Vampire Kitty ^v-v^

Vampire Knight & Fruits Basket

Cross Over

By Raekitty13

Disclaimer: Don't'cha think I'd know my own characters better than this story lets on? Obviously I don't own any of them but the crazy chick who likes cats =]

Author's Notes: As usual, sorry when characters aren't in character

Ohh, and sorry this is so late!

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Chapter Four: Headmaster Cross

"For your sake it sure as hell, better not be what it looks like," Kyo whirled around to face his opponent, but was momentarily preoccupied by the gun pointed in his face.

"Whoa," Kyo muttered, mind racing. How the hell was he supposed to explain his situation to the crazy kid with a silver gun pointed at his face? Anyway you looked at it, what he was doing wasn't pretty. Add in the fact that the guy had a gun and well… curse and crazy have never mixed well for Kyo. Take Akito for instance. Curse plus crazy equals monstrous bitch.

Here it looked kinda like monstrous headache at the very least.

"You smell like a vampire," The boy growled, swinging his silver hair from his eyes. "Give me one damned good reason not to shoot you."

Kyo took a deep breath, still trying to figure out what to say. "Who the hell are you, anyway?"

It wasn't among one of his brightest comebacks, and what with the gun pointed at his face and all, probably not appropriate either, but it just slipped out. Why did he have to feel like he was backed into a corner? Sure, the guy had a gun pointed at him, but danger had never stopped him from being a smart ass before. Why start now? Might as well go down pulling punches…

"And what right do you have to pull a gun on me?"

The other boy laughed no humor in his light gray eyes. "I've got a gun trained between your eyes and the best answer you can come up with isn't even an answer, but a demand? I've got the upper hand here and you want to know my name?"

"Seems only fair," Kyo told him, shrugging his shoulders, palms up, testing his range of movement.

The other boy narrowed his eyes at him, grasping the gun with both hands. "Don't even try it."

"What, you can read minds too?" Kyo asked, sarcasm flooding his voice involuntarily. When he couldn't attack physically, sarcasm came second naturedly. He couldn't help it. One day it would get him killed, maybe tonight was that night. "Thank God, I don't actually have to explain to you what I've been through the past two days."

For the umpteenth time Kyo screamed silently at himself for having left his clothes in the back of the cargo van. What he wouldn't give to be wearing real clothes right now. What he wouldn't give for a pair of cargo pants. He couldn't even get a decent kick in without flashing his attacker. I wonder if flashing him would distract him enough so that I can make a clean get away…

"Stop calculating escape routes," the other told him. "The attempt is futile."

"Really?" Kyo demanded. "So why haven't you shot me yet?"

"Don't tempt me you little-"

"Zero! Fire that weapon and you'll have me to contend with!" Kyo recognized the voice from earlier today. "We're supposed to escort him to Headmaster Cross, alive."

"Yuuki, he was sneaking out of Youko's room. He's a dirty vampire pervert. And the last thing we need here. Can't I just shoot him and call it an accident?"

"No," Yuuki stated severely. "Headmaster Cross wouldn't buy it for an instant."

Suddenly the name of the Headmaster of Cross academy didn't sound like a person Kyo wanted to offend. Sure at first he assumed, Cross, like HOLY Cross. Now he was thinking Cross as in angry as hell, Cross me if you dare because I was super Cross to begin with. How did he end up pissing off already pissy people, always? It had to be that cursed plus crazy thing all over again.

Not that he really expected Akito to deliver him into a good life or anything. That'd be too easy and not nearly enough fun for her…

"He was sent to us bound and gagged with a lovely little note stating that he was dangerous," Zero retorted. "I'm sure I could make this accident look very convincing. Do you even think Youko's still breathing?"

"I didn't touch her!" Kyo proclaimed, realizing that Youko was the name of the girl who had taken him in.

"You're wearing nothing but her robe," Zero pointed out, gesturing at Kyo's sudden lack of style.

"That doesn't mean I slept with her," Kyo retorted. "If I walked in there with my own clothes on, do you honestly think I would have walked out of there wearing hers?"

Why did that come out sounding so dirty? Kyo demanded silently, once again wishing he had thought through his previous escape with a bit more caution.

"I don't want to know what kind of sick freak walks into a girl's dormitory without clothes on," Zero complained, never lowering his gun.

"Zero," Yuuki chided.

"What? He just said that he walked into her room naked. I overheard him vow to repay her… You add it up, Yuuki. I know you're not that naïve. He totally walked away from what he wanted to call a one night stand, with Youko. Youko, Yuuki. Jesus, what if he killed her? Went on a happy little rampage in there and drank all of her blood, mutilated her body. If I find one speck of blood in there I'm going to shoot him at point blank range."

"Zero!"

"He's a freak, Yuuki. Admit it. He's a weirdo. We should just kill him."

"While he is very bizarre, you will do no such thing. He's a tortured soul just like you," Yuuki advanced toward Kyo and Zero, staff in hand.

