned loudly, she hated being up so early.

"New level of annoying is more like it" she said as all of the humans' eyes turned to the new students. Ayaka's eye twitched angrily when she saw a big group of them crowding around Aido.

"You're not going to convince anyone that you don't like him if you make it so obvious that you're jealous" Shuhei said as he looked uninterestedly at a small group of girls that were looking at him and whispering.

"I don't have to convince anyone because I don't like him and I'm NOT jealous."

"Don't try to hide things from me Onee-chan, we've known each other since before we were born," Shuhei replied matter-of-factly. "I can read you like a book, and you couldn't be more jealous if you tried." Ayaka glared at him angrily before charging ahead of the other vampires; she slowed to a stop when she noticed that some of the girls where pointing at her and whispering, as she turned towards them she was surprised to see that Yuki had been trapped underneath them as she tried to maintain order. Ayaka looked at the girls and pointed at Yuki but they just continued to whisper.

"If you have something to say to me say it to face! Plus, get off of Cross-san you're crushing her you damn idiots!" The group of girls backed away after Ayaka's outburst, one of them, obviously the ring leader, laughed nervously.

"I think we were right, they are related to Kiryu." The group turned and ran as Ayaka launched at them; they were saved from an attack as Shuhei caught the back of her uniform just in time.

"Let me at them!!!" She shouted.

"Let's go" Shuhei replied as he lead her away towards the classroom.

"C'mon Shuhei! All I wanted to do was teach them a lesson!"

"The day students have finished their classes for today" Shuhei replied smoothly.

"Smart ass" Ayaka grumbled grumpily as they entered the classroom. Yagari looked up and smirked as they took their seats, "You could have warned us about that!" Ayaka snapped at him. Yagari just shrugged.

"I don't like vampires, why should I warn you? Besides, I knew it would be funny."

"Hilarious" Shuhei said as he stifled a yawn; gradually the rest of the vampires entered the room. Shuhei looked at the teacher out of the corner of his eye, he knew that it must have been uncomfortable being surrounded by vampires who would more than gladly rip his head off, but all Yagari did was write the date on the black board and start the class.

OOO

Ayaka looked at the F printed across the top of her maths paper and sighed; she had thought that she had the hang of maths by now, obviously not.

"I think you need a tutor" Shuhei said as he looked at her results.

"Urgh, what's the point? Maybe I'm just not meant to understand this maths stuff" Ayaka put her head on the table and put her hands on the back of her head. "Who would teach me anyway?" Ayaka asked without lifting her head. Shuhei looked around the room thoughtfully and smiled when his eyes fell on the perfect person.

"Why don't you get Hanabusa-san to tutor you in maths Ayaka?" He said loudly so that all of the vampires in the room could hear.

"NO WAY!" Both Ayaka and Aido stood up and shouted at once, both glaring daggers at Shuhei as he sat smugly in his seat.

"Aido" Kaname said from the corner.

"Yes Kaname-sama?" Aido replied instantly.

"Teach Ayaka maths" the pureblood ordered him. Ayaka glared at her brother all the way through the rest of the night, when the last bell went Shuhei was the first out of the door; he turned and smiled at Ayaka before making a very hasty retreat towards the moon dorm and his fairly safe bedroom.

OOO

"You're late" Aido snapped as Ayaka walked into the common room, "how am I supposed to tutor you if you don't even show up on time? Where were you!"

"Eating dinner like any sane person would" Ayaka snapped back.

"Everyone else finished ages ago! What were you doing, clearing out the kitchen?!"

"Possibly" Ayaka replied; the vampires that had remained in the common room were quickly making a swift exit.

"Grr, just sit down! The sooner you do that the sooner we can get this over with" Aido said as he pointed at the seat next to him.

"I want to be here less than you do" Ayaka grumbled as she sat beside him, she looked apprehensively at the pile of number covered paper sitting on the table in front of them.

"Just pay attention. Do you know how to do trigonometry?"

"..."

"Pythagoras?"

"..."

"Circle theorem?"

"..."

"Algebra?"

"..."

"... What's one plus one?"

"I'm not a complete idiot you asshole!" Ayaka shouted as she grabbed one of the cushions and threw it into Aido's face.

"I'm going to kill Shuhei! Wait 'til I get my hands on him" Aido mumbled as he grabbed the cushion and threw it back to its original place, "this is going to take a while" he continued gloomily as he scratched the back of his head. Ayaka crossed her arms and looked at the pile of papers determinedly.

