Vampire Kitty ^v-v^

Vampire Knight & Fruits Basket

Cross Over

By Raekitty13

Disclaimer: Still not mine. Sorry to disappoint you.

Author's Notes: Wee… waayy too long, but ohh well. I kinda lost my muse for a while, and I'm not quite sure he's back yet so bare with me. And I'm going to apologize NOW for how ooc everybody is more than likely going to end up…

Thank Yous: PhantomSaint, Primeval Eidolon Scar, Riku-Sia and elipsedlight, Thank you ever so much guys!

Chapter Three: Stray

After a couple hours- days, weeks, months, years? - Kyo finally began to move again. Tired of being jostled around in the back of the van he decided that to inflict true pain upon himself he should attempt to cause himself deliberate pain. He was going to untie himself if it meant cutting his wrists to the bone with the ropes.

He had convinced himself that this time the blame should be pushed off on Yuki and Akito. They had talked Torhu into shipping him off. It hadn't been Tohru who had screamed monster, but Yuki. He just wanted her all for himself. If Kyo wanted to save Tohru, he would have to escape the van and find his way home.

Wriggling in the ropes he truly believed the lies he had created for himself, completely omitting everything to do with the fangs and blood. Slowly, he moved his wrists back and forth, shaving his arms slightly, but loosening up the rope all the same. His appendages were so numb he could barely feel it anyway.

When the rope finally fell away he laughed with giddy delight and held his newly freed arms before himself. He couldn't see the blood, but he could smell it and it made him sick. It didn't smell like Tohru's had. It didn't smell quite human. He licked himself clean anyway, not exactly liking the taste, but realizing that, like leeks, it still contented his tasteless stomach. As he cleaned himself, he could feel the depth of the incisions begin to lessen.

After his arms stopped burning, he sat up. His head swam slightly, but other than that, he had no side effects. He reacted for the restraining device around his ankles. Once he located it, he pulled once simply to see how tightly he was bound. To his surprise, the ropes broke away at his touch, as if his fingers were knives instead of digits or his pull was one from a professional tug-of-war puller.

Astonished, he stared blindly at his hands before him. In the dark of the cargo van he could see nothing, but he sensed that there had to be something wrong with him. The sheer power racing through his body and pulsing through his already healed arms had to atone to the type of monster he had become.

What was he?

Without cause or reason, the cargo van suddenly lurched to a stop, sending Kyo flying towards the cab. He smashed into the metal with a resounding twain that made his ears ring for several minutes after the vehicle had stopped vibrating. He could hear voices, but the ringing made their language appear foreign. There were two low voices and one higher one. Two men and a woman were arguing outside of his van.

The voices suddenly seemed to start speaking a language he could understand again as he shook his head and moved closer to the doors at the far end of the van.

"You said he was bound with rope," The female insisted. "I don't understand why I can't simply carry him in."

"The kid who sent him said that he was dangerous and not to be trusted," one of the drivers stressed.

"I assure you, I can handle the situation. If you leave him in my care he will reach Headmaster Cross and neither of us will end up injured."

"Man, just let her have him. It's not like we'll get docked pay if this chick gets hurt because of him. We were simply told to deliver him, and we have."

"We were told to deliver him to Headmaster Cross."

The female sighed. "If it helps any, I am Headmaster Cross's daughter, Yuki Cross. I guarantee that Kyo Sohma will reach my father's office and should I need help I can call upon my colleague, Zero. Will you just open the door already?"

Kyo crouched by the door. If he allowed her to try and carry him, he would turn into a cat and he could make his getaway. However, that would mean that his secret would be revealed and if his plan failed he wouldn't be able to use it again. If he stripped down now however, and allowed the girl to enter the back of the van where it was still dark, he could hug her and scamper out as a cat when she left the van in confusion.

As the drivers began to unlock the bars holding the doors close Kyo pulled his shirt over his head and quickly reached for the zipper of his pants, kicking his shoes off in the same motion. As the large metal bar scratched across the van door he huddled into the farthest corner. A dim light flooded the cargo hold. It was night meaning that Kyo was left in the shadows.

A girl jumped lightly into the van, a large bamboo stick held out in front of her. To Kyo she smelled not quite like other humans. There was something about her that screamed to him to play nicely. If he didn't, something deep in his gut told him, she would tear him to shreds and burn the remains.

