Ahhhh! Chapter 1 is finally done! Do you know how long it took me to even think of this plot? A looooong time. Glad I'm finally done with chapter 1 and everything can get on a roll! ^^

Please review, because I really want to know what my readers think of this story or if I even have readers at all... T.T

"Unhhh…"

What was wrong with my bed? The pillow and the mattress were way too stiff for my liking.

Irritated, I punched my pillow into better a shape when it split and feathers flew everywhere.

Feathers? My pillow isn't made of down and the cover should be stronger then this…

Prying open my bleary eyes, I peered around.

"What…"

The room was very small, like the rooms my maids and servants sleep and decorated with flowered wallpaper. I panicked for a second, not knowing where I was. My brain took a while to register my surroundings, like the little side table beside my bed, which smelled like fresh wood. I looked down and noticed that I was no longer wearing my winter coat. Instead, I was dressed in a nightgown with white frills at the helm of the dress.

Something Mother would dress me into.

Mother. Mother! I scanned the room again and found nothing that connected to my family. Are they still alive? Was everything just a dream? Would Mother pop into this room any second now?

Suddenly I froze, because the door to the room was opening very, very slowly. Two little boys with silver white hair and bright purple eyes peered in and inched nervously towards me. They were definitely twins, because they looked exactly alike in every detail. Even their hairstyles are the same.

"Uh, hello. Are you feeling better now?" If I was listening to my gut feeling, my instinct is to run away from here right now. Who would know what they want to do with me. But, I listen to my brain, so I decided to stay put until I know exactly who they were and where I am.

"Who are you?" I asked, but my voice turned out raspy and I realized how parched my throat was: as dry as a desert.

"Oh, I'm Ichiru Kiryu…"

"…And I'm Zero Kiryu."

Kiryu?

I've heard the name Kiryu before, but not in a good way. There were known vampire hunters and that's definitely not a good thing for me.

One of the twins, I still can't remember who is who, spoke softly over his shoulder.

"She's awake now."

A woman with blonde hair came in and smiled. I recognized her right away as the woman who found me in the woods. Her hair was tied in a side ponytail down her left shoulder.

"Good morning. Are you hungry? We're going to eat breakfast soon, so do you want to join us?"

Some fresh blood would be great.

I thought sarcastically, but kept that to myself. Father always told me to try not to drink too much human blood. Wouldn't want people to notice our existence. But sometimes, our thirst overthrows willpower and we end up drinking anyway.

I shifted uncomfortably around the bed and cautiously dipped my feet down onto the cold floor. The woman should know what I am, so why is she being so nice to me?

"Why are you being so kind? Being a hunter, you should know I'm a vampire." Yes, I'm being straightforward.

I slid off the bed only to fall on the hard tiles, my feet unable to bear my body. The woman and one of the twins ran over to help me stand, but I shake them away.

"Why are you being so nice and sympathetic? I'm a vampire for heaven's sake, a vampire who can kill you in a blink of an eye!" I screamed. I remembered my parent's death scene and I slither away from them to the corner of the room, hiding in darkness.

The woman sighed and stood up, wiping her hands on her pants as if she touched someone dirty. Might have, she touched me, who is plenty dirty.

"If you feel any better, you're welcome to come out of your room. Your clothes are in the closet here. And to answer your question, I pitied you. You were alone in the forest, blood splattered everywhere, and wounded. I thought even if you're a vampire, you're still too little."

"You're a vampire hunter. Why don't you just kill me?"

"Dear, hunters only hunt dangerous vampires, mostly Level E. You're not on the list and by the look of it, you're not a human turned vampire, so there's no reason to kill you. Ichiru, Zero, let the poor girl rest. She's still ill, so don't bother her too much."

The woman gave me one last look, straight in the eye, then ushered the twins out of the room. But one of the twins stayed behind, staring at me with wondering eyes to the point I wanted to crawl the walls.

"You don't look like a bad vampire."

"Are you an idiot? All vampires look innocent and nice until they kill you."

The most unexpected happened when the boy cocked his head and smiled a wide smile that almost made me want to copy his face.

"Well I trust you nee-san, that you won't hurt my family and I, because I can feel it. You're not those bad vampires that Mother and Father hunt."

My heart swelled a little and I bit my lip. Well ok. A human boy accepts me. But I still can't forget what my own kind has done to my life.

"Just in case you don't remember, I'm Ichiru. You probably won't be able to tell Zero and me apart in the first few weeks, but soon you should."

A voice rang through the halls and Ichiru turned his head over his shoulder.

"Coming Mother! Oh, I have one last question: what's your name?"

I was suspicious, but what good would it do that little boy if I told him my name?

"Ruri. Ruri Kurebayashi."

It barely came out as a whisper, but the boy nodded and grinned.

"Ok, hope you feel better Ruri nee-san!"

Nee-san?

I am the youngest of the pro-monarchy children, so I wasn't used to people calling me nee-san. And to top that, I grow slow, very slow, so while all the aristocrats I know already look thirteen or older, I still look like a ten year old. But it was obvious that I'm older then the twin boys.

Ichiru, or whatever his name is, closed the door behind him and I was shut in the darkness again. But when I looked closely at the walls, the room had morphed and I was back in the cold woods.

No, no what is this? I'm in the woods? This isn't real…is it?

Through the trees, I saw my mother and father, and the pureblood, Rido.

I have to run! Mother, Father, you have to run too! You can't beat a pureblood!

I jumped to my feet to run, but bumped into a wall instead. What? I turned back around to see my mother already gone, blood splattered all over the place where she was standing momentarily ago. My father was still on his grounds, gritting his teeth.

"NO!" I screamed. Thorns shot out of the ground beside me and blasted towards the woods. As soon as my thorns hit Rido, the whole scene dissolved and I was facing an empty wall again. My mind's messing with me today.

My nose twitched and my eyes felt hot and itchy. I hardly ever cry because there's nothing to cry for, but right now, I couldn't control my tears so I let them rip. I miss my mother and father. I miss my house and I miss my old life. To make things worse, the things around the room reminds me of my parents. Even the old flowered wallpaper reminds me of home.

For the next hour or so, I just sat there, sitting in that tiny corner in the room, crying and thinking. I might be couple hundred years old, but that doesn't mean I can't cry like a baby.

I hate purebloods. I hate vampires. I hate myself for being a vampire.

Even now, my thirst for blood rages on, and my throat felt as parched as ever. I searched for my clothes in the closet and eventually found the box of blood tablets. They're disgusting and tastes nothing like blood, but since I don't want to drink blood like a vampire would, I indulged about half the box. I didn't have a choice anyway.

Why am I born a vampire?

I couldn't find a good ending point, so I decided to end chapter 1 here. If I wrote anymore, this chapter would get more then 3,000 words... Wouldn't want to bore my readers. Hope you liked chapter 1 and please review!