"C'mon, like you said, the sooner we get this over with the better" she said as she grabbed the first sheet off the top of the pile. Ayaka had to admit that he was a good teacher, it took three hours but by the end of that time she pretty much understood everything that he had listed before. Ayaka stretched and yawned loudly; she grumbled incoherently as she looked at the amount of work that was still evident by the size of the pile. "Can we stop now? I'm exhausted" she said as she yawned again.

"C'mon just this last thing and we can both go to bed" Aido replied as he yawned to, "okay the first thing you do is label the sides of the triangle and..." Aido stopped as a weight fell on his shoulder, looking down he saw that Ayaka had slumped against him with her head resting against his neck. Her eyes were shut and she was breathing evenly, Aido's eyelids became heavy as he looked at her, moments later he to fell asleep.

OOO

He wasn't sure how long he had slept for but when Aido opened his eyes again he reasoned that it must have been at least a couple of hours. Realising that he had fallen asleep on the sofa he tried to move but was stopped by a weight pressed against him. Ayaka had curled up and was resting with half her body across his legs and she was using his stomach as a pillow.

Aido tentatively put his hand on her hand, he smiled as he ran his fingers through her silver hair, he knew that the only chance he would get to show his feelings like this was when she was asleep. He was amazed by how peaceful she looked, like she had completely forgotten her worries. She shifted and sat up sleepily, she breathed in sharply when she opened her eyes and found that her face was millimetres from Aido's.

"Aaaaaaah!" Ayaka cried out as she moved backwards and ended up tumbling off of the sofa to the floor, "Petal-san what the hell?!!" Aido just blinked at her as her face turned bright red. She got to her feet and brushed herself off before turning to walk out of the room, "I'm, uhh, going to go to bed." Aido watched her as she walked away, he was captivated by the way that the sunlight streaming through the curtains glowed off of her hair and by her scent, it reminded him of the woods that they had explored when they were younger. He looked at the pile of maths papers that had been abandoned on the table and sighed, this job was going to take a long time; but now he wasn't sure that he wanted to kill Shuhei anymore, not too much at least.

OOO

The wind whispered through the dark trees as Daisuke watched the night class through the leaves; he wasn't worried about the pureblood, he was confident that none of the vampire would ever know that he was there. The wind caught his light brown hair and whipped it into his face, without uttering a sound he took one of the bands off of his wrist and tied the locks back in a loose ponytail; his bright blue eye narrowed when he saw two familiar faces appear in the window. The leaves rustled noisily as the branch beside him sagged.

The new vampire choked as Daisuke gripped his throat.

"What?" Daisuke asked harshly. The vampire cringed as Daisuke glared at him, the idiot could have easily given him away.

"R-R-Ragan-sama wants to see you" the man gasped as Daisuke released him; he got shakily to his feet and bowed, trying to ward off another attack.

"Fine" Daisuke said as a smile spread across his face, "I have good news for Ragan-sama anyway, did he send you to make sure I don't dawdle?" The vampire nodded mutely and bowed again before turning and darting through the trees, Daisuke close on his heels.

The mansion was a mile north of the town; it was pretty modest as far as mansions go, but Daisuke new that there was a huge garden at the back with such a wide range of flowers and plants that it could put every florist within miles out of business, well, that's what it had looked like in the past anyway. He had been disappointed when he and Ragan had returned to this place a couple of months ago and found that all of the plants had long since withered and died. The house was surrounded by a thick belt of trees that prevented intruders from entering willingly, a feature that was perfect for their plans to go ahead. Daisuke thought of the ones that their plans revolved around and smirked at the irony of the location that they had chosen for their main base.

"I come with great tidings Ragan-sama!" Daisuke said dramatically as he entered the main room, the messenger walked nervously behind him. "They are most definitely at that school!"

"I see, thank you for confirming that for me Daisuke" Ragan said as he walked across the room and placed his hand on the man's shoulder in a surprising show of affection, "now I can start with the first stage of the plan... when was the last time you had a meal Daisuke? You seem a lot paler than usual." Ragan turned his white eyes on the messenger who bowed nervously and began to back out of the room.

"Ragan-sama has not given you permission to leave" Daisuke said as he appeared behind the man and gripped both of his arms, holding him in place.

"You can have that one if you wish Daisuke, it will save you having to go out hunting. I don't care if you drink him dry, he's expendable."