She was of average height and had shoulder length black hair. Her voice was sweet, almost naive when it called to him, "Kyo? I know you've really been suffering here of late, but here at Cross Academy, we can help you. Your curse isn't considered horrible, but a gift. We'll help you. I am here to help you. I am Yuki Cross. Kyo-"

She was finally within his shadow and he reached out and embraced her with only one arm. He was suddenly only a foot from the ground and completely carrot orange from snout to tail. Lightly he ran past her and jumped out of the back of the van. He slipped past the drivers unnoticed and ran like hell.

He checked over his shoulder to make sure that he had actually gotten away, only to run directly into the arms of a Cross Academy student. She picked him up delightedly. Holding him in front of her face so that she could inspect him, arms under his forelegs, back legs dangling helplessly.

"Hey there," She gave him a one over and added, "Boy. What're you doing out here? I've never seen a cat around here, especially with such an explicit coat! You're absolutely adorable!"

Oh, God. Kyo thought. Not now. Not now, DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT! PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT! GOD DAMN IT WOMAN! I SAID PUT ME DOWN!

He began to flail his back legs and scratch with his forepaws. The girl smiled and said, "Sorry, didn't mean to invade your privacy, or hold you in such an uncomfortable position, but if you keep scratching me like that I might drop you. Could you please behave yourself?"

Kyo continued to scratch at her and yowl, thinking, I WANT you to drop me, twit! Put me down!

"Kitty," The girl suddenly sounded scared. "Be quite or someone might find us! I don't think we're allowed to have pets on campus, PLUS I'm out after hours… please be quiet!"

Kyo would have continued but he heard Yuki talking to the drivers, "I swear, he jumped out of the back as a cat. What kind of joke was this? I thought you said he was a vampire, not a cat."

He stopped moving and the girl drew him closer to him, holding him now under his back paws with one hand and around his torso with the other. His head was on top of her shoulder. "Do you hear that, kitty," she whispered. "Somebody's coming… what am I going to do with you?"

As the voices drew nearer to them Kyo thought desperately, what could it hurt to stay with her for one night? Purring gently into her ear, he tried to convince her to take him home- wherever home was.

The girl patted his head delicately and whispered, "You're such a good kitty. Maybe just one night won't hurt. But then I'll have to find you a place to live outside of the school grounds. Something fishy goes on around here. I can't imagine what the night class students might do you. Not that they aren't gorgeous or anything, but some of them look at me like I'm some sort of snack. I can't imagine how they might look at you."

She began to walk away silently back towards the large buildings looming to the left. She didn't enter through the front door of the day class female dorms however. Instead she walked around to the back and pulled out a small house key. Along the back was what appeared to be a lean-to shack, fully enclosed but added at the last minute with little effort.

"Home sweet home," she said with a sad smile as she shut the door behind her and locked it once more. The little shack had three rooms, the one they were currently in, one towards the back and a door on the front half of the wall pressed against the larger building in front of one of two beds. The current room wasn't very wide. It was just big enough for the two beds on either wall the closets along the wall with the front door and a small window. There was a solid wall with two desks along it between the two beds and open arches that led to the third room.

The girl flipped a light switch on and put Kyo on the floor. She walked into the third room after taking off her shoes and Kyo followed at a trot. It was a small kitchen. There was a stove, sink, a second window and a mini refrigerator. The roof seemed to slope down into the room itself. The girl walked to towards the cupboard above the mini refrigerator and smiled at him.

"You must be hungry Mr. Kitty," She cooed softly, almost more to herself than to Kyo. "Let's see, one can of tuna left."

Grabbing the can opener she placed the can in front of his nose and opened the can. Kyo sniffed the can suspiciously and then her hand. Would it taste as bad as Tohru's rice balls?

"Go ahead," she coxed him. "I promise it's not too old."

Not touching that, Kyo glared up at her.

"Oh! I get it. You want some milk to go with that," she twirled around, her long brown hair fanning around her torso as she did so. Reaching into the cupboard a second time she pulled out a saucer and reached into the mini fridge. Pulling out half a gallon of milk she bent over and set the saucer in front of him too.

Kyo watched her pour the milk and couldn't help but lap up a few licks of it. The milk tasted as good as it always did. He proceeded to lap up the rest of the milk and sniffed the tuna can once more.

It did smell good.

The girl laughed and patted him on the head again. "That's what I thought, Mr. Kitty."

She waltzed out of the little kitchen area through the opposite wall opening and danced her way up to the closets. She pulled out her pajamas and opened the door that lead to the room Kyo had yet to see. Judging by what she was carrying, he assumed it was the bathroom. When she came back out, tooth brush in hand he knew his guess had been correct.

