After a brief conversation, we figured out what's going to happen next! So hopefully this next chapter lives up to the standard set by the Prologue.

Disclaimer: We don't own Vampire Knight, but we own Fuuko Kimisora, Akiha and Suzume.

Vampire Knight

Hidden Relations

Chapter One:

Personal Escorts

"Ah, there you are Akiha, come in." Fuuko smiled at the apprehensive brown-haired girl. Akiha recoiled from the scent that drifted up her nose and stared at Kaien Cross with her large dark crimson eyes. Fuuko's eyes softened, "Don't worry about him, he's perfectly safe."

A hesitant, sparkling black pump stepped forward followed by its mirror image and repeated the process until the shy vampire ended up next to her mother.

"Um...H-Hello." Akiha mumbled, slowly bowing infront of him, but still keeping him in her vision.

"It's a pleasure to meet you; I'm Kaien Cross, the Chairman of this Academy." He beamed holding out a hand for her to shake. Akiha's back snapped upright as her face flushed a candyfloss pink. She stared curiously at the hand as if he held out a piece of gold and tried to convince her it was chocolate.

Kaien frowned slightly and withdrew his hand, "Not much of a talker..."

"Where is your sister, Akiha? She was with you a moment ago..." Fuuko asked her daughter softly, twirling her pale fingers with a lock of purple hair.

"Um, Suzu-chan smelled something and-"She stopped there, as she saw Chairman Cross' disapproving gaze at the door, "S-Sorry...I shouldn't be saying something like that to a Vampire Hunter..." She mumbled, shifting her gaze to the floor and pretended it was the most interesting thing in the world.

"Hm? Oh, don't be sorry. She probably smelt another vampire; the humans don't come back to school until next week, so you don't have anything to worry about." Kaien smiled, slightly ruffling Akiha's hair. Her light-pink tinted lips curled into a more cheerful smile.

"T-thank you...Cross-sama..." She whispered softly.

"I see she inherited her manners from the maternal side." Kaien laughed, as he returned to his desk and pulled out a cellphone, "I'll arrange one of our students to take you to your room, Akiha-san."

Akiha winced as she heard a bitter, clipped voice echo from the cellphone.

"You want me to do what! ?" She heard Zero yell furiously.

"I want you to escort Akiha-san around the academy! Also, see if you can track down her sister whilst you're out." Kaien giggled down the phone, which only provoked an even more sharp-tongued, foul response.

"C'mon Chairman! ? It's bad enough that there's three more pureblood asses I have to cover with my life, but you want me to be their personal tour guide! ?" Zero screeched, "Why not add personal chef and waiter to that list too? I'm sure they'd be delighted to hear that!" He

added sarcastically, before hanging up.

"Hm, well...It looks like Zero isn't willing to co-operate. I'm sorry, but my next choice would've been the Moon Dorm President, but he's away on a trip for awhile with a few of his classmates. You'll have to wander around alone, is that all right?" The Chairman politely apologised.

"It's...All right..." Akiha replied, taking cautious steps towards the doors, "I'll see you later...Okaa-sama..."

"Be safe Akiha." Fuuko cautioned her child.

"Shiki..." Rima stated with an underlying tone of boredom in her voice.

"Yes?" Shiki asked, looking up from his book and stared at his partner.

"I'm bored." She remarked.

"Well..." Shiki started, snapping his book shut, "What would you like to do?"

"I don't know." She replied, stretching her arms above her head. Shiki sighed heavily.

"Typical..." Shiki rested his head in his hands, "She's bored...Again."

"When are Kaname-sama, Yuuki-chan and the others returning home?" She asked me.

"It's Yuuki-sama, Rima... Yuuki-sama." I reminded her. She just shrugged in response and proceeded to rip open a pocky pocket and snapped a few in between her fangs, "Kaname-sama said he would return, when the appropriate arrangements have been made..."

"Hello! I'm ho~me!" A bright, cheery voice entered the once peaceful classroom. A blonde-haired Night Student waltzed his way into the classroom, tossing his short locks to one side,

"Did anyone miss me?" He chuckled, "Of course they did!"

"Oh great..." Shiki thought bitterly to himself, "The moron's back..."

"Hello Hanabusa." Rima greeted dully, staring at the blonde vampire with disinterest, "What

caused you to come home early?"

"I couldn't deal with the lovey-doviness that was happening between my cousin and Ruka."

He shuddered, "Who would love that cold-hearted piece of machinery?"

"Sounds like you're jealous Hanabusa." Shiki remarked. Aidou gawked at his statement.

"WHAT! ? WHY THE HELL WOULD I BE JEALOUS! ? IT'S RUKA FOR GOD'S SAKE!"

"I don't see a problem with Ruka-san...Do you Shiki?" Rima asked, snapping another bunch of strands of pocky in half. Shiki shook his head; however his eyes widened a fraction, when he inhaled.

"Does anything...Smell...Odd to any of you?" Shiki asked hesitantly, breathing another

lungful of air.

"Smells like red wine..." Hanabusa remarked, "You two didn't have a party without me just now did you?" He joked.

"Do we look like the kind of people that have a party to you! ?" Rima thought in annoyance, feeling small crackles on lightning spout from her fingertips.

"It's not that..." Shiki dismissed, "It...It's really familiar." His voice dropped to a whisper, as he leant back in his chair, "Yet so distant at the same time..."

"Shiki?" A new voice entered the room. The three vampires averted their gazes from each other at gaped at the mahogany-haired vampire, "My god...it really is you, isn't it?" She exclaimed, hopping over the desks to get closer to him, "How have you been! ?"

Rima narrowed her cerulean eyes suspiciously at the new vampire. "Just who is she and how does she know Shiki...?"

"I've been better." Shiki openly replied, "What about you?"

"Oh same old, same old!" The girl laughed, "Running around all over the place every blue moon."

"What about your mother, Suzume?" He added. Suzume's maroon eyes softened slightly, as

she bent her head.

"I don't know..." She muttered, "I just don't know. Even if I or Aki-chan gives her our blood...She still gets weaker..."

Aidou and Rima shared a brief glance of confusion, "Her mother gets weaker even when fed

blood?"

"But that's utterly preposterous!" Aidou exclaimed, gritting his teeth together, "It's unheard of!"

Suzume hissed as she bared her fangs at the Aristocrat, "Just because it's unheard of, doesn't mean it's not true..." She looked at him with disgust, "Idiotic blonde..."

"Suzume..." Shiki sighed weakly. He should've known that if Aidou opened his big, loud mouth Suzume would react to it in the worst way possible.

"Oh...?" Aidou smirked, "Are you getting defensive, because you know that you're lying?"

Suzume prepared herself to launch at the young aristocrat, except Shiki reached out his hand and grabbed the sleeve of her midnight blue dress and pulled her back.

"He isn't worth it." Shiki bluntly remarked.

Okay, I admit it! We did have a little bit of trouble writing this chapter and thats why it took so long to update ^^; But hopefully with a little bit of coffee and plot revision, we should be able to keep this story up, running and most importantly; Alive!