"What! Ragan-sama! Y-y-you can't m-m-mean that!" The man tried to struggle but Daisuke's grip was like iron.

"Are you sure?" Daisuke asked as he moved his face closer to the man's neck.

"Doesn't it make sense to sacrifice a mere pawn in order to make sure that my knight is in good condition?" Ragan replied as he settled cross-legged into one of the room's many armchairs.

"NO!!! PLEASE!!!!! WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO Y..." The man gagged as Daisuke's fangs sank into his neck; he struggled weakly for a few seconds before going limp, completely paralysed by the more powerful vampire. When Daisuke finished he looked up to see Ragan sitting with his eyes closed, he was clearly in a trance. Daisuke threw the dead vampire's disintegrating body aside and sat at the base of the armchair, completely on guard. He was more than willing to give anything to protect his pureblood master.

OOO

The walls of the living room were covered with blood; it shone as the moon's light reflected off of it. Ayaka stiffened as a shadow loomed over her, blocking out the moon's light and turning the blood pitch black. She tried to turn but she couldn't move. She hissed threateningly when cold arms wrapped around her.

"How have you been Ayaka?"

"Get off of me Ragan."

"Why should I?" He breathed in her ear, "we haven't seen each other in so long, I thought that you would be happy to see me."She trembled when he licked her neck, "I know I'm happy to see you."

"Get off" Ayaka whispered, she felt a bead of blood roll down her neck as one of his fangs grazed her. "Get off, get off, get off, get off, GET OFF!!!" Ragan grunted as her elbow rammed into his stomach, there was a blinding white light...

Ayaka sat bolt up in bed, gasping heavily.

"It was just a dream, a dream, a dream..." She raised her hand to her neck and choked when it came away wet; her eyes widened when she saw the traces of red blood on her fingers. "Oh God", she clasped her hand over her mouth and race towards the bathroom, only just making it to the toilet in time. She was trembling uncontrollably when there was nothing left in her stomach to throw up, she retched again but nothing happened. "He's not here; it's just one of his stupid pureblood powers."

She could barely stay on her feet from trembling as she picked up a jacket from beside her bed and exited the room, thankful that she had managed not to panic and disturb Rima. It took her a short time of searching before she found it, but the moment that she entered the music room she felt calmer; she quickly made her way over to the piano. She looked at her shaking hands and started to doubt that she would be able to play at all, but as soon as she had played a few chords her hands steadied. She played the first song that came into her head, she sighed at the irony of it, "Whispers in the Dark" was a more than appropriate title for what she had just experienced.

She played the song all the way through, when it was finished she smoothly played into the next one.

"Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safe here in my room
unless I try to start again

I don't want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
Tonight."

Singing made her feel even better, it wasn't long until she completely lost herself in the music, she didn't realise how long she had been sitting there until Shuhei stuck his head in the doorway to tell her that breakfast was ready.

"Are you okay?" Shuhei asked as she closed the cover over the keys and walked towards him, "Rima said that it smelt like sick in your bathroom this morning."

"Don't worry I'm fine" Ayaka said as she walked past him, "let's just go and get some food, I'm starving."

OOO

"There will be no lessons for the night class tonight" Cross said as the twins entered the packed common room, "two of the day class students have completely disappeared, I'm afraid that they may have been taken by a vampire."

"Do you have any proof of this?" Kaname asked from the corner.

"We have no physical proof, just a feeling. I would like to ask the night class to go out to the town and search for the girls, if we are lucky they'll be alive. If not..." Cross didn't need to finish his sentence.

"Why should we give up our time to look for some humans that have gotten themselves lost just because you have a bad feeling about it?" The young vampire that had spoken made a big effort not to look the pureblood in the eye; however, he made the much bigger mistake of looking towards Shuhei instead.

"It is good enough for everyone here, if you don't like the situation then I suggest that you leave" the vampire cringed away from Shuhei's black gaze, completely caught off guard.

"Shimizu-san." Shuhei turned his gaze on Kaname.

"Damn vampires, always squabbling" Yagari said from beside Cross, "here's the plan; we will all split into teams of four and each team will scout different areas of the town, one of us is bound to find them."

OOO

"Do you think we'll find them?" Kain asked as the four of them walked down the deserted streets, searching all of the alleys that they passed for traces of the two girls. Aido shrugged at the question.

"We haven't found anything so far, but maybe one of the other teams has had more luck." They stopped as Shuhei turned to search down an extra narrow alley. Aido took the pause as a chance to look at Ayaka, he was slightly concerned to see that she looked really pale, it was then that he noticed that she hadn't been acting herself all night.