"Okay, if you have to pee… I don't know… just don't. Okay? The best I've got is this newspaper in the corner under that bed," she pointed to the one on the far wall.

Isn't that another student's bed? Kyo wondered as he wandered over to the bed and began sniffing around. There hadn't been another student to sleep in the bed for a while now. And why do you live in this little place when there's a large dorm building RIGHT next to you?

The girl watched him sniff the bed before saying, "You can have that one tonight if you want. My roommate dropped out last semester. Her parents couldn't afford even this dorm for another year so she left."

She returned to the bathroom momentarily and then returned. Kyo was cuddled up on the bed she had indicated, watching her re-enter the room.

"Weird," she murmured.

That you are, Kyo agreed, yawning.

"It's like you can understand me."

Yeah… totally weird; me understanding a girl.

She walked into the kitchen and picked up the empty saucer. She placed it in the sink and rinsed it out. She then picked up the can of tuna and looked at it before showing it to Kyo. "I thought you said you weren't going to eat this?"

I never actually said it so you could hear it, he pointed out, sniffing the can again. It actually hadn't tasted that bad.

She laughed, as if she could understand him yet again and flicked the kitchen light off after dropping the empty can into the waste basket. She rechecked the locked door and paused. "I think I'm going to open the window. If you need to go to the bathroom, you can go outside by yourself then."

After opening the window she turned off the main light and stumbled her way to her bed. She pulled down the covers and crawled in. "You don't actually have to sleep over there by yourself, silly kitty. Whatever makes you comfortable."

Kyo yawned again and closed his eyes. That'd be kinda creepy.

Kyo woke up with a start. The room was suddenly cold and still dark. He couldn't figure out where he was. Staring up at the ceiling he couldn't place the sloping roof. He wasn't at home, he wasn't in the mountains. His mind was racing. Where the hell was he?

Suddenly the wind picked up once more outside the window and he realized he was naked. Shit.

And here he had thought it would be creepy to sleep with some chick in the same bed not knowing her name. Maybe, just maybe, it was creepier for her to wake up randomly in the middle of the night to find a naked dude lying on TOP of the covers in the empty bed across the room from her.

Shivering, he rolled to his feet silently and pulled open the closet door furthest from the door. When he saw that it was empty he nearly cussed again. Who didn't keep clothes in their closet? And then he remembered that the girl had mentioned that her roommate had dropped out. He would have to raid her clothes. God, this was getting really really weird.

Too bad she thought that cats who could understand humans were creepy. Otherwise she might have excepted something like this a little bit more welcomingly.

What was he going to do?

He could walk over there and hug her again, but she might wake up and that was wrong on so many levels that he couldn't even bring himself to even finish the thought. He slid over to her closet and opened it. There were skirts. More Skirts and white button up school uniform blouses. He couldn't wear her clothes. She wasn't anorexically skinny, but she was a girl and he was pretty buff for a guy… tight fitting clothes- not a chance.

Hardly daring to breath he dashed over to the bathroom and pulled the door open. It creaked.

"Mr. Kitty?" The girl asked. "Be careful coming back in. I don't want the window to slam on your tail…"

He ducked into the bathroom as soon as she rolled back over, leaving the door open just wide enough so he could slip back out. Inside he found a white bathrobe. It was the closest item of non-gender specific clothing the girl seemed to posses. He slipped it on quickly and was glad when it came down past his knees.

He managed to catch a glimpse of himself in the mirror and shuddered. There were bags under his eyes, but that wasn't the scary part. What was truly unnerving was the fact that the color of his eyes had changed from a deep brown to a dark scarlet. From a far it didn't look unnatural, but up close it was disgusting. Taking in his wrists he could see faint scars from the ropes, but nothing else.

The robe looked absurd, and as he blushed he realized how glad he was for something to cover himself, no matter how ridiculous. Suddenly he remembered how the girl had mentioned that her roommate couldn't afford to board in the shack this year and had to drop out. The girl he had stayed with probably didn't have much money either. All he with him however, was the black and white bracelet that never left his arm and her white robe. He would have to pay her back later… somehow.

Right now he needed to leave. He needed to get out of here before she woke up and realized that there was a strange guy in her dorm… in her robe.

Kyo slipped out of the bathroom and tiptoed to the window. Hoisting himself onto the ledge, he easily slipped out of the little shack noiselessly. "I vow to repay you."

"I should say you would," growled a low voice. "You dirty pervert!"

"It's not what you think I swear."