"Get back," Both boys warned her.

"Go check on Youko," Zero added. "The freak is mine."

"Zero, don't hurt him. That's an order," at Yuuki's words a faint light blazed to life under the collar of Zero's formal polo.

As far as Kyo could tell it appeared to be some sort of spider web and once the light faded it looked like a normal tattoo. Weird. And he calls me the freak?

"Are you whipped or what?" Kyo demanded, testing out his slavery tactic. How much hold did Yuuki have over Zero?

"She's not my girlfriend," Zero growled. "She's the Headmaster's daughter. Call her my boss."

"You're boss?" Kyo demanded, implying that he thought Yuuki might have been his pimp.

"Yuuki and I watch over the Day students, such as Youko, here at Cross Academy to make sure freaks like you from the Night class don't try to eat them for dinner," Zero supplied, ignoring the sexual undertones of Kyo's comment.

"Night Class?" Kyo pressed on, hoping for more answers. What made him different from Youko, besides the fact that he could turn into a cat at the touch of a woman and sprout fangs every once in awhile.

"Don't play stupid with me, boy."

"His name's Kyo, Zero," Yuuki replied, slipping out of the front door of Youko's dorm as quietly as Kyo had slipped out of her window. "Youko appears to be fine. She's breathing normally and there's no blood. Not even bite marks."

"Bite marks?" Kyo asked looking between Zero and Yuuki like each of them had sprouted a second head. "You think I bit her? Is that some sort of on campus party after dark game? 'Cuz where I'm from biting each other isn't much of a turn on…"

Zero glared at Yuuki. "What'd I tell you? He's a freaking pervert, Yuuki. He was obviously raping her-"

"Zero, knock it off. I said she's fine," Yuuki's tone was cold. She turned to Kyo. "If you so much as laid your eyes on her I'll kick your ass personally, as it is, I think you're telling me the truth. Therefore, Zero, lower the Bloody Rose."

When Zero refused, Yuuki sighed and restated her command with slightly more authority. "Come on, Zero, you're making me out to look like a bitch."

"I don't know," Kyo stated as Zero lowered his weapon. "You're fighting for my life here. That puts you in a good position in my book."

Yuuki glared at him. "You turned into a cat," she said bluntly. "I reached into the back of that truck and you hugged me. And then you turned into a cat."

"You're clothes were found in the back of that cargo van," Zero added, his voice as cold as ice. "You sick son of a bitch."

Kyo closed his eyes. No wonder Zero thought he was a pervert. And if he liked Yuuki as much as he seemed to like her, it was really no wonder Zero wanted to KILL him. He'd hugged his "not girlfriend" without any clothes on…

How the hell do I explain this?

"It wasn't anything personal," Kyo muttered eyes cast downward. "It wasn't a real hug. Her arms just brushed mine."

"You took your clothes off for an arm brushing?" Zero demanded eyes boring into Kyo's skull. "Yuuki, he's obviously close enough to level E. Can I just kill him?"

"Level E?" Kyo stared between them. "I'm only level E if it means I carry a family curse. Girls hug me and I turn into a cat, you know, the old myth about the Chinese Zodiac?"

"Sohma," Yuuki face palmed. "I should have known."

"That doesn't explain why he was naked," Zero pointed out. "I still vote that he's a pervert."

"Shut up!" Kyo exclaimed. "I'm not a pervert. I just wanted a clean escape."

"You thought you could pull one on me," Yuuki pouted. "You thought that if I didn't see your clothes until after you disappeared, you'd have enough time to get away without a hitch. So you tried to make a run for it. But you didn't get very far?"

"Youko found me," Kyo admitted sheepishly. "She picked me up and carried me home. This was the first chance I had to leave."

"Pervert," Zero declared.

Yuuki punched him softly on the arm saying, "I'm serious. Stop being a jerk," before extending her hand out to Kyo once more. "I'm Yuuki Cross."

Kyo shook her hand, "Kyo Sohma."

Yuuki nodded. "This is Zero Kiryu; we're both Cross Academy Guardians. It's our job to protect students from both classes. You do understand that we really can't have you mixing with the Day students, right Kyo?"

"Not really," Kyo admitted, still trying to figure out how to bolt.

"Headmaster Cross would be more than happy to explain," Zero sinisterly informed him, gripping his elbow with an inhuman strength.

Zero's a vampire, too, Kyo thought, feeling pain in his arm from Zero's death grip.

"March, pervert," Zero ordered, shoving him from behind.

"Play nicely, Zero," Yuuki warned half-heartedly, a smile working its way onto her face.

Zero just grunted in reply, shoving Kyo even harder in the direction of the Headmaster's building. They passed building after building and Kyo was beginning to wonder where they were going. Finally they reached a building labeled "administration" and Zero steered him toward the glass double doors.