"Ayaka..."

"I'm fine!" She snapped in reply to Aido's concern. Both Aido and Kain looked at her in surprise as she stormed ahead and turned down the next alley. She didn't stop when she reached the other end of the path but just kept walking, leaving the rest of her group far behind.

Ayaka wasn't sure why she had snapped at him like that and she hated it, she had a feeling that it had to do with that dream, though she was sure it was far too vivid to be just a dream, the blood was proof of that. Ayaka was nearly knocked over as the smell of blood and death hit her.

The two girls' bodies had been ripped to shreds, their faces practically beyond recognition. One of them had been completely drained of blood; Ayaka didn't need to move any closer to feel the power of the pureblood that had killed them that still hovered around the bodies.

"Good evening Ayaka-sama." Ayaka had her weapon out in seconds, the short bar extended into a long jewel encrusted staff which was ended in a sickle shaped scythe. "Please, put your Venom Moon Scythe away, I do not intend to fight you."

"Cut the crap Daisuke" Ayaka snapped as her eyes searched the shadows, desperately trying to find his location. "What do you want?"

"I am here to deliver a message, since you were so rude to Ragan-sama when he tried to talk to you he sent me as his backup plan." Ayaka froze with fear, it hadn't been a dream. "Your silence tells me that you have been trying to deny the obvious; he told me to tell you that he knows where you are, and that he's still waiting for you to come to him."

"You can go back and tell him to stick his proposal up his ass," Ayaka hissed, "it's just not right."

"What do you mean? It's not unusually for pureblood siblings to marry, it's what keeps the blood lines so strong," Daisuke replied.

"There's a lot of things not right with it, first and foremost the fact that I'm not a damn pureblood."

"That doesn't matter, Ragan-sama told me to tell you that he will have you in the end, one way or another." Ayaka swung her scythe around as a shape loomed out of the shadows.

"Calm down Ayaka-chan!" Yagari said as he blocked the blade with his gun.

"Toga-sama!" Ayaka looked around wildly but found no signs of Daisuke anywhere, that was when she remembered his special ability, he could have been sitting on the roof five buildings away and still be able to communicate telepathically with her with ease.

"It's him isn't it?" Yagari was standing over the bodies, looking down at them sadly.

"Who?" Ayaka answered. Yagari looked up at her sharply.

"Don't start tha-"

"Look out!" Ayaka shouted as a shadow dethatched itself from the wall and pounced down over his head. The level E vampire screeched as the ice shard ripped through its body, it turned to dust before it even hit the ground.

"Are you okay?" Aido shouted as he, Kain and Shuhei ran towards them.

"Fine" both Ayaka and Yagari replied as the vampires came level with them. Shuhei stopped when he saw the girls lying in the alley.

"Are they...?"

"Yes" Yagari answered his question, the other three vampires glanced between the two of the, completely oblivious to what they were talking about. "You three go and find Headmaster Cross" Yagari continued, "Shuhei and I will stay and guard them."

"He knows that we're here" Shuhei said when the others were out of hearing distance, "I can still smell him."

"We have to find where he's hiding, we may have to get the Hunters involved" Yagari said.

"No, this has nothing to do with them, besides they wouldn't find him; I, Ayaka and Ragan all share our mother's uncanny ability of evasiveness," Yagari started to reply but Shuhei talked over him. "I'll end this, there's no running away this time. This time, one of us dies."

Whispers in the Dark is by Skillet

Breaking the Habit is by Linkin park

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Is it just me or have Shuhei and Kaname started to develope a dominance battle thing here o.0 huh, i hadn't planned for that to happen but i kinda like the idea lol.

Awww poor Aido having to try and teach Ayaka maths, mwahaha that Shuhei can be a devious bastard when he wants to be lol.

And we finally get to meet Ragan's right hand man Daisuke, say hi to the people Daisuke!

Daisuke: Hey!

Yes Ragan is a pureblood and yes, he is Ayaka and Shuhei's half brother, dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuun, i would say more about it but that would be spoilers mwhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

There's finally gunna be a bit more Aido x Ayaka luv in the next chapter so please review or it wont happen cause i'm just an evil be ach like that lol.

Stebbins Stella: AHEM!!!!

oh yeah... n this wierd person helped me with the story line n stuff... okay pls review people! at least one review or no update!!!