Yuuki held the door open for both of them and brought up the rear. They walked down a long hallway before climbing the grand stair case at the far end, ignoring all of the doors on either side of them. The second floor looked more like a home than an office building and Kyo suddenly realized that this probably was the headmaster's home.

When Zero stopped in front of another set of double doors, white oak this time, and didn't let go of Kyo's arm Yuuki stepped around the both of them and knocked on the doors.

Kyo had a moment of forethought and pondered reaching out with his free arm to embrace Yuuki so he could scamper off again, but Zero seemingly read his mind, grabbing his free arm. He pulled Kyo's elbows tight behind his back while Yuuki wasn't looking, inflicting more pain than was necessary. It's not like he had actually resisted any of these.

Who would when faced with that gun? What had Yuuki called it again, oh yeah… The Bloody Rose.

"Come in!" Trilled a voice through the door. "Door's open."

Headmaster Cross? Kyo thought, Sounds more like CROSS dresser…

The doors burst open before Yuuki could even push them open and a tall, lanky man in flowing robes danced back to his seat, fawning all the way.

"Yuuki! My beautiful daughter!" he was beaming from ear to ear, looking like Yuuki put the sun in the sky just by showing up. "And Zero!" He added more as an afterthought than anything else.

Zero shoved him forward roughly. "And a special guest."

"Ahh," He seemed to sober up somewhat. He sized Kyo up with a stink eye and a pout. "This would be…?"

"Kyo Sohma, Headmaster," Yuuki supplied.

"Yuuki!" The headmaster roared, tearing up suddenly. "Why do you insist on calling me Headmaster? I'm your father! Call my daddy!"

Kyo looked over at Yuuki who looked slightly uncomfortable. "Daddy?" He asked her. "He's your father. You never mentioned that he was your father."

"Adopted father," Zero corrected automatically as the Headmaster walked around his desk and stood behind it. "And I'm not related to either of them. Headmaster Cross just took care of me. Call him my foster father if you must."

"Adopted father! If you must!" the Headmaster cried dramatically. "I feel so unloved. Yuuki say it isn't so. Tell me that you love me and that I'm the best father you've ever known!"

"You are indeed the best father ever, Headmaster," Yuuki beamed back, matching the Headmaster's initial enthusiasm.

"And yet you still call me Headmaster!" he sobbed, sinking into his large chair dejectedly.

"But you are the headmaster," Yuuki stated, slightly confused.

Zero coughed loudly and shoved Kyo directly into the Headmaster's desk.

"Oh, yes," Headmaster Cross looked directly at Kyo again, as if seeing him for the first time, his crazy stink eye returning. "Kyo Sohma."

He stared a bit longer at Kyo before beginning to grin like mad, eyes gleaming like he was insane. "Do you really turn into a cat, my boy? I would absolutely love to see you transform. What's your trigger?"

Kyo couldn't help but stare bug eyed at the man before him. He was more emotionally unstable than a bipolar pregnant woman marooned on a desert island without chocolate ice cream and pickles.

"Beg your pardon," Kyo demanded of the headmaster.

"What's your trigger? How do you turn into a cat?" Headmaster Cross elaborated as if Kyo were stupid, talking slowly. "Can. I. See. You. Transform?"

Kyo blinked slowly. Was this guy for real?

And then he grinned. Why not? Hugging Yuuki would be damned good payback for all the rough handling Zero was giving him.

He closed his eyes and reached for Yuuki. Pulling her into a bear hug, he felt the warmth of her body radiate within the cold core of his chest for only a few short moments before he shrank in a cloud of fog. When he opened his he was no longer a head taller than her, but barely above her ankles, covered in ginger hair.

"Meow?" he sang pleasantly, rubbing against her legs. I can play cute, watch me.

Zero looked like he wanted to squash him like a bug, Yuuki looked like she was torn between petting him and running in fear. And the headmaster, the headmaster looked like he wanted to glomp Kyo right then and there and never let him go.

"Meow!" he cried, dashing toward the still open door.

"Catch that damn cat!" Zero cried angrily, diving after Kyo.

"Catch that adorable cat!" The Headmaster cried, jumping onto his desk all starry eyed. "I just want to cuddle him and…"

Yuuki reached the door just moments before Kyo, slamming it in his face. "Sorry, Kyo," she muttered apathetically as Headmaster Cross scooped him up in his arms.

"Who's a cute little kitty, Mr. Fluffy-Wuffy-Kins-Kyo?" He cooed, coddling him close to his chest like a mother would an infant. "Who's a cuuuute little kiiiitty?"

Save me! Kyo pleaded silently. Somebody, anybody! Quick! Before I turn back into a human….

"Oh my," The headmaster remarked, turning his head and blushing. "That was certainly… interesting!"

"Stop looking at me like that!" Kyo demanded, hunched on all fours where Cross had dropped him after his retransformation. He quickly picked up his clothing and redressed himself. "And Zero called me a fucking pervert!"